Ep. 609 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
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The left is very upset about privilege these days. Specifically, they say white privilege. And when you look into the specific examples they give of white privilege, it doesn t seem very convincing. But there is a privilege going around, and it s a privilege that the left does not want to destroy. They re doing everything they can to maintain it.
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The left is very, very upset about privilege these days. Specifically, they say white privilege. And
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when you look into the specific examples they give of white privilege, it doesn't seem to be
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very convincing. But there is a privilege going around, and it's a privilege that the left does
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not want to destroy. They're doing everything they can to maintain it. I think a perfect example of
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this came from Hillary Clinton the other day. Or no, I'm not sorry, not Hillary Clinton. Hillary
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Clinton's daughter, who for some reason is in public life. She has famous parents, and so now
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for some reason she's in public life. Chelsea Clinton was on a Women for Biden panel with the
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radical Democratic representative Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo of the squad. And she described and
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lamented her terrible white privilege. 40% of Americans with disabilities report that they
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have real challenges voting in person. And so in states where there haven't been kind of no-excuse
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absentee voting or where there hasn't been the introduction of early voting yet, it still isn't
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kind of easy, fair, or equal for many Americans to vote. I think it's really important that my
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children understand that. And I think it's particularly important that they understand that
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as white children are privileged because I want them to erode that privilege throughout their
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lives to ensure more people are enfranchised and that equality isn't just an ideal.
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So none of that is true, and no parent has ever said, I want my child not to have any privileges.
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Yes, I want my child to be disadvantaged. And Chelsea Clinton's not saying that either.
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What she's doing is tying this idea of universal mail-in ballots, which is a way the Democrats are trying
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to steal the election with this idea of privilege. You know, we've basically got to destroy all of
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our election security in the name of fairness and equality. And of course, it's all lies. It's lies
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about mail-in ballots. It's lies about race. It's lies about her family. This is not about ending a
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system of white privilege. This is about preserving a system of liberal elite privilege. And on this show,
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we will attempt to tear down that system of oppression. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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save 50% while supplies last. Lots of talk about privilege. Everyone, especially racial privilege.
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That's especially white privilege. That's what the left is getting everyone to focus on right now so that
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you ignore the actual privilege that is being hung over you. A professor at the University of North
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Carolina Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science just tweeted out the other day.
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This is a blue checkmark on Twitter and she's a professor. She said that all white people have
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been deputized to kill us, us being black people. That professor's name is Tressie McMillan-Kottam.
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She's in the, she's a professor at this university and she was tweeting this in response to some
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Republicans supporting Kyle Rittenhouse, who was that kid who was attacked by Antifa and who fired
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back and stopped the felon and the pedophile and the armed guy from killing him. All white people
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have been deputized to kill us. I think if you've been watching the BLM riots for the past four or five
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months now, you would believe that. You would believe that there is this scourge in America,
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this epidemic, not of a virus, but of white people, racist whites, just slaughtering innocent black
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people, right? You've probably heard that. Demi Lovato, who I'm told is a singer, says that she
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hates her skin color because she shares her skin color with all these killers. She said, quote,
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all I knew was that I hated that I shared the same skin color as the people accused of committing
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heinous crimes against Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many, many other black
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lives. Capital B. Now we're capitalizing these colors. So is this true? Should one feel this
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intense white guilt, this guilt that white people are slaughtering black people all over the place?
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The statistics don't bear that out. And we're going to get to statistics a little bit later in the
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show because I made a provocative point yesterday on statistics and some people were upset about it,
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but we will get to that. But I will name these statistics now. In 2019, do you know how many
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black people were murdered in the United States? 2,925. Total number of black people in the United
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States murdered. Do you know how many of those were murdered by white people? 234.
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234 out of 2,925. Do you know how many of those black people who were murdered were murdered by other
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black people? 2,600. 2,600 out of 2,925. That means that 8% of black people murdered last year
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were murdered by white people. 89% of black people murdered last year were murdered by black people.
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But you would not know that statistic. You would not know that fact if you were watching the
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mainstream media or listening to our political leaders or listening to the activists. Because
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for some reason, those statistics don't seem to matter. They're so interested in science.
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They're so interested in looking into the precise scientific analysis of white supremacy and all
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this sort of thing. But those statistics don't seem to matter. You're given a very different
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picture. We'll get to why, as I said a little bit later. This doesn't just even stop at the
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political level. This goes all the way up to the religious level. Even the most traditional
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institution in the Christian West, the Catholic Church. The cult of white guilt has infiltrated
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the Catholic Church. A parishioner, I suppose, recorded this homily. I don't know if you could
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call it a homily, from a priest at St. Xavier Catholic Church in New York City, who is now
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Do you support racial justice, equity, and compassion in human relations? Yes. Do you affirm
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that white privilege is unfair and harmful to those who have it and to those who do not? Yes.
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Do you affirm that white privilege and the culture of white supremacy must be dismantled
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wherever it is present? Yes. Do you support racial equity, justice, and liberation for
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every person? Yes. Do you affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person? Yes.
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Therefore, from this day forward, will you strive to understand more deeply the injustice and
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suffering white privilege and white supremacy cause? Yes.
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Will you commit to help transform our church culture to one that is actively engaged in seeking
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racial justice and equity for all, for everyone? Yes.
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Will you renew and honor this pledge daily, knowing that our church and our community,
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our nation, and our world will be better places because of our efforts? Yes.
