Ep. 663 - Doctor？ I Hardly Know ‘Er!
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A cure for our medical problems is here, even though the media and the left told us it couldn t happen. Joe Biden loses a Supreme Court case to challenge the election certification of Donald Trump as president, and a new vaccine is on its way.
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The coronavirus vaccine is here, absolutely historic. The FDA passed an emergency approval
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of this. Now the first shipment has left a Michigan plant in the middle of the night.
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Just like you can picture boxes of ballots leaving Michigan in the middle of the night,
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you can picture boxes of this vaccine heading out. 18,275 vials of the vaccine departed the
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plant. They're headed to all 50 states, and President Trump very rightly is bragging about
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the accomplishment. I have really good news. Today, our nation has achieved a medical miracle.
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We have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just nine months. This is one of the greatest
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scientific accomplishments in history. It will save millions of lives and soon end the pandemic
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once and for all. I am thrilled to report that the FDA has authorized the Pfizer vaccine.
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We have given Pfizer and other companies a great deal of money, hoping this would be
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the outcome. And it was. On behalf of the American people, I'd like to thank all of the brilliant
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scientists, technicians, doctors, and workers who made this all possible. Pfizer and Moderna
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have announced their vaccine is approximately 95 percent effective, far exceeding expectations.
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Totally exceeding expectations. It seems that a cure for our medical problems is here, even though the
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media and the left told us it couldn't happen. The cure for our political problems will be much,
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much harder to find. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from Friday from misanthropic perspective says,
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oh man, I don't think Kanye is going to win this. I don't know. Let's hold out hope. I'm not totally
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sure that Kanye is all out of it, but it does appear that our best wishes for the presidential
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election are slowly seeming less and less possible. President Trump got us this vaccine. This is good
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news. How many people are going to take the vaccine? I don't know, but I know some people
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really do want to take it. Some people are a little leery. Fair enough. Regardless, quite an
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accomplishment. And it's one that the left and the media told us could not happen. In fact, when
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President Trump would say that there was going to be a vaccine in the fall, the media said that's
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false. They would fact check him. NBC News on May 15th, Trump said, we're going to get a vaccine by
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the end of the year. They said, fact check coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts
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say he needs a miracle to be right. You see, Trump, the idiot, he said we'd get a vaccine by the end of
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the year. All the smart experts said that wasn't going to happen. And the media, listening to the
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experts like we're all supposed to, they said it wasn't going to happen. And then it did. Trump, that
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uneducated person was right. All the experts in the media, wrong. September 16th, NPR points out
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that President Trump was contradicting the CDC when he said you could get a vaccine by the end of 2020.
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So Trump, that nincompoop, he probably doesn't even have a PhD. He was right. All those egghead
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idiots at the CDC, wrong. CNBC on October 22nd, this is quite recent now, posted an article with
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the headline, President Trump says COVID-19 vaccine will be coming by the end of the year,
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despite contrary evidence. Well, now I've got contrary evidence to their contrary evidence
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because we did get the vaccine. Just one more data point, which we've seen so many of these all
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year, that the experts have no idea what they're talking about. And people with just one little
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modicum of common sense usually know a whole lot more than those experts, despite all of their
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many, many degrees and who has a doctorate and who has a PhD and who I think we're all, you know,
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the word doctor means teacher. It comes from the Latin word for doctor and it comes from the Latin
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verb docere. So we're all, we're all sort of doctors if we're teaching you things that are true,
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much more so than say Dr. Fauci or, or all of these other experts. Now, President Trump is
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contradicting the media and the establishment again, not just on the likelihood of a vaccine,
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but on the likelihood of, of Joe Biden becoming president. We discussed on Friday,
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a Supreme court decision shooting down the Texas case. So Texas was going to sue Georgia,
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Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania over election irregularities. Supreme court refused even to
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grant standing, refused even to hear the case, which is too bad. They previously had refused to
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hear out the Pennsylvania case where the Pennsylvania election officials very clearly
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violated the state constitution by permitting widespread mail-in votes. So just the, the window of
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opportunity for president Trump to challenge Biden's certification as president elect really,
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really narrowing, but Trump refuses to give up hope. Is it over? No, it's not over. We keep going
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and we're going to continue to go forward. We have numerous local cases where, you know, in some of the
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states that got rigged and robbed from, from us, we won every one of them. We won Pennsylvania. We won
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Michigan. Uh, we won Georgia by a lot. We have a governor, a Republican governor that's worse than a
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Democrat. He's terrible. And he's hurting Kelly and David very badly. The son, the senators that are
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terrific people. Uh, but, uh, and Wisconsin, as you know, we have a case going on as we speak.
