Ep. 175 - Trumpās Masterstrokeļ¼ Making Dems Honest Again
Summary
Breaking News: Anthony Kennedy is stepping down from the Supreme Court. Gavin McGinnis joins The Michael Knowles Show on CRTV to discuss whether the country is headed for civil war. Plus, the similarities between President Trump and Elvis Presley, as we analyze lessons for Republicans from Elvis s 1968 comeback.
Transcript
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The Trump administration has achieved a lot in just 500 days.
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Record low unemployment, a booming economy, the appointment of Neil Gorsuch and countless
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other originalist judges to the federal courts, and about to be more originalist judges because
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breaking news, Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court.
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The Trump administration has also finally moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem,
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gave all Americans significant tax relief, has slashed the federal bureaucracy,
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the list goes on and on. But the past few days have confirmed President Trump's most
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incredible political achievement of all. He's making Democrats honest again.
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Democrats from the New York Times op-ed page all the way up to the halls of Congress and the Supreme
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Court are now openly advocating censorship, electing self-described socialists, demanding the abolition
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of law enforcement, and calling for mob terror against political opponents and their children.
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Democrats have not been this honest since they started a war to keep Republicans from freeing
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their slaves. We will analyze what all this means for our country's future. Then, CRTV's Gavin
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McGinnis joins to discuss whether the U.S. is headed for civil war. Finally, the similarities between
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President Trump and Elvis Presley, as we analyze lessons for Republicans from Elvis's 1968 comeback
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special on This Day in History. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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So much to get to today. We have so much to talk about. We will get to this breaking news. This
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finally came out that Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court. This could upset the balance
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of four and a half to four and a half, because Kennedy has been the sort of swing vote, though this term
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he's been great. We will analyze all of that a ton, a ton to get to, because just this week, Democrats
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have shown their hand. Donald Trump made them do it. And the Supreme Court case that came out today
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is aptly named Janus, because we've got a god of doors, of gates, two faces. The country could go
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in one of two directions. We'll analyze with a Canadian, Gavin McGinnis, to see which way it's
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did nothing for you. In the old days, it was pretty easy to look at Democrats and Republicans,
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to look at the difference. In the old days, Democrats were pretty honest. They started
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this entire civil war. I guess we might have another one coming up, but the first time they
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started that civil war, they said, look, we want to keep our slaves. Republicans are trying to free
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the slaves. Okay, we stand for this. We stand for that. They're all terrible things they stood for.
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Then, about a century later, the Democrats started to get a little murkier about this. Actually,
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I got to tell you, in the 1930s, the big complaint from American political scientists,
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the Political Scientists Association, was not that the parties were too extreme,
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that they were too different, but it was that they were too similar. So you couldn't really tell.
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You know, Bill Buckley started the conservative movement basically because of this. He said,
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there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans. You know, the Barry Goldwater campaign
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was for a voice, not an echo. Have a voice, not an echo. Have a choice, not an echo, rather.
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But he gave a voice to those conservatives who wanted something different. Now, they're being
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honest again. You know, they elected in Queens Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This is an open millennial
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socialist, unseated one of the top Democrats in the House. And she ran, her campaign was awful and
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despicable. She ran on basically just socialism. She went on, you know, Medicare for all. She went on
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abolishing law enforcement, all of these terrible things. But she, and she won. She unseated this
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top Democrat. The RNC has been capitalizing on all of this now. Here is the latest ad from the RNC.
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A few years ago, ideas that we talked about were thought to be fringe ideas, radical ideas,
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extremist ideas. Those ideas are now mainstream.
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I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.
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And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline
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station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them
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Do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c*****.
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What's Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women?
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One way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession.
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When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?
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I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
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That's a powerful ad. For those who couldn't see it on screen, at the end it says the left
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in 2018 unhinged. And the better ad would be the left in 2018 dangerous. Because it is
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a real threat. They're threatening violence, right? And that's at least Maxine Waters, all
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of these people, the right is decrying them right now and saying it's so awful. Good, you're
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showing your true colors. The left has had this undercurrent of violence for so, so long.
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The Democratic Party founded the Ku Klux Klan. It was the terrorist wing of the Democrat
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Party. There has been an undercurrent of violence for a long time. It went underground for a little
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bit. And there were subversive organizations in the 20th century, not the least of which
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were the weather underground, these domestic terrorists who were constantly threatening
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violence against their political opponents. Now it's back up again. Good, I'm glad. You know,
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during the old days they pretended otherwise. They wouldn't talk about their real
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motives. But now Donald Trump, he's just got this magic touch. He makes these people
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finally be honest. It's a Herculean feat. You know, the media have followed suit, by the
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way. Because obviously we've come a long way since Barry Goldwater called for a choice,
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not an echo. We've got the media now admitting that they hate the Trump voters. Not just their
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political opponents, not just Donald Trump, not just a mere disagreement. They despise the
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people and consider them wicked who voted for Donald Trump. Here's a little glimpse of the
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There are still generations of people, older people who were born and bred and marinated in it,
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in that prejudice and racism. And they just have to die.
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A lot of his supporters believe that we are the enemy of the American people. And that is
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a really, really an awful situation. We are not the enemy of the American people. We love
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Of course you do. Of course. No, we love them. By the way, I didn't show you the extra
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minute and a half or two minutes of that montage that was put together by Gravy or Grabby News.
