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00:00:30.560 The fake impeachment trial is officially about to begin.

00:00:35.300 Both sides have submitted their briefs.

00:00:37.540 A very important to note from the outset,

00:00:40.160 this is not an impeachment trial.

00:00:43.060 This does not meet the constitutional standards of an impeachment trial.

00:00:47.780 They are not trying the president.

00:00:49.380 They are trying an ex-president.

00:00:51.700 The chief justice is not presiding.

00:00:53.760 They've just got some Dem senator presiding.

00:00:55.540 It is not an impeachment trial.

00:00:58.320 Nevertheless, they're going to pretend that it is.

00:01:01.200 The House has submitted their arguments.

00:01:03.400 Their arguments are in just a few words

00:01:06.920 that Donald Trump is singularly responsible

00:01:10.560 for the riot at the Capitol,

00:01:13.100 which was an insurrection.

00:01:14.720 And therefore we've got to remove him from the office.

00:01:17.240 He's already left.

00:01:18.020 The Trump argument and the Trump legal team

00:01:21.480 has submitted their briefs is that

00:01:23.820 President Trump is no longer the president.

00:01:26.000 He didn't incite an insurrection

00:01:27.580 and the whole thing is a farce.

00:01:29.080 So they're going to be making this constitutional argument

00:01:31.140 that none of this is legitimate whatsoever.

00:01:34.440 That is a timid,

00:01:35.800 I don't want to say a timid argument.

00:01:37.220 It's a modest argument.

00:01:38.660 It's a smaller argument.

00:01:40.460 It's not making claims about voter fraud.

00:01:42.700 It's not making claims about the Biden administration.

00:01:44.660 So the question for all of us is,

00:01:47.360 will this Trump impeachment trial,

00:01:49.200 fake or real,

00:01:50.580 be the greatest show on earth?

00:01:52.700 Will it be Trumpian?

00:01:53.960 Will it keep us all glued to our seats?

00:01:56.020 Or will it fizzle out?

00:01:57.540 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:58.200 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:06.740 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:07.820 My favorite comment from yesterday

00:02:09.180 is from Chris1985,

00:02:11.880 who is quoting Jen Psaki,

00:02:13.500 White House Press Secretary,

00:02:14.280 when she says,

00:02:15.040 I hate to disappoint conservative Twitter.

00:02:17.360 What is conservative Twitter?

00:02:18.940 Never heard of it.

00:02:19.780 Well, actually, that's a great point

00:02:21.400 because there, obviously,

00:02:23.120 they are referring to the conservatives on Twitter

00:02:25.600 who get kicked off more and more each day

00:02:29.420 and silenced and shadow banned and censored.

00:02:31.820 Now, some people tried to create

00:02:33.580 a separate conservative Twitter,

00:02:35.400 but the left would not tolerate that.

00:02:37.080 They want us to be tame.

00:02:38.640 They want us to be easily controlled.

00:02:41.000 They want us to be pliable.

00:02:42.540 Some Republicans,

00:02:43.260 even in Republican leadership,

00:02:44.860 are going along with that.

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00:04:33.460 Trump never seems to go away.

00:04:36.580 Trump, I'm glad.

00:04:37.900 I miss Trump.

00:04:38.540 I'm sort of glad

00:04:39.500 we're going to get to see him on TV.

00:04:41.260 The left has completely

00:04:42.460 shut him up,

00:04:44.200 deplatformed him,

00:04:45.000 and taken him out of life.

00:04:46.260 But they can't let him all go

00:04:47.500 all at once

00:04:48.420 because they need him.

00:04:49.800 For some reason,

00:04:51.000 Trump represents something

00:04:52.620 that will not go away.

00:04:54.060 It represents,

00:04:55.300 he represents this debate

00:04:57.800 over the direction

00:04:58.460 of the Republican Party

00:04:59.460 and ultimately,

00:05:00.700 the direction of the country.

00:05:03.580 Now, you know,

00:05:04.280 there is someone

00:05:04.940 in House Republican leadership

00:05:06.500 who voted

00:05:09.080 to impeach Donald Trump.

00:05:10.520 I know this seems

00:05:12.300 completely insane

00:05:13.440 that the Republican Party,

00:05:15.020 which overwhelmingly

00:05:15.840 supports Donald Trump,

00:05:17.200 still,

00:05:17.920 majority of Republicans,

00:05:18.960 according to recent polls,

00:05:19.780 want him to be the nominee

00:05:21.700 in 2024.

00:05:23.340 Okay?

00:05:24.780 As far as I can tell,

00:05:25.820 unprecedented

00:05:26.460 sort of support

00:05:27.640 for this guy

00:05:28.180 within his own party.

00:05:30.480 Someone in the leadership

00:05:31.460 of the Republican Party

00:05:32.440 in the House

00:05:33.020 would vote for his impeachment.

00:05:34.620 Seems strange.

00:05:35.160 That would be Liz Cheney.

00:05:36.540 Now, Mitch McConnell,

00:05:37.560 Senate Majority Leader,

00:05:38.460 has come out

00:05:39.920 and defended Liz Cheney.

00:05:41.640 He says,

00:05:42.100 Liz Cheney is a leader

00:05:43.560 with deep convictions

00:05:44.880 and the courage

00:05:45.820 to act on them.

00:05:49.740 Okay?

00:05:51.280 That's it?

00:05:52.000 That's all you can muster?

00:05:54.260 Barack Obama

00:05:55.100 is a leader

00:05:57.000 with deep convictions

00:05:57.920 and the courage

00:05:58.460 to act on them.

00:06:00.360 He is a leader.

00:06:01.560 Some people took issue

00:06:02.460 with this

00:06:02.740 when I pointed it out

00:06:03.640 on the internet.

00:06:05.500 Said, no,

00:06:06.560 he's not a leader.

00:06:07.420 He's a terrible person.

00:06:08.880 Terrible people

00:06:09.500 can be leaders.

00:06:11.080 World history

00:06:11.900 is rife

00:06:12.980 with examples of that.

00:06:15.540 He is a leader.

00:06:16.440 He led.

00:06:16.800 He was President

00:06:17.160 of the United States.

00:06:17.820 He won re-election.

00:06:18.780 He changed the country.

00:06:19.660 He was extraordinarily influential.

00:06:21.540 He has deep convictions

00:06:22.320 and he had the courage

00:06:23.080 to act on them.

00:06:25.600 That in and of itself

00:06:26.940 does not qualify somebody

00:06:28.400 to be in Republican leadership.

00:06:31.520 The question is,

00:06:33.100 what are the convictions?

00:06:34.760 The question is,

00:06:37.380 where are you leading

00:06:38.640 your followers?

00:06:41.620 And the question

00:06:42.420 for,

00:06:43.700 for,

00:06:44.120 regarding Liz Cheney

00:06:45.280 right now is,

00:06:46.660 do Republicans

00:06:48.520 believe

00:06:49.100 that this woman

00:06:50.280 and her convictions

00:06:51.420 and her leadership

00:06:52.300 best represents

00:06:54.160 their party?

00:06:54.720 It's,

00:06:54.900 it's hard to imagine how.

00:06:56.420 In a way,

00:06:57.400 it's quite courageous

00:06:58.560 that Liz Cheney

00:06:59.640 just hated Trump

00:07:00.820 so much.

00:07:01.420 She felt so

00:07:02.220 convicted

00:07:03.540 about this issue

00:07:04.300 of impeachment

00:07:04.780 that she,

00:07:05.200 she decided

00:07:05.700 she had to vote

00:07:06.360 to impeach

00:07:07.180 the Republican president.

00:07:08.200 I think it was

00:07:08.500 a stupid vote.

00:07:09.600 I don't,

00:07:09.920 I do not think

00:07:11.040 in,

00:07:11.860 in any reasonable world

00:07:13.440 he committed

00:07:13.860 an impeachable offense.

00:07:16.240 A second impeachable offense.

00:07:18.260 Don't forget,

00:07:18.560 it was the second impeachment

00:07:19.340 vote against Trump.

00:07:21.960 But fine,

00:07:22.740 Liz Cheney thinks that.

00:07:23.620 That's fine.

00:07:24.220 If she's going to take

00:07:25.020 that courageous vote,

00:07:25.680 she's got to deal

00:07:26.100 with the consequences.

00:07:26.980 Namely,

00:07:27.720 she is not fit

00:07:28.660 for Republican leadership.

00:07:30.000 She does not represent

00:07:31.100 the views

00:07:31.540 of the Republican Party.

00:07:32.980 She might represent

00:07:33.760 the views

00:07:34.140 of a certain type

00:07:35.040 of leadership class.

00:07:35.960 You see,

00:07:36.580 George W. Bush

00:07:37.460 came out

00:07:37.840 and defended Liz Cheney.

00:07:38.880 Mitch McConnell

00:07:39.400 now defending Liz Cheney.

00:07:40.860 Fine.

00:07:41.420 I'm not saying

00:07:41.960 kick her out of Congress.

00:07:43.080 I'm not saying

00:07:43.740 kick her out

00:07:44.120 of the Republican Party.

00:07:45.700 In a way,

00:07:46.500 it's sort of admirable

00:07:47.280 that she has that courage

00:07:48.500 of her convictions.

00:07:49.460 It's too bad

00:07:50.120 because her reasoning

00:07:50.840 was extremely flawed

00:07:52.040 when she took that vote.

00:07:53.960 But fine,

00:07:54.640 great,

00:07:55.020 she's got that courage,

00:07:56.140 got those convictions.

00:07:57.640 Now,

00:07:58.220 you need to deal

00:07:59.240 with the consequences

00:08:00.140 of that.

00:08:01.920 It's preposterous.

00:08:03.880 And presumably,

00:08:05.160 she's going to remain

00:08:05.840 in leadership.

00:08:06.520 I don't see a major revolt.

00:08:08.380 The only congressman,

00:08:09.380 the only prominent Republican

00:08:10.860 who's really come out

00:08:11.760 and said Liz Cheney

00:08:12.400 doesn't belong in leadership

00:08:13.240 is Matt Gaetz.

00:08:15.140 But assuming that's not enough,

00:08:17.740 assuming she stays

00:08:18.320 in leadership,

00:08:19.480 this is going to increase

00:08:21.040 the divide

00:08:21.720 between the GOP

00:08:23.000 leadership class

00:08:23.800 and the GOP base.

00:08:26.220 your courage matters

00:08:30.200 and your leadership matters,

00:08:31.640 but you need to have

00:08:32.380 the right convictions.

