The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 542 - Shell Game Shutdown

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00:00:27.260 While everyone's distracted with the latest drama about masks and meat shortages,

00:00:32.140 lots of strange stuff is going on outside of the political spotlight.

00:00:36.700 Obama-era cover-ups, Hollywood environmental overhauls.

00:00:40.960 Making it all seem like this shutdown is more of a shell game.

00:00:44.260 Then, the last half-dozen remaining never-Trumpers on Earth conspire to take down the president,

00:00:50.020 and in so doing, they remind us why we got rid of them all in the first place.

00:00:53.140 Finally, the mailbag.

00:00:54.220 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:57.260 We've got a whole lot to get to because there's a lot happening

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00:02:32.080 That's a number.

00:02:32.540 Easy to remember.

00:02:34.100 Never let a crisis go to waste.

00:02:36.440 That's what the left tells us.

00:02:37.520 That's what Rahm Emanuel tells us.

00:02:38.900 That's what leftists have told us all the way back to Saul Alinsky and before then.

00:02:42.800 Why?

00:02:43.420 Two reasons.

00:02:44.500 The two reasons are, one, to seize on people's fear to ram through policies that people would otherwise object to.

00:02:52.500 That's the idea.

00:02:52.960 You always want to have a crisis or take advantage of a crisis or sometimes encourage a crisis

00:02:57.380 so that you can get people whipped up and they're not thinking as rationally

00:03:01.740 and they'll be more amenable to whatever radical policies that you want to get through.

00:03:06.300 And during times of crises, that's the time that radical policies do get through.

00:03:09.740 So that's the first one.

00:03:10.420 That's the one we all know about.

00:03:11.320 Now, there's a second reason why the left, and I guess it's general political advice,

00:03:17.960 why they never let a crisis go to waste.

00:03:20.300 The second reason is because crises are really, really good at distracting people

00:03:26.780 from all the things that you don't want them to see.

00:03:30.060 So it's not just about getting people whipped up so they're all paying attention to that

00:03:33.260 and you can get your policy through.

00:03:34.180 It's also about saying, if let's say there's a cover-up going on or let's say there is some very complex international relations happening over here,

00:03:42.480 then you put a little puppet on your hand and you say, hey, everybody, look over here.

00:03:45.320 Nobody's looking at what you don't want them to see.

00:03:47.780 And I think that's exactly what's happening with one of the running themes of the entire Trump era.

00:03:53.620 From day one with President Trump, they have tried to throw this guy out of office.

00:03:57.920 He was never supposed to win, right?

00:03:59.340 Remember?

00:04:00.120 Remember that?

00:04:00.600 It was going to be Hillary Clinton. 0.97

00:04:01.720 They said 99% chance Hillary was going to win. 1.00

00:04:03.900 99.9% chance.

00:04:05.920 And then what happened?

00:04:07.580 Donald Trump won.

00:04:08.300 They immediately tried to impeach him.

00:04:09.900 You heard in early 2017, Al Green, Democratic congressman, said, we've got to impeach Trump.

00:04:14.280 Not because he committed a crime, but because if they didn't impeach Trump, quote, I fear he will be re-elected.

00:04:21.380 So already they were so worried about this.

00:04:25.460 Then they tried to throw him out for Russia collusion.

00:04:28.180 Remember that?

00:04:29.520 Then it came out, actually, the only people who colluded with the Russians were the Democrats when they compiled the Steele dossier.

00:04:34.920 Then it turned out the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.

00:04:38.140 Then it turned out things actually looked a whole lot shadier in that investigation than in the Trump campaign itself.

00:04:44.280 Never mind.

00:04:45.360 They tried to get Trump for not paying his taxes.

00:04:47.120 Then it turned out he did pay his taxes. 0.94

00:04:48.560 Then they tried to get Trump for sleeping with a porn star.

00:04:50.800 Then they tried to get Trump for colluding with Ukraine, which is actually a war with Russia.

00:04:54.140 Kind of ironic.

00:04:54.900 I guess he's playing both sides, right?

00:04:56.660 None of that worked.

00:04:59.340 And there's famous political advice, if you're going to take a shot at the king, you better not miss.

00:05:04.320 Well, they missed.

00:05:05.820 So now there are investigations of all of their wrongdoing, and a lot of that is coming out right now.

00:05:09.840 Part of that is over how much Barack Obama knew about Joe Biden's dealings with Ukraine.

00:05:18.560 I know it's very complicated to keep all of these moving parts in order, but we know.

00:05:25.000 We remember this from the impeachment.

00:05:26.800 This was part of the way the impeachment backfired.

00:05:28.800 We know that Joe Biden leveraged his power as the vice president and the point person on Ukraine to fire a prosecutor in Ukraine.

00:05:38.860 The prosecutor seemed to be investigating his derelict son, Hunter.

00:05:42.720 Hunter was getting paid hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for a no-show job on a Ukrainian energy board.

00:05:48.000 Joe Biden was threatening to withhold U.S. aid if the prosecutor didn't get fired.

00:05:52.700 It looked very nefarious.

00:05:54.440 But we're not allowed to hear anything about that, right?

00:05:58.200 So the Republicans are investigating and investigating.

00:06:01.460 This requires getting some documents from Barack Obama.

00:06:04.240 Obama has just come out himself and said he doesn't want to turn over the documents.

00:06:08.420 I've got a letter here.

00:06:09.240 It was just obtained by BuzzFeed News from the office of Barack and Michelle Obama.

00:06:13.780 This is to the Archivist of the United States.

00:06:16.360 And this letter is being written by Anita Breckinridge, records representative to President Obama.

00:06:25.000 She says,

00:06:26.540 President Obama has consistently supported the nonpartisan administration of presidential records at the commitment and the commitment to transparency core of NARA's mission.

00:06:34.280 However, the current request is not a proper use of the limited NARA exceptions.

00:06:39.020 It arises out of efforts by some actively supported by Russia to shift the blame for Russian interference in 2016 to Ukraine.

00:06:45.100 So they go right back to the script that got disproven.

00:06:48.440 It was disproven by the Mueller report, but they go right back to the same script.

00:06:51.120 Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:06:52.840 Oh, they're colluding with the Russians. 0.89

00:06:54.440 That's why we can't show you all the crooked activities we've been up to.

00:06:57.540 The request for early release of presidential records in order to give credence to a Russian disinformation campaign is without precedent.

00:07:04.000 Then they complain about that a little bit more.

00:07:07.600 This use of the special access process serves no legitimate purpose.

