Ep. 713 - Cuomo’s Close-Up Magic
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Andrew Cuomo breaks his silence on sexual misconduct allegations, but is still quiet about the thousands of senior citizens that he killed, and the subsequent cover-up and the federal investigation into it. Plus, a new housewarming gift that keeps you safe.
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Embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has broken his silence on sexual misconduct allegations.
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He's still quiet about the thousands of senior citizens that he killed and the subsequent
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cover up and the federal investigation into it. But he wants you to know that he is really,
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really sorry about maybe hugging staffers. I certainly never, ever meant to offend anyone
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or hurt anyone or cause anyone any pain. That is the last thing I would ever want to do.
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I never wanted to cause anyone pain unless you're a senior citizen, in which case I want you dead.
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I want your family dead. I want your house burned to the ground. I want to go there in the middle
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of the night. I want to piss in the ashes. I'm Andrew Cuomo. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Heaton James,
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who asks, has there ever been a time in history when the people banning books were the good guys?
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The answer to this question actually is yes, but y'all ain't ready for that yet. But, but it is
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actually book banning, book burning has gone on for all of history. It's gone on. Bad guys have done it.
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Good guys have done it. Christians in the Bible do it. The question is under what circumstances,
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how extensive, and what exactly is the kind of content that is being, you could say, banned or
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burned or canceled. This is the same sort of issue that we've been talking about for a couple of weeks
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now. It's not only the formal question, the procedural question of, are you canceling,
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censoring, showing consequences for things you say, but what exactly are the things that you
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were saying that are incurring these consequences? Well, hopefully we'll get into that in the ensuing
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That is ring.com slash Knowles. Cuomo finally addressing these allegations. They have been
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bubbling up for a couple of weeks now. They actually first came to light even longer ago. This idea that
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maybe Cuomo was inappropriate. He said an inappropriate thing to a woman, right? It's all kind of very vague
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stuff. But now it's really coming to a head just conveniently, just coincidentally, as we were
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focusing in on the COVID scandal. The fact that Cuomo's policies directly led to the deaths of
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thousands of elderly New Yorkers. And he knew about it. Crucially, he knew about it. He covered it up
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and the feds were, and I suppose are looking into it. So Cuomo, he don't want to talk about any of that
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stuff. So instead he talks about his behavior. And while he says, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cause
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anybody pain. He also provides some excuses, namely that it's perfectly ordinary to kiss everybody that
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you see on the street. Uh, you can go find hundreds of pictures of me, uh, kissing people, uh, men,
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women. It is my usual and customary way of greeting. So this is obviously an excuse. I've met Andrew
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Cuomo twice in my life, and I can thankfully say he did not greet me in that way. The thing is,
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there actually is some truth to this. I say this as a New Yorker. I say this as an Italian American.
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I come from a very similar culture. I think actually the same town as Andrew Cuomo.
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Uh, we're a little bit more, uh, physical. We're a little bit more, you know, we'll, uh,
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hug people. It's obviously Italians in Italy do like the kiss, kiss, cheek, cheek. Uh, but it's,
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we're, we're not as quite as standoffish as some other cultures. So sure. Now, does this mean that,
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uh, Andrew Cuomo did not try to pick up his staffers, that he did not try to do anything
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inappropriate? I don't know. I'm, I'm not sure. Frankly, I don't care that Andrew Cuomo kissed
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hundreds of people. I care that his policies killed thousands of people and he covered it up.
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That's what I care about. I've said this from the beginning, that this is a distraction. Now,
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do I think this is a distraction contrived by the Cuomo team themselves? Do I think that there was
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mastermind Cuomo sitting around saying, okay, I, I'm really in hot water on the COVID thing.
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Let's distract. Let's have them start talking about some vague sex scandal. No, I don't think
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so. I mean, it's possible. The guy is an absolute killer politician, so it's possible, but more likely
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what it is, is that the Democrats pumped this guy up. They exalted this guy and they, they made him
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the greatest COVID hero in the country. Absolutely implausibly. But if all you consume is the mainstream
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media, then, then you would believe that. And then turns out that his COVID policies,
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and by association, their COVID policies were a complete failure and Republican COVID policies,
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like namely Florida governor Ron DeSantis, big success. And so now that this guy is really making
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them all look bad, they take him out with some contrived sex scandal. That seems more likely to
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me, but in any case, it is a distraction. There's no question about that. I knew it from the minute
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that this scandal or pseudo scandal bubbled up. It also creates a problem for Democrats because
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Democrats have been saying for years now that we need to support women and believe all women.
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And the minute that any woman makes any accusation whatsoever because of her genetic quality that
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prevents her from even being able to lie ever, uh, we, we have to believe her. But what happens when
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the ladies accuse the Democrat men, they have to twist themselves into pretzels to explain their stance
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on it? First, I fully support a woman's right to come forward. And I think it should be encouraged in
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every way. Wow. That's really big of you, Andrew Cuomo. You support the right of women to, uh,
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make accusations and try to get justice. Wow. Oh my gosh. Feminist of the year over here.