00:08:33.340 This is something

00:08:33.700 we've talked about

00:08:34.200 a lot on this show,

00:08:35.280 how we've tricked ourselves

00:08:36.780 for many years

00:08:37.480 into thinking that

00:08:38.320 all that mattered

00:08:40.040 was the form of politics.

00:08:42.320 The substance of the politics

00:08:43.880 didn't matter.

00:08:44.440 So we just,

00:08:45.200 we support free speech.

00:08:46.860 We don't support

00:08:47.740 saying anything in particular,

00:08:49.000 but we just,

00:08:49.640 we just support free speech.

00:08:50.740 We support religious liberty.

00:08:52.400 We don't believe

00:08:53.000 in anything ourselves,

00:08:53.920 but we just support

00:08:54.540 religious liberty.

00:08:55.540 That's not enough.

00:08:57.200 The left has form

00:08:58.320 and substance

00:08:59.340 in their politics

00:09:00.040 and it's really dangerous,

00:09:01.320 but it's very effective

00:09:02.260 and we need to

00:09:03.460 get a little bit more courage.

00:09:05.540 Give you an example

00:09:06.160 of one of the radicals

00:09:07.080 in the Democratic Party,

00:09:08.120 Rafael Warnock,

00:09:10.160 this radical leftist,

00:09:13.200 a socialist,

00:09:14.600 who when he was helping

00:09:16.000 to run a church,

00:09:17.820 invited Fidel Castro.

00:09:20.740 to go there,

00:09:21.560 who said that you can't serve God

00:09:22.820 in the U.S. military,

00:09:24.320 who said many,

00:09:24.940 many radical things

00:09:25.740 in his life.

00:09:27.400 Rafael Warnock

00:09:28.300 just came out

00:09:29.200 and said

00:09:30.600 that we need to institute

00:09:33.480 widespread unsolicited

00:09:34.600 mail-in votes

00:09:35.320 forever.

00:09:38.300 We,

00:09:38.600 this is essential

00:09:39.400 to voting integrity.

00:09:41.100 He pushed back against

00:09:42.660 people who were trying

00:09:44.260 to do the opposite.

00:09:44.920 He said,

00:09:45.340 this is shameful.

00:09:46.660 We need to swiftly pass

00:09:48.100 the For the People Act.

00:09:49.800 Whatever.

00:09:50.720 Goodness gracious.

00:09:51.540 In the whole scope

00:09:53.420 of shameless legislation names,

00:09:55.180 and a lot of them

00:09:55.660 are pretty shameless,

00:09:57.020 For the People Act,

00:09:58.620 give me a break,

00:09:59.380 to strengthen access

00:10:00.520 to the ballot

00:10:01.260 and prevent voter suppression

00:10:03.300 from silencing our voices.

00:10:05.340 And you can,

00:10:06.000 if you want to actually

00:10:06.700 interpret that into English,

00:10:07.980 he wants to take away

00:10:09.140 election integrity measures

00:10:10.280 and make it easier

00:10:11.360 for Democrat machines

00:10:12.340 to steal elections.

00:10:13.260 That's what this whole thing

00:10:14.020 is about.

00:10:14.360 We Republicans

00:10:16.160 need to get serious

00:10:18.880 about this

00:10:19.360 and get tough

00:10:20.400 and it's going to require us

00:10:22.020 to actually put our convictions

00:10:22.940 on the table

00:10:23.580 and come out and say,

00:10:25.140 we need to get rid

00:10:26.020 of widespread mail-ins,

00:10:27.120 make them illegal

00:10:28.320 in places.

00:10:29.320 We need to get rid

00:10:30.520 of the drop boxes

00:10:31.520 for the ballots,

00:10:32.500 make those illegal.

00:10:34.000 We need to take

00:10:35.280 election season

00:10:36.280 and get rid of all

00:10:37.620 those extra days

00:10:38.300 where you can vote

00:10:38.860 and make it election day

00:10:40.260 again.

00:10:40.720 This is possibly

00:10:42.740 an existential matter

00:10:43.920 for our representative government

00:10:45.740 and I know

00:10:46.460 a lot of Republicans

00:10:47.140 are not going to want to do it

00:10:47.960 because here's what

00:10:48.420 they're going to say.

00:10:49.580 They're going to say,

00:10:50.100 Michael,

00:10:50.820 if with all these things,

00:10:53.280 all the mail-in

00:10:54.120 and the drop box

00:10:55.480 and you know,

00:10:56.340 you start voting

00:10:57.020 18 months before election day,

00:10:59.060 if that will encourage

00:11:01.120 even one more person

00:11:02.240 to vote,

00:11:03.380 well,

00:11:03.700 don't we have to do that

00:11:05.160 just to,

00:11:06.300 because we have to increase

00:11:07.720 the voting

00:11:08.300 for everybody,

00:11:10.460 people who are unwilling

00:11:12.000 to get themselves out of bed

00:11:13.280 and actually vote

00:11:13.860 on election day?

00:11:14.520 We need,

00:11:14.780 we need them to vote.

00:11:15.720 No,

00:11:16.080 we don't.

00:11:16.700 We don't.

00:11:18.060 And all,

00:11:18.700 all of that is

00:11:19.420 sort of a facade

00:11:21.260 to cover up the purpose

00:11:22.860 of these measures

00:11:23.440 which is actually

00:11:24.200 to,

00:11:25.440 to get rid of

00:11:26.340 election integrity.

00:11:28.320 We need to come out there

00:11:29.680 and be able

00:11:30.200 to say that.

00:11:31.380 Now,

00:11:31.960 the,

00:11:32.140 the most persuasive

00:11:33.220 argument for this,

00:11:34.140 I think,

00:11:34.500 is that

00:11:35.080 every illegal vote

00:11:37.360 that is cast

00:11:38.040 disenfranchises

00:11:39.080 a legal voter.

00:11:40.460 So,

00:11:41.100 actually,

00:11:41.620 the real voter suppression

00:11:42.580 is getting rid

00:11:43.500 of election integrity

00:11:44.280 and promoting fraud.

00:11:46.520 But,

00:11:47.160 I don't know

00:11:48.420 that the,

00:11:48.860 the persuasion

00:11:50.040 is really the key here.

00:11:52.300 Do you ever notice

00:11:53.000 this with the left?

00:11:53.640 The left has such

00:11:54.200 radical plans.

00:11:55.420 I mean,

00:11:55.900 within the first week

00:11:56.960 and,

00:11:58.000 week or two weeks

00:11:58.840 in,

00:11:59.100 in Joe Biden's administration,

00:12:00.620 he obliterated

00:12:01.600 girls' sports

00:12:02.480 and the women's bathroom,

00:12:03.760 right,

00:12:04.100 through executive order.

00:12:05.100 not very popular stuff.

00:12:07.900 But the left

00:12:08.640 doesn't care

00:12:09.460 because what the left

00:12:11.220 lacks in persuasive power,

00:12:13.580 they make up for,

00:12:15.040 more than make up for,

00:12:16.600 in the willingness

00:12:17.580 to exercise

00:12:18.620 the political power

00:12:19.780 that they've given

00:12:20.800 or that they've outright

00:12:21.660 taken.

00:12:23.080 And Republicans

00:12:23.960 don't have that.

00:12:24.760 We,

00:12:24.980 oh,

00:12:25.160 we love persuading.

00:12:26.520 We love talking

00:12:27.980 about the free marketplace

00:12:28.800 of ideas.

00:12:29.420 We love think tanks.

00:12:30.800 We love debates.

00:12:32.140 We love all that

00:12:32.800 sort of stuff.

00:12:35.000 I,

00:12:35.120 I'm persuading right now,

00:12:36.900 right,

00:12:37.020 this is one of the few areas

00:12:38.220 that conservatives

00:12:38.860 have any sort of leverage in

00:12:40.760 is in

00:12:41.780 certain

00:12:42.840 small segments

00:12:43.940 of

00:12:44.500 alternative media.

00:12:47.060 But what about

00:12:47.840 the elected guys?

00:12:48.960 What about the guys

00:12:49.840 working in the government?

00:12:51.400 Why can't they do

00:12:52.200 their job?

00:12:53.620 Namely,

00:12:54.160 the exercise

00:12:54.860 of the political power

00:12:55.980 that they've been given.

00:12:56.800 Because we can persuade

00:13:00.180 and persuade

00:13:00.660 and persuade

00:13:01.180 until we're blue in the face.

00:13:02.960 If we're not willing

00:13:03.900 to actually exercise

00:13:05.080 political power,

00:13:05.940 that will all be for naught.

00:13:09.380 And if we don't fix

00:13:10.460 this election integrity issue,

00:13:12.240 we're not,

00:13:12.580 we're not going to have

00:13:13.300 very much political power

00:13:14.560 in the future,

00:13:15.860 at least not in the races

00:13:16.660 that count.

00:13:17.160 There's a headline

00:13:17.740 out of 538.

00:13:19.300 This is a Nate Silver's

00:13:20.020 publication.

00:13:21.180 It's called,

00:13:21.840 Where Did All the Bellwether

00:13:22.780 Counties Go?

00:13:25.420 Here,

00:13:25.820 Ryan Matsumoto,

00:13:27.180 who is the,

00:13:27.680 the author,

00:13:29.060 is examining how

00:13:30.100 all those bellwether counties

00:13:32.440 that have predicted

00:13:33.320 the presidential elections

00:13:34.860 for decades,

00:13:36.180 the vast majority of them

00:13:37.980 somehow got it wrong

00:13:39.440 in 2020.

00:13:40.980 Isn't that a little strange?

00:13:41.880 What does that say

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00:13:43.500 We'll get to

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00:15:37.980 So 538 wants to know,

00:15:39.580 where did all

00:15:39.860 the bellwether counties go?

00:15:41.820 From 1980 to 2016,

00:15:43.900 19 counties voted

00:15:45.120 for the winner

00:15:45.680 of the presidential election

00:15:46.880 every single time.

00:15:49.900 The most impressive

00:15:50.920 of those was

00:15:51.600 Valencia County,

00:15:52.440 New Mexico,

00:15:53.320 which voted for the victor

00:15:54.520 in every presidential election

00:15:56.040 from 1952 to 2016.

00:16:00.860 But in 2020,

00:16:03.100 18 of these 19

00:16:04.900 bellwether counties

00:16:06.060 voted for Donald Trump.

00:16:09.580 Just one,

00:16:10.920 Clallam County,

00:16:11.820 Washington,

00:16:13.160 voted for Joe Biden.

