The Michael Knowles Show - September 14, 2020


Ep. 610 - Sodom By The Sea


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I go away for a week, and I come back to Pedo movies on Hollywood s biggest platform, and the town is literally burning to the ground. There is a lot to catch up on before the well deserved fire and brimstone takes us all out.

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00:00:37.740 I go away for one week.
00:00:39.520 One week.
00:00:41.120 And I come back to pedo movies on Hollywood's biggest platform and the town literally burning to the ground.
00:00:48.240 Ash covering my front steps.
00:00:50.440 There is a lot to catch up on before the well-deserved fire and brimstone takes us all out.
00:00:55.820 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:00:56.880 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:05.940 Good to be back, everybody.
00:01:07.440 I had a great time in Utah.
00:01:08.660 I missed you all very much.
00:01:10.260 Also, I have to come.
00:01:11.540 I know it's been a little while.
00:01:12.760 It's been a full week.
00:01:14.100 But I have to get to my favorite comment from the last show from David Winokur.
00:01:18.160 Political science, the only science that ignores all the rules of science like logical thought and analysis of cause and effect.
00:01:23.880 That is true.
00:01:25.280 Political science does ignore all the rules of science.
00:01:27.200 It also ignores all the rules of politics.
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00:02:43.600 I had a great time in Utah, okay?
00:02:45.860 I was having, I haven't taken a vacation since my honeymoon.
00:02:48.620 And I was so excited to go and relax.
00:02:51.760 We were, it was a sweet little Lisa and me, and we were there with a couple of friends.
00:02:54.720 And I was having a great time until Ben ruined it.
00:02:59.340 I did not do any work.
00:03:00.840 I barely tweeted.
00:03:01.700 I didn't take, but Ben calls me.
00:03:03.080 So I say, okay, I got to pick up the phone.
00:03:04.380 Hey, Ben, what's going on?
00:03:05.540 He says, hey, Knowles.
00:03:07.200 You got to watch Cuties.
00:03:09.880 Cuties?
00:03:10.360 Why do I have to watch Cuties?
00:03:11.460 Okay.
00:03:12.060 He made me watch it because obviously it's the hottest topic that anybody, it's not hot.
00:03:15.880 It's not a hot, please don't misconstrue what I'm saying.
00:03:18.960 But it is a hot topic and it's a hot political issue.
00:03:21.580 There are now calls for investigations of it.
00:03:23.440 So he said, basically, you're a cultural commentator.
00:03:25.480 I want your take on what this is.
00:03:27.440 I said, I don't want to watch this degenerate filth.
00:03:30.480 And that's the question, right?
00:03:31.700 Is Cuties degenerate filth or is it being misinterpreted like Netflix is saying that it is?
00:03:36.600 Now, I knew from the beginning that it was degenerate filth because it's a French movie and all French film is degenerate filth. 0.92
00:03:43.500 So I kind of knew that it was going to be like that going in.
00:03:46.860 I then pull up my Netflix and I see the first movie that they're promoting is Cuties, this movie about 11-year-olds twerking and being sexualized.
00:03:55.140 That's the first movie.
00:03:55.900 The second movie, Lucifer.
00:03:58.600 All right, a little on the nose here, Hollywood.
00:04:00.840 Thought we're not in for a great trip.
00:04:03.420 Then we start watching the movie.
00:04:04.980 It's me, sweet little Lisa, my two friends sitting there on the other couch.
00:04:08.020 My friend's fiance storms out of the room crying because of how creepy the movie was with the sexualizing shots of young girls.
00:04:18.880 Netflix defends it.
00:04:20.520 The left right now largely defending this movie, saying that the right is completely misconstruing it.
00:04:26.380 They didn't see it.
00:04:27.260 They barely watched the trailer.
00:04:28.780 Well, I saw it, so I can give you an honest take.
00:04:30.580 But this is what Netflix says.
00:04:32.220 Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children.
00:04:36.200 It's an award-winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up.
00:04:44.760 And we'd encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.
00:04:49.060 And the thing about it is, that description is actually correct, sort of, sort of.
00:04:57.340 But it misses the most important point.
00:05:00.560 The message of the movie could be interpreted.
00:05:04.280 Could be, doesn't need to be interpreted, but could be interpreted as against the sexualization of young girls.
00:05:11.160 The movie is about this young girl who's from a Muslim family.
00:05:15.300 And the film basically says that the Muslims are sexualized young girls, too, by marrying them off very young. 0.91
00:05:20.240 But then Western, degenerate, decadent France is also sexualizing young girls with twerking and, you know, rap music and whatever, all kind of modern culture.
00:05:29.360 And it sort of opposes that, you know, it shows some of the pitfalls of that.
00:05:34.640 It could also be interpreted as saying that young girls need to explore their sexuality and sometimes they go too far, but they need to explore it anyway.
00:05:41.440 So I'm not even saying that it totally does what Netflix is saying in the message.
00:05:46.520 But let's, just for argument's sake, let's just say that is the message of the movie.
00:05:51.240 The problem is that in presenting that message, the movie sexualizes and exploits the 11-year-old girls. 0.88
00:05:59.060 It does the thing that it says that it's against.
00:06:03.760 It would be like having a movie about how terrible it is to torture animals.
00:06:08.780 And then for an hour and a half of the movie, it's people literally torturing animals and stomping on them and punching them and throwing them against the wall.
00:06:17.180 And then at the end of the movie, it says, but maybe it's bad to torture animals.
00:06:20.420 Say, okay, well, did you have to torture all the animals to tell me how bad it is to torture animals?
00:06:24.560 No, and that's what's going on in the movie because the movie doesn't star 16-year-old girls playing 11-year-old girls or 18-year-old girls playing 11-year-old girls or 20-year-old, right?
00:06:35.380 You could imagine a world, Hollywood does this all the time, where you get an older actor or actress to play a younger actor or actress, but they didn't do that here.
00:06:44.500 It's actually 11-year-old girls with gratuitous, exploitative close-up shots of their various body parts. 1.00
00:06:53.000 I mean, there are parts of this movie that are genuinely nauseating, and they're needless.
00:06:58.220 You do not need those shots to convey the message that Netflix is saying that the movie is portraying.
00:07:04.620 Part of Netflix's defense is they said, okay, well, the poster was a little exploitative, but the movie is not that way.
00:07:10.080 The poster's from the movie.
00:07:11.260 The poster is a shot from the movie, more or less.
00:07:14.200 It's a shot from the end of the movie.
00:07:16.280 It doesn't convey the message necessarily of the movie, but it is part of the movie.
00:07:20.160 So, it is exploitative.
00:07:24.440 People are saying it's child pornography.
00:07:26.160 I mean, I guess it's not technically child pornography because the girls aren't naked or I don't know. 0.99
00:07:31.260 I mean, what is pornography, right?
00:07:32.960 As a famous Supreme Court justice said, I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.
00:07:37.500 At the very least, though, at the very least, we should all be able to agree.
00:07:40.580 This is sexually exploitative of children, of little girls, and it has no place in a decent society.
00:07:49.120 I guess it has a place in France, but it has no place in a decent society.
00:07:53.280 So, what are we to do about this?
00:07:55.540 Don't forget, Netflix is super-duper left-wing.
00:07:58.240 98% of the time that Netflix employees donate to politicians, they donate to Democrats.
00:08:05.180 And this is not some new thing on the left.
00:08:07.380 This is not some fantasy imagined by the right.
00:08:09.340 The left has been sexualizing children for, at this point, 80 years, 80 or 90 years.
00:08:14.640 This began, we talked actually a little bit about this on this show the week before I took my vacation,
00:08:19.220 which is that you have these theorists, these weird left-wing theorists in the beginning of the 30s,
00:08:25.020 talking about how we need to sexualize young kids.
00:08:27.640 There was this guy, Wilhelm Reich, very popular theorist for the left,
00:08:31.740 who said that the reason and cause of war and famine and disease and cancer
00:08:37.000 was that people weren't having enough orgasms.
00:08:39.220 Seriously, you can read about this.
00:08:40.440 He said he had discovered the life force of the universe, the orgones.
00:08:43.940 He developed a box called the orgone accumulator.
00:08:46.380 It was just a wooden box.
00:08:47.460 Woody Allen parodied it as the orgasmatron.
00:08:49.820 And there were very prominent leftists who had the orgasmatron box.
00:08:54.220 J.D. Salinger, a guy who wrote Catcher in the Rye,
00:08:56.280 Norman Mailer, considered one of the great geniuses of the left in the 20th century.
00:08:59.540 They all had this weird orgasm box.
00:09:01.780 It wasn't just this weirdo Wilhelm Reich.
00:09:03.680 It goes all the way up through the 60s and 70s in Bernie Sanders.
00:09:06.380 Bernie Sanders, who made a good play for the presidency even in 2020,
00:09:10.440 he wrote very creepy essays in the 1960s and 1970s about how we have to sexualize children
00:09:16.300 based on Reich's theories.
00:09:18.180 Because Reich's theories is that sexual repression is why we have all these evils in the world.
00:09:22.700 And when are you most sexually repressed?
00:09:24.860 When you're a child.
00:09:25.860 So we need to allow children to explore their sexuality and molest one another. 0.95
00:09:30.720 Bernie Sanders wrote essays explicitly about this, okay?
00:09:33.620 It's been building on the left for a long time,
00:09:35.680 which is why they are normalizing this kind of stuff
00:09:37.800 with the pederasty bill that we just saw in California,
00:09:40.240 also the week before I went away, and now with cuties.
00:09:43.480 So what do we do about this?
00:09:45.060 Are we now hypocrites on the issue of free speech
00:09:47.240 because we don't like this creepy, exploitative movie?
00:09:50.380 I don't think so.
00:09:51.460 Right now, Senator Ted Cruz, someone I'm visiting in Washington, D.C.,
00:09:55.440 so that we can film more episodes of our podcast Verdict,
00:09:58.220 is calling for an investigation into Netflix for promoting cuties.
00:10:01.400 He's not the only politician doing that.
00:10:03.080 I think this is very good.
00:10:07.080 It's a good political point.
00:10:07.980 This brings up a larger philosophical point,
00:10:09.720 which is we need to get more precise about the term free speech.
00:10:15.380 You're going to see a lot of squishy conservatives, quote unquote,
00:10:20.020 who are defending cuties on the grounds of free speech.
00:10:22.580 And we should be totally clear about this
00:10:24.360 and have some basic historical understanding.
00:10:27.120 The founding fathers would have jailed the people who produced cuties.
