Ep. 687 - The 1619 Project President
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Joe Biden has been in office for 7 days and has already gone about his presidency in a different way. He is instituting sensitivity training, also known as re-education, which is a politically correct euphemism for "correct brainwashing."
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At the end of President Trump's first term, he says hopefully, at the end of that term,
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President Trump established something called the 1776 Commission. The 1776 Commission
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sought to overturn the historical revision that attempts to reframe our country's history
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and attack the very foundations of our country. So the 1776 Commission seeks to undermine the 1619
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project, which attempts to cast our country in a very negative light. And Joe Biden,
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now that he is president, has decided in the spirit of unity and healing and moving our country
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forward, he's gonna completely scrap the 1776 Commission. Look, in the weeks ahead, I'll be
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reaffirming the federal government's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility,
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building on the work we started in the Obama-Biden administration. That's why I'm rescinding the
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previous administration's harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training and abolish the offensive
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counterfactual 1776 Commission. Unity and healing must begin with understanding and truth, not
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ignorance and lies. He's going to get rid of the offensive 1776 Commission. He is going to permit
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sensitivity training, also known as re-education, all in the spirit of unity and healing. Well, if the
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1776 Commission, which sees our country as good, is offensive and untrue, then I guess our president
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thinks that our country is wicked to the core. He is not the 1776 president. He's the 1619 Project
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president. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from John Helton, who says,
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if your insurrection lasts more than four hours, consult your doctor immediately. Great advice
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from Chuck Schumer. That's true. That's the, that's always got to be the disclaimer that he puts
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on, on all of his political advice. It's true. You don't want those insurrections to last more than
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four hours. As actually, as far as I can tell, the Capitol Hill riot did not last more than four
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Joe Biden. There's no other way to put it. He is the 1619 Project president. Broadly speaking,
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without getting too into the weeds on the New York Times 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission,
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the 1776 Commission says that America broadly is good. That is the framing of American history that
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it begins with. The 1619 Project explicitly, it says it right on the first page, seeks to reframe
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American history to cast it in the negative light. So according to the 1619 Project, America is
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essentially rotten, evil, corrupt to the core. Joe Biden has picked a side. In his first days in
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office, the guy has been in office now for like seven days. I guess today it is coming up on a week
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that Joe Biden has been in office. And he's already, he's not just pushing these kind of smaller,
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less ambitious policies. He is instituting sensitivity training, which is a politically
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correct euphemism for politically correct brainwashing, right? For re-education classes.
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And part and parcel of that is he's going to revise American history. And this ties in with an issue
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that we were talking about yesterday. I have to revisit it because I got in so much trouble
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for my views. And I didn't even get in trouble with the left. I got in trouble really with conservatives
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who are, who think that I'm too conservative or something. This issue of, of kicking out
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Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and putting Harriet Tubman on there. I saw a lot of conservatives
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yesterday who were tweeting out as if to win the applause of the left. And they were saying,
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listen, leftists, I haven't seen a single conservative who isn't totally on board with
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kicking out Andrew Jackson and putting Harriet Tubman on the $20. Please show me the one conservative.
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Okay, here it is. I'm, I'm the one conservative. You found me. I guess you guys weren't, weren't
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looking too hard because here I am. And I don't think it's just me, by the way. I think a lot
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of Americans don't want to kick Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill. They don't want to castigate
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Jackson and say he was an awful, rotten, terrible person. And Jackson really is just, he's just an
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easy target. But this, this campaign, which comes from the 1776 project and affiliated groups
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seeks to overturn all of our venerated forebears. It's not just going to stop at Jackson. It's going
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to go to Jefferson and Washington and Lincoln. It already is. They're already toppling statues
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of those guys. I think there are a lot of Americans who feel that way. And I, I understand
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that there are, are many conservatives who really want to prove to the left that they're not racist.
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But I, I have to promise you that the left already thinks you're a racist and they also don't care
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whether or not you are a racist. If you are, what, what is racism? Racism is the unjust
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discrimination against people and antagonism of people on the basis of their race. It is wrong
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because it is an offense against human dignity. That's it. If you're not that, then don't worry
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about it. You don't need to prove anything to the left. You won't be able to prove anything to
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the left. It's very pitiful to try to prove these things to the left. They are not going to start
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liking you because you're saying mean things about Andrew Jackson. They don't like you. Okay. Sorry.
