The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 581 - We Hardly Knew ‘Ye

00:00:00.000 Terrible news in the world of politics. The birthday party is over, at least for now.

00:00:07.320 Kanye West has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race. And I have to tell you,

00:00:13.460 as excited as I was and enthusiastic about Kanye's campaign, I had a feeling this might happen.

00:00:20.720 Part of the reason that I had this feeling was that Kanye has released, to my knowledge,

00:00:25.520 only one videoed statement on the campaign. And that statement did not exactly inspire confidence.

00:00:34.440 Hey, what's up, everybody? It's Jay. I'm here at the county clerk's office. And I wanted to

00:00:37.840 show you how I just registered to vote. See, that was the issue. The I just

00:00:42.440 registered to vote, apparently for the first time, does not make me think that the campaign was in

00:00:48.980 best shape to get all the paperwork filed, do all the right campaigning, get everything in place.

00:00:53.540 A lot of campaigns are up in the air right now. Jeff Sessions got wiped out in Alabama. Big shake

00:00:59.560 shape ups at the Trump campaign. Numbers from polling all over the place. Kanye, we hardly knew,

00:01:06.640 yay, hey. But it's anybody's race. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:11.020 Welcome back to the show. Lots going on specifically in politics. You know, very often we're talking

00:01:26.820 about the culture and how the cultural issues are going to affect politics. Well, the effects are

00:01:30.440 here. The campaigns are getting into high gear and some very important changes are being made.

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00:03:00.800 presidential collapse. This on the Trump campaign, President Trump has ousted his campaign manager,

00:03:06.560 Brad Parscale. He ousted Parscale and he promoted this guy named Bill Stepien. What does this mean?

00:03:13.780 It means what we've known for a long time, which is that the Trump campaign was veering in the wrong

00:03:18.540 direction and it needed to correct course. And it did correct course, not a moment too soon.

00:03:23.460 We are now less than four months away from the presidential election. So it's, it, these sorts

00:03:29.080 of changes had to happen. You know, on this show, when I have criticized certain things that the

00:03:33.500 White House or the campaign is doing, I, I like to point out that, that it most likely it's that the

00:03:38.980 president is getting bad advice. Now, I don't know if the problems were Parscale's fault. The issue,

00:03:44.780 however, is that on a presidential campaign, the buck stops at the top. And so if there were problems

00:03:50.900 even further down the line, it's that campaign manager's job to deal with those problems. And

00:03:55.680 obviously President Trump thought that Parscale would be in a better position elsewhere. The thing

00:04:00.540 to know about what's happened, and don't forget in 2016, Trump shook up his campaign management

00:04:05.600 constantly. You know, all these different names that came up, Corey Lewandowski, Steve Bannon,

00:04:10.580 Kelly and Conway, they were all coming up. They were all churning the whole time that that's in,

00:04:15.140 in part, I think how he was able to, to continue to improve his campaign. Just because you start

00:04:21.080 out and it's a little weak, doesn't mean you have to end that way. Brad Parscale, who was running the

00:04:25.100 Trump campaign was the campaign's digital director in 2016. And the Trump campaign did great on digital

00:04:31.860 in 2016, but just because you can do one job on a campaign extraordinarily well does not mean

00:04:37.180 that you can necessarily run a campaign extraordinarily well. In fact, in many ways,

00:04:41.340 those are completely different jobs. You know, one is much more about management. The other is much

00:04:47.280 more creative. So the guy that he's replaced him with, this guy, Bill Stepien, is a political veteran

00:04:52.880 and crucially he's run a number of campaigns and he ran Chris Christie's two successful gubernatorial

00:05:00.560 campaigns. Did not run the unsuccessful presidential, but he ran the two successful gubernatorial ones.

00:05:04.960 I'm pleased to see this change. No, no ill will toward Brad Parscale, but I'm glad to see that

00:05:11.200 Trump is listening and realizes that things were not going as well as they should be. Because if,

00:05:17.320 if the campaign I think were to continue in this way, he might be headed for an unhappy day in

00:05:22.540 November. These things happen. Nobody is guaranteed to be reelected. Nobody is guaranteed to get their seat

00:05:27.620 back. Jeff Sessions learned this lesson the hard way down in Alabama. Jeff Sessions, who served in the

00:05:33.500 Senate for, I think, 300,000 years. I mean, he was there for a very long time. He left to become

00:05:38.220 Trump's attorney general. Then Trump soured on him as attorney general. He ran for his old seat again

00:05:42.700 and he lost. And he didn't, didn't lose just by a little bit. It was a pretty clear loss.

00:05:47.360 Here is Sessions conceding.

00:05:50.200 To the people of Alabama, I want to thank you for your support over the years. We've fought a good

00:05:56.880 fight in this race and we've taken our case to the people of Alabama and the people of Alabama have

00:06:03.020 spoken. They want a new leader, a new fresh face to go to Washington. I think we're going to have that.

00:06:10.740 I love this state. It's been an honor beyond words for me to serve it. I want to congratulate Tommy

00:06:19.400 Tuberville. He ran a really firm, solid race. He was focused on his goal and on winning. He had a plan

00:06:28.320 to do so and he was able to do so. He is our Republican nominee. We must stand behind him in November.

