Ep. 815 - The “January 6th Commission” Clown Show
Summary
In response to Adam Kinzinger's performance on the January 6th committee hearing, Don Corleone calls him a woman who cries like a woman. Michael Knowles responds to the comments, and gives his thoughts on the whole thing.
Transcript
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Nancy Pelosi's January 6th commission kicked off yesterday with a star performance from one of the
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two liberal Republicans who agreed to sit on the otherwise entirely Democrat panel.
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Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, Adam Kinzinger.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to my colleagues on the committee.
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Thank you to our witnesses. I never expected a day to be quite as emotional for me as it has been.
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And I've talked to a number of you and gotten to know you.
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I think it's important to tell you right now, though, you guys may like individually feel a little broken.
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You guys all talk about the effects you have to deal with.
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And, you know, you talk about the impact of that day.
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You know, democracies are not defined by our bad days.
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We're defined by how we come back from bad days.
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And for all the overheated rhetoric surrounding this committee, our mission is very simple.
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For reaction to Kinzinger's whining, we turn, as usual, to Don Corleone.
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Is this how you turn down a Hollywood binocchio that cries like a woman?
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But his womanish clown show was the role to which court jester conservatives, such as he, are best suited in our national drama.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Today, you guys, you, today, you, Adam Kinzinger, really, he didn't, he didn't surprise anyone with his performance, least of all himself.
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I'm sure he was practicing that one in the mirror, like any ham actor about to get the hook.
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But, uh, it is worth pointing out that not only were the, the tears preposterous, but the statements that he made were preposterous as well.
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He said that the Capitol incident in January was an insurrection.
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The, the way that we know, in part, that this was not, or here's some evidence that this was not an insurrection.
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The weight of the federal government right now is trying to prosecute anyone who was in any way involved in that day.
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It's not like BLM where they all get off the hook or most of them get off the hook.
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Everyone is trying to prosecute these guys to the fullest extent of the law.
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And yet, no one is being charged with seditious conspiracy.
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No one is being charged with the crimes associated with insurrection.
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They're being charged with criminal trespassing.
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They're being charged with all sorts of things like property damage, theft, but they're not being charged with sedition because the feds can't prove that it was an insurrection because it wasn't.
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One person was killed in the violence of that day.
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It was one of the people who went into the Capitol.
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So I get, if you're saying that it was a deadly insurrection and that's a terrible thing,
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then you should be grilling the cops that you otherwise were praising all day because a cop killed a Trump supporter.
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That was the only, I know that we were told in the aftermath by a bunch of liars in the establishment media
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and in the establishment, the political establishment like Adam Kinzinger and all of the Democrats,
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we were told that Officer Brian Sicknick was killed because someone threw a fire extinguisher at his head.
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The only person who died in political violence was one of the pro-Trump demonstrators.
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This was the worst attack on our democracy since 1812.
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The political commentator, Yossi Gestetner, had a wonderful thread on this the other day.
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You probably didn't see it on Twitter because I imagine it was suppressed.
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He pointed out that the January 6th insurrection, that involved some damage to the Capitol.
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1954, five congressmen were wounded when four terrorists opened fire in the visitors area.
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President Carter later commuted their sentences or reduced their sentences.
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So that seems worse than January 6th, doesn't it?
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At 1971, a bomb planted by a group of person protesting the Vietnam War, so this would have
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been a left winger, exploded in the Senate wing of the Capitol, caused extensive damage,
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November 7th, 1983, an explosion tore through the second floor of the Capitol's north wing.
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The device blew the door off of Democrat leader Robert Byrd's office.
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Two Capitol police officers, Jacob Chestnut Jr. and John Gibson, died in the line of duty
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because an armed assailant stormed past the Capitol security checkpoint and he made it into
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Before midnight in 1915, police responded to the Capitol where an explosion caused huge
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Then in October of 2018, hundreds of leftists stormed the U.S. Senate building during the
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302 people were arrested by Capitol Hill police.
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No people were arrested by the federal government.
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And then last year, in the summer of hate in 2020, when BLM was burning down the country,
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the president and his family were rushed to the White House bunker as insurrectionists.
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You got to, if you're going to use the term for the horn guy, certainly you need to use
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the term for the people who stormed the White House, scaled the fence, and 60 Secret Service
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11 of them needing hospitalization for defending the White House.