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I can't say I've ever heard that system of vows in a Catholic Church. What this is, of course,
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I mean, for individual aspects of that, nobody would disagree. Yeah. Be nice to people. Don't
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be mean to people. Be, be a good person. Don't be a bad person. Right. But what this is really
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describing is a, a new and separate and replacement theology for Christianity. This is now the theology
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of wokeness. You're replacing what may appear to be one's baptismal vows with the, with now being
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baptized into the, the waters of wokeness saying that there are these things, white supremacy,
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white privilege. Haven't, haven't seen those anywhere. I don't know exactly what, what the
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priest means by this. I know that we have one matter of legal racial discrimination in our
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country. There's only one matter where it is legal to discriminate by race. That is called affirmative
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action. It benefits black and Hispanic applicants for jobs. It disadvantages white and Asian applicants
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for jobs. That's it. Show me the other legal white supremacy or any legal white supremacy for that
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matter. Show me the, the legal racial discrimination other than affirmative action. Where is it? Nowhere.
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It doesn't exist. So what is this priest talking about? He has fallen prey to, uh, the same thing
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that I think a lot of our country has, which is a distraction. It's not even that all this talk
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about white supremacy or white privilege or whatever, all the racial division that seems to be
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conveniently ginned up every four years is, it's not even that it's in good faith. It's not even that,
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you know, maybe some people who have good intentions are mistaken. It is a distraction to distract you from
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a genuine system of privilege and inequity in this country, which is liberal elite privilege,
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liberal elite privilege, which manifests itself in the media, in politics, in the universities,
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in, in education for that matter, in Hollywood, in big tech. There is a liberal established apparatus
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that plays by a completely different set of rules than you and I play to. And it doesn't matter what
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color our skin is. It doesn't matter what, what matters is this political distinction here,
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which we can get to a little bit later in the show. I'll give you a real example of privilege here.
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Think about how crazy it is that BLM, a mark, an avowedly Marxist organization that seeks to destroy
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the nuclear family has now taken a foothold in a Catholic church in New York. Think about how sick
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the society must have become that a Catholic parish in New York is spouting the Marxist idiocy
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of Black Lives Matter. But the people who are ginning up this kind of tension are very good at it.
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Only occasionally do they get caught. Like Nancy Pelosi. We talked about this yesterday. Nancy Pelosi,
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big supporter of the lockdown, saying Donald Trump is killing people because he didn't totally lock down
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the country. Nancy Pelosi gets caught on a camera, on a security camera, walking into a hair salon that
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she wants closed without a mask that she wants everybody to wear because she's Nancy Pelosi and
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she can do whatever she wants. You can't because you're not a member of the elite liberal establishment,
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but she certainly can't. So she gets called out for it. What does she do? Does she take responsibility?
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breaking all the rules that she says she believes in because she wants her haircut. Makes sense. A lot of
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other Democratic politicians have done this. Bill de Blasio did this in New York. Lori Lightfoot did
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this in Chicago. So Nancy Pelosi finally holds a press conference to address this problem. What
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does she do? She goes on the attack. I take responsibility for trusting the word of the
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neighborhood salon that I've been to over the years many times. And that when they said, well,
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we're able to accommodate people one person at a time and that we can set up that time. I trusted
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that. As it turns out, it was a setup. So I take responsibility for falling for a setup. And that's
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all I'm going to say on that. I take responsibility that the salon owner was such a jerk. This is this
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typical example, which I've noticed my liberal friends tend to do more than the conservatives where
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they say, look, I'm really sorry if you got really offended by something. Say, no, you can't be sorry
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if I feel something. You've got to be sorry for something that you did. And what Nancy Pelosi did is
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she violated the rules that she set for everybody else because it was convenient to her. Now she's a
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brilliant politician. You have to hand it to her. And she probably gave the most politic response to
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this. You could imagine, which is she feigned ignorance of the law. Now that's no excuse of
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course, but particularly now it's, it's implausible. You're telling me that the single most important
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political issue that you, Nancy Pelosi have been a part of constructing. You didn't know about,
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you didn't know that the hair salons are closed. How did you, how could you not know that?
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No, of course she knew that. But then she said, no, it was a little gray area because I didn't know
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if one person comes in, if then it could be open. And that's almost a plausible excuse until you
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realize, wait a second, hair salons are by definition one-on-one, right? It's a hair, one
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hairstylist per one customer. So if, if the hair salons were not, you know, were open for one customer
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at a time, then the hair salons would just be open, but they're not. So the owner of this hair salon,
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Erica Kios, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly, went on Tucker Carlson. Of course,
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Tucker got her on that night and explained that she did not set up Nancy Pelosi.
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She had called the stylist and, or her assistant did and made the appointment. So the appointment
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was already booked. So there's no way I could have set that up. And I've had a camera system in
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there for five years. I mean, I didn't go in there and turn cameras on as soon as she walked in to set
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her up. So that's absolutely false. But Erica, what about Pelosi's excuses? Are you telling me
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that Pelosi's excuses don't make any sense? As a hairstylist, I see clients one-on-one. So
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that would mean I would be open, right? Yes, of course it would. Of course, that's what that means.
