The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 626 - Political Hacks

00:00:00.000 Steve Scully, the political editor of C-SPAN and the man who was supposed to moderate the

00:00:05.620 second presidential debate, was caught chatting with a very anti-Trump voice over the weekend

00:00:12.220 on Twitter. He was tweeting with Anthony Scaramucci. He thought this was supposed to be

00:00:17.100 private. He sent out this tweet. He said, Scaramucci, should I respond to Trump? Now,

00:00:21.700 this was clearly intended to be a private message, and yet it went out publicly. The

00:00:25.900 way that Twitter used to work, it was a little confusing how to do each of those things.

00:00:30.000 Now, obviously, they're much different. So what does Scully say? He says he was hacked.

00:00:36.480 This is the line. Steve Scully notified us that his Twitter account was hacked, according to

00:00:41.260 the Commission on Presidential Debates. CPD, the Commission on Presidential Debates, reported the

00:00:46.640 apparent hack to the FBI and Twitter, and we understand the federal authorities are looking

00:00:50.300 into the issue. There is a hack here, all right. There are hacks all around us, as a matter of fact.

00:00:56.980 And one thing they have in common is all these hacks are trying to take down Donald Trump.

00:01:02.680 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:11.920 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from last Thursday was Brandon. Brandon, who said,

00:01:17.840 I suppose this is with regard to that video of Chris Rock and Mark Ruffalo and all of these other

00:01:25.020 celebrities getting naked and telling you to vote for Biden. He says, this is not what I meant when

00:01:30.580 I said to expose the liberals. Fair enough. Absolutely fair enough. Scaramucci himself tried

00:01:37.240 to bail out Mr. Scully. He said, I accept Steve Scully at his word. Let's not cancel any more people from

00:01:43.120 our culture for absolutely something like this. It's insignificant. He's an objective journalist,

00:01:48.780 but he's not an objective journalist. He is actually a former Joe Biden employee. Steve Scully worked for

00:01:56.060 Joe Biden as an intern. He then worked for Ted Kennedy. He's a liberal. He's a left winger. And now he,

00:02:02.720 I guess he's been a journalist for some time, but so many of these journalists are very far on the left.

00:02:09.560 And that's just the way it is. The committee on debates wants a virtual debate now because President

00:02:15.520 Trump had coronavirus, however, long ago. And President Trump is saying no way to this. He cannot do a

00:02:21.600 virtual debate. A virtual debate gives the left all of the power, gives them everything, allows them to mute

00:02:27.020 him, allows them to cut his feet. And so he absolutely cannot do that. Bob Dole, Bob Dole, who was the

00:02:34.080 Republican presidential nominee in 1996. He was the first candidate that I ever supported. In my first

00:02:40.220 grade classroom, I was campaigning for Bob Dole. All I knew about the race was that Bob Dole was a war

00:02:44.800 hero and Bill Clinton was a draft dodger. I begged my mother, who wanted to vote for Clinton, I begged 0.66

00:02:49.920 her to vote for Bob Dole. And she finally relented. She thought it was so funny that this six-year-old

00:02:54.280 young Republican was begging her to vote for Bob Dole. She let me into the voting booth. I pulled the lever

00:02:59.040 for Bob Dole, I guess. That might have violated some kind of rule, wasn't it? I was six years old

00:03:03.720 and pulling the lever. In any case, lots of hacks trying to rig up this election, including the

00:03:09.200 commission on presidential debates. Bob Dole said he knows all the Republicans on the committee

00:03:13.560 and none of them support Trump. Even the Republicans don't support Trump, right? This is not really a

00:03:20.720 bipartisan commission. There are squishy liberal Republicans and there are liberal Democrats, but there's

00:03:27.640 nobody on the Trump side of things. And this is why whatever you think of Trump, I'm not trying to

00:03:33.280 say that Trump is the greatest politician ever to live and he's the most conservative guy. That's not

00:03:37.520 quite what I'm saying. I'm just pointing out that it's, at this point, basically Trump against the

00:03:43.540 world. Whatever you think of Trump, Trump is not a hack. Trump is saying something that is different, that

00:03:49.360 is breaking the two-party consensus that makes it seem like there are two parties, but really they both

00:03:55.280 support open borders. They both support widespread immigration. They both support free trade regimes

00:04:01.320 that give away a lot of our national sovereignty, right? They both support those. They both support

00:04:04.280 the rise of China. And Trump has come in and changed that up a little bit. So whatever you think of the

00:04:10.540 guy, he's not a hack. He's, in some ways, he's an agent of chaos. Whereas there are plenty of squishy

00:04:17.160 Republicans and then the entire Democratic establishment, those are hacks. I mean, those are people who are going

00:04:22.940 to tell you things that are brazen lies and they're going to tell it to you with just absolute cynicism

00:04:29.820 because they don't respect you, the voter. They don't, voters of any stripes. A great example of

00:04:35.880 this is this court packing issue. Joe Biden has been dodging this issue and a lot of left-wingers have

00:04:44.760 openly said, we are going to pack the Supreme Court. We're going to add justices to the Supreme Court

00:04:49.740 and stack it with Democrats so we can get our way. And Joe Biden hasn't answered on that question.

00:04:55.120 So the other day he was asked it again and he said, not only is he not going to answer,

00:04:59.220 but the voters don't deserve an answer. Sir, I've got to ask you about packing the courts.

