The Michael Knowles Show - November 05, 2020


Ep. 641 - How To Steal An Election


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In this special episode of the Michael Knowles Show, host Michael Kinsley talks about the ongoing recounting of votes, and the charge that Democrats are stuffing ballot boxes to try to sway the election in favor of Joe Biden.

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00:00:30.260 Lots of irregularities going on in the vote count in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona.
00:00:36.760 We'll go through a number of them on the show, but you remember even starting on election night,
00:00:40.500 certain key counties would just stop counting.
00:00:43.660 Some of them have stopped counting for days at a time, all extremely suspect.
00:00:48.180 But the main charge right now against Democrats among people who think maybe there are some
00:00:53.700 problems with this vote count, the main charge is that Democrats are stuffing ballot boxes.
00:00:59.540 And even though we're talking about a lot of new things that have never happened in elections
00:01:02.580 before, stuffing ballot boxes is an American tradition that goes back to the earliest days
00:01:08.140 of our republic.
00:01:09.140 In fact, a sitting president, Democratic president, once taught a future Democratic president how
00:01:16.500 to do it and how to prevent it.
00:01:19.320 We'll get into all of it.
00:01:20.200 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:20.860 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:21.740 Welcome back.
00:01:30.000 My favorite comment from yesterday is from God So Loved, who says,
00:01:34.620 pollsters, like the news media, are just another propaganda arm of the Democrats.
00:01:39.000 This is true, but it's not true exactly in the way that people might think.
00:01:43.380 The pollsters got this election completely wrong.
00:01:47.420 There is no reason to listen to these pollsters anymore, but pollsters have gotten other elections
00:01:51.340 right.
00:01:51.660 And I'm not saying they're awful, terrible people or anything.
00:01:53.480 I'm not even saying they set out to lie.
00:01:55.460 Maybe some of them do, but, but others don't.
00:01:57.700 The reason that the polls are wrong, the reason that the polls are part of the same propaganda
00:02:02.120 wing as, as the Democrats is because they're part of the whole progressive system.
00:02:07.280 When progressivism rose up about a century ago, a little more than a century ago now,
00:02:11.200 I guess, it rose up with the modern university and the social sciences and public opinion
00:02:17.260 polling and statistics, statistics itself referring to the state, meaning matters of
00:02:23.860 the state referring to the modern state, the administrative state, the progressive state.
00:02:27.280 All of these things are part of the same system.
00:02:30.000 And so when the system is working very well, they all kind of work well together.
00:02:33.780 But when that system stops reflecting reality, when that system starts to break down, then
00:02:38.200 the polling starts to break down too.
00:02:40.480 And I think we are seeing that system begin to crumble.
00:02:42.980 This election is in many ways an attack, a, a, that system, that establishment striking
00:02:48.440 back, trying to preserve itself after Donald Trump swung a sledgehammer into it.
00:02:53.120 And that might, might prevail.
00:02:54.720 Joe Biden, who is the system, he is just the, the face, the avatar of the system.
00:02:58.760 He, he may prevail for a while.
00:03:01.300 I don't know, maybe for a long while, but he may not.
00:03:04.040 And I'm very glad that President Trump is fighting back about that.
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00:04:28.120 I was reminded of this story.
00:04:30.320 Not a lot of people remember it.
00:04:32.500 That's in one of former President Lyndon Johnson's biographies.
00:04:37.100 Lyndon Johnson was a crook.
00:04:38.740 This guy had been stealing elections since college.
00:04:41.460 He would steal student government elections.
00:04:43.320 Then when he was a staffer on the Hill, there was a club called the Little Congress.
00:04:47.660 This was for congressional staffers.
00:04:49.220 They elected a president every year.
00:04:52.000 He stole that election, too.
00:04:53.460 This is a meaningless club.
00:04:54.720 Other staffers on the Hill said, could you believe somebody would steal the presidency
00:04:58.080 of the Little Congress?
00:04:59.340 This guy was a crook.
00:05:01.400 Then in 1941, Lyndon Johnson runs for Senate.
00:05:04.600 He's running against Koch-Stevenson in the Democratic primary in Texas.
00:05:07.540 Whoever wins the primary is going to go on.
00:05:09.900 And, or no, I'm sorry.
00:05:12.140 This was actually, he ran against Koch-Stevenson about seven years later.
00:05:15.240 This is 1941.
00:05:16.400 He's running for Senate.
00:05:17.760 And he loses.
00:05:19.220 He loses the 1941 race because the other guy stuffed the ballot box.
00:05:23.720 So he was friends with Franklin Roosevelt, who was then the president of the United States.
00:05:28.400 And Roosevelt was a sort of patron of Lyndon Johnson.
00:05:32.040 And Roosevelt asked to speak to him.
00:05:34.000 And the two men talked about the race.
00:05:36.880 And Franklin Roosevelt said, Lyndon, apparently you Texans haven't learned one of the first
00:05:43.120 things we learned up in New York State.
00:05:44.840 And that is that when the election is over, you have to sit on the ballot boxes.
00:05:50.060 Now, what FDR is saying to Lyndon Johnson is not necessarily corrupt.
00:05:54.560 He's not saying you got to stuff the ballot boxes.
00:05:56.780 But he's saying whatever happens to the ballot box, once the election is over,
00:06:01.000 you got to sit on them so that your opponent can't stuff that ballot box, so that no illegal
00:06:05.860 votes can get in.
00:06:07.360 This is 1941.
00:06:09.900 And then in the Senate race between Lyndon Johnson and Koch-Stevenson in 1948, Johnson did stuff
00:06:17.000 that ballot box with 202 illegal votes.
00:06:19.800 This went all the way up to the Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court refused to get involved
00:06:24.060 here.
00:06:24.700 This was a race of 1 million people.
00:06:27.160 Lyndon Johnson won it by 87 votes.
00:06:29.000 And 202 of those votes, we now know with certainty, were fraudulent in that race.
00:06:33.960 All of that is to say, if somebody is going to call you a lunatic or a conspiracy theorist
00:06:41.040 or anything like that, because you raise the possibility, given a fair bit of evidence that
00:06:45.880 there are irregularities in voting, particularly with inflated numbers, you should laugh in their
00:06:51.360 face.
00:06:52.000 This has gone on a long time in this country.
00:06:53.760 Two Democratic presidents joked about it with one another.
