The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 765 - The Secular Keffiyeh

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00:00:37.640 The masks are coming off.

00:00:39.720 We are finally losing our secular keffias, and some libs just can't handle it.

00:00:46.680 As a matter of fact, my doppelganger expressed this broad anxiety on the left on her TV show just last week.

00:00:54.680 I feel like I'm going to have to rewire myself so that when I see somebody out in the world who's not wearing a mask,

00:01:00.960 I don't instantly think you are a threat or you are selfish or you are a COVID denier and you definitely haven't been vaccinated.

00:01:08.520 I mean, we're going to have to rewire the way that we look at each other because the CDC's guidance,

00:01:14.140 which she just told me, we are sure, is that if you're vaccinated, you don't need to wear a mask except in very specific circumstances.

00:01:21.100 And so that means as we change that as a country, we are going to look at each other differently

00:01:25.260 and have to unwire our preconceptions about what a mask or a lack of a mask means.

00:01:30.840 President Biden spoke to that a little bit today, asking for people to—

00:01:33.140 President Biden actually and Dr. Fauci both spoke to that today, asking for people to essentially be patient, be compassionate,

00:01:40.320 give people respect for whatever they decide on this front because with this changing guidance,

00:01:45.600 we're going to now have changing norms and we've got to give each other space to have feelings about that

00:01:50.080 as we go through what's going to be a big change that's going to create a lot of visceral reaction in a lot of us just in our day-to-day lives.

00:01:58.540 A lot of visceral reaction from extremely neurotic people.

00:02:04.560 Her point is very good, though.

00:02:06.100 Her point is that we need to unwire, rewire the way we look at people.

00:02:10.940 Now, I don't because I never adopted the new stupid standards, but the left did.

00:02:15.240 The people who went all in on the masks did.

00:02:17.880 Their minds have been changed.

00:02:19.580 The social conventions have been changed.

00:02:21.260 This is why I've been against these masks from the very beginning,

00:02:24.540 is because it's not just a private matter.

00:02:26.520 You do you, I'll do me, whatever makes you feel good.

00:02:28.980 This is a major social matter.

00:02:30.760 People are wearing these stupid pieces of cloth all out in public like banditos for a year now.

00:02:36.520 And some people can't go back to normal.

00:02:38.840 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:39.520 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:48.440 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:49.340 My favorite comment yesterday from Chris, 1985, who says,

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00:04:41.500 The masks are a political matter.

00:04:45.040 A whole lot of things that we pretend are private matters are political matters.

00:04:49.200 Okay.

00:04:49.860 The left gets this and actual conservatives get this, but the squishes in the middle,

00:04:56.380 the, I don't know, say libertarian or classical liberal or kind of moderate or centrist,

00:05:02.400 they don't seem to get it.

00:05:04.440 So the libs from the beginning said, you have to wear the mask.

00:05:06.980 You always have to wear the mask.

00:05:08.120 Wear the mask right now.

00:05:08.980 And the people in the middle said, look, if I, if I want to wear it, I'll wear it.

00:05:12.880 And if I don't want to wear it, I won't wear it.

00:05:14.180 And why can't we be reasonable about this?

00:05:16.060 And I understand the impulse for that.

00:05:17.720 I totally get it.

00:05:18.460 But the thing is, we can't, we can't be, we can't allow that to be the rule because the

00:05:23.200 masks are the main thing you're seeing about people in public, right?

00:05:27.480 That is, that's the big change where man is the political animal.

00:05:31.220 Our speech is what makes us who we are, according to Aristotle, according to our political philosophy.

00:05:37.520 And when you muzzle someone, when you put this weird thing on their face, it is not going

00:05:41.700 to alleviate anxiety.

00:05:42.720 It's not just a private choice.

00:05:43.900 It changes a major ritual of society.

00:05:47.480 So the more right wing conservatives realized from the beginning, oh, this is really bad guys.

00:05:51.960 We got to stop doing this.

00:05:53.340 We should not normalize this sort of thing.

00:05:55.740 We're all going to start looking like banditos or something like that.

00:05:59.120 Well, now the masks are finally coming off if we keep up the pressure.

00:06:04.320 And the left is very upset about this.

00:06:06.200 The way you know that they're finally going to be coming off if we keep up the pressure

00:06:10.140 is that Starbucks and Walmart are announcing they will no longer require the face masks for

00:06:15.160 vaccinated customers.

00:06:16.400 But of course, there's, you know, it, it would seem to be quite a violation to require customers

00:06:22.320 to show their vaccine cards.

00:06:24.040 It would just be so inefficient for the business too, that this is effectively just a blanket

00:06:30.180 opportunity for people to take their masks off, regardless of whether or not they're

00:06:33.340 vaccinated, because you're just, you're just not going to find out.

00:06:35.740 So now the masks are coming off.

00:06:37.380 Great.

00:06:38.000 Glad to hear it.

00:06:39.620 Why are they doing this?

00:06:40.940 They're doing this, I suspect in part, because people are already ditching these conventions.

00:06:46.920 I'm not sure this is a case of, okay, the eggheads and the corporations are finally going to allow

00:06:53.660 people to take them off.

00:06:54.640 And now then the behavior is going to follow that.

00:06:56.780 I'm just looking around and I've traveled all over this country the past year.

00:07:00.020 I have not let up my travel really.

00:07:01.880 And people that just don't care as much, they're all wearing them below the nose.

00:07:04.880 A lot of people aren't wearing them at all.

00:07:06.180 And I think that the power mad eggheads are realizing they're losing power here.

00:07:12.880 So they've got to get ahead of the story and they're going to say, okay, now it's fine.

00:07:15.680 You can start to take it off.

00:07:16.920 Don't forget it.

00:07:17.760 A few weeks ago, they said, even if you're vaccinated, you got to keep your mask on.

00:07:21.020 You got to social distance.

00:07:22.200 And then two seconds later, they said, actually, nevermind.

00:07:24.640 You can start to take your mask off because they realized they were, they were not creating

00:07:27.600 the right incentives to get vaccinated.

00:07:29.520 They realized they were looking like fools and as though they were feckless because people

00:07:33.840 were just disregarding them.

00:07:34.880 So good stuff.

00:07:35.900 Keep the pressure on folks.

00:07:37.220 That's great.

00:07:37.700 I can't wait to go get a triple chai, whatever Frappuccino later without the mask on.

00:07:43.560 Maybe, maybe I'll just walk in and walk out.

00:07:45.180 I won't even get the Frappuccino.

