The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 805 - Fight Or Flight For Freedom

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00:00:37.780 Texas Republican lawmakers are attempting to restore election integrity measures,

00:00:42.940 many of which fell by the wayside during the crazy COVID election year.

00:00:47.360 So very simple stuff, voter ID, that kind of stuff.

00:00:50.340 They've got the votes.

00:00:52.060 They've got the support of the people.

00:00:54.100 There is no legal way to stop them from restoring election integrity.

00:00:59.980 So the Democrat lawmakers in Texas fled the state.

00:01:05.140 They actually chartered a plane and got out of the state.

00:01:08.940 Now, the shenanigans are not going to last forever.

00:01:12.080 They can't.

00:01:12.600 They're actually ending right this very minute as I speak.

00:01:15.540 But it does represent a very disturbing trend among these Democrat lawmakers.

00:01:19.680 Namely, they have no trust in democracy whatsoever.

00:01:23.340 This goes a long way, I think, toward explaining why public trust is cratering in the media,

00:01:29.900 in the public health experts, and even in our elections.

00:01:33.800 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:34.520 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:42.960 Welcome back to the show.

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00:03:16.580 51, at least 51, of the 67 Texas House lawmakers

00:03:22.040 boarded chartered flights to Washington, D.C.

00:03:25.800 So we're talking about private jets now to protest in support of the Corrupt Politicians Act.

00:03:32.600 This would be H.R.1 and S.1.

00:03:35.000 This is federalizing elections, taking power away from the states,

00:03:38.020 upending the constitutional system,

00:03:39.320 and trying to give Democrats a permanent advantage in elections. 0.90

00:03:42.640 The walkout comes after Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a special session

00:03:48.300 of Congress in Texas, the Texas House,

00:03:51.780 to focus on legislative priorities such as election integrity laws.

00:03:56.920 So these Democrats are absolutely immune to irony,

00:04:02.640 but if they were self-aware at all,

00:04:05.600 they would find some great irony in the fact that

00:04:08.520 to protest voter I.D. laws,

00:04:12.980 they got on a bus and then on a private jet to Washington, D.C.

00:04:20.400 In the photo that they posted from their journey,

00:04:24.060 they have a 12-pack of Miller Lite,

00:04:28.040 which they needed an I.D. to purchase.

00:04:31.120 So you're saying that we need greater integrity

00:04:35.980 around the ability to buy cheap beer

00:04:39.060 than we do around our democracy.

00:04:42.480 You know, they're always prattling on about our democracy,

00:04:44.360 but then whenever we want to defend our constitutional structures

00:04:48.220 that protect our democracy,

00:04:49.680 all of a sudden they're not interested in that sort of thing.

00:04:52.400 Then they get on a private jet,

00:04:54.020 so I can't wait to hear them prattling on about environmental worries.

00:04:56.780 They get on the private jet.

00:04:57.980 And the kicker, none of them are wearing masks.

00:05:01.160 So they're telling us that we all need to wear masks

00:05:03.820 because COVID is the worst, scariest virus ever

00:05:06.820 in the history of the world.

00:05:07.880 That filthy cloth that you put on your face, 0.97

00:05:09.880 it's so super-duper effective,

00:05:11.840 and we've all got to wear it.

00:05:12.940 Even if you got the vaccine,

00:05:14.120 you need to wear 15 different masks.

00:05:16.320 And then they aren't wearing them.

00:05:18.760 How do I know?

00:05:20.000 How do I know that all of these things happen?

00:05:21.940 Well, one, they posted the pictures.

00:05:23.020 But also, if you or I get on an airplane these days,

00:05:28.140 we're going to have to wear a mask

00:05:29.480 because there is a federal mandate to wear masks on flights.

00:05:34.400 Unless you're flying private,

00:05:35.860 in which case there's no stewardess to come up and down

00:05:37.960 and yell at you to put your mask on.

00:05:39.580 The hypocrisy is so outrageous.

00:05:44.340 It's so absurd.

00:05:45.660 It's not even worth pointing out.

00:05:47.240 There's this meme going around where people say,

00:05:49.100 it's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy.

00:05:50.960 It's not that the Democrats are failing to live up to their own standard.

00:05:55.200 It's that Democrats believe that there is a different standard

00:05:57.980 that they need to play by than Republicans are,

00:06:00.100 that they are more privileged

00:06:01.440 and they ought to play by different rules.

00:06:03.820 And that's what we're seeing happen here.

00:06:05.240 And Kamala Harris could not be more proud.

00:06:08.580 Kamala Harris is very...

00:06:11.240 So the Texas lawmakers make it to D.C.

00:06:14.360 They host their own press conference.

00:06:16.400 And during their press conference,

00:06:18.480 they actually break out into song.

00:06:20.300 We want to be standing there when a new Voting Rights Act for this century is there

00:06:26.000 and the rights that struggled, that so many lives were taken,

00:06:30.260 so much courage was demonstrated, are preserved once again.

00:06:33.480 And I turn it back over to you for the questions and thank you very much for all that you

00:06:40.240 and all of your colleagues are doing here today.

00:06:42.480 Thank you.

00:06:43.160 I cannot take any more of the boomer LARPing.

00:07:10.520 This is what's going on now is in the 1960s,

00:07:14.600 you had a very consequential social movement called the Civil Rights Movement.

00:07:18.720 And it changed the way voting took place and it changed a lot of the country.

00:07:24.140 And today, all of these...

00:07:28.400 It's as though time froze in 1965.

00:07:31.620 It's as though everyone is just play-acting what happened in 1965.

00:07:35.180 And so they're trying to compare this effort to break the law in Texas

00:07:41.060 to stymie election integrity reforms to the 1960s Civil Rights Movement

00:07:45.600 or some other really consequential movement.

00:07:47.200 Don't forget, these voting laws that are going on around the country,

00:07:50.520 in many instances, are just restoring protections that we had two years ago.

00:07:56.260 They're not even...

00:07:57.160 You know, we had election integrity measures.

00:07:59.440 Then last year, the liberal establishment got rid of all of them.

00:08:01.960 Not all of them, but a great deal of them.

00:08:03.900 And in some cases, explicitly violated the state constitution

00:08:07.120 on the way elections are supposed to be conducted, notably in Pennsylvania.

00:08:10.900 And now we're told that if you ever restore any of those things again,

00:08:14.360 you know, those provisions that we had in place 18 months ago,

00:08:17.960 if you ever do that, that that's basically Jim Crow, it's slavery, it's racist,

00:08:22.400 it's just so preposterous.

00:08:25.740 Not just these silly Texas Democrats, Kamala Harris defending them.

00:08:29.380 I do want to first start by making a statement about the legislators in Texas

00:08:35.220 who are showing extraordinary courage and commitment.

00:08:41.100 I met with them when many of them traveled to Washington, D.C.

00:08:45.400 We sat down and had an extensive conversation in the Roosevelt Room in the White House.

00:08:49.880 And I applaud them standing for the rights of all Americans and all Texans

00:08:57.520 to express their voice through their vote, unencumbered.