00:06:59.020 And a trick here is that you got to sit on the ballot box.
00:07:02.600 It's not just about turning out your guys to vote.
00:07:05.020 I know the Trump campaign did a great job and get out the vote.
00:07:07.720 If the Trump supporters show up to vote, then you're going to win.
00:07:11.200 You've also got to sit on the ballot box.
00:07:12.760 And what happened on election night was that multiple crucial counties in the country just
00:07:19.440 stopped counting.
00:07:21.380 Why?
00:07:22.480 I don't know.
00:07:23.500 I don't know.
00:07:25.160 We're getting reports in that in certain places, and this wouldn't be enough to swing
00:07:28.680 the election, but it would be enough to change the vote count if it happened in multiple
00:07:32.500 places.
00:07:33.860 Votes are being reported off by an order of magnitude when people are reporting them.
00:07:38.260 So they've been fixed in some places.
00:07:40.000 How many places have they not been fixed?
00:07:41.240 We know in Georgia, there's illegal ballots going on.
00:07:44.020 A Republican poll observer in Georgia saw 53 late absentee ballots illegally added to
00:07:50.280 a stack of on-time absentee ballots in Chatham County.
00:07:54.500 And the Republican official says that we will not allow Democrat officials to steal this election
00:07:58.600 from Trump with late illegal ballots.
00:08:00.740 It depends on the state, but in certain states like Georgia, if the ballot comes in late, it
00:08:05.740 cannot count.
00:08:06.860 Now, what the Democrats will say is we want every vote to count.
00:08:09.100 That's the Joe Biden campaign.
00:08:10.100 We need every vote to count.
00:08:11.500 And they make something of an argument, right?
00:08:13.960 It's a heartstrings argument to say every vote in America, every voice has to count.
00:08:19.380 But there are rules to elections.
00:08:21.360 If I go vote right now, well, especially if I go vote because I'm a Republican, then my
00:08:26.380 vote won't count.
00:08:27.080 But of course it shouldn't count.
00:08:28.200 If we're voting days after the election, your vote should not count.
00:08:30.880 But that was the thought process here among Democratic officials.
00:08:34.260 I guarantee you, I bet the farm on it.
00:08:37.060 If you delay the count, more votes can come in.
00:08:40.700 And that's what Republican poll watchers are seeing happen in Georgia.
00:08:45.560 Another irregularity that's going on, you saw this in Wisconsin, is a major voter surge.
00:08:52.780 So voter turnout with 98% of precincts reporting shows that nearly 9 out of 10 registered voters
00:08:59.500 cast ballots, 89% of Wisconsin voters cast ballots.
00:09:04.580 Now, Wisconsin does have same-day registration, but we don't have the same-day registration numbers.
00:09:09.100 So we don't know how that number is.
00:09:11.620 And I can just tell you, as a matter of elections, 89% is an implausible voter turnout number.
00:09:19.100 That does not happen.
00:09:20.460 It's usually closer to around 60%.
00:09:22.500 Maybe, maybe you can tick up higher.
00:09:25.240 Sometimes it's even lower than that.
00:09:27.900 Now we're trying to pretend it's 89%.
00:09:30.340 That is statistically impossible.
00:09:33.980 Now with same-day voter registration, maybe the number is, I don't know, 77, 78%.
00:09:37.840 That is still implausible.
00:09:40.720 Very difficult to believe.
00:09:42.980 Think about this.
00:09:43.800 President Trump got something like 5 million extra votes this year than he did in 2016.
00:09:47.840 That doesn't happen in re-election years.
00:09:50.500 Barack Obama got millions fewer votes in 2012 than he did in 2008.
00:09:57.720 President Trump got something like 5 million more votes, and it's still not enough?
00:10:01.860 Very difficult to believe that.
00:10:03.780 I suppose it could be true, but it's very difficult to believe that.
00:10:08.400 Now, speaking of the poll watchers, at every election, this is why we have election day,
00:10:12.140 by the way, and why voting before election day is not legitimate in very narrow circumstances.
00:10:19.040 If you can't leave, if you have an absentee ballot, perhaps.
00:10:22.340 Exceptions prove rules.
00:10:23.400 But election day exists for a reason, because people try to commit fraud.
00:10:27.500 And in Michigan, the poll watchers are not even being given access to the count.
00:10:31.440 So the reason that both campaigns have poll watchers, to make sure people aren't cheating.
00:10:35.960 In certain parts of Michigan, the Trump campaign poll watchers can't even get in.
00:10:40.320 What's going on there?
00:10:41.240 Very difficult for me to believe that that's a fair count, if they're not letting them in.
00:10:44.980 In other places in this country, you saw election officials putting boards up on windows so that
00:10:50.960 the public could not look in and see the vote count.
00:10:54.820 What's going on there?
00:10:57.680 I point to these individual irregularities, because one of them, if it were just one in
00:11:03.200 isolation, that would not be enough to say there's something illegitimate going on.
00:11:06.640 But when you add them all up, we can only touch on a handful on this show.
00:11:11.680 When you add them all up, you have to start wondering, what is going on here?
00:11:17.300 How about skewed election results in Michigan?
00:11:19.260 Also in Michigan, Michigan, crucial state that was going heavily for Trump.
00:11:23.620 Then, you know, you wait a few days and I don't know, something's changing.
00:11:26.880 Now it's more of a Democrat state.
00:11:28.840 The Antrim County clerk, Cheryl Guy, became aware of skewed results in the unofficial election
00:11:34.860 result tabulations.
00:11:36.760 So early morning, this is yesterday, early morning unofficial results showed single digit
00:11:42.760 returns in the presidential race for Donald Trump in townships, including Chastonia, Echo,
00:11:48.220 Helena, and Torch Lake with 65 to 80% reporting.
00:11:51.920 So you're telling me there's going to be six or seven votes in those townships for Donald
00:11:55.620 Trump?
00:11:56.040 I don't believe that.
00:11:58.580 Antrim County is a Republican stronghold.
00:12:01.200 It has been for a very long time.
00:12:02.560 But then in certain precincts there, Joe Biden and other Democratic candidates had many, many,
00:12:08.440 many more votes than normal.
00:12:10.680 This is according to a former Michigan state lawmaker.
00:12:13.580 Quote, it just looked weird.
00:12:15.900 Two thirds of the townships looked really messed up.
