The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 557 - With Malice Toward All

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00:00:37.660 Remember when the media were saying that the riots are actually peaceful protests?

00:00:43.840 Well, we are way past that now.

00:00:46.040 Here is just a very quick timeline.

00:00:47.860 First, they said that the riots were peaceful.

00:00:51.180 You remember they were standing there in front of all the burning buildings,

00:00:53.560 and they said, actually, no, no, ignore the burning buildings.

00:00:55.860 Really, it's peaceful.

00:00:56.980 Then they admitted that the protests weren't peaceful,

00:01:00.400 but they said that all the violence was being committed by white supremacists.

00:01:04.580 And we were looking at the videos, and we thought, you know, man,

00:01:06.660 those are some pretty confused white supremacists.

00:01:08.620 They do not look like the typical Klansmen that we see in the movies,

00:01:12.780 and I don't think there are that many Klansmen in America,

00:01:15.180 so probably not white supremacists.

00:01:17.400 Then, when it was pointed out that the violent people,

00:01:20.260 even the violent white people, actually, were Antifa.

00:01:22.540 They were radical leftists, and there weren't really any white supremacists in sight.

00:01:27.900 Then, the left-wingers sort of denied that the Antifa even existed.

00:01:32.500 Then they kind of went a little silent for a while.

00:01:34.320 Now, though, now, we have reached a moment of honesty,

00:01:39.240 where the left-wing media are admitting that the rioters are leftists,

00:01:45.660 the rioters are not white supremacists.

00:01:48.520 They're admitting that the protests have turned violent,

00:01:52.060 that the protests and the riots are basically the same thing,

00:01:54.720 and they're defending violent protests.

00:01:59.000 Here is Chris Cuomo, brother of Governor Andrew Cuomo,

00:02:03.560 head, silly, silly man on CNN,

00:02:07.680 defending the violent protests.

00:02:09.540 Now, too many see the protests as the problem.

00:02:13.240 No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens

00:02:16.640 to take to the streets,

00:02:18.580 persistent and poisonous inequities and injustice.

00:02:21.960 And please, show me where it says that protests

00:02:25.020 are supposed to be polite and peaceful.

00:02:27.540 Show me where it says that protests

00:02:29.520 are supposed to be polite and peaceful.

00:02:31.360 So he's not just saying that they don't have to be polite.

00:02:36.400 He's also saying they don't have to be peaceful.

00:02:38.100 Let me show you where it says that.

00:02:39.740 The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,

00:02:41.880 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion 0.99

00:02:43.900 or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

00:02:45.420 or abridging the freedom of speech or the press

00:02:46.920 or the right of the people to peaceably assemble.

00:02:50.160 That's where it says it, right there,

00:02:51.900 right in the First Amendment,

00:02:52.880 the only place in the Constitution

00:02:54.040 that talks about these sorts of protests.

00:02:56.880 The liberal establishment is now

00:02:58.440 publicly supporting political violence,

00:03:01.220 not just CNN.

00:03:02.660 This goes all the way through academia.

00:03:04.720 This goes all the way into our legal system itself.

00:03:07.560 Welcome to Mob Rule.

00:03:08.600 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:09.300 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:10.300 This goes way higher than Chris Cuomo.

00:03:19.560 Chris Cuomo is a clown, right?

00:03:22.320 Chris Cuomo actually was said on tape just a few weeks ago

00:03:26.440 that he hates what he does professionally,

00:03:28.520 that it's sort of ridiculous.

00:03:29.900 So it's beyond him.

00:03:31.620 It goes all the way up to the attorney general of Minnesota,

00:03:34.500 where this whole thing started,

00:03:35.840 who himself is a radical leftist defending political violence.

00:03:38.640 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:04:53.480 Keith Ellison is the radical leftist

00:04:56.480 in the Democratic Party

00:04:58.020 who is now the Attorney General of Minnesota.

00:05:00.780 He was a congressman.

00:05:02.720 He tried to run the DNC.

00:05:04.040 Now he's the AG of Minnesota.

00:05:06.100 You remember, Minnesota is where this whole thing started

00:05:08.180 with the killing of George Floyd.

00:05:10.480 Keith Ellison announced yesterday

00:05:11.700 that he's going to be upgrading the charges

00:05:14.360 on the police officer who was involved in the killing.

00:05:17.440 He's going to upgrade them from third-degree murder

00:05:19.420 to second-degree murder.

00:05:21.880 And there's a big problem and more threats underway

00:05:25.340 because of this decision.

00:05:27.160 First, today, I filed an amended complaint

00:05:31.100 that charges former Minneapolis police officer

00:05:35.280 Derek Chauvin with murder in the second degree

00:05:38.040 for the death of George Floyd.

00:05:41.100 I believe the evidence available to us

00:05:43.740 now supports the stronger charge of second-degree murder.

00:05:47.600 We've consulted with each other and we agree.

00:05:50.820 Oh, does it now?

00:05:52.200 What new evidence?

00:05:53.700 Have we seen any new evidence at all?

00:05:55.400 Well, no, the new evidence is the riots going on

00:05:57.360 around the country that are helping this guy get cover

00:06:01.040 to increase the charge.

00:06:03.040 What's the charge?

00:06:04.240 Third-degree murder, unintentional.

00:06:07.040 Second-degree murder, intentional.

00:06:09.420 So if you want to believe that this was warranted,

00:06:13.380 you have to believe that this cop

00:06:15.140 was intentionally murdering George Floyd.

00:06:18.880 Does anybody seriously believe that?

00:06:21.120 No, of course not.

00:06:22.180 One, because he, why would this cop want to bring down

00:06:24.520 all this mayhem on himself?

00:06:26.420 Obviously, his life is ruined now.

00:06:28.620 There are race riots all over the country.

00:06:30.800 Everything is caught on video now,

00:06:32.400 so he had to know this sort of thing would be happening.

00:06:34.880 There's just no evidence of it.

00:06:36.420 Also, if he had wanted to intentionally kill George Floyd,

00:06:38.940 wouldn't he have done it more quickly

00:06:40.660 than within eight minutes?

00:06:42.700 No.

00:06:43.440 When you watch that video, very sad video,

00:06:46.420 you watch this man saying,

00:06:47.140 I can't breathe, please watch this man dying.

00:06:48.880 You don't get the impression that this cop

00:06:53.620 is actively murdering him.

00:06:55.460 Like, ha ha, I'm going to kill you now.

00:06:57.280 What would the cop have to be thinking to do that?

00:06:59.620 It wouldn't make sense.

00:07:00.740 Now, was the cop acting, I don't know, recklessly?

00:07:04.080 Was the cop acting callously?

00:07:05.680 Was the cop, maybe, yeah.

00:07:07.320 I mean, that's for the court to decide.

00:07:08.820 That's what people were looking at on camera.

00:07:10.580 But now, with a second-degree charge,

00:07:12.280 he's more likely to walk

00:07:13.660 than if he had the third-degree charge,

00:07:15.220 because it's much easier to prove the third-degree charge,

00:07:17.480 much more difficult to prove the second-degree.

00:07:20.000 Ellison goes on, charging the other cops

00:07:22.760 who just happened to be present at the arrest.

00:07:25.340 Second, today, arrest warrants were issued

00:07:28.900 for former Minneapolis police officers

00:07:31.360 J.A. King, Thomas Lane, and Tu Tao.

00:07:37.400 Finally, I'd like to announce that today,

00:07:40.900 Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman and I

00:07:43.660 filed a complaint that charges

00:07:47.700 police officer King, Lane, and Tao

00:07:51.160 with aiding and abetting murder

00:07:53.220 in the second-degree felony offense.

00:07:56.160 I strongly believe that these developments

00:07:58.160 are in the interest of justice for Mr. Floyd,

00:08:01.860 his family, our community, and our state.

00:08:03.980 In the interest of justice,

00:08:05.920 you believe that these other cops

00:08:07.440 who were present during the arrest

00:08:08.820 actually secretly had been colluding

00:08:11.280 with the officer Derek Chauvin

00:08:14.140 to murder this guy,

00:08:17.200 and they just decided to carry out their murder,

00:08:19.860 they were going to do it on camera

00:08:22.300 in the most public way possible.

00:08:24.280 That would make them completely vulnerable,

00:08:26.000 and that's why they would be charged

00:08:27.600 long after this murder,

00:08:29.540 but not long after the riots

00:08:31.260 started to burn down all the cities.

00:08:32.640 Obviously, this has absolutely nothing

00:08:34.240 to do with justice,

00:08:35.260 but that's Keith Ellison's M.O.

00:08:36.860 Keith Ellison is probably the most prominent

00:08:39.020 Democratic politician in America

00:08:40.540 to publicly endorse Antifa.

00:08:43.800 Antifa is a terrorist organization.

00:08:46.400 Antifa is a group of radical leftists,

00:08:48.680 communists, and anarchists

00:08:50.360 that uses political violence against civilians

00:08:54.080 to achieve political ends.

00:08:55.660 That is the definition of terrorism.

00:08:57.600 Keith Ellison has smiled with holding up

00:08:59.580 the Antifa handbook,

00:09:00.880 the Antifa handbook written by an academic

00:09:03.040 from Dartmouth College.

00:09:05.280 Keith Ellison has not just posed with the book,

00:09:06.840 he's posed with Antifa leaders.

00:09:09.020 Keith Ellison is supporting,

00:09:11.900 not justice, but terrorism.

00:09:14.260 These guys, Chris Cuomo, Keith Ellison,

00:09:17.880 they think, I think a lot of leftists

00:09:20.120 in this country think that supporting terrorism,

00:09:23.240 I mean, they wouldn't use that word,

00:09:24.680 but that's what the definition is.

00:09:26.620 They think that by supporting political violence,

00:09:28.620 that makes them edgy.

00:09:29.940 They think that that makes them revolutionaries.

