Ep. 657 - Wake Up, Stand Up, Be Free
Summary
A Michigan Business Owner interrupts a local newscast to speak out against politicians who are trying to shut down his restaurant again. The First Friday Show is now a 5-day week, starting in January, and we are excited about it!
Transcript
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To quote former President George W. Bush, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice.
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The point is, you're not going to fool me again. That was his variation on a theme.
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We locked down for, what, eight months, nine months. Then the virus was supposed to be going
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away. We flattened the curve. Everything was getting better. We had these multiple vaccines.
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And now the politicians want to shut us down again. Some people have had enough. One Michigan
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business owner has so given up on these politicians that he interrupted a local newscast
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to get his message out for what he thinks the American people should be doing.
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And they gave it to who? Special interest groups and campaign donors. I'm Dave Morris. I own
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Hey, we got a government that has taken the stimulus money. They gave it to special campaign
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donors. They gave it to special interests. They abandoned me. And they have put me in a
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So do you feel that this is the right thing to do?
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Absolutely. I feel everybody needs to stand up. Hey, listen, there was enough money to
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give every family, every family in this country, $20,000 to go home for two months. They chose
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to give it to special interests and campaign donors, the Kennedy Space Center, and they
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You could have given me money. I'd gladly walk away for 60 days and let this virus settle
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Are you going to continue to violate the state's orders and stay open?
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This is a state order. This isn't an order. This is a conspiracy. This is a tyranny.
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What do you want to tell other restaurant owners who-
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Dave Morris, Michigan business owner, more American than just about anybody in this country.
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Certainly more American than the elected people who are trying to shut us down again. Wake
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up. Stand up. Be free. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to our first Friday show. We are now five days a week and we're very excited because
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we're going to be going to radio as well starting in January. So we're just getting in the spirit of
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things. I know Ben Shapiro was very upset that I'm getting a fifth show, but it does mean I'm doing 25%
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more work. So it's a good time to be doing it anyway because so much is going on, especially
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with the presidential race. There are people who tell you this is absolutely over and Trump's got
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to concede right now and that is simply not the case. My favorite comment from yesterday is from
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Old Schooled who says, Biden says build back better. Biden also says that he's going to appoint all the
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same shriveled up cronies who destroyed things the first time. This is true. This is the point.
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What build back better, which is this creepy phrase that now all of the establishmentarians
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all around the West are reciting, all around the world really are reciting, is a way to put back
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into place the liberal world order, the liberal establishment that President Trump threw out of
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whack for a few years. Then they struck back and they tried to one, spy on him in 2016. Then they tried
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to overturn that election through the bureaucracy. Now it seems there's a lot of shenanigans in 2020.
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What it means is a reassertion of the global or it's called globalism or globalization,
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this liberal empire that takes power away from people, takes sovereignty away from nations,
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takes the constitutional order away from our day-to-day living and replaces it with
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bureaucratic technocracy. Build back better. It's the same thing that they've been foisting on us
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for decades. The question is, are we going to stand up to it? They want to lock you indoors. They
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want to make sure that you can never leave. They actually do. They now want to prevent you from going
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outside. My friend Nick Searcy in LA, the international film and television star, Nick Searcy,
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The people mandating the lockdowns do not believe that the lockdowns are necessary
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for one's health and they are not afraid of the virus at all. We've seen this again and again
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and again. The people who are forcing business owners like Dave Morris to lose their livelihoods
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and their businesses and they're forcing everyone not to see their family and their friends and
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they're forcing everyone to waste months and months and months of their lives. Do not fear
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the virus. They just want you to fear the virus, but they don't. Their behavior patently contradicts
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it. Nancy Pelosi, not wearing masks, violating the salon orders. Gavin Newsom, not wearing masks,
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seeing lots and lots of his friends, close contact indoor restaurant at a fancy place with a
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Michelin rating. On and out, Chris Cuomo. The list goes on. There's a new one now. Steve Adler. This is
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my favorite one. Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin. So he's in Texas, right? But he's the mayor of the
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bluest city in Texas. And Steve Adler has a very important message for everybody, which is
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you can't go outside. You got to stay home. We need to, you know, stay home. If you can do
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everything you can to try to keep the numbers down. This is not the time to relax. Not the time to relax
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unless you are like Steve Adler, who filmed and broadcast that video, I kid you not,
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from his vacation in Cabo. He made it to that vacation by flying a private jet with friends of
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his. Very close contact with those friends, many, many, many miles from home. Eight family members and
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guests on that private jet to this foreign place. Well, he tells you to stay home. He doesn't need to
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stay home. Why would he need to stay home? See, you need to stay home because that will help public
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health. Forget about private health. No one who is healthy is worried about this virus because the
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survival rate is extraordinarily high. But he is worried about the public ramifications, meaning the
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political ramifications, meaning taking power, enforcing his will while he violates it himself.
