The Michael Knowles Show - August 25, 2021


Ep. 829 - Get In Line And Get Left Behind


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

173.9322

Word Count

8,416

Sentence Count

638

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

37


Summary

On this, the 527th day of 15 days to slow the spread, the leader of the formerly free world, Dr. Steven Fauci, is finally offering guidance on when we will finally have slowed the spread and flattened the curve.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed beef sold in U.S. grocery stores is imported?
00:00:05.260 That's why I buy all my meat from GoodRanchers.com instead.
00:00:08.900 Good Ranchers products are 100% born, raised, and harvested right here in the USA from local family farms.
00:00:14.600 Plus, there's no antibiotics ever, no added hormones, and no seed oils.
00:00:18.820 Just one simple ingredient.
00:00:20.360 That's meat.
00:00:21.280 Best of all, Good Ranchers delivers straight to your door for added convenience.
00:00:24.760 So lock in a secure supply of American meat today.
00:00:26.980 Subscribe now at GoodRanchers.com and get free meat for life and $40 off with code DAILYWIRE.
00:00:32.420 That's $40 off and free meat for life with code DAILYWIRE.
00:00:35.700 Good Ranchers, American meat delivered.
00:00:37.720 On this, the 527th day of 15 days to slow the spread,
00:00:42.560 the leader of the formerly free world, Dr. Fauci, is finally offering guidance
00:00:47.380 on when we will finally have slowed the spread and flattened the curve
00:00:53.120 and we'll be able to get back to normal life.
00:00:56.440 I've got the answer for you.
00:00:59.020 Just one more year.
00:01:00.780 I do want to ask you something about you that you said to NPR today.
00:01:03.940 You said if the majority of Americans get vaccinated, quote,
00:01:06.640 we could start to really get some good control over this as we get back into the fall of 2022,
00:01:12.580 a year from now.
00:01:13.780 Is that the best case scenario?
00:01:15.920 And what does control look like?
00:01:17.320 No.
00:01:17.820 You know, Anderson, I have to apologize.
00:01:22.000 When I listened to the tape, I meant to say the spring of 2022.
00:01:26.720 So I didn't misspeak.
00:01:28.400 And in the conversation with Mary Louise Kelly, she was saying,
00:01:32.120 when do I think we're going to start to get some control?
00:01:34.420 I said, if we can get through this winter and get really the majority,
00:01:39.580 overwhelming majority of the 90 million people who have not been vaccinated, vaccinated,
00:01:44.720 I hope we could start to get some good control in the spring of 2022.
00:01:50.560 I didn't mean the fall.
00:01:51.760 I misspoke.
00:01:52.420 My bad.
00:01:53.280 Oh, his bad.
00:01:54.240 His bad.
00:01:54.760 It's not going to be a full year.
00:01:56.360 It's just going to be a little more than half a year.
00:01:58.800 And boy, is that a relief, you see, because I thought it would be a year before we could
00:02:02.380 get back to normal.
00:02:03.080 Instead, it's just going to be 207 more days for a total of 734 days to slow the spread,
00:02:11.260 which is just shy of 50 times as long as they initially told us that it would be before they
00:02:16.940 changed that prediction a bunch of times.
00:02:19.560 But I bet they're telling the truth this time, right?
00:02:21.460 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:22.300 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:30.660 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:31.680 My favorite comment yesterday from Lewis Fishman, who says, we haven't lost any equipment.
00:02:37.720 There it is.
00:02:38.880 It's right there where we abandoned it in Afghanistan.
00:02:42.840 That's true.
00:02:43.800 That's true.
00:02:44.420 You can't.
00:02:44.960 This was actually the point I made in my column on Afghanistan.
00:02:48.880 You can't lose a war that you never set goals to win.
00:02:54.600 You can't lose if you set out to lose in the first place, right?
00:03:00.620 Then you sort of win when you lose.
00:03:02.780 We all lose when big tech companies spy on our data, which is why I would strongly recommend
00:03:07.240 ExpressVPN.
00:03:08.360 I do not go online without a VPN, okay?
00:03:11.560 What is a VPN?
00:03:12.560 A VPN is a simple app for your computer or smartphone that encrypts all your network data
00:03:17.940 and tunnels it through this secure server so that your ISP, your internet service provider,
00:03:23.420 cannot see any of your activity.
00:03:24.540 When I go online, I go online with ExpressVPN, the best out there.
00:03:28.900 That's just what I do.
00:03:30.740 If the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson didn't convince you of this, then I don't know what
00:03:35.920 will, okay?
00:03:36.940 So much of our lives now are on the internet.
00:03:39.340 People are looking at what you're doing.
00:03:41.820 They're trying to get your data, okay?
00:03:43.940 I recommend ExpressVPN as the best way to hide your online activity from your ISP.
00:03:48.280 You just download the app, tap one button on your device, and you're protected.
00:03:51.280 I know a lot of people don't think about this.
00:03:54.380 Wake up.
00:03:55.660 We are living in the age of surveillance capitalism.
00:03:58.100 Everyone is trying to get your data.
00:03:59.500 Stop handing over your personal data to the ISPs.
00:04:02.820 Protect yourself with the people that I trust.
00:04:05.540 E-X-P-R-E-S-S-V-P-N dot com slash Michael to get three extra months for free.
00:04:11.120 Go on over, expressvpn.com slash Michael right now to learn more.
00:04:15.540 How much longer is Dr. Fauci going to be able to keep up this charade?
00:04:22.680 The answer is for as long as people believe him.
00:04:25.080 And obviously, if you're listening to this show, you probably do not believe Dr. Fauci
00:04:31.540 very much because he has lied, because he has been wrong, because he has misled on many
00:04:37.800 occasions for over a year now.
00:04:38.980 But just that number, how do people get over that number?
00:04:44.640 15 days to slow the spread.
00:04:46.340 Oh, no, another month.
00:04:47.380 Oh, another two months.
00:04:48.300 Oh, another one more season.
00:04:49.940 Oh, one more.
00:04:51.200 Just one more.
00:04:52.360 Just one more.
00:04:53.040 Just one more.
00:04:53.600 It's going to be over two years by the time this is all done.
00:04:59.520 And probably more than that.
00:05:00.940 I don't know why we would believe that it'll only be two years now.
00:05:03.820 They have radically extended the timeline again and again.
00:05:07.520 You see, Fauci, he doesn't want to.
00:05:10.040 He doesn't.
00:05:10.440 He respects people's freedom.
00:05:13.320 But the other thing that you just mentioned now is they're going to give a lot of incentive
00:05:19.200 and backing for a lot of institutions and organizations and places of employment to mandate.
00:05:26.580 And that could be colleges, university, the military, organizations that employ a lot of
00:05:33.260 people.
00:05:33.700 Some of the big corporations are going to say, if you want to work for us in person, you've
00:05:39.540 got to be there and get vaccinated.
00:05:41.580 And I think that's a good thing.
