The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 868 - Hypersonic Nuclear Missile Vs Transgender General

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00:00:37.680 A man without any military experience has just become our nation's first female four-star admiral. 0.81

00:00:45.400 According to the news media, Dr. Rachel Levine has become the nation's first female four-star admiral.

00:00:54.800 The only problem with those news reports is that he is not a four-star admiral, and he isn't a female, and he isn't Rachel.

00:01:03.560 He's Richard.

00:01:04.480 But our news media and our government have little to do with reality these days.

00:01:09.180 So according to them, Dr. Levine has just shattered the glass ceiling.

00:01:14.120 You go, girl.

00:01:15.400 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:16.220 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:17.080 Welcome back to the show.

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00:03:07.020 Levine, Rachel Levine, as he is now called, but whose real name is Richard Levine, is a man who believes that he is a woman and he is the assistant secretary for health.

00:03:20.300 That fact alone is an indictment of our country.

00:03:26.980 Okay, I don't want to be mean here, but this is a very, very confused individual.

00:03:32.420 And this very, very confused individual who is deluded about very basic aspects of reality is the assistant secretary for health in the United States.

00:03:42.760 And no longer just the assistant secretary for health, but technically a four-star admiral.

00:03:48.420 Now, this is a little bit confusing because you're, you know, you're, you're expecting, when you think of an admiral, you think of John McCain Sr. or something like that, right?

00:03:57.160 You're, when you think of an admiral or a general, you're thinking of MacArthur or Patton.

00:04:01.900 But, but Mr. Levine is an admiral in the U.S. Public Health Services Commissioned Corps.

00:04:09.300 So this is much more an honorary title than it is, you know, this guy storming the beaches of Iwo Jima or something.

00:04:16.920 Uh, he is the nation's first openly transgender four-star officer across any of the eight uniformed services, the five military services, and then, then the other ones.

00:04:27.920 Uh, this according to an HHS press release, Health and Human Services.

00:04:31.960 And what they also say is, quote, today's historic announcement builds on the accomplishments of LGBTQ plus history month and is a major step forward as we work to create a more inclusive society.

00:04:43.900 So, uh, Dr. Levine is not being given this title because of anything he has done.

00:04:50.860 You can read it just in the press release.

00:04:52.740 He's being given this because of what he represents because he identifies as a woman and this is part of the LGBTQ umbrella.

00:05:01.720 And this month, and I know this part's confusing too, is also LGBTQ month.

00:05:07.120 Now, you might have thought, Michael, I thought LGBTQ month was back in June, back when we had all the pride parades.

00:05:11.680 That month is also LGBTQ month. 1.00

00:05:14.240 So, we now have a full one-sixth of the year dedicated to unusual sexual desires.

00:05:20.940 I assume there's going to be a third month added at some point in the near future.

00:05:24.840 Pretty soon it will just be LGBTQ year. 1.00

00:05:28.680 And it'll just be every single month of the year.

00:05:31.580 Dr. Levine, for his part, says, quote,

00:05:33.340 I am humbled to serve as the first female four-star officer of the U.S. Public Health Service and first openly transgender four-star officer across the Uniform Services.

00:05:44.920 This is a momentous occasion and I'm pleased to take this role for the impact I can make for the historic nature of what it symbolizes.

00:05:51.900 May this appointment be the first of many like it as we create a more inclusive future.

00:05:56.360 We are living in clown world, folks.

00:05:58.140 This is not something that a serious society does.

00:06:02.360 But we are no longer a serious society and we no longer have even the tenuous grasp on reality that we have in recent years.

00:06:08.940 That's gone.

00:06:09.920 That's totally severed.

00:06:11.200 When you have a dude as the first female four-star officer, and it's not even like really a four-star officer, it's a public health role.

00:06:19.340 You've lost the thread.

00:06:20.520 You've lost it.

00:06:21.300 And it's not, it's no knock on him.

00:06:24.280 He's a confused person who should receive help, but it is a knock on us because that is not inclusive or diverse or equitable or compassionate to anybody when you have a society that is living in lies and fantasy and delusion.

00:06:42.060 And it's also disrespectful even of this guy because as even he is acknowledging his appointment has basically nothing to do with his accomplishments or his unique abilities.

00:06:52.280 And it has everything to do with the fact that he mistakenly believes himself to be a woman.

00:06:59.100 Also, what about the women? 0.82

00:07:00.800 What about the women?

00:07:01.780 Wouldn't it be nice if a woman were the first female whatever? 1.00

00:07:05.460 Don't you?

00:07:05.800 I mean, you would think.

00:07:06.860 You would think that if women deserve anything, the women deserve to be the first woman whatever. 1.00

00:07:12.060 But they're not.

00:07:12.740 Now the men are the first women whatever. 0.99

00:07:15.980 Margaret Atwood, who is the author of, what is that awful?

00:07:19.880 Handmaid's Tale.

00:07:21.000 So Margaret Atwood wrote Handmaid's Tale, and that's what the TV series is based on, this dystopian future in which women are oppressed and everything's terrible.

00:07:29.960 Margaret Atwood has come out and questioned some of this madness, some of this transgender madness. 1.00

00:07:37.260 Not directly speaking to Dr. Levine or any of these people individually, but just retweeting a column.

00:07:45.400 It was in the Toronto Star.

00:07:47.260 Headline is, why can't we say woman anymore?

00:07:50.100 We're not allowed to say woman.

00:07:51.480 We have to refer to person with a cervix.

00:07:54.500 We need to refer to person who menstruates.

00:07:56.940 We need to refer to birthing people, but we're not allowed to say woman.

00:07:59.800 And Margaret Atwood says, hold on, wait, why can't we say woman?

00:08:06.460 You know, what this shows is something ironic.

00:08:10.160 It's something conservatives have known for a very long time, but the libs have deluded themselves as they want to do.

00:08:14.880 Which is that the real handmaid's tale, by which we mean the real oppression of women, such as it is, does not come from the right.

00:08:23.740 It doesn't come from conservatives.

00:08:25.180 It doesn't come from Christians. 0.99

00:08:26.540 It comes from the libs.

