Ep. 841 -Â Your Life Is Worth The Risk
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A major new study has shown that teenage boys are six times more likely to suffer heart problems from the flu vaccine than they are to be hospitalized by the flu itself. Meanwhile, a recent survey shows that people who haven t gotten the vaccine already almost certainly will not get it.
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A major new study has shown that teenage boys are six times as likely to suffer from heart
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problems from the vaccine as they are to face hospitalization from the Wu flu itself.
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Meanwhile, a recent survey shows that people who haven't gotten the vax
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already almost certainly will not get it. So the ruling class is trying to force everyone to get
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the vaccine. Just one year after Dr. Fauci himself admitted that vaccine mandates would
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constitute an unacceptable encroachment on people's freedom. A lot more to get to on top
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of that. Audiences cheer as an ex-Special Forces dude beats up a woman. Ron DeSantis swings back
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at Joe Biden over COVID and former President George W. Bush compares the Capitol Horn guys to Al-Qaeda
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on the 20th anniversary of 9-11. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment Friday is from Ike Hurd, who quoting Joe Biden
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says, but our patience is wearing thin. He is literally threatening us now, lol. Now? Now you're
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just catching on that he's threatening us? Yes, there have been threats the whole time. Implicit
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threats, slightly less implicit threats, like when the left burned the country down and killed people.
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Tryfirstleaf.com slash Knowles. They're probably going to take me off of the internet for reading
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this report, for reading this new study from the science, but whatever. I'm going to read it
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anyway. Teenage boys face a greater risk from the vaccine than they do from COVID. This is from the
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Telegraph. It's a, so it's a British report. It's according to major new research from the United
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States. Children who, who face the highest risk of a cardiac adverse event are boys age 12 and
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through 15, uh, following two doses of a vaccine, according to a new, uh, new research from the
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United States. Uh, the findings come as professor Chris Witte, who is England's chief medical officer
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prepares to advise the ministers on whether or not there would be a wider benefit to society
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from vaccinating children. So the joint committee on vaccination and immunization delivered this
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verdict saying that the margin of benefit of giving 12 to 15 year old boys the shot was quote,
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considered too small. And they're citing the low risk to children from this virus. So you can look at
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it, look up the article. If it hasn't been taken down already, look up the study. If that has not been
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taken down already, this is something that we have suggested for a long time on this show.
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And a lot of conservatives have pointed this out. They've said for young, healthy people,
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some young, healthy people face a greater risk of danger from the vaccine than they do from the
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coronavirus. And many people have been booted off of social media altogether for saying that we've been
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smeared and it's called, it's called misinformers and lying. We're not following the science. Well,
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here's the science. Here it is. This is as the science as it gets. And it's showing that for
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young, healthy people, perhaps doesn't make the most sense to get that shot. We've heard this from
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these young people themselves. There's a student athlete who took to TikTok. I'm sure this is going
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to be taken down too. He took to TikTok to say he was a totally healthy student athlete. He was
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looking forward to his senior year. And then he gets the second shot of the vaccine and he comes down
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with myocarditis. I am in the hospital right now with heart complications from the COVID-19 vaccine.
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And I want to inform as many people as I can about the risks from taking the vaccine that I wish someone
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would have told me. So I am a division one student athlete with no prior health issues. And I got the
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second COVID shot Tuesday. And within four days, I have been diagnosed with myocarditis and was told that I
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probably won't be able to play my senior season now. It is a side effect from the COVID vaccine. And it's
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really not being reported or addressed. And it is a serious issue that we should all be informed about before
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making this decision. It isn't right for people to be forced to take the vaccine because there are actual
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side effects like this that could happen to you. And the NCAA should not mandate student athletes to get
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the vaccine because of what could happen to so many fellow student athletes' health issues, which has
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happened to me. What you're going to be told is, that's fake news. That's fake. Look, it's probably not
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real. And okay, even if it is real, even if he really is a student athlete, look, the plural of anecdote is not
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data. Actually, it is. But look, the science shows the vaccines are safe. And okay, okay. Let's say that the
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vaccines for the vast majority of people are totally safe, and it's totally fine. And the odds of anyone, including a
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teenage boy facing these heart problems, is very, very, very low. Okay. What the study is saying is that
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their risk of facing heart complications here is much, much, much higher than their risk of facing
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hospitalization from the virus itself. So why would they get the shot? Why would they get this shot?
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There's really not much argument for it, especially because we're told that the way the vaccine works is
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it protects you, the person who receives the vaccine, from the worst complications of coronavirus.
