The Michael Knowles Show - July 29, 2020


Ep. 588 - It’s Always Sunny On Capitol Hill


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

179.12865

Word Count

8,408

Sentence Count

653

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

Bill Barr, the honey badger, knocks down every Democrat on Capitol Hill like he s just a human bowling ball going down the lane. Eric Swalwell, on the other hand, is a man of few words, and Bill Barr was no exception.


Transcript

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00:00:37.840 Eric Swalwell characteristically blew a lot of hot air on Capitol Hill yesterday.
00:00:43.920 And that's all well and good.
00:00:45.300 That's just sort of what he does every day.
00:00:47.740 Unfortunately, though, for Mr. Swalwell and all of his Democrat colleagues,
00:00:52.180 he was doing this in the face of Bill Barr, and it didn't go very well for him.
00:00:58.240 Now, Mr. Barr, are you investigating Donald Trump for commuting the prison sentence of his longtime friend and political advisor, Roger Stone?
00:01:05.460 No.
00:01:07.320 Why not?
00:01:09.080 Why should I?
00:01:10.660 Well, let's talk about that.
00:01:12.420 He wasn't ready for a simple question.
00:01:15.160 Why should I do the thing you're asking me to do?
00:01:18.080 Okay, well, yeah, okay, yeah, let's, okay, we can talk about that.
00:01:21.160 We can talk, we will talk about that, because Bill Barr, the honey badger,
00:01:25.800 just absolutely knocked down every Democrat on Capitol Hill yesterday,
00:01:29.880 like he's just a human bowling ball going down the lane.
00:01:33.680 We will, we will get into all of it.
00:01:35.200 I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:39.960 Welcome back to the show.
00:01:47.640 Bill Barr went to Capitol Hill.
00:01:50.040 Coincidentally, I actually was with the Attorney General Barr when he accepted this invitation.
00:01:56.440 So you remember I went to D.C. with Senator Cruz,
00:01:58.820 and we did this episode of the Verdict podcast there at the DOJ with Attorney General Barr.
00:02:03.720 And that, like, as I get to the room, as Bill Barr gets to the room,
00:02:07.700 the news breaks that he's going to accept the Democrats' invitation to testify on Capitol Hill.
00:02:12.060 I have been waiting for many weeks for this to happen,
00:02:15.500 because I knew it was going to be absolutely hilarious, and it did not disappoint.
00:02:19.440 So my favorite of the interrogators was Eric Swalwell, because you're Eric Swalwell, I'm Eric.
00:02:25.700 Well, we're all Eric Swalwell, as you remember from his presidential campaign.
00:02:29.020 It went from bad to worse for Mr. Swalwell.
00:02:33.580 Here's just a little snippet of the interactions between Congressman Swalwell and the Attorney General.
00:02:41.560 I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings.
00:02:45.980 I'm well-educated, well-versed.
00:02:48.020 I know that situations like this, real estate-wise, they're very complex.
00:02:51.960 Actually, they're pretty simple.
00:02:54.320 The forms are all standard, boilerplate.
00:02:56.940 Okay, well, we're all hungry.
00:02:58.300 We're going to get to our hot plate soon enough, all right?
00:03:00.280 But let's talk about the contract here.
00:03:01.980 Sorry, I forgot.
00:03:03.180 Where did you go to law school again?
00:03:04.920 Uh, well, I could ask you that very same question.
00:03:06.460 I went to Harvard.
00:03:07.560 Uh-huh.
00:03:07.880 Mm-hmm.
00:03:08.220 How about you?
00:03:09.340 Where?
00:03:10.300 Yeah.
00:03:10.720 I'm pleading the fifth, sir.
00:03:12.020 I'd advise that you do that.
00:03:13.280 And I'll take that advice into cooperation, all right?
00:03:16.140 Now, let's say you and I go toe-to-toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor.
00:03:19.560 You know, I don't think I'm going to do anything close to that.
00:03:22.640 And I can see clearly you know nothing about the law.
00:03:25.340 It seems like you have a tenuous grasp on the English language in general.
00:03:29.640 Okay, well, filibuster.
00:03:32.360 I'm sorry.
00:03:33.140 That was not the clip of Eric Swalwell and Bill Barr.
00:03:35.700 That was from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
00:03:37.880 It couldn't have been the clip between Swalwell and Barr because Charlie Day was much, much
00:03:42.500 more articulate and was making much, much more sense than Eric Swalwell was yesterday.
00:03:47.540 I, frankly, I wish we could just play the entire interaction.
00:03:51.220 There, unfortunately, is not enough time.
00:03:53.180 Just a little snippet to give you the idea of the difference here, not just in IQ, but
00:03:59.400 difference in seriousness of purpose.
00:04:02.040 You don't read the president's tweets?
00:04:03.720 No.
00:04:04.860 Well, there's a lot of evidence in the president's tweets, Mr. Attorney General.
00:04:07.520 I think you should start reading them because he said Mr. Stone showed guts.
00:04:10.860 But on July 10 of this year, Roger Stone declared to a reporter, I had 29 or 30 conversations
00:04:18.000 with Trump during the campaign period.
00:04:20.160 Trump knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him.
00:04:23.180 It would have eased my situation considerably, but I didn't.
00:04:27.180 The prosecutors wanted me to play Judas.
00:04:29.460 I refused.
00:04:30.040 Are you familiar with that Stone statement?
00:04:32.640 Actually, I'm not.
00:04:33.540 So how can you sit here and tell us, why should I investigate the president of the United States
00:04:38.480 if you're not even aware of the facts concerning the president using the pardon or commutation
00:04:43.200 power to swap the silence of a witness?
00:04:47.940 Because we require a reliable predicate before we open a criminal investigation.
