The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 731 - No Time For Compromise

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00:00:30.000 As we reach the 380th day of 15 days to slow the spread,

00:00:35.000 President Joe Biden is beginning to lose his grip on power,

00:00:39.620 as are the left-wing technocrats around the country.

00:00:42.940 So the president is pleading with us, please, please, institute new mask mandates.

00:00:49.200 I'm reiterating my call for every governor, mayor, and local leader

00:00:53.020 to maintain and reinstate the mask mandate.

00:00:56.780 Please, this is not politics.

00:01:00.000 Reinstate the mandate if you let it down.

00:01:03.580 And businesses require masks as well.

00:01:06.660 The failure to take this virus seriously,

00:01:09.440 precisely what got us in this mess in the first place,

00:01:13.520 risks more cases and more deaths.

00:01:15.220 Look, as I do my part to accelerate the vaccine distribution and vaccinations,

00:01:22.500 I need the American people to do their part as well.

00:01:26.260 Mask up. Mask up. 0.83

00:01:28.980 It's a patriotic duty.

00:01:30.300 It's the only way we ever get back to normal.

00:01:35.580 To cheer together in stadiums full of fans.

00:01:39.680 To gather together on holidays again safely.

00:01:42.780 Go to graduations, weddings.

00:01:44.580 This is not politics.

00:01:47.960 It's just me, the president, telling the mayors and the governors 0.98

00:01:51.960 to institute a policy mandating that you all wear that filthy rag on your face. 0.96

00:01:58.100 Because I said so. 0.96

00:01:59.860 It's not politics.

00:02:01.460 No thank you, Mr. President.

00:02:03.320 I don't think I'm going to do that.

00:02:04.620 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:05.320 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:13.920 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:15.200 50 years in politics and Joe Biden does not know the meaning of the word politics.

00:02:19.680 Or maybe he does and he's just lying to you.

00:02:22.060 Maybe that seems a little more in keeping with his career.

00:02:26.360 My favorite comment yesterday from Olivia V, who says,

00:02:29.280 Breaking news.

00:02:30.660 Fauci says,

00:02:31.380 Once we achieve zero deaths from any cause whatsoever, then we can all go outside.

00:02:36.720 Basically, that is what he's saying.

00:02:39.040 The public health apparatus broadly, it just keeps moving the goalposts forever and ever and ever.

00:02:45.520 So it was slow the spread, flatten the curve, find a cure, get vaccines.

00:02:51.580 And then what?

00:02:53.840 Rinse and repeat.

00:02:54.860 And then, well, there's new variants.

00:02:56.720 Well, you know, just to be safe.

00:02:59.540 Well, the flu is pretty bad too.

00:03:01.120 Well, just obey, obey, obey.

00:03:05.840 This is true.

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00:04:28.600 Joe Biden, he's a liar and he's not the brightest bulb in the pack. 0.93

00:04:33.880 So you don't know exactly which it is. 0.99

00:04:36.740 What are you saying?

00:04:37.160 It's not politics.

00:04:38.380 Does he really?

00:04:38.960 Maybe he really thinks that.

00:04:40.020 Maybe he's lying.

00:04:40.680 It's really hard to tell.

00:04:41.640 And yet, somehow, I still prefer Joe Biden to the alternative.

00:04:46.860 Here are some high soaring rhetoric from the would-be future president, Kamala Harris.

00:04:53.400 More people are seeing that, yeah, affordable child care is a big deal.

00:05:03.160 More parents are seeing the value of educators when they had to bring their kids and say, we're not paying them nearly enough.

00:05:14.500 And then they'll say, muah, muah, muah.

00:05:19.840 And then she just flies off on a broomstick. 1.00

00:05:21.520 This is weird.

00:05:22.480 This is weird stuff.

00:05:23.360 It's a strange nervous tick that she has.

00:05:26.540 I guess people have nervous ticks.

00:05:28.860 A friend of mine coughs when he gets nervous.

00:05:30.720 Some people laugh when they get nervous.

00:05:32.220 So I guess this is hers as she cackles like a witch. 1.00

00:05:34.820 But the stranger thing is not that this is her particular nervous tick.

00:05:40.720 It's that this woman who has reached a very high position in politics has so many nervous ticks or rather falls into her nervous ticks so often.

00:05:53.220 The strange thing about Kamala Harris to me is what a bad retail politician she is and yet what a good behind-the-scenes politician she is. 1.00

00:06:01.900 People don't like her. 0.97

00:06:03.120 That's why she was booted out of the Democratic primary so early on. 0.89

00:06:06.920 She's really not good at communicating with voters, at appealing to voters.

00:06:13.100 But she is really good at working the system, as it were.

00:06:18.900 She began her, how do I say this without being rude? 0.83

00:06:24.220 She began her political career in the old-fashioned way, I suppose, in the really old-fashioned way.

00:06:29.240 And she worked her way up in politics.

00:06:33.900 And then she made it to AG, then Senator, you know, I guess a little bit public, you know, in California.

00:06:40.860 But still, she was kind of working the machine system.

00:06:42.960 Then she tried on the national stage for president. 0.99

00:06:45.240 They didn't like her there.

00:06:46.180 But I said at the time, don't count her out.

00:06:48.580 This woman is a really slick politician. 1.00

00:06:51.420 And she did.

00:06:52.800 She managed to make it all the way to vice president while being so unappealing. 1.00

00:06:56.320 Which is why I think when Republicans look at her and say, oh, she would be easy to beat, let's say, in 2024 maybe or 2028, I wonder about that. 0.93

00:07:06.360 Sure, she's weird on stage and she's not really likable. 0.98

00:07:10.420 But she's a pretty talented politician, no question about it. 1.00

00:07:13.820 Joe Biden's kind of the opposite.

00:07:14.900 He's really, really likable.

00:07:17.020 And yet, he's made it very far, obviously, in politics.

00:07:20.160 He's made it to the top of his profession.

00:07:21.420 But he really is a vessel of the establishment in a way that, you know, he's kind of got the whole package.

00:07:30.100 Whereas with her, it's just this behind the scenes kind of thing.

00:07:33.780 But maybe that could take her even further in 2024.

00:07:37.780 And 2024 is on a lot of people's minds right now.

00:07:40.380 Who are the Republicans going to put up?

00:07:43.500 One of the candidates that's often talked about is Kristi Noem in South Dakota.

00:07:48.120 But people are a little upset with me because I've been harsh on Kristi Noem the last couple of weeks.

00:07:52.320 Well, I don't care.

