The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 900 - Biden Flops On Beijing Olympics

00:00:00.000 All right, Xi Jinping, you asked for it. No more Mr. Nice Biden. No more Mr. Friendly

00:00:09.420 Chocolate Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Guy. No way. You think that you can just steal American 0.97

00:00:16.980 intellectual property and take American manufacturing and take over semi-sovereign

00:00:24.460 states and run concentration camps to genocide your own people and start a global pandemic and 0.94

00:00:33.460 shut down the whole world for a couple of years without consequences? I don't think so, buddy.

00:00:39.120 Jen, tell them what we're going to do. The Biden administration will not send any

00:00:43.980 diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games,

00:00:50.080 given the PRC's ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human 0.52

00:00:57.100 rights abuses. The athletes on Team USA have our full support. We will be behind them 100% as we

00:01:04.220 cheer them on from home. We will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games. U.S. diplomatic or

00:01:10.300 official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the PRC's

00:01:16.340 egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang. And we simply can't do that. As the

00:01:22.740 president has told President Xi, standing up for human rights is in the DNA of Americans. We have

00:01:28.760 a fundamental commitment to promoting human rights and we feel strongly in our position and we will

00:01:34.040 continue to take actions to advance human rights in China and beyond. We're going to continue to take

00:01:39.140 big actions like a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics. You know, like we're still going to

00:01:46.340 send all the players and stuff and we're still going to totally participate in the Olympics,

00:01:49.800 but we're not going to send any government employees, which means that you, you don't get

00:01:55.580 a photograph with Pete Buttigieg. Take that, Jinping. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:02.200 season when you're buying a lot of stuff online. Protect your data. The diplomatic boycott of the

00:04:08.840 Chinese Olympics is a completely meaningless gesture. It does not scare China in the least.

00:04:17.840 It does not have any consequences for China. If the United States kept the players away from the

00:04:23.980 Olympic Games, that might have some effect. It would certainly tarnish the credibility of the

00:04:28.980 Olympics. It would certainly take down the ratings. The ratings would not be as strong. But withholding

00:04:36.200 some diplomats and some cabinet officials or Pete Buttigieg, it's not going to do anything.

00:04:43.780 It almost would have been better if the United States had done nothing at all. But to go out

00:04:51.300 and say, as Jen Psaki did, there is a genocide going on in China. The leader of China is slaughtering

00:04:58.180 whole races of people in concentration camps. And then to move forward with this weak, meaningless action,

00:05:07.840 it's worse than doing nothing at all. And it sends the message that the United States is not serious.

00:05:15.520 Does anyone really believe that if, really when, China goes into Taiwan, China goes into the United States

00:05:24.020 interests in the South China Sea, that the U.S. is going to go send in the Marines? Does anyone believe that?

00:05:29.000 Does anyone think, after pulling out 20 years of war in Afghanistan, after all the wars in the Middle

00:05:35.700 East, does anyone really think that the American people want to go to war in Asia to save Taiwan or

00:05:43.540 some other island? No. No, no one really believes that. Xi Jinping doesn't think that. This is the

00:05:51.040 weakest possible response from an administration that is extraordinarily weak. Now, sometimes the weakness

00:05:57.660 of the Biden administration actually benefits conservatives and the American people more

00:06:02.360 broadly. We're seeing this right now when it comes to Joe Biden's vaccine mandate.

00:06:08.500 So, right now, Joe Biden has issued multiple vaccine mandates. It gets a little bit confusing

00:06:17.060 because there's the government employee vaccine mandate. There's the government contractor vaccine

00:06:20.820 mandate. There's the OSHA vaccine mandate, which uses the Occupational Safety and Health Administration

00:06:25.960 to force some employers, employers with 100 or more employees, to force their employees to get the

00:06:31.800 Fauci ouchie. That's the one that the Daily Wire is fighting and we're winning on. But Joe Manchin,

00:06:37.800 rather, a Democratic senator, ostensibly part of Joe's party, is saying, no, he doesn't want to go along

00:06:46.080 with this. And he's actually saying now that he will side with the Republicans to work on a bill

00:06:54.820 that will undermine his own president's and his party leader's vaccine mandate. He says, quote,

00:07:01.660 I do not support any government vaccine mandate on private businesses. That's why I have co-sponsored

00:07:08.740 and will strongly support a bill to overturn the federal government vaccine mandate for private

00:07:13.280 businesses. The lesson here is simple. Stand firm. Stand firm. A little courage goes a long way.

00:07:19.700 When Joe Biden issued his vaccine mandate, he thought he could get away with it because the

00:07:25.200 Democrats can control the entire government. They have both houses of Congress and they have the

00:07:29.360 White House. And the courts aren't particularly favorable to Republicans either, even though

00:07:35.160 there are plenty of Republican judges there. He thought, Joe Biden thought, I've got the administrative

00:07:41.260 state. I've got the media. I've got Hollywood. I've got woke corporate America. I've got the schools.