00:04:54.100 And I just gave to you, sir.
00:04:55.240 I don't consider it.
00:04:56.320 I consider it a very Rube Goldberg theory that you had.
00:05:00.480 Well, it sounds like you're hearing this and by the way, if I applied, if I applied
00:05:04.220 this standard, there'd be a lot, there'd be a lot more people under investigation.
00:05:09.440 Just absolutely devastating because it's all it gives us whole great oration and bars
00:05:15.880 looking at him like why, what mistakes have I made in life that have led me to have to
00:05:23.140 sit in this chair and listen to all of you people, you vacuous imbeciles, you Democrats
00:05:29.840 of Capitol Hill.
00:05:31.480 And he's sitting there and he lets Eric Swalwell finish.
00:05:34.580 And Swalwell says, so why haven't you investigated the president?
00:05:38.280 He goes, um, because we need a reliable predicate to investigate.
00:05:43.560 Congressman Swalwell, do you know what an investigation is?
00:05:45.900 A filibuster, filibuster.
00:05:47.580 I don't, I don't think that Eric Swalwell knows very much of what he's talking about.
00:05:51.500 And then there's a zinger at the end.
00:05:52.660 And, and if you watch the clip, you can see the attorney general's eyes dart to the other
00:05:58.180 members of the panel.
00:05:59.220 He said, if we were going to take that flimsy standard as the basis for investigations,
00:06:04.880 then a lot more of you people would be under investigation.
00:06:10.720 And that more or less ends anything even resembling substance in the exchange.
00:06:16.620 And frankly, I've got to give Eric Swalwell credit because at least Eric Swalwell let the attorney
00:06:20.860 general speak at the hearing that he was called to so that the Democrats could hear him that
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00:07:55.840 Swalwell, at least let the attorney general speak.
00:07:58.400 His colleagues, not so much.
00:07:59.960 Greg Price over at the Daily Caller put together just a very brief clip of some of the Democrats
00:08:07.300 cutting off Bill Barber.
00:08:09.680 He's what they would do.
00:08:10.240 They'd give their orations that were supposed to be questions for the attorney general.
00:08:14.520 And then at the end, they wouldn't even let the guy answer.
00:08:17.620 They would just say, OK, you know, don't say that.
00:08:20.260 I don't like what you're starting to say.
00:08:21.860 I'm reclaiming my time.
00:08:24.700 I wasn't claiming my time in April.
00:08:27.420 Times is when does something actually become reclaiming my time.
00:08:30.420 I'm site.
00:08:31.220 This is not a trick question in this country.
00:08:33.940 And I'm reclaiming my time, Mr. General.
00:08:36.320 Without any remedy at all.
00:08:38.000 I'm reclaiming my time.
00:08:39.080 Let me share with you.
00:08:39.820 You gotta let him answer.
00:08:40.800 Reclaiming my time.
00:08:42.440 You're reclaiming my time, sir.
00:08:45.060 Reclaiming my time.
00:08:46.680 Reclaiming my time without political bias.
00:08:49.780 He said he's enough evidence.
00:08:51.180 Reclaiming my time, Mr. General.
00:08:53.340 Reclaiming my time.
00:08:54.900 Reclaiming my time, Mr. Barr.
00:08:56.440 I'm pleased to know that the Democrats of Capitol Hill at least know and can pronounce three words.
00:09:03.480 I don't know that their vocabulary and their intellect goes much further than that.
00:09:07.600 But they at least can say reclaiming my time.
00:09:10.920 Those are the three words that they can say.
00:09:13.160 And they can't hear very much either.
00:09:14.620 The reason they can't hear very much is an issue that plays in not just to these Democrats on Capitol Hill,
00:09:20.080 but into a broader culture, which is that we are living in echo chambers.
00:09:24.680 And if you're on the left, you never even hear the arguments that the right is making.
00:09:28.840 So it's no surprise that these Democrat congressmen don't want to let the attorney general speak.
00:09:33.460 They won't let him speak because they are utterly unprepared for what he has to say.
00:09:38.700 They are utterly unprepared to answer what he has to say.
00:09:41.460 And they don't care what he has to say.
00:09:44.260 It doesn't matter.
00:09:44.940 It's not going to affect the way that the left, which controls every major institution of power,
00:09:49.600 is going to march on and on and on.
00:09:53.160 At a certain point, Bill Barr joked about this to the members there.
00:09:57.580 He said, hold on a second.
00:09:58.300 Who's doing the hearing here?
00:09:59.820 Who's doing the talking?
00:10:00.500 Who's doing the hearing?
00:10:02.040 It is not a self-defining term.
00:10:04.220 They've only got two minutes, sir.
00:10:05.520 That they recognized.
00:10:07.080 Mr. Barr, if I am.
00:10:07.820 Yeah, but this is a hearing.
00:10:08.940 I thought I was the one that was supposed to be heard.
00:10:11.100 Well, let me, and I'm going to get there.
00:10:12.940 Well, you thought wrong, Mr. Attorney General.
00:10:14.760 Well, this purpose of this entire hearing is so that Democrats can get little clips for
00:10:21.940 their reelection campaigns where they're scolding the attorney general and they're going to cut
00:10:25.660 that up and take that back home and put it on television or put it on the internet.
00:10:29.640 And it is, as always the left does, you know, the left always projects.
00:10:34.880 So whatever they're doing, they're going to accuse their opponents of doing.
00:10:37.340 Jerry Nadler, who's chairing this whole circus, comes out and he accuses Bill Barr of participating
00:10:45.840 in campaigning here by trying to get little video clips for the president's reelection.
00:10:52.580 The president wants footage for his campaign ads and you appear to be serving it up to him
00:10:57.920 as ordered.
00:10:59.520 What are you talking about?
