The Michael Knowles Show - December 22, 2020


Ep. 669 - The Rich Get Richer


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It s been so long since we got a relief bill out of Congress after our elected officials told us to completely shut down the country and stop living our lives. Congress finally passed a $1.4 trillion bill, but it s not enough to get us through 11 months.

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00:00:37.840 Congress has a relief bill.
00:00:41.260 Oh, finally. It's been so long since we got a relief bill out of Congress
00:00:45.720 after our elected officials told us to completely shut down the country and stop living our lives.
00:00:51.660 You remember the first time they gave us about $1,200?
00:00:53.600 $1,200. Not all of us, by the way, just some people, they gave $1,200, which is, you know,
00:00:59.240 I guess it's good for a week or two weeks, maybe a month.
00:01:03.700 It's probably not enough to get you through 11 months, and Congress realized that.
00:01:07.920 So they pass a trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill and also a $1.4 trillion omnibus bill.
00:01:13.420 Why? I don't know.
00:01:14.060 That's, who knows?
00:01:14.960 Look, if you spend some money on something people really need,
00:01:17.420 you got to spend a whole lot more money on a bunch of other stuff.
00:01:19.680 This package will expand the Paycheck Protection Program.
00:01:23.520 That'll open up $248 billion in funding for struggling businesses,
00:01:27.580 which we've noticed curiously very often goes to companies connected to politicians.
00:01:33.280 But hey, you'll get some money too.
00:01:34.780 Do you know how much money you'll get?
00:01:36.480 After the government told you you've got to stay home, don't go to work,
00:01:39.880 get locked up in your apartment, you will get $600.
00:01:43.380 So $600 plus $1,200 that we got last time.
00:01:48.660 It's been 282 days since 15 days to slow the spread.
00:01:53.200 So I'm no math whiz, but if I'm doing that math right,
00:01:55.660 that means that the federal government, to compensate us for shutting down our entire lives,
00:02:00.480 will pay us $6.38 a day.
00:02:07.560 That's if the money is received today.
00:02:09.420 It won't be.
00:02:10.020 Actually, you'll be getting a little bit less.
00:02:11.500 Is that going to get us through 2020, 2021?
00:02:16.420 However long the lockdown lasts, you better save your pennies.
00:02:19.840 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:20.580 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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00:02:58.420 Going to church, not essential.
00:03:00.800 That is not hypocrisy.
00:03:04.580 That's a new standard that is being foisted upon us.
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00:04:47.020 Thank you so much, Congress.
00:04:49.040 Thank you.
00:04:49.600 I feel like I'm a little pauper.
00:04:52.100 Congress, may I have some more?
00:04:53.980 No, you want some more?
00:04:55.720 A little more than $6.38 per day, please.
00:04:59.500 It's actually going to be less than that because obviously people aren't going to get their checks
00:05:02.300 today.
00:05:03.080 Who knows when they're going to get their checks?
00:05:05.040 Frankly, in my view, the president should veto this.
00:05:08.600 This is a ridiculous, ridiculous bill.
00:05:12.620 Senator Cruz, I actually just saw this headline.
00:05:15.280 Senator Cruz came out against it.
00:05:16.740 A lot of conservatives are coming out against this.
00:05:18.360 This thing is a disgrace.
00:05:20.280 It's an absolute disgrace of a bill.
00:05:22.300 It's not just conservative Republicans who are opposed to it.
00:05:25.280 You've even got some Democrats, including maybe our favorite Democrat these days, Tulsi
00:05:30.540 Gabbard, who is having none of this COVID relief bill.
00:05:35.360 Hey, everybody.
00:05:36.320 I just got back from having voted on the House floor on this massive spending bill.
00:05:43.260 I voted against it, and I wanted to tell you why.
00:05:46.820 First of all, this bill was over 5,500 pages long.
00:05:51.840 We received the text of this bill at approximately 2.30 this afternoon, and we're told we'd have
00:05:58.560 to go and vote on it just a few hours later.
00:06:00.800 There is no way that anybody in Congress had the opportunity or the time to go through and
00:06:09.600 read this bill to know exactly what was in it.
00:06:12.200 I've been here long enough to see how provisions are snuck into these bills literally in the
00:06:18.460 dark of night without any announcement, without telling anyone what is in it, and then rushed
00:06:23.940 through in the manner that we have just seen tonight.
00:06:27.020 This is the height of irresponsibility, and it is absolutely no way for the people's representatives
00:06:36.500 to be able to represent the interests of the American people.
00:06:42.680 Absolutely true.
00:06:43.700 Now, what Tulsi is focusing on here is the procedural aspect, the formal aspect of this, how the
00:06:48.700 bill was written, how the bill was sent over to Congress, how the representatives had no
00:06:53.200 time to read it before voting on it.
00:06:54.660 So, yeah, procedurally, that's pretty messed up.
00:06:57.660 There are also substantive issues with the bill.
00:07:00.320 If you're going to have a relief bill, give people some money.
00:07:03.680 Don't, don't give them, and it really is, not everybody is going to get the money, too,
00:07:07.800 so it's actually going to, obviously, it's going to be significantly less than, than this,
00:07:11.400 this amount.
00:07:12.660 It's not going out to every single American, and, and it's just an excuse, basically.
00:07:17.500 The Congress gives, you know, a little pittance of money to the American people,
00:07:22.580 and then they sneak in all of their preposterous, largely preposterous plans there as well.
00:07:28.140 Tulsi has really impressed a lot of us, I think, in the past six months.
00:07:32.060 I was not one of those Republicans who was really on board for Tulsi during the primary.
00:07:36.320 There were a handful of, of them who said, oh, you know, she's anti-war.
00:07:39.220 I really like Tulsi.
00:07:40.140 Okay, that's fine.
00:07:41.180 But she's broadened out some of her political thoughts.
00:07:44.780 She's, by far, I think, the most moderate Democrat as a practical matter on abortion.
00:07:51.580 She's, by the way, not even just on those sort of hot button issues,
00:07:55.280 even on sort of slightly more esoteric issues, issues that don't really get a lot of play.
00:08:00.300 She's come out pretty strongly.