00:10:32.200 At least.
00:10:33.260 I think some of the founding fathers would have done more than jailed them.
00:10:37.080 The founding fathers, and for most of the people in our country's history,
00:10:41.540 would have had no thought that cuties is somehow protected by the First Amendment,
00:10:46.940 that it's protected free speech.
00:10:50.320 What do we mean by free speech?
00:10:52.140 The left has backed us into a corner here
00:10:53.800 because we are now, we conservatives are now the ones saying
00:10:57.780 that any type of speech is protected speech,
00:11:00.140 which is simply not true in American history.
00:11:03.920 We're saying that we're totally opposed to any kind of standards on speech,
00:11:07.480 which has never been true, not just in this country,
00:11:09.660 it's never been true anywhere.
00:11:11.300 All societies, at all times, in all places throughout history,
00:11:15.400 have had and have enforced standards about speech,
00:11:20.760 especially in this country.
00:11:22.620 The question is, what are the standards?
00:11:25.740 Well, there are plenty of things that have never been considered
00:11:27.660 protected speech in this country, beyond cuties.
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00:12:59.360 In American history,
00:13:01.100 obscenity has never been considered protected speech.
00:13:03.680 It is still not, it depends where you are,
00:13:05.420 but still in some places,
00:13:07.100 it's not considered protected speech.
00:13:09.020 Pornography, same thing,
00:13:09.960 was never considered protected speech.
00:13:11.840 We permitted it in some cases,
00:13:13.840 but we also have heavy restrictions on it.
00:13:15.700 Don't forget, during the George W. Bush administration,
00:13:17.820 at the end of the George W. Bush administration,
00:13:20.200 we jailed a pornographer simply for being so obscene.
00:13:23.560 Okay, this is not some anachronism.
00:13:25.920 This is not some anti-American idea.
00:13:28.200 It's been going on for the entirety of our country,
00:13:30.460 including as recently as two presidents ago.
00:13:33.380 Sedition, not protected speech.
00:13:35.100 You cannot be seditious,
00:13:36.920 or you can at least be prosecuted for being seditious.
00:13:39.340 Threats are not considered protected speech.
00:13:42.340 Okay, we have broad and wonderful
00:13:44.300 free speech protections in this country,
00:13:46.080 but we've got to get specific.
00:13:49.060 The brilliance of political correctness,
00:13:51.460 nobody talks about this,
00:13:52.920 but it's the genius of the whole thing.
00:13:55.600 The brilliance of political correctness
00:13:57.640 is that it backed conservatives
00:13:59.280 into a lose-lose situation.
00:14:01.380 We all know that political correctness,
00:14:03.020 which the left has used to gain a lot of power
00:14:05.020 in the last several decades,
00:14:06.540 more than several decades,
00:14:07.340 is the speech code.
00:14:10.080 But the thing about it is,
00:14:11.340 it's kind of an anti-speech code speech code.
00:14:13.800 It's a speech code designed to destroy
00:14:16.100 all of the previous standards we had on speech,
00:14:18.760 on issues of sex,
00:14:19.780 on issues of obscenity,
00:14:20.800 on issues of blasphemy,
00:14:21.800 on issues of all these sorts of things.
00:14:23.060 It's an anti-speech code speech code.
00:14:27.000 And so it puts us in a tough position
00:14:28.260 because if conservatives oppose political correctness,
00:14:31.020 which we should,
00:14:32.020 then we've either got to come out
00:14:33.440 against speech codes in general,
00:14:36.820 which is kind of what they wanted in the first place,
00:14:40.240 or we look like hypocrites
00:14:41.980 and we've got to embrace their speech code,
00:14:44.020 which would be terrible as well.
00:14:46.380 It's a damned if you do,
00:14:47.500 damned if you don't situation. 0.64
00:14:48.560 We've got to be much more specific.
00:14:52.180 We use a lot of slogans in this country.
00:14:54.340 We're using a lot of slogans these days
00:14:55.960 with Black Lives Matter,
00:14:58.260 All Lives Matter,
00:14:58.760 all that kind of stuff,
00:14:59.380 which we'll get to later.
00:15:01.400 But we need to be more specific.
00:15:03.620 What do those things mean?
00:15:05.800 What kind of speech is not protected?
00:15:07.200 Libel is not protected.
00:15:08.400 And the Trump campaign
00:15:09.160 is zeroing in on this right now.
00:15:11.060 So while I was away,
00:15:12.380 there was this absolutely preposterous,
00:15:15.340 stupid, irresponsible, 0.94
00:15:19.060 fraudulent Atlantic story
00:15:20.740 that was published.
00:15:21.480 It was written by the editor-in-chief
00:15:22.760 of The Atlantic
00:15:23.320 based on four anonymous sources
00:15:25.780 saying that Donald Trump
00:15:26.980 denigrated fallen U.S. soldiers.
00:15:30.780 That sounds about right, right?
00:15:32.180 Because the media,
00:15:32.680 they haven't lied to you
00:15:33.360 for the past four years.
00:15:34.360 And we know Trump hates the military, right?
00:15:36.240 The guy who stoops down
00:15:37.060 and picks up a Marine's hat.
00:15:38.640 The guy who runs this whole campaign
00:15:40.100 about how much he loves the military.
00:15:41.160 He probably hates the military, right?
00:15:42.640 Well, sure, The Atlantic confirmed it.
00:15:44.400 And with four anonymous sources.
00:15:46.680 And then a Fox News reporter
00:15:48.840 came out and said
00:15:50.020 that she confirmed the report
00:15:52.180 by talking to an anonymous source,
00:15:54.980 which is, by the way, not possible.
00:15:58.420 I'm not saying it's not possible
00:15:59.460 because she didn't talk to someone.
00:16:00.380 I'm saying it's not possible
00:16:01.120 because you cannot confirm
00:16:03.620 an anonymous report story
00:16:05.880 with an anonymous source.
00:16:08.140 Like, ontologically,
00:16:09.160 you cannot do that.
00:16:10.060 That is not possible.
00:16:11.540 So absolutely irresponsible stuff there.
00:16:14.400 By the way,
00:16:15.320 21 people have gone on the record
00:16:17.460 to contradict this report
00:16:19.200 that was written
00:16:20.000 by a bunch of anonymous sources.
00:16:22.500 Then, within one day of this report,
00:16:25.220 Joe Biden puts up an ad about it.
00:16:27.060 I think it was within like 12 hours.
00:16:29.560 Was there some collusion going on, perhaps?
00:16:31.500 Was this a setup?
00:16:32.380 I don't know.
00:16:32.760 It kind of looks that way.
00:16:34.360 Here's the Biden ad.
00:16:35.320 You see it in a cemetery.
00:16:39.840 Why should I go to that cemetery?
00:16:42.540 It's filled with losers.
00:16:44.180 That's what Trump allegedly said
00:16:45.340 about a military cemetery.
00:16:47.500 It's like written cartoonishly
00:16:49.140 with some Hollywood reject writer.
00:16:51.800 Suckers.
00:16:54.460 Allegedly says that mean old Mr. Trump.
00:16:58.020 We're not going to support
00:16:59.580 that loser's funeral.
00:17:01.860 Talking about John McCain.
00:17:03.440 I suppose that one he might have said.
00:17:04.720 Not because he didn't like the troops,
00:17:05.760 but because Trump
00:17:06.340 and John McCain famously
00:17:07.560 did not get along.
00:17:09.060 I don't get it,
00:17:10.220 Trump says.
00:17:10.900 What was in it for them?
00:17:12.880 Yeah.
00:17:13.380 Yeah, that's right.
00:17:14.060 Because Trump's such an idiot, right?
00:17:15.560 So he doesn't understand
00:17:16.440 the role of the military
00:17:17.460 and civic life.
00:17:18.820 If you don't respect our troops,
00:17:20.760 you cannot lead them.
00:17:23.500 That's what Biden is saying here
00:17:24.860 at the end of this Joe Biden ad.
00:17:26.520 So vote for Biden.
00:17:27.320 That's the point.
00:17:28.420 He was ready to go.
00:17:29.660 Wonder if they got
00:17:30.220 advance notice of that.
00:17:31.040 Probably they did.
00:17:31.540 Anyway, now Jenna Ellis,
00:17:34.640 friend of the show,
00:17:36.140 you've certainly seen her on this show
00:17:37.900 and when I fill in on radio for Ben,
00:17:40.160 she emailed the tech firms.
00:17:41.560 She's now Trump's legal counsel
00:17:43.600 and she instructed the big tech firms
00:17:46.140 to use their so-called fact checkers
00:17:48.360 to take down this ridiculous Joe Biden ad
00:17:50.780 based on absolutely nothing.
00:17:52.460 This libelous ad based on nothing.
00:17:56.640 Let's not forget,
00:17:57.520 libel is not protected speech.
00:18:00.120 And does this add rise
00:18:03.500 to the level of libel?
00:18:04.500 Well, there's no evidence for it.
00:18:05.780 We can at least say that.
00:18:07.920 And also, this is again
00:18:09.560 on the kind of broader
00:18:10.480 philosophical point
00:18:11.540 that conservatives need to recognize
00:18:13.320 because we need to deal
00:18:14.900 in the realities of our world.
00:18:17.220 There is no such thing
00:18:18.740 as free speech
00:18:19.880 when your political opponents
00:18:21.860 do not recognize free speech.
00:18:24.760 There's no such thing.
00:18:25.680 You are not able to live
00:18:28.220 in a regime of free speech
00:18:29.500 when half of the country
00:18:32.380 and most of the people in power
00:18:34.680 refuse to play by those rules.
00:18:37.780 Then you're just a sucker.
00:18:39.000 Then you talk about the word sucker.
00:18:40.060 Then you are a sucker
00:18:40.860 because you're playing
00:18:42.060 by a set of rules
00:18:42.840 that your opponents
00:18:43.440 will not play by.
00:18:44.420 So you will be held to standards
00:18:45.560 that they will not be held to.
00:18:47.660 So what rules do we play by?
00:18:49.980 There's a new report,
00:18:51.040 another, I suppose,
00:18:51.620 anonymous report.
00:18:53.120 But this one,
00:18:54.420 I think we should believe
00:18:55.280 and for a reason
00:18:56.380 which I'll get to in a second.
00:18:58.680 There's a report that Democrats,
00:19:00.260 if they take the Senate
00:19:02.440 and they get a lot of power
00:19:03.860 in the 2020 election,
00:19:05.640 they will move to kill
00:19:06.740 the filibuster.