00:07:53.720 I'm going to keep being harsh on Kristi Noem because I think she could be a very interesting candidate. 0.87

00:07:58.220 I think she did very, very well on COVID.

00:08:00.660 And now I think she's going squishy. 0.99

00:08:02.900 And I understand that she's making certain somewhat plausible arguments for going squishy.

00:08:08.020 But I just don't think they cut it.

00:08:09.600 I think she's missing the moment.

00:08:10.880 She should reverse course.

00:08:11.860 So Noem had her legislature put up this bill to protect women, to protect the sexual distinction 1.00

00:08:22.140 between men and women, and specifically to prohibit men from participating in women's sports.

00:08:28.720 And she wouldn't sign the bill.

00:08:30.940 She said she would sign the bill for K through 12, that she would kick men out of women's sports 0.91

00:08:36.660 at the elementary, middle, and high school level.

00:08:40.540 But she didn't want to do so for the college level because this would upset the NCAA and this

00:08:47.000 would upset the corporations that are putting pressure on her. 1.00

00:08:51.060 And her argument was, well, look, I don't, I don't have a ton of control over the colleges.

00:08:56.300 This involves other states.

00:08:57.640 And so I'm just going to go for the thing that I have control over and then maybe we'll

00:09:01.480 work the college thing a little bit later.

00:09:04.240 Her exact line was, unfortunately, as I've studied this legislation and conferred with legal

00:09:09.220 experts over the past several days, I've become concerned that this bill's vague and overly

00:09:12.440 broad language could have significant unintended consequences.

00:09:15.440 I'm also concerned that the approach House Bill 1217 takes is unrealistic in the context

00:09:20.280 of collegiate, collegiate athletics.

00:09:22.400 I get her argument.

00:09:25.480 If she wants to be a leader though, she has to lead.

00:09:29.680 If she wants to be, look, if she wants to be the governor of South Dakota and that's the 1.00

00:09:33.520 end of it.

00:09:34.080 Okay, fine, whatever.

00:09:35.420 She's doing her job.

00:09:36.060 If she wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate, it's not enough to, you know, do 1.00

00:09:43.300 pretty good stuff and tinker around the edges, but really just let the NCAA and corporations

00:09:47.760 and other states call the shots.

00:09:49.360 And look, if they, if they want transformational gender ideology, they want that kind of radical

00:09:54.640 leftism that will put men in women's sports. 0.65

00:09:57.680 She'll try to fight in her own little corner, but she's basically going to let them run rough 1.00

00:10:01.500 shot over her on the national stage.

00:10:03.140 Well, then she's not going to be a viable national candidate. 1.00

00:10:06.420 That's just the way it is.

00:10:07.520 And if she does want to be a viable national candidate, then lead, then lead.

00:10:12.100 She knows that she should do this.

00:10:13.900 That's why when she won't sign the bill, she's issuing these executive orders. 1.00

00:10:17.940 One to deal with the K through 12 issue.

00:10:19.540 Good.

00:10:19.900 My hat, my hat goes off to you, ma'am.

00:10:21.840 But then the second one was this weaker way of trying to get around the college thing.

00:10:26.520 And it's not going to work.

00:10:29.080 You're not going to defeat something so radical as the left's redefinition of sex, of human

00:10:35.000 nature itself, by tinkering around the edges and dealing with what you know for certain

00:10:40.060 you can deal with in your state.

00:10:41.560 But we don't want to go too far because then we might get sued by colleges or we might lose

00:10:46.260 college sports games in my state.

00:10:49.680 Maybe other schools won't come here and that's not great.

00:10:51.560 Okay, I guess then we're just not talking about the same thing because if you're just

00:10:59.240 going to fight within your own little corner and not push back against the broader narrative

00:11:03.520 and the much more powerful forces at play on the national level, then you're not trying

00:11:07.400 to win the issue.

00:11:08.500 You're just managing the decline.

00:11:11.280 And I don't want managed decline.

00:11:13.080 Managed decline is what we've gotten for 20 years, really more than 20 years in the

00:11:16.820 Republican Party.

00:11:17.880 I don't want that.

00:11:18.540 I'm glad that you're fighting back, you know, in your own little corner, but on the national

00:11:24.020 stage, you got to do a little bit more.

00:11:26.980 Christy Noem says the right stuff.

00:11:28.780 So I hope that she reverses course here.

00:11:31.580 She just went after that rapper Lil Nas X.

00:11:35.160 She said, our kids are being told that this, you know, he's the one with the Satan shoes

00:11:38.640 with a drop of human blood in it and the pentagram.

00:11:40.700 And it's obviously a publicity stunt that will only cost the rapper his soul.

00:11:45.100 So, you know, that's a small price to pay, right?

00:11:47.440 To sell some sneakers.

00:11:49.020 She says, our kids are being told that this kind of product is not only okay, it's inclusive.

00:11:53.460 But do you know what's more exclusive?

00:11:55.700 They're God-given eternal soul.

00:11:57.100 We're in a fight for the soul of our nation.

00:11:58.500 We need to fight hard and we need to fight smart and we have to win.

00:12:02.040 Great.

00:12:02.460 Yeah, I agree.

00:12:03.440 Good talk.

00:12:04.320 Good talk.

00:12:04.760 That sounds great.

00:12:07.160 When push comes to shove, though, are you really going to stand firm?

00:12:11.300 Are you really going to fight hard?

00:12:12.800 Are you really going to push back on the issue where it counts?

00:12:17.400 Because it doesn't just count as a matter of the public schools in South Dakota.

00:12:23.680 It counts certainly at the college level and the governor has some say over that.

00:12:30.460 And it counts more so at the corporate level.

00:12:33.440 It counts in the private sphere, so-called, where corporate America is just blasting these

00:12:39.860 insane radical messages to American students and the people more broadly.

00:12:46.360 So what?

00:12:47.100 We're going to say, okay, we're going to deal with the stuff in our state and these certain

00:12:50.000 government.

00:12:50.360 But hey, we're going to back away when the corporations and the colleges and the college

00:12:56.120 organizations push back too hard.

00:12:58.820 No, that's not how you win.

00:13:00.660 Not a chance.

00:13:02.040 If you're not even going to stand up to them, that's just not going to work.

00:13:05.760 Lil Nas X, by the way, responded to the governor and said, you're a whole governor and you on 0.99

00:13:10.560 here tweeting about some damn shoes. 0.99

00:13:12.020 Do your job. 1.00

00:13:13.560 Obviously, so many people taking the bait on Lil Nas X.