00:08:01.980 Tulsi Gabbard is now coming out, actually, against the federal bureaucracy, the deep state,
00:08:07.160 the administrative state, the conservatives are always crowing on about, myself included.
00:08:11.700 Tulsi Gabbard is going after those unelected technocrats and implying that in a free country, 0.99
00:08:18.800 a free people should govern ourselves.
00:08:21.340 Heartless, arrogant, unelected CDC bureaucrats have decided that the lives of elderly Americans
00:08:27.420 just don't count.
00:08:29.600 Now, for months, the CDC has been telling us that the elderly are the most vulnerable.
00:08:34.860 But now they are recommending that 100 million so-called essential workers,
00:08:39.980 which means healthy people working at everything from liquor stores to telephone companies,
00:08:46.200 that they can get the vaccine before our grandparents can.
00:08:50.540 That members of Congress like me, we can get the vaccine before at-risk seniors can.
00:08:56.500 People like my aunt, who is imprisoned in her own home
00:09:00.960 because of the danger that if she catches the disease, she could die.
00:09:05.200 This is immoral and bad health policy.
00:09:09.860 I had planned to take the vaccine, but will now stand in solidarity with our seniors
00:09:15.480 by not doing so until they can.
00:09:19.200 I urge my colleagues in Congress who are under the age of 65 and healthy to join me.
00:09:25.040 I love it.
00:09:28.320 I love, I'm still not going to vote for Tulsi Gabbard because she's obviously more liberal 0.95
00:09:33.200 than I am by a lot.
00:09:34.180 But I'll tell you what, if, if the election were between Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Biden,
00:09:38.300 it would be a no brainer.
00:09:39.260 If the election were between Tulsi Gabbard and the Clintons, it'd be a no brainer. 0.99
00:09:42.480 If the election were between Tulsi Gabbard and AOC or Bernie Sanders or whoever,
00:09:45.980 it'd be a no brainer.
00:09:47.200 She is saying sensible things and she is thinking for herself,
00:09:49.820 which raises this question.
00:09:53.060 I actually had a journalist ask me this question yesterday.
00:09:56.500 If, you know, assuming Joe Biden does get it, the court won't come in and save the day.
00:10:01.020 Assuming all of that, will there be a new coalition that forms a kind of political reordering?
00:10:07.640 So you've got the liberal establishment, which is the Biden types aided and abetted by the
00:10:13.880 squishy Republicans, you know, all the, the Lincoln project or the Romney tie, those guys.
00:10:17.700 Do you think that that will be one coalition and that the woke left and the kind of,
00:10:23.960 I don't know, you could call it red pilled or based right.
00:10:26.620 Could they come together and form a coalition to attack what has been disparaged as the unit party?
00:10:32.260 You know, the, that the Bush, Clinton, that kind of thing.
00:10:35.740 I don't think so.
00:10:36.820 I think that's fanciful thinking.
00:10:38.480 I think Tulsi Gabbard is totally the outlier here. 0.89
00:10:41.320 She should be lauded for her efforts, but I don't think that's going to happen because
00:10:45.680 the thing about the liberal establishment is they give the woke left what they want
00:10:51.760 over time, slowly.
00:10:54.660 The, the progression of the liberal establishment for the last 70 years has been to the left.
00:10:59.360 It's never gone back to the right.
00:11:00.840 It is always more to the left.
00:11:03.180 Some people like the AOC types are impatient.
00:11:06.600 They want this to go faster, but just look at Biden's perspective picks.
00:11:11.140 They're very radical people.
00:11:12.980 They're extraordinarily partisan people.
00:11:15.500 They're not interested in unity and healing, which we'll find out later.
00:11:18.540 You've got more prominent Democrats and Democrat helpers calling for Republicans to die, like
00:11:24.920 we were talking about yesterday.
00:11:27.060 And, you know, you've got the occasional person who's waking up out of this on the left, you
00:11:31.800 know, like Tulsi Gabbard, who's saying, wait a second, these technocrats don't have the
00:11:36.300 right to form our political priorities.
00:11:38.320 This is so far beyond the realm of science or figuring out what works.
00:11:43.500 You've now got these heartless bureaucrats at the CDC telling you that your granny doesn't 0.99
00:11:51.280 deserve the vaccine because they, they find other people to be more favored than these
00:11:56.800 elderly people.
00:11:58.220 I don't think there's going to be any sort of coalition here between the woke left and
00:12:03.640 the red pilled right.
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00:14:21.800 There's a big double standard going on here.
00:14:24.740 So there's a survey app.
00:14:26.760 There's a Kaiser survey.
00:14:28.540 35% of black adults say they definitely or probably won't get the vaccine.
00:14:34.860 And frankly, I don't blame them.
00:14:37.160 There's an argument now that because of historical injustices, you know, black people should be
00:14:42.460 wary of science.
00:14:43.020 But I'm not even saying that.
00:14:43.940 I'm just saying if you're perfectly healthy, if you're young, then there's not a very compelling
00:14:48.920 argument for you to go get the vaccine, right?
00:14:50.800 If you're 99.7% likely to survive the virus or, or more, by the way, if you're younger and
00:14:56.300 healthier, then why would you do that?
00:14:58.600 You, you have greater risks of many other activities that you go out all day long.
00:15:03.360 If you're in a higher risk category, then maybe it makes a lot more sense to go get the
00:15:06.900 vaccine.
00:15:07.600 But look, that's how conservatives are talking about this issue.
00:15:11.080 What the left has been saying is if you are in any way questioning the absolute necessity
00:15:17.540 of getting this vaccine, you are an evil, stupid, uneducated, anti-vaxxer, I don't know, 0.72
00:15:25.260 whatever, whatever words they use.
00:15:26.680 Now, that's how conservatives are talked about.
00:15:29.460 Face the Nation on CBS has the Surgeon General of the United States on.
00:15:33.640 Surgeon General, who has given contradictory guidance at various times on the masks and other
00:15:38.320 aspects of the pandemic, goes on and he says, I was actually pleased to hear this.
00:15:43.200 He says he understands why some people are skeptical and feel like they don't need to
00:15:49.140 go get the vaccine.
00:15:50.360 He speaks about this matter specifically.