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I mean, it's actually going on right now. So you have individual states. Oh yeah,
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we're doing individual states 14th. They're going to certify six. They transmit. What does that do
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for you? I don't know. We're going to speed it up as much as we can, but you can only go so fast.
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They give us very little time, but we caught them as you know, it's fraudulent, uh, dropping ballots,
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doing so many things. Nobody can even believe it. So there's a little bit of a parallel narrative
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going on here. And, and I, I think the Trump team is aware of this, which is the Trump team was told
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there's not enough time to get a vaccine out. There's not enough time. There's not enough time.
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And they said, we're going to do this in record time and stop telling me we can't do it. We're
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going to do it. And they did it on the vaccine. And you hear the same criticisms of the election
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lawsuits. There's no more time. There's no more time. I mean, truly we're down to three days or
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something like that. Even, even less. Uh, Trump still keeping up this argument. Now it does not
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seem likely that after the court refuses to hear out the Pennsylvania case, which was a very good
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case, court refuses to hear out the Texas case, court refuses in any way to become involved in
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this election. It, it does seem unlikely regardless of what happened in the voting centers of Atlanta
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or the voting centers in Detroit or the voting centers in Philadelphia. We, we have seen evidence
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of lots of irregularities. Regardless, it seems very unlikely that the electors are going to go
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and give it to Trump. Hope they do. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. The left wingers
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who, who are telling you that Trump is upsetting democratic norms are being completely cynical and
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disingenuous here. The way I will put it is what I've been saying now for weeks. It ain't over
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until the fat lady sings. Maybe a week ago, you started to hear that fat lady start to clear her
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throat. Then you started to hear the fat lady start doing scales to start practicing. The fat lady
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hasn't sung yet. And I'm, I'm unwilling to concede this election until the electors do vote. You just
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norms. Trump is not conceding the election before he has to. Gosh, we've never seen this before.
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We turn now for comment to Governor Stacey Abrams, the woman who lost the Georgia Senate race a couple
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years ago, lost it to Brian Kemp, and yet has more or less continued to insist that she's the duly
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elected governor of Georgia. Stacey says absolutely no parallel between what she and Democrats did in
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Georgia and what Trump and the Republicans are doing with the presidency. First and foremost,
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he has never listened to what I said. I said that the election was stolen from Georgia voters because
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under the previous Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, millions of voters were, 1.4 million voters were
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purged from the rolls. Thousands of voters were denied the right to vote because of exact match.
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There were thousands of voters that were rejected through an absentee ballot and a provisional
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ballot process that was not equal. And what he is complaining about are the lawsuits that we filed
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that successfully fixed those challenges. There is absolutely nothing commensurate between what I
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have done and what Donald Trump is trying to do. Listen carefully to what she says, because Stacey
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Abrams is fluent in political correctness. That is, I think, her first language. I think that's her
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native language. It's political correctness. So she's using these terms. She says they purged the
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voter rolls because of exact match. What is exact match? Oh, you mean the voter has to match the
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voter record? You know, it's got to be the legitimate voter. The voter has to be eligible to vote. What
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she's really saying is that Republicans and Democrats have different methods of stealing elections.
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The way that Democrats steal elections is they allow people who are ineligible to vote to vote.
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The classic example being dead people voting or people who didn't show up to vote. All of a sudden,
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their votes are counted. You saw this in LBJ's 1948 Senate race in Texas, which actually ended up going
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to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court ultimately chose not to hear the case. This happened in 1960
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in Illinois when the Daily Machine helped steal that election for JFK against Richard Nixon.
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And you're seeing that in certain places here where people who perhaps ought not to have voted
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may have voted. You've seen this for several years. So what Stacey Abrams says is, look,
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Democrats want more and more and more people to vote, maybe even if they're not totally eligible to vote.
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And then the awful Republican strategy to steal elections is to kick those people off the rolls,
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all the dead people off the rolls, all the people who lost their right to vote, all the people
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who can't prove that they are the person that they say they are and therefore not eligible to vote.
