Ep. 804 - The Perpetual Revolution
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A prominent conservative decries transphobia, then a prominent conservative, quote-unquote, decries "transphobia." Then a prominent Republican decries, "Transphobia," and then Joe Biden sells his childish doodles for half a million dollars, and the public health geniuses promise to make life very hard for the unvaccinated.
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Cubans have taken to the streets of Havana to demand an end to the communist tyranny that
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has ruled the island for 60 years. So it comes as no surprise that our own communist tyranny
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here in America is trying to lie about the cause and the nature of those protests. But we will get
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to the truth. Then a prominent conservative, quote-unquote conservative, decries, quote-unquote,
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transphobia. Hunter Biden sells his childish doodles for half a million dollars and the public
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health geniuses promise to make life very hard for the unvaccinated. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Daniel,
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who says, why don't I see schools also handing out clean needles for safe drug use or breathalyzers for
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safe driving decisions for underage drinkers? That's a great question, Daniel. I mean, this is
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the kind of nonsense that we're hearing from the Chicago public school system when they say that
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they're going to pass out free condoms to 10-year-olds to discourage unsafe sexual decisions.
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If you subsidize a certain behavior, in this case, young sex, you are going to get more of that
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behavior. I know that this basic common sense is very irritating to leftists and to some libertarians,
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by the way, but it's just the case. If you subsidize something, you are very likely to get more of it.
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And we wouldn't do it yet. We wouldn't do it with underage drinking and driving. We wouldn't do it with
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underage drug use. Why are we doing that with underage sex? That is a great question. You know,
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the brick and mortar guys. They just, there's no space to keep in all those kinds of body,
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auto body parts. So you go in and they say, okay, what's your make? What's your model? What's your
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in the back. They don't have the part. They go on rockauto.com. They order it. They charge you twice
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as much. You wait two weeks. Just don't do it. Just don't. Why would you do that? Save yourself
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parts available for your car or truck. And then most importantly, you write Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S
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in there. How did you hear about us box? So that they know that we sent you rockauto.com.
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Thank me later. The riots, they're not really. I guess you would, we're so used to hearing
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protests or riots rather be called protests and protests be called riots that it's easy to
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conflate the two. But what's going on in the streets of Havana right now is really much more
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of a protest. The Cuban citizens who are standing up against their communist dictatorship are not
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committing acts of terrorism. They're not burning down private property like we saw in the United
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States to the applause of the mainstream liberal elite in the United States. What we are seeing is
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Cuban citizens finally, after 60 years of communist oppression, demanding an end to that tyranny. And
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what's happening in the United States is that our own ruling elite are covering up for the communist
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regime. So there was a Twitter trend yesterday about what's going on in Cuba. Here's what the Twitter
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trend said. Protests take place across Cuba as the country faces shortages of COVID-19 vaccines and basic
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necessities. So what they're saying is they're redefining the reality of what's going on. And they're saying
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these protests, they're actually about how they don't have enough vaccines for the Wu flu. That's what, it's not
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about freedom. It's not about the tyranny that's ruled the island for 60 years. It's not about the fact that the
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Castro's are finally dead. So maybe there's a chance to reopen the country a little bit. No, no, no.
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It's about the chop fluey. That's what it's about. It's about the COVID. Right. Here's what they
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described. Thousands of Cubans took to the streets in Havana and in other cities to demand vaccines and
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food on Sunday as the country faces a period of economic crisis brought on by the global COVID-19
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pandemic. Not brought on by communism, brought on by the cough that came from China. People criticized
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President Miguel Diaz-Canel saying, down with the dictatorship, according to the Miami Herald.
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In a speech addressing the country, Diaz-Canel blamed the United States for the unrest, according
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to Reuters. This is an amazing fact sandwich. Right. So at the top, you have a lie, which is that
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the protests are about COVID. Then at the bottom, you have the lie that's being repeated from the
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current Cuban dictator saying that the United States is responsible for the protest. And then in the,
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sort of in the middle, you get a little bit almost of a fact, which is people saying, down with the
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dictatorship. Sandwiched in between these lies. The protests that are going on right now are not
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about COVID. They are about freedom from communist tyranny. Twitter doesn't want to admit it, but even
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Jen Psaki over at the White House had to admit this is about freedom.
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The Press on Cuba, you're talking today about how some of these protests are inspired by people
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exhausted with the government. Why is it that yesterday the State Department was saying that
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this was all happening out of concern about rising COVID cases?
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Well, I would say first that the protests were just happening yesterday. We're still assessing
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what is motivating and, of course, and driving all of the individuals who came to the streets. But we know
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that when we say exhaustion, the manner by which the people of Cuba are governed, that can cover a range
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of issues, whether it's economic suppression, media suppression, lack of access to health and medical
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supplies, including vaccines. There are a range of reasons and voices we're hearing from people on the
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So when these protesters are yelling freedom and enough, there are people within the administration
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who think they're saying freedom from rising COVID cases.
