Ep. 852 - Skirt Grabbing & Vaxx Mandates Don't Make You God
Summary
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is demanding that her constituents take the coronavirus vaccine. She calls it an edict from God himself. But what does that even mean? And what does it have to do with politics?
Transcript
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If the separation of church and state ever existed in the state of New York,
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that distinction has been obliterated by the Empire State's new governor, Kathy Hochul,
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who demands that her constituents take the coronavirus vaccine
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and justifies her demand as an edict from God himself.
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We are not through this pandemic. I wished we were, but I prayed a lot to God during this time.
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And you know what? God did answer our prayers. He made the smartest men and women,
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the scientists, the doctors, the researchers, he made them come up with a vaccine.
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That is from God to us. And we must say, thank you, God. Thank you.
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And I wear my vaccinated necklace all the time to say, I'm vaccinated. All of you.
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Yes, I know you're vaccinated. You're the smart ones. But you know, there's people out there
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who aren't listening to God and what God wants. You know this. You know who they are. I need you
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to be my apostles. I need you to go out and talk about it and say, we owe this to each other. We
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love each other. Which God are we talking about here? Because I went to church on Sunday. I tried
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to take my faith Christianity seriously. And I've never read anything about the Fauci-ouchie as a
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requirement of the faith. She says she wears her vaccination status on a little necklace. You
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know, Christians sometimes wear a crucifix or a scapular, but she wears her vaccination status.
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Christians try to be disciples of Christ, follow in the line of the apostles who are apostles to Jesus.
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She says, be apostles to me. Well, this Fauci-ouchie, this is a sacrament,
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not to Christians or Jews or Muslims, but to modern disciples of the cult of public health,
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of progressivism, of politics. According to these leftists, there is no God but science and
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Fauci is his prophet, the science of history, the science of politics. She can make these edicts
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from on high and people must follow them. Now, of course, these very same people reject science
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the moment it involves biological sex or pre-born babies. Governor Hochul is very possibly the most
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pro-abortion governor in the entire country. No, no, the kooky religious talk we're hearing from
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people like Hochul is less the doctrine of some new religion of science than it is the familiar
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superstitions of paganism, replete with the same old sword of shamans and even the child sacrifice.
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But be not deceived. God is not mocked. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Old Schooled. Man, that guy has
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gotten a lot of top comments on this show. He says, if the left actually cared about offering
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immigrants asylum due to horrible living conditions, they would be bringing Australians here by the
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Plainful. That's true. But you can never help the West, even when the West is in the Southeast.
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You can never help Western civilization. It's all about bringing other people into our civilization
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because our civilization is so rotten and we've wronged everybody and we're the cause of all the
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problems on Earth. That's what's going on. But I agree. Those poor Australians need some asylum.
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stuff from her. I have long said, quoting Cardinal Manning, that all politics, all human conflict
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ultimately is theological. All politics boils down ultimately to religion because we're talking
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about morality. We're talking about ethics. We're talking about the relationship of man to his
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community and to his state and to his God, his place in the universe. So obviously, it's going
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to eventually come down to religion. But this lady's taking it to a really crazy extreme, wearing
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her vaccination status like some kind of religious totem. Meanwhile, she's firing hospital staff.
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We're told that we need the hospital staff. We're told that these are the most wonderful people in
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New York. These are the heroes, more heroic than the firemen on 9-11, the nurses and doctors who,
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you know, treated people with the Wuhan cough. But now, after hearing that for 18 months,
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we are being told that the hospital workers are going to be fired because some of them don't want
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to take the Fauci ouchie. We'll be nation leading with our mandate, which strikes at midnight tonight
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when everyone is expected in a hospital in the state of New York or a health care facility to
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have been vaccinated. I will be signing an executive order to give me the emergency powers necessary to
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address the shortages where they occur. That's going to allow me to deploy the National Guard who are
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medically trained, deploy people who've been retired, who may have had a licensed lapse, bring in people
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from elsewhere. That is not my first position, though, my friends. My desire is to have the people
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who've been out there continue to work in their jobs, work in them safely. And to all the other
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health care workers who are vaccinated, they also deserve to know that the people they're working with
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will not get them sick. So we're told that the hospitals are overflowing. We need all hands on
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deck. And we're also told that if you don't get the shot, then we're going to fire you. Why do you
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need to get the shot? Because people need to come in and get their booster shots. Why do they need to
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get their booster shots? Because the vaccine apparently wasn't as effective as we were told that it was in
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the first place. So then why do you need to get the vaccine, hospital workers? Well, because it's so
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extremely effective. Huh? What? Are you sure about that? Well, don't worry. There's no reason to
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hesitate to get the vaccine because the vaccine is extremely safe. Okay. Well, what's the evidence
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that the vaccine is safe? Well, the vaccine is so safe that the FDA won't approve the booster shots
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that we all said that we need because the vaccine isn't as effective as we told you it was in the first
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place. Huh? What? It's not making a whole lot of sense to me. It's not making a lot of sense to me.
