The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 800 - When The COVID Cops Come Knockin’

00:00:00.000 Hide your kids, hide your wife, but especially hide your kids because the Biden administration

00:00:05.820 is planning to come to your door to get you jabbed with an experimental drug all in the

00:00:12.240 name of fighting a virus that poses at most an infinitesimally small risk to your kids.

00:00:20.300 White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki outlined the plan yesterday.

00:00:23.400 The President outlined five areas his team is focused on to get more Americans vaccinated.

00:00:30.000 One, targeted community by community door to door outreach to get remaining Americans

00:00:35.060 vaccinated by ensuring they have the information they need on how both safe and accessible

00:00:39.160 the vaccine is.

00:00:41.060 Yes, the vaccine so wonderful for the virus so dangerous that government thugs need to

00:00:48.120 go door to door to get you to take it.

00:00:50.820 But while the jab-happy public health police ought to be taken down a few notches, in

00:00:56.020 other areas, the government could actually use a heavier hand, particularly as crime spikes

00:01:01.840 around the country and, in the words of Democrat Senator Bob Casey, our democracy reaches the

00:01:08.000 point of no return.

00:01:09.260 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:09.980 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:17.980 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:18.980 My favorite comment yesterday from Jürgen Klaylein, who says, and this is in response to Matthew

00:01:25.480 McConaughey, I take it, America is not heading into puberty.

00:01:29.860 It's heading and sliding into dementia.

00:01:32.740 I suppose that is the question.

00:01:35.960 That is the most important question we're dealing with now.

00:01:38.540 Is this a growing pain on the road to great national glory?

00:01:43.640 Are we, are we perhaps sadly at the end of the Roman Republic, but we still have some

00:01:48.640 of the glory days of the empire before us?

00:01:51.240 Or is this it?

00:01:52.500 Are the barbarians at the gates and are we headed into endless decline?

00:01:59.200 That's the question.

00:02:00.060 I guess the answer is going to be a little bit up to us.

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00:03:20.400 They're going to go door to door.

00:03:22.460 By the way, only in targeted communities.

00:03:24.540 So I hope you're not in one of those targeted communities.

00:03:26.940 They're going to go door to door to convince you to get this vaccine.

00:03:30.920 Because, you know, it's so great.

00:03:34.600 It's so great that no one wants it.

00:03:36.840 And because the virus is so dangerous that no one cares or is worried about this.

00:03:41.080 Other than some neurotics in New York and Los Angeles.

00:03:44.880 I have said, I want to be very clear about my views on the vaccine.

00:03:50.040 I think you know my views on these people going door to door.

00:03:52.340 I have said from the very beginning, the vaccine is about prudence.

00:03:58.480 I actually don't think that the vaccine is going to kill everyone or turn people into a 5G cell tower.

00:04:04.700 Though perhaps that would be perfectly fine because my cell service is not that great.

00:04:08.800 Particularly in my new town.

00:04:11.100 However, while I don't, I'm not saying it's going to kill you and it's going to turn you into, 1.00

00:04:15.680 you're going to get be magnetized.

00:04:16.920 I'm not saying that.

00:04:17.880 Also, this is an experimental drug that is very, very new.

00:04:23.880 When people tell you there are no long-term side effects,

00:04:26.400 they have no idea what they're talking about.

00:04:28.520 Because there's no long-term.

00:04:30.940 Because they just invented this thing for a virus that didn't exist a year and a half ago.

00:04:36.360 So don't let them tell you that it's 100% perfectly safe.

00:04:40.700 No problems whatsoever.

00:04:43.260 I'm not saying there's no circumstance in which you should get the vaccine.

00:04:46.720 I'm not saying it's obvious that you should get the vaccine.

00:04:49.780 I think we have just completely lost sight of the conservative virtue in this country,

00:04:56.040 which is prudence.

00:04:57.200 Maybe you make a risk assessment.

00:04:58.920 Maybe you weigh out different factors and you think, well, maybe, okay, this, that, or the other thing.

00:05:03.560 You definitely don't need government thugs showing up at your door with a needle.

00:05:07.540 And by the way, when they do that, when you hear them come and knock and, hey, get this perfectly 100% safe thing

00:05:13.960 that it's not even a question whether or not you should get it,

00:05:16.100 it's going to probably make reasonable people less likely to get it.

00:05:20.040 Moreover, healthy young people.

00:05:23.300 I've got to phrase my words carefully so we're not taking off of YouTube.

00:05:28.360 It seems very strange to me that healthy young people would be so afraid of this virus

00:05:34.280 that just has not really had terribly negative effects on young people

00:05:38.880 and it's not really threatened their lives in any great numbers,

00:05:41.820 that they would get this experimental drug.

00:05:44.160 It's very strange that they would have a medical reason to get this experimental drug.

00:05:49.340 There might be other reasons that they have to.

00:05:51.640 Plenty of people have written in and they've said, look, I'm not allowed back at school

00:05:54.120 unless I get the drug, so I'm taking a risk calculation and I'm going to take it

00:05:57.120 and I hope, I'll hope for the best.

00:05:58.500 Okay, I get that.

00:05:59.660 Or people at work or whatever.

00:06:01.040 Yeah, I get that.

00:06:02.700 But don't, don't tell me to deny reality.

00:06:06.540 Don't tell me that in order for us to move past this horror, the worst epidemic, pandemic in history,

00:06:14.060 we all need to, we need to inoculate 12-year-olds.

00:06:16.300 We don't.

00:06:17.720 We don't.

00:06:18.140 I know, I'm sorry.

00:06:18.920 I know I'm contradicting some of the genius public health people.

00:06:22.420 By the way, I'm not contradicting others.

00:06:24.180 Many scientists are saying there's no reason to inoculate these children.

00:06:28.720 And, and every day we're getting more and more stories about this.

00:06:31.660 A 13-year-old boy in Michigan died suddenly in his sleep two days after receiving the mRNA vaccine,

00:06:41.720 the Pfizer vaccine.

00:06:43.820 The CDC is investigating this, by the way.

00:06:46.140 This is not just some kooky thing on the corners of the internet that isn't true.

00:06:49.220 A 13-year-old Michigan boy, Jacob Kleinick, got his second dose on June 13th, days after graduating from the 8th grade.

00:07:00.740 He then had the typical symptoms, which included fever and general fatigue.

