The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 603 - Democrats Burn Another City

00:00:00.000 Another day and Democrats are burning down another city, this time Kenosha, Wisconsin.

00:00:05.860 And the violence has become so radical that cops are now being knocked unconscious,

00:00:11.100 being left in the ground after being hit with bricks.

00:00:14.680 Used car dealerships are being burned to the ground

00:00:17.580 because used cars apparently are tools of white supremacy or something like that.

00:00:22.080 And stores are being smashed and smashed and looted and vandalized,

00:00:27.260 all in the name of social justice.

00:00:30.340 But this is not about white supremacy or police brutality.

00:00:34.720 What this is really about is Democrats burning down another city to try to win an election.

00:00:41.380 We'll go all the way down.

00:00:42.900 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:52.200 Welcome back to the show.

00:00:53.420 My favorite comment from yesterday comes from Kai Jukebox, who said,

00:00:57.960 Michael, I'm 17 and I'm taking sociology at the local community college this semester.

00:01:02.680 We're already talking about Marx.

00:01:05.180 The show has helped me stay sane in this indoctrination station the past three semesters.

00:01:10.980 Thank you.

00:01:11.420 I'm more than happy.

00:01:13.120 I'm so glad to be a counterbalance to your sociology professor.

00:01:17.380 Sociology, of course, one of the most left-wing fields.

00:01:20.280 It's hard to even call it an academic discipline, but it goes very far left.

00:01:23.200 The problem, by the way, is not reading Marx.

00:01:25.060 The problem is that, presumably, you're not being taught to understand Marx.

00:01:29.060 You should read Marx, because Marx is a very important thinker in the history of Western thought.

00:01:33.580 But you've got to make sure that you understand Marx.

00:01:35.380 A great book to help you understand Marx, by the way, is one that I just wrote the foreword to.

00:01:39.440 It just came out a couple weeks ago, called The Devil and Karl Marx by Paul Kenger.

00:01:43.960 Check that one out.

00:01:44.760 Actually, if you read that book, I think you'll be able to look around America today

00:01:49.860 and start to make sense of everything that's happening as another city goes up in flames,

00:01:54.500 which we will get to.

00:01:55.940 This is all based on another officer-involved shooting.

00:01:59.540 The story that you're being presented by the mainstream media is very, very, very different

00:02:05.280 from the reality of what actually happened.

00:02:07.440 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:03:26.380 Democrats are burning down another city.

00:03:28.500 I think today, if I didn't want to write another show today, sometimes writing the show takes

00:03:33.660 a little bit of time.

00:03:34.440 I could have just gone back to a show from a couple of weeks ago and switched the names

00:03:37.900 of the cities.

00:03:38.900 What was the last city they were burning down?

00:03:40.240 I don't know, Atlanta or whatever?

00:03:41.600 Burning down, it seems like a different city every week.

00:03:43.800 I could have dubbed in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the same exact script.

00:03:49.220 It would have remained exactly the same.

00:03:50.820 What happened?

00:03:52.060 A man named Jacob Blake in Kenosha was filmed walking away from the cops with guns.

00:04:00.000 Maybe you've seen the clip.

00:04:01.360 The cops have got their guns trained on.

00:04:03.500 The guy's walking away, opens his car door, reaches into his car as the cops are telling

00:04:08.120 him not to.

00:04:08.580 And then the cops fire on the guy as he's reaching into his car.

00:04:13.880 Raises some questions.

00:04:15.820 If you are, for whatever reason, under arrest and you're resisting arrest, that is going

00:04:23.040 to make this a very provocative and dangerous situation.

00:04:26.100 And in virtually, maybe every single one of these officer-involved killing cases, you've

00:04:30.620 got the perpetrator resisting arrest, which automatically makes things more dangerous.

00:04:35.480 But then, imagine, you've got multiple guns trained on you.

00:04:38.320 The cop's saying, stop, stop, don't go to her.

00:04:40.000 And you're walking around cool as a cucumber?

00:04:42.800 Like, you're just going to walk to that car?

00:04:44.340 And by the way, this guy's children were in the car, so you're making this very dangerous

00:04:48.380 situation for your children.

00:04:49.680 And then he reaches into the car.

00:04:51.080 What's he reaching in to get?

00:04:52.740 We don't know.

00:04:54.400 Problem is, the cops didn't know either.

00:04:56.640 Is he reaching in to grab a gun?

00:04:58.840 I don't know.

00:04:59.540 It seems like a very plausible situation.

00:05:01.440 And so the cops, at the very last moment, fire their weapons.

00:05:05.400 Because what are they supposed to do?

00:05:06.420 If you're a cop and you've got this guy resisting arrest, walks in, reaches into his car, are

00:05:12.480 you supposed to wait for him to grab a gun and turn around and point it at you and fire

00:05:15.540 it off a few times before you use force?

00:05:18.500 Probably not.

00:05:19.760 What are you going to do?

00:05:20.340 Are you going to shoot him in the ankle and say, okay, well, I've wounded you now.

00:05:23.640 You've learned your lesson.

00:05:24.720 No, that's not how it works.

00:05:26.580 If you're at the point where you've got to discharge your weapon, you're going to shoot

00:05:30.260 to kill.

00:05:30.980 By the way, I don't think this guy is dead.

00:05:33.240 I think he's in a serious condition, but I don't think they ended up killing him.

00:05:38.140 So you've heard the clip.

00:05:40.340 You've seen the clip.

00:05:41.880 You've looked at what's happened.

00:05:43.020 What is the news saying about this?

00:05:45.720 I'm going to skim through this very quickly.

00:05:47.880 This is the Chicago Tribune.

00:05:49.660 And this coverage is typical of how the mainstream media are covering the story.

00:05:54.320 Jacob Blake, shot by police officer in Kenosha, part of the Evanston family long associated

00:06:01.060 with community activism.

00:06:03.420 Community activism.

00:06:04.300 What does that mean?

00:06:06.220 The story opens with 554 words about this guy.

00:06:12.420 I'll just give you some of the highlights.

00:06:14.180 Jacob Blake, who was shot by a police officer in Kenosha on Sunday, grew up in Evanston as

00:06:17.100 part of a family with deep ties to local community activism.

00:06:20.060 Then it describes the video, but it doesn't describe it too specifically.

00:06:23.720 It says there's unrest, you know, now that's going on.

00:06:27.600 Unrest is code word for people are burning down car dealerships and looting and throwing

00:06:32.340 bricks at cops' heads.

