The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 572 - Covid Is The Campaign

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden is admitting that he is being tested regularly. You know, we're all

00:00:05.160 waiting on these tests and we're leading the world in tests. He's not being tested for

00:00:09.640 coronavirus. No, no. He's being tested for something far more important to him and his

00:00:14.240 campaign. He's being tested for cognitive decline. Last question real quick. Some have

00:00:20.580 speculated that you are subject to some degree of cognitive decline. I'm 65. I don't have word

00:00:28.380 recollection that I used to have. I forget my train of thought from time to time. You got 12 years on

00:00:32.940 me, sir. Have you been tested for some degree of cognitive decline? I've been tested and I'm

00:00:39.500 constantly tested. Look, all you got to do is watch me and I can hardly wait to compare my

00:00:46.480 cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man I'm running against. Thank you so much.

00:00:53.340 The man I'm running against whose name I just can't happen to remember right now.

00:00:57.880 What's his name? Ronald or I don't know. Anyway, I'm running against him. He's something like that.

00:01:02.380 Probably would have had a stronger effect had he not opened his answer with a joke about lying

00:01:07.960 dog-faced pony soldiers. The cognitive decline is clear and the cognitive decline makes the campaign

00:01:15.060 clear. This lockdown, this no debates, no rallies, this coronavirus is the Biden campaign.

00:01:24.080 We'll get into it. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:27.880 I think while Joe Biden is on a cognitive decline, all the rest of us are becoming,

00:01:39.440 we're entering into a cognitive incline. We're beginning to realize what this whole last three

00:01:44.700 months is really about, at least from the perspective of the media and from politicians.

00:01:49.620 Joe Biden had not held a presser for 88 days. 88 days, you'll notice is just about the whole

00:01:56.940 length of the lockdown and the Biden campaign had never done better. You know, before that lockdown

00:02:01.980 campaign looked really bad. Trump was leading him everywhere. Now, 88 days later, all of a sudden

00:02:06.920 in national polls and in the swing state polls, Trump's campaign is down. Biden's campaign is up.

00:02:11.480 Biden's campaign is up because nobody's seen Joe Biden. He has been hiding out in a basement.

00:02:15.900 And if he could hide out there until November 3rd, he certainly would do that. He finally comes out.

00:02:20.200 He's got handpicked reporters in the room. He still takes a relatively tough question, which is

00:02:28.480 just, are you in cognitive decline? He doesn't know how to answer it and doesn't answer it convincingly.

00:02:33.840 Then it's just one mistake after another. So at the very open to the conference, right? This is the

00:02:40.940 moment when you want to project confidence, when you want to show on back, forget about those 88 days

00:02:45.020 that I've been hiding. Biden accidentally admits that his campaign handpicked all the reporters

00:02:52.060 and told him to look out for certain reporters and to only call on the easy ones.

00:02:57.420 I'm happy to take questions if you have them.

00:03:03.160 He gave me a list of how to recognize his Alex AP out there.

00:03:07.340 That's the part you're not supposed to say. I think the name also is Alex, not Alex,

00:03:11.140 but that's neither here nor there. You're not supposed to say that they gave you a list of people to

00:03:14.500 recognize and only call on the easy ones. And then he did get easy questions. Just consider this

00:03:19.560 two days ago during a white house press briefing, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked the

00:03:25.940 question of whether president Trump was upset that the Confederacy lost the civil war. That was an

00:03:32.640 actual question in a white house press briefing. Compare that kind of questioning to these softballs 0.59

00:03:37.540 for Joe Biden.

00:03:38.600 I was told NBC, Mike.

00:03:45.780 Mike's great relief. He doesn't have to follow me every day around the country.

00:03:48.740 Well, the last time, Mr. Vice President, a lot of us saw you on the campaign trail. You were still

00:03:52.960 locked in a very difficult nomination battle. The polls, though, today show you with a sizable

00:03:58.700 national lead, a lead in a lot of the states that are critical in the Electoral College.

00:04:03.140 I wonder where do you think the race stands at this moment? What keeps you up at night

00:04:07.500 as you look ahead? And can you maintain this advantage without campaigning in a traditional way,

00:04:13.080 especially this fall when voters begin to really tune in? Uh, do you think that you'll be able to

00:04:19.700 just be as successful and wonderful as you are right now? Do you think you'll be able to keep

00:04:23.280 doing that? Mr. Vice President, hard hitting questions there from NBC news. It's the sort of

00:04:28.620 question that we can come to expect. You know, I think that the Trump campaign and the president

00:04:33.380 have made some missteps during this lockdown. Uh, we'll get into what some of those are in just a

00:04:38.120 moment, but you can't discount the media here. The fact is during a real presidential campaign,

00:04:46.900 Joe Biden would, if he wouldn't be asked tough questions by reporters, he would make mistakes

00:04:53.740 himself. But what this coronavirus lockdown has managed to do is cancel the campaign. So he hasn't

00:05:00.140 had to do that. This is his first press conference in three months, and it's probably not going to be

00:05:03.980 doing a second one anytime soon. So he gets these easy questions. Then he's asked how to get Americans

00:05:10.340 on the same page since everything now, including the virus has become so woefully politicized.

00:05:17.580 Well, I think the way to get it on the same page is to, uh,

00:05:22.540 I'm going to try to say this politely, is to lower the rhetoric based on division. Stop appealing to

00:05:39.080 the, uh, the less healthy side of society.

