Ep. 376 - America Is Great, But The NYT Is Not
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Summary
Just in time for the 4th of July, the New York Times comes out with a total hit piece on not just some political issue, not just on Trump, but on all of American history and the American nation. We will dissect the nonsense. Then, Sargon of Akkad stops by to talk YouTube and politics. Finally, the mailbag and my favorite soldier story from the Revolutionary War.
Transcript
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The illiterate millennials of the New York Times have published a five-minute-long video essay
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titled, Please Stop Telling Me America is Great, just in time for the 4th of July.
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Then, Sargon of Akkad stops by to talk YouTube and politics.
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Finally, the mailbag and my favorite soldier story from the Revolutionary War.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Just in time for the 4th of July, the New York Times comes out with a total hit piece
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on not just some political issue, not just on Trump, not just on conservatives,
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but on all of American history and the American nation.
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You know, we're not necessarily endorsing this view.
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It's written, quote-unquote, by someone named Taige Johnson and Naima Raza.
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But the New York Times can't distance themselves from this entirely because it's not an essay
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This is something that was produced at the New York Times.
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It's a five-minute-long video that they hired someone to narrate it, and they hired people
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And it goes through, and it's just an all-out attack on America and the idea that America
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I mean, there's obviously an underlying message of anti-Trumpism because President Trump's
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campaign slogan is, make America great again, keep America great.
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A narrative packed and sold to tiny patriots, reinforced by every cartoon, movie, cheeseburger,
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A mythology so entrenched, our most beloved personalities urge us never to question it.
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Don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great.
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This right now is the greatest country on Earth.
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You're the greatest country in the world, I'll tell you that.
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But we're also the poorest, with a whopping 18% poverty rate, closer to Mexico than Western Europe.
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12.8 million American children live in poverty.
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And speaking of kids, turns out at the level of high school science, we're 19th of 36.
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We spend more in health care than any other country in the golf club,
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especially out of our own private little pockets.
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And globally, we're more likely to see newborns die.
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So, I don't even know where to begin with this, with all of the internal contradictions and the outright nonsense.
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The premise at the beginning is that we're told never to question how great America is.
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All we are told, from kindergarten onward, is that America isn't great.
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I mean, now in our high schools, we are taught left-wing anti-American polemics,
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like Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, as though they were scholarship,
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as though they were regular old history textbooks.
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Obviously, we're knocking down monuments to Christopher Columbus.
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We're knocking down monuments to George Washington.
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There's a school in California about to spend about $600,000 to cover up a mural of George Washington
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The thing that we're not learning is all the great stuff that America has done.
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But then the New York Times goes in just in those first few seconds to contradict themselves several times.
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So the premise of this whole New York Times video is just demonstrably false.
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We are told by the New York Times itself, the gray lady, all the news that fits the narrative,
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And they tell us that we're told never to question how great America is.
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I mean, even Barack Obama, the president of the United States, he said he wants to fundamentally
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And he said he doesn't really believe in American exceptionalism any more than anyone else believes
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But then, did you hear what they criticize America for?
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Then they also criticize America for being too fat.
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They criticize America because our babies are more likely to die, apparently, than in some
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But then the New York Times, almost every day of the week, talks about how abortion is a
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sacred right that we need to protect a constitutional right to kill a million babies a year.
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They criticize us for spending the most money on health care.
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They say it's mostly out of our own pockets, too, as if some money wasn't out of our pockets.
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When the government spends money, I guess the New York Times thinks it comes from magic.
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Of course, government spending comes from our pockets.
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Then it is inefficiently spent, and there's a lot of corruption usually along the way.
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So they criticize us for spending a lot of money on health care.
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But we also have the best health care system in the world.
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Everybody who wants good health care comes to the United States from every other country.
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If you want really the top health care in the world, you don't go to Cuba.
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We don't have long lines to wait for health care.
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We don't, like the UK, have a system where the government just takes control of your baby.