00:11:02.460 Jerry, you're the one doing the whole purpose of this hearing that you invited Bill
00:11:07.260 Barr to is so that you all can get footage for your reelection campaigns.
00:11:12.700 And yet he's accusing the president of doing the opposite thing.
00:11:15.260 The only thing we learned yesterday, and it wasn't something new, I guess we were just
00:11:18.940 reminded of it, is that congressmen, and I should limit this to the Democrats because
00:11:23.640 the Republicans actually performed very well yesterday.
00:11:25.880 But these Democrat congressmen who wouldn't even let their guests speak are vacuous imbeciles.
00:11:32.100 But it's not just their fault.
00:11:34.720 We live in a sort of vacuous culture.
00:11:37.260 A vapid culture.
00:11:38.880 We all participate in it.
00:11:40.940 Every last one of us.
00:11:42.780 I saw this yesterday.
00:11:44.000 I don't know if you've been following on Instagram.
00:11:46.500 There's this trend that has taken over Instagram.
00:11:49.380 Many of my dearest friends are doing it, so I don't want to poke too sharp fun here.
00:11:53.300 Women are taking hot black and white selfies of themselves.
00:12:01.580 I guess most selfies are of yourself.
00:12:03.320 They're taking these selfie photos, and then they're uploading it to Instagram, and they're
00:12:08.600 saying, challenge accepted.
00:12:10.740 And so all the women on Instagram were doing this.
00:12:14.560 And I thought, oh, it's another one of these social media challenge things.
00:12:17.780 Okay, what's the challenge?
00:12:19.860 And so I'm looking, and I found out the challenge is to upload a hot selfie.
00:12:26.280 That is, that's not, that's not part of the challenge or the medium of the challenge.
00:12:33.000 That's the whole challenge, is to get women on an app that exists solely for women to put
00:12:40.340 up hot pictures of themselves.
00:12:41.780 The challenge is for women to put up hot pictures of themselves.
00:12:46.620 There's not even a nominal social justice tie-in.
00:12:50.840 You know, most of these challenges, there's like at least a little hook.
00:12:54.440 It's like, yeah, upload a hot selfie, and then you'll cure a disease.
00:13:00.800 You know, upload a hot selfie to stop polio.
00:13:03.580 And you're like, well, okay, I don't really see the connection between those two things,
00:13:06.160 but at least, but this one, it's not even that.
00:13:08.240 It's just vanity.
00:13:09.520 That's all it is.
00:13:10.260 It's just women uploading photos of themselves and saying, I'm beautiful, I'm strong, and
00:13:15.280 I nominate.
00:13:16.240 And then you name all these other women that you, you also suggest should upload hot photos
00:13:21.620 of themselves.
00:13:22.560 And then the other women, they post the photos and they say, thank you for nominating me.
00:13:28.100 Thank you for challenging.
00:13:29.520 I'm, I feel so challenged.
00:13:32.560 So anyway, the other night I put up one of myself and I don't know, frankly, I thought
00:13:36.300 it was, it was one of the more scintillating, challenging things I've ever done.
00:13:41.040 I feel really lifted up and empowered.
00:13:43.020 Also, is it, is it empowering to upload a hot selfie for other people to gawk over?
00:13:51.280 Is that, that, that is many things, but I'm not convinced that that is empowering.
00:13:57.580 What's funny now, they're trying to add a kind of social justice element to it.
00:14:03.300 So it's, so all these women are uploading the photos just for themselves, just to say
00:14:07.200 like, I'm beautiful, you're strong, you go girl.
00:14:09.500 We don't, we don't need anybody's attention.
00:14:11.560 Also look at my hot pictures.
00:14:12.800 So that's the, the thing that everyone's doing now.
00:14:15.220 Now, then some women in Turkey got upset because apparently a few weeks ago, there was a campaign
00:14:22.780 in Turkey to upload black and white photos to stop women from being killed or something
00:14:28.300 to that effect has nothing to do with what the women in America are doing.
00:14:31.680 And they're getting angry because they feel like it's being taken over.
00:14:34.100 And this reminds me of the black square.
00:14:35.620 You remember all these mostly white liberals were uploading the black squares during black
00:14:39.320 lives matter, and they were doing it to stand in solidarity with BLM.
00:14:42.560 And then the BLM people got angry because it was messing up their hashtag or something,
00:14:46.240 right?
00:14:46.380 It's just, you can't, you can't win for losing first of all.
00:14:50.500 And especially in the case of the black and white photo, what are we, what's the point?
00:14:54.740 The point is, is vanity and, and we all do it.
00:14:58.800 I'm not even exempting myself.
00:15:00.160 I mean, I don't, I don't do it when it comes to posting hot selfies, but we all do it in some
00:15:04.360 ways.
00:15:04.540 We all indulge this vanity in this culture.
00:15:07.500 That's what that whole hearing was yesterday.
00:15:10.320 That's what much of our public policy is right now is the indulgence of vanity.
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00:17:05.120 In this crazy culture with all these vacuous congressmen, Bill Barr comes.
00:17:08.720 He tries to speak a little common sense, and it's some common sense that we've been trying
00:17:12.720 to say on this show, and I know conservatives have been saying to the left now for weeks.
00:17:16.220 It is not acceptable to burn down the country.
00:17:22.220 I can't believe that needs to be said.
00:17:25.180 It is not acceptable to burn the country down.
00:17:29.360 To use a specific example, it's not acceptable to burn down a federal courthouse.
00:17:34.520 The Democrats are shocked to hear it.
00:17:37.380 That's right, Congressman.
00:17:38.880 There's sort of distinct missions.
00:17:40.760 One mission is to enforce federal law.
00:17:43.420 And by the way, the federal government is the sovereign of the United States.
