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00:00:37.700 At least five people dead, another 48 injured after a man drove his SUV into a Christmas parade.

00:00:44.220 The man had a long criminal record.

00:00:46.900 Drugs, battery, domestic abuse.

00:00:49.800 He was charged just last July with two counts of reckless endangerment and possession of a dangerous weapon as a convicted felon.

00:00:57.960 But he was released on $500 bail last February.

00:01:02.240 Then he was charged again just a couple of weeks ago with resisting or obstructing an officer, bail jumping recklessly,

00:01:09.960 endangering safety, disorderly conduct, and battery connected to domestic abuse.

00:01:14.180 Then he was released just six days after that on a $1,000 bond.

00:01:21.380 Then he struck again.

00:01:23.420 Now five people are dead.

00:01:25.580 Dozens are injured.

00:01:27.100 This is criminal justice reform in practice.

00:01:31.840 This is compassion.

00:01:34.620 This is the compassion being peddled not just by Democrats, but by many Republicans as well.

00:01:40.380 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:41.080 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:44.180 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:49.760 My favorite comment yesterday is from Squeevy Plays, who says,

00:01:53.140 The only way to end the endless cycle of sins of the father is forgiveness.

00:01:57.700 But who needs forgiveness when you can destroy someone's life for clout?

00:02:01.180 Right.

00:02:01.580 We talked about this yesterday.

00:02:03.460 I mentioned this great thinker, Rene Girard, who has this idea that culture begins with a sort of founding murder.

00:02:10.980 Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remus, and the definition of human culture is mimetic rivalry, where we just kind of mimic one another and it gets worse and worse and worse.

00:02:19.720 And the only way to end it is by scapegoating somebody or with a unanimous ritual killing or with this kind of violence, this war of all against all until Christianity. 0.51

00:02:27.740 Christianity comes in and says, No, we're not going to do that anymore.

00:02:31.180 We're going to take the side of the victim.

00:02:32.700 And what does the left say?

00:02:33.680 Nope.

00:02:34.020 No, thanks.

00:02:34.900 And we all do it.

00:02:35.740 See, we all scapegoat.

00:02:37.240 We're all part of that.

00:02:38.760 And when we're scapegoating, we're not even aware that we're scapegoating.

00:02:42.240 Very, very insightful comment.

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00:03:57.000 The criminal who killed those people and injured so many more people was out on a $1,000 bond.

00:04:05.180 He shouldn't have been out on the bond, obviously.

00:04:07.620 He shouldn't have been out even the last time because he got out on a bail for the last charges. 0.75

00:04:11.240 He's a career criminal. 1.00

00:04:12.220 He's a thug. 0.99

00:04:13.360 He should have been rotting away in prison, but we have calls for criminal justice reform. 0.97

00:04:19.940 We have calls for leniency.

00:04:21.460 We have calls openly to abolish prisons, and we're told this is compassionate.

00:04:25.900 It's very wrong to lock up dangerous criminals.

00:04:29.640 It's wrong, and it's racist somehow, and it's mean-spirited, and it's cruel, and so we've got to let them out.

00:04:36.020 And because the compassionate thing is to let five people be struck by an SUV, well, I'm sorry, dozens of people struck by an SUV, five killed, and many, many more injured.

00:04:44.200 Even the DA in Milwaukee County, John Chisholm, now admits the bail was a little too low.

00:04:49.120 They were a little too compassionate, don't you think?

00:04:52.080 Quote, the state's bail recommendation in this case was inappropriately low in light of the nature of the recent charges and the pending charges against this guy, says John Chisholm, the Milwaukee DA.

00:05:03.840 Okay, whoopsie-daisy, yep, oops, it was a little too low, ah, yeah, maybe it should have been $2,000, oops, whoopsie, that's it, that's it, that now, no, I don't, I don't think that's it.

00:05:22.060 I think that, first of all, this guy, John Chisholm, should resign or should be chased out of office, and I think that we need to take a moment here and pause and figure out what got us into this mess in the first place.

00:05:32.620 I'm not just throwing blame on everyone.

00:05:34.140 Obviously, the guy who drove the SUV is the person primarily at fault here.

00:05:38.700 He's the one who committed the crime.

00:05:40.940 But how was he permitted to commit that crime?

00:05:44.380 Through gross negligence, through criminal negligence, if you ask me, of our law enforcement, of our, really of our elected officials, and of the people of Milwaukee who voted for these people and who voted for this kind of stuff.

00:05:59.320 Criminal justice reform.

00:06:00.540 We've got to be compassionate.

00:06:02.620 It's not even just Democrats.

00:06:03.920 I want to do my best to mitigate scapegoating the left here and scapegoating the Democrats.

00:06:09.360 The Republicans did this, too.

00:06:10.680 Trump peddled this stuff.

00:06:12.040 You know I love Trump.

00:06:12.900 I voted for Trump twice.

00:06:14.060 Big supporter of Trump.

00:06:15.180 But he peddled this stuff.

00:06:16.900 Remember the First Step Act, which I referred to at the time and still do as the jailbreak bill?

00:06:22.320 We were told it's somehow deeply conservative to spring criminals from the clink.

00:06:26.560 How is that conservative?

00:06:27.620 Even the Republicans, even right-wing conservative Republicans bought into this lie that we have an over-incarceration problem in the United States.

00:06:36.720 We got crime spiking.

00:06:38.220 Crime is going through the roof, especially violent crime.

00:06:40.400 Up to and including murders.

00:06:45.360 Obviously, we don't have an over-incarceration problem.

00:06:48.000 We have an under-incarceration problem.

00:06:50.700 When crime's gone up, you have an under-incarceration problem.

00:06:54.060 Okay?

00:06:55.020 So how did we get here?

00:06:56.400 How did we get to the point where, obviously, the libs were leading the way on it?

00:06:59.840 But how did we get to the point where even the right-wingers were peddling this kind of insanity that leads to such horrific results?

00:07:05.820 Well, here is the logic peddled by, articulated by Rashida Tlaib.

00:07:14.660 She is, I guess she is sort of the George Harrison of the squad.

00:07:18.740 AOC is McCartney.

00:07:21.100 Ilhan Omar is John Lennon.

00:07:23.480 Ayanna Pressley is Ringo.

00:07:24.680 She is kind of the least important member.

00:07:27.080 And so I guess Rashida Tlaib is the George Harrison of the squad.

00:07:29.840 She just sat down with Axios and was questioned about her bill supporting the emptying of prisons.

00:07:37.660 Here is her argument.

