The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 651 - Trans-America

00:00:00.000 I've got good news and I've got bad news. Let's start with the bad news. The bad news is that

00:00:04.300 the Trump administration has begun the formal transition process to the Biden administration

00:00:10.960 in a limited way, but it has begun the transition process. Bad news. The good news, President Trump

00:00:16.720 still has not conceded the election. The good news, there is still a long legal process that

00:00:21.380 needs to play out. The good news, Bush v. Gore took 38 days. We're on day 21 of all this. And

00:00:26.920 then the shocking news is there is somehow a more disturbing transition going on in this

00:00:32.220 country, even than the one that's going on in the White House. This one involves gender

00:00:37.420 ideology and kids. We'll get into all of it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles

00:00:41.200 Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from TheFrogPrince89, who

00:00:53.440 says, Governor Cuomo is about to receive an Emmy award for leadership during the pandemic.

00:00:59.540 Aren't Emmys supposed to be awarded to actors? Does this mean that Cuomo was just playing the

00:01:04.940 role of a good governor? Excellent analysis of this. Yes. And our entertainment sector is playing

00:01:11.560 the role of an entertainment sector. And our liberal political elite are playing the role 0.78

00:01:16.200 of politicians. And actually, our real political life is being made by a staler, a less constitutional

00:01:24.640 bureaucratic edifice, which actually Joe Biden is showing us as his transition begins. Very

00:01:31.780 discouraging news, though the fight is not yet over. Why did this begin? In part, I suspect it began

00:01:38.300 because yesterday, the Michigan Board of Canvassers certified the state for Joe Biden.

00:01:45.460 So the process as we elect the president is you go out and you vote, or this time you don't go out

00:01:51.040 and you vote. You write your name on a piece of paper and then you send it in and some crook in a

00:01:55.660 democratic machine city decides how and what to count. And then, you know, they go out to the

00:02:00.640 graveyards and they dig up a number of democratic voters and they say, okay, good. Make sure we want

00:02:05.480 to make sure that you're enfranchised as well. So I don't know. That's just how I'm imagining this

00:02:08.920 process plays out. We don't know for sure. I suppose the legal process will show us. In any event,

00:02:13.680 you go out and you vote, and then the numbers come in, and then that does not decide who gets

00:02:20.040 the electoral votes. The state needs to certify the winner of the election, which has not happened

00:02:24.860 in Michigan up until this point. There were Republican members of this election board who

00:02:30.000 were going to delay this, and now they stopped delaying it. So Michigan's election board voted

00:02:35.420 three in favor and one abstaining to certify the state's election results, which means that Michigan

00:02:42.860 goes to Joe Biden. It is not impossible for Donald Trump to get Michigan now, but it's very difficult.

00:02:50.700 You could have a situation in which the court overturns this certification of the vote,

00:02:57.000 but historically speaking, seems pretty unlikely. The Trump administration, for their part,

00:03:02.300 has begun to acquiesce to a transition process. This began with the GSA, one of the administrative

00:03:12.680 agencies in the government. Emily Murphy, who is the administrator of the U.S. General Services

00:03:17.960 Administration, says that she has, quote, the ability under the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 as

00:03:24.780 amended to make certain post-election resources and services available to exist in the event of a

00:03:30.120 presidential transition, and therefore she was going to do this. Now, Emily Murphy had been getting a lot

00:03:36.540 of death threats and things like that because she had not begun the transition process already. Now I

00:03:42.700 suspect she's going to get a lot of hate from conservatives who wish that she does not begin

00:03:48.800 this transition process. Emily Murphy writes, I have dedicated much of my life to public service. I've

00:03:55.200 always strived to do what is right. Please know that I came to my decision independently based on

00:04:00.720 the law and available facts. I was never directly or indirectly pressured by any executive branch

00:04:05.220 official, including those who work at the White House or the GSA, with regard to the substance or

00:04:09.500 timing of my decision. Now, what she's saying is Trump didn't bully me into making my decision. He didn't

00:04:14.560 bully me either into going for this, you know, going and starting the transition, or bully me into not

00:04:21.780 starting the transition. She's saying, I made this independently as a member of the bureaucracy. And

00:04:25.920 she's saying this as though it were a good thing. I don't think that's a good thing. I think that the

00:04:30.340 duly elected president should be making these sorts of decisions. I don't think that an independent

00:04:35.240 bureaucracy, so-called independent bureaucracy, should be making these decisions for the duly elected

00:04:40.140 president. It's a complete misunderstanding of how our government works, and it affects the left and

00:04:45.620 the right. But President Trump had a surprising reaction to this move. We were all waiting for

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00:06:13.100 President Trump, I was waiting for the flurry of angry tweets at the GSA administrator, but that's

00:06:18.180 not what happened. President Trump actually backed her up, and he was very gracious about it, and he

00:06:22.860 said she's done a good job, and he really supports her, and she's making some resources available to

00:06:28.260 the presidential transition, but she's not, he rather, is not going to concede the election just yet.

00:06:34.680 It's a little bit of a mixed message. I have to say, I wish that the president would not begin

00:06:42.380 the transition process. I wish, and who knows, maybe this GSA administrator is being honest here

00:06:49.260 when she says she made the decision independently. She should not make the decision independently. She

00:06:53.660 should not be permitted to make the decision independently. The decision of whether or not

00:06:58.460 to concede an election and beginning the transition process is, in a limited way, a concession,

00:07:05.960 a partial concession. That decision should be made by the president alone, not by some bureaucrat.

