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00:00:00.000 It has been 1,856 days since the 2016 presidential election. We are now in the second week of the

00:00:10.560 12th month of the year of our Lord, 2021. And still, Hillary Clinton is crying about losing

00:00:19.940 the 2016 election. And I do not mean crying in a figurative way. I mean, she is literally tearing

00:00:28.740 up on television, reading the victory speech that she had written and intended to give,

00:00:36.520 but never had the chance to give. I didn't, as you know, write a concession speech because even

00:00:42.400 though we had a lot of bumps those last 10 days, I still thought we could pull it out. So I worked

00:00:50.220 on a speech that really was about my journey and had a real emphasis on my mother's life and journey

00:00:59.680 as a way of, you know, making it clear that, yes, I would be the first woman president, but I, like

00:01:07.160 everybody, stood on the shoulders and lived the lives and experiences of those who came before us.

00:01:15.100 I dream of going up to her and sitting down next to her, taking her in my arms and saying,

00:01:24.140 look at me, listen to me. You will survive. You will have a good family of your own and three children.

00:01:34.880 And as hard as it might be to imagine, your daughter will grow up and become the president

00:01:42.220 of the United States. That video is, and I say this without any exaggeration,

00:01:51.920 the single funniest thing I have ever seen. It is so perfect. Every single thing about it,

00:02:02.580 play it again.

00:02:03.960 Look at me. Look at me. Listen to me. You will survive. You will have a good family of your own

00:02:13.080 and three children. And as hard as it might be to imagine, your daughter will grow up and become

00:02:21.560 the president of the United States.

00:02:24.320 Except she won't. She won't. That won't happen ever. This is so, so sad, so funny and so sad.

00:02:37.240 This is even worse than that time that Hillary tweeted out a picture of herself on her birthday.

00:02:43.240 And it was herself as a little girl. And it said, happy birthday to this future president.

00:02:47.340 But she lost. The Republicans beat her just like Republicans are once again beating back

00:02:52.700 leftist politicians and policies in a way that we have not seen in years. I'm Michael Knowles. This

00:02:58.440 is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from

00:03:08.600 John Chalmers, who says the masks are a reminder to be afraid, which is necessary to keep people

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00:04:57.360 holding public office, Hillary Clinton, she's out. She's never going to tearfully talk about how your

00:05:02.940 daughter will be the first female president. That's not going to happen. Also, Joe Biden's

00:05:10.060 nominee for Comptroller of the Currency also will not be holding that office. This woman's name is

00:05:17.380 Saul Omarova. Do you remember Saul Omarova? We played her testimony the other day, I don't know,

00:05:25.040 a few weeks ago on the show and how she was grilled by Republican senators because she has been and

00:05:32.680 almost certainly still is a communist. I don't mean she is a Democrat. I don't mean she supports

00:05:38.440 welfare. I mean like an actual communist with degrees from places that bear the names of Lenin

00:05:45.560 and Marx and that kind of stuff. So Biden nominated this commie to the office of the Comptroller of the

00:05:52.940 Currency. Now she's out and the way that the New York Times phrased this is that she's out because

00:06:00.540 Republicans successfully accused her of being a communist just because she was born in the Soviet

00:06:06.480 Union. It's bigotry. It's xenophobia. It's nativist. It's all of these things. It's not her fault she was

00:06:13.920 born in the Soviet Union. They got Pope Benedict. Oh my God, one of the greatest men of the 20th and 21st

00:06:21.700 centuries. Pope Benedict happened to live in Nazi Germany. It's not his fault that he was in it,

00:06:25.620 just like it's not her fault. Except the thing is, the problem with Saul Omarova is not that she was

00:06:32.720 a communist when she was a little kid. It's that she remains a communist and pushes for these policies

00:06:38.000 even here in America, even within the last few years as Senator Kennedy demonstrated during the

00:06:45.120 testimony. You wrote your thesis in college at Moscow State University on, the title was Karl Marx's

00:06:52.520 Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in the Capital. But you won't send Senator Toomey a copy.

00:07:02.380 You studied at university, at Moscow State University, scientific communism, which is the science

00:07:10.100 regarding the working class struggle and the socialist agenda. In 2019, not 30 years ago, in a Canadian

00:07:20.880 documentary, you called the financial services industry, quote, a quintessential ass industry.

00:07:29.100 You wrote a paper called Systemically Significant Prices calling for the federal government to set wages,

00:07:40.880 food, gas prices. In 2020, you wrote a paper called The People's Ledger, where you said we need to abolish

00:07:50.320 bank accounts and make everybody set up an account at the Fed where the federal government will have access

00:07:55.400 to your data. So Senator Kennedy just absolutely nails this woman. And he did it in a really effective way

00:08:03.920 that he in particular is good at. The way that Kennedy talks, if you've ever seen him on cable news, for

00:08:10.040 instance, is he'll talk in this really folksy way. So he'll go on TV and he'll say like, well, you know, there's three

00:08:15.020 ways to skin a possum for dinner time. And well, you know what my grandpappy told me, you know, he talks in this

