Ep. 844 - The American Psycho's Plan For Your Life
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Gavin Newsom has won the California recall election, but what does that mean for the rest of the country? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? And what will the ruling class do now that they ve got control of the state?
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Gavin Newsom has officially won his recall election in California. And because elections
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have consequences, Newsom is already using the win. California Democrats are already using the
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win to push for vaccine mandates at the state level. I want to focus on what we said yes to
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as a state. We said yes to science. We said yes to vaccines. We said yes to ending this pandemic.
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We said yes to people's right to vote without fear of fake fraud or voter suppression. We said yes
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to women's fundamental constitutional right to decide for herself what she does with her body
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and her fate and future. We said yes to diversity. We said yes to inclusion. We said yes to pluralism.
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We said yes to all those things that we hold dear as Californians, and I would argue as Americans.
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So Newsom obviously got a lot of things wrong in that speech, most notably pluralism. California
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did not say yes to pluralism. California said yes to one party rule. And that one party rule
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is going to mean vaccine mandates. He's right about that. It's going to mean more terrible
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government. Elections have consequences. Our regime has consequences. Our ruling class
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has consequences for us. Elections be damned. I don't think the American people are going to like
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the consequences in the long term. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Michelle Glass, who says,
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there were people who went to vote only to find out that they had already voted when they didn't.
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How can that be a good system? It is a good system for the ruling class, not just in California. I'm
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not saying the California recall election was rigged. I strongly suspect. Well, I know it was rigged. It
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certainly was rigged, but I don't think that the outcome was contrary to the will of the people.
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I strongly suspect just looking at the way voter registration works in California, I strongly
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suspect Gavin Newsom would have survived the election recall, even if there weren't widespread
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mail-in votes and all the problems with those mail-in votes and people showing up to the polls
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to find out they already voted, even without all of the fraud that you see there. But throughout the
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Newsom declares victory. Larry Elder, very gracious in his defeat, says we lost the battle,
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but we will win the war. Conservatives will come back and we will fight. And I really feel for
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California conservatives. I'm one of those who fled. Some of my many friends who were left in
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California were texting me despairingly. Some of my well-known friends, I'm not going to name
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Dave Rubin's name, but you know, some people were really upset, upset by what happened in
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California. It's time to free, flee to freer pastures. I think I don't think that you are
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going to see anything resembling conservative government in California anytime soon. And it's,
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it's not as though the Democrat rulers in California are taking this recall as a reprimand
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and saying, Ooh, gosh, all right, we better moderate that. Clearly the people don't like how far
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we've gone. No, they're taking it as a mandate to go even further, notably on the point of
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vaccine mandates. So LA County announced yesterday, they're going to move forward with a vaccine
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mandate. You're going to need to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test for a ton
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of events for indoor bars, wineries, breweries, nightclubs, and lounges. Uh, they'll also require
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it for big outdoor events like Dodgers games, Ram games, Chargers games. This, according to the
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County public health director. Now what they're going to say is it's not a vaccine mandate. You
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see, because you can just show a negative COVID test. Okay. I guess that's better than not having
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that option, but negative COVID tests are expensive. You're going to have to pay whatever, 20 to 30 to
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40, 50 bucks every time you want to get one of these tests for the app at home rapid test, for instance.
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Are you going to be able to do that once a week, twice a week? Are you going to be able to do that
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for your entire family? No, they're just going to bleed these people dry and they're going to impel
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them to get the vaccine. The irony of course, with this is that while we hear left-wing demagogues
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decry the vaccine hesitancy among the Trump supporter murderers, they're compromising public
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health. Of course, the original vaccine hesitancy came from the libs. And by the way, I'm not just
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pointing out that, for instance, black people are disproportionately likely not to want to get the
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vaccine and black people are disproportionately likely to vote for Democrats. That's not even the
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point I'm making. When I say the vaccine hesitancy came from the libs, I'm saying it came from
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Joe Biden. I'm saying it came from Kamala Harris, as the RNC reminds us in a lovely little montage.