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So you can't even really make the argument that teen boys, otherwise healthy teen boys, need to get it
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and risk myocarditis to protect old people or fat people or people who are at greater risk, because
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we're told that the vaccine protects those people. So there's really no argument for it. And this is why
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I think the United Kingdom right now is reversing their plans for the COVID vax passports. The British
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government was pushing to mandate vaccine passports for nightclubs, movie theaters, other large public
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venues. And the health secretary, Sajid Javid, is now coming out and saying, no, they are going to
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reverse course on the passports. It is only two days ago that Nadim Zahawi, the vaccine minister,
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says that he didn't like vaccine passports, but it is the right thing to do. Has it overnight become
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the wrong thing to do? There's no overnight about it. First of all, there's a lot of defences,
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as we've just gone through some of them, that we need to keep in place, because this virus hasn't
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gone anywhere. There's still a pandemic, so of course we need to remain cautious. But we just
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shouldn't be doing things for the sake of it or because others are doing it. We should look at every
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possible intervention properly. So you asked about vaccine passports. So I think it's fair to say,
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I think most people probably instinctively don't like the idea. I mean, I've never liked the idea of
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saying to people, you must show your papers or something to do, you know, what is just an
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everyday activity. But we were right to properly look at it, to look at the evidence. But you're
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not doing it? Well, what I can say is that we've looked at it properly. And whilst we should keep
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it in reserve as a potential option, I'm pleased to say that we will not be going ahead with plans
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for vaccine passports. Oh, OK. Look, we were absolutely very, very right to try to force this on the
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public. But you understand, then they pushed back a little bit. So now we're not going to do that.
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Yes, yes, yes. Well, well, I don't know what, is this a South African accent or a New Zealand accent?
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I don't know. It's not great. What can I tell you? That's not, not, I do my Fauci better than my
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British. The point that he's making here, because at the beginning he says, what? No, it didn't change
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overnight. OK, it didn't change overnight. Is this being pushed because of the science or because of the
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politics? And he admits it's the politics. He says, people don't like it. And so we're not going to do
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it. We're going to keep it in reserve in case we get the chance to do it. But the people are pushing
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back on us. And so we are not going to do this. Absolutely right. This is because people, especially
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some conservatives, some factions of the Conservative Party in Britain said, no, thank you. Beyond that,
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beyond the UK, speaking more broadly, including here in America, the simple fact is people who
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have not gotten the vaccine already are most likely just not going to get it ever, no matter
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what you do short of going door to door and sticking them with a needle. There's a survey just
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came out from CNBC and Change Research just found this past week that the vast majority of unvaccinated
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Americans, 83 percent, do not plan on ever getting it. This was taken among 1,775 respondents.
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It found that there's little that can be done to persuade them. The vast majority of the unvaccinated,
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84 percent, said they would not get the shot, even if the vaccines had no side effects. 87 percent
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said employer mandates would not move them to take action either. So they keep changing the way the
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question is asked. Well, what if we did this? And what if we did that? And what if it were like this?
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And it's still 83, 84, 87 percent say, no, thanks. We're not going to do it. So the only thing you
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could do is even beyond a mandate, which still wouldn't convince a lot of people, you'd really
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have to put teeth on that mandate. And the fact is, even the people now pushing the mandates just a
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year ago said, absolutely not. That would be an encroachment on liberty. One of the people who made
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that point, Dr. Fauci himself. You know, I don't think we've ever had a situation where you mandate
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it for the general population. So let me give you some example of mandating. So I'm a physician. I
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see patients in my hospital right literally out the window here across the hall at the NIH clinical
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center. During the flu season, the administration of the hospital mandates that I have to get a flu
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vaccine. Otherwise, I won't be able to see patients the way I usually do. That has not happened ever to
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my knowledge at a national level or even at a state level. So I could see the individual institutions
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mandating a vaccine. I don't see it on a national level merely because of all the situations you have
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upon encroaching upon persons freedom to make their own choice of their own health.
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So like all other Fauci predictions, turns out this one was wrong, too, because what happens now
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we're seeing the vaccine mandates and the whole public health establishment is pushing for them.
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Go to ring.com slash Knowles, ring.com slash Knowles. The debate over vaccine mandates comes down to
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freedom, right? And we talk a lot on this show about how freedom has been misinterpreted in recent
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years on the left and on the right. Okay. I think a lot of the problems with why the conservatives have
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not been all that effective over the past several decades. A lot of the problems we face now in our
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political discourse are because even we misunderstand what freedom is. Freedom is not the ability to do
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whatever you want, whenever you want it. That is not what the founding fathers thought freedom was.
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That is not what classical statesmen thought freedom was. That's not what the Christians thought
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freedom was. That's not what the ancient pre-Christian pagans thought freedom was.
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It's not what conservatives thought freedom was until just a few years ago. Freedom is the right
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to do what you ought to do. Okay. And I'll, I often give the example of the drug addict. I'll give you
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another example right now. This comes from Nick's martial arts. There was a big fight the other night
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in which a giant hulking ex-special forces dude beat a woman, beat her up. A giant hulking dude beat up a
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chick. And this was considered a great victory. And people applauded for that. The fella's name is
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Alana McLaughlin. I don't know what his real name is, but the name he goes by is Alana McLaughlin.