00:08:28.080 It comes from the libs, who are, in this case, erasing women from the public square and giving women's jobs to men and pretending that men are women. 0.86

00:08:38.120 But it's been going on for a long time from the left side of the political equation.

00:08:43.540 It's been going on since the second wave feminists said a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, at least since that time. 1.00

00:08:51.500 Just look at the public opinion surveys.

00:08:53.620 It's very difficult to measure happiness, and I'm skeptical of social science, but every survey of women's happiness since this gender-bending second wave of feminism has shown that women's happiness has declined.

00:09:09.240 It has not increased.

00:09:10.060 It's declined, both relative to the happiness of men and in absolute terms.

00:09:15.300 Why is that?

00:09:16.260 Because it turns out that having men behave, or having women, rather, behave like men in the workplace, in their personal relationships, in every aspect of society, doesn't actually make women happier.

00:09:29.600 The lib view of men and women, going back at least to the second wave feminists and really earlier, is that men and women are identical.

00:09:38.320 The conservative view of men and women is that men and women are complementary.

00:09:41.380 So, in the lib view, the only differences between men and women are superficial.

00:09:48.240 Any differences that may result in society between men and women are obviously the result of oppression, and women need to just do whatever men do. 1.00

00:09:57.280 The Christian conservative view is that men need women, and women need men, and we go together, and that's what forms the family, and that's what forms society, and it's a wonderful thing.

00:10:08.140 And there will never be a war between the sexes, because everyone is sleeping with the enemy.

00:10:11.720 It's the Christian view, and it happens to be correct. 1.00

00:10:15.640 And it turns out that that view, the idea that men and women are different, is actually not the oppressive one.

00:10:20.340 The oppressive one comes from those who would deny the differences between the sexes.

00:10:25.240 Speaking of men taking jobs from women, Pete Buttigieg remains on paternity leave.

00:10:31.320 I think he might be winding it down, though, because he's getting a lot of negative flack for this.

00:10:34.660 So, Pete Buttigieg goes on CNN, he goes on Jake Tapper's show to address the preposterous fact that he has been on paternity leave for two months amid a major transportation crisis.

00:10:47.220 And he says he's not going to apologize.

00:10:50.200 This is the first time you've been on the show since you and your husband, Chaston, welcomed twins, Penelope and Joseph, into your family.

00:10:57.400 You just returned from paternity leave, which Congress is debating right now.

00:11:01.480 Now, some conservatives have been citing your experience in an effort to mock the very idea of paternity leave.

00:11:08.740 Take a listen.

00:11:10.680 Pete Buttigieg has been on leave from his job since August after adopting a child.

00:11:15.620 Paternity leave, they call it, trying to figure out how to breastfeed. 1.00

00:11:17.880 No word on how that went.

00:11:19.700 What's your response?

00:11:21.080 As you might imagine, we're bottle feeding and doing it at all hours of the day and night.

00:11:27.380 And I'm not going to apologize to Tucker Carlson or anyone else for taking care of my premature newborn infant twins.

00:11:39.180 The work that we are doing is joyful, fulfilling, wonderful work.

00:11:45.000 It's important work.

00:11:46.100 And it's work that every American ought to be able to do when they welcome a new child into their family.

00:11:52.260 It is joyful work.

00:11:55.120 It is important work to raise a baby.

00:11:57.140 It is.

00:11:58.240 And families should do that.

00:12:02.780 Cabinet secretaries don't get to play stay-at-home mom forever. 1.00

00:12:07.100 They don't get to do it.

00:12:08.800 You can do either one.

00:12:11.340 You can either be a cabinet secretary and do your job, or you can play stay-at-home mom.

00:12:16.380 You can't do both.

00:12:17.260 You actually can't have it all.

00:12:18.620 I agree with Buttigieg.

00:12:19.840 Frankly, I think that being a mom and raising a baby and being the hand that rocks the cradle and rules the world,

00:12:26.900 I think that's much more important than being the transportation secretary.

00:12:30.600 Okay, I actually don't think it's that cool or great a thing to be the transportation secretary.

00:12:34.960 But if that is your view, then quit, buddy.

00:12:37.660 Because someone does actually have to do that job.

00:12:40.080 So quit.

00:12:40.720 Let somebody do that job.

00:12:42.020 And you can play stay-at-home mom and play with your kids.

00:12:45.960 And that's fine.

00:12:47.260 That's a great...

00:12:47.700 But you can't have it all.

00:12:49.160 And it's not just Buttigieg.

00:12:51.340 It's a lie that our society has told ourselves that we can do everything.

00:12:55.280 We don't have to make any sacrifices.

00:12:56.980 And we never have to have any limits or make any choices.

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00:14:13.580 Speaking of babies, the CDC has just accidentally admitted that abortion is infanticide.

00:14:23.380 How did they do this?

00:14:25.180 Well, the way they did that is by admitting that an unborn baby is, in fact, a baby.

00:14:31.880 The left tries to pretend now that unborn babies are not babies.

00:14:36.400 They say, oh, it's a fetus.

00:14:37.820 They don't know that the Latin word fetus means offspring.

00:14:40.940 It means baby.

00:14:41.800 They'll say, it's an embryo.

00:14:43.800 Okay, well, what is an embryo?

00:14:45.140 An embryo is a small little baby.

00:14:46.940 It's a, they'll use kind of silly terms that they don't even really know what they mean.

00:14:50.440 They'll say, it's a zygote.

00:14:51.660 A zygote meaning that very earliest version of an embryo, which no babies that are aborted

00:14:59.580 really are.

00:15:01.380 But they'll say, but sure, it's a baby.

00:15:03.420 It's a baby.

00:15:03.880 It's a baby.

00:15:04.200 It's a baby.

00:15:04.520 So the CDC tweets out, quote, did you know that after receiving a Tdap vaccine during

00:15:10.420 pregnancy, your body creates protective antibodies and passes some of them to your baby before

00:15:15.720 birth?

00:15:17.820 Yes, we did know that.

00:15:19.600 But what does this mean?

00:15:21.340 It means that your baby is a baby.