00:07:05.400 Then he complained of a stomach ache two days later, went to bed, never woke up.

00:07:08.780 Now, the preliminary autopsy, according to the Detroit Free Press, suggests that Jacob's heart was enlarged when he died and there was fluid around his heart.

00:07:19.580 This is the side effect that even the public health authorities are admitting goes along with these mRNA vaccines.

00:07:26.280 Not saying it goes, it happens in huge numbers.

00:07:28.960 We don't know, but it has, there have been many documented cases of this happening.

00:07:33.540 Not in old people, by the way, in the young people. 0.96

00:07:36.360 In young people who, if they were making a risk calculation, probably, probably didn't need to get the vaccine.

00:07:43.600 And this poor 13-year-old boy, it's not as though he's the one making the decision.

00:07:47.500 His parents are making the decision for him.

00:07:49.240 Feel terrible for the whole family because the parents are just going on the best medical advice of the genius experts.

00:07:56.600 And now it's very, it's very difficult to look at the situation and conclude that, oh, this was just a coincidence.

00:08:02.540 This had nothing to do with the vaccine.

00:08:04.480 Yeah, the boy got the vaccine that he really didn't need.

00:08:10.700 If you're just looking at the statistical chance of him dying of coronavirus, it's infinitesimally small.

00:08:16.800 So he gets this experimental vaccine and then he suffers the symptoms that are associated with this vaccine in young men and then he dies.

00:08:26.640 I can't believe that's a coincidence.

00:08:29.160 That seems very different.

00:08:30.300 I think that the conspiracy theory is that that is a coincidence.

00:08:33.460 The CDC admits there's a likely association between the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines and these cases of heart inflammation in younger people.

00:08:42.620 Terribly, terribly sad story.

00:08:46.440 Now they want to go door to door and get you jabbed.

00:08:51.260 Why?

00:08:52.360 Why?

00:08:52.920 What's that about?

00:08:54.040 Messaging is a little bit off here.

00:08:55.620 There's a professor, a medical professor at NYU who acknowledges the messaging.

00:09:02.280 Forget the vaccines themselves.

00:09:03.520 People can make their own risk calculation and use their own prudential judgment.

00:09:07.140 The messaging on the vaccine and the lockdowns more broadly has been completely bungled from the top.

00:09:14.600 When everything messaging changes, people get afraid and they don't know who they can trust and there's inconsistency.

00:09:19.740 And I go with the CDC with this one, not on this flip flop by Dr. Fauci.

00:09:23.920 I think if you've been vaccinated, you're protected over 95 percent of the time.

00:09:28.560 And even if you got a case, it would be really, really mild.

00:09:31.920 So the idea of reinstituting masks in states that don't have as high a vaccination rate.

00:09:37.400 Let me give you an idea what the actual numbers are and you'll understand what I'm saying.

00:09:40.720 In Mississippi, there's been less than 200 new cases a day over the past week with only three deaths over the entire week.

00:09:50.760 In Wyoming, less than 80 new cases a day with one death over the entire week.

00:09:56.120 So if you're in Wyoming or Mississippi, which don't have the kind of vaccine compliance I want or Dr. Fauci wants,

00:10:02.500 what's the chances that you're going to bang into this virus if you're fully vaccinated?

00:10:06.860 Almost zero.

00:10:07.700 So it sends the wrong message and it gets in the way of a doctor like me trying to convince my patients to get the vaccine.

00:10:14.560 All good points.

00:10:15.880 It's true.

00:10:16.580 The flip flops from Fauci and even some of the turnarounds at the CDC and the other public health agencies,

00:10:21.780 they have undermined the credibility of doctors and scientists.

00:10:26.640 And that's too bad, you know, and isn't that too bad?

00:10:29.740 I think a lot, I'm not, I'm not accusing Dr. Siegel of doing this,

00:10:33.020 but I think a lot of people have been saying it's just, it's just crazy.

00:10:36.740 Unfortunately, Fauci has undermined our credibility, but you need to believe us.

00:10:41.000 No, he did.

00:10:41.760 He, that's the thing about undermining credibility is it happened.

00:10:45.160 It, when, and when it happens, then you don't have credibility.

00:10:48.280 And that's why people are going to be looking to other sources for information about the vaccines

00:10:53.740 and the lockdowns and the virus and the origins and the whole thing.

00:10:56.520 And they're not crazy for that.

00:10:57.940 And they're not anti-scientific and they're not anti-intellectual.

00:11:00.780 They're smart.

00:11:01.940 They're smart.

00:11:02.900 When someone lies to you repeatedly and when someone deceives you and when someone downplays risks

00:11:08.180 and when someone does this, that, and the other thing, you're going to, you're going to turn

00:11:12.140 elsewhere for your information.

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00:12:24.980 Speaking of drugs, you're going to have the Biden administration coming around trying to

00:12:29.340 jab you with an experimental drug.

00:12:32.500 There are other drugs out there, not just those COVID vaccines.

00:12:35.760 There are lots of other drugs out there.

00:12:36.880 They're trying to legalize a lot of drugs.

00:12:38.920 A lot of conservatives have gone along with this even, or at least libertarians, but

00:12:43.420 some conservatives too.

00:12:44.300 Oh, who cares?

00:12:44.940 Legalize pot.

00:12:46.140 Legalize even harder drugs than that.

00:12:48.700 Well, we got a real blast from the past this week where a U.S.

00:12:52.600 Olympian, Sha'Carri Richardson will not be permitted to run in the Olympic 100-meter race because

00:12:59.820 she has a one-month ban for testing positive for smoking the old sin spinach, you know,

00:13:06.700 those jazz cigarettes, that Peruvian parsley.

00:13:09.260 You catch what I'm putting out there?

00:13:10.600 I'm talking about the Haitian oregano.

00:13:12.380 You know what I mean?

00:13:13.160 Marijuana.

00:13:13.540 Marijuana.

00:13:14.360 So she came out and, you know, tested positive for this.

00:13:18.800 And a lot of people are saying this is outrageous.

00:13:20.660 Some people are saying it's racist or whatever, you know, because everything bad is racist

00:13:23.980 these days.

00:13:24.660 Some people are saying it's unfair.

00:13:26.280 It's very sad for her.