00:08:20.500 folksy way, but he's extremely intelligent and extremely educated and he kind of lures people

00:08:25.220 in. So he did this with Solomarova. He opened up, he said, were you part of some group called

00:08:29.680 the Young Communists? And she, you know, very condescending says, um, no, what are you talking

00:08:35.460 about? Whatever. And then he goes in and he says, no, well, you were because of you were at this school

00:08:39.140 and you wrote this paper and you defended this policy. And, and she's done this even up to the last

00:08:44.680 few years. So we got her. The takeaway here is not even that Joe Biden's a commie, you know, or that,

00:08:51.180 that they're, they're, the left is pushing all of these radicals. We know that the left is pushing

00:08:54.940 radicals. Joe Biden is not a commie. He's not really anything. He just licks his finger, puts it up in

00:08:59.640 the air and figures out which way the wind is blowing. The lesson here is persistence. Okay. The,

00:09:05.880 the left is very persistent. That's how they've taken over the whole culture. And when they lose on,

00:09:10.620 they just send, they, they send the troops back in and they just keep fighting and they keep pushing.

00:09:15.480 And that has been very effective for them. We can be persistent too. All right. The left has shaped

00:09:21.820 and reshaped the limits of culture and what's, what you're allowed to say and move the Overton window.

00:09:25.740 We can do that too. If we are just persistent ourselves, you say, no, you can't, you can't,

00:09:34.820 Joe Biden, you know, you're just a vessel for what, whatever is politically convenient. You thought it

00:09:39.820 was politically acceptable to nominate a commie to this position and it's not. So we're, we're just

00:09:44.940 going to say no and we're going to hammer this woman until she withdraws. And she did withdraw and

00:09:49.720 we actually can win. You're seeing this right now, even as we talk about overruling Roe v. Wade. I

00:09:54.300 mean, that took 50 years almost, but, but now it's at least possible to do that. Got to be persistent.

00:10:01.220 Speaking of people's political stories falling apart, Dr. Oz is running as a conservative Republican

00:10:09.200 for Senate in, in Pennsylvania. And he says, I'm a conservative, I'm a regular old, like

00:10:14.780 kind of Reagan type conservative, and I've always been a conservative or whatever. Well,

00:10:18.540 there's a clip that's just come out of Dr. Oz in recent years on the Breakfast Club,

00:10:23.040 seeming to criticize, to attack and to make fun of the pro-life movement. Take a listen.

00:10:29.100 Now, what are your thoughts on Alabama and these anti-abortion laws that they're passing in

00:10:33.420 Alabama or that they've passed? Is that healthy? I'm, I'm really worried about it. I tell you,

00:10:38.600 I, I've taken care of a lot of women who've had issues around childbirth. The problem with the

00:10:43.820 law as it stands now, I think that, I think the law was really only passed to generate a Supreme

00:10:47.780 Court challenge, but most women don't know they're pregnant. It's only, it's two weeks past your last

00:10:53.280 period is when you'll, when you have to decide by what I have people on the show all the time who

00:10:57.780 never know they were pregnant, even when they were delivering. 50% of women don't know they're

00:11:01.440 pregnant when they're pregnant. Jesus. So you're asking women to decide almost instantaneously

00:11:06.040 if they're pregnant or not. And they, it's also banned in case of incest and rape. And so, uh,

00:11:11.780 I don't quite get it as a doctor. And the other thing is this whole thing about heart beating.

00:11:15.100 I mean, there are electrical changes at six weeks, but the heart's not beating. If you, if you were,

00:11:22.620 if you were to say starting from when we can hear the heart, like when the heart's really doing

00:11:26.740 something, that would be different. That's not six weeks though. Right. So if you can define life by a

00:11:31.560 beating heart, then make it a beating heart, not little electrical changes in this, in a cell.

00:11:36.620 That's not a, that no one would hear would think about as a heart. Okay. Well, Dr. Oz doesn't think of a

00:11:41.820 baby's beating heart as a heart. And I don't think of Dr. Oz as a conservative or a Republican. So

00:11:46.060 it's simple. All right. And if you're going to nominate a conservative or a Republican to Senate,

00:11:49.620 how about you make sure that it's an actual conservative or an actual Republican? Really,

00:11:53.500 really sad stuff from a guy who, look, this is just the first clip we're seeing in the days after he's

00:12:00.800 announced he's going to run for Senate and it doesn't look good. It makes him look very dishonest.

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00:13:53.020 powerful politician than just some lowly senator. Dr. Fauci is now suggesting, as we have been telling

00:14:01.580 you for weeks and weeks and months and months, that fully vaccinated is, it's probably not going

00:14:06.720 to be fully vaccinated forever. You know, right now you are fully vaccinated. I think you're still in

00:14:11.240 America, you're fully vaccinated. If you have one shot of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine or two

00:14:16.360 shots of the mRNA vaccine, then you're vaccinated and then we can go back to normal, right? That's

00:14:21.020 what they told us. If you just wear the mask for two weeks, then we can go back to normal. If you

00:14:25.000 just lock down for two years, then we'll just go back to normal. If you just take the shot,

00:14:29.020 we'll just go back. And then we never go back to normal. That's kind of the, that's Lucy with the

00:14:32.520 football is we never actually go back to normal. So now Dr. Fauci is saying, well, you know, two

00:14:39.180 shots, is that really enough? No, maybe we, to be fully vaccinated, maybe you'll need a third.

