Ep. 889 - The Knockdown Blow To Biden's Vax Mandate
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Kyle Rittenhouse is set to be acquitted on all counts in the Kenosha, Wisconsin murder case today. Will he get a fair shake in this case? Will the lynch mob that has been forming in the wake of his acquittals finally get their chance to speak?
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All anyone wants to talk about is the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the lynch mob forming
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around the Rittenhouse trial and the fate of Kenosha, Wisconsin when the verdict finally
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comes down. And we will get to all of that because there are lots of new developments
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that make an already inept and corrupt prosecution look even worse. But before we do,
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we've got to take a break to toast some rare good news. OSHA, the government agency that Joe
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Biden is wielding to make everyone take the Fauci ouchie, OSHA has just announced that it will stop
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enforcing Joe Biden's illegal vaccine mandate as a result of lawsuits. Most notably, the lawsuit
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brought by yours truly here at The Daily Wire, which we were able to bring thanks to the support
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of you, of every single one of you who have come out and helped us and signed the petition
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and listened and subscribed. So for those who have not been following the developments,
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Joe Biden issued the mandate. Then we sued him. Then a federal court told the government to stop
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enforcing the mandate. Then Joe Biden told the government to ignore the court. Then, this is
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the crucial part. We kept suing them. And then the government agency folded like a cheap suit,
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at least for now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Old Schooled, who said,
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do not feel pressured to take the Fauci-ouchie until this litigation is resolved. Even the
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government agency backed down. You've got to push back on these people, folks, because we have a
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corrupt government. And you're seeing that play out very clearly in Kenosha. So, if you've been
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following the trial, and I know you have because we have been covering it pretty closely on this show,
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you'll know that the prosecution has flopped every single step of the way. Everything that we were
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told by the media about Kyle Rittenhouse, about Kenosha, about the shooting, basically everything
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we were told was BS. All of the arguments that the prosecution made fell flat. All of the evidence was
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on Kyle Rittenhouse's side and the side of his self-defense claims. And none of the evidence was
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on the prosecution's side. A lot of it came down to footage from the night. There were a lot of cameras
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out there. And apparently, law enforcement had a drone going over and was able to view what was going on
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and who shot when and who turned when and who turned where. So, take a look at the footage that
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the defense had, the Kyle Rittenhouse team had, compared to the footage that the prosecution had.
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You can, if you're just listening right now, I will describe to you the difference. It's pretty clear.
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However, the defense had very, very blurry, grainy footage. It looks like it was taken on a flip phone
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from, I don't know, 2002. The prosecution had crystal clear, high definition, incredible footage
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where you could make out every little detail. It's not even close. And you can just look at the size of
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the files. The defense had video that was 3.6 megabytes. The prosecution had video that was 11.2
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megabytes. So, you're talking about three times the quality for the prosecution as for the defense.
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So, what happened? Well, when this was brought up, the prosecution made this argument and said,
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no, look, all we did, we just copied the file. We gave, look, we gave the defense the same file. And
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look, if there was a problem with the quality of the footage, you know, the crucial evidence in this
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case, it's just because the defense teams, you know, their cell phones were wrong or their,
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or their computers were messed up. But it's not because we didn't do anything. We're not hiding
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evidence. It's something on your end. You had the exact same file. Now, here's how the defense
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proved that was complete BS. Every other piece of evidence from the state crime lab in this
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situation has been provided to us via Dropbox. Dropbox provides an exact forensic copy of what
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they have. The file title name in this situation should have been exactly the same as the one provided
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to the state if it was the exact same copy. The file name was nowhere near similar. There's no way
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that what ADA Krauss is saying is true because the file name would not have changed if my computer
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was compressing anything. It was a different file that we were provided from what was provided to
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the state. She's got these guys dead to rights. I never want to attribute to malice that which is
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equally explained by stupidity. And the prosecution has demonstrated a lot of stupidity in this case.
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The arguments they're making where they say that if you, if you arm yourself, you lose the right to
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self-defense. Of course, that's preposterous. If arming yourself would lose you your right to
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self-defense, then there simply is no right to self-defense. The prosecution lifting up an AR-15
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in a courtroom, swinging it around the courtroom, finger on the trigger. I mean, just pure stupidity.
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So I'm not, I'm not denying that they could have been stupid enough not to realize what they did.
