The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 909 - How Every Dystopian Horror Film Starts

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00:00:42.840 that would implant a microchip under your skin to prove that you've taken the Fauci ouchie.

00:00:50.300 There are many lessons to take away from this creepy turn of events.

00:00:53.780 First, ideas that began as wild, crazy conspiracy theories are morphing into reality before our very eyes

00:01:02.760 as we enter into the third year of 15 Days to Slow the Spread.

00:01:08.220 Second, Alex Jones is a more reliable source of information than about 97% of establishment news outlets.

00:01:17.180 I know it's weird. A lot of people didn't expect it, but just when the frogs are gay or trans, actually, 1.00

00:01:23.400 and the microchips are in your skin, that's the way it is.

00:01:25.600 Third, our political situation could get a lot, lot worse.

00:01:30.200 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:31.780 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:40.460 My favorite comment Friday is from Kristen Drumgool, who says,

00:01:44.360 Regarding Joy Reid, and Joy Reid getting angry at Elon Musk for calling Elizabeth Warren a Karen,

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00:01:55.300 She says, it reminds me of when Homer Simpson scolds a gay man for calling himself queer by telling him,

00:01:59.820 That's our word for making fun of you. That's true.

00:02:02.640 You can't say that, Elon Musk. You're a white man.

00:02:05.540 But Karen is a word that only black people are allowed to use to make fun of white women, 1.00

00:02:09.060 except, Joy, which you forgot, which you didn't count on, is that Elon Musk is an African American.

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00:03:31.500 So we're now coming up on, what, 20, it's been 21 months or so of 15 days to slow the spread.

00:03:38.920 So we're a little under three months away from entering the third year of the biomedical security state.

00:03:50.920 And a lot of reasonable people are looking in that and saying, this has gone too far.

00:03:56.260 We've gotten way too restrictive.

00:03:58.600 We've upended our society without any real effect because the cases are still going up.

00:04:03.100 All of the breakthroughs among the vaccinated people, you know, all those many, many, many breakthrough cases now,

00:04:10.280 where I would say most of my friends that have gotten it recently, have gotten the Rona, have been vaccinated.

00:04:18.020 So they're all breakthroughs.

00:04:19.020 Everyone knows people with breakthroughs.

00:04:20.740 I don't know how long we have to keep calling them breakthrough cases.

00:04:24.100 But the takeaway of our ruling class is not that we've gotten too restrictive and we need to roll this back.

00:04:29.440 It's that we haven't gotten restrictive enough.

00:04:32.360 If the counts keep going up and the test positivity keeps going up, we may need to be more restrictive.

00:04:39.700 But for right now, people who are vaccinated and boosted should feel reasonably comfortable.

00:04:44.560 The risk is never zero.

00:04:46.060 That's for sure.

00:04:46.880 But what's the number?

00:04:48.320 What's the number you reassess that you just suggested, I think, perhaps for the first time that you would be forced to reassess if the numbers go up?

00:04:55.920 At what level, meaning, you know, if you hear that it's the positivity rate is 25 percent in a particular or 30 percent, does that change?

00:05:04.540 You know, I'm not going to give you a number.

00:05:08.840 Look, I'm not going to give you a number because then I could be held accountable.

00:05:12.940 So I'm just going to tell you that if you don't do exactly what I say, I'm going to lock you down more, you dirty, rotten sheep.

00:05:20.640 You peasant. 0.96

00:05:21.700 You disgusting mongrel.

00:05:24.140 Yeah, breathing your germs on me.

00:05:26.880 Dr. Fauci.

00:05:27.520 This man knows politics.

00:05:34.240 I don't know if he knows science all that well.

00:05:37.640 It's not just a cheap knock on Fauci because he's in the hot seat right now.

00:05:40.620 There have been a lot of questions as to his scientific competency over the years during his many decade long tenure at NIH.

00:05:49.720 There were protests of the guy in the 80s.

00:05:51.840 He made a lot of really questionable decisions in terms of public policy, in terms of experimentation during the AIDS epidemic.

00:05:59.540 Then obviously he made really questionable decisions in terms of funding gain of function research, including in China, including in Wuhan, where the virus started.

00:06:09.320 And then he's made a lot of questionable decisions during COVID itself.

00:06:13.340 So I really don't know if he knows very much about scientists.

00:06:15.940 You know, there was a critic of Fauci's in the 80s who pointed out that the best scientists go into laboratories.

00:06:22.660 They don't become government administrators.

00:06:24.600 And so I don't think the guy is, you know, the greatest genius we've ever had in this country.

00:06:29.900 But the one thing he really knows about is politics.

00:06:32.780 And he's held on to power really, really well.

00:06:34.980 And even now when he's saying we're going to have to lock down a little bit more, we might have to.

00:06:38.580 Well, okay, can you give me any measures that we can test this against?

00:06:43.340 No, I can't.

00:06:43.940 Man, I'm afraid I can't because then I could be held accountable.

00:06:49.280 What does that mean?

00:06:49.820 What does it mean to be more restrictive?