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Are we going to get more of this if Joe Biden does ascend to the presidency? Well, Joe Biden has a plan
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for his first hundred days and it's a simple plan. You have to wear your masks.
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My inclination, Jake, is on the first day I'm inaugurated to say I'm going to ask the public for
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100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask. Not forever, 100 days. And I think we'll see a
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significant reduction if we occur that that occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the
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numbers considerably. Come on, it's just 100 days. Come on, it's not a big deal. Come on,
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just put the donut on your head. Come on, just hop up and down on one foot. It's not a big deal.
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What's the big deal? Just do the thing that I'm arbitrarily concocting and that I've been telling
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you now for months and months is only going to last a few days longer. Just do it. And even though
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there have been multiple studies that show that the way that this particular practice is put into
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effect doesn't really do all that much for people's individual health, just do it anyway.
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What's the big deal? Now, Joe Biden is now saying 100 days. We were told the lockdowns were going to
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be 15 days. And I'm beginning to think that Democrat days, they're kind of like dog years.
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You know, they're just, we hear day and we think that means 24 hours, but it's different. The
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Democrats are on a different timeline. So for instance, 15 days to slow the spread is a year.
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It turns out that's going to be about a year. So if 15 days is one year, then 100 days by my
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calculations is six and two thirds years. So we will be into what the second Harris administration
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at that point. And then I assume there'll be the third and the fourth and the fifth Harris
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administrations after that, because there's not going to be any reason that we're going to elect
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Republicans because the Democrats want to end the filibuster and they want to add new states
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and they want to create a permanent majority at the national level. There is some good news on this
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front though, on both the election front and the COVID front. A judge is now saying that LA County
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health officials need to justify the lockdown. You'll remember just like this Austin mayor,
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the LA County supervisor said, I'm shutting down restaurants. It is not safe to go to restaurants,
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even outside. Two hours later, she goes to Santa Monica and has dinner at a restaurant
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because the rules don't apply to her. So this judge is now saying the LA County health officials
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need to justify the lockdown. If they want a three week ban on outdoor dining, that is going to put a
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lot of business owners out of business. Friend of mine works at a restaurant in LA. This restaurant
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spent something like $100,000 turning their outdoor area into a place where you can dine.
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$100,000 now down the drain. For what margins? They were already going to be losing money.
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Now for what? It's going to put them out of business. Judge says, you need some evidence
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to justify it. The police state, the local officials have this police power during emergencies,
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but it's not a limitless police power. You need to justify these actions. And what these people are
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doing right now is not justifiable. At this point, after all that we have learned about the virus and
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the lockdowns and the liars who have pushed this nonsense on us, I think that people should disobey
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every single lockdown rule as much as humanly possible. I understand it's not possible to
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disobey the rules all of the time. You can't get on an airplane, for instance, unless you've got at
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least a mask sort of on. Is it right? Okay. I understand that. And by the way, if people feel
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that they want to do something to protect themselves and they have some probably neurosis,
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but maybe a legitimate concern about it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's fine. But the rules themselves,
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you should disobey them all the time. If all of us disobeyed these stupid rules,
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then these sociopath politicians who do not think the rules matter at all for them and who do not fear
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the virus at all, they would have to stop because they would be shown to be powerless. They'd be
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slash Michael. Speaking of good rulings from judges, not on the COVID front, but on the
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presidential race, a Georgia judge has approved a forensic examination of the voting machines.
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So there have been questions about these voting machines. The theories about what could have
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happened go all the way up to the level that there's some international conspiracy and the votes
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were changed. But some of the theories are also more modest, just that there were individual issues
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with these voting machines and those individual issues would be enough to change possibly the
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election in a state. So for so long, the media have been saying, no, this is ridiculous. No,
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there could be no problems with electronic voting. No, there's no way that they're connected to the
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internet, even though they probably are connected to the internet. No, it's not a big deal. Move on,
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move on, certify the election. Well, this judge, District Judge Timothy Batten Sr. issued the order
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saying, no, do not reset the Dominion election systems. Do not wipe the machines. We need to
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have a forensic audit. Now, what's going on in the counting process, in the recounting process? Well,
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Georgia also now has to rescan 12,000 ballots. The Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Schaefer
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said on Wednesday night, Fulton County is going to rescan a whole 12,000 batch of ballots because of,
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quote, unexplained technical problems. Unexplained technical problems. Fulton County Commissioner
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Liz Houseman alerted David that Fulton County is redoing this count. Republican monitors have then
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been sent out to the tabulation center. But David Schaefer in the GOP of Georgia has been
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sounding the alarm on this for a month now or more. There were legitimate concerns over fraud.
