The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 247 - Do It For Brett

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00:00:30.220 After weeks of leftist mob violence, character assassination, chaos, and lawlessness,

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00:00:38.040 You might not know that if you're one of the countless conservatives

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00:00:50.980 But if you are listening to this show, go out and vote.

00:00:55.120 Do it for Brett.

00:00:56.260 Do it for your country.

00:00:57.360 Do it for the California deserts that demand to be bathed in leftist tears.

00:01:02.320 If you're a conservative, a Republican, or a right-leaning independent, go vote today.

00:01:07.320 And if you're a Democrat, do not forget to go vote tomorrow.

00:01:10.600 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:20.500 It's Election Day, and you better be looking good at the polls.

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00:03:03.480 And then you'll be looking really good at the polls today.

00:03:06.140 I have been told from my various sources around the country that there is record high turnout.

00:03:11.660 I wake up to a call from my grandmother today in New York.

00:03:15.020 New York doesn't usually get crazy turnout because it's a one-party town.

00:03:18.220 And she says she's never seen anything like it in 50, 60 years.

00:03:22.020 Just people pouring in to the polls.

00:03:25.320 Who knows which side they're for?

00:03:27.260 Some of them looked like they were shaved and had jobs and combed their hair,

00:03:30.360 so we can assume that they're going for Republicans.

00:03:32.540 And then others were screeching and had purple hair and were, you know, screaming in Aramaic and Latin,

00:03:37.800 so we can assume that they're voting for Democrats.

00:03:40.040 The most important thing that you've got to remember today on Election Day, vote Republican.

00:03:46.120 I know that doesn't sound nice.

00:03:49.100 That sounds partisan.

00:03:50.680 It's not just about ideas.

00:03:52.620 You're right.

00:03:53.140 You're right.

00:03:53.540 It's Election Day.

00:03:54.620 Election Day is when we take ideas and we put them into action.

00:03:58.080 There are two parties in this country.

00:04:00.020 There are two parties.

00:04:00.660 The Republican Party, you know, it's not that it's always perfect.

00:04:03.200 It's not that it's ever perfect.

00:04:04.640 It's not that the Democrat Party is always evil or that it's the worst thing ever in the history of the world.

00:04:10.120 But there are two parties and two ideas.

00:04:12.620 Conservatives have a home in the Republican Party.

00:04:15.420 Leftists have a home in the Democrat Party.

00:04:17.940 The parties have become more polarized in recent years.

00:04:21.120 This is largely a good thing.

00:04:22.860 A major complaint in the 1930s and 40s among political scientists was that the parties were indistinguishable,

00:04:28.580 that you couldn't tell which party was which.

00:04:31.200 Now you can if you support any basic issue.

00:04:36.360 If you support law and order, you vote for Republicans.

00:04:38.480 If you support open borders and undermining immigration law, you vote for Democrats. 0.50

00:04:42.600 If you support jobs, you vote for Republicans.

00:04:45.240 If you support mobs, you vote for Democrats as the president has driven home.

00:04:49.040 If you support our American flag, if you support the symbol of our country, you vote for Republicans.

00:04:55.320 If you protest our American flag, if you don't like our American flag, if you don't like our country, which that flag symbolizes, you vote for Democrats.

00:05:04.320 If you want freedom, you vote for Republicans.

00:05:06.860 If you want socialist slavery taken over the health care system, you vote for Democrats.

00:05:12.060 It's just that simple.

00:05:13.260 We like to speak in ideas, in philosophy, in ideologies.

00:05:18.460 And okay, that's very nice.

00:05:20.620 It's very nice to speak about ideas purely.

00:05:23.420 We can bandy about ideas all day long.

00:05:26.200 But in a representative democracy where you can participate in your government,

00:05:30.580 those ideas need to collapse into real actions, real behaviors, real institutions, real political parties, real candidates.

00:05:38.920 And that happens on a day called election day, when you go and you vote.

00:05:43.360 That's what you should do.

00:05:44.660 And I have a strategy.

00:05:46.080 If there are no Republicans to vote for, look, I live in California.

00:05:49.120 I live in la-la land where, you know, it's only Democrats or Communists or Democratic Communists. 0.62

00:05:56.180 I think those are the three options we have out here.

00:05:57.940 So for certain races, they don't even have a Republican or an Independent running.

00:06:02.260 They've only got a Democrat and a Socialist.

00:06:04.420 In that case, write in Brett Kavanaugh.

00:06:07.400 That's what you need to do.

00:06:08.460 That's what I did.

00:06:09.340 I voted.

00:06:10.000 We're going to see.

00:06:10.780 If there's a wave in California, if there's a Kavanaugh wave,

00:06:14.040 then Brett is going to have to step down from the Supreme Court

00:06:16.600 and become the dog walker in Pasadena or something like that.

00:06:20.380 Because I think you've got to send a message.

00:06:23.180 Go out there.

00:06:24.500 Don't give them an inch.

00:06:25.680 We are winning.

00:06:26.680 You should not back off when we're winning.

00:06:28.440 We'll see what happens.

00:06:29.600 Historically speaking, Democrats should take the House tonight and should take it by a lot.

00:06:33.880 But my gut tells me that might not happen.

00:06:37.400 The reason I bring Kavanaugh up, the reason that I write in Brett Kavanaugh

00:06:41.000 and why I say you should write in Brett Kavanaugh when there's not a candidate that you want to vote for,

00:06:44.820 is that the Kavanaugh experience, the Kavanaugh nomination process,

00:06:51.780 tells you every reason why you've got to vote for Republicans right now.

00:06:55.960 Because the Democrats are lawless.

00:06:57.680 There were lynch mobs going after this guy trying to ruin his career,

00:07:00.900 undermine the constitutional order, undermine a duly elected president's right to appoint his own judges.

00:07:05.780 And just this weekend, Chuck Grassley from the Senate Judiciary Committee released the findings of an investigation into all of those accusers.

00:07:14.260 And it's about 400 pages long, a little more than that.

00:07:16.980 If you didn't read it, I can sum it up for you.

00:07:19.200 All the accusations were bunk.

00:07:21.880 That's basically what you need to know about it.

00:07:24.200 We'll get into detail a little bit, but that's what you need to know.

00:07:27.080 Bunk.

00:07:28.100 Thorough bunk.

00:07:29.900 Conspiracies from Democrats, from the left, from left-wing law firms.

00:07:34.240 People are now being recommended for criminal investigations because of their participation in the disgusting slander of Brett Kavanaugh.

00:07:41.220 That's what's on the stake.

00:07:42.580 That's what's on the ballot.

00:07:43.880 The people who did that smear against Brett Kavanaugh,

00:07:46.660 they're the ones running for office as Democrats right now.

