The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 911 - The Masks Are Just ＂Decorations＂

00:00:00.000 Don't wear a cloth mask. Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations.

00:00:06.840 There's no place for them in light of Omicron. Before big tech cancels me and censors this

00:00:13.940 episode, just know that I am merely quoting the experts. In this case, the former head

00:00:19.140 of Planned Parenthood and current medical analyst for CNN, Leanna Wu.

00:00:23.280 We should be keeping the events that are that are safe and and also the events that have fun for

00:00:30.200 people, too. We can't be canceling everything, especially if we're going to be living with COVID

00:00:33.760 for the foreseeable future. I would say that if you choose to go, make sure that you're vaccinated

00:00:37.600 and boosted. Make sure that you're wearing a mask, even though it's outdoors. If there are lots of

00:00:43.100 people packed around you wearing a three ply surgical mask, don't wear a cloth mask. Cloth masks are

00:00:48.100 little more than facial decorations. There's no place for them in light of Omicron. And so wear 0.58

00:00:52.960 a high quality mask, at least a three ply surgical mask. And if you're going to be visiting elderly

00:00:57.720 relatives or immunocompromised people after, wait three days, get tested and then see those

00:01:02.680 vulnerable people. There is very little that one of our nation's foremost abortionists and I have

00:01:08.980 in common. But we agree here. The masks are extremely dumb. Always were. They are, as I've said

00:01:16.040 from the beginning, political symbols much more than medical devices. And if you want to cancel me for

00:01:22.620 saying that, you've got to cancel CNN too, which might not be such a bad idea. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:28.300 This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from

00:01:38.780 Kevin Tevens, who says, when people greet me with happy holidays, I reply, happy Jesus Christ,

00:01:45.380 our blessed Lord and Savior's birthday. After that, they are usually okay with Merry Christmas. This is very

00:01:51.180 smart because you're, you're kind of arguing past the sale, right? This is good negotiation tactics.

00:01:57.960 You go all the way in one direction. Then you can meet in the middle at Merry Christmas. But I don't

00:02:01.480 want any Advent erasure here. Okay. It is not Christmas yet, baby. Enjoy. There's a war on Advent.

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00:03:28.180 time of year. You might hear my voice is a little raspy right now. I hope it's not the Ami. I hope it's

00:03:32.800 not the Amicron. Might have something to do with the many cigars I've had at various Christmas parties

00:03:38.560 that have been going on. It might be something about the cold weather. I don't know, but I'm

00:03:42.640 going to be sounding like a soul singer or something today. Even if it were the Ami though,

00:03:48.260 or any other kind of illness that are going around the wintertime, we are being told by

00:03:55.860 the fear mongers that we have a health crisis going on right now, that the hospitals are going

00:04:02.600 to be overrun. No one's going to be able to get any medicine. There's going to be severe illness and

00:04:07.140 death everywhere. So a head of a major hospital group, Northwell Health, CEO of that just went on

00:04:15.120 CNN to discuss the major crisis, the overflowing of the hospitals. And he said, actually, it's just

00:04:21.940 fine. What is the current situation in your hospitals? Yeah, we're doing very, very well,

00:04:28.400 very manageable. There's no crisis. So let me just give you a little bit of perspective.

00:04:33.800 We have right now about 460 patients in our hospitals. That's less than 10% of our overall

00:04:41.940 capacity. And this time last year, during the second wave, we had almost a thousand cases this

00:04:50.900 time last year. And compared to where we were back in the first wave, we had 3,500 patients in our

00:04:58.660 hospitals. So when you look at the numbers today, they're relatively modest. And that have been

00:05:04.340 increasing, you know, relatively slowly since Thanksgiving. We do expect an increase now over

00:05:10.800 the holidays, but it is all manageable. We will be able to deal with this. And I think it's time for

00:05:17.040 people to get, be a little bit calm, you know, a little bit more rational. And while the positivity rate

00:05:24.080 in the community is increasing dramatically, that does not mean that they automatically convert into

00:05:29.760 hospitalizations. Very important observation. And you hear most of the media and all the fear mongers

00:05:38.120 try to neglect this. Yes, there are many new cases of COVID and the Omicron.

00:05:47.100 Again, that does not constitute a crisis. Actually, the number of new cases doesn't really matter at

00:05:54.980 all. Who cares about cases? If the symptoms of the Omicron are a mild cold, then who cares? Who

00:06:02.400 cares if it's the most transmissible virus in the whole world? The only number that we really care

00:06:08.840 about are the hospitalization and death numbers. But those aren't really spiking. You've got the CEO of

00:06:16.240 this major hospital group saying, no, it's fine. Calm down, everybody. It'll be, yeah, the number,

00:06:20.520 the case numbers will go up. Maybe there'll be a little bit of a bump in the hospitalizations after

00:06:25.580 Christmas and new year, but it's just, it's not a big deal. Move on with your lives, folks. They do

00:06:31.640 this. This is what the libs have done from the beginning of COVID. They just keep moving the goal