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either. This is an exercise as it's been from the beginning, but it's getting clearer by the day.
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This is an exercise in political power. There's not a lot of reason to it. People from the beginning
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have been comparing the coronavirus, the COVID, the public health dictatorship to a sort of religious
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apparatus. I've made this comparison before, but the difference here is that true religion
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is reasonable. These people are not reasonable. They're changing their story every single day
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and they are capriciously wielding power. Now, this is sick stuff. Obviously, it shows you how
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disingenuous the left was when they were extolling the virtues of the healthcare workers and said,
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they don't care about the healthcare workers. They care that people do what they tell them to do.
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And the minute the healthcare workers don't do what they tell them to do, they fire them.
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They put them out of a job. The greatest heroes in the world for 18 months. Sorry, you're on your rear
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end in the middle of the street. Now, why are people going into the hospitals? It's not because
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they have COVID necessarily. A lot of people are coming down with COVID symptoms and they think
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they have COVID, but they're testing negative for COVID. This was a headline just came out from the
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Daily Mail. So the headline is, why are so many suffering dreadful COVID symptoms,
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but still testing negative? Sarah Vine was convinced she had it, but countless tests said
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otherwise and she's far from alone. What is going on? Let's use, is it some grand conspiracy
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and is it, there's the conspiracy regarding the tests or is it, is it because COVID for the vast
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majority of people is just a cough and a headache. And COVID is not the only disease that will give
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you a cough and a headache. It's, we used to call that a cold or the flu or any other number of
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ailments. And people get sick, by the way, people can get, I know this is shocking. People can get sick
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and have it not be the coronavirus. There are, it's weird because the flu basically disappeared last
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year. Everyone had the coronavirus, but nobody had the flu. It's pretty strange, but people can get sick.
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And you know what? It's okay to get mildly sick. It's okay. It's a normal thing. It's not going to
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end the world. If you come down with the sniffles, you'll be fine. We have immune systems. I know that
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we pretend that we don't anymore. We have natural immunity to certain things that we have experienced
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before. I know that we pretend that that's not true anymore, but it's okay. This virus has turned
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the society so much more neurotic than it already was. And it already was pretty bad.
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They just don't understand it. How could people be coming down with the sniffles,
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but they don't have COVID? Because there are other viruses. And maybe if you're confusing your
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common cold with COVID, maybe COVID wasn't as bad as everyone was pretending it was for the vast
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majority of people. Maybe that's the case. I don't know. But the COVID dictatorship marches on and on and
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in Canada right now, the cops are stopping random people on the street. Well, actually,
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I should not say that. It's not random people. They're stopping a specific type of people. And
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it's not based on sex. And it's not based on race. And it's based much more on class.
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You've hit a criminal profile today. Yeah, no, normally people look down the nose at you a
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little bit when you wear high views. But no, not like this, mate. It's pretty odd.
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So they're stopping anyone that obviously looks like a construction worker.
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I find myself going for a walk. Trying to get back to work.
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So you're here for a lawful reason? Lawful reasons always.
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The cops with the guns, just one of them looks at me, just sprints across the road,
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and they just drop me. Or like five on top of me, just smashing me. For no reason.
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So why'd they pull you up? Oh, just for being here, basically. Yeah.
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Are you within your 10Ks? Yeah, I live in South Melbourne. I just walked here.
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They cuffed me. And then five of them held onto me for no reason. And I just said,
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let me go. I'm doing nothing wrong. And they cut it off.
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Being profiled because I'm wearing my tradie outfit. Yeah.
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So this is what's happening. And it's happening throughout the West.
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The people who are being targeted here, it's not on their race or on their sex. It's on their class.
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We are told right now that the primary divisions
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We're especially told that they're racial, but that's not true. You saw that clip. I think I misspoke.
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I think I said it was from Canada. It was from Rebel News, but it was a clip from Australia.
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You'd probably hear that in the accents. Australia is the clearest
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example of where the COVID lockdown dictatorship is going crazy, but it's true broadly throughout
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the West, and it's not breaking down on the sexual or the racial or the partisan lines.
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But that is what we are all told to focus on. I'll give you, there was another big racial incident.
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Okay. This time it was in Atlanta. Someone painted several racist and defensive slurs on a building at
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Emory University in Atlanta. I've spoken at Emory before. It's a pretty left-wing place.