00:05:48.740 That's embarrassing. That's an, that's an embarrassing answer. One, because he doesn't

00:05:52.240 have an answer to the question, right? He says, uh, we're going to lower, we're going to lower it

00:05:56.820 by lowering the rhetoric. And, but he, he both doesn't have an answer. Like he hasn't thought

00:06:01.920 of an answer. And he also can't come up with an answer because he's obviously in cognitive decline

00:06:05.820 and has been, I don't think we're telling tales at a school. I don't think I'm an armchair

00:06:09.840 psychologist. He can't finish an English sentence, but think about what he, what he did manage to say.

00:06:16.700 See what he said was, we're going to lower rhetoric. The usual way to bring Americans 1.00

00:06:22.720 together, the usual way to bring people together in politics is to make your argument clearly,

00:06:27.180 give your vision for the country. And then your opponent gives his vision for the country.

00:06:31.480 And then whichever vision of the country you're the people want, that's the one they go with.

00:06:36.180 But Joe Biden doesn't have a vision for the country. Doesn't have any answers to these questions.

00:06:40.400 His answer is lower the rhetoric, which means reduce the politics, reduce the amount that we're

00:06:48.540 discussing, reduce the power of the people, reduce the freedom of the people to choose their own

00:06:52.860 leaders and to choose their own path. This has been the leftist premise for a hundred years now.

00:06:57.960 Take the important questions out of politics, give them to experts, usually wearing lab coats and one

00:07:03.340 of those we have coming up. And then we don't need to worry about all this political rancor.

00:07:07.900 That is what the liberal establishment. And is there any greater representative of the liberal

00:07:12.800 establishment than Joe Biden? That's what they're selling you is a politics without politics.

00:07:17.220 And then, then Donald Trump comes along and ruins their plans because he actually brings up some

00:07:22.140 questions about immigration, about trade, about how we govern ourselves, about what institutions of

00:07:28.580 the government actually make the rules. He shakes up the system and says, hold on, you've had a lot of

00:07:33.360 your power taken away people. And Joe Biden comes in and says, the way I'm going to bring people

00:07:36.740 together. I'm going to lower the amount of politics that we have all together. No campaigns,

00:07:44.900 probably no debates, no nothing, just a rigged system to get them into office. And it was at

00:07:49.360 this moment that I realized what this whole lockdown is really about, which we'll get to in

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00:09:06.640 At this point in the Biden presser, I realized what the coronavirus lockdown is all about.

00:09:12.780 We talked yesterday about how there's no medical purpose to the lockdown anymore.

00:09:17.900 The point of the lockdown was not to stop the virus or to cure the virus, right? It couldn't

00:09:24.860 possibly achieve that. The only point was to flatten the curve, not overwhelm the healthcare

00:09:27.980 system. We never even came close to overwhelming the healthcare system. We did that. We achieved

00:09:32.580 the only thing the lockdowns could achieve. The only purpose of the lockdowns at this point could be

00:09:37.000 political. And what's the political purpose? It occurred to me yesterday that the lockdown

00:09:42.980 lockdown is Biden's campaign. It's the whole campaign. How did I figure this out? Because

00:09:50.020 Joe Biden mentioned during this presser, first run in 88 days, he's not going to campaign. He's

00:09:57.140 not going to hold rallies. He cares so much about his fellow Americans that he's going to sit at home

00:10:03.360 until he wins the presidency by default. Well, you know, I, uh, this is the most unusual

00:10:09.460 campaign I think in modern history in that, uh, but I start off with the premise, Mike, that I'm

00:10:18.340 going to follow the doc's orders, not just for me, but for the country. And, uh, that means that, uh,

00:10:24.460 I am not going to be holding rallies. I am not going to be, uh, for example, you all are here,

00:10:30.160 but thank the school has put those circles around. So we keep the social distancing. Everybody has

00:10:35.960 masks on. As soon as I finish this, I'll put my mask back on. Um, and, uh, so it's all been,

00:10:42.960 almost all been virtual. Although I have gone to Houston, I have gone into Pennsylvania. I have gone to

00:10:48.660 Virginia. I've, I've, I've traveled, but what I do, I get in, make my case and leave, take questions

00:10:55.440 and leave. And, uh, and so, uh, but you know me, I'd much rather be out there with people because

00:11:03.400 that's where I get the greatest feel. Okay. First of all, not the best choice of words for Joe Biden.

00:11:09.020 You don't want to talk about how you want to be around people because you can feel them

00:11:11.960 sort of a side point. This is so corrupt. This answer is so unbelievably corrupt.

00:11:19.900 The first part, he says, I'm not going to hold rallies, meaning I'm not going to campaign,

00:11:25.280 meaning it's the beginning, setting the stage for the excuse of why he's not going to participate in

00:11:30.700 a debate with Donald Trump. That's the first part. If he's not holding rallies, he's not holding a

00:11:35.240 campaign. Then how on earth could he go to a debate? It's the same point. He says, I just don't

00:11:40.480 want to bring people together in a physical location. So therefore I'm not going to, I'm not

00:11:45.440 going to campaign. He's not going to be able to back out of the debate unless he starts to set

00:11:49.860 the stage now. So that's the first part. And why won't he debate Trump? Because Trump would

00:11:52.940 eat him for lunch. There would be nothing left other than Joe Biden's very shiny teeth. Just

00:11:57.920 sit, just chattering there. There is, he got very good looking teeth. I assume they're not natural,