00:05:04.140 And I know that you said yesterday, you aren't going to answer the question until after the

00:05:07.760 election. But this is the number one thing that I've been asked about from viewers in the past

00:05:12.100 couple of days. Well, you've been asked by the viewers who are probably Republicans who don't want

00:05:16.240 me continuing to talk about what they're doing to the court right now. Well, sir, don't the voters

00:05:20.480 deserve to know? No, they don't. I'm not going to play his game. They don't deserve to know. Shoot,

00:05:27.120 I wasn't supposed to say that part out loud. I mean, I'm not, yeah, I'm not going to play Trump's

00:05:31.540 game. What is Trump's game? Trump's game is when even some of the mainstream media are asking you

00:05:36.200 what you're going to do about an extraordinarily consequential issue, something that hasn't been

00:05:40.500 tried in a hundred years, a little under a hundred years since FDR tried to pack the court and that

00:05:45.220 was shot down by public opinion. It was shot down by Congress. No, I'm not going to play Trump's

00:05:50.660 game. It's not Trump's game. Are you going to pack the court? Are you going to try to grab an

00:05:57.680 incredible amount of power from the other branch of government by stacking your partisans into that

00:06:04.040 branch of government so that they more easily acquiesce to what you want to do? It's an important

00:06:09.700 question. Biden won't give an answer. He's been, he's been refusing to give an answer on this

00:06:13.580 now for a month. So because Biden's answer is insufficient, because even some of the mainstream

00:06:17.760 media are trying to get an answer out of this, the Democrats have a new plan, which is something

00:06:22.300 that they have done for decades now. This is how they have used political correctness as one of

00:06:29.440 their most effective political tools. They're just redefining the term court packing. They're,

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00:07:50.480 Rockauto.com. Democrats are now attempting with a straight face to redefine the phrase court packing.

00:07:59.880 So court packing is when you've got the judiciary and then you add judges. You add seats to the

00:08:06.800 judiciary. So right now, for instance, we have nine judges on the Supreme Court. Now, if Amy Barrett

00:08:12.920 actually makes it to the court, then you've got a 6-3 conservative majority. Really, it's a 5-4 though

00:08:19.680 because John Roberts is a squish. But fine, call it 5-4, 6-3. It's a conservative court.

00:08:23.760 Well, if you add three Democrats to the court, now it's a 6-6 court, right? Because those three 0.91

00:08:31.880 Democrats are going to be added under a Democratic administration. The Democrat judges tend to be

00:08:35.560 much more partisan anyway. So you've got 6-6. What if you had five judges to the court? 0.57

00:08:40.900 Gosh, that's pretty good. Now you've got a left-wing court. That's what court packing is. FDR tried to 0.87

00:08:46.040 do it in 1937 because the Supreme Court kept striking down the unconstitutional parts of his New Deal

00:08:51.240 program and he tried to pack it and the public opinion was never for it. He could never convince

00:08:56.920 the American people to do it. Congress never even took it up and it fizzled out and died. Well, now

00:09:01.880 the left is trying to revive it. Dick Durbin, second most powerful Democrat in the Senate,

00:09:06.980 goes on Chuck Todd's show on NBC and insists that actually it's Republicans who have been packing the

00:09:14.460 court. I can tell you that we're getting this question. It's a common question being asked because

00:09:19.520 American people have watched the Republicans packing the court over the last three and a half

00:09:23.320 years and they brag about it. They've taken every vacancy and filled it. Did you know that they've

00:09:27.960 sent us and we have approved only with their votes, I might add, 10 people who have been judged

00:09:34.120 unanimously unqualified by the American Bar Association? Do you know how many judicial nominees

00:09:39.020 came from Obama who were judged unanimously unqualified? None. So we are dealing with people on the

00:09:45.380 court, packed into the court with little or no qualification who are going to be there for a long

00:09:50.440 time. So it's understandable. The Republicans raised the issue of court packing. Did I mention, Chuck,

00:09:55.800 it's Republicans who are court packing? No, it isn't. Of course it isn't. There is obviously a difference

00:10:02.720 between adding judges to a court so that increasing the number of the judges so that you can stack it

00:10:09.440 with your partisans and filling the open judge seats as is not only your constitutional right,

00:10:17.500 but the constitutional requirement. When there are nine seats on a court and a judge dies and then you

00:10:23.100 fill it as the constitution tells you to, that's obviously very different than completely rewriting

00:10:27.360 the judiciary, adding seats so that you can cram through your legislation that otherwise wouldn't get

00:10:33.120 through. Obviously very different things, but obviously the talking point went out and Democrats are

00:10:38.700 pursuing this. Hakeem Jeffries, who's the house Democrat caucus chairman tweets out, stop asking

00:10:43.120 Dems about packing the court. We aren't doing it. They are meaning Republicans in order to take away

00:10:48.100 our healthcare. They're packing the court. Governor Steve Bullock of Montana. I think he's of Montana,

00:10:53.680 isn't he? Do you remember he ran for president for about five seconds? He said four years ago,

00:10:57.280 you said, no, we should never confirm a justice when people are voting. Let the people decide. And now

00:11:02.340 that's the most important thing to you. You are packing the court right now. Okay. Sheldon Whitehouse,

00:11:08.360 a Senator from Rhode Island. He tweets out it's time. Democrats started looking behind the curtain

00:11:13.900 of the Republican special interest court packing scheme. They've been at it for years. We've been

00:11:17.980 asleep at the wheel. All of this reeks of a particularly sad kind of hackery is they're,

00:11:25.460 they're, they clearly got together in a room and they said, gosh, guys, we can't keep evading the

00:11:31.080 court packing question forever. We've been evading it now for over a month, at least what do we do? And one

00:11:37.880 of them said, I know what we'll do. You know what we'll do? We'll, we'll say that it's them who's

00:11:43.740 court packing. Like, nah, you, you know, like when you're in third grade and someone calls you,

00:11:49.500 you say, nah, you, I am rubber and you are glue or something like that. That's what we're going to

00:11:54.500 say about court packing. And their basis for this, here's their dastardly evidence that they dug up

00:12:00.680 from one of Sean Hannity's shows they put out there is when Mitch McConnell bragged about how

00:12:06.500 he, as the Senate majority leader was holding up some of Obama's judicial nominees.

