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00:00:37.720 House Democrats will vote to impeach the president today.

00:00:41.440 Again, with just one week left before his term expires.

00:00:45.220 And I, for one, am almost happy that the vote is happening.

00:00:48.820 Not because the president should be impeached, but because it's exposing which Republicans are wise, 1.00

00:00:54.580 which Republicans are stupid, and which Republicans are downright frauds. 1.00

00:00:59.260 I'm Michael Knowles. 1.00

00:01:00.160 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:08.920 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:10.320 My favorite comment yesterday comes from misanthropic perspective,

00:01:13.580 who reminds us of a quote by Dante Alighieri,

00:01:18.320 which is that there is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the times that we're happy.

00:01:23.600 I think we're all going to be thinking of that soon.

00:01:26.420 We are now down to the last week of President Trump's term.

00:01:30.840 After that, the clampdown is going to be absolutely brutal,

00:01:34.240 and we're going to close our eyes amid the persecution and remember the funniest of the tweets.

00:01:39.840 And that will give us both a little bit of joy, but also add to the misery to remember how happy things once were.

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00:03:09.500 Now, the House Democrats want to impeach.

00:03:13.720 The House Democrats have wanted to impeach since Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower

00:03:18.700 and announced he was running for president.

00:03:21.140 Then they tried to impeach him over the Russia hoax.

00:03:24.340 Then they tried to impeach him over his taxes.

00:03:27.120 Then they wanted to impeach him over Stormy Daniels.

00:03:30.220 Then they wanted to impeach him over what kind of eggs he had for breakfast.

00:03:34.340 Now, they wanted to impeach him for a long time.

00:03:36.300 They actually admitted this.

00:03:37.880 Al Green, the congressman, not the musician, said in 2017, we've got to impeach him because

00:03:44.140 otherwise he might win re-election.

00:03:45.820 So they had come to the conclusion they wanted to impeach him before they figured out what

00:03:49.300 they would impeach him for.

00:03:50.540 Finally, they tried to impeach him over, what was it, Ukraine or some nonsense.

00:03:54.860 I don't know, whatever.

00:03:55.780 And that didn't work.

00:03:57.260 Now they're going to try to do it again over this Capitol Hill riot.

00:03:59.760 But it's not just Democrats.

00:04:02.220 There are some Republicans who want to impeach him as well.

00:04:06.180 And I'd like to draw a distinction here.

00:04:08.540 I think there are, it's not just two categories of Republicans on impeachment. 1.00

00:04:12.400 The, you know, the terrible, awful, stupid, cynical ones who want to impeach him and the 1.00

00:04:19.300 good, virtuous ones who don't want to impeach him. 1.00

00:04:21.020 It's actually three categories.

00:04:22.240 I think there are some Republicans who want to, who sincerely think Trump should be impeached.

00:04:27.000 Then I think there are some Republicans who don't think he should be impeached, but cynically

00:04:31.640 want to do it because they want to keep him from running for office again.

00:04:34.680 And then I think there are the Republicans who are the good category, who realize that

00:04:39.920 this is a very, very bad idea, but it's three.

00:04:42.720 And you've got to kind of parse out which ones fall into which.

00:04:45.940 One of the first prominent Republicans to say Trump should be impeached is Chris Christie,

00:04:50.360 who was a former Trump rival in the, in the 2016 primaries.

00:04:54.260 Then he was a Trump ally.

00:04:55.600 Then he was a Trump rival again.

00:04:57.300 He went on George Stephanopoulos' show on ABC and he said, absolutely what Trump did

00:05:01.940 is an impeachable offense.

00:05:03.780 I think they're all going to have to vote their conscience and, and look at what happened.

00:05:08.640 I mean, what we had was an incitement, um, to riot at the United States Capitol.

00:05:13.880 We had people killed.

00:05:15.560 Uh, and to me, there's not a whole lot of question here.

00:05:19.040 So, you know.

00:05:19.980 So you think it was an impeachable offense?

00:05:21.920 Before Jordan.

00:05:22.380 Oh, sure.

00:05:25.040 Yeah.

00:05:25.860 And, and I think that, you know, in the, well, that's, if I think it's an impeachable offense,

00:05:31.800 that's exactly what I would do, George, but I'm, I'm not in there, but you want my opinion.

00:05:35.480 That's my opinion.

00:05:36.120 I don't, I think if, if inciting to insurrection isn't, then I don't really know what is.

00:05:41.520 So that's the charge, right?

00:05:43.200 Inciting to insurrection.

00:05:44.580 But as we covered on the show yesterday, does anybody seriously believe that you could

00:05:49.380 play President Trump's words, look at President Trump's actions and say that he was inciting

00:05:54.480 an insurrection?

00:05:55.480 The best evidence they have is that he was giving a rally on the National Mall before

00:06:00.160 they all went over to the Capitol.

00:06:01.480 And he said, I know a lot of people are going to march to the Capitol and we got to be strong

00:06:05.280 and we got to be peaceful.

00:06:06.940 So if you, if you say explicitly stay peaceful, you, how are you going to prove that that's

00:06:12.820 inciting an insurrection?

00:06:14.140 You might say it was unwise.

00:06:15.480 You might say he unleashed a mob, but you can't say that he was calling for an insurrection.

00:06:20.940 His own words contradict that charge.

00:06:23.900 Now, what's going on with Christie here?

00:06:25.740 Maybe he sincerely believes that, or maybe he's upset that he was initially in the inner

00:06:31.740 circle for Trump and then he kind of got pushed out of the inner circle and then he got brought

00:06:35.640 in and he's pushed out.

00:06:36.740 And then who knows?

00:06:37.760 There are a lot of internal politics in Trump world that play into this.

00:06:42.360 I mean, there's this personal connection of Chris Christie is the guy who threw Trump's

00:06:46.400 son-in-law, Jared Kushner's father in prison for financial crimes.

00:06:50.240 And then the father got pardoned.

00:06:52.340 And then who knows?

00:06:53.000 As I assume there was some bad blood there, there, there are these personal aspects as

00:06:58.080 well.

00:06:58.420 What about the other people?

00:06:59.980 What about the other conservatives or Republicans, I should say, who are calling for this?

00:07:05.040 A Republican representative, John Katko, someone I've never heard of.

00:07:08.420 I, I guess he's a sort of backbencher congressman.

00:07:11.000 He was the first Republican to come out and say, yes, we should impeach Trump. 0.99

00:07:16.100 And, you know, Democrats always seem to get some useful idiot Republican to go along with 1.00

00:07:21.460 their schemes. 1.00

00:07:22.100 It rarely happens the other way.

