The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 823 - The “Friendly,” “Peaceful” Taliban Takeover

00:00:00.000 The scenes out of Afghanistan have been heartbreaking. Desperate people doing whatever

00:00:04.680 they can to flee the country as the Taliban reestablishes control over the capital city

00:00:09.500 and the rest of the country. Some people are calling it a catastrophe. Other people

00:00:15.020 are calling it a nightmare. And MSNBC reporters are calling it a relatively peaceful takeover.

00:00:23.940 The country is essentially now in the hands of the Taliban for all intents and purposes.

00:00:30.000 They've taken over Kabul. The president, or should I now say the former president of Afghanistan,

00:00:36.700 Ashraf Ghani, has fled the country. The Taliban have taken over the presidential palace. They've

00:00:42.880 renamed the country the Islamic Emirate, taken down the Afghan flag and hoisted up their own colors.

00:00:50.460 And it's been a relatively peaceful, if you like, process. They haven't had to fire a lot of shots.

00:00:57.700 There hasn't been a lot of bloodshed in Kabul. It was a pretty straightforward takeover for them. 0.77

00:01:03.780 They've also taken over the airport. There have been reports of shots fired at the airport and

00:01:09.040 Taliban fighters are all over the place. But they're not in any sort of clashes with U.S.

00:01:15.720 personnel, although commercial flights have so far been suspended.

00:01:20.020 That's a lot of whiplash. It's a mostly peaceful takeover of the country. And it's peaceful. And

00:01:26.860 there are definitely shots being fired by the militants who are everywhere. But it's mostly

00:01:30.280 peaceful. Turns out that relatively peaceful takeovers, much like mostly peaceful protests,

00:01:36.160 seem to involve a fair bit of violence. But Joe Biden has doubled down on the strategy

00:01:40.980 in his first comments since everything that he said wouldn't happen, happened in Afghanistan.

00:01:46.400 With the president this week, is it any wonder that Democrats want to ban Donald Trump from

00:01:51.840 ever appearing on a ballot? Again, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:02.780 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from There's a Verse for That, who says,

00:02:07.540 all the Afghan terrorists are going free. Meanwhile, domestic terrorists who took pictures in the

00:02:12.200 Capitol are rotting away in solitary confinement. Good job, O Biden. Yes, this is what the liberal

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00:03:44.380 up to $200 off and two free pillows. MSNBC sees the glass half full. That's the same network,

00:03:52.060 by the way, that called the George Floyd riots mostly peaceful protests with the buildings burning

00:03:57.520 down behind them. Now they're saying this is a relatively peaceful takeover. I suppose as far as

00:04:01.660 takeovers go, it actually is relatively peaceful, meaning, yeah, they're executing lots of people

00:04:07.220 and beheading lots of people, but there's no major battle taking place in Kabul because the Afghan 0.96

00:04:11.460 military didn't even fight back and the American forces were leaving. The political leadership said

00:04:16.800 pull out of the country. The State Department taking a similarly optimistic view. So the State

00:04:23.440 Department spokesman Ned Price is confident in the ability of the United States to impel the Taliban

00:04:33.100 to have an inclusive government. Additionally, the UN Security Council issued a joint press statement

00:04:39.900 earlier today calling for a new government that is united, inclusive, and representative,

00:04:45.740 including with the full and meaningful participation of women. The Council spoke with one voice to

00:04:54.300 underscore that Afghanistan must abide by its international obligations, including to international

00:05:00.100 humanitarian law and ensure the safety and security of all Afghans and international citizens.

00:05:06.360 I'm sure that'll do it. It's done. It's over. I don't know why we spent 20 years in a military

00:05:11.980 occupation in Afghanistan when Ned Price could have just gotten on TV or, and frankly, he might still

00:05:18.620 do this, written a strongly worded letter to the Taliban and said, hey, dear Taliban, to whom it may

00:05:27.900 concern at the Taliban, we want you to elect women to your government. And if you don't, well, we're,

00:05:35.940 we in the international community will be very disappointed in you, Taliban. Okay. So maybe 1.00

00:05:42.820 think about that. Taliban, as far as I can tell, completely ignoring the demands of the United

00:05:50.600 States State Department. One CNN reporter observing on the ground, a CNN reporter who is now wearing a

00:05:57.520 hijab because otherwise she'll be killed. She is now wearing the hijab, but she's looking on the bright 1.00

00:06:02.380 side. She's saying, sure. You know, these guys seem pretty, they're saying mean things there.

00:06:08.100 They don't sound like they're going along with this, but they seem friendly enough.

00:06:14.040 They're just chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time. It's utterly bizarre.

00:06:20.740 Look, they're mostly friendly terrorists who want to destroy our country. Mostly friendly though.

00:06:27.780 And actually, I hate to give credit to CNN too, but in a way they do seem kind of friendly. In a way,

00:06:34.300 that's the scariest part. Because if you look at the clip, they're chanting, it's like, oh,

00:06:38.580 death to America. We took over the country. Oh, hey, buddy, buddy, habibi, death to America. 1.00

00:06:46.380 Gosh, it's bad. It's bad. It's not looking good. Seems like a contradiction, but there it is.

00:06:53.560 It's chanting death to America, but mostly friendly. A takeover of a country, but mostly

00:06:59.560 peaceful. If you like contradictions, by the way, you'll love Joe Biden's speech. Joe Biden

00:07:02.880 spoke yesterday. He finally left Camp David. He was ignoring the takeover of Afghanistan for several

00:07:08.540 days. The takeover of Afghanistan happened in exactly the way that he and his administration

00:07:12.880 said it would not happen. And so he finally addressed it. It was a very, very interesting speech.

00:07:19.180 It tells you a lot about Joe Biden and the state of the crumbling American empire.

00:07:23.380 The highlights. It did not begin in the strongest way.

00:07:30.080 My national security team and I have been closely monitoring the situation on the ground in Afghanistan

00:07:34.500 and moving quickly to execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every constituency,

00:07:41.540 including in contingency, including the rapid collapse we're seeing now.

00:07:47.000 So that's, I think within the first 10 seconds of the speech, of his slurred speech,

00:07:52.740 he confuses constituency with contingency. They're very, very different things, obviously.

00:07:59.220 And the ruling class in this country doesn't seem to have much of either of an actual constituency

00:08:05.220 that supports them or contingency plans because everything went wrong in Afghanistan.

00:08:09.260 The speech did get a little bit better from there. He made a point that I think is pretty

00:08:13.540 popular. He said, we now, as the official policy of the United States, will not nation build in every

00:08:22.960 despotic country around the world.

00:08:25.260 Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building.

00:08:29.420 It was never supposed to be creating a unified, centralized democracy.

00:08:34.440 Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what has always been,

00:08:41.420 preventing a terrorist attack on America's homeland.

00:08:44.960 I will not repeat the mistakes we've made in the past.

00:08:49.840 Mistake of staying and fighting indefinitely in a conflict that is not in the national interest of the United States.

00:08:56.040 So this is a direct contradiction of the Bush foreign policy.

00:09:01.580 The George W. Bush foreign policy is here. We played it yesterday on the show.

00:09:05.360 He articulated it in the second inaugural address.