00:15:24.780 And it's not just a baby after birth.

00:15:26.280 It's a baby before birth, which means that if your baby is a baby before birth, then killing

00:15:31.320 that baby is infanticide.

00:15:33.320 This is not very sophisticated logic here, folks.

00:15:36.400 We're talking really basic stuff.

00:15:38.020 And I think the reason the CDC tweeted this out, and I think the reason that it hasn't

00:15:44.300 gotten more play, is that everyone knows, at least on some level, that babies are babies.

00:15:52.520 And we like to delude ourselves, and we like to deny it.

00:15:55.740 I mean, this is the thread that's running through our entire culture now, is just a deep level

00:16:00.160 of denial based on preposterous ideologies that have no relation to reality.

00:16:04.720 But I think we all know, deep down, that the baby actually is a baby.

00:16:09.040 This is why, in at least many states, if you kill a pregnant mother, you are charged with

00:16:14.240 double murder.

00:16:16.600 But if that mother goes to an abortion clinic and a doctor kills that baby, it's not. 0.97

00:16:21.780 It's a wonderful choice.

00:16:23.080 It's a wonderful, free, reproductive health, women's rights choice.

00:16:26.440 But it's the exact same action.

00:16:28.340 And the same action can't be two contradictory things at the same time.

00:16:33.180 And the CDC, follow the science, the great authority of the CDC, is admitting that this

00:16:39.780 is the case.

00:16:40.380 And the question for us, politically, is, okay, we know the science, we know that the baby

00:16:45.040 is a baby, and anyone who's being honest with himself will admit that.

00:16:49.560 So what are we going to do about it?

00:16:51.020 Naomi Wolf, the feminist, but at least she's something of a more honest feminist, Naomi Wolf 1.00

00:16:56.640 came out some years ago and said, look, we need abortion, and abortion's good, and we 0.96

00:16:59.880 should support abortion, but we need to admit that we're killing a baby in his full humanity,

00:17:03.200 and we're doing it for the autonomy of women, so that we can pretend that men and women are

00:17:07.980 exactly the same, and they won't have any unique constraints or limits or responsibilities.

00:17:13.600 So, okay, at least that's a somewhat honest argument.

00:17:16.080 The left can't bear that argument because it's so deeply immoral.

00:17:19.720 So they pretend otherwise.

00:17:21.380 But I think the first step to recovering from a problem is admitting that you have a problem.

00:17:27.080 Okay, the first step is acknowledging reality, and we're pretty far gone there, so I think

00:17:31.920 that's the first thing we've got to establish.

00:17:34.420 Speaking of kids, Terry McAuliffe.

00:17:38.560 Terry McAuliffe, the former governor of Virginia, wants to be the future governor of Virginia.

00:17:45.100 He's a Democrat of the very slimy Clinton model.

00:17:48.380 I wouldn't call him the most idealistic Democrat. 0.90

00:17:52.220 He's just a kind of a sleazeball, corrupt politician, has very little respect for his constituents.

00:17:59.400 Terry McAuliffe got in trouble because Terry McAuliffe said that kids should not have any 0.77

00:18:05.040 say, or that parents, rather, should not have any say in their kids' education.

00:18:09.460 Take a listen.

00:18:10.420 You said you don't believe parents should be telling schools what to teach.

00:18:13.980 What did you mean by that?

00:18:15.080 Well, first of all, parents should be telling schools that they want their teachers to be

00:18:19.700 vaccinated.

00:18:20.760 Do you think parents should have a say in the curriculum?

00:18:23.860 You don't want parents coming in in every different school jurisdiction.

00:18:27.920 You alluded to parents staying out of this.

00:18:30.900 We just want to make sure that we're understanding you correctly.

00:18:33.880 What is your stance on that as far as what school agendas have to say for the kids?

00:18:39.320 First of all, this is determined by the State Board of Education and local school boards.

00:18:44.340 And that's where it should be.

00:18:45.880 Do you still stand by your position that parents should not tell the schools what they should

00:18:50.980 teach?

00:18:51.580 You do not want 25 parents picking books.

00:18:55.180 Recall us, reply.

00:18:56.420 We have a board of ed and we have local school boards who make the decisions about teaching.

00:19:01.540 I'm not going to let parents come into schools.

00:19:03.920 I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.

00:19:06.400 I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.

00:19:10.080 There you go.

00:19:10.980 OK, so that's an ad from Glenn Youngkin, who is the Republican running against McAuliffe.

00:19:14.660 McAuliffe could not possibly be clear.

00:19:16.400 He said it on multiple occasions in multiple places.

00:19:18.800 Parents should have no say in how their kids are brought up and how their kids are educated

00:19:22.680 and what their kids are learning.

00:19:24.520 That one line is very possibly going to cost him this election.

00:19:29.720 Virginia is a blue state.

00:19:32.080 Terry McAuliffe has already been the governor there.

00:19:33.940 And yet they're running a pretty tight race right now.

00:19:37.580 And it's because of this line because it turns out parents don't like being told that they

00:19:41.000 have no role in bringing up their kids.

00:19:43.240 So now what is McAuliffe doing?

00:19:45.500 He's denying that he ever said it.

00:19:47.560 As parents, Dorothy and I have always been involved in our kids' education.

00:19:51.920 We know good schools depend on involved parents.

00:19:54.900 That's why I want you to hear this from me.

00:19:57.280 Glenn Youngkin's taking my words out of context.

00:19:59.920 I've always valued the concerns of parents.

00:20:02.420 It's why, as governor, we scaled back standardized testing, expanded pre-K, and invested a billion

00:20:08.800 dollars in public schools.

00:20:10.420 I'm Terry McAuliffe, candidate for governor.

00:20:12.320 And I sponsored this ad because working together, we can give our kids the education they deserve.

00:20:19.080 What?

00:20:20.440 Did you not listen?

00:20:21.700 Maybe he didn't listen to the first clips where he says parents should not be involved

00:20:26.340 in the kids' schools.

00:20:27.320 Parents should not be picking books.

00:20:28.600 The State Board of Education should pick everything.