00:13:16.720 I have a piece up at the Daily Wire today, actually discussing the things that I think 0.97

00:13:21.020 we can learn from Lil Nas, not the stupid shoes, but from, from the music video. 0.88

00:13:24.760 I talked about it a little bit yesterday in the show as well. 0.98

00:13:29.040 Kristi Noem's got to change course if she, if she wants to be a viable candidate because 1.00

00:13:32.940 other governors around the country are doing so and it's having great effect on their 2024

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00:15:10.880 Kristi Noem seems to be squandering her 2024 prospect here, which is pretty significant. 0.79

00:15:18.000 There's another Republican governor down in Florida who is, I think, increasing his chances

00:15:22.660 dramatically.

00:15:24.360 Governor DeSantis was addressing the issue of vaccine mandates in Florida.

00:15:30.180 DeSantis has handled the rollout of the vaccine better than, I guess, just about any governor

00:15:34.500 in the country.

00:15:35.660 But what about this question of forcing citizens to get the vaccine, as we've heard recently?

00:15:39.720 DeSantis says, no way.

00:15:41.600 It's completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose

00:15:47.540 upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply be able to participate

00:15:53.600 in normal society.

00:15:55.400 That is completely unacceptable.

00:15:58.240 Now, what does that mean, though?

00:16:00.300 Does that mean that Ron DeSantis is going to say, look, all I do is control the government,

00:16:05.580 so the government's never going to do this.

00:16:06.980 But if, you know, the private sector wants to do this, why, it's the absolute height of

00:16:12.360 conservatism, capital C, to let corporations force you into whatever radical leftism they want.

00:16:19.140 That's true conservatism, and we never can, through our politics, rein in that kind of craziness.

00:16:25.120 Now, is he saying that?

00:16:25.760 No, because he realizes that's a bunch of bunk.

00:16:28.360 And so what he's doing is doubling down on a message that he sent earlier this month.

00:16:33.940 He's had clarity on this issue for quite some time, specifically with regard to the idea

00:16:37.920 of vaccine passports, that you're not going to be able to go to businesses.

00:16:41.080 You're not going to be able to go to the bar.

00:16:42.140 You're not going to be able to engage in commerce unless you prove that you got the vaccine

00:16:46.240 that was developed over the course of six months.

00:16:48.000 Governor DeSantis says, no way.

00:16:51.540 The vaccine passport is a terrible idea. 0.56

00:16:54.820 We are definitely not going to require anything from the state's perspective.

00:16:58.800 That is totally off the table.

00:17:00.700 If I have businesses that want to do that in Florida, I think that that's more than just

00:17:06.720 a private decision.

00:17:07.920 I think that impacts our society.

00:17:10.680 I think that impacts people, particularly disadvantaged people, in a way that would barely be negative

00:17:15.580 for our state.

00:17:16.400 So what form that would take, I'd have to discuss it with my folks.

00:17:21.000 I'd have to discuss it potentially with the legislature.

00:17:23.420 But I think it's a very, very bad idea.

00:17:26.480 Look, if you want to go to a movie theater, a concert, all this stuff, go.

00:17:31.040 If you don't, don't.

00:17:32.620 But to require somebody to show some type of proof of vaccination, I think is completely

00:17:38.600 unacceptable.

00:17:39.280 And it's not something that we're going to support here in any way in Florida.

00:17:43.820 Love this.

00:17:44.440 Love this answer.

00:17:45.680 Because he recognizes that there are two parts to the question and he's got the right answer

00:17:49.740 on both.

00:17:50.520 So he says, yeah, from the government perspective, it's not even a question.

00:17:54.500 I'm not even considering the vaccine passport thing as a matter of using state services or

00:18:00.680 anything.

00:18:00.920 But when you're asking me about the private businesses, now we've got some debate.

00:18:06.120 You've got the people who worship at the altar of the market or something who say, yeah, let

00:18:11.840 let the corporations do whatever they want.

00:18:14.620 And there are some people who consider themselves conservatives who believe that.

00:18:17.000 And then there are the other conservatives who say, no, if I'm being coerced into getting

00:18:22.340 the jab to participate in society, I don't care if it's the government telling me to do

00:18:26.860 it or some middle manager at Amazon.

00:18:29.640 I don't care who it is.

00:18:30.560 I just don't want to do it.

00:18:32.180 And he's saying, yeah, it seems to me that if a business is forcing you to expose your medical

00:18:38.740 history, to get injected with certain things, that goes beyond just the private sector or

00:18:45.760 the free market or something, I don't think we're going to do that.

00:18:48.880 Now, he doesn't spell out exactly how he would prohibit it because it's kind of a newer idea

00:18:55.240 or it's the return of an old idea on the right that perhaps we can interfere in certain market

00:19:00.400 dynamics when those market dynamics completely upend our way of life and our constitutional

00:19:05.800 order and our way of life.

00:19:07.960 And so he's like, well, I'm going to think about this.

00:19:12.680 I'm going to talk to my people.

00:19:13.540 I'm going to, we'll see, but we're not going to let that happen.

00:19:16.660 This is right.

00:19:17.560 We need to go farther on the right than we have gone in the past because for the past,

00:19:23.440 let's just call it 20 years, even though it's been a little longer than that.

00:19:27.080 On the right, we have pushed back just hard enough to lose, to lose, to lose on every major

00:19:33.960 issue except occasionally tax cuts, which then the taxes go right back up when the Democrats

00:19:38.560 win.

00:19:38.780 And so we just lose, lose, but we lose kind of slowly.

00:19:41.940 We lose sometimes in a gradual way, though increasingly it's accelerating.

00:19:46.740 So that means you got to push back a little bit harder, which brings me to two guys that

00:19:51.520 I really, really admire who I just think we disagree on this issue.

00:19:55.900 A professor, Robbie George, legendary conservative professor at Princeton.

00:20:00.300 I actually hosted an event or moderated an event at the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation with

00:20:05.060 Professor George a few weeks ago.

00:20:07.380 He was tweeting out about the issue of critical race theory.

00:20:09.980 And he gave what I think has been the kind of conservative consensus opinion of the last

00:20:14.760 20 or so years, where he said, I know I'm old fashioned, but I can't help thinking that

00:20:18.800 what makes sense in academic institutions is not to ban critical race theory or any other

00:20:22.720 view or approach, but also not to give it a monopoly or privileged position over other

00:20:26.600 views and approaches.

00:20:27.520 What's wrong with that?