00:15:52.060 He's, he's a black guy.
00:15:52.980 He's talking to the black American community.
00:15:55.000 He's saying, I, I understand given not just the, what's going on right now, but historically
00:16:00.680 it makes perfect sense for you to be skeptical of these sorts of vaccines.
00:16:05.080 I've talked previously about the, the history of mistreatment of communities of color, the
00:16:13.960 Tuskegee experiments, the terrible treatment of Henrietta Lacks's and her family and how
00:16:18.900 they just took herself without her permission. 0.97
00:16:21.860 We need to understand that that distrust comes from a real place.
00:16:26.180 It actually comes from my office.
00:16:28.580 Several surgeons general oversaw for 40 years, the Tuskegee studies where treatment was denied
00:16:33.660 to black men and I walked past their pictures every single day when I go into my office.
00:16:39.280 So believe you me, this legacy is important to me and helping restore that trust is important.
00:16:45.020 We've had many people involved in the review and actually a study participants of color.
00:16:51.580 Okay.
00:16:52.060 This is great.
00:16:52.640 I like this.
00:16:53.220 I like, this is how I want my appointed officials and the lab coat people. 0.99
00:16:57.820 This is how I want them to speak to us.
00:16:59.360 I want them to acknowledge that there are political considerations that people have every right
00:17:04.520 to take into account that are not merely matters of science and therefore beyond the realm of
00:17:10.420 legitimate debate.
00:17:11.180 That was good.
00:17:11.760 I'm, I'm glad that we're talking about the vaccines in this way.
00:17:16.340 I'm glad we're talking about science broadly in this way because the, the scientific experts
00:17:21.800 work within the realm of politics and we have control over politics.
00:17:25.260 We, the people, except not every group who questions the lab coat dictators is being talked
00:17:32.020 about in this way.
00:17:32.820 If you change a channel, you go over to MSNBC, you listen to Chris Hayes and his experts on
00:17:37.660 TV.
00:17:39.080 You get a very different perspective when it's the conservatives who are questioning the
00:17:43.520 medical geniuses.
00:17:45.500 We have watched the, the sort of right-wing disinformation machine, which is enormous and
00:17:50.240 very powerful, get behind the idea that the election was stolen and fraudulent despite the
00:17:54.240 fact it's a complete lie.
00:17:55.280 And they have pumped that into the minds of tens of millions of people.
00:17:58.400 And it is an open question now, whether they do the same with the vaccine tonight.
00:18:01.340 My understanding is that Tucker Carlson was, was starting to sort of toy with that, right?
00:18:06.380 If they decide to do that, then we will have a real problem on our hands.
00:18:12.600 We're going to have a real problem.
00:18:14.000 If these evil, like Tucker Carlson, could you imagine Tucker Carlson suggesting that there's
00:18:19.500 any reason to be skeptical of the vaccine?
00:18:22.600 Hey buddy, the surgeon general of the United States just said there's reason to be skeptical.
00:18:27.620 And by the way, a lot of left-wingers have said this, there's a reason to be skeptical,
00:18:30.880 specifically in the case of if you're black, because there have been these medical experiments
00:18:34.640 done on black people and they weren't always aware of what was going on.
00:18:37.480 And that really is pretty perverse.
00:18:39.560 And, and people who had been given public trust sometimes violated that public trust.
00:18:44.200 Yeah, right.
00:18:45.760 So extrapolate that out to other issues, to other authorities, to other segments of the
00:18:52.880 population.
00:18:54.760 Double standard.
00:18:56.320 You, you would never hear them speak this way on the left about conservatives, the way
00:19:02.060 that they speak about, I don't know, whether you're a favored racial group or favored sexual
00:19:05.980 group or, or whichever.
00:19:09.080 There's, there's, by the way, there's an, a new standard here on the vaccines.
00:19:11.580 There's that fake Republican, Anna Navarro, who was yelling at Marco Rubio yesterday because 0.98
00:19:16.220 he got the vaccine, you know, damned if you do, damned if you don't, you're, if you don't
00:19:19.640 get the vaccine, you're imperiling lives.
00:19:21.940 If you do get the vaccine, you're taking it away from people who really need it.
00:19:25.580 Anna Navarro is now saying people in the Republican party should not get the vaccine
00:19:29.440 because they supported Trump and therefore they're evil and therefore they don't deserve
00:19:33.540 it.
00:19:34.960 I take it, you know, the, the answer to this question of, of who should get the vaccine
00:19:39.360 first is pretty obvious and that answer does not include Marco Rubio.
00:19:43.760 I don't think I should include the senators, period.
00:19:47.080 Particularly, listen, there's something that really gets stuck, I think, in my craw and
00:19:51.180 other people's craw at the idea that people who have been enabling Donald Trump downplaying
00:19:56.780 the COVID virus, calling it a hoax, who have attended, spoken at, encouraged, promoted and
00:20:04.620 participated in so many of his reckless rallies where people have been packed like sardines
00:20:10.560 and have spoken at these rallies knowing people are there maskless, who have attended super
00:20:15.800 spreader events at the White House.
00:20:17.880 Like we've seen, you know, so many people get infected with COVID at them and then, and
00:20:24.480 then after they've been selfish, after they've been reckless, after they've been servile to
00:20:29.820 Donald Trump, then they get to jump the line and go in front of people who are in nursing
00:20:35.400 homes and go in front of people who've been risking their lives for 10 months.
00:20:39.900 So according to Anna Navarro, she, she's making a simple point, right?
00:20:46.240 So let's hear it out.
00:20:47.140 Let's debate it.
00:20:48.040 According to Anna Navarro, if you engage in behavior that makes you more likely to get
00:20:54.060 this illness, then you don't deserve treatment for this illness.
00:20:58.500 Okay.
00:20:59.140 That's Anna Navarro's point of view.
00:21:01.760 What does Anna Navarro think about AIDS? 1.00
00:21:04.460 What was she saying during the AIDS epidemic?
00:21:07.300 Because right now she's saying, if you engage in behavior, call it reckless, but any kind
00:21:13.360 of behavior that makes you more likely to get the illness, then you don't deserve treatment.
