Ep. 909 - How Every Dystopian Horror Film Starts
Summary
The Swedish company Epicenter went viral on Friday when it publicized a new technology that would implant a microchip under your skin to prove that you ve taken the Fauci ouchie. There are many lessons to take away from this creepy turn of events.
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The Swedish company Epicenter went viral on Friday when it publicized a new technology
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that would implant a microchip under your skin to prove that you've taken the Fauci ouchie.
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There are many lessons to take away from this creepy turn of events.
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First, ideas that began as wild, crazy conspiracy theories are morphing into reality before our very eyes
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as we enter into the third year of 15 Days to Slow the Spread.
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Second, Alex Jones is a more reliable source of information than about 97% of establishment news outlets.
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I know it's weird. A lot of people didn't expect it, but just when the frogs are gay or trans, actually,
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and the microchips are in your skin, that's the way it is.
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Third, our political situation could get a lot, lot worse.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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My favorite comment Friday is from Kristen Drumgool, who says,
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Regarding Joy Reid, and Joy Reid getting angry at Elon Musk for calling Elizabeth Warren a Karen,
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She says, it reminds me of when Homer Simpson scolds a gay man for calling himself queer by telling him,
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That's our word for making fun of you. That's true.
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You can't say that, Elon Musk. You're a white man.
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But Karen is a word that only black people are allowed to use to make fun of white women,
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except, Joy, which you forgot, which you didn't count on, is that Elon Musk is an African American.
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So we're now coming up on, what, 20, it's been 21 months or so of 15 days to slow the spread.
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So we're a little under three months away from entering the third year of the biomedical security state.
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And a lot of reasonable people are looking in that and saying, this has gone too far.
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We've upended our society without any real effect because the cases are still going up.
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All of the breakthroughs among the vaccinated people, you know, all those many, many, many breakthrough cases now,
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where I would say most of my friends that have gotten it recently, have gotten the Rona, have been vaccinated.
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I don't know how long we have to keep calling them breakthrough cases.
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But the takeaway of our ruling class is not that we've gotten too restrictive and we need to roll this back.
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It's that we haven't gotten restrictive enough.
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If the counts keep going up and the test positivity keeps going up, we may need to be more restrictive.
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But for right now, people who are vaccinated and boosted should feel reasonably comfortable.
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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?
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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?
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Look, I'm not going to give you a number because then I could be held accountable.
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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.
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I don't know if he knows science all that well.
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It's not just a cheap knock on Fauci because he's in the hot seat right now.
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There have been a lot of questions as to his scientific competency over the years during his many decade long tenure at NIH.
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He made a lot of really questionable decisions in terms of public policy, in terms of experimentation during the AIDS epidemic.
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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.
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And then he's made a lot of questionable decisions during COVID itself.
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So I really don't know if he knows very much about scientists.
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You know, there was a critic of Fauci's in the 80s who pointed out that the best scientists go into laboratories.
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And so I don't think the guy is, you know, the greatest genius we've ever had in this country.
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But the one thing he really knows about is politics.
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And even now when he's saying we're going to have to lock down a little bit more, we might have to.
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Well, okay, can you give me any measures that we can test this against?
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Man, I'm afraid I can't because then I could be held accountable.
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Well, one thing he's saying, regardless of the cases going up and down or up and down,
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is that we very likely will never again fly on an airplane without that disgusting, stupid cloth in front of our face.
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I also wanted to ask you about what the airline executive said this week about masks on airplanes.
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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.
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The protection with the filtration system they have.
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They were suggesting there really isn't much of a need for a mask on an airplane.
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Are we going to get to the point where we won't have to wear masks on airplanes?
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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.
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You know, you get a flight from Washington to San Francisco.
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It's a well over a five hour flight, even though you have a good filtration system.
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I still believe that masks are a prudent thing to do and we should be doing it.
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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?
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And this is a reminder of something that some of us called in the earliest days of the epidemic.
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And a lot of even self-styled conservatives and the squishes and the liberals and obviously the left did not get this.
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It was never going to be just wear the mask for a little bit and we can return to normal.
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It was never going to be just get one shot or even just get two shots and then we can return.
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These people, these power mad people like Dr. Fauci never give up power that they have taken.
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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.
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The only way this ends is to fire Dr. Fauci, prosecute him, then banish him to St. Helena.
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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.
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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.
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He would die if he couldn't sit in front of TV cameras and blab all day.
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And I'm saying this as someone who sits in front of cameras and blabs for a lot of the day.