00:07:10.840 It does not outweigh or justify infringing confidentiality interests.

00:07:13.500 Nevertheless, then she says they're willing to along with it, but they're trying to delegitimize this from the beginning.

00:07:20.080 Why are they willing to deal?

00:07:21.380 Or why are they fighting so hard, rather, not to let these records out?

00:07:24.680 Well, Senator Rand Paul thinks that he has the answer.

00:07:27.460 There's been rumors for quite a while that people within the Obama administration knew about the corruption problems with Hunter Biden,

00:07:35.300 that they warned the vice president and maybe even the president about it.

00:07:38.660 I think that there could be a smoking gun, that there's actually a record of some of these complaints that were going on at the time.

00:07:44.980 There have been some articles written quoting unnamed sources saying that they were assistants and people around Joe Biden at the time were saying this Hunter Biden thing looks bad and you should really put a stop to it.

00:07:57.200 And they never did.

00:07:58.380 But I think even President Obama knew about this.

00:08:00.600 So it's not surprising to me that he would try to keep a lid on it and not let any records come to the public.

00:08:06.200 Listen to that.

00:08:08.220 Rumors Obama knew, right?

00:08:10.900 That Obama himself knew about Joe Biden's shady dealings in the Ukraine.

00:08:14.880 A lot of people have been suggesting this for a while, but no one knew yet.

00:08:18.320 Now it would appear that there's possibly some documented evidence of this.

00:08:22.580 Might be a smoking gun, right?

00:08:27.960 Joe Biden basically admitted this two days ago.

00:08:30.220 Do you remember in the clip we played on this show two days ago, two or three days ago, Joe Biden was explaining why he doesn't want his own documents opened up.

00:08:38.500 And he said, don't worry about Tara Reid.

00:08:40.420 It's not about the personnel decisions.

00:08:41.980 But I had conversations with the president about a particular issue.

00:08:46.340 Here's Joe Biden's own words.

00:08:47.980 Why not do it for both sets of records?

00:08:50.480 Because the material in the University of Delaware has no personnel files.

00:08:58.800 But it does have a lot of confidential conversations that I had with the president about a particular issue that I had with the heads of state of other places.

00:09:08.740 That that would not be something that would be revealed while I was in public office or while I was seeking public office.

00:09:16.440 A particular issue.

00:09:18.160 What's that particular issue?

00:09:19.600 Right?

00:09:19.820 He's not saying I had general conversations.

00:09:21.640 It's about a particular issue.

00:09:22.760 Something tells me that particular issue might involve the terms Burisma or Ukraine or Hunter.

00:09:28.440 He had conversations with the president and with heads of state.

00:09:31.440 I mean, Joe Biden, you got to give him credit.

00:09:33.100 He doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut.

00:09:35.160 But we could have gotten basically the same information from Rand Paul or from Barack Obama himself.

00:09:40.220 This would be, I mean, even with the mainstream media totally covering for the Democrats, they wouldn't be able to help but cover this if we were not in the midst of a pandemic.

00:09:51.240 And so I'm not suggesting the reason that we have a shutdown is to cover for Obama.

00:09:55.280 But it is convenient.

00:09:56.520 And surely political actors, including allies of Barack Obama, are taking advantage of the situation.

00:10:02.240 Speaking of the international sphere, though, other weird stuff going on.

00:10:05.740 A scientist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, who was reportedly on the verge of making, quote,

00:10:12.300 very significant findings in the fight against the coronavirus, was murdered over the weekend inside his home.

00:10:19.740 Neighbors said that he and his wife kept to himself.

00:10:23.080 He's a very quiet guy.

00:10:25.080 And yet he was found murdered.

00:10:27.340 And the person who they think murdered him then left and killed himself in a car right down the street.

00:10:33.760 Very odd.

00:10:36.340 Now we know, the doctor, by the way, is Dr. Bing Liu, 37.

00:10:40.760 He's from China.

00:10:41.740 He was shot multiple times.

00:10:44.040 And they believe he was shot by another man, Hao Gu, 46, who has lived in Pittsburgh.

00:10:51.820 He may have been from China himself.

00:10:53.460 Then he got in his car 100 yards away and killed himself.

00:10:56.840 Wonder what that's about.

00:10:57.820 I guess it could be a coincidence.

00:11:00.120 But it doesn't feel like a coincidence.

00:11:01.620 It feels like maybe there's something else going on here.

00:11:03.560 We know that China has covered up this whole epidemic from the very beginning. 0.70

00:11:08.640 The Chinese government said initially it had no idea what was happening.

00:11:12.240 The Chinese government said initially the virus has no connection to the market.

00:11:15.480 The Chinese government says originally, oh, the World Health Organization says originally, no, don't look over there.

00:11:21.220 Now all of a sudden as people are investigating this, all of a sudden people go dead.

00:11:27.380 People turn up dead.

00:11:28.180 If we were not so concerned about the masks and the craziness surrounding that, maybe we'd pay a little bit more attention.

00:11:35.780 Maybe this is giving cover for some people who are interfering in international politics in ways we couldn't possibly even speculate on.

00:11:43.980 It's not just them, though.

00:11:45.080 It's not just this international sphere.

00:11:47.400 It's not just Barack Obama.

00:11:48.460 It goes all the way to the mainstream media.

00:11:50.000 It goes all the way to Hollywood.

00:11:51.580 There are big changes that could possibly happen in this country.

00:11:55.040 And they might happen without us even knowing what hit us if we don't pay closer attention.

00:11:58.800 We'll get to Chris Cuomo in a second.

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00:13:19.800 So it's not just happening on the international front.

00:13:22.660 It's not just happening at the office of Barack Obama.

00:13:24.980 Those are two things, though, to pay very close attention to.

00:13:26.840 So Chris Cuomo of CNN, Andy Cuomo's brother, Fredo of the Cuomo family, he made his impassioned

00:13:34.800 plea a couple nights ago to the American people to not lift the lockdowns.

00:13:41.160 This is as people are sick of the lockdowns.

00:13:42.900 The medical science was bogus.

00:13:44.880 The models were dead wrong.

00:13:47.260 There's no evidence the lockdowns are saving any lives or even have saved any lives.

00:13:50.460 And Chris Cuomo begs people in this very emotional, weird plea.

00:13:56.480 I want to just play you the last few moments of this plea, because I think it's a bad harbinger

00:14:02.960 of things to come while we're all not paying attention.

00:14:05.660 We know we can't do nothing forever.