00:07:38.740 In 2020, you endorsed the BREATHE Act, which is a series of proposals to transform America's criminal justice system and create, quote, a roadmap for prison abolition.

00:07:50.280 The BREATHE Act proposes emptying federal detention facilities within 10 years.

00:07:56.700 To what extent have you wrestled with any potential downsides of releasing into society every single person who's currently in a federal prison?

00:08:06.820 Yeah.

00:08:07.180 Again, I think that everyone's like, oh, my God, we're going to just release everybody.

00:08:11.280 That's not what I'm saying.

00:08:12.180 That's what the facts is.

00:08:12.640 Yeah, but did you see how many people are mentally ill that are in prison right now?

00:08:16.040 No, I know, but the act that you endorsed actually says release everyone in 10 years.

00:08:20.720 But in 10 years, but think about it, who will release you?

00:08:23.200 But there are like human traffickers.

00:08:25.280 Oh, I know. 0.99

00:08:25.800 Child sex. 0.85

00:08:26.540 So, but you're saying, do you mean that you don't actually support that? 0.95

00:08:29.480 No.

00:08:29.780 Because you endorsed the bill.

00:08:30.620 No, I endorsed the BREATHE Act in looking at federal, the policies and how we incarcerate.

00:08:35.160 Absolutely.

00:08:35.700 But it says in there.

00:08:36.760 But you cannot, you cannot, you cannot just blankedly say, oh, look, she wants, that's not what I'm saying.

00:08:41.980 But that's like in plain text.

00:08:43.880 That is what you're saying.

00:08:44.960 You got to give it to Jonathan Swan over at Axios.

00:08:47.400 He is a pretty dogged interviewer and he's, he's basically fair.

00:08:51.220 I assume he's on the left, but he's basically fair.

00:08:53.940 And he, obviously he's much, much more intelligent than Rashida Tlaib, who is not the brightest bulb in the pack.

00:09:01.420 So she endorsed this bill that literally said empty out the federal prisons. 0.98

00:09:06.280 And so he says, do you really support emptying it out?

00:09:08.860 Like child rapists and mother killers and all the psychos and all these people. 0.92

00:09:14.000 And she said, no, that's not what it says. 0.86

00:09:15.780 And he says, no, it's literally what it says. 0.93

00:09:17.160 And she goes, no, but think about how many mentally ill people there are.

00:09:20.200 So, oh, so you, so you're admitting that you want, you're, you're saying the reason we need to let everyone out is because they're mentally ill, even though there are plenty of criminals who are not mentally ill.

00:09:29.260 And the ones who are mentally ill, I'm not sure we want them on the streets either if they're, if they're criminally insane.

00:09:33.720 And he says, okay, so you, you do want to let them all out.

00:09:36.060 She goes, no, but it's not, it's not fair to say we're going to let them all out.

00:09:38.660 It's going to take 10 years.

00:09:39.700 Okay, well, what about in 10 years?

00:09:41.020 Well, no, Jonathan, you're not.

00:09:42.300 And she, she can't keep up. 1.00

00:09:44.040 And so she's just got this smile on her face and she's saying things that don't make any sense.

00:09:47.920 And he's giving her the out.

00:09:49.220 He's saying, okay, so you, we're agreeing.

00:09:52.360 You don't want to let every single person, and she won't take the out.

00:09:56.660 What I'm saying is look at who's in prison now.

00:10:01.000 No, look at the folks that are mentally ill, that have substance abuse problems.

00:10:04.600 But I'm not disagreeing with you that there are people who should be in prison.

00:10:06.960 Yeah, but then why aren't you asking me about them?

00:10:08.020 You're asking me about the human traffickers and others that should be able to be held accountable.

00:10:10.900 No, I'm trying to understand.

00:10:12.120 No, no, no.

00:10:12.720 What I'm trying to understand is your proposal is so sweeping.

00:10:16.120 It does release everyone.

00:10:18.280 And what I'm trying to say to you is-

00:10:19.080 Within 10 years, and obviously there's a process of looking at how can we get away from mass incarceration

00:10:24.380 and move towards care first.

00:10:26.600 But what I'm trying to understand, because it is such a sweeping concrete proposal,

00:10:29.520 do you believe that there are still categories of people who should be behind bars?

00:10:34.620 There are absolutely folks that I don't under, you know, I don't know,

00:10:40.300 because right now the way the prison system is supposed to be like rehabilitary.

00:10:43.340 You know, it's supposed to be rehabilitation, right?

00:10:45.360 Right.

00:10:45.700 No, really, that's how they-

00:10:46.980 I understand.

00:10:47.580 Yeah.

00:10:47.880 I don't think there's any rehabilitation happening right now for those that might actually have,

00:10:52.700 you know, and again, a majority, there's so many that have mental health issues.

00:10:56.320 She can't say it.

00:10:57.600 She gets so close to saying it.

00:11:00.400 And she's saying, well, why-

00:11:01.360 Stop talking to me about the child rapists.

00:11:03.040 Let's just talk about the poor drug addicts.

00:11:05.400 And he says, right, no, but the issue with your bill is not exactly the poor.

00:11:09.300 It's not mostly the poor drug addicts.

00:11:10.640 It's the- 0.99

00:11:11.200 What about the child rapists and the mother killers and the psychopaths? 0.97

00:11:15.260 You're going to let them out too? 0.88

00:11:17.280 Well, no, but you're not.

00:11:18.920 And then finally, he says, will you at least admit that there are some people,

00:11:24.520 Jeffrey Dahmer, I don't, just some people who should be in prison.

00:11:28.680 And she goes, well, I will admit that there are some people, yeah, yeah, who, and we need

00:11:35.340 to look at, and she won't do it.

00:11:37.220 She won't do it because her logic is not a single person should be in prison.

00:11:43.120 She says the purpose is rehabilitation.

00:11:44.920 First of all, that's a purpose of criminal justice, but it's not the primary purpose.

00:11:48.240 The primary purpose of criminal justice is retribution.

00:11:51.200 You commit a crime, you are punished to satisfy justice.

00:11:54.580 A second effect would be rehabilitation.

00:11:56.160 It's very important, but rehabilitation is not the primary purpose because you need to

00:12:00.560 commit a crime first.

00:12:01.760 Plenty of people need rehabilitation who haven't committed crimes.

00:12:04.440 We can't just start sending them to prison.

00:12:06.380 Deterrence would be another reason, but deterrence is not the primary purpose.

00:12:11.380 Otherwise, you can just make an example out of anybody, but there's a higher threshold.