00:16:14.840 So then they spend

00:16:18.180 lots and lots of ink

00:16:19.580 asking where did

00:16:20.560 the bellwether counties go?

00:16:22.280 Where did they all,

00:16:23.060 isn't that so weird?

00:16:26.680 Facts like this

00:16:28.000 will buttress

00:16:29.300 people who have questions

00:16:31.100 about the presidential election.

00:16:34.320 Questions about,

00:16:35.380 you know,

00:16:36.680 boxes of ballots in Georgia

00:16:38.200 and pipes bursting

00:16:39.560 and all these sorts

00:16:41.060 of irregularities.

00:16:42.420 Thousands of votes,

00:16:44.600 you know,

00:16:45.160 accidentally being missed

00:16:46.760 or discounted

00:16:47.680 or they're only added later.

00:16:49.280 Going to add

00:16:50.060 a lot of fuel

00:16:51.600 to those,

00:16:52.760 to that fire

00:16:53.540 of election doubt.

00:16:56.280 However,

00:16:57.920 I'm,

00:16:58.440 I'm not,

00:16:59.380 I'm not discounting that.

00:17:00.540 You know,

00:17:00.800 if there's evidence

00:17:01.520 of these things happening

00:17:02.440 and it being widespread,

00:17:03.240 we've talked about this

00:17:03.740 on the show a lot,

00:17:04.520 more than open

00:17:05.520 to looking at that evidence.

00:17:07.880 Hope,

00:17:08.140 hope there is evidence,

00:17:09.040 hope we can see it.

00:17:10.180 But obviously,

00:17:10.760 even if there were,

00:17:11.400 it's very difficult

00:17:12.000 to show this stuff.

00:17:12.940 Even,

00:17:13.080 even in 1948,

00:17:14.460 you know,

00:17:14.740 I keep going back

00:17:15.460 to this election

00:17:15.940 because it's so famous

00:17:16.820 and so consequential.

00:17:18.780 LBJ stole a Senate seat

00:17:20.400 in Texas.

00:17:21.380 This has been extraordinarily

00:17:22.160 well documented

00:17:23.080 most recently

00:17:23.820 by Robert Caro,

00:17:24.940 who is sort of

00:17:25.480 the preeminent

00:17:26.200 LBJ biographer.

00:17:29.080 He,

00:17:29.200 he notes this

00:17:30.200 in Means of Ascent.

00:17:31.300 1948,

00:17:32.120 LBJ,

00:17:32.660 who'd been stealing elections

00:17:33.560 since college,

00:17:34.840 who'd been stealing elections

00:17:35.860 for his staff club presidency

00:17:38.320 at,

00:17:38.760 when he was working

00:17:39.440 as a staffer

00:17:40.100 on Capitol Hill.

00:17:41.380 This guy stole the,

00:17:43.060 the election

00:17:43.800 by stuffing the ballot boxes

00:17:45.240 in Texas.

00:17:46.480 He won by

00:17:47.520 a statistically impossible margin.

00:17:49.960 He then,

00:17:50.640 this goes up to the Supreme Court.

00:17:51.900 The Supreme Court

00:17:52.240 won't even look into it.

00:17:53.300 They just say,

00:17:53.800 we don't have jurisdiction here.

00:17:54.980 Goes back to the state.

00:17:56.580 LBJ becomes senator.

00:17:57.760 LBJ becomes vice president.

00:17:58.960 LBJ becomes president.

00:18:00.080 LBJ dies.

00:18:02.140 And then,

00:18:02.940 all those years later,

00:18:03.900 they say,

00:18:04.200 look at that.

00:18:04.560 It was a fraudulent vote.

00:18:06.360 So,

00:18:07.500 sure,

00:18:07.720 these things happen.

00:18:09.500 However,

00:18:10.120 there's a simpler answer here

00:18:11.460 to what's going on

00:18:12.500 with these bellwether counties.

00:18:14.580 Let's say,

00:18:15.300 forget about all the theories

00:18:17.320 that various people

00:18:18.460 have posited

00:18:19.280 about the voting machines

00:18:20.820 and even about

00:18:22.100 pipes bursting

00:18:23.140 and even about

00:18:24.100 thumb drives going missing,

00:18:25.640 whatever.

00:18:26.660 Just consider this.

00:18:28.980 We changed all the election rules

00:18:30.920 weeks and months

00:18:31.540 before the election.

00:18:34.020 Right?

00:18:34.200 In,

00:18:34.460 in places that mattered,

00:18:35.780 we radically upended

00:18:37.320 the election rules

00:18:38.360 in Pennsylvania

00:18:40.340 in contravention

00:18:41.040 of the state constitution.

00:18:43.660 So,

00:18:44.560 even if,

00:18:45.640 even if there's nothing

00:18:46.640 behind the scenes

00:18:47.980 hidden nefarious

00:18:49.500 going on,

00:18:50.560 is it any wonder

00:18:52.200 that if you change

00:18:53.340 the rules of the election,

00:18:54.600 you're going to have

00:18:56.060 different outcomes

00:18:56.820 in bellwether counties?

00:18:58.280 The bellwether counties

00:18:59.320 are only bellwether

00:19:00.180 in normal elections,

00:19:03.140 right?

00:19:03.300 In elections where the rules

00:19:04.360 remain the same.

00:19:04.940 If you completely change

00:19:06.080 the rules of the game,

00:19:06.920 then those counties

00:19:07.580 aren't going to tell you

00:19:08.260 anything.

00:19:08.600 They are fine-tuned

00:19:09.640 to tell you about

00:19:10.720 the old rules.

00:19:11.380 But what the left did

00:19:12.180 is they went in

00:19:13.020 and completely changed

00:19:13.900 the rules to make

00:19:14.680 them advantageous

00:19:15.640 to themselves

00:19:16.460 and,

00:19:17.100 and harmful to us.

00:19:20.120 And we don't even

00:19:21.040 have the hoots

00:19:21.540 but to come out

00:19:22.100 and say,

00:19:22.480 hey,

00:19:22.720 get rid of the

00:19:23.220 widespread mail-in.

00:19:24.580 Get rid of election month.

00:19:26.100 Get rid of all that.

00:19:27.740 You guys are cheaters.

00:19:29.740 You're,

00:19:29.980 you're,

00:19:30.320 I'll,

00:19:30.880 I'll even pull back

00:19:31.820 from cheating

00:19:32.320 because they,

00:19:32.980 they did it out

00:19:33.580 in the open,

00:19:34.080 right?

00:19:35.540 In the case of

00:19:36.300 Pennsylvania,

00:19:36.680 I guess they did cheat

00:19:37.880 because what they did

00:19:38.500 was unconstitutional.

00:19:39.840 But forget cheating.

00:19:43.120 Let's just focus

00:19:43.700 on rigging.

00:19:44.820 They reoriented

00:19:46.320 the system

00:19:47.060 so that it would be

00:19:48.600 more advantageous

00:19:50.440 to them.

00:19:52.240 That is

00:19:53.140 what politicians

00:19:54.380 do.

00:19:55.600 In a way,

00:19:56.480 you have to admire it.

00:19:57.360 Just,

00:19:57.620 just like you have

00:19:58.200 to admire the

00:19:58.920 people who have

00:19:59.920 leadership and convictions

00:20:01.040 and courage

00:20:01.660 who are on the

00:20:02.060 other side.

00:20:02.940 It's very bad

00:20:03.560 for the country,

00:20:04.220 but you say,

00:20:04.560 well,

00:20:04.660 at least you're

00:20:05.040 exercising political

00:20:05.840 power.

00:20:06.480 What are our guys

00:20:07.120 doing?

00:20:08.080 Absolutely,

00:20:09.120 absolutely nothing.

00:20:11.260 And for the handful

00:20:12.600 of people

00:20:13.120 who come out

00:20:14.260 and say,

00:20:14.980 guys,

00:20:15.560 this is wrong.

00:20:16.800 We need to look

00:20:17.560 into this.

00:20:18.560 I'm going to object

00:20:19.460 to some of these votes.

00:20:20.580 I'm talking about

00:20:21.100 guys like Ted Cruz,

00:20:22.700 Josh Hawley,

00:20:24.180 other people.

00:20:25.680 What does the left

00:20:26.540 say?

00:20:26.840 The left comes out,

00:20:27.560 tries to ruin

00:20:28.200 their careers.

00:20:29.220 AOC,

00:20:29.700 I kid you not,

00:20:31.440 came out.

00:20:31.820 She's been calling

00:20:32.380 Ted Cruz and

00:20:33.120 Josh Hawley

00:20:33.620 murderers because

00:20:35.460 she said,

00:20:36.740 she came out early

00:20:37.400 on and said that

00:20:38.060 nearly half the

00:20:39.040 members of Congress

00:20:39.820 were killed

00:20:40.460 in,

00:20:41.680 in the riot

00:20:43.220 at the Capitol.

00:20:44.060 Of course,

00:20:44.560 no member of Congress

00:20:45.360 was even injured,

00:20:46.340 but just,

00:20:47.240 they were all,

00:20:47.520 almost half of us

00:20:48.480 were killed.

00:20:49.080 And then she said,

00:20:50.140 Ted Cruz is trying

00:20:51.000 to murder me.

00:20:51.840 And now she's saying

00:20:53.080 that guys like

00:20:53.800 Cruz and Hawley

00:20:54.460 are tantamount

00:20:55.820 to rapists.

00:20:57.320 I'm a survivor

00:20:58.280 of sexual,

00:20:59.700 assault.

00:21:01.720 And I haven't

00:21:02.700 told many people

00:21:03.440 that in my life.

00:21:04.720 When I see

00:21:06.280 a party

00:21:08.280 who cheered

00:21:09.640 on violence,

00:21:11.260 violence that

00:21:13.100 killed five,

00:21:14.560 maybe now six

00:21:15.240 people,

00:21:15.680 a second Capitol

00:21:16.420 police officer

00:21:17.180 took their life

00:21:18.020 in the aftermath

00:21:18.900 of the attack

00:21:21.020 this past week.

00:21:23.240 These people

00:21:24.100 are just trying

00:21:24.700 to tell us

00:21:25.460 it's not a big deal.

00:21:27.760 and they're

00:21:29.580 trying to say

00:21:30.520 you're making

00:21:31.680 too big a deal

00:21:32.480 over it.