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But this required an intentional action. You would have had to go in there,
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you would have had to reduce the quality of the video, and you would have had to change the file
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name. So this can't be just a problem of copy paste, whoops, it, it, it read differently on a
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different computer. The prosecution provided the defense with a different file, a file that was much
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lower quality, a file to put them at a much, at a real disadvantage for the crucial evidence in
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the case. And these guys are corrupt, okay? It's as simple as that. They are corrupt. They might also
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be stupid. They might also be ignorant. They might also be incompetent. But I'm seeing malice. I am
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seeing corruption here, and I think we all are. Well, why did they do it? Why did they do it? Whatever
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happened, and now this is what's delaying the verdict, is now you're going to hear testimony
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about the file. However this happened, why would the prosecution have done it? Because all of their
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arguments were weak. We didn't get to this clip the other day. I want to play it just to remind you of
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the, the weakness of the prosecution's argument. One of their closing arguments was that Kyle
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Rittenhouse had no right to shoot back at the people who were trying to kill him, some of whom had
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guns. Because everybody takes a beating sometimes. These minor injuries we've heard the defendant
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have, again, Mr. Richards misstated the standard. It is not, could have caused great bodily harm or death.
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It is not likely to have caused great bodily harm or death. It is imminent threat of death or great bodily
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harm. Where is that when you get a couple scrapes?
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Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right? Sometimes you get in a scuffle and maybe you do
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get hurt a little bit. That doesn't mean you get to start plugging people with your full metal jacket
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AR-15 rounds, and no bullets are not bullets. And no bullets are not bullets. I think he's trying
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to make an argument that the AR-15 is a more powerful weapon than the handgun that the people
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trying to kill Kyle Rittenhouse had. But first of all, I don't think that's a great defense either.
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If someone's coming at you with a gun, threatening to kill you, telling you explicitly they're going
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to kill you, you can only shoot back with a gun of equal or lesser lethality. I don't remember that
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provision of the law. I don't remember the everybody takes a beating sometimes provision
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of the law. Do you? Did you see that anywhere in the Second Amendment? The right of the people to
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keep and bear arms shall not be infringed so long as they take a beating sometimes. But after one or
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two beatings, then you're allowed to fight back. But only with a nine mil. You're not allowed to fight
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back with 223. That would be, I don't think so. I think that's pretty weak. Yes, it's true. People
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take a beating every now and again. You know, if you went to public school, presumably at some point
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someone punched you, right? At some point you got into a fight. That's true. It is not incumbent upon
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you if you are in a riot situation with people explicitly threatening to kill you, who are walking
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up to you with skateboards and with guns. It is not your responsibility to take the beating.
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What? Kyle Rittenhouse only got a couple scrapes on him. He wasn't at imminent risk of grave bodily
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injury or death. No, he was. He only got a couple scrapes on him because he defended himself successfully.
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You don't, you don't need to wait until they break your arm to, or shoot you in the head to shoot
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back. You have the right to defend yourself. And I suspect even this incompetent prosecution,
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I suspect they know that. And I suspect they know that their case was nothing and that this never
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should have been brought to trial in the first place. And so they tried to cheat.
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PaintYourLife.com slash terms. That is MICHAEL. Text it to 64000. Because of the corruption, because of the
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shenanigans. Because of the dirty tricks that the prosecution played, where they gave the defense
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lower quality evidence than they had. The defense has filed a motion for a mistrial.
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A mistrial with prejudice. What is a mistrial with prejudice? Does not mean that the mistrial is a
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white supremacist. Does not mean that. What it means is the case is dismissed and the state can't bring it
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again. So if this were granted, Kyle gets off the hook and he can't be brought up again. We're not
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going to have another Rittenhouse trial next year. Unless there's rioting and unless Kyle goes and
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tries to protect his community and property and then, you know, unless someone tries to kill him
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again and then he shoots them back, then I guess we'll be stuck in that cycle and we'll go right back.
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But as of right now, the defense is trying to get this mistrial with prejudice. Quote,
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the video footage has been at the center of this case, says the defense. The failure to provide
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the same quality footage in this particular case is intentional and clearly prejudices the defendant.
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So I agree with that. I think that's probably true. But my first reaction when I heard that they
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were going for a mistrial was, why? All of the evidence is on your side. None of the evidence is
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on the state side. It's clear as day. People have been following this case from the beginning.
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The prosecution's got nothing. Why would you go for a mistrial when you can win outright?
