The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 686 - Sleepy Joe’s Eternal Lockdown

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00:00:30.000 On this 316th day of 15 Days to Slow the Spread, President Joe Biden has a message for all of us,

00:00:37.120 and it's a pretty simple one.

00:00:38.300 It's common sense, if you ask me.

00:00:40.060 This pandemic is going to take a whole lot longer before we can return to normal.

00:00:46.860 I'm going to shut down the virus, but I never said I'd do it in two months.

00:00:50.100 I said it took a long time to get here.

00:00:52.380 It's going to take a long time to beat it.

00:00:54.700 And so we have millions of people out there who have the virus.

00:00:58.520 We're just, for the first day, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, I've been doing other things this morning, speaking with foreign leaders.

00:01:05.040 But one of the things I think, this is one of the first days, that the numbers actually come down, the number of deaths and the number on a daily basis and the number of hospitalizations, etc.

00:01:14.160 It's going to take time.

00:01:16.580 It's going to take a heck of a lot of time.

00:01:18.540 And we still have, as Dr. Fauci constantly points out, it's one thing when we have mass, how can I say it politely, mass disregard of the warnings about not wearing masks and wearing masks and social distancing and failure to social distance and people getting together on holidays in ways that weren't recommended, etc.

00:01:42.440 We see the first thing that happens is we see the number of infections go up.

00:01:48.780 Then you see the hospitalizations go up.

00:01:50.500 Then you see the deaths go up.

00:01:52.220 Poor Joe Biden.

00:01:53.640 He's not the brightest bulb in the pack.

00:01:55.700 So he realizes, as he launches into this invective against the people who don't wear the masks and don't listen to the experts, even when the experts change their mind all the time, in the 316th day of slow the spread, as he realizes he's, as he's going through this, this motion, he realizes he's not wearing the mask.

00:02:13.600 So he's slowly, he says, and people, they're not listening to the mask mandates in there.

00:02:16.920 Whoopsie daisy.

00:02:17.560 And they're not, no, no, no.

00:02:18.960 And that's why we're going to be locked down forever.

00:02:22.020 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:22.800 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:23.680 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:47.240 You're not, that's, this is too serious.

00:02:49.120 You're not allowed to make that kind of joke, but it's pretty, pretty funny.

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00:04:24.020 President Biden finally gets the message because,

00:04:27.860 and I said this in the months before the presidential election.

00:04:30.600 I said, you know, we've all been joking about how the virus is going to be cured the day after the election,

00:04:34.660 but I'm not so sure because this is a tremendous amount of power that liberal elites have grabbed.

00:04:41.800 Power in the administrative state, power in elective office, power in corporate America,

00:04:47.540 especially big, big business like Amazon, for instance.

00:04:50.560 Power in all of these various sectors.

00:04:52.740 I don't think they're going to give it up so quickly.

00:04:54.660 And that seems to have been proven correct.

00:04:57.200 Now they're going to say, no, it's going to go on and on and on.

00:04:59.860 We're going to have to keep watching ourselves.

00:05:02.380 Why is this dragging on?

00:05:03.540 Because people aren't wearing masks.

00:05:05.240 Now, of course, that doesn't make any sense at all.

00:05:07.400 The places with the most draconian mask policies,

00:05:10.080 the places with some of the highest mask compliance in the world,

00:05:12.900 are also some of the cities where the virus has been surging.

00:05:16.480 Not uniformly.

00:05:18.980 And there are plenty of places where people aren't wearing masks and the virus is surging too.

00:05:22.800 So just to say that perhaps Fauci's original guidance,

00:05:26.400 that the masks are not quite as effective as people think, maybe that was correct.

00:05:30.420 But Fauci's changed his mind.

00:05:32.320 Yesterday, we reported on this new idea from the New York Times that people should wear multiple masks.

00:05:37.320 And I began to say that this was Fauci's new bright idea.

00:05:41.600 But I said, no, Fauci himself hasn't said it yet.

00:05:44.720 I knew he was going to because Fauci just goes along with whatever political current is convenient for him.

00:05:51.480 But at that time, he hadn't said it.

00:05:54.020 It took him about 12 hours to say it.

00:05:56.040 And now he's going along to Dr. Fauci says, come on, guys.

00:05:59.140 It's common sense.

00:06:00.440 Just wear two masks.

00:06:02.240 A lot of folks are hearing now about double masking,

00:06:06.020 wearing two masks or trying to get one of those N95 medical grade masks.

00:06:11.100 Do you believe that that's advisable and makes a difference?

00:06:15.300 You know, it likely does, because, I mean, this is a physical covering to prevent droplets and virus to get in.

00:06:24.280 So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on,

00:06:28.640 it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective.

00:06:32.220 And that's the reason why you see people either double masking or doing a version of an N95.

00:06:37.740 Dr. Fauci, if it's just common sense that we should all be wearing two masks all of a sudden,

00:06:46.960 if that's just common sense and it's obviously going to provide more protection against the virus,

00:06:51.300 why wouldn't you have told us that 10 months ago?

00:06:55.020 This has been going on for 10 months.

00:06:59.000 We are closing in on a year of this epidemic.

00:07:01.700 If this is common sense that we should just wear two masks, I guess pretty soon it's going to be three masks.

00:07:08.880 Pretty soon you're going to put a donut on your head and hop up and down on a pogo stick. 0.95

00:07:11.880 It's common sense.

00:07:12.780 If that's common sense, what took so long?

00:07:16.920 Because Fauci says it and he seems totally reasonable.

00:07:19.860 He goes, look, hey, thanks so much for having me on.

00:07:22.180 Look, guys, it's common sense.

00:07:23.260 All right, just do it.

00:07:24.540 I'm a follow the science kind of guy.

00:07:26.560 I'm a science guy.

00:07:27.720 Forget about, I have no political views.

00:07:29.960 Just do exactly what I say because it's science.

00:07:32.820 But he sounded just as reasonable.

00:07:35.180 He sounded just as scientific when 10 months ago he said it was common sense that the masks don't do nothing.