00:13:27.720 It's very sad that she will not get to run in this cool race that she's been training her

00:13:32.020 whole life for because she wanted to smoke a doobie. 0.56

00:13:35.260 And that's unfortunate.

00:13:39.040 She knew the risks, okay?

00:13:40.680 When she decided to spark up the ganj, she knew the risks. 1.00

00:13:45.480 I guess she thought it wouldn't be enforced because a lot of our rules are not enforced

00:13:48.880 anymore, which is the flip side of this.

00:13:50.900 But even Joe Biden, even Joe Biden, right?

00:13:54.320 He licks his finger in the morning, figures out which way the winds are blowing.

00:13:57.540 It's been blowing very progressively, so he's been moving to the left.

00:14:00.700 He was asked about this and he said, you know what?

00:14:03.340 The rules are the rules.

00:14:05.320 Sir, do you think the ban is fair?

00:14:07.040 Do you think her ban is fair for marijuana?

00:14:09.240 It's the rules are the rules.

00:14:11.340 And everybody knows that the rules were going in and whether they should remain that or that

00:14:15.160 shouldn't remain the rules, a different issue.

00:14:17.720 The rules are the rules, and I was really proud of the way she responded.

00:14:21.420 And so, okay, thank you.

00:14:23.600 I love the first part of this response.

00:14:26.340 At the end, you hear Biden did this Clinton thing, this Bill Clinton thing, where he tried to

00:14:30.640 both sides of the issue.

00:14:31.900 He goes, rules are the rules.

00:14:33.360 The rules are the rules, okay.

00:14:35.120 But I was really proud of how she responded.

00:14:36.860 What do you mean?

00:14:37.160 She responded, she was extremely angry and thinks it's unjust.

00:14:40.680 But I was really proud.

00:14:41.240 So he's trying to get both sides of it.

00:14:42.460 But I love that first line, very conservative.

00:14:44.380 This is probably my favorite thing Joe Biden's ever said.

00:14:46.980 Rules are the rules.

00:14:47.860 Sorry, guys.

00:14:49.040 Smoke a little bit of the devil's lettuce.

00:14:50.560 That's what's going to happen to you.

00:14:51.520 And this shows you the two sides of it.

00:14:57.300 You know, in politics, little manifestos, little ideologies that can fit on the back

00:15:02.520 of a napkin are really never true.

00:15:05.280 Oh, gosh, I just finished reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

00:15:08.960 I'll be talking about that in the coming weeks.

00:15:10.820 But I've been putting off reading it for 10, 15 years at this point.

00:15:14.760 And it's just terrible.

00:15:17.320 And it's terrible in part because the ideology is so thin.

00:15:21.380 It's so simple.

00:15:22.120 It's so clear.

00:15:23.220 Shallows are clear, okay.

00:15:24.560 So I want to make sure that, well, obviously we want to resist the tyranny of Biden's thugs

00:15:30.320 going door to door jabbing people with an experimental drug that in many cases is not going to improve

00:15:36.840 their health outlooks.

00:15:39.480 At the same time, we need to recognize that the government could use a heavier hand in other

00:15:44.280 places.

00:15:44.840 The government has become very permissive.

00:15:47.600 Those, those rioters, the BLM rioters, they all, not all of them, but most of them got off 0.81

00:15:53.220 the hook, especially in New York.

00:15:55.220 They just got completely off the hook.

00:15:56.860 That's where we need more big government. 1.00

00:15:58.680 That's where we need a heavier hand of government. 0.95

00:16:01.220 The people who stormed the Capitol and stole Nancy Pelosi's lectern in January, those guys are

00:16:08.660 going to rot in prison, right?

00:16:09.920 So I suspect what Sha'Carri Richardson was thinking is, okay, there's just unevenness.

00:16:14.280 Even enforcement of this rule.

00:16:15.800 I'm going to take my chance.

00:16:17.480 No, the, you, you need to enforce the rules if you're going to have a society of law, not

00:16:24.460 of men.

00:16:25.880 Now, Biden, so Biden, good job on this.

00:16:27.520 I actually really liked that.

00:16:28.220 I never say anything nice about Biden, but I liked his answer there.

00:16:32.300 Otherwise, Biden is not instilling a ton of trust.

00:16:34.620 Joe Biden was just asking questions about Russia and he couldn't, he couldn't give a straight

00:16:38.300 answer because he doesn't know what's going on because his, his brain is soup at this

00:16:41.620 point.

00:16:41.940 So he pulled out some notes to, uh, to read what they told him.

00:16:45.840 With the most recent hack by the Russians, would you say that this, this means that-

00:16:51.540 We're not sure it's the Russians.

00:16:52.920 I got a brief and, uh, uh, I'll be in better shape to talk to you about it.

00:16:59.540 I'll tell you what they sent me.

00:17:10.700 The idea, first of all, we're not sure who it is for certain, number one.

00:17:15.920 And what I did, I directed the full resources of the government to assist in a response.

00:17:21.800 One question.

00:17:24.940 Who is they?

00:17:26.780 Oh, you're the president of the United States.

00:17:29.260 Oh, you're asking me about Russia.

00:17:30.520 I, uh, hold on.

00:17:31.520 Let me find, oh, that's my shopping list.

00:17:32.920 Let me, uh, okay, here, here's what they sent me.

00:17:36.360 Who is they?

00:17:37.360 You've got the, the conspiracy theorists are, are probably going pretty wild right now because

00:17:42.740 Joe Biden is admitting that he's not, he's not running the country himself, that he's taking

00:17:48.840 orders from some mysterious them.

00:17:53.360 Obviously he can't keep up with this.

00:17:54.660 This reminds me of those sort of late stage Soviet dictators, you know, the, the ones at

00:18:00.360 the end where they just, they would live for like five minutes and they were just so out

00:18:03.700 of it and it was just so broke until you got to, to Gorbachev and they were just, it was

00:18:08.000 so sad and they were just completely collapsing.

00:18:11.000 That's, that's what Biden is doing and he's allowing them to run the country and especially

00:18:16.960 to run foreign policy.

00:18:17.940 And I suspect by them, he means the establishment, he means the state department, he means the

00:18:22.260 people who have been running foreign policy for many decades now.

00:18:26.480 And whenever a president goes in and tries to shake things up, the, the blob, the liberal

00:18:31.120 establishment, the permanent government just kind of impedes them from doing that.