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And if you want to get your baby's treatment for his condition, like in the case of little baby Charlie Gard or baby Alfie,
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the government in the US can't just steal your baby from you like the socialist government in the UK did.
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Also, we lead virtually all of the health care innovation in the world.
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I guess it comes at a cost, but it's not that bad.
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The New York Times then goes on to talk about all of the immense flaws in American democracy.
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This year, America slid on global rankings of corruption and freedom and dropped from a functional to a flawed democracy.
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I have to stop it there because the flaw in the New York Times' argument is that America is a democracy.
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The founders and framers were terrified of direct democracy.
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That's why we have this brilliant federal system, this republican system that balances different rights, different authority, different powers between the federal government, the state governments, the local governments, between the judiciary and the legislature and the executive.
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But even beyond that, I was wondering when I saw them say that the US is falling behind.
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The answer is it comes from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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That's the Economist, as in that leftist magazine from the United Kingdom, the magazine that called Ben Shapiro an alt-right sage.
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Orthodox Jew, yarmulke wearing Ben Shapiro is apparently a Nazi, according to this outlet, the Economist.
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But I'm going to trust their opinion when it comes to American democracy.
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And by the way, America's not even a democracy.
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And if we're so stupid, if we're so stupid, we've fallen behind on so many measures, why do we lead the world in everything, in the economy, in culture, in our political system, in our military?
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If we're so dumb, if we're failing at everything, how is that even possible?
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But then the New York Times totally shows their cards.
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So the New York Times finally gives away their hand here.
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They go on to describe everything that we do succeed in in America, but it's all terrible according to the New York Times.
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So what, besides our economy and military, are we actually number one in?
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What, besides our economy and military, are we actually number one in?
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The economy and the military are pretty important, aren't they?
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The economy and the military are, I don't know, those are the main ways that we judge nations around the world, right?
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And our economy and our military aren't just slightly better than everybody's.
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I mean, they are, there's barely a second place.
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51% larger, even though China has four times our population.
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In terms of military spending, way more than twice the next highest military spending country, which is China.
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But as a matter of military victories, military power that we project around the world, you couldn't even quantify it.
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They have to admit that because otherwise it's just so dishonest in their video.
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But what did they, they spent like four seconds saying that.
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And they say, but besides that, besides those two incredibly important measures, what else are we number one in?
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Oh, and almost number one on environmental damage edged out by China.
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Let's just quickly debunk every single thing they said.
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First of all, civilian gun ownership is a very good thing.
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It not only protects us from bad guys, it protects us from tyranny.
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From the worst, the worst tyrannies in the world have taken away people's guns before they've, they've unleashed their worst miseries on their people.
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It is good that we have the number one in that.
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Americans are also much, much more likely to be killed by hands and feet and clubs and hammers than the types of guns that are used in mass shootings.
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It's sad that in a fallen world, bad things happen.
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But, it's not even coming close to the real issues here.
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The vast majority of gun crimes, by the way, are not mass shootings.
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If you take away the guns, the people who are going to kill themselves are just going to find out another way to do it.
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This is my favorite one they mentioned because they're talking about how awful TV watching is in a medium that is being viewed on a TV screen.
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So, you're watching this on a TV screen and they're telling you how bad TV is.
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Why didn't you just use your words and write it?
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Oh, I forgot because the millennials who run the New York Times are completely illiterate.
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Now, this one is very important because it sounds bad.
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But, actually, it shows you a wonderful aspect of America that they had just been complaining about earlier.
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It also means that we have a highly functioning healthcare system where the problem is not that there's too little medicine for too few people.
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It's that there's too much medicine for too many people.
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Obviously, you want to stop prescription drug abuse as best you can.
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You want to stop bad doctors from overprescribing.
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But prescription drug abuse is the sort of problem that you get in a healthcare system that is actually suffering from abundance, not scarcity.
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We're suffering from too much healthcare, not too little.