00:21:34.020 Or,

00:21:34.820 my favorite,

00:21:37.680 this past week,

00:21:40.200 Ted Cruz

00:21:42.100 and now

00:21:42.700 representatives

00:21:43.960 Chip Roy

00:21:44.680 and, oh,

00:21:45.440 by the way,

00:21:45.780 some of the

00:21:46.080 other representatives

00:21:46.760 who actually

00:21:47.600 encouraged people

00:21:48.920 to threaten

00:21:49.360 members of Congress

00:21:50.200 or tweeted out

00:21:50.940 the location

00:21:51.440 of the speaker

00:21:51.980 are now telling

00:21:52.920 me to apologize

00:21:54.000 for saying

00:21:56.300 and speaking

00:21:57.900 truth

00:21:58.560 to what happened.

00:22:01.100 These are the

00:22:01.800 tactics of abusers.

00:22:04.000 Or rather,

00:22:04.740 these are the tactics

00:22:05.480 that abusers use.

00:22:07.320 I don't know

00:22:07.960 why she makes

00:22:08.440 that distinction

00:22:08.980 because it means

00:22:09.540 the same thing.

00:22:10.180 So she's saying

00:22:10.720 Ted Cruz,

00:22:11.960 because he followed

00:22:12.980 a constitutional process

00:22:14.320 and voiced

00:22:16.700 his objections

00:22:17.440 to some of

00:22:18.860 the irregularities

00:22:19.640 on the record,

00:22:20.420 he's a murderer.

00:22:22.340 He tried to murder me.

00:22:24.020 And when

00:22:24.980 Cruz and

00:22:26.240 Hawley and some

00:22:26.960 of these other guys

00:22:27.720 came out and said,

00:22:29.100 apologize to us.

00:22:30.900 You can't call us

00:22:31.800 murderers.

00:22:32.640 That's so wrong.

00:22:33.280 She says,

00:22:33.720 oh yeah,

00:22:34.100 you're rapists too.

00:22:36.020 She says,

00:22:36.380 I was sexually assaulted.

00:22:37.860 I've never told

00:22:38.300 anybody this,

00:22:38.860 but I was sexually assaulted

00:22:39.780 and you are

00:22:41.580 just like rapists.

00:22:43.860 So I guess

00:22:44.580 the breaking news here

00:22:45.980 is that AOC says

00:22:46.800 she was sexually assaulted.

00:22:48.900 The question you have

00:22:49.820 to ask is,

00:22:50.280 is that true?

00:22:51.960 Maybe.

00:22:52.660 Maybe it was true.

00:22:53.420 I don't know.

00:22:54.100 If people make

00:22:56.680 that kind of a claim,

00:22:57.540 it's a claim

00:22:57.880 you want to take seriously.

00:22:59.300 The trouble with AOC

00:23:00.380 is that she's

00:23:01.380 a pathological liar.

00:23:02.840 She's lied brazenly

00:23:04.000 about not just

00:23:04.720 public policy

00:23:05.500 in a way that

00:23:06.240 even PolitiFact

00:23:07.140 has given,

00:23:07.620 you know,

00:23:07.780 PolitiFact is a left-wing

00:23:08.600 outlet.

00:23:09.360 Even they have given

00:23:10.260 her some

00:23:11.740 difficult ratings

00:23:13.580 because she's just

00:23:14.420 lied about,

00:23:15.180 I don't know,

00:23:15.580 defense spending

00:23:16.400 or immigration enforcement.

00:23:17.980 She's lied about

00:23:18.580 the apocalypse

00:23:19.080 saying the world's

00:23:19.720 going to end

00:23:19.960 in 12 years.

00:23:20.860 But even more

00:23:21.780 to the point here,

00:23:22.660 she's lied about

00:23:23.400 core aspects

00:23:24.300 of her biography

00:23:25.220 that very few

00:23:27.220 people pointed out.

00:23:28.040 I actually,

00:23:28.400 I was one of the few

00:23:29.140 people that was able

00:23:29.780 to point this out

00:23:30.520 because I grew up

00:23:32.200 in the town

00:23:32.640 next to AOC

00:23:33.500 at exactly

00:23:34.600 the same time.

00:23:35.780 So AOC,

00:23:36.660 when she was campaigning,

00:23:38.340 pretended that she

00:23:39.500 was raised

00:23:40.280 in the Bronx.

00:23:41.000 She was not.

00:23:41.620 When she was very,

00:23:42.240 very little,

00:23:42.640 she lived in the Bronx,

00:23:43.520 but then she grew up

00:23:44.640 in one of the

00:23:46.280 wealthiest counties

00:23:46.900 in the country.

00:23:47.760 I know this

00:23:48.340 because I lived

00:23:49.100 in the town

00:23:49.460 right next door

00:23:50.140 and she lived

00:23:51.580 in the town

00:23:52.040 that was wealthier

00:23:52.960 than my town

00:23:53.520 and she went

00:23:54.100 to very,

00:23:54.560 very good schools

00:23:55.180 and then for college

00:23:56.600 she went to a very

00:23:57.200 expensive private school.

00:23:58.580 So she was portraying

00:23:59.400 herself as Jenny

00:24:00.080 from the block.

00:24:00.920 She got called out

00:24:01.660 for it

00:24:02.060 and she's never

00:24:02.920 given a good answer

00:24:03.640 on that.

00:24:04.040 So is this story

00:24:05.540 that she's telling

00:24:06.100 true or not?

00:24:07.060 It could be,

00:24:07.760 but it's just,

00:24:08.440 you can't take it

00:24:09.720 as gospel truth

00:24:10.560 when somebody

00:24:11.620 has a proven track

00:24:12.740 record of lying

00:24:13.540 even about fundamental

00:24:14.520 aspects of her biography.

00:24:16.280 The other reason

00:24:18.680 that we have

00:24:19.320 to be skeptical here

00:24:20.200 is because she's

00:24:20.960 being so flippant.

00:24:22.160 She's being so glib

00:24:23.140 about what I think

00:24:23.800 is a serious issue.

00:24:25.980 Rape is a pretty

00:24:27.000 serious issue, guys.

00:24:28.600 It's about as serious

00:24:30.220 as they get

00:24:30.920 and she is using this,

00:24:33.280 something we've never

00:24:33.720 heard about before,

00:24:34.440 she's using it

00:24:35.180 as just a cudgel

00:24:36.060 to attack Chip Roy

00:24:38.620 and Ted Cruz.

00:24:40.500 She's saying,

00:24:40.880 you guys are like rapists.

00:24:42.100 That's not the language

00:24:42.880 of somebody

00:24:43.340 who takes that issue

00:24:44.040 seriously.

00:24:44.620 So she won't

00:24:45.180 take it seriously.

00:24:45.800 I will take it seriously.

00:24:47.820 She'll trot it out

00:24:48.700 for a cheap political shot.

00:24:50.500 I want to take it

00:24:51.700 much more seriously

00:24:52.580 I think than the left does

00:24:53.640 because there is right now

00:24:57.260 a group of women

00:24:58.860 who are accusing

00:24:59.700 Marilyn Manson,

00:25:01.540 this pretty famous

00:25:03.260 rock star from the 90s

00:25:04.920 and I guess

00:25:05.540 he's still pretty famous.

00:25:06.680 They're accusing him

00:25:07.820 of abuse

00:25:08.660 and this term sexual assault

00:25:11.040 which has only been

00:25:11.860 popularized in recent decades.

00:25:13.800 It's broader

00:25:14.460 than the term rape

00:25:15.420 but it does raise

00:25:17.780 big questions

00:25:18.840 about our sort of

00:25:19.980 sexual environment,

00:25:22.240 about our legal regime

00:25:23.560 on this question

00:25:24.340 and on what,

00:25:27.160 where exactly

00:25:28.220 the problems

00:25:29.480 really begin

00:25:30.500 because the left

00:25:31.780 has all the wrong answers

00:25:32.940 on this

00:25:33.500 but I think

00:25:35.080 if we pursue

00:25:35.860 the issue a little bit

00:25:36.720 you'll see

00:25:38.140 where the seeds

00:25:40.600 of this kind of culture

00:25:41.420 were planted

00:25:41.820 because in a way,

00:25:42.560 I can't believe

00:25:43.000 I'm saying this.

00:25:43.700 In a way,

00:25:44.180 the left has a point.

00:25:45.420 They just don't have

00:25:45.980 the point they think

00:25:46.960 that they have.

00:25:49.240 We'll get to that

00:25:49.800 in one second.

00:25:50.540 You know,

00:25:51.100 if you want to

00:25:52.080 check out misinformation,

00:25:54.800 if you want to

00:25:55.780 check out

00:25:56.700 people telling lies,

00:25:58.280 you need to look

00:25:59.600 no further

00:26:00.040 than the current

00:26:00.960 occupants of the White House

00:26:01.940 and yet ironically,

00:26:03.540 the White House

00:26:03.940 is saying

00:26:04.240 they're going to

00:26:04.580 crack down

00:26:05.200 on misinformation.

00:26:06.640 You can hear about

00:26:07.100 this on Ben's show.

00:26:08.320 He will break it down

00:26:09.480 point by point.

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00:26:39.120 So there is a group

00:26:53.560 of women

00:26:54.000 accusing Marilyn Manson

00:26:56.180 of sexual assault.

00:26:58.480 Evan Rachel Wood,

00:26:59.940 who is an actress.

00:27:00.920 I've actually never

00:27:01.360 seen her work,

00:27:02.520 but she and I got into

00:27:03.240 some kind of Twitter spat

00:27:04.260 one time,

00:27:05.360 and that's the only way

00:27:06.500 I became aware of her.

00:27:07.840 But she is probably

00:27:09.160 the most prominent person

00:27:10.380 leading this charge.

00:27:12.260 Other women are doing it too,

00:27:13.360 though.

00:27:14.200 We'll get into those accusations

00:27:15.500 because I actually think

00:27:16.880 that no matter how

00:27:18.880 sort of cheapened

00:27:21.040 this debate has become,

00:27:23.480 the left does kind of

00:27:25.360 have a point here.

00:27:26.920 I just want to zoom out

00:27:27.940 for a second.

00:27:28.700 Marilyn Manson,

00:27:29.980 he took his stage name

00:27:31.640 from Marilyn Monroe

00:27:32.460 and Charles Manson,

00:27:33.540 one of the most famous killers

00:27:34.620 in American history.

00:27:36.000 Marilyn Manson,

00:27:36.580 the highest profile

00:27:37.680 Satanist in America.

00:27:39.620 He was friends

00:27:40.180 with Anton LaVey,

00:27:41.520 who was the head

00:27:42.000 of the Church of Satan.

00:27:43.620 He described himself

00:27:44.920 as a minister

00:27:45.740 in the Church of Satan.