00:06:51.340 Well, one thing he's saying, regardless of the cases going up and down or up and down,

00:06:56.460 is that we very likely will never again fly on an airplane without that disgusting, stupid cloth in front of our face. 0.87

00:07:05.800 I also wanted to ask you about what the airline executive said this week about masks on airplanes.

00:07:11.620 They, several of the top, you know, the CEOs of the top airlines said that on an airplane you are actually safer than you are in an ICU.

00:07:22.900 The protection with the filtration system they have.

00:07:25.920 They were suggesting there really isn't much of a need for a mask on an airplane.

00:07:30.560 Are we going to get to the point where we won't have to wear masks on airplanes?

00:07:35.420 I don't think so.

00:07:36.840 I think when you're dealing with a closed space, even though the filtration is good, that you want to go that extra step when you have people.

00:07:45.080 You know, you get a flight from Washington to San Francisco.

00:07:47.940 It's a well over a five hour flight, even though you have a good filtration system.

00:07:52.660 I still believe that masks are a prudent thing to do and we should be doing it.

00:07:56.480 Hey, are we ever again going to be able to travel the way that we traveled from the beginning of this medium of travel until two years ago?

00:08:07.660 No, I don't want you to do that.

00:08:09.660 So, no.

00:08:10.160 You know, Louis XIV would say, I am the state.

00:08:19.500 Well, Fauci is the state.

00:08:20.620 Fauci is the state.

00:08:21.480 And he rules by whim and caprice.

00:08:23.580 And this is a reminder of something that some of us called in the earliest days of the epidemic.

00:08:30.600 Hate to say I told you so.

00:08:32.300 And a lot of even self-styled conservatives and the squishes and the liberals and obviously the left did not get this.

00:08:38.140 This was never temporary.

00:08:39.520 This was never going to be temporary.

00:08:41.260 It was never going to be 15 days.

00:08:42.640 It was never going to be just wear the mask for a little bit and we can return to normal.

00:08:45.920 It was never going to be just get one shot or even just get two shots and then we can return.

00:08:50.240 It was never going to be that.

00:08:51.380 It was always a permanent power grab.

00:08:53.760 These people, these power mad people like Dr. Fauci never give up power that they have taken.

00:09:00.600 So it was never going away.

00:09:02.760 And we're entering into year three.

00:09:04.560 And if we don't do anything politically to change this, then we're going to enter into year four and five and six and seven.

00:09:13.220 The only way this ends is to fire Dr. Fauci, prosecute him, then banish him to St. Helena.

00:09:19.300 I'm not even really being that hyperbolic.

00:09:21.260 If you told me right now there were some constitutional means to balance this power mad twerp to St. Helena, I would gladly do it. 0.75

00:09:29.840 If we could establish a colony on the moon and send Dr. Fauci there on a one-way ticket to the moon and, you know, he can have, we'll give him some food.

00:09:40.180 We'll give him some water.

00:09:41.160 Most importantly, we'll give him TV cameras.

00:09:43.040 He would die if he couldn't sit in front of TV cameras and blab all day. 0.72

00:09:46.800 And I'm saying this as someone who sits in front of cameras and blabs for a lot of the day.

00:09:49.740 I don't like it even one one millionth as much as Fauci does.

00:09:52.600 We'll give him all that.

00:09:53.580 Just get him out of here.

00:09:55.500 Get him out of this country.

00:09:57.580 I would gladly do it.

00:10:00.660 And it's not just him.

00:10:02.240 He's the clearest example of it.

00:10:04.220 He's kind of at the top of the bureaucrat pyramid.

00:10:07.800 There are a lot of other people working within our government right now that are just wielding power.

00:10:13.680 And it's very difficult for us to take it back.

00:10:16.040 And they're wielding power in a really unjust, imprudent way.

00:10:21.260 And there's no end in sight.

00:10:24.880 What are we supposed to do as we get into Christmas, as we get into New Year,

00:10:28.900 as we get into 2022, this thing began at the end of 2019?

00:10:36.640 What is going to happen?

00:10:39.000 Well, if Fauci has his way, we won't go anywhere with people where we don't know their vaccination status.

00:10:46.580 You said earlier this week that if you're vaccinated, you should feel comfortable traveling and celebrating the holidays with your family.

00:10:55.320 Do you still believe that?

00:10:57.140 No, I do.

00:10:59.680 If you are vaccinated and boosted and are prudent when you travel, when you're in an airport, to be wearing a mask all the time.

00:11:08.120 You have to be wearing a mask on a plane.

00:11:11.700 Do not do things like go to gatherings where there are people who you do not know what their vaccination status is.

00:11:20.060 If you do that, and some people are even going the extra step or the extra mile of maybe even getting tested when you have people coming over the house,

00:11:29.040 we now have a much wider availability of point of care tests that you can get a result in about 15 minutes.

00:11:37.020 So you might want to do that.

00:11:38.240 If you do these things, John, I do believe that you can feel quite comfortable with a family setting,

00:11:45.620 the dinners and the gatherings that you have around the holiday season.

00:11:48.680 Nothing is 100% risk-free, but I think if you do the things that I just mentioned,

00:11:54.780 you'd actually mitigate that risk enough to feel comfortable about being able to enjoy the holiday.

