The Michael Knowles Show - February 04, 2021


Ep. 693 - The Earthly Elect


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John Kerry says he has no choice when it comes to dealing with climate change. Michael Kinsley argues that the left has a big problem with climate justice, and that it s time for the left to wake up to the fact that they don t have all the answers.

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00:00:00.000 Climate czar John Kerry is dedicating his every waking moment to saving the earth,
00:00:06.900 saving mankind. And while he's doing that, he's polluting a lot. He's polluting much,
00:00:14.100 much more than basically anybody else on earth. But it's very important that he do that
00:00:19.160 so that he can save the earth. He has no choice.
00:00:23.620 On that issue, pollution, I understand that you came here with a private jet.
00:00:27.120 Is that an environmental way to travel?
00:00:30.120 If you offset your carbon, it's the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.
00:00:39.520 I negotiated the Paris Accords for the United States. I've been involved in this fight for years.
00:00:46.200 I negotiated with President Xi to bring President Xi to the table so we could get Paris.
00:00:50.940 And I believe the time it takes me to get somewhere. I can't sail across the ocean.
00:00:56.040 I have to fly to meet with people and get things done. But what I'm doing almost full time is working to win the battle of climate change.
00:01:04.720 And in the end, if I offset and contribute my life to do this, I'm not going to be put on the defensive.
00:01:12.560 I absolutely will not. It's the only choice for somebody like me, you mongrel.
00:01:18.420 You think I'm going to step foot in a Toyota Yaris?
00:01:21.720 Do you think I'll step foot in a G4, for goodness sakes? 1.00
00:01:25.300 I'm not in the middle class.
00:01:27.300 G6 or bust, 1.00
00:01:28.480 I have no choice, insists John Kerry.
00:01:34.000 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:43.440 Welcome back. He has no choice.
00:01:45.380 My favorite comment yesterday from Olivia V, who says,
00:01:49.340 AOC encouraged the BLM rioters, instructed them on how to avoid arrest.
00:01:54.820 That's all true. So she needs to stop her whining about the Capitol rioters. 1.00
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00:03:31.700 John Kerry has no choice.
00:03:34.320 You see, he is on this salvific mission,
00:03:38.760 sort of a divinely ordained mission to save the earth.
00:03:43.140 And so he's, look, maybe he's going to pollute a lot, a lot in the process,
00:03:47.600 and he's going to get to enjoy lots and lots of luxuries that he wants to deprive everyone else from having.
00:03:52.400 But it's all for the greater good because he is just so wonderful that he gets to play by a different set of rules.
00:03:59.400 This is a new hierarchy.
00:04:01.140 He says, I don't think it's hypocritical at all.
00:04:03.220 I'm more special than you are, and so I deserve certain special privileges.
00:04:07.040 And these new hierarchies we're seeing crop up all over the place,
00:04:11.000 particularly with regard to left-wing identity politics, particularly in the realm of race.
00:04:15.780 There was this guy, Umair Haq.
00:04:18.820 Don't know who that is.
00:04:19.860 He's the director of the Havas Media Lab.
00:04:22.060 He blogs at the Harvard Business Review.
00:04:24.060 He's the author of the New Capitalist Manifesto,
00:04:27.300 Building a Disruptively Better Business.
00:04:29.380 And he's some blue checkmark leftist who mouths off on Twitter.
00:04:32.900 He had a tweet that was a little bit radical, a little bit, I say only a little bit radical,
00:04:37.740 even by left-wing standards yesterday.
00:04:39.700 He said, quote,
00:04:40.680 F off already, white people. 0.99
00:04:43.460 You enslaved and murdered whole continents. 0.97
00:04:46.460 You have yet to make any amends, and even the good ones among you,
00:04:51.500 this grammar's not top-notch,
00:04:54.580 even the good ones among pretend that's okay.
00:04:57.640 We are still living in that world,
00:04:59.220 and it makes the rest of us so, so sick and weary and disgusted with you. 0.65
00:05:03.060 Now, of course, nothing,
00:05:04.140 not one single thing that he said there is true.
00:05:07.940 He is disgusted.
00:05:09.300 I don't know what has disgusted him, probably his sick ideology.
00:05:12.720 But this is, uh, this is very wrong,
00:05:14.720 and a sensible society would ostracize this person, right?
00:05:18.980 Since we're now in the business of deciding who and,
00:05:21.260 who ought to have this sort of public speech on Twitter and who ought not to,
00:05:24.620 right, right now we're in a world where the duly elected sitting president
00:05:27.120 can't be on Twitter, but this guy can.
00:05:29.660 That's crazy.
00:05:30.400 It should be the opposite.
00:05:31.360 This guy should be ostracized.
00:05:33.040 He should not be permitted in polite company anywhere.
00:05:36.680 But we now live in this world in which there,
00:05:40.160 we're not permitted to make any comment whatsoever about race,
00:05:43.680 unless, of course, it is to attack whiteness,
00:05:47.460 which we are told on the one hand is a social construct,
00:05:49.820 and on the other hand, we're told it is so real
00:05:51.900 that it is sort of the dominant force and evil in the world.
00:05:55.840 Uh, this is, of course, the glaring example
00:06:02.060 as to why things like white privilege or white supremacy are just ridiculous,
00:06:06.180 because there is only one racial group
00:06:08.760 that you are not only allowed to condemn publicly,
00:06:11.640 but you're actively encouraged to condemn publicly,
00:06:13.700 and that, of course, is white people.
00:06:14.900 Doesn't sound very supreme or supremacist or whatever to me.
00:06:20.180 Now, you see increasingly liberal white people spouting the same kind of nonsense.
00:06:27.660 There was a guy who went viral on TikTok
00:06:29.240 explaining what a terrible oppressor he is because he's white. 0.52
00:06:35.520 Yes, exactly.
00:06:36.940 I am the oppressor.
00:06:38.120 I am racist.
00:06:39.320 Oh my God, he just said he's racist.
00:06:41.020 It shouldn't be this hard, you guys.
00:06:42.580 If you live in America, went to school, participate in the socioeconomic structures,
00:06:47.540 participate in any sort of system, education, business, entertainment, what have you,
00:06:52.060 and you are white, you are indoctrinated, you are oppressive, and yes, you are racist. 0.67
00:06:56.460 It is something that we have learned, either consciously or subconsciously,
00:06:59.700 all of us as white Americans.
