The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 275 - The Motherf＊＊＊er With The Hat

00:00:00.000 What do Snoop Doggy Dogg and the incoming Democrat congressmen have in common?

00:00:05.440 Too much, I'm sorry to say.

00:00:06.760 We will analyze their vulgar minds, particularly as it relates to that mother effer with the hat. 0.99

00:00:12.400 Then Hollywood loses at the Golden Globes and the Oscars beg Kevin Hart to re-agree to host.

00:00:18.600 I offer my novel solution to the awards show problem.

00:00:21.860 RBG misses a day at court and the Vatican celebrates the Cuban Revolution.

00:00:26.280 We will analyze what other popes have had to say about the scourge of socialism.

00:00:30.940 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:29.500 Now, we've talked about a lot of political analysts recently.

00:02:34.360 We've talked about all the great journals of political thought, all of the talking heads, all of the pundits.

00:02:39.680 We haven't, unfortunately, checked in yet with one of the great political, philosophic minds of our time, Snoop Diggity-Doo Dog, who has some thoughts on the government shutdown.

00:02:49.640 All you people for the federal government that got not getting paid right now, ain't no f***ing way in the world y'all can vote for Donald Trump when he come back up again. 1.00

00:02:59.720 If it is, if y'all do vote for him, y'all some stupid motherf***er. 1.00

00:03:03.060 I'm saying that to y'all early. 1.00

00:03:05.020 All you federal government people that's not being paid, that's being treated f***ing unfairly right now, not being paid.

00:03:10.740 That's so terrible. 0.99

00:03:12.020 And this punk motherf***er don't care. 1.00

00:03:13.960 So I'm saying that to say this. 0.99

00:03:15.160 When the s*** get back on and y'all get y'all jobs back and it's time to vote, don't vote for that s***, please don't. 0.97

00:03:23.360 Look what he do. 0.99

00:03:24.760 He just don't give a f***. 0.96

00:03:26.460 Y'all honest, blue-collar, hard-working people and suffering. 0.97

00:03:31.220 So if he don't care about y'all, he really don't give a f*** about us. 0.99

00:03:35.740 So f*** him too. 1.00

00:03:37.560 And f*** everybody down with Donald Trump. 1.00

00:03:39.280 I said he is Snoop Dogg. 1.00

00:03:40.580 F*** him. 1.00

00:03:42.220 Really profound. 1.00

00:03:43.500 Really, really thoughtful.

00:03:45.160 I would say Snoop Dogg's take on the government shutdown.

00:03:48.480 Because nobody speaks for honest, hard-working, blue-collar Americans. 0.92

00:03:53.500 Quite like Snoop Doggy Dogg.

00:03:55.760 An accused murderer.

00:03:57.620 Accused drive-by shooter.

00:03:59.300 He got off by that on the way.

00:04:01.000 He got off on the drive-by shooting charge, on the murder charge.

00:04:05.100 Although the jury was hung on his manslaughter charge.

00:04:08.300 Nobody really speaks for those hard-working, blue-collar Americans.

00:04:11.580 Quite like a guy who's wearing probably $50,000 worth of gold chains around his neck.

00:04:17.440 Who gets paid to just swear and curse on songs.

00:04:23.140 I put songs in quotes.

00:04:25.040 That nobody really speaks.

00:04:26.000 That's the voice of America.

00:04:27.480 That's it.

00:04:28.180 That's it.

00:04:28.760 So you have that on one side.

00:04:30.520 And then you've got Donald Trump.

00:04:31.840 I really like it.

00:04:32.660 Because obviously if somebody likes Snoop Dogg running his mouth like that, he makes Donald Trump look polite.

00:04:37.620 But you might say, Michael, you know, you're really being unfair here. 1.00

00:04:41.240 This is an unfair comparison to compare the President of the United States to some stupid rapper. 1.00

00:04:46.440 Some guy who runs his mouth and, you know, was involved with gangs and all. 1.00

00:04:50.740 That's not a fair comparison.

00:04:52.680 Okay.

00:04:53.460 Okay.

00:04:53.800 That's fair enough.

00:04:54.560 Let's compare what Snoop Dogg said to what the incoming Democrat Congressman Rashida Tlaib had to say.

00:04:59.940 And when your son looks at you and says, Mama, look, you won.

00:05:04.100 Bullies don't win. 1.00

00:05:05.200 And I said, baby, they don't. 0.99

00:05:06.640 Because we're going to go in there and we're going to impeach the mother******. 1.00

00:05:11.380 Oh, it's exactly the same. 0.97

00:05:12.840 Okay.

00:05:13.260 Which was which?

00:05:14.380 I don't know.

00:05:14.900 Was that Congresswoman Snoop Diggity Doodog? 1.00

00:05:17.560 Is that who that was?

00:05:18.400 I don't know.

00:05:19.160 There is now no difference between profane rappers and members of Congress.

00:05:25.580 And there actually is something of a symmetry here because I don't want to let Donald Trump off the hook entirely.

00:05:30.820 Donald Trump is a product of the popular culture.

00:05:34.040 And so what's going on, it's not just showing how tawdry and despicable the Democrats are, although that's part of it.

00:05:40.340 What it's showing is the effect of culture on politics.

00:05:44.620 So Donald Trump is a product of this popular culture and he's helped shape the popular culture.

00:05:48.800 He's been on TV.

00:05:49.800 We've known him for decades and decades.

00:05:52.000 And by the way, he was a hip hop icon for decades as well.

00:05:55.180 His name was referenced in hip hop songs all the time until he ran for president as a Republican.

00:06:01.400 And so you've got him affecting that culture a little bit.

00:06:04.140 He's he's had a little bit of a loose mouth, you might say, although he's been much less profane since he's been elected president, which is very nice.

00:06:10.820 And now you see the culture following that and reacting to that, even though the culture caused that.

00:06:16.400 And you see Democrat congressmen trying to follow suit.

00:06:19.860 And what this really is, is a symptom of something that's grown for a long time, which is people trying to do Donald Trump who are not Donald Trump.

00:06:29.320 This doesn't work.

00:06:30.400 A lot of people they see Donald Trump is this anomaly. 0.95

00:06:33.060 He's this crazy cultural figure.

00:06:34.820 And when he talks loose and he uses humor and he's a little flippant in his language, that really works for him.

00:06:41.220 So they all try to do it, too.

00:06:42.520 But they can't do it because they're not Donald Trump.

00:06:44.880 Do you remember when little Marco tried to do it?

00:06:46.420 He called me Mr. Meltdown.

00:06:49.940 Let me tell you something.

00:06:50.760 Last night in the debate during one of the breaks, two of the breaks, he went backstage.

00:06:54.920 He was having a meltdown.

00:06:57.160 First, he had this little makeup thing, applying like makeup around his mustache because he had one of those sweat mustaches.