00:14:07.860 But think about what you are so anxious to get back to in terms of normal and what you're

00:14:13.700 going to lose that we've gained in this pandemic.

00:14:17.880 OK, think about it.

00:14:18.980 Be careful what you wish for the time with family, the time together, the time leading

00:14:24.820 more simply, the time thinking about where to go and where not.

00:14:29.120 Those pictures of what we see in Venice of clearer water and clearer skies that they're

00:14:33.680 showing us all over the world.

00:14:34.900 I know we can't do nothing forever, but we can think about how to be together better.

00:14:42.140 I love how he starts it.

00:14:43.660 He says, we can't do nothing forever, but it's like, yeah, duh, we can't do nothing

00:14:49.260 forever.

00:14:49.860 And yet he seems to make this argument, but, you know, we can do nothing for a long time.

00:14:53.480 He says, think about what we will lose if we go back to work.

00:14:58.500 I don't know, our poverty and loneliness.

00:15:00.320 I guess we'll lose that.

00:15:01.420 I'm fine losing that.

00:15:03.860 What are we going to, we're not going to be able to watch CNN all day.

00:15:06.260 I actually, ironically, I will have to watch more CNN because I'll be going to the airport

00:15:10.740 more often.

00:15:11.620 He says, careful what you wish for.

00:15:13.280 It sounds like a threat to me.

00:15:14.420 And then finally, this weird line at the end, think how to be together better.

00:15:20.740 It's so bizarre.

00:15:22.020 It seems like the guy's on drugs or something.

00:15:24.080 It's such hippy dippy kind of talk.

00:15:26.760 But he is making a point.

00:15:29.160 He has a point.

00:15:30.680 And a lot of people in all the areas that the left has infected have been trying to make

00:15:35.700 this point.

00:15:36.800 What does it mean, think about how to be together better?

00:15:39.980 What that really means is think about how to improve our politics, right?

00:15:43.060 That's, we are together.

00:15:44.180 Politics is how people can live together and get along together.

00:15:46.820 How to do it better.

00:15:48.300 And I think there is a major, once in a lifetime, once in a century, political shift that the

00:15:55.920 left in this country is pushing for through the coronavirus pandemic.

00:16:00.820 You even see it, you know, forget New York and the CNN for a moment.

00:16:05.380 Go all the way out to California.

00:16:07.360 Governor Newsom has been one of the true dictators, true arbitrary wielders of power in all of

00:16:12.440 this.

00:16:13.500 Governor Newsom says, okay, we're going to reopen a little bit, but not that much.

00:16:17.800 And I'm going to target my political opponents in Orange County.

00:16:19.860 But we're only going to open some businesses.

00:16:23.420 And then he makes this broad political statement about our progress.

00:16:29.920 And I think he's talking about more than coronavirus.

00:16:31.660 We're not going back to normal.

00:16:34.420 It's back to a new normal with adaptations and modifications until we get to immunity,

00:16:40.140 until we get to a vaccine.

00:16:42.260 Yuba and Sutter counties are allowing dine-in at restaurants.

00:16:45.620 Hair salons are open.

00:16:46.720 And the Yuba Sutter Mall plans to open tomorrow.

00:16:49.680 You've said counties can go deeper into phase two ahead of the state.

00:16:52.560 But can they go into phase three, which includes things like hair salons?

00:16:56.200 If not, then will these now open to businesses need to close?

00:17:00.820 Yeah, they're making a big mistake.

00:17:02.260 They're putting their public at risk.

00:17:05.000 They're putting our progress at risk.

00:17:06.760 We've been clear about that, well aware of those examples.

00:17:10.500 These are exceptions.

00:17:11.740 These are real exceptions.

00:17:13.660 The overwhelming majority of Californians are playing by the rules, doing the right thing.

00:17:18.380 We're not going back to normal, he says.

00:17:20.860 Yes, it's a new normal with adaptations and modifications until we get to immunity in a vaccine.

00:17:28.640 There's no vaccine on the horizon.

00:17:31.020 Do you think a vaccine is going to come in two weeks?

00:17:32.600 No.

00:17:33.520 No evidence will get one in a year.

00:17:35.100 No evidence will get it within two years.

00:17:36.860 No evidence will get one at all.

00:17:37.980 Sometimes you just don't make a vaccine, right?

00:17:40.620 Until we get a vaccine.

00:17:41.640 That's like saying tomorrow, tomorrow is always a day away.

00:17:45.120 No going back to normal until we get immunity.

00:17:47.120 It's a way for them to buy time.

00:17:48.600 But they're saying we're going to have a new normal.

00:17:51.720 And the left always talks about a new normal.

00:17:53.500 Obama, that's all you heard during the Obama administration.

00:17:55.720 This is the new normal.

00:17:56.740 Get used to it.

00:17:57.420 And the American people said, we don't like this new normal.

00:17:59.260 We want to get rid of you and go back to our old normal.

00:18:01.560 But that's what the left wants.

00:18:02.960 New norms of living.

00:18:04.160 He says, the counties that are opening up, they're making a big mistake.

00:18:07.960 They are putting their public at risk.

00:18:10.700 They are putting our progress at risk.

00:18:14.100 There is the key.

00:18:15.020 You hear that?

00:18:15.440 I guess he's directly talking about the progress on coronavirus.

00:18:20.580 But I think there's something bigger at play.

00:18:22.680 They're putting our progress, with a capital P, at risk.

00:18:25.740 These are exceptions.

00:18:26.700 The overwhelming majority of Californians are playing by the rules and doing the right thing.

00:18:29.840 Meaning doing what I tell them to do.

00:18:32.220 A threat of arrest or worse.

00:18:35.900 That's what the left is always saying.

00:18:37.200 They're always saying we're putting their progress at risk.

00:18:39.860 Anytime you elect a candidate that they don't like, they say,

00:18:42.540 Oh, you're turning back the clock.

00:18:44.560 You're killing people.

00:18:46.080 I mean, you remember when we all died from net neutrality repeal?

00:18:49.040 That was a million years ago, it seems like, in the early part of the Trump era.

00:18:52.520 They said, if we repeal these net neutrality regulations, people will die.

00:18:55.860 If we cut taxes a little bit, people will die.

00:18:58.360 It's going backward, killing our progress.

00:19:00.000 That's the exact same kind of language they're using here, except this lockdown, this unprecedented lockdown,

00:19:06.860 is giving political cover for far more monumental changes than net neutrality repeal.

