Ep. 808 - The Misinformers
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The Biden White House is calling on big tech companies to censor conservatives for spreading misinformation online, specifically when that information has to do with the flu and its attendant vaccines. Here is Jen Psaki explaining the policy: First, it shouldn t come as any surprise that we re in regular touch with social media platforms, just like you are in regular contact with all of you and your media outlets about areas where we have concerns, information that might be useful, or information that may be interesting to your viewers. You all make decisions just like the private sector companies make decisions, even though they re a private sector company and different as an example.
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The Biden White House is calling on big tech companies to censor conservatives for spreading
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misinformation online, specifically when that information has to do with the Wu flu and its
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attendant vaccines. Here is Jen Psaki explaining the policy. First, it shouldn't come as any
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surprise that we're in regular touch with social media platforms, just like we're in regular touch
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with all of you and your media outlets about areas where we have concern, information that
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might be useful, information that may or may not be interesting to your viewers. You all make
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decisions, just like the social media platforms make decisions, even though they're a private
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sector company and different, but just as an example. So we are regularly making sure social
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media platforms are aware of the latest narratives dangerous to public health that we and many other
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Americans are seeing across all of social and traditional media. And we work to engage with them
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to better understand the enforcement of social media platform policies. As you all know,
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information travels quite quickly. If it's up there for days and days and days, when people
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see it, you know, it's hard to put that back in a box.
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Okay, it's hard to put it back in the box. That's why the big tech companies need to censor
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these conservatives spreading the misinformation, except that new evidence surrounding the virus
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and the vaccines show that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the rest of the liberal establishment
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have been spreading far more misinformation than the right has whatsoever. So we will
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inform you. We will give you the true information so long as the real misinformers don't stop us.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment Friday from Michael Larson, who says,
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does anyone else see the irony behind the statement that Biden wants to slow the spread
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of misinformation? How long will that take? 15 days? Well, if it takes 15 days, it'll probably
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take 15 months or maybe even 15 years. A very good point. It's so exhausting those 15 days
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You will thank me later. I want to get to the misinformation that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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and the rest of them have been spreading for over a year now. But before we get into that, before we
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get into Biden making the case that he himself should be censored on social media, I have to point
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out that Biden is also making the case for President Trump's lawsuit against the big tech company. So we
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covered this a few weeks ago. Donald Trump is suing big tech companies along with a few other social
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media influencers, including my friend Fleckis from Fleckis Talks, who I saw last night actually here
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in Tampa, Florida, a story we'll get to also in just a moment. But Trump, along with some social media
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influencers, suing big tech for the violation of their First Amendment rights. And a lot of geniuses
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have said that Trump's lawsuit has absolutely no merit because Facebook is a private business,
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as Jen Psaki just tried to say. He said, look, Facebook is a private business, so Facebook can
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do what it wants, but we are pressuring them to silence our political opponents. And this gets to
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a legal framework under which Trump's lawsuit could be successful that coincidentally we laid out on
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my podcast with Senator Cruz verdict some weeks ago. So Senator Cruz made this point. He's the legal
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expert, not me. But we put it out there on verdict. And the point is this. Yes, a private business can
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censor you, generally speaking, if it wants to. And that's not a First Amendment issue unless the
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government is using that private business as a proxy to silence you. So if it is the case that the
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liberal establishment, the Democratic Party, the government is using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
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Google as a proxy to silence their political opponents, then it actually is a First Amendment
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issue. There are other problems, by the way, with private companies censoring you online that do not
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have to do with the First Amendment. But that's the way that would work. And Trump decided to take the
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First Amendment route. Well, Joe Biden and Jen Psaki are admitting that he's got a point because they
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are now, I don't know what they're thinking, other than they're just letting it slip because it's
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convenient to their other political narratives because it's assuaging a leftist base that wants
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the government to pressure Facebook more to censor conservatives. But they are admitting that they
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are using Facebook as a proxy here. So giving a lot of merit, I think, to Donald Trump's lawsuit
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against big tech. Now, even more ironic, while they're complaining about misinformation online
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about the virus and about the vaccine, they seem to forget that they themselves have been
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spreading the anti-vaccine hysteria alarmism that they're accusing their opponents of pushing.
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Let's just say there's a vaccine that is approved and even distributed before the election.
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Well, I think that's going to be an issue for all of us.
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If and when the vaccine comes, it's not likely to go through all the tests and trials that are
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needed to be done. When we finally do, God willing, get a vaccine, who's going to take
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the shot? Who's going to take the shot? You're going to be the first one to say, put me, sign
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And the question of whether it's real when it's there, that requires enormous transparency.