00:12:13.300 So I was shocked that, uh, former president Obama left so many vacancies and didn't try to fill those

00:12:18.600 positions. I'll tell you why, I'll tell you why I was in charge of the, uh, of what we did the last

00:12:24.340 two years of the Obama administration. I give, I, and I will give you full credit for that. And by the way,

00:12:29.120 take a bow. All right. That was a good life. I'll tell you why, because I said to, uh, say hello to

00:12:37.260 my little friend. And then he leans down and just takes a big, big face full of that cocaine

00:12:43.280 constitutionality, constitutional cocaine. Mitch said that as Senate majority leader, Barack Obama

00:12:50.720 has the right to nominate the judges. And then I, a Senate majority leader can take them up to advise

00:12:56.060 and consent. And then either I consent or we reject, and then they go through. So this is a,

00:13:01.380 the perfectly ordinary operation of government, especially when there's divided power, right?

00:13:06.700 The voters sent Obama and the Democrats to the white house. They sent Mitch McConnell and the

00:13:11.180 Republicans to run the Senate. And so there's going to be friction. That's the way the system

00:13:15.740 is supposed to operate. Operating within that constitutional system and within the traditional

00:13:21.420 norms of our Republic is a very different thing than trying to subvert the judiciary itself by adding

00:13:30.340 seats to the court. But Michael, there, the, the constitution doesn't say how many judges need to

00:13:35.200 be on the court. That's true. But the judges have been set for a very long time, well over a hundred

00:13:40.320 years. Nobody has tried to change the number of judges since FDR who failed at it because people

00:13:45.900 didn't want it because they found it to be subversive of the constitution. We've got a number here. And

00:13:51.840 what Democrats are trying to do is throw a grenade in there because they can't win. This is what the

00:13:55.200 left always does. The left is a stickler for the rules until the rules don't work for them. And then

00:14:01.100 the rules don't matter. They completely undermine them. And Republicans and conservatives often get

00:14:06.720 stuck in this bad position where we think that if we just play by the rules, if we try to use their own

00:14:11.920 logic against them, then they'll come around and they'll see the light. They won't, they won't.

00:14:17.480 And we, we just keep, we keep thinking, no guys, you were, we're reasonable. We're willing to work

00:14:22.920 for you. You said you were, for instance, this is a great example of this from the sixties and seventies.

00:14:27.080 You said you were the free speech supporters. Remember you liberals, you led the free speech

00:14:32.080 movement at Berkeley, but now you're opposing free speech. Isn't that hypocritical? They don't care. 0.95

00:14:38.040 They don't care. The whole point of this was just to subvert the traditional standards.

00:14:43.600 Wait a second, guys. You said that you support feminism, but now you support gender ideology,

00:14:50.560 which undermines feminism. Isn't that hypocritical? They don't care. They don't care. 1.00

00:14:54.560 They are just trying to subvert the traditional American standards, whatever way they want to do

00:14:59.740 that, whatever way is effective, they will do that. Wait a second, guys, you've been accusing Trump of

00:15:04.860 exceeding the bounds of the constitution, but now you're trying to do that on the, they,

00:15:08.280 they don't care. Stop, stop trying to make the argument from hypocrisy. It, it doesn't bother

00:15:15.460 them. There are a handful of liberals left who want to maintain the veneer at least of consistency

00:15:24.460 and constitutionality. One of them is a guy who falls into political hackery a whole lot.

00:15:29.440 Jake Tapper on CNN. We were, we were pointing out some of his hackery last week, but sometimes I

00:15:35.400 think he still wants to view himself as the last honest man in the room, the journalist. He's a

00:15:40.140 liberal maybe, but he's a straight shooting liberal. And, and so Jake Tapper called out this hackery

00:15:47.160 about court packing at a Biden spokesman on CNN. She had no answer, but she didn't care.

00:15:53.000 He said, it's not constitutional what they're doing. How is it not constitutional what they're

00:15:59.540 doing? His point is that the people have an opportunity to weigh in on this constitutional

00:16:05.900 process through their vote. And we are now in the midst of the election. Millions of people have

00:16:11.760 already cast their votes. And you see that the vast majority of people say that they want the person

00:16:16.820 who wins the election on November 3rd to nominate the justice. That's a poll. That's not the

00:16:22.140 constitution. So by, by trying to, by trying to, that's, that is their con there. There's the

00:16:27.000 constitutional process of advising consent. The American people get to have their say by voting

00:16:31.960 for president, by voting for senators. We are now 23 days from the election. But it's not

00:16:37.940 unconstitutional. Millions of, millions of votes, millions of votes. They're being, voters are being

00:16:43.000 denied their constitutional right to have a say in this process. They elected the Senate.

