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00:00:37.860 The New York City mayoral election is in chaos after the vote tally numbers jumped all over the place.

00:00:44.400 They just kept changing.

00:00:46.040 There was a seemingly random influx of over 100,000 votes at one point.

00:00:50.760 You know, it just kind of reminded me of something.

00:00:52.500 I don't know, deja vu all over again.

00:00:54.260 Then, the Board of Elections website took down its numbers.

00:00:58.600 Then, the Board of Elections admitted that they had accidentally left lots and lots of fraudulent test ballots.

00:01:06.540 They left them in the way.

00:01:07.680 They weren't fraudulent in that they weren't cast fraudulently,

00:01:10.280 but the test ballots shouldn't have been in the machine for the final tally.

00:01:13.020 So they were fraudulent in that regard.

00:01:15.420 They left them in there while the actual voters went to cast their votes.

00:01:19.380 Then, some votes were erased, and now we have no idea who exactly won.

00:01:25.760 This was a pretty strange turn of events for the most secure voting machines in human history

00:01:30.660 that are not in any way susceptible to fraud or malfunction or abuse.

00:01:34.660 And you're not even allowed to suggest that there could be modest errors.

00:01:39.960 And yet, here we are.

00:01:41.760 Not just New York City that's having problems with its voting machines.

00:01:45.060 Maricopa County has just announced a big problem as well.

00:01:48.540 But if you raise any of these sorts of questions, well, watch out.

00:01:52.900 Our benevolent overlords in the liberal establishment will not look too kindly on that.

00:01:57.800 Just ask Tucker Carlson.

00:02:00.400 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:55.300 So weird. So weird with this election because if you ever raise the possibility that even one

00:04:02.440 vote was off, that one vote was cast that shouldn't have been cast, that maybe there are

00:04:07.820 sometimes problems with the machines, maybe political campaigns sometimes try to gain an

00:04:12.360 advantage. You could be deplatformed. You could have the federal government investigating you

00:04:17.980 because you're an insurrectionist. But here it is. First of all, there's fraud in every single

00:04:23.060 election. LBJ won his Senate seat and then became vice president and then president because he stole

00:04:28.160 an election, right? This is many, many years ago, 1948. This happens often. The question is,

00:04:35.040 are there enough crazy, fraudulent, fake votes in there to throw the election? Well,

00:04:39.880 here's what's going on in New York. The election that we're talking about in New York is actually

00:04:44.420 not the general election for mayor. It's the primary election. But the thing is, New York is a

00:04:49.680 one-party town. So if you win the Democratic primary, you just win the election.

00:04:55.560 They had ranked choice voting. There are sometimes all these little reformers will always say,

00:05:01.080 we need, we need to have ranked choice voting where you just, you vote for your first choice

00:05:05.120 and your second choice. And then if there's not enough on the first and then this and then that

00:05:08.580 and this and some, too clever by half through this entire process into absolute chaos. So the New York

00:05:15.420 Board of Elections first sent out this note. We're aware there's a discrepancy in the unofficial

00:05:20.700 ranked choice voting round by round elimination report. We're working with our ranked choice voting

00:05:25.480 technical staff to identify where the discrepancy occurred. We asked the public elected officials

00:05:28.840 and candidates to have patience. Then they posted another statement later on, which actually had a

00:05:34.920 typo in it. So they had to take that statement down and they put another statement up. It said,

00:05:38.540 the Board of Elections conducts rigorous and mandatory pre-qualification testing for every election.

00:05:42.340 It has been determined that ballot images used for testing were not cleared from the election

00:05:47.920 management system. So they just didn't click refresh. That's at least the excuse we're getting

00:05:52.040 from the Board of Elections. They just didn't, they didn't like clear their cache. EMS produces cast

00:05:57.100 vote records from ballot images. RCV software uses the CVR to produce unofficial results. When the cast

00:06:02.920 vote records were extracted, it included both test and election night results, producing approximately

00:06:08.920 135,000 additional records just mixed in with all the general votes. That there was an influx of over

00:06:18.300 a hundred thousand votes that shouldn't have been there. Never heard of that before, right? That's

00:06:24.400 never happened before. Board staff has removed all test ballot images from the system. We'll upload

00:06:28.760 election night results. Cross-referencing against election night reporting. Okay. The board apologizes

00:06:33.340 for the error and has taken immediate measures to ensure the most accurate up-to-date results are

00:06:37.560 reported. Are we living in Saddam's Iraq? Are we living in Bashar Assad's Syria? Can we just,

00:06:46.800 we just can't trust our elections anymore? Is that it? Because you'll just get random influxes of huge

00:06:52.400 numbers of ballots and it's all electronic now. And so no one knows what, what's going on.

00:06:56.280 That's too bad. That's, I liked having relatively secure elections. That's too bad that we have this

00:07:02.760 now because nobody has any faith in the board of, board of elections. The, the two campaigns for mayor

00:07:08.880 are obviously at their wits end here, but it's not just going on in New York. You know, there's a,

00:07:17.120 an audit of the 2020 election going on in Maricopa County in Arizona. I haven't talked too much about

00:07:23.880 the election audit because I don't want to talk about it until there's news. So far, they're just,

00:07:28.040 they're just auditing the vote. They're trying to see what's going on. There were, there were obviously,

00:07:32.200 as you know, were irregularities in the election. I mean, in some cases, the election officials were

00:07:36.900 violating their state constitutions and they used the COVID lockdowns as an excuse. Irregularities

00:07:42.400 in Georgia, places like that, and in Arizona. So in Arizona, there's an audit of the election going on.