00:12:20.240 Now, you don't need to take my word for it.
00:12:22.360 This isn't just some conservative observer, conservative activist, a conservative politician,
00:12:27.800 even.
00:12:27.940 This is the county clerk, county clerk saying something's really wrong here.
00:12:32.600 Something stinks.
00:12:34.060 We know plenty stinks in Pennsylvania.
00:12:35.840 Something seems to stink in Michigan, too.
00:12:37.660 But speaking of Pennsylvania, consider this.
00:12:40.500 This is from FiveThirtyEight, by the way.
00:12:41.900 This is Nate Silver's outfit, which I don't remember.
00:12:43.920 I think the last time they predicted an election correctly was 2008 with Barack Obama.
00:12:48.620 It's the whole reason FiveThirtyEight started.
00:12:49.760 But for some reason, everyone pays attention.
00:12:51.680 And Nate Silver is this great genius.
00:12:53.580 Nate Silver says two more batches of Pennsylvania votes were reported around 23,277 votes in Philadelphia.
00:13:01.760 All for Biden.
00:13:03.540 All for Biden.
00:13:04.460 23,277 votes.
00:13:06.920 And then 5,300 votes in Luzerne County.
00:13:11.000 4,000 of which were for Biden.
00:13:12.580 So even that number, 4,000 out of 5,300, very difficult to believe.
00:13:17.540 But it's extremely difficult for me to believe that 23,277 votes in Philly were all 100% for Joe Biden.
00:13:28.020 I don't know that we can quite believe that.
00:13:30.380 And then this brings us to North Carolina.
00:13:33.340 North Carolina, as far as I'm concerned, the biggest issue of all.
00:13:36.460 So we got results out of Florida, which is usually a very contested state, right?
00:13:44.500 Florida was the reason we had the 38-day recount for Bush v. Gore.
00:13:48.340 We got results out of Ohio, another contested state.
00:13:52.320 That was fine.
00:13:53.200 All on election night.
00:13:55.040 We got results.
00:13:56.120 We've gotten results now out of West Coast states.
00:13:58.680 States in the middle of the country.
00:14:00.240 All on election night or shortly thereafter.
00:14:02.700 But North Carolina, polls closed very early there.
00:14:05.080 East Coast state, North Carolina, Trump doing very, very well in.
00:14:09.080 We don't have the numbers.
00:14:12.180 NBC News is estimating that about 300,000 votes are left to be tallied.
00:14:17.800 But North Carolina, first of all, why couldn't North Carolina count the votes? 0.99
00:14:21.080 We don't know.
00:14:22.560 But North Carolina's not even counting them anymore.
00:14:27.100 North Carolina did not count those ballots yesterday.
00:14:30.320 They just stopped.
00:14:31.180 North Carolina says that they will not give us a number until November 12th.
00:14:37.280 November 12th.
00:14:38.080 What day is it today?
00:14:39.440 The 5th?
00:14:41.460 What's taking so long, North Carolina?
00:14:43.600 What are you all doing?
00:14:46.660 You might suggest that one of the reasons that North Carolina's data, why their numbers aren't
00:14:52.960 going to come in until so late, is because if Joe Biden gets into trouble, it would certainly
00:14:58.160 help Joe Biden to win North Carolina.
00:15:00.020 I don't know.
00:15:00.420 I'm not proposing that.
00:15:02.740 What I do know is, ballot box stuffing is an undeniable American tradition, and specifically 0.69
00:15:11.000 an undeniable Democratic Party tradition.
00:15:13.700 There is nothing conspiratorial.
00:15:15.100 Well, there is something conspiratorial about that.
00:15:16.600 It's a conspiracy to do it, but it's happened for a long time in this country.
00:15:20.940 The other thing is that it's not just one irregularity or two irregularities.
00:15:26.520 I want to make sure that I don't sound like Democrats in 2016 when I'm raising questions
00:15:29.960 about some of these numbers.
00:15:31.980 Democrats in 2016 said, this is an illegitimate election.
00:15:35.340 I said, why is that?
00:15:36.620 They said, because Russia.
00:15:38.700 I said, what did Russia do?
00:15:40.040 They, I don't know, they did something.
00:15:41.580 Okay.
00:15:42.040 We had an investigation into that, by the way.
00:15:44.480 Russia bought $100,000 worth of Facebook ads.
00:15:47.520 Some of which were for Democrats, by the way.
00:15:50.920 So that claim was ridiculous.
00:15:53.380 But here, we've got a lot of questions.
00:15:56.380 Shutting down the counting, delaying the counting until November 3rd in North Carolina.
00:15:59.900 The multiple reports of ballot stuffing.
00:16:02.600 The multiple reports of Republican poll watchers not being allowed to look at the results.
00:16:06.660 The issue of Sharpies in Arizona that may raise questions over whether ballots could be
00:16:11.780 counted.
00:16:12.120 This was in Republican strongholds.
00:16:13.620 Apparently, election officials passed out Sharpies instead of pens.
00:16:17.360 Sharpies.
00:16:17.920 There were some questions as to whether or not they could be counted.
00:16:19.900 Now, Arizona is saying they could be counted.
00:16:21.560 Who knows?
00:16:22.740 Who knows?
00:16:23.680 All of these issues, and we haven't even scratched the surface, raise questions about
00:16:28.200 this process.
00:16:28.700 To say nothing of widespread unsolicited mail-in ballots, which are, which are truly unprecedented
00:16:33.300 in this country and rife for fraud.
00:16:35.160 The reason we have poll watchers in the first place is because there is so much opportunity
00:16:40.720 for fraud.
00:16:41.480 And the left is not going to admit that if the numbers just keep miraculously ticking
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00:18:03.480 The good news is President Trump is filing lawsuits in basically all of these states.
00:18:08.040 The Trump campaign filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia laying the groundwork
00:18:12.000 for contesting battleground states as he started to fall behind Joe Biden.
00:18:16.140 Because you'll notice if you look at the electoral count, somehow Joe Biden's numbers
00:18:19.480 just keep going up and we don't know why and it's all away from the public light.
00:18:23.340 When we were all watching the election on election night, when there were all those
00:18:26.640 eyeballs there, Trump was winning.
00:18:29.260 But then when people started to look away and the system took over again, somehow Joe
00:18:33.840 Biden started doing much, much better.