00:07:43.860 Right now people should not be walking.

00:07:45.560 There's no reason to be walking around with a mask.

00:07:48.380 When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better

00:07:54.940 and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.

00:08:03.180 And often there are unintended consequences.

00:08:06.880 People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.

00:08:09.840 There is no reason to wear a mask, says Dr. Fauci, in a perfectly commonsensical way.

00:08:19.220 In fact, maybe it stops a droplet, okay, but there could be unintended consequences that actually make all this worse.

00:08:26.100 No reason to, it makes people feel better, but come on, guys, use your head, common sense.

00:08:33.320 Until Fauci says, use your head, it's common sense to wear two masks or three masks or four masks.

00:08:39.480 It's common sense.

00:08:40.220 This is really pathetic that anybody is listening to this guy anymore.

00:08:43.860 It's sad.

00:08:45.000 I'm not saying this in a condemnatory way.

00:08:47.420 I'm not, I'm not even making fun of people.

00:08:49.760 I, I pity the people who still think that this guy has any credibility or that any of these technocrats have any credibility.

00:08:59.420 These doctor dictators, it's a sad thing.

00:09:03.140 You've got to think for yourself.

00:09:04.220 Use your common sense.

00:09:05.260 Listen to Dr. Fauci only in this regard.

00:09:08.320 Use your common sense.

00:09:10.260 And they're all now, they're all condemning the former president, the former administration.

00:09:17.440 They're all running as quickly as they can away.

00:09:19.940 Oh, it's so good to be in an administration now that believes in science and lets these, these technocrats do whatever they want.

00:09:27.420 Fauci is not the only one.

00:09:28.580 Jerome Adams, who is the former surgeon general under President Trump, he is coming out now and begging the liberal elite and the establishment and the media for forgiveness,

00:09:41.560 for committing the heinous crime of working as the surgeon general in the Trump administration.

00:09:46.660 And that is really pitiful.

00:09:48.760 I feel, he seems like a nice enough guy.

00:09:50.580 I don't know, he's an impressive guy in his own right.

00:09:52.180 Isn't he an admiral, a surgeon general?

00:09:54.320 But it's pathetic what he's reduced himself to.

00:09:57.260 And, and the way in which he's begging forgiveness is even more pathetic.

00:10:01.940 Jerome Adams writes, quote,

00:10:03.240 If Dr. Birx or I weren't there, many medical slash public health conversations would have had no input whatsoever from a woman or a person of color.

00:10:21.640 That's a heavy cross to bear.

00:10:23.340 Are you kidding me?

00:10:24.060 Let, let me ask you, I, I'm going to try to make this point in a, the least provocative way I can, because I know we're living in a very politically correct culture.

00:10:34.460 What is the benefit to the study of a virus in the implementation of policies that will slow the spread of the virus?

00:10:45.260 What is the benefit in and of itself of having a woman or a person of color give that opinion? 0.54

00:10:51.820 What is, what, what medical and scientific benefit is derived from Dr. Birx's genitals or Jerome Adams's skin color that uniquely qualified him to give advice on the virus?

00:11:07.060 First of all, as far as I can tell, that entire team of genius technocrat virus experts of all colors and all sexes completely botched the public health messaging.

00:11:20.120 The one thing they got right was how quickly they got the vaccine out.

00:11:23.000 Everything else, they completely screwed up.

00:11:25.600 So not a big recommendation, but how pathetic, this guy, Jerome Adams is a real guy.

00:11:30.700 Admiral, career of military service, rose to the highest level of his profession in the government.

00:11:38.460 Surgeon general of the United States.

00:11:40.120 And the, the best thing he can say to recommend himself is the color of his skin.

00:11:44.460 What a bizarre world we're living in that that's the case.

00:11:47.800 Why on earth does this have to be a race thing?

00:11:53.240 Because race in particular, but sex also, and all of these various identity groups has become a national obsession.

00:12:02.300 It's, it's used by the left in a very destructive way.

00:12:06.820 And it was developed over the course of at least a hundred years.

00:12:12.200 And this is actually part of my new book that's coming out pretty soon, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

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00:12:21.320 This was developed intentionally by the left as a means of subverting the traditional standards

00:12:27.240 and getting all Americans to hate one another and implementing their, their agenda.

00:12:30.800 But it's not just the left.

00:12:33.720 Conservatives buy into this identity politics stuff too.

00:12:37.100 They are, they are so afraid of being called a sexist or a racist or a this phobe or a that phobe that they play into this sort of thing.

00:12:44.900 And I, I don't think it's respectful.

00:12:46.600 I think what Jerome Adams is saying here is, is so debasing.

00:12:50.520 He's so degrading himself by stooping to this level by, first of all, by apologizing for serving a surgeon general and then under the mean orange man and then defending it on the race card or defending Burks on the sex card. 0.53

00:13:07.620 That's pathetic.

00:13:08.540 Unfortunately though, conservatives play into this sometimes too.

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00:14:38.780 We are having the latest stage of a debate that has raged for years and years at this point over whether or not we should replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

00:14:50.380 I know this debate seems trivial.

00:14:54.980 Most people say, who cares?

00:14:57.800 The left cares because they've been pushing this for a long time.

00:15:01.720 The left cares a lot, and maybe there's a reason for that.

00:15:05.120 You know, the left cares a lot about these things that seem kind of small, like, for instance, gendered bathrooms, right?

00:15:12.660 The idea that men have to use the men's room and women have to use the women's room. 0.73

00:15:17.000 They say, I want some men to be able to use the women's room. 1.00

00:15:19.520 And what a lot of conservatives say is, oh, who cares?

00:15:21.840 Well, the left cares.

00:15:23.480 And their care about it is not frivolous.

00:15:26.500 They realize that in this symbol, this sort of, in itself, a relatively minor act, they can get a whole lot more of their political premises across.

00:15:36.760 That's what we're seeing here.

00:15:39.060 The proposal is to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman.

00:15:43.680 Harriet Tubman, the slave who escaped and got lots of other slaves to be freed as well, developed the Underground Railroad,

00:15:53.080 supported John Brown, who was the great abolitionist.