00:05:43.180 I know I respect people's freedom.
00:05:45.180 But when you're talking about a public health crisis that we've been going through now for
00:05:49.820 well over a year and a half, the time has come.
00:05:52.840 Enough is enough.
00:05:54.220 We've just got to get people vaccinated.
00:05:56.580 Enough is enough, you peasants.
00:05:58.640 I respect your freedom.
00:06:00.200 But when politicians use the word but, almost always they do so to negate whatever they
00:06:08.960 have just said.
00:06:10.560 I was, look, listen here, you.
00:06:13.240 I respect your freedom, but I don't.
00:06:18.280 Gotcha.
00:06:19.180 Dr. Fauci.
00:06:19.840 This jerk, this jerk, why he is permitted to pontificate after being wrong on so many
00:06:30.860 things and admitting to lying about other things, like the masks, right?
00:06:33.840 He said, well, the reason I said that the masks don't work is because I wanted to save
00:06:38.220 masks for the people in the hospitals.
00:06:40.400 So he's saying, it's not, I thought there would be a shortage, right?
00:06:43.320 He's not saying he said the masks wouldn't work because he thought the masks wouldn't work.
00:06:47.880 He's saying, I said the masks wouldn't work because I wanted to save them for people who
00:06:51.700 I would prefer to have, have them.
00:06:55.960 A lot of people are pointing this out.
00:06:57.940 I mean, I've mentioned this before, how he has no credibility.
00:07:00.100 But as a political matter, this is actually probably a strength for Fauci.
00:07:06.920 If Fauci just stuck by his story for the entirety of the lockdowns, then it would be very easy
00:07:15.060 to prove that he got things wrong.
00:07:17.820 But that's not what Fauci does.
00:07:19.460 That's not how he operates.
00:07:20.660 That's not how he's operated since the beginning of his career, going all the way back to AIDS.
00:07:24.800 Because Fauci holds virtually every side of every issue at some point so that he always
00:07:34.640 will have gotten something right.
00:07:36.300 He'll have gotten everything else wrong, but he'll have always gotten something right.
00:07:39.080 If he's constantly changing, then you can't just look to the science.
00:07:43.200 You can't just look to the data.
00:07:44.400 You can't just look to some principle.
00:07:45.720 You just look to his whims, his caprice.
00:07:50.920 That's, that's the, I mean, this is what demagogues do.
00:07:55.380 They take away your attention from some objective truth or some principle, and they just put it in
00:08:01.320 their own will.
00:08:03.140 And Fauci's will is going to extend this for now, at least another, what, seven, eight months?
00:08:09.520 Probably more than that.
00:08:10.800 So, of course, people are making comparisons to tyrants.
00:08:18.460 And yes, people are comparing Fauci to Hitler and to Nazis.
00:08:21.960 Now, I, I don't generally make Nazi comparisons because I, I find that people only make those
00:08:26.640 comparisons because they don't really know anything else about history.
00:08:29.880 So they'll say, when, you know, Trump is Hitler, it's because they don't, they don't know anything
00:08:33.380 about any historical event other than World War II.
00:08:37.020 And even that, they probably don't know very much about, but they've, they've at least heard
00:08:39.660 the name Hitler's, they say, you're like Hitler, but there are other historical events.
00:08:42.760 So I, I generally don't make the Nazi comparisons, but Dr. Fauci is very upset because people are
00:08:48.780 comparing him to 20th century tyrants.
00:08:51.300 How do you feel when you hear Republican state lawmakers in Maine and elsewhere, and we played
00:08:56.240 a clip a moment ago, comparing public health officials, scientists such as yourself, doctors
00:09:01.540 trying to get Americans vaccinated, to Nazis, to Joseph Mengele, talking about Nuremberg trials
00:09:09.460 and more?
00:09:11.540 I think it's completely crazy.
00:09:14.200 I mean, anybody who has any common sense and looks at that and sees what they are doing,
00:09:20.440 the same people that are saying it's being like a Nazi to try and get somebody to do an
00:09:26.740 intervention that would save their life at the same time that they're jumping around,
00:09:33.540 grabbing ivermectin and getting toxicity from it.
00:09:36.940 It's just bizarre, matey, totally bizarre.
00:09:40.720 Totally bizarre.
00:09:41.940 It's so irresponsible to compare anyone to a Nazi, especially after we just had President
00:09:47.720 Hitler Trump, right?
00:09:49.800 Especially after George W.
00:09:52.040 Hitler that we had before him.
00:09:53.900 I just don't want to hear it.
00:09:56.020 I don't want to hear any complaint about Fauci being called Hitler or a Nazi or Mengele or
00:09:59.860 whatever.
00:10:01.160 The left almost exclusively compares Republicans to Nazis.
00:10:06.380 They did it, obviously, for the entirety of Trump.
00:10:08.800 People forget now they did it for the entirety of the George W. Bush administration.
00:10:11.800 They did it to Reagan.
00:10:12.980 So I just don't want to hear it.
00:10:14.100 Sorry, I don't care.
00:10:15.060 I don't care about Fauci's feelings.
00:10:16.800 I don't care about his expertise.
00:10:18.220 I don't care about his political power that he's maintained for, what, five decades now
00:10:24.440 or something, four decades.
00:10:27.480 He is a jerk.
00:10:30.640 He's a jerk.
00:10:31.720 No one should believe him.
00:10:32.600 No one should follow his advice.
00:10:33.980 He should be fired, but he probably won't be.
00:10:36.400 He probably won't be because these guys have power and they're going to wield it.
00:10:39.820 Bill de Blasio in New York has summed this up.
00:10:42.920 He summed up the left's approach to you, your society, your rights, and your way of
00:10:48.800 life.
00:10:49.180 He was asked about the mandates.
00:10:52.360 So, you know, you'll remember when the vaccine first came out, de Blasio was just offering
00:10:57.840 all these goodies to people to get it.
00:10:59.280 He offered them cheeseburgers.
00:11:00.540 He said, if you go, he was eating the cheeseburger live in person.
00:11:03.920 It was disgusting.
00:11:04.740 He was there.
00:11:05.040 Oh, good cheeseburger.
00:11:07.120 Now stick yourself with the experimental drug.
00:11:09.560 I'll give you cheeseburger and French fries.
00:11:11.900 It was so gross.
00:11:14.240 So that was the carrot.
00:11:16.480 Then he's offering the stick, which is you're going to be punished if you don't get it because
00:11:19.420 there's a mandate.
00:11:20.140 And this is not just his theory on COVID.
00:11:22.460 This is his theory on human nature.
00:11:25.900 Look, human beings do well when they have carrot and stick.
00:11:29.240 So a mandate helps people to realize it's time.
00:11:32.920 FDA final approval on Pfizer said it's time.
00:11:36.680 Now, the Biden administration could do something else that would really help us all move forward,
00:11:40.220 speed the approval of the vaccine for the five to 11 year olds.
00:11:44.660 It's time for that.