00:06:36.340 posts. So it was, we need to flatten the curve. Then it was, we need to slow the spread. Then it was,

00:06:41.660 we need to find a cure. Then it was, we need to distribute the vaccine. Then it was, we need to

00:06:46.840 stop the surge. Then we, right. And it's just, they keep, then we need to get everyone boosted

00:06:52.020 and they just keep moving all of the, the metrics by which we could have success and go back to our

00:06:59.540 normal lives. They're doing that here too. Well, the cases are spiking. Who cares? You go to New York,

00:07:05.520 line around the block on, on almost every corner, any, any corner where there's a pharmacy or a

00:07:12.960 testing center because everyone's getting tested to see if they have Omicron. But none of them have

00:07:19.660 any sort of severe symptoms. They just, they have a little sniffle. They say, oh my gosh,

00:07:24.400 I hope I don't have the Omicron. Why? Who cares? Who cares? If it's not, if it's not going to be

00:07:29.120 serious, if it's a, if it's effectively a mild cold, then that is not a crisis. Now, Biden is

00:07:37.460 very upset that people are not freaking out. So Biden has gone out. He's given his COVID message,

00:07:42.500 his Christmas COVID message, and he is calling on the purveyors of misinformation to cut it out.

00:07:48.080 Those choices have been fueled by dangerous misinformation on cable TV and social media.

00:07:53.560 You know, these companies and personalities are making money by peddling lies and allowing

00:08:00.620 misinformation that can kill their own customers and their own supporters. It's wrong. It's immoral.

00:08:09.000 I call on the purveyors of these lies and misinformation to stop it. Stop it now.

00:08:15.020 Stop it. Stop it. You first, Joe, because the chief purveyors of lies and misinformation about COVID

00:08:22.440 and, and a lot of other things too, would seem to be the liberal ruling class that from the very

00:08:29.180 beginning of the epidemic have moved the goalposts and shifted and, and openly deceived us. Going

00:08:35.760 right back to Fauci saying, don't wear the masks, the masks don't work. Then he said, actually, I think

00:08:39.840 the masks do work. I just didn't want you peasants all to buy them because I wanted to save them for my

00:08:45.540 friends in public health. To the vaccines are completely safe and completely effective. And

00:08:51.020 there's no question as to the safety or the efficacy to, well, actually you need a booster. Actually

00:08:56.100 you might need multiple boosters. And yeah, actually we're going to pause some of the vaccines because

00:08:59.360 they're causing some side effects. And, uh, yeah, they, they don't have any credibility right now.

00:09:07.000 And this is, this is why Joe Biden is so upset. This is why we're getting angry, Joe.

00:09:11.140 Joe, just cut it out. Get it. Come on. Come on, corn pop. Cut it out. The reason we're getting

00:09:16.600 angry, Joe is because people no longer believe his misinformation and they no longer believe his

00:09:23.040 misinformation because it's been proven false and deceptive too many times. To quote George W. Bush,

00:09:29.040 fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice. Hey, hey. The point is you're not going to fool me again.

00:09:33.280 And that, that's what we're seeing right now with, with COVID. They have gotten things wrong.

00:09:40.000 They have lied to us and they have insulted us too many to Fauci, Biden, the public health

00:09:47.860 apparatus. They've done it just one too many times. And so people don't buy it anymore and

00:09:52.720 they're not heeding the warnings and they're not going to cancel Christmas and they're just going

00:09:57.000 to go about their lives. And the, these petty little tyrants who are holding onto power are, 1.00

00:10:02.440 are really upset about that. Fauci has one, one last, one last plea saying, please, please,

00:10:08.980 please, if you have any filthy, dirty, rotten, unvaxxed family members, please don't invite 0.98

00:10:15.560 them over for Christmas. If someone in your family isn't vaccinated, should you ask them not to show 0.59

00:10:20.180 up? Yes, I would do that. I mean, I think we're dealing with a serious enough situation right now

00:10:27.640 that if there's an unvaccinated person, I would say, I'm very sorry, but not this time. Maybe another 1.00

00:10:33.220 time when this is all over. Maybe look, maybe you can have your disgusting unvaxxed relatives come 1.00

00:10:39.820 in a couple of years, in a couple of, in maybe five or six years for Christmas, they can come,

00:10:46.600 but you should not see them before that. He's, he doesn't have any credibility on the risk here

00:10:53.140 from seeing your unvaxxed family member. Even if you have the vaccine, which is supposed to be so 0.90

00:10:58.540 super duper effective, that if you ever come into contact with someone who doesn't have the vaccine,

00:11:02.420 then you're going to get the virus and you're at risk of, of hospitalization or death.

