The Michael Knowles Show - May 13, 2020


Ep. 545 - Science And Data Are Dead


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The mayor of Los Angeles extends the lockdown order in her own city by three months, even as the death toll from the flu continues to drop. Who is the DICTATrix of L.A. and why does she care?

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00:00:00.880 Science and data are dead, and we have killed them.
00:00:05.340 What was holiest and mightiest of all secular modernity have bled to death under our knives.
00:00:11.100 Who will wipe the blood off us?
00:00:13.760 The unelected fake doctor dictator, who now apparently runs L.A. County,
00:00:17.720 has extended the lockdown order by three months,
00:00:20.440 even as cases and deaths in Southern California remain low,
00:00:23.660 all in the name of science and data.
00:00:25.940 Then, a drag queen raises six figures for abortionists on Middle America's favorite game show. 0.99
00:00:32.420 Something has clearly gone wrong in the culture.
00:00:35.320 And the woman campaigning for vice president finally endorses the guy she's asking to pick her.
00:00:39.860 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:49.540 If this epidemic has proved one thing, it is this.
00:00:52.920 Science has become a farce.
00:00:58.100 Science is the new god that failed.
00:01:00.520 That's how they referred to communism in the 20th century.
00:01:03.020 Science is the new god that failed.
00:01:04.780 Science isn't even science.
00:01:06.900 That's my big takeaway from the pandemic.
00:01:10.620 What people are referring to as science these days is not science.
00:01:15.580 It's politics.
00:01:17.640 You know, even the word science, I think I mentioned this a little bit yesterday,
00:01:21.020 the word science once referred to all knowledge.
00:01:25.140 And now, science refers to egghead materialists trying to guess the future,
00:01:30.160 usually incorrectly, and bossing us all around.
00:01:33.320 That's what I'm hearing right here in my own town of Los Angeles.
00:01:39.040 Los Angeles has had this lockdown, right?
00:01:41.240 Initially, it was, whatever, 15 days to slow the spread.
00:01:43.760 And it's been a game in California.
00:01:46.940 The mayor is going to lock down, and then the governor is going to double lock down,
00:01:50.220 because the governor is not going to get one-upped by that two-bit mayor of L.A.,
00:01:53.640 and then the L.A. guy is going to go harder than the California governor.
00:01:57.540 And it just gets worse and worse.
00:01:59.380 So there was an announcement yesterday from Los Angeles County.
00:02:04.560 Usually, these announcements are done on camera, but for some reason, this one was not done on camera.
00:02:11.260 This was done during a meeting of the Board of Supervisors.
00:02:15.080 The L.A. Times reported on it.
00:02:16.920 Presumably, this was off camera because it was such an outrageous announcement.
00:02:20.320 The L.A. County Public Health Director, Dr. Debra Ferrer, said at this closed Board of Supervisors meeting,
00:02:29.400 based on all of the data that we're looking at,
00:02:32.140 we know with all certainty that we'll be extending health officer orders for the next three months.
00:02:39.560 Three months.
00:02:41.840 People are starting to open up states.
00:02:43.860 Georgia's opening up.
00:02:44.840 Florida never really, like, totally shut down.
00:02:46.960 Other states beginning to open up.
00:02:48.460 And L.A. says they're going to double down for three months.
00:02:51.940 Our hope always is that we're able, by using the data,
00:02:55.780 don't forget the data, the science and the data,
00:02:57.940 to be able to lift restrictions slowly over the next three months.
00:03:02.780 Got me asking, who exactly is this woman who's apparently now the dictator of L.A., 1.00
00:03:08.080 the dictatrix of L.A.?
00:03:10.100 Dr. Debra Ferrer.
00:03:11.260 I googled her biography.
00:03:13.180 Because Dr. Debra Ferrer signs her press releases.
00:03:16.580 I kid you not, or Dr. Barbara Ferrer, pardon me, not Debra.
00:03:21.360 Barbara Ferrer signs her press releases.
00:03:24.380 Barbara Ferrer, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.E.D., Director of Public Health.
00:03:31.540 That's a degree of academic insecurity that I guess people do this these days.
00:03:38.820 They follow their name with all the different letters.
00:03:40.900 But Barbara Ferrer, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.E.D., Director of Public Health.
00:03:46.100 So I wondered, okay, what are all of these degrees in?
00:03:50.760 I wanted to know if even one of them was a real degree.
00:03:54.620 Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Brandeis University.
00:03:58.860 I don't remember that one in the old quadrivium or trivium liberal arts setup.
00:04:07.420 I don't, it's, what is it?
00:04:08.360 It's like rhetoric, mathematics, and social welfare.
00:04:12.900 No, I don't think so.
00:04:13.920 I don't remember that as just a basic department of a university.
00:04:17.520 History, English, social welfare.
00:04:20.040 No.
00:04:20.700 Master of Arts in Public Health from Boston University.
00:04:24.060 Master of Arts in Education from University of Massachusetts, Boston.
00:04:27.640 Eh, Bachelor of Arts in Community Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz,
00:04:35.320 which is, I just spoke there, the most liberal college in the country.
00:04:40.260 She's not a real doctor.
00:04:41.940 These are not, why is this woman, why is the, the community studies expert now the dictatrix 0.90
00:04:48.380 of Los Angeles?
00:04:49.520 Nobody elected her. 1.00
00:04:50.800 Okay, nobody picked this woman. 1.00
00:04:52.980 L.A. is doing fine.
00:04:54.000 Do you know how many cases there are in L.A. County right now of coronavirus?
00:04:57.640 There are, I think it's in, in the five-figure range of cases.
00:05:02.860 Do you know how many deaths?
00:05:05.060 1,613.
00:05:06.440 Every death is a tragedy, but we need to put these in perspective when we're talking about
00:05:10.300 shutting down for three months.
00:05:11.680 1,613 deaths in a county of 10 million people.
00:05:16.060 During that same period of time, about 1,700 people died in L.A. County from heart disease.