00:07:01.180 And what we have to do is unlearn that.
00:07:03.380 I'm trying to do the work.
00:07:05.280 Part of doing the work is pushing against dangerous narratives
00:07:08.520 that are counterintuitive to that unlearning, like white people are also oppressed by racism.
00:07:14.140 We're not.
00:07:15.020 We are the oppressors.
00:07:16.420 That's the point.
00:07:17.600 You should be doing the unlearning, too.
00:07:19.380 Do the work.
00:07:20.740 Do the work.
00:07:21.820 He has all of the, it's almost like a parody.
00:07:24.500 He has all of the various characteristics of a sort of liberal caricature.
00:07:29.500 My first reaction listening to this guy is,
00:07:32.940 why should I pay attention to a word he says?
00:07:34.960 He's a vile racist.
00:07:36.140 He's a terrible oppressor.
00:07:37.260 Well, if he really believes he's this terrible oppressor, how dare he mouth off in public?
00:07:44.020 He needs to sit down.
00:07:45.600 He needs to go away and let other people who are of the more blessed races or whatever
00:07:50.660 come out and tell people what to think.
00:07:53.540 He continues to oppress me with his words.
00:07:55.900 My second thought, of course, is that this kid couldn't oppress his own cat.
00:08:00.940 You know, he doesn't seem particularly intimidating to me.
00:08:06.020 But he is showing us something that the left talks about a lot, which is that you'll hear
00:08:10.200 the left describe conservative women as having internalized misogyny.
00:08:17.300 So yeah, they're women who contradict the leftist feminist narrative, but we shouldn't listen 1.00
00:08:22.280 to them.
00:08:22.600 We should completely ignore what they have to say because they are victims of their own
00:08:25.660 false consciousness.
00:08:26.580 This is a Marxist category, a Marxist concept that has existed for a very long time.
00:08:33.680 You see the same thing with race.
00:08:34.920 You'll say, well, we shouldn't listen to Ben Carson.
00:08:36.980 We shouldn't listen to Clarence Thomas.
00:08:38.800 We shouldn't listen to Tom Sowell.
00:08:40.000 We shouldn't listen to any black person with whom we disagree here on the left because they 1.00
00:08:45.940 have internalized racism.
00:08:47.740 And this is usually used in a very cynical way.
00:08:52.480 However, you know, it's so preposterous that someone like this kid could be more conscious,
00:08:57.840 more aware, have higher faculties of reason than Clarence Thomas, you know, one of the
00:09:01.580 greatest jurists of his age, or Ben Carson, one of the most brilliant physicians in history,
00:09:06.740 you know, first guy to successfully separate twins conjoined at the head, right?
00:09:10.640 But no, these liberal idiots, they know so much more.
00:09:13.600 They're so much more conscious.
00:09:14.840 However, there, there is a little something to it, right?
00:09:17.380 Which is that this guy is a white guy, but he hates that he's a white guy.
00:09:20.540 He, he hates his identity because of his skin, because of this sort of happenstance of his
00:09:27.200 birth.
00:09:27.740 He, he hates himself and he feels bad and he, and he is clearly in a lot of angst.
00:09:33.300 That's a big problem.
00:09:34.620 And it is now being encouraged with the force of the state.
00:09:37.840 You know, there's, there's, there is one example of legal racial discrimination in the
00:09:43.160 country.
00:09:45.160 There's only one and it's called affirmative action and it disadvantages white and Asian
00:09:48.700 applicants to universities.
00:09:49.820 And it gives an advantage to black and Hispanic and some other applicants to universities.
00:09:55.880 A group of Asian students sued Harvard over this and the suit didn't, didn't really go
00:10:02.080 anywhere.
00:10:02.560 So during the Trump administration, the DOJ filed suit against Yale.
00:10:06.400 Yale has the exact same practices and they discriminate against white and Asian students.
00:10:11.440 And it's funny because, because we live in this society where the, the only racial group
00:10:16.960 that you're allowed to, you know, castigate in public is white people. 0.69
00:10:20.680 Usually this issue is framed on the Asian side of things.
00:10:24.580 But the DOJ suit against Yale did focus on them.
00:10:27.020 They said, you're, you're not only discriminating against Asians.
00:10:29.220 You're also discriminating against white applicants too.
00:10:32.040 So now that we have a new presidential administration, the Biden DOJ came in, they dropped the case.
00:10:38.000 They said, yeah, you know, whatever Yale is doing to white and Asian students, forget about it.
00:10:44.420 It doesn't matter.
00:10:45.720 And, and, and for a moment, let's, let's focus on the Asian students, you know, because I,
00:10:51.000 I understand there, that whiteness in America evokes all of these images because it's so 1.00
00:10:55.880 in our popular culture.
00:10:56.900 But focus again for us, like, like we were doing with the Harvard suit, focus again on,
00:11:01.440 on the Asian aspect of it.
00:11:02.960 But you now have some admissions officer at Yale who's going to call up, you know,
00:11:08.360 some Vietnamese immigrants.
00:11:09.960 Say, I'm sorry, Mrs. Pham.
00:11:11.600 I know you've been working very, very hard since you immigrated here.
00:11:15.320 And I know you've made very low wages and you've been slaving away in some,
00:11:19.320 some menial job.
00:11:21.000 And your, your son has been working very, very hard to do well on his SAT to get into,
00:11:26.020 to get into Yale.
00:11:27.660 But sorry, his spot has to go to someone else.
00:11:31.480 Maybe that other student is richer.
00:11:33.380 Maybe that other student has had more advantages.
00:11:35.920 Maybe that other student comes from a more stable background, but he's got the favored skin color.
00:11:41.400 And your student, Mrs. Pham, has a disfavored skin color. 1.00
00:11:45.760 And so he doesn't, he doesn't get to go to Yale.
00:11:49.880 Sorry, that's the way things work.
00:11:53.460 Obviously, deeply unfair.
00:11:54.980 We, we can all recognize that as unjust.
00:11:57.820 Anyone who is in the sensible middle, all the way to conservative, can recognize that.