00:12:00.740 You can maybe feel comfortable about seeing your family in a relatively private environment

00:12:11.300 if you know for certain which experimental drugs they've shot into their veins and you see a test.

00:12:21.520 Then maybe you can allow Aunt Sally to come over for Christmas dinner.

00:12:28.480 So declareth Dr. Fauci.

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00:12:46.000 Recently, Jordan had on Oliver North and the woke mob really came after him for this.

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00:13:04.360 and come to your own conclusions about what's happening even inside your own brain.

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00:13:12.160 and when I say there's something for everyone here, I really mean it.

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00:13:52.540 Notice that Dr. Fauci is not just concerned that people get vaccinated.

00:13:57.840 He is concerned that we all be able to know with certainty whether or not someone has gotten

00:14:05.960 vaccinated and those are different things. It's not so much about the vaccine status

00:14:12.520 as it is about knowing, which is why I have a little bit of a different take on how to handle

00:14:19.240 all the Fauci-ouchy stuff and the biomedical security state than some of my fellow conservatives.

00:14:24.580 conservatives, some of my fellow conservatives, I think with good intentions and we just have a

00:14:31.240 tactical disagreement here. They want to make a big deal about publicly saying whether or not,

00:14:37.940 yes, I've gotten vaccinated. I love the vaccines. The vaccines are so great. Or no, absolutely not.

00:14:42.900 I hate this vaccine and I'm never getting vaccinated ever again. If anyone tells you that I've been

00:14:46.640 vaccinated, it's a complete lie. I don't think it is a good idea to make it a matter of public

00:14:55.960 knowledge. If you have gotten the vaccine, how many of the vaccines you've gotten? Here is my card.

00:15:05.240 Here's this card. I'm publishing this. Here's the chip in my arm. I think that not only does the

00:15:12.080 government wield power by making you get the vaccine or not, I think they get power by knowing

00:15:17.200 whether or not you've gotten it. Right now, there are just these flimsy cards,

00:15:21.880 right? These flimsy little cards that you show. There aren't really a ton of central databases,

00:15:26.440 at least that we know about. You can show people a picture on an iPhone and say, oh, there's my vaccine

00:15:34.140 card and that's fine. If someone asks you, hey, have you been vaccinated? Even if you have not

00:15:38.380 received the Fauci-ouchie, you can say without lying, you can very often say, yes, I have been.

00:15:43.960 Maybe you've gotten the meningitis vaccine. Maybe you've gotten the hepatitis B vaccine. Maybe who

00:15:48.060 knows? You can say that. And there can be a lot of uncertainty. Okay. And I think that is a good

00:15:54.680 thing. I think there's more than one way to skin a cat. All right. I think that the reason that we

00:16:00.000 have laws protecting medical privacy is because medical information is very powerful. And I think what

00:16:06.240 the libs are trying to do here, what the liberal establishment and the Fauci's are trying to do

00:16:10.140 is gather perfect knowledge. And then it's really easy. Then you can just, you know, dangle more

00:16:16.160 sticks and carrots in front of the people who've gotten the Fauci-ouchie and you can anathematize

00:16:21.380 the people who very publicly refuse to get it. But what about, what if they don't know how many people

00:16:27.260 have it? You actually saw this in the public policy. Joe Biden did not push for the OSHA mandate

00:16:34.440 and some of the federal vaccine mandates until polls showed that the majority of people had

00:16:39.140 gotten at least one shot of the vaccine. He couldn't have done it before. It was the knowledge

00:16:44.740 that allowed him to do it. So I just think that we ought to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves

00:16:50.740 and recognize that what is more valuable to the liberal ruling class, even than forcing everyone

00:16:57.720 to take this drug or their 15th booster shot, is knowing exactly who has done what and exactly how

00:17:05.020 and in exactly what ways. There are plenty of reasons, medical and religious, to avoid getting

00:17:11.720 this vaccine. And I think playing it a little more coy is maybe going to be a more successful way to go

00:17:19.080 as the biomedical security state goes on. We just got some really bad news about that from

00:17:25.240 the court of appeals, which we'll get to in a second. First, though, a little bit of good news

00:17:28.760 just to ease everybody up. We're going into Christmas. This is supposed to be a joyful time.

00:17:34.060 Well, here's a little bit of joy. Joe Manchin is a no. He's a solid no on Joe Biden's build back

00:17:42.920 better plan. This would be Joe Biden's single legislative achievement. It's basically the whole

00:17:49.760 agenda in law. And Manchin says, this is the one of two moderate Democrats. He says, sorry, buster,

00:17:57.120 we ain't doing it. I've always said this, Brett. If I can't go home and explain it to the people of

00:18:03.500 West Virginia, I can't vote for it. And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I

00:18:09.600 just can't. I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there. You're done. This is, this is a no.

