The Michael Knowles Show - January 04, 2021


Ep. 672 - 10 Days To Slow The Vote


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In the first episode of 2020, Michael Knowles reflects on the end of 2019 and the start of 2020. He talks about the new year and what 2020 is going to be like. Plus, a look back at the 2016 election and what we can learn from it.

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00:00:15.240 At least 12 senators, including Ted Cruz,
00:00:19.600 Marsha Blackburn, Josh Hawley,
00:00:22.380 and other strong conservatives,
00:00:24.480 will vote against certifying
00:00:26.560 the Electoral College vote this week.
00:00:30.100 Given the irregular and in some places
00:00:32.240 unconstitutional way that the election was conducted,
00:00:35.360 they are proposing an emergency 10-day audit of the election,
00:00:40.640 which seems fair to me.
00:00:43.100 The left gave us 15 days to slow the spread.
00:00:46.480 Well, we'll give them 10 days to certify the vote.
00:00:49.440 What a way to start the year.
00:00:51.260 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:00:52.000 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:59.620 Welcome back to the show.
00:01:02.520 Welcome to the new year.
00:01:04.200 I hope you all had a good Christmas,
00:01:06.500 and I hope you all had a good New Year's,
00:01:09.160 and I hope you all had a good Kwanzaa.
00:01:10.840 Apparently, Kamala Harris did, 1.00
00:01:12.780 which we will get to a little later.
00:01:14.680 My favorite comment from last year,
00:01:17.320 the last episode we did of last year,
00:01:19.140 from AW.
00:01:20.660 1967 Song of the Year,
00:01:22.560 Respect by Aretha Franklin.
00:01:25.280 2020 Song of the Year,
00:01:27.180 WAP by Cardi B.
00:01:29.200 We have come so far.
00:01:31.440 We have.
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00:01:44.600 Sometimes things can get worse,
00:01:46.220 and things may be getting worse.
00:01:48.560 It's still very much up in the year.
00:01:50.340 2021 feeling a lot like 2020.
00:01:53.580 Everyone thought 2020 was so bad
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00:03:18.760 So, I told you so.
00:03:22.460 I hate to say that I told you so.
00:03:24.040 You know how much it bothers me, but I told you so.
00:03:27.320 Back about three weeks ago now, at least,
00:03:30.880 when everyone was trying to angle and figure out
00:03:33.320 exactly how Trump was going to win the election
00:03:36.540 after Georgia was certified and after Pennsylvania
00:03:40.040 and after then there were challenges and this
00:03:42.240 and the court and the Supreme Court,
00:03:43.580 I said there's only one path left.
00:03:47.200 The only path left is the Compromise of 1877, 0.55
00:03:51.880 which is this very complex thing
00:03:53.740 that happened during the Rutherford B. Hayes
00:03:56.580 versus Sam Tilden presidential election,
00:03:59.360 and they came to a conclusion in 1877
00:04:01.380 to give Hayes the presidency
00:04:03.220 and give Democrats in the South some extra goodies.
00:04:07.620 Very few people were talking about this at the time.
00:04:09.800 I actually worried when I mentioned it on my show
00:04:12.860 because I feared that it was so boring
00:04:15.920 that no one was going to care about it.
00:04:17.500 However, I knew it was the only way
00:04:18.740 that Trump could possibly mount a challenge
00:04:21.400 anymore to the election,
00:04:22.480 and that is exactly what they are going to do.
00:04:25.760 And the left is absolutely furious about it.
00:04:29.960 This letter that came out from Senator Cruz,
00:04:33.280 Hawley, a number of other strong conservatives,
00:04:36.980 it points out,
00:04:38.520 there is a long precedent of Democratic members of Congress
00:04:41.300 raising objections to presidential election results
00:04:43.500 as they did in 1969, 2001, 2005, and 2017.
00:04:48.420 And in both 1969 and 2005,
00:04:50.860 a Democratic senator joined with a Democratic House member
00:04:53.660 enforcing votes in both houses
00:04:55.560 on whether to accept the presidential electors
00:04:58.200 being challenged.
00:05:00.200 But the most direct precedent on this question
00:05:02.140 arose in 1877.
00:05:03.480 And the letter then describes
00:05:04.660 exactly what we described on this show.
00:05:06.820 I think it was December 15th.
00:05:08.760 And the way this election was resolved in 1877
00:05:12.160 was that there was an electoral commission appointed
00:05:14.300 where there were five members of the House,
00:05:16.360 five members of the Senate,
00:05:17.240 five members of the Supreme Court,
00:05:18.600 and it was a political compromise,
00:05:20.700 and they worked,
00:05:21.220 and they gave it to the Republican,
00:05:22.820 Rutherford Hayes.
00:05:26.060 Will this work this time?
00:05:27.740 What does it mean this time?
00:05:28.960 We'll get to that in one second.
00:05:30.140 First, though, I want to just savor
00:05:31.660 how upset the left has become over this.
00:05:34.400 Eric Swalwell, who is best known for,
00:05:38.200 he used to be best known
00:05:39.680 for humiliating himself on television.
00:05:43.080 Now he's best known for sleeping with a Chinese spy.
00:05:46.920 Eric Swalwell is calling the Republicans
00:05:48.980 holding up the electoral certification enemies.
00:05:52.440 He's calling them enemies of democracy,
00:05:54.960 and he names all the people who signed this letter.
00:05:57.460 Jake Tapper of CNN,
00:05:58.920 you know, straight shooter Jake Tapper
00:06:00.800 of totally objective CNN,
00:06:02.680 is going further somehow than Swalwell,
00:06:05.760 calling all of these senators seditious.
00:06:09.520 Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska
00:06:11.100 slammed Hawley and other members
00:06:13.040 of the Sedition Caucus, saying,
00:06:14.680 quote,
00:06:15.140 adults don't point a loaded gun
00:06:16.980 at the heart of legitimate self-government.
00:06:19.460 Late Saturday, Senator Mitt Romney
00:06:20.960 said in a blistering statement,
00:06:22.260 quote,
00:06:22.820 I could never have imagined
00:06:23.900 seeing these things
00:06:24.820 in the greatest democracy in the world
00:06:26.140 has ambition so eclipsed principle.
00:06:29.520 I want to note that we invited
00:06:30.520 each of the 12 senators involved
00:06:32.980 in plotting this disgraceful effort
00:06:35.100 to come on the show this morning
00:06:36.800 to try to defend and explain their position.
00:06:39.440 Each of them declined or failed to respond.
00:06:43.080 It all recalls what Ulysses S. Grant
00:06:45.320 once wrote in 1861,
00:06:47.100 quote,
00:06:47.640 there are but two parties now,
00:06:49.760 traitors and patriots.
00:06:51.760 How would you describe the parties today?
00:06:55.060 Two parties,
00:06:56.220 traitors and patriots.
00:06:57.340 How would you describe them?
00:06:58.840 Which party do you think
00:06:59.860 is the traitorous party?
00:07:01.460 Which is the patriotic party?
00:07:03.620 One party,
00:07:04.640 the Democratic Party,
00:07:06.120 spent most of 2020
00:07:07.560 setting American flags on fire.
00:07:10.140 Those were the really rambunctious ones
00:07:11.760 in the streets.
00:07:12.480 The ones who were a little more genteel
00:07:14.020 just protested the American flag
00:07:15.940 on NFL fields
00:07:18.260 and in the halls of Congress
00:07:20.140 and in corporate boardrooms.
00:07:22.340 All of them protesting
00:07:23.500 the actual flag of the United States.
00:07:25.300 And the more eccentric Democrats
00:07:27.600 who poured into the street
00:07:28.660 by the thousands and thousands
00:07:29.980 in cities around the country
00:07:31.160 burned down businesses,
00:07:33.220 burned down courthouses,
00:07:34.880 burned down institutions
00:07:36.180 of law and order.
00:07:38.180 So that's the Democratic side.
00:07:40.360 Actually burning not only
00:07:41.660 the symbol of the country,
00:07:42.700 but the country itself.
00:07:44.000 And on the Republican side,
00:07:45.420 you have senators following
00:07:47.780 the constitutional process.
00:07:51.300 And according to Jake Tapper,
00:07:53.500 the people who burn the country down
00:07:55.340 are the patriots
00:07:56.720 and the people who follow
00:07:58.580 the constitutional process
00:08:00.220 are the traitors. 0.58
00:08:02.160 And Jake Tapper,
00:08:03.080 who pretends to be reasonable,
00:08:05.580 who pretends to be
00:08:06.300 the moderate centrist,
00:08:07.500 call it like it is guy,
00:08:08.760 with the really serious face
00:08:10.140 and the suit and tie on CNN,
00:08:12.180 that guy is going to tell you that
00:08:13.780 with a straight face.
00:08:14.980 But it is completely absurd.
00:08:18.280 If anybody,
00:08:19.040 I don't like to go out there
00:08:20.220 and use these terms treasonous,
00:08:21.720 seditious.
00:08:22.320 I don't even like to say unpatriotic.
00:08:24.100 But sometimes you got to call
00:08:25.400 a spade a spade
00:08:26.100 when Democrats are coming out
00:08:27.720 and actively protesting
00:08:29.340 the American flag,
00:08:30.880 when they are reframing
00:08:32.120 American history,
00:08:33.300 according to the 1619 Project
00:08:34.920 and saying America's hopelessly bigoted
00:08:36.860 and rotten to the core
00:08:37.800 and we need to basically upend it.