00:27:47.360 He was a devotee

00:27:48.120 of Alistair Crowley,

00:27:49.220 maybe the other

00:27:50.460 most famous Satanist

00:27:51.700 of the last hundred years.

00:27:53.200 He quotes Crowley

00:27:54.300 in his autobiography,

00:27:55.480 says that Crowley's

00:27:57.360 sort of central dictum

00:27:58.740 is very important to him,

00:28:00.020 which is,

00:28:00.680 do what thou wilt

00:28:01.760 shall be the whole

00:28:02.880 of the law.

00:28:04.280 A lot of other

00:28:05.100 references to Crowley.

00:28:06.580 Turns out the Satanist

00:28:08.100 abuses people.

00:28:10.660 Not exactly

00:28:11.620 a man-bites-dog story,

00:28:14.520 but it is in our culture

00:28:15.840 because we have so

00:28:17.360 lost our perspective

00:28:18.900 on these things

00:28:19.660 that we would be shocked.

00:28:21.460 We say,

00:28:21.700 oh, there's nothing strange

00:28:23.120 about being a Satanist.

00:28:24.960 No, it's fine.

00:28:25.460 It's actually good.

00:28:26.900 It's all the same.

00:28:28.080 We can't discriminate.

00:28:28.980 You see this in lawsuits often.

00:28:30.720 You'll have some Satanists

00:28:31.960 suing a church,

00:28:33.300 or suing rather a courthouse

00:28:34.800 because they have

00:28:35.860 the Ten Commandments.

00:28:37.080 We say that the Church

00:28:38.200 of Satan

00:28:38.660 and the actual church,

00:28:40.960 Christian church,

00:28:41.840 they're sort of

00:28:42.340 the same thing.

00:28:43.060 We can't,

00:28:43.560 we have to be neutral

00:28:44.180 between those two.

00:28:45.500 Our founding fathers

00:28:46.240 are rolling over

00:28:46.820 in their graves on this.

00:28:48.860 But let's get into

00:28:49.960 the actual accusations.

00:28:53.260 Viewer discretion,

00:28:54.160 if people are younger

00:28:56.520 right now listening to this,

00:28:57.900 maybe just close their ears

00:28:58.760 for about a minute or two.

00:29:01.240 Evan Rachel Wood,

00:29:02.360 before she said

00:29:03.140 that she was abused

00:29:03.640 by Marilyn Manson,

00:29:04.820 testified before Congress

00:29:05.760 and said she was abused

00:29:06.760 by a sort of former

00:29:08.380 ex-boyfriend,

00:29:09.500 you know,

00:29:10.660 who she's going to

00:29:12.040 leave nameless.

00:29:13.340 Here is her description

00:29:14.500 of the abuse.

00:29:15.840 My experience

00:29:16.680 with domestic violence

00:29:17.600 was this.

00:29:18.900 Toxic mental,

00:29:19.980 physical,

00:29:20.340 and sexual abuse

00:29:21.120 which started slow

00:29:22.040 but escalated over time,

00:29:23.480 including threats

00:29:24.120 against my life,

00:29:25.600 severe gaslighting

00:29:26.520 and brainwashing,

00:29:28.020 waking up to the man

00:29:28.820 that claimed to love me,

00:29:29.760 raping what he believed

00:29:30.700 to be my unconscious body.

00:29:33.260 And the worst part,

00:29:34.480 sick rituals

00:29:35.260 of binding me up

00:29:36.420 by my hands and feet

00:29:37.660 to be mentally

00:29:38.400 and physically tortured

00:29:39.460 until my abuser felt

00:29:40.560 I had proven

00:29:41.320 my love for them.

00:29:43.400 In this moment,

00:29:44.460 while I was tied up

00:29:45.200 in being beaten

00:29:45.900 and being told

00:29:46.880 unspeakable things,

00:29:47.980 I truly felt like

00:29:48.920 I could die,

00:29:49.620 not just because

00:29:50.220 my abuser said to me,

00:29:51.480 I could kill you right now,

00:29:53.040 but because in that moment

00:29:54.120 I felt like I left my body

00:29:55.400 and I was too afraid to run,

00:29:56.900 he would find me.

00:29:57.580 I froze

00:29:59.060 and it was as if

00:30:00.940 I could see myself

00:30:01.700 from the outside

00:30:02.440 and for the first time

00:30:03.220 in months

00:30:03.620 I felt something,

00:30:04.980 utter shame and despair.

00:30:06.800 I had no idea

00:30:07.680 what to do

00:30:08.020 to change my situation

00:30:09.040 so I went numb

00:30:09.880 and soon I couldn't feel anything,

00:30:11.620 I wasn't alive.

00:30:12.980 My self-esteem

00:30:13.640 and spirit were broken.

00:30:15.440 Okay,

00:30:16.060 pretty ugly stuff.

00:30:17.800 Jenna Jameson,

00:30:18.900 who is a former porn star,

00:30:21.880 who dated Manson,

00:30:23.980 sort of at the height

00:30:24.480 of his fame,

00:30:25.380 didn't describe anything

00:30:26.340 like that,

00:30:26.940 but she did say

00:30:27.600 he bit her,

00:30:29.460 you know,

00:30:29.640 he was very into like biting

00:30:30.900 and sort of a bruising

00:30:32.200 and painful way

00:30:33.040 and said that he had fantasies

00:30:35.740 about burning her alive,

00:30:37.340 so I guess it does kind of

00:30:38.300 jive a little bit

00:30:38.940 with what Evan Rachel Wood

00:30:39.800 is describing

00:30:40.320 about the unnamed

00:30:41.820 ex-boyfriend.

00:30:44.240 There are two important parts

00:30:46.080 of this story

00:30:46.880 that show how modern liberal culture

00:30:50.420 exacerbates all of this stuff,

00:30:52.220 right?

00:30:55.060 These left-wing women

00:30:57.040 are not complaining,

00:30:58.080 other than AOC

00:30:58.940 taking a cheap political shot

00:31:00.240 that has nothing to do

00:31:00.940 with the actual issue.

00:31:02.400 These women

00:31:02.860 are not complaining,

00:31:04.220 generally speaking,

00:31:05.040 about conservative men.

00:31:06.320 Marilyn Manson

00:31:07.020 is not exactly a,

00:31:08.180 you know,

00:31:08.960 a conservative Republican

00:31:10.320 or something.

00:31:11.900 They're complaining

00:31:12.820 about people

00:31:14.920 who buy into

00:31:15.980 this leftist idea.

00:31:18.000 The Me Too movement

00:31:19.060 is focusing on

00:31:20.480 all these leftist dudes.

00:31:22.840 From the sort of

00:31:23.760 least serious accusations,

00:31:26.860 you think of like

00:31:27.280 Aziz Ansari,

00:31:28.400 where they're basically

00:31:28.980 describing this like

00:31:29.720 very crass bad date,

00:31:31.540 or all the way up

00:31:32.400 to Harvey Weinstein.

00:31:33.380 These guys are

00:31:34.020 liberal Democrats, right?

00:31:35.240 So it's,

00:31:35.740 whatever the issue is,

00:31:37.040 if it has a political dimension,

00:31:38.220 the political dimension

00:31:38.860 is going to be on the left.

00:31:40.700 In the case of

00:31:42.360 Jenna Jameson's

00:31:43.480 descriptions here,

00:31:45.680 and in the case,

00:31:46.680 at least in part,

00:31:47.640 of Evan Rachel Wood,

00:31:49.940 the sick behavior

00:31:51.080 that they're describing

00:31:52.460 was consensual.

00:31:55.500 Right?

00:31:55.900 When Evan Rachel Wood's

00:31:56.740 talking about it,

00:31:57.300 and we had this ritual

00:31:58.380 that we would do,

00:31:59.340 so we'd do it multiple times,

00:32:00.680 right,

00:32:00.800 if it's a ritual,

00:32:01.700 where he'd tie me up

00:32:03.060 and beat me

00:32:03.760 and say all these

00:32:04.700 horrible,

00:32:05.880 terrible things to me,

00:32:07.140 and I didn't,

00:32:07.940 it was ruining

00:32:08.480 my self-esteem,

00:32:09.180 but that was obviously

00:32:10.780 consensual.

00:32:13.920 And there are even

00:32:14.980 many people

00:32:15.500 on the right now,

00:32:16.420 certainly the left

00:32:17.000 says this,

00:32:17.360 but even many people

00:32:17.960 on the right

00:32:18.300 who say,

00:32:18.920 look,

00:32:19.100 if it's consensual,

00:32:19.940 it's totally cool.

00:32:21.340 That is the highest

00:32:22.420 political good,

00:32:23.400 is consent.

00:32:24.640 Look,

00:32:24.900 as long as you two

00:32:26.100 consent to it,

00:32:27.040 you can do whatever

00:32:27.720 you want,

00:32:28.260 there's nothing about it.

00:32:29.220 But actual conservatives,

00:32:31.800 conservatives who understand

00:32:32.860 that there is a

00:32:33.520 transcendent moral order,

00:32:35.060 realize,

00:32:35.920 no,

00:32:36.880 things can be done

00:32:37.660 consensually

00:32:38.260 that are still

00:32:38.760 extremely wrong.

00:32:41.120 On,

00:32:41.600 on paper,

00:32:42.700 what,

00:32:43.340 not the first part

00:32:44.340 about waking up,

00:32:45.000 but all the,

00:32:45.680 the rituals,

00:32:46.440 what Evan Rachel Wood

00:32:47.020 is describing

00:32:47.540 was consensual

00:32:48.860 and it was still wrong.

00:32:50.100 And it was wrong

00:32:51.200 for her to consent to it,

00:32:52.840 I suppose.

00:32:53.460 I mean,

00:32:53.660 wrong just because of

00:32:54.400 how it obviously hurt her

00:32:55.480 and tore her up inside,

00:32:56.460 but it was wrong

00:32:57.440 for the dude,

00:32:58.220 even if he got consent,

00:32:59.880 to do it.

00:33:00.560 It just remains wrong.

00:33:01.820 Consent is not enough.

00:33:02.960 There is a higher good

00:33:04.280 than consent.

00:33:05.500 The second aspect

00:33:06.480 of this,

00:33:07.000 though,

00:33:07.160 that,

00:33:07.680 that sort of

00:33:08.440 overturns this leftist

00:33:11.560 prevailing notion

00:33:12.620 about sex

00:33:13.240 is this shows

00:33:15.620 that sex

00:33:16.800 is not a casual thing.

