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00:00:00.000 We've got breaking news this morning. President Joe Biden is no longer promising, as he had been,

00:00:06.720 to shut down the coronavirus. The White House has announced a major change in strategy,

00:00:12.900 and it will focus now not on shutting it down, but on beating it back.

00:00:19.200 Are you no longer going to shut it down?

00:00:22.420 No, we got to beat it back before we shut it down. Look, it's going to take time worldwide.

00:00:26.740 In order to beat COVID, we have to shut it down worldwide.

00:00:30.300 We've got to beat it back. For analysis of this new strategy, we turn now to DJ Pauly D from the Jersey Shore.

00:00:37.820 We're beating up the beat. That's what we say when we're doing our fist pump.

00:00:40.760 First, we start off banging the ground. We're banging it as the beat builds,

00:00:44.340 because that beat's hitting us, so we're fighting back. It's like we beat up that beat.

00:00:47.540 You got to beat it back. You got to beat it back and beat up that beat.

00:00:50.500 We can only hope that the ruling class will have more success at beating it back

00:00:54.660 than it has at shutting it down or stopping the spread or flattening the curve

00:01:00.760 or any of the other constantly changing euphemisms that have been used to justify the continuous

00:01:07.660 and indefinite reordering of our rights, society, and way of life.

00:01:12.980 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:25.900 it back. And only once you beat it back can you shut it down and slow the spread and stop the

00:03:30.280 flattening and the curving. And you know you're not fully vaccinated, right? I know that many of you

00:03:37.400 have not had any of the shots or you know the most important shot in the history of the world. But

00:03:42.320 even those of you who have, even those of you who have gotten one shot, there was the one vaccine that

00:03:49.300 was one shot. And then there's the other vaccines, the mRNA vaccines were two shots. And then there was

00:03:55.360 a booster. So then that would be three shots. But even those of you who have stuck yourself with the

00:04:02.280 Fauci ouchie three times, very soon may not be considered fully vaccinated. Israel right now

00:04:09.780 is considering authorizing a fourth COVID booster shot to immunocompromised citizens.

00:04:18.760 One of the true buzzwords of 2020, the immunocompromised will potentially get a fourth

00:04:24.680 booster shot. According to this report from Channel 12 in Israel, health officials will discuss this

00:04:31.840 possibility of the fourth shot because of the new worrying Omicron variant from which not a single

00:04:40.660 person has yet died. But they're going to now administer this fourth shot. And it may well be

00:04:47.360 the case that unless you have four Fauci ouchies, you are not fully vaccinated. But I'm sure they'll stop

00:04:54.900 there, right? That'll be the end of it, of the vaccine that's so super duper effective that you need

00:05:01.260 to stick yourself with it every two to three months. Four is the limit, right? We're not just

00:05:08.260 going to be back here in three months and they're going to talk about the fifth one because of the

00:05:11.320 Phi Beta Kappa variant, right? Right now it's over because we'll have beat it back and shut it down

00:05:16.100 and flatten the curve or whatever the next one is going to be. Some people don't want to stick

00:05:21.480 themselves with the Fauci ouchie. A tremendous headline from the New York Post, really in keeping

00:05:28.280 with that paper's already excellent headline writing. And the story itself is terrific.

00:05:33.500 Italian man wears fake arm in crazy attempt to avoid getting COVID-19 jab. An Italian man,

00:05:39.900 not an Italian American man, but an Italian man, bought a prosthetic arm and affixed it to himself

00:05:49.120 and somehow hid his own arm and then went into a vaccine clinic to try to get a shot injected into

00:05:57.620 the plastic so that he doesn't have to get the Fauci ouchie into his own blood, but can get the

00:06:01.960 green pass without which you're not allowed to do basically anything in Italy right now.

00:06:07.340 Apparently, the craziest part of the story is at first it worked. So he rolled up his sleeve and it

00:06:12.960 just looked like an arm. And so the nurse was about to do it. And then when she grabbed the arm,

00:06:16.540 she felt there was something a little weird about it and then asked him to remove his shirt. And then

00:06:20.600 she saw it was a fake, it was a fake arm. Great stuff. Classic, classic example of the Italians doing

00:06:28.260 whatever they can to avoid the rules. Gotta love it. The real story here though is about the vaccine

00:06:36.040 and the virus. If the vaccine were as desirable as the ruling class insists, you would not see this

00:06:45.860 kind of resistance, right? Because everyone would want it. You would not see people putting on fake

00:06:53.340 arms to try to avoid the punishments associated with not getting it. And you would not see the

00:06:58.300 kind of crass inducements to getting it like Bill de Blasio stuffing his face with cheeseburgers saying,

00:07:03.840 get the shot pigs and then you'll get more slop. We'll get you cheeseburgers and french fries,

00:07:08.920 right? You wouldn't, you wouldn't see lotteries in Ohio saying, if you get the shot,

00:07:14.300 you'll get a million dollars possibly. Well, I thought the shot was so great. So why do,

00:07:18.440 why do you need to bribe me in order to get it? If, if the vaccine were quite as desirable as,

00:07:25.360 as the ruling class says it is, but for that to be the case, the virus would have to be as dangerous

00:07:30.320 as the ruling class has told us it is. And it manifestly is not even according to the CDC and

00:07:35.160 even according to the FDA. If you contract the virus, your odds of dying from that virus are

00:07:42.480 extraordinarily low. And when you take older people out of the equation, when you take people

00:07:47.820 with lots of health problems out of the equation, the already low odds drop dramatically. They become

00:07:55.320 extraordinarily small. And so people, a lot of people, the vast majority of people look at the

00:08:02.080 virus, they say it's not that dangerous. And they look at the vaccine, they say, it's not that

00:08:05.500 desirable. I don't, to protect against the virus, it's not, not, doesn't pose a grave threat to me.