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Drew played the first half on his show. There's just too many clips of media figures, especially
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on cable news, talking about how these people who voted for Donald Trump are racist, evil, wicked.
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They need to be shut up. They need violence to be threatened against them. And so we had to split
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it up between the two shows. But of course, no. Why would anyone think the media are opposed to the
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American people? They're enemies of the American people. I don't know. With rhetoric like this and with
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open calls to violence like this, some people are suggesting that we're headed towards civil war.
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The breaking news today, which we're going to analyze it in a little bit. Anthony Kennedy,
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the swing vote on the Supreme Court, stepping down. Some people are saying this is the moment.
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If there's going to be a civil war in the country, it's because the court is about to lose a balance
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that it's had for a long time or potentially could lose that balance. To help us analyze whether or not
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we're careening towards civil war, we bring on an expert from Canada, Gavin McGinnis. Gavin,
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So, Gavin, listen, you, I know that, I know that you're from America's hat or neighbor to
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the north, but you're an adoptive- I moved here in 1999. When am I going to be considered
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an American? That's the, that's the real question. You know, there's such an anti-immigrant
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fervor right now that obviously, you know, I think you're seeing the Trump backlash even
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in your own personal life. Are we headed towards- You guys are like, you guys are like the
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Japanese. If there's a Korean guy who was born there, but his parents are Korean, he's
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In that accent. Yeah. You can never be. Are we going towards civil war?
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Yeah. I think we're already here. It's, it's a very slow creeping civil war. Like you look
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at the ethnic cleansing in South Africa that didn't happen in an afternoon. Yeah. It was
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like the frog boiling in water. And then everyone realized, wait a minute, the farms are gone.
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How long has this been going on? And I think we've been seeing creeping violence since Trump
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won and it's getting more and more like this past week is intense. It's an asymptote. I don't
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know how mathematically literate you are, but it's totally illiterate. Okay. Well, it's a thing.
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It's a craft. It's the big one. That's the one that goes big. That's the one that goes big and
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it's going big. I mean, this past, I was just recently mapping out all the attacks on conservatives,
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not because that's the be all and end all, but it's a good little litmus test and you map them out
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and it's Boink with Kat Timph and then Boink with Tommy Lauren and then Boink with Chadwick Moore
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and Milo and then Boink, Boink, Boink this week with Sarah Huckabee Sanders and, and, uh, and who
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was it? Mitch McConnell just keeps going, going, going, going, going. Steven Miller, they went to
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his apartment. They started screaming outside his apartment. And then you go, well, surely someone's
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going to be raining it in. And Maxine Waters goes, what are you pussies doing? Get out there and keep
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their children awake and scream, no peace, no sleep. Come on. This is the Maxine Waters moment.
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She's been calling for violence since the early nineties, since what, since before you even immigrated to
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America. And now she's coming out and she's like, this is it. We can finally be, but you know,
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the, the pushback on this I've heard is that the right has all the guns and the left are lazy.
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Is that, is that some hope for the future? That just means they're going to lose.
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That just means that they're doomed. That's true. That's hope for the future, I guess.
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They don't know how to fight. Like, have you noticed tough guys, tough guys never say,
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we're going to go out there and we're going to punch people in the face. Yeah. Tony Soprano
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doesn't go, I, it's a very difficult situation. I'm going to go and murder a bunch of snitches.
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He just goes, Oh, uh, it would be unfortunate if something were happening.
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I don't know nothing. I don't know nothing about what happened.
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Yeah. Well, we're going to sit here and we're going to take care of that thing about the thing
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with the stuff, with the guy. We're going to go put the suprasad in the cannoli and the,
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and the Rico case is going to get 10 feet taller. I don't know. That's combining a little Donald
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Trump in there. Yeah. If there's any liberals out there and you're watching us wondering what our
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next step is, notice when we look at each other, we sort of just go,
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that means you're going to be in big trouble. That is a good, you know, I got to say one of our
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writers, Amanda Presto Giacomo, she tweeted out this picture today from some company and it was all these
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men wearing t-shirts, smiling, big hugging each other. It said that the future is female.
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And those are the guys who are going to fight us in the civil war.
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Yeah. And I've, I've literally fought them before. I mean, at NYU, Antifa and in,
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in New York, Antifa is particularly bourgeois. They're all white. They're all sons of academics.
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They're all skinny and we fought them and it felt like punching a raw spaghetti.
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Like their bones just crumple like bird bones under your fists. And then they bring in more
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women to help them. And you go, all righty, uh, this is what you want. This is just to remember,
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you are the guys here who are, you know, trying to, you're the future is female people. Uh,
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is these Antifa guys, the thing about them, I noticed like in the pre Antifa days in America,
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when I was at college, I noticed all of the occupy, you know, radical rah, rah. They were all the
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children of a hedge fund managers. And then all of the college Republicans were there on like
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financial aid and work study. And so is, is it just like a big, they're really angry at their dads for
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not being home enough as a kid. And it's really just some like psycho babble playing out on the
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national stage. Well, what word keeps coming up with them? Patriarchy, patriarchy, patriarchy.
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What's a patriarch? It's a father. They are, and I'm sorry to get all Freudian, but they are mad
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at dad for divorcing mom and abandoning them. And by the way, that's a valid beef.