00:07:24.640 Whenever Republicans want to do something, they rarely get a Democrat defector.

00:07:28.780 Certainly it's very rare to get a Democrat defector who would, who would matter, who would

00:07:33.400 actually change the result.

00:07:35.460 But the Democrats always seem to get it further with the Republicans because the Republicans

00:07:39.000 are not particularly unified.

00:07:40.640 After John Katko came out and said, yeah, I think we should impeach.

00:07:43.540 We had another one, Liz Cheney, Liz Cheney, daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney.

00:07:50.920 Liz Cheney says, absolutely, we should impeach.

00:07:54.560 That's very frustrating.

00:07:56.140 And I, I suspect these people are going to pay for that with the base in primaries.

00:08:00.960 Who knows?

00:08:01.420 But they got an even more prominent person.

00:08:05.340 When you get a Republican with the last name Cheney, obviously that carries some weight in

00:08:09.000 the party.

00:08:09.960 But according to the New York Times, it's not just Katko and Cheney.

00:08:14.140 Mitch McConnell is reportedly pleased as well.

00:08:16.760 Now, when you say, according to the New York Times, what that means is take everything that

00:08:21.840 follows with a very, very large, like, boulder-sized grain of salt.

00:08:27.580 But you have the New York Times reporting it.

00:08:29.720 You have other people as well.

00:08:30.740 You even have some conservatives reporting this.

00:08:33.860 Mitch McConnell is said to be pleased that Trump could be convicted in the Senate.

00:08:39.420 House would vote to impeach.

00:08:40.540 The Senate then could vote to convict.

00:08:42.680 And then President Trump would not be able to run for office ever again.

00:08:47.160 Any sort of office, mayor of New York, town supervisor of Palookaville, or

00:08:51.720 president again in 2024.

00:08:54.380 According to these reports, Mitch McConnell is pleased because it will help purge the Republican

00:08:59.540 Party of Trump and Trumpism and the Trump elements.

00:09:04.580 Now, is this, is this a possible, a plausible, rather, report?

00:09:09.520 I think so.

00:09:10.600 Yeah.

00:09:11.080 Early on, Mitch McConnell, after the election, said, yep, Joe Biden is the president-elect.

00:09:15.340 And congratulations to him.

00:09:17.300 Mitch McConnell has sometimes worked with Trump, especially on the judges.

00:09:19.980 Sometimes he has not worked with Trump.

00:09:22.020 He is a real power broker.

00:09:23.460 He's been around for a long time.

00:09:24.980 And he certainly represents a wing of the Republican Party that Donald Trump does not

00:09:29.240 represent.

00:09:30.260 Fortunately, though, some smarter, cooler heads seem to be prevailing within the party.

00:09:37.520 Namely, Dan Crenshaw.

00:09:39.000 Dan Crenshaw just went on Hugh Hewitt's show and was asked his opinion about impeachment.

00:09:44.300 And Crenshaw, you know, Dan has, has criticized Trump when he's felt those criticisms are merited.

00:09:50.940 But he said, absolutely not.

00:09:52.680 This is a very, very bad idea for the country as a matter of prudence and as a matter of law.

00:09:58.200 There's no reason to impeach.

00:09:59.300 I do understand the precedent argument.

00:10:04.300 You know, impeachment, I mean, just by the letter of the law, can be as frivolous as you want it to be.

00:10:09.380 It is indeed a political process.

00:10:13.620 I think precedents are being thrown out the window left and right these days.

00:10:17.040 But, again, I just think that the, there's two, there's two reasons here.

00:10:24.420 One is simply lower the temperature.

00:10:26.640 The second is, if you're going to accuse somebody of incitement of violence, that's a very hard legal standard to prove.

00:10:34.080 There's no way it could be proven in the court of law in this particular case.

00:10:37.740 And, you know, barring that, and then, again, the fact that we've only got 10 days left, the thing is that the priority that we need to be engaging in is unifying the country, not, not escalating things further.

00:10:52.500 These are all pretty good reasons, I think, to not vote for impeachment.

00:10:57.440 Thank you.

00:10:58.420 Thank you.

00:10:58.960 That's obviously true.

00:11:00.360 Dan makes a point here that you don't hear a lot of other lawmakers making, maybe because they don't even know that this is the case.

00:11:07.740 But impeachment is not simply or not merely a political process.

00:11:12.520 Obviously, it's very political.

00:11:13.880 You've got congressmen voting on it, and then the jury, the people who are going to vote to convict or acquit, are in the Senate.

00:11:19.740 However, it's also a legal process.

00:11:22.640 You need to commit a high crime or misdemeanor to be eligible for impeachment, right?

00:11:30.460 There is a legal criteria.

00:11:31.920 Now, how, how far do we push it toward the legal side of things?

00:11:35.940 How far do we allow it to flow into the political side of things?

00:11:40.180 That's a matter that's been up for debate for many years, for centuries now.

00:11:44.920 But surely there is a political criterion.

00:11:47.560 And if there is a political criterion, what crime are you accusing the president of committing?

00:11:52.500 I don't know.

00:11:53.000 They're saying incitement to violence.

00:11:54.300 Okay, well, you just, we played the clip yesterday.

00:11:56.660 We've played it for several days now.

00:11:58.420 He says, be peaceful. 0.99

00:12:01.060 Tim Scott, Senator Tim Scott, has also said it's a dumb idea. 0.54

00:12:03.960 Republican, Joe Manchin, who's a sort of conservative-ish Democrat, has said that it's a bad idea to impeach.

00:12:11.700 So it doesn't seem like there is a ton of support for impeachment.

00:12:17.520 I'll give you my view.

00:12:20.240 Donald Trump should not resign.

00:12:23.700 The House should not impeach.

00:12:26.840 The Senate should not convict. 0.53

00:12:28.780 The Republican legislators who sincerely support impeachment are naive and imprudent. 0.89

00:12:37.520 The Republican legislators who cynically support impeachment are frauds. 0.91

00:12:44.820 They're obviously not conservatives. 0.90

00:12:47.580 And I guess they're by definition frauds, right?

00:12:49.440 They're deceiving you.

00:12:50.660 This is a bad idea.

00:12:52.320 No good would come of it.

00:12:53.620 Even if you think Trump played some role in the Capitol Hill riot, even if you don't like the cut of his jib and you don't like his tweets, which he now can't send because some billionaire oligarchs in Silicon Valley can censor the duly elected sitting president.

