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00:00:00.000 Australians are fighting back against their country's draconian stay-at-home lockdown policies,

00:00:04.880 so the Australian government is fighting back against them, firing rubber bullets into crowds,

00:00:11.180 chasing them back into their homes, and forcing them to obey the public health police.

00:00:16.380 The scenes are startling. If we saw these images in some far-flung third-world country,

00:00:22.500 Afghanistan or Venezuela, the liberal establishment would be calling for regime change.

00:00:27.220 But when it comes to Australia, our regime is on the same side as the public health enforcers.

00:00:32.940 Maybe it's time for some regime change at home. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:44.740 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Gregory Williams, who says

00:00:48.200 52% of Americans are not of the opinion that Joe Biden is not sound enough to be president

00:00:55.460 because they know that Kamala is less competent. That is a very good answer. I asked, I said,

00:01:00.060 how is it that only 48% of Americans think Biden is not fit to be president? Well,

00:01:04.940 because the other 52% are looking at Kamala Harris. You make a very good point. You know, this

00:01:09.040 is the sort of time where we need to protect our way of life. We've got to protect our liberties.

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00:02:22.800 What's going on in Australia right now is absolutely insane. If you have seen the scenes, I mean,

00:02:29.760 you know, we just play that very tiny little bit of the cops rushing and shooting rubber bullets into

00:02:34.880 the crowd, chasing everyone away. They now have a stay-at-home policy. They're trying to get to COVID

00:02:40.100 zero, which is not possible. COVID zero meaning not a single person even has coronavirus. That's not

00:02:47.120 going to happen, which means that the public health dictatorship is going to continue on ad

00:02:52.320 infinitum. Why is this happening? Some people are saying, well, we're misinterpreting the science or

00:02:59.140 some people are saying, well, it's because the unvaccinated are not cooperating. We could all

00:03:04.380 have our freedoms if we just gave up some of our freedoms. The real reason that this is going on right

00:03:09.900 now is very simple. It has to do with religion. All regimes have something to do with religion.

00:03:19.040 Okay. They have some religious foundation. You look at a place like Afghanistan, the religious

00:03:23.700 foundation is Islam. Okay. No, no matter what exact government comes and goes, Islam is going to be the

00:03:31.080 basis of it. In the West and in America in particular, that grounding originally was Christianity,

00:03:38.020 right? Now over time in America, the religion became the civic religion of say the founding

00:03:45.260 fathers or of Abraham Lincoln. This is why on our national mall, we have a Greco-Roman temple

00:03:52.280 with a giant statue of Abraham Lincoln as if he were Zeus. Okay. This is why we have weird obelisks

00:03:59.720 to the deities of our founding fathers like, like George Washington, because it is a civic religion.

00:04:05.040 And we, at least until very recently, worshiped the values that they stood for and worship these

00:04:10.320 men as sort of demigods. Now, now we're tearing down their statues and replacing it with a new

00:04:14.560 religion. Now the new religion is even more secularized than the one that we've been laboring

00:04:19.740 under for a long time. It is the cult of science. There is a band that I had never heard of called the

00:04:24.740 Kaiser Chiefs. This is an English indie rock band. The lead singer is Ricky Wilson. He was just at a

00:04:30.260 concert full of all sorts of people. They've got their hands in the air and he says, that's right.

00:04:35.040 Hands in the air, not hands in the air to feel the music, not hands in the air to feel the spirit,

00:04:39.680 hands in the air to show me how clean you are because you've gotten your vaccine.

00:04:44.600 Let me hear it if you've had the Pfizer vaccine. Let me hear it from Moderna.

00:05:01.000 AstraZeneca.

00:05:05.120 Let's hear it from the anti-vaxxers.

00:05:06.740 That's right. They're now calling him not the Kaiser Chiefs, but the Pfizer Chiefs.

00:05:25.080 This is really creepy stuff and it doesn't make any sense unless you are familiar with religious

00:05:32.380 ritual. It's a sort of religious ritual, right? With a great many religious rituals, you undertake

00:05:38.660 a ritual purification. So you know that you're broken, you know that you're fallen, you know

00:05:43.940 that you're impure, but then you go through this ritual purification and then you are pure again,

00:05:48.780 right? And then you go out into the world. And so this has become a literal ritual.

00:05:57.240 You know, it's not just that you're cleansing your soul, though that's part of it with this,

00:06:00.600 but you're cleansing your body because we live in this very secular age. And by cleansing your body,

00:06:06.520 you cleanse your soul. This is why the anti-vaxxers are being booed. This is why they're being jeered.

00:06:12.200 This is why they're called deplorable and awful and murderers, right? That they're guilty of some sort of

00:06:16.360 sin, some metaphysical crime if they do not take the Fauci-ouchie and then they're not clean.