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Those aren't both stealing elections. One is protecting the integrity of the elections
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by making sure that only eligible people can vote. And the other one is packing the ballot box,
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stuffing the ballot box. When someone who is not eligible to vote votes, that takes away a vote
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from someone who is eligible to vote. That disenfranchises people. But Stacey Abrams is so good at
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political correctness. She goes, yeah, it wasn't equal. It wasn't equal. What does that mean?
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It wasn't equal. Get a little specific here, darling. Well, it wasn't equal in that dead people
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didn't have the equal right to vote as eligible voters. Obviously, President Trump should keep up
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this fight until it can anymore, until the electors actually certify a winner. And then hopefully,
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you know, it's him, but very likely it won't be. And as President Trump said at that White House
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Christmas party, then I'll see in four years. That'll make the media's heads explode. Speaking
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of media lies and speaking of Georgia, the media are lying right now about this Georgia Senate race.
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There are two senators up in Georgia, both Republicans, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
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Now, Kelly Loeffler is the one I want to focus on in particular, because I saw a tweet yesterday
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that went up and it was from The Hill. The tweet said, Loeffler's campaign defends photo with white
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supremacist and reported former KKK leader, Chester Doles. I looked at that tweet and I said, nope,
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that didn't happen. That just obviously didn't happen. I would bet a lot of money that didn't
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happen. So I click the link. Pulls up this article, headline. You can't make this up.
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Loeffler's campaign condemns white supremacists who appeared in photo.
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Tweet, Loeffler's campaign defends. Actual article, Loeffler's campaign condemns. The exact
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opposite. The Loeffler campaign never defended the photograph with the alleged white supremacist
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KKK person. This is what they do. This is what the media do. This is why you can't believe them.
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I know that young conservatives understand this, that you can't believe a word the media say.
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But sometimes we need to be reminded of this, that it's not just that good faith reporters
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sometimes get things a little wrong because some of their biases may be getting. No,
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they're just lying. It's, it's brazen. It's very often intentional. And one thing I've noticed with
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older conservatives, boomer and older conservatives is because for most of their lives, the media were
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so subtle about their biases, they, they don't believe it. So they'll say, yeah, the Democrats are
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terrible. Yeah, we got to vote for the Republicans. Oh gosh, Democrats are taking our country to hell in a
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handbasket, but they'll still, they've got this residual belief in the media. They've got this
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residual idea that the, the media wouldn't just brazenly lie to you. They would, they would, and
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they do all of the time. And you can't trust them. You need to go to alternative sources. And for people
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who, you know, maybe they're 85 years old, they're not the most computer savvy. They don't know where to
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find other kinds of outlets. Then they'll watch the six o'clock news and the six o'clock news is going
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to lie to them. Now this, over time, it would appear that that, that lock is, is shrinking.
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But in the meantime, they could put through some pretty radical people. Right now, the, the guy
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running against Kelly Loeffler is maybe the most radical political candidate that we have seen in
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recent American history. I'm including AOC in that. I'm including Ilhan Omar in that. I'm including
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the whole squad. This guy is extraordinarily radical. Okay. And, uh, it's being totally
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covered up by the media. You know, uh, Kelly Loeffler is a, this seat could determine the
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slash Knowles. Enter promo code Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S at checkout. Warnock, he's the one running
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against Loeffler. Take a listen to some of his ideas for the country. I love this Pope. He said,
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well, I'm not a Marxist, but I know a few Marxists and they're pretty good people.
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So hard to discover and to hear an authentic vision and voice of authentic spirituality that
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gives voice to the least of these, that when it shows up, people describe it as some strange
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ideology rather than the vision of that poor Palestinian prophet who said that the spirit
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of the Lord is upon me because God has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
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There's a lot to take issue with here. He opens up by extolling the virtues of Marxism.
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So I really like this Pope because this Pope says that there are some great Marxists out there.
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Marxism, it's not some weird, foreign, terrible ideology. It's great. Marxism is basically what Jesus
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is talking about, whom he refers to as a poor Palestinian prophet. I've read many books about
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Jesus, never seen any evidence that he was a Palestinian. Jesus, of course, is a Jew.