00:15:56.500 And so, therefore, we should put her on the $20 bill. 0.99

00:16:01.400 I'm against this idea.

00:16:03.540 I'm not against this idea because I don't like Harriet Tubman.

00:16:06.260 Harriet Tubman is a very admirable American.

00:16:09.360 I'm against this idea because of the political message that the left is trying to push with it and that conservatives are acquiescing to.

00:16:19.340 I would say most conservatives I know are for replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman specifically.

00:16:27.160 And the argument usually goes something like this.

00:16:29.060 They say, well, Andrew Jackson's the founder of the Democratic Party and Harriet Tubman's a gun-toting Republican. 0.55

00:16:35.480 So, yeah, fine by me, folks.

00:16:37.160 That's okay.

00:16:37.800 That's kind of what you hear in the general kind of conservative blue checkmark sphere.

00:16:44.680 However, you'll notice that the people who are actually pushing this, not the people who are acquiescing to it, but the people who are pushing this are Democrats.

00:16:55.460 And the people who have resisted it are Republicans.

00:16:58.420 President Trump slowed this process down for four years.

00:17:00.920 It was supposed to happen four years ago.

00:17:02.080 He put the kibosh on it.

00:17:03.840 Now it seems to be speeding up again.

00:17:07.140 So why is that?

00:17:08.840 Why is it that the Democrats are pushing the gun-toting Republican and the Republican is defending the founder of the Democratic Party?

00:17:16.320 Well, what people will tell you, usually leftists, but I suppose some conservatives too will tell you, is the reason that anyone would oppose this idea is because you're a racist.

00:17:27.480 Because you don't want black people on money. 1.00

00:17:30.080 That's why, right?

00:17:30.860 And there it is.

00:17:32.080 There, there it is.

00:17:33.980 And I think a lot of the reason that Republicans are so quick to jump out and say, no, I'm for it.

00:17:38.560 I think it's great.

00:17:39.140 It's because they, they're doing the thing that Republicans always do, which is trying to prove to the left that we're not racists, which is a fool's errand because the left, first of all, the left harbors much more racial bigotry than the right does.

00:17:51.720 I think that's without question at this point.

00:17:53.360 They're instituting legal racial discrimination on the left.

00:17:58.000 But also the left doesn't care.

00:17:59.480 They don't care that we're not racist or bigots or whatever.

00:18:01.760 It's just, they're just using it as a cudgel.

00:18:05.080 We're, we're, we're not, uh, you know, bigoted, but that's sort of beside the point.

00:18:11.060 We're talking about this issue here.

00:18:12.560 I think what the move to, to put Tubman on the bill is for is largely to get rid of Andrew Jackson.

00:18:20.900 Andrew Jackson has been much maligned in this country over the past couple of decades and Republicans have gone along with it, you know, sort of cynically.

00:18:27.800 They want to prove they want to prove they're not racists, I think, but also because, uh, he's the founder of the Democratic Party.

00:18:33.680 Andrew Jackson is a great American.

00:18:35.400 He was a hero of New Orleans.

00:18:37.020 He was an important president.

00:18:38.860 He was a good American leader.

00:18:40.080 He had many flaws, as do we all, and, and great men have great flaws, but the, the attack on Andrew Jackson is a way to attack our traditions and our founding fathers.

00:18:53.540 And all the great men that we've revered, they always go for the easy ones first.

00:18:59.380 They all, they always ban Alex Jones from the internet before they ban Donald Trump, right?

00:19:06.880 They, they want to ban the guys that nobody's going to defend and then they ramp it up and then they ramp it up and then they ramp it up and then they go for the sitting president of the United States and whole scores of mainstream conservatives.

00:19:19.920 It's the same thing with historical figures.

00:19:21.440 First, they go for Robert E. Lee.

00:19:23.140 What are you, some kind of Confederate?

00:19:24.800 What are you, some kind of racist?

00:19:27.520 And conservatives who, who understand what this game is about say, wait a second.

00:19:32.020 It's not about Robert Lee.

00:19:33.440 They're, they're going to go after Washington.

00:19:35.240 They're going to go after Jefferson.

00:19:36.580 Remember Trump said that in the speech and the left says, no, that's not true.

00:19:40.300 And then the squishy Republicans say, no, that's not true.

00:19:42.420 Lee's terrible.

00:19:43.240 He's all, we got to get rid of Lee.

00:19:45.820 And then two seconds later, they're toppling statues of Washington.

00:19:49.780 They're erasing his name from buildings.

00:19:53.740 They're getting rid of Jefferson.

00:19:55.420 They're getting rid of, because there's no end to it.

00:19:58.480 So sure, we get this little victory.

00:20:00.260 Yeah, we topple the leader of the, the founder of the Democratic Party.

00:20:03.300 Okay.

00:20:03.720 They're coming for all of them too.

00:20:05.140 And it's based on this idea, by the way, that is identity politics.

00:20:11.340 I think Harriet Tubman could deserve, I mean, she's been honored in many ways in this country,

00:20:16.140 but sure, put her on some denomination or something, put her on some money, make up a 0.53

00:20:19.260 coin like they did for Sacagawea, give Harriet Tubman some money. 1.00

00:20:21.940 That's fine.

00:20:22.860 It wouldn't be enough because it's about replacing Andrew Jackson.

00:20:27.040 And I think Harriet Tubman is being used here because of her sex and, and even more so because

00:20:32.260 of her race.

00:20:33.100 If this is really just about putting an abolitionist on money, why wouldn't we put John Brown on

00:20:37.120 the money?

00:20:37.740 Why not replace Andrew Jackson with John Brown?

00:20:39.840 Harriet Tubman herself greatly admired John Brown, said that John Brown in his death did

00:20:45.660 more than a hundred men could living.

00:20:49.420 Harriet Tubman aided John Brown, not in the actual raid on Harper's Ferry for which he was

00:20:54.880 most famous because she was either recovering from a sickness or whatever.