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I agree with the impetus for these radical alt left lunatics. I agree with their rage,
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but the way they're directing it is like a spoiled child. They're acting like petulant
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children and petulant children get spanked on the bum bum.
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This is exactly, I didn't put it quite in those terms, but this is exactly my theory
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on how to handle these guys is they're like little petulant children. I had Jesse Lee Peterson on the
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show a little while ago and he said basically the same thing that there, there is this rage
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among the American left because their parents are divorced or their fathers left home or whatever.
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And when you look at the, I'm not saying there's a exactly a correlation here, but they do coincide.
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There is this total breakdown of the family, huge increase in divorce rate for the, the parents of
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these young people. Now fathers leaving the home, a ton of out of wedlock birth. Is this basically just
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the flip side of that social conservative argument? You know, the society starts at the family.
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And if you have a breakdown of the family, you're gonna have a breakdown of society.
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I think you can link it to pretty much anything. I think it's the reason there's a disproportionate
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number of blacks involved in crime. I think it's the, the idle hands of welfare, which shattered the
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black family and left these single mothers with nothing to do, no discipline. And so these kids get
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bored. Blacks committed crimes about the same as whites back before welfare took over.
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If you and I were sitting in the projects all day, just smoking pot in the lobby until the postman
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couldn't see where the, the little steel boxes are. Cause it's like fog down there. And that's
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a true story. Uh, I swear to God, I would get up to mischief. I'd be like, do you want to learn
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how to hotwire a car? Like, do you want to throw it? We used to do that as teenagers. We throw bricks
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out of, at cars out of boredom. This, this expanded adolescence is going up to thirties and forties
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with third generation welfare. These kids are getting into crime. So that's linked to fatherlessness.
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I think, uh, the Trinitarios in New York, murdering people is linked to fatherlessness.
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I think that these petulant brats screaming, I hate it here. I hate America and storming upstairs
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and slamming their door so hard that their little name plate falls off the door and shatters them.
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I'm never talking to you again. I never, I hate all of you. And in it, we obviously can't handle
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the gangsters and say, get back downstairs or something. But as far as the, the bourgeoisie
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who are mad at us, like these guys saying punch people in the face, we have to protect them from
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themselves because these people, they don't want the universe that they claim to want. Like look at
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gender, for example, say you would let them handle gender. What's it up to now? Like 72?
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Yeah. 468 genders. I believe that I checked this morning on Drudge. I don't know if it's
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increased since then. We have this thing in my family called kids day once a year and
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there's no rules whatsoever. You could murder someone on kids day.
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It's like the purge. It's like, it's the purge. And that's how I lost my wife actually,
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my second wife. I'm so sorry to hear that. Yeah. It's gotta be really hard.
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It's gruesome. Oh my God. But, um, they eat candy for dinner and they stay up watching movies. So
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four in the morning and the next day they are dead to the world and miserable. And what we're doing
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with the left and what Obama's entire, uh, administration, his entire terms were,
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was a giant kids day. And these kids are obese with candy and they're going to kill themselves.
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If they, if you let them keep going, they'll, they'll candy themselves to death.
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That's true there. We've got to raise them up. We got to try to raise them up. Right. And you see it
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all the way. I mean, all, uh, in the New York times right now, all the way from the New York
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times to the Supreme court, they're talking about how we can't have any free speech. Free speech is
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bad. We can't let conservatives talk. Only I can talk. Oh, stop. Shut up. Stop listening.
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That's all you're getting, uh, all the time from the left. Is there any way to raise them up? I mean,
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is it just a soft paddle? Stop. Like, you know, when a homeless man comes into the bar and that 21
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year old who just started drinking in a bar engages him and you go, thanks buddy. Now we have a crazy
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person with us for the rest of the night. You don't engage them. And we have to stop giving
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the left credit. We have to stop trying to debate them and trying to listen to them.
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The answer is just no, sit down. Like it was beautiful with Trump when they said there was
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some journalists from Univision. He's like, excuse me, senior. Can you stop saying anchor babies is
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offensive? And Trump is like, Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, what would you like me to say? Um, he had no idea
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by the way. And he goes, Hey, how about the, um, uh, future dreamer of, uh, real American citizen,
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undocumented baby of the person. And Trump goes, what? That takes too long. I'm saying anchor baby.
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That's the attitude we have to have. Like what do you, how many genders do you think there are?
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Uh, about 470. Now we're not doing that. There's, there's two.
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I'm going to stick with two. I wouldn't give you one if you weren't so greedy. I would have said three,
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but no, we're doing two. Stop giving these people credit. That's what you get. I'm going to stop this
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car and turn it right around. If you want four more genders, that's it too. That's all you get.
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Gavin, my dad would just slam on the brakes on the highway. You've given me a lot of hope for
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the few. I was a little nervous about that civil war coming up, but you've really given me some
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hope for the future. You know, kids day is over. The candy is all unwrapped. It's all gone.
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Now it's time to be grownups again. And we're not going to engage the drunk guy at the bar.
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Think of it as a child civil war. What if all the eight year olds were to rise up today to take over
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the country? You just go, Oh, well got to punch some kids.
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I feel really bad. I never thought that my life would go to join this. Don't get me wrong.
