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00:00:37.620 As more and more foreign nationals pour across the southern border of the United States illegally,

00:00:43.900 the Biden administration has to figure out what to do with the children who are coming

00:00:48.720 into the United States. And so, to deal with this situation, as the Washington Post tells us

00:00:54.900 yesterday, the first migrant facility for children opens under Biden. The first migrant facility,

00:01:03.220 that sounds sort of nice, doesn't it? It's a nice facility. Is it sort of like the Four Seasons?

00:01:08.120 Is it, oh no, it's a bunch of cages. It's the cages that Joe Biden said was a human rights abuse.

00:01:15.440 Those are now being reopened under Joe Biden, but it's perfectly fine. It's a Biden box.

00:01:20.880 It's, it's the, it's a special metallic hotel. Just don't call it a cage. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:26.600 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:34.880 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Tim the Enchanter, who says,

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00:01:44.900 pretending to be girls, but the dignity of the girls against whom they compete is not part of the

00:01:50.160 equation. That's right. That's right. Because the, the reason that we need to let boys into the

00:01:55.840 girls' room and let boys beat women at track meets and things like that is in the name of inclusion.

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00:02:09.040 And it also means that you can't be inclusive of people who are not inclusive. It means you can't

00:02:14.080 be tolerant of people who are intolerant. And those poor little girls who just want to win their

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00:03:58.720 for the trip down a dusty road to a former man camp for oil field workers here. The first migrant

00:04:04.740 child facility opened under the Biden administration. The facility is being reactivated to hold up to

00:04:14.080 700 children ages 13 through 17. I don't know much about this facility. Then a few paragraphs down,

00:04:21.940 but immigration lawyers and advocates question why the Biden administration would choose to reopen a

00:04:26.040 Trump era facility that was the source of protests and controversy. Oh, it's the cages.

00:04:31.960 It's the cages, right. But when it was Donald Trump opening these facilities and using these

00:04:38.760 facilities, it was truly people were calling it a crime against humanity. The Trump administration

00:04:44.220 said, what are we going to do with the kids? We don't know where else to put them. You're not

00:04:46.900 going to put them in jail. You're not going to put the, a lot of them are unaccompanied where you've

00:04:50.760 got to put them in a facility. You can't just let them go free into the country. Now Biden does it

00:04:55.120 perfectly fine. Nothing to see here. Democracy dies in darkness. Jen Psaki, our favorite current

00:05:01.320 White House press secretary was just asked about this. Didn't have a great answer.

00:05:05.540 Why is the Biden administration reopening a temporary facility for migrant children in Texas?

00:05:12.740 Well, um, first, uh, the policy of this administration, as you all know, but just for

00:05:17.460 others is not to expel unaccompanied children who arrive at the border. Uh, and the process,

00:05:23.540 how it works is that, uh, customs and border control, uh, uh, continue to transfer unaccompanied

00:05:29.580 children to the HHS office of refugee resettlement. That can take a couple of days. I just want to

00:05:34.280 give this context because people need to understand the process, but because of COVID-19 protocols,

00:05:39.420 uh, the like social distancing requirements, the capacity to existing office of refugee resettlement

00:05:45.800 shelters has been significantly reduced because of course you can't have a child in every bed.

00:05:50.560 Um, there needs to be spacing and we abide by those spacing to protect the kids, um, who are,

00:05:56.280 um, living in those facilities for a short period of time. And to ensure the health and safety of

00:06:01.400 these kids, HHS took steps to open an emergency facility to add capacity where these children can

00:06:07.620 be provided the care they need while they are safely, before they are safely placed with families

00:06:11.720 and sponsors. So it's a temporary reopening during COVID-19. Our intention is very much to close it.

00:06:17.940 Okay. I don't have any more time to keep listening to this long winded answer. Does

00:06:22.900 Jen Psaki ever intend to address the question? The question is, why are you putting kids in cages

00:06:29.020 after you campaigned against putting kids in cages? And she said, well, uh, because, uh, it's temporary

00:06:35.700 and, um, because the coronavirus and, uh, you know, the, man, I'm going to get, I'm going to get to it.

00:06:40.660 Uh, and the migrants and, you know, and, and it's, and did I mention COVID, but no, I'm going to get to

00:06:47.160 your question. So Peter Doocy to his credit, he, uh, says, lady, this ain't an answer. Come on. You

00:06:52.760 said, you said these were human rights abuses. How can you now with a straight face, put kids right

00:06:57.900 back in the exact same facilities that you called cages? It's the same facility that was open for a

00:07:03.720 month in the Trump administration, summer 2019. That is when Joe Biden said under Trump, there have

00:07:09.740 been horrifying scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages. And Kamala Harris said,

00:07:14.040 uh, basically babies in cages is a human rights abuse being committed by the United States

00:07:20.000 government. So how is this any different than that? We very much feel that way. Uh, and the,

00:07:24.440 these are facilities. Let me be, let me be clear here. One, there's a pandemic going on. I'm sure

00:07:29.660 you're not suggesting that we have children right next to each other, uh, in ways that are not COVID safe.

00:07:35.500 Huh? I, I look, okay. I grant, I grant that it is a human rights abuse. What we're doing right now.

00:07:42.620 Yeah. Kamala Harris is totally right. We very, oh yeah, we totally agree with Kamala Harris. Yeah.

