Ep. 833 -  It Can't Get Worse. Biden： ＂Hold My Beer＂
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The last American military plane has left Afghanistan, and yet, according to reports, there are hundreds of Americans left in Afghanistan, if not more. And yet, when you ask the Pentagon just how many Americans remain, this is the sort of non-answer you get.
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The war in Afghanistan is officially over. The last American military plane has left the country,
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and yet the last American plane did not take the last American out. According to reports,
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there are hundreds of Americans left in Afghanistan, if not more. And yet when you
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ask the Pentagon just how many Americans remain, this is the sort of non-answer you get.
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I would refer you to the State Department on the numbers of Americans they're still in contact with.
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That's something for them to speak to. So you can't ask, why would the Pentagon know?
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You've got to talk to the State Department. Then you ask the State Department. They don't really know
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either. A perfectly botched end to a perfectly botched withdrawal. But I would not hold my
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breath for answers or accountability. While Republicans are ready to impeach the government,
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this government, Afghanistan's new Taliban government, is vowing to fight climate change.
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And public school teachers in New York City, of all places, are waking up and protesting the
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government's incompetence and power grab. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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ask the Pentagon, hey, Pentagon, how many Americans are left in Afghanistan? Seems like if, if the final
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American military plane is on the way out, we should probably have all the Americans, right? But you said
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we don't, so how many are there? And they say, oh, I don't know, we don't know. You got to check with
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the State Department. Okay, hey, Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, how many Americans are left in
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Afghanistan? Let me talk briefly about the Americans who remain in Afghanistan.
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We made extraordinary efforts to give Americans every opportunity to depart the country,
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in many cases talking and sometimes walking them into the airport.
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Of those who self-identified as Americans in Afghanistan who are considering leaving the
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country, we've thus far received confirmation that about 6,000 have been evacuated or otherwise
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departed. This number will likely continue to grow as our outreach and arrivals continue. We believe
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there are still a small number of Americans, under 200 and likely closer to 100, who remain in Afghanistan
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and want to leave. We're trying to determine exactly how many. We're going through manifests
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and calling and texting through our lists, and we'll have more details to share as soon as possible.
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Okay, so they get everyone out. First of all, they start to get the military out before they
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get the civilians out. That seems to not make a lot of sense to me. Then they finish getting the
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military out before they get the civilians out. That seems to make even less sense to me. And then
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they don't know how many Americans are still there who want to get out. So this is an important
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distinction. This is going to come up again in just a second, so pay attention. He's determining
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which Americans want to get out and which Americans want to stay. Now, look, I don't know. I'm trying
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to use my imagination, but I cannot think of very many reasons why an American would want to stay
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in Afghanistan, which is not only under control of the Taliban right now, but actually in the midst of
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another civil war. Another civil war in which the Taliban are basically the good guys. I know the
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Taliban were just the bad guys for at least 20 years before that. They were kind of the good
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guys also, but at least as we were trying to figure out our strategy in Afghanistan. But right
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now it's the Taliban versus ISIS and ISIS much, much better than the Taliban. Also bad. Taliban's
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also bad, but it's a little confusing. Why would an American want to stay? Blinken says, look,
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I don't know. I'm not going to answer why an American would want to stay, but the Americans who do want
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to stay, it's one or 200. And look, we're doing everything we can to get them out. But you know,
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they've been, look, they've been dragging their feet. Okay. Clarissa Ward, who is a very impressive
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reporter with CNN, never thought I would say that. She's still on the ground in Afghanistan.
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And she's the woman who you saw a couple of weeks ago say, you know, they're chanting death to
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America, but they seem sort of friendly. And she's really doing great, great work out there.
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She is saying, no, I've talked to people here. The Americans haven't done very much to get the
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American civilians out. Actually, the American civilians haven't been able to get to the airport.
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I spoke earlier on in the day with a family of four from Houston, Texas. They told me they had
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been going to the airport for two weeks, trying desperately to get out. They all have American
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passports. They had gone to Afghanistan to visit the mother's family. And essentially the issue was
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they couldn't get past the Taliban. They were in touch with the U.S. military. The military was trying
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to facilitate their departure. And they just, they couldn't do it. They couldn't get in touch.
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So we're hearing from the Pentagon. Okay. The Pentagon is, we're reaching out and then talk to
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the State Department. All right. The State Department says we're texting and we're emailing. And then
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you talk to Clarissa Ward, who's talking to the actual Americans. They're saying, we're not getting
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anything from either the Pentagon or the State Department. So, okay, let's go back to the Pentagon.
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Hey, Pentagon, not that spokesman who doesn't know anything, but that other guy. Okay. Hey,
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other guy at the Pentagon. What's going on with the American evacuation?