00:14:45.720 If you want to talk about what optimal protection is, I don't think anybody would argue that optimal

00:14:51.040 protection is going to be with a third shot. Whether or not it officially gets changed in the

00:14:56.640 definition. I think that's going to be considered literally on a daily basis. That's always on the

00:15:01.620 table. Always on the table. Cause this, and this discussion has been going on for a bit. And I was

00:15:06.180 just kind of with this data coming in this morning, I'm kind of stuck with, is it a matter now of when,

00:15:13.440 not if the definition of fully vaccinated changes? You know, my own personal opinion, Kate is what you

00:15:20.100 said is correct. It's going to be a matter of when, not if. Dr. Fauci is not known for his

00:15:26.960 consistency, right? He says, don't wear the masks. Masks are dumb. Then five seconds later,

00:15:32.160 he says, wear the mask. You have to, it's very important. What do you want? He's not known for

00:15:36.120 his consistency, but he contradicted himself in the same breath, in the same statement. During that

00:15:46.160 segment, he actually contradicted himself. Initially he said, look, is the, is the official

00:15:52.680 definition of fully vaccinated ever going to change to three shots? I don't know. Maybe look,

00:15:58.680 it'd be good if you got three, but I don't know if the definition will change. And then the woman on

00:16:03.540 TV says, well, yeah, but don't you think it's a matter of when, not if the definition changes? He goes,

00:16:08.580 yeah, I do. Bro, you just, just 15 seconds earlier, you, you said that it, it wouldn't

00:16:18.140 necessarily change officially. Now you're saying it will. It's inevitable. It's just a matter of time.

00:16:23.500 But if you don't believe Dr. Fauci, you're denying science because he is the physical embodiment of

00:16:28.660 science, which changes apparently by the second. Didn't know that. There's no end to that. Dr.

00:16:35.500 Fauci changed his mind in the same breath and he's going to change it again. And he's going to change

00:16:41.360 it again. And there's not going to be any end to it. And if you wear the masks, that's not going to

00:16:45.600 help you get back to normal. And if you take the 10th booster, that's not going to help you get back

00:16:49.660 to normal. And if you just lock down for a few, it's not, none of this, none of this is going to

00:16:54.560 help you get back to normal. If you want to get back to some semblance of normal society, there's one

00:16:59.820 way to do it that will be more effective than anything else. And that is firing Dr.

00:17:04.300 Fauci and banishing him to St. Helena. That's your best shot. And even then, I'm not sure you go

00:17:08.720 back to normal. But certainly, appeasing this lunatic is not going to help you do it.

00:17:17.040 Stop being Charlie Brown watching Lucy with the football. Now, Fauci went on. There's never any

00:17:24.980 shortage of hot air for Dr. Fauci to blow out of his mouth. Dr. Fauci went on to castigate people

00:17:31.800 who are not following his every whim. And he says, it's long past time that we put communal

00:17:37.700 responsibility above individual rights. In New York, we're seeing the mayor introduce a vaccine

00:17:43.980 mandate, the first of its kind for the private sector. Is this the kind of mitigation tool that

00:17:48.800 you see in our future in your professional opinion? You know, Francis, we, no one likes to be

00:17:54.400 mandating for people to do things that they might be hesitant to do.

00:17:58.480 But quite frankly, you have to, when you're in the middle of what we call a historic experience

00:18:05.760 of the worst pandemic of a respiratory disease in the last hundred years, we have to put the communal

00:18:13.840 responsibility ahead of individual preferences. So although no one, myself included, likes to be told

00:18:22.600 what you have to do. Sometimes if you don't come to the realization that it is good for yourself,

00:18:28.880 for your family, and for the communal good, then mandates or requirements become necessary.

00:18:36.680 So first of all, this guy is obviously lying through his teeth. Nothing gives him a greater thrill

00:18:42.280 than telling people to do things they don't want to do. That is, first of all, his entire career,

00:18:47.640 that's his field, right? Public health, government, bureaucrat, public health is the whole point of

00:18:53.420 that is to tell people on a huge scale what to do, to tell them to do things that they very likely do

00:18:58.880 not want to do. And he loves it and he gets a thrill out of it. And it's the high point of his career

00:19:02.380 and probably the high point of his life. So that part is dishonest. But what about the point Dr.

00:19:07.760 Fauci is making? He's saying that at a certain point, you've got to care about the good of the

00:19:12.900 community above the perceived rights of the individual. On that point, he's absolutely right.

00:19:19.700 He's right. He's right. And a lot of conservatives don't get it. A lot of conservatives are digging

00:19:27.000 in their heels on this idea that the common good, the good of the community, never can make any claims

00:19:34.500 on my individual rights, whether they're real or imagined. But that's not true. That has no basis

00:19:39.560 in conservatism. That idea has no basis in American history. That has no basis in the classical

00:19:44.920 tradition. It's not, I hate to say that Fauci is right on this point, but he, he is right in principle.