00:06:23.140 Really creepy stuff, but this sort of thing is going to be inevitable. Your society is going to

00:06:30.480 have some religion or another. And if you don't have true, good, normal religion, then you're going

00:06:35.780 to have creepy, weird, modern science religion, but you're going to have some religion. And it's

00:06:40.440 not very scientific in the sense that many of these supposedly scientific health measures

00:06:46.220 we're undertaking are actually killing a lot of people. There's a study out of the UK right now,

00:06:50.460 which is that it's showing that 10,000 unnecessary deaths just from cancer will result from the

00:07:02.620 lockdown. This is because a lack of door-to-door visits, you know, a lack of actual in-person visits,

00:07:11.060 a lot of treatment for, you know, perfectly treatable illnesses is going to result from

00:07:16.780 people locking down everything saying, stay at home. The only issue is this Wu flu. All that

00:07:21.460 matters is the Chinese cough. And if you've got cancer, if you've got other procedures that you've

00:07:26.600 got to undertake, forget about it. It doesn't matter. According to this University College London

00:07:32.620 survey and study, an estimated 40,000 people since March of last year were referred to emergency

00:07:42.280 care for cancer late, which conservatively means 10,000 Britons will die significantly earlier

00:07:49.020 than under normal circumstances. And the possibility of excess deaths could be several times higher in the

00:07:56.180 worst case scenario. But if we save just one life, it will have been worth it. If we save just one life

00:08:03.180 of one person who didn't catch any germs, that will have been worth the 10 to 40,000 excess deaths of people

00:08:11.960 from cancer in Great Britain, right? It doesn't make a lot of sense. But when you think of the world in this

00:08:17.380 very utilitarian kind of way, you end up making these ghastly sort of calculations rather than beginning

00:08:24.740 from principles of justice. How should we live? Is this ordered? Is this virtuous? Is this just

00:08:29.980 to live in abject, servile fear of a little Wuhan cough? To lock down, take people's property,

00:08:36.620 take people's lives away? No, of course not. Of course that's not just. But when you're making

00:08:42.180 these really clinical, scientistic calculations of, well, if we lock down, we'll save this one life,

00:08:48.180 then you end up in these ghastly sort of calculations, which you're seeing right now, actually,

00:08:53.160 in the pages of the Washington Post. There is a very sad column that just came out from Uma Thurman,

00:08:59.860 terrific actress, Uma Thurman, who is attacking the pro-life law in Texas. And she's saying it's

00:09:06.400 a human rights crisis for American women. And to make her case, she's coming out with news that

00:09:10.680 people did not know before, which is that she had an abortion. She said she started her acting career

00:09:16.620 at 15, and she was accidentally impregnated by a much older man. She doesn't say she was

00:09:22.020 raped exactly. She said accidentally impregnated. And she was living out of a suitcase in Europe,

00:09:29.360 far from her family, about to start a job. She struggled to know what to do. I wanted to keep

00:09:34.480 the baby, but how? So she calls home. There's problems at home. The family decided, quote,

00:09:42.680 I couldn't go through with the pregnancy and agreed that termination was the right choice.

00:09:48.140 My heart was broken nonetheless. Okay. There's so much pain in this story. She writes,

00:09:54.920 it's been my darkest secret until now. I'm 51 years old. I'm sharing it with you from the home

00:09:58.460 where I've raised my three children who are my pride and joy. The abortion I had as a teenager

00:10:03.080 was the hardest decision in my life, one that caused me anguish then and that saddens me even

00:10:07.040 now. But it was the path to the life full of joy and love that I've experienced. Choosing not to

00:10:12.320 keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be.

00:10:16.900 So the obvious question that comes from this, why was it so sad? Why does it sadden you even now?

00:10:24.520 Why did it break your heart? Because you killed your child. That's why. And a lot of women do it,

00:10:31.420 and a lot of women don't know what they're doing at the time. And especially if you're 15 years old,

00:10:34.300 you might be very confused, especially if your family is telling you to kill this child,

00:10:37.980 especially if the whole culture is telling you to kill this child. But deep down, you know what it

00:10:41.700 is and you know that that gnaws at you and that's deeply saddening. And especially in a world that

00:10:47.560 doesn't recognize the possibility of redemption, this is going to eat away at you forever and ever.

00:10:52.940 Of course, she didn't need to kill a baby. She could have given the baby up for adoption. There are many,

00:10:56.180 many couples who want to adopt children, many more couples who want to adopt little babies

00:10:59.580 than little babies who are put up for adoption. But then listen to this line. She goes,

00:11:05.040 she says, you know, the life full of joy and love that I've experienced was caused and it was

00:11:11.380 enabled because I had this abortion. You heard this from another actress some years ago. I forget her

00:11:16.260 name. She said, I won this gold statue because I had an abortion. I couldn't have done it if I hadn't

00:11:21.560 had an abortion. Sacrificing your children to gold idols is nothing new. That is actually the

00:11:29.300 default state of human nature. And Judaism, you know, the ancient Israelites and then

00:11:34.860 Christianity in its fulfillment come about and say, don't do that. Stop doing that. Okay.