00:07:03.040 Then, then he asked for a full length mirror.

00:07:06.360 I don't know why, because the podium goes up to here, but he wanted a full length mirror.

00:07:10.480 Maybe to make sure his pants weren't wet.

00:07:12.280 I don't know.

00:07:13.080 Then.

00:07:13.360 Now, I call him little Marco.

00:07:17.520 I actually kind of like Marco Rubio, but, but there he's little Marco when he's trying to be Donald Trump and failing.

00:07:25.300 That's when he becomes little Marco.

00:07:27.540 He's not little Marco before.

00:07:28.820 He's actually a pretty smart guy.

00:07:30.200 He's a pretty good senator.

00:07:31.280 But when he does that, he becomes little Marco.

00:07:34.160 He degrades himself when he tries to do this rickle shtick that he can't do.

00:07:38.200 Only Donald Trump can do it.

00:07:39.660 Why can Donald Trump do it?

00:07:40.880 Because we've known him for a very long time.

00:07:42.940 And because he's a showbiz guy.

00:07:45.680 So, and show business is a skill.

00:07:47.580 It's a real skill.

00:07:48.740 Being able to be on camera, knowing how to work with television, knowing how to get a reaction from a live audience.

00:07:54.440 These are the skills that show business teaches you.

00:07:57.000 Donald Trump's been in it for a very long time.

00:07:58.720 And we know him.

00:07:59.680 We know that when he says a swear word.

00:08:01.980 We know that when he speaks flippantly or he uses an insult.

00:08:04.960 We know what that means and we know what that doesn't mean.

00:08:07.500 We know that he's not some vicious murderer killer guy.

00:08:11.000 We know he's not some, we just, he is what he is.

00:08:13.720 He's Donald Trump.

00:08:14.820 He's, over the weekend I was at a friend's house.

00:08:17.080 And for Christmas they got me Trump the game.

00:08:20.540 This is a board game that came out and it's like Monopoly but way shadier.

00:08:25.500 You know, kind of way more chaotic.

00:08:27.460 It's actually a very fun game.

00:08:29.120 And this game though, it didn't come out in 2016.

00:08:32.680 Didn't come out in 2005 when The Apprentice was on the air.

00:08:36.540 That game came out in 1989.

00:08:38.960 So at least as far back as 1989, there was a game with Donald Trump's face on it.

00:08:45.460 This guy has been in the popular consciousness for so long.

00:08:48.460 So he can get away with a lot more.

00:08:50.240 We haven't known Marco Rubio that long.

00:08:51.880 Who is Marco Rubio?

00:08:52.840 He kind of came up, what, five, seven, eight years ago maybe we started to hear about him.

00:08:58.660 That's not long enough.

00:08:59.900 Rashida Tlaib, what do we know about Rashida Tlaib?

00:09:02.140 We know she's an anti-Semite. 0.90

00:09:04.340 We know that she has suggested that certain Jews have dual citizenship or dual loyalty and not full loyalty to their country.

00:09:15.060 We know that she supports the BDS movement, boycott, divest, and sanction Israel.

00:09:19.540 She wants Israel wiped off the map.

00:09:21.060 And she literally wiped Israel off the map. 0.87

00:09:23.660 In her congressional office, she went to a map of the world.

00:09:26.440 She took a sticky note, wrote the word Palestine on it, and covered up Israel.

00:09:31.140 She actually, in a symbolic way, wiped Israel off of the map.

00:09:36.060 That's what we know about her.

00:09:37.380 So when she says things like this, when she uses words like mother effer or whatever, it's received very differently.

00:09:43.860 When Trump does it, a guy that we've known for 40 years, we think, oh, that's kind of funny.

00:09:47.500 All right, nothing's going to rock the boat, but that's, okay, oh, that's just Trump being Trump.

00:09:52.380 When this random anti-Semite that we've just met, I mean, she just got into the popular consciousness, comes out and starts screaming mother effer about our president. 0.99

00:10:01.500 We take that very differently.

00:10:04.240 That could be a dangerous thing, especially when she wants to wipe a U.S. ally off of the map. 0.99

00:10:09.160 That's why it doesn't work.

00:10:10.120 She's not the only one, by the way, who has been guilty of this.

00:10:13.820 You know my good friend, my old neighbor, I call her, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:10:20.560 She has been getting in the news constantly. 1.00

00:10:23.420 And I've got to tell you, she's been saying very stupid things. 1.00

00:10:25.660 We will talk about all of those. 1.00

00:10:26.820 We will answer all of her very stupid and dangerous points. 1.00

00:10:30.020 But I got to give her credit. 1.00

00:10:32.180 She's really good at politics.

00:10:34.460 She's really good at it.

00:10:35.920 I've said for a long time she's a shrewd politician.

00:10:38.700 She is a freshman congresswoman.

00:10:41.160 She has accomplished zero in her life before getting elected to Congress.

00:10:45.860 She's lied about her upbringing.

00:10:47.340 She wasn't doing anything.

00:10:49.780 She was a community organizer and she was working as a bartender to pay the bills for a little bit before she ran for Congress. 0.99

00:10:56.700 Voting records show that she was still living with her parents until 2016 up in northern Westchester.

00:11:02.520 A woman of zero accomplishment has dominated the national and sometimes international news. 0.81

00:11:09.200 That requires immense skill.

00:11:11.140 It's what makes her dangerous. 1.00

00:11:12.240 And it's what makes her ignorance dangerous and it was what makes her ideology dangerous. 0.94

00:11:17.900 Here is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking about how she's going to pay for her awful socialist programs to Anderson Cooper. 1.00

00:11:26.040 How are you going to pay for all of this?

00:11:28.060 No one asks how we're going to pay for this space force.

00:11:31.380 No one asked how we paid for a $2 trillion tax cut.

00:11:33.960 We only ask how we pay for it on issues of housing, health care, and education.

00:11:38.680 How do we pay for it?

00:11:39.700 With the same exact mechanisms that we pay for military increases, for the space force, for all of these ambitious policies.

00:11:49.340 There are Democrats, obviously, who are worried about affecting the party.

00:11:52.680 Democratic Senator Chris Coon said about left-leaning Democrats,

00:11:55.240 If the next two years is just a race to offer increasingly unrealistic proposals,

00:11:59.660 it'll be difficult for us to make a credible case we should be allowed to govern again.

00:12:03.920 What makes it unrealistic?

00:12:06.220 How to pay for it.

00:12:07.240 We pay more per capita in health care and education for lower outcomes than many other nations.

00:12:14.960 And so for me, what's unrealistic is what we're living in right now.

00:12:21.560 Yes and no.

00:12:22.960 Some of what she said is true. 0.95

00:12:24.080 Very little, but some of it is true.

00:12:26.100 She talks about per capita health care spending with regard to advanced socialist economies like the United Kingdom.