00:09:32.420 They think that that makes them

00:09:33.680 on the right side of history.

00:09:35.220 The real effect of that,

00:09:38.120 the real effect of the political violence

00:09:39.860 they support is to get people killed.

00:09:41.380 For instance, Italia Marie Kelly,

00:09:44.720 who is 22 years old,

00:09:46.680 a biracial girl, speaking of racial justice,

00:09:49.400 who was shot and killed at a protest

00:09:51.340 against police brutality

00:09:52.760 by a protester, by the way,

00:09:54.800 outside of Davenport, Iowa,

00:09:56.420 at Walmart on Monday.

00:09:58.660 Here is Italia's sister describing the scene.

00:10:01.920 I'm waiting for everyone to get on.

00:10:04.580 So I know, I hope y'all know

00:10:06.080 what the f*** you did. 0.98

00:10:08.420 My sister is gone.

00:10:10.540 And it's not from a cop.

00:10:12.240 It wasn't from no f***ing cop.

00:10:14.020 I don't get on live.

00:10:15.140 I don't care about this Facebook s***.

00:10:17.380 But my sister is gone

00:10:18.780 because one of you,

00:10:20.340 a protester, shot my sister.

00:10:23.080 A protester.

00:10:24.580 Not even the police.

00:10:25.840 Because you guys,

00:10:27.240 I lost my sister.

00:10:30.100 I lost my sister.

00:10:32.000 Because you,

00:10:33.480 you,

00:10:34.400 you're so mad at the police.

00:10:36.700 You're hurting everyone else.

00:10:38.280 You're so mad at the police.

00:10:40.020 You guys killed my sister.

00:10:42.580 So this is what Chris Cuomo

00:10:44.360 and Keith Ellison are supporting.

00:10:46.660 They wouldn't put it in those words.

00:10:47.880 They would probably say,

00:10:48.480 no, I don't support that.

00:10:49.860 Well, then what do you support?

00:10:51.000 You're saying that protests

00:10:52.400 don't have to be peaceful.

00:10:54.200 Chris Cuomo said that

00:10:54.860 on national television.

00:10:56.520 To all seven people watching CNN.

00:10:58.660 Keith Ellison smiling

00:10:59.620 with the anti-fascist

00:11:00.680 political violence handbook.

00:11:02.260 So what are you saying?

00:11:03.340 What they're really saying,

00:11:04.780 I would imagine,

00:11:05.380 is no, no, no.

00:11:05.840 We don't want

00:11:06.440 the civilians to be killed.

00:11:08.880 We want the,

00:11:09.640 the unpeaceful protests,

00:11:12.320 the violent protests

00:11:13.120 to be directed at cops.

00:11:14.480 So if they killed a cop,

00:11:15.280 that's fine.

00:11:16.120 But you kill an innocent civilian,

00:11:18.260 that,

00:11:18.580 that's not so fine.

00:11:19.560 Well, this is what happens,

00:11:20.440 by the way.

00:11:20.800 Even if you,

00:11:21.300 even if you held

00:11:22.140 that repulsive premise,

00:11:24.120 this is what happens

00:11:25.460 when you allow mob rule

00:11:26.860 to take over your cities

00:11:28.100 is they don't just aim perfectly

00:11:31.160 at the person

00:11:32.160 that you've designated the enemy.

00:11:34.240 Everything goes haywire.

00:11:37.040 Lots of different people

00:11:38.260 of lots of different persuasions

00:11:40.140 and categories get killed.

00:11:41.800 Buildings get burnt down.

00:11:43.740 Law goes out the window

00:11:44.780 and law has gone out the window

00:11:46.300 all the way up

00:11:47.020 through our legal system.

00:11:48.680 The lawlessness,

00:11:50.800 the unreason

00:11:51.400 is not just in law enforcement,

00:11:53.240 which by the way,

00:11:53.700 we're seeing here,

00:11:54.140 Eric Garcetti,

00:11:54.800 mayor of LA,

00:11:55.420 just announced

00:11:55.840 they want to cut

00:11:56.460 over $100 million

00:11:57.700 from the LAPD budget,

00:11:59.400 which is really what you,

00:12:00.080 when they're burning down cities

00:12:00.960 and smashing buildings

00:12:01.840 and harming people,

00:12:02.420 that's what you want.

00:12:03.000 You want to smash

00:12:03.680 the,

00:12:04.360 the LAPD budget,

00:12:05.660 but,

00:12:06.100 but it's not just

00:12:06.720 in law enforcement.

00:12:07.240 We're seeing it

00:12:07.700 in science too.

00:12:08.740 So I actually,

00:12:09.660 there is some

00:12:10.100 slightly good news here.

00:12:11.780 You remember hydroxychloroquine?

00:12:13.780 Hydroxychloroquine

00:12:14.140 was that cure

00:12:14.800 for coronavirus

00:12:15.500 or was a treatment

00:12:16.380 for coronavirus

00:12:16.980 that was showing

00:12:17.620 very promising results

00:12:18.760 and then there was

00:12:19.420 a study that came out

00:12:20.800 that said it was really

00:12:22.280 actually dangerous and bad

00:12:23.900 and that study came out

00:12:24.840 after Trump

00:12:25.520 had publicly

00:12:26.760 supported hydroxychloroquine.

00:12:29.020 Well,

00:12:29.300 now that Trump

00:12:29.800 has stopped

00:12:30.380 publicly supporting

00:12:31.360 hydroxychloroquine,

00:12:32.520 hydroxychloroquine

00:12:33.240 is good again.

00:12:33.940 It's okay.

00:12:34.640 Now that Trump's

00:12:35.260 not talking about it,

00:12:36.120 actually,

00:12:36.680 it's healthy for you.

00:12:37.940 The Lancet

00:12:38.580 and another medical journal,

00:12:39.780 the New England Journal

00:12:40.680 of Science,

00:12:42.640 of Medicine rather,

00:12:44.080 issued an expression

00:12:45.160 of concern,

00:12:46.300 each of them,

00:12:46.980 for studies

00:12:47.560 that were co-authored

00:12:48.220 by Dr. Sapan Desai

00:12:50.100 and Desai is the one

00:12:52.000 who raised the alarm

00:12:52.940 about hydroxychloroquine.

00:12:54.920 It's hard to look

00:12:55.800 at all of this

00:12:56.380 and not think

00:12:58.040 it's just arbitrary,

00:12:59.980 right?

00:13:00.280 It's hard to look

00:13:00.900 at the charges

00:13:01.480 in Minnesota

00:13:01.860 and say,

00:13:02.300 you're not basing this

00:13:03.680 on any,

00:13:04.060 there isn't any new evidence,

00:13:05.000 you're just doing it

00:13:05.560 because the mob says so

00:13:06.880 and you're moved

00:13:07.320 by those emotions.

00:13:09.160 Hydroxychloroquine,

00:13:10.240 when Trump was touting it,

00:13:11.840 you said it was really bad.

00:13:13.140 Then when Trump

00:13:13.800 stopped touting it,

00:13:14.580 you say it's really good again.

00:13:16.660 Beyond hydroxychloroquine,

00:13:18.120 look at what the public

00:13:18.840 health officials have done.

00:13:20.180 The Pennsylvania

00:13:21.240 health secretary,

00:13:22.860 Dr. Rachel Levine,

00:13:24.760 I present this to you,

00:13:27.500 first I will point out

00:13:29.000 the obvious,

00:13:29.500 which is that

00:13:29.840 the health secretary

00:13:30.860 of Pennsylvania

00:13:31.420 is a man who thinks

00:13:32.520 he's a woman

00:13:32.960 and he goes by

00:13:34.200 Rachel Levine.

00:13:35.240 That is obviously

00:13:36.360 an ironic circumstance.

00:13:37.640 that's not actually

00:13:39.600 the absurd aspect

00:13:40.620 of the situation

00:13:41.360 that I want to draw

00:13:41.940 your attention to.

00:13:42.580 I want to draw

00:13:42.980 your attention to

00:13:43.720 what he is saying

00:13:45.160 that many other

00:13:47.500 public health officials

00:13:48.300 are saying too,

00:13:49.160 which is they're

00:13:50.220 answering our question.

00:13:51.800 Why is it

00:13:52.720 that if you walked

00:13:53.660 outside,

00:13:54.280 even for a little bit,

00:13:55.420 even just to go down

00:13:56.860 the street and get groceries,

00:13:58.400 three weeks ago

00:13:59.040 you were endangering

00:13:59.740 public health

00:14:00.340 and the deadly virus.

00:14:01.560 But today,

00:14:02.340 if you gather in crowds

00:14:03.360 of hundreds of thousands,

00:14:04.600 you're not

00:14:05.920 endangering public health

00:14:07.060 as long as you're

00:14:07.660 rioting and protesting

00:14:08.660 and hanging out

00:14:10.820 with leftists.

00:14:11.560 Why is it that

00:14:12.540 when you go to church

00:14:13.400 it's endangering

00:14:14.440 public health,

00:14:15.140 but when you're protesting

00:14:16.280 and smashing windows

00:14:17.740 and stealing Nikes,

00:14:18.720 you're not endangering

00:14:19.380 public health?

00:14:21.020 The PA health secretary

00:14:22.320 with a completely

00:14:23.840 straight face

00:14:24.580 gives the answer.

00:14:26.160 Secretary,

00:14:26.920 Dolphin County

00:14:27.500 just moved to yellow

00:14:28.440 on May 29th,

00:14:30.320 which means

00:14:31.040 no large gatherings

00:14:32.060 and apparently

00:14:32.700 there's remarks

00:14:33.280 going on

00:14:33.800 that has more

00:14:34.380 than 200 people

00:14:35.000 today in Dauphin County.

00:14:37.240 Can you clarify

00:14:37.900 the administration's

00:14:38.700 position on May 11th

00:14:39.980 business owners

00:14:40.460 were called cowards

00:14:42.200 for wanting to reopen

00:14:42.860 their businesses

00:14:43.400 and today the governor

00:14:44.400 is actually marching

00:14:45.200 in that.