00:12:14.640 You've got to commit a crime, and then you send them there to satisfy justice, and there

00:12:18.000 are other reasons to do it as well. 1.00

00:12:19.740 And I don't want to just say that this woman is an idiot or her moral lens is completely wrong. 0.99

00:12:26.400 She is making this very same argument that we were talking about earlier, about victimhood, 0.99

00:12:32.800 about mimetic rivalry, to use the technical term.

00:12:36.220 She is trying to take the side of the victim, and she's saying the victim in this case are

00:12:41.160 the people who were failed by society, who grew up in bad homes, who had bad examples.

00:12:45.400 And yes, they went to a life of crime, but they're victims too.

00:12:47.960 Sure.

00:12:48.400 And as a result of that myopic view, she is ignoring the other victims of the criminals. 0.96

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00:14:04.100 Joe Biden, as the head of the Democrat Party, doesn't want any part of this issue in Wisconsin,

00:14:11.420 of this attack that left five people dead and over 40 people injured.

00:14:16.020 He doesn't want to talk about it.

00:14:17.620 He doesn't want to get into it because it exposes problems in the left's agenda.

00:14:23.300 Take a listen.

00:14:23.720 Yesterday, he was giving some remarks and he knew he had to address it a little bit,

00:14:27.180 but he said, I don't want to get into it before the facts are out.

00:14:29.100 Before I begin, I want to comment on the tragedy that occurred last night during the

00:14:35.680 holiday parade in Wisconsin.

00:14:40.160 While we don't have all the facts and details yet, we know this morning that five families

00:14:46.860 in Waukesha are facing fresh grief of a life without a loved one.

00:14:52.700 At least 40 Americans are suffering from injuries, some of them in critical condition.

00:14:59.780 And an entire community is struggling, struggling to cope with the horrific act of violence.

00:15:05.380 He doesn't want to talk, though, until the facts come out.

00:15:07.440 He's certainly not going to talk about how the attacker appears to be a leftist who made

00:15:13.220 a lot of left-wing social media posts.

00:15:15.440 And he's not going to talk about any how he was out on bail and all that.

00:15:17.700 He's not going to talk about any of that.

00:15:19.080 Doesn't want to jump to any conclusions.

00:15:20.420 Joe Biden put video of Kyle Rittenhouse into a campaign ad and called him a white supremacist

00:15:28.280 completely baselessly.

00:15:31.020 Forget about waiting for the facts to come out.

00:15:32.880 Kyle Rittenhouse was just exonerated by a court.

00:15:36.960 But in this case, Joe Biden wants to wait because he knows how bad this looks for them.

00:15:42.860 This is what's so difficult to understand about wokeism.

00:15:46.260 Wokeism is, we think of it as anti-Christian or anti-conservative or anti-American.

00:15:53.620 In a way, though, it's just, it's too Christian. 0.99

00:15:58.780 It's too American. 0.67

00:15:59.740 It's too compassionate.

00:16:02.300 Right?

00:16:02.420 It's not that it's a vice running freely.

00:16:04.120 It's that it's a virtue running freely.

00:16:06.300 The wokeism is trying to out-Christian the Christians. 0.85

00:16:09.660 This is why you'll, you'll very often see people on the left who don't believe in Christianity,

00:16:13.520 who don't go to church, who don't believe in Jesus. 0.99

00:16:15.240 They will always, they'll attack Christians and they'll say, you hypocritical Christians. 0.99

00:16:20.260 You don't really believe what you say. 1.00

00:16:22.220 You don't really understand the Bible.

00:16:23.620 You don't really follow Jesus.

00:16:25.380 I mean, I don't either, but you especially don't.

00:16:27.920 I'm more, I'm going to out-Christian the Christians. 1.00

00:16:30.100 I'm, I'm going to out-compat, I'm, and what they do is they take one of the, if not the central

00:16:37.580 anthropological feature of Christianity, taking the side of the victims, that God himself in 0.97

00:16:42.620 the Passion is a victim and takes the side of the victims and, you know, destroys this

00:16:49.040 kind of unanimous scapegoating mob violence on the cross, right?

00:16:52.920 They destroy Satan on the cross.

00:16:54.380 They, they take that and they point to any instance where a Christian has ever done anything 0.70

00:17:00.860 wrong and it's a fallen world, so everyone, all Christians have done something wrong and 0.97

00:17:04.880 they say, yeah, see, you're not, you're hypocrites. 0.97

00:17:06.780 You're, you're not really living up to your standards. 0.95

00:17:08.420 We're going to take that compassion.

00:17:10.240 We're going to take that side of the victim and we're going to divorce it from Christianity. 1.00

00:17:13.120 That's not going to work.

00:17:13.860 Do you know what, what ends up happening?

00:17:15.260 You just end up scapegoating other people.

00:17:18.180 You just end up being cruel to other people.

00:17:21.080 So in this case, you are being cruel to the victims of this killer in Wisconsin, to the

00:17:28.880 victims of crime, or, you know, at the, at the broader social level, you're saying, look, 0.87

00:17:33.700 we're going to take the side of the victims, black people and women. 0.95

00:17:37.640 And so we're going to scapegoat white men. 0.99

00:17:39.600 White men are going to be the cause of all of the problem. 1.00

00:17:41.380 They can't get out of it. 0.99

00:17:42.420 The only way you can get out of that is with God.

00:17:45.600 He, that, this is, this is the essence of Christianity.

00:17:49.100 It actually takes God.

00:17:50.500 Mankind is not able to overcome this kind of thing on his own.

00:17:56.280 And this is why all of the attempts to recreate Christianity in the modern world without God, 0.99

00:18:01.620 humanitarianism, wokeism, liberalism, progressivism, whatever ism, they're all bound to failure

00:18:09.240 and they're all going to make all the same mistakes that the pagan world made before Christianity

00:18:14.540 pervaded the world in the first place.

00:18:16.920 So by good old compassionate Joe Biden, he's going to keep his mouth shut about Wisconsin.

00:18:23.040 He knows it because he knows how bad it looks for him.

00:18:24.820 Democrats are fleeing Joe Biden.

00:18:28.300 Even the would-be future governor of Texas, Beto, Beto O'Rourke is fleeing Joe Biden.

00:18:35.520 He was on CNN.

00:18:37.000 He was asked, do you want the president to come campaign for you?

00:18:39.580 He says, no, thanks.

00:18:40.860 A recent poll shows, though, that just 35% of Texans approve of his performance.

