Ep. 653 - Schrödinger's POTUS (And Joe Biden’s Cat)
Summary
Biden and his wife Jill are bringing their German Shepherd, Major and Champ, to the White House, but soon they ll be joined by a cat. Why? Because Joe Biden's dog is in danger of breaking his bones.
Transcript
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There's a lot to get to today. A major Supreme Court ruling on religious liberty,
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some shocking new evidence presented at a Pennsylvania hearing over potential election
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fraud. But all of that pales in comparison to the most important news story that the mainstream
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media are bringing to you, Joe Biden's cat. And now some breaking news. President-elect
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Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, won't just be bringing their German shepherds, major and champ,
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to the White House. The Bidens tell us exclusively that soon they'll be joined by a cat.
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By the way, the real reason that Joe Biden needs a cat is that his dog is threatening his life and
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breaking his bones. That is true. Not a very auspicious start for the alleged Biden presidency.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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to remember, some of whom may have voted in the presidential election. And yet the story
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that we're hearing from the mainstream media is about Joe Biden's pets. This is the kind
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of hard hitting journalism that you can expect if Joe Biden does in fact ascend to the presidency,
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which very likely we'll know within a couple of weeks when the electors vote on December
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14th. But the cat story actually does have a serious aspect to it, which is that Joe Biden
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has some dogs and he was playing with his dogs and he had a fall. And if he were a younger
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man, that wouldn't be a big deal. But because he's exceedingly frail and elderly, this fall was
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very, very serious. As NBC News reports, Joe Biden just left an orthopedic office in Delaware
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where he was treated for a sprained right ankle after this fall on Saturday. It looks like he's
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got a fracture in his, in his foot. And so probably the cat is a little bit more his speed than the
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dog. This is very sad. I'm actually, I'm not making fun of Joe Biden. I do not wish him ill. I do not
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wish him broken bones. I think it is very sad for him. And it's very sad for the country that
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potentially we will have a frail president who is not up for the job, who should be in retirement
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after 50 years of living off public corruption. That would be much, much better.
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However, president Trump responding to this, by the way, he tweets that he just says, get well soon.
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You know, Trump, I guess it's a nice thing for him to say, but what he's pointing out is I'm very
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energetic. My opponent is frail and elderly. That is the point that he's making. He has been making
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this point for a very long time. He's been making it ever since he said he was a young and vibrant
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man. Which of these guys is the president elect? We don't know. According to the media,
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Joe Biden is basically already the president. Forget about the inauguration. Forget about the
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electors voting. The guy's already in office. And according to Trump supporters, a great many of
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them, something like 71%, the election was illegitimate. The election was stolen. And a
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great many of those people think that president Trump is the president elect. We have something like
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Schrodinger's cat. We have Schrodinger's president. We are in a state of quantum politics where both of
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these guys simultaneously appear to be the president elect. Schrodinger's cat, for those of
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you who don't remember all the way back to eighth grade, when this science thought experiment was
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brought up to us, it is this, this thought experiment whereby you've got a cat in a box
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and you've got a poison that will be released based on a random quantum event. And without going too much
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into the scientific theory that I don't even really understand myself, the question is when does a
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quantum system stop existing as this super position of states, all these multiple states at one time
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and collapse into one distinct reality? When does it stop being the case that Joe Biden and Donald Trump
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are both the president elect, according to a great many people in the country, both of these
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probabilities existing at once, when does it collapse into who will be the president? Well, if you ask
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president Trump, I guess it would be December 14th, except he was just asked by a reporter
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if the electors vote for Joe Biden on December 14th, will you concede? His answer, a little ambiguous.
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It's going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud.
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So as to whether or not I can get this apparatus moving this quickly,
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because time isn't on our side, everything else is on our side. Facts are on our side.
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This was a massive fraud. This should never take place in this country. We're like a third world
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country. We have machines that nobody knows what the hell they're looking at. I mean, you take a look
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at all the mistakes they made. Look at even Georgia, look at all the mistakes they made. And that all that
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was is a simple. You press a button. Look at look at Georgia. All the all the votes they found just
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by going. And I said they shouldn't even do it because it doesn't mean anything. They're doing
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a recount right now in Georgia that is meaningless. The only recount that matters in Georgia is to look
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at the signatures on the envelope and you will find that those signatures do not match the people
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that were many of them, hundreds of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. And I only lost by 12,000
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votes. I didn't lose. I didn't even like to say I lose. Okay. So you, you see the point here,
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President Trump saying, I don't know, it's a hard thing to concede. Now, I don't think that
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President Trump is going to declare a military dictatorship, you know, and martial law if the
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electors vote for Biden on December 14th, but he's not conceding yet, nor should he. According to the
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media, it's clear Donald Trump lost. He lost by a lot. Oh, there's not too much evidence of fraud.