00:07:12.520 I don't care if it's a lovely bureaucrat who's served in the government all her life. I don't care.

00:07:17.140 The president should make that decision, and I do wish that the president were not acquiescing.

00:07:22.960 I'm appreciative that he's still keeping up the fight. He still says he's going to be filing major

00:07:27.860 lawsuits in the coming week or two. Still going to duke this out until the end. But I wish, I wish

00:07:35.520 there were no acquiescence whatsoever. There is a legal process that will play out. Michigan's going

00:07:42.620 to certify the vote. Okay, that's a knock. That's too bad. Georgia is going to certify the vote. That's

00:07:47.700 too bad. Legal options are narrowing. Okay, that's fine. But there is no reason to give into

00:07:53.620 these left-wing bullies who are insisting that we not use every legal remedy available. There's

00:07:58.520 no reason to suggest that it is overturning constitutional norms to allow the legal process

00:08:04.420 to play out. The left, who are now prattling on about constitutional norms, have spent six months

00:08:09.760 burning the country to the ground and openly telling us they would not respect the results of

00:08:14.720 the election. Hillary Clinton openly saying Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances.

00:08:19.640 I do not want to be lectured by these people on constitutional norms, particularly when we

00:08:23.920 conservatives are the ones who are following them. Joe Biden may well ascend to the presidency.

00:08:30.640 We'll find out on December 14th when the electors vote. That will determine it. We'll know. And in

00:08:37.520 January, we'll have a president. And maybe that president will have ascended fair and square. Maybe that

00:08:43.500 president will have ascended through fraud. I don't know. But either way, we will have a president.

00:08:47.580 I think back, when people have asked if Joe Biden does win and there is a lot of evidence of fraud,

00:08:53.860 let's say, should we accept him as the president? I do think back to the many stolen elections throughout

00:08:58.900 history and the many stolen transitions of power. Go back, forget even just in American history,

00:09:04.400 go back to 1688 in the United Kingdom. The analogy I like to use is, in 1688, when they deposed the

00:09:11.340 good King James II and they bring in these interlopers, William and Mary of Orange, I think 1.00

00:09:16.580 those interlopers are completely illegitimate. I think the proper King of England are the descendants

00:09:20.980 of King James II who are prattling about, you know, they're running around in France or

00:09:25.500 Lichtenstein somewhere. Nevertheless, Queen Elizabeth is the Queen of England, right? That is just a

00:09:31.820 description of reality. So we may have to deal with a president that we don't like or who we think

00:09:37.240 won through nefarious means. But we don't have to do it yet, guys. This was my show yesterday.

00:09:43.940 I think I might be the last patient man in America. We should absolutely exhaust every option available

00:09:50.540 to us. Now, if the Biden transition does happen, if Biden does become president, boy, oh boy,

00:09:57.280 are we in for it. Joe Biden has announced from the vaunted office of the president-elect that he has

00:10:04.020 given himself, he announced that he's going to put John Kerry, the failed secretary of state,

00:10:11.960 into a new position in his administration. He will make him the climate czar. The climate czar. I

00:10:18.600 didn't know there was a climate czar. I guess there isn't one, but now there will be. I suppose John

00:10:24.240 Kerry will be in charge of manipulating science to make all of our political decisions for us outside of

00:10:30.240 the authentic realm of politics. What this tells me, what this signals to me, this one appointment

00:10:35.960 of John Kerry is that the Biden administration, if it occurs, will be the coronavirus lockdown on

00:10:44.020 steroids. It will be an administration of coronavirus lockdowns, not just, not specifically

00:10:49.160 with regard to coronavirus or the lockdown, but broadly to the idea that we are going to have our

00:10:53.920 politics dictated to us by egghead idiots in white lab coats who are then interpreted by politicians

00:11:00.660 who want to pretend that they're not being politicians. And the, the rules that come out

00:11:06.480 of the Biden administration are going to all have the sheen and patina of science on it. This is

00:11:13.080 something the left has been doing for now about 150 years. They say, no, our, our political preferences,

00:11:18.600 they're not, they're not politics. It's science. We have discovered, Mark said this, we have discovered

00:11:24.200 the science of history, the science of politics. It's not up for debate. How dare you disagree? We

00:11:30.500 know the science of it. And that's what we're going to get. We're going to get new government offices

00:11:34.320 that pretend to be non-political, purely scientific, and they are going to exert probably greater influence

00:11:42.340 on our politics than anything else in our government. John Kerry. And so if we're going to have these

00:11:48.180 new scientific offices that we can't disagree with, that are not open to debate, do we think John

00:11:52.960 Kerry is the right guy for this job? Some people forget this. John Kerry has been wrong about

00:11:57.580 everything his whole life. I don't think he's ever been right about a single thing ever once. He's

00:12:03.480 been wrong since he got back from Vietnam. He's been wrong since he was in the Senate. He was certainly 0.99

00:12:09.520 wrong as secretary of state. Do you remember when John Kerry was secretary of state? He's coming into this

00:12:14.900 really speaking at the Brookings Institution. He comes in and he says that there is absolutely no

00:12:21.300 way that you're going to have peace between Israel and Arab nations if you don't deal first with the 0.89

00:12:27.360 Palestinian problem. Now you'll recall, President Trump took a different approach to Israel and the

00:12:32.160 Arab world than his predecessors in Obama, in Bush, in Clinton, in the other Bush, in all of these

00:12:38.320 administrations. Trump took a different approach. He said, we're not going to deal with the

00:12:41.460 Palestinian problem first. We're just going to deal with Israel and the Arab states. 1.00

00:12:45.460 John Kerry said that was a complete disaster. There's no way that could ever possibly work.