00:11:09.200 Doesn't add up. It's not a really coherent argument, but even beyond that, even if Fauci were right,

00:11:14.980 I guess this is the part that's driving me crazy. I don't think they're making coherent scientific

00:11:19.980 arguments or medical arguments, and they keep changing their story about the vaccine

00:11:24.440 and the transmissibility and the real threat from COVID. But let's just say they were right about

00:11:29.280 all of that. Let's say you actually were at risk from seeing your family members who either have the

00:11:34.420 vaccine or don't or wear the masks or don't. Still, still, it would be better to see your family. It is

00:11:42.660 better to incur some risk and see your family than lock yourself up in some hermetically sealed bubble

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00:13:11.340 Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. We used to understand that nothing

00:13:18.600 is risk-free in this world. That we're always good. You know, you could walk outside right now

00:13:23.900 and get hit by a bus. Hope it doesn't happen, but you could. You could. We go up, we take risks all

00:13:29.860 the time, but we think that life is about more than just, you know, staying perfectly healthy all the

00:13:37.100 time and never having any risk whatsoever. And then somehow with this mild cold, or the equivalent

00:13:47.280 of a mild cold when we're talking about the Omicron and even the more virulent forms of the virus,

00:13:52.380 we've thrown all of that wisdom out the window. But it seems to me that your family and your friends

00:13:59.620 and the holidays and the great feasts of the year matter. They're important. We need, we can't just

00:14:05.940 get rid of all of them. We can't just completely wipe out our calendar and say goodbye to our friends

00:14:11.640 and maybe we Zoom them or FaceTime them for a little bit, but then we just go right back into

00:14:16.360 our pods. That's not a good way to live. You, you might decrease your risk of getting the mild cold.

00:14:24.160 If you do that, you won't. I'm not even denying that you'll decrease the risk, but it's not worth

00:14:30.140 it. It's not worth it, folks. It is not worth giving up your political rights and your way of

00:14:35.780 life and your friends and your family and your traditions and freaking Christmas so that you don't 0.55

00:14:42.440 get a cold. It's not, that's not a good trade. Dummies. I'm not, I'm not talking to you. You get it.

00:14:49.200 You're, if you're listening to this show right now, you probably get it. But a lot of people out there

00:14:52.800 don't. I have friends and I have family who say, well, you know, maybe next year. I'm just really,

00:14:59.440 what are you, you're like quintuple vaxxed. You've got 50 masks on and it's a cold. Yeah,

00:15:07.420 maybe though. I don't know. Maybe next year. Maybe next year. What do you think is going to happen

00:15:12.340 next year? You think they're going to let this go next year? No, no way. They're just going to keep

00:15:17.740 doing this folks until we ignore it. There's yes. The public health establishment has lied on the 0.93

00:15:24.040 science and we can talk about the science all day and say, actually, you know, the vaccines aren't

00:15:28.340 quite as effective as they told us they were. And actually they're a little less safe than maybe

00:15:32.180 they told us they were. And yeah, the masks don't really do as much as they told us they do. And

00:15:36.180 actually the virus is not quite as dangerous as they suggested it was. And we can argue over the

00:15:40.560 science all the time. But what about the philosophy? What about the bigger picture? Which is that we're

00:15:47.820 going to be here on this earth for a relatively short period of time. We should live our lives.

00:15:54.380 We should have our friends. We should have our holidays. And we don't need to be shaking in fear

00:16:00.240 of death and sniffles and sneezes for the whole time that we're here. Joe Biden knows that

00:16:10.220 the vaccine mandates are not popular. He knows that they're not popular. He doesn't care.

00:16:17.220 Customers are more likely to come in and shop because they know it's a safe environment.

00:16:22.760 I know vaccination requirements are unpopular for many, but not even popular for those who

00:16:29.560 are anxious to get them. My administration has put them in place not to control your life,

00:16:34.860 but to save your life and the lives of others. To save your life from the cold. From what apparently

00:16:45.460 is similar to a cold. What am I allowed to say? I quoted the CNN medical analyst, so I don't want to

00:16:52.660 be canceled for spreading misinformation. She happens to have said the thing that I've said many times and

00:16:58.200 been censored for. But I just want to be clear. I've got CNN analysts who are backing up what I'm

00:17:05.300 saying. And I've got the CDC saying that the symptoms are the symptoms of a mild cold. But

00:17:10.500 he's going to save our lives. Okay. Okay, Joe. What Joe is saying here about the vax mandates

00:17:16.180 and popularity is a much bigger political point. He's saying, look, I told you that I wasn't going to

00:17:21.900 do these vax mandates. I told you I probably didn't have the constitutional authority to do these vax

00:17:25.840 mandates. You people don't actually want the vax mandates. I'm acknowledging they're not popular.

00:17:30.520 But I'm going to do it anyway. And I'm going to do it anyway because I don't think that our government

00:17:37.060 really rests on popularity anymore. I don't think I really need to persuade people anymore. I think

00:17:43.800 that I can just do whatever I want. And we've got a kind of oligarchic ruling class. 1.00

00:17:49.940 And you can't say boo about it, even if you hate what I'm doing. And even if our approval rating

00:17:55.000 is in the gutter, it won't matter because you don't have as much political power as you used to.

00:18:02.040 That's what he's saying. He's saying our government is no longer a popular government.

00:18:07.360 And so he's going to do whatever he wants. Now, on the flip side of that, you've got Joe Manchin.