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Oh, forget about Georgia. Forget about Pennsylvania. That's all bunk. There is a lot
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of evidence of what we call irregularities. And maybe we should use a harsher term even than
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irregularities. There was no reason, if everything was above board, there was no reason to stop the
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vote counting at 1030 at night on election night in certain highly democratic, democratically
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controlled precincts. Okay. There was no reason to do that. There was especially no reason as we saw
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in Georgia to then surreptitiously restart the counting at one in the morning when there were
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no poll watchers around whatsoever. There was no reason for the democratic run machine cities to
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prevent Republican poll watchers from watching the count. There was especially no reason for those
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same democratically run cities to ignore a court order demanding that Republican poll watchers watch
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the count. There was no reason to do any of that if everything was above board, but maybe everything
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was not above board. We're being told by the media, there are no evidence that there was any fraud in
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this election. Obviously we've gone through quite a bit of that evidence on this show, but we saw some
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more evidence of that last week. Last week during a Pennsylvania hearing on some of the irregularities
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here, you had a data specialist come out, Colonel Phil Waldron, make even more explosive claims than
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any of the evidence we've been discussing on this show. Phil Waldron claimed that the election software
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that was used all around this country in a great many places was built to be hacked.
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The voting systems in the US and in Pennsylvania were built to be manipulated. They've been used in
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elections around the world and stolen elections around the world in Venezuela, Italy, Argentina,
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Singapore, Bolivia as close as two weeks ago. The Philadelphia uses ES&S, Pittsburgh uses Dominion,
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other counties in Pennsylvania use Dominion and other systems. So what's the real deal? So all of these
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election systems have a common DNA. SGO Smartmatic sold Sequoia voting systems to Dominion in 2010.
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And then the Diebold company spun off premier election systems to Dominion as a result of an antitrust suit.
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I know there have been statements to the contrary, but I personally debriefed the son of a Cuban intelligence
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officer who had firsthand knowledge of Hugo Chavez's family members who told him not to worry about the populist threat
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against Maduro's election in Venezuela. Quote, unquote, that it was guaranteed their father
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invested the money to build the SGO voting machine system. So I have no reason to doubt this gentleman.
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He's sworn an affidavit to this effect. These are pretty explosive claims. And before the media
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write this guy off as some total kook who heard this from a guy and a guy and he's the dry cleaner of
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the cousin of, you know, this is a serious person, this Colonel Phil Waldron, talking about serious
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people, Cuban intelligence officers. We know there's a very tight relationship between Cuban
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intelligence and Venezuela, particularly under Hugo Chavez. These claims are that through various
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companies, various sales of companies, there has been some association between the different election
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software companies here, notably Dominion, and that it was possible for the election to have been hacked.
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That the, that in a certain sense, these machines were built such that the election could have been
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hacked. Dominion, of course, denies all of this. I think it's pretty clear that this guy's showing
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vulnerabilities. He's showing, he actually flat out states that the devices are connected to the internet.
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So they have at least the logical possibility of being hacked. The problem here though,
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with running out of time, as President Trump pointed out, is the Trump team needs to provide
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proof, not merely that this could happen, but that it did happen. And I know it's very, very difficult
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to provide that proof. Even if it did happen around the country, even if millions of votes were shifted,
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it would be very difficult to find the proof of that. But the Trump team needs to provide the proof of
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that or, and this is just a purely descriptive matter, the courts are not going to overthrow
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the election. And, and frankly, even the state legislatures are not going to flip the certification
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or refuse to certify in the places that they haven't. It just won't happen. They need to provide
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the proof that it did happen. Now, look, there is evidence. We're being told there's no evidence of
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anything for, and even let's forget about the poll watchers for a second. There's no evidence that there
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were any irregularities because of the voting machines or batches of votes coming in. B.S.,
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there's a ton of evidence of that. In fact, Colonel Waldron points out that there was a massive
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vote dump, while there have been massive vote dumps in a number of places with statistical anomalies,
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one of which showed that more than 99% of the ballots in one dump went to Joe Biden.