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I hate myself kind of, but if it's got to be done, it's got to be done with this for a long
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ass time, but it's, you know, Gavin, this seems to me to be part and parcel of, of your longstanding
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political philosophy coming back from one of the greatest video works you've ever produced,
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wrestling your baby. Yeah, this has been coming up for a long time.
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This is America. Trump's America is basically a giant nation of baby wrestling.
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Put on your baby wrestling gear. Here we go, boys.
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Here we go. All right, Gavin, I got to let you go. Uh, that, that really paints a picture. We're
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right now. We're at Janice, you know, we're at the gate to the future. And all I see is just
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wrestling babies. Gavin McGinnish, you can get them on CRTV. Get off my lawn. You get them everywhere,
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though. Gavin's stuff is some, some of the best and funniest commentary out there. Gavin,
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thanks for being here. Thanks for having me, buddy. I see it. So I don't even know why I,
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you know, sometimes I prepare notes when I talk to people, but then if, uh, if Gavin's coming on,
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I just say, okay, well, let's see where this is going to go. So, so the good news is the good
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news about all of this. I, by the way, I agree with most of what he just said, especially with
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the baby wrestling, because the American people are responding. You know, the mainstream media,
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they're just crying and whining and everything's awful, rending their garments and gnashing their
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teeth. And yet there's a new poll out today from Axios and Survey Monkey, which shows that the
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majority of Americans, all Americans, not just Republicans, not just conservatives,
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believe that the mainstream news media regularly and intentionally publish fake news. So the 72%
00:21:31.380
total of all Americans polled in this poll say that the mainstream news media, CNN, ABC, NBC,
00:21:37.940
New York times, Washington post regularly publish falsehoods, uh, in their reporting.
00:21:43.860
Now, this number, when you look at just the G G D G O P, the Republican party is 92%. It rises to
00:21:50.340
almost all of them. 79% of independence. So the vast, vast majority of independence. And even this is
00:21:56.180
the kicker, the majority of Democrats believe that the majority of self-described Democrats,
00:22:01.140
53% believe that the mainstream news media regularly publish lies, lies, intentional falsehoods. So it
00:22:08.420
seems that they're not re really being fooled. There is something that we fall into here, which is a
00:22:13.220
moral equivalence, a totally false moral equivalence. You know, uh, that if everybody is extreme,
00:22:18.660
this side hates this side and the state hates this side, and it's all the same and it's all bad. Hey,
00:22:22.980
we can blame Republicans and Democrats there. It's all about basically the same. No,
00:22:27.540
no, it isn't the same. It isn't. The left is to blame. They are to blame. If there is blame to go
00:22:33.300
around, the lion's share of it belongs on the left and with the Democrats on the one side of these
00:22:37.780
issues, we're talking about particularly free speech today. You've got, but even, you know,
00:22:41.780
national sovereignty, all of these important questions on the one side, you have the Supreme
00:22:45.860
Court, you have the law, you have the will of the American people. You have the, the American
00:22:50.020
tradition. On the other side, you have the mainstream media and Democrat politicos,
00:22:54.740
the mainstream media who regularly tell lies and the Democrat politicos who are inciting violence.
00:23:00.420
Those are the two sides. Pick your side. Those are not morally equivalent, not even close. So,
00:23:05.220
uh, you know, you've got Alexandra, uh, Ocasio-Cortez. She's coming out. She is a socialist. I,
00:23:11.380
you know, at least it's honest, but these issues are coming to an head and they're coming to a head
00:23:15.700
at the Supreme Court. So the, the Supreme Court now is the epicenter. That's why this breaking news
00:23:21.380
today about Anthony Kennedy is so important. He's the swing vote, right? He's the guy who
00:23:25.860
phenomenally sort of a conservative should not really a textualist. He wrote that basically romantic
00:23:32.020
poetry on the Obergefell decision, the, the gay marriage decision that had nothing to do with the
00:23:37.140
constitution. And, uh, but why are all these issues fought out at the Supreme Court? One, it's because
00:23:43.220
this is in the, in the government, the, the American government follows basically the tripartite soul.
00:23:49.300
So the logos, pathos, and ethos, the logical part, the emotional part, and the spirited part. So the,
00:23:55.300
the logical part is the court. You know, they're just analyzing the logic of the law. The, uh,
00:24:00.420
the emotional part is the Congress. Obviously they're totally responsive to the will of the people.
00:24:04.820
And then the spirited part is the executive. It's supposed to embody the American nation and sort of
00:24:09.700
wield the American nation to execute the laws and policies of the United States. Uh, the
00:24:14.820
philosophical battles are being fought at the physical philosophical place, but part of the,
00:24:19.620
they used to be fought in other places as well. The reason they're being fought there is because
00:24:23.620
the legislature and the presidency have both given up a lot of their power. They've said,
00:24:29.460
well, we don't want to deal with this. We don't, you know, especially the Congress has given up so
00:24:33.380
much of its power. We don't want to deal. The Supreme Court can rule. Even past presidents have said,
00:24:38.100
I don't know if this is constitutional, but we'll let the court decide. And President
00:24:41.780
Bush said this when he signed McCain-Feingold said, I don't know if this is constitutional,
00:24:45.060
but will the court will decide. No, it's your job to decide too. You're supposed to engage
00:24:49.060
in these philosophical battles for the country, but they've given up their power. So now we've,
00:24:53.540
we see these great, what a great week, what a great month for Supreme Court decisions,
00:24:57.700
great decisions on free speech with regard to religious liberty, with regard to abortion,
00:25:03.060
with regard to life, national sovereignty, and who can come into the country and who
00:25:07.220
gets to decide who leaves the country, who is able to enter and travel. And now labor,
00:25:12.340
labor liberty, you know, the, the ability, if you are working for, in the public sector,
00:25:17.140
for the government, that you can decide, I am not going to pay my union dues for this political
00:25:23.460
speech. I don't have to have my speech compelled. That's the big case that came out. Janus versus
00:25:29.380
the American Federation of State County Municipal Employees. So this guy, Mark Janus is a public employee.