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You've got to make all of it available to other experts across the nation so they can look and
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see. So there's consensus. This is a safe vaccine.
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If the president announced tomorrow we have a vaccine, would you take it? Only if it was
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completely transparent that other experts in the country could look at it. Only if we knew all of
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what went into it. If Donald Trump can't give answers and the administration can't give answers
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to these three questions, the American people should not have confidence.
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But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.
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Wow. I had no idea that there was such broad agreement between me and Joe Biden and Kamala
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Harris. Not on the Trump digs, but on the vaccine. Vaccine comes out tomorrow. Who's going to take
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it? Are you going to take it? You're going to be the first one? No, probably I wouldn't want to be
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the first one. I get why a lot of people don't want to take the vaccine, because it was rushed
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through because it received an emergency use authorization, but it didn't go through the
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normal channels to clear the vaccine. And because of many other factors, too, namely the prudential
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judgment. Am I really at a huge risk from the coronavirus? If you're in certain demographics,
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if you're a young person, if you're otherwise healthy, then you're not at very great risk.
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So maybe you wouldn't want to take the experimental drug that both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden
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pointed out, we have plenty of reason to think might not be safe. But they get to remain on social
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media. And a lot of conservatives who raise questions about the vaccine do not. Because,
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of course, it's not about the vaccine. It's not about the quality of the information. It is about
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who's giving the information. It's about who's sending the message, like political correctness,
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like so much of the left's control over speech. The issue is not the substance of the speech.
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It's the imposition itself. Who gets to say it? By their, look, I don't, what Joe Biden and Kamala
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Harris just said, I don't think that's misinformation. They're, they're just explaining
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the natural plain fact that when an experimental drug comes out, a lot of people are going to be
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reticent to take it, especially if the virus that it's supposed to stop is not all that great a
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danger to them. So I don't think that's misinformation, but by their own standards,
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that is misinformation and they should be kicked off the internet. And they won't
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because this entire campaign for fact checking and the sense and the, and the content filters and
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the, do you want to read this article before you tweet it? And the not even being able to privately
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message certain articles critical of the liberal regime. That whole thing is just a political tool
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for the suppression of their political opponents. Also, by the way, at this very moment right now,
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we are being told by public health officials that the vaccine is basically useless. Now they're not
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using those exact words, but when you look at my old, old state of California run by Mr. Mussolini,
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if you look at my old city of Los Angeles, also known as Gomorrah by the sea, they are reinstituting
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a mask mandate. Well, okay. I guess we've been hearing now from liberal scaremongers that we still
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have a raging epidemic, especially among the unvaccinated. So, okay. I guess it makes sense that
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the unvaccinated need to wear the masks even. Oh, wait a minute. No, everybody needs to wear the masks.
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As of Saturday night, everybody in Los Angeles, including vaccinated people, needs to wear masks
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indoors because I guess the vaccines aren't working. If the vaccines were working, vaccinated people
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would not need to wear the masks. But I guess the vaccines are not working, but it's still very urgent
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that you take the vaccine to fight against the virus, which is the worst epidemic that we've ever
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faced. But it's not so terrible that you've got to shutter, I don't know, marijuana dispensaries.
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It's not so terrible that you've got to shutter casinos. It's not so, but you do have to shutter
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churches and you do have to shutter businesses. And the whole thing just seems a little bit like an
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arbitrary use of power. Whole thing. It seems like a lot of misinformation going around here.
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is still in your name. You know, I'm very glad to be in Florida right now. I'm very glad
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not to be in Los Angeles. I'm very glad not to be in California, these places that are really
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locked down. I'm in Florida for TPUSA. I'm going to be giving a speech this afternoon, 4.20 or so
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Eastern time. Very excited about it. There have been some real rock stars here. Rhonda Santa spoke
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yesterday. Ted Cruz spoke yesterday. We've got a bunch of great people coming out today.
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And of course, TPUSA was trending. It always is trending because the left finds something to make
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a big deal about. And this time, the issue was, here's the headline. Let me tell you the headline.
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Pornstar featured as VIP at TPUSA student conference. I saw that. That was the trend yesterday
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on Twitter. I said, oh my gosh, they got a porn star speaking at TPUSA. So I looked. That was not
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the case. As always, I don't believe the headline. Whenever you see the headline, Charlie Kirk is doing
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this terrible thing. I said, no, I don't think that's true. So I looked. And what happened was
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a porn star decided to attend the conference and she bought her own VIP ticket and she was just showing
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up to listen to the speakers. And this created two reactions on the right, both of which I think were
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wrong. So there was the very wrong reaction, which was, hey, porn is great. That's true freedom. We need
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to be the cool party. We need to endorse porn and drugs and stuff. And that's awesome. And that's going
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to be the party of the future. Yeah. And porn's nothing more American than apple pie. Okay. So that's
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obviously a ridiculous libertine point of view. Then there was the more conservative point of view,
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which is, this is, you know, terrible. This is awful. There was a lot of invective sent against
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this porn lady, people calling her all sorts of terrible names and saying she needs to be shunned
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from society and shouldn't show her face anywhere. And I think that reaction was a little, a little off
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as well. I think there actually was a third way here that the conservatives should have pursued.