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Sometimes conservatives fall into this trap too.
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A large prison population means that we are locking up our criminals.
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When we had a lower prison population in the early 90s and late 80s, we had a lot more criminals on the street committing a lot more violent crimes.
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Now we have many more people in prison and a much lower crime rate.
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I want more prison, a greater prison population, so we have lower crime.
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You can just take the Paris deal as an example.
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We pulled out of that Paris climate deal and we are leading the world in reducing carbon emissions.
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In 2017, U.S. carbon emissions declined by more than 42 million tons.
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Now what's bizarre about this is that Canada, Spain, the EU, and China, who are all signatories of the Paris deal, they're really serious about taking care of the climate.
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They actually increased their carbon emissions.
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The New York Times doesn't talk about that though.
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So we pull out of these stupid do-nothing deals and we actually lead the world on the environment.
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The New York Times doesn't even come close to making an argument that America isn't great.
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What they do is show that they don't like America.
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They don't like the things that make America great.
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They don't like the ample liberty that we enjoy.
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They don't like the freedom to own guns, the freedom to watch TV, the freedom to purchase medications, and the freedom to eat the food that we want.
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That means that the New York Times isn't great and I think it never was.
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One of the biggest names on YouTube, Sargon of Akkad, Carl Benjamin.
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If there's somehow that you're living under a rock, you've never heard of him, take a look.
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I'm normalizing comedy because at this point comedy is under attack in this country.
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I can name other comedians who are being investigated for jokes.
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As Orwell says, printed on the front of this building, if liberty is to mean anything at all, it must mean the right to tell people that which they don't want to hear.
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Here are some comments from your social media pages.
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Honestly, for me, I'm not going to speak for UKIP as a whole, but for me, being able to table these issues around free speech is the most important thing.
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We are losing our ability to make jokes in this country.
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Because of puritanical moral standards, I don't promote the language of rape and violence.
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That is the state of the mainstream media right now.
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I wanted to see what people are saying about you now.
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And I learned, I didn't know this about you, you are an alt-right white supremacist Nazi.
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So, of course, since I read it in the New York Times, of course it has to be true, right?
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I mean, you go from being one of the biggest names on YouTube and your big issue is free speech.
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It happened exclusively, and it happens to anyone who challenges the progressive left
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and the dominance of political correctness across the political sphere of society.
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That's exclusively the reason they do it, and they will continue doing it until eventually
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And I can't think of any other way for it to end, really.
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I mean, we can't censor them out of existence, obviously.
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Yes, they can, but that's because they're Nazis.
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I mean, if they're going to call me a Nazi, I'm going to call them a Nazi.
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If they're going to say they're anti-fascist, they're marching around literally wearing
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black shirts, the uniformed fascists, using violence against civilians for political ends.
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But I do have a real fear about this, because you have, you still have one of the biggest
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They demonetized you, and then they kicked you off Patreon.
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So, they kicked you off your instrument of funding yourself.
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Yeah, and what's worse as well is that they are definitely de-ranking us on YouTube's algorithms
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Well, I can actually see there's a very explicit visual representation of this, because YouTube
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give you the access to the information on how people find your channel.
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And obviously, a huge chunk of it is recommended videos in the sidebar.
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And you can see that, I think it was around May the 1st, they obviously altered their algorithm,
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And that's a huge amount of traffic that comes to your channel.
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And this was what the Project Veritas whistleblowers have been letting us know.
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These sort of whistleblowers, like James Damore, coming out and saying, well, look, Google has
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a monoculture that actively describes us, and as the Veritas leaks showed, they describe
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They consider Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, and Jordan Peterson to actually be Nazis dog-whistling
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And, I mean, I don't know where to go with that, because it's so comically backwards.
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Well, what I love about the dog whistle claim is, you know, I never hear these dog whistles.
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There are many people hearing the dog whistles, so what does that make them?
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...that actually did spark a pretty big backlash.