00:17:47.840 We have two sovereigns here in the United States, and we enforce the federal law all
00:17:52.740 over the country.
00:17:53.520 Every square foot of the country, we enforce federal law.
00:17:56.660 The other is protecting federal property, and specifically U.S. courthouses, which are
00:18:01.840 the heart of federal property in all 93 jurisdictions in the United States.
00:18:06.380 And we have the obligation to protect federal courts, and the U.S. marshals specifically
00:18:12.620 have been given that obligation.
00:18:14.820 Federal courts are under attack.
00:18:16.560 Since when is it okay to try to burn down a federal court?
00:18:22.060 If someone went down the street to the Prettyman Court here, that beautiful courthouse we have
00:18:26.120 right at the bottom of the hill, and started breaking windows and firing industrial-grade fireworks
00:18:30.980 in to start a fire, throw kerosene balloons in, and start fires in the court, is that okay?
00:18:37.720 Is that okay now?
00:18:39.520 No, the U.S. marshals have a duty to stop that and defend the courthouse, and that's what
00:18:44.240 we are doing in Portland.
00:18:46.080 This was the moment, probably more than any other in the hearing, where Barr becomes visibly
00:18:50.940 and audibly exasperated.
00:18:52.460 Who are you people?
00:18:55.820 You're defending burning down federal courthouses.
00:18:58.680 What is wrong with you people?
00:19:01.980 And do you think it made an impact?
00:19:03.540 Do you think what he said persuaded them, even penetrated those very, very thick skulls
00:19:08.740 that they have?
00:19:10.100 No, not at all.
00:19:11.680 Not at all.
00:19:12.500 They are still calling to defund the police.
00:19:14.440 They're still calling to defund military recruitment.
00:19:16.640 We talked about that yesterday.
00:19:17.940 They want to defund the apparatus of law enforcement.
00:19:21.320 Why?
00:19:22.020 Because they want to defund our law.
00:19:24.080 They don't want us to have a country of laws.
00:19:26.660 They want us to have a country run by the ever-changing whims of the left.
00:19:32.240 Now, in this climate, is it any surprise that 100 police agencies have just pulled out of
00:19:38.660 the DNC?
00:19:40.540 The Democratic National Convention, such as it is, it's going to be a pared down one, they
00:19:45.940 don't have any protection.
00:19:47.420 They don't have any protection now because the cops don't want to protect them.
00:19:50.200 And I got to tell you, I'm with the cops.
00:19:53.240 I'm with the cops here.
00:19:55.680 You know, I think one reaction to this, to finding out that none of these police agencies
00:20:00.200 want to protect the DNC.
00:20:01.900 One reaction is, well, they signed up.
00:20:03.460 They got to do their job.
00:20:04.340 They got to protect people, even if they don't like those people.
00:20:07.060 That's not the point.
00:20:09.580 It's not just we have a disagreement on this policy or that policy.
00:20:12.460 It's that the DNC is actively trying to dismantle the police.
00:20:18.580 They are openly saying this at the most mainstream high level.
00:20:23.180 They want to dismantle the law enforcement apparatus of this country.
00:20:27.900 You cannot ask law enforcement to participate in its own destruction, not even just because
00:20:37.200 it will be detrimental to them, but because that would be detrimental to the entire country,
00:20:42.160 to our entire system of government, and to our entire system of law and order.
00:20:47.320 You would never ask someone to participate in their own destruction, but that's what would
00:20:54.780 happen if these police agencies were to protect the DNC.
00:20:59.640 And on a very tangible level, the Democrats have basically said if cops ever use force,
00:21:07.580 we're going to arrest them and ruin their lives.
00:21:09.860 You can't ask a guy to go into that position.
00:21:12.340 It's not like cops get paid a ton of money, right?
00:21:14.900 It's not as though you say, well, look, it's a tough job, but at least they make a ton of
00:21:19.260 money.
00:21:20.120 And so therefore we ask a lot of them.
00:21:22.160 They don't.
00:21:22.900 It's service.
00:21:25.200 You, you, they make a relatively modest salary and they take a, on a dangerous job and they
00:21:32.020 do it because it is a noble calling to protect people and to enforce the law.
00:21:37.640 Well, if you're going to, if you're going to punish them in some cases, you know, you charge
00:21:42.400 them with murder just for doing their job.
00:21:47.100 Why would they do it?
00:21:48.820 You can only push a man so far.
00:21:51.240 You know, the, the line between courage and recklessness is a little bit blurry sometimes,
00:21:55.180 but for a cop to go out there when he knows that the people that he's going out to protect
00:22:00.700 are actively trying to ruin his life and maybe throw him in jail or worse or worse.
00:22:06.580 That, that's pure recklessness.
00:22:10.260 You can't, you can't ask a guy to do that.
00:22:12.420 And so they're pulling out of the DNC.
00:22:14.060 I think it makes total sense that they are.
00:22:16.440 This, uh, this was announced first by Milwaukee police chief Alfonso Morales, uh, or rather
00:22:23.340 Alfonso Morales was the one who was ordered last month to change the department's policies
00:22:27.800 to basically not let them do their jobs.
00:22:30.080 And so then all in conjunction, it's been announced by these 100 law enforcement agencies.
00:22:35.700 Absolutely makes sense.
00:22:37.780 And lest you think, lest you think that, you know, Republicans are trying to undermine the
00:22:44.720 rule of law here.
00:22:45.600 I don't think you would ever fall into that trap, but the mainstream media are trying to
00:22:49.260 push that idea on you.
00:22:51.080 We've got a story that I think the mainstream media are not reporting on every time a right
00:22:56.560 winger so much as flicks the shoulder of a left winger.
00:23:02.040 So every time a right winger, you know, walks up and kind of smacks a guy in the face or
00:23:06.340 something, that's a national news story.