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No American citizens came out on the last, what we call the joint tactical exfiltration,
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the last five jets to leave. We maintained the ability to bring them in up until immediately
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before departure, but we were not able to bring any Americans out. That activity ended probably
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about 12 hours before our exit. Although we continued the outreach and would have been prepared to
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bring them on until the very last minute, but none of them made it to the airport and were able
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to be and were able to be accommodated. So none of them made it to the airport. So the last five
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planes, at least, these are big planes. The last five planes, at least, didn't have any American
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citizens on it. We're doing a really good job of evacuating Afghans, not doing as great a job
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evacuating Americans. Now, I want to be as fair as I possibly can here, because I think there's a
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caveat to all this that conservatives are not mentioning because conservatives are trying to
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just score political points on Joe Biden. Fair enough. Joe Biden completely botched this, but
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there is a caveat here, which is there are Americans who want to stay in Afghanistan.
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Okay. You just heard the Pentagon and the state department refer to certain Americans who have
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families over there and who are living with their families over there. And so it's reminding you
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many of the Americans who want to stay in Afghanistan, we're not talking about Barbie and
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Ken. Okay. We're talking about Afghans who have become American citizens or they're American passport
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holders, but they still go to Afghanistan. They've lived in Afghanistan for a long period of time.
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So it's a little bit different. Okay. If you strand an Afghan in Afghanistan, even if the Afghan has
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gotten American citizenship, it's different than stranding, I don't know, a Swede in Afghanistan.
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It just looks different. It's different in terms of the way you can work with the culture. And it's
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different even in terms of your security. But there's another group of Americans who are going
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to stay in Afghanistan, namely the CIA and other special operators. This is not, I hate to sound like
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a conspiracy theorist, but this isn't a conspiracy theory. The CIA already told us that they're going
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to stay. CIA director William Burns told the Senate Intelligence Committee back in April that the CIA
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would not be leaving Afghanistan when the military did. Quote, the CIA will retain a suite of
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capabilities, some of them remaining in place. So it does seem to me when, when you're hearing from
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the Pentagon and the State Department and all, and the White House for that matter, all of this vague
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talk, how many Americans are this? A hundred or 300, or I don't know, maybe 500. But I suspect a lot
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of that is just to give cover to the special operators that we have, not just in Afghanistan,
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but everywhere else on earth. And so I don't, I, I, I don't want to seem like I'm defending
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Joe Biden's screw up here. I bet there are Americans who wanted to get out whom he left
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behind. I bet there, there was a much better way to do all of this. But also we, we do know there
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are at least some groups of Americans who do want to stay there, namely our special operators who are
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not just in Afghanistan, but they're, they're all over the place. Okay. Does that, does that excuse
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what the White House has done here? I don't think so. I mean, it, it seems to me, even if you were
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going to leave a very small number of people in Afghanistan intentionally, you would have better
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messaging because Joe Biden said we would get out every American before we left. Americans should
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understand that troops might have to be there beyond August 31st. No, Americans should understand
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that we're going to try to get it done before August 31st. But if we don't, the troops will stay.
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Don't will determine at the time who's left. And, and if they're American forces, if there's
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American citizens left, we're going to stay there. We get them all out. So you see Joe Biden, good
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politician. He's been around for a long time. He doesn't want to answer the question because yes.
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So are you going to get American citizens at Mr. President? We're going to, we're going to,
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we're going to make sure you're going to make sure of what? Well, we're, Hey, we're going to do,
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you know, we're going to do the thing and we're, and we're going to, and we're going to take time.
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And yeah, right. But sir, are you going to, what are you going to do? You know, at the end of the
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time, if there's still Americans left, well, we're going to look into it. Okay. So Mr. President,
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what? Okay. We're going to stay until we get them out. That was the conclusion. Now, maybe he
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shouldn't have said that because it puts him in a very bad position right now. Wasn't just Biden.
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Jen Psaki said the same thing. Does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not
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of leaving Afghanistan? It's the way that he has ordered it to happen by pulling the troops before
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getting these Americans who are now stranded. Does he have a sense of that? First of all,
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I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded. They are not. We are committed
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to bringing Americans who want to come home, home. We are in touch with them via phone, via text,
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via email, via any way that we can possibly reach Americans to get them home if they want
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to return home. There are no Americans stranded is the White House's official position on what's
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happening in Afghanistan. I'm just calling you out for saying that we are stranding Americans in
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Afghanistan. When I said when we have been very clear that we are not leaving Americans who want
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to return home, we are going to bring them home. And I think that's important for the American
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public to hear and understand. Okay. It's very important for the American public to hear that we will not
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leave Americans who want to come home in Afghanistan. We're going to do it. We're obviously
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going to do that. We're going to leave them there. But I want the American public to hear that we will
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Should Joe Biden be impeached? That is the question on the minds of some Democrats for that
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matter, but a lot of Republicans right now. There is a Senate candidate in Ohio, Josh Mandel,
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who is a strong Senate candidate. It's looking good. He's running against J.D. Vance over there
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in Ohio, another strong Senate candidate. And these are both guys who are leaning a little bit more into
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the conservative wing of the conservative movement in the Republican Party. And Josh says we got to
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impeach Joe Biden. This has been a colossal failure in leadership by both the commander in chief,
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Joe Biden, as well as the generals. A few major missteps and complete botches of the withdrawal.
