The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 704 - Two Different Countries

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00:00:37.660 Democrats understand coronavirus.

00:00:40.820 Republicans do not understand coronavirus.

00:00:43.400 Democrats, whether at the state level, the local level, now I guess at the national level, have handled the epidemic well.

00:00:51.040 Republicans are responsible for every single death.

00:00:54.820 That's what we've been told.

00:00:55.920 We were told this by Joe Biden even when he was on the campaign trail.

00:01:00.260 He told us that Donald Trump is responsible for every single COVID death.

00:01:04.640 So presumably, if a Democrat had been in charge from the beginning of the epidemic, nobody would have died, right?

00:01:12.180 Well, there's just one problem with that, which is if you look at a Republican state like Florida,

00:01:17.360 did not really shut down ever.

00:01:19.780 It's basically wide open right now.

00:01:21.640 And you look at a Democrat state like California, completely shut down some of the most onerous restrictions in the whole country.

00:01:28.280 When you look at how the virus is affecting both of those states, looks pretty much the same.

00:01:34.820 Those states are more or less indistinguishable.

00:01:37.360 Joe Biden's coronavirus advisor can't quite explain it.

00:01:40.980 Contrast states like Florida and California, California basically in lockdown and their numbers aren't that different from Florida.

00:01:49.460 Well, good morning, Stephanie.

00:01:53.040 Look, there's so much of this virus that we think we understand, that we think we can predict.

00:01:58.800 That's just beyond a little bit beyond our explanation.

00:02:01.180 What we do know is that the more careful people are, the more they mask and social distance.

00:02:05.880 And the quicker we vaccinate, the quicker it goes away and the less it spreads.

00:02:09.620 Hold on.

00:02:11.220 We don't know that.

00:02:12.660 Actually, the whole premise of the question is that we don't know that.

00:02:16.860 If we did know that, then Florida would be in a much worse place right now on the virus than California is.

00:02:23.140 Because Florida, basically not doing anything to social distance and mandate masks everywhere.

00:02:29.660 California forcing all that sort of stuff, they're in the same place.

00:02:32.040 So we don't know it.

00:02:33.080 He says, he admits, yeah, we don't really know anything about this virus.

00:02:35.820 But the one thing we do know is you got to do all the stuff the Democrats want.

00:02:38.560 We know that works.

00:02:40.020 No, we don't.

00:02:41.220 But then he gives the more honest answer.

00:02:43.700 But we have got to get better visibility into variants.

00:02:46.780 We don't know what role they play, large events, etc.

00:02:50.740 But, you know, this is, as we all have learned by this time, this is a virus that continues to surprise us.

00:02:55.860 It's very hard to predict.

00:02:57.900 And, you know, all around the country, we've got to continue to do a better job.

00:03:01.300 And I think we are, but we're not done yet.

00:03:04.000 Yes, the virus does surprise us.

00:03:05.860 Yes, there's a lot of stuff that you don't know.

00:03:07.680 But that is not stopping you, genius expert, you, Biden White House, you, liberal establishment,

00:03:15.220 from exploiting the virus to foist these crazy policies on all of us.

00:03:20.360 They don't know very much about the virus, but they know enough to exploit the virus to cram a whole new political system down our throats.

00:03:29.340 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:30.040 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:30.920 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:40.700 My favorite comment yesterday from Camo Man, responding to Bill Gates' promise that we've got to stop eating real meat, start eating fake meat.

00:03:49.640 It says, the fake meat in my area sells so poorly that when they rotate the stock, they put the old stock in the freezer before it expires.

00:03:56.540 This is true.

00:03:57.560 It's not just a joke.

00:03:58.440 This does happen.

00:03:59.380 I remember vividly at the beginning of the epidemic when everyone was hoarding food because they didn't know how serious the virus was, how long we were going to be locked in.

00:04:07.660 You go, you wouldn't find any food in the grocery stores.

00:04:11.420 Looked like images out of 1970s Soviet Union.

00:04:15.020 And so the meat section would be totally cleared.

00:04:17.200 The bread would be totally cleared.

00:04:18.660 Empty shelves, except for the fake vegan meat.

00:04:22.860 Except for the impossible sausage or whatever. 0.98

00:04:26.180 That, they'd be full and say, you know, I would rather starve to death than eat this crappy fake meat. 0.91

00:04:32.160 But that's what they want to force down our throats, quite literally.

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00:06:06.780 The decisions that are being made with regard to the coronavirus are political decisions.

00:06:13.280 We've said this ad nauseum.

00:06:14.840 We don't need to get into this much more.

00:06:17.960 They are not scientific decisions.

00:06:19.880 I guess there's a sort of scientific patina to them, but they are political decisions.

00:06:24.400 By definition, any decision that a government worker makes that's going to affect the way that we behave,

00:06:30.900 the way we live our lives, that's going to affect our rights, by definition, that is political.

00:06:35.320 And what it represents is a new hierarchy.

00:06:40.020 Certain people are given special privileges based on the ruling ideology,

00:06:45.160 and we will get into that ideology a lot on this show.

00:06:47.660 Certain people are given special privileges.

00:06:50.740 Certain people are disadvantaged.

00:06:52.380 There is a system of worth and value.

00:06:55.260 And the virus shows you this clearly because you have to prioritize what people get treatment.

00:07:00.680 You have to prioritize what people are going to get the vaccine.

00:07:03.960 There's a finite supply.

00:07:05.440 There's a limited rollout.

00:07:07.740 And so certain people are going to get it.

00:07:09.340 Certain people are not.

00:07:10.160 Now, it would make sense to me,

00:07:12.140 since we're supposed to have equal justice under the law for all American citizens,

00:07:16.460 it would make sense to me to roll out the vaccine based on people's risk levels.

00:07:22.960 I am, I think, a healthy 30-year-old guy.

00:07:26.780 There is absolutely no reason for me to be prioritized on this vaccine.

00:07:30.560 Frankly, even if there were an unlimited supply, I'm not sure that I would get it.

00:07:33.580 Not because I think it's going to install 5G, I don't know what the conspiracy theories are.

00:07:38.700 It's going to install 5G in my blood or something.

00:07:41.680 That's not the reason I wouldn't get the vaccine.

00:07:43.920 Actually, my cell service is a little bit weak, so if I could become a human hotspot, I might consider it.

00:07:48.440 That's not why.

00:07:49.160 It's just because I don't need the vaccine.

00:07:51.780 So I'm not going to get it.

00:07:52.800 And I'm sorry if that offends the liberal regime that insists that we all need to get the vaccine,

00:07:57.200 but I just don't really think I need it.

00:07:58.500 So I'm not in any rush to get it.

00:08:00.320 However, if you are, I don't know, 75, 85, 95, probably you should consider getting the vaccine,

00:08:08.140 and you should be prioritized in the list as the government decides how this rollout is going to work.

00:08:16.080 California has taken a different approach.

00:08:17.560 The California vaccine guidelines are prioritizing various groups, including, I kid you not, marijuana workers. 0.65

00:08:29.040 Marijuana workers, people in the pot industry, are being prioritized over teachers, to name just one group.

00:08:37.400 And this is to promote equity.

00:08:40.760 What is equity?

00:08:41.620 I don't know.

00:08:42.680 It sure doesn't seem like equality.

00:08:44.920 Can't be equality, right?

00:08:45.900 If some groups are going to get it, some groups are not.

00:08:47.480 That's not equality.

00:08:49.060 They're calling it equity.

00:08:51.160 According to the, quote, updated COVID-19 vaccine allocation guidelines from the California Department of Health,

00:08:56.620 medical marijuana workers are prioritized ahead of people in education, ahead of people in working in child care services,

00:09:04.320 as well as many people over the age of 65.

00:09:07.220 So, by any, you know, any regime of rolling out the vaccine is going to give some people access over others.

00:09:15.540 It seems to me reasonable and equitable and just to give it to the older people, 1.00

00:09:19.760 because the older people actually are at some risk from the virus.

00:09:23.140 No, they're not doing that in California.

00:09:24.720 They have different political priorities.

00:09:28.100 It's up to the state of California to do that.

00:09:29.940 So, we all have a right in self-government to shape the way we want to live.

00:09:36.080 And we need to get beyond just the procedural questions of do we have this right,

00:09:40.040 how do we govern ourselves, to the substantive stuff.

00:09:42.380 What regime do we want to live in?

00:09:45.020 Who do we want to prioritize here?

00:09:46.440 Do we want to prioritize the old people or do we want to prioritize the potheads? 0.99

00:09:50.480 There is a new caste system being pushed.

00:09:53.560 And it's not usually being pushed on the basis of how much choom you like to smoke,

00:09:58.860 you know, how much of that sin spinach you like to light up in your bowl.

00:10:03.480 Really, what is being pushed as the determinant here is race and sex.

00:10:09.920 Jen Psaki, our favorite current White House press secretary,

00:10:12.640 was just asked what the Biden administration thought about reparations.

00:10:16.960 Reparations for what, you might ask?

00:10:18.680 Why reparations for slavery?

00:10:20.920 Jen Psaki does not commit to it entirely, but she also doesn't shoot it down. 0.99

00:10:28.200 Well, he's supported a study of reparations, which I believe is what's being discussed

00:10:31.940 and studying the continuing impacts of slavery,

00:10:34.900 which is being discussed in this hearing on H.R. 40, I believe it is.

00:10:39.300 And he continues to demonstrate his commitment to take comprehensive action

00:10:43.660 to address the systemic racism that persists today.

00:10:46.900 Obviously, that is, having that study is a part of that.

00:10:49.900 But he has signed an executive order on his first day,

00:10:53.180 which would begin to deliver on his commitment to having an all-cross-government approach

00:10:59.580 to addressing racial inequality and making sure equity is a part of his entire policy agenda.

00:11:06.540 But he certainly would support a study of reparations.

00:11:09.760 We understand that we don't need a study to take action right now in systemic racism,

00:11:14.060 so he wants to take actions within his own government in the meantime.