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Again, I would say that when people are out there in the streets protesting and complaining about
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the lack of access to economic prosperity, to the medical supplies they need, to a life they deserve
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It's the fact sandwich again. She keeps doing this. So she's admitting, she's like, yeah,
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right now I know they're chanting liberty. And no, it's not.
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Yeah, it's not. Well, yeah. Okay. It's liberty economically and it's liberty politically. And yeah,
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and it's liberty from not having vaccines. And it's, no, it's not. It's not. It's not about COVID at
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all. No one cares about COVID, Jen. It's about communism. Oh my gosh. If there's any complaint about
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COVID or healthcare or food or anything, it derives from the communist tyranny.
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She then, she can't call out communism. She can't do it. She has to say that the issue is
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There's every indication that yesterday's protests were spontaneous expressions of people who are
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exhausted with the Cuban government's economic mismanagement and repression. And those,
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these are protests inspired by the harsh reality of everyday life.
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It's not economic. It's economic mismanagement in the sense that tightly managed economies like in
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communist dictatorships don't work out very well. Yeah, I guess that's economic. But they can't call
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it out. They can't have black and white. This reminds me of Obama when Obama went down and tried
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to normalize relations with Cuba without getting any concessions from the Castro regime. He said,
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look, you know, back in the Cold War, there were a big difference between capitalism and communism.
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But those, I'm only slightly paraphrasing, by the way, those distinctions don't really mean so much
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anymore. Okay? Distinction. No, they do. It does, actually. The difference between freedom and communism is
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still significant. Okay? But because the ruling elite doesn't really think that, because the ruling elite
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is a little bit pink, they're a little bit red on the inside, they can't call out communism. This is not
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a new turn of events, by the way. This has always been true, or it's been true for the last 100 or 120
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years in the United States. The intelligentsia, the ruling elite, have always been much more sympathetic
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to communism than most of the American people. Take a listen to what's going on in the streets of
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Havana right now. Let me know if you think this is about COVID or mismanagement.
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Libertad, libertad, libertad. By the way, so you're hearing libertad, libertad, right, which my Spanish
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isn't great, but I don't think that's the word for COVID. I don't think that's the word for vaccines. I think
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it's the word for freedom. And you're also seeing Our Lady. You're seeing statues of the Blessed Virgin.
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You're seeing religious statues. This is, I think, maybe the clearest example of the protests being an
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attack on communism. Communism is about economic collectivism and about atheism. Both of those
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things at once. In the United States now, because secular liberals have redefined so much of our
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political discourse, we only ever focus on the economic aspect. But there's a religious aspect to
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this as well. Bill Buckley talks about this in that terrific book, God and Man at Yale.
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Well, it's not just about the economics. It's also about the liberty. This is why during the Cold War,
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the religious right was so opposed to the Soviet Union because it was a ruthless atheist regime.
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And obviously the libertarians and the West broadly were opposed to the economic aspects of this. This
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is about freedom. And by the way, they're waving the American flag there. I traveled to Cuba. I visited
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Cuba a couple years ago when it was easier to go. And in Cuba, a symbol of protest against the regime
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is the American flag. They wear it on their jeans. They put American flag stickers on their bicycles.
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It's the sign of protest. Here now we denigrate and desecrate the American flag. In Cuba, they recognize
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that it is a symbol of something. Unfortunately, our own ruling elite in the United States don't seem to
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have as much care for America as the Cuban people do. And of course, of course, if you really want to
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know what's causing the protests and you ask the mainstream media, you're going to get a simple
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answer. Five letters, one syllable. The problem is Trump. CBS News covering the Cuban protests right now
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makes an argument. I thought it was it was too brazen for them. Donald Trump is no longer the
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president. He hasn't been president for some time now. And yet everything is still Trump's fault,
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including apparently the sorry state of the slave island of Cuba. On Cuban television,
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Diaz-Canel blamed the protest on the U.S. and its trade embargo for a severe impact on Cuba's recent
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economic downturn. The Trump administration passed many more regulations, many more sanctions against
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it, which basically has cut off all income coming into Cuba. Portia Siegelbaum is a CBS News producer
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based in Cuba. I think the Biden administration, he at least said at the beginning he was going to
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review this policy and make changes, but nothing has happened. The recent policy, they say the Trump
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administration's new policy to impose sanctions on Cuba. That policy goes back 60 years. It's the
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Cuban Embargo Act. It has been in place since the Kennedy administration. It is true that Barack Obama
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loosened up the enforcement of that law, but it remained the law. They never repealed the embargo.
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Even when they made it a little easier to travel there, you still couldn't buy Cuban goods in the
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United States, but even when it was a little bit easier, all that was was Barack Obama flouting the rule
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of law. That's not as though they actually repealed the law. And then Donald Trump came in and enforced
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the law again, and now Joe Biden maybe is going to stop enforcing quite as much. That's, that's the
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reason that Cuba is in economic turmoil. People in Cuba make about $25 a month. I think that's the
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average monthly income, $25 U.S. per month. That's been true for a long time. It was true before
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Donald Trump, but they're going to blame Donald Trump for that. This, I only point this out not
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to show you that the media are liberal or something, but just to show you the huge disconnect between
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the ordinary people and the ruling elite. Not just in communist countries like Cuba, obviously there,
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there's a huge disconnect, but even in our own country. Now in Cuba, the dictator, Miguel Diaz-Canel,
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who took over after Raul Castro stepped down after Fidel Castro died. Although I suppose Fidel
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Castro had actually given up power to Raul before he died. Miguel Diaz-Canel is calling on the
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communist regime supporters to, quote, defend the revolution against the pro-democracy protesters.