00:07:49.020 You can either vote for them or you can vote against them.

00:07:51.640 So there's a new poll out from Harvard which shows that the majority of men and women think that Democrats did not actually care about women during the Kavanaugh smear campaign.

00:08:02.600 We knew this to be true.

00:08:03.860 I knew that.

00:08:04.620 I knew Democrats don't care about Christine Ford or Julie Swetnick or whatever happened in a broom closet in 1982.

00:08:12.720 Of course, I think we all knew that.

00:08:14.200 But what this poll shows is that it's the majority of both American men and women.

00:08:18.440 What the Democrats thought was that if they went after Kavanaugh in that way, if they accused him of sex crimes in the early 80s,

00:08:26.060 then even if they didn't gain any votes among men, they would gain some votes among women. 0.96

00:08:31.320 Actually, the opposite happened.

00:08:32.940 And this is not a Republican-Democrat thing.

00:08:34.620 This is not a left-right thing.

00:08:35.680 The majority of Americans, men and women, believe that the Democrats were exploiting these women, acting politically, acting cynically, that they didn't really care about these women.

00:08:47.440 So a big takeaway from this Grassley report, no evidence to substantiate any of the claims made against Kavanaugh.

00:08:54.680 Kavanaugh, there is no evidence, any of the claims.

00:08:59.300 That means Christine Ford, any version of the story that she presented that in 82 or 83 or 84, either two or three or four guys attacked her in a room that was next to her house or 20 minutes away from her house.

00:09:10.860 And she was afraid of spaces and then not afraid of closed spaces and then afraid to fly and then not afraid to fly.

00:09:17.960 Any of the stories, whichever one you choose to believe, put it on a dartboard, throw a dart at it.

00:09:22.360 There is no evidence to substantiate those claims.

00:09:24.840 No evidence to substantiate the claims that Brett Kavanaugh whipped it out at a party freshman year at Yale.

00:09:30.440 That was another one, Debbie Ramirez's allegation.

00:09:32.820 No evidence that Julie Swetnick or Michael Avenatti had some accusation against, or had a credible accusation against Brett Kavanaugh from other parties around Georgetown Prep.

00:09:46.700 No evidence about any of it.

00:09:50.380 So the Grassley report also shows the changing storyline that Christine Ford had.

00:09:56.240 The storyline changed constantly.

00:09:58.060 We knew that.

00:09:58.760 People who were paying attention knew that.

00:10:00.240 I think people on the left, people who didn't want an originalist judge on the court, tried to pretend that the storyline wasn't changing, but it did.

00:10:07.820 A key aspect of this, though, is that in her testimony, Christine Ford said that because of the alleged attack in 82 or 84, whenever it was, she struggled academically.

00:10:18.180 She struggled academically for four to six years afterward, had trouble socializing, didn't have a lot of friends, couldn't go to parties, couldn't get her work done in college. 0.91

00:10:27.620 This has been contradicted by people who knew her in high school and college.

00:10:31.420 One, there's no evidence that she struggled at all afterward in high school.

00:10:35.240 None whatsoever.

00:10:36.420 But so then she makes the claim about college.

00:10:38.480 There was a classmate of hers who said that she had a lot of friends in college, that she frequently went to parties, that she frequently went to frat parties, that she wasn't afraid of closed spaces,

00:10:48.420 that she wasn't afraid of drinking or chugging beers with the bros or whatever they did in college, that she was doing all of that, and that she wasn't afraid to be in a room with boys.

00:10:57.680 Now, do we believe this guy who's saying that he saw her do all these things during her freshman and sophomore year of college?

00:11:04.160 I don't know.

00:11:04.980 I have just as much a reason to believe him as I have a reason to believe Christine Ford.

00:11:08.760 Another thing that came out of the Grassley report, two boys say that they may have, I mean, now they're grown men at the time they were boys,

00:11:16.080 said that they may have been the person that Christine Ford was talking about and not Brett Kavanaugh.

00:11:22.000 So they don't describe what she described, but they describe events that could be similar and could be interpreted that way.

00:11:29.600 One of them said that a kiss happened in the bedroom of a house, which was about 15 to 20 minute walk from the Van Ness metro station,

00:11:39.880 which is about in the vicinity that she describes, that Dr. Ford was wearing a swimsuit under her clothing,

00:11:45.040 and that the kissing ended when a friend jumped on the bed as a joke.

00:11:48.320 Now, an important distinction here is that, according to this friend, she initiated the kiss.

00:11:53.920 But a lot of similar details here, the friend jumping on the bed, the swimsuit, the party.

00:11:59.340 Does this mean that Christine Ford is lying?

00:12:01.120 Not necessarily.

00:12:02.040 She could just get it mixed up.

00:12:03.220 People mix up their memories all the time, especially when they're drinking, especially 30 years after the fact.

00:12:08.660 Another guy says that it could have been him that she was talking about,

00:12:12.060 that he made out with a girl that he thinks could have been Christine Ford at a party around the same time,

00:12:17.640 around the same place, and both of these guys apparently look like Brett Kavanaugh.

00:12:21.300 Okay, that's fine.

00:12:22.820 The Senate Judiciary Committee asked Christine Ford's attorney to respond to this.

00:12:28.580 No response.

00:12:29.780 No response at all.

00:12:30.740 Because Christine Ford said she wouldn't pursue the accusations any further.

00:12:34.640 Because why would she?

00:12:35.940 Why would they pursue?

00:12:36.800 This was always about preventing an originalist judge from getting on the court.

00:12:41.500 And now that he got on the court, okay, we don't want any more attention on this.

00:12:44.760 There are some inconsistencies being pointed out in our story, so we're going to back off a little bit.

00:12:50.360 Another finding from this report.

00:12:51.840 The media reported that Leland Kaiser, that was the lifelong, long-time best friend, or close friend, rather, of Christine Ford,

00:13:00.520 that she said she'd never met Brett Kavanaugh.

00:13:03.800 According to media reports, Leland Kaiser then said she felt pressure from Christine Ford and her attorneys

00:13:09.400 to change her story, to not refute Christine Ford, even though she did refute Christine Ford,

00:13:15.880 because she said that she never met Brett Kavanaugh.

00:13:19.420 Another aspect of this, we heard famously in all of this that Brett Kavanaugh likes beer, and he still likes beer.

00:13:25.380 And do you like beer, Senator?

00:13:26.520 Sometimes you drink too much.

00:13:27.640 Okay.

00:13:28.260 So we know that he likes beer, but Christine Ford kept saying,

00:13:31.260 I had one beer at the party.

00:13:33.520 And I will just tell you something.

00:13:35.160 As a guy who's been to a couple parties, you know, went to college,

00:13:38.740 whenever somebody says, I had one beer, they had more than one beer.