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Normally, you would expect to see a smooth curve going up, not any, not any big, big spikes. That's
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kind of what, what Greg was talking about, the, the anomalies of loading and uploading those,
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those votes. So that big spike that occurs there is a prime indicator of fraudulent voting.
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And that's 604,000 votes in 90 minutes. Is that right?
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Correct. This is 300 and 337 votes, 337,000 votes in that period of time. Yes. And when you look at
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this entire curve with all these spikes, can you calculate how, how, how much of a vote that accounted
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for for Biden and how much for Trump? Close to 600,000. I think our, our figures are about 570
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some odd thousand that, uh, all those spikes represent over time. For Biden. Correct.
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And how much for Trump? I think it was a little over 3,200. 570,000 for Biden, 3,000 for Trump,
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which means that in that batch that came in, Joe Biden received 99.4% of the vote.
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We got to congratulate Joe Biden. Joe Biden managed to outperform Saddam Hussein at the height of his
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power in Iraq in certain voting batch dumps in certain counties in America. Wow. Good job, Joe.
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Here I thought that there was very little enthusiasm for Joe Biden's candidacy. Turns out
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he does better numbers than a Middle Eastern dictator. Does he? Or maybe, maybe not. Maybe he doesn't.
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Maybe that's statistically impossible. Now we have, we have so much of this evidence. And yet,
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if you can't prove that it was done, not merely that it could be done, not merely that the
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statistics point to that it was done. If you can't prove that it was done, then all of this evidence
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lightstream.com slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S for more information. Now there is some hope out of the
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courts. I think, again, it's probably unlikely that the courts are going to grow enough of a spine
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to decertify election results, to halt the end of this election. However, there is some good news.
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In Georgia, there was an emergency order just sent in by Judge Timothy Batten Sr., which will
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prevent election officials from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the state of Georgia until
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further order of the court. This is very important because if there were anomalies on these voting
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machines, you want to at least preserve the computers so that you might have some evidence.
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Maybe you don't even have evidence after that. But at the very least, this judge thinks that there is
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enough evidence that there was tampering in the voting machines in Georgia that we need to stop
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those voting machines from being wiped or reset. Again, is that going to be enough? I'm skeptical.
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I'm skeptical that that will be enough. Unless you can provide a hard proof, I think that these
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judges are going to not want to be seen as interfering in the political process, throwing an election,
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and unfortunately, the process may play out. As President Trump says, time is running out. There's
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still a little bit of time, but it's about 14 days left where we're suspended in this quantum state
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where we've got potentially two presidents elect. Now, there is some good news coming out of the
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Supreme Court as well, which is that the Supreme Court defended religious liberty. Well, that's a good
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thing, especially if we are headed for a Joe Biden presidency, which I hope that we are not,
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and I still hold out some hope that we are not. But if we are, religious liberty is going to come
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under grave attack. Joe Biden already sued nuns when he was vice president during the Obama
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administration, sued nuns because they wouldn't pay for abortion drugs. He's promising to do so again.
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These democratic tyrants around the country are encouraging people to go out and protest for BLM
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and steal Gucci bags and sneakers, but they are shutting down churches. Well,
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the Supreme Court said no to that. In a 5-4 ruling on Wednesday night, the Supreme Court
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backed a religious challenge to Andrew Cuomo's restrictions of churches and synagogues in New
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York. Cuomo has been particularly bad about this. The devout Catholic Andrew Cuomo of similar devotion
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to the devout Catholic Joe Biden, who, by the way, doesn't even know simple books of the Bible,
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which we'll get to in a little bit. The Supreme Court came out and said, no, you can't shut down
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these places. You can't shut down the synagogues and you can't shut down the churches. A lot of other
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places are open in this country, but for some reason, democratic governors have had a real problem
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with the churches and the synagogues. And the reason for this, by the way, the charitable read
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of why they want to keep those shut down is that they think that religion is superfluous.
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It's ridiculous. It's silly that people still go to church. They don't believe
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in any of the things that go on in churches and synagogues. These democratic secularists
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think it's all superstition. They believe that religious people are superstitious. Ironically,
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irreligious people are much more superstitious, which we recently found out also thanks to the
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mainstream media. But they believe there's no reason to risk people's lives. It's very important
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that people go protest for BLM. That's important to the human spirit and to our body politic.