00:19:08.800 Okay, and this report
00:19:09.500 comes from NBC News.
00:19:10.480 The reason I believe this report
00:19:11.560 is because NBC News
00:19:13.040 is on the same side
00:19:13.820 of the political aisle
00:19:14.560 as the Democrats
00:19:15.260 who are going to do this thing.
00:19:16.220 So I think they've got
00:19:16.900 good sources here
00:19:17.620 and I think they're leaking it
00:19:18.360 for a reason.
00:19:19.760 They're going to kill
00:19:20.380 the filibuster.
00:19:21.020 Now, what is the filibuster?
00:19:25.420 Filibuster is basically this rule
00:19:27.640 that any member of the Senate
00:19:28.800 can get up and talk
00:19:29.640 for a really, really long time
00:19:30.760 and slow down
00:19:31.640 or stop legislation.
00:19:32.840 And so you need
00:19:33.800 not just a simple majority
00:19:35.400 of the Senate
00:19:36.080 to get something through,
00:19:37.080 but very often
00:19:38.080 you need 60 votes.
00:19:40.240 Okay, and this has been
00:19:41.340 a treasured part
00:19:42.280 of the Senate
00:19:43.140 for a long time.
00:19:44.500 And they said,
00:19:45.480 this is according to NBC,
00:19:47.360 the Senate can nuke
00:19:48.400 the filibuster
00:19:48.900 with a simple majority vote,
00:19:50.160 but it would set
00:19:50.960 an irreversible precedent.
00:19:52.520 The idea of doing so
00:19:53.400 was never entertained
00:19:54.500 in Obama's presidency
00:19:55.540 and it will be a heavy lift
00:19:57.060 to stitch together
00:19:57.760 the 50 votes necessary
00:19:59.220 to do so.
00:19:59.840 But that's BS.
00:20:00.780 That's just a lie
00:20:01.400 from NBC News.
00:20:02.780 The Democrats already nuked
00:20:04.380 a lot of the filibuster
00:20:05.500 during Obama's presidency
00:20:07.020 because they wanted
00:20:07.800 to get more of Obama's
00:20:09.160 executive and judicial
00:20:10.000 appointees through
00:20:10.780 and the Republicans
00:20:11.660 were holding it up
00:20:12.440 so they just nuked
00:20:13.180 the filibuster.
00:20:14.180 And by the way,
00:20:14.720 when they did that,
00:20:15.740 Mitch McConnell warned them
00:20:17.360 that it was a horrible idea
00:20:18.500 and they were going to come
00:20:19.160 to regret it very quickly.
00:20:20.640 Here's Mr. Cocaine himself.
00:20:22.820 Once again,
00:20:23.660 Senate Democrats
00:20:24.220 are threatening
00:20:24.800 to break the rules
00:20:25.780 of the Senate,
00:20:26.820 break the rules
00:20:28.300 of the Senate
00:20:28.860 in order to change
00:20:31.180 the rules of the Senate.
00:20:32.860 And over what?
00:20:35.660 Over what?
00:20:38.360 Over a court
00:20:39.160 that doesn't even
00:20:39.720 have enough work to do?
00:20:41.340 The majority leader promised.
00:20:43.620 He promised.
00:20:44.380 Over and over again
00:20:47.740 that he wouldn't
00:20:49.320 break the rules
00:20:49.940 of the Senate
00:20:50.420 in order to change them.
00:20:51.860 If you want to play games,
00:20:54.200 set yet another precedent
00:20:55.700 that you'll no doubt
00:20:57.460 come to regret.
00:20:59.240 Say to my friends
00:21:00.080 on the other side
00:21:00.740 of the aisle,
00:21:01.160 you'll regret this
00:21:01.880 and you may regret it
00:21:03.200 a lot sooner
00:21:03.760 than you think.
00:21:05.500 You may regret it
00:21:06.680 a lot sooner
00:21:07.420 than you think.
00:21:07.960 So what does this mean
00:21:09.040 for Republicans?
00:21:09.740 What should we do?
00:21:10.700 Because I think
00:21:11.120 a lot of Republicans,
00:21:11.920 myself included,
00:21:12.800 like the filibuster,
00:21:13.780 makes the Senate
00:21:14.420 more deliberative,
00:21:15.220 it slows things down,
00:21:16.080 I really like it.
00:21:18.040 But that's not enough.
00:21:20.180 Liking it
00:21:20.720 is not enough.
00:21:23.220 Okay?
00:21:24.780 What this means
00:21:25.860 is that even though
00:21:26.680 we like the filibuster,
00:21:28.520 Senate Republicans
00:21:29.140 should probably
00:21:29.840 get rid of it.
00:21:31.000 Especially if we win
00:21:31.860 big in November,
00:21:32.780 then we should definitely
00:21:33.760 get rid of it
00:21:34.280 even though we like it.
00:21:35.780 Why?
00:21:36.420 Because we're not
00:21:37.160 going to get a cookie,
00:21:38.020 we're not going to get
00:21:38.840 a special prize
00:21:40.280 for preserving
00:21:42.000 this wonderful rule
00:21:42.920 that we all really like
00:21:43.940 when our opponents
00:21:44.980 are not going to preserve it
00:21:46.020 and they're telling us
00:21:46.980 to our faces
00:21:47.620 that they're not
00:21:48.420 going to preserve it.
00:21:49.020 So they're going to use it
00:21:49.620 to ram through their agenda
00:21:50.600 but we're supposed to play
00:21:51.600 by a different set of rules.
00:21:53.160 That ain't how politics
00:21:54.100 is supposed to work.
00:21:54.880 That's not how winning
00:21:55.500 politics works, okay?
00:21:56.680 Also, it's not as though
00:21:57.660 the filibuster is some part
00:21:58.580 of the Constitution.
00:21:59.900 Okay, the filibuster
00:22:00.600 has only been even
00:22:01.580 theoretically possible
00:22:02.440 since I think
00:22:03.060 1806, is it?
00:22:05.220 Yeah.
00:22:05.660 The Senate changed a rule
00:22:07.080 and it's been possible
00:22:08.060 since then.
00:22:08.480 It was never used,
00:22:09.360 not even once,
00:22:10.120 until 1837.
00:22:12.340 Then it was barely used
00:22:13.620 after that
00:22:14.120 until the 1970s.
00:22:15.280 Some Senate rules
00:22:15.820 changed it around,
00:22:16.740 made it a little stronger,
00:22:20.260 made it a little more in use.
00:22:23.860 Okay, I like it
00:22:24.780 and it makes the Senate
00:22:25.560 more deliberative.
00:22:27.120 We're not in a deliberative time
00:22:28.460 and we need to recognize
00:22:29.580 those rules.
00:22:30.100 It's the same thing
00:22:30.660 with the speech.
00:22:31.400 It's the same thing
00:22:32.100 with the slogans.
00:22:34.080 It's the same thing
00:22:34.900 with, I mean,
00:22:36.620 if you're looking
00:22:37.280 at the speech,
00:22:39.180 it's the same thing
00:22:40.040 with cuties, right? 0.66
00:22:42.700 What some of the conservatives,
00:22:44.780 the liberal conservatives say
00:22:45.880 is, well, look,
00:22:46.860 if we admonish cuties
00:22:48.800 and tell Netflix
00:22:49.420 to take cuties down,
00:22:50.520 well, then maybe
00:22:51.400 they'll take down
00:22:52.020 the passion of the Christ.
00:22:54.200 No, I don't think so.
00:22:55.340 I don't think those
00:22:56.060 are comparable.
00:22:56.900 I think we can make judgments
00:22:58.120 here along the way.
00:22:59.280 By the way,
00:22:59.680 they're already
00:23:00.140 taking things down.
00:23:00.920 They're taking down cop shows.
00:23:02.220 Cop shows are not going
00:23:03.100 to be allowed
00:23:03.540 on streaming platforms anymore.
00:23:06.000 They're taking down
00:23:06.600 Gone with the Wind,
00:23:07.300 one of the greatest films
00:23:08.380 ever made.
00:23:11.020 But we're supposed
00:23:11.840 to keep up cuties.
00:23:13.360 This is what
00:23:14.020 the conservatives do.
00:23:15.040 The liberal conservatives
00:23:15.820 do this.
00:23:16.620 They are always so nervous
00:23:18.440 about some hypothetical
00:23:19.380 abstract world
00:23:20.360 if we ever exercise
00:23:21.280 any power whatsoever,
00:23:22.640 they miss the fact
00:23:23.500 that the left
00:23:24.120 is already exercising
00:23:25.680 that power against us
00:23:26.600 in the real world.
00:23:28.600 But we're not,
00:23:29.400 we're not supposed
00:23:29.920 to fight back.
00:23:31.660 Okay, and they're doing,
00:23:32.640 they're trying to do it now
00:23:33.460 to get a complete lock
00:23:34.680 on virtually every election
00:23:36.760 in the country
00:23:37.300 and it has to do
00:23:38.400 with their creepy obsession
00:23:39.220 with kids.
00:23:39.880 We'll get to that
00:23:40.240 in one second.
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00:25:17.540 How else is the left
00:25:18.640 trying to completely
00:25:19.420 dominate politics?
00:25:20.460 Well,
00:25:21.180 they are
00:25:21.740 looking again at kids.
00:25:24.700 Creepy.
00:25:25.880 And this time,
00:25:26.760 it's not just to sexualize them
00:25:28.300 in weird French movies.
00:25:29.700 It is to
00:25:30.880 allow them to vote.
00:25:33.380 The left has,
00:25:34.120 for a long time,
00:25:34.640 wanted kids to vote.
00:25:35.320 Now in San Francisco,
00:25:36.540 they are trying to let
00:25:37.940 16-year-olds vote.
00:25:39.580 San Franciscans
00:25:40.500 rejected a similar proposal
00:25:41.840 in 2016,
00:25:42.520 but they only
00:25:43.260 lost that by two points.
00:25:45.560 And you know what the left does.
00:25:46.480 They just try,
00:25:47.040 try,
00:25:47.240 try again
00:25:47.720 until they get their way.
00:25:50.280 This is not just
00:25:50.960 some lunatics
00:25:51.620 out in San Francisco.
00:25:53.560 Well,
00:25:54.100 I guess it is
00:25:54.680 lunatics in San Francisco,
00:25:55.820 but even
00:25:56.180 lunatics San Franciscans 0.51
00:25:57.520 at the national level.
00:25:59.160 Nancy Pelosi supports this.