00:18:16.080 No. This is a no. This is a no. It's over. On the one hand, this is courageous. Joe Manchin,

00:18:26.900 even though he's a moderate Democrat from a conservative state, and even though he's

00:18:33.140 obviously doesn't want to go along with this radical spending, still he's bucking his own

00:18:37.080 party and the president who's in his own party. So that's courageous. On the other hand, it's common

00:18:42.520 sense. Joe Biden's approval rating is about 38%. His vice president's about 28, 27%. The rest of the

00:18:50.140 cabinet, the high mark is 38%. That's Pete Buttigieg. They're underwater on every single issue

00:18:56.640 right now. So it's just, if you're just looking at the polls of what people support,

00:19:00.780 the majority of Americans don't support the Biden agenda. And certainly the majority of West

00:19:05.460 Virginians do not. So politically, I think Joe Manchin is probably making the right decision too. 1.00

00:19:10.840 The way this is being reported is that one senator is holding up the Biden agenda. That's not true.

00:19:18.920 51 senators are holding up the Biden agenda. It's 51. Okay. And then there's 49 senators who are voting

00:19:25.620 for it. Kamala Harris would break the tie if it were 50-50, but it's not. So it's dead.

00:19:31.880 Ilhan Omar, furious about this. Ilhan Omar of the squad tweets out, quote,

00:19:38.640 let's be clear. Manchin's excuse is BS. She uses the whole word though. The people of West Virginia

00:19:45.500 would directly benefit from childcare, pre-Medicare expansion, and long-term care,

00:19:48.840 just like Minnesotans. This is exactly what we warned would happen if we separated Build Back 1.00

00:19:52.880 Better from infrastructure. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. That's what she's saying.

00:19:57.740 Um, uh, I also love when these politicians say, let's be clear. It's kind of like, let's be honest,

00:20:05.100 which is an admission that I wasn't previously being honest or an admission. I wasn't previously

00:20:10.020 being clear. And so she says, look, I might be a dishonest person, but I really don't like what

00:20:14.100 Manchin's doing. And this is BS. And she uses the word, uh, another slight digression. I don't think

00:20:18.960 politicians should go blue in public. I'm not saying they shouldn't talk like sailors or, you know,

00:20:23.500 shouldn't, shouldn't at least be tolerated to talk like sailors in smoke-filled rooms or at bars.

00:20:27.960 But I don't, I don't like seeing that in, in public from our actual statesmen and especially

00:20:34.000 not from lady politicians. I just don't like it. I just, I think men and women are different. 0.96

00:20:39.680 It's, it's worse when women do it. It's, it's worse to swear in front of women. And it's, 1.00

00:20:44.000 it's kind of worse to hear women swearing in public if, especially if they're politicians, 1.00

00:20:48.000 Roseanne Barr gets a pass, Ellen DeGeneres, but members of Congress, I don't think so. 0.97

00:20:51.640 I don't think so, buddy. Which means after that slight digression,

00:20:56.000 the Senate is adjourning for the rest of the year. The build back better thing is dead for right now.

00:21:01.940 And while Republicans are celebrating, I want to point out to you

00:21:06.740 what this means for our government. Because what this, what this means is Joe Biden doesn't really

00:21:16.820 have any legislative achievement in his first year. And now we're heading into the midterms.

00:21:21.640 So politicians are going to be even more risk averse next year. And then if he gets shellacked

00:21:25.440 in the midterms, they'll have to pivot the very likely, or, or his agenda will just be completely

00:21:30.900 obstructed by Republicans. And so that would be it. And you might not get any legislative achievement

00:21:34.380 for the entire presidency. And yet this has been one of the most radical years in our government

00:21:42.240 government ever. Huh? That's weird. Joe Biden hasn't been able to get basically anything he wants

00:21:49.500 passed into law through the Congress, even though he has unified government, right? Democrats have the

00:21:57.320 Senate, Democrats have the House, Democrats have the White House. And yet he has been very effective

00:22:03.320 at upending our entire way of life at, of, of wielding power. He did a ton. He practically

00:22:10.120 opened the border. He gave de facto amnesty to lots of illegal aliens. He surrendered Afghanistan.

00:22:17.020 He made 100 million Americans or more than a hundred million Americans take the Fauci-ouchie. And he's,

00:22:22.580 he's gaining even more power to do that through the, through the OSHA mandate. Through the,

00:22:29.920 right. He's, he's mandating that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration mandate that the

00:22:35.400 employers with a hundred or more employees make, but he's, so he's wielding power in these really

00:22:41.100 weird ways that are outside of Schoolhouse Rock. It's not, I am a bill up on Capitol Hill. It's not

00:22:46.200 what we consider to be the constitutional order, but he's wielding a ton of power. The man doesn't even

00:22:51.840 need to pass laws. That's kind of archaic. That's so passe. That's not really how the government works

00:23:00.320 anymore. The government works less and less like a democracy or a republic. And it works much more

00:23:09.400 like an oligarchy that rules regardless of, forget the will of the people, regardless even of the

00:23:17.700 constitutional order. Pretty clear from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. You know that the Daily

00:23:25.500 Wire is suing the Biden administration right now. We'd gotten a lot of good news, especially from the

00:23:31.620 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Well, now the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that they are going to

00:23:36.060 allow Biden's mandate to go into effect. Biden ordered the mandate. Then the courts said, no, we're

00:23:42.740 going to put a stay on the mandate until this is decided by the higher courts. Now the Sixth Circuit says,

00:23:46.560 no, we're going to put a stay on the stay. We're going to make the mandate go into effect right now.

