Ep. 664 - The Spirit Of (18)76
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On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about Bill Gates and his new job as a computer guru. He also talks about how we can channel the spirit of 1876 and elect a president using the electoral college.
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The Electoral College has voted for Joe Biden. In every single presidential election in American
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history, this has meant that a president-elect has been decided upon. Except for one presidential
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election, we will channel the spirit of 1876 to preserve even a shred of political hope
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for President Trump and for the rest of us. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Jason Taylor, who says,
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Bill Gates couldn't keep windows safe from viruses. Why would anybody listen to him about COVID?
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Such a good point. This is why I switched off of windows all those years ago. They kept getting
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so many viruses. And I'm sure a lot of those viruses came from China. Now, all of a sudden,
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Bill Gates is the virus guru. I don't think so, buddy. Not a chance at all. This is very true.
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president. Unless we can channel the spirit of 17, I'm sorry, not 1776, 1876. Rutherford B. Hayes,
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this is an outlier in American history because the electoral college gave most of its votes to
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Rutherford Hayes' opponent, New York Governor Sam Tilden, who is a Democrat running against Ohio
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Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, the Republican. Tilden beat Hayes on the popular vote. After the first
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round of electoral votes, Tilden had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165 electoral votes. There were 20
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electoral votes from about four states. Does this sound familiar? There were three in particular that
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were really at play. Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Okay. Then there was also the question of
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Oregon, this fourth state, where one elector was replaced after being declared illegal for being an
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elected or appointed official. So you've got these four outstanding states. What are we going to do?
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Sounds very, very familiar. The way they resolve this is that the constitution provides, quote,
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the president of the Senate shall, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives,
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open all the electoral certificates and the votes shall then be counted. So you have, the electors go,
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right, you go to vote and then the states pick a slate of electors. The electors go and they vote
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in the electoral college. That's still not quite the end of it to declare the president elect because
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then the president of the Senate opens the votes and the presence of the Senate and the House of
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Representatives, they count the votes and then you've got the president elect. Now, this is a tricky
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phrase in the constitution. During this crisis of 1876, the Republicans interpreted this provision of the
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constitution to mean that the power to count the votes lay with the president of the Senate and the
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House and the Senate were just there kind of to watch. But the president of the Senate had the power
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to count the votes. But because the president of the Senate was Republican, then Hayes would win.
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Democrats interpreted this differently. They said that they needed to follow the practice that had
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been followed since 1865, which says that no vote that was objected to by anybody should be counted
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except by a concurrence of both houses of Congress, the Congress and the Senate. Now, because of this,
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because the Congress had a, the House of Representatives rather, had a Democrat majority, that would have
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thrown the election to Tilden. So what are we to do? Even the constitution here is a little unclear. Well, what
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happened is the Congress passed a law on January 29th, 1877, that formed a 15 member electoral
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commission that would then determine this presidential election. Five members of the House,
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five members of the Senate, five members of the Supreme Court. The effect of this is what's called
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the Compromise of 1877, which gave the election to Rutherford B. Hayes, sometimes called Rutherfraud
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Hayes. How do you like that? Lame political nicknames were popular even in the 19th century.
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Hayes gets the presidency. However, Hayes has to promise to pull the federal troops out of the South
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and end Reconstruction, which Hayes does. This has sort of calamitous effects for everybody,
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but that's how that election panned out. Are we going to see something like that here? I'm not being
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flippant about it. We have a hotly contested presidential election. There is evidence of
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fraud, systemic fraud, actually. Some just came out within the last couple of days.
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We haven't had an election this hotly contested possibly since 1876. So is this going to happen?
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Are we going to get the compromise of 2021? I don't think so. Because even if you were to follow the
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example of the electoral commission, let's say you got five members of the Senate and Senate's held
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by Republicans. So let's say that that goes for Trump. And then you got five members of the House
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and the House is controlled by Democrats. So that goes for Biden. Then you got five members of the
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Supreme Court. The Supreme Court's already ruled in. They don't want to overturn the perception that
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Joe Biden won the election. So presumably even on some kind of commission, electoral commission,
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that would still go to Biden. So I'm not particularly hopeful. But it is at least worthwhile to
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point out to people who say it's completely all over now. Technically, it's actually not
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totally all over now. But it certainly looks as though it is. I think that's why President Trump
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is trying to fit in so much into this last few moments here. Certainly on the vaccine. We talked
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about the vaccine for the virus. But even various actions that he can take to change the bureaucracy,
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actions to set up various special counsel, ways to speed up executions in the criminal justice system.