00:26:00.420 She told us so years ago.
00:26:02.040 I myself,
00:26:03.420 personally,
00:26:04.340 I'm not speaking
00:26:04.780 for my caucus.
00:26:05.960 I myself have always been
00:26:07.240 for lowering the voting
00:26:08.460 age to 16.
00:26:09.620 I think it's really important
00:26:10.980 to capture kids
00:26:12.180 when they're in high school,
00:26:13.220 when they're interested
00:26:14.160 in all of this,
00:26:15.380 when they're learning
00:26:16.060 about government
00:26:16.940 to be able to vote.
00:26:19.440 Why are they doing this?
00:26:20.560 Why do they want
00:26:21.020 16-year-olds to vote?
00:26:22.560 Is it because
00:26:23.460 16-year-olds
00:26:24.120 are so mature?
00:26:24.900 No,
00:26:25.180 these days,
00:26:25.960 I don't think
00:26:26.240 60-year-olds
00:26:26.940 are very mature.
00:26:28.000 I think people
00:26:28.380 are getting
00:26:28.700 much more immature
00:26:29.700 even as the population
00:26:31.280 gets older.
00:26:32.820 So I don't think
00:26:34.140 it's for that reason.
00:26:35.920 I think it's
00:26:36.700 for purely partisan reasons.
00:26:38.020 Young people
00:26:38.660 vote for Democrats.
00:26:41.520 One of the people
00:26:42.660 pushing for this
00:26:43.900 new ballot initiative,
00:26:46.040 it basically confirms
00:26:47.180 the purely partisan basis here.
00:26:48.540 Crystal Chan,
00:26:49.240 who's an organizer
00:26:49.760 for Vote16SF,
00:26:53.780 says,
00:26:54.580 I really think
00:26:55.080 that Vote16
00:26:55.560 will help youth
00:26:56.440 of color in San Francisco
00:26:57.660 establish the habit
00:26:58.800 of voting
00:26:59.160 at an earlier age
00:26:59.940 and really provide them
00:27:00.860 with the support
00:27:01.440 and resources
00:27:02.180 that they need
00:27:02.680 to continue building
00:27:03.400 on that habit
00:27:04.500 as they grow older.
00:27:05.360 Now notice that.
00:27:05.860 You say,
00:27:06.820 Vote16,
00:27:07.480 this is about age.
00:27:08.520 Why is this organizer
00:27:09.400 of the project
00:27:10.000 bringing race into it?
00:27:11.720 It's going to help
00:27:12.420 youth of color.
00:27:13.340 What about youth
00:27:13.880 of whiteness?
00:27:15.720 What about youth
00:27:16.500 of translucency?
00:27:18.060 It's not going
00:27:18.660 to help them vote?
00:27:19.780 No.
00:27:20.100 The reason that
00:27:20.720 they're focusing
00:27:21.240 on the young voters
00:27:23.100 is the same reason
00:27:23.780 that they're focusing
00:27:24.360 on black voters
00:27:25.840 and some other
00:27:26.640 racial minorities
00:27:27.340 is because
00:27:28.580 the Democrats
00:27:29.720 think they have
00:27:30.100 a lock on that vote
00:27:30.820 so if they can get
00:27:31.320 more of those groups
00:27:33.200 to vote,
00:27:33.760 then they're going
00:27:34.120 to win more
00:27:34.700 of the elections.
00:27:35.780 This is a purely
00:27:38.060 naked partisan move,
00:27:39.840 right?
00:27:40.860 But on the philosophical
00:27:41.700 level,
00:27:42.480 there's another issue here.
00:27:43.720 It's based on
00:27:44.260 a false understanding
00:27:45.020 of human nature
00:27:45.740 that the left
00:27:46.740 has been pushing
00:27:47.340 for a long time.
00:27:49.520 The kind of
00:27:50.140 traditional understanding
00:27:51.040 of human nature
00:27:51.680 is that man is born
00:27:53.360 a slave to his passions.
00:27:55.420 Little babies
00:27:56.060 can't do very much
00:27:57.040 on their own
00:27:57.840 and little children
00:27:58.860 are monsters.
00:28:00.120 Think Lord of the Flies,
00:28:01.600 right?
00:28:02.000 Little children
00:28:02.640 are little tyrants
00:28:03.600 and they don't know
00:28:04.320 how to behave themselves
00:28:05.160 and they're constantly
00:28:06.420 following their appetites
00:28:07.440 and they always
00:28:07.900 stuff themselves
00:28:08.680 full of cookies
00:28:09.280 and they drink
00:28:10.460 too much soda
00:28:11.060 and they get a stomach ache
00:28:12.080 and they need
00:28:12.780 to be educated
00:28:13.620 into controlling themselves
00:28:14.940 and understanding
00:28:15.480 their freedom
00:28:15.920 and only once
00:28:16.760 they're educated
00:28:17.360 in the best
00:28:18.420 sort of freedom
00:28:19.500 and civic traditions
00:28:20.500 then can they
00:28:21.660 participate
00:28:22.140 in the civil society.
00:28:25.600 What the left
00:28:26.380 tells you
00:28:26.680 is the opposite.
00:28:27.900 What the left
00:28:28.280 tells you is
00:28:28.920 and in some ways
00:28:30.040 liberalism broadly
00:28:30.880 tells you
00:28:31.320 is that people
00:28:32.200 are born free.
00:28:33.640 They're born free
00:28:34.520 and perfect
00:28:35.140 in a beautiful
00:28:35.800 blank slate
00:28:36.580 and they're totally free
00:28:37.500 and there's no such thing
00:28:38.460 as broken human nature.
00:28:39.860 There's no such thing
00:28:40.540 as the fall.
00:28:41.200 They're perfect,
00:28:42.220 you know?
00:28:42.540 But then society,
00:28:44.520 man,
00:28:44.940 that damn society,
00:28:46.400 it ruins them
00:28:47.540 and William Reich
00:28:48.760 and Bernie Sanders
00:28:49.380 would say
00:28:49.700 they're sexually repressed
00:28:51.780 and they don't have
00:28:53.040 enough orgasms
00:28:53.960 and they need
00:28:55.880 organ accumulators
00:28:56.820 in their room.
00:28:57.520 Whatever kind of crazy stuff
00:28:59.220 Bernie Sanders
00:28:59.820 was saying
00:29:00.180 in the 60s and 70s
00:29:01.120 and leftists
00:29:01.780 obviously are still
00:29:02.440 pushing today.
00:29:04.880 Society makes them 0.99
00:29:06.520 imperfect.
00:29:07.760 Society,
00:29:08.240 and if you just
00:29:09.160 fixed those issues
00:29:10.520 from the social
00:29:12.340 engineering level,
00:29:13.420 you know,
00:29:13.640 more poverty programs
00:29:14.860 or something
00:29:15.280 and at the personal
00:29:16.320 and even sexual level
00:29:17.440 from this anti-repression
00:29:19.020 and the weird boxes
00:29:19.940 that Norman Mailer
00:29:20.860 and William Reich
00:29:21.400 were pushing,
00:29:22.900 then we would have
00:29:23.980 a perfect society.
00:29:24.820 Basically that politics
00:29:26.100 and social engineering
00:29:27.100 has the ability
00:29:27.960 as long as we make
00:29:29.460 politics totally personally
00:29:30.920 even all the way down
00:29:31.600 to the sexual level
00:29:32.280 has the ability
00:29:33.160 to perfect society
00:29:34.180 and if you're trying
00:29:35.240 to do that,
00:29:36.440 if you're looking
00:29:36.840 for the most pure,
00:29:37.800 wonderful,
00:29:38.160 put together people,
00:29:39.340 you don't look
00:29:39.780 to the wisdom
00:29:40.660 of the ages.
00:29:41.380 You don't look
00:29:41.720 to older people
00:29:42.420 who have matured
00:29:43.080 and educated themselves.
00:29:44.460 You look to children.
00:29:45.660 That's the philosophical
00:29:46.400 basis here.
00:29:46.980 It's based on this
00:29:47.460 false understanding
00:29:48.520 of human nature.
00:29:49.860 Of course,
00:29:50.980 actual wisdom
00:29:51.700 does not come
00:29:52.240 from children
00:29:52.800 or from pedophiles.
00:29:54.760 It doesn't come
00:29:55.360 from either of those
00:29:56.020 despite our culture's
00:29:57.340 misunderstanding today.
00:29:59.940 Actual wisdom
00:30:00.680 tends to come
00:30:01.220 from older people.
00:30:01.940 There's a great story
00:30:02.560 that just came out
00:30:03.160 from this guy
00:30:03.740 Lawrence Brooks.
00:30:05.080 He is the oldest
00:30:05.660 living World War II veteran.
00:30:06.860 He just turned
00:30:07.520 111 years old.
00:30:09.060 Born in 1909.
00:30:12.900 Okay,
00:30:13.240 this guy says
00:30:13.900 he has the secret
00:30:14.420 to life.
00:30:15.860 Lawrence Brooks
00:30:16.320 says the secret
00:30:16.760 to life is
00:30:17.360 serve God
00:30:18.380 and be nice
00:30:18.940 to people.
00:30:20.700 So simple.
00:30:22.040 So simple
00:30:22.580 and yet we've
00:30:23.020 completely forgotten
00:30:23.660 that.
00:30:23.960 And both sides
00:30:24.540 of that are
00:30:24.860 really important.
00:30:26.300 Because if you just
00:30:27.020 say be nice
00:30:27.620 to people,
00:30:28.080 I guess that's
00:30:28.460 what the left
00:30:28.860 says,
00:30:29.320 but their niceness
00:30:30.140 isn't all that nice.
00:30:32.040 It isn't kind.
00:30:32.820 It isn't generous.
00:30:34.120 It's just saying,
00:30:34.820 oh,
00:30:34.960 we all need to just
00:30:35.760 be tolerant
00:30:36.860 with a capital T
00:30:37.680 and just kind of
00:30:38.180 get along
00:30:38.840 and we don't care
00:30:39.280 about truth
00:30:39.720 and we don't care
00:30:40.120 about purpose
00:30:40.580 and we don't care
00:30:41.260 about any injustice
00:30:42.140 or anything.
00:30:42.560 We're just going
00:30:42.780 to be really nice.
00:30:43.520 No,
00:30:43.660 you've got to serve
00:30:44.220 God first 0.89
00:30:45.080 and be nice
00:30:46.240 to people
00:30:46.580 because you can't
00:30:47.080 serve God
00:30:47.580 without being
00:30:48.360 charitable.