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People will take issue with these bizarre religious rantings, but what he appears to have a religious
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seal for is Marxism openly. Could you imagine this in this country, even 10 years ago, an open
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supporter of Marxism possibly entering the United States Senate? It's unthinkable, but we've opened
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up a can of worms here. I mean, even AOC doesn't openly espouse Marxism. She'll allude to it. She'll
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say I'm a socialist. She'll talk about the Green New Deal, which essentially is Marxism. But to say,
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oh, Marxism, I love it when people say nice things about Marxism. Marxism is so great. That's pretty
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radical stuff. The reason to vote in Georgia, President Trump is encouraging people to vote
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in Georgia, even though he's upset with the governor, Brian Kemp. The reason to vote in Georgia is not
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necessarily because Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are the greatest, most wonderful Republicans there
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ever were. They're fine. They're doing a good job. The reason to vote in Georgia is that's the
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alternative. And what's so scary right now with the left is that this guy, Raphael Warnock, is
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extraordinarily radical in his leftism. But even the left-wing establishment, even the people who
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would be considered in the center, in the mainstream of the liberal establishment, are pushing unthinkably
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radical ideas. I think of somebody like Bill Gates. Does it get more establishment than Bill Gates?
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He is a typical left-wing, billionaire, liberal guy who's always trying to involve himself in public
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policy. Bill Gates was just on Jake Tapper's show on CNN. Why? I couldn't possibly tell you.
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He was asked about the lockdown. What should happen? Remember, we had 15 days to slow the spread
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back in March. Now we're nine or 10 months later. For some reason, this is still going on.
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And Bill Gates brought on, says, well, what are we going to do? Unfortunately,
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probably another four to six months at least of shutting everything down.
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Well, certainly mask wearing has essentially no downside. They're not expensive. Bars and restaurants
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in most of the country will be closed as we go into this wave. And I think,
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sadly, that's appropriate. Depending on how severe it is, the decision about schools is much more
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complicated. As a general rule, whenever Bill Gates has an opinion about politics, you can assume
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that the opposite is the thing we ought to do. Bill Gates is notoriously, infamously
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ignorant of political prudence. And the ideas that he does have about politics are really
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terrible. I mean, wicked, bad ideas. Now here, he just says, okay, we need to shut down businesses
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for another four to six months because we haven't put every, every small business out in this country.
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And so we got another four to six months. That'll really do the trick. So it's too bad. But look,
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that's just what we have to do. There's no downside to wearing masks.
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There's no, I could name a lot of downsides. One, we're social animals. We're supposed to see one
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another. It's nice to see a smile. We are supposed to breathe the fresh air. You can't do that with a
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mask. We're supposed to speak. One of the defining features of humanity is that we have speech.
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When you put that mask over you, you are, you are literally putting a muzzle on yourself.
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Now, but B, because Bill Gates is a technocratic liberal, he's not taking political or ethical or
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philosophical considerations into his thought here because he's, he just accepts all of the
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liberal premises about the world, some of which are contradictory. So he just, he just wants to
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talk about what works. There's no downside. I think there are a lot of downsides to the masks.
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He's even admitting by saying that, right, maybe there's not a lot of upside. That's the implication.
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But look, there's no downside. Of course, there's a lot of downside. One of the other
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downsides, of course, is that we're told if people wear the masks, we can all return to normal. And I
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said from the very beginning, that's complete BS. The masks are not going to calm people down. They're
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going to whip people up into a frenzy because the masks are a symbol that we're in the midst of this
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terrible, unprecedented pandemic. We've never had masking such as this before, certainly not in our
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lifetimes and really not ever at this scale. So just to see the mask is not to say, okay,
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we can return to normal. It's to say, we're not even close to normal and we're not going to be
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back to normal until we take the mask off, which I think is a large part of the political symbolism
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of the masks. But then he goes a little further. It's not just four to six months. And you'll notice
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a lot of big business guys are all for the lockdowns because the lockdowns have caused an
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historic amount of money to be shifted from small businesses to large businesses like Amazon,
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Apple, all these sorts of online, Google, right? All these sorts of online companies.
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But it's more than four to six months. It might be over a year.
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Certainly by the summer, we'll be way closer to normal than we are now. But even through early 2022,
00:24:07.840
unless we help other countries get rid of this disease and we get high vaccination rates in our
00:24:14.280
country, the risk of reintroduction will be there. And of course, the global economy will be
00:24:20.960
slowed down, which hurts America economically in a pretty dramatic way. So we'll have starting in the
00:24:28.800
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you know, we can see now that somewhere between 12 to 18 months and we have a chance if we manage it
00:24:42.900
well to get back to normal. Just a quick question. I guess I'm a little confused here. Who appointed
00:24:49.360
Bill Gates to run all of our public policy for us? Why is Bill Gates is not saying we should do this.