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Pretending to love the Harriet Tubman $20 bill is not going to save you from the gulags,
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be they digital or otherwise. It's just so lame. This is why we lose every cultural issue.
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This is it guys. I, you know, when we look back on all the crazy politically correct cultural changes
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that have happened, we say, why didn't conservatives stand up? I mean, let's use the gendered bathrooms
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for a second. The, you know, boys can use the girls' room or whatever. We said, why, how on earth do we
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get to this place? Why didn't we stand up? Well, the reason that we got to this place is because
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every time the issue was actually hot, actually, every time it was actually happening, conservatives
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who wanted to go along to get along said, oh, who cares? It's not a big deal. They did. They did it
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even with the bathrooms. There are many conservatives who said, oh, it doesn't, who cares?
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It affects very few people. Let's, it's fine. If some, if some boys are confused and think they're
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girls, let's just, it's fine. Let's not, I don't want people to think I'm a bigot or this phobe or
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that phobe. So let's, let's just not touch it. We're going to redefine marriage. Well, let's,
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I don't want people to think I'm a bigot of some, let's just, let's not touch it. We're going to
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redefine whole norms in society. Let's not touch it. We're going to institute new legal racial
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discrimination in the form of affirmative action. Well, let's, I don't want to, who cares? It's not
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a big deal. It only affects a few slots at a university. It only affects a few jobs. Please
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let's, let's go along to get along. This is the same thing, guys. Do not, do not tell me who cares.
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When we say that these cultural issues don't matter, like the Harriet Tubman $20 bill doesn't matter.
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We give away the whole game. When we say, oh, forget about that. Let's just talk about the
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economy. The cultural issues, not only do they not, not matter. The cultural issues pretty much
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are the only thing that matters. What profiteth a nation to have GDP through the roof, but to lose
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its whole culture? That's not, that's not what matters. And conservatives need to shake themselves
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out of this very silly idea that all that matters is tax cuts and bumping up GDP a little bit so that
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Jeff Bezos can buy a new yacht. That's not what matters. You know what matters? Preserving our
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traditions, preserving our love of country, preserving our local communities, preserving our venerated
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figures and forebears and rituals. That's what matters. And it'd be nice to get low taxes too,
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but that is going to come downstream. Okay. The, the economic policy is going to come downstream
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of that cultural policy. When you say it doesn't matter, okay, it's a $20 bill. It doesn't matter.
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Well, you know, it, it matters to me. It matters, I think, to a great number of conservatives. So good.
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If it doesn't matter, then let it go. Right. If it doesn't really matter, then fine. Then we won't
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change it because you're, you're the one who wants to change it leftist. And I'm the one who doesn't
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want to change it. And you say, it doesn't matter. No one cares. And I say, I care. So good. Let it
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go. Oh, they're not going to let it go though. Cause they do care. And they care for a reason
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because they know that the framing of our nation in the minds of its citizens is the whole game.
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It will utterly transform the politics. That's why Joe Biden is so eager to cancel the 1776 commission
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and to castigate it as offensive, offensive to, to, to love your country.
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That will not get us unity, but the left of course does not want unity. The left does not want unity
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at all. They want more and more division. We talked about this a little bit yesterday after Chris Cuomo
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was, uh, like a, like some sort of demon, you know, uh, loving it while this child was talking
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about how he turned his dad into the FBI after his dad went to the steel, stop the steel rally in DC.
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And Chris Cuomo said, yeah, go on. Tell me more about this. What society, what, what the left does
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is it wants to break down every single traditional institution. So it goes after the church. It goes
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after voluntary associations. It goes after specifically the family because for the left,
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the essential unit of society is the individual. And some libertarians buy into this stuff too,
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but it's just silly and wrong and contrary to human nature. In fact, as conservatives understand,
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the fundamental social institution is the family. That's the unit. We're not born free floating atoms.
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We're born with, from a mother and a father who loved each other. We're born out of that love.
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Ultimately we're born out of the love that our creator has for us. And we have loyalty to them
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and we have duty to them and we have obligation to them. And the left has to break all of that up.