00:30:49.840 And so you don't
00:30:50.480 want to just be
00:30:51.160 a jerk curmudgeon
00:30:51.940 all the time.
00:30:52.600 You need to be
00:30:52.960 charitable,
00:30:53.400 but you also need
00:30:53.880 to be courageous.
00:30:54.880 You also need
00:30:55.400 to be just.
00:30:56.600 You also need
00:30:57.360 to be honest.
00:30:58.160 Very good wisdom
00:30:59.840 for life.
00:31:00.500 If I had my druthers,
00:31:01.820 that guy,
00:31:02.580 Lawrence Brooks,
00:31:03.060 would pretty much
00:31:03.600 be the only guy
00:31:04.120 to vote.
00:31:04.500 I don't even know
00:31:04.880 if he's a Democrat.
00:31:05.360 I don't think
00:31:05.680 he's a Democrat,
00:31:06.880 but I'd probably say
00:31:08.400 that guy should vote
00:31:09.200 because he has
00:31:10.540 some wisdom
00:31:11.020 and we should
00:31:12.140 encourage people
00:31:13.040 who have wisdom
00:31:13.580 to share it
00:31:14.300 with the rest of us
00:31:14.880 in our society.
00:31:15.680 Speaking of people
00:31:16.500 who are almost
00:31:17.720 as old as Lawrence Brooks
00:31:18.760 but who unfortunately
00:31:19.920 don't have any wisdom,
00:31:22.240 Joe Biden.
00:31:22.600 This is a weird story.
00:31:24.840 People were tweeting
00:31:25.400 this to me
00:31:25.840 even on my vacation.
00:31:27.060 I had to see it
00:31:27.900 because I thought
00:31:28.340 I was living
00:31:28.780 in a kind of
00:31:29.480 bizarro world universe.
00:31:31.360 You know,
00:31:31.540 over my vacation
00:31:32.240 I didn't shave
00:31:33.160 so I had like
00:31:34.060 a kind of little goatee
00:31:35.240 and then I saw
00:31:36.380 my evil twin.
00:31:38.180 He was the one
00:31:38.640 without the goatee
00:31:39.400 and I was the one
00:31:41.640 with the goatee
00:31:42.260 but it was my evil twin.
00:31:44.480 T.J. Ducklow,
00:31:45.440 Joe Biden's
00:31:46.020 national press secretary,
00:31:48.220 went on Fox News
00:31:48.980 when on Brett Baird's show
00:31:49.820 and was asked specifically
00:31:51.160 what Joe Biden
00:31:53.300 would have done differently
00:31:54.580 on coronavirus.
00:31:55.860 He had no answer.
00:31:57.140 The vice president
00:31:57.980 was not against
00:31:58.740 the travel ban
00:31:59.480 first of all.
00:32:00.020 Second of all,
00:32:00.860 let's remember
00:32:01.500 an important distinction.
00:32:04.900 Donald Trump
00:32:05.320 was the president
00:32:06.080 of the United States.
00:32:07.480 It was on Donald Trump
00:32:08.500 to take action
00:32:12.780 to actually protect
00:32:13.880 the American people.
00:32:14.460 He closed the travel to China.
00:32:16.000 Joe Biden wrote an op-ed
00:32:17.260 in USA Today in January
00:32:18.500 warning that the threat
00:32:19.500 was coming.
00:32:20.220 Joe Biden said
00:32:20.920 in February
00:32:21.500 that Donald Trump
00:32:22.360 should get people
00:32:23.040 on the ground in China.
00:32:24.600 What did Donald Trump do?
00:32:26.120 Donald Trump was praising China.
00:32:27.720 Donald Trump was
00:32:28.560 praising President Xi's response
00:32:30.340 saying that they had it
00:32:31.340 under control
00:32:32.040 when clearly he knew
00:32:33.360 as we now know
00:32:34.300 from Bob Woodward
00:32:34.980 they did not have it
00:32:35.940 under control.
00:32:36.700 He should have been
00:32:37.160 protecting the American people.
00:32:38.780 He should have been
00:32:39.100 putting real plans in place
00:32:40.500 to actually confront
00:32:41.860 this incredibly dangerous threat.
00:32:43.500 Let me just clarify.
00:32:44.620 You're saying
00:32:45.080 that Joe Biden
00:32:45.860 was for closing down travel
00:32:48.600 from China
00:32:49.140 when the president did it?
00:32:50.920 Joe Biden has been clear
00:32:52.060 and I can send you
00:32:52.660 the fact checks
00:32:53.320 if they're helpful,
00:32:54.380 Brett.
00:32:54.680 Joe Biden has been clear
00:32:55.820 that he was not against
00:32:56.760 that travel ban.
00:32:57.500 But he was for it?
00:32:59.040 Joe Biden has been clear
00:33:00.180 about this, Brett.
00:33:00.920 Again, I can send you
00:33:02.180 the fact checks
00:33:03.240 if they're helpful.
00:33:04.180 This has been fact checked
00:33:05.000 into oblivion.
00:33:06.340 It only got worse from there.
00:33:07.940 You see,
00:33:08.420 he can't give an answer.
00:33:09.500 He just talks about
00:33:10.000 the fact checks.
00:33:11.280 People did point out
00:33:12.760 at this point
00:33:13.300 that Mr. Ducklow
00:33:14.440 bears a striking resemblance
00:33:15.600 to me.
00:33:15.980 They were asking
00:33:16.560 if he was me,
00:33:18.180 you know,
00:33:18.580 if I,
00:33:19.260 and I guess I just owe
00:33:20.920 the people an explanation.
00:33:22.740 I'll just come,
00:33:23.380 I'll just come clean.
00:33:25.220 Well, you all thought
00:33:26.000 I was on vacation.
00:33:27.440 I,
00:33:27.920 I became Joe Biden's
00:33:29.380 national press secretary.
00:33:31.280 I figured right now
00:33:32.500 that's,
00:33:32.840 that's the only way
00:33:33.340 I can get on Fox these days
00:33:34.440 is, you know,
00:33:35.380 just pretend to be a liberal
00:33:36.420 and,
00:33:37.020 and Joe Biden's press secretary.
00:33:38.840 So that's what I did.
00:33:39.480 Okay, I'm sorry.
00:33:40.860 I'm sorry that I did it,
00:33:42.060 but I thought it would be
00:33:42.820 a fun troll
00:33:43.440 of the Joe Biden campaign.
00:33:44.640 And obviously Joe Biden
00:33:45.460 would have no idea
00:33:46.220 because he doesn't know
00:33:47.680 what planet he's on
00:33:48.880 these days.
00:33:49.800 I got to tell you though,
00:33:50.980 I,
00:33:51.480 T.J. Ducklow,
00:33:52.360 am a pretty weak
00:33:53.300 liberal spokesman
00:33:54.880 because,
00:33:56.180 you know,
00:33:56.840 I clearly had no answer
00:33:57.900 to that question.
00:33:58.940 And the reason is
00:34:00.000 Brett Baer,
00:34:01.300 you got to give him,
00:34:01.740 I mean,
00:34:01.880 this guy is so great.
00:34:02.860 This guy is so great
00:34:03.660 at his job.
00:34:04.280 He's pretty much
00:34:05.480 a straight shooter
00:34:06.220 when it comes to these things.
00:34:07.140 He says,
00:34:07.420 okay,
00:34:07.800 you're saying that
00:34:08.600 he was always clear
00:34:09.380 that he didn't oppose
00:34:10.420 the travel ban.
00:34:11.040 So was he for the travel ban?
00:34:13.340 Was he for it?
00:34:15.040 And the answer is
00:34:16.040 absolutely not.
00:34:17.400 How do we know that?
00:34:17.980 We have Joe Biden on record
00:34:19.060 decrying Trump's travel ban
00:34:21.640 from China
00:34:22.200 when it was instituted
00:34:23.780 as hysterical xenophobia.
00:34:26.980 Coronavirus
00:34:27.580 emanated from China.
00:34:30.520 A national emergency,
00:34:32.040 you know,
00:34:32.380 worldwide alerts.
00:34:34.680 The American people
00:34:35.560 need to have a president
00:34:36.900 who they can trust
00:34:38.040 what he says about it.
00:34:39.920 That he is going to act
00:34:41.380 rationally about it.
00:34:43.360 In moments like this,
00:34:44.820 this is where
00:34:45.700 the credibility of a president
00:34:47.180 is most needed
00:34:48.680 as he explains
00:34:50.480 what we should
00:34:51.380 and should not do.
00:34:53.060 This is no time
00:34:54.260 for Donald Trump's record
00:34:56.580 of hysteria,
00:34:58.440 xenophobia,
00:34:59.380 hysterical xenophobia.
00:35:00.620 No time for that.
00:35:03.480 No time.
00:35:04.160 By the way,
00:35:04.560 it wasn't just Joe Biden.
00:35:05.540 At the same time,
00:35:06.000 Nancy Pelosi,
00:35:07.440 during the height
00:35:08.600 of the rising coronavirus,
00:35:10.860 Nancy Pelosi goes
00:35:11.640 to Chinatown
00:35:12.400 in San Francisco.
00:35:13.300 No mask.
00:35:14.000 Ton of people all around
00:35:14.820 and says,
00:35:15.160 come on down to Chinatown.
00:35:17.140 Bill de Blasio
00:35:17.740 doing the same kind of stuff
00:35:18.520 in New York.
00:35:19.280 All of these liberals
00:35:20.180 were completely downplaying
00:35:21.160 the virus,
00:35:21.820 trying to keep travel open
00:35:22.760 with China,
00:35:23.700 trying to get people
00:35:24.380 out in the open.
00:35:25.160 They're still doing it
00:35:25.800 with the BLM riots.
00:35:26.860 They're saying,
00:35:27.140 yeah, go out and riot
00:35:27.880 and we'll be together.
00:35:29.380 But if you ever show up
00:35:30.380 to anything conservative,
00:35:31.340 then everyone's going to
00:35:32.200 die of coronavirus.
00:35:33.040 So they have no answer
00:35:34.240 whatsoever.
00:35:35.180 I do feel a little bit
00:35:36.620 sorry for Mr. Ducklow
00:35:38.140 because the campaign
00:35:40.360 is only as good
00:35:40.980 as the candidate
00:35:41.540 most of the time.
00:35:43.460 Okay?
00:35:43.760 And Joe Biden,
00:35:45.060 as a candidate,
00:35:45.880 is completely failing.