00:07:46.900 The bureaucrats, however, are still clinging to power.

00:07:50.700 So the CDC first says you got to wear your mask, even if you're vaccinated.

00:07:53.980 Then they say, you don't need to wear your mask, even if you're vaccinated.

00:07:56.620 Now they're, they're couching this guidance even further.

00:08:01.180 Here is Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the CDC.

00:08:04.780 The guidance that we released on Thursday is about individuals and what individuals are

00:08:09.820 at risk of doing if they are not vaccinated.

00:08:12.100 If they're vaccinated, they are safe.

00:08:13.780 If they are not vaccinated, they are not safe.

00:08:16.100 They should still be wearing a mask or, better yet, get vaccinated.

00:08:19.980 We also need to say that this is not permission for widespread removal of masks.

00:08:25.020 For those who are vaccinated, it may take some time for them to feel comfortable removing 0.70

00:08:29.200 their masks.

00:08:30.000 But also that these decisions have to be made at the jurisdictional level, at the community

00:08:34.200 level.

00:08:35.000 Some communities have been hit harder than others, have lower vaccination rates than others.

00:08:39.640 We wanted to deliver the science at the individual level, but we also understand that these decisions

00:08:44.680 have to be made at the community level.

00:08:47.200 But this was such a brilliantly stupid statement.

00:08:52.240 But I'm, the, the reason it's stupid is because it doesn't make sense.

00:08:55.800 The reason it's brilliant is it shows you the inconsistencies in this political philosophy

00:09:02.460 of the left right now and, and frankly, a little bit of the right too, which is the focus on

00:09:08.300 the individual and private decisions and everything comes down to the individual.

00:09:13.720 The left focuses on the social side of this.

00:09:15.640 The right focuses on the economic side and a little bit of the social side, but it's all

00:09:21.060 about the individual.

00:09:21.940 It's not about the community.

00:09:22.820 Okay.

00:09:23.040 And what is the individual?

00:09:24.280 What's it going to be based on?

00:09:25.200 It's going to be based on the science and the objective, super duper rational decisions

00:09:30.720 of the people in the lab coats at the administrative agencies.

00:09:34.220 It's not even through our elected representatives.

00:09:36.220 It's those genius technocrats who are going to follow the science and make the decisions

00:09:39.920 for us.

00:09:40.240 And now we know the science says, if you are vaccinated, you can take your mask off, except

00:09:47.900 unless your community doesn't want you to.

00:09:50.940 Why is that?

00:09:52.400 Well, because if your community doesn't want you to, you need to focus on that jurisdictional

00:09:59.020 question.

00:09:59.900 Why?

00:10:00.300 The science doesn't care about jurisdiction.

00:10:02.580 The science doesn't care about federalism.

00:10:04.140 The science is the science.

00:10:05.420 That's the premise of progressivism.

00:10:07.100 That's why you guys have obliterated localism, obliterated community standards, obliterated

00:10:11.900 federalism.

00:10:13.500 So why?

00:10:14.460 Why do I need to defer to the local community?

00:10:17.000 Well, because in some places, not as many people have gotten vaccinated.

00:10:21.120 Right.

00:10:21.540 But that doesn't matter because the vaccine works.

00:10:23.760 We're told the vaccine works.

00:10:25.040 You can't really get it.

00:10:26.300 You can't really spread it.

00:10:27.160 So you should be okay.

00:10:28.100 Generally, generally speaking, right?

00:10:30.540 That's why we're not going to wear the masks.

00:10:31.860 But no, but no, because there's this political issue because the left wants to have its cake

00:10:38.960 and eat it too.

00:10:39.600 And to a degree, the right does as well.

00:10:42.080 Everything's about the individual, but also they want to hold on to their power.

00:10:46.680 The place you see this kind of ridiculous claim most clearly is in the restaurants, right?

00:10:53.780 Because we've been joking on the right the whole time, which is, and we've been saying,

00:10:58.300 okay, so if I'm walking around the restaurant, I can get COVID, which is why I need to put

00:11:02.700 my mask on.

00:11:03.440 But the minute I sit down at the table, then I can't get COVID.

00:11:07.440 So I can take my mask off, right?

00:11:09.600 That's the, that's the kind of caricature of the left's argument.

00:11:14.400 But that's not really what the left was saying.

00:11:16.080 That's just how we made fun of them.

00:11:17.300 What the left was really saying is that you can't eat with a mask on.

00:11:22.220 So really, you all should be wearing masks all the time, but we recognize you can't eat

00:11:25.880 with a mask on.

00:11:26.660 So we're going to open the restaurants a little bit, but you should have your mask off as

00:11:29.600 little as possible, okay?

00:11:30.820 However, that didn't quite make sense either, because if this virus is so dangerous that

00:11:40.160 you need to mask up in public, totally muzzle yourself for a year, that it's so dangerous

00:11:46.480 that you can't even have it off while you're eating.

00:11:48.500 It's got to be kind of in between bites.

00:11:50.220 You can't even walk to the bathroom.

00:11:51.680 It's so dangerous.

00:11:53.080 Then obviously we just shouldn't open the restaurants.

00:11:56.200 If that were the case, then just eat at home, cook at home, do takeout or something.

00:12:00.460 But you certainly shouldn't open the restaurants.

00:12:03.060 But the left wants to have its cake and eat it too here, because the left is, while they're

00:12:07.900 clamoring and saying, this is so dangerous, it's the most dangerous thing we've ever faced.

00:12:11.700 Don't ever take the mask off.

00:12:12.900 You've got to put a mask on a three-year-old.

00:12:14.660 While they're saying that, they are implicitly saying, it's not that big a deal.

00:12:19.360 Come on, you can go to a restaurant.

00:12:21.300 Just do what we say.

00:12:22.380 Just do what we say.

00:12:24.260 Come on, follow the science, whatever the science is that we say at this particular moment.

00:12:28.920 And you can't have those two things at the same time and be consistent.

00:12:33.360 I think ultimately what this is coming down to is the tension, not even between the science

00:12:39.220 and the preferences of the people and the experts and the elected politicians.

00:12:44.060 I think what this is coming down to, I think it actually has very little to do with the

00:12:47.280 coronavirus.

00:12:47.980 It comes down to a tension in our liberal society between the public and the private.

00:12:55.020 On the right right now, there's a big disagreement between the individual rights, libertarian type

00:13:03.720 conservatives and the common good conservatives.

00:13:07.540 And they're just both recognizing an aspect of the right that we should be able to recognize.