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So unity isn't going to work. They, what they have to do is they have to break down the country,
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all the institutions, all the churches, all of the families that has been at the heart of
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revolutionary movements from the beginning. And then they bind us all back together as we're all
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individuals. And then our best relationship we have is with the state. Barack Obama ran on this.
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He called it the life of Julia in 2020. They scrubbed it from the internet because it was so
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strong, get your Beachbody. One way that some misguided senators are trying to give us unity
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is by impeaching the president. So Mitt Romney, who I've been uncharacteristically nice to recently
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because he's been saying some halfway decent things now that he's in the Senate minority and
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it doesn't matter and he can sort of mouth off and pretend to be conservative. However,
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Mitt Romney is reverting back to his old ways. He was just on Chris Wallace's Sunday show and he says,
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very, very important for the purpose of unity to impeach the ex-president.
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We're certainly going to have a trial. I wish that weren't necessary, but the president's conduct
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with regards to the call, the Secretary of State Raffensperger in Georgia, as well as the incitation
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towards the insurrection that led to the attack on the Capitol, calls for a trial. And, you know,
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if we're going to have unity in our country, I think it's important to recognize the need for
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accountability, for truth and justice. So I think there will be a trial and I hope it goes as
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quickly as possible, but that's up to the council on both sides.
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For, for unity, we're going to have to impeach the ex-president, something we've never done in
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this country, something that would be so unprecedented after a bitterly contested presidential election
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where many of the rules of the election and the safeguards for election integrity were just
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completely thrown out in the weeks and months before the election. Places like Pennsylvania,
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notably, where they violated the state constitution to take away those safeguards by instituting
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widespread unsolicited mail-in votes. That, that sort of, so you're telling me after all of that,
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the way you're going to have unity is by taking an unprecedented action and impeaching an ex-president?
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Of course not. Listen to the language. So vague, truth and justice. Now I totally support truth and
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justice, but notice how vague he's being about it. He's not making those connections. It's all
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abstractions. It's all out there. Romney is not the only person calling for this. There are other
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Republicans, prominent Republicans who are calling for this. Now, one of the most prominent Republicans
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doing this is Meghan McCain on The View. And I'm, I'm not going to beat up on Meghan McCain for calling
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for the impeachment, mainly because Donald Trump was very mean to her dad. And so I get it. You know,
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I sort of understand why she might not like the guy, but listen, listen to Meghan's argument as
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to why we need to impeach the, the former president, Donald Trump. I'm a lifelong conservative,
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unlike a lot of these heretics. I mean, I was born into this, raised into it. It's my whole entire life
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and in all ways. And I truly at the bottom of my soul, I think, as all of you know, I,
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I believe in the principles I was raised on. It is very difficult for me to come on this show right
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now, because I've always prided myself on having my finger on the tenor of what's going on in
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conservative circles. Even when I didn't agree with Trump, I, I, you know, I'm not a squish. I'm
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not someone who went full brainwashed Lincoln project that everything that's conservative is a
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bastion of evil and I must reject it and atone myself. I'm not that kind of Republican or conservative,
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but right now I cannot defend this. I believe president Trump should be impeached. I believe we
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have to take a stand and have a fine line about what is acceptable for a president to do or not.
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He incited a riot. People got violent. People died. Full stop. Okay. So as I said, I'm not,
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I'm not going to go after really the, the substance here because, uh, you know, if Trump were,
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were as tough on my father as he was on Megan's father, uh, maybe I'd feel differently about the
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man. Uh, obviously Megan McCain and I disagree on, on impeachment and, uh, and I suppose on Trump more
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broadly, but I want to focus in on, on one word. She said, president, president,
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she said, it's very important to impeach president Trump. There is no president Trump.
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President Trump is gone. There is former president Trump. And sometimes in this country,
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we refer to former presidents as president, but we're actually not supposed to as a matter of
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etiquette. You really shouldn't refer to former presidents as Mr. President or President Bush or
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President Clinton, because there's only one president. There's only, and it's, it actually
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does get to, we, we do it to be polite. I've, I've done it myself, but as a matter of Republican
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virtue, lowercase r, there's only one president at one time. There's only one governor at one time.