00:18:36.960 And that's what's happening here.

00:18:39.020 More lucid members of the Biden administration are somehow incredibly even worse than he is.

00:18:45.600 I'm thinking of attorney general Merrick Garland, who, uh, just last week, uh, wrote that he

00:18:54.440 will block federal executions.

00:18:56.600 So federal executions had been stopped.

00:18:59.280 Obama did not engage in federal executions.

00:19:01.500 Then Trump comes in, he kicks off federal executions again.

00:19:04.300 So people who have been convicted, who have been sentenced to death, they just were languishing

00:19:09.300 on death row. 0.87

00:19:10.120 Trump said, no, we're going to start killing him again. 0.97

00:19:11.660 I mean, these are the most heinous crimes you can possibly imagine.

00:19:14.780 And then the attorney general Merrick Garland under Biden comes in and says, no, we're not

00:19:18.280 going to do that anymore.

00:19:19.440 And that's not surprising. 0.99

00:19:20.960 The libs don't want rapists and serial killers and child rapist killers to be punished. 1.00

00:19:26.880 And Republicans tend to want to punish them. 0.98

00:19:29.800 So, okay, we can expect that.

00:19:31.800 What's interesting here is the reasoning that Merrick Garland gave in, in Garland's memo to

00:19:37.920 the DOJ, he said that the application of the death penalty had exhibited arbitrariness in

00:19:44.700 its application.

00:19:45.820 Again, that's kind of weak sauce, normal boilerplate stuff and disparate impact on people of color.

00:19:54.140 That's the problem is too many of the people who are committing these capital offenses who 0.96

00:20:01.740 are then sentenced to death are, are black people. 1.00

00:20:04.680 So, in other words, not enough people who are committing capital offenses and being sentenced 0.97

00:20:10.260 to death are white people. 0.90

00:20:12.580 So, so the, the argument is not totally about justice here. 0.96

00:20:18.800 It's not even largely about, it's not about the immorality of the death penalty and how

00:20:23.700 it's intrinsically evil or unjust because it's not, because it's impossible to make that argument.

00:20:28.720 Instead, the argument is not enough white people are frying. 0.97

00:20:32.200 And so, because not enough white people are frying, we have got to suspend the death penalty 0.99

00:20:38.060 entirely. 0.94

00:20:39.500 Kind of a perverse logic to that, don't you think?

00:20:43.060 I mean, this is how racial politics makes people kooky, is when you just, when you come 1.00

00:20:49.040 to the conclusion that there can be no group differences in outcome, in behavior, in, in any

00:20:56.780 sort of aspect of life, based on, in this case, race, but the other factors would be considered

00:21:04.800 as well, that, that any, any change whatsoever, any difference whatsoever has to be the result

00:21:11.460 of some systemic injustice, why then you've got to change the system.

00:21:16.380 And you're seeing this now in Oregon.

00:21:18.140 This is probably the most preposterous version of this.

00:21:20.040 Oregon is considering whether or not to drop the bar exam as a requirement for lawyers.

00:21:27.360 So, you know, the bar exam is the, you go to law school, you take your tests, and then

00:21:30.760 you take the bar.

00:21:31.600 And the bar is what decides whether or not you get to be a lawyer.

00:21:34.400 Well, there's a problem, according to a task force of the Oregon Board of Bar Examiners.

00:21:40.460 And the, the problem is this, that not enough non-white people are passing, that white people

00:21:51.760 are passing at relatively high rates, I think it's in the 80s, and then Hispanics, it's in 0.99

00:21:56.120 the 70s percent, and then for black people, it's in the 60s.

00:22:00.700 And because of that, we need to get rid of the bar exam.

00:22:04.700 Not, we need to figure out how to make Hispanic and black people do better on the bar. 0.98

00:22:08.340 No, no, no.

00:22:09.660 That can't, it can't possibly be that we're going to bring people up and recognize the

00:22:15.080 standard of excellence and recognize that there is an objective standard to which we've

00:22:19.500 all got to adhere.

00:22:22.460 No, we've got to bring everybody down.

00:22:26.120 We've got to now have a legal system in which lawyers don't need even the basic competency

00:22:32.620 exam of the bar.

00:22:35.440 This, this is Harrison Bergeron.

00:22:37.480 I mean, this is the, I mentioned this story by Kurt Vonnegut a while ago, that in this

00:22:41.460 future that's gone mad with equity and egalitarianism and, and all these modern ideologies, you're

00:22:48.580 going to have a society of people who have intentionally been handicapped so no one can excel anyone else. 0.99

00:22:55.640 That is, that is, this is an area where I think we need a heavier hand for government.

00:23:02.520 Okay.

00:23:03.020 We need the government to actually, or in this case, I suppose even the legal institutions

00:23:08.080 associated with the government.

00:23:09.540 You need a bar exam.

00:23:11.940 You need a requirement for a bar exam and you can't give people bonus points on their bar just

00:23:16.220 because their skin is a little darker than you, than you otherwise would give them credit

00:23:21.240 for, you know, if you're, you, you take out a swatch and you say, okay, well, because you

00:23:24.860 get an extra 300 points, but no, that's not, that is not going to lead to a flourishing

00:23:29.480 society.

00:23:29.880 It's not good for the people that you think that you're helping.

00:23:32.400 It's not good for the people that you think that you're hurting, obviously. 0.59

00:23:35.520 And it's not good for society to have a bunch of incompetent lawyers.

00:23:39.280 Reminds me of that line.

00:23:40.100 What's that line from, from Henry the sixth? 0.99

00:23:41.920 I think it, from Shakespeare is let's kill all the lawyers. 0.98

00:23:44.340 One of the most, one of the most famous lines from the Bard, you know, speaking of lawyers, 0.86

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00:25:46.060 Welcome back to the show.

00:25:46.900 Everyone talking about critical race theory recently.

00:25:49.780 The left defending critical race theory, then denying that critical race theory exists.

00:25:55.020 Now back to defending critical race theory.

00:25:58.520 Ben Carson has weighed in on this issue.

00:26:02.040 Ben Carson offers, I think, a very solid definition.

00:26:07.060 Everyone's asking, what is it?

00:26:08.280 Define critical race.

00:26:09.120 I think he gives a very solid definition and why it's so terrible for our society.