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This guy thinks that women are entitled to the same rights as every American citizen. Wow. Incredible.
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But he understands he might, he might not understand how he's coming across right now,
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but he understands that he made some people feel uncomfortable. I now understand that I acted in a
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way that made people feel uncomfortable. It was unintentional and I truly and deeply apologize for it.
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I feel awful about it. And frankly, I am embarrassed by it. And that's not easy to say, but that's the
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truth. But this is what I want you to know. And I want you to know this from me directly. I never touched
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anyone inappropriately. I never touched anyone inappropriately. I want you to say it after me.
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I never touched anyone inappropriately. Luca Brasi, get over here. Make sure that they repeat after me.
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I never touched anyone inappropriately. Okay. The, the waterworks routine was not very persuasive
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because Andrew Cuomo from the beginning of his political career has been a bulldog. He has been
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a tough, tough dude ever since he was helping out his father, Mario Cuomo, another governor of New York
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with presidential ambitions who ended up not running. Cuomo now carrying on the dynasty. So
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it, it, it's not very persuasive when he says, I'm very embarrassed by it. I'm very humiliated.
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He's trying to work up the waterworks. It doesn't really work. But then he gets to his point. He says,
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this allegation is BS. You know, after this whole, I think we should listen to the women. They should
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come forward. I'm this and that. This is a BS is what he's saying. And maybe it is, I don't know.
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Maybe it is just a contrived attack that he's only suffering now because of the COVID scandal.
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I strongly suspect it is because these vague allegations have been kind of floating in the ether
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for quite a while. Democrats never cared about it until now. And then Andy Cuomo used the classic
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democratic move. He made himself the victim. I have learned from what has been an incredibly
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difficult situation for me as well as other people. And I've learned an important lesson.
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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for whatever pain I caused anyone. I never intended it.
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Will you be the better, Andrew Cuomo? I think you may be unemployed because of this experience,
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because this isn't Republicans pushing this kind of thing. Republicans are pushing the COVID scandal,
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which is the actual scandal. This is Democrats who have, who have obviously lost faith in you.
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And what he's trying to show with this presser is that he is still in control here. He is not going
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to be pushed out by the forces in his party that think that he really let them down, that he's going
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to continue on his path because the guy has wanted to be president since he was two years old.
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There's a biography of Andy Cuomo that came out about six years ago. It's called The Contender.
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It's generally a quite, quite positive biography of him. But the point that it keeps coming back to
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again and again is how tightly controlled Andrew Cuomo's press operation is, his images, and how
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obviously this is all about him trying to run for president. Now that's seeming a little bit less
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likely. Speaking of press conferences and presidents, you got to at least give Andrew Cuomo credit for being
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able to go out there and face the cameras and try to set his own narrative. Joe Biden, not doing that.
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Joe Biden now setting the record in modern history for the longest time a president has waited before
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giving his first press conference. It's not only conservatives attacking him for this, even Jake
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Tapper, who I think is, sometimes Jake Tapper I think tries to portray himself as the only honest guy in
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the room and he just talks about the facts. Jake Tapper was a partisan Democrat. I really hate that
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whole shtick and routine that he does. He is as left as they come in the mainstream, but he, he credit
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where credit's due. He does go after Biden here. He says an analysis of the past hundred years shows
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president Biden's 15 most recent predecessors all held a formal solo press conference within 33 days
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of taking office. Biden has not. And it's a day 42. And I, I don't think Biden has any desire to do
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that. Why? Because Joe Biden is not particularly persuasive when he was just giving a talk, a virtual
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sort of zoom talk with members of Congress. And he had no idea basically what he was doing,
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where he was. They ended up having to cut the feed from him. And I'm happy to take questions. If that's
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you, I'm supposed to do, Nance, whatever you want me to do.
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And there it goes. There it is. No, what we want you to do, Joe, is go away, sit, go watch TV in
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your apartment. Meanwhile, the liberal establishment is going to be pushing radical, radical policies that
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have not only transformed the country over the last year, but seem to be attempting to transform the
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country in this radical, locked down way indefinitely. Biden was asked, not during a press conference
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because he doesn't really do that sort of thing. He was asked though, well, he was just kind of
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walking. He was in transit. What he thinks of the new normal, you know, we're now, we're now coming up
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on the one year anniversary of 15 days to slow the spread. And we joke about that, but that is really
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crazy and horrible for the country that these sociopaths have been able to wrest the power
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from us and our political rights and traditions. And we've basically done nothing to stop it. And
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we've known from some of us from the very beginning, but some of us from three weeks in,
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four weeks in, that they were not going to give up power. This wasn't going to be two weeks or two
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months. Now it's looking like it's going to be two years. Joe Biden asked, when are we getting back
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to normal? He said, ah, hopefully, I don't know, maybe, maybe in about a year.