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He's doing a lot of things now on the assumption that he will not be the president by the end of
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January. Joe Biden, by the way, is doing everything in his power while there's still so much rancor in
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the country to pretend that he's a moderate, that he's a uniter. He's not a divider, to use George
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Bush's phrase, to bring people together. However, on semi-private calls, for instance, on a recent call
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with civil rights leaders, Joe Biden, and when I say civil rights leaders too, we're talking about
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left-wing civil rights leaders. Obviously, you've got a lot of right-wing civil rights leaders
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completely kicked out of this. Joe Biden is, first of all, stumbling over his words. So it's
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just the opening of this civil rights call. You think, how on earth is this guy even going to
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pretend to assume the presentation of being president? One of the things I'd be concerned
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about. Just as it was pointed out to me that you wanted me to be concerned, Derek, I think it was
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you said it, about, you know, dealing with Vilsack in terms of agriculture. Well, first of all,
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you're going to learn more about Vilsack's record. But my point is this. I don't think we should make
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that a big issue going into before January 5th when the election takes place down in, in, uh, um, uh,
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in, uh, Georgia. But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with
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police reform in that because they've already labeled us as being defund the police.
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All right. So he's talking about January 5th. He's talking about these, these runoff races in
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Georgia, where you've got the, the fate of the Senate is, is up in the air. The Republicans going
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to hold the Senate and stop Biden's agenda, or are the Democrats going to win the Senate? And who
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knows? And the filibuster, add new states, possibly eliminate the Republicans as a national party,
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all of that on the table. And that's sort of beside the point, because from the very beginning
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of this call, you just have Biden saying, uh, uh, um, where, uh, George, uh, where is it? George?
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Yeah. Uh, and how, what did you say it? Or did I say it? Or, um, uh, huh? And you, you just,
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you're listening to this and you think this man is just not capable of, of being president. You know,
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for the left, you don't really need a, an active president, a man with original ideas, a man with a
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sort of original ambition. You would need that on the right, because what the right is trying to do
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in national politics right now is upset the liberal establishment. Joe Biden will just be
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an avatar of that liberal establishment. That's more or less what he's saying. He's saying, look,
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I'm going to continue along the same path that we've been on for a very long time. But just as
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we've had to do in years past, we've got to pretend that we're not moving far left because there's this
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Senate race. So we've got to pretend that we're moderate until the Senate race, because they're
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already saying that we are in favor of defunding the police. But the question that, that Joe Biden
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is, uh, leaving open here is, are they really in favor of defunding the police? Are they really in
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favor of radical criminal justice reform? That's going to get, let a lot of criminals off the hook
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that it's going to punish a lot of police officers or not? Which is it, Joe? Is it, are you going to be
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moderate old Joe from Scranton? Or are you going to let the left wing establishment continue down their
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terrifying path to quote unquote progress? And Joe answers his own question. He says, yeah,
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we're talking like moderates now, but don't worry. We will govern as radicals. Anything we put forward
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in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you will occur. Promise
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you just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th, because
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that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country saying that we're talking
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about defunding the police. We're not. We're talking about holding them accountable. I just
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raise it with you to think about how much do we push between now and January 5th. We need those two
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seats about police reform, but I guarantee you there will be a full blown commission. I guarantee you
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it's a major, major, major element. And as Reverend Al said, I was, I was a pain in the ass to everybody
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except him when we did the commission before. I didn't think we went far enough. We can go
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very far. It matters how we do it. We can go very, very far. Don't worry guys. We're going to be as
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radical as you want us to be, but we've got to lie about that first so that we can secure the Senate
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majority so that we can actually get it done. Because if we admit how radical we really are,
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then the Republicans are going to beat the hell out of us. Joe Biden's words kind of raises some
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questions about how he ended up winning that election. If the Republicans were really beating
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the hell out of them all around the country, but look, they're going to, they're going to beat the
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hell out of us like they've been doing. And so we've got to lie to them first, but then I promise you
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we will be just as radical as you want us to be. I've thought this about Joe Biden from the very
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beginning. He was in some ways a strong candidate because of how weak and old and out of touch
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he looks is he doesn't scare those moderate voters who maybe don't like some of President
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Trump's eccentricities, or maybe just don't like the idea that he's actually, Trump actually has
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changed in some ways that establishment. He's actually cracked a little bit of the establishment's
