The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 578 - Black Beans Matter

00:00:00.000 First, they came for Aunt Jemima. And I said nothing because I don't like pancakes. And then

00:00:06.100 they came for Uncle Ben. And I said nothing because I don't like rice. And now they're

00:00:12.260 coming for Goya. And even if you don't like Puerto Rican black beans, you have got to speak out

00:00:17.980 because they are going to come for you, whether you like it or not. That is right. Robert Unanue

00:00:24.000 or Unanue, I'm not quite sure how to pronounce it. I will call him Mr. Goya, the head of Goya

00:00:28.600 Foods, was invited to the White House. He was there to speak about his company. And

00:00:33.740 he he committed a crime so atrocious, so outrageous that the popular culture will not forgive him

00:00:41.000 for it. He said something nice about the president of the United States. We're all truly blessed

00:00:46.520 at the same time to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder. And that's what my

00:00:53.460 grandfather did. He came to this country to build, to grow, to prosper. And so we have an

00:01:00.260 incredible builder. And we pray. We pray for our leadership, our president, and we pray for our

00:01:08.040 country, that we will continue to prosper and to grow.

00:01:12.340 So it's basically like listening into a Klan rally, isn't it? It's just so,

00:01:17.020 so shocking and outrageous. So now what's so funny is that the left is making a big deal out of this

00:01:23.960 Goya endorsement of Trump. Did it sound like he's endorsing Trump? I mean, he's saying nice things

00:01:28.600 when he says, Donald Trump is a builder, just like my grandfather was a builder.

00:01:33.880 Regardless of what you think about Donald Trump, you have to admit the guy's at least a builder,

00:01:36.960 right? He's got his name on a lot of buildings all around the country. Well, that was too far

00:01:41.220 for the left. Even though, by the way, this same man, the same head of Goya,

00:01:45.860 when he was called in to work with the Obama administration, said nice things about Barack

00:01:49.380 Obama. It's just respectful. And how basic, how obvious to say, we pray for our country.

00:01:53.660 We pray for the president of the United States. Well, they called him on it. And a lot of people

00:01:57.720 were just waiting for Mr. Goya, like everybody else, to fold under pressure and say, I'm sorry.

00:02:03.000 I didn't mean to be nice to Trump. Well, this guy's a little bit different. He turned to the mob

00:02:08.100 and he refused to bow. I went to the White House later and introduced in Hispanic Heritage Month,

00:02:17.360 President Obama. And so you're allowed to talk good or to praise one president,

00:02:25.360 but you're not allowed. When I was called to be part of this commission to aid in economic

00:02:32.100 and educational prosperity and you make a positive comment, all of a sudden that's not acceptable.

00:02:39.400 So, you know, I'm not apologizing for saying, and especially if you're called by the president

00:02:46.660 of the United States, you're going to say, no, I'm sorry. I'm busy. No, thank you. I didn't say

00:02:50.520 that to the Obamas and I didn't say that to President Trump. That's right. My man, I'm not

00:02:55.960 apologizing to the mob. This is not only the best, wisest course of action when the mob comes for

00:03:01.760 you. It is the only course of action because the left is going to cancel you whether you try to be

00:03:06.640 nice to them or not. It's in these small little seemingly trivial stories that the big issues play

00:03:12.840 out. Black beans matter. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:16.620 Welcome back to the show. Democrats are calling for a major boycott. They're calling for a boycott

00:03:31.900 of Goya. Chrissy Teigen. Who is Chrissy Teigen? I don't know. I guess she's a model or something. 0.91

00:03:37.880 I know I've heard the name before, but I'm sorry. I can't pay that much attention to this dumb 0.99

00:03:42.780 leftist culture. Chrissy Teigen tweets out, quote, F-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-C-K. 1.00

00:03:49.880 A shame. Don't care how good the beans taste, though. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Not eating Goya beans

00:03:55.520 anymore because the CEO said something nice about the president and said that he would pray for him.

00:04:02.940 Rep. Luis Gutierrez, former congressman, posted in a now this video, so it's a left-wing media company,

00:04:10.700 he posted out his shock and horror and how Goya beans now are responsible for the oppression of Hispanic people. 0.60

00:04:21.660 This is a video of my pantry filled with Goya products.

00:04:27.980 I say to the owners of Goya, you came as conquistadores.

00:04:33.300 You wiped out our indigenous population in Puerto Rico.

00:04:36.300 You exploited the Puerto Ricans for centuries under your colonialism. 0.88

00:04:41.460 And now you wish to bring about more of Donald Trump, who hates us, despised us, and has treated the Puerto Rican people with such cruelty.

00:04:50.600 No more Goya. Boycott Goya. I will never buy another product of yours again.

00:04:56.480 Never, ever again. Could you imagine if the left got this irate over an issue that actually matters?

00:05:02.480 Could you imagine if they got this irate over school choice or crime in Chicago?

00:05:06.480 Oh man, that would be great. We could use a little bit of that passion as people are getting slaughtered left and right in New York and Chicago.

00:05:12.980 But they don't really care about that. They don't care about school choice. They don't care about giving people opportunity.

00:05:17.640 They just want to stand on their soapbox on Goya beans. AOC did it too.

00:05:23.600 AOC, the future of the Democratic Party, tweeted out, oh look, it's the sound of me Googling how to make your own adobo.

00:05:29.440 She's not eating Goya anymore either. The left is canceling Goya.

00:05:33.300 It's crazy that they're focusing on this tiny little nothing issue, right? Not really.

00:05:37.840 Because for the left, it's in these small issues that all their rot begins.

00:05:42.880 We'll get to that in one second. We'll get to them denying their own canceling, even though we just listened to all of it.

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00:06:58.860 So the left, you see, just calls, don't buy Goya.

00:07:01.960 Goya's terrible. Down with Goya. I'm never eating Goya again.

00:07:05.000 Because they said, we'll pray for the president and pray for our country.

00:07:09.340 Then the left has to deny that this is happening.

00:07:13.580 Why do they do this?

00:07:15.420 Why the focus?

00:07:17.520 Why the rage?

00:07:18.420 Why is Rep Gutierrez like he's giving the We Shall Fight on the Beaches speech from Winston Churchill about black beans?

00:07:28.300 It's because in the 60s, the left told us the personal is the political.

00:07:31.940 Everything has to be politicized by the left.

00:07:36.280 This has been a theme that's come up for about 100 years now on the left.

00:07:41.780 It comes, you can call it cultural hegemony.

00:07:44.720 You can call it cultural Marxism.

00:07:46.300 You can call it the long march through the institutions.

00:07:48.540 But you can call it the personal is the political.

00:07:50.460 You can call it whatever.

00:07:51.420 The left has been saying this for a long time.

00:07:53.140 That they need to apply their ideology to everything.

00:07:58.040 That's why they care about political correctness.

00:07:59.560 That's why they care about which pronouns you use. 0.83

00:08:01.620 That's why they care about which euphemism you use.

00:08:03.640 And you're allowed to say people of color, but not colored people.

00:08:06.760 And you formerly could say African American, but then it was black again. 0.96

00:08:09.480 And then these little minor details are how they will control the culture.

00:08:15.620 This actually comes back to an Italian man named Antonio Gramsci, who is this Marxist founder of the Italian Communist Party.

00:08:24.440 And Gramsci, along with other thinkers, applied the principles of Marxism to cultural issues.