00:13:42.580 That's what it means.

00:13:44.520 If you look up, I had one beer in the dictionary, it means I had a lot of beer.

00:13:48.560 You say, well, what are you talking about, officer?

00:13:50.380 I just had one beer.

00:13:51.500 What seems to be the officer problem?

00:13:53.840 They definitely had more than one beer.

00:13:56.120 And so friends of Christine Ford said that she would go to these parties a lot and drink.

00:14:00.900 I'm not knocking her for it.

00:14:01.940 A lot of people do that in college and high school.

00:14:04.340 And at the time, I think the drinking age was 18, or it had just been changed.

00:14:08.640 So just pointing out an apparent inconsistency.

00:14:13.340 So one of the accusations against Kavanaugh is that he whipped it out at a party in college his freshman year.

00:14:19.080 It turns out that there was another notorious flasher at Yale at the time that Kavanaugh was there.

00:14:26.780 This is according to classmates who were there at the time.

00:14:29.040 So there was this notorious flasher who was not Brett Kavanaugh.

00:14:32.180 And as the classmates said, if it were Brett Kavanaugh, trust me, we would have known.

00:14:35.460 The word would have gotten around, but it was not him.

00:14:37.980 And I think I pointed this out at the time when we were talking about Kavanaugh,

00:14:42.440 that Yale is a very naked school.

00:14:44.740 There's a lot of streaking and things like this. 0.81

00:14:47.920 It's a very naked place.

00:14:49.700 I don't know what to tell you.

00:14:50.980 But it appears that this was not Brett Kavanaugh by the best evidence that we have at our disposal.

00:14:57.600 So then this brings us to Michael Avenatti.

00:15:00.040 Basta, Basta, the former future president, former future Democrat nominee for president, Michael Avenatti.

00:15:06.620 His client, Julie Swetnick, apparently, this is the weirdest one of all.

00:15:11.120 So there's good evidence now that Swetnick and Avenatti criminally conspired to make materially false statements.

00:15:19.800 She is the one who said that Kavanaugh would host gang rape parties. 0.75

00:15:23.880 And she saw him gang rape girls all the time. 0.98

00:15:26.900 And for some reason, she kept going to these parties. 0.58

00:15:29.300 That part was never explained.

00:15:30.820 He said, why don't you tell somebody?

00:15:32.180 Why don't you call the cops?

00:15:33.020 No, I just kept going.

00:15:33.800 I figured they'd get better after the sixth or seventh gang rape party that Brett Kavanaugh hosted.

00:15:38.840 So they're now being investigated for criminally conspiring to make materially false statements.

00:15:45.780 Julie Swetnick, Michael Avenatti's client, apparently, according to this report,

00:15:51.200 has a long history of making sexual harassment, legal threats, lawsuits, claims.

00:15:57.080 And during those threats and lawsuits and accusations, was represented by Deborah Katz,

00:16:04.920 the same lawyer who represented Christine Ford, who was recommended to Ford by Dianne Feinstein.

00:16:12.420 Is this starting to smell to anybody?

00:16:14.140 It doesn't smell very good, does it?

00:16:16.320 That's quite a coincidence, isn't it?

00:16:17.920 Quite a coincidence.

00:16:19.020 And then finally, there was a claim by an ex-boyfriend of Christine Ford that Christine Ford

00:16:27.300 coached a friend of hers on how to take a polygraph test and beat it.

00:16:32.380 That friend was a former FBI agent, Monica McLean. 0.67

00:16:36.700 The Ford team denied it.

00:16:38.840 Apparently now, Monica McLean is being investigated for this claim. 1.00

00:16:42.520 They might have changed some statements.

00:16:43.980 They might be backing off that denial.

00:16:45.520 So, it's entirely possible that this ex-boyfriend is right that Christine Ford did coach Monica

00:16:52.200 McLean on how to beat a polygraph test, which means that she perjured herself before the

00:16:57.020 Senate Judiciary Committee when she said she never coached anybody on how to beat a polygraph

00:17:00.320 test.

00:17:00.980 She might seem to know a lot about polygraph tests, which makes her volunteering to take

00:17:05.400 a polygraph all that more suspect.

00:17:07.860 Add this to all of the contradictions in her testimony.

00:17:10.840 She said it was, she had to tell her whole life story.

00:17:13.440 The polygraph test took forever.

00:17:14.580 The polygraph test in reality was two questions.

00:17:16.880 She volunteered to do it.

00:17:18.100 She said she's afraid of flying.

00:17:19.200 She flies all over God's green earth. 1.00

00:17:20.840 She said that she got a second door on the front of her house because she was so afraid

00:17:25.480 of being in enclosed spaces from this assault.

00:17:27.780 She got the second door in the house years before the issue of a sexual assault ever came 1.00

00:17:34.120 up.

00:17:34.540 She said it came up in 2012 when she talked about it to her marriage therapist.

00:17:39.480 Actually, they put in the request to build the door four years earlier so that she could

00:17:44.120 have a separate office and so that they could rent out the room to Google interns and college

00:17:48.180 interns.

00:17:50.200 It all adds up to no credibility whatsoever.

00:17:55.080 And this is why you've got to do it for Brett today.

00:17:57.600 You've got to go out on election day for Brett because all of this stuff was treated as though

00:18:03.020 it were gospel truth.

00:18:05.380 This woman of unimpeachable integrity.

00:18:08.100 How dare you point out that her story doesn't add up?

00:18:10.780 How dare you point out the contradictions?

00:18:13.260 How dare you question Michael Avenatti or Julie Swetnick or any of these other people? 0.97

00:18:18.620 He has been slandered as a rapist, Brett Kavanaugh. 0.82

00:18:21.780 His family has been destroyed. 0.99

00:18:23.560 He's been dragged through the mud.

00:18:24.960 All for what?

00:18:25.900 To protect the sacrament of abortion. 0.79

00:18:29.600 The left's sacrament of abortion.

00:18:31.700 To protect Roe versus Wade.

00:18:33.460 That's what it's all about.

00:18:34.420 And it's so dirty how they played and they're so full of it that I really hope that we see

00:18:41.040 conservative voters, reasonable, independent voters, go out there and say, no more.

00:18:46.180 This is too much.

00:18:47.280 It's too despicable.

00:18:48.560 We're not going to let this happen.

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00:20:19.960 Well, technically, maybe I'm not back on Twitter.

00:20:22.040 I, you might have seen, if you're following me on Twitter at Michael J. Knowles, you'll

00:20:26.340 see that my new name on Twitter is definitely not Michael Knowles because I'm afraid I know

00:20:31.920 that they're going to kick me off again eventually.