00:07:47.220 I've got everything. And so I can do this and no one's going to fight back. And then a handful of

00:07:51.060 people fought back. And I don't want to brag too much here as someone from the Daily Wire,

00:07:56.380 but the Daily Wire led that charge among the private employers. And we sued the Biden

00:08:01.320 administration in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Other people sued in the Fifth Circuit

00:08:05.780 Court of Appeals. And we're winning and we're very clearly winning. And when you show a little bit

00:08:12.260 of courage, that's going to show other people that they can show a little bit of courage. And that's

00:08:16.040 what's going on right here. And Joe Manchin is standing up to the leader of his own party.

00:08:21.100 And now it looks like we're going to win. And there's very little that the Democrats

00:08:24.700 can do about that. Shows there's not unity even within the Democratic Party here. Now,

00:08:32.880 at the local level, it doesn't matter. Places that are completely blue, so blue they're actually red,

00:08:39.160 not red like Republicans, red like the commies. They're going to push for even more vaccine mandates. 0.79

00:08:45.200 You're seeing this in New York right now. Bill de Blasio has announced just yesterday that he is

00:08:51.440 going to force all private sector employees in New York City to take the Fauci-Augie.

00:08:58.840 We in New York City have decided to use a preemptive strike to really do something bold to stop the

00:09:06.120 further growth of COVID and the dangers it's causing to all of us. So as of today, we're going to announce

00:09:11.720 a first in the nation measure. Our health commissioner will announce a vaccine mandate

00:09:16.660 for private sector employers across the board. All private sector employers in New York City will be

00:09:24.040 covered by this vaccine mandate as of December 27th. We're going to have some other measures as well

00:09:29.640 to really focus on maximizing vaccination quickly so we can get ahead of Omicron and all the other

00:09:36.400 challenges we're facing right now with COVID. De Blasio is going to launch a preemptive strike

00:09:41.840 21 months after two weeks to slow the spread. It's going to be very preemptive because of the Omicron

00:09:47.600 and, you know, the Omicron that hasn't killed anybody yet and the Omicron that doesn't seem

00:09:52.540 particularly dangerous compared to the other variants. Yes, he's going to launch this vaccine

00:09:59.300 mandate. And a lot of conservatives are saying, Bill de Blasio doesn't have the right to do this.

00:10:03.420 This is a violation of fundamental rights. I don't think that's true. And I don't think it's a winning

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00:10:16.300 vaccine mandates. They have the political right. We have some individual rights, but we also have

00:10:21.600 political rights as a community. And one of those rights that has been asserted in the United States

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00:10:33.780 and inoculations and mandating that people do that. So I'm not denying that Bill de Blasio has

00:10:39.680 that political right. I think it's a terrible decision. I think as a prudential matter, it's

00:10:43.900 awful. I would oppose it vigorously. But the only question that matters is not whether Bill de Blasio

00:10:49.020 has some abstract political right. It's does he have the political power to enforce this?

00:10:54.840 The good news for New Yorkers, and don't forget, I was born and raised in New York. I have

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00:11:10.300 And so he doesn't have a ton of political power. If I were giving prudential advice

00:11:15.600 to employers in New York right now, and maybe I am giving prudential advice to them,

00:11:20.060 I would say just shrug your shoulders. Maybe drag your feet a little bit. Maybe slow walk this thing.

00:11:27.140 De Blasio is a lame duck. We need to turn all these guys into lame ducks. This is a good issue. 0.99

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00:13:33.560 Your friends, your family, your loved ones, and you will thank me. If you stand up against the

00:13:40.280 liberal ruling class, you are going to be vilified. That is guaranteed. And you are going to be called

00:13:46.500 a racist. Why? I don't know. You will. And a sexist, huh? Where does that come from? I don't

00:13:50.540 know. That's just what they're going to call you. They're going to go so far as to call you

00:13:53.640 a murderer. They're already doing that. They're saying if you don't do exactly what we say,

00:13:57.800 even if our guidelines contradict themselves one day to the next, if you don't do exactly

00:14:02.920 what we say, you are a murderer. You're responsible for the epidemic. You're responsible for people

00:14:07.900 dying. This is what the cackling hens on The View said just yesterday about the new spooky

00:14:14.760 Omicron variant.

00:14:18.200 They feel that their greater good is more important than your greater good.

00:14:21.560 Well, you know, it was interesting to me that the argument was being made,

00:14:24.540 if you're vaccinated, why do you care about me being vaccinated? You're protected.

00:14:29.060 And that's why we are at the Omicron variant, right? That's why we are where we are,

00:14:38.980 because it's mutating. It's becoming this crazy super bug inside of the people that aren't

00:14:45.300 vaccinated. And now it's affecting us. I don't know why they were not understanding that. We've

00:14:51.680 got like 80 million people that are not vaccinated. They understand. They don't want 0.99

00:14:57.280 to. So first of all, the CDC has already told us that the vaccine does not totally prevent you from

00:15:07.460 contracting the virus or transmitting the virus. They told us this at the end of July. This is why

00:15:12.600 the vaccinated are still required to wear masks, even in lots of different settings,

00:15:18.320 even after they've received the vaccine. This is why people are receiving all of these boosters.

00:15:22.540 And now we're being told in Israel, they're contemplating requiring a fourth shot to be

00:15:27.200 fully vaccinated. And there seems to be no end in sight. So spare me the sanctimony there.