00:11:45.980 It's time.
00:11:46.760 It's time.
00:11:47.480 It's just time for that.
00:11:48.440 We pretended that you had freedom for a while, but now it's time.
00:11:51.700 The jig is up.
00:11:53.120 OK, and we need to follow the science, which is why I, a politician and pressuring scientists
00:11:58.080 to speed up the approval of the experimental drug for children, even though children face
00:12:01.740 very, very low risk from coronavirus because of the science.
00:12:05.120 And because anyway, forget the science.
00:12:06.540 The jig is up.
00:12:07.700 Just do it.
00:12:08.720 Carrot and stick.
00:12:09.540 This is what these people think of you.
00:12:11.180 They don't think that you are a person to be persuaded.
00:12:15.080 They think you are an animal to be bribed and goaded and prodded.
00:12:20.040 That's it's not just de Blasio who thinks that it's Fauci.
00:12:23.300 It's Biden.
00:12:24.080 It's the entire liberal establishment.
00:12:25.660 And unfortunately, they've got the power, so very often it works, whether we like it
00:12:31.720 or not.
00:12:32.940 If you want to protect yourself from these sorts of things, I would strongly recommend
00:12:37.140 you check out Ring.
00:12:38.100 We got some holidays coming up.
00:12:39.620 We got Labor Day coming up, looking past that Columbus Day, Thanksgiving even, not too
00:12:44.420 far into the future.
00:12:45.900 People might be coming to your house and you're probably going to want to know who's at the
00:12:48.700 door when they come and knock.
00:12:49.760 And that's why I would strongly recommend Ring Alarm.
00:12:52.860 Go to ring.com slash Knowles right now.
00:12:55.800 Ring will allow you to see and speak to whoever is on your doorstep, whether that person is
00:13:01.560 the delivery guy or the milkman or the burglar, or maybe it's your in-laws coming in for the
00:13:05.480 holidays and maybe you're going to react differently depending on who is at that door.
00:13:09.820 I'm not saying how you're going to react.
00:13:11.060 I'm just saying maybe it's good to know that sort of stuff, whether you're in your house,
00:13:14.400 whether you're at the office, whether you are on a beach on the other side of the
00:13:17.360 world.
00:13:18.440 Protect your home with Ring Alarm.
00:13:19.940 Easy to install.
00:13:20.620 You can keep an eye on every inch of your house with their terrific equipment.
00:13:25.320 Protect your home anytime, anywhere.
00:13:27.540 Ring Alarm, ring.com slash Knowles.
00:13:29.980 You get a special offer on a Ring Alarm security kit today.
00:13:32.420 Build a system that's right for your home.
00:13:33.880 Have it up and running in minutes.
00:13:34.860 That's ring.com slash Knowles.
00:13:36.300 Ring.com slash Knowles.
00:13:38.660 We are seeing a national disintegration here.
00:13:44.520 It's well beyond Afghanistan.
00:13:46.740 Okay, I think this is one of the arguments for the people who said, why are we still in
00:13:49.580 Afghanistan?
00:13:51.100 One of the arguments really had nothing to do with Afghanistan.
00:13:53.480 It had everything to do with the home front.
00:13:56.280 We no longer have faith in our elections.
00:13:58.900 Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats.
00:14:01.200 Don't forget.
00:14:01.820 Sure, Trump right now is still saying, and a lot of Trump supporters are saying, that the
00:14:05.480 election in 2020 was rigged.
00:14:07.280 You're not, I think you're not allowed to say that anymore on social media, which kind
00:14:09.960 of shows you some of the problem.
00:14:10.960 But Democrats have been saying that 2016 was rigged from the beginning, including Hillary
00:14:15.180 Clinton, including the vanquished candidate.
00:14:18.240 We've had increasingly little faith in our election, I suppose decreasing faith in our
00:14:24.340 elections over the past several cycles.
00:14:26.800 We no longer trust our other established institutions beyond the elections.
00:14:34.400 We just saw leftist militants burn city after city after city last year.
00:14:40.260 We have lost our rights to go to work in many places, our rights to go to church in many places,
00:14:47.700 our right to go to the restaurant in many places.
00:14:50.860 Increasingly so now.
00:14:51.940 So we're seeing less and less faith in our fellow citizens.
00:14:57.180 No one trusts that Joe Biden is even awake at this point.
00:15:00.640 So no one trusts that we have a properly functioning president within the constitutional order.
00:15:04.560 Even Democrats don't trust that.
00:15:06.460 They believe that the kind of bureaucracy and establishment is running the show, which it
00:15:11.400 is, obviously.
00:15:13.820 No one believes that Joe Biden is capable at this point of sitting in the Oval Office and
00:15:20.980 making sophisticated grand strategic decisions about the country.
00:15:26.080 Even if this were him making that, it would actually prove the point all the more, looking
00:15:31.000 at what's happened in Afghanistan, looking at what's happened on the economy, looking at
00:15:34.720 what's happened all over the place.
00:15:37.060 On coronavirus for that matter.
00:15:42.000 The New York Times comes out with a piece.
00:15:43.500 They say, how the Taliban turned social media into a tool for control.
00:15:51.880 See, Taliban, obviously, obviously very bad.
00:15:56.900 Afghanistan, very, very bad place.
00:15:59.200 No one's disputing that.
00:16:01.400 But they don't seem to be able, they can see what's going on overseas.
00:16:03.960 They can't see what's going on in our own country.
00:16:05.720 So in the 1990s, the Taliban banned the internet.
00:16:08.140 Now they use it to threaten and cajole the Afghan people in a sign of how they might use technology
00:16:11.960 to build power.
00:16:14.680 Yeah, it's just the Taliban doing that, right?
00:16:17.180 Right.
00:16:17.420 No one else is using social media as a tool for control.
00:16:21.020 Social media, the big tech companies, weren't actually just built as a tool for control,
00:16:25.580 as a tool of surveillance capitalism and behavior modification.
00:16:28.760 That's not actually their entire raison d'etre, right?
00:16:31.240 Oh, wait, it is.
00:16:32.460 Right, it is.
00:16:33.740 The regime in Afghanistan is now using social media to incentivize people to do the things
00:16:39.560 they want and to punish them for doing the things they don't want.
00:16:41.680 We would never have that in America, right?
00:16:44.300 We would never have such control and behavior modification through social media that big
00:16:49.740 tech oligarchs and the establishment would censor the duly elected sitting president, right?
00:16:53.160 We would never have that here.
00:16:54.880 Good grief, man.
00:16:55.900 Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
00:16:59.160 Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
00:17:02.020 There was a tweet going around regarding the Taliban, and it said,
00:17:07.260 Now, after many years, Afghanistan has been liberated from a regime that forces people
00:17:12.820 to wear facial coverings, destroy statues, and mutilates the genitals of children.
00:17:18.500 Oh, wait a second.
00:17:19.620 Uh-oh.
00:17:20.500 Who is that describing?
