The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 544 - The European Virus

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00:00:30.360 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is blaming Europe for the coronavirus,

00:00:34.680 even as evidence mounts that China knew about the virus, covered it up,

00:00:38.540 destroyed the world economy, and killed lots of people.

00:00:40.840 But American leftists keep defending the Chinese Communist Party

00:00:44.200 because no less than their whole political program rides on it.

00:00:47.980 Then, a New York Times writer wants you to pay for her raising her own children. 1.00

00:00:53.160 A judge issues a major ruling on transgenderism before the case even begins,

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00:01:00.480 All that and more.

00:01:01.220 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:02.900 Cuomo is blaming Europe for the coronavirus.

00:01:13.360 That one's new.

00:01:14.360 There is a reason that they're doing this.

00:01:16.840 There is a reason why they're trying to shift blame and take it away from China and put it on Europe. 0.70

00:01:21.900 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:02:49.420 A virus by any other name is just as deadly, but the left doesn't know that.

00:02:58.920 And the left, playing these new word games when it comes to the coronavirus, is showing us a lot,

00:03:05.400 not just about how they use words, not just about political correctness,

00:03:08.560 not just about how they view the West versus the East.

00:03:11.640 It shows us a key part of the liberal international political agenda.

00:03:18.600 It shows us how desperate they are to defend China.

00:03:22.300 Here is Andrew Cuomo bestowing the new name on the Wu flu, the European virus.

00:03:28.020 If you had said, when we started this, yes, we have more cases than anyone else.

00:03:35.360 Yes, we had this European virus attack us and nobody expected it.

00:03:41.140 But we're not only going to change our trajectory,

00:03:44.440 we're going to change the trajectory more dramatically than any place else in the nation.

00:03:51.360 So the first issue, of course, with what he's saying is, it's not true.

00:03:56.740 The virus doesn't come from Europe.

00:03:59.240 There's no evidence the virus comes from Europe.

00:04:01.600 No one before Andrew Cuomo has ever even suggested that the virus comes from Europe.

00:04:06.320 That's the first part of it.

00:04:07.460 The second part of it was his delivery.

00:04:09.720 Delivery wasn't great.

00:04:10.820 He knew what he was doing.

00:04:13.120 He's trying to be provocative and change the conversation.

00:04:16.780 Say, oh, you say it's from China?

00:04:18.360 Well, you know what?

00:04:18.960 I say it's from Europe.

00:04:20.980 You know, Governor Cuomo, it actually is from China.

00:04:23.340 We know that for a fact.

00:04:24.200 Yeah, okay, well, maybe, okay, whatever.

00:04:26.260 I say it's from Europe.

00:04:27.760 But the way he delivered it was halting.

00:04:30.380 It was awkward.

00:04:31.340 He knows, even he, Andrew Cuomo, a trained liar for his whole life, knows that that isn't true.

00:04:38.780 The third issue with this is, isn't that racist by the left standards?

00:04:44.820 Remember, the left said, if you say where the virus comes from, then that's racist and bigoted and terrible.

00:04:51.920 Well, you can't call it the Chinese virus or the Chinese coronavirus.

00:04:55.740 That's wrong.

00:04:56.720 But you can call it the European virus.

00:05:00.140 Well, of course, that's the way, that's the way the left always works.

00:05:03.060 If they didn't have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

00:05:06.880 It's okay to demean your own country and your own civilization.

00:05:14.700 I mean, I guess Europe's not our country, but it's the continent that we come from.

00:05:18.860 It's the civilization that we come from here in America.

00:05:21.300 So you're allowed to demean that, but you're not allowed to demean foreign places.

00:05:25.320 Because according to the left, the West is bad and everywhere else is good.

00:05:30.220 According to the left, our civilization is bad.

00:05:33.100 Everywhere else is good.

00:05:34.620 And so we, we deserve all the scorn that we can get.

00:05:39.040 But it isn't true.

00:05:40.820 And the, the way that Cuomo defended this argument is he said, well, we shut down flights from China,

00:05:47.760 but we didn't shut down flights from Europe, even though we actually did.

00:05:50.700 But it took a few weeks longer.

00:05:52.740 And so people were coming in from Europe and maybe they had the virus.

00:05:55.600 And it doesn't matter where it came from in the first place.

00:05:58.020 Not a very good argument, of course.

00:06:00.280 But it's more than just political correctness run amok.

00:06:03.420 It's more than just a Westerner hating his own civilization.

00:06:07.620 China actually matters to the left's ongoing international agenda.

00:06:14.580 Okay.

00:06:15.320 So there's this fight that's coming down.

00:06:17.380 The fight over who to blame for the virus is not just about pointing fingers for the heck of it.

00:06:22.900 It's about where we go from here as a civilization.

00:06:26.140 And obviously, on the, on the don't blame China side, you've got Andy Cuomo making up new phrases.

00:06:32.840 On the blame China side, you have more and more evidence mounting.

00:06:36.680 Senator Tom Cotton was on Maria Bartiromo's show the other day.

00:06:39.640 And Maria has been very good on sussing out what's really going on with this story.

00:06:45.700 Senator Cotton pointed out that it appears from cell phone data that there were road closures around Wuhan way, way back at the very beginning of this virus.

00:06:57.340 Road closures suggesting that the Chinese government knew about this.

00:07:00.920 They were trying to stop it in their own country.

00:07:02.520 But they weren't blowing the whistle to help save the rest of us.

00:07:05.820 There is cell phone data that we have seen now that indicates that there was a shutdown of the Wuhan virology lab, the origin, likely origin, of the coronavirus.

00:07:18.640 Explain the cell phone data and why it's important.

00:07:21.060 Maria, reports emerged yesterday in the media that publicly available cell phone data suggests that roads around the lab in Wuhan was closed in the middle of October.

00:07:34.540 Again, this information is publicly available.

00:07:37.540 American media has used it to analyze mobility patterns in states to see if our people are practicing social distancing.

00:07:45.040 So the reports indicate that on major roads around these labs in Wuhan, you obviously had thousands and thousands of cell phones pinging towers day in and day out.

00:07:56.400 And then all of a sudden in October, it stopped and it remained stopped for several days.

00:08:00.940 That would suggest, without any further information, that those roads were blocked for some reason.

00:08:07.300 I think these two guys, Andy Cuomo and Tom Cotton, do a pretty good job of representing the two sides in this debate over China's guilt in the coronavirus.

00:08:17.200 You have Andy Cuomo, he says, it's not China, it's Europe, it's Europe's fault.