00:05:22.180 Number is a bit higher for heart disease than it is for the coronavirus deaths that we are
00:05:28.440 shutting down the county for with no evidence that the shutdowns are doing a damn thing.
00:05:32.860 Now, once the news got out, L.A. starts trending.
00:05:35.660 All of a sudden, the actual elected official starts going into damage control.
00:05:40.060 Then they issue a clarification.
00:05:41.560 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:06:56.380 Okay, so immediately after this, Eric Garcetti, mayor of LA, goes into damage control mode and
00:07:04.540 calls into Jake Tapper's show on CNN.
00:07:06.780 Well, I want to reassure people because I think there was a lot of panic suddenly when
00:07:10.540 the headline said we're all going to stay exactly as we are for three more months when
00:07:14.600 that's not the case.
00:07:15.340 I think quite simply, she's saying that we're not going to fully reopen Los Angeles and
00:07:19.820 probably anywhere in America without any protections or any health orders in the next
00:07:24.360 three months.
00:07:25.140 I think we know it's going to be even longer than three months.
00:07:27.800 And as I've said a million times, we're not moving past COVID-19.
00:07:31.060 We're learning to live with it.
00:07:32.780 We're not going to go back to pre-COVID-19 life anytime soon or jump forward to post-COVID-19
00:07:37.660 time until there is a medicine or a vaccine that allows that.
00:07:41.140 So we're still living in the age of COVID-19.
00:07:43.300 Okay, so blah, blah, blah, mealy-mouthed, I don't want bad headlines, please get me off
00:07:49.120 of Twitter, but still what she said is basically correct.
00:07:51.600 So he calls in, right?
00:07:52.360 And he says, I think what she probably meant was, yeah, no, don't worry, it won't be that
00:07:56.840 bad, but we're not going to lift the orders until after a vaccine is available.
00:08:00.420 By the way, there's no evidence we're ever getting a vaccine, ever.
00:08:03.520 Maybe we will.
00:08:04.380 I hope we will.
00:08:05.400 Maybe we'll get one within a year and a half, which still won't do us any good on these
00:08:09.520 lockdown orders and will certainly have destroyed the global economy by then.
00:08:12.620 But there's also no evidence we're ever going to get a vaccine.
00:08:15.380 There are plenty of viruses and diseases that we don't have vaccines for.
00:08:19.860 He says, yeah, but okay, but please basically get us off of Twitter.
00:08:23.440 So then this woman, Barbara Farer, PhD, MPH, MED, Director of Public Health, sends out a
00:08:28.740 clarification afterwards.
00:08:29.800 Doesn't make it any better.
00:08:30.660 She says, we're being guided by science and data.
00:08:33.080 Our gods of liberal modernity, science and data that will safely move us forward along
00:08:38.660 the road to recovery in a measured way.
00:08:40.280 One that allows us to ensure that effective distancing and infection control measures are
00:08:44.520 in place.
00:08:44.900 We are counting on the public's continued compliance with the orders to enable us to relax restrictions.
00:08:52.340 And we're committed to making sure that LA County is in the best position to provide
00:08:55.940 its 10 million residents with the highest level of wellness possible.
00:09:00.160 Did you hear what she said there?
00:09:06.120 We are trying to move along the road to recovery in a measured way.
00:09:11.400 And we're counting on the public's continued compliance with the orders to help us relax
00:09:16.520 the orders.
00:09:17.100 What is that?
00:09:17.700 What are you talking about?
00:09:18.540 If the orders are in place, if you want people to comply with them, then you're not relaxing
00:09:23.160 them.
00:09:23.740 If you're relaxing them, then people don't need to comply with them.
00:09:28.540 See, this is what we get to at the heart of all of these.
00:09:31.280 It's what you hear in Garcetti's voice.
00:09:33.720 Same story with all of them.
00:09:36.020 Do exactly what we say, and maybe we'll give you some of your rights and privileges back.
00:09:42.200 But don't do what we say, and we're going to double down.
00:09:46.140 That's what Gavin Newsom did when he closed down the beaches specifically of his political
00:09:49.440 opponents.
00:09:50.320 But I thought the whole point of the orders, I thought the whole point of the lockdowns
00:09:53.020 was we have to do it.
00:09:54.400 So if you're saying that we're about to ease the restrictions as long as you do what we
00:10:00.480 say, then it makes me question whether we had to do it in the first place.
00:10:04.880 It seems so damn arbitrary, and they defend all of it in the name of science and data.
00:10:10.360 I'm sick of, I never want to hear that phrase again.
00:10:12.720 I'm done.
00:10:13.840 I like science in the sense that I like knowledge, but I don't like the way that science has
00:10:18.420 been politicized by the left.
00:10:20.320 It has become a joke.
00:10:22.100 It's a, it's a, it's a false God.
00:10:24.500 Get, I'm, I don't care.
00:10:25.620 I'm not paying any worship to the liberal God of science with a capital S and a trademark
00:10:33.200 over the E.
00:10:34.340 Uh-uh.
00:10:34.880 You actually saw a fight breakout, a disagreement breakout over at the Senate between Dr. Rand Paul,
00:10:41.880 a scientist, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, another scientist, and they were having a disagreement
00:10:50.040 and a debate over the nature of these lockdown orders.
00:10:53.560 I think Rand Paul got it exactly right.
00:10:57.300 In rural states, we never really reached any sort of pandemic levels in Kentucky and other
00:11:02.760 states.
00:11:03.520 We have less deaths in Kentucky than we have in an average flu season.
00:11:08.400 It's not to say this isn't deadly, but really outside of New England, we've had a relatively
00:11:13.580 benign course for this virus nationwide.
00:11:17.480 And I think the one size fits all that we're going to have a national strategy and nobody's
00:11:20.740 going to go to school is kind of ridiculous.
00:11:22.840 We really ought to be doing it school district by school district.
00:11:25.780 And the power needs to be dispersed because people make wrong predictions.
00:11:30.760 And really the history of this, when we look back, will be of wrong prediction after
00:11:34.500 wrong prediction after wrong prediction, starting with Ferguson in England.