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I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine,
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and they should be. We can't trust the president and take his word and take a vaccine that might
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cause harm to us. If and when the vaccine comes, it's not likely to go through all the tests that
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needs to be and the trials that are needed to be done. Let's just say there's a vaccine that is
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approved and even distributed before the election. Would you get it? Well, I think that's going to be an
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issue for all of us. When we finally do, God willing, get a vaccine, who's going to take the
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shot? Who's going to take the shot? We will need to have access to the vaccine results so we can make
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our independent assessment to make sure that Donald Trump's fingerprints are not on it. You can be the
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first one to say, put me, sign me up. They now say it's OK. Is the vaccine safe? Frankly, I'm not
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going to trust the federal government's opinion. And I wouldn't recommend to New Yorkers based on the
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federal government's opinion. I would not recommend that you take the federally approved vaccine, says
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the now former governor, Andrew Cuomo, who was the toast of the town. Remember, we were all Cuomo
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sexuals. He won an Emmy. He was pushing vaccine hesitancy. Joe Biden, not just the disgraced former
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Democrat politicians, Joe Biden, the current president of the United States. I'm not sure
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he knows that, but I guess he's the current president. He was saying, who's going to take
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the vaccine? Who's going to take it? Who's going to? Joe, you're going to take. OK, I'll take the
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vaccine. Come over here, Joe. I'll give you a chocolate chocolate chip ice cream if you take the
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vaccine. The hypocrisy is obvious, but we forget about this because all of this so-called vaccine
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hesitancy from the libs was memory hold. So now we're told that it's only the intransigent MAGA
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people. And if you don't take the shot or you have any skepticism of this hastily developed drug
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to treat a condition that for most people does not pose particularly grave threat
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with effectiveness that is seriously in doubt, you are a killer. Fortunately, some people at the
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individual citizen level are sensible. Jim Brewer, a comedian of, you know, I've been watching Jim
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Brewer for many, many years. He came out and he said that he is not going to play at venues
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that mandate the vaccine. Take a listen. Two quick updates on shows that you may think you may
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be getting tickets to or you already have tickets to.
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The Wellmont Theater, New Jersey. Not doing it. Also, the, that's going to be December 3rd. Also,
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the Royal Oak Theater in Michigan due to the segregation of them forcing
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people to show up with vaccination to prove you're vaccinated, to prove that you've had a shot. I am
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absolutely not doing those shows. I know I'm going to sacrifice a lot of money, but I'm not going to be
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enslaved by the system or by money. My man, love that. That's great. The only way that we're going
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to fight back against these sorts of things is if people in prominent positions take a stand. And that
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can be in the private sector. It can be in the public sector, which we'll get to in a second.
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It can be a political leader, or it can be a comedian, an SNL comedian who's playing a show.
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Or it can be Eric Clapton, who's, who says that he's not going to play to vaccine mandate venues.
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Great, great stuff. Notice what he says here. I think the right can learn a lot from this.
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I know I'm going to sacrifice a lot of money, but I'm not going to be enslaved to the system
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or to money. It's amazing that we on the right, conservatives, we talk a good game on virtue,
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on religion, on morality, on defending our way of life. But for the past 20, 30 years, at least,
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we seem to be slaves to money. On the one hand, conservatives go out there and they say,
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we need to protect our traditions and our family values and our way of life. And also we need to
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support free trade and, and creative destruction and outsourcing and GDP at all costs. We've become
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whores to slight upticks in GDP. We've become whores for tax cuts. We have become,
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even on the right, forget about the left for a second, even on the right, slaves to the system
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and to money. And I think what you're seeing in the past few years, at least, certainly since the
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Trump phenomenon, it's funny that it took a billionaire to show us this, is Republicans
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and conservatives breaking away from that slavery, that slavery to a system of money, recognizing,
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you know, even if, I don't know, mass migration increases GDP a little bit, that's not good.
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We don't want that. That's not good for our country. Even if outsourcing all of our stuff,
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all of our jobs to China and buying all, outsourcing all of our manufacturing to China and buying all
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their cheap trash, even if that increases GDP a little, we're not going to be slaves to a system
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You're seeing individuals right now pushing back against the vaccine mandates and you're seeing
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individual performers like Jim Brewer or Eric Clapton and you're seeing it from individual
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companies like us at the Daily Wire. Joe Biden comes out and enforces a vaccine mandate through
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this bizarre channel of the administrative agencies and OSHA. I actually talk about that with Senator
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Cruz on an upcoming episode of our podcast Verdict, the constitutionality, how that works. But you're
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seeing pushback from companies. Daily Wire says, nope, we're not doing it. You can sue us if you want,
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see in court, but we're just not going to enforce that. That's all good, but it's got to be backed up
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with political support as well. You're seeing that right now from the Riverside County Sheriff in
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California. Riverside County Sheriff says, quote, over the past couple of weeks, the idea of forced
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vaccination has caused much concern across the entire country. I will not enforce the vaccine
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mandate on sheriff's department employees. The government has no ability and no authority to
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mandate your health choices as your sheriff. I have an obligation to guard your liberty and freedom.
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So he's saying specifically what I am being told to do is to vax all my employees at the sheriff's
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office. I'm not going to do that. He also has a law enforcement authority. So in as much as the
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sheriff's office is going to be involved in enforcing the vaccine mandate broadly, it seems quite clear
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to me that he's not going to do that. That's good stuff. That's what we need more of. And that is what
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conservatives have missed in the past few decades. Well, we have just mindlessly repeated a
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statement that is true, but not adequate, which is politics is downstream of culture.