00:14:47.060 Is that not in violation

00:14:48.040 of your order

00:14:48.700 and his order

00:14:49.660 for large gatherings?

00:14:50.700 Well,

00:14:51.040 so we have,

00:14:52.200 and the governor

00:14:52.700 has always said

00:14:53.560 that people have

00:14:54.400 the right to protest

00:14:56.460 and to demonstrate

00:14:57.620 and the right

00:14:58.760 of free speech.

00:14:59.640 And so overall,

00:15:01.040 we want large gatherings

00:15:02.700 such as maybe a party

00:15:07.860 or some type of concert

00:15:09.980 or something

00:15:10.520 to be under 250 people.

00:15:13.180 But we are not restricting

00:15:15.620 people's right to protest.

00:15:17.080 There are obviously

00:15:18.700 significant social issues

00:15:21.340 that are present

00:15:23.280 that people feel

00:15:24.000 that they need

00:15:24.440 to have a voice.

00:15:25.580 And so the governor

00:15:26.360 is always supportive

00:15:27.420 of that

00:15:27.920 and is participating

00:15:29.540 in that.

00:15:30.740 So let me distill

00:15:32.580 that down for you.

00:15:33.900 If the people

00:15:34.580 are doing something

00:15:35.440 that the Democrats

00:15:37.580 support,

00:15:38.600 it's fine.

00:15:39.560 And if the people

00:15:40.320 are doing something

00:15:41.020 that the Democrats

00:15:41.740 don't support,

00:15:42.540 it's not fine.

00:15:44.100 That was the kind

00:15:45.280 of long rambling answer.

00:15:47.120 I also love now

00:15:48.280 that these Democratic leaders

00:15:50.160 are so in favor

00:15:50.840 of free expression.

00:15:51.680 That's not what I was

00:15:52.200 hearing from them

00:15:52.760 a few weeks ago

00:15:53.360 during the anti-lockdown

00:15:54.260 protests.

00:15:55.080 During the anti-lockdown

00:15:55.940 protests,

00:15:56.340 I heard this is going

00:15:57.020 to kill grandma. 0.81

00:15:57.940 This is going

00:15:58.340 to kill lots of people.

00:15:59.300 You've got to stay home.

00:16:00.060 It's selfish.

00:16:00.640 It's a wrong version

00:16:01.640 of freedom.

00:16:02.400 But now that the hundreds

00:16:05.980 of thousands of people

00:16:06.840 in all sorts of municipalities

00:16:08.020 are protesting

00:16:09.120 based on a lie, right?

00:16:10.900 Based on the lie

00:16:11.540 that there is this scourge,

00:16:12.560 this epidemic

00:16:13.040 of police officers

00:16:14.720 killing innocent black men 1.00

00:16:15.880 around the country.

00:16:16.560 Not happening.

00:16:17.240 We went through it

00:16:17.600 on the show yesterday.

00:16:18.680 It simply is not taking place.

00:16:20.460 Even when you look

00:16:21.220 last year at the number

00:16:22.000 of unarmed black men

00:16:23.160 killed by police officers,

00:16:24.780 and by the way,

00:16:25.400 unarmed does not mean

00:16:26.400 not dangerous.

00:16:27.020 But even the number

00:16:27.820 of unarmed,

00:16:28.660 what's the number?

00:16:29.280 9,000?

00:16:30.060 No.

00:16:30.360 900?

00:16:31.000 No.

00:16:31.360 90?

00:16:31.900 No.

00:16:32.340 The answer is nine.

00:16:33.800 Nine.

00:16:34.460 And many of them,

00:16:36.260 many of them,

00:16:37.340 virtually all of them,

00:16:38.880 were posing a threat

00:16:40.140 to the police officer.

00:16:41.380 Not saying that every death

00:16:42.380 isn't a tragedy.

00:16:43.180 Every death is a tragedy.

00:16:44.700 But that is not evidence

00:16:45.820 of systemic slaughter.

00:16:46.920 So going out and rioting

00:16:50.500 and killing people, 0.68

00:16:51.560 now killing more people

00:16:53.320 in the riots

00:16:53.980 than were killed

00:16:55.360 as a matter of unarmed black men

00:16:58.600 last year by police,

00:17:00.180 doing that is perfectly acceptable

00:17:02.380 because,

00:17:03.200 because I,

00:17:04.140 because why?

00:17:04.520 Because the Pennsylvania

00:17:05.460 health secretary said so.

00:17:07.060 He is not the only one.

00:17:08.900 There is an open letter

00:17:10.160 from over 1,200

00:17:11.520 public health expert scientists

00:17:14.040 saying that,

00:17:16.020 yeah,

00:17:16.140 the other kinds of protests

00:17:17.220 that were conservative are bad,

00:17:18.860 but these riots and protests

00:17:20.620 are essential for public health.

00:17:22.880 Open letter advocating

00:17:23.780 for an anti-racist

00:17:25.180 public health response

00:17:25.980 to demonstrations

00:17:26.620 against systemic injustice

00:17:29.000 occurring during

00:17:29.960 the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:17:31.940 At least the scientific experts

00:17:33.440 acknowledge it here.

00:17:34.360 They say,

00:17:35.120 on April 30th,

00:17:36.100 heavily armed,

00:17:37.040 heavily armed,

00:17:37.640 give me a break,

00:17:38.240 and predominantly white protesters,

00:17:40.000 well, that's terrible.

00:17:40.680 They can't be,

00:17:41.100 white people can't protest, 0.62

00:17:42.560 entered the state capitol building

00:17:43.860 in Lansing, Michigan,

00:17:45.200 protesting stay-at-home orders

00:17:46.500 and calls for widespread

00:17:47.960 public masking

00:17:48.880 to prevent the spread

00:17:49.680 of COVID-19.

00:17:50.940 Infectious disease physicians

00:17:52.020 and public health officials

00:17:52.880 publicly condemned

00:17:53.920 these actions

00:17:54.880 and privately mourned

00:17:56.120 the widening rift

00:17:57.080 between leaders in science

00:17:58.540 and a subset of the communities

00:17:59.660 that they serve.

00:18:01.680 That's the first part.

00:18:02.660 Second part,

00:18:03.120 as of May 30th,

00:18:03.900 we are witnessing

00:18:04.460 continuing demonstrations

00:18:05.940 in response to ongoing

00:18:07.260 pervasive and lethal

00:18:08.200 institutional racism

00:18:09.480 set off by the killings

00:18:11.980 of George Floyd

00:18:12.540 and Breonna Taylor,

00:18:13.100 among many other

00:18:13.840 black lives

00:18:14.480 taken by police.

00:18:15.600 Many other.

00:18:16.160 We went through the numbers

00:18:16.900 just a few seconds ago.

00:18:18.480 Not many other

00:18:19.600 when we're talking about

00:18:20.500 this kind of specific injustice.

00:18:22.840 A public health response

00:18:23.780 to these demonstrations

00:18:24.540 is also warranted,

00:18:25.940 but this message

00:18:26.560 must be wholly different

00:18:27.800 from the response

00:18:29.160 to white protesters

00:18:30.240 resisting stay-at-home orders.

00:18:31.960 They're actually saying,

00:18:33.060 yeah, I know they look the same.

00:18:34.740 Well, they don't look the same

00:18:35.500 because the anti-lockdown protesters

00:18:37.840 were completely peaceful

00:18:39.060 and then went home

00:18:40.760 and very respectful

00:18:41.500 and these rioters

00:18:42.900 are killing people

00:18:43.640 and torching cities.

00:18:44.540 But, you know, okay,

00:18:45.440 they're both protesting,

00:18:47.220 but we need to treat

00:18:48.680 the really peaceable,

00:18:49.920 nice ones

00:18:51.300 in the American tradition

00:18:52.440 horribly

00:18:53.400 and we need to treat

00:18:54.520 the rioters wonderfully.

00:18:56.920 That's what we're being told.

00:18:58.540 They say white supremacy

00:18:59.460 is a lethal public health issue

00:19:01.580 that predates

00:19:02.500 and contributes

00:19:03.000 to COVID-19.

00:19:04.020 Is it now?

00:19:08.160 Like, I don't,

00:19:09.580 nobody,

00:19:10.120 nobody here is defending

00:19:11.700 white supremacy.

00:19:13.380 I don't know.

00:19:14.000 It's the whole thing.

00:19:14.900 It's like,

00:19:15.200 nobody,

00:19:15.640 nobody thinks that black lives

00:19:16.920 don't matter.

00:19:17.980 Nobody is defending

00:19:18.760 white supremacy.

00:19:19.960 How many,

00:19:20.240 how many white supremacists

00:19:21.520 are there?

00:19:21.940 Not too many,

00:19:22.900 I don't,

00:19:23.200 I don't think.

00:19:24.780 But does anybody think

00:19:25.980 it's a public health issue?

00:19:27.900 I don't,

00:19:29.080 it can,

00:19:29.780 and even if you thought

00:19:30.680 it were a public health issue,

00:19:31.640 do you think it contributes

00:19:32.460 to COVID-19?

00:19:34.020 You know,

00:19:34.640 we don't know a whole lot

00:19:35.400 about this virus.

00:19:36.280 Some people say

00:19:36.760 it's transmitted by air.

00:19:38.280 Some people say

00:19:38.940 it's transmitted on services.

00:19:40.260 No one says it's transmitted

00:19:41.420 by white supremacy.

00:19:42.700 Okay.

00:19:42.920 I haven't seen a scientific paper

00:19:44.340 on that.

00:19:45.060 They go on protests

00:19:46.100 against systemic racism,

00:19:47.360 which fosters

00:19:48.460 the disproportionate burden

00:19:49.760 of COVID-19

00:19:51.180 on black communities

00:19:52.200 and also perpetuates

00:19:53.840 police violence

00:19:54.620 must be supported.