00:07:48.080 The Democrat secretary of state in Arizona, Katie Hobbs is now saying that the, the voting machines

00:07:57.500 that were under audit in Maricopa County cannot be used again. This is about $6 million worth of

00:08:03.520 equipment because there, this woman is afraid that the people who were doing the audit may have hacked 0.71

00:08:10.880 the machines, may have done something nefarious to, to disrupt elections in the future. Do you see the

00:08:17.660 problem with her argument? Do you see why her argument is so, so undercuts her previous argument?

00:08:23.300 Because previously we were told that these machines could not be hacked. We were told nothing could go

00:08:30.800 wrong in these machines. How dare you, you kooky, crazy conspiracy theorist suggest that something was

00:08:36.740 a little awry with some of these machines. Oh, and also we're going to throw out $6 million of equipment

00:08:41.580 the minute maybe a Republican touches it. Maybe we don't even know who's doing the audit, right? We're not

00:08:46.820 saying the, it's not as though the audit is a bunch of rock ribbed Trump supporting MAGA hat wearing

00:08:50.940 Republicans. There's a team that was brought in to do the audit, but because they touched the machines,

00:08:55.840 now they're all going to be thrown out $6 million worth of gear. If the machines can't be hacked,

00:09:02.080 what's the problem? Bring them back in and let's use them again. Oh, but of course they can. I'm not,

00:09:07.140 by the way, I'm not even saying that they were, I'm just saying that the arguments that were put

00:09:11.200 forward after the election by people who were just raising some questions about the strangest,

00:09:18.500 most irregular election in our history, where a lot of election integrity measures were dismantled

00:09:26.580 on the pretense of COVID. That is outrageous that they would now make these same arguments.

00:09:36.280 You see this kind of sliminess at all levels of the government right now. It's not just the New York

00:09:45.140 City Board of Elections. It's not just the Maricopa County or the Arizona Democrat Secretary of State

00:09:51.520 who's now undercutting her arguments from the election. You're seeing this in the NSA.

00:09:57.800 Tucker Carlson made an allegation two nights ago. He said that the NSA was spying on him.

00:10:05.500 He heard about it from a whistleblower and they are planning to leak his communications and they

00:10:12.920 want to take a show off of the air. The NSA, this is really shocking that they would do this.

00:10:18.160 They actually did issue a statement on this. Now the NSA's statement on Tucker Carlson, first of all,

00:10:26.800 it's pretty strange that the NSA would even comment on this. If a Fox News host or any other news host for

00:10:34.400 that matter makes an allegation, why would the National Security Agency feel obliged to come out

00:10:40.340 and defend itself or maybe not defend itself as you'll see from the missive? Is it because they

00:10:46.780 feel a little guilty? Is it because they know that where there's smoke, there's fire? Is it because they

00:10:51.980 fear what Tucker Carlson has been told? We know, for example, that the NSA has spied on

00:10:58.860 virtually everybody in the sense that they're collecting huge amounts of data. And the pretext

00:11:04.440 for this is they want to make sure that they monitor foreign governments and people who have

00:11:10.500 business affairs with foreigners. So they're collecting all of this data. Tucker Carlson says,

00:11:16.800 no, they're specifically looking at my stuff.

00:11:18.620 So here is the NSA's denial. Pay attention to the wording here. On June 28th, 2021, Tucker Carlson

00:11:30.440 alleged that the National Security Agency has been, quote, monitoring our electronic communications and

00:11:34.920 is planning to leak them in an attempt to take the show off the air. This allegation is untrue. Tucker

00:11:40.180 Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the agency and the NSA has never had any plans to try

00:11:45.580 to take his program off the air. Next paragraph. NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target

00:11:51.240 foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States.

00:11:54.980 With limited exceptions, for example, an emergency, NSA may not target a U.S. citizen without a court

00:11:59.900 order that explicitly authorizes the targeting. Now, if you're not paying attention to words, you know,

00:12:07.220 there's a great book out right now about how we need to be really precise about our language.

00:12:10.380 And it's actually on the charts this week. It's charted. We'll get into that a little bit later.

00:12:16.100 The book is called Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. Thank you to those who've

00:12:18.420 ordered it. If you're not paying close attention to words, you might say, okay, they're denying it,

00:12:22.020 right? Not so fast. In their own denial, they point out that Tucker has made three allegations.

00:12:30.540 The NSA is monitoring his communications. The NSA is planning to leak them. The NSA is doing so in an

00:12:36.300 attempt to take the show off the air. Now, the NSA specifically says, this allegation is untrue.