00:25:36.660
He doesn't want to pay his union dues. He doesn't want his money going to politics. He disagrees
00:25:39.860
with, he doesn't want to participate in that speech that he doesn't believe in. Can the government
00:25:45.620
force him to, into compelled speech? Now, first of all, public sector unions are a farce. Government
00:25:50.900
unions and private unions are totally different entities. In the private union, you've got the
00:25:55.140
employer and you've got the employees and there's a tug of war. There's a battle here and that each has
00:26:00.020
something to lose, each has something to gain. So it's sort of a fair fight. When it comes to the
00:26:04.020
government, the public sector unions, the government is just negotiating with itself.
00:26:08.660
It's just negotiating with its own entities. So the people who elect them, the unions that give
00:26:13.620
them money, it's, oh, who loses? The American taxpayer loses. The American people lose. But they
00:26:18.900
neither have anything to gain by, by not raising rates, by not raising, giving into labor demands.
00:26:26.260
So this question was, do government employees have, have to have their speech compelled? And it's
00:26:34.180
really, you know, all nature is but art unknown to thee in all chances direction, which thou canst not
00:26:38.500
see. The name here, Janus is so important. Janus is the Roman god, the two-faced Roman god of gates,
00:26:45.620
of beginnings and of ends. And it really feels like we're at the end of something and maybe at
00:26:50.500
the beginning of something. We're at a gate here. The country can go one of two ways.
00:26:54.820
All of these Supreme Court decisions have been great because they've cleared away a lot of the
00:26:58.660
muck, all of the tyrannical, oppressive, yucky muck. But now the question is, do Americans want
00:27:04.820
liberty? Do we want freedom? Freedom has costs. Freedom has risks. Freedom leaves some people behind if,
00:27:10.820
if they, if they don't push themselves, if they can't succeed, if they take risks and lose.
00:27:16.420
Do Americans still have the will for freedom? Uh, the, the left in this country adamantly says,
00:27:23.780
no, they're pushing for a Medicare for all. And I always thought when I heard Medicare for all,
00:27:27.700
I thought that's the worst campaign slogan I've ever heard. Medicare for all. That makes it sound
00:27:32.340
like we're all just old geriatric, helpless people, you know, can't fend for ourselves.
00:27:37.300
And, but that's what they're running on. They say, we want you to be helpless. We want,
00:27:39.940
we're going to take care of you. Baby, baby, we're going to, it's okay. It's okay. And, uh,
00:27:45.540
that's what they're pushing for. You know, that, that election in Queens, they're, they're being
00:27:49.140
honest now. They're saying we're full on socialists. We don't like the country. We don't like law
00:27:52.900
enforcement. We're just going to, Hey, let us, let us be your benevolent betters, your dictators.
00:27:57.460
And then it's not just these wacko candidates all the way from the op-ed page of the New York
00:28:01.620
Times to the Supreme Court. Uh, the left is saying you should not have the right to speech.
00:28:06.900
You should not have the right to speech. That's what, uh, Elena Kagan, uh, left-wing justice on
00:28:12.180
the court. She had a blistering dissent in the Janus case. This is what she wrote today is not
00:28:17.700
the first time the court has wielded the first amendment in such an aggressive way. And it
00:28:21.940
threatens not to be the last speech is everywhere, a part of every human activity, employment,
00:28:27.860
healthcare, securities, trading, you name it. For that reason, almost all economic and regulatory policy
00:28:33.220
affects or touches speech. So the majority's road runs long and at every stop are black robed rulers
00:28:39.620
overriding citizens choices. The first amendment was meant for better things. Are you kidding me?
00:28:45.860
It's so, I mean, this argument, which is about choice, do people get to have choice? That's what
00:28:51.700
the Janus case is about. Do people get to have the choice to join the union or not to join the union,
00:28:55.540
to pay union dues or not to pay union dues. And she's saying that, that, that having that choice
00:29:02.180
is the opposite of choice. I mean, this is Orwellian stuff. War is peace up is down. That's what she's
00:29:07.140
saying. But, but listen to what she says. She says, you know, speech is involved in a lot of human
00:29:11.540
activities. You don't say Sherlock. Is that, is that right? Speech is involved because it's the first
00:29:17.940
amendment. It's the first one. It's not like the eighth amendment. It's the first amendment. The
00:29:21.540
founders clearly thought it was important. And every civilization in the history of the world
00:29:25.720
has said that speech is the essential human activity. Genesis, in Genesis, the, the primal
00:29:31.260
act of creation, the act that creates the cosmos is an act of speech. The Lord says, let there be light.