00:19:56.600 So according to public health,

00:19:58.240 public health science,

00:19:59.940 can't debate science.

00:20:01.100 You can't refute science.

00:20:02.200 According to science,

00:20:03.280 we need to keep rioting

00:20:06.620 and torching cities.

00:20:08.220 Signed by 1,288

00:20:09.580 public health professionals.

00:20:10.860 What this,

00:20:11.380 what this letter tells me

00:20:12.520 is that I should never again

00:20:13.960 listen to public health professionals

00:20:15.160 because it's obvious

00:20:16.700 that they're charlatans.

00:20:17.860 It's obvious that they have

00:20:18.900 no idea what they're talking

00:20:19.840 about,

00:20:20.180 about anything.

00:20:21.160 And it's obvious

00:20:22.480 that they are using

00:20:23.220 their credential

00:20:23.900 to weigh in on a subject

00:20:25.440 that has absolutely

00:20:26.620 nothing to do

00:20:27.580 with their credential.

00:20:28.700 It doesn't really teach me that

00:20:30.720 because frankly,

00:20:31.440 I've known it for a long time,

00:20:32.380 but I think it shows

00:20:33.320 the rest of us that now.

00:20:35.300 Public health officials

00:20:36.280 are now saying

00:20:36.980 it is good to riot

00:20:37.940 and coronavirus won't spread

00:20:39.720 if you do riot.

00:20:41.500 But if you protest

00:20:42.640 for your civil liberties,

00:20:43.680 that would be a very bad thing.

00:20:45.680 And by the way,

00:20:46.040 they go further.

00:20:46.720 I kid you not,

00:20:47.380 they go further

00:20:47.780 in the New York Times.

00:20:48.420 They say,

00:20:49.300 if the police

00:20:50.720 break up the riots,

00:20:52.540 then coronavirus will spread.

00:20:55.080 Not the hundreds of thousands

00:20:56.280 of people pouring in

00:20:57.220 next to one another.

00:20:58.280 Then it's,

00:20:58.980 they're immune somehow.

00:21:00.300 But when the cops break it up,

00:21:02.060 because,

00:21:02.780 as the New York Times says,

00:21:04.780 there are corrosive effects

00:21:07.040 of tear gas

00:21:08.100 that could intensify

00:21:10.260 the coronavirus pandemic.

00:21:12.820 Tear gas.

00:21:14.620 So you can't,

00:21:15.360 cops got to stay home. 0.64

00:21:16.800 The scientists said so.

00:21:17.760 And the scientists,

00:21:18.960 they know.

00:21:19.280 They know what they're talking about

00:21:20.360 because they have PhDs.

00:21:22.720 Now, by the way,

00:21:23.880 that headline

00:21:25.040 implies another lie

00:21:27.640 that we've been told.

00:21:28.260 We've been told

00:21:28.640 that when President Trump

00:21:29.320 walked from the Rose Garden,

00:21:30.920 you know,

00:21:31.160 through the White House,

00:21:32.060 through Lafayette Park,

00:21:33.420 and to that church

00:21:34.620 the other day,

00:21:35.160 St. John's Church

00:21:35.740 to hold up the Bible,

00:21:36.900 the church that

00:21:37.520 the peaceful protesters

00:21:38.800 tried to burn down

00:21:39.560 the night before,

00:21:40.920 we were told

00:21:41.880 that the police

00:21:42.680 used tear gas

00:21:43.820 to break up the protesters.

00:21:45.380 That's not true.

00:21:46.480 The U.S. Park Police

00:21:47.300 confirmed they did not

00:21:48.380 use tear gas.

00:21:49.640 They did use smoke canisters.

00:21:50.920 They did use pepper bowls.

00:21:52.220 But no actual tear gas

00:21:54.240 was used

00:21:54.780 in the Lafayette Square incident.

00:21:56.400 So,

00:21:56.660 since the public health officials

00:21:57.600 are so concerned

00:21:58.200 about tear gas,

00:21:59.140 then don't worry.

00:21:59.800 It's not going to spread

00:22:00.540 the pandemic.

00:22:01.260 Even Nancy Pelosi

00:22:02.060 admitted that.

00:22:03.040 My daughter,

00:22:03.800 Alexandra,

00:22:04.440 a filmmaker,

00:22:05.420 journalist,

00:22:06.120 was there that night

00:22:07.700 and she called me

00:22:08.420 and she said,

00:22:08.820 Mom,

00:22:09.040 you wouldn't even believe it.

00:22:10.260 These people

00:22:10.700 were demonstrating peacefully.

00:22:12.700 And all of a sudden,

00:22:13.560 this barrage

00:22:15.720 of security

00:22:16.980 came through

00:22:17.780 using clubs

00:22:19.100 to beat people

00:22:19.900 and these explosive

00:22:21.320 scat

00:22:22.400 little bullets

00:22:24.260 that explode

00:22:25.100 into

00:22:26.360 stuff that burns

00:22:28.000 your eyes.

00:22:28.560 Maybe they didn't

00:22:29.220 have tear gas.

00:22:29.940 I don't know.

00:22:30.420 But they had

00:22:31.220 the elements of it.

00:22:33.040 Well,

00:22:33.400 there you go.

00:22:33.840 There's the admission.

00:22:34.540 Okay,

00:22:34.780 maybe they didn't have

00:22:35.620 tear gas.

00:22:36.300 I don't know.

00:22:36.660 But they had stuff.

00:22:38.340 You know,

00:22:38.660 they had stuff.

00:22:39.900 And so,

00:22:40.340 I'm going to call it

00:22:40.800 tear gas.

00:22:41.200 And then the public

00:22:43.240 health officials

00:22:43.820 are going to say

00:22:44.320 that tear gas

00:22:44.980 spreads coronavirus.

00:22:46.440 So,

00:22:46.600 they're going to let

00:22:47.040 the rioters continue.

00:22:49.320 I also love here

00:22:50.580 that Nancy Pelosi

00:22:51.220 is admitting

00:22:51.700 that her daughter

00:22:52.640 was at one of these riots.

00:22:53.940 I guess it's part and parcel.

00:22:55.320 You know,

00:22:55.640 Waltz,

00:22:56.440 the governor of Minnesota,

00:22:58.120 his daughter

00:22:58.680 was giving

00:22:59.360 these rioters

00:23:00.520 tips on where

00:23:01.280 the National Guard

00:23:01.920 was going to be.

00:23:02.940 Chiara de Blasio,

00:23:04.240 Bill de Blasio's

00:23:04.900 25-year-old daughter,

00:23:06.120 she was arrested 0.68

00:23:06.800 in a group of people.

00:23:08.280 The group of people

00:23:08.820 was throwing objects

00:23:09.620 at the police

00:23:10.360 during one of these

00:23:11.400 peaceful protests.

00:23:12.760 My conclusion,

00:23:14.960 the rioters are immune.

00:23:17.120 Only,

00:23:17.760 only churchgoers,

00:23:20.200 people with jobs,

00:23:22.300 civil libertarians,

00:23:24.360 voters,

00:23:25.260 remember you can't

00:23:25.840 go out and vote,

00:23:26.320 that's why we have

00:23:26.700 to have national

00:23:27.200 mail-in votes,

00:23:28.380 students,

00:23:29.680 diners,

00:23:30.580 and shoppers.

00:23:31.740 Those are the people,

00:23:32.860 those are the seven

00:23:33.420 groups of people

00:23:34.120 that can catch

00:23:35.760 coronavirus.

00:23:36.700 but looters

00:23:39.280 and rioters

00:23:40.640 and anarchists

00:23:42.340 and communists,

00:23:43.060 they're just immune.

00:23:44.640 They're not going

00:23:45.000 to catch it,

00:23:45.560 so it's okay

00:23:46.120 if they go out

00:23:47.620 and protest.

00:23:49.640 The science tells us

00:23:50.960 that if you,

00:23:52.700 basically,

00:23:53.160 this is the rule of thumb,

00:23:53.760 if you go out

00:23:54.400 and build

00:23:55.040 or buy anything,

00:23:56.740 you're seriously

00:23:57.400 at risk.

00:23:57.940 You need to go back home.

00:23:59.100 But if you go out

00:24:00.200 to destroy

00:24:01.520 or steal something,

00:24:03.240 you're safe.

00:24:04.640 That's the science.

00:24:06.300 That's our public

00:24:06.820 health experts.

00:24:07.940 Real collateral damage here.

00:24:09.900 Real collateral damage.

00:24:12.220 They shut us down

00:24:13.100 for two months.

00:24:14.540 People couldn't go

00:24:15.440 to funerals.

00:24:17.000 A teacher of mine

00:24:18.480 died during that time.

00:24:20.240 I certainly would have

00:24:21.320 gone to the funeral

00:24:22.340 if I could have,

00:24:23.460 if he had died

00:24:24.080 during a normal time.

00:24:25.000 I couldn't go

00:24:25.600 to the funeral.

00:24:26.440 And look,

00:24:26.920 he was just a teacher

00:24:27.720 of mine.

00:24:29.040 Think about people

00:24:29.800 who lost their mothers

00:24:30.800 and their fathers

00:24:31.320 who couldn't be with them

00:24:32.080 at the very end,

00:24:32.760 whose close family members

00:24:34.900 had to die alone

00:24:36.060 and then

00:24:37.540 who couldn't receive

00:24:38.780 a proper funeral

00:24:39.480 because the public health experts

00:24:42.200 told us not to.

00:24:43.120 All those people

00:24:43.920 now are looking out

00:24:45.200 and seeing hundreds

00:24:46.080 of thousands

00:24:46.620 of looters

00:24:47.320 and rioters

00:24:48.180 pouring out everywhere

00:24:49.460 and the public health experts

00:24:51.260 are cheering it on.