00:06:38.300 So a very gracious concession speech from Jeff Sessions, you know, increasingly in, in recent

00:06:45.840 years, people don't want to actually admit that they lose elections. That's why you have Stacey

00:06:50.240 Abrams is still the shadow governor of Georgia and all these sorts of things. People don't want to

00:06:55.500 admit when they lose Hillary Clinton, still think she's the president, but, but Sessions has admitted

00:06:59.580 this. This is good news for Trump. This signals that Trump's endorsement still has a fair bit of

00:07:06.040 sway, at least in a bright red state like Alabama, because Trump furious at Jeff Sessions's tenure

00:07:11.980 as AG came out very strongly for Tommy Tuberville. The reason I think why Sessions was so gracious

00:07:19.540 about this is not only because he's a nice, polite man, but also because he got blown out

00:07:23.520 of the water. The race was not even close. Sessions won only three out of Alabama's 67 counties.

00:07:29.040 Tommy Tuberville got 61% of the vote. That to Jeff Sessions's 39%. So what does it all mean for Trump?

00:07:39.340 We don't know very much about Tommy Tuberville. We know a lot about Jeff Sessions. He was a very

00:07:42.700 popular senator, but that, that Trump movement seems to add some influence. Nobody knows anything. So,

00:07:49.540 you know, the minute that someone tells you this is exactly what's going to happen in November,

00:07:52.460 immediately discount what they're saying. This is up in the air. And I think this is the point about

00:07:59.780 politics. No one wants to admit, but it's the point that actually should give us the most hope,

00:08:04.320 which is that nothing is inevitable. Okay. What the left wants you to believe is that it's absolutely

00:08:12.260 inevitable. The Democrat, Joe Biden is going to win in 2016. It was inevitable. Hillary was going to

00:08:16.860 win 98% chance, 99% chance. And it's not, it's up in the air. It's politics. They have a ton of

00:08:22.600 institutional power, but they don't have all of the power. We, the people still have a lot of power.

00:08:26.880 We can send them a message every so often. We can do it. Not just here. It happened in the Brexit vote.

00:08:32.020 It's happened all around the West. There is some popular uprising. There is some popular power.

00:08:37.700 And there is a poll out from Monmouth university polling Institute, which is an independent

00:08:42.940 polling Institute that shows very good news for Trump on this front. It shows that the people have

00:08:49.680 more power and they're playing their cards a little closer to their chest than they, than they might

00:08:54.520 be letting on. The poll is a little bit complicated to read. The conclusions of the poll are a little

00:09:00.520 bit complicated to get, but what it basically says is that people don't want to be honest with

00:09:07.580 pollsters. People don't want to tell everyone that they're voting for Trump. And it's not just

00:09:13.940 the same story we heard in 2016. That phenomenon has actually increased. It's been exacerbated.

00:09:21.660 People are more likely to keep quiet about their support for Trump. Most registered voters,

00:09:27.460 54% say they were surprised in 2016 when Trump ended up winning Pennsylvania's electoral votes.

00:09:33.800 They currently are about divided on where, on where Pennsylvania is going to go this time,

00:09:38.660 46 or 45%. One reason is that 57% believe there are a number of so-called secret voters in their

00:09:46.280 communities who support Trump, but won't tell anyone about it. And less than half that number,

00:09:51.460 27% believe that there are secret voters for Biden. So realize you eat on a poll. You can't ask people,

00:09:58.660 are you a secret voter for Trump? Because if by definition, if you tell the pollster that you're

00:10:05.020 a secret voter for Trump, then you're no longer a secret voter for Trump. So the way the question

00:10:08.980 is phrased is about other people. Do you believe that there are secret voters for Trump? And so our

00:10:14.960 conclusions here are not totally firm. Consider the Black Lives Matter phenomenon, which is

00:10:20.040 when someone uploads a black square to social media or someone uses the hashtag Black Lives Matter,

00:10:25.140 what they're saying is that I believe Black Lives Matter, but a lot of people do not.

00:10:29.100 However, everybody has used this phrase and everybody has said that Black Lives Matter.

00:10:32.800 So that would be an example of people imagining that there are all these sort of phantoms out there,

00:10:38.820 but realizing that they actually, there are not, right? I mean, you know, we have to see there are

00:10:43.760 not, there's not a scourge of Klansmen running around the country. So the question with this poll is,

00:10:50.040 are the people who are saying they believe there are a lot of secret Trump voters out there,

00:10:53.200 is it just a delusion or are there really, do they have good reason to think there are the secret

00:10:57.660 voters? I think it's the latter. I think this is good news for the Trump campaign because the fact

00:11:02.520 is everybody knows a Trump voter. And frankly, everybody knows a secret Trump voter who doesn't

00:11:07.920 want to lose his job, who doesn't want to lose his career and his livelihood. This, this issue of

00:11:14.020 punishment for support of Trump has increased over the last several years and certainly during these race

00:11:19.080 riots. And the fact of the matter is that, you know, Trump did win about half the country voted

00:11:23.800 for him in 2016. So there are a lot of these people. Does not mean Republicans should get complacent.