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The horn guy comes in, the smiley guy steals Pelosi's podium.
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But just months prior, people stormed the White House and wound 60 Secret Service agents,
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That truly, you probably didn't even hear about that.
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Or all you heard from the media were people making fun of President Trump for going into
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I never want to hear another word about January 6th.
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It's compared to other attacks that you've never even heard of.
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They didn't even make the news, really, or they don't remain in the public consciousness.
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What happened on January 6th was relatively insignificant.
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Moreover, moreover, and this is, I think, the big problem that the January 6th commission
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As the media narrative fades, and as more and more evidence is presented of what actually
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happened on January 6th, the narrative is falling apart.
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We were told that these angry, crazy Trump supporters were showing up to the Capitol and
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Meanwhile, what you're seeing is video emerging of Trump supporters coming up to the cops and
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So, obviously, there are a lot of theories about what's going on.
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The question is, why weren't the cops doing anything?
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In some cases, you see the cops standing down and letting people go into the Capitol.
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That's going to really complicate the narrative.
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So, because of this, because more and more video evidence is coming out that paints the
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MAGA people in a much better light than we were told by the mainstream media, now you're
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seeing testimony from some cops and other people who are just creating whole new narratives
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saying that actually it was a bunch of racists and the MAGA people, they called me the N-word.
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One woman in a pink MAGA shirt yelled, you hear that, guys?
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Then the crowd, perhaps around 20 people, joined in screaming, boo, f*****g n***a.
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No one had ever, ever called me a n***a while wearing the uniform of a Capitol Police officer.
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In the days following the attempted insurrection, other black officers shared with me their own
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One officer told me he had never, and in his entire 40 years of life, been called a n***a
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to his face, and that streak ended on January 6th.
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Yet another black officer later told me he had been confronted by insurrectionists in the Capitol
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who told him, put your gun down and we'll show you what kind of n***a you really are.
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Did they tell you this was MAGA country and it was on the south side of Chicago?
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Forgive me my skepticism, but there are thousands of videos of just about every angle, of every,
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just about everything that happened that day, cameras everywhere.
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And trust me, if this had happened, if there were even one second of video of this, this
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Now, I'm not saying there's no way it happened.
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I'm just saying, forgive my skepticism, that the liberal establishment that has lied to us
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about every single aspect of this event might not be telling the truth right now.
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You know why I don't believe that as this one Capitol Hill officer says, he was called
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awful racial epithets by all of the Trump supporters.
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Because this, that word, the N word, which the Capitol Hill officer just says, he's saying
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We bleep it on the shows, but he's saying it for full effect.
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You certainly don't hear people say that in public.
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There's no video of anyone saying that on January 6th, despite all of the videos of that
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They got the testimony of this one guy who shows up and he says, yeah, but you know,
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I heard from other guys too, that some other guys and the cousin of the other guy and the
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third cousin once removed of the brother-in-law of a guy said that some other guy said the
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This guy, Morgan Wallen, the country singer, this country singer used the N word, not in
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a, in a confrontational way, not in an earnest way as though to put someone down on the
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basis of his race, but just in the colloquial way that you hear in rap music and you hear
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He used it drunkenly, privately with his friend while he was calling him a bunch of other words
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And his life, because he just uttered this, you know, joking ways, you know, in a private
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He's only sitting down because he wants to clean up his image.
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I understand that, you know, I understand that I'm not ever going to make, you know,
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I can only come tell my truth and that's all I know to do.
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You know, I don't, I don't know if that's, that sounds ignorant, but that's really where
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I've heard some stories in the, in the initial conversations that I had after that, just
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how, just how some people are, you know, treated even still today.
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And I'm just like, I haven't seen that with my eyes, that pain or that, or that insignificant
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feeling or whatever it is that, that it makes you feel.
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Do you understand why it makes black people so upset?
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I don't know how to put myself in their shoes because I'm not, you know, but I, I do understand
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it, especially when I, when I say that I'm using it playfully or whatever, ignorantly,
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I understand that that must sound, you know, like he doesn't, he doesn't understand.
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And this guy, it's, it's been going on for months now and the guy's career is over and
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And yeah, I, yeah, I don't encourage people to use offensive language.
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Is this, is this the worst thing you can possibly do?
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And so you're telling me that a group of Trump supporters in public on camera just starts
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screaming this word in earnest, in malice and vitriol at a Capitol Hill police officer.