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I don't like it even one one millionth as much as Fauci does.
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He's kind of at the top of the bureaucrat pyramid.
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There are a lot of other people working within our government right now that are just wielding power.
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And it's very difficult for us to take it back.
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And they're wielding power in a really unjust, imprudent way.
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What are we supposed to do as we get into Christmas, as we get into New Year,
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as we get into 2022, this thing began at the end of 2019?
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Well, if Fauci has his way, we won't go anywhere with people where we don't know their vaccination status.
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You said earlier this week that if you're vaccinated, you should feel comfortable traveling and celebrating the holidays with your family.
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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.
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Do not do things like go to gatherings where there are people who you do not know what their vaccination status is.
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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,
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we now have a much wider availability of point of care tests that you can get a result in about 15 minutes.
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If you do these things, John, I do believe that you can feel quite comfortable with a family setting,
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the dinners and the gatherings that you have around the holiday season.
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Nothing is 100% risk-free, but I think if you do the things that I just mentioned,
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you'd actually mitigate that risk enough to feel comfortable about being able to enjoy the holiday.
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You can maybe feel comfortable about seeing your family in a relatively private environment
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if you know for certain which experimental drugs they've shot into their veins and you see a test.
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Then maybe you can allow Aunt Sally to come over for Christmas dinner.
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Notice that Dr. Fauci is not just concerned that people get vaccinated.
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He is concerned that we all be able to know with certainty whether or not someone has gotten
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vaccinated and those are different things. It's not so much about the vaccine status
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as it is about knowing, which is why I have a little bit of a different take on how to handle
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all the Fauci-ouchy stuff and the biomedical security state than some of my fellow conservatives.
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conservatives, some of my fellow conservatives, I think with good intentions and we just have a
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tactical disagreement here. They want to make a big deal about publicly saying whether or not,
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yes, I've gotten vaccinated. I love the vaccines. The vaccines are so great. Or no, absolutely not.
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I hate this vaccine and I'm never getting vaccinated ever again. If anyone tells you that I've been
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vaccinated, it's a complete lie. I don't think it is a good idea to make it a matter of public
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knowledge. If you have gotten the vaccine, how many of the vaccines you've gotten? Here is my card.
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Here's this card. I'm publishing this. Here's the chip in my arm. I think that not only does the
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government wield power by making you get the vaccine or not, I think they get power by knowing
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whether or not you've gotten it. Right now, there are just these flimsy cards,
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right? These flimsy little cards that you show. There aren't really a ton of central databases,
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at least that we know about. You can show people a picture on an iPhone and say, oh, there's my vaccine
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card and that's fine. If someone asks you, hey, have you been vaccinated? Even if you have not
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received the Fauci-ouchie, you can say without lying, you can very often say, yes, I have been.
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Maybe you've gotten the meningitis vaccine. Maybe you've gotten the hepatitis B vaccine. Maybe who
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knows? You can say that. And there can be a lot of uncertainty. Okay. And I think that is a good
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thing. I think there's more than one way to skin a cat. All right. I think that the reason that we
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have laws protecting medical privacy is because medical information is very powerful. And I think what
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the libs are trying to do here, what the liberal establishment and the Fauci's are trying to do
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is gather perfect knowledge. And then it's really easy. Then you can just, you know, dangle more
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sticks and carrots in front of the people who've gotten the Fauci-ouchie and you can anathematize
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the people who very publicly refuse to get it. But what about, what if they don't know how many people
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have it? You actually saw this in the public policy. Joe Biden did not push for the OSHA mandate
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and some of the federal vaccine mandates until polls showed that the majority of people had
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gotten at least one shot of the vaccine. He couldn't have done it before. It was the knowledge
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that allowed him to do it. So I just think that we ought to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves
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and recognize that what is more valuable to the liberal ruling class, even than forcing everyone
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to take this drug or their 15th booster shot, is knowing exactly who has done what and exactly how
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and in exactly what ways. There are plenty of reasons, medical and religious, to avoid getting
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this vaccine. And I think playing it a little more coy is maybe going to be a more successful way to go
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as the biomedical security state goes on. We just got some really bad news about that from
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the court of appeals, which we'll get to in a second. First, though, a little bit of good news
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just to ease everybody up. We're going into Christmas. This is supposed to be a joyful time.
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Well, here's a little bit of joy. Joe Manchin is a no. He's a solid no on Joe Biden's build back
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better plan. This would be Joe Biden's single legislative achievement. It's basically the whole
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agenda in law. And Manchin says, this is the one of two moderate Democrats. He says, sorry, buster,
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we ain't doing it. I've always said this, Brett. If I can't go home and explain it to the people of
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West Virginia, I can't vote for it. And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I
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just can't. I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there. You're done. This is, this is a no.