00:15:32.040 But furthermore, let's just take them at their word. The unvaccinated are causing, or they're leading 1.00

00:15:38.620 the cause of the new variants and their petri dishes, and they're creating all these new variants of

00:15:46.580 COVID. What we are told right now by the scientists, by all the geniuses, is that the new Omicron is less

00:15:58.620 dangerous than the Delta variant, for instance, or the original variant, or some of the other flavors

00:16:06.320 as well. When viruses mutate, they generally speaking become less dangerous. And these less

00:16:17.340 dangerous strains can become the predominant strains. Isn't that a good thing? If you've got a relatively

00:16:28.020 dangerous variant, and then it mutates and becomes relatively less dangerous, and then the relatively

00:16:35.180 less dangerous one becomes the predominant strain, isn't that better than letting the more dangerous

00:16:42.880 one be the predominant strain? Am I stupid? Am I thick? Am I not reading things correctly? 0.99

00:16:48.060 Here's this from the New York Times. I'm definitely going to be stupid if I keep reading the New York 0.97

00:16:51.040 Times. The New York Times headline, Omicron is moving fast, but perhaps less severe, early reports 0.86

00:16:59.300 suggest. Researchers in South Africa, where the variant is spreading quickly, say it may cause less

00:17:06.000 serious COVID cases than other forms of the virus, but it's unclear whether that will hold true. Maybe

00:17:10.980 that'll change over time. That's right. As of now, as of recording, I don't think anyone has died from

00:17:15.900 Omicron, so why is everybody freaking out? We should be happy that the virus is becoming less and less

00:17:23.000 severe, as viruses do. That's just, that's just what happens. That's why we're not living through

00:17:27.640 the Spanish flu 1918 every single year. We're living through endemic sort of seasonal flus that are

00:17:33.900 not particularly severe. At least we were before COVID. Then last year, the flu basically just

00:17:39.040 disappeared. Remember that? That was kind of strange too. Speaking of people getting vilified by

00:17:43.900 the media, I've got to, I've got to take the side of the victim. I've got to take the side of the man

00:17:50.560 who's down and out. I'm going to take the widow's corner. I am going to stand up for poor Fredo

00:17:56.480 Cuomo. Poor Fredo Cuomo has done a lot of bad things. I don't particularly like him. I'm thrilled

00:18:01.780 that the house of Cuomo is done, politically speaking. But I think, I think that they're,

00:18:09.560 they're doing him a little dirty. Okay. He lost a CNN show. We've now found out that Fredo has lost

00:18:14.480 his Sirius XM show. This is his explanation for it. The way my time ended at CNN was hard.

00:18:21.440 While I have a thick skin, I also have a family for whom the past week has been extraordinarily

00:18:24.740 difficult. So right now I have to take a step backward and focus on what comes next. That

00:18:29.520 means I will no longer be doing my Sirius XM radio show. I'm extremely grateful for the support I've

00:18:33.860 received from Sirius XM throughout my time there. I also want to express my sincere appreciation for my

00:18:38.780 loyal listeners. I will miss our conversations a great deal, but I look forward to being back in touch with

00:18:43.600 you all in the future. So this can be one of two things. One, I don't think this is particularly

00:18:49.160 voluntary. I don't think he gave up his only other source of employment just because I'm going to

00:18:53.360 take a step back. I suspect he's done. People are going after him. So why? Either it's because

00:18:57.640 there's another shoe to drop. Either it's because they've got a bunch of scandals up their sleeve

00:19:01.920 that they're going to drop on him there and they're either threatening to release it if they don't play

00:19:05.440 nice, if he doesn't play nice, or it is already going to come out and Cuomo's trying to get ahead of

00:19:11.620 the story and back out. So that's one option. Or there's no more Sirius scandal coming out and

00:19:17.180 Fredo Cuomo is just no longer politically useful to the left, to CNN and to Sirius. His dad, Mario

00:19:23.320 Cuomo is dead. His brother politically is dead. And so why do we have Chris Cuomo around anymore? He's not

00:19:29.060 particularly valuable politically. So he's out. He's canceled. He's done. Which is why I think

00:19:37.160 this is going to sound like a little bit of an out there proposal, but just hear me out.

00:19:42.720 I think the Daily Wire should hire him. You know, that's what we do. We hire people who get canceled.

00:19:50.500 All right. We did it with Gina Carano. Now we got this great movie with Gina Carano. We did it

00:19:55.500 with sports journalists. We've done it with political journalists. We stand up for people

00:20:02.860 who get canceled. And I think that we need to bring the Chris Cuomo show over to the Daily Wire.

00:20:07.960 It would be so funny. Obviously, we would need a lot of editorial control. We would need Chris Cuomo

00:20:12.680 to just basically say things that we agree with. But I think it would be hilarious. I would do it for

00:20:17.740 the lulls. Chris, if you're watching this show, I assume you are. Think about it. Ben, if you're

00:20:24.460 watching this show, I know you're not. Think about it too, please. Chris Cuomo is trying to manage

00:20:31.300 his cancellation right now. And I think everyone involved is trying to do it relatively, as nicely

00:20:39.120 as a cancellation can go. But there are already fault lines. There are already tensions you can see.

