Ep. 824 - Biden Abandons Americans Behind Enemy Lines
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Biden's Afghanistan mess is beyond anyone's wildest imagination, and it's time to take a hard look at what's going on in the White House and the rest of the administration's handling of the situation.
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I have been very fair to Joe Biden during this Afghanistan debacle. I have made a point not
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to attack him for things that I would not have attacked Trump over. I have made a point not to
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blame Joe Biden in particular for the broader mishandling of this war that went on for 20 years.
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I have made a point to acknowledge that any American withdrawal was going to be messy, okay?
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I have not taken cheap political shots, even when basically everyone else on the right has.
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So I think that I have some credibility to point out now, Joe Biden has screwed this thing up beyond
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anyone's wildest imagination. Barack Obama was very, very correct when he said,
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never to underestimate Joe's ability to F things up. There are thousands of Americans currently
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stranded in Afghanistan. The administration is now refusing to guarantee that it will get them out
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The mission is not complete by August 31st, and there are Americans and Afghan allies who remain there.
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Will U.S. troops stay until everyone is out, or will they leave?
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So I'm not going to comment on hypotheticals. What I'm going to do is stay focused on the task at hand,
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which is getting as many people out as rapidly as possible, and we will take that day by day.
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So you can't commit to bring back every American?
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Jamie, can you offer any guarantee to the Americans and Afghan allies that if they remain there
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past the end of the month, U.S. troops will help them evacuate past the end of the month?
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Weesha, our focus right now is on doing the work at hand and on the task at hand,
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and that is day by day, getting as many American citizens, as many SIV applicants,
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as many members of a vulnerable population who are eligible to be evacuated to the airport and out on planes.
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In other words, no, we won't guarantee it. Don't worry, though.
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While the Biden administration is stranding Americans in Afghanistan,
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our leaders are preparing to open the door to tens of thousands of Afghan refugees
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because this is not a serious administration, and this is not a serious regime,
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In the time we have left before China finally invades and puts an end to this circus,
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we will try to make sense of it all. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I tried to be as fair as I possibly could. I truly believe, not to toot my own horn, okay?
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I think I was fairer to Biden on this thing than just about anyone else. But he is absolutely
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blowing it. It's outrageous. Even, even on the left wing news channels, when the left wing newscasters
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are trying to flack for him, even that isn't working. And the guests on those channels are
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calling it like it is. I'm curious to hear your reaction of this consequential speech by the American
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president. Didn't run from it. He owned it. He owned his decision. He owned the fact that as he put it,
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the buck stops with him. I hope he gets to own their deaths, too. I don't, I feel like I watched
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a different speech than the rest of you guys. I was appalled. There was such a profound, bold-faced
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lie in that speech. The idea that we plan for every contingency. I have been personally trying to tell
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this administration since it took office. I've been trying to tell our government for years that this
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was coming. We sent them plan after plan on how to evacuate these people. Nobody listened to us.
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They didn't plan for the evacuation of our Afghan wartime allies. They're trying to conduct it now
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at the 11th hour. The thing that they were most concerned about was the optics of a chaotic evacuation.
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Well, they got exactly what they were most concerned of by failing to do what was right when we could
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have done it. So this army veteran guy was working on, on these sorts of issues, just right to Brian
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Williams's face. I don't know what you're talking about, man. I'm appalled. And frankly, there have
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been people in the mainstream media, even on NBC and other left-wing outlets who have said, this is
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really bad stuff. It was weak sauce in the speech because he avoided the main question. And now you're
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seeing, you're seeing this madness of straining thousands of Americans there. Meanwhile, it's not
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just the left that's pushing to, before we get the Americans out, just try to resettle all the Afghan
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refugees. It's the Republicans, George W. Bush. George W. Bush, obviously who began the war in
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Afghanistan, is now demanding that the Biden administration take in as many refugees as
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possible. He says, quote, the Afghans now at greatest risk are the ones who have been on the
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forefront of progress inside their nation. President Biden has promised to evacuate these Afghans along
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with the American citizens and our allies. The United States government has the legal authority
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to cut the red tape for refugees during urgent humanitarian crises. We have the responsibility
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and the resources to secure safe passage for them now without bureaucratic delay. So this is the sort
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of thing that you always hear from the left in America, but also from the liberal establishment
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right, which is you've got to take in all of the world's refugees. I'm not denying, by the way,
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that people in Afghanistan are going to suffer under the Taliban. Make no mistake about, I'm not,
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I'm not saying it's going to be rosy for them. I'm just asking what is the limiting principle?
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Because women suffer in many, many countries on earth. The people broadly suffer in many,
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many countries on earth. There are a lot of, a lot of bad countries, spithole countries like
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President Trump might say. Are, are we morally obligated to take in all of those people?