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hold on our politics. But what is, what is Joe Biden really deep down? Joe Biden is an avatar for the
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prevailing popular political wins in his party. And those wins are extraordinarily focused toward
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the left. That's what, what you're going to get. But that phrase, it did raise questions to me,
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even beyond obvious, we now know, I think Joe Biden's going to govern as a left winger because
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it won't even be him governing. It'll just be the, the left wing establishment. But that phrase in
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there, they beat the, the Republicans beat the hell out of us around the country. Joe is given to
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these sort of Freudian slips. You, you hear him do this sometimes where he says, we've got,
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do you remember the other one during the campaign? He said, we've got the most extensive voter fraud
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system ever constructed. He said, what? He said, oh no, yeah, I meant to say anti-voter fraud system or
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yeah, whatever. Yeah, hummina, hummina, hummina. That's what I meant. Well, when you say these things,
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you have to look into the claims of irregularities. In Michigan, there was a judge who just unsealed
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machines in Michigan. And here is what they found. The Antrim County Clerk and Secretary of State
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Jocelyn Benson stated that the election night error of flipping votes from Trump to Biden was the result
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of human error caused by the failure to update the Mansalona Township tabulator prior to election night
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for a down ballot race. This is according to the report from the people who did the forensic audit,
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Allied Security Operations Group. The report concludes, we disagree and conclude that the vote flip occurred
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because of machine error built into the voting software designed to create error. We conclude that the
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Dominion voting system is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic
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fraud and influence election results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot
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errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk
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adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election
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fraud. Therefore, this Allied Security Operations Group includes that Dominion should not be used in Michigan
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and that the Antrim County results, quote, should not have been certified. This forensic audit, which I wish
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had taken place in other places around the country on other voting machines, is very telling because you've had
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these vague allegations from the beginning that the voting machines are, resulted in a fraudulent
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election. I have no doubt that these voting machines are vulnerable to fraud. The left has acknowledged
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this in years past, but now that it seems to benefit them, all of a sudden they're mum about it. And we've
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heard vague tale of the Kraken and we've heard vague tale of foreign actors interfering in the elections and
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hacking and the machines being connected to the internet. And it's all been kind of vague. This is the first time
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we've seen a pretty specific audit of, of how fraud potentially could have occurred. And it's a little
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different than the way that we'd heard. The way that these, these auditors are saying the fraud
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occurred, and you can read about this, I think there's a Washington Times piece also outlining this
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right now on the internet. The way that they're alleging it occurred is the machine did not just go in and
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flip the ballots from Biden to Trump or, you know, just necessarily go in and allow foreign actors who
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are actively monitoring this to skim certain ballots. What this audit found is the, all the
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machines had to do was generate enough errors, a huge amount of error. The auditors here, according to
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the Washington Times, found a 68% error rate in one county's votes. You generate so many errors that
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then you've got to go in and adjudicate those ballots. And when you're, when you're going in and
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figuring out what those ballots say, you don't have any oversight. You don't have the poll watchers.
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You don't have people who will insist upon transparency. And then you can count them however
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you want. That's the claim, at least from this one group. How many similar claims would you see
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around the country? How many voting machines were used? What happens when you've got the voting
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machines and pair that with widespread unsolicited mail-in ballots? Do we really have faith in these
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results? What I will tell you is I don't have faith in the way that the elections were conducted
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in the different states. I don't. And most Republicans agree with me, by the way, don't
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have faith in it. I do have faith in the constitutional system, which is actually a
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separate question. The way the constitution provides for the president to be elected is
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that electors show up and vote and then the Congress will certify the votes and then that's
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it. Then you get a new president. And because that's the constitutional system, whatever those
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guys say, that is our president. And I accept that constitutional framework. But in terms of how
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these machines conducted the ballots, in terms of how election officials conducted the counts,
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especially in Georgia where they just sent the legally mandated poll watchers home and then
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illegally counted the ballots for several more hours, especially in Philadelphia where Republican
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poll watchers were not able to get close up and look at the actual ballots. I don't have any faith
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in that. And that is a travesty. There, there do remain serious questions about how that election
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was conducted. It's not just in Michigan. Georgia now in Cobb County is requiring a signature audit.
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President Trump's been calling for a signature audit for a month now. What's a signature audit?