00:12:03.880 And yet, that is not just in the popular culture.
00:12:07.800 That is not just something we're going to overcome by winning back the culture.
00:12:11.020 That is in the law.
00:12:13.120 That is a legal system of discrimination that we have in the country.
00:12:18.680 Some people are the elect.
00:12:20.260 Some people get to play by a different set of rules.
00:12:22.140 Some people get special advantages, like John Kerry.
00:12:26.500 I, you know, that, that white kid screaming at all of us while he talks about how white people are oppressors.
00:12:31.220 It does kind of remind me of John Kerry a little bit.
00:12:33.400 Listen, listen, you can't, I don't, don't listen to those oppressors.
00:12:37.020 Just listen to me, me, John Kerry.
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00:14:06.880 Speaking of the official weight of the federal government, Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary,
00:14:14.700 continues every few days, at least, to get one sort of slightly challenging question.
00:14:21.780 And one that keeps coming up is on Joe Biden's Catholicism.
00:14:25.160 Because Joe Biden says that he's Catholic, but he doesn't act like he's Catholic.
00:14:28.880 This is why he was denied the Eucharist at a mass in North Carolina not so long ago.
00:14:35.960 So they said, okay, hold on.
00:14:37.760 This guy, Joe Biden, he's promoting all these crazy gender theories. 0.56
00:14:41.020 He's promoting abortion. 0.89
00:14:42.180 How is he Catholic?
00:14:43.780 Jen Psaki gives the standard answer.
00:14:46.760 You described him as a devout Catholic.
00:14:49.280 Will he use his faith to guide him in any policy decision making?
00:14:53.200 He does attend church nearly every weekend.
00:14:55.880 And that's something that's important to him personally and to his family.
00:14:59.180 And he's talked about the impact of his faith on healing and everything he's been through
00:15:04.240 as a human being.
00:15:05.480 So certainly it's a guide to him as a human being.
00:15:09.380 What a creepy and weird answer.
00:15:12.760 Simple question.
00:15:13.660 Does Joe Biden's faith guide him in his public life?
00:15:17.840 Yes, he goes to church.
00:15:19.420 It guides him when he's at church.
00:15:22.600 Yes, he does that.
00:15:24.280 Right.
00:15:24.600 But religion is not just about what happens from 8 to 9 a.m.
00:15:28.320 on Sunday morning.
00:15:30.360 Religion is supposed to infuse your entire life. 1.00
00:15:33.520 It is supposed to orient what you do.
00:15:35.200 Everything you do has this ultimate goal of knowing God and enjoying him forever, to quote
00:15:42.720 the catechism.
00:15:44.540 And she says, yes, in this portion of his life, in his private, in his personal, he's very
00:15:48.900 Catholic.
00:15:49.400 But in his public life, he's a complete degenerate.
00:15:51.260 Yes, Sunday morning, he's really, he's a good little boy.
00:15:55.140 But the rest of the week, he's a complete derelict.
00:15:57.240 And this gets to a story that we touched on a little bit yesterday, Marilyn Manson's
00:16:02.100 sex scandal.
00:16:03.060 And I know it seems just like a kind of lurid Hollywood story.
00:16:06.100 Marilyn Manson's sex scandal and the kind of answer that Jen Psaki just gave on religion. 1.00
00:16:11.080 It actually gets to, I think, the central political question that we're all debating on the left
00:16:16.200 and the right and even within the right, which is what is liberty?
00:16:19.460 What does liberty look like?
00:16:21.100 So Manson, he's accused of abusing women.
00:16:24.340 And most of the accusations against Manson, by the way, are not that he, you know, went
00:16:28.720 down a back alley and ravaged some poor woman. 1.00
00:16:31.760 It's that he was dating these women.
00:16:33.380 He might have been engaged to a woman.
00:16:34.860 But his, his behavior was nevertheless quite abusive.
00:16:38.220 There was an old guitarist who toured with Manson who said, quote, I'm sorry to everyone
00:16:42.200 on this podcast right now who doesn't like this, but that guy, he's amazingly talented,
00:16:46.300 but he's effed up and he needs to be in check and he needs to get sober and he needs to come
00:16:50.580 to terms with his demons.
00:16:52.060 He is a bad effing guy.
00:16:54.200 I don't know if Marilyn Manson did the things he's accused of or not, but, you know, there
00:16:57.640 are multiple stories and he is the nation's highest profile Satanist.
00:17:01.320 So, you know, seems plausible.
00:17:04.020 Now you've got this guitarist who's saying it too.
00:17:06.560 Very important.
00:17:07.240 He says, look, he's, yeah, he's very talented, but look, he's, he's an addict.
00:17:12.380 He's an alcoholic.
00:17:13.900 He, you know, he's not totally in control of himself.
00:17:16.360 He has demons and he needs to, needs to come to terms with that.
00:17:20.600 He's a, he's a bad guy.
00:17:22.960 Yesterday, when we were talking about this, we, we described how there are goods that
00:17:27.700 are higher than consent.
00:17:29.180 How in kind of modern liberal society, we, we just say, well, you know, look, if people
00:17:33.080 consent to something, they can do whatever they want.
00:17:35.800 Then it's totally hunky dory.
00:17:37.060 They can consent to do the grossest, filthiest, apparently most sinful things in the world.
00:17:42.760 But as long as they consent, then we're all good.
00:17:45.580 Right.
00:17:46.160 But the Marilyn Manson stuff, the, actually the Me Too movement generally raises some questions
00:17:52.480 here.
00:17:52.780 Because the, the kind of abuse that Marilyn Manson's ex-girlfriend was describing, where 1.00
00:17:57.660 he's like tying her up and beating her and yelling horrible things at her, she consented
00:18:02.000 to it, I guess.
00:18:02.820 Right.
00:18:02.960 She said, okay, you can tie me up and do whatever she, they did it a lot of times.
00:18:06.480 However, it's still wrong.
00:18:08.580 Even if they consent to it, it's still wrong.
00:18:10.700 So where this brings us is to this central political question.
00:18:15.240 What is liberty?
00:18:17.880 You've got the kind of modern lib version of liberty, where they say liberty is just being
00:18:21.660 able to do whatever you want.
00:18:22.700 You can do the grossest, filthiest, most sinful things in the world.
