Ep. 674 - MAGA Is Here To Stay
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On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about the results of the Georgia Senate race, why he voted for Joe Biden, and why he thinks John Ossoff is a complete lunatic. He also talks about why he chose to vote for Beto Ocasio-commendation.
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It's looking very, very, very bad in Georgia for the Republicans, which means it's looking
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very, very, very bad for the Republicans in the Senate. The vast, vast, vast majority of
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precincts and votes are in now after just a little brief pause, you know, overnight. But this morning
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the votes are in. The mainstream media are on the ground interviewing totally real Republican
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voters to get the pulse of the GOP. There are a couple of reasons why I came today. One,
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there's a responsibility I have as a citizen of the United States to come out and exercise my right
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to vote. There's many people around the world that don't have this privilege, so I want to do that.
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Two, I know that the entire country is looking at Georgia right now as to what our decision is going
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to be. So I needed to at least make my voice be heard through the exercise, exercising my right
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to vote. I have been a lifelong Republican. This is the first time I've ever voted for a Democratic
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candidate just because there are issues regarding our environment, regarding taxation, regarding
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diversity issues and so forth that I think need to be addressed. And I'm hoping they will be
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with the Senate that can actually help encourage and enact President Biden's policies.
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Does that guy sound like a lifelong Republican to you? He's concerned because he
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really, really wants to raise taxes and quote diversity issues, whatever that means. I don't
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think so. It doesn't sound like a Republican to me. It doesn't sound like a serious news report to me.
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Seems a little bit like a big charade. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Dallas Germanson, who said,
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what's the difference between a cow and Watergate? You can't milk a cow for 50 years.
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That's true. They're going to keep doing it, though. This election was worse than Watergate
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last night in Georgia. I think that's, that is one thing. I guess a lot of things are worse than
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Watergate, but that one certainly is. We've all been stress eating, you know, over the past little
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senators Ossoff and Warnock. Everyone's been focusing on Warnock because he's a complete
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lunatic and a socialist who hosted Fidel Castro at his church when he was an assistant pastor
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and who his wife is, ex-wife now, or I guess wife, ex-wife, is alleging that he tried to run
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her over with his car. That dispute is ongoing. And he's just a complete maniac. He said, you can't
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serve God and be in the American military, right? He's a complete lunatic. However, he drives me
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less crazy than the other guy, John Ossoff, because Warnock is an honest radical. Warnock
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tells you more or less what he thinks. John Ossoff is nothing. He's just the same thing we're seeing
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again and again from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and all the Clintons and all these people. He's a
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complete empty suit and he is just a vessel for the progressive bureaucracy. His most emphatic
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campaign point was that we need to listen to experts. So more Fauci. That's what he's just a
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total contrivance. He's like the Beto who could. He is. He and Beto O'Rourke, they're to a lesser
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degree, Pete Buttigieg. They're all the same person. They were just built in a lab somewhere by the
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Democratic establishment and they, you have to update the software every so often, but, but their
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function is to be a vessel for, for that establishment. That said, we're talking about
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some other problems with maybe the election. Was the counting all done on time? How did the votes
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break at the end? I think it is worth pointing out Loeffler and Perdue are not great candidates.
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Perdue, less so. Perdue, you know, Perdue's okay. Loeffler did not run a great campaign.
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I had a feeling this would not work out well for Republicans. I have been saying it for days now. I
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didn't think we were going to win. I actually flew down to Georgia to try to help campaign a little
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bit. I rarely hit the campaign trail, but I thought it would be important to win these races and
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on the ground there, it didn't feel like the Republicans were going to win.
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And that's kind of beside the point to me. I don't really, I'm not even thinking today about
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the Georgia race. I'm barely thinking about the Senate. There'll be plenty of time to think about
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all the insanity that the Democrats will foist on us in the Senate. I'm thinking about elections more
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broadly. I think the reason why people are very discouraged here is not even because of all,
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you know, packing the court or adding new states or ending the filibuster or whatever other
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nonsense that Democrats want to push on us. It's because people don't have faith in the integrity
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of the elections. And that's not because of kooky conspiracy theories. And that's not because of
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international cabals necessarily. It's because of very simple things that the left has done,
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which have undermined the legitimacy of our elections, namely expanding election day into election
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season with far, far less oversight and mainstreaming the use of mail-in ballots rather than being this
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rare exception. Now that that is the rule and it's mailed out to everybody. Those, just those two
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changes open the elections up to massive fraud. Democrats have been talking about this for years.