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He is the second openly transgender woman, a dude to beat up women in the MMA. And he won his debut
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on Friday night via submission at the combat global preliminary games in Miami. He's 38 years old.
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He used a rear chokehold against Celine Provost, ended the match three minutes, 32 seconds into the
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second round. Here's what he said. He goes, I want to pick up the mantle that Fallon put down.
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Fallon Fox is another dude who went into the ring to beat up women and cracked open a woman's skull.
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And people applauded for that too. They said, yeah, yeah, buddy, you go, you go crack that woman's
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skull. Equality, freedom. He did that. He became the first transgender woman to fight in the MMA in
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2012. And then this fella says, right now I'm following in Fallon's footsteps. I'm just another
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step along the way. And it's my great hope that there are more to follow behind me. Freedom,
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right? Isn't this freedom? This is, this is freedom according to the modern liberal definition
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that many people on the right have bought into. Well, it's his, it's his, it's his freedom.
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If he feels like a woman, then he gets to just pretend to be a woman. He gets, he gets to be
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treated as a woman. He gets to dress up like a woman and compete in women's sports. It's his freedom.
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And by the way, the woman that he beat up, she agreed to do it, right? Let's not,
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let's not make her into a victim here. I mean, sure. A hulking special forces dude
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just bruised her up, but she agreed to do it. It was her consent. Just like the woman who had her
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skull cracked open by Fallon Fox. She consented to it. So it's her freedom too. And look, we're all
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consenting to watch this sick, sick match, right? This psychopathy in a ring. And so it's all,
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it's all free. It's all good. As long as you agree to it, isn't that great? The heroin addict
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just decides to shoot up. You, you tyrants better not tell him that he can't shoot up a bunch of dope
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and kill himself. Why? That's his freedom, right? Right? No, I don't think so. I don't think so.
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What we saw happen, I didn't watch it, obviously, but what other people saw happen at the MMA
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is the refutation of feminism, transgenderism, the whole sexual revolution, and this whole
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misunderstanding of liberty, okay? Feminism says men and women are exactly the same.
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They're identical. There are some superficial differences, but beyond superficial differences,
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they're identical. And that's just not true. Men and women are different. They're different
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physically. They're different emotionally. They're different ontologically. They're just
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different, okay? A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, according to the feminists,
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just not true. Men and women both need one another. Transgenderism is the logical consequence
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of feminism. If men and women are exactly the same, well, first, first then you're going to have
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to redefine marriage because men and women are exactly the same. So the union of two men and the
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union of two women has to be, just following that logic, it has to be the exact same as the union
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between a man and a woman. And then following that logic, a man can be a woman and a woman can be a
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man because there's actually no difference, right? Except when they get into the ring and the men
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crack the women's skulls open. And then you realize, oh, wait, there is a difference.
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Ah, no, but I'm, but I was told there is no, so I get, I must be imagining this. It must be an
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illusion. It was just the luck of the draw that Fallon Fox cracked that chick's skull open, right?
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It was just, it could have gone the other way. The chick could have cracked his skull open,
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except they never do because men and women are different. The whole sexual revolution,
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do men and women relate to sex in the same way? I don't think so. When a guy, when a single guy
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goes out with his buddies and they want to get up to no good, they are thinking about sex in a
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different way than women are. That's just a fact. Leon Cass, the bioethicist, has this idea.
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It's called the wisdom of repugnance. He said, there are certain things that just at a gut level,
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we just, we just find icky, okay? And this is not fully reliable to our understanding of moral
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problems, but it is somewhat reliable. Think of incest, consensual incest where there is no
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possibility of producing a child, right? You can't really make a utilitarian argument for why that's
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a bad thing. There won't be a child. There won't be any externalities. Two people are consenting.
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They love each other. It's no big deal. And yet we just have this aversion to it. We just think,
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that's just, there's something wrong about that. There's something wrong about a man cracking a
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woman's skull open. And if you're bought into the logic of liberalism and progressivism and all these
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modern ideologies, you can't really explain, if you're a conservative, you can't explain why it's
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wrong. But if you're a modern, you can't quite explain why it's wrong. But you know too, you know
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too, that it is wrong. Speaking of hitting people who are weaker than you, Ron DeSantis is swinging
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back at Joe Biden. Joe Biden is blaming Ron DeSantis as best he can for the uptick in COVID cases.
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Notice they don't, they don't really talk about the uptick in deaths quite so much. They don't even
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talk very much about the uptick in hospitalizations. It's always the cases because the cases don't
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really matter. The question is death and hospitalization. So the other reason Biden's
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hitting DeSantis is because he thinks DeSantis has a good chance of being the nominee.