00:08:11.240 Probably not going to do it. Even Trevor Noah, Trevor Noah is the host of the Daily Show ever

00:08:18.120 since Jon Stewart left. Trevor Noah is a huge lib, but Trevor Noah came out and he said, you know,

00:08:24.820 we seem to be in kind of a weird rush to produce all these vaccines and make everybody take the

00:08:31.920 vaccines. Maybe there are some misaligned incentives here.

00:08:36.640 Hmm. So on the one hand, almost all the Omicron cases have been mild so far. But on the other hand,

00:08:47.600 the guy who stands to gain millions of dollars from new vaccines says we need new vaccines.

00:08:55.680 Huh. If we don't make a new vaccine, this disease could be with us Ferrari. I mean, forever. Sorry,

00:09:02.000 I was thinking of something else. Now, look, I'm not saying that the CEO of Moderna is lying. I'm not

00:09:06.100 saying that at all. I'm just saying, I don't think he's the most objective source on this topic.

00:09:11.120 Of course not. Of course not. And it's becoming even clearer as the Omicron variant appears to be much

00:09:18.720 less deadly than the other variants that we had seen before. We don't know. It's still new,

00:09:24.440 but the insistence that we must have an even newer vaccine from people who stand to gain a lot in

00:09:32.700 terms of power and money if everyone has to get a new vaccine. It just seems like the incentives

00:09:37.180 are misaligned. And that's why this issue of the growing public health rule of this country,

00:09:42.720 the suspension of the ordinary constitutional order, the insistence that we all take this experimental

00:09:48.300 shot, is I think it's less about left and right, though the right generally is a little more

00:09:55.260 resistant to it. The left, rather, generally is a little more open to it. But it's less about left

00:10:00.720 and right than it is about incentives and the ruling class. And even Trevor Noah over there on his show

00:10:07.960 on Comedy Central, his left-wing show, even he is recognizing that. Speaking of dishonesty in public

00:10:17.500 health, Mary Margaret Olihan from Daily Signal went out to that big march that was going on in

00:10:25.080 Washington, D.C., all the big protests as the oral arguments were heard in the Dobbs pro-life case.

00:10:31.400 And she just went out and asked the people who were marching, hey, what do you think is going to

00:10:38.280 happen if Roe gets overturned? Listen to the terror in these women's voices.

00:10:44.380 What does our country look like if Roe v. Wade is overturned?

00:10:47.860 Um, I'm going to start crying.

00:10:51.340 Women will die.

00:10:52.340 Women will die.

00:10:53.240 Women will die.

00:10:53.940 We're out here today at the United States Supreme Court where justices are hearing oral arguments about

00:10:58.580 one of the most pivotal abortion cases of our lifetime. We'll be asking protesters on both

00:11:03.300 sides of the aisle what our country would look like without Roe v. Wade. Let's go see what they

00:11:07.240 have to say. It'll look like women going to jail. A lot of women will die or they will be forced

00:11:13.440 into a life of poverty. A lot of women are telling me that women will die if Roe is overturned.

00:11:17.680 I think that's happening already. It's really scary because it puts a lot of people in immediate

00:11:21.700 physical danger. Um, and I just don't want to see that happen.

00:11:26.140 A lot of people say women will die if Roe is overturned. Oh yeah, it's, it's, it's happening

00:11:31.340 already. Well, hold on. Wait, Roe hasn't been overturned yet. So you're, so you're telling me

00:11:35.500 that Roe getting overturned actually won't change. No, uh, hold on. Nevermind. Erase that. I went a

00:11:39.880 little too far. A lot of women are going to die though. Shows you the power of narrative because a

00:11:45.960 lot of people believe this and it's just not true that the year before Roe v. Wade was decided 32

00:11:52.160 women died from illegal abortions, 1972. 19 women died in 1973. 24 women died from legal abortions

00:12:01.360 in 1972. 25 women died from legal abortions in 1973. It actually went up for the legal abortions.

00:12:09.620 Both, all four of those numbers, extraordinarily small, not 39,000, not 3,900, not 390, 39 or 24.

00:12:17.980 And when you look at states where it was legal and illegal, actually you had a greater, you had

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00:13:55.820 hey, what's going to happen if Roe v. Wade gets overturned? You're going to hear 5,000 women a year

00:14:00.180 are going to die. At least, maybe 10,000 women a year are going to die from back alley coat hanger

00:14:03.940 abortions just like was happening before Roe v. Wade saved all those women's lives. None of that's

00:14:10.240 true. Those numbers were completely made up. Actually, the man who made them up, Dr. Bernard

00:14:14.840 Nathanson, he was one of the leaders of NARAL, the Abortion Rights League. He admitted this because

00:14:20.640 he became a pro-lifer and he said, we pulled that number out of thin air. You can see the CDC data.