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We're actually in a situation now where I believe Biden deserves to be impeached. Unlike, you know,
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unlike Trump, the Trump impeachments were complete politics and, you know, political theater, whereas
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Biden has blood on his hands. I mean, this guy is responsible for the blood of young men and women
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and leaving behind this biometric system is just one level on a multitude of failures.
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Okay. So what Josh is saying here is the same sort of thing that many Republicans are saying,
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commentators, pundits, official, ex-officials, politicians, candidates. They're all saying,
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look, the Trump impeachment was stupid because Trump didn't deserve to be impeached,
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but Joe Biden does deserve to be impeached. And you say, okay, well, what's the difference?
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Well, Joe Biden deserves to be impeached because he's done a really, really, really bad job.
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I agree. Joe Biden is doing a really, really, really bad job, but I don't agree that he should
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be impeached both on the constitutional level and also on the practical level.
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Now, I said this until I was blue in the face during the Trump impeachment, during the Trump
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impeachments, I forget, there are two of them. And I'm going to say it again now because I'm going
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to be consistent, unlike some of my Republican friends and allies. You don't impeach a president
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over maladministration. Doing a bad job is actually not grounds for impeachment. Now, I know in real life
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these days, at least for the past 30 years or so, a little bit less than that. We now impeach people
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for doing a bad, we impeach them for anything. It's just a purely political process. But that's
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not what the constitution says. In the constitution, impeachment is not supposed to be a purely
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political process where you can just get rid of a president because he does a bad job. No matter
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how bad a job, I mean, let's say the worst job possible, let's say he's got the blood of 13 Americans
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on his hands. You impeach a president for high crimes and misdemeanors. What is the crime?
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What crime did he commit? He armed the Taliban. Uh-huh. Sorry, he didn't, it's not as though he
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signed over the gear. The Taliban got the weapons because of the incompetence of the political
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decisions and the American withdrawal. That's not a crime. Well, he didn't secure Kabul.
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Yeah, I agree. He should have secured Kabul. He should have taken the Taliban's offer to let the
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Americans secure Kabul. He shouldn't have let the Taliban give security of Kabul over to the Haqqani
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network, which is now part of the Taliban, but used to be a separate thing. And it was actually one of
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the largest recipients of CIA funding during the Cold War, at least in Afghanistan. Through the ISI in
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Pakistan, which also used to be our ally, but it's not our ally anymore. And actually ended up paying
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the Haqqani network to kill, to attack the CIA. It's a bungle. It's a bungle actually gone further
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back than Joe Biden, but he bears responsibility, but it's not grounds for impeachment. I always hear
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from my, from my often squishier Republican friends that we've got to be consistent. We can't, you know,
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we got to treat Trump the same way we would treat Biden. And frankly, I don't even agree with that.
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But as a matter of, I think that we, we have a team and I think that we ought to give a little
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more grace to our side, but just as a matter of constitutional literacy, I don't see the high
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crime or misdemeanor that Joe Biden has committed. And then at the practical level beyond the
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constitutional, do you want president Harris? I don't want president Harris. I think president
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Harris is a bad idea. I think that would be worse for the country than bumbling Joe who doesn't know
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what his name is, who doesn't know what day it is. I, I suspect, by the way, Joe, Joe Biden's poll
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numbers are tanking right now. Leave him in there. Let those poll numbers tank. Let him tank all the
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way through 2022. If they keep tanking, let him go through 2024. I'm not denying that. I'm not saying
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I'm pure as the newly driven snow when it comes to matters of political advantage at, you know,
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in the federal government, but it seems right now to the benefit of the constitutional order,
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to the benefit of Republicans, political chances, to the benefit of our public policy to keep Kamala
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Harris out of there and to keep Joe Biden in. Just don't think it's a good, I get why people are angry.
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They have every right to be angry, but when we get angry, sometimes we make bad decisions. And I think
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we need to keep our wits about us. I think it's better just to beat Joe Biden at the ballot box,
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if that is possible. That's a big caveat because we're, we're not allowed to say that there was
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anything wrong with the 2020 election. So I'm not Google. Do you hear me? Facebook, Twitter. I'm not
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saying that there were, there was anything wrong with the 2020 election. It was, it was the total,
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it was the fairest election ever. Okay. You hear that? But, okay, but we've just got reports that
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there, there look like there are problems with about 44,000 absentee ballots in Georgia.