00:12:49.920 Take a listen to Secretary of State Thurston Howell III.

00:12:53.220 There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world. I want to make that very clear

00:12:59.520 to all of you. I've heard several prominent politicians in Israel sometimes saying, well,

00:13:06.840 the Arab world's in a different place now. We just have to reach out to them and we can

00:13:10.900 work some things with the Arab world and we'll deal with the Palestinians. No, no, no, and no. 1.00

00:13:18.380 I can tell you that reaffirmed even in the last week as I have talked to leaders of the Arab

00:13:23.160 community. There will be no advance and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian 1.00

00:13:30.220 process and Palestinian peace. Everybody needs to understand that. That is a hard reality.

00:13:37.100 That's a hard reality that was completely disproven over the past four years, 100% shredded over the

00:13:45.080 past four years. Donald Trump has completely ignored the Palestinian problem. He's just dealt 0.77

00:13:50.020 with Israel's neighbors and Israel itself, and Israel has signed record peace deals with countless

00:13:58.060 Arab neighbors. Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, leader of Israel, just headed over and met with the crown

00:14:06.020 prince of Saudi Arabia. Historic. Hasn't happened before. Trump, completely right. Kerry, completely

00:14:12.600 wrong. And Kerry might be completely and frequently wrong, but he's never in doubt. He's always so sure.

00:14:17.880 He has that waspish drawl. He says, I promise you, Lovie, Lovie, I swear to you as I sit here sipping

00:14:25.680 my Pimms cup, Israel will never have peace in the Middle East if we do not deal with Palestine. 0.99

00:14:33.580 Thank you, Lovie. And it turned out that was completely wrong. Now, what sort of wrongheaded

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00:15:48.180 slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S. John Kerry, he wasn't just wrong about the Palestinian issue in Israel,

00:15:54.280 by the way. He was wrong about moving the embassy. You know, it was a U.S. policy for decades that the

00:16:00.280 U.S. embassy in Israel should be in Jerusalem. In reality, it was in Tel Aviv because Americans 1.00

00:16:05.300 were too afraid to put the embassy where they thought it would irritate the Palestinian Arabs.

00:16:12.340 Well, so Donald Trump makes the same promises as everybody. He says, I guess I'm supposed to put

00:16:16.340 the embassy in Jerusalem. Okay, sounds good. Then he does it. I was talking to Senator Cruz on our

00:16:21.340 podcast, Verdict. And apparently, when the State Department came in, they presented the arguments

00:16:28.540 for and against moving the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. You had arguments for moving it to

00:16:37.060 Jerusalem, zero. Arguments against moving it to Jerusalem, a whole long list. Trump does it

00:16:42.480 anyway. Turns out great. And then a lot of other countries follow suit and they name a town in

00:16:46.360 Israel after Donald Trump, who the left still calls an anti-Semite, apparently the least successful

00:16:50.760 anti-Semite in human history. John Kerry insisted, if you move that embassy, you are going to have

00:16:57.200 an explosion. Kerry is also concerned about the Middle East, where he spent nine months trying

00:17:03.660 to secure peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. He said the president-elect's

00:17:08.540 campaign pledge to move the U.S. embassy to the disputed city of Jerusalem would inflame the Arab

00:17:14.300 world. You'd have an explosion, an absolute explosion in the region. An absolute explosion.

00:17:21.500 Actually, you had peace. You had record peace. As I mentioned just a little bit earlier, on Sunday,

00:17:27.160 Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia.

00:17:34.600 This is the first publicly acknowledged meeting between a prime minister of the Israeli government

00:17:40.300 and high-level officials of the Saudi Arabian government. Ever, ever. Shocking record peace.

00:17:47.120 If you had told even me four years ago that Donald Trump would bring peace to the Middle East,

00:17:52.780 and I voted for Trump, I supported Trump, I would have laughed. Not because I don't think Trump,

00:17:58.500 you know, is a talented guy, just because I thought it was an intractable problem that both parties had

00:18:02.960 tried for a long time to solve. Well, the reason that both parties couldn't solve it is because both

00:18:06.560 parties had exactly the same approach. And Trump had a different approach. And the Trump approach

00:18:12.180 worked. And now I do fear, if Trump is ushered off the stage, I fear that we're going to return to some

00:18:21.040 kind of uniparty consensus. The same failed consensus among squishy Republicans and liberal Democrats

00:18:27.440 that we've had for decades in this country. I do like, by the way, that what President Trump's doing

00:18:34.800 is sort of hedging his bets here, taking the legal fight to the courts, still claiming that the election

00:18:41.460 was fraudulent and that he will prevail in the end, but also figuring out how to get enough of his

