Ep. 873 - The Unvaxxed Second Class
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As 15 days to slow the spread enters its 590th day, rulers around the world are becoming more brazen and open about the political goals of this public health lockdown. In New Zealand, the prime minister is now openly admitting her ultimate goal, which is a new form of segregation.
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As 15 days to slow the spread enters its 590th day, rulers around the world are becoming more
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brazen and open about the political goals of this public health lockdown. In New Zealand,
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the prime minister is now openly admitting her ultimate goal, which is a new social hierarchy,
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a new form of segregation. So you basically said this is going to be like, well, it's almost like
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you probably don't see like this, the two different classes of people. If you're vaccinated or if
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you're unvaccinated, you have all these rights. If you are vaccinated. That is what it is. So,
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yep. That is what it is. You got to give her points for honesty. All societies have hierarchies. Okay.
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Sometimes the hierarchies are according to class, sometimes according to race, sometimes according
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to money. In America until very recently, it was according to merit. Now the hierarchy depends
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entirely upon your compliance with the whims of the ruling class. On the bright side, though,
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as the left is showing its true colors, the right is becoming increasingly less cowardly,
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at least in a few places, willing to take off the kid clubs to fight back. I'm Michael Knowles.
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Text Michael, M-I-C-H-A-E-L to 64,000. You want to talk about brazenness? You want to talk about
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boldness? The way the ruling class here in the United States, especially, is just wielding its
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power? Hunter Biden. Yes, Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden, you know, he's that great artist. He started
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painting about five minutes ago. Now he is one of the highest grossing artists in the world.
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His art dealer is a man named George Berger. Oh, wow. Doesn't that sound just like an art dealer?
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George Berger, the art dealer for Hunter Biden, was photographed on Thursday wearing a hat from
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Camp David. Camp David is the presidential retreat. That's the place where the president and his family
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go to relax, the sort of private place for the president. So we've been told that Hunter Biden's
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art career, which has existed for exactly five minutes, has absolutely nothing to do with Joe
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Biden. It has nothing to do with peddling influence, has nothing to do with bad actors around the world
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trying to curry favor with the sitting president. Hunter Biden's getting half a million dollars for
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his doodles just because people really like them or something. And so his art dealer is wearing a hat
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featuring the symbol of the presidential retreat. Now, where did he get the hat? Did the art dealer go
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to Camp David? I don't know. Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't. That would be kind of a scandal if he did
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actually go there. Did he get the hat from Hunter or Joe Biden? I don't know. It'd be pretty scandalous
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if he did that. Did he just have the hat made on his own? He's never been to Camp David. He just had
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it printed up on a website. Very possibly that's still a scandal because the signal that he is sending
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out there is I am close to the president. I'm so close to the president that I go to his private
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retreat. Want to buy this artwork? Half a million bucks for some doodles. But imagine the influence
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that will buy you. And what are we doing about it? What do conservatives do about this? Well, I'll tell
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you what they do. Here's a news report just came out yesterday. On Monday, a group of GOP members of
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the House Judiciary Committee fired off a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding he fully
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and unequivocally withdraw some memo that he had written. I'm really not criticizing members of
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the House of Representatives here. Okay. They're doing pretty much all that they can do. But I have
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to tell you, I am really, really sick of headlines about Republican lawmakers sending other people
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letters. I am breaking. Republican sends letter to his political opponents. Breaking. The opponents
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have to read the letter. Oh, wow, guys, was the letter strongly worded? Oh, boy, that's going to
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show him. God, how is Merrick Garland going to recover from that? You sent him a letter. Oh, boy,
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the Biden administration's on the ropes, man. They're getting letters from the House.
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They're getting letters from the Senate. Oh, boy, their afternoon is going to be ruined,
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depending on what adjectives you put in that letter. Not going to do anything, of course.
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So what are we supposed to do? I'm really not beating up on the House members here because they
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just don't have any power. So they can hold hearings that don't matter, and they can write
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letters that also don't matter. What we need to do if we want to affect politics beyond hurting
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Merrick Garland's feelings with strongly worded letters is we need to win elections, and then we
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need to fire lots of people, lots of Democrats in the bureaucracy. Then we need to replace them
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with our people, and then we need to wield power and exercise that power.
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Strongly worded letters and a buck 50 will get you a cup of coffee. That's actually not true.
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In Trump's America, strongly worded letters and a buck 50 would get you a cup of coffee. In Joe
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Biden's America, you need like six or seven bucks because inflation is through the roof. And there's
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nothing you can do about it, Republicans, unless you win elections and kick out all your opponents
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and fill those positions with all your supporters and then wield the power. Okay, but we don't really
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tend to do that very much. What happens is we occasionally win elections, and then we don't do anything
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other than cut taxes, which is not going to help us retake our country. Now, the strongly worded
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letter in this case was focused on Merrick Garland's decision to target the concerned parents who have
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been showing up to school board meetings. Okay, so the DOJ, the attorney general, had sent out this
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letter accusing parents who show up to school board meetings of being domestic terrorists.