00:08:39.800 Well, then I got to call
00:08:40.760 a spade a spade and say,
00:08:41.720 you asked me the question, Jake,
00:08:43.720 the Democrats would be
00:08:44.840 the traitorous, treasonous,
00:08:46.420 awful, unpatriotic party.
00:08:48.140 And that's just the way it is.
00:08:50.560 If the election process were reversed,
00:08:53.760 let me just ask you,
00:08:54.620 this might help you answer
00:08:55.780 Tapper's question.
00:08:57.200 If the election process were reversed
00:08:59.120 and let's say it were highly contested
00:09:00.840 and a lot of states changed the rules
00:09:02.620 right at the very end,
00:09:03.720 some states violated
00:09:04.600 their own state constitutions,
00:09:06.860 broke different laws,
00:09:08.100 shut down polling places
00:09:09.580 and then secretly kept counting votes.
00:09:11.020 If that were happening
00:09:12.220 and thereby the election
00:09:14.740 went to Donald Trump,
00:09:16.960 do you think the left would say,
00:09:18.580 okay, that's fine.
00:09:19.540 We'll get him next time.
00:09:20.740 Okay.
00:09:22.080 Well, that's too bad,
00:09:23.380 but we got to certify the vote.
00:09:24.700 We can't possibly pursue
00:09:26.320 the legal challenges
00:09:27.180 that we Democrats have pursued
00:09:29.080 many times before, right?
00:09:31.780 Do you think they'd be doing that?
00:09:32.700 No, they'd be burning down the country.
00:09:34.240 You're right.
00:09:34.780 We wouldn't,
00:09:35.220 we probably wouldn't be dealing
00:09:36.200 with a fight in the Senate
00:09:37.340 or the Congress
00:09:38.340 Congress about certifying
00:09:39.980 the electoral vote
00:09:40.800 because the Democrats
00:09:42.100 would be burning the country
00:09:43.280 to the ground
00:09:43.720 like they spent most of 2020 doing.
00:09:47.540 Let me ask you another.
00:09:48.500 Do you think this was a fair election?
00:09:50.860 Do you think it was fair?
00:09:51.940 I don't need to ask you.
00:09:53.120 I think you probably,
00:09:54.180 you're probably like-minded
00:09:55.340 on this question,
00:09:56.020 but even when,
00:09:56.920 when there have been
00:09:57.440 public polling surveys about this,
00:10:00.780 a lot of this country
00:10:02.620 does not think it was
00:10:03.580 a fair election at all.
00:10:05.580 And we can point
00:10:06.380 to specific examples why.
00:10:07.540 It's not like they're just
00:10:08.260 plucking that out of thin air.
00:10:12.160 Conservatives right now
00:10:12.820 are not burning down the country.
00:10:14.040 We're following a legal process
00:10:15.400 and some Republicans
00:10:18.320 are very upset with us, okay?
00:10:21.780 But this is how you've got
00:10:23.120 to play politics.
00:10:24.900 I want,
00:10:25.520 I don't want to burn down the country.
00:10:26.800 I don't want to play exactly
00:10:27.860 like the left does,
00:10:28.940 but I want to play
00:10:29.720 as hard as the left does.
00:10:31.220 I just want to do it
00:10:32.060 in a legal manner.
00:10:32.960 I want to do it
00:10:33.520 in a more civilized manner,
00:10:34.600 but I want to play
00:10:35.160 just as hard.
00:10:35.960 I don't want to acquiesce.
00:10:37.180 I don't want to roll over.
00:10:38.340 I don't want to just let them
00:10:39.460 get away with irregularities
00:10:41.800 and outright
00:10:42.360 unconstitutional actions.
00:10:43.780 The problem is not even
00:10:44.940 just the politicians here.
00:10:46.040 To show you
00:10:46.520 what we are up against,
00:10:48.680 the problem is not
00:10:49.660 just the politicians.
00:10:51.340 It's the politicians.
00:10:53.340 It's big technology.
00:10:54.860 It's higher education.
00:10:56.260 It's lower education.
00:10:57.400 It's administrative government.
00:10:58.580 And it's corporate America.
00:11:03.000 Exhibit A
00:11:03.720 on corporate America's side
00:11:05.680 in all of this.
00:11:06.700 When Hawley comes out
00:11:07.800 and he says,
00:11:08.320 okay,
00:11:08.520 we're going to follow
00:11:09.100 this process.
00:11:09.860 We're going to challenge
00:11:11.020 the electoral certification.
00:11:14.780 Walmart,
00:11:15.780 one of the largest corporations
00:11:17.260 in the country,
00:11:18.960 tweets out
00:11:19.560 in response to Hawley,
00:11:21.300 go ahead,
00:11:22.660 get your two-hour debate.
00:11:24.540 Hashtag sore loser.
00:11:25.860 That's an ostensibly
00:11:28.500 apolitical company
00:11:31.020 tweeting at a Republican senator
00:11:32.740 condemning him
00:11:35.420 for following
00:11:36.500 a constitutional process.
00:11:38.020 Hawley responded,
00:11:38.820 by the way,
00:11:39.080 and said,
00:11:39.720 thanks Walmart
00:11:40.300 for your insulting condescension.
00:11:42.060 Now that you've insulted
00:11:43.140 75 million Americans,
00:11:45.020 will you at least apologize
00:11:46.360 for using slave labor,
00:11:47.880 which they do?
00:11:48.520 Or maybe you'd like
00:11:49.440 to apologize
00:11:49.960 for the pathetic wages
00:11:51.100 you pay your workers
00:11:52.040 as you drive mom and pop stores
00:11:53.720 out of business.
00:11:55.860 The Hawley of it all,
00:11:59.120 the Josh Hawley,
00:12:00.440 this debate with Walmart
00:12:01.960 and also Hawley's role
00:12:03.720 in this broader debate
00:12:04.880 over the certification.
00:12:06.540 This is going to show you
00:12:07.980 what this electoral challenge
00:12:10.060 is really all about.
00:12:11.440 Because I don't think
00:12:12.280 it's so much about
00:12:13.080 the presidential election outcome.
00:12:15.520 A little bit it's about that,
00:12:16.640 but still,
00:12:17.560 odds are not looking
00:12:18.500 very good in Trump's favor.
00:12:20.180 It's about
00:12:21.160 the future of
00:12:23.200 conservative politics.
00:12:24.400 It's about
00:12:25.640 the future
00:12:26.680 of the Republican Party.
00:12:28.440 There are a lot
00:12:29.020 of Republicans
00:12:29.520 who are going to hate
00:12:30.980 Josh Hawley's line
00:12:32.240 of attack here.
00:12:33.760 Because what Josh Hawley
00:12:34.620 is saying is,
00:12:35.700 hey Walmart,
00:12:36.420 you're a bunch of jerks. 0.99
00:12:38.400 You hate us culturally.
00:12:39.780 You are not afraid
00:12:41.360 of anything.
00:12:42.240 You're going to
00:12:43.620 scream at a conservative
00:12:44.980 senator
00:12:46.020 for following
00:12:46.800 the Constitution.
00:12:47.580 And,
00:12:49.120 and,
00:12:50.740 by the way,
00:12:51.260 I don't like
00:12:52.080 your business practices
00:12:52.920 because I think
00:12:53.520 you're killing
00:12:54.480 mom and pop businesses.
00:12:56.140 I think that's destroying
00:12:57.080 our national culture.
00:12:58.200 And I think you're using
00:12:58.940 slave labor,
00:12:59.680 which is very unfair
00:13:00.700 and wrong
00:13:01.880 and immoral.
00:13:03.060 A lot of Republican elites
00:13:04.340 are going to object
00:13:04.960 to that line of talk.
00:13:05.840 The ones who are really
00:13:06.500 taken with,
00:13:07.580 I don't know,
00:13:08.220 some kind of fashionable
00:13:09.140 theories of free trade
00:13:10.440 from the 1970s
00:13:11.520 or something.
00:13:12.260 And they're going to say,
00:13:12.820 no,
00:13:13.060 we love big business,
00:13:14.420 right?
00:13:14.620 This is,
00:13:15.140 the Republican elites
00:13:15.840 have been pushing this
00:13:16.400 for decades.
00:13:17.060 We,
00:13:17.320 we love big business.
00:13:18.600 Corporation,
00:13:19.220 giant multinational
00:13:20.140 corporations
00:13:20.540 are the greatest
00:13:21.040 things ever.
00:13:21.780 Forget about mom and pop.
00:13:22.780 Let's save two bucks 0.70
00:13:23.500 on cheap Chinese goods
00:13:25.160 and electronics.
00:13:26.480 And Hawley's saying,
00:13:27.200 no,
00:13:28.040 the future for conservatives
00:13:29.520 needs to be a little bit
00:13:30.760 different than that.
00:13:32.400 Conservatives are in a very
00:13:33.520 tricky moment right now.
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00:14:57.900 Conservatives
00:14:58.420 are in
00:15:00.200 a very tricky position.
00:15:01.820 I mean real conservatives,
00:15:02.920 not the,
00:15:03.460 not the ones who
00:15:05.060 just shill
00:15:06.620 for companies
00:15:07.300 that absolutely hate us
00:15:08.580 and hate our values
00:15:09.680 and hate our culture.
00:15:10.460 Conservatives
00:15:13.180 need to fight
00:15:14.040 on multiple fronts.