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No. This is a no. This is a no. It's over. On the one hand, this is courageous. Joe Manchin,
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even though he's a moderate Democrat from a conservative state, and even though he's
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obviously doesn't want to go along with this radical spending, still he's bucking his own
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party and the president who's in his own party. So that's courageous. On the other hand, it's common
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sense. Joe Biden's approval rating is about 38%. His vice president's about 28, 27%. The rest of the
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cabinet, the high mark is 38%. That's Pete Buttigieg. They're underwater on every single issue
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right now. So it's just, if you're just looking at the polls of what people support,
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the majority of Americans don't support the Biden agenda. And certainly the majority of West
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Virginians do not. So politically, I think Joe Manchin is probably making the right decision too.
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The way this is being reported is that one senator is holding up the Biden agenda. That's not true.
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51 senators are holding up the Biden agenda. It's 51. Okay. And then there's 49 senators who are voting
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for it. Kamala Harris would break the tie if it were 50-50, but it's not. So it's dead.
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Ilhan Omar, furious about this. Ilhan Omar of the squad tweets out, quote,
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let's be clear. Manchin's excuse is BS. She uses the whole word though. The people of West Virginia
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would directly benefit from childcare, pre-Medicare expansion, and long-term care,
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just like Minnesotans. This is exactly what we warned would happen if we separated Build Back
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Better from infrastructure. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. That's what she's saying.
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Um, uh, I also love when these politicians say, let's be clear. It's kind of like, let's be honest,
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which is an admission that I wasn't previously being honest or an admission. I wasn't previously
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being clear. And so she says, look, I might be a dishonest person, but I really don't like what
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Manchin's doing. And this is BS. And she uses the word, uh, another slight digression. I don't think
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politicians should go blue in public. I'm not saying they shouldn't talk like sailors or, you know,
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shouldn't, shouldn't at least be tolerated to talk like sailors in smoke-filled rooms or at bars.
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But I don't, I don't like seeing that in, in public from our actual statesmen and especially
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not from lady politicians. I just don't like it. I just, I think men and women are different.
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It's, it's worse when women do it. It's, it's worse to swear in front of women. And it's,
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it's kind of worse to hear women swearing in public if, especially if they're politicians,
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Roseanne Barr gets a pass, Ellen DeGeneres, but members of Congress, I don't think so.
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I don't think so, buddy. Which means after that slight digression,
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the Senate is adjourning for the rest of the year. The build back better thing is dead for right now.
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And while Republicans are celebrating, I want to point out to you
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what this means for our government. Because what this, what this means is Joe Biden doesn't really
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have any legislative achievement in his first year. And now we're heading into the midterms.
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So politicians are going to be even more risk averse next year. And then if he gets shellacked
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in the midterms, they'll have to pivot the very likely, or, or his agenda will just be completely
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obstructed by Republicans. And so that would be it. And you might not get any legislative achievement
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for the entire presidency. And yet this has been one of the most radical years in our government
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government ever. Huh? That's weird. Joe Biden hasn't been able to get basically anything he wants
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passed into law through the Congress, even though he has unified government, right? Democrats have the
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Senate, Democrats have the House, Democrats have the White House. And yet he has been very effective
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at upending our entire way of life at, of, of wielding power. He did a ton. He practically
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opened the border. He gave de facto amnesty to lots of illegal aliens. He surrendered Afghanistan.
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He made 100 million Americans or more than a hundred million Americans take the Fauci-ouchie. And he's,
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he's gaining even more power to do that through the, through the OSHA mandate. Through the,
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right. He's, he's mandating that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration mandate that the
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employers with a hundred or more employees make, but he's, so he's wielding power in these really
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weird ways that are outside of Schoolhouse Rock. It's not, I am a bill up on Capitol Hill. It's not
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what we consider to be the constitutional order, but he's wielding a ton of power. The man doesn't even
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need to pass laws. That's kind of archaic. That's so passe. That's not really how the government works
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anymore. The government works less and less like a democracy or a republic. And it works much more
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like an oligarchy that rules regardless of, forget the will of the people, regardless even of the
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constitutional order. Pretty clear from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. You know that the Daily
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Wire is suing the Biden administration right now. We'd gotten a lot of good news, especially from the
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Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Well, now the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that they are going to
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no, we're going to put a stay on the stay. We're going to make the mandate go into effect right now.