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And so the Republicans don't like this. So what we need to do is not just write strongly worded
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letters. We need to win the elections and stop this because what the parents are doing
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is far more important and effective than what most elected Republicans are doing. And speaking of those
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schools, by the way, that issue is working for Republicans. There was a new poll just came out
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from Suffolk and USA Today. It was a poll of likely Virginia voters. It was a poll on the approval
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numbers for Joe Biden. Joe Biden won Virginia by 10 points in 2020 over President Trump. Right now,
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Joe Biden's approval rating is underwater by 10 points in Virginia. Just 42% of Virginia residents
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approve of Joe Biden's performance. 52% disapprove. Voters between the ages of 18 and 45 and voters 65 and
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older were much more disapproving of Joe Biden than voters who were in the middle, 46 to 65.
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So Joe Biden's margin of victory in Virginia was the largest for a Democrat in Virginia since FDR in
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1944. Some of that might have to do with the way that they changed all of the voting measures.
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What was the issue that mattered most to people? The issue that mattered most to people,
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according to this poll, is the economy. That's almost always the case. 39.6% of the people
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responding said it was the economy. So obviously Joe Biden is screwing up there. What's the second
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biggest issue for people? Education. I said it yesterday. You know I hate to say how right I am.
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It pains me. It's hard to do it. But I said yesterday, this education issue is a huge winning
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issue for Republicans. Second only to the economy right now. So run on it. You're seeing Glenn Youngkin,
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the Republican candidate for governor, running on it right now against Terry McAuliffe,
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the once and future governor, the guy who's trying to take his job back. Terry McAuliffe running on a
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platform of parents have no right to go to their kids' school boards. Parents have no right to
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influence the curriculum. We need to run on this. This is a great issue. Okay? This is bad news for
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Terry McAuliffe in Virginia in the short term, but let's learn this lesson. Don't just focus on the
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stupid corporate tax cuts. Don't just focus on allowing the schools to teach whatever they want.
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And yes, critical race theory is bad, so we shouldn't make it mandatory, but it should be an
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option. And we should expand the curriculum and include also... No, just ban it. Just ban it.
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DeSantis is doing this very effectively in Florida. Kick the stuff out of the classroom.
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Fire the bad teachers. Fire the bad superintendents. Get a little bit tough.
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The liberal establishment right now is trying to cover up corruption in schools. There was an
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incredible piece in the Washington Post. Do I have the... No, I don't have the story itself. All you
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really need, though, is the tweet about the story. Okay? So this is the Washington Post covering the
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Loudoun County story. That's the story of a young girl who was raped in a bathroom by a dude who
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sometimes wears a dress, who pretends that he's a girl sometimes because of the stupid transgender rules
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in the bathrooms in Loudoun County. Here is the tweet from the Washington Post.
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A teen testified that she met a classmate for consensual sex in the girls' bathroom of a Loudoun
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County high school before, but in a May encounter, she was sexually assaulted. New details in the case
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at the center of a firestorm. In other words, she had asked for it.
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The Washington Post's hot take on a story that they refused to cover that we broke,
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that the Daily Wire broke, about a girl being raped by a dude in a girl's bathroom at a school
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with transgender bathroom policies. Their hot take is, she had asked for it.
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Absolutely insane. Absolutely insane stuff coming from our rulers right now. I mean,
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story of a young girl, of a 15-year-old girl getting raped by a dude who sometimes wears a skirt in the
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girl's bathroom. They frame it as, well, they had had sex before. They had had sex before. So,
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so it was his right to have sex with her again. Now, obviously the Washington Post is sick and
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shameless. This is a disgraceful take on the story. It does raise these questions. So let's answer
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these questions. One, does previously consensual sex excuse raping someone? The Washington Post seems
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to think perhaps we would say no, it does not. There is another question here, which is these kids were so
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young. They had had a relationship before. What led to this? I won't go into the details of what
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went on in this encounter, but it was as bad as it possibly gets, okay? Short of killing the girl,
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it was as bad as it possibly gets. How old is the kid? 14, 15 years old? What led him to this?
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What factors led to this? I would strongly suspect that this kid is looking at hardcore porn, right?
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I mean, I suspect about 99% of teenage boys are looking at hardcore porn. It's everywhere. There
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are no safeguards on it and boys are curious and their hormones are going crazy. Some of the acts
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that he performed on this girl, I strongly suspect he first discovered in the ubiquitous hardcore porn.
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Should we maybe regulate that? I know the kind of squish answer is no, we can never regulate that.
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It seems to me probably we should. I'm not, just as I'm not blaming the victim like the Washington
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Post is, I'm not just blaming porn, but there are factors that led to this. Maybe we should regulate
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that. Maybe that's something conservatives need to take up. Speaking of crime and punishment though,
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violent crime is surging in Minnesota. It's surged over the past year. It's up 17% total,
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setting records for murders. Ilhan Omar's take on this. Got to blame the cops.