00:13:06.040 Even if there is nothing to be gained by the impeachment, it will only rip the country apart further.

00:13:12.000 There is a lot to be lost at this very tense moment, and there is no legal basis for impeaching him.

00:13:20.720 Just as a purely rational matter, looking at the evidence on the table, there is no reason to do it.

00:13:28.160 A lot of people want to do it because it serves their political agenda.

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00:14:54.300 Now, when I say that the Republicans who sincerely support impeachment are naive and imprudent,

00:15:04.340 what I mean is they, first of all, they don't understand the legal basis of impeachment.

00:15:09.760 But two, they don't understand the political climate that we're in.

00:15:14.980 They think that they're going to get brownie points from the left.

00:15:17.740 They think we're all playing by the same standard.

00:15:20.200 We're not.

00:15:20.840 They think that Trump's role in incitement was particularly egregious.

00:15:26.520 His role in quote unquote incitement is absolutely nothing compared to the role that elected Democrats

00:15:32.800 and media figures played in encouraging and supporting and providing material support for

00:15:37.940 the BLM riots that have been going on for a year, including the vice president-elect Kamala Harris,

00:15:44.020 who raised money to bail the rioters out of prison, out of jail, I suppose.

00:15:48.200 I hope they go to prison.

00:15:50.900 Very naive. 1.00

00:15:52.140 They're playing a game where they're going to suck up to the left. 0.99

00:15:55.340 And maybe they sincerely think we can all come together and sing kumbaya. 0.99

00:15:58.660 Ain't going to happen.

00:15:59.760 Ain't going to happen.

00:16:00.520 I think if you want to know the state of the two sides in American politics right now,

00:16:07.860 take a listen to MSNBC's coverage of President Trump's most recent press conference where he goes out,

00:16:13.740 he's answering questions from reporters, and he's answering questions about his role in the Capitol Hill riot.

00:16:19.440 What is your role in what happened at the Capitol?

00:16:22.400 What is your personal response to this?

00:16:24.120 So if you read my speech, and many people have done it, and I've seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television,

00:16:32.880 it's been analyzed, and people thought that what I said was totally appropriate.

00:16:38.280 And if you look at what other people have said, politicians at a high level,

00:16:42.320 about the riots during the summer, the horrible riots in Portland and Seattle and various other places.

00:16:49.660 We are coming out of this now because the president has started to, as he occasionally does, often does,

00:16:55.560 veer away from the truth.

00:16:56.620 His video that he taped on Wednesday after the riots were happening at the Capitol was not viewed widely as totally appropriate.

00:17:03.760 In fact, many people argued they were highly inappropriate.

00:17:07.040 There is so much here.

00:17:09.580 That 40-second clip could provide a true master class in politics from both sides,

00:17:16.640 from both sides, because both sides are engaging in the exact same tactics.

00:17:21.200 Obviously, they have different substance.

00:17:22.540 They're advocating different points of view, but they're using the exact same tactics.

00:17:25.640 So you open up with classic Trump.

00:17:28.080 He's being very vague, right?

00:17:29.260 He says, look, a lot of people saw my speech.

00:17:31.640 Okay, a lot of people talked about it.

00:17:33.160 Everybody was analyzing it.

00:17:34.560 A lot of people said, very, very appropriate.

00:17:36.540 That's what all the people were saying.

00:17:37.840 It was said about my speech.

00:17:39.380 That is what people were said to have said about my speech.

00:17:41.700 And it's all vague.

00:17:42.400 And he's not talking about anyone in particular.

00:17:43.920 He's not talking about any moment in particular.

00:17:45.860 Classic Trump, right?

00:17:47.060 And you say, well, that's terrible.

00:17:48.560 We need to get more specific.

00:17:50.280 We got to purge that kind of Trumpist rhetoric from our political dialogue.

00:17:56.120 Then Trump brings up the BLM riots.

00:17:58.900 And what happens?

00:18:00.860 MSNBC cuts away right away.

00:18:02.080 And then the lady on MSNBC says, uh, the president is, he's lying.

00:18:07.320 He's absolutely, he says that his speech was widely viewed as appropriate.

00:18:11.800 It was actually widely viewed as inappropriate.

00:18:14.020 And everybody's talking about it.

00:18:15.680 Okay.

00:18:15.960 And it's been analyzed.

00:18:17.500 Okay.

00:18:17.740 And people are saying a lot of things.

00:18:19.140 Okay.

00:18:19.460 She sounds just like Trump, except from the other side.

00:18:22.920 She's not pointing to specific examples.

00:18:25.060 She's not pointing to the words in his text.

00:18:28.380 She's not referring to the specific analysts who said it was inappropriate.

00:18:33.400 It's just the same thing.

00:18:35.280 The place that the, the entire segment teeters is Trump describing the Capitol Hill thing.

00:18:42.320 Then he makes the crucial point.

00:18:44.820 Compare this to BLM.

00:18:47.400 Oh, we got to cut away.

00:18:49.080 Hold on.

00:18:50.400 MSNBC was perfectly fine to cover the president's remarks before he made that point.

00:18:54.720 Why did they cut away?

00:18:55.840 Because it's a good point.

00:18:57.000 Because it's the crucial point.

00:18:58.280 Because it's the only point if you're talking about censure or impeachment or comparing the

00:19:05.040 two parties.

00:19:06.800 One party, Donald Trump, whipped up his supporters in a rally and he said, be peaceful.

00:19:14.560 And there was some violence for a few hours.

00:19:18.720 Another party whipped up their supporters into a frenzy and said, don't be peaceful.

00:19:24.740 Chris Cuomo said, protests don't need to be peaceful.

00:19:28.240 Hillary Clinton said, you can't be civil with a political party that disagrees with you. 0.77

00:19:33.080 Maxine Waters said, go to Republicans' homes. 1.00

00:19:35.640 Get up in their face.

00:19:37.160 You get up on them in public.

00:19:38.480 All prominent Democrats just about encouraging the BLM riots and MSNBC and CNN standing in front of

00:19:50.520 burning buildings saying these protests are mostly peaceful.

00:19:55.040 There's, there's the point.

00:19:59.580 And then the minute you bring this up, they say, that's whataboutism.

00:20:02.460 What about it?

00:20:03.980 Well, what about it, lady?

00:20:06.380 That's why she cuts away and then engages in the exact same tactics. 1.00

00:20:09.400 And these squish Republicans, Liz Cheney, how disappointing.