00:18:25.740 Your ability to be able to do that, that is liberty.
00:18:29.300 Right.
00:18:29.620 Our founding fathers disagreed with this.
00:18:31.140 They made a distinction between liberty and licentiousness.
00:18:33.820 They said, yeah, it's not, it's not liberty to go look at porn.
00:18:35.980 It's not liberty to go do sinful things.
00:18:38.140 But the modern lib view is, yeah, it's just do whatever you want.
00:18:40.880 Right.
00:18:42.080 The Christian view of liberty and the classic, classical view, even non-Christian view of
00:18:46.960 liberty is completely different.
00:18:48.400 The Christian view is that the man who sins is a slave to sin.
00:18:52.640 The Christian view of liberty is that if you do whatever you want, if you, if you even do
00:18:56.420 sinful things, not only is that not liberty, that actually destroys your liberty.
00:19:00.720 That actually makes you a slave.
00:19:01.920 And the non-Christian classical view, the sort of ancient Greek view, talk to old uncle
00:19:05.440 Aristotle, is extraordinarily similar, which is that we attain liberty by practicing the
00:19:11.520 virtues.
00:19:11.960 That's why we educate ourselves.
00:19:13.460 This is where the term liberal education comes from.
00:19:15.980 You have to make sense of your liberty.
00:19:18.180 You have to tame your base passions.
00:19:20.080 You need to stop practicing vice.
00:19:22.000 You need to start practicing virtues.
00:19:23.620 And only then will you be fully in command of yourself.
00:19:26.620 You're not a slave to all your passions and you can be free.
00:19:31.040 The, the classic example of this, the perfect example is the drug addict, right?
00:19:35.440 Let's say you've got, you got a heroin addict, right?
00:19:38.240 According to the modern lib view of liberty, his perfect freedom is to be able to shoot
00:19:42.920 up a bunch of heroin, right?
00:19:44.480 However, if you think about a heroin addict who's jonesing for a, for a fix, do you think
00:19:50.380 that guy is free?
00:19:52.440 I don't think so.
00:19:53.740 I think if you go up to that heroin addict, who's really jonesing for some more heroin and
00:19:58.700 you ask him to do anything, he'll do it because he, he has compromised his free will.
00:20:05.300 He just, he just wants the heroin.
00:20:07.200 He's not in his right state of mind.
00:20:08.460 He's not in control of himself.
00:20:11.240 If you hold the classic sort of Christian or even classical pre-Christian view of liberty,
00:20:17.080 then this modern obsession with consent doesn't make any sense because, and actually this is
00:20:24.460 something the Me Too movement kind of understands, they don't know that they understand it, but
00:20:28.480 they're, they're kind of touching on it.
00:20:30.300 When someone like Evan Rachel Wood, Marilyn Manson's ex-girlfriend, or some of these other
00:20:34.620 women or other women in the Me Too movement, when they say, sure, I consented to have the 0.97
00:20:38.800 guy tie me up.
00:20:39.740 I consented to have him beat me.
00:20:41.160 I consented to have him scream terrible things at me.
00:20:43.660 I consented to go to Harvey Weinstein's hotel room.
00:20:45.840 I consented to do it again and again and again, but he manipulated me.
00:20:50.460 He controlled me.
00:20:51.880 He brainwashed me.
00:20:53.660 He tempted me with Hollywood movie roles.
00:20:56.880 He, I wasn't, even though I consented, I wasn't in control of myself.
00:21:02.920 I wasn't in possession of full liberty.
00:21:06.660 Right, right.
00:21:08.340 This to me is the key.
00:21:10.220 This to me is the admission, even by liberals and leftists who don't know that they're admitting
00:21:15.620 it, that the kind of modern, fashionable, liberal view of liberty is just BS, because
00:21:21.560 they're admitting, they're saying, no, in order for me to be truly free, I need to not
00:21:26.940 be addicted to heroin.
00:21:27.800 I need to not be following my base passions.
00:21:30.340 I need to not be degraded in this way.
00:21:33.540 I need to be, I need to be practicing virtues, not pursuing vices.
00:21:37.300 I need, I need to be in full possession of my liberty.
00:21:40.840 Good.
00:21:41.240 I'm glad let's, I hope conservatives, while we're kind of, you know, skeptical of a lot
00:21:46.440 of the me too excesses, I hope we can take that lesson and point it to the left and say,
00:21:52.100 right, exactly.
00:21:54.080 That the conservative version of liberty is the right one.
00:21:58.180 And that is why you don't get to do all your crazy things that you want to do.
00:22:02.460 That is, that is why during the pandemic, during COVID, we should close the drug shops in San
00:22:08.800 Francisco and Los Angeles.
00:22:11.100 We should close the marijuana dispensaries and keep the churches open.
00:22:15.620 I know what we've done is the opposite.
00:22:17.160 What we've done is keep, keep all the head shops open and close the churches.
00:22:20.400 But no, we, we can't do that.
00:22:22.420 That's not what liberty is.
00:22:24.060 That is not in the American tradition.
00:22:25.620 That is not going to lead to flourishing.
00:22:27.300 Even you liberals are admitting it right now.
00:22:31.520 This question of free will keeps coming up and up and up.
00:22:36.860 You'll, you'll hear this so much from the Biden administration.
00:22:40.860 You'll hear this so much from really any liberal government.
00:22:44.440 I think moving, moving forward, at least for the foreseeable future is they're going to
00:22:48.860 say, look, we're not implementing crazy new policies.
00:22:52.920 We're not transforming America.
00:22:54.940 We're just going back to normal.
00:22:57.040 We have no choice.
00:22:58.100 We are following progress.
00:22:59.620 We, you all, you hear this when they mentioned the right side of history.
00:23:04.480 We are, we are riding progress.
00:23:07.660 We can't control progress.
00:23:09.260 Progress is moving in a predetermined direction and you're either on progress or you're standing
00:23:14.620 against progress.
00:23:16.680 We have no choice.
00:23:18.040 We have to pass all these pro-abortion laws. 0.82
00:23:21.560 We have to do it.
00:23:22.100 It's progress.
00:23:23.160 We have to grab much more power for the federal government.
00:23:26.980 We, it's progress.
00:23:27.660 It's science.