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But it's not important that they go worship this crazy old man in the sky with a beard as they
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describe God, as no one else describes God in history, but as liberal atheists do. And so they
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want to keep that shut down. Well, the Supreme Court says no. This is very important. The closure of
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these churches from the beginning was always outrageous. We never should have tolerated it.
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There is a scientific argument to keep the churches open as well. I don't really care
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to make scientific arguments that the only language that the left speaks is scientific
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with a capital S, which does not refer really to physical science, but it refers to their religion
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of secularism. Of course, their love of science doesn't apply when men pretend that they can become
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women or when activists pretend that babies are not human. So it isn't even scientific in the narrow
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physical sense. But when they invoke science, they're invoking their own secular religion.
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And it's important to point out to these left-wingers that even by their own premises that,
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you know, we need to preserve our life on earth at all costs. It's worth not seeing anybody. It's
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worth never seeing your loved ones or your relatives as long as you can eke out a few more months
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on this earth. Even by that standard, it was wrong to shut down the churches and the synagogues.
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There's a new report out from NBC, which says, hidden in a pandemic, elderly in nursing homes
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are dying from isolation. The people who are in nursing homes, well, a lot of elderly in nursing
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homes were dying because Andrew Cuomo sent sick people into nursing homes. Thousands of elderly New
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Yorkers died because of that dumb policy. But that's not even what NBC is talking about. NBC is
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saying that there are people who are dying of broken hearts, of despair, of isolation and of
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loneliness in nursing homes because they can't see their loved ones. And guess who said that was going
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to happen from the beginning? All of us, all of the conservatives. And when all the conservatives said,
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hey guys, it's kind of cruel to lock away elderly people away from their loved ones for the,
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for the last months or years of their life. When we, when we said that, do you know what the left
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called a science deniers? Well, do you know what we can call it? We can call them philosophy deniers.
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We can call them theology deniers because man does not live by bread alone. Okay. And, and life is not
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just existing. It's not just being somewhat conscious. Life is being social, seeing people that you love,
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pursuing your joys, having ambition, talking to people, enjoying one another's company.
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NBC writes, more than eight months into the pandemic, the very isolation meant to protect
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nursing home residents is also contributing to their deaths. Confined to their nursing homes and
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largely cut off from visitors, many residents are experiencing mental and physical decline.
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Gee, you don't say, you don't say. I hope, I've said this many times, especially during the
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lockdowns. I hope that we can banish the term science from our political discourse. It is a
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meaningless term now. Science, as you know, refers to knowledge. That's what the, it comes from
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shire, the Latin word shire, which means to know. I mean, it once meant all knowledge. Then for the
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past couple, few hundred years, it has referred very narrowly to material inquiry, you know, physical
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things, not metaphysical things. Then now it refers to leftist politics, the science of history, the
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science of politics, the science of progressivism. The left believes they know the way that history is
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going to flow. And so anything that they prefer will be science and therefore outside the realm of
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public debate. And anything that disagrees with their orthodoxy will, is unscientific. It's an
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anti-science or a science denier. Well, it turns out the left-wing science isn't particularly
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scientific because human beings need more than just physical things. We do need to see people. We do
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have hopes and dreams and cares for the, for the materialists who believe that nothing exists
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outside of physical objects like this microphone or this leftist here's tumbler, which is very
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important. It has a spiritual quality too. For people who believe that, that only material things
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exist. How about mathematics? Mathematics isn't physical, it's metaphysical. Ideas, loves, joys,
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cares, sorrows, everything that really matters to you. Not physical. Perhaps we could focus on that
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as well. There's more to life and death than just life and death. Though there was some great news
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November 30th. The left will allow the elderly to die of loneliness in nursing homes. And that's fine.
00:26:18.420
That's wonderful. They celebrate that. They demand you let that happen. But then the left will weep
00:26:23.240
for the monsters and rapists and murderers who are getting their just desserts. Well, beginning on
00:26:30.840
Christmas Eve, the Department of Justice will allow the Bureau of Prisons to execute inmates
00:26:35.420
on federal death row by means other than lethal injection. And I think this is very important.
00:26:40.520
And it's a way to show even more clearly that the death penalty is not cruel and unusual punishment
00:26:46.780
because lethal injection, well, it's not unusual. I guess it does happen. But I do suspect it's a bit
00:26:53.760
crueler than other forms of capital punishment. The reason for this, it gets to what we're talking
00:27:00.920
about, how there's more than the physical world to our existence. There's no dignity in lethal
00:27:09.680
injection. When a criminal is lethally injected, it's so clinical. It's so, you're strapped to the
00:27:17.340
table. You're lying down. It's apparently quite painful sometimes. It often goes wrong.