00:23:09.420 How about when left wingers drive their automobiles through a crowd of conservatives?
00:23:15.340 Does that make the news?
00:23:16.820 Hear about that story?
00:23:17.900 Probably you didn't.
00:23:18.660 We'll get to that in one second.
00:23:19.520 Then we will get to the broader issue here of not, not just silencing the attorney general
00:23:26.380 at a hearing, but silencing very important, relevant information during a pandemic to serve
00:23:31.960 political purposes.
00:23:32.960 That's not even being carried out by the politicians.
00:23:34.960 That's being carried out by our true overlords over in big tech.
00:23:38.980 We'll get to all of that.
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00:25:03.920 On July 25th, not that long ago, at approximately 3.38 PM in Eaton, Colorado, the Eaton PD responded
00:25:14.480 to a report of a man traveling in a maroon SUV trying to drive through and over a crowd
00:25:22.080 of pedestrians.
00:25:23.760 Those pedestrians, so usually when you hear that headline, you find, oh, it's going to be
00:25:27.400 a right winger, probably a white supremacist driving through liberals and then you find
00:25:32.620 out the driver is not a conservative or a white guy or whatever and then the narrative
00:25:37.040 kind of goes away.
00:25:38.460 Well, in this case, they weren't driving into, we know the, we know the identity of the crowd
00:25:43.540 he was driving into.
00:25:44.280 They were driving into a Blue Lives Matter conservative crowd and fortunately, liberals
00:25:51.520 don't know how to drive very well.
00:25:53.440 So as far as I can tell, nobody was injured.
00:25:57.020 That may have changed, but fortunately, the motor skills of left-wingers, not great.
00:26:02.880 So that's one thing we can hang our hats on.
00:26:05.860 Still, this guy should absolutely be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
00:26:10.800 This is the, this is an event run by the Northern Colorado Young Republicans.
00:26:16.160 These are acts of explicit political violence by the left.
00:26:21.520 We've seen a lot of these acts in recent years, going back to the congressional baseball game.
00:26:25.800 Remember when that Bernie bro tried to shoot up and murder many congressmen at that congressional
00:26:30.920 baseball game?
00:26:32.260 You see this time and time again for explicitly political reasons.
00:26:36.820 I asked yesterday on the show, is this just the new normal?
00:26:40.940 You know, we talk about the new normal with COVID, like you got to wear the stupid masks and
00:26:44.040 you got whatever.
00:26:46.000 I don't think that's the, I think the new normal might be political violence.
00:26:49.260 There is a normalization going on of political violence and it's political violence specifically
00:26:54.980 when you contradict the left.
00:26:58.480 It's, and it's, I mean, in this case, it's real violent.
00:27:00.640 You're driving a car into a crowd or the congressional baseball game.
00:27:03.700 You're shooting people, but there's a subtler form of violence, which is you just destroy somebody's
00:27:08.260 life if they contradict the left.
00:27:10.940 You, you ostracize them from society.
00:27:15.640 That is being undertaken right now by the left, but it's not the politicians.
00:27:19.260 It's big tech right now.
00:27:20.820 Big tech is now engaging in the spookiest kind of election interference that we have seen
00:27:26.960 in a very long time, maybe ever.
00:27:29.840 And we also have video just recently uncovered from some of the top people at Google explaining
00:27:37.400 four years ago, exactly what they were going to do.
00:27:40.780 Now we're seeing that project come to fruition.
00:27:43.080 They don't want you to see that either.
00:27:44.500 They're censoring a lot of videos on the internet.
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00:28:40.200 So you saw yesterday, maybe you listened, we played this video of these doctors in white
00:28:58.720 lab coats down there in Washington, giving a press conference about how hydroxychloroquine
00:29:04.020 is effective at treating the coronavirus, which we've known for a very long time.
00:29:08.640 There's been tons of evidence about this, and we've had that drug hydroxychloroquine
00:29:12.080 for years and years and years now.
00:29:14.520 Then there was a study that went up that said that hydroxychloroquine is really bad for you.
00:29:18.680 That study was retracted.
00:29:20.420 It was total BS.
00:29:22.440 Now more evidence.
00:29:23.460 We had a Yale epidemiologist come out just last week in Newsweek, say hydroxychloroquine works
00:29:28.520 very well.
00:29:29.040 You can use it to treat coronavirus.
00:29:31.460 Left doesn't want that information getting out.
00:29:33.380 Because they've already, they've already sunk so much into this.
00:29:37.880 They've even beyond the kind of conspiracy theory perspective, just, just think about
00:29:43.200 from a very practical political perspective, the left has put all their chips on coronavirus.
00:29:47.520 COVID is the campaign at this point, especially with the second lockdown.
00:29:51.140 They can't let that get up.
00:29:52.560 Even if they did find some medicine, even if hydroxychloroquine is very effective, they
00:29:55.920 can't let that up.
00:29:57.180 Businesses have already planned out their next year based on coronavirus.
00:30:00.940 They're not going to let that up.
00:30:03.020 It's, it's frankly, even the mask issue.
00:30:04.840 Remember I said early on correctly that the masks are a political symbol more than practical
00:30:10.440 medical advice.
00:30:12.380 So that remains true.
00:30:14.000 You can see this in all the disclaimers that, that the people selling the masks have to put
00:30:18.100 on, namely that the masks don't do anything to prevent the transmission of viruses.
00:30:21.960 But I said they're very effective at the, at, as a political symbol.
00:30:26.180 Some people argued for the masks because they said, well, the masks will allow us to reopen.
00:30:30.180 Do you see anything reopening?
00:30:31.880 The more masks we put on, do you think we're opening up more?
00:30:34.340 No, we're shutting down more.