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That's where you make sure that the ballots that were cast were actually cast by the people who
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were eligible to cast them. Because if you just go back, if you just take a bunch of ballots,
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especially with widespread unsolicited mail-in, and then you just take the batch of ballots and
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you run them through the machine and you say, okay, there's the count. Say, okay, we're gonna have
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a recount. Okay, fine. Go for the recount. You just count the same ballots again. That's not going to do
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anything. That's why Trump was calling the recount in Georgia useless. And frankly, even the governor,
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who's now everyone's beating up on Brian Kemp, but he was saying, look, come on, we need a signature audit.
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Okay, well, get it though. Get us the signature audit. Well, now we got the signature audit.
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Too late. It's too late. The Secretary of State of Georgia has announced there will be a signature
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that's the last thing she ever did. But for some reason, she's a blue checkmark and she's still
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spouts off about politics and people still listen to her. Debra Messing shows you just how out for blood
00:24:23.620
the left is. They just, they hate Trump. They want to punish him after he leaves office,
00:24:30.520
which I hope happens in four years or eight years or 12 years or I don't know, 16 years.
00:24:35.320
But it's looking more likely that it will be sooner than that. So Debra Messing initially
00:24:41.240
tweets out, she says that she hopes that President Trump becomes the most popular boyfriend in prison.
00:24:49.060
You see, this is because he'll go to a prison and there'll only be men in this prison and that he'll
00:24:56.860
be, I assume he won't become a homosexual overnight. So he'll be probably, you know, preyed upon by these,
00:25:04.240
these predators in prison. That's, that's the implication, right? But Debra Messing, because
00:25:09.220
she's a left winger, always has to pay lip service to how she's pro LGBT LMNOP. She's an ally. She
00:25:17.880
loves all these sorts of different sexual preferences and behaviors. And so her tweet
00:25:23.640
sounded, to use a popular word, homophobic, right? Because she's saying, I hope you're the
00:25:30.040
most popular boyfriend, but Trump's not a homosexual. So what's that mean? Well, she wants,
00:25:34.620
she clarified it, okay? So she issued this apology, quote, let me be clear. I said nothing about
00:25:40.860
LGBTQI slash queer slash queer. What's the Q? There's already a Q in there. There's two queers.
00:25:48.860
Who knows? Love. I didn't say anything about that love. Rape is an act of violence. Trump has
00:25:54.980
perpetrated violence on hundreds of millions of people. My hope is, and this is the first time in
00:25:58.700
my life, that the tables are turned and he is the victim of perpetrators. Hashtag LGBTQIA ally.
00:26:07.600
But there's another letter in there than there was in the first acronym, whatever, or the first
00:26:12.260
initialism. You see, Deborah Messing was not in any way hoping that President Trump would participate
00:26:21.860
in consensual homosexual love. She's hoping he'll get raped by a man, by a gay guy. She wants,
00:26:29.460
just to clear it up because she's an ally to the gay LGBTQ community. And I know maybe she didn't use
00:26:36.100
the right choice of words. She's hoping that a gay inmate rapes the president of the United States,
00:26:42.400
which is, that's obviously so much better. Hope this clears it up. She wasn't making a homophobic
00:26:48.060
comment. She was making light of rape. Hashtag ally. Hashtag love wins. Hashtag love Trump's hate.
00:26:57.560
Hashtag Deborah Messing hopes the president of the United States gets raped by a homosexual convict.
00:27:03.440
She deleted that one. That one didn't, didn't play very, very well. Sort of like just digging that
00:27:13.960
hole, making matters worse. So then she issued another apology. She tried again. Quote,
00:27:20.340
I'd like to say that I've been an LGBTQIA ally for decades. So she added the A. The first time she said
00:27:26.760
she was the, she liked all the sorts of love. She didn't have the A, but now she has the A again.
00:27:31.380
Maybe the third apology is you'll have another letter in there. I was in no way referencing
00:27:36.460
LGBTQI slash queer. Nope, no more A. Love slash sexuality. Okay. Yeah, I think she already mentioned
00:27:45.620
that, right? It is not my proudest moment, but 45 has victim, victimized hundreds of millions of
00:27:50.720
people. I had wished the tables turned on him. I apologize for the offensive way I did it.
00:27:55.640
Um, so, uh, so, so she's not referencing anything having to do with homosexuality or anything like
00:28:07.800
that. Um, she is still hoping that he is raped by an inmate. You know, she's still like wants him to
00:28:15.720
be in prison, but not by a same sex inmate, not by a male inmate, not by a gay inmate. So she wants,
00:28:23.380
if I'm understanding this correctly, Deborah Messing wants the president of the United States
00:28:28.380
to go to prison and I get maybe a molt, uh, a prison with men and women at it. I don't think
00:28:36.260
there are many of those, but anyway, assuming he goes to a regular prison, she wants the president
00:28:41.080
to be raped by a woman who sneaks into the prison. It wouldn't be a conjugal visit because that of
00:28:49.560
course would be consensual. So she wants a woman to sneak into a male prison and rape the president.