00:19:12.560 How do I know it?

00:19:13.960 Again, you don't have to take my word for it.

00:19:15.980 This is not some crazy, kooky conspiracy theory.

00:19:18.920 Hollywood leftists are telling us this very thesis themselves.

00:19:22.840 There were a bunch of Hollywood stars who just signed a letter calling for basically a complete overhaul of our entire society.

00:19:30.520 Not just our society, but societies around the world.

00:19:33.180 This is a true A-list of empty-headed Hollywood leftists.

00:19:38.140 Robert De Niro, Madonna, Cate Blanchett, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Juliette Binoche, I don't know who that is,

00:19:44.020 Ralph Fiennes, Eva Green, Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, and Joaquin Phoenix.

00:19:49.880 This is the letter that they wrote.

00:19:51.260 This is more radical than the Communist Manifesto.

00:19:54.720 Listen to this.

00:19:55.760 The ongoing ecological catastrophe is a meta-crisis.

00:19:58.780 The massive extinction of life on Earth is no longer in doubt.

00:20:03.140 Is that so? Are you sure?

00:20:04.700 Sure, I guess in the long run we're all dead.

00:20:07.060 John Maynard Keynes said that, but I don't think we're on the verge of an imminent mass extinction of all life on Earth.

00:20:13.860 They go on.

00:20:14.540 All indicators point to a direct existential threat.

00:20:17.400 No, just you people do, and you don't know anything you're talking about.

00:20:20.080 And even if the scientists were pointing to that, which they're not, the scientists are wrong about everything.

00:20:24.280 The fact that they're not pointing to a mass extinction actually has me more worried that there will be a mass extinction because, did I mention, the scientists are always wrong.

00:20:31.740 They go on.

00:20:32.480 Unlike a pandemic, however severe, a global ecological collapse will have immeasurable consequences.

00:20:38.320 We therefore solemnly call upon leaders and all of us as citizens to leave behind the unsustainable logic that still prevails and to undertake a profound overhaul of our goals, values, and economies.

00:20:52.480 For these reasons, along with increasing social inequalities, we believe it is unthinkable to go back to normal.

00:20:58.900 The exact same language that Gavin Newsom is using.

00:21:02.180 The exact same sort of language that we're hearing from everyone on the left.

00:21:07.300 We're hearing from Chris Cuomo.

00:21:08.260 This is pretty big.

00:21:12.140 And it's two things are happening at once.

00:21:14.720 The thing that you're not seeing is all the cover-ups of all the past leftist indiscretions.

00:21:21.460 I mean, forget for a moment China, obviously, trying to cover up their guilt in the pandemic. 0.92

00:21:26.160 Even the former Obama guys trying to cover up their spying on the Trump campaign, trying to cover up everything they did with Joe Biden and Burisma in Ukraine, everything they very likely knew about.

00:21:38.720 They're using this massive transformational event as cover so that no one remembers what they did.

00:21:44.380 Don't forget the left is always rewriting history.

00:21:46.080 But then at the same time, what they're beginning to let us in on is the evidence that they are calling for a massive, fundamental transformation.

00:21:55.340 Joe Biden used that phrase.

00:21:56.740 Barack Obama used that very phrase.

00:21:59.140 Fundamental transformation.

00:22:01.600 Do you want a fundamental transformation?

00:22:03.520 I don't think I do.

00:22:05.780 What does this all mean?

00:22:06.840 Does this mean that the coronavirus is all a hoax cooked up by Bill Gates and the Illuminati?

00:22:13.300 No, I don't think so.

00:22:14.280 I don't think so.

00:22:15.140 What do I know?

00:22:15.660 I'm not a member of the Illuminati.

00:22:17.040 They didn't let me in.

00:22:18.320 But I don't think that.

00:22:19.360 I don't think you have to believe that this pandemic and this shutdown are all some grand conspiracy.

00:22:25.340 Cooked up by people in a room.

00:22:26.960 I think what we all have to admit, though, is that leftists are taking advantage of this.

00:22:35.000 Whoever is at fault.

00:22:35.640 I mean, China is at fault. 1.00

00:22:36.540 But even forget all the steps in the first place.

00:22:39.660 The left is very clearly taking advantage of this.

00:22:42.560 Their steps have not proven effective to slowing the virus or saving lives.

00:22:46.460 But they are proving increasingly effective at pushing the same kind of transformational change they've wanted for 100 years.

00:22:52.760 And I think we're talking about something much bigger than a pandemic here, right?

00:22:56.000 We're talking about a religious shift.

00:22:59.600 The religion is environmentalism.

00:23:01.240 The scientists are the high priests.

00:23:02.820 The media stars are the evangelists here.

00:23:04.840 That is the kind of framework that all of this is in.

00:23:08.060 But it would change the economy.

00:23:10.020 It would change the way we live.

00:23:10.880 It would change the way that we get around.

00:23:12.260 It would change the way we have air travel.

00:23:13.840 It would change everything.

00:23:15.200 We're seeing what it feels like to have those things changed right now.

00:23:19.340 And the left is pushing ahead and saying, this could be the new normal.

00:23:22.620 Don't give it up.

00:23:23.320 What are you rushing back to?

00:23:24.520 We can't go back.

00:23:25.720 Let's stay in this isolated misery forever.

00:23:28.660 That's not the life that I want.

00:23:30.180 But that's a clear choice.

00:23:31.400 And we happen to be in an election year.

00:23:32.960 We will get to a little bit more in just one moment.

00:23:36.500 First, I've got to thank our friends over at...

00:23:39.560 Which friends do I get to thank?

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00:23:42.040 Rock Auto makes shopping for car parts so easy.

00:23:46.840 With the increasing number of makes, right?

00:23:48.840 Fiat, Ikea, different models, the Pacifica, the XT5, the ABCD, I don't know the model names.

00:23:56.340 It's now impossible to stock all the parts that you need in a traditional chain storefront.

00:24:01.080 Why endure the often pointless and seemingly intimidating questioning?

00:24:05.600 Why wait?

00:24:06.660 Why wait while the guy at the counter just goes online, probably to Rock Auto, orders the part,

00:24:10.280 and then just charges you twice as much?

00:24:12.040 Doesn't make any sense at all.

00:24:14.560 Chain stores have different price tiers for the professional mechanics and the do-it-yourselfers.

00:24:18.460 RockAuto.com does not.

00:24:19.680 The thing I love about Rock Auto?

00:24:21.460 Family run.

00:24:22.580 It's been around for a long time, for basically as long as the internet's been around.