00:18:51.120 preferred deals in place before he leaves that Joe Biden can't screw it up too much. I think a lot of

00:18:56.400 what this meeting was about as well is that both Israel and Saudi Arabia fear a renewed Iran nuclear

00:19:01.560 deal if Joe Biden becomes president. And so they want to get their affairs in order before that can

00:19:07.780 possibly happen. In any event, great news for a piece in the Middle East. The Trump presidential

00:19:14.840 transition, if it does end up evolving into a fuller transition, is somehow not the most shocking and

00:19:23.160 disturbing transition going on today. The reason for that is that HBO has a new show. The new show is

00:19:30.800 called Transhood. Here's the description. Filmed over five years in Kansas City, Transhood chronicles the

00:19:39.200 lives of four young people aged 15, 12, 7, and 4, and their families as they navigate growing up

00:19:53.080 transgender. Transgender in America's heartland. Four years old, transgender. I almost was not going to 1.00

00:20:05.600 even play this clip on the show because it's so disturbing and these degenerates who filmed it

00:20:09.900 and who participated in it, these adults should be in prison. But it's on HBO. It's out there. The clip

00:20:17.200 has gone viral and I suppose just like putting up images of a crime are helpful to nabbing the

00:20:23.880 perpetrators. I think we should probably publicize this clip that's already out there so that we can

00:20:30.180 bring this to the public forefront and so that laws can be passed to make this illegal. Take a listen.

00:20:38.300 Good morning. Today we choose to recognize, honor, love, and celebrate anyone here who would claim

00:20:47.780 their identity publicly as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning, intersex,

00:20:55.560 pansexual, asexual, or any category that I've left out.

00:20:59.040 Phoenix. This is Phoenix. Phoenix is, looks like, four years old.

00:21:12.280 I'm a little shy. You're a little shy. Do you want to tell everyone if you're a boy or a girl?

00:21:19.360 I just want to tell them that I'm a girl. Okay, you can tell them that.

00:21:23.280 Yeah. Okay. Phoenix would like you to know that she's a girl and she prefers she and her pronouns. 1.00

00:21:36.520 Let's go this way. May you be well, safe, and whole. We honor you exactly as you are.

00:21:45.460 This is so wrong on every single level and every adult in that room. First of all,

00:21:55.160 a law should be passed against this. If you can't use current child abuse laws,

00:22:00.100 you should create a new law against whatever this is. You should prosecute every single person in

00:22:05.420 this room, every adult. You should throw them in prison and you should throw away the key.

00:22:09.480 That's it. Little River does not want to tell people that this little boy does not want to tell

00:22:18.500 people that he's a little girl. He manifestly does not. He says he's too shiny. He leaves,

00:22:24.200 he walks away. And then his sociopath mother takes the microphone and says, my little boy is a little

00:22:31.680 girl. And then these perverts all in a, in a, what is obviously a religious ceremony,

00:22:40.960 a leftist religious ceremony, tell the little boy that he's a little girl and they give him a little

00:22:47.720 flower. Now this is a religion, right? There actually is a term for this, which is called Gnostic

00:22:52.920 dualism. It's a heresy that I thought was snuffed out in the West over a thousand years ago and it

00:22:58.960 apparently wasn't. It's the idea that your physical body has nothing to do with your true self,

00:23:04.500 your true self, which is purely metaphysical. So your body can be entirely male, for instance,

00:23:09.560 but your true metaphysical self is female in some way. So it's a, it's a ridiculous religion, 0.99

00:23:14.760 but it is a religious view. These sickos are foisting that religious view on these children and

00:23:21.360 convincing them and confusing them into believing that little boys are little girls and little girls

00:23:27.800 and seriously inflicting psychological damage on them. And there are some people in this country,

00:23:35.180 there's some people in the conservative movement who look at this and say that it is a blessing of

00:23:41.220 liberty. I kid you not. People who, they call themselves libertarians, but I don't, I wouldn't

00:23:47.700 call them libertarians because I think that's offensive to libertarian, to actual libertarianism,

00:23:51.980 which I'm not a libertarian myself, but I, this is something even more shallow and degraded to say

00:23:59.620 that, oh yes, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington would love a bunch of adults abusing 0.64

00:24:05.900 little children and convincing little boys that they're little girls. That's what they meant when

00:24:10.600 they described the blessings of liberty. That is not what they meant when they described the blessings

00:24:14.400 of liberty. And there's a real issue on the right that we need to deal with and snuff out,

00:24:20.560 which is this mistaken belief that we are not allowed to have any views on moral matters.

00:24:28.100 We're not allowed to have any, and we're certainly not allowed to enforce any views because you can't

00:24:32.520 legislate morality or some other bumper slogan nonsense. Of course you can, not only can you

00:24:38.100 legislate morality, you necessarily legislate morality. All laws legislate morality from laws

00:24:45.560 about the death penalty down to parking tickets. All laws weigh in on moral questions and come to

00:24:52.200 moral conclusions and enforce those moral conclusions on the country, on the people.

00:24:59.480 And it's, in a way, it's the right's fault that we got this. The left are the aggressors,

00:25:03.820 so I don't want to, I don't want to victim blame here, you know, the real victims are the kids.