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What we must also recognize is that the reduction in policing currently in our city and the lawlessness
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that is happening is due to two things. One, the police have chosen to not fulfill their
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oath of office and to provide the public safety. They are owed to the citizens they serve, right? It's
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documented. But even before that, it was documented. The Minneapolis police department is the most
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dysfunctional police department in our state and probably in the country.
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Ilhan Omar has such a sinister sounding voice. It's beyond what she's actually saying. The way
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she talks, it's like a movie villain. But what is she saying? She's saying,
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we must recognize that the reduction in policing currently in our city and the lawlessness is
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happening because the police have chosen to not fulfill their oath of office and protect the people
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they said they'd protect. This is a big problem. And she says the second one is even before that,
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it was documented that the Minneapolis police department was very dysfunctional, okay? But
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the thing is, she's pointing out that it's these two problems, but we're focusing on the surge in
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crime. So when she says even before recent events, the police department was very dysfunctional. Okay,
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but that doesn't matter. That's irrelevant because we're talking about the change,
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we're talking about the huge increase in crime, 17% increase in violent crime and new records for
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murders. So it's really just number one. Ilhan Omar is saying the police are refusing to do their job
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and protect people. What was Ilhan Omar saying last year? Last year, she said that the police are a
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cancer and we quote, we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis police department.
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Do you get it yet? Do you see this? When the police do their job and arrest criminals,
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that is terrible discrimination. It's racist. It's evil. It's white supremacy. We need to abolish
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the police. Okay, then the police don't arrest the criminals. Do you know what that is? It's racist.
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It's white supremacy. They're not protecting people. They're not doing their jobs. We need to,
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what do we need to do? We need to refund the police. What is it? It's a rigged game is what it is.
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Anything the cops do is evil and the cause of society's woes. There's nothing the cops can do
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right now that Ilhan Omar will not blame them for. It's the same thing with racism.
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You notice this in particular. Sometimes what the left will say, if you wear a sombrero
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on Halloween or Cinco de Mayo or something, that is cultural appropriation. If you do your hair in
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a certain way, if you wear certain clothing, that's cultural appropriation. That's racist.
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If you don't do that, that's cultural erasure. So if you don't eat tacos on Cinco de Mayo,
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if you don't acknowledge these other cultures, then you're erasing. Then you're a white supremacist
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because you're not acknowledging Mexican people or black people or Asian people. That's very racist.
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If you do acknowledge those cultures, you're also a racist because it's appropriating.
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My culture is not your costume or whatever they say. There's no way to win. It's the same thing
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with feminism. Do you remember? I remember this about three, four years ago. No more than that now,
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I guess. There was a big, breaking, shocking story. Mike Pence, that evil, misogynistic Mike Pence,
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he refused to cheat on his wife. So big, huge story. Mike Pence would not go on dinner dates with
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women who were not his wife when his wife was not there. That's sexist. That's awful. He wouldn't
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allow women to rise up the ranks. He was treating women differently than he would treat men.
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So you got to go on dinner dates with women. But then, by the way, you go on dinner dates with
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women and you're a Me Too predator sexist. There's no, there's no winning. It's a rigged game.
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The squishes very often give into this. The people who say, I'm a Republican, but not that kind of
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Republican. They always say, I'm not a racist. I'm not, I'm not a racist. Please. I, maybe we should
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reform the police. I'm a, I'm a, not a sexist. I'm a not. They don't care, bro. They don't care.
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Ilhan Omar doesn't care what the cops do. She's going to blame them for anything.
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These radical leftists don't care what you white person or what you man or what you
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non-LGBTLBNOP, what, you know, you straight person do. They don't care. They're just going to
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blame you for everything. So maybe you should just follow your own moral compass,
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your own conscience. Okay. And just do the right thing and stop trying to play their game.
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Their game is rigged. Okay. The upshot of all of this is that we are not permitted to question our
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rulers. I saw a tweet that really summed this up perfectly from Mehdi Hassan. Mehdi Hassan,
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I take it, is someone on MSNBC. I've never seen him before, but he has a blue check mark.
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He's on MSNBC. That is my sister network. That's where my doppelganger performs her show.
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He was responding to the conservative, Jesse Kelly. He said, quote,
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are you sure you even understand what you're talking about? Keeping unvaccinated people out
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of public places is a bolded public health decision and not a political decision. Not sure
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why this is so hard for the paranoid anti-science right to understand. Good night. Good night, sir.
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Mehdi Hassan is so much smarter than those stupid conservatives like Jesse Kelly. They don't even
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understand. This is about public health, not politics. Do you think this guy has ever googled
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the word political? I bet he has not. I bet he would be pretty surprised. So I said, you know,
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look, maybe I'm misremembering things. Let me, I'm just going to google the word political. Okay.