00:24:26.540 It has every part you need.

00:24:28.580 And even for me, someone who is completely ignorant when it comes to these kind of questions about cars,

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00:24:39.060 Go right now.

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00:24:47.920 And then the most important thing, by the way, is when you go to RockAuto.com and you see all the parts available for your car or truck,

00:24:53.320 write Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S, in their How Did You Hear About Us box, so that they know that we sent you.

00:25:00.720 So, as the left is trying to radically change our politics, they're gaslighting us on it.

00:25:07.060 Okay, and we saw this, we see this with the mask order.

00:25:10.700 CNN is kind of letting the mask slip a little bit, actually.

00:25:14.400 Pun very much intended.

00:25:15.400 They came out with an article yesterday called The Psychology Behind Why Some People Won't Wear Masks.

00:25:23.460 Look at that word, psychology.

00:25:26.020 It's not why people won't wear masks.

00:25:28.460 It's not the rational reasons why people have political disagreements.

00:25:31.880 It's not the reason why some people are interpreting the scientific evidence to realize that there's not a huge threat

00:25:37.720 when you're out in a wide open space and you're a young person and you don't have other comorbidities, right?

00:25:42.500 Uh-uh.

00:25:42.840 It's the psychology behind why some people don't.

00:25:45.900 This goes back to what liberals were saying in the middle of the 20th century about conservatives.

00:25:50.720 They said that conservatism was just a series of irritable mental gestures that sought to give the impression of real thought.

00:25:58.900 It was just irritable mental gestures.

00:26:00.520 And that's what they're saying here.

00:26:01.440 CNN is interviewing a bunch of doctors, a bunch of physicians, to tell us when we can reopen.

00:26:11.420 They're interviewing a bunch of psychologists to try to explain why people have different political points of view.

00:26:16.560 As though people don't have their own faculties of reason.

00:26:18.840 As if, if you voted for anybody who's not a leftist, if you in any way disagree with leftist policies,

00:26:26.620 then you've got to have something wrong with your psychology.

00:26:29.560 Never mind, by the way, that the left was telling us, these very doctors were telling us three weeks ago,

00:26:34.720 not to wear masks.

00:26:36.080 The Surgeon General, three exclamation points, don't wear masks.

00:26:38.940 Then two seconds later they say, you have to wear masks.

00:26:42.060 Forget that.

00:26:42.420 That would be my, maybe part of my reason why I don't think I need to wear a mask all the time.

00:26:46.320 But, no, it's the psychology.

00:26:48.360 Something's got to be wrong in your head.

00:26:50.520 This can all be explained by the dictatorship of science, history, politics.

00:26:54.920 It's all a matter of science.

00:26:56.440 Put the guys in the white lab coats in charge.

00:26:58.540 They all coincidentally happen to be leftists.

00:27:00.280 And then let them run your lives for you. 1.00

00:27:03.620 Very pathetic. 0.99

00:27:04.380 And some people who don't get the stakes here are the five remaining never-Trumpers in America. 0.99

00:27:08.640 There aren't that many.

00:27:09.620 There used to be a lot of never-Trumpers.

00:27:10.740 Now there are, like, two people left in a basement somewhere.

00:27:13.740 They've come out with an ad called Mourning in America.

00:27:16.700 And it just shows they don't get what's going on.

00:27:21.580 There's mourning in America.

00:27:24.860 Today, more than 60,000 Americans have died from a deadly virus Donald Trump ignored.

00:27:31.680 With the economy in shambles, more than 26 million Americans are out of work.

00:27:37.100 The worst economy in decades.

00:27:38.800 Trump bailed out Wall Street, but not Main Street.

00:27:43.680 This afternoon, millions of Americans will apply for unemployment.

00:27:48.280 And with their savings run out, many are giving up hope.

00:27:52.360 Millions worry that a loved one won't survive COVID-19.

00:27:56.520 There's mourning in America.

00:27:58.240 Mourning in America, you get it?

00:28:23.160 M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G. 1.00

00:28:25.980 You get it?

00:28:26.560 It's really, it's really clever, huh?

00:28:29.200 Because it's like the, in the 1980s, in 84, Reagan had an ad called Mourning in America

00:28:34.040 with the sun shining, and they're doing Mourning in America.

00:28:37.100 You get it?

00:28:37.620 You get it?

00:28:38.040 It's a pun.

00:28:38.420 Never mind how offensive this ad is, and the idea of the upside-down American flag.

00:28:44.220 Really, that's an inappropriate use of that image.

00:28:46.640 Not that these guys know anything about what's appropriate or reverent.

00:28:51.120 But it's also just so lame.

00:28:53.460 What a lame ad.

00:28:54.800 I mean, it's, first of all, it's made for TV, which has been dead for 10 years now.

00:28:58.580 Well, second of all, it's this stale imagery and the deep, booming voice on the voiceover.

00:29:06.060 Donald Trump is bad.

00:29:07.880 That's right.

00:29:08.560 This ad paid for by people against Donald Trump.

00:29:11.740 He's bad. 0.91

00:29:12.620 It's just like so lame.

00:29:14.060 Make a meme or something, man.

00:29:15.580 You know, this is 2020 already.

00:29:18.040 It shows us that, obviously, they don't get it.

00:29:21.600 This group of people are all, well, President Trump can tell you himself. 1.00

00:29:25.420 His words, not mine, they're a bunch of losers. 0.97

00:29:28.580 I saw a project, a thing called the Lincoln Project, and I would have them change the name 0.95

00:29:34.200 to the Losers Project, because if you take a look at Schmidt, it's George Conway.

00:29:40.180 The guy is, Kellyanne must have done a big number, or it's George Conway and some other

00:29:45.820 people, Weaver.

00:29:47.600 Every one of them are either defeated or they lost by themselves. 0.99

00:29:51.740 But it's a group of major losers. 1.00

00:29:53.560 They're Republican losers. 0.98

00:29:54.780 And if they would really think about it, I have 252 beautiful, brand-new, conservative, 0.98

00:30:02.720 wonderful judges, two Supreme Court judges that are great.

00:30:06.460 We produced the greatest economy in history until a month and a half ago when we got hit

00:30:11.540 by the virus, so we had to close it down.

00:30:13.680 And we'll do it again.

00:30:15.400 We've rebuilt our military.

00:30:17.480 We've done things that nobody has been able to do.

00:30:20.220 I've gotten the greatest tax cuts in history, in the history of our country, the biggest

00:30:24.820 tax cuts.

