Ep. 311 - Why AOC Is Wrong About Everything
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Democrat darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls capitalism irredeemable and America garbage. We will examine why AOC is wrong about everything. And why she s wrong about almost everything else.
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Democrat darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls capitalism irredeemable and America garbage.
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We will examine why AOC is wrong about everything.
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Then the dirtbags at Media Matters try to take down Tucker Carlson.
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The MAGA hat smirking kid is suing CNN for $250 million.
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And Captain America, or what is the new one, Captain Marvel?
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Yeah, whatever Marvel movie number 752 is, is terrible even by Marvel's standards.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I hated that movie so much, I couldn't even remember its name.
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We're talking about AOC because AOC, the thing I'm very grateful to her for,
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is that she makes abundantly clear what the left actually believes,
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which is that capitalism is irredeemable and America is garbage.
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But we will explain why she gets that exactly backwards.
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Actually, it's every other economic system that is irredeemable, unsupportable, immoral.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was down at South by Southwest
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Alexandria, just like in our reading last night,
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to any of the other things that are necessary to make wine. So I have the right to my wages
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for making the wine. In that sense, I have the right to the fruit of my labor, but I don't have
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the right to the things that are made with my labor. Another theory is the legal theory of
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property, which is that if the state says you have a right to property, then you have a right
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to property. Again, this is pretty insufficient. This would be Thomas Hobbes' theory of it,
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probably, and that isn't really defensible. You see how that breaks down, like for instance,
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once Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez runs your government. There is another theory called the personality
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theory of property, which is that, I guess this is a little closer to it, which is that private property
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is essential to individuality. It's essential to the development of the human mind, which requires
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things. In order to have individuality, to develop your human mind, you need certain things, and in
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order to have things, you need to have the right to have things. So that's close. It's a little vague
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though, obviously. The real reason, the actual defense, the moral defense of private property
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is a biblical argument. It's a very basic moral argument, which is that thou shalt not steal.
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That's why. That's why we have a right to property, is because thou shalt not steal.
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Thou shalt not steal presumes that someone has property, and you have your own property. Or maybe
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you don't have your own property, but even if you don't have your own property, you can't steal
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somebody else's property just because you want it. And furthermore, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
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goods. Even if you really want his oxen, you cannot covet that oxen. That's wrong. These are
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the arguments against, or rather, I suppose they're the arguments for private property and against
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taking private property away from people. Pope Pius X in 1903 put this very clearly. He said,
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quote, unlike the beast, man has on earth, not only the right of use, but a permanent right of
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ownership. And this is true, not only of those things which are consumed in their use, but also
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of those which are not consumed by their use. So it's not just that you have the right to own a cherry
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pie or a cigar, which is eaten and burned. You have the right to own instruments of capital. You have
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the right to own a computer. You have the right to own a leftist tears tumbler to safely store your
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leftist tears. He goes on, he says, quote, private property is under all circumstances, be it the fruit
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of labor, fruit of labor being the wages that you receive for your labor, or acquired by conveyance
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or donation. A natural right. And everybody may make such reasonable disposal of it as he thinks
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fit. This is what it comes down to. Private property is a natural right. For AOC to say that
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capitalism is irredeemable is to say that private property is irredeemable. You can't morally defend
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private property. But quite to the contrary, you can't defend an economic system without private
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property. That is indefensible. Private property is a natural right. Our country speaks very highly
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of natural rights, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which demands the
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ability to own property. Civilization would be impossible without private property. You know,
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the pilgrims found this when they came to America on the Mayflower. They were sort of communists in the
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first couple of years after they landed. And they quickly found out that it would lead to starvation
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and men wouldn't work. Governor Bradford wrote about this. He said, men don't want to work under
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the communist system. They just lay about all day because they don't want to work for another man's
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benefit. And so quickly he learned that we needed to institute some private property. They divvied up
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land in a private way. All of a sudden production flourished. Why else? No family could exist without
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private property. What is having a family? You need to have some say over your family's affairs. You
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need to provide shelter. You need to provide food. You need to provide education. All of those things
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require money. All of those things require private property. Society would break down.