00:21:19.680 There are behaviors that make you more likely to get all sorts of illnesses.
00:21:23.560 Use the example of AIDS.
00:21:25.760 People who engage in those behaviors, they don't deserve treatment.
00:21:28.200 Is that right, Anna Navarro?
00:21:29.240 Is that what you would, somebody tells me that's not what she would say.
00:21:31.900 What if, let's bring it back to COVID.
00:21:33.740 What if, and I know there's this brilliant genius medical theory out there that public
00:21:39.440 health experts have signed onto actually, that if you go to a conservative rally, a Trump
00:21:43.660 rally, you're, you're dangerous, you're reckless, you're going to get COVID.
00:21:46.860 If you go to a BLM riot, you're not, you're fine. 0.90
00:21:49.800 You can't, you, you, you won't even have your COVID counted in the official statistics.
00:21:55.080 According to, according to some people, that's what they want.
00:21:57.400 So if you go, I, I dispute this medical theory that the virus is so woke that it only affects
00:22:03.240 conservatives.
00:22:04.380 If you go to the BLM rally and you get COVID, do you not deserve treatment? 0.97
00:22:08.240 You're showing up, it's reckless, you're in huge crowds, you're grabbing lots of Gucci
00:22:13.040 handbags and you're probably not wearing gloves while you do that.
00:22:15.860 You know, you're grabbing lots of sneakers.
00:22:19.260 If you're, if you're at the Antifa part of those rallies, you're grabbing all sorts of
00:22:23.160 weapons and throwing them at people, beating people up.
00:22:25.280 So you're having a lot of contact, like with people's skulls, you know, between your knuckles
00:22:28.560 and your, and their skulls.
00:22:30.140 So reckless behavior, more likely to be infected.
00:22:33.260 Do you not deserve treatment?
00:22:35.460 No, it is a double standard.
00:22:37.880 But as we were discussing yesterday, it's, it's not necessarily hypocrisy because the
00:22:43.920 left is kind of open about this standard, right?
00:22:45.880 They say, yeah, certain groups should get special privileges and certain groups should be punished.
00:22:50.780 Yeah.
00:22:51.480 Leftists should get to do whatever they want and conservatives should be punished.
00:22:54.560 Left-wing political agendas should be called science and beyond the realm of political
00:22:58.320 debate, conservatives should not even have a voice in the public square in their own
00:23:01.920 government.
00:23:03.680 George Takei took this a little bit further.
00:23:06.860 George Takei, do you know, he was on Star Trek, I guess, like 400 years ago.
00:23:11.640 And for some reason he's, he has a voice in the public square.
00:23:15.140 I don't, I don't know why.
00:23:15.940 I've never seen Star Trek and I don't know that I've ever watched George Takei do anything
00:23:19.920 beyond one of those little social media videos, but whatever.
00:23:22.600 He, you know, he's very ardent left-wing liberal and he tweets out, quote, there are very, very
00:23:28.340 few instances of known allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine, but Marco Rubio has
00:23:32.860 always thought of himself as one in a million.
00:23:34.700 So there's still hope.
00:23:36.240 It's actually kind of a funny line, right?
00:23:38.600 But in George Takei, you know, he's an entertainer, but he's making a political point
00:23:42.860 here, isn't he?
00:23:43.600 And the political point is, I hope Marco Rubio has an adverse reaction to this vaccine.
00:23:50.180 And maybe some of these allergic reactions kill people.
00:23:53.040 So ha ha ha ha ha.
00:23:55.340 I hope Marco Rubio suffers an injury or possibly dies.
00:23:59.380 Ha ha ha ha ha.
00:24:01.480 Unity and healing.
00:24:03.040 Very unity.
00:24:04.340 Much healing.
00:24:06.720 You're, this is Joe Biden.
00:24:08.120 This is his new line, right?
00:24:09.460 We need unity.
00:24:10.340 We need healing.
00:24:11.180 Come to, just look, concede the election.
00:24:13.320 Realize you lost.
00:24:14.360 We're probably going to end the filibuster, add a bunch of states. 0.99
00:24:16.560 You're never going to win again.
00:24:17.400 But don't worry, because we're going to give you a lot of unity and healing.
00:24:21.000 Meanwhile, his campaign manager and, and prospective deputy chief of staff says, yeah,
00:24:26.460 those Republicans are all a bunch of effers.
00:24:28.860 Yeah, those, oh, what a bunch of effers.
00:24:31.040 But don't worry, we'll work with them.
00:24:34.340 That's the sort of unity and healing that, assuming the election keeps going the way it
00:24:38.560 looks like it's going after January 20th.
00:24:41.220 That's the sort of unity and healing you can expect.
00:24:43.240 And I do think we need to, we need to be prepared for this.
00:24:45.880 I, more than anybody maybe, or at least as much as anybody, I've said, don't concede before
00:24:49.980 you have to.
00:24:50.740 Let's hold out for this thing.
00:24:52.060 Don't give them an extra minute of legitimacy.
00:24:53.900 Now you're seeing even some of the most ardent voices on the right say that this thing is
00:24:59.800 over, up to and including Pat Robertson, who is pretty hardcore.
00:25:05.140 Okay, Pat Robertson makes a lot of conservative Republicans blush.
00:25:08.640 He is so hardcore.
00:25:09.860 He's also been around politics now for, I don't know, 100 years or something.
00:25:13.280 I mean, he's, he's up there in age.
00:25:15.760 Robertson believes this election is over, which means we need to start looking, I don't
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00:25:24.340 We have to project our hopes.
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00:26:24.220 Pat Robertson is calling the election.
00:26:27.400 I'm very sorry to hear that because Pat Robertson is a pretty tough-as-nails Republican.
00:26:35.360 Pat Robertson said my favorite phrase maybe ever in modern politics.
00:26:40.820 This guy said, this is in a 1992 fundraising letter.
00:26:44.000 He said, the feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women.
00:26:48.140 It is about a socialist anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their
00:26:52.580 husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. 1.00
00:27:00.640 You know, and you listen to that and you say, gosh, that's, that's a pretty, pretty radical.
00:27:06.340 Uh, but much like Bertrand Russell with the ontological argument, it's easier to think
00:27:10.120 that he's wrong and to quite point out the flaw in his logic.