00:24:55.760
We ought to do this. Hey, I'd like to persuade my fellow citizens to do this. He's saying this is what
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Bill Gates is a great avatar of the kind of liberal establishment, the liberal, political,
00:26:57.920
bureaucratic, technical, obviously technological, entertainment, media establishment, the blob,
00:27:05.440
as we refer to it. And Bill Gates is a key figure in that. He holds all the politically correct views
00:27:10.600
and they're, they're pretty radical. You know, he's a dorky guy who wears a sweater, so he doesn't seem
00:27:16.200
that radical. But in many ways, his views are more radical than, than even someone like Raphael
00:27:21.140
Warnock. In many ways, the liberal establishment's views are more radical than the woke radicals.
00:27:26.680
There are a lot of crazy conspiracy theories going around the internet about Bill Gates.
00:27:31.960
This is according to the media. Crazy, wild conspiracy theories that Bill Gates is interested,
00:27:36.880
for instance, in population control. That he, he doesn't want, uh, P, especially in the third world,
00:27:44.860
uh, people to have babies. And so he's going, he's very involved in ways to limit the growth of the
00:27:49.940
population. And I think these, these conspiracy theories are so crazy. In order to believe these
00:27:54.280
kooky, crazy conspiracy theories, you would have to listen to Bill Gates himself.
00:27:58.500
Well, the population growth issue at the global level is not that daunting. That is,
00:28:04.460
the population percentage-wise is growing slower today than in the past. And so it will actually
00:28:12.760
peak out. The problem is that the population is growing the fastest where people are less able
00:28:21.660
to deal with it. So it's in the very poorest places that you're going to have a tripling in population
00:28:28.300
by 2050. And so their ability to feed, educate, provide jobs, stability, protect the environment
00:28:36.360
in those locations mean, uh, you know, they're faced with an almost impossible problem. Northern Nigeria,
00:28:43.240
Yemen, Chad. Uh, and so what we need to do is take this aid generosity and this innovation and go into
00:28:51.860
those places, uh, offer the women better tools where they want to space birthing or, or have a smaller
00:28:59.160
family size and improve health. Because it's amazingly as, as children survive, parents feel like
00:29:07.320
they'll have enough, uh, kids to support them in their old age. And so they choose to have less
00:29:13.600
This point of view that Bill Gates is pushing is morally abhorrent. It is evil. It is wicked.
00:29:21.920
And he's been pushing it fanatically for decades. He's trying to make sure that there are fewer
00:29:27.640
babies born, specifically fewer little black babies in Africa and fewer little brown babies in the third
00:29:35.200
world. That's not an exaggeration. He has been foisting abortion on countries that are traditionally
00:29:40.860
opposed to abortion, foisting contraception on countries that are traditionally opposed to
00:29:45.500
contraception. These ideas of a sort of sterilized society for a very long time. In 2009, this sounds
00:29:51.620
like something out of a science fiction movie. There was a secret meeting held between Bill Gates,
00:29:57.780
George Soros. I know we're not allowed to say his name, but George Soros, uh, Oprah Winfrey,
00:30:03.460
a number of other left-wing establishment billionaires. Warren Buffett was there. You can Google it. I mean,
00:30:09.220
it was a secret meeting, except it did leak to the press and it garnered substantial press
00:30:13.800
attention at that time. All of it was designed around this issue of overpopulation. So we were
00:30:21.960
told overpopulation is a terrible problem. This is all based on the crackpot theories of a scientist,
00:30:28.320
a Stanford scientist named Paul Ehrlich from the 1970s. Ehrlich published a book first in 1968,
00:30:33.840
and then it was republished later on called the population bomb. It said, absolutely. The world
00:30:38.640
population now is, it was at that time it was around 3.5 billion and we're going to have mass
00:30:43.500
starvation, mass death in the 1970s and 1980s. It's guaranteed to happen. The only question now is,
00:30:50.380
can we sterilize people and coerce abortions enough to, to limit some of that misery and actually
00:30:56.420
advocated, not just getting people voluntarily to do this sort of thing, but advocated governments
00:31:01.980
coercing that. As a result of these crackpot theories, you had Indira Gandhi in the prime