00:25:08.400 But it is, in a way, conservatives' fault. Because what we said is, when we were approached

00:25:13.620 by this radical leftism, which basically goes under the name of political correctness,

00:25:18.240 when we were approached by this, a completely new standard, a moral standard, a religious standard,

00:25:22.100 a standard of speech, a standard of behavior, a standard that said, I'm going to have drag queen 0.51

00:25:27.320 story hour and twerk in front of four-year-old kids. I'm going to have men put on dresses and 0.99

00:25:31.060 twerk in front of four-year-old kids, and I'm going to convince four-year-old kids that 0.76

00:25:33.760 they're the little boys or little girls. When we were confronted with that,

00:25:36.660 instead of pushing back and saying, no, that's wrong, it's morally wrong, it's physically,

00:25:42.120 factually wrong, and we're not going to tolerate that. What we said is, well, you know, look,

00:25:47.680 you have your standard, and we have our standards. And there's no way that we can possibly discern

00:25:53.700 between the two. There's no way to discern between good and bad. There's no way to discern between

00:26:00.100 things that lead to human flourishing and things that lead to human degradation.

00:26:02.780 There's no way to discern. So we're just going to throw up our hands and say, you do you.

00:26:07.160 And we do it all in the name of, say, free speech, for instance. A lot of people are defending

00:26:11.260 this child abuse on the grounds of free speech. Child abuse is not free speech.

00:26:16.740 And in a way, it's our fault, because for a long time, maybe two decades now, conservatives,

00:26:23.200 right-wingers have taken this very shallow and inaccurate reading of what free speech means in the

00:26:28.000 American tradition, to suggest that it means you can say anything at all, anything whatsoever.

00:26:33.060 That is not true. That has never been true. And conservatives have not believed that,

00:26:36.920 except for the past 15 or 20 years or so. There have been whole swaths of speech that have been

00:26:41.620 illegal in America from the very beginning, and nobody's disagreed. Sedition, threats, fighting words,

00:26:48.000 fraud, all manner of speech, obscenity, obviously. Obscenity has been illegal from the very beginning.

00:26:56.380 We don't enforce it very much anymore, but it is. This is obscene. This is worse than obscene. This is

00:27:00.380 abusive. And there's nothing hypocritical, hypocritical rather, about conservatives calling

00:27:05.660 that out. And the longer we cowardly, in a cowardly way, stand back, throw up our hands and say, well,

00:27:13.460 well, I don't, I can't criticize what you're doing to those kids because then, look, if I criticize you

00:27:19.340 for transing the kids, you might criticize me for taking my kids to church. Okay, but one of those 0.99

00:27:26.240 things is good, and one of those things is evil. And we can discern. We have rational faculties.

00:27:32.700 There is objective truth. I know that's unfashionable to say. We have faculties of reason.

00:27:37.880 That's also unfashionable to say. And we can discern, not always perfectly, but pretty well

00:27:43.660 between what is good and what is evil using those faculties of reason. And we can enforce those

00:27:49.480 views in the political sphere. That's what politics is for. Our founding fathers sure would have

00:27:55.220 understood that. And I can't believe that we are permitting this right now. That should be illegal.

00:28:01.720 We should not ever, ever permit that in this country. HBO should be boycotted that this movie

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00:30:59.140 with a lot more. Some good news, fortunately, for especially for young people in the United States, 0.98

00:31:17.620 not in whatever kooky place and whatever kooky network was transing the kids, but in Tennessee,

00:31:24.760 a state that I'm loving more and more by the minute. Tennessee passed a law recently banning

00:31:30.820 abortions on the basis of race, sex, and prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. This was then challenged

00:31:39.260 by the Left, which is, it's so ironic. I felt this, this law was a wonderful law in itself. It did good

00:31:44.980 things in itself, but also wonderful in the way that it trolled the Left, because the Left always

00:31:48.820 accuses us, what do they say? They say, we're sexist, we're racist, we're ableist. That's a new term,

00:31:54.500 means you're mean to people who have different handicaps. And then what does the Left do?

00:32:01.060 The Left tries to abort babies on the basis of their race, their sex, and their handicaps.

00:32:11.420 Specifically here, a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. In Iceland, so not in the United States,

00:32:16.680 but in Iceland, they bragged a couple years ago that they had eradicated Down syndrome.

00:32:20.800 But they, they didn't, you can't eradicate Down syndrome. It's not like they found a cure for

00:32:27.120 Down syndrome. They were bragging that they killed all the babies that had Down syndrome.

00:32:32.460 And so what this law in Tennessee said is, you can't do that. That's wrong. It's racist, sexist,

00:32:37.080 ableist, just plain wrong. And the Left sued. They said, we do want to be able to kill babies on the

00:32:42.780 basis of their race. What if we don't like their race? We do want to kill babies on the basis of their 1.00

00:32:47.540 sex. Maybe I don't want a daughter. We do, we absolutely do want to kill babies on the basis 1.00

00:32:52.460 of their handicaps. What if we want to do that? Why, how dare you tell us that we can? So this 1.00

00:32:59.480 ruling, this law rather, was upheld by an appeals court. Litigation is going to continue, but for now,

00:33:06.780 the law is mostly permitted to stay in effect. And then it will work its way up the court system.

00:33:13.320 This is thanks to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which lifted part of a lower court's

00:33:17.780 preliminary injunction that blocked the law from being enforced. So the law now is being enforced.