00:06:34.180 It describes the video a little bit more, but not too specifically.

00:06:38.320 As of Monday, Blake was in serious condition.

00:06:40.720 Blake's family's been active in and around Evanston for generations, said his uncle, Justin

00:06:45.920 Blake, while en route to the hospital where Jacob Blake is being treated.

00:06:49.400 He's a lively young man.

00:06:50.940 He's like his father, my brother, Justin Blake said.

00:06:53.360 So one thing you notice about the article, the only source they ever refer to is this

00:06:57.300 guy's uncle.

00:06:58.780 Justin Blake said that.

00:06:59.940 He's got a hell of a personality and he loves people.

00:07:03.280 He moved to the Kenosha Racine area a few years ago for a job and family, his uncle said.

00:07:07.780 It was a safer location.

00:07:09.700 He could work and try to save and build for a better life, Justin Blake said.

00:07:13.040 So how many times is he going to say, the uncle said this, the uncle said that?

00:07:15.500 Journalists used to go out and get multiple sources and try to construct the story themselves,

00:07:21.360 not allow people who are the object of the story and their relatives to write the story.

00:07:26.400 He loves sports, music, and architecture.

00:07:29.460 Played football and basketball at Evanston Township High School.

00:07:32.160 What does any of this have to do with the story?

00:07:35.020 But Jacob Blake didn't forget his roots and he returned often to volunteer with his uncle

00:07:38.880 at Black Urban Recycling in Chicago, an organization that collects aluminum cans from senior centers,

00:07:44.460 veterans groups, and elsewhere to recycle them and raise money for a community center in

00:07:48.820 the Inglewood neighborhood, Justin Blake said.

00:07:51.140 Man, this guy sounds like the greatest guy on earth, right?

00:07:54.380 Why on earth would the cops shoot this guy?

00:07:56.280 Why were they even there?

00:07:57.840 Oh my God, this is a setup.

00:07:59.260 This is white supremacy.

00:08:00.200 This is police brutality.

00:08:01.740 It has to be, right?

00:08:02.700 That's the picture the mainstream media are painting.

00:08:05.040 The veterans love him when he comes around because he's always polite and perky, his uncle said.

00:08:10.300 Man, his uncle's sure got a lot to say.

00:08:12.260 Jacob Blake's grandfather, also named Jacob Blake, served as pastor of Ebenezer AME Church

00:08:16.700 in Evanston and was a local leader in the civil rights movement, according to Chicago Tribune

00:08:20.540 archives.

00:08:21.380 After the death of Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Jacob Blake helped organize and spoke

00:08:26.060 to a crowd of 3,000 Evanston residents who marched in support of a local,

00:08:29.660 comprehensive housing law.

00:08:30.920 Man, this guy's like Martin Luther King Jr., for goodness sakes.

00:08:34.940 Can you believe these white supremacist, racist cops did this with no reason, no provocation

00:08:39.780 whatsoever?

00:08:40.340 It goes on for like another 150 or 200 words.

00:08:45.460 Talks about these various buildings that were trying to get people out of the slums.

00:08:51.000 All this wonderful work that this man's family's done.

00:08:56.080 542 words later.

00:08:58.620 Court records show Blake has a pending criminal case that started last month.

00:09:03.220 Online court records indicate Kenosha County prosecutors charged Blake on July 6th with third

00:09:08.380 degree sexual assault, trespassing, and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse.

00:09:15.160 An arrest warrant was issued for Blake the next day.

00:09:19.740 Huh.

00:09:20.880 Oh.

00:09:22.120 So it doesn't sound like all that stuff that the uncle said and how he's wonderful and how

00:09:26.940 he's always helping old ladies cross the street and how he's picking up trash and

00:09:30.140 litter and aluminum cans.

00:09:32.460 Maybe that's not the story.

00:09:34.940 Maybe the story is there's a warrant out for his arrest because of sexual assault,

00:09:40.260 assault, trespassing, and domestic abuse.

00:09:43.480 And it's not that the media completely ignore it.

00:09:47.380 It's not that the media completely lie about it.

00:09:49.500 It's that they bury the actual, the only actual news, the only relevant information in that

00:09:54.720 story, they bury it almost 550 words into the story.

00:09:59.620 Most articles on the internet, by the way, are fewer than 550 words.

00:10:02.660 So you'd read a whole story's worth before you'd get to any relevant information.

00:10:07.320 There it is.

00:10:07.620 You probably haven't heard that information.

00:10:09.200 If you're watching the mainstream media to hear about this case.

00:10:13.100 So what are the Democrats saying?

00:10:15.740 Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, some of the local, the local elected Democrats.

00:10:20.600 We'll get into that because they're certainly not focusing on the relevant aspects of that

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00:11:54.960 How do you think the Democrats, the elected Democrats, are covering this shooting?

00:11:59.900 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in a joint statement.

00:12:02.640 Yesterday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back as police attempted

00:12:06.940 to restrain him from getting into his car.

00:12:08.480 His children watched from inside the car, and bystanders watched in disbelief.

00:12:12.920 His children that he walked toward while he was resisting arrest, while he was reaching

00:12:16.680 into his car.

00:12:18.000 And this morning, the nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another black 1.00

00:12:22.680 American is a victim of excessive force.

00:12:24.460 So they're already saying right now this is excessive force, right?

00:12:28.540 Special investigators, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they've already concluded that.

00:12:32.600 Forget any other investigations.

00:12:34.180 This calls for an immediate, full, and transparent investigation.

00:12:36.680 The officers must be held accountable.

00:12:38.560 These shots pierce the soul of our nation.

00:12:42.620 Yet another black American. 1.00

00:12:44.720 We went through the numbers.

00:12:46.920 How many black Americans were killed unarmed last year by the police?

00:12:51.480 The early number that came out that we were looking at was nine.

00:12:54.600 The highest number we've seen is 15.

00:12:57.200 Not 9,000.

00:12:58.480 Not 15,000.

00:13:00.260 Between nine and 15.

00:13:01.780 And by the way, unarmed does not mean not dangerous.

00:13:04.820 It does not mean that the shooting was not justified.

00:13:08.420 We're talking about a very, very small number of people in all of the civilian police encounters

00:13:14.360 throughout the year.

00:13:15.300 This is not a systemic problem.

00:13:17.760 This is not endemic at all.

00:13:19.420 This is completely, as a national political issue, contrived by cynical Democrats who want

00:13:25.180 to gin up racial division and burn down American cities.