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Yes, the Breitbart maxim is true in as much as the movies matter and the culture matters and we
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got to shape the culture. But it's false if you believe it to be exclusively true, because it's
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also true that politics influences culture. It's also true that government influences culture. And I
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think a lot of Republican politicians have mindlessly pushed the Breitbart maxim, politics is downstream
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of culture because they don't want to do their jobs. So they want to say, no, the government never
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has any role to do anything. It's all got to be at the cultural level. No, buddy, you have to do your
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jobs too. If the vaccine mandate is going to be pushed by radical leftist politicians, then we need
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the vaccine mandate to be opposed by the politicians that we conservatives elect. You've got to do your job
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too. There is nothing wrong with using the government, wielding government power to stop this
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encroachment on our liberties and traditions and way of life. Whether that encroachment is coming
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from the federal government or whether that encroachment is coming from Google. We're glad
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to see that sheriff's office pushing back. I think a lot of other sheriff's offices should be pushing
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back. And I think basically all the conservative politicians we elect and judges that we get in
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there should be pushing back as well. Use the politics. That's what it's there for. There's a big
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divide that we're seeing in this country right now. And a lot of people are waking up to the fact
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that the divide is not sexual as the left would tell us. The divide is not racial as the left would
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tell us. The divide is not even partisan. I don't even think the divide is Republicans versus Democrats.
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In many ways, what we've seen in the past few years is that there's a kind of uniparty. There's just this
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blob and there's, it's mostly run by Democrats, but there are a few court jester Republicans there
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whose job it is to provide the appearance of opposition. But really they're just, they're just
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jesters. They just really exist to prop up that establishment. And do you know who showed this to
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us? Nicki Minaj. I didn't see that one coming. Okay. I wouldn't have put my money on that, on that
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bet. But she showed us this. She got into a fight yesterday or two days ago with Joy Reid. Joy Reid is
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ostensibly this left-wing woman on MSNBC. And Nicki Minaj, I think is left-wing. Maybe not. It's very
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unclear what her politics are now. Nicki Minaj comes out and says, look, mask up, follow some
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guidelines, but make your own healthcare decisions. Don't, don't take that shot and think that there
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are no concerns whatsoever. And then she told this story about a friend of hers who had some health
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problems apparently from, from the vaccine. And she says, you know, just do your own research,
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make your own decisions. And Joy Reid, the putative radical, comes out and says, no, don't do that.
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Don't do your own research. Take the shot. Do what Fauci says. And Nicki Minaj comes back to her and
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says, you're just a shill. You're just a total shill for the white man is what the words of
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Nicki Minaj. But I think what she was implying is you're a shill for the establishment. You're a
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shill for the ruling class. You're telling people they can't use their own minds. So then to make
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this situation even more politically complicated, Tucker Carlson on his very conservative TV show
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came out and defended Nicki Minaj. And Nicki Minaj reposted that to her Twitter account with a
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bullseye. Take a listen to Tucker's monologue. It's Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend's testicles who
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are swollen from taking the vax. That's the claim. But it's not anything to do with the physical
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effect of the vaccine that makes our political class mad. It's the last part of Nicki Minaj's
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tweet that enrages them. The part where she says you should pray on it, make the decision yourself
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like a free human being and quote, don't be bullied. So our media and public health officials
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didn't like this because they make their livings bullying people. So they couldn't let it stand.
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So Tucker gives, as always, a terrific little monologue and Nicki Minaj reposts that with a
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bullseye emoji. So you've now got this major pop star who we all assumed was on the left,
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who is tweeting even about how she doesn't like the white man that much and how, you know,
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she's upset that a black woman like Joy Reid would go along with the white man, who's not even
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usually a white man, but he's the ruling class. And then she's posting this, what we're told is this
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hetero patriarchal, you know, imperial hegemonic sort of Tucker Carlson. She's posting him and saying
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that guy's got it exactly right. And what, what is the criticism from everyone in the ruling class on
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Tucker? Tucker is a populist. Tucker doesn't fit neatly. Forget that he, he disregards and contradicts
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leftist orthodoxy, but he doesn't even fit neatly on the right. He's not a usual Republican. He's
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something different. He's a terrible white nationalist. He is there. That's the phrase they use now when
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they really want to shut somebody up on the right. But what Tucker is, is he's just not going to play
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along with the preset ridiculous caricatures of our politics of the last 20 years, which is they're
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supposed to be the leftist radical. And then there's the right winger who really is just a
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libertarian or something. He just cares about tax cuts. And then there's kind of the liberal ruling
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class. And we see this all play out and then nothing really changes. And Tucker comes in and he says,
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no, no, no, I don't think so. I think it's, it's less about this pretend Republican Democrat left
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right divide. I think it's more about the people versus the ruling class. And Nicki Minaj agrees. You
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see this with AOC. AOC proved this too. From, from the other side of the play acting. AOC is not the
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pretend right winger, you know, libertarian dork of the last 20 years. AOC is the socialist dork of the,
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that we, that we also see play out. And she shows up to the Met Gala and she's wearing tax the rich
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on her dress. And that's right. She's going to stick it to the man who are all at this gala and
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they're all her friends and they're all celebrating her and they're all giving her magazine covers and
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they're all celebrating actually this dress in particular. There's a video that just came out of,
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of AOC walking out of the Met Gala with her, her dress on, with the dress being carried by all of
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her servants. So you see AOC walking out there and she's being followed by her slaves, by,
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by her servants who, you know, they have, the servants at the Met Gala have to wear masks
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generally. And they're very, they're kind of quiet and they're lifting up her dress. It says,
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tax the rich, tax the rich so I can buy more slaves, tax the rich. And then what happens?