00:18:37.160 These new filings join existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada.
00:18:41.540 They demand better access for campaign observers to where the ballots are being processed and
00:18:46.140 counted, where the absentee ballots are being counted.
00:18:48.820 What does President Trump have to do here?
00:18:53.320 President Trump needs to make sure not just that all the votes are counted.
00:18:56.500 President Trump needs to make sure that all of the votes are verified.
00:19:00.380 Okay, in that election in 1948 when LBJ stole the Senate seat, they found 202 ballots that
00:19:06.700 were illegitimate.
00:19:07.740 They were all written in the same pen.
00:19:08.860 They were all written in the same handwriting.
00:19:10.460 And the people who allegedly had voted said they never voted that day.
00:19:15.360 We're getting some, this is just anecdotal, but we're hearing from some people in Wisconsin
00:19:18.660 who called to find out if their votes have been counted.
00:19:20.500 They said they haven't been counted yet.
00:19:22.260 It's pretty strange.
00:19:24.200 These are just Republicans I'm talking to.
00:19:25.980 It might be a selection bias or it might not be a selection bias.
00:19:29.980 By the way, they called Arizona on election night for Biden.
00:19:34.560 Actually, when I say they, I should be more specific.
00:19:38.500 Fox News called Arizona on election night for Joe Biden.
00:19:41.620 This was very, very early and no one else had done it.
00:19:45.120 And it was very strange because Fox News is supposed to be the conservative cable outlet.
00:19:48.600 So you would think, okay, if someone's going to call it for Biden that early, it's going
00:19:52.820 to be MSNBC or CNN, but it wasn't.
00:19:55.220 Now we're finding out, whoopsie daisy, actually there were many fewer votes that had come in
00:20:00.720 in Arizona than we were told on election night.
00:20:02.480 Actually, Arizona may still be up for grabs.
00:20:04.560 There's a data firm in Arizona right now, Data Orbital, which is saying that President
00:20:09.720 Trump is on track to win in Arizona, which backs up claims by the Trump campaign that
00:20:15.140 actually this is far from over.
00:20:17.900 The decision to call Arizona on election night was perplexing to a lot of people because it
00:20:23.540 really set Trump back in terms of the media narrative.
00:20:26.180 And there, there seemed to be no reason for it.
00:20:27.660 It looked like a preposterous and irresponsible call.
00:20:30.860 Why was it?
00:20:31.540 I mean, you actually had hosts and correspondents from that network openly criticizing it on
00:20:37.300 air saying, what is going on guys?
00:20:38.760 What are you doing?
00:20:40.940 I don't know.
00:20:41.700 I don't, I'm not going to speculate on what's going on over there, but this is a major issue.
00:20:46.380 If you've got even the, the ostensibly right-wing cable network now doing more work for the
00:20:54.700 left-wing groups than even the left-wing, left-wing networks, you've got protests right now outside
00:21:00.060 of the Maricopa County elections office in Arizona.
00:21:03.240 And the protesters are extraordinarily angry about the state being called.
00:21:08.100 A lot of people in the crowd are not wearing masks.
00:21:12.360 We're, we're keeping a respectful distance, but a loud and very boisterous crowd.
00:21:17.820 So you'll start here and then, uh, start up here.
00:21:23.300 And they're actually chanting Fox News sucks.
00:21:27.780 Fox News sucks.
00:21:28.880 The reason why they're chanting that is because Fox News called Arizona, uh, for Biden yesterday.
00:21:35.940 And a lot of people are angry about that.
00:21:38.760 We have not called, uh, Arizona, uh, a lot of other.
00:21:41.880 So MSNBC, obviously very gleeful to be announcing that they're, they're chanting against their
00:21:48.760 competitor.
00:21:49.240 Although I guess Fox really isn't a competitor at NBC or MSNBC.
00:21:52.600 They're completely different audiences.
00:21:54.340 What's interesting though, at the top of that clip is he walks out and he says, they're not
00:21:57.780 wearing masks.
00:21:58.420 They're not social distancing.
00:21:59.400 Like now, you know, protests are bad.
00:22:01.360 Is that right?
00:22:01.900 After eight months of BLM and Antifa burning the country down and protesting for whatever cause
00:22:07.120 they want to protest, usually on false evidence.
00:22:09.860 Now protests are bad that we're talking about our election.
00:22:12.480 I think, I think those protests are pretty justified, but people are very, very upset
00:22:18.800 about this.
00:22:20.520 And what's, what seems to be happening is what the left, I would say predicted, but I think
00:22:25.660 really promised is a better word.
00:22:27.820 The left promised us that Trump was going to win the election on election day, but then
00:22:31.880 they were going to somehow come out winning the vote later on.
00:22:35.580 They were going to call it, they called it a red mirage.
00:22:37.640 The mirage is all the people are going to vote for you and you're going to see it with
00:22:40.720 your own eyes, but then don't worry later on, we're going to win.
00:22:44.240 They all seem so confident.
00:22:45.640 Don't you worry?
00:22:46.360 We're going to win.
00:22:47.540 Here is MSNBC's Joy Reid discussing how the red mirage turns out.
00:22:52.680 And I think partly because even though we knew the red wave was a thing and then the red
00:22:57.260 mirage, I should say the red mirage, we all knew it was coming, but when you're right
00:23:00.880 in the moment, it is, it's enervating, it's aggravating.
00:23:05.480 And I think partly, and I said this last night, I do think it's because we've been reporting
00:23:10.100 for five years, Rachel, about Russia, about national security, you know, just undermining
00:23:16.940 our national security.
00:23:18.380 You know, the impeachment, the racism, the Nazis, all of it. 0.69
00:23:23.160 And then COVID laying on top of it felt like a repudiation was coming.
00:23:28.680 And I think even though we intellectually understand what America is at its base, right,
00:23:32.840 that there is a great amount of racism, anti-blackness, anti-wokeness, this idea that political correctness
00:23:38.960 is some sort of scheme to destroy white America, right?
00:23:42.000 Like we know what this country is, but you still, part of you, I think part of your heart
00:23:47.160 says, you know what, maybe the country is going to pay off all of this pain.
00:23:51.540 The children were stolen with a repudiation.
00:23:54.540 So you hear, first of all, how much the left despises this country.
00:23:58.900 Just the way they speak.
00:24:00.040 We know what this country is.
00:24:01.600 We know what it is.