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He said the Cuban government is willing to do anything. There are reports coming out right now
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that the regime is really cracking down, is murdering protesters, is cutting off internet to the
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island. So it's getting, getting pretty bad down there. We're calling on all revolutionaries in
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the country, all the communists to hit the streets wherever there is an effort to produce these
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provocations. We're not going to hand over the sovereignty or the independence of the people.
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There are so many revolutionaries in this country who are willing to give our lives or willing to do
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anything and we will be in the streets fighting. The word revolutionary here is ironic because the
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people who are in the streets demanding an end to the 60 year tyranny, they are not the
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revolutionaries, according to the Cuban dictator. According to the dictator, it is the regime that
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is the revolutionaries. Well, how is that possible? When you go to Cuba, you'll see an expression
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written on the walls, written by the government on the walls, which is, viva siempre la revolución.
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Live, always live, long live the revolution. The revolution is a perpetual process. There's no end to it.
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This is why Fidel Castro, after he had been ensconced in power as dictator for decades and
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decades and decades, would continue to wear his military fatigues because the revolution is never
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over because it's one, that's the only way that they can justify the squalor that everyone's living
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in and the repression of the rights. But, but two, because you can't reach a communist utopia on earth.
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It's, it's a utopia. It's no place. The Paul Kenger, the political scientist once told me that
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the way to understand the difference between socialism and communism is that
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Christians go to heaven and socialists go to communism. You're not, you're not going to get
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there on earth is the problem. And so the revolution always has to be ongoing. And we're
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seeing this kind of perpetual revolution here in the United States. I mentioned the story in part
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because I care about Cuba. I like the Cuban people. They're great. When they come to America,
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they have very good priorities, good family values, very conservative sorts of people. And also because I
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like the cigars and the coffee and I like the Cuban culture, but really the reason I mentioned Cuba
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is not because of Cuba. It's because of what this means in the United States. We've got a perpetual
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revolution going on here as well. You always, you always hear, oh, Michael cut it out with the
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slippery slope arguments. All the left wants is free sex. All the left wants is a little liberation on
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the sexual front. Oh, okay. All the left wants is gay rights. Okay. All the left wants is to
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redefine marriage. Wait, what? All the left wants is from to pretend that men can become women. Huh?
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All the left wants is to start transing the kids. Wait a second. Come on now. All the left wants is
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to teach radical transgenderism in schools. Wait, hold on. Wait, I thought we were just talking about
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women going to work in the sixties or whatever. I thought we were just talking, hold on. How did we
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get all the way over here? Because there's no end to it because the slippery slope is not just some
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fear-mongering tactic on the right. It's the whole point. The whole point is there's no end.
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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. We're on the right side of
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history. History with the capital H is always marching forward. We're progressing. There's
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no end. There's no end to it until you reach utopia, which you're never going to do because
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it's no place. So we're seeing this now on racial issues and especially on sexual issues
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here in the United States. Consider this. Consider this. Right now, there is a candidate running
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for governor of California as a Republican who is a man who pretends to be a woman who
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is contradicting not just political orders and standards or social mores, but nature itself.
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And there are many prominent Republicans who are defending this sort of thing.