00:12:45.000 Which allegation? There are three allegations. If you say this allegation is untrue, then you're

00:12:52.280 lumping them all together. So you're saying, no, we're not monitoring your communications and planning

00:12:57.020 to leak them in order to take your show off the air. So if any, any single part or even two parts of

00:13:03.200 that broad allegation could be true, and the NSA could still not be lying by saying, this allegation

00:13:09.460 is untrue. Let's say that they are monitoring Tucker and they're planning to leak them, but it's not

00:13:14.060 to take his show off the air. Well, then that allegation is not true. Let's say they're monitoring

00:13:19.320 Tucker, but they don't really plan to leak them or take his show. Okay, well, then that allegation is

00:13:23.140 not true. Even further, what they say is Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the

00:13:31.640 agency. They're not saying they've never spied on him. They're not saying that they're not spying

00:13:35.520 on him right now. They're saying they're not targeting him. Maybe they're targeting someone

00:13:40.860 that he's speaking to. And oops, whoopsie daisy, I guess Tucker's communications are coming through as

00:13:46.200 well. To me, that's, and they look at how many times they use the word targets. Never been a target

00:13:52.740 of the agency. They may not target a US citizen without an order that authorizes the targeting.

00:13:56.700 Why are they using that language? The people who are doing this, the spies, the spooks,

00:14:01.540 they're actually pretty sophisticated. I don't know if you've ever heard about that.

00:14:04.180 And people whose job it is to deceive are actually pretty good at deceiving.

00:14:10.700 If they were not spying on Tucker, I bet they would say that. I bet they would actually just come

00:14:16.860 out and say it. If they were not either monitoring him or planning to, and or planning to leak that,

00:14:26.040 and or planning to take a show, trying to take a show off the air, I think they would say that.

00:14:29.820 I think they would say these allegations are untrue. Tucker has never been surveilled by the NSA.

00:14:38.280 Tucker is not. To me, reading this, it is quite clear that the NSA is in fact

00:14:46.920 conducting surveillance that involves Tucker Carlson. And they may or may not be planning to leak it. And

00:14:55.320 I'm sure plenty of people at the NSA want to take a show off the air because he's an actual threat to

00:14:59.320 them. Jen Psaki was asked about this. This is further evidence that the NSA is obviously looking

00:15:04.420 into Tucker Carlson. Jen Psaki, the White House, was asked about this and she refused to deny it.

00:15:11.240 Tucker Carlson said that the NSA is spying on him. Is the administration aware of any

00:15:18.760 or listening efforts on U.S. citizens by the NSA? And is Tucker Carlson one of them?

00:15:26.040 Well, the NSA, as I think you're well aware, I'm sure everyone's aware of everyone on this plane is

00:15:31.240 aware, I should say, is an entity that focuses on foreign threats and individuals who are trying,

00:15:37.720 attempting to do us harm on foreign soil. So that is the, their purview. But beyond that, 0.96

00:15:44.520 I would point you to the intelligence community. What? What? Oh man. It's like,

00:15:49.880 if you're going to deceive people, at least be like the person at the NSA. Don't be like Jen Psaki,

00:15:54.520 who doesn't even, who doesn't even really try, or it doesn't even come close to succeeding.

00:15:59.320 Hey, is the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson? Well, um, you know, the NSA is, uh, it's three letter,

00:16:06.920 three, three, three, it's a three letter word. Um, uh, it stands for national security agency.

00:16:13.080 Um, it's got employees. Um, they, some of them have pensions. Uh, and so yeah, okay. I feel like

00:16:19.320 I've answered your question. Hmm. What? No, I didn't ask what is the NSA as it is the NSA spying

00:16:24.120 on Tucker Carlson? Well, um, you know, the NSA can, and you know what, what they're trying to deflect

00:16:29.920 to, as you're saying, the NSA, uh, focuses on foreign threats. So what's the implication? Tucker's,

00:16:37.680 he's colluding with the Russians or the Ukrainians or whatever he's or anybody. He's, this is the same

00:16:45.120 old story, same stuff, different day. The reason, the reason that the federal government had to spy on

00:16:53.480 the Trump campaign had to spy on its political opponents is because they were colluding with

00:17:00.300 the Russians. Okay. Well, where's the proof? What, what crime did they commit? They're all, um, 0.99

00:17:04.520 none, none. They conducted a, what, uh, several years long, millions and millions of dollars spent

00:17:09.700 to just try to prove anything. Like they got him right. There's gotta be some connection. Trump ate

00:17:14.680 borscht one time a few years ago. Didn't he know they didn't even have that. They didn't even have that,

00:17:18.520 but that's the excuse. We have to make sure he could be, he, he talked to his falafel cart

00:17:23.200 driver down the street. That's if he's talking to a foreigner, gotta get him pretty clear. Unless 1.00

00:17:28.360 the NSA and the white house can do better than this. I think the only conspiracy theory is that

00:17:32.980 the NSA is not spying on Tucker Carlson. They've, they've all but admitted that just dodging the

00:17:38.600 question. Psaki, you know, she, I'm glad she's not that good at her job because it makes the Biden 1.00

00:17:46.480 agenda and the disparity between what the Biden administration wants and what the American

00:17:50.620 people want. It makes it so clear that the American people, they don't care about, uh, this bloated

00:17:56.560 government spying on them and just collecting dirt on them all the time and undermining their