00:24:53.120 If you thought

00:24:54.040 that our faith

00:24:55.360 and our institutions

00:24:56.160 was fraying

00:24:56.860 before this whole thing,

00:24:58.540 oh boy,

00:24:59.440 oh buddy,

00:25:00.580 it's gone.

00:25:01.500 It's gone.

00:25:02.020 And yet people

00:25:02.700 I think are starting

00:25:04.540 to miss it.

00:25:05.400 I think the very people

00:25:06.120 who were tearing it down

00:25:06.840 are starting to miss it

00:25:07.680 now that it's gone.

00:25:08.560 There was a scene,

00:25:09.120 this is my favorite,

00:25:09.940 this is my favorite video

00:25:10.860 that was going around

00:25:11.740 the internet yesterday.

00:25:12.940 A group of young idiots, 1.00

00:25:15.440 the protesters,

00:25:16.340 very peaceful,

00:25:17.480 were throwing objects

00:25:19.500 at a car

00:25:20.120 as it was driving by

00:25:21.200 because most people

00:25:22.620 just keep driving, right?

00:25:24.200 Not this guy.

00:25:25.360 This guy,

00:25:26.460 he was not going

00:25:27.940 to take a ding

00:25:28.800 on his car

00:25:29.400 lying down.

00:25:30.560 So he's driving,

00:25:31.060 and they hit his car.

00:25:31.740 He stops.

00:25:32.840 Then he starts

00:25:34.000 to back up.

00:25:35.120 And then you hear

00:25:36.260 the peaceful protesters

00:25:37.120 say my,

00:25:38.980 my three favorite words

00:25:40.200 of this,

00:25:40.640 of this whole incident.

00:25:42.980 Call the police.

00:25:45.580 Do you see me stops?

00:25:47.520 He's backing up.

00:25:48.460 Uh-oh.

00:25:52.000 Yo, call the police.

00:25:53.040 Oh, call the police.

00:25:54.060 Somebody call the police.

00:25:55.360 No, call them.

00:25:56.100 Multiple people.

00:25:56.960 Please, no.

00:25:58.100 You know those brutal people

00:26:00.220 who are slaughtering

00:26:01.480 innocent men and women 0.66

00:26:02.500 all over this country?

00:26:04.200 Yeah, call them.

00:26:04.840 Call them now

00:26:05.500 because this guy

00:26:06.340 is going to be upset

00:26:07.800 that I...

00:26:08.740 Oh, and the guy

00:26:09.380 runs out of his car

00:26:10.100 with some...

00:26:11.700 I don't even know

00:26:12.260 what this guy is holding.

00:26:13.040 He chases the one idiot away.

00:26:18.060 The guy goes running.

00:26:19.880 And then he turns

00:26:20.700 on the rest of the crowd.

00:26:21.480 By the way,

00:26:21.760 this is one man,

00:26:23.160 one older man

00:26:23.980 facing down like,

00:26:25.280 I don't know,

00:26:25.680 probably eight or nine people.

00:26:27.200 And they all scatter and run

00:26:28.580 the minute

00:26:29.100 that anybody

00:26:29.980 pushes back whatsoever.

00:26:33.400 They're going to hurl objects.

00:26:34.620 They're going to break windows.

00:26:35.460 They're going to steal stuff.

00:26:36.260 They're going to burn down cities

00:26:37.100 until they get

00:26:38.080 any pushback whatsoever.

00:26:39.360 But we haven't gotten

00:26:40.020 any pushback yet

00:26:40.860 other than this wild looking guy.

00:26:42.840 And so the chaos rages on.

00:26:46.120 And the response

00:26:46.720 from our elected leaders

00:26:47.520 is to defund the cops.

00:26:48.880 And our response

00:26:49.440 from our media establishment

00:26:51.240 is to encourage the protests.

00:26:55.140 If these people

00:26:56.420 in that video

00:26:57.000 had one ounce

00:26:57.980 of self-awareness,

00:26:59.800 they would hang it all up

00:27:01.280 the moment that they said,

00:27:02.640 call the police.

00:27:04.120 And they would say,

00:27:04.620 they'd throw the object,

00:27:05.440 the guy would turn around.

00:27:06.740 They'd say,

00:27:07.180 oh no,

00:27:07.960 call the police.

00:27:08.820 Oh, oh right.

00:27:09.760 Okay, now I understand.

00:27:10.580 Never mind.

00:27:11.200 Go home, everybody.

00:27:12.360 Go home.

00:27:13.660 Civil order is a good thing.

00:27:14.880 But they're so full of anger.

00:27:16.140 They're so full of fury

00:27:17.080 that they can't even realize that.

00:27:20.280 The anger and hatred

00:27:21.700 from these riots

00:27:22.680 is not even confined

00:27:24.460 to people

00:27:25.080 who are currently alive.

00:27:27.700 The anger and hatred

00:27:29.380 from these riots

00:27:30.140 is now being directed

00:27:31.560 at people who died

00:27:32.720 a hundred years ago,

00:27:34.540 more than a hundred years ago.

00:27:36.200 Ralph Northam.

00:27:37.800 You remember Ralph Northam.

00:27:39.220 Ralph Northam in Virginia,

00:27:40.740 governor of Virginia,

00:27:41.600 just announced the removal

00:27:42.580 of the very famous statue

00:27:45.360 in Richmond

00:27:45.840 of General Robert E. Lee.

00:27:49.380 Now it is not clear

00:27:50.700 as of yet

00:27:51.480 whether Governor Northam

00:27:53.100 will attend

00:27:53.700 the removal ceremony

00:27:54.780 wearing blackface 0.62

00:27:56.140 or whether he'll just be

00:27:57.640 wearing his usual hood.

00:27:59.160 It's,

00:27:59.500 we actually never found out

00:28:00.880 from that photo.

00:28:01.660 Was he the one

00:28:02.280 in the blackface 0.79

00:28:03.000 or was he the one

00:28:03.880 in the hood?

00:28:04.240 Everyone got upset

00:28:04.860 that he was wearing blackface.

00:28:05.880 Seems to me the hood

00:28:06.540 is actually a little bit

00:28:07.420 more offensive.

00:28:08.420 So we don't know

00:28:08.940 which one he's going to wear,

00:28:11.940 but we do know

00:28:12.560 that he's a very good person.

00:28:14.420 You see,

00:28:14.660 he's very anti-racist.

00:28:15.940 He's very just

00:28:16.580 because he's going to

00:28:17.980 take down a historical statue

00:28:19.360 and try to erase

00:28:20.840 American history

00:28:21.620 and talk about

00:28:23.700 how much better he is

00:28:24.640 than a dead guy.

00:28:26.320 So it's okay.

00:28:26.860 No big deal.

00:28:28.940 Keith Boykin, CNN.

00:28:31.000 He's some guy.

00:28:31.860 I don't know.

00:28:32.320 These guys,

00:28:33.060 who knows?

00:28:33.640 I've never heard of this guy

00:28:34.600 in my life,

00:28:35.040 but I don't watch CNN.

00:28:35.740 But he is a CNN correspondent.

00:28:37.700 He tweeted out,

00:28:38.360 quote,

00:28:39.120 Robert E. Lee

00:28:39.700 was a racist traitor

00:28:40.800 who fought against the union.

00:28:41.980 He should never be celebrated

00:28:42.960 on public property

00:28:43.800 anywhere in America.

00:28:46.940 That's one take.

00:28:48.040 I think that's the take

00:28:49.020 that just about

00:28:50.000 everybody has today.

00:28:52.500 That's not

00:28:53.240 Abraham Lincoln's take.

00:28:54.880 That's not the take

00:28:56.200 in the best traditions

00:28:57.760 of the United States.

00:28:58.940 That's not the take

00:29:00.240 that is going to allow us

00:29:01.420 to continue as a nation.

00:29:04.480 Abraham Lincoln said,

00:29:05.740 famously in the second inaugural,

00:29:07.700 with malice toward none,

00:29:09.780 with charity for all,

00:29:11.400 with firmness in the right,

00:29:12.800 as God gives us

00:29:13.760 to see the right,

00:29:14.860 let us strive on

00:29:15.840 to finish the work

00:29:16.680 we are in,

00:29:17.720 to bind up the nation's wounds,

00:29:19.760 to care for him

00:29:20.660 who shall have borne the battle

00:29:22.220 and for his widow

00:29:23.480 and his orphan,

00:29:24.660 to do all which may achieve

00:29:26.320 and cherish

00:29:27.000 a just and lasting peace

00:29:29.160 among ourselves

00:29:30.020 and with all nations.

00:29:31.320 Those are some of the most

00:29:33.600 famous words

00:29:34.560 ever uttered

00:29:35.420 by an American statesman.

00:29:37.580 And

00:29:38.060 the left in America today

00:29:40.480 has completely reversed it.

00:29:42.660 They are promising us

00:29:43.780 malice toward all

00:29:45.420 and charity for none.

00:29:47.500 They're doing that

00:29:48.280 in the academy,

00:29:49.860 in the humanities,

00:29:50.920 they're doing that

00:29:51.480 in the sciences.

00:29:52.560 They're doing that

00:29:53.320 in the activist level,

00:29:55.260 peaceful protests,

00:29:56.300 also known as riots.

00:29:57.140 They're doing that

00:29:58.280 at the attorney general's office

00:29:59.720 in Minnesota,

00:30:00.900 the legal channel.

00:30:01.900 They're doing that

00:30:02.840 through the media.

00:30:04.220 They're doing it

00:30:04.740 every single place

00:30:07.260 that they have any influence.

00:30:09.600 The reason Abraham Lincoln

00:30:10.900 uttered those words

00:30:11.760 is because he knew

00:30:12.840 that if we did not follow

00:30:14.100 that course of action,

00:30:15.240 the nation would be

00:30:16.500 ripped apart forever.

00:30:18.100 It would never come back together.

00:30:19.460 That would be the end of it.