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Huh? That's weird. Because I was told everything was totally fine in Georgia, even though on election
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night and in the week after I was calling it and saying, you know, Georgia looks pretty shady there.
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Looks like there's some weird stuff going on. And we already found out that in just one batch of
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ballots in, in just one County in Georgia, you had double counting going on affected possibly 4,000
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ballots. We already, we saw that. We know that for a fact. So now we're talking about 44,000
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ballots. Ballot transfer forms for nearly 44,000 ballots in DeKalb County, Georgia were either
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incomplete or were not filled out in a timely matter by the time that it was due, according to an analysis
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performed by the Georgia Star News. There were issues with, with around 44,000 ballots, 43,907 out of
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61,731 absentee ballots cast via Dropbox in DeKalb in the 2020 election. So two thirds of the ballots in
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this County, more than two thirds of the ballots in this County, we can't really account for. You don't
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have the ballot transfer forms or you don't have them completed or you don't have them in, in,
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according to the way that they were supposed to be filled out. And do we think it's just these,
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first of all, Biden barely won Georgia. If, if you're of the opinion that Biden won Georgia fair
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and square and it was all totally clean, he, he certainly didn't do it by much. And so now we're
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saying, okay, now 44,000 ballots here are, are suspect in just one County. What about the other counties?
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Stinks to high heaven for me. This, what is the issue with the ballot transfer? There was an
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emergency rule passed by the state election board that said it was renewed in July of 2020
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that you fill out the ballot transfer forms, which are chain of custody documents. They're meant to
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accompany every batch of absentee ballots picked up at the Dropboxes. And yet these, these weren't
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filled out. So where did the ballots come from? Who filled them out? How secure were they? Seems a
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little dodgy to me because then if anything happens, if there's any question about the ballots,
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you can't go back and say, okay, well, who picked them up? When were they picked up? What,
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what was going on here? No, no one is allowed to raise any questions about whether or not Joe Biden
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got more votes than anyone anywhere ever. This guy, thanks for joining me. I'm here. Uh,
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uh, uh, the FEMA director's on, uh, uh, uh, FEMA director, Chris, well, she, she, she's on and I'm
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here with, uh, with my senior advisor and, uh, boy who knows Louisiana very, very well, man.
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That guy, Joe Biden, who did, who did not campaign when he did campaign, 18 people showed up. He's
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got his mask hanging off his face. He doesn't know where he is. He's forgetting people's names. He's
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like, I'm here and I'm where, and oh, and then he calls this black advisor boy. That was, that's,
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that's just the cherry on top of the sundae. And I'm here with, hey boy, what's your name, boy?
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Um, huh? And FEMA? FEMA? Why? Oh, right. Cause there's that, there's that super storm. That's,
00:22:53.360
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00:23:03.640
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00:23:09.060
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00:23:13.140
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00:23:19.400
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00:24:16.200
Joe Biden just got in a little bit of trouble. It's not real trouble. It's like fake trouble on
00:24:26.220
the right. It's among conservatives. I bet people on the left didn't even see this clip, but Joe Biden
00:24:31.780
was discussing the super storm. He was discussing the FEMA director, and then he referred to a senior
00:24:39.220
advisor of his who is black as a boy. He's a boy who knows Louisiana, and you're not supposed to call
00:24:45.660
black people boy because this was derogatory way back in the day, and now people don't even really
00:24:53.200
remember that, but Joe Biden's a racist. See, that's what we're supposed to say. That's what
00:24:57.780
we're supposed to conclude from this. No, you know, the first thing we're supposed to say is
00:25:01.260
if a Republican ever called a black advisor boy, oh gosh, could you imagine if the shoe were on the
00:25:08.620
other foot? Could you imagine the outrage? But there's not outrage because the left, they're
00:25:12.640
hypocritical. Okay. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah, you're right. If a Republican did
00:25:20.400
that, it would be a big outrage and be on the news and he'd be called a racist, but Joe Biden did it,
00:25:25.360
and so he's not called a racist. And so, so what? So what? Everybody knows that Joe Biden didn't mean
00:25:33.360
anything by it. Nobody thinks that Joe Biden is, you know, a Klansman or something. Nobody believes it.
00:25:41.460
It's all just fake. By the way, the libs don't care when you call them racist. They don't care.
00:25:48.140
The libs who actually do favor racial discrimination in the law, the libs who actually do think there
00:25:55.860
ought to be a racial caste system, the libs who, if racism has any meaning whatsoever anymore,
00:26:01.220
are racist. They don't care, but we do care. We conservatives do care. It's the worst thing you
00:26:08.660
can be called in America today. If you're a conservative, at least, you can be ostracized.