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The left always has to be the victim. The left always has to play the victim card here. So
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Nancy Pelosi institutes these draconian, stupid rules. Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party
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broadly institutes these stupid lockdown rules that haven't done any good and have done a lot of harm,
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to put it bluntly. And then she breaks them because it's not convenient for her. And then when she gets
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caught, what does she do? She pretends that she is the victim, the victim of a setup, even if it were a
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setup, by the way. And what do we mean by setup? We mean, let's say the salon owner doesn't like Nancy
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Pelosi and wants to show that she's been violating her own rules. That's still Pelosi's fault. What's
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the setup? The setup is, the setup is basically, hey, Nancy Pelosi, do you want to violate all your
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own stupid rules? She goes, yeah, absolutely. Say, okay, well, I caught you on tape saying, yeah,
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absolutely. She goes, that's a setup. No, it's just exposing what you're doing, what you've been
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doing. It's exposing your own character, what you think about these things. But, but you see this,
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if Nancy Pelosi can pretend to be the victim over breaking her own lockdown rules,
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then the left can feign victimhood over anything. And they do. They feign victimhood over affirmative
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action. The left, which instituted affirmative action, now also claims that affirmative action
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is racist and leads to a racist country. Because now some people think that if you,
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you know, if, if a black person is in a job that perhaps affirmative action helped. And that isn't,
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that's an ugly assumption to have. Clarence Thomas wrote a whole, not a whole book about this,
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but he wrote about this extensively in one of his books, which is that he hated the stigma of
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affirmative action because he knew that he was intelligent enough and more intelligent than,
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than most of his classmates. But because of the stigma of affirmative action,
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that took away from his accomplishment. Of course, but you can't have it both ways.
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For the promoters of affirmative action, they want to have the advantages of affirmative action,
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but not the stigma associated with it. Clarence Thomas points out that's not possible.
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The left, they don't even buy rather what they are selling. They don't even believe what they are
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saying. Obviously Nancy Pelosi with her haircut. Also, also members of the mainstream media who know
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that the mainstream media is vicious and dishonest. There was a hidden tape just came out
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of Chris Cuomo speaking to Donald Trump's now imprisoned former attorney, Michael Cohen,
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that turncoat. Chris Cuomo apparently is friends with Trump's old attorney. He describes how the
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media are just a bunch of animals. You know, I'm always careful when I talk to media, you know,
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right. Do you know how many phone calls I've gotten from people at ABC who say that reporters
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are calling and lying about things they heard about me to try to get stories about me when I was at
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ABC? Guys calling and saying, I heard he was the Charlie Rose of ABC used to invite women to the
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hotel and open his bathroom. Do I look like the kind of guy who's got to do that?
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I already have a good source that says that he forced one woman to have sex. I just want to know
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if you've ever heard anything like that. There is no woman, right? There is none of that.
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So here's the problem. Women who do work there saying, oh, yeah, you know, some of these men and
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naming me with other guys, you know, we bumped into each other once in the elevator and he put his
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hand on my shoulder and he made me really uncomfortable. I mean, what the? It's it's a
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problem. And now you saw I'm careful with the media always. I've always told you the media is
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not your friend. No, the media is not your friend. Now, what is significant about that
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conversation? One, it's kind of funny that Chris Cuomo is getting advice from Trump's former
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attorney that they're all they all have attacked for many years. But Chris Cuomo here is pointing
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out one, there's no journalistic integrity out there and the media are just trying to push an
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agenda and not even he trusts them. But he's a member of the mainstream media. There's a big
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difference between the mainstream media and alternative media sources. We do need some kind
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of journalism, right? We do need some kind of political commentary. But what we know is there's
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a big difference between say this podcast or other concern or conservative alternative media
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and CNN. One difference is we usually we get better ratings in alternative conservative media,
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but CNN is part of the established media, right? Most of CNN's ratings come from airports. It's just
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on at airport TVs because that is considered to be authoritative and very serious news. And Chris
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Cuomo goes out there every night and says, yes, we're very serious news. And yet in his heart,
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he knows that the media are full of it. They're not objective in any way. They're not even interested
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in the truth. They're liars and they're rats. His brother, Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York,
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is now threatening Donald Trump. Andrew Cuomo in New York says this about the president, quote,
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he better have an army if he thinks he's going to walk down the street in New York. New Yorkers
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don't want to have anything to do with him. He can't have enough bodyguards to walk through New
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York city. People don't want to have anything to do with him. So this is a direct threat from
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a democratic governor and the democratic governor who handled coronavirus worse than any governor in
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the country against the president of the United States. Can you imagine if a Republican governor
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said this about Barack Obama? He would be put on trial. He'd be sent to the Hague. He would be
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called a racist and a vicious monster and a terrible person. He, they, there'd be calls for
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him to be kicked out of office with Andrew Cuomo saying this directly threatening the life of the
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president saying he better not come here. He's going to need an army because otherwise he's going
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to get killed. What happens to him? Nothing. Now, is that a racial privilege? No, I don't think it's a
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racial, I don't think the Italians get any particular privilege. Do I think that the fact that if the
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situation were flipped and it was Barack Obama's president, any Republican governor, do I think
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that's a black privilege? No, I don't think it's that. I don't think it's, I think we're looking
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at privilege all the wrong way. I don't think it's a matter of racial privilege at all. I think it is
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a matter of political privilege, liberal establishment, elite privilege, which totally exists. And it's why
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this story is going to get totally buried. It's going to get totally buried as the Democrats,
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as the liberal establishment tries to steal this election and make no mistake, they are actively
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attempting to steal this election. Now you, you might not know that if you watch the mainstream
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media because the, the primary method right now that they're using to steal this election through
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fraud is this universal mail-in ballot issue. And the mail-in ballots are being, are, are highly
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unreliable. They can be harvested. They, first of all, just often don't get there in the mail,
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right? There've been experiments done where 3% of, of mail-in ballots don't even end up
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in, in the hands of the recipients. Forget about where they came from first. So they're
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trying to steal that, but they're trying to tell you there's no such thing as mail-in ballot
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fraud. There's no such thing as trying to steal elections when the Democrats are doing it.