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Communist governments, socialist governments, they say that they don't like private property. But of
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course, in practice, we've never seen a society get rid of private property. What happens in
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communist and socialist societies? They just steal the private property from others and they
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consolidate it at the top. That's what happens in Cuba. That's why the Castros are so rich. It's not
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because the private property doesn't exist. It's that they took all the private property. It's what
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the ruling class did in Venezuela. It's what the ruling class did in the Soviet Union. That's what the
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at checkout. Get 10% off. So AOC makes this morally indefensible point about private property.
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The reality is actually the opposite. This has been acknowledged by moral philosophers for all
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of history, going back to Aristotle. Then she decides to take her argument up to 11 and calls
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America garbage. I think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are, but where we are
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is not a good thing. And this idea of like 10% better from garbage shouldn't be what we settle
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for. It's like this like, it feels like moderate is not a stance. It's just an attitude toward life of
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like, hmm. She is so, so millennial. Just that the way she talks, she can't finish sentences.
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She can't complete a thought. So she just says, ooh, ah, ooh, kind of random gesticulations and
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three words here and three words there. Ooh, ah, ah, ee, ooh, ooh, ah, ah, ding, dong,
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wada, wada, bing, bang. She sounds like a typical rich kid. That's actually what she sounds like.
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She's there in her nice custom or, you know, designer clothing, South by Southwest, very
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decadent capitalist festival. She's sitting there being interviewed. She says, oh, you know,
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it's all so terrible. Oh, oh, the ennui. Oh, oh, it's just so, ah, it's so hard to find good help
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these days. So I just, it's like, I need something I'm really passionate about. You know, I just,
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I, oh, excuse me. I'll have a little, a little, the Chablis is a little warm. Could you get a
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little thank you? Oh, it's just so terrible. I hate my life. Ooh. This is what rich kids do.
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This is why rich kids all do drugs in the suburbs because they don't, they don't have any real
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troubles. They don't have any struggle. They don't have any sense of something they're struggling for.
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And so they complain about how nice things are. They don't know how good they've got it. They don't
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know the value of a dollar. We know AOC grew up in relative affluence. She didn't take her studies
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very seriously, obviously. She hasn't worked terribly hard. She didn't, you know, she, she
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worked, she lived with her parents, according to voter records until 2016. I guess she was working
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as a bartender. I don't know how many days a week. And then she's on the public dole now
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and funneling money into private companies and things like that for her own use. She doesn't
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value what we've got here. This is a problem with millennials, especially those who grew up
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after the Cold War, because it has an attitude. It implies an attitude of easy come, easy go.
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Oh, this, this civilization, she didn't work for this. To quote Barack Obama, she didn't build that.
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But we've inherited this fabulous civilization, this wonderful American society where everything
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is really nice and peaceful and rich and just lovely. And we say, ah, easy come, easy go. Let's
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try something totally different. Let's just throw it all away. It's, it's that Chesterton fence problem.
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She gets up, she sees all of these American institutions, all of these American ideas,
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and she doesn't know how they got there. She doesn't know why they're there. She don't tear it
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down. I don't see why it's there. Why is private property? We don't need, do we need that? No,
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I don't think so. Just tears it all down. It's so disrespectful. It is this standing on the
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shoulders of giants and thinking that you're flying, standing on the shoulders of, of giants
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and spitting on them, saying, who cares? You didn't, you're not so great. I'm so much better
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than you because I'm a modern person. I'm alive right now. Garbage. Imagine that calling your country
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garbage, calling your countrymen garbage. When we say that the left hates America,
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this is what we're talking about. They protest the American flag. They call the country garbage.
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Her words, not mine. Then she goes on to, to explain why America is garbage.
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We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work, right? Uh, we shouldn't,
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we should not feel nervous about, uh, you know, the toll booth collector, not having to collect tolls
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anymore. Um, we should be excited by that. But the reason we're not excited by it is because
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we live in a society where if you don't have a job, you are left to die. And that is at its core,
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our problem. What society is she living in? Gosh, the fantasy society in her head sounds really awful.