00:11:41.640 We are now reverting to that. Society is going to have some religion or another. Which one do you

00:11:46.480 want to have? Do you want to have the religion that seems a little kooky with the smells and the

00:11:50.120 bells and the crucifixes and the little liturgies? Or do you want to have the religion that is much

00:11:54.600 kookier where the high priests are people like Dr. Fauci and where the high sacraments

00:11:58.700 are child sacrifice? Which, which you're going to have some religion. Which one do you want to live

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00:13:34.960 Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. Remember, the notorious RBG. She was the last hope and then she died and

00:13:43.740 Trump was able to fill her vacancy and this is very sad. She was an icon on the left. People wear

00:13:49.940 t-shirts of her and make movies about her. They pretend that she was the first woman Supreme Court

00:13:54.300 Justice even though she wasn't. It was Sandra Day O'Connor who was appointed by Reagan, but everyone

00:13:57.600 forgets about that. So in honor of RBG, people are posting a lot of quotes of hers today. But even

00:14:05.240 though RBG only died one year ago, even though she was a leftist icon, she wasn't radical enough. So

00:14:14.100 other leftist groups now are editing her quotes. This is from the ACLU. ACLU posts a tweet says,

00:14:21.020 with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, we lost a champion for abortion and gender equality.

00:14:24.500 And on the anniversary of her death, the fight to protect abortion access is more urgent than ever.

00:14:29.120 Now here's the quote. The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a, then they insert

00:14:35.340 these brackets, person's life to brackets, their well-being and dignity. When the government controls

00:14:43.060 that decision for brackets, people brackets, they are being treated as less than a fully adult human

00:14:49.800 responsible for brackets, their own choices. Do you see what they did here? It's not, they're not too

00:14:55.760 subtle about it. What RBG originally said was the decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a

00:15:00.900 woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. When the government controls that decision for women,

00:15:06.280 for women or a woman, this woman is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for

00:15:12.540 her own choices. Now, of course, the quote is ghastly and hideous and untrue.

00:15:18.300 Killing your own child is not central to your freedom and your life and your dignity if you're

00:15:25.420 a woman. But the left has become so radical that they're not even allowed to acknowledge that abortion

00:15:32.440 is a woman's issue. Now, the aspect of this that I think people are missing here, as we all joke about

00:15:41.660 how even RBG now is a conservative compared to the ACLU and these other leftist groups invoking her,

00:15:46.400 is that the radicalism of the new gender pronouns and the transgender movement

00:15:54.000 was actually being promoted by the feminists like Ruth Ginsburg. When Ruth Ginsburg says a woman needs

00:16:03.220 to be able to kill her baby to be free, she is setting the stage for transgenderism because what

00:16:07.340 she's saying is women and men need to be exactly the same. Women and men are not exactly the same

00:16:12.160 because women uniquely can bear children. And because of that, that implies certain responsibilities

00:16:17.440 and a certain sort of role for them that men don't have. So we need to be able to remove that role,

00:16:24.300 that distinction, even if it means killing your own child. And that way, men and women can be equal.

00:16:28.840 But when men and women can be equal, then there's no such thing as women anymore. We're all just some

00:16:32.400 kind of blob. And so the very words, woman, she, hers are cut out of RBG's quotation. Speaking of

00:16:42.100 disrespecting women, you probably haven't heard this story right now coming out of Wisconsin because

00:16:48.360 the establishment media don't want to cover it. But you recall in the last few weeks, we lifted a lot

00:16:55.440 of Afghans out of that country as it felt to the Taliban. We left a lot of Americans there,

00:17:00.320 but we took a lot of Afghans out. And these Afghans, these Afghans are more American than

00:17:06.420 any American. They are as American as apple pie. They were all translators. That country, man,

00:17:11.120 chock full of translators. And we had, it was our duty to lift them out of the country.

00:17:17.240 Frankly, they're a whole lot more American than the insurrectionists and the, and the MAGA Trump

00:17:23.680 deplorable people. And so they land in Wisconsin and now they're raping children and

00:17:30.240 beating their wives. This from the journal Sentinel, two Afghan refugees charged with

00:17:35.260 child sex and spousal abuse crimes at Fort McCoy. Barula Nori, who's a 20-year-old Afghan evacuee,

00:17:43.620 is being charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that

00:17:48.320 person along with three other counts of engaging in a sex act with a minor according to WQOW. And then

00:17:55.100 32-year-old Mohammed Haroun Imad is being charged with assaulting his wife by choking and suffocating

00:18:01.200 her on September 17th. This is at Fort McCoy. This is at the refugee camp. This is under the watchful

00:18:08.400 gaze of our authorities. The first thing these guys did when they landed in America is rape kids and

00:18:14.500 beat their wives and choke them. Now, I'm not saying that all Afghan refugees do this, but I am saying

00:18:21.000 maybe we didn't vet these guys so well. Well, we know we didn't vet these guys so well because

00:18:25.880 there's very little vetting going on here in the United States. They were told that all the vetting

00:18:29.740 was done by the State Department before they left, but we know there was no vetting being done before

00:18:33.140 they left either. People were clinging to the wheels of these airplanes. Turns out cultural differences

00:18:39.360 might actually persist. Turns out that different cultures, worshiping different gods, engaging in

00:18:44.660 different rituals and mores might live differently. Contrary to what the liberal globalist establishment

00:18:53.560 has been telling us for a very long time now, you can't just drop any person from anywhere in the