00:29:39.380
The, the, in Christianity, the, the savior is the word of God is the speech. What does Adam do? His job
00:29:46.600
that God gives him is to name things, to use his speech, to order the world. Uh, in, in Gilgamesh,
00:29:52.920
the, the rising up from the animal, from the brutal and the animalistic to the human is to gain
00:29:59.240
speech because speech is consciousness. And it's not just ancient myths. It's modern social science,
00:30:04.600
you know, uh, modern linguistics. Noam Chomsky, whom I rarely cite in the affirmative, but he's good on
00:30:10.340
linguistics. He says that a recursive language is what defines human consciousness. That's what makes a
00:30:16.200
human. A human is the ability to have language, to have words and speech. This is the essential
00:30:20.740
human activity. And Kagan is saying, yeah, but if we let people have freedom over their speech,
00:30:25.720
they're going to have a lot of freedom. We can't have that. Oh, we can't have no, no, no. Speech
00:30:30.180
is too important to humanity. We have to restrict that. We have to bring that down. And it's a, it's a
00:30:35.360
really sick and insidious argument, but that is the argument of the left. Now this was in the,
00:30:40.000
the New York times op-ed page that I'm going to have to sign off. This was in the op-ed page today,
00:30:43.960
I believe today or yesterday. Uh, the, the question was, uh, do ignorant, ignorant people
00:30:49.360
don't have the right to an audience, which is funny that the author of this op-ed got it,
00:30:54.260
got it published and got a pretty big audience. It was irony abounds. This was by a Brian W. Van
00:31:00.500
Norton, a philosophy professor somewhere. And the premise of the article is that, isn't it awful that
00:31:07.260
Ann Coulter gets to go on TV just like Ta-Nehisi Coates gets to go on TV because Ta-Nehisi Coates,
00:31:13.240
he's so great. He's that absolutely shallow thinker who writes for the Atlantic and blames
00:31:18.300
everything on race. And even though he's one of the most successful people in the country,
00:31:21.920
says that you can't get ahead because of your race. Meanwhile, he's won the MacArthur genius
00:31:26.180
grannies, succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. He's saying, isn't that awful that
00:31:30.560
conservatives get to talk, but so do lefties. He said, isn't it awful that Jordan Peterson
00:31:34.020
gets to go on TV just like Kate Mann gets to go on TV? Because Jordan Peterson, he's obviously
00:31:39.360
wrong. So he shouldn't go on TV. And then he quotes Marcuse, Herbert Marcuse, who's from the
00:31:44.940
Frankfurt School. He is a Marxist critical theorist. And Marcuse, he's actually pilloried
00:31:52.380
and mocked in the Coen brothers movie, Hail Caesar. The idiot character of George Clooney is saying like,
00:31:58.000
well, you know, Professor Marcuse said that this is all really good. And you know what else Marcuse
00:32:02.120
said? And then, and the joke is that Marcuse is just wrong about everything. And that's when Josh
00:32:05.760
Brolin picks him up and slaps him across the face. So he quotes Marcuse in this New York Times
00:32:09.920
op-ed. He says, quote, in endlessly dragging debates over the media, the stupid opinion is
00:32:15.420
treated with the same respect as the intelligent one. The misinformed may talk as long as the
00:32:19.240
informed and propaganda rides along with education, truth, and falsehood. If only we could censor all
00:32:25.820
those stupid, stupid people. That's the premise, right? But who gets to decide who the stupid
00:32:30.280
people are? What the bad ideas are? Why Herbert Marcuse, of course? Why Brian W. Van Norton,
00:32:37.720
of course? The op-ed page of the New York Times gets to decide. You don't get to decide.
00:32:42.360
Conservative people you disagree with don't get to decide. No, it's just them.
00:32:46.560
This is what they're pushing for. You know, it's no coincidence that these ideas,
00:32:51.520
particularly from Marcuse, helped to inspire the rebellions of the 1960s. Bombs in the streets,
00:32:57.580
riots everywhere, anti-establishment, anti-government protests. And we're seeing
00:33:02.640
them bubble up again, just as we're seeing threats of that. Again, there are left-wing
00:33:05.680
pundits who are saying we could have bombs in the streets, that we could have a real rebellion
00:33:09.960
in the country. No coincidence. That idea is a really terrible idea. There's a thought that
00:33:14.540
stops thought, and that's the only thought that ought to be stopped. We'll get into the question of
00:33:21.260
what's going to happen next when we go through the Janus gate, the two-faced gate in a second.
00:33:26.440
I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. I'm already running long today.
00:33:29.560
Go over to dailywire.com. Why? Why do you need to go? You know what you get. You know what you get,
00:33:34.360
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00:33:39.860
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00:33:46.380
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00:33:49.440
because we're going to do that tomorrow. Anthony Kennedy is retiring.
00:33:59.360
Pray for me, guys, because I'm going to have to take a few big gulps here.