00:13:27.720 They say, equal justice has not been real for black Americans and for so many others.

00:13:32.940 We're at an inflection point.

00:13:34.040 We must dismantle systemic racism.

00:13:36.440 It is an urgent task before us.

00:13:37.980 We must fight to honor the ideals laid in the original American promise, which we are yet

00:13:41.140 to attain, that all men and women are created equal, but more importantly, that they must

00:13:45.020 be treated equally.

00:13:46.800 This is a complete, a complete misunderstanding of the American founding.

00:13:51.420 First of all, they say we have to dismantle systemic racism.

00:13:55.420 Who controls the system?

00:13:56.720 Who controls the administrative government, the mainstream media, higher education, lower

00:14:00.660 education, Hollywood?

00:14:01.460 Who controls all of it?

00:14:02.480 Who controls every single institution in America?

00:14:05.760 Democrats.

00:14:06.960 And yet, we're supposed to trust them to dismantle the system that they preside over.

00:14:13.060 And what does it mean, the equality principle?

00:14:14.740 All men are created equal.

00:14:16.080 We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

00:14:20.040 You know, you know the thing, that equality principle.

00:14:23.040 What does that mean?

00:14:23.760 A lot of people don't understand it.

00:14:25.760 Some people deny that it's a self-evident truth.

00:14:28.500 Some people say it hasn't been attained yet.

00:14:31.500 Actually, the equality principle is self-evident in a very technical, logical way.

00:14:37.780 John Adams explains this very well.

00:14:39.900 It is a self-evident truth that all men are created equal because all men are equally men.

00:14:45.120 A self-evident truth here is something which contains the evidence for its truth in itself.

00:14:52.320 And the statement that all men are created equal is self-evidently true because we know, 0.55

00:14:57.200 looking around, that all men are equally men.

00:14:59.440 So that has been realized.

00:15:01.600 That's very clearly been realized.

00:15:03.900 But now, all people have to be treated exactly equally?

00:15:06.800 Well, what does that mean?

00:15:07.860 Should you be treated equally under the law on the basis of race?

00:15:11.060 Yes, and you are, by the way.

00:15:13.260 You are, actually, except for the one aspect of legal racial discrimination that we have,

00:15:17.520 which is called affirmative action, which disadvantages white and Asian applicants to colleges,

00:15:22.060 and it gives benefit to Hispanic and black applicants to colleges,

00:15:25.080 which the DOJ Office of Civil Rights right now is looking into.

00:15:28.160 Kind of a side point, and certainly not the narrative that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are trying to say.

00:15:32.800 They're trying to push.

00:15:35.160 What does this mean in this case?

00:15:38.940 What does this case tell us about the state of racial relations and equality under the law?

00:15:45.240 Nothing.

00:15:46.320 Nothing.

00:15:46.720 We don't know anything about this case.

00:15:48.560 What we do know, namely that this guy was resisting arrest,

00:15:51.520 he was only shot at the very last minute when he was reaching into his car,

00:15:54.420 that his kids happened to be in, by the way,

00:15:56.060 and that there was a warrant out for his arrest on sexual assault and domestic violence,

00:16:02.680 the more evidence we see, the more evidence that this arrest was justified.

00:16:07.000 There's no evidence that I've seen whatsoever that this is police brutality,

00:16:12.480 white supremacy, any of that nonsense.

00:16:15.160 So, are Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lying?

00:16:19.200 Are they just misguided here?

00:16:21.200 Or are they the third option, which is what I think is true? 0.98

00:16:24.140 Are they totally cynical?

00:16:26.400 Do they not care whether this narrative is true or false?

00:16:30.140 Do they just push it because it's a very effective story in their playbook?

00:16:34.200 This is obviously the latter.

00:16:37.200 This is what they do.

00:16:39.020 This is what they do before elections,

00:16:41.900 is they gin up completely contrived racial injustice controversies,

00:16:48.940 and then they burn down cities.

00:16:51.480 And they burn down cities because they think that this is going to help them in November.

00:16:56.780 They think that they can only win a tribal war.

00:17:00.680 They can't win on the field of ideas.

00:17:02.500 We talked about this a little bit yesterday.

00:17:03.780 They can't win by making logical arguments,

00:17:06.380 which is presupposed by free government.

00:17:08.540 Our constitutional system requires that we make persuasive logical arguments to one another.

00:17:13.180 They know they can't win that way.

00:17:14.620 They have no argument to make.

00:17:16.720 So, instead, they've got to burn down cities and get things so scary and so tribal 0.99

00:17:20.540 that the people that they believe on the basis of their tribe are going to vote for them

00:17:23.860 are going to be encouraged to vote for them.

00:17:25.920 Sean King, activist with the BLM movement,

00:17:29.340 tweets out that he's not going to call for peace.

00:17:32.160 He says, I'm not going to call for peace.

00:17:34.300 Nah.

00:17:35.220 We've tried peace for years.

00:17:36.580 Y'all don't understand that language.

00:17:39.080 We are calling for a complete dismantling of American policing.

00:17:41.900 It's not broken.

00:17:43.140 It was built to work this way.

00:17:45.280 And mayhem is the consequence.

00:17:46.660 You earned it.

00:17:48.080 You earned it.

00:17:48.680 We're going to burn down your cities.

00:17:49.700 We're going to burn down and dismantle American policing.

00:17:53.120 What do they mean by policing?

00:17:55.820 Do they mean they're going to burn down one or two bad cops that you can maybe point to?

00:17:59.440 No.

00:18:00.320 They're going to burn down and they're going to dismantle policing in general.

00:18:03.480 But policing is a symbol.

00:18:05.620 The police are a symbol for the American system of law and order.

00:18:09.900 So, what he's really saying here is,

00:18:11.800 we are going to dismantle the American law.

00:18:14.700 We are going to dismantle the American legal tradition.

00:18:17.280 We are going to dismantle the criminal justice system.

00:18:20.420 And then what's going to happen?

00:18:21.320 Then we, the radical left, are going to control things.

00:18:25.760 That's what this is all about.

00:18:27.520 I think some squishy conservative types, they'll say,

00:18:30.740 okay, well look, I'll defend George Washington.

00:18:33.560 I'll defend Thomas Jefferson.

00:18:35.200 But I'm not going to defend the police.

00:18:36.720 Everybody hates the police.

00:18:39.120 It's the same thing.