00:15:15.720 We need to fight
00:15:16.300 against the radical left.
00:15:17.800 We need to fight
00:15:18.400 against the
00:15:19.560 liberal establishment
00:15:20.960 and we even need
00:15:22.640 to fight against
00:15:23.280 elites in our own party.
00:15:24.920 A lot of them
00:15:25.460 who make up
00:15:25.820 a big portion of it.
00:15:26.780 You saw in that
00:15:27.280 Jake Tapper clip.
00:15:28.820 Who did Jake Tapper quote?
00:15:30.300 He didn't quote Democrats.
00:15:31.380 He quoted
00:15:31.840 liberal Republicans.
00:15:33.500 Guys like Ben Sasse
00:15:34.500 and Mitt Romney
00:15:35.200 who are so furious.
00:15:37.020 How dare you
00:15:37.660 follow the Constitution
00:15:38.680 and challenge
00:15:40.140 this certification?
00:15:43.480 Mitt Romney
00:15:44.180 is a good,
00:15:44.960 he's a good figure here
00:15:46.240 because usually
00:15:47.360 whenever there's a fight
00:15:48.560 within the Republican Party
00:15:49.680 or within the conservative movement
00:15:50.860 and Mitt Romney's
00:15:51.860 on one side,
00:15:52.700 you should just
00:15:53.260 automatically be
00:15:54.180 on the other side.
00:15:55.400 If you don't have time
00:15:56.900 to think it through
00:15:57.520 or read all the documents,
00:15:58.520 just assume
00:15:59.340 if it's one of those fights
00:16:00.900 and Mitt Romney's
00:16:01.460 on one side,
00:16:01.960 just pick the other side.
00:16:03.080 That's a safe bet.
00:16:04.120 Increasingly,
00:16:04.600 it appears
00:16:04.900 the same can be said
00:16:05.880 of Ben Sasse.
00:16:06.520 The left
00:16:09.200 only has to fight
00:16:10.940 against one group.
00:16:14.260 Conservatives
00:16:14.660 need to fight
00:16:15.140 against all those
00:16:15.840 three different groups
00:16:16.640 even within their own party.
00:16:19.140 The left has to fight
00:16:20.160 against one group
00:16:21.060 which is
00:16:21.560 the people.
00:16:23.360 And I don't want to sound
00:16:24.180 like a demagogue here
00:16:25.180 when I invoke
00:16:26.160 the people
00:16:26.880 but I'm being very specific.
00:16:28.700 When I say
00:16:29.040 the left has to fight
00:16:30.220 not against the liberal establishment,
00:16:31.820 they are the liberal establishment,
00:16:33.020 not against the radical left,
00:16:34.320 obviously they are
00:16:34.900 the radical left,
00:16:35.760 not against Republican elites.
00:16:37.500 Republican elites
00:16:38.120 are basically
00:16:39.320 just court jesters
00:16:40.400 in the kingdom of liberalism
00:16:41.660 who legitimize
00:16:42.920 the liberals' aims
00:16:44.020 and the liberals' rule.
00:16:46.120 When I say
00:16:47.060 the people,
00:16:48.100 what I'm referring to
00:16:49.300 is people
00:16:50.220 without institutional power.
00:16:52.640 People who don't
00:16:53.460 get to run Walmart,
00:16:54.660 people who don't run
00:16:55.300 corporate America,
00:16:56.100 the universities,
00:16:56.980 the administrative government,
00:16:58.120 the deep state,
00:16:58.920 the blob,
00:16:59.380 that kind of thing.
00:17:00.860 I'm talking about
00:17:01.960 people.
00:17:02.640 There is a real divide
00:17:05.820 on the right
00:17:06.560 between conservatives
00:17:08.320 and squishes, 0.95
00:17:09.280 right?
00:17:09.460 Between the people
00:17:10.380 who actually care
00:17:10.980 about our culture
00:17:11.640 and our country
00:17:12.280 and waving the American flag
00:17:13.620 and protecting workers
00:17:15.060 and protecting our economy
00:17:16.720 and protecting
00:17:17.420 our way of life,
00:17:18.800 the American way of life.
00:17:20.040 Between those people
00:17:21.140 and the squishes
00:17:22.560 who are basically
00:17:23.360 just liberals
00:17:23.980 who like low taxes.
00:17:26.220 And they're usually
00:17:27.820 going to side
00:17:28.480 with the Democrats.
00:17:29.560 They'll put up
00:17:30.240 a little bit of a fight
00:17:31.020 like Mitt Romney,
00:17:31.700 but ultimately
00:17:32.240 they're going to roll
00:17:33.240 over inside
00:17:33.820 with Democrats.
00:17:35.100 There is no divide
00:17:36.300 on the left.
00:17:37.620 Any divide
00:17:38.240 you think there is
00:17:39.100 on the left
00:17:39.600 is illusory.
00:17:43.220 It is a mirage.
00:17:44.820 The divide
00:17:45.320 that everyone pretends
00:17:46.180 exists on the left
00:17:47.040 is between
00:17:47.780 the establishment Democrats
00:17:49.000 like Joe Biden
00:17:49.900 and Nancy Pelosi
00:17:50.620 and the radical squad,
00:17:52.640 AOC.
00:17:53.540 And we've got to
00:17:54.440 actually,
00:17:55.220 in a way,
00:17:55.580 kind of defend Biden
00:17:56.880 and Pelosi
00:17:57.900 because then,
00:17:58.780 if we don't,
00:17:59.300 the radicals like AOC
00:18:00.580 will come out here.
00:18:02.280 They're all the same.
00:18:04.760 AOC
00:18:05.200 just re-elected
00:18:07.020 Nancy Pelosi speaker.
00:18:08.840 Just happened.
00:18:09.680 While we were all
00:18:10.140 enjoying our eggnog
00:18:10.980 and finishing up
00:18:12.400 our Christmas
00:18:13.300 and New Year's holiday,
00:18:15.860 AOC and the squad,
00:18:17.160 all the squad,
00:18:17.900 elected Nancy Pelosi speaker
00:18:19.620 because the squad
00:18:22.340 and the Democrats
00:18:23.180 are,
00:18:23.960 and the sort of
00:18:24.780 establishment Democrats
00:18:25.480 are different in degree,
00:18:27.320 but not in kind.
00:18:28.840 What I mean by that is
00:18:29.860 they all kind of
00:18:31.760 want the same thing.
00:18:32.540 The squad
00:18:33.060 and the socialists
00:18:33.920 and the radicals
00:18:34.700 in the Democratic Party,
00:18:35.540 they want the Democrats
00:18:36.520 to move faster
00:18:37.400 and the Bidens
00:18:38.800 and the Pelosi's,
00:18:39.600 they want to move
00:18:40.020 a little slower,
00:18:40.900 but they're all moving
00:18:42.500 in the same direction.
00:18:44.260 So there's no real
00:18:45.500 disagreement.
00:18:46.180 There's only a disagreement
00:18:46.980 over tactics,
00:18:47.760 whereas on the right,
00:18:48.800 there is a disagreement.
00:18:50.180 There's an actual
00:18:50.940 disagreement on the right
00:18:51.840 between the kind of
00:18:53.320 globalization hounds,
00:18:55.800 guys like Mitt Romney
00:18:56.900 who really don't care
00:18:58.340 about preserving
00:18:58.880 much national culture
00:19:00.100 or the American worker
00:19:02.180 or anything like that
00:19:02.960 and the,
00:19:04.480 the traditional
00:19:05.540 conservative types
00:19:06.360 who say,
00:19:06.700 no,
00:19:06.860 actually there's something
00:19:07.540 more important to life
00:19:08.520 than GDP
00:19:09.580 and high marginal tax cuts.
00:19:12.700 Think about
00:19:13.560 the,
00:19:13.980 the way this works
00:19:14.620 on the left.
00:19:15.040 Actually,
00:19:15.240 the,
00:19:15.340 the greatest way,
00:19:17.080 it's a little bit scary,
00:19:18.060 but the greatest way
00:19:19.140 to show that there's no,
00:19:20.180 no real difference
00:19:20.940 on the left
00:19:21.500 is Kamala Harris.
00:19:23.720 Right now,
00:19:25.360 it looks like she's
00:19:25.900 going to be vice president
00:19:27.060 sadly.
00:19:29.640 And Kamala Harris
00:19:31.640 is both the farthest
00:19:33.720 left sitting senator,
00:19:36.060 got the most liberal
00:19:36.980 voting record
00:19:37.660 and she's a total 1.00
00:19:39.960 part of the establishment,
00:19:42.180 right?
00:19:42.400 She's basically
00:19:42.940 an empty suit.
00:19:43.720 She lies all the time. 1.00
00:19:45.220 She will just,
00:19:46.200 you know,
00:19:46.640 lick her index finger, 0.99
00:19:47.680 put it up in the air,
00:19:48.400 figure out which way
00:19:48.900 the wind's blowing
00:19:49.500 and then go that way
00:19:51.000 and the way the wind
00:19:51.640 is blowing in her party
00:19:52.660 is to the left.
00:19:54.500 It's all one thing.
00:19:55.620 The radical left
00:19:56.340 and the establishment Democrats
00:19:57.460 is all basically one thing.