00:34:03.720
I still have two and a half tumblers of this to finish. Anthony Kennedy is retiring, and we're
00:34:15.740
hopefully and probably going to get an originalist in his place. I've warned you guys before. You
00:34:21.460
haven't heeded my warning. Go to dailywire.com right now. You need to. You will be washed away. I
00:34:28.260
don't know if there's going to be a civil war, but there will be a flood, and the flood will cover
00:34:31.520
all of the earth, and it will last for many, many years because Anthony Kennedy is retiring,
00:34:36.600
and we're getting an originalist justice in his place. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back,
00:34:51.900
I was a little hyperbolic at the top of the show. The last time, I said the last time the
00:34:57.700
Democrats were this honest was when we freed their slaves, and then they threw a war to try to stop
00:35:04.300
that. That's not quite true. The left was pretty honest in the 1960s. They actually were pretty
00:35:09.140
honest then. They would say, yeah, we want to overthrow the government, man. We want to help the
00:35:14.340
Soviet Union, man. We want to get rid of all of it. It's all awful. We want a new morality. We don't
00:35:19.440
like the traditional moral order. You had the weather underground, the leader of which was one of
00:35:24.880
Barack Obama's political mentors, Bill Ayers. You had them setting off bombs, trying to bomb
00:35:28.880
government buildings. What is going to happen with this civil war? I said yesterday I don't think
00:35:34.200
it's likely to happen. I think Matt Walsh said the same. I think we all kind of agree it's unlikely
00:35:39.480
that it's going to happen because, as Gavin said, the other side is a bunch of babies and we have all
00:35:43.280
the guns. But there is a new poll out that shows that 31% of Americans, all Americans, say that a
00:35:49.400
civil war is likely within the next five years. 11% say it's very likely. And this holds equally
00:35:56.220
basically among Democrats and Republicans. Democrats are more likely to think a civil war
00:36:00.440
is coming. That's 37% compared to 32% of Republicans. Independents, about a quarter of them say that a
00:36:06.640
civil war is likely. So who knows? That's a minority of voters. But the majority of voters, 59% of people
00:36:14.120
say that those opposing Donald Trump will start violence. And the reason they're saying that is
00:36:19.260
they're already doing it. It should be 100%. We've seen all the videos. They're saying, please go
00:36:24.640
attack their homes, attack their families, chase them down in the street. So we know that that's
00:36:30.020
happening. That is pretty scary. That is not a good place to be. But it gets back to that freedom
00:36:36.300
argument. You know, I'll use Mark Janus' name to talk about the god Janus, the Roman god Janus,
00:36:43.160
from where we get January. And it has two faces. It isn't all, you know, and we're so happy. I mean,
00:36:49.240
it's like the best two weeks of news ever. All of these huge Supreme Court victories, real victories
00:36:55.360
for liberty. Liberty's not going to die today. Anthony Kennedy, the squish is retiring. We're
00:36:59.860
going to get a good textualist judge in his place, we hope. I mean, this is all good news. But there are
00:37:04.260
two sides of that. There is going to be pushback. Some conservatives have suggested that Anthony
00:37:08.740
Kennedy is the last person holding the social fabric together because lefties can count on him
00:37:13.660
sometimes. He's a swing vote. Once the court becomes solidly originalist or textualist, then
00:37:19.080
Democrats and the left are going to have to admit that they are opposed to the law. They hate the law,
00:37:24.740
they hate the institution of the Supreme Court, and they're going to try to knock it down. The left is
00:37:28.360
very good at destroying institutions. Not good at building up institutions, but good at destroying them.
00:37:32.620
That is scary. There are two sides to the Roman god Janus. One looking back, one looking forward.
00:37:39.980
One looking behind the gate, looking behind you to the past, and one looking forward and seeing if
00:37:44.940
we can go together in a productive way. Freedom is risky. You don't know how it's going to turn out.
00:37:49.340
You can't predict the future. That's why it's the future. You cannot predict it. But there is a
00:37:53.980
chance, and we should embrace freedom because you can see light. Where there's light, there's hope.
00:37:59.340
And there is hope for the future of the country, but you've got to just march on forward. You've
00:38:03.880
got to keep plowing ahead, even though it's dangerous, even though the leftist mobs that
00:38:08.100
Maxine Waters is calling are going to your house and screaming, even though there are threats to
00:38:11.780
your job, threats to your place of business, threats to your family, threats to yourself.
00:38:16.580
You've just got to keep going forward. This is what it feels like to win. The United States has been
00:38:21.000
through way rougher periods than this. In the Civil War, they had to shoot trained armed soldiers. Now
00:38:26.880
we're just wrestling with babies. So you've got to, I know it still feels chaotic and rough, but these
00:38:32.720
are victories. There does seem to be hope ahead. The Democrats are being honest. They're showing
00:38:37.100
their cards and the American people don't like their cards. I think this does not, this is not a
00:38:42.000
great strategy for the Democrats. And we're going to, we're going to see that. We're going to see if
00:38:45.920
America still supports freedom or not, but we can learn a thing or two from Elvis Presley. And in my,
00:38:52.000
my last few minutes here on this day in history, 1968, Elvis Presley staged his comeback special
00:38:58.040
on NBC. And I think that there are some similarities here between Elvis and the president, obviously.
00:39:03.720
And, uh, but also that the Republicans can learn a lot from that Elvis Presley 1968,
00:39:09.260
Elvis Presley 1968 comeback special. So, uh, the, the way this worked out, I don't know if you've ever
00:39:15.940
seen it. Let's just play a clip from the comeback special to, to show you what's going on.