00:12:01.900 but that would be the last thing left. Okay. The second part, why won't he hold the campaign

00:12:07.300 doctor's orders? Well, not just for me, but for the country. This is something we've talked about

00:12:12.800 now for weeks, which is that what the left does is they exploit science, capital S trademark over the E

00:12:18.580 to avoid politics. The whole thing Biden's been talking about in this presser. So he's saying,

00:12:23.660 ah, the doctor, doctor's orders to the country is we can't have a presidential campaign and you just

00:12:28.460 got to elect me. No, actually that doctors don't diagnose countries. Doctors diagnose individual

00:12:34.220 patients. What you do, political demagogues like you diagnose countries and tell them to just do

00:12:42.320 whatever you say. So he's saying in the name of science, we can't have a presidential campaign this

00:12:46.600 year, but then he realized he is in public. He is doing a thing right now, right? He actually is

00:12:52.760 traveling around the country occasionally, at least to raise a little bit of money, at least to make a

00:12:57.000 comment here or comment there. So he has to back, he goes, and that's why, you know, we all have to

00:13:01.840 wear masks and I'm going to wear my mask just as soon as I get off this stage. It was like Andy Cuomo

00:13:06.600 yesterday, shaming Trump for not wearing a mask. Andy Cuomo himself wasn't wearing the mask.

00:13:11.300 And that's why I'm not going to bring any people together in a room. Well, I mean, I know I brought all of

00:13:15.060 you together in the room, but that's because it was politically convenient for me, but I'm not going

00:13:18.220 to do it. I'm not going to do that after this. And I'm not going to travel. I mean, I know that

00:13:21.400 I traveled to some places, but I'm only going to travel when it's convenient for me. It's all just

00:13:24.880 BS. Okay. The whole thing is BS. Every day, this lockdown, this absolutely medically pointless

00:13:32.000 lockdown goes on is a point you can take away from Donald Trump's tally in the presidential race

00:13:37.740 and a point you can add to Joe Biden's tally. It's the only way they can win. And it's the only

00:13:42.800 explanation for why the lockdown is still going on. What is the other explanation?

00:13:49.260 They're talking about how the cases are exploding. Sure. But the deaths are not. The number of deaths

00:13:53.300 are not. And the death rate is not. And if the whole point of the virus is we don't have a cure

00:13:57.120 for it, we don't have a vaccine, then there's nothing the lockdowns can do. All you can do is

00:14:02.820 flatten the curve. We already did that. I'm so frustrated with Republican governors and even some

00:14:10.400 people on campaigns who think that, that this is still about medical science, who think that this

00:14:15.960 is a fair playing field. It's not, it's a setup folks. Got to stop it. I hope that people from 1.00

00:14:23.060 Republican campaigns, including the biggest one are listening right now. You have to run against

00:14:28.420 the lockdowns. You've got to run hard against the lockdowns. The lockdown is the entirety of Joe

00:14:34.880 Biden's and the Democrats' campaigns. If, if the Democrats had a capable candidate who was articulate,

00:14:40.620 who they thought could beat Donald Trump in a debate, you can bet your last dollar, they would

00:14:46.580 be holding rallies every single week. You can bet it, but they're not. Okay. And so they've got to walk

00:14:52.380 back. They've got to lean back on an absolutely corrupted and perverted exploitation of science. 0.86

00:14:59.280 Enough on that. Let's move on to the scientist that we're, we've all come to exalt. Dr. Fauci,

00:15:06.960 peace be upon him. Rand Paul figured this out. Senator Rand Paul, who has been kind of snuffing

00:15:12.340 this out from the very beginning, he was speaking with the exalted Dr. Fauci and he, he honed in on a

00:15:19.940 point that I think is one way that we're going to be able to back moderates and some liberals off

00:15:25.920 from their religious devotion to the lockdowns. That point is sending kids back to school.

00:15:33.300 All of this body of evidence about schools around the world shows there's no surge.

00:15:38.800 All of the evidence shows that it's rare. I mean, we've so politicized this and made it

00:15:43.760 politically correct that the WHO releases that it's rare and you have a scientist up there honestly

00:15:48.440 giving her opinion. What happens to her? She's blackballed and her, her report that she refers to 1.00

00:15:53.800 is taken off the website. When you go to that, the, that scientist speech and you, and you try to

00:15:58.940 clink on the lick, the WHO has now screened it from us because it said something that's not

00:16:04.360 politically corrected. Guess what? It's rare for kids to transmit this, but I hear nothing of that

00:16:09.800 coming from you. All I hear, Dr. Fauci is we can't do this. We can't do that. We can't play baseball.

00:16:15.640 Well, even that's not based on the science. I mean, flu season peaks in February. We don't know

00:16:20.700 that COVID is going to be like the flu season. It might, but we don't know that, but we wouldn't,

00:16:25.520 we wouldn't ban school in October. You might close some schools when they get the flu. We need to not

00:16:30.740 be so presumptuous that we know everything. We need to not be so presumptuous that we know

00:16:36.440 anything. That could sum up the whole era that we're living in. But as long as we are living in

00:16:40.800 this era where the, the most important thing to have is some credential to say that you're part of

00:16:45.200 the scientific establishment. Don't forget, Rand Paul is a scientist, right? He's a medical doctor.

00:16:50.160 And so it carries extra weight when he lobbies these criticisms. I think he's honed in on a,

00:16:55.800 on an important message here that Republicans would do well to listen to, which is the schooling issue.