00:08:20.400 And then you have Tom Cotton, he says, well, actually, we have the data from the cell phones for weeks and weeks, and we can see the road closures very precisely around this time.

00:08:29.460 And then Andy Cuomo cuts him off and goes, no, not China, la, la, la, I can't hear you.

00:08:33.420 That's it.

00:08:33.900 The evidence is all on Tom Cotton's side.

00:08:37.300 Forget just the Wuhan cell phone data.

00:08:40.460 We now have a report out of German intelligence that when China found out about the virus, which happened very early on,

00:08:47.640 Xi Jinping, the head of the Chinese Communist Party, personally called the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Gabrizius, and told him to cover it up.

00:09:00.640 So, according to this new report from German intelligence, the world could have gained four to six weeks in tackling the coronavirus if Xi Jinping had not personally asked the WHO chief to delay warning the rest of the world about human-to-human transmission.

00:09:21.060 You remember early on, WHO was saying, there's no human-to-human transmission, don't worry, calm down, they weren't sending anybody to China.

00:09:27.100 And we thought, why are you jumping on this?

00:09:29.260 Why are you trying to downplay this?

00:09:30.960 Now we think we have an answer.

00:09:32.280 We think it's because Xi Jinping was the one who pushed it.

00:09:37.240 Don't forget, there was a survey or study that came out of the University of Southampton probably a month or a month and a half ago now,

00:09:44.180 which said if the coronavirus had not been covered up for just one extra week, if China had just acted one week more quickly than they did,

00:09:56.060 they could have reduced the spread of this virus by 66% around the world.

00:09:59.540 If they had acted two weeks earlier, they would have reduced it by 86%.

00:10:05.340 If they had acted three weeks earlier, just three weeks, they could have reduced the spread by 95%.

00:10:10.920 The global economy would not have shut down.

00:10:12.820 Many, many people would still be alive today and they didn't do it.

00:10:16.260 And now we have even more information that China covered it up because we got it out of German intelligence.

00:10:21.800 That call from Xi Jinping to the WHO was reportedly on January 21st, that far back.

00:10:29.020 So the evidence is totally clear.

00:10:31.900 And yet, the mainstream media, the main mouthpieces for the left, continue to carry water for the Chinese Communist Party.

00:10:41.140 This time we saw it just this week on 60 Minutes.

00:10:44.060 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:11:55.980 So, evidence clear, right?

00:11:57.240 I mean, we could go on and on and on showing all the evidence for China's guilt, but I think you get the point.

00:12:01.800 All right, and there's no evidence on the other side that China is somehow not guilty for this. 0.96

00:12:06.840 CBS News doesn't want to hear it.

00:12:08.300 CBS News on 60 Minutes, which is a very major television news program, highly respected, been around for a long time.

00:12:15.440 60 Minutes is doing its level best to get China off the hook and to actually place blame, not just on Europe, but even on the United States.

00:12:28.180 So, just listen to the kind of language they use to cover for China.

00:12:33.320 Why did the president just cancel DASAC's funding?

00:12:38.060 It's the kind of politics which might seem ill-advised in a health crisis.

00:12:43.220 President Trump is blaming China's government for the pandemic.

00:12:46.980 The outbreak was first detected in the city of Wuhan.

00:12:49.800 The administration has said at times the virus is man-made or that, if it's natural, it must have leaked out of a Chinese government lab.

00:12:59.940 Both the White House and the Chinese Communist Party have been less than honest. 0.94

00:13:04.500 And so, in China and in the U.S., the work of scientists like Peter DASAC is being undercut by pandemic politics.

00:13:14.560 So, just stop it right there for a moment.

00:13:16.460 You see what he does.

00:13:18.300 He says, so, the big dishonesty here is that the United States said that this might have come from a lab,

00:13:25.700 which, by the way, every single day it seems more and more likely that this virus came from the lab.

00:13:30.720 As, as, not just senators, but as other scientists have been talking about as well.

00:13:37.560 And he says, but, look, and maybe China hasn't been totally honest,

00:13:42.020 but it's mostly the, the examples I'm going to give you are how the United States hasn't been honest.

00:13:45.360 And so, at the very least, we can say both sides haven't been honest.

00:13:48.660 It's this false equivalency between China, which created the virus one way or another, 0.97

00:13:55.000 whether it was made in nature and then observed in the Wuhan laboratory,

00:13:58.440 or whether it was made in nature and just happened to escape into the world because of these Wuhan wet markets,

00:14:05.520 because of these unsafe food practices, which, by the way, does not seem very likely.

00:14:10.980 But even if it were, that is China's fault. 0.98

00:14:14.660 And they're lying about it.

00:14:16.780 And then the United States calls them out for it,

00:14:20.020 but because it's not 100% certain that that's what happened because we don't know because China covered it up.

00:14:26.400 Then you're saying the United States is also dishonest, bizarre behavior,

00:14:30.520 especially for an allegedly American television news program.

00:14:34.360 Then he tries to pull out and say, look, there's really just this third party called the scientists.

00:14:39.040 And they're the ones that we need to follow.

00:14:40.900 And both of the political actors, China and the United States, they're basically both the same.

00:14:45.260 And so don't give the U.S. any more credit than you give to China.

00:14:50.040 Then he goes on to defend even more the alleged objectivity, untouchability of the scientists.

00:14:58.160 The Wuhan Institute is internationally respected.

00:15:02.060 Two years ago, a team from the U.S. embassy visited.

00:15:05.420 That team sent a cable to Washington concerned that one lab in the complex

00:15:10.240 had a serious shortage of trained investigators.

00:15:12.880 But the cable, first reported by the Washington Post,

00:15:17.060 emphasized the Wuhan Institute is critical to future outbreak prediction and prevention.

00:15:24.120 So what this guy just did is what I call the compliment sandwich.

00:15:29.360 It's what a lot of flatterers will do, too.

00:15:32.900 And it's what a lot of PR people will do. 0.97

00:15:35.120 If they want to break some bad news, they'll say a really good thing.

00:15:38.760 Then they'll put the criticism in there.

00:15:40.280 And then they'll say another really good thing.

00:15:42.880 So he opens up, he says, the Wuhan Institute of Virology is internationally respected.

00:15:48.420 No, I don't think it is.

00:15:49.720 I think, actually, it's the least respected lab in the world right now.

00:15:52.340 I think people hate the damn Institute of Virology in Wuhan because it gave us this global plague.

00:15:57.980 So, no, it's not internationally respected.

00:16:00.100 Also, how do I know it's not internationally respected?

00:16:01.900 Because the very next thing he says is, you know, some U.S. inspectors pointed out that it wasn't very safe.