00:20:34.360 The way that I got back on Twitter is, you know, I was kicked off basically because Donald

00:20:40.040 Jr. retweeted a criticism that I had made of CNN and it was so widely shared that they

00:20:44.900 kicked me off and they used as an excuse a joke I made about the election in which I said

00:20:49.940 Democrats should vote on Wednesday.

00:20:52.640 And so they said, they removed the post immediately.

00:20:56.260 And then they, when I tried to log into Twitter, they had this screen and it said, you can appeal

00:21:02.680 your suspension or you can remove the post and waive your right to an appeal.

00:21:07.780 So I said, okay, I'm going to appeal it.

00:21:09.480 Because actually in my post, I said, make sure you vote in this poll on whether Twitter

00:21:14.680 should kick off conservatives for joking.

00:21:16.200 So it even had, it wasn't even the joke that they thought it was.

00:21:19.940 It was actually a punchline about Twitter censoring conservatives.

00:21:23.800 So I said, I'm going to appeal that.

00:21:25.280 So I appealed my suspension.

00:21:27.480 Guess what I heard back from them?

00:21:29.420 I'll give you nothing.

00:21:31.000 I heard nothing back and they wouldn't respond.

00:21:34.000 And so it's an indefinite Twitter suspension that I had and I really didn't want to be off

00:21:38.260 for election night.

00:21:40.040 So they'd already removed the post and what they want you to do is waive your right to an

00:21:43.360 appeal.

00:21:43.540 I'm not getting an appeal anyway.

00:21:45.260 So I clicked it and they reinstated me right away.

00:21:48.280 But I've talked to a lot of my friends.

00:21:50.020 Owen Benjamin was here yesterday.

00:21:51.820 It's only a matter of time.

00:21:53.040 Eventually they will kick me off.

00:21:55.240 This is why I vigorously defended Alex Jones when he was kicked off of Twitter.

00:22:01.180 Because, but not because I watched the Alex Jones show.

00:22:04.780 He might be conspiratorial.

00:22:06.380 He might be a shirtless vitamin salesman. 1.00

00:22:07.960 He might think that the freaking frogs are gay. 1.00

00:22:09.620 I don't know. 1.00

00:22:10.260 But they kicked Alex Jones off to establish the principle to kick off Gavin McGinnis or

00:22:17.200 Owen Benjamin.

00:22:17.900 You know, they kicked off.

00:22:18.720 They got to kick off Alex Jones because he's a conspiracy theorist.

00:22:22.520 Then they got to kick off Gavin and Owen and other people because they're comedians.

00:22:27.180 So they push things too far.

00:22:28.560 They say things that are outrageous.

00:22:30.060 They say things that are offensive.

00:22:31.400 That's their job.

00:22:32.260 They're comedians.

00:22:33.140 So they kick them off.

00:22:34.000 And we say, oh, well, they did see, you know, they said an offensive thing.

00:22:37.180 Well, they shouldn't have done that.

00:22:38.220 Okay.

00:22:38.660 Then they kick those guys off to kick me off.

00:22:41.440 That's why.

00:22:42.180 To kick me off.

00:22:42.900 And how do they, how are they going to get away with kicking me off?

00:22:46.100 Well, because I don't have, I don't have the single fastest growing conservative podcast

00:22:50.420 in the country.

00:22:51.300 Probably got like, you know, it's top three maybe, but it's not, not the fastest growing,

00:22:55.260 I'm sorry to say.

00:22:56.460 And so they can kick off people who don't have a million followers.

00:22:59.260 Let's say they have a hundred thousand followers or 80,000 followers or whatever.

00:23:03.260 They can kick you and then they just bring it all the way up and they're going to start

00:23:07.480 heating it up.

00:23:08.460 And by the way, since I got kicked off of Twitter, I've heard from a lot of people who

00:23:13.080 don't have check marks, who don't have 50,000 followers, who have been kicked off for nothing.

00:23:18.480 And you see the post that they were suspended for.

00:23:21.100 It has nothing to do with anything.

00:23:22.600 It has nothing to do with the election.

00:23:23.700 Just, and they say you're suspended for three days, seven days, 10 days.

00:23:28.380 They're coming for you.

00:23:30.260 They came for Jones. 0.61

00:23:31.600 We said nothing.

00:23:32.380 They came for Gavin.

00:23:33.260 We said nothing.

00:23:34.000 They came for me.

00:23:35.120 I'm definitely not Michael Knowles.

00:23:36.260 Now I've got a mustache on Twitter.

00:23:37.960 Some people said nothing.

00:23:39.080 Some people raised a ruckus.

00:23:40.740 They're going to march on and they're going to keep censoring conservatives.

00:23:44.080 And the American people know this, by the way.

00:23:45.720 There is a Pew study app that shows that 72% of Americans believe that social media censors

00:23:51.560 people based on their political views.

00:23:55.220 72%.

00:23:55.620 That's not just conservatives.

00:23:57.420 That's not just Republicans.

00:23:59.280 That's the majority of people.

00:24:00.300 The vast majority of people.

00:24:01.960 Project Veritas, James O'Keefe's organization, showed that Twitter was shadow banning conservatives

00:24:07.080 in just January of this year.

00:24:08.780 A few other examples.

00:24:11.080 Google.

00:24:11.460 When you Google the California Republican Party, I think they've fixed it now, but when

00:24:16.620 you Google it, it used to list their ideology as Nazism.

00:24:20.420 Oh, it was just a mistake, though, I'm sure.

00:24:22.440 It was probably just a mistake.

00:24:24.020 Who can, you know, just a whoopsie-daisy. 1.00

00:24:27.760 Same thing with Google.

00:24:28.860 When you would Google a North Carolina state senator, a Republican state senator, the first

00:24:36.360 photo that would come up called her a bigot, labeled him just a bigot right across him.

00:24:42.140 And we've seen all of the bans.

00:24:44.060 So they suspended me for not even telling the joke that they thought I was telling.

00:24:48.880 They suspended James Woods for making a joke.

00:24:51.920 They suspended, you know, Owen, Gavin, all of these other people.

00:24:54.800 But on Facebook, it's not just Twitter conservative commentators.

00:25:01.300 It's not just people who have talk shows or political podcasts or whatever.

00:25:05.520 On Facebook, they banned major Catholic pages.

00:25:09.060 So now we're moving outside the realm of just American conservatism.

00:25:12.060 There was one called Jesus and Mary, 1.7 million followers on Facebook, kicked off.

00:25:17.560 Catholic and Proud had 6 million followers on Facebook, kicked off.

00:25:22.000 Well, there's a lot of overlap between Catholicism and conservative thought.

00:25:28.800 There's a lot of overlap between the Christian internet and conservative internet.

00:25:34.740 I think they might have reinstated one or both of those pages, but they kicked them off for a while.