00:17:22.580 I'm not drawing an equivalence here between the liberal regime and the Taliban, but I am
00:17:30.300 showing you that there are some commonalities here in that statecraft, in the way that
00:17:36.360 political people use coercion to shape a country, in the way that the regimes look at their various
00:17:43.800 constituents, at their various people.
00:17:46.520 And that's a problem because I'm not saying that America is like Afghanistan, that we're
00:17:53.380 the same sort of place.
00:17:54.500 It's no better here than it is there.
00:17:55.840 I'm not saying that at all.
00:17:56.680 But I am saying that we're on a bad trajectory, okay, and we're going to need to turn things
00:18:02.340 around.
00:18:02.700 And I think if we had a thriving country, a flourishing country where things were stable
00:18:07.540 and people were free, I suspect there would be little objection to going to Afghanistan
00:18:13.060 or anywhere else and spreading the American vision of society and exerting our influence.
00:18:17.660 But the problem is we can barely keep things together here right now.
00:18:21.200 So you got to build up that country a little bit.
00:18:23.040 We can't even bring our guys back from Afghanistan.
00:18:26.500 We can't even summon the political will to do that.
00:18:28.640 Joe Biden admitted this just yesterday.
00:18:30.960 He was supposed to give a press conference.
00:18:32.620 He was conspicuously late again.
00:18:35.340 Wonder why.
00:18:36.020 I wonder what's going on.
00:18:37.480 Wonder how often Joe is lucid during the day.
00:18:39.980 But he shows up finally and he gives his update on the debacle in Afghanistan.
00:18:45.180 Before I update you on the meeting that I had with the leaders of the G7 earlier today,
00:18:53.560 I want to say a word about the progress we're making on the Build Back Better agenda here
00:18:59.100 at home.
00:19:00.400 I just got off the telephone with the leaders in the House.
00:19:04.420 Today, the House of Representatives has taken a significant step toward making historic
00:19:08.960 investment that's going to transform America, cut taxes for working families, and position
00:19:14.580 the American economy for long-term, long-term growth.
00:19:19.240 Excuse me?
00:19:21.380 The country that we have been occupying for 20 years has now collapsed within a matter of
00:19:27.360 days.
00:19:28.500 The Taliban has stolen all of our military equipment, taken all of our bases.
00:19:34.000 They're now holding Americans hostage behind enemy lines.
00:19:36.960 The United States is already signaling that they will leave those Americans behind.
00:19:41.840 We're all waiting on an update because we haven't really heard very much from Joe Biden
00:19:45.400 on this.
00:19:46.980 And you're going to open the press conference talking about building back better?
00:19:54.720 You're going to talk about possible tax cuts?
00:19:59.580 I'm sure, I'm sure that for the Americans stuck behind enemy lines, cowering in,
00:20:06.960 huts, as the Taliban go door to door, knock, knock, knock, where are the Westerners so we
00:20:11.620 can execute you?
00:20:12.640 I'm sure it's going to be a great comfort and consolation that they know that Joe Biden
00:20:17.840 is maybe going to reduce the cost of community college.
00:20:20.920 We're going to build back better.
00:20:22.440 Pre-K has never been so cheap.
00:20:24.340 And working families will have a tax.
00:20:25.680 That's what we all want to hear about, right?
00:20:28.160 Right?
00:20:29.480 No, no, of course not.
00:20:31.320 Now, the reason he's opening his press conference this way is he's got nothing on Afghanistan.
00:20:37.040 He's got nothing.
00:20:38.520 He can't, there is not one single thing that he has done in Afghanistan that he can point
00:20:44.180 to and say this was anything less than a disaster.
00:20:48.080 And so he's got to talk about his plans for lowering the cost of a gender studies degree
00:20:55.660 or whatever, but he's got nothing on Afghanistan.
00:20:59.020 So then he goes out, he talks about this stupid budget thing.
00:21:03.140 And then he says, oh yeah, by the way, in Afghanistan, we're, uh, we've, we were told
00:21:07.800 by the Taliban that we can't get an extension.
00:21:09.940 We're completely giving in to their demands.
00:21:13.240 Uh, we're probably going to, he's, the implication is we're probably going to leave Americans
00:21:16.420 behind enemy lines.
00:21:17.500 Okay, bye.
00:21:18.220 And then he turns around and he leaves and he walks out.
00:21:21.380 Build back better.
00:21:21.980 Turn, turn your back better.
00:21:23.680 Turn the president's back better on reporters from whom he will not answer a single question
00:21:30.880 because he can't, because there's no political win there.
00:21:33.020 Jen Psaki was not so lucky.
00:21:35.460 The spokesman at the White House had to go out.
00:21:37.640 Her job is to talk to reporters and she was pushed on this.
00:21:41.520 Hold on.
00:21:42.100 I thought there were thousands of Americans behind enemy lines.
00:21:44.660 They can't get to the airport.
00:21:45.820 You're refusing to send in the forces necessary to get them out.
00:21:50.100 So are you saying that we're going to leave Americans in Afghanistan?
00:21:54.320 Answer's yes.
00:21:55.560 Say after the withdrawal, it's done, you know, it's declared, it's done.
00:21:59.480 Everyone's out.
00:22:01.020 If one U.S. citizen was suddenly discovered, you know, saying, hey, I really want to get out
00:22:05.520 and I'm stuck, who knows where, somewhere in Afghanistan or in Kabul, he's got any problem.
00:22:09.740 Would this trigger a diplomatic, military, all hands on deck type thing to get that person
00:22:16.100 out, whatever the date?
00:22:17.900 Our commitment continues to be to U.S. citizens.
00:22:20.460 If they want to leave, we will help get them out.
00:22:23.080 No matter what the date?
00:22:23.960 Again, we expect there could be some, but I don't, I'm not going to get into it further.
00:22:29.720 Well, she tried to use this mealy mouth language and it just didn't work.
00:22:34.100 She said, look, we want to get them out.
00:22:37.320 Okay.
00:22:37.660 We hope, we want to, and if they want to get out, we'll try to help them get out, but
00:22:42.880 it's like, so what?
00:22:44.160 Do you expect to leave people there?
00:22:45.340 And she says, yes, we do, but I don't want to get into it.
00:22:48.200 I bet you don't want to get into it.
00:22:50.420 I bet you don't.
00:22:53.220 So you're cracking down on our liberties at home.
00:22:55.560 You're cracking down on our rights, our tradition, our way of life, upending that entirely.
00:23:00.800 You can see whether people wearing the secular keffiyeh there in the press briefing room,
00:23:06.620 masking up there, not even, not allowed to go out.
00:23:09.660 Increasingly now, not allowed to go to restaurants, not allowed to go to church,
00:23:12.120 not allowed to go to work.
00:23:13.400 So you're going to lock us down here and then you're going to leave us behind overseas.
00:23:18.020 That's, that is what this liberal regime is telling you.
00:23:23.260 Oh, oh, and I'm sorry.
00:23:24.540 There's one third thing that I forgot.