00:18:59.480 world into the United States and have them instantly become an American. When you discourage

00:19:04.340 assimilation, they may very well never become an American. Likewise, you cannot just drop the American

00:19:10.100 bill of rights or the constitution or the declaration into some God forsaken backwater and just assume

00:19:18.460 that that's going to transform the country overnight. Contrary to what George Bush told us at the second

00:19:22.920 inaugural, not every person on earth is yearning for 19th century English enlightenment ideals of

00:19:29.800 self-government. It just doesn't, that just isn't true. It doesn't exist. And it raises this other

00:19:37.480 question, by the way, the same left that is insisting that we flood the country with foreign nationals

00:19:44.500 is the left telling us that we are the worst country in the world. Evil, racist, bigoted, violent.

00:19:55.180 In Maxine Waters's words, trying to bring the country back to slavery days as she accused America of

00:20:01.200 doing when border patrol agents were caught attempting to do their job.

00:20:05.500 We're saying to the president and everybody else, you got to stop this madness. And I want to know in the

00:20:12.780 first place, who's paying these cowboys to do this work? They've got to be gotten rid of. They've gotten to

00:20:19.280 be stopped. It cannot go on. And so I thank all of you for being here today. Write the story. Tell the story

00:20:26.520 about what is going on and let people know that they're trying to take us back to slavery days and

00:20:34.140 worse than that. Here we go. It's another day. It's another Democrat invoking slavery. I mean,

00:20:40.980 I would attack Maxine Waters here. She is a really loathsome member of Congress. I mean, she called for

00:20:47.540 physical violence against Republicans and has done that repeatedly throughout her career. You get on

00:20:53.000 them. When you see them in public, you get in their face. You push back on them. You say they're not

00:20:56.520 welcome. You remember that whole thing? She's done it for many, many years. But Joe Biden says the same

00:21:01.580 stuff about slavery. He said it about Mitt Romney, who's a big lib. He said, Mitt Romney wants to put

00:21:06.120 y'all back in chains when he was talking to a mostly black audience. So this is what they do. They say,

00:21:12.020 look, America's defining feature is slavery, even though it existed here for less time than virtually

00:21:16.980 anywhere else on the face of the earth. And in a lower degree, by the way. No, that's America's

00:21:22.740 defining feature. And it's never changed. And we're still living in the slavery days. We're about

00:21:27.280 to go back. It's about to get even worse. So this raises this question. The Gravel Institute, which is

00:21:35.180 named after Senator Mike Gravel. He was a radical left senator, actually kind of got a kick out of him.

00:21:41.020 So some kids in his name founded the Gravel Institute. They wanted it to be a kind of answer to

00:21:46.120 PragerU on the right. And it hasn't really worked out, but they still tweet sometimes.

00:21:50.880 And so they tweeted out, quote, the United States should accept at least 100,000 Afghan refugees.

00:21:58.220 Are you insane? Do you, are you racist? Do you hate Afghans? You're telling me you want to take

00:22:05.620 100,000 poor Afghans who have been through so much already, and then you want to bring them

00:22:11.520 to this evil, racist, bigoted, unjust hellscape? Oh my gosh, how much punishment do these people need

00:22:19.580 to endure? This awful country? You want to bring them? No way. You know what, Gravel Institute? I

00:22:26.060 can't believe it. I'm going to have to go more left-wing than you are right now. I am calling

00:22:29.680 for a complete moratorium on any refugees from anywhere in the world coming here

00:22:35.420 to this awful, racist, evil country. They have suffered enough, okay? And they do not deserve

00:22:42.420 to be brought to suffer so much more in this evil, rotten, racist place. So I'm, listen,

00:22:51.960 Gravel Institute. Listen, left-wingers calling for more refugees. I, I heard you. I heard you the

00:22:59.480 first time when you said this is a terrible country. So I absolutely, I want, I want to go to the logical

00:23:06.100 conclusion of your arguments and say, no, thank you. No more. Did you, I mean, Maxine Waters said

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00:24:44.040 you hear. We'll be right back with a lot more. The liberal blue checks are at it again. They always

00:25:01.420 are. One of them, he's a Twitter activist named Brooklyn Dad Defiant. He is really harping on this

00:25:09.180 complete canard, this lie that border patrol agents went out like Indiana Jones with whips and just started

00:25:16.680 whipping, you know, Haitian migrants as they were coming across the border. Which, by the way, like, they

00:25:23.740 didn't do that. But I'm not saying use whips, but I do think you should enforce the law. If people are pouring

00:25:30.560 into your country illegally, you should stop them from doing that. You should enforce the law. But they didn't.

00:25:37.820 They didn't have whips and they were not doing that. So this Twitter blue check says, quote,

00:25:41.640 slavery must continue to be taught in schools, but especially the parts about how slaves were

00:25:45.780 beaten and whipped to death. So you can see us react strongly to similar scenes. And you can

00:25:51.660 S, you can shut the F up with your, quote, actually those aren't whips, they're reins.