00:24:02.240 It's awful.
00:24:02.920 And you know what they've got to do?
00:24:04.220 They've got to vote for Democrats to pay off the pain and injustice of this country.
00:24:07.920 Lady, give me a break. 1.00
00:24:09.400 It's the greatest country on earth.
00:24:11.280 This woman is spouting her stupid nonsense on TV. 1.00
00:24:14.040 She's extremely wealthy. 0.80
00:24:15.480 She's treated extremely well.
00:24:17.240 She's treated better by the law than people, basically any country on earth.
00:24:21.680 Give me a break, lady. 1.00
00:24:25.180 But this is what they think.
00:24:26.380 The left hates the country.
00:24:28.840 I don't know how else to put it.
00:24:30.340 I know it sounds extreme, but she just said it.
00:24:32.780 You heard it with her own ears.
00:24:33.960 She goes, this country, they've got to pay off all the pain and the damage and the injustice
00:24:39.200 they've caused.
00:24:39.860 No, no.
00:24:40.740 The country doesn't have to pay off anything, lady. 0.99
00:24:42.500 It's the best country on earth.
00:24:44.000 Get over yourself.
00:24:45.600 I'm sorry that you're upset about some imaginary problem while you pontificate on television
00:24:50.600 and count your stacks of money and feel safe in your personhood and your property and in
00:24:58.260 your political liberties.
00:24:59.620 I'm sorry that that upsets you.
00:25:01.780 Where else would you like to go?
00:25:03.480 What country is better off?
00:25:04.940 Give me a break.
00:25:05.780 But they don't like the country.
00:25:07.280 And you heard at the top, you heard at the top, she says, we have a red mirage.
00:25:13.680 We knew it was going to come.
00:25:14.860 The red mirage had to come.
00:25:16.180 And then the red mirage is coming.
00:25:18.040 I think she believes this.
00:25:19.020 I think this is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
00:25:21.200 I think this is an article of faith for the left.
00:25:24.320 You always hear the left talking about how we have to defend democracy.
00:25:27.160 But it's ironic because the Democrats are the people who most undermine democracy.
00:25:31.300 You saw this in 2016.
00:25:32.720 Maybe, who knows, maybe you're seeing it now, but you certainly saw it in 2016.
00:25:36.440 The people like Donald Trump and then they tried to not even make that a possibility
00:25:43.100 because the deep state was spying on the Trump campaign.
00:25:46.780 But then Trump gets elected and they try to have a coup d'etat for three and a half years.
00:25:51.060 Now, how is this possible?
00:25:52.060 How are the Democrats in the name of democracy undermining democracy?
00:25:55.400 Because for the Democrats in their world, it is only legitimate to elect Democrats.
00:26:00.580 That is the only way an election can be legitimate.
00:26:05.220 And it is actually worth it to steal an election like they tried to do in 2016.
00:26:12.080 And who knows what's going on now?
00:26:13.580 It is worth it, but we know for a fact that they tried to do it in 2016.
00:26:16.780 It is worth it to try to steal an election in the name of democracy.
00:26:22.360 A stolen election that elects Democrats is more legitimately Democratic for Democrats
00:26:26.480 than a legitimate election that elects Republicans.
00:26:29.080 How's that for a tongue twister? 0.92
00:26:30.840 But that's how they think about this.
00:26:33.940 And what's so crazy to me about the whole thing,
00:26:37.560 she's talking about the racism of Trump, the Russians and the Nazis and all this.
00:26:44.660 The idea that there are KGB agents and Nazis running around America right now is preposterous, right?
00:26:50.900 I mean, that's a pure fantasy.
00:26:52.420 The idea that Donald Trump is a racist, preposterous, pure fantasy.
00:26:55.780 But this, she says, this is what we know about the country.
00:27:01.140 That's, that's, but now we're seeing, now Joe Biden hopefully will be elected.
00:27:05.120 That's what we, that's what we want to see.
00:27:06.480 And of course, those might be flipped in terms of their fantasies and their reality.
00:27:11.160 The really sad thing about it though is, is this whole experience reminded me,
00:27:14.540 getting back to the protests in Arizona.
00:27:16.060 There is no conservative outlet in the legacy media.
00:27:22.120 There is no conservative institution in the political establishment.
00:27:27.400 There's not one in the whole country.
00:27:30.580 And there were some that I certainly thought were conservative.
00:27:34.580 I used to think were conservative.
00:27:36.060 In, I don't know, in the established higher education and the established,
00:27:42.040 even technology, some places in corporate America in, and of course, in the legacy news media.
00:27:47.420 I thought, okay, there's one, one or two.
00:27:49.940 No, there's not.
00:27:51.720 There are court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism.
00:27:54.500 There were some conservative institutions that sort of pretend,
00:27:58.780 they pretend to be conservative institutions.
00:28:00.620 But then when push comes to shove and when the leftist hegemony is threatened,
00:28:06.020 they fold, they fold up and they play their part and they, they act the fool.
00:28:10.700 And they, in many ways, legitimize the reigning left-wing regime,
00:28:16.000 the liberal regime, by pretending that there's some disagreement here, but there's not.
00:28:20.820 And what President Trump did was he offered and continues to offer, I hope,
00:28:26.160 a legitimate alternative to that.
00:28:28.880 You had essentially one political party in recent decades until Trump.
00:28:34.680 You had a party that basically agreed on foreign policy.
00:28:37.940 Obama's foreign policy was not very much different than George Bush's foreign policy.
00:28:41.680 They basically agreed on global trade.
00:28:44.480 Obama's foreign policy was not really different than Bush's foreign policy or McCain's or Romney's.
00:28:48.760 They basically agree on immigration.
00:28:51.040 Obama's immigration policy was not very different than McCain's or Romney's or George Bush's
00:28:57.220 or Bush the first for that matter.
00:29:00.140 They all agreed on these big questions.
00:29:02.160 And then on certain cultural issues, they kind of, they, the conservatives would kind of pretend
00:29:06.400 to disagree, but then they'd just roll over.
00:29:08.160 That's why we've lost all of those issues over the years.
00:29:11.240 There was basically one party and then Trump comes in and everyone just focuses on his personality.
00:29:15.360 But what really distinguishes Trump are the issues.
00:29:18.600 He opposed their liberal global trade regime.
00:29:22.220 He opposed their liberal open borders immigration regime.