00:18:40.480 Those are symbols for the same thing.

00:18:43.020 George Washington is a symbol.

00:18:44.320 Thomas Jefferson is a symbol.

00:18:45.480 Alexander Hamilton, James Madison.

00:18:47.080 They are symbols of our constitutional system,

00:18:49.200 of our legal framework, of our country.

00:18:52.060 You know what the police are?

00:18:53.020 They're symbols of the exact same thing.

00:18:56.200 That is what this is all about.

00:18:58.440 And we're going back to a position now

00:19:00.080 where university dorms are being racially segregated,

00:19:03.780 where people are only shopping at businesses

00:19:05.600 that share their racial tribal affiliations.

00:19:09.600 There's a woman who was very upset

00:19:11.820 because she went into a boba tea place. 0.93

00:19:13.800 Boba tea.

00:19:14.320 You know boba tea?

00:19:14.920 It's that tea that has those weird little balls in it

00:19:17.120 and you kind of, I don't know, it's kind of nice.

00:19:18.960 Anyway, it's an Asian beverage.

00:19:21.380 Woman walks into this store, which is run by Asians, 0.97

00:19:24.080 and she's very upset because the boba tea place

00:19:26.800 is not a black-owned business.

00:19:29.740 Take a listen.

00:19:30.180 This establishment is not black-owned,

00:19:34.420 but you're stealing black culture.

00:19:36.800 Is this not black culture? 0.99

00:19:38.380 Trap tea, the boba plug?

00:19:40.220 No, you're thieves.

00:19:41.800 Asian people stealing black culture once again. 1.00

00:19:46.100 Once again.

00:19:47.000 It's okay.

00:19:47.620 You'll be exposed, though.

00:19:48.880 You're not black-owned. 0.82

00:19:50.160 You're stealing black culture. 1.00

00:19:52.020 You're stealing black culture. 1.00

00:19:54.020 No, I came here because I thought it was black-owned.

00:19:56.700 That's why I came here because I'm supporting a black business.

00:20:00.880 This is not black-owned.

00:20:02.720 This is not black-owned.

00:20:04.720 Asians stealing black culture. 1.00

00:20:07.540 Once again, you're a coon. 1.00

00:20:09.800 Don't talk.

00:20:10.760 I'm a coon.

00:20:11.460 I came here because I didn't know I was black-owned.

00:20:15.200 You already spent money on them.

00:20:16.380 I already did.

00:20:16.760 I already did.

00:20:18.080 Because I'm tired of people.

00:20:19.420 Because you're a coon. 1.00

00:20:21.800 Okay, so it goes on from there.

00:20:23.840 I think you get the idea.

00:20:24.640 She's arguing at the end with this black guy who says, hey, lady, you're in an Asian 0.81

00:20:28.300 joint.

00:20:28.860 Why are you screaming about how it's not a black-owned business?

00:20:32.040 And then she calls him a racial slur because he doesn't have his tribal solidarity, which

00:20:36.420 the Democrats are trying to gin up because they think it's the only way they can win the

00:20:39.220 election.

00:20:39.720 I think I'm going to walk into General Tsao's Chinese chicken palace and demand that it 1.00

00:20:44.480 become a Sicilian-owned business.

00:20:47.060 Why is this Chinese joint not Sicilian-owned?

00:20:49.540 I only eat at Sicilian-owned businesses.

00:20:51.600 I probably wouldn't be able to eat at very many places if I only went to Sicilian-owned 1.00

00:20:55.020 businesses, right?

00:20:56.520 One of the nice things about America is we don't have to check someone's racial pedigree

00:21:00.120 before we go in and buy a sandwich or a cup of iced tea.

00:21:03.600 But that's the point that the left wants us to get to.

00:21:05.800 By the way, what does it mean to be a black-owned business?

00:21:07.640 Because it's not just this kooky lady who goes into the shop. 0.98

00:21:10.540 This is not some fringe thing.

00:21:12.400 Uber Eats was giving special privileges to black-owned businesses.

00:21:17.020 You didn't have to pay a delivery fee if you aided a black-owned business.

00:21:22.140 They were actually giving out privileges based on race.

00:21:25.200 Well, what if your business, say, gives equity to five people and someone who owns 1% of the

00:21:32.420 business is black and then the people who own the other 99% of the business are like the

00:21:38.280 whitest people in the world?

00:21:39.040 Is that a black-owned business?

00:21:40.060 A black guy owns part of it.

00:21:41.480 How are we going to do it?

00:21:42.020 What if it's a guy who's half black and half Jewish?

00:21:46.580 I don't know.

00:21:47.740 How is that going to work?

00:21:49.120 How are we going to plug that into the racial victimhood calculator and figure out exactly

00:21:54.420 how much of that business we should shop at?

00:21:57.620 It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

00:21:59.300 What it boils down to here, what this woman's argument is, is that it's cultural appropriation. 0.97

00:22:04.380 Now, I don't think that Bobati comes from Africa or from the American plantation before

00:22:10.560 the Civil War or something like that.

00:22:12.020 But she's calling it cultural appropriation.

00:22:16.060 Even if the point she were making, even if the premise that Bobati is somehow black,

00:22:21.020 even if that were true, cultural appropriation is a very good thing.

00:22:26.840 In fact, all culture has to be appropriated.

00:22:30.920 This is a big lie that the left doesn't seem, probably they don't understand it because they

00:22:34.820 don't know what culture is.

00:22:36.620 Culture relates to the word cultivation.

00:22:39.520 Relates to the word cult, for instance, right?

00:22:40.900 You cultivate something in yourself.

00:22:42.680 I was not born loving Beethoven, believe it or not.

00:22:46.380 Even though, you know, I don't think my mother ever played baby Beethoven for me.

00:22:49.700 Now, I think some like bourgeois white mothers do this in the cities. 1.00

00:22:53.500 They play Beethoven to their stomachs and they think their kids are going to become really

00:22:56.560 smart and sophisticated this way.

00:22:57.760 I did not have that.

00:22:58.540 I was not born listening to Beethoven.

00:23:01.020 But I like Beethoven very much.

00:23:02.260 Why?

00:23:02.340 Because I cultivated that taste.

00:23:04.400 I was not born smoking cigars.

00:23:06.600 I may as well have been because I started at an early age.

00:23:09.180 But I cultivated that taste.

00:23:11.220 I cultivated my appreciation of certain art.

00:23:13.200 Cultivated my appreciation of certain literature.