00:11:18.040 Okay, I can't take any more of the jargon in the gobbledygook,

00:11:20.980 because it sounds like a big, long non-answer.

00:11:24.440 And part of the job of the press secretary is to evade questions.

00:11:28.720 But I don't think that we can, those of us who are reasonable people,

00:11:32.900 who don't believe that a system of reparations is going to help anything in the country,

00:11:37.000 and it actually will hurt a lot of political questions in our country.

00:11:43.140 I don't think we can just rest easy and say,

00:11:45.200 oh, don't worry, Biden, he's a moderate.

00:11:46.640 He's not going to do anything radical.

00:11:48.300 Everything that Joe Biden has done since entering the White House

00:11:50.940 has thrown away this assumption that he's going to govern as a moderate.

00:11:55.880 He has governed in probably the most radical way he possibly can.

00:11:59.420 Listen to what she says.

00:12:00.480 She says, well, he can do things for racial equity now, and he's doing that.

00:12:05.020 And he could take action, but there's going to be a study and a commission,

00:12:10.780 and they're going to study the commission and review reparations.

00:12:14.460 Hold on.

00:12:16.140 Why do we need a study or a commission or a review about reparations?

00:12:23.360 We know the facts of the case.

00:12:25.540 We had legal slavery in the country for a long time, ending in 1865.

00:12:32.160 Kind of strange, actually.

00:12:33.040 The first officially declared slave, you know, in the American tradition of slavery,

00:12:40.040 meaning not someone who was given slavery as a punishment for a crime, for instance,

00:12:44.000 but someone who was arbitrarily declared a slave for life,

00:12:48.140 was a man named John Kasor, a black man in the United States.

00:12:54.900 And the slave owner was also a black man.

00:12:58.760 His name was Anthony Johnson.

00:13:00.320 It's very strange.

00:13:00.980 Obviously, slavery became this much more racialized system later on.

00:13:04.440 But the first sort of officially declared slave owner in a way that we would recognize it in the United States

00:13:09.800 was a black Angolan guy.

00:13:11.900 Pretty weird.

00:13:12.660 And it raises all these questions for reparations.

00:13:15.460 For instance, if reparations are going to be given on the basis of race,

00:13:19.720 do recent immigrants or the children of recent immigrants get reparations?

00:13:24.580 Let's say a guy from Nigeria comes to America in 1982.

00:13:28.260 Do he and his descendants get reparations?

00:13:32.380 Well, if systemic racism exists, probably they should get reparations, right?

00:13:37.840 Because, yeah, sure, their ancestors were not slaves,

00:13:40.440 but, you know, they live in the system where black people are constantly mistreated.

00:13:44.440 So, yeah, I guess they should get reparations.

00:13:46.220 Should the descendants of Anthony Johnson,

00:13:47.800 the first officially declared slave owner in America,

00:13:51.380 should they get reparations?

00:13:52.880 I don't know. 0.98

00:13:53.420 I mean, they would be black or at least part black.

00:13:57.760 Would they have to pay reparations to the descendants of John Kayser?

00:14:01.020 I don't know.

00:14:01.480 So, that's murky.

00:14:05.180 But what is a study going to do?

00:14:07.040 We know the basic facts.

00:14:08.540 There was slavery.

00:14:09.180 It happened, you know, however long ago, 150 some odd years ago.

00:14:12.800 What are we going to do now?

00:14:13.740 This is a subject for political debate,

00:14:15.340 not for some ridiculous bureaucratic team to study and then come to an answer,

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00:15:42.180 The left uses this tactic all the time,

00:15:45.580 and Biden is being a little on the nose about it,

00:15:48.660 but I think a lot of people don't recognize it

00:15:51.380 when they see it.

00:15:51.980 When the left has a radical proposal

00:15:56.040 that they want to implement,

00:15:57.880 but they know the people aren't ready for it yet,

00:15:59.640 they will gradually get people accustomed to it

00:16:03.220 by commissioning a study or a commission

00:16:06.640 to review the facts

00:16:08.860 and then come to the predetermined conclusion.

00:16:12.000 New York Times had a headline, shows this perfectly.

00:16:14.320 Say, here's a tweet from the Times.

00:16:15.860 A Chicago commission listed five statues of Abraham Lincoln

00:16:20.320 among dozens of monuments

00:16:22.340 that it said should be reviewed by the public

00:16:25.000 as part of a project started

00:16:26.800 in the wake of last year's protests

00:16:28.540 against racism and police violence.

00:16:32.180 Okay, it sounds very bureaucratic, right?

00:16:34.280 Very clinical language.

00:16:35.440 What they're saying is,

00:16:37.020 we need to review Abraham Lincoln.

00:16:42.520 What is there to review?

00:16:47.340 We know Abraham Lincoln.

00:16:49.140 He's one of the most famous men in our nation's history.

00:16:53.000 A great man, long revered.

00:16:56.480 There's no review that can be done

00:16:59.760 that is going to shed new light on Abraham Lincoln.

00:17:02.880 This is a political debate.

00:17:04.800 Do you want to take down the Lincoln statues or not?

00:17:07.040 Do you want a country that admires

00:17:08.500 its forebear Abraham Lincoln

00:17:10.440 or a country that reviles Abraham Lincoln

00:17:12.220 and all of the other forebears?

00:17:13.520 Because by the way,

00:17:14.680 if you're going to get rid of Abraham Lincoln,

00:17:16.500 the man who freed the slaves,

00:17:19.160 on the basis of racism or something,

00:17:22.280 then you're going to get rid of everyone.

00:17:24.360 And you're going to realize,

00:17:25.400 finally, you're going to get it through your thick head,

00:17:27.980 squishy Republicans,

00:17:30.240 squishy moderates. 0.91

00:17:31.120 You're going to get it through your thick heads

00:17:32.740 that they're not just going after

00:17:34.660 Robert E. Lee on the left.

00:17:36.400 They're not just going after,

00:17:38.180 I don't know,

00:17:40.340 Thomas Jefferson.

00:17:41.760 They're not just going after Andrew Jackson.

00:17:43.540 They're going after Washington.

00:17:44.980 They're going after Lincoln.

00:17:47.080 They're going after everybody.

00:17:50.400 Everyone who can be identified

00:17:51.840 with the traditional American regime,

00:17:54.540 they've got to go

00:17:55.260 because the left doesn't like that regime.

00:17:57.320 So they want to knock down that history

00:17:58.780 and rebuild a new history.

00:18:01.780 They know that right now

00:18:03.040 the American people are not ready for that.

00:18:04.500 They wouldn't accept that

00:18:06.160 if the commission just came out and voted

00:18:07.620 and said we're ditching Lincoln.

00:18:09.120 So they review

00:18:10.000 and they study

00:18:11.360 and they slow walk it

00:18:13.460 until it just seems inevitable.

00:18:17.640 Now this, I think, is offensive.

00:18:20.220 I think the calls for reparations

00:18:23.200 are offensive.

00:18:25.340 I think the new racial caste system 0.98

00:18:27.460 that the left is pushing is offensive,

00:18:29.340 not just to white people

00:18:31.420 and Asian people

00:18:32.340 who, for instance,

00:18:33.040 are disadvantaged

00:18:34.000 through the legal discrimination

00:18:35.780 of affirmative action.

00:18:37.480 But they're also offensive 0.96

00:18:38.840 to black people 0.93

00:18:40.260 and Hispanic people

00:18:41.420 who are advantaged

00:18:42.840 by affirmative action.

00:18:46.200 What affirmative action says

00:18:47.900 is that black people

00:18:48.720 and Hispanic people 1.00

00:18:49.500 can't cut it 0.95

00:18:50.100 so they've got to be given

00:18:50.840 a special break

00:18:51.560 and they've got to be given

00:18:52.240 bonus points on their tests

00:18:53.340 because that's the only way

00:18:54.280 they can get into the good schools.

00:18:55.540 That's what it says.

00:18:58.640 That's the only effect

00:19:00.040 of affirmative action.

00:19:00.920 So it's all it could possibly say.

00:19:03.040 Don't you find that

00:19:04.020 a little bit offensive?

00:19:06.200 I think it's pretty offensive.

00:19:08.600 I know Clarence Thomas

00:19:09.800 said it was very offensive.

00:19:11.200 He wrote about this

00:19:11.920 in a memoir.

00:19:12.520 He said,

00:19:13.860 even though I had a degree

00:19:14.780 from Yale Law School,

00:19:16.080 people assumed I only got in

00:19:17.340 because of affirmative action

00:19:18.340 and I felt the sting

00:19:19.280 of racial bigotry.

00:19:21.260 A lot of people

00:19:22.000 talk about that.

00:19:23.540 Joe Biden doesn't help things

00:19:24.920 when he says genuinely

00:19:25.920 offensive things

00:19:26.700 on the basis of race.

00:19:27.740 The other part portion is

00:19:30.440 a lot of people

00:19:31.360 don't know how to register.

00:19:32.620 Not everybody in the community

00:19:34.100 and the Hispanic

00:19:35.200 and the African-American community,

00:19:37.380 particularly in rural areas

00:19:40.520 that are distant

00:19:41.340 and or inner city districts,

00:19:44.080 know how to use,

00:19:46.240 know how to get online

00:19:47.640 to determine how to get in line

00:19:50.140 for that COVID vaccination

00:19:52.400 at the Walgreens

00:19:54.420 or at the particular store.

00:19:56.540 You know, man,

00:19:58.700 come on, man. 0.98

00:19:59.640 Black people 0.98

00:20:00.380 and Hispanic people

00:20:01.540 like my good buddy Corn Pop,

00:20:02.920 they can't use the internet.

00:20:04.080 They don't know, man.

00:20:05.220 They don't know

00:20:05.560 how to use the internet.

00:20:06.520 This is the latest

00:20:07.320 in a long series

00:20:08.800 of racially offensive comments

00:20:10.640 that Joe Biden has made.