00:30:36.160 And I understand why some people would have mistakenly believed that if you wear the masks,
00:30:41.460 the left will allow the government to open and the country to reopen, but it won't.
00:30:45.540 It's actually the opposite.
00:30:46.660 The reason is that the mask is a reinforcing symbol that we have to remain locked down.
00:30:51.760 It operates on the same principle as a campaign merchandise.
00:30:56.100 When you buy merchandise, like a t-shirt or a hat or something from a political campaign
00:31:00.360 that you support, a lot of people think you do that to donate money to the campaign.
00:31:05.480 Now, it's not about the money.
00:31:06.360 The campaigns don't make very much money at all.
00:31:08.480 Sometimes they lose money on the merchandise.
00:31:10.120 The reason they sell you the merchandise is to tie you to the campaign.
00:31:14.080 Because when you put on the t-shirt of the candidate, you've now taken on support for
00:31:18.820 that candidate as part of your identity.
00:31:20.720 Your behavior has now shifted something in your mind to say that you will be more supportive
00:31:26.440 of that candidate.
00:31:27.680 It's the same thing with the masks.
00:31:29.680 This is why even some conservatives who put on the mask, there is like no evidence that
00:31:33.840 the masks do anything.
00:31:36.040 The masks stop a little bit of spittle from getting out.
00:31:38.700 But unless you're talking like Kenneth Branagh playing Hamlet, you don't need to worry about
00:31:42.600 the spittle.
00:31:44.340 The reason that even some conservatives who put the mask on are now much more supportive
00:31:49.120 of the masks than lockdowns is because it's reinforcing.
00:31:52.380 If you wear the mask, which is such an odd kind of piece of clothing, right?
00:31:57.560 It's an odd accessory.
00:31:58.320 It's an odd symbol.
00:31:59.540 Then you have told yourself that this is very real.
00:32:02.720 And the more you wear it, the more you're going to believe that.
00:32:05.140 The more deeply you're going to be bought into that.
00:32:07.820 And so it comes as no surprise that big tech took down that video of a lot of doctors who
00:32:15.360 are echoing very mainstream medical advice of some of the most respected people in the
00:32:19.800 field saying hydroxychloroquine obviously works.
00:32:23.500 They had to take it down.
00:32:25.200 So they took it down on Facebook.
00:32:26.720 They took it down on Twitter.
00:32:27.860 We had to take down part of our show yesterday because I played that video and they would not
00:32:35.160 allow that up.
00:32:35.760 They are threatening to boot you off of social media if you permit these doctors to speak.
00:32:41.140 Remember, we're supposed to listen to the science.
00:32:42.540 Well, only some scientists, as I told you months ago, has nothing to do with the science,
00:32:49.280 has everything to do with politics.
00:32:52.680 It's not just that.
00:32:54.100 That's not the extent of the social media censorship of scientific voices going on or any other kind
00:33:01.320 of voices.
00:33:03.460 Breitbart just put this video out.
00:33:05.700 It's Breitbart exclusive.
00:33:06.860 Days after the 2016 election, you had a very high-ranking fellow over at Google, Google VP
00:33:14.640 for Global Affairs, Kent Walker, come out, address the first all-hands meeting after the
00:33:19.500 2016 election.
00:33:21.140 It featured, obviously, himself.
00:33:23.840 It featured the CEO of Google, Sandar Pichai.
00:33:26.480 It featured the co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page and other Google executives.
00:33:31.540 In this meeting, we'll just play a few clips of it.
00:33:34.860 You can go to Breitbart, watch the whole thing.
00:33:37.920 The VP here for Global Affairs discussed his dismay.
00:33:42.540 He discussed his disgust, frankly, at the 2016 election and specifically laid out in broad
00:33:49.400 terms a plan to combat it in 2020.
00:33:53.540 It was a shock to all of us, the results of the election.
00:33:59.020 This is not the first sign we've seen of this rising tide of nationalism, populism, and concern.
00:34:06.460 While it may be that the Internet and globalization were part of the cause of this problem, we are
00:34:11.400 also fundamentally an essential part of the solution to this problem.
00:34:15.280 And it's important to recognize that while the Republicans and the Trump administration,
00:34:19.580 this Trump administration, they have a majority in the Senate, a majority in the House, they
00:34:22.600 don't have a supermajority in the Senate.
00:34:25.000 The arc goes like this exponentially in terms of standards of living around the world.
00:34:29.960 Yes, it's not completely smooth.
00:34:31.560 It goes up and down.
00:34:32.600 And I think history teaches us that there are periods of populism, of nationalism that rise
00:34:39.120 up.
00:34:39.560 And that's all the reason we need to be in the arena.
00:34:42.500 That's why we have to work so hard to make sure it doesn't turn into a world war or something
00:34:46.760 catastrophic, but instead is a blip, is a hiccup.
00:34:49.760 It's a blip.
00:34:50.420 It's a hiccup.
00:34:51.000 We've got to stop this nationalism.
00:34:52.840 Nationalism is a really bad thing.
00:34:54.240 We need globalism.
00:34:55.820 And that's what we here at Google exist to do, is to undermine the results of the 2016
00:35:00.600 election, undermine the decision of the American people, undermine national sovereignty.
00:35:08.700 No surprise there either.
00:35:10.940 Google is a globalized company, citizens of the world.
00:35:14.240 I don't know that Google has any particular loyalty to the United States.
00:35:19.460 They certainly don't have any particular loyalty to the American people.
00:35:23.520 And they're trying.
00:35:25.040 Google, frankly, on this scientist video, they're the least offenders compared to Facebook and
00:35:33.480 Twitter.
00:35:33.820 But they don't want that information getting out there.
00:35:36.740 And Twitter is rigging Twitter and Facebook and Google.