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Even if you're just limiting it to countries that we've had military interventions in,
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we've intervened militarily in basically every country on earth. So are now, are we obligated
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to take in all of the world's people who don't like their societies? Can we even do that?
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Obviously we cannot do that. George W. Bush was modest compared to some politicians in the
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United Kingdom. Rory Stewart, who's a British politician, he's actually now at Yale's Jackson
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Institute. He went further. He said that, that the West broadly has got to take in millions of
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refugees. He said, I predict that there will be millions of Afghan refugees, but it will be over
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many years and the US, UK, and all the NATO allies should share the burden between them.
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Do you ever notice that, that we're the ones always expected to share the burden? Why is that?
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Why is it that there, there are many, there are some countries in the Middle East that do take
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in refugees and there are many other countries that do not take in refugees. They take in barely
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any refugees. So the country's nearest to these hot zones, these zones with civil war, very often they
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don't take in refugees. But then we fly these people to the other side of the world to come to the
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good old US of A or to the United Kingdom or to Europe. You heard Macron yesterday in France saying
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we have got to resist the influx of migrants. We just can't take it. Our societies are already on
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the brink of collapse here in the United States. Just to remind you of something, we have violence
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in the streets. We have people burning down federal buildings. Even the left says we have insurrections
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left and right. I think, I think the insurrections are more on their side than on our side. But,
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but regardless, we have insurrections in the country and we haven't been able to conduct
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a presidential election where the overwhelming majority of Americans believe it was conducted
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freely and fairly in a very long time. Obviously the 2020 presidential election remains contested,
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including by the candidate who is not the president right now. But let's not forget the 2016 election
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remains contested, including by the candidate who lost. Everyone's saying that Donald Trump
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is threatening democracy because he won't accept the results of the election. Hillary Clinton still
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does not accept the results of the 2016 election. And actually the, the, the disbelief in the legitimacy
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of that election has been much more widespread than disbelief in the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
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How about we get our own house in order before we flood this country and others with millions
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of immigrants who come from a totally foreign land and a totally foreign culture and do not,
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do not have a blazing American civic spirit in the spirit of democracy. I mean, isn't that the
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problem in Afghanistan is some people naively thought that we could democratize the country in 10 years.
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And it turns out that actually the process of democratization takes at least, oh, I don't know,
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seven, 800 years. So now we're just supposed to open the floodgates. Why do we do this?
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Why do we seem to be the only civilization that ever takes the side of victims? We seem to
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intrinsically take the side of victims. There's actually, there's actually a very important answer
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here. I think it gets to the heart of our culture. I think it's what unifies our experience on
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migration, on our own national history, on tearing down the monuments, and frankly, on our popular
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culture as well. The West uniquely takes the side of the victim. Yesterday, I mentioned this,
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there was this clip of Lizzo, who's a sort of famously hefty singer. And she was dancing around
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somewhat scantily clad along with Cardi B, who was also scantily clad. And then she posted a video and
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she was very upset. And she said, people are making fun of me because of my weight.
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And in the video, she's claiming this is fat phobia. And so on the one hand, we think, well,
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we shouldn't be exalting unhealthy lifestyles as though they're wonderful and terrific and everyone
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should model themselves after that. But also we feel really bad. We don't want people to be mean to
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one another. So what is the answer to this? Why is the West uniquely so focused on victimhood?
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or other civilizations on earth, the West uniquely takes the side of the victim. We've done this from
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our earliest days just about. Socrates famously says in Plato's Gorgias, he's arguing with these
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rhetoricians. And Socrates, the philosopher says, it is better to be harmed than to commit harm.
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It is better. Now, most people, for most of everywhere else in the world, for most of history,
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have believed it's much better to be able to harm other people than it is to be harmed yourself.
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It's much better to be the victor than to be the victim. But Socrates says no. It is because if you
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harm somebody unjustly, you are degrading yourself. You're committing an immorality. It's much, much
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worse. And you see this also with the animating story, the animating fact of our civilization,
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which is Christ. All throughout history, groups come together and they find a scapegoat and they
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attack the scapegoat and they commit human sacrifice and they exile people. This is the fact
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of human nature. All civilizations begin with a death, right? Romulus kills Remus. It begins with
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Cain kills Abel. This is a fact of human nature. And the French writer who died not that long ago,
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René Girard, points out that this is the way societies work. And Christianity inverts that.
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Only in the Bible and to its fullest extent in the New Testament, do you see, instead of
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everyone taking the side of the mob against the one victim, you see God taking the side of the
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victim. In the case of Christianity, that's what you have. You have Christ himself who is the ultimate
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scapegoat, the ultimate victim, who is killed by the mob in this perfectly natural way that humans
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interact with one another. And then he conquers that death. And so we, I think, actually, René Girard
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goes on. He thinks this is where our victim culture comes from. He thinks this is where political
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correctness comes from. The idea that victimhood carries currency because of Christianity. Now,
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the way that we use victim culture today and political correctness is a perversion of that,
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right? It's, you know, even Satan knows how to quote the scripture to his own devilish ends.