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Do political. Okay. Here's the definition, quote, relating to the government or the public affairs
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of a country. So it's about public health, not politics. Even though public health is,
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is politics. It's the same thing. Whenever any lib tells you something is not political,
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this is not political. Stop making this political. You can bet the farm that whatever they are doing
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is extremely political and they themselves are politicizing it. You can, you can bet the farm
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on that. But what, what Mehdi Hassan really means here is this is not something you should be allowed
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to question. This is political. This relates to the public, but you have no right to question it.
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We need to outsource this to Dr. Fauci. We need to outsource this to Joe Biden. We need to outsource
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this to me and all the libs and you need to do whatever we say. When it comes to taking the Fauci
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when it comes to how you can travel and where you can go. And when it comes to wearing that stupid
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mask, you're not allowed to question it. And if you do, you'll be kicked off of social media.
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You'll be kicked out of your school. You will be ostracized from society. You will be segregated.
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Like the prime minister of New Zealand says, you will be segregated. You'll become a second class
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citizen. You will not be afforded the privileges of the rest of society. Now, the thing about this
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ruling class that is not allowed to be questioned is that they're not exactly Plato's philosopher kings,
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okay? These people who say we need to end democracy, we need to end our constitutional republic,
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they don't have a whole lot to recommend them. Least of all, the most exalted of those rulers,
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Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci just got caught in a big lie. We covered this yesterday. He lied in testimony
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before the Senate. He said, when he was asked by Rand Paul, have you funded gain-of-function
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research? Period. But specifically in Wuhan, he said, Senator Paul, I have never, we do not fund
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gain-of-function research. Then Rand Paul said, well, actually you have, I have the proof of this. He goes,
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well, you know, even if we did, it's totally fine, but we, that's not what we do. Okay, Dr. Paul.
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So now the NIH is involved in a major cover-up because documents have proven that they did in
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fact engage in gain-of-function research. The National Institutes of Health have just changed
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their website. Unfortunately for the National Institutes of Health, we have the receipts,
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The National Institutes of Health funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China.
00:26:34.240
They then lied about this. They lied about funding it, period. And they lied about funding it specifically,
00:26:39.940
of course, in Wuhan. Now they are editing their website to cover up the gain-of-function section.
00:26:47.560
Unfortunately for them, we have the internet. And the internet is forever. So if you go right now
00:26:53.300
to the NIH website to look up gain-of-function, nothing is going to come up. If you go to archive.org
00:26:58.540
to look at the old version of the website, a whole lot is going to be coming up.
00:27:03.320
It's going to talk to you about how gain-of-function research describes a type of research that
00:27:08.600
modifies a biological agent so that it confers new or enhanced activity to that agent. Some
00:27:15.080
scientists use the term broadly to refer to any such modification. However, not all of gain-of-function
00:27:20.520
research entails the same level of risk. And then they go on and have this nuanced discussion.
00:27:25.700
What Dr. Fauci is trying to do right now to avoid demonstrating that he perjured himself
00:27:31.980
is he's trying to say that what he engaged in, which is gain-of-function research, is not really
00:27:37.200
gain-of-function research because he didn't know that it was going to be really bad. What is gain-of-function
00:27:41.660
research? It's when you go in and you modify an agent to make it deadlier or more powerful or more
00:27:47.360
transmissible or enhance its function in any way. It gains function. So Dr. Fauci, what he's trying to
00:27:54.740
say is, no, no, no. If we take a bad coronavirus and we make it way deadlier and way more transmissible,
00:28:01.340
that is not gain-of-function research if we didn't mean to do it. Whoopsie.
00:28:06.800
If we didn't know for certain that that would happen, well, what are you talking about? The whole
00:28:10.300
point of the research is to figure out if you are enhancing its functions, if you are
00:28:16.180
making them more, if you're diminishing the functions, if nothing happens at all.
00:28:21.320
Increasingly, this is looking not just like incompetence. There's plenty of that there.
00:28:26.260
Not just like ignorance. There's plenty of that there. Increasingly, it's looking like
00:28:30.800
a cover-up. That's a cover-up. What do you call it when you go on and change your website
00:28:36.340
and erase all of the information that shows that you lied and perjured yourself? That to me is a
00:28:43.480
cover-up. Dr. Fauci is digging that hole further and further for himself right now. And not only
00:28:51.020
should he be fired, but he should be thoroughly investigated at least. Speaking of covering up,
00:28:58.060
Joe Biden is showing how silly all of these COVID measures are. He was just prattling on and on
00:29:06.720
about, I don't know, corn pop or something. And then he, well, just take a listen to the clip.
00:29:12.240
So Joe Biden finishes his speech. He coughs into his hand. Now we're told, remember Obama first
00:29:21.980
told us this, you have to cough into your elbow, never cough into your hand, especially during an
00:29:26.440
epidemic, an alleged pandemic. He coughs into his hand and then what's the first thing he does?