00:35:39.980 They're all rigging the election as part of the same Breitbart exclusive.
00:35:44.820 They point out that Google has been purging Breitbart content from search results since the 2016
00:35:50.220 election.
00:35:51.200 They find that Breitbart's search visibility is down 99.7% since 2016.
00:35:59.900 That's the survival rate of coronavirus, by the way, at least.
00:36:03.080 Well, that's how much Breitbart has been suppressed since 2016.
00:36:08.580 Google killed basically all search traffic to Breitbart for Joe Biden and Joe Biden-related
00:36:15.540 searches.
00:36:16.040 They are trying, as they told us they would do four years ago, they are trying to shift the
00:36:20.060 election back to the globalist candidate, the candidate who cheered the rise of China very
00:36:24.540 recently.
00:36:25.500 Joe Biden said, it's a wonderful thing that China's gotten more powerful.
00:36:28.500 We're living through the consequences of that right now.
00:36:30.700 Some people haven't learned the lesson, specifically in big tech.
00:36:34.180 We just have to listen to the experts.
00:36:36.360 Well, not the conservative experts, but only the experts who go along with the left.
00:36:43.400 And if you contradict them, by the way, they'll say, well, what's your credential?
00:36:47.600 Are you an expert?
00:36:48.260 Do you have a PhD?
00:36:49.100 Do you have an MD?
00:36:50.640 Where's your credential?
00:36:51.580 Bill Barr, going back to Bill Barr, Bill Barr in that hearing yesterday had such a wonderful
00:36:56.940 rejoinder.
00:36:57.660 We should memorize it.
00:36:58.680 We should remember to say it.
00:37:00.200 A Democratic representative, Mary Gay Scanlon, asked Bill Barr about his expertise.
00:37:05.880 If he had a scientific study to cite, Bill Barr said he had something much more important.
00:37:10.960 Last month, you echoed the president's conspiracy theory when you suggested in at least three
00:37:17.220 interviews that, quote, foreign countries could manufacture counterfeit ballots, end quote,
00:37:22.240 to influence the presidential election.
00:37:24.100 Correct?
00:37:24.320 You did that in at least three interviews?
00:37:26.340 Yes.
00:37:26.640 But in fact, you have no evidence that foreign countries can successfully swear elections with
00:37:32.420 counterfeit ballots, do you?
00:37:33.600 No, I don't.
00:37:36.160 But I have common sense.
00:37:37.420 Okay, well, and that's what you responded when you were directly challenged on that.
00:37:41.740 Yes, that is what he responded.
00:37:43.820 Maybe you should have listened to that, representative.
00:37:45.840 He does have common sense, something sorely lacking on Capitol Hill and among the liberal
00:37:50.280 establishment generally.
00:37:51.420 They don't have common sense because they're disconnected from reality.
00:37:54.900 They have their ideology.
00:37:55.960 They have their fantasies that they write down in manifestos that in no way describe the real
00:38:00.720 world.
00:38:01.100 They've got that.
00:38:02.980 And that's the precise reason that they don't have common sense.
00:38:06.440 And it's why people who don't have fancy degrees and PhDs and all sorts of credentials,
00:38:11.960 that's why they do have common sense.
00:38:14.480 And it's why those people tend to be more correct in the long run than those ideologues.
00:38:19.680 It reminds me of Bill Buckley's old advice.
00:38:21.340 He said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the phone book than by
00:38:25.760 the faculty of Harvard College.
00:38:28.260 Remember that?
00:38:29.300 That's the idea that we have here.
00:38:30.940 That's the idea of giving sovereignty to we, the people in the United States, something
00:38:35.240 the left is now explicitly denouncing.
00:38:39.040 This is a scandal.
00:38:41.160 What's going on in big tech is a scandal.
00:38:43.500 That hearing on Capitol Hill was a scandal.
00:38:45.680 What they tried to do in 2016 to rig the election was a scandal.
00:38:48.700 Remember when Obama weaponized his, his agencies of government to illegally spy on the Trump
00:38:56.080 campaign?
00:38:56.560 We've got, we've got reams and reams of evidence about this.
00:38:59.740 The left barely denies it anymore.
00:39:01.900 What they do is the same thing they do every time.
00:39:04.540 They say, oh, that's old news.
00:39:06.340 Oh, that, that one's that.
00:39:07.520 Forget about that.
00:39:08.040 That was a long time ago.
00:39:08.840 Stop talking about that.
00:39:09.860 And then they put it down the memory hole because they control the flow of information.
00:39:13.760 Valerie Jarrett, top, top, tippy top advisor to Barack Obama, went on Maria Bartiromo's
00:39:19.200 show yesterday and gave the standard leftist line.
00:39:23.920 Maria, look, I have very, a high degree of confidence that our intelligence community,
00:39:29.240 our investigators, comported themselves responsibly.
00:39:33.060 Look, Lindsey Graham is the one that encouraged Senator McCain to turn over the dossier in the
00:39:37.900 first place to the FBI.
00:39:39.160 And so I can't tell you all of the reasons why Comey went forward with his investigation.
00:39:44.300 Maybe this was one piece of a bigger puzzle.
00:39:46.840 But I do know that it's nearly four years ago.
00:39:49.760 And I don't understand why our focus isn't on what's happening right now.
00:39:54.080 And today, that's the investigation I'd like to see going on.
00:39:58.160 Oh, this was four years ago.
00:39:59.860 It's old news.
00:40:00.400 The Clintons are, I'm so excited.
00:40:02.680 My voice is like jumping up and down.
00:40:04.460 The Clintons are most famous for using the strategy.
00:40:07.120 They did it all throughout the 90s.
00:40:09.420 They'd say, you know, I did not have sex with that woman.
00:40:12.020 I didn't do it.