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Fantasy America is a really terrible place. You know, of course, in real America, nobody is left
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to die. As a matter of fact, anybody can go get healthcare and illegal aliens go to the emergency
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room all the time. Nobody is left to die in America. She says that if you don't have a job,
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you're left to die. We have an extraordinarily generous unemployment insurance system. We have
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extraordinarily generous unemployment medical benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, all of these programs,
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not to say nothing of the civil society, to say nothing of charities that provide these sorts of
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things. But she says people are, are left to die in America. And then think about the point on
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automation. She says, look, we shouldn't be upset if a job gets destroyed because
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that, that means that you don't have to work anymore. Isn't that great? Then you don't have
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to work. I mean, this is her doubling down in the green new deal. The draft legislation says that they
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will provide money for people who are unable to work or unwilling to work. They can say, I don't want
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to work for my keep. That's fine. You just get a check. Unwilling to work. And then people said,
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oh, she's being taken out of context. She didn't really mean that. No, she did. She's saying it
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right here. Unwilling to work. This, what a good thing. But what it also misunderstands is the role of
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work. Because we all joke, you know, sometimes we're not joking. We say, oh, my job is killing me
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today. Oh gosh. Oh, you know, I've, I've been on the road for weeks. I'm hitting the road again,
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you know, later. I've had a headache for a while. I just, some days you just don't want to
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wake up and go into work. Except work is a very good thing. Adam worked in the garden of Eden.
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Consider that. In paradise, man worked. Man is supposed to work. It is good for man to work.
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What would you do if you didn't work? I think it was Moliere who said, I think it was Moliere,
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somebody said that hell is the place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself all the time.
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That is what hell is. I mean, you know this. If you have, take a vacation for the first day,
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you're just like, woohoo, yeah, you're just binge watching Netflix. You're drinking, I don't know,
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you're going out, you're stuffing your face. And then by day four, you're just sort of lazing around.
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You're just like, I don't know what to do. I don't know why I'm waking up anymore.
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We have to, it is good to work. Even if you could tax the rich, soak the rich, give everybody a free
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check, that would be worse for society. This is why the universal basic income is unhuman per se.
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That's why it is just wrong on its face. Because it is bad not to work. It is bad to incentivize
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people not to work. But how is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going to pay for everybody not to work?
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One of the reasons that this ideology or questions of whether you want to call it democratic socialism
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or techno-futurism or like whatever it is, it is because our technological advancement as a society
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has outpaced our system for handling finite resources. Because now we are approaching
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What? This is, this sounds like that one of those late night bull sessions that, you know,
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you have freshman year when you're really hammered. That's what she sounds like. She's, you know,
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yeah, man, because, because, you know, man, we're thinking in a finite world, you know, fine. But
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imagine if it were infinite, which is where we're going. We're not going, by the way, to an infinite
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resources economy. Things in the material world are finite. This woman, by the way, is 29 years old.
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She has a college degree. Theoretically, it was, she majored in economics, which is evidence to
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decertify the BU economics program. We're, what does that mean? We're thinking in this minor,
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you know, this kind of finite, infinite, finite, no, no, no. She says that Bill Gates has an idea.
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Do we have the clip of, of her Bill Gates idea?
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There are a lot of different solutions or a lot of different proposed, uh, ideas about
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how we go about that. You know, Bill Gates has talked about taxing robots at 90%. And what that means,
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what he's really talking about is taxing corporations at 90%. Um, but it's easier to say
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tax a robot. So, not really, actually. It's no surprise. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't know
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very much about how taxation works. She thought that a tax incentive was just giving out money from a
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slush pile with regard to the Amazon move into New York. So, she doesn't know what taxes are.
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What Bill Gates means when he says we need to tax robots is not that we're going to tax
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corporations. We already tax corporations and we're going to continue to tax corporations. And
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until President Trump, we had one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.
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What, what it means to tax robots is to tax capital investment, right? So, if you're a business owner,
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you've got your money, whatever your cashflow is, whatever investment you've got, whatever money
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you've got at your use, you can put it into one of two things. Capital, that is to say,
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renovating the store, buying robots, touchscreens at McDonald's, capital, technology, or labor.