00:12:33.440 One thing we have to remember is that the entire rest of the world depends on American health care innovation.

00:12:39.060 They are all free riders on our health care innovation.

00:12:42.320 When that engine of innovation goes away, when all those drugs that we develop go away,

00:12:46.660 their health care regimes see their costs skyrocket and they see the quality of care decrease.

00:12:50.520 All of those other regimes also have much lower quality of care.

00:12:54.080 They have much longer wait times.

00:12:55.680 People die waiting in line for surgery.

00:12:57.500 That doesn't happen here in the United States or it doesn't need to happen here in the United States.

00:13:01.560 And most jarringly for human dignity, you have the cases like little Alfie Evans,

00:13:06.520 like other little babies that we've seen just in the United Kingdom who were sick,

00:13:11.140 who had conditions where their parents wanted to take them out of the government hospital,

00:13:15.220 take them to the United States, take them to Italy, take them elsewhere for treatment.

00:13:18.580 And the government said no.

00:13:20.340 There was one case where the parents wanted to take the baby out of the hospital and bring the baby.

00:13:25.060 The Pope said the baby could come to a hospital next to the Vatican and they would arrange for Italian citizenship

00:13:32.980 and they would make it all happen.

00:13:34.100 And the government said no. 0.99

00:13:35.720 Your baby is going to stay here and die. 0.96

00:13:37.660 You have no right to try to save your baby's life.

00:13:39.880 That's socialism.

00:13:40.800 That's socialist medicine.

00:13:42.400 To say nothing of the tax rates in some of these places.

00:13:44.500 So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez points to some countries that have socialist health care regimes.

00:13:51.060 She says, look, it works fine there.

00:13:52.880 There are some reasons why in some ways it does work there.

00:13:56.020 But one reason is extraordinarily high tax rates.

00:13:59.180 And now Alexandria is talking about raising the tax rates to 70 percent,

00:14:03.340 effectively 82.7 percent on people in places like New York or California.

00:14:08.640 She's throwing a lot of this out there. 0.99

00:14:10.520 She is going full socialist, full hog against the wall. 0.91

00:14:15.380 We could spend, I suppose we should spend, full shows talking about why socialist health care doesn't work,

00:14:21.420 why it's so bad for human dignity, why the economics don't work,

00:14:24.640 why it especially wouldn't work if the United States were to enact it.

00:14:28.380 But suffice it to say for now, I just want to point out this one trick that she is using,

00:14:33.120 that socialists use all the time.

00:14:35.400 And Anderson Cooper says, how are you going to pay for this health care program,

00:14:39.620 which will cost $40 trillion over 10 years?

00:14:42.820 And she says, well, the same way we're going to pay for Space Force.

00:14:46.620 Now, Space Force is this program Donald Trump talked about,

00:14:49.460 a new branch of the military to deal with outer space.

00:14:53.000 When people hear that, they say, okay, there's one government program, Space Force,

00:14:56.500 and there's another government program, socialist health care.

00:14:59.040 And if you can pay for one, you can pay for the other, right?

00:15:01.940 Wrong.

00:15:02.640 The cost of Space Force is estimated to be $13 billion over five years.

00:15:07.480 It's hard to predict out what health, or what costs will be,

00:15:10.800 particularly in a military program like that.

00:15:13.120 But let's just double it.

00:15:14.000 Let's just say that it's $26 billion over 10 years.

00:15:16.720 You've got $26 billion over 10 years for Space Force,

00:15:19.760 and you've got $40 trillion over 10 years for health care.

00:15:24.360 You are talking about a difference of not just in order of magnitude,

00:15:27.760 but almost twice in order of magnitude.

00:15:29.780 And yet, when people hear these numbers, it's all the same.

00:15:34.160 If it ends in illion, it's all the same. 0.70

00:15:36.400 If the number is bigger than 1,000, it's all the same.

00:15:38.840 When you hear million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, z-z-zillion,

00:15:45.560 you know intellectually that there's a difference.

00:15:48.420 But in your mind, when you're visualizing it, you don't visualize the difference. 0.98

00:15:51.880 And I don't know if Ocasio is extraordinarily ignorant. 0.97

00:15:54.900 She might be, or if she's being obtuse here and being crafty and clever to try to ram through 0.99

00:16:00.660 this awful health care system of hers. 1.00

00:16:03.700 But that's the trick she's playing on.

00:16:05.620 She thinks that you don't know the difference between a billion and a trillion.

00:16:09.360 The difference between a billion and a trillion is a full order of magnitude.

00:16:14.120 It's a bunch of zeros.

00:16:15.920 And so even just consider our annual budget for Syria.

00:16:19.680 She says, where are we going to get the money for Space Force?

00:16:21.400 Our military actions in Syria cost about $15 billion per year.

00:16:26.640 Space Force will cost $13 billion over five years.

00:16:30.580 So one year, pulling the troops out of Syria, which President Troop has said he's going to do,

00:16:35.280 one year will more than pay for five years of Space Force.

00:16:39.720 What would we have to do to pay for Ocasio's health care regime?

00:16:43.100 We would have to double tax receipts to the federal government,

00:16:46.380 which by the way isn't even as simple as doubling the income tax rate.

00:16:49.940 What is the income tax rate now?

00:16:51.800 Effectively, you could be paying over 40% in effective taxes when you factor in state and local and all the other stuff.

00:16:59.380 But it's not even that simple because when you raise taxes that high,

00:17:03.180 you disincentivize people working in the economy.

00:17:06.740 You disincentivize production.

00:17:08.480 So just to use an example that she keeps bringing up, if you raise the tax rate to 70% federal on someone even making $10 million,

00:17:18.920 then you've got to take into effect state and local.

00:17:21.880 Let's say it raises that to 82.7% if you live in New York.

00:17:27.040 Why would you ever make more than $10 million?

00:17:30.540 You would have no incentive to do it when you know that the vast majority of all that money will be confiscated.

00:17:36.120 So you have two choices.

00:17:37.060 You can either hide the money, figure out some crafty way to get the money out of the country,

00:17:41.220 or hide it in some sleight of hand on the accounting books, or you just don't do it.

00:17:45.300 Why would I ever work 83% of the year for the federal government?

00:17:49.140 Ain't going to happen, baby.

00:17:50.160 No chance.

00:17:51.760 So this is also what destroys socialist economies, is that you just have no incentive to be productive whatsoever.

00:18:00.540 We are a wonderful engine of growth because Americans are productive.

00:18:03.820 But if you start confiscating all our wealth, guess what?

00:18:06.120 We're not going to be productive at all.

00:18:08.500 Now, when you point out these things, when you point out mathematical reality,

00:18:11.880 to say nothing of moral realities, mathematical realities, political realities of socialism,

00:18:17.780 this is Ocasio's best response that she can muster.