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Barack Obama was warning about this. Politico magazine, a left-wing magazine was warning about
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this until the Democrats thought that they could turn it to their advantage. And now all of a sudden it
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is a natural right we have to unsolicited mail-in ballots. And my feeling is as long as election day
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is election month. And as long as mail-in ballots are the rule rather than the exception, I will have
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very little faith in the integrity of our elections. Maybe they'll turn out the way that the voters
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wanted. Maybe not. There's really no way of knowing. It's, it's just so deeply wrong. It's deeply
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un-American. It's, it's banana Republic kind of stuff. And it's really pathetic. You're going to see a lot of
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blame game going around for a little while. The, the big culprit you're going to hear is, well, they're,
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they're all going to try to blame Trump. Of course, we'll get to that in a second. One culprit you're
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going to hear is Lin Wood. Lin Wood is that lawyer who has been saying that John Roberts is part of
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like a child rape murder conspiracy and the voting machines are all rigged. And Lin Wood is explicitly
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saying don't go out and vote in Georgia. I don't really blame Lin Wood too much. I mean, I, I think it
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probably costs some votes. I don't think it costs a lot of votes. I think a lot of people who spend
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their time listening to politics, reading about politics, they spend a lot of time on Twitter
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and on Twitter. That's where these sorts of things flourish. I don't think Lin Wood cost
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Leffler and Perdue the election. I think the vast majority of people are not very online right there.
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And they don't spend all their time on Twitter. And I think they were much more concerned with why
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they didn't get their stimulus bill or their stimulus checks. Rather, I think they were much
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more concerned with why there were so many improprieties during the election in Georgia,
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the November 3rd election in Georgia, why there were so many improprieties in Pennsylvania for
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that matter, even nationalizing the issue. I think there was a great ground game. I think the Democrats
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constructed this system, which I think is right for fraud, but because of that, they were able to use
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it very well. I don't, I don't blame Lin Wood. It's easy to blame him because he's, he's kind of
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kooky, but, uh, I don't think that's it. A lot of people are going to blame Trump. It's all Trump's
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fault, right? That to me is completely preposterous. On election night, on the actual election night,
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November 3rd, when Trump was on the ballot, Trump would not, well, first of all, we'll put the
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presidential election aside for a second. The Republicans outperformed all the polls. When Trump was on the
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ballot in 2016, when Trump was on the ballot in 2020, Republicans outperformed all the polls. A
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lot. Look in the house. We were supposed to lose seats in the house. We ended up picking up what,
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10 at least? And did better in the Senate than many people thought until this calamity last night.
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So hard to blame Trump for that. When have Republicans really been losing in these elections,
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in these other elections? 2018, Trump not on the ballot. And last night, Trump not on the ballot.
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So how are you going to tell me that it's Trump's fault? What you're going to hear is that, that,
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that Donald Trump discouraged people from voting in Georgia in, in this runoff. That's obviously
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preposterous. Trump went down and campaigned for them, tweeted out, said vote in Georgia.
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Doesn't, doesn't hold up. But what you're going to see is this, this, uh, race last night,
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these two races last night, exploited between the two factions of the GOP. The one faction of the GOP
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is going to be the sort of mild mannered Mitt Romney faction of the GOP. The other faction is
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going to be the MAGA faction of the GOP. And these, these two factions have existed for a long time.
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That goes back many, many decades. You see similarities in the fight between the Rockefeller
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liberal Republicans and sort of the Bush Republicans and the Reagan Republicans and the
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Goldwater Republicans. There's not perfect analogies, but those have been the two, the two
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prongs, you know, the two kind of polar ends of the, the GOP for a long time. The guys who just want
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to lower taxes and play nice and go along with the liberal establishment and the guys who want to
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dig their teeth into the cultural issues. There is another fight going on in DC right now. That,
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the fight going on in DC right now is over whether or not we will certify the electoral college results
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for the presidential election. And you're going to hear the same people in the Republican party who
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hate Donald Trump. They're going to say, this is unprecedented. This is terrible. He's upending
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constitutional norms. You're going to hear a lot of Democrats say that too. This is unprecedented.
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He's upsetting constitutional norms. This is not unprecedented. Democrats do this all the time.
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Ladies, take it away. Mr. President, thank you for your inquiry. This is 2001, Democratic
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representative. It is signed by myself on behalf of my diverse constituents and the millions of
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Americans who have been disenfranchised by Florida's inaccurate vote count. Mr. President,
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I rise on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus to object to the 25 electoral votes from Florida.
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I am objecting to, uh, to the IP of the votes of Florida were not counted.
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This objection does not have at its root. The hope or even the hint of overturning the victory of the president.
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This is a very timely and appropriate opportunity to review and remedy the most precious process
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in our democracy. I raise this objection because I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a
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formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities. I raise this objection to debate
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the process and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.