00:31:07.860
minister of India, start tying water and access to electricity and access to medical care and,
00:31:13.300
and ration cards to sterilization. So sterilized population, you had China adopt the one child
00:31:20.300
policy, which caused upwards of a hundred million babies to be killed through abortion. Absolutely
00:31:25.860
wicked. Some of the worst atrocities committed in human history because of these crackpot,
00:31:30.420
stupid theories, which were not true. The scientific expert, Paul Ehrlich, who was a sort of Neo
00:31:35.540
Malthusian to use the technical term referring to a scientist from centuries ago named Malthus who had
00:31:41.900
the same overpopulation fascination. It just wasn't true. Since the 19, late 1960s, the world population
00:31:49.880
has doubled. You go from about three and a half billion to 7 billion or 8 billion or an obviously
00:31:54.760
growing still. And world hunger is at an all time low. It just didn't happen. And these,
00:32:02.300
these moral perverts like, like Bill Gates and other people pushing this politically correct
00:32:08.100
moral standard, which is utterly opposed to human life, which says that to use, uh, Paul Ehrlich's term
00:32:14.380
that the births of all these babies is a cancer that needs to be cut out. These guys are pushing this
00:32:20.980
view despite evidence to the contrary, these brilliant experts, these eggheads, these people
00:32:25.900
who are focused on data and science and the liberal standard. You know, I don't know. I mean, I'm sure
00:32:31.300
there are some kind of actual crackpot theories about Bill Gates, but you've just heard it in his
00:32:35.120
own words when he's just, I can't imagine anything worse than that. That is what the scientific
00:32:41.580
establishment is telling you. And it's because they, maybe they know something or a thing or two about
00:32:46.600
science. Probably they don't. Guys like Paul Ehrlich maintained their professorship at Stanford,
00:32:50.520
continued to win lots of prestigious awards, even though his central thesis was wrong and led to
00:32:54.740
untold human misery. And they certainly know nothing about morality or even a political prudence.
00:33:03.040
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The left, not just the crazy fringe radicals, but the establishment left is in the name of science
00:34:33.360
and expertise and data pushing a moral and religious and political vision that is completely
00:34:40.600
abhorrent, that should be completely rejected. This is why I often say we need to strike the
00:34:45.380
word science out of our public political discourse because it is used as a euphemism, as a way to sneak
00:34:53.500
in all sorts of religious and moral and political ideas that are really wicked, evil stuff. Very often,
00:34:59.620
the left, which is obsessed with this idea of shrinking the population, being opposed to human
00:35:04.080
life. You, you know, you need to have to have a very contraceptive society or a sterile society or an
00:35:09.980
abortive society or whatever, any way to shrink the number of people who are being, because of global
00:35:15.520
warming, we need to stop having babies or because of global cooling, we need to stop having babies or
00:35:20.780
because of overpopulation, we need to stop having babies. It's so weird that the political outcome of it is
00:35:25.020
always the same, even though the scientific reasoning changes. You had AOC pushing the Green
00:35:30.880
New Deal, radical redistributive policies, a suspension of the use of a lot of energy in the
00:35:37.340
United States, a lot of government control, particularly over healthcare. The reasoning for
00:35:42.580
the Green New Deal was initially global warming. Now it seems that the left is, is achieving a lot of
00:35:48.800
the political goals of the Green New Deal, but the defense for it is the COVID lockdowns.
00:35:54.800
But they're saying, well, because of coronavirus, we need to massively redistribute wealth.
00:35:58.240
We need a major government takeover of the healthcare industry. We need to suppress the way
00:36:03.140
that people conduct commerce and the way they, they transport themselves. We need to control
00:36:09.460
people's lives in a way that the justification changes, but the outcome is often the same.
00:36:14.000
So there was recently an abortion executive in America, the marketing director at the Clinics
00:36:19.400
for Abortion and Reproductive Excellence, or CARE. This guy's name is Michael Saines.
00:36:26.040
And he shared a photo of the office Christmas tree being topped with a pair of sofa clamps.