00:35:47.100 He was asked a question
00:35:47.940 about whether or not
00:35:49.480 he's losing a step or two,
00:35:51.340 whether he loses
00:35:52.240 his train of thought.
00:35:53.900 And what does he do?
00:35:55.040 He says it's
00:35:55.540 completely ridiculous.
00:35:56.460 And while he's explaining
00:35:57.140 why he doesn't lose
00:35:57.780 his train of thought,
00:35:59.220 he loses his train of thought.
00:36:02.000 Just look at us.
00:36:03.660 Okay?
00:36:04.580 Just look at us.
00:36:05.980 Who seems to be in shape?
00:36:07.740 Who's able to move around?
00:36:09.500 Who's, I mean,
00:36:09.980 this idea of, you know,
00:36:12.420 slow Joe.
00:36:15.800 I, anyway,
00:36:17.260 I shouldn't laugh about it
00:36:19.080 because, anyway,
00:36:22.000 Donald Trump,
00:36:23.060 just look at us both.
00:36:24.340 Watch us.
00:36:25.040 And determine whether or not
00:36:26.520 you think I'm misleading anyone.
00:36:29.780 Not you personally,
00:36:31.160 but the public.
00:36:32.440 You know,
00:36:32.940 look at me.
00:36:34.840 What?
00:36:35.200 You think I would lose
00:36:36.220 my train of thought?
00:36:37.760 What do you think?
00:36:38.380 People would say,
00:36:39.040 people have said
00:36:39.700 that I would lose
00:36:40.280 my train of thought.
00:36:41.220 What, just because
00:36:41.600 I saw a butterfly?
00:36:42.740 What?
00:36:43.020 You mean like
00:36:43.380 a monarch butterfly?
00:36:44.700 One of those cute little
00:36:45.580 black and orange butterflies
00:36:47.100 fluttering all around you
00:36:48.240 every which way,
00:36:49.180 kind of blowing around
00:36:50.020 in the wind.
00:36:50.560 That's so nice
00:36:51.360 on a nice,
00:36:52.120 light, breezy day
00:36:52.980 at the end of August.
00:36:53.880 Labor Day weekend
00:36:54.540 is a great time.
00:36:55.620 I love Labor Day.
00:36:56.480 Love American Labor.
00:36:57.100 What were we talking about?
00:36:57.860 What were we talking about again?
00:36:59.540 What was that?
00:37:00.200 Losing my train of thought?
00:37:01.140 Yeah.
00:37:01.400 So,
00:37:02.040 with that guy
00:37:02.760 at the top of the ticket,
00:37:04.080 he's obviously
00:37:04.660 not calling the shots.
00:37:05.620 And so,
00:37:06.640 even with old moderate Joe,
00:37:08.120 who's by the way
00:37:08.700 not moderate,
00:37:09.360 he's just an empty suit
00:37:10.260 who goes like that butterfly
00:37:11.600 whichever way the wind blows,
00:37:13.660 the party is being led
00:37:15.140 by the radicals.
00:37:16.440 And the radicals
00:37:17.120 hate this country
00:37:17.880 and the radicals
00:37:18.620 don't understand this country.
00:37:19.780 Most especially
00:37:20.360 that very poor
00:37:22.380 dishonest historian
00:37:23.560 who did the New York Times'
00:37:25.060 1619 Project.
00:37:26.200 We'll get to that
00:37:26.500 in one second.
00:37:27.180 First,
00:37:27.520 oh,
00:37:27.720 gotta say goodbye
00:37:28.300 to YouTube.
00:37:29.080 Actually,
00:37:29.860 I sort of do have to say
00:37:31.540 goodbye to YouTube
00:37:32.040 in a larger sense
00:37:33.060 because if you're watching
00:37:34.080 this show on YouTube,
00:37:34.720 you're probably watching this
00:37:36.360 on the Daily Wire
00:37:37.280 YouTube channel.
00:37:38.140 But starting on
00:37:39.060 September 28th,
00:37:40.640 we are only going to be
00:37:41.920 broadcasting the show
00:37:42.720 on YouTube
00:37:43.080 on the Michael Knowles Show
00:37:44.700 YouTube channel.
00:37:46.340 Only on that one
00:37:47.220 because I want to get
00:37:47.980 all the clicks
00:37:48.420 and I don't want Ben
00:37:48.980 to get the clicks.
00:37:49.740 That's amazing.
00:37:50.100 No,
00:37:50.300 because we just find
00:37:51.880 it's a little bit easier
00:37:52.700 these days with big tech
00:37:53.800 if we have the shows
00:37:55.300 on the show channel.
00:37:56.280 So,
00:37:56.460 make sure you head on over
00:37:57.480 to the Michael Knowles Show
00:37:59.000 YouTube channel.
00:38:00.040 Subscribe,
00:38:00.700 ring the bell.
00:38:01.420 They might still unsubscribe
00:38:02.220 you anyway
00:38:02.700 because there's a lot
00:38:03.480 of shenanigans
00:38:03.940 going on these days
00:38:04.860 of the 2020 election.
00:38:06.900 But head on over there
00:38:07.600 anyway.
00:38:08.340 We'd appreciate it.
00:38:09.140 Go over there,
00:38:09.620 ring the bell right now.
00:38:10.260 We also have a lot
00:38:10.760 of extra content
00:38:11.500 there beyond just the show.
00:38:13.440 I just took a cognitive test
00:38:14.840 that Joe Biden
00:38:15.920 is apparently taking
00:38:17.400 that President Trump aced.
00:38:18.960 We can figure out
00:38:19.720 whether I'm a very stable genius
00:38:20.780 like the president
00:38:21.360 or if my brain is full
00:38:22.400 of tapioca pudding
00:38:23.160 like the Democratic nominee.
00:38:25.220 Subscribe to the channel,
00:38:26.500 ring the bell,
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00:38:33.860 with a lot more.
00:38:46.840 In the mental absence
00:38:48.460 of Joe Biden,
00:38:49.440 the Democratic Party
00:38:50.240 is being led
00:38:51.040 by anti-American radicals.
00:38:52.880 And I can even get over
00:38:54.240 their hatred of the country,
00:38:55.540 or at least I can understand it.
00:38:57.120 What's harder to get over
00:38:58.280 and to understand
00:38:59.280 is how these people
00:39:00.660 of prominence on the left
00:39:01.880 don't even understand
00:39:03.400 the words that they're using.
00:39:05.460 The head of the 1619 project
00:39:07.060 that, well, what's her name?
00:39:08.560 Hannah Jones.
00:39:09.520 Hannah Jones over
00:39:10.220 at the New York Times.
00:39:11.200 This completely astroturfed project
00:39:13.240 where the New York Times
00:39:14.080 deceptively used $3 million
00:39:15.920 to try to promote it,
00:39:17.180 even though academic historians
00:39:18.680 on the left even
00:39:20.160 were saying that it was
00:39:20.940 completely anti-historical.
00:39:22.160 The central thesis
00:39:22.820 was complete BS.
00:39:24.420 Now this is being taught
00:39:25.260 as history.
00:39:26.300 Turns out this woman 1.00
00:39:27.100 who's come out
00:39:28.020 against American exceptionalism
00:39:29.560 doesn't even know
00:39:30.860 what American exceptionalism means.
00:39:33.100 The audio is a little hard to hear.
00:39:35.100 This was on a 1619 project
00:39:36.700 conversation from Campus Reform.
00:39:39.040 Take a listen.
00:39:40.460 If this country,
00:39:42.060 you know, I don't think
00:39:42.700 that we are an exceptional nation.
00:39:44.100 I think that that's ludicrous
00:39:45.500 for any nation
00:39:46.180 to make that claim.
00:39:47.260 And we certainly
00:39:48.100 cannot make that claim.
00:39:50.620 We're a nation founded
00:39:51.600 on genocide
00:39:52.240 and chattel slavery
00:39:53.500 and classism
00:39:54.580 and gender discrimination.
00:39:56.100 I mean, we're not.
00:39:57.240 We had exceptional ideas,
00:39:58.640 but we are not
00:39:59.060 an exceptional nation.
00:40:00.900 We're not an exceptional nation.
00:40:02.960 We had exceptional ideas,
00:40:04.220 but we're not exceptional,
00:40:05.260 exceptional, exceptional.
00:40:06.060 She doesn't know
00:40:06.880 the meaning
00:40:08.000 of the word exceptional
00:40:09.500 in American exceptionalism.
00:40:11.000 What does,
00:40:11.500 I think actually,
00:40:12.160 even some conservatives
00:40:13.660 don't quite get it.
00:40:14.460 They obviously get it
00:40:15.020 a lot better than she does.
00:40:17.640 The idea that America
00:40:19.280 is an exceptional nation
00:40:20.660 is not merely a boast.
00:40:23.220 It is not saying
00:40:23.960 America's just a super-duper,
00:40:25.800 greatest nation ever.
00:40:27.020 That's not all it's saying.
00:40:29.520 It's not making
00:40:30.800 a normative claim
00:40:32.480 about the country.
00:40:33.300 It's also making
00:40:33.960 just a purely descriptive,
00:40:35.560 positive statement
00:40:36.140 about the country,
00:40:36.660 which is,
00:40:38.140 America is an exception 0.54
00:40:39.860 to the general rule
00:40:41.360 of nations.
00:40:42.340 Why?
00:40:42.900 Because it was founded
00:40:44.160 and developed
00:40:44.920 in a different way.
00:40:46.920 It's just different.
00:40:48.380 It's the exception
00:40:49.420 to the rule.
00:40:51.080 What's the rule of nations?
00:40:52.040 Well,
00:40:52.360 they exist for a very long time
00:40:53.960 and their origins
00:40:55.840 go all the way back
00:40:56.880 to the murky foundations
00:40:57.940 of history
00:40:58.520 that are often lost
00:40:59.640 to history.
00:41:00.540 This is true
00:41:00.860 of the European nations.
00:41:01.780 This is true
00:41:02.180 of nations
00:41:03.160 and proto-nations
00:41:04.600 in Asia
00:41:05.860 and the Americas
00:41:06.900 and in Africa.
00:41:08.560 But our country,
00:41:09.920 the United States,
00:41:10.720 was founded
00:41:11.340 after the discovery
00:41:12.400 of the New World
00:41:12.960 by these European settlers
00:41:13.980 who came over there,
00:41:15.060 who had distinct ideas,
00:41:16.740 who broke from certain
00:41:19.100 general habits
00:41:21.360 of how nations are founded.