00:20:15.260 I'm not, I know there are a lot of Republicans who reflexively attack the Cheney family or the

00:20:19.160 Bushes or something.

00:20:20.780 I don't do that.

00:20:22.180 I don't reflexively attack the Cheneys.

00:20:24.160 I don't know.

00:20:24.460 I get a kick out of Dick Cheney a lot of the time.

00:20:26.780 How disappointing that Liz Cheney would do something like that. 1.00

00:20:29.780 It's pathetic, really. 0.99

00:20:30.820 Either she's cynical here in attacking Trump or she's incredibly naive and exercising incredibly 1.00

00:20:41.260 poor judgment.

00:20:42.800 Either way does not, does not speak highly of her political activities.

00:20:49.980 The left is about to get very harsh on the right.

00:20:53.940 It's already happening.

00:20:55.420 You're going to see a very significant curtailment of the right's civil liberties.

00:21:00.920 It's already happening, right?

00:21:03.220 You were told that you can go out and mob for BLM and go loot Gucci stores, but you're

00:21:08.480 not allowed to go to church and you're certainly not allowed to have conservative rallies.

00:21:12.360 But that's, that's just one example of a double standard.

00:21:15.860 Leftists are allowed to encourage violence on Twitter.

00:21:18.960 The Ayatollah is allowed to encourage violence on Twitter, genocide on Twitter. 0.78

00:21:23.000 But conservatives are not allowed to, I don't know, just talk about anything.

00:21:28.620 I don't know.

00:21:29.500 The rules are so opaque, we don't know.

00:21:32.260 They seem to be changing every day.

00:21:34.340 Certainly it's a harsher standard, whatever that standard is.

00:21:38.780 Social media is, is the clearest place for this.

00:21:41.180 And, you know, it's not just Twitter.

00:21:43.160 Twitter's been the harshest.

00:21:44.580 Facebook kicked Trump off.

00:21:46.200 YouTube kicked Trump off.

00:21:47.940 Instagram kicked Trump off.

00:21:49.560 Allegedly for inciting violence.

00:21:54.480 Well, Instagram took a hit.

00:21:56.180 The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, was asked about this.

00:22:00.500 They said, are you, are you now just a big liberal company?

00:22:02.960 Are you just, you know, you're going to promote liberals and you're going to attack conservatives?

00:22:06.620 And he came out and made a statement.

00:22:10.000 We're not neutral.

00:22:12.040 No platform is neutral.

00:22:13.960 We all have values and those values influence the decisions we make.

00:22:18.000 We try and be apolitical, but that's increasingly difficult.

00:22:21.800 But particularly in the U.S., where more and more are polarized, where we are more and more polarized.

00:22:29.120 There's a lot here, and he's obviously a little philosophically confused.

00:22:33.260 But he's mostly right.

00:22:34.900 He's confused, but he's mostly right.

00:22:36.440 And at least he's being honest, right?

00:22:38.420 He's saying, of course we're not neutral.

00:22:40.060 No platform can be neutral.

00:22:43.340 You know, much as conservatives want to push this idea that we support free speech and we don't think that anything should be discouraged or prohibited.

00:22:50.780 That's not true.

00:22:52.140 That's never been true of conservatives or of anybody else.

00:22:55.020 Every society has standards.

00:22:56.900 We permit certain speech.

00:22:58.080 We don't permit other speech.

00:23:00.060 We don't permit people to be, to make seditious speech at various times in American history.

00:23:06.200 We don't permit people to make threats.

00:23:08.140 We don't permit people to use fighting words in public.

00:23:11.880 We don't permit people to engage in obscenity.

00:23:14.440 Though now we permit that a lot more, but historically we haven't permitted that.

00:23:18.080 But we don't allow people to engage in fraud, generally.

00:23:23.240 At various times in American history, we don't allow people to desecrate the American flag.

00:23:27.220 Now it seems we encourage it.

00:23:28.600 But for a lot of American history, we didn't.

00:23:30.740 There are always standards, and we're sort of setting these standards.

00:23:33.440 Instagram saying, yeah, well, of course we have standards.

00:23:35.240 Everybody has to have standards.

00:23:37.580 No platform is neutral.

00:23:38.720 Then he says we try to be apolitical, which means he just doesn't understand what politics is.

00:23:43.180 He says politics means the stuff we do in public.

00:23:47.320 That's the basic definition of politics.

00:23:50.140 Politics comes from the word for the Greek city-state.

00:23:52.680 It's how we all get along together in society.

00:23:55.680 He says we try to be apolitical.

00:23:56.840 You can't be apolitical by definition if you're a public company.

00:23:59.560 I think what he's trying to get at is we try to be nonpartisan.

00:24:03.600 We try to not pick the Democrats over the Republicans.

00:24:06.580 But then he admits, he says that's increasingly difficult, particularly in the U.S.

00:24:11.040 Well, why is it difficult?

00:24:12.080 Because you don't like the conservatives, so that's why.

00:24:14.980 And because your values that you admit that you have lead you, naturally, to form a conclusion.

00:24:21.120 There's this lie of liberalism that we're all supposed to be skeptical forever.

00:24:24.640 We all need to just, Bill Buckley writes about this in God and Man at Yale,

00:24:28.320 this lie of liberalism that we're all supposed to just keep our minds perfectly open

00:24:32.260 and even doubt our own views as we're engaging in action.

00:24:35.940 And Buckley makes the point, even though many people who invoke Buckley today

00:24:39.500 would disagree with this, but Buckley makes the point,

00:24:43.120 skepticism is only useful in as much as it leads you to conviction.

00:24:48.920 You keep your mind open, you consider lots of ideas, then you come to a conclusion.

00:24:52.660 Instagram did that.

00:24:54.260 Now, does that mean social media should lose its right to the special legal protections they have?

00:25:01.160 Because they're allegedly not political?

00:25:03.340 Because they allegedly don't make these decisions?

00:25:05.160 Good question for federal regulators and litigators to take stock of,

00:25:11.460 especially in these waning days of the Trump administration.

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00:26:43.560 The left is about to get very harsh with the right.

00:26:47.340 We've been talking about this mostly in the realm of social media.

00:26:51.160 We don't get to tweet, whatever.

00:26:52.820 You know, we don't get to post certain things on the internet.

00:26:55.520 It's going to be a lot harsher than that.

00:26:58.640 You're going to long for the days when your biggest problem was what you could and couldn't tweet.