00:19:58.920 The way you can see,
00:19:59.820 this was the,
00:20:00.400 the,
00:20:00.940 probably the single
00:20:01.760 funniest video
00:20:02.680 that was put out
00:20:03.640 during all of Christmas
00:20:04.900 and New Year's
00:20:05.580 was when Kamala Harris
00:20:07.780 came out
00:20:08.260 and described
00:20:10.080 how,
00:20:10.900 how meaningful,
00:20:11.900 how wonderful
00:20:12.560 this time of year
00:20:13.800 is for her
00:20:14.380 because of her
00:20:15.680 deep attachment
00:20:16.420 to Kwanzaa.
00:20:18.940 Happy holidays,
00:20:20.140 everyone.
00:20:20.460 I wanted to take a moment
00:20:22.140 to send my warmest wishes
00:20:23.580 to everyone
00:20:24.460 celebrating Kwanzaa.
00:20:26.580 Like so many
00:20:27.560 other holidays,
00:20:28.740 we will be celebrating
00:20:29.740 Kwanzaa a little differently
00:20:30.980 this season
00:20:31.640 in our home.
00:20:32.780 We'll be doing it
00:20:33.740 over Zoom.
00:20:35.340 You know,
00:20:35.660 my sister and I,
00:20:36.800 we grew up
00:20:37.440 celebrating Kwanzaa.
00:20:38.980 Every year,
00:20:39.900 our family would,
00:20:41.200 and our extended family,
00:20:42.440 we would gather around
00:20:43.520 across multiple generations
00:20:45.180 and we'd tell stories.
00:20:47.340 The kids would sit
00:20:48.320 on the carpet
00:20:49.000 and the elders
00:20:49.880 would sit in chairs
00:20:50.940 and we would light
00:20:52.480 the candles
00:20:53.200 and of course afterwards
00:20:54.440 have a beautiful meal.
00:20:57.620 I'm going to go out
00:20:58.620 on a limb
00:20:59.080 and look,
00:21:00.720 who knows,
00:21:01.500 maybe she's telling
00:21:02.340 the truth.
00:21:02.920 I don't believe her.
00:21:05.140 I don't believe
00:21:06.000 that Kwanzaa
00:21:06.760 was very important
00:21:07.740 to Kamala Harris
00:21:08.540 when she was a little child.
00:21:10.240 Part of the reason,
00:21:11.120 of course,
00:21:11.580 is that Kwanzaa
00:21:13.240 did not exist
00:21:13.940 when Kamala Harris
00:21:14.900 was a baby.
00:21:15.540 Kamala Harris
00:21:16.200 was born in 1964.
00:21:18.160 Kwanzaa was invented
00:21:19.040 in 1966,
00:21:20.440 coincidentally,
00:21:21.480 by a deranged,
00:21:22.980 lunatic,
00:21:23.800 abuser of women,
00:21:26.120 torturer,
00:21:26.760 a guy who went to jail
00:21:27.720 because he electrocuted
00:21:29.680 and beat over the head
00:21:31.560 two women 0.96
00:21:32.080 who he tortured
00:21:32.720 and imprisoned.
00:21:33.740 This guy,
00:21:34.180 Milana Karenga,
00:21:35.080 his real name was Ron,
00:21:36.400 what was it,
00:21:36.880 Ron something or other,
00:21:38.520 and then he renamed himself
00:21:39.540 Milana Karenga.
00:21:40.420 He was a Cal State
00:21:41.320 professor of Africana studies
00:21:44.200 in the 60s.
00:21:45.540 So it didn't exist
00:21:46.520 when Kamala Harris
00:21:47.300 was a baby.
00:21:48.040 Then for the first years
00:21:48.760 of Kwanzaa
00:21:49.140 it was only celebrated
00:21:50.080 by the most ardent
00:21:51.080 black nationalists,
00:21:52.560 people part of the
00:21:53.140 sort of black power movement,
00:21:54.820 the Black Panthers,
00:21:56.120 and I don't think
00:21:57.800 Kamala Harris
00:21:58.260 was part of that
00:21:58.980 at all.
00:22:00.580 Also,
00:22:01.160 Kamala Harris
00:22:01.560 has lied many times
00:22:02.720 in the past.
00:22:04.120 Kamala Harris
00:22:04.740 famously said
00:22:06.040 that she loved
00:22:06.660 smoking blunts
00:22:07.420 and listening to
00:22:08.040 Tupac and Snoop Dogg
00:22:09.000 in college.
00:22:10.000 Tupac and Snoop Dogg
00:22:11.540 did not come out
00:22:12.260 with their first albums
00:22:13.220 while Kamala Harris
00:22:14.580 was in college.
00:22:16.480 And of course,
00:22:17.360 when you look up
00:22:18.120 photos of Kamala Harris
00:22:20.940 as a little kid,
00:22:22.040 you can find it in,
00:22:22.860 I think,
00:22:23.180 in the Washington Post.
00:22:24.780 There are little photos
00:22:25.460 of her celebrating
00:22:26.240 around Christmas time.
00:22:27.540 Is she celebrating
00:22:28.160 Kwanzaa?
00:22:28.660 No.
00:22:29.480 It was a photo
00:22:29.960 that her own campaign
00:22:30.920 sent in of her and her sister
00:22:32.900 celebrating Christmas.
00:22:34.020 So I just don't really believe it.
00:22:36.460 And I don't think
00:22:37.020 people generally
00:22:37.640 should celebrate Kwanzaa.
00:22:38.860 It's got a pretty bad history.
00:22:39.940 It's just a radical leftist
00:22:41.400 contrived holiday.
00:22:42.780 And I'm glad that Kamala
00:22:44.700 probably didn't celebrate it,
00:22:46.140 but I wish she wouldn't
00:22:46.720 lie about it either.
00:22:47.920 Speaking of liars
00:22:48.920 and identity politics,
00:22:50.100 though,
00:22:50.260 it wasn't just Kamala Harris.
00:22:52.040 There was another hilarious
00:22:53.200 faux pas over the holiday break.
00:22:57.260 Hilaria Baldwin.
00:22:58.640 This is Alec Baldwin's wife.
00:23:00.520 She is an influencer,
00:23:02.640 a social media figure
00:23:03.560 in her own right.
00:23:04.900 Hilaria Baldwin,
00:23:06.360 a very famous Spanish person.
00:23:09.080 So Spanish, 1.00
00:23:09.880 as a matter of fact,
00:23:11.060 that she sometimes forgets
00:23:12.760 the English words for things.
00:23:14.140 She was on the Today Show once 0.99
00:23:15.640 and she was trying
00:23:16.380 to remember the word.
00:23:17.140 What's that word for cucumber?
00:23:18.680 Didn't quite come to her right away.
00:23:21.180 We have very few ingredients.
00:23:22.680 We have tomatoes.
00:23:24.160 We have,
00:23:25.380 what do you say?
00:23:26.840 Cucumber.
00:23:27.340 Cucumbers.
00:23:27.920 We have red pepper.
00:23:30.480 How do you say?
00:23:31.180 How do you say in English?
00:23:32.040 Yes, the cucumber.
00:23:33.300 Yes, the cucumber.
00:23:34.240 Turns out,
00:23:35.460 Hilaria Baldwin
00:23:36.040 is not Spanish at all.
00:23:37.640 She doesn't have a drop 0.98
00:23:38.300 of Spanish ancestry.
00:23:39.680 She didn't grow up in Spain.
00:23:40.780 Her name's not Hilaria.
00:23:41.900 It's Hillary Hayward Thomas.
00:23:43.900 And she's just been pretending
00:23:45.360 by putting on this big fake
00:23:47.420 Spanish accent.
00:23:48.420 I've known people who do this.
00:23:49.700 Famously,
00:23:50.340 you see this with,
00:23:51.500 with girls who go away
00:23:54.240 and study abroad during college
00:23:56.340 for like five minutes
00:23:57.160 and they come back
00:23:57.860 and they,
00:23:58.520 you know,
00:23:58.840 it could have been,
00:23:59.560 you know,
00:23:59.880 Jane from New Jersey,
00:24:00.980 but she comes back
00:24:01.880 from studying in Seville
00:24:03.560 for two weeks
00:24:04.560 and she says,
00:24:05.180 oh, what,
00:24:05.680 how is it?
00:24:06.340 How do you say?
00:24:07.140 What is the word
00:24:07.820 that's so hard for me
00:24:08.780 to remember
00:24:09.560 because I am so Spanish now?
00:24:12.140 It's more Italian, 0.92
00:24:12.840 I guess,
00:24:13.080 than Spanish.
00:24:13.640 You get the point.
00:24:14.780 Probably the accent
00:24:15.580 would be just as bad.
00:24:17.820 The only reason this matters,
00:24:19.100 I don't care about
00:24:19.640 Hilaria Baldwin,
00:24:20.460 really,
00:24:20.760 or Alec Baldwin that much.
00:24:22.100 The reason this matters
00:24:23.400 is it shows the absurdity
00:24:25.320 of white privilege
00:24:27.720 and so-called
00:24:28.900 marginalized groups.
00:24:30.360 The reason that
00:24:31.980 not just Hilaria Baldwin,
00:24:33.160 but all these people,
00:24:33.960 Rachel Dole is all,
00:24:34.960 a whole number of professors
00:24:36.100 have pretended to be black,
00:24:38.980 usually pretending to be black 0.50
00:24:40.280 or pretending to be Hispanic 0.63
00:24:42.040 or pretending to be anything
00:24:43.740 other than the regular
00:24:44.940 old white people 0.55
00:24:45.580 that they are
00:24:46.240 is because,
00:24:47.100 obviously,
00:24:48.880 there is no such thing
00:24:50.160 as white privilege.