00:29:38.720
So all of the people around Joe Biden are wearing masks. Joe Biden is not wearing a mask because the
00:29:43.860
masks are extremely stupid. He then coughs into his hand. That's kind of yucky. And then he
00:29:49.580
immediately shakes people's hands. And you know what, folks? Everyone in that picture is going to be
00:29:54.720
fine. Biden's going to be fine. The guy whose hand he shook is going to be fine. The stooges in the
00:29:59.400
masks, they'll be fine too. But it does expose the hypocrisy and the frivolity of this. The COVID
00:30:09.040
hysteria is purely instrumental. The 590th day of 15 days to slow the spread, the purpose of that day
00:30:18.560
is not to protect the public health. It's not to save lives. How dare you killers? You don't want to
00:30:25.020
save lives. It is, as the New Zealand prime minister said, to create a new hierarchy,
00:30:33.380
a segregated society, new classes of people. It is to empower the people who have taken more and
00:30:40.520
more and more of our rights and our freedoms and our way of life over the past year. And people are
00:30:45.960
sick of it. Not just the Republicans, not just the rock-ribbed conservatives, ordinary people,
00:30:51.160
pro athletes, guys like Floyd Mayweather. Floyd Mayweather, who comes out as there is a huge
00:30:56.640
controversy around the basketball player, Kyrie Irving, who won't get the vaccine. He's being
00:31:01.300
benched now. Floyd Mayweather comes out. He says, hey, buddy, great job. Kyrie, what's up? I know
00:31:07.120
you're going through a lot. We had a chance to hang out in 2016 when you represented America,
00:31:12.360
when you represented the red, white, and blue. You only want to be treated fair. You're a great person,
00:31:17.120
great father, a great athlete, and you believe what you believe. America is the land of the free.
00:31:24.440
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and supposedly freedom to choose. Never be controlled
00:31:30.540
by money. I respect you for having some integrity and being your own man. A free mind makes his own
00:31:36.880
choices, and an enslaved mind follows the crowd. Stand for something or fall for anything. One man can
00:31:43.540
lead a revolution to stand up and fight for what's right. One choice, one word, one action can change
00:31:50.560
the world. It's crazy how people hate you for being a leader. I hope your actions encourage many others
00:31:58.800
to stand up and say enough is enough. Respect to you, Kyrie, and power to the people.
00:32:06.360
Now, I love this message. I'm not going to flatter people though, all right? What Floyd Mayweather just
00:32:14.460
said is a bunch of platitudes. It's a bunch of slogans. Enough. Enough is enough. Power to the
00:32:21.500
people. You're free. Be free, right? It's all this really basic stuff that is not particularly profound.
00:32:27.880
It's not deep political thinking. But I still love this message, and I love the courage that it is
00:32:34.080
taking him to stand up and say this. And I think the GOP has a big lesson that it can learn here,
00:32:39.940
which is when you are going out, when you are conveying a message. I'm not talking about when
00:32:44.040
we have debates. I'm not talking about when we're formulating our plan, when we're strategizing. I'm
00:32:48.780
not even talking about on podcasts such as this, or in think tanks, or in the room of advisors. I'm
00:32:53.480
talking about when you are just communicating your plan for America. Keep it simple, buddy. Be like Floyd
00:33:01.960
Mayweather here, where he says, what do we know? What do we know about the vaccine?
00:33:07.220
It's experimental. It has had side effects. It has killed people. You say in rare cases,
00:33:13.800
but that's why they paused the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. It's because people were dying from
00:33:17.440
blood clots. It does entail risks. All vaccines, all medical interventions entail risks. And for the
00:33:23.720
vast majority of people, the coronavirus is just not that deadly. It's just not that dangerous.
00:33:28.940
For some people, it is. For most people, vast majority of people, it's not.
00:33:34.780
So let's just say, hey, guys, make your own decisions. Hey, be prudent. Hey, guys,
00:33:41.000
we have a tradition in America of people making their own decisions on these sorts of things.
00:33:46.160
The Democrats are going to say, well, actually, you know, if you look at the statistics and you
00:33:49.400
look at the numbers and we know that the scientists all say that the vaccine is totally fine and the
00:33:54.000
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, right. But we know on a gut level, this is
00:33:57.680
wrong. We know on a gut level when we listen to the prime minister of New Zealand say she's going
00:34:02.280
to segregate her citizens. We know that's wrong. Okay. We don't, we don't like that. We don't want
00:34:06.680
that. Keep it simple. Yeah. We want freedom. Stand up, do what's right. Enough is enough power to the
00:34:13.020
people. I hear you. I hear you, Floyd. I agree. Now there's a higher level of this, which is
00:34:20.820
how do we, beyond the cultural sphere, exercise our political rights when we have them? A lot of
00:34:28.940
Republicans, they just twiddle their thumbs. They don't do anything when they have power.