00:30:22.240 There's no,

00:30:22.620 you can't hate your fellow citizens

00:30:24.140 and have a country

00:30:25.000 or you can't have a country

00:30:27.120 for very long.

00:30:28.840 You can't have malice

00:30:30.060 for all of your fellow citizens

00:30:31.160 and charity for none of them

00:30:32.140 and have a country

00:30:32.640 for very long.

00:30:33.820 That's the choice that we have.

00:30:35.920 Is,

00:30:36.400 is anybody going to,

00:30:37.660 to take the Lincoln approach?

00:30:40.480 I don't know.

00:30:41.000 Are we still

00:30:41.520 a mature enough country

00:30:42.880 to take that Lincoln approach?

00:30:45.720 The jury's still out.

00:30:46.880 Let's see how long

00:30:47.460 the riots burn.

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00:32:07.080 All right.

00:32:07.720 First question from Chris.

00:32:08.660 Hello, Michael.

00:32:09.760 I'm seeing a lot of my friends

00:32:11.180 get caught up

00:32:11.840 in the slacktivism

00:32:12.640 and virtue signaling

00:32:13.400 as a result of George Floyd,

00:32:15.620 of the George Floyd tragedy.

00:32:17.060 These friends generally

00:32:18.100 don't get caught up

00:32:19.000 in these hysterias this much.

00:32:20.720 They're participating

00:32:21.520 in Blackout Tuesday

00:32:22.520 on Instagram

00:32:23.200 and posting a lot of BLM hashtags

00:32:24.740 and whatnot.

00:32:25.820 Is it worth telling them

00:32:26.780 that they are just falling

00:32:28.000 for the racism narrative

00:32:29.160 that the left wants them to believe

00:32:30.520 or is it just a waste of time?

00:32:32.600 Thanks.

00:32:32.940 Love the show.

00:32:34.520 It's not even just

00:32:35.840 the racism narrative.

00:32:37.620 If it were,

00:32:38.400 it'd be easy to tell them

00:32:39.200 that they're crazy.

00:32:41.360 It's a religious narrative.

00:32:43.580 This is a religious worldview.

00:32:45.580 It has liturgies.

00:32:46.720 We've seen all these

00:32:47.600 kind of weird secular

00:32:49.260 religious rituals

00:32:50.240 over the past few days

00:32:51.180 of people like white people 0.59

00:32:52.360 kneeling down,

00:32:53.480 bowing before black people 1.00

00:32:54.860 who are standing up

00:32:55.740 or the white people

00:32:56.880 reciting this mantra

00:32:58.420 of I will not be racist.

00:32:59.920 I will not be racist.

00:33:01.060 You saw all those videos

00:33:01.960 we showed yesterday.

00:33:04.320 So as you might know,

00:33:06.540 if you've ever known anyone

00:33:07.360 who's been involved

00:33:08.080 in a cult

00:33:08.660 or like a really kooky religion,

00:33:11.320 it's very tough

00:33:12.920 to shake them out of it.

00:33:13.880 You know,

00:33:14.100 you got to proceed

00:33:14.980 a little bit with caution

00:33:15.840 and that's how

00:33:16.280 I would proceed here.

00:33:17.040 I wouldn't shame people

00:33:18.000 for what they're doing.

00:33:19.740 Many, many, many of my friends

00:33:21.280 posted that stupid black square 1.00

00:33:23.000 on Instagram

00:33:23.920 because they just,

00:33:24.840 they just thought,

00:33:25.500 okay, whatever,

00:33:26.060 it's a thing.

00:33:26.780 Maybe they felt pressured to do it.

00:33:28.260 Maybe they just thought

00:33:28.860 it didn't mean that much.

00:33:30.220 That's fine.

00:33:30.900 I don't care.

00:33:31.780 It's no big deal.

00:33:32.780 But maybe you can show

00:33:34.540 through your lead

00:33:35.680 that actually the premises here

00:33:38.020 are not true.

00:33:39.260 The effect of this message

00:33:41.300 is very bad

00:33:42.260 and it's leading to cities

00:33:43.080 burning down

00:33:43.560 and people dying

00:33:44.240 and it's just

00:33:45.940 a false vision

00:33:47.040 of the world.

00:33:48.380 That's how I would do it.

00:33:49.920 I wouldn't go out

00:33:50.680 and just say

00:33:50.960 you're completely wrong

00:33:51.860 because especially

00:33:52.980 on a matter

00:33:53.440 that is actually religious

00:33:55.240 like this is,

00:33:56.360 they're not going

00:33:56.760 to respond well.

00:33:57.380 From Molly,

00:33:58.300 all week I've been subjected

00:33:59.660 to posts

00:34:00.240 and personal messages

00:34:01.220 about educating my children

00:34:02.640 about racism

00:34:03.320 and their white privilege.

00:34:04.600 Not because of any action

00:34:05.380 I've taken,

00:34:05.860 it seems completely inspired

00:34:06.780 by the assumed

00:34:07.340 inevitable racist beliefs

00:34:08.640 me or my children

00:34:09.600 will fall into

00:34:10.240 since I'm white

00:34:11.160 as are my children.

00:34:12.240 My question is,

00:34:12.940 how is that different

00:34:14.560 than me sending out

00:34:15.540 messages to liberal

00:34:16.380 or African American friends

00:34:17.500 saying,

00:34:18.220 may I suggest a few books

00:34:19.280 that help teach your kid

00:34:20.160 how not to break

00:34:21.340 a store window

00:34:21.940 and steal Gucci bags?

00:34:23.340 Thanks.

00:34:25.560 That is,

00:34:26.680 that is a very good comparison

00:34:28.700 because both of those things

00:34:30.200 are equally offensive,

00:34:31.260 right?

00:34:31.460 If you sent

00:34:33.820 to your leftist friends

00:34:36.540 and your black friends

00:34:37.900 by virtue of their ideology

00:34:39.340 and their skin color

00:34:40.540 a note that said,

00:34:41.980 hey, here's a way

00:34:42.400 to educate yourself

00:34:43.160 on how not to steal Nikes,

00:34:45.280 that would be very offensive.

00:34:46.340 They would be rightly

00:34:46.960 offended by that.

00:34:49.140 Likewise,

00:34:50.240 if they're,

00:34:50.960 if they're sending you books

00:34:52.280 and saying,

00:34:52.680 hey,

00:34:53.840 look,

00:34:54.300 I know we're friends

00:34:54.940 and everything,

00:34:55.640 but because of your skin color,

00:34:57.020 you're evil.

00:34:57.640 So here's a book

00:34:58.240 on how not to be evil

00:34:59.140 like me

00:34:59.480 because I'm a good person

00:35:00.160 and you're an evil person. 0.92

00:35:01.440 So here's,

00:35:02.100 here's how not to be evil.

00:35:03.500 Say,

00:35:03.760 oh,

00:35:04.000 okay,

00:35:04.280 thanks.

00:35:04.620 That's great.

00:35:05.060 Just throw in the trash.

00:35:08.280 This is,

00:35:09.560 I mean,

00:35:09.860 it ties in a little bit

00:35:10.520 with the religious answer.

00:35:12.360 White privilege 0.52

00:35:12.920 is a stand-in

00:35:14.080 for original sin.

00:35:15.360 It's a stand-in

00:35:15.920 for our natural

00:35:16.580 religious understanding

00:35:17.600 that we're broken,

00:35:18.620 that we're fallen,

00:35:19.120 something's not right,

00:35:19.840 there's injustice

00:35:20.340 in the world.

00:35:21.540 The trouble

00:35:22.100 with white privilege though

00:35:23.000 is it allows people,

00:35:25.060 it allows some people

00:35:25.940 to feel the goodness

00:35:27.020 of like whipping yourself

00:35:28.340 and feel the goodness

00:35:29.280 of atoning for yourself.

00:35:30.160 your sins

00:35:30.460 and it allows other people

00:35:32.100 just to hate you, 0.95

00:35:33.320 right?

00:35:33.520 Just to be like,

00:35:34.140 yeah,

00:35:34.260 you're the problem,

00:35:34.960 not me.

00:35:35.480 I have no problems.

00:35:36.720 So it actually is,

00:35:37.980 kind of exacerbates

00:35:38.880 the worst parts

00:35:40.020 of both of this

00:35:40.580 because it makes

00:35:41.840 some people aware

00:35:42.660 of their imperfection

00:35:43.540 but with nothing

00:35:44.200 to do about it

00:35:45.120 and it makes,

00:35:46.060 it actually leaves

00:35:47.400 other people ignorant

00:35:48.340 of their own imperfections

00:35:49.700 and breeds hatred

00:35:51.220 and division

00:35:51.700 in the country.

00:35:52.680 It's just a dumb idea,

00:35:54.140 it's a terrible idea

00:35:54.960 and we shouldn't give

00:35:55.900 any quarter to it.

00:35:57.040 You know,

00:35:57.520 there is a squishy response

00:36:00.960 to this whole BLM,

00:36:02.880 peaceful rioters

00:36:03.640 kind of thing

00:36:04.180 which is,

00:36:05.560 you saw it from Jim Mattis

00:36:06.880 actually,

00:36:07.640 the former defense secretary,

00:36:08.720 you saw it from

00:36:09.260 George W. Bush

00:36:10.260 a little bit

00:36:10.760 which is to say,

00:36:11.900 hey,

00:36:12.200 look,

00:36:12.420 these guys,

00:36:12.900 they have a point.

00:36:14.760 BLM has a point. 0.53

00:36:16.560 The rioters,

00:36:17.460 they have a point.

00:36:18.220 You know,

00:36:18.360 it's real,

00:36:18.720 they're expressing pain

00:36:19.780 and the way

00:36:20.540 they express pain

00:36:21.440 is by stealing

00:36:22.080 Nikes and Gucci bags.

00:36:23.760 No,

00:36:24.140 they don't have a point.