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You really shouldn't. We, to be polite, we sometimes say, you know, governor Huntsman or governor
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Pataki or, but really you shouldn't. There's only one. And the constitution does not establish a
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process to impeach X presidents, just to impeach the president. That is why, by the way, at this
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alleged impeachment trial, the chief justice is not going to preside. The chief justice only presides,
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according to the constitution, at, at an impeachment trial, when you impeach the president. But we're
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not, unless, unless it's a bait and switch and this whole thing is just cocaine Mitch's big ruse
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to convince Democrats that they're impeaching Trump, but then accidentally they end up impeaching
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Biden. That would be hilarious. And I wouldn't put him past Mr. Cocaine. He is a slippery one.
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But unless that happens, chief justice can't be there. Now you might say, well, Michael, we've,
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we've impeached X judges before, which is true there. We, we talked about this a little bit on,
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on the verdicts podcast with Senator Cruz. There have been times that, that, that X officials have
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been impeached according to various laws. But the president is no ordinary official. An impeachment
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trial in the Senate is no ordinary impeachment. It is laid out, the process is laid out explicitly
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in the U.S. constitution. And the constitution provides no route to impeach a former president.
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Rand Paul, who has been extraordinarily impressive recently, just came out and gave a fiery speech
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about the farce that that whole process has become. The constitution says the president,
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vice president, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on
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impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Article one, section three, clause six states, when the president of the United States is tried,
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the chief justice shall preside. As of noon last Wednesday, Donald Trump holds none of the
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positions listed in the constitution. He is a private citizen. The presiding officer is not the
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chief justice, nor does he claim to be. His presence in the chief justice absence, chief justice's absence,
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demonstrate that this is not a trial of the president, but of a private citizen. Therefore,
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I make a point of order that this proceeding, which would try a private citizen and not a president,
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a vice president, or civil officer violates the constitution and is not in order.
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You tell him, Rand, absolutely true. And his speech was not technically persuasive in that they,
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they took a vote yesterday in the Senate to either throw out the impeachment trial completely or to go
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on with the impeachment trial. And unfortunately it was determined after that vote that they would go
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on with the impeachment trial. So in that sense, Rand Paul's speech was not persuasive, but in the most
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important sense, it was persuasive because the vote was 45 senators voting against continuing this
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impeachment trial. If you have 45 senators, do you get these 45 Republicans to vote against the
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impeachment trial? Then what you are showing broadly is that the Democrats don't have the
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votes for impeachment. It's not just a simple majority to convict the president. He's already
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been impeached in the house. It's not just to convict the ex president. I'm sorry. He's already been
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impeached in the house. You need what? Two thirds to convict in the Senate. They don't have that.
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So it's dead on arrival. And Mitch McConnell made that point himself.
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If the trial is not going to result in a conviction, then it's a complete waste of the
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Senate's time. And frankly, for that, for that matter, I'm all for it. I want to waste the Senate's
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time under the Biden administration when, when the Democrats have unified government. I want evidence
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to be presented from the Trump side. I want, I want president Trump. It's going to be a little
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tricky because you've got to massage some of the squishy Republicans. I want the Trump team at this
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impeachment trial to go out and present all of the evidence of voting irregularities, of changing
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election laws right before the election to benefit Democrats, of violating state constitutions. It might
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only be tangential to the case, but I totally want that. And I, and I want people for at least
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some time to refer to president Trump, right? If they're impeaching him, I guess he's the real
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president. I guess he's the legitimate president, right? I think we could have a lot of fun with that
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now that it's pretty clear Democrats are not going to convict. And, and by the way, if you are in a
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position where you're the only president who's ever been impeached twice and they never convict you,
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and they've been trying to undermine you since you first ran for office and the incumbent
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spied on your campaign to try to prevent you from ascending to the office in the first place,
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that is not a mark of shame. The left wants to pretend that double impeachment is a mark of shame.
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There's some more good news coming out of the continued persecution of Donald Trump. They try
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and they try and they try. We now know that the Senate almost certainly will not convict him.