00:09:03.400 I will say that they are leaders who are marching in the path that so many others before did

00:09:12.540 when they fought and many died for our right to vote.

00:09:16.440 So what Kamala Harris is saying is that if you have to show an ID to vote,

00:09:23.720 this is a measure supported by a huge number of people,

00:09:26.520 including by a number of polls, the majority of black people.

00:09:29.920 This has become a racialized issue, but even the majority of black people,

00:09:33.580 according to many polls, support these sorts of things.

00:09:36.040 Then you're disenfranchising people.

00:09:38.400 You are.

00:09:38.680 You're disenfranchising illegal aliens. 0.84

00:09:40.320 You're disenfranchising political hacks.

00:09:42.720 You're disenfranchising people who shouldn't be voting.

00:09:45.420 That's what you're doing here.

00:09:47.100 And she's saying that, you know, she applauds these Texas lawmakers.

00:09:50.380 Make no mistake.

00:09:51.220 The Texas lawmakers are subverting democracy,

00:09:53.260 not just because they're trying to get rid of election integrity measures,

00:09:56.560 but because they're violating the law.

00:09:58.780 The people of Texas elected their representatives, their legislators.

00:10:03.080 The legislators are now pursuing their legislative agenda.

00:10:06.760 The Democrats, because there's no legal way for them to stop this,

00:10:11.320 just flee the state, which is against the law.

00:10:13.100 And by the way, which is going to result in their being arrested.

00:10:17.340 So Governor Abbott came out.

00:10:18.560 He was not having anything to do with this.

00:10:21.520 He said that they're in violation of the law.

00:10:23.380 The minute they land back in Texas, they'll be arrested.

00:10:25.640 They'll be brought back to the Capitol.

00:10:26.860 But that actually probably won't even be necessary now

00:10:29.200 because a few Democrats were pried off.

00:10:31.860 They've now voted with the Republicans.

00:10:33.440 They couldn't withstand the public pressure to do so.

00:10:35.680 And the election integrity measures will be restored.

00:10:38.860 At the total disadvantage to all these Democrats,

00:10:45.500 you know, all of these Democrats are desperately trying to prevent

00:10:49.760 these kinds of measures, not just in Texas, but everywhere.

00:10:52.240 Why?

00:10:52.780 What are they so afraid of?

00:10:54.880 Why are Democrats so insistent on making permanent

00:10:59.400 the corrupt election practices that came up during the 2020 COVID lockdowns?

00:11:05.380 This isn't just happening at the state level.

00:11:07.460 This isn't just happening in Kamala Harris's press conferences.

00:11:10.980 This is becoming a priority of the Biden administration.

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00:11:46.740 Jen Psaki, White House spokesman, comes out strongly against election integrity laws.

00:11:53.620 He's very focused on this speech tomorrow, one that he himself wanted to deliver.

00:11:58.180 He'll lay out the moral case for why denying the right to vote is a form of suppression

00:12:02.200 and a form of silencing and how he will use.

00:12:05.620 He will redouble his commitment to using every tool at his disposal

00:12:08.860 to continue to fight to protect the fundamental right of Americans

00:12:12.160 to vote against the onslaught of voter suppression laws

00:12:15.420 based on a dangerous and discredited conspiracy theory

00:12:18.420 that culminated in assault on our Capitol.

00:12:21.160 He'll call out the greatest irony of the big lie

00:12:23.880 is that no election in our history has met such a high standard,

00:12:26.920 with over 80 judges, including those appointed by his predecessor,

00:12:30.580 throwing out all challenges.

00:12:31.700 He'll also decry efforts to strip the right to vote

00:12:34.580 as authoritarian and anti-American

00:12:36.880 and stand up against the notion that politicians should be allowed

00:12:41.080 to choose their voters or to subvert our system

00:12:43.620 by replacing independent election authorities with partisan ones.

00:12:46.880 And he will highlight the work of the administration against this,

00:12:50.020 the necessity of passing the For the People Act

00:12:52.040 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

00:12:54.040 and how we need to work together with civil rights organizations

00:12:56.920 to build as broad a turnout and voter education system

00:13:00.080 to overcome the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War.

00:13:04.080 Many ironies here.

00:13:06.740 First of all, the use of the phrase,

00:13:10.140 the big lie, is not the own that the libs seem to think it is.

00:13:15.500 What the libs are presenting is this idea of the big lie

00:13:19.580 as being perpetrated by the Nazis.

00:13:21.940 So when they use this phrase, the big lie,

00:13:23.300 it's a term coined by Adolf Hitler,

00:13:24.980 they are comparing their opponents to the Nazis.

00:13:27.680 What they don't understand, though,

00:13:29.840 because they didn't read the book,

00:13:31.220 is that, or really many history books at all,

00:13:34.720 the big lie is a term coined by Hitler

00:13:37.400 to refer to what he's accusing the Jews of doing

00:13:40.320 with regard to a general in World War I.

00:13:43.680 So unwittingly, I think,

00:13:46.240 the Democrats are actually making themselves the Nazis in this analogy.

00:13:51.880 Furthermore, she says that the Republicans are pushing a big lie,

00:13:56.120 which is all the more ridiculous

00:13:58.340 because the 2020 election was the most secure election ever in American history.

00:14:06.480 Now, even if you think there was, you know,

00:14:08.380 basically nothing that would have swayed the 2020 election,

00:14:11.380 and yeah, maybe there were some issues here and there,

00:14:13.760 but, you know, everything was totally kosher.

00:14:16.180 Does anybody really believe

00:14:17.500 it was the most secure election ever in American history?

00:14:22.500 Does anybody believe that?

00:14:26.120 The expansion of widespread mail-in votes,

00:14:28.020 which even Barack Obama a few years ago was acknowledging

00:14:30.340 leads to fraud and abuse.

00:14:32.860 The extension of election day to election season,

00:14:38.120 the lack of voter ID at the polls,

00:14:42.260 the violation of state constitutions on election,

00:14:44.740 I mean, the counting of ballots after the election.

00:14:47.280 I mean, even if you think the election,

00:14:49.680 in the end, turned out just fine,

00:14:51.280 you can't possibly say that the election was the single most secure,

00:14:56.760 highest standard election in American history.

00:14:58.660 That is itself a big lie.

00:15:01.960 Third, third, and I think this is the most important point,

00:15:06.220 most voters favor these election integrity measures.

00:15:11.120 According to every survey,

00:15:13.260 there's a survey just came out,

00:15:16.000 78% of voters,

00:15:18.360 we talked about this a couple of days ago on the show,

00:15:19.960 78% of voters said that in addition to stronger voter ID laws,

00:15:23.920 they support signature verification,

00:15:25.780 chain of custody controls,

00:15:26.780 bipartisan observers overseeing the counting,

00:15:29.200 cleaning up the voter rolls.

00:15:30.420 71% said they don't believe ballots should be accepted after election day.

00:15:34.080 And a whopping 87%

00:15:35.980 said that they're against ballot harvesting.