00:36:25.120 They don't,

00:36:25.520 it's a lie.

00:36:26.260 It is based on a lie.

00:36:27.620 We went through

00:36:28.000 the numbers yesterday,

00:36:29.600 went through them

00:36:30.000 a little bit again today.

00:36:31.000 It is not true.

00:36:32.120 They have no point whatsoever.

00:36:33.720 The things that they're doing

00:36:34.740 based on their lie

00:36:35.700 are terrible.

00:36:36.900 They're indefensible.

00:36:38.140 They're sins.

00:36:39.180 They are crimes.

00:36:40.340 The people who are

00:36:40.960 committing those crimes

00:36:41.700 should be arrested

00:36:42.440 and thrown in prison

00:36:43.160 for a very long time.

00:36:45.280 Some people insist

00:36:46.280 that we have to pretend

00:36:47.420 like they have a point

00:36:48.380 in the spirit

00:36:49.180 of national unity.

00:36:50.640 Wrong.

00:36:51.280 Sorry,

00:36:51.680 buster.

00:36:52.640 Actually,

00:36:53.120 if you pretend

00:36:53.520 they have a point,

00:36:54.340 you are,

00:36:54.740 you are achieving

00:36:55.280 precisely the opposite

00:36:56.360 of national unity.

00:36:57.600 You are encouraging discord.

00:36:59.080 You are encouraging strife.

00:37:00.180 You're encouraging violence

00:37:01.120 for nothing,

00:37:02.940 for a lie,

00:37:03.860 for a,

00:37:04.520 a rank lie.

00:37:06.980 Don't do it.

00:37:07.760 Much,

00:37:08.180 much better

00:37:08.820 to take a clean

00:37:10.460 and truthful approach

00:37:12.020 from Sarah.

00:37:12.760 My name is Sarah.

00:37:13.680 I know that Sarah

00:37:14.300 because I saw your name is Sarah.

00:37:15.560 And I live in Madison,

00:37:16.760 Wisconsin.

00:37:17.740 We have had riots

00:37:19.020 the last few nights

00:37:19.800 like much of the country has.

00:37:21.560 There was a press conference today

00:37:22.820 that some of the protest organizers

00:37:24.260 held where they had a list

00:37:25.940 of demands that needed

00:37:26.800 to be met

00:37:27.320 in order to stop the violence.

00:37:28.860 These demands included

00:37:29.720 defunding the police department,

00:37:31.320 freeing all the inmates

00:37:32.220 in the county jail,

00:37:33.160 and abolishing police powers.

00:37:34.720 Oh,

00:37:34.880 is that all?

00:37:35.660 My question is,

00:37:36.540 how are we supposed

00:37:37.020 to respond to people like this

00:37:38.540 as citizens

00:37:39.180 and what should our government

00:37:40.720 do in response?

00:37:42.440 You should ignore those people.

00:37:44.120 You should ignore

00:37:44.660 those very unserious ideas.

00:37:46.680 Those are unserious ideas,

00:37:48.600 presumably put forward

00:37:49.740 by unserious people.

00:37:51.840 Nobody should take them seriously.

00:37:53.620 And for the people

00:37:54.200 who are committing the crimes

00:37:55.160 associated with this thing,

00:37:56.380 we should put them in jail

00:37:57.500 for a long time.

00:37:59.680 You know,

00:38:00.280 there's been a big debate

00:38:01.020 over prison reform.

00:38:02.080 I'm actually supportive

00:38:02.860 of prison reform.

00:38:03.940 I think we need to

00:38:04.780 toughen up our sentences

00:38:06.060 and put more people in prison.

00:38:08.220 And here's my evidence for it.

00:38:10.020 The country is burning

00:38:11.040 to the ground.

00:38:12.400 So that would seem to me

00:38:14.160 indisputable evidence

00:38:15.880 that we don't have

00:38:16.680 enough people in prison.

00:38:18.160 Because, you know,

00:38:18.820 if we had those criminals

00:38:19.860 in prison,

00:38:20.600 then the country

00:38:21.680 wouldn't be burning

00:38:22.180 to the ground.

00:38:23.000 Innocent people

00:38:23.460 wouldn't be dying

00:38:24.680 at these peaceful protests.

00:38:27.100 Peaceful protests.

00:38:28.520 So you shouldn't

00:38:29.580 take it seriously.

00:38:30.240 Unfortunately,

00:38:30.860 mayors will.

00:38:32.340 Garcetti is doing it in LA.

00:38:33.660 He's defunding the police.

00:38:36.280 Defunding the police

00:38:37.060 is going to make

00:38:37.980 this situation a lot worse.

00:38:39.540 Actually,

00:38:40.220 just not defending the police,

00:38:43.840 which so many left-wing 0.89

00:38:45.080 politicians are doing

00:38:46.160 is making the situation worse.

00:38:47.520 You're looking at these riots

00:38:48.320 and in a lot of places,

00:38:49.520 the cops are just standing down.

00:38:51.080 Why are they standing down?

00:38:52.160 Because they know

00:38:52.720 if they use any force at all,

00:38:54.420 which is the definition

00:38:55.520 of their job,

00:38:56.340 is to use force, right,

00:38:57.340 to maintain the order.

00:38:58.220 But if they use force

00:38:59.080 to maintain order,

00:39:00.020 they're going to be maligned

00:39:00.980 as awful, terrible bigots

00:39:02.320 and they're going to go

00:39:03.200 to jail probably.

00:39:04.220 So why would they do it?

00:39:05.640 If they're not going

00:39:06.160 to get any backup

00:39:06.800 from the elected officials

00:39:08.080 from the civil authority,

00:39:09.180 why on earth would they do it?

00:39:10.340 And so the fires rage,

00:39:11.320 whether they have the money

00:39:12.000 or not,

00:39:12.800 it's a terrible proposal

00:39:14.740 and an unserious one,

00:39:15.780 but in a way,

00:39:17.100 in many places,

00:39:17.720 it's probably inevitable

00:39:18.400 from Nick.

00:39:20.240 Can we make Trump the Pope

00:39:21.360 after his fourth term

00:39:22.320 as president?

00:39:22.920 I'm just thinking out loud here.

00:39:24.480 Just saying it would be awesome.

00:39:26.180 Yes,

00:39:27.380 Donaldus Maximus,

00:39:29.940 Donaldus I.

00:39:31.340 I like the sound of that.

00:39:32.760 And President Trump's wife,

00:39:34.680 I believe,

00:39:35.400 is Catholic,

00:39:36.660 which is,

00:39:37.360 that would be a mark

00:39:38.020 in his favor.

00:39:38.560 The mark against him

00:39:40.060 would be that he has a wife.

00:39:41.500 That does complicate things

00:39:42.800 if you're a Pope.

00:39:43.440 Though,

00:39:43.720 you know,

00:39:43.920 some Popes in the past,

00:39:45.480 they've had wives

00:39:46.600 a little less publicly,

00:39:48.060 you know,

00:39:48.400 than President Trump.

00:39:50.240 So,

00:39:50.760 you know,

00:39:51.240 look,

00:39:51.740 I'm eager to see

00:39:53.140 how the conclave deals with it

00:39:54.260 because I think he'd be

00:39:55.000 a great candidate.

00:39:56.060 From Elizabeth.

00:39:57.780 Dear Michael,

00:39:58.520 I,

00:39:58.860 like the rest of the country,

00:39:59.840 watched with sorrow,

00:40:01.220 anger,

00:40:01.540 amazement,

00:40:01.960 and awe

00:40:02.360 the destruction caused

00:40:03.320 around the country

00:40:03.800 this weekend.

00:40:04.640 Many disavow this behavior,

00:40:05.900 but one way I've seen

00:40:06.700 people defending this online

00:40:07.920 is through memes

00:40:08.940 and posts depicting

00:40:10.100 Jesus overturning

00:40:11.240 the tables in the temple.

00:40:12.620 I believe this is

00:40:13.380 a misrepresentation

00:40:14.280 of the gospel,

00:40:15.220 and I would wager

00:40:15.780 that many invoking

00:40:16.640 this scene

00:40:16.960 are not devout followers.

00:40:18.240 Yeah,

00:40:18.660 you think?

00:40:19.240 But are looking

00:40:20.120 for a way

00:40:20.600 to discredit

00:40:21.240 Christians online

00:40:22.080 who may say

00:40:23.040 that these actions

00:40:23.680 are unacceptable.

00:40:24.580 I'm a devout Catholic.

00:40:25.320 I've always seen

00:40:25.740 this particular story

00:40:26.580 as an example

00:40:27.340 of Jesus' personhood.

00:40:28.760 I can't accept

00:40:29.540 that this interpretation

00:40:30.660 is correct

00:40:31.820 and it's being used

00:40:32.440 to justify

00:40:32.980 this current behavior.

00:40:33.980 Would love to hear

00:40:34.300 your thoughts.

00:40:35.000 This stupid meme.

00:40:36.880 I've seen this meme too.

00:40:37.920 It's so dumb.

00:40:39.280 It's this meme.

00:40:40.440 It's a picture of Jesus

00:40:41.340 overturning the temples

00:40:42.440 and casting out

00:40:43.160 the money changers

00:40:43.860 and it says,

00:40:46.780 conservatives hate

00:40:48.060 political violence.

00:40:49.660 Jesus says,

00:40:50.640 right,

00:40:50.860 and then it's this image.

00:40:52.340 They're missing

00:40:53.120 a few parts

00:40:53.700 of the story.

00:40:55.060 First one,

00:40:56.320 you are not Jesus.

00:40:58.360 It should be

00:40:59.060 the most obvious,

00:40:59.880 but fairly it's not.

00:41:01.400 The second one,

00:41:03.080 the money changers

00:41:04.260 belong to Jesus

00:41:05.860 because Jesus

00:41:07.240 is their creator

00:41:09.220 because Jesus

00:41:10.620 is God.