00:33:22.000 That is a very good thing. We are going to have to weigh in on these issues in the country.

00:33:28.260 Okay, we're talking about transitions, trans, you know, transing the administration,

00:33:33.660 transing the kids. And I think a lot of conservatives, particularly the ones with a very,

00:33:38.380 very degraded view of libertarianism and misunderstanding of libertarianism in large

00:33:43.380 part, they want to pretend that there is some neutral ground, that we can just live in a

00:33:49.540 neutral ground, a neutral liberal space. And it's a neutral secular space where everything is fine.

00:33:56.360 We can kind of have a truce and you won't, the lefties won't aggress and the conservatives won't

00:33:59.980 aggress. And so we can all just respect one another's views. That's not how politics works.

00:34:04.040 The law will decide certain things. The culture will go certain places. Either you can kill kids

00:34:13.480 if they have Down syndrome or you can't kill kids if they have Down syndrome. And you've got to weigh

00:34:18.040 in. And either way you rule on that, by the way, you are enforcing your morality on others.

00:34:24.280 You are either way. Some way, either the people who want to kill the kids with Down syndrome are

00:34:27.820 going to feel coerced into not doing that, or the people who don't want to kill kids with Down

00:34:31.680 syndrome are going to feel coerced into living in this culture that slaughters kids with Down 1.00

00:34:36.260 syndrome. Either way, you are going to impose your morality on others. Have to do it. That's one

00:34:43.640 reality you have to acknowledge. The next one is we can know good from evil. We have a conscience.

00:34:50.520 We have faculties of reason. We can be educated. We have intelligence. Less and less every day,

00:34:57.600 it seems, looking around the country. But we do. We do. We have intelligence. We can do that.

00:35:01.900 We need confidence and courage, the prerequisite of all the other virtues, to state that plainly.

00:35:08.920 Because what we're seeing around us in our government is kind of the performance

00:35:12.460 of different branches, different structures in our government. It's a show. I've referred in the

00:35:17.840 past to court jester conservatives, the conservatives who pretend to oppose the dominant liberal regime,

00:35:22.880 but they don't really. They just, when push comes to shove, they roll over. They put up enough

00:35:26.220 limp opposition to legitimize the regime, but ultimately they roll over. The same is true

00:35:30.940 when you look at the media. The same is true when you look at, not just the news media, but the

00:35:34.480 entertainment media. It's a big show. Here's a great example of the show. Andrew Cuomo is about

00:35:42.540 to win an Emmy Award. Andrew Cuomo, last I checked, he's not in any movies. He's not in any sitcoms.

00:35:50.300 But he's going to win an Emmy. The International Emmy Awards are going to give Andrew Cuomo an award.

00:35:57.980 Quote, in recognition of his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and his masterful use of

00:36:04.280 television to inform and calm people around the world. Well, what television? Oh, because Andrew

00:36:08.140 Cuomo went on his brother's show at CNN and they made jokes with each other. And Chris Cuomo tried to

00:36:15.360 cover up his brother's failings in New York, which led to the, directly led to the deaths of thousands

00:36:20.120 of elderly New Yorkers, made New York the number one leader in the country in COVID deaths. And as

00:36:27.600 of now, the number two leader in death rate. The only one ahead of him in death rate is New Jersey.

00:36:33.620 Another democratic stronghold. We can get to that in a second.

00:36:36.140 By any measure, Andrew Cuomo did worse on coronavirus than pretty much any governor in

00:36:45.000 the whole country. Certainly much, much worse than the president. They didn't get the hospitals

00:36:48.900 right. Javits Center and the federal hospital ship, totally unnecessary. They didn't get the

00:36:54.160 respirators right. They didn't get anything right. They didn't get a single thing right. But they used

00:36:58.540 the news media, specifically Cuomo's brother, to lie about the record. And the news media gave him

00:37:05.100 plaudits and now the entertainment media are going to give him an award too. It's all a big show

00:37:09.500 disconnected from reality. And liberal Republicans remain completely clueless. They go along with it.

00:37:18.100 They provide limp opposition and then ultimately they acquiesce to the true rulers of the country,

00:37:25.840 the bureaucracy. You saw this with the liberal Republican governor, Larry Hogan. Larry Hogan,

00:37:31.160 big old lib, Larry Hogan comes out and he says, you need to wear a mask. You need to listen to Dr.

00:37:39.220 Fauci. Sure, we can pretend to be Republicans, but you ultimately need to listen to our technocratic,

00:37:43.940 scientific egghead overlords. If you don't do that, you're basically guilty of murder.

00:37:50.760 Well, it's sort of like saying I have a constitutional right to drive drunk. I have a constitutional right to

00:37:58.020 not wear a seatbelt or to yell fire in a crowded movie theater or to not follow the speed limit.

00:38:06.160 It's, you know, we're talking about a quarter of a million people dying already, you know, more than,

00:38:11.940 you know, the Korean War, the Gulf War and the Vietnam War added together.

00:38:18.380 Which part don't you understand? You wear the mask. There's no constitutional right

00:38:22.720 to walk around without a mask. This is, we did it in 1918. I don't know why we can't do it now.