00:23:16.000 I was not born reading Italian.

00:23:18.340 Is that cultural appropriation?

00:23:19.420 I guess it is.

00:23:19.960 But it's great because now I get to read Dante.

00:23:21.780 All cultural is appropriated. 0.80

00:23:23.480 It's, by the way, the premise of immigration and assimilation in America.

00:23:27.440 We have the most open, we have a ridiculously open immigration system in America.

00:23:32.980 Which most people, by the way, want to dramatically curtail across racial groups.

00:23:36.300 But part of the reason we have any functioning immigration system at all is based on assimilation.

00:23:42.320 That you have to come in and appropriate the American culture.

00:23:45.480 And you have to give up some culture, too, when you do that.

00:23:49.100 What this woman is saying is, no, we're going to have a pedigree test. 0.99

00:23:51.780 We're going to check your blood, see exactly what percentage black you are.

00:23:55.100 Cultural appropriation is really good.

00:23:56.380 Who invented pasta?

00:23:58.040 Speaking of the Italians. 0.99

00:23:59.020 Was it the Italians? 1.00

00:23:59.600 We actually don't know.

00:24:00.280 Was it the Italians? 1.00

00:24:00.900 Was it the Chinese? 0.96

00:24:01.620 Was it somewhere in the middle?

00:24:02.380 We don't know.

00:24:03.240 We just like it.

00:24:04.020 It's good.

00:24:04.460 I'm glad.

00:24:04.820 Now everybody has pasta.

00:24:06.580 It's cultivating oneself.

00:24:09.260 But we're not allowed to have that.

00:24:10.700 We're moving in the opposite direction.

00:24:12.780 We have a completely degraded culture.

00:24:15.020 And the culture is decaying more and more by the day.

00:24:18.180 And we have, at the same time, coincidentally, divvying up racial groups.

00:24:22.900 So even down in Chicago.

00:24:24.960 You've got Chicago's mayor, Lori Lightfoot. 0.99

00:24:26.920 Who is presiding over essentially a failed state in America.

00:24:30.700 Right?

00:24:30.980 And this woman is the machine politician who's running it. 1.00

00:24:34.180 She's looking closely at what's happening in Kenosha.

00:24:38.920 They're monitoring the situation.

00:24:41.120 They're urging civil and criminal authorities in Kenosha to investigate the incident.

00:24:45.900 I'm so glad that Lori Lightfoot and Chicago is on the case.

00:24:49.820 You know how many individual shootings happened in Chicago over the weekend?

00:24:53.880 66.

00:24:55.900 There was one officer involved shooting here because a man resisted arrest and reached into

00:25:00.140 his car when they told him not to at the very last minute.

00:25:03.540 There's one of those in Kenosha.

00:25:04.960 66 shootings in Chicago.

00:25:06.320 Not a word.

00:25:06.900 They don't seem to be monitoring that.

00:25:08.540 They don't seem to be looking very closely at that.

00:25:10.340 Because they don't give a damn.

00:25:11.800 They don't care if one of these people dies or if all of these people die.

00:25:15.260 It's not about that at all.

00:25:17.580 Lori Lightfoot does not lose one second sleep over the killing, or I suppose not killing, 0.86

00:25:24.000 the shooting of this guy, Mr. Blake.

00:25:26.860 It's just a tool.

00:25:29.380 And it's amazing because there are still some conservatives who don't see it.

00:25:32.600 And so they feel really pressured to prove to these awful Democrats, you know, that they're

00:25:36.660 not racist.

00:25:37.460 Black Lives Matter.

00:25:38.600 It's terrible.

00:25:39.360 There's a scourge of police brutality where racist white supremacists are gunning down

00:25:44.420 all these innocent black men.

00:25:46.160 That isn't happening.

00:25:48.180 This is a cynical strategy being implemented for the election.

00:25:53.780 You're going to see this go away after November 3rd.

00:25:56.940 It'll crop up again.

00:25:58.100 I mean, these things happen.

00:25:58.880 But it's not going to be a major news story.

00:26:00.540 And it goes so much further than the shootings.

00:26:03.000 Right now, there's a group of black professors in universities who are demanding the abolition

00:26:08.340 of English, the language, the English language, white mainstream English is how they describe

00:26:15.580 it.

00:26:16.620 A subcommittee of an organization called the Conference on College Composition and Communication

00:26:20.200 named itself Why We Can't Breathe.

00:26:23.440 That's the subcommittee.

00:26:24.380 They published a list of demands calling for the abolition of white mainstream English

00:26:28.980 to make way for black linguistic justice.

00:26:32.600 That's the new one.

00:26:33.580 I thought that these euphemisms couldn't get crazier after Julian Castro during the 2020

00:26:40.760 Democratic presidential primary called for reproductive justice for trans women, meaning 0.99

00:26:47.220 men who can't have children.

00:26:49.160 But they basically called for abortions for men using all this cockamamie language with

00:26:52.420 the word justice.

00:26:53.220 But we've gotten a little black linguistic justice.

00:26:55.840 What is that?

00:26:56.360 Well, the first issue you might see here is that when we refer to white mainstream English

00:27:01.680 as a terrible thing, you might recall that English is not just a language.

00:27:06.200 English is also a people known for that language.

00:27:09.180 And the English people are very, very white. 0.78

00:27:12.100 So you cannot separate the history of the English language from white people because the English 0.97

00:27:19.140 are white.

00:27:20.080 But I suppose this is a great injustice that the English are white. 1.00

00:27:24.240 The English should have looked different than the English do. 1.00

00:27:26.280 Six authors include a Michigan State professor, Cal State professor, Cal State Fullerton.

00:27:31.080 Cal State always goes really far left on these things.

00:27:33.520 A Boston University professor, Texas Christian University professor, and a University of

00:27:39.460 Alabama at Birmingham scholar.

00:27:41.040 Here's the statement.

00:27:42.220 In case you've forgotten what we mean when we say Black Lives Matter, we stand with the

00:27:46.660 words of the three radical black organizers and freedom fighters dreamers, quote unquote.

00:27:51.380 Alicia Garza, Patrice Colors, and Opal Tometi, who created the historic political project Black

00:27:56.640 Lives Matter.

00:27:57.100 Those are explicitly the three women who are self-described trained Marxists.

00:28:02.600 You saw that video of Patrice Colors coming out and saying, yeah, me and Alicia were trained

00:28:08.300 Marxists.