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There is a lot of evidence that there was fraud in Georgia. 12,000 votes being rescaned. What's the
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margin in Georgia right now separating Biden and Trump? 12,000. Yikes, that's not good. Do we have
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any other evidence of fraud? Yes, we do. Some video footage from the election centers came out yesterday.
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Okay. Fulton County sent the poll watchers home at 10.30 p.m. on election night. They said,
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sorry, you got to get out of here. We're going to stop counting now. So anyone trying to make sure we
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don't mess around with the ballots, go home. The Republican officials, the poll watchers generally,
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go home. But a smaller group of election officials stuck around the counting center.
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And they didn't just stick around for 10 minutes and get their coats. They stuck around for hours.
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They stuck around for a minimum of two hours. We have this on video. They tabulated 3,000 ballots
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per hour per voting machine. And there were multiple voting machines. You can see people going out
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underneath tables, wheeling out boxes of ballots. After we were told they were going to stop counting,
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after the poll watchers went home. This sort of thing is the fraud. I'm not saying it's even enough
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fraud to swing the vote. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Sure stinks to high heaven.
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Huge questions in Georgia. 12,000 votes separate the race. You got 3,000 votes per hour per machine
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in multiple machines in just this one place. Goodness gracious. How are we supposed to have
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faith in our election system? Especially in Georgia, which you may recall, I figured it was
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on this show or in another interview. I did express fears that there would be these kinds of shenanigans
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in Georgia, specifically in Georgia before the election. All of that means there is absolutely no
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reason whatsoever to concede the presidential race before the legal process plays out. Not one.
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I am very, very supportive of pursuing every single legal process to flip this race back to President
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Trump. However, we also need to take a look at what else is going on in Georgia, namely this runoff
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election that will end up determining who controls the US Senate. There is a lawyer who I suppose is a
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pro-Trump lawyer, Lynn Wood, who is down in Georgia saying that Republicans should not vote
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in the Senate runoff. Where's Kelly Loeffler here? Where's David Perdue? He ought to be standing right
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here. Those two people want your vote. Then they ought to tell you what we're. Get a special session of
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the legislature now. Do not be fooled twice. This is Georgia. We ain't dumb. We're not gonna go vote
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on January 5th in another machine made by China. You're not gonna fool Georgians again. If Kelly
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Loeffler wants your vote, if David Perdue wants your vote, they've got to earn it. They've got to demand
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publicly, repeatedly, consistently, Brian Kemp call a special session of the Georgia legislature.
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And if they do not do it, if Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue do not do it,
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they have not earned your vote. Don't you give it to them.
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Okay, I'll say one nice thing about Lynn Wood before I say some not very nice things. I do like that
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when people go out and use political leverage and they actually use it to affect their political
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ends, especially if those are good political ends. I understand that. And that's what he's doing. He's
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giving a stump speech and saying, we want a special session of the legislature and we want
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Loeffler and Perdue to come out here and take part in this. Loeffler and Perdue probably are not
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gonna do that because they want to play it a little safer because they've got to focus on their races,
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not the presidential race. So that's the disagreement. And Lynn Wood is saying, come on,
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come out here and defend Trump. Okay, fair enough. Here are the other issues.
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Lynn Wood is apparently a Democrat. Lynn Wood has not voted in a GOP primary in 16 years.
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Eric Erickson just discovered that in 2008, Lynn Wood contributed 2,300 bucks to Barack Obama
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in the presidential cycle. Before that, he gave 250 bucks to John Edwards, another Democrat.
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Wood voted in the Abrams, the Stacey Abrams primary in 2018. And he did not vote in Donald
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Trump's primary in 2016. So, okay, maybe he had a change of heart. Maybe he's totally on the
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Trump train now or he's totally conservative or whatever could be the case. However, he is a
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Democrat and that is worth keeping in mind when you listen to his political advice. The way that I see
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this being debated right now among conservatives is you have some people who are saying, yes,
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absolutely, that's right. Support Trump. Don't vote in Georgia. And then you've got some other
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people in the conservative movement who are saying, hey, listen, give up on Trump. We should concede the
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race, but you do have to vote in Georgia. And I just don't understand why people are not capable of
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doing two things at once in politics. Namely, don't give up the presidential race. Keep pursuing the
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legal process on the presidential race. Don't concede an inch until the constitutional process
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has played out. And preserve control of the Senate for the Republicans. Is this because I have some
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special love of David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler? No, I don't, I don't dislike them either. They're fine.