00:11:38.400 So I think we ought to have a little bit of humility in our belief that we know what's
00:11:43.600 best for the economy.
00:11:44.720 And as much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don't think you're the end all.
00:11:48.260 I don't think you're the one person that gets to make a decision.
00:11:51.060 We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other side saying there's not
00:11:54.560 going to be a surge and that we can safely open the economy.
00:11:57.220 And the facts will bear this out.
00:11:59.300 Thank you.
00:12:00.180 That one line, as much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don't think you're the end
00:12:04.980 all.
00:12:05.260 I don't think you're the guy who gets to make all of these decisions for us.
00:12:09.180 You know, this woman, Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MED, Director of Public Health in Los
00:12:14.420 Angeles.
00:12:15.160 Nobody elected her. 1.00
00:12:16.920 There is no evidence that she understands anything about weighing real political questions,
00:12:24.140 the real eternal questions, having accountability to constituents, constituents she doesn't even
00:12:28.060 have.
00:12:28.400 Frankly, there's no evidence that she knows all that much about medicine, all that much about
00:12:33.180 viruses.
00:12:35.420 And yet, for some reason, she gets to call the shots and then you have 12 hours of headlines
00:12:40.360 about how LA is locking down for three months, even though none of the elected officials even
00:12:43.940 called for it.
00:12:44.780 Certainly, none of the citizens called for it.
00:12:47.560 Why are we exporting our politics to this dictatorship of lab coats? 0.79
00:12:52.280 I don't remember that.
00:12:53.180 I didn't go to the ballot in 2016 and vote for the exalted Emperor Fauci.
00:12:57.800 Okay, maybe he's a nice guy.
00:12:59.140 Maybe he's a smart guy.
00:12:59.920 I don't know.
00:13:00.260 I don't know him.
00:13:01.480 But here's what I do know.
00:13:02.300 He doesn't rule me.
00:13:03.500 Well, now I guess he does, but he shouldn't.
00:13:05.940 And we shouldn't permit this kind of thing to happen.
00:13:08.700 So I think Rand Paul hit the nail on the head.
00:13:11.380 And Fauci, to his credit, responded by saying that, yes, Rand Paul, you're right.
00:13:17.140 I have never made myself out to be the end-all and only voice in this.
00:13:21.480 I'm a scientist, a physician, and a public health official.
00:13:25.140 I give advice according to the best scientific evidence.
00:13:28.900 There are a number of other people who come into that and give advice that are more related
00:13:33.740 to the things that you spoke about, about the need to get the country back open again
00:13:38.060 and economically.
00:13:39.260 I don't give advice about economic things.
00:13:42.200 I don't give advice about anything other than public health.
00:13:45.840 Yeah, okay.
00:13:46.820 I mean, that's a good line.
00:13:47.980 That's a good way to avoid responsibility, Dr. Fauci.
00:13:50.980 But the reality of the situation, whether it's through your own doing or just because
00:13:56.200 of the position people have put you in, you are giving advice on all those things.
00:14:00.560 When Dr. Fauci goes up, like he did for several weeks of this shutdown, and gives the lion's
00:14:08.220 share of the expert testimony at these coronavirus briefings, then he is giving advice on the
00:14:14.040 economy.
00:14:14.460 When Dr. Fauci goes up and says, look, from my position as a doctor, as a scientist, as
00:14:20.140 a lab coat for public health, we need to keep the economy locked down, foot on the accelerator, 0.99
00:14:25.400 as he said, his words, for the foreseeable future.
00:14:29.540 He is giving advice on the economy, right?
00:14:32.420 He's not saying, from the perspective of the epidemic, we need to remain locked down.
00:14:37.900 But we can open the economy, but we can open our political rights, but the, no, you can't
00:14:42.600 separate those things.
00:14:43.580 These are political questions.
00:14:45.180 If you're going to lock down, then you're locking down people's political rights.
00:14:50.340 You're locking down people's economic rights, and you're locking down people from the perspective
00:14:55.500 of public health.
00:14:56.160 It's all the same thing.
00:14:57.420 And so perhaps this is actually a little more to be laid at the feet of President Trump than
00:15:02.420 it is of Dr. Fauci.
00:15:03.600 After all, Trump is the one who put Fauci in front of the cameras.
00:15:07.280 But in retrospect, hindsight's 20-20, it might have been better if President Trump, instead
00:15:12.940 of only putting Dr. Fauci or Dr. Scarf out there to talk about, you know, how important
00:15:18.280 it is that we all lock down, if he had also, from the very beginning, put up more people
00:15:23.020 to talk about the economy, put up more people to talk about national security, put up more
00:15:26.980 people to talk about our rights that obviously are being suspended in this unusual time of
00:15:32.480 epidemic.
00:15:32.880 If he had, if he, in the presentation on this topic, had put Dr. Fauci in his place, it's
00:15:41.400 not a personal thing, but it's a political thing.
00:15:44.800 If he had put science in its place, science, the way we talk about it today, meaning materialistic
00:15:51.500 methods of inquiry into the natural world, natural science serves a purpose, serves a
00:15:58.920 great function in its place.
00:16:00.900 But when we pretend that it's our political ruler, when we pretend that it's a god, then
00:16:06.200 things go wacky.
00:16:08.120 So I think finally now we're starting to move a little bit more in the right direction.
00:16:12.180 And you know who's really upset about that?
00:16:13.440 You know who's furious?
00:16:15.320 Chris Cuomo at CNN.
00:16:17.400 Chris Cuomo, the guy who pretended to be in quarantine, then broke his quarantine order
00:16:21.800 and got it in a fight with a guy in the street, and then, then lied to his own audience and
00:16:25.800 said that he was actually still in quarantine, and then filmed a really cringe-inducing video
00:16:29.500 where he came out of quarantine, allegedly, and talked to his family, who probably he gave
00:16:34.140 the virus to, presumably, since he wasn't actually social distancing.