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And it's this. Had this porn lady been a speaker, had this porn lady had a booth to do what? We don't
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know at the conference. Had this porn lady been making a big nuisance of herself and making a big show
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of herself and trying to become a leader or a speaker or a focus of a conservative summit, that would be a
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very bad thing. And obviously she should have been kicked off of the premises. But as far as I can tell,
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that's not what happened. As far as I can tell, this porn lady showed up. She was, she used her
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Christian name. She didn't use her porn names and no one even who would have heard of her had, had
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seen anything. And she was just kind of minding her own business and watching the conservative
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speakers. Isn't that good? If she's, if she's just totally minding her own business, she's not trying
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to recruit anybody for her pornography business. Isn't that good? Don't we want that to happen? I
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just, I felt that the invective sent against this woman was really misplaced because I got to tell
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you, something tells me that if you work in pornography, if you're a prostitute or a, or a porn
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actress, you probably don't have the strongest sense of self-dignity. You probably don't have the
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strongest feelings of self-worth and to be called all sorts of names and to be told that you're the
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root of all evil in society. I don't think that's very nice. I don't think it's nice to speak in a
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harsh, vulgar way to women ever, whether it's a prostitute or a princess. I don't think that's right.
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And I also just think if this woman, she's still working in pornography, but she's clearly interested
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by some conservative arguments. And maybe she's only right now gone through like the shallow
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conservative arguments, but she's obviously interested. If I can get her into a room where
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she hears conservative speakers, where she hears me give a speech about how porn is bad and you
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shouldn't be in the industry. And if you're in it, you should get out. And if you're supporting it,
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you should stop supporting it. And if you are a legislator, you should restrict it or even ban it
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outright. If she can hear those arguments and maybe be persuaded, I think that would be a good
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thing. I know that when conservatives call for a big tent party, 99 times out of 100, what that
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means is they want to just get rid of all of our standards and they want to just become Democrats
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light, if light, or just identical to the Democratic Party and not have any boundaries at all. I know
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that's how that works a lot of the time. But the good version of a big tent party is we have these
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standards. We hate porn, among other things. You can't do that. There's no spot for that in the
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conservative movement. But there is a spot for you if you want to get out of it. This is, look,
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obviously, I've been talking about speech lists for a very long time, which is available now for
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order. I don't think there is anybody in the conservative movement who has been more vocal
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about the need for standards, about the need to suppress vice, about the need to stop saying that
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you can just say and do whatever you want all the time. Okay, we certainly need standards. But the
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point of standards is not to kick everybody out. The point of standards is not to be insular and
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small and exclusive or exclusionary. The point of standards is to bring as many people as possible
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along to hold themselves to a higher standard of speech and conduct. And so I just, I'm obviously much
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more sympathetic to the point of view that, you know, these porn stars need to be cast into outer
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darkness where there's wailing and gnashing of teeth. But that actually isn't my view. My view
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is that porn needs to be cast into the outer darkness. And the people who are caught up in
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the industry, especially the women who generally don't come from great backgrounds and haven't had
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a great life, they need to be welcomed in and they need to be given the arguments as to why this is
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terrible. And they need, I think it would be good to elevate their political views. And so I just
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think the invective, the meanness, we got to ditch that sort of thing and really use standards for
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their true purpose, which is elevating individuals and elevating society. Speaking of bringing lots of
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people in, you know, speaking of the big tent, the big tent of our country has really gone quite wrong.
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I think that the way this applies at the national level has, speaks to the idea that there are no
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boundaries and there are no borders. And there's really not even much of a country because we've
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got lots and lots of people pouring into this country from other nations. And they have been
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told by people at the highest levels of government that they can stay and it's no big deal and don't
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worry about it. For instance, DACA, this was Barack Obama's, one of his signature achievements where he
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just gave executive amnesty to lots and lots of what we were told were very young, illegal alien
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children. Turns out they're like 40 years old. It's people who are in the middle age and younger
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who came here when they were minors. They were given executive amnesty. Well, there's some good
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news here, which is a judge has come in, a federal judge, Andrew S. Haynan of the U.S. District Court in
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Houston, who is a George W. Bush appointee. He came in and said that the executive order for DACA
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was unlawful, that Obama exceeded his authority when he issued it. He's saying that the executive
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order violated the Administrative Procedure Act because it failed to allow public comment. So
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great. Oh, this is good. I'm glad. DACA, it's illegal. Big victory for conservatives, right?