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Not, but I think there are a handful of people who use this word earnestly or who seem to use
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I think the entire membership of the Ku Klux Klan is just different FBI informants informing
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Pathetic, pathetic stuff that the left is trying to muster.
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They don't have, they obviously have no answer for the BLM riots in that comparison.
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So they just create, they just put on a show and it's Adam Kinzinger and it's other people
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Speaking of not being able to say things, some Republican congressmen, Paul Gosar, Matt
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Gates and Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to put on a press conference to get their side
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of the argument out on the alleged insurrection.
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Of course, it was shut down by leftist protesters.
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They owe the people of this country the answers to the questions.
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For those of you that really care about the process, thank you.
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All right, and they chased them down the street.
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I think that was Louie Gohmert there at the end.
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It's become tedious and cliche to say, imagine if the situation were reversed because the situation
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isn't reversed because power is not balanced in any way in this country.
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But if there were Democratic congressmen who were out there talking about, you know, their
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side of the story, right, maybe defending BLM and going after January 6th and a bunch of
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Trump supporters came up with signs saying, sit down, you're traitors and rapists, which
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is what those signs said, that would be called an insurrection, right?
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That would be called an interference with our democracy.
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The painting of this would be so, so different.
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I'm just absolutely sick of the January 6th thing.
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It shows that more Americans want BLM investigated than the Capitol riot.
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You know, Adam Kinzinger, during his sob story at the top, during the Waterworks display, he
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said, I, like so many Americans, I'm frustrated that we don't have answers about January 6th.
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No, actually, more Americans want BLM investigated.
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Yes, maybe the BLM people committed some crimes, but, but the conservatives who stormed the
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Capitol, they threatened the rule of law itself.
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So BLM, which, which burned down federal courthouses, BLM, which torched police stations,
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BLM, which scaled the fence at the White House, they did not threaten.
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That's, you know, a minor thing, slap on the wrist.
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But the smiling Florida guy who took Pelosi's lectern, that's the threat to the rule of law
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According to Rasmussen, one third more Americans believe that Congress should hold investigative
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hearings about the BLM riots than the January 6th probe.
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I think that probably the best course of action is, you know, we, obviously we have to talk
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about it with this launch of the January 6th commission.
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But I think basically as a rule, Republicans certainly on Capitol Hill should ignore it.
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It's a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
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Speaking of polls, there's a new poll out that shows some good news in California.
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A poll conducted by UC Berkeley and the LA Times.
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One of the most left-wing schools in the country and a left-wing newspaper.
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The poll shows that California voters are just about evenly split on recalling Gavin Newsom.
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So the question is, one, will Gavin Newsom be recalled?
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And you know that our friend Larry Elder is now running, offering a genuinely conservative
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Who has name recognition, who has the ability to raise some money much better than the choice
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of Mr. Bruce Jenner, who, as far as I can tell, is more left-wing than any other candidate
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The poll found that 47% of likely voters support removing Newsom, 50% oppose removing Newsom.
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The difference is just shy of the survey's margin of error, according even to the LA Times.
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Newsom should have this thing locked by a landslide, and yet he doesn't, because I think
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some people are beginning to wake up, even on the Democrat side.
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Speaking of the run for governor, Larry Elder, you'll remember, because he's the greatest threat
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to Gavin Newsom right now on the Republican side, Larry Elder was not being permitted on the
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So they were trying to rule that Larry Elder filled out some form wrong or something, and
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Well, thankfully, a judge has just ruled that Larry Elder absolutely can appear on the ballot.
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So if Newsom is recalled, there's actually a chance.
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I know that there's motor voter and ballot harvesting.
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I know the Democrats are rigging this thing as best they can to prevent a Republican from
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But there actually is a chance, which is pretty good news.
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And it's not a moment too soon, because California is heading for a lockdown again.
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They're already requiring masks, even among vaccinated people indoors.
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He's complaining that at the national level, unless everybody gets vaccinated, then we are
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You know, Joe Biden, for all of his career, was just this glib, back-slabbing, simpering
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sort of guy with the big smile who would kiss babies.
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But in his old age, he's becoming much more ornery.
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He's accusing unvaccinated people of sowing confusion.
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So this is not just going to be limited to California and to New York.
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Old Uncle Joe is turning up the heat on unvaccinated Americans.
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He's saying they're sowing confusion and they're not smart.