00:28:54.980
Sorry for any confusion that she's caused. You know, I mean, all jokes aside, she obviously has
00:29:01.540
an extraordinarily incoherent view of sex and love and politics and everything else.
00:29:07.380
The left, I, no, I guess they don't really take sexual assault seriously. I was going to say that
00:29:12.720
they take it seriously because they talk about me too, you know, the campus rape epidemic where they
00:29:16.620
say one in four women at Harvard Yard are raped, you know, on college campuses as though the American
00:29:22.460
university campuses is more dangerous than Fallujah or something, obviously ridiculous,
00:29:27.800
but they don't take it seriously, right? I mean, if, if the left took sexual assault and rape seriously,
00:29:33.980
they would want those crimes to be prosecuted by the criminal justice system. They would want
00:29:39.660
the perpetrators of those crimes to face real consequences, face trial and then go to prison.
00:29:44.840
But that's not what they do. What they set up are these ridiculous tribunals on university campuses
00:29:49.680
where professors decide to expel students because of these, but they never face any
00:29:54.900
actual criminal justice. They never actually face trials or anything like that. They go to the Me Too
00:30:00.400
and they get some director fired or something. They never really, with a few exceptions, they never
00:30:06.180
push for them to, to have justice because they don't, they don't take this seriously.
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And especially when the left transgresses these sorts of politically correct codes or, or even
00:30:18.260
legitimate, you know, criminal codes, traditional moral order, they don't really hold them to
00:30:25.260
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00:30:31.860
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There is a sexual harassment claim against New York governor Andrew Cuomo known among a certain
00:32:16.960
segment of New Yorkers as Andrew COVID because his policies were extraordinarily deadly for older,
00:32:25.020
especially older New Yorkers with regard to the coronavirus. He's being hailed as the greatest
00:32:29.960
governor in America on this topic. He's actually the worst governor in America on this topic.
00:32:34.240
And apparently he's been harassing people about many other things, not just whether or not they
00:32:39.240
could go to church, not just whether or not they could show up and have holidays with their families.
00:32:43.680
A former employee, Lindsay Boylan says, she tweeted this out, quote, yes,
00:32:47.920
New York governor Cuomo sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it and watched. I could never
00:32:55.400
anticipate what to expect. Would I be grilled on my work, which was very good or harassed about my
00:33:01.600
looks or would it be both in the same conversation? This was the way for years, not knowing what to
00:33:07.720
expect. What's the most upsetting part aside from knowing that no one would do a damn thing,
00:33:13.980
even when they saw it? No one. And I know I'm not the only woman. I'm angry to be put in this
00:33:20.760
situation at all, that because I am a woman, I can work hard my whole life to better myself and
00:33:26.300
help others and yet still fall victim as countless women over generations have. Mostly silently, I hate
00:33:32.880
that some men like New York governor Cuomo abuse their power. I would love it if Andrew Cuomo would
00:33:41.620
leave the national political stage. I think he's just terrible and he obviously has higher aspirations
00:33:49.620
and I hope that those aspirations fail. I am skeptical of this woman's account. I try to at
00:33:56.120
least have a consistent standard here when it comes to these sort of allegations. Anybody can make an
00:33:59.900
allegation. They often come at politically opportune times. This woman put this in a long thread about
00:34:05.980
the broader topic of sexual harassment, which makes me skeptical because it would appear that there is
00:34:11.860
an ideological message here and then this Cuomo thing is being used to, to justify that, but it's
00:34:18.660
not being made separately. It's not saying this, here's an actual thing that just happened. I want
00:34:22.360
to tell you about it. She said it went on for years and years. If this of course raises the question,
00:34:26.420
if this was such harassment, why did she permit it to go on for years and years? Why, why not report it at
00:34:31.840
the time? Why not quit? Why not file a formal complaint? Why not accuse him? Because then there
00:34:37.980
would be a formal inquiry and then who knows? I am a little skeptical, especially with the timing
00:34:43.700
because Cuomo is apparently up for attorney general in a Biden administration. This woman is also
00:34:49.780
apparently running for borough president in New York City. So it just, I just don't buy it. I would not
00:34:56.820
bet money that this really happened. And I certainly wouldn't bet money that this is going to go
00:35:01.640
anywhere, even if it did happen. Andrew Cuomo abuses his power. There is no doubt about that. This guy's
00:35:07.540
a complete bulldog and he comes from a political family and I just don't like him. But I'm not so
00:35:14.000
sure it happened. And Cuomo for his part is denying that anything did happen. I heard about the tweet
00:35:21.800
and what it said about comments that I had made. And it's not true, Zach. Look, I, I fought for,
00:35:34.700
and I believe a woman has the right to come forward and express her opinion and express issues and
00:35:42.400
concerns that she has. But it's, it's just not true. Fair enough. Fair enough. If, if I were
00:35:51.580
Andrew Cuomo right now, I'm up for attorney general, you've got this other politician who's
00:35:55.080
running for another office and she makes this claim years after anything allegedly happened,
00:36:00.020
I would probably, and assuming it's, it's not true, I would, I would, I would have the same answer.