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Caution not to give an answer to that because we don't know for sure.
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But my hope is by this time next year, we're going to be back to normal. And before that,
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my hope, but again, it depends upon if people continue, continue to be smart and understand that
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we still can have significant losses. There's a lot we have to do yet. So thank you.
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Two weeks to slow the spread has actually now become, according to the president of the United
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States, two years to slow the spread. When some of us mentioned that they weren't going to give up
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power about a year ago, we were told, oh, stop being a crazy conspiracy theorist. Oh, stop being
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hyperbolic. Oh, stop being a catastrophist. When we were told that, look, if people just
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wear the masks, we'll get back to normal. That's, that's the cost for getting back to normal. People
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wear the masks. We have mask mandates all over this country, various places all over this country
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with a few notable and admirable exceptions. Have the masks helped us get back to normal?
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No. As some of us pointed out a while ago, the masks were always going to prolong this thing
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because the masks don't make people feel safer. They make people feel more anxious.
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You look around, you see all these people wearing masks, like a bunch of banditos and you don't say,
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okay, we're all good. Now you say, oh my gosh, we're in an unprecedented event. Oh my gosh, we need
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to give the government extraordinary powers. We need to give these psycho politicians more and more
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of our rights and our liberties. And that's just how it's going to be. Biden says, I hope this time
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next year, I hope it's only going to be two years to slow the spread, but that's going to depend on if
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you're a good little boy and you're a good little girl. It's going to depend on if you do everything
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I say. If you don't, if you don't wear the mask and get the shot and social distance and cancel
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Thanksgiving and cancel Christmas, do all the other nonsense I tell you to do. If you don't do it,
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maybe it's going to be three years to slow the spread. Oh gosh, maybe it's going to be four years.
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Maybe this is the new normal, like these people have been telling us from the very beginning.
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And some of us who were listening will remember that, but other people don't want to remember
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it because it is so outrageous. Meanwhile, look at the various states. The states have been handling
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this. You've got a state like California, which has been locked down. It's just New Salini's
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tyranny over there, locked down more than virtually any other state. They're not doing any better on
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COVID than Florida, which has been open basically from the beginning, like quite open. New York has
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been extremely locked down. New York has done worse than any other state on COVID. That's why Andy
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Cuomo has to answer questions about some ridiculous sex scandal right now. Not because of the sex scandal,
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it's because of COVID. So at least one reporter asks Joe Biden, this is again, it's not a press
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conference. It's just sort of at the very end. They try to shout a few questions to Biden. They ask
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Biden, Hey, Mr. President, Florida is looking pretty good. It seems to disprove all your stupid
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COVID theories. What do you have to say about that? Joe Biden does not mince words.
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I hope everybody's realized by now these masks make a difference. We are on the cusp of being able to
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fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the way in which we're able to get
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vaccines in people's arms. We've been able to move that all the way up to the end of May to have
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enough for every American to get every adult American to get a shot. And the last thing,
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the last thing we need is the Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime, everything's fine. Take off
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your mask, forget it. It's still matters. Now, Joe Biden using this phrase, Neanderthal thinking
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actually carries quite a bit of weight because Joe Biden remembers the Neanderthals. You know,
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when Joe Biden was growing up in Delaware, uh, I forget during which, uh, era of the earth's history,
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uh, he knew a lot of Neanderthals. They were wandering around, uh, then, you know, very sadly,
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they went extinct and, uh, now we, we live in this world without them, but he remembers what it was
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like. And he, he doesn't want to go back to that Neanderthal thinking. So I, just in my mind,
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I've got to compare two guys, Ron DeSantis in Florida, kept the state open. Everybody's happy.
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Everybody's free virus, very well contained. Andrew Cuomo in New York, uh, not doing great. Locked down
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the state and killed a bunch of senior citizens and took away his constituents, liberties and rights.
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If I'm, and I'm just saying, I don't even want you to think ideologically here. I just want you to
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think as a purely physical matter. Which of those guys looks and sounds more like a Neanderthal?
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Is it Ron DeSantis? Very articulate guy. You know, he's relatively handsome. Or is it
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Andrew Cuomo? Andrew Cuomo with the, you know, he looks just like a bulldog. I think it's probably,
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probably going to be the latter. So the really, the only reason the Cuomo sex scandal matters is
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because it reveals something about the way that the coronavirus has played out. I think now a year
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into slowing the spread, a year before Joe Biden says, maybe he hopes we're going to stop having
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to slow the spread. It's pretty clear the Republican policies worked. And by the way, a lot of Republicans
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went squishy on this. So I'm excluding them from my analysis, but the people who wanted to stay open,
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lose those stupid masks, let kids go to school, let everybody go to church. The people who wanted
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to do that were 100% right. And people like Dr. Fauci and all the other technocrat tyrants in lab
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coats and all of the other sociopath democratic politicians were completely 100% wrong. Dr. Fauci
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was asked about this. It's hard to say that Dr. Fauci was wrong because he's held every side of every
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single position, depending on the political convenience to him. But he actually got to
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give a little bit of credit to CNN. I can't believe how much of that I'm doing in recent days.