00:25:38.620 Conservative activist Grace Johnston, who's known as Activist Mommy on social media,

00:25:42.740 she criticized Teen Vogue for encouraging its readers, young teenagers, 0.80

00:25:48.820 for encouraging them to have very creative sex in places that you shouldn't have sex.

00:25:56.160 And, you know, it's a family show.

00:25:57.860 I don't want to get too into detail here.

00:26:00.140 But for talking about things that 12-year-olds shouldn't be talking about,

00:26:04.860 13-year-olds shouldn't be talking about, she criticized Teen Vogue.

00:26:07.680 She was then kicked off of social media.

00:26:09.100 Marsha Blackburn, running in Tennessee, she ran a pro-life ad on Twitter. 1.00

00:26:14.180 Twitter said no, deleted the ad, nixed the ad, kicked it off.

00:26:18.400 Facebook now censored Alveda King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece,

00:26:23.680 censored her for running an ad for a pro-life movie that she was involved in,

00:26:28.940 a movie about Roe vs. Wade.

00:26:30.940 Alveda King, that's not Gavin McGinnis.

00:26:33.380 That's not Alex Jones.

00:26:35.460 That's Martin Luther King's niece, who's a pro-life activist.

00:26:38.000 Prager University, obviously, is suing Google.

00:26:41.560 They've been kicked off of Facebook for periods of time,

00:26:44.320 had their videos censored because they talked about such controversial,

00:26:49.960 outrageous topics as the Ten Commandments on YouTube.

00:26:54.240 They had a series on the Ten Commandments censored.

00:26:56.300 You couldn't see it at universities or at high schools.

00:26:59.640 So just remember, you'll see this on social media today,

00:27:03.080 on Facebook and on Twitter.

00:27:04.600 The big headlines, big headers.

00:27:06.100 It says, get out and vote.

00:27:07.680 Don't forget to vote.

00:27:08.720 Here's your polling place.

00:27:09.780 Go register.

00:27:10.640 They're not talking to you.

00:27:12.080 They're not.

00:27:13.200 Trust me, they're not talking to you.

00:27:14.500 They're talking to left-wingers that they want to go and get out to vote,

00:27:19.080 but they don't want you to get out and vote.

00:27:20.380 In fact, they don't even want you on their platforms.

00:27:22.580 That's how you know that they're not talking to you,

00:27:24.200 is they're censoring you and they're kicking you off right around an election.

00:27:26.620 And they're deleting your Facebook pages and they're deleting your communities on there.

00:27:32.880 So when they have these big campaigns, get out and vote, go to your polling place.

00:27:37.120 The question that this raises is, is this election interference?

00:27:40.480 If they are providing material support to get Democrat voters out there and vote,

00:27:48.280 and if they are providing material support to kicking conservatives off of the platform,

00:27:54.520 blocking them from seeing those resources, blocking them from getting their message out,

00:27:58.140 is that election interference?

00:27:59.560 There was a report that came in today that the DCCC,

00:28:02.440 the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,

00:28:04.740 has been pestering Twitter to delete conservative accounts and that Twitter has obliged.

00:28:08.620 I'm not sure if this is true.

00:28:11.140 I wish that I could get more verification before I report that,

00:28:14.220 but Twitter never gives us verification on anything,

00:28:16.500 because this is the central problem of social media,

00:28:18.880 is these big tech companies are totally opaque.

00:28:21.280 They have no transparency at all.

00:28:23.400 So are they providing material support to Democrats?

00:28:26.840 Are they providing in-kind contributions to Democrats?

00:28:30.880 Are they interfering in the election?

00:28:33.940 And this is a question that should involve the FEC,

00:28:36.480 because if they're giving support to Democrats and they're hurting Republicans in elections,

00:28:42.720 they should have major election lawsuits filed against them, 0.93

00:28:47.100 and they should be regulated as political entities or as political publishers or whatever,

00:28:52.540 but not as open platforms.

00:28:54.360 That is how the social media treat the GOP.

00:28:56.640 How do the mainstream media treat the GOP?

00:28:59.900 This is a little gift.

00:29:01.140 This was a Christmas comes early election day gift came in.

00:29:05.200 There was a guy named John James.

00:29:06.940 He's running for Senate.

00:29:08.220 And a reporter left him, he's a Republican,

00:29:11.080 a reporter left him a voicemail to try to get an interview with John James.

00:29:16.920 And she thought that she had hung up her phone once she finished the voicemail.

00:29:21.160 She hadn't, so the James campaign still had the rest of this.

00:29:25.520 And she starts to give her opinion to her colleague in the room

00:29:29.100 while she thinks that the Republican is not listening.

00:29:31.760 Here's the voicemail.

00:29:32.360 Hi, my name is Brenda Battle.

00:29:35.760 I am a reporter with the Huron Daily Tribune in Bad Axe, Michigan.

00:29:40.280 Looking to set up an appointment with Mr. James for some time on Wednesday

00:29:46.640 for a phone interview regarding the election results.

00:29:50.700 If you'd like to call me back, my number is 989.

00:29:55.220 Thank you.

00:29:55.680 I mean, if he beats her, Jesus. 0.99

00:30:05.380 F*** John James. 0.99

00:30:08.400 Phew. 1.00

00:30:09.220 That would suck. 1.00

00:30:14.280 F*** John James. 1.00

00:30:16.220 That would suck. 0.99

00:30:16.880 I don't think it's going to happen, but almost comical. 0.91

00:30:20.640 Almost comical, like theatrical.

00:30:22.560 Like she's on stage, you know, it's like overwritten.

00:30:25.760 If you had handed that screenplay in in Hollywood, they'd say it's a little overwritten.

00:30:30.140 It's a little overwrought.

00:30:31.040 I don't know about that.

00:30:32.220 But that is what you're dealing with.

00:30:33.800 Nobody should be surprised by that.

00:30:35.260 That's what reporters are.

00:30:36.180 That's what journalists are, so-called journalists.

00:30:38.720 I don't mean to smear all of them.

00:30:39.900 There are a handful of good journalists, but not very many in this day and age.

00:30:44.060 Most of them are political operatives for Democrats who despise the Republicans that they're covering

00:30:48.720 and seek to undermine them every chance they get.

00:30:50.780 We've got a lot more to get to, including the final argument moving into the midterm elections

00:30:55.560 and whether that final argument is going to work from President Trump, from Rush Limbaugh,

00:31:00.940 and from Abraham Lincoln.

00:31:01.920 But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

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00:31:10.020 You help keep the lights on in our Tora Bora cave over here.

00:31:13.320 You keep Covfefe and Mike up.

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00:32:48.980 So that's how the media treat Republicans.

00:33:02.760 F'ing John James.