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reported that the Emory Autism Center has become the target of several crimes,
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including burglary and vandalism, including graffiti of racial slurs and swastikas.
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A police report of the incident showed that vending machines had been vandalized, glass had been shattered.
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Quote, the area where racial slurs were reportedly written along the walls are near the workspace
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occupied by two African-American women. A swastika was found in a hallway near a Jewish man's office.
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At the time, the school says, the acts of racism and anti-Semitism are painful for all of us
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at the EAC and in the Emory community. They will not be tolerated, and every effort will be made to
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bring the perpetrators to justice. When I saw this story, without knowing anything else,
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I hadn't seen the picture of the guy who perpetrated it. I looked at that. I said,
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that's a hoax. That's a hoax. That's not a white supremacist. It's not a neo-Nazi.
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It's a race hoax being perpetrated by big libs, by left-wingers, very likely by a black guy.
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You know, I hate to say I told you so, but I was right. It turns out the perpetrator
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is black. He's a black guy. I detail a lot of these incidents in my book, Speechless.
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So many of the high, the majority of the highest profile racial incidents in recent decades turned
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out to be hoaxes. The allegedly oppressed people were the ones who set the whole thing up in the
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first place. Why is that? Well, you can see it in the statement given by this, by the school.
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The acts of racism and antisemitism are painful for all of us. Stop it right there. No, they're not.
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They're pleasurable. These are pleasurable incidents for people who can claim victimhood and therefore
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social currency, and for the ruling class that seeks to divide us. These racial incidents,
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these hoaxes, are extremely pleasurable because it advances their political goals.
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They're painful for the people who are accused of bigotry and racism and whose rights and way of
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life are being taken away as a result of that, but it's pleasurable for the people who benefit from it.
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This is why they so often turn out to be hoaxes, because there is a real advantage to being able
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to claim victimhood. The culture has gone absolutely crazy on race. It has also gone
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crazy on sex. There is a fairly well-respected scientific journal, The Lancet. I quote The Lancet
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and research from The Lancet often on this show. The Lancet just came out with its new cover for its
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latest issue. The cover says, quote, historically, it's just a white background and then you got the
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quote on the cover. Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been
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neglected. What? The conservatives here are outraged because The Lancet embraces transgenderism,
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right? They're saying, well, it's not just women who possess that body part, but it's everybody.
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Men, people who identify as men or non-gendered or this or that or any of the 57 genders. So
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conservatives are outraged that the scientific journal embraces this unscientific concept of
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transgenderism. Feminists are outraged that this journal seems to erase women, right? It's no,
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forget about women, it's bodies with this particular anatomical feature. And furthermore, that it defines
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women by their anatomy. And how dare you? Eyes up here, buddy. I'm more than just my body parts,
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right? The most shocking part though, is that this journal is defining all of us as bodies. This is
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weird. I am not just a body. I can't believe, this is really basic stuff that our culture has gotten so
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stupid on that we don't recognize this anymore. We are more than just our bodies. We are soul and
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spirit too. We're not just meat puppets. We're not just flesh. We have minds, okay? You've got the
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materialist heresy on one hand, which is the idea that we're just meat puppets. Then you've got the
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transgender Gnostic heresy on the other, the idea that our bodies have nothing to do with who we are.
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And then you've got the normal, obvious, common sense, true understanding of human nature, which is
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that we are both. You know, Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is an extremely overrated race hustling author.
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He loves to use this phrase of black bodies. He says the black body is very oppressed as if black
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people don't have souls. No, it's more than that, buddy. We are a human person, but because we are
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so insanely focused on this stuff, on the physical, we lose sight of that. This is actually, it ties in
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with the racial thing. We're so focused on the physical that we think that racism is the only
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evil in the world because our understanding of sin and grace and morality only goes skin deep.
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So the editor-in-chief of The Lancet came out, he sort of apologized, but then he defended it because
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he said trans people face stigma. Transgender health is very important. And of course, he doesn't mean
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fixing the problem or even acknowledging it when a man thinks he's a woman or vice versa. He means
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affirming people in their delusions. This is the state of modern medical science, the religion
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that so many leftists ascribe to, the official religion of the state of New York now, where we
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need apostles of their religion. We need people to wear the religious totems of that religion.