00:38:29.520 First of all, no, we didn't have nationwide mask mandates in 1918. How stupid does this guy think

00:38:34.960 we are? But more, we also didn't have a technocratic administrative apparatus in 1918 that

00:38:42.600 was actually governing us through the mouthpieces of governors, including liberal Republicans like

00:38:47.700 Larry Hogan. But, but more than that, not wearing a mask is like driving drunk. Show me those death

00:38:55.360 rates, buddy. I don't, I don't think that's true. All the experts were telling us that we shouldn't

00:39:00.440 wear masks, what, five, six months ago? Now they're telling us we should wear masks and who knows what

00:39:05.840 they'll tell us tomorrow. Studies coming out questioning the effectiveness of the masks, doesn't

00:39:11.280 matter. Doesn't matter. Whatever is convenient to our technocratic overlords. Now, what's funny

00:39:18.200 about this, everyone's attacking Larry Hogan for this, including me, but, but I actually think he's

00:39:24.760 on to a little something when he says, look, we, you don't have a right to yell fire in a crowded

00:39:29.800 theater, which is an extraordinarily overused example, but it gets to what we were saying earlier.

00:39:33.400 There are limits on, well, on everything because this is a limited bounded world. From the very beginning

00:39:39.200 of our country all the way to the present, there have been huge swaths of speech we're not allowed

00:39:42.640 to say. There have been plenty of things that we're not allowed to do. I used to be very frustrated by

00:39:46.320 this as a little kid back when people still said, but this is a free country. You remember when kids

00:39:50.600 would say that? And I would say, I'd say, wait, what do you mean there's a speed limit? This is a free

00:39:54.240 country. What do you mean there's a traffic light? This is a free country. But of course, I had a childish

00:39:58.640 view of freedom, which a lot of people have today. And what is, what the founding fathers had is an adult

00:40:05.020 view of freedom, an exalted freedom, a freedom in ordered liberty, a freedom in justice, a freedom

00:40:12.860 that does not just have us pursuing our appetites willy nilly, but a freedom that gives us the right

00:40:19.440 to do what we ought to do. The question here for Larry Hogan is, where's the law about the masks?

00:40:26.820 Where is the tradition about the masks? Where is the, what is the argument for the masks? They haven't

00:40:33.420 made a very good one. It's capricious rulings from governors and worse, usually rulings with very

00:40:41.340 little binding effect and worse capricious rulings from eggheads who actually have no democratic 0.61

00:40:49.140 accountability at all. Well, that is, that is beyond our constitutional framework. That is beyond

00:40:54.020 our, our democratic and republican political norms. That's why we should ignore those stupid things.

00:41:01.320 These guys themselves tend not to believe their own BS. They tend not to, to believe their own

00:41:07.040 press releases. You've seen time and again, Nancy Pelosi flouts her lockdown rules. Nancy Pelosi won't 1.00

00:41:12.200 wear the mask. Gavin Newsom flouts his lockdown rules. Gavin Newsom refuses often to wear the mask.

00:41:19.200 Chris Cuomo pretended that he was locked up quarantining from coronavirus. He actually

00:41:22.980 was walking around riding bicycles around the Hamptons and getting into fights with people who

00:41:27.440 called him out for it. Again and again and again, we see this. Now we just saw the New Jersey

00:41:32.360 democratic governor, uh, who was, uh, Phil Murphy, who was just confronted for not wearing a mask and

00:41:37.800 for going out to dinner and having a nice night with his family. And women who maybe they had a 1.00

00:41:42.320 couple too many and, uh, you know, had a couple of Coca-Colas at dinner and in classic New Jersey

00:41:47.580 style got right up in his face about it. Oh my God. Hey, how you doing? Oh my God, Murphy.

00:41:53.040 How you doing? You're having fun with your family. In the meantime, you're having all kind of other

00:41:58.380 bulls**t going on at your house. Oh, are you too drunk? No, no, I'm not drunk as a matter of fact.

00:42:04.680 Can you put your mask on? You can go f**k yourself. How's that? I don't need a f**k mask on. You know

00:42:09.640 why I don't need a mask? Because there ain't nothing f**king wrong with me. I like your Trump. I like your

00:42:13.220 Trump. You're f**king right to do. That's who Trump likes. He likes my dad. F**k. No, he doesn't like

00:42:18.240 your friends. F**k. Get the f**k out of here. Thank you. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Get the f**k out of here.

00:42:24.000 Okay. So I will say in general, I don't like it when angry people come up to public figures in

00:42:30.020 restaurants. I just think it's, it's just wrong. It's uncivilized. It's unseemly. You shouldn't do

00:42:33.780 it. Even some jerk like Phil Murphy, especially when he's with his family, I do think that is wrong.

00:42:37.900 I don't think people should do that sort of thing. The reason I even bring this video up though,

00:42:42.360 is Phil Murphy's response. Phil Murphy is sitting there having dinner, got his family out, no mask,

00:42:49.480 obviously. And then this woman comes up and gives him a piece of her mind. And he says, excuse me,

00:42:53.860 can you please put the mask on? Can you please put the mask on? Why don't you put the mask on?