00:23:28.200 Science is the other part of it.
00:23:30.260 It's kind of the same thing, but different words.
00:23:32.480 The science dictates you have to give up all of your liberties.
00:23:35.520 I have no choice.
00:23:37.480 I'm, I'm just like John Kerry with the private jet.
00:23:39.680 I can't, I can't do the things that are absolutely 100% demanded of me by history and by progress
00:23:46.560 and to save the world, unless we follow this radical leftist agenda.
00:23:54.300 Joe Biden is making this point explicitly.
00:23:57.020 You know, he's been signing what 40 some odd, maybe more at this point, executive orders.
00:24:01.780 He's making this point explicitly from the Oval Office.
00:24:04.400 He's saying, I have no choice.
00:24:08.780 You know, folks, when we want to take back the culture, you've got to engage.
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00:25:10.700 Joe Biden is not making new law.
00:25:13.880 Joe Biden is fixing bad policy.
00:25:17.920 What does that mean?
00:25:18.880 Absolutely nothing.
00:25:19.840 But Joe Biden says it with a straight face.
00:25:22.420 I want to make it clear.
00:25:23.460 There's a lot of talk with good reason about the number of executive orders that I have signed.
00:25:29.460 I'm not making new law.
00:25:31.080 I'm eliminating bad policy.
00:25:33.820 What I'm doing is taking on the issues that 99% of them, that the president, the last president of the United States, issued executive orders I thought were very counterproductive to our security, counterproductive to who we are as a country, particularly in the era of immigration. 0.89
00:25:52.460 I'm not making new laws.
00:25:55.920 I'm eliminating bad policy.
00:25:58.360 As though the country is governed by progressivism and liberalism.
00:26:06.060 And then accidentally, this guy Donald Trump managed to make it into the White House.
00:26:09.760 And that was wrong.
00:26:10.440 And that was illegitimate.
00:26:11.460 And he had all these sort of illegitimate bad policies there that Joe Biden is now going to undo.
00:26:17.820 Well, that's not making a new law because the law, the true law is liberalism and progressivism.
00:26:23.220 The illegitimate thing was what Trump did.
00:26:24.940 So he, look, 42 executive orders, no, it doesn't matter.
00:26:28.780 That's nothing because he's just eliminating bad policy.
00:26:35.900 Obviously, that's a meaningless statement.
00:26:38.660 If you change the policies from the previous administration, you change them when you go into office, you are effectively making new law.
00:26:47.420 Now, what he's saying is, look, laws, they're made in Congress and then I'll sign them and there's that process.
00:26:54.180 I'm just doing executive orders here, but I'm not making new laws and I'm fixing the policy.
00:26:58.140 Well, more and more of our laws are made out of the White House.
00:27:01.100 And the reason for this is that the actual institutions that govern our country on a day-to-day are the administrative institutions, which are executive agencies.
00:27:12.240 So the way I've, this is why I defend executive orders, actually.
00:27:15.460 I don't defend his stupid executive orders, his bad executive orders, but I do defend good executive orders.
00:27:19.780 Because if you want to harness the groups that are actually governing the country right now, the way to do that is through executive order, certainly more so than in Congress.
00:27:32.380 Because Congress is an absolute clown show.
00:27:34.640 You know, I called this yesterday.
00:27:37.260 I called this yesterday.
00:27:38.460 You know how much I hate to say I told you so.
00:27:40.260 But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came out and she made these big claims. 1.00
00:27:47.260 She's been calling Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley murderers because she said they sent insurrectionists to come murder me at the Capitol Hill riot.
00:27:58.280 And she said, you know, I'm a victim of sexual assault.
00:28:01.500 That's the first time we'd heard of this.
00:28:02.740 And when I heard all these people coming for me, I, you know, this was very traumatic and Cruz needs to resign now.
00:28:12.640 And you say, no aspect, no connection here between these random thoughts follows logic or is persuasive in any way.
00:28:22.300 But I said, look, I wish that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were the kind of person that I could believe.
00:28:29.420 But she is such a pathological liar. 1.00
00:28:32.860 She has been caught lying not just about massive political questions, but even about her own biography.
00:28:38.440 She, she lied.
00:28:39.420 She pretended to have been raised in the Bronx.
00:28:42.700 She wasn't.
00:28:43.240 She was raised in a very fancy suburban town.
00:28:45.460 I know this because I grew up in the town right next to her, the poorer town next to her at the same time.
00:28:50.940 I said, I just can't believe her.
00:28:53.380 Maybe she could say a true thing, but there is no reason to assume that anything she says is true.
00:28:57.360 So it turns out I was right.
00:29:02.140 She said, AOC, that she was nearly killed during the Capitol riot.
00:29:07.300 People were yelling for her, banging on doors, coming down the halls.
00:29:10.480 Turns out the person who was yelling for her and banging on the walls and on the door was a police officer who was there to protect her.
00:29:19.880 Here's the harrowing moment.
00:29:21.240 I immediately realized that I shouldn't have gone into the bathroom.
00:29:24.820 I should have jumped in the closet.
00:29:26.700 And so I, I opened the door when all of a sudden I hear that whoever was trying to get inside got into my office.
00:29:36.420 Um, and then I realized that it's too late, that it's too late for me to get into the closet.
00:29:48.220 And so I go back in and I, I hide back in, um, in the bathroom behind the door.
00:29:57.440 And then I just start to hear these yells of where is she, where is she?
00:30:07.520 And I just thought to myself, they got inside.
00:30:13.380 They got inside.
00:30:14.300 They, they hear that they're here now.
00:30:16.180 We know we've seen on Twitter that they, they've been around the Capitol.
00:30:19.600 And so now they've gotten inside.
00:30:22.840 Now, how do we know that this person was a rioter?
00:30:27.920 Why, or was not a rioter?
00:30:29.080 Why, why should AOC have known that the person who was knocking on her door was not a rioter?
00:30:35.700 Well, uh, that's because she wasn't in the Capitol.
00:30:41.380 A, AOC, I should, how did I not realize this at the time?
00:30:46.320 AOC was not even in the Capitol.
00:30:49.840 When the rioters entered, she was in an office building down the street.
00:30:55.140 And I should have known this.