00:18:13.380 Joe Manchin is the Democrat senator from West Virginia who, along with the Republicans, stopped

00:18:19.080 Joe Biden's legislative agenda, the build back better. Republicans are calling it the build back

00:18:24.440 broke agenda. Joe Manchin came out. He stood firm despite the White House putting a ton of pressure

00:18:31.880 on him, despite all the Democrats putting a ton of pressure on him. Joe Manchin said, no, I'm not

00:18:36.240 going to be bullied.

00:18:37.460 I'm not blaming anybody. I knew where they were and I knew what they could and could not

00:18:42.120 do. They just never realized it because they figure, surely to God, we can move one person.

00:18:47.900 Surely we can badger and beat one person up. Surely we can get enough protesters to make

00:18:52.420 that person uncomfortable enough. They'll just say, OK, I'll vote for anything. Just quit.

00:18:56.400 Well, guess what? I'm from West Virginia. I'm not from where they're from. And they can just

00:18:59.960 beat the living crap out of people and think they'll be submissive. Period. 0.98

00:19:04.340 Period. I'm from West Virginia and you're not doing that to me.

00:19:07.240 Right, says Joe Manchin. There's a personal aspect to Joe Manchin not going along with this

00:19:15.320 legislative agenda, which is he thought the bill was spending way too much money on a bunch of

00:19:22.000 crazy programs. He didn't think its constituents would want him to vote for the bill. And also the

00:19:28.900 White House was badgering him and attacking him and putting out op-eds against him in West Virginia

00:19:35.540 and sending protesters over to him. And he didn't like that. Right. And he said, no, you don't get

00:19:41.740 to do that to me. I'm not going to give this to you. So the White House overplayed their hand.

00:19:47.540 The White House overplayed their hand here because the White House doesn't think that they're

00:19:51.400 accountable to the voters. I know that Joe Biden is the most popular president ever in the history

00:19:55.760 of the world. And he got seven gazillion votes in 2020 because I was told that from CNN. So I believe

00:20:02.680 that. But they overplayed their hand here because while Joe Manchin may have been elected by the people

00:20:11.460 and while he might think that he needs to take his constituents seriously, Biden doesn't think

00:20:17.000 popularity really matters anymore. Manchin's making a different bet. So in the in the showdown between

00:20:24.960 Joe Manchin and Joe Biden, you're seeing two different theories on how our government currently

00:20:31.080 works. Biden is saying the will of the people doesn't really matter anymore. Manchin says the

00:20:36.080 will of the people does still matter. Biden thinks that you can just do whatever you want and there's

00:20:40.320 no limits on what the politicians can do because the people can't say jack diddly about it. And

00:20:46.240 Manchin thinks that actually the people still have a say in their government and they'll vote him out

00:20:51.140 of office if if he doesn't work within certain confines and popularity. I hope Manchin's right.

00:20:59.140 I don't know. The jury's still out. I think 2022 and 2024 are going to clarify that question quite a lot.

00:21:06.580 Are we living in some version of a democracy or are we living in some version of an oligarchy?

00:21:16.240 Which is it? Right now we've got kind of elements of both. So which is which one are we are we really

00:21:24.640 are we really living under as a regime and which direction are we going in for right now? I mean,

00:21:31.680 you know, there's so much negative news out there in our in our political news cycle, but this is good.

00:21:38.280 The fact that one senator actually can still stand up and the president can't do much about it.

00:21:42.680 That is good news. Speaking of leftists standing up in the spirit of giving and Christmas.

00:21:48.760 I've got to give some plaudits to

00:21:52.080 Bernie Sanders. Yes, I have nice things to say about Bernie Sanders based Bernie Sanders who is going after

00:22:00.340 the woke anti-worker Kellogg

00:22:04.300 Corporation. Bernie standing up and saying we are going to stick up for American workers

00:22:10.200 and go after those fat cat woke corporations.

00:22:14.540 If you love America, you love the workers. And if you love American workers, you don't ship their

00:22:22.960 jobs to desperate people in Mexico and pay up 90 cents an hour. And let me say to Kellogg's,

00:22:30.040 you don't treat people who gave their lives to your company by threatening them with permanent

00:22:36.180 replacements. There's one word that defines what the trade union movement is about. It's

00:22:41.640 solidary, isn't it? That's the word. And that's what you're shown. Now, Bernie tweeted out when he

00:22:49.020 posted this video, he tweeted out, my message to Kellogg's is this. Sorry, I'll try this again.

00:22:56.340 My message to Kellogg's is this. No, it's not. It's not as good as my Fauci. A similar accent,

00:23:02.320 both from Brooklyn. My message to Kellogg's is this. You don't treat people whose families gave

00:23:06.060 their lives to your company as disposable. You don't threaten to send their jobs to Mexico. You

00:23:09.360 treat them with dignity and the respect that they deserve. And this from Bernie Sanders is extremely

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00:26:09.900 Bernie Sanders is upset that Kellogg's, woke Kellogg's,

00:26:14.000 is shipping jobs overseas and undercutting American workers' wages by paying people

00:26:23.380 less than a dollar an hour in the third world. And he says this is a bad idea. If you love America,

00:26:29.180 you got to love American workers. If you love American workers, you've got to treat them with

00:26:33.600 respect and dignity. I think this is extremely conservative. It's weird. This happens sometimes

00:26:42.420 in American politics where the left-right divide just doesn't describe what's going on here.