00:33:04.500 Oh, I better... 0.99

00:33:05.160 If he wins, that'll suck. 0.99

00:33:08.640 That's how they treat Republicans. 0.95

00:33:10.200 How do they treat Democrats?

00:33:11.620 Jorge Ramos talking to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:33:14.820 Take it away.

00:33:15.280 Medicare for all.

00:33:18.060 Is it too expensive?

00:33:19.540 No.

00:33:20.420 People often say, like, how are you going to pay for it?

00:33:23.700 And I find the question so puzzling because how do you pay for something that's more affordable?

00:33:29.540 How do you pay for cheaper rent?

00:33:31.060 How do you pay for...

00:33:31.780 You just pay for it.

00:33:32.960 We're paying more now.

00:33:34.760 So it's not that we're saying this whole system is free.

00:33:37.400 It's saying it is free of cost at the point of service.

00:33:40.840 So that means that you're not delaying going to the dentist.

00:33:43.840 You're not...

00:33:44.180 Because you don't have money.

00:33:44.820 Because you don't have the cash at the point of service.

00:33:48.520 What?

00:33:49.580 What was any of that?

00:33:50.900 What did she... 0.99

00:33:51.500 So to begin, she said one thing which is true, which is that she finds the question puzzling.

00:33:55.700 That is true.

00:33:56.360 I think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez finds many questions puzzling, including this one.

00:34:01.620 Then she says a bunch of things that aren't true and or are irrelevant.

00:34:05.640 So she said that we're paying more now.

00:34:07.900 We're paying more now for health care.

00:34:11.660 That isn't true.

00:34:12.720 Right now, the federal government pays about $1.5 trillion per year for health care.

00:34:16.640 Her proposal, Medicare for All, at the lowest end for socialist health care, will cost $3.2 trillion per year.

00:34:24.280 That's more than double that.

00:34:25.560 We would have to double, at least double, actually more than double, annual tax receipts.

00:34:31.620 To the federal government to pay for her program.

00:34:34.180 We're not paying more now.

00:34:35.260 We're paying less than half now.

00:34:36.580 We're paying way, way, way less now.

00:34:39.000 And we have way more freedom in our health care choices.

00:34:42.720 Under her plan, that will go away.

00:34:44.180 The problem, by the way, she says the problem is that people don't have money to pay at the point of receiving the service.

00:34:50.740 At this point, she is just babbling.

00:34:52.940 That has nothing to do with what she's talking about.

00:34:55.020 It has nothing to do with the role of the government in health care.

00:34:58.260 It has nothing to do with premiums increasing or decreasing.

00:35:00.800 We were told with Obamacare that because the government was taking over more of the health care system, premiums would decrease.

00:35:06.580 They didn't decrease.

00:35:07.500 They dramatically increased.

00:35:09.160 She's just spouting words.

00:35:10.720 And it's a trick that Democrats do, which especially her, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, living blissfully and blithely in ignorance, 0.99

00:35:18.420 which is that she says things with total confidence.

00:35:23.940 Other than that time, she said she's not the expert.

00:35:26.420 Then when she gets called out on it by conservatives like Margaret Hoover, when she gets called, she says, could you explain your position on Israel-Palestine?

00:35:33.080 She goes, oh, hee, hee, I don't, I'm not the expert.

00:35:35.180 But when she's not called out on it, she seems confident.

00:35:39.060 So Jorge Ramos isn't going to call her out.

00:35:41.120 The mainstream media aren't going to call her out and say, you know, actually, your plan costs more than double the current plan. 0.74

00:35:47.100 Then she might have to say, I'm not the expert.

00:35:48.860 But what she's saying here is she's just filibustering, saying, look, it's just like paying your rent.

00:35:52.940 You know, we'll just pay for it.

00:35:53.920 Yes, but how are you going to pay for it?

00:35:57.460 Well, we're just going to.

00:35:59.840 You see, the Republicans aren't going to, but we are going to.

00:36:02.900 So I'd say the difference in our plans, we're going to.

00:36:05.220 We're the going to.

00:36:05.940 We're the going to.

00:36:06.520 Going to, going to party.

00:36:07.380 Okay, that's fine.

00:36:08.440 And no pushback whatsoever.

00:36:10.760 No pushback at all.

00:36:11.780 Of course not.

00:36:13.120 That's what you're up against. 0.99

00:36:14.200 This is why President Trump at his rallies points to the mainstream media and he says they're slime, they're liars, they're fake news. 0.97

00:36:19.720 Because they are fake news. 1.00

00:36:20.740 The woman who called up that Republican Senate candidate and said, ah, F him, he sucks, I hope he doesn't win, that's fake news. 0.99

00:36:31.860 Because she's not an objective news reporter. 0.99

00:36:33.860 She's not an objective journalist.

00:36:35.320 She's a partisan.

00:36:36.680 She's a partisan operative.

00:36:38.540 Jorge Ramos isn't real news.

00:36:40.380 He's fake news.

00:36:41.340 He's a partisan operative who's trying to help Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:36:45.720 And President Trump is right to call it out that way.

00:36:47.880 And I'd like to point out, he's making his final argument for the election.

00:36:51.500 He's making his final point, which I think is a good final argument.

00:36:54.080 But before we get to that argument, I just want to point out, Donald Trump has given everybody everything they wanted.

00:37:01.860 Everybody.

00:37:02.500 Not just conservatives or Republicans.

00:37:04.680 Everybody.

00:37:06.100 He has given.

00:37:07.140 So right now today, we're seeing record high turnout.

00:37:10.360 It was predicted that it would be higher than at any time in a midterm since 1966.

00:37:14.400 It might blow past 1966.

00:37:17.260 Record high turnout.

00:37:18.380 How many years have we heard, we need to get people motivated.

00:37:21.000 We need to get people involved in our civic society.

00:37:23.400 We need to get people involved in da-da-da-da-da. 0.89

00:37:25.120 Trump did it.

00:37:26.340 Record high turnout.

00:37:27.620 Record high engagement.

00:37:28.780 Record high engagement on issues.

00:37:30.680 How long have we heard, we need the Republicans unified.

00:37:33.960 The Republicans are unified.

00:37:35.040 We need the Democrats unified.

00:37:36.380 The Democrats are unified.

00:37:38.260 How about the mainstream media?

00:37:39.360 They're getting exactly what they want.

00:37:40.920 They're profitable for the first time in a long time.

00:37:42.940 They're making oodles of money.

00:37:44.740 CNN is only in existence today because of Donald Trump.

00:37:48.740 CNN would be a cardboard box on a Facebook live stream if not for Donald Trump.

00:37:54.260 He is giving them oodles of money.

00:37:56.720 And the flip side of that, by the way, is that people are consuming much more news.