00:41:22.700 And that's why
00:41:23.180 it's exceptional.
00:41:24.440 Because of America's 0.59
00:41:25.340 unique founding
00:41:26.880 and development,
00:41:27.580 it has a unique role
00:41:28.960 and position in the world.
00:41:30.400 Simple as that.
00:41:31.100 You can't deny that.
00:41:32.260 That's merely
00:41:32.720 an historical fact.
00:41:34.000 But this gets to
00:41:34.860 our broader point today
00:41:36.000 on the slogans.
00:41:37.100 You gotta get down
00:41:37.780 to what the slogans mean.
00:41:39.200 September 11th,
00:41:39.980 the anniversary
00:41:40.480 of the September 11th attacks
00:41:42.080 was just a few days ago.
00:41:43.740 Top trend on Twitter
00:41:44.580 that day was hashtag
00:41:45.840 never forget.
00:41:47.000 The second top trend
00:41:47.840 was hashtag
00:41:48.900 all buildings matter.
00:41:51.420 Get it?
00:41:52.080 Aha, get it?
00:41:54.240 I guess they were
00:41:55.160 making a point
00:41:56.240 that because conservatives
00:42:00.460 say that all lives matter
00:42:02.100 in response to
00:42:02.640 black lives matter,
00:42:03.700 that when we talk about
00:42:04.320 the September 11th
00:42:05.080 terrorist attacks,
00:42:05.920 we need to say
00:42:06.540 all buildings matter
00:42:07.380 and not talk about
00:42:08.080 the September 11th attacks.
00:42:09.620 The blue check marks
00:42:10.680 on the left
00:42:11.220 were celebrating
00:42:12.200 this hashtag
00:42:12.820 for making some point
00:42:14.300 allegedly about
00:42:15.100 all lives matter.
00:42:15.980 But like all slogans,
00:42:18.000 you gotta get down
00:42:18.740 to what the slogans mean.
00:42:19.640 You know I hate slogans.
00:42:21.260 I hate slogans
00:42:22.120 because I hate ideology.
00:42:23.840 Because slogans
00:42:24.740 like ideology
00:42:25.420 can never
00:42:26.200 comprise
00:42:28.580 and sum up
00:42:30.200 the totality
00:42:31.260 of the human experience.
00:42:32.660 So you gotta get into
00:42:33.220 what does it mean?
00:42:34.600 Well,
00:42:35.040 what does never forget mean?
00:42:36.380 Never forget means
00:42:37.240 that the September 11th
00:42:39.320 terrorist attacks
00:42:40.360 were horrific,
00:42:41.200 they were traumatic,
00:42:41.940 they changed
00:42:43.140 in some ways
00:42:44.740 American policy,
00:42:46.420 they showed us
00:42:47.380 our vulnerabilities
00:42:48.200 that we thought
00:42:48.760 we didn't have
00:42:49.420 or we had at least
00:42:50.200 forgotten that we had
00:42:51.000 since at least 1941
00:42:52.480 and really even before that
00:42:53.940 because Pearl Harbor
00:42:55.040 was not in the continental
00:42:55.980 United States,
00:42:57.140 9-11 was.
00:42:58.000 Pearl Harbor targeted
00:42:58.840 soldiers and sailors
00:43:00.620 and 9-11 targeted civilians.
00:43:02.720 So it changed things,
00:43:03.420 changed the nature of war.
00:43:04.640 That's what it means.
00:43:05.340 What does all buildings matter mean?
00:43:06.640 Well,
00:43:06.820 what people who say
00:43:07.680 that really mean is
00:43:08.500 yeah,
00:43:09.160 don't worry about 9-11.
00:43:10.120 It wasn't that big a deal.
00:43:11.480 It's, you know,
00:43:11.900 it's just like other attacks.
00:43:13.500 Black lives matter.
00:43:14.160 What does that mean?
00:43:14.860 It doesn't just mean
00:43:15.380 black lives matter.
00:43:16.120 What it means is
00:43:17.100 that America is
00:43:18.800 systemically oppressive
00:43:20.200 and unjust against black people,
00:43:21.680 that there's a scourge
00:43:22.660 of cops in this country
00:43:23.620 who are racist
00:43:24.180 hunting down
00:43:24.800 innocent black men 0.99
00:43:25.960 who,
00:43:26.740 like LeBron James says,
00:43:28.140 can't even leave their home
00:43:29.020 without being hunted down.
00:43:30.240 That's just not true.
00:43:31.240 That's just demonstrably false.
00:43:33.140 You can,
00:43:33.580 you can look at any
00:43:34.720 of the facts
00:43:36.540 of that situation.
00:43:37.400 You see that is,
00:43:38.140 that is simply
00:43:38.620 not happening.
00:43:39.880 And then all lives matter.
00:43:40.740 What does all lives matter mean?
00:43:42.360 All life is sacred.
00:43:43.420 It kind of gets back
00:43:44.040 to the equality principle
00:43:44.860 from the Declaration
00:43:45.540 that we hold these truths
00:43:47.520 to be self-evident
00:43:48.100 that all men are created 1.00
00:43:48.980 equal and endowed
00:43:49.900 with certain unalienable rights
00:43:51.120 by their creator,
00:43:52.340 which is true
00:43:53.540 very much in the American tradition.
00:43:56.640 Those things mean
00:43:57.360 different things.
00:43:57.760 So what do we like?
00:43:58.280 Well, yeah,
00:43:58.900 I like all lives matter.
00:43:59.940 I don't like black lives matter. 1.00
00:44:01.340 Don't like all buildings matter.
00:44:02.840 I do like never forget.
00:44:03.800 There's nothing hypocritical
00:44:04.660 about saying that.
00:44:05.280 You gotta go beyond
00:44:06.940 the headline.
00:44:08.120 Sometimes the left will say,
00:44:09.100 well, you say you're pro-life,
00:44:10.500 but you don't want
00:44:11.220 a bunch of stupid
00:44:11.900 welfare programs.
00:44:12.820 So you're not really pro-life.
00:44:14.520 Well, okay,
00:44:15.260 well, what do we mean
00:44:15.780 by pro-life?
00:44:16.260 I don't think you should be able
00:44:17.100 to kill babies in the womb. 0.96
00:44:18.440 That's what I'm really saying
00:44:19.220 when I say I'm pro-life.
00:44:20.180 So you say you're pro-life,
00:44:22.080 but you're for the death penalty?
00:44:23.400 Yes, I think we should be able
00:44:24.980 to execute rapists
00:44:26.100 and murderers,
00:44:26.800 and it's perfectly legitimate
00:44:27.960 for the state
00:44:28.480 to have that power
00:44:29.140 as it always has.
00:44:30.660 And also,
00:44:31.400 we shouldn't kill
00:44:31.880 innocent babies in the womb.
00:44:32.980 Yep, that's what I'm saying.
00:44:34.100 Nothing hypocritical about that.
00:44:35.260 You just have to go
00:44:36.080 beyond the slogan, okay?
00:44:38.900 Same goes for free speech,
00:44:40.200 as we were talking about.
00:44:41.220 What does free speech mean?
00:44:42.920 Does it mean you could always
00:44:44.000 just say anything
00:44:45.580 that you want?
00:44:46.440 No, it's never meant
00:44:47.340 that anywhere,
00:44:48.880 including and especially
00:44:49.740 in the United States,
00:44:50.720 for all those examples
00:44:51.660 we listed earlier.
00:44:53.840 And we know,
00:44:54.600 we know that the left's
00:44:55.680 most effective tool
00:44:56.840 is language.
00:44:58.440 That's how they manipulate
00:44:59.260 the culture,
00:45:00.080 with things like
00:45:00.640 political correctness.
00:45:01.800 Here's a great example.
00:45:03.180 Here's a great example.
00:45:04.660 A group of black families
00:45:06.080 just bought 97 acres
00:45:07.280 for a safe haven
00:45:08.300 in eastern Georgia.
00:45:10.460 19 black families
00:45:11.480 pooled their resources.
00:45:12.380 They purchased 97 acres
00:45:13.460 of land in eastern Georgia
00:45:14.760 as a safe space
00:45:15.580 for black families.
00:45:17.240 And the real estate agent
00:45:18.460 who did this,
00:45:18.920 Ashley Scott,
00:45:19.520 declared to CNN
00:45:20.260 that, quote,
00:45:21.920 I'm hoping that this
00:45:22.960 will be a thriving safe haven
00:45:24.160 for people of color,
00:45:25.300 for black families
00:45:26.080 in particular.
00:45:28.280 Okay.
00:45:29.380 That sounds so nice, right?
00:45:30.940 Doesn't that sound
00:45:31.360 so safe haven?
00:45:32.120 That's so wonderful.
00:45:33.360 Now replace the race. 1.00
00:45:34.980 Let's say 19 white families 0.65
00:45:37.460 pooled their resources
00:45:38.620 and purchased 97 acres
00:45:40.300 of land and said,
00:45:41.660 I'm hoping this is
00:45:42.260 a thriving safe haven
00:45:43.200 for white people,
00:45:44.440 for white families,
00:45:45.740 not for black people. 1.00
00:45:46.840 They can't come in here.
00:45:47.680 No, I don't think
00:45:48.340 we would like that,
00:45:48.980 would we?
00:45:49.400 We'd say that's illegal.
00:45:50.460 That's unconstitutional.
00:45:51.640 That violates the Civil Rights Act.
00:45:53.960 Actually,
00:45:54.480 they're doing it right now.
00:45:55.360 President Trump
00:45:55.840 has been touting
00:45:56.380 this new executive order
00:45:58.520 he has,
00:45:59.040 which rescinds
00:45:59.840 an Obama-era rule
00:46:00.900 called the AFFH rule.
00:46:02.140 He keeps referring to it
00:46:03.100 as the suburban lifestyle dream.
00:46:04.400 Basically,
00:46:04.760 there was this rule
00:46:05.260 under Obama
00:46:05.820 that said that
00:46:07.100 the federal government
00:46:07.740 could seize a lot of power
00:46:08.900 from local communities,
00:46:11.120 in particular in the suburbs,
00:46:12.360 and bring in
00:46:13.100 a lot of low-income housing.
00:46:15.240 It was ostensibly
00:46:16.300 in the name of racism,
00:46:17.180 really wasn't,
00:46:17.760 or anti-racism.
00:46:18.660 It wasn't really that.
00:46:19.820 The whole reason
00:46:20.420 was to basically
00:46:20.860 just shift reliable
00:46:22.040 Democratic voters
00:46:22.820 up into the suburbs
00:46:23.620 because the suburbs
00:46:24.320 are purple.