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If I were on this jury and I've been paying pretty close attention to this trial, it wouldn't,
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it's not even close. So why not try to win outright? Well, the answer is that there are
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other factors at play here beyond the evidence. The jury is afraid for their lives as they rightly
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should be. So they're getting a ton of political pressure, including from the president of the
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United States, Joe Biden, doing the, doing the same thing that Biden did in other trials,
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George Floyd, for instance. But beyond that, if you're a juror on this, if you're a juror in this
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trial, you know that if you don't throw this kid to the wolves and lock him up and throw away the key,
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then you are going to be harassed. You're going to be doxxed. There are going to be riots.
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They're going to burn your community down. The left has already said they're doing that.
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They're marching outside the courthouse right now saying, shut it down. If Kenosha don't get it,
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shut it down. What does shut it down mean? It means do the same thing that they did the last
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time that caused the trial in the first place, namely burn down the city, attack people, steal
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things. And you can get any information you want these days. So you really think the identity of
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these jurors is going to be protected? No way. And you really think the violent leftist mob,
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the lynch mob that's outside going for Kyle Rittenhouse, you think they're not going to attack
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these jurors? No, they will. And so I get it. The right thing to do in this case would be to
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acquit Kyle of all the charges. But I like to think if I were on the jury that I would do that.
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But what if you were on the jury? What if you have young kids? You have a wife that you love.
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What if you've got a nice house? Do you really want to ruin your life? Do you really want to put
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all of that at risk? Because our systems right now are not sturdy? Because the left is undermining our
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entire system of justice? No. I think the defense believes that although all the evidence is on
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their side, if everything were functioning as it should, Kyle would be acquitted. But I think they're
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afraid the jury's going to go wobbly because of the threats. And so they're going to try to go for
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a mistrial. Fair enough. Speaking of threats, Nancy Pelosi just censured a Republican representative,
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Paul Gosar. So it's party line vote and they're censuring Paul Gosar because he sent out some spicy
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tweets or something. You know, he did the sort of thing that Dems do all the time, but he did it and
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he's a Republican. So they're going to censure him. Lauren Boebert, another firebrand conservative
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member of Congress, came out in defense of Congressman Gosar. Democrat policies are so pathetic
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and have done so poorly that the left has nothing else to do but troll the Internet, looking for ways
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to get offended and then try to target members and strip them of their committees. This is a dumb waste
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of the House's time. But since the speaker has designated the floor to discuss members' inappropriate
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actions, shall we? The Jihad Squad member from Minnesota has paid her husband and not her
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brother-husband, the other one, over a million dollars in campaign funds. This member is allowed
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on the Foreign Affairs Committee while praising terrorists. A Democrat chairwoman incited further
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violence in the streets outside of a courthouse. And then the cherry on top. My colleague and three-month
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presidential candidate from California who is on the Intelligence Committee slept with Feng Feng,
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a Chinese spy. Let me say that again. A member of Congress who receives classified briefings was
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sleeping with the enemy. This is unacceptable. I love it. I love it. Jihad Squad member Ilhan Omar was
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illegally or certainly crookedly paying off her husband, not her brother-husband, by the way,
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the other husband. Oh my gosh. Stop it. Stop it. They're already dead. Stop it. Don't keep kicking
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them while they're down. Eric Swalwell was sleeping with Feng Feng, a Chinese spy. She's never denied.
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Oh gosh. I love it. There are going to be very sophisticated Republicans who are at very
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prestigious think tanks and stodgy, dusty institutions. They're going to say, this is not right.
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This is not. No. Don't do this. We're better than that. Don't. No. Don't make all these jokes about
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all these degenerate Democrat members of Congress. It's so, no, I think it's, it's, it's funny. It's
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funny. It's just, it's jokes. And the jokes have a basis in reality because Ilhan Omar really does have
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a kind of strange personal history. And she actually has praised terrorists and laughed and said 9-11 is
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some people did something. Ha ha ha. And she says, Al Qaeda. And she kind of giggles and laughs on
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camera. We have all of this. It's Eric Swalwell really did sleep with a Chinese spy. That actually
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did happen. So the basis in reality, it's funny. The attacks on Republican members of Congress like
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Paul Gosar are completely disingenuous. It's a complete double standard and we should mock them
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relentlessly. I just, there's a little rhetorical lesson in this that Lauren Boebert is teaching us.