00:19:51.460 He's just wrong in practice. The reason that these actions are not justified, the locking down,

00:19:59.880 the taking all of this power, the upending our way of life, the indefinite rule of the public health

00:20:05.720 technocrats, the reason they're not justified is not because the common good can never make a claim

00:20:10.420 on our individual rights. The reason they're not justified is because the Wu flu does not affect

00:20:18.100 enough people severely enough and the policies that have been put in place are not effective enough

00:20:23.020 to justify it. I know that's a less satisfying answer than some really cheap, shallow ideological

00:20:29.800 point that you can write on the back of a napkin, but that's the reason. It's not even the principle,

00:20:35.180 it's the particulars. If the black death broke out in the United States, I guess now you'd have to

00:20:43.140 call it death of color because black death would not be politically correct. If the bubonic plague

00:20:46.180 broke out in the United States and let's say it was a disease even worse than the bubonic plague and

00:20:51.180 we didn't have treatments and 80% of the country were dropping dead and were highly transmissible,

00:20:57.580 are you, you're seriously telling me that the public health bureaucracy would have no right

00:21:01.600 to prioritize the common good and, and saving the American people over certain individual rights?

00:21:07.800 Of course they would have that right. Of course they would have certain emergency powers. And of

00:21:11.320 course the common good is a real thing that we see referred to in the constitution of the United

00:21:15.880 States for one in the preamble that we see referred to in so many of the founding documents and that we

00:21:21.460 see referred to in all serious political philosophy. Now, of course they would have that claim,

00:21:26.000 but this ain't it. The infection fatality rate for the Wuhan virus is extremely low. And when you take

00:21:33.660 out very specific groups, elderly people, people who are extremely unhealthy, then the infection fatality

00:21:40.960 rate drops even lower, 0.005% in some cases, 0.003% for some groups. The, the median age of a COVID death

00:21:53.620 for much of this epidemic, we'll call it whatever you want, has been higher than the life expectancy

00:22:00.460 in the United States. So obviously there are specific groups that need to be protected,

00:22:07.020 but for most people, it's not as huge a deal. And the mitigation measures, by the way,

00:22:10.800 that have been put into place have not been as effective as the libs told us they would be.

00:22:16.260 Up to and including the vaccines, which is why we're now talking about how we need a third shot and a

00:22:20.160 fourth shot and booster after booster after booster, which you would not need, obviously,

00:22:26.160 if the vaccine were more effective or as effective as we were told it was in the first place. It's

00:22:30.700 the particulars, not the principle we should focus on. Though the, the left's principles are very often

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00:22:45.040 Lee. This statue stood in Charlottesville, Virginia. A lot of the protests on the left and the right in

00:22:50.780 Charlottesville a few years ago in 2017 came about as a result of this effort by the left to tear down

00:22:56.960 a statue of Robert E. Lee. Now what, what the conservatives said at that time is no matter

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00:23:09.280 noble guy, might've fought for a bad cause, but very noble guy. We shouldn't be tearing down history

00:23:15.200 like this. And the point of having these kinds of statues and the point of, of having some

00:23:20.160 recognition of Southern heritage is that we fought this bloody civil war, but then America came back

00:23:24.900 together with malice toward none and charity for all in the words of Abraham Lincoln. And so we

00:23:28.740 shouldn't undermine all of that and say that the South is this evil, awful, terrible place that's

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00:26:01.880 The Libs told us that they are not tearing down statues to destroy them or to topple history. They

00:26:20.040 are doing it to change the public spaces, to be more reflective of the society we are today,

00:26:26.960 but they're going to keep all those statues in museums, right? And some of us, hate to say I

00:26:32.640 told you so, knew that it was BS. It wasn't a great idea to begin with, and it was not going

00:26:37.540 to really happen. So now we're finding out that the statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville

00:26:42.360 is going to be donated to an African-American heritage organization. We're not sure which one,

00:26:48.780 what the group is. And then it will be melted down and turned into another public piece of art.

00:26:53.660 All that they told us about not destroying history is BS. This is a full-on cultural revolution that

00:27:01.780 is designed to topple every single thing that we have known to be America. They're not going to stop

00:27:07.300 with the South or the Confederacy or Robert E. Lee. They're going to go on and already have gone on

00:27:13.280 to Washington and Jefferson and U.S. Grant, the Union General, and Abraham Lincoln, who freed the

00:27:20.200 slaves. It doesn't matter. They want to topple and destroy and melt down to its very essence every

00:27:25.840 single thing that has ever been recognizable as American. This is a really good symbol. It's a

00:27:33.960 really sad thing, but it's a really good symbol. Melting down and transforming into something else

00:27:39.820 entirely. That is the leftist project. Maybe you've heard about these academic movements from the late

00:27:45.620 20th century. Deconstruction. We're going to deconstruct everything. We're going to break

00:27:51.280 it down. Let's break this down, right? Well, this is the logical conclusion of deconstruction.