00:41:12.440 And then the third one,

00:41:14.540 Jesus is not going

00:41:15.680 into somebody else's house,

00:41:18.280 to these money changers' house

00:41:19.860 and throwing them out,

00:41:20.800 right,

00:41:20.940 and stealing their property

00:41:21.900 and going,

00:41:22.880 he is throwing them out

00:41:24.440 of his own father's house.

00:41:27.500 Actually,

00:41:28.360 in the,

00:41:28.760 in the verse

00:41:29.920 it says,

00:41:30.620 right,

00:41:30.780 they are in my father's house.

00:41:32.340 So,

00:41:33.840 nothing about the meme

00:41:34.960 is correct whatsoever,

00:41:36.700 but this is,

00:41:37.260 this is,

00:41:37.640 you know,

00:41:37.900 the typical online

00:41:39.560 leftist atheist

00:41:40.700 kind of thing.

00:41:41.720 They'll say like,

00:41:42.420 hey,

00:41:43.420 you Christian idiot, 1.00

00:41:45.140 if God is real,

00:41:47.420 then why do bad things

00:41:49.480 happen to good people?

00:41:50.640 Mic drop.

00:41:51.800 Checkmate.

00:41:52.740 Christian,

00:41:53.720 showed you,

00:41:55.220 there goes your religion,

00:41:56.260 like,

00:41:56.560 you know,

00:41:57.580 there's some books

00:41:58.000 about this.

00:41:59.400 Some people have thought

00:42:00.440 about this before

00:42:01.100 and this is,

00:42:02.100 this falls squarely

00:42:02.980 in that category.

00:42:03.820 From David.

00:42:04.700 Two knolls,

00:42:05.280 knower of much,

00:42:06.160 smoker of quality cigars.

00:42:08.100 I'm a Catholic

00:42:08.760 and as the Pope

00:42:09.640 is supposed to be

00:42:10.240 the person I follow

00:42:10.980 in my religious life,

00:42:12.560 I do find myself

00:42:13.460 at odds

00:42:13.960 with his political views.

00:42:15.560 Yeah.

00:42:16.340 His criticism of Trump

00:42:17.500 standing in front

00:42:18.400 of St. John's

00:42:19.280 with the Bible

00:42:20.040 being the most recent time

00:42:21.180 he has spoken up

00:42:21.820 against our president.

00:42:22.640 Any thoughts?

00:42:24.300 Yeah,

00:42:24.620 it's,

00:42:24.840 it's funny that

00:42:25.680 you bring this up

00:42:26.720 because,

00:42:27.400 you know,

00:42:27.740 I'm obedient

00:42:28.780 to my bishops

00:42:30.060 and of course

00:42:30.800 to the Bishop of Rome

00:42:31.620 who is the Pope

00:42:32.280 because I'm a Catholic too.

00:42:35.440 I don't even know

00:42:36.520 what he said

00:42:37.100 about Trump

00:42:37.660 in the Bible.

00:42:38.400 I don't,

00:42:38.680 I didn't even read it.

00:42:39.500 Like,

00:42:39.680 I heard there was a thing

00:42:40.740 that he said

00:42:41.380 but,

00:42:43.120 okay,

00:42:45.560 Popes say a lot of things.

00:42:46.980 There is a big

00:42:47.780 misunderstanding here.

00:42:50.020 Many people,

00:42:50.940 especially non-Catholics,

00:42:51.780 but even many Catholics

00:42:52.460 believe that,

00:42:53.500 that papal infallibility

00:42:55.020 is this idea

00:42:56.820 that the Pope

00:42:57.640 is always correct

00:42:58.640 whatever he says

00:42:59.260 and we have to believe

00:42:59.780 every single thing

00:43:00.320 the Pope says.

00:43:02.200 Not true.

00:43:03.280 That is certainly

00:43:03.980 not the case.

00:43:05.620 When the Pope

00:43:06.360 is talking about

00:43:07.040 political matters

00:43:07.900 or economic matters,

00:43:09.660 he might be wrong

00:43:10.560 99% of the time.

00:43:13.060 He might,

00:43:13.400 frankly,

00:43:13.680 he could be wrong

00:43:14.100 100% of the time even.

00:43:16.280 As long as he is not speaking

00:43:18.160 from the chair,

00:43:20.300 from his official office,

00:43:22.600 he can be perfectly fallible.

00:43:24.580 You know,

00:43:24.840 the,

00:43:24.960 the idea of,

00:43:25.840 sometimes we've had Popes

00:43:27.440 who have just gotten

00:43:28.120 political questions wrong.

00:43:30.140 That might be

00:43:30.960 a way for the good Lord

00:43:32.560 to tell us

00:43:33.080 that the Pope

00:43:33.640 is fallible

00:43:34.600 except when he is infallible.

00:43:36.220 Which,

00:43:36.460 by the way,

00:43:37.200 the Pope has spoken

00:43:37.880 infallibly,

00:43:39.380 I think twice

00:43:40.140 in all of history.

00:43:41.580 The rest of the time

00:43:42.380 can be fallible.

00:43:43.560 You know,

00:43:43.780 move on.

00:43:44.220 Somebody says something

00:43:44.760 you don't like,

00:43:45.420 just move on.

00:43:46.340 From Shannon,

00:43:47.440 dear host with the most ease,

00:43:49.480 am I the host?

00:43:50.780 I am the host

00:43:51.660 with the most ease

00:43:52.800 at the Daily Wire.

00:43:53.860 Wow,

00:43:54.080 learn something new every day.

00:43:54.980 Now,

00:43:55.400 Jeremy Boring,

00:43:56.760 Michael,

00:43:57.180 no,

00:43:57.360 it's Jeremy Boring,

00:43:58.040 sorry.

00:43:58.940 Is perpetuating

00:43:59.680 the white savior 0.86

00:44:00.280 industrial complex

00:44:01.220 the answer?

00:44:02.300 That's a good way

00:44:03.060 to put it.

00:44:03.820 If not,

00:44:04.360 what color should

00:44:05.220 I post on Instagram

00:44:07.440 to show my support?

00:44:08.920 Saw this with Lincoln.

00:44:10.400 It's a quirk

00:44:11.000 of liberalism

00:44:12.000 and paganism

00:44:12.960 is actually

00:44:13.460 the real answer here.

00:44:15.160 This idea

00:44:16.200 of the white savior

00:44:17.280 being a bad thing.

00:44:18.000 So,

00:44:18.180 Lincoln frees the slaves,

00:44:19.040 right?

00:44:19.200 When the movie

00:44:21.960 Lincoln came out,

00:44:23.940 the Lincoln movie

00:44:26.100 showed the story.

00:44:27.940 It was a beautiful movie.

00:44:29.020 Daniel Day-Lewis

00:44:29.600 played Lincoln.

00:44:31.900 There was a pushback

00:44:33.020 on the left

00:44:33.520 because they said,

00:44:34.620 hold on,

00:44:34.940 you're suggesting

00:44:35.420 Lincoln freed the slaves,

00:44:36.560 but uh-uh,

00:44:37.280 we're not relying

00:44:37.860 on some white guy

00:44:38.540 to free the slaves.

00:44:39.320 The slaves freed themselves,

00:44:40.880 but that isn't true.

00:44:42.000 Lincoln freed the slaves.

00:44:43.420 The Union Army

00:44:44.220 freed the slaves.

00:44:45.040 700,000 Americans

00:44:47.440 died to free the slaves.

00:44:49.300 But this doesn't

00:44:50.200 jive with

00:44:51.160 liberalism.

00:44:53.020 This doesn't jive

00:44:53.760 with some forms

00:44:54.400 of paganism

00:44:55.000 because we want

00:44:56.320 to do everything

00:44:57.200 ourselves.

00:44:58.140 Liberalism is like,

00:44:58.760 I'm just all about,

00:44:59.560 liberalism on the left

00:45:00.360 and the right.

00:45:00.980 It's me.

00:45:01.540 I have to do it.

00:45:02.280 I have to have agency.

00:45:03.280 Everything in life

00:45:03.760 is about my will

00:45:04.640 and the things

00:45:05.280 that I achieve.

00:45:06.200 Same thing with paganism.

00:45:07.180 When you read

00:45:07.600 the ancient pagan epics,

00:45:09.040 it's all about

00:45:09.600 my heroic actions,

00:45:11.620 my own heroic nobility.

00:45:13.200 This is different

00:45:13.780 than Christianity. 0.89

00:45:15.380 Christianity

00:45:15.900 accepts grace.

00:45:18.560 We say,

00:45:19.200 I actually don't need

00:45:20.240 to earn my own salvation.

00:45:21.420 I can't earn

00:45:22.040 my own salvation.

00:45:23.160 My salvation is given

00:45:24.040 to me as a gift

00:45:24.980 by someone else.

00:45:26.800 That's a wonderful thing

00:45:27.620 and I'm happy about that.

00:45:29.000 That civilization

00:45:29.860 of grace

00:45:30.800 is what defined

00:45:32.440 our own,

00:45:33.240 the West,

00:45:34.760 until about five minutes ago.

00:45:36.240 Until now,

00:45:36.760 we're in this kind of

00:45:37.480 post-Christian 0.98

00:45:39.000 political moment

00:45:39.860 or secular

00:45:40.380 political moment.

00:45:41.560 But that's a much

00:45:42.300 better situation.

00:45:43.840 And when it comes

00:45:44.940 to these historical questions

00:45:46.780 and most notably

00:45:47.500 on slavery,

00:45:48.760 then it's obviously

00:45:50.020 the correct one as well.

00:45:51.140 All right,

00:45:51.340 that's our show.

00:45:51.820 We've got more to get to,

00:45:52.440 but you know,

00:45:52.820 I've got to wait until Monday.

00:45:53.780 In the meantime,

00:45:54.260 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:54.780 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 04, 2020

Ep. 557 - With Malice Toward All

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