The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 698 - Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud

00:00:00.000 Democrats have impeached Donald Trump because of his actions on January 6th.

00:00:06.280 That is the reasoning that we have been told up until now.

00:00:10.840 Donald Trump incited an insurrection on January 6th.

00:00:14.840 Now, the trouble with this line of argument, of course,

00:00:17.420 is that you can go back to the tape and see what Trump said.

00:00:21.100 And he said, be peaceful.

00:00:23.220 Don't be violent before, during, and after the riot at the Capitol.

00:00:27.220 So that doesn't work.

00:00:28.200 Well, Joaquin Castro, not Julian Castro, not the former future president.

00:00:33.180 Joaquin Castro, the congressman, has the updated reasoning as to why they are impeaching Trump.

00:00:40.860 This attack did not come from one speech.

00:00:44.580 And it didn't happen by accident.

00:00:47.220 The evidence shows clearly that this mob was provoked over many months by Donald J. Trump.

00:00:54.060 And if you look at the evidence, his purposeful conduct, you'll see that the attack was foreseeable and preventable.

00:01:02.740 Not just about one speech.

00:01:05.160 It was foreseeable.

00:01:06.660 It was predictable.

00:01:08.400 It was so vague.

00:01:09.520 It was in the penumbras and the emanations and in between the lines. 0.76

00:01:14.400 And when Trump said, be peaceful, he was really saying, be violent.

00:01:17.380 That probably does not stand up to legal scrutiny.

00:01:21.120 And unfortunately, while Joaquin Castro was trying to bail out the Democrats' failing case for impeachment,

00:01:26.920 I think he just undercut it entirely.

00:01:29.080 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:29.660 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:15.560 I'm in Washington, D.C. right now.

00:03:17.200 As you can tell, if you're watching this instead of listening,

00:03:19.440 I'm in a hotel room not too far away from the White House, also not too far away from the Capitol.

00:03:26.760 We are covering the fake impeachment trial, which is falling apart minute by minute.

00:03:31.940 I'm not going to cover, really, the play-by-play of all these arguments. 0.95

00:03:37.940 They're very foolish arguments, very glib arguments. 0.96

00:03:41.740 They have been from the beginning. 0.99

00:03:43.660 It was always pretty weak.

00:03:45.040 And I think, as you heard Joaquin Castro there, it's falling apart minute by minute.

00:03:49.940 So I don't think there's any reason to pay attention to it.

00:03:51.580 It's also, as we discussed yesterday, not a constitutional impeachment trial.

00:03:56.860 But it is worth looking at it for what it says about our broader politics.

00:04:02.200 You know, there's someone called Josh Hawley, the Republican senator.

00:04:05.440 He was like doodling on his paper during the trial today or yesterday.

00:04:10.680 He was reading material that was completely unrelated to the trial.

00:04:14.540 Because this is not worth paying attention to.

00:04:16.660 Broadly speaking, we live in a very glib time.

00:04:20.040 We are now treating impeachment, which is a very, very serious constitutional process,

00:04:26.020 like it's nothing.

00:04:26.880 Like it's just, you know, something that you do ordinarily.

00:04:31.280 I was in D.C. at this very hotel a year ago for the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump.

00:04:36.000 Now we got another one.

00:04:37.740 We're probably going to have another one in a year or two years after that.

00:04:40.440 We're living in a very glib time.

00:04:42.040 Not just on this issue of the impeachment, but on this issue of the entire Biden agenda.

00:04:48.440 Jen Psaki, our favorite White House press secretary of the Biden administration,

00:04:52.580 was just asked a question about Joe Biden's transgender executive order.

00:04:58.420 This basically within the first week of Biden being in office, he abolishes women's bathrooms 1.00

00:05:03.500 and women's sports, at least at the federal level. 0.95

00:05:06.120 Obviously, they're going to fight it more at the local level.

00:05:07.800 So she's asked, serious question, hey, if you're going to let men, you know, play in women's 0.89

00:05:14.260 sports and men use the ladies' room, don't you think that's sort of unfair to women? 1.00

00:05:18.220 Here's her answer.

00:05:19.520 What message would the White House have for trans girls and cis girls who may end up competing

00:05:24.840 against each other and sparking some lawsuits and some concern among parents?

00:05:32.460 So does the administration have guidance for schools on dealing with disputes arising

00:05:36.680 over trans girls competing against and with cis girls?

00:05:42.140 I'm not sure what your question is.

00:05:44.240 The President's executive order has...

00:05:46.400 I'm familiar with the order, but what was your question about it?

00:05:48.840 My question is, does the President have a message for local school officials

00:05:52.660 on dealing with these kind of disputes that are already starting to arise?

00:05:56.120 Between, you know, trans girls who are competing and cis girls in a level playing field,

00:06:04.500 particularly in high school sports, when it leads to college scholarships,

00:06:08.540 is there any kind of messaging or clarification that the White House wants to give on the executive order?

00:06:13.280 I would just say that the President's belief is that trans rights are human rights,

00:06:17.860 and that's why he signed that executive order.

00:06:20.160 And in terms of the determinations by universities and colleges, I'd certainly defer to that.

00:06:24.820 Joe Biden believes trans rights are human rights.

00:06:30.600 Our White House press secretary is mustering all the sophistication of a Twitter troll

00:06:35.720 or a sort of an everyday feminism headline. 1.00

00:06:41.000 Trans rights are human rights? 0.99

00:06:42.180 That doesn't answer my question.

00:06:43.700 What about the girls who are now going to lose out on scholarships

00:06:46.480 and lose out on awards and lose out on admission to various colleges and various athletic programs

00:06:53.260 because men are competing against them and men are bigger and faster and stronger,

00:06:56.400 so they're going to beat them?

00:06:57.500 What about little girls who now have to change in front of men at the public pool? 1.00

00:07:01.340 Give me an answer on that. 0.65

00:07:02.220 Don't just give me some ridiculous slogan, trans rights or human rights.

00:07:06.900 Did you hear that term that Jen Psaki used? 1.00

00:07:09.080 She said cis.

00:07:10.640 Cis, for those of you not in the woke know,

00:07:14.220 cis is the opposite of trans. 0.91

00:07:15.820 So if you're a cis woman or a cisgendered woman,

00:07:19.520 that means you're a woman who knows that you're a woman. 0.95

00:07:22.560 You're not a woman who thinks that you're a man or a man who's right, right. 0.97

00:07:25.840 So this brings up an issue that I've seen some conservatives do.

00:07:31.300 I myself have done it a couple times, but I don't want to do it anymore.

00:07:34.680 I don't think you should qualify woman or man. 0.97

00:07:39.760 Some conservatives do this now.

00:07:41.060 They'll say, well, you know, Caitlyn Jenner is a biological man.

00:07:47.700 Caitlyn Jenner is a man.

00:07:49.920 Not a biological man, spiritual man, whatever.

00:07:53.180 When you say things like biological man or whatever,

00:07:58.080 you qualify man or woman in any way to better accord with gender ideology,

00:08:03.700 you are granting the premise of gender ideology.

00:08:05.940 You're granting the premise that your biology can be one thing

00:08:08.760 and your spirit can be another thing,

00:08:10.200 as though your true identity has nothing to do with your spirit.

00:08:13.600 It's kind of the flip side of the gender argument. 1.00

00:08:15.380 The gender ideologue argument is that, you know, 0.72

00:08:18.260 I look like a man, but I feel like I'm a woman.

00:08:20.620 So because, you know, forget about my physical body.

00:08:24.000 Deep down, I feel like a woman.

00:08:25.120 Therefore, I am truly a woman.

00:08:26.680 My body has nothing to do with who I really am.

00:08:28.840 Well, the kind of biological man qualifier is just the opposite side of that.

00:08:34.580 It's saying, well, you know, the way your body is,

00:08:36.980 that's exactly what you are.

00:08:38.040 You're purely material.

00:08:38.940 You're not a soul.

00:08:39.780 And the real answer is, you're a soul and a body.

00:08:42.940 And it's one and it's united together.

00:08:45.080 And a man is a man and a woman is a woman. 0.96

00:08:47.260 And there's no reason to qualify these things at all.

00:08:50.160 I don't think we should in any way validate this Gnostic delusion of gender ideology.

00:08:57.280 But they're doing it.

00:08:58.140 They're doing it everywhere.

00:08:58.800 In Great Britain right now, I kid you not,

00:09:01.820 a group of hospitals is instructing midwives and maternity departments

00:09:05.260 to use different terms when treating transgender patients to be more gender inclusive.

00:09:11.320 Meaning, instead of breastfeeding, you have to use the term chest feeding. 0.94

00:09:17.200 Instead of breast milk, you have to use the term human milk.

00:09:26.160 Instead of breast milk, you could also say milk from the feeding mother or parent.

00:09:30.820 That's another long one.

00:09:31.600 Very inhuman.

00:09:36.400 This kind of language erases women, right? 1.00

00:09:39.400 It says, no, there's no such thing as women. 1.00

00:09:41.280 We're all just kind of generic people.

00:09:43.460 And so anything that might distinguish women from men, we're going to get rid of it.

00:09:47.500 But it's inhuman more broadly.

00:09:50.180 We shouldn't use this kind of thing.

00:09:51.480 We shouldn't indulge it in any way.

00:09:53.660 And conservatives, to be polite, want to do that.

00:09:56.500 We want to say, well, look, I don't care.

00:09:58.240 If a man thinks he's a woman and he wants to wear a dress in his own private life,

00:10:02.760 far be it from me, who am I to say?

00:10:04.780 You are somebody.

00:10:06.540 You can have an opinion on this.

00:10:08.820 Men should not dress like women and behave like women. 1.00

00:10:11.900 If they do it, it should only be as part of some very sort of outrageous costume or something.

00:10:16.420 It should be with the acknowledgement that this is strange, out of the ordinary,

00:10:21.640 and not the way things are supposed to be.

00:10:24.520 Conservatives need to get much more serious about this sort of thing.

00:10:27.560 We live in such a glib time that you have the radicals saying,

00:10:30.920 well, there's no rules to anything.

00:10:32.100 We can liberate ourselves however we want.

00:10:34.140 Men can be women.

00:10:34.800 Women can be men. 0.77

00:10:35.860 There's chest milk and whatever, you know, milk from the feeding parent.

00:10:40.380 But then on the other side of the glibness, you've got these conservatives

00:10:43.400 who are refusing to offer any other vision.

00:10:46.280 They're saying, yeah, whatever you want to do,

00:10:48.380 as long as I don't have to pay for it,

00:10:49.680 as long as it doesn't affect my bottom line, do whatever you want.

00:10:52.640 No, guys.

00:10:54.180 That is not a serious political vision.

00:10:57.800 When you offer a political vision, you have to be able to say,

00:11:00.660 this is the way the world is,

00:11:02.280 and some things are true, and some things are false,

00:11:04.580 and I'm going to stand up for the things that are true,

00:11:06.100 and I'm going to oppose the things that are false.

00:11:08.820 But the identity politics is not primarily at the level of sex.

00:11:13.440 The identity politics today is primarily at the level of race.

00:11:19.620 It's an ugly fact, but the racial identitarians, 1.00

00:11:24.060 overwhelmingly of the left, are dictating that.

00:11:27.360 You even hear it from guys who are sort of fake Republicans,

00:11:30.160 like Joe Scarborough.

00:11:31.420 Joe Scarborough, who is, you know,

00:11:33.900 his job is to basically be the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism.

00:11:37.500 He's supposed to say, I was a Republican congressman,

00:11:39.260 and all the Republicans today are bad.

00:11:41.700 And, you know, then the liberals applaud him,

00:11:44.460 and they give him some money.

00:11:45.720 So Joe Scarborough went on TV, on his show,

00:11:48.740 that very few people watch, but a lot of journalists watch,

00:11:51.140 and he said, the problem with our politics right now

00:11:55.200 is that some people in America cannot accept the fact

00:11:59.460 that they are not going to be in the majority.

00:12:04.100 Now, what does that mean?

00:12:05.720 People can't be in the majority.

00:12:07.680 Are we talking about religion?

00:12:09.060 Are we talking about race?

00:12:11.700 Are we talking about sex?

00:12:13.660 I don't know.

00:12:14.360 I guess, just as a raw numbers,

00:12:16.820 women make up most of the population.

00:12:19.540 They're the only, only aggrieved minority

00:12:21.680 that happens to be a majority in the world.

00:12:24.720 What Scarborough is talking about here is race.

00:12:27.280 And it's ironic because he's a white guy.

00:12:30.300 And he's, he's talking about how

00:12:32.220 white grievance is driving the Trump phenomenon.

00:12:36.380 It's the same sort of thing you hear from all Democrats.

00:12:38.340 It's the only reason that Republicans do what they do 0.99

00:12:40.160 is because they're racist and they hate people who aren't white 1.00

00:12:43.980 and they're neo-Nazis and they're white supremacists 1.00

00:12:46.240 and we've got to get rid of them. 1.00

00:12:49.260 But his argument reveals what is,

00:12:52.940 what is so rotten and frustrating to people

00:12:55.800 about the rise of identitarian politics

00:12:59.240 at a time when we're told we're all supposed to be equal.

00:13:01.440 It is remarkable that so much of this is

00:13:06.040 all about an America that is changing

00:13:09.760 and certain people who cannot accept the change

00:13:14.820 and don't understand that they're not going

00:13:19.600 to be the majority in this country anymore.

00:13:25.180 And it's fascinating.

00:13:26.740 I have been reading along with Kate,

00:13:31.640 going back and reading Flannery O'Connor short stories

00:13:35.920 and one after another, after another, after another

00:13:40.800 is written about white people in the 50s and early 60s

00:13:48.240 adjusting to changes and not being able to understand

00:13:53.120 what is happening around them in the South.

00:13:56.740 There, there's so much here to digest.

00:14:00.380 It's such a glib statement.

00:14:03.460 One, because you're ascribing racial animus

00:14:06.220 to one group of people, I think baselessly,

00:14:09.940 in a way that you would never ascribe it to black people.

00:14:12.640 You never say, oh, black people, 0.99

00:14:13.760 they're just all upset because they're black. 0.98

00:14:15.440 Or, oh, Hispanic people, they're all just upset 1.00

00:14:17.220 because they're brown. 0.65

00:14:19.720 But Joe Skrubber was saying, no, these white people, 0.99

00:14:21.480 they're just upset because they're white racists. 0.95

00:14:23.340 But moreover, there was a Pew research survey 0.96

00:14:29.300 on racial consciousness in America.

00:14:31.020 The question was, how important is your race to your identity?

00:14:34.560 Is it important or is it very important

00:14:36.160 or is it not really important at all? 0.99

00:14:38.920 White people in America have the lowest racial consciousness 0.99

00:14:42.260 and it's not even close. 0.99

00:14:43.880 For basically every other racial group,

00:14:45.560 these people consider race to be either important

00:14:49.880 or very important to their identity.

00:14:52.640 Greater than 50%.

00:14:53.920 For white people, it's about 15%.

00:14:57.240 Now, I think most people I know would say,

00:15:00.520 oh, that's a good thing.

00:15:01.680 I don't consider my race to be the number one aspect

00:15:06.740 of my identity.

00:15:07.720 It's, I don't know, it's probably like number 100 or something, right?

00:15:09.720 They'd say, hey, Michael, what are you?

00:15:10.860 I'm Catholic, I'm American, I'm a conservative,

00:15:16.640 I'm a New Yorker originally, I'm Italian-American.

00:15:20.100 I guess that's sort of a race.

00:15:21.140 It's kind of more like your family background,

00:15:23.900 especially in America where people come from

00:15:25.460 a lot of different backgrounds.

00:15:26.480 But sure, but it's pretty low down, right?

00:15:28.000 And then at what point would I say I'm a white guy?

00:15:30.080 I don't know, pretty low down the list.

00:15:33.040 So I think what Joe Scarborough is saying here

00:15:34.860 is wrong just as a matter of social science.

00:15:40.500 You know, the surveys don't really back that up.

00:15:43.980 But let's say it's true that white people are upset

00:15:49.520 because they're not going to be the majority anymore

00:15:51.260 and that's just the way it is.

00:15:53.220 People like Joe Scarborough, people on the left,

00:15:56.660 are ginning up racial consciousness for every racial group, right?

00:16:01.880 They're saying it is good to be racially conscious.

00:16:04.060 Black people need to be more racially conscious. 0.63

00:16:07.600 That's why there's all these anti-racism,

00:16:09.860 quote unquote, re-education trainings.

00:16:13.780 That's why we have Black Lives Matter, right?

00:16:15.540 We all, all these kind of woke racial groups.

00:16:18.000 So everyone needs more racial consciousness,

00:16:20.380 except for white people.

00:16:21.500 At the same time, we're told white is not a race. 0.72

00:16:24.600 It's a social construct.

00:16:26.500 There's no such thing as white people. 0.97

00:16:29.520 But then the left says that whiteness is evil. 1.00

00:16:32.020 It's terrible. 0.99

00:16:32.560 It's the worst thing in the world. 0.99

00:16:33.600 White people need to have certain disadvantage. 0.99

00:16:37.420 White people need to apologize and feel very sorry about themselves. 0.96

00:16:41.660 And we need to decolonize all manner of society 0.98

00:16:44.500 and take the white people out of it, right?

00:16:46.760 On and on and on.

00:16:48.100 So they're saying there's no such thing as white people, 1.00

00:16:50.040 but also white people are the worst people in the world. 1.00

00:16:52.580 And then they're saying if there is any white racial consciousness, 1.00

00:16:56.140 which, by the way, I don't really think there is,

00:16:57.940 but they're saying if there is, that's the worst thing in the world.

00:16:59.860 What is supposed to happen here?

00:17:03.600 What is Joe Scarborough proposing?

00:17:06.120 He's saying white people should have no sort of group thought 1.00

00:17:12.540 and also, man, white people are the worst 1.00

00:17:15.060 and we're just going to get rid of them 1.00

00:17:16.640 and they're not going to have any political power.

00:17:18.900 What is supposed to happen there?

00:17:20.400 Now, what I think would be nice is if race were not the primary mode of thinking

00:17:26.620 in American politics.

00:17:28.340 But I think the left knows that it is greatly to their advantage

00:17:32.240 to increase racial consciousness for their likely voter groups.

00:17:38.260 So you see this all over the place.

00:17:39.320 Elon University is hosting a white caucus.

00:17:43.340 You might think that the KKK is being revived.

00:17:46.800 That's not the case.

00:17:47.560 The white caucus is for white students to, quote,

00:17:50.960 unpack race and systemic oppression.

00:17:53.780 This is what the email from Elon University reads.

00:17:56.260 A white caucus is a space for white identifying individuals.

00:17:59.280 What's a white identifying individual? 0.57

00:18:00.800 I guess that could be like me, right?

00:18:01.960 I'm sort of swarthy.

00:18:03.160 I've got this Sicilian skin.

00:18:05.440 I guess I could pass for not a white guy,

00:18:08.180 but do I identify as a white guy?

00:18:10.460 I guess.

00:18:11.240 For white identifying individuals to engage in conversations 0.63

00:18:14.500 that unpack race and systemic oppression. 0.99

00:18:17.560 In this world where you're told that white people are like the worst thing ever 0.99

00:18:21.340 and whiteness is a synonym for evil, 1.00

00:18:23.360 who would choose to identify as a white person?

00:18:26.220 I don't know.

00:18:26.820 This is why, by the way,

00:18:28.140 the sort of public acceptability or even encouragement

00:18:32.480 of castigating whiteness as a category,

00:18:34.960 this is why you get the Rachel Dolezals of the world. 1.00

00:18:37.540 This is why it seems every month or so,

00:18:39.700 you find another person who's, you know,

00:18:42.260 a gender theory professor or a critical studies professor 0.54

00:18:45.460 who's been pretending to be Hispanic or black for their whole lives. 0.97

00:18:48.300 It turns out they're just white people 0.99

00:18:49.380 because they're trying to identify as another race 0.90

00:18:51.840 because they've been told that being white is a very bad thing.

00:18:55.460 The email goes on.

00:18:56.540 White caucuses allow white identifying allies 0.84

00:18:58.880 to have these conversations in a way

00:19:00.420 that does not burden or re-traumatize people of color.

00:19:04.480 However, re-traumatize white caucuses

00:19:08.600 give white people a space to learn about

00:19:10.440 and process their awareness of and complicity in unjust systems

00:19:15.580 without harming their friends of color.

00:19:21.040 A lot of woke white liberals believe this sort of thing.

00:19:27.260 It's very sad.

00:19:29.540 It just is sad.

00:19:30.780 If you were to grow up,

00:19:32.280 actually I guess from the same ideology,

00:19:33.720 if you were to grow up and be told, 0.88

00:19:34.980 because I'm black, I cannot succeed. 0.95

00:19:38.320 I can't get ahead. 0.94

00:19:39.580 The system is just out to get me.

00:19:42.120 People who push this idea are like Ta-Nehisi Coates

00:19:45.040 who is a very wealthy, very famous, very admired writer.

00:19:50.240 Why he is admired, I have no idea.

00:19:51.780 But he's admired by all the very fancy people.

00:19:54.400 He wins half a million dollar MacArthur Genius grants.

00:19:57.480 And his message is basically 0.92

00:19:58.980 the whole system is rigged against black people 0.98

00:20:00.640 and they can't do anything. 1.00

00:20:01.500 It's a horrible message to tell somebody.

00:20:04.640 And it's manifestly a lie, right?

00:20:06.400 Ta-Nehisi Coates' life is evidence that that's a lie.

00:20:09.760 In the same way, how awful is it to tell some white kid, 0.99

00:20:13.900 yeah, man, you're evil. 1.00

00:20:15.180 You're awful because of the color of your skin. 1.00

00:20:19.640 We're not saying you're oppressed. 0.99

00:20:21.600 We're saying you're the oppressor. 1.00

00:20:23.140 You're just a vile, vicious, evil person. 1.00

00:20:25.700 And there's no way you can ever fix it. 1.00

00:20:27.700 You are white. 0.97

00:20:30.780 You know, you participate in this thing called whiteness 0.97

00:20:32.600 which has become a synonym for evil.

00:20:34.040 That's a horrible thing to tell kids.

00:20:35.900 I don't know.

00:20:36.180 I guess I'm immune to what liberals might call white guilt.

00:20:42.180 You know, I don't feel guilt because of my skin color.

00:20:46.020 I don't feel pride, you know, racial pride.

00:20:49.760 I don't really take glory or shame in the color of my skin.

00:20:55.360 But increasingly, this is what we're told to do.

00:20:57.520 It's not just at Elon University.

00:20:59.300 Purdue University was just proposing a mandatory class in anti-racist thought.

00:21:06.800 What is anti-racist thought?

00:21:08.760 It's racist thought.

00:21:09.620 I know.

00:21:09.920 Isn't that ironic?

00:21:11.400 The Purdue Musical Organization announced in January

00:21:14.080 its members would be required to complete six classes on anti-racist thought.

00:21:17.980 This includes white privilege, white supremacy, white fragility,

00:21:25.620 and white saviorism and how to be a better ally.

00:21:28.740 This according to emails that were seen by the Washington Free Beacon.

00:21:32.300 They have backed off of this since the emails came out.

00:21:36.280 These courses would have been taught by well-known con artists Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo.

00:21:42.140 They were supposed to start this month.

00:21:44.100 They've now been postponed.

00:21:46.400 This is Purdue.

00:21:46.940 Purdue is a pretty conservative university.

00:21:49.640 Purdue is run by Mitch Daniels, former Republican governor of Indiana,

00:21:54.140 conservative guy, very intelligent, has a keen understanding of education.

00:21:59.660 Even he is being forced to adopt in some ways this vicious, vile, bigoted sort of stuff.

00:22:09.020 It's sort of trite at this point to even say it.

00:22:11.300 It's glib to say it, so I don't even want to. 0.75

00:22:12.940 But to say, imagine if there were a course called black privilege or black supremacy or black fragility. 0.93

00:22:17.800 Oh my God. 0.94

00:22:18.180 Could you imagine?

00:22:18.660 Because as actually as our friend told us, Henry Knox at the top of the show, my favorite comment yesterday,

00:22:29.460 when victimhood is currency, there's going to be a lot of counterfeiters.

00:22:32.260 When victimhood becomes the currency of a society, then victimhood is actually going to become a privilege and people are going to claim victimhood as best they can.

00:22:40.940 And then the piece de resistance, Nicole Hannah-Jones, probably one of the biggest race hustlers in America, one of the most prominent racial identitarians in the country. 1.00

00:22:51.380 She created the 1619 Project to, quote, reframe American history to say it's evil and bigoted and racist.

00:22:58.260 This woman just doxed a conservative journalist. 0.99

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00:24:45.940 Nicole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times, probably their most famous journalist at this point, of 1619 fame,

00:25:07.080 just doxed the Washington Free Beacon reporter Erin Sebarium.

00:25:10.720 Erin Sebarium reached out to her because the Times has this very strong policy now.

00:25:17.680 No use of the N-word.

00:25:20.120 It doesn't matter if it's to give context.

00:25:23.120 It doesn't matter if a reporter is quoting somebody.

00:25:26.640 They had a reporter who was discussing this word in a sort of academic fashion.

00:25:31.360 Two years ago, in a private conversation, they fired him for it.

00:25:33.660 They said, we will not tolerate this word in any form.

00:25:35.660 But then they find out that Nicole Hannah-Jones, is that her name or is it Hannah-Nicole-Jones?

00:25:41.320 I always forget.

00:25:42.220 No, it's Anna-Nicole-Smith and Nicole Hannah-Jones.

00:25:45.420 Nicole Hannah-Jones used this word jokingly on a podcast recently.

00:25:50.260 And of course, she's not going to lose her job because the New York Times is not going to enforce this across the board as they say they will.

00:25:56.120 They're not going to enforce this regardless of context.

00:25:58.360 They're going to let people who can claim racial grievance say it and people who cannot will be fired.

00:26:04.500 No matter the use of it.

00:26:06.320 So they're obviously going to let Nicole Hannah-Jones off the hook and they're not going to let this other guy off the hook.

00:26:15.260 They're just going to do it based on how they perceive someone's grievance to be that will permit them to say various other words.

00:26:23.220 It's an ugly system.

00:26:24.400 I don't like it. 0.96

00:26:25.020 I think it's very silly and I don't think we should indulge that sort of thing.

00:26:27.440 But think about how Nicole Hannah-Jones is playing this game. 1.00

00:26:35.040 She's not playing it according to logic.

00:26:37.100 She's not even pretending that there is a logic to what she's saying.

00:26:41.080 Nicole Hannah-Jones wants to reframe American history.

00:26:45.340 She hates the country and she wants to say that the country is not good, the country is bad.

00:26:50.140 And here's why.

00:26:50.800 She lied to do it.

00:26:52.080 The central thesis of the 1619 Project is that the American Revolution was about preserving slavery.

00:26:57.840 It wasn't.

00:26:58.840 Academic historians, even on the left, said that was complete BS.

00:27:02.580 Finally, after a long, long time, they issued a slight correction but they didn't erase the project.

00:27:08.020 Now this woman, when she's asked any question about her behavior, doxes some kid. 1.00

00:27:13.400 You know, when you get doxed as a public figure, that can threaten your life.

00:27:19.800 That can threaten your family's life.

00:27:22.260 It doesn't matter.

00:27:24.060 She sent out this kid's email address and this kid's cell phone number to half a million followers.

00:27:31.340 She eventually deleted it.

00:27:33.380 But she kept joking about it.

00:27:35.100 She doesn't care.

00:27:35.840 I've said before on this show, there are times in politics when you can try to work together,

00:27:45.720 you can try to do a little kumbaya, you can try to have a little unity and healing.

00:27:50.320 No matter what Joe Biden is saying right now about unity and healing, that's not what the left is interested in.

00:27:55.020 And the right cannot force it.

00:27:58.020 I know there are some squishes on the right who, they're in the professional loser caucus. 0.72

00:28:02.340 You know, guys like Mitt Romney, all they want to do is be loved by the left.

00:28:07.060 Fair enough.

00:28:08.220 Sometimes there's a reason to try to reconcile a little bit, meet in the middle.

00:28:12.860 But your opponent gets a say.

00:28:16.220 In politics, your opponent gets a say.

00:28:17.680 In war, your enemy gets a say.

00:28:19.540 And the left does not want to reconcile.

00:28:22.980 They want to dox us.

00:28:24.580 They want to impeach us after we leave office. 0.99

00:28:27.500 They want to call us Nazis and evil, rotten people. 0.92

00:28:30.820 They want to attack us on the basis of our race or certainly on the basis of our politics, on the basis of our religion. 0.97

00:28:38.400 They think we're deplorable, irredeemable.

00:28:41.180 I'm just using Hillary Clinton's words there.

00:28:45.060 That is a virus in the country.

00:28:48.100 That's a real dangerous virus in the country.

00:28:50.540 Some viruses are a little less dangerous than that.

00:28:52.660 That one's real dangerous.

00:28:53.680 And I'm not the only one who thinks so.

00:28:56.140 Emmanuel Macron, leader in France, is describing woke American politics.

00:29:03.180 Call it political correctness.

00:29:04.800 Call it radical leftism.

00:29:06.360 He's describing it in the way you would describe a virus.

00:29:10.600 He's saying that it is being imported now into France.

00:29:14.440 It's not native to France.

00:29:15.660 It's coming from America. 0.75

00:29:17.280 And it already screwed up American society.

00:29:19.180 And now it's screwing up French society. 0.60

00:29:20.440 He said, I assume that's how he begins every sentence.

00:29:26.580 I don't speak French very well.

00:29:28.200 He says, we have left the intellectual debate to others, to those outside of the French Republic,

00:29:32.040 by ideologizing it, sometimes yielding it to other academic traditions, meaning American and Anglo ones.

00:29:38.860 When I see certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States with their problems,

00:29:43.240 which I respect and which exist, but which are just added to ours,

00:29:47.200 I say to myself that it is reasonable to make this choice.

00:29:49.560 So we must very clearly reinvest on a massive scale in the field of social sciences, history,

00:29:54.300 understanding of civilizations by creating posts, stepping up dialogue, on and on and on.

00:30:00.280 We need to basically defend the French intellectual life against woke American leftism.

00:30:07.960 Because he knows that this stuff is poison for a society.

00:30:11.560 It's absolute poison.

00:30:12.620 I remember in the early political correctness debates in the 90s,

00:30:19.080 a big topic of my book that's coming out soon, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,

00:30:23.920 which you can pre-order right now, by the way.

00:30:26.240 A big topic of it is these political correctness debates, even much earlier on.

00:30:31.880 And early on then, the French said, you know, we don't have a problem with this.

00:30:35.140 France has their own problems.

00:30:36.120 They're like burning cars in the streets every day, you know, blood running down the Champs-Elysees.

00:30:41.760 But we don't have this problem of political correctness.

00:30:46.100 That's an American problem. 0.89

00:30:47.560 And now we're seeing the flourishing of that sort of problem here in the United States.

00:30:52.780 And I guess we're exporting it around the world too.

00:30:55.280 We can't make peace with that, right?

00:30:58.080 We can't.

00:30:58.820 They don't want peace.

00:31:00.100 When we try to reconcile with that, what are we getting?

00:31:02.580 We're getting more and more political violence, right?

00:31:04.280 It's just not possible to have a peaceful society if you're coming to terms with that.

00:31:10.480 You have to fight it.

00:31:11.560 You have to stop this kind of woke ideology in its tracks.

00:31:15.200 That's the only way that you're going to have peace.

00:31:17.880 You have to be firm on these kind of academic and political movements.

00:31:21.480 Speaking of France, by the way, this is my favorite headline of the entire week.

00:31:28.360 France is not living up to the Paris Climate Accord.

00:31:32.180 Why is this so ironic?

00:31:34.740 I don't know if you're familiar with geography.

00:31:36.720 Paris, a very prominent city in France.

00:31:40.100 This is a French project, the Paris Climate Accord.

00:31:43.400 France not living up to it.

00:31:45.240 We already knew many countries weren't living up to it.

00:31:47.860 Actually, after the Paris Climate Accord was signed and then Trump came in and pulled us out of it,

00:31:52.860 actually the United States leaded the way, leaded the way, led the way in meeting the goals outlined in the Paris Climate Accord that we weren't even a member of.

00:32:01.880 Now Joe Biden signed us back up.

00:32:03.340 But it's all just fake.

00:32:04.580 It's all just glib. 0.93

00:32:05.860 It's all this shallow nonsense.

00:32:08.320 No one takes it seriously.

00:32:09.540 Not even France takes it seriously.

00:32:11.120 It's just a facade to permit the liberal establishment to continue on its path of national and, I suppose, international destruction.

00:32:24.440 You can't take these things at face value.

00:32:26.940 The impeachment trial is not an impeachment trial.

00:32:29.380 The environmental protocol is not an environmental protocol.

00:32:33.060 The same goes for climate change, climate change broadly, right?

00:32:35.860 It's this sort of larger-than-life topic that is just a way to push through the same policies that the left has wanted for 100 years.

00:32:47.020 It's all so shallow.

00:32:50.020 Is there any way to fight back?

00:32:51.620 I think there is.

00:32:53.200 I don't know about the Paris Climate thing.

00:32:54.680 I don't think it's going to matter all that much.

00:32:56.780 But there is a way to fight back.

00:32:58.980 When I think of the shallow politicians in this country, one guy who comes to mind is Governor Patrick Bateman,

00:33:03.860 you know, Governor American Psycho out there over in California.

00:33:07.760 Gavin Newsom says one thing, does another, locks down the state, says you can't go to restaurants.

00:33:13.500 Next, they catch him at a Michelin-rated restaurant sitting next to his buddies.

00:33:17.040 Nobody's got any masks on.

00:33:18.960 They're eating $1,000 meals.

00:33:21.360 He doesn't believe in any of it.

00:33:22.440 Well, Newsom might have to face some consequences for that.

00:33:27.140 There has been building for a while now a recall effort for Gavin Newsom.

00:33:31.200 If they get enough signatures, Newsom's critics will be able to force a new election,

00:33:38.440 hopefully kick him out of office.

00:33:41.100 They're pretty close.

00:33:42.400 They needed 1.5 million signatures.

00:33:45.660 It's very hard to get 1.5 million signatures here for anything in California.

00:33:50.020 They need to get it by March 17th.

00:33:53.180 The petition to recall Newsom currently has 1.4 million signatures.

00:33:58.340 There are only 100,000 signatures off.

00:33:59.820 That's the good news.

00:34:00.660 They've still got a month, more than a month, to do this.

00:34:03.560 So it's very possible.

00:34:04.780 It's accelerated in recent weeks.

00:34:08.060 Now, the downside is it's not really just 1.5 million because what's going to happen then

00:34:13.740 is the political operatives working for Newsom are going to go into the petition

00:34:18.160 and start taking off signatures.

00:34:20.320 If maybe, I don't know, let's say the address doesn't match the name of the signatory.

00:34:24.780 They're going to cross that out.

00:34:26.260 If the person's not a resident of the state of California, they're going to cross that out.

00:34:29.780 It may be if someone's moved.

00:34:31.240 I know some people who've left California recently.

00:34:33.460 So they're going to take off a lot of signatures.

00:34:35.360 Every political campaign does this.

00:34:37.680 Republicans and Democrats both do this, which means that this petition to recall Newsom is

00:34:42.220 really going to need more like 1.8, 1.9, maybe even 2 million if it actually wants to take hold.

00:34:49.480 Can they get that?

00:34:51.720 They do have a month.

00:34:52.940 Very hard to get half a million signatures in a month, but that's what they have to aim for.

00:34:56.140 Because otherwise, I think what you're going to see is they'll get 1.5 million or they get 1.6 or something.

00:35:00.600 And then, ah, whoopsie-daisy, the system beat them again because they took off and disqualified enough signatures.

00:35:07.240 This is a concerted effort here to push the agenda of the liberal establishment.

00:35:13.380 They've got big tech.

00:35:14.140 They've got the administrative state.

00:35:16.840 They've got now a lot of elective offices.

00:35:19.080 They've got universities, right?

00:35:20.520 They've got Hollywood.

00:35:21.320 They've got the media.

00:35:21.800 They've got so much.

00:35:23.680 They've got sports that it's very easy.

00:35:26.600 We've got to be really on our game here, very serious.

00:35:29.140 Otherwise, we're going to get rolled, which does seem to be happening a lot.

00:35:34.140 This liberal establishment does not have the best interests of the United States at heart.

00:35:39.880 I know that sounds hyperbolic.

00:35:42.960 I don't mean it just to throw bombs.

00:35:44.640 I'm saying it as a purely descriptive matter.

00:35:47.400 So much of the national debate over the past five years, I guess, is between globalism and nationalism.

00:35:55.300 And whenever we use these isms, you know, they're a little imprecise.

00:35:58.500 But what do we mean by globalism?

00:36:01.100 By globalism, we mean people who do not feel particularly strong bonds to their nation, to their country.

00:36:08.020 They feel that they are citizens of the world, you know, people in New York who feel they have much more in common with people in London and Paris than they do with people in Peoria or Omaha or something.

00:36:19.280 So they want a much more globalized world, globalized markets.

00:36:23.940 And a lot of conservatives used to be all for the globalized markets.

00:36:26.580 The trouble with the globalized markets is inevitably globalized regulation will follow.

00:36:30.640 Globalized political institutions will follow.

00:36:33.060 You lose a little bit of national sovereignty.

00:36:34.860 That's what we're seeing, the liberal establishment going in for what you could broadly call globalism.

00:36:42.020 And the right going in for what you could broadly call nationalism.

00:36:46.060 I don't really consider myself a nationalist.

00:36:48.840 I'm not saying the nation state is the be all and end all of political order.

00:36:53.360 However, in this debate, do we have some affection for our country or do we give it all away to the UN or something?

00:36:58.920 Yeah, give me America. 1.00

00:37:01.440 I'm with America.

00:37:02.980 But some people are not.

00:37:04.280 And I'm not just castigating them in a hyperbolic way.

00:37:07.920 Mark Cuban has decided that the Mavericks, his sports ball team, is no longer going to play the national anthem before the games.

00:37:19.120 The Mavericks have not played the anthem before any of the team's 13 home games.

00:37:23.500 This is the first instance, I think, of any pro sports team in the U.S. taking the anthem out of a game.

00:37:31.640 Why is he doing that?

00:37:33.020 Because he doesn't like America very much, obviously.

00:37:36.200 And there's a business angle to it as well.

00:37:39.000 There's a report out now that sources close to Mark Cuban say that he chose not to play the anthem before the games anymore.

00:37:45.560 Or, not because he doesn't love the U.S., he totally loves the U.S., but because, quote,

00:37:50.960 many people feel that the anthem doesn't represent them.

00:37:55.320 And they want to continue discussion of how to represent people from all communities when honoring the U.S. at a game.

00:38:00.120 You've heard also in recent months the idea of a black national anthem.

00:38:04.860 In order for there to be a black national anthem, there has to be a black nation. 1.00

00:38:08.140 Black nationalism. 0.72

00:38:09.540 How much have we heard in the past years of the scourge of white nationalism rising?

00:38:14.540 Well, here we have the mainstreaming of other kinds of racial nationalism.

00:38:21.940 It's being encouraged for certain groups and obviously discouraged for other groups.

00:38:27.260 It's not that the left has a problem with racial identitarianism or nationalism, broadly speaking.

00:38:33.300 They just have a problem with it for certain people.

00:38:35.520 And they like it for other people.

00:38:39.060 Now, there's so much wrong with this.

00:38:42.280 I mean, obviously, the flag has to represent everybody.

00:38:46.820 The reason that some people feel it does not represent them is because the left has been attacking American national identity

00:38:53.660 and stoking other forms of identity in a very, very shallow and cynical way.

00:38:59.940 The NBA is coming out and saying, no, the Mavericks are not allowed to do this.

00:39:03.340 Sorry, you'll have to keep playing the national anthem.

00:39:06.060 Sorry, Mark Cuban.

00:39:07.620 Part of the reason Mark Cuban's doing this, obviously, is this identitarian woke politics.

00:39:13.020 There's an economic reason, though, too, which is that the dude is owned by China.

00:39:17.400 The NBA is owned by China.

00:39:19.620 So much of American media, to say nothing of manufacturing and other interests, is owned by China.

00:39:26.300 China's a really big market.

00:39:27.540 It pays these guys a lot of money, and they value the almighty dollar more than they value bonds of loyalty to their country.

00:39:35.700 To me, I hope conservatives are paying attention to this, because to me, this is maybe the clearest example of how the free market, quote unquote,

00:39:44.960 is not sufficient to craft a political vision.

00:39:49.580 That's the free market.

00:39:50.600 Mark Cuban hates his country, and he wants to sell out to China.

00:39:53.360 It's the free market.

00:39:54.600 It's his economic freedom, right?

00:39:56.020 He can do whatever he wants.

00:39:56.820 No, no.

00:39:58.140 Free markets are great.

00:39:59.020 They're a wonderful instrument to human and national flourishing.

00:40:02.580 But there has to be another end.

00:40:04.080 There has to be something deeper.

00:40:05.220 There has to be bonds of loyalty to your family, to your community, and to your nation that has given you so much.

00:40:12.180 Speaking of giving back to your nation, President Trump, or at least people around President Trump, have suggested that he might run again in 2024.

00:40:19.820 I guess Trump at the White House Christmas Party suggested this, too.

00:40:22.820 He was going on camera.

00:40:24.140 They might run for president.

00:40:26.620 But he's kicked off Twitter.

00:40:28.080 How's he going to run?

00:40:29.740 The CFO of Twitter was asked if Trump runs again.

00:40:34.200 If he wins again, will he be allowed back on Twitter?

00:40:38.060 Absolutely not.

00:40:39.580 Former President Trump was banned.

00:40:41.100 And if he came back, ran for office again, and was elected president, would you allow him back on the platform?

00:40:46.580 So the way our policies work, when you're removed from the platform, you're removed from the platform, whether you're a commentator, you're a CFO, or you are a former or current public official.

00:40:58.900 And so remember, our policies are designed to make sure that people are not inciting violence, and if anybody does that, we have to remove them from the service, and our policies don't allow people to come back.

00:41:10.340 President Trump could be good enough for the American people, good enough for the Electoral College, not good enough for Twitter.

00:41:16.200 We were talking about how if your entire political ideology is the free market, which, by the way, is not possible because the civil authority, people through politics, need to set what the free market is.

00:41:33.840 It's not totally open, this is a finite world, everything has limits on it, so it has a certain shape.

00:41:39.120 To make an idol out of the free market is sort of a nonsense in itself.

00:41:42.800 But if you do that, then there's nothing wrong with what Twitter's doing.

00:41:47.400 Yeah, you can kick off the duly elected president.

00:41:49.340 They already did.

00:41:50.640 They already kicked Trump off while he was the sitting duly elected president.

00:41:55.600 And it is astounding to me that there are not many, but there are still some conservatives, people who call themselves conservatives, who say, well, that's great.

00:42:04.740 It's build your own Twitter.

00:42:06.800 We won't let you, of course.

00:42:08.140 You can build your own Twitter, but we'll shut it down, kick it out of the App Store, kick it off of Amazon Web Services, kick you out of your banks, kick you out of society.

00:42:17.420 Yeah, build your own Internet.

00:42:18.760 Yeah, build your own economy.

00:42:21.040 Build your own government.

00:42:23.380 That's what we try to do in politics.

00:42:24.960 We try to go in, get political power, have the people give us political power at the ballot box, and then we have to wield that political power.

00:42:33.860 And there is no free marketeer, no libertarian economist who can convince me that it is at all acceptable for some big tech oligarch to censor the duly elected president of the United States, be it in 2020 or be it possibly in 2025 or 2026.

00:42:54.940 Very glib time when even conservatives would consider defending this sort of stuff in the name of some abstract free market that does not exist in reality.

00:43:07.620 But not all is bad.

00:43:09.800 I don't want to, you know, we're living in this glib time.

00:43:12.400 I'm in Washington right now, so it's kind of rubbing off on me.

00:43:14.820 I'm just very frustrated by this place.

00:43:17.080 It's kind of like Baghdad here right now.

00:43:20.020 There's just National Guard everywhere.

00:43:22.920 Streets are locked down.

00:43:25.500 It's not right.

00:43:27.940 It doesn't feel, you know, the Capitol, it's like Fort Knox right now.

00:43:31.820 White House, you can't get near.

00:43:33.840 So I don't like that.

00:43:34.340 But there are some glimmers of hope in the country.

00:43:39.240 One bit was actually during the Super Bowl.

00:43:41.560 There was an ad during the Super Bowl.

00:43:43.260 These are usually extremely woke.

00:43:45.460 That was maybe the most pro-life TV commercial I've ever seen.

00:43:52.380 You have this swimmer.

00:43:55.180 And she is missing part of her legs. 0.98

00:43:59.040 Very well shot.

00:44:00.280 Mrs. Long? 0.50

00:44:01.160 Yes?

00:44:02.160 We found a baby girl for your adoption.

00:44:04.340 But there are some things you need to know.

00:44:08.160 She's in Siberia, and she was born with a rare condition.

00:44:12.380 Her legs will need to be amputated. 0.98

00:44:16.340 I know this is difficult to hear.

00:44:19.440 Her life, it won't be easy.

00:44:21.600 Mrs. Long? 0.50

00:44:34.400 It might not be easy, but it'll be amazing.

00:44:39.600 I can't wait to meet her.

00:44:41.360 We believe there is hope and strength in all of us.

00:44:46.880 Toyota, proud partner of Team USA.

00:44:49.940 It's a beautiful advertisement.

00:44:51.720 It's really great.

00:44:52.460 This girl, you know, was going to be adopted, born in Siberia.

00:44:55.340 She's got this condition. 1.00

00:44:56.780 They say, well, yeah, we're still going to take her. 0.89

00:44:58.820 We don't care that she has a disability. 1.00

00:45:00.580 And she becomes this Paralympic athlete.

00:45:03.000 That's wonderful.

00:45:03.520 Now, they couldn't have made it about, you know, a woman who's contemplating abortion

00:45:09.420 and maybe, you know, the kid in utero is diagnosed with some condition.

00:45:15.440 Well, she's going to have a tough condition. 1.00

00:45:17.040 Oh, well, I'm going to have the baby anyway.

00:45:18.480 I'm not going to get...

00:45:19.000 They couldn't get away with that.

00:45:20.400 But it's exactly the same issue.

00:45:23.000 Am I going to keep the kid or am I going to give the kid away,

00:45:27.500 either to Siberia or to death?

00:45:29.260 And the ad was saying, no, choose life.

00:45:33.200 It's good.

00:45:33.760 Even though there is suffering in the world, it's okay.

00:45:38.420 It's better to live.

00:45:39.560 This world involves suffering.

00:45:42.520 I was reminded of this on my flight to D.C.

00:45:45.300 Because basically the only time that I ever wear the mask these days is when I'm on an airplane.

00:45:50.000 Because they won't let you on the airplane if you don't wear the mask.

00:45:53.280 If you refuse to wear the mask while you're on the airplane, they will arrest you.

00:45:55.920 I mean, it's not...

00:45:57.180 And then they'll put you on the no-fly list and you just can't travel anymore.

00:45:59.560 So it's the only time where I've made a prudential judgment. 0.99

00:46:01.760 I think it's better to put the mask on and go talk about how Fauci is a jerk and no one should listen to him. 0.99

00:46:07.100 You know, go talk about him on various shows and things like that. 0.99

00:46:09.560 Than to not travel at all.

00:46:12.160 I was very sort of crestfallen at this sad state of affairs for the country. 1.00

00:46:17.100 The way we're all locked down, like lemmings wearing these stupid muzzles on our faces. 1.00

00:46:23.040 These filthy pieces of cloth flying in to cover this fake impeachment trial, which is dominating the national attention. 1.00

00:46:30.060 All sorts of glib nonsense. 0.97

00:46:32.960 Vile racial politics creeping up all over the place. 0.99

00:46:36.840 Republicans without a spine.

00:46:38.300 And I was joking, though.

00:46:40.460 I had Boethius in my bag, this writer who wrote The Consolation of Philosophy.

00:46:45.620 He wrote it while he was in prison, about to be executed by the Gothic emperor Theodoric.

00:46:52.380 And he wrote The Consolation of Philosophy about how, you know, look, fortunes go up, fortunes fall, and there's a lot of suffering in this world.

00:46:59.720 And compared to what Boethius was facing, probably we've got it pretty good.

00:47:05.880 But by pursuing truth, you can rise above that.

00:47:11.220 You can realize, yeah, this is a broken, fallen world.

00:47:13.660 Boethius, a lot of people don't know, was a Christian.

00:47:15.460 He's actually venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

00:47:19.060 You can rise above that sort of thing.

00:47:21.000 And it just doesn't, you shouldn't let that get you down.

00:47:24.760 I think we're in that kind of place right now in our country.

00:47:27.500 Things just look terrible.

00:47:28.820 They just look really bleak, and there are very few glimmers of hope.

00:47:32.240 But hope springs eternal in the human breast.

00:47:34.860 And I'll probably be more hopeful when I get out of Washington, D.C.

00:47:37.360 See you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 11, 2021

Ep. 698 - Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud

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