00:27:02.940 And we've been sounding the warning bell on this for a long time.

00:27:08.760 It's going to involve the sort of commerce you're allowed to engage in.

00:27:12.520 Are you allowed to call an Uber?

00:27:14.140 Are you allowed to get delivery food?

00:27:16.320 Are you allowed to use certain basic commercial systems?

00:27:22.960 Are you allowed to bank?

00:27:24.980 You know, you have a bank, right?

00:27:25.940 You keep your money in the bank.

00:27:27.320 Some conservatives keep all their money in their mattress,

00:27:28.940 but most, I would say, use a bank.

00:27:30.900 Well, that could come into question.

00:27:34.180 Not just for Joe Schmoll in the street,

00:27:36.100 even up to and including the duly elected sitting president.

00:27:40.640 Deutsche Bank made an announcement yesterday,

00:27:43.860 said that they will not lend to Trump anymore.

00:27:48.160 President Trump has business holdings all around the world.

00:27:51.360 Trump obviously takes out loans to grow his businesses.

00:27:55.960 And one of those banks that he's worked with in the past will not lend to him.

00:28:02.160 Are they not going to lend to him because he's not a worthy

00:28:04.640 creditor or a worthy borrower, rather?

00:28:09.720 Is that it?

00:28:10.260 Because they don't think he'll pay it back?

00:28:11.560 No, I think he'll probably pay it back.

00:28:13.140 He's the most famous, powerful man in the world, at least on paper.

00:28:16.380 His brand has been extremely successful for decades and decades.

00:28:20.240 I don't think it's that.

00:28:21.180 It's because they don't like his politics.

00:28:23.340 And so they're not going to lend him money.

00:28:24.560 So he's not going to be permitted to engage in his commerce, to grow his businesses.

00:28:30.960 Now, you might say, well, Michael, look, that's just the beautiful, wonderful free market working.

00:28:36.580 And don't you love that?

00:28:37.960 Don't you want a completely unfettered free market with no regulations?

00:28:40.980 I don't want that.

00:28:42.260 I know that a lot of liberals seem to think this is a very powerful argument

00:28:46.400 against conservatives these days, particularly when we talk about regulating tech.

00:28:50.080 That's not what conservatives believe.

00:28:51.980 That might be what some caricature of a libertarian from some cartoon in the 1980s believes.

00:28:58.160 But that's not what conservatives believe.

00:29:00.060 And it's really not what the conservative tradition has ever embraced.

00:29:03.960 Putting that aside for a second, though, I don't want to live in a society where people's political views are going to,

00:29:11.760 particularly mainstream political views, are going to completely ostracize them from engaging in any kind of commerce.

00:29:19.560 But you say, Deutsche Bank has no obligation to lend Trump money.

00:29:23.920 Okay.

00:29:24.660 If Trump doesn't have a right to borrow money, I guess none of us do,

00:29:28.960 does Trump have a right to use banking services?

00:29:32.320 Does he have the right to put his money in a bank?

00:29:37.140 Do you have that right?

00:29:39.040 Do you think banks should be allowed, based on people's political views,

00:29:44.200 mainstream political views, to say, we're going to close your bank accounts.

00:29:48.520 Put it under the mattress.

00:29:49.760 Good luck.

00:29:51.020 Probably don't have a lot of FDIC insurance on that mattress, but sorry, we're not going to do business with you.

00:29:56.820 I don't think so.

00:29:57.700 I don't want to live in that society.

00:29:58.800 That is increasingly the society that we are going to be living in.

00:30:03.040 Signature Bank, which is a New York lender that has long catered to the Trump family,

00:30:08.400 is closing two personal bank accounts in which President Trump is holding about $5.3 million.

00:30:16.760 This is according to a spokesman, not for Trump, but for the bank.

00:30:21.760 The bank is also calling for the president to step aside before his term officially ends on January 20th.

00:30:29.660 Bad enough that hipster Rasputin over there in Silicon Valley thinks that he has the right to tell the president what he can say

00:30:36.340 and what he cannot say, what he can do and what he cannot do.

00:30:40.140 Now you've got a bank in New York, a New York bank,

00:30:43.120 saying we ought to be more powerful than the duly elected president.

00:30:47.960 We want him to step aside and we're going to close his bank accounts.

00:30:51.940 They're not just coming for Trump.

00:30:57.280 I want to dispel this rumor, this absolute canard that if some other Republican had gotten the nomination in 2016,

00:31:08.380 first of all, that that Republican would have won.

00:31:10.240 I'm not sure of that.

00:31:11.200 But even if that Republican had won, rather, then the left would have gone easy and the temperature would be lower

00:31:17.320 and everything would be fine.

00:31:18.300 There were many, many articles published in 2015 and 2016 with, with variations on this headline.

00:31:28.360 Everyone's worried about Trump, but Rubio is much scarier.

00:31:32.400 You're all worried about Trump, but you should be much more afraid of Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney, who's a joke.

00:31:39.800 He's a liberal, milquetoast, supine, submissive squish for the liberal establishment. 0.77

00:31:47.640 I don't know how many more adjectives I could possibly use to describe how liberal, by Republican standards, Mitt Romney is. 0.89

00:31:56.720 In, in 2012, the president-elect, Joe Biden, said he wanted to put black people back in chains. 0.93

00:32:06.760 In 2012, they said Mitt Romney was a homophobic assailant who would clip the hair of some gay guy in school or something. 0.95

00:32:16.680 Remember that story? 0.99

00:32:17.640 He is so vicious. 0.97

00:32:18.960 He's such a psycho that he put his dog on the roof of the family car in a cage when he went on vacation. 0.99

00:32:25.320 Remember that? 0.93

00:32:26.920 Remember that storyline? 0.98

00:32:29.240 That psycho, Mitt Romney, that maniac who wanted to take his dog on vacation? 0.97

00:32:34.580 Who does? 1.00

00:32:35.180 I don't, I would never take a dog on vacation.

00:32:37.580 It's a nice enough guy.

00:32:38.480 I don't even like Mitt Romney, but he's a nice enough guy that he brings his dog on vacation. 0.99

00:32:41.900 And that is evidence that he's a psycho. 0.68

00:32:43.820 They would have done this to any Republican. 0.97

00:32:46.320 Maybe Trump is a little funnier about it. 1.00

00:32:48.700 Maybe he's a little more of a jerk about it. 1.00

00:32:50.820 So he fires them up a little bit more. 0.99

00:32:52.860 But in other ways, Trump is a little more liberal in his behavior and in his historical views.