00:25:59.300 So this guy's acknowledging. He's like, they're not whips. You're right. We lied about that. But don't,

00:26:03.880 it doesn't matter. That might not be true, but it gets to a greater truth. That's the sort of thing

00:26:08.880 the left always says when they get called out on their lies. They say, well, sure, that thing wasn't

00:26:12.060 true, but it's about a greater truth. What's a great? It's all a bunch of lies. And then you put

00:26:16.240 all your lies together and you get a truth. I don't think, I'm no mathematician, but I don't think

00:26:20.280 that's how arithmetic works. But what's so ironic here is, he's saying, he's suggesting that we're not

00:26:28.200 going to teach slavery in schools anymore. This has been another line of the left. They're saying that

00:26:31.660 critical race theory just means teaching about the history of slavery. It's

00:26:34.860 not even close to that. Critical race theory is a very specific Marxist academic movement that was

00:26:40.320 developed in the late 20th century and has only really started infiltrating colleges in recent

00:26:47.140 decades. The history of slavery has always been taught. But I love that a guy like this who is

00:26:52.980 admitting that his side does not know the difference between a whip and reins for your horses, he's saying

00:26:59.960 we should be in charge of education. We don't know the difference between very basic tools,

00:27:07.140 but we want to run education in America. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. This is actually

00:27:12.220 one of the few silver linings to the storm cloud of the year and a half plus of lockdowns is that

00:27:19.720 kids are pouring out of public schools into charter schools and homeschools. A new report from the

00:27:27.060 National Alliance for Public Charter Schools revealed that charter school enrollment grew

00:27:31.440 7.1% during the 2020 to 2021 school year. That's the largest expansion in half a decade.

00:27:40.400 Nearly a quarter million new students enrolled in innovative student-centered charter schools,

00:27:47.120 despite a sharp increase in, or a sharp decrease in overall public school enrollment during the same

00:27:52.960 period. So the overall public school enrollment goes down, but the charter schools go way up.

00:27:57.460 Of the 42 states evaluated, 39 experienced charter school enrollment increases. Only three states,

00:28:04.180 so modest, decreases. By comparison, direct, you know, sort of public school, district school

00:28:10.500 enrollment during that same period dropped precipitously in every single state. In certain states,

00:28:15.620 Oklahoma and Alabama, charter school enrollment grew 77.7% and 65.1% respectively. Even in lib states

00:28:25.820 like Oregon, enrollment grew over 20%. On top of that, which is great news for the charter schools,

00:28:34.020 on top of that, homeschooling between March 2020 and September 2020, homeschooling grew between 5.4%

00:28:40.780 and 11% and 11% throughout the country. And in some other cases, by the way, we're not even counting

00:28:46.340 here the private schools that parents send their kids to. This is very important. This is very

00:28:52.200 important. It's going to accelerate a trend that you've been seeing for decades now around the country,

00:28:58.980 which is the collapse of a common culture, the common culture of TV. We don't all watch the same TV

00:29:04.840 shows anymore. The common culture of movies. We barely watch the movies anymore. The common culture

00:29:09.060 of schooling. We're not going to have that quite as much anymore. That would be a bad thing if we

00:29:17.080 had a healthy culture. That's a very good thing if we have a very unhealthy culture. If the common

00:29:21.440 culture becomes poisoned and tells us that our country's evil and you're evil, and if you're white,

00:29:28.400 you're irredeemably evil, and the founding fathers are evil. If the common culture that educates and

00:29:36.380 raises us and creates our citizens is poisoning our people, then you got to crack that common

00:29:43.300 culture. And that is very good news. Speaking of those old days of a common culture, speaking of

00:29:48.420 common TV shows, did you watch The Wonder Years growing up? I did. I watched it in reruns, but I

00:29:54.800 watched it. Great old show about growing up in the 60s and suburbia. Kevin and Winnie, you remember

00:30:02.100 that? So The Wonder Years is getting a reboot. Just like every other show and just like every other

00:30:07.840 movie, they're getting a reboot. And now the family is black. That's the big twist. Not only is it a

00:30:19.160 reboot, but you see, and the family is black. This is evidence of a dead culture. Not because black

00:30:26.280 people shouldn't be on TV shows, but because of the reboot of it with the kind of political twist.

00:30:34.280 That's the evidence of the dead culture. The reboot is the main thing, though. There's Ghostbusters.

00:30:39.140 Ghostbusters is a great movie. And there's more Ghostbusters movies, and they're not as good, but

00:30:42.720 they're fine. And then they're going to reboot Ghostbusters. Okay, well, all right. Can't you think of

00:30:47.900 any new ideas? No? Okay, so you're going to reboot it. You're going to just do it again.

00:30:51.620 But this time, it's with women. Oh, okay. Well, that's not. All right. Why? Yeah, it's with,

00:31:00.700 you're not just going to make a new movie with women. You're going to make, you're going to reboot

00:31:02.960 Ghostbusters. You're going to redo Ghostbusters with women. Yeah, that's what we're going to do,

00:31:06.280 because we have no ideas, but we're also really political and really into identity politics. Okay.