00:30:25.940 The Democrats want to raise your taxes.

00:30:28.300 I've gotten regulation cuts, the biggest in the history of our country, no matter how

00:30:33.020 long a president served.

00:30:35.100 With all of that, I guess they don't like me. 0.99

00:30:38.460 But let me just tell you, these are losers from day one. 0.98

00:30:42.200 Yeah, so, you know, President Trump doesn't mince words here. 0.98

00:30:45.200 They have lost a lot of campaigns.

00:30:46.700 I mean, they lost campaigns for John McCain, for John Kasich, for Mitt Romney.

00:30:50.440 They're not the varsity squad when it comes to political consultants.

00:30:55.040 So they've missed the time.

00:30:56.440 They've missed the shift.

00:30:57.680 They're also missing what's happening in politics right now.

00:31:00.640 And that is my big fear here.

00:31:01.900 I fear that people are missing what's going on.

00:31:04.680 I think a lot of people are waking up.

00:31:06.540 The ones who understood what the Trump election meant, even if you don't love Trump, even if you

00:31:11.000 don't like the way he talks, what it meant that you had this guy who had kind of different

00:31:16.300 policy prescriptions, who kind of talked a little differently, acted a little differently,

00:31:20.820 vanquished the House of Clinton, shook things up.

00:31:24.140 The fact that that guy won really meant something.

00:31:26.360 It meant we've moved into a new kind of politics, or we're moving in that direction.

00:31:30.680 Now there is a fundamental transformation that is underway, or that the left wants there

00:31:35.940 to be underway.

00:31:37.380 And we can either go along with it and wake up one day and realize we lost our whole country,

00:31:41.000 and our whole culture.

00:31:42.680 Or we can push back.

00:31:45.100 I, as you might have noticed, suggest the latter.

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00:33:20.120 All right, let's get to some mailbag.

00:33:21.620 First question from Andrew.

00:33:23.460 Hey, Michael, has feminism been beneficial for society, even first-wave feminism?

00:33:29.880 You anticipated that I would say no, so you followed up with a question in your question,

00:33:34.320 even first-wave feminism.

00:33:35.520 Good thinking.

00:33:36.600 If not, has it been the primary cause of deteriorating the nuclear family and women themselves? 1.00

00:33:43.540 Thanks.

00:33:44.100 Love your show and all that you do.

00:33:47.000 Feminism has been very bad. 1.00

00:33:48.600 It's been bad for women, primarily. 1.00

00:33:51.880 It's been bad for men.

00:33:52.900 It's been bad for children.

00:33:54.160 It's been bad for society.

00:33:55.580 It's been bad for everybody.

00:33:58.100 Now, you ask about first-wave feminism, and this is a clever trick that feminism plays, 1.00

00:34:03.480 I guess, where they divide it up into waves.

00:34:05.720 You never know quite what wave you're in.

00:34:07.200 Are we in the fourth wave or the third wave?

00:34:09.360 I don't know.

00:34:10.000 It's all kind of the same problem.

00:34:12.580 You know, the third wave, that's when you start to think of, like, the blue-haired women 0.79

00:34:17.040 who are screeching and, you know, who are redefining gender, but actually some of them don't want

00:34:22.860 to redefine gender, and it's very, very complicated, whereas when you think of the first wave,

00:34:26.660 you think of the suffragettes or something like that, and that's obviously much more respectable 0.99

00:34:30.060 and sort of normal than the blue-haired bra burners.

00:34:34.740 But the problem is feminism itself, and, you know, you could refer to social scientific data here 1.00

00:34:41.500 that show that women have become less happy in both relative terms to men and absolute terms

00:34:46.520 for every year that feminism has gained steam. 1.00

00:34:48.940 You could point to all that kind of anecdotal data, but the real problem is philosophical.

00:34:53.900 Feminism misunderstands human nature. 1.00

00:34:57.480 It misunderstands humanity itself.

00:34:59.240 One thing that feminists and liberals try to do is they say, 1.00

00:35:03.340 hey, buddy, do you know what feminism means? 1.00

00:35:05.440 It just means that you want equal rights for women. 0.80

00:35:08.780 You just think women are... 1.00

00:35:09.860 And so if you object to that, you're a jerk. 1.00

00:35:12.120 And if you agree with that, then you're a feminist. 1.00

00:35:14.220 I don't think so.

00:35:15.040 But our civilization, Christian civilization, has believed in the spiritual equality of women 0.99

00:35:21.960 from the beginning.

00:35:23.960 Goes back even before Christian civilization. 0.90

00:35:26.480 Goes back to the Old Testament.

00:35:27.900 Goes back to the very first chapters of Genesis, where Eve is pulled from Adam's rib.

00:35:33.300 This image is very important.

00:35:35.020 If Eve were pulled from Adam's head, then Eve would be above Adam. 0.61

00:35:38.600 If Eve were pulled from Adam's foot, she would be below Adam. 0.99

00:35:41.580 But Eve is pulled from the rib, right there, smack dab in the middle, 1.00

00:35:45.720 representing a spiritual equality.

00:35:48.160 So, of course, men and women are spiritually equal.

00:35:51.180 But equal also has this connotation, especially these days, of being the same.

00:35:55.300 And men and women are not the same, which you would know if you've ever talked to a man

00:35:58.640 or a woman.

00:35:59.620 They're very different.

00:36:01.020 Men and women complement each other.

00:36:03.340 And they obviously physically are different, temperamentally often they're different.

00:36:07.360 And so, what feminism tries to do is take this equality, which we've always believed in, 1.00

00:36:14.200 and turn it from a complementary equality into an identical equality, that men are exactly

00:36:18.920 the same as women.

00:36:20.440 And that's obviously not true. 0.97

00:36:22.100 That's made women miserable. 1.00

00:36:23.180 It's made society coarser. 0.98

00:36:24.560 It's denied the fundamental nature of men.

00:36:26.880 It also buys into a lot of other kind of liberal premises that we don't have time to get into now.

00:36:30.720 But it's just wrong.

00:36:31.500 And so, when you say, are you a feminist? 0.98

00:36:33.200 Are you not a feminist? 1.00

00:36:34.000 Is feminism good? 1.00

00:36:34.620 Is feminism bad? 1.00

00:36:35.300 It's just wrong.

00:36:36.360 It's incorrect in what it says about men and women and human nature.

00:36:40.000 And so, it's probably not a very useful thing to use to guide society.

00:36:43.920 From Alex.