00:20:12.520 For instance,

00:20:13.120 when he said that

00:20:13.820 poor kids are just as smart 0.86

00:20:15.240 as white kids, 0.99

00:20:16.400 conflating,

00:20:17.480 I guess, 0.95

00:20:18.520 poor and black are synonymous 1.00

00:20:19.860 and rich and white

00:20:20.520 are synonymous

00:20:21.000 for Joe Biden.

00:20:22.500 I guess for kind of

00:20:23.320 the politically correct woke regime,

00:20:24.960 that's true as well.

00:20:25.820 Wasn't it Joe Biden

00:20:27.040 who said of Barack Obama

00:20:28.080 that he was the first

00:20:28.860 clean and articulate black man

00:20:30.480 and that's a fairy tale, man?

00:20:32.380 Come on, man.

00:20:33.220 He says a lot of things

00:20:34.140 that are pretty offensive

00:20:35.440 and people knock him for it

00:20:37.100 but it doesn't matter.

00:20:38.360 He's not going to pay

00:20:38.960 any political price.

00:20:39.920 And I think conservatives

00:20:40.780 have been making the point

00:20:41.640 that I just made

00:20:42.340 a moment ago

00:20:44.000 for a long time.

00:20:45.020 They say,

00:20:45.720 we all should unite

00:20:46.620 against affirmative action

00:20:47.640 because it's so offensive

00:20:48.540 and it's racist.

00:20:49.360 And you, you Democrats,

00:20:50.300 you care about racism

00:20:51.220 but you're pushing this policy?

00:20:52.920 No, come on. 0.85

00:20:53.720 Be persuaded by my logic.

00:20:55.380 They don't care.

00:20:57.060 They don't care.

00:20:57.660 It's fine to acknowledge this.

00:20:59.080 I think we should have

00:20:59.720 all the facts before us.

00:21:01.340 But the left doesn't care

00:21:02.980 because they know

00:21:04.260 that racial discrimination

00:21:06.240 is a very powerful tool.

00:21:09.680 Actually, there's a good book

00:21:10.640 by Mike Gonzalez

00:21:11.340 from the Heritage Foundation.

00:21:12.800 I think it's called

00:21:13.160 The Plot to Change America

00:21:14.200 which is about how

00:21:15.820 the black civil rights movement

00:21:19.060 is a unique phenomenon

00:21:21.520 among racial issues in America

00:21:22.940 because we had

00:21:24.200 American slavery.

00:21:26.560 We had Jim Crow. 0.89

00:21:27.500 It was, broadly speaking, racial.

00:21:30.280 Anthony Johnson

00:21:31.220 and John K. Seward aside,

00:21:32.480 you know,

00:21:32.620 these unique cases aside,

00:21:34.440 broadly racial

00:21:35.260 and so we've got to grapple with that

00:21:37.080 and that's why

00:21:37.560 the civil rights movement

00:21:38.540 developed the way it did.

00:21:39.920 And then,

00:21:41.620 left-wingers

00:21:42.500 from the 1960s and 70s

00:21:44.320 funded largely

00:21:45.840 by left-wing foundations

00:21:46.780 like the Ford Foundation

00:21:47.700 realized this was

00:21:48.820 a very effective way

00:21:49.900 to amass political power

00:21:51.000 so they started to create

00:21:52.260 new identity groups

00:21:53.680 on the basis of race.

00:21:54.960 One being Hispanic and Latino.

00:21:57.820 The idea that all

00:21:59.460 Hispanic people

00:22:00.940 are sort of just one thing

00:22:02.340 that people in Spain

00:22:03.440 and Mexico

00:22:04.440 and Guatemala

00:22:05.280 and Argentina

00:22:06.280 and Peru

00:22:07.160 and Brazil

00:22:07.680 that they're all just one thing

00:22:10.060 is pretty weird

00:22:11.620 and it's pretty new.

00:22:12.760 That idea is only about

00:22:13.420 50 years old

00:22:14.140 and a minority

00:22:16.200 of Latino people

00:22:18.460 have identified

00:22:19.980 primarily in this way

00:22:21.000 according to various surveys.

00:22:23.140 But it was effective.

00:22:24.260 They then did it

00:22:24.820 to Asian people.

00:22:26.000 They tried to do it

00:22:26.800 during the Obama administration

00:22:27.760 to Middle Eastern people.

00:22:28.900 Middle Eastern,

00:22:29.400 North Africa

00:22:29.860 they tried to create

00:22:30.460 the category called MENA.

00:22:32.160 It didn't really catch on

00:22:33.540 and it shows you

00:22:35.160 how farcical

00:22:35.760 the whole thing is

00:22:36.540 because historically

00:22:37.400 in the United States

00:22:38.180 people from the Middle East

00:22:39.560 and North Africa

00:22:40.200 have been categorized

00:22:41.040 as white.

00:22:42.140 Linda Sarsour

00:22:42.780 who is one of the activists

00:22:44.300 behind the MENA category

00:22:46.060 famously said

00:22:47.380 that the reason

00:22:47.760 she wears a hijab

00:22:48.600 is because without a hijab 1.00

00:22:49.640 she's just another 1.00

00:22:50.460 boring white lady 1.00

00:22:51.200 in New York City.

00:22:52.700 It shows you

00:22:53.220 if you're trying to create

00:22:54.060 a new identity group

00:22:55.920 if you're categorized

00:22:57.220 as a white person

00:22:58.000 then you try to

00:22:59.200 re-categorize yourself

00:23:00.360 as an allegedly

00:23:01.420 aggrieved minority group

00:23:02.840 it probably shows you

00:23:03.800 that there's not so much

00:23:04.560 privilege there

00:23:05.180 in being identified

00:23:06.760 as a white person

00:23:07.600 but actually

00:23:08.280 there's social currency

00:23:09.440 in being able

00:23:10.400 to claim victimhood.

00:23:12.380 There is a lot

00:23:13.280 of power there

00:23:13.900 and so I don't think

00:23:14.640 arguments against

00:23:15.360 this sort of thing

00:23:16.060 on the basis of

00:23:17.520 you know

00:23:18.120 good faith arguments

00:23:19.720 are really going to work.

00:23:22.320 Joy Reid

00:23:22.920 was one of the many

00:23:24.560 left-wingers yesterday

00:23:25.680 who went after

00:23:26.500 Rush Limbaugh

00:23:27.180 and called him a racist 0.98

00:23:28.640 and a bigot 0.95

00:23:29.560 and all that sort of stuff

00:23:30.100 which is complete BS

00:23:31.420 just ask Bo Snerdly

00:23:33.080 right?

00:23:33.340 Just ask Rush's

00:23:34.220 long-time producer

00:23:34.980 who does not have

00:23:35.980 a lot of white privilege

00:23:36.840 let's say

00:23:37.340 the claim that

00:23:39.600 Rush Limbaugh

00:23:40.020 is some racial bigots 0.97

00:23:40.700 is completely preposterous 0.83

00:23:41.860 but the left

00:23:42.460 is going to throw it

00:23:43.060 because they call 0.69

00:23:44.380 all of us racial bigots

00:23:45.400 and racism to them

00:23:47.000 is just a synonym

00:23:47.880 for the word bad

00:23:48.620 so they use it

00:23:50.200 without any basis.

00:23:52.520 They accuse David Webb

00:23:53.680 for instance

00:23:54.240 of having white privilege

00:23:55.360 as one caller did

00:23:57.400 on his radio show

00:23:58.260 without realizing

00:23:58.920 of course

00:23:59.260 that David Webb 0.97

00:23:59.740 is black.

00:24:00.500 So Joy Reid 0.77

00:24:00.980 was throwing this

00:24:02.040 argument at them

00:24:02.580 but listen to

00:24:04.280 what she considers

00:24:05.820 to be the worst thing

00:24:06.760 that Rush Limbaugh did.

00:24:09.140 Rush ultimately

00:24:10.580 got his way.

00:24:12.420 Rush Limbaugh

00:24:12.960 reached millions

00:24:13.840 of listeners

00:24:14.400 via his golden microphone

00:24:16.280 with his shows

00:24:17.100 airing in small stations

00:24:18.540 out in rural America

00:24:19.880 that even Fox News

00:24:20.780 couldn't reach

00:24:21.400 hardening rural

00:24:22.980 white listeners

00:24:23.660 and weaponizing

00:24:24.720 white male grievance.

00:24:26.900 That's the phrase

00:24:28.120 I want you to focus in on.

00:24:30.540 Joy Reid is very upset

00:24:31.800 that Rush Limbaugh

00:24:33.220 allegedly hardened

00:24:34.420 white male grievance.

00:24:36.780 I dispute

00:24:37.580 the premise

00:24:39.360 that she's pushing here.

00:24:41.620 I don't think

00:24:42.580 that Rush Limbaugh

00:24:43.240 was a racist. 0.66

00:24:44.180 I don't think

00:24:44.740 he attempted

00:24:46.780 to inflame

00:24:48.560 racial animosities 0.75

00:24:49.580 or anything like that.

00:24:50.440 But I want to take

00:24:51.180 the hypothetical here.

00:24:53.000 What if he had?

00:24:55.080 I don't like

00:24:56.160 the idea

00:24:56.620 of racial grievance politics.

00:24:58.680 I don't want

00:24:59.360 to speak to

00:24:59.940 white racial grievance.

00:25:01.460 The left

00:25:03.800 loves

00:25:04.540 racial grievance politics.

00:25:05.920 They are pushing

00:25:06.520 racial grievance politics

00:25:07.520 right now.

00:25:08.160 They're pushing

00:25:08.580 reparations for slavery 0.81

00:25:09.820 156 years

00:25:11.200 after the abolition

00:25:11.920 of slavery.

00:25:14.660 It seems to me

00:25:16.020 that the left

00:25:16.540 primarily

00:25:17.160 these days

00:25:17.860 is post

00:25:18.380 primarily

00:25:19.540 above all their

00:25:20.500 other political agenda

00:25:21.940 they are pushing

00:25:23.200 racial

00:25:23.960 grievance politics.