00:20:30.540 Absolutely, the parents should have no role here in the schools.

00:20:34.380 Glenn Youngkin, my opponent is taking my words out of context.

00:20:38.280 What context?

00:20:38.780 There were like 10 contexts, and they all said the exact same thing.

00:20:42.300 I love parents.

00:20:43.720 It's good for parents to be involved.

00:20:45.200 Please vote for me.

00:20:46.120 Please.

00:20:46.500 I didn't realize.

00:20:47.280 My comments are out of context.

00:20:49.980 Out of context is increasingly the way that Democrats try to wiggle out of lies.

00:20:57.420 Okay, when you catch a Democrat in a lie, they'll try to weasel out of it.

00:21:05.160 Look, a lot of people try to weasel out of lies in politics, but Democrats in particular

00:21:08.480 get a little cover here because they control the media and the education system and the

00:21:12.640 fact checkers and big tech.

00:21:14.320 So they've got a lot of cover to kind of weasel out of lies and twist everything.

00:21:19.160 But when you've got them dead to rights, do you know what they say?

00:21:23.520 They say it's missing context.

00:21:24.780 And you see this in all of the quote unquote fact checker left wing outlets, and you see

00:21:28.720 it in all of the little warning signs on on big tech posts when a Republican catches

00:21:34.960 a Democrat in a lie.

00:21:36.040 They'll say, no, it's missing context.

00:21:38.180 And the context is you shouldn't worry about this because the Democrat is good.

00:21:42.980 The context you're missing is Terry McAuliffe good, Glenn Youngkin bad.

00:21:47.540 So you might think because you're listening to the words of Terry McAuliffe that that maybe

00:21:52.380 he's bad and Youngkin's good.

00:21:53.860 But the context you're missing is Democrat good.

00:21:57.920 That's it.

00:21:58.640 What other context could there be here that that they're missing?

00:22:01.060 Nothing.

00:22:01.860 Terry McAuliffe is lying.

00:22:03.960 You can see it.

00:22:05.260 You listen to the words yourself.

00:22:07.880 But the question is, do the libs have enough of a lock on the media and on the power structure 0.90

00:22:14.600 that he'll be able to get away with it?

00:22:17.540 Speaking of schools, there's a story very few people are talking about, but I think

00:22:21.120 it's important because it gets not just to this battle between the Dems and the Republicans

00:22:24.500 or the libs and the conservatives or whatever.

00:22:26.360 It gets to a kind of structural problem in our system.

00:22:30.820 Public schools in Baltimore right now are monitoring student activities using software that recognizes

00:22:36.940 certain words and phrases and then alerts school officials that a student might be, in

00:22:42.240 this case, contemplating suicide.

00:22:44.260 So it's not that the school is looking for students, you know, typing in some naughty

00:22:49.000 words to look at images they shouldn't be.

00:22:51.980 It's not that the schools are monitoring students looking for other naughty words that are suggesting

00:22:56.760 that students are looking at political websites that they shouldn't be, right?

00:23:00.840 It's not even that.

00:23:01.420 It's specifically on this issue of suicide.

00:23:04.140 Now, the Baltimore Sun is calling the system controversial and pointing out they were added

00:23:08.300 to laptops during the lockdowns when the students were using school laptops at home.

00:23:15.840 And now some people are pushing back against it.

00:23:17.480 Some people are fine with it.

00:23:18.500 And the issue doesn't cut exactly down party lines.

00:23:21.840 I don't think this issue is quite so simple as privacy versus safety, much like I don't

00:23:27.260 think our debate over free speech or political correctness really is so simple as free speech

00:23:32.100 versus censorship.

00:23:34.640 For starters, if you're going to use the school laptop, you're going to have to deal with the

00:23:38.380 school surveillance.

00:23:39.140 He who pays the piper calls the tune.

00:23:40.560 Now, also, kids need some breadth to make mistakes and explore some crazy ideas and recognize

00:23:50.500 that everything a kid types into a search bar is not something that they're seriously

00:23:54.060 considering or seriously going to do.

00:23:56.260 Kids also, however, need supervision, right?

00:24:00.360 And so I just think this is a great issue to show.

00:24:03.140 And also, it's not like kids have absolute total rights against their teachers coming in

00:24:08.480 and controlling what they do.

00:24:09.420 The teachers are standing in the place of the parents.

00:24:12.540 That's part of their job.

00:24:13.660 And they're helping to educate and raise the kids.

00:24:15.460 And that involves some degree of coercion.

00:24:17.080 I think what is helpful here is not ideology, not five bullet points on a napkin, not just

00:24:22.560 these slogans, privacy versus surveillance.

00:24:24.340 I think what's important here is prudence, okay?

00:24:27.880 What are the schools looking at?

00:24:29.940 What are they trying to stop?

00:24:31.420 What are the limits?

00:24:32.420 I think if conservatives engage in this issue, but really in politics broadly, from less a

00:24:38.060 perspective of these absolutes, these slogans and bumper stickers, and we get a little

00:24:42.220 bit more prudential.

00:24:43.220 What issue?

00:24:43.920 Let's not talk about vaccines in general.

00:24:46.140 Let's talk about this vaccine.

00:24:47.260 Let's not talk about lockdowns in general.

00:24:48.600 Let's talk about this lockdown.

00:24:49.560 Let's not talk about surveillance in general.

00:24:51.760 Let's talk about this specific surveillance.

00:24:53.120 I think we're going to have a much better argument to make and a much better chance at winning.

00:24:59.000 You know, Ben is going to be talking today about how to defeat the authoritarian left.

00:25:03.880 That's the title of his show, so go check that out today.

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00:25:15.520 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:25:16.560 You may have noticed that things cost a little bit more money these days.

00:25:33.240 Gas costs more.

00:25:34.300 Eggs cost more.

00:25:35.180 Milk costs more.

00:25:36.100 You may have noticed it's harder to get the things that you want to get.

00:25:38.500 The stores are increasingly bare, and the authorities are telling you, get ready, because

00:25:46.260 the stores are not going to be that well-stocked.

00:25:48.700 You might not be able to get Christmas presents for your kids.