00:16:09.160 But it was only one lab and it wasn't all the places.

00:16:13.160 But, yeah, it wasn't very safe.

00:16:14.300 Well, okay, well, if it's not very safe, then how on earth would you call it internationally respected?

00:16:18.800 And actually, the people who pointed out that it wasn't safe were international in China.

00:16:22.020 And then they say, but it's very important.

00:16:24.760 This lab is very important in fighting diseases.

00:16:27.300 No, it clearly isn't.

00:16:29.100 It would appear that the lab is very important in spreading diseases.

00:16:33.040 So one good way to fight those diseases might be to shut down the lab and not fund it as we in the United States did.

00:16:40.400 And as a lot of people, including Dr. Fauci, seem to be involved with this decision to fund the laboratory.

00:16:49.200 But that's the compliment sandwich.

00:16:50.800 It's a really great lab.

00:16:52.200 Yeah, okay, they might have started this global pandemic.

00:16:54.280 But it's a really great lab.

00:16:56.620 Then we get to the real criticism of America.

00:17:02.860 So far, we haven't had any criticism of China, just about.

00:17:05.860 But then we get to the criticism of America, the victim of this crime.

00:17:09.140 China is the perpetrator. 0.99

00:17:11.160 America is the victim.

00:17:12.320 CBS blames the victim.

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00:17:32.860 This is a perfect example of that.

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00:19:11.320 You have the compliment sandwich, then CBS gets to the hard work of blaming America.

00:19:15.960 EcoHealth's work with Wuhan ended one week after Mr. Trump's briefing room pledge when the NIH revoked the grant.

00:19:25.140 Initially, President Trump praised China.

00:19:28.240 But in the following weeks, testing in the U.S. failed to catch up to the need.

00:19:33.240 Vital equipment was short, bodies filled refrigerated trailers, and science was continuously challenged.

00:19:40.440 As the U.S. led the world in illness and death, the White House moved the focus to the Chinese government.

00:19:47.860 Nothing that he just said is true.

00:19:51.520 Nothing.

00:19:52.160 I don't think one syllable of that was true.

00:19:55.940 Initially, he blames America for defunding the Wuhan laboratory, as if this is some great tragedy.

00:20:01.940 You know what?

00:20:04.060 If you start a global pandemic, if you're, and I'm not saying they constructed the virus.

00:20:09.640 This is the left-wing trick.

00:20:11.040 They say there is no evidence that they constructed the virus in the lab.

00:20:14.380 Nobody is saying they constructed the virus.

00:20:16.100 We're simply saying that the virus was very likely present in the lab and may have escaped.

00:20:21.540 And a lot of evidence is suggesting that that was the case.

00:20:24.040 They're saying, they're trying to obviously fight a straw man because they can't argue against that pretty salient observation.

00:20:31.080 He says, defunding the Wuhan lab was a terrible idea.

00:20:35.760 If starting a global pandemic is not enough to get your lab defunded, then there is no criterion for getting your lab defunded.

00:20:43.500 Of course we should have done that.

00:20:44.940 Then, he says, the bodies started piling up in the United States as the United States led the world in death and carnage.

00:20:52.020 No, we didn't.

00:20:54.060 China did. 0.85

00:20:55.080 But China is lying about their numbers.

00:20:56.860 You can follow every other country on earth.

00:20:58.600 You look at the progression of the virus.

00:20:59.940 It goes up, up, up, right?

00:21:00.960 Then, maybe there's a little plateau, but it keeps following this pattern.

00:21:03.940 With China, it goes up, up, up. 0.99

00:21:05.460 And then, one day, it just completely drops down.

00:21:08.540 Now, do you think that's because the Chinese people have some amazing fact of their biology that all on one day just shuts down viruses?

00:21:17.460 Do you think that the Chinese have some amazing magic, some wizardry, where they wave a wand and then just one day magically the virus goes away?

00:21:25.140 Or is the Communist Party lying about their numbers?

00:21:30.120 Guess what?

00:21:30.740 It's the latter.

00:21:31.320 How do we know that?

00:21:31.860 They actually admitted they were lying about the numbers.

00:21:33.860 They're still lying, but they admitted that the numbers out of Wuhan were not true.

00:21:37.540 So, that total, total shill for the Chinese Communist Party.

00:21:44.020 Then, he keeps going on and says, science was being denied in the United States.

00:21:48.960 Science was being denied.

00:21:51.180 Who's denying science here?

00:21:52.920 The one who believes that the virus just magically disappeared in China one day?

00:21:58.260 The one who believes that the laboratory that very likely started this pandemic still should be funded?

00:22:04.620 Which science is being denied?

00:22:06.160 Which model?

00:22:06.900 Because all the models contradicted each other, and it turns out they were all wrong, too.

00:22:10.100 Who is denying science?

00:22:12.640 He, of course, is treating science as though it's a sort of religious faith.

00:22:17.140 You could be a denier, but, you know, then you're a heretic. 0.92

00:22:20.300 You ought to be burned at the stake, practically.

00:22:22.180 When, in fact, science...

00:22:24.700 Oh, we could do a whole episode on the word science.

00:22:26.560 The word science just means knowledge, right?

00:22:29.240 It comes from shire, the Latin word shire, to know.

00:22:32.460 And the word has been so politicized now that one political interest group, these materialists, people who engage in a very modern study of empirical material investigation, have now monopolized the entire word for knowledge.

00:22:49.080 That's a whole other issue.

00:22:50.860 But it does play into the politics here, because what he is saying, when he talks about science being denied is, we know everything.

00:22:57.880 We know it.

00:22:58.360 We have a monopoly on the facts.

00:23:00.240 We have a monopoly on information.

00:23:01.880 And it's being denied by mean old conservatives like Donald Trump.

00:23:06.640 And that is why the U.S. has led the world in death and destruction, none of which is true.

00:23:10.820 And then he takes one final swipe to defend China.

00:23:14.140 That's where this began.

00:23:16.220 Last Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attempted to resurrect a debunked theory that the virus was man-made in China.

00:23:25.460 There it is.

00:23:26.180 Did I predict it?

00:23:26.920 I predicted it.

00:23:28.120 It's a debunked theory that the virus was man-made.

00:23:30.680 First of all, that's not debunked.

00:23:32.000 You debunk that theory.

00:23:33.380 We know very little about this virus to begin with.

00:23:35.660 But second of all, nobody's saying it was man-made.

00:23:38.740 We're saying it had something to do with the laboratory.

00:23:41.020 Those are two completely different things.