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All those people out there, all those people who are there for the ruling class or there for the
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rich, they say, yes, yes, queen slay. Yes, you're doing it. You're sure you're showing us. Yes,
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yes. It's all just a play. It's not, it's not so much even about capitalism versus socialism that I
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don't even think that that's really the debate. I think it's the, the ruling establishment versus
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all the people who want to change something about it. AOC just introduced a new bill. The bill is to
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extend unemployment insurance through 2022. This will, this will increase the amount of money that
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Americans can receive for just sitting home and doing nothing. And I know that, that people are going
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to decry this as socialism. This is socialism or communism. I don't, I don't think it's really
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quite that. I think it's just neoliberalism. I think it's just more of the same. I think this is
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Andrew Yang kind of stuff. Remember Andrew Yang runs for, for, uh, well, first president and then
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for mayor of New York, or you've actually seen some people on the right talk about this. They floated
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this idea of the universal basic income and the universal basic income is just where zillionaire
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plutocrats pay people to go away. People who are not going to have jobs, who are not going to have
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meaning in their lives. We're not going to have much say in their government. They just get a
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check to go away. And that's called the universal basic income. And it's, it's a consequence, not
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even really of communism. It's a consequence of neo, neoliberalism and AOC, the supposed radical
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is pushing for a modest, somewhat modest version of that. Now that's, that's the effect of it. At least
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she might not be aware that that's what she's doing, but rather than attack the establishment and
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leader revolution, she is, she is propping up that establishment and leading it down,
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if you like it. We'll be right back with a lot more. AOC pretends to be the radical working for
00:25:47.940
the people. She is really nothing more than a tool of the plutocrats. You want evidence of this? She
00:25:52.820
and Joe Biden seem to be in agreement. Joe Biden, the most establishmentarian politician ever there
00:25:59.120
was. AOC, the supposed pretend radical, they seem to agree. AOC wears her tax the rich dress and then
00:26:07.640
what happens? Joe Biden tweets out, it's time to tax the super wealthy and big corporations
00:26:12.100
and make them pay their fair share in taxes. AOC responds to Joe Biden, couldn't agree more. Taxing
00:26:18.840
the rich will help us expand Medicare, extend childcare, take action on climate and so much more.
00:26:22.960
We have a precious opportunity right now in reconciliation with the Build Back Better Act and
00:26:26.480
we should use it. So this is being used to suggest by some people on the right naively, I think,
00:26:33.960
that Joe Biden is really a radical. Joe Biden is a socialist. Joe Biden is a communist.
00:26:40.740
I think it actually makes more sense in the other direction. Meaning AOC is the tool of the
00:26:49.100
establishment. Joe Biden is just an empty suit. He's just an avatar of the establishment.
00:26:52.200
And AOC is just a tool of that as well. And yes, she openly advocates socialism. Well, a lot of
00:27:00.220
socialism has crept into the liberal establishment. I mean, there's no question about that. The American
00:27:05.920
liberals have never apologized for their support, sometimes overt, of the Soviet Union for their
00:27:11.040
support of actual communists in the country. It's the lines between those things are a little bit
00:27:16.860
blurry. And this has become more and more so over time. But make no mistake, the battle between the
00:27:26.880
moderate Democrats and the radical AOC, it's mostly an illusion. They're all kind of doing the same thing.
00:27:34.860
They're all kind of palling around. Their real opponent is not the right or the left or the this or the that.