00:20:46.400 Chris Cuomo, for instance, just making a statement that Jeff Zucker, the head of CNN,

00:20:54.120 knew exactly what he was doing the whole time. So Chris Cuomo gets fired not for lying to his audience,

00:21:00.240 not for lying about COVID, not for that ridiculous special where he pretended to quarantine, remember,

00:21:06.400 for a period of time, wouldn't see his family. And then they filmed him coming out of quarantine and,

00:21:10.580 oh, wow, I get to see my family again. Except we found out that was a lie. He was hanging out with

00:21:14.100 his family the whole time he went on bike rides in the Hamptons. And actually, the way we know about

00:21:17.560 that is because he got into a fight with a guy in the Hamptons while on a bicycle. So not for lying,

00:21:21.780 not for his dishonesty. No, he is going to get fired for helping his brother. What? That doesn't seem

00:21:26.480 fair. So then people raised some questions about this. And now you're hearing talk of potential

00:21:31.440 sexual harassment allegations, which generally appear when people are politically weak and on

00:21:38.880 the verge of being canceled. You sprinkle a few of those on top. It's like sprinkles on an ice cream

00:21:42.880 sundae, right? He helped his brother. He's no longer politically useful. That's the ice cream and the

00:21:47.440 chocolate fudge and the frosting on top and the whipped cream. But then you put some sexual assault 1.00

00:21:53.800 allegations. That's the little sprinkles on top of the sundae. So a spokesman for Cuomo just said in

00:22:00.520 a text message, quote, Mr. Cuomo has the highest level of admiration and respect for Mr. Zucker.

00:22:06.000 They were widely known to be extremely close and in regular contact, including about the details of

00:22:11.600 Mr. Cuomo's support for his brother. There were no secrets about this, as the other individuals,

00:22:16.080 as other individuals besides Mr. Cuomo can attest. Yeah. Oh, there it is. There is Cuomo twisting that

00:22:24.300 knife with a big smile on his face. Just a spokesman. Spokesman just saying, look, no, no,

00:22:28.940 these men are really close. Chris has such respect for Mr. Zucker. Oh yeah. Chris and Mr. Zucker are

00:22:35.020 super tight. Oh yeah. They talk about everything. And Mr. Zucker knows about everything. And other

00:22:41.580 friends of Zucker's and Cuomo's know that Zucker knows about everything. So don't try it, buddy.

00:22:46.640 Don't try this. Don't pretend that Chris Cuomo was out here on his own helping his brother and no one

00:22:52.560 knew about it. That's obviously, I said this on the show. You know, I hate to tell you I told you so. I

00:22:56.540 said, everyone at CNN knew about this. There's no new information. In terms of what CNN knew about

00:23:03.580 their host, nothing has changed in the past week or two. All that has changed is the political

00:23:11.320 calculation. And now they're going to pretend, oh gosh, we're rooting out corruption. BS. BS. Now,

00:23:17.840 these sexual assault allegations, I don't know, maybe they're sexual harassment or whatever. They're

00:23:21.420 vaguely insinuating. They seem trumped up to me. They seem fake. Maybe they're true. But what it seems

00:23:26.680 to me is CNN got caught. They got caught in some really corrupt practices. They're trying to throw

00:23:31.560 Fredo under the bus. They're trying to take him out on that lake in that little fishing boat.

00:23:36.400 And Fredo is in a standoff right now. Okay. And they're not. But I hope, I have to tell you,

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00:26:21.700 Welcome back to the show. Some really good news coming out of Washington. That is a sentence I

00:26:28.360 almost never say, but there is really good news. And we have a handful of Republican senators to

00:26:35.940 thank for this. Notably, Ted Cruz, great fan, a friend of the show, rather. Hawley, Josh Hawley

00:26:43.560 sponsored this amendment. The great news is that we might not yet as a nation start drafting women 0.72

00:26:53.660 and sending them into the line of fire. You'll remember that during the vote over the National

00:27:00.440 Defense Authorization Act, there was a provision that the Libs put in there to draft women. And 1.00

00:27:06.860 some squish Republicans went along with this, and it's disgusting. To me, a vote for drafting women is 1.00

00:27:13.020 basically disqualifying if you are a conservative. But a lot of people went along, and a lot of other

00:27:21.000 conservatives didn't raise a ruckus. There were a handful of us who said this is disgusting. This

00:27:25.520 is shameful. Anyone who votes for this does not deserve to walk into the Capitol, does not deserve

00:27:32.260 their seat in the House or in the Senate. And so some of the good guys in the Senate pulled it out.

00:27:38.840 Josh Hawley, last month, introduced an amendment to the NDAA that would strip out that language about

00:27:45.140 drafting women. The amendment was co-sponsored by Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Roger Marshall, Roger Wicker,

00:27:52.480 Cindy Hyde-Smith, Steve Daines, James Langford, John Boozman, Mike Lee, and Marco Rubio. And I say

00:27:58.700 all of their names because they deserve credit here. They deserve credit for taking that out.