00:31:12.360 And so we're going to reboot The Wonder Years, but the family's black. But hold on. I thought you,

00:31:15.840 I thought the whole point was that the experiences of white people and black people in America are

00:31:20.680 radically different. Isn't that what the left has been telling me for years? And especially,

00:31:24.840 oh my goodness, especially in the 1960s, I thought the experiences were totally different,

00:31:29.040 totally incomparable. Well, okay, maybe what they're going to do here is make the entire experience of

00:31:37.180 the show totally different from what it was for the white people in The Wonder Years. Okay,

00:31:41.500 well, then why are you calling it The Wonder Years? Then it's not a reboot. Then it's,

00:31:44.200 are we just so out of ideas? Are we so both out of ideas and ginned up on identity politics

00:31:50.960 that this is our culture now? Well, then it's not a culture. It's just digging up the old corpses of

00:31:59.860 the past and trying to reanimate them like zombies. They don't only do this on the left. We do this on

00:32:05.280 the right too. When people constantly just quote Ronald Reagan, that would be an example of this.

00:32:11.700 Ronald Reagan was last president in January of 1989. He's been dead for a good many years now.

00:32:20.000 He's been out of public life since the early 90s. Let him lie. He's a good guy. I have a great

00:32:26.800 admiration for Ronald Reagan. Now we have to do our things. We need to enact our political vision.

00:32:33.140 We need to pass our laws. We need to make our TV shows. We need to make our movies, but we can't.

00:32:37.860 We don't. We seem to just be kind of dead and decadent as a culture. Speaking of things that are

00:32:43.980 dead, I got to talk about Jeffrey Epstein. Is he dead? I don't know. Actually, I suppose that's more

00:32:48.920 of an open question. He didn't kill himself. Did he die at all? I don't know. Jeffrey Epstein was

00:32:54.200 friends with very wealthy, very famous, very influential people, one of whom is Bill Gates.

00:32:59.360 And Bill Gates has never really answered for his close association with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:33:06.580 So Bill Gates was on PBS NewsHour. He was asked about Jeffrey Epstein and he got extremely nervous

00:33:13.840 and he sort of started sort of fidgeting and dancing around the question and repeating himself,

00:33:18.560 probably lines that were written up by some crisis communications expert. And then he gave

00:33:23.260 probably the spookiest answer you probably could about his thoughts on Jeffrey Epstein with hindsight.

00:33:29.820 Those meetings were a mistake. They didn't result in what he purported and I cut them off.

00:33:37.980 You know, that goes back a long time ago now. There's, you know, so there's nothing new on that.

00:33:43.920 It was reported that you continue to meet with him over several years.

00:33:47.160 And that, in other words, a number of meetings. What did you do when you found out about his

00:33:55.420 background? Well, you know, I've said I regretted having those dinners and there's nothing,

00:34:04.620 absolutely nothing new on that. Is there a lesson for you, for anyone else looking, looking at this?

00:34:12.040 Well, he's dead. So, you know, in general, you always have to be careful.

00:34:20.000 And, you know, the, you know, I'm, I'm very proud of what we've done in philanthropy,

00:34:25.720 very proud of the work of the foundation. You know, that's, that's what I get up every day and focus on.

00:34:33.440 So I know we've all been joking about how Hillary killed Jeffrey Epstein, but I'm beginning to

00:34:40.880 rethink that. Do you have, excuse me, Mr. Gates, Mr., one of the richest guys in the world and most

00:34:46.580 influential guys for many decades. Do you have any lessons that you have learned or that you think

00:34:51.880 other people should learn from the Jeffrey Epstein experience?

00:34:54.760 Well, uh, he's dead. So, uh, wonder if you got that lesson, everybody, when you implicate old

00:35:04.160 Billy in a crime, well, things don't turn out very well. Now I'm not, I'm not saying that Bill Gates

00:35:10.800 killed Jeffrey Epstein. I'm not saying it, Bill, I'm not, please, please, man, I got a family,

00:35:14.640 please don't. But that is, that is the level of hubris from our ruling class. I'm, I'm really not

00:35:23.520 saying that Jeffrey, Jeffrey Epstein was murdered viciously by Bill Gates in a prison cell in New

00:35:27.820 York. I'm not saying that. What I am pointing out is Bill Gates did not learn a thing. He's making

00:35:37.320 excuses. He's downplaying the relationship, which was fairly extensive. He's trying to deflect. He's

00:35:43.260 uttering the same old lines that some crisis PR guy told him. And, and then the, the nearest thing he

00:35:50.340 has to a lesson that he's learned is that, well, he's dead. Problem's gone. No, no hugging, no

00:35:56.500 learning. It's like the old Seinfeld maxim. No hugging, no, we didn't learn a thing. I'm going

00:36:00.900 to keep doing whatever I want, not changing my mind, but maybe, maybe the people I associate with

00:36:05.980 aren't so savory. Maybe some of the initiatives I'm involved in are a little creepy. Maybe, maybe I

00:36:12.060 should have some humility and not try to rule the entire world. Bill Gates, this is a man who has

00:36:17.840 dedicated his philanthropic career to making sure there are fewer black people being born in Africa

00:36:24.940 is to overpopulation and to, uh, uh, I guess becoming the chief medical expert in the world

00:36:32.940 on coronavirus, Bill Gates, who has the exact same epidemiology degree that I do, namely none.