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People, you can hire more people, you can pay your people more, you can whatever. Capital and labor,
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those are the two places that you can invest your money. So, when you tax the robots, what you are
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really taxing is capital investment. So, what you are really taxing is automation. So, what you are
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really doing is creating an incentive to keep paying the tollbooth operator. So, what you are
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really doing is the, so, where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began her argument is, don't worry about the tollbooth
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operator. Let the tollbooth operator lose her job. We're going to automate everything. It'll be great.
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And how are you going to deal with the tollbooth operator? Oh, we're going to create economic
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incentives not to automate anybody so that the tollbooth operator can keep her job.
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You just said it was good for the tollbooth operator to lose her job. Now, you're advocating
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for economic incentives to let the tollbooth operator keep her job. All of this, all of this amounts to
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AOC not really understanding very much about economics. This is no surprise. So, what does she do?
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She doesn't know much about economics. She doesn't know about the moral arguments for this economic
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system. She can't make any economic arguments for her own system, which is socialism or democratic
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socialism, whatever she wants to call it. So, then she pivots, as they always do, and they can't make
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the arguments that they're trying to make. They pivot to a racial argument.
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I think a perfect example of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working class
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Americans against brown and black working class Americans in order to just screw over all working
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class Americans is Reaganism in the 80s when he started talking about welfare queens. He's painting
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this like really resentful vision of essentially black women who were doing nothing that were sucks
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Who said black women? Hold on a second. Let me rewind the clip. I'm going to go through.
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I have a little monitor over here of everything Ronald Reagan's ever said about welfare queens.
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Where did he? Can we just go through every... Oh, yeah. He didn't mention black women. You mentioned
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black women. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mentioned black women. That's the subtle racism. That's what is
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revealed. What she's saying is that when Ronald Reagan says people who just sit at home and don't
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work at all and just collect a check from the government, that's not good and we should reform
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that. What AOC hears is, oh, it's just those black women. It's just those lazy blacks. That's what she
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hears. But he never said that. She just heard it. Why did she hear it? I don't know. Maybe that's her
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So AOC is doing exactly what she accuses Reagan of doing. She says that what Reagan did
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was to pit white working class Americans against brown and black working class Americans.
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When did he do this? I don't know. I never saw it happen. Well, the one example she gives is welfare
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queens, but welfare queens are not in the working class because they don't work. I think to be in
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the working class, you have to work. That seems to be a very basic definition of working class.
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So she can't give any example, but she is using this racially divisive language and she's accusing
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her opponents of racial bigotry, which is what the left always does. But this is a subtle
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generational distinction. Back when Bernie Sanders and Karl Marx were inventing communism back,
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you know, in the 19th century, they would sit together and they would break down society only along
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class lines. So it was only the working man, the poor, the industrial labor versus the capitalists,
00:29:27.100
the rich guys, whatever. This was good for a time. This worked for them for a spell. But what
00:29:33.980
intersectionality managed to do was add in all of the racial identity politics as well. And that's
00:29:39.440
where AOC is. So it's no longer sufficient as Bernie Sanders does to only talk about the poor and the
00:29:46.800
rich and to demagogue the rich and to vilify the rich. Now you have to go a little more particular
00:29:54.540
and vilify the rich white people. You have to say that the rich white men or the rich white straight
00:30:04.200
men or the rich white straight men who think they're men, you got to get much, much more specific.
00:30:08.740
Why is this more useful? Because by definition, you're getting to a smaller minority. This is the 99%
00:30:14.740
versus the 1% kind of rhetoric. So when you get to that smaller minority, it's easy for everyone
00:30:20.080
to get behind it. It's easy for, you know, there was one time I was in DC, I was walking around DC
00:30:25.800
and I walked by the Hebrew Israelites. Those are those black supremacists who were in the incident
00:30:30.580
with the Covington high school kids. And, you know, they're kind of a mainstay in DC and New York.
00:30:36.000
You hear them calling out, you know, you white devil and you white this. And, and I was then in a
00:30:42.220
coffee shop and I hear these two girls ahead of me say, gosh, those, those black Israelites, they,
00:30:50.820
they called me a white devil. And they said that I'm an oppressor because I'm in a white woman.
00:30:55.440
And I said, I said, guys, are you crazy? Come on. I'm a woman. I've been oppressed too.