00:13:12.520 But people have become so ideologically fanatical here that now you have people who would call

00:13:17.660 themselves libertarian who refuse to acknowledge that there is such a thing as a public good.

00:13:21.840 They refuse to acknowledge that there is a common good, that there is society at all.

00:13:25.840 It's just all about me, me, me, me, me.

00:13:27.320 But that is a tool of the left.

00:13:31.400 As we're taking our masks off now, some women do not want to lose the masks. 1.00

00:13:38.920 There was a piece in a newspaper here, headline.

00:13:43.360 The people who want to keep masking, it's like an invisibility cloak.

00:13:49.560 This is from The Guardian, okay?

00:13:51.640 And just interviewing generally just women who don't want to take their masks off. 1.00

00:13:57.800 Here are some of the quotes.

00:13:59.680 Tell me if this is about the science or if this is about something a little deeper.

00:14:04.660 Quote, I don't want to feel the pressure of smiling at people to make sure everyone knows

00:14:09.620 I'm friendly and likable.

00:14:10.760 Well, both in quotes, it's almost like taking away the male gaze.

00:14:16.180 This is some feminist term. 1.00

00:14:18.020 I guess the feminists object to men having eyes. 1.00

00:14:20.480 So that's a feminist term. 1.00

00:14:21.500 They don't like the male gaze.

00:14:22.600 There's freedom in taking that power back.

00:14:25.580 So this isn't about I'm afraid to get the virus or whatever.

00:14:29.260 This is I don't want to have to smile at people.

00:14:31.940 And this woman is framing it in a feminist way, saying this is about the male gaze and 0.83

00:14:37.460 taking power back from men.

00:14:38.600 But no, what this is about is her selfishness and her self-indulgence. 0.79

00:14:43.300 She doesn't want to even have to smile at people to show that she's friendly and likable.

00:14:47.540 That most basic demand of society to just sort of be friendly, to smile and not be ornery

00:14:56.100 all the time.

00:14:57.020 She doesn't want to have to take on that obligation of society.

00:15:01.000 She wants to do whatever she wants to do at any given time.

00:15:03.780 And you can't say boo about it.

00:15:05.320 Another one.

00:15:05.820 Quote, maybe it's because I'm a New Yorker.

00:15:08.580 Maybe it's because I always feel like I have to present my best self to the world.

00:15:12.240 But it has been such a relief to feel anonymous.

00:15:15.300 It's like having a force field around me that says, don't see me.

00:15:20.800 Wow.

00:15:21.560 This is really profound.

00:15:23.700 And especially coming from a New Yorker, because I think a lot of people believe that if you're

00:15:27.880 in a city, you know a lot of people because you're always around a lot of people.

00:15:30.780 And if you're in a small town, you don't know that many people.

00:15:32.560 But it's actually the opposite.

00:15:33.860 If you're in a city, you can be anonymous.

00:15:35.460 If you're in a small town, you cannot be anonymous.

00:15:37.260 And the people who are drawn toward that sort of anonymity want more and more and more of it.

00:15:42.720 The mask here, not about the science.

00:15:44.480 The mask being about this idea that I can just totally do whatever I want without being judged

00:15:49.940 for it, without being known.

00:15:52.520 Think about this.

00:15:53.160 When people have fantasies, they'll often pretend to be invisible.

00:15:59.580 They can just totally be invisible.

00:16:02.240 When a little child is playing, one of the pretend games they'll play is invisibility.

00:16:06.780 And I can just do whatever I want.

00:16:08.180 And what invisibility fantasies and games are about is about the ability to live without

00:16:15.920 the forces of the moral universe on you, without the judgment, without the accountability.

00:16:22.620 I don't want to be accountable to any, I don't want anyone to know who I am and to hold me

00:16:27.540 accountable for what I'm doing.

00:16:28.500 And then finally, quote, it's a common consensus among my coworkers that we prefer not having

00:16:32.740 customers see our faces, not having customers see our faces.

00:16:36.220 Oftentimes when a customer is being rude or saying off color political things, what does

00:16:40.320 that mean?

00:16:40.620 Being a Republican off color political things, meaning non-leftist.

00:16:44.440 I'm not allowed to grimace or make a face because that will set them off.

00:16:49.960 Oh my goodness gracious. 0.97

00:16:51.280 This woman's obviously in retail. 1.00

00:16:54.780 The old expression, the customer is always right.

00:16:57.340 That's wrong.

00:16:57.920 According to this woman, I am always right.

00:17:00.580 The retail worker is always right.

00:17:03.640 When a, when a customer says or does something that I don't like, I'm not even allowed to

00:17:07.820 grimace at them.

00:17:09.580 Yeah, you're not because you're a retail worker.

00:17:12.020 You're in a, you're doing your job.

00:17:14.120 Oh my God.

00:17:14.960 Yeah.

00:17:15.140 I'm not allowed to, you know, it's so outrageous when I'm sitting here and doing this show,

00:17:18.280 I'm not allowed to just sit around and smoke a cigar and read a book.

00:17:22.100 Isn't that crazy?

00:17:23.040 I want to be able to do that.

00:17:24.500 I have to actually talk.

00:17:25.740 I have to actually read things out loud.

00:17:28.700 I have to react to things.

00:17:30.120 I have to give my views.

00:17:31.480 Isn't that crazy that I can't just do whatever I want, even when I'm doing my job?

00:17:35.380 That's what this person is saying.

00:17:37.120 This is what the liberal society does on the left and the right.

00:17:40.920 For that matter, the liberal society exalts entitlement to selfishness and anonymity.

00:17:48.420 This is why in a great many moral matters, even in the cultural, even in the sexual matters,

00:17:56.080 even in the social matters, the left and the right are almost in perfect agreement that all

00:18:01.760 that matters is consent.

00:18:03.100 As long as you consent to do something, people ought to be able to do whatever they want.

00:18:07.040 Now, this is a very new idea.

00:18:08.380 It used to be that at least, actually, the left and the right in this country both used

00:18:13.640 to agree that society and the moral order makes some demands of us and we have to do

00:18:18.840 certain things.

00:18:19.620 And true freedom, true liberty is not just doing whatever we want all the time.

00:18:22.720 It's doing what we ought to do.

00:18:25.000 The right to do what we ought to do.

00:18:26.480 That's true liberty.

00:18:27.460 Then the left kind of lost that in the 60s, maybe a little bit earlier.

00:18:30.500 And then the left convinced the right to adopt the same stupid view, which I detail at great

00:18:35.860 length in my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available now for

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00:18:43.560 The right adopted the left's view on this sort of thing.