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Will you require all federal employees to get vaccinated?
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That's under consideration right now, but if you're not vaccinated, you're not nearly as
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Are you concerned that the CDC through max guidance could sow confusion?
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The President, we have a pandemic because of the unvaccinated, and there's so enormous confusion.
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And the more we learn, the more we learn about this virus and the Delta variation, the more
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And the only one thing we know for sure, if those other hundred million people got vaccinated,
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If you haven't, you're not nearly as smart as I said you are.
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Having your intelligence questioned by Joe Biden is a badge of honor.
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Joe Biden, and I don't even mean this because now he's saying things that are incoherent in
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I'm saying this because for his whole career, this guy was considered to be among the duller
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He never, he would lie about his academic credentials, but he was always sort of toward the bottom
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So for him to call you a dummy, you know, what is it?
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Talk sense to a fool, and he calls you foolish, I think, in the words of Euripides.
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Joe Biden then says, we have a pandemic because of the unvaccinated.
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I thought we had a pandemic because of the Wuhan wet markets.
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I thought we had a pandemic then because of a naturally occurring virus that may or may
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not have had something to do with the Wuhan laboratory.
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I thought we had a pandemic because of a manipulated virus that did escape from the Wuhan laboratory.
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Okay, that's possible, but it wasn't funded by the United States, right?
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But then we have a pandemic because people are, they're touching their faces too much.
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At least was contradicted later by the same people who said it and told us all to wear
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the masks and then told us all to lock down and then told us this, that, and the other
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But no, you, you who using your faculties of reason and your prudence don't want to get
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the experimental drug because you're not maybe at the highest risk of dying from COVID.
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The more we learn, the more, the more we learn, the more we realize that there are side effects
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We know the FDA and the CDC have admitted this.
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Blood clotting from the J&J vaccine in some women.
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Myocarditis in otherwise perfectly healthy young people from the mRNA vaccines.
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And so maybe you make a risk calculation if you're 75 or 80 plus, you say, okay, well,
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it's just worth it because I'm at greater risk of COVID.
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But if you're 15, maybe you're not going to get that vaccine and it doesn't make you stupid
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They're sowing confusion, the unvaccinated people.
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I think the liberal establishment and Dr. Fauci and Joe Biden and all the rest of them.
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People should not be walking around with masks.
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Let me just state for the record that masks are not theater.
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Wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better.
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But it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.
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There has not been any indication that putting a mask on and wearing a mask for a considerable
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People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.
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And can you get some schmutz sort of staying inside there?
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You do not need to wear a mask indoors if, in fact, you've been vaccinated.
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Good that you're vaccinated, but in a situation where you have people indoors, particularly
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So even if you are vaccinated, you should wear a mask.
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If, in fact, you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, you are protected and you do not need to wear
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When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks.
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You know, if you look at children outside, particularly when they're with the family
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walking down the street, playing a game or what have you, don't have to wear a mask.
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The, the, the, the pediatric, the Academy of Pediatric actually makes that recommendation
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that children should be wearing masks from two years old.
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Stop sowing confusion, you unvaccinated people.
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Like Dr. Fauci has held every single opinion you can hold on anything simultaneously.
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There's a new study out of Great Britain shows that five times as many British children
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The study comes out from the University of Bristol, University of York, University of
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Liverpool, University College London, compared morbidity statistics from the National Child
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Morbidity Database with Public Health England showed five times as many kids killed themselves
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You'll hear about it from some conservative outlets.
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You won't hear about it from many other places because we've focused in on this one virus,
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the, the Wuhan cough, that now is the only thing that matters in the world.
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So if, if, if it just prevents one person from getting the cough, then that's all that matters.
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By the way, it might not, might not be doing that either.
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Speaking of the Brits, there was a shocking new poll out, a shocking new study, allegedly,
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that shows that Britons are willing to ban certain books.
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And I've seen some conservatives talking about this, but I think none of them are getting
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Would the British public support or oppose the UK government censoring books with content
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that it deems sexist, homophobic, or racist, 40% support that, 30% oppose that, 24% say
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Pluralities of 2019, 41% says, yes, labor, 46% would support book bans.
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I think we're really overstating our case here.
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There have been plenty of books that have been banned in the United States from the very
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There are some books that remain banned or practically banned.
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I mean, we, Amazon is banning books today, right?
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Now, what has changed is not that certain books are being banned.