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But this is where it comes from. This is why you only see this kind of thing in the West. And so
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we're aware of that. That's good. I think that's obviously one of the wonderful features of our
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civilization. But we can take that to such an extreme of self-destruction. Yes, we want to take
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in the orphan. Yes, we want to take in the refugee. Yes, we want. And we do that to a greater degree
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than anyone else on earth ever in the history of the world. But you can't just fling the doors open
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to everybody because then you don't have a civilization anymore. Then you don't have a
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country. And then you don't have the ability to spread your charity, which is, I think, what a lot
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of these sort of messianic liberals in America seem to misunderstand. Now, speaking of Lizzo,
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speaking of women who have struggled publicly with their weight, speaking of misunderstanding
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the real victims here, Kirstie Alley just made a great point. Kirstie Alley, who is a terrific
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actress, she just tweeted out on this phenomenon of breastfeeding and chestfeeding and the whole
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transgender craziness. She said, quote, breastfeeding is what women do. Women also bottle feed. Men
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bottle feed too. We do not have to buckle to the insanity of the minuscule minority of lunatics who
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make us feel guilty for not sharing their insanity. Chestfeeding? Human milk feeding? WTF? Stop it.
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Yes, this, as our public health geniuses and our ruling class decides to erase women from society.
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They're now redefining breastfeeding as chest feeding. They're not going to call it breast
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milk. They're going to call it human milk because it's not only women who can breed. It can be men
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because some women think that they're men and some men think that they're women. And the reason that
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we're going along with this insanity, this lunacy, as Kirstie Alley rightly calls it, is because we have
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taken the good Christian Western impulse to take the side of the victim, to stick up for the victim and
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not to just scapegoat people. We have taken that to an insane conclusion to deny reality itself.
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That's not a good idea. Nobody is going to benefit. As we've been saying, since this ideology cropped up,
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no one is going to benefit from denying reality and from indulging people's crazy delusions. And
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actually, and this is something we forget, there are going to be victims of this too.
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So when we take the side of the marginalized, of the man who thinks that he's a woman or people who
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have various other sexual confusions, we are erasing women. We're erasing women from sports,
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right? We're erasing women from, we're taking away women's privacy in their bathrooms and in their
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changing rooms. We're erasing women from our very consciousness, from society. That's a bad thing.
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When we take the side of the victim of the economic migrants or the refugees or the people who want to
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come from bad countries to our good country, that's a wonderful thing. But if you do it to a limitless
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degree, there are going to be victims here in the United States. There are going to be victims
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economically. There are going to be victims of crime. Afghan migrants in particular commit crime at
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very high rates. That's just a statistical fact. There are going to be victims of cultural madness,
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political discord, even religious and racial discord. That happens sometimes. So you've got
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what we have to, I think, channel our wonderful impulse to take the side of the victim. We've got
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to, we can't be so narrow-minded about this and only focus on one aspect of society. When you think
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politically, you're supposed to think about the public. You're supposed to think about everybody.
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Speaking of things that women do very well, that men are not very well suited for,
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this is going to be politically incorrect, but I just, I just have to say it. I know very,
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even many so-called conservatives don't want to talk about this because they want to go along with
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the liberal establishment and they don't want to be called haters and meanies and various phobes and
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everything. But I have to talk about it. Pete Buttigieg is having a baby. Pete Buttigieg and his
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partner, Chaston, are having a baby. Now you might say, Michael, you know, I took seventh grade
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biology class and that doesn't, I don't think that's how it works. That doesn't make a whole
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lot of sense to me. Well, they're having a baby. They haven't explained how they're having a baby.
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They just say, quote, for some time, Chaston and I have wanted to grow our family.
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We're overjoyed to share that we've become parents. The process isn't done yet. And we're thankful
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for the love, support, and respect for our privacy that has been offered to us. We can't wait to share
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more soon. Respect for our privacy is the key here. They're not going to say, is this baby being
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adopted? Is this baby being concocted in a laboratory? You know, is this baby being concocted
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in this very clinical way where Pete and Chaston go and find a woman and then basically just buy her
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eggs and then go to another woman and rent out her womb and then they just create this baby for their
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own edification, who will be deprived, his own natural mother? Or is the baby being adopted?
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Well, if the baby's being adopted, don't forget there are 32 couples in the United States for every
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one baby that is being put up for adoption. So the baby is being denied a household where
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there's a mother and a father if the baby is being adopted to Pete and Chaston. Now, if it weren't a
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baby, if this were someone who were older and in the foster care system, I think the calculus might
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change here because there are not 32 couples willing to adopt everyone in the foster care system.