00:07:46.380 What we're doing is a violation of human rights because we're putting babies in cages,

00:07:52.560 but what's the alternative? Expose them to a virus that they're statistically,

00:07:59.480 it's basically impossible for them to have any consequences from. Hold on. You're telling me,

00:08:06.280 you're telling me you would rather expose children to a cough than put babies in cages.

00:08:13.700 Are you a monster? Come on. We have to make hard choices. It's very clear that the,

00:08:19.880 there is a virus going on. Statistically, uh, no children have trouble with this virus. Uh, but

00:08:27.420 that means that we've got to put the kids in the cages. I don't think so.

00:08:31.700 Brings us back to a point that president Trump made during the campaign.

00:08:35.700 This is another one going to be memory hold. This is another one, put a little

00:08:39.060 bookmark before they take this one off of YouTube. Donald Trump, it was one of the most memorable

00:08:44.700 lines of an otherwise sort of awful debate. When Joe Biden was rambling on about the stupid

00:08:50.060 concept that you're putting kids in cages, Joe Biden attacks Trump for it. Donald Trump says,

00:08:57.840 who built the cages, Joe? They got separated from their parents and it makes us a laughingstock and

00:09:03.920 violates every notion of who we are as a nation. Let me ask you a follow up question.

00:09:08.960 They did it. We changed the policy. Your response to that?

00:09:12.340 We did not. They built the cages. Who built the cages, Joe? Let's talk about who built the cages.

00:09:18.680 Let's talk about what we're talking about. Who built the cages, Joe? You know, we were told that

00:09:23.040 Joe Biden was going to be a return to normalcy. And I guess it is because not only is Joe Biden

00:09:27.800 acting like an utter hypocrite here, right? He campaigns against kids in cages, which is not

00:09:34.260 exactly what it is, right? It's, I actually sort of agree with the Washington post today.

00:09:38.240 It is a temporary facility to put migrant children, but it was also a temporary facility

00:09:43.180 to put migrant children when Trump did it. But what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

00:09:49.040 So not only is, is Biden hypocritical now, but it was Obama and Biden who first started this policy.

00:09:55.860 As Donald Trump pointed out very well, AOC even is siding with the Republicans here

00:10:02.000 against the protestations of Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. She says, this is not okay.

00:10:07.720 Never has been okay. Never will be okay. No matter the administration or party.

00:10:13.000 So at least she's coming out. She sort of has to come out, right? If she doesn't come out and say

00:10:18.040 what the Biden administration is doing is wrong, then she's just a complete fraud. Now she's not

00:10:22.840 exactly going too hard here. What is it? One tweet about a Washington post article. She's not actually

00:10:28.840 going to hold members of her party to any account. So I think she is still sort of a fraud, but even she

00:10:33.360 has to come out and say, man, Biden, can't you make this a little easier for us to defend you?

00:10:38.900 Because your policy is the exact same thing as Donald Trump's. By the way, that is not the only

00:10:45.100 area where Democrats are doing exactly the same thing that they're accusing Republicans of. There

00:10:50.380 is a clip that was just unearthed from David Letterman's old late show where Joe Biden, many,

00:10:56.080 many years ago when he could still form a coherent English sentence, went on the show

00:11:00.100 and described, I kid you not. He described being arrested for breaking into the Capitol. Would

00:11:09.620 you call it a, I don't know, an insurrection? I don't know. But, but Joe Biden claims to have

00:11:16.640 been arrested for the exact same thing that the crazy guy with the face paint and the horns was

00:11:21.080 arrested for on January 6th. What was that like walking into the great Senate chamber at 29 years

00:11:27.460 old? You know, I walked in when I was 21 and I got arrested. I was, it was a Saturday. I was down

00:11:33.700 visiting some friends at Georgetown University. And I came up on a Saturday morning because I was

00:11:38.820 fascinated with the Senate. And then a Saturday session, I walked up those days, no guards stopping

00:11:43.320 everywhere. And I, and they just got out of session. I walked in the back. All of a sudden, I found

00:11:48.020 myself in the chamber and I was stunned. I walked up, sat down in the presiding officer's seat. Guy grabbed

00:11:53.240 me by the shoulder. Said you're under arrest. What a classic Joe Biden story. Did that actually

00:12:00.720 happen? Probably not. Like most Joe Biden stories, he is probably the most notorious liar in American

00:12:07.740 politics. That's why he had to drop out of the 1988 presidential election. But this is a, an

00:12:13.220 inconvenient, probable lie for Joe Biden because he's claiming to do exactly what we are now told was

00:12:20.540 the worst insurrection in American history and the most calamitous thing that's ever happened

00:12:27.000 in our country. Joe Biden is saying, yo, I did that when I was 21. Yeah, I got arrested for it too.