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At CPAC, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Bruce Jenner showed up because he's
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running for governor of California and he was heckled. Okay. And I, you know, I don't like this
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sort of thing. I think it's ugly to just go heckle public figures all the time. This is par for the
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course for anyone who's in political life. So it just comes with the territory and it's just the way
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it is. So it's not as though Bruce Jenner is special in this regard, but still it's always ugly
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when it happens. So he was heckled. He was referred to by his actual sex. He was called a man
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rather than his imagined sex. And he was asked a completely fair question, which is what he thought
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about transgenderism being taught in schools. This is a radical, false theory about human nature
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that your body has nothing to do with who you are. It is being taught in schools. The guy who's running
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for governor of California was asked about this. He obviously buys into the idea itself because he's
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living out that idea. And so I think it's a totally fair question. The heckler was rude as happens to
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every politician, but the question was totally fair. Tommy Lauren, who is a conservative commentator,
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I think she's on Fox, Fox News and Fox Nation. Tommy objected to this. Tommy wrote on Twitter,
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quote, the attacks on Caitlyn Jenner are despicable. I'll go to bat for her every single time. And if
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you want to take my conservative card for it, take it and shove it. Your mob is no better than the
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left's. And in fact, it's uglier. Hold on a second. Now look, Tommy Lauren is not particularly
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conservative. Tommy Lauren famously not only defended abortion, but accused conservatives,
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pro-life people who oppose abortion, of being hypocrites because conservatives, you see, support
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limited government. But they also don't think we should kill a million babies a year. So isn't that
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hypocrisy? It's obviously not hypocrisy. Preventing the murder of a million babies a year I think falls
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within the legitimate limits of government. No matter how limited you want your government to be,
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I think that's fair. I think that's within the bounds. As is, by the way, in this case,
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standing by the plain basic fact of reality that men and women are different. Now Tommy Lauren seems
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to be saying that the observation that men and women are different is beyond the legitimate limits
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of government. So what are the, are you just an anarchist then? You just, you think the government
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has no, no legitimate use whatsoever? Tommy goes on. The conservatives, quote unquote, attacking
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Caitlyn for her personal choices, attacked Trump for his and declared him to be adverse to Christian
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values. They were the bulk of the never Trump pearl clutching movement that suddenly became real quiet
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when his policies worked. Save your BS. What? This, that part just doesn't make any sense at all. The
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people that I, look, I know the plural of anecdote is not data. The people I know who oppose the Caitlyn
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Jenner candidacy on the grounds that men who are under the false impression that they're women
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definitely need to figure things out and probably should not be holding public office and probably
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are not the most conservative candidates to hold public office. The ones I know who hold that view
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tend to be Trump supporters. The ones that I know who are squishy on the issue of transgenderism,
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they tend to fall more in the never Trump camp. I'm just speaking anecdotally, but I, I think it's
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simply a fact that men, men and women are different. And I don't think there's anything bigoted or
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hypocritical about pointing that out. Also, also Caitlyn Jenner, Bruce Jenner distanced himself from
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Trump. He backed away from, he sort of liked Trump initially, and then he stopped liking Trump.
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And famously, he said, he doesn't even care about the Republican party. His loyalties do not lie with
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the Republican party or with Donald Trump. His loyalty and his concern is for the LGBT movement.
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My loyalties do not lie with Donald Trump. My loyalty do not lie with the Republican party.
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My loyalties and what I'm fighting for is my community, the LGBT community, and particularly
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the trans issues that are out there, because there are many of them. And so that's where my fight is.
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And I thought Trump would be pretty good, but he's kind of disappointed me in the first hundred
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days. Okay. Well, when he says it, believe him. His, his issue is not conservatism. His issue is not
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the GOP. His issue is not make America great again. It's LGBT and specifically transgender is pushing
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transgenderism. Oh, okay. Not my candidate. Then should not be any of our candidates. I mentioned this
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not to pick on Bruce Jenner and not to pick on Tommy Lauren, but just to point out, you've got a very
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prominent conservative commentator on the prominent conservative cable network pushing this stuff
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that would have been considered as far left as it possibly gets even five years ago.
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You've got a lot of crazy sexual issues going on. Why, why do these political issues seem to revolve
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around sex so much? Is it just because people want to get titillated? Is it just because,
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because sex sells or something? Maybe, maybe. Also because sex is fundamental to our nature. I know a
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lot of people are talking about racial politics. Now the left uses race also to divide people. Race is
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less fundamental to human identity than sex is. I mean, that, that is the fundamental distinction. When you
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look at the origin stories of how humanity comes about, they usually don't revolve around the racial
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differences. They usually revolve around sexual differences. Gilgamesh or Genesis, for instance.
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We'll get into all of that in a second. First, however, I've got to tell you about Candace. Candace's
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show coming up tonight, Tuesday, the 13th, 9 p.m. Eastern. Go check it out. The MMA fighter,
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Benil Dariush, will be on the show. Candace will be talking about what's going on in Cuba, so go check that
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out. Also, Ben is going to be talking about, everyone's talking about Cuba these days. I'm
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only talking about Cuba to talk about America, but people are really focusing in on to what is
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going on there. You could see another revolution going on in Cuba. Go check that out. We'll be right
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back with a lot more. Gilgamesh begins with sexual difference. Genesis,
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begins with sexual difference. Sexual difference is the fundamental divide in nature. So if you can
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overcome that sort of thing, you can overcome just about anything in politics. And I think this is
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why the left is focused on it. Since the second wave feminists who denied sexual difference into
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the same-sex marriage debate, which denies sexual difference, into the transgender debate, which denies
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sexual difference. And all of that is, in effect, an attack on the family because the opposite of
00:24:05.740
communism is not individualism. Sometimes it's posited that way, that if we want to fight
00:24:12.120
collectivism, we need to just support the radical autonomy of the individual. No, they're two sides
00:24:17.120
of the same coin. Every revolution first divides people up as individuals and then bundles them all
00:24:22.700
together. This is true of fascism. It's true of communism. It's true of socialism. It's true of the
00:24:27.300
people today. The actual opposite of collectivism and radical individualism, which are two sides of
00:24:33.880
the same coin, is the family, is community, is tradition. That's the opposite. You know, we call
00:24:42.460
the left commies all the time, but they behave like radical individualists when it comes to sex, when it
00:24:47.100
comes to their defense of privacy, when it comes to abortion, when it comes to so many issues.