00:28:04.840 If we as a nation start drafting women and sending them to go die in the Middle East or whatever we're 1.00

00:28:11.660 going to send them to do, we are not a nation worth defending. Okay? What do we stand for? 0.99

00:28:19.720 The whole reason that people go out there and fight to defend this country is to protect the women 0.96

00:28:25.400 and the children and our way of life. But you're telling me, you libs and you squishes that go along

00:28:31.400 with it, that you want to upend that way of life, upend those standards, send the very thing that we're

00:28:38.800 protecting, the very people we're protecting, the very institutions we're protecting, send them 0.95

00:28:43.280 overseas, throw them under the bus, or get rid of them entirely. It's ridiculous. And what some of 0.99

00:28:48.800 the squishes would say, or the liberals would say is, well, you know, look, men and women are just the

00:28:53.440 same as men, and they should have all the same responsibilities and opportunities as men do,

00:28:58.540 including getting drafted and dying overseas. No, they're not the same as men. That's the point, 0.98

00:29:03.460 guys. Remember, we're the conservatives. You remember that? We're the ones who say

00:29:06.840 men and women are different, stuff like that. And there's a biological reality.

00:29:11.660 And there's things like chivalry. And we should hold the door for women, you know, 1.00

00:29:15.740 and we should, because we're different and all that. But yeah, but women want equal rights. So 1.00

00:29:21.520 that, yeah, right. But the libs, just because the libs and the feminists say that men and women are 1.00

00:29:27.060 exactly the same, doesn't mean that we should go along with that. It's not owning the libs to accept

00:29:31.780 all of their fundamental premises. That's called, that's called owning yourself. Okay. Don't,

00:29:37.320 don't do that. So great job to all these guys, clearly showing some moral clarity. And speaking

00:29:41.320 of moral clarity, I've got to address a topic that, oh gosh, this got me in a lot of trouble

00:29:47.440 over the weekend. I was on Twitter, you know, just wasting time on Twitter and we were debating

00:29:54.180 abortion. And all these libs were very upset that there's a chance that the Supreme Court will

00:29:59.340 overturn Roe versus Wade. And then hopefully we conservatives can go further and ban abortion 0.88

00:30:04.100 everywhere, make it illegal and prosecute abortionists. And this is basic stuff. And the

00:30:11.660 libs lost their minds and said that this is terrible. And, you know, abortion is a wonderful 0.68

00:30:16.820 thing. And I pointed out abortion is the worst thing America's ever done. And the libs thought they 1.00

00:30:21.180 had a trump card. They said, how dare you say that, Michael? How dare you say that abortion is worse

00:30:27.180 than slavery? Of course, abortion is worse than slavery. Abortion is much, much, much worse than

00:30:38.080 slavery. It's not even close by any, by just about any metric that I can think of other than the most

00:30:47.780 inhuman materialist standard that takes no account of moral or ethical or metaphysical reality.

00:30:54.500 abortion is much, much, much worse than slavery. Just on the standard of liberalism, just on the 0.51

00:31:03.540 standard of, you know, we have natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:31:08.020 If you're talking about abortion and slavery, then you're talking about abortion, which deprives you of 0.53

00:31:14.700 your right to life, and slavery, which deprives you of your right to liberty. Liberty is a secondary

00:31:19.340 right. You can't have liberty without life. So, of course, if those two come into conflict, you've got

00:31:25.800 to go with life. Furthermore, we know that life is this precious gift that we have been given, without

00:31:33.060 which we don't have any of the other rights. So, putting aside liberal philosophy for a second, just

00:31:37.340 go back to basics. Just remember that life is not a right. It's not just one among many. It is the

00:31:42.920 prerequisite right for all of the other rights. And so, of course, if you are deprived of that, that is a

00:31:47.320 more grievous offense than if you are deprived of some of your autonomy, if you are deprived of

00:31:51.700 a lifetime of autonomy, even. But slavery involves suffering. Yeah, well, getting chopped up in the

00:31:58.720 womb involves suffering, too. But even beyond that, you're telling me that because one suffers,

00:32:05.760 it would be better to die? No one really believes that, because we all suffer. And you people who are

00:32:10.280 making that argument right now, you people out in the Twitterverse, not you listeners, you're very

00:32:15.020 sensible people, but you libs who are making the argument that if one has to suffer, even immensely,

00:32:19.620 like we're talking about with the case of slavery, that it would be better to die. You don't believe

00:32:24.680 that, because you suffer and you don't kill yourselves, which is good. You shouldn't.

00:32:30.460 Suffering is a fact of life. And suffering can be a bad thing if you react to suffering in a destructive

00:32:38.060 way. Or it can be actually an edifying thing, a sanctifying thing. If we react to suffering with

00:32:44.620 patience and with virtue, it can actually help us to grow. Suffering is just, it's a fact, okay? And

00:32:52.300 it's up to you to react to that. But I don't think that killing yourself, saying that suffering,

00:32:57.920 even immense suffering, justifies killing yourself or being killed, I don't think that makes a whole lot

00:33:04.080 of sense. Of course, abortion is much, much worse than slavery. And by the way, all of you right side

00:33:10.280 of history people who look down on our forefathers and make more, and forget about the slaveholders

00:33:16.760 for a second, just anyone who came before us, who maybe made an untoward remark or did something that

00:33:21.660 you disapprove of, just you wait, just you wait until you hear what future generations will say about

00:33:28.540 you. Which you will hear because there is a metaphysical reality and there is heaven and hell.