00:18:00.740 political will and throwing open their borders and shipping their manufacturing jobs overseas and

00:18:05.260 locking them down. No, no, no, that's not what they really care about. You know what middle

00:18:09.400 America really cares about? Electric car charging stations and making them more readily available. 0.74

00:18:18.860 People across the country and people who care deeply about addressing our climate crisis know

00:18:22.920 the components of what's in this package, which the president considers a down payment, not the end,

00:18:28.220 a down payment. So 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations nationwide. That's what this would help

00:18:34.240 support with a focus on our highways and rural and disadvantaged communities. It would help buy more than

00:18:39.280 35,000 electric school buses. Yeah, no, that's what we want. That's what the rural and disadvantaged 0.63

00:18:45.840 communities want is 500,000 Chevy Volt charging stations or whatever. Oh no, Tesla, I guess Tesla is

00:18:55.440 which that's what, that's what rural disadvantaged America needs is more Tesla ports and, and more

00:19:03.540 electric school buses. That's, that's what they care about, right? I don't think so. But they,

00:19:07.820 they always go back to the environmentalism issue, the climate issue, because it's as grandiose an

00:19:14.940 idea as, and you can't pin it down also, right? It's global cooling. It's global warming. I write

00:19:18.800 about this in the book. It's climate change. It's climate crisis. It's climate catastrophe. It affects

00:19:24.160 the whole wide world. We've got it. You've got to surrender your political power and your political

00:19:28.500 rights to the UN or the WTO or the IMF or the Paris agreement or whatever, because the whole world is

00:19:36.140 under threat. AOC right now is proposing that we take $70 billion, billion with a B and spend it

00:19:46.940 on a civilian climate core. And so the question that we have is we have a student loan crisis,

00:19:54.300 a housing crisis, a climate crisis. How on earth can we possibly overcome this? And I think one of the

00:20:01.340 ways that we overcome it is by being one of the most unionized workforces and unionized generations in

00:20:06.580 American history. By collecting our power as workers in the economy, we can take our futures back. And what's

00:20:14.660 important about a civilian climate core is that it's an on-ramp. It can function as an on-ramp

00:20:20.180 to unionization when we plug this in with union labor. But it's going to require putting us to work

00:20:29.280 in the externalities of climate change. It's going to require, it's the crisis. Don't you feel the

00:20:34.620 crisis? Don't you feel, aren't you full of anxiety, the crisis of the sun monster? Don't you? And that's

00:20:42.220 why we need a $70 billion civilian climate core. What this is modeled after quite clearly is the

00:20:48.460 CCC New Deal program. Right, there's the CCC, Civilian Climate Core. The CCC was a New Deal program

00:20:55.580 developed by Franklin Roosevelt. There were many New Deal programs. They all had a bunch of silly

00:21:01.360 letters. There's the CCC, there was the WPA. Actually, at the time, there was a barbershop

00:21:06.320 music society that called itself Spebska, Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop

00:21:12.600 Quartet Singing in America, Spebska. As a joke on all of these New Deal programs, what happened during

00:21:17.720 the New Deal was the government created a bunch of gigantic bloated programs to just employ people

00:21:24.460 to do nothing, to dig holes, to just not really do anything productive. But the New Deal, and we forget

00:21:29.620 about it now because it was so long ago and the right never figured out how to overcome it. The New Deal

00:21:33.960 fundamentally reordered the country. The New Deal fundamentally changed the relationship between

00:21:41.740 the citizen and the state and the federal government. And the right has never, never recovered from it.

00:21:48.740 They fought against it until about the late 1950s, early 1960s, and then they realized it was never

00:21:54.980 going to be overcome. And since that time, the right has really been on the back foot, that the left has

00:22:00.520 really dominated America. And so what AOC is, she's using this preposterous issue of the sun monster. 0.98

00:22:06.260 And she's saying, because of the invisible imaginary, you can't quite see it, but it's definitely there.

00:22:12.140 Urgent, dire threat of sunshine. We need to further reorder the relationship between the citizen and the

00:22:22.240 state government and the federal government and bloat our federal government because money is power and

00:22:29.980 employment is power. And she's trying to, she actually directly compares this to these various

00:22:37.680 other programs that have gone on since Franklin Roosevelt. And it's really smart. It's a very smart

00:22:41.800 political strategy that will really put the right on the back foot if they go along with this.

00:22:46.760 Really hope they don't. Hope the squishes don't go along with it. You know, someone who's not a squish, 1.00

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00:24:42.020 Climate change is the perfect issue for the left because it's everything and it's nothing. Getting

00:24:58.800 back to the comment at the top of the show, getting back to what the NFL said. The NFL is gay. The NFL is 0.65

00:25:05.300 transgender. First of all, just that you can't be both of those at the same time, right? Those are 1.00

00:25:09.480 mutually exclusive concepts that have different understandings of human nature and different

00:25:13.820 understandings of sex. So you can't, NFL is a lesbian. The NFL is, well, you also can't be a 1.00

00:25:19.860 lesbian if you're transgender. The NFL is powerful. The NFL is everything. It's everything. It can't be 1.00

00:25:26.820 everything because some things are different. Some things are opposites. So if you're, if you're too up,

00:25:34.280 you can't be two opposites simultaneously. That's just good old uncle Aristotle,

00:25:39.240 the law of non-contradiction, goodness gracious. But climate change is everything. When, when the

00:25:44.480 weather is cold, it's climate change. When the weather is warm, it's climate change. When the

00:25:48.820 polar ice caps are melting, it's climate change. When the polar ice caps are actually gaining ice,

00:25:52.220 it's climate change. It's all climate change. And it's a crisis, by the way, the world is going to

00:25:57.660 end. According to Prince Charles in the UK, the world already ended about a year and a half ago.