00:09:07.860 He said, it is now in America's vital national interest to turn every country in the world into an America-style democracy.

00:09:17.520 It's not just our ideal.

00:09:19.940 Even that is a little bit Wilsonian to say that every other country in the world has to look exactly like we do, 0.96

00:09:25.260 and we're going to invade you if you don't. 0.50

00:09:27.280 But he went even further.

00:09:28.940 He said the justification, which was never really plausible,

00:09:32.300 is that any country that is not a Madisonian democracy poses an existential threat to the United States.

00:09:39.100 It's in our urgent national security interest to topple every government that does not resemble ours in the entire world.

00:09:46.420 It was a wild, I mean, it was more Wilsonian than Wilson. 1.00

00:09:50.720 It was more progressive than the wildest progressives.

00:09:53.100 But that came to define America's foreign policy and certainly the Republican Party's for years.

00:10:00.120 Joe Biden, along with Donald Trump, saying that is no longer our policy.

00:10:04.400 Along with George W. Bush, the first time he ran for president, by the way, who said we're not going to nation build.

00:10:09.320 This is a reversal of that policy.

00:10:10.980 OK.

00:10:11.260 And then, you know, you know what Biden had to.

00:10:14.720 There was no way he was going to give this speech without doing it.

00:10:16.880 He was not going to take responsibility for his disastrous exit.

00:10:21.480 He was not going to take responsibility for bungling the actual execution of this plan.

00:10:25.980 He was going to blame the bad orange man.

00:10:30.620 When I came into office, I inherited a deal that President Trump negotiated with the Taliban. 0.99

00:10:35.620 Under his agreement, U.S. forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021, just a little over three months after I took office.

00:10:48.600 U.S. forces had already drawn down during the Trump administration from roughly 15,500 American forces to 2,500 troops in country.

00:11:00.280 And the Taliban was at its strongest militarily since 2001.

00:11:07.640 The choice I had to make as your president was either to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season.

00:11:21.160 This is so pathetic.

00:11:23.060 It just looks so weak for the president of the United States to come out and say, it was not my fault.

00:11:28.200 It's everyone else's fault.

00:11:29.040 He also went on to blame the Afghan army.

00:11:30.780 It's Trump's fault.

00:11:31.920 It's the Afghan army's fault. 1.00

00:11:33.220 It's not my fault.

00:11:34.100 Please don't blame me.

00:11:35.080 It's just weak.

00:11:35.940 Already our country looks extremely weak because we bungled the withdrawal.

00:11:39.520 And now the president of the United States can't even man up and take responsibility.

00:11:43.080 So it was pathetic and it was a rough start to his speech.

00:11:47.520 But then, incredibly, he then went on to contradict everything he said.

00:11:51.460 And he doubled down on his decision and said he was proud of it.

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00:13:02.600 Joe Biden opens up his first remarks on Afghanistan by blaming everyone but him

00:13:08.120 and slurring his speech and mispronouncing words and it was really weak stuff.

00:13:11.040 But then at some point, I guess as his speechwriter was writing the speech, he realized, man, this is bad stuff.

00:13:16.200 Okay, I'm going to have to completely change course, make a 180-degree pivot and say that I stand by this decision and it was the right decision.

00:13:26.480 And Joe Biden actually starts to make a little bit more sense when he does that.

00:13:29.640 I stand squarely behind my decision.

00:13:33.840 After 20 years, I've learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.

00:13:43.380 That's why we're still there.

00:13:44.800 Here is absolutely right.

00:13:47.320 This is the point that all the people who say that we should have stayed in Afghanistan,

00:13:51.000 who are many people in the kind of liberal establishment and some people in the neoconservative establishment,

00:13:56.740 they're all sort of the same blob.

00:13:58.660 But the people who say we should have stayed in Afghanistan beyond this withdrawal and that it was a mistake to pull out.

00:14:06.180 The only logical conclusion of that is that we should stay in Afghanistan forever. 1.00

00:14:10.680 That's it.

00:14:11.700 I spoke to my friend Charles Kessler yesterday, who was giving his expert analysis of Afghanistan,

00:14:17.500 and he pointed out that to democratize Afghanistan, as was George W. Bush's mission, would take about 800 years probably.

00:14:27.120 It took 700 years from the Magna Carta in England to a full inclusive democracy,

00:14:33.460 the sort of thing that the State Department is talking about.

00:14:35.080 It took 700 years for the English.

00:14:36.580 I'm going to say the English were a little better suited for it and their political institutions were better suited for it.

00:14:42.820 It wasn't imposed by an invading force.

00:14:44.820 But let's say 700, 800 years for the Afghans.

00:14:49.820 Are we going to stay in Afghanistan for 800 years?

00:14:52.420 Maybe some people think we should.

00:14:53.820 Maybe some people believe that we should just hold Afghanistan as an imperial territory forever.

00:14:59.940 Okay.

00:15:02.980 Notice, though, how the people who think we should have stayed in Afghanistan, they never admit that.

00:15:06.760 They never admit that that's what they're really saying because they know the American people don't want it because 70% of the Americans wanted to get out of Afghanistan because we don't want to have an overseas empire because we still view ourselves as a republic and a nation state that doesn't just govern the entire world.

00:15:19.600 And maybe that's right, and maybe that's wrong, and maybe we have to be a world empire, but that's the way the situation stands.

00:15:25.100 And so Joe Biden's saying, you know, five more years, 10 more years wouldn't have made a difference.

00:15:31.140 But if Afghanistan is unable to mount any real resistance of the Taliban now, there is no chance that one year, one more year, five more years, or 20 more years of U.S. military boots on the ground would have made any difference.

00:15:48.700 That part is absolutely right.

00:15:51.980 That part is absolutely right.

00:15:53.260 I hate to say that Joe Biden got it, you know, like a stop clock twice a day.

00:15:56.700 He got that part right.

00:15:58.220 And I think a lot of conservatives understand that, too.

00:16:00.980 Five more years wasn't going to do anything.

00:16:02.740 20 more years wasn't going to do anything.

00:16:04.340 800 more years might have done something.

00:16:06.640 Do we want to do that?

00:16:07.720 We want to be, we want to run Afghanistan for 800 years. 0.98

00:16:10.360 We want to be there.

00:16:11.360 Not, not like we're in Germany, not like we're in South Korea, even.

00:16:15.880 Those, those, if we withdrew, those places wouldn't completely collapse.

00:16:21.240 Even before we got there, those places did have some kind of a political tradition.

00:16:26.220 Afghanistan does not. 0.99

00:16:28.220 Afghanistan is a group of warring tribes that have been killing each other and repelling invaders for a very, very long time.

00:16:35.120 With no political tradition of democracy or, or whatever else you want to install there.

00:16:44.500 Wouldn't it, it basically always kind of would have looked like this.

00:16:48.260 I mean, but Biden bungled it.

00:16:49.680 There's no question about that.

00:16:51.680 But the just a few more years brigade, I think is not being totally honest here.

00:16:57.520 Then Biden goes back to his ridiculous, mealy-mouthed excuse making.