00:33:34.920 If you believe, as some of the moderns do, that the whole point of life is just to get physical

00:33:39.960 pleasure, and a lot of libs believe that, I guess that's the only way that you could convince yourself

00:33:45.620 that slavery is worse than abortion. Because life doesn't really matter. It's just this kind of bizarre

00:33:51.980 accident of the physical universe. And we just happen to think that everything matters and that we have

00:33:56.420 loves and joys. But it's not. It's just chemicals firing off in our brain. And all we're here to do

00:34:00.040 is get pleasure. So if you die, it's no big deal. And if you suffer, it's a really big deal and it's

00:34:04.460 really bad. If you believe that idiotic, completely unsubstantiated view, then I guess you could come 1.00

00:34:12.700 to that conclusion. But the conclusion happens to be wrong. There's another non-troversy I want to 1.00

00:34:16.240 address. I got in so much trouble over the weekend on Twitter. This would be a statement I made

00:34:23.820 that there is no First Amendment right to be a commie. Okay? And so here, not only did I irritate

00:34:30.680 the libs, but I irritated some of the more excitable libertarians. But it turns out I'm

00:34:37.220 right. Sorry, guys. You know I hate to say it, but I'm right. There is no First Amendment right to be

00:34:43.540 a commie. There have been many laws in American history, going back to the earliest administrations,

00:34:49.060 going back at least to the second presidential, the Adams administration, that have circumscribed

00:34:54.900 the First Amendment right to free speech to preclude certain ideas, especially if those

00:34:59.080 ideas are seditious or would lead to the overthrow of the government. You see this from federalist

00:35:05.240 administrations. You see this from democratic administrations later on. You see this from

00:35:09.420 the early 20th century presidents. You see this in the 1940s and 50s. There was something called the

00:35:14.220 Smith Act. Smith Act was used to prosecute communists and fascists and anarchists. Okay?

00:35:21.100 Now, some libs will point out, well, some of those convictions were overturned. Yeah, they were. That's

00:35:26.180 unfortunate that some of those convictions were overturned. But the law still remains substantially

00:35:30.180 on the books. If you, in this country, it's still in the U.S. code, if you openly advocate for the

00:35:38.040 violent overthrow of the United States government, if you write pamphlets advocating this sort of thing,

00:35:42.800 if you give speeches advocating this sort of thing, you can be prosecuted. Very often you're not

00:35:47.000 prosecuted anymore because we're not as serious a country as we once were. But that is still on the

00:35:52.440 books, folks. To pretend that all of those laws, including the Smith Act, were completely overturned,

00:35:58.160 completely deemed unconstitutional, is BS. All right? And it comes, the reason that the liberals

00:36:03.940 don't like this is because the liberals very often have commie sympathies. The reason the libertarians

00:36:08.100 don't like this is because they have an unrealistic, anti-historical view of the First Amendment.

00:36:14.200 And I like the libertarians. Listen, some of my best friends are libertarians, okay? But

00:36:18.320 that view that the First Amendment allows you to say basically whatever you want is not true. It's

00:36:24.880 philosophically incoherent, and it historically has never existed, okay? And I happen to have written

00:36:29.740 a book about this called Speechless, which is selling like hotcakes, by the way. It was the number

00:36:33.600 one national bestseller when it came out. It's still selling great for Christmas, so I appreciate

00:36:37.220 it if you have got that book for your friends, for your family, to go along a little history of

00:36:44.800 political correctness, the use of language in politics, the First Amendment for that matter.

00:36:49.120 Really appreciate that. There's another book that you can give to your liberal friends

00:36:51.640 this Christmas to educate them. That would be Reasons to Vote for Democrats, a comprehensive guide.

00:36:56.520 That would be my first book. Really appreciate you giving the gift of knowledge out.

00:37:00.300 Speaking of the libs remaking society, Oregon may very well make masks permanent. Not two weeks to 1.00

00:37:14.620 slow the spread, not two months of masks, not even two, just permanent. The Oregon Health

00:37:23.600 Authority's Rules Advisory Committee is reportedly drafting a more, quote, permanent set of rules

00:37:30.040 for masking in the state, despite the fact that the state mask mandate has already been in place

00:37:36.080 for months. They're going to make it a little bit more permanent. This episode today might be the

00:37:43.540 told-you-so episode, but a lot of you knew it too. It's not like I'm telling you something

00:37:46.800 that you didn't know. A lot of us were saying in the comments and in All Access and on the show

00:37:52.580 and elsewhere, we've been saying from almost the earliest days of the COVID stuff that there was

00:38:00.180 no end to that. It wasn't going to end in two weeks or two months or even two years. Ronald Reagan

00:38:06.380 had that line. He said, there's nothing nearer to eternal life on earth than a temporary government

00:38:10.680 program. There's a lot of wisdom in that statement. That's true. When the government or even when big

00:38:17.460 corporations or when other powerful interests take power, they very rarely give it back. And the

00:38:23.860 masks are useful to the powerful. It can be debated how useful they are at protecting the public health

00:38:33.700 or stopping the spread or slowing the curve or whatever, beating it back or whatever they talk

00:38:38.580 about. Dr. Fauci himself seems to have debated this issue with himself when he said, don't wear the masks,

00:38:43.400 they don't work. And then five seconds later, he said, do wear the masks. They're very important

00:38:46.640 and you need to wear them all the time. But what cannot be debated is that as a political symbol,