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All right. And it goes on and on. We could play this for several more minutes. Uh, this is
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perfectly normal. Democrats have been doing it all the time now, basically. But the minute that
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Republicans ever suggest voicing that opinion, goodness gracious, that's an upsetting of norms.
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You can't do that. The norm is Democrats get to do whatever they want and Republicans have to roll
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to take place on Capitol Hill in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. Josh Hawley and Ted
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Cruz have been leading the fight in the Senate to object to the certification. And I think there's
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something like 140 Republican congressmen who are going to object in the House. Probably not going to
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amount to a whole lot in terms of overturning the election, particularly after last night in Georgia.
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It's just, just too much momentum. But Eric Trump, the president's son, went on Fox News last night.
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He has a warning for Republicans in the Senate and in the House who do not defend the president,
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who do not defend election integrity. He says their political careers could soon be over.
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I can tell you, Sean, any senator or any congressman that does not, meaning on this side,
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that does not fight tomorrow, I'm telling you will not. Their political career is over because
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the MAGA movement is going, it's going nowhere. My father's created the greatest political movement
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in American history. And I'm telling you, they will get primary the next time around and they will lose
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if they don't stand up and show some backbone and show some conviction.
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So in terms of what happens today, probably not a whole lot's going to happen. But by the way,
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Eric Trump isn't even saying this is going to change the way the election is going. He's just
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saying, we want you Republicans to stand up. And if you don't stand up, your political careers are
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over. And on this point, I think he may be right. This is my main takeaway from Georgia. It's my main
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takeaway from this certification battle. It's my main takeaway from 2018. My main takeaway is
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the Make America Great Again movement, the Trump movement is here to stay. It's here to stay. Maybe
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Donald Trump will not be president after January 20th. Probably that's going to be the case.
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However you want to blame the voters in Georgia,
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I would not be surprised if some Trump voters stayed home just like they did in 2018 because
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their guy's not on the ballot because they like Trump and they don't like elected Republicans.
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And it's not just a personality thing. I know it's become very fashionable on the right to say,
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oh, Trump, they only voted for him because he's mean and funny and he's a showman and all that.
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Sort of. Also, he offered a different political vision.
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What you had been getting for decades and decades and decades on the right
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was calls to lower taxes and calls to rollover on all the social issues, more or less. You'd hear
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some nice speeches about abortion, but Republicans in elected office really didn't want to do very much
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about abortion. The leaders of the, you know, Mitch McConnell, I don't think he cares very much
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about abortion. Even, even George W. Bush, he was certainly much better on abortion, but he was a
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little squishy on certain bioethical issues, certain stem cell lines, that sort of thing.
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And Bush was one of the good ones. More, more usually you've got the kind of business Republicans
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who just talked about changing, you know, numbers on a spreadsheet and trying to fix the debt a little
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bit and try to fix the deficit a little bit. And then forget about immigration. Actually,
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not only forget about immigration, you've got to open the borders. It's very good. We need more
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and more and more in immigration. We've got to utterly redefine marriage. We've got to
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take everything that really matters to us and put that aside so that we can lower taxes or
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something. That's not going to work. A fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center yesterday
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tweeted out a graph, and it's a graph I've seen for a while. Maybe you have too. It shows where
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political affinities are. So let's say you're very, you know, libertarian and very right-wing
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or whatever, you know, it kind of shows all, all of the map. And it shows that there are a lot of
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people who are fiscally conservative and socially, or I'm sorry, fiscally liberal and socially liberal,
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meaning I know those words get kind of mixed up, but they're very far to the left on both economics
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and on social policy. There's a lot of people down there. Then there's a lot of people who are
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to the right on social policy, but they're kind of more moderate on economic policy.
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And then when you look into this other quadrant, which says they're, say, fiscally conservative,
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socially liberal, there's basically nobody. And yet the fiscally conservative, socially liberal
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kind of Republicans dominate in the think tanks. They dominate in the media. They dominate in college
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dorm rooms. They dominate in sort of young Republican politics, at least for now. They do
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not represent any voters. Nobody is there. And that's why they lose and they lose and they lose.
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The great conservative philosopher Edmund Burke warned us about this in reflections on the revolution
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of France. He said, the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators
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have succeeded at it. And the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. And then what do conservatives
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do? They turn right around and become a bunch of economists and calculators. No, ain't going to work,
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buddy. Got to dig in, got to dig in on these issues. That's what Trump did. He, and he, he overturned
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some sort of long cherished libertarian policies like free trade at all costs, open borders for
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immigration. He overturned that. And that's what the voters want. And, and they like him, frankly,
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it would seem to me since, since the Republicans do a lot better when he's on the ballot than when
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he's off the ballot, it's hard to conclude anything else. Need to get tougher. A good example of this,
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how do we transform the party so that it's, it's more in line with the MAGA party? Well,
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you need to get tougher on social issues. There was actually some good news last night out of
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Kenosha, Wisconsin. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the district attorney announced that none of the
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police officers involved in the Jacob Blake shooting case will face charges. Take a listen
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to the DA. It is my decision now that I announced today before you that no Kenosha law enforcement
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officer in this case will be charged with any criminal offense based on the facts and the laws
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as I will describe them to you now. So it is our decision that no charge will be filed.