00:17:03.120 You know, there were a lot of excuses in this speech, but I think his excuse for the scenes that are going on right now of people falling off of airplanes,

00:17:12.220 scrambling, of, of helicopters lifting people out of the embassy, of all these sorts of things.

00:17:17.160 That one took the cake. 1.00

00:17:19.860 We're taking over air traffic control.

00:17:22.820 We have safely shut down our embassy and transferred our diplomats.

00:17:28.800 Our diplomatic presence is now consolidated at the airport as well.

00:17:35.240 Our diplomatic presence is now consolidated at the airport.

00:17:40.380 That is a really clever way of saying that the Taliban ran you out of your embassy,

00:17:45.140 chased you down to the airport with thousands of Afghans,

00:17:48.260 and they were clinging to your planes as they were taking off.

00:17:53.040 And that, and then of course afterward, after he gave this speech, which was pathetic,

00:17:57.420 it didn't, it didn't satisfy anybody.

00:17:59.800 I felt frankly, it was just about the best he could do.

00:18:02.720 After he gave the speech, he didn't take a single question.

00:18:06.480 I know my decision will be criticized,

00:18:08.460 but I would rather take all that criticism

00:18:12.700 than pass this decision on to another president of the United States,

00:18:18.080 yet another one, a fifth one.

00:18:21.020 Because it's the right one.

00:18:22.620 It's the right decision for our people.

00:18:25.120 The right one for our brave service members

00:18:27.840 who risked their lives serving our nation.

00:18:29.680 And it's the right one for America. 0.91

00:18:33.640 Thank you.

00:18:35.260 May God protect our troops, our diplomats,

00:18:38.280 and all brave Americans serving in harm's way.

00:18:46.580 Thank you.

00:18:48.280 I'm brave.

00:18:49.360 I'm strong.

00:18:50.300 I'm making the right decision.

00:18:52.200 And I'm not going to take a single question.

00:18:53.740 Bye.

00:18:54.020 And then he went right back to Camp David.

00:18:55.180 He went right back to vacation.

00:18:56.440 Even still, did you notice the trick of this whole speech?

00:19:02.300 You notice the trick of this whole speech is

00:19:04.560 Joe Biden didn't answer the question.

00:19:09.160 The question that prompted this speech was,

00:19:12.560 why did the administration bungle the withdrawal from Afghanistan?

00:19:17.320 Why did this go basically as poorly as it possibly could have,

00:19:20.660 not even by our own standards,

00:19:22.060 but by the Biden administration's standards?

00:19:24.000 The Biden administration said,

00:19:24.920 the Taliban wasn't going to come take over right away.

00:19:27.080 The Biden administration said it wasn't going to happen from a Friday to a Monday.

00:19:30.220 The Biden administration said,

00:19:31.520 we're not going to see helicopters like Saigon.

00:19:33.420 That's exactly what we saw.

00:19:35.640 But he wouldn't answer it.

00:19:36.840 He didn't even address that question.

00:19:38.940 Because Joe Biden is a good politician.

00:19:42.900 He is.

00:19:43.920 He, you, I don't think he's intelligent.

00:19:46.160 I don't think he's particularly moral.

00:19:48.000 I don't think he's competent when it comes to actual statecraft.

00:19:53.560 But when it comes to being a politician,

00:19:57.100 the guy is a genius.

00:19:58.600 And I know,

00:19:59.080 I know that some Republicans push back at me on this,

00:20:01.660 but the guy has lasted in national politics for 50 years.

00:20:06.140 Even being a bumbling buffoon,

00:20:08.700 the guy managed to get himself picked to be vice president.

00:20:11.660 The guy managed to become president of the United States.

00:20:14.380 He didn't even campaign.

00:20:15.160 The guy didn't even campaign last year.

00:20:17.920 He became president.

00:20:19.780 And what he is pursuing here is the number one rule of political communications,

00:20:25.740 which is don't answer the question you are asked.

00:20:29.720 Answer the question that you want to answer.

00:20:32.880 You see this, good politicians do this on TV all the time.

00:20:36.700 Good journalists call them out for it,

00:20:38.160 but good, good politicians do this in their speeches.

00:20:41.100 And so instead of saying,

00:20:42.660 hey, here's the explanation of why we bungled this withdrawal,

00:20:46.240 he said, hey, I think we should pull out of Afghanistan. 1.00

00:20:49.180 Yet, duh, 70% of Americans agree with you on that.

00:20:51.660 There's nothing courageous about offering that point of view.

00:20:55.740 We've already settled that question.

00:20:57.340 The question is, why did it not work?

00:21:00.300 Then he goes right back to vacation.

00:21:03.340 And now you know the next question.

00:21:04.880 You know the next question is,

00:21:06.800 how many refugees can we take in?

00:21:08.520 Okay, we went in, we bungled Afghanistan, 0.81

00:21:11.660 we accomplished virtually nothing in 20 years

00:21:13.880 because of failed political leadership.

00:21:15.760 And now we're going to take in tens of thousands,

00:21:18.860 maybe hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees.

00:21:22.920 These are people who are not being vetted

00:21:24.540 from one of the most terrorist-laden countries on planet Earth. 0.78

00:21:28.300 We're just going to take them in. 0.67

00:21:29.620 That's a good idea, right?

00:21:31.460 Ann Coulter made this point,

00:21:33.300 and other people have said it over the years.

00:21:34.860 She said the strategy is invade the world, invite the world.

00:21:37.600 Well, that's what we're doing.

00:21:39.520 We invade the world, we disrupt things like in Libya, like in Syria, 1.00

00:21:42.860 and then we bring all of those refugees,

00:21:46.460 we bring all of these foreign nationals to America.

00:21:49.700 Is that a good idea?

00:21:50.940 I don't know.

00:21:51.460 It doesn't seem like the wisest idea.

00:21:52.860 Actually, even many more liberal left-wing countries in Europe

00:21:56.780 are pushing back.

00:21:58.400 They're saying, absolutely not.

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00:23:30.520 The United States is preparing to take in tens of thousands,

00:23:44.880 if not hundreds of thousands of people from Afghanistan

00:23:47.340 on the idea that you broke it, you buy it.

00:23:51.220 You know, frankly, I don't think the United States broke Afghanistan.

00:23:54.280 Actually, Afghanistan today is exactly the same as when we found it. 0.99

00:23:57.560 Although they got a little slap on the wrist for 20 years

00:24:00.820 and we put the Taliban out of power for them.

00:24:03.240 But it's not as though the country is in worse shape today

00:24:06.560 than before we invaded.

00:24:08.920 We invaded in 20 years ago now, in 2001,

00:24:13.420 because the Taliban had allowed terrorist cells to flourish there.

00:24:20.840 We kicked out the Taliban government.

00:24:23.540 We occupied the country militarily for 20 years

00:24:26.020 with varying degrees of success.

00:24:27.520 And then we left and now the Taliban is back.

00:24:30.220 So I actually don't want to hear that we've left the country worse off

00:24:33.100 than we found it.

00:24:34.060 We didn't leave it much better off.

00:24:35.620 We left it exactly the same.

00:24:37.500 And the argument is going to be now we've got to take in

00:24:39.460 endless numbers of Afghan citizens to come into the United States.