00:08:29.980 And what they were hoping for is something called cultural hegemony, which is that when you infiltrate the culture itself, the words, the way in which we think, the products that we use, the institutions that we go to.

00:08:41.920 When you infiltrate that, it's much easier to achieve your political goals than if you were to just be a kind of old school activist and run a big campaign and try to get signatures on your petition and try to win various elections.

00:08:54.000 It's much subtler.

00:08:55.520 And the left has had great success doing this.

00:08:58.580 So they have to care about the black beans.

00:09:01.280 I mean, there's a, you know, we're joking a little bit when we say black beans matter.

00:09:05.260 That's now what the, that's now what a protest issue like black lives matter. 0.98

00:09:10.200 They're, they're using the exact same passion to talk about Goya beans, but it really is true. 0.99

00:09:15.800 It's in these minor details.

00:09:17.720 And as they do it, they need to deny everything.

00:09:20.380 It's funny.

00:09:20.740 We use the term cultural Marxism.

00:09:22.000 If you Google cultural Marxism right now, you'll see, it says it's a conspiracy theory, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, which is bizarre because the first cultural Marxist and avowed cultural Marxist, a guy who says apply Marxism to culture, head of the Marxist party in Italy was not Jewish at all.

00:09:39.040 He was an Italian guy named Gramsci, but they have to deny it.

00:09:42.480 There have been so many thinkers who've said, we need to apply these principles to the culture.

00:09:46.640 The leader of black lives matter.

00:09:48.020 Actually, all three leaders of black lives matter right now are avowed self-described trained Marxists, but then they deny it. 0.63

00:09:55.680 Why?

00:09:56.100 Because as many of these thinkers say explicitly in their writings, they need it to be subtle.

00:10:02.720 You need to not be aware that the culture around you is changing.

00:10:05.660 So now their new line is that cancel culture is not real.

00:10:11.060 This has got to be news to all the people who have been canceled, right?

00:10:13.940 We see these big cultural touchstones of, sorry, you can't be called this.

00:10:17.680 You can't be named this.

00:10:18.740 Kevin Hart can't host the Oscars because you made a joke 10 years ago.

00:10:21.280 So they all get canceled and they say you weren't really canceled.

00:10:24.460 Charles Blow from the New York Times tweets out.

00:10:27.260 One more thing.

00:10:27.980 There is no such thing as cancel culture.

00:10:32.000 There is free speech.

00:10:33.460 You can say and do as you please.

00:10:35.840 Others can choose never to deal with you, your company or your product ever again.

00:10:41.620 The rich and powerful are just upset that the masses can now organize their dissent.

00:10:48.060 This is what they're saying.

00:10:49.040 They're saying, look, we're not canceling anybody.

00:10:51.420 We're just, we're just telling you that if you have an opinion that contradicts the politically

00:10:56.320 correct culture, then we're going to organize a campaign to destroy your life. 0.97

00:11:01.320 Or if you said something 10 years ago, we're going to organize a campaign to destroy your

00:11:03.900 life.

00:11:04.120 That's just the free market of ideas, man.

00:11:06.520 You don't have the right to an audience.

00:11:07.860 AOC said the same thing.

00:11:09.120 People who are actually canceled don't get their thoughts published and amplified in major

00:11:12.840 outlets.

00:11:13.340 This has been a public service announcement.

00:11:14.860 So they're saying, look, whatever you can still, if you still exist, if you maybe can get

00:11:19.540 your voice heard, then you haven't been canceled.

00:11:22.100 The left denies that they cancel people, even as they cancel people, because it's a little

00:11:27.760 bit of a subtle issue and they're trying to confuse some terms.

00:11:30.160 So let's get very specific on what canceling is.

00:11:34.460 We talked about this a little bit last week.

00:11:36.140 Are all boycotts or ostracisms cancel culture?

00:11:41.640 No, not necessarily.

00:11:44.700 We, we at one time had freedom of association, at least in America, and we still say that we do.

00:11:49.160 So if you choose not to buy a product or not to go to a certain place, then you're well

00:11:54.360 within your rights to do that.

00:11:56.760 The difference is cancel culture is when you boycott companies and ostracize people for

00:12:05.160 saying and doing things that five minutes ago would have been perfectly appropriate,

00:12:10.460 would have been encouraged.

00:12:11.560 I mean, the head of Goya said very similarly nice things about Barack Obama, but he wasn't

00:12:18.640 canceled for that.

00:12:20.020 And all he said here was, I'm praying for the president of the United States.

00:12:22.540 He's a builder and I'm proud of builders, but he's being canceled for that.

00:12:27.660 It's an explicitly leftist phenomenon.

00:12:30.400 Now, most specifically, cancel culture involves going through some guy's past.

00:12:35.480 And 10 years ago, he said or did something that by the lights of today's standards is

00:12:39.500 no longer acceptable.

00:12:41.280 And so it's an activist campaign to try to, to ruin his life.

00:12:44.420 But I think the big difference here is that there is a substantive difference.

00:12:48.860 It's not just the form of it.

00:12:50.220 It's not just all boycotts.

00:12:51.780 It's, it's the substance.

00:12:53.880 What are you being boycotted for?

00:12:56.100 Conservatives don't want to talk about this.

00:12:57.540 We want to just play umpire.

00:12:59.400 We want to just have a set of rules and an ideological manifesto and say, we're going to

00:13:04.340 play, play exactly by this and hold everyone to the same standards.

00:13:07.200 That's not what the left is doing.

00:13:08.720 And we need to be able to make moral claims.

00:13:12.520 Pulling up the American flag and honoring it in your backyard is not the same act as desecrating

00:13:19.400 the American flag.

00:13:21.040 They're both rituals that you do with flags.

00:13:23.300 They're both expressions that you make with a flag, but they're not the same thing.

00:13:27.540 One is good and one is bad.

00:13:29.820 One should be encouraged.

00:13:31.180 One should be discouraged.

00:13:33.380 Nike shoes goes out and spits on America.

00:13:36.880 They make the guy who, who disrespected the star-spangled banner, their spokesman.

00:13:42.140 They pull shoes that have the Betsy Ross revolutionary war flag.

00:13:45.580 They pull them because they say America is so hopelessly bigoted and racist from the very

00:13:49.660 beginning.

00:13:50.240 And that is perfectly fine.

00:13:52.180 That company gets rewarded by the popular culture, even though I think the particular

00:13:56.100 expression that they're making probably is unpopular with a lot of people.

00:13:58.960 That's what we would call the silent majority.

00:14:00.620 We'll get into that later.

00:14:01.620 So Nike gets applauded for that.

00:14:03.340 Goya comes out and says, I'm going to pray for our country.

00:14:05.340 And now we've got to boycott black beans.

00:14:08.020 That's not the same thing.

00:14:09.440 Those two things should not be treated in the same way.

00:14:12.640 Conservatives need to grow a spine and realize that politics is not just about form.

00:14:16.960 It's not just about procedure.

00:14:18.020 It's also about substance.

00:14:19.720 It's not just about the right to say things.

00:14:21.960 It's about what we're saying.

00:14:23.540 It's not just about the right to boycott somebody.

00:14:25.460 It's who are you going to boycott?

00:14:27.860 There is so much dishonesty going on in this debate because it's also unlike what AOC is

00:14:32.500 saying and these other people.

00:14:33.380 This is not just a, a grassroots expression of feeling, a cry from the heart of the people.