00:23:26.320 We're going to ship all the Afghani people over here.
00:23:29.140 That's what we're going to do.
00:23:30.200 And we're being told that they're being properly vetted,
00:23:32.560 but we've got proof now coming out from the United Kingdom
00:23:36.280 that these people are not being vetted.
00:23:38.220 They can't be.
00:23:38.820 There's too many.
00:23:40.440 A complete dereliction of duty.
00:23:44.280 Now, if you want someone who won't derelict his duty to work for your company,
00:23:47.820 I would strongly recommend you check out ZipRecruiter.
00:23:49.700 I was just in France a few weeks ago.
00:23:52.380 I was over there.
00:23:53.080 I was there for a wedding and I'm walking around France and I noticed something.
00:23:57.560 There's only about one waiter at every restaurant.
00:24:01.520 And it's not just because the French are known for a little leisurely take on, on labor.
00:24:06.200 No, it's because they can't get workers.
00:24:07.880 If you go to restaurants in America, you go to stores in America right now, you can't get workers.
00:24:12.780 You, I mean, you probably know this with your own company.
00:24:14.420 The people have not been working all that much, usually because of lockdowns and mandates over the past year.
00:24:21.580 Now businesses are reopening.
00:24:22.980 It's very hard to find really good talent.
00:24:25.240 Well, if you want to find good talent, go to ZipRecruiter.
00:24:27.700 You post your job on ZipRecruiter.
00:24:29.220 ZipRecruiter sends that out to a hundred of the top job sites, millions of possible applicants,
00:24:35.640 actively goes out and invites people to apply, finds you the best person.
00:24:39.440 Time is money when it comes to hiring.
00:24:41.160 Hiring is the most important investment you're going to make right now.
00:24:43.800 Try ZipRecruiter for free at this exclusive web address, ZipRecruiter.com slash Knowles.
00:24:48.380 That's ZipRecruiter.com slash K-N-A-W-L-E-S.
00:24:50.680 Go to ZipRecruiter.com slash Knowles.
00:24:52.880 ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire.
00:24:55.740 With everything going on from the Afghanistan debacle to vaccine mandates,
00:25:00.160 I'm not sure there's a better place to talk about it all than backstage.
00:25:03.180 Join us tomorrow, Thursday, August 26th at 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central on dailywire.com
00:25:07.680 and on our Daily Wire YouTube channel.
00:25:09.820 Don't miss it.
00:25:11.100 Also, today is your last chance to submit your song to be the new Sweet Baby Game Anthem
00:25:16.760 for Matt Walsh's Sweet Baby Gang.
00:25:19.500 Go to dailywire.com slash S-B-G submissions and tonight at midnight, go check it out.
00:25:26.680 Also, we've got a great exciting announcement to share today.
00:25:30.460 Deadline Hollywood just released the details and an exclusive photo of the Daily Wire's first original movie.
00:25:36.720 It's called Shut In. It's directed by DJ Caruso, executive produced by Daily Wire's co-founders.
00:25:42.840 Production on the thriller wrapped this weekend.
00:25:45.740 It will be available to Daily Wire members beginning in January 2022.
00:25:49.640 This film is centered around a young single mother who is barricaded inside a pantry by her violent ex-boyfriend
00:25:54.580 while using nothing but her voice to guide her two small children to escape escalating danger.
00:25:59.840 It's an intense, suspenseful thriller, delivers riveting action without missing a beat.
00:26:05.160 The trailer for Shut In will be out soon.
00:26:07.080 We know our members are going to love this film.
00:26:08.820 We entered the entertainment space in order to send Hollywood a message that
00:26:11.540 you no longer have a monopoly in the film industry.
00:26:14.060 The release of Shut In is just the next step in proving it.
00:26:17.560 We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:26:18.620 We're getting a report out of the United Kingdom that the supreme vetting of all of our Afghan allies,
00:26:39.420 we know exactly who's coming into the West from this war-torn country,
00:26:44.980 which is extremely violent, which has had terrible terrorism problems.
00:26:48.920 We know everyone who's coming in.
00:26:50.120 Even though we're airlifting tens of thousands of people at a time,
00:26:52.680 we know exactly who's coming in, except maybe we don't.
00:26:56.420 A person just entered the United Kingdom from Afghanistan who had been on the no-fly list.
00:27:03.140 Now, this person was later not deemed by the UK to be a person of interest
00:27:09.420 in whatever terrorism investigation they're undertaking.
00:27:13.260 But it just shows you the problem.
00:27:16.720 The point of the no-fly list, maybe you support the no-fly list, maybe you don't.
00:27:20.440 But the premise of the no-fly list, at least,
00:27:22.980 is that people who are considered a threat are not permitted onto airplanes.
00:27:28.660 They're not permitted in.
00:27:33.080 It's good news, I guess, that this person was not considered to be a dangerous enough threat
00:27:37.620 to keep out of the country.
00:27:38.520 But how did that person get on the plane in the first place?
00:27:43.640 Because obviously, the Afghan people who are now being flown into this country and others
00:27:49.560 by the tens and hundreds of thousands can't be properly vetted.
00:27:54.040 It's not possible.
00:27:56.280 We're already going to leave Americans in Afghanistan.
00:27:59.100 Americans in Afghanistan.
00:28:00.700 There's no way that you can do a proper vetting to get everybody out.
00:28:03.980 Joe Biden refuses to force the Taliban to extend the deadline to get out.
00:28:09.420 So we're just trying to race against the clock here.
00:28:15.340 We are going to take into just this country possibly 100,000 Afghan refugees.
00:28:24.360 Something tells me they're not all going to be properly vetted.
00:28:26.780 Now, many of them were allies of ours.
00:28:30.500 They helped us out when we were Afghanistan.
00:28:33.080 That's great.
00:28:34.580 Thrilled.
00:28:35.000 I appreciate their supporting us.
00:28:37.880 Do we think that not one bad guy is going to make it in there?
00:28:43.560 Do we think that every single person there is going to be just thrilled to join in a
00:28:47.560 Madisonian democracy here?
00:28:49.440 They're all going to just salute the flag and eat apple pie and sing the national anthem.
00:28:56.160 Well, frankly, most Americans these days don't sing the national anthem, so never mind about that.
00:29:01.580 Do we really think there's no problem here?
00:29:03.500 Because the people, the liberal imperialists on the left and the right are telling us that
00:29:09.840 if we in any way raise any questions about taking in any fewer than hundreds of thousands
00:29:14.440 of Afghan migrants, that that is terrible, evil, immoral, un-American.
00:29:22.300 Is that the case?
00:29:23.340 Can the United States handle that kind of stuff right now?
00:29:27.540 I'm not even talking about the Afghan migrants in particular.
00:29:30.900 I'm just talking about the open borders, taking in the whole world, taking in millions of people
00:29:34.700 a year.
00:29:36.340 Are we really in a good position to handle that?
00:29:38.480 Because as far as I can tell, our national policy has been completely bungled.