00:40:13.040 And then you find out a year later he did do it.
00:40:15.760 And he goes, well, look, that's old news now.
00:40:17.600 Why are we talking about?
00:40:18.500 It was a long time ago.
00:40:20.340 Oh, come on now.
00:40:22.140 Let's move on.
00:40:22.700 Got to get on with the business of the country.
00:40:24.800 And so the Clintons perfect this and the left continues to use it more than 20 years later.
00:40:30.220 That's old news.
00:40:31.120 Well, yeah, we just found out about it though.
00:40:32.980 We now have proof.
00:40:34.140 There's a criminal investigation going on led by John Durham.
00:40:36.760 What do you mean we got to stop talking about this?
00:40:38.580 We're in the midst of a presidential election and you people are trying to do it again, albeit
00:40:42.340 through other means.
00:40:45.440 That's what's going on.
00:40:46.300 You feel like you're, you feel like you're Bill Barr.
00:40:48.440 You feel like you're living in this clown world.
00:40:51.240 Looking around, you're saying, are you Eric Swovel?
00:40:53.660 Are you, are you a real person?
00:40:55.520 Valerie Jarrett?
00:40:56.180 Are you seriously saying this with your Google?
00:40:58.600 Are you really, are you really saying these things?
00:41:00.400 That is the effect of ideology.
00:41:02.660 That's the effect of mass hysteria.
00:41:05.160 Do you really think a virus with at least a 99.7% survival rate is worth not leaving your home
00:41:13.400 for five months?
00:41:17.560 Do you, and do you really think, by the way, if we have a treatment that is effective at
00:41:20.740 treating it, that we should suppress that information?
00:41:22.920 What kind of bizarro, delusional fantasy world do you have to live in to believe that?
00:41:29.560 You have to live in the bizarro, delusional fantasy world of the left.
00:41:32.880 Greatest example of this, the teachers unions, the teachers union.
00:41:37.420 You thought that the black and white selfie thing on Instagram was ridiculous?
00:41:41.600 At least that one's kind of funny.
00:41:42.700 At least we all get a kick out of this.
00:41:45.160 The teachers unions, it's just sad.
00:41:47.000 Teachers unions in D.C. right now, they are lining up body bags outside of school system
00:41:55.720 offices to protest having to come do their jobs.
00:42:00.520 Because they're saying if we, if teachers have to show up and teach students, then they're
00:42:05.560 all going to die.
00:42:06.360 It's going to be a slaughter of teachers.
00:42:07.720 By the way, there are studies out of Sweden and Finland right now where schools have been
00:42:11.620 opened over whether the virus is even being transmitted in the schools.
00:42:15.980 No evidence that it is.
00:42:17.360 No evidence.
00:42:17.840 Zero.
00:42:18.380 Bupkis.
00:42:18.860 Nothing.
00:42:19.980 But these hysterical, frivolous, ridiculous teachers in D.C. are pretending that it is.
00:42:27.660 The teachers are saying, no, we can't, we're, we can't go in.
00:42:31.080 We're the heroes.
00:42:31.880 You can't make us come in and do our jobs.
00:42:34.240 That's how powerful, you know, teachers unions have been powerful for a very long time.
00:42:37.880 Now we're seeing them flex that muscle.
00:42:39.160 One thing I, I also want to point out to you, this is the exact same narrative from the first
00:42:45.100 wave of the virus, except for the first wave of the virus, it was the nurses that were the
00:42:50.340 heroes, the martyrs, the most wonderful, they shouldn't be expected to do their jobs.
00:42:54.040 You got to stay home for the nurses.
00:42:55.960 And then the nurses started sending out pictures and videos about how the hospitals were largely
00:43:01.540 empty and we never got close to overwhelming capacity.
00:43:03.780 And then some nurses started posting TikTok videos of them dancing in the empty hallways.
00:43:07.600 And we thought, okay, well, yikes.
00:43:09.380 Okay.
00:43:09.620 The left can't use those nurses anymore as the emblem of why you need to stay home and
00:43:13.960 imprison yourself in your house.
00:43:15.400 So then it shifted to the teachers, but it's the same narrative.
00:43:19.220 There's no, it's the same idolization of these people.
00:43:22.600 It's the same.
00:43:23.620 No one has ever sacrificed more than these people sacrifice.
00:43:28.180 Mark my words in two weeks, we're going to get some teacher TikTok videos and then we're
00:43:32.520 going to have to move on to another victim group.
00:43:35.240 Preposterous.
00:43:35.600 Do you know how preposterous it is?
00:43:38.060 The schools are not reopening in a great many places.
00:43:42.200 So the kids are not allowed to go to school, but they are allowed to go to the school building
00:43:49.600 for daycare up to eighth grade, by the way.
00:43:54.440 So in Austin, Texas, the Austin, Texas independent school district has declared all instruction
00:44:02.660 will be virtual from August 18th to September 7th, at least.
00:44:06.100 So the YMCA of Austin has extended its summertime essential programming to children, some children who are teenagers,
00:44:19.560 so that they can go to daycare and do their schoolwork, their virtual schoolwork online.
00:44:25.240 Do you know where the YMCA of Austin is doing this sort of thing?
00:44:28.120 In the school building.
00:44:30.340 So the kids are going to the school building, but they are not allowed to be in school, but they are doing their schoolwork in the school building.
00:44:45.140 It's always sunny in Washington, D.C.
00:44:49.560 It's always sunny in the USA.
00:44:52.120 That's the world we're living in, folks.
00:44:54.280 Upside down, bizarro world.
00:44:55.700 Are we going to tolerate it?
00:44:56.920 Are we going to try to restore some sense of order?
00:44:58.920 It's all about November.
00:45:00.420 Let's see who comes out ahead.
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