00:31:01.960
I said, oh my gosh. Oh no, here we go. She had the right reaction, which is, are you ridiculous? No,
00:31:07.700
I'm not oppressed. And neither are you. You're here in the richest country in the world. You
00:31:11.560
almost certainly don't work. And yet you're very large people. So clearly you're eating just fine.
00:31:16.380
One of the biggest problems among the poor in America is they're too fat. It's obesity. That's
00:31:21.080
a first world problem. Everyone has this lovely decadent sort of thing. You can stand here on the
00:31:27.140
street shouting your vicious remarks and nobody's going to arrest you. Nobody's going to stop you.
00:31:32.780
This is a pretty easy society to live in. That's the right response. But instead she has to take
00:31:40.040
the response and say, oh no, I'm a victim too. Please let's gang up on the white guy. But cause
00:31:44.520
we're on the same side, Buster. I mean, that's, that's what AOC, that's what intersectional politics
00:31:49.660
are convincing people to do. But this is the new generation. This is what the new Democrats are.
00:31:55.820
And there was a comical display of the old Democrats, Howard Schultz, Colorado Governor
00:32:04.180
John Hickenlooper. Over the weekend, they came out, they tried to make their case for why they're,
00:32:08.720
they're better than AOC at handling these issues. It just falls flat. Here's Starbucks CEO,
00:32:14.700
former Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz. In the Green New Deal, there is a proposal that says
00:32:19.900
that by 2030, every building in America is going to be transformed to clean energy. Now, that's a
00:32:28.580
well-intentioned idea, but it's never going to happen. So my question to the people who are proposing
00:32:37.380
these things is, let's propose things that are true, that are honest, that are sincere, and that are
00:32:44.120
realistic. Just to put the math in context, that would mean that 2,700 buildings a day between now
00:32:51.880
and 2030 would be transformed. And the government doesn't own those buildings. So they would have to
00:32:57.660
mandate, and the cost to it. Yeah, come on, guys. Come on. Hey, guys, can't we just, look, I'm on your
00:33:05.560
side, but can't we, Howard Schultz is the girls in line in DC. Howard Schultz is, is that kind of,
00:33:15.920
that squish who says to the lunatic, to the bully, who says, I'm on your side. No, no, I'm not, look,
00:33:21.760
I'm on your side, but can't we just, he's, Howard Schultz is the kind of guy who in college says,
00:33:26.240
look, communism's beautiful in theory. It's just that in practice, it's no good. No, no, no, no.
00:33:36.240
Communism is terrible in theory. It's awful. It's anti-human. It's horrific and wicked and evil.
00:33:43.940
The Green New Deal is terrible in theory. It's not good in theory. Maybe the people who wrote it
00:33:49.260
have good intentions, but it's very terrible in theory. It's a very terrible thing to tear down
00:33:54.880
every building in the country within 10 years and rebuild it so that it runs on candy canes and
00:34:01.060
daydreams or something. That's very terrible. Why? Why is it so terrible? Well, because I like my home.
00:34:08.160
I don't want you to tear down my home. Most people don't want their homes torn down just because you
00:34:13.580
don't want them to use the air conditioning. Why else? Well, because we have historic buildings in
00:34:18.540
the United States. We have beautiful 17th century buildings in some cases. Should we just tear those
00:34:25.480
down? Some of those beautiful buildings from the 19th century, just rip them all to the, all the
00:34:31.120
beautiful apartment buildings in New York, knock them down. Historic mansions in the South, knock
00:34:35.640
them down. All those great on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, you know, knock them down. What do you have
00:34:41.460
left? You've knocked down your whole country. The White House, knock it down. Well, you have to. It's
00:34:46.140
not, it's not up to AOC standards. Knock it down, build it up. It's terrible in theory. The Green New
00:34:52.940
Deal is awful in theory. It limits your choice. It takes away your private property. I'm not saying
00:35:00.660
that we need to live in some libertarian, ridiculous fantasy utopia either. That, obviously, that's,
00:35:09.860
that's crazy too. But we, right here today, right now in reality, have private property. We have a
00:35:16.740
country. We have buildings. We shouldn't rip that all to the ground. And Schultz thinks that by feeding
00:35:24.660
that crocodile, by appeasing that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she's going to eat him last.