00:23:42.880 And because the CCP's lapdogs and the American media can't actually argue against what appears to be pretty likely that the lab had something to do with the virus, they try to argue against this straw man.

00:23:58.480 This is not just about orange man bad.

00:24:02.160 That's part of it.

00:24:04.000 This is not just about Trump doesn't like China, so the left does like China.

00:24:09.340 The left has been pushing China for years.

00:24:13.980 Do you remember Joe Biden?

00:24:15.260 I forget when this was.

00:24:16.240 It was maybe five, six years ago, something like that.

00:24:19.120 Joe Biden was giving a speech on this topic, actually with some lucidity, with some clarity.

00:24:24.780 Those are rare attributes for Joe Biden these days.

00:24:27.560 But he was addressing the real question.

00:24:29.480 The real question at the time and today was, is a rising China good for America? 0.95

00:24:35.200 Obviously, it's good for China. 0.76

00:24:36.280 It's good for China to be able to lift people out of poverty.

00:24:39.320 It's good for China to be able to, I don't know, have more material goods.

00:24:44.280 It's good for them.

00:24:45.720 But is it good for the rest of the world that this brutal, vicious government, the CCP, is growing in strength and influence?

00:24:54.140 And Joe Biden's response was emphatically, yes.

00:24:58.000 There was a debate here in the United States and, quite frankly, throughout most of the West, is whether a rising China was in the interest of the United States and the wider world.

00:25:08.040 As a young member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I wrote and I said, and I believed then what I believe now, that a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China, but for America and the world writ large.

00:25:22.860 Can't get clearer than that.

00:25:25.140 I think maybe Joe is doing better for himself these days that he just kind of mumbles confusedly in these meandering stories about corn pop.

00:25:31.700 Because when he says his actual views about politics, they're not so great.

00:25:37.860 They're not so popular.

00:25:38.900 They're not so smart.

00:25:40.240 Maybe that's why Joe Biden doesn't want his files opened up at the University of Delaware.

00:25:43.680 He told us that.

00:25:44.300 He said, I don't want people to know my positions on things.

00:25:47.260 There are a lot of speeches and policy positions I've had in there.

00:25:50.060 Okay, well, yeah, you're right.

00:25:51.740 We probably don't want to hear those things because you were dead wrong about the most important political questions of our time.

00:25:57.580 The left has been pushing this for many years, decades now at this point, that we need to have a rising China.

00:26:05.560 Donald Trump comes in and says, no, we don't.

00:26:08.540 There was a kind of consensus on the left and the right.

00:26:11.360 Rising China is good. 1.00

00:26:12.460 Globalization is good.

00:26:14.240 Big markets all over the world.

00:26:15.880 That's a good thing.

00:26:16.700 We're all just going to have total unfettered free trade and there aren't going to be any distinctions.

00:26:22.180 Trump comes on the scene and says, no, China's not treating us right.

00:26:27.060 We need to have our own national policies regardless of what it means for China themselves. 0.92

00:26:34.020 And so he takes this hard line.

00:26:36.520 At the White House briefing yesterday, the media kept pushing this idea that the virus is like America's fault or Europe's fault.

00:26:44.440 And President Trump pushes back, as always, he goes, ask China.

00:26:49.700 Put your focus back on China, the real source of the problem. 0.52

00:26:53.860 Many times that the U.S. is doing far better than any other country when it comes to testing.

00:27:00.340 Yes.

00:27:00.920 Why does that matter?

00:27:02.520 Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives and we're still seeing more cases every day?

00:27:10.560 Well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the world.

00:27:13.860 And maybe that's a question you should ask China.

00:27:17.440 Don't ask me.

00:27:18.560 Ask China that question. 1.00

00:27:19.900 Okay.

00:27:20.300 When you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer.

00:27:23.800 Yes.

00:27:24.060 Behind you, please.

00:27:28.320 Sir, why are you saying that to me specifically?

00:27:31.440 I'm telling you.

00:27:32.160 I'm not saying it specifically to anybody.

00:27:34.380 I'm saying it to anybody that would ask a nasty question like that.

00:27:36.740 That's not a nasty question.

00:27:37.480 Please go ahead.

00:27:38.440 Why does it matter?

00:27:39.740 Okay.

00:27:40.580 Anybody else?

00:27:41.600 Please go ahead in the back, please.

00:27:43.180 I have two questions.

00:27:44.240 No, it's okay.

00:27:45.060 We'll go over here.

00:27:45.680 But you pointed to me.

00:27:46.320 I have two questions, Mr. President.

00:27:47.420 Next.

00:27:48.040 Next, please.

00:27:48.920 But you called on me.

00:27:51.020 I did.

00:27:51.580 And you didn't respond.

00:27:52.760 And now I'm calling on the young lady in the back. 1.00

00:27:55.600 Please.

00:27:55.960 I just wanted to let my colleague finish.

00:27:57.480 But can I ask you a question?

00:27:57.900 Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much.

00:27:59.780 Appreciate it.

00:28:00.280 Thank you very much.

00:28:02.160 I love the way he handled this.

00:28:04.120 That woman, that first woman that asked the question, should be fired. 1.00

00:28:07.460 I mean, she won't be fired because she wasn't doing her job as a reporter, but she was doing

00:28:11.860 her job as a leftist hack. 1.00

00:28:14.080 So, obviously, she'll probably get a promotion.

00:28:16.160 She's going to be the editor wherever she is. 0.98

00:28:19.180 She asks the question.

00:28:21.420 She basically makes the accusation that America is doing a terrible job on the virus and letting

00:28:26.380 lots of people die and is probably to blame for a lot of the pandemic.

00:28:30.280 Right?

00:28:30.660 A lot of, a lot of the, we're not controlling the spread.

00:28:33.600 And Trump says, what are you talking about?

00:28:35.780 Ask China. 0.58

00:28:36.580 They're the one that actually is to blame for all of this.

00:28:38.840 And she doesn't have an answer for that because she knows it's true.

00:28:40.920 So she says, the woman, if you couldn't see the clip, the woman is, is Asian. 0.99

00:28:45.240 And so she says, why'd you ask me that question specifically?

00:28:49.880 Why'd you tell me to do that specifically?

00:28:51.400 Is this the first time you've ever heard Trump say, talk to China?

00:28:56.620 I don't think so.

00:28:57.500 I think Trump's been saying that since he came down the elevator in 2015.

00:29:00.480 I think he's been saying that almost as much as build the wall.

00:29:02.740 These days, a lot more than build the wall.