00:30:58.120 You know, members of Congress spend most of their time in, in, in office buildings.
00:31:03.800 They're not at the Capitol.
00:31:05.040 They're, they're down the street.
00:31:06.340 They're like a, you know, five to seven or eight minute walk away from the Capitol.
00:31:12.160 Now I figured, well, joint session, maybe she was in the Capitol,
00:31:15.460 but we'd heard maybe they were evacuated.
00:31:17.880 Maybe AOC wasn't even there at the time.
00:31:19.160 Who knows?
00:31:20.480 She was not there when they entered.
00:31:23.560 She was not there for any of it.
00:31:26.860 Completely made up.
00:31:28.320 And she has been saying now for weeks that she was, she first said that almost half of
00:31:34.140 Congress was killed, even though no members of Congress were even injured.
00:31:37.060 Unlike say the congressional baseball game when the Bernie bro almost killed Steve Scalise.
00:31:43.820 She said she feared for her life.
00:31:46.280 She was, she had her life flash before her eyes, all these sorts of things.
00:31:49.060 She has been insinuating, if, if not outright saying, I, I haven't followed every statement
00:31:55.400 she's made, but she's certainly been heavily insinuating.
00:31:57.420 And I guess implying that, you know, necessarily she's implying that she was at the Capitol,
00:32:01.980 that, that she would have been there and she wasn't. 0.62
00:32:04.020 I understand that vanity and dishonesty are occupational hazards of politics.
00:32:13.020 This is especially true of members of Congress.
00:32:17.060 However, this chickie is a stone cold liar. 0.99
00:32:23.500 She lies like a sociopath. 1.00
00:32:25.900 I've never seen anything like it.
00:32:29.700 Even, you know, Joe Biden is another one like this.
00:32:31.920 Joe Biden tells lies like they're nothing.
00:32:33.880 This is why he had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race.
00:32:37.840 Because it's, it's not even the kinds of lies he told.
00:32:40.700 Joe Biden never went on TV and was crying and saying, this Senator tried to murder me.
00:32:45.320 And he didn't do that kind of thing.
00:32:46.960 But it was, it was unsettling, not because of the quality of the lies, but because of the
00:32:53.200 ease with which he told them.
00:32:54.340 Joe Biden will lie about anything like it's second nature to him.
00:32:58.600 And it's second nature to AOC too.
00:33:02.220 There is no reason to believe anything she says.
00:33:06.860 You know, most, I, I know a good number of politicians.
00:33:10.520 And if some politicians want to bend the truth or they want to put some spin on,
00:33:14.240 which, you know, goes with the territory.
00:33:17.060 The vast majority of them that I've known have not wanted to outright lie.
00:33:21.960 That's always a rule.
00:33:22.660 Don't lie, don't lie.
00:33:24.120 Because you, maybe you get caught in the lie and then AOC doesn't matter.
00:33:28.800 She will lie about anything.
00:33:31.420 Which brings us to a question that the, the left-wing media are really trying to,
00:33:36.580 to gin up and make the central issue. 0.88
00:33:39.920 I don't even want to address it because I think this is a trap.
00:33:43.200 I think this is a complete op by the liberal media.
00:33:46.700 And I think it's so dishonest that I don't want to address it.
00:33:49.280 So I'm going to speak hypothetically here.
00:33:51.480 Let's say hypothetically, and you can read between the lines.
00:33:55.800 Hypothetically, there's some kooky Republican congressman who says things that are pretty kooky,
00:34:01.860 kind of crazy sometimes, right?
00:34:03.400 And this congressman is a total backbencher, really has no power whatsoever and is not a thing.
00:34:10.940 And the only reason that anybody would even maybe have heard this congressman's name
00:34:14.980 is because CNN and MSNBC and the Democrats and left-wing commentators
00:34:22.200 keep trying to make a big deal out of the kooky things this congressman has said.
00:34:29.120 Do we think it is wise, prudent, in the interest of the Republican Party or the conservative movement
00:34:37.080 or the country to take the bait and make a big deal out of this person?
00:34:42.640 I don't think so.
00:34:45.020 Whatever kooky, crazy, disreputable things this Republican hypothetical congressman might have said,
00:34:52.200 pale in comparison to things that AOC has said, or Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib,
00:34:59.500 or Maxine Waters, or Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Pelosi, or Kamala Harris.
00:35:05.320 All these people who have actively encouraged violence, who have told people how to...
00:35:09.580 Actually, my favorite comment from yesterday mentioned this earlier.
00:35:13.240 We discussed it in the show.
00:35:15.820 AOC told people how to avoid getting arrested when they would go riot.
00:35:18.880 Maxine Waters told people to commit violence against Republicans.
00:35:23.360 Kamala Harris bailed out violent rioters from left-wing riots.
00:35:29.100 We never see the left doing this sort of thing.
00:35:32.420 We never see the left taking the bait, focusing in on their own people,
00:35:36.660 wringing their clothing and rending their garments and gnashing their teeth over their own
00:35:41.940 major political figures, to say nothing over their minor political figures.
00:35:48.020 It would seem that this is only a big deal because the left is trying to make it a big deal.
00:35:52.060 And let's say, hypothetically, there's some kooky, crazy congressman.
00:35:55.580 And we get rid of that congressman.
00:35:57.040 You know, we totally come out again.
00:35:58.340 We take the bait.
00:35:59.060 We make a big deal out of it.
00:36:00.480 Do you really think that the left won't just find somebody else and make us do the same thing to them?
00:36:05.940 There might be some practical politics we can learn here from the left,
00:36:10.220 which wields political power much more effectively in this country than conservatives do.
00:36:15.400 We might be able to learn some political tricks without having to compromise our principles
00:36:19.180 or compromise our integrity or compromise our morals.
00:36:21.480 Maybe we could just get a little bit better at politics.
00:36:24.540 But maybe we can't.
00:36:25.580 John Kasich, that's enough of my hypothetical, very hypothetical scenario here.
00:36:30.580 John Kasich, who is a liberal Republican, whose chief strategist was John Weaver,
00:36:35.460 just mentioning that, John Kasich is now going on CNN.
00:36:40.900 His job is to tap dance for the liberal establishment.
00:36:43.860 His job is to play the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism.