00:27:13.580 Regardless, uh, Pat Robertson, no squish, right? 1.00
00:27:16.620 He's never been a squish. 1.00
00:27:17.440 He says Joe Biden is going to be the president.
00:27:21.040 I think it's all over.
00:27:23.080 I think the electoral college has spoken.
00:27:25.500 I think the, the Biden, uh, corruption, uh, has not totally been brought to, to, uh, fruition,
00:27:34.620 but it doesn't seem to be affecting the electoral college.
00:27:38.200 And I don't think the Supreme court is going to move in to do anything.
00:27:42.420 And I think, uh, we're going to see a president Biden.
00:27:46.560 And I also think we'll be seeing a president Kamala Harris, not too long after the inauguration
00:27:53.620 of president Biden.
00:27:56.200 That is so depressing, but listen to the way Pat Robertson's talking, at least when he's
00:28:03.520 opening up here, he's not saying this is what we should do.
00:28:06.460 This is what I hope happens.
00:28:08.880 He's being purely descriptive.
00:28:11.380 He's saying, look, the, there were these avenues to challenge the results of the election.
00:28:17.100 You could do it in court and you can get to the legislator, either the state legislatures
00:28:21.620 or before they send their electors or to the electors themselves.
00:28:25.940 The court, the courts, I think have shut down a lot of cases, but in the, in the real tough
00:28:31.620 cases where they should have taken up the issue, where Ted Cruz said he was going to go
00:28:35.400 argue it before the Supreme court, Supreme court refused to get involved.
00:28:39.340 They want nothing to do with this.
00:28:41.520 They don't want a Bush V Gore.
00:28:42.880 They don't want the attention.
00:28:44.320 So they refused to even hear the case.
00:28:45.840 So courts are out.
00:28:47.320 You could get to the state legislature.
00:28:48.820 Well, state legislatures already sent their electors.
00:28:52.420 They didn't decertify the vote.
00:28:53.940 So now what could the electors be faithless?
00:28:55.860 Could it, could we challenge the votes in Congress, in the house and in the Senate?
00:28:59.020 Yes.
00:28:59.360 There are some members who've said they're going to challenge the votes.
00:29:02.220 The, the historical analog for that would be the compromise of 1877.
00:29:06.220 We actually covered it on this show.
00:29:07.640 I think we're the only show in politics that was covering the compromise of 1877 to give
00:29:11.780 some insight into this election.
00:29:13.320 And the sad fact is it does not seem that there is the political will to do anything like that.
00:29:18.440 So Robertson, totally descriptive here saying probably it's over, but he went further and,
00:29:24.520 and actually went after Trump a little bit, which made me quite crestfallen.
00:29:29.360 With all his talent and the ability of it to raise money and draw large crowds, the president
00:29:38.820 still lives in an alternate reality.
00:29:41.840 He really does.
00:29:43.240 People say, well, he lies about this, that, and the other, but no, he isn't lying.
00:29:47.240 To him, that's the truth.
00:29:49.140 He had the biggest crowd on inauguration day.
00:29:52.020 He had, he had more people than ever.
00:29:53.860 He was the most popular of people of, he saved NBC, but with The Apprentice, you know,
00:29:59.980 to go down the line of things that really aren't true.
00:30:03.960 And, you know, people kept pointing to them, but because they loved him so much and he was
00:30:10.480 so strong for the evangelicals, the evangelicals were with him all the way.
00:30:14.300 But there was something about him that was good, that God placed him in that office for the
00:30:21.760 time.
00:30:22.120 He's done a marvelous job for the economy.
00:30:24.640 But at the same time, he is very erratic and he, he's fired people and he's fought
00:30:31.060 people and he's insulted people and keeps going down the line.
00:30:34.040 So it's, it's a mixed bag.
00:30:36.160 And I think it would be well to say, uh, you've had your day and, uh, it's time to move on.
00:30:44.040 You've had your day and it's time to move on.
00:30:46.560 This, this is really sad.
00:30:48.800 It's sad for me to listen to this.
00:30:51.180 And I'm, I'm not even, look, if Hat Robertson's point is Trump's a complex guy and he's got many
00:30:57.080 great virtues and he's got some flaws too.
00:30:58.980 That's true.
00:31:00.000 Uh, that describes everybody except everybody's got flaws.
00:31:04.000 Not everybody has heroic virtues or record of accomplishment, but I see his point.
00:31:08.880 I see, I see what he's saying.
00:31:10.680 And, uh, this is going to be a question that, that is debated for a while.
00:31:16.540 Is President Trump going to continue to lead the party?
00:31:21.640 Is he going to run again, say in 2024?
00:31:24.060 Uh, you know, assuming that Biden gets it this time or, or not, is he, is he just going to
00:31:29.440 go away to the side?
00:31:31.000 Uh, you know, I, I see, I, I see that there is an argument.
00:31:35.680 I understand the argument of just go away.
00:31:37.320 You've had your time.
00:31:38.040 Now it's time for somebody else.
00:31:39.080 Okay, fine.
00:31:40.820 People, when they leave the presidency, they just often for ex-presidents, it's good when
00:31:45.140 they go into obscurity.
00:31:46.620 But here's my question.
00:31:49.000 Who follows Trump?
00:31:51.480 Who else?
00:31:52.780 Are there a lot of people who want to?
00:31:54.360 Who has the courage?
00:31:55.380 Who has the character?
00:31:56.240 Who has the chutzpah to follow Trump?
00:31:58.100 I mentioned this at, at the TPUSA event the other day.
00:32:01.780 I said, I hope Trump lives a very long time.
00:32:04.400 I hope he has a very nice long life when he, when he eventually goes, as we all go, he may
00:32:09.720 give his body to science.
00:32:10.820 I hope he gives his spine to the GOP.
00:32:14.360 Who's going to take up that Trumpian mantle?
00:32:16.320 Who's going to fight like Trump fights?
00:32:18.300 Who's going to change the priorities of the establishment and at least fight the priorities
00:32:25.000 of the establishment the way that Trump did, singularly?
00:32:28.400 I don't know.