00:18:46.640 And so now we basically just seek the same things.

00:18:49.100 We seek a total private sphere, no demands on us from society.

00:18:53.700 The way this expresses itself on the left is to say that society is awful, so it has no

00:18:58.560 right to make a demand on us or to say that, you know, our true selves are just whatever

00:19:04.600 our most base desires are and we have an obligation to follow those desires no matter how crazy

00:19:09.500 they are.

00:19:09.960 That's how it expresses itself on the left.

00:19:11.580 And on the right, it expresses itself in this kind of Ayn Rand craziness of, you know,

00:19:17.020 the virtue of selfishness that actually charity and care for our neighbors.

00:19:22.280 Somehow that's wrong because of some paperback writer from the 20th century who convinced people

00:19:26.880 to throw away the moral order and the conservative tradition.

00:19:30.640 This liberal emphasis on privacy, on individual choice, on anonymity explains a phenomenon that

00:19:37.860 a lot of people have been wondering about.

00:19:40.040 This phenomenon has bedeviled religious observers all around the country, which is you have people 0.99

00:19:45.040 like Joe Biden coming out and saying, I'm a devout Catholic.

00:19:48.020 Oh yeah.

00:19:48.580 Oh, whenever you see Biden's religion referenced in print, it's always very Catholic, devout Catholic.

00:19:53.740 Like why, why do they call him devout?

00:19:55.120 Because he goes to mass sometimes and, and he actually violates the central tenets of his

00:20:02.820 religion.

00:20:04.120 You remember Joe Biden was denied communion at a church in North Carolina and all the criticism

00:20:07.980 went on the priest for denying him communion, but he ought to be denied communion.

00:20:11.920 He is denying the faith.

00:20:14.200 He is saying, he is, and not just denying the faith.

00:20:16.760 He has created scandal.

00:20:18.540 He's endorsed radically pro-abortion policies in direct contravention of the Catholic faith.

00:20:25.520 So yes, he has, he's being denied communion as an act of compassion because he's compromising

00:20:29.240 his, his mortal soul.

00:20:32.620 That's not a good thing.

00:20:34.700 So he does this, but he's still a devout Catholic.

00:20:37.140 Nancy Pelosi, same thing.

00:20:38.140 On the same issue, she is, she was asked a question by a reporter that, that referred to

00:20:43.280 these bishops, the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops are saying, look, we've got to do something

00:20:46.660 about this, these, these politicians on the left who say that they're Catholic are misleading

00:20:53.200 the faithful and they're, they're creating this idea that it's perfectly fine for Catholics 0.97

00:20:57.160 to support abortion, which it is not.

00:20:59.120 And we might have to bring some consequences upon them.

00:21:02.960 Pelosi was asked about this.

00:21:03.920 She said, nevermind, I'll just use my private judgment.

00:21:06.500 The U.S. Council of Bishops and the, and the Bishops Conference are, or doesn't want to

00:21:11.660 give any money or doesn't want to give, allow you to receive communion.

00:21:15.200 No, I think I can use my own judgment on that, but I'm pleased with what the Vatican put out

00:21:25.440 on that subject.

00:21:26.340 Did you read that?

00:21:27.160 That'll be up to the individual priests?

00:21:29.980 No, it basically says, don't be divisive on the subject.

00:21:34.780 Thank you.

00:21:35.820 Oh man, she was wrong.

00:21:37.140 And then she was extra wrong.

00:21:38.440 And the reporter even called her out on that.

00:21:39.780 I think I can use my own private judgment on whether or not to receive the Eucharist.

00:21:49.880 Look, I don't, I don't purport to be a theologian.

00:21:53.520 Okay.

00:21:53.920 I'm not, I'm a practicing Catholic, but I'm not saying I'm an expert or anything, but I'm

00:21:58.800 pretty sure you can't.

00:21:59.960 I'm pretty sure you can't use your own private judgment.

00:22:02.160 I, I just think it might serve Pelosi well if she would at least consider Googling Catholicism

00:22:08.060 at some point, because it is a very important aspect of the faith that your private judgment

00:22:14.240 is not the be all and end all.

00:22:15.920 Actually, we have priests, we have bishops, we have the magisterium, we have the tradition,

00:22:21.800 we have dogma, we have things that you actually need to follow before you follow your own,

00:22:27.060 in the case of Nancy Pelosi, extremely flawed moral conscience or, or, or, I don't even

00:22:33.480 know that her conscience is wrong.

00:22:34.540 Her conscience may well guide her in the right way.

00:22:38.700 And she's just refusing to cooperate with that. 0.93

00:22:41.400 You can't do that.

00:22:42.400 And then she goes, well, no, I prefer what the Vatican said.

00:22:44.960 Oh, the Vatican said, the Vatican saying that individual priests should make this decision.

00:22:48.980 What?

00:22:49.540 No, that, no, that don't be divisive.

00:22:52.620 What?

00:22:52.980 What are you, you're just quoting some line completely out of context.

00:22:57.860 That is not what we're referring to here.

00:22:59.800 Goodness gracious.

00:23:00.660 But speaking of religious conflict, it's not only the Catholics that are having this issue.

00:23:04.200 It is now coming to the forefront on our nightly news broadcasts in Israel, because there is

00:23:10.840 a major religious conflict going on here in Israel.

00:23:14.660 And once again, just like this liberty issue, you know, the left and the right broadly used

00:23:19.480 to agree on liberty.

00:23:20.320 And now, then they started to disagree, and now they've both adopted the far left's version

00:23:25.360 of it.

00:23:26.200 Same thing with Israel. 0.71

00:23:27.200 The left and the right both used to basically support Israel.

00:23:30.220 Now, at least the left, parts of the right, but certainly the left, almost uniformly opposed

00:23:37.540 to Israel.

00:23:39.620 And Israel under a lot of fire right now for blowing up a building belonging to the, or that 0.83

00:23:44.560 was inhabited by the Associated Press.

00:23:47.900 But Israel had a pretty good argument for it. 0.94

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00:24:54.460 Israel, under the direction of Bibi Netanyahu, blew up a building that the Associated Press

00:25:12.460 had been using.

00:25:13.680 I will refrain from making any jokes about this.

00:25:17.100 I know there have been a lot of jokes and people have made them, but that would be very,

00:25:21.160 very much in poor taste.

00:25:23.280 So I will refrain from making any jokes.