00:29:04.740 So it's a totally dishonest, disingenuous playing of the race card from this woman, 1.00

00:29:10.480 whatever reporter she is, whoever she works for.

00:29:13.140 She said, why'd you ask me?

00:29:14.020 It's because you're a racist or something like that.

00:29:15.760 And then he says it was a nasty question and she fights back.

00:29:19.900 She goes, it's not a nasty question, but why does it matter?

00:29:22.960 Oh, that gives away the game.

00:29:24.280 Why does it matter when it comes to China?

00:29:27.760 Well, you said it matters who's to blame.

00:29:29.860 You said it matters whose policies are not working that well, right?

00:29:33.080 Well, you said it matters when you blame the United States.

00:29:35.740 But then all of a sudden, when you mentioned that it's actually China's fault, it doesn't matter.

00:29:39.720 We're not allowed to use a term that describes where the virus comes from.

00:29:42.940 And when we call it the Wuhan virus or the chop fluey or the wubonic plague or whatever,

00:29:46.760 you're not allowed, that's terrible and bigoted and racist and sexist probably.

00:29:51.160 And I don't know, maybe it's homophobic too.

00:29:52.700 I don't know, it's all those isms, right?

00:29:55.240 But then when you call it the European virus, like Andy Cuomo, that's a fine thing.

00:29:59.400 That's all well and good.

00:30:02.240 This didn't stop in the White House briefing.

00:30:04.580 Later on on CNN, you had Brian Stelter there making the same racism accusation.

00:30:10.860 Why all the fighting over China?

00:30:12.500 Because China is the key to the current liberal agenda.

00:30:17.960 China is the key to globalization.

00:30:20.560 We'll get to that in a second.

00:30:21.640 We'll get to the New York Times begging you to pay to raise their children.

00:30:26.500 We will get to the cost of life and we'll get to a very troubling new development

00:30:32.200 in the legal battle over the definition of sex and transgenderism.

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00:31:28.140 So the woman in the press briefing calls Trump a racist for mentioning China because it's

00:31:34.380 the last card they've got, right?

00:31:35.540 It's the last refuge of a scoundrel.

00:31:36.900 And then Brian Stelter on CNN doubles down, says this is key evidence.

00:31:43.240 Ignore the question.

00:31:44.200 Ignore the point.

00:31:45.360 This is just evidence of Trump's bigotry.

00:31:47.900 Well, clearly the president was rattled, rattled enough to walk off because he didn't want to

00:31:52.080 hear the questions from Caitlin Collins and Weijia Zhang.

00:31:55.260 And I think what we saw in that exchange with Weijia Zhang is something that has racial overtones.

00:32:00.940 It is racist to look at an Asian American White House correspondent and say, ask China.

00:32:06.900 This isn't happening in a vacuum.

00:32:08.940 This is part of a pattern of behavior from the president that goes back many years.

00:32:12.640 So he doesn't have the benefit of the doubt that someone might have if for the first time

00:32:17.320 ever in their life, they made a comment like that to a reporter.

00:32:20.860 But the president has been rattled by Weijia Zhang's questions in the past.

00:32:24.600 He has treated her and other female reporters differently in the past.

00:32:27.780 And he's also had this pattern of reacting to minority journalists in a very specific and

00:32:32.600 different way, Wolf.

00:32:34.040 Listen to what he's saying.

00:32:35.020 And he's saying that if President Trump mentions China and the person that he's talking to

00:32:40.940 is Asian, if anybody that he's talking to is Asian, he mentions China, that's racist

00:32:46.000 and he's not allowed to do it.

00:32:47.920 They can't get more obvious about it.

00:32:49.900 What they're telling you is, hey, when you are trying to upset our agenda, shut up.

00:32:58.160 Hey, okay, look, you want to blame China.

00:33:00.260 We want to blame anybody but China. 1.00

00:33:02.560 So saying China is racist.

00:33:04.420 Do you remember they did this to Trump the last time he was at a press briefing and an

00:33:08.580 Asian reporter who said she was from Hong Kong came out and asked this very fluffy question

00:33:14.700 for China.

00:33:15.300 And he said, who do you work for?

00:33:16.680 She goes, Phoenix TV.

00:33:17.920 He goes, yes, that owned by the Chinese Communist Party.

00:33:20.240 She goes, no, no, no.

00:33:20.800 It's owned by Hong Kong.

00:33:22.100 Yeah, you sure?

00:33:23.080 And so then he answered the question.

00:33:25.640 The left went crazy.

00:33:26.740 They said he's a racist, he's calling out this Asian reporter and suggesting that she

00:33:30.280 works with the Chinese Communist government.

00:33:31.600 Guess what?

00:33:32.240 She did.

00:33:33.760 The news organization, Phoenix TV, is owned by the Chinese government.

00:33:38.740 They actually bought a station just over the border in Mexico and they're broadcasting into

00:33:43.420 Southern California where I am right now.

00:33:45.780 And Senator Cruz and I spoke about this on our show Verdict and Senator Cruz is now trying

00:33:50.420 to get that TV station shut down.

00:33:53.720 And, uh, but Trump was right the first time on this and they still called him racist.

00:33:57.720 And then here he's not making any sort of suggestion or that, you know, this woman's

00:34:03.000 working for China.

00:34:03.860 He's just saying, ask China, like he's asked of many other reporters throughout this entire

00:34:08.360 crisis and they play the race card.

00:34:11.900 China is the key.

00:34:14.480 That's, that's what this is about.

00:34:15.960 Okay.

00:34:16.160 It's not just about orange man bad.

00:34:17.640 China is the key to globalization.

00:34:19.920 China is the key to the liberal world order.

00:34:21.820 There, there's a reason that, that the left and parts of the right, the globalist right

00:34:26.980 or the kind of, you know, economists and sophister and accountant, right?

00:34:33.280 The, the right that just looks at the world as an economic question.

00:34:36.360 They've been pushing China for so long. 0.80

00:34:39.200 That vision of the world is one in which we'll have relative peace all around the world as

00:34:44.640 long as we keep expanding markets.

00:34:46.440 And the most important market to expand to is China, obviously, because they've got the

00:34:50.620 most people and they keep buying up all of our news media.

00:34:54.140 They keep buying up all of our sports.

00:34:56.080 They keep buying up all of our Hollywood movies.

00:34:58.380 They are the key.

00:34:59.040 That's why Hollywood is really nice to them.

00:35:01.020 The news media are really nice to them.

00:35:02.340 And the NBA, I mean, you remember there was that NBA scandal where the, there was some criticism

00:35:07.720 made of the Chinese government by an NBA employee.