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So here is what the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said. This was really late on Friday that this
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news broke. They ruled two to one to let the vaccine mandate go into effect. According to Judge
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Jane Branstetter-Strange, who is some Obama chicky on the court, she says, quote,
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recognizing that the old normal is not going to return, employers and employees have sought new
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models for a workplace that will protect the safety and health of employees who earn their living there.
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In need of guidance on how to protect their employees from COVID-19 transmission while
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reopening business, employers turned to OSHA. So the spookiest part to me is not that she's going to
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let this radical rule, this unconstitutional rule, in my humble opinion, go into effect before the
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Supreme Court resolves the disputes between the lower courts. The craziest part to me is that first
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sentence, recognizing that the old normal is not going to return. What we considered to be life as
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we knew it, not having to inject yourself with experimental drugs to potentially maybe, I guess,
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possibly defend against a virus that doesn't pose a grave threat to the vast majority of people.
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Being able to travel and breathe air and not have some filthy, stupid mask muzzle ourselves the whole
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time. Being able to rule ourselves through our government rather than just having Dr. Fauci,
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who's been there through seven presidential administrations and probably will be there seven
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more, just tell us what to do at his own whims. That's not coming back. That's not coming back.
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And so this is my suggestion. People write in all the time, Michael, my office is telling me I need
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to get the vaccine. I need to show proof of vaccination. I need to do this. I need to do that.
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Reminds me of the people who say, Michael, what if a restaurant demands that I have the vaccine?
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My advice to you is there's more than one way to skin a cat. That's my advice to you. They want to
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back you in a corner where they can force everyone to comply. The people who are obedient little sheep
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and comply, they'll get to work with them. And then they'll find out who the dissidents are and
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they'll fire them and they'll ostracize them. And I just think there's more than one way to skin a cat.
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I don't think that anyone should do anything immoral or illegal or unjust. I don't think you
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should do any of that. But I think that we need to be prudent and a little bit clever here. Okay.
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And I think that if there's a way to get around the mandate in a way that is not illegal or immoral
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or unjust, then you should do it. And I don't think that we should allow the libs here in their massive
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once in a lifetime power grab to back us into a corner whereby anything we do, we lose.
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Speaking of public health, new data from the CDC indicates that fentanyl-related deaths in the
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United States have nearly doubled since 2019. The CDC data was compiled by a group called Families
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Against Fentanyl reveals that this is now, in terms of Americans who are between the ages of 18 and 45,
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fentanyl is now the number one killer. More deaths than suicide, more deaths than car
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accidents, more deaths, even than the Rona. Now, why is this not a public health crisis?
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Why is Dr. Fauci not on TV every single day talking about fentanyl? I guess that's not his specialty
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at the NIH. But why is the Fauci of drug policy not on TV every day talking about how we need to solve
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this? This is a national epidemic. This is killing more Americans 18 to 45 than anything else
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because this is an inconvenient crisis for the ruling class. This is a real crisis and the ruling
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class is not doing anything to stop it. It's actually encouraging all of the causes of the fentanyl
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crisis because those causes augment their power. What is causing the fentanyl issue? China is a major
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source of US-bound fentanyl. In 2020, the DEA said that China remains the primary source of all fentanyl-related
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substances trafficked into the United States. Now, the other place that they come from
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is the open border with Mexico. Just this past week, authorities seized more than 1.7 million
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fentanyl pills coming over the border through traffickers linked with the Mexico-based Sinaloa
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cartel. But the ruling class benefits from our relationship with China, from massive trade with
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China, from the major investment that China has put into the United States and into American companies
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and buying up our national debt. And so we're not going to get tough on China and we're not going
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to shut down the fentanyl. The ruling class benefits immensely from mass illegal immigration over that
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southern border. The Democrats believe that this will give them a permanent electoral majority and it
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probably will. Something like 80% of illegal aliens who come over, their children and even their
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grandchildren identify with Democrats. And now with the new voting laws that the left has been pushing,
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a lot of those illegal aliens are going to be registered to vote and are already being registered
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to vote. And the Democrats will deny this, but it's right there in their legislation. In the Democrat
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federal election takeover that they tried to push earlier this year, they said that illegal aliens will
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not be getting registered to vote and also they'll be getting total amnesty if they are registered to
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vote illegally. So they won't be prosecuted for that. Well, why do you need to put that second
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provision in if the first one's true? Because they know that illegal aliens are voting. We know
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that that's happening. And drug addicts, just generally when America is addicted to a bunch of
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drugs, they're much easier to control. The regime in power in the United States does not care about
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what is right and what is wrong so much as us versus them, right? That's what we're seeing
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from the demand to know our vaccination status to the punitive mandates that don't seem to be doing
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very much in terms of public health to the policy on other very real crises. It's less about right
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versus wrong, which I doubt they even really believe in. I doubt they really believe that
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there's such a thing as a transcendent moral order and truth and evil and falsehood and goodness and
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all these, these real metaphysical categories. I bet they kind of laugh at them in a very cynical
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way. It's about us versus them. They're going to take care of their friends. They're going to
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punish their enemies. Ayanna Pressley proved this just again. Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo Starr of the
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squad. AOC is Paul McCartney. She's kind of the most mainstream. Ilhan Omar is a little edgier.