00:12:31.580 But now I'm old smiling Joe. Now I'm a Senator. Even, you know, AOC is not the only member of her

00:12:40.340 party who is breaking with rank on this issue of the migrant children and Joe Biden being a total

00:12:46.160 hypocrite. Naomi Wolf, one of the most famous feminists in the entire country, just recently

00:12:51.440 went on Tucker Carlson's show also to break with her fellow travelers, not on the issue of the

00:12:57.560 lockdown or not on the issue rather of the, the migrant facilities, but on the issue of these

00:13:01.560 lockdowns, this much, much broader issue going on around the country. And I think you're going to see

00:13:06.420 this more and more. You're going to see people who other call them feminists. Maybe they're

00:13:12.000 members of some other activist group on the left, Democrats who say, hold on, we can't

00:13:17.280 continue to do this forever. We've been slowing the spread for a very long time now. Now,

00:13:24.280 are these sort of breakaways enough to take away Joe Biden's power? I don't think so. I think it's

00:13:30.260 going to be all sort of soft pushback, the sort of thing where AOC sends a tweet about a Washington

00:13:35.960 Post article that she doesn't like, but you, you will start to see that build and that could have an

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00:15:10.540 Tucker's show and says enough is enough with the lockdowns. Autocratic tyrants at the state and now

00:15:17.360 then the national level are, are creating a kind of merger of corporate power and government power,

00:15:25.220 which is really characteristic of Italian fascism in the twenties. Um, and they're,

00:15:29.560 they're using that to engage in kind of emergency orders that, that simply strip us of our rights,

00:15:36.580 rights to property, rights to assembly, rights to worship, and all of the rights that our

00:15:40.840 constitution guarantees. So people are definitely horrified and noticing. I think people are

00:15:45.820 shocked and, um, and, and divided, as I mentioned before. And the other thing that happened is you

00:15:51.440 said this has all been very sudden. Um, and when you look back, you know, March of 2020,

00:15:57.020 a lot of things started to move that kind of locked into place, a set of policies that are kind of

00:16:02.060 360 degree full on totalitarian policies. So I think a lot of us are kind of in culture shock.

00:16:07.840 Uh, luckily or unluckily, I've been studying closing democracies for 12 years. So I recognized early on,

00:16:15.300 you know, once, once I realized New York state had emergency powers, I know from history that no one

00:16:21.120 gives up emergency powers willingly. Now I have a sort of grudging respect for Naomi Wolf and not

00:16:28.220 just because she went on Tucker's show and said she doesn't like Dr. Fauci or something. I've actually

00:16:33.180 thought this for a while because I disagree with most of what Naomi Wolf thinks. I think most

00:16:37.260 conservatives would, but the thing I always liked about her is at least she's following the arguments

00:16:43.880 honestly by the lights that she's got. So for instance, this quote got her into a lot of trouble on

00:16:50.060 the left on the issue of abortion. She's pro-abortion, but she also admits that it's murder.

00:16:56.600 Pretty, pretty ghastly stuff. But I actually have greater respect for someone who can say,

00:17:03.800 yeah, I support abortion, but I'm not going to use mealy mouth words like reproductive rights or

00:17:10.120 women's health or, you know, any, anything else. I'm going to deal with the fact that, yeah, this is a,

00:17:14.620 a grave moral issue. And I just think that women's convenience needs to trump the life of

00:17:21.520 the unborn child. She said, quote, abortion should be legal. It is sometimes even necessary.

00:17:27.460 Don't agree with either of those things, obviously. Sometimes the mother must be able

00:17:31.560 to decide that the fetus in its full humanity must die. The people who got angry at her for that quote

00:17:40.360 were not conservatives. They were left-wingers who said, stop being so honest. Don't tell them what

00:17:44.920 we actually think about this issue. Don't tell them the reality of it. But I think that she's

00:17:48.900 getting the reality of the lockdowns quite right. It's just a simple law of politics that politicians

00:17:56.660 very rarely are willing to give up emergency powers. You think of, I don't know, Cincinnati's,

00:18:02.320 George Washington, handful of examples throughout history, not too many. More and more what they do is

00:18:08.480 they just keep those emergency powers and add on to them. And that's what we're seeing here. Dr.

00:18:13.420 Fauci, the exalted one, Dr. Fauci just came on television after telling us, yeah, you're going

00:18:19.340 to have to wear masks into 2022. And you're going to have to, until the virus goes down below zero,

00:18:24.740 you're going to have to wear masks. Now he's telling us that he's going to get, maybe he's going to give

00:18:29.520 us a few of our rights and liberties back, but not too many. And there's just, there's certain things

00:18:35.560 that we're not going to be able to do, like for instance, go to restaurants.

00:18:38.840 There will be things that you will not be able to do because the burden of virus in society

00:18:46.220 will be very high, which it is right now, even though we're going way down on the decline that

00:18:51.680 Dr. Walensky showed you, we are still at an unacceptably high baseline level with the seven day

00:18:59.640 average being quite high. So there are things, even if you're vaccinated, that you're not going

00:19:05.400 to be able to do in society. For example, indoor dining, theaters, places where people congregate,

00:19:13.140 that's because of the safety of society. You yourself, what you can do when you are together

00:19:19.580 with another person, we are looking at that. And we're going to try and find out very quickly

00:19:24.920 what recommendations could be made about what people can do.

00:19:30.620 There are some things that you're just not going to be able to do. Says who? Says Dr. Fauci.

00:19:42.120 Some things that you're not going to be able to do, indoor dining, going to movie theaters,

00:19:48.800 the theater broadly, are going to places where people congregate. So the things that you're not

00:19:56.180 going to be able to do include everything, everything that people do. Individuals, I guess,

00:20:05.400 can stay home and maybe read a book, as long as it's an approved book, by the way, increasingly in our,

00:20:10.960 in our censorship regime. But the things that people do, you know, together, you're just not going to be

00:20:17.420 able to do that because of society. A healthy society would run this man out of the country on

00:20:25.920 a rail. That's what a healthy society, and I'm not talking about the health of avoiding the,

00:20:30.320 the Wuhan cough. I'm saying a healthy society that understands how to govern itself. But we're not a

00:20:36.960 healthy society. So we let this little technocratic Napoleon come in and, and, and destroy our American

00:20:47.340 way of life almost single-handedly. I mean, obviously politicians are in some ways encouraging

00:20:52.740 him to do it and in other ways are being rolled over by him. But this guy, why does this guy get

00:20:57.020 to do it? You know, hate to say I told you so, I have been on the anti-Fauci train basically from

00:21:04.060 the beginning at this point. And, uh, there were a lot of conservatives who said, no, we like Fauci.