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Speaking of sex, there's a sex story that came out a few days ago that I didn't get to, but I do,
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I don't want to miss it. I do want to get to it because it's a weird one. Chris Cuomo has been
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accused of sexual harassment and he's been accused of this in the New York Times. And I can't believe
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that I, ah, this is really strange. I have to sort of defend Chris Cuomo here. Okay. So this woman,
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Shelly Ross, who is a TV journalist and executive producer at ABC and CBS, she is accusing Chris Cuomo
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of greeting her at a party by grabbing her derriere, ah, in, in 2005. So this is 16 years
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ago. This woman had been Chris Cuomo's boss. She'd been the EP on the show, ah, but then she left. So
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she was no longer his boss and he shows up to this party. One imagines people are throwing back a few
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cocktails here and he grabs her in this kind of grotesque way. He goes up, he greets her, he grabs
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her on the derriere and he says, now, now I can do this. Ha ha ha. And she says, no, you can't.
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Her husband was there. And, uh, uh, so after this party, he apologizes. He sends her an email. It
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says, this is from the article. She's acknowledging this. Now that I think of it, I'm ashamed. I
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shouldn't have even put you in such a position. Uh, please apologize to your very good and noble
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husband. Um, please pass along my apology. I apologize to you as well for putting you in this
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position. Next time I'll remember the lesson, no matter how happy I am to see you. My hearty greeting
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was a function of being glad to see you, but you know, I'm ashamed. Mea culpa. Okay. And she
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obviously accepted his apology, but now 16 years later, she's turning it on him again. This is
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very cynical. It's very cynical. Obviously Chris Cuomo should not have done it. It's a boorish,
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barbaric thing to do. You should not greet women this way, especially not when they are married,
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especially not when you are married. Okay. Nobody says that what he did was right or that what he did
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wasn't wrong. Least of all, Chris Cuomo who apologized for it. And she apparently accepted
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his apology at the time. But now 16 years later, she doesn't like something that he has said or done.
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And so she comes out and says, he sexually assaulted me. That's not about justice. That's
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not about protecting the world from a predator. That's not about showing him the error of his ways
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even because he apologized already. You accepted his apology. It's just about political opportunism.
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It's just about finding someone's sin that he's already apologized for and holding it over him
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to make him do whatever you want for the rest of your life and his life. That's not right. What a
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graceless society we live in, if that's the norm. Really bad for society. If every wrong that you
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have ever committed, and I'm certain that you like me have committed many wrongs, many sins in your
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past. If any of them, even the ones that have been forgiven, can then just be used to attack you,
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to destroy your career, to even get you thrown in prison or something, to get you really accused of a
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serious crime. What kind of society are we living in? It's so cheap. The woman essentially admits in
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this article, yeah, it's not really about justice or my feeling of victimhood. This is just about
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getting Chris Cuomo because he's doing things that I don't like. That's ugly stuff. And we got to call
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back with a whole lot more. There are a lot of illegal aliens in the state of California,
00:25:08.780
or at least there were. But now there aren't any illegal aliens in the state of California,
00:25:15.880
according to the California legal code. This is not because Governor Mussolini has deported all of
00:25:21.680
the foreign nationals in the country. This is because he has taken that term illegal alien out of the state
00:25:28.620
code. Newsom says, as the nation's most diverse state, we are stronger and more vibrant because of
00:25:36.920
our immigrant communities. This important legislation removes the word alien, which is not
00:25:42.380
only an offensive term for a human being, but for far too long has fueled a divisive and hurtful
00:25:48.560
narrative. By changing this term, we are ensuring California's laws reflect our state's values.
00:25:55.440
Only that last part is true. That last part where they say, by changing the term, we now make sure that
00:26:02.060
the state code reflects our values. The value is we don't have a border and we're going to flood the
00:26:05.580
country with foreigners, flood the state with foreigners. But nothing else here is true.
00:26:13.260
As our nation's most diverse state, we're stronger and more vibrant because of our immigrant
00:26:17.120
communities. So when they say diversity, what they mean is, in this case, broadly non-American and
00:26:23.740
specifically non-white. That is the way the term is used on the left and broadly in the culture.
00:26:28.840
And that's a really ugly thing to say, to say that non-white people are much stronger than white
00:26:36.260
people. When there are places with white people, that's bad. And when there are places with non-white
00:26:41.140
people, that's good. That's an ugly thing to say. You might call that racist. That's an ugly thing to
00:26:45.280
say. Next, he says, this important legislation removes the word alien, which is an offensive term for
00:26:51.940
a human being. It's not an offensive term for a human being. It's a very simple clinical term that
00:26:56.020
means foreign, a foreigner. You're an alien. And it's fueled divisive and hurtful narratives.
00:27:05.120
It's racist. No, it's not. It's clear language for a foreigner. But now when those terms are taken
00:27:12.480
away, they'll be replaced by terms like migrant. Well, this is far less clear language because there
00:27:17.540
are legal migrants and illegal migrants. That distinction is being obliterated in the California
00:27:24.560
state code. This is what my book is about. This is what my book Speechless is about. That the left
00:27:32.280
believes that by redefining the words, you can redefine reality itself. And as a practical
00:27:38.040
political matter, often that can be very effective. Whoever controls the words controls the debate.