00:32:30.580 If Trump leaves on January 20th and if someone is willing to step up and take that mantle
00:32:36.760 and fight and fight for that make America great again agenda, then there's an argument
00:32:43.200 for Trump, you know, supporting that person.
00:32:45.780 If nobody does, then I want that fight.
00:32:48.760 I want Trump to be fighting from outside of the office and fighting to get back in too.
00:32:52.240 A lot remains to be seen.
00:32:56.160 I don't have a whole lot of confidence given this COVID relief bill, quote unquote, that
00:33:01.220 just came out of Congress.
00:33:02.640 I don't have a lot of confidence that there are a ton of politicians out there who can step
00:33:07.120 up and who can speak up.
00:33:11.380 And, and perhaps Robertson would agree.
00:33:13.140 I don't know.
00:33:13.920 He hasn't consulted me on this, but this is going to be, Pat Robertson is a representative
00:33:19.400 of a, of serious, you know, right wing conservatives, not squishy Republicans and of people who
00:33:26.820 take their religion seriously.
00:33:27.820 Obviously, Pat Robertson has been a televangelist for many, many decades describing the cultural
00:33:35.400 issues, the feminist agenda, making people become witches and things like that. 1.00
00:33:40.120 Speaking of the strange sexual agendas, Eddie Izzard, Eddie Izzard, who is a British actor,
00:33:47.700 comedian, I guess.
00:33:48.500 I don't, I've heard the name, but I couldn't really pick him out of a lineup, especially
00:33:50.880 now.
00:33:51.640 Eddie Izzard is now identifying as a lady.
00:33:55.820 Now, Eddie Izzard apparently has had a sort of complex sexual confusion for a number of
00:34:02.000 years now.
00:34:02.460 But he had just announced a couple of days ago, he's, he wants to be called a woman.
00:34:07.660 So I go to Eddie Izzard's Wikipedia page and I, I was not shocked that a person from show
00:34:13.900 business is confused about sexuality.
00:34:16.180 That is the rule, not the exception.
00:34:19.220 What was, what was shocking and scandalizing though is within minutes perhaps of Eddie Izzard
00:34:25.380 making this announcement, his entire Wikipedia page had the pronouns changed from him to her.
00:34:32.460 This is a guy who's been in show business for decades.
00:34:34.960 He's obviously a dude.
00:34:36.780 No one is confused about, he looks like a dude.
00:34:39.100 He talks like a dude.
00:34:39.920 He's presented himself as a dude until five minutes ago.
00:34:43.960 The minute he says, I'm going to identify as a chick now, all of a sudden big technology,
00:34:49.640 the, the enforcers of our new standards go in and they change everything.
00:34:53.720 And so this is what I found on Wikipedia said, Izzard is gender fluid and calls herself somewhat 1.00
00:34:59.840 boyish and somewhat girlish.
00:35:02.540 She uses transgender as an umbrella term.
00:35:05.560 When asked what pronouns she prefers, Izzard said either he or she, that was in 2019.
00:35:12.120 So just a year ago in December, 2020, Izzard stated a preference for she and her exclusively
00:35:16.600 in the past.
00:35:17.220 Izzard identified as a transvestite and she also called herself a lesbian trapped in a man's
00:35:23.300 body.
00:35:23.700 That's how I identify too.
00:35:24.720 And a complete boy plus half girl.
00:35:28.320 Well, I don't identify that way, but I don't even know what that means because that doesn't
00:35:31.540 mean anything.
00:35:33.280 That is a sort of bizarre flight of fancy.
00:35:37.560 It doesn't mean anything.
00:35:38.440 Maybe the guy is suffering from a serious, you know, psychological issue or confusion,
00:35:43.860 but regardless, you can't be a complete boy plus half a girl.
00:35:47.600 You can't be boy, you can be boyish and girlish in that we all have aspects of our personality
00:35:54.460 that are slightly more masculine or slightly more feminine, but you can't be both a boy
00:35:59.920 and a girl at the same time.
00:36:01.200 And a boy can't become a girl and a girl can't become a boy. 0.99
00:36:05.440 He's a man and we're, I don't even take issue with the idea that people would have these delusions
00:36:13.260 or even that some of their friends and family would indulge those delusions.
00:36:15.920 My issue is that the established institutions, Wikipedia, the mainstream media, now government,
00:36:24.640 educational institutions, they are indulging the fantasies.
00:36:31.200 That would be bad enough.
00:36:33.840 And worse than that, they are coercing all of us into indulging those fantasies too.
00:36:41.440 What do we do about that?
00:36:43.440 You know, Poland has an answer here. 1.00
00:36:47.360 Poland came out and just the other day and they're going to fine social media companies.
00:36:54.360 This is a bill that's up.
00:36:55.680 They're threatening this.
00:36:56.960 They're going to fine social media companies that censor lawful speech.
00:37:02.280 This is not a perfect analogy, but it's getting at the issue.
00:37:04.780 So Poland, if there's speech that's legal for you to say in public, according to the government,
00:37:10.060 then they are requiring social media platforms to defend that speech.
00:37:15.660 There are going to be some squishes or maybe people who call themselves libertarian or I
00:37:20.280 don't know, whatever they're going to say.
00:37:22.520 They're going to say, this is outrageous.
00:37:24.280 The government has no right to tell a private company what they can't enforce their standards.
00:37:29.900 You can't legislate morality.
00:37:32.080 You can't, okay, whatever slogans or bumper stickers you want to say.
00:37:35.800 The fact of the matter is all laws legislate morality.
00:37:40.120 Every society, everywhere for all of human history has had standards and there are limitations
00:37:46.080 on certain speech because language is limited.
00:37:48.420 If you call a man he, you necessarily won't call him she.
00:37:52.280 If you call the man she, you can't call him he.
00:37:55.720 If he's he or she, you're not saying anything about that.
00:37:59.100 You have to communicate things that have clarity.
00:38:01.760 Words are symbols and they signify certain things and you do have to signify certain things
00:38:06.360 unless you want to descend into random sort of tribes of animals who just babble to themselves
00:38:13.720 all day long but don't actually have meaningful speech.