00:20:58.300 She was, she couldn't be found at that point, but she did aid him quite a lot.

00:21:01.680 So why not John Brown?

00:21:02.440 Well, John Brown's a white guy and be the people who are pushing this or they don't care about

00:21:05.980 Harriet Tubman.

00:21:06.720 They just care about identity politics.

00:21:09.320 And I, and we give in on this because we all like Harriet Tubman, but we're giving them 0.88

00:21:14.580 this premise when we replace a great American, Andrew Jackson, when we fail to defend more

00:21:23.220 broadly our American tradition.

00:21:24.900 Don't do it.

00:21:25.700 Don't fall for it.

00:21:26.420 It's a trick.

00:21:27.160 I mean, I, I get why political correctness has succeeded.

00:21:30.920 I get why the left has been so successful on the cultural front for the last 50 years,

00:21:35.140 certainly, and really for the last hundred years, because it's so subtle.

00:21:38.740 It's so hard to defend, but I think, I think we should.

00:21:41.540 Speaking of these sorts of putting people of various backgrounds on money, I should remind

00:21:48.380 you, by the way, it's not as though we don't have women of color on money.

00:21:52.520 Sacagawea, I just mentioned, we had Pocahontas on money as early as 1865.

00:21:57.480 We had her on banknotes as early as 1865, not, not Elizabeth Warren, who would not be a woman 0.97

00:22:03.420 of color, but, but the actual Pocahontas.

00:22:06.560 Well, speaking of Pocahontas and these tedious racial politics, Disney Plus is banning classic

00:22:12.340 movies from young audiences, audiences under seven, namely the people who watch Disney movies.

00:22:17.300 Which movies?

00:22:19.200 Dumbo, Peter Pan, Swiss Family Robinson, and the Aristocats.

00:22:23.860 No longer available for young users on the Disney Plus streaming service.

00:22:30.520 Why, you ask?

00:22:31.980 Well, because of political incorrectness, because of racism.

00:22:37.580 Here's why your kid can't watch Peter Pan right now on Disney Plus.

00:22:40.300 Quote, the film portrays native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the

00:22:46.320 diversity of native peoples, nor their authentic cultural traditions.

00:22:50.980 It shows them speaking in an unintelligible language and repeatedly refers to them as red

00:22:55.800 skins, an offensive term, according to white liberals, but not, not really deemed offensive

00:23:01.780 by Indians themselves.

00:23:03.540 Peter and the Lost Boys engage in dancing, wearing headdresses, and other exaggerated tropes,

00:23:07.700 a form of mockery and appropriation of native people's culture and imagery.

00:23:11.220 All of that's gobbledygook and it's completely meaningless.

00:23:14.560 Culture requires appropriation.

00:23:17.800 If you want to become cultured, you need to appropriate different aspects of culture.

00:23:23.800 You need to behave in certain ways.

00:23:26.980 You need to speak in certain ways.

00:23:28.680 You need to develop and cultivate, cultivate, from the same word as culture, certain tastes.

00:23:34.960 I'll, I'll, I'll try to be as, I always tell you, I try to be as unprovocative as I possibly

00:23:42.920 can.

00:23:43.560 I'm Italian.

00:23:45.740 I am well aware of Italian stereotypes.

00:23:48.860 We eat, like eating lasagna.

00:23:50.920 We talk with our hands, as you can see I'm doing right now.

00:23:53.500 We have certain, uh, stereotypes that go along with that culture, right?

00:23:58.520 If I strip away all of those stereotypes, I take away all the lasagna, all the pizza,

00:24:06.200 all the bippity-boppity-boo, all the speaking with your hands, all that kind of stuff,

00:24:09.420 all of the physical characteristics, because I don't want to be racist or culturally appropriative.

00:24:15.660 I have just erased the culture. 0.91

00:24:19.240 I have ironically done the thing that the left pretends they don't want to do, right?

00:24:24.760 Because the left castigates conservatives when we appropriate culture, but they also castigate

00:24:28.420 conservatives when we don't appropriate culture, when we erase culture.

00:24:31.980 It's a, it's a damned if you do, damned if you do scenario.

00:24:35.700 But we give into this because we're so afraid of being called racist or whatever.

00:24:39.740 Don't do it.

00:24:40.620 Racism is bad because it's an offense to human dignity.

00:24:43.040 That's why we shouldn't do it.

00:24:44.480 Good.

00:24:44.860 Done.

00:24:45.140 Put that in a box.

00:24:46.020 Tuck it away.

00:24:46.600 You're good.

00:24:47.300 Don't worry about it anymore.

00:24:48.360 Don't worry what these cynics and idiots and nefarious political actors think about you.

00:24:56.880 Got to get, got to get rid of political correctness, folks.

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00:25:57.480 These racial identity politics are, they've been farcical for a long time, but they're becoming 0.59

00:26:17.280 even more so.

00:26:18.940 And it would seem that there's no limit for it.

00:26:21.100 What has happened right now in politically correct culture, out of wokeism, whatever you

00:26:28.380 want to call it, intersectionality, is that white has just become a synonym for bad, right? 0.67

00:26:36.860 Whiteness is an actual term that people use, is simply a synonym for bad thing, badness,

00:26:43.800 evil.

00:26:44.700 That's why we have to eradicate whiteness. 1.00

00:26:46.780 We need to root out our own whiteness. 0.98

00:26:49.640 I mean, it's being used really, if you want to be very specific about it, to refer to original

00:26:55.220 sin, the fallen nature of man, which is now, formerly we understood that this was a universal

00:27:01.720 aspect of our human nature.

00:27:04.740 Now it's being wielded by political leftists to suggest that only some people are guilty

00:27:10.680 of this and they've caused all the problems in the world.

00:27:12.300 Part of this also is because of the, we could go on for hours and hours about this, but

00:27:16.860 because of the left's anthropology, because over the past, certainly 150 or so years, the

00:27:21.400 left has indulged these theories that man is essentially good, but that society is what

00:27:26.820 corrupts him.

00:27:27.880 And so, you know, you just need to perfect politics.