00:46:24.760 So if you can bring in
00:46:25.700 more Democratic voters,
00:46:26.600 they'll shift blue. 0.78
00:46:28.280 And they said,
00:46:28.740 this is all in the name
00:46:29.400 of racial equality.
00:46:30.460 So, okay,
00:46:30.820 that's good.
00:46:32.300 Federal government
00:46:32.720 can come in,
00:46:33.700 take a ton of power
00:46:34.700 away from local communities,
00:46:36.220 and all in the name
00:46:37.620 of racial equality.
00:46:38.540 But when black families 1.00
00:46:41.460 purchase some land
00:46:42.240 and they say,
00:46:42.680 we don't want any white people here, 1.00
00:46:43.680 that's totally fine.
00:46:44.540 Of course not.
00:46:45.560 It's just about the way
00:46:46.680 you look at it.
00:46:47.460 It's a way the language
00:46:48.360 is used.
00:46:49.480 Are we talking about
00:46:50.120 a safe haven
00:46:50.620 or are we talking
00:46:51.120 about segregation?
00:46:52.200 Meanwhile,
00:46:53.120 BLM rioters 1.00
00:46:53.900 are celebrating
00:46:55.040 the attempted murder
00:46:56.560 of two cops.
00:46:58.600 You may have seen
00:46:59.660 this video.
00:47:00.280 This happened in,
00:47:01.280 I think this happened
00:47:02.360 in LA
00:47:03.960 while I was away
00:47:06.160 or just getting back.
00:47:07.300 Some thug walks up
00:47:08.320 to two cops
00:47:08.880 sitting in a car,
00:47:10.280 totally unprovoked,
00:47:11.420 and shoots the two cops.
00:47:12.900 Then,
00:47:14.040 BLM activists
00:47:14.840 blocked the hospital
00:47:16.020 where they were
00:47:17.480 supposed to be treated.
00:47:18.480 They blocked
00:47:18.820 the emergency room
00:47:19.720 because they wanted
00:47:20.760 the cops
00:47:21.880 to die.
00:47:22.980 Take a listen.
00:47:23.920 And I want to
00:47:24.500 deliver the message
00:47:25.220 to the f***ing people. 0.82
00:47:27.280 I'll f***ing say
00:47:27.880 f***ing die. 0.97
00:47:29.160 Alright,
00:47:29.560 it's hard to hear
00:47:29.980 because you've got to
00:47:30.340 bleep so much of this guy,
00:47:31.360 but he says,
00:47:32.100 yeah,
00:47:32.160 I hope they f***ing die.
00:47:33.200 Who are they?
00:47:34.480 31-year-old mother
00:47:35.420 and a 24-year-old man.
00:47:38.640 Think about this.
00:47:39.420 Think about what,
00:47:40.420 think about the
00:47:40.840 Me Too movement.
00:47:41.520 We're told that
00:47:41.920 if a man treats a woman,
00:47:43.520 if a man propositions
00:47:45.060 a woman,
00:47:46.160 that that's evil
00:47:46.920 and awful.
00:47:47.400 If a man asks a woman 1.00
00:47:48.160 out on a date
00:47:48.740 in an inappropriate situation,
00:47:49.960 that's evil
00:47:50.380 and awful,
00:47:50.840 terrible.
00:47:51.880 But
00:47:52.600 a man can go shoot
00:47:55.200 a 31-year-old mother.
00:47:56.300 Totally fine.
00:47:56.600 If a man,
00:47:57.200 God forbid,
00:47:57.600 beats a woman, 0.58
00:47:58.520 beats his wife,
00:47:59.180 beats his girlfriend,
00:47:59.800 it's like the worst thing ever,
00:48:00.600 right?
00:48:00.940 But then this man
00:48:01.860 goes up and shoots
00:48:02.880 a 31-year-old mother
00:48:04.000 and prominent
00:48:06.040 left-wing activists,
00:48:07.260 a BLM movement,
00:48:08.200 right,
00:48:08.400 which has tormented
00:48:09.900 our cities
00:48:10.700 for months now,
00:48:12.540 says,
00:48:13.320 oh,
00:48:13.380 that's all well and good.
00:48:14.420 What happened
00:48:14.940 to that kind of stuff?
00:48:15.960 By the way,
00:48:16.160 what happened to Me Too
00:48:16.840 with Cuties?
00:48:17.920 Cuties is sexually
00:48:18.680 exploiting these young girls, 0.60
00:48:20.120 all in the name
00:48:20.780 of opposing sexual exploitation
00:48:22.200 of young girls.
00:48:22.800 Okay,
00:48:23.180 but they're sexually
00:48:24.040 exploiting them
00:48:24.860 all during the Me Too movement.
00:48:28.020 What kind of a country
00:48:29.560 celebrates this stuff?
00:48:31.740 What kind of a country?
00:48:32.860 What kind of country
00:48:33.440 do we want to have?
00:48:35.020 What kind of country
00:48:35.640 do we have?
00:48:36.260 I come back
00:48:38.120 from my vacation.
00:48:40.140 Hollywood is promoting
00:48:41.360 pedo movies
00:48:42.060 and is literally
00:48:44.140 burning to the ground.
00:48:45.940 We haven't been permitted
00:48:47.560 to go outside
00:48:48.520 in a very long time.
00:48:50.960 Okay,
00:48:51.260 Dr. Fauci.
00:48:52.580 Dr. Fauci just came out.
00:48:53.780 Remember,
00:48:54.180 remember 15 days
00:48:56.280 to slow the spread?
00:48:56.980 I think that was
00:48:57.260 187 days ago.
00:48:58.520 You know what he says now?
00:48:59.820 He says now we're going
00:49:00.700 to have to hunker down
00:49:01.380 through the fall
00:49:01.980 and the winter.
00:49:03.320 We're rounding the turn.
00:49:04.720 You see what's happening.
00:49:05.600 You see the numbers
00:49:06.520 are plunging.
00:49:07.660 I'm sorry,
00:49:08.100 but I have to disagree
00:49:08.900 with that because
00:49:09.720 we're plateauing
00:49:11.220 at around 40,000 cases
00:49:13.580 a day
00:49:14.740 and the deaths
00:49:15.920 are around 1,000.
00:49:17.480 I just think we need
00:49:18.420 to hunker down
00:49:19.280 and get through
00:49:20.440 this fall and winter
00:49:22.140 because it's not
00:49:23.440 going to be easy.
00:49:25.240 Just got to hunker down.
00:49:26.980 Just got to hunker down
00:49:28.200 for another 15 days.
00:49:30.580 Sorry,
00:49:31.160 I meant 15 months.
00:49:31.800 Sorry,
00:49:32.000 I meant 15 years.
00:49:32.740 Just hunker down forever,
00:49:33.840 says Fauci.
00:49:34.520 That's not science.
00:49:36.300 And that's not self-government.
00:49:38.080 And that's not life.
00:49:38.900 I loved going to Utah
00:49:39.640 because I was basically free.
00:49:41.120 I could kind of do
00:49:41.560 whatever I want.
00:49:42.680 My mask pretty much
00:49:44.020 never leapt above my nose.
00:49:46.100 Often it was kind of
00:49:46.560 just dangling down.
00:49:48.040 No one cared.
00:49:49.320 Nobody was following
00:49:50.940 these draconian measures
00:49:52.140 not rooted in science
00:49:53.780 and not rooted in philosophy
00:49:56.120 and not rooted
00:49:56.940 in our best traditions.
00:49:58.200 What kind of country
00:49:58.760 do we want?
00:49:59.140 Do we want to be a country
00:49:59.840 that has gone with the wind
00:50:01.520 and cop shows
00:50:02.280 or do we want to be a country
00:50:04.240 that has cuties? 0.98
00:50:05.360 Because it looks like
00:50:06.340 we can only have one.
00:50:07.220 It looks like
00:50:07.780 either you can have
00:50:09.320 some of the greatest movies
00:50:09.980 ever made
00:50:10.460 or you can have cuties.
00:50:11.940 Are we going to be a country
00:50:13.400 that hates itself,
00:50:15.500 that wants to burn it
00:50:16.260 to the ground
00:50:16.620 or we want to be a country
00:50:17.380 that wants to build it up?
00:50:18.620 Are we going to be a country
00:50:19.240 that all lives together,
00:50:20.080 gets along?
00:50:20.760 We're going to be a country
00:50:21.420 that segregates ourselves.
00:50:23.380 What kind of country
00:50:24.260 do we want to be?
00:50:25.500 That's a question
00:50:26.040 for self-government.
00:50:27.280 That's a question
00:50:27.860 that forces us
00:50:28.840 to use our free speech,
00:50:29.960 proper speech.
00:50:31.500 Do we want to be a country
00:50:32.280 ruled by 16-year-olds
00:50:34.320 and the exploiters
00:50:35.740 of 16-year-olds
00:50:36.380 and the exploiters
00:50:36.960 of 11-year-olds?
00:50:37.960 Or do we want to be a country
00:50:39.160 that is governed
00:50:40.100 by good people
00:50:41.300 trying to do good things?
00:50:43.400 What is that?
00:50:44.420 Okay, we can't,
00:50:45.540 what the right has done
00:50:46.820 for many decades
00:50:47.780 is cede all of that ground
00:50:49.260 and say,
00:50:49.580 well, we can't know
00:50:50.200 what's right.
00:50:50.800 I don't know.
00:50:51.340 We'll just let the left
00:50:52.140 have the only positive definition
00:50:54.160 of good or bad
00:50:55.340 and we'll just kind of
00:50:56.500 pretend everything's neutral
00:50:57.580 and we'll sit back
00:50:58.420 and we won't do anything.
00:50:59.940 Well,
00:51:01.060 neutrality in times
00:51:02.420 of great peril
00:51:03.200 and evil
00:51:03.660 is perilous
00:51:05.620 and evil itself.
00:51:07.080 You've got,
00:51:07.780 you've got to have
00:51:08.560 a content here.
00:51:10.420 Free speech,
00:51:11.080 well, what are we going to say?
00:51:12.400 We have to know
00:51:13.100 what we're going to say
00:51:13.700 and we have to know
00:51:14.240 what we're going to do.
00:51:15.860 That's our show.
00:51:16.800 Very pleased to be back
00:51:17.680 with you all.
00:51:18.440 I will see you tomorrow.
00:51:19.580 I'm Michael Knowles.
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