The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 829 - Get In Line And Get Left Behind

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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.

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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. 1.00

00:06:19.840 This jerk, this jerk, why he is permitted to pontificate after being wrong on so many 1.00

00:06:30.860 things and admitting to lying about other things, like the masks, right? 1.00

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 0.95

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 0.99

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? 0.85

00:09:49.800 Especially after George W.

00:09:52.040 Hitler that we had before him. 0.99

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. 1.00

00:10:27.480 He is a jerk. 1.00

00:10:30.640 He's a jerk. 1.00

00:10:31.720 No one should believe him. 1.00

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. 0.69

00:11:03.920 It was disgusting.

00:11:04.740 He was there. 0.94

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. 0.97

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.

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00:13:38.660 We are seeing a national disintegration here.

00:13:44.520 It's well beyond Afghanistan. 0.74

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. 0.99

00:15:56.900 Afghanistan, very, very bad place. 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:17:12.820 to wear facial coverings, destroy statues, and mutilates the genitals of children. 0.90

00:17:18.500 Oh, wait a second. 0.98

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 0.78

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 0.97

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. 0.96

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? 0.90

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. 0.91

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. 0.99

00:20:59.020 So then he goes out, he talks about this stupid budget thing. 0.99

00:21:03.140 And then he says, oh yeah, by the way, in Afghanistan, we're, uh, we've, we were told 0.99

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 0.51

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. 0.99

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. 0.97

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. 0.99

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. 1.00

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.

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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.

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00:24:01.520 And it's not just because the French are known for a little leisurely take on, on labor. 0.98

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.

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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.

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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, 0.93

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. 1.00

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. 0.80

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. 1.00

00:29:22.300 Is that the case? 0.69

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 1.00

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. 0.87

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 1.00

00:33:52.920 country is highly unlikely.

00:33:54.480 They own the whole country now, the Taliban. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.60

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? 1.00

00:35:52.680 Because America is an evil, rotten, racist, bigoted, terrible, white supremacist place. 1.00

00:35:58.280 Just take a listen to this voicemail. 1.00

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? 0.98

00:36:44.820 Because that's exactly what the f*** you're doing, sir, and you have absolutely no right 0.98

00:36:48.980 to require something like that. 0.98

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? 0.99

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. 0.99

00:37:42.920 That if you say anything nice about America or its founding, you are a white supremacist. 0.77

00:37:47.640 America is an evil place and we need to undo the founding of the country and re-found the 0.99

00:37:51.740 country to take away that racist, evil, terrible root that's rotten to the core. 0.94

00:37:56.480 However, the second part that's funny about this is that this woman is almost certainly 0.96

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.91

00:38:35.440 First of all, she's not poor.

00:38:36.840 That woman is not. 0.98

00:38:37.480 She does not talk like a poor person. 0.97

00:38:39.280 She talks like a rich, entitled white liberal. 1.00

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 1.00

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, 0.99

00:39:23.800 racist, white supremacist people. 1.00

00:39:25.760 There is a logic to their madness. 1.00

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. 0.98

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. 0.98

00:40:28.620 And so that's why we've got to let them into America. 1.00

00:40:30.580 It's a matter of life or death if they don't get out of their nation of origin. 1.00

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, 1.00

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.86

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. 0.90

00:42:45.340 You know, even though I know it's not exactly difficult to find naked ladies on the internet 1.00

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. 0.94

00:45:46.960 This guy is a pimp. 0.97

00:45:48.920 This even dresses like a pimp, Tim Stokely. 0.92

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.

The Michael Knowles Show - August 25, 2021

Ep. 829 - Get In Line And Get Left Behind

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