The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 610 - Sodom By The Sea

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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.

00:01:29.180 We'll get to that a little bit later.

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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.

00:11:29.800 We'll get to that in one second.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 14, 2020

Ep. 610 - Sodom By The Sea

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