00:25:26.140 And Joy Reid

00:25:26.540 is very upset

00:25:27.160 when

00:25:28.120 there is even

00:25:29.600 the prospect

00:25:30.240 of white

00:25:30.740 grievance politics.

00:25:31.620 What do you think

00:25:32.160 is going to happen?

00:25:33.020 If you convince

00:25:33.960 everyone that race

00:25:34.740 is the most

00:25:35.140 important thing

00:25:35.880 well

00:25:36.840 then people

00:25:37.600 are going to

00:25:37.880 believe you

00:25:38.300 aren't they?

00:25:39.360 They're going to

00:25:40.100 accept that

00:25:40.820 kind of

00:25:41.160 grievance politics.

00:25:42.500 Joy is trying

00:25:43.140 to attack

00:25:43.500 Rush here.

00:25:43.920 She's projecting

00:25:44.800 what the left

00:25:46.080 is doing.

00:25:48.980 They're absolutely

00:25:50.180 shocked

00:25:50.740 at the

00:25:51.480 hypothetical

00:25:53.160 natural consequences

00:25:54.500 to the kind

00:25:55.540 of dirty politics

00:25:56.380 they've been pushing

00:25:56.900 for a very long time.

00:25:59.020 You know one of my

00:25:59.600 absolute favorite

00:26:00.360 organizations that

00:26:01.160 has been with me

00:26:01.900 for a very long time

00:26:02.800 and has been serving

00:26:03.680 customers online

00:26:05.120 for a very long time

00:26:05.820 is Rock Auto.

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00:26:08.860 than walking in

00:26:09.700 to the auto parts store

00:26:11.200 and answering questions

00:26:13.520 that you're not going

00:26:14.020 to know the answer to.

00:26:14.800 Let's just say

00:26:15.340 hypothetically

00:26:15.940 I'm obviously

00:26:17.320 just coming up

00:26:18.080 with this on the spot

00:26:18.760 because I'm a big

00:26:19.640 car expert.

00:26:20.580 Let's say you happen

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00:26:29.020 and it costs

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00:26:31.380 at a big chain store.

00:26:32.480 Again I'm just

00:26:32.920 spitballing here.

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00:26:34.700 of thing you can get

00:26:35.160 at Rock Auto

00:26:35.580 for just $217.

00:26:37.700 Now I am a math expert.

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00:26:43.280 It serves pros

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00:26:57.560 A great family business.

00:26:58.620 Go to RockAuto.com

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00:27:00.760 You can see all the

00:27:01.500 parts available

00:27:02.080 for your car

00:27:02.920 or truck.

00:27:03.980 Then

00:27:04.260 just as importantly

00:27:05.780 write Knowles

00:27:06.500 K-N-O-W-L-E-S 1.00

00:27:07.480 in their

00:27:07.920 How Did You Hear

00:27:08.480 About Us box

00:27:09.060 so that they know

00:27:10.280 that we sent you.

00:27:11.320 The left

00:27:12.240 has foisted

00:27:12.940 on us

00:27:13.480 a new system

00:27:14.460 a new

00:27:15.020 understanding

00:27:15.920 of ourselves

00:27:16.460 politically

00:27:17.020 whereby

00:27:17.900 grievance

00:27:19.680 is currency

00:27:20.440 and racial

00:27:22.400 and sexual

00:27:22.940 identity

00:27:23.360 is paramount

00:27:24.240 beyond national

00:27:25.280 identity

00:27:25.740 beyond religious

00:27:26.760 identity

00:27:27.420 beyond

00:27:28.540 even

00:27:29.500 local

00:27:30.520 identity

00:27:31.140 race

00:27:33.200 and sex

00:27:33.760 that's what

00:27:34.180 they're pushing

00:27:34.620 and if you

00:27:36.100 transgress

00:27:36.720 the new

00:27:37.140 system

00:27:37.500 you will

00:27:38.540 get in a lot

00:27:38.940 of trouble.

00:27:39.380 A former

00:27:39.760 Massachusetts

00:27:40.400 high school

00:27:41.320 football coach

00:27:41.920 is now suing

00:27:42.920 the Dedham

00:27:43.800 Public School

00:27:44.380 District.

00:27:45.220 Why?

00:27:45.680 Because he was

00:27:46.380 fired.

00:27:47.200 Why was he

00:27:47.820 fired?

00:27:48.220 Because he

00:27:48.740 disagreed

00:27:49.360 privately

00:27:50.040 with

00:27:51.300 the

00:27:52.120 radical

00:27:53.500 political

00:27:54.600 and racial

00:27:55.840 curriculum

00:27:56.320 that was being

00:27:56.820 taught in the

00:27:57.240 schools.

00:27:58.360 His two

00:27:59.100 daughters

00:27:59.440 were being

00:28:00.520 taught

00:28:00.920 a curriculum

00:28:01.840 premised on

00:28:02.660 Black Lives Matter.

00:28:03.660 Black Lives Matter

00:28:04.440 is in a way

00:28:05.440 it's a racial 0.69

00:28:06.220 organization

00:28:06.800 but it's also

00:28:07.500 a very

00:28:08.200 radical

00:28:09.040 ideological

00:28:09.680 organization.

00:28:10.600 It's an

00:28:10.860 explicitly

00:28:11.400 Marxist

00:28:12.140 movement

00:28:12.560 according to

00:28:13.540 the movement's

00:28:14.160 founders.

00:28:15.020 It seeks

00:28:15.440 among other

00:28:15.940 things

00:28:16.340 according to

00:28:16.980 its website

00:28:17.440 to dismantle

00:28:18.900 the western

00:28:19.320 prescribed

00:28:19.780 nuclear family.

00:28:22.000 Radical

00:28:22.520 stuff.

00:28:24.420 This

00:28:24.700 high school

00:28:25.960 coach

00:28:26.760 and parent

00:28:27.740 said you

00:28:28.980 know I don't

00:28:29.640 really think

00:28:30.480 this belongs

00:28:31.080 in the social

00:28:31.780 studies classroom.

00:28:32.620 you can

00:28:33.940 learn about

00:28:34.580 it maybe

00:28:35.020 as an

00:28:35.320 historical

00:28:35.640 phenomenon

00:28:36.040 but you

00:28:36.400 can't

00:28:37.300 push this

00:28:38.600 sort of

00:28:38.920 thing

00:28:39.140 because then

00:28:39.700 you're not

00:28:40.020 teaching students

00:28:40.720 history really

00:28:41.960 you're not

00:28:42.440 teaching them

00:28:43.240 even

00:28:44.100 philosophy

00:28:44.760 you're pushing

00:28:45.720 this very

00:28:47.040 narrow

00:28:47.840 kind of

00:28:48.440 ideological

00:28:48.960 perspective

00:28:49.500 on students

00:28:49.920 and you're

00:28:50.300 delegitimizing

00:28:51.060 all of the

00:28:51.880 others.

00:28:53.300 And by the

00:28:53.980 way if you're

00:28:54.400 pushing Marxism

00:28:55.480 then you are

00:28:56.920 undercutting

00:28:58.220 our

00:28:59.580 traditional

00:29:00.120 American

00:29:00.720 philosophy

00:29:01.340 if you are

00:29:02.480 pushing

00:29:02.840 this highly

00:29:04.660 racialized

00:29:05.560 vision of

00:29:06.000 politics

00:29:06.380 you are

00:29:06.700 undercutting

00:29:07.360 the

00:29:08.080 deracialized

00:29:09.000 politics

00:29:09.560 that we

00:29:10.140 have embraced

00:29:10.640 in America

00:29:11.180 certainly

00:29:12.020 in recent

00:29:13.060 years.