00:36:06.420
Which would be consistent. It's not consistent for the left to have that answer because the left has
00:36:10.180
foisted a new standard on all of us over the past five years or so. That new standard is the
00:36:16.620
politically correct standard of me too, of believe all women. But the left doesn't really believe all
00:36:21.500
women. They want to make, they want everyone to believe all women when there's an accusation,
00:36:25.620
no matter how ludicrous against a Republican. But they want the left to believe no women when there's
00:36:30.360
a claim against a Democrat. So he, he comes out and he changes it. It's no longer, I believe women
00:36:36.540
have a right to be believed, which is what Hillary Clinton said before she stopped believing women and
00:36:41.560
after she stopped believing women. He says, I fought for, and I believe that women have the
00:36:46.680
right to state their opinion. Uh-huh. Yeah, man. Does anybody, who out there agrees that women have
00:36:55.220
the right to state their opinion? Yeah, all the hands go up in the audience, right? That's very
00:37:00.680
different than what the left has been telling us. But it just didn't happen. It just, none of this
00:37:05.060
happened. It didn't, I am going to be the attorney general. I am Andrew Cuomo, the anointed Andrew
00:37:11.920
Cuomo. Of course, that, that standard is the issue. I keep going back to this topic because I think the,
00:37:19.460
the only way we're going to be able to fight the politically correct, the woke standards
00:37:24.360
is to offer a standard of our own. And so I'm not just saying, believe all women. And I'm not saying,
00:37:31.360
believe no women. And I'm not saying none of these things can be true. I'm not saying always go after
00:37:35.920
the Democrat. Here's my standard. If a person is going to make a claim like this, then we have to
00:37:43.520
take factors into account. The timing of the claim, the character of the person making the claim,
00:37:49.320
the character of the person who's being accused, the way in which the claim is being made, the proper
00:37:54.820
channels that the claim is going through. Is it going through the criminal justice system? Is it going
00:37:58.240
through, I don't know, HR? Is it, or is it just being made on Twitter as part of a broader narrative?
00:38:02.540
And you adjudicate it. And then you believe some women and you disbelieve other women,
00:38:08.940
just as you would believe some men and disbelieve other men. Sexual politics is very confusing these
00:38:15.620
days, especially after reading Deborah Messing and then reading Andrew Cuomo. But I think you're not
00:38:21.500
going to be able to go to some, some neutral standards, some default standard. You always are going to
00:38:27.500
have premises here about sex, about men and women, about love, about marriage, about politics,
00:38:31.660
about everything. And the left has all of those. And they're sort of even being honest about it.
00:38:37.760
And the right is pretending, no, we'll just go to some neutral default playing ground. I don't think
00:38:41.040
so. We need to have our own standards too. Sexual politics changing all the time. A left winger is in
00:38:46.640
trouble for this. James Corden, who is a late night talk show host, and he's a Broadway guy.
00:38:51.260
James Corden is now being accused of wearing gay face. And I said, what is gay face? What is going
00:38:59.660
to come up on Google when I search that term gay face? Gay face is a new politically correct piece
00:39:05.680
of jargon. I think it was invented five minutes ago to refer to a straight man playing a gay man
00:39:10.940
in the way that, you know, a white guy playing a black guy is now black face, you know, or brown face
00:39:17.620
as Justin Trudeau. When he got caught wearing black face, he had to say he was wearing brown
00:39:20.520
face to make it seem a little better. Well, now there's gay face. So James Corden is in this movie.