00:35:10.580 There was some support given to Hong Kong and they had to back off of that.

00:35:14.740 They had to defend the Chinese communists over the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong because

00:35:19.720 he who pays the piper calls the tune.

00:35:21.380 And that's the problem.

00:35:22.620 That's the problem with that world order that there suggests, oh, wouldn't it be so nice

00:35:26.420 you can get global free trade and, you know, all the prices of goods goes down and yeah,

00:35:31.320 you might lose your job and yeah, we might not have any manufacturing in the United States.

00:35:34.580 And yeah, as a result of that opioid overdoses might go up and yeah, suicides might go up,

00:35:39.420 but we'll get really cheap consumer goods and we'll have relative peace.

00:35:42.300 And won't that be nice?

00:35:44.380 Who's calling the shots then?

00:35:46.040 That's the trouble.

00:35:46.840 Who's calling the shots?

00:35:49.020 Some sort of international organizations, international trade treaties that have no bonds of loyalty

00:35:56.300 to our local communities, to our families, to our states, to our country.

00:36:01.680 No accountability, obviously to you, the citizen, that that's the problem.

00:36:06.100 You lose all of the political rights that we've come to cherish in our self-government

00:36:11.640 here in the United States.

00:36:12.980 There is no such thing as a free lunch.

00:36:15.020 He who pays the piper calls the tune.

00:36:16.380 And so we're beginning to realize that now.

00:36:18.220 And the people who have, who have gone all in, who have put all their chips in on this

00:36:22.460 utopian vision of a world order based on trade and, and primarily trade with China

00:36:28.280 are trying to defend that.

00:36:29.640 And they're defending that by lying to you.

00:36:31.280 And they're, they're doing that by defending one of the worst regimes ever in the history

00:36:35.440 of the world, the Chinese Communist Party.

00:36:37.060 And they're doing it through absurd tactics like trying to blame Europe for the virus or,

00:36:43.120 you know, just whenever you point out that China might have a problem, they call it a

00:36:46.760 conspiracy theory.

00:36:47.780 And then when it turns out the conspiracy theory is true, they call you a racist.

00:36:51.540 That's what they want.

00:36:52.880 According to liberalism, all of politics is reduced to economics.

00:36:57.900 Okay.

00:36:58.660 I mean this of liberalism on the left, what we'd call progressivism or leftism.

00:37:02.360 And I, I also think of that on the right, you know, the kind of more squishy conservative

00:37:07.460 types, the, the people who still view politics primarily economically.

00:37:12.720 And during a pandemic, that's a good time to remember that we are not primarily economic

00:37:17.560 actors.

00:37:18.020 I mean, just consider, just consider the New York Times.

00:37:21.880 Yesterday, two days ago for Mother's Day, they put out this piece, forget pancakes, pay

00:37:27.120 mothers.

00:37:28.440 It's an idea that's gaining currency on the left and even a little bit on the right.

00:37:32.120 This idea that, that the state should pay mothers to raise their own children. 0.60

00:37:36.460 One lesson from the pandemic, childcare is work and it should be compensated.

00:37:39.860 After just six days of sheltering in place, I found myself thinking about all the women 0.99

00:37:43.440 I'd taken for granted.

00:37:45.480 So this woman, Kim Brooks writes, I started with Griselda who cared for my kids when they

00:37:50.460 were babies a few hours each week.

00:37:52.260 If someone had asked me why I paid these women to do things that I could do myself, particularly 1.00

00:37:55.880 when I made so little money with the time they freed up, I'd say that I did it because

00:38:00.480 I wanted to work, because I needed to work, not just out of economic necessity, but also

00:38:05.260 out of a need to feel like a full human being.

00:38:07.700 How sad is that?

00:38:08.440 How pathetic that in this liberal order, we're told that the only thing that matters is,

00:38:14.880 is your job, your court, your making widgets as a middle manager at Widget Inc.

00:38:20.420 is so much more important than raising children, even though the hand that rocks the cradle rules

00:38:25.960 the world.

00:38:27.140 That's a novel concept.

00:38:29.540 And obviously this woman has bought it hook, line, and sinker. 1.00

00:38:33.100 Throughout my 30s, I found myself largely occupied with keeping a home and raising children.

00:38:37.400 This work, despite bringing joy and meaning to my life, shared many of the qualities of

00:38:41.060 the menial jobs I've done before.

00:38:42.640 But there was one small difference.

00:38:45.380 The work I've done as a mother, I've done for free.

00:38:47.780 So she says, it's like the compliment sandwich, you know, it's brought a lot of joy and meaning

00:38:51.420 to my life, but actually it's terrible and I hate it.

00:38:54.060 And, you know, look, we, I've, I've gotten paid for other work.

00:38:57.440 I want to get paid for this work.

00:39:00.080 You didn't do it for free.

00:39:01.680 You got children.

00:39:03.840 You got a family out of it.

00:39:05.720 That's the pay.

00:39:07.200 That's a good thing.

00:39:08.020 That's a lot better than making 15 bucks an hour at the Widget Factory.

00:39:10.960 Then she points out that she had a, she's been divorced with attitudes like this.

00:39:17.160 Okay.

00:39:17.560 You know, maybe not the most shocking thing to, to learn.

00:39:21.760 I mentioned this article because some conservatives are, are, are embracing these kinds of ideas.

00:39:27.000 They say, oh, maybe it's a good idea where if, if the problem is that all people are now

00:39:31.320 being compelled to go work at the Widget Factory, they're all being compelled just to get jobs

00:39:35.540 and not raise kids.

00:39:36.360 Maybe we need a new government policy, a new entitlement or something to encourage women 1.00

00:39:42.960 to raise kids.

00:39:44.500 No, you're being played for suckers if you think that's what this is about.

00:39:47.240 And this woman actually admits it. 0.73

00:39:48.240 She says in 2012, the Marxist feminist, Sylvia Federici published a collection of essays.

00:39:53.920 Ms. Federici writes, to say that we want wages for housework is the first step toward refusing

00:39:59.080 to do it.

00:40:00.220 It makes what's invisible visible.

00:40:01.900 And that's the point, that gives away the whole game.

00:40:04.520 It's, it's not the first step in returning to raise children and keep a home.

00:40:09.600 It's the first step toward abolishing it altogether, toward making this problem of economic modernity

00:40:15.880 even worse.

00:40:17.080 This idea that we're all just cogs in a machine, even worse.