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There are very few actually. And single mothers, for instance, will take in foster children often.
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And so I think, I do think the calculus there changes a little bit and I'm not going to touch
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that topic. But in terms of Pete and Chaston making a baby or adopting a baby or somehow, we understand
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why everyone is celebrating this. Because Pete and Chaston are marginalized. They're marginalized
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because of their sexual desires, because they have these unusual sexual desires. And in a previous
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age, this would have opened them up to much criticism and ostracism. And today, that isn't
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so much the case. But still, they have a natural desire to have a baby, but they don't have the
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biological capacity to have a baby. And so now this is a way around them. And because they want that,
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we want them to fulfill their desires. And you're a meanie, awful, terrible, homophobic,
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terrible bigot if you suggest that that's not a wonderful thing. What about the baby?
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What about the baby? Does a baby have the right to his mother? If the baby's being made in a
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laboratory, for instance, does a baby have the right to his natural mother? I look at my little baby.
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I see the way my little baby interacts with my wife, his mother. It's different. It's just
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different than the way the baby. I'm not saying I'm a bad father, but it's just different, okay?
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Because men and women are different. Because mothers and fathers are different. And babies
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react differently to them. Because there's no such thing as chest feeding and human milk. It's
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breast milk. It's breast feeding. Because there's a difference here. Even if it's an adoptive baby,
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does the baby have a right to a mother and a father who are different? But Michael,
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you see some men are just basically like, in some couples, some men are just basically
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like the women and some men are just like the men. Yeah, sure, there are gender stereotypes and
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roles and things and people. Some of it is socially constructed, but there's just a difference.
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And so when we consider the victim, I'm not casting any aspersions on Pete and Chasen and all the other
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sort of thing. I'm just asking, what about the other people here who deserve some consideration,
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like the baby? What about that? What about reality? What about the real distinctions between
00:23:28.080
the sexes and the natural family? What about those things? We're not allowed to take that
00:23:32.640
into consideration. Even some prominent right-wingers were celebrating this because they're afraid
00:23:36.580
to make these sorts of observations. I think sometimes our natural wonderful impulse to take
00:23:43.520
the side of the victim can get a little bit perverted. We do this with abortion too. The
00:23:47.600
poor woman who doesn't want to raise the baby. And then you think, well, what about the baby?
00:23:51.420
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We've got a whole lot of sexual confusion in our society. We've got chest feeding. We've got babies
00:24:46.960
drinking human milk. And we have on the economic front, a major she session. And the only cure for
00:24:54.680
a she session, you know, is a she-covery. Just ask Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
00:25:00.240
It is exactly the example of the kinds of things you need to do to counter the she-session and turn
00:25:08.900
it into a she-covery. Fact is, the Conservatives don't talk about that in their lengthy platform.
00:25:17.420
You're right, Justin. The Conservatives, as far as I know, they have never talked about the she-session,
00:25:22.580
and nor have they talked about the she-covery. You got us there. You got us there. So I thought this
00:25:29.260
was fake when I first saw the clip. I said, no, this must be a deep fake or something like that.
00:25:33.860
No, he really said it. And the point he's making is even more ridiculous than the phrases that he's
00:25:41.680
using. The point he's making is that the economic recession has disproportionately put women out of work.
00:25:49.420
So the point he's making is that ultimately, we need all the women to be working outside of the home.