00:34:32.480
There's at least one guy down in Florida who is doing a great job. That would be Ron DeSantis.
00:34:38.160
In terms of the governors right now, he's doing better than any other governor in the country.
00:34:42.220
And one of the smartest things he did on coronavirus is not just write executive orders. It's not just give
00:34:47.180
good speeches. He is installing people in important positions who are able to affect his agenda. One of
00:34:55.380
those guys is the new Florida Surgeon General, a guy who is saying this COVID hysteria is ridiculous.
00:35:03.340
We are not going to buy into it anymore. I've heard some leaders say things like,
00:35:08.960
you know, we'll create safe workplaces by mandating these vaccines. Well, they're really decoupled
00:35:16.000
because the infections can still happen whether people are vaccinated or not. I mean, that's very
00:35:22.620
obvious, you know, and you remember these people were also telling you that all these breakthrough
00:35:27.580
infections that people want, you know, sports stars and celebrities and your neighbors and maybe you
00:35:34.600
were having after you were vaccinated were rare. Well, they're obviously not rare. In fact,
00:35:40.240
they're common. And so and so that's the truth. So this idea that the vaccines are needed to create
00:35:46.020
the vaccine mandates are needed to create safe workplaces is a complete lie. It's continued to be
00:35:52.400
repeated. And you should know that it's not at all backed up by science. In fact, the science says
00:35:58.180
something that's completely the opposite. So that's the fact. So what the Florida Surgeon General is saying
00:36:05.660
right now is something that conservatives have been saying for a very long time. But he has more
00:36:12.800
credibility. OK, Ron DeSantis could have said those very same things. In fact, I'm sure he has said those
00:36:19.100
very same things. But he recognizes he can't go it alone. You've got to play the game a little bit
00:36:24.380
here beyond. I mean, I'm really pleased to hear what this Florida Surgeon General is saying. But beyond
00:36:28.620
that, what it's showing me is that Ron DeSantis has very sharp political skills. It might be
00:36:36.820
ridiculous that we live in the kind of country right now where you need some egghead to tell
00:36:40.620
you basic things, where people are deferring to doctors and bureaucrats. But that's the country we
00:36:45.040
live in. And so DeSantis is not going to ignore that. He's going to play that game and he's going to do
00:36:50.400
it for good for the good reason. It doesn't hurt. I don't like identity politics. It doesn't hurt that
00:36:57.780
the Florida Surgeon General is a black guy. Why does it not hurt? Because the left is going to
00:37:03.880
cry, shriek white supremacy. And this is a terrible racist man. And so when he is a black guy,
00:37:11.860
kind of takes that off the table. I'm not saying we should always give into that. We should always
00:37:16.080
play that. I'm not saying he was picked because he's black. He's obviously got a very keen insight
00:37:20.300
into this sort of thing. He's obviously a very capable guy with stellar credentials. But from a
00:37:25.500
political perspective, it doesn't hurt. All right. Beyond the virus stuff, this shows me Ron DeSantis
00:37:32.800
knows how to play the game. And this is something that Republicans need to learn the lesson on here.
00:37:37.600
Okay. There are a lot of, to zoom out, forget about the virus for a second, to zoom out. There
00:37:41.520
are a lot of conservatives who say, it is wrong for us to wield the executive agencies when we're,
00:37:47.260
it is wrong for us to govern by executive order. It is wrong for us to have activist judges. It is wrong
00:37:52.820
for us to, because by golly, in my 19th century vision of American government, that is not how
00:38:01.660
things are supposed to be done. We should not have the administrative state. What FDR did,
00:38:06.940
it was awful. What Wilson did, it was terrible. And so we're not going to wield that power.
00:38:13.060
Oh, okay, cool, bro. That's what, well, enjoy play acting, enjoy LARPing, enjoy pretending that we live
00:38:19.160
in a country that has not existed for a hundred years. Because what the libs are going to do is
00:38:23.620
wield power in the country that actually exists today. So they're going to win and we're going
00:38:29.600
to lose. But what are we going to, we're going to lose with dignity, I guess. That's what, that's
00:38:33.540
what these people tell us. Or you can live in the actual political realities that we're, we're in
00:38:42.380
right now. And you can use them to your advantage and try to beat the left. All right, this is a power
00:38:49.920
grab. And politics, it's not exclusively about power, but in many ways it's about power. And so
00:38:58.340
what does that power grab look like? When I first heard that New Zealand prime minister at the top
00:39:04.100
of the show say, you bet, you bet we're segregating people, you bet we're creating new classes of
00:39:09.620
citizens, you bet we're creating new hierarchies. That's sent to chill down my spine. I thought,
00:39:13.740
are we living in some dystopian future? But, but that was not nearly so spooky as a story that just
00:39:18.800
came out of Hawaii. In Hawaii right now, the government is using robot dogs to patrol homeless camps
00:39:29.180
and, and scan their heads and make sure that none of them have a fever. And if they are,
00:39:37.540
they will intervene as part of the COVID public health tyranny. That is like Terminator stuff.