00:21:10.160 No, it's okay. You know, he's got good interests. Now though, I, basically every conservative I think

00:21:14.680 realizes what the real situation is here. Even Meghan McCain, who, you know, is not, not the

00:21:20.820 furthest right member of the Republican party. Meghan McCain was on the view though. And she said,

00:21:24.480 oh boy, I've had enough of this guy. It's time to fire Fauci.

00:21:28.360 I'm over Dr. Fauci. I think we need to have more people giving more opinions. And I honestly,

00:21:33.700 quite frankly, I think the Biden administration should, should remove him and put someone else

00:21:37.180 in place that maybe does understand science or can talk to other countries about how we can be

00:21:41.280 more like these places that are doing this successfully. This is important. I mean, this

00:21:46.240 is a change because for people who are to the right of Genghis Khan, such as myself, uh, we, I think

00:21:51.820 we had Fauci's number from the beginning. We knew what this was all about from the beginning,

00:21:55.460 but people who are a little bit more in the center, people who are a little bit more,

00:21:59.680 you know, in terms of the Republican party or the conservative movement who are a little bit

00:22:02.940 more on the left for them now to be turning on Fauci, I think shows the sea change. The problem is

00:22:09.540 it may just be too late. The guy has got a lot of power. We're now in a sort of new normal.

00:22:15.360 This has been going on for a very long time. So what do the science and data show? Well,

00:22:20.740 there's a very happy story to come out of COVID. Lucia DeClerc, who is the oldest resident of a

00:22:26.860 New Jersey nursing home, just beat the coronavirus after testing positive on her 105th birthday.

00:22:36.240 I'm very glad to hear that for Ms. DeClerc. I'm pleased that it sounds like a happy 105th birthday

00:22:43.420 indeed. This two weeks after the oldest woman in Europe, a 116 year old nun beat coronavirus.

00:22:51.960 Now we were told that coronavirus is basically the most dangerous epidemic we've ever faced as a

00:22:56.920 society. That's why we took the unprecedented step to shut down the whole society, change everybody's

00:23:00.780 behavior. When, when the data started to contradict the narrative, the fear mongering that we've been

00:23:09.280 told, you know, for instance, younger people, basically not at a very great risk from the

00:23:13.420 virus. Then we were told, well, it's just older people. If you're older than 65 or really 75 or

00:23:17.380 really 85, then, then you're truly at risk. And you are at a higher risk according to the evidence

00:23:23.260 we've seen. When 105 year olds and 116 year olds are beating the virus that we are told is going to kill

00:23:35.460 just about anybody, certainly anybody who's a little bit up in age. I think you have to start

00:23:41.540 questioning some of the narrative around the virus. I think, I mean, I love this, these photos of like

00:23:48.960 105 year old being like, what coronavirus? By the way, do you know what this woman, her tips for healthy

00:23:53.640 living, Lucia DeClerc, are prayer, totally agree, avoiding junk food, maybe debatable, and eating nine

00:24:01.500 gin soaked raisins each morning. My girl, a woman after my own heart. What do you think is in the

00:24:07.880 leftist tears tumbler? Absolutely love that. This reminds me of, of the former oldest living World

00:24:15.000 War II veteran who just died a couple of years ago in Texas, who smoked 12 cigars a day. Love that guy.

00:24:20.080 His name escapes me at the moment, but great guy. It has been 345 days since 15 days to slow the spread.

00:24:29.140 Some of us called it at the beginning and we said, don't give them an inch on this. They're lying to

00:24:36.620 you. They, one, don't know what they're talking about in terms of the virus itself, which was borne

00:24:41.820 out again and again. But two, they're lying to you. This is not just going to be 15 days. This is going

00:24:46.740 to go on much longer. They're not going to let us return to normal if we wear the masks. Actually,

00:24:52.020 the masks are probably going to serve as a symbol to prolong these sorts of lockdowns. We're now

00:24:58.600 coming up on a year of 15 days to slow the spread and we're already being promised

00:25:02.920 another year of it. Maybe another year after that. How long before people wake up?