00:33:19.640 The culture

00:33:20.540 that we're all living in,

00:33:21.420 the ubiquitous culture,

00:33:22.480 especially on college campuses,

00:33:23.660 but especially

00:33:24.120 just among young single people,

00:33:25.780 is that sex

00:33:26.360 is kind of casual.

00:33:27.220 It's basically like a handshake.

00:33:28.600 Well,

00:33:28.740 now handshakes are illegal

00:33:29.840 because of COVID,

00:33:31.000 but so I guess

00:33:31.740 it's even more casual

00:33:32.580 than a handshake

00:33:33.240 and it's totally fine

00:33:34.600 and you go

00:33:35.020 and you just hook up

00:33:35.620 with whoever you want

00:33:36.460 and then next day

00:33:37.600 is no big deal

00:33:38.280 and nobody gets hurt

00:33:39.120 because it's consensual,

00:33:40.420 right?

00:33:40.600 It does tie into that issue

00:33:41.880 and that's just obviously

00:33:43.280 not true

00:33:43.780 and here's how I'll show you

00:33:45.420 it's not true.

00:33:46.800 The punishments

00:33:47.780 for sexual assault

00:33:48.840 are more severe

00:33:50.360 than punishments

00:33:51.160 for simple assault,

00:33:52.860 right?

00:33:53.600 If I go up to some dude

00:33:55.400 on the street

00:33:55.960 or we're in a bar

00:33:56.620 or something

00:33:57.060 and we're talking

00:33:58.320 and we're getting angry

00:33:59.080 and I punch that guy

00:33:59.840 in the face,

00:34:00.820 I'll get in trouble,

00:34:02.280 you know,

00:34:02.740 that involves

00:34:03.780 some punishments.

00:34:05.880 But the punishments

00:34:07.520 are not as severe

00:34:08.260 as rape.

00:34:09.700 Why?

00:34:11.260 Because sex

00:34:12.340 is not just

00:34:12.980 a casual thing.

00:34:14.560 If it were,

00:34:15.680 simple assault

00:34:16.500 and sexual assault

00:34:17.240 would be indistinguishable.

00:34:19.700 But sex

00:34:20.340 is a very serious thing.

00:34:21.740 It's very significant

00:34:22.620 and it's not even

00:34:23.980 purely a physical phenomenon.

00:34:27.400 It has a spiritual component too

00:34:29.400 and I know that liberals

00:34:30.940 and the modern left

00:34:31.920 in particular

00:34:32.380 and even some segments

00:34:33.880 of the right

00:34:34.480 who are a little more licentious

00:34:35.840 don't want to admit

00:34:37.380 any of that

00:34:38.040 because,

00:34:39.080 I don't know,

00:34:39.860 because some of this stuff

00:34:40.380 is fun,

00:34:40.840 you know,

00:34:41.080 when it's happening

00:34:42.000 and when everyone's doing it.

00:34:43.720 But nevertheless,

00:34:44.840 that is true.

00:34:46.120 There are these scare tactics

00:34:47.480 that go around

00:34:48.300 like college campuses

00:34:49.260 and they've become very popular

00:34:50.340 over the last 30, 40 years.

00:34:53.200 The statistics you'll hear

00:34:54.520 is that one in four women

00:34:55.640 or one in five women

00:34:56.720 on college campuses

00:34:57.860 will be sexually assaulted

00:34:59.580 while they're there.

00:35:00.160 They'll be raped

00:35:00.620 while they're on campus.

00:35:02.080 That is obviously not true.

00:35:03.720 If that were true,

00:35:04.640 no parent would ever send

00:35:06.160 his kid

00:35:07.660 or her kid

00:35:08.480 to college.

00:35:10.400 Right?

00:35:10.980 You wouldn't,

00:35:11.300 if someone would say,

00:35:12.480 hey,

00:35:12.820 we've got a great place

00:35:15.000 where your daughter

00:35:16.280 can read Aristotle.

00:35:18.760 They're probably not anymore.

00:35:19.620 They'll probably read

00:35:20.080 Ibram Kendi

00:35:20.540 or something now.

00:35:21.440 But we've got a great place

00:35:22.280 where your daughter can go

00:35:23.080 and she'll read some books,

00:35:23.720 she'll get a credential.

00:35:24.660 One in four chance, though,

00:35:25.720 that she'll be the victim of rape.

00:35:27.780 Would anybody,

00:35:28.540 if anybody actually believed that,

00:35:29.860 would they say,

00:35:30.680 oh, okay, sign me up.

00:35:31.740 Where do I sign up?

00:35:32.640 Oh, and I get to pay

00:35:33.300 a quarter million dollars

00:35:34.120 for the privilege?

00:35:34.760 Great.

00:35:35.300 Terrific.

00:35:35.920 No, of course,

00:35:36.560 nobody believes that.

00:35:38.020 But those numbers

00:35:38.760 come from

00:35:40.080 these sort of activist surveys.

00:35:43.360 I detail some of this,

00:35:44.520 actually,

00:35:44.720 in my upcoming book,

00:35:45.520 Speechless,

00:35:46.040 Controlling Words,

00:35:46.660 Controlling Minds,

00:35:47.240 which you can pre-order now.

00:35:48.340 It's not coming out

00:35:48.940 for a few months, though.

00:35:51.720 One of the tricks

00:35:52.660 to some of these surveys

00:35:53.680 is that they'll ask women,

00:35:55.420 describe these experiences,

00:35:56.940 describe if you believe

00:35:58.700 you're a victim of rape

00:35:59.480 or sexual assault,

00:36:00.560 and then they will,

00:36:02.940 after the fact,

00:36:04.160 define many women

00:36:05.620 who do not think

00:36:06.540 that they're victims of rape

00:36:07.420 as victims of rape.

00:36:09.280 And the reason

00:36:09.920 that they'll do this,

00:36:11.320 or rather the theory

00:36:13.380 that they're pushing

00:36:14.180 as they do this,

00:36:15.440 is this idea

00:36:16.000 of false consciousness,

00:36:17.140 which is a Marxist idea,

00:36:18.940 that it became

00:36:19.480 very prominent

00:36:20.040 in the 1970s

00:36:21.000 with second wave feminism.

00:36:21.880 It's become

00:36:22.380 very prominent

00:36:24.080 with the rise

00:36:24.780 of things like

00:36:25.240 critical race theory,

00:36:26.180 which people have been

00:36:26.680 talking about

00:36:27.280 over the past few months,

00:36:28.720 that you are not aware

00:36:30.860 of your own oppression.

00:36:32.460 So you need to

00:36:33.060 have your consciousness raised.

00:36:34.920 This was a ritual

00:36:36.100 of the New York

00:36:36.820 radical women's groups.

00:36:38.340 And when your consciousness

00:36:40.000 is raised,

00:36:40.440 you'll realize

00:36:41.040 how oppressed you are.

00:36:42.460 There's actually

00:36:43.040 a funny essay about this

00:36:44.500 where a woman describes

00:36:46.380 how she went

00:36:47.900 to a New York

00:36:48.460 radical women's

00:36:49.360 consciousness raising party.

00:36:51.220 She says,

00:36:51.680 you know,

00:36:51.820 when I showed up,

00:36:52.600 I was totally happy.

00:36:54.120 I was just a regular housewife.

00:36:55.320 I was totally happy.

00:36:56.220 Only by the end

00:36:57.100 did I realize

00:36:57.920 how oppressed I am.

00:36:59.720 And thank goodness

00:37:00.740 for that women's group.

00:37:02.320 Did you really get

00:37:03.820 your money's worth there?

00:37:04.580 It doesn't seem

00:37:05.120 like a great way

00:37:05.760 to spend time.

00:37:07.820 So the statistics are crazy.

00:37:09.140 Nobody really believes

00:37:10.520 that Harvard Yard

00:37:11.460 is more dangerous

00:37:12.540 to women

00:37:13.120 than downtown Baghdad,

00:37:14.980 right?

00:37:15.220 Nobody seriously believes that.

00:37:17.080 But it's about

00:37:17.940 redefining all of those terms.

00:37:20.340 Well,

00:37:20.820 as they've done so,

00:37:22.440 they've also redefined

00:37:23.880 what would be

00:37:25.380 by any

00:37:26.220 normal standard

00:37:28.120 abusive

00:37:28.820 sex

00:37:30.040 as perfectly fine

00:37:32.280 and dandy

00:37:32.800 and kind of fun

00:37:33.720 and kinky

00:37:34.800 and consensual.

00:37:36.340 But the testimony

00:37:37.560 we're seeing

00:37:38.040 just,

00:37:38.520 just with regarding,

00:37:40.360 or just with regard

00:37:41.160 to the Marilyn Manson case,

00:37:42.340 the testimony we're seeing

00:37:43.160 is,

00:37:43.920 no,

00:37:44.600 that can still be abusive

00:37:45.920 as well.

00:37:46.980 And I think it's just,

00:37:48.280 we've got to shake,

00:37:49.440 this is part and parcel

00:37:50.540 of something we've been

00:37:51.060 talking about

00:37:51.440 for a couple weeks now.

00:37:52.940 We've got to stop

00:37:54.060 pretending that consent

00:37:55.180 is the be all

00:37:56.120 and end all.

00:37:56.960 There is something higher.

00:37:57.980 It's not even just,

00:38:00.020 it ties in with the idea

00:38:01.480 that it's not just

00:38:02.040 that we protect

00:38:02.560 freedom of speech.

00:38:03.420 That's great.

00:38:04.040 You need something to say.

00:38:05.760 You need to believe

00:38:06.300 certain things

00:38:07.020 and exclude other things.

00:38:09.360 It's not just about consent.

00:38:10.520 You have to,

00:38:10.960 it depends

00:38:11.840 what you're consenting to.

00:38:13.920 The,

00:38:14.060 the acts themselves

00:38:15.020 really matter.

00:38:16.000 Speaking of

00:38:16.900 strange sex

00:38:18.080 and double standards

00:38:20.940 on all of this,

00:38:22.540 Twitter is

00:38:23.480 permitting

00:38:24.300 the Turkish

00:38:24.800 Interior Minister

00:38:25.780 to remain

00:38:26.760 on their platform.

00:38:28.140 Even though

00:38:28.460 the Turkish

00:38:28.900 Interior Minister

00:38:29.700 said very offensive

00:38:31.100 things about gay guys.

00:38:32.840 He tweeted out,

00:38:33.940 quote,

00:38:34.040 should we tolerate

00:38:34.840 the LGBT deviants

00:38:36.440 who insult

00:38:36.980 the great Kaaba?