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If she had been timid and said, you know, Ilhan Omar, I'm not sure she's very loyal to this
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country. I'm not, I just think she, the way she's talked about some foreign terror groups, it's not,
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if, if you, if you went into that kind of an attack with that timidity of a kind of old dusty
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Republican, you would get an avalanche of accusations of racism and xenophobia and Islamophobia and phobia
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and you would be, and then you'd be buried in that. But if you come out and say, yeah,
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she's a member of the jihad squad and she loves Al Qaeda. There's nothing, you can't,
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there's nothing to come back at that with. You're so confident. You're so, it's, it's like when you're
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trying to talk to a girl, when you're a teenager, you're trying to pick up a girl in high school or
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something. You can, if you go really timid and she'd be like, Hey, um, hi there, Shelly. Um,
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would you like to maybe go to the prom with me sometime? I kind of like you very much. Then
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you're going to seem weak and you're going to get pulled over. But if you go and you say, Hey,
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cutie, you're, you're great. I really like you a lot. Let's go. You and me, let's go to the prom
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together. You're just going to seem more confident. And the lesson that's true of your interpersonal
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life, your lesson that's true of just personal social relations, that's also true in politics.
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And the other lesson from this is we've got to do to the Democrats what they are doing to us.
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Nothing. I'm not saying we do something that is immoral or unjust, but as a matter of procedural
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politics, let's do the same thing. Nancy Pelosi is going to use a party line vote to strip
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Republicans of their committees. Okay. Well, let's just do that to them. Next time, the minute that
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Republicans have the house, which could be sooner than the Democrats expect, let's strip Ilhan Omar of
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her committees. Let's strip Rashida Tlaib and AOC and all the rest of these radical, let's strip Eric
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Swalwell for sure of his committees. Let's do it. Why not? They're doing it to us. And the left
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responds to force. They respond to confidence. They respond to strength. Okay. And so let's use our
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political force. Let's strip them of their committees. Let's mock them on the floor of the
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only brings us bad news where people who contradict leftist orthodoxy have their lives ruined because of
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10 years ago or some email they sent 15 years ago. But here today, we've got some good news from
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the cancel culture. That pedophile defending professor that we played on the show a couple
00:24:46.340
of days ago, Alan Walker is a professor at Old Dominion University. He was the one who's trying
00:24:52.060
to de-stigmatize pedophilia, change the term pedophile to minor attracted persons, and normalize
00:24:59.320
sexual attraction to kids. He has been placed on leave. So he has written about this in a book.
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He's given presentations about why we basically need to be nicer to pedophiles and de-stigmatize
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them. And he has been placed on leave. Now, I know some right-wingers, some conservatives say
00:25:18.900
the cancel culture is always bad and we don't want to cancel and the left cancels and we don't cancel.
00:25:23.380
That is not my position. I wrote an entire book about how that's not my position. My position is the
00:25:27.380
cancel culture can be a very good thing. It's not about do you cancel or do you not cancel? It's
00:25:32.580
about what do you cancel? All cultures are going to cancel some things. Pedophiles, for instance.
00:25:37.820
I think it's good to cancel pedophiles. I think it's bad to cancel Christians. Okay. I think those
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are different things. And so it's not just the form that matters. It's the substance. What are you
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actually advocating? Why are you being canceled? And so I am thrilled that this guy is getting
00:25:53.800
canceled. Now, here's his defense, which was sent out in a statement from the university.
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Quote, I want to be clear. Child sexual abuse is morally wrong and an inexcusable crime.
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As an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, the goal of my research is to prevent
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crime. My work is informed by my past experience and advocacy as a social worker counseling victims.
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I embarked on this research in hopes of gaining understanding of a group that previously had not
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been studied in order to identify ways to protect children. So first of all, pedophiles have been
00:26:22.640
studied before. You're not quite so groundbreaking as you think you are, Mr. Walker. But also,
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you didn't embark on the research just to gain understanding to, say, punish these people more.
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You said you wanted to de-stigmatize pedophiles. That's why you wanted to change the term from
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pedophile, which has a bad connotation. It's a neutral term in and of itself. It just refers to
00:26:43.180
having a liking for, an attraction for two children. But it's got a stigma because the thing itself is
00:26:49.480
evil. And so, you know, obviously the word gains this, the ugliness of the reality of it. And you
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said you want to take that away and call the minor attracted persons and maps. And that would be wrong.
00:27:01.460
So this guy, Walker, is obviously very confused. I think he calls himself non-binary. So he doesn't
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know his own sex. And he's a very confused person, obviously. But his argument is, I'm not
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advocating that we abuse children. I'm saying that we de-stigmatize the idea of having a sexual desire
00:27:22.420
for children. But that's wrong too. Okay? And it's important to recognize, yes, obviously it's wrong
00:27:29.520
to abuse the children. It is also wrong to have sexual desire for children. The desire itself
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is also wrong. And it's very difficult for people in our modern hippie-dippie society to understand that.