00:14:38.860 This is contrived BS from radical leftist activists, namely AOC, namely the people working 0.78

00:14:45.760 at the New York times.

00:14:46.880 And we need to be able to say, this is wrong and this is right.

00:14:50.740 We cannot trust though, that institution.

00:14:54.040 I mean, we, we say that only the left can cancel people because the left controls all

00:14:57.340 of the institutions.

00:14:58.400 Sometimes some conservatives go a little limp and they go along with the left, but the

00:15:02.920 left initiates the cancellation.

00:15:05.500 Well, we can't trust the media anymore.

00:15:07.720 We can't even trust them on, obviously forget their reporting on coronavirus.

00:15:13.500 They've been wrong from the very beginning.

00:15:14.620 But now, even when they talk about their own personal experience with coronavirus, we saw

00:15:19.220 this with NBC news, a reporter describing his personal experience, even that we can't

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00:15:24.800 We'll get to it in one second.

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00:16:48.720 Now, NBC News, just when you think they can't lose any more credibility, just when you think

00:16:55.400 they're, they're down to zero credibility, they somehow, they go into the red, they go

00:17:01.460 into the negative on the credibility column.

00:17:04.360 An NBC News reporter, the science contributor and virologist, Joseph Fair, went on TV to describe

00:17:11.160 his personal experience with coronavirus, said it was the worst he ever felt.

00:17:18.040 Listen to his harrowing tales of the virus.

00:17:20.760 Dr. Fair, let me start with you, because I would like you to share a little bit about

00:17:25.980 your recovery from COVID-19.

00:17:27.960 What should Americans take away from your experience?

00:17:31.660 Well, first of all, you know, I did not have any underlying conditions.

00:17:34.580 And, you know, I'm not like a triathlete or anything like that, but I was generally very

00:17:38.660 healthy, could run, exercise probably four or five times a week.

00:17:42.900 That being said, I did not expect if I got COVID-19 that I would get that ill because I don't have

00:17:48.400 any of those underlying conditions, I'm 42 years old.

00:17:51.440 So you wouldn't think clinically that I would be one of those people that would get so very ill.

00:17:55.740 I can say that that's seven to eight days prior to me hospitalizing myself when I was doing the

00:18:00.400 self-treatment.

00:18:02.480 That was the worst I've ever felt.

00:18:04.520 I probably spent 23 out of 24 hours in bed.

00:18:07.720 And then obviously I developed the secondary pneumonia at the end.

00:18:12.120 And so the struggle in breathing and everything else.

00:18:14.520 So I was shocked at how severe my illness got, you know, without having those underlying

00:18:19.920 conditions that we've discussed so many times.

00:18:21.960 I'm pretty shocked too.

00:18:23.420 I'm pretty shocked to hear that 23 out of 24 hours in bed.

00:18:26.940 That's not what seems to be shown from the data, what's going on around the world, certainly

00:18:32.060 around the country, certainly for younger men.

00:18:34.360 Gosh, that's really scary to me.

00:18:36.440 And the doctor here, or the scientific contributor, the virologist, has some advice, encouragement.

00:18:45.340 You young people, you better take this virus seriously.

00:18:50.120 So what I would take from that is, you know, everyone that's younger, everyone that is going

00:18:55.480 out without mask now and being very cavalier with that and ignoring this kind of ongoing

00:19:00.060 pandemic.

00:19:00.560 And, you know, we use the analogy and the band played on with HIV and its response in

00:19:05.180 the early days.

00:19:06.040 That's really the analogy we should be using with coronavirus right now to a much greater

00:19:10.280 extent.

00:19:11.000 And so those people that are young and think they're invincible or people that just don't

00:19:14.980 think it's going to affect them that greatly, even if they do get it, I can say that my own

00:19:19.480 experience was the complete opposite to that.

00:19:21.680 It really, you know, I can't say that I had a brush with death, but it was enough to put me in the ICU

00:19:26.340 for four days and in the hospital for six days.

00:19:28.580 I can't say it's a brush with death, but it's pretty close, huh?

00:19:31.600 ICU for four days, sleeping 23 out of 24 hours.

00:19:34.360 I mean, I know that, that the data, you know, have contradicted all the scaremongering from

00:19:39.400 the mainstream media.

00:19:40.340 And I know that all the experts and the media and the politicians have gotten everything wrong,

00:19:44.300 but surely, surely you can't dispute this man's personal harrowing experience.

00:19:49.860 It's scary, right?

00:19:51.300 It's crazy, right?

00:19:52.360 Well, the craziest part is he never had coronavirus.

00:19:54.720 That guy tested negative for coronavirus and that guy tested negative for the antibodies

00:20:04.840 for coronavirus.

00:20:06.260 He never had it.

00:20:07.920 It's just completely, 100% fake news.

00:20:14.640 That video, that testimony, scandalized even me.

00:20:21.780 And I have no respect for the media and I don't believe a word that they say, the mainstream

00:20:26.040 media, the networks and the New York Times and the legacy newspapers.

00:20:29.040 I don't believe a word they say.

00:20:30.420 And even I was shocked with how brazenly dishonest that report was.

00:20:36.020 He didn't have it.

00:20:38.220 He had something bad, I guess.

00:20:39.800 It sounds pretty bad.

00:20:40.700 But it wasn't the virus.

00:20:44.000 And this is what we are basing our public policy on.

00:20:46.680 This is what we're basing the lockdown on.

00:20:48.280 This is how the media work you.

00:20:51.640 Because anybody listening to that, I don't care you're the most hardened skeptic of the

00:20:55.060 lockdowns.

00:20:56.180 You are as conservative as they get.

00:20:57.500 You hear that, you say, gosh, I don't want that virus.

00:21:00.640 But it's fake news.

00:21:03.320 And it's not just fake news on the anecdotes.

00:21:05.480 It's fake news on the data.

00:21:08.320 Have you seen the double standard in recent weeks?

00:21:10.180 Maybe not.

00:21:11.160 Maybe I should remind you.

00:21:12.900 Because the news moves so fast, sometimes you don't get to compare the headlines even

00:21:17.000 one day to the next.

00:21:18.500 So here's a piece that came out in Time Magazine on July 11th.

00:21:23.700 So not too long ago.

00:21:26.620 July 11th.

00:21:27.400 Three weeks after Trump's Tulsa rally, Oklahoma reports record high COVID-19 numbers.

00:21:33.520 It's pretty clear.

00:21:34.400 We know that correlation is not causation.

00:21:36.480 You can't attribute events that happen, you know, around the same time they seem to be

00:21:40.820 related.

00:21:41.240 You can't attribute them to cause and effect necessarily.

00:21:44.500 But it's pretty clear from this headline.

00:21:46.760 Trump's rally caused a spike in COVID.

00:21:50.580 But then you think, wait a second.

00:21:53.360 Trump had that one rally in Tulsa.

00:21:55.680 And you're saying this is going to cause all the super spreading of coronavirus.

00:21:58.700 What about the hundreds of thousands of people that poured out into the streets to burn the

00:22:01.900 country down a few weeks ago?

00:22:03.900 What did that?

00:22:04.460 That must, surely that must have had a super duper effect on coronavirus, right?

00:22:07.540 Well, same magazine, Time Magazine writes, what, 11 days before June 30th?

00:22:13.740 Nationwide protests haven't caused a COVID-19 spike so far.

00:22:17.720 Here's what we can learn from that.

00:22:20.280 Trump holds a rally and there's any coronavirus.