00:27:44.440
But it's us. It's ordinary American people of various backgrounds, of even various political
00:27:51.020
stripes, who want to preserve a capital C constitutional political order that increasingly has nothing to do
00:27:57.680
with the way that we're governed. The way that we're governed increasingly is when these soft shoe
00:28:04.420
performers, these politician performers, just empower the federal bureaucracy to do whatever it wants.
00:28:12.520
This is bad. This is why a lot of people are concerned about election integrity, for instance.
00:28:19.820
We're concerned about election integrity because we see our constitutional system of government
00:28:23.580
slipping away before our very eyes. And we can see the blob changing all the rules on election
00:28:30.420
integrity, even important rules like minimizing mail-in votes, which Barack Obama himself just a few years
00:28:36.440
ago said was really important to voter integrity. Even basic rules like show an ID so that you can vote.
00:28:41.400
You've got to show your medical history if you want to go to a bar these days, but you don't have to
00:28:45.360
show an ID and prove you are who you say you are for this supposedly sacred act of our supposed
00:28:49.920
democracy. It doesn't make sense. It's obviously just a power grab. And the left is mocking us about
00:28:55.740
this. Karen Bass, who is a former communist, maybe not so former, who is a Democrat congressman,
00:29:02.480
Karen Bass is laughing at us. And she's saying, you know, you don't see Democrats complaining about
00:29:07.840
election integrity. Republican Larry Elder has emerged as the front runner on the GOP side,
00:29:12.820
and we've seen him already raise doubts about this election's integrity even before the results
00:29:17.920
are known. So how do Democrats respond to that, these kinds of claims or do you not? Do you just
00:29:23.260
ignore them altogether? Oh, absolutely not. We cannot ignore them. But I do think that we need to look at
00:29:29.460
it within the national context because there is an undermining of the confidence of the election
00:29:36.060
process nationally. Of course, it started with President Trump, what he did on election day.
00:29:43.940
And so now we're questioning the integrity of our election system. And this is so ironic for somebody
00:29:49.900
like me who focuses on foreign affairs in Congress. We go around the world talking about the strength of
00:29:55.620
our democracy. And then people see all around the country and around the world us questioning the
00:30:01.540
very institution. So I believe that what is behind it is the fact that the Republican Party is using
00:30:08.920
this as a strategy. You don't hear Democrats raising big questions about the integrity of the election.
00:30:15.300
So first of all, I guess Karen Bass is right on the particular point. Right now, you don't hear
00:30:23.340
Democrats complaining about the integrity of our elections. Five years ago, even less than five
00:30:31.140
years ago, that's all you heard about. Remember, Russia stole the election. Hillary is the legitimate
00:30:37.220
president of the United States. Trump is a usurper. Remember, that wasn't that long ago.
00:30:42.640
And it goes back even 20 years to Bush v. Gore. Remember, Bush is an illegitimate president. Gore really won
00:30:48.780
the election. Remember that, all that stuff. Democrats have often complained about election.
00:30:52.760
Election integrity. Then in 2020, they got rid of all the election integrity measures and they totally
00:30:59.200
upended the system in their favor to make it easier for them to steal elections. And now they don't
00:31:04.540
complain about it. Well, gee, I wonder why. Yeah, because they won. They won the election integrity
00:31:08.940
game and they put the rules in their favor. So yeah, now they don't complain about it. And this is so
00:31:13.900
embarrassing that Americans lecture people overseas on democracy, but we can't conduct our own
00:31:18.680
democracy. Yeah, that is embarrassing. I wish you people would stop doing it, Karen Bass.
00:31:23.280
I wish you people would stop destroying our system. You'll notice, Harvard professor Adrian Vermeule
00:31:28.880
made this point yesterday. When the Democrats talk about our democracy, the word democracy does not
00:31:38.740
refer to democracy in their minds. Democracy is what happened in Texas when the people of Texas decided
00:31:45.240
not to permit other people to kill babies, right? That was a democratic process and the left hates
00:31:52.560
that. What the left means when they say democracy is liberalism. And liberalism and democracy are not
00:31:59.800
the same thing. They're kind of related concepts, but they're different. And when the people vote
00:32:05.380
against liberalism, we are told that that is the undermining of democracy. It's not. It's the
00:32:13.240
undermining of liberalism, but the undermining of liberalism is a very good thing. And as our,
00:32:20.020
the other thing they often mean to say our democracy is they're referring to their oligarchy,
00:32:24.400
but even those two concepts are related. As liberalism has grown in the governing ideology,
00:32:31.820
democracy has shrunk. You do not have the right, for instance, actually abortion is a great example.
00:32:38.400
You do not have the right to make your own laws about abortion. Liberalism has decided that abortion
00:32:44.860
is a sacrosanct sacrament for that matter. And so you're not allowed to vote. They're going to
00:32:51.020
pretend that it's in the constitution when obviously it's not. And that's it. Now that's off the table.