00:26:14.020 It's an attempt to use race as a mechanism for redefining our society, redefining what it 0.91

00:26:23.340 was based on and how it impacts everybody.

00:26:27.080 And it wants our people to believe that your race is the most critical determinant of who

00:26:33.580 you are and what happens to you in our society. 1.00

00:26:36.760 In other words, it's a bunch of garbage. 1.00

00:26:39.060 I love that last part. 1.00

00:26:42.000 In other words, it's a bunch of garbage. 1.00

00:26:43.900 This is true. 0.99

00:26:44.820 What he's describing is true.

00:26:46.540 Very often in the debate over CRT, especially with these parents who are showing up to school 1.00

00:26:50.800 boards, you're hearing the left preen and boast and say, oh, these unwashed idiots. 1.00

00:26:56.800 They don't know what they're talking about. 1.00

00:26:58.240 They can't even define critical race theory.

00:27:00.740 Ben Carson is more intelligent and better educated than all of those people combined, right?

00:27:11.120 Ben Carson, whatever you want to say about Ben Carson, you can't say the guy's a dummy.

00:27:15.820 I don't know if you remember in 2016 when he was running for president and they went around

00:27:19.500 all the Republican candidates.

00:27:20.860 They said, what's the thing you're proudest of?

00:27:22.340 And, you know, Senator so-and-so says, I'm proudest of having passed this bill.

00:27:26.580 And Governor so-and-so says, I'm proudest of having passed this executive order.

00:27:31.320 And then he gets to Ben Carson and goes, I'm proudest of, I don't know, separating conjoined 1.00

00:27:35.440 twins at the head for the first time.

00:27:37.260 That was pretty cool.

00:27:38.680 You know, like, oh, wow, you're in a completely different category.

00:27:41.900 And so one thing that Ben Carson does very well is he takes very complex ideas and he boils

00:27:46.460 them down.

00:27:47.080 So what he's saying is critical race theory, it's not that it's a serious academic field.

00:27:53.100 It's not, it's an analytical framework and really an ideological tool to redefine our

00:28:01.980 society.

00:28:03.360 It is intended to do what the 1619 Project says it wants to do, reframe American history,

00:28:09.940 to put slavery at the center of it, to put race at the center of it, to reframe your sense

00:28:14.500 of yourself to make you believe that race is the most important aspect of your identity.

00:28:19.860 Nobody denies that race has something to do with your identity.

00:28:26.040 The fact that I am of Italian abstraction says something to do with the way that I speak

00:28:31.120 with my hands.

00:28:31.700 It says something to do with the way that I eat.

00:28:33.340 I eat a lot of pasta.

00:28:34.380 It says something to do with the way that I think about culture, the way that I think

00:28:38.020 about history.

00:28:39.260 But it's not at the top.

00:28:42.500 There are more important things.

00:28:44.180 Traditionally in America, we have believed that our unity as Americans, Donald Trump says,

00:28:48.780 we all bleed the same blood of patriots.

00:28:51.680 That is more important.

00:28:53.320 We believe traditionally in America that our religion is more important.

00:28:56.940 I certainly do.

00:28:57.960 We believe that our bonds of community at the local level, more important.

00:29:02.580 We believe that our civic associations, often more important.

00:29:07.680 And what critical race theory says is no, that's all bunk.

00:29:12.400 Race is the determining factor. 0.80

00:29:13.760 And so recognize that America is just permanently stuck in this racial problem and it attempts 0.92

00:29:22.240 to redefine the country.

00:29:24.120 Absolutely right.

00:29:25.760 Now, what this leads to is a lot of low expectations for black people.

00:29:30.600 You heard, I think it was Gerson, described the soft bigotry of low expectations.

00:29:35.560 That when you just don't believe that black people can do anything, that is a sort of bigotry.

00:29:41.940 Because even though very often it's white liberals who have this view, they are expressing a kind 0.94

00:29:49.620 of bigotry because they are viewing black people as less than human.

00:29:54.060 The whole idea of intersectionality, the radical racial ideologies on the left now, are bigoted 0.96

00:30:01.840 because the only people that they view as fully human are white men.

00:30:05.680 According to the left's radicalism, only white men possess intellect and will.

00:30:11.040 We're the only people that have any moral agency.

00:30:13.400 And every other person on planet Earth is merely a victim of our intellect and our will.

00:30:19.720 They're passive characters in a game that is only defined by white men, right, according

00:30:26.000 to this view.

00:30:27.520 So that is a kind of bigotry.

00:30:29.500 And we are seeing this playing out right now in the streets of San Francisco.

00:30:32.980 There is a video that went viral after many, many reports of Walgreens, for instance, closing

00:30:39.200 their doors because people disproportionately black are going in and stealing stuff. 1.00

00:30:45.660 So they've closed a bunch of Walgreens. 0.84

00:30:47.920 Now at a Neiman Marcus in San Francisco, there's a video that's gone viral of people, again, I

00:30:54.460 think exclusively black, but maybe mixed, but I think it's, I think black.

00:30:59.960 Just, just running and, you know, they've got, most have hoodies on or covering their

00:31:04.200 faces with the masks that Fauci said.

00:31:05.920 That guy might've been white.

00:31:06.680 I'm not sure.

00:31:08.300 Going out and stealing a bunch of stuff.

00:31:11.200 Now, the reason I focus on the race here is if that had been a group of white people, 0.97

00:31:14.780 of course, this would be the crime of the century and they'd all be rotting in federal 0.97

00:31:17.580 prison.

00:31:18.020 It'd somehow be a hate crime or something. 0.99

00:31:19.200 But because they're black, the liberal establishment says, well, they can't help it. 0.98

00:31:23.500 They, they just can't help themselves. 0.97

00:31:25.940 What you're telling me, you're telling me you're supposed to have a department store 0.97

00:31:29.820 in a place with black people and they're not going to steal all the stuff. 0.95

00:31:33.080 Come on. 1.00

00:31:33.560 That's crazy. 0.68

00:31:34.140 That this is, this is the kind of low expectation that the liberal establishment has of black 1.00

00:31:40.900 people.

00:31:41.240 It's why they want to get rid of the bar exam. 0.99

00:31:42.980 It's why they want to lower standards.