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When Republicans are looking like they're in a good position, all of a sudden, all we hear
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about is election fraud. We're told that if you have to present an ID to prove you are who
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you are, that you're committing election fraud and stealing an election. But now that the
00:24:35.400
Democrats are trying to harvest ballots from senior citizen homes, all of a sudden, no such
00:24:39.340
thing. Wolf Blitzer at CNN took this liberal position, tried to smack down Attorney General
00:24:46.800
Bill Barr, the honey badger, who was bringing up all of these issues. Bill Barr wouldn't let
00:24:52.460
him have it. He explained in excellent detail, the nature of voter fraud in the United States.
00:24:59.940
The bipartisan commission chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker said back in 2009 that
00:25:07.780
mail-in voting is fraught with the risk of fraud and coercion.
00:25:13.280
But since then, there have been a lot of investigations that have improved it.
00:25:18.780
And since this, since that time, there have been in the newspapers, in networks, academic studies
00:25:26.540
saying it is open to fraud and coercion. The only time the narrative changed is after this
00:25:33.220
administration came in. But elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud
00:25:39.240
and coercion. For example, we indicted someone in Texas, 1,700 ballots collected from people who
00:25:46.340
could vote. He made them out and voted for the person he wanted to. Okay? Because that kind of
00:25:52.980
thing happens with mail-in ballots. And everyone knows that. Of course, everyone knows it. And
00:25:58.220
look at how the narrative changes. That's the key there. He says, what about this commission
00:26:01.800
chaired by Jimmy Carter and, and Jim Baker that's, that found that there is substantial fraud in mail-in
00:26:10.540
You were all talking about that until the day before yesterday. The minute he gets into that,
00:26:15.420
all of a sudden, Wolf Blitzer tries to cut him off. Bill Barr won't let him do it. He says, no,
00:26:18.440
I'm not going to let you do this today. I'm going to explain to you how it works. So then Wolf Blitzer
00:26:23.040
moves on to the next democratic talking point. First is there's no fraud whatsoever in the mail.
00:26:26.980
The next talking point is okay. And they always say this whenever you cite any case of actual
00:26:31.940
voter fraud, they'll say, okay, that's one or individual case, but there's no widespread problem.
00:26:38.160
Bill Barr shuts that down too. There are individuals, uh, cases, but as far as widespread fraud,
00:26:44.580
we haven't seen that since, uh, we have, we haven't had the kind of widespread use of mail-in
00:26:49.360
ballots as being proposed. We've had absentee ballots from people who request them from a
00:26:54.140
specific address. Now what we're talking about is mailing them to everyone on the voter list when
00:26:59.640
everyone knows those voter lists are inaccurate. People who should get them don't get them,
00:27:04.180
which was what has been one of the major complaints in states that have tried this in,
00:27:08.560
in municipal elections. And, uh, people who get them are not the right people.
00:27:14.260
They're people who have replaced the occupant, the previous occupant, and they can make them out.
00:27:18.460
And sometimes multiple ballots come to the same address with a whole generate,
00:27:22.320
several generations of occupants. Do you think that's a way to run a vote?
00:27:26.300
Well, the only thing I'm saying is that so far we haven't seen widespread fraud, but so far we
00:27:31.300
haven't tried it. It's like Wolf Blitzer has nothing left. It's like he's that non-player
00:27:36.660
character meme. He's like, he's a robot, just beep boop. He's got the pre-programmed line, which is,
00:27:41.460
well, we've seen it on an individual level, but we haven't seen it on a widespread level.
00:27:45.040
Bill Barr gives a great answer. He says, right, we've never tried it on a widespread level.
00:27:48.660
We've, we've never tried this universal mail-in thing. We've done absentee, which is not only
00:27:53.340
different in degree, but it's different in kind from what's being proposed because with absentee,
00:27:58.620
you have to specifically request it to a specific address. Here, we're just going to mail them out to
00:28:02.600
wherever. You remember how that cat that's been dead for 20 years got an absentee ballot a couple of
00:28:08.140
months ago? There was a, I forget which state it was in. A couple came on. They said, yeah, our
00:28:12.020
cat who's been dead for 20 years got an absentee ballot. And I just think, I don't think that dead
00:28:17.340
cats should vote. That's, that sort of thing is happening. People who have moved out of homes,
00:28:21.540
they'll get the ballot to the old address. So Bill Barr completely strikes that down. Wolf Blitzer's
00:28:25.760
got nothing left. He says, yeah, but it just seems individual, not widespread. Bill Barr says,
00:28:29.460
right. I just explained to you why that is. We've never tried widespread. What's going to happen
00:28:33.980
then? Wolf Blitzer keeps pushing. So Bill Barr makes the biggest point of all, which is we're
00:28:41.760
an uncharted territory and we're playing with fire. The point is that a lot of us, there are
00:28:47.540
several states that only have mail-in voting, including a Republican. Well, this is playing
00:28:51.960
with fire. This is playing with fire. We're a very closely divided country here. And if people have to
00:28:57.700
have confidence in the results of the election and the legitimacy of the government and people trying
00:29:02.160
to change the rules to this, to this methodology, which as a matter of logic is very open to fraud
00:29:09.060
and coercion is reckless and dangerous. And the people are playing with fire. Of course, he's
00:29:15.060
absolutely right. And of course he strikes this down and the liberal elite privilege is not having
00:29:21.220
to answer that for now, the several years they've been trying to push this sort of thing. But
00:29:25.660
unfortunately they made the mistake of inviting the honey badger on CNN and he wouldn't let them get away
00:29:29.560
with it. Some good news in the presidential front. Trump right now is leading Joe Biden by two points
00:29:35.160
in North Carolina, 49 to 47. This is according to a poll released on Tuesday by East Carolina
00:29:41.020
University. Polls in other places are tightening up. And you know, I don't pay a ton of attention to
00:29:45.140
polls. Public opinion polls are a relatively recent invention of the social sciences, which I'm highly
00:29:51.020
skeptical of anyway. Polls famously were pretty wrong in 2016. Some people still try to defend the polls
00:29:57.140
in 2016. But the fact is all of the meta analysis of all these polls showed Hillary had a 99% chance
00:30:03.300
of, of winning. And then when she lost, they said, no, they weren't wrong. It's just that
00:30:08.380
the 1% turned out to be true. And that, this is the problem with not just polls. Let's go back to
00:30:13.900
something else that's a little bit older, but it's still a very recent invention. Statistics, lies,
00:30:19.940
damned lies, and statistics. I got in trouble yesterday on the show because I made a point
00:30:24.220
that conservatives, generally speaking, should shun statistics because statistics were created
00:30:30.780
very recently by and for the liberal progressive establishment. What has evolved into the liberal
00:30:38.260
progressive establishment? Even using the word evolved kind of plays into that, that narrative.