00:14:25.460 You can see what these women were actually, the numbers at which they were dying from legal and illegal

00:14:29.200 abortion. It was in the low double digits. That was 50 years ago. Imagine how low it would be

00:14:35.160 now. It's just not true. To give these pro-abortion people a little bit of sympathy,

00:14:46.420 if you really believed that overturning Roe v. Wade was going to lead to 10,000 women every year dying

00:14:51.280 in back alleys, desperate women dying, bleeding out in the alleyway, you might be more reluctant to

00:14:58.180 overturn it. Even though it's unconstitutional, even though it's evil, even though it's resulted

00:15:01.560 in a genocide of 60 million babies since Roe v. Wade. You say, I don't want 10,000 women dying a

00:15:07.280 year. But good news, buddy. That didn't, that's never happened. In modern history, you haven't seen

00:15:15.520 that happen. And it wouldn't happen if Roe v. Wade were overturned. But there's a lot of ignorance

00:15:22.080 going around. And when we want the peak examples of ignorance, where do we turn? We turn to those

00:15:29.000 cackling hens on The View. That's where, that's, if you want ignorance, tune in to The View. And if

00:15:34.820 you're trying to find the height of ignorance there, where do you turn? Joy Behar. So Joy Behar,

00:15:40.400 one of the hosts on The View, just reacting to the potential of Roe being overturned, expressed her

00:15:48.080 belief that what's really at the heart of this debate is the unwillingness of conservatives

00:15:55.420 to accept the consequences of sex. If you watch America, which I like to watch America and I watch

00:16:02.180 television a lot, it's a very interesting schism that goes on here. Because on the one hand,

00:16:07.300 sex sells everywhere. I mean, you can't see an aspirin commercial without somebody having sex.

00:16:12.360 You cannot turn on any program, especially on streaming, where people are having this. There's

00:16:18.760 soft porn everywhere now. They encourage all of that. It sells everything. Sex sells. And yet,

00:16:25.940 when it comes to the reality of pregnancy, this particular group of people on the right in this

00:16:31.520 country, and these religious zealots, do not understand the reality of what happens when you

00:16:37.620 have sex. It's almost like they don't want to see that part. They just want to see the fun in the

00:16:42.800 bed, not the second part. Siri, what is projection? Oh, there it is. Okay, it's right there. You just,

00:16:51.320 okay, we don't need to play it again. That's fine. What is, conservatives don't understand the realities

00:16:59.000 of what happens when you have sex, says Joy Behar. Does that sound right to you? It's all these

00:17:06.340 conservatives saying like, hey, yeah, screw whoever you want. Yeah, free love, man. Go on out.

00:17:11.060 Nothing bad will happen. Don't get married and settle down and be monogamous and be faithful to

00:17:16.700 your spouse. Just go and do whatever with whoever. And it's totally, is that, that's what the conservatives

00:17:21.520 say? Or that's what the American left has been saying incessantly for at least 50 years.

00:17:28.600 Oh, it's the latter. No, but, but Michael, the, the Netflix and the movie studios and Hollywood and

00:17:37.700 the media, they have all these images of casual sex. Oh, right. Hollywood famously controlled by

00:17:42.480 conservatives, right? All those movie studios and television networks and, and, and streaming

00:17:47.400 platforms that are famously controlled by the American right, uh, doesn't sound familiar to me.

00:17:53.260 The entire thing is controlled by the left. Two things going on here. One, it's this, uh, classical

00:17:59.640 example of an American leftist, particularly one of a certain age who believes that it's the

00:18:06.120 conservatives who control the institutions. When in fact, American conservatives do not control a

00:18:10.300 single institution. We don't even have the military anymore. None of them. Hollywood, the universities,

00:18:15.820 the administrative state, the elected government, the military, all of it is controlled by the libs,

00:18:20.100 right? So if the establishment is pushing out a message, it ain't coming from the right. Okay.

00:18:26.120 It's coming from the left. Furthermore, furthermore, the conservatives who are saying, hey, maybe don't

00:18:32.880 have sex casually. Hey, maybe you should get married. Hey, maybe marriage has a meaning. Hey, maybe,

00:18:39.960 do you think they're saying that because they don't know what happens when you have sex

00:18:44.320 or because they know exactly what happens when you have sex? And the, the projection here,

00:18:52.720 the fact that Joy Behar is getting it exactly wrong, the fact that the American left doesn't

00:18:56.400 want to face the consequences of sex is at the heart of abortion because the, the left first pushed

00:19:02.760 casual sex. And as a result of casual sex, sometimes babies are made. So then they had to

00:19:09.700 push contraception everywhere. This is why you see condoms everywhere now. They're being passed out in

00:19:13.720 public schools and, and all the rest of it. But sometimes condoms don't work. Sometimes birth

00:19:19.780 control doesn't work. This is why they're trying to push for subsidized contraceptive pills, but