00:24:43.280 This seems kind of crazy to me because, one,

00:24:48.940 if the Afghans are not going to stay and fight for their own country, 0.92

00:24:52.080 then should they at least go to countries in the region?

00:24:56.540 We have a lot of allies in the region.

00:24:57.820 Why don't they go to nearby countries

00:24:59.140 and then plan their assault back on the oppressive regime in their own country?

00:25:03.720 Why don't they fight for their countries, is what I'm saying.

00:25:06.200 The argument you hear from the liberal imperialists is,

00:25:08.500 well, these people, they fought for us, they helped us,

00:25:13.240 and now we've got to bring them to the United States.

00:25:15.340 As though the Afghans have no interests of their own, 1.00

00:25:20.040 as though their helping the United States was just pure charity.

00:25:23.260 It was charity to the United States.

00:25:24.560 I appreciate their help.

00:25:25.820 I am glad for the Afghans who helped the government of the United States

00:25:29.480 to accomplish some of its objectives.

00:25:32.300 But they're not just a charity case here.

00:25:35.980 They made a strategic decision.

00:25:37.480 They believed that it was in their interest,

00:25:39.680 in their personal and national interest,

00:25:41.560 to ally with the United States.

00:25:43.240 And they did that.

00:25:44.380 And now the United States is leaving after 20 long years.

00:25:47.560 And so Afghanistan does need to form its own country.

00:25:51.940 Afghanistan does need to defend itself at a certain point.

00:25:55.240 And the people there need to stay and fight for their country. 0.92

00:25:57.200 And if they're not going to,

00:25:58.100 they should at least stay in countries nearby.

00:26:00.520 Why don't they go to Iraq, another country that we invaded? 1.00

00:26:03.240 Why don't they go to Syria? 1.00

00:26:04.540 I don't know.

00:26:05.100 Why don't they go to any of our allies in the region?

00:26:08.640 Why don't they go to Saudi Arabia?

00:26:09.960 Why don't they go to Israel? 1.00

00:26:10.920 Why don't they go to places around,

00:26:12.820 at least in the general area of the Levant,

00:26:15.440 so that they can go back into Afghanistan 1.00

00:26:18.540 when the time is right and defend their country?

00:26:21.060 You just don't see it.

00:26:22.880 The United States is expected, 1.00

00:26:24.140 the United States and Europe are expected

00:26:25.780 to take in all of the world's refugees,

00:26:27.820 which is why the movement of people into the United States

00:26:30.220 over the last 60 years

00:26:31.120 is the largest movement of human beings ever in recorded history.

00:26:34.060 So some people,

00:26:35.380 even in far left countries like France,

00:26:37.460 are wising up to this.

00:26:39.620 Emmanuel Macron,

00:26:40.780 who is a liberal leader,

00:26:42.240 sort of technocrat leader of France,

00:26:44.820 he said,

00:26:45.940 we've got to make sure

00:26:47.400 that we don't,

00:26:49.780 we aren't expected to take in all of the refugees.

00:26:52.840 I'd play the clip,

00:26:53.740 but it's in silly French, you know,

00:26:54.920 and there's no reason to put that language on the show.

00:26:57.140 Okay, you get the idea.

00:27:02.960 He's like,

00:27:03.440 blah, blah, blah,

00:27:04.020 moi j'aime les croissantes,

00:27:05.240 ces sont très bons.

00:27:06.580 But what he says,

00:27:07.700 it's important what he says.

00:27:09.400 He says,

00:27:10.540 the situation,

00:27:11.260 we're monitoring the situation in Afghanistan,

00:27:13.380 and we need to make sure

00:27:15.540 that we are protecting

00:27:17.480 against an influx of migrants 1.00

00:27:19.940 that are going to be coming.

00:27:21.000 We can't do that.

00:27:22.040 We can't take in all the migrants 1.00

00:27:23.920 from everywhere else in the world

00:27:25.240 because then we're going to lose our own country

00:27:26.700 and our own civilization

00:27:27.380 is the implication.

00:27:28.400 He doesn't go quite that far

00:27:29.400 in his conclusion,

00:27:30.320 but that's obviously the implication here.

00:27:32.060 By the way,

00:27:32.560 it's not just the Afghans 0.99

00:27:34.020 who want to come into America.

00:27:36.340 It's the Americans

00:27:37.200 who are stuck in Afghanistan.

00:27:38.460 Right now,

00:27:38.800 there are,

00:27:39.340 quote,

00:27:39.680 this is according to reports,

00:27:41.020 thousands of U.S. citizens

00:27:42.620 trapped in Kabul

00:27:43.540 with no ability

00:27:44.480 to get to the airport.

00:27:46.240 The Taliban right now

00:27:47.000 is going door to door

00:27:47.800 looking for Westerners.

00:27:49.520 Door to door.

00:27:50.740 This is a major crisis.

00:27:52.140 We're stranding

00:27:52.840 thousands of Americans there.

00:27:55.240 We should not be considering

00:27:57.100 the ways in which we evacuate

00:28:00.220 one single Afghan citizen

00:28:01.960 before we get all of the American citizens

00:28:03.960 out of Afghanistan.

00:28:04.960 I'm not saying we can't take in any Afghans

00:28:06.740 on a limited basis,

00:28:08.980 but surely the priority

00:28:10.860 has to be the Americans, 0.73

00:28:12.540 not the Afghans. 0.98

00:28:14.400 And I think this confusion

00:28:16.380 represents the broader confusion

00:28:18.560 brought up by Afghanistan.

00:28:19.920 Namely,

00:28:20.520 are we a nation

00:28:21.380 that has citizens

00:28:22.820 where the government

00:28:23.780 has a special responsibility

00:28:24.900 to the citizens?

00:28:25.860 Or are we a liberal empire

00:28:27.320 that has no special responsibility

00:28:28.680 to Americans

00:28:29.320 that actually is just promoting

00:28:30.760 universal values

00:28:31.860 all over the world

00:28:32.660 because we're the world's,

00:28:33.980 we're the world's only superpower,

00:28:35.760 we're the only,

00:28:36.220 the world's only power,

00:28:37.540 if these people are to be believed,

00:28:39.280 and no distinction is to be made

00:28:40.680 between a citizen of Afghanistan

00:28:41.920 and a citizen of the United States

00:28:44.120 and a citizen of Mexico

00:28:44.940 and a citizen of El Salvador.

00:28:46.180 It's all sort of the same.

00:28:47.760 If anything,

00:28:48.980 if anything,

00:28:49.620 the liberal imperialists

00:28:51.040 treat foreign nationals 1.00

00:28:53.400 with greater care

00:28:54.920 than they do

00:28:56.260 the citizens of the United States.

00:28:59.240 Speaking of which,

00:29:00.320 I think this is why

00:29:01.040 Juan Williams,

00:29:02.660 liberal commentator,

00:29:04.140 liberal commentator on Fox News,

00:29:05.480 but he's still a liberal commentator,

00:29:07.680 is now proposing

00:29:08.720 in a column in the Hilt

00:29:10.020 to prevent Donald Trump

00:29:13.300 from ever running

00:29:15.120 for president again.

00:29:17.400 Here's the column.

00:29:18.700 Let's agree.