00:32:59.460 In his, you know, much of his career in New York, he was kind of a more liberal guy.

00:33:04.260 In some ways, they like Trump more than, remember, they said, we hate Trump, but you can't impeach Trump because Pence is worse. 0.98

00:33:10.420 Pence is going to electrocute gays. 1.00

00:33:12.260 Remember that storyline? 0.99

00:33:13.460 What was that based on?

00:33:14.540 Nothing.

00:33:15.720 But that was the way, oh, you got to watch out for Pence.

00:33:17.680 Now, because they just turn on any Republican who's in office is got to be the incarnation of evil. 0.98

00:33:23.500 You have to say anyone who even possibly could oppose Trump is so much better, which is why they have a strange new respect for Mitt Romney, for Bill Kristol, who they used to call a work criminal, or the Cheney family used to call them work criminals, or Pence used to say he was a maniac electrocuting homosexuals. 0.97

00:33:41.500 It's so naive, so naive to think that that's just about Trump. 0.91

00:33:48.100 It's not about Trump.

00:33:49.280 They're not after Trump.

00:33:50.160 They're after you.

00:33:51.580 It's not just some bank in New York.

00:33:53.780 Here's, here's Forbes.

00:33:56.620 Forbes magazine says, a truth reckoning, why we're holding those who lied for Trump accountable.

00:34:02.120 This is written by Randall Lane. 0.97

00:34:04.880 He's the sort of adult man who, who wears a very silly looking fedora.

00:34:09.900 So it tells you a lot about him, chief content officer and editor of Forbes. 0.96

00:34:16.140 He's talking about the insurrection and the lies and the blah, blah, blah, kind of boilerplate Democrat talking points.

00:34:23.580 But then he comes to his point.

00:34:25.820 He says that if any company hires President Trump's ex-press secretaries, ex-spokesmen, people like Kayleigh McEnany,

00:34:38.140 people like Sarah Sanders, people like Kellyanne Conway, who would speak for the president on television.

00:34:44.340 If any firms hire them, Forbes will destroy those companies.

00:34:48.860 Forbes will take special measures to try to destroy those companies because they want these people who worked for Trump to be unemployable.

00:34:56.920 Talk about the patriarchy.

00:35:00.600 He's specifically talking about all these women.

00:35:02.740 He says, look, ex-press secretaries of the, at the White House, they go out and they make a lot of money.

00:35:07.640 Guys like Ari Fleischer or Jay Carney and okay, that's fine.

00:35:10.640 But we don't want the Trump ones to make money.

00:35:13.520 We want their lives to be ruined.

00:35:15.220 We want them to be completely ostracized from society.

00:35:17.700 They're not just talking about Kayleigh.

00:35:19.420 First of all, I think 10,000 swords should leave from their scabbards to avenge even an insulting glance at Kayleigh McEnany, all right?

00:35:26.560 But it's not just about Kayleigh.

00:35:28.760 It's not just about Sarah.

00:35:30.160 It's not just about Kellyanne.

00:35:32.040 It's about you.

00:35:34.860 The Forbes content, chief content officer is coming after you. 0.87

00:35:41.760 What he's, what he's really saying, the subtext of this column is, we don't want any of you people who supported Trump, any of you 75 million Nazis, irredeemable deplorables. 0.57

00:35:53.780 We don't want any of you to have a job ever again.

00:35:56.000 We don't want you to be able to vote ever again.

00:35:58.200 We don't want you to be able to speak ever again on social media.

00:36:02.040 We don't want you to have anything to do with society.

00:36:07.460 You saw this from a lawyer at PBS.

00:36:09.900 PBS, your taxpayer dollars at work, funding PBS, which we know is very left-wing.

00:36:16.860 I don't know why we fund it.

00:36:18.540 If I ever find myself in a position of political authority, I will very much look forward to defunding it.

00:36:27.340 But PBS goes out and gets caught up in a Project Veritas investigation.

00:36:32.460 James O'Keefe speaking with a principal counsel at PBS who says, not only, forget about what Forbes is talking about, you know, keep Trump supporters from getting jobs ever again.

00:36:44.760 Forget about what the banks are saying.

00:36:46.660 Prevent Trump from being able to engage in commerce.

00:36:49.940 This PBS principal counsel says, we need to go to conservatives, take their children away from them, by force, obviously, and then send those children to re-education camps to make them liberal.

00:37:02.520 If anyone Biden wins, we'll go through a lot of Republican voters and Homeland Security with their children and their children.

00:37:12.040 We know that.

00:37:14.080 And we'll put them into re-education camps. 0.99

00:37:16.600 Amen.

00:37:18.060 And these times, which are unique.

00:37:23.100 We need to be as close as they get there.

00:37:26.900 What are we going to do if we don't, like, we condemn it.

00:37:29.220 Go to the White House and throw a mouthful cocktail.

00:37:33.040 Those kids who are growing up, knowing nothing about Trump, you know, for four years, you've got to wonder what else they're going to be like. 0.98

00:37:40.700 Are we raising a generation of intolerant, you know, horrible people, horrible kids? 0.93

00:37:49.440 We might be, gosh, in this Trump era, we might be raising a generation of horrible people.

00:37:55.560 Not like this guy, who is just trying to take conservatives' children away from them and ship them to re-education camps, even if the Democrats win.

00:38:06.240 Now, you might say, oh, he's just mouthing off at a bar.

00:38:08.540 Who knows?

00:38:08.980 He's just talking to some undercover person.

00:38:11.500 Yeah, he's mouthing off at a bar.

00:38:13.420 In vino veritas, I guess, huh?

00:38:15.720 He doesn't, he doesn't seem drunk, first of all.

00:38:18.140 I don't, I don't even, I don't even know if they're drinking.

00:38:20.460 You might say, oh, come on.

00:38:21.280 It's an unguarded moment.

00:38:22.100 Maybe he's joking.

00:38:22.900 Does he sound like he's joking to you?

00:38:25.020 Shows you another bit, talk about naivete that we're seeing from some of these Republicans who are sincerely thinking we ought to impeach Trump.

00:38:34.760 There was an argument that was made before the election.

00:38:37.980 They said, look, maybe Joe Biden should win.

00:38:40.840 Just bring the temperature down.

00:38:42.320 I've, I heard conservative friends of mine say this, and they didn't want to do it, and they didn't vote for Biden, but they're saying, maybe if Biden wins, it'll bring the temperature down.