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They just don't have the votes. Now the Supreme Court threw two lawsuits out, which accused Donald
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Trump of violating the emoluments clause of the constitution, which now ends a four year legal
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battle over the former president's businesses. So the, the accusation here is that Donald Trump
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was enriching himself in office. Now, of course he wasn't. He lost a lot of money. He didn't accept
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a salary to be president and his businesses lost a lot of money because leftists attacked the people
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that were doing business with him and they used legal mechanisms as well to try to take away his
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ability to make money and his family's ability to make money. Okay. Well, the Watchdog Group Citizens
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for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington or CREW decided to file one of these emoluments lawsuits
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the day after Trump was inaugurated back in 2017. Attorneys General of DC and Maryland brought similar
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lawsuit in June of that same year and now it's over. So that, that attempt to persecute the president
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also out. And then even better beyond all the Trump stuff, there's even better news coming out
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of the Senate. Mitch McConnell has now come out and announced that one of the greatest fears
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that we all had if Democrats got unified government is not going to come true. One of the,
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maybe the single biggest fear was that Democrats would kill the filibuster and they had promised
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that they were going to kill the filibuster. So we had to take them seriously when they were saying
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they would do this. Why did it matter if they killed the filibuster? We've filibuster is not in
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the constitution. It hasn't existed for the entire history of the U S Senate because what the filibuster
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does is it slows down legislation and it requires a longer deliberation and it permits senators to hold up
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radical legislation. So if you have the filibuster, you can prevent the most radical policies.
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If you kill the filibuster, then all of a sudden Democrats can add DC and Puerto Rico estates.
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They can pack the Supreme court. They can do all the scary things they wanted to do.
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Mitch McConnell announces quote today, two democratic senators publicly confirmed they will not vote
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to end the legislative filibuster. They agree with president Biden's in my view that no Senate
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majority should destroy the right of future minorities of both parties to help shape legislation.
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The legislative filibuster was a key part of the foundation beneath the Senate's last
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50, 50 power sharing agreement in 2001. With the, with these assurances, I look forward to moving
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ahead with a power sharing agreement modeled on that precedent. So part of the reason that McConnell was
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able to work this out and prevent killing the filibuster is because the Democrats don't have an
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outright majority in the Senate, right? It's 50, 50 right now in the U S Senate, but Kamala Harris vice
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president can serve as that tie breaking vote in the Senate under the constitution. So they've got this
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kind of bare sort of majority, but it's a little tricky and it really matters when you figure out
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who's going to make committee appointments, who's going, who's going to run the Senate because the,
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the majority leader has so many additional privileges. So McConnell comes out and he says,
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okay, we'll do a power sharing agreement. It'll be, that's all fine, but you've got to agree not to
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kill the filibuster. Biden signals he's willing to do that because Biden right now is governing
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through executive order anyway, and he's governing through the bureaucratic state. And this, this is
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why we shouldn't celebrate too much that we've preserved the Senate and the legislature. I mean,
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that's going to prevent a lot of radicalism, but don't forget in this country, we are not governed
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by the system that the constitution establishes, at least not directly and not in any really
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recognizable way. The, the body that really governs us, that really writes most of the laws that
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affect our lives. It's not the house. It's not the Senate. It's the administrative state.
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It's the bureaucracy. You call it the deep state. You call it the executive agencies,
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whatever you want to call it. And they are still working unperturbed. These are the egghead
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technocrats who come out and then one day they say, okay, you've, you've all got to wear masks.
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And then they say, you shouldn't wear masks. And then they say, you got to wear two masks.
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And then they say, you got to jump up and down on a pogo stick and put a donut on your head.
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And we just go along with it. And they write all those little regulations and they really do have
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teeth, a lot of those regulations. And the courts defer to the agencies to interpret their own
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statutes. So while the bureaucracy is still running roughshod over our constitutional order,
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the media are backing them up. I actually have to say, you know how much I hate to say,
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I told you so. We covered for many, many months, we've covered the masks, which I've said from the
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beginning are extremely stupid. And some people disagreed with me at the beginning. Now I think
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everybody agrees with me. Then, then just the other day, they said that there's, there's a new rule.
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Well, everyone's got to start wearing two masks. And I thought about this for a second. I said,
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wait, first of all, you told us all not to wear masks. Then you told us we had to wear masks.
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Then you, now you're telling us to wear two masks. I'm no scientist. I'm no expert, but I think pretty
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soon they're going to be telling us to wear three masks, right? I believe I said this on the show
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yesterday or the day before. Well, tuning into CNBC, you can see former Fox News anchor,
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Shepard Smith comes out, gives a great big old report on the efficacy, the genius of wearing
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three masks. Since the start of the pandemic, experts have urged us to do three things. Wash
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our hands, maintain social distance and wear a mask all the time. Not when you feel like it all the time
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when you're not eating and drinking. But now the experts say with these variants, it's time to double
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up and wear two. This morning, Dr. Fauci endorsed the, endorsed the idea on the today show.