00:24:54.220
The left behaves like individualists on the social front, and the right behaves like individualists
00:25:00.480
on the economic front, and the country lurches ever further to the left. The country breaks everybody,
00:25:06.920
the revolution breaks everybody down into individuals and bundles them back together.
00:25:10.780
The opposite of that would be the family. You're seeing a very explicit attack on the family right
00:25:15.020
now. The rights of the family to educate their kids, the rights of the family to keep their boys
00:25:21.860
little boys and not trans them. I mean, there are actually now forces at work in our politics
00:25:28.500
that will try to take your children away from you if you refuse to pretend that your little boy is a
00:25:35.200
little girl. If he says that he's a little girl, you'll get the schools involved, you'll get local
00:25:38.260
authorities involved. This is happening to a greater extent outside of the United States, but you're
00:25:42.740
seeing it begin to happen here as well. Harry and Meghan. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle,
00:25:49.000
the voice of a generation, I'm sorry to say, they just won an award. They win lots of silly awards,
00:25:55.640
but they just won an award from an environmental charity for making the, quote, enlightened decision
00:26:02.640
to limit the number of kids they're having. So they've said they have two kids, and that's it.
00:26:08.800
They're not going to have any more kids. They're not going to be open to life. They're not going to
00:26:11.860
be open to sharing their love with one another that creates a new person. Nope. They're limiting it.
00:26:17.180
Okay. A group called Population Matters is very pleased with this decision. Quote,
00:26:22.600
in choosing and publicly declaring their intention to limit their family to two, the Duke and Duchess
00:26:26.560
of Sussex are helping to ensure a better future for their children and providing a role model for
00:26:30.740
other families. Having smaller families reduces our impact on the earth, provides a better chance
00:26:35.180
for all our children, their children, and future generations to flourish on a healthy planet.
00:26:38.480
We commend the Duke and Duchess for taking this enlightened decision for affirming that smaller
00:26:41.940
family is also a happy family. Wrong. It's just wrong.
00:26:46.040
So this comes out of this fear of overpopulation. We were told by people like Paul Ehrlich, very
00:26:51.620
prominent scientist, quote, unquote, who remains at Stanford, who still gets lots of plaudits even
00:26:58.240
today. He said in the 70s, overpopulation was going to cause mass famine, mass starvation. There
00:27:03.460
was no way to avoid that. And we had to encourage contraception and abortion. And if people wouldn't
00:27:09.060
comply with it, then we had to force it upon them. Seriously, this is the kind of crazy stuff he
00:27:12.480
called for. These policies were picked up in India and China, led to hideous abuses of people's
00:27:18.540
rights, led to people being denied food or water or access to sanitation if they continued to have
00:27:23.420
kids, if they wouldn't be sterilized, led to the one child policy, which led to a genocide in China.
00:27:28.120
Hideous, hideous stuff. And it was just BS. Because you know what happened? Since the time that Paul
00:27:33.900
Ehrlich said, that overpopulation was inevitably going to cause mass starvation, between that time
00:27:39.560
and today, the world population has doubled. Malnutrition is at an all-time low. People are
00:27:44.560
fatter than they ever have been in the history of the world. It's just not true. It is part of this
00:27:49.540
creepy anti-family, anti-life movement that tells you not to have kids in the first place, that tells
00:27:56.440
you to kill your kids when you have them through abortion, that tells you to sterilize your children
00:28:02.120
through transgenderism, that it's just, it all seems to redound to the same point. Wherever you
00:28:08.980
see this, this anti-life thing, recognize there is an economic aspect here that people just want to
00:28:14.700
have more money and they don't want to spend it on their kids. There is a political aspect here. It's
00:28:18.560
easier to control people if you break down the family. And there's a spiritual aspect too. There's
00:28:22.300
just simply no denying it. There is an element of the demonic in anything that tells you not to have
00:28:29.060
kids, to kill your kids, to have a small family, to not raise your kids right, to sterilize your
00:28:33.180
kids. There's something, it's not enough to just talk about the political and the economic. There's
00:28:37.580
something spiritual there as well. Speaking of celebrity families, by the way, Hunter Biden is
00:28:42.540
back in the news. Not for any of the drug stuff, not for any of the sex stuff, not for any of the
00:28:47.980
corruption, not for any of the selling out the United States to China, not for any of the trading
00:28:52.140
on his family's name quite exactly. The reason that's not in the news is it's not allowed to be
00:28:56.960
in the news. The minute you report on that, that'll be shut down by the ruling regime here in the
00:29:00.980
United States. It's amazing. We talk about how Cuba shuts off the internet for the dissidents.