00:20:29.700 Pause there for a second, because I think there is something quite wrong with that, but we'll

00:20:32.800 pause that, Christopher Ruffo, who's doing superb work in City Journal exposing critical race

00:20:38.680 theory.

00:20:39.280 He responds, respectfully, professor, nobody is suggesting a ban on critical race theory in

00:20:43.320 academic work or the classroom.

00:20:44.600 We're suggesting a ban on mandatory workplace trainings that force people to accept the values

00:20:49.480 of race essentialism, collective guilt, and neo-segregation.

00:20:55.680 So I will respond here first to Chris Ruffo.

00:20:59.420 I am suggesting a ban on critical race theory.

00:21:01.720 I am not merely suggesting that we ban the mandates in workplaces or anything like that.

00:21:08.060 I am suggesting in public schools and public colleges an outright ban on this stuff in the

00:21:13.860 classroom and in private colleges and universities.

00:21:16.700 I'm encouraging the faculty and the students and the parents and the trustees and the people

00:21:22.560 who fund the endowment. 0.99

00:21:24.700 I am suggesting that these people force this trash out of the classroom. 0.97

00:21:29.260 Not to open up the classroom to other ideas and we're all inclusive. 1.00

00:21:33.200 No, I'm saying exclude that trash. 0.96

00:21:36.700 And the view that I'm espousing, I think, is the old-fashioned view. 0.93

00:21:43.020 That's the old-fashioned view that has reigned until very, very recently.

00:21:46.520 That's the old-fashioned view that William F. Buckley Jr. articulated in God and Man at Yale,

00:21:51.520 subtitle, The Superstitions of Academic Freedom, which is widely credited with beginning the post-war

00:21:57.080 conservative movement.

00:21:59.520 I know it's very fashionable on the right right now to embrace academic freedom and to say that

00:22:04.740 in the classroom, all views should be heard at all times.

00:22:07.400 That is not a conservative view.

00:22:09.060 That is a liberal view that the left has tricked us into accepting and specifically did so in the

00:22:15.520 1960s and 1970s through the extraordinarily dishonest Berkeley free speech movement,

00:22:21.100 inaptly named because look where that free speech movement led us.

00:22:24.440 Now Berkeley has more censorship of conservative views than anywhere else in the country, practically.

00:22:30.000 It is a trap.

00:22:31.180 It is a trick that we fell for.

00:22:32.560 This is the exact trick that I describe in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling

00:22:36.940 Minds, which is available now for pre-order.

00:22:38.960 Who knows for how long, but thank you to all of you who have pre-ordered already.

00:22:42.700 It seems that a lot of people have done that.

00:22:45.860 Bill Buckley in God and Man at Yale calls academic freedom a hoax.

00:22:49.760 It is a farce.

00:22:52.300 We do not, first of all, it's not possible to discuss all views in the classroom and we

00:22:56.740 wouldn't want to do that even if we could.

00:22:59.120 In the classroom, we do not discuss, for instance, how two plus two can equal five.

00:23:07.020 Some people might think that two plus two equals five, but it doesn't.

00:23:10.400 That's wrong.

00:23:10.840 We exclude that view from the classroom.

00:23:13.040 In the classroom, we do not include the view that the Holocaust didn't happen, just to use 0.54

00:23:19.920 a popular example.

00:23:21.600 There are actually quite a number of people who hold that view, but we don't teach that

00:23:25.040 because the historical evidence is that the Germans committed atrocities against the Jews

00:23:30.640 and other people in the Second World War.

00:23:33.140 We do not include the view in the classroom that the moon is made of green cheese.

00:23:39.920 Some people might hold that view, but we don't include it.

00:23:41.880 The truth is exclusive and curricula are exclusive.

00:23:48.200 When you go to a liberal arts college, you're probably not going to learn how to be a mechanic.

00:23:54.500 You'd have to go to a different college.

00:23:56.300 That's not what that college is for.

00:23:57.500 Colleges have missions.

00:23:59.080 They are teaching towards something.

00:24:01.820 Now colleges seem to have lost their sense of purpose, though they only really seem that

00:24:07.840 way.

00:24:08.060 The colleges were begun as seminaries.

00:24:09.900 Harvard and Yale were seminaries.

00:24:11.000 They are seminaries still.

00:24:12.400 They're just seminaries of subjectivism, of leftism.

00:24:16.140 You have to exclude certain views.

00:24:19.140 And I think we need to do that because I think falling for the trap of the free speech movement

00:24:23.300 at Berkeley, what did it get us?

00:24:25.280 It got us the same exact limitations on speech we always had.

00:24:29.260 It's only now the speech that was being excluded was ordinary, truthful, conservative speech.

00:24:34.660 And the only views that were being included were liberal views.

00:24:40.480 Critical race theory must be excluded from the classroom because it and associated academic

00:24:45.820 movements deny reason.

00:24:49.580 Critical race theory and associated pseudo-academic movements reject objective truth for narrative.

00:24:56.900 They say it's all just kind of words, words, words.

00:24:59.140 So the people who develop this thing, who I describe in my book Speechless, describe it

00:25:04.620 as a radically different academic sort of movement.

00:25:07.820 It's meant to foment a radical ideology to upend our traditional culture.

00:25:12.420 It is an example of what Chesterton would call the thought that stops thought, which of course

00:25:17.760 is the only thought that ought to be stopped.

00:25:19.480 But I hope I hope I've made my point, even though I greatly admire both of these men.

00:25:25.600 I think what Professor George and what Christopher Rufo are describing is an opinion that is very,

00:25:31.760 very popular among conservatives.

00:25:33.600 But I just I don't think it's the old fashioned traditional opinion.

00:25:37.340 And I think we've we've got to be able to push a little bit further.

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00:27:25.280 Other countries are so much more politically astute than the leaders of our country.

00:27:46.160 I didn't think that I would say that.

00:27:48.620 When I was a little kid, I never thought I would say, you know, Guatemala understands

00:27:51.680 politics and government better than the leaders of the United States.

00:27:54.400 But it turns out they do.

00:27:58.200 Yesterday, the Guatemalan president, Alejandro Giammattei, declared a, quote, state of prevention

00:28:04.940 at the border with Honduras as new reports emerged about a potential migrant caravan getting

00:28:11.180 ready to enter the country from Honduras.

00:28:14.780 The AP reports that in January, Guatemalan law enforcement and military officials used tear

00:28:22.360 gas, batons, and shields to prohibit a mass of 2,000 Honduran migrants from continuing

00:28:29.240 at a roadblock.

00:28:30.820 That is what the police and the military are supposed to do.