00:39:26.060
It's called The Prom. It's on Netflix. And it's being directed by Ryan Murphy. And now they're very
00:39:33.680
upset because they say he should have cast a gay actor. Now, what does that mean? We now have this
00:39:39.180
very sexual essentialist idea. You are either gay or you are not gay, right? You're born this way. It's
00:39:44.860
immutable. It's your sexual orientation. Nothing about your sexual orientation can change. That's
00:39:49.160
what we've been told for 20, 30 years and by the sort of LGBT evolving movement. But then now we're
00:39:54.400
also told the opposite. We're being told sexuality is changeable. It's mutable. I can identify however
00:39:59.640
I want. I can pursue whatever person I want. I can have whatever desires I want. My desires can change.
00:40:05.140
Well, in that, if that's true, then the sort of born this way argument gets a little weakened.
00:40:09.260
And certainly the gay face argument gets weakened because a guy can, can do whatever he wants. To give
00:40:14.480
you a sense of this performance, there's just a little, little few seconds of it during the
00:40:20.620
Netflix trailer, James Corden does play up the flamboyance. Okay, well, let's give this girl a
00:40:26.460
frog. So it's stereotypically gay. Now we all know gay people who behave exactly like that. And frankly,
00:40:34.620
that's muted compared to some of the gay people that I'm sure all of us know. But this is considered
00:40:39.620
too flamboyant. You've got to play gay guys as, I don't know, straight guys or something. I don't
00:40:44.740
know. You can't, you can't point out that there are certain characteristics and cultural attributes
00:40:49.280
that go along with that particular persuasion. I will tell you, I didn't realize James Corden
00:40:54.540
was straight. I thought I, he's a Broadway guy. He's a show business guy. I assumed he was a gay guy
00:41:01.800
and apparently not. Now he's, he's getting in trouble for this, but it's, it's always shifting.
00:41:06.300
It's always, it began with you, you can't play a Native American. You know, the most famous Native
00:41:13.640
American in American pop culture is the, the crying Native American, you know, with the teardrop
00:41:18.620
at Woodstock. That guy was Italian. He wasn't Native American. And now when you add in the
00:41:24.980
transgender ideology to the mix, all of a sudden it gets even more confusing. It's so confusing that
00:41:30.580
even Family Guy, which is a liberal channel or a liberal show rather, created by a liberal
00:41:36.280
showrunner, Seth MacFarlane. They even made fun of, uh, transgender ideology in relation to,
00:41:48.680
All right. Time to put up the 2020 Christmas decorations. First, ethnically accurate Jesus
00:41:56.380
goes right here next to Father Mary and Mother Josephine, followed closely by the three genderless
00:42:01.780
wise people on their bird scooters, Tig Notaro for some reason, and of course the little drummer
00:42:06.920
them, because God forbid we call a boy a boy. Dad, what do you think? I don't like what the world is.
00:42:12.480
I'm white. When's it going to be our turn? Now this is actually a very complex joke because it's
00:42:18.980
Seth MacFarlane. It's got to be somewhat blasphemous. I'm just going to look past that for the moment
00:42:22.980
to analyze the joke, uh, because, uh, because it's funny because transgenderism as an ideology doesn't
00:42:31.560
make any sense whatsoever. MacFarlane, who's a funny guy has to make a joke about it,
00:42:36.400
but because it's a liberal show, he's got to also make a joke at conservative expense.
00:42:42.460
So it begins with, uh, this idea that Jesus is black, right? Ethnically, it's a little black
00:42:49.580
plaster doll who's standing in for Jesus. He says, ethnically accurate Jesus. Now you wonder,
00:42:55.720
is this a joke about black nationalism, which says that all great historical figures were black,
00:42:59.400
or is this a joke about, is it actually the case that some people believe this? Who knows? Then,
00:43:03.800
you know, it gets into all the crazy gender stuff and Tignataro and right, there's a comedian who's
00:43:09.020
not the most feminine comedian. And so, okay, now you realize you're making a joke about that.