00:15:38.540 So, the Democrats are saying that our democracy is going to collapse

00:15:46.080 because of election integrity measures,

00:15:48.660 many of which we already had as recently as two years ago,

00:15:52.340 that the vast majority of voters support.

00:15:55.740 But the Democrats don't support the democratic voice of the people,

00:15:59.720 and so they're trying to undermine that with a federalization of the elections.

00:16:02.520 Speaking of polls,

00:16:05.060 speaking of a divergence between what the people are saying,

00:16:08.280 what the ruling liberal elite are saying,

00:16:11.840 a new poll shows that 70% of black voters

00:16:15.040 now believe that violent crime is a major crisis.

00:16:18.680 Don't forget,

00:16:19.380 the ruling Democrat elite says that rising violent crime,

00:16:22.980 it's imaginary,

00:16:23.860 it's a racist dog whistle,

00:16:25.020 don't talk about it,

00:16:25.940 it's white supremacy,

00:16:26.960 it's whatever.

00:16:27.700 Well,

00:16:28.400 70% of black voters think it's a big problem

00:16:30.820 because it's happening in their neighborhoods,

00:16:32.360 right?

00:16:32.540 It's not,

00:16:32.920 it's not happening in,

00:16:34.560 you know,

00:16:35.100 the sunny neighborhoods of Beverly Hills or something like that.

00:16:38.080 It's happening in neighborhoods

00:16:39.460 that have a disproportionate number of black voters.

00:16:41.880 So, by the way,

00:16:42.360 this poll comes out from a Democrat research firm.

00:16:44.860 So, the Democrat firm shows

00:16:47.140 that for the first time,

00:16:49.560 crime ranked ahead of the pandemic

00:16:51.620 as the top issue for all voters.

00:16:54.460 More surprisingly,

00:16:55.460 it was an issue that voters of both parties ranked highly,

00:16:57.740 57% of Republicans,

00:16:59.440 52% of Democrats,

00:17:00.820 so the majority of both Republicans and Democrats,

00:17:03.740 and 70% of black voters say violent crime is a major crisis.

00:17:08.840 And during all of this,

00:17:10.340 so you've got,

00:17:10.860 you've got as near a consensus on this issue

00:17:13.820 as on any issue we have in the United States.

00:17:16.920 The majority of everyone agrees,

00:17:20.280 you got to deal with this violent crime thing.

00:17:22.340 At the same time,

00:17:23.240 the ruling liberal elite,

00:17:24.920 which is the,

00:17:25.340 that's the minority group

00:17:26.580 that doesn't agree with this stuff,

00:17:27.920 is actually calling to abolish the police.

00:17:31.220 An MSNBC host just came on the show,

00:17:34.500 The Beat with Ari Melber.

00:17:35.680 I haven't heard of this show.

00:17:37.540 It was guest hosted by Jason Johnson,

00:17:39.920 a professor of journalism at Morgan State University,

00:17:43.640 a frequent MSNBC contributor.

00:17:45.720 They come on and discuss the need to abolish the police.

00:17:49.340 I want to bring up this in the background,

00:17:51.260 because this is really key.

00:17:52.300 I don't think people understand

00:17:53.740 how often this same kind of violence

00:17:56.100 often visits the same families.

00:17:58.120 We have a story that just came out

00:17:59.960 talking about the fact that,

00:18:01.060 you know,

00:18:01.580 a young man who knew Eric Garner

00:18:03.100 later on got pepper sprayed by the cops,

00:18:04.800 that George Floyd's,

00:18:05.980 you know,

00:18:06.540 girlfriend used to teach Dante Wright.

00:18:08.300 The police seem to prey

00:18:10.160 on the same black people 0.62

00:18:11.580 over and over and over again.

00:18:12.740 I've always made it abundantly clear.

00:18:14.200 I believe abolishing police,

00:18:15.640 getting rid of it entirely,

00:18:16.640 starting from the beginning.

00:18:17.500 We've done that before.

00:18:18.220 We've done it with the Department of War.

00:18:19.780 But in this moment,

00:18:21.040 that's a conversation we can have tomorrow.

00:18:22.340 You are going to hear

00:18:24.380 from some more moderate voices

00:18:27.240 in the Democratic Party

00:18:28.520 who are trying to win votes

00:18:29.580 that abolish the police

00:18:31.020 doesn't mean abolish the police.

00:18:33.320 No, defund the police.

00:18:35.180 It just means, you know,

00:18:37.020 reform it a little.

00:18:38.320 No, it doesn't.

00:18:39.780 AOC came out and corrected this

00:18:41.360 the first time that Democrats

00:18:42.660 tried to have both sides of the issue.

00:18:44.480 She said, no, no, no.

00:18:45.020 Abolish the police means abolish the police.

00:18:46.720 And you're hearing this on MSNBC too,

00:18:48.400 which is a major Democrat cable network.

00:18:52.340 I say it still gets very, very low ratings,

00:18:55.940 but as far as Democrat cable networks go,

00:18:58.200 it is one of the big ones.

00:19:00.040 And they are outright calling

00:19:02.360 to abolish the police.

00:19:03.460 Doesn't make a whole lot of sense

00:19:04.580 because they're saying,

00:19:06.280 their argument is

00:19:07.400 that the police are brutalizing these people

00:19:11.180 like George Floyd,

00:19:12.440 you know, who was just minding his own business,

00:19:14.120 committing crimes,

00:19:15.720 high on drugs,

00:19:16.880 hiding drugs,

00:19:17.740 resisting arrest.

00:19:18.180 He was just minding his own business,

00:19:19.380 you know,

00:19:20.960 criminal record,

00:19:21.760 a mile long,

00:19:23.720 robbed a pregnant woman,

00:19:24.840 reportedly at gunpoint.

00:19:25.900 But he's minding his own business

00:19:27.160 and then the police brutalized,

00:19:29.060 victimized these people

00:19:30.360 and go in.

00:19:31.600 It's so,

00:19:31.920 police who are very often

00:19:33.180 black or Hispanic themselves.

00:19:34.460 It's white supremacy,

00:19:35.440 though, we're told.

00:19:36.740 Meanwhile,

00:19:37.300 black voters are saying,

00:19:38.280 overwhelmingly,

00:19:38.980 no, no,

00:19:39.240 give us more police.

00:19:40.220 We want,

00:19:41.060 give the,

00:19:41.760 give us police

00:19:42.520 so that we don't have

00:19:43.280 the violent crime spike.

00:19:44.900 But there's a huge divergence here

00:19:46.280 between what the liberal ruling elite want

00:19:48.060 and what the people want.

00:19:48.820 You see this most notably

00:19:49.840 with Robin DiAngelo's stupid book.

00:19:51.980 Robin DiAngelo is one of these race hustlers

00:19:53.680 who promotes the white fragility, 0.87

00:19:57.080 anti-whiteness,

00:19:58.740 anti-racism,

00:20:00.000 all this crazy stuff

00:20:01.260 that we now,

00:20:02.220 we now talk about

00:20:03.240 with this label,

00:20:03.820 critical race theory.