00:22:22.820 It's all his fault.

00:22:24.500 Hundreds of thousands of people pour out into the street, but they're leftists.

00:22:27.080 Nope, it's not them.

00:22:28.300 Nothing to see here, folks.

00:22:29.780 Pay no attention.

00:22:32.020 Wasn't just Time Magazine, NPR.

00:22:34.600 Search results come out.

00:22:37.680 Parties, not protests, are causing spikes in coronavirus.

00:22:42.540 Parties, probably conservatives who don't take this seriously.

00:22:45.800 They're crazy conspiracy theorists or something.

00:22:48.560 WAPO, protests probably didn't lead to coronavirus spikes, but it's hard to know for sure.

00:22:53.320 Look at the subtlety here.

00:22:54.680 They realize how ridiculous it is to tell you that the virus can discriminate based on ideology,

00:23:00.120 but they do it anyway.

00:23:01.440 They just say, well, look, we're not sure, but here's the best science.

00:23:05.080 Here's the best.

00:23:05.660 LA Times, experts see little evidence that protests spread the coronavirus in the United States.

00:23:12.080 Well, they're the experts.

00:23:13.680 And sure, they've gotten everything wrong, but they've got lab coats and stuff and degrees from fancy places.

00:23:18.300 So they must be telling the truth.

00:23:22.860 Even the places that are telling the truth aren't telling the whole truth.

00:23:27.720 Because there's a major focus on the exploding number of cases that are being diagnosed.

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00:24:54.340 So, all of the focus in the media, I'm sure you've heard it, the exploding number of cases.

00:25:02.480 There are new mask orders.

00:25:03.700 Even in Texas, they're trying to get people to wear masks and lock down.

00:25:06.800 The cases are exploding, all thanks to Trump rallies, by the way.

00:25:09.600 Not at all thanks to the rioting of the last month or so.

00:25:13.560 There's an important measure they're leaving out, namely, how many people are dying?

00:25:16.920 There are a lot of reasons why someone might be diagnosed with COVID.

00:25:22.600 Could be that there's increased testing.

00:25:24.580 Could be that people are more on edge, so they're going and getting tested.

00:25:27.600 It could be that more people are getting it, but the death rate is significantly lower than

00:25:31.060 the super-duper experts told as it was going to be, so it's not as deadly.

00:25:35.420 But how many people are dying?

00:25:37.280 Well, let's turn, not just across the Atlantic, let's turn to maybe the one country that did not

00:25:44.080 lock down, Sweden. 0.88

00:25:45.640 You remember Sweden? 0.99

00:25:47.620 Oh, the civilized world said Sweden is going to kill all of their population because they're

00:25:52.820 not shutting down the economy and they're not forcing people to stay indoors all the

00:25:56.240 time.

00:25:57.820 Sweden took this approach, which I thought from the beginning was the most reasonable approach,

00:26:01.820 which is if you're very vulnerable, stay home and use precautions and be fine.

00:26:06.320 Be okay.

00:26:06.920 You're fine.

00:26:07.500 Act responsibly.

00:26:08.280 You'll be fine.

00:26:10.540 Sweden's number of cases did shoot up and they had some higher numbers of deaths early

00:26:15.440 on.

00:26:16.660 And now Sweden's coronavirus death toll is approaching zero.

00:26:23.400 This was the argument from the beginning.

00:26:24.880 This is what people are forgetting now.

00:26:26.440 My friends who are telling me, I have many liberal friends who are telling me, we have

00:26:29.360 to lock down.

00:26:29.980 We have to wear the masks all the time.

00:26:31.120 We can't go outside.

00:26:31.740 I said, what, what is the purpose of that?

00:26:34.740 And they don't know the purpose.

00:26:35.840 They don't remember that we were told now it seems like years ago, 15 days to slow the

00:26:42.220 spread, slow the spread, not stop the virus, slow the spread, flatten the curve.

00:26:47.520 What does flatten the curve mean?

00:26:48.280 It means exactly the same number of people are going to get it, but it will spread it

00:26:54.400 out over time so that the hospital system won't be overwhelmed.

00:26:57.340 Well, we found out even in New York where it was the worst because Cuomo completely mishandled

00:27:01.580 this.

00:27:02.300 We found out they never even came close to overwhelming the hospital system.

00:27:07.120 So we succeeded at flattening the curve.

00:27:10.240 Maybe the curve would have been flattened anyway, even if we didn't lock down.

00:27:13.500 But regardless, because Sweden didn't lock down, they never overwhelmed their hospital

00:27:17.480 system either.

00:27:18.240 But regardless, what else could the masks and the lockdowns achieve?

00:27:23.520 We're not going to get herd immunity.

00:27:26.540 Dr. Fauci told us that.

00:27:28.140 Maybe we get a vaccine.

00:27:29.280 Maybe we don't.

00:27:29.780 It'll only work at best 70 to 75% of the time.

00:27:32.840 The thing is going to move through the population.

00:27:36.240 So what is the argument?

00:27:37.560 There isn't one.

00:27:39.460 Sweden knew this.

00:27:40.420 So they took the early hit.

00:27:41.940 Now it's approaching zero.

00:27:43.120 Here's the headline for Business Insider.

00:27:45.620 Sweden's coronavirus death toll is now approaching zero, but experts are warning others not to hail it

00:27:51.220 as a success.

00:27:52.000 Okay, that's it.

00:27:54.440 I'm done with the experts then.

00:27:56.560 That's amazing.

00:27:57.240 That headline is actually almost honest, which is that they're saying, yeah, this is working

00:28:02.480 and it's great, but the experts are really upset because it proved them all wrong and

00:28:06.260 it's destroying their credibility and it's not allowing them to control everybody.

00:28:09.920 Now, unfortunately on this, even as the skeptics, the conservatives have been proved right time and

00:28:19.380 time again, even as the hysterical people, the alarmists in the media, in politics, in activism,

00:28:26.120 even as they're proven wrong, as the experts, the public health experts, they've been proven

00:28:30.420 wrong every step of the way.

00:28:32.120 There is still a lot of pressure on conservatives to cave.

00:28:35.560 And I'm sorry to say, President Trump exhibited a little bit of this the other day.

00:28:40.860 He put on the mask.

00:28:42.560 He wore the mask.

00:28:43.740 I think it was a big mistake.

00:28:45.060 Now, I think he redeemed himself a little bit later.

00:28:47.060 We'll get into that as well.

00:28:48.900 But we'll get into the politics of the mask.

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00:30:03.100 President Trump put on the mask.

00:30:18.580 I suggested that this would be a bad idea.

00:30:21.540 I begged him not to do it, but he did it anyway.

00:30:23.940 And I think it was a bad look.

00:30:24.940 It's not the end of the world.

00:30:26.100 It's a small thing, it seems, right, to put on the mask.

00:30:30.980 But the message that it sends is really bad.

00:30:34.840 It sends a message, first of all, to the rest of the world, which is projecting weakness.

00:30:39.560 When the leader of the free world muzzles his face, covers himself up, it shows weakness. 0.97

00:30:44.920 Now, you might say, well, masks are effective.

00:30:47.000 I don't think they're particularly effective, not the cloth ones at least.

00:30:49.580 But regardless, I'm not talking about the efficacy of masks medically.

00:30:53.840 That's a separate issue.

00:30:55.680 It's the message.

00:30:57.280 It's what it's showing.