00:26:03.260 He did. He said this a few years ago. He said the world's going to end in 18 months. It's going to

00:26:06.660 be, it's going to be too late at that point. It's too late to do anything in 18 months. Okay. But now

00:26:11.640 they're still saying we need to do something. It's too late. Forget about it. It's over. I remember

00:26:16.020 AOC famously said two or three years ago, the world's going to end in 12 years. Oh, got about nine

00:26:20.960 years left. Don't lose track. Something tells me in about nine years, they're going to say it's

00:26:24.640 another, it's going to be another 10 or 10 years. Do you remember in the seventies, I actually write

00:26:28.780 about this in Speechless. In the seventies, the population bomb, this was a related issue.

00:26:33.260 It's still, it still had to do with the environment, but it was in a different way than the sun

00:26:36.400 monster. The population bomb was going to lead to mass starvation by the eighties, nineties

00:26:41.240 was inevitable. It was just going to happen. You got to deal with it. That's why we need

00:26:43.880 forced abortion and forced contraception, which actually they did follow in India and China

00:26:49.240 to horrific, horrific crimes. And then it just, it just didn't happen. Now, 50 years later,

00:26:54.940 the world population has doubled. We're fatter than ever before. It just didn't, it doesn't

00:26:58.980 matter. Still crisis, still urgent. And every single problem is climate change. You know,

00:27:06.700 they did this when they were trying to pass the infrastructure bill. They said, you know,

00:27:10.540 everything is infrastructure. Paid family leave, that's infrastructure. Raising the minimum wage,

00:27:17.160 that's infrastructure. That delicious bag of M&Ms over there, that's, that's infrastructure. We need

00:27:22.520 to, you please pass me those M&Ms. So they're doing this with climate change. Now, the Biden energy

00:27:27.820 secretary is, is now claiming, there was that awful story of the building collapse in Florida,

00:27:32.720 really, really terrible thing. The Biden energy secretary is now claiming, suggesting that

00:27:40.040 climate change may have caused the building collapse. Given what we know about the changing

00:27:46.520 climate, given that we've seen an increase in the so-called extraordinary tides and the impact

00:27:50.980 that that can have in areas like South Florida, do you think that climate could have played a role

00:27:58.160 in that building's collapse? Well, obviously we don't know fully, but we do know that the seas are

00:28:02.700 rising. I mean, we know that we're losing inches and inches of beaches, not just in Florida, but

00:28:07.620 all around. You know, Lake Michigan, where I'm from, they, you know, we've seen the loss of beaches

00:28:13.940 because the, the waters are rising. So, you know, this is a phenomenon that will continue, whether

00:28:20.080 it, we'll have to wait to see what the analysis is for this building. But the issue about resiliency

00:28:26.260 and making sure we adapt to this changing climate, that's going to mean levees need to be built. That

00:28:31.920 means seawalls need to be built. That means infrastructure needs to be built. Oh, it's infrastructure

00:28:36.720 again. Okay. We got back to infrastructure. Do you think, because there's a big ticker at the

00:28:41.520 climate crisis, this is all, this is what CNN does. I mean, this is what corporate media does

00:28:45.740 generally, but it's especially what CNN does. It's a crisis, be on edge, vote for Democrats.

00:28:51.580 Do you think that climate might have caused this building to collapse? Do you think that climate

00:29:00.420 might have caused every tragedy that's happened? Well, maybe, maybe, yeah, maybe. It's like,

00:29:08.960 do you think ghosts caused it? That's basically what, do you think it was aliens? It's like that

00:29:12.660 guy in the meme from the History Channel who built the pyramids. I'm not saying it was aliens,

00:29:17.400 but it was aliens. Hey, how did, how did anything happen ever? Well, it was aliens. The climate change

00:29:25.860 is the new aliens. That's, that's the answer. Well, it's really offensive to say also, because do you

00:29:31.700 know what caused the building collapse? Poor maintenance of the building. And I think people are,

00:29:35.640 there actually are people who are responsible for this and they should have to pay a price. And it's

00:29:38.940 not just, what is climate? What is climate? Climate is everything, right? It's all the,

00:29:45.120 it's every physical thing that we've got going on around us. It's like the NFL. Climate is the NFL.