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00:26:05.840 Some people are describing this COVID lockdown and the way it's transforming society. They're

00:26:25.800 describing it as the great reset. They're describing it and actually some prominent people, you know,

00:26:32.000 I think the members of the royal family in the United Kingdom have described it this way. Prime

00:26:37.480 ministers and statesmen around the world have described this opportunity to reset the economy,

00:26:41.840 reset society. Hopefully it won't be reset along the lines of these crazy technocrat power mad

00:26:47.520 losers in lab coats, but there is a sort of a reset happening in the sense that politics changes by

00:26:56.400 the day. Circumstances change and so politics changes. And the old political consensus on the

00:27:02.160 left and on the right is kind of cracking up. That's why you're seeing on the left, the rise of

00:27:07.380 the woke people. And on the right, you're seeing the rise of the red pilled people, right? Those are

00:27:11.820 the two euphemisms that we're using. Woke and red pilled. They mean the same thing, right? They mean

00:27:16.700 sort of waking up out of this dream state to see reality. What people are noticing is the political

00:27:21.320 reality is different than what the major parties are telling you it is. And so you're going to have to

00:27:25.240 adjust accordingly. And the entire Trump candidacy, I think, was a consequence of this. Realizing that

00:27:32.700 the old Republican party wasn't really serving its constituents, wasn't really speaking to

00:27:36.760 the broader GOP base. So the GOP is trying to reset now. I think the GOP is pretty clearly much

00:27:45.820 more the party of workers and of the working class and of blue collar people than the Democratic party.

00:27:51.460 Ted Cruz has described this as the difference between the party of Pittsburgh and the party

00:27:55.740 of Paris. You know, when you think of the Democrats, you think of either these crazy rich kids on college

00:28:01.740 campuses talking about intersectionality, or you think of John Kerry, another crazy rich kid who's

00:28:06.980 flying around on private jets talking about how the sun monster is going to kill us all. So you think

00:28:11.380 of them. And when you think of the Republican party, you think of those deplorable, irredeemable,

00:28:15.280 mega supporting, bitter, clinging rubes in the middle of the country. And so I think that that

00:28:22.440 class, class divide and kind of geographic divide has, has actually taken place. Now, how is that

00:28:29.100 going to manifest in policy? The way you're seeing it manifest is that the GOP is beginning to break

00:28:34.920 away from some of its, what would you call it? Free market absolutism. And I think that's actually a

00:28:41.400 good thing. You know, free markets are great in their place. Free markets are an instrument to

00:28:46.480 human flourishing. But when you make an idol out of free markets, when you make an, when you make an

00:28:50.400 idol out of money, which there's a very good book that tells you not to do that, then things go

00:28:54.840 haywire. It reminds me of what Chesterton said about vices and virtues. He said, heresy is not when you

00:29:00.420 produce, when you, when you prefer vice to virtue, it's when you promote one virtue to the exclusion of

00:29:06.580 all of the others. So, you know, there's a role for the state in our society. But when you make an

00:29:12.940 idol out of the state, you get statism. That's bad. There's a role, obviously, for money, economic

00:29:18.000 growth, free markets. There's a huge role for that in society. When you make an idol out of that,

00:29:21.400 though, when you make that the only end of government, then you delve into a society that

00:29:26.120 we're in now, which is not functioning very well, where families are crumbling, where birth,

00:29:30.220 birth rates are below replacement, you know, a society that is quite literally dying.

00:29:34.280 Mitt Romney has proposed an idea, which is sending direct payments to families with children. This

00:29:42.620 is as a way to promote growing families. Marco Rubio is trying to jump on this bandwagon.

00:29:48.860 Rubio did it even less convincingly, though, I think he said, quote, sending 200 to $350 per month

00:29:55.100 per child to everyone with no work requirement, like Mitt Romney wants to do, is welfare. Being pro

00:30:01.640 family means being pro work. Our expanded child tax credit is a far better approach, meaning you got

00:30:09.720 the Romney plan, which is just send money to families. And then that way they can raise their

00:30:15.320 kids and not have to limit their family size. And Rubio saying, no, you can't just send them money.

00:30:20.380 We need them all to be out working all the time. But if they make enough money, we're going to give

00:30:24.160 them a tax credit. And this is kind of more of the traditional, you know, mid 2000s, 1990s kind of

00:30:31.420 Republican thing. I actually think being pro family is, is bigger than both of those proposals. And

00:30:40.000 this is going to be a really radical one. And you're probably not going to hear any Republican

00:30:43.840 lawmakers proposing this, but perhaps they should. Being pro family, having, having a society that is

00:30:51.380 pro family means having a society where only one parent needs to work. And that one parent can

00:30:59.360 support the household so that the other parent can stay home and raise the family. I say this as a

00:31:06.800 father now of a very newborn, cute little kid. I did not appreciate how difficult it is to keep a

00:31:14.060 baby alive. I did not for the mother, not, you know, for the father. What do I do? I just keep doing

00:31:18.620 basically the same thing I do. I've been doing for years other than maybe I'm sleeping a little bit

00:31:22.880 less. But for mothers, they basically never get to sleep. They're constantly with the child. If you

00:31:28.300 have more than one child, that obviously adds a lot to the workload. And then if you, if you are at

00:31:33.020 home doing that sort of thing, managing a home economy is difficult and involves a lot of work.

00:31:39.400 When we had growing families in this country, because I'm not, I'm not just speaking in the abstract.

00:31:43.340 I'm not just speaking in some pie in the sky solution out of, out of the depths of my own

00:31:48.560 reason. I'm just looking at how this used to work. When we had a growing, growing families,

00:31:53.280 when we had a growing population, we had a thriving society. Families were able to be supported on the

00:31:59.960 wages of just one parent. That really began to change after the second world war, obviously into

00:32:07.160 the late 20th century to the point that now you really can't, it's very difficult to support a family

00:32:11.380 on just one salary in today's economy. Now you've got Romney, who's kind of squishy, but at least,

00:32:18.120 you know, at least he's looking at this problem. You got Rubio who, I don't know, Rubio seems to

00:32:22.720 change his political colors like by the day, but now he's trying to move into this pro-family thing.