00:28:35.340 When you have massive foreign forces entering your country illegally, I think there's a word 1.00

00:28:41.820 for that, isn't there?

00:28:42.880 You have to repel them.

00:28:44.720 That is what the law requires.

00:28:46.240 That is what self-government requires.

00:28:48.840 That's what any basic polity would require. 0.99

00:28:51.820 Here in the United States, we throw up our hands.

00:28:53.880 The strongest country in the history of the world.

00:28:55.200 Well, what can we do?

00:28:56.900 What can we do?

00:28:57.640 And then, by the way, when we let them in, we don't even know what to do with the foreign 1.00

00:29:00.940 nationals then.

00:29:03.100 President Trump at least created disincentives for that awful journey.

00:29:07.980 Joe Biden's creating massive incentives for that journey, according to the migrants themselves

00:29:11.500 and according to the president of Mexico.

00:29:13.280 So what do they do?

00:29:14.180 They then make a bad situation worse.

00:29:16.160 They cram all these people into tiny little cages, to use the popular word, and then they

00:29:23.540 prevent the journalists from going in and exposing it, and it creates a horrific situation.

00:29:28.400 Maybe Joe Biden should fly down to Guatemala, fly down to a much poorer, less developed country

00:29:35.360 to just learn the basics of politics.

00:29:38.120 But of course, he doesn't want to do that because Joe Biden knows his policy is not good

00:29:43.620 for the migrants.

00:29:44.700 It's not good for the country, but it is good for his political party because it's going to

00:29:49.300 help them, in their view, get future voters.

00:29:52.660 So they're going to open the floodgates and give a mass amnesty.

00:29:55.280 Speaking of the rule of law, Georgia has passed this new voter law that's going to try to tighten

00:30:02.240 up some of the ridiculous shenanigans that the Democrats foisted on that system leading

00:30:08.920 up to 2020.

00:30:10.660 So the, the, the big headline here is that in Georgia now, you're not allowed to bring

00:30:17.960 food and water to people waiting in line to vote.

00:30:23.040 Shocking.

00:30:23.640 Oh, this is to suppress the vote. 0.98

00:30:25.180 This is, this is a white supremacist.

00:30:27.500 I don't know why, but everything's white supremacist now.

00:30:29.600 Uh, no, it's common sense.

00:30:33.520 There are very strict rules around polling places.

00:30:36.160 At least there used to be.

00:30:36.900 Now, I guess we've gotten rid of election day.

00:30:38.620 We've gotten rid of in-person voting as the primary way to vote.

00:30:42.140 So now, you know, it's, it's up for grabs, usually being grabbed by Democrats.

00:30:48.560 But in the olden days of a couple of years ago, we had strict rules around polling places

00:30:53.160 because we know that voting is so susceptible to fraud and it's very important in our country.

00:31:00.140 And so we want to protect it.

00:31:01.160 There were rules about how campaign workers can interact with people as they wait in line

00:31:07.100 to vote.

00:31:07.700 Namely, they can't.

00:31:08.720 There were rules around where signs for candidates can go near polling places.

00:31:13.440 They can't be very close because you want to keep this area protected from the machinations

00:31:19.380 of party politics.

00:31:20.460 In the old days of the Democrat machines, Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed, you would have operatives

00:31:28.440 go up to people waiting to vote or grabbing people to vote.

00:31:30.880 And they say, hey, I'll give you a free drink if you go vote for my guy.

00:31:34.380 Hey, yeah, show up to the bar later.

00:31:35.680 You get a free drink if you vote for my guy.

00:31:37.560 Hey, here's a little food.

00:31:38.640 Hey, here's a little drink.

00:31:39.520 Hey, here's a little, you're just buying votes.

00:31:40.920 So George is reiterating a view that has been widely held, reiterating laws that have been

00:31:48.860 on the books for a long time and saying, yeah, you can't do that.

00:31:51.660 You can't buy votes.

00:31:52.920 That's the rule.

00:31:54.820 Let's say that when you go to vote, it takes more than half an hour.

00:31:59.920 Generally, when I voted, it takes about half an hour.

00:32:02.380 Maybe it's a little bit longer.

00:32:03.320 That's taken up to an hour, maybe in California.

00:32:05.500 Let's say it's even longer.

00:32:07.180 Let's say it's two hours. 0.90

00:32:08.580 Let's say, I'm going to give the crazy left the benefit of the doubt.

00:32:12.040 Let's say it's three hours waiting in line to vote.

00:32:18.840 First of all, if you really get famished during that time or you really get thirsty,

00:32:23.380 bring a bottle of water, shove a granola bar in your pocket.

00:32:27.860 But let's say, let's say you forgot.

00:32:30.780 If you cannot go three hours without stuffing your face, 0.95

00:32:35.380 something is wrong with you.

00:32:37.900 Something has, you need to put the cupcake down.

00:32:40.380 If you cannot go three hours without having a little nibble.

00:32:44.500 Our bodies were made to go more than three hours without a muffin.

00:32:50.320 You will survive.

00:32:51.740 I promise you, you will survive.

00:32:53.980 But of course, these are not, these are not the real concerns of Democrats in Georgia

00:32:58.460 or the national Democrats looking at Georgia.

00:33:00.940 Georgia, they want to be able to buy votes and to get really close to the polling place

00:33:04.780 when they can't pry people away from the polling place in the first place and get them to vote

00:33:08.440 by mail and maybe get a few of their dead cousins to vote by mail too.

00:33:12.960 It's all about, it's about race. 0.91

00:33:15.200 This is, you know, it's white supremacy to prevent Democrat operatives from bribing voters

00:33:20.500 with drinks and candies and things.

00:33:23.440 CNN's Dana Bash was shocked, horrified.

00:33:25.900 It's too bad.

00:33:26.220 I actually kind of like Dana Bash.

00:33:27.360 She's, she's done some, some pretty good interviews recently,

00:33:29.780 but she just goes back to that typical Democratic narrative very often.

00:33:33.820 She was shocked and appalled that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp would sign this new

00:33:38.940 vote integrity bill in a room of that, of the worst beast that has ever roamed the earth, 0.99

00:33:48.020 white men. 0.96

00:33:50.060 Joining me now is Democratic Georgia Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock.

00:33:54.040 Senator Reverend, thank you so much for joining me this morning.

00:33:57.060 I want to put up that picture of Governor Brian Kemp signing this law in a room full of white men.