00:19:24.160 sometimes they don't work. And when you, when you take these sorts of things and you encourage

00:19:28.280 promiscuous sex, just at scale, you're going to have more unintended pregnancies. And so in order

00:19:33.540 to protect the divine institution, the sacrilegious view, you know, that, that casual sex is a divine

00:19:42.580 institution, then you've got to have abortion to stop the breakthrough cases. And that's what this

00:19:47.820 is really about. This is about the American left, which believes that you ought to be able to pursue

00:19:52.440 your own will and your own basis desires unimpeded. And any, anything that gets in the way of that,

00:19:59.740 like perhaps, or especially a little baby has to be done away with. And you heard her there,

00:20:06.460 you heard Joy Behr, she goes, these religious fanatics who think we shouldn't kill babies.

00:20:12.140 These, wow, you must be part of some esoteric, crazy, kooky cult religion. If you think it's

00:20:18.160 not a good idea to kill babies or that maybe we shouldn't sleep with everybody, every single

00:20:22.060 person that we come in contact with. You're, you're going to see a lot more religious bigotry of this

00:20:27.140 sort. There was, there was a cartoon in the Washington Post over the weekend. Headline,

00:20:32.020 adjudicating while Catholic. There was a woman walking past two bathrooms at the Supreme Court.

00:20:39.220 One bathroom said men, the other bathroom said incubators. And that was the women's room and

00:20:46.600 the woman was pregnant. So men in incubators, you see these Catholics, they only view women

00:20:52.120 as mothers. They think that women have this special role as mothers and the producers of life. And I

00:20:58.360 think this has value in that. It's just so wrong. That's so, they don't think that women's highest

00:21:03.980 calling is to do spreadsheets at the widget factory. Like men do these awful Catholics,

00:21:10.380 these patriarchal. So a lot of conservatives who saw this cartoon are decrying the religious

00:21:18.400 intolerance and the bigotry and the outright anti-Catholic bigotry. And that's true. Obviously,

00:21:23.320 it's a very anti-Catholic cartoon and newspaper and establishment and American left. I mean,

00:21:30.140 this is the kind of place where the current president has sued nuns. Okay. And the guy he

00:21:33.980 worked for last time sued nuns. So Barack Obama. So that exists. But let's be fair here.

00:21:42.760 We are going to have some view. We are, every single nation has religious views

00:21:48.840 throughout all of history and for all the rest of history. That will necessarily be the case.

00:21:55.680 To give an example, one of the views our country is founded on is that we are created by our creator.

00:22:01.200 We are endowed with certain unalienable rights among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit

00:22:05.740 of happiness. That is a religious view. And if you disagree with that religious view, then your views

00:22:13.620 are going to be suppressed in America. At least traditionally, that has been the case.

00:22:18.540 If you believe that human life is worth protecting, that's a religious view. And it means you can't have

00:22:23.420 abortion. That innocent human life is worth protecting. Obviously, you can deal with criminals.

00:22:27.860 That's kind of a different conversation. But certainly, if you believe human life has some kind of worth,

00:22:33.840 you can't just be killing willy-nilly innocent little babies without due process, without a trial,

00:22:38.820 right? You can't be doing that. If you think that human life does not have intrinsic worth,

00:22:43.200 and that we just kind of give human life worth depending on how the rest of society feels,

00:22:47.340 then perhaps abortion is acceptable. That's also a religious view. But you're going to have to pick

00:22:51.640 one. And in as much as leftism and liberalism are on the rise, Catholicism specifically,

00:23:01.520 Christianity broadly, is going to be suppressed. In as much as Christianity broadly and Catholicism

00:23:10.060 specifically, is on the rise, leftism is going to be suppressed. And I don't think we should kid

00:23:16.660 ourselves about that. There is no neutrality. There's no neutral playing ground where radical

00:23:22.180 leftist ball-worshipping child sacrificers, which is what abortion advocates are, where they and people

00:23:30.980 who want to defend innocent human life can just kind of play in a totally neutral playing field where all

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00:25:55.940 more. Speaking of the media, Fredo Cuomo has just been put out on his fishing boat on that lake.

00:26:16.580 All right. That scene in the Godfather part two, it just played out for Mr. Chris Cuomo from CNN.

00:26:24.340 Not only has he been indefinitely suspended, that's what happened last week at CNN over the weekend,

00:26:30.600 it was announced. Fredo has been fired. He's gone. Say it ain't so, Fredo. Fredo sleeps with the fishes.

00:26:39.780 They announced. They announced first at CNN that they had hired an outside law firm to review

00:26:46.660 information about exactly how Chris Cuomo helped his brother to navigate his brother's political

00:26:52.400 scandals. Then they discovered allegations and rumors and they said, we're not bringing Chris back. He's

00:27:02.680 gone. My thought on this is a little sympathetic to Chris Cuomo, actually probably more sympathetic than

00:27:11.380 most conservatives are, but still pretty gleeful. There's an old saying about grand juries. They say

00:27:18.900 a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich. Meaning if you want to get somebody, if you want to get them

00:27:25.800 and even on a legal matter, but if you want to get their reputation, if you want to destroy their

00:27:31.720 career, if you want to get them, you can do it. Everybody's got something. Everybody's got a past.