00:20:06.100 It's even a little bit broader than that

00:20:08.200 or a little blunter than that.

00:20:09.280 It's just an anti-white racial ideology.

00:20:13.180 So Robin DiAngelo comes out,

00:20:14.360 she had this bestseller

00:20:15.140 with her first book.

00:20:17.100 Her second book comes out,

00:20:18.040 coincidentally,

00:20:18.620 at the same time

00:20:19.160 that my book,

00:20:19.720 Speechless,

00:20:20.080 comes out.

00:20:21.040 My book,

00:20:22.620 or around the same time,

00:20:23.960 my book outsold hers

00:20:25.540 by an order of magnitude,

00:20:28.720 I think,

00:20:29.260 at least.

00:20:30.180 You know,

00:20:30.680 it outsold it tremendously.

00:20:32.800 And as we've mentioned on the show,

00:20:34.440 the New York Times snubbed us,

00:20:36.100 even though we sold 40% more books

00:20:37.560 without any bulk sales

00:20:38.740 than the number one

00:20:39.560 on the New York Times list.

00:20:41.840 Robin DiAngelo's book,

00:20:42.660 I think it only sold like 3,500 copies

00:20:44.720 or something like that

00:20:45.500 and they put her on the list

00:20:47.260 because,

00:20:48.360 as I've mentioned in my own book,

00:20:49.740 the left manipulates language

00:20:51.340 to try to redefine reality

00:20:52.680 and they've redefined

00:20:53.380 the term bestseller as well.

00:20:54.820 And it does carry

00:20:56.060 some cultural cachet.

00:20:57.580 It does influence

00:20:59.000 whose books get placed

00:21:00.480 in the brick-and-mortar bookstores,

00:21:02.440 for instance.

00:21:03.380 A lot of people have written in,

00:21:04.500 a lot of you have written in to me

00:21:05.340 and said,

00:21:05.700 I've gone to three bookstores

00:21:06.640 in my town

00:21:07.280 and I can't find

00:21:08.460 a copy of your book

00:21:09.340 even though it's number one

00:21:10.420 on the publisher's weekly list,

00:21:11.640 for instance.

00:21:12.420 I'll say,

00:21:12.980 right,

00:21:13.520 that's because people

00:21:14.940 are making these decisions

00:21:15.940 in no small part

00:21:16.860 based on the New York Times list.

00:21:18.360 So we joke about the New York Times,

00:21:19.860 who cares what they think,

00:21:20.920 but they do still have

00:21:22.160 cultural influence.

00:21:23.660 These radical left cable news hosts

00:21:26.140 still have cultural influence.

00:21:28.760 These radicals

00:21:29.440 who are disproportionately,

00:21:32.140 or who are a very small portion

00:21:33.920 of the population,

00:21:34.940 have a disproportionate amount

00:21:36.360 of political power.

00:21:38.240 This is why,

00:21:41.260 this is why some people

00:21:43.660 don't believe the election results.

00:21:45.700 Okay, I'm not,

00:21:46.380 I want to be very clear

00:21:47.480 for all of the radicals

00:21:49.980 right now

00:21:50.580 who are on YouTube

00:21:51.320 and social media

00:21:52.100 who wield disproportionate

00:21:53.220 political power

00:21:53.800 and who are going to

00:21:54.220 shut this show down

00:21:54.860 if I in any way say

00:21:55.960 that the election

00:21:56.820 wasn't the most secure election.

00:21:59.160 I'm not talking about

00:22:00.960 the election itself.

00:22:01.880 I'm talking about

00:22:02.720 why people don't trust the election.

00:22:06.620 Those are different things.

00:22:08.240 And the reason

00:22:09.660 that people don't trust the election

00:22:12.700 is because the elites

00:22:15.500 lie to us all the time.

00:22:19.520 They lie to us about the virus.

00:22:21.320 They lie to us about the vaccine.

00:22:22.880 They lie to us about the masks.

00:22:24.560 That's just the public health section.

00:22:26.140 They lie to us about violent crime.

00:22:28.260 They lie to us about the cops.

00:22:30.460 They lie to us about

00:22:31.360 what's going on in Cuba right now.

00:22:32.800 They lie to us about everything,

00:22:34.900 about everything.

00:22:35.900 And they don't have any credibility.

00:22:37.300 They do it.

00:22:38.340 They urinate on our legs 0.91

00:22:39.500 and they tell us that it's raining.

00:22:41.260 And so we just don't have trust in them.

00:22:44.340 That's not the people's fault.

00:22:45.820 That is the fault of the ruling elites.

00:22:49.000 If you want to see someone

00:22:50.060 really take on the ruling elites,

00:22:51.200 I'd recommend you check out

00:22:51.900 my friend Candace.

00:22:53.200 Candace, who hosts

00:22:54.000 the eponymously named Candace.

00:22:56.680 You can subscribe right now.

00:22:58.120 Dailywire.com slash Candace.

00:22:59.900 You will get 25% off new memberships

00:23:02.160 with code Candace.

00:23:03.780 Make sure you check it out.

00:23:04.500 You can also check out

00:23:05.160 Candace's audio podcast

00:23:06.400 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts,

00:23:08.260 Stitcher, Google Play,

00:23:09.160 MySpace, Zango, LiveJournal,

00:23:10.680 AOL, Instagram Messenger.

00:23:11.480 I don't know.

00:23:11.760 It's all over the place.

00:23:12.860 Also, you can check out Ben's new book.

00:23:14.280 It's a great book to pre-order

00:23:16.020 right after you have ordered

00:23:18.320 my book, Speechless.

00:23:19.200 Right the minute,

00:23:19.940 the second you've done that,

00:23:21.340 you can pre-order

00:23:22.080 The Authoritarian Moment by Ben.

00:23:23.800 I really like this book

00:23:25.560 in part because the title

00:23:26.960 is also my future campaign slogan,

00:23:29.760 Knowles 2028,

00:23:30.900 The Authoritarian Moment.

00:23:32.120 So go check that out.

00:23:33.080 You can pre-order that

00:23:34.180 wherever books are sold.

00:23:36.960 We'll be right back

00:23:37.860 with a lot more.

00:23:50.840 President Trump just showed up

00:23:52.720 to a UFC fight.

00:23:54.420 And when he walked

00:23:55.020 into the stadium,

00:23:56.400 huge cheers erupted.

00:23:59.000 USA, USA.

00:24:01.240 USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA.

00:24:07.960 You can see,

00:24:09.060 and this goes on for a long time,

00:24:11.020 people in the room loved Trump.

00:24:13.120 I mention this not for any story

00:24:15.040 about Trump or about UFC,

00:24:18.640 but because of this issue

00:24:22.000 that we've been talking about,

00:24:23.720 why people don't totally trust

00:24:26.860 the 2020 election.

00:24:28.680 They saw Trump being cheered,

00:24:31.260 huge crowds wherever he goes.