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She's John Lennon. Rashida Tlaib is George Harrison. And then Ayanna Pressley, because no one really
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cares about her that much. She's Ringo. Ayanna Pressley just said, quote, let's make it plain.
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This is like Ilhan Omar. Let's be clear. Let's be honest, because I'm usually not honest. I'm
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usually not plain. Let's make it plain, says Ayanna Pressley. Student debt is policy violence.
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We'll keep fighting to relieve families across the country to make sure our policies and budgets
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reflect their lived experiences and that we build this grassroots movement to hashtag cancel
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student debt together. Might be the least plain worded statement I've ever read. It's hard to
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make sense of that. It doesn't sound like it was written in English. But the big takeaway is
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they're calling everything they don't like violence. When people from the middle class to the upper
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middle class take out student debt to get useless degrees, they're now demanding that that be subsidized
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by the government, by some poor people who don't have these degrees, and by wealthier people. And
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through the government, they want this to be paid for. And if they have to pay their own bills,
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that constitutes violence. They call everything they don't like violence to justify and threaten
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their own violent reaction. That's what this is about. When they say your speech is violence,
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what they're saying is, I will be justified in becoming violent because I don't like something
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that you say. When they say your policy is violence, what they're saying and threatening is,
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when I become violent, don't blame me. You started it. You made me do it.
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What you make me so mad, why did you make me do it? That's what they're saying.
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You are not just an opponent to them. You are the enemy. Ronald Reagan had a line,
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very nice line, very amiable. He said, well, I don't have enemies. I'm paraphrasing a little.
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The Democrats, they're not my enemies, only my opponents. The idea being that Americans have
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enemies abroad, but here in domestic politics, while we might have vigorous debates, we still
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love one another as Americans. I don't think the left views it that way. I think they really think
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that we're the enemy. And I think that we should be, I think they think we should be stripped of
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our rights. We should be forced into submission and get a bunch of injections into our blood
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and be kicked out of our jobs and be, and be chased out of society. And we're evil, white supremacist,
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bigoted, terrible, rotten people who have, who have no place and ought to have their,
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their businesses burned down and, and be threatened with violence as, as the left threatened us all with
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violence throughout most of 2020. Which means that we need to take them much more seriously
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when they tell us this stuff. Now, speaking of drawing lines in the sand, the new president of
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the Heritage Foundation just got in a ton of trouble. Kevin Roberts, who has taken over the
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Heritage Foundation has been around for a long time. It's a conservative think tank. It's gone through
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kind of squishier periods and then more conservative periods. The new president has said that you
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cannot be a movement conservative if you support same-sex marriage.
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Avic Roy, who's on a little bit more of the squishy side of the conservative movement,
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he quoted this and he said, inconveniently, that eliminates 70% of Americans from Heritage's
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conservative movement. So much for Reagan's big tent. You know, the famous gay marriage supporter,
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Ronald Reagan, right? Was he? Uh, no, I think it would have been unthinkable to him. We would
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redefine marriage to take away sexual difference from the definition of marriage. But now many people
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who claim the mantle of Reaganism or Buckleyism wrap themselves up in ideas that neither man ever
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believed in that would have been completely outrageous to them. They say, no, we're the broad-minded,
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we're the good conservatives. We're just going to redefine every single thing, including sex and
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human nature itself. Because we're, and if you disagree, you're a bigot. That's kind, that's kind
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of what Avic Roy, I think, is insinuating here. You're going to lose if you think that men and women
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are different. What the new president of the Heritage Foundation is saying is obviously correct.
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It doesn't mean you've got to hate gay guys. You've got to be judgmental and cruel to them. No,
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it doesn't mean that. It means that if you don't acknowledge that men and women are different
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and there is such a thing as sex and human nature and sex has something to do with marriage.