00:27:37.320 This is a fallen world. You can, and if you can't dig up a really good dirt, you can always trump up

00:27:42.620 some dirt. You can really amplify it. So you can get them. You can get people. In a way, that's what's

00:27:47.720 going on here. There is no new information about Chris Cuomo. No new information really has come to

00:27:56.080 light. Why was he fired? Chris Cuomo was fired ostensibly because he was supposed to be a TV

00:28:06.040 journalist, but actually he was working as a political operative to help his brother.

00:28:11.180 This was the shocking revelation that the outside law firm investigating discovered was that Chris

00:28:18.220 Cuomo, whose father and brother were both Democrat governors of New York, Chris Cuomo might have kind

00:28:26.800 of been a political operative. Oh my, stop the presses. You're kidding me. Yeah. Duh. Chris Cuomo was not

00:28:36.400 totally honest. Oh, you're telling me Chris Cuomo, the guy who pretended to quarantine from COVID

00:28:41.060 in the Hamptons and then filmed a big special on CNN where he was coming out of quarantine and

00:28:46.040 seeing his wife and kids for the first time. But then we later found out, lied about that whole

00:28:49.560 thing and was actually going on bike rides in the Hamptons and was not, it was just completely lying

00:28:53.860 on TV and everyone at CNN knew it. That guy might not be totally honest. Oh wow. Oh my gosh. You don't

00:29:01.120 say, this is such BS. CNN deserves absolutely no credit for this firing. CNN is covering their

00:29:08.900 derriere's is what's going on. No new information came out. Chris Cuomo is simply no longer useful

00:29:15.940 to them. Mario Cuomo dead. Andrew Cuomo chased out of office, run out of town on a rail. Chris

00:29:25.960 Cuomo fired. What we are witnessing here is not some new journalistic scandal. We are witnessing the fall

00:29:31.560 of a political house. The house of Cuomo. There are political houses in America. The Kennedys, the Bushes,

00:29:38.840 the Clintons, and the Cuomos. Mario was a leading contender to run for president. They called him

00:29:48.340 Hamlet on the Hudson because he couldn't decide whether or not to do it and eventually he decided

00:29:51.980 not to. But he would have been a big contender. Mario actually, to tie it in with that abortion

00:29:56.220 story, Mario is the politician who popularized this idea that you can be privately against abortion

00:30:02.480 but publicly support abortion. It was a way to let nominally Catholic politicians off the hook

00:30:07.780 because their real religion was leftism. So they all supported abortion, but they had to try to

00:30:11.860 reconcile this with their public performance that they were Catholic. So they'd say, well, personally,

00:30:15.800 I'm opposed to the genocide of babies, but publicly it's totally fine. Let's do it. And then his son

00:30:22.340 lit up Freedom Tower pink to celebrate a law that would permit abortion up until the moment of birth.

00:30:29.300 That's what we're watching. We're watching the fall of a political house. That's a wonderful thing

00:30:32.860 that ought to be celebrated, but CNN deserves absolutely no credit. They're acting like cowards.

00:30:37.520 They are at least as dishonest and corrupt as Chris Cuomo, probably much, much more so.

00:30:44.820 Establishment Democrats are having a very hard time these days. Joe Biden desperately,

00:30:52.340 trying to salvage his approval rating, the approval rating of his entire administration,

00:30:57.780 is bragging heading into Christmas about how he's bringing down the price of oil and gas.

00:31:02.800 This worldwide effort we're leading won't solve the problem of high gas prices overnight.

00:31:08.120 But over the last month, likely due in part to the anticipation of this action,

00:31:13.120 we've seen oil and gas prices out of the wells. Oil and gas prices on the wholesale market come down

00:31:20.020 significantly. All right. I have two very different thoughts. So the first one, let's just deal with

00:31:25.800 what he's saying first. He's saying oil and gas are coming down significantly. You remember the

00:31:30.180 Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted a graph last week bragging about how they've brought

00:31:35.400 down the price of gas by two cents. Since Joe Biden took office, gas has gone up by more than a dollar,

00:31:44.440 but they brought it down last week by two cents. So now they're saying, wow, great job, Joe,

00:31:51.420 significantly. See, one cent, that wouldn't have been very significant, but two cents, that's double

00:31:56.460 that. Wow. Great job, Joe. My second thought, this is completely unrelated. What was that voice?

00:32:03.660 Can we play that clip again? This worldwide effort we're leading.

00:32:07.600 Okay. Let's solve the problem of high gas prices.

00:32:10.380 What? Who is that? I know I'm, I'm watching the clip. I know if you're listening to it right now,

00:32:15.160 you might, you might just be saying, is that the guy who does the movie trailers?

00:32:18.040 In a world where gas is only $7 a gallon, one president will make it $7 and two cents a gallon.