00:29:51.160 Now, speaking of this awful, awful event in Florida, Joe Biden was addressing reporters the

00:29:57.960 other day. It's a rare occurrence when Biden addresses reporters. And he forgot to address this

00:30:02.080 issue of the building collapse. He just seemed to forget what had happened in Florida. This was a

00:30:06.400 really bad thing. I haven't covered it too much on the show because it's just sad. I don't think

00:30:11.700 there's too much of a political angle here. It's just like a really, really sad thing. And so Joe

00:30:17.620 Biden was supposed to talk about this. He forgot to. So Kamala Harris had to remind him.

00:30:22.040 I've got to get a helicopter.

00:30:24.300 Mr. President, will you travel to Florida, sir? Can we ask you about Florida, what you've learned?

00:30:29.840 Oh, yes. I apologize. Yes. Thank you, my president. I've spoken with, coincidentally, the mayor

00:30:38.120 of Miami-Dade was in my office yesterday. And I talked to her today. Not about that, obviously.

00:30:45.180 And so I had a long discussion with her today. I've also spoken with, we've been in contact with

00:30:52.100 a congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who has that district.

00:30:55.620 This does remind me of a moment, the very end of Reagan's tenure. There was a moment where he

00:31:03.120 seemed to forget what he was saying or what he was talking about. And you can see it on video,

00:31:08.840 Nancy kind of subtly turns to him and just says, we're doing the best we can. And then Reagan,

00:31:12.580 you know, great, great orator, great performer. He says, well, we're doing the best we can.

00:31:18.200 Well, I, and it was the moment where people started to say, gosh, is he, did he have a senior moment?

00:31:24.540 Now, revisionists have gone back and said, oh yeah, Reagan was just absolutely in the throes

00:31:29.860 of Alzheimer's during his whole presidency. That's preposterous. Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War

00:31:34.860 during his presidency. He was extremely sharp for virtually all of his presidency. He was at that

00:31:39.480 time the oldest guy ever elected president. And maybe he had a senior moment or two. No question.

00:31:46.140 Joe Biden doesn't just have a senior moment or two. It's not just one moment where he kind of

00:31:51.000 goes a little absent-minded. Well, we're doing the, it's, it's like every time he talks and it seems to

00:31:56.320 be getting worse. And it's a lot different. Ronald Reagan is giving some impromptu remarks versus

00:32:01.720 Joe Biden at a formal press conference. And the vice president needs to tell him what's going on.

00:32:08.080 He's been, he's, he's got a lot of quirks lately. You've seen he's, he's also fallen into another

00:32:13.300 very strange rhetorical trap where he starts to emphasize something by, by an exaggerated stage

00:32:20.540 whisper. He just did this the other day talking about taxes.

00:32:23.000 And people say, well, that's a giveaway. Hey guys, I think it's time to give ordinary people

00:32:31.460 a tax break. The wealthy are doing fine. I mean it. I mean it. Why is this not a tax break

00:32:42.680 for working folks when the stuff we give to the super wealthy are called tax breaks?

00:32:48.940 Oh, okay. So that was weird. It's weird when he does it and he leans in and he goes, hey,

00:32:55.140 he's got his weird, creepy Biden eyes popping out of his head. We, hey,

00:32:58.860 why don't I, it's called a tax break. So, but he recovered there. It was, it sort of worked well

00:33:04.260 enough. Sometimes it hasn't worked well. Just the other day, he was also speaking to reporters

00:33:09.060 and he, he, he whispered a little too hard, a little too long.

00:33:12.420 I wrote the bill on the environment. Why would I not be for it?

00:33:21.160 Ah, hookup, hookup, hookup. It's, that, that was not, not quite as effective as when he was talking

00:33:28.240 about the taxes. Now I point all this out, the senior moment, the weird whispering stuff,

00:33:34.620 that losing his train of thought, because I, I'm not just trying to make fun of him. It's perfectly

00:33:40.180 fine to have a laugh at old Joe's expense, but it's because regardless of all that, he's very

00:33:47.440 effective. He is. And we just, we, we mock him or we dismiss him at our own peril. The guy is very

00:33:55.440 effective. He's, he's survived in politics for 50 years. He has been at the top levels of American

00:34:02.100 politics for half a century. He beat out a lot of other Democrats this go around who were much

00:34:10.160 younger and more impressive than he is. He's very effective. And his, those, these senior moments

00:34:16.960 and this apparent incompetence, I think is in some ways a helpful distraction for the liberal

00:34:23.620 establishment that acts through him because he just gives them whatever they want. He basically

00:34:27.620 walked into the white house and he said, okay, state department, here's, here's the keys to foreign

00:34:31.700 policy. Okay. Liberal establishment, here's the keys to whatever economic policy or trade. 0.99

00:34:37.360 And he just, I'm going to be watching Matlock over in the corner. And that's very, very effective.

00:34:44.260 It's why we've now, all the gains we had made in the Middle East, gone. The gains we had made

00:34:49.020 negotiating with China, gone. Joe's a huge fan of China. Joe has famously said repeatedly that it's

00:34:57.700 good for the United States for China to get bigger and stronger and richer. I don't think that's true.

00:35:02.780 I think China's our number one enemy, but the liberal establishment love, that's why they let 1.00

00:35:08.520 China into the World Trade Organization. That's why they refuse to blame China for the coronavirus.