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Dr. Fauci was asked, Hey, uh, Florida, you know, the same question that Biden was asked,
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Florida. Look, we want to defend Newsom. We want to defend Cuomo. We want to defend you.
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Oh, exalted Dr. Fauci. But Florida and some of the other Republican states, it's like, it's fine.
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So does that mean that the Republicans got something right? Some states that shut down,
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obviously, and had all those mandates, New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, all have higher death
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rates. Do you think it's possible when you look up back on this, that it may be that DeSantis did
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some things right? Well, I'm sure he did. I mean, I don't think it would be fair to say that,
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that the governor of Florida did everything wrong. Not at all. There were certain things
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that would, that were done that, that I disagreed with and that it wasn't just me personally. It's
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the public, any public health person who looked at it. But I think it would be unfair to say that
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he did everything wrong. This guy is such a twerp. I can't get over it. He's asked, Hey,
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Fauci or not Fauci, Ron DeSantis. Hey, Mr. Fauci, Ron DeSantis did way better than Andy Cuomo and
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Governor Newsom and all these other people. So Cuomo and Newsom follow your advice. And Ron
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DeSantis told you to go pound sand and he's doing better than all those other guys. So maybe did he
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get something right? Well, I think maybe he did certain things right in his life. He studied for
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his exams. He brushed his teeth in the morning. And so I'm not, it's not fair to say that he did
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every single thing in his entire life wrong, but I disagree with his approach to the virus. So he
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won't, he won't grant it. It's a, it's a direct question and he just evades it because if you
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contradict the exalted Dr. Fauci, you must be wrong. Even if the revolt results say otherwise,
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what exactly did he get right? Fauci goes on. Are there, are there some things when you look
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at Florida that you, that you think that he did get right? Well, you know, we, Aaron, we had often
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talks on a weekly basis during the last administration with the mayors of Miami and
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of Dade County. And, you know, some of the things that were done down there by the, by people at the
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local level really actually did work. I mean, they were very careful. They tried really very hard.
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This guy is just unbelievable. Shameless. What did Ron DeSantis, who did a great job,
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what did he get right? He had Democrat mayors. That's what he's saying. What did Ron DeSantis
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get right? His Democrat mayors talked to me. I'm right. I'm right. Please, please believe me. Except,
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except he's not. And the longer this madness goes on, the clearer it is, but they are still not going
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to let up. Ben is going to be talking about this very fact today on his show, why the left is so
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enraged about reopening. So make sure to stick around, check that out. Also, you know, there's
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a ton of crazy left-wing theories out there, in some cases, some outright lies, and they need to be
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We'll be right back with a lot more. Dr. Fauci was wrong. A lot of people from the mainstream
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on the right and the left are acknowledging this now. Mostly people from the mainstream right,
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but a handful of people from the mainstream left, but it goes beyond the mainstream. Even people on
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the fringes of the right and on the fringes of the left are finally going after Dr. Fauci and this
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public health dictatorship, including one of the more odious people who is in public life,
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who has made a career out of saying revolting things, Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation
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of Islam, a radical, a racialist. He took a break from his usual sort of race hustling to
00:25:38.380
go after Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci, well, he may be a good man for some things and for some people. Dr.
00:25:47.380
Alim didn't want to say anything negative about him. I understand. Don't choose him over me.
00:25:52.880
That's right. It's the nanoparticles that men like Dr. Fauci have proprietary knowledge of that allows
00:26:10.460
them to get a patent for their vial of death. We don't need none of that.
00:26:22.460
You know, I saw this clip talking about the vaccine as a vial of death and how Fauci is this awful
00:26:30.220
evil guy from Louis Farrakhan. And I thought, you know, even a stopped clock twice a day. No,
00:26:35.780
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. For all the fact checkers, I'm kidding. Don't you dare. I,
00:26:41.580
when somebody sent me this clip, I said, don't make me agree with Louis Farrakhan, but I'm not.