00:24:51.580 If there were a white privilege,
00:24:52.740 then all these crazy white people 0.63
00:24:53.840 would just be presenting themselves
00:24:55.440 the way they are
00:24:56.040 and not pretending
00:24:56.980 to be a member
00:24:57.940 of some other group.
00:25:01.900 You can see these,
00:25:04.040 when you watch these videos
00:25:05.360 very carefully,
00:25:06.480 you can see,
00:25:06.840 wait a second,
00:25:07.160 that's not how you pronounce that.
00:25:08.380 Wait a second,
00:25:08.680 I don't think that's really true.
00:25:10.740 You need to go in
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00:26:26.460 K-N-W-L-E-S, 1.00
00:26:27.420 in there,
00:26:27.800 How Did You Hear About Us box,
00:26:29.320 so that they know
00:26:30.200 that we sent you.
00:26:31.760 Also, we've been telling you
00:26:33.080 for a long time
00:26:34.120 that The Daily Wire
00:26:34.720 is going to be joining
00:26:35.380 the fight for the culture.
00:26:36.320 On Friday, January 15th,
00:26:38.760 we will be premiering
00:26:39.980 our first feature,
00:26:41.220 Run, Hide, Fight,
00:26:43.440 on DailyWire.com.
00:26:45.080 This is a feature-length film.
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00:26:55.240 I got to see the movie
00:26:56.960 a while ago.
00:26:58.280 It's about a school shooting,
00:27:00.180 so we're not just putting out
00:27:01.800 sort of fluffy,
00:27:03.100 feel-good, sentimental movies.
00:27:04.940 These are real movies.
00:27:06.340 This is about a school shooting.
00:27:07.980 Take a look.
00:27:08.900 This is high school.
00:27:10.220 Nothing that happens
00:27:11.180 here matters in the real world.
00:27:12.340 Okay, we are in charge now,
00:27:21.540 so please pull out
00:27:22.620 whichever app you use
00:27:23.560 to do live streaming video.
00:27:24.540 Get them up and running
00:27:25.260 and point it at me.
00:27:26.160 Now!
00:27:29.140 Get down on the ground! 0.75
00:27:30.820 Any more friends back there?
00:27:38.220 I'm calling 911.
00:27:40.120 Get back to your homeroom
00:27:41.440 and stay put
00:27:42.220 and kill them! 0.95
00:27:49.900 911, what's your emergency?
00:27:52.780 You must be close.
00:27:59.620 You should be ashamed!
00:28:03.700 Very disturbing news
00:28:05.300 out of Vernon Central High School.
00:28:08.780 Zoe! 0.96
00:28:11.440 In between breaths,
00:28:16.260 take a shot.
00:28:19.900 The left spent 2020
00:28:22.320 trying to shut down movies,
00:28:24.120 trying to shut down entertainment,
00:28:25.860 trying to shut down the culture.
00:28:27.620 When they do put out
00:28:28.820 their own movies,
00:28:31.240 they always are poking us
00:28:33.740 in the eye,
00:28:34.420 they're undermining
00:28:35.400 the way we view the world,
00:28:37.400 and they're just usually
00:28:38.960 putting out tripe.
00:28:40.020 So,
00:28:40.460 we're just gonna
00:28:41.380 do it ourselves.
00:28:42.300 We're gonna put out movies.
00:28:43.160 We're not putting out propaganda.
00:28:44.500 We're not putting out
00:28:45.320 these real on-the-nose
00:28:46.980 sort of saccharine movies.
00:28:48.580 We're just,
00:28:49.040 we're gonna put out
00:28:49.860 real cultural works
00:28:53.020 that really say something.
00:28:54.400 I'm a big fan of this movie.
00:28:55.500 Join us on Thursday,
00:28:56.420 January 14th.
00:28:57.660 For the premiere,
00:28:58.700 head over to
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00:28:59.620 We'll be right back
00:29:00.200 with a lot more.
00:29:13.540 Alec Baldwin's
00:29:14.780 eccentric wife 1.00
00:29:16.200 puts on that
00:29:17.420 fake Spanish accent 0.88
00:29:18.520 because
00:29:19.520 contrary to popular
00:29:21.600 appearance
00:29:22.300 and popular thought,
00:29:25.120 white privilege
00:29:25.780 is just a sort of
00:29:27.200 myth of political correctness.
00:29:28.400 If there were such a thing
00:29:29.240 as white privilege,
00:29:30.580 then white people
00:29:32.060 would not be pretending
00:29:32.920 to be all these other races, 0.99
00:29:34.140 right?
00:29:34.640 The idea of the
00:29:35.420 marginalized groups,
00:29:37.080 well,
00:29:37.600 it's a little more complicated
00:29:38.620 when you look into
00:29:39.480 which groups are really
00:29:40.200 being marginalized.
00:29:41.320 One group that for sure
00:29:42.660 has been marginalized
00:29:43.660 over the past several months,
00:29:45.400 now I guess up to a year,
00:29:46.660 is small business owners.
00:29:48.720 Small business owners,
00:29:49.660 I mean,
00:29:49.820 some of the most cherished
00:29:51.440 businesses in New York,
00:29:53.220 in Los Angeles,
00:29:54.340 all around the country
00:29:55.280 are going under.
00:29:57.400 They're going bankrupt now.
00:29:58.400 Because psycho politicians
00:29:59.820 are locking them down
00:30:01.780 and grabbing a whole lot
00:30:02.640 of power based on
00:30:03.480 absolutely nothing.
00:30:04.720 Some small business owners
00:30:05.900 are fighting back.
00:30:07.340 There's a guy who runs
00:30:08.460 a sandwich shop
00:30:09.560 who he had
00:30:11.720 a health inspector pull up
00:30:13.600 to try to shut down
00:30:14.980 his business
00:30:15.560 where he's trying to comply
00:30:16.440 with the law.
00:30:16.960 He's operating a certain way.
00:30:18.180 Health inspector shows up
00:30:19.060 to try to shut down
00:30:19.700 his business
00:30:20.100 and fine him
00:30:20.740 and put him out of work.
00:30:22.580 And so this
00:30:23.280 great American patriot
00:30:24.560 just pulls his giant truck
00:30:27.020 in behind
00:30:28.560 the health inspector,
00:30:30.300 blocks him in
00:30:31.080 and says,
00:30:32.640 you know,
00:30:33.320 sir,
00:30:33.760 if I can't work,
00:30:35.200 you can't work.
00:30:36.980 I'm blacksmithing.
00:30:38.700 Yeah,
00:30:39.220 because he wants to come in here
00:30:40.240 and say no one can work.
00:30:41.980 So he can't work either.
00:30:43.680 Where do you work?
00:30:44.880 Bread and Barley,
00:30:45.360 right there.
00:30:45.660 Are you a,
00:30:47.080 what's his name for that?
00:30:48.220 I'm Carlos Roman.
00:30:49.640 Is the owner of part of mine?
00:30:50.900 Yes.
00:30:51.480 Okay.
00:30:52.160 So you're the owner
00:30:52.820 of part of it, right?
00:30:54.540 So,
00:30:55.260 this guy's saying
00:30:56.120 that you can't work?
00:30:57.180 Yes.
00:30:57.700 The health department.
00:30:59.840 The health department?
00:31:00.460 Yeah,
00:31:00.760 he decided to come today
00:31:01.940 and take pictures
00:31:02.580 of people outside
00:31:03.460 and say that you've got to
00:31:04.640 find us
00:31:05.100 and we can't work out here.
00:31:06.540 So if we can't work,
00:31:07.760 he can't work.
00:31:08.620 Can you do me
00:31:09.360 a huge favor?
00:31:09.920 I'm not moving my truck.
00:31:11.780 Better get your supervisor.
00:31:13.540 Yeah, John,
00:31:14.040 because I ain't in my truck.
00:31:16.260 The chief is not going to come.
00:31:17.560 Someone's coming.
00:31:18.420 I'm not moving.
00:31:19.000 We're talking to him, right?
00:31:20.040 He's not going anywhere.
00:31:21.160 Okay?
00:31:21.980 But,
00:31:22.320 so the traffic can get you
00:31:23.400 because he's a little bit bored.
00:31:24.080 This is what happens
00:31:24.940 when people get desperate.
00:31:26.580 He's not going to go.
00:31:27.120 I'm desperate.
00:31:28.500 Who's going to pay her carping? 1.00
00:31:30.840 Who's going to pay my cook's rent? 1.00
00:31:32.780 Listen,
00:31:33.180 I want to get a supervisor
00:31:34.080 out here for you
00:31:34.760 but just so it's not hard on us
00:31:35.900 and traffic can get you
00:31:36.880 I want it to be hard on everyone.
00:31:38.640 I want everyone to see
00:31:39.600 how hard this s*** is. 0.80
00:31:41.960 I want it to be hard on everyone.
00:31:44.100 I want everyone to see
00:31:45.000 how hard this is.
00:31:45.940 This is a very important point
00:31:47.580 that he's making.
00:31:49.460 Now,
00:31:49.780 notice,
00:31:50.360 by the way,
00:31:50.740 the way he's conducting his protest
00:31:52.160 entirely peaceful.
00:31:53.800 He's just blocking in
00:31:55.340 the health inspector
00:31:56.040 with his car
00:31:56.640 and slowing down traffic.