00:29:07.140
They do it here in the United States. They do it here. When the New York Post uncovers very serious
00:29:12.680
evidence of corruption and crimes from the son of a major presidential candidate, what happened? The
00:29:17.700
regime, the big tech, working on behalf of the ruling elite, shuts it down. So you can't even
00:29:22.920
privately message it to people until after the election. Amazing the similarities of La
00:29:28.760
Revolución here and in Cuba. So Hunter Biden is now an artist. Now I say, as a low-skilled painter
00:29:38.660
myself, I took up painting during COVID and I'm not very good. I'm much better than Hunter Biden,
00:29:42.820
but I'm not very good. I've never been offered half a million dollars for my
00:29:47.560
artwork. Hunter Biden has for his little polka dots that he puts on, on canvas. Do you think
00:29:54.260
he's being offered half a million dollars for his artwork because it's just so good? Because it's,
00:30:00.860
wow, it's just so beautiful? Or do you think it might have something to do with Hunter Biden's
00:30:05.480
entire career, which is selling his father's name to the highest bidder? Jen Psaki at the White House was
00:30:10.820
asked about this. She insists, no big deal, no big deal, nothing to see here.
00:30:14.940
I have a question on Hunter Biden's artwork. Did the White House play any role in crafting the
00:30:20.540
sales agreement with the New York Gallery to protect the purchaser's or the ultimate purchaser's
00:30:29.120
identity? Well, I can tell you that after careful consideration, a system has been established that
00:30:35.600
allows for Hunter Biden to work in his profession within reasonable safeguards. Of course, he has the
00:30:41.440
right to pursue an artistic career, just like any child of a president has the right to pursue
00:30:46.360
a career. But all interactions regarding the selling of art and the setting of prices
00:30:50.880
will be handled by a professional gallerist adhering to the highest industry standards.
00:30:55.560
And any offer out of the normal course would be rejected out of hand. And the gallerist will not
00:30:59.740
share information about buyers or prospective buyers, including their identities with Hunter Biden
00:31:04.480
or the administration, which provides quite a level of protection and transparency.
00:31:10.280
Anything out of the ordinary, anything out of the ordinary would be rejected, of course. And so it's
00:31:17.000
perfectly within ordinary bounds for Hunter Biden, for a dilettante crackhead sex criminal influence
00:31:24.960
peddler who took up painting five minutes ago to be offered half a million dollars for his scribbles.
00:31:31.300
That is totally ordinary and normal. And there's nothing to see here. Don't worry. It's being
00:31:37.160
handled by the professionals, right? Right. How, how do they say this with a straight face?
00:31:43.820
Because they don't respect us. They don't respect you. They don't respect me. They are going to
00:31:50.360
relieve themselves on our legs and tell us that it is raining. Nothing to see here. Well, it's the same
00:31:56.720
answer they gave when Hunter Biden was peddling his father's influence to Ukraine. Hunter Biden was
00:32:02.620
being paid, we don't know the exact number, something like $50,000 a month, maybe more, by a
00:32:06.860
Ukrainian energy company. Hunter Biden doesn't know anything about Ukraine. He doesn't know anything
00:32:10.780
about energy. But his father was the point man on Ukraine and his father managed to pull some favors,
00:32:16.880
it would seem, while Hunter Biden was doing that. So Hunter Biden sells his influence to China,
00:32:22.540
tries to put a big deal together from China to get some Chinese financing while Joe Biden is vice
00:32:27.940
president of the United States. And now Hunter Biden is a professional artist, adhering to the
00:32:33.420
highest professional standards and making half a million bucks. And you know what? There's nothing
00:32:37.540
you can do about it. There's nothing you can do about that because you can take to the streets,
00:32:43.400
you can demand liberdade, liberdade against la corruzione. Well, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
00:32:47.980
because the ruling elite will do whatever they need to do to stay in power, including making your
00:32:54.860
life very, very difficult. The former president of Planned Parenthood, so a former top abortionist
00:33:02.140
in the country, her job, her career was spent literally killing babies to the tune of hundreds
00:33:11.620
of thousands a year just by Planned Parenthood alone. She is now on CNN and she is describing how
00:33:19.660
they are going to get, how the ruling elite is going to get all you deplorable, irredeemable,
00:33:25.820
bitter, clinging, Bible-thumping Americans to take the experimental drug for the virus that is
00:33:31.960
so dangerous, so terrible that it's got actually a very, very low death rate. And it's so awful and
00:33:39.980
terrible that no one wants to get the vaccine, which is so wonderful and great that they're
00:33:44.000
going to make life very, very hard for you. Now we have this Delta variant that is much more
00:33:49.300
contagious. Because it's more contagious, it's going to be even harder for us to reach herd immunity.