00:25:59.700
Obviously, women are going to work in whatever they're doing. But we need the women to be working
00:26:03.740
outside of the home. This is another very radical idea that was once only pushed by the left. Once it
00:26:10.740
was not pushed by either the left or the right, then it was pushed by the left. And then even the right
00:26:13.980
has adopted it too. You saw President Trump talk about this. He said, women's unemployment is at an
00:26:18.020
all-time low. And I thought, is that a good thing? Is that necessarily a good thing? Is that something
00:26:24.180
we have to celebrate? We insist that all women go out and work for the widget factory or something
00:26:28.500
like that? What if a woman wants to stay home? What if a woman wants to raise her family and keep a
00:26:33.840
house and watch the kids? That's bad because that would be the she-session because then the women's
00:26:40.400
unemployment rate would be high. I mean, they're not actually unemployed. They're doing the most
00:26:43.280
important work on earth around which all the other work revolves, but that is not understood or
00:26:51.380
recognized or valued in our modern liberal society. Liberal, not just on the left, but on the right
00:26:57.220
as well. Why can't women do that? You know, there was a famous debate between the American feminist
00:27:03.160
Betty Friedan and the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir. And Betty Friedan said something,
00:27:08.140
and I think a lot of people would agree with. She said, you know, if women want to go work,
00:27:10.660
that's fine. And if women want to stay home with the kids, that's fine too. And Simone de Beauvoir said,
00:27:15.020
no, no, no, no. You cannot give women a choice because if you give women a choice to stay home
00:27:21.520
and raise the kids, they'll take it. And we can't have women taking that choice because that is not
00:27:26.240
conducive to liberation. So you've got to force women to go to work. And then you get into this
00:27:31.940
strange sort of economy now where men pay other women to raise their children so that their wives can go
00:27:40.300
work for another man and get a paycheck so that you can pay the babysitter to wife. It gets a little
00:27:44.520
bit strange sometimes because women are not really given the choice. They're given sort of the illusion
00:27:49.560
of that choice. But all of the political forces, all of the cultural forces are telling women,
00:27:54.460
don't stay. If you stay home, you're a loser. If you stay home, you're wasting your life and your
00:27:59.440
education and all that great critical race theory that you learned in school and all those crazy
00:28:04.020
gender theories. That's an illusion. That's an illusion of choice. Pretty strange. Pretty
00:28:11.700
strange stuff. Kind of, it's like we're, it's like we're misunderstood. It's like our best impulses are
00:28:16.320
leading us to misunderstand certain things. Chest feeding, human milk, she session, and she
00:28:23.900
recovery. This is not a serious civilization. This is not a serious chivalization.
00:28:28.360
The chivalization. Chivalization. It's a chivalization if you ask me. And China knows
00:28:34.080
that. So China is already threatening the United States. China is doing this directly in response
00:28:40.760
to what happened in Afghanistan. Chinese state media tweets that quote, from what happened in
00:28:46.900
Afghanistan, those in Taiwan should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island's
00:28:51.080
defense will collapse in hours and the US military won't come to help. As a result, Taiwan will quickly
00:28:56.580
surrender. Ouch. I mean, in, in part, I'm sure the Chinese state media are pushing this out there
00:29:03.960
right now, not just to send a message to Taiwan, but also to troll the United States. And so that
00:29:09.200
people like me will repeat it on air, but it worked because they're making a point because the, the
00:29:13.240
argument that they're making here is probably true. Do you really think that the American people
00:29:16.940
want to go to war for Taiwan? I don't. I don't think so. And it's not just the fault of the selfish,
00:29:25.160
naive, ignorant American people. It's the fault of the ruling class. What's the argument for going
00:29:31.640
to war in Taiwan? The argument is that it's a way to contain China. Sure. Taiwan's an independent
00:29:37.240
country and yeah, we have a good relationship with Taiwan and yeah, it's the right thing to do.
00:29:41.420
But the national interest, strategic reason to go to war for Taiwan is to contain China,
00:29:47.200
which is now our chief rival on the global stage. What was the argument for staying in Afghanistan?
00:29:52.560
I do think there was one argument. I'm not saying I agree with this argument, but it was the only one
00:29:56.680
that it was even plausible. The argument for staying in Afghanistan was that it gives the
00:30:00.980
United States a base from which to check the ambitions of China, from which to check the
00:30:07.400
ambitions of Russia and from which to kill terrorists. Now, again, I'm not sure that this
00:30:12.200
was sustainable. Very often you'll hear people talk about how there haven't been combat deaths in
00:30:16.460
many, many months in Afghanistan. We could have just held it with 2,500 troops forever. I'm not
00:30:21.220
convinced that that's true. The only reason we were able to maintain that peace, I think,
00:30:24.340
with so few troops is that the Taliban knew that we were leaving. I think if we reverse that
00:30:28.100
withdrawal, probably there would be another uptick in violence. Probably you'd have to send more
00:30:31.300
soldiers over there as is happening right now. So again, I'm not sure it's a strong tactical
00:30:36.060
argument, but I get the strategy. Yeah, we need to do that to contain these other world powers. Okay.
00:30:41.300
But that's not the argument that the ruling class made. The argument that the ruling class made
00:30:45.580
was first that we need to go get Osama bin Laden, which I guess eventually we did,
00:30:49.720
even though it took 10 years and we actually did it in Pakistan. But that was the most plausible
00:30:53.200
argument. Then they said, we need to spread freedom everywhere on earth. And if any government
00:30:58.640
is not a Madisonian democracy anywhere in the entire world, then it poses an existential threat
00:31:03.040
to the United States. That was George W. Bush's second inaugural. It was ridiculous. It was insane.
00:31:08.020
So I don't think that persuaded anybody. Then it changed to, we need to nation build in Afghanistan,
00:31:12.820
even though initially we were not going to nation build. That was never going to work.