00:18:21.980 The criticisms of you is that your math is fuzzy.

00:18:24.880 The Washington Post recently awarded you four Pinocchios.

00:18:27.440 Oh my goodness.

00:18:28.160 For misstating some statistics about Pentagon spending.

00:18:30.840 If people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there,

00:18:37.040 I would argue that they're missing the forest for the trees.

00:18:40.880 I think that there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely,

00:18:47.740 factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.

00:18:53.400 But being factually correct is important.

00:18:55.420 It's absolutely important.

00:18:56.620 And whenever I make a mistake, I say, okay, this was clumsy.

00:19:02.700 And then I restate what my point was.

00:19:06.100 But it's not the same thing as the president lying about immigrants.

00:19:11.860 It's not the same thing at all.

00:19:15.200 Just listen to what she said.

00:19:16.820 She said,

00:19:17.060 Now, this is the second trick that socialists always use that Ocasio is using here,

00:19:29.660 which is false dichotomies.

00:19:32.240 To create a false couple of choices.

00:19:36.320 To be morally right requires that you be correct.

00:19:40.220 She seems not to understand that the word semantics means meaning itself.

00:19:44.940 It means the meaning of words.

00:19:46.980 So to be factually correct is to be right.

00:19:51.820 They're synonymous.

00:19:53.260 To be right with regard to the meaning of real things.

00:19:56.180 To be morally correct is to be right.

00:19:58.800 It's to be right with regard to the meaning of real things.

00:20:02.360 Part of what she's doing here,

00:20:04.120 and I think this comes actually out of her ideology and out of her culture,

00:20:07.820 is she's speaking as though truth doesn't matter.

00:20:10.340 I mean, there, she's literally saying truth doesn't matter.

00:20:13.140 She says it doesn't matter if you are factually correct as long as you're morally right.

00:20:18.320 Of course, that sentence doesn't mean anything.

00:20:20.260 That's like gobbledygook.

00:20:21.180 It's like saying blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:20:23.220 It's like saying you don't need to be correct as long as you're correct.

00:20:27.260 Blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:20:27.960 It's all that Orwellian double talk that she has.

00:20:30.660 But I think in her ideology, which is totally relativistic, this is true.

00:20:35.320 You can just say things regardless of what they mean,

00:20:38.900 regardless because as long as it has the intended political effect,

00:20:42.900 you've achieved your goal.

00:20:44.580 She doesn't care about saying true things.

00:20:46.320 She doesn't care how she's going to pay for $40 trillion. 1.00

00:20:48.920 All she cares about is the political effect of her in government taking over health care. 1.00

00:20:54.500 She wants to take more power for the government, power away from people, 1.00

00:20:58.140 because she is totally confident.

00:21:00.440 She has the faith and the zeal of a convert for her religion, which is socialism,

00:21:04.860 that once the government has all that power, everything will be fine.

00:21:07.960 As long as we don't have all that freedom out there for people to make their own choices,

00:21:12.380 as long as we take that back, we'll work out everything in the end.

00:21:15.360 That'll just be accounting.

00:21:17.540 This is completely morally obtuse.

00:21:19.520 This is completely wrong.

00:21:21.880 There is right and there is wrong.

00:21:23.680 There is truth and there is falsehood.

00:21:25.740 Those are real things.

00:21:26.740 They're not relative.

00:21:27.780 They're not subjective constructs.

00:21:30.080 You know, Ben often has that phrase, facts don't care about your feelings.

00:21:34.300 This is the inverse of that.

00:21:35.560 This is exactly the opposite.

00:21:37.180 She's saying, my feelings don't care about your facts.

00:21:39.840 I don't care if you are factually correct.

00:21:42.620 And of course, Anderson Cooper was the one who just sort of let her get away with it.

00:21:48.320 He pushed back very slightly, but he let her get away with it.

00:21:51.340 This is what is so wicked about it.

00:21:53.600 And we'll get to, in a minute, how the Vatican was celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Cuban

00:21:59.340 Communist Revolution.

00:22:01.080 How perverse that is.

00:22:02.560 Many popes have realized how perverse that is.

00:22:05.660 Socialism is a perversity.

00:22:07.560 It is anti-human.

00:22:09.120 And this is what it's all about.

00:22:10.140 It's not just about raising your taxes.

00:22:11.920 It's not just even about taking away your health care choices or your employment choices

00:22:17.240 or your labor choices or whatever.

00:22:19.940 What this is about is lies versus reality.

00:22:23.520 It's about that quote that Democrats always say on the campaign trail.

00:22:26.720 They quote Shaw when he says, some people see the world as it is and ask why.

00:22:31.600 I dream things that never were and ask why not.

00:22:35.020 They forget that those words that Shaw wrote were in the mouth of the serpent tempting Eve

00:22:40.760 in the garden from a play called Back to Methuselah.

00:22:43.320 That's what it boils down to.

00:22:45.340 Ocasio is completely right to talk about moral correctness.

00:22:49.400 To say this is not just an issue of physical realities.

00:22:52.900 This is an issue of moral and metaphysical realities.

00:22:55.480 It's true.

00:22:56.460 Socialism is all about morality.

00:22:58.420 It's all about ethics.

00:22:59.640 These systems of economies that we're talking about.

00:23:02.560 Ultimately, this is a moral question.

00:23:04.540 This is a religious question.

00:23:05.880 This is an ethical question.

00:23:07.460 And socialism is anti-human.

00:23:09.800 It is wrong. 0.63

00:23:10.800 It is rotten down to its core. 0.99

00:23:12.720 It is a scourge and a pest and a plague on humanity. 0.98

00:23:15.700 And we should talk about it in those terms.

00:23:18.000 We will in just a minute.

00:23:19.060 But we do have to cover more of the government shutdown because this is the big political question

00:23:25.020 that nobody's talking about because nobody's feeling it.

00:23:27.560 Dick Durbin, major Senate Democrat, points this out.

00:23:31.000 He sees no end in sight for the shutdown.

00:23:33.760 From what you're describing, it doesn't sound like there is any progress.

00:23:37.200 How close are we to ending this shutdown?

00:23:40.840 Well, I can't say that we're close because the president's made it clear he doesn't care.

00:23:45.100 He's prepared to see a shutdown for months, and he even said years, and reaffirmed that before the cameras.

00:23:51.560 It was stunning to hear a president of the United States say that about his own government,

00:23:55.260 a government we elected him to lead.

00:23:57.420 But that is his position.

00:23:59.500 Nobody cares.

00:24:00.740 Nobody cares is the issue.

00:24:01.960 That's the big problem.

00:24:03.280 This government shutdown thus far has been a major win for Trump.

00:24:07.840 Don't just take my word for it.

00:24:09.440 Look at the public polling.