00:16:47.360 They're trying to ram through, are trying to ram through a, a nominee who, by the way,

00:16:52.780 is going to change the makeup of the court. And we see time and time again, poll after poll shows

00:16:57.640 that most Americans vehemently disagree with this. They believe that the vote should happen on

00:17:02.640 November 3rd. That's not what the word constitutional means. So Jake Dapper, good on him because he's

00:17:08.440 calling out this crazy BS, but this Biden spokesman, this woman doesn't care. You see, she's, she's

00:17:17.000 fairly unflappable. She just keeps talking. He goes, it's the court and the railroading and the

00:17:22.680 change, the makeup of the court. And she's just saying words. The words are not responding to the

00:17:26.960 points that Jake Dapper is making. The words are not even making an argument. What the words amount to

00:17:31.540 is it is our interest to have a leftist judiciary. And so we're going to do that. And between these

00:17:40.760 two styles here, Jake Tapper's sort of, at least his pretense that the argument has to make sense,

00:17:47.160 at least at a superficial level. And this Biden spokesman who says, it doesn't matter. We don't

00:17:51.120 need to make any arguments. It's all about interest. Between those two visions of American politics,

00:17:57.180 I think it's the latter that's winning right now. I don't think we're making particularly strong

00:18:02.180 arguments or having particularly robust debate. Just look at the debate between president Trump

00:18:06.060 and Joe Biden two weeks ago to see that it's just people talking over one another.

00:18:11.140 This is a consequence. If you want to trace it back all the way to the very, very beginning,

00:18:14.740 this is a consequence of the left essentially denying objective reality. When, when the left says,

00:18:19.820 for instance, a man can be a woman or there's no such thing as the truth. There's just your truth

00:18:23.860 and my truth. And you can't use your faculties of reason to have an opinion because you're a

00:18:28.140 straight white male. You can't deny my lived experience. The left constantly pushing all of

00:18:33.220 these hoaxes and division. The effect of that downstream is you can't have a debate. One side

00:18:39.880 is going to say, but the constitution. And then the other side is going to say, okay, hey, I got your

00:18:45.400 constitution right here. And that's what the election is coming down to. Now, perhaps we're still at a

00:18:51.560 point in this country where there's a sliver, sliver of people in the middle for whom coherent

00:18:57.580 arguments matter, but I'm, I'm not convinced that we're there. Joe Biden certainly doesn't think

00:19:03.320 that we're there. This is what I don't like about hackery. And look, we can go, we can go and

00:19:09.040 criticize any one thing that Trump has done any particular day or one policy that he's pushing.

00:19:14.440 I'm happy to do it. And I've done it plenty of times, but on this issue of hackery, Trump ain't it.

00:19:20.240 He, he, he is like the opposite of a hack. He is saying things that are, that seem deeply

00:19:26.240 unpopular, that require a fair amount of courage that could have, and by all accounts should have

00:19:31.220 destroyed his political career many times. And he hasn't done it. You can't say the same for Joe

00:19:35.600 Biden. Joe Biden now, now that the Democrats have tested out this court packing line, he himself has

00:19:40.920 decided to adopt it. That following the constitution and undermining the constitution are actually the

00:19:47.300 same thing. The only court packing is going on right now. It's going on with Republicans packing

00:19:56.220 the court now. It's not constitutional what they're doing. We should be focused on what's

00:20:01.400 happening right now. And the fact is that the only packing going on is this court is being packed now

00:20:09.780 by the Republicans after the vote is already begun. I'm going to stay focused on it. So we don't take

00:20:16.680 the eyes off the ball here. What they're doing is not constitutional. What do you mean? It's not

00:20:22.820 constitutional. They, this, the constitution says the presidential nominated judge and the Senate will

00:20:28.100 advise and consent. That's exactly what they're doing. It's not, that's not even an op. It's not

00:20:32.260 like, well, you have this option constitutionally. There's a requirement that the president nominated

00:20:36.260 judge and the judge is going through, but he's just saying words, right? That's not,

00:20:42.040 it's not constitutional. It's just like during the debate when president Trump said law enforcement

00:20:46.040 doesn't support Biden. He goes, that's not true, man. That's a lie. And, and Trump gets it. Okay.

00:20:50.140 Name one organization in law enforcement that supports you. Biden said, uh, uh, he didn't have an answer.

00:20:54.680 He just said, he just goes, it's not constitutional. It's, it's wrong. It's come on, man. Come on,

00:21:00.880 man. So now he's saying we're, we, the Democrats are going to add these judges to the court. Now,

00:21:07.940 did you hear there was a cough in there? He goes, yeah, we meant there was a physical hacking up.

00:21:15.060 There was a hacking up that happened. And it wasn't just when he was talking about the judges,

00:21:18.940 he was giving another campaign event in Nevada and Biden had his mask on. He had the mask on for

00:21:24.320 some reason, but it was below his nose. So it was not doing any, there was no scientific or medical

00:21:28.940 argument for the way he was wearing the mask, but he had it on just as a, just as a political

00:21:32.360 symbol. Cause that's all it is. The mask is the political yard sign of 2020. The way Joe Biden

00:21:38.020 is wearing that mask offers absolutely no protection against the virus, either for himself

00:21:43.320 or for other people. It's just there as a symbol of his view of politics that basically we shouldn't

00:21:48.700 be led by bureaucrats and experts, but then it gets even better because not only is the mask down

00:21:52.680 below his nose, but he has to cough. So what does he do when he has to cough? He pulls down the mask,

00:21:58.100 coughs into his hand, pulls it right into his right hand. Then he puts the mask back up. He

00:22:07.040 actually puts the mask up over his nose after he coughs all over his hand. It's probably going to

00:22:11.160 go shake a lot of hands after that. More evidence, more evidence that the way that this virus is being

00:22:17.700 treated is not primarily focused on science or medicine. It's focused on politics. Actually,

00:22:26.180 now we can defer to the world health organization, which is don't forget a public health organization,

00:22:32.200 meaning politics and health public means politics. So it's got a political aspect too. And obviously

00:22:38.760 they've been infiltrated largely by China and they were carrying water for China and helping China

00:22:43.020 cover up the, the illness early on world health organization though, now is coming up pretty

00:22:48.060 strongly against the primary method of combating this virus. Namely the lockdowns. You, you have

00:22:55.320 people at the world health organization coming out and saying, we need to not only focus on other

00:23:02.240 treatments. We actively need to stop the lockdowns. The lockdowns are hurting everybody.