00:30:43.240
Now, people were shocked. They said, Michael, what are you talking about? We need statistics.
00:30:46.740
No, we don't. And we don't, I mean, we can use statistics when they help us, but we've got to be
00:30:51.040
very, very careful about statistics because I think some people, when they heard me say
00:30:55.540
that conflated statistics with facts. That's, that's how deeply embedded this problem has
00:31:02.340
become. But statistics are not facts. Statistics in many ways are the opposite of facts. What does
00:31:09.120
statistics mean? It's a new concept, relatively new concept. It refers to the state, data for the
00:31:17.280
state. And as statism has come into its current form, statistics have taken on a very important
00:31:24.440
role. The word statistics comes from the late 18th century German word statistik. I don't know how to
00:31:30.500
pronounce, I don't have a great German accent. Ja, ja, statistik. Late 18th century. This is derived
00:31:36.340
from the new Latin statisticum collegium, council of state, and the Italian word statista, right?
00:31:42.860
Statist. Statist. This word statistic in German, first introduced by Gottfried Achenwald in 1749,
00:31:52.820
designated the analysis of data about the state, specifically the science of the state. And around
00:32:00.000
this time, you see the advent of what you would call political science, the social sciences, economics,
00:32:06.960
sociology, uh, political science, which was a new concept as opposed to political philosophy.
00:32:12.360
The idea here being that there is a science not only to biology, well, even biology is a relatively
00:32:19.960
new one, a science to physics, for instance, or a science to precise things that we can measure under
00:32:26.500
a microscope. That's, there's not just that kind of science, but there's also a science to society.
00:32:31.160
There's also a science to history. There's a science to human affairs and politics, and that
00:32:37.520
you can measure, once you understand the science, you can know with scientific certainty how society
00:32:43.640
should be governed. You can know how history will progress. You can know the end of history. You can
00:32:48.560
know the right side of history. You can know all of these sorts of things by applying the methods of
00:32:54.120
physical science to society and the questions that were previously explored by philosophy and by,
00:33:02.680
by the, uh, philosophy of politics rather than a science of politics. So what, what social science
00:33:09.840
does is it comes in and says, okay, we've got to separate the administration of society from
00:33:15.920
politics. Politics is usually just all people arguing and trying to persuade one another and
00:33:21.280
deciding how we want to live. Yeah, that's too messy. So what we've got to do is separate the way
00:33:25.780
that society is actually governed by the administrative bureaucracies from politics.
00:33:30.480
So ironically, what happens is that everything gets politicized. My cup of coffee gets politicized.
00:33:35.400
My choice in clothing, my choice in sneakers gets politicized. Everything is politicized except for
00:33:40.880
politics. The political questions are actually taken away and decided by these headless bureaucracies.
00:33:46.960
And how do the bureaucracies create these policies? They use data given to them by another aspect of
00:33:52.880
the liberal establishment, which is the university. And what does the university give you? Statistics.
00:33:58.060
So they just write, they say, we, you've heard this, the whole coronavirus pandemic,
00:34:01.640
this is actually the best time to think about this point. We've been told, look, I don't want to hear
00:34:07.460
from politicians. Meaning I don't want to hear from our duly elected representatives. Meaning I don't want
00:34:13.780
to hear from how citizens want to govern themselves. I just want to be governed by science and data.
00:34:21.460
The trouble is the idea that there is a science of society is complete BS. It is a lie used by
00:34:30.820
liberals or progressives or leftists or use whatever word you want to take political power away from you,
00:34:37.700
grab it for themselves and never have it threatened because they say, well, we're just,
00:34:41.380
we're just deferring to science. We need the green new deal. We need to redistribute trillions of
00:34:46.460
dollars to our favored groups away from the groups that we don't like. Why do we have to do that?
00:34:51.660
Oh, science. Yeah. We need to lock you all in your homes forever. And we need to have the federal
00:34:57.120
reserve print up lots and lots of money and we need to borrow trillions of dollars and we need to give
00:35:01.940
it out to favored groups. Why? Oh, because of science. Show me the science. I don't see the work
00:35:09.940
there. And the, the raw material that goes in and is used to justify these kinds of policies
00:35:16.420
is statistics. Okay. But statistics can be abused. I'm not saying that you can't count certain things
00:35:23.220
and have data. Of course you can do that, but statistics can be abused. I'll give you an example.
00:35:27.620
Let's say a 60% of America likes chocolate ice cream. 40% likes vanilla ice cream.