00:38:50.100 It won't.

00:38:52.020 It's going to turn the temperature up because they're going to get their revenge, and they're going to have the means to accomplish it, and they're already doing that.

00:38:59.300 It's the same thing with the masks.

00:39:00.740 You hear, I think, a very naive argument from conservatives who go along with the lockdown measures.

00:39:06.080 You know, what are we doing now, like the 320th day to slow the spread?

00:39:09.100 And they say, look, I like the mask.

00:39:11.660 I wear the mask.

00:39:12.300 Not because I think it does very much of anything, but because the mask, if that allows us to get back to normal society, I'll wear it.

00:39:20.480 The mask is not going to help you get back to some semblance of normal society.

00:39:24.540 It's going to make things much less normal.

00:39:27.040 It's not going to ease people's anxieties.

00:39:28.940 It's going to ramp up their anxieties.

00:39:31.200 If you go out and you don't wear the mask, like I have done for basically this whole time, except in the very limited circumstances where I have to wear a mask, I got an airplane, for instance.

00:39:41.180 If you go out and you just don't wear the mask and you see a lot of other people not wearing the mask, you're going to be relatively calm.

00:39:46.340 If you go out and you see everybody masked up like it's the freaking apocalypse, your anxiety is not going to be calmed.

00:39:53.260 It's going to be greatly increased.

00:39:56.920 The temperature is going up.

00:40:00.760 Fortunately, PBS fired that guy.

00:40:02.740 How many more of that guy are there at PBS, at the banks, at social media companies, at the mainstream media companies?

00:40:13.240 How many more people are there?

00:40:14.800 You know, the temperature has gotten so high right now that it is now politically incorrect.

00:40:24.960 You will be ostracized if you accept the highest civilian honor in the United States from President Trump.

00:40:33.920 Bill Belichick, who I guess is some sort of athlete person.

00:40:37.640 I know, he's the Patriots guy, right?

00:40:40.080 But I don't, I don't, I don't watch a ton of football, okay?

00:40:43.280 And I'm a New Yorker, so I certainly don't, don't watch the Patriots.

00:40:46.360 Bill Belichick though, great American, very impressive guy.

00:40:49.820 He was offered the Medal of Freedom from the president.

00:40:53.720 He was very excited.

00:40:54.720 He's been friends with Trump for a long time.

00:40:56.740 He turned it down.

00:40:57.540 Here's a statement.

00:40:58.240 I was recently offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom,

00:41:01.440 which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honor represents, and admiration for prior recipients.

00:41:07.200 Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred, and the decision has been not to move forward with this award.

00:41:12.880 Notice the, the passive voice here.

00:41:15.040 Notice he's not saying, I made the decision.

00:41:16.540 He's saying, I was pressured to, to not accept the award.

00:41:20.120 Because the orange man is so bad.

00:41:24.460 Because his supporters are so bad. 0.93

00:41:27.640 Because there are 75 million Nazis in the United States, according to the left.

00:41:34.700 That even the nation's highest civilian honor, it's too hot, can't touch it.

00:41:41.440 Temperature is going up, folks, and they're coming for you.

00:41:45.140 So, a lot of this hinges on very, very dangerous ideologies. 1.00

00:41:53.960 Very, very dangerous and, and stupid and false premises. 1.00

00:41:57.740 But the, the premises allow the left to go very, very far. 1.00

00:42:01.020 I just read, I'm sorry to say, a headline from Hillary Clinton in the Washington Post.

00:42:08.400 Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former future president, quote,

00:42:12.580 quote, Trump should be impeached, but that alone won't remove white supremacy from America.

00:42:21.100 Huh?

00:42:21.800 White supremacy?

00:42:22.760 What does white supremacy have to do with anything?

00:42:24.840 Hillary writes, first line, Wednesday's attack on the Capitol was the tragically predictable

00:42:29.260 result of white supremacist grievances fueled by President Trump.

00:42:33.360 Wait, what?

00:42:34.240 I thought it was an insurrection.

00:42:36.500 Like, I mean, that's, I don't think it was really that either.

00:42:39.680 I think it was an unruly mob.

00:42:41.020 Some people though, some people there may have genuinely wanted to overthrow the government,

00:42:44.640 didn't have a plan to do it, but maybe they did.

00:42:46.100 Okay, I'll, I'm willing to at least entertain the insurrection word.

00:42:50.180 White supremacist, where you get that?

00:42:51.700 Did you see Klan hoods marching up and down?

00:42:53.500 No, if, if Hillary saw a Klan hood at the Capitol, she would have hugged it. 0.81

00:42:56.660 She might've thought it was her friend and mentor, Robert Byrd.

00:43:00.000 White supremacist, where you get that?

00:43:01.580 Because white supremacist doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:43:06.280 I think at some point it meant something.

00:43:07.960 It doesn't mean anything now.

00:43:08.960 It just means something I don't like in the way that George Warwell explained that fascism,

00:43:13.620 which once I suppose had a meaning, now just means something I don't like if you're on

00:43:18.480 the left. 0.92

00:43:19.500 People actually use fascist that way on the right too, which I think is kind of silly. 0.82

00:43:22.800 But now on the, on the right or on the left rather, you just hear white supremacist, 0.98

00:43:28.820 white nationalist, that's all manner of evil, the incarnation of evil, white supremacism. 1.00

00:43:34.200 And she goes on to stupid op-ed. 1.00

00:43:35.540 It's not, not even worth wasting our time on the air. 1.00

00:43:38.160 But she says, this is the problem.

00:43:40.160 The, the Capitol riot, that's just an expression.

00:43:43.120 And we got rid of Trump.

00:43:44.080 Okay. 0.98

00:43:44.200 That's just an expression of the eternal evil here called white supremacism. 0.94

00:43:49.400 If white supremacy is really the big evil, shouldn't Hillary Clinton have not run for 1.00

00:43:53.100 president? 0.99

00:43:53.780 Shouldn't Hillary Clinton shut her mouth? 1.00

00:43:56.480 She's white. 1.00

00:43:57.140 And white, white supremacy is, is the evil, ultimate evil. 1.00

00:44:00.740 So she should stop talking, right? 1.00

00:44:02.720 Stop publishing op-eds. 0.96

00:44:03.820 Is the answer to white supremacy electing an old white guy? 0.82

00:44:06.700 Joe Biden?

00:44:07.640 I don't know.

00:44:07.900 Is he going to fix white supremacy?

00:44:09.320 Ah, it doesn't make sense.