00:11:30.340 More good polling news. Rasmussen shows Trump has ticked up seven points nationally, narrowed Biden's

00:11:35.360 lead to three points in recent days. So Joe Biden right now is at 47%. And among U.S. likely voters,

00:11:43.340 Trump is at 44%, 5% prefer another candidate and 4% are undecided. It's anybody's game. It's anybody's

00:11:52.560 race. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Don't let anybody intimidate you into giving up and staying

00:11:57.480 home and being locked up, staying home, whether because you're afraid to go outside and breathe

00:12:01.520 the fresh air or staying home more specifically on politics because you don't feel that your vote

00:12:07.860 will matter in the election. That is what the left is banking on. Now there is a cultural aspect to all

00:12:15.040 of this as well. The cultural has become absolutely insane, particularly on the subject of race. You

00:12:21.080 thought Nick Cannon was bad yesterday talking about how white people are animals. A friend of his, 0.98

00:12:25.540 an even more famous friend of his in the mainstream entertainment industry, came out and defended him.

00:12:31.180 A little bit of a double standard. Kind of reminds me, probably not a whole lot of white supremacy

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00:13:54.100 The culture has become nuts, particularly on race. I think that's why people are now even

00:14:00.600 less likely to admit that they're willing to vote for the Republican candidate. There's

00:14:05.820 so much racial demagoguery. We had the Nick Cannon talk yesterday where Nick Cannon said white

00:14:11.860 people are savages and barbaric and soulless and animals. Well, Puff Daddy, P-Diggity-Doo Dad, 0.99

00:14:20.500 is coming out and defending him. P-Diddles tweeted out, quote, Nick Cannon has come home to,

00:14:28.500 Nick Cannon, come home to Revolt TV, truly black owned. We got your back and love you and what you 0.88

00:14:35.540 have done for the culture. We are for our people first, for us, by us. Let's go.

00:14:42.580 Can you, so the stuff that Nick Cannon said yesterday is pretty disgusting stuff about how terrible white 0.98

00:14:49.740 people are, how they don't have souls, about how you get power from melanin in your skin and because 0.99

00:14:54.220 white people don't have that. They're animals. And now you've got an even more mainstream guy, 1.00

00:15:00.140 P-Diddy, coming out and defending that. Imagine if this were reversed. Imagine if a popular white 0.96

00:15:07.980 musician tweeted at, I don't know, Richard Spencer or David Duke or somebody and said,

00:15:14.020 David Duke, come home to Revolt TV, truly white owned. Yes, with a thumbs up, you know, 0.99

00:15:21.280 white thumbs up emoji. We got your back. We love what you do and what you've done for the culture.

00:15:27.180 We are for white people first, for us, by us. Let's go. Probably that wouldn't go over very well, 0.90

00:15:35.140 would it, in the culture? And yet we are told this lie that we are living in a white supremacist nation.

00:15:40.620 Of course, that is not the case. We've gone over this on this show many other times.

00:15:45.580 The, the, there's, there's one aspect of our law that is still racially discriminatory as a matter

00:15:51.620 of law. That is called affirmative action and that disadvantages, doesn't advantage, it disadvantages

00:15:57.040 white people and Asian people, particularly on university admissions, which is why a group of Asian

00:16:02.300 students sued Harvard University. That's it. That's the only one. If you're told that there is white 0.99

00:16:08.200 supremacy by law, you are being lied to. And even in the culture, no sort of nonsense like this, if it

00:16:16.220 were, if it were posted by white people, would, would ever be tolerated. You would lose your life. 0.98

00:16:21.140 You would lose your livelihood without question. We're for our people for something like that.

00:16:27.200 Crazy. And yet we are living under this delusion, actually, that, you know, these, these polls and,

00:16:32.820 and these polls about how people think one thing and they think other people think another thing and

00:16:37.940 they think other people think that other people think another thing. We're all trying to guess

00:16:40.960 where everybody is because we are living in a, a properly ideological vision and the ideology is,

00:16:48.500 is disconnected from the reality in many cases. So you're going to see more of this. This is

00:16:54.900 increasingly what politics is going to become about. You're already seeing it in Asheville,

00:16:58.720 North Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina, first place in the country to now officially vote for

00:17:02.920 reparations for slavery. Asheville voted seven to nothing. So a total unanimous vote at the city

00:17:12.080 council to formally apologize to black residents for the city's role in slavery and other racist

00:17:19.260 policies throughout history. I guess, I guess the residents, maybe they thought that the town was

00:17:23.960 happy about slavery or something. So they had to issue this formal apology 150 years after the

00:17:28.320 abolition of slavery and the measure calls to provide reparations to black residents in the 0.52

00:17:34.180 form of investments in their community, such as increasing minority home ownership, increasing

00:17:38.600 minority business ownership, and career opportunities. Now, obviously this is, this is racial discrimination

00:17:43.380 because you're giving certain advantages to people based on the color of their skin.