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So whether Biden's running, whether Kamala's running, he wants to weaken DeSantis. So DeSantis
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comes back and he takes Joe Biden's logic and he flips it on its head. Here he comes from Washington,
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D.C., instituting an unprecedented mandate, which even his own people have acknowledged in the past
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is not constitutional. That's not leadership. And I think the problem I have with Joe Biden more than
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anything. This guy doesn't take responsibility for anything. He's always trying to blame other
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people, blame other states. This is a guy that promised when he ran for president that he would
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shut down the virus. If you look now, there's 300 percent more cases in this country today than a year
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ago when we had no vaccines at all. So his policies are not working. He's doubling down on things that are
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going to be very destructive for the livelihoods of many, many Americans and obviously going to be
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destructive to our constitutional system and the rule of law. And so these are times when you believe
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in that constitution, you got to stand up. Absolutely right. This is more evidence that
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Ron DeSantis is a very sophisticated politician because what Joe Biden is doing here is he's pushing
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the problems down to the states. He's got the whole media to defend him and say, all the problems with
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COVID are coming from Florida, which is obviously not true, right? During the epidemic, Andrew Cuomo
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was probably the worst governor in the country on COVID. DeSantis was the best. And yet the media blamed
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DeSantis and made Cuomo into a deity before he got booted out over that sex scandal. It was really over
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the COVID scandal. So DeSantis is flipping it. He goes, hey, buddy, you're blaming me because the COVID
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cases are going up. You're the president. You said that you would reduce COVID cases. What? You're
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going to let little old Ron DeSantis stop you from doing that? Take some responsibility. This is your
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fault and you lied. Now there was a woman who, frankly, I know there are a lot of people up for
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the Republican nomination for president. This woman, if she wants it, I think she has my endorsement. I
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think she has my vote. She put the situation here with Biden and the COVID mandates and his patience
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wearing thin. She put it better than just about anyone I've heard. Talking about my patience is
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wearing thin. What the f**k are you talking to? As long as your patience don't get as thin as that
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hairline I think will be all right. I am not your child. And I'm sure enough ain't your b**ch. You're
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talking about your patience is wearing thin. These people have law. They acting like they, you know
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what I'm saying? Like they paying your bills and b**ch you down. You got to watch, you b**ch. I saw that
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little clip. I said, oh, he's crazy. He really think he, he really think I'm his hole. My patience
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is wearing thin. I need you to get out on that boulevard and bring me my money. You ain't my pimp
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n*****. What the hell is wrong with these people? He really said that s**t out of his mouth. But our
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patience is wearing thin. You bald hip. See, see, see, I'm trying. I thank God. See, that's Danny
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calling me right now trying to save, trying to save my mouth. I could not have said it better
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myself. And I think that on a deep level, maybe people will use slightly different words. That's
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the feeling of a lot of Americans who are not going to pay any attention to that. Where do I vote for
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that woman? Where do I go? Give me a mail-in ballot so I can vote for that woman for something.
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Political alliances are shifting. There's a woman, she was very prominent in the Me Too movement,
00:25:46.980
Rose McGowan. She's a Hollywood actress. She is, I think, traditionally on the left. I think she was
00:25:53.720
pretty firmly on the left, and she saw behind the curtain, okay? She saw what the power structures
00:26:01.260
are really like, certainly within Hollywood and more broadly within the liberal establishment of
00:26:07.040
which Hollywood is a pretty significant part. And so Rose McGowan has been changing her relationship
00:26:15.360
to politics. So much so, I didn't think I would see this day. She has just come out and in her state
00:26:22.860
of California is endorsing Larry Elder for governor. Do you want a society that has gangrene on its leg
00:26:30.740
but puts on a fancy suit and pretends it's not there while they hobble in pain? Or do you want to
00:26:37.080
just stop, look at reality, take your medicine, clean up the wound, and run? Run free.
00:26:46.620
Why not change? Why not go big? Why not put a stake in the heart of evil? Because that's what this
00:26:53.520
really is. This is good, and this is evil. I know this place has it in it to be better.
00:26:59.860
I know it does. I've met so many good people in this country. Not the elites. Absolutely not.
00:27:07.200
And then we have the Jennifer Siebel Newsoms of the world.
00:27:09.380
Why? Why do you keep choosing that? Why do you keep electing that?
00:27:17.580
Don't listen to their buzzwords. Cult leaders, which is what these people are.
00:27:22.980
I would know. I grew up in one, like I said. They massage your mind. They keep you in fear.
00:27:31.220
Now, notice she mentioned this Newsom woman. She's referring to Gavin Newsom's wife.
00:27:37.120
And the story that came out just came out on Dave Rubin's show. The mainstream media are totally
00:27:40.780
not touching this story. What Rose is alleging, and I have no reason not to believe her, and Dave
00:27:48.540
has seen the emails and he's got the receipts, is that there was a pressure campaign to shut up
00:27:55.140
Rose McGowan six months before the Harvey Weinstein story came out, before the Me Too movement really,
00:28:00.240
really broke. And Gavin Newsom's wife was one of the people, according to Rose, who was pressuring
00:28:09.120
her and said, hey, what do you need? What do you need to go away? How can we make you happy?