00:27:46.080
And so now we're not going to debate the propriety of having a bunch of illegal aliens in the state.
00:27:51.080
They're not illegal anymore. They're not aliens at the very least. They're Californians. They're
00:27:56.740
future Americans. They're just, maybe they're undocumented, but that's all. We'll get them
00:28:00.460
documents. They're already doing it. Very effective strategy. And it's not even the most cynical thing
00:28:07.340
the guy's doing in the state right now. Gavin Newsom has also just signed legislation making
00:28:13.600
vote by mail a permanent feature of California elections. He signed Assembly Bill 37, which
00:28:21.940
requires a mail-in ballot to be mailed to every registered voter in the state. This makes the
00:28:26.340
golden state the eighth state in the country to implement this sort of law. So there it is. It's
00:28:32.540
going to be very, very difficult with one of the most corrupt, rife for fraud election practices now
00:28:40.180
as a matter of law in California. It's going to be very, very difficult for Republicans to win
00:28:44.540
elections. No less a leftist than Barack Obama, just in recent years, pointed out that widespread
00:28:52.520
mail-in voting leads to abuse. It can lead to cheating. But the Democrats run the entire state.
00:29:00.920
They've got a perfect lock on the state. And so they institute widespread mail-in votes,
00:29:05.820
automatic mail-in votes. Very hard to see how the Republicans take power back.
00:29:10.180
That's why a lot of people want to stay and fight. But you've also got to know when to have
00:29:16.360
a tactical retreat, okay? And this is why a lot of people are fleeing California for conservative
00:29:20.960
states. Because we need to concentrate our forces where we can win victories if we want to try to
00:29:26.260
win broader national victories in the future. This sort of thing should not be permitted. Widespread
00:29:32.040
mail-in voting. It is just as corrupt as the old political machines of Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed.
00:29:37.200
But that is the law now in California because elections have consequences. We've got to prevent
00:29:44.980
this in places that we currently have some control over. Speaking of election fraud, here's a story
00:29:49.760
that we're not supposed to talk about, but whatever. Let's talk about it. Let's see. Your move,
00:29:54.340
social media platform, so you can kick me off if you want, but I'm just going to read the news here.
00:29:57.540
There was a recount. There was an audit of the recount in Arizona, okay? And the audit established
00:30:07.380
that there were no substantial differences between the hand count of the ballots and the official
00:30:13.860
canvas results for the county in the 2020 election. That's the headline that you are going to see in
00:30:19.440
the news. The audit found that there were no substantial differences between the hand count of
00:30:24.540
ballots and the official count for the county that resulted in the 2020 election. Okay.
00:30:44.480
What happens beyond the headline? The audit established, the hand recount, what happens beyond the headline?
00:30:50.180
There were numerous findings of problems with the election and evidence indicating that tens of
00:30:56.120
thousands of ballots were illegally cast or counted. So some of those ballots should not have been cast
00:31:02.760
in the first place. And some of the ballots, even if they were cast by real people who were eligible
00:31:06.900
voters, should not have been counted because they did not follow the rules for casting the ballots.
00:31:13.460
The review revealed that more than 17,000 return envelopes were duplicates. Maricopa County recorded more than
00:31:22.840
6,545 early voting return envelopes than this reviewing organization determined existed. And 15,035 mail-in votes
00:31:34.340
in Maricopa County were from voters who had moved prior to the registration deadline. Another 6,591 mail-in ballots
00:31:42.300
came from voters who had moved out of Arizona prior to the registration deadline. And 1,718 mail-in votes
00:31:49.020
came from voters who moved within Arizona, but out of Maricopa County prior to the registration deadline.
00:31:56.020
A good reporting on this is in the Federalist right now. So what does this mean? Which headline is to be
00:32:01.660
believed? Did Biden win Arizona or did Biden maybe not win Arizona? Well, yes, it is true that the audit
00:32:08.460
found that there was no substantial difference between the hand count of the ballots and the
00:32:14.840
numbers we were told shortly after the election. But that's not really the question. The question is
00:32:20.120
how many of those ballots were eligible to be cast or counted in the first place? There, just this
00:32:26.480
number, 17,000 duplicate images. Biden didn't even win the state by 11,000 votes. That seems pretty
00:32:33.240
suspect to me. All those other numbers as well. The media are only, the establishment media are only
00:32:40.140
going to give you that statement. The hand recount and the official numbers after the election were
00:32:46.440
basically the same. Okay, but that's not the point. The point is how many of those ballots should have
00:32:51.460
been counted in the first place. And these reviews suggest to me that the answer is far from clear.