00:16:37.040 That guy is really furious that you are beginning to ask for a reopening.
00:16:42.920 We'll get to that in one second.
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00:17:57.840 Chris Cuomo, he doesn't like this.
00:18:01.380 He does not like you trying to get out of your own lockdown.
00:18:07.980 You know, it's kind of funny that in this bizarro world of redefining science, Rand Paul
00:18:14.220 can be a science denier.
00:18:16.460 Rand Paul, the doctor, the scientist.
00:18:19.400 But Chris Cuomo, the TV hack, is somehow like the defender of science and public health.
00:18:25.860 But hey, that's the world we're living in, I guess.
00:18:28.260 So listen to the way.
00:18:30.360 In this clip, another impassioned plea, Chris Cuomo talks about lockdowns, the virus, and
00:18:35.720 science itself.
00:18:36.520 It sounds like he's in a cult.
00:18:38.400 We take care of family because we're devoted to something bigger than them or us, the cause
00:18:45.320 of the collective.
00:18:46.880 But right now, the American family is in a period of dysfunction.
00:18:50.620 We're estranged and acting strangely.
00:18:53.980 10,000 more Americans could die by August because so many places are relaxing social distancing.
00:19:01.280 What happened to no man left behind?
00:19:03.480 Now it's 10,000?
00:19:05.000 Is it okay?
00:19:06.700 Look, it's common sense that that's what would happen.
00:19:09.040 You don't need the models to tell you that if you stop social distancing.
00:19:12.700 That's why those who attack this reality do it with snark and cynical self-interest, like
00:19:18.520 Senator Rand Paul did today.
00:19:20.220 Remember, that beard, that's Paul's COVID beard.
00:19:22.600 He had the virus.
00:19:24.140 And he still seems to be suffering from a type of sickness, but one of the soul.
00:19:27.840 Does he really think that he has no obligation to anyone but his state?
00:19:31.540 America's never won by going every man and woman for themselves. 0.89
00:19:36.680 Only when we are all in do we win.
00:19:41.180 Who writes this stuff?
00:19:43.880 Does Chris Cuomo, when he's hiring writers for CNN, does he just go to like 3 a.m. freshman
00:19:54.240 dorm room bowl sessions and then he finds the biggest pothead in the room who's a sort of
00:20:01.860 would-be poet and clouded with all these really hippy-dippy ideas?
00:20:06.080 He says, you, you are going to write my monologues.
00:20:08.740 Only when we're all in do we win.
00:20:13.260 We got something bigger than ourselves, man.
00:20:16.420 The cause of the collective, you know, man, it's bigger.
00:20:20.260 It's outside of us.
00:20:23.700 Man, you know, also what does that mean?
00:20:26.300 So he says there's something bigger than ourselves.
00:20:29.720 Yeah, I agree with that.
00:20:30.640 Great.
00:20:31.040 Okay, we're talking about religion now.
00:20:32.600 Cool.
00:20:33.040 Let's talk about that thing bigger than ourselves.
00:20:35.340 And he says, the cause of the collective, he goes right back to this political, ideological,
00:20:43.220 frankly, communist kind of rhetoric, the cause of the collective.
00:20:46.900 Because that, that is the God, right?
00:20:49.440 That is the God that the left is following.
00:20:52.320 This secular scientific materialism.
00:20:55.640 It's been the same story for the progressive left, going back all the way to Karl Marx,
00:21:00.960 at least, and certainly forward in basically an unbroken line of progressive leaders.
00:21:07.600 He says, what happened to no man left behind?
00:21:09.300 75 people die in the United States every day of various causes.
00:21:13.760 Chris Cuomo seems to be denying the reality of death.
00:21:18.100 Really, he's just demagoguing the reality of death.
00:21:21.360 So he's got all these weird vagaries that he's talking about.
00:21:24.080 He's talking about science, right?
00:21:25.740 As though it were some kind of religion.
00:21:27.980 Then he tells us what to do.
00:21:30.920 We are not prevailing.
00:21:32.760 Not until we show the desperation to get tracing and testing.
00:21:37.380 Until that, we'll be failing.
00:21:38.900 Because we're failing to give the truth to the people,
00:21:42.100 which will give them the trust they need to reopen.
00:21:45.300 You can't wish a virus away.
00:21:47.260 It won't miraculously disappear.
00:21:49.520 The president traces and tests every damn day.
00:21:55.320 And everyone around him has a mask on.
00:21:58.920 Now, he doesn't because he wants to keep up the Fox farce,
00:22:02.120 this BS that COVID-19 is overrated.
00:22:05.240 I guess the anti-elitists over there are OK with 10,000 more dead.
00:22:11.120 Yeah, that's you just want dead people, Fox News and Trump and conservatives.
00:22:15.960 That's what you want.
00:22:17.560 You're saying this virus has been overblown just because we all told you for weeks that 2.4 million Americans would die.
00:22:24.960 And the actual reality is probably under 100,000 by the latest models.
00:22:29.520 And we were off not just by an order of magnitude, but by a multiple in an order of magnitude.
00:22:33.760 Dude, that's what you're saying.
00:22:36.380 What he is saying here at the end is that if you observe correctly, undeniably,
00:22:42.280 that Chris Cuomo and all the rest of the leftist and scientistic acts got the virus completely wrong,
00:22:50.760 if you just observe that basic fact, then you're killing 10,000 people.
00:22:55.140 That is the degree of scientific discourse that we're seeing on the left now.
00:23:04.060 Obviously, it has nothing to do with science.
00:23:05.980 Even the words that we shouldn't use the word science as people use it today.
00:23:10.480 It's a way for people to pretend that they possess all the knowledge in the world and that you do not.
00:23:17.660 And then, time and time again, we see they don't seem to know much of anything at all.
00:23:23.500 But believe it or not, Cuomo's weird rant was not even the craziest thing on TV.
00:23:28.140 Over the past few days, that award would have to go to The Price is Right,
00:23:32.260 on which a drag queen raised $100,000 for abortionists on one of middle America's favorite game shows. 0.86
00:23:39.440 We'll get to all that in just one second.