00:32:27.320 Okay. Who's going to go out there and make this actual, real, historical, practical, cultural,

00:32:35.560 conservative claim that if you really want to support families, then you need to be able to

00:32:41.480 support them with, with one of the parents actually raising the family. I don't think so,

00:32:46.960 but the politician who does do that, the politician who's willing to say that uncomfortable but

00:32:52.340 undeniable truth, that politician I think will have some serious sway in the future Republican

00:32:57.960 party. A good example of how the Republican party needs to change and how I think it is changing at

00:33:02.600 the moment. During the, the terrible weather in Texas where the power went out because it turns

00:33:07.300 out windmills are not particularly efficient. The Texas power supplier, Gritty, warned some of its

00:33:14.640 customers. He said, look, we have these sort of strange plans that are very deregulated. They're

00:33:20.480 very, you know, very market focused. So this can be helpful during good times, but during a once in a

00:33:26.340 century kind of snowstorm, this is going to be really bad. The plans, uh, vary the price based on

00:33:34.480 the supply of energy. And when energy is more or less completely cut off in Texas, the price is going

00:33:40.980 to go up through the roof. So people who normally would pay out what a hundred bucks or something for

00:33:45.060 your energy, maybe a little less, maybe a little bit more. Some people are getting bills for thousands

00:33:51.700 and thousands of dollars. Karen Cosby said that, uh, her energy costs right now are $5,000

00:33:58.560 to heat a 2,700 square foot house. DeAndre Upshaw of Texas, of Dallas said the electric bill for his

00:34:07.700 900 square foot townhouse, 900 square feet was also $5,000. The spot prices hit $9,000 per megawatt hour.

00:34:20.760 To put that into comparison, $9 per kilowatt hour. Normally that costs about seven cents.

00:34:30.840 Goes up to $9,000 per megawatt hour. Sometimes it can go down as low as two cents in ordinary times.

00:34:37.220 So Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas, much maligned Senator from Texas. If you tune into CNN or any

00:34:42.480 left-wing outlet these days, tweeted out, this is wrong. No power company should get a windfall because

00:34:47.760 of a natural disaster. And Texans shouldn't get hammered by ridiculous rate increases for last

00:34:52.660 week's energy debacle. State and local regulators should act swiftly to prevent this injustice.

00:34:59.760 A friend of mine, I saw this on Twitter the other day, Saurab Sharma, young conservative writer.

00:35:05.620 Uh, Saurab saw this story about the energy prices going up and he said, you know, it's only going to

00:35:11.140 be a matter of time before some market obsessed sociopath says that it is bad to give people

00:35:17.860 relief for their $5,000 spot energy bill. Just a few moments later, you had these kind of market

00:35:26.040 obsessed economics idolaters come out and say, we can't, you have to make DeAndre Upshaw pay the

00:35:33.140 $5,000 heating bill. Otherwise you'll disturb our idol of the market. And that would be really

00:35:38.780 terrible. I don't think any just society believes that people in a once in a century storm should

00:35:46.700 have to pay $5,000, $10,000 to heat their home or keep the lights on when, when the windmill stopped

00:35:55.620 turning. I'm not saying we throw out the free market. I'm not saying that we ignore economic

00:36:02.580 considerations, but we have to realize that economics, like so many other parts of our

00:36:06.820 society is ordered towards something that there is a higher good in our political system, which

00:36:13.660 brings me to our old pal, Ron Paul. I want to preface this segment in which I criticize Ron

00:36:19.740 Paul by saying, I generally like Ron Paul. I, especially I really liked him in 2008, but Ron

00:36:26.720 Paul, he's this confounding figure because he's gotten something so much more correct.

00:36:32.580 than the GOP over his career. In some ways, the new Republican party has to move toward what Ron

00:36:37.680 Paul is saying, but in some ways he's gotten some things totally wrong. He just totally

00:36:43.580 misunderstands politics. And there was a clip that came out from 1988 on some rambunctious

00:36:48.560 television show. You think our politics is crazy now. This show was like really raucous.

00:36:53.960 And this clip shows both and it went viral yesterday. So take a listen to Ron Paul's

00:36:59.060 a prescription for the country. Ask me why we still finance the communists. Ask me why 70%

00:37:05.420 of the military budget is spent overseas. Ask me why the good airplanes are overseas and the lousy

00:37:09.680 airplanes are not here in the, the lousy airplanes are in these air national guard. I would say clean

00:37:14.680 out the state department, spend more money on our national defense, have an anti-communist

00:37:18.660 policy. Don't sign these treaties with the Soviet. Don't extend loans to the Soviet Union. And not to

00:37:24.800 fight these wars with the funds we raised from the illegal drugs. So under the libertarian society,

00:37:30.000 no, we don't fight Vietnam Wars. We don't fight the Korean Wars. We fight wars to defend America.

00:37:34.460 You're all higher, baby. We stand for peace. We get high.

00:37:40.100 You are, excuse me. Yes, yes, we, we get high. We get high, Mark. We get high on the ideas of freedom.

00:37:48.000 We get high because freedom and liberty is worth it.