00:42:59.040 How come she's got to wear a mask, but you don't need to wear a mask? And what's funny is you see

00:43:02.760 later in the video, he realizes he's being filmed. Then he puts the mask on. He didn't have the mask

00:43:07.280 on before. Of course, the mask issue in restaurants is completely preposterous. The way it works now is

00:43:13.000 you walk up to a restaurant and then right before you walk, you don't have the mask on. Then you walk in

00:43:16.880 the door and you have to put the mask on and you talk to the hostess. You walk to your table. So you walk 10 feet

00:43:22.500 to your table. You have to have the mask on. Then you sit down at the table and you enter an invisible

00:43:28.900 orb of health and sanitation, whereby you can take the mask off and you can breathe freely.

00:43:36.140 The virus cannot penetrate the magical orb of the dinner table, you see. And the waiters and the

00:43:42.520 bussers and the kitchen runners are going to come and go and that, but that doesn't matter. You can't

00:43:46.340 get the virus. You can't give the virus because you're in the magical orb. But then the minute you get

00:43:50.980 up to use the restroom or to leave the restaurant, you have to put the mask back on. Now, this doesn't

00:43:57.040 make any sense at all. And Phil Murphy, the governor, was showing that. He's saying, no, no, I'm sitting

00:44:01.620 at the magical dinner table, so I can't give you coronavirus. But you, because you're standing up

00:44:06.440 eight inches away from me, you have to wear the mask. Completely incoherent. I'm not even totally

00:44:13.680 disagreeing with guys like Larry Hogan or the people who say we need to, you don't have a

00:44:17.960 constitutional right not to wear a mask. The police does have certain powers and pandemics.

00:44:21.500 Yeah, sure. Okay, that's fine. I want to get into the details about this. What's the argument

00:44:25.400 for the mask? How come you keep contradicting your own rules? How come you keep violating

00:44:29.720 your own rules for that matter? Now, all of a sudden, I'm much, much less likely to follow

00:44:36.520 what you're saying because they have no credibility whatsoever. Neither the governors who are enforcing

00:44:41.520 these things, nor the experts who are pulling the puppet strings. Newsom, Mussolini, I'm so glad I 0.99

00:44:49.080 left that state, which is now being locked down. They're going to end up closing all the restaurants

00:44:52.580 permanently, probably. Newsom, you know, before he, amid all of his different lockdown orders,

00:45:00.160 decided to go have a nice little fancy dinner with a friend of his at the French Laundry,

00:45:03.700 Michelin rated restaurant. It was about $350 per plate, at least, unless you want the delicious

00:45:09.360 little gnocchi addition. That costs another $150. And I've heard it's worth it. I've never been

00:45:14.180 myself, but Gavin seemed like he had a good night. So what Gavin Newsom said, we played it on the show

00:45:19.020 a few days ago, is that he went to this dinner and he thought it was going to be fewer people and it

00:45:23.700 was going to be outside, you know, but he made a mistake. He shouldn't have sat down, but look,

00:45:27.800 it was basically fine and it really didn't violate the rules. But anyway, he probably shouldn't

00:45:31.720 have done it. Now we found out from an award-winning journalist, Adam Housley, who is from the town

00:45:36.700 that this restaurant's in apparently. He says, because Yountville is my hometown and where the

00:45:42.520 French Laundry is located, I thought I'd do some digging. Facts about the Newsom dinner. The bar bill

00:45:46.620 was around $15,000. $15,000. That is more even than I can drink. I always thought I was pretty good.

00:45:53.460 22 people in attendance, not 12, as previously reported. No masks, all indoors. They got so loud,

00:45:59.960 other patrons complained. There was zero effort to go outside and there was no social distancing of any

00:46:04.680 type. I'm also told that some of those there are now privately laughing at the controversy. Of

00:46:09.440 course, they all are. Remember, this is my little hometown, The Walls Speak. I mention all of this

00:46:14.120 because for all of these stories, the trans kids story on HBO, the transition story, maybe we're

00:46:20.640 seeing a presidential administration from Trump. I hope not, but there might be a world of, you know,

00:46:25.120 we have to deal with the distinct and more than distinct possibility that Biden's going to be the

00:46:29.340 next president. The government that we are looking at and Kerry's appointment, alleged appointment as

00:46:38.160 the climate czar is the little cherry on top of this awful Sunday. The government that we're looking

00:46:43.540 at is one of absolutely capricious, radical, incoherent technocratic policy that will be outside the

00:46:54.000 bounds of democratic politics, even more so than it already is. It will effectively be an oligarchy

00:47:02.140 whereby the experts who have special privileges and little accountability will play by one set of

00:47:09.800 rules. All the rest of us will be expected to play by another set of rules and they can change the rules

00:47:14.580 of the game at any time. That is a transition, not just transing the poor little kids, not just 0.92

00:47:21.740 transing one administration to another, but transitioning away from a constitutional government

00:47:26.300 toward a progressive technocratic government. This is explicitly what Woodrow Wilson called for

00:47:33.920 in the early days of the progressive movement. This is what the left has clamored for for a hundred years

00:47:38.680 and we appear to be on the verge of getting it. That is a transition that none of us can tolerate

00:47:45.180 and we appear to be on the cusp of it, have to be very, very vigilant. We have to be very vigilant

00:47:50.480 to try to hold the Senate. We have to be very, very vigilant to try to hold the presidency if we

00:47:55.080 still can't let the legal process play out. That is a transition that it would seem very difficult

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