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00:24:48.860 So, Drew Carey and The Price is Right, making Chris Cuomo and CNN look normal.
00:24:54.420 RuPaul, who I'm very pleased to say I did not know who he was.
00:24:59.480 I'd heard the name, but I didn't know who he was.
00:25:02.160 RuPaul goes on The Price is Right and raises nearly six figures for the largest abortion mill in America. 0.80
00:25:10.260 Here he is.
00:25:11.160 So, Ru, you're going to be playing for charity.
00:25:13.080 Yes.
00:25:13.540 All during the show.
00:25:14.580 You're going to be playing alongside the contestants.
00:25:16.020 And whatever you win and the rest of the contestants win, we're going to match and give to a special charity that Ru is playing for.
00:25:22.940 That's right.
00:25:23.900 What's the charity?
00:25:25.140 Well, I am playing for Planned Parenthood, which provides vital and often free services for both men and women.
00:25:32.400 It's funny when he says that.
00:25:35.500 In these studios, they have lights that go on and they say, applaud and yell now.
00:25:39.380 And that's how the audience is always, you know, on a dime, begin applauding and standing up and all that.
00:25:44.660 You can see when he mentioned Planned Parenthood that there are a number of faces out there in the crowd.
00:25:48.720 They're like, wait, wait, what?
00:25:49.920 Huh?
00:25:50.280 I don't know.
00:25:51.220 Yikes.
00:25:51.620 I don't want to be seen on national television applauding for a million dead babies a year.
00:25:56.520 But that's what they're doing.
00:25:59.280 Everything about that clip is wrong.
00:26:01.020 A man who dresses up like a woman going on Middle America's former favorite show to raise money to kill a million babies a year. 1.00
00:26:11.300 Something clearly has gone wrong in the culture.
00:26:16.300 You know, there's that line about cynics.
00:26:18.400 They say cynics know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
00:26:22.140 Never clearer than on this particular episode of The Price is Right.
00:26:26.800 Price is Right.
00:26:27.700 Very simple game show.
00:26:28.720 Very middle America. 0.71
00:26:32.240 You know, this was one bastion where the sort of liberal progressive wackos that run so many of the other parts of Hollywood and television, they hadn't quite infected it.
00:26:42.700 It was such a simple game.
00:26:43.660 You go on and you try to guess the price of regular goods.
00:26:46.920 And then if you guess the price right, you win prizes.
00:26:48.940 How did they infect that one?
00:26:53.000 How did the left even get in to that one?
00:26:57.040 Because the left destroys everything it touches.
00:27:00.600 And the left progresses.
00:27:02.660 It always has to progress.
00:27:05.100 It has to get into every institution.
00:27:07.180 Obviously, the reactions to this were not so great.
00:27:08.960 One guy on Twitter tweets out,
00:27:10.080 The Price is Right had a special show this evening and donated $94,000 to Planned Parenthood.
00:27:15.080 I say goodbye to The Price is Right.
00:27:17.640 Watching tonight's episode, giving away $97,000 to, what was it, $94,000 or $97,000?
00:27:21.980 I don't know.
00:27:22.240 These guys disagree.
00:27:23.720 To Planned Parenthood.
00:27:24.840 You've got to be kidding me.
00:27:26.660 You've lost a lifelong fan.
00:27:32.400 Something has changed in the culture.
00:27:34.200 You know, there's, I think, a temptation to say,
00:27:36.560 Oh, you know, the culture was always this crazy.
00:27:38.660 And yeah, things are always radical.
00:27:41.280 No.
00:27:42.160 You know, The Price is Right has been around for, what, 40, 50 years?
00:27:46.000 It's been around for so long.
00:27:48.000 For a long time, hosted by Bob Barker.
00:27:49.860 Maybe we've got to pull that guy out of retirement,
00:27:51.500 if this is what Drew Carey is doing to the show.
00:27:54.140 But we can actually watch what's happened on the used to be totally normal,
00:28:00.660 good old, wholesome American entertainment.
00:28:02.800 And now, it's drag queens promoting abortionists. 0.99
00:28:10.280 Something has gone wrong in the culture, and it's mostly conservatives' fault.
00:28:15.460 Okay?
00:28:15.800 It's not, this isn't the left's fault.
00:28:17.400 I mean, it is the left's fault in that the left is aggressing in this culture war.
00:28:23.200 But the conservatives really, I think, bear the brunt of the blame here,
00:28:27.760 because we've just put our heads in the sand.
00:28:29.440 You know, the left always wanted this, and they basically always told us that they wanted this.
00:28:33.880 We always knew they wanted this.
00:28:35.340 Conservatives are the ones who let this happen.
00:28:37.640 You know, conservatives are the ones who basically sold out for some economic policies that they won.
00:28:46.480 You know, you see this time and again when you look at histories of the 20th century.
00:28:50.680 The conservatives, in some ways, won on the economic battles.
00:28:55.260 You know, they were able to reestablish some greater control of property rights.
00:28:59.000 They were able to lower taxes at times.
00:29:01.200 They were able to get certain trade deals that they wanted.
00:29:02.720 But at the cost of losing the entire culture.
00:29:08.260 And the conservatives let it happen.
00:29:09.920 You know, they basically embraced this idea of, oh, forget about the social issues.
00:29:18.300 Oh, you know, if it feels good, do it.
00:29:21.000 If it's not hurting me, if it doesn't affect me, who cares?
00:29:24.500 Politics doesn't work like that.
00:29:26.420 That's never been how politics works.
00:29:28.100 You can't have a politics where everyone is totally separate and doing what they want to themselves or in their own privacy without it having any effect on the culture.
00:29:38.960 We know that that doesn't work going all the way back to Aristotle's politics.
00:29:42.380 We know that that doesn't work going back to the founding fathers of our own country.
00:29:45.200 You can read their writings.
00:29:46.280 And we know that that doesn't work today.