00:26:14.400
You can lose your job. You can lose your reputation if you're a racist. And so we really, you know,
00:26:20.160
if a Republican actually said, oh man, this boy, man, I love this boy. So who are you calling boy?
00:26:25.420
Oh no, I'm not a racist. Please don't call me a racist. I think we got to stop caring about that.
00:26:31.400
So racism, if it has any meaning at all, is a hatred of people on the basis of their race,
00:26:37.060
right? So if you're not that, that's an offense against human dignity. So that's why it's wrong
00:26:41.640
and simple. So if you're not doing that, then who cares if they call you a racist or they, I mean,
00:26:47.040
they called Ronald Reagan a neo-Nazi, okay? And George Bush and Donald Trump. And they're going
00:26:53.280
to do it to Ron DeSantis or Ted Cruz. They've already done it to Ted Cruz. They're doing it to Josh
00:26:57.520
Hawley. They're going to do it to whoever is the next guy. So who cares? Who cares? I just,
00:27:05.560
I think we need to stop wasting our breath on this stuff. Okay. I mean, it's funny because I'm not
00:27:09.160
talking about it, but I'm talking about it as a political strategy. I'm not, I'm not talking about
00:27:13.380
it as though Joe Biden is now the leader of the Ku Klux Klan or something like that. Cause he's not.
00:27:17.700
It's just, it's a cheap political attack. No one really believes, at least of all the left,
00:27:22.280
they're the ones who invented the attack. So just cut it out. Okay. Everything's racist.
00:27:28.000
Even anti-racism. So, you know, I, I know it's complicated, but there was racism, right?
00:27:35.600
And then there was not being a racist. So you're either a racist or you're not a racist. But then
00:27:41.760
in the last few years, that's not good enough. It's not good enough to be not a racist. We hear
00:27:46.120
from Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo and all the other hustlers. So now you, you got to be an anti-racist.
00:27:53.160
But then what I just learned yesterday, this one's going to shock you is that anti-racism
00:28:02.440
Trish Farley. She's a white woman who I met when I joined, when I started working with the
00:28:06.760
People's Institute of Survival Beyond. And she calls herself, and I'm borrowing this from her,
00:28:11.920
but it just, she calls herself a racist, anti-racist. And I really love that term as a white
00:28:17.440
woman, because again, you know, this and, you know, for those people familiar with the
00:28:21.620
People's Institute, the definition of racism as defined by them is race prejudice plus power
00:28:27.980
equals racism. So in that definition, I am as a white person, a racist. It doesn't mean
00:28:33.980
that I'm purposely, that my beliefs are purposeful and I'm doing things on purpose. And yet I can't
00:28:39.160
be a white person living in the society and not be benefiting from racism. So I kind of,
00:28:44.420
so I love that term of, you know, I'm a racist, anti-racist.
00:28:47.380
I'm a racist, anti-racist. So what she's saying, she actually didn't define it
00:28:50.540
precisely, even according to her own kooky definition.
00:28:56.160
She's saying that you need power. It's not just enough to have racial prejudice. Black people
00:29:03.280
might hate white people, but, but we're defining black people as not having any power here.
00:29:07.040
So they can't be racist. You need, you need power in order to be racist. So the only racists,
00:29:15.280
according to this definition, because white people are defined as the only ones with power,
00:29:18.400
the only racists are white people. But she goes further. She doesn't just say that all
00:29:22.000
racists are white people. She's saying all white people are racists. That even she as an anti-racist
00:29:28.660
is a racist because white people can never overcome their racism. Even if they become very
00:29:34.960
conscious of it, even if they become activists on anti-racism, they still can't overcome their
00:29:40.820
racism, which implies to me that maybe we should just give it up then. Who cares? If it's not
00:29:47.000
possible, if all white people are racist and they cannot ameliorate this in any way, they can't
00:29:51.640
overcome it, then all right, I guess that's just how we are. Okay. Where's the nearest hood? Because
00:29:57.720
I'm told by reliable sources that I, there's no way to overcome it. So why would I try if you're
00:30:03.100
telling me it's a futile attempt? But, but more, there's something even stupider about what she's
00:30:08.040
saying, which is that it violates Aristotle's law of non-contradiction. He can't, two, two
00:30:15.400
contradictory things cannot simultaneously be true. Two mutually contradictory things can't at the same
00:30:21.640
time be true. I cannot at the same time be a racist and an anti-racist. It's not possible.