00:24:10.620 There was a poll out from Rasmussen, which is a right-leaning polling firm,

00:24:13.820 but they get things right a lot of the time.

00:24:16.780 It showed that only 6% of Americans say that this shutdown has had a major impact on their lives.

00:24:22.820 Now, of course, nobody watching this show or listening to this show,

00:24:26.360 I bet 0% of people watching or listening say that the shutdown has had a major impact on your lives.

00:24:33.060 Even if you work for the federal government, even if you're a federal employee who's not being paid right now,

00:24:37.800 you know you're going to get back pay.

00:24:39.300 There's a little bit of a pinch in the short term, and everybody's really sorry for that.

00:24:44.120 Nobody wants people who are working not to be paid.

00:24:46.620 But everyone knows after every government shutdown, the workers get paid.

00:24:51.080 They get paid for all the time that they weren't being paid.

00:24:53.760 And actually, even employees who called in sick, which is happening to a slightly higher degree right now,

00:24:59.260 even they get paid.

00:25:00.140 So ultimately, workers end up actually usually getting more money because of the shutdown than they would otherwise.

00:25:07.580 But so you see 6% who say that this shutdown has had a major impact on their lives.

00:25:13.180 21% say they didn't even know that there's a shutdown going on right now.

00:25:17.160 So more than three times that number of people aren't even aware that there is a shutdown

00:25:22.100 because we don't feel it at all.

00:25:23.440 Even the national parks aren't really closing.

00:25:25.820 Very little is happening right now.

00:25:27.480 You can still go to the airport.

00:25:28.840 You can still travel.

00:25:29.760 Everything is going basically just fine.

00:25:32.500 Now, this isn't going to last forever.

00:25:34.520 Donald Trump has said that he'll let this thing go on for months or even years.

00:25:38.100 And because he's pursued this madman strategy in office,

00:25:42.080 because he's doing things that seem erratic, he's always keeping his opponents on their toes.

00:25:47.360 Maybe he means it.

00:25:48.220 Maybe he's really willing to do that.

00:25:49.980 As you approach tax season, you're going to see two arguments here.

00:25:53.180 If the government, by some very slim chance, were still going, if the shutdown were still going on at that point,

00:25:59.080 because you've got a lot of Americans who prepay their taxes and they'll get a refund at tax time.

00:26:04.560 They'll be upset if they don't get it.

00:26:06.220 As for me, I don't do that.

00:26:07.740 I pay my taxes when tax time is due.

00:26:10.360 I refuse to give the government an advance on that money or much of an advance on the money that I'll owe them when tax time comes around.

00:26:20.220 So actually, I'm all for it. Keep the IRS shut down. I'm going to owe them money.

00:26:23.760 I don't want to pay them their money. Works for me.

00:26:26.200 But what's going to happen, you've still got a lot of agencies funded for the next month, even for the next two months.

00:26:32.320 So Trump has a lot of leeway here.

00:26:34.420 You're already starting to see cracks among Democrats.

00:26:36.960 Nancy Pelosi says the wall is immoral.

00:26:39.300 Other Democrat reps are breaking with her and saying, well, it's not immoral.

00:26:42.900 We all have walls around our houses.

00:26:44.660 The Vatican has a wall around it.

00:26:47.280 You wouldn't say that's immoral.

00:26:49.040 Every other country has a wall.

00:26:50.440 You wouldn't say that's immoral.

00:26:53.460 Democrats 10 years ago were voting for parts of the wall anyway.

00:26:57.040 So I think you're starting to see a crack there.

00:26:58.840 You're not really seeing a crack from the White House.

00:27:01.120 I think as it stands right now, there's a good chance we win this battle.

00:27:04.840 It won't be the end of the line because with $5 billion, you're not going to be able to build the whole wall.

00:27:09.880 You're only going to be able to build a part of it.

00:27:12.140 But it looks like it's moving in our direction.

00:27:14.560 All of the polling shows it's still going well.

00:27:16.380 I hope President Trump doesn't miss this opportunity here.

00:27:19.340 At a certain point, those poll numbers are going to reverse.

00:27:21.400 But right now, things are looking very good.

00:27:23.180 Now, I know, I know that you're all waiting with bated breath to hear what I think about the Golden Globes.

00:27:29.640 You watched it, didn't you?

00:27:30.620 You didn't?

00:27:31.280 Oh, me neither.

00:27:31.860 That's okay.

00:27:32.200 I watched clips of it.

00:27:33.220 And I've got a novel solution for the awards show problem.

00:27:35.980 We'll also talk about the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

00:27:40.060 And Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who for the first time is missing court oral arguments because of a medical problem.

00:27:46.740 I wonder what that means for 2019.

00:27:49.700 We will get to it.

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00:28:22.440 You get so much.

00:28:23.920 You get so much.

00:28:25.420 But this is what matters.

00:28:27.600 This is what mother effing matters. 1.00

00:28:30.180 You know, I'm not good at talking like a leftist.

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00:28:51.380 The Golden Globes were last night.

00:29:03.180 Don't care, me neither.

00:29:04.360 But I actually do care for what it means about the culture.

00:29:06.700 Obviously, no one's watched most of these movies.

00:29:08.900 No one cares what these celebrities think about anything.

00:29:11.600 But there was an amazing opening monologue.

00:29:14.820 And it showed you just how far our popular culture has fallen.

00:29:19.660 It was truly astounding.

00:29:21.860 Here is just a little bit of it.

00:29:22.980 Now, some of you may be wondering why the two of us are hosting together.

00:29:28.000 And the reason is we're the only two people left in Hollywood who haven't gotten in trouble

00:29:32.020 for saying something offensive.

00:29:33.460 Oh, Sandra, that reminds me.

00:29:35.240 You know what race of people really gets under my skin?

00:29:38.080 Andy?

00:29:38.600 The Hollywood half marathon.

00:29:41.080 Because it messes up all the traffic, you know?

00:29:43.440 Oh, yeah. 0.98

00:29:44.480 I hate that race of people. 1.00

00:29:46.360 It's the worst race of people. 1.00

00:29:48.320 Now, we know what you guys are thinking.

00:29:52.420 Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh, the two nicest people in showbiz, this thing's going to be

00:29:56.720 a snooze.

00:29:57.340 But not so fast. 1.00

00:29:58.660 Because you fools are all about to get roasted. 1.00

00:30:02.060 Gervais style. 1.00

00:30:03.720 Hope you're wearing your flip-flops, Hollywood, because we're about to scorch some earth. 0.98

00:30:07.600 Damn right. 0.99

00:30:08.340 Rip it, Andy. 0.99

00:30:09.060 All right.

00:30:09.440 Who we got?

00:30:10.100 Who we got?

00:30:10.780 Well, if it isn't Spike Lee.

00:30:13.420 Yeah.

00:30:14.700 Mr. Do the right thing.