00:38:37.720 Of course not.

00:38:39.540 That was Interior Minister

00:38:40.580 Suleyman Soylu

00:38:42.080 referring to a shrine

00:38:44.280 in Mecca.

00:38:47.220 Now,

00:38:48.100 should we take down

00:38:50.620 this guy's tweet?

00:38:51.940 I don't really care,

00:38:52.900 right?

00:38:53.100 I don't,

00:38:53.320 what do I care about

00:38:53.820 the Turkish Interior Minister?

00:38:54.940 However,

00:38:55.420 what I,

00:38:57.720 what I do care about

00:38:58.760 regardless of his culture

00:39:00.140 or his country

00:39:01.080 or the minister of Turkey,

00:39:03.100 I care that

00:39:04.860 Twitter is going to let

00:39:05.940 that tweet remain up,

00:39:07.500 but they're going to

00:39:08.640 take down the tweets

00:39:09.900 of the duly elected

00:39:11.320 sitting president

00:39:11.920 of the United States

00:39:12.580 at the time,

00:39:12.980 Donald Trump.

00:39:13.900 And not just that,

00:39:14.760 they're going to take him

00:39:15.320 off the platform.

00:39:16.980 Twitter is going to give

00:39:18.240 greater deference

00:39:19.760 to the Interior Minister

00:39:21.820 of Turkey

00:39:22.400 than they are

00:39:23.880 to the President

00:39:24.400 of the United States.

00:39:26.260 And actually,

00:39:27.140 one thing I really love

00:39:28.000 about this story

00:39:28.880 is it shows

00:39:30.300 that the left

00:39:32.060 does not particularly care

00:39:34.040 about,

00:39:35.060 say,

00:39:35.220 LGBT people

00:39:36.640 or whatever fashionable

00:39:38.760 grievance group

00:39:40.020 they're focusing on

00:39:40.820 at the time.

00:39:42.980 They care about

00:39:44.120 the exercise of power.

00:39:46.260 They're just,

00:39:47.040 they're,

00:39:47.220 it's,

00:39:47.440 it's just a negative campaign

00:39:49.460 against the United States,

00:39:50.560 against tradition.

00:39:53.120 So,

00:39:53.800 this guy tweets out

00:39:56.120 this offensive thing

00:39:57.060 about LGBT people,

00:39:59.420 but it doesn't,

00:40:01.800 if they take him down,

00:40:03.160 that's not going to look good.

00:40:04.260 It's going to look like,

00:40:05.300 wow,

00:40:05.460 maybe the United States

00:40:06.600 has a better view

00:40:08.100 on something

00:40:08.600 than people around the world.

00:40:09.640 And so we're not going to,

00:40:10.300 we're just going to leave it up.

00:40:12.120 We're just going to leave it up.

00:40:13.660 And it's better,

00:40:14.560 it's in the,

00:40:14.940 in the public interest

00:40:15.780 to leave up these statesmen.

00:40:17.540 Oh,

00:40:17.720 well,

00:40:17.840 you don't really believe that

00:40:18.740 because you took down

00:40:19.260 Donald Trump.

00:40:20.560 Which is why I am so

00:40:22.220 sick and tired

00:40:23.780 of hearing about cancel culture.

00:40:25.800 I'm sick and tired

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00:41:05.900 Cancel culture is a slogan

00:41:08.620 and like all slogans,

00:41:10.120 it refers to something real,

00:41:12.000 but the slogan itself

00:41:13.020 should be basically disregarded.

00:41:15.080 Kind of like pro-life.

00:41:16.420 You'll hear people say this.

00:41:17.640 They'll say,

00:41:18.020 you're pro-life, huh?

00:41:19.600 Yeah.

00:41:20.600 Yeah, but you support

00:41:21.500 the death penalty?

00:41:22.580 What a hypocrite.

00:41:23.820 No.

00:41:24.840 Pro-life refers

00:41:25.520 to one specific thing.

00:41:26.680 It refers to opposition

00:41:28.080 to killing babies

00:41:29.120 in the womb.

00:41:30.040 There are other questions

00:41:31.300 about life that come up.

00:41:32.720 I don't believe that we,

00:41:35.120 I still think the civil authority

00:41:36.240 has the right to kill criminals.

00:41:37.940 I don't think that we can

00:41:39.440 eradicate death, right?

00:41:41.540 I guess if I were really pro-life,

00:41:42.800 I would want to abolish death.

00:41:44.260 Well, you can't abolish death, right?

00:41:45.840 It doesn't mean

00:41:46.720 any of those things.

00:41:47.840 It's a slogan that refers

00:41:48.860 to a specific thing.

00:41:49.660 We can talk about

00:41:50.100 those other things later,

00:41:51.380 but that's not what

00:41:51.980 we're talking about here.

00:41:52.720 Same thing with cancel culture.

00:41:54.920 Cancel culture refers

00:41:55.660 to a specific phenomenon

00:41:57.040 of leftist censorship

00:41:58.700 and ostracism

00:42:00.940 of anyone who

00:42:02.300 contradicts

00:42:03.280 politically correct orthodoxy.

00:42:05.440 Have conservatives

00:42:06.480 censored liberals before?

00:42:08.080 Yes.

00:42:09.320 McCarthyism is a great example.

00:42:12.120 McCarthyism,

00:42:12.960 a very good thing.

00:42:13.920 Perhaps,

00:42:14.260 perhaps we'll get,

00:42:15.200 we'll get to that

00:42:15.920 at some later point.

00:42:17.920 But sure,

00:42:18.600 yeah,

00:42:19.220 it,

00:42:19.740 absolutely.

00:42:20.420 Does that mean

00:42:20.900 that we can say

00:42:21.420 whatever we want,

00:42:22.060 whenever we want?

00:42:22.580 There's no limits

00:42:23.060 on free speech?

00:42:23.600 No,

00:42:23.880 that's never been true

00:42:24.480 in America.

00:42:25.080 But we're talking

00:42:25.780 about something specific.

00:42:27.580 The issue that,

00:42:28.500 that is going on right now

00:42:29.440 is not conservatives

00:42:30.120 censoring leftists.

00:42:31.480 It's the opposite.

00:42:32.300 So let's focus

00:42:33.620 on that issue.

00:42:34.820 But the left doesn't want

00:42:35.680 to have that honest argument.

00:42:36.880 It's why they resort

00:42:37.900 to these cheap,

00:42:39.460 ugly tactics.

00:42:40.240 You see it from AOC.

00:42:41.640 You see it from all sorts

00:42:42.940 of bad faith actors

00:42:44.020 on the internet

00:42:45.060 and the public square.

00:42:45.900 And there's no reason

00:42:46.740 to engage in that debate.

00:42:48.020 No debate

00:42:48.620 in that context

00:42:50.160 is possible.

00:42:52.960 BLM

00:42:53.440 has been nominated

00:42:55.280 for a Nobel Peace Prize.

00:42:56.860 Some people are calling it

00:42:59.140 the Nobel

00:43:00.800 Mostly Peaceful Prize.

00:43:02.460 I think that is

00:43:03.180 probably true.

00:43:04.700 Everyone is very upset

00:43:05.660 because BLM

00:43:06.440 obviously was torching

00:43:07.660 the country

00:43:08.080 for like six months.

00:43:09.680 Doesn't seem

00:43:10.320 very peaceful.

00:43:12.120 However,

00:43:12.920 I think this is

00:43:13.820 pretty in keeping

00:43:14.700 with past winners.

00:43:16.700 You've got

00:43:17.140 Yasser Arafat.

00:43:19.380 Yasser Arafat,

00:43:20.600 a terrorist

00:43:22.180 from the Middle East,

00:43:23.240 right?

00:43:23.380 He won.

00:43:25.280 So surely if he won,

00:43:26.400 BLM can win too.

00:43:28.560 Beyond that,

00:43:29.140 you've got

00:43:29.560 Barack Obama won.

00:43:31.760 Barack Obama

00:43:32.460 started multiple

00:43:33.720 new wars.

00:43:35.820 Al Gore

00:43:36.380 won the

00:43:37.380 Nobel Peace Prize.

00:43:39.180 He didn't start

00:43:39.860 any wars

00:43:40.380 as far as I can tell,

00:43:41.460 but

00:43:41.580 he has

00:43:43.240 supported a campaign

00:43:44.460 of

00:43:45.020 population suppression.

00:43:47.040 He has supported

00:43:47.880 abortion

00:43:49.340 and contraception

00:43:50.160 in the third world

00:43:50.880 to keep Africans

00:43:51.560 from having too many babies.

00:43:52.460 That doesn't seem peaceful.

00:43:54.140 Jimmy Carter.

00:43:55.040 Jimmy Carter

00:43:55.440 didn't start

00:43:55.860 any new wars.

00:43:57.160 Kind of feckless.

00:43:58.000 I don't know,

00:43:58.160 he didn't bring a ton

00:43:59.100 of peace,

00:43:59.580 but fair enough.

00:44:01.200 So sure,

00:44:01.680 BLM is up for this.

00:44:05.180 A lot of conservatives

00:44:06.180 are saying,

00:44:06.600 we should not

00:44:07.080 nominate BLM

00:44:07.860 for this.

00:44:08.400 I would like

00:44:08.920 to go further

00:44:09.560 and this ties

00:44:10.360 in to cancel culture.

00:44:11.960 I think BLM

00:44:13.120 should be canceled.

00:44:14.940 We should not

00:44:15.860 permit that organization

00:44:16.960 to operate

00:44:17.720 in the United States.

00:44:18.940 It is a subversive

00:44:20.020 organization.

00:44:20.640 It is not

00:44:21.860 only opposed

00:44:22.860 to the structure

00:44:24.120 of the U.S. government,

00:44:25.320 but it actively

00:44:26.140 tries to overturn

00:44:27.140 those structures

00:44:27.760 by setting government

00:44:28.720 buildings on fire,

00:44:29.920 by burning down

00:44:30.820 businesses,

00:44:31.660 by torching city

00:44:32.620 after city

00:44:33.300 after city.

00:44:34.120 It is opposed

00:44:35.040 in idea

00:44:35.860 to the United States

00:44:36.980 and it is opposed

00:44:37.900 in practice

00:44:38.460 to the United States

00:44:39.320 because it attacks

00:44:40.540 law enforcement

00:44:41.460 and because it attacks

00:44:42.900 all of these

00:44:44.800 sorts of institutions.

00:44:46.280 It is a subversive

00:44:47.320 organization.