00:33:54.460
We're going to have to vaccinate an even higher proportion of people to get there. What happens
00:33:59.480
then if we end up having another variant developing that's even more contagious, that could cause more
00:34:04.180
disease, that could evade the protection of our immune system? And so how quickly we get this
00:34:08.940
under control and which way we go depends on what we do now when it comes to vaccination,
00:34:14.640
to overcoming disinformation. And what we really need to do at this point is to make vaccination
00:34:19.420
the easy choice. It needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated. Right now it's kind of the
00:34:25.220
opposite. It's fine. I mean, it's easy if you're unvaccinated. You can do everything you want to do
00:34:29.160
anyway. But at some point, these mandates by workplaces, by schools, I think it will be important
00:34:34.420
to say, hey, you can opt out. But if you want to opt out, you have to sign these forms. You have to
00:34:38.840
get twice weekly testing. Basically, we need to make getting vaccinated the easy choice. That is
00:34:43.660
what it's going to take for us to actually end the pandemic. Do you see how she gives away the game
00:34:49.020
here? If the vaccine were so great, well, let's back up. If the virus were really so bad,
00:34:59.980
if it were really so dangerous to so many people, it wouldn't matter how experimental or untested the
00:35:07.100
vaccine were, people would be clamoring to get it. If this were the bubonic plague in medieval Europe,
00:35:11.840
people would be clamoring to get any kind of vaccine they could get. But they're not doing that
00:35:17.000
because they're not at great risk. Then you have to take the question of the vaccine. If the vaccine
00:35:23.040
were so great, if it were so totally 100% safe, one, you wouldn't be hearing reports from the
00:35:29.840
CDC, by the way. I'm not, this is not like from some far off corner of the internet. This is the
00:35:33.680
CDC and the FDA acknowledging that there are reports of myocarditis in young, young people who are not at
00:35:38.980
particularly high statistical risk from COVID. They're having issues of heart inflammation,
00:35:43.620
heart hospitalization, in some cases, death. You wouldn't be hearing reports of the COVID vaccine
00:35:48.220
or the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which actually had to be paused because women were getting blood
00:35:52.080
clots and in some cases dying from the vaccine. You wouldn't be hearing reports that just came out
00:35:57.740
yesterday reported in even the New York Times, for goodness sakes, of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine
00:36:02.260
causing a nerve issue. You wouldn't be hearing any of those things, which has actually presented
00:36:10.400
itself in other vaccines, even though no one's allowed to talk about that. You wouldn't be hearing
00:36:17.040
about that sort of thing. And if the vaccine were really so great for the virus that's really so
00:36:21.100
terrible and deadly and scary, you wouldn't need to make life hard for everybody because life would
00:36:26.380
already be hard for people because the vaccine would already be the easy choice. But because
00:36:31.220
none of that is true, they have to contrive it. They have to make pretend. This is something you see
00:36:39.900
in, you see greater authoritarianism. You see greater oppression in regimes that are really unstable. And
00:36:48.020
there is no way, I think right now, to look at the nature of our politics and say that things are
00:36:52.980
stable. Nothing is stable. Nothing is settled. The radicals, the revolutionaries in the middle of
00:36:58.600
the 20th century unsettled everything. We can't even say what the difference is between men and women
00:37:03.940
anymore. Not even the conservatives can say what the difference between men and women is anymore.
00:37:08.440
Forget about the radical left. Even people who are the right-wing people on the right-wing networks,
00:37:12.980
even they are defending this sort of thing. So of course, as things are going to be unsettled,
00:37:18.400
you're going to see greater oppression, greater repression. Are ruling elites intentionally making
00:37:24.780
life hard for people to get them to succumb to their will? That sort of thing is not happening just
00:37:30.340
90 miles off the coast of Florida. That sort of thing is happening right in our own backyard.
00:37:38.360
The liberal ruling elite is coming out and saying they're going to go door to door
00:37:46.740
to try to get you to take the experimental drug for the virus that you're not particularly worried
00:37:52.200
about. Obviously, this is a very strong play by the left. The right is resisting it, except
00:38:00.820
even some people on the right, or nominally on the right, are resisting it. So Asa Hutchinson,
00:38:07.180
who is not the most conservative governor out there, he's a Republican, Republican governor of Arkansas.
00:38:13.580
He made a name for himself because he supports castrating little children if their abusive parents
00:38:21.160
believe that the little boys are little girls. He supports that. He thinks that that should be
00:38:25.660
able to go through. He opposed a bill that would ban that sort of thing. So already, we don't have
00:38:29.520
very high expectations for Asa Hutchinson. Well, he goes on ABC News, he goes on one of these left-wing
00:38:34.780
news sites, and he says that Biden going door to door with the vaccine, that big threat he's making?
00:38:41.360
Oh, it's not a big deal. Don't worry about it. Whenever we have a low vaccination rate,
00:38:46.260
we want all the help we can in order to accomplish a mutual goal in increasing vaccinations.
00:38:53.260
Long before President Biden said that, we have community organizations that's helping us. We have
00:38:59.880
churches that are going into homes. We have people that go into those that are bedridden so that they
00:39:06.760
can have access to the vaccine. So there's nothing dramatic about what the president said in itself.
00:39:12.740
No one wants an agent knocking on a door, but we do want those that do not have access otherwise to
00:39:20.480
make sure they know about and have the information. Not everybody goes on the internet. Not everybody
00:39:25.700
has that access. And so how do you get information to them? We want to have our churches involved.