00:27:57.620 And this is the point of deconstruction. You break everything down to its most basic bits,

00:28:04.140 and then you reform it into something else. This is how revolutionaries work. This is a very

00:28:11.260 effective political strategy. This is what the United States military does, right? So it can be

00:28:16.100 used to good purpose. You ever hear this about the Marines? Well, the Marines, they'll take you in,

00:28:19.900 and they'll break you down, and they'll build you back up. And that's the point. They want to

00:28:22.940 take whatever deformities you have, break those down, and then form you into a Marine, into this great,

00:28:29.540 strong, patriotic fighting force. Well, that's what all revolutions are doing. They break things down,

00:28:34.260 and then they reform it in their own image. Can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs,

00:28:38.360 things, right? That's what we are seeing happen now. So if you want to preserve anything resembling

00:28:47.660 America, you need to say no to all of this, and you need to not fall for it, and you need to not

00:28:52.820 be a squish who says, well, look, I'm a northerner, and obviously I don't like the Confederacy, and I

00:28:57.200 don't, so I don't like Robert E. Lee. And so you can have Robert E. Lee. That's fine. I don't care.

00:29:02.000 Yeah, that's cool. I'm good. I'm not racist. I'm not racist. Don't call me racist. I'm, that's fine.

00:29:05.940 No, it's not, it's not about Robert E. Lee. Dummy. It's not about the Confederacy. It's about

00:29:12.300 America. It's about America. It's about Lincoln and Washington and you. It's about you. It's about

00:29:17.560 any aspect of America that you hold on to. They want to melt it down, okay, and reform it into some

00:29:24.780 radical leftist monstrosity that, if you know anything about modern art, you know, it's not too

00:29:30.160 pretty, okay? Don't do it. Don't let them do that to your entire country. Speaking of cultural

00:29:34.360 revolutions, the European Union is, is trying to erase Christmas. It's that time of year. It's time

00:29:40.680 for the war on Christmas. It happens every year. The libs deny it, even as they wage it. I have a

00:29:44.960 long chapter in my book about the history of the war on Christmas. It's extremely real, and the people

00:29:49.860 who deny that the war on Christmas is real, they will often say, the war on Christmas is totally fake.

00:29:55.220 It's not real, and it's not a big deal. It's totally fake. It's not happening, but it is happening,

00:30:00.240 and it's not a big deal. Well, no, it is happening, and it is a big deal. So, in some guidance titled

00:30:06.280 Union of Equality, this was just leaked from the European Union, the EU advised to, quote,

00:30:11.740 avoid assuming that everyone is Christian during the Christmas season. The EU Equality Commissioner,

00:30:18.500 Helena Daly, advised staff, quote, not everyone celebrates the Christian holidays, and not all

00:30:24.640 Christians celebrate them on the same dates. We'll get to that in a second. Instead of saying Christmas

00:30:28.800 time, you should say holiday times. You know, holiday times, like for all those holidays that

00:30:34.380 there are. Well, what are the holidays during Christmas season? There is Kwanzaa, which is

00:30:39.180 completely fake, just completely fake, invented by a woman-torturing, sadistic socialist in the

00:30:46.560 1960s, some flunky professor from Cal State Long Beach, who, his name was, what, Ron Kalenga?

00:30:53.180 Is he, that's not even, I don't think that's his full name, but then he called himself Malana

00:30:56.400 Karanga, and he's just a complete psycho-degenerate. So, there's that, which is celebrated by virtually

00:31:01.060 no one. There's, I guess there's Hanukkah, which is a minor holiday, even for Jews, right? It's not

00:31:07.540 a major holiday, even for Jews. And there's, there's the Feast of the Immaculate Conception,

00:31:17.060 that was yesterday. Somebody tells me that's not what the EU is referring to. There's winter solstice for

00:31:21.580 the, like, five pagans out there. I don't, that's not real. Oh, it's Christmas. It's just

00:31:26.920 Christmas. That's the holiday, okay? But we have to deny that. We don't deny other, but we have to

00:31:33.580 deny Christmas and make everything secular. The guidelines also say that members of the EU

00:31:38.160 should avoid using names like Maria and John that originate in Christianity, and instead use

00:31:43.900 multicultural options, such as, I'm not joking, Malika and Julio. So, you can't, Europe cannot

00:31:50.560 refer to Maria and John. They have to refer to Malika and Julio, okay? And the reason I mention

00:31:58.820 this story is that Pope Francis, who is often painted as a liberal at least, if not an outright

00:32:05.620 communist in the public media, Pope Francis has just come out and said, this is terrible.