00:25:52.320 Well, the Washington Post is here to tell you to stop complaining about that.

00:25:57.520 This was an amazing opinion piece from Micheline Maynard in the WAPO.

00:26:03.560 Headline, Don't rant about short-staffed stores and supply chain woes.

00:26:11.420 Goes on to set up the issue and says,

00:26:14.420 American consumers, their expectations pampered and catered to for decades, are not accustomed

00:26:23.120 to inconvenience.

00:26:27.480 Customers' persistent whine, why don't they just hire more people, sounds feeble in this

00:26:33.180 era of the great resignation, especially in industries such as food service with reputations

00:26:38.500 for being tough places to work.

00:26:40.300 Rather than living constantly on the verge of throwing a fit and risking taking it out

00:26:44.520 on overwhelmed servers, struggling shop owners, or late-arriving delivery people, we do ourselves

00:26:49.000 a favor by consciously lowering expectations.

00:26:53.160 Okay.

00:26:53.680 So first, just in general, it's always good to be polite to people.

00:26:57.700 It's always good to be charitable and compassionate.

00:27:01.760 That's not what this column is saying.

00:27:03.820 What this column is saying is just the latest and most extreme expression of something that

00:27:10.940 the left has been telling us for decades.

00:27:14.580 Lower your expectations.

00:27:17.840 Lower your expectations.

00:27:20.340 Don't do as much.

00:27:22.540 Don't drive as much.

00:27:23.360 It'll harm the environment.

00:27:25.240 Don't work as much.

00:27:27.720 It's bad to work.

00:27:29.260 Stay home.

00:27:30.120 Don't worry.

00:27:30.920 Use government programs.

00:27:32.520 Don't expect the same political rights you once had.

00:27:36.380 We can't have that anymore.

00:27:37.840 You're going to lose some of those political rights.

00:27:40.160 Don't expect as prosperous a future as we once had.

00:27:43.140 Look, the 20th century, there was a lot of prosperity in America.

00:27:46.160 You're not going to get that anymore.

00:27:48.040 Don't expect the same freedoms that you once had.

00:27:50.440 Don't expect, just lower your expectations.

00:27:54.180 This is the cry of a regime that knows that it's in trouble.

00:27:57.820 The regime saying, stop criticizing us.

00:28:00.700 Stop questioning us. 0.95

00:28:03.480 Just shut up and deal with it, okay? 0.89

00:28:05.920 And don't raise any questions of it. 0.96

00:28:07.400 This is the best things could possibly be.

00:28:09.420 Everything's right.

00:28:10.100 We've made all the right decisions.

00:28:11.360 So even though everything's falling apart around you, just know that you have no right

00:28:15.000 to criticize us.

00:28:18.040 This reminds one of the Soviet Union, doesn't it? 0.56

00:28:22.220 Obviously, the gas lines and the food shortages.

00:28:26.240 I mean, that very directly reminds one of the Soviet Union.

00:28:29.820 And it raises some questions about the stability of our regime.

00:28:33.500 There were three big ideologies in the 20th century.

00:28:37.780 Fascism, communism, and liberalism.

00:28:41.440 And fascism was the first one to fall.

00:28:43.400 That one fell after the Second World War.

00:28:45.760 Communism was the second one to fall.

00:28:47.380 That one fell after the Cold War.

00:28:48.780 And then we were told that liberalism has won.

00:28:51.740 We have reached the end of history.

00:28:53.620 Liberalism is going to be the dominant ideology in perpetuity until the earth fizzles and the

00:28:59.140 sun explodes.

00:29:01.840 We were told that about 30 years ago.

00:29:04.520 And only 30 years later are we seeing liberalism begin to crack up a little bit.

00:29:10.960 The timing is pretty interesting.

00:29:12.260 You have fascism destroyed in the 1940s.

00:29:16.060 Then 40 years after that, you have communism destroyed in the 1980s.

00:29:20.440 And now, 30 to 40 years after that, you're seeing liberalism having some real problems

00:29:27.720 here.

00:29:29.120 So what does that mean?

00:29:31.280 It means that we haven't really reached the end of history.

00:29:33.820 It means that we haven't reached the final technocratic utopia where we can suspend everybody's

00:29:38.960 political rights and the ordinary process of politics where we debate things and figure

00:29:42.540 out how we want to run our country and what we want to do.

00:29:46.040 And it means that maybe we're going to have to change course.

00:29:49.380 The one thing I know right now is that anyone telling you that we should just keep the status

00:29:55.900 quo, whether they are on the left or even some people on the right, the ones who regurgitate 0.99

00:30:00.140 the same stupid platitudes from 30 years ago, the people who tell you just keep doing 0.99

00:30:04.720 the status quo, everything is fine, nothing is abnormal, nothing's going wrong. 1.00

00:30:09.520 We don't have any food on the shelves and gas is going through the roof and we no longer

00:30:13.620 have faith in our elections and our secretary of health is a man who thinks that he's a

00:30:17.120 woman.

00:30:17.800 But everything is totally normal and fine and your kids are learning radical racial ideologies 0.59

00:30:23.080 in schools and that little boys can be little girls and the family is collapsing.

00:30:28.360 And but don't question anything because the status quo is perfect.

00:30:33.380 If you're hearing that from someone on the left or on the right, I think you got to stop

00:30:38.500 listening to that person because that person has fallen all the way into ideology and is engaging

00:30:47.300 in a kind of delusion that is not going to help us fix our problems here in reality.

00:30:52.520 What are we doing about the supply chain problem?

00:30:54.760 Well, if you ask the White House, if you ask our inept ruling class, they'll scoff at the very

00:31:00.320 question.

00:31:00.880 Just a question on the timing on the supply chain issue.

00:31:05.240 Yeah.

00:31:06.140 Actions that the president has taken.

00:31:07.920 It was clear in March of 2020 when COVID hit that the supply chains across the world have

00:31:13.760 been disrupted.

00:31:14.320 Even as as the sort of work to fight back against COVID proceeded people, it was it was crystal

00:31:21.100 clear that things were not improving on supply chain.