00:38:53.440 they are very effective. In the beginning of the lockdowns, the libs and the squishes told us

00:38:59.560 that if you wear the mask, it will hasten our return to normal. Some of us out there said the

00:39:06.880 opposite is true. The longer we wear the masks, the longer this is going to go on because the masks are

00:39:11.460 a visual cue. They're a symbol that things are not normal, that we're living in extraordinary times

00:39:15.880 and we need to give up extraordinary power and rights to the people who are claiming to rule us

00:39:22.560 during this emergency. And now they want to make it permanent. It seems so arbitrary, it seems so

00:39:29.660 capricious, but it is a symbol, a political symbol of their ability to rule. The only way to take that

00:39:39.660 power back is politically, you know, vote these guys out of office and put in sane people, but also

00:39:46.540 just push back a little. You know, when you're, maybe don't be so quick on the draw to put the

00:39:53.860 cloth on. Maybe, I mean, use your prudence if you really want to. Maybe you really like the masks,

00:39:58.080 okay, that's fine. But if, as this all seems, this is capricious and arbitrary and extraordinarily

00:40:05.460 partisan and political, maybe use your prudence. Okay, that's all I am. Am I allowed to say that?

00:40:12.760 I don't know. I don't know because the liberal establishment controls everything, including

00:40:16.420 big tech. Speaking of political power and tech, Devin Nunes is retiring from Congress. He's just

00:40:24.160 announced his retirement from Congress. Devin Nunes was, still is, a rising star in the Republican

00:40:33.640 party. He was really good on some of the government abuse during the Trump administration,

00:40:39.700 the deep state abuse against the Trump administration. Well, now he's leaving Congress.

00:40:44.920 I think, I think he's leaving even before his term is over. He's leaving to run a Trump tech

00:40:54.660 media enterprise. And people are, the libs are laughing and dancing and they're so happy. And they're even

00:41:03.080 kind of making fun of him. They're saying, oh my gosh, you're leaving Congress to go do this crazy

00:41:06.240 thing with Trump. Yes, he is. And it makes perfect sense as to why he is. Because he didn't have any

00:41:10.780 power in Congress. Because the power of Congress, such as it ever was, has been usurped. It's been

00:41:16.020 usurped in part by the deep state. It's been usurped in part by private industry. Because of

00:41:22.560 deregulation. Deregulation from the left in certain cases and deregulation from the right.

00:41:27.800 What Devin Nunes is doing is just what Jim DeMint did when he left the Senate because he said he

00:41:33.080 couldn't do anything in the Senate. He went and ran Heritage. Now he's running the CPI, another

00:41:38.120 conservative institute. Because power does not lie exactly where we think it does, where I'm a bill

00:41:43.040 up on Capitol Hill Schoolhouse Rock told us it was. Speaking of shifting political power,

00:41:49.700 there is a horrifying headline coming out of Switzerland. Switzerland has legalized, or is in

00:41:59.100 the process of legalizing, 3D printable suicide pods. An Australian doctor, Philip Nietzsche,

00:42:10.060 it's kind of fitting that his name sounds like Nietzsche, you know, this very nihilistic,

00:42:15.440 brutal thinker. He has announced that 3D printed devices that are being called euthanasia pods

00:42:21.780 are a coffin-like device that makes assisted suicide accessible for nearly everybody and

00:42:27.580 without medical intervention. You don't even need a note from your doctor to kill yourself.

00:42:32.440 Will soon be available in Switzerland. Nietzsche has said that his purpose in making these devices

00:42:39.020 so that everyone can commit suicide with little medical assistance. Suicide pods.

00:42:49.120 This is, if you want to blame the left for this, the culture of death in a really creepy form.

00:42:59.320 But I think you can blame the right for this a little bit too. This is capitalism, man. This is free

00:43:05.860 enterprise, isn't it? This is just a businessman pursuing his business, giving consumers choice.

00:43:15.720 He's probably not going to have very many repeat customers, but he's giving consumers. This guy is

00:43:19.100 going to get rich selling people their death. And even if he doesn't, even if he just gives it away,

00:43:26.200 here, it's open source. You can 3D print it for free. You don't need to pay a licensing fee.

00:43:30.200 This is just creativity. It's creative destruction. It's definitely destruction.

00:43:37.340 I bet there are going to be some people on the right who are okay with this. Well, it's their

00:43:41.180 choice. It's their body, their body, their choice. There are people on the right who actually believe

00:43:44.860 that. Some people on the right use that expression, ironically, to point out the hypocrisy of liberals 0.96

00:43:53.180 who claim my body, my choice when it comes to abortion, but do not claim my body, my choice when it 0.67

00:43:58.580 comes to vaccines. But folks, it's just a line. It's just a slogan to own the libs. We don't actually

00:44:05.520 believe that. We don't, at least I don't, I as a conservative do not actually believe that you

00:44:10.700 have the right to do whatever you want with your own body or to your own body. No, we are constrained

00:44:16.860 by the moral order. There is a transcendent moral order and we are responsible to that.

00:44:21.080 We didn't create our bodies. We didn't choose to come into this world. I hope we don't choose to

00:44:24.600 come out of this world. I hope we reject this culture of death from this lunatic in Switzerland 1.00

00:44:28.980 or the lunatic in Australia and then the political lunatics in Switzerland. Okay, we have responsibilities. 0.99

00:44:35.140 You're not just allowed to do anything you want just because you want to. We're not just pure will.