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They're Republican senators. It's not really about them. Well, is it because I love Mitch McConnell so
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much? No, I mean, cocaine Mitch does a pretty good job. You know, he gave us a lot of judges
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and, you know, he's really good at just screaming while holding automatic weapons and just saying,
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say hello to my little friend and all that kind of thing. I do like his character in politics,
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but it's not, it's not just that. It's because I know what the Democrats are going to do if they get
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a Senate majority. If Democrats get a Senate majority, especially if they get the White House,
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they've promised to end the filibuster. That I think is almost guaranteed.
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They've promised to add another state to the country. I'm not saying that's guaranteed because
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that would be a big deal, but they would be totally on board for it. And it would give them
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very likely a permanent majority. And then they've threatened to pack the court. And you've got guys
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like Joe Manchin. He's basically the last semi-moderate Democrat in America. Joe Manchin says,
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I will not pack the court. Well, okay. I don't really give a damn that you're not going to pack
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the court if you are going to give Democrats a permanent majority by adding a state to the union.
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So what about the court? We've already lost the country at the national level.
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So what do I care? Yeah, add 10 million judges to the court. We already don't have political
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recourse at the national level at that point. So you've got to pay attention to that too.
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Why can't we do both? How come either way this breaks out, do we have to behave like half Democrats?
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I don't understand that. For the very same reason that I see no reason to concede this
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presidential election, I see no reason to be conciliatory here and say, let's give the Senate
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to the Democrats. I understand the frustration and the idea that it's a rigged system. But the way to
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guarantee that we're not going to have any justice in this is to throw our hands up.
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Then you can't blame it on fraud. They'll just say, well, you didn't vote.
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That's what they'll point to. That's what the left will point to. I understand the frustration,
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but we should not cut off our nose to spite our face. We should try very hard on the Trump front.
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We should try very hard on the Senate front. A Biden administration with a Democratic Senate
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would be ruinous. Even just a Biden administration would be absolutely terrible. There are appointees
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that Joe Biden is looking at who are modeling their education policies on communist China.
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Our country is being confronted right now with perils the likes of which we've never seen before.
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The, uh, the Biden education transition leader, you know, Joe Biden, because he's already named
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himself the president-elect, has this transition team. And he gives speeches from the vaunted office
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of the president-elect. So he has this transition leader, Stanford University professor, Linda
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Darling-Hammond. She's president of the California State Board of Education, now heading the education
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transition team. She has praised the Chinese Communist Party's education system for its, quote,
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magical work. China, you'll know, has an education system, but probably what China's better known for
00:26:48.300
is its re-education system. It's foisting of ideology on people, of a radical ideology that is creating our
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largest geopolitical adversary, our biggest enemy abroad. She says it's magical, right? If you get
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a Joe Biden presidency, we are going to see a radical takeover of, and a radical transformation of our
00:27:13.720
institutions. But also, you're going to see the U.S. go much easier on China. Already, people are
00:27:18.140
downplaying China's very evil actions. Nike, we talked about this yesterday, Nike is trying to let
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China keep using slave labor. People even seem to forget that China unleashed this stupid virus upon
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the world that gave politicians a pretext to destroy our institutions, upend our lives, destroy our
00:27:36.600
livelihoods, and take away our civil rights. People forget that it was China. Actually, what the
00:27:42.500
environmentalists say is that this is the world healing. Do you remember that meme from months
00:27:48.060
ago? They say, oh, the virus was just a, it was a reaction of mother nature to our sins against the
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climate. And now, we're all stuck indoors, and weeds are growing up on sidewalks, and that's,
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oh, that's nature healing. The world is going back to normal. It's funny, when the riots came to Los
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Angeles later on in the summer, you had Korean business owners in K-Town going back to the
00:28:13.680
rooftops with their rifles, like they did during the 1990s riots. And that was another part of it.
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They said, oh, yes, nature is healing. The Koreans are returning to the rooftops. We are the virus.
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Well, Prince Harry is spouting the same environmentalist nonsense. Prince Harry is saying that,
00:28:33.120
quote, mother nature has sent us to our rooms for bad behavior, to really take a moment and think
00:28:39.460
about what we've done. He said this to Water Bear, which I guess is some environmental outlet.