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Not really, because, oh, well, initially, yes, because that's the sort of dirty tactic
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Patreon's own rules, and Jack Conte was very clear about this when he was talking to Dave
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Rubin, saying, no, we only care about what you do on Patreon, except when they get something
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that they decide they want to take off Patreon, which was, you know, none of this was on Patreon.
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It was when I was having a spat with a group of Nazis online, actual, you know, Nazis online,
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and I was calling them mean words, and Patreon decided, nope, you can't call them mean words.
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We are concerned about the sanctity of these Nazis, and therefore you can go.
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And that wouldn't have been a problem, because there are alternatives.
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Because really, what they do, it's a very basic service.
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They just aggregate donations and then take 5% cut.
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But the interesting thing is, I said, fine, that's not a problem.
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You know, if you, for some reason, wish to make up a reason to kick me off your platform,
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And interestingly, Stripe, the payment processing company, pulled out of that competitor a day
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or two after I announced that I was going on there.
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Now, that, to me, is very peculiar, because this competitor had been going for about eight
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months prior to me joining it, with no problems whatsoever.
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Suddenly, I join it, and now, oh, no, so you can't have that.
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So it looks like it's effectively cartel behavior.
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I mean, would you describe yourself as a conservative or more as a classical liberal?
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I describe myself as an English liberal, which I guess is a lot closer to, like, your founding
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You know, I believe in limited government, freedom of action, inherent natural rights.
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You know, nothing that the Nazis would agree with, incidentally.
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But this is my issue, is when I look at what they're doing to you, I mean, obviously, you're
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just a huge personality on YouTube, so they go for you.
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And I used to be so laissez-faire about everything, hands off, don't worry, it'll work itself out.
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Because if, look, if one tech company isn't going to let us on their platform, then another
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one will, except they control the flow of information around the internet.
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You know, at least I can find a competitor somewhere, except the payment processor is
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I mean, you know, you can say, well, Gab.com has a lot of people who have been censored on
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So it does contain neo-Nazis and, you know, the really sort of, the sort of people that
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you don't actually want to engage with politically because you know what their ideas are and
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But they have a right to speak like anyone else.
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They also, you know, they allow anyone to use it.
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And unsurprisingly, the censored people go there.
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They were de-hosted and had to find another host probably somewhere outside of the US,
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And the scales are being deliberately weighted, as we know from Insider's Leaking, where they
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are not actively de-platforming people or entire platforms just for hosting people that they
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Because at the end of the day, I mean, I don't have a criminal record or anything, you know.
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So if I had actually done something and we're a very left-leaning country, you know they'd
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come down on me like an absolute hammer and they'd nail me on anything they could nail
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It's kind of a game of chess that's being played, I think.
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And so yeah, and it is to the benefit of people who actually do not consider us to be people
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Because as soon as the left, and one of the best things we can do is to draw the left
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Because as soon as they start saying, right, okay, you don't have a right to free speech,
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what they're saying is, you aren't a human as I recognize you to be.
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We're looking at, yeah, they actually have a two-tier system.
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And then when we get to the stuff with Andy Ngo, and you're not a journalist, you're not
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You know, if you recognize him as a human being with inherent rights, you know you don't
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have a right to just assault him or deplatform him or any of these things.
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You know that what you're doing is, and it's a display of power.
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It's only justified because you have the means and you have the motive.
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The journalists so-called at the Huffington Post, New York Times, wherever, they more or
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I mean, the Huffington Post posted an article saying, what was it, the far right wanted blood
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So he's not, he's not, I wouldn't even call him a conservative, really, you know, by your
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standards, you know, I wouldn't call him a conservative.
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But yeah, they will describe them as far right, and they will say, no, no, it's completely
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And then you'll see their talking heads and their verified checkmark journos on Twitter,
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And then when one or two, like someone like Jake Tapper steps out of line and says, well,
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And understandably so, this is clearly undermining the rule of law, you know, and there's no
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All they can resort to is, yeah, well, he's fascist adjacent.