00:29:49.300 That highly individualistic, do whatever you want kind of licentiousness leads to a culture that is going to affect all of us.
00:29:57.500 Because we're all living in the same place.
00:30:00.320 So if the place that we're living in, if the culture that we're all moving around in all the times, if that gets degraded, that is going to affect us, whether we want to admit that or not.
00:30:10.060 And conservatives need to get a little bit more serious about the cultural issues.
00:30:12.860 I remember I was working in politics in 2010 when conservatives were finally going to do something about the debt and the deficit.
00:30:19.780 That was the big issue in 2010, 2011.
00:30:21.960 And so everyone was really gung-ho about it.
00:30:23.580 Paul Ryan, to his credit, was really trying to fix the debt and the deficit.
00:30:26.240 And it flopped.
00:30:27.640 It all failed.
00:30:29.520 Mitt Romney failed.
00:30:31.040 They all failed.
00:30:32.340 And then in 2016, you had President Trump not running.
00:30:35.260 He didn't run on the debt.
00:30:36.240 He didn't run on any of these bean counting issues, economic issues.
00:30:39.320 He ran on the cultural issues.
00:30:40.760 And he won.
00:30:41.660 And he's actually had some success affecting the culture.
00:30:44.740 It became clear then what Andrew Breitbart used to always say.
00:30:47.680 Politics being downstream of culture and all that.
00:30:49.800 Now, maybe this isn't exactly the way that he was thinking about it, but it is an important way to think about it.
00:30:57.120 These issues, what it means to be an American, what it means to have closed borders, what it means to have a coherent culture, what it means to be a moral and religious people, to use John Adams' words.
00:31:07.000 That will affect all of the other issues.
00:31:09.940 If you get that in order, then all the kind of economic and other political questions fall in place.
00:31:14.560 But if you try to invert that, you're not going to get anything in the long run.
00:31:18.240 Speaking of completely inverted politics, there's a woman named Stacey Abrams who has been campaigning for vice president pretty unsubtly. 1.00
00:31:28.860 I've never seen a vice presidential campaign like this ever in American history.
00:31:33.060 And then it turns out she actually had never endorsed the guy for president that she was hoping would pick her.
00:31:39.240 So yesterday she finally endorsed Joe Biden.
00:31:41.060 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:32:29.160 So the woman campaigning for vice president finally remembered to endorse the guy who
00:32:45.340 she's trying to get to pick her, the guy who's running for president.
00:32:48.680 She says, quote, Vice President Biden is the leader American needs, a leader who will restore
00:32:53.720 dignity, competence, and compassion to the Oval Office, competency, okay, while restoring
00:32:58.740 America's moral leadership around the world.
00:33:00.900 Yeah, okay.
00:33:01.360 I'll talk to Tara Reid about that, I guess.
00:33:03.100 His commitment to fighting climate change, leading an economic recovery for all, and protecting
00:33:07.500 every eligible American's right to vote are among the many reasons why he must be the next
00:33:13.520 president of the United States.
00:33:14.560 Now, the reason I read that to you instead of playing a clip is because Stacey Abrams formally
00:33:19.680 endorsed Joe Biden, not on video, she did it in a written statement.
00:33:24.740 Wonder why?
00:33:26.560 I think part of the reason is she doesn't want that video footage out there because it's 0.89
00:33:30.240 humiliating to endorse Joe Biden because nobody thinks that guy should be president.
00:33:35.280 I don't think his wife thinks that he should be president.
00:33:37.520 It's pretty clear when you look at him, that guy has no business in the Oval Office.
00:33:41.640 So I don't think she wants that footage.
00:33:43.320 I think a lot of Democrats are not sure that he's even going to get the nomination.
00:33:46.880 I think that's part of the reason why she's delayed endorsing him.
00:33:49.680 I think she's hedging her bets.
00:33:52.160 The other reason, I mentioned this when I was reading it about Tara Reade, is it looks
00:33:55.960 terrible on the Me Too front.
00:33:58.820 I don't know that Joe Biden did whatever this woman says that he did back in the early 90s.
00:34:04.460 In fact, I think after that long a period of time that he certainly deserves the benefit
00:34:08.640 of the doubt and certainly, always, the accused deserve due process.
00:34:13.700 The issue here is the hypocrisy and the Me Too movement.
00:34:16.240 The left says, believe all women. 0.66
00:34:18.900 And then the moment that anyone accuses a Democrat, they suddenly stop believing all women.
00:34:23.800 And Vice News, to their credit, pushed Stacey Abrams on camera on this point.
00:34:28.740 And they backed her into a corner and she finally just came out and said it.
00:34:32.020 She said what all the other Democrats are at least implicitly saying, that Tara Reade is not
00:34:39.440 telling the truth.
00:34:40.600 I think there are two pieces.
00:34:41.480 One, I believe women deserve to be heard. 0.96
00:34:44.280 I believe their allegations deserve to be vetted.
00:34:46.960 They deserve to have investigation.
00:34:49.380 And they deserve the space, again, to describe their experiences.
00:34:55.080 But the question I got was a question not only of Joe Biden's character, but of my character.
00:34:59.560 And if I believed that he had done what he is accused of doing, I would not be in any other
00:35:06.380 conversations because that's wrong.
00:35:10.560 What he is accused of doing, that he has flatly and clearly denied, and I believe his denial
00:35:16.780 speaks not only to who he is, but to who I am.
00:35:20.320 Because privilege and power did not-
00:35:20.900 So just explain what you mean by that.
00:35:22.700 So if you felt there was evidence behind it, you would not support him as a candidate?
00:35:27.340 I, of course not, because I believe that we are obliged to serve justice to those who
00:35:37.860 have been wronged.
00:35:39.260 And for me, if I thought that this man had done that, then I could not be in this space.
00:35:45.280 Everything about this is so backwards.
00:35:47.480 Listen to what she says just first on Joe Biden.
00:35:50.080 She says, I believe his denial.
00:35:52.860 That's a really weird way to put it.