00:29:14.520 You can

00:29:15.040 only get

00:29:15.440 one or

00:29:15.760 the other

00:29:16.020 he said

00:29:16.320 I don't

00:29:16.760 think you

00:29:17.020 should be

00:29:17.220 doing this

00:29:17.520 he got

00:29:17.780 fired for

00:29:18.200 it

00:29:18.280 now he's

00:29:18.600 suing

00:29:18.820 I think

00:29:19.100 he should

00:29:19.380 sue

00:29:19.620 I think

00:29:20.960 we have

00:29:22.860 to expose

00:29:23.600 the system

00:29:24.300 for what

00:29:24.700 it is

00:29:25.100 and have

00:29:26.300 the

00:29:26.680 wherewithal

00:29:28.100 to hold

00:29:28.540 the system

00:29:28.940 up to

00:29:29.320 its

00:29:29.680 rhetoric

00:29:30.840 let me

00:29:31.860 bring that

00:29:32.280 down to

00:29:32.640 earth

00:29:32.940 because that

00:29:33.340 sounds

00:29:33.620 very

00:29:34.000 abstract

00:29:34.480 in the

00:29:36.120 United

00:29:36.380 Kingdom

00:29:36.720 so not

00:29:37.080 in the

00:29:37.220 United

00:29:37.420 States

00:29:37.780 a white

00:29:39.280 civil

00:29:39.640 servant

00:29:40.060 is suing

00:29:40.760 for

00:29:41.360 racial

00:29:41.920 and

00:29:42.580 sexual

00:29:42.980 discrimination

00:29:43.760 this is

00:29:44.600 in London

00:29:44.960 a white

00:29:45.380 male

00:29:45.620 civil

00:29:45.920 servant

00:29:46.280 is filing

00:29:47.200 a lawsuit

00:29:47.740 Matthew

00:29:48.140 Parr

00:29:48.580 has a

00:29:49.360 salary

00:29:49.760 of

00:29:50.140 134,000

00:29:52.200 pounds

00:29:52.620 per year

00:29:53.140 this is a

00:29:53.860 very high

00:29:54.360 salary

00:29:54.800 this guy

00:29:55.600 is making

00:29:55.920 a lot

00:29:56.220 of money

00:29:56.560 he also

00:29:57.720 has a

00:29:58.420 7,900

00:29:58.940 pound

00:29:59.500 living

00:30:00.300 allowance

00:30:00.800 wow

00:30:01.700 man

00:30:02.040 this guy

00:30:02.380 how do I

00:30:02.680 get that

00:30:03.000 civil service

00:30:03.500 job

00:30:03.780 but he's

00:30:04.640 going to

00:30:05.000 sue

00:30:05.240 because he

00:30:06.360 learned

00:30:06.760 that a 0.71

00:30:07.880 black woman 1.00

00:30:08.460 Wend Williams

00:30:09.220 was hired

00:30:10.560 and makes

00:30:11.160 significantly

00:30:11.660 more money

00:30:12.300 an extra

00:30:12.840 50,000

00:30:14.000 pounds

00:30:14.280 a year

00:30:14.560 it seems

00:30:14.960 she had

00:30:16.860 accepted a

00:30:17.420 lower offer

00:30:17.920 but then she

00:30:18.240 was just

00:30:18.500 automatically

00:30:18.900 given a

00:30:19.320 higher offer

00:30:19.820 because the

00:30:21.020 civil service

00:30:21.660 was afraid

00:30:22.140 that maybe

00:30:22.620 she was

00:30:22.860 being paid

00:30:23.160 less than

00:30:23.480 someone else

00:30:23.840 so ordinarily

00:30:25.180 we hear in

00:30:25.660 the United

00:30:25.900 States

00:30:26.200 that people

00:30:27.820 who are not

00:30:28.640 white

00:30:28.980 and not

00:30:29.440 men

00:30:29.820 make much

00:30:30.860 less money

00:30:31.380 for doing

00:30:31.740 the same

00:30:32.040 job

00:30:32.320 and this

00:30:32.640 just isn't

00:30:33.080 true

00:30:33.340 but when

00:30:35.100 you factor

00:30:36.080 in education

00:30:37.360 experience

00:30:38.000 all these

00:30:38.960 sorts of

00:30:39.240 things

00:30:39.440 hours worked

00:30:40.520 those pay

00:30:42.000 gaps

00:30:42.300 disappear

00:30:42.920 in the

00:30:44.180 civil service

00:30:44.720 though

00:30:44.940 you actually

00:30:45.440 can sort of

00:30:45.980 compare these

00:30:46.440 things

00:30:46.760 and so

00:30:48.340 shocking

00:30:48.800 because it

00:30:49.280 upends

00:30:49.860 the usual

00:30:50.660 ideology

00:30:51.780 we're being

00:30:52.200 fed

00:30:52.440 the white 0.77

00:30:53.000 guys being

00:30:53.680 being paid

00:30:54.280 less than 0.98

00:30:54.660 the black 1.00

00:30:55.000 lady 0.87

00:30:55.220 he absolutely

00:30:55.860 should sue

00:30:56.960 for this

00:30:58.400 I do not

00:30:59.080 think that we

00:30:59.560 ought to have a

00:31:00.080 politics

00:31:00.540 that is rooted

00:31:01.980 primarily around

00:31:02.860 race or

00:31:03.740 primarily around

00:31:04.760 sex

00:31:05.260 but that's what 0.92

00:31:06.840 the left is

00:31:07.340 pushing and

00:31:08.000 if the left

00:31:08.680 if that is

00:31:09.380 the dominant

00:31:09.840 regime

00:31:10.380 then

00:31:11.580 that dread

00:31:13.180 awful

00:31:13.840 worst

00:31:14.700 sort of

00:31:15.360 individual

00:31:15.840 you could

00:31:16.120 possibly

00:31:16.440 imagine

00:31:16.880 the straight

00:31:17.540 white male

00:31:18.080 now with

00:31:18.620 gender ideology

00:31:19.640 I guess

00:31:19.900 you'd have to

00:31:20.420 say the

00:31:20.720 straight white

00:31:21.420 male who

00:31:21.800 knows that

00:31:22.220 he's a

00:31:22.460 male

00:31:22.620 has to

00:31:23.320 push back

00:31:23.920 against

00:31:25.080 injustice

00:31:25.800 the system

00:31:29.100 broadly

00:31:29.700 is rife

00:31:30.300 with injustice

00:31:30.900 and of

00:31:31.480 course

00:31:31.840 we need to

00:31:33.040 push back

00:31:33.440 against that

00:31:33.900 injustice

00:31:34.320 I think

00:31:34.700 a lot of

00:31:35.580 people would

00:31:36.000 not want

00:31:36.320 to do

00:31:36.500 this

00:31:36.800 well first

00:31:37.720 of all

00:31:37.920 this guy

00:31:38.300 here is

00:31:38.520 making a

00:31:38.880 ton of

00:31:39.120 money

00:31:39.260 so he's

00:31:39.520 really got

00:31:39.880 nothing to

00:31:40.280 complain about

00:31:40.800 and I

00:31:42.640 think a lot

00:31:43.040 of white

00:31:43.280 guys don't 0.93

00:31:43.820 want to be

00:31:44.080 accused of

00:31:44.460 being racist

00:31:44.980 so they'd

00:31:45.540 say I'll

00:31:45.900 just I'll

00:31:46.240 let it

00:31:46.460 go

00:31:46.660 okay

00:31:47.160 these other

00:31:48.600 people are

00:31:48.940 being paid

00:31:49.300 more because

00:31:49.680 they're race 0.77

00:31:50.080 and sex

00:31:50.440 okay it's

00:31:50.920 fine I don't

00:31:51.440 whatever it's

00:31:52.020 all no big

00:31:52.680 deal but it

00:31:53.580 is a big

00:31:53.980 deal it's

00:31:54.320 wrong for

00:31:54.860 everybody

00:31:55.260 you know we

00:31:56.700 often hear from

00:31:57.160 the left

00:31:57.440 racism is a

00:31:59.060 problem for

00:31:59.680 everybody

00:32:00.140 injustice for

00:32:01.320 anybody is an

00:32:02.080 injustice for

00:32:02.660 everybody well

00:32:03.140 and again in a way

00:32:03.720 that's true

00:32:04.260 if you've got an

00:32:05.460 unjust system

00:32:06.140 it is your

00:32:07.020 obligation to

00:32:08.340 push back

00:32:09.000 against that

00:32:10.160 sort of thing

00:32:10.680 because it is

00:32:12.020 it is it is

00:32:12.720 terrible for

00:32:13.740 everybody now

00:32:14.460 Joe Biden is

00:32:15.680 fanning those

00:32:16.520 flames and he's

00:32:17.320 he's done this

00:32:17.960 for a lot of his

00:32:18.520 career you remember

00:32:19.000 when he said that