00:29:19.300 Former President Trump

00:29:20.320 is running again.

00:29:21.800 He's got a ton of money

00:29:22.780 in his war chest.

00:29:25.040 People are,

00:29:25.580 you know,

00:29:25.940 liberals are trying to sue him

00:29:27.380 for various things

00:29:28.260 or investigations,

00:29:29.180 but none of that is likely

00:29:30.000 to stop him

00:29:30.500 from launching Trump 24.

00:29:33.400 But Attorney General Merrick Garland

00:29:34.900 might be able to stop him.

00:29:36.180 Garland has the power

00:29:36.980 to rule out another Trump run

00:29:38.180 by citing Section 3

00:29:39.160 of the 14th Amendment,

00:29:40.280 which bars anyone

00:29:40.920 from holding office

00:29:41.560 who engaged in insurrection

00:29:42.640 against the United States.

00:29:45.080 This,

00:29:45.580 this,

00:29:45.860 therefore,

00:29:48.280 what Williams

00:29:49.220 is citing right here

00:29:49.980 is advice from a leftist,

00:29:51.520 Robert Reich,

00:29:52.080 who was a former labor secretary.

00:29:53.460 And so Williams says

00:29:54.220 if Garland takes Reich's advice,

00:29:56.300 he is sure

00:29:57.700 to set off alarms

00:29:58.700 about the Attorney General

00:29:59.840 playing politics.

00:30:00.920 But Garland has the facts

00:30:01.900 on his side.

00:30:02.760 So you just declare

00:30:04.120 that Trump

00:30:05.040 staged an insurrection

00:30:06.360 and then you prevent him

00:30:07.920 from running again.

00:30:10.740 Now,

00:30:11.060 the issue,

00:30:12.300 of course,

00:30:12.540 is that Trump

00:30:13.000 did not do this

00:30:14.020 at all.

00:30:15.660 I don't think

00:30:15.980 there's any argument.

00:30:16.680 No one's even really suggested it

00:30:18.160 until Juan Williams'

00:30:20.060 you know,

00:30:20.620 Hail Mary here

00:30:21.260 to stop Trump

00:30:21.920 from running again.

00:30:24.120 Think about what this means

00:30:25.780 for the election.

00:30:28.480 We were told

00:30:29.460 that Donald Trump

00:30:31.280 got trounced.

00:30:32.760 Oh,

00:30:33.040 he lost by more votes

00:30:34.320 than any president ever.

00:30:36.360 Joe Biden

00:30:37.100 got the most votes

00:30:38.280 of any guy

00:30:38.900 who ever ran for president.

00:30:40.320 Trump got crushed.

00:30:42.160 It wasn't even close.

00:30:44.440 And that's why

00:30:45.060 we need to rewrite

00:30:45.840 the Constitution

00:30:46.500 to prevent him

00:30:47.340 from ever appearing

00:30:47.980 on a ballot again.

00:30:49.800 You see the contradiction here.

00:30:52.440 You see how they're

00:30:53.040 kind of undermining

00:30:53.700 their own art.

00:30:54.320 Trump is so unpopular

00:30:55.980 that the American people

00:30:58.260 elected this vegetable

00:30:59.520 who can't pronounce

00:31:00.260 his own name,

00:31:01.000 Joe Biden.

00:31:01.720 They elected him

00:31:03.140 by the widest number

00:31:04.620 of votes ever.

00:31:05.280 And that's why

00:31:06.840 we need to fundamentally

00:31:08.060 reorder our

00:31:09.140 constitutional republic

00:31:10.240 to make sure

00:31:11.040 that people never

00:31:11.660 have the chance

00:31:12.160 to vote for Trump again.

00:31:13.440 Seems to me

00:31:14.420 like they know

00:31:15.720 that Trump

00:31:16.060 is actually pretty popular.

00:31:18.100 Seems to me

00:31:18.860 that they know

00:31:19.420 that Joe Biden

00:31:20.160 is actually not

00:31:20.760 very popular.

00:31:22.860 Seems to me

00:31:23.680 that the people

00:31:24.260 who are proposing

00:31:25.380 an insurrection,

00:31:26.340 a coup d'etat,

00:31:27.160 an upending

00:31:27.580 of our republic

00:31:28.340 are the people

00:31:30.020 on the left.

00:31:31.120 The left

00:31:32.960 is not very popular

00:31:33.720 right now.

00:31:35.040 Among the ruling class 0.60

00:31:36.680 it's obviously

00:31:37.200 that they're the same thing

00:31:38.620 but among the American people

00:31:40.340 not very popular.

00:31:41.900 There's a new CBS poll

00:31:42.880 over in California.

00:31:44.800 Gavin Newsom,

00:31:46.620 democratic governor

00:31:47.600 in a democratic state,

00:31:50.960 as democratic a state

00:31:52.280 as ever there was

00:31:53.480 where republicans

00:31:55.080 are outregistered

00:31:56.800 by huge,

00:31:58.580 huge margins.

00:31:59.440 Right now,

00:32:01.700 the campaign

00:32:02.200 to recall

00:32:03.060 Democrat governor

00:32:03.880 Gavin Newsom

00:32:04.440 basically 50-50.

00:32:07.320 CBS News YouGov poll

00:32:08.520 released on Sunday

00:32:09.220 shows 48%

00:32:10.080 of likely California voters

00:32:11.260 want to recall Newsom.

00:32:13.100 52% oppose his removal.

00:32:16.200 And here's the kicker,

00:32:17.800 the margin of error

00:32:18.580 is 4%.

00:32:19.420 So this is statistically

00:32:22.400 a dead heat.

00:32:23.980 That is shocking.

00:32:26.640 In a place

00:32:27.660 where democrats

00:32:28.460 outnumber republicans

00:32:29.420 two to one

00:32:30.280 or more

00:32:30.860 you've got

00:32:33.000 the recall question

00:32:34.240 for the governor

00:32:35.380 at 50-50.

00:32:37.780 And so

00:32:38.060 the way that the recall

00:32:39.200 election works is

00:32:39.960 the voters will have a choice

00:32:41.460 recall or don't recall.

00:32:43.180 If they vote to recall him

00:32:44.500 then the first guy

00:32:46.000 they're going to

00:32:46.360 then the second question

00:32:47.560 is going to be

00:32:48.080 who should replace him

00:32:49.240 and there's going to be

00:32:49.900 a list of a lot of candidates.

00:32:51.680 But the guy who gets

00:32:52.660 the most votes

00:32:53.200 on that list

00:32:53.880 will just be the governor.

00:32:56.500 That's how it works.

00:32:57.440 Which means

00:32:59.100 that libertarian

00:33:02.500 conservative radio host

00:33:04.780 Larry Elder

00:33:05.800 could very possibly

00:33:08.040 be the next governor

00:33:09.340 of California.

00:33:10.220 Gavin Newsom knows that

00:33:11.180 which is why he is now

00:33:12.400 going after Elder

00:33:13.180 by name.

00:33:14.300 What could happen

00:33:16.020 on election day

00:33:17.020 if we don't turn out

00:33:18.420 in historic numbers

00:33:19.960 to vote no

00:33:20.540 on this recall?