00:28:15.700
Now, does that mean we're going to pay you off? Does that mean that we're going to give you some
00:28:18.860
position? Does that mean we're going to put you in a movie? What does that mean? And I have no reason
00:28:26.520
not to believe her in this specific case. And we know that this is a broader problem. We know that
00:28:32.120
the swamp or the blob or the establishment or whatever you want to call it, it looks out for
00:28:38.700
itself. And it's very tied in together. Hollywood with the press, with the Democratic Party, with the
00:28:46.100
entrenched interests. It's all with big tech, with the educational establishment. They're all really
00:28:54.380
tied in and they all really look after each other. And so when there's a real scandal like the Weinstein
00:29:00.660
scandal, people forget it now because Weinstein is a punchline. Harvey Weinstein was probably the
00:29:06.320
most powerful man in Hollywood. They come out and pull out all the stops to try to protect one
00:29:12.700
another. And so what Rose McGowan is seeing is I think what a lot of disaffected Democrats and liberals
00:29:19.000
are seeing, which is they might say, you know, you know, Michael, Michael, I don't agree with you on
00:29:25.040
everything. And our views on the issues might be fairly different if we're talking about, I don't
00:29:31.160
know what marriage or, or immigration or the America's role in the world or what a citizen is,
00:29:37.080
or we actually might have different views on, let's say on every single political issue for that
00:29:41.480
matter. But there are these matters of policy and their matters of issues. And then there are broader
00:29:49.140
matters of the political order, the regime. And what a lot of people are seeing is regardless of
00:29:54.600
what I think on immigration, abortion, even whatever, the ruling class is so sick and so corrupt and so
00:30:03.040
undeserving of its authority that they're going to vote for somebody else. They're just, just to crack
00:30:09.920
it up. I think a lot of people voted for Trump for this reason. They said, I don't care what he
00:30:13.880
thinks about war, about immigration, about it. I don't care. He's not one of those people. And
00:30:18.880
because those people are bad, they're really bad. So I'm going to vote for anyone else. That's an
00:30:24.560
important thing. And so our democracy gave us an attack on that ruling class. Now the ruling class
00:30:31.960
strikes back, Rob Reiner, good old meathead from, from all in the family, a great character on a
00:30:40.180
great show. Rob Reiner, his father's Carl Reiner, Hollywood legend. Rob is a huge lib. He is about
00:30:47.900
as left-wing as they go. And I'm not going to attack him for his particular political views. I just want
00:30:55.420
to point out the hypocrisy from these people. He says, whether it's vaccines, voting rights, climate
00:30:59.520
change, or investigating a deadly insurrection, wasn't, oh my God. The only deadly insurrection
00:31:05.600
last year was, was BLM. We're sick and tired of being tyrannized by an ignorant minority. Enough.
00:31:12.220
Let majority rule. Okay. So the position of Rob Reiner is let majority rule. We're for democracy.
00:31:20.860
I hear this from my liberal friends and relatives. They say, Michael, we're pro-democracy. We're just
00:31:25.380
trying to save our democracy. Okay. What about the democracy in Texas that just voted to outlaw
00:31:30.160
abortion? Well, no, that's different. Well, why is that different? Well, because there's a
00:31:34.540
constitutional right to an abortion. Okay. So you're admitting that we need some limits on the
00:31:38.880
democracy. Well, no, well, sure. Constitutional limits. Okay. That's, that's, that's first of all.
00:31:43.860
Second of all, show me the right to an abortion in the constitution. You don't see it. It's not really
00:31:47.040
there. They had to invent that, but okay. You've granted now that there are some limits on the,
00:31:51.440
the democracy. Okay, good. So now you defend our, our gun rights, our second amendment rights to keep
00:31:56.340
and bear arms. Well, no, that's different. We need the people to be allowed to vote. Why is that
00:31:59.540
different? Because that's an actual constitutional right. You've just granted that there can be some
00:32:03.840
limits on the democracy and that there have to be. So there you go. There's one that's spelled out.
00:32:07.520
It's not in the invisible ink in the constitution, like abortion is there. It's right there in the bill
00:32:11.340
of rights. Well, no, that's different. We need to be able to vote on this. Okay. What about Trump?
00:32:16.760
All right. Trump in an election that was conducted in a, in a much more fair manner than the 2020
00:32:20.660
election with the widespread mail-ins and the violation of state constitutions
00:32:23.960
and the counting that went on for days and days and weeks and weeks. Donald Trump wins. He wins
00:32:29.080
the election. Isn't that our democracy? No, it's, it can't be. That's when, when the people vote the
00:32:35.760
wrong way, according to the left, that is illegitimate. It's, it's probably caused by Russian
00:32:42.620
collusion. It needs to be fixed by the courts. But then when the people vote the right way, that's,
00:32:49.860
even if it violates some provision of the constitution, that's democracy and we need
00:32:53.820
more democracy. It's, it's deeply hypocritical. The reality is we live in a constitutional republic.