00:25:25.400 I will point out, though, the facts of this here, which is that Hamas was using the building,

00:25:30.580 the building that the Associated Press is saying, this was our building.

00:25:33.220 How dare you come in?

00:25:34.620 This is an attack on journalism.

00:25:36.180 Well, Bibi and the Israelis come back and they say, what are you talking about? 1.00

00:25:39.400 You were housing terrorists in the building.

00:25:41.060 It's about Palestinian terrorists, an intelligence office for the Palestinian terrorist organization

00:25:49.060 housed in that building that plots and organizes the terror attacks against Israeli civilians.

00:25:55.180 So it's a perfectly legitimate target.

00:25:57.380 And I can tell you that we took every precaution to make sure that there were no civilian injuries,

00:26:03.640 in fact, no deaths, no injuries whatsoever.

00:26:05.940 I can't say injuries.

00:26:08.260 I don't know if somebody received a fragment of a stone.

00:26:11.720 I don't know that.

00:26:12.480 But no people are killed.

00:26:13.680 Now, imagine, ask yourself, how is that possible?

00:26:15.960 You see these high-rise towers that are used by Hamas over and over again. 0.83

00:26:20.680 They collapse and no one is killed.

00:26:22.200 Why does that happen?

00:26:23.240 Because we, unlike Hamas, take special precautions to tell people, leave the building, leave the premises.

00:26:30.740 We make sure that everyone is gone before we bring down those terrorist facilities.

00:26:35.720 And that's the difference between Israel and Hamas. 0.82

00:26:37.700 They deliberately target our cities, deliberately target our civilians.

00:26:41.640 They glorify the death of children and civilians and old people. 1.00

00:26:45.700 They are happy with it.

00:26:47.440 So this is obviously true.

00:26:49.900 This is incontrovertible.

00:26:51.040 It is very impressive that they took down this building that the journalists, who seem to be a little cozy with Hamas, if you ask me, 0.96

00:26:59.800 the journalists are saying this is an attack on speech and the press.

00:27:04.000 And you say, well, hold on.

00:27:04.920 They took down the whole building and they didn't kill anybody?

00:27:06.880 How did they do that?

00:27:07.680 Because they did it very, very carefully.

00:27:09.840 So there is, there is a, an old idea on the right that Israel is always right. 0.99

00:27:18.460 Regardless, we're always with Israel.

00:27:19.920 We're just reflexively with Israel.

00:27:21.120 Israel is our greatest ally of all time.

00:27:22.640 And Israel is terrific, right?

00:27:25.100 Now, on the left, you're hearing this idea.

00:27:28.160 Israel is always wrong. 1.00

00:27:29.240 Israel is the worst place in the whole wide world. 1.00

00:27:31.200 It's an, it's an apartheid state.

00:27:32.540 We'll get to that in a second.

00:27:33.620 It's evil and we need to support the Palestinian terrorists. 1.00

00:27:37.400 Okay.

00:27:37.620 Okay.

00:27:39.840 So why can one not have what I think is the reasonable take on this, which is you look,

00:27:45.840 and you say, look, Israel's a sovereign country.

00:27:48.820 We're going to, we may have different interests at some point.

00:27:51.880 I'm not saying we do.

00:27:52.560 I'm just saying we may have different interests.

00:27:53.960 Okay.

00:27:54.400 And they're a sovereign country and they're going to pursue their national interest.

00:27:57.400 And we're going to pursue our national interest.

00:27:59.460 And we're not going to treat Israel as though it's the 51st state.

00:28:02.760 But also if you're, if you're deciding between supporting the Israelis and Bibi Netanyahu

00:28:08.400 and Hamas and people who danced in the street on 9-11 in Palestine, you can watch the videos.

00:28:14.720 I remember watching it on 9-11.

00:28:17.140 And you're going to look at people who don't seem to have America's best interests at heart.

00:28:20.880 Why, why on earth would we support the creation of some Palestinian nation state being led by 0.99

00:28:26.400 a terrorist group?

00:28:27.120 Why on earth would we, why on earth would we not support Israel in this case?

00:28:30.720 Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

00:28:32.480 Another good argument, I think, for backing Israel in this little dispute is that all of 0.91

00:28:37.780 the worst political people in our country are defending the Palestinian Arabs and opposing Israel.

00:28:43.400 So just as a rule of thumb, when I see, when I see people like AOC or Joy Reid supporting

00:28:49.100 one side of a political question, I'm going to do my own investigation probably.

00:28:53.340 But it is a perfectly natural and justifiable prejudice, a pre-judgment.

00:28:58.460 I'm just looking at who's backing them and I'm going to probably go on the other side.

00:29:01.760 Just knowing how we line up on other issues as well.

00:29:04.000 So Joy Reid on MSNBC, one of the worst people on that channel. 1.00

00:29:08.840 Joy Reid goes in and she says that with, and what her guests say more specifically,

00:29:15.200 is this is about Jewish supremacy.

00:29:18.520 Jewish supremacy is the main goal of Israel apartheid government. 0.61

00:29:25.640 And I say the word apartheid because former prime minister of Israel, two of them,

00:29:31.180 Uhud Olmert, Uhud Barak, security services, head of the Mossad, and many others use this

00:29:37.600 word saying in absence of any political solution, we will be entering apartheid.

00:29:41.960 We're already living a project of ethno-religious exclusion and purity. 0.92

00:29:50.080 This is what happened after years of Bibi Netanyahu incitement, weaponization of religion

00:29:55.840 and weaponization of race, where it doesn't matter democracy for even Palestinians who live

00:30:01.780 inside.

00:30:02.580 What matters is their ethnicity.

00:30:04.260 What matters is their race, their religion. 0.77

00:30:06.380 And it's, it's basically this stage where the occupation is metastasized everywhere,

00:30:12.840 not only in Gaza or in the West Bank or East Jerusalem, but also inside, uh, Israel.

00:30:19.300 So what is the claim here?

00:30:22.060 Cause there's a lot of these buzzwords, these slogans, apartheid, ethno-nationalism.

00:30:27.680 Okay.

00:30:28.260 What is, what is this woman actually saying?

00:30:31.560 Jewish supremacy. 0.81

00:30:32.820 We did a whole show last week on, on the dead rhetoric of the left.

00:30:36.380 What is she saying?

00:30:37.080 She's saying that Israel is a Jewish state.

00:30:40.820 Yep.

00:30:41.960 That's true.

00:30:42.780 And they believe that the Jews should have some special connection to the state of Israel.

00:30:47.340 Yep.

00:30:47.700 Duh.