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Because what we are told today is that desire is never wrong. It's just your actions that are wrong.
00:27:49.140
So if you're a pedophile, a minor attracted person, to use this guy's crazy language,
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then it's wrong if you abuse kids. But it's not wrong if you think about
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sleeping with a child. Because that's just your desire. It's just in your head.
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And you have total autonomy over your mind and your body. And you can do whatever you want,
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as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. And you have self-ownership. And no desires can be wrong.
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Right? Especially if you're born this way. Right? If the pedophile is born,
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let's say that that's the case. Let's just go with that premise. Then certainly the desire can't be
00:28:24.620
wrong. That's a very liberal idea. And some people on the right believe that kind of thing too.
00:28:31.200
The kind of pro-drug, pro-sleep around, pro-do-whatever-you-want right. They believe that
00:28:37.140
too. As long as it's consensual, it's totally fine. The problem with pedophilia is it's not consensual.
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The desire is also wrong too. The conservative view of this is that the desire is wrong as well.
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And it must be stigmatized. It is rightly stigmatized. And moreover, that we can shape
00:28:58.220
our desires. All right? This is a real sticking point for some people. But you actually can shape
00:29:05.540
your desires. I'm not saying you have total control over your desires. But you can shape them. Addicts know
00:29:11.320
this. When an addict starts out, he doesn't have a penchant for heroin. Right? He doesn't. But he
00:29:18.940
takes the first drug or whatever. He's probably at some kind of gateway drug. And then he gets into
00:29:22.440
the heroin. And then all of a sudden, his desires turn toward the heroin. And at a certain point,
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depending on how bad the addiction gets, especially with a hard drug like heroin,
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all of his desires are oriented toward the heroin. Then if he goes through a process of
00:29:39.520
rehabilitation and recovery, what is that doing? What that does is turns your desire away from the
00:29:46.760
heroin. A lot of rock stars will say this. They'll say, you know, back in the 80s, I was totally
00:29:51.920
addicted to heroin. Now I'm totally addicted to working out or something. Right? Now I'm addicted
00:29:55.640
to exercise. You kind of turn that. And ultimately, the place you want to turn your desires is toward God.
00:30:01.800
Not just your actions, not just your behaviors, but even your very desire. What is it that you're
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thinking about when you put your head on your pillow at night? All right. And that, it's not a
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very liberal idea. It's not, it doesn't mean you have total emancipation and total liberation,
00:30:16.800
total control over your body and whatever you want to do is okay. It's saying, no, it's not.
00:30:20.960
Even that desire that you can't totally control, that is wrong. So not only can you not act on it,
00:30:26.340
but you've got to work to try to transform that desire in any way you can. And you're going to,
00:30:32.300
you're probably going to fail a lot. And, you know, maybe you're never going to totally do that,
00:30:35.780
but you, you've got to work on that as well. Speaking of morality, Nancy Pelosi has moral
00:30:43.380
lessons for all of us. Isn't that rich? Nancy Pelosi is insisting that if we don't back her
00:30:48.580
global warming agenda, that we are violating the moral imperative to take care of the earth.
00:30:55.660
Over about half a trillion dollars in this legislation to protect the planet. It's a health
00:31:04.180
issue, clean air, clean water for our children. It's a jobs issue, making America preeminent and
00:31:10.100
good paying green jobs. You know, all of the challenge of natural disasters springing from
00:31:15.280
the climate crisis. And it is a moral issue. If you believe, as I do, that this is God's creation
00:31:20.580
and we have a moral obligation to be good stewards. But even if you don't share that view
00:31:25.860
religiously, we all share it morally, that we have a responsibility to future generations.
00:31:33.380
Nancy Pelosi is a little confused. She says, even if you don't believe it religiously,
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we all believe it morally. But of course, our moral views are synonymous with our religious views.
00:31:41.320
So she's making a distinction that doesn't really exist. And she says, look, we've got an obligation,
00:31:45.680
moral, religious, profound obligation to be stewards of God's creation. I agree with that.
00:31:54.340
People are maybe disagreeing with Nancy Pelosi or I'm not disagreeing with her in principle.