00:36:45.720 Hi, Michael.

00:36:46.520 I heard you mention that you were brought to the Catholic faith by way of Protestantism.

00:36:49.900 Can you describe what in particular convinced you that the Protestant view of Scripture

00:36:52.860 was insufficient or errant in that conversion?

00:36:56.080 I feel a draw toward Catholicism, which, from what I can tell, comes from a desire for shared

00:37:00.540 community with them that I'm missing out on.

00:37:03.100 However, the Catholic view of Scripture has some worrisome points for me, specifically

00:37:06.680 the ongoing sacrifice of Christ, Christ presented in the sacraments as opposed to final justification

00:37:11.120 on the cross.

00:37:11.860 What are your thoughts on this?

00:37:12.640 Well, I can assuage, there are like seven questions in there.

00:37:14.780 I'll try to run through them quickly.

00:37:15.740 I can assuage your fears about this idea of the continual, ongoing sacrifice of Christ

00:37:21.480 in the Mass.

00:37:22.560 The Mass is a memorial sacrifice, right?

00:37:25.400 It's the highest form of prayer.

00:37:26.660 But that doesn't mean that Christ is being crucified.

00:37:30.540 Every single Mass, as though Christ's crucifixion was not sufficient.

00:37:35.560 Christ's crucifixion was a one-time event that was sufficient for salvation.

00:37:42.200 Now, the memorial sacrifice of the Mass is the Eucharist, the real presence of Christ.

00:37:48.060 All of that is true.

00:37:50.060 A sacrifice does not always need to involve a killing, right?

00:37:53.640 You see in Hosea, you see in the Psalms, sacrifices of rejoicing, sacrifices of prayer, right?

00:38:01.940 It doesn't always have to involve like killing something.

00:38:04.840 So, that's a little, to discuss what the Mass means and the Eucharist means, it would take

00:38:10.180 a very long time.

00:38:10.860 But that's a little introduction.

00:38:11.920 You could find more at a resource called Catholic Answers, perhaps.

00:38:14.440 If you Google around there, I think you'll get some more answers on that, to sway your

00:38:19.360 worries.

00:38:19.940 In terms of how I came to Catholicism through Protestantism, it was a Protestant, my good

00:38:24.560 friend, a megachurch Protestant, who kind of brought me over and convinced me that God

00:38:28.820 exists in the first place.

00:38:30.880 Now, the end of this story, though, by the way, is that that pal of mine is joining the

00:38:35.820 Catholic Church.

00:38:36.620 So, he kind of went the same way that I did.

00:38:38.600 But, I suppose there are a few things here.

00:38:42.080 One, I believe that Christ gives Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and whatever

00:38:47.100 you bind on earth, whatever Peter binds on earth will be bound in heaven, whatever he

00:38:50.320 looses on earth will be loosed in heaven.

00:38:51.580 I think Peter is Peter, the rock on which Christ builds the church.

00:38:55.300 I think he breathes on Peter and the apostles and their followers, or rather their successors,

00:39:02.120 and they receive the Holy Spirit and they have the power to forgive sins, and whose sins

00:39:06.280 they forgive are forgiven, and whose sins they retain are retained.

00:39:08.300 You see the institution of confession, of the sacrament of reconciliation, you see the

00:39:12.940 institution of the Eucharist in the Last Supper, you see all of these things there.

00:39:18.600 Then there's the historical claim.

00:39:20.020 We can trace the popes all the way back to Peter, and then to Linus, and then all the

00:39:23.360 way up to Francis.

00:39:25.060 There is a historical continuity here.

00:39:27.680 And then there's this fact that you do have to grapple with, if you're attracted to Protestantism

00:39:32.380 as I was, which is why there was basically one church for 1,500 years.

00:39:39.380 I guess the Eastern Church split off, but not in the same way.

00:39:42.740 You know, I think of that as sort of like the two lungs of Christianity.

00:39:45.720 The Protestant Revolution was a much firmer break. 0.70

00:39:48.920 And so you've got to ask why everyone basically agreed for 1,500 years, and then why everyone

00:39:55.020 split off from there.

00:39:55.800 And in particular, you have to ask why the views of Martin Luther and John Calvin and

00:40:01.660 Zwingli and the Protestant reformers on very, what you would call, Catholic issues, like

00:40:07.840 the perpetual virginity of Mary, for instance, things like the real presence of Christ in

00:40:11.620 the Eucharist, why their views are so much more similar to Catholic views today than to

00:40:17.220 the views of their supposed followers in the Protestant denominations.

00:40:20.800 And of course, where authority ultimately comes from and why there are 30,000 Protestant

00:40:24.600 denominations, and which one is right, and who you can refer to, and maybe what the advance

00:40:30.100 of all those various denominations has to do with the rise of our modern era.

00:40:34.420 I gave you about 10 answers there.

00:40:35.940 I don't know if any of them got to it in particular, but those are some of the reasons that led me

00:40:40.380 ultimately to the Catholic Church, and probably I wouldn't have gotten there if not for the 0.96

00:40:44.120 Protestant churches too.

00:40:45.100 So that's a good thing, but you know, one has to keep thinking about these issues.

00:40:49.080 From Joshua, what are your thoughts on eliminating the payroll taxes for the remainder of the year

00:40:53.460 in lieu of continued payments to the American people?

00:40:57.340 Yeah, cancel them forever.

00:40:59.460 But like, forget the end of the year, like, get rid of them.

00:41:01.620 That works for me.

00:41:02.700 From David, hey, Michael, I'm doing research on homelessness in the U.S.

00:41:05.600 and the best way to fix it.

00:41:07.440 Unfortunately, the vast majority of what I can find, especially from Houston, where I live,

00:41:11.940 is that government-provided affordable housing is the answer to all of our problems.

00:41:15.680 Hmm, I don't know about that.

00:41:17.160 And how Houston is evidence of that.

00:41:19.320 What are your thoughts, especially living in L.A., which is just one big homeless camp at this point,

00:41:23.560 and can you point me to any good research on the subject?

00:41:26.320 What actions could local government take to prevent or stop homelessness?

00:41:30.060 Thank you so much.

00:41:30.820 So, getting back to Christianity, the poor will always be with you. 1.00

00:41:34.460 You're not going to cure homelessness, ever.

00:41:36.880 Okay, that's not possible.

00:41:37.880 That's a utopian liberal pipe dream that's not going to happen.

00:41:40.720 You can reduce it a little bit.

00:41:42.100 You can deal with it more effectively.