00:17:03.780 What's going to happen in the fall? A lot of colleges are not going to reopen. As a matter of

00:17:09.080 fact, you know, I, I usually give what eight or nine speeches on campuses a semester. Those have

00:17:14.200 virtually all of them have been canceled so far because we don't even know if the schools are

00:17:18.420 going to reopen, but colleges are the least of it. I mean, sure. I've got friends who now are

00:17:23.680 going to graduate school or who, who now will have to do zoom classes for college. Fine.

00:17:30.160 What about people in high school or middle school or elementary school? What about those students

00:17:37.340 whose parents need to figure out what's going to happen to them every single day? There, 0.87

00:17:41.780 there are some proposals going around in New York and other places. I mean,

00:17:44.580 you're talking about huge school districts that say they're going to reopen the schools only a

00:17:48.560 little bit. So, which obviously would serve no purpose. If you go to school even one day a week

00:17:54.600 or one day a month, even you're going to be exposed to the virus and it's not going to achieve anything.

00:17:58.460 But some of the proposals are, they're going to go in person to school two days a week,

00:18:02.540 and then they're going to be home from school three days a week and do it on zoom.

00:18:06.060 So medically achieves nothing, but economically, how is that supposed to work? Just to use the

00:18:12.740 example of New York city, if you are a parent in New York city, it is a statistical certainty

00:18:19.240 that you work. You have to work because it's a very expensive place to live in a very, very

00:18:23.180 expensive place to raise kids. So the parents there are working. What are they supposed to do?

00:18:27.460 They're going to call in their boss and say, Hey, I'm going to need off three days a week. I can't

00:18:33.280 tell you what the three days are by the way yet. And I'm not sure when it's going to be set, but

00:18:36.760 I'm going to need that. So I'm going to start working two days a week now. Is that cool with

00:18:39.580 you? Imagine if you called your boss and said that probably would not go over very well as a

00:18:46.640 practical matter. You can't do it. This is why from the beginning, the, the lockdown proponents

00:18:52.180 have been trying to figure out the school issue because they know they actually said in Los Angeles,

00:18:56.880 they said, we're, we're, we're, I think throughout all of California, we're not going to reopen

00:19:02.900 churches until phase three, but we're going to try to reopen schools in phase two or it's phase four

00:19:08.440 versus phase three or whatever. They knew that they had to reopen the schools early because there's

00:19:15.360 just this, first of all, they want to keep indoctrinating your kids. But second of all,

00:19:19.280 there's just this very practical matter of you don't know what to do with the kids. Whereas

00:19:22.400 they felt they could put off allowing people to go back to their churches for a longer time.

00:19:27.380 This would be a good one to hammer home on. You know, there was a decision that came out

00:19:31.220 from the Supreme court yesterday. Finally, some slightly good news from the Supreme court

00:19:35.300 that is more permissive of school choice and of religious schools. And, you know,

00:19:40.840 in a week that's been very trying or two weeks, it's been very trying on the Supreme court.

00:19:44.860 At least this opened the door to school choice a little bit. Why? Because school choice is very

00:19:49.680 popular. It's always been a good wedge issue for Republicans to talk to demographics that don't

00:19:54.900 usually vote for them. And it's a good, a good issue here in the lockdowns. At this point,

00:20:01.080 I'm convinced that the Supreme court just makes their decisions, not by reading the law, but by

00:20:05.260 looking at public opinion polling. And then whatever's really popular, that's going to be the

00:20:08.860 decision that they push for in many, many cases. So I think you can actually use that to your

00:20:15.360 advantage here. When you're talking about the, whether or not we're going to reopen anything,

00:20:20.560 just say like, Hey, where are they going to make you send your kids? They're not going to let you go

00:20:24.620 back to work. They're not going to let your kid get an education there. I think if you focus on that

00:20:29.700 for long enough, you're, you're going to be able to win over some of those moderate with a suburban

00:20:34.340 women, the, the people, the very few people in the middle who don't have a decision yet about this

00:20:39.700 presidential election. Another great wedge issue here is another public institution, not the schools.

00:20:47.760 It's the police. How many times have you been told ever since Democrats brought up this idea of

00:20:53.740 defunding the police, that defunding the police doesn't really mean defunding the police. 0.99

00:20:59.400 Oh, you fool. You think defunding the police, you think when I said that I meant to defund the police? No, 0.98

00:21:04.840 no. It means to move the budgets around and reallocate resources. And well, AOC just came out

00:21:13.360 and exposed that lie completely. She said, quote, defunding police means defunding police. She issued 0.96

00:21:21.120 a press release on this yesterday. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Defunding police means

00:21:28.920 defunding police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police

00:21:33.380 officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education's budget so that the exact same police

00:21:38.080 remain in schools. It does not mean counting overtime cuts as cuts, even as NYPD ignores every

00:21:42.740 attempt by city council to curb overtime spending and overspends on overtime anyway. She wrote anyways,

00:21:49.660 AOC. It does not mean hiring more police officers while cutting more than $800 million from New York

00:21:54.920 City public schools. If these reports are accurate, then these proposed cuts to NYPD's budget are a

00:22:00.960 disingenuous illusion. This is not a victory. The fight to defund policing continues.