00:44:10.140 But this is an ideology that has spread.

00:44:12.220 There was a TikTok video that just went viral of some kooky liberal woman holding a little

00:44:18.100 baby.

00:44:18.740 She's a white woman. 1.00

00:44:19.460 All her kids are white. 0.88

00:44:21.560 She's holding a little white baby and she's got two other little white kids. 0.97

00:44:24.520 And she instructs her children to kneel down and worship black women. 0.99

00:44:31.060 Black women are the reason that Donald Trump is no longer going to be our president. 1.00

00:44:37.180 All hail black women. 0.99

00:44:41.980 All hail black women. 0.70

00:44:43.500 You know, on Sundays, I go to the traditional Latin mass.

00:44:49.340 Usually.

00:44:49.780 Sometimes I have to go to not Latin mass.

00:44:51.320 Usually it's the traditional Latin mass, the smells and the bells, the Gregorian chant.

00:44:54.520 And some people say, Michael, that's a little weird.

00:44:57.020 Oh man, that's, that liturgy is pretty weird.

00:45:01.100 I don't think it's even one one zillionth as strange, even to outsiders, as this liturgy

00:45:08.200 of liberalism whereby little children are made to kneel and worship black women.

00:45:12.200 There are these votive candles, these sort of like, you know, very religious iconography

00:45:17.120 all over the candles of Stacey Abrams.

00:45:19.100 I seriously, it's like peak liberal white woman is that sort of a candle. 1.00

00:45:26.000 But this is, we can laugh about it.

00:45:28.380 This is a dangerous ideology.

00:45:30.080 Joe Biden's pick for the Department of Justice, a civil rights division.

00:45:34.240 Very, very powerful position.

00:45:36.120 Tucker Carlson broke the story the other day.

00:45:37.640 There's a woman named Kristen Clark, who while at Harvard wrote a lot of things about kooky

00:45:42.780 racial theories.

00:45:43.900 She said, please use the following theories and observations to assist you in your search

00:45:47.520 for truth regarding the genetic differences between blacks and whites.

00:45:50.580 At the core of the human brain is the locus coruleus, which is a black structure because 0.97

00:45:55.340 it contains large amounts of neuromelanin, which are essential for its operation.

00:45:59.280 Black infants sit, stand, crawl, and walk sooner than whites. 1.00

00:46:02.740 Human mental processes are controlled by melanin, which gives blacks their superior physical 1.00

00:46:07.440 and mental abilities. 0.91

00:46:08.820 Most whites are unable to produce melanin because their pineal glands are calcified or

00:46:12.120 non-functioning.

00:46:13.100 This is the chemical basis for the cultural differences between blacks and whites. 0.89

00:46:16.740 Melanin endows blacks with greater mental, physical, and spiritual abilities, something 0.99

00:46:21.300 which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards. 0.98

00:46:23.980 This is the same kooky nonsense that the actor Nick Cannon was talking about.

00:46:29.040 He got in a little bit of trouble, though he didn't really lose his jobs, or he didn't

00:46:32.500 lose his career at least, a number of months ago.

00:46:35.040 He said melanin, melanin, blackness, that is the mark of humanity and soul.

00:46:40.600 Take a listen.

00:46:42.400 Melanin comes with compassion.

00:46:44.260 Melanin comes with soul that we call it.

00:46:46.260 We call it soul.

00:46:47.080 We soul brothers and sisters.

00:46:48.780 That's the melanin that connects us.

00:46:50.240 So the people that don't have it have are are a little and I'm going to say this carefully

00:46:55.640 are a little less and and and and where the term actually comes from because I'm bringing

00:47:03.000 it all the way back around to Minister Farrakhan to where they may not have the compassion or

00:47:09.320 the the when they were sent to the mountains of Caucasus when they when they didn't have

00:47:14.640 the power of the sun that was that the sun then started to deteriorate them.

00:47:21.020 The only way that they can act is evil.

00:47:23.600 The only way they can they have to rob, steal, rape, kill and fight or flight in order to survive. 0.94

00:47:30.000 Exactly.

00:47:30.420 So then these people who didn't have what we had.

00:47:33.880 And when I say we I speak of the melanated people.

00:47:36.920 Right. 0.97

00:47:37.160 They had to be savages. 0.99

00:47:39.220 They had to be barbaric. 0.77

00:47:41.840 They had because they're in these Nordic mountains.

00:47:44.040 They're in these rough torrential environments.

00:47:47.920 So they they're acting as animals.

00:47:50.580 Right.

00:47:50.740 So they're the ones that are actually closer to animals.

00:47:54.740 Closer to animals.

00:47:55.640 Nick Cannon could lead the civil rights division at Joe Biden's DOJ.

00:47:59.500 He and Joe Biden's actual pick have the same views as we read in her Harvard writing.

00:48:07.880 The left calls all of us Nazis because Nazis in common parlance are the absolute incarnation of evil.

00:48:14.480 You know in Christianity we have the absolute incarnation of good in Christ.

00:48:17.560 In secular liberalism modern liberalism we have the absolute incarnation of evil. 0.99

00:48:21.740 And it's just Nazis white supremacists whatever skinheads. 0.97

00:48:24.680 And so the left is going to call all of us that to justify doing whatever they want to us. 0.97

00:48:29.620 Ostracizing us from society entirely.

00:48:31.820 Preventing us from engaging in commerce.

00:48:33.420 Depriving us of civil liberties.

00:48:34.940 They're going to feel good while they do it.

00:48:36.120 The irony is actually white racial consciousness as measured by Pew is very very low.

00:48:40.800 It's about 15 percent compared to every other race which is higher than 50 percent. 0.95

00:48:45.860 Also obviously according to Pew.

00:48:48.180 I don't get into the racial identity stuff.

00:48:51.660 This is you know I.

00:48:52.880 The left is really the ones promoting identity politics.

00:48:56.040 The right generally eschews it.

00:48:57.860 But what the left has this special trick here they're pushing is they decry white identity politics while at the same time they foment it.

00:49:07.240 They foster it.

00:49:08.200 That is the basis.

00:49:09.120 That's the premise. 1.00

00:49:09.720 So we can all giggle at their silly videos and stupid writings. 1.00

00:49:12.480 But that is a dangerous situation. 1.00

00:49:14.480 And naive Republicans should not blame the right for how ugly American politics is getting.

00:49:19.960 That blame lays almost entirely with the left.

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Ep. 679 - Revenge Of The Squishes

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