00:32:58.680
And if it is clear, it's maybe clear in a different direction. I think that this recount is a vindication
00:33:07.020
of the people who say that there was a lot of corruption. And there are other numbers too. I'm
00:33:10.700
just giving you the top line views. But there's a lot of other shady stuff that was discovered
00:33:14.540
in this audit, in this review. I think the people who demanded the audit and the review were obviously
00:33:21.880
justified in doing so. But one of the problems with these mail-in ballots is that there's very
00:33:29.240
little you can do. It's very difficult to trace these things, to compare these things. It's hard
00:33:34.220
to count them in the first place. That's why we've been so reticent as a country to use them. But now
00:33:38.680
that Democrats think that they can really count on that advantage, they're pushing them very, very
00:33:42.700
hard. So what can we do right now? Probably nothing about the 2020 election. Nothing really is the
00:33:50.200
answer. What can we do right now moving forward? Well, we can, in the states where we have power,
00:33:56.620
we can prevent this kind of stuff from going on. This is something Ron DeSantis is doing in Florida.
00:34:02.340
DeSantis just directed the Secretary of State, Laurel M. Lee, to investigate Facebook for election
00:34:08.500
interference. Governor DeSantis says that recent reports showing that Facebook is impacting the
00:34:16.760
results of state and local elections are, quote, an affront to the basic principles of our republic.
00:34:22.040
So he signs this order. He says, I hereby direct that your office immediately investigate this
00:34:26.180
alleged election interference caused by Facebook through its white listing program and any other
00:34:31.480
previously undisclosed program within Facebook in order to determine whether any violations of
00:34:37.000
Florida's election laws took place. The report that came out showed that Facebook officially
00:34:43.240
does not enforce some of its rules on some of its people. Some elite people get to violate
00:34:50.500
Facebook's community standards and rules, and some people don't. And as we saw during the 2020
00:34:56.360
election, Democrats get favorable treatment. That's just the way it goes. And when there are
00:34:59.660
damaging stories about the Biden family, published, for instance, by the New York Post,
00:35:03.440
those just don't spread on Facebook. You don't get to post them. You don't get to privately message them.
00:35:07.120
And that constitutes election interference. Facebook and especially Google and to a lesser
00:35:12.380
degree Twitter control the public square. What they are doing is by definition a political act,
00:35:18.140
which means in a country that is self-governing, they control the entire political order. And we
00:35:22.880
cannot permit that. And we need to use state power. We need to use the government to stop that.
00:35:29.100
I know this is going to be shocking to people who over the past 20 years have been told that the
00:35:33.560
government is the only threat to our liberty. And we've got to stop big government. We've got to
00:35:38.340
shill for corporations that hate our guts. But that is the wrong idea. If my rights and my way of
00:35:43.380
life are being taken away by some weirdos in Silicon Valley, that does not make me feel any better
00:35:49.580
than if they were being taken away by the government. And the reason we have a political system is so that
00:35:55.220
we can use the government for just ends. Like, for instance, preventing weirdos in Silicon Valley
00:36:02.300
from controlling our politics. Speaking of Florida, speaking of justice, there's a sheriff in Florida
00:36:08.000
right now who seems to understand justice pretty clearly. There is a man who is accused of attempting
00:36:16.600
to kill a cop and critically wounding him and he might not survive. He's not expected to survive.
00:36:21.200
And now he's on the loose. And the sheriff in this town, he said, if this cop killer tries to break in
00:36:31.280
to your home and to your office, you should do everything you can to deescalate the situation
00:36:40.320
and you should take him peacefully into custody. And you should, no, he didn't say that. He said
00:36:43.500
you should blow him away like a rabid animal. And that's true. That's what should happen.
00:36:47.020
Quote, blow him out the door because he is like a rabid animal. The sheriff is Bill Leeper. He was
00:36:54.040
referring to this man, Patrick Rene McDowell, who according to the Northeast Florida Fusion Center,
00:36:58.340
which is part of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agencies. He has military training.
00:37:04.800
He was in the Marine Corps and he shot Deputy Josh Moyers, 29 years old, in the face last Friday.