00:32:26.640 But that I'm looking, it looks like Joe Biden, but he's got this weird voice. He's insisting. It's

00:32:30.820 just a cold. It's not COVID. There's nothing wrong with his health, but he doesn't, he does not sound

00:32:38.220 great. He does not sound like he's doing very well. And it would appear that his physical problems

00:32:44.360 are a symbol of his political problems more broadly. He just had his physical and the doctor

00:32:48.780 said the guy's having trouble walking. Okay. And everyone knows it. And it's putting them in a bad

00:32:53.020 position for 2024 because a lot of people doubt that Joe Biden can run again, including most members

00:32:58.360 of his own party. Kamala Harris's approval rating is even lower than Joe's. Joe's at 38%. Kamala's at

00:33:04.420 27%. The next best guy Joe can look to in his administration is Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg is

00:33:12.260 also at 38%. So he's much higher than all the other cabinet secretaries, but it's still extremely,

00:33:19.300 extremely low. And what they're trying to do now is tell you, no, everything's great.

00:33:24.540 Don't believe your lying eyes. Gas prices are going down. Everything is totally cool.

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00:33:58.820 Only exclusions do apply. Speaking of gaslighting, there was a heritage foundation expert, Cara

00:34:05.380 Frederick, who was just testifying on Capitol Hill to, to explain some numbers. Okay. To explain

00:34:14.780 a fact of big tech and social media that we all know to be true, but that the establishment is lying

00:34:22.180 about. Right. And what we know to be true is that big tech is censoring conservatives. But every time we

00:34:28.040 bring this up and we point to specific examples, we say, what about the Hunter Biden laptop story

00:34:31.620 right before the 2020 election, there was a major story that would have seriously damaged Joe Biden.

00:34:36.720 And it was completely true. And big tech would not let anyone post it. And they wouldn't even let

00:34:41.880 you privately message it. That's obviously tilting the scales in favor of the Dems hurting conservatives.

00:34:47.300 They'll say, no, it's your imagination. It's not real. It, we're not, we're not censoring

00:34:53.220 conservatives. Well, take a listen to her analysis.

00:34:55.980 Twitter and Facebook censor Republican members of Congress at a rate of 53 to one compared to

00:35:02.920 Democrats. Twitter suspends conservatives 21 times more often than liberals. Facebook created two

00:35:10.160 internal tools in the aftermath of Trump's 2016 victory that suppress right-wing content,

00:35:15.180 media traffic, and reach on its platform. Google stifled conservative-leaning outlets like the

00:35:21.080 Daily Caller, Breitbart, and the Federalist during the 2020 election season, with Breitbart's search

00:35:26.720 visibility shrinking by 99 percent compared to the 2016 election cycle. And these practices have

00:35:32.820 distinct political effects. The Media Research Center found in 2020 that one in six Biden voters claimed

00:35:39.600 they would have modified their vote had they been aware of information that was actively suppressed

00:35:44.300 by tech companies. 52 percent of Americans believe social media suppression of the Hunter Biden

00:35:50.200 laptop story constituted election interference. These practices erode our culture of free speech,

00:35:57.960 chill open discourse, and engender self-censorship. Of course, that's the case. We all know it to be

00:36:03.560 true. It's helpful sometimes to see these numbers. You know, the Breitbart search visibility decreasing

00:36:09.640 99 percent between election cycles. That can't possibly be entirely organic. So it's good to see

00:36:16.860 that. But what are we going to do about it? Are we going to just, you know, build our own Facebook?

00:36:24.560 Are we going to just change the culture, you know, just build your own institutions?

00:36:28.540 Well, we should, okay, we can do that too. We can try to do that. But are we going to have the courage

00:36:33.180 to use political power to punish our political enemies and to punish the people who are taking

00:36:40.400 an undue amount of influence in our politics? People like Facebook and Google and Twitter. Are

00:36:48.040 we willing to, we the people, use our political authority to say, no, you don't get to control

00:36:53.240 speech in a democratic republic? You handful of Silicon Valley leftist billionaires. You don't

00:36:58.640 have the power to do that. You don't have the legitimate power to do that. We're going to take

00:37:02.120 that power back. And we're going to do that by breaking up your companies and by taking away

00:37:06.660 your special legal protections and by casting you into the outer darkness where there's wailing and

00:37:10.940 gnashing of teeth. What are we going to, are we willing to use legitimate political authority or not?

00:37:16.300 I'll give you an example of strange standards. You remember there was a story of a very sad high

00:37:21.060 school shooting in Oxford, Michigan that took place a couple of weeks ago. So the prosecutor there,

00:37:29.500 Karen McDonald, has not just filed charges against the school shooter, obviously, but is now filing

00:37:37.040 involuntary manslaughter charges against the shooter's parents. Based on the information and evidence I

00:37:43.580 have received today, I'm announcing charges against the shooter's parents, Jennifer and James Crumbly.

00:37:49.500 The charges are as follows. James Crumbly is charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

00:37:58.080 Jennifer Crumbly is also charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

00:38:03.900 I will now publish the details that led to that decision and have already previously been made public,

00:38:11.460 which allows me to comment on them in a swear to that has just taken place in the district court.

00:38:17.040 So why would the parents be charged with manslaughter?

00:38:20.600 Obviously, they didn't show up to the school and start shooting people. Well, because they failed to secure

00:38:25.820 their gun and so their deranged kid got the gun and went in and shot people and killed some people.