00:32:59.840
At least we did. And the way the constitutional republic works is that the people have a say
00:33:05.020
and the states, at least at one time had a say, and the federal government has some power and there
00:33:10.480
are limits imposed by the constitution. And that's a complex system of government. Today,
00:33:14.800
the way our, our government works is very different. I meant to get to this point last
00:33:19.480
week, but I'm glad we have time to get to it now. When Joe Biden came out and gave his vaccine
00:33:25.660
mandate, there were a lot of conservatives who said, that's not how our government works.
00:33:33.180
Right. And I get what they're saying. What they're saying is that's not how our government is supposed
00:33:37.200
to work. That's not, you know, when I watched Schoolhouse Rock and I am a bill up on Capitol Hill,
00:33:43.480
that's, that's the way our government works. The Congress proposes laws and it's, then the Senate
00:33:48.180
votes on them and then it's signed or, or vetoed by the president. And if it's vetoed, it goes back
00:33:53.380
to the house. And if they can muster a veto proof vote, then it goes back and it becomes a law. And
00:33:56.900
then the courts can decide whether or not it's constitutional. If a case is brought up, there
00:34:00.020
you go, that's American democracy. So that's not how it works. That's, I hate to be the one to break
00:34:05.280
this to you, but it turns out our actual system of government, our lowercase C constitution,
00:34:11.200
not the uppercase C like the document, but the actual, the way our government is constituted
00:34:15.720
is very different. The way our government is constituted is that some senile old jerk named
00:34:21.120
Joe Biden can just give a decree and pass it to an administrative agency, pass it to OSHA,
00:34:26.440
and then OSHA will just do whatever it wants. And, and if, if you do not comply, it'll bleed you with
00:34:32.160
fines and fees and all sorts of things. That's the way law is actually made. Very few laws are made by
00:34:37.120
the Congress. Most laws are made by these kinds of unaccountable bureaucrats. And that's just the
00:34:44.200
way it, and we can, we can not like that. You know, we can disapprove of that. But the reason
00:34:50.560
the left is so good at wielding political power is that they are engaging in politics in the way that
00:34:56.360
it actually exists. And conservatives are engaging in politics in the way that Schoolhouse Rock told us
00:35:01.520
that it's supposed to exist. But that's imaginary. That's not, that's not how it actually works.
00:35:07.280
And so we're going to feel really morally pure and we're going to, and we're going to know what,
00:35:12.400
what the, the framers of the constitution debated in the 18th century. And it's not going to result
00:35:18.700
in Jack Diddley because the left is engaging in the real politics.
00:35:23.920
Our democracy, our democracy, our, see, as Rob Reiner said, when peaceful, mostly peaceful
00:35:33.140
conservatives storm into the Capitol and don't kill anybody. And even though the Washington Post
00:35:39.220
and the New York Times reported that they killed a cop, it didn't actually happen, but they go and
00:35:42.640
maybe they break a window and they steal Pelosi's lectern. That's a violent, deadly, dangerous
00:35:46.340
insurrection. When BLM kills dozens of people and burns down courthouses and police buildings and
00:35:51.300
steals a bunch of sneakers and, and steals people's private property, that's a, that's a
00:35:55.840
mostly peaceful protest. Okay. That's our democracy in action. And George W. Bush, the man that
00:36:01.380
Republicans backed for president twice, George W. Bush came out on the 20th anniversary of 9-11
00:36:07.240
and compared, I think, the horn guy from the Capitol to Al Qaeda.
00:36:14.360
The security measures incorporated into our lives are both sources of comfort
00:36:19.520
and reminders of our vulnerability. And we have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our
00:36:28.060
country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within.
00:36:33.680
There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home.
00:36:40.580
But in their disdainful pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national
00:36:50.580
symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit. And it is our continuing duty to confront them.
00:36:59.600
This is really weaselly language because Bush won't come out and say what it seems pretty clear that he's
00:37:04.880
saying that he's going after the Capitol riot people. Now, when I first heard this, I said,
00:37:13.260
oh yeah, yeah, you're right. BLM and Antifa and Al Qaeda, maybe they are. It's a little harsh, pal,
00:37:19.060
but sure, maybe they are children of the same foul spirit. They have a disregard for human life.
00:37:25.540
Obviously, BLM's killed a lot of people. But when he said they attack national symbols,
00:37:30.040
it seems to me there that is a pointed reference to the Capitol. Now, you might say BLM burned down
00:37:35.700
police buildings, federal courthouses, but you might call that a national symbol. I suspect he's
00:37:41.240
talking about the act, when you think, what are the national symbols? The Capitol, the White House,
00:37:47.280
maybe the Washington Monument, and these are the real national symbols. I think he's going after them.