00:44:39.760 Okay, we're also intellect. We're also moral conscience. All right. If this is something that

00:44:47.240 your political ideology can look at and not have a problem with, it's probably time to check your

00:44:53.540 premises. Something has probably gone wrong in your political thinking if you think this is fine.

00:44:59.060 This represents the literal suicide of the West, the literal suicide of our civilization. That's bad.

00:45:08.160 I don't want, I for one don't want that. Okay. And so the things that are leading our civilization to

00:45:13.080 commit suicide, whether that is the destruction of our culture, the emptying out of our churches,

00:45:18.780 the breakdown of the bedrock political institution, such as the family and larger political institutions,

00:45:25.440 the breakdown of loyalty to our own countries, mass migration, the decline of birth rates,

00:45:31.360 mass abortion, or in this case, literal suicide. Whatever it is, we got to stop it because I want to 0.87

00:45:38.580 live. Okay. I want to live here in this world. I want to live eternally in the spiritual world.

00:45:44.880 And I want our culture and our civilization to live as well. And the libs want it to die. And there

00:45:51.160 are some squishes who don't really seem to have an opinion one way or the other. They just say, well,

00:45:56.780 it's choice. Well, it's whatever you want. Well, it's the free market. Well, it's capitalism. Well,

00:46:00.440 no, man, there's no neutrality when it comes to life or death. Pick a side. Speaking of promiscuous

00:46:08.260 sex. Oh, no, hold on. There was something I wanted to get to before, before I get to this. 0.99

00:46:13.180 Because promiscuous sex does have a pretty, pretty big role in the death of the West.

00:46:19.900 But before I get to the Biden administration on this, I want to get to Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders

00:46:24.400 and a lot of other Democrats are defending abortion as the central sacrament, right? This is the

00:46:33.120 sacrament of leftism. So Bernie says, quote, we can't go back to the days when women had to risk

00:46:39.700 their lives to end an unwanted pregnancy. We must pass legalization that codifies Roe v. Wade as the 0.95

00:46:44.840 law of the land. And if there aren't 60 votes to do it and there are not, we must reform the

00:46:50.340 filibuster to pass it with 50. Speaking of neutrality, speaking of, well, it's just whatever

00:46:57.320 you want. Well, it's just free choice. Well, it's the will of the people. No. This kind of thinking,

00:47:03.120 this next battle in abortion rights and pro-life, if Roe v. Wade gets overturned, shows you the

00:47:11.580 ultimate weakness of neutral liberalism or originalism even, or textualism.

00:47:17.780 Originalism, this theory, this interpretive principle of reading the Constitution that has

00:47:25.140 been really prominent for several decades now, it may or may not prove effective in overturning Roe

00:47:30.820 v. Wade. I hope it's effective. I'm not sure that it will be, but I hope it is. Regardless, we need to

00:47:37.380 make more serious arguments. The arguments that the conservatives have made for a long time is

00:47:42.300 something to this effect. Well, you know, look, the Roe v. Wade is constitutionally completely

00:47:50.500 ridiculous and it has no basis in the Constitution, but that doesn't mean that abortion will be outlawed

00:47:55.620 or necessarily even should be outlawed. New York is going to have abortion. Tennessee is not going to 1.00

00:48:00.120 have abortion. And that's federalism. And that's just, you know, we're talking about the text of the

00:48:03.620 Constitution and then the people can make their own decision. Okay. I get why that argument is

00:48:07.400 instrumental, instrumentally useful and true in as far as it is true. But it's not good enough.

00:48:16.280 I don't, I hope that Roe v. Wade is overturned. I hope there's no pretend federal right to an abortion. 0.86

00:48:23.460 But I don't, I don't want there to be abortion in New York either. I don't want there to be abortion

00:48:28.000 in Connecticut either. And I don't give a damn if the New Yorkers and the Californians want it. It's

00:48:31.760 wrong. We, the people have the right to say that it's wrong. And states' rights only goes so far.

00:48:37.280 The question is states' rights to do what? We're going to leave it there. We're not going to talk

00:48:42.920 about any more promiscuous sex today, even though there's a juicy story coming out of the White House. 0.70

00:48:47.440 That's going to be the cliffhanger. I'll see you tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael

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00:49:42.940 Today on The Matt Wells Show, online application forms now provide dozens of gender options and

00:49:47.680 sometimes man or woman doesn't even make the list. And speaking of made-up terms,

00:49:52.020 a new poll shows that almost no Hispanic people use the term latinx, and yet the left continues

00:49:56.780 to push it. We'll talk about all that today. Plus, Bill de Blasio bans young children from

00:50:00.880 public accommodations if they don't show their vaccine papers. The evil is so absurd and over

00:50:05.040 the top at this point as to almost be cartoonish. And salacious new details emerge in the Jussie

00:50:09.560 Smollett trial. Also, a company produces a suicide pod to help people kill themselves.

00:50:13.820 And in our daily cancellation, we'll ask the question, why is everyone so ugly these days?

00:50:19.120 All of that and more today on The Matt Wells Show.

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