00:31:59.180 It is,
00:32:00.080 it is a peaceful protest
00:32:01.100 but it is disruptive
00:32:02.040 and that's his point.
00:32:04.320 He's saying,
00:32:05.040 this is very difficult
00:32:06.980 for me
00:32:08.540 and you're now asking me
00:32:10.340 to stop making it
00:32:11.300 so difficult for everyone else.
00:32:12.620 I'm not the one
00:32:13.260 who made it difficult,
00:32:14.220 buddy.
00:32:14.720 You guys are.
00:32:15.880 You,
00:32:16.340 the politicians
00:32:17.160 and the bureaucrat
00:32:18.820 health inspectors
00:32:19.680 who are enforcing
00:32:20.600 the politicians' mandates
00:32:22.520 and in many ways
00:32:23.380 who have constructed
00:32:23.940 the politicians' mandates.
00:32:26.860 It isn't hard.
00:32:28.080 At a certain point,
00:32:28.720 this business owner
00:32:29.220 gets up in the face
00:32:29.920 of the health inspector
00:32:30.640 and he says,
00:32:31.900 let me ask you a question.
00:32:33.020 Did you get a paycheck
00:32:34.240 last Friday?
00:32:35.500 Did you get a paycheck?
00:32:36.400 Yes,
00:32:36.580 I got a paycheck.
00:32:37.400 Yeah,
00:32:37.600 okay.
00:32:38.220 My guys didn't get paychecks
00:32:39.760 because you've put
00:32:40.400 a lot of them out of work.
00:32:42.460 How come you get a paycheck
00:32:43.720 but these other guys don't?
00:32:44.640 And this is,
00:32:45.380 this is what has driven me
00:32:46.560 so crazy
00:32:47.340 during this whole lockdown nonsense
00:32:49.740 is that
00:32:51.020 for a year now
00:32:52.180 we've been hearing
00:32:52.840 from liberal elites
00:32:55.140 that it's not a big deal
00:32:57.320 stay in your home.
00:32:58.260 You know,
00:32:58.520 just do your work on Zoom.
00:33:00.440 Come on,
00:33:00.860 just order Instacort.
00:33:01.960 Get groceries delivered
00:33:02.840 to your house.
00:33:03.800 Maybe you've got to do
00:33:04.640 takeout a few times
00:33:05.580 from the steakhouse
00:33:06.400 but look,
00:33:07.220 that's just the price
00:33:08.040 for us all being in it together.
00:33:09.880 Do you hear
00:33:10.820 how disconnected you are
00:33:12.340 from the reality
00:33:13.160 of most Americans?
00:33:15.320 Most of whom
00:33:16.160 do not get to Zoom
00:33:17.480 into work.
00:33:19.060 There are jobs
00:33:20.220 where you don't get
00:33:21.120 to Zoom in.
00:33:21.800 I know this is shocking
00:33:22.640 to the McKinsey consultants
00:33:24.180 and the financial analysts
00:33:26.780 at Goldman Sachs
00:33:27.880 who have no problem
00:33:28.920 because look,
00:33:29.880 the lockdown for them
00:33:30.840 is in many ways
00:33:31.460 a vacation.
00:33:32.460 They get to leave,
00:33:33.140 Manhattan
00:33:33.860 where they're probably living.
00:33:35.460 Maybe they're living
00:33:36.020 in Brooklyn
00:33:36.400 if they're really hip.
00:33:37.440 They go out
00:33:38.060 to their beach house
00:33:38.820 in the Hamptons.
00:33:39.680 They open up their computer.
00:33:41.320 They go on Wi-Fi
00:33:42.180 and they Zoom into work
00:33:43.900 and maybe if they're out
00:33:45.820 in the Hamptons
00:33:46.300 it means they have to eat
00:33:47.040 lobster rolls delivery
00:33:48.420 instead of whatever
00:33:49.720 they were going to get
00:33:50.360 in New York
00:33:50.920 but otherwise,
00:33:52.140 no big deal.
00:33:53.940 Well,
00:33:54.080 people who are
00:33:55.380 in service industries
00:33:56.220 first of all
00:33:56.900 are just going to be laid off.
00:33:59.820 People who are
00:34:00.480 in a whole lot
00:34:00.820 of other industries
00:34:01.480 are just going to be laid off.
00:34:03.140 And people who have
00:34:03.760 to actually show up
00:34:04.940 in crowded places
00:34:05.980 are not going to be able
00:34:07.520 to have their jobs anymore.
00:34:09.260 And that's a big problem.
00:34:10.880 The people who have 0.84
00:34:12.100 constructed
00:34:13.000 these medically
00:34:14.760 pointless lockdowns,
00:34:16.020 politically they're very useful
00:34:17.020 but medically
00:34:17.540 they're completely pointless.
00:34:19.060 The people who have 0.84
00:34:19.900 constructed those lockdowns
00:34:21.160 do not suffer
00:34:23.080 any consequences
00:34:23.980 of those lockdowns.
00:34:24.940 And that is what
00:34:26.660 this exasperated
00:34:27.780 business owner
00:34:28.440 is pointing out.
00:34:30.260 This is sort of
00:34:31.380 my point
00:34:33.100 on the broader
00:34:34.180 election issue,
00:34:35.360 this idea that
00:34:35.920 they're going to hold up
00:34:36.500 the certification
00:34:37.020 of the electoral college.
00:34:40.820 We need to show
00:34:43.040 the liberal establishment
00:34:45.140 which includes
00:34:46.580 Republicans like Mitt Romney
00:34:47.780 as well as
00:34:48.340 the Democratic Party.
00:34:50.000 We need to show them
00:34:50.940 this is not okay.
00:34:52.580 We do not acquiesce
00:34:53.500 to this.
00:34:54.400 I don't think
00:34:55.240 this was a fair election.
00:34:56.800 I think that
00:34:57.340 in Pennsylvania
00:34:58.040 the electoral officials
00:35:01.440 there,
00:35:01.740 the election officials
00:35:02.460 there
00:35:02.760 obviously violated
00:35:05.440 the state constitution
00:35:06.440 which prohibits
00:35:07.220 the widespread use
00:35:08.000 of mail-in ballots.
00:35:08.980 And they just did it anyway
00:35:10.080 because of partisans
00:35:11.220 on the Pennsylvania
00:35:11.780 Supreme Court
00:35:12.540 and because of partisans
00:35:14.100 who were running
00:35:15.060 those elections.
00:35:15.640 I think it was
00:35:16.260 absolutely unconstitutional
00:35:17.960 and it's a national disgrace.
00:35:19.920 I think that in Georgia
00:35:20.920 it is very clear.
00:35:22.380 We knew this
00:35:22.880 within a day
00:35:23.600 of the election
00:35:24.200 that at certain
00:35:26.020 polling locations,
00:35:26.740 at certain important
00:35:27.300 polling locations
00:35:28.080 you had election officials
00:35:29.840 come out and say
00:35:30.640 hey poll watchers
00:35:31.560 go home
00:35:32.420 we're done for the night
00:35:33.380 at 10.30pm
00:35:34.260 and then secretly
00:35:35.740 they kept counting votes
00:35:37.020 until 12.30
00:35:37.980 in the morning
00:35:39.180 without any transparency
00:35:40.740 without any poll watchers
00:35:41.860 and it wasn't just them.
00:35:43.820 The whole system
00:35:44.660 was opaque.
00:35:46.620 That you had poll watchers
00:35:48.180 being sent home
00:35:48.820 at certain places
00:35:49.520 in Pennsylvania.
00:35:51.540 The whole idea
00:35:52.680 that election day
00:35:53.620 has now gone to
00:35:54.260 election season
00:35:55.020 and that the United States
00:35:56.560 greatest democracy
00:35:57.280 in the world
00:35:57.700 can't conduct
00:35:58.540 its own elections
00:35:59.040 we can't know
00:35:59.560 the results for what
00:36:00.300 two weeks after the election?
00:36:02.480 It's a farce.
00:36:03.940 It's a national disgrace.
00:36:05.560 I don't think
00:36:06.200 this was fair.
00:36:07.140 Does that mean
00:36:07.780 that I know
00:36:09.220 with 100% certainty
00:36:10.300 Donald Trump
00:36:11.020 really got more votes?
00:36:12.020 No.
00:36:12.340 I don't know that.
00:36:13.480 Maybe he did
00:36:13.840 maybe he didn't.
00:36:14.220 Maybe Joe Biden
00:36:14.800 actually did get more votes.
00:36:15.780 I don't know.
00:36:16.480 What I know is
00:36:17.120 the process was a disgrace.
00:36:19.500 It was not fair
00:36:21.000 and in some places
00:36:21.580 it was outright
00:36:22.260 unconstitutional
00:36:23.040 and we need to hold it up
00:36:24.440 and we need to make people
00:36:25.780 realize
00:36:26.400 that this can't continue.
00:36:28.280 I think really
00:36:30.000 what's going on here
00:36:30.920 with the electoral commission
00:36:31.940 is you're seeing
00:36:33.120 a fight within
00:36:33.880 the Republican Party
00:36:34.660 because if they
00:36:35.900 if they even came up
00:36:36.700 with an electoral commission
00:36:37.600 five from the House
00:36:38.940 five from the Senate
00:36:39.620 five from the Supreme Court
00:36:40.560 you're going to lose anyway
00:36:42.180 right?