00:35:34.480
You can come in and say, look, 60% of America likes chocolate ice cream. That's the majority of
00:35:39.420
America. We just need to mandate chocolate ice cream for everybody. That's statistics. That's
00:35:44.180
just science. But you can make the exact same argument and say, wow, 40% of America likes vanilla
00:35:49.960
ice cream. Oh my gosh, 40% of America. Gosh, that, that means we need to have an abundance of vanilla
00:35:55.240
ice cream available. Now this is kind of a silly example. Who knows what the applicability of that
00:36:01.520
would be. It is only to say that the statistics, the numbers can be used to make any number of
00:36:10.940
arguments. And we know that. I mean, we've seen this threat, not just the coronavirus, but even in
00:36:14.560
just recent decades, we've seen how statistics are always used sometimes to make opposing arguments.
00:36:19.880
And I'm just giving an example where we can actually rely on 60% like this, 40% like this,
00:36:26.120
60% do this, 40% do this. Sometimes it's not even that clear. And by the way, where do these
00:36:31.400
statistics come from? Usually it's, they come from some scientific paper, social scientific paper. So
00:36:36.900
not actually a scientific paper. And the statistics have been compiled. They've been put into models
00:36:43.060
that are obviously very fraught. That's why you might've noticed the models did not work out during
00:36:48.480
this coronavirus pandemic. They often don't. The models about global warming have not turned out
00:36:52.380
to be true. The models about any number of these things don't turn out to be true because as Dr.
00:36:55.860
Fauci said, the models are only good as the statistics that you put into them. But who puts
00:37:00.120
in the statistics? It's some grad student who never has their work checked, who, I don't know,
00:37:04.720
maybe they have some weird methodologies. Maybe they don't even. It's a, it's a way of manipulating
00:37:09.300
you. And Edmund Burke, the great conservative philosopher said, the age of chivalry has gone. That of
00:37:14.280
sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded it. And the glory of Europe is extinguished
00:37:18.860
forever. We cannot be those economists, sophisters, and calculators. We shouldn't be these egghead
00:37:25.680
statisticians manipulating data and pretending that political, authentically political questions
00:37:30.520
really should just be decided by a couple of eggheads in lab coats who pretend that they know
00:37:36.380
the entire science of, of history and of politics and of society. That is not only profoundly
00:37:43.040
anti-conservative, not only does that feed this kind of liberal established elite privilege,
00:37:50.620
it totally undercuts the concept of self-government and the political traditions that we so cherish.
00:37:57.700
It's my last defense of throwing statistics out the window. Head on over to the Michael
00:38:01.260
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00:38:13.040
All right. First question from Gabby. Just heard your story about Michelle Obama and the ice cream
00:38:28.260
shop. So this story, in case you missed it a couple of days ago, was that Michelle Obama went
00:38:32.340
into an ice cream shop when she was first lady and someone cut her in line. And that's how she showed
00:38:37.620
that there was such a thing as white supremacy. And she's so oppressed and everyone should feel bad
00:38:41.980
for Michelle Obama. That's the story. When as first lady did Michelle Obama ever just go out to an
00:38:48.280
ice cream shop without the Secret Service in tow? I'd love to hear your thoughts. Yeah, the story is
00:38:51.740
obviously preposterous. Even if she had, even if she told the Secret Service to wait around the corner,
00:38:55.700
which probably they would not have done anyway. She's Michelle Obama. She's one of the most famous
00:39:00.500
women in the world. So the situation that she is presenting as she's waiting in a shop and then someone
00:39:07.980
cuts her in line and then she says, hey, stop cutting me in line. And then the person goes away
00:39:11.840
and doesn't look at her and doesn't pay proper obeisance to the wonderful one, Michelle Obama.
00:39:18.040
May have been the case that this other person walked into the shop.
00:39:22.100
You're not quite sure where the line is, who's waiting, who's already put in their order, who's
00:39:25.500
who's just now off to the side waiting to get their ice cream. And then Michelle Obama was very rude to
00:39:30.200
him. And then this person was, was intimidated because you're talking to the first lady of the United
00:39:35.160
States and was quiet. Two different ways to read that situation. Which one do you think is more
00:39:41.000
likely? Do we think that Michelle Obama, one of the most popular women in America is really just
00:39:47.500
the victim of horrible oppression? Do we think America, America, which elected her husband president
00:39:51.980
twice, for some reason elected her president, utterly unqualified to be president, but they, they
00:39:57.500
elected him twice. It's just because of how horrible and racist and bigoted it is. I don't think so.
00:40:03.100
From Mitch. Hey, Michael. I remember learning about how Louisiana and the great state of Texas were the
00:40:08.180
last two states in the union to change the legal drinking age to 21. This was only after the federal
00:40:13.000
government threatened to cut federal funding of some programs, highways, I believe. Since these
00:40:17.920
liberal states and cities are shirking any and all sense of responsibility in an effort to signify their
00:40:23.340
wokeness, could the federal government employ a similar tactic? We've already seen the mayor of
00:40:28.880
Minneapolis ask president Trump for a federal bailout from the riots, which the president quickly shot
00:40:33.860
down. But couldn't he take it a step further? I do not wish to signify intent to cause harm or
00:40:39.860
demolish the way of life in those areas, but wouldn't a simple ultimatum of clean your mess up or prepare
00:40:43.960
to lose whatever benefit the city is receiving? Thanks for your time. Hail to the exalted Dr. Fauci,
00:40:49.840
peace be upon him. I suppose they could, they are actually attempting this in certain places.
00:40:54.320
They're saying we're going to cut federal funding to cities for various programs if you don't clean
00:40:59.500
up your cities. The question is, is it going to have any teeth? When you look at something like
00:41:03.880
trying to change the drinking age or other programs that the federal government has tried to push on
00:41:08.540
the states, they often succeeded during periods of some bipartisan consensus, and that does not exist
00:41:15.880
at all now. I mean, anything that Trump says or does, the Democrats will oppose. Trump could support
00:41:23.180
giving lollipops to orphans and the Democrats would say, that's a terrible thing and no candy for the
00:41:28.080
kids. So it would seem difficult now because, you know, the federal government could threaten it,
00:41:33.640
but the, the, at least the elected power of the federal government could change at any given time.