00:31:23.300 People couldn't get dishwashers and furniture and treadmills delivered on time, not to mention

00:31:29.660 all sorts of other things.

00:31:31.380 So why is it tragedy of the short, the treadmill that's delayed, the tread, right, the tragedy

00:31:36.320 of the treadmill that's delayed.

00:31:37.680 That's what's going on.

00:31:38.460 Right.

00:31:38.640 Families who are going to struggle to heat their homes this winter, people whose money is

00:31:42.360 not worth what it once was, where inflation is going through the roof.

00:31:45.640 People who can't afford to buy things at the grocery store, can't afford to buy their kids

00:31:48.980 Christmas presents, can't afford to fill up the car.

00:31:52.940 It's just the tragedy of the, of the late treadmill, right?

00:31:58.340 And what, what Psaki is implying here is that the supply chain issues and the inflation, it's

00:32:03.180 a high class problem.

00:32:04.040 This is what the White House chief of staff said, Ron Klain.

00:32:05.780 Of course, the opposite is true.

00:32:07.240 Not only does inflation not disproportionately hurt the rich, it disproportionately hurts the

00:32:14.320 poor.

00:32:14.820 And this has been true for a very, very long time.

00:32:17.980 This is pretty ugly.

00:32:20.300 I don't think this is going to play very well in Virginia or anywhere else in 2022 or even

00:32:25.380 2024.

00:32:26.160 This flippancy, this glibness.

00:32:29.000 Oh, it's not a big deal.

00:32:29.880 Oh, come on, suck it up. 1.00

00:32:30.940 Oh, stop it.

00:32:31.500 We're doing great.

00:32:32.780 How dare you criticize what we're doing?

00:32:35.180 Here's what I know.

00:32:35.800 Before, before Donald Trump was sort of backed into a corner, I think, and allowed Dr. Fauci

00:32:45.000 and the libs to shut down the world. 0.84

00:32:46.780 It's not as though Trump shut down the world.

00:32:48.300 It's, he kind of, he allowed it to happen, but he wasn't exactly pushing for it.

00:32:52.440 And he was trying to end that, that lockdown early.

00:32:54.480 And then a lot of Republican governors did end the lockdowns early.

00:32:57.040 But before that, things were going pretty great under Trump.

00:33:01.360 They actually were improving.

00:33:03.000 Manufacturing was improving.

00:33:03.920 The economy was improving.

00:33:04.800 Real wages were growing for the first time in a very long time.

00:33:07.560 We were defending the American border, at least early on when, when we thought that was possible

00:33:11.780 before the court struck down a lot of, of those protections.

00:33:14.820 The international relations were improving.

00:33:16.880 We were winding.

00:33:17.360 Things actually were getting better in a very basic way.

00:33:20.880 And under Biden, things actually are getting worse.

00:33:23.440 They're getting worse on the economy.

00:33:24.540 They're getting worse on foreign policy.

00:33:25.860 They're getting worse across the board.

00:33:28.060 Okay.

00:33:29.060 And there needs to be a consequence for that.

00:33:32.660 You know, I don't think you need a PhD in, in political philosophy or foreign relations

00:33:37.000 or economics to just recognize when things get better under a certain set of policies and

00:33:42.640 things get worse under another set of policies, we should use the former policies.

00:33:46.460 We should defer to that.

00:33:47.480 But the people who are pushing the bad policies refuse to acknowledge it.

00:33:52.240 Okay.

00:33:53.100 And they'll laugh and they'll mock the question.

00:33:56.940 You're seeing this ruling class constantly moving the goalposts and they never have to

00:34:02.840 answer for it.

00:34:04.400 You know, we, we are told follow the science, trust the experts, do whatever they want.

00:34:08.520 There was an incredible video that was put together.

00:34:10.880 I didn't put this together, but someone put this together, put it out on Twitter,

00:34:14.080 pointing out that the ruling class has been walking back its claims, just specifically about vaccine

00:34:23.740 efficacy, one percentage point at a time.

00:34:29.580 So now we have two vaccines that are really quite effective.

00:34:33.300 The mRNA vaccine, highly effective, extraordinarily efficacious, 94 to 95% for mild to moderate disease

00:34:43.820 and virtually efficacious.

00:34:44.820 Okay, here we go, 94 to 95%.

00:34:46.380 Okay, study finds, highly effective.

00:34:50.340 You see all these headlines, 100% effective, 100% effective, 100% effective, 100% effective,

00:34:54.320 and all of these, now 96.6, now 95, now 94.

00:34:59.080 You just see all of these headlines popping up, now 90, now 89, now 88, now 87, now 86, and

00:35:06.040 you can find it.

00:35:07.000 Just Google any number, percent vaccine effect, now 58, now 56.

00:35:13.820 Now, it just keeps going down, now 51, now 50, oh my, 47.

00:35:20.620 They just, 40, 39, 38.

00:35:27.240 Now you'll need an extra booster, now you'll need an extra booster, now you'll need, you

00:35:30.920 can Google, I'm sure the way, I'm sure the way that this person put this video together

00:35:36.300 was he just Googled vaccine effectiveness followed by every single percentage point,

00:35:42.440 and you will find a news article for just about every single one.

00:35:46.380 Now, that seems pretty weird, doesn't it?

00:35:47.980 I guess the vaccine could become less effective the longer you've had it, but then why not

00:35:55.140 tell you that from the very beginning?

00:35:56.480 From the very beginning, we were told 100% effective, and then just every day just about

00:36:01.800 it became less and less and less, and they're just going to keep moving the goalposts again.

00:36:04.600 They're going to tell us, well, once you get the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh jab,

00:36:08.540 then it's 100% effective, but it won't be, and there'll be no answering for this.

00:36:12.740 And by the way, even after the coronavirus, they're just going to keep up the public health

00:36:18.520 dictatorship on some other pretext.

00:36:22.620 You're seeing this right now with the allegedly conservative leader in the United Kingdom,

00:36:27.260 Boris Johnson, who has come out and said, look, okay, this COVID thing, it's bad, and that's

00:36:31.460 why we took all this power and locked everyone up and took away their rights. 0.86

00:36:34.720 But, you know, COVID's going to go away, and actually, there's a far greater danger around

00:36:39.020 the corner.