00:23:50.420 And then we'll see what the higher courts decide later. It is really raising the stakes. It's raising

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00:25:43.540 So here is what the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said. This was really late on Friday that this

00:26:01.900 news broke. They ruled two to one to let the vaccine mandate go into effect. According to Judge

00:26:08.240 Jane Branstetter-Strange, who is some Obama chicky on the court, she says, quote, 1.00

00:26:14.260 recognizing that the old normal is not going to return, employers and employees have sought new

00:26:19.100 models for a workplace that will protect the safety and health of employees who earn their living there.

00:26:25.360 In need of guidance on how to protect their employees from COVID-19 transmission while

00:26:29.120 reopening business, employers turned to OSHA. So the spookiest part to me is not that she's going to

00:26:36.920 let this radical rule, this unconstitutional rule, in my humble opinion, go into effect before the

00:26:44.340 Supreme Court resolves the disputes between the lower courts. The craziest part to me is that first

00:26:50.400 sentence, recognizing that the old normal is not going to return. What we considered to be life as

00:26:57.300 we knew it, not having to inject yourself with experimental drugs to potentially maybe, I guess,

00:27:05.320 possibly defend against a virus that doesn't pose a grave threat to the vast majority of people.

00:27:11.860 Being able to travel and breathe air and not have some filthy, stupid mask muzzle ourselves the whole

00:27:17.300 time. Being able to rule ourselves through our government rather than just having Dr. Fauci,

00:27:24.060 who's been there through seven presidential administrations and probably will be there seven

00:27:27.700 more, just tell us what to do at his own whims. That's not coming back. That's not coming back.

00:27:33.620 And so this is my suggestion. People write in all the time, Michael, my office is telling me I need

00:27:39.940 to get the vaccine. I need to show proof of vaccination. I need to do this. I need to do that.

00:27:45.200 Reminds me of the people who say, Michael, what if a restaurant demands that I have the vaccine?

00:27:49.500 My advice to you is there's more than one way to skin a cat. That's my advice to you. They want to 0.50

00:27:55.960 back you in a corner where they can force everyone to comply. The people who are obedient little sheep

00:28:04.560 and comply, they'll get to work with them. And then they'll find out who the dissidents are and

00:28:10.000 they'll fire them and they'll ostracize them. And I just think there's more than one way to skin a cat.

00:28:14.740 I don't think that anyone should do anything immoral or illegal or unjust. I don't think you

00:28:20.760 should do any of that. But I think that we need to be prudent and a little bit clever here. Okay.

00:28:26.740 And I think that if there's a way to get around the mandate in a way that is not illegal or immoral

00:28:32.040 or unjust, then you should do it. And I don't think that we should allow the libs here in their massive 0.51

00:28:39.920 once in a lifetime power grab to back us into a corner whereby anything we do, we lose.

00:28:45.380 Speaking of public health, new data from the CDC indicates that fentanyl-related deaths in the

00:28:53.760 United States have nearly doubled since 2019. The CDC data was compiled by a group called Families

00:29:01.060 Against Fentanyl reveals that this is now, in terms of Americans who are between the ages of 18 and 45,

00:29:08.000 fentanyl is now the number one killer. More deaths than suicide, more deaths than car

00:29:15.300 accidents, more deaths, even than the Rona. Now, why is this not a public health crisis?

00:29:26.700 Why is Dr. Fauci not on TV every single day talking about fentanyl? I guess that's not his specialty

00:29:32.300 at the NIH. But why is the Fauci of drug policy not on TV every day talking about how we need to solve

00:29:39.420 this? This is a national epidemic. This is killing more Americans 18 to 45 than anything else

00:29:46.760 because this is an inconvenient crisis for the ruling class. This is a real crisis and the ruling

00:29:55.220 class is not doing anything to stop it. It's actually encouraging all of the causes of the fentanyl

00:30:02.700 crisis because those causes augment their power. What is causing the fentanyl issue? China is a major 0.97

00:30:11.340 source of US-bound fentanyl. In 2020, the DEA said that China remains the primary source of all fentanyl-related

00:30:21.700 substances trafficked into the United States. Now, the other place that they come from

00:30:27.840 is the open border with Mexico. Just this past week, authorities seized more than 1.7 million

00:30:34.920 fentanyl pills coming over the border through traffickers linked with the Mexico-based Sinaloa

00:30:40.260 cartel. But the ruling class benefits from our relationship with China, from massive trade with

00:30:49.100 China, from the major investment that China has put into the United States and into American companies

00:30:54.000 and buying up our national debt. And so we're not going to get tough on China and we're not going

00:30:59.200 to shut down the fentanyl. The ruling class benefits immensely from mass illegal immigration over that

00:31:05.940 southern border. The Democrats believe that this will give them a permanent electoral majority and it