00:32:10.940 He, he referred to it as an anachronism of watered down secularism. He said, in history,

00:32:17.520 many, many dictatorships have tried to do this sort of thing. Think of Napoleon. From there,

00:32:21.700 think of the Nazi dictatorship. Think of the communist one. Christmas is Christmas. It's not

00:32:26.180 just some secular holiday, and it's preposterous to pretend that it is. You see the same thing now

00:32:30.480 with the Libs. They have tried to get rid of the, the phrase BC and AD to refer to time

00:32:38.400 before Christ and Anno Domini, the year of our Lord. They've tried to get rid of that,

00:32:43.980 but they use all the same numbers. So, now instead of saying this, such and such happened in 253 BC,

00:32:52.000 they'll say it happened in 253 BCE, before the common era. And then they'll say, instead of AD,

00:32:59.400 they'll say CE, common era. But it's referring to the era of Christianity. So, it's just a joke.

00:33:03.800 Look, it is Christian. You can't, Europe is Christian. Europe is a Christian. It certainly

00:33:13.280 was Christian. I think it still has a lot of Christianity to it. Whatever we refer to as

00:33:17.160 Europe is Christian. So, if you get rid of the Christianity, you get rid of the Europe. You

00:33:23.440 can't have all the stuff, you can't have all the trappings of Christianity, but then pull Christ out

00:33:29.160 of it. It's not going to work. It's not going to work for a very long time. Secularization is not

00:33:34.700 only bad, it's extremely stupid. It can't happen. We try to do this in America. We say, look, you don't

00:33:40.960 need religion to be moral or spiritual. You know, look, we just look, we're just good people. We just

00:33:47.360 know that we should love our neighbor as ourselves and love the Lord our God above all things. We just

00:33:51.940 know that we need to follow the Ten Commandments. We just know that we need to treat one another in the

00:33:58.980 ways that were developed over millennia of Christendom. We just know it. We know that

00:34:04.280 there are truths that are self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator

00:34:06.920 with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We just know

00:34:09.520 that. Why do we know that, dum-dum? We know that. We know that because of Christianity. That's where

00:34:13.980 that comes from. So, you can't, if you take Gaida out of it, if you take the creator of all things and

00:34:20.780 the legislator of the moral law and the great moral order, if you take him away, then you lose the

00:34:26.980 moral order too. You lose all of it. Why? Why do we, how do we know that we're endowed with

00:34:32.820 unalienable, if there's no creator to endow us with them, how do you know we're endowed with rights to

00:34:36.820 life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? You don't. It's just fake. Why be good? If we're all

00:34:41.580 just worm food, if we're all just walking worm food, who think that we're alive because of some

00:34:45.560 pistons randomly firing in our brain, if life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury

00:34:50.040 signifying nothing, then what does it matter? It doesn't, it doesn't mean anything. If there's no

00:34:56.460 meaning in the world, then certainly there's no human rights. Certainly there's no natural rights.

00:35:00.560 There's not good or bad, but thinking makes it so. So, so what happens to civilization? It doesn't

00:35:06.900 make any sense. Great stuff from the Pope. Great stuff. He doesn't, you know, people criticize the

00:35:13.960 Pope when he says things that are a little strange, but he's absolutely right on this point. Speaking of

00:35:17.600 Christmas, did you know that the Fox News Christmas tree caught fire in Manhattan? It just caught fire.

00:35:24.360 Like, I don't know. I guess someone was pitching some fire and it caught it, right? That's what,

00:35:28.680 that was the New York Times headline. Fox News Christmas tree catches fire in Manhattan.

00:35:34.680 Now they've since changed the headline because it got so much flack. Trees don't just catch fire

00:35:41.720 generally. Usually someone lights them on fire, as was the case at Fox. At Fox, someone went up on

00:35:49.520 Sixth Avenue and lit the tree on fire because they don't like Fox News, presumably. Just like how SUVs

00:35:55.880 don't, don't drive themselves into Christmas parades. They are driven by people. Just like guns

00:36:02.920 don't just randomly kill people in Chicago. We've got to stop the gun problem in Chicago. We've got to

00:36:10.020 stop these guns. It's not guns. It's criminals. Those are, that's who's killing people in Chicago.

00:36:13.760 It's criminals driving the SUV. It's criminals setting the tree on fire. But the libs won't admit

00:36:21.900 that. The libs are happy to assign blame and guilt, even when it's not real, if it fits their

00:36:28.420 narrative. Like Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot people in self-defense who were trying to kill him. They

00:36:31.640 said he's an awful, terrible murderer who needs to be thrown in the clink forever. But when it comes to,

00:36:37.360 and that turned out not to be true, and Rittenhouse was exonerated. But when it comes to their own

00:36:42.040 guys, it's just the inanimate objects. There's a real epidemic of inanimate objects springing to

00:36:47.240 life and committing crimes, isn't there? And speaking of burning things down at Christmas,

00:36:51.280 I have to get to this because it drives me crazy. Speaking of Christmas time, speaking of the Pope

00:36:59.280 mentioning that this is a Christian holiday and a Christian moment, there is a myth, there is a legend

00:37:05.640 out there that Christmas started out as a pagan festival. And then the early Christians kind of

00:37:12.380 just said out of nowhere that Jesus was born on December 25th to co-opt a pagan festival and to

00:37:19.740 trick all the pagans into becoming Christian. That's the legend. A ton of people believe it,

00:37:24.620 and it is just completely fake. There is no evidence for it whatsoever. There is not a shred of

00:37:30.460 evidence that Christmas, December 25th, began as a pagan holiday. We are told alternately that it began

00:37:38.860 as the feast of Saturn, or the Saturnalia, or it began as the feast of the unconquered sun,

00:37:45.080 Sol Invictus, or it began as a feast for Mithras, another sort of pagan feast. It's just not true.