00:29:44.300 We've lost our way of life.
00:29:45.560 If we're losing our national identity and cohesion, I don't even know what the migrants will be
00:29:51.740 assimilated into at this point.
00:29:53.300 What is America?
00:29:54.000 What do we stand for?
00:29:55.080 What are our standards?
00:29:57.260 Doesn't seem like a great idea.
00:29:59.560 Meanwhile, back overseas, we've now heard from the Pentagon, they've admitted that the Taliban
00:30:07.600 has stolen all our stuff.
00:30:09.360 They've got all of it.
00:30:10.520 But we actually don't know how much they've got.
00:30:14.160 We don't know the stuff that the Afghan army had that the Taliban now took.
00:30:21.000 And in case you were wondering, no, we have no policy solution to fix it.
00:30:26.240 Is there any effort to tally up the number of U.S. weapons and equipment that are now
00:30:31.860 under Taliban control?
00:30:33.760 And is there any program to mitigate this problem through destruction or confiscating
00:30:39.740 them back, taking them back?
00:30:41.220 Yeah, Mike, I mean, we talked about this before.
00:30:43.900 I don't have an exact inventory of what equipment that the Afghans had at their disposal that
00:30:52.900 now might be at risk.
00:30:54.920 Obviously, we don't want to see any weapons or systems to fall into hands of people that
00:31:07.780 would use them in such a way to harm our interests or those of our partners and allies.
00:31:15.540 I mean, we have a vested interest, obviously, in not wanting that to happen.
00:31:20.720 But I don't have any policy solutions for you today about how we would or could address
00:31:28.300 that going forward.
00:31:29.780 This is embarrassing to watch.
00:31:31.400 This is like when you're in a meeting at your office and there's the flunky guy.
00:31:35.880 There's the flunky guy who, you know, maybe he's a good talker or something, but he gets
00:31:40.420 called out.
00:31:41.020 He says, OK, so have you done this thing?
00:31:42.960 Are you doing this thing?
00:31:44.620 What's what have you what are you doing?
00:31:46.180 What have you what have you brought to the company here?
00:31:48.140 And he says, well, yeah, no, I mean, look, obviously, yeah, look, we want to do stuff
00:31:52.880 for our yeah, for our partners and we want and synergy, you know, and but no, we don't.
00:31:58.840 I don't.
00:31:59.780 So what's your solution then, Johnny?
00:32:01.360 Well, no, I don't have so I'm not going to we don't exactly have solutions, but I think
00:32:07.960 it's very important.
00:32:09.000 Look, we yeah.
00:32:09.660 And I don't know.
00:32:10.500 I don't have like numbers, OK, or facts or data or any.
00:32:15.480 But yeah, I just think what's important we want to have.
00:32:18.520 We want to have that.
00:32:19.420 We want to do better and we're going to do better.
00:32:21.680 Right, guys?
00:32:23.240 Right.
00:32:24.540 That's that's great.
00:32:27.240 I'm glad you want that.
00:32:29.320 But we need results.
00:32:32.500 We need and we're not getting results from our national leaders.
00:32:36.980 We're not getting results on the covid lockdowns.
00:32:41.260 Not at all.
00:32:41.680 We're getting quite the opposite of that.
00:32:42.880 Right.
00:32:43.320 We're not getting results overseas.
00:32:46.440 We're not getting results.
00:32:49.340 Anywhere, nowhere, none of the we're not getting results on immigration.
00:32:53.080 We're not getting results on the economy.
00:32:55.340 We're not getting results on inflation.
00:32:57.600 We're not getting results on anything.
00:33:01.980 So President Trump is deciding to go on the attack.
00:33:05.820 This is probably the strongest evidence yet that Donald Trump plans to run for president
00:33:10.980 again against Joe Biden, if he's even still in office.
00:33:14.660 And we wonder if that is even possible.
00:33:16.780 But Trump just released this early on, 2021, a campaign ad just summing up everything that
00:33:24.880 we've been seeing for the past few months.
00:33:27.700 America is back.
00:33:29.680 Highest inflation rate in the US.
00:33:30.980 The southern border is collapsing.
00:33:33.000 The city climb of covid infections.
00:33:35.160 We amplify our power.
00:33:36.900 We summoned a new strength.
00:33:38.760 This is a recruitment ad.
00:33:39.620 Should we be embarrassed?
00:33:41.060 Diplomacy is back.
00:33:42.500 Now the Taliban are back.
00:33:43.940 Kabul is not in an imminent threat environment.
00:33:47.540 The likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole
00:33:52.920 country is highly unlikely.
00:33:54.480 They own the whole country now, the Taliban.
00:33:56.120 The Taliban are now in complete control of Afghanistan.
00:33:59.600 Complete chaos.
00:34:00.260 How did President Biden get this so wrong?
00:34:02.680 First of all, the mission hasn't failed.
00:34:05.820 Yet.
00:34:06.060 If this isn't failure, what does failure look like exactly?
00:34:10.200 Violin, you destroyed not Afghanistan, but the world.
00:34:14.820 I don't care if you think I'm Satan reincarnated.
00:34:19.860 Do I bear responsibility?
00:34:21.620 Zero responsibility.
00:34:22.960 China is ready for friendly relations with the Taliban.
00:34:26.520 They're just chanting death to America.
00:34:28.460 And you call yourself a president?
00:34:30.140 Devastating, devastating.
00:34:37.680 And, you know, I do love that voiceover that you hear there from some protesters saying,
00:34:42.820 you call yourself a president?
00:34:44.100 You should be ashamed.
00:34:45.040 But other than that, everything else was just news reports.
00:34:51.220 Everything else was just Joe Biden's own words or those of his spokesmen.
00:34:54.320 The only editorial part were one or two lines there from, you know, you're a bad president
00:34:59.940 or whatever.
00:35:00.460 The rest, it was him indicting himself.
00:35:05.180 And I don't even just mean to blame Biden.
00:35:06.720 Biden has no idea what's going on.
00:35:08.500 It's the whole liberal establishment indicting itself.
00:35:13.500 That ad is more powerful than just about any ad I've ever seen in politics.
00:35:19.980 Morning in America, you know, it's sort of Ronald Reagan touting all of his accomplishments.
00:35:23.720 This was like the flip side of that.
00:35:25.940 This is what happens when everything goes wrong.
00:35:31.200 Now, you're not allowed to say make America great again.
00:35:35.180 I mean, I guess this gets to the heart of our problem.
00:35:36.960 You're not allowed to root for America.
00:35:38.980 You know, we don't even know what America is.
00:35:40.560 If you, if you say you want to make America great again, if you salute the flag, if you put
00:35:45.580 your hand over your heart when you say the pledge, you are, according to the left, engaging
00:35:50.060 in white nationalism, right?
00:35:52.680 Because America is an evil, rotten, racist, bigoted, terrible, white supremacist place.
00:35:58.280 Just take a listen to this voicemail.