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Okay, fine. So Fauci comes out and supports the double masks. I do want to correct Shepard Smith
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here. He said that the experts told us to wear masks from the beginning. They didn't tell us to
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wear masks from the beginning. They actually explicitly told us not to wear masks from the
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beginning. Fauci said it was stupid to wear masks and wouldn't do anything. And the surgeon general of
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the United States said in all caps, multiple exclamation points, stop buying masks, people.
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So Shep got that completely wrong, but fine. Afterward, then they said, we all have to start
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wearing masks. Then they continue with their brilliant report. Experts say you can double up
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with a tight weave fabric mask for added protection. Now, Virginia Tech researchers found that doubling up
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these cloth masks increases the efficacy from 50 to 75%. A three-layer mask could block up to 90% of the
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particles. And if you're layering your mask, the disposable surgical mask goes on first, and then the
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tight-fitting fabric mask goes right over the top. And then you can put the burka over your head,
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and then you won't have any particle come at you at all, and you'll be wearing a burlap sack.
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And then, then we'll finally be safe. Then we can get back to normal when we're all covered,
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not just in full niqab, but full burka. Then we're all back to normal here in America.
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Follow the science. Now, you know, I'm, I'm not a, obviously I'm not a scientist. In a certain sense,
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I guess I'm an expert scientist, but I, you know, I don't have a fancy white lab coat. I don't have
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some sinecure at some administrative agency, but, and just hear me out. If the, the one,
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and then the two, and then you do the three, what should, should we just, should, should we
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quadruple mask? Is that because, because that lady on Shepard Smith's show says that two masks
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is 75% effective. Now, what does that mean? Effective? I don't know. It's just a number,
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you know, from some of the geniuses with their spreadsheets. And then three masks is 90% effective.
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So by, by my, that's a 15% increase. So by my calculation, four masks would be 105% effective.
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And I don't want to be too ambitious here. Five masks, right? Follow me. That would be 120%
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effective. Can you imagine how much healthier you would be? You'd be 20% healthier than you are right
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now. Man, you, I don't know. You could live to be 110 at that point. So I don't know. I'm going to
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keep trying to work out my theory of masks. It seems that the, the Fauci scientific technocratic
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theory of masks keeps changing day by day, but I'm going to keep working out mine too. I'm going
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to come in here tomorrow. I'm going to have 20 masks on my face. I'm going to be the healthiest
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man in America. The, the other reason I wanted to mention this little segment from Shep Smith's new
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show at CNBC is I, I was reminded watching this, just what losers conservatives are, just what,
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what losers we are, how stupid we are. Shepard Smith was the main daytime anchor at the putatively
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conservative cable news channel, the cable news channel for years. And he's a huge lib and he was
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always a huge lib. CNN does not do that. CNN does not make, first of all, they don't hire any
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conservative, not one, not one single conservative does CNN have on staff. Certainly they don't make
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the conservative, the anchor of their daytime news programming. MSNBC does not have one single
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conservative, not one on staff. Those, those cable networks have some kind of like squishy people
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that they're like kind of like Joe Scarborough, right? Who's a liberal, but he pretends to be a
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conservative. Or you think of an Anna Navarro who is a liberal. Everything she does advances the liberal
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cause, but she kind of, but she goes on and her chyron says she's a conservative, right? So
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they have those people who pretend, but they're not actually the thing.
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And Shepard Smith actually is a huge lib and we conservatives, we say, oh no, look, we have to,
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we got to put the liberals on all the time. The real liberals. Why, why do we have to do that?
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Why, why are we playing by a completely different set of rules that is not particularly moral,
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not particularly ethical. It's not as though we can appeal to some higher moral principle here as
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to why we do this, as to why we promote a bunch of insane progressivism on our platforms,
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but we do. We do. So lame. It, it gets back to the story. I keep coming back to the story
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of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill kicking out Andrew Jackson because it, because it relates to this
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primary left-wing campaign of trying to reframe American history. And we just go along with it.
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We just say, oh yeah, totally. No, yeah. Andrew Jackson, he's bad. And Jefferson, he's bad too.