00:18:46.720 Would you like the president to come and campaign with you?

00:18:49.200 This campaign in Texas is not going to be about Joe Biden.

00:18:52.320 It's not going to be about Donald Trump.

00:18:54.000 It's not going to be about anyone from outside of our state.

00:18:56.900 This is going to be about the people of Texas and what the people of Texas want.

00:19:01.240 And I told you, they want the big things like jobs, great schools, and making sure everyone

00:19:06.940 can see a doctor.

00:19:07.900 But they also want to see some competence in their government.

00:19:10.980 Does that mean that you would prefer that he not come based on what you just said?

00:19:15.340 It means that I'm focused on Texas and on my fellow Texans.

00:19:19.360 Those are the people most important to me.

00:19:21.620 There is no politician.

00:19:23.140 There's no other person from outside of this state who can help to change the course of this

00:19:27.400 election for better or for worse.

00:19:29.700 So, first of all, credit to the CNN lady for pushing Beto on the point. 0.60

00:19:35.140 She says, hey, Beto, do you want Biden to come help you?

00:19:39.000 And he was like, no, look, listen, man, hell no, I don't.

00:19:43.300 Heck no, no, man.

00:19:45.040 Because no, this is going to be about the people of Texas. 0.84

00:19:47.820 And he gives this ridiculous platitude, which is just a polite way of saying, Joe Biden,

00:19:53.520 please don't come here. 0.73

00:19:54.880 And she pushes him, says, hold on.

00:19:57.240 Are you saying you actively do not want him to come?

00:20:00.860 And he says, there's no politician who could help us.

00:20:04.120 That's not true.

00:20:05.580 That's not true.

00:20:06.420 There are plenty of non-Texas politicians who are popular in Texas who could come and help.

00:20:13.920 I mean, this happens in every single race.

00:20:16.260 You always have politicians from out of state flying in to help various candidates, not just

00:20:20.640 in Texas, but all over the country.

00:20:21.860 Unless the politician's not popular, and we know Joe Biden's not popular, his approval

00:20:25.960 rating's at about 38%, even though he's basically a rock star compared to Kamala Harris, whose

00:20:31.100 approval rating is 27 or 28%, lower than Dick Cheney after he shot the guy in the face.

00:20:36.000 But Joe Biden's still underwater in terms of his approval rating, and so Beto doesn't want

00:20:40.780 it.

00:20:42.200 Beto knows that Joe Biden will drag him down.

00:20:46.840 And Beto doesn't have very far to go.

00:20:48.660 He's already lost two races.

00:20:49.940 His last two races he lost for Senate and for president.

00:20:53.060 So he can't afford that.

00:20:55.280 What are the Democrats going to do?

00:20:57.800 Forget Texas.

00:20:58.700 What are they going to do in 2022 all around the country?

00:21:01.620 What are they going to do in 2024 when Joe Biden may be running, may not be running, if

00:21:09.220 his vice president is the one running, she's in an even worse position. 1.00

00:21:12.360 They don't seem to have anyone on the bench other than Pete Buttigieg, who's going to be

00:21:15.140 away on paternity leave.

00:21:16.340 You know, and no one's even going to miss him when he's away.

00:21:19.380 So the Republicans are in a very strong position right now.

00:21:22.780 But don't worry.

00:21:25.040 For the Democrats out there listening to this show right now, do not worry about the strong

00:21:29.220 position the Republicans are in.

00:21:31.060 They will find a way to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory.

00:21:35.380 They will.

00:21:36.180 You can trust the Republicans to do that.

00:21:39.520 You can almost always trust Republicans to make, at least the Republican leadership, to

00:21:44.760 make the exact wrong decision.

00:21:48.260 Story out from Nate Hockman at National Review.

00:21:52.000 He just had a great piece on this.

00:21:55.560 The GOP is going trans. 0.97

00:21:57.880 Yes, the GOP is now a trans party.

00:22:01.160 They are pushing something called the Fairness for All Act.

00:22:04.900 This is an all-Republican bill that would make sexual orientation and gender identity a federally

00:22:12.960 protected class according to the Civil Rights Act.

00:22:17.480 Now, in return, what the GOP would get would be certain carve-outs for the right to discriminate

00:22:22.340 against those things for religious institutions, for instance.

00:22:27.000 But no one really thinks that's going to hold up in court anyway.

00:22:29.540 So this is not the Republicans compromising.

00:22:32.800 There aren't any Democrats who support this bill.

00:22:35.920 The Republicans who are pushing it are saying, well, this is our version of the Equality Act

00:22:39.120 and we're going to avoid the worse Equality Act.

00:22:40.780 But there are no Democrats even agreeing to this.

00:22:42.620 So it's just a surrender.

00:22:45.440 It's just a concession to radical transgender ideology for no reason. 0.99

00:22:51.740 For no reason at all.

00:22:52.620 We just won a governorship in Virginia on transgenderism.

00:22:56.540 On saying that boys are not girls and girls are not boys and you shouldn't let boys into 1.00

00:22:59.640 the girls' room.

00:23:00.400 We just deprived a blue state, blue commonwealth, of a Democrat governor and got a Republican

00:23:06.380 governor in there on this issue. 1.00

00:23:08.860 And these idiot Republicans, pardon my blunt language, I hate to be so direct, but they're 1.00

00:23:15.980 idiots. 1.00

00:23:17.340 Or they're moral. 1.00

00:23:19.080 Either they're political idiots and they can't make the right calculation or they're moral 1.00

00:23:22.160 idiots and they don't see that actually boys are not girls and girls are not boys. 1.00

00:23:25.200 I'm like so angry. 1.00

00:23:26.060 I'm spilling my leftist tears all over. 1.00

00:23:28.400 I'm not going to get any of those leftist tears today because of these damned Republicans 1.00

00:23:31.700 who are trying to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory. 0.99

00:23:36.040 And who's supporting this?

00:23:38.280 The House GOP caucus chairman, Elise Stefanik.

00:23:42.940 Remember, we had Liz Cheney in there and she became a big lib and she started shilling for 1.00

00:23:47.420 Nancy Pelosi.

00:23:48.600 And so we got Elise Stefanik and she was supported actually by Donald Trump and by other people.

00:23:53.800 And at the time I said, watch out for this one.

00:23:56.020 She's actually more liberal than Cheney.

00:23:58.220 On the political matters, you know, on the partisan matters, she tends to side more with

00:24:01.580 the Republicans, but she's a big lib. 0.68

00:24:03.260 And it turns out she is a big lib. 1.00

00:24:04.580 And there are 20 other Republicans who are supporting transgenderism. 0.88

00:24:09.020 Tone deaf, rudderless with Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?