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No, it's not. No, it's, I mean, I'm glad that the judge is admitting that it was wrong for Obama to
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do what he did. But the simple fact is Obama succeeded at doing it. He gave the illegal aliens
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the protection to stay here. And we can't just take that back because some judge ordered it. It just
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won't happen. We already knew that DACA was illegal. Barack Obama already admitted that DACA was not just
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illegal but unconstitutional. Obama said in October 2010, quote, I am not a king. I can't do these
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things just by myself. In March of 2011, Barack Obama said that, quote, with respect to the notion
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that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that's just not the case. And
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then in May of that year, he said that he couldn't, quote, just bypass Congress and change the immigration
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law myself. That's not how a democracy works. And then what did Obama do?
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He did that. He just did it. And we all rent our garments and gnashed our teeth. But he won.
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He got it. No judge is going to undo that. And this is a problem with illegal immigration generally.
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You're not going to get mass deportations. It's just not going to happen because it's politically
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untenable. If anyone was going to do it, it was going to be Donald Trump. And he didn't.
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He didn't do it. And now, you actually did see at the beginning of the Trump presidency,
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you saw a big dip in illegal immigration when they thought that he could enforce the law and he wanted
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to enforce the law. But he was stymied by the bureaucracy. And then illegal immigration jumped up
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again. Now we have reached record, truly record levels of illegal immigration, much higher than
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anybody seems to know about. And nothing's going to happen, which is why there's no substitute for
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victory, folks. I think a lot of people believe, okay, we'll let the illegal aliens in now. Okay,
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we'll deal with executive amnesty now and we'll fix it later. Some things really can't be fixed later
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because you've already messed it up. Once an illegal alien comes into this country, it is virtually
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00:23:43.700
and enjoy it. Then you can cut out the cover and say, Knowles, 2028, The Authoritarian Moment. We'll be
00:23:49.000
right back with a lot more. 188,000 illegal aliens entered our country in June last month. 188,000.
00:24:12.040
Not entered our country this year. I think a lot of people think the number would probably be,
00:24:17.160
you know, this year, six months in, maybe we've had 188,000. No, no, no. We have officially surpassed
00:24:24.180
1 million migrant encounters this year. We are on track for 2 million by the end of the year.
00:24:32.340
This is record-shattering numbers, way higher than anybody thinks. Poll after poll shows that the
00:24:37.420
American people want to drastically reduce not just illegal, but legal immigration. If we've got
00:24:41.620
2 million illegal aliens pouring into the country this year, we've got another 1 to 2 million legal
00:24:46.720
aliens. That is an untenable number, folks. Over the last 60 years, the migration into the United
00:24:53.720
States is the largest movement of human beings ever in recorded history. All while we are being told that
00:25:01.620
we cannot encourage assimilation, all while we are being told that our country is evil and terrible
00:25:05.780
and rotten. If it's so evil and terrible and rotten, why are 3 to 4 million people coming here
00:25:09.600
every year? That's, you can't, even under the best of circumstances, you can't assimilate that many
00:25:15.020
people. But certainly not under these circumstances. This is, this is what you might call a hostile
00:25:22.280
takeover. I'm not even saying by the illegal aliens themselves. I'm saying by the leftist radicals and
00:25:28.760
liberal elites who are using the immigration issue as a way to radically transform our country. And
00:25:35.620
make no mistake, that's what they're doing. They've given us a new American flag, no longer the stars
00:25:40.360
and stripes, it's the rainbow. Actually, it's the new one with the rainbow and the racial stuff in a
00:25:45.400
triangle. It's called the progress flag. It's very strange. We've got a new National Independence Day,
00:25:50.660
used to be the 4th of July. Now it's Juneteenth, the Juneteenth National Independence Day holiday.
00:25:54.800
We used to have the 1776 founding of our country. Now it's the 1619 founding. It's a new country that
00:26:02.760
they're trying to push on us. And some of the radical leaders are not really hiding it. The head of one
00:26:10.580
of the NAACP chapters was just caught on camera saying that if you are a parent who protests critical race
00:26:18.360
theory in the schools, who protests the sort of anti-American ideologies that are tearing down
00:26:24.440
our country. But you should just die. So let's meet and remain steadfast in speaking truth,
00:26:32.820
tearing down double standards, and refuting double talk. Let's not allow any double downing on lies.