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I'm going to also tell you, just because I think it is important, that I, that no charge will be
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filed against Jacob Blake in regards to this incident as well. That for many of the same reasons
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in terms of overall discussion about this case, that is not something that is something that the
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district attorney's office intends to pursue. The left is furious. Lots of activist groups are
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coming on saying this is a terrible miscarriage of justice. There is a miscarriage of justice here.
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The miscarriage of justice is that Jacob Blake will not be charged for the crimes he was committing at
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the time. It's a very good thing that the cops are not being charged. There was absolutely zero reason
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why the cops should be charged. If you remember that case, the woman calls the cops to her house
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because this guy, Jacob Blake, allegedly came in, sexually assaulted her. It was a bad guy. He was
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trying to take her kids. He already had a warrant out. He then, the cops told him, hey, stop moving.
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Stop what you're doing. He wouldn't stop. He kept walking to his car. They tased him. He kept moving.
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They tased him again. He kept moving. He then goes to his car, reaches for a knife. And only at that
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point do the cops shoot him. And we were told this is awful. He's an unarmed, unarmed black man. He's,
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this is a racist, racist killing, nothing of the sort. So yeah, it would be good if Jacob Blake
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were charged and prosecuted. He won't be a, politically, I understand why he won't be.
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The mainstream media are outright lying about this. The Washington Post tweeted out, quote,
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police officers won't be charged in the shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed black man who was shot seven
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times in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin. DA says the trouble with the unarmed black man theory is the
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guy had a knife. Very important. Jacob Blake, while actively resisting, arms himself with a knife.
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I continue to hear, I think I heard the rally last night, the vigil where someone again said he was
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unarmed. It is absolutely incontrovertible that Jacob Blake was armed with a knife during this
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encounter. Absolutely incontrovertible that Jacob Blake was armed with a knife, but it doesn't seem
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to matter. And this is something that the left does all the time. First of all, you probably didn't even
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hear that fact because the media had been covering it up and a lot of them are not even covering that
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presser. But it doesn't matter. Whenever the left constructs a narrative, Jacob Blake's an unarmed
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black man, innocent, he was killed by the, he was shot by the cops. Then the facts come out and
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contradict that. And they say, well, okay, whatever about the facts in this case, it gets to a greater
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truth. The lie that we're telling gets to a greater truth. They are so taken with their own abstract
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theories. They're so taken with their own ideology that they will not let reality get in the way of that.
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And I think a lot of squishy Republicans think, oh gosh, they must have a point. There must be
00:24:09.160
something to this whole thing. They must, maybe if we try to be a little conciliatory and meet in the
00:24:14.220
middle, there's no meeting in the middle. These guys are peddling lies and they're lies designed to
00:24:18.600
upend law and order in this country and upend justice in this country. And you got to get tough on it.
00:24:23.160
That is some, at least a little bit of good news out of Kenosha, even as we have to deal with this
00:24:28.340
very bad news out of Georgia and out of the Senate. We have some other good news, which is that the
00:24:35.200
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00:24:40.160
We're always telling everybody else what to do and someone's got to make a Hollywood studio and
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00:24:46.600
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Very disturbing news out of Vernon Central High School.
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I've got breaking news, shocking news. No, I'm not talking about the Senate races in Georgia.