00:30:48.200 That's a Jewish state.

00:30:49.180 What are you, are you going to object if Saudi Arabia is an Arabian state?

00:30:54.340 There aren't enough Japanese people in Arabia.

00:30:56.820 Uh huh.

00:30:57.320 Yeah, I guess, you know, what about Japan for that matter?

00:31:00.000 Japan basically does not permit immigration.

00:31:02.000 Are they going to complain because there aren't enough Nigerians in Japan? 0.86

00:31:06.200 Japan is a Japanese state.

00:31:08.020 It, well, that's ethno-nationalism.

00:31:10.180 Yeah, right.

00:31:10.840 Like most states, I guess.

00:31:12.220 Yeah, right.

00:31:14.240 Israel is not just an idea. 0.55

00:31:16.640 You know, I know it's become fashionable in recent decades to say that countries can be just an idea,

00:31:21.400 but that's obviously reductive and absurd.

00:31:24.240 Countries are not, countries can have a creedal aspect, no question about it.

00:31:27.460 But countries also have a people.

00:31:29.640 And, you know, Japan is a Japanese country, right?

00:31:32.500 It has a connection to the Japanese people.

00:31:35.480 It's the country for the Japanese. 1.00

00:31:38.460 Israel is a Jewish state.

00:31:41.020 That is what it is.

00:31:42.080 So, yes, is it, are Palestinian Arabs going to have a different relationship to Israel than Jewish people will?

00:31:53.300 Yeah, of course.

00:31:54.740 Duh.

00:31:55.000 They, they do have relatively good access to the political system, right?

00:32:02.860 It's, it's not as though Muslims are totally kicked out of the political system in Israel.

00:32:06.680 Far from it.

00:32:08.100 Muslims participate quite actively, actually, in the Israeli political system.

00:32:12.860 But it is to say there is a special connection here for the Jews.

00:32:15.960 Just like there'd be a special connection for the Arabians in Saudi Arabia and the Japanese in Japan.

00:32:20.060 It makes perfect sense.

00:32:20.900 Because, why, why we're not allowed to say that now about countries is, is pretty strange, isn't it?

00:32:26.060 Pretty strange to me.

00:32:28.820 Supremacy, apartheid. 0.88

00:32:30.260 It's an apartheid state.

00:32:32.740 AOC just tweeted that.

00:32:33.700 She said, apartheid states are not democracy.

00:32:35.980 So we got to be pretty specific here.

00:32:38.280 Because AOC is, is wrong in her particular claim where she's implying that Israel is an apartheid state and this is not a democracy, right?

00:32:46.320 But she's also wrong in her broader claim because apartheid states certainly can be democracies.

00:32:51.880 This word apartheid has a very specific context.

00:32:55.300 Apartheid refers to the policy of South Africa for many decades, which instituted racial segregation and discrimination between blacks and whites.

00:33:04.580 And at the end of the 20th century, there was a big political international pressure campaign to end apartheid.

00:33:13.400 They did end apartheid.

00:33:14.440 And this term, this slogan, was deemed to be politically useful.

00:33:18.240 So instead of just coming out here and saying in the specifics, well, Israel's certain policies on different races and religions or that, that, that those are unjust and we need to fix these specific policies.

00:33:28.580 They realize that they'll probably lose that argument.

00:33:31.000 So instead, they're making this link between Israel and South Africa.

00:33:36.340 And they're saying it's apartheid.

00:33:37.780 But let's get specific.

00:33:39.160 What is apartheid?

00:33:39.860 It's the system of racial segregation and discrimination.

00:33:43.400 Can democracies be apartheid states?

00:33:45.300 Of course they can.

00:33:46.860 Of course they can.

00:33:48.240 I'm not saying that's a good thing.

00:33:50.080 I'm just saying, duh, yes.

00:33:51.780 Very often that is the case.

00:33:53.540 Very often democracies do have policies that are racially discriminatory or that involve segregation.

00:34:00.920 Right?

00:34:02.620 We, we have racial policies in the United States right now.

00:34:06.620 Don't we?

00:34:07.740 We have, we have policies at the level of college and employment that privilege certain races and disadvantage other races.

00:34:16.340 In affirmative action, black and Hispanic students get an advantage and white and Asian students are disadvantaged.

00:34:24.640 That's a legal policy.

00:34:26.020 I'm not saying it's the same thing as apartheid South Africa.

00:34:28.900 Okay.

00:34:29.160 But I am pointing out that is a system of racial discrimination.

00:34:33.160 And there's an increasing system of racial segregation, especially on American college campuses, where you'll hear about things like blacks only dorms.

00:34:40.720 So, so, the issue here isn't apartheid.

00:34:46.260 It isn't democracy.

00:34:47.940 It isn't all these big silly slogans that actually obscure the political issue.

00:34:54.440 What, if the left wants to make the point that Israel is doing something wrong, they should just get specific and say that this is why the Israeli policy is awful.

00:35:01.880 This is why the Palestinian Arabs should have a nation state.

00:35:05.100 This is why, and I think many of them believe this, this is why Israel should not exist and the Palestinian Arabs should just have the whole territory.

00:35:12.240 There, there have been members of Congress and the Democratic Party who have chanted slogans to that very effect.

00:35:18.140 But if you're going to make that, okay, fine, make the claim.

00:35:20.100 I'm not saying you can't make the claim.

00:35:21.840 But at least be honest about it and then make the argument and let the people decide.

00:35:24.920 I think they realize, though, that if they make that argument, people aren't, aren't really going to go for it.

00:35:28.740 Now, speaking of democracy, I got to get to our own democracy.

00:35:33.040 You know, we've, we've talked a little bit in recent weeks about how Liz Cheney was going to get booted out of GOP leadership as well.

00:35:39.340 She should.

00:35:40.460 And the left had made a new mascot out of Liz Cheney.

00:35:44.520 Liz Cheney would just spend all her time attacking the Republican Party in the Washington Post on the left wing news shows. 1.00

00:35:50.720 She would constantly attack Trump and, and her own, her own constituents.

00:35:54.540 And so, so she was obviously going to get booted out.

00:35:57.020 But she was set up to be replaced by Elise Stefanik, which I thought was unfortunate because Stefanik is more liberal than Liz Cheney, has a way worse voting record than Liz Cheney, and was not always even pro-Trump, even if that was the, even if that had been the, the determining factor. 0.93

00:36:14.820 So a guy named Chip Roy came up.

00:36:16.420 Chip Roy, also, you know, I guess, look, every politician has issues, but I thought he was much more conservative.