00:40:19.820 She says, as I wrote this, my sweet daughter reminded me it was almost mother's day, you

00:40:23.040 know, and she was going to make pancakes. 1.00

00:40:24.360 And, and then this woman's unbelievable. 0.73

00:40:25.920 She says, everybody likes pancakes, but everybody also likes to be compensated for the contributions

00:40:30.720 they make to the world.

00:40:32.060 You are compensated.

00:40:33.160 You have a family.

00:40:34.120 Be happy.

00:40:34.960 Have some gratitude.

00:40:36.340 You know, it's, it's, it's such a ridiculous argument because they say pay women a wage.

00:40:40.840 Andrew Yang said this during the campaign.

00:40:43.500 What's the, what's the wage?

00:40:44.580 What's it worth?

00:40:46.040 Give me a number.

00:40:46.900 What, what is, what is the hourly wage or the annual salary that, that mothers should 0.99

00:40:52.200 be paid or that wives should be paid for keeping a home? 1.00

00:40:55.560 Pick a number.

00:40:57.080 You can't because any number you pick is going to be offensive.

00:41:01.020 There's no, there's no, you couldn't go to the feminists and say, okay, I'll tell you 1.00

00:41:04.020 what, you make 30 bucks an hour.

00:41:05.380 30 bucks an hour is good.

00:41:06.320 It's good wage, right?

00:41:07.720 They would be so offended.

00:41:09.220 You think my work is only worth 30 bucks an hour.

00:41:11.500 What is a hundred thousand dollars a year?

00:41:13.020 It's a 24 seven job, right?

00:41:15.080 If you look at it primarily as a job instead of as a life, but there's no price.

00:41:21.920 What could the price be?

00:41:23.820 Obviously I'm not going to get paid a salary to do what I do as a husband.

00:41:27.320 I don't do all that much around the house as a husband, but I guess there's some things,

00:41:31.600 right?

00:41:32.240 Maybe emotional support.

00:41:33.360 I don't know.

00:41:33.640 What do you, how do you quantify these basic and ineffable aspects of our humanity?

00:41:40.260 How do you quantify that?

00:41:41.420 You can't do it.

00:41:42.260 And yet that's what these eggheads want to do.

00:41:45.440 The egghead economists on the left and the right, there's an article just came out and

00:41:49.340 wired.

00:41:50.300 I won't bore you with it.

00:41:51.540 It's very, very long and not really worth reading, but it brings up a point that they're

00:41:56.280 talking about.

00:41:56.900 How much is a human life actually worth?

00:41:58.880 As the U S economy reopens amid a deadly pandemic, a dire question looms.

00:42:02.820 Let's weigh the risks and do the math.

00:42:05.340 Sacrifices have to be worth it.

00:42:06.560 The good has to be greater.

00:42:08.280 How much is a human life worth?

00:42:09.820 As a society, we have historically been willing to incur costs to save lives and improve public

00:42:15.900 healthcare.

00:42:16.280 To save a vast number of lives, we'll pay a huge cost until that cost seems too high.

00:42:22.060 This calculation is fundamental to the way Americans make policy decisions in normal

00:42:25.540 times.

00:42:26.520 That's not how I view policy decisions.

00:42:28.240 Maybe that's how, how these modern utilitarians view it, but that's not how I view policy decisions.

00:42:33.680 And that's not how politics should be.

00:42:35.120 It's not just a matter of spreadsheets and tabulating and saying, okay, this will save one

00:42:39.240 person and this, the one more person will die.

00:42:42.420 One fewer people will die.

00:42:44.380 No, that's not, first of all, in this shutdown, there's an irony here because they locked down

00:42:51.520 to, to allegedly save a lot of lives.

00:42:53.500 That's what Andy Cuomo said.

00:42:54.640 And yet there's no evidence that the lockdowns have saved any lives, right?

00:42:59.020 The point is don't overwhelm the healthcare system and buy time for a vaccine.

00:43:03.300 None of those happened.

00:43:04.720 So no evidence you saved any lives.

00:43:07.640 Lots of evidence that the lockdowns have cost lives and oversees that there's evidence.

00:43:14.020 It's going to cost like millions of lives, but even in the United States.

00:43:17.980 So I don't think you always need to make that calculation.

00:43:20.260 But even if you did, the way to think about politics is not as just this cold, sterile,

00:43:25.620 mathematical calculation.

00:43:26.980 It's about people and it's about eternal questions.

00:43:30.420 What do we want?

00:43:31.680 What kind of society do we want to live in?

00:43:33.460 One with families or one with autonomous individuals working for the widget factory?

00:43:38.840 What kind of, how do we best achieve that?

00:43:42.440 How do we view ourselves as just mere consumers of goods or as citizens?

00:43:46.780 Who do we want to rule us? 0.98

00:43:48.120 Some international trade institution or we ourselves?

00:43:51.620 We, the American citizens.

00:43:53.100 What do we want?

00:43:53.920 It ties into open borders, right?

00:43:55.800 The same people that are pushing this liberal global economic utopia are the ones pushing for

00:44:01.080 open borders because of course borders wouldn't matter.

00:44:03.420 Of course national loyalties wouldn't matter.

00:44:05.280 All that matters is that we continue to exist as consumers in this kind of nation-free world.

00:44:12.140 That's one vision and then there's another vision.

00:44:15.800 Those are the questions of politics, not just tabulating things on a spreadsheet.

00:44:19.980 You know, but before we go, I've got to, I've got to get just a little bit.

00:44:23.360 There's too many things to get to, but I've got to get to this transgender case.

00:44:27.420 I'll, you know, I'll tell you a little bit about it today.

00:44:29.180 We'll get into it more tomorrow.

00:44:31.220 The ADF, the Alliance Defending Freedom, these guys are so great.

00:44:34.120 They filed a lawsuit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference on behalf

00:44:39.380 of three girls who were, they're runners and they were forced to compete against boys in

00:44:47.000 girls' sports because the boys identified as girls.

00:44:50.160 This is the problem when it comes to, to sporting of transgenderism, right? 0.83

00:44:55.460 Is that boys compete against girls and boys are stronger than girls, so boys win. 0.85

00:44:58.800 And then therefore there's no more girls' sports.

00:45:00.800 So they filed this lawsuit.

00:45:02.020 The judge in this case, he decides to hear the case, but he says, hey, you can't refer

00:45:10.300 to those boys as boys.

00:45:11.880 You have to refer to the boys who identify as girls as girls or as transgender girls or

00:45:19.280 whatever.

00:45:20.300 But of course, that's the problem.

00:45:23.000 It's actually about the premises.

00:45:24.580 If you begin the case by saying, those boys are really girls, well, then the plaintiffs

00:45:30.540 have already lost the case, right?