00:27:30.180 You need to perfect, especially education.

00:27:32.160 And then once you do that, crime and disease and everything is going to go away.

00:27:35.900 Uh, that raises the question, of course, if, if individual men are good, how come society

00:27:41.860 got bad?

00:27:42.940 Uh, but one way that the, the present day left is answering that is they're saying, well,

00:27:47.780 people are good generally, but there's this one group of people that's bad and they have

00:27:51.820 this thing which is evil and it's called whiteness. 0.63

00:27:54.440 And so we've got to root that out.

00:27:55.540 And that lies at the heart of a lot of this intersectional kind of racial ID politics.

00:27:59.760 This is now being wielded by lazy teachers in Washington state as an excuse not to go

00:28:06.460 back to work.

00:28:07.700 So it's being used for, and like, Hey, Johnny, why didn't you finish your homework?

00:28:11.480 Oh, you know, man, white supremacy and stuff.

00:28:14.080 I can't, I didn't do it.

00:28:15.640 Hey, uh, how come you didn't wash the dishes?

00:28:17.560 Ah, man, you know, white supremacy.

00:28:19.060 That's why, why else?

00:28:20.040 So the head of the Washington state teachers union claimed last week that reopening schools

00:28:25.320 for in-person learning, uh, 10 months after two weeks to slow the spread is not only an

00:28:32.600 example of white supremacy, but furthermore, when, when objections were brought up pointing

00:28:38.240 out that students are really suffering from this, Las Vegas just had to reopen their schools

00:28:41.760 because students are committing suicide at much higher rates.

00:28:44.360 Students' mental health is deteriorating.

00:28:46.440 Well, the head of the teachers union said that concerns over students' mental health are

00:28:51.280 a form of quote, white privilege, white privilege.

00:28:56.920 Uh, this, this comes after the Chicago teachers union, uh, also refused to go back to work also

00:29:02.700 for the same reason.

00:29:03.820 They said that reopening schools for in-person instruction is racist and sexist.

00:29:09.600 And, uh, the president of the POSCO association of educators in, uh, in Washington state went on

00:29:17.140 what our friend Jason Rance up there referred to as a series of unhinged remarks.

00:29:21.280 At this school board meeting, uh, the city of Chicago, moving then down to Illinois, city

00:29:26.980 of Chicago wants the teachers to go back to work.

00:29:28.980 Teachers union doesn't want to do it.

00:29:31.140 Uh, the, uh, Chicago public schools now are issuing a warning.

00:29:35.520 They're saying, if you don't show up for work on Monday, you will be deemed absent without

00:29:40.340 leave and will not be eligible for pay.

00:29:42.840 Uh, this is a good, they should do that.

00:29:45.800 Uh, this is actually what Ronald Reagan did in the, uh, 1980s when the air traffic controllers

00:29:52.100 went on strike.

00:29:52.900 Public unions are not supposed to be able to strike because while a company might be able

00:29:56.600 to shut down for a little bit, the government is not permitted to shut down.

00:30:00.040 So, you know, for years and years, liberal politicians had indulged this sort of thing.

00:30:05.080 The government worker unions striking in violation of the law.

00:30:08.820 Reagan didn't do it. 0.97

00:30:09.560 He came out and said, if you don't show up to work, you violated your, your terms of contract

00:30:14.820 and you'll be terminated.

00:30:16.260 It is for this reason that I must tell those who failed to report for duty that this morning,

00:30:21.780 they are in violation of the law.

00:30:24.920 And if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and

00:30:30.960 will be terminated.

00:30:33.300 Classic Reagan.

00:30:34.280 I mean, this is one of his stellar moments and the union didn't really believe him because

00:30:38.960 the entire liberal establishment was, was egging the, the air traffic controllers on.

00:30:45.460 So one of the reporters in that press conference, after Reagan finished speaking, he says, wait

00:30:49.400 a second, wait a second.

00:30:50.320 What, you're going to fire them?

00:30:51.400 Can't there be some kind of lesser action?

00:30:53.600 And then Reagan, the actor comes out and musters all of his Hollywood chops and just sort of

00:30:59.280 feigns indignation, or maybe it was sincere indignation.

00:31:01.760 He says, what are you, lesser action?

00:31:03.760 What are you talking about?

00:31:05.400 Why have you taken such strong action as your first action?

00:31:08.960 Why not a, uh, some, uh, lesser action at this point?

00:31:14.420 What lesser action can there be?

00:31:17.060 The law is very explicit.

00:31:19.500 They are violating the law.

00:31:22.360 And as I say, we call this to the attention of their leadership, whether this was conveyed

00:31:27.480 to the membership before they voted to strike, I don't know.

00:31:30.200 But, uh, this is one of the reasons why there could be no further negotiation while this

00:31:35.460 situation, uh, continues.

00:31:38.220 You can't sit and negotiate with a union that's in violation of the law.

00:31:43.160 And their oath.

00:31:44.240 And their oath.

00:31:45.480 What, what lesser action can there be?

00:31:48.920 There is just a great, it's a great moment.

00:31:50.840 And, and, and, uh, incredibly now you have the democratic mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot,

00:31:56.180 basically saying the same thing, a little softer than Ronald Reagan, but still coming

00:32:00.400 out and saying, look, guys, you have to, you have to go back to work.

00:32:02.900 Even I liberal left wing Lori Lightfoot, I'm saying it's been 10 months, you know, go back 0.97

00:32:07.720 to work.

00:32:08.240 But no, because the, the left has given ideologues across the sexual and racial spectrum and excuse

00:32:17.660 this blank check.

00:32:19.580 You can blame all of your problems on white supremacy or whatever.

00:32:25.800 You know, they come up with new terms all the time, but today that would appear to be

00:32:28.960 the term.

00:32:29.980 And it's very harmful to believe that sort of thing just for your own personal growth.

00:32:34.540 And it's, it's absolute poison to society.

00:32:37.620 And our current president, Joe Biden, is letting, letting these guys get away with it.

00:32:43.440 He was asked a question directly during a press conference about the teachers unions refusing

00:32:49.220 to go back to school and classic slippery Joe.