00:23:08.280 We in the world health organization do not advocate lockdowns as a primary means of control of this

00:23:16.260 virus. The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize,

00:23:22.720 regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted. But by and large,

00:23:28.960 we'd rather not do it. Just look at what's happened to the tourism industry, for example,

00:23:32.960 in the Caribbean or in the Pacific because people aren't taking their holidays. Looks what's happened

00:23:38.960 to smallholder farmers all over the world because their markets have got dented. Look what's happening

00:23:44.860 to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well 0.98

00:23:51.400 have at least a doubling of child malnutrition because children are not getting meals at school and

00:23:56.500 their parents in poor families are not able to afford it. This is a terrible, ghastly global

00:24:02.340 catastrophe, actually. And so we really do appeal to all world leaders. Stop using lockdown as your

00:24:09.840 primary control method. Develop better systems for doing it. Work together and learn from each other.

00:24:16.600 But remember, lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle, and that is

00:24:23.660 making poor people an awful lot poorer. That is Dr. David Navarro from the World Health

00:24:29.740 Organization. You probably won't see that video or hear that statement very much around social media

00:24:36.440 because now the social media are clamping down on what they say is misinformation. But it has nothing

00:24:41.720 to do with the misinformation or the accurate information about the virus. It has everything

00:24:46.940 to do with politics. And this is only going to get worse through the election. The reason that we still

00:24:51.620 have lockdowns today is because of politics. You can look at where the lockdowns are. It always tracks

00:24:57.420 with people's politics. The places that the lockdowns exist aren't doing particularly well

00:25:02.500 on the coronavirus. You look at the, one of the toughest lockdowns in the entire country was in

00:25:07.320 New York. New York got hit worse than anybody. And the lockdowns didn't seem to help. Actually,

00:25:12.380 in some cases, the lockdowns hurt. There were studies that show that by, this happened in Italy and in

00:25:17.220 New York, by the way, that by locking people inside, particularly with elderly family members,

00:25:22.120 you actually were putting them in a more dangerous position than you otherwise would have seen.

00:25:25.880 We saw this with the nursing homes in New York. In New York, Governor Cuomo's policies forced people

00:25:30.480 who, and sent people who were sick with the virus into nursing homes. And guess what happened there?

00:25:36.160 Thousands and thousands of senior citizens died. We won't be able, by the way, to have a full picture

00:25:40.960 of what happened because Cuomo is using his political apparatus to shut down any additional studies

00:25:46.960 of what happened. That's what we're seeing. I mean, if you, if you log onto social media now,

00:25:51.840 it is unbearable because first of all, every time you log on, they say, did you vote?

00:25:55.880 If I'm on Instagram, I'm here to see like funny pictures. If I'm on Twitter, I'm here to see

00:26:02.220 mean little sardonic comments. I'm not there because I need a civic education. If you're

00:26:08.240 getting your civics education from Instagram, probably something has gone deeply wrong in our

00:26:13.140 society. But they want to do that because they know that those users are more likely to vote for

00:26:19.120 Democrats. And so they're trying to get you to go out there and support their candidates. And

00:26:22.440 they're trying to suppress information that counters the democratic narrative, whether it be on widespread

00:26:26.780 unsolicited mail-in voting, which is unprecedented in our country and obviously shows signs of being

00:26:33.000 open to fraud. We've seen this recently in New Jersey. We've seen this in New York. We've seen

00:26:38.540 this in Texas. So you've got, uh, you've got those issues and then you've obviously got coronavirus.

00:26:44.780 Any, any comments that are contrary to the democratic narrative, even if it comes from the

00:26:49.200 World Health Organization, even if it comes from the CDC's website, will be suppressed,

00:26:55.820 which is what's happening right now. There was a funny bit of suppression that just went on

00:26:59.960 with President Trump. He's being censored again, explicitly censored by Twitter because he was

00:27:05.620 describing his experience of the virus. But it's very difficult because if the Democrats and the left

00:27:11.580 want to defer to experts on the virus, Donald Trump is now one of the leading national experts on

00:27:18.700 coronavirus. Why is that? Because he had it. Uh, now I'm not saying you always have to trust,

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00:29:38.960 You know, I'm pretty tough on the experts. I don't think that we should just be governed by a bunch

00:29:45.060 of experts in white lab coats who aren't particularly educated, aren't particularly

00:29:51.140 wise, and don't govern our country particularly well. However, I might make an exception to my

00:29:56.640 expert rule when it coincides with constitutional government, because our duly elected president,

00:30:02.260 Donald Trump, now happens to be one of the nation's foremost experts on coronavirus.

00:30:06.780 Just by definition, he had coronavirus. He knows more about coronavirus than most scientists in

00:30:13.400 the country. And President Trump is flaunting his expertise. He tweeted out over the weekend,

00:30:18.660 quote, a total and complete sign off from White House doctors yesterday. That means I can't get it

00:30:23.160 immune and can't give it. Very nice to know. Three exclamations points. That is very nice to know.