00:28:09.120 Then you saw photos of Opal Tometi smiling with the communist dictator of Venezuela, among

00:28:13.760 other communist provocations.

00:28:17.760 This is all part of a plan.

00:28:20.740 The plan is to undermine Western civilization.

00:28:22.760 We said earlier that the police are a stand-in for American law.

00:28:25.360 Well, here, white mainstream English is a stand-in for the very method of communication, the

00:28:33.320 very idea that we can have objective communication.

00:28:36.320 They go for language on the left.

00:28:37.940 They focus on it with political correctness.

00:28:39.680 They focus on it with cancel culture.

00:28:41.160 They focus on it here with the abolition of English for one reason.

00:28:44.800 If you can talk to one another across racial groups, sexual groups, national groups, if you

00:28:51.220 can speak to one another, then you can have objective conversation and debate.

00:28:57.020 The only way you and I can communicate right now is because there is an objective reality

00:29:00.680 outside of me and you that we are using symbols called words and letters to refer to

00:29:05.360 so we can use our faculties of reason, which perceive objective reality, to discuss that

00:29:10.260 thing and try to get a closer handle on it.

00:29:11.900 If the left wants to destroy that kind of politics, that authentic politics, self-government,

00:29:18.440 debate, they've got to destroy language, which they have been trying to do now for at least

00:29:23.600 100 years and which these authors, who I suspect are somewhat intelligent and somewhat educated,

00:29:30.480 they know exactly what they're doing because they're not even just using the slogan, which

00:29:33.320 a lot of squishy people who are ignorant of the subject say.

00:29:36.080 They say Black Lives Matter. 0.79

00:29:37.140 They don't know that it's a radical Marxist group.

00:29:39.240 These professors calling for the abolition of English are naming the Marxists.

00:29:44.160 They know exactly what they're doing.

00:29:46.460 That's the point.

00:29:47.760 That's the point.

00:29:49.280 Unless you need just a cherry on top of this proof that the Democrats don't care a whit about

00:29:56.700 racial justice and that all of this is just about burning down the country for the election. 0.85

00:30:00.740 Joe Biden just picked up an endorsement of the most well-known, self-described, white

00:30:08.600 identitarian, which you would call the most clear white racist in the country, Richard

00:30:15.040 Spencer.

00:30:15.640 Richard Spencer, who they always peg on Trump, even though he doesn't support Trump, has

00:30:20.080 now endorsed Joe Biden.

00:30:21.160 The media has gone completely quiet over it.

00:30:23.060 We will get to what that means in just a second.

00:30:25.400 We will get to the RNC, which kicked off last night.

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00:31:25.940 We will get to the white identitarian endorsement of Joe Biden.

00:31:30.860 We will get to the RNC.

00:31:32.700 Stick around for a lot more.

00:31:46.500 Richard Spencer, the well-known white identitarian, endorses Joe Biden.

00:31:50.580 He tweets out, quote, I plan to vote for Biden and a straight Democratic ticket.

00:31:54.980 It's not based on accelerationism or anything like that.

00:31:57.740 The liberals are clearly more competent people.

00:32:00.080 The word accelerationism, we actually mentioned it a little bit, maybe a week ago.

00:32:04.360 It refers to this Marxist concept about the acceleration of contradictions within the capitalist

00:32:09.620 system, within our traditional system, that basically the seeds of our civilization are

00:32:13.740 built in.

00:32:15.300 The seeds of our own destruction are built in.

00:32:17.060 And so eventually you're going to see these contradictions and the civilization is going

00:32:20.480 to collapse.

00:32:21.320 This is occasionally picked up, sometimes ironically or tongue-in-cheek, by various other groups

00:32:28.060 who are not explicitly Marxist.

00:32:29.500 In this case, it's this white identitarian who's referring to, presumably he's referring to

00:32:34.100 this acceleration, specifically on racial grounds.

00:32:36.740 But he's saying it's actually not that.

00:32:38.760 In other words, he's not going to vote for Biden so that things get way worse and then

00:32:43.700 the whole system will collapse and we'll either become Marxist or we'll become fascist, we'll

00:32:48.560 become, we'll go back to the feudal ages.

00:32:52.020 It's not what he's saying.

00:32:53.620 He's saying, I'm voting for the Democrats because they're more competent people.

00:32:58.180 More competent.

00:32:58.980 What does that mean?

00:33:00.060 We're saying the nation doesn't burn down under Democrats.

00:33:02.480 This is the same argument that Joe Biden has been making, right?

00:33:06.340 Joe Biden, when the country was being lit on fire a few months ago for the, for the first

00:33:10.480 time this cycle, he said, we can't take four more years of this.

00:33:13.480 That was a threat.

00:33:15.100 Who's doing the burning?

00:33:16.340 It's not Republicans.

00:33:17.640 It's not, it's not white supremacists.

00:33:19.600 It's not, the Democrats are doing the burning and Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

00:33:23.920 And they're saying, look, vote for us and we'll stop burning the country down.

00:33:27.480 And I actually think that's what Spencer's seeing here.

00:33:29.500 He says, look, the country doesn't burn when Democrats are in charge.

00:33:32.480 Now, it's an extortion racket is what's, what the Democrats are doing.

00:33:36.520 But he says, yeah, whatever.

00:33:37.760 And he doesn't have any particular love for, for Donald Trump because Donald Trump's not

00:33:41.340 a white identitarian, no matter what the mainstream media try to say about him.

00:33:45.360 Next time they call Trump the candidate of the racists, the white identitarians, whatever.

00:33:51.480 And make sure you remind them that Richard Spencer just unironically endorsed Joe Biden.

00:33:56.520 So who's endorsing Donald Trump?

00:33:58.200 Who's speaking?

00:33:58.720 The RNC kicked off.

00:33:59.640 They've got a big, long speaker lineup.

00:34:02.260 I'll give some thoughts on the RNC generally.

00:34:04.700 But they did have some big winners here, one of whom we spoke to.

00:34:09.340 I was, it was either on my show or I may have been filling in for Ben Shapiro's show.

00:34:13.840 But I spoke to Mark McCloskey.

00:34:15.500 He's the one half of the gun couple in St. Louis that defended their lives and property

00:34:20.840 when an armed mob broke through their gates and threatened them.

00:34:24.200 And you'll remember he was wearing that pink polo shirt and those white chinos.

00:34:28.720 And I felt he should be on the next Brooks Brothers catalog cover, but they're probably

00:34:32.460 not going to put him there.