00:38:32.400 The parents right now are being held in jail on a $1 million bond. This is exceedingly rare that parents

00:38:41.220 would be charged at all and then held in jail for having a gun that a kid was able to get access to if

00:38:49.740 the kid then went and used the gun. Exceedingly rare. But the parents are now arrested and they're

00:38:54.920 being held on $1 million bond. Obviously, the shooter should be prosecuted to the fullest extent

00:39:01.280 of the law. It seems to me what we're seeing with the parents is a little bit arbitrary and I'll give

00:39:05.760 you an example why. There was another school shooting in Texas that you almost certainly have not heard

00:39:10.520 about. You may have heard about it on this show, maybe in a couple of other conservative outlets,

00:39:14.640 but you wouldn't have heard about it on CNN or Washington Post or New York Times or any of the

00:39:19.100 establishment media outlets. There was a kid who showed up to school and shot a bunch of people.

00:39:24.360 He injured four people, three students and one teacher. And not only were his parents not arrested

00:39:30.480 and not held on a $1 million bond, but he was not held on a half million. It was half a million

00:39:37.520 dollars for one parent, half a million dollars for the other parent, and half a million dollars

00:39:41.480 for the shooter in this case. Even this kid was not held on a half million dollar bond. He was held

00:39:46.900 on a $75,000 bond and then they paid it and he was released to his home with the parents who were

00:39:51.340 not arrested. Now, this Texas student was not really made a cause celeb because it would seem to me it

00:40:04.580 doesn't follow the narrative. The narrative is that deranged white kids show up and shoot up schools.

00:40:10.680 And so, you know, and this is not even just about the kids, it's about the guns and we've got to go

00:40:15.080 take the guns from people and take away their Second Amendment rights. But this kid was black and so he

00:40:20.160 didn't fit the media narrative and so the media suppressed the story. They don't want to talk

00:40:24.860 about it and they're not even going to make it a gun case. It's not, this narrative is not as useful

00:40:29.000 to them. Still a school shooting. Thankfully, no one died here, though a lot of people were shot.

00:40:33.480 But that story is not as useful to them. So they're going to play that one down.

00:40:37.800 And the other awful school shooting, that one they're going to play up and they're not even

00:40:43.040 going to make it, they're not even going to make it about the people who perpetrated the crimes.

00:40:48.060 They're going to make it about the guns and your rights and pushing a narrative. And they're going

00:40:54.580 to make it as sensationalist as they possibly can in order to do that, which is why you're seeing

00:40:59.480 these extraordinary measures like locking up the parents. Speaking of locking people up,

00:41:06.860 there's this nation over in Europe. I don't know if you've heard of it. It finds itself in trouble

00:41:12.840 sometimes. This would be the nation of Germany. Now, look, I love my German friends. I love our

00:41:18.760 many German viewers. But the nation of Germany has had some problems over the years. Okay. As

00:41:26.780 Norm Macdonald said, you know, I don't know if you're all the history buffs. You know, the issues of,

00:41:32.640 well, obviously the 20th century before that, they, you know, invented communism and there's some

00:41:36.720 issues. Well, now Germany is going to lock down only its unvaccinated citizens.

00:41:45.580 Germany is now announcing that if you are not vaccinated, if you have not taken the

00:41:50.040 Fauci ouchie, you basically just can't participate in culture. Quote, culture and leisure nationwide

00:42:00.040 will be open only to those who have been vaccinated or recovered from COVID. This from Angela Merkel,

00:42:06.960 the outgoing chancellor, according to the Telegraph. Under the new measures, people who have not taken

00:42:12.060 this experimental drug will be banned from restaurants and bars, movie theaters, gyms,

00:42:16.900 non-essential shops and Christmas markets. Both the outgoing and incoming chancellors have voiced

00:42:22.000 support for mandatory vaccinations in a proposal that would have to be voted through parliament,

00:42:26.820 according to CNN. Maybe Germany should sit this one out. Look, I'm not, I so hate

00:42:36.600 Nazi comparisons. So I'm not, I'm not doing it. I'm not actually doing a Nazi comparison. I'm just saying

00:42:43.080 if your nation has a kind of checkered political past and forget it, even much further back than the

00:42:51.240 Nazis, you know, maybe you err on the side of caution. And this is really what a lot of the

00:42:57.880 debate over the vaccines and the lockdowns comes down to. What do we mean by caution? Everybody in

00:43:05.180 the whole COVID debate thinks that he is erring on the side of caution. The libs who want to lock

00:43:11.440 everyone down and put us all in a penal colony or a, or a, or a quarantine camp like they're doing in

00:43:16.740 Australia, they're erring on the side of physical caution, right? Public safety caution. Conservatives

00:43:25.680 who recognize that the lockdowns have not been all that great for our country and the masks,

00:43:32.020 you know, have been, the messaging has been a little incoherent, let's say on the masks and

00:43:36.580 the vaccines, the goalposts seem to move every single day. The conservatives are erring on the side of

00:43:42.220 political caution, right? What the libs are saying, like Andrew Cuomo said in New York,

00:43:48.860 if my measures save even, this is not how Andrew Cuomo actually talks, but if my measures save even

00:43:53.600 one life, it will have been worth it. One life. Well, okay, his measures killed thousands of senior

00:43:58.900 citizens, but he thought it was just to save one life, right? If we lock everyone down, take away

00:44:03.120 all their rights, take away all their freedoms, take away their whole way of life. If it saves one

00:44:07.800 life, it will be worth it. And the conservatives are saying, no, if you, if you completely destroy

00:44:13.920 our political order so that some people don't catch the woo flu, that actually won't be worth it.