00:31:59.280
I totally agree with that. She's absolutely right. The problem is that Nancy Pelosi does not agree with
00:32:05.940
that. She doesn't really believe that. If she really believed that, she would oppose abortion.
00:32:13.620
We are stewards of God's creation. Yeah, we are. And we need to be very nice to the rabbits and the
00:32:22.440
sheep and even the trees and the fish and the polar bears. And we need to be good. And just the clouds
00:32:32.860
and the ozone. And we've got to be good stewards of what we've got to care and not harm any of these
00:32:38.960
things. But we can vacuum up a human baby and that's a wonderful thing. That's something to
00:32:43.920
celebrate. We can't disturb the patterns of the clouds and the way that the gentle, fragile ecosystem
00:32:52.520
and the delta smelt. We can't touch the delta smelt. But we can chop up a little baby to the tune of a
00:32:59.580
million of them a year. Is that really? Is that true? Is that how that works? I don't think that's true.
00:33:04.580
Because there is an order to creation. And some things are higher in creation than others.
00:33:12.420
And Nancy Pelosi is admitting that herself. If it's true that we have a special responsibility
00:33:17.580
to be stewards of creation, it's because we have dominion over the whole rest of the creation,
00:33:22.620
over the earth and the birds of the trees and the fowl and the fish of the sea. Because we are
00:33:28.220
higher than them. And so it is very disordered to say we need to take care of the delta smelt.
00:33:32.480
But we have the right to chop up little innocent human babies. That doesn't make
00:33:38.100
any sense at all. Some conservatives go way too far in their reaction against this kind of thing.
00:33:46.460
And I understand it's because it's so disingenuous. But they'll say we have no
00:33:49.440
obligations to take care of the environment. We have no. Let's just knock it all down and put up a
00:33:53.520
bunch of factories and make a bunch of widgets. No, I don't think that's true either. We do have an
00:33:57.600
obligation to do that. But Nancy Pelosi's understanding of that moral obligation is
00:34:04.080
completely flipped on its head. The delta smelt are everything and human babies, according to her,
00:34:10.100
are nothing. Really for them, for the left, climate change, global warming, global cooling,
00:34:17.220
whatever, is just an excuse to take more political power. Chuck Schumer admitted this
00:34:23.060
just a couple of days ago. Last year with COVID was awful. But in a few years, because of climate
00:34:29.680
change, each year will be worse than COVID. And each year will be worse than the next if we don't
00:34:34.620
do anything about it. Well, this year it's been tough, you know. And but just you thought you were
00:34:41.380
coming out of that now. You thought that we were finally going to restore normal order to society.
00:34:45.160
No, no, it's only going to get worse. And it's not going to get worse because of some virus that we
00:34:50.520
can kind of measure. It's going to be because of the sun monster. And it's not going to be anything
00:34:54.220
that's happening right now, but it's because of things that could happen in 10 years, unless you
00:34:57.720
do exactly what we say and give us all your money and give us all your rights and just let us upend
00:35:03.600
the political order. He he's sort of right. He's sort of right. If his argument is you thought COVID
00:35:11.980
was bad, just wait until global warming. He's sort of right, though, not in the way that he thinks he
00:35:16.240
is, is the biggest issue with COVID was not the virus. It was the lockdown.
00:35:24.060
Right. Viruses exist. Disease, germs exist. There's nothing really new about that. And if
00:35:30.580
COVID was a little more virulent than some other viruses and diseases, though a lot less virulent
00:35:35.360
than many others as well, then, OK, that's a natural fact of life. What was different about COVID
00:35:41.400
is that we shut down all of society over it and lost all of our political rights and power and
00:35:47.040
closed churches and allowed these psychos in Washington to to become much more powerful than
00:35:53.860
they already were and disrupt the supply chains and kick people out of work. And we're still giving
00:35:59.480
them a lot of power. That's what our lawsuit against the Biden administration right now is really
00:36:03.240
fighting against. It was it was the lockdowns. And so what the left is trying to do now is go from
00:36:09.940
the COVID justification to the global warming justification and keep the same kind of lockdown
00:36:17.460
policies. They're they're totally changing the rationale for their political power grab,
00:36:23.980
but they're trying to keep the exact same power grab. Maybe maybe we ought to have learned a lesson
00:36:32.200
from COVID, not the lesson Chuck Schumer thinks we learned. He thinks the lesson we learned is we
00:36:36.500
better we better give them all the power. We better not mess around with them. We better give
00:36:41.220
them whatever they want. I think the lesson is, no, don't give them an inch. Don't give them
00:36:44.460
an inch because there are much bigger public health threats than the Wuhan virus. There are much bigger
00:36:52.320
public health threats than the sun monster. Here's one. For the first time ever last year,
00:36:59.940
the Associated Press is reporting from public health officials in the U.S. that 100,000 Americans
00:37:06.680
died of drug overdoses in one year. Just one year. The number jumped 30 percent in one year. Why is that?