00:35:54.360 Because, I mean, I believe his denial too, in the sense that I believe he's denying what
00:35:58.120 he's being accused of.
00:35:59.680 So sure, I believe he's denying it.
00:36:01.060 But the question isn't the denial.
00:36:02.880 The question is the allegation.
00:36:06.000 So what you have to answer is, do you believe the allegation?
00:36:09.540 And she doesn't.
00:36:10.500 She thinks this woman is not telling the truth.
00:36:12.740 But she doesn't want to say that, because that's in the negative, and that is making it
00:36:16.040 too clear what she really believes.
00:36:17.300 So instead, she totally reverses it and says, I believe the denial.
00:36:24.360 No, you don't believe the woman.
00:36:26.520 You don't believe all women, because you don't believe that woman.
00:36:30.040 And you don't believe that woman, I think, because that's politically inconvenient. 0.92
00:36:33.000 That's the first place she flips it.
00:36:34.320 Then the other place she flips it is, she says, look, I was asked a question, not about
00:36:38.600 Joe Biden's character, but about my character.
00:36:41.000 Everything is about her.
00:36:42.520 Everything is always about Stacey Abrams.
00:36:44.040 She has to pretend that she actually won a race in Georgia that she lost, because it's
00:36:49.480 not possible that the people would vote against Stacey Abrams.
00:36:52.160 The victory of Brian Kemp in Georgia is actually the story of the loss of Stacey Abrams in Georgia,
00:36:58.640 which is really the story of the victory of Stacey Abrams.
00:37:01.560 Stacey Abrams says, it's about my character.
00:37:04.460 So she doesn't begin from, is this woman telling the truth? 1.00
00:37:08.880 Did Joe Biden really do this?
00:37:10.660 Does this mean that he is an unfit character to be president?
00:37:15.240 Therefore, will I endorse him or not?
00:37:16.980 She actually begins at the last stage.
00:37:19.900 She begins from this total political cynicism, says, well, I am endorsing Joe Biden and I'm
00:37:26.300 not the sort of person who would endorse a rapist.
00:37:29.160 Therefore, Joe Biden's denial has to be the truth.
00:37:33.800 Therefore, the woman can't be telling the truth. 1.00
00:37:35.740 It's all about her and it's all beginning from her own political interests.
00:37:41.160 She's barely even pretending to talk about the truth.
00:37:45.300 It's so, I don't think I've ever seen a more cynical politician in, at least in recent American
00:37:51.880 history, you know, in our lifetimes than Stacey Abrams.
00:37:55.000 And it's why I have this sort of perverse love of her as a candidate, as a Democratic candidate.
00:38:00.820 I want her to be the candidate because she's so cartoonishly bad. 1.00
00:38:05.400 She's so cartoonishly shallow, cynical, unlikable politically that I really want her to be the 0.97
00:38:13.140 vice president.
00:38:13.700 So she's, she's got my endorsement too.
00:38:15.280 Joe has her endorsement.
00:38:16.440 She has mine.
00:38:17.560 It's a question about my character.
00:38:18.720 Do you think I am the sort of person who would endorse a, uh, an unfit character to be the
00:38:24.000 Democratic vice presidential candidate?
00:38:26.400 Yes, I am.
00:38:27.560 Of course I am.
00:38:28.440 Okay.
00:38:28.620 That makes sense.
00:38:29.720 Uh, also in our backwards topsy-turvy upside down through the looking glass world, there
00:38:36.020 is a case I mentioned a little bit yesterday.
00:38:39.120 Uh, this is one of the most important court cases that we're seeing in the next few months.
00:38:43.380 You're going to see two very important court cases on transgenderism.
00:38:47.800 Now who cares about transgenderism? 1.00
00:38:49.480 It affects virtually statistically zero people in the country, but the left has made it a big
00:38:54.380 issue because the left is using this to get through their entire agenda. 1.00
00:39:00.080 The left is using this to get through their entire ideology because if the left can force
00:39:04.540 you to believe that men are women and women are men, then there is no objective reality.
00:39:08.860 There is no objective standard that we have to refer to.
00:39:11.040 It's all merely subjective preference.
00:39:12.940 It's all merely interest.
00:39:14.600 And the left can rewrite, they can rewrite the whole country.
00:39:17.780 They can rewrite our laws and they're trying to do that right now.
00:39:19.880 So there's this case, uh, in Connecticut, the ADF filed a suit.
00:39:24.820 The ADF is the Alliance Defending Freedom, great organization.
00:39:27.740 They filed a suit in February against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference
00:39:31.520 on behalf of three girls, uh, Selena Sewell, Alana Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell.
00:39:36.920 These three girls are runners in their school sports.
00:39:41.060 And what they're suing over is that these girls are being forced to compete against boys. 0.97
00:39:47.660 So title nine of the, you know, title nine exists to create female sports. 1.00
00:39:55.020 So the women can compete against the women and the men can compete against the men. 0.91
00:39:58.160 The women don't have to compete against the men because men are physically stronger than
00:40:01.280 women. 0.81
00:40:01.540 And when men compete against women in sports, men win. 0.83
00:40:04.220 There are many stories on this topic, which maybe, maybe we'll try to go into a little bit
00:40:07.640 later, but generally speaking, virtually all the time, men win.
00:40:12.080 Um, title nine sets up women's sports on the basis of sex. 1.00
00:40:19.440 If sex is redefined to mean gender, if biological sex is redefined to mean subjective gender identity
00:40:27.460 psychology, then it's not that that expands women's sports to include more people that 0.99
00:40:36.360 abolishes women's sports.
00:40:37.600 There are no more women's sports because women's sports all of a sudden include men and the 1.00
00:40:42.160 men win, which is what happened to these girls. 1.00
00:40:44.500 And so not only would they lose, unfortunately, these tournaments, but you know, you could lose
00:40:48.760 scholarships, you could lose college recruiting.
00:40:50.840 So that's the case.
00:40:52.540 And the deck is already stacked against them.
00:40:55.060 It's the case.