00:29:25.880 He opposed their liberal administrative state, deep state bureaucracy, whatever you want to call it, governing regime.
00:29:33.980 Just those three things would be enough such that the system cannot permit him to get elected again.
00:29:40.400 And perhaps the system won't.
00:29:42.700 Who knows?
00:29:43.460 Who knows?
00:29:43.920 There will be legal challenges to this.
00:29:45.600 Maybe Joe Biden won the election outright.
00:29:49.320 Maybe.
00:29:50.740 I guess in that way, the result could be a legitimate result.
00:29:54.140 But what we do know for sure is that this process has been far from it.
00:29:58.980 This process has had so many irregularities.
00:30:01.680 Just the unprecedented, unsolicited, widespread mail-in ballots alone are enough to raise questions.
00:30:08.800 But then you find out poll workers, poll watchers not allowed in, numbers getting corrected sometimes when people catch it.
00:30:16.720 The process itself raises a lot, a lot of questions.
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00:31:44.540 All right, my first question from Patrick.
00:31:46.740 Dear Michael, with people voting a month or two months ahead, how many of them will die before the election?
00:31:53.200 It's an interesting question.
00:31:54.100 Will their votes be considered legal votes by dead people?
00:31:57.040 Will these votes be disqualified or will they automatically be switched to Democrat?
00:32:00.580 Well, it is true that Democrats lost a lot among the black vote.
00:32:04.340 They lost a lot among the Hispanic vote.
00:32:06.500 They lost a lot among key demographics for them, but they've always held firm on the dead vote.
00:32:11.460 Dead people vote for Democrats 100% of the time.
00:32:14.300 You know, we've raised some questions about how the vote will turn out, you know, among these numbers that come in 100% for Biden, you know, 99% for Biden.
00:32:25.100 Even Saddam Hussein had the common decency to lower his election returns to 97% or something. 0.58
00:32:29.840 But the one group that always votes 100% for Democrats are dead people.
00:32:34.480 This does raise a real question, though.
00:32:36.260 The fact that we had such early voting, the fact that on Google, one of the top trends after the second debate was,
00:32:42.780 how can I change my vote?
00:32:44.040 Or at least a surging trend on Google was, how can I change my vote?
00:32:49.780 This shows you the weakness of early voting.
00:32:53.020 I mean, there's the fraud issue, but there's also just a basic issue that the election campaigns are geared toward a specific date.
00:33:00.520 That's election day.
00:33:01.680 And new information comes out until then, and you should not vote.
00:33:06.960 The people should not vote until all of that information has come out.
00:33:11.540 Now, if you live in a system that has early voting, I guess you can take advantage of it.
00:33:16.100 You don't want to unilaterally disarm.
00:33:18.140 But as a rule, it's very bad, and it does favor Democrats.
00:33:22.700 From Christina.
00:33:24.100 Hello, Michael.
00:33:24.960 During this election, I took notice of the counties within each state.
00:33:28.380 I noticed that states that went blue look more red than blue when viewed by county.
00:33:32.500 For example, Virginia and New York.
00:33:34.280 I understand that large cities, such as D.C. and New York, have a role in why they turn blue.
00:33:39.840 I can imagine it is frustrating for those living outside the cities to have their voices be drowned out by the city folk.
00:33:46.440 My question is, would states ever use an electoral college?
00:33:49.240 God bless.
00:33:51.000 I've lived in New York.
00:33:52.360 I've worked in politics in New York.
00:33:54.060 New York is split 50-50 between the Democrats and Republicans, sort of.
00:34:00.300 But, you know, it's skewed a little bit, I guess, in the direction of Democrats.
00:34:05.380 But the state itself is split with upstate New York, which geographically takes up, I don't know, 95% of New York, and the city.
00:34:16.960 Then you have Long Island, too.
00:34:18.020 But the city is very, very tiny on the map.
00:34:20.660 And yet, you've got, what, 12 million voters there?
00:34:24.240 More even at this point?
00:34:26.100 So that's the way the place breaks up.
00:34:29.060 I suppose that's fair because, you know, you don't give votes to mountains and trees.
00:34:33.600 You give votes to people, and there are just fewer people upstate, even though the space is much, much larger.
00:34:37.560 But there is a big cultural difference here between the city and the country.
00:34:42.280 That tension has always existed.
00:34:44.020 Cities have always been more liberal.
00:34:45.340 The country has always been more conservative.
00:34:47.660 I don't see any world in which there would be a mechanism to give greater power to the country folk, because the thing is that the places are dominated by the cities.
00:34:55.980 So the city people are never going to give up their power.
00:34:58.720 So I think that'll fall apart as it is.
00:35:02.020 But it does raise a lot of questions.
00:35:04.540 Does somebody in upstate New York have more in common with Manhattan or with Pennsylvania?
00:35:10.880 Obviously, Pennsylvania.
00:35:12.080 No question about that.
00:35:13.360 So, I don't know.
00:35:16.120 You're seeing a balkanization of the country.
00:35:18.160 You're seeing people in blue states move to red states.
00:35:19.760 We're about to do that at the Daily Wire tomorrow or something like later this week.
00:35:25.240 But you may see that in the various states, within the states as well, which is there is an ex-urbanization.
00:35:32.960 There had been years and years and years of urbanization.
00:35:35.280 Now people are leaving, and they're leaving because there's nothing to do in the cities anymore.
00:35:38.360 I love New York.
00:35:39.380 It's my favorite city in the world.
00:35:40.960 You couldn't pay me to live in New York right now.
00:35:43.360 Because the whole point of New York is you live in a tiny little squalor.
00:35:47.200 You pay thousands of dollars a month to live in a shoebox.
00:35:50.340 And every day is garbage day.
00:35:51.860 And there's rats everywhere.
00:35:53.060 But there's all this fun stuff.
00:35:55.280 Great restaurants.
00:35:56.140 Great bars.
00:35:57.240 Great clubs.
00:35:58.300 Great everything, right?
00:35:59.700 So you put up with it.
00:36:02.060 Well, during the lockdowns, all those fun things closed.
00:36:06.020 In New York, you live in a shoebox because the whole city is your living room.
00:36:09.700 But it's not during COVID.
00:36:10.940 So that exacerbated it.
00:36:13.800 Right now they're suspecting that most restaurants in New York will go out of business.