00:37:52.460
It doesn't make sense to say that they don't have a regard for human life. They didn't kill anybody.
00:37:57.680
To say that they have a disdain for pluralism, I'm not sure about that. The Trump coalition,
00:38:06.020
whatever you want to say about them, pretty pluralistic. They came from all sorts of backgrounds.
00:38:12.660
This was really tasteless. This was really tasteless. George Bush usually tries to
00:38:16.840
keep it very urbane and, you know, above, he's so above everything, he won't even show up to the
00:38:22.260
Republican convention anymore. But this was really tasteless to use the 20th anniversary of 9-11
00:38:27.760
to attack what I, I don't think I'm being unfair in interpreting that as an attack on his political
00:38:33.260
opponents on the right, who were the very same people who voted for him and who gave him his
00:38:38.480
political career, and who do not deserve to be compared to Al-Qaeda. They don't deserve to be
00:38:43.040
compared to BLM. BLM is much, much worse than they are, and they've done many worse things than
00:38:48.800
anything they've ever done. Bush just sounds like a big lib, which I guess he always kind of was.
00:38:54.020
I mean, the Bush family, I'm not even, I don't mean this as some personal attack on the Bush family.
00:38:58.940
They were always the liberal Republican family. They were the, there were the Reaganites and the
00:39:03.760
Bushies. And that's why in 1980, Reagan picked Bush to be his VP. It's not because they agree,
00:39:08.820
they didn't agree on very much of anything. In fact, Bush coined the phrase voodoo economics to make
00:39:13.380
fun of Ronald Reagan. They ran a bitter primary, but Reagan picked him to unify the party.
00:39:17.340
Reagan almost didn't endorse him in 1988. It's not like there was a particularly close friendship
00:39:24.360
between these two guys, okay? And George W. ran as a more conservative candidate than his father did,
00:39:31.120
but in his actual presidency, he was very progressive. He was a Wilsonian progressive,
00:39:37.540
more Wilsonian probably than Woodrow Wilson. And now we're seeing, once again, he's going back to his
00:39:44.140
roots and siding with the libs over the people who gave him his political career.
00:39:50.040
As a former Democrat congressional candidate, I almost don't want to give her any oxygen.
00:39:57.200
I don't want to give, give this any more air than it's already gotten,
00:40:00.320
but it ties in with the broader narrative here. Pam Keith tweets out, on, on January 6th,
00:40:08.220
January 6th, 2021, September 11th, 2001, ceased being the worst thing that happened to America
00:40:14.100
in my lifetime. It's really weird and painful to process and say that, but it's the truth,
00:40:17.900
and quite frankly, it's not even close. So this is obviously an absurd statement made by a very
00:40:21.160
stupid woman. The only reason I mention it, and she's just doing it to get clicks, I would imagine.
00:40:25.780
Maybe she really believes it, but then, you know, she's even thicker in between the ears than I
00:40:30.160
expected she was, or thinner. Thinner, I suppose, just the wind blows right through them.
00:40:36.740
The reason I mention this is that what George W. Bush said about right-wingers is not,
00:40:44.500
is not much softer than what she is saying about right-wingers. It's a reminder that sometimes it's
00:40:51.900
called the uniparty or the establishment or the blob or whatever you want to call it,
00:40:55.900
hates you, holds you in contempt, thinks it is so much better than you, and you have no right to
00:41:03.080
have any say in the affairs of your own country, that they are so much better than you, and really,
00:41:08.280
you know, the way the country is supposed to work is it's supposed to be Bushes and Clintons and
00:41:11.560
Bushes and Clintons, and we're just going to be run by these two semi-competing, sort of
00:41:17.020
cooperating, friendly families of the American political dynasty. That's what we're hearing.
00:41:22.620
There was a professor at Syracuse University. She has since deleted these tweets, but the internet
00:41:27.900
is forever. Jen Jackson is an assistant professor at Syracuse in political science, and she was very
00:41:33.880
upset with the way that people are talking about 9-11. So her biography, just to give you a sense of
00:41:37.820
who this woman is, is she's a queer gender flux, androgynous black woman, okay, an abolitionist,
00:41:46.740
Abelez refers to slavery, which ended 150 years ago. But now you sometimes hear this applied to
00:41:52.660
prisons. So she's, she wants to spring all the criminals from prison, and says, a lover of all
00:41:58.220
black people. The specific omission of white people here suggests that she probably doesn't love white
00:42:04.400
people very much. She might actually hate white people, but she really loves black people. She goes,
00:42:08.080
quote, we have to be more honest about what 9-11 was and what it wasn't. It was an attack on the
00:42:14.320
hetero-patriarchal capitalistic systems that America relies upon to wrangle other countries
00:42:20.580
into passivity. It was an attack on the systems that many white Americans fight to protect.
00:42:24.780
She's saying that America deserved it, and specifically white Americans deserved it.