00:30:28.920 Twitter censored that. He said, so you see just a big warning over the tweet. Then you've got to click

00:30:33.400 through if you want to try to read it. They say, this tweet violated the Twitter rules about spreading

00:30:37.740 misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19. However, Twitter has determined

00:30:42.360 that it may be in the public's interest for the tweet to remain accessible. Is that so, Twitter? Is

00:30:48.580 that so? So now the misleading information, you're going to put that censorship on. By the way,

00:30:52.740 the information about COVID is changing, it seems, every single day. I'll give you an example of that.

00:30:56.940 I'll give you a great example. The Surgeon General of the United States tweeted out a number of months

00:31:02.500 ago, stop buying masks, people. Do not buy the masks. The masks don't work against coronavirus.

00:31:09.920 Stop buying the masks. That tweet's still up. Why is that tweet up? Why is that tweet not being

00:31:15.300 censored? That was misleading information, wasn't it? Or no, maybe it was just useful and convenient

00:31:20.560 information that worked for your narrative at the time. But now it doesn't really matter because

00:31:24.140 we've moved on. Eric Swalwell, the former future president, he is me and I am him. And we are all

00:31:29.520 him. Eric Swalwell. That was his campaign motto. He said, stop buying the masks. The masks don't

00:31:34.660 work. Why is that tweet? Isn't that misleading information? Well, I don't know. Maybe that'll

00:31:38.100 be correct information again when they change their mind on it. I don't know. Dr. Fauci said,

00:31:41.980 don't wear the masks. So that was misleading information, right? Because we're now told you have

00:31:45.560 to wear the masks. The masks are going to protect us. So why isn't that all being, why is it,

00:31:49.900 why is it that it's just conservatives who get censored almost exclusively? Why is it that it's

00:31:57.500 this president in particular, just days away from a presidential election who gets censored for saying,

00:32:03.700 sure, I guess he said, I can't get it anymore. I wonder, I suspect that if I were a gambling man,

00:32:08.040 I'd say president Trump probably isn't going to get coronavirus again in the near future. Just my,

00:32:12.520 just my hunch. And he can't give it. The doctors are saying he's, he's not giving out the virus,

00:32:18.580 right? The doctors are saying that right now. They've okayed him to go to a debate. So that

00:32:21.840 part is true. At least according to his doctors, maybe Twitter is disputing the doctors. So Twitter

00:32:26.020 is a better expert now in coronavirus than the white house doctors. Twitter is a better expert

00:32:29.880 than Trump himself who had the virus. I don't think so, Buster. I think this is just political

00:32:34.900 censorship. That's what I think it is. I think this is just the left establishing its own set of

00:32:40.960 standards and then enforcing it as it wills to benefit the left. And conservatives are still

00:32:47.100 playing this game where we're trying to point out hypocrisy. We're trying to, trying to play by

00:32:50.660 universal standard. The left's not playing that game. That's not the game they're playing. They're

00:32:54.200 playing a game of interest. I'll give you a great example of censorship. A true, this is Orwellian.

00:33:00.240 I know that word gets overused, but this is Orwellian. Right now, if you go to Yelp.com,

00:33:05.780 what do you use it for? You're in a new area. You say, I want, I don't know, I want Chinese food

00:33:10.660 tonight. Let's look up Chinese food. Then you look on Yelp and you have different reviews and you can see

00:33:14.740 which has the best Chinese food. Now there's a new feature on Yelp, which is you'll see, you know,

00:33:21.720 sometimes it'll say four stars. It'll maybe say $3 signs, you know how expensive it is. Now you

00:33:26.060 can see a little exclamation point in red. That is to let you know that the business has been accused

00:33:31.760 of racist behavior. Racist behavior. What, what does that mean? What, what you will see is a little

00:33:42.040 pop-up and it says recently someone associated with this business was accused of racist behavior

00:33:46.440 resulting in an influx of people posting views to this page. Racism is reprehensible and has no

00:33:51.700 place on Yelp. And we unequivocally reject racism in any form. Wow. How brave. Unlike all those people

00:33:57.940 who totally support racism, right? You know, racism, that, that pervasive thing that's totally real,

00:34:03.180 not just a boogeyman and a straw man that the left uses, that the demagogues on the left use

00:34:10.440 to shut down anybody who disagrees with them. It's like that whole thing. Do you condemn white 0.97

00:34:14.880 supremacy? Who support, who, who embraces white supremacy? Do you know anybody who says, yeah,

00:34:19.340 I love white supremacy. I'm a huge white supremacist. No, it's a phantom issue. When people 0.64

00:34:26.060 say black lives matter, I'm bravely courageously saying black lives matter. How many people do you know

00:34:30.820 who say, yeah, black lives, man, they don't matter. I hate those lives. None, nobody, everybody thinks 1.00

00:34:36.520 black lives matter. Nobody disagrees with the statement black lives matter. But a lot of people

00:34:42.460 believe that a lot of other people who are not as virtuous and wonderful as themselves, that a lot of 0.66

00:34:47.100 other nefarious people, they, they all say black lives don't matter. Same thing with racism. Nobody in

00:34:52.760 this country, maybe a handful of people would call themselves racists, but they think a whole lot of

00:35:00.220 other people are racist. While we understand the desire to warn others about racist behavior,

00:35:04.020 about a business, all reviews on Yelp must reflect an actual first-hand customer experience. So we've

00:35:08.260 temporarily disabled the ability to post here as we work to investigate the content. If you, you're

00:35:13.940 here to leave a review based on a first-hand experience, please check back at a later date. So

00:35:16.840 what they're saying here is they're trying to, I guess, be helpful. If we're to give them the

00:35:22.740 benefit of the doubt, it's to be helpful, right? Because they're saying basically there's some incident

00:35:26.040 at a place and they say it's racism. Often, by the way, these are hoaxes. This happened very famously

00:35:31.180 outside of Oberlin University. There was a restaurant that was accused of racism and they

00:35:36.160 had to shut down, but it was a total hoax. So that happens and then people flood it who don't know

00:35:42.000 and they say, you're a racist, you're a racist, whatever. So they're saying, okay, we're going to

00:35:44.940 stop that. You're not allowed to do that. But the way they're going to stop it is by putting a big

00:35:48.320 sign that says accused of racist behavior. Define racist behavior for me. I'll give you an example.