00:38:01.140 I guess CNN because, you know, airports consume some news, I guess, because they artificially

00:38:06.660 boost their numbers.

00:38:07.240 But even among American viewers, CNN is finally getting some ratings.

00:38:13.180 And the new media are getting way better ratings.

00:38:16.280 Places like the Daily Wire, places, people like us, online news websites.

00:38:22.160 All of these sort of things are getting a lot more traffic because people are consuming the news.

00:38:27.240 Isn't that what we wanted?

00:38:28.440 Haven't we been saying for decades, we want people to be engaged with public issues?

00:38:32.200 It's a representative democracy.

00:38:33.520 They need to be engaged with issues.

00:38:35.220 Now they're complaining because people will complain about everything.

00:38:37.840 But Trump gave them exactly what they wanted.

00:38:40.100 How about a strong economy?

00:38:41.200 We've been complaining now for over a decade that the economy lagged because of the financial

00:38:45.740 crisis at the end of the Bush administration and because of the horrific recovery under

00:38:49.480 Barack Obama, the non-recovery recovery.

00:38:52.800 So what have we got now?

00:38:53.940 What have we got now?

00:38:55.360 We've got the strongest economy in recent history, record low joblessness, relative peace

00:39:02.080 abroad.

00:39:02.440 We wanted peace abroad.

00:39:03.560 We're getting peace abroad more and more every day.

00:39:06.380 And finally, protection for workers and profit for capital.

00:39:11.460 Businesses are doing very well and workers are doing very well.

00:39:15.080 We never thought that the twain should meet.

00:39:17.320 You've had for decades and decades Democrats demagoguing on labor, saying we need to give

00:39:21.940 more money to labor, unionize labor, unionize public workers.

00:39:25.460 And you've had Republicans talking about just boosting GDP forever and ever.

00:39:29.780 And all that matters is gross domestic product and capital.

00:39:33.240 And there was always an image.

00:39:35.140 I think it's largely unfair, but there was always an image of Republicans and conservatives

00:39:39.260 as being tone deaf to the demands of labor.

00:39:42.200 And what have you got under Trump?

00:39:43.300 Finally, you have labor, real wages increasing, and you have GDP bursting, the economy booming,

00:39:49.680 doing very, very well.

00:39:50.820 This is Donald Trump's final argument.

00:39:53.820 So that's an amazing accomplishment in itself, by the way, because he's reconciled two major

00:39:59.380 demands of both sides of the political spectrum here.

00:40:02.560 Profits for labor, profits for capital.

00:40:04.320 And he's done it in a way that has irked both sides.

00:40:08.520 But this is his final argument.

00:40:10.240 His final argument today, he published a piece, I think, in USA Today.

00:40:13.340 He said, vote for the GOP and continue the jobs boom.

00:40:17.920 And that's different than just saying the economic boom.

00:40:20.280 And this is really important in places that have lost a lot of jobs to anything, to globalization,

00:40:26.720 to increased immigration, to illegal immigration, to changing regular dynamism of the economy,

00:40:33.340 is jobs.

00:40:34.320 Because jobs are different than just material prosperity.

00:40:40.380 Those are different.

00:40:41.460 Mankind is made to work.

00:40:43.260 There's a great book out now by Oren Kass, a right-winger, you know, he's on the right,

00:40:48.480 which is called The Once and Future Worker.

00:40:51.100 And it talks about the role of work.

00:40:53.640 Adam worked in the garden.

00:40:55.960 Work is more than just the money you get paid for.

00:40:58.880 Men need to work. 1.00

00:41:00.060 When men stop working, they shrivel away. 0.99

00:41:02.400 They need to stay occupied.

00:41:03.760 They need to be productive.

00:41:05.300 They need to work.

00:41:06.680 And I think the GOP has been a little tone deaf on that. 0.97

00:41:09.260 And I think that the Democratic Party has been completely ignorant on economics. 0.92

00:41:14.140 But this is the argument.

00:41:15.420 Here we can get real gains for workers, people back to be meaningfully employed.

00:41:21.200 Not Obama employed.

00:41:22.200 Not partially employed, underemployed, leaving the workforce, but actually employed so that

00:41:27.380 we can be productive.

00:41:28.460 Because society is not just about consumption.

00:41:30.620 It's also about production.

00:41:32.400 Production is what makes you feel gratified in your work.

00:41:35.940 It's what makes you feel dignified.

00:41:37.420 It's what you're called to do from the Garden of Eden.

00:41:41.020 It creates stable families and stable communities and ultimately a stable economy.

00:41:45.600 And this is a major victory.

00:41:48.740 And I hope that it's rewarded at the ballot box today.

00:41:50.960 When asked if he has any regrets, President Trump was quite honest.

00:41:57.480 He was uncharacteristically candid.

00:41:59.320 Maybe characteristically.

00:42:00.920 You know, he does.

00:42:01.780 They call President Trump's statements gaffes when really he's just speaking candidly and

00:42:06.820 honestly.

00:42:07.500 Here's President Trump on his regret to Sinclair.

00:42:09.520 Is there anything, as you look back at your first almost two years, that you regret, that

00:42:14.960 you wish on you, that you could just take back and redo?

00:42:18.700 Well, there would be certain things.

00:42:20.400 I'm not sure I want to reveal all of them.

00:42:22.140 But I would say tone.

00:42:24.120 I would like to have a much softer tone.

00:42:27.260 I feel to a certain extent I have no choice.

00:42:30.280 But maybe I do.

00:42:31.580 And maybe I could have been softer from that standpoint.

00:42:35.120 Good answer.

00:42:35.820 And I also am ambivalent on whether he could be softer or not.

00:42:40.540 I've gotten calls from older relatives of mine who say, you know, I really like Trump,

00:42:44.040 but I wish he weren't so mean all the time.

00:42:46.160 So nasty.

00:42:47.380 You know, frowning. 0.86

00:42:48.580 That kind of cut of his jib.

00:42:49.940 That Mussolini look.

00:42:51.380 I wish he would smile more.

00:42:52.680 He were a little softer.

00:42:53.760 How can he be soft?

00:42:55.160 How can he be soft?

00:42:57.100 Would that it were so simple.

00:42:58.440 Would that he could be soft, too.

00:42:59.700 But how can he be soft when he's being assailed from all sides like this? 0.98

00:43:03.520 When his Supreme Court nominee is being smeared as a racist, racist, rapist, baselessly. 0.96

00:43:09.060 And every other one of his supporters and he himself are being smeared as racists. 0.91

00:43:13.320 How can he be soft?

00:43:14.380 I wish he could be soft, too.

00:43:15.740 I wish we could get to a point in this country, again, where people can be civilized.

00:43:20.260 Even if they're tough.