00:35:12.940 That's why they've helped China cover up their creation of the coronavirus and their, and their 1.00

00:35:18.440 own coverup of the coronavirus. And American corporations are helping out too. As I said,

00:35:24.240 this is why I don't just say the government. I don't just talk about big government. I talk about

00:35:27.460 the liberal establishment because that includes the universities, the elected government,

00:35:33.160 the administrative government, big tech, and lower education, and woke corporations. The CEO of Nike,

00:35:41.420 John Donahue, was just asked about his company's business in China. China violates trade agreements. 0.95

00:35:49.700 China aggresses on our assets all over the world. China started the coronavirus and then covered it 0.94

00:35:58.580 up and shut down the entire world. China uses slave labor to, by the way, to manufacture products that 0.92

00:36:05.580 we all use. And so he was asked about this and they said, hey, don't you have any problem doing

00:36:09.040 business with China? And John Donahue said during a call with the Wall Street Journal that Nike,

00:36:16.140 quote, Nike is a brand that is of China and for China. All right. All right. At least, look, he's not

00:36:26.560 saying the NFL line and it's everything. Nike is for everything. Nike is, no, he's saying it's of China

00:36:32.500 and it's for China. Okay. I thought Nike was an American brand. I thought it was of America and for

00:36:41.340 America. Or at least it's of America, but it's for the whole world. But no, no. The Nike CEO is telling

00:36:48.780 us it's of China and for China. Okay. So then the next time we sanction Chinese companies, I think we 0.64

00:36:54.760 should sanction Nike. I think that the next time we stop doing business with Chinese companies, next 0.99

00:37:00.360 time we start slapping big tariffs on Chinese companies, I think we should slap big tariffs on 0.99

00:37:05.280 Nike. Stop doing business with Nike. You want to be a Chinese company, that's fine. You should be 1.00

00:37:10.360 treated like a Chinese company. I am sick and tired of Republicans carrying water for companies

00:37:18.180 that hate our country. We know that Nike hates our country. Their spokesman is famous, not because he

00:37:25.380 was particularly good at football, but because he famously hates our country and disrespected the symbol

00:37:31.320 of our country on our playing fields and got Nike to shut down a running shoe that featured the American

00:37:38.940 revolutionary flag on it, the Betsy Ross flag. They shut it down and can't do that because they hate

00:37:43.280 America. Okay. If you hate America, then I think maybe America should hate you. Okay. I think it's

00:37:49.920 got to be kind of a two-way street. I don't think we can just get run over by these zillion dollar

00:37:54.120 companies that milk us for our money and then undermine our country every chance we get. And in this case,

00:38:01.460 explicitly say our loyalty is to America's greatest enemy on the world stage. We should not just stop

00:38:11.700 wearing Nike. I don't wear Nike shoes. If Nike made sockless loafers, I would consider wearing them,

00:38:16.740 but they don't. So I know. I'm not just saying we should boycott Nike. I'm not just saying we should

00:38:21.460 stop shopping there. I'm saying we should exercise our political power to punish Nike because Nike is 0.90

00:38:28.260 siding with our enemy against our country. And we have a political, I don't care what abstract,

00:38:35.060 insane economic theory from the 1970s you are enthralled with. I think people are increasingly

00:38:43.200 not so enthralled with those theories. But even if you've made a total idol out of the free market,

00:38:49.540 or you made a total idol out of GDP or whatever, the company is siding with our enemies. And so I

00:38:54.620 don't want to do business with them. And I don't want our country to do business with them.

00:39:00.920 The American people have a right to shape our country. The country should not just be run by

00:39:08.080 liberal elites. Right now, you have a small number of liberal elites, relatively small number of liberal

00:39:14.580 elites, who make most of the decisions and we don't really have very much say about it. And if we

00:39:20.100 raise any problems with it, they'll probably be spying on us like they are on Tucker Carlson.

00:39:25.900 And the American people, of all shades, of all sexes, of all geographies, they are pushing back

00:39:33.400 against this kind of thing. They're pushing back against critical race theory, right? That is now

00:39:39.300 sort of the lightning rod because it is the expression of these insane, vile, racial ideologies. 0.97

00:39:50.620 That tell Americans, tell white Americans and anyone who agrees with any conservatives that

00:39:57.260 they are vile. So black people who agree with conservatives, Hispanic people who agree, 1.00

00:40:01.580 tell them they are vile, vicious, racist, that this country is terrible. The ideology being pushed in

00:40:07.820 these schools is the ideology of Nike. You're going to make more Nikes. America is a terrible,

00:40:11.540 rotten place and we got to overcome it. We got to hate ourselves and we got to suck up to China. 1.00

00:40:15.860 This is the kind of stuff, you know, now they're trying to deny. They're saying the people who are

00:40:19.240 pushing all of these various critical studies, you know, blackness studies, whiteness studies,

00:40:24.460 critical race theory. All of these guys, they're not really saying that whites are terrible and

00:40:31.600 whiteness is evil and all whites are racist. They are. Here's Ibram Kendi. Ibram Kendi is the most 0.75

00:40:37.300 famous one of these race hustlers probably in the country today. Here he is on CBS News calling all 0.51

00:40:43.580 whites racist. I mean, as Robin, you know, talked about it, it, it, it is critical for, for white 0.83

00:40:51.420 people, for people in general to, to stop denying their, their racist ideas, to stop denying the ways

00:41:00.860 in which policies have benefited them, to stop denying their racism and to realize that actually

00:41:06.400 the heartbeat of racism itself is denial. And the sound of that heartbeat is I'm not racist.