00:26:47.800 Bernie Sanders is a leftist. He's one of the most leftist members of the Senate, one of the most

00:26:52.740 leftist national politicians. And yet what he is saying is the sort of thing that I, a conservative,

00:27:00.780 quite a conservative person, could agree on. And it's something that, for instance, the Chamber of

00:27:07.460 Commerce or even some arch-libertarian on the right would disagree with. And it's something that some

00:27:14.480 establishmentarian corporate Democrat would disagree with too. So it's not exactly a left

00:27:18.980 versus right thing here. I think there could be an alliance between some conservatives and some

00:27:24.520 Bernie Sanders-like leftists on the American workers. Something I always gave Bernie credit for

00:27:29.400 is that Bernie has generally been anti-immigration in his career. Because Bernie is an old-school

00:27:36.160 socialist and old-school socialists don't really like immigration because it undercuts

00:27:41.500 workers' wages. So this is great. If you wanted to support the American worker,

00:27:47.220 there are ways that you could do it really quickly, really easily. You shut down that border. You

00:27:52.420 drastically reduce not just illegal, but legal immigration as well. And wages would go up. That

00:27:57.460 started to happen at the beginning of the Trump administration. Real wages went up for the first

00:28:02.340 time in a very, very long time. And then, unfortunately, the illegal aliens realized that

00:28:08.500 there weren't going to be serious enforcement mechanisms at the border. And so they started

00:28:12.120 coming over again. But that was in an age when you had Donald Trump calling for the most legal

00:28:20.140 immigration ever, right? So it's not even that they were drastically reducing all immigration.

00:28:23.680 If you really did curtail immigration, wages would go up considerably. This would be a very pro-family 0.99

00:28:29.220 policy as well, by the way. We talk about how can we help the American family? What sort of things

00:28:34.340 can conservatives do? And the libs always just want to have more government-funded preschool or 1.00

00:28:40.320 something or daycare. But no, one great way to do it would be drastically reduce immigration. 0.80

00:28:45.500 If you did that, wages would go up. Then maybe you wouldn't need both parents working all the time. 0.96

00:28:50.520 Maybe then you wouldn't be in a situation where you've got to have your wife work for some man so 1.00

00:28:54.820 that she can make enough money so that you can pay some other woman to raise your kid. 1.00

00:28:57.800 That would be one great way to do it. And so Sanders sees that and he says, look,

00:29:02.200 you need, we need some solidarity here. Well, that's, that's true as well. That's a very

00:29:05.600 conservative principle. Bernie, you know, takes all of this into the socialist direction. So that's no

00:29:13.540 good. But when he's just making these little observations, these modest observations about

00:29:19.140 workers, I think, I think conservatives could and probably should get on board with some of that.

00:29:23.780 Now, one way that the Democrats can hold onto their power is, is making new voters, right? So let's

00:29:34.200 say even if you drastically reduced immigration, a lot of immigration is just about bringing new

00:29:38.980 Democrat voters into America because immigrants and especially illegal aliens are overwhelmingly

00:29:44.720 likely to identify with the Democrat party. But let's say if you, if you put immigration aside for a

00:29:51.200 second, how can you get new voters for the Democrats? Well, one way you could do it is let

00:29:54.280 a bunch of prisoners out of the clink. And then I, some of them would have voting rights. Some of them

00:30:01.100 would not, some of them should not, but have had their voting rights restored. And in any case,

00:30:06.580 a lot of them are not going to see the inside of a jail cell anytime. Again, Merrick Garland,

00:30:10.920 the attorney general has just announced that thousands of inmates who were released during COVID

00:30:16.540 because they were afraid of infecting prisoners with, with the Wu flu, will never need to go back 0.59

00:30:24.740 to prison. We got this here. This is being reported by Reuters. And there, this began, you know,

00:30:34.460 over a year ago now. And all of these guys, this is a major reversal for the department's office of

00:30:41.120 Legal Counsel, which previously had issued an opinion that said Bureau of Prisons had no legal

00:30:45.740 authority to keep inmates at home once the pandemic emergency had subsided. Well, now the DOJ is saying,

00:30:51.660 nope, nevermind. You don't need to go back to prison. This is classic us versus them politics.

00:31:01.480 Democrats think that criminals by and large support them, vote for them when they can,

00:31:07.160 do their bidding. And so they're going to let them out of prison. Revolutionaries always do this.

00:31:14.000 This is the first, one of the first things that happened during the French Revolution.

00:31:18.320 Storm the Bastille, let the prisoners out of the clink. This happens in all revolutions.