00:36:42.440 Because the House
00:36:42.800 is run by the Democrats
00:36:43.660 Supreme Court
00:36:44.220 is run by the liberals
00:36:45.060 and the Senate
00:36:46.440 is even the Republicans
00:36:47.740 are split on this.
00:36:49.160 So it's very unlikely
00:36:50.620 that would change
00:36:51.240 the election
00:36:51.720 for president.
00:36:53.560 However it could change
00:36:54.460 the direction of the party.
00:36:56.180 You could say okay
00:36:57.360 if if the future
00:36:58.720 of the Republican Party
00:36:59.660 is Mitt Romney
00:37:00.380 give me a new party.
00:37:01.700 I'm out.
00:37:02.200 I'm out.
00:37:02.640 If the future
00:37:03.140 of the Republican Party
00:37:04.160 is Mitt Romney
00:37:05.640 rolling over
00:37:06.760 and playing court jester
00:37:08.200 in the kingdom of liberalism
00:37:09.340 then I guess
00:37:10.020 I'm not a Republican.
00:37:11.380 If the future
00:37:12.200 of the Republican Party
00:37:13.140 is conservatives
00:37:13.840 then that works for me.
00:37:17.360 Guys who are actually
00:37:18.200 going to stand up
00:37:18.860 guys who have a spine
00:37:19.740 guys like Cruz
00:37:21.460 Hawley
00:37:22.280 Blackburn
00:37:23.360 then okay
00:37:24.540 fine
00:37:25.600 at least we're
00:37:26.100 doing something.
00:37:28.400 You've got to show
00:37:29.380 it to people though.
00:37:30.800 They're not going
00:37:31.520 to know it.
00:37:32.120 Nobody is paying
00:37:33.060 attention to these
00:37:33.700 arcane details
00:37:34.380 unless you are listening
00:37:35.280 to conservative talk radio
00:37:36.880 if you're listening
00:37:37.420 to conservative podcasts
00:37:38.820 if you're reading
00:37:39.960 in the conservative
00:37:40.640 sort of media chamber
00:37:42.600 then you're following
00:37:44.080 these things closely
00:37:44.860 if you're doing
00:37:45.200 your own research
00:37:45.800 but for most people
00:37:46.760 that's not what's happening
00:37:47.580 so you've got to show them.
00:37:48.880 That's what this business
00:37:49.560 owner was doing.
00:37:50.780 Things are going
00:37:51.400 to get crazier.
00:37:52.360 It's not
00:37:52.640 everyone was waiting
00:37:53.980 for 2021.
00:37:54.860 Oh good
00:37:55.180 this is good
00:37:55.440 it's all better now
00:37:56.340 it's all going to be fine.
00:37:57.420 Uh-uh
00:37:57.740 Joe Biden
00:37:58.600 if he becomes president
00:38:00.260 which it looks like he will
00:38:01.100 then he's going to ramp up
00:38:04.200 the lockdowns.
00:38:05.040 He's going to ramp up
00:38:05.880 the masking.
00:38:07.200 Our neighbors to the north
00:38:08.160 America's hat
00:38:08.880 up there in Canada
00:38:09.680 actually had police
00:38:12.540 raiding homes
00:38:13.880 because six people
00:38:15.640 gathered together
00:38:16.860 to celebrate
00:38:18.100 New Year's.
00:38:19.480 Take a listen.
00:38:20.200 Come here.
00:38:22.860 Hey, hey, hey.
00:38:24.460 It's what did I do?
00:38:25.780 Merci.
00:38:28.860 Hey, hey, hey.
00:38:31.820 Hey.
00:38:33.860 He doesn't.
00:38:36.860 He can't breathe.
00:38:44.140 Don't myself go.
00:38:47.740 Don't you're not doing that.
00:38:48.760 Don't you f***ing do that.
00:38:52.280 Okay, calm down, calm down.
00:38:54.740 You stay f***ing here.
00:38:56.520 Can we move?
00:38:57.660 Okay.
00:38:58.180 Okay, work long.
00:38:59.400 Don't do that.
00:39:01.600 There's still, this is older people saying, what are you doing?
00:39:07.440 What are you doing?
00:39:08.080 And the cops still dragging these family members out.
00:39:10.640 What's amazing too, the cops came because there were six people in the home.
00:39:19.560 That was the number.
00:39:21.100 Do you know how many cops showed up?
00:39:22.940 Six cops.
00:39:24.880 That doubled the risk of COVID, right?
00:39:27.360 Made the risk of transmission so much worse.
00:39:30.500 I don't think it's about COVID.
00:39:32.180 I don't think it's about transmission at all.
00:39:33.780 That sort of thing probably would not happen in America just yet.
00:39:37.360 Because Americans have more of a tradition of protecting our property and protecting our families.
00:39:44.040 And because Americans, through the Bill of Rights, have the instruments to do so.
00:39:48.580 But you've seen Americans roll over. 0.53
00:39:52.660 All year long we've rolled over.
00:39:54.120 We've rolled over on our businesses.
00:39:55.520 We've rolled over on our rights.
00:39:57.940 We've rolled over on the way that we vote.
00:40:00.060 So who knows?
00:40:01.020 Who knows when that could come here?
00:40:03.100 That is an unacceptable power grab.
00:40:09.140 And the only way that it's going to stop is if we stand up and stop it.
00:40:13.240 This is why I say often, when I have to wear the mask, there are certain public places where they force you to.
00:40:18.640 They won't let you get on an airplane, for instance, if you don't wear the mask.
00:40:21.900 Then I will wear it below my nose.
00:40:25.140 I will wear it above my mouth.
00:40:26.420 I will at least protest in some way.
00:40:28.920 And more often than not, what I will do is not wear the mask at all.
00:40:35.340 The argument for the masks early on.
00:40:37.840 Well, first of all, they said there's asymptomatic spread.
00:40:40.280 Turns out that's almost certainly bogus.
00:40:42.400 They said the masks are completely useless.
00:40:45.520 Remember Fauci told us that at the beginning of the pandemic.
00:40:47.460 He said all it does is sort of make you feel better.
00:40:49.560 But it doesn't actually do all that much to stop the spread of the virus.
00:40:52.400 Which is obviously true.
00:40:54.900 But then he completely reversed his opinion and all of a sudden we had to believe him then too.
00:40:59.740 Even though he had no credibility anymore.
00:41:01.640 Then we were told the masks aren't about protecting you.
00:41:03.640 It's about protecting other people.
00:41:05.680 Then we were told in the future only people who are sick are going to wear masks.
00:41:09.740 Which undercuts the very argument that they were just making.
00:41:12.640 It's all ridiculous.
00:41:15.600 It's all self-contradictory.
00:41:19.080 But most of all, it's not the central argument for the masks.
00:41:23.520 The political argument was it's going to help us get back to normal faster.
00:41:26.520 It's not.
00:41:27.040 I always knew it was going to be the opposite.
00:41:29.980 You don't feel better when you go out and you see everyone wearing masks.
00:41:33.780 You feel a lot worse.
00:41:35.080 You feel like we're living through the Black Death.
00:41:36.780 Even though we're living through an epidemic where the survival rate is 99.7%.
00:41:41.160 You look around.
00:41:44.480 You see everyone wearing masks.
00:41:45.340 You say, oh my gosh.
00:41:46.960 This is really, really bad.
00:41:48.920 Biden has promised you're going to have another hundred days of masking.
00:41:51.460 Who knows?
00:41:52.860 Maybe you'll have more than that.
00:41:54.620 Some public health experts are saying we're always going to wear masks on airplanes.
00:41:59.820 The hysteria is still growing.
00:42:02.880 There was a poor young millennial gal who was in an elevator wearing a mask. 1.00
00:42:09.000 And there was another millennial gal who was a little more reasonable. 0.99
00:42:12.600 And she had the mask on, I guess, in an inappropriate way or wasn't totally covering her nose. 1.00
00:42:17.800 Because the millennial masker had a complete nervous breakdown. 0.95
00:42:23.360 You are a delivery person incorrectly wearing the mask inside of a big building.
00:42:27.680 Is this incorrectly what, guys?
00:42:29.260 What do you expect to do?
00:42:29.700 Just ask him slightly.
00:42:30.160 Is this incorrectly what?
00:42:32.300 It wasn't like that the whole f***ing time.
00:42:37.560 Oh, man.
00:42:39.140 I love this delivery gal who just says like, oh, it looks fine to me.
00:42:44.340 I guess she had pulled it up or something by the time she turned.
00:42:48.160 The odds that this screaming millennial will die from the virus are statistically zero.
00:42:57.160 Zero percent.
00:42:57.720 The odds that she gets a little sniffle and a cough if she even gets the virus are, that's about the worst.
00:43:07.500 That's about the worst thing that's likely to happen to her.
00:43:09.920 And yet she's freaking out.
00:43:11.420 That is a different epidemic.
00:43:14.020 It's not the epidemic of coronavirus.
00:43:15.500 It's the epidemic of hysteria.
00:43:17.060 And that didn't come to us by way of China.
00:43:18.940 That came to us by way of Democrats and elected or unelected public health bureaucrats.
00:43:24.880 That needs to end.
00:43:29.940 The risk of that hysteria.
00:43:32.380 The risk of demagogues taking more and more power.
00:43:36.280 The risk of elections never having very much integrity again.
00:43:40.680 If we have voting season that goes on for months and no verification and no transparency and no oversight.
00:43:47.160 And computers that we can't really look into all that well.
00:43:50.760 And polling locations that we can't look into all that well.