00:32:19.520 Mitt Romney wanted

00:32:20.160 to put black

00:32:20.600 people back in 1.00

00:32:21.160 chains back in

00:32:22.620 2012 bad stuff

00:32:25.460 you know he's he's

00:32:26.540 always harping on

00:32:27.880 that sort of thing

00:32:28.480 but it's unclear how

00:32:29.460 much longer Joe

00:32:30.100 Biden is going to

00:32:30.620 be around the

00:32:31.320 White House is

00:32:31.940 already pushing

00:32:32.960 out that Kamala

00:32:34.840 Harris is taking on

00:32:35.620 more and more

00:32:35.960 responsibility Kamala

00:32:37.000 tweeted the other

00:32:37.560 day she said today I

00:32:38.520 spoke with President

00:32:39.200 Emmanuel Macron of

00:32:40.100 France we discussed

00:32:41.640 COVID-19 climate

00:32:43.440 change supporting

00:32:44.160 democracy at home

00:32:45.040 and around the

00:32:45.480 world and regional

00:32:46.180 challenges the

00:32:47.260 president I look

00:32:47.860 forward to working

00:32:48.640 with President

00:32:49.200 Macron to build a

00:32:50.100 better future for

00:32:50.660 our two countries

00:32:51.240 she's taking other

00:32:52.160 other phone calls

00:32:53.500 with other dignitaries

00:32:55.200 this is unusual for

00:32:56.960 a vice president

00:32:57.780 but it's because

00:32:58.920 obviously Joe Biden

00:32:59.920 is not all there

00:33:00.800 we've all heard the

00:33:02.100 bizarre slips

00:33:03.020 we've all seen that

00:33:05.140 he just is not the

00:33:06.180 guy he was even

00:33:06.880 five or ten years

00:33:07.620 ago so as I

00:33:09.540 often say

00:33:10.340 I'm a conservative

00:33:12.180 optimist in the

00:33:13.100 sense that a

00:33:13.860 conservative pessimist

00:33:14.780 says things can't

00:33:15.380 get any worse

00:33:15.800 I think things can

00:33:16.460 get a lot worse

00:33:17.060 and they're obviously

00:33:17.820 grooming Kamala

00:33:19.640 Harris for this

00:33:20.300 an update though

00:33:21.440 on mortality

00:33:22.560 from top politicians

00:33:24.560 Bob Dole

00:33:25.220 Bob Dole 97

00:33:26.220 years old

00:33:26.880 was recently

00:33:28.060 diagnosed with

00:33:28.880 stage 4 lung

00:33:29.740 cancer

00:33:30.100 very sad

00:33:30.900 I really like

00:33:31.740 Bob Dole

00:33:32.160 and it's really

00:33:33.640 sad that he was

00:33:34.120 diagnosed that way

00:33:34.860 and he put out a

00:33:35.940 statement he said

00:33:36.360 my first treatment

00:33:36.960 will begin on

00:33:37.540 Monday

00:33:37.800 you've got to

00:33:38.540 give this guy

00:33:39.000 credit

00:33:39.340 you've got to

00:33:41.160 give Bob Dole

00:33:41.880 credit

00:33:42.140 I've always admired

00:33:43.060 him not even

00:33:43.600 because I felt he

00:33:44.620 was the most

00:33:45.120 conservative rock

00:33:45.940 ribbed Republican

00:33:46.540 but this guy he's

00:33:47.720 a fighter man

00:33:48.620 this guy is a war 0.66

00:33:49.640 hero

00:33:49.920 he's a total

00:33:51.240 fighter

00:33:51.760 97 year old

00:33:52.960 saying I'm

00:33:53.320 going to undergo

00:33:54.060 treatment starting

00:33:54.860 on Monday

00:33:55.320 more power to

00:33:56.120 him

00:33:56.380 he's absolutely

00:33:58.160 in our prayers

00:33:59.040 Bob Dole is the

00:33:59.960 first presidential

00:34:00.640 candidate I ever

00:34:01.460 voted for

00:34:02.000 you might say

00:34:02.720 Michael you were

00:34:03.240 six years old

00:34:03.840 when Bob Dole ran

00:34:04.660 in 96 that's

00:34:05.400 true I paid

00:34:06.760 some attention

00:34:07.280 as much as any

00:34:07.960 six year old can

00:34:08.500 pay attention to

00:34:09.000 the news I was

00:34:09.740 paying attention to

00:34:10.400 it all I knew

00:34:11.100 about the race

00:34:11.600 Bob Dole was a

00:34:12.580 war hero and

00:34:13.700 Bill Clinton was

00:34:14.320 a draft dodger

00:34:15.120 and I liked

00:34:15.860 Dole and I

00:34:16.780 didn't like

00:34:17.160 Clinton my

00:34:18.120 mother was

00:34:18.680 going to vote

00:34:19.120 for Bill

00:34:19.580 Clinton she

00:34:20.280 voted for

00:34:20.760 Republicans a

00:34:21.320 lot but you

00:34:21.680 know some

00:34:22.140 politics were

00:34:22.780 kind of

00:34:22.960 interesting and

00:34:24.040 I begged her

00:34:24.660 to vote for

00:34:25.060 Dole she let

00:34:26.460 me go into the

00:34:26.900 voting booth with

00:34:27.460 her as I did

00:34:28.160 actually a lot

00:34:28.580 when I was a

00:34:28.980 child and she

00:34:29.940 let me pull the

00:34:30.600 lever for Bob

00:34:31.400 Dole I'm sure

00:34:32.520 the FBI is going

00:34:33.220 to investigate me

00:34:33.860 now for voter

00:34:34.580 fraud no wait

00:34:35.240 voter fraud

00:34:35.620 doesn't exist so

00:34:36.340 never mind in

00:34:37.560 any case well

00:34:38.880 wishes to Bob

00:34:39.520 Dole love love

00:34:41.020 that that guy is

00:34:42.540 a fighter he

00:34:43.120 also he's the

00:34:44.280 only living GOP

00:34:46.040 nominee who

00:34:47.180 showed up to

00:34:47.720 the convention in

00:34:48.680 2016 you know

00:34:49.660 the Bushes

00:34:50.200 boycotted 2016

00:34:51.880 which I felt was

00:34:52.700 very ugly very

00:34:53.760 unseemly I

00:34:54.400 understand why

00:34:54.900 they did it but

00:34:55.900 it was too bad I

00:34:57.300 always gave Bob

00:34:58.240 Dole a lot of

00:34:58.840 credit but he

00:34:59.380 actually kind of

00:35:00.020 stuck it out with

00:35:00.640 Trump so in any

00:35:02.940 case best wishes

00:35:04.400 to Bob Dole

00:35:05.980 we'll see though

00:35:07.040 we've got a lot

00:35:08.120 of change coming

00:35:08.840 on there's an

00:35:09.280 old generation of

00:35:10.280 politicians that

00:35:11.020 is passing on

00:35:11.820 either you know

00:35:13.100 into the next

00:35:14.440 life or passing

00:35:15.300 on out of

00:35:16.000 political power

00:35:18.400 of political

00:35:19.220 importance and

00:35:20.160 what is coming

00:35:21.040 up I can't say

00:35:22.400 I'm too hopeful

00:35:23.360 for it if Joe

00:35:24.160 Biden is the

00:35:24.640 old Kamala is

00:35:25.380 the new that's

00:35:26.380 not great if a

00:35:27.640 system that had a

00:35:29.080 lot of problems

00:35:29.760 but more or less

00:35:30.560 at least spoke

00:35:31.720 to equality

00:35:33.020 before the law

00:35:33.760 justice if that's

00:35:34.720 passing out and

00:35:35.340 we've got this

00:35:35.780 new politically

00:35:36.980 correct radical

00:35:38.120 system of racial

00:35:39.000 and sexual

00:35:39.500 grievance coming

00:35:40.060 up that is not

00:35:40.680 great at all we've

00:35:41.420 got to stand up

00:35:42.000 against that sort

00:35:42.660 of thing I don't

00:35:43.620 care how

00:35:44.000 uncomfortable it

00:35:44.720 is I don't care

00:35:45.220 how unpopular it

00:35:46.080 makes you I don't

00:35:46.620 care how vulnerable

00:35:47.680 it makes you even

00:35:48.740 you've got to stand

00:35:49.900 up for justice and

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00:36:21.960 with the mailbag