00:35:52.900 Uber Eats during the George Floyd riots. Uber Eats decided that they were going to

00:36:00.060 waive the delivery fee for black-owned businesses, whatever that means. Define a black-owned 1.00

00:36:06.360 business for me. What if a black guy owns a quarter of the business? But is that a black-owned 0.96

00:36:09.840 business? Or do you only get to waive a quarter of the delivery fee? Whatever. So they say, we're

00:36:13.420 going to waive delivery fees for black-owned businesses. We're going to charge delivery fees 1.00

00:36:16.780 for white-owned businesses. So you're penalizing people on the basis of their race, right?

00:36:22.400 You're saying, we're going to charge more money. We're going to make it harder for your business

00:36:26.180 to operate if you're, if you have one race, but not if you're of another race, which is the

00:36:30.580 definition of racism. So is Uber Eats going to get a racism warning on Yelp? Probably not. Probably

00:36:37.820 not. What about businesses who buy into the BLM lie that all white people are racist because we live

00:36:46.880 in a white supremacist country. That's a racist statement. Are those people with the big BLM 1.00

00:36:52.200 sign, are they going to get the, no, they're not. They're not. It's just, it's just a way of signaling

00:36:57.960 which are the officially approved businesses by the liberal establishment and which are not,

00:37:03.800 which are verboten and you're not allowed to go there. There are, there are parallels to other

00:37:09.740 tyrannical sort of political regimes here and you see it creeping slowly and you kind of see

00:37:15.440 how, how this kind of mad, cultural madness can take over. But that is where we're headed.

00:37:23.260 There's a, there's a great irony. There's a real talk about an irony.

00:37:27.660 Maybe the most racist, anti-black racist business in the history of the United States 0.88

00:37:33.760 is, do you know, Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood, which exists in no small part to 0.97

00:37:39.760 kill black babies and to shrink the black population, or at least keep it from expanding 1.00

00:37:44.900 too much. The founder of Planned Parenthood wrote in these terms explicitly, Margaret Sanger. 1.00

00:37:50.240 She even, at one point, she says, she sort of plays this off as a bit of a joke or a bit of irony,

00:37:54.680 but I think there's a lot of truth to this irony. She says, we don't want word to go out that we

00:37:58.260 want to exterminate the Negro population. But even if you say, oh, she was just, 0.96

00:38:02.680 she was being ironic in that statement. Read woman in the new race, read her writings on eugenics.

00:38:07.980 She clearly thought there were undesirable populations and through abortion and through

00:38:12.040 family planning, she wanted to shrink those populations. It's a lot worse than any business 1.00

00:38:18.100 or bakery or whatever ever did, right? If you actually go out and you say, my plan is to go

00:38:21.820 into black neighborhoods, set up shop here and kill all the black babies. That's my business model. 1.00

00:38:26.440 That's my actual pitch. Planned Parenthood is being accused of racism by, through an internal audit here.

00:38:32.680 BuzzFeed News obtained this. They show that they're accused of internal racism,

00:38:39.240 race-based discrimination, acts of anti-blackness, whatever that, I have no idea what that means,

00:38:43.160 but if it's going to hit Planned Parenthood, fine by me. Fine by, I'm not going to defend Planned

00:38:47.240 Parenthood. I'm not going to stand in the way. There are, there was this study which was commissioned

00:38:52.020 by Planned Parenthood, involves a dozen social justice oriented organizations. This interviewed 80

00:38:58.480 current and former black Planned Parenthood employees and say that the organization's black

00:39:02.440 employees feel that Planned Parenthood's treatment of them internally does not line up with its social

00:39:06.680 justice driven mission. Of course, if, if Planned Parenthood is mistreating black people, it lines

00:39:10.900 up perfectly with their social justice, which actually means injustice driven organization because 0.99

00:39:16.360 the organization exists in no small part to kill black people. Do you think Planned Parenthood is going 0.92

00:39:24.060 to get the racism warning on Yelp? I don't think it is. I don't think it is. This is pure hackery.

00:39:32.860 This is pure cynicism. I'm not saying that people can't be partisan and give more leniency to their

00:39:40.680 own side. I think that's not only to be expected in politics, but I think it's actually a positively good

00:39:46.340 thing. We ought to have some loyalty. We are fighting for real things. We are not merely umpires who care

00:39:52.800 merely about procedure. We want to affect our vision of the good in society. But you have to

00:40:00.660 acknowledge the truth. You have to be willing to say, I'll give you an example of this. Donald Trump

00:40:08.100 passed that get out of jail free bill, you know, the first step act, the one that goes light on crime.

00:40:14.040 I thought that was a bad idea and I said it was a bad idea. I still support Trump. I'm still going to

00:40:17.840 vote for him, but I think it's a dumb idea and I don't think we should support it. Same thing with 0.87

00:40:21.200 uh, now that now Trump is going after Biden as a racist because Biden was tough on crime in the

00:40:27.080 nineties for a little bit. I think that's a bad idea. I'm not, I'm not willing to go on board with

00:40:31.240 that. There's a difference between being a partisan and being an outright hack. Now on the left, we're

00:40:37.200 seeing outright hacks and we're seeing them at the highest levels of the New York times and the

00:40:41.660 Washington post and the, obviously the Biden campaign. Sure. The campaigns are like that.