00:30:58.660 And it shows weakness.

00:31:00.320 But it also shows weakness to the left.

00:31:02.840 Because what it says to the left is, you were right.

00:31:06.000 I, the masks are effective.

00:31:08.120 I shouldn't have not worn a mask.

00:31:09.540 I should have worn a mask weeks ago.

00:31:11.040 And that's exactly what the left is saying right now.

00:31:13.680 Do you think Trump got credit for wearing the mask?

00:31:16.540 No, of course not.

00:31:18.040 Karen Tumulty at Washington Post.

00:31:19.740 Said that now this is evidence that all conservatives should wear the mask.

00:31:23.500 Jake Tapper said, quote, someday someone will do a study on how many lives might have been saved

00:31:29.000 if this happened in February or March.

00:31:33.740 That's absurd, of course.

00:31:35.900 But they're right.

00:31:38.300 It's, it's an absurd statement that live, we lost all these lives because Trump didn't wear a mask.

00:31:42.780 It's an absurd statement to say conservatives should now wear the masks.

00:31:45.880 But they're right in that Trump gave them the premise.

00:31:49.580 It was, I don't know who's advising him.

00:31:51.980 I don't know who's advising him.

00:31:53.340 But it was a horrible look.

00:31:54.980 And whoever's advising him to do this should be fired.

00:31:57.860 Or they should at least be sidelined and not listened to anymore.

00:32:00.920 It was a bad idea.

00:32:01.960 First of all, why is it absurd what these mainstream media people are saying?

00:32:04.580 Because back in March, I know it got memory hold and we all forgot.

00:32:07.320 But all the experts told us not to wear masks.

00:32:10.420 Even the exalted Dr. Fauci, who was sitting opposite his interviewer, neither of them wearing masks. 0.90

00:32:15.980 He said it would be stupid for people to walk around. 0.62

00:32:18.780 At the height of coronavirus, by the way. 1.00

00:32:20.640 At the moment that this thing was exploding, he said it would be stupid to wear a mask. 0.96

00:32:25.180 Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks. 0.97

00:32:31.920 You're sure of it?

00:32:32.740 Because people are listening really closely to this.

00:32:35.180 Right now, people should not be walking.

00:32:36.720 There's no reason to be walking around with a mask.

00:32:38.680 So now, after the virus has already spread, that's when we need to wear masks.

00:32:42.760 But when it was exploding in the country and we were trying to flatten the curve,

00:32:45.640 that's when we didn't need to wear masks.

00:32:47.260 That doesn't make any sense.

00:32:49.840 We were told the masks are not effective.

00:32:51.620 Then we're told they're effective.

00:32:52.660 Now it seems they're not effective again, but they're still telling us to wear them.

00:32:58.160 There's only loss to be had if Trump wears the mask.

00:33:03.300 What's to be gained?

00:33:04.820 He hasn't worn a mask yet.

00:33:05.740 He hasn't gotten the virus.

00:33:07.540 Seems healthy to me.

00:33:09.400 The messaging has been good.

00:33:10.560 It's rallied the base, which is what he's going to need to do in November.

00:33:15.400 There's no gain here.

00:33:16.660 There's no win.

00:33:18.260 President Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, tweeted out a picture of Trump wearing the mask.

00:33:23.020 I can't believe it.

00:33:23.940 I can't believe he would promote this, this image that is going to be dispiriting to the

00:33:28.500 base and it's going to be encouraging to Trump's most vociferous critics because they're

00:33:33.660 going to take a victory lap and say, we were right, based on nothing, needlessly.

00:33:36.780 But he tweeted it out and he said, hashtag America first.

00:33:40.680 What does that get us?

00:33:42.340 What does that get the campaign? 0.83

00:33:43.820 What does that get the public health? 0.99

00:33:46.480 He should be tweeting out videos of Fauci in March telling people not to wear masks.

00:33:50.140 That's what we should be tweeting out.

00:33:53.280 Very frustrating.

00:33:54.560 Whoever advised him to do this is probably the reason why the rest of the messaging and

00:34:00.640 the imaging right now and the campaigning is not going as well as it could be.

00:34:04.540 Now, that's sad.

00:34:06.020 The good news is Trump has been very strong in some other areas.

00:34:09.320 He's been very strong on insisting that schools must reopen in the fall.

00:34:13.560 Again, though, mixed messaging.

00:34:14.900 Is it full steam ahead?

00:34:16.140 Let's reopen.

00:34:16.860 Or is it we got to take this very seriously?

00:34:19.100 We got to muzzle ourselves and wear masks all the time, even if the science is out on

00:34:22.560 whether they're effective or not.

00:34:23.680 And we can't go certain places.

00:34:24.880 Which is it?

00:34:25.300 You got to pick a lane.

00:34:26.460 If you stand in the middle of the road, you're going to get hit by a truck.

00:34:29.360 So at least on the school issue, he's full steam ahead.

00:34:32.240 We're going to punish schools if they don't reopen.

00:34:34.100 You got to do it.

00:34:35.140 No surprise.

00:34:36.040 The left is furious, including the former Democratic vice presidential nominee, the man who was

00:34:42.700 just one, almost one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president, Senator Tim 0.67

00:34:48.120 Kaine.

00:34:49.040 I am really, really distressed with the way the administration is handling this.

00:34:54.140 The question is not whether schools will reopen.

00:34:56.560 They will reopen in the fall.

00:34:58.400 The question is, will they reopen online or in person or in some combination?

00:35:04.180 Give me a break, dude.

00:35:05.660 You are obviously gaslighting on this.

00:35:07.660 Nobody believes that going online is reopening.

00:35:11.660 Reopening is reopening.

00:35:13.840 Doing Zoom classes is not reopening.

00:35:15.940 That's closing.

00:35:16.640 And all the issues that go along with keeping the schools closed, like what parents are going

00:35:20.080 to do with their kids, how they're going to arrange their work schedules, what quality

00:35:24.320 of the education is going to be that the kids are receiving.

00:35:27.720 Those all remain.

00:35:29.200 So he gaslights at the beginning, denies the problem.

00:35:31.940 And then, of course, he accuses Trump of promoting quack medicine.

00:35:36.180 Who do parents of school-age kids trust to make that decision?

00:35:41.500 Do they trust local principals and superintendents or school boards?

00:35:46.300 Or do they trust Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos?

00:35:49.340 Donald Trump has preached quack medicine.

00:35:52.440 Donald Trump denied this was a health problem.

00:35:55.000 Donald Trump wouldn't wear a mask until the sixth month of this crisis.

00:36:00.300 Donald Trump makes his own supporters sign liability waivers before they attend campaign

00:36:05.700 rallies.

00:36:06.540 Who would the parents of school-age kids trust?

00:36:09.060 Their own principals, superintendents, school board members, or Donald Trump?

00:36:12.800 It's not a hard question.

00:36:14.200 So the accusation is that Trump preaches quack medicine.

00:36:16.980 Did you catch that verb, though?

00:36:18.840 The verb gives away the whole game.

00:36:20.520 He says, preach medicine.

00:36:25.100 You don't preach medicine.

00:36:27.420 You prescribe medicine.

00:36:29.040 You study medicine.

00:36:30.600 You analyze medicine.

00:36:32.240 You cultivate and develop medicine.

00:36:34.660 But you don't preach it.

00:36:37.160 Preaching is a word that is associated with religion.

00:36:41.540 Not hardened, materialist, empirical medical science.