00:36:47.600 He went on CNN recently and said that the GOP will die if it remains the party of Donald Trump,
00:36:55.940 rather than, say, the party of liberal squish John Kasich.
00:37:00.160 I did so many things down there that were conservative.
00:37:03.180 And now these guys are off on some, I don't even know where they are.
00:37:07.180 They're on some crazy tangent here to get themselves power.
00:37:10.580 But that's the point.
00:37:11.620 They are the Republican Party now, Governor.
00:37:14.220 They are, the House Republicans are very much representative of a very large chunk of the GOP.
00:37:20.980 And until they, you know, unless they do something to say these views are not OK, and yes, they're speaking out, but take action about it,
00:37:32.800 then talking about conservative fiscal responsibility and all those things, you know, it gets drowned out, don't you think?
00:37:41.500 Dana, I agree with that, Dana.
00:37:43.700 But here's the thing.
00:37:44.820 This gets back to what's going on inside the party.
00:37:47.640 You know, is it a Trump party?
00:37:48.780 Is it not a Trump party?
00:37:49.900 I will tell you this.
00:37:50.700 If it stays a Trump party in the long term, it will not be successful.
00:37:55.080 It will begin to die.
00:37:56.260 Frankly, it's been dying already because a lot of people have left the party.
00:38:00.300 This coming from John Kasich, who you'll recall defeated Donald Trump in the 2016 primaries and then defeated Hillary Clinton and became president.
00:38:08.280 Right?
00:38:08.580 Is that what happened?
00:38:09.280 Oh, no, it's not.
00:38:10.680 Trump beat Kasich and then Trump beat Hillary. 0.98
00:38:12.740 We were all told, remember, that no Republican was going to beat Hillary.
00:38:17.780 We were told Hillary was going to win 99% with 99% certainty by some analyses when Trump got it.
00:38:25.480 But even Kasich, does anybody really believe that John Kasich would have won in the general election?
00:38:29.720 No, of course not.
00:38:30.880 We're told if we don't ditch Trump and the sort of things that Trump said and stood for and the kind of attitude that Trump had, then we're going to die.
00:38:43.200 We're already seeing people flee the party.
00:38:45.200 Donald Trump did better among many, many voters than Mitt Romney did.
00:38:53.040 Well, part of the evidence of this is that Romney lost and Trump won.
00:38:56.120 But even in 2020, when you look at those exit polls, remember, you're told Trump is going to get blown out by the white suburban women. 1.00
00:39:03.740 They're fleeing.
00:39:05.200 I don't know.
00:39:06.820 All the white suburban women I know really like Trump. 1.00
00:39:08.540 But we were told, oh, the white suburban women, and he's going to lose among black voters, he's going to lose among Hispanic voters, and he's going to lose among this and lose among that.
00:39:16.280 What happened?
00:39:17.280 Do you remember from the exit polls?
00:39:19.640 Trump gained with every single voter identity group except for white dudes.
00:39:28.060 Totally the opposite of what we're hearing from the GOP establishment.
00:39:31.880 And listen to what CNN says to their gelded little Republican, John Kasich.
00:39:38.540 They said, look, John, you're an awful party.
00:39:42.200 If we want to get back to fiscal responsibility discussions, that will permit.
00:39:47.500 But we can't have Trumpism.
00:39:49.060 You know, we can't discuss immigration or manufacturing jobs or bioethics or patriotism or, you know, anything that actually matters.
00:40:01.580 John, it's perfectly fine for you little castrati Republicans to discuss fiscal policy and tax cuts.
00:40:10.260 But you, you are not allowed to talk about things that actually matter to people that the left doesn't like.
00:40:18.640 This gets down to a battle for who is going to lead the Republican Party.
00:40:22.780 We've discussed over the past week or two weeks that there's a fight right now for GOP leadership in the House.
00:40:30.420 The person who is in GOP leadership, even though it's a small role to chair the Republican caucus, is Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney.
00:40:40.660 Liz Cheney voted to impeach Donald Trump.
00:40:44.300 This was a very stupid vote.
00:40:48.480 There was no reason.
00:40:49.340 This was, by the way, I have to clarify because Trump was impeached two times.
00:40:52.620 Both were preposterous.
00:40:53.560 But the second one was even more preposterous than the first.
00:40:56.380 They impeached him for inciting an insurrection.
00:40:59.740 Obviously, he didn't do that.
00:41:00.860 We have, we have it on tape.
00:41:01.960 Before, during, and after the insurrection, he's saying, be peaceful.
00:41:04.320 Don't, don't insurrect.
00:41:06.780 Whatever.
00:41:07.480 But because there was a riot, they impeached Trump for this.
00:41:12.040 The left actually incited riots and encouraged riots and bailed out the rioters, prominent leftists, one of whom is now the vice president of the United States.
00:41:21.580 That, nope, no impeachment, no removal, no censure.
00:41:24.200 But Donald Trump doesn't do any of that.
00:41:26.260 And this lady, Liz Cheney, decides to vote to impeach him. 0.92
00:41:29.240 Okay, stupid vote, but whatever.
00:41:32.000 That's her conviction and she's got the courage to carry it through.
00:41:35.460 This is a very unpopular position in the Republican Party, and yet she's demanding to remain in leadership.
00:41:41.180 So there were big threats to this.
00:41:43.180 Matt Gaetz was flying around the country, saying we need to boot Liz Cheney out of leadership. 0.74
00:41:48.320 She's managed to cling to leadership.
00:41:50.740 There was a vote last night.
00:41:52.660 The vote was 145 to 61 House members voted to keep her in leadership.
00:41:59.240 Now, the key here is, it was a secret vote.
00:42:03.400 It was not a public vote.
00:42:05.280 And this was the trick that was always going to permit Liz Cheney to remain in leadership. 1.00
00:42:11.280 I said this days ago.
00:42:12.800 I said Liz Cheney is probably going to stick it out, but it doesn't bode well for the Republican Party. 1.00
00:42:17.100 If this had been a public vote, do you think Liz Cheney would have won? 0.55
00:42:19.760 No, no way.
00:42:20.480 Because congressmen would have had to go on the record and say, yes, I want the politics of impeaching the Republican president over nothing.
00:42:30.060 I want the politics of rolling over for the left.