00:36:27.620 welcome back my

00:36:36.500 favorite time of

00:36:37.560 the week the

00:36:38.020 mailbag let's get

00:36:38.960 right into it first

00:36:39.660 question from Julie

00:36:40.520 hey Michael I was

00:36:41.920 wondering if a if I

00:36:43.420 am a person who

00:36:44.240 identifies as a fetus

00:36:45.740 does that give my

00:36:46.820 mom the right to 0.95

00:36:48.200 kill me I legally 0.99

00:36:49.960 it does it does I 0.99

00:36:52.100 it hasn't been tried

00:36:52.960 in court yet but

00:36:53.660 legally it does give

00:36:54.560 your mother that

00:36:55.020 right I'm sure some

00:36:56.300 parents of teenagers

00:36:57.520 might might be

00:36:58.360 thinking about that

00:36:58.980 right now but of

00:36:59.800 course I mean you

00:37:00.460 you actually raise a

00:37:01.440 great point here

00:37:02.100 which is I think

00:37:04.780 that identity is

00:37:07.480 objective meaning I

00:37:10.580 think that we are

00:37:12.780 individuals we have

00:37:15.280 individual souls our

00:37:17.500 souls have a relation

00:37:18.580 to our bodies we have

00:37:20.340 a purpose here which

00:37:21.760 is to know God and

00:37:22.940 enjoy him forever God

00:37:24.600 knows us endows us

00:37:26.600 with rational faculties

00:37:27.820 to perceive the

00:37:28.680 objective world it

00:37:30.600 can be objectively

00:37:31.440 stated that I am a

00:37:33.180 man you can see some

00:37:35.320 evidence of this my

00:37:36.180 Adam's apple and other

00:37:37.140 things below the desk

00:37:38.100 which we don't need to

00:37:38.820 get to right now it's a

00:37:39.840 family show so I think

00:37:42.420 that's all true now the

00:37:44.400 left takes this sort of

00:37:46.900 subjective view to

00:37:48.280 identity where you see

00:37:50.660 this in the racial

00:37:51.860 question right you say

00:37:52.980 well I identify I

00:37:54.920 might be you know

00:37:55.860 biracial but I

00:37:56.660 identify with this race

00:37:57.520 and not the other

00:37:57.940 race they take it

00:37:58.760 obviously with gender I

00:37:59.760 I am this sex but I

00:38:01.100 identify as this sex

00:38:02.240 therefore I am that

00:38:02.980 sex but they take it 1.00

00:38:04.080 to human life as well

00:38:05.840 which is you'll see

00:38:06.780 everyone in the

00:38:07.940 liberal media will

00:38:08.780 celebrate the royal

00:38:09.660 baby right when if a

00:38:12.000 celebrity has a

00:38:12.740 miscarriage there was

00:38:13.640 a very famously a

00:38:14.900 celebrity on a

00:38:15.420 miscarriage this year I

00:38:16.080 forget her name and it

00:38:17.340 was a big cause in the

00:38:20.300 liberal media and they

00:38:21.040 said how sorry they were

00:38:21.820 but of course if the

00:38:24.640 celebrity did not

00:38:26.100 recognize the baby as

00:38:27.620 being a baby then it

00:38:28.480 wouldn't have been a

00:38:28.940 problem at all right if

00:38:30.920 if you do not recognize

00:38:32.600 the fetus as a human

00:38:34.440 being then it's fine

00:38:35.580 it's actually it's

00:38:36.140 celebrated it's a good 1.00

00:38:36.860 thing to kill them so 1.00

00:38:38.200 you can take this crazy 1.00

00:38:40.000 identity politics to its

00:38:41.540 extreme and say well

00:38:42.260 all right well I

00:38:42.780 identify as a fetus I

00:38:43.880 identify as whatever I

00:38:45.100 identify as a leftist

00:38:46.600 tierist temper I identify

00:38:47.560 as my neighbor's dog who's

00:38:48.600 barking outside of my

00:38:50.220 home studio as I'm

00:38:51.720 snowed in here in

00:38:52.600 Nashville next question

00:38:54.180 from Mario hey

00:38:54.860 Michael I'm 29 years

00:38:55.880 old I'm in California

00:38:57.320 I'm a conservative and

00:38:58.220 Catholic I have a

00:38:59.440 question about

00:38:59.960 relationships and

00:39:00.720 marriage I've been with

00:39:01.760 my girlfriend now for

00:39:02.580 about a year and a

00:39:03.200 half she is great she's 0.99

00:39:04.540 everything a guy like

00:39:05.580 me could possibly want

00:39:06.600 which makes me very

00:39:07.780 confused because for

00:39:08.740 about a year now I

00:39:10.020 can't shake the feeling

00:39:10.900 that she's not the one

00:39:12.220 my question is should I

00:39:14.140 cast my doubts aside and

00:39:15.760 ask her to marry me or 0.95

00:39:17.160 should I listen to my

00:39:17.920 gut and pursue the one 0.73

00:39:19.360 is this fair to my

00:39:20.780 girlfriend or future

00:39:21.440 wife or is this one of 0.67

00:39:22.820 those think about your

00:39:23.700 own happiness situations

00:39:24.680 thanks Mario I'm going

00:39:26.780 to give you very

00:39:28.600 difficult advice it's

00:39:30.020 not going to be very

00:39:30.580 clear advice but I you

00:39:32.440 know I'm not going to

00:39:32.880 say do this don't do

00:39:33.660 this but I hope this

00:39:34.560 will clarify your

00:39:35.240 situation it's advice

00:39:36.440 that I rarely hear

00:39:37.660 conservatives give

00:39:38.400 sometimes I hear people

00:39:40.500 say no you'll know the

00:39:42.740 one pursue the one you

00:39:44.240 know kind of this purely

00:39:44.920 romantic notion

00:39:45.740 sometimes I hear

00:39:47.040 conservatives say it

00:39:47.680 doesn't really matter

00:39:48.200 who you marry you know

00:39:49.020 marriage is an

00:39:49.520 objective thing just do

00:39:50.500 these certain things

00:39:51.080 you'll be fine share

00:39:51.840 values whatever I

00:39:54.780 married the one not

00:39:56.740 everyone gets to marry

00:39:57.540 the one I get to marry

00:39:58.780 the one I sometimes I

00:39:59.980 kid you not I will

00:40:00.640 wake up in the middle

00:40:01.960 of the night in a cold

00:40:02.840 sweat because I have a

00:40:04.100 nightmare about marrying

00:40:05.340 some ex-girlfriend or

00:40:06.460 something and how

00:40:07.000 terrible my life would

00:40:07.940 be if I had not

00:40:09.000 married sweet little 0.76

00:40:09.900 Alisa who is 100% the

00:40:11.980 one we've known each

00:40:13.080 other since we were 10

00:40:13.860 years old and I

00:40:15.180 basically always knew it

00:40:16.640 though I was a little

00:40:17.140 confused perhaps at

00:40:18.200 sometimes as as one is

00:40:21.040 when one is a teenager

00:40:21.880 I speak from experience

00:40:25.640 it is absolutely great to

00:40:27.600 marry the one that said 0.99

00:40:30.860 marriage is a real

00:40:33.520 institution that is a

00:40:34.980 process and you hear

00:40:36.720 happily married people

00:40:37.680 say you know when they're

00:40:38.520 50 years down the road

00:40:39.500 they say I love my wife

00:40:40.240 more today than I did 50

00:40:41.780 years ago the reason for

00:40:43.700 that is you grow together

00:40:44.880 or you grow apart and

00:40:46.140 when you grow in this

00:40:47.100 union you become one

00:40:48.140 flesh and that actually

00:40:48.800 does something so

00:40:50.260 marriage does transform

00:40:52.520 you and two people who

00:40:54.620 maybe you know obviously

00:40:55.980 arranged marriage was the

00:40:57.340 norm in most societies

00:40:58.680 throughout history people

00:41:00.260 who maybe they didn't

00:41:01.680 know each other very

00:41:02.280 well they didn't have

00:41:02.900 this kind of romantic

00:41:03.620 love through marriage if

00:41:06.020 you do marriage right

00:41:06.740 we'll grow together

00:41:07.740 because it's a real

00:41:08.260 thing it's objective it's

00:41:09.100 a sacrament grow together

00:41:10.260 and they will end up

00:41:11.360 loving each other I

00:41:12.180 think it was Benjamin

00:41:12.760 Disraeli's wife the

00:41:13.940 famous British prime

00:41:15.700 minister she said I

00:41:17.440 know that Dizzy married

00:41:19.360 me for my money but I

00:41:20.620 think if he had to do

00:41:21.300 it again he would marry

00:41:21.980 me for love that's a

00:41:23.980 that's a profound

00:41:24.600 statement so you have

00:41:27.080 to ascertain a few

00:41:29.140 things is this just you

00:41:32.000 is this you being

00:41:33.160 sentimental is this maybe

00:41:35.260 you have some vision of

00:41:36.520 someone else and maybe

00:41:37.340 that's an infatuation

00:41:38.280 that's not really love

00:41:40.100 well okay you don't want

00:41:41.820 to you don't want to let

00:41:42.660 that infatuation or

00:41:44.660 some sort of flighty

00:41:46.220 idea carry you away and

00:41:47.500 ruin a good relationship

00:41:48.580 but are you on the

00:41:50.980 other hand maybe

00:41:51.420 thinking too clinically

00:41:52.240 about this oh yeah she

00:41:53.440 checks the boxes but

00:41:54.420 there's no spark there I

00:41:55.840 will tell you as a

00:41:57.720 passionate person of

00:41:59.280 Latin descent from the

00:42:01.120 isles of Sicily it is

00:42:03.760 good to have a little bit

00:42:04.680 of passion it is really

00:42:05.740 good I mean it's often

00:42:06.960 when people write in

00:42:07.760 asking me for

00:42:08.280 relationship advice

00:42:09.160 should I date this

00:42:09.940 girl should I not I

00:42:10.640 say well I don't know

00:42:11.040 is she hot I don't 1.00

00:42:12.220 know do you find her

00:42:12.920 attractive I mean come

00:42:14.100 on man you can't be too

00:42:15.480 clinical about all of

00:42:16.440 this you shouldn't only

00:42:18.400 pursue that you should

00:42:19.160 also look at virtue

00:42:20.020 shared value shared

00:42:22.000 perspective on the world

00:42:23.000 some way that you can

00:42:24.240 grow together I need

00:42:26.880 you to balance those two

00:42:28.360 things the passionate

00:42:30.580 part is important you

00:42:32.180 shouldn't discount that

00:42:33.460 and the serious you know

00:42:37.760 don't let flights of

00:42:38.540 fancy carry you away so

00:42:39.760 that you run off with 1.00

00:42:40.520 some lunatic just 0.94

00:42:41.320 because it's really 0.95

00:42:41.920 passionate for a brief

00:42:43.080 moment both of those

00:42:44.700 are very important both

00:42:45.920 of those are going to

00:42:46.880 matter in your marriage

00:42:48.300 and you're going to

00:42:49.160 have to as with all

00:42:51.860 things in this finite

00:42:52.620 world keep both of

00:42:54.660 those in your mind not

00:42:55.940 not allow your passions

00:42:56.880 to run away with you

00:42:57.700 but not be so cold and

00:42:59.180 clinical that you have a

00:43:00.040 cold marriage I'd need 1.00

00:43:02.180 more details to give you

00:43:03.220 a yes or no on your

00:43:04.060 girlfriend or wife but I

00:43:04.900 hope that helps

00:43:05.360 clarify it from Caleb

00:43:06.640 hey Michael my wife

00:43:07.880 recently told me I'm

00:43:08.620 going to be a dad oh

00:43:09.460 great congratulations I'm

00:43:10.860 ecstatic about having

00:43:11.680 children this is my first

00:43:12.660 also scared out of my

00:43:14.400 mind how did you react

00:43:15.740 when you found out you

00:43:16.380 were going to be a dad

00:43:17.140 what do you know now

00:43:19.840 that you wish you had

00:43:21.040 known back then I reacted

00:43:24.980 very happily but I

00:43:26.860 wasn't surprised because

00:43:28.180 as some of you know I'm

00:43:31.180 Catholic I've mentioned

00:43:32.880 that every so often I'm

00:43:33.920 practicing I'm going to

00:43:34.920 keep on practicing until I

00:43:36.000 get it right and yet I

00:43:37.300 didn't have a child until

00:43:38.320 two years into my

00:43:39.160 marriage the reason for

00:43:40.620 that is it just didn't

00:43:41.300 happen right away so we

00:43:42.300 were kind of you know

00:43:42.980 working on it I won't be

00:43:45.380 too graphic about it you

00:43:46.420 know because trying is

00:43:48.660 not the worst thing in

00:43:49.400 the world I think for a