00:24:33.780 They saw him win the 2016 election

00:24:36.340 when all the experts told us

00:24:37.660 99% chance he was going to lose.

00:24:40.220 And they see Joe Biden

00:24:41.480 and they see that Joe Biden

00:24:42.560 is not functioning

00:24:44.220 even as well as he used to.

00:24:45.780 And he was never

00:24:46.340 the brightest bulb in the pack.

00:24:47.780 They see Joe Biden

00:24:49.160 show up to campaign events.

00:24:50.140 Nobody's showing up.

00:24:51.080 You'd have 18 people in the field.

00:24:53.080 They're seeing all of these election laws

00:24:55.840 magically being changed

00:24:57.520 right before the election.

00:24:59.140 They're seeing, in some cases,

00:25:01.200 illegal, outright illegal,

00:25:03.120 and unconstitutional

00:25:04.020 election practices.

00:25:06.080 And, and this is the crucial part,

00:25:08.560 they're seeing the liberal establishment

00:25:10.560 continue to lie to us

00:25:12.280 about basically everything.

00:25:15.840 And, and so I'm, I'm not saying,

00:25:19.000 I am not saying

00:25:20.200 that the election was stolen.

00:25:21.480 I'm not saying

00:25:22.560 that Donald Trump got more votes.

00:25:24.280 I'm not, I'm not, I'm really not.

00:25:25.240 I'm not saying any of that.

00:25:26.100 I'm saying

00:25:26.960 that it is perfectly reasonable

00:25:29.520 for people not to believe

00:25:31.200 these liars in the ruling elite

00:25:33.200 who sneer at the majority of Americans,

00:25:36.080 who ignore the preferences

00:25:37.380 of the majority of Americans.

00:25:38.580 I mean, just take this issue

00:25:39.360 we were talking about,

00:25:39.900 violent crime.

00:25:41.560 Everybody, the majority of everybody

00:25:43.600 wants to reduce violent crime.

00:25:44.960 The ruling establishment

00:25:45.920 won't do a damn thing about it.

00:25:47.440 And they actually are pushing

00:25:48.520 to abolish the police.

00:25:50.000 Look at the issue of immigration.

00:25:51.320 The majority of Americans

00:25:52.360 want to drastically reduce immigration, 0.74

00:25:54.720 drastic, legal and illegal.

00:25:56.360 This is a very easy issue.

00:25:58.040 It's a winner.

00:25:58.680 It's a winner of an issue.

00:25:59.800 Such a winner that it propelled

00:26:00.780 Donald Trump to the presidency in 2016,

00:26:02.840 despite the best machinations

00:26:04.240 of the liberal establishment,

00:26:05.720 which was spying on his campaign,

00:26:07.320 which was trying to undermine his campaign,

00:26:08.800 doing lots of nefarious

00:26:10.000 and almost certainly illegal things.

00:26:13.060 And he's still won because of that issue.

00:26:14.240 But what's the establishment telling us?

00:26:16.200 No, we need more immigration.

00:26:18.060 Beep, boop, beep, beep, boop. 0.99

00:26:19.060 We need to send more jobs overseas. 1.00

00:26:21.240 And then we need to bring in more workers here, 0.99

00:26:23.320 especially low-skilled workers

00:26:24.460 across the border,

00:26:25.360 to compete with Americans 0.99

00:26:26.540 and lower their wages.

00:26:27.580 That's what we need, right?

00:26:29.220 No.

00:26:30.180 No, they don't.

00:26:30.640 They just have different priorities

00:26:32.020 than the majority of the American people.

00:26:36.100 We're told constantly,

00:26:37.780 with this coronavirus,

00:26:38.860 15 days to slow the spread.

00:26:40.120 Ha ha, it's 18 months later.

00:26:41.420 Whatever, deal with it, twerps. 0.98

00:26:42.800 Wear the mask.

00:26:43.660 Don't wear the mask, sheep.

00:26:45.000 Wear the mask, sheep.

00:26:46.100 Put the mask on the three-year-old sheep.

00:26:47.720 It's just changing constantly.

00:26:49.040 And now, by the way,

00:26:49.600 according to Politico,

00:26:50.720 Biden-allied groups,

00:26:52.080 including the Democratic National Committee,

00:26:54.200 are working with cell phone carriers

00:26:56.340 to pry into your text messages

00:26:59.640 to stop what they call disinformation,

00:27:03.440 in particular about COVID.

00:27:05.620 It's not enough.

00:27:07.180 It's not enough that an article

00:27:09.360 in the New York Post comes out

00:27:10.480 detailing corruption by the Biden family

00:27:12.560 right before the election,

00:27:14.020 and big tech shuts you down from posting that.

00:27:16.980 But a completely accurate report.

00:27:18.900 100% true report.

00:27:20.680 They stop you from posting it.

00:27:21.680 They stop you from privately messaging it

00:27:23.160 on social media.

00:27:24.580 Meanwhile, conspiracy theories

00:27:25.980 about Trump and the Russians or whatever

00:27:27.300 are promoted from the highest echelons of power.

00:27:30.480 Now, forget your Twitter.

00:27:32.660 Forget your Facebook.

00:27:33.400 They want to go into your text messages,

00:27:35.380 because if you're texting someone

00:27:37.600 an unapproved message,

00:27:39.740 a message that contradicts

00:27:41.200 the ever-changing dogmas of the liberal regime,

00:27:43.400 why, that's a big problem.

00:27:45.220 That's a threat to our democracy.

00:27:47.440 So a handful of utterly unaccountable people

00:27:50.240 now are going to try to go in

00:27:51.980 to pry into your messages.

00:27:56.960 The goal, they say,

00:27:57.920 is to ensure that people

00:27:58.860 who may have difficulty getting a vaccination

00:28:01.320 because of issues like transportation

00:28:03.760 see those barriers lessened,

00:28:05.320 or it's just to help you,

00:28:06.380 just for your own good, isn't it?

00:28:09.400 The people know that they can get a vaccine.

00:28:11.180 The people know what coronavirus is.

00:28:13.020 They know that they can get a vaccine.

00:28:14.680 They are not making the choice

00:28:15.880 that the liberal regime wants,

00:28:17.160 and so they're going to apply pressure.

00:28:18.780 Dr. Fauci said

00:28:19.780 that this is all horrifying,

00:28:22.880 that people who are now cheering

00:28:24.620 on certain figures in journalism

00:28:27.920 and medical science and politics

00:28:30.000 who are suggesting

00:28:31.340 maybe we can just use our prudence

00:28:33.180 with the vaccine

00:28:33.760 and maybe not everybody needs

00:28:34.860 to go get it right away.

00:28:36.660 Fauci says this is absolutely horrifying.

00:28:40.140 They were hoping,

00:28:41.300 the government was hoping,

00:28:42.760 that they could sort of sucker

00:28:44.000 90% of the population

00:28:45.440 into getting vaccinated,

00:28:47.020 and it isn't happening, right?

00:28:49.800 There's a...

00:28:51.600 Younger people...