00:41:40.340
And actually what this does, even this kind of partisan division is empowers the topic we've been
00:41:45.020
talking about all day, which is this, the, the liberal elite establishment, which governs through the
00:41:50.840
bureaucracy, which shapes public opinion, which then permits these changes, shapes public opinion
00:41:56.180
through the mainstream media and through Hollywood and through the universities. That establishment is
00:42:01.480
just going to keep on governing and doing whatever it wants. And maybe sometimes Republicans get elected,
00:42:06.540
but it's not a fair fight. It's not an elected Democrat against an elected Republican. It's an elected
00:42:11.920
Republican against the entire apparatus of the state. From Cameron. Hi, Michael. I've recently been
00:42:18.140
struggling with solipsism. I've suffered from OCD since I was 12. And because of this, I'm now hyper
00:42:24.400
focused on this concept. Life seems less colorful and I'm starting to withdraw from friends and
00:42:29.000
family. I was wondering if you had any ideas on how to cope, disprove this idea from an agnostic
00:42:33.240
standpoint, as everything I've read on the matter says it's impossible to argue against. Thank you in
00:42:37.820
advance for taking the time to answer my question. My pleasure. So solipsism for those who don't know
00:42:42.000
is the belief that it is not possible to know that the external world exists. Meaning it's that I
00:42:53.140
cannot know for certain that anything other than my own consciousness exists. And sometimes this is
00:43:01.620
just used as a synonym for egotism or narcissism or, you know, self obsession. And I, in some ways,
00:43:11.980
it is, right? You're, you're just so enthralled of yourself. I, I once bandied this solipsistic
00:43:18.980
idea around when, when first, when the concept was introduced to me, when I was a teenager,
00:43:22.940
I started thinking about it. I said, oh gosh, you're right. I guess I can't prove that the outside
00:43:28.060
world exists. But so what then? This reminds me of these questions of does free will exist? Well,
00:43:37.300
the only way that I could prove that free will exists is by freely using my rational faculties
00:43:43.600
that I can rely upon objectively or to, to at least perceive objective reality and then come to a
00:43:51.440
conclusion. But that would beg the question because I would, and by beg the question, that doesn't mean
00:43:56.040
to ask a question. That means to assume my own conclusion. Because by doing that, I'm implicitly
00:44:02.580
asserting that free will does exist because I'm freely choosing to use my rational faculties to
00:44:06.980
grapple with the question of free will to come to a conclusion. So I'm already doing that. So I can't
00:44:11.040
answer that. My answer to people who ask, who say to me that free will does not exist is to punch them
00:44:17.420
in the face. Now, look, I'm a, I'm a fiery, but mostly peaceful podcaster, but I would punch them in
00:44:22.620
the face and say, ow, Michael, stop punching me in the face. I'd say, well, I'm not punching you in the
00:44:27.280
face. I have absolutely no control. There is no moral culpability at all. I'm a, you know,
00:44:33.800
we're just predetermined bags of atoms. And, uh, and as the blood starts pouring down on their face
00:44:39.100
and my knuckles, I'll take a towel. Maybe I'd say, look, it's not, I wish, I wish that I could stop,
00:44:43.560
but I don't even exist in any proper sense of that term because I have no free will. And then when my
00:44:49.640
friend is a bloodied, mangled mess, he will have gotten the point. He will have gotten the point.
00:44:54.580
So it's also interesting that you ask me, you say, I want you to prove this to me from an agnostic
00:44:59.300
point of view. So not only are you denying that I in the external world exist, but you're tying my
00:45:04.960
hands behind my back. You're saying I have to prove something from the standpoint of not knowing
00:45:08.880
something agnostic means not to know. So that's obviously impossible. That's a game that's set up
00:45:14.640
to fail. I would, uh, take another angle here rather than trying to prove with certainty that the
00:45:21.860
external world exists. Uh, I would look, look at the history of the concept of solipsism,
00:45:32.420
where it comes from. Uh, I would look at the history of self-described solipsists.
00:45:38.340
And then I would look more broadly at our philosophical tradition. It seems to me much
00:45:44.060
clearer or a much, much harder to argue that the external world does not exist than that the
00:45:50.240
external world does exist. It seems to me that the burden of proof is on the one who denies
00:46:00.760
all that we can perceive and then form concepts of through our rational faculties. Now, of course you
00:46:07.060
can't, I mean, the way the question is set up, you, you couldn't prove it, but what, where does that
00:46:12.780
leave you? I suppose that could leave you in a place where you can't rely on anything and every,
00:46:19.420
every single thing is an illusion. And then what, then we might as well sit quietly in the corner.