00:17:47.100 So it's not certainly not white supremacy, but it's, we have seen this kind of thing before,

00:17:52.340 particularly in affirmative action and similar policies, but it should, it should be noted that this is not

00:17:57.840 what people mean by reparations. The, the black residents of this town are not going to get direct 1.00

00:18:02.200 payments. It's just going to be another welfare program. It's just going to be another affirmative 0.98

00:18:06.780 action program, the likes of which we've seen for the past 50 years, none of which have worked.

00:18:13.180 It hasn't worked. We're just going to get more of the same. This is one marketing piece of genius that

00:18:19.720 we've seen from the left in recent years is they are repackaging their old stupid policies that don't work. 0.99

00:18:24.700 They're just repackaging them and making them seem fresh and new. None of these programs, forget even race 1.00

00:18:31.680 for a moment, the green new deal, none of these giant government programs are anything really new.

00:18:37.560 They are just vast expansions of policies that were already in place. Just regular old welfare programs,

00:18:45.660 regular old power grabs by people who are exploiting our fears on the sun monster, you know, the environment

00:18:51.700 or race or whatever. And probably we can expect the same results again, but now we're all focused

00:18:58.920 on race and the results of it. If you are living in the ideology, if you were living in the world in

00:19:04.700 which the Klan is running around and towns are still happy about slavery 150 years later, and we have

00:19:10.720 white supremacy, then you don't notice the absurdity. But if you're a normal person, you do.

00:19:16.560 There was a new set of guidelines that was just put out by the National Museum of African-American

00:19:23.860 History and Culture. It was describing aspects and assumptions of whiteness and white culture.

00:19:33.040 Do you know what the National Museum of African-American History and Culture believes to be explicitly and

00:19:39.620 exclusively white cultural aspects? Individualism. That's the first one. 0.93

00:19:48.320 Family structure. Having a mother and a father is white. Apparently black people, they don't have that. 1.00

00:19:56.980 The scientific method. I'm not joking. They put this out there. Science is white. I don't, 0.99

00:20:03.180 I guess, shamanism or something. Soothsaying would be black or for other people of color,

00:20:09.380 but white people have a stranglehold on science. History. History is an aspect of whiteness and white 0.90

00:20:16.540 culture. The Protestant work ethic. Working, like getting up and doing your job. That is now 0.94

00:20:27.740 exclusively a white cultural aspect, according to this African-American museum. Religion.

00:20:35.380 Believing in Christianity. That is exclusively white. Perhaps they should read the book. 0.99

00:20:41.000 Are they just kidding? You imagine what's going to happen when they read the Gospels.

00:20:45.340 Future orientation. So planning ahead for the future. That's white. Black people can't do that, 1.00

00:20:50.280 I guess. They're just stuck in the eternal present. Time. Time is listed on here as exclusively white. 1.00

00:20:56.400 Aesthetics, like beauty. Beauty is white. I can't, I actually cannot believe, I cannot allow myself to

00:21:05.560 believe that this was put out seriously by, by a nominal, a group of African-American, the National

00:21:12.300 Museum of African-American History. Is David Duke running the National Museum of African-American

00:21:16.460 History? Is this like a Richard Spencer, like joke project? Holidays, justice, competition, all white. 0.98

00:21:25.300 Crazy. That's crazy. And very offensive to black people. But when you're, when you're stuck in this 0.99

00:21:32.540 kind of ideological framework, you can't notice that. In this world, even mainstream reporters are

00:21:40.720 asking, even in interviews with the president of the United States, this kind of madness, this sort of

00:21:46.080 thing. Do you, do you believe that black lives matter? Asking the president of the United States, 1.00

00:21:50.240 do you condemn the police who are killing all these black people, which by the way, isn't happening,

00:21:54.800 not happening at all. So in that world, President Trump, mainly, mainly alone, possibly alone among

00:22:02.320 his contemporaries is willing to stand up and reject the premise. Let's talk about George Floyd. You said

00:22:08.460 George Floyd's death was a terrible thing. Terrible. Why are African-Americans still dying at the hands 1.00

00:22:14.180 of law enforcement in this country? And so are white people. So are white people. What a terrible 1.00

00:22:19.780 question to ask. So are white people. More white people, by the way, more white people. 0.77

00:22:26.580 A lot of people are criticizing Trump for this response. I actually kind of liked this response.

00:22:30.700 It wasn't the perfect one. I think the perfect response would have been to reject the premise

00:22:34.440 about the cops to say, actually, the cops aren't killing that many people. There are very few officer

00:22:39.260 involved killings every year and they are not targeting black people. And, you know, you can

00:22:43.760 get to the second part about how a lot of more white people are being killed by the cops. And you 0.74

00:22:47.720 get to that second, I think he could have gone further and just rejected the whole thing about

00:22:51.440 the cops and just defended the blue. But I do at least like the point that he's not playing into this

00:22:56.640 fiction that black people are being hunted down all around the country by racist police.