00:31:12.260 probably will. Something like 80% of illegal aliens who come over, their children and even their 0.74

00:31:19.920 grandchildren identify with Democrats. And now with the new voting laws that the left has been pushing,

00:31:25.960 a lot of those illegal aliens are going to be registered to vote and are already being registered

00:31:30.360 to vote. And the Democrats will deny this, but it's right there in their legislation. In the Democrat

00:31:34.780 federal election takeover that they tried to push earlier this year, they said that illegal aliens will

00:31:42.200 not be getting registered to vote and also they'll be getting total amnesty if they are registered to

00:31:48.720 vote illegally. So they won't be prosecuted for that. Well, why do you need to put that second

00:31:51.600 provision in if the first one's true? Because they know that illegal aliens are voting. We know

00:31:55.640 that that's happening. And drug addicts, just generally when America is addicted to a bunch of

00:32:01.520 drugs, they're much easier to control. The regime in power in the United States does not care about

00:32:09.360 what is right and what is wrong so much as us versus them, right? That's what we're seeing

00:32:16.840 from the demand to know our vaccination status to the punitive mandates that don't seem to be doing

00:32:24.620 very much in terms of public health to the policy on other very real crises. It's less about right

00:32:32.660 versus wrong, which I doubt they even really believe in. I doubt they really believe that

00:32:37.400 there's such a thing as a transcendent moral order and truth and evil and falsehood and goodness and

00:32:43.980 all these, these real metaphysical categories. I bet they kind of laugh at them in a very cynical

00:32:48.920 way. It's about us versus them. They're going to take care of their friends. They're going to

00:32:52.640 punish their enemies. Ayanna Pressley proved this just again. Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo Starr of the

00:32:57.640 squad. AOC is Paul McCartney. She's kind of the most mainstream. Ilhan Omar is a little edgier.

00:33:03.420 She's John Lennon. Rashida Tlaib is George Harrison. And then Ayanna Pressley, because no one really

00:33:09.400 cares about her that much. She's Ringo. Ayanna Pressley just said, quote, let's make it plain. 1.00

00:33:15.200 This is like Ilhan Omar. Let's be clear. Let's be honest, because I'm usually not honest. I'm

00:33:20.160 usually not plain. Let's make it plain, says Ayanna Pressley. Student debt is policy violence.

00:33:25.800 We'll keep fighting to relieve families across the country to make sure our policies and budgets

00:33:29.460 reflect their lived experiences and that we build this grassroots movement to hashtag cancel

00:33:33.940 student debt together. Might be the least plain worded statement I've ever read. It's hard to

00:33:40.240 make sense of that. It doesn't sound like it was written in English. But the big takeaway is

00:33:45.200 they're calling everything they don't like violence. When people from the middle class to the upper

00:33:54.820 middle class take out student debt to get useless degrees, they're now demanding that that be subsidized 0.89

00:34:02.840 by the government, by some poor people who don't have these degrees, and by wealthier people. And

00:34:09.040 through the government, they want this to be paid for. And if they have to pay their own bills,

00:34:14.800 that constitutes violence. They call everything they don't like violence to justify and threaten

00:34:20.280 their own violent reaction. That's what this is about. When they say your speech is violence,

00:34:27.060 what they're saying is, I will be justified in becoming violent because I don't like something

00:34:32.280 that you say. When they say your policy is violence, what they're saying and threatening is,

00:34:37.820 when I become violent, don't blame me. You started it. You made me do it.

00:34:41.760 What you make me so mad, why did you make me do it? That's what they're saying.

00:34:47.620 You are not just an opponent to them. You are the enemy. Ronald Reagan had a line,

00:34:54.060 very nice line, very amiable. He said, well, I don't have enemies. I'm paraphrasing a little.

00:35:00.980 The Democrats, they're not my enemies, only my opponents. The idea being that Americans have

00:35:06.200 enemies abroad, but here in domestic politics, while we might have vigorous debates, we still

00:35:12.320 love one another as Americans. I don't think the left views it that way. I think they really think

00:35:17.520 that we're the enemy. And I think that we should be, I think they think we should be stripped of

00:35:22.240 our rights. We should be forced into submission and get a bunch of injections into our blood

00:35:27.640 and be kicked out of our jobs and be, and be chased out of society. And we're evil, white supremacist,

00:35:36.080 bigoted, terrible, rotten people who have, who have no place and ought to have their, 0.91

00:35:41.740 their businesses burned down and, and be threatened with violence as, as the left threatened us all with

00:35:47.400 violence throughout most of 2020. Which means that we need to take them much more seriously

00:35:54.520 when they tell us this stuff. Now, speaking of drawing lines in the sand, the new president of

00:36:00.340 the Heritage Foundation just got in a ton of trouble. Kevin Roberts, who has taken over the

00:36:09.020 Heritage Foundation has been around for a long time. It's a conservative think tank. It's gone through

00:36:13.340 kind of squishier periods and then more conservative periods. The new president has said that you

00:36:18.580 cannot be a movement conservative if you support same-sex marriage.