00:40:55.600 They haven't even gone, gone through the case yet.
00:40:57.880 And the district judge, a Clinton appointee by Robert, his name is Robert Chetigny, chastised
00:41:05.380 the ADF for referring to the boys as boys.
00:41:11.700 He said at the beginning of the case, he said, you can't refer to the boys as boys.
00:41:16.100 This is his exact quote.
00:41:17.460 What I'm saying is you must refer to them as transgender females rather than as males.
00:41:21.620 Again, that's the more accurate terminology.
00:41:24.840 Yeah.
00:41:25.060 And I think that it fully protects your client's legitimate interests.
00:41:28.720 Referring to these individuals as transgender females is consistent with science, capital 0.97
00:41:33.360 S. I don't know what science he's looking at, but if science means leftist ideology,
00:41:38.360 then I guess it is consistent.
00:41:39.780 Certainly not consistent with objective reality.
00:41:42.880 Common practice and perhaps human decency to refer to the boys as males, period, is not
00:41:49.600 accurate.
00:41:50.240 Certainly not as accurate.
00:41:51.320 And I think it's needlessly provocative.
00:41:53.220 I don't think that you surrender any legitimate interest or position if you refer to them as
00:41:57.460 transgender females.
00:41:58.980 That is what the case is about.
00:42:00.420 This isn't a case involving males who have decided that they want to run in girls' events.
00:42:04.580 Yes, it is.
00:42:05.440 That's exactly what the case is about.
00:42:07.420 This is a case about girls who say that transgender girls should not be allowed to run in girls'
00:42:13.880 events.
00:42:15.120 There's no such thing as transgender girls. 1.00
00:42:17.020 There's only boys.
00:42:17.620 So going forward, we will not refer to the proposed interveners as males, understood?
00:42:23.280 And obviously, the lawyer for ADF says, that's the whole game.
00:42:27.360 That's the whole case.
00:42:30.580 If we refer to these boys as girls, as you, judge, are telling us to do, then we have no
00:42:36.000 case because girls are allowed to compete against girls. 0.91
00:42:39.040 That's what Title IX does.
00:42:41.380 Our problem is that you and the sickos and the cynics who are pushing this ridiculous
00:42:48.240 leftist ideology are not permitting girls to compete against girls.
00:42:53.220 You're forcing girls to compete against boys, which totally takes away the rights of girls 0.99
00:42:58.100 in Title IX.
00:43:00.440 So that's the argument.
00:43:01.780 Maybe my version was a little more colorful, but that's the argument that Roger Brooks,
00:43:04.700 the late attorney for ADF, made.
00:43:05.900 They finally got the judge to agree to just use the term transgender.
00:43:11.020 So they'd say, he's a transgender.
00:43:12.600 Well, I guess they can't say he.
00:43:13.820 The person is a transgender.
00:43:15.680 But there's no third category of transgender.
00:43:19.000 There are boys and there are girls.
00:43:20.560 And there is a very infinitely, infinitesimally small number of people who are what's called
00:43:25.320 intersex or hermaphroditic, where there's some ambiguity as to the genitals or the biological
00:43:30.280 sex.
00:43:30.780 But of course, the existence of a, of that very small section and exception of people
00:43:37.180 doesn't obliterate the categories, right?
00:43:40.200 Just when there is sometimes a very rare ambiguity between two distinct categories, that doesn't
00:43:45.720 obliterate the existence of those categories.
00:43:47.480 And that's not what's at issue, by the way, in this case.
00:43:49.800 It's not somebody with an ambiguous sex.
00:43:52.360 It's a boy who by all markers of objective reality is a boy simply saying through sheer
00:44:00.560 tyranny of will that he is a girl and has the right to beat girls in races and take away 0.92
00:44:05.680 their scholarships.
00:44:08.360 That's what's at issue.
00:44:09.620 So even giving up, even, you know, I guess ADF kind of had to give it up.
00:44:12.820 The judge was just not going along with it.
00:44:14.300 But even giving them that term, transgender, is giving away the game.
00:44:20.700 This is the way that the culture is stacked against the conservatives.
00:44:27.040 This is the way that science is abused and appropriated and monopolized and perverted and
00:44:33.180 transformed to invert objective reality.
00:44:37.300 The judge did follow up.
00:44:38.720 He said, if you feel strongly that you and your client have a right to refer to these individuals
00:44:42.740 as males, could you imagine calling boys males and that you therefore do not want to
00:44:48.040 comply with my order, then that's unfortunate.
00:44:49.960 But I'll give you some time to think about it and you can let me know if it's a problem.
00:44:54.000 If it is, gosh, maybe we'll need to do something.
00:44:56.720 I don't want to bully you.
00:44:58.200 I don't want to bully you like the torturers in 1984.
00:45:03.620 I don't want to force you to say that two plus two equals five.
00:45:05.900 But, you know, you have to say it or, uh, or else, but I don't want to bully you because
00:45:12.620 I don't want to bully you.
00:45:13.340 But at the same time, I don't want you to be bullying someone else, you know, by calling
00:45:17.120 a boy, a boy and a girl, a girl and saying two plus two equals four.
00:45:21.260 Maybe you might need to take an application to the court of appeals.
00:45:23.920 I don't know, but I certainly don't want to put civility at risk in this case.
00:45:27.260 It is you judge who's being on civil.
00:45:30.600 It is you.
00:45:31.220 You are, you are the uncivil one because you won't use common language, basic language,
00:45:38.400 objectively true symbols to refer to reality because of your own ideology, because you
00:45:47.160 are so blinded by your ideology, which you call science, which the left has always called
00:45:52.280 its ideology science.
00:45:53.580 They've called it the science of history since Karl Marx.
00:45:55.480 You're so blinded by that ideology that you actually believe that a boy is a girl.
00:46:04.220 Not very scientific to me.
00:46:06.020 If that's science, perhaps we need some other basis of knowledge with which to understand
00:46:12.180 the world, with which to argue, and with which to form our politics.
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