00:30:18.640 Yeah.

00:30:19.820 Well, I'll tell you who does the right thing.

00:30:22.040 You, as a director, lifetime fan, can't wait to see what you do next.

00:30:25.440 Bam.

00:30:25.760 Face.

00:30:26.040 Brutal.

00:30:26.640 So, it goes on like this for 10 or 11 minutes.

00:30:32.300 They go on, the whole joke being here that they can't say anything mean or offensive because

00:30:37.540 they'll lose their entire careers.

00:30:39.420 And Andy Samberg is actually pretty funny.

00:30:41.980 He's a little hit or miss, but he does have a real comic skill.

00:30:46.580 Sandra Oh does not.

00:30:47.980 She isn't funny.

00:30:48.840 She wasn't even funny at this shtick.

00:30:51.280 But what's interesting about this shtick is it's obviously, they're kind of joking about

00:30:56.160 how intense the Hollywood PC culture has gotten, that they can only say nice things.

00:31:03.260 But then, they just only say nice things.

00:31:06.840 So, if they had joked about that, and then there were some break, there were some turn,

00:31:11.620 there were some challenge to that PC culture, which is so unfunny, then I think it would have

00:31:16.580 really worked.

00:31:17.620 But they didn't do that.

00:31:18.640 But they just kept saying nice things, which was the most cowardly thing they could have

00:31:23.980 possibly done. 0.64

00:31:25.000 They actually had to hide their cowardliness in a joke about how cowardly they were, but

00:31:29.820 then they never broke out of it. 0.90

00:31:31.040 So, it just remained cowardly.

00:31:33.580 That is the whole point.

00:31:34.560 They had to have two presenters.

00:31:35.860 If they only had one presenter, that's too big a target.

00:31:38.140 They had to have a man and a woman.

00:31:39.380 If they had two men, well, you couldn't do that.

00:31:41.260 They had to have them be of different races. 0.97

00:31:43.080 If it were two white people, you couldn't possibly do that. 0.95

00:31:46.400 But then they just indulged the whole thing. 0.99

00:31:50.500 And then the most pathetic part of all of it was they actually turned it, they made an 0.93

00:31:56.240 earnest turn at the very end. 0.84

00:31:58.320 And Sandra Oh gave an impassioned, earnest political speech about what I have no idea.

00:32:03.920 I said yes to the fear of being on this stage tonight because, because I wanted to be here

00:32:13.240 to look out into this audience and witness this moment of change.

00:32:19.360 And I'm not fooling myself.

00:32:22.120 I'm not fooling myself.

00:32:24.160 Next year could be different.

00:32:25.480 It probably will be.

00:32:26.680 But right now, this moment is real.

00:32:31.140 Trust me, it is real.

00:32:34.540 Because I see you.

00:32:37.520 And I see you.

00:32:40.320 All these faces of change.

00:32:42.800 And now, so will everyone else.

00:32:45.640 Oh, it's so awkward.

00:32:48.560 Because they don't, I mean, this whole shtick that Sandra Oh is doing is so poorly performed. 0.97

00:32:55.360 I mean, it's so ridiculous and over the top and obviously disingenuous that even the audience 0.64

00:33:02.420 there, all of whom have been indoctrinated in the PC culture, they all know how to perform. 0.85

00:33:07.280 They all know that they're supposed to abide by certain PC orthodoxies.

00:33:11.860 They start laughing.

00:33:12.960 You hear those, she goes, and I know it's real.

00:33:15.400 She's mustering all that fake, all those fake tears.

00:33:17.860 You never see the tears run down her face, obviously, because she's not a very good actress.

00:33:20.900 She goes, and I know it's real because I see you.

00:33:26.460 What?

00:33:27.720 Yeah, we're here.

00:33:28.840 We've been here.

00:33:30.000 We were here last year, too.

00:33:31.520 And so a couple people, more than a couple people in the audience, start laughing.

00:33:35.440 But then they cut it off really quickly because, no, she is performing.

00:33:38.900 People do this on stage sometimes.

00:33:41.660 And women do it, obviously, more than men do. 1.00

00:33:44.140 They muster up this, like, fake crying emotional thing. 1.00

00:33:47.000 And it just is really pathetic. 0.98

00:33:49.540 I mean, this was really, really sad. 0.99

00:33:51.860 What is she referring to?

00:33:53.800 She said change is here.

00:33:55.980 Is she referring to the sexual assault stuff, how every one of these Hollywood degenerates 0.99

00:34:02.320 is raping everybody else? 0.99

00:34:03.840 Is that what she's referring to?

00:34:04.740 But there's change now because we're wearing buttons on our lapels.

00:34:08.000 And there's change because we have bracelets on our wrist about time's up.

00:34:13.100 And so it's change now.

00:34:14.700 Or is she referring to racial questions, that certain races weren't being cast a lot in

00:34:20.480 Hollywood, and now they're being cast a little more?

00:34:23.160 Is it race?

00:34:23.900 Or is it about the hosts?

00:34:25.620 Are there multiple hosts?

00:34:27.240 Or why don't...

00:34:27.820 Watching this, all I could think of was one of the greatest PSAs that has ever been aired.

00:34:36.140 It's a satirical PSA.

00:34:37.720 It was put up by ClickHole to take the pledge.

00:34:40.820 I've always wanted to be part of something bigger than myself.

00:34:46.060 To make a difference.

00:34:47.160 You go through life and you see all this injustice, but you never really do anything about it.

00:34:51.380 You don't know how.

00:34:52.440 I have two little kids, so I'm always thinking about their future.

00:34:55.840 Every solution begins with just one person stepping up and taking responsibility.

00:35:00.740 That's why I'm taking the pledge.

00:35:02.460 I'm taking the pledge because I care about my community.

00:35:05.060 For my kids.

00:35:05.960 My grandchildren.

00:35:07.120 For you.

00:35:07.700 For me.

00:35:08.200 For us.

00:35:08.760 For us, for them, and for me, too.

00:35:11.840 Because I care about the future.

00:35:13.580 And not just my future, but the future of everyone.

00:35:16.020 Every single person.

00:35:17.260 My baby boys.

00:35:18.560 Taking the pledge is about standing up for what matters and what's right.

00:35:21.660 It doesn't matter if you're black, white, Muslim, Christian, Jewish.

00:35:25.980 Anyone can take the pledge.

00:35:27.380 I got my brother to take the pledge, and he got his friend to do it.

00:35:30.520 I got everyone in my school to take the pledge.

00:35:33.440 You get her to take the pledge, and she gets someone else who gets someone else, and on and on and on.

00:35:38.060 And suddenly, we've got something much bigger than any one of us.

00:35:42.280 Take the pledge, Golden Globes.

00:35:44.480 Go out there and take the pledge.

00:35:46.560 This isn't just bad for comedy when they try to do this earnestly.