00:32:55.880
And this is true increasingly of, of many areas of public policy. There are different rules for
00:33:02.460
different people. We're seeing this not just in the government. We're seeing this in the so-called
00:33:09.080
private sector, though. The private sector seems pretty public to me. We're seeing this in big tech
00:33:13.120
and Facebook. There's a big report just came out in the Wall Street Journal. Facebook says its rules
00:33:18.620
apply to all. Company documents reveal a secret elite that is exempt. So there's this program known
00:33:24.500
as X check that gives millions of celebrities, politicians, and other profile users, high-profile
00:33:30.800
users, the privilege to get around the rules. And this is not some conspiracy theory. This has
00:33:37.040
been revealed from internal Facebook documents that say for certain people, they're not going to be held
00:33:42.020
to the same standard. And that's that. Now, sometimes I show different reactions to these sorts of
00:33:51.700
stories on a scale. Broke, woke, and bespoke. Okay? So the broke take, which is what the libs are
00:33:59.840
rattling on about right now, is that this is a good thing. It's good that Dr. Fauci, for instance,
00:34:06.820
hypothetically could be exempted from certain rules. It's good that the left gets to play by
00:34:11.440
easier rules than the right does. Okay. That's the broke take. The woke take, the little bit
00:34:18.300
smarter take, is that this is bad. Everyone should be equal. Everyone should have to play exactly on
00:34:24.920
the same level playing field on Facebook as everyone else. That's definitely a better take
00:34:29.280
than the left should be given special privileges. But I don't even think that quite gets it. A lot
00:34:33.440
of conservatives are pushing that argument right now. But I don't think that even quite gets it.
00:34:37.600
I would suggest the bespoke take, the more perceptive one, which is hierarchies in politics
00:34:45.320
are inevitable. This is a very conservative understanding of human nature and political
00:34:51.280
communities. There are going to be hierarchies. There is going to be an elite. People are going
00:34:57.800
to be in different positions. It's just the way human nature works. It's just the way politics works.
00:35:03.120
What is really bad about this is that Mark Zuckerberg should not be setting the political order.
00:35:09.620
Yes, I grant you. This is kind of my point on free speech. When the right reacted to the left's
00:35:17.300
manipulation of our free speech regime and said, well, you should be able to say whatever you want
00:35:21.920
and do whatever you want. I'm a free speech absolutist. And I just think that's a silly
00:35:26.280
argument. It's a utopian argument. That's never been true anywhere, certainly not in America.
00:35:31.660
Free speech has never meant you can say whatever you want whenever you want to say it. Every society
00:35:35.120
has standards and taboos. The question to me that's more interesting is who sets those standards?
00:35:40.980
Who sets those taboos? What are they going to be? Well, it's the same exact principle here.
00:35:45.400
Who sets the political hierarchy? Who sets the way that privilege and status is doled out in society?
00:35:52.000
That's going to be inevitable. That's going to happen. But why is this one billionaire oligarch in
00:35:56.820
Silicon Valley, why is he the one doing it? We used to at least live in a constitutional republic
00:36:02.940
where we the people did that sort of thing, where our political system did that sort of thing. But now
00:36:09.260
these elites, these oligarchs in Silicon Valley run that political system because they control speech
00:36:16.840
and that is a political act. And part of that is the result. It's not just the result of the left
00:36:22.820
grabbing power. It's the result of the right becoming obsessed with this idea of privatization
00:36:28.020
and government always bad and politics always bad and corporations good. And so we've just given our
00:36:33.720
politics to the corporations and now the corporations run our politics and we have even
00:36:37.020
less of a say in it. That doesn't make very much sense to me. You've got to step in and reassert an
00:36:44.800
authentic political order. You're seeing this in Ohio. You're seeing this in a town in Ohio
00:36:49.060
where the mayor of Hudson is showing up and telling school board members to resign or else be charged
00:37:00.640
with kiddie porn over an assignment. So I'll tell you about the assignment before I play this mayor's
00:37:06.160
excellent speech. There was an assignment that went out in the school to students with writing prompts
00:37:11.760
that said, say for instance, write a sex scene you wouldn't show your mom. This is to high school
00:37:17.920
students. Rewrite the sex scene from above into one that you would let your mom read. Describe a time
00:37:24.240
when you wanted to orgasm but couldn't. Ten euphemisms for sex. Write an X-rated Disney scenario.
00:37:32.400
A room full of people who want to sleep together. Describe this. Describe the first time you had sex.
00:37:38.080
This is to high schoolers. I'm not a prude. I promise you I'm really not a prude. But this is creepy.