00:23:03.160 That is a fiction. The idea that individualism and family and Christianity and science and history 0.92

00:23:09.440 and working are exclusively white, that is a fiction. The idea that we're living in a white 0.96

00:23:15.280 supremacist culture is a fiction. The idea that melanin gives you power and that white people are animals 0.99

00:23:20.720 and savages is a fiction. It's a lie. No one should give any quarter to this. We've talked a lot on this 0.99

00:23:27.660 show about how you cannot stand in the middle on these issues. These are very clear issues. If you

00:23:33.640 stand in the middle of the road, you are going to get hit by a truck. We're in an election year. You

00:23:38.080 need clear messaging, clear positioning. If you stand in the middle of the road, you are going to get run

00:23:42.640 over by the people who are running against you. Okay. So President Trump, you can criticize his

00:23:49.640 response and say, oh, it wasn't, it wasn't quite politic. He could have massaged it this way. That's fine.

00:23:54.400 But at least he is rejecting this fictional racial narrative that is being pushed. The culture has

00:24:02.360 become insane. Beyond race, you know, race is the hot topic right now, but it's become insane on sex 0.78

00:24:09.140 too. I meant to get to this earlier in the week, but I'm glad we can get to it now. This seems like a

00:24:14.800 trivial story. This seems like it doesn't matter, but it has wide ranging effects on the whole culture

00:24:20.580 and therefore on our politics. Will and Jada Smith. Will Smith and Jada Smith married for a long

00:24:27.780 time. They've said they are not getting divorced. They've got a solid marriage. Let's just come out

00:24:34.060 that Jada Smith was dating some other guy during their marriage. And so on Jada's show, her social

00:24:41.820 media show, the red table, Will Smith came down and they talked openly about infidelity within their

00:24:50.420 marriage. We decided that we were going to separate for a period of time and you go figure out how to

00:24:58.160 make yourself happy and I'll figure out how to make myself happy. Well, at that particular point in time,

00:25:02.780 it was indefinite. Yeah. I really felt like we could be over. Yeah, no, we were over. And then what did

00:25:09.800 you do, Jada? Well, you know, I think from there, you know, as time went on, I got into a different

00:25:17.760 kind of entanglement with August. One thing I want to get clear about and clean up, one of the things

00:25:24.220 that was kind of swirling in the press about you giving permission, which is, you know, the only person

00:25:33.000 I could give permission in that particular circumstances myself. Yes, exactly. Yeah. But what

00:25:40.600 August was probably trying to communicate, because I could actually see how he would perceive it as

00:25:48.460 permission because we were separated amicably. And I think he also wanted to make it clear that he's

00:25:57.420 not a homewrecker, which he's not. Oh my gosh, this is so awkward. And most of what she just said

00:26:05.700 is not true. I mean, she's right that she had this affair with this guy, but, but her conclusions about

00:26:11.700 that are not true, but it's so awkward to watch this. I don't want to watch Will Smith admitting to

00:26:17.060 being a cuckold on camera and yet he's willing to do that. And it's, it's engrossing stuff. And,

00:26:22.020 and in many ways we can give these people some respect for coming out and addressing these

00:26:28.600 rumors that have been swirling about infidelity within the marriage, particularly Jada Smith's

00:26:33.620 infidelity. And so you give them a little bit of credit for confronting this head on, but it is so,

00:26:38.480 so awkward. And it's based on a misunderstanding of family, right? She says in here, one of the rumors

00:26:46.140 was that Will Smith gave this guy August permission to sleep with his wife. And she's saying, that's not

00:26:50.960 what happened. And by the way, you wouldn't be the one to give permission. I would be the only one who

00:26:55.020 could give permission. That's not true. When you are married and the wife wants to go sleep with some 0.93

00:27:00.380 other guy, it is, she does not have the right. She is, she is not the one who can do that. And her,

00:27:07.180 her, I guess her husband could give permission, but he shouldn't. No, this is, no, this is not, sorry guys.

00:27:13.300 This kind of hyper-individualism, this total focus on the self is extraordinarily destructive.

00:27:24.820 This, a lot of what we're seeing here typifies leftist culture, particularly on sex and marriage.

00:27:31.920 But there was a little glimmer of hope at the end, a kind of ironic glimmer of hope,

00:27:35.460 which is the conclusion that they made, which is that they're not going to get divorced.

00:27:39.800 You expect to be with somebody for a lifetime.

00:27:44.000 25 years and counting.

00:27:45.520 Hmm. We ride together.

00:27:48.140 We die together.

00:27:49.840 Bad marriage for life.

00:27:55.080 Bad marriage for life. So obviously a reference to, uh, to bad boys ride together, die together,

00:27:59.840 bad boys for life, bad marriage for life. There's something actually to be said about that.

00:28:04.720 You know, in, in most of modern culture, they would just get divorced, right? The minute any

00:28:08.540 trouble happens, you just split up and you remarry. And the Smiths have been interesting

00:28:12.600 because they won't do that. Even though obviously they've fallen prey to the same sort of troubles

00:28:17.880 that happened throughout Hollywood and really happened to a lot of marriages anyway. So there's

00:28:22.580 something really admirable there. You're seeing, uh, a reaching for a kind of more traditional

00:28:29.060 culture. The things that typify leftist culture here is this insistence on being transparent.