00:31:44.760 It's why they want to reduce criminal penalties for people on the basis of their race in,

00:31:51.920 and in various areas.

00:31:54.840 This is bad stuff.

00:31:56.620 No one will benefit.

00:31:57.960 The Neiman Marcus might have to close.

00:31:59.760 The Walgreens already have closed.

00:32:01.760 The, the property values in the neighborhood are going to go to nothing.

00:32:05.920 The crime is going to surge.

00:32:07.900 It, that is a crime in and of itself.

00:32:09.540 And then when crimes like that flourish, more violent crimes take place.

00:32:13.700 Right now, Chicago is like downtown Fallujah.

00:32:16.960 Right now, Chicago is looking like a war zone.

00:32:20.840 Over the 4th of July weekend, nearly 100 people were shot in Chicago.

00:32:28.280 100 people.

00:32:29.720 Think about that.

00:32:31.300 What picture one person, then 10 people and multiply that by 10.

00:32:35.980 And I know it's hard for people to, to picture numbers.

00:32:39.780 That's how many people took a bullet over the weekend just for being in Chicago.

00:32:45.240 17 of them were shot fatally.

00:32:47.200 Almost one in five dead over just a 4th of July weekend because the Democrats who run Chicago

00:32:55.340 can't get the city together.

00:32:56.440 ABC7 reported that 98 people were shot in the timeframe of Friday at 6 p.m. to 11.59 p.m. on Monday.

00:33:06.660 17 of them succumbing to their wounds.

00:33:08.760 The Chicago Sun-Times lists the fatality numbers higher.

00:33:11.580 They listed it 19.

00:33:13.620 ABC7 points out that that number is up pretty significantly because in 2020 on the 4th of July weekend,

00:33:21.600 only 87 people were shot.

00:33:23.280 Only 87 shot back in those halcyon days of 2020.

00:33:27.460 But now it's even higher than that.

00:33:29.880 And this follows last Thursday, a day on which 32 people were shot,

00:33:36.020 including a one-month-old girl who was shot in the head.

00:33:40.980 Worse than a third-world country. 0.98

00:33:43.360 Worse than a third-world country. 0.98

00:33:45.200 Because of what?

00:33:46.420 Because of the evil Republicans that haven't governed Chicago since the Bronze Age? 0.97

00:33:53.640 What, because of the white supremacy? 0.83

00:33:57.260 Because it's MAGA country? 0.88

00:33:58.760 Is that it?

00:33:59.240 I don't think so.

00:34:00.620 Don't think there's a whole lot of white supremacy in Chicago.

00:34:03.040 Don't think there's a whole lot of MAGA country.

00:34:04.840 Don't think it's run by Republicans.

00:34:06.100 But that, that is the excuse that is given.

00:34:10.080 That is always the excuse that is given.

00:34:11.780 And no one really seems to care. 0.81

00:34:15.360 Everyone lets that machine, corrupt city of Chicago get off the hook. 0.93

00:34:21.000 Constantly.

00:34:21.660 Chicago alderman, one of the, one of the few Republicans in that city.

00:34:25.360 Anthony Napolitano, good Italian boy.

00:34:27.280 Good, good Republican Italian boy.

00:34:29.020 He came out and he said the place is resembling a war zone.

00:34:33.960 Chicago and the state of Illinois have the strictest gun laws.

00:34:37.880 It's a statistical fact that the bulk of our guns, our illegal guns, come from our border states.

00:34:44.080 And not a single one of our border states or any of them combined have anywhere near 5,800 people shot in the last 17 months.

00:34:51.220 What politics won't tell you is we have a human problem, we have a people problem right here.

00:34:55.160 There's little accountability.

00:34:57.280 Politicians won't blame families for raising their kids.

00:34:59.600 The gangs are raising their kids right now.

00:35:01.200 We have over 17, or 117,000 gang members.

00:35:04.920 That's your problem.

00:35:06.360 That is your absolute problem.

00:35:08.200 So Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot, like past mayors of Chicago, is trying to blame guns from other states for the shootings.

00:35:16.700 It's the illegal guns.

00:35:19.540 Indiana seems fine to me, generally speaking.

00:35:22.100 Indiana doesn't look like a war zone.

00:35:23.920 I don't know, the border, I don't think that's really the issue.

00:35:26.580 I think the issue is Chicago and the crime that is permitted to fester there.

00:35:31.520 Meanwhile, while this is going on, we are being told by the left that we need to defund the police.

00:35:36.080 We're being told that we need to abolish prisons.

00:35:37.860 We're being told that we need criminal justice reform, which is letting criminals off the hook.

00:35:42.380 That's what we need, right?

00:35:43.520 Because we have an over-incarceration problem.

00:35:46.180 Looks to me like we have an under-incarceration problem.

00:35:48.920 Looks to me like when 100 people are getting shot in Chicago over the weekend, 17 of them being killed, one-month-old babies being shot in the head.

00:35:58.620 Sounds to me like we don't have nearly enough of these criminals in prison.

00:36:01.860 And I really, really hope that Republicans stop buying into this bogus left-wing premise that we're not throwing enough criminals in the clink because, or rather the bogus left-wing premise that we have too many criminals in the clink.

00:36:16.540 We need to put more criminals in jail. 0.77

00:36:19.500 This is one of, unfortunately, this is one of the most frustrating things from the Trump administration is he was convinced to put a lot of political capital into letting criminals out of jail.

00:36:27.540 Because that's why he was elected, right?

00:36:30.640 No, it wasn't.

00:36:32.020 It wasn't.

00:36:33.080 This obviously was a move from the more liberal wing of the GOP and the more liberal wing of people around former President Trump.

00:36:41.440 Let's not make that mistake again.

00:36:44.220 I know that, you know, look, Trump did a lot of terrific things, so I don't knock him too much for the First Step Act.

00:36:49.920 But this is the reality of it.

00:36:51.900 This is the reality of crime in America. 0.53

00:36:53.760 And the only argument that is even remotely persuasive, I've heard, for letting criminals out of prison is this argument that, well, you know, a lot of these people, disproportionately, these people who are in prison are black.

00:37:11.420 Okay, that's too bad. 0.58

00:37:12.480 That's a problem.

00:37:13.400 You've got to try to fix that problem.

00:37:14.560 You're not going to fix that problem by letting criminals out of jail, okay?