00:45:32.540 You're already saying, I believe that you are in the wrong here.

00:45:36.040 I'm going to rewrite the meaning of sex in Title IX.

00:45:40.120 I'm going to redo that myself as a judge.

00:45:42.640 We'll get a little bit more into that case tomorrow because it's a very important story.

00:45:47.320 But this is the way the deck is sort of stacked against you in the language.

00:45:52.140 This is the way the language matters so much, the Chinese virus or the European virus.

00:45:56.480 They're trying to win at the game of politics before the debate even begins, before the case

00:46:01.520 is even heard.

00:46:02.740 Now, finally, before we go, this story, I just couldn't pass this one up.

00:46:07.460 This from Slate, which teaches us so much about our relationships.

00:46:10.840 I love my boyfriend, but want a girlfriend.

00:46:15.640 This is what a woman is writing him into Slate. 1.00

00:46:18.480 He doesn't want to open up our relationship.

00:46:21.320 My partner is the most compassionate, loving, and respectful partner I could ask for.

00:46:24.780 He has supported me through difficult times, weight fluctuations, questioning my gender,

00:46:28.600 changing my name, and sobriety, among other things.

00:46:32.460 Yikes.

00:46:33.860 I'm incredibly attracted to women. 0.97

00:46:37.700 Oh, man, this guy.

00:46:38.740 I, so you question your gender while you're dating this guy.

00:46:44.440 He sticks with you.

00:46:45.740 You change your name.

00:46:47.360 He sticks with you.

00:46:48.860 You change your appearance a lot.

00:46:50.420 He sticks with you.

00:46:52.380 You've battled addiction.

00:46:54.060 He sticks with you.

00:46:56.760 But now you say, I'm incredibly attracted to women.

00:46:59.800 And so you want to sleep with other people.

00:47:01.600 He knows this.

00:47:02.300 We've talked about opening our relationship.

00:47:03.640 However, he's on the spectrum of asexuality and is only interested in having sex with me.

00:47:08.740 I don't know.

00:47:12.480 You might have missed it in all the jargon.

00:47:14.800 That's just a term for monogamy. 1.00

00:47:17.340 There's the spectrum of asexuality.

00:47:19.360 Asexuality, I guess, means you don't want to have sex.

00:47:21.600 So if you are having sex, if you do have sex sometimes, then you're not asexual.

00:47:26.220 You might not be a nymphomaniac or something, but you're not asexual.

00:47:32.320 But he's only interested in having sex with me, meaning he's my boyfriend.

00:47:38.280 He didn't used to have to explain what that term meant.

00:47:40.980 The thought of me having sex with other people makes him deeply uncomfortable as we both relate to sex in different ways.

00:47:46.680 Hmm?

00:47:47.400 We have had this conversation a few times in the year that we've been together, but with no solid plan or outcome.

00:47:52.540 I respect and appreciate our relationship more than my desire to sleep around, but I'm worried that I will be missing something.

00:47:57.740 I'm only 20, and I know that feelings change, but he's an incredible domestic and sexual partner.

00:48:02.460 Yikes, man.

00:48:03.060 That's like a damning with faint praise.

00:48:05.180 That's what you say about the love of your life.

00:48:07.220 He's a very good domestic and sexual partner.

00:48:09.380 Yeah, so.

00:48:10.280 And I would like to be with him for a long time.

00:48:12.440 Not forever, not endless love, but, you know, for a long time.

00:48:15.900 Is there a way to figure this out, or will this core incompatibility be what breaks us apart?

00:48:20.720 What's the incompatibility?

00:48:22.000 He wants to date you, and you want to cheat on him. 1.00

00:48:23.940 That's the incompatibility.

00:48:25.840 I actually sort of feel for this girl.

00:48:27.820 She's obviously very confused, and she's being encouraged in her confusion by a very confused culture.

00:48:34.080 She said she's young, and we're told that the whole purpose of life is to get as much pleasure as we can.

00:48:40.100 That's the only point of it.

00:48:40.880 And so if you're young, and you're not sleeping with a ton of people all the time, then you're missing out on life.

00:48:48.840 Because we're told that monogamy and commitment and marriage is bad, and we should delay it and put it off.

00:48:53.940 I was told this for much of my life, certainly by the popular culture, but that's kind of the culture we're living in.

00:48:59.080 And we're told that, you know, sleeping around and all that sort of stuff is really ultimately fulfilling, which if anyone's ever tried it, you find out in the end, it's not ultimately all that fulfilling.

00:49:12.540 Is there a way to figure this out?

00:49:16.720 Yes, here's the way.

00:49:19.280 To don't sleep around.

00:49:21.860 Simple as that.

00:49:23.460 Don't view your partner as an instrument for your own pleasure.

00:49:29.220 View him as a real-life human being with flesh and blood and a soul that you are not just taking from, but that you are giving yourself to.

00:49:38.940 View comes down a lot to these political questions that we're talking about, all right?

00:49:44.160 We're not just, we're not just here looking at our fellow Americans and seeing them as, as sort of instruments for our own pleasure and our own benefit.

00:49:54.400 We're not just looking around at our politics that way either.

00:49:57.620 We are citizens.

00:49:59.680 We have, first of all, we're members of families, and we're members of communities, and we're members of states, and we're citizens of this country.

00:50:05.900 We have loyalties, we have duties, we have affections.

00:50:09.040 The media doesn't know that.

00:50:10.320 The media has totally sold out their country, and now they're shilling for our number one geopolitical adversary.

00:50:15.420 They, they have no understanding of this at all.

00:50:17.420 They're willing to go to the highest bidder, whoever's going to buy them off, like China. 0.98

00:50:23.900 That's what, that's one version of the world.

00:50:26.280 Not, not all that different from the way this, this chickie is thinking about life either, but that's the wrong way. 0.99

00:50:30.920 It ultimately will not be particularly gratifying.

00:50:33.820 You will find much more, much more satisfaction in gratitude.

00:50:39.200 Your, your babies are not just an instrument for your pleasure, and you, you shouldn't be paid to raise your own children, right?

00:50:45.880 You will find much more satisfaction in a position that views the world with some gratitude, with some humility, with some loyalty.

00:50:53.540 And with, with you having a, a real role in it, rather than this total alienation willing to be bought off by the highest bidder,

00:51:03.260 like our sad, pathetic mainstream media apparatus that President Trump very rightly is smacking down,

00:51:09.900 and we will continue to smack down, and we will continue to tell you the truth about it, because they won't do it.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 12, 2020

Ep. 544 - The European Virus

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