00:28:33.980 You notice this reading the leftist intellectuals throughout history. They always want to be really

00:28:38.060 transparent, particularly about sex. A lot of, uh, let you know, Karl Marx and, uh, Rousseau

00:28:44.360 and a lot of these people want to be very transparent about their sexual exploits. They

00:28:51.620 want to hear about their sexual partner's exploits. And this is a weird thing. Conservatives

00:28:55.160 don't want to do that. Just like, ah, don't tell me about your past. I don't want to hear

00:28:58.020 about your ex-boyfriend or your ex-girlfriend. Just shut up. Let's move on now. But they, they 1.00

00:29:02.380 want to be very transparent. I think part of this is because they want, they, they live

00:29:08.800 by ideology, which is supposed to, you know, be universally applicable and, you know, they're

00:29:13.000 living basically only on their reason, not on their gut. You can see Will Smith. He, he

00:29:17.300 doesn't look happy to be hearing about his wife's relationship with this guy. And yet he's

00:29:21.580 still listening to it and putting it on camera here. I think if we couldn't correct this problem

00:29:27.400 of selfishness, of always needing to be happy all the time, of, uh, following our individual

00:29:33.240 appetites all the time, if we can, if we can fix that part and we can keep, maybe learn

00:29:40.180 a lesson from this idea of, you know, good marriage, bad marriage, we're in a marriage.

00:29:43.580 We're not going to split up. That could be a path forward because it seems like a trivial

00:29:49.140 story, but the building block of society is the family, is the marriage. That's why the 0.98

00:29:53.260 left attacks it as often as it does. If you don't have working marriages, you won't have 0.69

00:29:58.880 a working society. You won't have a working politics. There's actually something to be

00:30:02.860 learned, even from the obviously dysfunctional marriage of Will and Jada Smith. Probably

00:30:09.280 we're going to get a lot of information about dysfunctional marriages soon too, because 0.95

00:30:12.780 Twitter was hacked yesterday. Even some of the biggest accounts, Joe Biden, Tesla, Tesla

00:30:17.600 CEO, Elon Musk, Kanye West, it looks like Obama, Bloomberg and Bezos may have been

00:30:22.600 affected too. Totally took over these accounts. Probably some nefarious actor, state or private

00:30:28.340 has access to a lot of DMs. We'll see. There'll probably be a lot more transparency coming out

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00:32:01.080 slash talent. All right, let's jump right in from Ryan. Hi, Michael. I was talking to a leftist

00:32:07.040 friend of mine who said that the polls in 2016 weren't wrong. Hillary did have a 99% chance of 1.00

00:32:12.640 winning, but Trump just hit that 1% likelihood. Okay. Before I go insane, can you tell me that

00:32:18.820 leftists deep down don't believe anything they say and that they don't really trust the mainstream

00:32:23.400 media this blindly? No, they do. I mean, this is the issue with, with polling is you're always right.

00:32:29.640 But whatever happens, you can always be right. And you can always defend your wrong predictions by

00:32:34.880 saying, well, that was just, I believe part of the lower chance and it did work. Then you look in the

00:32:40.220 various states and they'll say, look, Trump, he really barely won. He didn't really, he didn't

00:32:43.940 even really win. Just, you know, a hundred thousand votes go this way in one state, a hundred thousand

00:32:47.920 votes go that way in another state. And that's why he won. Yup. Uh-huh. That's what the polls are

00:32:54.000 supposed to tell us. And then moreover, you know, there weren't polls that said 99% of people are going to

00:32:59.080 vote for Hillary Clinton. What, where we got this 99% number is there were a lot of analyses of this

00:33:03.720 polls, of all of these polls that said, okay, looking at all the polls seems 97 or 99% likely

00:33:09.600 that, that Donald Trump will lose. Say, well, I guess that one, that 1% number came in. It's very

00:33:15.440 difficult to trust these polls, particularly now we mentioned earlier, people are just afraid to talk

00:33:19.600 to pollsters. So, you know, the, the polling matters in, in as much as the campaign should be

00:33:26.400 paying attention to this and not getting complacent at all. But if you're actually going to, you know,

00:33:31.240 if you're going to bet the house on something you read in the polls, I think you'd probably be a 0.99

00:33:35.160 foolish gambler from Jack. Michael just signed up for the daily wire. So I could tell you this 0.99

00:33:39.140 a couple of weeks ago, my wife's cousin in LA went to get tested for COVID. He filled out the

00:33:43.300 paperwork and waited over three hours before deciding to leave. Then a few days later, he got a call from

00:33:47.820 the clinic telling him he tested positive for COVID-19. He was never tested. I thought it was crazy,

00:33:53.320 but I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe a clerical error until I told my good friend here

00:33:58.660 in Texas about what happened. And he said, you're not going to believe this. T, our mutual friend

00:34:03.380 told me the exact same thing happened to him. He also got that phone call telling him he tested