00:36:26.700 Avic Roy, who's on a little bit more of the squishy side of the conservative movement,

00:36:32.700 he quoted this and he said, inconveniently, that eliminates 70% of Americans from Heritage's

00:36:39.440 conservative movement. So much for Reagan's big tent. You know, the famous gay marriage supporter,

00:36:45.600 Ronald Reagan, right? Was he? Uh, no, I think it would have been unthinkable to him. We would

00:36:50.560 redefine marriage to take away sexual difference from the definition of marriage. But now many people

00:36:56.200 who claim the mantle of Reaganism or Buckleyism wrap themselves up in ideas that neither man ever

00:37:02.600 believed in that would have been completely outrageous to them. They say, no, we're the broad-minded,

00:37:08.440 we're the good conservatives. We're just going to redefine every single thing, including sex and

00:37:13.340 human nature itself. Because we're, and if you disagree, you're a bigot. That's kind, that's kind

00:37:17.460 of what Avic Roy, I think, is insinuating here. You're going to lose if you think that men and women

00:37:23.040 are different. What the new president of the Heritage Foundation is saying is obviously correct.

00:37:29.900 It doesn't mean you've got to hate gay guys. You've got to be judgmental and cruel to them. No,

00:37:40.980 it doesn't mean that. It means that if you don't acknowledge that men and women are different

00:37:47.580 and there is such a thing as sex and human nature and sex has something to do with marriage. 0.93

00:37:53.820 If you don't know that, you just can't be a conservative. There's nothing conservative

00:37:58.040 about you. You, you are a radical, radical leftist by the standards of about seven years ago.

00:38:07.960 If, and so it's, that's just a descriptive fact. And I'm sorry if you don't like that,

00:38:13.440 but that's the, the squishes and the libs and the technocrats are going to freak out about this 1.00

00:38:17.080 because they don't care at all about culture. They don't care at all about

00:38:20.620 religion, I guess. They don't care at all about the moral underpinnings of society. They don't 0.92

00:38:27.380 care at all. What they care about is increasing GDP a little bit and always expanding the tent.

00:38:33.420 So that we need a big tent, but you can't, ironically, you're not going to expand the tent into a really

00:38:40.720 potent political movement if you just tear down all the walls of the tent and then let every single 0.66

00:38:46.280 person in and every single crazy idea in. You have not expanded the tent, you've abolished the tent

00:38:52.000 at that point. And it's just the case that it cannot be so. I'm not saying that we need to

00:39:00.160 persecute homosexuals or anything like that. You, marriage has a meaning. If you don't recognize that

00:39:06.760 the fundamental political institution has a meaning and that meaning is closer to what it has always

00:39:12.640 been understood to mean everywhere in the world than what it is now we are pretending it means as

00:39:17.980 of the last five years, then you're just not a conservative, okay? And we want you to be in the

00:39:22.760 conservative tent. We want you to be in the movement, but you've got to correct that really

00:39:26.580 mistaken idea. Maybe you've fallen under the sway of that idea because the left is really persuasive

00:39:31.200 and they control the whole culture and they have kind of brainwashed you for the past five years.

00:39:35.320 I'm sure that's true, but we're not going to win the culture and we're not going to win political

00:39:42.080 battles by surrendering on every front. If we give up human nature, sex, marriage, the fundamental

00:39:49.280 political institution, all the other political institutions, by the way, then it's not going to

00:39:53.760 matter how much we cut taxes, much as I love a good tax cut. Speaking of women, a woman has been 1.00

00:40:04.700 groped, kind of. A woman is making me too allegations, not in Hollywood, not in Washington, 1.00

00:40:14.760 not even in reality, but in virtual reality, in the metaverse. A beta tester of the virtual reality

00:40:24.120 simulation world of the metaverse, which is being pushed by Facebook, which changed their name to

00:40:28.620 meta. Basically just a video game that you live in. It's just living in the matrix.

00:40:33.120 She has claimed that she was virtually groped in this virtual world. She writes, quote,

00:40:42.700 sexual harassment is no joke on the regular internet, but being in virtual reality adds

00:40:47.560 another layer that makes the event even more intense. Not only was I groped last night,

00:40:54.340 but there were other people there who supported this behavior, which made me feel isolated in the

00:40:59.100 plaza, which is the center of the virtual environments gathering space. I don't have the

00:41:07.400 article here, but it's making headlines all over the place, and a lot of conservatives are making fun

00:41:13.200 of it. Because obviously she was not groped. She was not groped because to be groped means to have

00:41:20.260 your body held onto, and this woman's body was probably sitting in her bedroom. But her mind was in 0.99

00:41:26.880 this virtual place, and that's where she was groped. I actually think she makes kind of a good

00:41:30.640 point. I'm really glad to read this story and the outrage from the left about this story.

00:41:38.160 Because it means that the left is admitting that there's something other than our bodies.