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Obscene material was banned and heavily regulated from the very beginning of our country and theoretically
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What has changed is not that some books are canceled.
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What has changed is the standards by which books are canceled.
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If you published a book that said men are not women, for instance, that book would not
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Today, my friend Ryan Anderson did publish a book that said men are not women.
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That book is being censored, not by the government, but effectively by the government.
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It's being censored by the liberal establishment and by the website that sells 80% of books plus
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I know this is sort of unpopular to say on the right right now, but plenty of wise people
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have acknowledged that societies ban certain books and that it's not the end of the world.
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Plato defended book burning, for goodness sakes.
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Plato, from whom we get much, if not most, of Western philosophy.
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St. Luke, in the Bible, looks very favorably upon book burning in the Acts of the Apostles.
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I'm making the descriptive observation that all societies ban certain books, certain licentious
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material, certain dangerous material, certain seditious material, all societies, including
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And so long as conservatives live in this pie-in-the-sky world that has never existed,
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where the society does not impose any standards or taboos on written material, we're going to
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Because what the left understands is that all societies impose those standards.
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And so they're going to try to pervert the standards to their own ends.
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And I think what we need to do is go back in and say, no, look, yeah, we all grant obscene
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This sort of stuff does not have, there's no natural right for this material to go out there.
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But we want to defend when Harry became Sally, but we want to defend important political speech,
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but we want to defend the actual American free speech tradition, which happens to be
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the thesis of my book, which you should not ban or burn.
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Speaking of standards, the Senate panel voted to make women register for the draft.
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We told you that this was very likely going to happen last week, and then it did happen.
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And I'm not surprised at all, but we started the show talking about the squishy Republicans
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There were Republicans on this committee who voted to draft your daughters into the armed
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There were actually only five Republicans who voted against it.
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So the five Republicans on the armed services committee who voted against drafting your daughters
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were Senator James Inhofe, Senator Roger Wicker, Senator Tom Cotton, Senator Josh Hawley, and
00:33:35.720
There were one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight Republicans who voted to draft
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I'm not going to read their names because my point here is not to shame them and humiliate
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Number of senators here from all over the country who are ostensibly Republican, who think
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that it is acceptable to draft women into the armed forces.
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That is not the country that I want to live in.
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I suspect that's not the country that you want to live in.
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That is not a country that is in any way conservative.
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It's not a country that recognizes even the most basic distinction in human nature between
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Sometimes it's difficult to find that distinction, especially with Kinzinger bawling his eyes
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But if you can't conserve the very basic distinction in human nature, you can't conserve anything.
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So I hope these senators change their mind before this thing goes up to a real vote.
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Also, a point here is some people, I think, have misinterpreted what I've said.
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When I say that Adam Kinzinger is a womanish clown, I'm not dissing women.
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Most people understand that, but there's a difference between being womanish and womanly.
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When a woman embodies the feminine virtues, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
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When a man performs a caricature of a woman, that's a very bad thing.
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That's the difference between womanly and womanish.
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And what Kinzinger and a lot of the rest of these squishes are doing, very much the latter.
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Speaking of women in battle, I've got to get to the most important story that I didn't think was going to matter, but it does.
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I had never heard of Simone Biles until last night.
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And in the recent years where American athletes are turning against their country, I'm not saying Simone Biles did that, but where a number of athletes are doing that, I'm just not interested at all.
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So Simone Biles is apparently a very popular and accomplished gymnast.
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And Simone Biles decided, because she performed badly in some event, that she was just going to quit the Olympics.
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She was sent to the Olympics to represent the United States, to bring home medals, to do sport battle against other countries, and to bring home medals for the United States.
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So, in the past, when Olympians have not just injured their feelings, but injured their bodies, they have still gone on, they've still competed, they've still fought to bring home those medals for the United States.
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Compare, as my friend Charlie Kirk did on the internet yesterday, compare those good old days to Simone Biles today.
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Here you have an Olympian competing with a broken foot.
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She was there for gold, there for her team, for her country and her soul.
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Just a lot of different variables, and I think we're just a little bit too stressed out.
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But we should be out here having fun, and sometimes that's not the case.
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Okay, there's a lot of variables as to why she quit.
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But I don't want to be too hard on Simone Biles here.
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One, because I don't know anything about Simone Biles, and I'm not that interested.
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But also, too, because I think Simone Biles is the voice of her generation.