00:46:25.820
But assuming you're not going to do that, assuming that that seems irrational in as much as you can
00:46:30.740
trust your own rational faculties, I would do it. I would move on and see for just from the practical
00:46:36.500
effects of it, uh, what gives you a view and an, and an action of life that is, uh,
00:46:44.940
that, that conduces to human flourishing. Just try that out. Leave the philosophical theorizing
00:46:51.580
aside for a second and look to the practical aspects of life. See what that does from Kevin
00:46:56.260
morning, Mr. Knowles from the great welfare state of Minnesota. I have been told by a retired
00:47:00.520
government worker that the reason the governments like abortions is because it is a smaller investment
00:47:05.460
than having another person added to welfare and keeps the lower class population in check,
00:47:09.640
which to me is disgusting. But at the same time also gives me a reason why none of the
00:47:13.480
conservatives in office ever actually do anything is it would cascade down a route that would guarantee
00:47:18.000
that they would, wouldn't get voted back in, which if that's the case is also disgusting that this
00:47:23.360
decision would put their career before the life of the defenseless. Please let me know your thoughts
00:47:27.220
on this as I respect your knowledge and opinion. Well, the first part's true. And the second part,
00:47:30.720
I think is not true. The first part we, we know for a fact, the founder of Planned Parenthood,
00:47:34.700
Margaret Sanger said she wanted to get rid of poor people and deficient people and people who can't
00:47:39.440
take care of themselves because that would be a drain on, well, it would be a drain on the
00:47:43.460
state in part. And Margaret Sanger is writing at a time when the state had a really central role
00:47:50.820
in basically every ideology. And, and was, you know, this was at a time when you saw the rise of
00:47:56.620
not only liberalism, which existed, but, but fascism and communism, all of which are totally concerned
00:48:01.980
with the state. So that part's obviously true. I don't think that conservatives are afraid of
00:48:07.520
fixing abortion, for instance, because they think they're not going to get voted back in. You know,
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it's, it's not that the rich people vote for Republicans and the poor people vote for Democrats.
00:48:18.000
Actually, it's kind of the opposite, right? Wall Street tends to go for the Democrats.
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These billion, most billionaires in America vote Democrat. The liberal established elite votes
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Democrat. And actually it's deplorable, irredeemable people who tend to vote Republican.
00:48:31.560
Republican party at various times, but especially right now is much more of a working class party
00:48:35.680
than the democratic party. So I don't think that's the case. I think the reason Republicans
00:48:40.020
are hesitant to do anything on abortion is because they raise a lot of money on it. That's,
00:48:44.460
that's actually why I think that a lot of elected Republicans don't really care. One is probably
00:48:49.420
because they don't care about it much themselves. And then they realize there's a great fundraising
00:48:54.480
benefit to the pro-life issue, which is disgusting too, but that's, that's a different reason
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than they worry about not getting reelected. All right. Last question from Tim. What is this?
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This involves a note they gave me, a note on white privilege. Okay. This was posted on Facebook by
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a former homeschooler whose child was just, just started at St. Paul's Catholic High School in
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Bristol, Connecticut. Overall, it's a decent school. However, this handout was given out in a
00:49:18.700
schoolwide assembly yesterday. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on woke politics, infiltrating even
00:49:22.720
private Catholic schools. This is on white privilege. Oh, there's a, a number of bullet points,
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26 bullet points. I'll just go through a few. So I guess it's, it's explaining what white privilege
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is. I can, if I wish, arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
00:49:38.460
I think, I think a lot of people can do that. You can see, you see self-segregation in neighborhoods
00:49:42.380
and social circles. So everybody can do that if they wish. I can be sure that my neighbors in a
00:49:49.120
location that I moved to will be neutral or pleasant to me. I can't assure that. I'd, and not just
00:49:54.940
because I'm a little swarthy or something. I, I think that, I mean, there are BLM signs in every yard,
00:50:00.840
in every city or suburb in all of America. So I think it's not a racial issue, but I can't assure
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that when I move into a neighborhood, people will be pleasant to me. The minute they find out my
00:50:09.560
politics, they hate my guts because if you're a conservative in America today, you are counter
00:50:15.000
cultural. You're, you're, you have a politics of dissent from what we've been talking about all
00:50:19.340
show, this liberal establishment. So, so that actually, that backs up my thesis, right? That backs
00:50:25.540
that the real privilege is kind of liberal elite privilege, not a racial question. I can turn on
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the television or open the front page of a newspaper and see people of my race widely
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represented. There's a ton of entertainment for black people and Hispanic people in this, right?
00:50:40.800
You've got TV stations, you've got magazines, you've got outlets, you've got websites. That's
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crazy. If I want to, I can be pretty sure finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.
00:50:48.660
Well, you can because it's a liberal, but it's not because of your race. First of all, getting books
00:50:53.440
published is hard, but you could get this dribble published anywhere, couldn't you? It is. It's
00:50:59.100
published in every liberal outlet on the internet. Okay. Blah, blah, blah. Posters, cards. Oh, here we
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go. Oh, here's one. This actually ties right in to the top of the show. Number 22, I can take a job
00:51:12.300
with an affirmative action employer without having coworkers on the job suspect that I got it because
00:51:17.240
of my race. That's the privilege. So even, affirmative action is actually a way to disadvantage
00:51:23.400
white and Asian people by law. And they make all these arguments for it. So, but that, that is it,
00:51:29.000
right? It's to racially discriminate against white and Asian people. And even that now is taken as a
00:51:33.640
symptom of white privilege because if you do get a job and you're white or Asian, you can at least
00:51:39.400
be said to think that you got what you deserve, except the whole ideology of white privilege says
00:51:43.840
that nothing you have is something that you deserve. A total incoherent drivel. It's very sad that
00:51:49.720
a Catholic school would do that. Catholic schools are supposed to be more conservative than the
00:51:53.400
insanity at the public schools, but the rot runs very deep, runs very, very deep. It's not just Nancy
00:51:58.480
Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. It's not just a couple of elected politicians. It runs all the way down
00:52:03.320
through the media, through Hollywood, through technology, through the schools, through the
00:52:07.900
Catholic schools, through the Catholic church, through, and when I say the Catholic church, I just
00:52:11.640
mean that as an example of the most conservative institution. It goes throughout all of the
00:52:15.380
Protestant denominations all over the West. That is a deeply embedded privilege. How do we reform that
00:52:23.180
system of oppression? We will leave that to next week. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles
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