00:30:27.900
I, I can't do it. Just like a, this, this leftist years tumbler cannot at the same time be black and
00:30:40.680
white, right? To, to, to keep with our color and hue analogy, it can't at the same time be black and
00:30:48.420
white because those are mutually exclusive things. They would contradict one another. It's not gray,
00:30:53.500
right? It's not, it's, it's either one or the other. Something cannot at the same time be true
00:30:59.420
and false. It has to be one or the other, but they don't know that. They don't know that. So it's all
00:31:06.900
racist. It's all anti-racist. It's all, it's lunacy. It's lunacy. And this is why, by the way,
00:31:15.340
when you hear about critical race theory or you hear about some of this activism in the schools,
00:31:18.940
one thing that keeps cropping up in all the pamphlets and all the lessons and all the
00:31:24.320
PowerPoints is this idea that there is no objective truth. You remember that in, in one of the anti-racist
00:31:30.380
pamphlets from the Smithsonian, they said that objective truth, reality, reason, these are white
00:31:37.740
supremacist dog whistles. Why? It's not just a funny quirk of, of this activism. This activism,
00:31:46.640
this ideology must undermine objective truth. It must undermine logic. It must undermine reason.
00:31:54.800
Because if you have logic, if you have reason, if there is objective truth,
00:31:58.780
then the ideology doesn't make sense. If there is such a thing as logic, then you cannot be an
00:32:04.640
anti-racist, racist, racist, anti-racist, ist, ist, anti-anti, this, that, and the other thing.
00:32:10.340
Now, speaking of woke lunatics, this is not just affecting the weird videos on YouTube. It's not
00:32:19.060
just affecting obviously neurotic, hysterical, liberal white women, or I guess the host of that
00:32:25.920
was a black woman, but it's not, it's not just affecting affluent suburban middle-class libs.
00:32:32.180
It's affecting our children everywhere. There was a gal who just went, went viral.
00:32:39.820
Thanks to our friends at Libs of TikTok. She, she posted a TikTok. She's a teacher
00:32:44.220
and she says, you know, in the class, my kids are, you know, they're supposed to say the Pledge of
00:32:50.120
Allegiance. At least in some schools, you're still supposed to do that. But we don't have an American
00:32:53.840
flag in our class. We've got a very different flag. During third period, we have announcements and
00:32:58.440
they do the Pledge of Allegiance. I always tell my class, stand if you feel like it, don't stand if
00:33:04.200
you feel like it, say the words if you want, don't have to say the words. So my class decided to stand
00:33:09.740
but not say the words. Totally fine. Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag. It used to be
00:33:16.300
there, but I took it down during COVID because it made me uncomfortable. And, um, I packed it away and I
00:33:24.680
don't know where and I haven't found it yet, but my kid today goes, Hey, um, it's kind of weird that
00:33:31.000
we just stand. And then, you know, we say it to nothing and I'm like, Oh, well, you know,
00:33:36.300
I got to find it. Like I'm working on it. I got you. In the meantime, I tell this kid,
00:33:44.500
we do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to. And he like looks around and he
00:33:51.000
goes, Oh, that one. And it's the pride progress flag, which is different. It's not just the
00:33:58.620
rainbow flag. It's the rainbow flag with a bunch of other colors and it makes it like a racial thing.
00:34:02.500
And it's a flag to the allegedly universal radical leftist ideology. Okay.
00:34:11.820
There was a, I think he calls himself a conservative columnist, but he's much more either
00:34:17.000
centrist or really center left. Connor Friedersdorf, I believe is his name. And he,
00:34:22.380
he came out and posted on Twitter about this. And he said, you know, this is cancel culture.
00:34:27.660
Stop shaming this random teacher. This is, we shouldn't, we conservatives shouldn't
00:34:32.760
be engaging in cancel culture. And I think that is a, that is not right. I think that's a very,
00:34:41.280
I hate to be harsh. I think that's a very shallow take. As, as you know, in my book,
00:34:45.300
Speechless, number one national bestseller, thanks to all of you who ordered the book and read it,
00:34:49.340
appreciate it. I think that the way we talk about cancel culture is very silly because all cultures
00:34:55.700
cancel, all cultures have standards and taboos. If a culture pledges allegiance to one flag,
00:35:02.920
which is a symbol of a country, it's a symbol of a way of life. It's a symbol of certain values and
00:35:07.800
traditions than it is necessarily excluding other values, traditions, nations, ways of life.
00:35:17.380
If you pledge allegiance to one flag, you are excluding other flags.
00:35:21.600
This teacher has made a decision. She is not going to put the American flag in her classroom.
00:35:27.120
She doesn't like America. She doesn't think her students should have any particular allegiance to
00:35:31.240
America. She thinks that, that students should have allegiance to radical leftism,
00:35:36.340
which ought to replace America. It's, it's a flag that's not, it's not a national flag,
00:35:41.680
the pride progress flag. It's an imperial flag. It's saying that these values, this, this idea
00:35:47.080
is true everywhere on earth. It's just as true and just as good as, and just as valid in Timbuktu as it
00:35:54.540
is here. Whereas that would not be the case for the American flag, a national flag. So she says,
00:36:00.420
that's what you're going to pledge your allegiance to. He, he, he, giggle, giggle, giggle.