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You know, in Washington, he wasn't so great. He owned slaves. And yeah, no, American history is,
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it's bad. But, but it's not the worst thing in the world. I don't, we just keep, we keep negotiating
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against ourselves and we keep gobbling up liberal premises. It's just so lame. Meanwhile, meanwhile,
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we're up against the entire liberal establishment, the entire edifice that involves the bureaucracy,
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as we've noted, and the now elected government and the media, certainly, and Hollywood and tech
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and education. I was watching a little clip, certainly not the whole show, but I was watching
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George Stephanopoulos, you know, the ex-Clinton communications director, White House communications
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director, Clinton's hatchet man, who then becomes the totally objective, serious news anchor at a
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mainstream network, television network, not just a cable network, but an actual network network,
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George Stephanopoulos. So he's previewing his show on ABC and they're playing clips. And one of the
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clips they want to get to is Chuck Schumer's speech about the insurrection. Take a look, take a listen
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to their, their version of Chuck Schumer's speech. America's 46th president confronts multiple crises
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as the Senate prepares to try a former president for the first time. Senators will have to decide
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if they believe Donald John Trump incited the insurrection. Is that what he said? Hold on. I,
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I know we played that clip yesterday on the show. Did he say senators will have to decide if Donald
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John Trump incited the insurrection? Is that what, let's just go, I think we still have it in the queue
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from, from yesterday. What did Chuck Schumer actually say? Senators will have to decide if they
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believe Donald John, Donald John Trump incited the erection, insurrection against the United States.
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Oh, right. That's what he said. Oh, that's a little different, isn't it? Stephanopoulos,
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he didn't, he didn't play that clip. He had his editors go in and manipulate the video.
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Not, not it would seem just for clarity because the word erection took what, one second,
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two seconds. It didn't, it's not like, it's not as though they needed to cut it down for timing.
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He cut it down to make Chuck Schumer look better because our state run TV for the liberal dominant
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regime in the United States would make Kim Jong-un blush. It would make Xi Jinping blush. It's,
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he'd be embarrassed. He'd say, gosh, guys, we're being a little transparent, being a little on the
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nose here. That's what we have in the United States. That is the regime we're up against.
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And we conservatives, we just go along with it as though this is some kind of fair game. As though,
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oh yes, no, you get rid of American history. That's fine. Oh yeah, all our revered forebears,
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they're bad. Yeah. They're, they're awful. Oh yes. No, we need to have a bunch of liberals on
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our conservative TV network. That's the only way it's fair. Uh-uh, buddy. The left controls
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everything. Well, why on earth are you giving them even one inch, even one iota? Well, because
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they want unity. Yeah, they want unity, do they? Is that right? Joe Biden wants unity, huh? That's why
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on day one in office, he eliminates the legal recognition of sexual difference, difference between
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men and women, obliterates girls' bathrooms, at least by executive order, practically probably
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won't be able to be put into effect, much to his chagrin. Eliminates girls' sports, eliminates
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a government commission seeking to cast our history in less than a terrible, awful light.
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There is some hope in our politics and actually it's not, it's not just purely partisan. It's not
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just purely Republicans, good Democrats, bad Democrats, almost always bad in our public life,
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but Republicans, not so great either. A lot of the time. However, there, there is an exception here to
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this dichotomy. Tulsi Gabbard. You know, the conservatives for a long time now have said very
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nice things about Tulsi Gabbard. They've sort of fallen in love with her. I think in part,
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as you can see from the online commentary, it's because she's very good looking, very beautiful
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woman. And so some of that affects, but, but a lot of the reason conservatives have liked her
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is because she's broken with her party on certain issues. And I have been a little reticent. I've been
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a little reluctant to totally get on board the Tulsi train. I've liked a lot of things she said,
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but I've been fooled once. I've been fooled twice. I have had my heart broken by democratic
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politicians who I thought were trying to change things a little bit. So I've held out, but I have
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to tell you, Tulsi Gabbard is coming out and showing that she has, if not perfect moral clarity,
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The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6th to try to stop Congress from carrying out its
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constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country. But let's be
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clear. The John Brennans, Adam Schiff's, and the oligarchs in big tech who are trying to undermine
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our constitutionally protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style
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surveillance are also domestic enemies and much more powerful and therefore dangerous than the
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mob that stormed the Capitol. Be still my beating heart. Oh my gosh. Cause she, she begins this clip
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in a way that you think, okay, here we go. Here's another one. Yeah. The Capitol thing. It was the worst
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thing that's ever happened. It's worse than Pearl Harbor, right? So that's how she begins it.