00:39:45.660
That is like RoboCop stuff. That is stuff that I did not know existed in reality. And apparently
00:39:50.600
it does. These robot dogs are equipped with cameras, two-way communication, artificial intelligence,
00:39:59.540
autonomous data collection capabilities, and scanners that scan your eyes to detect for fevers.
00:40:07.540
Then they interview people who have the fevers and test positive.
00:40:12.500
This is very spooky and it's very inhumane. One, we shouldn't be tolerating homeless camps.
00:40:20.540
We are tolerating them increasingly around New York, around Austin, around Los Angeles,
00:40:28.320
around all these places. But that is inhuman and inhumane. All right. Two,
00:40:36.840
we shouldn't just be interacting with people through robots. James Poulos over at the Claremont
00:40:41.840
Institute, he has this idea that transgenderism, the crazy transgender focus right now, is actually
00:40:47.380
just a foot into transhumanism. That it's, that it's about transcending our humanity, uploading
00:40:53.960
everything to the cloud. This is, this is wrong. This is the sort of thing, it might be more efficient.
00:40:59.760
And, you know, we've had this debate on the right for a long time. It might be more efficient.
00:41:02.740
It might increase GDP. It might make markets work better, but it's just inhuman. I, here's my bold
00:41:08.800
claim. I don't want to live in a country run by robot dogs. Okay. Speaking of robots, got to get to
00:41:13.700
this clip. I've been putting it off for a few days. I'm not sure that Joe Biden is a human because he,
00:41:21.480
hear me out. He was on CNN just talking to Anderson Cooper. He looked, he looked like a robot. He didn't
00:41:28.240
know what to do with his hands. Take a listen. Just in terms of inflation, because you had told
00:41:32.760
us at a town hall, I think it was in July that the, this was just near-term inflation.
00:41:39.600
So Joe Biden just standing there, got his hands up. He doesn't, it's like, it's like that scene in
00:41:43.920
30 Rock where Alec Baldwin said, I don't know what to do with my hands. Joe Biden doesn't know what to
00:41:47.040
do with his hands. Joe Biden is obviously not all there. Okay. But the scarier part is not just that
00:41:59.140
we have a guy who's doesn't have a whole lot going on between the years running the country. The scary
00:42:02.920
part is the people who are actually running the country, we don't even know their names. Okay.
00:42:06.520
They're just part of the blob. They're just part of the establishment. They're just part of the new
00:42:10.260
ruling class and the new social hierarchy that is taking power more and more and more and more.
00:42:20.460
You're seeing this at the department of the treasury. Janet Yellen right now, the treasury
00:42:26.480
secretary has revealed that this will be, there will be a new counselor for racial equity starting
00:42:34.380
at the department this week. This person is Janice Boldler. Boldler will be charged with
00:42:41.140
coordinating treasury's efforts to advance racial equity, including engaging with diverse communities
00:42:46.040
throughout the country to identify and mitigate barriers to accessing benefits and opportunities
00:42:51.300
with the department. Why do I mention this? I mean, treasury is doing a lot of stuff right now
00:42:57.100
behind the scenes that is messing with our economy there. Janet Yellen is now saying after she told us
00:43:02.240
that the inflation was going to be over within months, it's going to be going on for at least
00:43:05.440
a year, but it's no big deal. Don't worry. It's okay. Why does it matter that they have a counselor
00:43:09.760
for racial equity? Because this is the secular version of a chaplain. Okay. In the old days,
00:43:17.620
you would have a chaplain to deal with the religious life in ostensibly non-religious circumstances.
00:43:24.880
You have a military chaplain, for instance. Universities have a chaplain. You could have a chaplain
00:43:30.260
in your workplace, depending on what institution you work for. Now we don't have that. At Harvard,
00:43:35.440
the chaplain is an atheist. People were shocked. How could the chaplain be an atheist? Well, because
00:43:41.580
the official religion is now secular. So we don't have Christian chaplains. We have atheist chaplains.
00:43:47.980
And really, the chaplain is the director of diversity and inclusion and equity. That is the
00:43:56.580
religion that transcends the partisan differences. Okay. Sometimes we talk about the regime on this
00:44:02.620
show. What do we mean by the regime? We mean the things about our government that don't change
00:44:09.400
regardless of the election. Maybe the Republican wins. We're still going to have a counselor for racial
00:44:15.940
equity. Okay. This is just now in the air. It's just the building block. Okay. And this is the thing
00:44:30.980
we need to challenge because this ideology of equity and inclusion and diversity is very contrary to the
00:44:38.580
American idea. Okay. It creates these bizarre intersectional hierarchies and undercuts
00:44:45.340
constitutional government. It takes away a lot of our rights, the authentic right of the people
00:44:49.960
to run their own politics. It's a real threat and it's not going to change unless we, when we are given
00:44:56.940
political power, go at it tooth and nail. Okay. It seems frivolous, but these people mean business.