00:37:17.740
What changed? Was it just because was it the weather that changed? Was it just random? Or was it maybe
00:37:25.720
because we threw a lot of people out of work? We kicked people out of their churches. We wouldn't
00:37:31.480
let people see their friends and family members. We locked them all up with nothing to do. Idle hands
00:37:36.800
are the devil's playground. We have given these pharmaceutical companies and drug cartels on the
00:37:43.400
southern border carte blanche to do whatever they want. And now a lot of people died.
00:37:48.480
Maybe it has something to do with that. Maybe, you know, we talk about how some of the COVID numbers
00:37:55.940
are inflated because for parts of the lockdowns, if you got shot in the head, but you tested positive
00:38:00.320
for COVID, that was a COVID death. So the official statistics are difficult to believe. A lot of us
00:38:06.840
think the official, the real number is significantly lower, but then maybe we need to add 100,000 here or
00:38:11.560
or at least some portion of that here, because those deaths seems to me would be exacerbated,
00:38:19.420
would be encouraged by the lockdown policies that the public health geniuses tell us
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00:39:07.500
This was the big problem with allowing Dr. Fauci and Dr. Scarf to run all those White House press
00:39:14.640
conferences. You remember in the early days of COVID, back in those halcyon Trump years,
00:39:19.380
Trump would hold the press conferences and he would be flanked by all the public health officials
00:39:23.360
and they would, you know, Fauci would get up and he'd say, you see, go, don't wear the mask. Oh,
00:39:28.720
actually do wear the mask. Oh, whatever I say is gospel truth. And he'd go up and then Dr. Scarf would
00:39:33.720
say whatever she was going to say. And then that jerk surgeon general would get up and say what he
00:39:37.080
was going to say. And it was all the public health people. And the mistake there was not even
00:39:41.660
necessarily that he held the press conferences, not even necessarily that those knuckleheads
00:39:45.940
talked. It was that they were the only people speaking.
00:39:48.700
But the country is not just run by egghead epidemiologists and it should not be at least.
00:39:56.760
Trump also probably should have had an economist get up there and speak. Trump also probably should
00:40:00.700
have had a national security figure get up there and speak. Trump also should have probably had a
00:40:05.040
constitutional expert get up there and speak. Trump also could have had an historian get up there and
00:40:09.720
speak to talk about the norms in this country. Any other number of people because
00:40:14.120
politics is an art of balancing competing interests. And yes, it's true that if Dr. Fauci were given
00:40:25.660
all of the political power in the country, I guess he sort of has been, then he would view every
00:40:31.500
public matter through the lens of epidemiology. Even to the destruction of businesses, to the destruction
00:40:40.120
of civil liberties, to the destruction of churches, to the destruction of interpersonal relationships
00:40:46.140
and traditions, and ironically, even the public health. Because if you're only focused on eradicating
00:40:52.660
one virus, maybe you're ignoring the deaths of despair that are going on, suicides and drug overdoses
00:40:57.040
too. You need to balance these things. You can't just give some egghead expert specialist
00:41:04.080
control over your whole country. Speaking of following the science, Jedediah Bila,
00:41:09.420
from Fox News, was just brought onto The View. So she was from a sort of center-right news outlet,
00:41:16.440
was brought onto this left-wing news outlet, and she was just there to plug her book. But she was
00:41:21.760
asked about COVID. They wouldn't let her go into the studio because she refused to take the Fauci
00:41:25.860
ouchie. They made a big deal about this. And then they railroaded her because she was stating
00:41:30.560
perfectly true things about the virus. Let's address the elephant in the room because you were
00:41:36.780
supposed to join us in the studios weeks ago. But you couldn't because ABC has a very strict policy.
00:41:44.660
You can't get into this building unless you're fully vaccinated. Everybody in this room knows
00:41:48.540
that and is vaccinated. But you made a conscious decision not to get the vaccine.