00:36:18.600 Very sad.
00:36:19.880 New York institutions.
00:36:21.080 The Roosevelt Hotel just announced this.
00:36:22.860 One of the real landmarks going out of business.
00:36:26.900 They're out.
00:36:28.000 I mean, it's heartbreaking to see it.
00:36:29.780 So you couldn't pay me to live there.
00:36:30.760 And it's true even for people who love those cities, you know, and still live there.
00:36:36.120 They're moving out.
00:36:37.000 That might spread out the vote a little bit more.
00:36:39.300 From Sam.
00:36:39.860 Hey, Michael.
00:36:40.540 Since you're a devout Catholic, I should pause here.
00:36:42.340 I always prefer the term practicing Catholic because I'm going to keep on practicing until 1.00
00:36:46.400 I get it right.
00:36:47.100 You know, the term devout, I don't know.
00:36:50.060 It seems like you're, it seems prideful to use that term.
00:36:53.120 But I appreciate the mention nonetheless.
00:36:56.740 You're a devout Catholic.
00:36:57.460 I need your opinion on this.
00:36:58.440 I'm Mormon.
00:36:58.920 I'm dating a Catholic girl.
00:37:00.080 And both of us are very serious about our own religious beliefs.
00:37:02.800 We're getting serious about our relationship and talking about marriage.
00:37:05.940 What do we do?
00:37:06.900 We don't want to end our relationship.
00:37:08.940 But most importantly, we don't want to stop the current relationship we separately have
00:37:12.380 with God in our own religions.
00:37:14.900 Could we make it work since we are both Christian?
00:37:17.240 We are especially worried about what we would teach our kids if we were married.
00:37:21.060 Thank you for having the best show on the Daily Wire.
00:37:23.200 Thank you very much.
00:37:23.940 Appreciate the question.
00:37:25.240 I've got bad news for you.
00:37:28.000 I'm not going to sugarcoat it.
00:37:31.980 You cannot get married if you are a Catholic if you do not agree to raise the kids Catholic. 0.83
00:37:37.980 You won't be permitted to do it.
00:37:40.620 You could get an interfaith dispensation from the bishop to marry outside of the Catholic faith.
00:37:46.060 But only if you agree to raise the children Catholic.
00:37:49.760 So just as a practical matter, unless your wife wants to give up her Catholic faith,
00:37:54.040 she cannot marry you unless you raise the kids Catholic. 0.98
00:37:56.400 Now, if you raise the kids Catholic, that would raise the next question of,
00:38:01.240 well, maybe you should just be Catholic too.
00:38:03.080 The whole family is going to be Catholic.
00:38:04.480 Because it would be very difficult for you to be the head of your household,
00:38:09.340 which presumably you will be, to lead your family if your entire family practices a different faith than you do.
00:38:15.840 There's also, regarding the incompatibility of the religions,
00:38:19.140 I mean, I guess every religion is incompatible with every other religion in the sense that they're all different. 0.55
00:38:25.060 But in particular, there's a difference with Mormonism because the Catholic Church is Trinitarian,
00:38:31.820 which means that we believe that God is three distinct persons in one divine unity.
00:38:37.180 And the Mormon Church is not Trinitarian.
00:38:41.400 So they believe that God the Father and the Son, I mean, you know better than I do,
00:38:45.780 but God the Father and God the Son and the Holy Spirit are separate beings.
00:38:51.400 And I know that seems like a subtle distinction, but it has huge theological implications.
00:38:57.280 The Trinity is the central mystery of Christianity.
00:39:00.720 And so if you're Unitarian or an Aryan or Mormon or Muslim, for that matter,
00:39:09.600 Islam would have similar kinds of issues, then those two will not be able to mesh. 0.99
00:39:15.640 Now, I would say don't necessarily give up.
00:39:18.860 When my wife and I started dating, we had very different views, not just from one another,
00:39:23.840 but different views even from what we currently have.
00:39:26.320 Now, people grow, either they grow together or they grow apart.
00:39:29.660 So if you're open to it, I would explore the Catholic faith and see if it's right for you.
00:39:38.540 You know, and I suspect your girlfriend has explored Mormonism, maybe not.
00:39:44.960 You know my feeling on this.
00:39:47.100 You know where I stand and which one I think is true.
00:39:49.440 But you might want to consider that, and then you might be surprised.
00:39:56.080 You might find that you're convinced by some of those arguments.
00:39:58.320 If not, I tell you, I have great respect for you both that you take your faith so seriously that you would prioritize it,
00:40:06.660 even over your romantic life.
00:40:08.440 That's very difficult.
00:40:10.520 And I think it's wise.
00:40:12.580 If you are to take your faith seriously, then it won't work.
00:40:19.040 You can't do those things separately forever.
00:40:22.100 It will cause huge problems.
00:40:24.880 And more likely what would happen is you will come together into a single or similar faith.
00:40:31.540 But that faith might not be Mormonism or Catholicism.
00:40:34.020 It might just be a kind of liberal secularism where, you know, you don't take religion very seriously.
00:40:39.880 And that would be a choice as well.
00:40:41.260 And I don't know that that would be a great choice.
00:40:43.500 You're in a tough position, but excellent that you both have the integrity to look the problem head on so that you don't have more problems down the road.
00:40:50.920 From Mike to the excellent Michael Knowles, I went to a Halloween party this weekend and had a fantastic pun costume.
00:40:57.660 Picture attached.
00:40:58.940 And he is wearing a gift box, and it says, two women from God.
00:41:02.940 It's a great costume.
00:41:03.720 It was a huge hit at the party, as we were obviously among those people with common sense and a great sense of humor.
00:41:08.780 Then on Monday, I saw an email at work requesting that we share our Halloween costumes for the office costume contest.
00:41:14.560 Uh-oh.
00:41:15.260 Here we go.
00:41:16.160 Then I got an email a couple hours later.
00:41:17.820 Due to the current social climate, we can't allow the gift costume to enter as is.
00:41:22.860 He's free to blur out the tag and resubmit.
00:41:26.340 The current social climate.
00:41:27.320 What do you mean the current social climate?
00:41:28.420 You mean political correctness, which very few people actually like.
00:41:32.280 But unfortunately, political correctness runs corporate boardrooms, HR, the university, and government.
00:41:37.380 And so because of that, you're not allowed to have a very basic costume.