00:43:50.260 young married couple but

00:43:51.480 when it finally did happen

00:43:52.920 I thought oh good

00:43:53.500 finally goodness

00:43:54.180 gracious that's great and

00:43:55.840 you know I was a little

00:43:56.420 worried about just about

00:43:57.520 the health of the baby

00:43:58.240 health of my wife and

00:43:59.380 luckily thank God both

00:44:00.860 turned out great what did

00:44:02.840 I what do I wish I

00:44:03.560 knew I wish I knew how

00:44:06.140 hard it is on the

00:44:06.940 mother I'm not saying 0.99

00:44:07.860 this to suck up to the 0.98

00:44:08.700 mothers in the room I 0.97

00:44:09.500 just didn't realize I

00:44:10.600 didn't realize that

00:44:11.460 especially if you're

00:44:12.600 nursing that the woman

00:44:16.040 basically just never gets

00:44:17.180 to sleep and I'm you

00:44:19.140 know I'm not the most

00:44:19.960 modern man in the world

00:44:21.100 so I'm not exactly

00:44:21.860 sitting up I will

00:44:22.700 biologically it would be

00:44:23.860 very difficult for me to

00:44:24.720 nurse the poor little 1.00

00:44:25.600 baby he probably wouldn't

00:44:26.360 like it very much but

00:44:27.820 also I'm we're a little

00:44:29.360 bit more sort of I try to

00:44:31.100 get more sleep and then go

00:44:32.140 into work and you know

00:44:33.260 my wife is a little more 0.97

00:44:35.480 nurturing than me taking

00:44:36.440 care of the baby a little

00:44:37.220 bit more than me so I

00:44:38.240 didn't realize how hard

00:44:39.260 it is on the woman I

00:44:40.020 mean it is really really

00:44:41.040 hard and then if you have

00:44:41.800 a c-section or something

00:44:42.560 like that it's really

00:44:43.700 really really tough on the

00:44:44.900 woman so I would have 0.99

00:44:46.320 tried to prepare a little

00:44:47.160 bit more maybe get some

00:44:47.980 family to visit maybe get

00:44:50.120 you know a nanny or

00:44:51.060 something I would have I

00:44:52.340 would have planned that

00:44:54.220 out for the first few

00:44:56.340 weeks at least but that's

00:44:59.120 wonderful congratulations

00:45:00.000 hope you have as much

00:45:00.680 fun as I'm having from

00:45:02.480 Anthony dear Michael do

00:45:03.620 you think it would be

00:45:05.260 useful to start talking

00:45:06.400 about liberals and

00:45:07.080 leftists in the media and

00:45:08.260 other institutions as

00:45:09.180 having implicit biases

00:45:10.440 against conservatives and

00:45:11.940 conservative viewpoints

00:45:12.680 thanks for all you do

00:45:13.440 the problem with that is

00:45:15.480 that the biases are not

00:45:16.420 implicit they're explicit

00:45:17.800 they're telling you them

00:45:19.780 all of the time and when

00:45:21.540 someone is doing

00:45:22.920 something explicitly it

00:45:25.060 probably doesn't help to

00:45:25.880 call it to their 0.83

00:45:26.420 attention but also I just

00:45:27.860 the idea of implicit biases

00:45:29.660 and that that should guide

00:45:31.100 our politics is just very 1.00

00:45:32.500 silly and stupid and it's 1.00

00:45:33.660 a left-wing idea and I 1.00

00:45:35.240 don't think we really

00:45:36.300 benefit from playing into

00:45:39.860 the left's language I

00:45:41.080 think the way the left

00:45:41.720 transforms culture is 0.82

00:45:42.920 through language primarily

00:45:44.540 I just wrote a book about

00:45:45.640 this that kind of studies

00:45:48.380 over the past hundred years

00:45:49.460 how the left has

00:45:49.980 transformed language and

00:45:51.240 how conservatives have

00:45:52.080 completely failed to fix

00:45:53.760 it and maybe what we can

00:45:54.940 do to fix it that book is

00:45:57.100 called speechless by the

00:45:57.920 way controlling words

00:45:58.940 controlling minds you can

00:45:59.620 pre-order it right now

00:46:00.400 wherever books are sold

00:46:01.360 so I just don't think we

00:46:03.120 should play into their

00:46:03.720 language I think we should

00:46:04.800 use our own language use

00:46:06.320 good sturdy traditional

00:46:07.620 language which is more

00:46:08.560 evocative and force them to

00:46:09.980 use our language for that

00:46:11.000 matter right now they

00:46:12.960 force us to use their

00:46:13.860 language and we often give

00:46:14.900 in I don't think we should

00:46:15.900 do that and I don't think

00:46:17.060 we should pretend that

00:46:17.720 language doesn't matter I 0.99

00:46:18.580 think we should actually

00:46:19.560 impel them to use our more

00:46:22.980 correct language from

00:46:24.680 Victor hey Michael I

00:46:25.980 remember you saying a

00:46:27.400 while back that something

00:46:28.140 that helps you have such

00:46:29.260 great memory was

00:46:29.920 memorizing poems what

00:46:31.280 poems do you recommend I

00:46:32.220 try to memorize oh where

00:46:33.220 to begin Shakespeare you

00:46:34.480 know is probably the top of

00:46:35.940 the list because when you

00:46:37.920 memorize Shakespeare one

00:46:39.260 you'll have instant recall

00:46:41.400 to some of the greatest

00:46:42.600 lines in the English

00:46:44.140 language but it's also one

00:46:49.160 it'll help you pick up

00:46:49.940 girls at cocktail parties you

00:46:51.340 know sort of impressive and

00:46:52.800 it's he's easy to memorize

00:46:54.760 because he's such a great

00:46:55.680 writer he writes in this

00:46:56.600 beautiful meter with all

00:46:57.620 this beautiful language so

00:46:59.380 recommend Shakespeare if

00:47:00.640 you want something a little

00:47:01.160 more modern Robert Frost

00:47:02.320 is great to memorize I

00:47:03.260 love memorized a zillion

00:47:04.520 Robert Frost poems King

00:47:05.960 James Bible similar to

00:47:07.740 Shakespeare great thing to

00:47:08.620 memorize will make you

00:47:09.760 more fluent in in our

00:47:11.260 language and I don't just

00:47:12.480 mean in you know the

00:47:13.680 various words and sentence

00:47:16.000 structures I mean just

00:47:16.920 just Shakespeare and the

00:47:18.260 King James Bible have

00:47:19.220 crafted so much of the way

00:47:21.380 that we speak and think

00:47:22.860 that if you start out

00:47:24.380 memorizing those guys you

00:47:26.160 will be just better

00:47:28.000 acquainted with our whole

00:47:29.040 culture from Hayden

00:47:31.880 dear Mr. Knowles there's a

00:47:33.500 great number of conservative

00:47:34.640 commentators who are saying

00:47:35.520 Donald Trump running in

00:47:36.440 2024 is a terrible idea and

00:47:38.760 we should not nominate him

00:47:39.800 I was wondering what you

00:47:40.680 think of the rebirth of the

00:47:41.680 never Trump movement and

00:47:42.940 do you think Trump should

00:47:43.640 run for a second term in

00:47:44.520 2024 yeah never Trump

00:47:45.920 never died there's always

00:47:48.120 been that kind of strain

00:47:49.380 that never Trump then

00:47:50.400 embodied in the right they

00:47:52.720 were the Rockefeller

00:47:53.780 Republicans back back in 0.57

00:47:55.940 the Goldwater and Reagan

00:47:57.480 days they were the

00:47:59.580 Gerald Ford Republicans

00:48:02.260 later on also during the

00:48:03.460 Reagan days the Reagan era

00:48:04.300 kind of spanned a while

00:48:05.180 and you consider his first

00:48:06.360 entrance to national

00:48:07.420 politics they were the

00:48:09.280 Bush Republicans they were

00:48:11.400 the Romney Republicans they

00:48:13.380 so they've always been

00:48:14.700 around and they're going to

00:48:16.600 be around into the future I

00:48:18.600 still like Donald Trump a

00:48:20.780 great deal I am still a

00:48:22.820 great supporter of Donald

00:48:23.840 Trump's I think that

00:48:25.080 Donald Trump was an

00:48:25.960 excellent president at least

00:48:27.880 relative to the other

00:48:28.740 presidents of my lifetime

00:48:29.800 so I'm not opposed to the

00:48:31.560 idea of him running in

00:48:32.320 2024 I don't know that

00:48:33.860 he'll do it it would be

00:48:35.180 very difficult for him to

00:48:36.340 do the deck would be so

00:48:37.440 stacked against him I don't

00:48:39.100 know that he would want to

00:48:39.860 do it he he already got to

00:48:42.600 do it he already got to be

00:48:43.760 president and he'll also be

00:48:45.340 older than you know and I

00:48:46.660 think maybe Republicans

00:48:47.640 might want a younger

00:48:48.340 candidate that said he's a

00:48:50.320 he's a great force in

00:48:51.880 politics so I'm not I'm

00:48:52.800 not opposed to the idea of

00:48:53.780 him running now I guess

00:48:58.280 the question that moves

00:49:00.860 forward is who else do we

00:49:02.520 have I think that's going

00:49:03.420 to affect some of his

00:49:04.760 calculations so we'll we'll

00:49:06.020 just have to find out from

00:49:07.080 John hello thank you for

00:49:08.820 taking my question how'd you

00:49:09.840 know I was going to take

00:49:10.460 your question John I think

00:49:11.780 conservatives should go all

00:49:13.000 in promoting the economic

00:49:14.400 system distributism which was

00:49:16.520 promoted by Hilaire Belloc and

00:49:18.060 G.K. Chesterton do you agree

00:49:19.540 that distributism should be

00:49:20.900 part of the path forward for

00:49:22.080 conservatives distributism for

00:49:23.700 those who don't know is this

00:49:25.860 kind of third option that was

00:49:27.780 popular in the early 20th

00:49:29.580 century it was a third option

00:49:31.280 to capitalism and and

00:49:35.380 socialism and distributism kind

00:49:37.520 of rejects both of those and

00:49:39.480 it's based in part on Catholic

00:49:41.620 social teaching in the teaching

00:49:42.820 of Leo the third Pope Leo the

00:49:44.240 thirteenth whom I think is

00:49:45.820 terrific and Leo the thirteenth

00:49:47.280 is one of the popes who spoke

00:49:48.900 out most aggressively against

00:49:50.060 socialism so I like the idea

00:49:51.320 of it and I love Hilaire

00:49:52.400 Belloc and Chesterton both of

00:49:53.500 whom were great conservatives

00:49:54.380 I don't know very much about the

00:49:56.660 system of distributism and

00:49:58.220 something tells me it's a little

00:49:59.800 too clever by half I've never

00:50:01.140 really seen it put into

00:50:02.060 practice and never became all

00:50:04.520 that popular so I'll look into

00:50:07.000 it and I'll keep an open mind

00:50:07.920 I'll broaden your question

00:50:09.320 though should conservatives take

00:50:11.200 seriously criticisms of

00:50:12.720 capitalism yes for too long we

00:50:15.240 have not taken that seriously

00:50:16.340 capitalism the word it's a word

00:50:18.400 popularized by Marxists I don't

00:50:21.680 think we should accept that

00:50:22.540 framing and a part of

00:50:24.080 distributism's claim here is that

00:50:25.540 what we understand today to be

00:50:26.660 capitalism is a system that came

00:50:28.480 out of the enlightenment it's a

00:50:29.680 modern kind of liberal system

00:50:32.640 actually these words get a little

00:50:34.060 convoluted when we're when we're

00:50:35.480 talking about about terms that

00:50:38.020 have changed over time but yes

00:50:39.540 should conservatives be wary of

00:50:41.720 capitalism recognize the

00:50:43.300 capitalism such as it is is a can

00:50:45.900 be a wonderful instrument to

00:50:47.040 human flourishing but it's not an

00:50:48.260 end unto itself to be made an

00:50:49.740 idol of abso-freaking-lutely I

00:50:52.100 know that'll ruffle a lot of

00:50:53.220 feathers from the kind of

00:50:55.300 conservative establishment of the

00:50:56.660 last 20 years but 100% we should

00:50:58.920 take that seriously that's our show

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 19, 2021

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