00:41:44.160 The left is admitting that we have a soul. Because her body obviously wasn't groped. It was her soul,

00:41:50.040 or her mind, or some other aspect of her person that's not physical that was groped. And I think

00:41:55.320 that's true, because I don't think we're just our bodies. I think you can be violated in a way that

00:42:00.780 is not corporeal. It's not the same. It's not the same as, you know, having some guy pinch you as you

00:42:07.420 walk by. But there is something to that. She's onto something. It actually does matter what you do on

00:42:15.700 the internet. When you go onto the internet, I think a lot of people believe that you go into fantasy world

00:42:21.420 where the rules of morality don't matter, where social mores don't really matter. You can just do

00:42:28.060 whatever you want. And that leads to really dark places. Obviously, you see that a lot with porn.

00:42:32.280 You could see that with video games. I guess this is kind of a combination of the two. But really

00:42:36.380 anything, the way we talk to people, the way we behave online does have something to do with reality,

00:42:42.000 because we're not just physical beings. We're also metaphysical beings. So I think it's fair.

00:42:47.340 So now what does that mean about this real world? It means that we shouldn't just treat each other

00:42:52.720 like flesh and meat puppets. It means we've got to recognize we do have souls. There is a moral

00:42:57.580 order. We've got to respect that moral order, even when we're in these kind of strange virtual

00:43:01.480 environments. And maybe we should avoid divorcing our bodies from our souls entirely. Maybe living

00:43:07.940 in the metaverse and plugging in the brainstem into the matrix, which is probably, what, two years

00:43:12.920 around the corner? I don't know. I got to check in with Alex Jones. He seems to have a good track

00:43:15.940 record these days. Maybe that is not a great idea to divorce those things. Maybe we need to

00:43:21.440 recognize we're body and soul. We've got to live. We've got to behave as though both of those things

00:43:26.420 matter. Not just the you-do-you-if-feels-good-do-it materialism that the libs push sometimes. Not just

00:43:34.700 the Gnostic dualism that the transgenderists push, which is that the body doesn't matter at all, 1.00

00:43:39.920 and it's just the metaphysical reality is all that matters. Maybe both matter. We've got to get back

00:43:45.800 to that. Speaking of weird sex stuff before we go, in October, there was a shocking report out

00:43:52.160 that teachers at a Salinas, am I pronouncing that right? I don't know. Salinas, California

00:43:57.320 Middle School secretly recruited students into a pro-LGBT club that was disguised as a gender

00:44:04.320 equality club without their parents knowing. This was not just teachers hosting a club for kids with

00:44:12.460 you know, kind of different sexual desires or confusion or something and saying, you can show up

00:44:17.000 if you want. This was teachers going in, tracking their students online, trying to figure out which

00:44:23.060 students were maybe interested in this stuff and then inviting them and recruiting them. It was really

00:44:27.680 creepy. It was grooming, I think, is what you would call it. Well, that's what the parents are calling

00:44:32.620 it. So this was presented by Abigail Schreier, who wrote the book Irreversible Damage about

00:44:38.940 transgenderism for little girls. These kids were indoctrinating pupils into accepting progressive

00:44:46.100 views of sex and gender, coaching students into changing their gender, telling them to hide this 0.99

00:44:51.220 stuff from their parents. Now the parents are going out, they're calling this grooming. This is a good

00:44:56.180 tactic. I think we need to be a little bit blunter. Let's be plain, to quote Ayanna Pressley. Let's be clear,

00:45:01.860 to quote Ilhan Omar. I think we need to be a lot blunter about these things. These are creepy

00:45:09.200 perverts. They should not teach our kids and they need to be chased out of polite society, kind of

00:45:17.920 like Dr. Fauci. Because we can pass laws and we can pass new policy directives and we can have

00:45:23.960 executive orders. But personnel is policy, right? The people that we have executing on these things

00:45:30.640 are going to determine what kind of policy we have. We can pass some resolution out of the Senate saying

00:45:35.020 that Fauci can or cannot do something. But who cares? There was a ban on gain-of-function research.

00:45:40.440 Dr. Fauci clearly didn't care all that much about that. There have been all sorts of, there's a law

00:45:46.480 against perjury. Dr. Fauci doesn't appear to have cared very much about that. Personnel is policy. And so I

00:45:50.900 think we got to be a lot blunter. We got to be a lot more willing to own the libs sometimes. And we

00:45:55.700 need to throw these people out. Right now, it's looking like we're going to have a good opportunity

00:46:01.400 to throw the libs out of office in 2022, some members of Congress. And who knows, maybe 2024. 0.93

00:46:09.040 It depends on whether or not they change all the voting rules again. Or we've got the Phi Beta Kappa

00:46:15.080 variant at that point moving into the 17th year of the coronavirus. And so all of the ordinary

00:46:20.680 rules of government are going to be suspended again. But yeah, maybe, look, let's say we can

00:46:25.080 get the president out. Who's going to replace him? I don't know. If all of these bureaucrats,

00:46:29.860 if the Fauci's are still there, if the administrators are still there, even if some of these teachers

00:46:35.080 and some of these superintendents are still there, then it's not really going to matter.

00:46:40.180 The fact is, Joe Biden has had basically no legislative achievements this year. And yet the

00:46:46.220 government has been extremely effective and extremely radical. So we're going to have to

00:46:50.480 think outside the box, wise as a serpent, innocent as a dove, in order to change it back. I'm Michael

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