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00:26:29.420 It's so simple for the GOP right now.

00:26:44.720 It would be so simple. 0.93

00:26:47.020 You've got Democrats pushing this insane, these insane racial theories, these insane sexual theories, 0.94

00:26:54.040 telling parents they have no right to educate their kids,

00:26:56.360 telling parents that they have no right to determine their kids' medical decisions,

00:27:00.620 whether it's the Fauci ouchie or transing the kid through mutilation and surgery.

00:27:05.660 It's so easy.

00:27:07.580 All the Republicans need to run on is, hey, just be normal.

00:27:11.360 We're not going to allow the weird stuff and we're just going to do the normal stuff.

00:27:14.960 We're not going to let criminals out of prison.

00:27:17.060 We're actually going to have law and order and a peaceful, normal, good, orderly society.

00:27:24.080 And they just can't do that.

00:27:25.240 Look at what's going on in San Francisco right now.

00:27:28.340 In San Francisco, just a couple nights ago,

00:27:31.600 three stores were ransacked and emptied out by mobs of looters in the same night.

00:27:38.860 So a mob of people armed with hammers entered a jewelry store in Hayward,

00:27:43.560 which is about 35 miles from San Francisco, at 5.25 p.m. on Sunday night, according to police.

00:27:48.500 Take a listen to the operation.

00:27:50.880 So you can see they just, the bust in there is about, what, four or five guys in hoodies.

00:27:58.820 Oh, no, more than that.

00:28:00.340 Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

00:28:02.440 Okay, there's a little more in the back.

00:28:03.700 So say about 10 or a dozen guys with hoodies, they're smashing open cases of jewelry and

00:28:09.920 they're all running out of there with the goods.

00:28:13.760 Then in the nearby town of Walnut Creek, about 30 minutes outside of San Francisco, 80 people

00:28:18.600 wearing ski masks and carrying crowbars robbed a Nordstrom on Saturday night.

00:28:23.900 They broke into the store.

00:28:26.480 They pepper sprayed and assaulted the employees.

00:28:29.000 They grabbed a bunch of merch and they drove away.

00:28:31.580 Eight people.

00:28:32.460 So this is, I want to be precise.

00:28:34.140 It wasn't all in one night.

00:28:35.500 It was over like a, I don't know, 36 hour, 36 to 72 hour period.

00:28:40.360 Eight people were arrested Friday after a Louis Vuitton outlet was robbed in San Francisco.

00:28:45.320 Multiple people broke the windows, emptied out the shop, according to Fox.

00:28:48.520 The people who are weak on crime, the compassionate people, the criminal justice reform people,

00:28:54.980 they think this is fine.

00:28:57.180 They think it's fine to allow this to happen.

00:28:59.920 It's just stuff.

00:29:01.640 The store owners, they probably have insurance.

00:29:04.880 It's fine.

00:29:05.600 And they got their windows smashed up a little and they, you know, they're going to have to

00:29:08.500 close the shop for, you know, a week or two, but it's fine.

00:29:11.940 They actually, a lot of these weak on crime people think that this is just to allow this 0.99

00:29:16.580 to happen in particular because the perps are black. 0.97

00:29:20.220 I'm not sure if they were all black in all of the instances, but in the one that, that 0.98

00:29:23.440 we have video for, they're black.

00:29:25.900 And so a lot of, especially white liberals and a lot of people who are weak on crime will 0.91

00:29:30.440 say, well, this is because of historic racism, because of slavery.

00:29:35.740 The, these, they have to rob the jewelry store.

00:29:38.480 They have to.

00:29:39.120 And it's wrong.

00:29:40.560 They're the victims.

00:29:41.680 The people robbing the jewelry store, they're the real victims. 0.92

00:29:44.360 And the people who own the jewelry store, who might be black, who might be some other 0.96

00:29:49.640 race, but they're, you know, they're evil because they have, they have property and they've 1.00

00:29:54.820 got their lives in order.

00:29:55.900 And so really we should just let these criminals off the hook.

00:29:59.100 And if they are arrested, let's let them out on a really low bond.

00:30:01.640 And if they commit more crime, hey, that's just, that's, that's justice, huh?

00:30:08.820 But it's not, it's not.

00:30:10.600 I'll get to that point that Rashida Tlaib mentioned when she was talking about how we,

00:30:14.520 how she doesn't really want to empty all the jails, but she does want to empty all the 0.54

00:30:17.060 jails.

00:30:17.380 And she said, it's about rehabilitation.

00:30:19.960 Sure.

00:30:21.140 But in the jails, they don't have enough nice programs and they're not playing enough games

00:30:25.320 with the prisoners.

00:30:25.940 And so they're not being rehabilitated.

00:30:29.320 Punishment is rehabilitative.

00:30:33.000 Just, just punishment.

00:30:34.600 Including capital punishment, by the way, hanging concentrates the mind.

00:30:39.960 The, the very fact of being punished for a crime is rehabilitative.

00:30:45.400 This is not to bring up too many of my old dead friends, but this is what Plato talks about

00:30:50.780 in Gorgias.

00:30:51.980 There's a great dialogue by Plato and in it, Socrates, the character of Socrates explains

00:30:58.320 that it is actually cruel not to punish people for crimes because it's not in their interest

00:31:04.720 because the people who are committing these crimes have obviously disordered desires and

00:31:08.660 disordered habits and their vices.

00:31:10.780 And they're basically on the road straight to hell.

00:31:12.660 And it is an act of mercy and compassion to punish them and get them back on the straight

00:31:18.520 and narrow.

00:31:18.840 You think it's good for these robbers to let them just continue in their life of crime?

00:31:22.920 How do you think that's going to end?

00:31:24.900 How do you think that's going to end?

00:31:26.400 It's going to, and if they continue in their life of crime, they're either going to get

00:31:30.600 killed committing crime, right?

00:31:32.520 They're going to end up in some gang shooting or some, some burglary gone wrong and they're 0.95

00:31:36.720 going to, or then they're going to get killed.

00:31:38.160 Or eventually they're probably going to get arrested and they're going to end up in prison.

00:31:43.680 Or even if they get away with all of the crimes in this life, they're going straight to the

00:31:47.780 bad place once they die.

00:31:49.300 They have souls.

00:31:50.380 They actually do have souls and the care of their souls is important.

00:31:54.200 There is nothing.