00:34:33.440 So he and his wife, the McCloskeys, went out and they gave a rousing speech at the RNC. 0.98

00:34:39.080 Take a listen.

00:34:39.480 America is such a great country that not only do you have the right to own a gun and use

00:34:44.940 it to defend yourself, but thousands of Americans will offer you free advice on how to use it.

00:34:51.040 At least that's what we experienced.

00:34:53.260 What you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to any of you who are watching from

00:34:58.180 quiet neighborhoods around our country.

00:35:00.440 And that's what we want to speak to you about tonight.

00:35:03.360 That's exactly right.

00:35:06.340 Whether it's the defunding of police, ending cash bail so criminals can be released back

00:35:12.020 out on the streets the same day to riot again, or encouraging anarchy and chaos on our streets.

00:35:19.120 It seems as if the Democrats no longer view the government's job as protecting honest citizens

00:35:25.280 from criminals, but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens.

00:35:29.520 Not a single person in the out-of-control mob you saw at our house was charged with a crime.

00:35:37.180 But you know who was?

00:35:39.160 We were.

00:35:41.020 We were.

00:35:41.860 This was a very, very effective speech.

00:35:45.020 This was one of, if not the most effective speech during the whole convention.

00:35:50.500 Why?

00:35:51.120 It opened up with humor, right?

00:35:52.720 You saw the woman, she goes, listen, when you become a national viral sort of superstar

00:35:58.800 because the mob comes after you.

00:36:01.320 You'll get a lot of people giving you advice.

00:36:02.980 Some of them were giving you advice on how to hold a gun because people were making fun

00:36:05.760 of them for brandishing their weapons all over the place.

00:36:08.900 It was funny.

00:36:10.060 It contained a legitimate warning for what's going on right now, and it focused on the leftist

00:36:15.700 inversion of justice.

00:36:17.040 What a great tool at the end there.

00:36:18.380 He says, the marauding criminals who broke onto my property weren't thrown in jail.

00:36:22.640 You know who they're threatening to throw in jail?

00:36:23.860 Me.

00:36:25.100 And by the way, if they're threatening to throw me in jail, they're threatening to throw you

00:36:28.020 in jail.

00:36:28.560 I loved this.

00:36:29.340 I loved the choice of having them speak.

00:36:31.120 A more cautious convention would not have had them speak because they're just regular

00:36:35.260 people, right?

00:36:35.980 They're just people who are, we only know their names because the mob, both in the literal

00:36:40.880 physical mob and then the online mob came for them one day.

00:36:44.480 But this is what the GOP's got to do.

00:36:46.700 They've got to point to regular old people.

00:36:49.080 And by the way, that doesn't mean a certain class of people or a certain race of people.

00:36:52.200 The McCloskeys are very, very wealthy.

00:36:53.620 It's actually part of why they were targeted in the first place by the mob.

00:36:56.460 Now, it doesn't matter.

00:36:58.080 We can all identify with the McCloskeys because they're not known for their wealth. 0.98

00:37:03.240 What they're known for is the mob coming after them.

00:37:05.760 And the RNC giving a voice to those kinds of people who feel that no one's speaking for

00:37:10.040 them, whether they're a zillionaire or whether they're a factory worker, when they're being

00:37:13.020 come at unjustly, that is a very effective strategy.

00:37:16.880 You know, the Democrats learned a little bit, or the Republicans rather learned a little

00:37:20.520 bit from the Democrats, from their convention, which was super produced.

00:37:23.180 And it just didn't work.

00:37:25.440 It was very boring.

00:37:26.200 So the Republicans, for most of the speeches, had people just come up to a podium, give a

00:37:29.540 speech.

00:37:30.280 But they didn't learn enough because the speeches, first of all, didn't have a crowd.

00:37:33.280 So it sounded kind of weird.

00:37:34.380 They'd give these rousing lines and then nobody's applauding.

00:37:36.840 And they were a little too divorced from reality.

00:37:38.820 And they were a little too polished.

00:37:40.500 And they weren't speaking in many ways to the issues that we've got right now.

00:37:46.060 But some were.

00:37:48.280 I mean, some moments were.

00:37:49.460 We're not going to go through every single speech.

00:37:51.360 And obviously, everybody out here is trying to do their best job.

00:37:53.980 The Republicans are trying to go out there and win the election.

00:37:57.320 So I want to just focus on people that you might not have heard.

00:37:59.800 The McCloskeys, for one. 0.76

00:38:02.240 And then this great guy, Maximo Alvarez.

00:38:06.820 Maximo Alvarez, who comes out.

00:38:10.760 He's another guy you probably haven't heard of.

00:38:12.580 And he speaks about his experience, his perspective from outside of America, then looking into

00:38:19.980 America at the Democratic ticket.

00:38:22.100 There's no place to hide.

00:38:24.560 I'm speaking to you today because President Trump may not always be politically correct.

00:38:31.240 He's, in fact, a successful businessman.

00:38:34.520 You know, your average career politician.

00:38:37.600 Our president is just another family man.

00:38:39.780 A friend, a friend, a most important, our elected commander-in-chief who puts America first.

00:38:50.480 Keep in mind, the other guy running for president is mostly concerned about power.

00:38:55.740 Yes, yes, power for them.

00:38:59.380 But not for the benefit of all Americans.

00:39:01.500 I'm speaking to you today because I have seen people like this before.

00:39:08.820 I've seen movements like this before.

00:39:11.720 I've seen ideas like this before.

00:39:15.040 And I am here to tell you, we cannot let them take over our country.

00:39:21.500 He's seen it before.

00:39:22.600 What's he referring to?

00:39:23.300 He's referring to Fidel Castro.

00:39:24.460 He's referring to these people who are now openly campaigning in the name of Marxism.

00:39:30.960 Even though we thought they were just liberals.

00:39:32.640 But many of them now are openly campaigning in the name of Marxism and in the name of Marxists.

00:39:37.720 And he calls it out.

00:39:38.920 People like to see that.

00:39:40.460 We all like to see our kind of favorite political celebrities.

00:39:44.000 Sometimes that's interesting.

00:39:45.280 But much, much more important this year.

00:39:48.500 We just want to see people speaking the truth.

00:39:51.140 When he says that the Democrats are running to get more power, in a way, this is like a truism, right?

00:39:56.040 Because people run for office to have power to do things.

00:39:59.680 But he says, but they're not interested in using power for the benefit of all Americans.