00:36:40.160 We face a challenge that is even bigger for humanity, a threat to our way of life that

00:36:44.800 is ultimately far worse than COVID.

00:36:47.880 In just a couple of weeks, the world will assemble in Glasgow, and I hope that many of you, all

00:36:54.720 of you, will be there, because the lesson of COVID is absolutely clear.

00:37:01.460 We have to listen to the scientists.

00:37:04.160 They're very often right, you know.

00:37:06.900 We need urgent government action, but we must mobilise the markets.

00:37:13.320 We must bring in the private sector, because I can deploy billions, with the approval of

00:37:18.620 the Chancellor, obviously.

00:37:20.260 But you, you in this room, you can deploy trillions.

00:37:25.680 Indeed, I'm given to understand that there is $24 trillion represented in this room.

00:37:32.340 And we need to do, this is an existential threat from the sun monster.

00:37:36.960 My British accents have really not been good in recent weeks, but that's the argument he's

00:37:41.480 making.

00:37:42.340 This is the allegedly conservative leader.

00:37:44.300 Oh, COVID is really bad, and that's why we upended society and standards and took everyone's

00:37:48.340 rights.

00:37:48.520 But once that goes away, it's climate change.

00:37:52.540 That's the big one.

00:37:53.780 And notice what he's saying here, too.

00:37:54.960 He's saying, it's not just enough for the government to focus on this.

00:37:58.540 The quote-unquote private sector needs to as well.

00:38:01.220 The corporatist, public-private partnerships, we all need to push the same radical agenda

00:38:07.340 that takes away people's rights, takes away their traditions, upends their way of life,

00:38:12.100 and tells them to lower their expectations of what they can do, where they can go, how

00:38:18.240 they can behave.

00:38:20.480 And it's never going to end.

00:38:22.500 And some of us have been telling you from the very beginning of the lockdown and the

00:38:27.200 epidemic on COVID that this is never going to end.

00:38:30.420 It won't really be 15 days.

00:38:31.660 It's going to go on forever and ever until we take that power back.

00:38:35.420 And people have said, oh, it's a conspiracy theory.

00:38:37.480 Oh, you're just worried.

00:38:38.580 Oh, you're hysterical.

00:38:39.840 Don't.

00:38:40.340 Well, there it is.

00:38:41.140 There's Boris Johnson telling you, and he's not even the lib candidate.

00:38:45.520 He is ostensibly the conservative.

00:38:48.420 It's not really right versus left here.

00:38:50.100 It's the whole system.

00:38:51.680 You are seeing a crisis of the regimes.

00:38:55.380 It's sometimes called neoliberalism.

00:38:57.980 But that's where you're seeing the crisis.

00:38:59.880 It's not just one party or another.

00:39:01.320 I'm all for owning the left, and I'm all for smacking down and destroying the Democrats

00:39:06.780 or whatever.

00:39:07.460 But it's really bigger than that.

00:39:08.980 It's really the whole system.

00:39:12.700 Meanwhile, when you look outside of the West, the situation is even bleaker because our

00:39:20.360 enemies, the people who are challenging our global hegemony, the people who come from different 1.00

00:39:26.480 cultures in a different civilization are eating our lunch.

00:39:30.200 Speaking of foreign nations and trusting the experts, China has just launched a hypersonic missile that can be fitted with a nuclear warhead.

00:39:42.640 And what this means, in layman's terms, as I understand them, I'm no rocket scientist myself, is that you've got some missiles that can fly through the air.

00:39:51.740 And then you've got some missiles that can fly up and up and up higher, so it's a little easier to move, and then it comes back down, right?

00:39:57.960 And you have missile defense systems to deal with these.

00:40:01.840 But then you've got some missiles that go way, way up, really, really high, where they can then fly, you know, outside the intense pull of Earth's gravitation.

00:40:11.940 They can fly really, really far distances, really, really quickly, and then come right back down and hit their target, even if their target's on the other side of the world.

00:40:19.360 And missile defense systems are not particularly effective against this type of warhead, and China just tested one.

00:40:26.100 They tested a drive-by, you know, trial nuclear missile, and it was quite effective. 0.99

00:40:37.140 We are here in the United States, are worried about germs, and germs that, by the way, China sent to us. 0.98

00:40:46.440 And we are here in the West, broadly, worried about the sun monster and trying to shut down our way of life because of the sun monster.

00:40:55.300 And we are here in the West throwing parties for ourselves to celebrate the fact that a man is the first woman admiral, even though he's never been in the military a day in his life, and how wonderful this is.

00:41:07.220 And creating, now, multiple months to celebrate people's sexual desires and diluted gender identities.

00:41:16.640 And we're just so happy about it.

00:41:18.140 And we just, man, we couldn't, we couldn't pat ourselves on the back any harder.

00:41:21.460 I'm going to have a bruise on my back from how much I'm patting myself on the back here in the West.

00:41:25.480 Meanwhile, while we are twiddling our thumbs and worse, our enemies are testing out hypersonic missiles.

00:41:33.820 Hey, White House, hey, Jen Psaki, what do you think about this development that our number one enemy is testing out these extraordinary weapons that could pose a serious threat to our interests and even to our nation?

00:41:48.180 What are we supposed to do about that, Jen Psaki?

00:41:50.040 Can you comment on reports that China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile over the summer to the surprise of U.S. officials?

00:41:58.300 Are they accurate, and do you raise concerns about China's nuclear capabilities?

00:42:03.200 Well, I know General, Secretary Austin, I should say, was asked this question this morning and addressed it, but I'm not going to comment on this specific report.

00:42:11.600 I can say, and would echo what he said, which is generally speaking, we've made clear our concern about the military capabilities that the PRC continues to pursue, and we have been consistent in our approach with China.

00:42:25.240 We welcome stiff competition, but do we not, we don't, do not want that competition to veer into conflict, and that is certainly what we convey privately as well.

00:42:32.440 We welcome stiff competition.