00:22:07.140 I love her. So often I love, I love this congresswoman because she might have terrible 0.97

00:22:13.780 ideas for the country, but at least she tells you what she thinks. Remember with the Green New Deal, 1.00

00:22:20.660 she put forward the Green New Deal, which is a radical, transformative, Marxist policy idea that has

00:22:27.460 actually very little to do with the natural environment, has a lot to do with vast redistribution

00:22:33.180 of wealth, nationalizing industries, reparations programs, healthcare programs, all this kind of

00:22:38.360 stuff. And when she put that forward, $93 trillion plan over 10 years, Mitch McConnell, Senate majority

00:22:45.760 leader, came out and said, we got to vote on this immediately. I want to get all you Democrats on the

00:22:49.540 record about this Green New Deal immediately. Well, she's doing that same thing again with defunding the 1.00

00:22:54.200 police. A very, very unpopular position. Right now we're looking at New York City. Yesterday in New

00:23:02.700 York, there was this big budget fight to see whether they were going to defund the police or not.

00:23:06.800 Mass gathering, huge gathering outside of City Hall. It was, it was so jubilant. People gathered

00:23:12.960 together in this large group. At one point, they just started dancing.

00:23:31.360 That mass gathering, by the way, totally fine. Coronavirus, not going to spread at all. If you

00:23:35.860 want to have a presidential debate or a campaign rally or go to the beach on the 4th of July, that

00:23:39.800 is going to spread coronavirus. But if you want to dance around outside of City Hall and try to

00:23:45.040 destroy the New York City police department, best police department in the country, that is totally

00:23:51.000 fine. Just another little example of how super duper serious coronavirus is from a medical perspective.

00:23:58.480 So scientific perspective, pandemic, can't hold a presidential election. So they're dancing around

00:24:04.340 outside and they get their budget cut. $1 billion cut. $1 billion with a B cut from the NYPD's $6 billion

00:24:11.380 operating budget. That's a, that's a huge percentage, particularly as crime and shootings are way up. They

00:24:18.440 are on the rise. And it's not just New York cutting. LAPD also cut a lot of money from the budget. Not quite like

00:24:25.660 NYPD, but the LA city council passed a motion to, uh, to one cut $150 million pass from the,

00:24:34.140 the police budget. And also to replace the Los Angeles police department officers with unarmed,

00:24:39.460 quote, crisis response personnel to be assigned to nonviolent calls for service, such as neighbor disputes.

00:24:47.260 I, the, the Orwellian politically correct jargon here is really something to behold. They're going to

00:24:56.460 have crisis response personnel for nonviolent calls for service. Now the thing about nonviolent calls

00:25:04.360 for service is sometimes they turn violent. Sometimes violent calls for service, also known as when you

00:25:11.980 call the cops, start out not very violent. This motion was introduced by, uh, LA councilman Herb Wesson and

00:25:19.280 five other colleagues on the 15 member LA city council. And Wesson said he would be working with, on the

00:25:25.420 project with members of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Black Lives Matter, a Marxist organization that seeks to

00:25:31.280 destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family, their words, not mine, and wants to defund police entirely. So what

00:25:36.780 they're doing though, is they're going to take away resources from the cops. Crime is going to go up.

00:25:41.480 Shootings are going to go up. Killings are going to go up. And they're going to put it in fake cops. 1.00

00:25:46.200 Some new kind of cops that they're calling crisis response personnel. Well, how is that going to work

00:25:50.440 out? We have an example from the chop. Remember the chop? I thought the chop was over. Chop Chaz,

00:25:56.920 the, the occupied zone in Seattle. Apparently it's still going on. People are still being killed there

00:26:01.000 by the anarchists. When you replace the police, first of all, when you defund the police, you don't

00:26:08.020 just defund the police. It gets replaced with something. That's what we're seeing in LA.

00:26:11.480 In the chop, what it gets replaced with is roving gangs. And unbelievably, the chop, which was

00:26:17.660 established putatively because of police brutality and they wanted to stop police brutality. Well,

00:26:23.260 they set up their own police force and that police force is now shooting black teenagers 1.00

00:26:27.680 and killing them. It's so, it's so ironic. You can't say it's funny, but it's so darkly ironic. 1.00

00:26:38.500 You, you, you almost can't even react to it. A 16 year old fatally shot in the chop on Monday

00:26:46.180 morning. A 14 year old, a child is in critical condition at the Harborview Medical Center and a

00:26:54.220 volunteer medic, you know, they don't have doctors in the chop because it's an independent country.

00:26:57.660 They've got volunteer medics said that it was the chop security forces who shot the black teenager.

00:27:07.840 The irony is almost too much. This person also described chop as an active war zone. Well,

00:27:15.040 the chop is a little crystal ball, my friends. If the chop policies begin to be passed in actual

00:27:21.120 cities around the country in Los Angeles and New York, then we're going to see our cities turn into

00:27:26.480 active war zones for the near future. It's already happening. Crime is already on the rise. 0.94

00:27:31.580 This is another, from a political perspective, good thing for conservatives to talk about because

00:27:37.500 what it looks like our cities are headed into is the 1970s, urban decay, death, mayhem, destruction,

00:27:43.700 poverty. This led to some Republicans, most notably Rudy Giuliani in New York, getting elected in the 90s

00:27:50.920 and cleaning it up because it doesn't matter what you say your political affiliation is and your

00:27:55.300 ideology. And when you've got people dropping like flies around you, when you, when you're afraid to

00:28:00.340 leave your apartment at night, you're going to want a little bit of law and order, a good point to focus

00:28:06.320 on. One, because it could save lives before it gets too bad. And two, from a political perspective,