00:36:45.800 But the way that the left is treating this virus,

00:36:49.000 the way that the left is treating science generally,

00:36:52.140 is in a religious way that is divorced from data,

00:36:55.540 that can tell you that one protest is good for the virus,

00:36:58.620 one protest is bad for the virus.

00:37:00.320 That can tell you one day don't wear the masks,

00:37:02.900 the next day wear the masks,

00:37:04.040 and they pretend that nothing has changed.

00:37:06.440 They gaslight you on these little issues.

00:37:09.020 It's that religious fervor.

00:37:10.580 And let me ask you, to Tim Kaine's point,

00:37:12.300 who do you trust on the virus?

00:37:13.460 Do you trust the people who've gotten it wrong from the beginning?

00:37:16.000 The experts and the media?

00:37:18.320 Or do you trust Trump who has a much better record on it

00:37:22.280 than any of these other people?

00:37:24.560 So I thought this was good on the schools.

00:37:27.540 Trump took it a step further too.

00:37:29.100 He's now threatening the funding,

00:37:32.880 the government funding of the university system,

00:37:35.260 not just for coronavirus or reopening or whatever,

00:37:37.700 even though we've seen these silly stories last week

00:37:40.580 about Harvard still charging students 50 grand a year

00:37:43.220 to do Zoom classes.

00:37:44.220 But he's threatening them generally

00:37:47.100 because they are not fulfilling their educational mission.

00:37:49.600 He tweets out,

00:37:50.660 too many universities and school systems

00:37:52.020 are about radical left indoctrination, not education.

00:37:54.580 Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department

00:37:56.060 to re-examine their tax-exempt status

00:37:58.680 and or funding,

00:38:00.260 which will be taken away

00:38:01.600 if this propaganda or act against public policy continues.

00:38:04.180 Our children must be educated,

00:38:06.740 not indoctrinated.

00:38:08.580 Now, again,

00:38:09.880 there's a little bit of,

00:38:11.820 there's a little bit of a difficulty here

00:38:14.400 because the word education

00:38:15.780 and the word indoctrination

00:38:16.860 basically mean the same thing.

00:38:18.840 To indoctrinate comes from the word

00:38:20.180 docere in Latin,

00:38:21.340 which just means to teach.

00:38:22.820 So one has a good connotation,

00:38:24.520 one has a bad connotation.

00:38:25.840 I think we've got to stop talking about the form

00:38:27.720 only,

00:38:28.660 the procedure only,

00:38:29.900 and talk about the substance.

00:38:32.180 The universities

00:38:32.940 and the K-12 school systems

00:38:35.060 still have the form

00:38:36.600 and the procedure

00:38:37.380 of the same old educational systems

00:38:39.800 we've known the whole time.

00:38:41.040 The kids show up,

00:38:42.120 they go to classes,

00:38:43.160 they have teachers,

00:38:44.080 they have certain,

00:38:45.500 they choose a major in college.

00:38:47.120 Even with Zoom,

00:38:47.900 they still have a similar structure

00:38:49.580 in the way that their education will be,

00:38:51.620 will progress.

00:38:52.620 What has changed is not the form,

00:38:54.760 but the substance.

00:38:55.980 And conservatives don't want to talk about the substance

00:38:57.700 because we want to pretend to be hands-off,

00:38:59.320 because we want to pretend

00:38:59.920 you can't legislate morality

00:39:01.240 because we want to pretend

00:39:01.920 that everything's neutral.

00:39:02.960 It ain't neutral.

00:39:04.040 Nothing is neutral anymore.

00:39:05.400 Everything is political.

00:39:07.560 Maybe it always was,

00:39:08.700 but the left has told us

00:39:09.620 everything is political

00:39:10.420 right down to Goya beans, okay?

00:39:12.300 So you're not going to get out of this.

00:39:13.520 You're not going to be able to say,

00:39:14.520 I'm not telling you what to think,

00:39:16.540 just how to think,

00:39:17.640 because part of education

00:39:20.700 is teaching you what to think,

00:39:22.240 what to know.

00:39:22.920 What about history?

00:39:23.980 You know,

00:39:24.580 historical revision

00:39:25.660 is one of the clearest ways

00:39:28.540 that the education system

00:39:31.020 has been perverted. 0.63

00:39:32.360 Historical revision

00:39:33.160 and historical erasure

00:39:34.280 are at the heart,

00:39:35.300 in many ways,

00:39:35.680 of the present madness

00:39:36.540 of toppling all the statues

00:39:38.080 and defacing George Washington.

00:39:40.780 Well, take this story.

00:39:41.700 It just came out,

00:39:43.060 I think on Friday.

00:39:46.020 Now, Hagia Sophia,

00:39:47.300 one of the most beautiful,

00:39:48.460 oldest cathedrals in the world,

00:39:50.340 which was then taken

00:39:53.620 by Muslim invaders 1.00

00:39:54.540 and turned into a mosque

00:39:55.500 and then since 1934

00:39:56.740 has been a museum.

00:39:58.120 It's in Istanbul,

00:39:59.180 which used to be Constantinople,

00:40:01.000 is now reverting back to a mosque.

00:40:03.680 So after almost 100 years,

00:40:05.660 the Muslim government in Turkey

00:40:07.440 is taking this world heritage site

00:40:10.860 and turning it back from a museum

00:40:12.740 into a mosque.

00:40:14.380 Now, all the coverage is saying

00:40:17.020 it's being converted back.

00:40:18.480 It's going back to what it was.

00:40:19.820 It feeds into this idea

00:40:21.440 we need to go back

00:40:22.320 and give people reparations

00:40:24.460 for historical wrongs.

00:40:25.520 We need to go back

00:40:26.200 and give the land back

00:40:27.380 to the Indians.

00:40:28.660 We've got to give Oklahoma

00:40:29.700 back to the Indians. 0.96

00:40:30.500 We've got to give Mount Rushmore

00:40:31.380 back to the Indians. 0.96

00:40:32.500 Well, why stop there?

00:40:34.280 With the Hagia Sophia, 0.85

00:40:35.160 it's so clear.

00:40:36.200 Why would you just stop

00:40:37.360 in 1453,

00:40:40.320 which is when the Muslim Ottomans 0.99

00:40:42.640 stole the Hagia Sophia,

00:40:44.160 one of the most beautiful cathedrals?

00:40:45.680 Why not go back,

00:40:46.720 I don't know,

00:40:47.120 for the 916 years before that,

00:40:49.820 when that building was built

00:40:51.680 to be a Christian cathedral

00:40:52.940 and stood that way

00:40:53.940 for almost a millennium?

00:40:55.900 Why don't we revert back to that?

00:40:57.420 Why don't we revert Istanbul 0.99

00:40:58.740 back to Constantinople?

00:41:00.380 Because all of these claims,

00:41:01.620 the anti-colonialism,

00:41:02.740 the anti-racism,

00:41:03.700 they only go in one direction.

00:41:06.020 They only seem to be used

00:41:07.880 to exploit the West.

00:41:10.900 And no other civilization

00:41:12.420 is ever held

00:41:13.920 to those standards.

00:41:15.040 They're simply attacks.

00:41:17.260 And we say they're minor

00:41:18.260 little things.

00:41:18.920 Oh, this debate over words,

00:41:20.560 this debate over one little site,

00:41:22.500 one little piece of territory.

00:41:24.520 Who cares?