00:37:52.600 Love that answer. Yes, we do get high on freedom. Well, you're asking me if I'm high. Well, I'm high on

00:37:59.880 life. So some things here that Ron Paul says, totally right. When he says we got to clear out

00:38:04.360 the state department, if we've learned nothing from the past four years, we know there's a ton

00:38:08.040 of corruption in the state department, in the deep state, you call it the bureaucracy, the federal

00:38:12.420 blob. So absolutely, I think he's right on that. I think America did bungle a lot of its foreign

00:38:16.720 policy. Ron Paul is asked, is calling for a totally isolationist foreign policy. That seems a little

00:38:22.280 extreme for my tastes, but broadly speaking, I think he says a lot of smart things. Then, then he goes

00:38:30.800 a little bit too far, a little bit too abstract. He ignores the practical wisdom of the American

00:38:38.580 tradition for the brilliant rationalist abstractions plucked out of his own head.

00:38:44.120 Yeah, let me answer that. Just say no. Assume the responsibility of yourself. Don't assume the

00:38:49.120 government makes your decision. You say no. Don't say the government.

00:38:52.480 You have the courage to do it. It's a tyrannical approach to solving a social medical problem,

00:39:00.120 and we endorse the idea of voluntarism and self-responsibility, family, friends, and churches

00:39:04.340 to solve problems, rather than saying some monolithic government is going to make you

00:39:07.840 take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion. It never works. It

00:39:11.680 never will. The government can't make you a better person. It can't make you follow good habits.

00:39:16.480 Why don't they put you on a diet? You're a little overweight, and I think you'd be in better

00:39:20.000 health. I'm tired of people like you using the constitution to do whatever you want to do.

00:39:33.880 I actually love that woman's answer, and I think here's where Ron Paul loses me. He's talking about

00:39:39.160 drug laws. He's basically saying all drugs need to be legal, and once all drugs are legal,

00:39:44.120 that's going to be great. First of all, we're in the midst of this horrible opioid crisis where

00:39:49.580 I know people who have died from it. I suspect you might know people, or you at least know people

00:39:54.800 who know people who have died from this opioid crisis. What is your evidence that legalizing

00:40:00.500 all of these drugs is going to be a good thing, that legalizing all these drugs is going to

00:40:05.760 help people to flourish or help people to enjoy their freedom? What Ron Paul is confusing here is

00:40:11.120 liberty and licentiousness. He thinks that when you get to pursue your appetites however you want,

00:40:16.240 that's what liberty is. That's not what liberty is. We talked about this yesterday. Liberty,

00:40:20.320 according to Lord Acton, long venerated by libertarians, liberty in the conception of the

00:40:25.060 founding fathers is the ability to do what you ought to do. It's the ability to do the right thing.

00:40:31.200 It's not the freedom to do whatever you want to pursue your appetites. Do you think that a heroin

00:40:36.160 addict is free? Do you think a heroin addict has liberty? No, a heroin addict is a slave. He has no

00:40:41.000 liberty at all. He's squandered his liberty. He can't tame his passions. He can't tame his appetites.

00:40:44.880 He can't master his higher faculties and pursue liberty. This is not some radical notion. We

00:40:52.100 have known this since the ancient Greeks. We've known this at least since old uncle Aristotle.

00:40:56.060 We've known this throughout the American political tradition. And I, by the way, I think the Republican

00:41:01.220 approach to, yeah, do whatever you want as long as it doesn't affect me. We've already been trying

00:41:05.200 that. We've tried that for decades and it hasn't worked. We've lost the entire culture by doing that.

00:41:09.920 So whatever, what I'm not giving an easy answer. I'm saying whatever the future Republican Party is,

00:41:14.800 whatever the future of the conservative movement is, it's going to have to be different than that.

00:41:19.020 It's going to have to be different than what is called neoconservatism, you know, the sort of the

00:41:22.540 Bush era stuff. It's going to have to be different than the kind of radical abstractions of Ron Paul,

00:41:27.920 which have in many ways never, first of all, never been tried anywhere because they're not

00:41:32.380 practical ideas. They haven't worked where they have been tried. We maybe need to take a little bit

00:41:37.980 from Ron Paul, a little bit from the libertarians, a little bit from traditional, traditional

00:41:43.260 conservatives, obviously. And we need to look at what sort of society we want to have. I don't,

00:41:49.200 I don't think there is a simple answer to this question. That's why politicians are duking it out

00:41:52.860 right now. Now, speaking of voluntarism, which I love, you know, I, I like a lot of things

00:42:02.340 that people like Ron Paul and those libertarians, I like voluntarism. I like subsidiarity. I obviously

00:42:09.980 love federalism. But to say that the government has no role in these huge questions, that,

00:42:18.240 that is to cede our political right. That is to cede our ability for self-government to the left,

00:42:25.780 which is going to use it. Look, we have been doing that. We've been conceding

00:42:28.880 our political rights for a very long time and the left has been taking them.

00:42:33.320 Look at where it's gotten us. Not very far. But speaking of voluntarism,

00:42:38.240 someone is voluntarily canceling himself, a beloved voice actor, Harry Shearer from The Simpsons,

00:42:44.880 which is apparently still on air. It's surprising to me too, but it is. I think The Simpsons is older

00:42:52.200 than me, slight, very slightly older than me. So Harry Shearer has been voicing the role of

00:42:58.440 Dr. Hibbert for years and years. We're going on like 30 years now. But he's no longer going to do

00:43:05.700 that because you see Harry Shearer is white. Dr. Hibbert is black. You probably didn't know that

00:43:12.200 Harry Shearer is white because he's a voice actor and Dr. Hibbert is a cartoon. But we are now in the

00:43:20.440 era that tells you that you cannot culturally appropriate. And so he's going to give up his

00:43:28.660 30-year voice, his voice job, and he's going to give it to Kevin Michael Richardson, who I've never

00:43:36.120 heard, who is a black voice actor. And now that's going to make things better because white people

00:43:41.820 cannot appropriate anyone else's culture. But also white people need to be less white.