00:37:10.460
Blow him away. We are told that in order to have criminal justice reform in this country,
00:37:15.700
which is so sorely needed, we need to go easier on criminals and we need to let criminals out of
00:37:20.920
prison and we need to not put them in prison in the first place. And especially if they're black,
00:37:24.020
we need to not arrest them because of historical blah, blah, blah, whatever. And it's really
00:37:28.600
compassionate to let these killers and thugs and criminals just go on the loose. That is not
00:37:34.320
compassionate. That's very cruel. That's cruel to all of the innocent people that these criminals
00:37:38.340
are going to attack. The compassionate thing here is to enact justice. Okay. It's much more
00:37:46.920
compassionate to his potential victims and it's more compassionate to him. This man is not thriving
00:37:51.400
by killing cops. That's not good for him. It's not good for his soul. That's not good for him
00:37:56.280
as a member of society. It is good to bring him into line with justice. We do need criminal justice
00:38:04.060
reform in this country. It's not that we have an over-incarceration problem. We have a significant
00:38:08.860
under-incarceration problem in this country. We need to bring criminals into line. Speaking of which,
00:38:16.800
speaking of our total confusion on this, on the left and on the right, don't forget it was Donald
00:38:22.800
Trump who signed the jailbreak bill. Okay. It was one of the worst things he did in his
00:38:25.620
administration. Overall, I thought he was a terrific president, but that was one of the worst
00:38:29.260
things that he did. And it shows you how deep the rot goes. And even the right believes that we need to
00:38:33.580
let criminals out of prison. That our problem in this country is we're too tough on crime.
00:38:37.500
There is a man named John Hinckley. John Hinckley tried to murder President Reagan in the 1980s.
00:38:47.180
John Hinckley did wound multiple people who were protecting Lincoln, and he permanently paralyzed
00:38:52.940
and shortened the life of Ronald Reagan's press secretary. John Hinckley has just been given
00:39:00.540
unconditional release. Tries to kill the president of the United States.
00:39:08.460
Seriously, grievously arms lots of other people. Now that guy gets to go free.
00:39:14.880
John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to kill Reagan, won the unconditional release from his
00:39:19.320
state-mandated supervision on Monday. The DOJ agreed to a deal with Hinckley's attorney. Federal
00:39:24.780
judge accepted it. He will live his life without court-ordered restrictions and mandated supervision
00:39:30.080
of his doctors. Hinckley's attorney says there is no evidence of danger whatsoever. It's a momentous
00:39:35.760
event. This is compassionate, isn't it? I don't know that it's compassionate. So first of all,
00:39:43.100
the only reason this could happen is because Hinckley was found criminally insane. So he was,
00:39:48.920
it's not that he was just a criminal. He was also insane. And so he didn't go to a normal jail. He was
00:39:53.060
committed to an insane asylum. Okay, then he's got to stay there. He's lucky. He got to avoid jail time.
00:40:00.360
But then he's got to stay in the insane asylum. He's crazy enough to try to kill the president.
00:40:04.220
And he tried to kill the president because he was in love with Jodie Foster, which adds to the
00:40:08.860
kookiness. Now we're told it's really compassionate to let him out. It's not compassionate to let him
00:40:14.440
out. He's a nut. By his own admission or his lawyer's own admission, he's a nut. So the reason
00:40:21.000
we have insane asylums in the first place, or at least we used to, is because it's not compassionate
00:40:25.740
to let crazy people live in squalor on their own. It's not compassionate. We should do this now on
00:40:32.900
the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco and New York. We let crazy people live in filth on the
00:40:36.740
streets and in danger on the streets. That's not compassionate. That's cruel. And it's based on
00:40:42.540
the false understanding of liberty on the left, which says that liberty is just doing whatever
00:40:46.580
you want. But also on the right, this idea of leave me alone. You do you. Who cares? It's not my
00:40:53.300
problem. If crazy people are going to live on the street, they're a danger to themselves and to others
00:40:57.100
and they're going to live in filth. That's not my problem. It is your problem. You live in society.
00:41:01.000
This is your country. What kind of country do you want to live in? Is this, is this compassionate to
00:41:06.380
the family of Ronald Reagan? Is this compassionate to the family of the people this guy did kill over
00:41:12.840
the long term, like Brady, the press secretary, or to the people that he grievously injured? I don't
00:41:17.640
think so. Incoherent stuff. Now, speaking of old politicians, there is a politician who has been in the
00:41:27.040
United States Senate since before Ronald Reagan was inaugurated for the first time. That man's name is
00:41:33.860
Chuck Grassley, senator from Iowa, oldest Republican in the Senate, 88 years young. He's served for seven terms
00:41:41.940
already. And he just announced that he's running for reelection. Hey there, I'm running for reelection.
00:41:48.800
It's the right thing to do for Iowa. I have an unpopular opinion because everyone's saying,
00:41:54.500
oh, he's too old. We need term limits. We need to stop these old people from running for office.