00:39:20.620
I love Elvis. I'm a huge Elvis fan. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid. Uh, you know, Bill Buckley
00:39:43.760
even was a leftist, uh, left, uh, an Elvis fan. You know, there, there is something kind of
00:39:48.820
conservative about Elvis and I just, I really love him. And by 1968, Elvis's career was in the
00:39:54.660
gutter. I mean, it was so awful, largely caused by his manager, Tom Parker, but he, in 1956, he was
00:40:00.700
the big hit rock and roller, you know, the biggest thing in the world. And then he did this string of
00:40:05.740
forgettable Hollywood movies that I sort of enjoy, but they weren't very good. And he was a little
00:40:11.700
fatter and it just wasn't, he had nothing, you know? And so they had this idea for a comeback
00:40:16.340
special and what his manager, Tom Parker wanted was it for it to just be one of these Andy Williams
00:40:22.000
playing Christmas carols on TV, really boring. And you know, that would have been awful. There
00:40:26.860
was a young executive or a young director at NBC, 26 years old, Steve Binder. And he had a different
00:40:35.060
idea for the comeback special. It was going to be unplugged, uh, raw, honest. There were going to be
00:40:41.140
people all around him. And the way they found this, he came up with this idea as he walked
00:40:45.380
into Elvis's dressing room one night and he was just kind of jamming with his friends.
00:40:48.560
And he said, this is it. This is the special. This is what you want. And the most famous scenes
00:40:52.800
from that special are Elvis just playing around with his friends, people on stage, sitting around,
00:40:57.060
looking up at him, very casual, very authentic. Even the moments where it's really big on stage,
00:41:01.660
it's Elvis alone, vulnerable, not a crowds of throng people around him, not crazy lights and
00:41:08.120
everything. Just really intimate and really authentic. This is what the GOP can learn from
00:41:14.820
Donald Trump. Because what Donald Trump did is he took away all of the contrived glitz and glamour
00:41:19.340
and he made his campaign as authentic as can be. I mean, he talked directly to the American people.
00:41:24.820
His main mode of communication is a direct line to the American people on Twitter. It's not the
00:41:29.580
super specially produced campaign ad. You think of all the campaign ads Mitt Romney's ever run.
00:41:35.200
They're so slick. They're so tight. And they're totally unpersuasive. They're awful. I mean,
00:41:40.340
they're just blah, right? But Trump's was rough. If something went wrong, it went wrong, whatever,
00:41:45.420
you know. And this has been an evolution in American media forever. I mean, this has been an
00:41:51.760
evolution, forget just American media, since Pericles gave the funeral oration. You know,
00:41:55.960
the acoustics in ancient theaters were designed such that you ideally would maximize the volume that
00:42:03.060
would travel while still trying to remain intimate. You know, you wouldn't have to scream and shout.
00:42:07.120
You wouldn't have to jump around and dance around. You want that intimacy and that authenticity.
00:42:11.020
You get that in radio much better. Franklin Roosevelt used that very well. TV, much, much more
00:42:16.080
intimate. Then you get to the internet much, you're in these really close settings where you're just
00:42:20.920
talking. I'm not, I'm talking to however many people right now. I'm not shouting and screaming,
00:42:24.880
right? It's an intimate mode of communicating. The Republican Party should understand this.
00:42:30.360
We are winning. The conservative movement has talked and stirred something within the American
00:42:36.280
people. The public opinion polls all show this, that the public agrees with the GOP on the vast
00:42:43.580
majority of issues, even on fake news. I mean, the majority of people, the vast majority of Americans
00:42:48.080
agree with the GOP on immigration. You've got this woman who won the socialist in Queens. She says,
00:42:52.640
we want open borders. We need open borders. We need to abolish immigration law enforcement.
00:42:56.800
We're speaking to the American people. You don't need to like do a soft shoe about it. You don't
00:43:01.880
need to dance around and scream and shout. The message will win. You have to communicate it
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authentically. And it really, the 1968 special really made me think about it. Because if Elvis had
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come out and tried to do some big crazy show, no one would have cared. It's like, oh, that's sad.
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He's trying to, oh, isn't that sad? But instead he just comes out and he's raw and he's himself.
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Uh, that is how we're going to win in the midterms. That's how we're going to, that's how we're going
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to go through the right gate of Janus and move the country in the right direction is speak honestly
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because people aren't stupid. The left thinks that people are stupid and, and gullible fools and
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easily confused and easily deceived. They're not. They're not people. The average person you pick
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up on the street, the so-called average person that you pluck up, he's probably just as smart as you
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are, right? There's no reason to think that you're this great genius. That is a total prejudice of the
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left to say, we're all the geniuses in this room and everybody else out there. They're the unwashed
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masses. Talk to people and respect them. Speak directly to them. Talk fearlessly, you know, and
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don't ignore their complaints, their serious complaints. Don't ignore their needs. Don't say
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that their needs are wrong and sinful. And if you want to have a, uh, you're law enforced that you're
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a racist, Nazi, awful, terrible person, just speak to people directly and respectfully. It's going to
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pay off. All right, that's it. And we got to fit Elvis into the show. Get your mailbag questions and we
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got a lot more coming up tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles