The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 701 - Conservatives On Trial

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00:00:37.580 I mentioned yesterday on this show that the impeachment trial of Donald Trump,

00:00:42.120 I'm sorry, the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump,

00:00:44.720 was not going to be the end of this left-wing onslaught that we've seen in particular over the last four years.

00:00:50.840 That, in fact, this is the beginning of something because Trump is not their intended victim.

00:00:57.800 What the left is aiming at is all of us, anyone who would conserve anything about American history.

00:01:04.580 Well, this new trial is already beginning.

00:01:08.700 A lot of prominent people on the left are calling explicitly for a trial of sorts

00:01:13.920 to reframe our entire national self-understanding.

00:01:17.680 For instance, Representative Sarah Jacobs, who's calling for a truth commission to reframe American history.

00:01:26.040 So I think part of what we're seeing now is because we haven't really done the reckoning

00:01:30.860 with the racial injustice and white supremacy of our past that we need to do.

00:01:35.840 And so, you know, a truth commission, a lot of people will think of South Africa.

00:01:39.720 We've used them in countries around the world.

00:01:42.360 And basically what it is, is it's communities all the way up to the national level

00:01:46.800 having conversations about both the gory and the glory of our history and what happened,

00:01:52.320 both throughout the history of our country and leading up to and on January 6th,

00:01:57.160 so that we can come to a common narrative moving forward of what we want our country to be.

00:02:02.620 And so I think that there are a lot of us who know that this impeachment trial

00:02:06.280 was just the start of holding Donald Trump accountable,

00:02:09.460 but that we need to make sure that we're doing accountability of anyone who incited,

00:02:13.800 encouraged, or committed acts of violence.

00:02:15.460 And then really looking forward at kinds of things like truth commissions,

00:02:19.480 like democracy, like institution building,

00:02:22.140 that we know are going to be the real fixes to what we've seen in this country.

00:02:26.640 To what we've seen in this country.

00:02:28.740 Everything that we've seen in this country up till now,

00:02:30.960 which the left is absolutely rejecting.

00:02:33.120 They want a new sort of country, not just aimed at Trump,

00:02:36.680 but aimed at any of us who would conserve that sort of thing.

00:02:41.340 A reframing of the narrative.

00:02:42.900 And if you don't get on board with that reframing,

00:02:44.960 well, by golly, you're going to get blacklisted.

00:02:47.180 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:47.860 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:57.140 Welcome back to The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:58.800 My favorite comment yesterday is from Sadface, who says,

00:03:03.020 I hear after the third impeachment, you get one free.

00:03:05.480 I think that's true.

00:03:06.880 And by the way, you might be joking about that third impeachment.

00:03:10.460 But by the logic of this impeachment trial,

00:03:13.300 there's really no reason that they couldn't impeach Trump again.

00:03:16.960 Probably they'll impeach him again.

00:03:19.100 At a certain point, you know, Donald Trump will have lived his life.

00:03:21.920 He'll be gone.

00:03:22.660 They'll probably dig him up and put him on trial again.

00:03:25.440 Again, because they are litigating something that is not about the Trump administration.

00:03:29.940 It's about the American country.

00:03:32.620 It's about our nation.

00:03:33.840 And it's about anybody who would conserve anything about it.

00:03:38.220 They're saying this openly now.

00:03:39.940 People like this Democratic Congress lady and many others. 1.00

00:03:44.420 They're not just going after Trump.

00:03:45.980 It was probably the most insightful moment of Trump's 2020 campaign.

00:03:49.780 He posted that meme, which said, they're not coming after me.

00:03:53.220 They're coming after you.

00:03:54.100 And I happen to be in the way.

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00:05:19.040 Jonathan Chait, a very prominent liberal writer, not a writer that I particularly enjoy reading,

00:05:26.220 but every so often he'll make a comment that contradicts the broader left-wing narrative.

00:05:32.000 And he did this just over the past few days with regard to Gina Carano, who is my newest colleague at the Daily Wire.

00:05:39.920 Gina Carano is an actress. 0.99

00:05:41.520 She was in The Mandalorian show at Disney.

00:05:43.780 Disney fired her for simply being conservative. 0.79

00:05:47.300 That was it.

00:05:47.920 They barely even contrived an excuse.

00:05:50.400 They slandered her, said that she made anti-Semitic comments.

00:05:54.220 She never did any such thing.

00:05:56.300 And they canned her, so now she's going to be working with us.

00:05:59.740 That's great.

00:06:00.520 One way to push back against cancel culture and the new blacklist in Hollywood. 0.94

00:06:04.140 John Chait is admitting there is a blacklist in Hollywood against conservatives who contradict the liberal narrative.

00:06:13.780 Now, we've known this for a very long time.

00:06:15.540 Anyone who's spent any even fleeting time in Hollywood knows this is true.

00:06:19.400 In many ways, the Daily Wire was formed out of a super-duper secret conservative Hollywood group called Friends of Abe.

00:06:26.480 So secret it has a Wikipedia page.

00:06:28.580 Friends of Abe was a group that was really, you know, back when it was running, it's sort of defunct now,

00:06:33.080 but was a terrific organization where conservatives who were actors, directors, writers, producers, people behind the scenes, gaffers,

00:06:41.720 all sorts of people in Hollywood who were not liberals, met up to have some political fellowship.

00:06:47.020 And the name came from an allusion to being Friends of Abraham Lincoln.

00:06:51.580 Because back decades and decades ago, if you were a homosexual and you wanted to hang out with like-minded people,

00:06:59.000 you would use the euphemism Friend of Dorothy.

00:07:02.180 Instead of saying, I'm openly gay, you'd say, oh, he's a friend of Dorothy.

00:07:05.540 And so if you're a conservative in Hollywood, you'd say, now I'm a friend of Abe.

00:07:08.720 Because today in Hollywood, of course, you're far more likely to face professional repercussions for being a conservative than for being gay.

00:07:17.820 You'd be celebrated now if you can claim some kind of intersectional identity.

00:07:22.740 Because intersectionality has now taken over so much of our national conversation.

00:07:27.780 It's even affecting the U.S. military, which we'll get to a little bit later.

00:07:30.820 But if you're conservative, you will lose jobs.

00:07:35.300 There's no question about this.

00:07:36.680 And Jonathan Chait is saying there is a Hollywood blacklist.

00:07:39.700 This is the new McCarthyism. 0.67

00:07:40.860 This is very bad.

00:07:41.840 Now, I'm pleased that Jonathan Chait is acknowledging something that is really happening.

00:07:46.160 And as I've mentioned before with regard to terms like cancel culture, it's obviously true. 1.00

00:07:50.720 There is a phenomenon going on right now where you will get your reputation destroyed,

00:07:55.500 your livelihood destroyed, your career taken from you, if you contradict the politically correct left-wing narrative.

00:08:02.120 However, in another sense, this is false.

00:08:05.600 In another sense, this is not the new McCarthyism.

00:08:08.380 Because politics has form and substance.

00:08:13.960 What I mean by that is the new Hollywood blacklist, which absolutely exists against conservatives,

00:08:19.300 is like McCarthyism or the Red Scare, as people called it.

00:08:24.040 Which I think is the silliest term for it because, you know,

00:08:26.780 the Red Scare sort of implies that there weren't really communists running around in the country in high positions.

00:08:31.200 And actually there were, which gets to my further defense of, for instance,

00:08:35.360 the House Committee on Non-American Activities and some of what Senator McCarthy did.

00:08:39.740 But in form, they're similar, right?

00:08:41.900 You've got professional repercussions for people on the basis of their political activities.

00:08:48.460 So in that way, it's totally the same.

00:08:50.880 The secret communists of the 1940s and 50s were punished for their political activities.

00:08:57.700 And regular old American conservatives are punished for their political activities today.

00:09:02.680 In form, the same thing.

00:09:04.140 But in substance, they're completely different.

00:09:06.940 Because on the one hand, you had these communists often working directly for the Soviet Union,

00:09:12.160 or only slightly removed from the Soviet Union,

00:09:14.040 the nation with whom we were at war for the entire Cold War.

00:09:18.800 And in the modern sense in Hollywood, you've got people who like Donald Trump,

00:09:23.460 or you've got people who like the Constitution,

00:09:25.400 or you've got people who like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln.

00:09:29.800 Those are not the same things.

00:09:31.240 And to punish people for engaging in activities that would promote the Soviet Union and American communism

00:09:39.880 is not the same thing as promoting George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

00:09:45.040 And conservatives have fallen into this trap for so long, for decades now,

00:09:49.800 where we have only a formal politics.

00:09:52.120 We only talk about procedure.

00:09:53.440 We only talk about the shape of politics.

00:09:55.120 We don't talk about the substance.

00:09:56.360 I think, I'm going to go out on a limb,

00:09:59.960 but it's the same limb that Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr.

00:10:03.100 and basically every conservative until five minutes ago would have gone out on,

00:10:06.880 and said, it is good to cancel communists.

00:10:10.520 It is good that we destroyed the career of, for instance, Alger Hiss, 1.00

00:10:14.360 who was a Soviet spy working at very senior levels of the federal government,

00:10:19.080 helped to form the United Nations.

00:10:20.560 There were many other people like Alger Hiss.

00:10:22.420 If you want to read a good book on that, you can read Witness by Whitaker Chambers,

00:10:25.420 one of the books that turned Ronald Reagan from a liberal into a conservative.

00:10:28.900 I think that's good.

00:10:30.320 I think if you go out and you say, I hate America, I hate George Washington,

00:10:34.260 I hate everything our country stands for, and I want to overturn that system.

00:10:38.140 If you say that, you should be canceled.

00:10:40.420 That's a good thing.

00:10:41.520 I don't want people subverting our entire country in the American way of life, 0.93

00:10:46.280 be it in the universities, be it in Hollywood, or be it in our government.

00:10:51.080 It's so funny now, because the way this is taught in schools is just McCarthyism.

00:10:56.660 You know, it's a perfectly universally terrible thing, McCarthyism.

00:11:00.800 Or sometimes you'll hear HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee.

00:11:05.580 But you only really ever hear these terms from critics of those activities,

00:11:10.800 from people who are sympathetic to the communists of the 1940s and 50s,

00:11:14.800 and today, by the way.

00:11:17.140 What's interesting is if you go back at the time and read documents in support of these committees,

00:11:21.080 which, by the way, lasted a very long time.

00:11:23.200 I mean, similar committees existed well into the 1970s.

00:11:26.460 You don't hear HUAC.

00:11:27.420 You hear the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

00:11:30.840 But they flip it.

00:11:31.620 The critics of it flip it.

00:11:32.920 They conflate it with McCarthyism, which, of course, is very different, right?

00:11:35.340 McCarthy was a senator.

00:11:37.120 HUAC, or H-C-U-A, was part of the House.

00:11:39.480 But we've only got a history written from these critics.

00:11:44.520 I think we need to get much more serious about this and start talking about the particulars.

00:11:49.920 Not just is it good to ever have repercussions for things we say.

00:11:52.920 Of course.

00:11:53.940 Of course we live in a world where you have consequences for things you say.

00:11:57.280 Founding fathers knew that, and everyone else with two brain cells to rub together knows that too.

00:12:01.340 But what are we saying?

00:12:02.520 You know, if the House Committee on Un-American Activities were around today,

00:12:06.020 they would have to haul senior White House officials before that committee to ask them

00:12:12.040 why they're engaging in such Un-American Activities.

00:12:14.800 Take, for instance, Jen Psaki, the poor, beleaguered White House Press Secretary, 1.00

00:12:19.820 who was asked what the opinion of the White House was on Mark Cuban's decision

00:12:24.500 to ban the National Anthem from his basketball games.

00:12:28.740 This is a layup.

00:12:29.880 This should be a simple question.

00:12:30.900 If you ask a politician, hey, either party, at least until very recently,

00:12:35.020 hey, what do you think about these people disrespecting the American flag and the National Anthem?

00:12:39.720 This is an easy one.

00:12:40.760 They say, I'm against it.

00:12:42.300 I support the National Anthem.

00:12:44.500 I love the American flag and apple pie.

00:12:46.420 Simple, simple answer.

00:12:48.100 But now we live in a country that's been so eroded and corroded spiritually, politically,

00:12:55.220 that the White House is taking the side of people who would ban the American flag.

00:13:01.000 What does President Biden think about the Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban,

00:13:05.980 deciding to indefinitely stop playing the National Anthem before his National Basketball Association games?

00:13:13.220 Well, I haven't spoken with the president about the decision by Mark Cuban on the Dallas Mavericks,

00:13:18.660 or I should say the National Anthem.

00:13:20.540 But I know he's incredibly proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem

00:13:24.660 and all that it represents, especially for our men and women serving in uniform around the world.

00:13:29.960 He'd also say that, of course, that part of pride in our country means recognizing moments

00:13:36.040 where we as a country haven't lived up to our highest ideals,

00:13:38.940 which is often and at times what people are speaking to when they take action at sporting events.

00:13:46.120 And it means respecting the right of people granted to them in the Constitution to peacefully protest.

00:13:50.940 That's why he ran for president in the first place.

00:13:53.680 And that's what he's focused on doing every day.

00:13:56.940 So Joe Biden totally supports the flag and the National Anthem,

00:14:00.440 except when America doesn't live up to her ideals. 0.85

00:14:02.900 Well, no country ever lives up to her ideals because it's a fallen, finite, imperfect world.

00:14:08.160 So she's saying, oh, Joe Biden, he loves the National Anthem and he loves the flag,

00:14:12.320 except he hates the flag and he hates the National Anthem.

00:14:14.920 And it's great that our sports leagues would, and sports teams rather, would ban the American flag.

00:14:22.860 Joe Biden says this because he's an old school, old politician who remembers the old way of doing things,

00:14:28.380 but he's an empty suit who's beholden to the political wins of his party.

00:14:32.700 And the political wins are now no longer just against this candidate or against this policy.

00:14:37.080 They are fundamentally against the country.

00:14:39.780 They are trying to, in the words of the 1619 Project at the New York Times,

00:14:42.760 reframe American history in the words of this crazy Democrat congresswoman calling for a truth commission. 1.00

00:14:48.000 They're trying to reframe the narrative that the country is bad and we've got to do something different.

00:14:53.380 That radical point of view now has an audience and a supporter all the way up at the highest office in the land.

00:14:58.720 Very, very bad stuff.

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00:16:30.040 The left really doesn't like us.

00:16:33.680 Now, this doesn't seem like a groundbreaking insight here.

00:16:37.220 But it's actually something that conservatives, I think, still haven't made their peace with.

00:16:41.700 There are still many conservatives, like, for instance, those loser, squishy Republicans

00:16:46.400 who voted to convict at the farce impeachment trial.

00:16:49.600 But, and many other people who maybe aren't quite as bad as they are, but who believe that,

00:16:54.540 you know, ah, the left, they just hate Trump's tweets.

00:16:57.840 If he weren't so mean, they'd like us more.

00:17:00.540 If we just tone our rhetoric in a certain way, if we disavow certain Republicans,

00:17:05.520 then we can come together.

00:17:07.160 We'll meet in the middle.

00:17:08.040 There is no middle.

00:17:08.940 There is no middle right now.

00:17:12.640 You know, this, I think, is why Joe Biden is so confused, is Joe Biden was always a moderate

00:17:17.500 Democrat.

00:17:18.060 That's how he styled himself, because it was for his political interest to style himself

00:17:22.960 a moderate Democrat.

00:17:24.300 That no longer works.

00:17:26.220 So he's embracing the radical left of the Democratic Party.

00:17:30.760 When you've got, say, a moderate Democrat and Republicans, you can kind of meet in the

00:17:37.040 middle.

00:17:37.400 Why?

00:17:37.780 Well, you're going to disagree on abortion, right?

00:17:40.860 And that's, abortion's a kind of a binary issue, right?

00:17:43.120 Either you think we ought to kill babies in the womb or not kill babies in the womb. 0.93

00:17:47.140 But, you know, there's going to be some compromise where abortion, maybe it'll be legal until a 0.90

00:17:51.940 certain date or under certain circumstances.

00:17:54.680 I don't want there to be compromise.

00:17:55.860 But at least it is possible to compromise in that regard.

00:17:59.220 On immigration, well, you'll let this many people in, but not this many people in.

00:18:02.380 You can compromise.

00:18:03.640 Something like that.

00:18:04.200 Tax rates.

00:18:04.700 Well, it's not going to be quite as high as the Democrats want.

00:18:06.820 It's not going to be quite as low as the Republicans want.

00:18:08.380 They'll meet in the middle somewhere.

00:18:09.860 Foreign trade, right?

00:18:11.080 Whatever.

00:18:11.360 You go down all the list.

00:18:13.240 You can do that with moderate Democrats who agree, at the very least, this is a good country.

00:18:19.660 We support our country.

00:18:20.380 But you can't do that with radical Democrats who support political violence and embrace

00:18:27.760 it.

00:18:28.660 It's funny that the left accuses Trump of supporting political violence.

00:18:32.320 He doesn't do that, right?

00:18:33.460 He explicitly said, be peaceful, don't be violent, always be peaceful.

00:18:36.540 Whereas the left does explicitly endorse political violence, as I feel the Trump legal team showed

00:18:41.640 quite well during their video presentation at the impeachment trial.

00:18:45.500 Well, you can't compromise between one political party, the Republicans who support the country,

00:18:54.780 and one political party that doesn't support the country, that doesn't support the idea

00:18:59.400 of the country, that doesn't support the symbols of the country, like the American flag, that

00:19:03.960 doesn't support the national anthem that calls for half the country to be utterly excised

00:19:11.360 and ostracised.

00:19:12.400 Because what is the compromise between have a country, don't have a country?

00:19:16.640 How do you meet in the middle?

00:19:17.760 You have a city-state?

00:19:19.960 I don't know.

00:19:20.320 What do you have?

00:19:20.900 You meet in the middle and you have an NGO?

00:19:24.740 What do you, where, you can't, you can't compromise between those things.

00:19:27.980 One side is going to win.

00:19:28.860 Either we have a country with borders and loyalty to our fellow citizens and some shared sense

00:19:35.380 of purpose, or we don't.

00:19:37.440 We don't have borders.

00:19:38.540 We don't have a common language.

00:19:39.480 We don't have any shared sense of purpose.

00:19:41.440 We hate our history.

00:19:43.120 And if you hate your history, guess what?

00:19:44.540 You're going to hate your future too.

00:19:47.200 It's not just about Trump.

00:19:49.220 The left feels this way about all of us.

00:19:54.000 Cenk Uygur, who is a very prominent left-wing commentator.

00:19:57.040 He runs The Young Turks.

00:19:57.940 He just showed this today.

00:19:59.620 He tweeted out something that I thought was incredibly stupid and revealing.

00:20:03.460 True of much of Cenk's commentary.

00:20:05.120 He said, quote,

00:20:05.560 There are many things Trump got right about right-wing voters.

00:20:08.700 They don't care about policy.

00:20:10.980 They're driven mainly by fear and hatred of others.

00:20:13.280 They're greedy, incredibly selfish, and driven mad by envy.

00:20:16.300 And lastly, they prefer violence to democracy if democracy means equality.

00:20:22.840 Obviously, this is not true.

00:20:24.960 The charges are not true.

00:20:26.480 Republicans care about a lot of policies.

00:20:28.420 We want to make abortion illegal. 0.94

00:20:30.000 We want to have stable families.

00:20:31.460 We want to be able to keep more of our property.

00:20:33.120 We want to close up our borders and have a functioning nation. 0.63

00:20:36.840 We want to keep national sovereignty away from transnational institutions.

00:20:41.100 There are a lot of things.

00:20:42.080 I mean, we could go down the list, right?

00:20:43.420 So those are policies.

00:20:44.360 On that, he's just flat-out wrong there.

00:20:47.180 What's he say?

00:20:47.560 He says that we're selfish.

00:20:49.620 We're selfish in that we're human.

00:20:51.240 All humans are selfish to a degree.

00:20:52.680 But in fact, conservatives propose a politics ordered toward higher goods, right?

00:21:00.260 Generally speaking, maybe the libertarian's a little bit less so, but the conservatives

00:21:05.560 generally support a politics ordered toward a higher good, a transcendent moral order that

00:21:12.440 maybe limits some of my appetites and desires, but ultimately it's for a higher good.

00:21:18.820 Conservatives are not particularly envious, right?

00:21:21.440 On the contrary, what did Winston Churchill call socialism?

00:21:24.960 He said it was the gospel of envy.

00:21:27.280 Conservatives say we ought to be able to keep the things that are ours.

00:21:29.640 The left is saying we want what is yours.

00:21:32.580 Give me what is yours.

00:21:33.760 I deserve that which you already have.

00:21:36.760 Are conservatives violent?

00:21:37.940 Well, they can be violent, I suppose, but much less violent than the left.

00:21:42.600 Compare the three-hour madness of the Capitol riot compared to the six-month-long BLM and

00:21:48.780 Antifa riots, even longer than that.

00:21:52.200 And, moreover, on this equality question, conservatives embrace a far deeper and more

00:21:57.660 substantive vision of equality than liberals.

00:21:59.780 The left right now has created a new caste system whereby people have greater or lesser

00:22:05.680 value based on their race, based on their sex, based on their sexual desires, based on

00:22:11.640 various claims of grievance.

00:22:13.540 Conservatives don't say that.

00:22:14.720 We say, no, we have a sort of spiritual equality and a political equality as citizens, and that's

00:22:22.400 that.

00:22:22.900 We obviously are different physically.

00:22:24.600 We look different.

00:22:25.320 Some people are taller, shorter.

00:22:26.580 But we do have this kind of spiritual and political equality.

00:22:29.820 The left basically denies the spiritual equality through the various ideologies that they

00:22:35.600 entertain, which are overwhelmingly materialist or even worse.

00:22:40.880 But more than this tweet being wrong, it's extremely stupid.

00:22:44.260 Just imagine dedicating your career to political commentary, and this is the best you can muster.

00:22:49.580 The right wing is bad.

00:22:51.240 Trump got right.

00:22:51.760 They're bad.

00:22:52.340 They're evil.

00:22:52.860 They're terrible.

00:22:53.920 I really would hope for better from our left wing commentators.

00:22:57.040 It's why I began the show talking about Jonathan Chait, who I don't really like, but occasionally

00:23:00.880 says something that's at least interesting, at least unexpected.

00:23:05.000 I don't think that the left is uniformly driven by fear and hatred, and they don't care about

00:23:10.600 policy, and they're greedy and all this.

00:23:12.760 Sure, I mean, that stuff exists.

00:23:15.120 But I think that the left is motivated by ideas.

00:23:18.840 I think generally speaking, maybe not Cenk.

00:23:21.440 I don't know how, you know, he doesn't have too much going on in between the years, but

00:23:24.780 I think there are many leftist intellectuals who shape the ideas that drive the left, and

00:23:30.300 I think those ideas are bad, and I think their motivations are suspect, and I think their

00:23:36.680 moral vision is perverse.

00:23:39.480 But I do want to take those ideas seriously, try to work through them.

00:23:43.340 In fact, in many ways, my book that I just have coming out, Speechless, Controlling Words,

00:23:48.260 Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order.

00:23:49.840 However, the whole point of the book is to take the left's ideas seriously and say, this

00:23:53.580 is actually kind of interesting, and maybe we can learn from this, and this is completely

00:23:56.620 wrong, but here's what it led to, and, you know, take that seriously.

00:23:59.320 Cenk doesn't want to take any of this seriously.

00:24:02.040 The left, broadly right now, I think doesn't want to take any of us seriously.

00:24:06.100 They just want to write off half the country and re-educate us and have truth commissions 0.98

00:24:11.080 and bar us from running for office like they tried to do with the impeachment farce.

00:24:16.020 It's not just Cenk Uygur.

00:24:17.300 It's not just some dumb, you know, sort of shallow-thinking left-wing commentator who's

00:24:23.720 every other word is some sort of profanity because his vocabulary isn't particularly large.

00:24:30.680 It's also the elected Democrats, like, for instance, Ilhan Omar.

00:24:35.420 The decisions, sadly, that the Republican Party has made was a calculation based on power

00:24:45.100 and violence being more valuable to them than protecting this democracy.

00:24:51.040 What we saw in this week's impeachment trial where nearly every single Senate Republican

00:24:57.300 voted to block even the consideration of charges against Trump tells us everything that we need to know.

00:25:03.780 Tells us everything we need to know.

00:25:05.940 They prefer violence and power to democracy.

00:25:10.980 I won't rehash the obvious hypocrisy here, which is that the Democratic Party has openly,

00:25:17.620 explicitly embraced violence, right, in their rhetoric.

00:25:19.980 Kamala Harris bailed the violent rioters out of jail during the George Floyd riots.

00:25:25.500 They went back onto the streets.

00:25:26.980 So, obviously, you know, they're accusing us of things that they do.

00:25:30.320 But, moreover, forget the violence thing for a second.

00:25:34.280 Forget even the power thing.

00:25:35.440 Frankly, I think Republicans are not that interested in power.

00:25:38.220 We don't know how to use political power when it's given to us.

00:25:40.980 We squander our political power because we're too cowardly to offer a substantive vision of politics.

00:25:46.320 Say what you will about the left.

00:25:47.880 They're offering some substance, right?

00:25:49.600 They know what they want, at least, on the left.

00:25:53.100 Conservatives can't really muster much of a vision at all.

00:25:56.840 So, I think the left's certainly better at power.

00:25:59.140 But I want to focus in on democracy.

00:26:01.000 Because you'll notice when it comes to the left, it's only democracy when the people support the left.

00:26:06.660 When the people do not support the left, when, say, they vote for Trump by accident, you know, in 2016, somehow he gets through.

00:26:14.720 Well, that's, by definition, illegitimate.

00:26:17.940 That somehow was a perversion, a distortion of democracy.

00:26:22.140 The left constantly outsourcing so many of our political rights to these technocrats, these unaccountable bureaucrats who run our lives for us.

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00:28:50.640 Ilhan Omar claims that the Republicans and conservatives are trying to subvert democracy.

00:28:57.680 I don't think that's true.

00:28:59.540 These terms, things like democracy are very broad terms, so I want to bring it down to

00:29:04.020 earth for a second, but I will make the broad claim.

00:29:06.480 I think conservatives are much more interested in defending democracy than liberals and leftists

00:29:13.440 and progressives and whatever term you want to use.

00:29:16.020 And I'll give you an example of this that I think throws it into stark relief down in Tennessee.

00:29:21.680 There's a new bill in the Tennessee General Assembly that is trying to create a legal procedure

00:29:28.160 by which a man can prohibit a woman from aborting his child. 0.61

00:29:37.080 I love this bill.

00:29:38.340 I think this is a great bill.

00:29:39.880 It's SB 0494 in Tennessee Senate and HB 1079 in the Tennessee House, sponsored by State

00:29:47.800 Senator Mark Pote and State Rep. Jerry Sexton.

00:29:50.680 It, quote, permits a person to petition a court for an injunction to prohibit a woman who is

00:29:55.560 pregnant with the person's unborn child from obtaining an abortion. 0.78

00:30:00.320 We've been told by the left, men cannot have an opinion about abortion.

00:30:05.240 Squishy Republicans say this, too.

00:30:06.900 Men should not have an opinion. 0.99

00:30:08.220 This is a woman's issue. 1.00

00:30:09.440 It only involves a woman's body. 1.00

00:30:10.720 Of course, that's not true.

00:30:11.640 It involves a baby.

00:30:13.780 And that baby, by the way, is not just the product of a woman.

00:30:16.680 It's a product of the love between a man and a woman.

00:30:18.780 It's not just the woman's child that she would be killing, but the man's child, too. 0.90

00:30:25.060 So I sort of would offer the exact opposite advice that we hear from the left, which is

00:30:30.920 a man should have no opinion about abortion. 0.96

00:30:32.900 I think a man should absolutely be able to prohibit an abortion. 0.74

00:30:38.060 If we still have legal abortion, which is unfortunate, at the very least, the father should 1.00

00:30:42.820 be able to stop a woman from killing his child.

00:30:46.200 This is very democratic.

00:30:48.780 How is this democratic?

00:30:51.180 There's no, one, there's no constitutional right to an abortion. 1.00

00:30:55.200 There was an invented fictitious constitutional right from Roe versus Wade that even honest

00:31:03.580 liberal jurists will admit is nowhere in the Constitution.

00:31:07.420 When you ask the constitutional scholars, you say, where is it in the Constitution you find

00:31:11.560 that right?

00:31:11.940 They'll say, well, it's in the emanations, in the penumbras, in between an invisible ink

00:31:17.920 between lines 35 and 36.

00:31:20.200 Okay, I don't really, I don't see that in there.

00:31:22.580 Of course, the Constitution doesn't say anything about abortion.

00:31:25.600 The only thing it maybe could say about abortion actually is the 14th Amendment, which would 0.98

00:31:30.840 prohibit abortion, right?

00:31:32.120 By protecting people equal protection.

00:31:35.800 But the question broadly has been left up to democratic processes.

00:31:40.940 You persuade your fellow citizens, okay, we should have abortion, legal abortion, or we

00:31:45.020 should not have legal abortion, or we should permit this kind of abortion. 1.00

00:31:47.760 Okay, well, that's what's going on in the Tennessee legislature right now.

00:31:51.520 Certainly, it's democratic to allow a man to have a say over the future of his child in

00:31:59.160 addition to the woman. 0.99

00:32:00.580 Adding that say would be an increase in democracy, would it not?

00:32:06.200 Or you have the alternative, which is some robed lawyer on a court invents a right and takes

00:32:10.880 away your political freedom to make a law.

00:32:13.860 Now, I hope conservatives get behind this bill.

00:32:18.980 One, because it's pro-democracy or whatever.

00:32:20.860 I just want to show that Ilhan Omar is a hypocrite.

00:32:23.020 But also because this is offering some real substance here.

00:32:26.960 Oh, you're pro-life?

00:32:29.180 Okay, good.

00:32:30.920 Then prove it.

00:32:33.140 Put up or shut up.

00:32:35.400 I think most of the pro-life activists, probably all pro-life activists, would support it.

00:32:40.840 But I want Republicans, even who are moderate on this issue,

00:32:43.860 I want them to get behind this.

00:32:45.040 There is no reason whatsoever that this bill should not pass in Tennessee.

00:32:50.060 And as the states are laboratories of democracy,

00:32:52.880 no reason why this shouldn't be tried out elsewhere in the country.

00:32:57.000 We need to stop playing on the terms of the left.

00:32:59.500 We need to stop allowing them to say, well, it's a woman's issue. 1.00

00:33:01.980 Well, it's kind of touchy.

00:33:02.980 Well, I don't know.

00:33:03.780 It's a third rail.

00:33:04.620 I don't want to touch it.

00:33:05.700 No, touch it head on.

00:33:06.800 If we're not willing to say that you shouldn't kill children,

00:33:10.120 and if we do have a system where you can kill children,

00:33:12.260 at least the dad should be able to stop it.

00:33:14.120 If we're not willing to say that, we're not willing to say anything.

00:33:17.180 And the left, they've already won.

00:33:19.440 Then we should just roll over.

00:33:20.780 You know, they're promising to persecute conservatives right now.

00:33:24.260 Not just Trump, but all of us.

00:33:25.880 They're promising.

00:33:26.300 I mean, the congressmen are saying this out loud.

00:33:28.860 Media figures are saying this out loud.

00:33:30.660 If we're not willing to stand up for ourselves,

00:33:32.420 then let's get it, let's have it be done with.

00:33:34.020 You know, a lot of people consider this a religious issue.

00:33:38.080 And, you know, it doesn't necessarily need to be argued in religious terms.

00:33:43.060 You can just say like, hey, look, there's a baby in there.

00:33:46.340 The baby's obviously alive.

00:33:47.700 The baby's obviously human.

00:33:49.400 And therefore, this raises bioethical questions.

00:33:52.100 And you should support keeping that baby alive.

00:33:55.200 And you should oppose plans to murder it.

00:33:58.220 But all of these things were argued in religious terms.

00:34:01.580 As Cardinal Manning famously said,

00:34:04.420 all human conflict ultimately is theological.

00:34:07.740 When we're arguing about, I don't know, taxes even.

00:34:12.120 We're arguing about immigration.

00:34:13.520 We're arguing about any political issue.

00:34:16.720 We are proposing ethical and moral considerations.

00:34:22.820 If we're talking about parking ticket regimes,

00:34:25.600 we're discussing ethics and morality,

00:34:28.120 which has a cultural basis and ultimately a religious basis.

00:34:33.520 That's where it comes from.

00:34:35.020 So, thankfully, some of our religious leaders are starting to take this seriously.

00:34:39.340 You know that Joe Biden, he's a devout Catholic.

00:34:42.180 I'm sure you've heard this.

00:34:44.020 The White House can't say it enough.

00:34:45.820 He's a devout Catholic.

00:34:47.040 He's the most radically pro-abortion president in American history.

00:34:50.600 He was actually denied the Eucharist at a church in North Carolina,

00:34:53.860 rightly so, because he's so opposed to the church's teaching on this fundamental issue.

00:34:59.540 But he's a devout Catholic.

00:35:00.660 And some liberal clerics let him get away with this.

00:35:04.160 And it's a great scandal.

00:35:05.300 Well, there's a bishop, the Archbishop of Kansas City,

00:35:08.740 who's coming out and saying,

00:35:10.240 nah, no more.

00:35:10.840 We're not going to do that.

00:35:12.200 Archbishop Joseph Nauman of Kansas City says,

00:35:14.380 Mr. Biden professes to be a devout Catholic,

00:35:16.240 yet is 100% pro-choice on abortion.

00:35:18.660 Or, I'm sorry, he was answering this question.

00:35:20.440 How do you think the bishop should respond?

00:35:22.020 He says, quote, I can tell you this bishop is going to respond this way.

00:35:26.260 The president should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic 0.92

00:35:29.040 and acknowledge that his view on abortion is contrary to Catholic moral teaching.

00:35:33.000 It would be a more honest approach for him to say he disagreed with his church

00:35:37.020 on this important issue and that he was acting contrary to church teaching.

00:35:41.000 When he says he's a devout Catholic,

00:35:42.720 we bishops have a responsibility to correct him.

00:35:45.420 Although people have given this president power and authority,

00:35:47.500 he cannot define what it is to be a Catholic and what Catholic moral teaching is.

00:35:52.800 What he is now doing is usurping the role of the bishops and confusing people.

00:35:56.920 Absolutely right.

00:35:59.180 More bishops should speak out in this way.

00:36:02.840 It would be an act of mercy to Biden,

00:36:04.520 who is imperiling his soul by carrying on the way that he has.

00:36:07.680 That's some clear moral teaching.

00:36:10.120 And politics has a fundamentally moral aspect to it.

00:36:14.960 The left does not have this clarity.

00:36:17.440 I thought the Cenk Uygur tweet was going to be the dumbest thing I saw on the internet

00:36:20.640 for the past several days.

00:36:21.700 No.

00:36:22.800 Sean Penn.

00:36:24.080 You know that brilliant actor, Sean Penn.

00:36:26.980 He actually is an excellent actor, but he's not a brilliant person.

00:36:31.520 He had the dumbest thing I've seen on the internet in a long time.

00:36:34.940 I've read the New York Times recently.

00:36:36.320 I've read the Washington Post recently.

00:36:37.760 Sean Penn takes the cake.

00:36:38.740 He said, quote,

00:36:39.280 There are many things wrong with this tweet.

00:37:03.080 First of all, evangelical leaders probably will not be impeached by the Vatican.

00:37:09.940 Because they are not Catholic.

00:37:12.400 They don't recognize the authority of the Pope, the Vatican.

00:37:16.560 Sean Penn doesn't understand that there is something called Protestantism.

00:37:19.880 And Catholicism, they're different. 0.80

00:37:22.800 He then talks about how great Nicky Kelly is.

00:37:24.640 He then misspells Satan's name.

00:37:27.380 The satin, which makes...

00:37:29.120 You know, I suppose Satan is this slippery sort of figure.

00:37:31.380 So the images are similar.

00:37:33.100 But satin, much comfier than the father of lies.

00:37:36.620 And then he gets in this jive at sex parties.

00:37:39.220 The reason I mention it is not really to probe Sean Penn's deep religious and political thoughts or the lack thereof.

00:37:47.140 But to show, as Ronald Reagan once said,

00:37:50.860 it's not what people don't know that gets them into trouble.

00:37:54.320 It's what they know for certain that just ain't so.

00:37:57.980 Sean Penn doesn't know anything.

00:37:59.260 People, especially during the Bush administration,

00:38:01.140 they tried to make Sean Penn out to be this intellectual leader of the left.

00:38:04.860 Because he's a good actor, so he kind of looks really intelligent.

00:38:08.380 He's got this kind of squishy, smoldering face.

00:38:11.140 You know, it's really...

00:38:11.840 It seems like he's deep in thought.

00:38:13.260 I think all that is going on in his head is the whistling.

00:38:17.020 Going from ear to ear.

00:38:18.460 I don't think there's a whole lot going on in there.

00:38:20.960 But he looks that way.

00:38:22.420 And I think this is true of the left.

00:38:23.420 When the left is talking about any topic,

00:38:27.060 American history, the nature of the regime,

00:38:30.640 American government and civics,

00:38:32.680 the cultural and moral considerations,

00:38:34.740 they just not only don't know what they're talking about,

00:38:37.860 but they know so many things that aren't so.

00:38:41.180 And they're offering this kind of narrative.

00:38:44.260 You know, you'll notice they always use this term narrative.

00:38:47.000 That crazy Congress lady that we discussed at the beginning of the show 1.00

00:38:49.740 who's calling for a truth commission does this.

00:38:51.720 The 1619 Project does this.

00:38:54.540 They say we need to reframe the narrative.

00:38:56.580 And in part, the reason that they do this

00:38:59.520 is because the way we tell stories affects how politics will play out.

00:39:05.040 But also because the left seems to have embraced

00:39:09.060 a radical skepticism about objective truth.

00:39:12.660 You know, when they talk about intersectionality or, you know,

00:39:16.780 lived experiences, that's another term they use.

00:39:20.080 What they're suggesting is,

00:39:23.060 or my truth, or your truth, or, you know,

00:39:26.520 this is how I feel.

00:39:28.060 What they're saying is that we can't rely on objective reality.

00:39:32.080 There may be, there isn't any such thing as objective reality

00:39:34.460 or objective truth.

00:39:35.820 It's all just a social construct.

00:39:37.920 You know, there's no men or women.

00:39:39.540 It's all socially constructed.

00:39:41.440 And so the narrative is everything.

00:39:44.020 A lot of this comes from what some kind of radical academics

00:39:48.440 during the mid to late 20th century, Derrida in particular.

00:39:53.080 And some of Derrida's followers will claim that this is not really what he meant.

00:39:57.620 But he said,

00:39:58.220 there's nothing outside the text.

00:40:00.680 It's a very famous line in this kind of radical academic movement.

00:40:03.960 There's nothing outside of the text.

00:40:06.740 And what this has been at least interpreted to mean for many years is,

00:40:10.500 it's just, it's all words, words, words.

00:40:14.760 To use Hamlet's line when he was feigning madness.

00:40:18.120 It's all just kind of stories.

00:40:20.180 And there's no fundamental reality that it's connected to.

00:40:23.360 So if we change the words, we can change the culture.

00:40:26.920 This is the fundamental premise of political correctness.

00:40:29.700 If we just redefine reality, then reality actually will change.

00:40:36.540 That is what we're up against here.

00:40:39.260 And it's why we kind of argue things a little bit differently.

00:40:42.020 So what conservatives do is they say,

00:40:43.480 no, these American figures did this.

00:40:46.400 They said this.

00:40:47.100 They meant this.

00:40:48.320 It's not just all being made up in our minds every day.

00:40:50.920 We can't just redefine history however we want.

00:40:53.820 We're referring to some reality.

00:40:55.280 The left, broadly speaking, isn't really playing that game.

00:40:58.820 They're playing a different game, a game of narrative construction.

00:41:02.060 Which is why they try to blot out history, tear down statutes,

00:41:05.860 rewrite historical and literary documents

00:41:09.220 that have been so influential to our tradition.

00:41:12.040 And the result is pretty unpleasant, unfortunate for a lot of people.

00:41:17.260 You know, there's one very tangible, practical way

00:41:21.900 that left-wing policies are disrupting people right now,

00:41:25.900 that left-wing fantasies are hurting people's real lives.

00:41:30.880 It's going on in Texas.

00:41:33.300 If you're watching this show on video,

00:41:36.020 you'll see that I'm not in my usual studio.

00:41:38.000 I'm actually at home.

00:41:38.960 We've had snow days at the Daily Wire

00:41:41.140 because there's a big storm in Tennessee

00:41:42.420 and the roads are icy and they don't want people to come in.

00:41:44.820 Okay, that's fine.

00:41:45.480 This is really affecting Texas, all this crazy weather.

00:41:51.080 Texas is getting hit with a horrible winter storm

00:41:55.080 and compounding that problem.

00:41:58.980 There are rolling blackouts all throughout the state.

00:42:01.980 But the cause of the blackouts is not just the weather.

00:42:05.500 It's also bad left-wing policies.

00:42:09.000 The overall power input of Texas has declined pretty significantly

00:42:14.320 after half of the state's wind turbines were frozen in a winter storm over the weekend.

00:42:21.960 Parts of Texas are now down to zero degrees Fahrenheit.

00:42:26.920 Texans are freezing right now.

00:42:28.740 More than two million homes and businesses have experienced power outages

00:42:32.100 because the wind turbines froze.

00:42:34.500 Why is Texas, which is, you know, basically just a state made of oil, made of fossil fuels,

00:42:43.800 why are they relying on wind turbines?

00:42:47.120 Because radical environmentalists are so afraid of the sun monster

00:42:52.440 that they say is going to destroy the world through global warming

00:42:56.260 within, what do they say, 12 years, AOC says.

00:42:59.620 And Prince Charles said 18 months, but he said it like two years ago,

00:43:02.580 so I guess the world is over already.

00:43:04.640 They're so afraid that global warming is going to destroy the world

00:43:07.300 that they reordered Texas's energy policies, and now Texans are freezing.

00:43:14.220 We all, it's become sort of cliché to even say this,

00:43:16.800 we could all use a little global warming right now.

00:43:18.740 It's pretty chilly.

00:43:20.120 Well, Michael, weather isn't climate.

00:43:23.640 Except when it's convenient for us to say that weather is climate.

00:43:26.440 Well, the weather conditions have nothing to do with climate.

00:43:28.480 Okay, I don't want to relitigate the climate issue.

00:43:30.680 We'll talk about that some other time.

00:43:32.320 I'm just pointing to the political issue here.

00:43:34.200 The fantasy of imminent Armageddon because of the sun monster

00:43:38.600 is leading to insane policies that are now, by the way,

00:43:43.060 the way to rectify these wind turbine issues is to pour chemicals made with fossil fuels,

00:43:48.100 from aircraft made from fossil fuels,

00:43:50.220 on wind turbines also made from fossil fuels.

00:43:52.440 You know, probably not really great for the environment,

00:43:54.700 to make up for these policies that were put forward

00:43:58.140 because the left is living in a fantasy

00:44:01.200 that is having very unpleasant effects in reality.

00:44:08.040 Even the United States military is not immune from the crazy fantasies of the left.

00:44:13.480 I could not believe this.

00:44:14.540 I thought this was like a Babylon Bee or an Onion article this week.

00:44:20.420 But it's not.

00:44:21.040 This is real.

00:44:22.720 A new report from the U.S. Navy on inclusion and diversity

00:44:29.040 will force these members to pledge to, quote,

00:44:36.120 advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences

00:44:39.500 and intersectional identities of every sailor in the U.S. Navy.

00:44:47.000 U.S. Navy exists to kill our enemies. 0.88

00:44:50.460 He's now talking like some woke blue-haired chick 0.97

00:44:54.140 on a college campus freshman year.

00:44:56.860 The task force is called Task Force One Navy.

00:44:59.460 It was announced in June of 2020.

00:45:01.780 And their role is, quote,

00:45:05.280 to analyze and evaluate issues in our society and military

00:45:08.420 that detract from Navy readiness.

00:45:11.220 Oh, okay.

00:45:11.700 So what?

00:45:12.040 Like you don't have enough ammo?

00:45:13.320 You don't have enough jet fuel for the planes

00:45:15.060 that are going to fly off of the aircraft carriers

00:45:16.900 and bomb our enemies?

00:45:18.300 No.

00:45:19.480 No, no.

00:45:20.060 What the task force believes stops Navy readiness

00:45:22.140 is, quote,

00:45:23.860 racism, sexism, and other structural and interpersonal biases

00:45:29.240 and to attain significant, sustainable, inclusion,

00:45:32.660 and diversity-related reform.

00:45:35.140 That's what's keeping our military

00:45:36.660 from being prepared to take on violent jihadis

00:45:42.740 and China, the growing superpower.

00:45:45.800 Here are just some of the pledges

00:45:47.440 that the committee will have you take.

00:45:49.200 Quote,

00:45:49.340 As a key member of Task Force One Navy,

00:45:51.460 I will invest the time, attention, and empathy

00:45:53.100 required to analyze and evaluate Navy-wide issues

00:45:56.160 related to racism, sexism, ableism,

00:45:59.600 interesting consideration for the military,

00:46:02.940 and other structural and interpersonal biases.

00:46:05.240 I pledge to be actively inclusive

00:46:06.960 in the public and private spheres

00:46:08.660 where I live and work

00:46:09.660 and proactively encourage others to do the same.

00:46:12.600 I pledge to engage in ongoing self-reflection

00:46:15.380 and knowledge.

00:46:17.140 I pledge to be an example

00:46:19.200 in establishing healthy, inclusive,

00:46:20.960 and team-oriented environments.

00:46:24.020 I pledge to constructively share

00:46:25.740 all experiences and information

00:46:27.500 gained from activities above

00:46:28.640 to inform the development of Navy-wide reforms.

00:46:31.820 Xi Jinping must be grinning

00:46:34.720 from ear to ear,

00:46:37.800 reading that this is the kind of nonsense

00:46:40.540 that the United States military

00:46:42.520 is spending its time on.

00:46:43.600 Can you imagine the mullahs right now in Iran? 1.00

00:46:47.800 Can you imagine the belly laughs they're having

00:46:50.040 reading about how the Navy

00:46:51.180 is spending resources

00:46:53.220 trying to develop the intersectional

00:46:58.540 lived experiences

00:47:00.420 of all the inclusive members of the

00:47:03.060 blah, I can't even get through it

00:47:04.860 without getting sick to my stomach.

00:47:06.580 How insane that is.

00:47:12.360 The purpose of the military

00:47:14.440 is to be really, really strong

00:47:18.340 and really, really focused

00:47:20.300 and kill our enemies.

00:47:22.500 That's the job of the military.

00:47:25.400 But now I guess the purpose

00:47:26.600 is to have

00:47:27.620 like slam poetry sessions or something.

00:47:31.340 To have drum circles

00:47:32.520 and talk about our feel-feels.

00:47:34.060 Are you kidding me?

00:47:34.900 Can you imagine Putin?

00:47:37.540 What Putin is thinking right now?

00:47:39.020 Oh my gosh.

00:47:41.000 Let's, you know,

00:47:41.840 obviously the Democrats

00:47:43.120 don't want us to have a national border.

00:47:44.780 Who cares?

00:47:45.520 If this is the sort of thing

00:47:47.260 that is being implemented

00:47:49.400 from our political class,

00:47:50.780 now even to affect our military,

00:47:52.760 what's the point of having a border?

00:47:53.920 It's not going to do us very much good.

00:47:56.440 What is the point?

00:47:58.440 What is the country?

00:48:00.200 You know, one of the things

00:48:01.300 that we were promised by Democrats,

00:48:03.760 if they got unified government,

00:48:06.220 was that they would push

00:48:08.940 for Puerto Rican statehood.

00:48:10.100 They also want to push

00:48:10.760 for D.C. statehood.

00:48:11.720 Why?

00:48:12.020 Is it because they particularly

00:48:12.800 like Puerto Ricans? 0.91

00:48:14.280 Is it because they really

00:48:15.200 don't even understand

00:48:15.920 the purpose of Washington, D.C.?

00:48:17.200 Maybe that's true.

00:48:18.160 But really what it's for

00:48:19.180 is because those two places,

00:48:20.860 if they became states,

00:48:21.660 would give Democrats

00:48:22.340 much more power.

00:48:23.360 The people there

00:48:24.020 would support Democrats.

00:48:25.720 We just know this

00:48:26.800 given the political affinities

00:48:27.900 in the areas.

00:48:28.420 it would give Democrats

00:48:29.480 four new senators,

00:48:31.100 new members of Congress,

00:48:32.840 new advantages

00:48:33.620 in presidential elections.

00:48:35.740 Now that push

00:48:37.220 for Puerto Rican statehood

00:48:38.280 is really beginning in earnest.

00:48:39.600 Here's the governor of Puerto Rico

00:48:40.860 explaining his reasoning for it.

00:48:43.500 What I anticipate

00:48:45.340 is that there'll be

00:48:46.400 considerable support

00:48:48.040 for a statehood bill

00:48:51.080 in this Congress.

00:48:53.140 Diversity is happening

00:48:55.660 all over.

00:48:58.580 Puerto Ricans will always 1.00

00:49:00.660 be Puerto Ricans,

00:49:02.940 will be Puerto Rican Americans.

00:49:04.980 Bilingual is beautiful.

00:49:07.320 Speaking more than one language

00:49:09.760 is an asset for anybody.

00:49:11.700 So if anything,

00:49:12.400 the challenge in Puerto Rico

00:49:13.800 is to make sure

00:49:15.700 that our population

00:49:16.920 ends up being fluent

00:49:17.960 in both Spanish and English

00:49:21.500 for their, you know,

00:49:23.200 for their well-being.

00:49:25.180 These are very interesting

00:49:26.700 comments, actually,

00:49:27.800 because it shows to me

00:49:28.920 this governor of Puerto Rico,

00:49:30.960 Pedro Pierluisi,

00:49:33.340 actually does understand

00:49:35.020 some of the questions

00:49:36.260 that are at play here

00:49:37.100 with Puerto Rican statehood.

00:49:38.060 Because beyond the raw

00:49:39.020 political calculation

00:49:40.020 of Democrats only want it

00:49:41.700 because it's going to get

00:49:42.220 the more power.

00:49:43.400 There is this question.

00:49:44.680 Puerto Rico has a distinct culture.

00:49:47.080 If Puerto Rico becomes a state,

00:49:48.640 can that culture become part

00:49:50.100 of the American national culture?

00:49:52.500 And what Pierluisi says here is

00:49:54.900 the U.S. could be expanded

00:49:57.580 by admitting Puerto Rico

00:49:59.300 into the Union.

00:50:00.420 It would be telling the world

00:50:01.660 that it is embracing diversity

00:50:03.620 because this would be

00:50:04.900 a truly, completely Hispanic state. 0.82

00:50:07.080 Now, in a sense,

00:50:10.260 that would add to the diversity

00:50:12.120 of the United States.

00:50:13.100 But in another sense,

00:50:15.060 Puerto Rico would be 0.95

00:50:15.860 the least diverse state

00:50:17.100 in America.

00:50:18.000 As he says,

00:50:18.660 it's a truly,

00:50:19.300 completely Hispanic state. 0.59

00:50:21.100 We don't have any

00:50:22.020 completely white state,

00:50:23.560 any completely black state,

00:50:24.880 any completely Asian

00:50:25.760 or Hispanic state.

00:50:27.200 So Puerto Rico would be 0.94

00:50:28.280 the least diverse state

00:50:29.340 in America.

00:50:31.360 But it would add

00:50:32.280 to the diversity

00:50:33.260 of the country.

00:50:33.980 Well, could it?

00:50:35.000 We don't really even

00:50:35.960 have a common language.

00:50:36.720 I mean, obviously,

00:50:37.280 many people in Puerto Rico

00:50:38.020 speak English,

00:50:38.780 but the predominant language

00:50:39.740 there is Spanish.

00:50:40.980 And what he says is,

00:50:41.960 well, people should speak both.

00:50:43.060 I agree.

00:50:43.440 I think it's great

00:50:43.820 to study languages.

00:50:44.660 I love studying languages.

00:50:46.740 But that cannot be the case.

00:50:48.580 If Puerto Rico were to be admitted,

00:50:49.840 even if I were to somehow

00:50:50.620 support this,

00:50:51.420 they would have to speak English.

00:50:52.980 They would have to

00:50:53.440 predominantly speak English.

00:50:54.600 They should stop encouraging

00:50:56.080 Puerto Ricans to speak Spanish

00:50:57.440 if they want to be part of America.

00:50:59.260 Because in America,

00:51:00.220 we speak English.

00:51:00.860 We have very little

00:51:01.500 that unites us.

00:51:03.340 One, at the very least,

00:51:04.480 we need to speak

00:51:05.020 the same language.

00:51:05.980 But the left doesn't want us

00:51:07.280 to speak the same language.

00:51:08.720 The left wants us to speak

00:51:09.740 very, very different languages.

00:51:12.500 Because the left wants

00:51:13.420 to reframe the country.

00:51:15.380 All that was old,

00:51:16.320 all that makes up the country

00:51:17.380 right now,

00:51:17.840 the real stuff of the country,

00:51:19.440 the language,

00:51:20.060 the customs,

00:51:20.640 the beliefs,

00:51:21.180 the principles,

00:51:21.900 the legal system,

00:51:22.920 the people,

00:51:23.380 all that,

00:51:23.800 they don't like that.

00:51:25.420 They want to change that.

00:51:28.000 And so now,

00:51:28.800 we're in a political battle,

00:51:30.060 not just even for the direction

00:51:31.420 of the country

00:51:32.020 or a little change here

00:51:33.000 or there,

00:51:33.520 a little evolution,

00:51:34.400 not revolution.

00:51:35.440 We're in a battle

00:51:36.800 for the very character,

00:51:39.140 the very fundamental character

00:51:40.580 of the country.

00:51:42.120 That's the real trial

00:51:43.400 and conservatives

00:51:44.520 are the ones

00:51:45.360 that are going to be

00:51:47.040 facing that trial.

00:51:48.140 And we'll just have to see

00:51:49.680 if conservatives

00:51:50.260 can stand up to it.

00:51:51.280 I hope they at least

00:51:52.180 understand the game

00:51:53.000 that we're in.

00:51:54.280 I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 16, 2021

Ep. 701 - Conservatives On Trial

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