00:37:52.660 Saturnalia was celebrated on December 17th, started around 200 BC. It then was extended over time to

00:38:02.020 last an entire week, ending on December 23rd. It never had anything to do with December 25th.

00:38:09.360 So the connection is supposed to be because the feasts are near to one another. But at least at the

00:38:14.900 beginning, the Christmas feast was well over a week later. Okay. Then we've got, what's the next one?

00:38:25.360 Oh yes, Sol Invictus. So Sol Invictus and Mithras. We are told that because of the Feast of the

00:38:31.740 Unconquered Sun and the Feast of Mithras, they happened around that time that therefore

00:38:35.260 Christmas was taken from that. It's not true. So the earliest text we have to tell us about when

00:38:42.980 these feasts were is something called the Chronography of 354. And it shows Christmas

00:38:47.300 being celebrated. It shows Sol Invictus being celebrated on December 25th. It also shows

00:38:53.020 Christmas being celebrated on December 25th. So there's no evidence that one came before the

00:38:57.320 other. It may well be the case that the Feast of Sol Invictus was put there to counter the spread of

00:39:01.460 Christianity. It might be the case that Christmas was there first. The reason that December 25th was

00:39:07.020 chosen is because of its connection to Good Friday, to the crucifixion. The idea is that it was

00:39:12.800 commonly held in the first and second century that a divine, and before that, that a divine life would

00:39:19.540 be perfect. So there would be a connection from conception to death. And so because Christ dies

00:39:24.780 on Good Friday, then Christ must have been conceived on Good Friday. And what happens nine months after

00:39:30.560 Good Friday? Christmas. Which, by the way, shows you that these early Christians believed that life

00:39:35.040 begins at conception as well. Just a little brief interlude in our discussion of politics and our

00:39:40.880 laughing about Hillary Clinton and are talking about all the things that are going on in Capitol Hill

00:39:45.300 to remind you that there are a lot of these legends that are bogus. They are anti-Christian. They are

00:39:50.480 trying to do, as Pope Francis observes, they're trying to secularize everything and erase Christianity

00:39:55.540 from a public square. And it's just BS. Do not believe it. Do not believe that at all. There are a lot of

00:40:03.780 myths in our politics. A lot of legends. Here is one of the most predominant myths today.

00:40:10.740 That on January 6th, a day that will live in infamy on January 6th, the terrorist insurrectionists

00:40:16.260 almost conquered the United States.

00:40:20.820 Thomas Conover. Remember that name, Thomas Conover of Texas. He was one of the insurrectionists

00:40:36.300 from January 6th. So he's on trial now. And their evidence from his trial is now coming out.

00:40:45.100 Photographs of him that day. Photographs of him smiling, thumbs up, sipping a Coors Light. Yes,

00:40:54.340 that's right. Remember that face. Remember that face of that terrorist. That lager-sipping monster

00:41:02.540 who nearly brought the global hegemon to its knees. Does he, if you're watching this right now,

00:41:08.240 does this guy look like the kind of person who's going to bring the world's superpower crumbling

00:41:15.660 down? Or does he look like a, a sort of excited and eccentric political activist who made it into

00:41:23.640 the Capitol, was, was up to such surreptitious sedition, seditious activities that he was taking

00:41:29.620 photos, sipping his Coors Light, and then he sort of left. He's been charged. He's been charged,

00:41:37.440 not with drinking watered down beer. He's been charged with four misdemeanors,

00:41:41.360 including entering restricted grounds, disorderly conduct, and unlawful protest in the Capitol.

00:41:46.820 He has not yet entered a plea. The libs did not want us to see these photos.

00:41:54.800 The libs wanted us to believe that this was a well-organized terrorist group that went in

00:42:00.720 armed to the hilt. They weren't armed, by the way, but that they were armed to the hilt and they

00:42:05.080 were killing people and killing cops and taking over the country. It didn't happen. The only person

00:42:08.620 who was killed in the political violence was one of the right-wingers, was Ashley Babbitt,

00:42:13.260 who was killed by a cop, Air Force veteran Ashley Babbitt. They didn't want us to see these photos

00:42:19.340 because the photos contradict the narrative. You can't look at these photos and say,

00:42:23.260 this was the insurrection to take down the country. It wasn't. Might have been eccentric people,

00:42:29.580 might have been disorderly. Maybe they deserve to be charged with these misdemeanors or whatever.

00:42:34.340 You know what they don't deserve? To be thrown in solitary confinement for months and months on

00:42:39.460 end. You know what they don't deserve? To be called traitors and seditionists and terrorists

00:42:42.800 because they manifestly are not those things. So the best they've got, disorderly conduct,

00:42:50.700 unlawful protest in the Capitol. How many libs have done that in just the last five, 10 years?