00:42:32.880 I want the politics of returning to the time when Republicans lost and lost and lost and frankly didn't even care about most of the issues that the base cares about.
00:42:41.840 That vote would have been unacceptable to a huge portion of the GOP base.
00:42:48.140 There would have been a lot of primaries.
00:42:49.800 And so that's why they had to conduct a secret ballot because now we don't know who voted for and who voted against.
00:42:54.040 I bet if you took Republicans and trotted them on, Republican members of Congress, and trotted them on the Sunday shows and asked each and every one of them, did you vote to keep Liz Cheney in leadership?
00:43:05.900 You'd see those numbers change dramatically.
00:43:08.160 You'd see numbers at least flip, I think.
00:43:10.480 You would not have 145 Republican congressmen coming out and saying, yes, I support Liz Cheney.
00:43:17.140 But they've kept her in this position and this is only going to allow the divide to fester.
00:43:23.420 A lot of it getting down to the things we've been talking about.
00:43:26.300 What is liberty?
00:43:28.640 Are we going to be a party that just stands for nothing?
00:43:31.880 You know, we have no substantive vision.
00:43:33.640 We just stand for do whatever you want.
00:43:35.980 And the only thing we can all agree on is tax cuts.
00:43:38.620 But otherwise, we can let the left impose their moral vision on the country.
00:43:42.580 That's kind of the old way of the last 20 years.
00:43:45.320 It's not even the old way of the last 50 years.
00:43:47.740 Conservatives used to have a backbone.
00:43:48.980 They used to stand up for this sort of thing.
00:43:50.380 Last 20 years, they kind of lost their gumption.
00:43:52.720 Or are we going to be the party that has a substantive moral vision?
00:43:55.400 That has an actual political plan for the country and that's willing to wield power?
00:44:00.460 If we can't resolve that question, if we can't resolve it in the right direction,
00:44:06.460 then the left is just going to keep on keeping on.
00:44:08.960 And they're going to be glib and they're going to be shallow.
00:44:10.900 And it's going to be the party of Jen Psaki, you know, the White House press secretary. 0.74
00:44:17.160 But they are going to continue to govern.
00:44:18.920 It's going to be the party of Joe Biden.
00:44:20.440 Where he says, I'm not doing anything new.
00:44:21.760 I'm just returning to normal.
00:44:23.920 And progress is going to move forward.
00:44:25.660 You saw this.
00:44:26.240 Jen Psaki said this the other day.
00:44:27.860 She was asked a question about Space Force.
00:44:30.120 This is a branch of the United States military that was announced under President Trump.
00:44:34.300 Obviously, Trump didn't come up with the plan for Space Force.
00:44:37.100 This had been in the works for many years.
00:44:40.800 And Jen Psaki was asked, hey, what's going on with Space Force?
00:44:43.860 And her answer was to giggle and just make a glib comment deriding this entire branch of the military. 1.00
00:44:50.500 I asked whether the president has made a decision on keeping or keeping the scope of Space Force.
00:44:56.020 Wow, Space Force.
00:44:59.180 It's the plane of today.
00:45:01.200 It is an interesting question.
00:45:04.240 I am happy to check with our Space Force point of contact.
00:45:08.920 I'm not sure who that is.
00:45:09.600 I will find out and see if we have any update on that.
00:45:12.540 Wow.
00:45:13.200 Oh, look at the list of this guy.
00:45:14.860 He's talking about Space Force.
00:45:16.180 Next, he's going to be asking about the Navy.
00:45:17.980 I don't know.
00:45:18.940 Hey, when I handed you guys all out the list of questions that you were permitted to ask me,
00:45:23.820 Her Royal Highness, that wasn't on there.
00:45:26.080 So get a load of this guy.
00:45:27.640 Yeah, no, whatever.
00:45:28.400 It's kind of an interesting question.
00:45:29.700 I'll circle back because I don't have the answer to anything.
00:45:32.620 So this didn't play very well, even among Democrats.
00:45:35.360 This was a little bit too far.
00:45:36.720 So Jen Psaki was asked to apologize. 0.91
00:45:38.560 And of course, she did not.
00:45:40.980 The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee is asking you to apologize
00:45:45.540 for some of the comments that you made yesterday in the briefing room about the Space Force.
00:45:49.660 Will you apologize?
00:45:50.480 I did send a tweet last night.
00:45:53.660 You may not all be on Twitter.
00:45:54.600 Maybe they're not on Twitter.
00:45:55.640 That said, we invite the members of Space Force here to provide an update to all of you
00:46:00.700 on all of the important work they're doing.
00:46:02.380 And we certainly look forward to seeing continued updates from their team.
00:46:07.120 But a big picture here.
00:46:08.400 I mean, does the Space Force have the full support of the Biden administration?
00:46:13.620 Or is the president at some point perhaps going to try to get rid of it or in some way diminish it?
00:46:20.240 They absolutely have the full support of the Biden administration.
00:46:24.320 And we are not revisiting the decision to establish the Space Force.
00:46:29.300 The desire for the Department of Defense to focus greater attention and resources on the
00:46:33.440 growing security challenges in space has long been a bipartisan issue,
00:46:37.500 informed by numerous independent commissions and studies conducted across multiple administrations.
00:46:42.400 No apology, of course.
00:46:44.500 Just this kind of slightly toned down but still similar glibness.
00:46:49.460 Yes, we've invited the Space Force so they can give us an update if they want.
00:46:53.020 Yes, it was in the works for years.
00:46:55.200 It's absolutely fine.
00:46:56.440 No, I'm not going to apologize because I am going to play by a different set of rules.
00:47:02.040 I am the elect.
00:47:03.220 Listen to me.
00:47:03.800 How dare you?
00:47:04.580 How dare you ask me to apologize?
00:47:06.540 How dare you ask me to apologize for my private jet?
00:47:09.940 Don't you know who I am?
00:47:11.400 I have no choice.
00:47:13.620 The arrogance, the absolute evasion of accountability, that is government by the anointed,
00:47:22.360 at least as far as they see it.
00:47:25.120 But it's not inevitable.
00:47:26.220 We do have a choice if we can figure out what exactly our free will, what exactly our
00:47:31.100 traditional American liberty is, what it actually means, and how to use it.
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