00:37:45.160
This is really weird. I don't think that this is the only or best way to improve a student's writing
00:37:50.900
or ability to think cognitive skills. I think it's really creepy and weird. And so does the mayor of
00:37:58.400
this town. And the mayor showed up and said, you know, I talked to a judge. This might be kiddie porn.
00:38:02.300
You sickos need to resign or else we're going to charge it. Members of the board, my name is Craig
00:38:06.520
Schubert. I'm the mayor of this city. It has come to my attention that your educators
00:38:14.600
are distributing essentially what is child pornography in the classroom.
00:38:19.320
I've spoken to a judge this evening. She's already confirmed that. So I'm going to give you a simple
00:38:27.240
choice. You either choose to resign from this board of education or you will be charged. Thank you.
00:38:34.680
I love this. There are going to be libertarian or I'd really say libertine types who say this is an
00:38:49.780
encroachment on academic freedom, which is another totally bogus concept. And this is the teachers
00:38:55.600
should have every right and students should learn about sex in the classroom. And this is wrong.
00:38:59.260
This is, this is, he's taking away their freedom. No, what you're seeing here is, is not in a way,
00:39:07.000
I guess it's taking away the freedom or licentiousness of these, of these educators to push porn in the
00:39:17.080
classroom. But it is asserting a higher freedom, an exalted freedom, a political freedom to decide how
00:39:26.100
your kids are going to be educated. I get those two kind of freedoms are coming into conflict,
00:39:31.780
but the higher freedom, the freedom that is really in keeping with the American political order,
00:39:36.780
the true understanding of liberty here is that assertion of the political freedom. We all need to do that.
00:39:44.800
We all need to do that at our own levels. We, we have been enslaved by, by people who want to arouse
00:39:54.520
our basest passions and our appetites and make us mistake those for true liberty. And think that as
00:40:00.320
long as we're getting a steady stream of drugs and porn and free government cheese from AOC and Joe
00:40:05.820
Biden and Andrew Yang, even when he was, he was pushing the universal basic income, as long as we're just
00:40:10.700
given stuff to satisfy our appetites and to go away and to stop bothering the elite while they rule the
00:40:17.460
world, that then we're really free. We're not, we're not, we're slaves. We're no different than
00:40:22.060
those people who are carrying AOC's preposterous dress to the cheers of yes, slay queen. That's,
00:40:28.420
that's what we are in this situation. And if we, if we want to, and this is where you go back to the
00:40:33.200
founding fathers, if you want to regain and reassert that political freedom, you've got to discipline
00:40:38.320
yourself, you've got to limit yourself, you've got to limit what these educators are putting
00:40:42.260
in the classrooms, then and only then are you really going to be free.
00:40:49.440
We need to bring back consequences. Okay. We have been living in a dream world for the past several
00:40:56.740
decades that is pushed not just by the left, but by the right as well, where you can just do whatever
00:41:01.660
you want and not face any consequences. Oh, it's, you saw this notably with free trade. Yes, we're going to
00:41:07.600
ship all our jobs overseas and we're going to ship our manufacturing overseas and we're going to
00:41:11.340
empower our geopolitical rival, China. And, but it's going to be only good. There's going to be no
00:41:17.240
downside whatsoever. Money, money, money. It's going to be really good for China and it's going to be
00:41:20.980
really good for America and the GDP is going to go up and there's going to be no consequence. This was
00:41:24.480
the utopian promise of the free traders and it hasn't really worked out. So now, because China has risen
00:41:31.540
and because China is now challenging American hegemony on the world stage, now all of a sudden we're
00:41:36.840
finally, way too late, beginning to push back against this. The United States is announcing a
00:41:41.780
new effort today with the United Kingdom and Australia, three of the nations in what's called
00:41:49.600
five eyes, which is an intelligence alliance that is going to focus on sharing advanced technologies
00:41:55.760
in a not so hidden effort to counter Chinese aggression. Well, I'm glad that finally these developed
00:42:03.800
countries are going to push back against China, but that's a big change of policy after decade upon
00:42:09.780
decade of encouraging China's rights, permitting China into the World Trade Organization. What does
00:42:14.100
China do? Immediately starts violating its agreements, promoting Chinese manufacturing, promoting
00:42:19.980
Chinese education and bringing Chinese students and sometimes spies to American schools, promoting
00:42:27.060
China at the expense of our own country. And who, who was one of the leading voices in that
00:42:33.320
stupid campaign? Oh, right. The current president, Joe Biden. Last year, 130,000 Chinese were studying
00:42:40.400
in the United States. They're really good. We're going to try to keep some of them. I'm only joking.
00:42:46.140
I'm only joking. But they are. We cannot claim the same number of Americans in China, but our 100,000
00:42:59.980
strong initiative will dramatically increase the number of young Americans living and studying in
00:43:05.000
China. Competition is not bad. Competition that's healthy is good. This is the reason why I've held the
00:43:12.980
view for so many years and continue to hold the view that a rising China is a positive development.