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A reminder that Prince Harry pollutes more than just about any other private citizen by a lot,
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by a long shot. That's actually part of why he left the royal family, to follow whatever his wife
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wanted to do, is because he was getting a lot of negative press, because he would say one thing
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about environmentalism. And then he would take private jets and live in houses that cost $14
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million, even as a private citizen, and obviously have a much larger impact on the natural environment
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than any of us do. Because for liberal elites, they do not need to practice what they preach.
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They don't even need to pretend to practice what they preach. AOC, oh my gosh, did she prove this?
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AOC has a shop and she sells merchandise. So at shop.ocasiocortez.com, AOC, the socialist darling
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of America, is selling a tax the rich sweatshirt for just about $60. Tax the rich, but you have to
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be rich to buy the shirt. And the people who support AOC tend to be pretty rich because she is not just a
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representative from New York and the federal government. She is in a way a priestess of the
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fashionable liberal policy that is taken for religion by a great many people.
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Other merch you can buy, it's a Green New Deal mug for $27. You can get a Drink Water and Don't Be
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Racist T-Shirt, okay, for $27. You can get a Cancel Student Debt T-Shirt for $27. If you're buying
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$27 T-Shirts, probably you don't have a lot of student debt, or you do and you're just hoping that
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somebody will pay your debts for you. You can buy an Abolish ICE hat for $28. And then I love, this is my
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favorite one, social, economic, racial justice sweatshirt. $65. That is magnificent. Daily Wire,
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actually. I don't know who it was. Somebody on our team came up with this new Daily Wire sweatshirt
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that they're selling. And it says, insert woke slogan here, something to that effect in the same
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you can go over to dailywire.com right now and we're selling those. To me, that's a much more
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beautiful sweatshirt. This is a group of people who are foisting an ideology on the rest of us
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that they do not believe themselves, whether it's AOC or whether it's the politicians with the
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lockdowns. This is a cynical strategy employed by hypocrites and a lot of politicians throughout
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history. There's nothing new about that, but we have absolutely no obligation to go along with that.
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The politicians foisting these mandates on us have made it clear. They don't believe it. They are not
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living in fear of the virus. Remember, President Trump came out and said, don't live in fear of the
00:31:48.660
virus. And the entire liberal establishment came out and said, yes, you should. Be afraid. Curl up in
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your room. Don't see your family. Stay home. Let us destroy the economy and take away your civil rights.
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I don't think there was much of an argument to do that, even if the virus were as bad as everyone
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was saying it is, even if it were as deadly. And it's obviously not. The survival rates are much,
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much, much, much higher than the liberal elites have been letting on to people.
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But if it were legitimate, maybe there's some argument in some crazy extreme circumstance.
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But there isn't an argument now. These people don't believe it. You should stop heeding these
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stupid lockdowns. You should stop keeping your business closed. You should stop wearing that
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stupid mask in public all the time. You should, if you want to behave with prudence and responsibility,
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then yeah, exercise your faculties of prudence. And if you really think that putting on the cloth mask
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is going to help you in certain narrow circumstances, okay, fine, whatever. But as a public
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I'm running late on the mailbag as usual, so we will fly through it. First question from
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Veronica. Okay, Mike, let's settle the porn question. I see so many people in the chat saying
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porn should be banned, and this is a very silly view that I'd like to address. My main argument
00:35:52.000
is that it does no good to ban porn if mainstream movies and TV are pornographic.
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I'm going to obviously disagree with you here, Veronica, I think, but let's keep going.
00:36:01.240
Would you agree that porn itself is not as much of a problem as the mainstreaming of it?
00:36:05.240
It is one thing for people to look at porn in shame and secret. It is another for people to openly
00:36:09.100
watch graphic sex on TV with friends and family acting like it's normal. I think the latter is
00:36:13.860
worse for our culture than the former, and another Hays Code would do us more good than a porn
00:36:17.620
ban. Ideally, it would be better if nobody looked at or participated in porn, but we don't live in
00:36:21.960
candy land. We live in reality. We need real world solutions. What are your thoughts? Thanks for your
00:36:25.880
time, and so happy you have a Friday show now. Thank you, Veronica. I appreciate it. You make
00:36:30.340
a very good point here. I disagree with your top line point, but I agree with all the individual
00:36:35.320
points you're making. What you're saying is the culture is so pornographic. We have Game of Thrones
00:36:40.960
or whatever, and things that are actually much more pornographic even than that, and so it doesn't
00:36:46.540
matter if you've got some naughty websites on the internet because if the culture is going to be
00:36:51.200
so licentious, then it doesn't matter anyway. I don't think that's true. I think it can be the
00:36:56.580
case that these are all problems, and if you can fix one of those problems, that would be a very good
00:37:01.020
thing. I do think they're different in kind also. I just think the ubiquity and total deregulation,
00:37:09.300
just about, of high-speed porn everywhere, you know, on any kid who has a cell phone is accessing
00:37:16.040
this all the time. That is a big problem, and you can regulate it. Now, I do agree with you. I think
00:37:21.020
an outright ban is probably impossible, and actually there are arguments from St. Augustine and St.