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If you don't know that, you just can't be a conservative. There's nothing conservative
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about you. You, you are a radical, radical leftist by the standards of about seven years ago.
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If, and so it's, that's just a descriptive fact. And I'm sorry if you don't like that,
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but that's the, the squishes and the libs and the technocrats are going to freak out about this
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because they don't care at all about culture. They don't care at all about
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religion, I guess. They don't care at all about the moral underpinnings of society. They don't
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care at all. What they care about is increasing GDP a little bit and always expanding the tent.
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So that we need a big tent, but you can't, ironically, you're not going to expand the tent into a really
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potent political movement if you just tear down all the walls of the tent and then let every single
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person in and every single crazy idea in. You have not expanded the tent, you've abolished the tent
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at that point. And it's just the case that it cannot be so. I'm not saying that we need to
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persecute homosexuals or anything like that. You, marriage has a meaning. If you don't recognize that
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the fundamental political institution has a meaning and that meaning is closer to what it has always
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been understood to mean everywhere in the world than what it is now we are pretending it means as
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of the last five years, then you're just not a conservative, okay? And we want you to be in the
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conservative tent. We want you to be in the movement, but you've got to correct that really
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mistaken idea. Maybe you've fallen under the sway of that idea because the left is really persuasive
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and they control the whole culture and they have kind of brainwashed you for the past five years.
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I'm sure that's true, but we're not going to win the culture and we're not going to win political
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battles by surrendering on every front. If we give up human nature, sex, marriage, the fundamental
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political institution, all the other political institutions, by the way, then it's not going to
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matter how much we cut taxes, much as I love a good tax cut. Speaking of women, a woman has been
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groped, kind of. A woman is making me too allegations, not in Hollywood, not in Washington,
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not even in reality, but in virtual reality, in the metaverse. A beta tester of the virtual reality
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simulation world of the metaverse, which is being pushed by Facebook, which changed their name to
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meta. Basically just a video game that you live in. It's just living in the matrix.
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She has claimed that she was virtually groped in this virtual world. She writes, quote,
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sexual harassment is no joke on the regular internet, but being in virtual reality adds
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another layer that makes the event even more intense. Not only was I groped last night,
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but there were other people there who supported this behavior, which made me feel isolated in the
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plaza, which is the center of the virtual environments gathering space. I don't have the
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article here, but it's making headlines all over the place, and a lot of conservatives are making fun
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of it. Because obviously she was not groped. She was not groped because to be groped means to have
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your body held onto, and this woman's body was probably sitting in her bedroom. But her mind was in
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this virtual place, and that's where she was groped. I actually think she makes kind of a good
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point. I'm really glad to read this story and the outrage from the left about this story.
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Because it means that the left is admitting that there's something other than our bodies.
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The left is admitting that we have a soul. Because her body obviously wasn't groped. It was her soul,
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or her mind, or some other aspect of her person that's not physical that was groped. And I think
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that's true, because I don't think we're just our bodies. I think you can be violated in a way that
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is not corporeal. It's not the same. It's not the same as, you know, having some guy pinch you as you
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walk by. But there is something to that. She's onto something. It actually does matter what you do on
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the internet. When you go onto the internet, I think a lot of people believe that you go into fantasy world
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where the rules of morality don't matter, where social mores don't really matter. You can just do
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whatever you want. And that leads to really dark places. Obviously, you see that a lot with porn.
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You could see that with video games. I guess this is kind of a combination of the two. But really
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anything, the way we talk to people, the way we behave online does have something to do with reality,
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because we're not just physical beings. We're also metaphysical beings. So I think it's fair.
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So now what does that mean about this real world? It means that we shouldn't just treat each other
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like flesh and meat puppets. It means we've got to recognize we do have souls. There is a moral
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order. We've got to respect that moral order, even when we're in these kind of strange virtual
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environments. And maybe we should avoid divorcing our bodies from our souls entirely. Maybe living
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in the metaverse and plugging in the brainstem into the matrix, which is probably, what, two years
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around the corner? I don't know. I got to check in with Alex Jones. He seems to have a good track
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record these days. Maybe that is not a great idea to divorce those things. Maybe we need to
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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
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the Gnostic dualism that the transgenderists push, which is that the body doesn't matter at all,
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and it's just the metaphysical reality is all that matters. Maybe both matter. We've got to get back
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to that. Speaking of weird sex stuff before we go, in October, there was a shocking report out
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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
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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
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.
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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Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.
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