00:43:53.640 And state constitutions that are violated.
00:43:56.100 That is a far, all of that is a greater threat.
00:43:58.640 And don't forget all the election shenanigans were justified on the premise of coronavirus.
00:44:02.820 That is a far greater threat than the virus.
00:44:07.000 And that's what we need to stand up against.
00:44:10.640 Fortunately, I don't need to wear a mask very often in Nashville.
00:44:13.420 This is one of the great things about moving to Nashville.
00:44:19.000 However, the minute I move to Nashville, I think, okay, good.
00:44:23.520 I'm leaving the craziness of Los Angeles.
00:44:25.540 I'm leaving the craziness of New York.
00:44:27.140 I'm moving to sleepy old Nashville.
00:44:29.460 We're relatively a sort of quiet city compared to the coasts.
00:44:33.020 And we have a terrorist attack within a month or so of moving here.
00:44:36.420 Now, I actually was driving.
00:44:38.480 This was on, was it Christmas morning?
00:44:41.400 Maybe I was driving to, yeah, I guess it would have been Christmas morning.
00:44:44.620 I was driving to church and I'm, you know, sort of driving in and I go to take the exit
00:44:49.780 and the exit's blocked off.
00:44:51.220 So that's weird.
00:44:51.880 Go around, take another exit.
00:44:53.000 Another exit's blocked off.
00:44:54.000 I say, is this some sort of, you know, Luciferian plot to keep me away from mass on Christmas
00:45:01.260 morning?
00:45:02.600 No, it wasn't that.
00:45:03.260 It was because the city had been shut down with this, with this bombing.
00:45:08.120 A guy drove an RV downtown.
00:45:11.420 Then there was a voice that came over a loudspeaker.
00:45:13.600 It said, back away, back away.
00:45:15.460 Don't come anywhere near.
00:45:16.840 Obviously, this person didn't want to kill a lot of people.
00:45:19.580 And then they started playing the song downtown.
00:45:22.040 You know, it's like, da, da, da, da, and life is getting you low.
00:45:25.200 You can always go downtown.
00:45:26.480 They start playing that and then the truck explodes.
00:45:29.180 Blows up a whole block.
00:45:31.120 And then this was what was weird.
00:45:34.140 Our cell phones all went out because the, the RV targeted an AT&T location.
00:45:41.460 And I figured an AT&T location, what, they sell cell phone cases in there?
00:45:44.080 No, this was a real AT&T location.
00:45:46.160 This was very, the bomb was extremely sophisticated and the location was extremely
00:45:51.840 sophisticated.
00:45:52.580 It took down cell service here for days.
00:45:55.120 You couldn't call 911 even.
00:45:57.140 You had no data.
00:45:58.400 I couldn't, I tried to call my grandparents on Christmas Day.
00:46:00.360 Couldn't do it.
00:46:04.140 There are very few answers to what happened.
00:46:06.200 It's all very vague.
00:46:07.180 They're saying, oh, it was some kind of loner guy.
00:46:09.320 Sort of didn't have any connection to anybody.
00:46:11.200 Nothing to see here.
00:46:12.240 No reason to keep covering the story.
00:46:13.600 The media have more or less blacked out the story.
00:46:16.660 And that's it.
00:46:18.220 Oh yeah, he targeted telecoms, which was, you know, very, very vulnerable in the event
00:46:23.600 of some military operation, for instance.
00:46:27.860 One of the first things they would do is target telecoms.
00:46:29.800 Yeah, well, anyway, nope, no answers.
00:46:31.360 Nope.
00:46:31.760 Sorry.
00:46:32.180 Wipe your hands.
00:46:33.020 Who knows?
00:46:35.300 I obviously have no idea what happened with the bombing.
00:46:37.600 Don't know who the guy is.
00:46:38.660 Don't know if the stories we were being told are true or not.
00:46:41.220 Now, this gets to the broader political point, because actually my interest is not even in
00:46:45.820 this particular bombing.
00:46:48.240 I'm glad no one was hurt other than the bomber.
00:46:53.640 My interest here, or there were, I guess there were people who were injured, but everyone
00:46:56.640 survived.
00:46:57.300 Everyone, everyone lived.
00:46:58.440 Other than the bomber who's now splattered on Second Avenue.
00:47:02.960 The real issue here is that nobody trusts the institutions that are telling us what happened.
00:47:09.340 If you, if you go out right now and you say, hey, do you believe that we know everything
00:47:14.780 that happened at the Nashville bombing and that the investigative agencies are being forthright
00:47:19.240 with that information?
00:47:20.720 Just poll people.
00:47:22.180 I bet most people would say, not a chance.
00:47:24.840 Same thing with that Las Vegas shooting.
00:47:26.280 Remember that Las Vegas shoot?
00:47:27.280 It was like one of the largest terrorist attacks in American history, and it just got wiped from
00:47:31.160 the media and no one really knows anything about it still.
00:47:34.920 Remember that?
00:47:35.560 That was weird.
00:47:36.120 I'm not positing any theory of what happened.
00:47:39.560 I'm just saying it's a little odd that we don't know very much about these attacks.
00:47:43.980 And moreover, I'm making the political point that even if we did get a lot of information,
00:47:50.680 people have so little faith in these institutions that we wouldn't believe the answers even if
00:47:57.240 we got them.
00:47:58.100 And that is not the people's fault.
00:48:00.940 That is not the fault of conspiracy theorists.
00:48:03.940 That is not the fault of fake news websites.
00:48:09.220 That is not the fault of cynical politicians who, who so distrust and discord in the country.
00:48:16.820 No, that is the fault of the ruling elites themselves.
00:48:22.480 That is the fault of Obama's FBI and DOJ, which spied on his political opponent.
00:48:29.240 That is the fault, and didn't just spy on Trump, by the way, then launched an attempted coup d'etat
00:48:35.820 for three and a half years, which, by the way, might have some role in why a lot of people don't trust
00:48:41.580 the results of the 2020 election, which, by the way, was conducted in a way completely out of accord
00:48:48.180 with historical precedent and in some places was illegal and unconstitutional, quite obviously.
00:48:54.700 Maybe that has something to do with it.
00:48:57.320 Maybe Barack Obama's IRS targeting his political opponents and specifically the Tea Party.
00:49:03.020 Maybe that has something to do with it.
00:49:05.160 Maybe these institutions, especially in the government, but even beyond the government,
00:49:11.680 these, these globalized corporate institutions that constantly sell out,
00:49:16.120 not just the American worker, but American culture.
00:49:18.280 However, maybe that has something to do with it.
00:49:21.220 Maybe the idea that the NFL, stay with me for a second, the idea that the NFL,
00:49:27.220 which is supposed to be something that we can all come together and doesn't matter if you're
00:49:31.280 Democrat or Republican or this or that, you come together and just watch a ball game.
00:49:36.660 The fact that that league now opposes the United States, now almost officially protests
00:49:42.980 the United States, symbol of the whole country, the star-spangled banner.
00:49:46.460 Maybe that's why we don't have faith in those institutions.
00:49:50.360 It is not conservatives who have been sowing this sort of discord.
00:49:56.380 It's not conservatives who have been sowing this kind of disloyalty to country.
00:50:02.100 It is exclusively the left that has done it.
00:50:05.460 And now they just want us to roll over and trust them.
00:50:09.460 Trust the experts.
00:50:11.060 Trust Dr. Fauci.
00:50:12.180 There's a, there's a real irony because, you know, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been
00:50:18.560 attacking Donald Trump's handling of coronavirus.
00:50:22.060 Dr. Fauci handled coronavirus.
00:50:23.680 There's actually, there's a great clip that had been going around of all the, all the attacks
00:50:27.760 on Fauci or rather all the attacks on Trump just juxtaposed next to images of Fauci saying
00:50:35.760 the exact same thing for which Biden and Harris were attacking Trump.
00:50:40.200 Because of course it's the, the, Trump's biggest problem in 2020 is that he allowed Dr. Fauci
00:50:44.540 and the bureaucratic establishment to dictate all national policy.
00:50:50.600 Look where it got him.
00:50:51.360 Look where it got us.
00:50:53.100 We can't just trust those guys.
00:50:56.440 We're being told now that if we continue to question the results of the 2020 election,
00:51:01.460 that we're upsetting democratic norms.
00:51:03.060 We're not the ones who upset the democratic norms.
00:51:05.720 The left is.
00:51:06.760 And so now there's no question of, do we, do we mention this even?
00:51:12.220 Do we acknowledge this?
00:51:13.780 The only question is, do you push back against it or do you roll over?
00:51:19.840 Even though, even knowing by the way, that's probably not going to work out for it.
00:51:23.480 We're probably not going to get another four years of Trump right, right now, maybe in
00:51:27.680 four years, who knows?
00:51:28.280 But just knowing that we cannot let them take another inch and another inch and another inch.
00:51:36.800 That's the whole fight.
00:51:37.740 That's the whole, that's why we're in this right now.
00:51:40.160 And I think we should pursue that fight as long as we can.
00:51:42.400 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:51:42.980 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:51:43.940 See you tomorrow.
00:51:44.360 We'll see you tomorrow.
00:52:14.360 You know, the Matt Wall Show, it's not just another show about, about politics.
00:52:41.480 I think there are enough of those already out there.
00:52:43.500 We talk about culture because culture drives politics and it drives everything else.
00:52:48.240 So my main focuses are life, family, faith.
00:52:52.760 Those are fundamental.
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