00:37:18.180 That's not, you're not.

00:37:19.420 Make me an argument from justice.

00:37:21.580 Don't make me an argument from the outcome because you don't like the racial makeup of the prisons.

00:37:26.400 Make me an argument from justice.

00:37:28.060 Why should we be letting criminal, at a time of a crime surge, why should we be letting criminals out of jail?

00:37:33.300 It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

00:37:37.240 I think what a lot of this comes from is that the left benefits from this chaos.

00:37:45.180 I think the left, never let a crisis go to waste is a phrase that crops up a lot in Democrat politics.

00:37:52.500 The chaos benefits the left because it justifies power grabs.

00:37:57.940 It justifies more arbitrary enforcement of rules whenever there is a crisis.

00:38:04.220 It justifies spending more money, taking more power.

00:38:07.860 You just saw it last year.

00:38:08.840 If you don't, if you don't believe that after last year, I don't know what to tell you.

00:38:12.980 Well, yes, we're preventing you from going to church.

00:38:15.640 And yes, we're shutting down your business, but not that other business.

00:38:19.420 And we're shutting down your church, but not that marijuana dispensary.

00:38:22.060 And we're doing this and we're doing that.

00:38:24.540 But it's a crisis.

00:38:25.540 Don't ask questions.

00:38:26.840 Well, yes, we're going door to door to jab you with this thing that's an experimental drug.

00:38:30.880 But, you know, hey, but it's a crisis, you know.

00:38:33.160 Is it?

00:38:34.220 Is it?

00:38:34.720 Take a step back.

00:38:35.560 Take a breath.

00:38:36.380 Take a step back.

00:38:37.180 Lots of bad things going on.

00:38:39.680 Very often, there are simple solutions.

00:38:41.240 I guess it looks as though there's a crisis in Chicago because everyone's shooting everybody. 0.82

00:38:46.300 Throw them in prison.

00:38:47.900 Beef up the police.

00:38:49.280 Make the police much more forceful and aggressive.

00:38:52.360 Don't, I don't think the problem in Chicago right now is police brutality.

00:38:56.480 Okay, folks?

00:38:57.080 They need to be more forceful. 0.89

00:38:59.580 Throw the criminals in prison.

00:39:01.980 All of a sudden, your crisis goes away.

00:39:05.220 But the Democrats don't want to do that.

00:39:07.220 I think they are interested right now in just wielding this arbitrary vindictive force.

00:39:12.360 And this is not just my own psychobabble.

00:39:14.460 It's not because I'm biased and I, you know, I don't understand what the other side is thinking.

00:39:19.500 Actually, it's quite the opposite according to a study out of UC Santa Barbara.

00:39:23.520 New study out of UC Santa Barbara just revealed, and take these surveys with a grain of salt,

00:39:30.080 but this is an interesting point that a lot of us, I think, could intuit and know anecdotally.

00:39:35.480 Woke Democrats dehumanized conservatives more than conservatives dehumanized woke Democrats during the 2020 election.

00:39:45.840 Largely because progressives are more misinformed about their rival's view of them.

00:39:53.660 This is according to a study by four researchers who did not expect to find this at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

00:40:02.520 Quote, Democrats expressed more dehumanization and anti-democratic spite toward Republicans than vice versa.

00:40:09.500 This appears to clash with research suggesting that liberals are more open, tolerant, and less biased toward outgroup members, according to the study.

00:40:17.460 And by the way, the most liberal Democrats expressed the greatest dehumanization of Republicans.

00:40:24.540 So it's not even like it was the conservative Democrats.

00:40:27.140 It was the most woke ones were the ones most likely to dehumanize their opponents.

00:40:31.500 This study is called Meta-Dehumanization Erodes Democratic Norms During the 2020 Presidential Election.

00:40:38.100 They could probably use a better headline editor there.

00:40:40.800 Kind of a weak title.

00:40:43.240 This would surprise Democrats if they were to read the study.

00:40:46.380 They won't.

00:40:47.560 And this will not surprise Republicans who are on the brunt of the dehumanization of the left.

00:40:55.880 A political strategist on MSNBC.

00:40:59.480 By the way, just for those of you who are not in the cable news business, who are not in the political media,

00:41:05.280 when you see someone come on television and it says political strategist, that is a synonym for unemployed.

00:41:12.200 If they have a job, it will say what their job is.

00:41:14.360 If they don't, it's a political strategist.

00:41:18.120 Have you?

00:41:18.900 That's not a real job.

00:41:20.340 So this woman, Susan Del Percho, goes on to MSNBC.

00:41:26.980 And building upon this idea that Democrats are dehumanizing Republicans,

00:41:32.380 she said it's very clear right now the GOP needs to burn to the ground.

00:41:37.740 I've been looking for a new word for Trumpism because I hate it because I think it goes deeper than just Donald Trump within the Republican Party.

00:41:45.620 And I keep coming back to the same name.

00:41:48.700 It's neo-fascism. 0.98

00:41:50.300 It needs to burn down. 0.95

00:41:52.020 It literally needs to be demolished before you can go in and build it up again.

00:41:57.780 And, you know, the people who actually say, you know, please stay Republican are Democrats who like to say, let's argue back tax policy because they know you need a strong Republican Party.

00:42:09.240 Right now it's not strong, but it needs, it really does need to be burned down to the ground so it can come back up.

00:42:16.300 But that also means there has to be people willing to keep their Republican credentials to be there when it's time to build it up.

00:42:24.480 George Orwell is often invoked in these sorts of political discussions.

00:42:29.260 And rightly so, because he made some good observations, not just in 1984, but in an essay called Politics in the English Language.

00:42:34.680 In that essay, Orwell says that fascism, and he wrote this many, many years ago, fascism no longer has any meaning.

00:42:41.820 Fascism now means no more than something that I do not like, something that I do not desire.

00:42:49.060 This woman, I suspect, could not define fascism.

00:42:53.280 You know, they tell us that we can't define critical race theory.

00:42:55.980 Yes, we can.

00:42:56.400 Critical race theory is an academic movement that developed over the past 30 or 40 years that says that America's defining feature is its anti-black bigotry and that this permeates every aspect of the United States, including its system of property, including its economics, and it derives from a broader Marxist tradition.

00:43:18.260 That's true, and you can read about it in my book, Speechless, and you can read about it in other sources as well.