00:31:16.520
Then it was, we need to send women to college or something. I don't even mean to downplay it. I'm
00:31:22.780
sure it would be nice for the women to be able to go to school, but that we're going to, we're going
00:31:26.480
to send Americans to go die overseas. We're going to, we're going to spend two and a half trillion
00:31:29.560
dollars to improve the educational outcomes of women in this one particular country and no other
00:31:36.080
countries. That doesn't make a lot of sense. Then it actually became LGBT rights. Do you remember
00:31:40.240
this? They raised the pride flag over, over the embassy in Kabul. You might love the pride flag. You might
00:31:45.760
love LGBT rights, but does anybody really want to go send thousands of Americans to die overseas and
00:31:51.880
trillions of dollars for the pride flag? The pride, the pride flag last I checked is not yet our national
00:31:57.660
flag. We still have the stars and stripes. Pride flag might be our imperial flag, but it's not our,
00:32:02.520
not our national flag. So what was it? What were we doing? None of those arguments were persuasive.
00:32:07.760
And if they try the same arguments in Taiwan, it's just not going to work.
00:32:10.640
A serious civilization would be able to ascertain its interest, defend its own interest and,
00:32:17.060
and be willing to sustain that for some period of time. But I think it comes back to this victim
00:32:22.400
thing because we here, we don't like ourselves very much. We don't like America. People are toppling
00:32:30.900
statues, not just of the bad guys from history, but all the guys from history of George Washington,
00:32:36.220
of Thomas Jefferson, of, of Abraham Lincoln, for goodness sakes. He freed the slaves and they're
00:32:41.720
toppling his statues. We're being taught in our schools. We're teaching our children's and civics
00:32:46.340
classes that America is a rotten, terrible place. And you, if you are an American, and especially if
00:32:51.840
you're a white American, you're a terrible person. So why would anyone want to go project American
00:32:56.460
power overseas? Why would anyone want to even defend America's own interests? We don't like ourselves.
00:33:00.820
Actually, this author I was mentioning earlier, Rene Girard, makes this point,
00:33:08.080
discussing this victim mechanism, that Jesus addresses the preening, sanctimonious people
00:33:16.700
who today say, we are so much more moral than George Washington, than Abraham Lincoln,
00:33:23.420
than Christopher Columbus, the horrible people in our past. We're so much more moral. We would never
00:33:27.860
have killed the Indians. We would never have enslaved people. We would never have conquered
00:33:32.080
or purchased lands. We would never do that. We're going to build honors to all those conquered peoples.
00:33:37.360
Jesus does this in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew. He says, woe to you, scribes and Pharisees.
00:33:42.960
Woe to you, you hypocrites, who put honors upon the prophets that your fathers killed.
00:33:49.860
You will kill them too. You will do it. You are just as bad as them. Woe to you. All these things
00:33:56.820
will pass in this generation. I think that what is needed, what comes from all of our issues on
00:34:04.880
immigration, on the economy, on domestic issues, which are obviously very confused,
00:34:09.940
on the way that different groups in America relate to one another, on our imperial presence
00:34:13.580
overseas, is a healthy dose of reality. Just a healthy dose of reality. I don't think we need to say
00:34:21.180
that immigration is important and necessary and we need to open the borders completely,
00:34:24.480
or we need to completely close off immigration forever. It's a terrible thing.
00:34:29.600
What if we recognize that permitting people into this country can be a good thing, but it has to
00:34:34.840
be in balance? What if we recognize that projecting American power overseas is not always wonderful or
00:34:40.240
always terrible, but is sometimes a fine thing to do in measure, in balance, in moderation, which is a
00:34:46.260
virtue? What if we recognize that there are many victims in the world and there are many
00:34:49.660
perpetrators of violence and many victimizers? And we need to, thinking politically, take all of
00:34:54.760
them into account and balance these things out when we're debating what to do in Afghanistan or what to
00:34:59.620
do right here at home? But it's hard for us to do that because we're no longer a serious civilization,
00:35:06.520
which is why we now have our teachers, the people who are supposed to be educating our students,
00:35:10.540
crying on video, on the internet, because their students might cough on them.
00:35:19.500
If I die, who's going to take care of my children? And if I end up in a hospital, how am I going to pay
00:35:28.880
those bills? And if I give COVID to my students or my own children and they die, how am I going to live
00:35:40.980
with that? And I want you to ask any teacher how they feel this year, and I'm sure that they will tell
00:35:49.540
you that they have never experienced anxiety like this because it is like we are trying to protect our
00:35:55.500
students from a mass shooting that we know is coming but cannot do anything about, except we can do
00:36:02.340
something about it. It's just that not everyone agrees that wearing a mask will stop the onslaught
00:36:08.920
of students and staff who are likely to become sick, and that makes me sick.