00:27:23.160
It's just a really vile process. But that does not mean that the death penalty generally is a vile
00:27:28.700
process. There actually can be dignity in the death penalty. There's a line from Dr. Johnson who says,
00:27:34.000
when a man knows he's to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,
00:27:38.560
meaning it can actually help you put your ideas and your soul in order. And then you stand on the
00:27:46.200
scaffold. It's not a pleasant experience probably, but certainly more pleasant than being strapped down to a
00:27:51.800
gurney and injected with some painful poison. I've often considered firing squad would probably be
00:27:58.340
the most dignified way to go. You can go out with a blindfold. It's sudden. You've got a cigarette in
00:28:03.560
your mouth. Say, you know, I wouldn't prefer it to living, but it's certainly a more dignified way to
00:28:09.480
go. The fact that now the federal government will permit these states to use different forms of the
00:28:15.340
death penalty, I think is important. One, the death penalty itself is morally justifiable. And
00:28:21.800
there's a strong argument that it's morally preferable to 30 years or 50 years or 100 years
00:28:28.580
of life in prison, whatever. But also, it's important to think through these things. In our
00:28:34.820
society, we want to pretend that death doesn't exist. We want to pretend that people can be president at
00:28:39.840
85 years old or whatever. We want to pretend that they won't have lost a step, that there's no such
00:28:44.260
thing as cognitive decline. We want to pretend that we will never die, that we can put off making
00:28:49.220
decisions. We can put off marriage. We can put off having kids. We can put off taking our career
00:28:54.780
seriously. We can put off our education. We can put it all in all off because in liberal society,
00:28:59.980
we want to pretend that there's no such thing as time. And we want to pretend there's no such thing
00:29:04.100
as death. And we want to pretend that through our progressive politics, we can actually eliminate germs.
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We can actually eliminate disease. We can even eliminate death. And that is simply not true.
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We are living in a fallen world. This is the reality of it. And there's nothing compassionate
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about ignoring those realities, pretending that they don't exist, allowing cruel and cynical people
00:29:25.280
to run roughshod over our society. Nothing compassionate about that at all. Now, that point of
00:29:32.600
view requires taking religion seriously. And the left doesn't want to do that. The left thinks that's
00:29:37.780
all superstition. Well, if you read the Daily Beast, I think it's pretty clear that secularists,
00:29:44.020
atheists, are the most superstitious people on planet Earth because they're now running a very
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Daily Beast. Left wing website. Joe Biden's dogs have told this pet psychic a lot about their beloved
00:31:40.500
master and his future. I'll just read you the first paragraph. Pet psychic Beth Lee Crowther says that
00:31:49.300
Joe Biden's dogs, Major and Champ, told her they are excited to live in the White House. They also say
00:31:54.860
their master will be a great president. Champ says he needs memory foam bedding to ease problems with
00:32:01.580
his joints. Major thinks he may have dental problems. Both dogs say Joe Biden's troubles with Donald Trump
00:32:06.460
are far from over, but that their master is calm and focused enough to steer America forward.
00:32:12.920
The wisdom and prophecies of this pet psychic go on, but I think you get the point.
00:32:18.200
The same people who tell you that Christianity is crazy, ridiculous. So how nuts are you to believe
00:32:28.300
the old fables in a book written by illiterate goat herders or whatever they say about the Bible?
00:32:35.580
The same people who tell you that's crazy. They believe this stuff. They run this stuff.
00:32:40.260
They do. And even for the people who maybe they're just listening to the pet psychic story
00:32:45.360
as a kind of funny sideshow, but they don't really take it seriously. Well, they might not take this
00:32:50.080
seriously, but I bet they'll take maybe their horoscope seriously. I can't tell you how many
00:32:55.300
conversations I've been in with friends of mine, many friends of mine all over the country who really,
00:33:01.660
really believe in the horoscopes. I mean, they're avowed atheists, but they believe in the horoscopes
00:33:07.720
or a friends of mine who they think going to church is crazy, but they can't miss their yoga
00:33:14.740
session because yoga, they can't explain it, but it really centers their spirit. You know,
00:33:19.240
it gets all of their energy in the right order. It is a liturgy for them. I mean, I've had friends
00:33:23.940
of mine say that yoga is their church and it is because yoga is a religious liturgy, whether we
00:33:28.420
admit it or not. How many people, how many people take it? They say, well, look, I don't believe in any of
00:33:35.320
that hokey metaphysical stuff, but I eat this very special diet because this very special diet not
00:33:41.660
only helps me lose weight, but it just gets my whole body and spirit in order together. So I'm
00:33:47.300
communing more appropriately with the world. All these kinds of hokey things, which are usually
00:33:52.060
based on nothing. All those faddish diets. Do you remember a few years ago when everyone suddenly
00:33:56.440
had celiac disease? Somehow the rates of celiac disease increased by 7 zillion percent. And even the
00:34:02.740
people who were honest and admitted they didn't have celiac disease, they said, well, I don't have
00:34:06.920
celiac disease, but I still have a gluten allergy. I still, I'm, I still have a gluten sensitivity.