00:26:45.120
I don't really care about that news anymore. It's, you know, it's going to be what it's going
00:26:48.160
to be. No, I've got a much more shocking news from NBC. Trans women retain athletic edge after a year
00:26:57.580
of hormone therapy. Study finds. A new study suggests transgender women, also known as men,
00:27:07.740
maintain an athletic advantage over their cisgender peers, also known as women, even after a year on
00:27:15.680
hormone therapy. Oh my goodness. You're kidding me. Wow. It would appear that the genius experts
00:27:21.820
with many, many years of medical training, research training, MDs and PhDs, they have finally
00:27:28.460
concluded a study that shows what people with even a modicum of common sense have always known to be
00:27:35.920
true. Namely that men are physically stronger than women. Can you imagine? We have all seen
00:27:41.800
in recent years as the gender ideology craze has swept through schools and swept through the culture
00:27:49.600
and swept through sports. There'll be some women's track race and you'll have these two little 90 pound
00:27:56.480
girls and they're running the track race. And then you get some one, some like 140 pound, 160 pound dude
00:28:02.180
who has long hair and who is pretending to be a woman. And wouldn't you know, he always wins
00:28:08.180
the track race. And, and then we all have to pretend like, well, no, maybe he was on hormone therapy and,
00:28:14.880
you know, I don't know, he had some kind of plastic surgery. So, uh, maybe it's a fair fight. It's
00:28:18.840
obviously not a fair fight. If you permit men in dresses to play in women's sports, then there's no
00:28:27.140
such thing as women's sports. I'm not, I don't exactly watch the WNBA. Okay. I'm not like, I'm not,
00:28:32.440
I don't even watch the regular NBA. So I, the sports thing does not really bother me from an
00:28:37.620
entertainment perspective, but it is deeply unfair, isn't it? I mean, the whole point of title
00:28:42.980
nine was that women are allowed to have their own sports leagues and then gender ideology comes in
00:28:47.960
and says, no, you don't. And it's kind of funny because title nine was at the time considered a
00:28:52.600
very liberal progressive movement. And then it created these women's sports teams and leagues
00:28:57.860
and allowed women to get scholarships and allowed women to get awards and have the glory of playing in
00:29:03.120
games. And then another left wing movement, a far more left wing movement comes in and says,
00:29:09.160
actually women, no, you don't get, you don't get those sports leagues. This actually ties back into
00:29:16.140
what we were talking about between the economics obsessed people on the right, you know, just the
00:29:21.340
kind of Mitt Romney, Ben Sass, technocrat types and the cultural fighters, guys like Donald Trump or
00:29:28.300
Josh Hawley or Ted Cruz or the guys who actually lean into those questions. The economics obsessed
00:29:35.040
right wing, the, the basically liberal establishmentarian right wing, they don't want
00:29:40.460
to talk about this. They, what they're going to say is, oh, come on, how many people are really
00:29:46.280
confused about their sex? It's obviously a very sad condition if a guy thinks he's a girl. And so let's
00:29:52.180
just let him look, let's just indulge that delusion, let him compete in the, in the women's track
00:29:56.420
race. And he's obviously going to beat the girls and he's going to take their scholarships and he's
00:30:00.600
going to take their awards, but come on, let's be, it's, it would be nice to him. And frankly,
00:30:04.720
I just don't want to deal with it because I'm over here busy trying to lower taxes and allow
00:30:09.280
multinational corporations to expand and try to open our borders to flood the country with
00:30:13.120
illegal aliens and then give amnesty to them later. So come on, I'm trying to pursue all these
00:30:16.980
really important conservative things. Why should I care if, if boys are going into the girls changing
00:30:24.500
room? Why should I care about that? That's such a minor issue. It's not a minor issue. And, and by
00:30:30.000
the way, if this were a minor issue, I agree that the sexual confusion, uh, affects a very small number
00:30:36.360
of people, although it is spreading like a social contagion. The number of, of, uh, Gen Zers, people
00:30:41.580
below them, you know, younger than the millennials who are confused about their sex and gender has
00:30:46.140
skyrocketed in recent years. So it, it, there's both a psychological element, but it also spreads
00:30:50.400
socially, uh, to, to varying degrees. Uh, but I agree. It affects a small number of people, except
00:30:56.100
not really. If one boy takes away a scholarship from one girl, that is a political problem
00:31:04.900
by beating her at girls sports. If one guy can go into the little girl's changing room,
00:31:12.200
that is a political problem. Even if it doesn't happen that often, that's a big political problem.
00:31:16.980
If this issue, this, the gender ideology issue were really some minor issue, then why is the left
00:31:25.300
spending so much time and so much money and so much energy pushing for it? And when they say,
00:31:34.320
who cares? Well, uh, the left cares. Maybe they care for a reason. Don't forget the whole, this whole
00:31:40.280
bathroom controversy. Can men go into the ladies room? This began because the left in Charlotte,
00:31:47.740
North Carolina decided to allow, to pass a bill to allow men to go into the girl's room.