00:36:05.280
This is a woman who is paid presumably by our tax dollars. She is a citizen of our country. She has
00:36:11.860
obligations to our country. She's, she's educating a generation of children and she's doing a very poor
00:36:18.020
job of it. She's educating them in the wrong way, a way that is not satisfactory, not acceptable
00:36:23.700
for future Americans. And she should be fired. She should be canceled. It's good. It's really good
00:36:29.800
to cancel some people and some things. As, as Bill Buckley said, if a, if a Nazi were teaching
00:36:36.960
sociology at Yale, when he was fired, no one would call it cancel culture. Okay. And we,
00:36:44.680
we understand that that's true for things on the far right or politically unclassifiable things,
00:36:49.180
but we, we don't accept that that's true for things on the left. And the left does understand
00:36:53.440
that, which is why the left has taken over the whole culture and has really taken over our whole
00:36:57.260
politics. That teacher should be fired. That video should go viral. She should at the very least
00:37:03.200
be reprimanded. That flag should be ripped down and desecrated, the pride progress one. And she should
00:37:10.260
be forced to put the American flag up there. And then those students should be forced to stand up
00:37:15.380
and pledge allegiance to their country. And if they don't like their country, they can either get out
00:37:20.020
when they're little kids. So they probably need their parents to go get out. Or if they don't like
00:37:24.600
their country and a lot of people are a little upset with our country right now, then they need
00:37:28.040
to make it better, but they have an obligation to it is it's their country. And, and we have an
00:37:33.880
obligation to our families and to our communities and to our states and to our country. And we have
00:37:40.180
a responsibility to make our country a little bit better. Now it's not all bad news with teachers
00:37:44.940
these days. We're getting a lot of bad news out of the classroom. The teacher unions, oh my gosh,
00:37:49.920
that's a complete disaster. The teacher unions are shut down. All of the schools are right. Many of
00:37:57.320
the schools for, for much of last year, but the teachers themselves, they're fighting back.
00:38:04.260
They're fighting back against keeping the schools shut down. They're fighting back against liberal
00:38:10.900
governments. And specifically they're fighting back against all these COVID mandates, mask,
00:38:16.820
vax mandates coming out of New York city, New York city, public school teachers protesting their
00:38:23.380
government's liberal policies. New York city teachers take to, I can't, I can't quite tell,
00:38:30.820
I guess it's around city hall. Is that around like Brooklyn bridge city hall? I used to live right
00:38:34.720
around there. The New York city public school teachers take a listen to what they're chanting.
00:38:38.100
We work for the DOE and they're telling us that we can't come to work unless we're fully vaccinated.
00:38:53.500
And we worked all year without a vaccine. Our children were protected. We wore masks, we social
00:39:00.240
distance. We've done everything that we've been asked and we worked during an entire pandemic and we
00:39:05.560
were okay. So now they're switching things up on us and we're angry. I'm a centrist. I like liberty
00:39:10.700
and I would prefer to die a free man. I am prepared to end this now and I am officially announcing my
00:39:20.560
exit from the UFT. I love that this lady's got a baby. So your question was, am I prepared to lose
00:39:27.740
it all? And the answer is yes. Because I do not believe that this is just about a vaccine. I do
00:39:36.600
not believe that this is just about our health. This is about medical freedom. This is about
00:39:42.660
totalitarianism. That's right. Bingo baby. Totally right. So these are New York city teachers. These
00:39:49.240
are people who work for the department of education. These are left wingers in some ways. You saw, by the
00:39:55.280
way, you saw the rainbow flag up there, not the pride progress flag, but the other, the old pride flag,
00:39:59.760
the rainbow flag. These are people in New York city. Something tells me that these are not diehard
00:40:05.780
rock ribbed Republicans. Okay. But they're recognizing this isn't about a vaccine. This isn't about an
00:40:13.060
epidemic. This is about medical freedom. This is about our right as people and educators to make
00:40:22.900
medical decisions for ourselves, especially when you're, when you're making a prudential judgment,
00:40:27.020
right? When you're looking at an experimental drug that doesn't particularly stop transmission
00:40:32.220
of the virus, doesn't particularly stop infection of the virus, but it does ostensibly mitigate some of
00:40:37.100
the worst effects of the virus, which we're not really at risk of because we're generally young,
00:40:43.940
healthy people over here. So they're, they're using their, their common sense. I can say this as a New
00:40:51.820
Yorker. A lot of people do not believe this, or they're just not familiar with it.