00:26:45.480
I'm only, I'm only joking. I'm joking much less about Dr. Fauci, of course. Dr. Fauci is just
00:26:53.140
awful. He is an absolute pox on our public life. He should be removed from his position where he has
00:26:59.840
been for 40, 50 years. Goodness gracious. If the entire mainstream right, some of the mainstream
00:27:07.340
left, the far right, and even the kind of radical far left, the guys like Louis Farrakhan, everybody
00:27:14.060
seems to have woken up to this for one reason or another, for legitimate reasons or for perhaps
00:27:19.680
illegitimate reasons, as we've seen. But we, we're all getting something. Namely, this guy,
00:27:26.140
Fauci is just no good for our public life. Now, I hate, I hate that in any way I have to
00:27:35.820
even agree with like half of a percent of a thing that Louis Farrakhan has intimated while still
00:27:41.400
disagreeing with 99% of the things he says in that very same breath. Such is the case in our public
00:27:47.000
life right now. Speaking of militant radicals like Louis Farrakhan, maybe you've heard, if you watch the
00:27:52.540
mainstream media, certainly you've heard, we're, we're getting ready for an insurrection. Another
00:28:00.120
coup d'etat from the right, the Trumpist forces, Bloomberg reporting, quote, a militant group may
00:28:09.640
be plotting to attack the US Capitol on Thursday, a day tied to conspiracy theories about March 4th,
00:28:16.460
police warn. March 4th. I've seen this in other mainstream media publications. They say March 4th,
00:28:23.840
that's the day there's going to be a coup. There's going to be an insurrection. I asked last time I was
00:28:29.020
in DC, I said, why is the national guard still in DC a month after the riot at the Capitol? Why, why,
00:28:36.100
why does DC still look like some occupied city? We were told that they were here to prevent a coup
00:28:44.360
d'etat. Why does it look like a coup d'etat here with all the, all these guardsmen? And I was told
00:28:50.020
the answer I heard was March 4th. They're, they've heard that there's going to be an insurrection on
00:28:55.300
March 4th. I said, I, you know, I spend an inordinate amount of my day delving the depths of
00:29:02.460
right-wing commentary online. And I haven't seen anything about an insurrection on March 4th.
00:29:10.800
Have you? Do you, if you're listening right now, probably you pay attention to some conservative
00:29:18.380
commentary. Have you seen anything about that? No. Seems to me that the only people hyping this
00:29:24.380
alleged insurrection on March 4th are left-wing journalists. Isn't that weird? Isn't that a
00:29:31.260
strange circumstance? You would think that if this were a right-wing insurrection, that the left would
00:29:36.700
be downplaying it or, but instead they seem to be promoting it. They seem to be hyping it.
00:29:41.920
Maybe they want something to happen. Maybe they want an excuse to continue to erode our liberties
00:29:50.820
and our traditions and our rights in this country, just as they have been doing for at least a year
00:29:56.520
now. Maybe they want an excuse to ramp it up, ramp up the censorship, ramp up the lockdowns,
00:30:02.700
ramp up the security all around DC. Seems pretty weird to me. Speaking of insurrectionist subversive
00:30:14.140
forces, you may have heard that at CPAC last week, the conservative political action conference,
00:30:19.400
the stage at CPAC was built in the shape of a Nazi symbol. You say, what? Hold on. Actually,
00:30:28.660
I wasn't able to make it to CPAC this year. They made a swastika shaped stage. That seems like a
00:30:35.680
big oversight. Man, we got to call Matt Schlapp. Clearly, they missed something here.
00:30:41.320
But I looked at the stage and I said, oh, no, that's not a swastika. If anything, it looks kind
00:30:46.660
of like that random symbol that Prince changed his name into. Remember when he lost his name and he
00:30:51.680
became the artist formerly known as Prince? And it looks kind of like that, but when I look at that,
00:30:55.200
I don't see a Nazi symbol. The left, they saw Nazi symbols. This was being reported everywhere.
00:31:00.320
So it turns out, turns out that the allegedly Nazi stage was designed by a company called Design
00:31:08.180
Foundry that has not just worked for, well, has not worked for the Nazis and they've not just worked
00:31:14.180
for the right wing. They've worked for Joe Biden and they've worked for MSNBC. And 98% of the company's
00:31:23.220
political donations have gone to Democratic candidates. Pretty strange stuff. The left
00:31:32.600
refers to these sorts of symbols and sort of statements that if you looked at that stage,
00:31:39.760
you'd say it's completely innocuous. If you heard many things that right wingers say,
00:31:43.560
you'd say it's completely anodyne stuff. And they refer to this as dog whistles. So for instance,
00:31:48.540
if I, if I come out and I say, you know, they got rid of a lot of election integrity protections in
00:31:54.920
2020 and we need to protect our elections. The left will say that's a dog whistle for you don't want
00:32:03.480
black people to vote. If, if I come out and I say, you know, I love my country and I want law and order
00:32:09.640
in this country. They'll say that's a dog whistle for racism and fascism and Nazism. And you say,
00:32:15.280
it's all these dog whistles. And I say, I don't see that. I don't hear any of that.
00:32:20.380
And we are reminded that if you're hearing dog whistles all the time,
00:32:25.940
it means you're the dog, right? You are. And I think that's what the Democrats are saying about
00:32:32.760
themselves here. They are attuned to these things because it has a resonance for them.