00:31:56.140
They were the aggressors in that culture war. When we hear from the, you know, the, the squishy
00:32:01.360
Republican types, oh, give up the culture wars. The conservatives are, are by definition,
00:32:06.860
not the aggressors in the culture wars, right? We're trying to conserve things. We're trying to
00:32:11.440
conserve an old standard. The, obviously the aggressors in the culture wars are the radicals
00:32:15.680
who are trying to overthrow those standards and implement new ones. We've got, we should talk about
00:32:22.260
this so much more than we talk about most economic issues. If those squishy Republicans would put one
00:32:29.720
one hundredth of the energy into keeping men out of girls track meets and men out of the girls
00:32:36.520
changing room as they put into trying to keep the stimulus bill from, uh, at $600 rather than
00:32:42.980
expanding to $2,000. If they put just one iota of that effort, we would hold the culture. We would be
00:32:49.640
able to construct something like a, a sane and sensible culture. You know, when, speaking of cultural
00:32:56.840
issues, I can't, I can't actually can't believe we're talking about this. I never get into celebrity
00:33:02.040
gossip stories, but I saw one, it was trending on Twitter yesterday and it's in all the newspapers and
00:33:06.680
it, it actually, I think sort of matters. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are reportedly headed for
00:33:14.820
imminent divorce. I, I, I look, I, I don't, I wish them both well. I'm actually very sad to hear this.
00:33:24.860
And I know a lot of other people are very sad to hear this. People seemed actually devastated in
00:33:29.240
the comment sections on social media. And I thought, why is it you've got a thrice married
00:33:33.980
ex porn star, Kim Kardashian married to a very eccentric rapper. Why are people so shocked and
00:33:43.060
saddened that this marriage is coming apart? The reason is because our marriage culture has been so
00:33:50.880
incredibly degraded, right? Marriage rates are at an all time low. Uh, people often expect to get
00:33:57.680
divorced, even if they're, if they get married, that their marriage actually seemed relatively stable
00:34:04.020
and because Kanye West is relatively conservative for people in Hollywood. Not just because he put on
00:34:12.620
the MAGA hat, but because he goes to church, because he practices religion, because he is vocal about
00:34:19.760
that. Because apparently when he was making that, that gospel album, he, he told the people working
00:34:25.700
on the album, he said, no fornicating while you're working on this album. I thought, whoa, man, this is,
00:34:30.920
this is pretty conservative stuff. I, I get it. I, it tells you a lot about the state of this culture
00:34:39.840
culture that the West Kardashian marriage is something we're all hoping will last as an
00:34:47.700
instrument of stability or as a, as a symbol of stability and true love and all that sort of
00:34:53.400
thing. And I, I do wish them well and I hope they don't get divorced. It's very, divorce is a very bad
00:34:57.000
thing. They got a lot of kids and, uh, and as bizarre as their life is, it, it will, it will somehow
00:35:06.280
degrade the culture even further if they, if they get divorced. I, it will, there, there is, I, I don't
00:35:12.220
think that all the fan boys and fan girls who were complaining about this on social media yesterday,
00:35:17.680
I, I think that comes from a genuine, a genuine cultural angst. We're always decrying the collapse
00:35:25.760
of the culture, especially conservatives. That's sort of our favorite hobby is to say, oh, it's all over,
00:35:29.660
you know, it's the fall of Rome and we're, we've got nowhere to go from here and it's, it's all over.
00:35:34.460
Now, I saw a couple of news stories the other day that put this into perspective for me.
00:35:41.960
In December, the, the last publicly documented widow of a civil war veteran died.
00:35:52.400
The year is now 2021. So last month, it's the last month of 2020. And in 2020,
00:35:59.440
2020, the widow of a civil war veteran died. There was a little bit of an age gap. She was 17. He was
00:36:07.660
93, but they were married. They have the documents to prove it. They were married for a few years before
00:36:14.080
he died. She never remarried also. Helen Viola Jackson died at the age of 101 years. Her husband,
00:36:23.500
private James Boland fought for the union and the 14th Missouri cavalry. She never, he, he married her
00:36:30.220
in, in part because he, he wanted to make sure she was set up for life and to give her his pension.
00:36:36.600
She never applied for it and she never remarried and that was it. Two months before that, the grandson
00:36:43.240
of our nation's 10th president died. President John Tyler, his grandson
00:36:49.280
died three months ago. Tyler was president from 1841 to 1845. Obviously, you know, Tyler was very
00:37:00.700
older and he had his son and his son was very older and he had this grandson. Nevertheless, this is a
00:37:06.660
very young country. That's my big takeaway from it. This is a very young country. And when we're,
00:37:13.140
and this kind of cuts both ways, you're going to hear a lot of sort of squishy types over the next
00:37:18.200
few days say, oh, listen, the country has survived greater difficulties than this. Look, you don't need
00:37:26.340
to worry about the integrity of our elections in this country. We're the greatest democracy in the world.