00:28:11.960 it's, it's one way to exploit what the left is using as their exploitation. You want to hit your

00:28:20.600 opponent in politics at the weak point, right? And so right now, Donald Trump's entire campaign is

00:28:28.200 rallies, right? He holds these standup specials when he goes to give these rallies. The rest of the

00:28:33.620 campaign is not quite as strong as Trump himself. And so what, what do the Democrats do? They take Trump's

00:28:41.100 best campaign, uh, platform segment opportunity. They take it off the table. So now he's just got

00:28:50.040 the rest of his otherwise not that great campaign. Now, what can we do? We can use what they are

00:28:58.740 doing. We can use that against them on at least those two issues on schools and on cops. There was

00:29:03.560 a, there was a study just came out, uh, Siena college research Institute found 57% of New Yorkers,

00:29:08.460 New Yorkers, uh, oppose reducing any reducing funding at all for the police. And 60% said that

00:29:15.680 they opposed defunding the police. That was in a separate question. That's even in New York. So

00:29:20.760 a good one to hit them on. We will get to what happens, uh, as this continues, we will also get to,

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00:30:44.040 Ernest Hemingway famously pointed out that things happen gradually than suddenly. I think

00:31:02.300 politics is heating up. It is accelerating at a pace that we are not used to in this country.

00:31:10.100 And so a lot of people don't realize that the ground has completely shifted and we need to

00:31:15.680 recognize that. Frankly, even Joe Biden doesn't fully comprehend. Well, he doesn't fully comprehend

00:31:21.960 very much, but he doesn't fully comprehend how much the ground has shifted in politics. So for

00:31:26.920 instance, he was, he was asked a question about the statues. Should we pull down Jefferson and Lee and

00:31:32.060 all that? And he gave this answer that is going to please absolutely no one. He tried to walk this line

00:31:39.020 between what he views as the establishment of his party and the radicals of his party,

00:31:43.300 because he thinks that those, those two groups are, are not that far apart. Actually, they are so

00:31:49.020 separated. And in this country right now, the two sides are so separated. You can't walk that line.

00:31:54.580 And if you stand in the middle of the road, you're going to get hit by a truck. Listen to how Joe Biden

00:31:58.360 tries to please everybody. I think those statues belong in museums. They don't belong in public places.

00:32:04.720 And I think with regard to those statues that are in monuments, like the Jefferson Memorial or

00:32:11.540 whatever, I think there's an obligation that the, uh, that the government protect those monuments

00:32:16.860 because they're different than that's a remembrance. It is not a, uh, dealing with, uh, um, you know,

00:32:24.440 revering somebody who had that view. They have much broader views. They may have things in their past

00:32:29.800 that are now and then distasteful, but that's a judgment for the country. So for example,

00:32:36.120 taking down toppling Christopher Columbus statue or George Washington statue or et cetera, I think

00:32:43.460 that is something that is, the government has an opportunity and a responsibility to protect

00:32:48.980 from happening. So the government has a responsibility to protect Jefferson,

00:32:53.420 who was a far more notorious slaver than a guy like say Robert E. Lee, but not Robert E. Lee.

00:33:03.880 Why? Actually, I mean, take it to an even further conclusion, which is the BLM movement, 0.96

00:33:13.740 the hard left in America, they think the country is rotten to the core. They think that the founding

00:33:18.060 was hopelessly rotten. That's the thesis of the 1619 project. So isn't it the case that,

00:33:23.940 that the, the founders of this country are the most culpable? Forget about Robert E. Lee. He was

00:33:30.300 just a general who, you know, he was a union general. And then when Virginia pulled away,

00:33:34.240 he went down and, and fought for Virginia. And then he gave up the battle and was an honorable guy

00:33:39.740 after the war. And forget about him. He's a, he's a side note. Really? If you really believe the

00:33:44.980 1619 project and BLM's Marxist premises and the radical left, you should most want to topple 0.82

00:33:52.460 Jefferson and Washington, Columbus discovered the whole hemisphere. So certainly Columbus has to come

00:33:57.520 down. Joe Biden's answer, like so many of Joe Biden's answers doesn't make any sense. He's trying

00:34:03.140 to walk that line. And I think some Republicans are trying to walk this line too. They're trying to walk

00:34:07.080 a line. They're trying to play politics 10 years ago when things were a little bit more reasonable.

00:34:14.820 When there was at least the facade of an objective press, when the democratic party in this country and

00:34:20.560 democratic leaders at least pretended to like America, they weren't openly protesting the American

00:34:25.660 flag. They weren't calling the, the 4th of July a white supremacist holiday. They did that. They

00:34:32.100 actually did that, which we'll get to in just one second. That's gone. Okay. That's over. We are now at

00:34:37.740 the point where half of this country's political leaders protest the American flag. They don't like the

00:34:43.620 country where we have roving gangs of anarchists setting the country on fire, torching things

00:34:48.700 and elected Democrats egging them on, encouraging them saying that's a good, just, wonderful cause

00:34:55.720 where we have self-admitted trained Marxists talking openly about how they want to destroy the

00:35:03.300 nuclear family and elected Democrats, frankly, the entire elected establishment embracing it saying,

00:35:11.460 yes, we support this group. You, you can't, you can't thread that needle guys. You have to pick a

00:35:18.120 side. And this is true on the statue toppling. Joe Biden's going to have to pick a side on that.