00:28:53.800 I'm going to cut him off right there

00:28:55.600 because he just goes on

00:28:56.580 to just say things

00:28:57.700 that are not true about the vaccine,

00:28:59.000 but what I wanted

00:29:00.340 to get your reaction to

00:29:01.520 is the crowd cheering

00:29:03.760 when this gentleman talks about

00:29:06.640 how the government

00:29:07.260 was not able to achieve

00:29:08.480 a 90% vaccine goal.

00:29:10.460 The crowd cheers.

00:29:12.120 As a public health official,

00:29:13.560 what's your reaction

00:29:14.280 when you hear that?

00:29:15.540 It's horrifying.

00:29:17.500 I mean, they're cheering

00:29:18.900 about someone saying

00:29:21.020 that it's a good thing

00:29:23.180 for people not to try

00:29:24.800 and save their lives.

00:29:26.060 I mean, if you just unpack that

00:29:28.400 for a second, Jake,

00:29:29.940 it's almost frightening

00:29:31.540 to say, hey, guess what?

00:29:33.600 We don't want you

00:29:34.560 to do something

00:29:35.280 to save your life.

00:29:36.920 Yay! 0.99

00:29:37.580 Everybody starts screaming

00:29:39.240 and clapping.

00:29:40.740 I just don't get that.

00:29:42.540 I mean, and I don't think

00:29:43.700 that anybody who's thinking

00:29:44.800 clearly can get that.

00:29:46.820 What is that all about?

00:29:48.780 I don't understand that, Jake.

00:29:51.180 The FDA, by the way,

00:29:52.720 just added another warning

00:29:53.900 to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

00:29:55.500 because of a nerve system risk,

00:30:00.900 especially in young people.

00:30:02.460 Obviously, there was already

00:30:04.200 the pause on the vaccine

00:30:05.200 because it was causing

00:30:05.880 blood clots in some women. 1.00

00:30:08.980 The mRNA vaccine has been suggested,

00:30:14.340 not just by people on the internet,

00:30:15.660 but by the FDA and the CDC,

00:30:17.400 that it's causing myocarditis,

00:30:19.440 the inflammation of the heart,

00:30:20.640 in young people who face

00:30:21.800 statistically very, very, very,

00:30:23.840 very, very infinitesimally small risk

00:30:26.200 from coronavirus itself.

00:30:27.760 13-year-old boy just died

00:30:28.820 because of the inflammation

00:30:30.120 of the heart

00:30:30.720 just a few days after

00:30:31.840 he received the vaccine.

00:30:33.640 No proof yet of a correlation here,

00:30:36.080 or of causation,

00:30:37.180 but it would seem probable.

00:30:40.080 It's being investigated right now.

00:30:42.000 So Alex Berenson,

00:30:42.920 who was the journalist

00:30:43.780 who was speaking at the top,

00:30:44.760 he says, look,

00:30:45.440 the government was trying

00:30:46.140 to get everyone

00:30:47.000 to get this vaccine,

00:30:48.220 but while some people,

00:30:49.800 some groups of people

00:30:50.620 are at a fairly significant risk

00:30:52.640 from COVID,

00:30:54.440 other groups of people

00:30:55.240 are at very, very, very,

00:30:56.520 very little risk from COVID.

00:30:58.380 And so they're saying,

00:30:59.020 well, why would I get

00:30:59.560 this experimental drug

00:31:01.040 that doesn't even have

00:31:02.420 a full FDA approval?

00:31:03.660 It's got an emergency

00:31:04.400 youth authorization.

00:31:05.620 Why would I get that

00:31:06.240 for a virus that poses

00:31:07.540 statistically very little risk to me?

00:31:09.880 Horrifying.

00:31:10.460 Just to save your life.

00:31:11.880 Hey, hey,

00:31:12.980 for all you unwashed,

00:31:14.560 rube, deplorable,

00:31:15.740 unvaccinated idiots out there.

00:31:18.820 You still alive?

00:31:19.500 You still, you're fine?

00:31:20.140 You feel good?

00:31:20.720 You feel, okay, cool.

00:31:21.740 Good, glad.

00:31:22.500 I'm glad.

00:31:23.160 It's a shock to Dr. Fauci,

00:31:24.720 that genius.

00:31:26.200 Not just on the vaccine stuff,

00:31:27.640 though,

00:31:27.760 that has been the most recent

00:31:29.840 notable expression

00:31:30.880 of the progressive bureaucracy

00:31:33.180 and technocracy,

00:31:34.560 but you're seeing it in Cuba.

00:31:35.980 Cuba, I think,

00:31:36.540 is really putting this

00:31:37.700 in stark relief.

00:31:38.980 The people in Cuba

00:31:39.740 protesting for freedom,

00:31:41.600 protesting an end to communism

00:31:42.800 and the dictatorship.

00:31:43.520 American liberals defending it.

00:31:46.900 David Harbour,

00:31:48.080 who is,

00:31:48.980 do you remember him?

00:31:49.840 He was the guy on Stranger Things.

00:31:51.900 He's a big lib.

00:31:53.160 He gave an awards speech

00:31:55.680 a few years ago

00:31:56.760 where he not so subtly

00:31:59.760 was attacking conservatives.

00:32:01.400 This was after Trump won

00:32:02.420 and said that he was going

00:32:03.760 to punch people in the face.

00:32:04.960 Do you remember this?

00:32:05.900 As we act in the continuing narrative

00:32:08.040 of Stranger Things,

00:32:09.540 we 1983 Midwesterns

00:32:10.520 will repel bullies.

00:32:13.140 We will shelter freaks

00:32:15.380 and outcast those

00:32:16.640 who have no home.

00:32:17.880 We will get past the lies.

00:32:21.240 We will hunt monsters.

00:32:24.280 And when we are at a loss

00:32:25.520 amidst the hypocrisy

00:32:26.940 and the casual violence

00:32:28.600 of certain individuals

00:32:29.780 and institutions,

00:32:30.840 we will,

00:32:31.680 as per Chief Jim Hopper,

00:32:33.400 punch some people

00:32:34.860 in the face

00:32:35.780 when they seek to destroy

00:32:37.380 the moot

00:32:38.240 and the disenfranchised

00:32:39.800 and the marginalized.

00:32:42.040 Yeah,

00:32:42.660 political violence.

00:32:43.940 We are going to physically harm

00:32:46.200 our political opponents

00:32:47.860 because that's what we do

00:32:49.320 in our democracy.

00:32:50.660 That's,

00:32:51.060 that's right.

00:32:52.240 No civility,

00:32:53.600 no legal processes.

00:32:54.800 We're just going to punch them

00:32:56.800 so that we don't become

00:32:58.480 like the fascists.

00:33:01.640 What a dope.

00:33:02.740 So this guy,

00:33:04.040 this guy,

00:33:04.560 that was a few years ago.

00:33:05.560 He comes out now

00:33:06.180 and he says,

00:33:06.900 quote,

00:33:07.820 this is an interview

00:33:09.160 just a few days ago.