00:36:38.340 Bill Gates, a man of incredible hubris and a really hideous political vision. You really see it

00:36:44.580 with the overpopulation stuff, this idea that there need to be fewer people and especially fewer black

00:36:49.140 people and especially fewer poor black people in Africa. There's just so many of them. They might

00:36:54.200 breathe too much and, and anger the sun monster. And then he'll send his evil, his, his punishment of

00:36:59.760 global warming upon us. And then we won't be able to have as nice a time on our yacht because it'll be a

00:37:04.380 little too hot on the, on the sun deck. You know, we can't, we can't be having that more abortion for

00:37:09.760 Africa. He, he doesn't see it that way. He doesn't recognize, I don't think, that all of these ideas,

00:37:18.580 all of these political regimes have a religious foundation. So he doesn't, he doesn't recognize

00:37:23.760 the significance of his obsession, notably with overpopulation. And, and if, if, uh, that statement

00:37:31.240 is to be believed, the only overpopulation he's really focused on is the, uh, overpopulation of

00:37:36.240 Jeffrey Epstein still existing, you know, well, he's dead. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Please.

00:37:41.980 I'm kidding. Speaking of very wealthy people, Hunter Biden is about to become even wealthier

00:37:47.360 than he already is. You know, there was that, that video that he himself recorded that was

00:37:51.420 found on one of the many laptops of his that he let get stolen, uh, where he said that he makes

00:37:57.280 like a gazillion dollars, you know, and he makes all this money by selling his father's influence and

00:38:01.500 selling out the United States to Ukrainian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs. So Hunter Biden

00:38:07.320 is now an artist. He's not a very good artist, but he's an artist. I say this, I'm a, a fairly

00:38:13.580 untalented amateur painter myself. I took it up during COVID and I am freaking Caravaggio compared

00:38:20.000 to Hunter Biden. I'm really not good. You know, I'm just like copying things on YouTube, but I am

00:38:24.740 Titian. I am Michelangelo compared to Joe Biden's derelict son. So Hunter Biden's gallerist,

00:38:31.640 George Berger, uh, he has just said that Hunter's paintings could sell for half a million bucks,

00:38:37.060 which would put Hunter Biden, a person with no artistic training or talent in the very top tier

00:38:42.080 of emerging artists, according to Artnet. The thing that sticks out to me here and what,

00:38:50.780 what relates to the Bill Gates story is not even just the hubris. It's, or it's not, not even just

00:38:57.740 the money. It's, it's, it's this, this idea that they can do whatever they want. Okay. This idea that

00:39:03.500 there is no consequence. Yeah. I'm going to peddle my dad's influence. I'm going to make millions of

00:39:07.060 dollars doing it. Come and get me. Yeah. I'm going to pal around with Jeffrey Epstein. I'm never

00:39:11.580 going to answer for it. Come and get me. No, but what are you going to do to me? Yeah. We can be

00:39:15.920 wrong about everything. What are you going to do? What are you, you're going to do nothing because no matter

00:39:19.580 how transparently corrupt we are, we got the power and you don't. Speaking of the corruption

00:39:27.160 of our governments, you remember, we were told the coronavirus is a hundred percent naturally

00:39:35.580 occurring. It has nothing to do with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is right where it

00:39:39.960 was discovered. And it has nothing to do with gain of function research. And it didn't leak from a lab.

00:39:45.500 And how dare you conspiracy theorists suggest that this isn't perfectly normal and occurring in

00:39:51.620 bats. Then we found out, no, it actually not probably, it probably did escape from that lab

00:39:56.940 in some way. And no, it actually was involved in gain of function research. And actually the United

00:40:00.660 States was involved in gain of function research. And actually everything that Dr. Fauci and all the

00:40:04.180 rest of them told us was a lie. So now we're finding out new bombshell report from the Telegraph.

00:40:09.080 Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including British zoologist Peter Daszak of

00:40:14.900 EcoHealth Alliance, were reportedly planning to release, quote, enhanced airborne coronaviruses

00:40:21.680 into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them in the months before the COVID pandemic.

00:40:29.480 The scientists also sought funding from the United States to create chimeric viruses,

00:40:33.540 which are, quote, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily. These were revealed in leaked

00:40:40.400 grant proposals dating back to 2018, which a former U.S. official has confirmed as being authentic,

00:40:47.200 according to the Telegraph. They did it. They lied about it. They were more involved in it than even

00:40:57.800 many people speculated they were. And now they're not going to face any repercussions whatsoever.

00:41:03.540 When Dr. Fauci was asked about the gain of function research and our involvement with the

00:41:06.840 Wuhan Institute, he perjured himself. Senator Rand Paul is now trying to bring him up to some

00:41:12.860 consequences on that. Won't matter. It will not happen. They have the power and we do not.