00:43:21.540 Even if they're hard-hitting.

00:43:23.200 Even if they stand by their ideas and advocate for their agendas.

00:43:26.460 Where they could be civilized and adult about things and mature about things.

00:43:32.000 But they can't right now because the Democrats are behaving like children.

00:43:36.160 And so he's behaving like the mean father.

00:43:38.860 He's like, no. 0.98

00:43:40.120 But, Daddy, I hate you, Dad.

00:43:42.420 You know, but I want you to raise taxes, Dad.

00:43:47.120 No.

00:43:47.760 He's got to be mean.

00:43:48.560 He's got to be the tough father.

00:43:50.160 But it would be nice if after the midterms, if, you know, somehow history is proven wrong tonight

00:43:58.180 and the Republicans manage to hold on to the House, which, you know, historically the odds are pretty low,

00:44:05.140 but we're in pretty strange times, so it's possible.

00:44:08.320 It would be nice if the Democrats could realize that the resistance isn't working.

00:44:12.780 I mean, that's why these midterms matter a lot, too, is it would so deflate the resistance.

00:44:17.240 It would so discourage the resistance, these hysterical little children that maybe they would grow up.

00:44:25.960 And then he could be a genial fellow, but until then he probably can't.

00:44:30.200 On this day in history, before we go, Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 on this very day.

00:44:36.560 I hope this bodes well for the GOP.

00:44:38.220 He was the first Republican president.

00:44:41.120 The GOP was founded in 1854.

00:44:42.960 It had its first national convention in 1856, and it got its first president in 1860.

00:44:48.860 Its first GOP nominee, its first presidential nominee, was James Freeman, I think, right?

00:44:54.740 Was it Freeman?

00:44:55.660 Or Fremont.

00:44:56.560 Fremont, I think.

00:44:57.620 Which I just love that free is in the name of the first Republican presidential nominee.

00:45:04.160 Lincoln got 40% of the popular vote, and he defeated the other candidates.

00:45:07.360 The reason I bring this up, a little history of the GOP before we go today, is because you'll often hear historically illiterate claims that the Republican Party of the 19th century, the Republican Party of Lincoln, is really the Democrat Party of today.

00:45:23.580 You say, well, how did that happen?

00:45:25.040 You say, oh, they switched one day.

00:45:26.920 They were, you know, they all met.

00:45:28.400 Mr. Republican and Mr. Democrat sat down at a table, and they agreed, okay, you're going to be this one now, and you're going to be the other one, and we're just going to switch.

00:45:34.040 Just because, just for no reason, and this is absurd.

00:45:38.460 Now, one of the arguments is that they switched because Democrats embraced civil rights for black people, because they got one Civil Rights Act in their entire history.

00:45:53.080 The Democrat Party passed one Civil Rights Act in 1964, but there have been many civil rights acts, and the people who are educators today and political activists want to pretend that there was one.

00:46:03.680 The Republicans passed every other Civil Rights Act.

00:46:06.500 They passed one in 1866 over the veto of Democrat President Andrew Johnson.

00:46:10.680 They passed one in 1871, 1875, 1957, 1960, and 1991.

00:46:17.520 Many civil rights acts.

00:46:20.220 Six civil rights acts by Republicans dating all the way up to 1991.

00:46:24.540 One by Democrats, ratified by Democrat President in 1964.

00:46:29.160 Another aspect that is long forgotten is that the GOP was largely founded on tariffs, on economic protectionism.

00:46:37.720 President Trump said earlier this year or last year that tariffs built America.

00:46:43.320 He's right.

00:46:44.300 They did build America.

00:46:46.120 Abraham Lincoln said, quote, give us a protective tariff, and we will have the greatest nation on earth.

00:46:51.000 It was largely a protectionist party.

00:46:53.880 The U.S. was largely protectionist.

00:46:55.440 Now, why did it change?

00:46:56.480 It started to change after the 1920s when the U.S. economy became the biggest economy in the world, and it certainly changed after the Second World War when we were the superpower.

00:47:05.960 So I'm not making an argument for having protective tariffs all over the place.

00:47:10.360 That's not why I bring this up.

00:47:11.800 I bring this up to point out that history is complicated, and that when the left says that the party has switched, or when people on the right or the left, neoliberals or neoconservatives, they say, oh, there's no problem with free trade, and there's no argument for tariffs in any case whatsoever.

00:47:32.320 History is more complicated than that.

00:47:34.620 It's much more complicated than that.

00:47:36.000 And what we see throughout the history of the Republican Party, they've changed their mind on tariffs.

00:47:43.680 They've changed their mind on various issues of the day because political circumstances change.

00:47:48.840 Politics is not philosophy.

00:47:51.060 There is political philosophy, but politics is in real time with real people in real places that you're going to see today on election day.

00:47:58.780 And so circumstances change.

00:48:00.040 Ronald Reagan's approach to illegal immigration was different in 1980 than ours is today.

00:48:04.760 Why is that?

00:48:05.720 Well, because the circumstances are different.

00:48:07.480 There's way more illegal immigration today.

00:48:10.120 There's a much higher foreign-born percentage of the population.

00:48:12.880 There are many people flouting our immigration laws.

00:48:15.420 It poses national security threats.

00:48:17.320 And you've got a left which is insisting that we can't assimilate anybody to the culture.

00:48:22.180 Those are different questions.

00:48:23.560 Why was there so much protectionism in the 19th century but not in the 20th century?

00:48:27.720 Because the scale and character of the U.S. economy had changed.

00:48:31.920 One thing that the GOP has stood for, though, throughout all of that, is this through line.

00:48:37.000 Ordered liberty.

00:48:38.360 Ordered liberty.

00:48:39.140 And that's what you're seeing here.

00:48:40.560 It began in the very beginnings of the party in 1860.

00:48:45.020 That was an election about ordered liberty, about whether human beings have dignity and the right to govern themselves.

00:48:53.560 Should have freedom, for lack of a better word.

00:48:58.300 And you see this constantly pop up throughout the history of the Republican Party.

00:49:02.580 A through line throughout it.

00:49:03.900 You're seeing that argument today.

00:49:05.620 And I hope that we go out there and we see a big victory today.

00:49:08.860 But I guess we'll know later on.

00:49:10.560 Make sure you tune in at 8 o'clock Eastern, 5 o'clock Pacific.

00:49:14.160 We'll be smoking cigars and hanging out with the guys and hopefully having a very good night.

00:49:19.780 Either way, we're going to have a funny night, I'm sure.

00:49:21.600 But hopefully we have a good night for the country.

00:49:23.560 And I'll see you tomorrow.

00:49:24.300 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:49:25.340 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:49:26.840 See you soon.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 07, 2018

Ep. 247 - Do It For Brett

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