00:41:13.620 This is the climate change of racial politics, by which I mean climate change. It's, it's defining 0.81

00:41:22.000 quality is that it is unfalsifiable. Any phenomenon can be used and interpreted to justify climate change

00:41:33.640 or to, to be attributed to climate change. It's colder, climate change, warmer, climate change,

00:41:38.460 stays the same climate change. This is why it's not a very good scientific theory because you,

00:41:42.920 you can't disprove it. Well, it's the same thing with this insane racial stuff. 0.94

00:41:47.160 What Ibram Kendi is saying is if white people admit that they're racist, they're racist. If white

00:41:52.660 people deny that they're racist, that's even further proof that they're racist. This is called

00:41:58.620 begging the question. This is what happens when you assume your own conclusion. You begin with the

00:42:04.180 premise as Ibram Kendi does that all white people are racist. Therefore, if you admit it, okay, good. 0.93

00:42:11.940 Therefore, if you deny it, yep, there you go. Conclusion, all white people are racist. It's not, 0.58

00:42:18.320 not a very good argument. One of the many reasons that sort of thing should not be taken seriously,

00:42:24.340 but that is what is being taught. And I think ordinary Americans of all races are looking at

00:42:29.000 this and saying, no, that's stupid and it's evil and it's destroying our country. And we don't want

00:42:35.660 our kids being poisoned with these idiotic ramblings of a con artist like Ibram Kendi or Robin DiAngelo.

00:42:42.320 And by the way, I say this as a civil rights icon. Okay. I don't know if you saw it. I don't know if

00:42:49.100 you're perusing Amazon, but right now my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,

00:42:53.900 is the number one book in civil rights and liberties. Right now it is beating at number

00:43:00.400 two and number three and number four is Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. But number one is Michael

00:43:05.980 Knowles. And I'm just very pleased that Amazon is finally acknowledging my role as the preeminent

00:43:12.780 civil rights leader in the country. That's good. And so I tell you, I give you permission

00:43:18.460 as people who care about civil rights. Do not listen to Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo.

00:43:25.400 They're the number two and number three recognized civil rights leaders in the country, but I am

00:43:28.940 number one. And so I'm telling you that they are idiots and they are poisoning your children and our

00:43:33.660 country. You should not. I hate to be so mean about it, but it's a real, it's a crisis. It's a real

00:43:39.680 threat. And so no one should pay attention to their nonsensical ramblings. You should instead

00:43:46.340 read Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. It's really ugly stuff going on in the race 1.00

00:43:50.140 hustling these days. I'll tell you a headline I just saw. Princeton University has just admitted

00:43:57.020 the largest percentage ever of students of color by or after. I don't want to imply causation here,

00:44:06.660 but they've admitted the largest percentage of students of color after they got rid of

00:44:11.220 standardized tests. So that's not, they've now admitted 68% of students who self-identify as a

00:44:19.780 person of color. You wonder now because grievance carries a currency and because there's legal

00:44:24.620 discrimination in this country against whites and Asians on behalf of, in favor of blacks and

00:44:30.120 Hispanics. You wonder how many of these people who are self-identifying as students of color

00:44:35.780 have like one, one zillionth North African DNA. And they say, see, I'm, I'm black. I'm African.

00:44:44.060 I'm an African-American. They're, you know, from, they're from South Africa or something there. They

00:44:47.740 look Dutch, but they say, no, I'm African-American. Elon Musk now is African-American. Who knows?

00:44:52.280 You wonder about that. You wonder how many of them are like the British guy who now says that he's a

00:44:56.440 Korean guy. But also if I were a student of color and I were admitted to this university after they

00:45:04.920 got rid of standardized testing, I would be a little offended because I would say, oh, they,

00:45:10.720 they're telling me that I can't actually compete. They're telling me I can't actually be as smart.

00:45:16.580 They're telling me I can't actually understand the same sorts of things. And so they had to,

00:45:20.520 in order to get to the conclusion that they want of having more non-white students, they've got to 0.99

00:45:26.500 get rid of all the standards. That's, and that's offensive. It was very offensive to Clarence

00:45:30.960 Thomas, actually. That's why you should go check out that movie. Clarence Thomas goes to Yale Law

00:45:34.480 School. He's one of the most brilliant jurists in the country, but he realized he had trouble getting

00:45:38.140 a job after law school because everyone thought he was an affirmative action case. In the case of

00:45:41.760 Clarence Thomas, he actually is this outstanding jurist, but that's the, that is the taint of,

00:45:47.280 of this sort of legal discriminations where this racial, ugly, ugly racial politics.

00:45:54.100 You're seeing a lot of standards eroding. Right now in Nevada, you're seeing a man win 0.99

00:45:58.900 Miss Nevada. Okay. But that's the, look, that erosion of standards is a topic for another day.

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Ep. 796 - Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain

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