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Because I mean, if that's the standard, then Antifa definitely enable fascists, because
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the fascists can go look at these rampant communists who are beating people up in the
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You know, I want to ask you one last very important question on this about where it goes
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But before we do that, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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I probably already said goodbye to YouTube now that I had this guy on my show.
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Ten bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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I don't want to rob the YouTube audience of your answer to this question.
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So I'll go to the sub break after you answer this.
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Now that they take away our platforms, they take away our payment services, they take away
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Do we start another YouTube and then they take away that too?
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Or do we have to use political means to fight back?
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Honestly, at the moment, the conservatives in the US are in the driving seat when it comes
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And honestly, there's nothing wrong with using them.
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You know, none of this would go against conservative principles as I understand them.
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There is no fair procedure and there is no just cause behind it.
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So you could not describe the way that people like Tommy Robinson or Paul Joseph Watson on
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The way these people are being treated is monstrous.
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And when I say we, I mean just the people who are not the radical left at this point.
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You know, if the normal sort of centrist people were to act in that way to them, they
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would be howling and we would be rightfully in the wrong.
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There's every reason to look at Silicon Valley as a cartel or a monopoly, something like that,
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I mean, for example, Paul Joseph Watson, because Instagram is owned by Facebook, he's removed
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from both platforms in the same day, even though they've got different terms of service,
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even though he didn't actually break any of the rules as they can show them, especially
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It's an entire sweep over any of the platforms that that company owns.
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So they're obviously not acting independently because they're owned by the same company.
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So there's every reason to think that antitrust laws can be used in these regards, I think.
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Failing that, there is also the option for the conservatives to actually do something here,
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You know, so they're going to have to start with their own, their own search engines,
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their own payment process, their own, their own platforms and build up to what the, what
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It's not even what the left has built because the left didn't build this.
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You know, Silicon Valley, if you look at the, the, the people running, owning the Silicon
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Valley tech giants, they look like they're frightened children.
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They look like they're on top of a beast of their own making that they didn't realize would
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I mean, Mark Zuckerberg actually had to make a principled defense of Holocaust denial
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before he got absolutely smashed by the reaction from the rabid left going, well, hang on
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It's like, yeah, look, he doesn't say he agrees with them, but he believes they have a serious
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conviction and should he be the arbiter of truth?
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Well, the left has pressured them into becoming the arbiters of truth, which is a rod for their
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The old idea was if someone has a stupid idea, let him say it and you can smack them down and
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You know, that's, and that's what they should be doing.
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You know, Alex Jones has said something ridiculous.
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We're going to laugh at him and the whole world will be laughing.
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Are you trying to say that the frogs are not gay?
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No, that was one thing that he was completely correct on.
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But yeah, but no, so there are things that the right can do, but the problem, I think,
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is the right is generally quite libertarian and principally so.
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It's a very strong moral conviction and one I am genuinely sympathetic to, but I'm not
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a libertarian because I do believe that the state has a role.
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There is a role for the state and I think that it is to protect our rights.
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And in the case of the market, the market's not a perfect entity.
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You know, when you have a competition, effectively someone has to win.
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And if you want the competition to keep going, then you have to make sure that the winner
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doesn't just monopolize everything that you have.
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And so there is a role, in my opinion, for the state to intervene if something is becoming
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I mean, like people are being deplatformed for not even breaking rules.
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The Facebook one was the most egregious one for Tommy Robinson, in my example, because
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they essentially made up a bunch of things that Tommy had not said.
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And said that in the previous months, he had said, you know, kill Muslims and things
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It's like, look, if Tommy Robinson had posted that, he's under such scrutiny and he has
00:34:58.660
such a large audience, or he had such a large audience, that the second you saw that, you
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see the clip of that or the screenshot, whatever, it'd be everywhere, absolutely everywhere.