00:43:23.860 What is fascism, according to this woman?

00:43:26.640 It's nothing.

00:43:27.500 George Orwell writes in this essay that when people don't want to think, not even when they can't think, but when they don't want to think, you just open your mind up to cliches, and then the cliches fill your head, and then they will do the thinking for you, and that's what has happened.

00:43:42.540 This woman says it's a neo-fascist party, doesn't define what that is. 0.84

00:43:46.940 Then she says, you know, it needs to be burned to the ground, and we need a strong GOP.

00:43:54.200 Why?

00:43:54.460 Why does this woman, I don't want a strong Democratic party. 1.00

00:43:56.320 Why does this woman want a strong Republican party? 1.00

00:43:57.960 It's just a thing that she said.

00:43:59.040 It doesn't mean anything.

00:43:59.800 And then she says, because right now it's not strong.

00:44:02.780 Well, if it's not strong, what are you so worried about?

00:44:04.320 Why does it need to be burned to the ground?

00:44:06.200 You're worried because it is strong.

00:44:07.320 And this is like when people, including Nancy Pelosi, complained to Donald Trump that the border wall was ineffective and inhumane.

00:44:19.240 Hold on.

00:44:20.280 Which is it?

00:44:21.460 If it's ineffective, then it's not inhumane because it's not bothering anybody.

00:44:25.140 If it's inhumane, then it's not ineffective because it's actually doing something.

00:44:28.620 But it's just these words that don't mean anything.

00:44:32.060 They just fill the air.

00:44:33.080 It's so beyond any political point that this woman thinks that she's making. 0.99

00:44:37.840 It's this shallowness, this pathetic rhetoric that just does. 0.99

00:44:42.700 It's just words. 0.99

00:44:43.700 It's not even words.

00:44:44.740 It's just grunting.

00:44:46.020 It's like it's somehow below the level of speech and obviously very dehumanizing.

00:44:52.600 You'll notice, not that Republicans can't get riled up, but when we speak about people on the left, we tend to be a little calmer because we know where they're coming from.

00:45:01.540 We know what their premises are.

00:45:02.440 We know how they're going to get to a conclusion.

00:45:04.060 It's too bad.

00:45:04.680 It's bad for the country.

00:45:05.600 We want to stop it, but we get it.

00:45:08.820 With these people, I mean, goodness gracious, this woman is about as shrill as it gets. 1.00

00:45:15.220 They actually don't understand where we're coming from.

00:45:18.300 They don't get why someone would vote for Donald Trump or whoever the next nominee is going to be.

00:45:23.140 Or before Trump, Romney was the worst guy ever.

00:45:26.380 Remember that?

00:45:26.840 Then it was McCain.

00:45:28.540 Then it was Bush.

00:45:29.320 And then it's our democracy.

00:45:32.300 You see, our democracy demands that we have a strong Republican Party, but not a, but now it's weak, but it's also too strong.

00:45:41.100 It doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:45:43.580 Senator Bob Casey, Democrat from Pennsylvania, is using this phrase, our democracy, which the Claremont Institute's Angelo Cotavilla points out.

00:45:51.560 Whenever the left refers to our democracy, they're usually referring to their oligarchy.

00:45:57.320 But he says, our democracy is at the point of no return because Republicans don't want to federalize election law in the largest power grab that we've seen maybe in our nation's recent history through the Corrupt Politicians Act, S1 and H.R.1.

00:46:12.560 Just for the moment, at least, got shot down.

00:46:14.920 And so because of that, we need to protect voting rights.

00:46:18.380 We reach a point now with these Supreme Court decisions and with the advent of all of these, what is it, more than 400 voter suppression bills across the country where we're at a point of no return.

00:46:32.040 We're either going to preserve our democracy and thereby protecting voting rights or protecting voter rights to preserve the democracy, or we're not.

00:46:41.320 We've come to, I think, a point where Democrats have to stand up and get something done.

00:46:47.100 Now, I think we can do that because it's apparent to me that Republicans are just going to endorse these voter suppression bills.

00:46:55.020 And that is for, we should just be blunt about this, at its core, these voter suppression bills are about white supremacy.

00:47:01.800 And unfortunately, it seems like the Republican Party is becoming a one or two issue agenda party where they seem to be only interested in stopping Joe Biden's programs, especially on these caregiving issues, and supporting voter suppression bill.

00:47:20.000 Did anything he said there have any meaning whatsoever?

00:47:26.220 It's just that tyranny of cliches.

00:47:28.660 The Republican Party is a party obstruction, white supremacy, voting, our democracy, supremacy.

00:47:35.400 You know, we can do it, but we're at the point of no return, so we got a return.

00:47:39.180 Wait, I thought we were at the point of no return.

00:47:41.060 What are you?

00:47:42.000 This is why I wrote my book, people.

00:47:43.900 Oh, by the way, thank you so much to everyone who's made it a number one bestseller.

00:47:47.600 Very, very, very cool, guys.

00:47:48.960 Appreciate it.

00:47:49.320 I'm glad that people are reading it.

00:47:50.420 I wish Democrats would read it.

00:47:51.900 But especially, at least as long as Republicans read it, we have a chance.

00:47:55.340 These words, you've got to parse them.

00:47:57.400 They just, they are just cudgels. 0.99

00:47:59.980 They are just tools to smuggle in dumb ideas through really, really silly perversions and 0.99

00:48:06.440 distortions of language. 0.99

00:48:08.980 Do not let them do it.

00:48:10.660 They are, they are, you know, there's, there's the heavy hand of the Biden thugs going door

00:48:15.180 to door to try to jab your kids. 0.98

00:48:16.980 But there is the more insidious and frankly, more effective political strategy of entering 0.99

00:48:22.680 in through the back door of your mind with this kind of ridiculous rhetoric. 0.96

00:48:27.040 Parse all these words, voting rights, white supremacy, our democracy, this, figure out 0.99

00:48:32.560 what it really means.

00:48:33.920 I think it's going to, I think it's going to collapse before your very eyes.

00:48:37.420 And then when we figure out what they're really saying, and more importantly, when we figure

00:48:40.520 out what we want to say, then perhaps we can push back beyond the point of no return.

00:48:45.120 I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 07, 2021

Ep. 800 - When The COVID Cops Come Knockin’

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