00:31:54.960 There, there is a false compassion in letting these guys off the hook because of whatever

00:32:00.120 kooky racial or historical theories you have, but it is a false compassion and it's cruel.

00:32:05.960 This is Adam Smith actually, the, you know, from, from whom we get much of our economic

00:32:10.660 philosophy and the wealth of nations.

00:32:12.340 Adam Smith said cruelty, mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

00:32:17.180 It's a very stark way of putting it, but there is some truth to that.

00:32:21.300 But it's actually, it is actually, it's cruel to the victims of these people.

00:32:26.180 It's cruel to the shop owners.

00:32:27.240 It's cruel to the future people that these criminals are going to harm.

00:32:30.560 And it's cruel to the criminals themselves.

00:32:35.340 Speaking of mercy and charity, Catholic University of America seems to, to really get this victim

00:32:42.400 thing a little wrong too.

00:32:43.560 They seem to have abandoned, at least in, in the artwork they're putting on the walls,

00:32:50.220 Christianity, their faith that's supposed to animate the university for the rival religion 1.00

00:32:55.320 of wokeism.

00:32:57.280 And this is from Mary Margaret Olihan at the Daily Signal.

00:33:00.920 She pointed out that there are icons on the walls of the Catholic University of America

00:33:05.820 that portray George Floyd as Christ, or Christ as George, George Floyd, and the Virgin Mary

00:33:12.720 as, as George Floyd's mother.

00:33:16.500 There's a painting of a sort of pieta, and it's George Floyd, blasphemous, sacrilegious, 1.00

00:33:24.380 incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:33:25.440 And, and yet, this is very popular, even in the woke Christian circles. 1.00

00:33:35.220 I, I just did an event at the Catholic University of America, maybe a month ago.

00:33:39.440 I was there with Senator Cruz.

00:33:40.780 They put us in a green room, and they had stations of the cross, you know, the, the depictions

00:33:44.520 of the passion narrative all around the room.

00:33:47.380 So I said, that's nice.

00:33:48.580 And my eyesight from far away, it's not all that great.

00:33:51.680 So I said, oh, that's nice.

00:33:52.480 And I just sort of saw the blurs.

00:33:53.820 And my friend Liz Wheeler was there.

00:33:54.940 She said, Michael, look closely at those pictures.

00:33:56.860 So I zoomed in, and all of the people, Christ, Mary, the apostles, were all Native Americans

00:34:02.760 in headdresses.

00:34:03.680 I mean, in just, you know, in a, I thought, this is blasphemous.

00:34:08.700 This is sacrilegious.

00:34:11.320 It's not, I don't have anything against Indians, but Jesus is not an Indian. 0.98

00:34:17.000 He's not.

00:34:17.720 And what all of this is trying to do, I'm trying to make the best argument I can for, for these

00:34:23.700 people, is, is they're saying, look, Jesus is just kind of an idea.

00:34:29.200 Jesus, he's just like an idea.

00:34:30.980 And it's just the idea of compassion for victims.

00:34:33.820 And so if we portray Jesus as a Native American, that's, that's fine. 0.99

00:34:38.580 It doesn't matter. 0.96

00:34:39.540 If we portray Jesus as a, as a black career criminal, that's fine. 1.00

00:34:44.120 Of course, an important fact about Jesus is that he is sinless. 0.95

00:34:49.800 But no, never mind. 1.00

00:34:50.680 He's a black career criminal. 1.00

00:34:51.920 Because it's just the idea of being nice to victims. 1.00

00:34:54.120 But it's not just the idea.

00:34:55.680 It's not.

00:34:56.700 If Christianity were merely the idea of being nice to victims, then it wouldn't be worth 0.97

00:35:00.540 very much.

00:35:02.040 It wouldn't make a lot of sense.

00:35:03.400 It certainly wouldn't have shaped a civilization.

00:35:05.820 It certainly wouldn't be enough to overcome human nature and sin and death.

00:35:09.920 If Christianity means anything at all, it has to be a fact. 0.93

00:35:15.560 Jesus has to be a real guy.

00:35:17.160 He's got to actually look like somebody.

00:35:19.720 He's got to actually have features that are not just the features of whoever you want him

00:35:23.800 to be.

00:35:24.860 He had to live at a real time and die and actually be resurrected.

00:35:28.380 It has to have really happened.

00:35:31.280 And we can't do that.

00:35:33.140 Before Christianity, before Judaism, you had myth, just myth, all these kinds of myths 0.80

00:35:37.440 that maybe have some basis in historical fact, but they're really just kinds of legends.

00:35:41.140 And you tell themselves, you tell Norse myths and Greek myths and Roman myths.

00:35:44.560 Then you have Christianity, which is not myth, but fact, right?

00:35:47.000 It's a myth that happens to be true and hasn't really happened.

00:35:50.800 And then now in what the left wants to be post-Christianity, you just take these kinds

00:35:55.860 of insights about Christianity, but you make it myth again.

00:35:58.140 It's not just myth.

00:35:59.480 Not compassionate at all.

00:36:00.620 It reveals wokeism for what it really is, which is an alternative religion, a rival to

00:36:05.700 Christianity.

00:36:06.280 Christianity and not a rival to Christianity quite in the same way that paganism is, but

00:36:11.820 a rival to, as Rene Girard says, a rival to Christianity on its left flank, trying to 0.90

00:36:16.680 be more Christian than Christianity. 0.99

00:36:18.940 This stuff has real effects.

00:36:20.160 The killer in Wisconsin was allegedly posting talking points from the woke establishment media.

00:36:28.460 Heavy.com, which is a fact-finding website, along with a number of other journalists online,

00:36:32.880 and Andy Ngo pointed this out early on, highlighted posts that the suspect in Wisconsin had on his

00:36:39.640 social media accounts that he allegedly had.

00:36:42.740 I don't know.

00:36:42.940 I have to say, whenever you're talking about a story where all the facts have not been totally

00:36:45.880 sussed out, you just have to say allegedly like 500,000 times.

00:36:48.700 So, okay.

00:36:48.940 Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly.

00:36:50.000 The posts appeared to express anti-Christian sentiment, disdain for Republican politicians

00:36:59.600 and conservative media.

00:37:00.840 I don't know if yours truly was included, but who knows, you know, the conservative media

00:37:03.700 broadly, and black nationalist rhetoric.

00:37:08.420 Okay.

00:37:08.720 And those are all, those are all big problems in America.

00:37:12.560 Those are all really big problems.