00:34:07.900 positive for COVID, even though he had left the clinic before getting tested. Question, would you

00:34:12.720 consider these isolated incidents, a smoking gun or just a coincidence? I always thought COVID numbers

00:34:18.280 were skewed. How can I believe any data at this point? Your newest fan came for Ben, stayed for the

00:34:22.580 covfefe. Yeah, this is a, thanks for sending in that story because obviously, you know, we're looking

00:34:28.400 for data here, but if the plural of anecdote given often enough is data. And we do know that there has

00:34:35.900 been a lot of madness. I mean, people who have been shot and died from gunshot wounds have been listed

00:34:40.800 as COVID deaths. And there have been lots of different tests for COVID. And there's been a lot

00:34:45.700 of contradictory information that's come out from the so-called public health experts and the

00:34:49.960 mainstream media. And we know that this has been extraordinarily politicized. And we also know

00:34:54.520 that, that medical providers are receiving more money from, in the form of government funding based

00:35:01.260 on their, their work with COVID patients. So I don't know if any of these particular examples you're

00:35:08.700 using are accurate or if they're misunderstood or if there's confusion, but, but surely the, the basic

00:35:15.140 thing we can say here is that when you're looking at the COVID reporting, you need to be skeptical.

00:35:21.120 Does that mean there's some nefarious, super duper conspiracy? Maybe there could be, you know,

00:35:26.500 the reason that conspiracies, conspiracy theories catch on is because every so often there are

00:35:30.720 conspiracies. You know, you hear these conspiracies about, I remember I used to reject this completely

00:35:36.260 outright. They'd say there is a conspiracy out there that a bunch of elite, wealthy, powerful people

00:35:43.000 in, in government heads of state, the Royal family, or they're all, there are pedophiles among them and 0.58

00:35:49.480 they have this pedophile ring. And I'd say, oh yeah, that's so ridiculous. Oh my gosh, Jeffrey Epstein. 1.00

00:35:54.360 That's so crazy. So every so often, you know, that that's how the, the crazier theories, uh, propagate.

00:36:01.420 So I don't know what's happening with COVID. All I can caution you is you ought to be skeptical.

00:36:06.600 And the people who try to shame you and bully you for being skeptical of what you're hearing

00:36:11.320 on any particular given day from the medical establishment that maybe they're going to change

00:36:16.880 their mind on in two days. The people who are bullying you about that are probably the least

00:36:22.680 to be trusted of anybody from Josh, dear Mr. Knowles. What if we try actually putting the left

00:36:27.180 on defense by calling cancel culture, the KKK cancel culture club with this and the movement? No,

00:36:34.420 no, it wouldn't. It's kind of funny. I mean, I get a kick out of it, but that it would not end

00:36:38.400 anything. Republicans have tried this strategy for at least the past couple of decades, maybe longer,

00:36:44.320 which is to respond to the baseless charges of racism by saying Democrats are the real racists.

00:36:52.900 You're, I'm the least racist. You're the most racist as, as if this would shame the Democrats 0.95

00:36:57.500 into, into either changing their mind or cutting out the baseless attacks. It won't. They don't care. 0.98

00:37:04.500 They've, they've, first of all, they've redefined racism to just mean whatever they think, right? So

00:37:09.780 racism, which once had a meaning, this, this idea of, of discriminating against people, being harsh

00:37:16.700 against people, attacking people based explicitly on the color of their skin now has been transformed

00:37:23.260 to anything white people do. Anything white people do is racist. And by the way, when black people 0.97

00:37:28.900 exhibit racism, that's not racist because they're black. I mean, that's just a, it's the Nick Cannon 0.98

00:37:34.240 example. So the word no longer means anything other than something a leftist doesn't like. And so you're

00:37:40.760 not going to be able to convince them. And I don't think they're interested anyway. Republicans, God bless

00:37:46.360 them. They still think that we're in an era 30 years ago where you could have some kind of reasonable

00:37:52.900 debate. That's not what's going on. We are in a bare knuckle brawl for our government, for our

00:38:01.280 politics. The left has admitted this. I mean, they now deny objective truth, right? They're saying another

00:38:06.600 one of these sheets about white culture said that objective truth is a white concept. Science, this one 0.93

00:38:13.120 says science is a white concept. So you're not going to be able to deal with an American left that 0.75

00:38:22.780 denies the universality of reason and truth. This is going, this, this election in November is not going

00:38:28.940 to be about convincing these people in the middle. I don't think that's what it's about. I think it's

00:38:32.640 going to be much more like the George Bush 2004 reelection campaign. It's going to be about turning

00:38:37.620 out the base. You've got to turn out the base. And that's, that's all we're going to do. Rather than try

00:38:44.200 to argue and convince people on the other side that you're not a terrible person, you have got to rally

00:38:49.820 and encourage your own side. From Sean, I saw quite possibly the most leftist article from 12 News in

00:38:56.240 Arizona today. The headline was, will Christmas be called off by COVID-19? Do you think they have a chance of

00:39:01.140 taking Christmas from us too? Or will it wear off before then? Thank you for all that you do.