00:41:53.720
I have a medical exemption to the vaccine that's been written by my infectious disease
00:41:57.360
vaccinated specialist in New York City that's been co-signed by three other doctors. I'm not
00:42:02.440
a candidate for this vaccine. I also have sky-high, multi-tiered, multifaceted, natural immunity,
00:42:09.700
very, very high. That has also been proven. It has been shown and it is substantiated by letters
00:42:15.420
from these doctors. So for me personally, this vaccine poses a greater risk than a benefit. But the
00:42:20.740
vaccine does not prevent you from getting COVID and does not prevent you from transmitting COVID.
00:42:31.960
I just don't understand why you would choose to prioritize your personal freedom over health
00:42:36.220
and safety of others. And I just really don't think that we should allow this kind of misinformation
00:42:43.180
So Jedediah is obviously right. And the cackling hens over the viewer are not just rude and not just
00:42:50.440
unprofessional. I suppose their professional job actually is to shut up conservatives. So there
00:42:55.380
you go. I guess they're being very professional, but, but they're also wrong here. They're also just,
00:42:59.820
what Jedediah said is absolutely true. The CDC admits that about transmission of the virus and
00:43:05.260
contracting the virus even after the vaccine. The CDC admits that. So what, what they're saying,
00:43:11.020
what she's saying is absolutely right. Then what cackling hen number two, I don't know her name
00:43:15.880
on the view set over there is, I don't know why you're, why you're prioritizing your personal
00:43:20.700
freedom over my safety. Jedediah is not. What she said was she's prioritizing her safety over perhaps
00:43:26.380
your safety. Although the point she's making also is that the vaccinated people can still transmit
00:43:31.580
the virus as the CDC acknowledged at the end of July, which was their argument for why vaccinated
00:43:37.700
people still need to wear the masks and socially distance and all that other nonsense.
00:43:42.280
So it's not, it's not even a battle between my freedom and our safety. It's, it's a contest between
00:43:49.220
my safety and, oh, and that's it. And no one else's safety because the, the threat to other people's
00:43:56.200
safety is not really going to change. And if the vaccine is so effective at preventing you,
00:44:01.260
the recipient from, from hospitalization and death, then you don't need to worry about what
00:44:05.780
someone else is doing necessarily. But then they cut off her mic. They cut off her mic. They say,
00:44:11.860
you've been at Fox news too long, or you've been, you're too conservative or something.
00:44:17.520
The woman is reciting lines from the CDC, from the scientists, from the public health experts,
00:44:23.860
but they contradict the left's political narrative. And so they're going to cut it off. And I think the
00:44:29.600
crucial thing about this clip is when they cut her mic off, when she brings those facts,
00:44:36.020
when she brings that science, they cut it off and they can cut it off. And yes, you know,
00:44:41.300
you talk about Fox news, it's kind of a center, right news outlet. There are some conservative
00:44:45.240
outlets out there on alternative media. Obviously we're a very large platform here at the daily wire,
00:44:49.520
but for the left, it's not just a handful like we have on the right. It's ABC, NBC, CBS, New York
00:44:57.360
Times, this, that, the other thing. It's the whole, it goes, it's the whole blob. And so they can cut
00:45:03.840
you off. And for most people, you're just going to hear the cackling hens and you're not going to hear
00:45:07.300
the science. This is why, really getting back to the Rittenhouse case, this is why the central
00:45:12.420
question that's affecting the verdict, it's affecting all of, all of this trial is not so much the
00:45:17.640
evidence, but the media as the judge lambasted the media for just two days ago. Some of the things
00:45:25.780
that have been said to, I guess I'll comment on that too. These are five very reputable, competent
00:45:31.520
attorneys that I've practiced with for years. And I think it's shameful. Some of the things that are
00:45:39.100
being done to these people. And I, when I talked about problems with the media, when this trial
00:45:48.380
started, that's, they're there in part, not fully, but in part, because of grossly irresponsible handling
00:45:56.680
of what comes out of this trial. I will tell you this, I'm going to think long and hard about
00:46:03.380
a live television trial again, next time. I don't know. I, I, I've always been a firm believer in it
00:46:09.320
because I think the people should be able to see what's going on. But what I see, what's being done
00:46:13.140
is really quite frightening. Frightening, that's the right word for it. That is the right word. And so
00:46:17.320
this verdict is not just about what Kyle Rittenhouse did. This verdict is not just about our right to
00:46:21.120
self-defense. This verdict will also express how much control the media have over shaping our entire
00:46:29.600
society. Are we going to be run by a court of law or the court of public opinion shaped by the
00:46:36.540
dishonest media? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
00:46:44.540
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