00:44:48.220 It should be prosecuted

00:44:49.320 under the Smith Act.

00:44:50.480 We were just talking

00:44:51.020 about McCarthyism.

00:44:52.120 The Smith Act

00:44:52.780 is an act

00:44:53.840 that was popular

00:44:56.500 and actually used

00:44:57.840 in the mid-20th century

00:44:59.180 before the Supreme Court

00:45:00.080 watered it down

00:45:00.820 to prosecute communists

00:45:02.640 because you can't

00:45:03.660 be an open subversive.

00:45:05.100 You can't actively

00:45:06.500 be trying

00:45:07.080 to overturn

00:45:07.680 the system.

00:45:09.000 We can't tolerate

00:45:10.080 that amount

00:45:11.860 of free expression,

00:45:15.140 the sort of expression

00:45:15.960 that's going to overturn

00:45:16.640 the entire system

00:45:17.440 of free expression.

00:45:18.940 Can't have it.

00:45:19.800 Like Chesterton said,

00:45:20.620 there's a thought

00:45:21.040 that stops thought.

00:45:22.060 That's the only thought

00:45:22.660 that ought to be stopped.

00:45:23.520 Same with Antifa.

00:45:24.240 We should not

00:45:24.740 tolerate Antifa.

00:45:27.300 You might say,

00:45:27.920 Michael,

00:45:28.180 you're an authoritarian.

00:45:29.640 Your views sound

00:45:30.520 so authoritarian.

00:45:31.100 My views are not

00:45:31.760 in any way authoritarian.

00:45:33.460 We've had these kinds

00:45:34.320 of rules against sedition

00:45:35.720 and subversive organizations

00:45:36.800 since the very beginning

00:45:38.040 of the country.

00:45:39.180 My views are no more

00:45:39.980 authoritarian

00:45:40.440 than Thomas Jefferson's.

00:45:41.940 My views are no more

00:45:42.740 authoritarian than John Locke's

00:45:44.080 who wrote the letter

00:45:44.660 concerning toleration.

00:45:46.040 In the letter

00:45:46.400 concerning toleration,

00:45:47.380 John Locke says,

00:45:48.000 atheists under no circumstances

00:45:49.980 should ever be tolerated.

00:45:51.380 John Locke is the father

00:45:52.180 of liberalism.

00:45:52.960 So I just don't want

00:45:53.800 to hear it.

00:45:54.220 I don't want to hear

00:45:54.800 about illiberalism.

00:45:55.880 I don't want to hear

00:45:56.460 about authoritarianism.

00:45:58.040 We need to have substance.

00:46:00.220 This goes all the way back

00:46:01.540 to Mitch McConnell's defense

00:46:03.520 of Liz Cheney.

00:46:04.300 He says,

00:46:04.620 you know,

00:46:05.060 she has convictions

00:46:05.980 and she leads

00:46:07.660 and she has courage.

00:46:09.980 Yeah.

00:46:10.400 So does BLM.

00:46:11.120 BLM,

00:46:12.020 they lead,

00:46:12.900 they have courage,

00:46:13.960 they have convictions.

00:46:16.080 What matters

00:46:17.220 is what the convictions are

00:46:20.100 and if the convictions

00:46:22.200 are opposed

00:46:23.240 to the country itself,

00:46:24.660 those cannot

00:46:25.520 be tolerated.

00:46:27.660 We want specific action.

00:46:30.460 I think we're finally

00:46:31.080 waking up

00:46:31.540 out of the slumber

00:46:32.380 of just lulling ourselves

00:46:34.860 to sleep

00:46:35.580 to do nothing politically

00:46:36.760 for a couple of decades.

00:46:39.740 Conservatives are realizing,

00:46:40.580 oh, we actually have

00:46:41.020 to wield political power.

00:46:42.460 Ron DeSantis

00:46:42.980 down in Florida

00:46:43.560 is realizing this.

00:46:44.560 He just came out

00:46:45.180 and announced big actions

00:46:46.460 on big tech.

00:46:47.740 In Florida,

00:46:48.640 we're going to take action.

00:46:50.120 We're going to take aim

00:46:50.960 at those companies

00:46:51.640 and pull back the veil

00:46:52.700 and make sure these guys

00:46:53.960 don't continue to find

00:46:54.940 loopholes and gray areas

00:46:56.840 to live above the law.

00:46:58.840 Under our proposal,

00:47:00.120 if a technology company

00:47:01.220 deplatforms a candidate

00:47:02.720 for elected office

00:47:03.660 in Florida

00:47:04.200 during an election,

00:47:05.960 a company will face

00:47:06.840 a daily fine

00:47:07.640 of $100,000

00:47:08.560 until the candidate's

00:47:09.860 access to the platform

00:47:11.080 is restored.

00:47:12.580 Again, any Floridian

00:47:13.500 can deplatform

00:47:14.380 any candidate they choose

00:47:15.720 to simply unsubscribe.

00:47:17.420 And it's a right

00:47:17.880 that I believe

00:47:18.400 belongs with the citizen.

00:47:20.100 Further,

00:47:20.500 if a technology company

00:47:21.620 promotes a candidate

00:47:22.460 for office against another,

00:47:24.120 the value of that

00:47:24.920 free promotion

00:47:25.840 must be recorded

00:47:27.580 as a political

00:47:28.480 campaign contribution

00:47:30.020 enforced by the

00:47:31.440 Florida Elections Commission.

00:47:33.300 And lastly,

00:47:34.300 a technology company

00:47:35.460 uses their content

00:47:36.560 and user-related algorithms

00:47:38.020 to suppress or prioritize

00:47:39.540 the access of any content

00:47:41.420 related to a political

00:47:42.320 candidate or cause

00:47:43.240 on the ballot.

00:47:44.000 That company will also

00:47:45.240 face daily fines.

00:47:47.820 Love this.

00:47:49.060 This is actually

00:47:49.840 the perfect issue

00:47:51.360 to see what we're

00:47:54.140 all talking about here.

00:47:55.580 Because on one level,

00:47:57.580 what DeSantis is doing

00:47:58.680 is very pro-free speech,

00:48:01.200 right?

00:48:01.440 Pro-free expression.

00:48:02.540 He's saying,

00:48:03.160 if you deplatform

00:48:04.360 people who are running

00:48:05.220 for office

00:48:05.800 in the way that

00:48:06.460 big tech did

00:48:07.220 to Donald Trump,

00:48:10.180 right?

00:48:10.340 Because it's not just

00:48:10.960 even kicking the candidates

00:48:11.940 off.

00:48:12.400 It's suppressing

00:48:13.100 the news stories.

00:48:14.260 It's taking away

00:48:15.880 the Hunter Biden story,

00:48:16.760 which Twitter did

00:48:17.360 in the run-up

00:48:17.820 to the election.

00:48:18.540 It's then after the election

00:48:19.580 while it was being contested

00:48:20.580 kicking Trump

00:48:21.160 off of the platform.

00:48:23.200 In that way,

00:48:24.480 very pro-free speech.

00:48:25.620 But in another way,

00:48:26.740 it's,

00:48:26.960 this is authoritarian.

00:48:28.140 This is illiberal.

00:48:29.100 This is suppressing

00:48:29.940 the speech

00:48:30.500 of the tech companies.

00:48:31.900 Build your own Twitter.

00:48:33.100 Build your own Google.

00:48:34.920 No,

00:48:35.500 that's just bunk.

00:48:36.520 That's ridiculous.

00:48:37.940 Give me a break.

00:48:41.040 Big tech controls

00:48:42.400 the flow of information

00:48:43.400 around the internet.

00:48:44.880 The internet

00:48:45.600 is the public square.

00:48:47.200 Big tech controls

00:48:48.420 our political discourse

00:48:50.120 effectively.

00:48:51.800 And if they are

00:48:52.900 putting their finger

00:48:53.660 on the scale,

00:48:54.400 we need to go in.

00:48:55.860 If we regulate them

00:48:57.380 as Ron DeSantis

00:48:58.380 is doing,

00:48:59.240 that is not

00:48:59.880 an attack on free speech.

00:49:01.420 That is a defense

00:49:02.260 of free speech.

00:49:03.420 It's,

00:49:03.700 it's using the state

00:49:04.920 to defend free speech,

00:49:06.200 which I know

00:49:06.640 seems so crazy

00:49:07.920 to so many

00:49:09.200 on the right

00:49:10.280 who have thought

00:49:11.040 that that's not possible

00:49:11.940 over the last

00:49:12.580 couple of decades.

00:49:14.640 The right used to understand,

00:49:16.280 not that long ago,

00:49:17.080 the right used to understand,

00:49:17.860 of course that is the case.

00:49:19.340 The,

00:49:19.840 through politics,

00:49:20.420 we set the parameters

00:49:21.600 of the free marketplace

00:49:22.680 of ideas,

00:49:23.320 of the,

00:49:23.540 of the marketplace,

00:49:25.180 meaning the economy itself.

00:49:26.340 We,

00:49:26.820 we set those things

00:49:27.640 and then we want it

00:49:28.380 to operate freely

00:49:29.220 within those boundaries.

00:49:30.920 This also tells me,

00:49:32.860 Ron DeSantis is running.

00:49:34.740 This guy is gearing up

00:49:36.340 for 2024.

00:49:37.440 It is so obvious

00:49:38.460 and he's setting himself up

00:49:39.860 in a good position.

00:49:41.340 Can he go all the way?

00:49:42.780 Who knows?

00:49:43.260 It's still so early.

00:49:44.260 Nobody could guess

00:49:44.880 these things early on,

00:49:46.440 but he,

00:49:46.680 he's positioning himself

00:49:47.900 very well

00:49:48.660 and he,

00:49:49.160 he is showing clarity

00:49:50.160 on this issue.

00:49:52.720 I hope that the Republicans

00:49:54.100 get some clarity too

00:49:55.220 and we don't just keep

00:49:56.220 spewing platitudes

00:49:57.960 about leadership

00:49:58.780 and conviction.

00:49:59.680 All right.

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00:50:56.060 The White House calls

00:50:57.540 for big tech companies

00:50:58.380 to censor so-called hate speech.

00:51:00.180 Governor Ron DeSantis

00:51:01.040 takes steps to rein in big tech

00:51:02.880 and a Maryland school district

00:51:04.680 tries to instill

00:51:05.640 anti-racism in preschoolers.

00:51:07.940 All of that and much more today

00:51:09.140 on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:51:09.940 We'll be right back.

00:51:10.940 Thanks, everybody.

00:51:11.380 We'll be right back.

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