00:33:21.320 You have someone

00:33:22.160 that's not just opposed

00:33:24.580 to a woman's right 0.99

00:33:25.240 to choose.

00:33:26.280 He is.

00:33:27.640 But actually wrote an op-ed

00:33:28.860 saying women are not

00:33:29.680 as smart as men.

00:33:31.500 On issues of civic affairs

00:33:32.740 on issues of economics

00:33:33.820 on issues of politics.

00:33:36.360 He's someone

00:33:36.900 that doesn't believe

00:33:38.200 in assault weapons banning.

00:33:40.100 Someone that doesn't believe

00:33:41.340 in a corporate tax

00:33:42.280 should be zero.

00:33:43.680 Doesn't even believe

00:33:44.400 in a minimum wage.

00:33:46.120 Fight for 15.

00:33:47.780 He doesn't believe

00:33:48.480 there should be

00:33:49.160 a minimum wage.

00:33:49.920 It should be zero dollars.

00:33:51.080 Doesn't believe

00:33:51.860 the time of historic

00:33:53.480 wildfires and droughts.

00:33:55.640 The challenges

00:33:56.540 we all face here

00:33:57.580 in the Bay Area.

00:33:58.480 The looming prospects

00:33:59.460 of an earthquake.

00:34:01.240 Doesn't even believe

00:34:01.940 in FEMA.

00:34:02.780 Think FEMA should be eliminated.

00:34:04.660 As he does

00:34:05.520 the elimination

00:34:07.200 of Social Security

00:34:08.000 as we know it.

00:34:08.480 Wants to privatize.

00:34:09.360 Wants to cut Medicaid.

00:34:10.320 Wants to cut Medicare.

00:34:12.060 I can go down a list.

00:34:13.540 He's to the right

00:34:14.340 of Donald Trump.

00:34:16.540 To the right

00:34:17.480 of Donald Trump.

00:34:18.660 Alright, this is preposterous.

00:34:20.620 It's just not true.

00:34:22.620 Larry Elder

00:34:23.240 is not to the right

00:34:24.220 of Donald Trump.

00:34:24.880 I wish he were.

00:34:25.900 I really like Larry Elder

00:34:26.880 but he's a little libertarian

00:34:28.120 compared to the rest of us.

00:34:30.980 He is still,

00:34:31.960 I think, by far

00:34:32.560 the best candidate

00:34:33.280 to replace Newsom

00:34:34.060 because he's got

00:34:34.520 the name recognition.

00:34:35.700 He's got the ability

00:34:36.440 to raise money.

00:34:37.020 He's got the ability

00:34:37.520 actually to do it

00:34:38.560 and he's pretty good.

00:34:39.840 He would be such a vast

00:34:40.900 improvement over Newsom.

00:34:41.840 It's not even funny.

00:34:44.280 But the hyperbole

00:34:45.360 is so preposterous.

00:34:46.240 He's to the right

00:34:46.900 of Donald.

00:34:47.180 He's a libertarian.

00:34:49.520 Donald Trump,

00:34:51.040 Donald Trump's politics

00:34:52.140 are a little complicated

00:34:52.960 but he has,

00:34:54.280 I think,

00:34:54.460 a little bit more

00:34:55.080 of a conservative gut.

00:34:57.860 Larry Elder

00:34:58.340 is certainly more

00:34:59.060 of a libertarian gut.

00:35:00.760 What this shows

00:35:01.540 is not only

00:35:02.660 that Gavin Newsom

00:35:03.340 is dishonest. 0.66

00:35:04.480 What this shows

00:35:05.340 is that Gavin Newsom

00:35:06.900 is terrified

00:35:08.380 of Larry Elder.

00:35:09.880 Terrified.

00:35:10.500 Because

00:35:10.900 Kevin Faulconer,

00:35:12.940 he might be a great

00:35:13.980 Republican down there

00:35:14.960 in San Diego

00:35:15.520 but he's just not

00:35:16.360 raising the money.

00:35:17.060 He doesn't have

00:35:17.440 the name recognition.

00:35:18.340 John Cox already ran

00:35:19.220 against Gavin Newsom

00:35:20.980 last time.

00:35:22.180 Didn't work out.

00:35:22.980 He got trounced.

00:35:24.200 And a lot of the

00:35:25.720 other Republicans

00:35:26.240 don't even know

00:35:26.620 their names.

00:35:28.060 And then the only

00:35:28.780 other one whose name

00:35:29.460 we know is Bruce Jenner

00:35:30.560 who says he's not loyal

00:35:33.300 to the Republican Party.

00:35:34.620 He doesn't have

00:35:35.080 particularly conservative views.

00:35:36.600 Actually he says

00:35:37.160 he's loyal to his community

00:35:38.180 meaning the LGBT community

00:35:39.520 with an emphasis on the T.

00:35:40.900 That's the most

00:35:42.120 conservative candidate

00:35:42.940 we can put up.

00:35:43.740 A guy who's number one

00:35:44.680 issue is pretending

00:35:46.220 that men can be women

00:35:47.080 and women can be men. 0.70

00:35:49.720 A man who's 0.89

00:35:50.580 obviously suffering

00:35:51.560 from a great deal

00:35:52.580 of confusion

00:35:53.160 about elemental

00:35:54.260 aspects of the world.

00:35:56.040 So that was going

00:35:56.640 to be a joke.

00:35:57.280 That was the Democrats

00:35:58.080 best hope was that

00:35:59.200 Bruce Jenner becomes

00:36:00.380 the number one candidate

00:36:01.240 and then Newsom

00:36:02.960 you know just marches

00:36:04.020 back into the

00:36:04.500 governor's mansion.

00:36:05.680 And then along

00:36:06.200 came Larry Elder.

00:36:07.920 Larry Elder

00:36:08.560 actually offered

00:36:09.740 voters a choice.

00:36:11.400 He might not be

00:36:12.000 as far right

00:36:12.740 as people wish

00:36:13.760 that he were.

00:36:14.680 But especially

00:36:15.220 given that it's

00:36:15.840 California

00:36:16.420 especially given

00:36:17.580 this particular race

00:36:18.680 that's real.

00:36:20.220 I mean you can see

00:36:20.920 Newsom sweating.

00:36:21.820 It was even in that

00:36:22.480 interview at the

00:36:23.020 Sacramento Bee

00:36:23.700 where he just lost

00:36:24.700 his temper.

00:36:25.180 He goes this damn

00:36:25.800 state.

00:36:26.740 I'm not getting

00:36:27.300 enough damn credit.

00:36:28.140 People everyone here

00:36:29.160 they're all complaining

00:36:30.300 about me.

00:36:30.940 They're jealous of me.

00:36:31.880 They're jealous of my

00:36:32.700 success.

00:36:34.600 But they are

00:36:35.600 they're not.

00:36:37.040 They're not.

00:36:37.380 People are fed up

00:36:38.060 with that.

00:36:38.460 The people I think

00:36:39.700 the American people

00:36:40.540 and even the people

00:36:41.840 of California

00:36:42.380 are fed up

00:36:43.220 with the failed

00:36:44.120 leadership of the

00:36:45.180 ruling class

00:36:45.920 which has hollowed

00:36:47.340 out our country

00:36:47.940 not just for the

00:36:48.900 tenure of Gavin Newsom

00:36:49.800 but for decades now.