00:35:30.800
By feeding the radical socialist intersectional left, maybe he can compromise with it. No, he's just a
00:35:38.240
Neville Chamberlain, like all the rest of them. Then John Hickenlooper, he's, he's, I guess he's
00:35:44.540
running for president or something. Maybe, I don't know. I got like a Google alert, sort of. And I
00:35:49.860
guess is that, he's the governor of Colorado, who's probably not even going to make it to the first
00:35:54.900
debate. And he's going to run on a similar sort of thing. This guy thinks that by appeasing these
00:36:01.020
radicals, he'll be able to eke his way to the nomination. He won't even say that he's not a
00:36:06.200
socialist. You did an interview earlier in the week where you were asked three times if you would
00:36:10.880
call yourself a proud capitalist. And you wouldn't directly answer the question. It led Howard
00:36:16.700
Schultz, who's possibly a candidate, to say, if even a successful businessman and entrepreneur like
00:36:21.560
Governor Hickenlooper can't openly support capitalism in the Democratic primary, it's clear
00:36:26.420
this is Senator Sanders' party now. Why are you uncomfortable calling yourself a proud capitalist?
00:36:32.660
The point I was making is that we define people by these labels that often have all kinds of
00:36:42.520
associations and baggage with them in that sense. Do I believe in small business? Of course I believe
00:36:47.820
in small business. I started probably more than 20 different small businesses. I'd have, you know,
00:36:52.740
in one year, I'd have over a million customers. I understand that. But what's happening? I think
00:36:57.660
it's kind of a silly question. We should be looking at some of the reasons behind why we have less and
00:37:03.680
less startups. We should look at some of the reasons why, you know, more and more people aren't wanting
00:37:07.420
to start a business. Oh, that is so pathetic. This guy, John Hickenlooper, is a businessman. But this is
00:37:15.660
also your evidence, by the way, that corporate America, the kind of Chamber of Commerce Republicans,
00:37:21.000
they're just liberals. They're just left-wingers because the culture is left-wing and business just wants
00:37:26.420
to make money and they go along to get along and they want to minimize their exposure, minimize their
00:37:31.660
vulnerabilities, minimize their political risk. And so they just go along with the leftist culture.
00:37:36.300
It's why you can't really trust those guys to advance a conservative agenda. What, he won't even
00:37:42.340
say he's not a socialist. Oh, I just think these labels are so silly. What's the point of all these
00:37:48.700
labels? The point of labels is to let us know what you think. That's why we have words. That's why
00:37:52.900
Adam in the garden, going right back to Adam in the garden. One of his jobs there was to name things,
00:37:59.280
to give things labels so that we can discern them, so that we can differentiate between them.
00:38:05.860
The whole process of creation is a process of discrimination and discernment and separation,
00:38:12.520
separating the land from the sea, separating the light from the darkness, separating these things
00:38:18.320
so that you can name them. Why do we have a name for light and a name for darkness? I mean,
00:38:23.600
isn't that just silly? No, it's so that we can identify it. Why do we, why do we use terms? That's
00:38:30.460
why we use words. Politics is speech. This has been true since Pericles. This has been true since
00:38:36.440
Aristotle. Politics is meaningful speech and politics is using speech to convince people,
00:38:43.660
to persuade people, to make arguments, to appeal to people's pathos, to appeal to people's, to ethos,
00:38:52.400
to have spirit, to exhibit spirit, to appeal to people's logic, logos. That's what we, that is,
00:38:59.360
this is rhetoric, right? And what Hickenlooper wants to do is weasel his way to the democratic
00:39:05.280
nomination. He wants to be everything to everybody, but he can't stand up for anything. Why would you
00:39:10.460
ever vote for John Hickenlooper? What is, he's just nothing. John Hickenlooper, in the most
00:39:17.760
important matters of the day, would you say that you're X or Y? No, I would say I'm neutral.
00:39:23.780
I'm a little bit more, more neutral. Is that going to work? No, it's not going to work.