00:37:28.740
Thomas Aquinas, of all people, who were in a way defending legal prostitution, not because it's okay
00:37:36.140
to go to prostitutes or, I guess, supposed to look at porn, but just because, as you say, we don't
00:37:41.660
live in candy land. There are, this is the way societies have always existed. There's probably
00:37:47.220
some kind of reason for that. If you can contain the problem, then that might be a more practical
00:37:52.420
and prudent solution than an outright ban, which might be impractical and might have outsized
00:37:56.760
effects. I'm fine with that. I think that's okay. I think it's important for conservatives
00:38:00.580
to be realistic about how to work in the world, but what I would favor, if you're saying that the
00:38:05.280
two options here are be totally fine with high-speed porn and go for an outright ban, what I'm saying
00:38:12.260
is why don't we just heavily regulate porn? There's no conservative argument against that.
00:38:19.980
We already have laws against obscenity. Before the internet, we had strict regulations on porn
00:38:24.880
everywhere in the country, so why don't we just apply that to the internet as well? I am totally fine
00:38:30.240
with that. I think this is a major problem. It's obviously a moral problem. It's also a public
00:38:35.820
health problem, to use the fashionable phrase. When you've got kids who get hooked on this stuff
00:38:41.140
from a very young age, which is, in this day and age, it's basically every young man, then they're
00:38:46.040
going to have lots of problems in the future, personal problems and political problems, public
00:38:50.560
problems, because you've got this vice that spreads like wildfire. You don't need to be totally
00:38:59.020
puritanical to say, this is a problem. It doesn't benefit anybody, and we've got to try to fix that
00:39:05.180
problem. It doesn't sound perfectly ideologically pure, but I think that's the prudent solution,
00:39:10.920
and prudence is not just a virtue generally, but a virtue that conservatives have long understood,
00:39:17.660
and the ones who don't understand that now need to get on the program. From Michael. Hey, Michael,
00:39:22.700
since you're a guitar player, who do you think is the greatest guitar player of all time? I've heard
00:39:26.760
many people speculate it could be Jimi Hendrix, Angus Young, Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton. Just
00:39:33.600
wondering what your thoughts were on this subject. Thanks. Django Reinhardt, no doubt, no question.
00:39:40.260
From Leo. Hey, Michael, came for Ben, stayed for Knowles. Could you expand on the fraud allegations?
00:39:45.320
The numbers for Biden seem too unlikely to be true, and some of the voter turnouts are just through the
00:39:49.240
roof. As the last host not to concede, I would like your input. Great to have you five days a week.
00:39:53.860
Thank you very much. I agree. I have lots of skepticism about this election in very specific
00:39:59.980
places, and we've talked about it on the show a fair bit. The brilliant thing that the Democrats
00:40:04.880
did in this election is by completely changing the way that the election is conducted for the first
00:40:11.160
time in America, having widespread unsolicited mail-in votes, which I think are absolutely
00:40:15.800
illegitimate, and in some places are explicitly unconstitutional, like in Pennsylvania.
00:40:19.880
Pennsylvania. But by doing that, you make it such that you can't compare the turnout in this
00:40:26.100
election to previous elections. Because what's turnout? It's supposed to be, what, 72 million
00:40:29.980
for Trump and seven zillion for Joe Biden or something at this point? You're going to keep
00:40:34.540
counting those votes in Georgia? Well, it actually is possible, whatever they say, 72 and 80 or whatever
00:40:40.720
million votes. It is possible, even though those numbers are much higher than last time,
00:40:44.700
you've got a completely different system. So if last time you basically had to show up to the
00:40:49.200
polls to vote, and this time you can do it from your couch and everybody and their cousin gets a
00:40:53.180
ballot mailed directly to them, whether they request it or not, well, now we have nothing to compare it
00:40:59.140
to. It's completely apples and oranges, and I suspect that's why the Democrats pushed for that system.
00:41:04.420
Because if there were shenanigans, then you would have no frame of reference. It's very dispiriting.