00:43:20.120
There is the line. This, this was from about 10 or 11 years ago. There is the, the rest of the speech
00:43:27.000
was bad and typical back slapping Joe. And they're pretty smart. Those kids look at my teeth. I'm going
00:43:34.000
to slap you on the back. I'm Joe Biden. But that line at the end, I am of the opinion, and I've for a long
00:43:39.100
time been of the opinion that a rising China is a positive development. And now everybody with two
00:43:45.400
brain cells to rub together, which I guess it does exclude a number of people in our ruling class,
00:43:50.160
recognizes that a rising China is a very negative development. It's very bad in this world.
00:43:57.440
Very, very bad indeed. So where is the consequence? Joe Biden needs to be held to account. The people who
00:44:06.680
encouraged the rising China, which they did not just in the Democratic Party, but in the Republican
00:44:12.740
Party too, they need to be held to account. And they probably won't be. Even the people who openly
00:44:18.800
collude with the Chinese are not going to be held to account. General Milley, General Milley, chairman of
00:44:24.320
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was just caught in this new report from the Washington Post reporting on a Bob
00:44:28.720
Woodward book, apparently willing to go to China to give them highly classified information in the event
00:44:35.460
of an American strike to undermine the Commander-in-Chief and the U.S. President. This is
00:44:38.880
a huge deal. This is incredible insubordination. This is conspiracy to commit treason, if you ask me.
00:44:44.940
Even Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, one of the most annoying Trump critics, and he's a military man,
00:44:51.840
but extremely left-wing, even he came out and said, Milley's got to resign for this.
00:44:55.740
So Milley was asked about it, and he gave a non-denial. A non-denial denial. This came through a
00:45:03.280
spokesman. He said, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs regularly communicates with the chiefs of
00:45:06.500
defense across the world, including with China and Russia. These conversations remain vital to
00:45:11.260
improving mutual understanding of U.S. national security interests, reducing tensions, providing
00:45:15.920
clarity, and avoiding unintended consequences or conflict. Meaning, yeah, he did it. That's the
00:45:22.940
right. Yeah, he did it. So what? What are you going to do about it? Really ugly stuff. There should be an
00:45:29.420
investigation. To my mind, he should be put on trial. He should be charged with a crime and put
00:45:33.880
on trial. This is really bad stuff. I usually think, keep it calm. It's all right. Let people
00:45:38.620
do their jobs. I know. Don't throw our presidential candidates in jail. What General Milley did is
00:45:42.760
really bad, and he's not even denying it. Speaking of what's going on overseas,
00:45:50.440
speaking of America losing hegemony around the world, there is a report coming out now
00:45:53.860
that Angela Merkel, who is the chancellor of Germany, she could become the new head of the EU.
00:46:01.800
There's a big survey that came out pitting her against the French president, Emmanuel Macron,
00:46:06.020
and it said who should be the head of the EU, and Merkel is leading the pack. So this just reminds me,
00:46:12.720
because we've been talking about Norm Macdonald, who died, not unexpectedly to him. He was privately
00:46:17.200
fighting cancer for nine years, but unexpectedly to all of his fans. And it reminded me, really,
00:46:22.260
of a great Norm Macdonald bit he gave on the last episode of David Letterman's show.
00:46:27.800
When I heard that we were going to give the EU, possibly, to Germany, I thought, that's pretty
00:46:33.600
strange, isn't it? Because they tried to take over Europe one time, and then we beat them. And it was
00:46:39.100
a world war. And then they tried to take over Europe a second time, we beat them, and there was
00:46:43.440
a world war. And now we're just going to give them Europe. I don't know if y'all are history buffs,
00:46:48.540
There is one country that worries me, though. Not Iraq, not Iran, not North Korea. The only
00:46:54.080
country that really worries me is the country of Germany. I don't know if you guys are history
00:47:00.520
buffs or not, but in the early part of the previous century, Germany decided to go to war. And who did
00:47:14.600
they go to war with? The world. It had never been tried before. And so you figure that would take
00:47:25.860
about five seconds for the world to win, but no, it was actually close.
00:47:30.640
Then about 30 years passed, and Germany decides again to go to war, and again it chooses as its
00:47:46.200
enemy the world. And this time they have that guy, scrankly, scrankly, that guy, and I'm not
00:47:56.400
even going to dignify him by saying his name, but I think you know what I'm talking about.
00:48:05.120
But you'd think at that point the world will go, listen, Germany, here's the deal. You don't
00:48:10.220
get to be a country no more on account of you keep attacking the world.
00:48:16.060
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