00:43:48.520 Remember, that's what Robin DiAngelo said in that training that's associated with Coca-Cola.

00:43:54.640 All those diversity, equity, inclusion, they tell you, you got to be less white,

00:43:58.460 but also you can't appropriate anybody else's culture. So what are you supposed to do?

00:44:06.560 Are you supposed to stay perfectly still? I don't know. It seems kind of white to me.

00:44:10.580 Your skin looks exactly the same, so you got to do better than that. There's nothing you can do.

00:44:15.140 It's a rigged game. It's a rigged request. It's not based in anything actionable or anything true,

00:44:22.600 which we're seeing more and more these days. This, my favorite non-traversy from this comes

00:44:28.580 from dear old Yale. The Yale Law Journal at Yale Law School is being accused of racism.

00:44:35.600 What we have heard, if you've been paying attention to these sort of silly campus politics,

00:44:41.860 is that black people are underrepresented on the Yale Law Journal masthead. A journal editor,

00:44:48.060 Gavin Jackson, just resigned, saying he felt used and tokenized in his position. And so he's going to

00:44:55.120 resign this racist organization, racist publication. So people took a look at the numbers.

00:45:02.620 Turns out, turns out, you're going to be shocked to hear this. Not only are blacks and Hispanics not

00:45:11.200 marginalized at the Yale Law Journal, they are admitted to this law journal at a higher rate than

00:45:19.840 white people. The admissions rate for black students to the Yale Law Journal is 61%,

00:45:28.620 much, much, much, much higher than that of any other ethnic group.

00:45:38.780 The anti-racists wanted to show evidence of racism and they did show evidence of racism,

00:45:47.660 racism against apparently white students. Now, I don't think that differing rates of admittance are

00:45:55.040 in and of themselves evidence of racial bigotry or discrimination. Very likely, maybe. But these

00:46:02.960 guys certainly think they do. By the logic of these race hustlers at Yale Law School, the Yale Law

00:46:10.480 Journal is racist, very racist against white students. Do you think this is now going to become a national

00:46:17.300 news story? Probably not. Because when there is actual institutional systemic racism against white

00:46:25.400 and Asian students in the form of, say, affirmative action policies, that is ignored. You won't even get

00:46:31.360 a hearing. Remember those Chinese students who were, I forget if it was Chinese specifically or if it was a

00:46:39.040 group of Asian students more broadly, sued Harvard for discrimination. Sorry, nope, not going to hear

00:46:47.060 that one. The Department of Justice under Donald Trump was looking into racial discrimination on the

00:46:52.400 same grounds at Yale. But whoops, sorry, Biden is now the president. We're not going to look into that

00:46:59.520 anymore. This kind of radical racial policy, it's not just affecting our nation's most prestigious

00:47:05.260 universities. It's going down into elementary schools. Christopher Rufa, who covers these sorts

00:47:09.700 of issues, specifically critical race theory at City Journal, is doing great stuff. He just got a

00:47:13.700 scoop that Buffalo public schools are now claiming, quote, all white people perpetuate systemic racism.

00:47:19.620 They are now forcing kindergartners there, according to this report, to watch a video of dead black

00:47:24.280 children warning them about racist police and state-sanctioned violence. He says that he's got the

00:47:31.260 whistleblower documents here. This is the sort of thing being, this is the narrative being foisted

00:47:38.440 on students now. And it doesn't just start when you're a law school student. It starts when you're

00:47:44.800 a little kid. And by the way, this does actually tie into the kind of Ron Paul vision of liberty and

00:47:50.580 libertarianism or whatever. We have to make sense of our liberty. We do that through liberal education,

00:47:58.620 and this has been true for millennia. Liberal education exists to teach us to tamp down our

00:48:03.120 passions and our base desires and to pursue our higher ordered appetites and, you know, pursue

00:48:09.260 our virtues and practice the virtues and make sense of our own freedom. This is why the left always goes

00:48:16.720 after the kids. It's why they go after education broadly and they go after education really hard and

00:48:21.600 why they go after younger and younger kids. Because if you can get to a kid when he's five years old,

00:48:26.720 you have a much greater opportunity to shape his mind. This is why maybe some of you when you were

00:48:31.520 growing up, your parents said, hey, don't watch The Simpsons, or at least don't watch this, don't

00:48:34.760 watch that. You can't watch that movie. That's why there's rating systems in movies. Because we know

00:48:38.920 that children absorb much more than adults do the content that is around them, and it helps shape the

00:48:44.880 way that they think. That's why we're much more concerned about keeping kids away from obscene material

00:48:50.320 than we are about keeping adults away. Because when you're an adult, you're a little more formed.

00:48:53.220 It's going to have less of an effect on you. Well, the left is now not just going after the

00:48:59.320 adults or even the teenagers. They're all the way going after the kids with this sort of perverse

00:49:03.020 policies. Not just throwing the kids in cages, which Joe Biden's doing, but things that are

00:49:08.720 actually much, much more dangerous. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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