00:37:14.020 And we don't, we don't think about that.

00:37:18.620 We have, we have big problems with anti-Muslim, if Islamophobia, that's a terrible evil.

00:37:23.580 We need to root that out of our society.

00:37:25.060 You hear all of the establishment liberal outlets, they'll say, we have to get rid of

00:37:28.940 Islam, anti-Semitism, the same. 0.83

00:37:30.840 That's a little bit weaker because the libs also hate Israel, but still, but anti-Christianity,

00:37:35.060 you're not allowed to mention that.

00:37:37.300 Disdain for Republican politicians and conservative media, that is encouraged.

00:37:40.100 If you ever say anything negative about a Democrat politician, you're called an insurrectionist 0.87

00:37:45.860 or you're called a white supremacist or a whatever, a sexist, racist, whatever. 0.81

00:37:49.080 But Republicans, that's totally fine. 0.99

00:37:51.220 And then black nationalist rhetoric. 0.99

00:37:52.680 Black nationalism is a very bad thing. 1.00

00:37:54.960 White, white nationalism, we're told is the most evil thing in the history of the world 1.00

00:37:57.900 and we can never even mention it. 0.99

00:37:59.480 But black nationalism gets a pass.

00:38:01.940 Malcolm X, he's kind of cool, right?

00:38:03.820 All these guys, they're really, these are cool guys.

00:38:05.440 This reminds me of a problem that Republicans fall into as well, where everything we don't

00:38:12.020 like is fascism, right?

00:38:14.140 You know, fascism, very, very evil. 0.94

00:38:16.440 The most evil thing in the world. 0.99

00:38:17.760 Nazism, I guess, is the most evil thing in the world. 0.99

00:38:19.520 Fascism, close second. 0.92

00:38:21.020 They're often, the two are conflated.

00:38:23.160 But communism is just fine.

00:38:24.700 Communism gets off the hook.

00:38:26.820 If you wore a t-shirt with Benito Mussolini's face on a college campus, you would almost certainly

00:38:31.820 be expelled.

00:38:32.300 If you wear a t-shirt with Che Guevara's face on a campus, well, that's the ordinary flow

00:38:39.000 of things.

00:38:40.440 Now, from the Daily Wire store, you can wear a t-shirt with Fauci's face on Che Guevara's

00:38:45.800 body.

00:38:47.000 But that would be totally fine.

00:38:49.560 The same way that Republicans look at Antifa and they say, Antifa, they say they're anti-fascist, 0.53

00:38:54.540 but they are fascist.

00:38:56.500 They're not fascist.

00:38:58.000 They're not.

00:38:58.580 They're communists and they're anarchists.

00:39:00.880 But they're not fascists.

00:39:03.060 There are more bad things in the world than fascism.

00:39:06.960 But because fascism is a movement that is sort of broadly on the right, that's the evil

00:39:12.180 and that's the worst thing possible.

00:39:14.620 And because anarchism generally is on the left and communism certainly is on the left, that's

00:39:22.140 totally fine.

00:39:22.720 And we only in this, we scapegoat only the things that are on the right and we never look

00:39:30.720 at the evils that are on the left as well.

00:39:33.740 We, in our liberal culture, the other is always wrong, you know, to use left-wing language,

00:39:39.440 othering.

00:39:40.020 We always other the right-wingers or the Christians or whatever, but the liberal establishment

00:39:44.560 never looks in the mirror and takes stock of itself.

00:39:50.340 You can't avoid politics.

00:39:53.220 I think what a lot of the squishes want to do is they just want to back away.

00:39:59.540 The squishes either want to use the left-wing's preferred rhetoric, whether it's on gender

00:40:04.060 or on race or on, you know, everything that we don't like is fascism or whatever.

00:40:07.280 They either want to go along with the left or they want to avoid it and they say, you know,

00:40:11.600 never mind, I'm going to retreat, but you can't do that.

00:40:14.100 And actually, this is something that Kyle Rittenhouse is dealing with right now.

00:40:17.880 Now, Kyle Rittenhouse was exonerated in the court of law, but that's not the end.

00:40:22.140 The kid's 18 years old.

00:40:23.140 What's he going to do for the rest of his life?

00:40:24.680 This is the defining event probably of his life.

00:40:27.700 So what is he going to do now?

00:40:29.980 And he's got two options, maybe three options.

00:40:35.060 He can become a conservative celebrity.

00:40:37.880 He already is a sort of cause celeb, so he could become a conservative celebrity.

00:40:41.600 He could just persevere and live his life and do whatever he was going to do.

00:40:45.420 Or he can change his name and try to start again.

00:40:48.740 And his lawyer has firm thoughts on the matter.

00:40:52.860 And I'm not sure the lawyer is totally right.

00:40:55.960 Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyer just went on TV, was asked, what are we going to do about Kyle Rittenhouse?

00:41:02.640 What is this kid's future?

00:41:03.780 And he says, the best thing this kid can do, change his name and start over again.

00:41:07.840 I think there's a lot of people who want to use Kyle for their own means.

00:41:12.540 I think the way that Rittenhouse's name right now has trended on Twitter, and that's what we live in as a Twitter society.

00:41:20.600 People want to use his name, get it out there so they can get some publicity.

00:41:25.600 I think it's cheap, that's what I think.

00:41:30.700 My advice would be to change his name and start his life over.

00:41:35.420 He's very recognizable right now.

00:41:37.960 There's a lot of people who I don't think have his best interests at heart

00:41:43.220 and probably want to make him a symbol of something I don't think he wants to be necessarily associated with.

00:41:53.620 And once you give up your name and your likeness and you join those causes,

00:42:01.200 I think a lot of people will use you for their own purposes and you won't be able to control it.

00:42:06.660 We've had that talk with Kyle, and it's going to be a fine line where he decides to go.

00:42:11.860 So, ultimately, I hope he makes the right choices.

00:42:14.620 You know, I hope, I would think his life would be a lot easier being anonymous and going on with his life

00:42:23.240 as opposed to try and keep some of his fervent supporters happy.

00:42:30.180 So, the part that this lawyer gets right is, yes, there are going to be a lot of vultures who want to use Kyle for their own purposes.

00:42:36.420 And that's bad, and Kyle should be very careful, and his parents and his lawyers should be careful not to let that happen.

00:42:44.460 But he's even almost right that Kyle would probably have an easier life if he could just change his name and become anonymous

00:42:50.860 and put this whole thing behind him.