00:39:28.740
In the Democrat primary, Kamala Harris is the weather bane. That's how you know which way it's
00:39:33.760
going. Kamala Harris is a cynical politician. Willie Brown, old politician, just admitted to
00:39:40.520
cheating on her, cheating on his wife with her and then launching her political career because of
00:39:45.540
that. She is a tough lady. She's pretty sharp and she's going to say whatever she's got to say
00:39:51.400
to get the nomination. And she, she's the weather bane. She is moving left. She actually endorses the
00:39:57.960
basic utopian, leftist, progressive, communist, call it whatever you want, premise in a recent
00:40:05.960
impromptu campaign speech. It is a fact that we can change human behaviors without much change to
00:40:14.300
our lifestyle. And we can save the future generations of our country and this world.
00:40:20.040
Did you say that we can change human behavior? We can change, she's saying we can change human
00:40:27.180
nature is what she's saying. This is the project of progressivism or leftism is to change human
00:40:35.840
nature. Not just now, you know, it might not happen tomorrow, but over time we're going to fundamentally
00:40:41.920
change human nature. And that is going to bring us to utopia. What they seem to forget is that utopia
00:40:50.380
doesn't mean the best place. It means no place. Utopia means no place. It doesn't exist. That is a
00:40:59.080
terrible idea. You cannot change human nature. That's what makes it nature. That's what nature is.
00:41:07.140
And so when people have tried to change human nature over time, it has resulted in unspeakable human
00:41:15.000
misery. But she admits that's their purpose. We're not just taxing the rich a little bit more.
00:41:21.420
We're not just liberalizing certain social mores. We're not just, no, no. We are going to change
00:41:31.160
human nature. That is their project. That's how ambitious, that's how dangerous the left's project
00:41:37.300
is. And let me tell you, Kamala Harris has a much better chance of winning this nomination
00:41:42.260
than John Hickenlooper. Before we go, I have to say a word about Tucker Carlson.
00:41:47.600
Media Matters for America, which is a leftist assassination group, character assassination
00:41:52.700
group. They're not actually going out there with guns. They just try to assassinate people's
00:41:56.220
characters. It exists to get right-wing commentators taken off the air. It exists to censor right-wing
00:42:04.380
commentators. That's the whole purpose of Media Matters. And it is disingenuously referred to
00:42:09.440
as a media watchdog group in the mainstream media. It is not. It is a hit squad from the
00:42:16.720
left to censor right-wing commentators because they're afraid of what we have to say. So they
00:42:22.920
dug up some footage of Tucker Carlson from 13 years ago, I think it is, when he was calling
00:42:29.460
into a shock jock radio show. And they are trying to take him down over this tape.
00:42:35.180
Actually, he's not in prison for that. He didn't warn Jeff. He didn't marry underage
00:42:38.920
girls. No, he's in prison for facilitation of child rape.
00:42:42.400
Whatever the hell that means. He's in prison because he's weird and unpopular, and he has
00:42:48.180
a different lifestyle that other people find creepy.
00:42:50.620
No, he's an accessory to the rape of children. That is a felony, and a serious one at that.
00:42:55.860
What do you mean an accessory? He's got some weird religious cult where he thinks it's okay
00:43:01.180
to, you know, marry underage girls. But he didn't do it. Why wouldn't the guy who actually
00:43:06.380
did it, who had sex with an underage girl, he should be the one who's doing life?
00:43:10.760
Okay, what is... I don't even understand what I'm supposed to be shocked and outraged and
00:43:16.920
offended by here. He's calling into a show. What's the show called? Like, The Love Bunch
00:43:22.040
something? I mean, it's some ridiculous shock jock show. And he's calling in, and they're saying
00:43:29.560
provocative things to one another and making jokes. That's what this is about. And Tucker
00:43:34.980
Carlson makes the point that you should be punished far more severely if you actually
00:43:41.180
have sex with an underage girl than if you're just there at the time. Right? Like, if you're
00:43:47.940
the cult leader, it's bad to be a cult leader. I don't think Tucker Carlson's saying it's good
00:43:52.420
to be a cult leader. But it's worse to have sex with an underage girl. But I'm supposed
00:43:58.600
to be really offended or something. And then, oh, they were really upset about this one
00:44:02.600
because Tucker Carlson, he said a naughty word.
00:44:15.140
...word out of... oh, yeah, I just... I stepped over. She seems... now go ahead.