00:42:29.000
And the blame for 9-11 goes to white Americans who invited this because they're not communists and
00:42:35.280
because they're not black. And that woman is teaching at Syracuse University. You are going to hear
00:42:43.700
from some squishes, if this story even makes it out, you're going to hear, well, academic freedom,
00:42:49.720
academic freedom means that we can't fire this woman. This woman should be fired and ostracized
00:42:54.960
from polite society, and frankly banished to St. Helena, okay? She has no right to teach.
00:43:01.780
She has no right to participate in polite society. We once understood this. I mentioned this book,
00:43:08.200
God and Man at Yale, where I was very honored to write the new introduction to the 70th anniversary
00:43:11.820
edition. This is the book that launched the modern conservative movement. The subtitle is
00:43:16.440
The Superstitions of Academic Freedom. This was the first big conservative book in the modern
00:43:21.180
political era, and it made fun of academic freedom. We also should make fun of that. It's a joke. It's a
00:43:26.680
farce. It's a hoax, to quote Buckley. It is used only to defend libs for upending our standards.
00:43:32.720
It's never used to defend conservatives. The woman should be fired, and she should never be hired again.
00:43:38.480
And it's just that simple. This even affects the government. In the Maryland Diversity Office,
00:43:45.580
an office that should be abolished, the Maryland Diversity Office planned to commemorate September
00:43:51.600
11th with a play about how we ought to oppose anti-Muslim stereotypes, because that's the lesson
00:43:58.020
of 9-11. That's the lesson. The real hurt from 9-11 is the Muslim stereotypes that came afterward.
00:44:07.400
Not the 3,000 dead Americans, not their families, not the city of New York, not the country as a whole
00:44:13.720
that really still hasn't gotten over 9-11. No, it's the Muslim stereotypes. That's the issue. That's
00:44:21.220
Islamophobia. The play, the diversity office has since canceled it, and Maryland should cancel the
00:44:28.140
diversity office. It said the play explores themes like Islamophobia and exposes the racial and ethnic
00:44:35.460
prejudices against Muslims. As I mentioned, there are not racial prejudices against Muslims, because
00:44:43.100
Islam is not a race. It's a religion. But because now, I mean, this is actually pretty good proof of
00:44:50.100
my argument that racism is now just a synonym for bad. It's because we can't talk about sin or evil
00:44:57.660
or vice. We don't, we lack the moral and ethical language to do that, theological language. So instead,
00:45:04.760
we just, we talk about racism and we call things that have nothing to do with race, racism, like attacks
00:45:10.880
on Islam or criticisms of Islam. It's now racist. Thankfully, they scrapped this play. Speaking of
00:45:18.260
critical race theory, though, which is behind a lot of what you're, you're seeing from these places,
00:45:22.780
Chris Ruffo, you know, Chris Ruffo is the Manhattan Institute scholar who really popularized this campaign
00:45:28.020
against critical race theory. He's responsible for a lot of ordinary Americans going out to the school
00:45:32.760
boards and saying, get this crap out of the classroom. Women like the, my new favorite woman in
00:45:39.980
America who's, who's says that she's not Joe Biden's hoe and he's not going to send her to the
00:45:44.960
boulevard. You know, ordinary people who are waking up and saying, I don't like what's going on.
00:45:49.540
Chris Ruffo was just unverified on Twitter. Unverified. He wasn't suspended. He wasn't banned.
00:45:58.340
It's just, he used to have a blue check mark, which means, you know, you're the real Chris Ruffo.
00:46:02.360
You get a blue check mark if there are like fake accounts that come, you know, I've had, I've had one for
00:46:06.160
years. And the way, the reason I got it was I had a little tiny bit of a public profile, but it was
00:46:10.820
because there were fake Knowles accounts. So they said, okay, you put the check and this is how we
00:46:14.300
know you're the real you. It's not, it's not supposed to be at least any symbol of merit or
00:46:19.120
valor or anything like that. It's just to verify who you are. So Chris lost it. And I messaged Chris.
00:46:25.220
I said, oh, Chris, you know, I always suspected you're not really who you are. I always know what did
00:46:29.140
he, did he stop being Chris Ruffo? They did this to this white identitarian some years ago,
00:46:34.420
Richard Spencer. They didn't kick him off, but they took away his check mark. What did he stop
00:46:38.400
being Richard Spencer? He said, no, this is just a way of saying, we don't like you. We want to
00:46:43.560
suppress your reach. It's the beginning of a social credit system in America. We don't have time to
00:46:48.640
get to it, but a lot more evidence of this social credit system in America. Not so different from
00:46:53.780
what we read about in China. Maybe we'll have time to get to it tomorrow. In the meantime, don't give
00:46:58.060
up. Keep fighting back for right now. It looks like it's working. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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liberals keep calling Larry Elder a white supremacist. A new poll shows that Democrat voters consider Trump
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true? Does any such right exist? Talk about that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.