00:35:51.280 This is also, I mean, this leads to terrible leftist politics.

00:35:55.080 It points out something that I try to, I notice this about the particularly hipster millennials, but this is true of the left broadly.

00:36:02.880 There is a culture now that's taken over comedy for the last 30 years, probably, which is irony.

00:36:08.980 Now, all of comedy is centered around irony.

00:36:11.840 Before, it wasn't centered around irony, and specifically ironic apathy, that we're all just, everything's just to be debunked and deconstructed, and everything's really lame and really super cool, and I don't care, and I don't mind.

00:36:24.140 I don't need to be excited, and it doesn't matter.

00:36:26.800 I'm just apathetic, and everything's totally ironic.

00:36:29.320 That culture of comedy has been around since, at least, Letterman. 0.58

00:36:33.340 And he sort of heralded that change, and sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's not, but the thing with irony, if you live your life entirely, ironically, hipsters getting stupid tattoos because they look stupid, ironically getting certain tattoos, the thing with irony is that if you live your life entirely, ironically, then there's no such thing as irony. 0.81

00:36:53.320 Then you're doing it earnestly. 0.66

00:36:54.660 If you tell these jokes, the jokes about how we have to only say nice things about everyone at the Golden Globes, and then that's all you do.

00:37:02.760 It's no longer ironic. 0.77

00:37:04.520 You're doing it earnestly, and this is true even of these, you know, every award show has awful political speeches nowadays over the last 15 years, and Christian Bale gave a truly ridiculous one last night.

00:37:17.760 Thank you to that geezer over there, Adam.

00:37:20.880 He said, I've got to find somebody who can be absolutely charisma-free and reviled by everybody, so he went, that's got to be Bale in it.

00:37:32.760 You know, thank you, and for all the competition, I will be cornering the market on charisma-free.

00:37:41.180 What do you think? Mitch McConnell, next? That could be good, wouldn't it?

00:37:45.260 Thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration on how to play this role.

00:37:54.820 Some people are confused hearing that because we never hear Christian Bale with his actual accent.

00:37:59.720 Christian Bale is English.

00:38:01.260 He was raised in Wales to English parents, and so that's his real accent.

00:38:04.260 And he's talking about playing Dick Cheney in the movie Vice, and he's calling him a charisma-free blankety-blank, and he thanks Satan for giving him inspiration to play the role.

00:38:17.500 Something I just want to point out here.

00:38:20.280 In awards shows, when you won an Oscar or a Golden Globe, you used to thank God.

00:38:26.100 You used to get up there, and I want to thank my friends and my family and my directors, and I want to thank God for being there and sustaining me and inspiring me.

00:38:33.280 Now you thank Satan.

00:38:34.600 Now these people are thanking Satan.

00:38:35.900 And you might say, well, he was telling a joke.

00:38:37.440 Well, it's ironic.

00:38:38.320 Well, it's this and that.

00:38:39.380 Right.

00:38:40.140 If you live, ironically, 100% of the time, then the irony isn't irony anymore.

00:38:46.680 It's earnest.

00:38:47.800 And this guy is actually getting up there and thanking Satan.

00:38:51.880 You know something has gone seriously wrong with these awards shows when you get up there and thank Satan.

00:38:56.720 By the way, just a little point on Christian Bale.

00:38:58.480 Christian Bale was arrested in 2008 for domestic violence against his mother and sister.

00:39:03.680 And he's going after Dick Cheney as this charisma-free blankety-blank who's inspired by Satan.

00:39:08.300 Maybe one should look in the mirror.

00:39:10.560 Maybe Mr. Bale should pluck the plank out of his own eye before looking at the speck in his neighbor's eye.

00:39:16.380 But unsurprisingly, in early ratings right now, this Golden Globe show was down to a four-year low, maybe a decade low.

00:39:23.900 It was down over last year.

00:39:25.360 The ratings are plummeting for these awards shows, and they're plummeting especially for the Oscars.

00:39:29.340 You remember that blow-up.

00:39:30.300 They chose Kevin Hart, the comedian, to host the Oscars.

00:39:32.820 Then they found that he made a gay joke ten years ago.

00:39:35.180 So there was this big fake faux outrage uproar, a huge non-troversy.

00:39:39.680 And the Academy basically sold him out, and Kevin Hart decided he wasn't going to host the Oscars anymore.

00:39:46.240 Now they're in a bind because there's no one to host the Oscars.

00:39:50.400 If the new standard is that if you've ever told a gay joke you can't host the Oscars, then no comedian ever can host the Oscars.

00:39:57.520 And beyond that, no human being walking on this earth can host the Oscars.

00:40:01.760 Everybody has told a gay joke. 0.99

00:40:03.340 Everybody's heard a gay joke. 0.90

00:40:04.380 Everybody's laughed at a gay joke. 0.86

00:40:05.700 And if you say that you haven't, you're lying.

00:40:07.940 Ellen DeGeneres, I am certain, has told many gay jokes in her life.

00:40:11.480 And she had Kevin Hart on to basically ask him on behalf of the Academy to come back and host the Oscars.

00:40:17.600 Here she is begging.

00:40:19.000 So I called the Academy today because I really want you to host the Oscars.

00:40:23.520 I think that I was so excited when I heard that they asked you.

00:40:26.940 I thought it was an amazing thing.

00:40:28.300 I knew how important it was and how it was a dream.

00:40:30.840 So I called them.

00:40:32.320 I said, Kevin's on.

00:40:33.160 I have no idea if he wants to come back and host.

00:40:36.040 But what are your thoughts?

00:40:37.580 And they were like, oh, my God, we want him to host.

00:40:39.880 We feel like that maybe he misunderstood or it was handled wrong or maybe we said the wrong thing.

00:40:45.320 But we want him to host whatever we can do.

00:40:48.600 We would be thrilled.

00:40:49.540 And he should host the Oscars.

00:40:51.580 I mean, so I mean, the Academy is saying, what can we do to make this happen?

00:41:03.140 Yeah, I bet they are because now they're up a certain creek without a paddle and they've got no one that they can possibly use.

00:41:08.820 I have a novel bit of advice for this award show problem.

00:41:12.820 This is my advice to the Academy. 0.99

00:41:14.460 Academy, if you're watching, let Oscar die. 1.00

00:41:18.060 Put him out of his misery. 1.00

00:41:19.900 Stop airing it.

00:41:21.240 This has been building for a very long time.

00:41:23.900 The award show is insufferable.

00:41:25.400 That's why nobody is watching it.

00:41:27.080 The Oscars ratings were at a 44-year low last year, and that was a 20% drop over the previous year.

00:41:33.280 It is dying.

00:41:34.260 It is dead. 0.54

00:41:35.160 The reason it is dead is not because it had to die, but because those awful people in the Academy have made it die.