00:41:09.700
I'm pleased to see that the Georgia judges at least are starting to take this seriously.
00:41:15.260
I think we need to keep fighting. From Tammy, people keep saying if Biden wins the election,
00:41:20.680
then there will be a red tsunami in 2022 for Congress. If Biden pulls this off,
00:41:25.320
how could we ever have faith in the voting system again? Yeah, I think that's a fair question.
00:41:30.020
People aren't going to have a ton of faith. I will say there is fraud in every single election.
00:41:33.420
So the idea that there were some fraudulent votes this time, it's not just a theory,
00:41:37.400
that's guaranteed. We know that for a fact. The question is, was the fraud widespread enough
00:41:43.480
to throw the election? Maybe it was, maybe it isn't. The most extreme theories of fraud here
00:41:51.740
involve the deep state and the CIA or whatever. Okay, you don't need that. I don't know. I haven't
00:42:00.220
spoken with Langley in quite some time, but I don't know. I haven't seen a ton of evidence that
00:42:05.460
that happened. Maybe it did. Maybe it didn't. What I'm saying is put those extreme fanciful
00:42:12.340
theories aside. Just look at what's right in front of you. I think sometimes the extreme theories are
00:42:17.820
used to distract us from what's right in front of us. Widespread unsolicited mail-in ballots are
00:42:23.640
intrinsically vulnerable to fraud. The New York Times admitted this in 2012. I don't need theories
00:42:29.680
about the CIA to know with certainty that this is a bad election system that is open to fraud that
00:42:36.380
even the liberals agreed with us on eight years ago. How do we have faith in that? We've got to fight
00:42:42.140
the unsolicited mail-in ballots. And I fear that the Democrats have, have brought them and they're
00:42:47.960
here to stay. The other issue is if, if the Democrats do get a unified government for the next
00:42:53.880
two years and the filibuster ad Puerto Rico, there you go. There's your permanent majority.
00:42:58.960
A lot to be fighting for right now. From Aruna, dear Dr. Kufefe, as a physicist,
00:43:04.760
I can confirm that your description of Schrodinger's cat thought experiment accurately represented the
00:43:09.680
concept of quantum superposition to a level that I would not expect from a Yale history major. Thank
00:43:14.280
you very much. I appreciate it. I'm, I'm really good at following the Wikipedia trails all the way down
00:43:19.560
so I can at least learn the phrases. Dare I say there was more scientific truth in your
00:43:23.660
explanation than there is peacefulness at a mostly peaceful protest. If president-elect Trump and
00:43:31.280
president-elect Biden are indeed two eigenstates of the same quantum system, can you give us a hint
00:43:39.760
as to which state has a higher energy? Well, I do know, and I say this with all of my scientific
00:43:44.740
expertise, that president Trump has dragon energy. And so because he has, he and Kanye West both have
00:43:50.280
dragon energy. Because of that fact, I think the winner has to, of that particular question has to
00:43:56.900
go to Trump. From Jeffrey, to my favorite Maddow impersonator, or is she impersonating you? And
00:44:02.120
purveyor of Kufefe, recently there has been a lot of visibility with the Pope and various other leaders
00:44:07.000
in the Catholic Church espousing or at least tolerating views that are directly contrary to the
00:44:11.740
word of God and the catechism. For example, the ordaining of a transgender priest in February.
00:44:17.380
Hold on, I've got to pause here. That did not happen. That is fake news. I looked up this story
00:44:24.400
when it started floating around the internet. There's some heretical fake Catholic sect of
00:44:31.380
priestesses or something that pretend that they're priests and they ordained, ordained, quote unquote,
00:44:37.400
some person of unknown sex or sexual identity. But that's not real. The Catholic Church has not
00:44:42.900
ordained a transgender priest. But there are problems, as you say, offering communion to
00:44:47.840
abortionists like Joe Biden, which, which cardinals have said they'll do. And in fact,
00:44:51.880
elevating one who has done so, Pope Francis, supporting BLM. The grammar is a little confusing
00:44:59.660
there, but there, there are plenty of criticisms that people have made of Pope Francis. My question
00:45:04.580
is this, why should faithful Christians do when church leadership is acting in such an un-Christian
00:45:08.500
way? Is there a process to impeach a bishop or higher? What will they do if they start feeling
00:45:12.620
real pressure from within the congregations? At what point should it be said that the Catholic
00:45:16.460
Church is not acting with God's authority and the remnant should go to find or plant the truly
00:45:21.220
faithful assembly? Well, you know, as a Catholic, I think that there will never be a time when,
00:45:25.560
when Christ abandons his church and that the church is particular and it's incarnational and it has a
00:45:31.200
real line and thread that goes all the way back to the beginning. So that's, that is the Catholic
00:45:36.560
perspective. And there, so it actually may, it allows you to rest easy a little bit because
00:45:42.040
you don't have to constantly be worrying about, okay, is it, is this new denomination or is this
00:45:46.280
new denomination or is this the one or, you know, so it, but it doesn't relieve the frustration
00:45:51.960
when the episcopacy does things that are very stupid and sometimes heretical. And there we've looked,
00:45:58.300
we've had heretics who've been cardinals or popes even in the history of the church.