00:42:59.020 How many times has there been some group of crazy libs, whether it was the pink shirt ladies or the

00:43:04.280 pink hat ladies or the left-wingers breaking and screaming, interrupting Senate testimony,

00:43:09.840 breaking into the... How many times has that happened? Countless times, just in my own life.

00:43:15.800 But they face very few consequences, if any. And then the conservatives who do it,

00:43:20.000 the right-wingers who do it, get the book thrown at them. This is what is so wrong about what's going

00:43:23.840 on with January 6th. It's not that the January 6th people didn't do anything wrong. It's probably not

00:43:30.700 legal to sip a Coors outside, right? That's probably not legal either. It's not that it's

00:43:35.800 completely innocent people in on completely made up charges. It's that it's people who are in on

00:43:41.860 extremely trumped up charges. That's why they're the nearest thing to political dissidence that we have

00:43:47.800 in the United States. And the libs have to keep up this narrative that when their guys burn down

00:43:53.220 the country for six months, that's good. They're mostly peaceful protesters. And when a dude shows

00:43:58.380 up sipping a Coors Light, taking pictures in the Capitol Rotunda, he's a terrorist who should be sent

00:44:04.160 to Guantanamo Bay. Speaking of the lib narrative breaking down, more bad news for Kamala Harris.

00:44:11.760 A new poll ad from Rasmussen says that a majority of voters do not believe that Kamala Harris has what

00:44:18.520 it takes to be president. Not a majority of Republicans, a clear majority of all voters.

00:44:26.040 55 percent, quote, don't think the vice president is qualified for the top job. 46 percent, so almost half

00:44:33.100 the country, says that she is not at all qualified. Not even like a little bit. 40 percent,

00:44:41.760 of voters believe that Harris does have the traits to become president. And 23 percent say that she's

00:44:48.020 very qualified. So you got 40 percent not qualified. Or 40 percent say qualified. 55 percent say

00:44:56.840 not qualified. I guess five percent very confused. Why do people think this? What the libs are telling us

00:45:05.020 is that people have this negative view of Kamala Harris, including many, many Democrats,

00:45:10.020 because she's a woman. She's a woman of color. She's Indian and part Jamaican, I think, even though

00:45:17.080 I think she's descended from slave owners, as her dad said, and I'm not, you know, but whatever. I don't

00:45:21.800 want to play the game, the identity politics game. That's why she is disliked. That's why people don't

00:45:28.300 think she's qualified. No. Do you know why people don't think she's disqualified? Why people of all

00:45:32.260 political stripes, of all geographical locations, of all colors, of all races, they don't think she's

00:45:37.920 qualified because she's not, because it's true, because no matter how much the libs push their

00:45:45.800 fictional narrative, people tend to have a sense of what is real and what is fake and what is true

00:45:54.100 and what is false. And you can really try to suppress it and you can try to melt it all down

00:45:58.540 and you can try to rebuild it into something else. And it's just, it's still going to be there because

00:46:02.700 we still have human nature, we still have reason, we still have moral conscience. And there is nothing

00:46:09.620 that Kamala Harris can do about it. Speaking of the Pope, speaking of sins of the flesh,

00:46:16.280 and then going back to talk about the Pope, Pope Francis. This is like Defend Pope Francis Day,

00:46:23.440 even though I know he says lots of things that seem a little strange or wrong or perhaps

00:46:27.860 heretical. He's getting in trouble for saying something that is just obviously true. He was

00:46:32.560 paraphrased by reporters saying that sins of the flesh are bad, but they're not the worst sins.

00:46:39.340 That's true. That's true. What he said. Sins of the flesh are bad, but this is, it's obviously true

00:46:44.960 that sins of the flesh, you know, do some weird sex thing or something. They're obviously not the

00:46:48.740 worst things. This has been understood since the earliest days of Christianity. Dante describes this

00:46:53.760 very clearly in his poem, in Inferno and in the whole Divine Comedy. Sexual sins are bad,

00:47:00.800 and they're probably the ones that ensnare people the most. There's a Marian apparition that I happen

00:47:07.240 to believe is true that's called Our Lady of Fatima, where it was said that more people are in hell

00:47:13.480 because of sins of the flesh than any other sin. That's probably true. You know, you think of the

00:47:16.640 sins that, especially for dudes, the things that really grab you tend to be sins of the flesh,

00:47:20.360 but they're far from the worst. There's fraud. There's betrayal. There are all these sorts of

00:47:25.000 sins can be much, much worse, and so you want to avoid sin and vice and all those things generally,

00:47:32.440 but there are worse things, such as deception, such as fraud, which Dante puts in the lowest circles of

00:47:39.620 hell, and to me, that's the real political scandal, okay, and it's the one. We always talk about

00:47:45.140 political scandals as if they're just about sex. No, dishonesty, fraud, the deceitfulness. That's

00:47:51.580 what the big issue is, and that is probably the biggest political problem plaguing our nation,

00:47:57.040 and that's the one that we've got to fight back against and see through the most. I'm Michael

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