00:36:32.700
These are the clamps that are used to dismember babies during abortion. And he tweeted out, quote,
00:36:37.980
it is literally impossible to top our topper. This is considered science. This is considered
00:36:46.880
not, not just beyond the realm of moral discourse, which sometimes you hear people say, say, look,
00:36:53.260
this is not a religious or political question. This is just science. It's just the facts. And so you
00:36:58.140
can't, you can't have ethical concerns about science because it's just, it's science. That's just what it
00:37:02.640
is. Stop it with all of your normative thinking. But actually they, the left goes a little further.
00:37:07.700
They say science is good, right? Abortion is good because it's, it's reproductive health care.
00:37:14.340
We don't need to talk about the ethics of killing babies for our own convenience. We're just going
00:37:18.940
to talk about the science of it all. And that's what they're saying. This is, this is a good thing.
00:37:22.260
Well, it's ghastly. Obviously anybody who would look at that would say, gosh, this, this isn't just
00:37:28.500
a matter of science. That's a little baby who goes in those forceps. That's not just a clump of cells
00:37:33.840
that that's built for. The, the same issue goes here when the left says, nobody's pro-abortion.
00:37:40.920
We're just pro-choice. Now this guy, this sicko, Michael Saines is pro-abortion, is celebrating.
00:37:49.680
And this whole, this whole clinics for abortion and reproductive excellence organization is
00:37:55.020
celebrating it on their Christmas tree. In a just society, that organization would be shut down and
00:38:00.560
the people who work for it would be arrested and prosecuted in a just society. And I think we need
00:38:07.160
to become much more comfortable having those sorts of conversations. Something has gone seriously
00:38:12.900
wrong. Something has been seriously perverted in our politics. If we believe that that is morally
00:38:19.940
acceptable or scientific, because it ain't. Now, speaking of doctors, I have to get to the most
00:38:26.380
pressing issue of the day. This was, went viral over the weekend. And you know, since I fancy myself
00:38:32.020
a doctor for everybody, I need to take it up. There was a very delightful and funny article in
00:38:38.960
the Wall Street Journal by this guy, Joseph Epstein, no relation to Jeffrey, as far as I can tell,
00:38:44.380
called, Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if you need an MD. And the article says that Jill
00:38:53.240
Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic. Begins,
00:38:58.440
Madam, First Lady, Mrs. Biden, Jill, kiddo. A bit of advice on what may seem like a small,
00:39:03.920
but I think is not an unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the doctor before your name.
00:39:10.320
Dr. Jill Biden sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic. Your degree is, I believe,
00:39:15.480
an Ed. D. Doctor of Education earned at the University of Delaware through a dissertation with the
00:39:20.380
unpromising title, student retention at the community college level, meeting students' needs.
00:39:24.940
Wise man once said that no one should call himself doctor unless he has delivered a child.
00:39:30.300
Think about it, Dr. Jill, and forthwith, drop the doc. There is some confusion here. A lot of people,
00:39:35.900
especially in the left, think that Jill Biden is a medical doctor. Whoopi Goldberg famously,
00:39:41.220
infamously humiliated herself on The View, pushing the idea that Jill Biden should be the
00:39:46.800
Surgeon General of the United States. I'm hoping Dr. Jill becomes a Surgeon General.
00:39:53.180
His wife. Yeah, Joe Biden. Joe Biden's wife, because she's, you know, he would never do it,
00:39:57.920
but she, yeah, she's a hell of a doctor. She's an amazing doctor. Because she has a doctor in-
00:40:02.360
Ph.D. Yeah. I don't, I don't know. I could be wrong. Yeah, I think she's a teacher, but,
00:40:11.240
Oh, that's so embarrassing. That's because in Whoopi's defense, Whoopi says it. She should be
00:40:17.540
the Surgeon General. And all of those flapping seals in the audience say, yeah, yes, yes, give us
00:40:22.460
more, give us more of this sort of nonsense. Not, not one of those people in the audience who was
00:40:28.900
clapping and cheering for that, nor did Whoopi Goldberg for that matter, know what Dr. Jill
00:40:34.980
Biden had expertise in. And it's not even their fault. We live in a culture that worships at the
00:40:41.080
altar of scientific expertise, even when that scientific expertise is rather silly or seems
00:40:47.960
a little pretentious. Now, I actually disagree with the thesis in this article from the journal,
00:40:53.280
even though it's extremely funny. So I still recommend you read the article. The word doctor
00:40:57.060
does literally mean teacher. So I actually, I'm sort of, I've had this debate with Ben for many years,
00:41:02.220
which is that I think physicians should not use the term doctor because they're not doctors.