00:41:41.340 What do you think is wrong with the costume of anything?
00:41:43.320 Why must the left destroy all that is fun and clever?
00:41:45.540 Feel free to share.
00:41:46.800 Yours truly from a fellow paisano.
00:41:49.260 Yeah, obviously nothing's wrong with the costume.
00:41:50.980 It's very funny.
00:41:52.180 It's actually tongue-in-cheek, right?
00:41:53.780 I mean, the idea that you are God's gift to women.
00:41:56.500 You're not making an earnest statement.
00:41:58.580 It's a self-effacing joke, but you're not allowed to do that anymore.
00:42:00.780 The reason for this is that political correctness, people get it wrong a lot.
00:42:08.060 Political correctness, some people think, is just a speech code.
00:42:13.740 If it's a speech code, it's politically correct.
00:42:15.580 But that's not true.
00:42:16.240 Everyone has speech codes.
00:42:17.200 Every society in all of human history has had speech codes.
00:42:19.620 Conservatives have speech codes, too.
00:42:21.780 That's not the issue.
00:42:22.720 Some people say political correctness is euphemism.
00:42:25.220 It's using, you know, kind of soft words to paper over difficult truths.
00:42:29.160 Political correctness includes euphemism, but we all use euphemism.
00:42:32.400 When we refer to a woman of a certain age instead of an old hag, we're using euphemism. 1.00
00:42:38.300 And there are perfectly legitimate uses for euphemism.
00:42:41.960 Political correctness is a totalizing left-wing standard to overturn the old standards.
00:42:51.660 It is a negative standard, like you'd call it an anti-standard standard.
00:42:57.280 It's a way to say, okay, here are all the traditional opinions and prejudices.
00:43:03.060 And I use that term neutrally, not in the sense of bigoted.
00:43:05.980 And here are all the traditional mores and rituals that we have in society.
00:43:09.420 And political correctness comes in and says, we're going to reverse all of them.
00:43:12.720 So traditionally in society, men and women are considered different and complementary.
00:43:17.560 So political correctness comes in and says, no, no, men and women are exactly the same.
00:43:20.900 They're identical.
00:43:21.420 And this is an article of faith for the politically correct.
00:43:26.360 And that's the specific issue that you're having with your costumes.
00:43:29.200 What you're saying is, men and women are different.
00:43:31.060 We approach life differently.
00:43:31.960 We approach sex differently.
00:43:32.900 We approach the other sex differently. 0.94
00:43:36.380 And that is not allowed.
00:43:38.200 You're not allowed to mention those differences between men and women.
00:43:40.740 And that's just the way it is.
00:43:42.120 We're living in a politically correct regime.
00:43:44.100 We thought that we were living in a relatively right-of-center conservative democracy.
00:43:49.620 We're not.
00:43:50.820 We're living in a liberal technocracy.
00:43:53.320 And we will submit.
00:43:55.640 We will have to submit.
00:43:56.640 That is the lesson from the election.
00:43:58.680 Let's try to take one more question before we go.
00:44:00.440 Because I know there are a lot of questions coming in.
00:44:02.680 From Sarah, I have a serious question.
00:44:04.360 The media have repeated over and over again how great it would be to have a female president. 0.97
00:44:08.460 Do you think it would be a net benefit to have the next president be female? 0.96
00:44:11.700 Thanks.
00:44:12.640 Well, if the next president is Kamala Harris, then certainly not.
00:44:15.760 That would be very, very negative.
00:44:17.240 But then broadly, do you think it would be good for the country?
00:44:21.680 Do you think it would be a positive for the country if we were to elect a woman president next?
00:44:27.840 No, of course not.
00:44:29.000 What would the positive thing be?
00:44:30.560 What specifically about being a woman is so much better than being a man that it would be positive to make any woman president right now?
00:44:40.780 What would that be?
00:44:42.180 I can't think of anything.
00:44:43.120 The left believes that there would be something positive because they view the past as oppressive.
00:44:48.440 We don't view the past as oppressive.
00:44:50.680 Conservatives view the past as the past.
00:44:52.660 You know, and some periods are good.
00:44:54.280 Some periods are less good.
00:44:55.800 The present right now might not be all it's cracked up to be.
00:44:58.000 Might be better than other periods, though, in the future.
00:44:59.780 Who knows how it's going to turn out?
00:45:00.900 And there is wisdom that we can gain from the past.
00:45:03.720 And we can conserve the good, the objective good, through those traditions.
00:45:09.880 That's a wonderful thing to do.
00:45:12.560 But the past itself is not oppressive.
00:45:14.060 But what the left does, they look at the past and they say, okay, past empowered men.
00:45:17.940 Men are oppressive and awful.
00:45:19.220 And white people are oppressive and awful.
00:45:20.860 And so anything that is not male and not white has to be good, has to be better than what we've got. 0.99
00:45:28.420 I don't think that's true.
00:45:29.900 Maybe, maybe some woman would be better than some man. 1.00
00:45:32.940 Could be.
00:45:33.860 But I don't know.
00:45:35.040 You've got to show me the woman.
00:45:36.380 I don't, I don't see who that woman would be. 0.95
00:45:38.680 And it sure ain't Kamala Harris.
00:45:40.300 But Kamala Harris may be our next vice president, which means, more than likely, she could be our next president. 0.98
00:45:45.820 A lot of people are giving up already.
00:45:47.900 I'm not willing to give up.
00:45:49.520 I don't think that this process has been above board.
00:45:52.200 And I don't think the Trump campaign thinks this process has been above board.
00:45:55.380 And I think most Republicans would have rolled over right now and given it all up.
00:45:59.880 And fortunately, Trump hasn't done that.
00:46:01.540 And I would strongly encourage the Trump campaign not to give up.
00:46:05.240 Fight this thing tooth and nail.
00:46:07.940 This is a travesty what's going on.
00:46:09.700 It's an embarrassment to the country.
00:46:12.100 What leftists are doing right now, that the greatest democracy in the world can't even conduct its own election because of shenanigans involving mail-in ballots and delayed poll numbers.
00:46:22.160 That's disgusting.
00:46:23.040 They should be very ashamed of it.
00:46:25.480 And we shouldn't let them get away with it.
00:46:26.940 No matter how the final count turns out, we cannot let them get away with what they're doing right now.
00:46:32.600 I'm Michael Knowles.
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