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He'd have it, you know, because we have these laws in the UK.
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So the fact that they could just make this up, provide no evidence, and then shut down
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all of his accounts, that to me is really concerning.
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And we're going to have to shut down your account right now over there for you watching
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We are going to see each other later for a cigar, I hope.
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But Sargon and Bacat, obviously, they'll find you on YouTube.
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But there are non-Silicon Valley alternatives like Telegram and BitChute that I definitely
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When they shut those down, we'll find a new one.
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To find them on Sargon and Bacat, Carl Benjamin.
00:36:08.560
We have to get him back because there is so much more I want to ask him about.
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I mean, he is one of the most interesting guys on YouTube, and that's, I think, why
00:36:16.680
Let's get to the mailbag before I get to my favorite soldier story from the American Revolution
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Oh, you're talking, this is, you know what this is?
00:36:33.000
Mike Pence cannot win an election for president.
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If Republicans want to hold the White House, they need someone dynamic.
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I pray for Ms. Rice, Condoleezza Rice, to change her mind and get back in the game.
00:36:43.420
She's a true leader with more knowledge than all the candidates on both sides put together.
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It is the only way to keep the dam from breaking.
00:36:59.380
This is one of the good arguments, I guess, for ditching Pence is he doesn't seem like
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However, I don't really think that that is cause to ditch him.
00:37:12.560
I think, first of all, the presidential elections are about the people running for president.
00:37:18.260
They're not about the next guy to run for president.
00:37:23.160
They're about the guy who's running for president.
00:37:25.520
And I think right now, if Trump ditches a loyal, capable, good, really good vice president,
00:37:33.360
conservative vice president, I think it doesn't look great.
00:37:37.320
I think it makes him look ungrateful, disloyal.
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I'm not convinced that it wouldn't scare some Christians and evangelical Christians and everyone
00:37:49.200
And in 2024, there's no reason that President Trump has to endorse Mike Pence right away.
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And if it's going to be Pence and Haley and whoever else is running, he could say, look,
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I, in the spirit of freedom, I'm going to let the Republican voters decide who the nominee
00:38:19.460
It's not like he jumped on and endorsed George Bush right away.
00:38:22.260
And maybe he shouldn't have endorsed him at all, frankly, because he was only a one-term
00:38:29.740
I always caution conservatives against playing seven steps ahead.
00:38:34.120
There were a lot of people who told me we should vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016 because
00:38:38.820
then the next election, we would totally win and it would be great.
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I think Trump should stay loyal to his guy and keep the coalition and keep the team united.
00:38:50.120
Mark, Michael, do you think Judas went to heaven after he died?
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If not, what hope is there for us if someone that gave up basically everything to follow
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I make no pronouncements on who is in heaven or hell other than the saints.
00:39:06.760
We can know that the saints are in heaven and it's revealed in the book of Revelation.
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But I don't make proclamations over whether I think so-and-so is in heaven or hell, generally
00:39:17.840
speaking, because it is entirely possible that Judas could have had repentance in his
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last fleeting moment on earth and could be now before the beatific vision.
00:39:31.780
And the reason for that is Christ says, the son of man must be betrayed, but woe to the
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And that it would be better for that man if he had never been born.
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The other reason is that Judas is not likely in hell because of the betrayal of Christ.
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Hope is a theological virtue and he lost all hope and killed himself.
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Now he could have repented in his last moments on earth.
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Some say because he threw away the silver that he repented, but he threw away the silver
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And if you don't have hope, then you don't get to go to heaven.
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I mean, heaven is where we hope for something after this death.
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If you throw your life away, if you kill yourself, you clearly don't have that.
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And so I think it very likely seals Judas's fate, but I'm not willing to make any definitive
00:40:38.680
The Pope recently changed the words to the Lord's Prayer from, and lead us not into temptation
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The argument being that God is not the tempter.