00:33:10.960 I don't know

00:33:11.800 that there is anyone

00:33:12.920 who could disagree

00:33:13.860 with socialist ideology.

00:33:16.060 I wish,

00:33:16.720 this was a print interview

00:33:17.700 if it were a video interview.

00:33:18.820 I wish you could hear me yell,

00:33:20.140 I don't know anyone

00:33:21.120 who could disagree

00:33:22.120 with socialism.

00:33:23.080 He says,

00:33:23.280 I don't know anyone

00:33:23.740 who could disagree

00:33:24.120 with socialist ideology.

00:33:25.240 If you work at Starbucks

00:33:26.220 and you make the coffee,

00:33:27.220 then you should own it.

00:33:28.160 You're the one making the coffee.

00:33:29.500 Okay,

00:33:29.780 so hold on.

00:33:30.240 I just,

00:33:31.720 we don't,

00:33:33.300 we don't have time

00:33:33.980 on this show

00:33:34.440 to dispel

00:33:35.720 this theory

00:33:36.920 of property ownership

00:33:38.780 that if you

00:33:39.800 in any way

00:33:40.660 interact

00:33:41.440 with some

00:33:42.100 piece of property

00:33:43.400 that then you own

00:33:44.140 the property.

00:33:44.720 What about the guy

00:33:45.160 who grew the beans?

00:33:46.060 What about the guy

00:33:46.660 who transported the beans?

00:33:47.940 What about the guy

00:33:48.440 who roasted the beans?

00:33:49.480 What about the guy

00:33:49.980 who built the Starbucks?

00:33:51.180 What about the guy

00:33:51.800 who produced the cups?

00:33:53.300 What about the guy

00:33:53.780 who produced the little sleeve

00:33:54.700 for the cup?

00:33:55.320 What about the person

00:33:56.700 who is ringing up

00:33:57.680 the customer?

00:33:58.700 What about the person

00:33:59.520 who laid out the Capitol to start the whole thing in the first place, whether it's the

00:34:02.620 farm or the Starbucks. He doesn't have much of an answer for that. He doesn't know much

00:34:06.060 about anything. His first point is the most ridiculous. I don't know anyone who could

00:34:11.520 disagree with socialist ideology. What about the people in Cuba right now? Because you,

00:34:16.800 rich Hollywood guy living in America, you seem to love socialism in theory. The people

00:34:23.460 living under socialism in Cuba hate it in practice. Their symbol, by the way, of protest

00:34:29.580 is the American flag. They've been waving it in the streets of Havana. They put it on their

00:34:32.960 bicycles. They sew it onto their jeans. I saw it firsthand when I visited. Here, the American

00:34:38.860 flag is called a symbol of oppression and hatred. There, it's a symbol of freedom against the

00:34:44.220 communist tyranny. But they lie to us. They lie to us. Lawrence O'Donnell, who's another

00:34:50.780 guy on MSNBC? He just came out. He said, you knew it was going to happen. You knew that the

00:34:56.640 problem can't be socialism because true socialism has never been tried. True communism, it's never

00:35:05.160 been tried. This is what we always hear. After the failure of every communist and socialist regime

00:35:10.180 in history, it's never been tried. You see? So you just got to try it one more time. Then it's

00:35:14.420 going to work out. And that is the issue in Cuba. The problem is not socialism. It's the

00:35:19.040 dictatorship. If the United States had been wise enough to remove the embargo 50 years

00:35:24.740 ago, the Cuban dictatorship would have had no convenient excuse for the deprivations Cuba 0.60

00:35:30.920 has suffered. Cuba's agonies tonight are only partially assignable to the embargo and almost

00:35:37.320 entirely the fault of 60 years of dictatorial government by economic illiterates. Cuba's problem

00:35:45.320 is not too much socialism as Republicans would have you believe. It is too much dictatorship,

00:35:52.580 second only to North Korea at this point. Okay. It's not too much socialism. It's too much 0.52

00:35:59.400 dictatorship. Okay. Okay. Let's just go with that for a second, Lawrence. What kind of dictatorship is

00:36:07.740 it? How'd they get the dictatorship, Lawrence? Yes, there are other types of dictatorship in the

00:36:14.260 world. There are plenty of types of dictatorship. The one in Cuba is a socialist dictator. It's a

00:36:20.920 communist dictatorship. You say it's like the North Korea. What kind of dictatorship is that one,

00:36:25.160 Lawrence? Well, no. You see, the reason that the dictatorship stayed in power is because of the

00:36:30.060 United States' punitive economic policies because we won't trade with Cuba. Okay. So you're saying if

00:36:35.460 we start trading with Cuba quite a lot, then the political regime will collapse, right?

00:36:39.780 That was the argument for China. The argument for bringing China into the economic mainstream,

00:36:47.500 bringing China into the World Trade Organization, bringing China to the table and really raising them 0.95

00:36:53.340 up as an economic powerhouse was that when you had economic liberalization, the communist regime

00:36:59.560 would fall. That was what we were told. The Chinese Communist Party today is stronger than it has ever been

00:37:06.720 before. Domestically and internationally, by the way. It flopped. It failed. This was a policy pushed

00:37:12.660 especially by Joe Biden. There's lots of clips of Joe Biden claiming, making the prediction that when

00:37:17.480 you bring China into the World Trade Organization, for instance, when you rise up China, it's going to 0.99

00:37:21.480 be great for every country and it's going to give more political freedom to the Chinese people.

00:37:26.540 China just invaded Hong Kong. There's no political freedom there anymore. China's about to invade

00:37:30.620 Taiwan. It's going to aggress on all of the other places in the South China Sea. 0.83

00:37:35.160 They've got a social credit system in there. They're committing a genocide in one of their

00:37:39.280 provinces. China's communist dictatorship is stronger than ever. It is not because we're not

00:37:45.160 trading with Cuba that the people are suffering. It's because of the system itself. When the Cuban 1.00

00:37:50.520 people are screaming, libertad, libertad, you can either believe them or you can believe Lawrence

00:37:55.940 O'Donnell. You can either believe the people who are calling out for these sorts of things,

00:38:00.940 not just in Cuba, but in the United States too, or you can, or you can believe the minority, tiny 0.98

00:38:06.780 ruling elite, the liberal establishment, people who are using people like Lawrence O'Donnell as

00:38:12.680 mouthpieces. The liberal establishment in our country and the ruling establishment in governments

00:38:20.780 around the world, in Cuba, in China, elsewhere, have no faith in people. Obviously, the Cuban 1.00

00:38:32.820 dictatorship has no faith in the Cuban people. That's why they don't give them any political 0.97

00:38:35.960 power and they suppress them. Obviously, that's true in China, but it's also true in the United

00:38:41.720 States. They're not as successful in the United States because we still have some semblance of a

00:38:47.700 constitutional government, but it is being chipped away at every day. Most recent example. Well, we

00:38:53.520 talked about the Texans, obviously. The Texas Democratic legislators have such little faith in

00:38:58.440 the people of Texas that they actually violated the law so that they wouldn't have to carry out the

00:39:02.560 job that the people of Texas sent them to do, namely to defend election integrity. Kamala Harris 0.96

00:39:09.240 at the federal level is saying this. The reason that we need to federalize the elections, the reason

00:39:14.220 that we need to upend our constitutional system and take away safeguards for elections, the reason

00:39:20.180 that you're not allowed to require an ID to vote is because it's, quote, almost impossible for rural

00:39:28.620 Americans to in any way prove that they are who they say they are. They can't even go make a photocopy. 0.98

00:39:34.040 Is agreeing to voter ID one of those compromises that you'd support? I don't think that we should

00:39:41.080 underestimate what that could mean. Because in some people's mind, that means, well, you're going to

00:39:50.780 have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove you are who you are. Well, there are a whole

00:40:00.060 lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities who don't, there's no kinkos, there's 1.00

00:40:04.220 no office max near them. People have to understand that when we're talking about voter ID laws,

00:40:10.400 be clear about who you have in mind and what would be required of them to prove who they are.