00:31:24.760 Let them out. And you let them out and it increases a little bit of chaos. Chaos breeds opportunity.

00:31:30.620 And the ne'er-do-wells who are in prison are considered to be helpful for the radical agenda.

00:31:40.780 This is really, really unjust. Okay. Releasing one prisoner is an act of mercy. It can be an act

00:31:49.780 of mercy. This is why there's the pardon power. This is why there's parole. If you release a prisoner

00:31:57.240 or some small number of prisoners in certain very narrow circumstances, that's an act of mercy,

00:32:02.660 that's a good thing. If you release all the prisoners, that's not an act of mercy. That's

00:32:07.180 a grave injustice. It's a grave injustice to their victims. It's a grave injustice to their future

00:32:13.540 victims. Frankly, it's a grave injustice to the prisoners themselves because they're not going to

00:32:18.300 be reformed. But it doesn't matter. They think that the prisoners are on their side and so they're

00:32:24.860 going to let them out. And it has nothing to do with justice and it has nothing to do with

00:32:32.140 rehabilitation or reform. It's just us versus them. Ronald Reagan had this line. We talked about it

00:32:39.080 last week where he said, well, I don't have any enemies here in America, only opponents, right?

00:32:47.600 Our enemies are overseas. The Soviet Union, those are our enemies. Now today, China maybe, 0.96

00:32:52.300 those are our enemies. But here, we only have opponents. I don't think the Democrats view it

00:32:58.440 that way. I think the Democrats view us as enemies most of the time. And I think that they're playing

00:33:06.180 a much more serious game of politics than a lot of conservatives are. Speaking of criminals,

00:33:12.340 story about a dreamer. You know the dreamers? Those dreamers, they're all those cute little kids

00:33:19.520 brought over to America through no fault of their own, illegally. But they have dreams,

00:33:26.700 you know, and that's why we need to completely ignore all of our laws and completely open our

00:33:32.700 border just so that we could have more dreams here. We don't have enough dreams in America.

00:33:37.460 So one of the dreamers, a 26-year-old Koyo Ami Miguel Ruiz, has just been sentenced to 28 years in

00:33:45.320 prison after being found guilty of using social media to entice minors into performing sexual acts

00:33:51.560 and producing pornography in exchange for money. In a statement given to the Daily Wire,

00:33:57.400 Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that Miguel Ruiz first came to the United States as an

00:34:03.340 illegal alien in the late 1990s and was granted deferred action for childhood arrivals. That's DACA,

00:34:08.940 that's the Obama program, sometime thereafter. You know, it's just there. That's our strength.

00:34:17.680 The dreamers and the immigration and all that diversity, that's our strength, right? We wouldn't 1.00

00:34:24.200 have nearly as much child pornography if, no, that's not fair, Michael. That's not fair. What you're

00:34:30.720 going to say, not you, but what the liberals would say is, Michael, come on, that's cheap.

00:34:34.680 A citizen could have done that too. Some American citizens do that. It's not just illegal aliens

00:34:40.820 who entice kids into performing sexual acts and produce pornography in exchange for money and all

00:34:46.900 that. True, you're right. However, this particular crime would not have been committed in the United

00:34:56.700 States if we didn't tolerate illegal immigration. This didn't need to happen. We don't need the 0.99

00:35:05.060 illegal immigrants here. They don't help America. They don't help at all. It's nice for them that 1.00

00:35:12.260 they get to stay in America. We all probably have some friends who were illegal aliens or who came here 0.99

00:35:19.500 as kids or who maybe they were illegal, but then they got put on some kind of path toward, and that's

00:35:24.900 nice. It's nice for them. In the individual cases of some friend that we like, I guess that's good.

00:35:32.100 But generally speaking, illegal aliens do not help America. They only hurt America. 1.00

00:35:38.480 They only make the country worse. All of these crimes, whether it's a cyber crime like this,

00:35:45.780 whether it's a car accident, whether it's a murder, whether it's a rape, whether it's whatever crime

00:35:54.900 illegal alien in America, did not need to happen because we could have just enforced our border.

00:36:02.120 And it doesn't matter if illegal aliens are statistically more likely or less likely or

00:36:07.860 exactly the same likelihood of committing some crime. They shouldn't be here to begin with.

00:36:14.920 Okay. And so a serious country, serious country that put our nation's interests first,

00:36:23.320 whether we're talking about the American cultural identity, whether we're talking about American

00:36:28.340 workers, whether we're talking about our way of life and our traditions, would not tolerate this kind

00:36:33.040 of stuff. Okay. But we are not a serious country really anymore. And so we don't have the integrity of

00:36:40.620 our beliefs. We don't have the integrity of our national symbols. We don't have the integrity of our

00:36:45.720 borders. And without a border, there's no such thing as a country. This should worry anyone who likes,

00:36:55.360 I'm not even going to say the most ardent patriot, anyone who just kind of likes being in this country

00:36:59.860 when things are going relatively well. We can't go on like this forever, folks. You can't go on

00:37:05.420 forever having well over 2 million illegal aliens jumping the border every year and radicals in the

00:37:12.300 country tearing down our statues and ripping down all of our traditions and all of our social morals.