00:36:14.280
I think this lady is making a pretty good argument for the she-session. She's making a pretty good
00:36:19.420
argument against she-covery because this lady should not be working in public. She is not
00:36:25.060
psychologically fit to do it. If you're crying over the prospect that one of your students might
00:36:30.760
cough on you and might spread the germs that statistically you have virtually no chance of
00:36:39.100
facing serious complications from a minuscule infinitesimally small chance of facing serious
00:36:43.840
complications from, and your students have an even lower chance, you are not fit to be, certainly not
00:36:49.720
to be teaching anybody, but probably not fit to even be in public life. This is a fragile, broken,
00:36:56.860
deluded person. And she says that, first of all, first of all, children die of the flu. Children face
00:37:04.100
serious complications sometimes from the flu. This woman, assuming she's taught in the years before
00:37:09.160
COVID, has gone to school during flu season without a mask, without bottles of Purell everywhere,
00:37:15.860
the unholy water of our new religion, our religion of public health. She-she's done that and it's fine.
00:37:22.340
And she hasn't-she hasn't been waking up in a cold sweat under the-the horrible thought that
00:37:27.480
she might've given the flu to her student or vice versa. Now, with the coronavirus, which is around us,
00:37:35.160
she-she says she can't-the thought that you would go to school without a mask, it's terrible. Because
00:37:38.680
if we just wear a mask, then the virus won't spread. Except we found out the virus spreads even with
00:37:43.020
the mask. The virus spreads even with the vaccine. The virus spread. It's a virus. That's what happens.
00:37:52.940
We had very serious lockdowns in this country. The virus continued to spread.
00:37:57.940
Actually, beyond our country, I should give this lady a break because she's not even the kookiest on
00:38:03.860
this topic. If you go down under, or if you go to the little island right next to the land down under,
00:38:09.220
if you go to New Zealand, that nation is going into a full countrywide lockdown
00:38:16.440
because of COVID, because of a surge. Do you know how many people got COVID in this surge?
00:38:26.180
What do you think it was? Do you think it was 100,000 people? 10,000? 1,000? 100?
00:38:33.500
100. One person. A single case of COVID was confirmed in New Zealand. They're locking down
00:38:41.560
the entire country. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has authorized the nationwide lockdown
00:38:50.620
after a single case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Auckland, telling citizens not only that they had to
00:38:57.780
stop going about their normal business, but they actually had to stop speaking to their neighbors.
00:39:05.000
So a 58-year-old man tested positive for the virus. He didn't die. No reports that he's gotten even
00:39:11.840
particularly sick, but he just tested positive. This is now triggering week-long lockdowns in Auckland
00:39:19.300
and Coromandel, coastal town that he had visited. It's triggered a three-day lockdown for the entire
00:39:25.700
nation. This will be a level four lockdown where schools, offices, and businesses are forced to
00:39:33.020
close with the exception of essential services. This is not a serious civilization. You know what I
00:39:41.860
noticed? Of all the horrific videos coming out of Afghanistan, the one thing I noticed is there's
00:39:48.120
not a ton of masking going on. There's masking of the women, I suppose. There's full burkas for the
00:39:52.960
women. But for the men who are taking over the country right now, the men who are trying to escape,
00:39:59.280
they're not concerned really about the mask or social distancing or the rapid spread of COVID or
00:40:06.660
anything like that. Because they're focused on important things. They're focused on things that
00:40:12.700
matter. They're focused on things that will shape souls and state. They're focused on adult matters.
00:40:20.240
And we here in our civilization are terrified of the cough and living our lives in fear and crying
00:40:29.280
because students might cough on us and wringing our hands over whether to call it chest feeding,
00:40:35.380
breast feeding, or anything else. I'm sure there will be some new politically correct terms soon enough.
00:40:42.020
Be ready to mask up for many more months. I know you thought it was 15 days. I know you thought maybe
00:40:52.460
we've reached peak craziness, haven't we? We haven't. According to the AP, the Associated Press,
00:40:59.280
quote, if you're flying on a plane or taking a train, be ready to keep wearing that face mask for a few more
00:41:03.500
months. The Transportation Security Administration says it will extend the face mask rule on public
00:41:08.360
transport until January 18th. January, just a few more months. Just a few more months, we promise.
00:41:18.960
Just a few more. Huh? How many more months? Just a few more days, just a couple more weeks to slow
00:41:26.760
the spread. Obviously, you can't believe any of this. These people have no credibility, but it doesn't
00:41:31.200
matter because they wield power in whatever capricious, lunatic ways that they want. Speaking of the AP,
00:41:36.700
not just the Associated Press, but the advanced placement course. This is a great leak. Just came
00:41:42.200
out from an AP government practice exam. This is an exam that high school students take if they're in
00:41:47.380
the really special smart classes distributed by the college board. It asks these sorts of questions.