00:40:17.160 Of course, people have to prove who they are, but not in a way that makes it almost impossible for them

00:40:23.560 to prove who they are. It's almost impossible. Those, those dopes, those idiots, who, you know, 0.98

00:40:30.600 those rube, unwashed deplorables who don't live in New York and San Francisco, which by the way,

00:40:37.820 are much filthier places than anywhere in the middle of the country. You know, the unwashed masses,

00:40:42.240 they can't, you expect them to be able to use a Xerox machine? You expect, hold on, you're telling me

00:40:48.580 that they're going to have to go find a photocopy, which they certainly can, but even if they

00:40:53.640 couldn't, you're telling me then if there's no photocopy machine within a hundred miles of the

00:40:58.400 people in rural America, they're going to go, they're going to need to have a printer. You know,

00:41:02.780 that technology that's been around for like 40 years, they're not going to, they're, they're going

00:41:07.340 to have to do that. You can get for like 20 bucks. They're going to have to be able to take a photo of

00:41:15.600 their ID on their phones that they all have and then, and then produce it somehow, like on a piece

00:41:22.060 of paper. Can't expect that. Can't expect that of them. They're too stupid to do that. They're too

00:41:27.640 stupid and poor and dumb and deplorable. And that is why we need to federalize all of the elections

00:41:34.680 and take away all the safeguards. I'd love to, she, she does this thing that politicians used to do, 1.00

00:41:41.320 you know, more so than now where they, it's that Bill Clinton thing of, well, I support the,

00:41:45.500 opinion of the majority, but I really sympathize with the minority. You know, like, uh, you know,

00:41:51.700 he just tries to have his cake and eat it too, have a cigar and smoke it too. So she's trying to do this

00:41:58.020 and she says, of course you need to be able to prove you are who you say you are, but not in a

00:42:02.360 way that's almost impossible to almost, there, there is no simpler way than photocopying your ID.

00:42:10.740 I'm not saying you have to send your physical ID and not saying you need to go get a new ID,

00:42:13.800 not saying just, you know, just like any proof that the, the only less onerous way of submitting

00:42:19.560 voter ID would be like scribbling your name in a crayon on the back of the ballot of the mail-in

00:42:24.380 ballot, which by the way, we shouldn't even have those, but she doesn't have any, any faith in the

00:42:29.220 people. And she also, she also, by the way, doesn't have faith that she would win elections 1.00

00:42:33.300 if we had even the most basic ballot measures. Now, speaking of rural Americans, we got some good news. 0.95

00:42:37.920 Joe Biden has been pushing a farm program that explicitly would discriminate against white

00:42:44.400 farmers. The farm program, which we covered when it, when it was first proposed, would

00:42:51.280 offer major grants for, quote, socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers defined as black, Indian,

00:43:00.340 feather, not dot, or Alaskan native, Hispanic, Asian, or Hawaiian Pacific Islander. And so it would,

00:43:05.640 it would get, just basically give away money to, to those kinds of farmers, but it would require 0.61

00:43:11.140 farm, white farmers to pay back certain loans. And so it's obviously illegal, obviously deeply racist

00:43:18.040 and bigoted. A third judge just struck that down. U.S. District Judge Thomas Anderson of the Western

00:43:23.500 District of Tennessee issued a preliminary injunction to stop the Biden Agriculture Department

00:43:28.280 from delivering these race-based loan payments.

00:43:32.920 Good news. I'm glad, this is why I say it's not, when I point out eerie comparisons between the ruling

00:43:39.460 elite and tinpot dictatorships like Cuba and here in the United States, I do want to point out, it's not

00:43:45.800 that bad yet. There is still some semblance of constitutional government. There's still some semblance

00:43:49.820 of law and order. The problem is that the left is doing its best to undermine them, to upend all of the

00:43:55.820 traditional standards. At the legal level and at the social level, in the schools especially, there's a

00:44:00.800 really disturbing story out from Wisconsin, Wisconsin School District. A Wisconsin School District is

00:44:06.880 providing sexually explicit books to third graders. Some of the material teaches students how to use sex

00:44:14.180 apps. These are to eight-year-olds, by the way. Now, the way this is being provided is that the school

00:44:22.160 district is offering students access to books and information via an online library that includes books such as

00:44:30.000 This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson, Queer by Kathy Belge and Merck Beesch, and This Book is Gay, by the way,

00:44:36.760 teaches kids how to use Grindr, which is a gay sex app. So what the defenders of this are going to say is, 0.75

00:44:42.760 oh, they just have access to it, but they're not being assigned to these sorts of books, right?

00:44:45.940 They shouldn't have access. That's the point. I'm not making an argument for banning and burning

00:44:51.180 books explicitly, okay? Although that sort of practice is looked unfavorably in both the New

00:44:56.060 Testament and by Plato, one of the founders of Western philosophy. But I'm not making that argument,

00:45:02.580 okay, even though Plato famously called for the burning of his opponent's books. My question is

00:45:07.680 much more modest. Should eight-year-olds really be exposed to everything? Is a third-grade classroom

00:45:15.560 really a free marketplace of ideas? I think the very thought that that would be the case

00:45:20.860 would have our founding fathers rolling over in their graves. Something tells me the majority of

00:45:25.740 people do not support explicit creepy sex books for kids or any of this stuff or the crazy racial 0.95

00:45:30.900 theories or the crazy gender theories or any of it. I think it's a small minority of ruling elites

00:45:35.520 pushing this stuff. The vast majority of the people don't want it, and the ruling elites

00:45:39.260 are gaslighting it about all of us, which is why we just don't trust them anymore. And Dr. Fauci

00:45:44.160 might be horrified by that, and Jake Tapper might be horrified by that, and the whole ruling elite

00:45:48.140 might be horrified. But guess what? It's their fault, and they're not doing very much to increase

00:45:52.740 their credibility. I'm Michael Knowles. It's The Michael Knowles Show. We will get into more tomorrow.

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Ep. 805 - Fight Or Flight For Freedom

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