00:45:04.460
Janet Yellen right now is proposing one of the most radical measures that I have seen
00:45:09.880
in politics. And because she's kind of boring and because treasury is kind of boring and because
00:45:14.320
economic stuff is kind of boring, people aren't paying attention to it. Right now, what they are
00:45:18.100
proposing is taxing your assets that have not been realized yet. I think what's under consideration
00:45:28.620
is a proposal that Senator Wyden and the Senate Finance Committee have been looking at that would
00:45:37.460
impose a tax on unrealized capital gains on liquid assets held by extremely wealthy individuals,
00:45:50.540
billionaires. I wouldn't call that a wealth tax, but it would help get at capital gains,
00:45:58.540
which are an extraordinarily large part of the incomes of the wealthiest individuals.
00:46:06.060
And right now, escape taxation until they're realized and often they're unrealized and at death
00:46:14.760
benefit from a so-called step up of basis. So it's not a wealth tax, but a tax on unrealized
00:46:23.720
capital gains of exceptionally wealthy individuals.
00:46:28.600
Now, you know, I make fun of Republicans a lot for only focusing on tax cuts and shrieking every
00:46:33.560
time there's a potential tax hike. What Janet Yellen is proposing here is not just raising taxes a
00:46:41.700
little bit on the rich. I'm fine with that. I don't care if some woke CEO who has no loyalty to my
00:46:46.640
country and who's peddling a bunch of crap gets taxed more. That's fine by me. I really don't care.
00:46:50.580
All right. The wealthy in this country seem disproportionately to be Democrats. So that's fine.
00:46:56.140
Tax them, whatever. What is being proposed here, though, is taxing unrealized gains.
00:47:03.260
And the thing about unrealized gains is they're not real. This would be like saying, okay,
00:47:10.380
you've got some stocks and then you're, or let's say you've got Bitcoin or something, right? Or one
00:47:15.940
of these crypto stocks. And then it goes up a lot. So on paper, you've made some money. You haven't
00:47:20.320
actually made the money. You just own some of this stock. What Janet Yellen is proposing is going in
00:47:25.500
to these investments and forcing you to pay taxes on them. But you don't have the cash to pay taxes on
00:47:30.900
them. So you've got to sell the stocks to pay the tax. So what is that going to do to the market?
00:47:39.160
First of all, it'll seriously distort these, the investments period, right? It'll seriously,
00:47:47.120
if everyone come taxis and has to start selling off their whole portfolio to pay for the taxes,
00:47:51.100
that is going to throw the markets into a frenzy. But also it's just a huge power grab
00:47:57.240
because it's not even taking money that you currently have. It's taking, it's taking money
00:48:02.720
that you might have in the future. It's cutting off your ability to make this kind of money
00:48:07.160
at all. All right. And it's, and they're doing it through all of these different measures. All
00:48:12.940
right. They're doing this through the diversity and equity and inclusion ideology that's infiltrating
00:48:18.040
colleges and boardrooms and the government and everywhere. They're doing it through your bank
00:48:22.700
account. They're trying to take your unrealized gains. They're trying to give the IRS the ability
00:48:26.600
to look at all of your bank transactions. If you've got more than 600 bucks in your bank account,
00:48:30.200
that's not the millionaires and the billionaires. That's everybody.
00:48:33.240
They are now going in and telling you, you can't leave your home. They're telling you,
00:48:36.980
you've got to wear this mask. They're telling you, you've got to take the Fauci out here.
00:48:39.460
You'll be segregated. You'll be a second-class citizen. It is a massive power grab to create
00:48:45.060
a new hierarchy. And all societies are going to have hierarchies. The question is, what kind of
00:48:50.080
hierarchy do you want to live in? Do you want to live in something similar to the traditional
00:48:53.360
American understanding of this, where merit counts, where hard work counts, where the people still
00:48:57.720
have a say in their government? Or do you want to live in the left's world where
00:49:01.740
you are not allowed to question the Dr. Fauci's, where public health is not political, where Janet
00:49:06.940
Yellen is not political, where Joe Biden, for goodness sakes, is not political, and where you
00:49:12.100
are ruled by these radical, radical people, and your position in that hierarchy is determined by
00:49:19.960
just how much you are willing to comply. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
00:49:30.440
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The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies, executive producer Jeremy Boring. Our
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copyright Daily Wire 2021. The Kyle Rittenhouse case heads to trial next week. We'll talk about
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the people who should really be standing trial for everything that happened in Kenosha last summer.
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Also, The Daily Wire breaks major news that could be the nail in the McAuliffe campaign's coffin,
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and more damning information has come out about the armorer on the set of that Alec Baldwin movie.
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Was this a diversity hire gone wrong? And finally, an Instagram influencer poses for selfies next to
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her father's coffin. All of that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.