00:41:40.760 They've made it all about politics.

00:41:42.040 They've made it all about leftist politics, and also because the movie business is dead.

00:41:46.180 The movies that win awards at the Oscars, nobody has ever seen.

00:41:49.960 The movies that people go and see, the three movies a year, all of which are superhero movies, are not winning Oscars, and they don't deserve to win Oscars because they're not very good movies.

00:41:58.060 So, it's dead.

00:41:59.900 It's over. 1.00

00:42:00.700 Kill it. 1.00

00:42:01.360 Move on. 1.00

00:42:02.240 Stop trying to resuscitate the zombie of Oscar.

00:42:05.460 He was glorious in his day.

00:42:07.280 The American film industry was glorious in its day, and now it's dead, and you killed it.

00:42:13.160 You should look in the mirror and feel deep shame about that, and then move on because it's over.

00:42:17.660 The Cuban Revolution, I have to get to this.

00:42:20.860 It's the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, and the Vatican, of all places, the Vatican News Service honored that Cuban Revolution.

00:42:29.380 It sent out a post that said, quote, the Cuban Revolution celebrated its 60th anniversary this January 1st, 2019.

00:42:35.440 On the island, the historic anniversary was celebrated with a ceremony in Santiago de Cuba in the cemetery of Santa Iphigenia, where Fidel Castro is buried, who died November 25th, 2016.

00:42:47.520 To the main national forces, the dictator Fulgencio Batista fled on 26 months of guerrilla war led by brothers Fidel and Raul Castro.

00:42:56.620 Fidel Castro proclaimed the beginning of the revolution, the victory of the counterculture.

00:43:01.920 It is celebrating this.

00:43:03.160 The Vatican News Service, speaking for the Vatican, is celebrating the Cuban Revolution.

00:43:08.120 This is awful.

00:43:08.940 This is horrific.

00:43:09.940 Thankfully, they took down that post.

00:43:12.140 The church needs to stop this.

00:43:14.440 The church needs to stop playing footsie with socialists.

00:43:17.320 The pope has done it.

00:43:18.300 The Vatican has done it in recent years.

00:43:20.340 This is a major break with church history.

00:43:23.760 This is a major break with the spirit of Christianity. 0.86

00:43:28.220 It's wrong.

00:43:28.800 It's anti-human.

00:43:29.540 And they need to stop doing it.

00:43:31.060 Broadly, Protestant churches as well need to stop doing this.

00:43:34.780 There is a sense now, pushed by hippie, dippy left-wingers, that Jesus was just a really nice hippie socialist.

00:43:41.780 And we've all perverted his message because he was such a socialist.

00:43:44.960 This is not true.

00:43:46.920 Just a few statistics on the Cuban Revolution 60 years later.

00:43:50.120 In the last 10 years, there have been at least 18,000 political prisoners in Cuba.

00:43:54.700 It's hard to get accurate numbers, obviously, because it's a totalitarian regime.

00:43:58.500 But that's a good estimate.

00:44:00.180 Two million Cubans live outside of Cuba because of the hell that the Castros inflicted. 1.00

00:44:04.300 I went down to Cuba.

00:44:05.500 I visited there when it was briefly semi-open.

00:44:08.320 I talked to a lot of Cubans.

00:44:10.300 Let me tell you something.

00:44:11.220 They don't wear Che Guevara t-shirts in Cuba.

00:44:13.340 They wear American flags sewn onto their clothing and on their bicycles when they can afford them.

00:44:17.640 That is the protest because they want freedom and they hate communism because communism is slavery and it has truly destroyed that people.

00:44:25.720 We know that the Castro regime death toll is estimated between 35,000 and 141,000 people.

00:44:31.140 We know 5,000 people were executed immediately after the Castro takeover to say nothing of the fact that the communist regime in Cuba almost blew up the entire world during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 0.75

00:44:41.520 There's nothing moral about socialism.

00:44:43.240 There's nothing good about socialism.

00:44:44.920 It's awful. 0.81

00:44:45.680 It's wicked.

00:44:46.120 And it's anti-human.

00:44:47.640 By the way, as the Vatican applauds and celebrates the Cuban Revolution, don't forget that the Cuban Revolution specifically attacked Christianity.

00:44:55.700 It was an atheistic revolution.

00:44:57.640 A lot of Catholics, including a bishop, were permanently exiled from the country.

00:45:02.860 This after the Vatican and Pope Francis has asked earlier in the year two underground Chinese bishops to step down in favor of government Communist Party apparatchik bishops.

00:45:15.800 We know that the Pope has regularly attacked capitalism and free markets.

00:45:19.420 We need to counter this.

00:45:22.180 We finally must counter this as it affects, in this case, specifically the Catholic Church, but Protestant churches as well.

00:45:28.140 Socialism is wicked and terrible, and it must be opposed vigorously.

00:45:32.520 John Paul II knew this very well.

00:45:34.560 In his encyclical Centesimus Annus, he wrote, quote,

00:45:37.360 It would appear that on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

00:45:48.420 A pope before him, Leo XIII, also wrote even more clearly about socialism.

00:45:53.460 He referred to socialists as a wicked confederacy. 0.87

00:45:56.380 He referred to them as a pest, an evil growth. 0.99

00:45:59.440 He said socialists steal the very gospel itself with a view to deceive more easily the unwary. 0.89

00:46:05.900 He called it a plague.

00:46:07.120 That's exactly what it is.

00:46:08.440 That's what we should call it when we talk about the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

00:46:12.400 That's how we should talk about it when we respond to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another young, attractive, very likable woman who's trying to push this plague and this pest and this wicked, evil growth on humanity again. 1.00

00:46:27.000 This old, decrepit, awful idea that we'll not die.

00:46:30.320 We need to fight it.

00:46:31.100 We need to fight it in the strongest terms, and we should give no quarter to people who are trying constantly to resuscitate that awful zombie plague.

00:46:39.900 All right.

00:46:40.320 That's our show.

00:46:40.860 We've run out of time.

00:46:41.500 We'll get to more tomorrow.

00:46:42.520 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:46:43.660 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:46:44.740 I'll see you soon.

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00:47:07.880 Hey, guys.

00:47:08.540 Over on The Matt Wall Show today, we'll be talking about Christian.

00:47:11.500 Bale thanking Satan at the Golden Globes yesterday.

00:47:14.500 I think it was the most honest moment in the history of Hollywood award shows.

00:47:18.940 Also, Ellen DeGeneres, a lesbian woman, came out in defense of Kevin Hart, and she's being attacked by the left.

00:47:26.400 But what happened to identity politics?

00:47:28.620 Did the rules get suspended?

00:47:30.000 Again?

00:47:30.700 I guess so.

00:47:31.380 We'll talk about that today.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 07, 2019

Ep. 275 - The Motherf＊＊＊er With The Hat

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