00:41:19.840 The Republican governors right now, they want to at least seem like they're doing something on

00:41:24.300 immigration. You know, this historic flood of foreign nationals pouring across our border. So what

00:41:30.020 are they doing? They wrote a strongly worded letter to Joe Biden. I'm not joking. Here we go. All but

00:41:37.360 one GOP governor in the United States signed a joint letter to Joe Biden demanding a crackdown on the

00:41:42.280 flood of illegal immigration coming across the southern border. Great. Great. I'm glad the one

00:41:51.100 GOP governor is the one in Vermont. He's not, he's obviously not going to sign it. They're,

00:41:54.360 they're big hippies over there. So that's it. The best we've got is dear Joe Biden, please stop

00:42:00.060 uncle, uncle. That's what, that's basically the libs and the, the establishment has our hand twisted

00:42:07.680 up behind our backs. They're pulling it up toward our neck. And the best that we can do to stop them

00:42:12.060 is yell uncle, please stop, please stop. They're not going to stop. They're not going to stop unless

00:42:17.060 we amass political power and then actually wield it, which very few people seem to want to do.

00:42:21.040 Now, on the topic of wielding political power, you may have heard of the story of Gabby

00:42:25.460 Petito, who was a YouTuber and it, she was murdered and it appears that she was murdered by her

00:42:34.540 boyfriend. It's not totally clear, but it kind of seems that way. So this is a, you know, a scintillating

00:42:41.360 story. It's a very sad story and it's got all these elements of kind of true crime and personal

00:42:45.600 interest. But as a political matter, it doesn't, doesn't matter that much for the national political

00:42:50.320 scene. Well, everyone's obsessed with this story. Governor Ron DeSantis has just ordered state

00:42:55.360 agencies to look for this guy, the boyfriend who's on the lam, who definitely looks like he killed his

00:42:59.980 girlfriend. The, the only political aspect of this now is libs politicizing the focus on the story.

00:43:12.480 So, uh, you've got a Buzzfeed, which is coming out and saying, here is everything we know about

00:43:19.740 Lauren Cho and Daniel Robinson, two missing person cases brought to light by the disappearance of

00:43:25.160 Gabby Petito. And, uh, Lauren Cho and Daniel Robinson are people of color. And you see what,

00:43:30.800 what the Gabby Petito story tells you is that we don't put enough focus. The media does not focus

00:43:36.520 enough on people of color. They only focus on cute little white girls. They've been, so we don't

00:43:42.460 know enough about Lauren Cho and Daniel Robinson. There are many, many other people obviously who

00:43:46.620 have gone missing. And this is absolutely awful because America is so racist. Why won't the media

00:43:51.860 do this? Joy Reid, who is the sort of left-wing Tucker Carlson, uh, without the charm or intellect

00:43:58.620 or rigor. Uh, she's on MSNBC or ratings for that matter. Uh, uh, Joy Reid goes on MSNBC and

00:44:05.580 castigates the media for focusing on this white woman who was viciously murdered and not talking

00:44:12.580 about people of color. The way this story has captivated the nation has many wondering, why not

00:44:18.220 the same media attention when people of color go missing? Well, the answer actually has a name,

00:44:23.700 missing white woman syndrome, the term coined by the late and great Gwen Ifill to describe the media

00:44:30.920 and public fascination with missing white women like Lacey Peterson or Natalie Holloway while

00:44:37.040 ignoring cases involving missing people of color. Yeah, it's awful that the media, the media are

00:44:43.460 focusing on these white people, you know, and they're not in white women specifically in the

00:44:46.680 media. I mean, I hate that media, the media there, they're not focusing on black people.

00:44:51.920 I hate that conservative media, that conservative right-wing Trump supporting. Oh, wait a minute.

00:44:56.360 The libs control the whole media. Joy, you're the media. Buzzfeed, you're the media. You're the

00:45:01.380 media. You are the whole media. I know. I have a show. It's very nice. I appreciate the many people

00:45:06.500 who listen to this show. I know Ben and Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson, they, they have shows too. And

00:45:13.880 they reach, you know, especially Tucker. Gosh, Tucker reaches a few million people a night.

00:45:18.160 That's it. The country's 330 million people. The biggest show on the right reaches what? Three,

00:45:26.380 maybe four million people at the, at the height. The libs control the whole thing, the whole media.

00:45:33.900 Joy Reid could talk about it. She doesn't need to. Joy Reid doesn't need to talk about Gabby Petito,

00:45:37.500 but she's choosing to. Buzzfeed doesn't need to. Now they complain. And this is what they do.

00:45:43.420 They rule with incompetence, mendacity. They rule in this really vicious way. And then when everything

00:45:54.500 goes wrong, who do they blame? Do they take the blame themselves? No, they blame you.

00:45:58.900 They blame you or they just move on or both. That's what they do. That's our regime. That's the people

00:46:10.880 who are shooting rubber bullets at Australian citizens. That's the people calling you deplorable

00:46:16.100 and irredeemable and Bible thumping, bitter clinging rubes. That's the regime. The cause of,

00:46:21.860 they create the crisis. They create the problem. They blame you for the problem. Then they grab more

00:46:28.620 power to solve the problem. They don't solve it. They make it worse. Rinse and repeat. I'm Michael

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