00:44:20.420
Yeah. I mean, you said it. I'm just agreeing with you. I don't use that word because...
00:44:23.840
Right. I'd love for Tucker Carlson. Tonight on MSNBC, a girl that comes across kind of...
00:44:27.840
So the word, I guess you can't obviously hear a we bleep it out. It's a word that rhymes
00:44:33.080
with punty. Use your imagination. And so the guy, the guy who's hosting the show, he says,
00:44:40.320
yeah, she seems kind of punty. Wink. And then Tucker says, yeah, she does seem kind of punty.
00:44:47.500
Okay. That's what he said. Because no one, I'm sure no one at Media Matters has ever used
00:44:54.140
that word, the C word. Nobody there has ever said it. No. Right? None of them. Of course not.
00:45:00.860
No. Now what they would say, what Media Matters would say is, well, I think it's perfectly fine
00:45:04.400
to call women that word all the time. But Tucker says it's wrong, but he did it one time. So,
00:45:09.160
right. Okay. Okay. Whatever. He made a joke with a guy one time on a shock jock show.
00:45:14.020
Okay. Cool dude. Also, by the way, at least Tucker Carlson has standards,
00:45:19.000
which he occasionally violates as we all do. What standards do you have, Media Matters?
00:45:23.540
These guys, I have... I mean, there is no... First of all, Tucker Carlson will not lose
00:45:27.500
even one viewer over this. He will not lose one. No... I mean, this is such a disingenuous
00:45:33.640
hit job against Tucker Carlson. But they're going to try to get the right to lose their viewers.
00:45:39.340
This is what they... It's so weird. Because we don't really do this. I don't really care if
00:45:43.320
Rachel Maddow has a show. It's double income for me. I don't really care if Joy Reid has a show.
00:45:49.920
I care about the hypocrisy. I care that right-wingers are losing their shows and left-wingers are not.
00:45:57.740
That's what I care about. I don't care if... I don't know, Chris Hayes. Okay. He can have a show.
00:46:02.060
I don't watch it. Not a lot of people watch it anyway, but that's fine. But they get...
00:46:07.540
They're so offended because the left knows that they can't beat us in an actual exchange of ideas.
00:46:12.920
So they have to censor us. They have to shut us up. It's awful. These people are awful.
00:46:17.360
Media Matters for America, they are just character assassins. And it would be a real shame.
00:46:21.980
It would be a real shame if somebody went out and dug up some dirt on... Madeline Peltz,
00:46:26.380
for instance, who's a public writer for Media Matters for America. Or Christina Lopez-G.
00:46:31.700
You know, that would be real. That's another one of the authors, public authors at Media Matters. Or
00:46:35.560
Eric Hunnenkoki. It would be a real shame. A damn shame if someone went out and dug up some
00:46:42.080
embarrassing moments from 13 years ago on any of those people. It would be a real... Wouldn't that
00:46:47.420
be awful? Because then they would get a taste of their own medicine. And they would realize why a
00:46:52.800
graceless society is so awful. I would mention a few more of the public writers, except I can't
00:46:58.140
because the cowards at Media Matters for America usually hide behind an anonymous byline. Frankly,
00:47:03.360
at least those three people put their names on their hit jobs. I'll actually give them credit
00:47:07.200
for that. The rest of them just hide behind anonymity. It would be a real shame, wouldn't it,
00:47:12.920
if one of those writers at Media Matters for America got a little taste of their own graceless
00:47:17.020
medicine. All right, that's our show. A lot more to get to, but too bad. We're running late.
00:47:20.180
I will see you all tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:47:52.180
Hey guys, over on The Matt Wall Show today, we're going to talk about this Tucker Carlson
00:47:55.980
situation. Carlson is in trouble for saying bad things and offering bad opinions and telling bad
00:48:02.860
jokes on a radio show a long time ago. And now the left is pretending to be outraged and calling for
00:48:08.260
him to be fired. But I don't think he should be fired. In fact, I don't think he should face any
00:48:11.960
consequences at all. And I don't even think he should apologize. And I want to explain why. We'll
00:48:16.820
discuss that and other topics today over on The Matt Wall Show.
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