00:35:23.600 I mean, luckily Joe Biden has all of, for him, luckily he's got all of the institutional support

00:35:27.880 behind him. So he gets away with a lot more. But Republicans, they don't have that advantage.

00:35:32.680 So on something like the lockdowns, you can't run on it a little, okay, maybe we want to open in 15

00:35:38.340 days. Well, actually it's going to be 30 days and I'd like to open by Easter, but I don't know if we

00:35:42.980 can, and we're going to relock down again. And in Texas, we're going to lock down again. No,

00:35:46.920 pick a side guys. What is it? Is it going to be, you're going to totally lock down and just give up

00:35:51.660 on this presidential election. And I don't know, try again in 10 years or something, or are you going to

00:35:56.360 actually stand up, recognize what is happening to you politically and fight back? We just need,

00:36:03.380 I just wish people saw what was going on. And I know on political campaigns, they get stuck in

00:36:07.480 bubbles so they don't see it. But for the rest of us out here who are not just in a campaign office

00:36:12.360 and in a campaign bubble, the country is burning to the ground. We are in a unique moment, uncharted

00:36:20.860 territory, at least in recent memory. And the person who wins is going to be the one who is

00:36:26.340 most aware of what is going on right now. I mean, we have in Detroit, there was a, there was a video

00:36:33.280 that came out yesterday of mobs swarming a cop car, beating the cop car, smashing its windows.

00:36:40.620 And so the cop starts driving sort of slowly. And then obviously when he starts driving and,

00:36:45.280 and won't let the mob totally overtake the car, then they start going completely crazy.

00:36:49.520 He's just trying to jerk out of there. He's not, he's actually not running over anybody. He's just

00:36:53.160 trying to get out of there. Finally, he, he makes it out. And this is being reported.

00:37:00.380 This is seriously being reported as mostly peaceful protesters surrounding the car and the cop drove

00:37:07.400 into them. Of course, the cop is completely justified into, in, in driving through this crowd.

00:37:14.060 You can't expect a cop to just stand there and say, okay, come kill me guys. Come kill me raging mob. 0.99

00:37:18.700 And yet so many people in this country with a completely straight face say, yeah, it's just a, 0.96

00:37:22.460 just a group of peaceful protesters. You've got a gal at Harvard, Harvard senior,

00:37:27.700 who just made a, you're talking about Harvard university, theoretically one of the elite

00:37:34.180 universities in the country. This Harvard senior makes a video in which she says that

00:37:39.220 if you use the phrase, all lives matter instead of black lives matter, 1.00

00:37:43.700 then she is going to stab you. Next person who has the sheer nerve, the sheer entitled 0.99

00:37:51.240 caucasity to say all lives matter. I'm a stab you. I'm a, I'm a stab you. And while you're 1.00

00:37:57.760 struggling and bleeding out, I'm a show you my paper cut and say, my cut matters too.

00:38:05.880 Did you hear that word? She said caucasity. The word caucas, she was referring to whiteness. 0.91

00:38:10.360 I assume caucasity like Caucasian. She's using the word whiteness, the term whiteness 0.93

00:38:17.440 as an insult. Now imagine if you did that with any other race, you would be kicked out of polite 1.00

00:38:23.700 society. You'd be investigated for a hate crime. Do you think that this, this girl is going to face 0.97

00:38:29.060 any disciplinary action at Harvard? No, I don't. I think she'll probably get an award at graduation.

00:38:35.480 Meanwhile, there's a student at Kansas state university who's being threatened with expulsion

00:38:39.840 because he tweeted a disrespectful joke about George Floyd. It's a kind of use, it's a, it's a

00:38:44.980 often used joke. I mean, this is an old joke that goes back very far. The, the joke is that George

00:38:51.240 Floyd is now, has now been drug free since he died, you know, but it's, it's a joke that was,

00:38:56.700 came up when Whitney Houston died. It comes up whenever a celebrity who is a famous drug user

00:39:01.460 dies. People say this, it's very disrespectful. I, you know, I don't think it's a little too soon.

00:39:05.820 I don't think we should be telling jokes about people who have been killed like that shortly

00:39:10.000 after. But this kid is now being threatened with expulsion for telling a, a not very nice

00:39:17.520 old joke. This girl is going to face no consequences for threatening to stab people for being white 1.00

00:39:23.800 and for saying the phrase, all lives matter. And now you could say she's telling a joke too. Okay.

00:39:29.820 Well, the other guy was telling a joke. Her joke is more offensive. Her joke is far more aggressive 1.00

00:39:34.420 and threatening, but that is the kind of aggressive double standard culture that we are living in

00:39:40.700 right now. A Washington Post editor just called for revenge against white women. A Washington Post 0.99

00:39:46.940 editor just came out and said, the lies and tears of white women hath wrought the 1921 Tulsa massacre, 1.00

00:39:53.380 the murder of Emmett Till, exclusion of black women from feminist movements, 53% of white women voting 0.94

00:39:58.880 for Trump. I mean, she's really, really throwing everything at the wall here. White women are lucky 1.00

00:40:05.080 that we're just calling them Karens, which is a racial term. It's a sort of like funny one, but it 0.97

00:40:10.060 is a racial term and not calling for revenge. This is not patience and strength. It's the result 0.61

00:40:15.260 of knowing the price of resistance and that much, that much blood would be spilt. We must get away

00:40:22.940 from the idea that enduring abuse is admirable. I'm just saying, be happy. We're calling for equality

00:40:28.720 and not actual revenge. Well, what I'm hearing these days is not any call for equality from the

00:40:33.700 left. I'm hearing calls for revenge, which is why they're burning down the country and killing people.