00:38:16.140 So you do have to say these things and politics is much larger than I think a lot of conservatives
00:38:20.880 have been deluding themselves for, for, for a number of decades now.
00:38:24.960 Buying into this kind of pseudo libertarian notion that there's no role for the government.
00:38:29.440 If you want to look, Google's censoring you, Google is, and Wikipedia and big tech are forcing
00:38:34.480 you to violate not just your conscience but violate your own eyes and rational faculties
00:38:41.080 and say that a man is a woman. 1.00
00:38:42.760 Well, I don't know, build your own Wikipedia, build your own Google.
00:38:46.620 Come on, build your own Twitter.
00:38:48.120 You have no right.
00:38:49.080 Yes, you do.
00:38:50.740 Yes, you do.
00:38:52.500 This is the kind of moral idiocy, political ignorance, and cowardice that has allowed the
00:38:59.780 left to run roughshod over the culture even when Republicans win elections because all Republicans
00:39:04.760 ever are willing to do is cut taxes a little bit and, by the way, still spend more money.
00:39:09.220 We'll just go into more debt.
00:39:10.840 They're not ever willing to do anything on the culture and the excuse they've found is,
00:39:14.240 well, I can't legislate morality.
00:39:18.600 The left does and the right used to and every, everyone else acknowledges that all laws legislate
00:39:24.380 morality, but I can't.
00:39:25.900 So we're going to allow these giant corporations that have unprecedented power over our public
00:39:33.200 square.
00:39:33.840 We're going to let them just dictate our conversations and dictate the way that we're even allowed to
00:39:41.320 view reality.
00:39:41.800 I don't think so.
00:39:42.780 Poland, which has often saved Western civilization, let's not forget Jan Sobieski, the Battle 0.98
00:39:49.060 of Vienna several centuries ago, coming out, saving Western civilization, once again has
00:39:56.640 a pretty grounded view of these things.
00:39:59.000 Let's not forget when the Soviet Union invaded and they're, you know, trying, they're still
00:40:04.380 trying to batter Europe, destroy the Western world. 0.84
00:40:07.240 And what happens?
00:40:07.700 Pope John Paul II, a Polish guy, shows up to Poland, a million Poles come out and they
00:40:11.540 say, we want God, we want God.
00:40:13.020 The Poles have a, I don't know if it's built into them, but they've got this kind of common
00:40:18.800 sense.
00:40:19.760 And here they're saying, we're not going to let these insane corporations completely
00:40:24.320 undermine our culture, completely undermine our institution, take over our values.
00:40:29.720 If there is going to, if we are going to have to deal with what the conservative thought
00:40:35.440 means in a world after Trump, hope he gets four more years or maybe 40 more years.
00:40:39.320 But if he doesn't, one thing we got to take from this guy is courage and common sense.
00:40:45.100 Trump actually gave a good answer on this.
00:40:46.740 It was kind of the wrong answer for policy on the transgender question, but it was the
00:40:51.220 right answer for politics.
00:40:52.560 He was once asked, what do you think about the North Carolina laws and the bathroom laws?
00:40:55.340 He goes, look, I don't know what's going on, but come on, what was going on before?
00:40:58.760 How did it work before?
00:40:59.620 I don't think this is a big problem.
00:41:01.680 I don't think transgender bathrooms, I don't think this is the biggest national problem.
00:41:05.440 However it was working before, that's fine.
00:41:07.740 He got the particulars of that issue a little wrong, but he was deferring to prudence, common
00:41:12.880 sense, using the good brain that God gave you and having a little courage to.
00:41:18.840 That is going to, that will either be the future of, of the conservative movement or the
00:41:24.440 conservative movement will not have a future.
00:41:29.300 That's Poland.
00:41:30.160 Gotta love Poland.
00:41:30.980 Meanwhile here, we've completely lost our minds.
00:41:33.880 The left is getting much more aggressive.
00:41:36.080 This was actually a story from last week.
00:41:37.860 We didn't get a chance to cover it, but it's ramping up again.
00:41:41.080 And so I think it's, it's well worth doing.
00:41:44.000 I was just flying all over, flew to Georgia, flew to Florida, flying back.
00:41:49.800 And they're, you know, different airlines are, are more serious than others about making
00:41:54.660 you wear the mask.
00:41:55.440 It's got to go over your nose.
00:41:56.760 It's, they'll come, they'll touch you.
00:41:58.660 They'll wake you up.
00:41:59.420 They get you to put the mask up over your nose, which seems counterproductive to me because
00:42:03.560 if they touch you, they're probably more likely to infect themselves.
00:42:05.860 In any case, an airline, United Airlines, kicked a family off the plane because a two-year-old
00:42:14.100 would not wear a mask.
00:42:16.200 Listen to this woman's story.
00:42:20.420 We just got kicked off the flight because our two-year-old would not put on a mask and
00:42:26.640 we tried.
00:42:27.700 I mean, I'm going to put a video on and they're sending all of our bags and Adeline's car seat
00:42:34.400 to New York and we're banned off of United forever because a two-year-old would not put
00:42:40.340 on a mask.
00:42:41.880 You can actually see they recorded a little bit of the interaction on the airplane.
00:42:45.740 Listen to the cold, the, the cold lack of compassion from these people just following
00:42:54.920 the orders from their leftist overlords.
00:42:57.120 So the guy said, the guy, you know, the steward comes up, he says, you got to get off.
00:43:08.040 He goes, you got to be kidding.
00:43:10.100 I'm sorry, sir.
00:43:11.560 And I took that opportunity and I ran with her.
00:43:13.760 You see this?
00:43:14.280 I'm literally filming her face.
00:43:16.240 I gave you an opportunity to put the mask on your two-year-old.
00:43:18.760 You have to leave the plane, sir.
00:43:19.660 Do you guys do this all the time or what?
00:43:22.200 Like, what?
00:43:23.880 There's noncompliance here.
00:43:25.060 This is compliance.
00:43:26.100 I'm literally holding it over my daughter's face.
00:43:27.520 He's like muzzling his daughter. 0.54
00:43:28.520 This is compliance right here.
00:43:31.800 I'm sorry, sir.
00:43:32.820 I'm sorry.
00:43:33.260 We can't force her.