00:36:53.060 There's some great

00:36:53.800 governors in this

00:36:54.380 country

00:36:54.720 even with the

00:36:56.340 Cuomos

00:36:56.660 even with the

00:36:57.420 Newsoms

00:36:57.740 there's some

00:36:58.580 great governors

00:36:59.060 including

00:36:59.600 my own governor

00:37:01.460 Bill Lee

00:37:02.180 here in Tennessee.

00:37:04.180 Governor Bill Lee

00:37:05.020 just issued an

00:37:06.260 executive order

00:37:07.000 on masks

00:37:07.900 in schools

00:37:08.660 and Governor Lee

00:37:11.200 presented it in this

00:37:12.180 way.

00:37:12.400 He said quote

00:37:12.740 no one cares more

00:37:13.760 about the health

00:37:14.240 and well-being

00:37:14.660 of a child

00:37:15.740 than a parent.

00:37:16.840 I am signing

00:37:17.440 an executive order

00:37:18.240 today that allows

00:37:19.000 parents to opt

00:37:19.840 to their children

00:37:20.420 out of a school

00:37:21.160 mask mandate

00:37:21.860 if either a school

00:37:23.100 board or health

00:37:23.800 board enacts one

00:37:24.920 over a district.

00:37:26.660 This is good stuff.

00:37:28.240 This is good

00:37:29.260 governing.

00:37:30.000 It's smart.

00:37:32.220 The thing that's

00:37:32.820 really smart here

00:37:33.560 is he's not going

00:37:34.300 all the way

00:37:35.240 and saying I ban

00:37:36.660 school districts

00:37:38.340 from even

00:37:38.940 enacting a mask

00:37:40.120 mandate.

00:37:40.600 I sort of would

00:37:41.100 prefer that frankly

00:37:42.140 because I want to

00:37:42.760 send a very clear

00:37:43.460 message but this

00:37:44.520 is politically

00:37:45.100 going to be a lot

00:37:46.000 easier to implement

00:37:46.960 because what he's

00:37:47.760 saying is okay

00:37:48.380 school boards

00:37:48.920 yeah sure

00:37:49.420 yeah you can

00:37:50.600 institute whatever

00:37:51.580 mandates you want

00:37:52.580 guys but I'm

00:37:54.400 signing an order

00:37:55.020 that anyone that

00:37:55.780 wants to can opt

00:37:56.480 out of it.

00:37:58.180 And by doing that

00:37:59.040 he's just completely

00:38:00.480 gutted their power.

00:38:02.520 It's almost more

00:38:03.820 humiliating because

00:38:04.740 they can pass their

00:38:05.500 mandates but the

00:38:06.080 mandates won't have

00:38:06.640 any teeth and this

00:38:07.240 is absolutely right.

00:38:08.620 It is child abuse

00:38:10.060 to force little

00:38:11.400 kids to muzzle

00:38:12.540 themselves for

00:38:14.080 what now years

00:38:14.980 on end.

00:38:15.480 We were told it

00:38:15.860 was 15 days now

00:38:16.700 it's going to be

00:38:17.100 years on end.

00:38:18.920 It's wrong.

00:38:20.600 It's not good for

00:38:21.520 them psychologically.

00:38:22.800 It's not good for

00:38:23.340 them spiritually.

00:38:24.300 It's not good for

00:38:24.740 them politically and

00:38:25.800 dare I say it

00:38:26.840 it's probably not all

00:38:28.620 that great for them

00:38:29.480 medically either to

00:38:31.660 just have some filthy

00:38:32.440 cloth over your face

00:38:33.300 all the time.

00:38:33.720 Just ask Dr. Fauci

00:38:34.480 about that.

00:38:34.880 Great stuff out of

00:38:36.820 Tennessee.

00:38:37.220 Now some other

00:38:39.460 people outside the

00:38:40.260 governor's mansion

00:38:40.860 are not so happy

00:38:43.100 about the Republican

00:38:44.360 rule in this state.

00:38:48.400 You've got you've got

00:38:49.640 the people who want

00:38:51.300 the good conservative

00:38:52.160 government and then

00:38:53.280 you've got the ruling

00:38:53.940 class and the ruling

00:38:54.780 class is very often

00:38:55.960 not even elected.

00:38:56.800 They're usually just

00:38:57.360 the bureaucrats and the

00:38:58.320 Fauci's of the world.

00:38:59.240 They're the technocrats

00:39:00.060 who are unaccountable

00:39:01.180 to the people who

00:39:01.800 can just tell you

00:39:02.320 what to do and they

00:39:03.040 think that you ought

00:39:03.620 to just follow them

00:39:04.680 regardless of their

00:39:05.960 whims and their

00:39:06.460 caprices.

00:39:07.200 So the top Tennessee

00:39:08.160 public health official

00:39:09.020 is very upset that

00:39:10.780 people are not

00:39:11.380 listening to her

00:39:12.540 demands and so she

00:39:14.440 is now claiming that

00:39:15.840 she was sent a

00:39:16.660 threatening package.

00:39:18.400 She is the top 0.58

00:39:19.760 vaccine official in

00:39:20.820 Tennessee Michelle

00:39:21.820 Fiscus.

00:39:22.480 She is claiming that

00:39:23.460 she was sent a

00:39:24.880 muzzle.

00:39:26.120 This was one week

00:39:27.080 before she was fired

00:39:28.000 from her position.

00:39:29.900 That's pretty bad.

00:39:30.560 So then there was

00:39:30.980 an investigation into

00:39:32.020 this taken up by the

00:39:33.420 Tennessee Department of

00:39:34.220 Safety and Homeland

00:39:34.920 Security and you know

00:39:36.340 what I found out?

00:39:37.840 Found out that

00:39:38.900 Michelle Fiscus sent

00:39:41.620 the package to

00:39:42.380 herself and this

00:39:43.920 happens so so

00:39:46.780 often not just with

00:39:49.920 claims from public

00:39:51.660 health people but with

00:39:52.740 people who are

00:39:53.180 claiming racist

00:39:54.100 attacks people claiming

00:39:55.120 sexist attacks.

00:39:56.020 time and time and

00:39:58.680 time again it turns

00:39:59.480 out to be a hoax

00:40:00.180 perpetrated by the

00:40:01.000 people themselves.

00:40:01.740 And Jussie Smollett,

00:40:02.560 this woman, the top 1.00

00:40:03.900 Tennessee health, former

00:40:04.740 top Tennessee health

00:40:05.460 doctor, health official

00:40:07.260 rather, is the Jussie

00:40:09.400 Smollett of Tennessee

00:40:11.020 sending the package to

00:40:13.660 herself.

00:40:14.060 It wasn't even hard to

00:40:15.380 find it out.

00:40:15.940 It was an Amazon

00:40:16.700 account that she

00:40:18.080 opened up and it was

00:40:18.940 purchased on a credit

00:40:20.380 card in her name.

00:40:22.440 State said the case was

00:40:23.320 closed on Monday.

00:40:24.300 Victimhood carries a

00:40:25.220 great deal of

00:40:25.920 currency.