00:37:17.980 That can't go on forever. It can't even go on for very long. We don't even know what men and women 0.98

00:37:27.180 are anymore. Okay. Speaking of weird sex stuff, there is an article that came out yesterday that I was

00:37:36.680 pretty convinced was the Babylon Bee. But it's not. It's not the Babylon Bee. This article came from

00:37:44.400 the Texas Tribune. Left out of the conversation, transgender Texans feel the impact of state's

00:37:50.760 restrictive abortion law. The transgenders are left out of the conversation now that they can't kill 1.00

00:37:59.880 their kids. The transgender men cannot get abortions. While Texas's controversial abortion law strictly 1.00

00:38:09.860 refers to women in its phrasing, it also limits access to the procedure for transgender and non-binary

00:38:17.160 people who are able to become pregnant. It refers to women in the law because there are only men and 0.98

00:38:25.600 women and transgender and non-binary are just completely made up categories. But further, by the

00:38:30.740 way, I'm not sure if you've noticed this about non-binary, but the idea of non-binary is that people

00:38:41.740 should not just be put in one of two categories, right? That's why. So it shouldn't be men or women. 1.00

00:38:47.460 It should be non-binary. But the problem with that line of thinking is that some people are non-binary

00:38:56.560 and other people are binary. Meaning that you have a new binary. You can't escape the binary. 0.85

00:39:04.360 There's this new binary, which is binary and non-binary. And then within the binary,

00:39:08.420 there's men and women. And then within the non-binary, there are a bunch of different confused

00:39:12.480 things. I remember last year, about 18 months ago, during the Democrat presidential nomination

00:39:21.420 contest, Julian Castro, not the strongest candidate for president. He was trying to make his splash.

00:39:28.880 He was trying to run to the left of everybody else. He came out on a stage and he called for abortion

00:39:33.440 rights for men. I don't believe only in reproductive freedom. I believe in reproductive justice.

00:39:40.420 And, you know, what that means is that just because a woman, or let's also not forget someone

00:39:49.180 in the trans community, a trans female, is poor, doesn't mean they shouldn't have the right to 1.00

00:39:56.180 exercise that right to choose. And so I absolutely would cover the right to have an abortion. 0.63

00:40:01.760 We all laughed at this a year and a half ago, in particular, because he said a trans female,

00:40:07.360 which actually, a trans female is a dude who gets some plastic surgery to look more like a woman. 1.00

00:40:13.840 So in that case, you know, a dude can, he doesn't have a uterus. He can't get an abortion anyway. 0.84

00:40:19.160 He can't conceive or give birth. So we all, we all made fun of that. No one took it seriously.

00:40:24.300 And now, now it is being taken seriously. Okay. And we all, we thought it was the craziest thing we

00:40:31.100 ever heard. Now it is being taken seriously. And of course it is. When Julian Castro called for

00:40:39.440 abortion rights for men and everyone laughed, we all should have known that it was going to, 0.99

00:40:46.180 it's, it was going to become a more mainstream concept. We should. And so you see this article

00:40:53.100 now in the Texas Tribune talking about it. And it's, it, you're going to hear within five to 10

00:40:57.960 years, you're going to hear regular ordinary conversations about transgender abortion, 0.99

00:41:03.800 how trans men need to have the right to kill babies. And you're probably going to hear some 1.00

00:41:07.760 squishy Republicans say, look, okay, I, I support abortion rights for women and transgender men and

00:41:17.740 non-binary people, but I draw the line at pansexuals, right? Cause that's the thing that the Republicans 1.00

00:41:23.040 always do is they just defend whatever Democrats defended 18 months ago. So it's good. You're going

00:41:28.040 to end up at the point. Okay. Listen, I support, look, I of course believe that marriage is between

00:41:34.100 three men, a goat and an alien. Okay. But I think that when you add a dog into the picture,

00:41:39.020 that's too much. All right. That's where I draw the line. Okay. So you're going to, because that's,

00:41:43.760 that's the logic of this. The logic that the libs are foisting on us, that a lot of squishes

00:41:49.520 have accepted is that men and women are not distinct categories, that men can be women,

00:41:55.740 women can be men. There's really no such thing as men and women. And there are 54 genders in

00:42:01.620 addition to men and women, at least, uh, also. So you, you, you don't, it doesn't mean anything

00:42:07.240 to say that only women can have abortions. Well, if that's true, then yeah, we're going to be talking 1.00

00:42:13.260 about, we're going to be talking about the non-binary and the trans abortions and, and this,

00:42:19.440 that, and the other thing. Now, speaking of the LGB community, Nancy Pelosi was just giving a, uh,

00:42:28.180 a press conference in San Francisco and a member of the LGB community, uh, walked up and started

00:42:34.960 screaming the LGB slogan. Let's go, Brandon. Nancy Pelosi, say whatever you will about her. She is a 1.00

00:42:52.200 real pro. So she's there. She's giving her talk. You're this great conservative guy. Let's go,

00:42:57.660 Brandon. Woo. Yeah, let's go. So, uh, he does that and she gets off the stage as quickly as she 0.98

00:43:04.780 can. She's talking, she's making jokes. Then she hears that. She goes, okay, yep. And here's the

00:43:09.480 guy. Okay, here you go. Thanks. Why? She gets off stage ASAP because she doesn't want to be 1.00

00:43:15.540 associated with the protester. She also doesn't want to be associated with Biden. Nancy Pelosi's

00:43:21.360 approval rating among her constituents is much higher than Joe Biden's approval rating nationwide.