00:34:12.760
And their, their evidence for this was that when they stopped stuffing their face with bagels every
00:34:16.740
day, they felt better. I must have a medical condition. No, I think, I think just stuffing your
00:34:21.720
face with bagels is not going to make you feel great. I say, this is a man who regularly stuffs his
00:34:26.360
face with bagels. That's, I'm a New Yorker. This is the sort of thing that we do. All of these kind
00:34:32.220
of hokey theories, these hokey ideas, the crystals. I mean, I lived in Los Angeles. Everyone talks about
00:34:38.940
these, the, the effects of crystals and incense and all this kind of nonsense. That is superstitious.
00:34:44.280
That is part of a religious liturgy. And it is much crazier than anything you will find in true
00:34:50.380
religion. The, the irony here is that religious people are the least superstitious people I know
00:34:56.260
because they are grounding their beliefs about the metaphysical world in rigorous thought,
00:35:04.420
rigorous study. St. Thomas Aquinas was not a, a superstitious man. He was one of the greatest
00:35:11.300
logicians we've ever had in, in our civilization. There's an, you, you often hear if you don't stand
00:35:17.120
for something, you will fall for anything. There's an irony that the, it is the irreligious who are
00:35:21.720
the most superstitious people. And speaking of religious conflict, at this point, I think the
00:35:27.400
New York Times must be trolling us because if Joe Biden does ascend to the presidency, here's the sort
00:35:31.820
of thing you've got to look forward to. New York Times writes, Iranian officials who have always
00:35:37.480
maintained that their nuclear ambitions are for peaceful purposes, not weapons, expressed fury and vowed
00:35:43.640
revenge over the assassination of one of their top nuclear scientists, calling it an act of terrorism
00:35:50.020
and warmongering. Donald Trump knows that if Joe Biden becomes president, he's going to go really easy
00:35:58.260
on the Iranians and put back in place that awful Iran deal that led to madness in the Middle East,
00:36:03.400
unlike Trump's policy, which stopped being so nice to Iran and led to a lot of peace in the Middle East.
00:36:08.620
So what Donald Trump is doing, the president goes in and assassinates a top Iranian nuclear scientist
00:36:16.160
because nobody really believes that they want a peaceful nuclear program. They obviously want a
00:36:20.280
bomb. The New York Times seems to admit this too. Their ambitions are for peaceful purposes,
00:36:25.680
but they have fury and vowed revenge. It must be like how those protests over the summer
00:36:29.800
were for peaceful purposes. They're mostly peaceful nuclear ambitions. They're mostly,
00:36:34.520
they're protests really. When the bomb drops all that while it's falling, I guess that's going to be
00:36:40.480
some sort of protest. It is not an act of terrorism, by the way, to kill an Iranian nuclear
00:36:46.040
scientist. An Iranian nuclear scientist is working on behalf of the state, obviously for military
00:36:51.480
purposes. An act of terrorism is when you target civilians to achieve a political goal. This is not even
00:36:59.540
close to that. You're targeting someone who is working for the state for military purposes to
00:37:06.080
achieve your own military and political goal. Not terrorism at all, not warmongering. I don't think
00:37:10.660
we need any lectures from the New York Times or from Joe Biden or from Barack Obama or any of the
00:37:16.740
liberal establishment on warmongering. Donald Trump has the greatest record of peace in my lifetime of
00:37:22.540
any president. And the Democratic predecessor, president and vice president, Obama and Biden,
00:37:29.620
both had a terrible record. Also speaking of religion, I had to bring up this clip. This might
00:37:35.540
be my favorite clip from the entire Thanksgiving weekend. We've been told that Joe Biden is a devout
00:37:42.840
Catholic. We've been told that Donald Trump is a terrible, horrible sinner and awful man who doesn't
00:37:49.700
know anything about the Bible. You remember he referred to second Corinthians as two Corinthians,
00:37:54.260
which by the way, some people actually do. But anyway, he was mocked for this. He's never read a Bible
00:37:58.000
in his life. You didn't see the same treatment when Joe Biden over the weekend referred to a book of
00:38:05.840
the Bible that I'm not familiar with. The book of Palms. And if we do, and I'm sure we can, we can
00:38:13.920
proclaim the palmist with the palmist who wrote these following words. The Lord is my strength and my shield.