00:34:04.360 A room full of white men. 0.53

00:34:05.800 He's saying that we can't send our operatives to go give people slices of pizza at the polls 0.86

00:34:12.100 in a room full of white men. 0.64

00:34:14.460 Everyone knows white men don't need to eat. 0.71

00:34:17.220 Everyone, it's just basic science. 0.99

00:34:18.980 White men don't need water to survive. 1.00

00:34:20.820 It's so, all these white men, they know, they know that if they, they deprive voters of color 0.99

00:34:28.440 of snacks at the polling, they know that they will suppress the vote.

00:34:34.180 Imagine, I mean, it's become cliche.

00:34:36.780 I don't, I almost don't want to say it, but imagine if somebody went, forget on CNN,

00:34:40.820 let's say somebody on, on a conservative news channel went out and said, you know,

00:34:44.400 I can't believe that, that this, well, we'll refer to the true governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams.

00:34:50.520 I still think she hasn't conceded that race from a couple of years ago.

00:34:53.480 If, if, if a conservative went on TV and said, can you believe that Stacey Abrams signed this

00:35:00.340 bill into law in a room full of black women? 1.00

00:35:02.920 Ugh, makes me sick. 1.00

00:35:05.220 Terrible.

00:35:06.700 Would you imagine the reaction?

00:35:07.860 But of course there's, they're not playing fair.

00:35:09.600 So it's, it's almost pointless even to mention it.

00:35:14.200 Everything, even the least racially relevant questions need to come down to race when it is

00:35:22.380 in any way convenient.

00:35:24.400 People don't need to have any idea what they're talking about.

00:35:27.000 They just know that that's a Trump card and usually it's going to work.

00:35:29.740 Occasionally it doesn't work as we saw last night on Bill Maher.

00:35:33.100 Heidi Heitkamp, the former Senator from North Dakota, not, not the brightest bulb in the

00:35:40.220 pack.

00:35:40.640 I think there was one time a friend of mine was going down to, to serve in Congress and

00:35:46.040 we were talking to a longstanding U.S. congressman and we asked, hey, what, what should you, what

00:35:52.840 should we know about Congress?

00:35:54.100 You know, what should we know about the halls of Congress?

00:35:55.780 And this longstanding congressman whose, whose name I won't mention said, well, you're going

00:36:00.480 to be disappointed.

00:36:01.220 The IQ on average is not so high there.

00:36:04.240 And Heidi Heitkamp in her comments last night, I think proved this point though.

00:36:09.100 Fortunately, she's no longer in the Senate.

00:36:10.860 She went on Bill Maher's show and they were, they were addressing my, my colleague here,

00:36:15.440 Gina Carano, the movie star and MMA fighter. 0.87

00:36:18.980 And Heidi Heitkamp, just, just casually just said, Gina Carano, she's a, she's a Nazi. 0.99

00:36:22.780 Everybody knows that.

00:36:23.880 I like this picture.

00:36:25.520 Who was the woman in the Mandalorian?

00:36:28.520 What did she do? 0.80

00:36:29.220 She liked something. 0.92

00:36:30.040 She was a Nazi. 0.86

00:36:31.740 Oh, that's different.

00:36:32.640 Right.

00:36:32.800 I'm thinking of somebody else.

00:36:33.780 Well, she's not a Nazi. 0.96

00:36:35.500 She was, she's a white, she's involved in white supremacy. 1.00

00:36:37.520 Look at that.

00:36:37.920 You say you're calling her in that.

00:36:40.140 She's called other people Nazis.

00:36:41.720 Right.

00:36:42.080 Which is the Nazi. 0.53

00:36:43.020 Okay.

00:36:43.360 Everyone's a Nazi now. 0.99

00:36:44.980 She does hang with white supremacists. 0.98

00:36:46.680 It's like a Mel Brooks movie.

00:36:47.600 She does? 0.98

00:36:48.200 Yeah. 0.98

00:36:48.720 Hangs with white supremacists. 0.97

00:36:49.580 I suppose I'm now subject to defamation. 0.98

00:36:51.940 I don't know.

00:36:52.560 I mean, it depends on what your definition of white supremacist is.

00:36:55.340 That also, the goalposts there changed a lot.

00:36:58.520 Used to be a guy in a Klan hood who.

00:37:00.580 But I think we have to, I think we have to be really careful.

00:37:03.460 There's two things that Republicans think they're going to get Biden on.

00:37:06.460 Cancel culture and this whole Dr. Seuss stuff that's going on where they're reading green eggs and ham, proving that some of these senators can actually read.

00:37:13.900 And, and, and, and, and immigration.

00:37:19.920 And, and, and so we can't ignore the fact that we got Donald Trump was in part because of political correctness.

00:37:26.880 Oh, I hope Gina does sue her for defamation. 1.00

00:37:29.920 I don't think she will because defamation suits are just really, really hard to win and you spend a lot of money on lawyers and if you're a public figure, it usually doesn't work.

00:37:36.820 But I hope she does because what Heidi Heitkamp here is saying is just completely indefensible and, and worse than the slander of it all is the laziness to say this woman doesn't know a thing about Gina Carano.

00:37:52.680 This woman has probably never Googled Gina Carano, but she read some Facebook post from, I don't know, her like blue haired niece or something that said Gina Carano is a Nazi and that's all, that's all it takes.

00:38:05.040 They say, yeah, no, she's a Nazi. 1.00

00:38:07.160 And then Bill Maher, he goes a little light on her, but at least he calls her out.

00:38:10.440 He says, what?

00:38:11.440 Wait, I think he thought she was kidding at first. 0.93

00:38:13.460 He goes, oh yeah, yeah, everyone's a Nazi.

00:38:14.940 Wait, are you really saying that?

00:38:16.500 Heidi? 0.97

00:38:16.980 Wait, hold on, you, she's a Nazi. 1.00

00:38:18.480 And then Heidi realizes, she's like, uh-oh, I thought I could just get away with this casual, this drive by slander.

00:38:24.300 Now I'm being called out on it.

00:38:25.780 Now I actually have to defend my views, but I can't because I have no idea what I'm talking about.

00:38:29.140 Oh, and then she tries to dial it back.

00:38:30.960 So she dials it back from Nazi, from literally Hitler to, well, you know, but she's, no, she's a white supremacist.

00:38:36.960 I'm not, yeah, no, oh yeah, everyone knows that, right?

00:38:39.420 Please let me get away with this, Bill.

00:38:40.680 Please, wait, what?

00:38:42.000 You're a, she's, how's she a white supremacist?

00:38:44.760 And then Bill tries to dig her out of it a little bit.