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But no, she says, yeah, the Capitol thing was very bad. I think we agree with that.
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Right? I think we all basically agree. But what the liberal dominant regime, what this blob,
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what this wicked, corrupt, rotten establishment is doing is not only just as bad, but because they're
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so much more powerful, because it's so much more vast and it penetrates so much deeper into society,
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it's much, much more dangerous than what we saw at the Capitol. Absolutely 100% correct.
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She is seeing something that I would say probably most elected Republicans aren't seeing.
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So I know looking forward that the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have
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been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what
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looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas, where they germinate in different
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parts of the country and they gain strength. And it brings together an unholy alliance frequently
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of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.
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Now, President Biden, I call upon you and all members of Congress from both parties to denounce
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these efforts by the likes of Brennan and others to take away our civil liberties that are endowed to
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us by our creator and guaranteed in our constitution. If you don't stand up to these people now,
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That speech, that clarity that Tulsi Gabbard is exhibiting has knocked away my reticence,
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my reluctance. She's still not a perfect politician, but goodness gracious, does she see something?
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Goodness gracious, that's leadership. And it's not even just this kind of cheap thing where,
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you know, a Democrat becomes a Republican and we all point to her and say, oh, she's my favorite
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Democrat or something. Because she's not really becoming a Republican. It's something a little
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bit different than that. She's pointing out the blob. She's pointing out that corrupt establishment.
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I love, actually, in that clip she plays from John Brennan, the talk about the swampiest of the swamp
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creatures, deep stadiest of the deep state creatures. John, I believe he also voted for a communist for
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president once. Seriously. And again, actual communist candidate for president. John Brennan
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comes out and he says, look, we're seeing in the United States a kind of dissident movement that we've
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seen in the dissident movements in other countries that try to destabilize the regime. Now, pause for a
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second. When John Brennan and his fellow travelers see dissident movements in other places, they usually
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say they're really great. Usually they love them. They kind of encourage these dissident movements,
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but they certainly don't encourage dissident movements in the United States. And did you hear
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what he refers to as the dissident movement? So the classic, he castigates Americans as racists and
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bigots and the nativist. Well, hold on. That's a little different. Nativist really there. You're just
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saying maybe we should reduce immigration. Now we let like 2 million people in a year. We have the most
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broad open borders immigration regime in the history of the world. Maybe we should bring that
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down. 60% of Americans, according to at least one Harvard Harris poll, think that we should do that.
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That we should, the majority of Americans believe we should, we should bring immigration, including
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legal immigration down substantially. So hold on. Nativist? Well, what? So you just don't want open
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borders? And then libertarians? Libertarians now? Look, I mean, I'm happy to knock the libertarians
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just as much as anybody, but that is your example of a hateful, awful, terrible group. Libertarians?
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By the way, this just underscores my point that I often make to libertarians, which is you're never
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going to get the left to like you. They hate you and they think you're a neo-Nazi. So stop trying to
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suck up to the left. But that's what they mean. These guys who sort of run the blob, they're figures in
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the dominant liberal regime. They might love dissident movements abroad. They don't like the dissident
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movements here at home. Anything that challenges their established power, which is why they are
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undertaking this radical program with Joe Biden as their vessel, good old moderate Scranton Joe
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as the vessel of this extraordinarily radical program to undermine the very foundations of the country,
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undermine our framing of American history, how we understand ourselves. And it's no coincidence that
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Biden is undertaking this radical sexual policy in his first days in office, all the transgender bills
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to undermine even human nature itself, to push forward this progressive agenda that seeks to
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revolutionize not just our country, but human nature itself. That is a very scary project. We should
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welcome any support we can from any corners we can, even Tulsi Gabbard, even a Democrat,
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to undermine that effort, to stand athwart that history, that historicism, that theory of progress,
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and yell, stop. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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getting the media attention it deserves. Joe Biden continues his spree of executive orders and will
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track the evolution in masking guidance from don't wear a mask to wear three masks. All of that and much