00:40:58.180
There is a weird kind of conservatism to New York. And I think this weird kind of conservatism that is
00:41:06.360
not Republican, that probably didn't vote for Trump, that is not, they wouldn't call themselves
00:41:12.040
conservative. I think it's true of a lot of places in America. Okay. What you're going to hear,
00:41:19.440
or if, if the story even comes up, is that, oh yeah, it was just some right-wing teachers that
00:41:23.980
showed up. Do those teachers look or sound right-wing to you? They don't to me. And this
00:41:27.980
video is not from some right-wing provocateur. It's from the Associated Press. It's from a left-wing
00:41:32.060
news outlet. There's this common sense, even in New York, where you say, you know, don't,
00:41:38.180
don't make me take this experimental drug for a cough that doesn't really threaten me all that much.
00:41:42.940
Yes, I know that there's some risk. I'm willing to assume that risk. Okay.
00:41:45.700
Okay. That's, that's, I'm, I'm making a judgment and I'm not crazy. All right. And actually I think
00:41:51.180
I've got better judgment than the Fauci's of the world. Actually, I think I've got better judgment
00:41:54.560
than the Biden's of the world. So leave me alone. Okay. Leave me alone. Look, we're, we're, we're all
00:42:01.900
in this together. We're all, you know, we're all Americans. We're all New Yorkers. We've got some
00:42:05.760
kind of solidarity, but on this issue, this just seems like a little too much to me. I think that's
00:42:10.060
true of a lot of people. And I think you saw them. Donald Trump got a fair number of these people
00:42:14.720
throughout the country in 2016 and Ronald Reagan got a fair number of them in 1980. It's not the
00:42:20.500
bow tie wearing think tank or ideological rigid conservative. It's just a little bit of common
00:42:27.560
sense. That is the hope. That's the hope for the country. By the way, our, our wonderful
00:42:35.480
administrative agencies, the public health experts, they're saying some things that don't seem totally
00:42:41.560
true. So the CDC on, on Monday, just yesterday claimed that there were no deaths reported in
00:42:48.480
young people due to heart inflammation conditions, which is a known and acknowledged side effect of
00:42:53.820
the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. That is obviously not true. Now the CDC might say, well, look, we haven't
00:43:02.340
proven that any of these are directly related that I guess that would be true if they haven't proven it.
00:43:07.140
But on this show, we talked in July about how the CDC was investigating the death of a 13 year old boy
00:43:16.360
who died suddenly in his sleep two days after receiving the Pfizer vaccine. His preliminary
00:43:22.340
autopsy findings show that his heart was enlarged when he died and there was fluid around his heart,
00:43:28.060
which is the side effect that is acknowledged even by the CDC. So sure, you want to tell me there's
00:43:34.360
no proven a hundred percent certain evidence that this is killing young people by enlarging their
00:43:41.080
hearts after they took the vaccine. Okay. You can tell me that if you want, but don't tell me that
00:43:44.960
it's not being reported. It is being reported and you people acknowledged it last month. You
00:43:50.760
acknowledged it is, is, is the memory hole that effective that now we forget things that you said
00:43:56.620
one month ago. This is why people don't trust you. This is why even liberal New York city school
00:44:02.520
teachers are coming out and saying, no, thank you. No, thank you. Now, speaking of public health,
00:44:09.300
this kind of, this really ties it together. Joe Biden, amid all the crazy national problems,
00:44:15.480
is launching a new office of the Department of Health and Human Services to confront climate change.
00:44:23.020
Hmm? What? Why? Huh? Didn't, I didn't think that the sun monster was really affecting my health.
00:44:29.600
I didn't think that was in the purview of health and human services, but that's what he's doing.
00:44:33.020
It's the office of climate change and health equity, quote, to address the impact of climate
00:44:37.540
change on the health of the American people and establish an interagency working group to decrease
00:44:42.760
the risk of climate change. Okay. As I have, you know, I hate to say I told you so, as I've told you
00:44:48.320
from the beginning of this epidemic, public health is the perfect way for the left to impose its will
00:44:56.300
on the American people to subvert the constitutional order, to grab a lot of power, because public health
00:45:02.840
can mean anything. And public health is not run by the people. It's just run by a handful of egghead
00:45:07.800
experts who are unaccountable. So then everything becomes public health. Just like everything's
00:45:13.320
infrastructure now, everything's part of public health. Climate change was always effective for
00:45:18.000
them in this regard too, because it's an unfalsifiable hypothesis and it does not count on the decision
00:45:25.340
making powers of the people. It's only about the decisions of experts. The Taliban just came out.
00:45:31.840
They said they're going to work to confront climate change. Why? Because it's an effective power grab and
00:45:35.920
that's what's going on. That's been going on for 18 months and it's been going on longer than that.
00:45:40.500
And the left is very effective at that. They might botch evacuations. They might botch their
00:45:49.440
following of the constitutional process in elections and elsewhere, but they're pretty good at taking
00:45:55.220
power. And I think we need to get good taking that power back. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael
00:46:00.060
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