00:38:26.500
The palmist. The palmist wrote that. That's, I thought I had read at least a decent number of books
00:38:34.000
of the Bible. I guess I had missed the palmist. I think he might be referring to the psalmist.
00:38:39.920
No doubt Joe Biden will blame this on his childhood stutter, just like he blames everything on his
00:38:44.340
childhood stutter, which magically disappeared from the age of what, seven to 75. And then that
00:38:50.580
childhood stutter came back again. I think if it comes back at 75, it's not a childhood stutter anymore.
00:38:55.360
I think it's an adult cognitive decline. But in this case, I don't think it's that Joe Biden
00:39:01.240
is in such decline that he forgets the book of this Bible that he's devoted to. He's not a devout
00:39:06.400
Catholic in any way. He supports abortion, which is not permissible. And he supports abortion in
00:39:11.920
public life, which is not permissible. That's why he was denied the Eucharist at mass a number of
00:39:16.800
months ago. Rightly denied that. Joe Biden ought to be excommunicated. Excommunication can be an act
00:39:23.180
of mercy. This gets back, I guess, to our death penalty conversation. Justice can be an act of
00:39:30.680
compassion because the purpose of something like an excommunication or of this chiding is to change
00:39:40.800
the person's heart. It's rehabilitative. Punishment can be a rehabilitative thing. We used to know that.
00:39:47.380
You do this to say you are in a very grave state. You are imperiling your soul, Joe Biden,
00:39:56.900
who professes to be a devout Catholic. You need to repent and change your views. But no one's forcing
00:40:01.940
him to do that, which is much crueler to Joe Biden if you actually believe that Catholic religion that
00:40:07.960
he pretends to believe. He sues nuns. People who are devout Catholics don't sue nuns. And people who are
00:40:13.760
devout Catholics, though they may not have read every single word of the Bible, I'm willing to
00:40:19.000
grant that because Catholics read the Bible liturgically. You read it as part of mass. But
00:40:22.740
sure, maybe they haven't read every word of it. They've read the Psalms. The Psalms are one of the
00:40:29.280
most significant, well-known books of the Bible. And I just don't think Joe Biden takes any of that
00:40:34.340
very seriously. I think that his true religion that he's devoted to is secularism. I think that's the
00:40:40.260
true religion of virtually everybody on the left today. And it's a false religion. And it's a wicked
00:40:47.040
religion for our politics. And it's going to lead to a lot of misery. And it's going to ruin a lot of
00:40:51.780
souls in the life hereafter. But it is a strong religion. And we need to call it for what it is.
00:40:59.580
He's the potential president, Joe Biden. Another potential president, actually the current president
00:41:04.740
right now, Donald Trump, who does not get fawning articles about his kitty cats, who does not get
00:41:10.860
off the hook when he misstates books of the Bible. Donald Trump actually gets less respect, maybe than
00:41:17.540
anybody else in the entire country. And recently during a press conference, some reporter starts
00:41:24.720
mouthing off in a way that's degrading, not only to the presidency, but especially degrading to this
00:41:29.580
reporter. And President Trump calls him out for it. And he points out, you know, buddy, whatever you
00:41:33.640
think of me personally, you are disrespecting the office of the president. No, I can't say that at
00:41:38.940
all. I think it's a, it's a possibility. They're trying to look between you people. Don't answer.
00:41:45.120
Don't talk to me that way. You're just a, you're just a lightweight. Don't talk to me that way.
00:41:49.100
Don't talk to, I'm the president of the United States. Don't ever talk to the president that way.
00:41:53.540
All right, I'm going to go with another question. Go ahead.
00:41:56.560
Absolutely right. And some people are going to attack Donald Trump for this and say,
00:42:00.020
he is thin skinned. He's an egotist. He's not an egotist.