00:38:47.700 He's like, well, I guess it depends what your definition of white supremacist is, but what?

00:38:51.960 How do you?

00:38:52.900 And then Heidi tries to bring it back even further. 0.99

00:38:55.140 She goes, well, yeah, no, she hangs with white, white supremacists and she, uh, she, uh, uh, uh, who, who, what do you know about anything, Heidi?

00:39:04.480 Nothing.

00:39:05.880 And then the other guy who, the libertarian guy, whose name I forget at the moment, but he, uh, he comes out and he, he defends Gina, I think quite well and says, no, she just, she compared the actions of some other people to some actions that the Nazis did.

00:39:21.100 She compared, she made a comparison.

00:39:22.520 She's not, she didn't even call anybody Nazis and she certainly, if you, if you accuse someone of being a Nazi as though that were a terrible thing, you yourself probably wouldn't embrace the label Nazi, right? 1.00

00:39:34.540 It's just so stupid. 1.00

00:39:36.420 It's just so incredibly lazy. 1.00

00:39:39.940 And then, and then I love my, the button on the whole interview is she goes, yeah, and no, but Bill, you know, hold on, I can't defend my view.

00:39:46.740 So, uh, I think we need to be really careful.

00:39:49.960 You need to be really careful.

00:39:50.880 You just called a woman a Nazi without any evidence whatsoever, without knowing a thing about her.

00:39:55.280 And we need to be careful.

00:39:56.060 And then she pivots and tries to talk about something else. 0.90

00:39:58.660 It's very much, she got caught in the way it was, I keep going back to this cause it was so funny.

00:40:04.080 Uh, a black Democrat lady called in to David Webb's radio show once and he made a good point. 0.98

00:40:10.220 And she said, well, you only think that cause of your white privilege.

00:40:13.040 And I guess she didn't know she never met David Webb.

00:40:15.540 And so David Webb goes, ma'am, I don't think you would say that if you knew me.

00:40:21.000 She goes, no, you are.

00:40:21.780 It's cause of your white privilege. 0.97

00:40:22.800 David Webb, of course, is very much a black man. 0.90

00:40:25.280 And so he goes, ma'am, I'm a black guy.

00:40:28.800 And she, she says, oh, okay.

00:40:31.580 Well, anyway, you know, it doesn't matter.

00:40:34.520 However, it's not the claim, the charge of white supremacy or Nazism or whatever.

00:40:39.940 That's not the conclusion of an argument.

00:40:42.800 That's the premise.

00:40:43.860 That's where, that's where they're starting from.

00:40:46.160 And then if the premise is proven wrong, too bad or I will try something else.

00:40:50.180 But usually they don't get called out on the premises.

00:40:52.040 So they just get to continue the smears.

00:40:55.640 By the way, this is, this is not just affecting these radical Democratic senators or media people.

00:41:01.240 Kind of stuff is going on in the military.

00:41:02.780 U.S. Special Operations Command has an office of diversity inclusion.

00:41:08.500 They appoint a guy to that, Richard Therese Estrada.

00:41:12.120 And it turns out that this guy, the diversity and inclusion officer at the U.S. Special Operations Command,

00:41:20.880 once, at least once, compared Trump to Hitler.

00:41:25.480 Did the same thing that Heidi Heitkamp did.

00:41:28.040 Except this guy is not, at least apparently, he's not a Democrat operative.

00:41:32.600 Obviously, in practice, he's a Democrat operative.

00:41:35.180 But he's a, he's a member.

00:41:38.040 He's a leading figure within a certain segment of the military.

00:41:42.800 It's even infected that.

00:41:44.680 Military is investigating this incident.

00:41:46.820 There's no need to investigate this incident.

00:41:48.980 What's the reason to investigate it?

00:41:50.320 I think anybody, I think, I'm willing to make this claim.

00:41:55.700 Every single person who, who serves as a diversity and inclusion officer in any position in this country

00:42:03.100 has at some point compared Trump to Hitler.

00:42:05.280 I, I would bet a lot of money that that statement is true, okay? 0.92

00:42:09.820 The real issue here is not that this one diversity and inclusion officer made this ridiculous comparison and smeared the president.

00:42:17.780 The issue is that we have diversity and inclusion officers in our military.

00:42:21.360 The, I don't, I don't want diversity in the military. 1.00

00:42:25.480 I mean, I don't care what race they are or anything like that. 1.00

00:42:27.620 Here's, here's the, I want unity in the military.

00:42:30.140 And here's the unity I want.

00:42:31.340 Love of country, the willingness to kill our enemies, and the ability to kill our enemies. 0.79

00:42:35.720 That's what I want.

00:42:36.300 Those three things.

00:42:37.020 I want that unity.

00:42:38.380 I don't want diversity in that some people who want to kill our enemies and some people who want to hug our enemies.

00:42:42.360 That's bad diversity.

00:42:43.220 I don't want that.

00:42:44.180 It's a bad idea.

00:42:45.260 Mission drift has set in here.

00:42:47.580 But we let this happen as conservatives.

00:42:50.880 We just, well, okay, maybe we can have a diversity and inclusion officer, but, you know, they can't compare Trump to Nazis.

00:42:55.620 No, just get rid of it. 0.99

00:42:56.700 It's ridiculous. 0.89

00:42:57.960 Why on earth is, is what has been and what ought to be the most lethal, formidable fighting force on earth, wasting our precious resources and their precious time on this ridiculous nonsense of diversity and inclusion officers. 0.98

00:43:14.680 Get rid of it.

00:43:15.300 The guy should be fired whether he did it or not because the position should not exist.

00:43:20.740 This sort of radical racialism, the, the exaltation of diversity and inclusion, whatever other PC terms you want, is not unique to the United States.

00:43:33.980 It's going on all around the Western world, down in, down in Australia, way down under.

00:43:40.020 There, there is a school in Victoria, Australia that is having their young teenage boys at a, at an assembly stand up and apologize to girls on behalf of their gender.

00:43:55.340 On behalf of their gender.

00:43:59.020 Some parents were pretty outraged by this, that 12 year old boys were made to apologize for just being boys.

00:44:06.460 And so I think the school finally did apologize.

00:44:08.740 This is going on in a lot of different places.

00:44:11.120 All these, all these, I'm sure the boys were apologizing.

00:44:14.540 They're like, I'm sorry that my male sex picks up the check for dinner. 0.72

00:44:19.460 I'm sorry that my male sex historically has fought all the wars ever.

00:44:25.120 I'm sorry that my, my male sex dies a little earlier on average because we, we work a lot.