00:41:25.820 When you grant

00:41:26.800 those little premises,

00:41:28.400 who cares with the mask?

00:41:30.320 When you grant

00:41:30.880 those little premises,

00:41:32.200 you grant the left

00:41:33.400 its entire cultural hegemony.

00:41:36.780 And it has real effects.

00:41:38.480 I'll show you one

00:41:39.160 very practical effect.

00:41:40.640 We're in an election year.

00:41:41.580 We're coming up

00:41:42.300 on an election in November.

00:41:45.120 We're all worried

00:41:45.820 about voter fraud,

00:41:46.600 especially with the mail-in ballots.

00:41:48.280 Because if we grant the premise

00:41:50.000 that the virus

00:41:50.500 is super duper deadly

00:41:51.440 and we're all going to die

00:41:52.420 if we don't put the mask on

00:41:53.480 and we have to stay locked at home

00:41:55.120 and we can't go back to school.

00:41:57.000 Well, one consequence

00:41:57.860 of that premise,

00:41:58.680 which is BS,

00:41:59.480 but one consequence of it

00:42:00.580 is people can't be expected

00:42:02.620 to go vote.

00:42:03.580 That'll be very busy.

00:42:04.640 So we have to have

00:42:05.400 nationwide mail-in ballots.

00:42:07.360 And that, we are told,

00:42:09.060 is not going to result

00:42:09.940 in any voter fraud.

00:42:10.780 That's what the left tells us.

00:42:12.180 Even though we've been

00:42:12.860 prosecuting cases

00:42:13.720 of obvious voter fraud

00:42:15.000 just in the past couple months.

00:42:16.420 Well, in Atlanta,

00:42:19.200 the Timms family,

00:42:22.040 Ron Timms,

00:42:22.760 goes to his mailbox

00:42:23.380 and he takes out

00:42:24.200 his voter registration,

00:42:26.560 mail-in voter registration.

00:42:27.640 He got one.

00:42:28.600 It was a card for Cody Timms.

00:42:31.240 Who's Cody?

00:42:31.840 Is Cody his wife?

00:42:33.460 Cody his brother?

00:42:35.140 Cody's one of those names,

00:42:35.940 you know,

00:42:36.060 it kind of cuts either way.

00:42:37.000 Is Cody his son?

00:42:38.040 No, Cody is his dead cat

00:42:41.060 who died 12 years ago.

00:42:43.120 Here is Ron's wife, 0.94

00:42:45.140 Carol,

00:42:45.760 describing the cat.

00:42:48.140 A great cat,

00:42:49.620 indoor-outdoor.

00:42:51.580 Loved his family,

00:42:53.240 loved the neighborhood.

00:42:54.740 He was 18 and a half

00:42:55.760 when he passed away.

00:42:56.800 We have a voter registration

00:42:58.240 application for Cody Timms.

00:43:00.820 How'd this happen?

00:43:02.120 I mean,

00:43:02.460 it's not reality.

00:43:04.340 He's a cat.

00:43:05.420 Here he is.

00:43:06.160 And he's been dead

00:43:07.440 for a long time.

00:43:08.460 There's a huge push,

00:43:10.100 but if they're trying

00:43:11.200 to register cats,

00:43:12.920 I'm not quite sure

00:43:14.500 who else they're trying

00:43:15.660 to register.

00:43:17.160 I don't know

00:43:18.540 if they're registering

00:43:19.780 dogs.

00:43:22.860 It could be dogs.

00:43:24.360 What's next?

00:43:25.140 It's the slippery slope.

00:43:26.540 Democrats have always relied

00:43:27.700 on dead voters

00:43:28.520 to win elections.

00:43:29.640 We can trace this back

00:43:30.380 at least to John F. Kennedy

00:43:31.940 in 1960.

00:43:33.520 Sometimes they rely

00:43:34.220 on dead people

00:43:34.760 to be their presidential nominees,

00:43:35.920 but they've always relied

00:43:37.140 on dead voters.

00:43:38.020 But now they're taking

00:43:38.580 it a step further,

00:43:39.300 more brazen.

00:43:40.120 They're relying

00:43:40.640 on dead cats.

00:43:41.680 If we grant

00:43:42.780 the premises

00:43:43.320 of the masks

00:43:44.220 and the lockdowns

00:43:45.060 and the schools

00:43:45.700 and all these little things,

00:43:47.520 it's not a coincidence.

00:43:50.140 It's not just by accident

00:43:51.580 that we will

00:43:53.240 end up granting

00:43:54.540 the premises

00:43:55.060 that will give the left

00:43:56.000 a major political

00:43:57.680 and cultural advantage,

00:43:59.260 even as other countries

00:44:00.460 that don't have

00:44:01.480 presidential elections

00:44:02.420 in three months

00:44:03.120 are reopening

00:44:04.660 and everything

00:44:05.300 is going

00:44:05.780 just fine

00:44:06.760 over there.

00:44:07.260 I wonder why.

00:44:08.260 I guess Sweden

00:44:08.840 doesn't have

00:44:09.340 a very highly contested

00:44:11.280 presidential election

00:44:11.960 this year.

00:44:14.340 Even in seemingly

00:44:16.240 ridiculous news stories, 0.88

00:44:19.000 you see the rot. 0.95

00:44:20.960 Sports Illustrated,

00:44:21.800 swimsuit issue.

00:44:23.360 Do you get that?

00:44:24.180 When I was a kid,

00:44:24.860 you know,

00:44:25.260 occasionally,

00:44:25.600 if there was one

00:44:26.080 lying around,

00:44:26.560 maybe I would have

00:44:27.060 taken a look,

00:44:27.620 but not in a while

00:44:28.780 have I ordered

00:44:29.320 Sports Illustrated.

00:44:30.180 I don't read

00:44:30.580 Sports Illustrated.

00:44:31.340 I don't think

00:44:31.620 many people do.

00:44:33.160 But they've made

00:44:34.060 history this year

00:44:34.840 because for the first time

00:44:36.540 they will have a dude 0.99

00:44:38.800 on the cover

00:44:39.720 of their swimsuit issue.

00:44:40.920 Now,

00:44:41.160 it is a dude

00:44:41.700 who thinks

00:44:42.620 that he's a woman

00:44:43.160 or who pretends

00:44:45.060 to be a woman

00:44:45.460 or who dresses

00:44:45.900 like a woman. 0.80

00:44:47.160 But it's a dude.

00:44:49.140 Talk about

00:44:49.900 gender parity.

00:44:51.680 You know,

00:44:51.780 talk about

00:44:52.320 rising up over

00:44:53.740 the oppressive yoke

00:44:54.600 of the established class.

00:44:57.100 Finally,

00:44:57.640 men who have been

00:44:58.380 excluded

00:44:59.040 from the

00:44:59.940 Sports Illustrated

00:45:00.540 swimsuit issue

00:45:01.140 for so long.

00:45:02.220 Finally,

00:45:02.620 we get to overcome

00:45:03.220 that oppression

00:45:03.880 from the women,

00:45:05.180 from the matriarchy,

00:45:06.500 and wear bikinis 0.96

00:45:07.180 on the cover

00:45:07.640 of the issue.

00:45:09.920 This guy,

00:45:10.960 Valentina Sampaio,

00:45:12.900 is going to appear

00:45:14.500 on this cover.