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However, I've read the original text of Matthew and it's much closer to the first version of
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Doesn't this present a problem when the Pope is seen to be infallible in matters of scripture?
00:41:06.260
And the Pope's read of the Lord's Prayer is not right.
00:41:10.260
But you're wrong in what you think papal infallibility is.
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The Pope is not infallible in matters of scripture.
00:41:19.840
The Pope is infallible when he is speaking, and the term is ex cathedra.
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So when he is speaking from his official office, right?
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Every time if the Pope woke up and said two plus two is five, we would have to believe it.
00:41:35.180
No, the Pope can be wrong about a number of things.
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And the Popes frequently are wrong about a lot of things.
00:41:40.480
Papal infallibility has only occurred, guess how many times in the history of the Catholic
00:41:51.020
Twice the Pope has spoken infallibly, and it was to clarify questions about Mary, which
00:42:00.640
had been, which also were not his random ideas, but had been building up for well over 1,000
00:42:09.560
I'm looking on the bright side when the Pope gets something wrong, which Popes frequently
00:42:14.160
I think it is actually a good reminder because the Pope is, he's the primary bishop, you
00:42:19.540
know, he's the successor to Peter, but he's also a bishop.
00:42:25.100
The bishops in the United States get things wrong a lot.
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It's good to remember that the Pope is fallible except when he's infallible.
00:42:30.480
I want to get to, very briefly, before we go, my favorite American history figure from the
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This guy, I always try to write down a few notes about him.
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He's the oldest known colonial soldier in the Revolutionary War.
00:42:56.420
However, he, according to some sources, obviously they're a little scarce, fought in King George's
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He fought in the French and Indian War in 1754.
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Then he fought in the American Revolution in 1775.
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The British are marching toward Lexington and Concord.
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And this guy loads up his musket and he takes a shot and he kills a British soldier.
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He then turns, takes out his dueling pistols and shoots again.
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Kills another British soldier, mortally wounds a third British soldier.
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But by that point, the British had finally made it to him.
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So Samuel Whittemore throws his guns down, draws his sword and starts attacking them.
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These British must have thought, what is this insane American doing?
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He, uh, the British then shoot him in the face.
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They leave him for dead in a pool of his own blood.
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The Patriots come up and they see him lying there.
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He's trying to reload his gun to fire off another shot.
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They drag him down to the doctor, Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford.
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And the doctor said there is no chance that he would survive.
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Yeah, he lived another 18 years and died of natural causes at the age of 96.
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I hope that you will ignore the New York Times.
00:44:46.880
I hope you will ignore Nike shoes, which is now getting rid of American flags, that Betsy
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I hope you go out there and shoot off fireworks and eat hot dogs and hamburgers and drink a
00:44:59.320
lot of beer and make a toast to Samuel Whittemore.
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I know Brett Kavanaugh certainly is going to say a toast, right?
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I'm going to be subbing in for Ben on the radio today.
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So if you want three more hours, come on over there.
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In the meantime, I will see you after Independence Day.
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The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Rebecca Dobkowitz and directed by Mike Joyner,
00:45:27.140
executive producer Jeremy Boring, senior producer Jonathan Hay.
00:45:31.220
Our supervising producer is Mathis Glover, and our technical producer is Austin Stevens.
00:45:43.680
The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.
00:45:48.280
Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, Colin Kaepernick, as you've heard, is offended
00:45:51.420
by the flag and he thinks it stands for racism and slavery.
00:45:54.940
Well, it sounds sort of cliched to say it, but in all seriousness, I mean, at what point,
00:45:59.360
if you feel that way about the country, at what point do you leave in search of a country
00:46:03.060
that is not so terrible and racist and all of that?
00:46:05.860
Also, a congresswoman says that it should be illegal to make fun of politicians.
00:46:11.660
And some people online are pointing out that Kamala Harris is not African-American.
00:46:17.680
We're now told that it's racist to point that out.
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We'll try to figure that out today over on the Matt Wall Show.