00:40:44.900 We're seeing it at the elected level. We're seeing that now in big tech, outright hacks.

00:40:51.980 This is not a good situation. The Washington post has nothing on judge Amy Coney Barrett. We're

00:40:58.500 getting the Barrett confirmation hearings this week. So stay tuned for that. That's going to be

00:41:02.080 quite a ride. The Washington post now has no, no way to go after her, not on her record, not on her 1.00

00:41:08.040 career, not on her. They're trying to go after her faith. That's not working very well. So what are

00:41:12.720 they doing? They're going after her kids. Beth Reinhard at the Washington post says two students

00:41:17.880 and a teacher at a school attended by SCOTUS nominee, Amy Coney Barrett's kids test positive

00:41:23.260 for coronavirus two weeks after a super spreader white house event for ACB. Parents are freaked out 0.64

00:41:28.900 though. No proven link. That's what passes for journalism. Now I love at the end to go, no,

00:41:35.200 no proven link. Oh, so you're just spreading baseless rumors because a couple students and a

00:41:42.980 teacher at a school that the judicial nominees kids go to got the virus that has already infected

00:41:51.100 10% of the world population, according to the WHO. It's so contagious that we shut down the global

00:41:57.100 economy. It's affected 10% of earth already in just nine months of existence. But you're saying,

00:42:03.500 yeah, but I don't know, maybe it was her kids or something. And I don't know what that means,

00:42:06.220 but she's bad, huh? She's really bad. Why are they doing this? Because there is no popular 0.98

00:42:14.160 support for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. There's no popular support. Some people might vote for them

00:42:19.400 because I guess we have to, you know, it's there. We're Democrats and he's the Democrats that we have

00:42:24.680 to, but no one is saying that they're enthusiastic about this. Biden and Kamala Harris came to campaign

00:42:30.080 together for the first time on the campaign trail. Isn't that amazing? It's already October and it's

00:42:33.940 the first time they're campaigning together. And there was a local news affiliate, a local reporter

00:42:39.440 there in Arizona who said, okay, I'm here with Biden and Harris. Nobody showed up to the campaign

00:42:46.320 event. There's really not much to see. I'll step out of the way, but it's kind of boring out here.

00:42:52.500 So it's not your typical presidential campaign event. We don't see people rallying outside. We

00:42:59.180 don't see signs or really much of what's going on. And I'm told by one of the Biden staffers,

00:43:05.460 local staffers, is that they kind of kept the details about the visits as far as the timing and

00:43:12.460 the exact locations. And pretty much all the people that we saw enter into the parking lot about 45 minutes

00:43:20.640 ago were with the Biden-Harris campaign and the pool reporter. So you would expect to see, I mean,

00:43:29.600 this is a pretty big event for the two of them to be campaigning together for the first time

00:43:35.080 since the Democratic National Convention. Here in Arizona, we've established, our state has

00:43:40.680 established itself as a battleground state. And so this is technically a big event, but not a lot of

00:43:46.600 fanfare. Not a lot of fanfare because nobody cares about these people. And so what has to happen?

00:43:52.800 The liberal establishment, which controls every institution just about, is going to have to do

00:43:57.840 everything they can to put the thumb on the scale for Biden and Harris. They're going to do that in

00:44:01.700 big tech with bogus censorship. They're going to do that in the mainstream media. Obviously, they were

00:44:08.440 doing it already, but they've turned it up to 11. They're going to try to do that as a matter of the

00:44:13.320 bureaucracy and how our political process plays out. They're going to do this in the presidential

00:44:19.300 debates. We have a bipartisan commission. BS. We only have left-wing moderators. We've only ever had

00:44:24.960 left-wing moderators at these presidential debates. And now the moderator for this next debate, which is

00:44:30.540 mercifully canceled, is a former Biden employee who was seen talking to this anti-Trump person,

00:44:38.940 Scaramucci, who got fired by Trump. And now he's really upset. So, and by the way, he could have

00:44:46.200 just said, yeah, I was talking to anti-Trump people. I was talking to pro-Trump people too, to get a

00:44:49.440 sense of the debate, but he couldn't do that because he's not talking to pro-Trump people. He's only

00:44:52.800 talking to anti-Trump people. What does he say? He uses that age old excuse. I was hacked. I was

00:44:57.860 hacked. We've all been hacked. There are a lot of hacks going around. The hackery is only going to keep

00:45:01.840 up through November. And what I would, what I would suggest in the meantime is regardless of the

00:45:07.880 partisanship. If you can find a somewhat straight shooter on the left, good luck. But if you can

00:45:12.480 find it, fine, listen to that. If you find them on the right, listen, listen to the ones on the right,

00:45:17.800 but don't listen to the hacks. I mean, the hacks of both sides are going to wreck this political

00:45:23.100 process because we're not even talking about logic then. We're not even talking about having a real

00:45:28.620 conversation, a real robust debate over serious issues. And there are serious issues at stake.

00:45:32.680 All they're going to be saying is words, words, words, hot air coming out of their mouths,

00:45:35.980 words, redefining words into nothingness. Hacks all around. Let's hope that they don't end up 1.00

00:45:42.740 hacking this election and, and taking that, that, a bad political situation and totally

00:45:49.040 turning it into rubble. We've still, we've still got a fighting chance, but the, the,

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Ep. 626 - Political Hacks

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