00:42:00.860
I have an unpopular opinion, but here it is. I love that he's running for reelection. I think that's
00:42:06.140
great. Good for him. He's relatively, relative compared to other senators, he's relatively quite
00:42:12.960
a stalwart conservative on pretty important political issues. He has stood up at crucial
00:42:19.100
moments, not at every moment, but at crucial moments he's stood up. He's obviously still
00:42:23.160
pretty fit. He's far more coherent than Joe Biden, even though he's got 10 years on Joe Biden.
00:42:27.440
Good for him. I'm glad he's doing it. And if he does step down at some point,
00:42:32.420
they'll just appoint another Republican to take his place. It won't be any sort
00:42:36.120
of bruising election there. And if he gets to be 94 and he runs for election again,
00:42:44.520
or I guess he'd be what, 95? I don't know. He'd be up there. Then good for him. By the end of his
00:42:51.140
next term, he'll be a hundred something years old. Good for him. I think it's fine. I'm pretty
00:42:55.960
against term limits. The reason I'm against term limits is because term limits do not empower the
00:43:01.920
people. They empower the staff members and the lobbyists and the bureaucrats.
00:43:06.120
Okay. The senators are supposed to be elected by the states. Then the 17th amendment changed that
00:43:10.780
they're elected directly by the people, which did change for the worse our system of government or
00:43:16.720
checks and balances. But then the people elect the senators. Nobody elects the bureaucrats. Nobody
00:43:21.140
elects the permanent staff of the committees. Nobody elects the lobbyists. And those are the people who
00:43:25.980
are going to have more power, the less power that the senators have. So I think fine. Chuck Rassley is
00:43:31.360
basically a good Republican senator. Good for him. We're not supposed to like him in no small part
00:43:37.820
because he's an old white man and old white men are the worst people on earth, according to our
00:43:41.620
modern culture. Well, speaking of famous old white guys, the new group of white men who are being
00:43:49.340
canceled are, it's not the Republican senators. It's not the conservative celebrities. It is the,
00:43:57.580
the Jedi from Star Wars. It's like Luke Skywalker. They're the ones who are being canceled.
00:44:05.820
There's a piece out called why the term Jedi is problematic for describing programs that promote
00:44:11.960
justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. So the social justice warriors have been referring to
00:44:17.400
themselves as Jedis, you know, comparing themselves to the Star Wars heroes because of justice, equity,
00:44:23.900
diversity, and inclusion. But this article says, no, they're not because the Jedi, they're,
00:44:28.900
they're straight white men and they're actually defending the patriarchy and whatever. I mean,
00:44:34.100
this is a largely, it's Star Wars has a problematic cultural legacy that has been critiqued for
00:44:40.360
trafficking and sexism, racism, and ableism. And, you know, Princess Leia in that bikini was too sexy.
00:44:47.080
So that's bad. And it's got, there's an Orientalist subplot and it's, oh my gosh. Do you know where
00:44:53.120
this article was written? You would expect it to be written in the most radical left journal, right?
00:45:00.240
Mother Jones, Salon.com, I don't know. This article comes from Scientific American.
00:45:07.960
Scientific American. It brings us right back to the top of the show. The way that science
00:45:13.440
has been twisted in our culture is to be a religion. But some religion is true. The difference here is
00:45:25.540
that science is being used to promote a false religion, this false, weird, creepy, kooky shamanism
00:45:30.500
where we all have to be disciples and apostles of Dr. Fauci and the mayor of, the governor of New York
00:45:36.920
and the libs. And the doctrines of science are not permanent fixed laws. They're just
00:45:43.360
capricious whims of the various shamans of this religion. And they change day by day by day. This
00:45:50.880
is what science means. And I know a lot of right wingers say, well, look, I defend science, but I
00:45:54.800
don't support scientism or I support science. I want to follow the science. It's, science doesn't mean
00:46:00.360
that anymore. Okay. The left is redefining that word too, to try to redefine reality. This is a
00:46:06.100
strange, creepy cult on the left. And we are not going to win by playing along with their premises.
00:46:13.320
We are going to have to talk about more basic things in our politics. Justice, true liberty,
00:46:22.260
tradition, the way of life, what it is that we want to preserve. Okay. That is what we need to offer.
00:46:29.100
The left has a very aggressive religious view and it sweeps up a lot of people. What vision
00:46:37.220
are we offering? If the only vision we can offer is, hey, leave me alone. Hey, you do you. Let's,
00:46:44.500
let's all just do whatever we want to do. If that's, if that's the vision we're offering,
00:46:48.020
we're going to continue to lose. I'm Michael Knowles. This is Michael Knowles. We'll see you tomorrow.
00:46:51.500
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00:47:53.880
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00:47:59.080
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00:48:03.440
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00:48:08.080
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