00:36:20.180 So anyway, Elise Stefanik won. 0.98

00:36:22.840 She was voted in 134 to 46 over Chip Roy.

00:36:25.860 So it wasn't a total knockout, but it was obviously a very, very decisive win.

00:36:30.280 Probably a missed opportunity for the GOP, but whatever.

00:36:33.380 Now we've just got to win.

00:36:34.900 I wish Elise Stefanik the best.

00:36:36.540 I hope she does a good job.

00:36:37.640 I hope she doesn't squish out. 1.00

00:36:39.100 I hope she has rethought her views on amnesty and the Equality Act and lots of other crazy radical legislation.

00:36:45.000 I hope she's more conservative now.

00:36:46.300 And I hope she rallies the GOP to win.

00:36:49.260 Meanwhile, Liz Cheney, the ousted former head of the GOP conference in the House, she's got her sights set on higher office.

00:36:57.080 So this woman, this woman, she lost the Senate seat, right? 0.94

00:37:00.340 And then she won the House seat in Wyoming. 0.70

00:37:03.720 And then she, she's obviously going to lose re-election, I think, right?

00:37:07.740 You know, unless the primary just doesn't go anywhere.

00:37:10.060 She's, she's certainly going to be primaried.

00:37:12.360 And she gets booted out of her leadership position. 0.97

00:37:15.040 So what's next for her?

00:37:17.060 She's going to run for president, of course. 1.00

00:37:18.860 What will it take for you to run for president?

00:37:21.680 I am right now focused on my re-election in Wyoming.

00:37:25.120 Of course you are.

00:37:25.860 And you very much need to be.

00:37:27.360 That's right.

00:37:28.040 But what would it take for you to run for president?

00:37:29.840 Look, as I said.

00:37:31.940 I heard you on the radio in New Hampshire today.

00:37:33.620 So it's not, it's not too far out of your mind.

00:37:35.480 Look, I think it's really important that we, as Republicans, be in a position where we can present to our voters, to my voters in Wyoming and to our voters across the country, a set of issues and policies that reflect conservative principles, but also hope and opportunity and inspiration.

00:37:58.820 Would your father like to see you run?

00:38:00.920 Well, yeah, but he's my dad.

00:38:04.300 He's not objective.

00:38:05.860 Good point.

00:38:06.940 Oh, ha, ha, ha.

00:38:07.940 Yes.

00:38:08.900 Now, if Liz Cheney were not going to run in 2024, if she were not intending to run in 2024, she would have had a very simple answer.

00:38:17.020 Are you planning to run?

00:38:19.460 No, absolutely not.

00:38:20.900 I'm very happy representing the people of Wyoming.

00:38:23.320 I'm not going to run.

00:38:25.200 When she says, look, what would it take?

00:38:27.180 Well, you know, the country would have to be, oh, yeah, I bet your dad would like you to run.

00:38:32.520 Yeah, I bet he would.

00:38:33.980 But a lot of people who like Dick Cheney would want me to run.

00:38:36.160 Yeah, I don't know.

00:38:37.100 I mean, so she's, she's obviously trying to spin up a campaign. 1.00

00:38:40.960 Bill Kristol tweeted this out the other day.

00:38:42.880 So take that for what it's worth.

00:38:44.700 He tweeted out, oh, Liz Cheney, she's set the stage for a great, a great campaign for president. 0.99

00:38:50.720 Just a reminder that when Liz Cheney was trying to hold on to her leadership position in the House, no one spoke out in her defense.

00:39:01.380 Liz Cheney voted for the second farcical impeachment of Donald Trump. 0.52

00:39:06.600 Liz Cheney never missed an opportunity to attack her constituents. 1.00

00:39:10.200 And people like Adam Kinzinger, a nominally Republican, a liberal Republican in the House, he would defend her.

00:39:20.100 He voted with her.

00:39:20.900 He stood by her.

00:39:22.900 Not even he, not even he would speak out against her being removed from leadership.

00:39:28.960 But she believes that she, she could maybe mount a run for 2024.

00:39:35.260 How much of the party does she represent?

00:39:37.720 I don't mean to just dunk on Liz Cheney and the more liberal elements of the party.

00:39:42.060 And I don't mean to just defend the Trump side or the, the Reagan side or the conservative side of the Republican Party.

00:39:47.380 I'm just trying to look at this coldly right now.

00:39:50.520 If you thought about what percentage of the party goes for whom, how much of the GOP does Liz Cheney command? 0.99

00:39:59.040 She, she doesn't even command her own allies in the House. 1.00

00:40:03.680 She doesn't, what, on what planet is this woman going to win the nomination for president in 2024? 1.00

00:40:09.880 Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney's buddy in the House, who supported all her squishy plans until, you know, finally, even he wouldn't defend her when she was getting booted out.

00:40:23.300 Kinzinger is going on liberal news shows, as they all do, and he's going on Chuck Todd's show on NBC.

00:40:29.180 And he, he is making the claim that he is the, a greater representative of the, of the Republican Party than Donald Trump.

00:40:39.260 He is insisting that he will not let Donald Trump hijack his party.

00:40:45.080 I've been a Republican far longer than Donald Trump has, uh, and I'm not going to let him come in and hijack my party and turn it into something that, you know, great people like Ronald Reagan and George W. and George H.W. Bush and, and all the great leaders back, uh, did not want it to be.

00:41:02.940 It's, I'm not going to let him win.

00:41:04.920 I'm not going to let Donald Trump win at that.

00:41:06.900 So that's what the fight's about.

00:41:07.980 And I believe in what we used to believe in with 21st century solutions though.

00:41:13.060 Okay.

00:41:13.600 So I, I believe in what we used to, okay.

00:41:16.180 What did you used to believe in?

00:41:17.400 You know, I support the party of Reagan and Bush.

00:41:20.980 Well, hold on.

00:41:21.700 Now we've got a problem because Reagan and Bush represented opposite ends of the Republican Party.

00:41:28.500 That's why they had the unity ticket in 1980.

00:41:31.100 The reason that Reagan, that Reagan and Bush fought out a brutal primary.

00:41:36.280 George Bush coined the term voodoo economics to make fun of Ronald Reagan.

00:41:39.920 They represented totally different elements.

00:41:41.800 They had a unity ticket to bring the party together.

00:41:44.400 And then Reagan served eight years.

00:41:46.960 Bush had basically nothing to do with that.

00:41:48.680 And then in 1988, when Bush took over and got Reagan's third term, Bush famously called for a kinder, gentler nation, to which Nancy Reagan responded, kinder and gentler than whom?