00:41:06.640
They're not teachers. Usually they're, they're professionals practicing this, this craft. I sort
00:41:11.300
of think that only like that preschool teachers have more of a right to use the term doctor than
00:41:15.240
physicians do. Neither here nor there. It's a little bit of a pedantic point. I certainly
00:41:20.080
would, would agree that it is silly and pretentious to add this title doctor if you are Jill Biden.
00:41:27.880
Because you heard in that clip, I think it was Behar says, well, no, I'm pretty sure she has
00:41:32.160
a PhD. Jill Biden doesn't have a PhD either. PhD is a, a research focused degree, usually for
00:41:38.520
university professors who are pursuing research in their field. She has what's called an EDD.
00:41:44.840
This is a professional degree, usually for like high school and middle school administrators. And it,
00:41:49.620
it just, you know, gives you, gives you a little bit of a pay bump and then you can style yourself
00:41:54.200
doctor. I am not making fun of people who pursue these degrees. It's a more advanced degree than I
00:41:59.440
have. I being a bachelor, perhaps I should style myself bachelor Michael Knowles. Sweet little
00:42:04.380
Elise would very, be very upset with that. I'm making the point that to style yourself in this
00:42:12.140
way with a degree that would maybe appear to present you with a more rigorous education than perhaps you
00:42:21.300
have is really silly. During my entire time in college, I had exactly one professor who referred
00:42:29.020
to himself as doctor. He was by far the least impressive academic I studied with in college.
00:42:36.200
He was by far the most insecure and he didn't last very long at the university. All the other teachers
00:42:42.260
went by professor or they went by their first name. Some, many of them went by their first name.
00:42:49.320
So if you got it, if you really got it, if you're really confident, if you're really shooting on
00:42:54.540
all cylinders, you don't need to flatter yourself with these sorts of titles. I can't tell you how
00:42:59.140
many sort of mediocrities I know have been posting all over the internet saying, darn it,
00:43:03.840
I earned my degree. I deserve it. I studied gender studies or sociology or whatever for 12 years and I
00:43:11.020
deserve to be called this. It's so pathetic. A little humility goes a long way, folks. Even if you
00:43:17.980
really did, look, I'm a strong defender of the humanities. Frankly, I don't really care that
00:43:23.780
much about the hard sciences. I think conservatives have fetishized the hard sciences and we shouldn't
00:43:28.580
because I think a lot of these eggheads don't know anything and they, as we were discussing earlier,
00:43:35.520
force on us. They slip in all sorts of religious and philosophical and political stupid premises
00:43:41.780
underneath the guise of scientific expertise. And I think that our idolization of the hard sciences
00:43:50.060
and all these sorts of things has actually led us to become politically much less sophisticated.
00:43:53.760
So I forget that. I actually, I want to talk to the person with the sociology degree, but just don't
00:43:58.820
be so pompous about it. Don't be so prideful about it. Just if you really got it, let your work speak
00:44:05.420
for itself. I'm not really beating up on Jill Biden here, even though I think it is silly that
00:44:11.300
she styles herself that way because it leads to confusion and embarrassing moments for people like
00:44:15.200
Whoopi Goldberg who are trying to defend her. But just in general, the society has become so
00:44:21.820
incredibly impressed with itself, is so insistent on all sorts of honors that people look ridiculous.
00:44:28.020
They make themselves look absolutely preposterous. This fetishization of expertise is really
00:44:34.800
exposing a lot of fools. People like Bill Gates, people like all of those scientific experts
00:44:42.340
who told that idiot knuckle dragger Trump that we could never get a vaccine within 2020.
00:44:50.440
Guess what we did? All these people really are proving themselves wrong. I think if you,
00:44:54.940
if you really want to be a doctor or a scientist, an expert, have a little dose of humility. That's
00:44:59.740
the beginning of wisdom. And then maybe you could start to turn the culture a little more
00:45:04.060
toward wisdom. I don't know that that's going to happen. All those things seem to be in short
00:45:08.280
supply. And so we're going to have to wait. Won't make too many predictions about what happens.
00:45:13.160
But we're going to have to wait as we see these results of the election. We'll see the electors
00:45:19.240
going to vote in a matter of days. And we'll see if our problem gets maybe a little bit better or more
00:45:24.020
likely much, much worse. Gear yourself up for a lot of humility. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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