00:39:06.000 They've been trying to take Christmas away from us since the first Christmas. Let's not forget King

00:39:12.460 Herod was trying to take Christmas away. He was chatting with those magi, trying to figure out a

00:39:17.540 way to snuff out the first Christmas before it had barely begun. We've had the war on Christmas here,

00:39:22.500 which the left mocks as though it didn't exist. Meanwhile, they rename all the Christmas trees

00:39:26.740 holiday trees and they, they take Merry Christmas out of public marketing and they make it about

00:39:30.880 season's greetings. So they all, they all engage in that. They've been trying to do that for many years.

00:39:34.400 And now sure, I'm sure they are certainly going to try to shut down travel and not have people go

00:39:38.920 visit their relatives for Christmas. You know, it's important to fight back against this culture.

00:39:44.940 And we want to have a politics and a culture that are safe for Christianity, for the exercise of

00:39:50.500 religion. But we should also acknowledge while we're doing that, that the popular culture, this

00:39:57.680 world, the prince of darkness of this world has always been trying to stop that. And so, you know,

00:40:02.460 you shouldn't just complain and whine and despair about it. You should fight back and try to make

00:40:06.660 a better culture and politics for the religion. But, you know, it sort of was ever thus from Chris

00:40:12.060 cigar master knows if a nine-year-old can have the agency to change their gender, then wouldn't a 0.89

00:40:17.560 nine-year-old have the agency to make the choice to go back to school, according to leftist logic?

00:40:22.420 Of course, but it goes actually further than that. This, the left's argument on transgender children

00:40:28.560 is cutting against their argument about liberal adults. You know, one thing we've heard in recent

00:40:35.780 years about the campuses is that there's an epidemic of rape and one in four women are going 0.99

00:40:41.820 to be raped, which would make Harvard yard more dangerous for women than Fallujah. I don't think 0.90

00:40:46.740 anybody really believes that that is the case. What they're talking about is, well, college kids drink

00:40:51.300 and then they go hook up, you know, they have these kind of increasingly, you know, clinical sexual

00:40:58.020 interactions that, that, you know, because of free love and sexual liberation, this is just to be

00:41:03.440 expected. And then sometimes the next morning, uh, one, one or more of the parties will have regret

00:41:09.020 and then they'll say that was rape. You know, I was drunk or I didn't want to do that. Or even though

00:41:14.340 I did want to do that now, I don't want to do that. So what they're effectively saying is that

00:41:19.840 a nine-year-old has sufficient mental faculties to make life-changing sexual decisions,

00:41:28.820 but a 22-year-old does not have the mental faculties to make temporary sexual decisions,

00:41:36.320 right? A nine-year-old has the mental faculties to permanently alter his body chemistry in a way

00:41:44.300 that can never be corrected, but a 22-year-old woman can't have a one-night stand. 1.00

00:41:51.900 That doesn't make any sense, but the left has to preserve the cult of sexual liberation. The left

00:41:59.280 has to preserve the cult of individual autonomy, maximizing individual autonomy, and the left has

00:42:06.820 to preserve the cult of feminist victimhood. You can't, you can't have all of those at once. It's the 1.00

00:42:13.100 the trans issue is just such a wedge here because the left has told us for years and years that

00:42:18.240 homosexuals are born that way and no one should tell them to suppress their desires. And how dare 0.99

00:42:24.860 you? You know, a man loving another man sexually is totally natural and actually inescapable. And

00:42:31.960 who would choose this? And also there's no such thing as men or women. Well, there's no such thing

00:42:38.080 as men or women. There's no such thing as objective sex, immutable sex. Then there's no

00:42:43.460 such thing as homosexuality. Homosexuality requires there to be immutable sexes. They 1.00

00:42:50.100 haven't dealt with that and I'm not holding my breath for them to deal with that. It's just

00:42:55.340 another incoherent aspect of their ideology that's not going to probably change through reasoned debate.

00:43:01.220 They're just using it as a political cudgel. From Nick, austere religious podcaster. I saw that

00:43:05.840 you and the Lord of the multiverse, Andrew Klavan, did a review of Hamilton. I was wondering if you

00:43:09.920 will be doing other reviews and similar topics such as movies and TV shows. I'm asking because

00:43:14.120 I was unable to watch the musical Hamilton since I'm both a man and straight. Thank you. I guess

00:43:18.700 that relates to the previous question as well. Yes, I hope so. I had a great time doing that with

00:43:23.640 Drew because we just went over and smoked cigars and had a good time, which we do anyway. Let me know

00:43:27.820 in the comments if there's something in the culture you think we should watch. I need a new show

00:43:31.360 anyway. It's been, you know, it's been a long week for a lot of people, long several weeks,

00:43:35.460 long several months. We're now 122 days since we were told 15 days to slow the spread. Some of us

00:43:42.580 knew it wasn't really going to be 15 days anyway. So that's all we're doing, trapped in our homes,

00:43:46.820 watching TV. Unless we take the opportunity before us, we realize that politics is not inevitable,

00:43:54.500 the political outcomes that the left wants, that we can actually change our political future if

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