00:26:39.860
Let's prepare our children for a world they deserve. Let's deny this off-key band of people that are
00:26:46.040
anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history, anti-racial reckoning, anti-opportunities,
00:26:53.560
anti-health people, anti-diversity, anti-platform, anti-science, anti-change agent, anti-social
00:26:59.600
justice, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-children, anti-healthcare, anti-worker,
00:27:07.320
anti-environment, anti-admissions policy change, anti-inclusion, anti-live-and-let-live people.
00:27:13.480
Let them die. Don't let these uncomfortable people deter us from our whole march forward.
00:27:20.420
Let them die. So on the one hand, I think this is a threat because we have heard, especially from
00:27:29.340
BLM and Antifa, and we have seen, especially from BLM and Antifa and other leftist radical groups,
00:27:35.500
the use of political violence, the use of terrorism, the use of violence against civilians to achieve
00:27:40.040
a political end. We've seen that a lot over the past year. So I do think this is a threat.
00:27:44.420
But it's not just a threat. It's actually even more insidious than a threat. It is the explanation
00:27:51.660
of what the left means by progress. It is an avowal of belief in progress with a capital P.
00:27:58.160
What this woman is saying is, we radicals are going to win. We are going to transform this country.
00:28:06.180
We are going to fundamentally invert this country. And it's just going to happen. That's the arc of
00:28:12.100
the moral universe. It's long, but it bends toward justice. That's what progress is. And so,
00:28:17.900
if we just wait them out, they will die, and that'll be a good thing, and then we can move on.
00:28:24.960
Now, it's worth noting what she's saying here because sometimes you'll hear people on the right
00:28:30.140
talking about replacement migration or this idea that the traditional American demographic makeup
00:28:39.660
is going to be radically transformed, and this is part of a political agenda. And that belief is called
00:28:44.960
white supremacist and Nazi and fascist and, you know, all the things that they call every other thing
00:28:50.420
that anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton believes. But what this woman is saying is that,
00:28:55.860
right, she is giving credence to that theory. She's saying, yeah, let them die. Whether it's
00:29:01.680
the evil straight white men, whether it's the terrible conservatives more broadly, yeah, let
00:29:05.500
them die. They're going to die out, and they're going to be replaced by good radicals of this
00:29:10.080
wonderful new coalition that we're putting together. There have been other prominent leftists
00:29:15.800
who have said this. And then even in the Washington Post and in other major outlets of the legacy
00:29:21.440
media, you will see them come out very often and say, ha ha, this terrible straight white men are
00:29:26.340
about to be supplanted as a big portion of the population. So they give credence to this theory
00:29:31.120
too. And I don't think that they would refer to themselves as Nazis and white supremacists and
00:29:35.080
so forth. But they believe that that is part and parcel of progress. And they're obviously willing
00:29:42.460
to engage in acts of violence to do so. They not only say it in speeches like this, but they actually
00:29:47.960
have committed it during, for instance, the BLM riots. And speaking of acts of violence,
00:29:53.000
one thing the left has done very well is they've redefined perfectly innocuous speech acts as acts
00:29:58.820
of violence, and they've redefined violence as speech. And it's been largely successful. Well,
00:30:04.620
the American Booksellers Association has joined the bandwagon. The American Booksellers Association
00:30:09.800
is a 121-year-old trade organization for booksellers. They mentioned in one of their mailers a very
00:30:19.380
popular book by my friend Abigail Schreier, a book that I actually blurbed. It's called Irreversible
00:30:24.040
Damage. And it's about how young girls are being seduced into the transgender nonsense and are having
00:30:31.720
great regrets because of this and are mutilating their bodies for no reason. Very important book.
00:30:37.680
It was banned from Target, I think, and from some other bookstores, but it's still sold very,
00:30:42.560
very well. The ABA mentions this very popular book, and they've received huge backlash. So they
00:30:48.640
sent out a statement saying, quote, an anti-trans book was included in our July mailing to members.
00:30:55.380
This is a serious, violent incident that goes against ABA's ends, policies, values,
00:31:01.760
and everything we believe and support. It is inexcusable. Pause right there.
00:31:05.960
It goes against everything you believe in. So you're telling me, American Booksellers Association,
00:31:13.040
that everything you believe is that we should mutilate little girls to make them look more
00:31:18.640
like little boys. That is everything. You don't believe that two plus two equals four. You don't
00:31:23.320
believe that the sun shines during the daytime. You believe that the sum total of your belief
00:31:28.900
is that we should mutilate little girls. I don't know if I buy that. This is a violent incident.