00:46:04.080
There, there is a, a great line from Hilaire Belloc, one of the great Catholic writers.
00:46:09.900
And he said that as a Catholic, it is a matter of faith for him that he has to believe that the
00:46:15.940
Catholic church is the church instituted by Christ with all this divine protection. But a piece of
00:46:20.560
evidence that it's the real church for, for non-believers is that no other organization conducted
00:46:26.400
with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight, much less 2000 years. And that,
00:46:32.460
that is sort of my view. It's a, when, uh, bishops or cardinals or popes do stupid things,
00:46:38.380
which is, if not frequent, it happens, you know, a fair bit. Uh, we have to remember that the,
00:46:45.840
these are human beings and that the Pope is not infallible except when he is. Infallibility is
00:46:52.280
invoked, what, twice in the history of the church. So he can say plenty of fallible things and
00:46:57.520
popes and bishops have, have done that before. One thing the faithful laity can do though is
00:47:02.400
withhold their money. Give your money to your parish, keep the lights on, you know, keep,
00:47:06.720
keep the church services going and the masses going and all that. But when the bishops have
00:47:12.200
their pet projects and things like that, I don't give to those anymore. I don't think the bishops
00:47:16.380
have earned the credibility for, uh, to ask us to give to those things over the past few years.
00:47:22.700
And so I don't give to those. And I think that, uh, the more that the bishops have idol,
00:47:27.240
Pachamama idols and all sorts of madness, uh, the less that we're going to give. And that's one way
00:47:33.120
that we can, uh, get our point across because, because money talks in a lot of aspects of life.
00:47:41.020
One more question from Cheryl asking you a question from the Lone Star State. So proud to live in a red
00:47:45.080
state. I want to remain practical and believe that all COVID restrictions will be removed once the
00:47:49.320
vaccine is available to the public. Slightly concerned though, that carrying papers is proof
00:47:53.120
of getting a vaccine could be possible for America. Do you believe that America's future
00:47:56.740
will require people to scan papers, to enter stores or go to public events like concerts?
00:48:01.140
Possible that Americans will just have to wear masks forever instead of showing proof of a vaccine.
00:48:06.420
Absolutely love your show. Keep up the good work. Thank you very much.
00:48:08.660
This is already being introduced in Wales. It's already being introduced in the United Kingdom.
00:48:12.180
And I'm sure, uh, even though America prefers to go our own way sometimes and not like Europe or not
00:48:19.340
even like the UK, I'm sure some of the left-wing politicians will, will try to push that through
00:48:24.240
here. I won't do it when I do have to wear the mask in certain cases in public. I almost always
00:48:29.960
have my nose poking out as a not so subtle protest. Um, and then most of the time I don't even have it
00:48:37.020
on. I, I don't pay attention to these stupid things. I'm not going to carry around papers so
00:48:42.400
that I can do, engage in commerce or anything like that. I'm just going to ignore it. And maybe
00:48:48.460
there will be consequences to that. And maybe we deal with those consequences, but I'm going to
00:48:52.060
ignore those, those ridiculous lockdown rules. And I think that you should too. That is our show.
00:48:58.340
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Also, be sure to check out the other Daily Wire podcasts, including the Ben Shapiro Show,
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the Andrew Klavan Show, and the Matt Walsh Show. The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies,
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Executive Producer, Jeremy Boring. Our Technical Director is Austin Stevens.
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Supervising Producers, Mathis Glover and Robert Sterling. Assistant Director, Pavel Wadowski.
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Editor and Associate Producer, Danny D'Amico. Audio Mixer, Robin Fenderson. Hair and Makeup,
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Nika Geneva. And Production Assistant, Ryan Love. The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.
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You know, the Matt Walsh Show, it's not just another show about politics. I think there are
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enough of those already out there. We talk about culture because culture drives politics and it
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drives everything else. So my main focuses are life, family, faith. Those are fundamental.
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And that's what this show is about. I hope you'll give it a listen.