00:43:28.760 Joe Biden is not having a very successful presidency.

00:43:31.860 And so I think she, much like Joe Manchin is just thinking, get me out of here. I don't,

00:43:38.620 I don't need to be a part of this. I don't want to be lumped in. They're not even, the protester is

00:43:43.000 not even going after me. It's not F Pelosi, right? It's let's go, Brandon or F Joe Biden. Okay, good.

00:43:50.080 Deal with it. I don't, don't let me in with this man. And I think you are going to see a lot of

00:43:54.680 Democrats starting to jump ship, especially as 2022 comes around because, uh, thus far,

00:44:01.220 uh, the, the political agenda of the, of the branded administration has not been popular.

00:44:09.200 And so the best they've got now, the best the Democrats can voice on Republicans is to just

00:44:14.300 say that we're mean. We want the country to fail. Classic us versus them politics.

00:44:20.220 We delivered because we stayed focused on what the American people care about

00:44:25.440 and did the work. That's exactly what's happening here. Meanwhile, Republicans are actively seeking

00:44:31.760 to hurt the pandemic response, uh, explicitly, explicitly rooting for, uh, inflammation, pardon me,

00:44:38.620 inflation, uh, to get worse. And so there are, they are blocking, uh, what we're trying to do for

00:44:44.740 the American people, which is bringing down the cost and doing the work on behalf of the American people.

00:44:49.460 Yes. Republicans are rooting for inflation to get worse. That that's it. You got it.

00:44:57.200 The Democrat administration screws up everything, screws up the economy, screws up prices and inflation,

00:45:07.740 screws up foreign policy, screws up the energy industry, screws up everything. And when asked about

00:45:15.400 this, the best answer they've got is, yeah, and Republicans are happy about it. Yeah. We screwed

00:45:22.100 up everything. And yeah, Republicans, they're, they're happy that we screwed it all up. Oh, okay.

00:45:28.820 I guess she's a, she's a mind reader, a mind reader and, and mind reader who doesn't make a whole lot of

00:45:35.960 sense. Yeah. I guess it's true that we're happy that the Biden administration is not succeeding at what

00:45:43.540 they're trying to do because what they're trying to do is really bad, but no, we're not happy when

00:45:47.440 they screw up the whole country. We've told them not to do it. We've told them how to avoid doing

00:45:50.740 it. And they keep trying to make it worse. Like on inflation, they keep just trying to spend

00:45:54.000 a bazillion dollars, like this $2 trillion build back broke bill that they were pushing.

00:45:59.720 And then we said, no, so no, I don't, I don't think we are rooting for that.

00:46:03.760 Uh, but this is, this is the last desperate refuge of, of an administration that has just

00:46:12.520 completely failed, failed so much that even some of their own guys are trying to jump,

00:46:16.860 jump course. You know, speaking of clairvoyance or maybe just plain lock, there's a great story I

00:46:21.500 want to get to before we go, which is, uh, this is from, uh, uh, the Boston Globe, a drawing,

00:46:29.820 just a little drawing sold at an estate sale for 30 bucks. It may actually have turned out to be

00:46:38.560 a drawing by a Renaissance master worth $50 million. Yes, this is true. Someone shows up,

00:46:50.060 say, oh, that's kind of a nice, nice drawing. Okay, here's my 30 bucks, whatever. Now you're worth

00:46:53.660 $50 million. The British Museum is looking into it now. And so whoever picked this up,

00:46:59.820 Massachusetts is probably sitting pretty. The reason I bring up the story is not just because

00:47:06.040 it's a fun, silly story. I think it's a good representation of our culture. I think it's a

00:47:12.720 good representation of where we are right now. We don't know what we've got. We don't know

00:47:21.460 what we are intentionally forgetting, what we are destroying. We have a great cultural

00:47:27.320 inheritance here in the West. It's the greatest civilization ever in the history of the world, 0.92

00:47:33.240 not even close, beautiful, gorgeous, glorious. We can still see a little bit of it around us,

00:47:39.320 but we are doing everything we can to destroy it and denigrate it and erase it and knock it down.

00:47:47.160 But it's really valuable, folks. It's really valuable. And we're not, we're no longer even

00:47:51.280 able to recognize that. So when we, if we were to come across the $50 million work of art in the

00:47:58.980 estate sale, would we know it? No, we probably wouldn't, but we should. We should. All right.

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