00:32:52.740 He just completely dances around it.

00:32:55.220 Do you believe, sir, that teachers should return to schools now?

00:32:58.740 I believe we should make school classrooms safe and secure for the students, for the teachers

00:33:09.340 and for the, the help that's in those schools, maintaining the facilities.

00:33:16.080 We need new ventilation systems in those schools. 0.56

00:33:19.340 We need testing for people coming in and out of the classes.

00:33:23.920 We need testing for teachers as well as students.

00:33:28.040 And we need the capacity, the capacity to know that in fact, the, the sick of the circumstance

00:33:34.820 in the school is safe and secure for everyone.

00:33:39.020 Cool, Joe.

00:33:40.060 Can you answer the question though?

00:33:41.380 Cause that had absolutely nothing to do with the question that was asked.

00:33:46.200 Joe Biden was asked, should teachers go back to school now?

00:33:49.300 He says, I think teachers should be safe and schools should be clean.

00:33:56.260 Uh-huh.

00:33:57.740 Hey, quick poll.

00:33:58.800 Here's a quick audience poll.

00:34:00.020 Do you think schools should be filthy and dangerous?

00:34:03.460 How many people, raise your hand if you, oh, nobody.

00:34:06.680 Okay.

00:34:07.760 Okay.

00:34:08.280 Right.

00:34:08.640 We all agree with that, Joe, but you have to lead.

00:34:12.320 You need, you need to give an answer here.

00:34:14.140 Should teachers go back to work 10 months after their two week vacation?

00:34:19.300 Duh.

00:34:20.040 Of course they should be.

00:34:20.680 He can't say that because he's beholden to the teacher unions.

00:34:23.720 This, this reminds me, this tactic, Mike Bloomberg used this too, when Bloomberg wants

00:34:28.300 to basically overturn the second amendment and it's been his crusade for decades now.

00:34:33.620 But he knows that if you come out and say, billionaires against the second amendment, that,

00:34:39.160 that doesn't look very good.

00:34:41.280 So Bloomberg started this campaign.

00:34:43.000 He called it mayors against, not billionaires against, he said mayors against illegal guns.

00:34:47.840 Mayors against illegal guns.

00:34:52.800 How many people do you know who are for illegal guns? 0.81

00:34:55.500 I guess some, it's probably some people who are for them, but generally speaking, people

00:34:59.080 are for legal guns.

00:35:00.180 We want to make more guns legal, right? 0.86

00:35:02.720 I think certain guns that are currently illegal should be made legal, but nobody's for illegal

00:35:07.620 guns really.

00:35:09.180 But he has to say that because it sounds, it sounds more palatable.

00:35:13.040 And that's Joe Biden.

00:35:14.620 Presidents for safe, clean classrooms.

00:35:17.100 Okay, sure.

00:35:17.840 But he won't, he won't give the answer.

00:35:18.780 By the way, there's a study out now.

00:35:20.620 I know the left loves studies.

00:35:22.000 I take them with a grain of salt, but I'll use them when they suit my purposes.

00:35:25.180 New study produced in the United Kingdom by the Office for National Statistics examined

00:35:30.020 rates of death from COVID among teachers.

00:35:34.680 Shows that death rates among teachers are not higher than among the general population.

00:35:39.200 There is no specific threat to teachers' lives if they go back and go to work like the rest

00:35:45.300 of us.

00:35:47.340 Remember, I thought, I thought teachers were supposed to do this very sacred, important

00:35:51.960 duty of raising up the next generation and they're some of the greatest heroes in the

00:35:56.120 country.

00:35:56.480 And I'm not even really being facetious here.

00:35:58.980 I, I, I have a great respect for education.

00:36:01.700 I have a great respect for my teachers specifically.

00:36:04.580 They've had some of the greatest, greatest impact of my life, on my life of anybody.

00:36:08.080 So I'm, I'm actually buying into that, that argument to a large degree.

00:36:13.760 They sure ain't acting like it though, are they?

00:36:16.440 No, they're, they're trying to get now what a year off of work with full pay.

00:36:24.000 And in some of these places, their pay is pretty good because of the negotiations of

00:36:28.180 the unions buying off politicians like Joe Biden.

00:36:32.260 How corrupt, but this is the kind of corruption we're, we're just going to see for however long

00:36:36.900 this charade lasts.

00:36:39.060 CNN ran a chyron yesterday that sums it all up.

00:36:44.120 They were playing clips of Jen Psaki.

00:36:46.660 She's the new press secretary and the chyron read, Psaki promises to share accurate info.

00:36:54.720 And then in parentheses, how refreshing.

00:37:00.520 That kind of fawning coverage for the state and for the regime would make

00:37:06.760 Kim Jong-un blush.

00:37:09.820 I never want to hear again about the, the tyrannical rule of, I don't know, Vladimir Putin.

00:37:18.760 Vladimir Putin does not have as cozy a relationship to his state media as the American regime,

00:37:25.060 the liberal regime has to CNN and the Washington Post and the New York Times and NBC and ABC

00:37:31.140 and CBS and all the rest of them with, I guess, sort of the exception of Fox News and the smaller

00:37:38.080 networks and Newsmax and OAN.

00:37:40.900 Oh, Newsmax and OAN are, are quite conservative, but they're smaller.

00:37:44.220 They have a smaller reach.

00:37:45.140 And Fox News is somewhat conservative.

00:37:48.120 I don't know.

00:37:48.580 It's sort of like not always very liberal.

00:37:52.540 I mean, in 2020, I don't know.

00:37:54.640 Obviously, the network repositioned itself a little bit, but that is not the recipe for

00:38:02.060 a serious self-governing republic.

00:38:06.560 It's a, it's a grift.

00:38:07.740 It's a grift all the way down.

00:38:10.220 You've, you've, you see this, you've got the media, obviously, you've got big technology

00:38:15.060 backing up the regime.

00:38:16.180 You've got education backing up the regime.

00:38:18.320 You've got all of these groups.

00:38:20.460 It's a grift.