00:31:34.800
No, a violent incident is when you mutilate little girls because of your sick heresy that your body
00:31:41.520
has nothing to do with who you really are. That's a violent incident. Mentioning a book
00:31:47.060
that reports on that is not violence. That's journalism, and it's journalism actually that aims
00:31:54.620
reducing violence. They go on. We apologize to our trans members and to the trans community for this
00:32:01.240
terrible incident and the pain we caused them. We apologize to the LGBTQIA plus every day. There's
00:32:08.620
one more letter. Community at large and to our bookselling community. Apologies are not enough.
00:32:13.260
We've begun addressing this today and are committed to engaging in the critical dialogue
00:32:16.380
needed to inform concrete steps to address the harm that we caused. Those steps will be shared in the
00:32:21.800
next three weeks. So just notice this language, harm, violence. This is all part of the same thing
00:32:26.480
that Biden and Jen Psaki are talking about. They are redefining innocuous speech acts as violence,
00:32:33.080
and they are then going to try to ban that sort of speech, and they're going to try to ban it
00:32:38.280
on social media, say. And what we are going to be told is these are private entities, but they're not
00:32:42.740
private entities. They are, first of all, by definition, public if they're controlling the flow of
00:32:47.440
information around the public square in a republic. But moreover, they're working very often at the
00:32:54.000
behest of the government, as Biden and Jen Psaki are proving. And conservatives, we need to be very
00:32:59.180
careful in our language here because there are some narrow types of speech that do constitute
00:33:08.040
an act of violence. If you engage in a direct threat, that is not protected speech. That is
00:33:14.920
assault, actually, right? That is already defined as an act of violence. If you engage in certain
00:33:22.200
fraud, these sorts of things, you could make an argument that that is in itself causing harm,
00:33:27.360
and that is an act of violence. And so I think we need to be very specific here. What Abigail Schreier
00:33:32.920
is doing is engaging in not only innocuous speech, but actually speech that is good and speech that is
00:33:39.620
aimed at reducing violence. And in this upside-down world that we're all living in now, that is being
00:33:44.220
redefined as violence, and violence is being defined as peaceable and innocuous. We need to get even more
00:33:49.580
specific than the traditional, and I think very useful idea that speech is not violence and violence
00:33:54.080
is not speech. We need to get even more specific now. Because the left is not only clearly interested
00:33:59.600
in redefining these things, but they have the political power to do it, and they're being pretty
00:34:03.000
successful. Now, speaking of acts of violence, right now in Cuba, there is a mass protest movement
00:34:11.560
going on. People are going out and protesting the Cuban communist dictatorship, and the government
00:34:17.380
is clamping down. The president, or the dictator, rather, of Cuba has come out and said they will do
00:34:21.640
anything they can to preserve the regime, up to and including using violence on the citizens, which
00:34:25.900
they're currently doing right now. They're maiming people, beating people, and actually killing people
00:34:30.040
in the streets. And those crickets that you hear right now are from Bernie Sanders. Because Bernie Sanders,
00:34:37.840
who very nearly was the Democrat nominee for president twice in 2016 and 2020, long-time
00:34:43.660
Democratic senator, very long-time gadfly, he's been in politics for 50 years, Bernie Sanders
00:34:50.980
has spoken in very positive ways about the Cuban dictatorship.
00:34:55.660
What I said is what Barack Obama said in terms of Cuba, that Cuba made progress on education. Yes,
00:35:04.980
I think, really? Really? Do I support their economic policies or their political policies?
00:35:12.520
Of course I don't. But you know what else? Cuba produces a lot of physicians in this country.
00:35:18.360
And you know where they go? They go to poor countries around the world doing a lot of good.
00:35:23.400
By and large, Cuba's educational system for a poor country is pretty good. When Castro came to power,
00:35:30.120
they did a lot to eliminate illiteracy in that country. But I remember, for some reason or other,
00:35:35.720
being very excited when Fidel Castro made the revolution in Cuba. I was a kid, and I remember
00:35:39.880
reading that. And it just seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up
00:35:44.060
against rather ugly, rich people. I was watching the debates. You remember the famous Nixon-Kennedy
00:35:49.120
debates? That was the first time the presidential candidates actually debated. Kennedy was saying
00:35:53.680
that Nixon was too soft on communism. Usually I'm sufficiently unemotional not to be sick,
00:35:59.200
but I actually got up in the room and almost left to puke. He almost left to puke. He was so upset
00:36:04.400
because Bernie Sanders has supported communism in those terms, right? The guy honeymooned in the
00:36:10.260
Soviet Union. It doesn't get more supportive than that. And now what we're seeing is the people of
00:36:17.180
Cuba, long oppressed by an evil, evil system of government, rising up against that. And Bernie
00:36:24.820
has nothing to say. He has nothing to say because he obviously does not speak for the Cuban people.