00:32:40.720
They, they are obsessed with race. So they see racism everywhere. They're obsessed with
00:32:48.540
Nazism or fascism. So they see Nazis and fascists everywhere, lots and lots of dog whistles. And
00:32:55.080
they are determined to root that out. We know that this country, the defining feature of it is
00:33:02.140
pervasive racism. That's what the left tells us. And we need to root that out from the very,
00:33:07.240
very beginning, which is why now in New Jersey, five-year-olds in kindergarten are receiving
00:33:13.320
training in diversity, equity, and inclusion. They are receiving so-called anti-racism training.
00:33:22.480
The Democratic governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, signed this bill into law
00:33:27.300
forcing teachers to instruct students as young as five in diversity and inclusion and equity
00:33:37.240
and belonging in connection with gender and sexual orientation, race and ethnicity,
00:33:44.200
disabilities, and religious tolerance. Now forget, you know, whenever you hear this term,
00:33:49.820
diversity, inclusion, and equity, or any permutation of that, what that means is leftist orthodoxy.
00:33:57.820
That's what they're going to be trained in from a young age. And I've seen some people protest this
00:34:02.900
and they've said, you know, babies aren't racist is another one, or, you know, little children
00:34:07.300
aren't bigoted and we don't, we don't need to teach them this. If you want to have this kind
00:34:12.280
of program of education, wait until later. I think those conservative critics are totally missing the
00:34:16.860
point. This makes perfect sense. If you want to get your country to be more left-wing, it's not going to
00:34:26.080
be nearly as useful to teach 18-year-olds as it will be to teach eight-year-olds, as it will be to
00:34:30.580
teach five-year-olds. The younger kids are, the more malleable their minds are. The less they know,
00:34:36.520
the easier it is to shape the way that they view themselves, the way they view the world, the way
00:34:39.880
that they view the country. And so, absolutely, if I were a left-winger, I'd want to get into the
00:34:44.760
kindergartens. Frankly, I think we should get into the kindergartens as conservatives and teach
00:34:49.240
students not this radical gender theory or whatever. We should get into the kindergartens and
00:34:53.980
teach them what they were once taught in kindergarten. Namely, George Washington was a good guy.
00:34:59.000
Our country is a good country, a country that you ought to have loyalty and respect for, that God
00:35:05.900
exists, that we believe certain things and we don't believe other things. We ought to teach them
00:35:12.840
those. Children will be taught values. It is not possible to have education without values.
00:35:20.100
I know there's this kind of liberal dream among left-wing liberals, but even some right-wing liberals,
00:35:25.040
you know, people who say, I just, I want to get the indoctrination out of the classroom. I just want
00:35:29.640
them to learn their arithmetic and, you know, the three R's or no, it doesn't work that way.
00:35:37.200
Education is about the whole person. It's about developing virtues, suppressing vices,
00:35:43.100
understanding how to view the world. And the left is very successful at this and the right is very
00:35:47.860
unsuccessful at this because this is actually the topic of my book, my upcoming book that Amazon is
00:35:52.820
almost certainly going to cancel, speechless, controlling words, controlling minds.
00:35:58.600
We conservatives like to believe that we understand education so much better than the left
00:36:04.220
does. We understand free speech so much better than the left does. I don't think we do. I think
00:36:10.720
that the left and I think the intellectual leftists who developed this system that we now call wokeism
00:36:17.160
or political correctness or, or whatever word you want to use for it. I think they understood those
00:36:24.540
things much better than conservatives do. And it's, it's why they were able to transform it. And only by
00:36:28.680
understanding what they really think are we going to be able to change course because our current
00:36:32.620
strategy on this is failing. Speaking of young people, speaking of failing strategies,
00:36:37.400
a large number of migrants are headed to the United States right now, this is often the case,
00:36:45.520
but they're headed there in higher numbers than usual. They're approaching California and they're
00:36:51.340
wearing Joe Biden t-shirts. Not joking. There's a photograph of a group of migrants heading toward
00:36:59.300
America wearing t-shirts that say, Biden, please let us in. Biden, please let us in. Raises a few
00:37:06.760
questions. One, if these migrants are able to get these nice brand spanking new t-shirts, they say,
00:37:14.680
you know, really good. One, it means this is not just some randomly, you know, grassroots springing
00:37:23.460
effort of people who are destitute, just seeking survival even, you know, as we're always told,
00:37:29.380
the refugees who are going to be killed in their home countries and that's why we need to let them
00:37:32.840
into the United States. No, this is pretty well organized. They have access to a decent number
00:37:37.940
of resources. Somebody is obviously organizing them, someone with a political agenda. And I don't,
00:37:47.300
something tells me they're not here fleeing the marauders or the political persecutors in their
00:37:51.960
home countries, right? They seem, they're just kind of calmly walking through Mexico, walking up to the
00:37:57.520
United States. They're obviously economic migrants who are seeking, they actually are seeking a better
00:38:03.800
life for, for their children and their families. There's no question about that. I'd rather live
00:38:08.300
in America than I would in Mexico or Guatemala or something like that. But the situation is not what
00:38:13.960
the Democrats are telling us. Democrats are telling us this is about just life and death. And no,
00:38:18.020
it's not. It's about people making more money and having more opportunity for their kids. Okay,
00:38:22.820
I understand that. So that's why we have a nice immigration policy in part because we
00:38:26.920
are very compassionate. But if you fling the doors open, you know, you no longer have a country
00:38:32.000
anymore. We already have the most open immigration policy in the world. If you look at the number of
00:38:39.000
migrants who have entered the United States in the last 60 years or so, it's the largest movement
00:38:42.480
of peoples ever in the history of the world. So as compassionate as we want to be, you might have to,
00:38:50.280
you might have to dial that back a little bit. Because if all your focus is on people from other
00:38:56.000
countries, foreign nationals coming into yours, then you are disadvantaging people in your own
00:39:00.020
country. And the responsibility of a government is to protect its own citizens. And this government
00:39:07.620
is failing to do that. Why are the migrant caravans coming now? Is it because of some political
00:39:13.620
event that happened in their own countries? No, it's because Joe Biden has lenient immigration
00:39:19.180
policies. So when you have tough immigration policies, you disincentivize immigration.