00:41:53.440
These are the questions. This is not just a lesson about your opinion. This is not a lesson about
00:41:58.540
different views of a political matter. This is what you were being taught is the correct answer or the
00:42:03.900
incorrect answer to get a good grade so that you can get into a good college so that you can advance
00:42:08.520
in the society. Here's the question. Based on the infographic, which of the following claims would
00:42:12.240
an opponent of state voter ID laws most likely make? They give four answers. The correct answer is
00:42:19.480
voter ID laws are likely to decrease turnout among African-American voters because they are less
00:42:25.200
likely to have government issued IDs. So the question is, what would an opponent of voter ID
00:42:31.900
hypothetically say based on this infographic that we're giving you here? And the answer is that
00:42:37.080
they're racist and that people who are pushing these laws are racist. There's no flip side to
00:42:42.840
that. It's not as though the college board is saying, okay, and now what would the other? No,
00:42:45.860
it's just, here's the thing. Here's the question, voter ID laws. If you want to get the correct answer
00:42:51.040
on this exam, is it racist? Yes, it is racist. Here we go. Thank you. Next question. Based on the
00:42:55.680
infographic, which of the following strategies would a group seeking to increase voter turnout likely
00:43:00.120
pursue? And the correct answer is they would lobby state legislatures to overturn voter ID legislation.
00:43:07.900
This is, this is the way that our students are being educated. And I know that conservatives for
00:43:16.100
at least a decade or two now have thought, no, no, no, we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't have
00:43:18.940
students being indoctrinated in the leftist point of view, but we shouldn't have them being
00:43:22.600
indoctrinated in conservative views either. We just need a perfectly neutral point of view.
00:43:26.720
There is no neutral. There is no neutral. There's no, there's never been neutral in education.
00:43:35.800
There are true things and false things and good things and bad things and right things and wrong
00:43:42.240
things. And conservatives are either going to develop the cojones, I don't know what the new
00:43:48.180
gender neutral term for that is, to stand by the true and the good and the beautiful and the right and
00:43:53.920
the just, or we're just going to cede all of that moral ground to the left. There is a group in
00:44:01.200
Minnesota of 162 school principals and assistant principals that just issued a public letter for
00:44:07.220
quote, decentering whiteness and dismantling practices that reinforce white academic superiority
00:44:14.400
while claiming that their efforts mean that they're making a sacrifice for their children.
00:44:22.920
You see, white children, in a way they're the victims of this because they don't even know
00:44:28.180
how racist and bigoted and terrible they are. And they don't even know the sort of oppression that
00:44:31.780
they're foisting upon the world. So what we need to do is tell them that it's bad to be white and it's
00:44:38.600
bad if they were born white and we've got to de-center whiteness and dismantle whiteness or whatever that
00:44:44.840
means in the classroom. We're focused right now on the religious fanatics of the Taliban and the
00:44:53.900
theocracy that they are instituting in Afghanistan. No doubt they're doing that. These people here,
00:45:02.940
these American leftists, are just as religious as the Taliban. They are just as religious and they
00:45:11.200
are just as dead set as instituting a theocracy in this country, a theocracy that makes lots of
00:45:17.000
kooky claims about the metaphysical, spiritual, moral world, including the idea that your body has
00:45:23.700
nothing to do with who you are. And if you're a man who thinks he's a woman, you actually really are a
00:45:27.200
woman, including the idea that race connotes certain spiritual characteristics. And if you're white,
00:45:32.060
spiritually, you are lesser than other people, including the idea that victimhood carries
00:45:39.820
currency, not when the victim is innocent, not when the mob is wrong, but just in all cases at all
00:45:46.360
times, such that you must destroy your very civilization, that it is good and right to do that.
00:45:50.920
That is a pretty crazy theocracy that we're living in, folks. And maybe before we take a look overseas
00:45:57.580
and try to solve everyone else's problems, maybe we ought to figure out how to solve our own
00:46:02.680
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The clamoring has begun to accept thousands of Afghan refugees. Meanwhile, our own people,
00:47:01.940
thousands of them, are still trapped in Afghanistan, and the Biden administration is not
00:47:05.080
guaranteeing that all will be rescued. Also, a top vaccine official in Tennessee said that she was
00:47:09.080
mailed a dog muzzle as a threat from anti-vaxxers. Turns out that wasn't exactly true. Also, New Zealand
00:47:14.980
goes into full lockdown over one COVID case, just one. And Australia has now instructed its people that
00:47:20.440
they must not drink outside without a mask, but they can drink with a mask. And finally,
00:47:24.080
Carrie Underwood has sparked controversy by liking one of my tweets. A very important story we'll
00:47:28.220
talk about today and so much more on The Matt Walsh Show.