00:40:26.700 Which brings me to

00:40:27.660 Lizzo.

00:40:28.960 Lizzo, you know, she's

00:40:30.040 a sort of famously

00:40:31.380 husky singer.

00:40:32.780 You know, she makes 0.99

00:40:34.020 her large, her

00:40:35.420 corpulent appearance

00:40:36.240 a big part of her

00:40:36.940 act.

00:40:37.640 She just released a

00:40:38.820 new song and now

00:40:39.460 she's upset and

00:40:41.300 complaining about what

00:40:42.660 she called fat phobic

00:40:44.100 comments on the video.

00:40:46.440 It doesn't matter how

00:40:47.140 much positive energy

00:40:49.160 you put into the

00:40:49.900 world, you're still

00:40:50.560 going to have people

00:40:51.520 who have something

00:40:53.020 something mean to

00:40:57.700 say about you.

00:40:59.540 I just feel like I'm

00:41:01.000 seeing negativity

00:41:03.920 directed towards me.

00:41:08.920 It's fat phobic.

00:41:10.380 And it's racist and

00:41:16.180 it's hurtful.

00:41:19.760 If you don't like my

00:41:20.840 music, cool.

00:41:22.180 If you don't like

00:41:23.180 rumors of the song,

00:41:24.220 cool.

00:41:25.900 But a lot of people

00:41:26.920 don't like me because

00:41:29.480 of the way I look.

00:41:30.680 Okay, so I'm going to

00:41:32.200 preface my comments

00:41:33.700 here by saying

00:41:34.640 there's a very good

00:41:36.020 chance that this is

00:41:36.800 just a publicity stunt.

00:41:38.280 It seems to me that

00:41:39.460 anything that

00:41:40.500 entertainers do in the

00:41:41.760 media while they are

00:41:44.080 promoting a new song

00:41:45.440 or a new book or a

00:41:46.420 new movie or whatever

00:41:47.220 is crafted by

00:41:49.380 publicists and geared

00:41:50.300 to get publicity.

00:41:50.960 So it might just be

00:41:51.620 the case that Lizzo is

00:41:52.640 just pulling a

00:41:53.460 publicity stunt here.

00:41:54.320 But let's take her at

00:41:55.280 her word.

00:41:56.740 And that is sad.

00:41:57.720 We feel bad about

00:41:58.280 that.

00:41:58.420 We don't want someone

00:41:58.980 to be made fun of

00:42:00.320 for the way they

00:42:01.400 look or being

00:42:02.240 overweight or

00:42:02.920 something like that.

00:42:04.460 Now, Lizzo uses

00:42:05.820 this term fat phobia

00:42:07.200 as though it's

00:42:08.080 irrational to not

00:42:09.480 want to be very

00:42:10.800 unhealthy.

00:42:11.480 And I think that's

00:42:12.560 the problem that

00:42:13.120 people are having

00:42:13.720 here.

00:42:15.000 If, I think the

00:42:18.200 reason that people

00:42:18.820 are pushing back

00:42:19.520 against this stuff

00:42:20.420 at the crazy sex

00:42:21.560 stuff and the

00:42:22.480 crazy, you know,

00:42:23.760 saying that it's

00:42:24.580 really good to be

00:42:25.280 extremely unhealthy

00:42:26.120 or it's really good

00:42:27.120 to whatever, you

00:42:28.880 know, have any

00:42:29.660 kind of quality

00:42:31.860 about you that

00:42:32.800 traditionally we

00:42:34.000 would want to

00:42:34.420 improve, but now

00:42:35.320 we're saying, no,

00:42:35.800 actually, this is

00:42:36.800 much better this

00:42:37.480 way to be

00:42:38.640 unhealthy.

00:42:40.100 It's that we're

00:42:41.680 pretending that

00:42:42.920 there aren't

00:42:44.220 standards at all.

00:42:46.180 We're pretending

00:42:46.400 that standards are

00:42:47.580 inverted.

00:42:48.760 And that people

00:42:49.600 push up against.

00:42:50.980 That people are

00:42:51.500 saying, no,

00:42:52.020 actually, it's not

00:42:53.320 good to be a man

00:42:54.700 who, like,

00:42:55.360 mutilates yourself

00:42:56.140 to look more like a

00:42:57.200 woman.

00:42:57.340 That's not good.

00:42:57.920 We don't want to

00:42:58.640 be mean to you.

00:42:59.240 We don't want to

00:42:59.480 be cruel to you,

00:43:00.340 but it's not good.

00:43:01.480 You should try not

00:43:02.160 to.

00:43:02.300 It's not good to be

00:43:02.960 really unhealthy.

00:43:04.120 For your own sake,

00:43:05.140 out of compassion,

00:43:05.740 we should try to

00:43:06.320 help you not do

00:43:07.480 that, you know.

00:43:08.220 But what has

00:43:12.000 happened in our

00:43:12.580 culture where

00:43:13.440 victimhood carries

00:43:14.540 currency is that

00:43:15.780 actually, in a way,

00:43:18.140 it is politically and

00:43:19.380 socially advantageous to

00:43:21.440 have one of these

00:43:22.040 things about you.

00:43:22.620 You know, the sort of

00:43:23.300 oppression Olympics,

00:43:24.260 the idea if you're a

00:43:25.700 man who thinks that

00:43:26.500 he's a woman,

00:43:27.380 this is actually

00:43:27.960 really good for you.

00:43:29.060 It kind of gives you

00:43:29.620 a pass in society

00:43:30.760 from certain

00:43:31.660 criticisms.

00:43:33.720 But it is,

00:43:34.940 assuming that Lizzo's

00:43:36.780 feelings really are

00:43:37.440 hurt and people really

00:43:38.140 are being mean to her,

00:43:39.660 this does remind us of

00:43:40.760 something.

00:43:40.920 I was actually just

00:43:41.400 reading Plato on the

00:43:43.160 airplane on the way

00:43:43.840 here a few days ago.

00:43:45.140 And Socrates makes

00:43:47.020 this point.

00:43:47.420 He says, it is worse

00:43:48.740 to harm somebody

00:43:52.140 than it is to be

00:43:52.980 harmed.

00:43:54.160 And this is a

00:43:55.140 uniquely Western

00:43:56.060 concept.

00:43:57.220 And it actually helps

00:43:58.240 make sense of what's

00:43:58.980 going on in Afghanistan

00:43:59.800 and what's going on

00:44:00.760 in the rest of the

00:44:02.640 world.

00:44:02.800 It is worse to harm

00:44:04.000 somebody than to be

00:44:05.380 harmed.

00:44:05.720 That is a concept that

00:44:06.480 comes from the deepest

00:44:07.180 Western traditions.

00:44:08.420 It is developed fully in

00:44:10.100 Christianity.

00:44:11.700 And we'll just have to

00:44:12.560 go into that tomorrow.

00:44:13.680 There's a lot more to

00:44:14.480 say on this topic,

00:44:15.200 but we'll have to save

00:44:16.320 that for tomorrow.

00:44:16.840 How's that for a

00:44:17.420 cliffhanger?

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 17, 2021

Ep. 823 - The “Friendly,” “Peaceful” Taliban Takeover

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