00:40:04.100 And that's true.

00:40:05.000 That's undeniably true.

00:40:06.520 Whether you think Trump is good at using power or not, it seems clear to me he is exercising power for all Americans.

00:40:14.300 One of the few themes he comes back to again and again is, we all bleed the same blood of patriots.

00:40:19.420 We all need to have national loyalty.

00:40:21.540 We all need to be able to speak our minds in public because it's the only way we can have self-government.

00:40:25.540 It's the only way we can have unity.

00:40:27.180 And what do the Democrats say?

00:40:28.420 They say, black people can never get ahead in America.

00:40:31.800 You should burn down cities.

00:40:32.980 We shouldn't be peaceful.

00:40:34.580 Some of the politicians, and I say, by the way, only some are still calling for people remaining peaceful.

00:40:42.400 Others are not.

00:40:43.020 Do you remember when Chris Cuomo, Fredo Cuomo on CNN, said, show me where it says that assemblies have to be peaceful?

00:40:51.760 You say, well, it's in the Constitution, first of all.

00:40:53.580 It's right there in the First Amendment.

00:40:55.660 But even openly on CNN saying, yeah, maybe you can be violent.

00:40:59.060 Maybe it's a good thing to be violent.

00:41:00.900 Sean King saying, go out there, be violent.

00:41:03.380 Hillary Clinton saying, you can't be civil with people who disagree with you. 0.88

00:41:07.200 Right?

00:41:07.920 Maxine Waters saying, go mob Republicans where you see them, wherever you see them in the streets.

00:41:11.080 They're saying, go out there.

00:41:14.100 When we win, we're going to be good for our people and bad for your people, Republicans.

00:41:18.960 You don't, this is not an issue where the two sides are equal here.

00:41:24.000 This is an issue where one side says they want to help all Americans.

00:41:28.060 The other side said they only want to help, they only want to help Democrats.

00:41:33.820 So what do they do?

00:41:34.760 They try to burn down the country.

00:41:36.260 They try to delegitimize the election.

00:41:37.840 They've got all these cockamamie conspiracy theories about the post office.

00:41:41.080 Democrats who are trying to steal the election through widespread mail-in ballots are now

00:41:47.640 saying that Republicans are trying to steal the election by defunding the post office that

00:41:51.620 they just gave $10 billion to.

00:41:53.000 The postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, just came out, tried to pour some water on these

00:41:57.000 conspiracy theories.

00:41:58.540 As part of this conversation, there are many inaccuracies about my actions that I wish to

00:42:04.360 again, correct.

00:42:06.620 First, I did not direct the removal of blue collection boxes or the removal of mail processing

00:42:13.120 equipment.

00:42:14.640 Second, I did not direct the cutback on hours at any of our post offices.

00:42:20.320 And finally, I did not direct the elimination or any cutback in overtime.

00:42:24.980 I did, however, suspend these practices to remove any misperceptions about our commitment to

00:42:34.160 delivering the nation's election mail.

00:42:36.720 Any further assertions by the media or elected officials is furthering a false narrative to

00:42:42.580 the American people.

00:42:43.460 Of course, of course, that's the case.

00:42:46.760 But the left doesn't care.

00:42:48.780 They're going to, I don't think that they're pushing conspiracy theories because they think

00:42:51.620 they're true.

00:42:52.640 I don't think they're pushing conspiracy theories because they even know that they're false.

00:42:56.260 I think they're pushing conspiracy theories because they just don't care.

00:42:59.340 And they're more than willing to burn down the country or threaten to burn down our body

00:43:02.580 politic to win an election.

00:43:05.740 And they just don't care.

00:43:06.680 And they're just going to do it.

00:43:07.540 That's the threat.

00:43:08.180 But what do we call this kind of violence against, metaphorical violence against our

00:43:14.380 political system and literal violence in the streets?

00:43:16.260 What do we call it?

00:43:17.200 The word that keeps cropping up is senseless.

00:43:19.760 You always hear senseless violence whenever it suits a narrative.

00:43:23.180 Right now, let's take it all the way to the religious level.

00:43:25.560 We always quote Henry Cardinal Manning on this show who said that at bottom all conflict

00:43:30.240 is theological.

00:43:33.220 Right now throughout the West, churches are being burned down.

00:43:36.300 Right now on earth, Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world.

00:43:42.220 Right now, people are being attacked at churches.

00:43:44.500 This just happened in Philadelphia.

00:43:46.360 Philly Police Department is trying to find a woman who hit a female lector in the face

00:43:51.260 during a Sunday morning Novus Ordo Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and

00:43:56.880 Paul.

00:43:57.780 This is a Catholic mass.

00:43:58.880 Someone comes up and socks the woman in the face. 1.00

00:44:00.880 The Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson Perez says,

00:44:04.100 During the 11 a.m. mass, which was broadcast live via my Facebook page and Archdiocese and

00:44:10.360 Vimeo channel, a senseless act of aggression took place.

00:44:14.280 One of the lectors was punched by someone in the congregation as she left the altar.

00:44:18.100 Senseless act of aggression.

00:44:20.020 Is it senseless?

00:44:21.800 The people who are perpetrating this violence are trying to bring about senselessness.

00:44:27.780 They're trying to bring about a politics, a culture, and a religious world in which we

00:44:34.160 can't debate anything, where language itself is taken from us, where we can't refer to objective

00:44:38.960 reality, where there is said to be no such thing as objective truth, only your truth and

00:44:42.920 my truth and my feelings and my oppression and my passions that I'm going to vent by burning

00:44:47.460 down the country.

00:44:48.100 They're trying to affect senselessness, but the way in which they're trying to do that is highly

00:44:55.360 sensible, highly reasonable, highly logical.

00:44:58.680 They know that they cannot win in a traditional debate, in a traditional discussion, in traditional

00:45:06.440 self-government.

00:45:07.400 So they're trying to burn down the edifice.

00:45:09.700 We should be highly sensitive to that plan, to that tactic.

00:45:12.940 That is a real strategy, and unless we wake up to the logic of that strategy, we're going

00:45:19.880 to lose logic and reason and sensible political debate, and then we're going to lose our self-government.

00:45:25.620 That's what they're trying to push forward.

00:45:26.700 It's only going to get worse until November 3rd.

00:45:29.160 That's our show.

00:45:29.800 Let's hope we can keep it together until then.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 25, 2020

Ep. 603 - Democrats Burn Another City

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