00:36:31.600
He obviously does not speak for the oppressed masses. I mean, this is the problem that the Marxist
00:36:36.480
revolutionaries had going back to the days of Karl Marx. Namely, that they had all these wonderful
00:36:41.920
theories for the liberation of the oppressed masses, but the allegedly oppressed masses didn't like
00:36:46.820
the theories very much. Turned out that the oppressed masses actually liked their own traditions and
00:36:51.720
their own countries and their own families and rituals. They didn't like the crazy radicalism.
00:36:59.040
This is what you're seeing right now with Marxists, avowed Marxists in our schools and in other
00:37:08.060
institutions. And you're seeing the actual oppressed masses in America coming out and protesting and saying,
00:37:14.040
I don't want my kids being taught this stuff. You're seeing black mothers, white mothers,
00:37:18.400
Hispanic mothers showing up to the school board saying, look, we don't have a ton of money to
00:37:22.900
send our kids to private school. We don't have a ton of time to homeschool. We've got to send our
00:37:26.520
kids to these public schools. And you nutbags are coming in and saying that we've got to
00:37:32.660
teach our kids critical race theory or teach our kids critical gender or radical gender theory.
00:37:38.180
And the elites are saying, well, no, these, these are actually wonderful ideologies for you. They're
00:37:43.460
going to liberate you. They're going to help you. Calm down, you oppressed masses. You just don't get
00:37:48.340
how wonderful this is. That's what Bernie's done on Cuba now for 50 years. And it turns out
00:37:54.200
doesn't work out very well. So he can't, he's not going to continue to defend it right now. He's just
00:37:58.900
got to remain totally silent as the Biden White House, by the way, has done until just recently.
00:38:04.720
Jen Psaki. Jen Psaki has a very difficult job and she's been under fire a lot lately because while
00:38:12.420
Cubans in the streets are protesting the dictatorship, she refuses to call out communism.
00:38:18.200
She has been asked, well, can you acknowledge this is about the communist dictatorship? And she says,
00:38:23.020
well, it's about, you know, economic mismanagement and COVID vaccines. Can't you hear them? I know it
00:38:28.460
sounds like they're chanting libertad, but they actually are saying, no, COVID vaccinos,
00:38:33.260
can't you hear that? No, that's not, I don't think that's what they're saying. So finally,
00:38:37.440
she's faced so much pressure from this. She had to acknowledge that this comes down to the failed
00:38:41.920
ideology of communism. Does this White House still think the protests in Cuba are happening
00:38:48.740
because people are upset about a rise in COVID cases there? Or is there some thought maybe given
00:38:53.580
to the possibility that they're protesting because they are sick of communism? Well, Peter,
00:38:59.520
first, I would say communism is a failed ideology and we certainly believe that. It has failed the
00:39:05.420
people of Cuba. They deserve freedom. They deserve a government that supports them, whether that is
00:39:10.900
making sure they have health and medical supplies, access to vaccines, or whether they have economic
00:39:17.860
opportunity and prosperity. And instead, this has been a government, an authoritarian communist regime
00:39:25.080
that has repressed its people and has failed the people of Cuba. Hence, we're seeing them in the
00:39:31.300
streets. But I would note that the ideology of the government, which has failed, has led to a lack
00:39:40.100
of access to economic opportunity, to medical supplies, to COVID vaccines. So all of those pieces are true.
00:39:46.560
Good, good. It only took her two weeks to say communism is bad. Not because I think Jen Psaki or
00:39:54.080
Joe Biden are communists, but because a lot of the base is. A lot of the real interest groups on the
00:40:01.960
left that have a lot of influence are avowedly Marxist. I mean, BLM, for instance, says that itself.
00:40:09.740
BLM's founders say they are trained Marxists and they've spoken very highly of Marxist leaders.
00:40:14.100
But the problem is not just Marxism. The influence of communism on the American left is a problem.