00:38:22.080 I don't use that word grift too often because I think it's an overused word and it's used

00:38:25.960 imprecisely right now, you know, a con or something like that.

00:38:28.900 But with Biden, it really is a grift.

00:38:30.680 I mean, Biden has sold his influence just like the Clintons.

00:38:34.700 You, you saw this in all of Hunter Biden scandals, but even, even the other day, there was a big

00:38:38.600 headline.

00:38:39.360 They said the presidential motorcade stopped in Washington, DC so that Hunter Biden could run

00:38:44.580 out and pick up bagels for him and his dad.

00:38:47.220 And I saw this story and it was some kind of kooky story.

00:38:49.480 Oh wow, how funny.

00:38:50.440 They stopped the motorcades.

00:38:51.640 Every day, Joe is going out and getting bagels, right?

00:38:54.160 And the second I saw that headline, I said, this is a grift.

00:38:57.180 This is a grift.

00:38:58.040 There is obviously something shady about this.

00:39:02.080 I Google for two seconds and I find out what it is.

00:39:05.620 Joe Biden coming back from mass from which he should be excommunicated, but whatever.

00:39:14.100 I guess he's not.

00:39:15.160 It's above my pay grade to make that determination.

00:39:17.280 So the motorcade stops for nine minutes so Hunter can go get bagels at a shop called Call

00:39:21.960 Your Mother to pick up the takeout order.

00:39:24.240 Okay, go call your mother. 0.69

00:39:25.620 What's, what's up with this bagel shop?

00:39:27.400 Oh, Joe Biden's coronavirus response director, Jeff Zients is a major investor in that deli,

00:39:34.120 according to the Atlantic, which first discovered this.

00:39:37.800 So Joe Biden, I assume he can get a bagel at the White House, right?

00:39:43.580 I don't think the president of the United States, like you and I, if we go to church,

00:39:47.440 we drive home, maybe we're going to pick up breakfast along the way, bring it home,

00:39:50.600 eat it on the couch.

00:39:51.280 If you're the president of the United States, someone will bring you bagels.

00:39:53.940 You probably have many bagels in the White House, but he stops there.

00:39:57.260 He stops the motorcade for nine minutes to get a lot of publicity to his friend's bagel

00:40:01.940 shop so that it can become very popular and his friend can make more money.

00:40:05.200 This is the way politicians generally work and it's the way that Joe Biden has worked,

00:40:10.660 especially that is Joe Biden's career is back slapping.

00:40:14.660 You do me a favor.

00:40:15.500 I'll do you a favor.

00:40:16.900 Hey, you better fire that prosecutor looking into my son. 0.99

00:40:19.460 Otherwise you're not getting a billion dollars.

00:40:21.060 Son of a bitch. 0.88

00:40:21.600 He fired him.

00:40:22.320 Ha ha back slapping Joe.

00:40:24.080 That is what we are getting a whole lot more of.

00:40:29.600 This is a scary growth of state power because it's not just the state.

00:40:35.200 In the kind of narrow sense of the government, it's all these affiliated groups, the public

00:40:40.240 private partnerships, nothing like the president of the United States to plug your, your bagel

00:40:45.020 shop to really get, to really show that coziness between the public and private sector.

00:40:49.620 But it's, as we've said, it's education, it's technology, it's the media, it's all these

00:40:53.440 things.

00:40:53.740 They all form the blob.

00:40:55.280 They all form the liberal establishment and they are all seriously threatening our liberties.

00:41:00.640 Most notably because they're going to keep us locked down for months and months and months

00:41:05.920 and months, according to the president.

00:41:09.300 But it's scarier than that.

00:41:13.480 There's a purpose to the growth of all this kind of state power.

00:41:18.100 And I use that term state broadly to include tech and education and all those sorts of things.

00:41:22.960 The most disturbing story I've seen on CNN in quite some time occurred over just the past

00:41:32.400 few days.

00:41:33.540 An 18 year old guy, Jackson Reffitt, turned his dad in to the FBI because his dad went to

00:41:42.640 the stop the steal rally at, at Capitol Hill.

00:41:46.600 I, maybe he was part of the riot.

00:41:47.620 I'm not sure, I'm, he was certainly around the area.

00:41:50.960 And so this, this kid calls the FBI to turn his dad in because his dad said, hey, if you

00:41:57.840 turn me in, you're a traitor. 0.99

00:42:00.540 I guess the kid had been threatening to turn him in or suggested he might turn him in.

00:42:03.620 He says, if you turn me in, you're a traitor.

00:42:04.840 And you know what happens to traitors?

00:42:06.940 What happens to, they get capital punishment.

00:42:08.360 So this kid calls the FBI, gets his father arrested, and then CNN has him on to talk about

00:42:17.940 the wonderful story.

00:42:18.920 Now, maybe you're of a, of two minds on this.

00:42:21.240 Well, maybe the kid, maybe it was a serious threat.

00:42:22.760 Maybe he had to turn his dad in.

00:42:23.900 Well, I don't know.

00:42:24.600 It doesn't sound like a serious threat.

00:42:26.280 Listen to Reffitt tell the story to Cuomo, who's lapping it up.

00:42:30.380 I know you love your family and I know this is hard.

00:42:34.120 So help people understand, why did you feel you had to let authorities know about what

00:42:41.200 was being done to your father and what was happening in his own head?

00:42:46.640 Um, I don't really know how to explain it.

00:42:50.640 It was, uh, it was just, it just felt like the right thing, regardless of my emotions and

00:42:58.680 how I felt and how much I loved my family and my dad.

00:43:01.380 Uh, I was worried, uh, I didn't think he would actually do anything bad, but, um, him saying

00:43:09.980 anything even remotely threatening to me and my sister and my family and government officials,

00:43:17.300 it was just too much.

00:43:19.860 Now, listen here.

00:43:21.080 This is an important point that he's making.

00:43:23.360 He's, cause presumably the reason he called the FBI on his dad is because his dad threatened

00:43:29.100 to kill him, right?