00:37:30.120
You don't need to worry about the structure of our civil institutions. Look, we're a very,
00:37:35.980
we're a strong country, leading country in the world. It's a young country. It's a young country
00:37:41.380
and things have been good, generally good till now. I mean, we did have a civil war. There were
00:37:47.700
two, two world wars. We had massive civil unrest in the 1960s. So yeah, I mean, it's been basically
00:37:54.580
good till now, basically stable until now, civil wars aside, but it's a young country and a lot of
00:37:59.720
things could still happen. On the other side, you're going to hear people say, look, this is going to get
00:38:03.080
really bad. And if, if Warnock and Ossoff are in the Senate and Kamala Harris is the tie-breaking
00:38:08.620
vote, we're going to end the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, add new states. They're already
00:38:12.860
talking about it, adding DC, adding Puerto Rico, adding the Philippines, I don't know, adding Guam,
00:38:18.800
whatever. So that Democrats then have a permanent majority. I mean, these are things that are being
00:38:23.620
openly spoken about it at the highest levels of politics. Those things could happen.
00:38:29.720
I'm not saying they will, but I'm saying they could. This is a young country that what's driven
00:38:36.560
me craziest about the whole last month or month and a half of, uh, since the election is people on
00:38:44.480
both sides talking about how this is unprecedented. This has never happened before. First of all,
00:38:48.260
in a young country, there are going to be a lot of things that are unprecedented and it's not going
00:38:51.340
to stop you from doing them. But also there have been precedents objecting to the certification of
00:38:56.500
electoral votes. That's very precedented. Democrats do it all the time now. And, and we had a major
00:39:04.220
constitutional crisis in the 1870s over it, adding new states to the union. For most of our country's
00:39:09.860
history, we've added new states to the union. The idea that we couldn't add a new state now, crazy.
00:39:16.300
The, the reason that it would be difficult to do it now is because it would upset the balance of power
00:39:19.960
in the country, much like you saw in the 1850s. And then, you know, what happened after the 1850s.
00:39:28.040
So what do we do now? I think the most immediate thing to do right now,
00:39:33.580
so much of this came because of COVID and specifically the lockdowns. You're going to
00:39:39.660
blame Trump. You're going to blame Lin Wood. You're going to blame Mitch McConnell. You're going
00:39:42.500
to blame Stacey Abrams. You're going to blame whoever. If not for the excuse of COVID,
00:39:47.540
these lockdowns wouldn't have happened. And the use of widespread mail-in votes,
00:39:51.100
which are intrinsically vulnerable to fraud, would not have happened. And the expansion of
00:39:56.020
election day to election season very likely would not have happened. So you've got to end this crazy
00:40:01.940
COVID stuff. And there's a guy doing just that down in Florida who should just shut down a CNN
00:40:07.260
reporter, Governor Ron DeSantis, pretty tough Republican down there. He was asked about his COVID policies.
00:40:13.560
He tried to answer the question, but he wouldn't let CNN filibuster.
00:40:19.920
Governor, what has gone wrong with the rollout of the vaccine that we've seen
00:40:27.780
There's a lot of demand. I mean, I think at the end of the day, excuse me, excuse me.
00:40:32.200
You just said, what has gone wrong? So I'm answering the question.
00:40:35.920
So are you going to give a speech or are you going to ask a question?
00:40:38.620
With all due respect, Governor, I'm trying to finish my question.
00:40:42.480
No, you're giving a speech. You asked a question.
00:40:46.840
You're going to ask how many questions? You get three?
00:40:49.200
They only got one question. Why do you get three?
00:40:51.540
With all due respect, Governor, I'm just asking if I could finish my question.
00:40:56.120
I did not. My full question is what went wrong with the rollout of the vaccine when we've seen
00:41:04.380
To complete it for you, Governor, we've seen websites crash and also senior citizens waiting
00:41:14.680
We've seen it in Duval, Broward, Orange and Lee County.
00:41:26.120
OK, but you didn't investigate why that happened in Lee County.
00:41:34.760
And it turns out it's because the hospitals did not take reservations and there were people
00:41:39.440
who showed up. And obviously, there's nothing the state can do about that.
00:41:47.780
And I think one of the reasons DeSantis is being talked about as one of the leading contenders
00:41:51.860
in 2024 is because he's got that kind of Trumpy spirit to him.
00:42:00.320
That is going to be the future of the party or the party is not going to have very much
00:42:06.180
Now, on this topic of health care, on this topic of the covid vaccine and the rollout
00:42:13.900
and everything, the way CNN wants to spin it is that people are clamoring.
00:42:22.100
And the Republican governors are totally bungling it.
00:42:25.120
And forget about it when the Democratic governors bungle it.
00:42:33.780
If you look in New York, one third of health care workers who are eligible to get the coronavirus
00:42:46.680
If you go to Riverside County, California, half of hospital workers who have been offered
00:42:52.600
the covid vaccine are choosing not to receive it.
00:42:56.760
And in California, there's a very slow roll out of the only about one percent of Californians
00:43:06.180
Even these health care workers who I don't think should be prioritized.