00:43:02.420 This kind of talk, it sounds like it's just more of the same glib and flippant talk that we've become accustomed to from Jen Psaki, and to a degree, I suppose it is, but it's deeper than that.

00:43:14.460 It comes from the rot of this liberal regime that believes that people don't really go to war all that much, and that people don't really have fundamentally opposing interests and cultures, but that we're all just trying to make a buck.

00:43:27.800 Look, and once we get some more jobs and iPhones for people in Afghanistan, they're going to stop warring against one another. 0.84

00:43:34.940 That's what Barack Obama told us.

00:43:36.160 Once we open up a few more markets, once we send a few more movies over there to China, once we buy a few more sneakers from their Nike factories, we're not going to go to war.

00:43:47.280 We don't, we don't, look, we're all just trying to make a buck.

00:43:49.160 We won't, it's just the free marketplace of ideas, the free marketplace of literal markets.

00:43:55.680 We just, we just welcome that stiff competition.

00:43:57.900 I do not welcome nuclear competition from our chief enemy, okay?

00:44:01.660 I don't, at least I don't.

00:44:03.520 I guess I view the world a little bit differently.

00:44:05.580 These are not serious people.

00:44:07.700 Jen Psaki and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg and all the rest of them, they are not serious people.

00:44:14.300 They are living in a fantasy land.

00:44:16.120 Biden, in particular, has spent the last 30 years cheering on the rise of China.

00:44:20.580 As recently as, what, 10 years ago, he applauded the rise of China, the entrance of China into the World Trade Organization,

00:44:28.440 the entrance of China, really into the world marketplace.

00:44:32.020 Oh, it's wonderful.

00:44:32.920 A rising tide lifts all ships, right?

00:44:34.640 Well, I don't know.

00:44:36.180 Looks like our ship is possibly going to capsize if we don't stabilize it.

00:44:41.980 No, it's great.

00:44:42.860 It's wonderful.

00:44:43.580 We're going to take six months paternity leave during, during a, take 10 months.

00:44:49.400 Why would you come home?

00:44:50.300 You're doing that joyful work of staying at home with your baby.

00:44:54.380 So why would you have to come in and run our ship of state?

00:44:58.420 Why does, Joe Biden doesn't need to campaign.

00:45:00.200 He doesn't need to pay attention really to anything at all.

00:45:02.940 Why, why do we need to do any of it?

00:45:06.280 Jen Psaki doesn't need to give real answers to the American. 1.00

00:45:08.760 We don't need to do any of it.

00:45:09.840 We're all just pretending.

00:45:11.100 And we're, we're being told that delusions are compassionate and that there's nothing

00:45:16.760 more wonderful and, and charitable than, than pretending that it's not, that, that national

00:45:24.600 security threats are not a threat or pretending that hordes and hordes of migrants being brought 0.94

00:45:29.440 over by criminal cartels are, that's not a problem.

00:45:32.160 And enforcing our laws is not a big deal.

00:45:34.660 And pretending that men are women, that's totally fine. 0.99

00:45:39.140 We're being told that's not, that's actually compassionate to live in those lies.

00:45:42.380 Well, the consequence of living in those lies is that your civilization collapses.

00:45:45.620 Okay.

00:45:45.920 The consequence of living in lies is that people who are more in touch with reality are going

00:45:53.100 to eat your lunch.

00:45:54.520 And that's what's going on right now.

00:45:57.040 In this country, we can no longer even reliably conduct our own elections.

00:46:04.180 Stacey Abrams just came out. 0.96

00:46:06.240 We're going to run a little late, but I've got to play the clip.

00:46:08.080 Stacey Abrams just came out to once again, suggest that she is the legitimate governor

00:46:13.000 of Georgia.

00:46:14.040 Just because you win doesn't mean you're one.

00:46:18.360 We've got folks who were ready to take back what they think is theirs, but they are not

00:46:23.060 entitled to our progress.

00:46:24.920 They are not entitled to our justice.

00:46:27.620 They are not entitled to our votes.

00:46:30.060 But either we use them or we lose them.

00:46:35.020 I come from a state where I was not entitled to become the governor.

00:46:38.980 But as an American citizen and a citizen of Georgia, I'm going to fight for every person

00:46:42.660 who has the right to vote to be able to cast that vote.

00:46:45.140 And here in Virginia, you need to cast that vote for Terry McAuliffe.

00:46:48.500 She's saying, just because you win doesn't mean you really win.

00:46:53.100 I was not entitled to be governor.

00:46:54.360 She's pushing this whole thing that the election was rigged. 0.99

00:46:56.880 Now, I was reliably informed that if you question election results, you're an insurrectionist

00:47:01.300 terrorist threat to our democracy.

00:47:04.340 So these are obviously whenever people bring up January 6th or the insurrection, whatever,

00:47:08.080 I mean, just mock them, just laugh at them.

00:47:09.820 They don't, they're not being serious.

00:47:11.440 They're being very disingenuous.

00:47:12.960 But furthermore, it's worth pointing out that since at least the year 2000, if not sooner,

00:47:18.700 we have not been able to conduct elections where we trust the results.

00:47:22.120 The left didn't trust the results in 2000.

00:47:24.640 The right, the left also didn't trust the results in 2016.

00:47:27.840 The right didn't trust the results in 2020.

00:47:29.900 That is a joke.

00:47:31.520 And if we just keep pretending that everything's going fine and everything's normal and stop

00:47:34.940 complaining and the status quo is great, we are going to see the rot progress and progress

00:47:39.560 and progress.

00:47:40.000 The first step to fixing a problem is admitting that you have one.

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00:48:37.020 Netflix employees stage a walkout in protest of Dave Chappelle's comedy show as the CEO

00:48:41.600 of the company begins to cave.

00:48:43.200 Also, Jen Psaki has a good laugh over the supply chain crisis. 1.00

00:48:46.620 Texas passes a bill banning biological males from female sports, and the media reacts in

00:48:51.300 predictable fashion.

00:48:52.420 And is there systemic racism in the zookeeping community?

00:48:56.060 The Washington Post says there is.

00:48:57.440 We'll discuss that important issue and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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