00:44:30.760 I'm so, I don't know.

00:44:31.640 What are we going to apologize for?

00:44:32.620 I'm sorry that we've, yeah, we could go on and on and on.

00:44:39.320 The diversity and inclusion thing and, and whatever other politically correct initiatives that are being foisted on us are not about equality.

00:44:52.080 They're not about fairness.

00:44:53.740 They're not about restoring some neutral ground where we can all sing Kumbaya.

00:44:58.640 They're about punishment.

00:44:59.780 They're about castigating men, the patriarchy. 0.98

00:45:05.380 They're about a cast, castigating white people.

00:45:08.240 They're about a castigating, I guess, straight people now.

00:45:12.540 I guess that, that's part of it.

00:45:13.640 I guess, I guess people who know that they are the sex that they are. 0.55

00:45:18.720 That's an, and now with the advent of trans ideology, it's about to use a popular left-wing term,

00:45:25.400 otherizing a very small group of people and saying that they're the source of all the evil in the world.

00:45:31.960 And that even when racial minorities attack other racial minorities, the cause of that is white supremacy,

00:45:36.960 which, which left-wingers actually have said in the last couple of weeks.

00:45:39.740 And reordering society away from any semblance of justice, equality, or fairness.

00:45:49.840 It is not enough to just sort of mildly push back against that.

00:45:54.160 It is not enough to say, we will hear all views and tolerate all.

00:45:56.980 No, you need to assert an alternative political vision, an alternative moral vision.

00:46:04.040 The left is asserting political and moral vision.

00:46:06.760 It's immoral and it'll destroy our politics, but got to give them credit.

00:46:10.400 At least they have the courage to, to make that vision.

00:46:13.440 What are we doing on the right?

00:46:15.400 We just get lost in these abstract, ridiculous procedural arguments

00:46:20.440 about defending free speech in the abstract,

00:46:24.520 totally divorced from the actual American tradition of free speech.

00:46:27.340 Very often we make arguments that are contrary to the actual tradition of free speech here in America.

00:46:33.440 We talk about, we need academic freedom.

00:46:35.920 We never talk about the actual academic tradition in the United States and in the West.

00:46:41.340 We don't talk about the substance.

00:46:42.480 We only talk about the procedure.

00:46:46.600 Not good stuff.

00:46:47.400 You know, I, I explained this problem and outlined a way out in,

00:46:52.000 I don't know if I've mentioned it before,

00:46:53.380 my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,

00:46:55.940 which is available now for pre-order.

00:46:58.240 This probably will not be put on many high school curricula,

00:47:02.900 certainly not in public schools, maybe not in many private schools.

00:47:05.500 But I do hope that people read this book.

00:47:08.180 Whether it's in public or private school,

00:47:09.920 I promise you the Democrat governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, did not read it.

00:47:14.780 Because Andy Beshear is, is showing us the, the double standards that the left is always using.

00:47:23.020 The left right now is very focused on maintaining the support of teacher unions.

00:47:27.200 And so they're very opposed to reopening schools and they're also very opposed to school choice.

00:47:31.340 So for a lot of kids, the only way that they're going to escape,

00:47:36.320 or by far the greatest chance they have to escape poverty, bad conditions,

00:47:41.220 and even just bad culture and even just bad interpersonal relationships is through education.

00:47:46.680 That's the way out.

00:47:48.140 Never met a guy at the top who doesn't read a lot, who, who hasn't educated himself.

00:47:53.240 Very, very few, very few people who've made, I guess there are a few exceptions,

00:47:57.240 especially in like, you know, Hollywood or some of the crazy liberals out there.

00:48:00.300 But generally speaking, the people who make it to the top of the heap are pretty, pretty well educated.

00:48:05.020 So this governor, this Democrat governor is, sends his kids to private school,

00:48:09.800 but he himself will not allow other students to have that same school choice.

00:48:16.760 When he is pushed back on about this, he says, well, hey, yeah, I send my kids to private school,

00:48:22.040 but I am a public school graduate.

00:48:24.760 But in your most precious investors, investment, your own children, they go to public, to private school.

00:48:30.920 Why don't they go to public school?

00:48:32.240 And is that kind of a, is that hypocritical that your children go to private school?

00:48:36.300 I'm a public school graduate.

00:48:37.700 I believe in public schools and my kids will be going to a public middle school.

00:48:41.760 So he's been saying a lot, a lot, a lot.

00:48:44.100 I, you know, I'm a product of the public schools.

00:48:46.060 Well, it turns out there's a report just came out that Andy Beshear, at least for some period

00:48:52.420 of his schooling, went to private school.

00:48:54.680 And he's never disclosed this when he talks about how much he loves public schools.

00:48:59.000 This is not surprising.

00:49:00.280 This has happened to other politicians too.

00:49:03.060 They, they get caught up in this lie.

00:49:04.980 They want certain privileges for themselves.

00:49:07.580 They want to exclude those privileges from other people.

00:49:10.540 And this is especially true during the coronavirus.

00:49:13.800 How many times has Dr. Fauci been caught in close proximity to other people without his

00:49:17.580 mask on after he told everyone to wear masks?

00:49:20.360 Countless times at this point, he's been photographed doing it, filmed doing it.

00:49:24.260 And then he sees people have cameras on him and he pulls the mask back up.

00:49:27.520 Certain rules for the, for the peasants and certain rules for the elites.

00:49:32.780 Now they want to extend this forever and ever and ever.

00:49:37.460 You might've thought I was being hyperbolic when I said this sort of thing a year ago.

00:49:42.100 Said, oh, Michael, it'll be, okay, it won't be two weeks, but it'll be two months, three

00:49:44.740 months.

00:49:45.040 We'll get back to normal.

00:49:47.560 380 days, my friends.

00:49:49.640 And now they're calling not to start letting up.

00:49:52.000 They're calling for renewed mask mandates.

00:49:55.460 The president of the United States wants renewed mask mandates everywhere in the country.

00:49:59.940 And then they want you to put your medical history on an app to prove to people that

00:50:05.200 you've gotten their shot that was developed quickly.

00:50:08.660 Seems to be doing well, but still, you know, it's developed pretty quickly.

00:50:12.380 They want to force you to get that shot, to engage in commerce.

00:50:16.260 And it's not just that one shot.

00:50:17.320 It'll track variants.

00:50:18.280 It'll track boosters.

00:50:20.060 The power will not go away.

00:50:22.520 They will not give up that power unless we stop allowing them to have it.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 30, 2021

Ep. 731 - No Time For Compromise

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