00:43:14.360
And he says, cause we can't just call a boy a boy. And, but is that, is that going to be the final
00:43:18.060
point of the joke? No, they wouldn't let him get away with it. So then the joke has to be about how
00:43:21.380
straight white guys are stodgy and conservative and they won't, you know, they, they think that
00:43:26.980
they're the victims, right? So there are actually like four jokes in this, but one of the jokes,
00:43:30.660
which is a legitimate joke is at the expense of gender ideology. But which is it? We're in this
00:43:37.680
moment of flux. We're in this music where, where even this comedy show can't decide which, I can't
00:43:42.860
go for the fully conservative target. I can't go for the fully left-wing target. And then speaking of
00:43:47.560
white guys, speaking of white guys, the Cleveland Indians, one of the holdouts against the politically
00:43:54.200
correct culture, the Cleveland Indians are changing their name. I think my first baseball game I ever saw
00:44:00.660
was the Yankees versus the Indians in the playoffs in 90, was it 98 maybe? It's very sad. I always
00:44:07.680
liked the Indians. The Cleveland Indians are going to lose the name Indians. Just like Land O'Lakes
00:44:17.200
butter lost the Indian woman sitting on the front of the box. Just like Aunt Jemima lost Aunt Jemima.
00:44:26.020
No longer is Aunt Jemima even on the pancake syrup. Why? What is offensive about calling the team the
00:44:36.140
Indians? What is offensive about having an Indian on the Land O'Lakes butter box? What is offensive
00:44:43.260
about having Aunt Jemima on the bottle? In the case of those latter two, that Land O'Lakes Indian
00:44:49.440
was illustrated by an Indian man, by Native American. And now the work of that Native American man
00:44:58.820
written out, deleted. Aunt Jemima was a black character played by a black woman invented by a
00:45:07.060
black man, a black comedy writer. Everything about Aunt Jemima was authentically black. You know,
00:45:14.060
it wasn't just the creation of some awful white oppressor who drew the character and then had a
00:45:20.020
white guy in blackface play the character. No, it was black performers who created it. And now,
00:45:28.460
overwhelmingly white, politically correct people are writing these groups out of our history
00:45:33.640
because the culture, the politically correct culture, is uncomfortable with difference.
00:45:40.060
They always would do that. Before the Washington football team changed the name
00:45:43.240
from, changed their name from the Redskins, every few years you'd see a poll of Indian groups
00:45:48.820
that'd say, are you offended by the Redskins name? And overwhelmingly, 90% plus of them would say,
00:45:53.580
no, we don't care. But liberal white people cared a lot. And I suspect it's the same thing with the
00:45:59.980
Cleveland Indians. Obviously, there's nothing offensive about recognizing these different groups
00:46:06.120
in our culture. But what the left can't handle that there is cultural difference,
00:46:11.720
that there is such a thing as Indians, that there is such a history as black people have had in
00:46:17.980
America, that there is such a thing as Native Americans from the land of lakes. They can't
00:46:25.440
handle that. So it all has to be the same. They can't handle that gay people in gay culture have
00:46:32.380
certain eccentricities that are identifiable. And we all know what it is. And that's why they're
00:46:37.140
calling it gay face. They can't handle any of that. You know, it's become tired and cliche to
00:46:43.000
say that the left wants diversity, but they don't really celebrate diversity in any way. But, you know,
00:46:47.060
it remains true. This is the effect of an abstract, rationalist, utterly homogenizing ideology that the
00:46:56.800
left has. That everything just has to be up in the realm of ideas and it's all got to be exactly the
00:47:01.840
same. And we can't celebrate the differences of life that are kind of interesting and amusing.
00:47:07.700
And maybe they're not always great, but they're kind of funny. Who knows? You know, it makes,
00:47:11.820
gives zest to life, which conservatives do. These conservatives oppose this kind of idea that
00:47:16.680
we should have an abstract rationalism as our ultimate political vision. We kind of like that
00:47:23.020
things are weird in this world. We know that this is a fallen world, first of all. We know that things
00:47:27.260
are going to have imperfections. We know that we're going to have imperfections and other people are,
00:47:30.760
and they're going to sometimes show themselves differently. And, and we approach these matters
00:47:37.300
through prudence and we, we approach them through practicality. Who cares if it works in theory?
00:47:41.700
Does it work in practice? Well, the left flips that entirely. Even, you know, as they've tried to,
00:47:48.280
from the very, the very moment of election night, when all the votes started to flip for Biden,
00:47:52.280
say, okay, that's it. Now it's done. That's over. Now it's president. Well, probably,
00:47:56.240
probably Joe Biden is going to become the president. There are some eccentricities left.
00:48:00.500
If we summon the spirit of 1876, wouldn't that be wild? Wouldn't that be just absolutely
00:48:05.860
wonderful? Not holding my breath for it, but the world is full of wonder and difference and
00:48:11.360
surprises. We'll have more surprises tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:48:30.500
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Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show. It's now official. Trump didn't win the
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election the way he says he did, but he did win in a way few people have yet realized. I'll explain it all