00:43:34.780 She's literally holding it and she's crying.
00:43:36.380 You need to muzzle the two-year-old.
00:43:38.720 Even though, remember Fauci told us not to do that like six months ago?
00:43:41.760 Well, never mind.
00:43:42.640 Sorry.
00:43:43.180 That's what you got to do.
00:43:44.860 The left is getting much, much bolder.
00:43:48.000 Much, much bolder than that.
00:43:51.340 And we need to, I think we need to go a little further.
00:43:53.520 We need to not just say, hey, you do you.
00:43:55.520 You choose whatever you want.
00:43:56.460 If it makes you feel better, do this, do that.
00:43:58.360 I think we need to be bolder and say, no, it's disordered.
00:44:02.120 With few exceptions, it is disordered to wear masks in public.
00:44:07.400 That's what banditos do. 0.65
00:44:08.480 That's not what civilized people do.
00:44:10.080 Just like with the mail-in voting.
00:44:11.780 It's disordered to have widespread mail-in voting.
00:44:14.260 There are limited cases where it's fine if you're frail or infirm or you're, let's say,
00:44:19.020 you're overseas and maybe then you can have an absentee ballot and you got to request it.
00:44:22.620 So I'm not saying this one-size-fits-all ideological solution, but generally speaking,
00:44:27.160 the masks are disordered.
00:44:29.060 The mail-in voting is disordered.
00:44:30.280 We need to be able to say that.
00:44:31.420 We need to have the courage to not just say, do whatever you want, but actually,
00:44:34.560 you should do the things that we are suggesting you do because we've used our faculties of reason
00:44:39.460 and our common sense.
00:44:40.720 The left is getting a lot bolder.
00:44:42.100 Bill de Blasio out in New York, he's not just saying, look, we need for justice.
00:44:47.660 We need these compassionate policies.
00:44:50.540 No.
00:44:51.300 He's saying, hey, we're going to redistribute all your wealth.
00:44:56.380 To profoundly change the distribution of resources, I like to say very bluntly, our mission is to
00:45:04.200 redistribute wealth.
00:45:05.360 A lot of people bristle at that phrase.
00:45:07.620 That is, in fact, the phrase we need to use.
00:45:09.540 This reminds me of Beto O'Rourke when all the Democrats are saying, we're not going to steal
00:45:14.460 your guns.
00:45:15.400 No, we just want common sense reform.
00:45:19.360 We're against illegal guns.
00:45:21.140 That was always Mike Bloomberg's line.
00:45:22.340 He had mayors against illegal guns.
00:45:24.020 Show me the other group.
00:45:25.140 Where's the other mayors for illegal guns? 0.94
00:45:27.520 No, but it was never about illegal guns.
00:45:29.360 They just want to make guns illegal. 0.99
00:45:31.420 And Beto O'Rourke comes out.
00:45:32.500 He says, hell yeah, we're going to take your guns.
00:45:34.920 Oh man, check out this cool, this cool skateboard move.
00:45:41.340 I don't know.
00:45:41.660 What are skateboard moves?
00:45:42.500 I don't know.
00:45:43.000 Is that an Ollie? 0.98
00:45:43.900 Is that one?
00:45:44.380 Who knows?
00:45:45.560 These guys are getting bold.
00:45:46.600 And the thing is, Beto O'Rourke is a total loser, right?
00:45:48.720 And he lost the Senate and he lost the presidency.
00:45:50.760 Bill de Blasio is the mayor of New York.
00:45:53.060 That was at one point the most important city in the country.
00:45:55.460 I don't know that it still is, but it certainly was.
00:45:57.280 The left is getting much, much bolder and we need to get bolder too.
00:46:04.600 Actually, speaking of New York, there is one group of Republicans there that is giving
00:46:09.740 me hope.
00:46:10.760 This would be the Whitestone Republican Club in Queens, in New York City.
00:46:15.520 They held a Christmas party and it wasn't on Zoom.
00:46:19.300 It wasn't a virtual party.
00:46:20.640 It was in person and they weren't all masking themselves up and putting, you know, saran
00:46:24.860 wrap all over their bodies.
00:46:25.780 And they walked around like normal people and actually they had a conga line.
00:46:36.060 Marching around, got that Trump flag up front.
00:46:39.200 It's fun hats, like little red fedoras, MAGA hats.
00:46:43.280 A lot of boomers, you know, it's like, it's not like they're rowdy kids or this isn't the
00:46:47.700 proud boys, you know, it's just normal people living in New York, dancing around, having
00:46:57.380 a nice time.
00:46:59.040 I love it.
00:47:00.940 If you had played this video 12 months ago, if you played it a year ago, there would be
00:47:07.320 nothing newsworthy about that at all.
00:47:09.180 Now, those people who are just having a Christmas party and dancing around in a very sort of modest
00:47:16.660 way, they are radicals.
00:47:20.000 They are conspiracy theorists.
00:47:23.520 They are crazy.
00:47:25.800 They're out of their mind.
00:47:26.740 They're reckless, aren't they?
00:47:28.720 No, they're not.
00:47:31.580 They've just, the standards have changed so quickly that you, you may not have even noticed
00:47:39.180 it while it was happening.
00:47:40.600 And people have just gone along with it like frogs boiling in water.
00:47:45.100 We should not do that.
00:47:46.360 We should do, we should not go along with the new standards.
00:47:50.360 We should actively buck up against them.
00:47:54.360 And you don't need to be some kind of reactionary to do that and fall into all the traps that
00:47:59.540 the left sets for you.
00:48:00.680 You can just go about and live your life and take off that stupid mask and go to Christmas
00:48:05.620 parties and see your family and wave the Trump flag, wave the American flag, not be, you know,
00:48:11.820 not, not be living in fear of Antifa, smacking you in the head with a brick.
00:48:15.600 Not, don't let them bully you into submission, whether it's Antifa or whether it's those bureaucratic
00:48:19.940 bullies either.
00:48:21.900 Go around, live your life, have a little conga line. 0.99
00:48:27.460 That's, that's the kind of resistance that we're going to need.
00:48:29.880 And it's going to have to be consistent.
00:48:31.920 We're going to need courage to do it.
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