00:42:00.660 It was an insult aimed at Ronald Reagan because they had very different visions of the country.

00:42:05.280 When George W. Bush came in, he said, I'm a compassionate conservative, more compassionate than whom?

00:42:10.700 More compassionate than the actual conservatives in his mind.

00:42:14.680 And I'm not, I'm not even just dunking on the Bushes.

00:42:17.280 Okay, whatever, you know, but their Bushes, Bushes did some nice things.

00:42:20.720 They've, they've, they've done some impressive things in their lives.

00:42:23.040 You know, George H.W. is a war hero.

00:42:25.560 George W. seems like a perfectly amiable fellow, but you can't claim that you're representing all of them.

00:42:32.340 You have to get more specific here, folks, what part of the GOP, the idea that Adam Kinzinger is the true Republican and Donald Trump is not, give me a break.

00:42:43.500 These guys, Cheney and Kinzinger, represent the liberal faction of the party, which right now is going along with something that I think is an egregious miscarriage of justice, namely the January 6th commission.

00:42:57.880 Yes, we've had the 9-11 commission now.

00:43:00.100 Now they want the January 6th commission.

00:43:02.000 What is that?

00:43:03.040 Being pushed by House Homeland Security Chairman Benny Thompson, who's a dem, and Representative John Katko, who's nominally at least a Republican.

00:43:11.900 They want a bipartisan commission to look into the events surrounding the Capitol on January 6th.

00:43:17.980 The commission, quote, will be charged with studying the facts and circumstances surrounding the January 6th attack on the Capitol,

00:43:25.320 as well as the influencing factors that may have provoked the attack on our democracy, our democracy, which I think it was Angelo Cotevilla at the Claremont Institute, who, he said that when they refer to our democracy, they're actually referring to their oligarchy.

00:43:43.740 Hey, you'll notice that the people who use that for our democracy, they seem to be some of the least democratic people around.

00:43:51.340 They seem to have the greatest disdain for the people, and they seem to support the machinations of the very, very clearly oligarchic, in some elements, state of theirs.

00:44:02.520 So, what about the January 6th commission?

00:44:06.120 In a way, I sort of support it, because everything we were told about January 6th has crumbled, really.

00:44:12.240 The idea that the Trump supporters killed a police officer, that fell apart, even though it was printed in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

00:44:19.040 The idea that they set bombs out, remember, there were bombs being set.

00:44:24.040 We still don't know anything about those bombs.

00:44:25.460 The FBI hasn't told us anything about them.

00:44:27.980 Don't you think if they were set by a Trump supporter, we might have heard about that by now?

00:44:31.260 It's kind of strange, at least.

00:44:32.340 I'd like an answer on that.

00:44:34.240 The idea that people were being killed, the only person who was killed in the political violence of the day was the Trump supporter, Ashley Babbitt, killed by the Capitol Police.

00:44:42.060 So, in a way, I kind of want it.

00:44:43.320 But on the other hand, I don't really want it.

00:44:46.160 I don't want this commission, because it's so ridiculous to compare the Capitol riot, bad as it was, to 9-11?

00:44:54.700 Are you insane?

00:44:55.420 We, so we're going to have a January 6th commission, but we're not going to have a summer of 2020 commission?

00:45:01.260 Because summer of 2020, when BLM and Antifa burned down the country, that did result in a lot of deaths.

00:45:06.600 That did result in a lot of destruction.

00:45:08.320 Attacks on government buildings, attacks on courthouses, attacks on private businesses, attacks on civilians.

00:45:13.880 But we don't have a commission to study that.

00:45:15.480 I want to study that.

00:45:16.180 I want to know where the funding came from.

00:45:17.600 I want to know which Democrats actively encouraged it.

00:45:21.860 I want those people to be held accountable.

00:45:24.460 But they won't be, because one of them is the sitting vice president, Kamala Harris.

00:45:30.100 So, I don't support it, because it's such a ridiculous double standard.

00:45:32.900 I don't want to give credence to any of that nonsense.

00:45:35.160 Meanwhile, we're told the real threat here, the real threat to America, white supremacists.

00:45:40.960 This, according to Merrick Garland, the attorney general, and Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security Secretary.

00:45:48.120 Unfortunately, the horror of domestic violent extremism is still with us.

00:45:52.780 Indeed, the FBI assessed that 2019 was the deadliest year for violent domestic extremism since 1995.

00:46:01.140 In March of this year, the intelligence community, in a report drafted by DHS, the FBI, and the National Counterterrorism Center,

00:46:12.140 under the auspices of the Director of National Intelligence,

00:46:15.560 assessed that domestic violent extremists pose an elevated threat in 2021.

00:46:21.420 And in the FBI's view, the top domestic violent extremist threat we face comes from racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists,

00:46:31.580 specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race.

00:46:36.260 That's it. That's the big threat.

00:46:37.660 Don't you remember when White Lives Matter burned down the country last year, right? 0.92

00:46:40.760 You remember that.

00:46:42.540 Oh, you don't?

00:46:43.880 Oh.

00:46:44.580 But, hey, the heads of the administrative agencies say so, and they would never lie to us.

00:46:49.020 They would never be totally wrong.

00:46:51.420 Oh, right.

00:46:52.060 This is obviously preposterous.

00:46:55.400 Obvious.

00:46:55.880 How many white supremacists are there?

00:46:58.240 And what, what, I'm not saying there aren't isolated incidents.

00:47:01.940 But compared to burning down the country, I just don't see it.

00:47:05.080 Meanwhile, white supremacy now explains everything.

00:47:07.180 We're told by Patrice Cullors, you know, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, BLM, also known as Buy Large Mansions.

00:47:12.640 She's now trying to, she's trying to explain away how she bought all these really nice houses.

00:47:18.820 So she's saying that there's a, quote, history of racism inside the housing market.

00:47:24.580 And this is why black homeownership has always been a way to disrupt white supremacy.

00:47:28.320 She's justifying her extortion and corrupt purchase of nice houses as a way to fight white supremacy. 1.00

00:47:35.660 Completely ridiculous.

00:47:36.720 As we are unmasking around this country, we need to unmask the very subtle, very corrupt premises at the heart of so much of the left's action.

00:47:45.280 That's going to require us to get very specific and to tune out the disingenuous and very corrupt officials here who want to keep it all masked up.

00:47:53.780 I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 17, 2021

Ep. 765 - The Secular Keffiyeh

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