00:42:52.320 First of all, in our social media age, in our age of facial recognition, in our age of the internet where everything he ever did is recorded for all time,

00:43:02.340 does anyone really think that this kid can just completely start over and change his name and he'll just, never mind, forget about Kyle Rittenhouse?

00:43:10.040 I don't think, I don't think that's ever going to happen.

00:43:13.040 And furthermore, changing his name and starting this new life and trying to run away from his identity and his past

00:43:22.020 implies that he did something wrong, implies that he was guilty, implies that he has something to be deeply ashamed of.

00:43:32.040 But he wasn't guilty.

00:43:35.620 He was exonerated.

00:43:37.720 He was exonerated.

00:43:39.880 And now he's being threatened, he was exonerated in the court of law, he's now being just threatened by the mob, the left-wing mob.

00:43:46.280 And what the lawyer is saying is, run away from the mob.

00:43:49.440 Give the mob what they want, or run away from the mob, or turn, that's a bad idea.

00:43:52.940 You can't do that.

00:43:54.480 You can't.

00:43:55.040 I know it would be easy if we lived in this ideal world where you could just run away from your problems.

00:43:59.260 I know that would be easy, but you can't. 0.99

00:44:02.580 That's a fool's errand. 0.79

00:44:04.760 And it implies something that isn't true, namely that the kid was guilty. 0.96

00:44:09.040 I don't think this is the best advice.

00:44:11.440 I do think there's a middle ground here.

00:44:12.980 I don't think the kid, I think he should cash in on slander and libel lawsuits, and I think he should sue every one of those outlets,

00:44:22.640 you know, CNN and the Washington Post and all the people who smeared him.

00:44:25.760 He should sue them into the ground like Nick Sandman did.

00:44:28.100 But I agree.

00:44:29.080 I don't think he should become a new celebrity.

00:44:31.160 I don't think he should start campaigning for people.

00:44:33.020 I don't think he should start his own podcast.

00:44:34.920 I don't think he should do any of that.

00:44:37.060 A lot of people do that, and you can make easy money, and it's very attractive, especially to young people.

00:44:41.680 But the kid is 18 years old.

00:44:44.080 You shouldn't be doing that that young.

00:44:45.540 People I know who got very famous, very young, it has almost never, I don't know that in a single case it's ever turned out well for them.

00:44:53.120 So he shouldn't do that.

00:44:54.860 But he shouldn't run from it either.

00:44:56.140 He is Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:44:57.920 He went through a lot.

00:44:59.080 He overcame a lot.

00:45:00.780 He was exonerated.

00:45:02.600 He won.

00:45:04.900 Don't clutch a defeat from that victory.

00:45:09.120 I don't even think he can.

00:45:11.600 I don't think you can run from your past and your identity and from politics that way.

00:45:15.660 There's a political lesson here too.

00:45:16.880 A lot of conservatives, the squishy, nice types, they want to fall into a kind of quietism.

00:45:24.720 They just want to, oh, just tune it out.

00:45:26.820 Just never, let's retreat to the hills.

00:45:28.360 Let's retreat to the farm and never engage in politics.

00:45:30.500 You can't do it, man.

00:45:32.560 You can't do it.

00:45:33.320 We have a country.

00:45:35.000 We live in a society.

00:45:35.920 We're social animals.

00:45:36.740 We're the political animal, according to Aristotle.

00:45:39.500 You can't run away.

00:45:40.640 You might not care about politics, but politics cares about you.

00:45:44.540 You might not care about the culture, but the culture cares about you.

00:45:49.460 Speaking of people disappearing, I got to get to this before we go today.

00:45:54.300 There was a Chinese tennis star who just me-tooed one of the members of the Communist Party in China. 0.54

00:46:01.000 She said that he sexually assaulted her and pressured her and all sorts of things.

00:46:04.300 And then she went missing.

00:46:05.220 She just got disappeared. 0.78

00:46:06.800 And CNN was talking about this on the air.

00:46:10.060 And as they started talking about this, they had a video of their feed in China.

00:46:14.980 The feed in China went blank.

00:46:16.480 The Communist Party censored the feed from CNN in China.

00:46:21.480 Take a listen.

00:46:22.760 The WTA says they simply don't have evidence right now that Peng Shuai is not being silenced,

00:46:28.360 that she is not able to speak freely.

00:46:31.140 They say none of the proof that has been provided by Chinese state media, John,

00:46:35.780 gives them any comfort that she's actually in a position where her interests are being best represented.

00:46:43.000 So, Will, I want to explain to our viewers what's happening on our screen right now,

00:46:45.920 because underneath your face, they can see a box, which is the actual live feed of this broadcast in China.

00:46:54.560 But it's all color bars.

00:46:56.740 And it went to color bars the minute you started talking.

00:46:59.640 So what's going on here?

00:47:03.420 Chinese censors, John.

00:47:04.580 I have lost count over the last eight years here in Asia covering China of how many times CNN's coverage of controversial issues has been censored.

00:47:11.980 It used to go to straight black.

00:47:13.500 Now they've upgraded and they go to color bars.

00:47:15.500 But nonetheless, it is a live, real-time example of the censorship that's happening in the mainland.

00:47:20.800 So American state media was criticizing Chinese state media because the Chinese state media censored the story about how they obviously disappeared this poor girl. 0.97

00:47:29.520 I think she just appeared on some video call, but I don't buy it.

00:47:32.640 She's obviously being controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. 0.53

00:47:36.260 And it's a reminder.

00:47:37.100 The political aspect of this story is this.

00:47:39.160 Today, I don't think you can hide.

00:47:43.160 I don't think there's anything like getting off the hook.

00:47:45.380 I don't think there's a free lunch.

00:47:46.880 Fill in whatever cliche you want.

00:47:49.100 You can't get something for nothing, okay?

00:47:51.440 You can't just let all the criminals out and expect everything to be hunky-dory.

00:47:55.220 You can't just run away from the mob or try to hide with the mob or try to placate the mob and assume that everything's going to be hunky-dory.

00:48:01.380 You can't just run for the hills and expect that your country will deal with its problems on its own and you'll be fine.

00:48:07.220 You won't be.

00:48:07.860 You can't get out of that.

00:48:09.640 We have got to stand up.

00:48:11.840 We have got to engage in these political battles.

00:48:13.960 We have to win them.

00:48:15.240 We can't.

00:48:16.320 There's no easy way out of this, okay?

00:48:20.600 And if we don't stand up, right?

00:48:23.820 If we don't hold together and stand up now, we'll all fall separately.

00:48:28.720 I'm Michael Knowles.

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