00:45:15.920 On the face,

00:45:16.520 it seems like 1.00

00:45:16.980 a stupid story. 1.00

00:45:18.100 Nobody cares. 1.00

00:45:18.800 No one even reads

00:45:19.320 Sports Illustrated,

00:45:20.400 but this little story

00:45:21.520 carries a lot

00:45:22.180 of significance.

00:45:23.800 The reason

00:45:24.580 that the left

00:45:25.160 is pushing

00:45:25.660 this trans issue,

00:45:26.740 which affects what?

00:45:27.640 How many people

00:45:28.520 are genuinely confused

00:45:29.700 about their sex?

00:45:30.460 Well,

00:45:30.660 more and more each day,

00:45:31.540 but as a medical matter,

00:45:33.260 very few.

00:45:34.200 A vanishingly small

00:45:35.380 percentage of people.

00:45:36.820 But the left

00:45:37.300 has pushed this

00:45:37.820 for years.

00:45:38.400 The bathrooms,

00:45:39.360 the transgenderism

00:45:41.260 in Hollywood.

00:45:42.200 Halle Berry

00:45:42.600 is now not allowed

00:45:43.340 to play a woman 0.94

00:45:43.940 who thinks

00:45:44.380 that she's a man

00:45:45.100 because women 0.99

00:45:46.140 who think

00:45:46.540 that they're men

00:45:46.960 can only be played

00:45:47.660 by men.

00:45:48.140 I guess that's

00:45:48.440 another win

00:45:48.940 for the oppressed

00:45:49.940 men over

00:45:51.060 the matriarchy. 0.97

00:45:52.700 The reason

00:45:53.420 they're pushing this

00:45:54.200 is because

00:45:54.940 at the heart

00:45:55.360 of that

00:45:55.680 is a cherished

00:45:57.140 leftist premise,

00:45:58.280 which is that

00:45:58.900 there's no difference

00:45:59.520 between men

00:45:59.960 and women. 0.98

00:46:00.860 The sexes 0.98

00:46:01.360 are not complementary.

00:46:02.400 They don't go together.

00:46:04.080 They're indistinguishable.

00:46:05.360 They're identical.

00:46:07.380 Men can be women.

00:46:08.140 Women can be men. 0.77

00:46:08.760 We're all just

00:46:09.300 sort of the same.

00:46:10.720 We're all just

00:46:11.720 these floating atoms.

00:46:13.660 We have no

00:46:14.320 natural

00:46:15.440 constraints

00:46:17.800 by our biology,

00:46:19.520 no natural

00:46:20.640 social constraints

00:46:21.460 by, say,

00:46:21.900 our family

00:46:22.480 or our local

00:46:23.460 communities

00:46:23.980 or our

00:46:24.780 voluntary

00:46:25.160 associations.

00:46:26.680 We

00:46:27.120 are all

00:46:28.520 just

00:46:28.760 free-floating

00:46:29.480 atoms.

00:46:31.000 This is why

00:46:31.680 sometimes you'll see

00:46:33.000 when there are

00:46:33.900 big debates

00:46:34.260 between the most

00:46:34.800 arch-libertarian,

00:46:35.840 the most arch-communist,

00:46:37.540 they both have

00:46:38.300 the same premises,

00:46:39.180 which is that

00:46:39.520 people are just

00:46:40.220 individuals that can

00:46:41.700 do whatever they want,

00:46:42.880 basically,

00:46:43.540 and then one group

00:46:44.100 says they should all

00:46:44.620 be separated all the time

00:46:45.600 and one group says

00:46:46.540 they should all be

00:46:46.960 brought together all the time.

00:46:48.640 When they're all

00:46:49.140 separated,

00:46:49.580 it's much easier

00:46:50.060 to bring them together,

00:46:50.820 which is why

00:46:51.260 the advance of

00:46:52.340 hyper-super-duper

00:46:53.220 individualism tends

00:46:54.620 to lead to a growth

00:46:55.460 of the state.

00:46:58.000 Now, is all of that

00:46:59.140 contained within

00:47:00.800 the Sports Illustrated

00:47:01.680 swimsuit issue?

00:47:03.100 Are all of these

00:47:04.420 premises contained

00:47:05.340 within a dude

00:47:06.260 wearing a bikini

00:47:07.260 on the cover

00:47:07.660 of a magazine?

00:47:09.600 This radical liberation

00:47:11.220 that we can overcome?

00:47:12.020 Yes, it is,

00:47:13.180 but we don't notice it.

00:47:14.880 That's cultural hegemony.

00:47:17.260 That's political

00:47:18.460 correctness,

00:47:19.480 whatever you want

00:47:20.180 to call it.

00:47:21.480 That's how insidious

00:47:22.620 it is.

00:47:23.920 It's why we have

00:47:25.080 to pay very close

00:47:26.260 attention to the

00:47:26.880 small things.

00:47:27.720 On the great

00:47:28.700 television show

00:47:29.300 The Crown,

00:47:30.420 the Queen's private

00:47:31.100 secretary,

00:47:31.540 Tommy Lascelles,

00:47:32.180 has this great

00:47:33.000 line,

00:47:34.580 which is he's

00:47:35.120 talking about

00:47:35.800 why it matters

00:47:36.660 that we pay

00:47:37.200 attention to our

00:47:37.840 rituals,

00:47:38.460 to our traditions.

00:47:39.820 He's talking about it

00:47:40.380 in the wake of the

00:47:41.000 abdication of

00:47:42.160 Edward VIII.

00:47:43.160 And the line is,

00:47:45.440 it's in the small

00:47:46.660 things that the

00:47:47.480 rot starts.

00:47:48.340 Do the wrong

00:47:50.060 thing once.

00:47:51.000 It's easier to do

00:47:52.040 it again.

00:47:52.820 Do the individualistic

00:47:54.020 thing once.

00:47:55.220 It's easy to do it

00:47:56.560 again.

00:47:57.200 That's what we're

00:47:57.820 seeing here.

00:47:59.300 That's why this

00:47:59.900 relentless push.

00:48:01.160 Wear the effing

00:48:01.980 mask.

00:48:03.280 Do the,

00:48:03.880 do the,

00:48:04.280 just do it.

00:48:05.160 Just do,

00:48:05.580 use the effing

00:48:06.700 pronoun.

00:48:07.440 Call him her.

00:48:09.180 Just do it.

00:48:09.920 It's nothing.

00:48:10.500 It doesn't matter.

00:48:11.120 It's not important.

00:48:11.600 Let men go 1.00

00:48:12.880 change in the

00:48:13.580 little girl's room.

00:48:14.480 Just do it.

00:48:15.160 It's not important.

00:48:16.000 Well,

00:48:17.000 if it's not

00:48:17.560 important,

00:48:18.540 why do you seem

00:48:19.560 so intent

00:48:21.320 left-wingers

00:48:22.920 on forcing us

00:48:23.700 to do it?

00:48:24.740 If it doesn't

00:48:25.480 matter.

00:48:26.020 If it's just

00:48:26.560 a small thing.

00:48:27.380 Because it's

00:48:27.880 not just a

00:48:28.560 small thing.

00:48:29.280 Even small

00:48:29.920 things are not

00:48:30.560 small things.

00:48:31.460 That is where

00:48:32.220 the rot begins.

00:48:33.940 And that is why,

00:48:35.120 even as a matter

00:48:35.880 of grave

00:48:36.660 national

00:48:37.360 importance,

00:48:39.840 black beans

00:48:40.400 matter.

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Ep. 578 - Black Beans Matter

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