00:36:00.500 This voicemail was left on the phone of Carter Nordman.
00:36:04.460 He's a representative state rep in Iowa.
00:36:08.080 This was a woman who called him because he supported a bill that would have schools say
00:36:13.280 the Pledge of Allegiance in the morning, just like we all did when we were kids, just like
00:36:17.180 has been true for a lot of American history.
00:36:20.500 She, she got triggered.
00:36:23.140 Yes, this message is for Carter Nordman.
00:36:25.660 My understanding that you are the Iowa state representative who included language that requires
00:36:33.360 all Iowa schools to lead the Pledge of Allegiance once a day in grades one through 12.
00:36:38.840 So, I'm curious, Carter, when did we start teaching white nationalism in schools?
00:36:44.820 Because that's exactly what the f*** you're doing, sir, and you have absolutely no right
00:36:48.980 to require something like that.
00:36:51.200 Our children aren't proud to be American.
00:36:53.680 Maybe the white suburban kids out in Adel are proud to be American because their rights are
00:37:00.540 afforded to them every day and they don't have to fight for them.
00:37:03.600 But for the rest of us who are women, the poor, the elderly, the minorities, we're not so
00:37:14.340 f***ing proud.
00:37:15.100 What are we proud of?
00:37:16.140 We're proud of our racist history.
00:37:17.920 We're proud of our racist roots.
00:37:19.900 Is that what we're proud of?
00:37:21.180 We're proud of the fact that not all citizens in the United States are afforded the same rights
00:37:27.680 and the same privileges as the blonde-haired, blue-eyed ones.
00:37:32.760 So, first of all, that woman is the voice of a generation.
00:37:36.500 Before we make fun of her, before we talk about how kooky and crazy she is, she is espousing
00:37:41.040 what is now the mainstream point of view.
00:37:42.920 That if you say anything nice about America or its founding, you are a white supremacist.
00:37:47.640 America is an evil place and we need to undo the founding of the country and re-found the
00:37:51.740 country to take away that racist, evil, terrible root that's rotten to the core.
00:37:56.480 However, the second part that's funny about this is that this woman is almost certainly
00:38:01.740 white, right?
00:38:02.540 Because you hear her say, she goes, maybe it's fine to salute the flag if you're one of those
00:38:07.160 white women in the suburbs, but for the rest of us who are, and then you hear there's a
00:38:12.920 little pause.
00:38:13.780 And so, if she's contrasting the white people with someone else, with herself, if she weren't
00:38:18.800 white, she would probably say, who are Hispanic and blah, blah, or who are black and who are,
00:38:23.820 but she doesn't do that.
00:38:24.920 She'd pause, she goes, yeah, maybe the white people in the suburbs will do that, but not
00:38:28.380 the rest of us who are women.
00:38:31.900 Well, hold on.
00:38:32.500 Women is not the opposite of white or poor.
00:38:35.440 First of all, she's not poor.
00:38:36.840 That woman is not.
00:38:37.480 She does not talk like a poor person.
00:38:39.280 She talks like a rich, entitled white liberal.
00:38:42.600 So she, I can hear it.
00:38:44.240 I don't, I'm just, I don't want to rush to conclusions, but you can hear these things.
00:38:49.160 We, we're oppressed.
00:38:52.020 What would we, what would we be proud of in our country?
00:38:54.120 And that's the question, because after decades now of teaching people that there's nothing
00:38:57.200 to enjoy about the country, nothing to be grateful for, nothing of value here, that, that's what
00:39:02.600 people believe, that, that we, we have nothing to share to people abroad, which is why now
00:39:07.960 we've got to pull everyone in from outside.
00:39:09.580 But, uh, the country itself is rotten, so we need to bring in as many other people who
00:39:14.440 are not Western, who are not American, uh, to help improve the country.
00:39:19.180 And we need to disrespect our laws as, as best we can, because our laws were founded by evil,
00:39:23.800 racist, white supremacist people.
00:39:25.760 There is a logic to their madness.
00:39:28.140 It's a, it's a, it's illogic.
00:39:29.220 I mean, it's a, it's a perverse logic, but there is a kind of coherence in its perversity.
00:39:34.860 There is some good news for the American nation.
00:39:36.800 So, rare good news that we get these days, especially rare good news from the court.
00:39:41.860 The Supreme Court has, you're probably not hearing about this story, by the way, it's
00:39:44.420 not getting a lot of play.
00:39:45.480 The Supreme Court has just ruled that the Biden administration's attempt to end the remain
00:39:51.700 in Mexico immigration policy, uh, is, is not permitted under the law of the land.
00:39:59.380 And so the Supreme Court has refused to block a lower court ruling that will require the
00:40:05.000 government to reinstate the Trump arrow policy.
00:40:06.580 The remain in Mexico policy was a brilliant policy and it's obviously right and just.
00:40:10.560 The policy is this.
00:40:12.380 We're told that we've got a zillion asylum seekers coming into America.
00:40:16.380 They're not economic migrants.
00:40:17.660 They're not people who just want to flat our laws and come in and make a buck.
00:40:20.600 They are fleeing political persecution.
00:40:24.180 They'll be killed if they remain in Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador.
00:40:28.620 And so that's why we've got to let them into America.
00:40:30.580 It's a matter of life or death if they don't get out of their nation of origin.
00:40:34.140 And so the Trump administration said, okay, fine.
00:40:38.180 Uh, if, if people need to come into America to flee death, the political persecution, then,
00:40:43.940 then we'll do that.
00:40:44.680 But if those people make it to another country first, where they'll be perfectly safe, then
00:40:55.260 they've got to stay there.
00:40:57.340 And the reason for this policy is that, of course, these guys who are coming from El Salvador,
00:41:01.200 Guatemala, Nicaragua, wherever, have to go through Mexico.
00:41:04.620 So if they were really just fleeing political persecution, they would just stay in Mexico.
00:41:09.560 They'd stay in the first place they could outside of their own country, but they're not.
00:41:13.060 They're economic migrants who want to come here because our economy is better for how long,
00:41:16.900 I don't know, but our economy is theoretically better.
00:41:19.800 And they, they think they're gonna have a better life here and they, they probably would.
00:41:22.500 So Joe Biden comes in and he says, no, forget about that.
00:41:25.880 We can't, we can't have that policy because that's going to discourage people from illegally
00:41:28.800 coming into our country.
00:41:29.600 And that's going to hurt us down the road because we're not going to be able to just
00:41:32.480 bring in voters illegally.
00:41:35.620 So what the Supreme Court did is they actually, uh, watched the left get hoisted on its own
00:41:40.640 petard.
00:41:42.220 The, the Supreme Court, when Trump tried to overturn Barack Obama's unconstitutional DACA
00:41:47.320 program, the program that gave executive amnesty to illegal aliens under roughly the age of 40,
00:41:55.220 even though that we, we pretend that they're dreamers who are like six years old, but they're
00:41:58.160 actually much older than that.
00:42:00.280 Uh, the court said, no, you can't do that.