00:43:09.340
I think older people who are actually more vulnerable to this virus should be prioritized.
00:43:13.680
I don't think the nurses and the doctors should, but the nurses and the doctors who have been
00:43:22.100
They're healthy and young and they don't need it.
00:43:25.060
And the the threat of this virus on young, healthy people has been extraordinarily exaggerated
00:43:32.780
by political activists in the mainstream media.
00:43:40.580
They don't want it because there are side effects.
00:43:44.100
You don't you don't need to take the word of a crazy conspiracy anti-vaccine campaign
00:43:51.140
Even NBC admits in a pro vaccine article, an article that explicitly castigates, quote unquote,
00:43:59.260
Even NBC is admitting there are side effects to the coronavirus vaccine.
00:44:03.540
The side effects include fevers, headaches, joint pain, fatigue, which if if you know anybody
00:44:08.960
who's had the coronavirus, that's basically what it feels like, right?
00:44:13.840
So I think for a lot of people who are young and healthy, who are not at an extreme risk
00:44:20.400
They're thinking, why would I get that when vaccines usually take years and years and decades
00:44:26.660
Why would I be the first guy in line for a vaccine that was made in six months?
00:44:33.860
That's a an approach that takes account of risk.
00:44:36.340
And it's not tinfoil hat wearing right wingers who are taking that approach.
00:44:41.160
It's health care workers in New York and California.
00:44:49.280
And frankly, what what DeSantis is doing is pretty smart, prioritizing people who need it
00:44:53.480
and allowing the state to stay open and allowing people to go live their lives.
00:45:00.440
And I suspect if states had taken that approach for the past several months, the elections
00:45:06.940
Maybe that's why they didn't take that approach.
00:45:08.580
Maybe that's why they locked down everything and everyone and totally changed voting procedures
00:45:13.800
in some states in violation of the state constitutions.
00:45:18.040
Maybe this is all just a really, really big power grab.
00:45:21.280
Fighting back against it's going to help DeSantis if he if he's running in 2024, which it looks
00:45:27.060
Another guy that's clearly running in 2024, at least as of now, is Josh Hawley.
00:45:32.680
Josh Hawley is taking he's taking the fight to the Senate on the certification of the ballots.
00:45:39.600
He's positioned himself as what you might call a common good conservative.
00:45:45.880
He's upending the kind of libertarian orthodoxy that became fashionable for the last 15 or 20
00:45:51.240
And he's saying, no, there's a deeper conservative tradition here.
00:45:53.980
And that whole fiscally conservative, socially liberal.
00:45:58.120
But and really what you're saying is fiscally libertarian, socially liberal voter group.
00:46:06.780
I'm going to run as a more traditional conservative.
00:46:11.580
And the way you can tell he's doing well is that Antifa is trying to kill him and his
00:46:16.340
So the other night, Josh Hawley's house is attacked by Antifa.
00:46:33.300
And every one of those goons should be thrown in prison and have the key thrown away for doing
00:46:38.580
Imagine doing that, terrorizing a guy's wife and children.
00:46:44.860
So Hawley comes out and says, these Antifa scumbags were terrorizing my kids.
00:46:51.300
Quote, Senator Josh Hawley says Antifa scumbags terrorized his family's Virginia home.
00:47:03.580
Banging on some guy's door in the middle of the night.
00:47:07.120
People screaming at his kids through bullhorns.
00:47:12.720
This is the same Washington Post, by the way, that says that Jacob Blake was an unarmed
00:47:24.120
I haven't, I just haven't looked into him that much.
00:47:28.660
But one mark in his favor is that you know a guy by his enemies.
00:47:33.620
And if Josh Hawley's enemies are the Washington Post and Antifa, if they think he's such a threat
00:47:39.380
that they're going to go over there and try to knock down his door, well, I suppose that's a mark
00:47:52.900
Maybe President Trump would run in 2024, assuming things don't work out today.
00:47:57.800
Well, assuming things don't work out today, assuming Hawley and Cruz and the other senators
00:48:03.220
and the congressmen do not overturn the Biden transition, we really, really need to undermine
00:48:10.820
We mentioned yesterday this story that Kamala told of how she was a little child and she
00:48:18.900
was taken to a protest and she fell out of her seat, you know, and then she was asked,
00:48:39.440
Well, it turns out Kamala has used this story a lot.
00:48:52.880
And I think one thing you could see is a lot of gaslighting, a lot of people telling
00:48:57.260
you, there's no question about election integrity.
00:49:05.980
We'll keep, don't, we're going to take a pause on counting the votes tonight, but we'll get
00:49:08.760
you the results in three weeks when we, when we figure out exactly how many ballots we
00:49:22.040
She would look down at me and Kamala, what do you want?
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