00:44:20.340 So what side is it? Seems to me that a place like Germany ought to err on the side of political

00:44:24.180 caution, just as we all should. Speaking of fascists, I don't know, Nazis and communists and

00:44:34.120 political radicals of all stripes. There was a very scary, insurrectionist, nation-threatening march

00:44:43.660 in Washington, D.C. over the weekend. You might've seen it trending on Twitter. This was the

00:44:48.980 march of the Patriot Front, so-called, a group allegedly of fascists and white supremacists,

00:44:57.160 and they marched through D.C. and the media, oh, they had a field day and they said, this is

00:45:02.360 the white supremacist takeover of America, and you can't really see who any of these

00:45:07.660 people are. And they're wearing masks, and they're marching, and they've got flags. Some

00:45:14.740 of the flags are upside down to signal distress. And my first reaction was that this was Fed

00:45:22.500 picnic part two. You know, do you remember there was the Justice for January 6th rally, and the

00:45:26.640 only people who showed up were Feds and media? And like one right-wing dude who didn't get the

00:45:31.680 memo that it was all fake. And so that was my first reaction was, look, I'm on the American

00:45:38.880 right. I spend a lot of time in the American right. I've been in it for a long time. I'm

00:45:44.020 familiar with lots of fringe groups, okay? Even the ones that are way out there, I'm at

00:45:49.280 least familiar with them. I've never heard of this group. Have you the Patriot Front of

00:45:53.820 the white supremacist national whatever? No. So was it a Fed thing or is it real? I don't

00:46:00.660 know. Maybe it's real. Even assuming for a second that this is a real group, and there

00:46:06.900 aren't any Feds, and it's not fake and not just a media contrivance, ask yourself this.

00:46:13.460 What poses a bigger risk to you? A bunch of clowns marching through the streets, not harming

00:46:23.740 anybody, making a big show and giving the media a circus, but not burning down any stores or

00:46:30.400 killing people or assaulting people, just kind of marching around and going home, probably

00:46:35.960 back to Quantico or Langley or something. But whatever. Does that pose the bigger threat

00:46:43.660 to you or does, say, BLM and Antifa with the support of the entire media and elected Democrats

00:46:50.520 for six months burning down the country, does that pose the bigger threat? What's the real

00:46:55.280 threat here? Because according to the establishment, BLM, which killed dozens of people and torched

00:47:01.040 cities around the country and stole a lot of Gucci handbags, BLM was mostly peaceful. And according

00:47:07.800 to the media, those guys whose identities we don't know conveniently, those guys marching

00:47:14.280 peacefully for a few hours, they are an insurrectionist threat to destroy the country.

00:47:20.200 Obviously, the narrative seems a little bit backward. Now, before we go, there's so much more I want

00:47:28.960 to talk about, but before we go, I've got to bid a fond farewell to Bob Dole. A lot of people,

00:47:36.060 especially the younger viewers of this program and listeners to this program, might not even know

00:47:40.240 who Bob Dole is. Bob Dole was the Republican nominee for president in 1996. He was a vice

00:47:47.680 presidential nominee with Jerry Ford decades before that. He was a senator for a very long time. He was

00:47:52.760 a war hero in World War II. He's the first presidential candidate I ever supported. I've

00:47:57.160 told the story on the show a few times. I was six years old. I don't know, maybe my grandpa told me

00:48:00.860 that Dole was great. He was a war hero and Clinton's a draft dodger. And I just really liked him,

00:48:04.880 told all my first grade classmates to get their parents to vote for it, begged my mother who

00:48:08.840 wanted to vote for Clinton to vote for Dole. She let me go into the booth and pull the lever.

00:48:13.380 Is that election fraud? I don't know. You're not allowed to say there's any election fraud,

00:48:16.000 so I guess it wasn't. Dole, great American. One aspect of his courage that does not get enough

00:48:21.940 credit, obviously he was a huge war hero and just a great American, served his country. A little

00:48:26.540 moderate on some political issues, but he had a deep abiding conservatism to him really.

00:48:31.220 And he showed up to the RNC in 2016 and he didn't trash Trump and he supported the party

00:48:39.500 at crucial moments, at really moments that required a lot of courage and principle,

00:48:44.560 when a lot of squishes and libs and selfish people did not. And they wouldn't show up to

00:48:49.360 the convention and they wouldn't vote. And I just think that's a good thing. Bob Dole saw the bigger

00:48:55.340 picture. He's a good guy. It's not like he just loved Trump and was always effusive toward Trump,

00:49:00.240 quite the opposite sometimes. But he saw the bigger picture. He saw what was good for the

00:49:04.940 country. God bless Bob Dole. May his soul rest in peace. We will see you guys tomorrow. I'm Michael

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