00:42:02.660 You can't, you're actually not permitted to do that.
00:42:04.960 You can't have that kind of capricious policy change left and right because then you won't,
00:42:09.460 you won't be able to have a stable country.
00:42:10.480 So you've got to give a compelling reason.
00:42:11.760 Well, they use that same logic here to stop the Biden administration from reversing the
00:42:17.140 Remain in Mexico policy.
00:42:18.220 Great stuff.
00:42:18.820 Speaking of banning stuff, the founder of OnlyFans, OnlyFans is the, it's like a social
00:42:24.720 media website for porn.
00:42:26.820 You, you can go on to OnlyFans and produce your own pornography, you know, pictures of
00:42:32.540 yourself and stuff like that.
00:42:33.540 I was considering starting my own, you know, just to make a little extra buck.
00:42:36.280 Look, I've got a family now.
00:42:37.280 Okay.
00:42:37.440 I've got to pay some bills.
00:42:38.220 And so you can do that if you're a content creator and then people can subscribe to your
00:42:43.120 porn and they'll get like special porn.
00:42:45.340 You know, even though I know it's not exactly difficult to find naked ladies on the internet
00:42:49.080 and you don't have to spend a lot of money to do it, but there is a service now where
00:42:52.440 you can spend money and feel like you've got a special relationship with a pornographer.
00:42:57.660 So OnlyFans announced a week or two ago that they're going to ban porn from their website,
00:43:05.680 which means their website is basically going to have to shut down.
00:43:08.260 There's not, they, they are a pornography website.
00:43:10.380 So if they ban porn, I'm not sure exactly who's going to be using their website.
00:43:13.740 But they did it and they, the founder has just explained why.
00:43:19.600 It's because the banks, the big banks were pressuring them to because the banks don't
00:43:24.500 want to be involved in this seedy business.
00:43:26.280 They don't want to be funding some pimp whose name is Tim Stokely.
00:43:29.180 He's the CEO of OnlyFans.
00:43:30.640 They don't want to be seen as encouraging 18 year old girls who want to make a quick buck,
00:43:36.620 who aren't thinking clearly to go turn themselves into porn stars.
00:43:39.720 And they don't want to encourage this sick addiction among young men.
00:43:44.660 So they say, look, you guys, if you, if you want to keep doing business with us,
00:43:47.680 then you, you got to get all the porn out of there.
00:43:50.420 I think this is great.
00:43:52.480 Okay.
00:43:52.640 There's an, unfortunately there's a coda to this story, which we'll get to in a second,
00:43:55.460 but at least the first announcement, I think this is great.
00:43:57.720 I know that there are a lot of conservatives out there who are going to say, hold on, Michael,
00:44:00.960 what you think the banks should be able to exert influence.
00:44:03.620 These are the same banks that are, that are sometimes going after conservatives.
00:44:07.920 These are the same banks who are sometimes wielding power to ostracize conservatives from society.
00:44:14.000 So you can't celebrate when they're wielding power to ostracize pornographers.
00:44:20.120 Yes, I can.
00:44:21.540 Yes, I can.
00:44:22.140 And it's this kind of illogic that has really put the right in a bad position over the past couple of decades.
00:44:30.260 Politics is about more than just form.
00:44:32.220 It's also about substance.
00:44:34.960 The fact that banks are doing anything is one aspect of the, of the political question,
00:44:41.360 but what the banks are doing is the other aspect.
00:44:45.940 Like for instance, when, when leftists say, you know, Michael, if, if we tell communists that they
00:44:56.260 can't indoctrinate our third graders in the classroom, if we conservatives were to do that
00:45:00.840 and kick communism out of the classroom, why that would make us no better than the left,
00:45:05.300 which is trying to kick American patriotism out of the classroom.
00:45:09.980 No, no, no.
00:45:10.580 It would make us very different from the left because communism and patriotism are not the same thing.
00:45:16.120 Our first amendment rights and pornography are not the same thing.
00:45:19.200 I know that people are confused about this today, but for the vast majority of American history,
00:45:23.420 it was never understood that pornography is protected by the, or obscenity is protected by the first amendment.
00:45:30.240 But Michael, the banks are going after guns.
00:45:32.240 So now you're fine with them going after pornographers?
00:45:34.640 Yes, because guns and pornography are different.
00:45:36.860 And one is a civil right and one is not.
00:45:38.600 And one is generally illegal.
00:45:41.120 And even though now we don't quite understand that, but yes, those, those are different things.
00:45:46.960 This guy is a pimp.
00:45:48.920 This even dresses like a pimp, Tim Stokely.
00:45:51.380 Now, unfortunately, the bad news we just got an hour ago is that the, the OnlyFans has reversed course.
00:46:00.020 They've secured funding.
00:46:01.460 They've pressured the banks, whatever.
00:46:03.700 So now they're, they're going to keep pouring out there.
00:46:06.220 This is bad stuff.
00:46:07.380 But conservatives used to be able to recognize that there's a difference between good and bad
00:46:15.460 and right and wrong.
00:46:16.680 I mean, basically the people making the argument that we need to be really worried that a bank
00:46:21.500 pressured OnlyFans to get rid of its porn, even though it didn't really work.
00:46:25.980 They're the ones who are making the same argument that drag queen story hour is a blessing of liberty,
00:46:30.140 like David French made, because they say, well, who's to, who's to say what's good and bad?
00:46:35.260 If, if we get rid of drag queen story hour, why the left might get rid of church on Sunday,
00:46:39.820 which they're already trying to do, by the way.
00:46:41.700 No, we actually, we can know.
00:46:43.300 We can know the difference between these things.
00:46:47.280 Unfortunately, a lot of work to do to re, to rebuild our society.
00:46:52.280 A lot of work to, forget rebuilding Afghanistan.
00:46:54.160 A lot of work to do to rebuild our society, even on the right for us to make sense of these things.
00:46:59.600 Much more to say.
00:47:00.800 We'll have to hold it for tomorrow.
00:47:01.700 I'm Michael Noles.
00:47:02.160 This is the Michael Noles Show.
00:47:02.820 See you then.
00:47:05.260 We'll be right back.
00:47:35.260 The Michael Noles Show is a Daily Wire production.
00:47:53.140 Copyright Daily Wire 2021.
00:47:55.760 OnlyFans announced that it was getting rid of pornographic content, but after a huge backlash from the public, the company has backtracked.
00:48:00.940 What does this whole drama tell us about our culture?
00:48:02.660 We'll discuss that today.
00:48:03.400 Also, the rapper Busta Rhymes delivers one of the best anti-mask speeches we've yet seen.
00:48:08.060 And the Republican governor of South Dakota says that she will not prevent employers from imposing vaccine mandates.
00:48:12.700 Plus, Planned Parenthood gets into the trans-hormone therapy game.
00:48:15.960 And finally, we'll ask the important question, is air conditioning racist?
00:48:19.640 The answer might surprise you.
00:48:21.620 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.