00:40:38.080 So it is explicitly a call for revenge. I want to focus on that line. She said, this is an editor of

00:40:44.060 the Washington Post. She says, we must get away from the idea that enduring abuse is admirable.

00:40:49.580 Also known as the Christian understanding of suffering. The idea that we suffer and suffering can be

00:40:57.860 sanctifying. This is, this is how our civilization traditionally has understood suffering. I mean, even

00:41:05.000 other ancient understandings of suffering is that we all suffer. There is, there is no utopian

00:41:11.500 political solution to the world. There will be pain and we must endure that pain and that pain

00:41:17.060 deepens our character and shapes us and can be, we can either react to that in a good ennobling way,

00:41:25.040 or we can react to that in a debasing way. This is obviously the case, but for leftist utopians,

00:41:31.460 they think that any suffering is an affront to what they deserve. They, they don't deserve any pain in

00:41:36.860 the world. Are you kidding? I mean, look, these, these are people who celebrate pride for an entire

00:41:42.340 month. The American left pride, the, the deadliest of the seven deadly sins. So they just are not

00:41:48.180 equipped for the, the simple fact of the human condition that there is suffering and you will

00:41:55.020 suffer. And suffering actually can be a helpful thing in your, in your character development.

00:42:02.480 They don't, they, they just want to abolish it, which is never going to happen. And it's why they

00:42:05.920 get more and more frustrated as it happens. Democrats are now, I'm not just saying one or

00:42:11.580 two random Democrats. I'm saying the democratic party is now referring to the 4th of July as a

00:42:17.780 white supremacist holiday. They tweeted out because president Trump is planning to hold a rally at Mount

00:42:25.980 Rushmore. They tweeted out, quote, Trump has disrespected native communities time and again.

00:42:31.180 He's attempted to limit their voting rights and blocked critical pandemic relief. Not true,

00:42:34.980 but whatever. Now he's holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore, a region once

00:42:42.900 sacred to tribal communities. What does that mean? I'm sure the, I'm sure the place that the

00:42:48.280 Democratic National Committee office is on was once sacred to Native American communities in the sense

00:42:53.160 that there were Native Americans before Europeans settled to the continent. But forget that double 0.99

00:42:58.900 standard too. They're referring to a 4th of July rally as a white supremacist rally.

00:43:04.980 Now, some people are saying, no, no, the Democrats are just referring to Mount Rushmore as a white

00:43:11.160 supremacist site, which again, doesn't, that still doesn't make any sense. Do you think Abraham Lincoln

00:43:16.500 is a white supremacist, the man who freed the slaves? I don't think so. George Washington,

00:43:22.380 Thomas Jefferson, all that, do you call them white supremacists? I don't think so. Really what they

00:43:25.760 mean is they're white guys and all white people, white, white is bad now. And all white people are 0.99

00:43:30.280 white supremacists. That's really what the left is saying. That's really what that Harvard girl is saying. 0.99

00:43:34.980 But that's actually not, that's not even the Democrats point here because the Democrats are

00:43:40.240 saying Trump is holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore is

00:43:45.860 just the site of the rally glorifying white supremacy. Well, what's the rally glorifying white

00:43:50.420 supremacy? It's Trump's 4th of July rally. So the thing that they are accusing, if you just parse the

00:43:56.720 sentence, the thing that they are accusing of being white supremacist is the 4th of July, which is not

00:44:01.980 surprising to anyone who's been paying attention. Anyone who has realized what's going on, the left

00:44:07.800 has captured all of the institutions of this country, including, and especially the Democratic

00:44:14.020 Party. They hate this country. They hate it with a burning passion, a passion that burns so hot that

00:44:21.820 it's now burning down cities. And they want to tear it down. Anyone who listened when Barack Obama said,

00:44:29.440 I want to fundamentally transform America may have realized, huh, I guess he doesn't like America all

00:44:34.280 that much because you don't want to fundamentally transform things that you like. Anyone who is

00:44:40.760 listening, who is reading the New York Times 1619 project, who's listening, who's been watching as

00:44:46.040 they've been tearing down the statues. We are in a particularly radical moment. You hear every

00:44:53.140 presidential campaign. This is the most important campaign of our lifetimes. In a way, it's always

00:44:58.200 true because things happen gradually, then suddenly. So you're getting closer and closer to some real

00:45:04.880 danger. The danger is here. Police departments are going away. Cities are on fire. They want to blow

00:45:12.400 up Mount Rushmore. People have joking, somewhat jokingly, and then somewhat earnestly suggested that.

00:45:18.220 The danger is here. If we don't rise to this occasion as a political matter, we might not get

00:45:28.900 another shot. You see how the deck is stacked against you at the Supreme Court, in the administrative

00:45:33.540 government, in everywhere. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. You can try to fight again in 10

00:45:40.620 years or 20 years. Maybe you'll be able to claw something back. But I think we're all realizing at this

00:45:45.360 moment where a major political party is calling the 4th of July a white supremacist terrible holiday,

00:45:49.840 trying to cancel it. I think we realize that we're on the verge of something really being lost.

00:45:55.880 Our history, our culture, our cities, our country itself. Will we rise to the occasion?

00:46:03.260 Or will we realize it all too late? I hope it's the former. I hope people are listening to the show

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