00:41:43.640 But I don't think just giving everybody a bunch of free houses is the way to do that.

00:41:46.680 I think when you look at who is on the street, disproportionately, overwhelmingly, you're talking

00:41:52.920 about drug addicts and the mentally ill who have been left behind by society.

00:41:57.780 Those people have been left behind, one, because we don't enforce our laws strictly enough,

00:42:03.920 and two, because we closed down the mental asylums.

00:42:06.220 And we made it virtually impossible to commit somebody to an asylum against their will.

00:42:10.580 And the reason for that was we had the development of a lot of psychiatric drugs that could help

00:42:14.780 people, and so they wouldn't have to stay in the asylums anymore. 0.94

00:42:18.740 Trouble is, once they got out of the asylum, they stopped taking the drugs.

00:42:21.660 And so, all of a sudden, you're right back at square one.

00:42:26.840 We should make it easier to commit people.

00:42:29.780 We should rebuild some of those asylums. 1.00

00:42:31.660 It would be much better for people to be getting treatment there than living on the street.

00:42:34.880 We should make it easier to force people into drug rehab. 0.98

00:42:37.140 And we should arrest people who are criminals, because there is no right to living on public

00:42:42.000 lands on the street.

00:42:43.520 It's not good for anybody.

00:42:44.540 It harms the individuals who do it, and it harms society.

00:42:47.360 From Nick, how much are you selling the painting of the moped for?

00:42:51.320 Thanks.

00:42:52.920 So, one of my hobbies that I've developed during quarantine is that I've taken up painting.

00:42:59.900 I consider myself a modern-day Caravaggio, if Caravaggio were like a finger painter.

00:43:03.640 And so, I have made a few masterpieces, obviously.

00:43:08.080 And I guess the only thing I can say to you is, what are you willing to pay?

00:43:13.000 Let's start the bidding.

00:43:14.780 Let me know.

00:43:15.720 From Danny.

00:43:16.740 Dear Michael, if Joe Biden dies before the election, who becomes the nominee?

00:43:20.340 That's morbid.

00:43:21.940 Not implausible, but morbid.

00:43:24.080 Also, if the Democratic Party decides they no longer want to back Biden, can someone else

00:43:28.060 receive the nomination during the DNC?

00:43:29.600 Who do you think that might be?

00:43:30.400 Thanks.

00:43:30.620 Yeah, so, that's kind of a sad thing to contemplate.

00:43:34.360 I love Joe Biden.

00:43:35.280 I hope that he is always the Democratic nominee for president, and I think that the Republican

00:43:39.460 administrations will last for 2,000 years.

00:43:42.260 Joe Biden, if he were not able to be the nominee, then that would open up the convention.

00:43:48.260 You know, Bernie Sanders still has a lot of delegates.

00:43:51.460 So, the delegates that Joe Biden...

00:43:52.860 Don't forget, they haven't actually nominated Joe Biden yet.

00:43:55.080 So, the delegates that Joe Biden has, they would go to somebody else.

00:43:59.060 You'd see a floor fight.

00:44:00.120 Bernie Sanders would make a strong claim to it, because they robbed him in 2016, and

00:44:03.780 he got pretty far this time, too.

00:44:06.060 If the party decides they want to throw Biden out, they can do that.

00:44:09.920 You know, they say they can't, but look, they're canceling all of these primaries.

00:44:13.300 They're postponing them.

00:44:14.740 Talk about never let a crisis go to waste.

00:44:16.640 Talk about keeping everyone distracted while a lot of weird stuff's going on behind the

00:44:19.800 scenes.

00:44:20.780 What happened to these primaries?

00:44:22.180 What's going on with these delegates?

00:44:23.580 They're postponing now the Democratic National Convention.

00:44:26.220 It could be anybody's game.

00:44:27.820 And if you saw a candidate like Michelle Obama or somebody else jump in there, or even her

00:44:33.860 dreadfulness, Hillary Clinton, I wouldn't be totally surprised, because Biden just doesn't

00:44:38.800 really seem to have it.

00:44:42.020 All right.

00:44:43.360 One last question from Marcus.

00:44:45.120 Dear Covfefe.

00:44:46.200 I like that.

00:44:47.020 That's one of my older nicknames.

00:44:48.760 I need your help understanding how all these states and local governments are getting away

00:44:51.880 with violating our rights.

00:44:53.540 I look at the 14th Amendment, and it says no state shall deprive any person of life,

00:44:57.320 liberty, and property.

00:44:58.500 I hear you talk about this, too, on your shows, yet nothing is being done.

00:45:01.440 How can the states, take our lame Governor Newsom as an example, tell business owners

00:45:05.900 they cannot be open?

00:45:07.160 Isn't that depriving them of liberty? 0.78

00:45:08.680 Yes and no.

00:45:10.440 The states have police power during pandemics, during times of war.

00:45:13.480 They always have.

00:45:15.080 This was not thought to be unconstitutional, though if you took a very narrow reading, I suppose

00:45:19.640 maybe it could be.

00:45:20.600 The broader lesson here is, we are not governed by the Constitution.

00:45:27.000 Put that fiction away with the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

00:45:32.460 We are not governed by a piece of paper.

00:45:34.900 To quote Antonin Scalia, there is not a living Constitution.

00:45:37.800 The Constitution is dead.

00:45:38.760 And it's not only dead in the textual sense, it is dead in so much as the way that it governs

00:45:45.060 us is through the institutions that it established.

00:45:47.360 Scalia would talk about this all the time.

00:45:48.720 Say, stop reading the Bill of Rights.

00:45:50.580 The Bill of Rights doesn't do anything for you.

00:45:52.900 The Constitution sets up institutions which protect your rights.

00:45:56.480 But the piece of paper itself does not.

00:45:58.760 And the real lived Constitution that we are governed by is very different than the one that's

00:46:05.520 on the parchment paper.

00:46:07.320 I wish we were governed by the parchment paper, but no society ever has been governed by a sheet

00:46:11.880 of paper.

00:46:12.300 It's always enacted, enfleshed, institutionalized in these institutions that govern us.

00:46:19.480 And the left has infected those institutions and turned them against maybe the purposes

00:46:24.460 for which they were set up.

00:46:25.740 There's a big power grab going on right now.

00:46:28.720 It's very important that in subtle, maybe even slightly humorous, acts of defiance, we,

00:46:34.760 we tell them that we're not going to take it.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 07, 2020

Ep. 542 - Shell Game Shutdown

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