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I think she is the voice of a generation that was not taught duty, that was actually taught
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to mock duty, that was taught to mock honor and the things that are higher than one's
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Simone Biles, as she quits the Olympics because she's got the bad feels, she says,
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I've never felt like this going into a competition before.
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I tried to go out there and have fun and warm up in the back, went a little bit better.
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But then once I came out here, no, mental's not there.
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So I just need to let the girls do it and focus on myself.
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Emotionally, that kind of varies in the time and moment.
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Coming here to the Olympics and being the head star isn't an easy feat.
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So we're just trying to take it one day at a time and we'll see.
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Because she's not there to have fun and she's not there for herself and she's not there as
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Think about the people who spend their whole lives trying to make it to the Olympics.
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And then this gal took another gal's spot and then because she just didn't have the
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right feels that day, she said, no, I'm not having as much fun as I used to.
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Ah, you know, you got the, imagine the guy's storming Normandy.
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It's like, ah, you know, this isn't as fun as it used to be.
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You've got a very important project that has to get done.
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And then one of the key guys on the team, he says, ah, you know what, guys?
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I'm not enjoying it as much as I, you know, good luck.
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I mean, I know some people have been blaming it on mental problems.
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I know a lot of people are blaming a lot of things on mental problems because suffering
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and grievance now, now carries social currency.
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But if, if this woman really has mental problems, then she's, you know, she should never have
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I mean, she, she needs to get the help that she needs, right?
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Or is, or is that just an excuse because she just didn't, you know, she didn't feel it.
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And in our culture, there's nothing, nothing more important than one's will, than one's
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appetite, than one's pleasure and comfort and desire.
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I mean, this is part of, this just underscores my decision not to watch or care about the
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The head of the Olympics broadcasting, it just came out, made a very important feminist
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statement, said that the Olympics broadcasting coverage is going to focus on women's sport
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So the Tokyo Olympics head of broadcasting said they're going to minimize the sexualization
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of female athletes in light of athlete complaints that the, the uniforms are too sexy or something.
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And they want to make the women's bodies more covered up.
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And this, this head of broadcasting, Yanis Exarchos says, you got to focus on sport appeal,
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You will not see in our coverage some things that we have been seeing in the past with
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details and close up, close ups on parts of the body.
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What we can do is make sure that our coverage does not highlight or feature in any particular
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way what people are wearing and you won't see any of that stuff.
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This is for, not because I'm saying that, you know, the Olympics should be a striptease
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or a burlesque show, but the physical beauty of the Olympians is and has always been a central
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feature of the Olympics going back to ancient Greece.
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And actually it extends to all sorts of sports.
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These people, not even just the women, I'm talking about the men too.
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These are people who have spent years and years and years crafting and their bodies into
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these machines, into these incredible specimens of achievement and excellence so that they
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You can't separate the physical appeal of the Olympians from the sport.
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The objectification, what this is denying is the way that we as human beings relate to our
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It's not just about making the individual athletes feel good or something like that.
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It's about all of us marveling at their excellence, or at least that's what it's supposed to be.
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But you can't acknowledge sexual difference now.
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You cannot acknowledge sexual difference in medical school.
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This just came out from Barry Weiss's Substack yesterday.
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It's one of the, Barry Weiss's Substack is one of the best journalistic outlets out there.
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And Barry Weiss isn't even particularly conservative.
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During a recent endocrinology course at a top medical school in the UC system, University of
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California system, a professor actually stopped mid-lecture to apologize for something that he
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I don't want you to think that I am in any way trying to imply anything.
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And if you can summon some generosity to forgive me, I would really appreciate it.
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The physician said this in a recording that was provided by a student in the class.
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It's not like that cop who was testifying on the January 6th panel.
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I heard from a friend of a friend of another friend of a friend who said that these guys
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It was certainly not my intention to offend anyone.
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The worst thing that I can do as a human being is be offensive.
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Pause there for a second before we even get to what he said.
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That's, I don't think being offensive is the worst thing that you can do as a human being.
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Sometimes it's one of the best things you can do.
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If what you are offending are the vicious errors of a great many people.
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I said when a woman is pregnant, which implies that only women can get pregnant.
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Why does a medical school professor apparently not understand?
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Well, I guess he does understand that only women can get pregnant.
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Because he, I guess he doesn't know the difference between men and women.
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