00:39:25.160
During the first few months of, of the Trump administration, illegal crossings plummeted.
00:39:29.460
They started to tick back up after that when they saw that actually the policies didn't really have
00:39:33.200
much teeth. Trump talked a good game, but he was largely prevented from implementing his tougher
00:39:38.720
policies. Joe Biden is saying, yeah, the doors are wide open. Come on in. And the, the migrants,
00:39:45.420
and more importantly, the people organizing the migrants know that Joe Biden is going to be pushing
00:39:50.620
for a mass amnesty. And the Democrats know that that mass amnesty is likely to give them many,
00:39:55.360
many, many, many, many new voters. So that migrant caravan, it's just going to keep on coming. And
00:40:01.780
it's bad for the migrants. There's a lot of crime that happens. There's a lot of injury that happens
00:40:06.340
while people are crossing that border illegally. It's bad for them. It's certainly bad for the country,
00:40:10.740
but the Democrats don't care because they see a political advantage in it. So as we have this
00:40:17.000
horde of migrants coming up to the California border, you have the governor of California in
00:40:22.240
really hot water. He just went too far. Governor Pretty Boy, Governor Patrick Bateman
00:40:25.820
is not looking good. It looks as though he is going to be recalled. I mentioned this story a couple of
00:40:33.860
months ago when the recall effort for Newsom had hundreds of thousands of signatures. And I said,
00:40:41.140
it's looking like he'll be recalled, but it's not certain because to recall Newsom and then have a
00:40:46.300
new election, you need to have 1.5 million signatures. And at the time, this was now a few
00:40:52.720
weeks ago, you had 1.2 million or something. So people said, oh, he's definitely going to get it,
00:40:56.440
but it's not just enough to have 1.2 or 1.5 million because what Democrats are going to do is
00:41:01.420
invalidate a large number of those signatures. If someone has moved out of state, if someone's
00:41:05.280
not living at the address that they say they are, they're going to get rid of those signatures.
00:41:09.120
This is what Republicans should have done to the illegal voters in 2020. People who put down
00:41:13.680
addresses where they didn't live. Steven Crowder just did a good video exposing how certain voters
00:41:18.580
in 2020, if you go up to the houses that they say they lived at, the buildings don't even exist there.
00:41:23.700
So we should have done a better job of kicking ineligible voters off the rolls and fraudulent
00:41:28.400
voters off the rolls. Democrats are going to do that, but I think now they're not going to be
00:41:32.260
able to overcome it because it's not just 1.5 million trying to recall Newsom. Now we're up
00:41:36.520
to 1.9 million. There's still two weeks left. This thing's going to blow past 2 million.
00:41:42.020
So who's going to step into the breach? There is rumor that Rick Grinnell is going to
00:41:50.380
run for governor. I don't know. I haven't spoken to former Ambassador Grinnell about this sort of
00:41:56.820
thing, but he is kind of making the rounds. It looks as though he could. He would be a strong
00:42:00.840
candidate. He would be a strong Republican candidate in California. Is he the most right
00:42:05.200
wing guy in the Republican party? No, he isn't. Absolutely not. Trump likes him a lot and he
00:42:12.480
seems to have done a good job when he was acting director of national intelligence. He's got some
00:42:17.300
more socially liberal positions, more socially liberal than my positions, that's for sure. But we
00:42:22.940
are talking about California. We're dealing with political realities here. William F. Buckley
00:42:27.240
Jr. had what was called the Buckley rule. He said that, that conservatives should vote for the most,
00:42:32.540
they should vote for the most right viable candidate. So this involves a lot of prudence and political
00:42:39.860
calculation. If we could get, I don't know, who would be, who would be right wing enough for me in
00:42:45.360
California? Attila the Hun. Let's say Attila the Hun decided that he was going to challenge
00:42:48.780
Gavin Newsom. And you know, you had Hun 2020 or 2021. Okay, that would be one thing. But Attila
00:42:56.560
the Hun is not going to win in California. A far right candidate is not going to win.