00:39:31.880
We want to have our communities, organizations. And if it means going into a community door by door
00:39:39.640
and letting them know of this, then that's okay. Not everybody has access. Not everybody's heard of
00:39:46.360
coronavirus. Is that so, Governor? The thing that locked down the entire world for the last 18 months
00:39:55.360
that has been blasted on every single news channel everywhere, that if you even question the official
00:40:01.780
narrative, you will be deplatformed, kickoff of social media, ostracized from your community,
00:40:07.020
vaccination centers in every grocery store, every pharmacy, every policy. You're telling me
00:40:14.620
that some people, they just don't know. They just haven't heard about it. And that's why, look,
00:40:20.680
we don't want federal agents going door to door. So, but we're going to send some federal agents
00:40:25.120
door to door to get you to take, or to impel you to take an experimental drug. And there's no,
00:40:30.840
it's no big deal. I mentioned this not because I've had terrible, the policy. Obviously we all know
00:40:34.960
the policy is terrible. I mentioned this not even because Joe Biden's so terrible. We all, we all know
00:40:40.020
that. This is the problem. Asa Hutchinson is the problem. There is no opposition.
00:40:51.560
What's the opposition party? Is the GOP the opposition party? Because last I checked,
00:40:56.960
I'm just looking at the headlines today. The alleged opposition party is defending federal
00:41:02.380
thugs going door to door to jab you with an experimental drug. The opposition party is
00:41:06.880
defending the redefinition, not even of marriage. They're already defending the redefinition of
00:41:10.960
marriage. They're defending the redefinition of sex itself. They're defending, transing the kids.
00:41:16.660
In some cases they're even defending critical race theory and, and other kooky theories in
00:41:21.780
schools. Where's the opposition? They're not. These are the court jester conservatives. These
00:41:26.840
are the people whose job it is to play the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism, to do a little
00:41:31.500
dance, to give the, the illusion that there is opposition in this country, but there isn't really.
00:41:37.320
They exist merely to legitimize the dominant liberal ruling regime, which is constantly downplaying how
00:41:44.540
bad things really are. There was a poll just came out. Poll came out, Harvard Harris poll came out,
00:41:50.320
found out that four out of five Americans underestimate how bad our illegal immigration
00:41:56.820
problem is. So it's a very simple question. How many people do you think, how many foreign
00:42:01.580
nationals do you think are pouring across our southern border every day? Harvard Harris, which is not a
00:42:07.340
right-wing organization. Harvard University is not known for its right-wing politics. Harris poll,
00:42:12.000
neither. Four out of five Americans think that the problem is not nearly as bad as it is. 21%
00:42:20.520
Americans believe that less than 10,000 illegal immigrants cross into the United States each month.
00:42:25.420
More than half of all Americans believe that the number is lower than 50,000 illegal aliens per month.
00:42:32.220
In reality, even that 50,000 number is less than a third of what's really going on. In reality,
00:42:38.660
nearly one million illegal aliens crossed the U.S. border with Mexico in just the first half of this
00:42:46.040
year. Forget the legal immigrants who come into this country. Our legal immigration system is already
00:42:52.480
the broadest, most open in the world. And the majority of Americans, also according to a Harvard-Harris
00:42:58.540
survey from some years ago, want to drastically reduce that, including the legal immigrants.
00:43:02.760
But then you've got a million illegal aliens coming in just in the first half of this year.
00:43:09.600
So you're looking at 2 million illegals per year. This is a 20-year high. In May alone,
00:43:16.820
180,000 foreign nationals poured into this country. That is almost as many in the first half of this
00:43:25.000
year as came in during all of 2019. No big deal. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. You're
00:43:32.300
not even hearing those numbers on most allegedly conservative outlets. Why? Because that's not
00:43:40.560
going to help the ruling elite, which on the left and nominally on the right want illegal immigration
00:43:49.140
to continue. 70% of black voters, according to a poll come out right now, 70% of black voters say
00:43:55.000
that violent crime is a major crisis. But we're told by the ruling elite that, no, that's a white
00:44:00.600
supremacist dog whistle. How dare you? If you ever talk about crime, you're just, you're an evil racist
00:44:04.680
bigot. Can't talk about it. We'll get into that a little bit more tomorrow. We don't have time right
00:44:08.160
now. The ruling elite in this country, coming from the White House, does not even want to talk about
00:44:15.040
election integrity. When some Republicans in some states are trying to put in election integrity
00:44:20.280
laws that we've had on the books, actually in most cases for a very long time, we're being told
00:44:24.340
that's white supremacy, racism, terrible, even though black people support it. We're talking about
00:44:30.800
what's going on in Cuba, not only because we care about the Cubans, but we care, we care about
00:44:35.920
ourselves and we see what perpetual revolutions look like and we see how bad they can get and we see
00:44:40.380
how bad they can get pretty close to our own borders and we see how bad they're getting even here in
00:44:43.840
the United States. And maybe it's time to push back and fight for that liberdade and look to,
00:44:49.320
look to the real roots here, not just even the economic issues, the religious ones,
00:44:56.020
people holding up religious icons. But what is it that we really believe in? Where can we find our
00:45:01.280
strength? Where can we find our courage? Because there's a lot of corruption and it's not just on
00:45:04.840
that slave island down south. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.
00:45:13.840
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Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, the Biden administration downplays the evil of the
00:46:06.740
communist Cuban regime while simultaneously labeling American conservatives authoritarian
00:46:10.960
racists. That's today on The Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.