00:42:02.860
I mean, he's an egotist in the sense that every politician is an egotist and Trump puts his name
00:42:07.480
on buildings. But when it gets to the deeper question of political humility or political
00:42:13.260
narcissism, Donald Trump is much more humble than Barack Obama. Barack Obama felt there was no
00:42:20.360
end to his ability to transform the world through politics. He described himself as a sort of savior,
00:42:27.520
a messianic figure who said that the earth would heal and the oceans, the sea levels would lower
00:42:31.960
upon his election. Donald Trump doesn't say that sort of thing. And if Donald Trump were a true
00:42:37.580
narcissist in this case, he would say, don't ever talk to me like that. I'm Donald Trump.
00:42:41.000
You can't talk to Donald Trump that way. Donald Trump is Donald Trump. That's not what he said.
00:42:44.580
He said, don't, don't you talk to me that way. I'm the president of the United States. Don't you ever
00:42:49.260
talk to the president of the United States like this? Whether that president is me, whether that
00:42:53.560
president is somebody else, whether that president was Barack Obama. We didn't do this sort of thing
00:42:59.520
during the Obama administration. Worst thing anyone ever said to Barack Obama was when that
00:43:05.540
congressman yelled out during the state of the union, you lie. Well, Barack Obama was lying
00:43:09.120
and it was disrespectful. Sure. But compared to this stuff, it's nothing compared to this stuff.
00:43:14.560
That was child's play. Republicans, generally speaking, were very, very respectful to Obama
00:43:19.140
because as awful as he was and continues to be, he was the president. We have respect for the office
00:43:24.980
of the president. We didn't even impeach the guy. We could have because he abused his power and
00:43:29.460
committed crimes. We didn't do it. But that sort of disrespect continues with Donald Trump and it'll
00:43:37.700
happen to whoever the next guy is. The Republicans who are pretending that it's just Donald Trump that
00:43:43.320
they're after, they're kidding themselves. You could put up a living saint, maybe especially if you put
00:43:48.860
up a living saint, the left and the press and everybody else would absolutely eviscerate him.
00:43:55.980
We don't know who the next president will be. I know that this is unpleasant for us. We don't like
00:44:04.440
to live in this state of apprehension. We want to know what's happening. Well, life is the stuff of
00:44:11.060
apprehension and tension and unknowing. We just don't know these things for certain.
00:44:16.100
The left in particular wants to pretend that they know exactly what's going to happen forever because
00:44:21.120
of their fatalist religion of secularism and the science of history and the science of politics.
00:44:25.780
And they want to pretend that they know the right side of history and the utopia we're all going to
00:44:29.180
get to and how it's all going to work out. We don't. We don't. We know the state of things in the courts
00:44:35.900
doesn't look particularly great for Trump. He's had a few victories here and there. Contrary to what
00:44:40.760
the media have told you, he has presented evidence. His team has presented evidence of outright crimes
00:44:47.380
and certainly of matters of fraud and irregularities. Is that enough to overcome this hurdle, to decertify
00:44:53.920
the votes that have already been certified, to convince electors not to vote for Trump?
00:44:58.280
Doesn't seem particularly likely, but there's two weeks left. Do not give up. Do not give up.
00:45:05.080
Because what's the point of giving up? I know there are a lot of people who say Trump's just got to
00:45:08.200
concede. He's got to leave. If Trump gives up right now, first of all, anything that he's trying
00:45:12.440
to iron out before he leaves office, that's off the table. Any appointments he's trying to get
00:45:16.940
through, any deals he's trying to cut with our adversaries and our allies, that's not going to
00:45:21.620
work. And if he gives up right now, what happens to all those legal challenges that are potentially
00:45:27.860
exposing fraud? And in some cases have exposed serious evidence. Those would go away. We would gain
00:45:34.580
nothing. We would lose quite a lot. There is no reason to give, even if the chances are that we
00:45:41.480
don't prevail in the end, there is no reason to give up right now. The only people trying to get
00:45:45.960
you to give up are the ones who very likely didn't want to support Donald Trump in the first place.
00:45:52.440
They're trying to discourage you. Don't be discouraged. Be encouraged. Have heart. There is
00:45:57.360
quite a lot going on at the, at the physical level, at the metaphysical level, everywhere in between.
00:46:04.640
And if the time may come that we only get news stories about Fluffy the cat for the next four
00:46:09.840
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