00:40:20.480
It's been a problem going back over 100 years now. But there's a further problem within this regime
00:40:25.840
of what you might call managerialism, the liberal establishment. That's a problem too. That is a
00:40:34.280
problem of an overwhelmingly managed economy where the government exerts a lot of influence on
00:40:40.560
allegedly private corporations. And the private corporations do the bidding of the dominant
00:40:44.940
liberal regime and they suppress political dissent and they won't allow you to raise any concerns
00:40:49.820
about, for instance, Jen Psaki, vaccines and coronavirus and the misinformation that's been
00:40:55.340
coming out of the regime itself. There are some similarities here. While communism is a big
00:41:00.900
problem, it's not the only failed ideology in the world. And I think we've got to recognize that
00:41:05.780
there are some other problems going on here. And it's not exclusively the commies hiding under
00:41:10.040
the beds, but there are also issues with neoliberalism. There are also issues with
00:41:15.420
managerialism. There are also issues with the misinformation in our own regime. Speaking of
00:41:20.280
failed communist regimes or rather repressive communist regimes that are maintaining themselves
00:41:25.660
in power very well, the Chinese communists, it turns out, lied about the coronavirus. And even the
00:41:30.680
Biden officials are willing to admit this now. Senior Biden officials, according to CNN even,
00:41:34.920
according to Pravda for the regime, quote, senior Biden administration officials overseeing an
00:41:39.780
intelligence review into the origins of the coronavirus now believe the theory that the
00:41:43.320
virus accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan is at least as credible as the possibility that it
00:41:48.220
emerged naturally in the wild. A dramatic shift from a year ago when Democrats publicly downplayed the
00:41:52.840
so-called lab leak theory. Gee, you don't say. The bat coronavirus that we've never seen before
00:41:58.800
happened, that happened to be discovered right near that lab that works on bat coronaviruses.
00:42:03.480
They might have had something to do with each other. Oh, wow. Gosh. Amazing. Experts,
00:42:09.160
thanks for admitting that. Last year, when some of us on this show, for instance, said that it
00:42:16.320
seemed very likely that it escaped from the lab, the Washington Post put out headlines like this,
00:42:21.260
quote, Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked.
00:42:27.460
That was the headline in WAPO. And then in early June, they had to change it. They said,
00:42:31.040
quote, Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.
00:42:36.180
Now I think the headline should read, Tom Cotton says a thing that is obviously true and is just
00:42:40.540
common sense to anybody with two eyes in their heads that is not being suppressed by the liberal
00:42:47.080
establishment. Yes, of course, the lab had something to do with this. And yet, when we said this last
00:42:54.780
year, we were called fringe nut misinformer conspiracy theorists who, by the rules of the
00:43:00.380
Biden administration and Facebook, very easily could have been censored and taken offline, and in some
00:43:05.460
cases were. The Biden administration, people who now make up the Biden administration, were the
00:43:12.140
misinformers. The Washington Post, CNN, the New York Times, they were the misinformers here. And they
00:43:17.680
continue to be the misinformers even as their lives fall apart. By the way, the WHO now is admitting
00:43:23.200
that the virus didn't come from the Wuhan wet markets. The WHO, which has worked to help China
00:43:29.560
cover up what's going on, and in many ways works at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party,
00:43:34.060
is now demanding audits be conducted at Chinese labs that were in the vicinity of the first COVID cases,
00:43:39.320
because they're admitting that the first cluster of cases did not come from the wet market in Wuhan.
00:43:45.100
Obviously. Obviously. But they control the language, and they control the means of communication. So
00:43:53.240
they'll drip this out when they want, and they'll redefine information as misinformation, and
00:43:57.180
misinformation as credible information, and we can't do anything about it. We're still going to be kicked
00:44:01.540
off of the internet if we transgress what the regime has set out for us. You're seeing this, this is a
00:44:07.300
little bit of a tangent, but you're seeing a similar principle right now. There was a headline in the
00:44:11.680
New York Post that shark advocates, I guess that's a category of people, picturing lawyers, you know,
00:44:18.460
just lawyers for sharks. You know, all right, all right, shark, we've got, we're going to make a really
00:44:24.540
strong case for you. Here's the case that they're going to make. They want to change the term shark
00:44:29.440
attack to the less incendiary shark interaction. It's an interaction when you get your leg bit off by
00:44:36.880
I myself prefer underseas contingency operation. That's what, I think that would be the more
00:44:42.180
technical term. But they want it to be a shark interaction, and it seems ridiculous, and it
00:44:46.780
seems so crazy, and what, no one's going to use this language, and people are going to use this
00:44:51.340
language. I bet they are. If not on this issue, then on many others. If we are now calling Bruce
00:44:56.460
Jenner she, they can change the language to mean whatever they want. And so, is it any surprise,
00:45:01.760
is it any surprise that only 6% of Republicans, according to a new Gallup poll,
00:45:06.020
trust the TV news? Only 16% of all U.S. citizens say they believe what they see
00:45:11.500
on television. No surprise at all, because the real information is coming from the top.
00:45:18.120
And they have the gall and audacity to accuse the rest of us of pushing misinformation when
00:45:24.360
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