00:43:30.080 He says, you're a, you'd be a traitor.

00:43:31.340 You know what happens to traitors.

00:43:33.080 But the kid says right here, he doesn't think his dad would have done anything bad.

00:43:38.080 He doesn't actually think it was a threat, but he turned his dad into the FBI anyway.

00:43:44.060 His dad's since been arrested.

00:43:45.860 Why did he do it?

00:43:46.900 Well, he makes clear it's because they have different political views.

00:43:50.100 It's been definitely over the past four years that it's grown and just snowballed into what

00:43:54.620 my dad's become now and he's still my father, but he's, he's changed a lot.

00:44:00.600 How so?

00:44:03.780 He's been more active on his, on the internet.

00:44:08.480 And obviously the militia and the far-right extremists he's been involved with recently.

00:44:17.800 He's been a lot more, I don't want to say aggressive, but more, more scared.

00:44:29.480 Would he talk to you about it?

00:44:30.880 Um, no, uh, I actually never even knew he was going to DC until the day he left.

00:44:39.440 Um, I'm sure it was because of my political views, but I'm not sure.

00:44:43.640 And there, there you have it.

00:44:45.180 I'm sure it's because of my political views.

00:44:46.620 Presumably this kid is quite left wing.

00:44:48.540 And then he posted a fundraiser because his mother kicked him out of the house for getting

00:44:51.700 his father arrested.

00:44:52.480 And, uh, from the picture, you know, he's wearing like very, he's got very long hair.

00:44:58.020 He's wearing a pink hat.

00:44:58.840 He's where he doesn't look like a, uh, right, right wing conservative.

00:45:02.800 Uh, I'm, I'm not even really attacking this kid.

00:45:06.540 I mean, he's 18 years old.

00:45:07.840 I guess he's an adult and it's wrong to get your father arrested.

00:45:11.200 Generally speaking, especially for just being a Republican, but, uh, I'm not attacking this

00:45:17.160 kid.

00:45:17.260 My heart kind of breaks for this kid and certainly it breaks for the family.

00:45:20.400 The, the sisters and the mother who, who the kid acknowledges.

00:45:25.040 He says, oh yeah, I've, I've broken their hearts.

00:45:26.620 I've totally destroyed their lives.

00:45:27.860 Yeah.

00:45:28.080 Cause I got my dad arrested, but I felt like I had to do it.

00:45:30.220 I'd do it again.

00:45:32.280 And Chris Cuomo, that disgusting man, lapping it up.

00:45:38.340 So happy.

00:45:39.300 Oh yeah.

00:45:39.820 Tell me more about how you got your dad arrested because he's so right wing.

00:45:43.120 Yeah.

00:45:43.480 Tell me.

00:45:43.800 Oh, you had to do it.

00:45:44.960 You had to do it.

00:45:46.480 I, uh, I mentioned this whole story, not even to kind of,

00:45:50.380 comment on the kid or the dad or, or even Chris Cuomo.

00:45:54.960 I bring up the story because it has a lot to do with how the left operates.

00:46:01.800 It actually tells you a lot about the difference between the right and the left.

00:46:05.840 They begin with different, fundamentally different views of society and their political agendas

00:46:13.200 are oriented according to those premises.

00:46:15.220 So for conservatives, the fundamental building block of society is the family.

00:46:22.620 It's not the individual.

00:46:24.020 It's the family.

00:46:24.960 That is the fundamental building block.

00:46:26.320 We are not born as free floating atoms flying around in outer space.

00:46:30.580 And then we land and through our consent, we choose to join a family.

00:46:34.340 It's not how it works.

00:46:36.080 We are born out of an act of love between our parents and at a higher level, out of the

00:46:42.500 act of love of God, our creator who creates the world through an act of speech.

00:46:46.760 Let there be light.

00:46:48.980 And so on.

00:46:50.040 And we are born with duties, with obligations, with loyalties.

00:46:56.880 We are stewards of ourselves, our life, which is a gift from, from our parents as a proximate

00:47:04.180 cause and from God ultimately.

00:47:05.940 And we are stewards of this creation.

00:47:08.320 That's where conservatives begin.

00:47:10.320 The left, and I include liberals in this, I include libertarians in this, the left libertarians

00:47:15.900 certainly, begin with this idea that the individual is the building block of society.

00:47:20.540 And we have, we are born primarily to rights and entitlement and not loyalty and not duty

00:47:27.060 and not obligation.

00:47:28.160 But I, darn it, I better get mine all oriented toward the ultimate liberation.

00:47:32.760 And that liberation must occur by overcoming the institutions of society, which now we use

00:47:39.460 the term white supremacy, I guess, is the kind of, it's the term du jour.

00:47:42.520 It's a faddish idea.

00:47:43.340 But you, you hear all the patriarchy is another one of these and ultimately the family, which

00:47:48.320 is that bedrock institution.

00:47:49.600 It's the smallest political institution you can have of multiple people in society organically.

00:47:55.860 That is why the left is always attempting to destroy the family, to destroy the family

00:48:00.960 by any means necessary, by redefining the family, by taking power away from the family, by increasing

00:48:07.600 the role of the state.

00:48:08.360 This is why even radical individualists sometimes become defenders of state power.

00:48:13.340 Because if the fundamental unit of society is the individual, then the only way to do

00:48:17.080 anything together is by amassing all those individuals together, which is the, that is

00:48:21.880 truly the theory of fascism.

00:48:23.320 And it's in the true meaning of that word where you bundle all the sticks together and

00:48:27.500 in the state and the state is the highest good.

00:48:29.620 And of course the progressive left has this exalted view of the state and may even mainstream

00:48:37.000 liberals have an exalted view.

00:48:38.120 Those are different scenarios and you're going to see a whole lot more of this.

00:48:41.460 It's deeply disturbing, but this is what it looks like.

00:48:43.680 We talk about it in the abstract a lot.

00:48:45.620 This is what it looks like on the granular level.

00:48:48.400 And this is going to be a process that goes on like the lockdowns according to Biden for months

00:48:52.060 and months and months and months and even longer.

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