00:43:01.440
Grinnell seems to be positioned in a pretty decent way to do it. And anybody, as far as I'm concerned,
00:43:08.200
would be better than Gavin Newsom. Newsom is really awful. He's both vacuous and willing to go over to
00:43:16.420
the far radicals here. So we'll, we'll see what happens. We did get a Republican governor once
00:43:21.640
through a recall effort. When California recalled Gray Davis, we ended up getting Arnold Schwarzenegger,
00:43:27.380
also kind of a liberal Republican. I guess he was better than some of the alternatives,
00:43:30.360
but he was a little more, a little more centrist. We'll have to see. Luck does play a role in a lot
00:43:35.640
of these sorts of things. There's a new book out called Lucky How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency.
00:43:41.500
This book is by Jonathan Allen, who's a senior analyst for NBC News, and Amy Parnes,
00:43:47.080
who's a senior correspondent with The Hill. And this book savages the Joe Biden campaign.
00:43:54.900
Not the Biden administration, but the Biden campaign. It's got all these little juicy tidbits,
00:44:02.660
you know, these all kinds of political gossip books have. One is that Barack Obama famously refused
00:44:07.840
to support Joe Biden for most of the campaign because he feared that Biden was, quote,
00:44:12.680
a tragicomic caricature of an aging politician having his last hurrah.
00:44:20.720
Hard to see the lie there. That's true. Did Obama say that? I don't know. We'll get to those
00:44:24.940
kinds of questions in a second. One Biden aide apparently told the authors of this book that
00:44:29.060
the strategy that they were pursuing was tantamount to, quote, you put your dumb uncle in the basement.
00:44:35.320
So they just hid Joe Biden in the basement of his house. He barely campaigned. And the excuse was
00:44:41.740
because of COVID, it was, it would be irresponsible to campaign. And so Joe Biden's not going to do that.
00:44:47.420
And then what they avoid is the biggest liability of the campaign, which is Joe Biden. One Trump
00:44:53.900
advisor apparently told the authors that the Biden team, quote, used coronavirus as an excuse to keep
00:44:58.480
him in the basement. And it was smart. Biden was able to hide his biggest weakness, which is himself.
00:45:03.720
And he did it with an excuse that sounded responsible. Do I believe the claims made in
00:45:11.160
this book or not? I want to avoid the charge of hypocrisy here. And I think that sometimes what
00:45:20.620
happens is when there are books that are out that are flattering to your side, you believe them. And
00:45:26.280
then when books are critical of your side, you don't believe them. And this seems hypocritical.
00:45:30.600
In this case, I've mentioned this before, but not in a while. In this case, it is not hypocritical.
00:45:37.460
It is not hypocritical to give more credence to mainstream books written by mainstream journalists
00:45:44.580
that are critical of Democrats when you wouldn't do the same thing for Republicans because
00:45:51.080
the people who wrote the book are on the same team as Joe Biden. NBC News, The Hill, the mainstream media
00:46:00.440
are on the same team as the Democratic politicians. So when the media leak juicy information about the
00:46:09.540
Democrats, it carries more credibility than when the mainstream media leak juicy information about
00:46:15.620
Republicans. Because we know that the mainstream media lie about Republicans all the time. First of all,
00:46:20.720
they're adversaries. So there's an incentive for them to post the worst stuff and just make stuff
00:46:25.320
up whole cloth. But also they just don't have decent access in the way that because the media
00:46:30.540
and the Democrats are exactly the same thing. They have great access. Very often they are literally
00:46:36.560
sleeping with one another. So do I believe this book? I give it way more credibility. I don't know.
00:46:42.360
I don't really pay a lot of attention to any of these sort of gossipy books, but I do give it a lot
00:46:47.760
more credibility than I would to some Republican book. You're going to have to be watching the same
00:46:55.120
thing play out here with Andrew Cuomo. Andy Cuomo is under attack right now by the media. So you're
00:47:04.040
going to have to ask questions. Why are they attacking this? Why are they leaking this? And
00:47:07.360
what does it matter to me? I don't give a damn about the juicy gossip from a political book like
00:47:12.040
Lucky. And I frankly don't give a damn about the juicy gossip about how Andy Cuomo watched a reporter
00:47:17.580
eat a hot dog one time at the state fair. I don't care. I want to know how does this affect our
00:47:23.360
politics and why are these stories being leaked now? What is the political strategy? Because when it
00:47:29.980
comes to these sorts of scandals, nothing is what it seems. All of this very often is a distraction
00:47:37.280
to lull us into accepting more of the left's agenda. The new normal now past two weeks,
00:47:43.980
now up to two years, now probably going to be even longer. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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