Ep. 915 - Dangerous To The Right People
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The Democratic Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, admitted that she has seen firsthand how the numbers are being exaggerated by as much as 50% when it comes to C.O.V. (Covircular Visons).
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The state of New York is exaggerating COVID hospitalizations by as much as 50%. Now,
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before you censor me, I know you in big tech are itching to censor me for saying that.
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I promise you, this is not merely my opinion, okay? Not just little old me. This is the opinion
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of the liberal Democrat governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, who on Monday admitted that she
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has seen firsthand how the numbers are being significantly overcounted. Here's what she
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said. Someone's in a car accident. They go to the emergency room. They test positive for COVID
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while they're there. They're not there being treated for COVID. Now, someone's condition can
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worsen while they're in the hospital. I'm not saying that won't happen, but I've just been
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doing a random call around to some of the hospital leaders that I touch base with, and I'm seeing
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numbers from 20% to sometimes 50%. That's the governor of New York talking to a New York
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news outlet. So the Democrat governor of New York is saying the sort of thing that we have been saying
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for two years now. The only difference is that when we said it, we were called conspiracy theorists
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and threats to the public health and murderers. When she says it, it's treated as scientific gospel
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truth. So instead of playing catch up like conservatives always do, the logical question to ask right now
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is this, what are they lying to us about today? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from the frog prince 89 who says,
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we need to start using the term fake science like Trump used fake news whenever the left changes the
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science like this year's fashion trend. That's a great point. Sometimes we conservatives,
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we overthink things. We think, oh, what's going to be the most clever, subtle? No, just use fake news.
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First of all, fake news is a term that the left used to criticize conservative outlets,
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including and especially the Daily Wire. And then Trump appropriated the term and used it and said,
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what are you talking about? The Daily Wire and the conservative outlets, they're not fake news.
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CNN is fake news. MSNBC is fake news. So why don't we just use that? That's a great point. It's so
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NMLSConsumerAccess.org. We talked on this show yesterday about how the determining factor for
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censorship is not what is said, but who says it. So when I say something about how hospitalizations
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are being exaggerated, that's fake news. That's misinformation. That's dangerous. It's a threat to
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the public health. We got to censor the guy. But then when the Democrat governor of New York says
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exactly the same thing, that's good. That's fine because she, she's a Democrat. She's a prominent
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Democrat and she's not a mean old conservative podcaster. There's a complicating factor here.
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And this complicating factor is exemplified by Dr. Robert Malone. Dr. Robert Malone is one of the
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people who invented mRNA vaccine technology. He was an early pioneer on that technology.
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And even people who disagree with him give him a lot of credit for developing the technology that
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is now powering most of the vaccines we see around us for the coronavirus. So Robert Malone has gone
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out and criticized a lot of the public health response to COVID. Notably, he's criticized Dr.
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Fauci, whom he says has no integrity and lies all the time. Are cotton and surgical masks effective
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at preventing the spread of Omicron? Yeah. When the CDC says they are effective, in fact, they are.
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Dr. Malone, that's a lie. Is that not true? Yes, it's a, I mean, it's Tony. What can I say?
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Tony has no integrity. He lies all the time. And I've, me and my peers have, have been watching
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this for decades. We just shrug our shoulders and shake our heads and say it's Fauci.
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This is not just some disgruntled scientist or public health official complaining about Dr. Fauci.
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This has been said widely for decades, since the AIDS epidemic, that Dr. Fauci is a bureaucrat. He's
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not a great scientist. He's a bureaucrat. The good scientists stay in the lab. The bureaucrats push
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paper like Dr. Fauci, that all he really cares about is being on TV, that he jumps the gun,
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that he is incompetent, that he mishandles things. I mean, this has gone back decades and decades.
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Dr. Malone has been censored. He's been kicked off of Twitter. An episode that he did with Joe
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Rogan is being suppressed by big tech. So what this shows you is it's not, it's not just about
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what is said because the liberal establishments totally changed their tune on COVID, on the efficacy
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of vaccines, on the efficacy of masks. It's not just about what is said. And it's not even just about
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who is saying it in the sense that it's not just about the credentials. Often what I would hear when I
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would push back against big tech censorship in the last couple of years is I would hear,
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well, Michael, you're making a point that might turn out to be true, but you're not
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a credentialed scientist. You don't have a degree from some medical school or some epidemiology
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program. You don't work at the NIH. So even if you're saying the same thing as, as someone else,
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you don't have the right to say because you don't have the credential, but there's nobody more
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credentialed than Dr. Robert Malone. The guy's got very impressive scientific degrees. He was a
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fellow at Harvard. He helped to develop the vaccine technology that is at issue right now.
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But what's the problem? The problem is he's on the wrong side. So it's not just what he's saying.
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It's not just who he is and his credentials. It's a much more basic political question.
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Who are his friends? Who are his enemies? Who are his allies? What side is he on?
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He's, he is right now not on the side of Biden, Fauci, the NIH, the woke corporations,
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the liberal establishment. He's not on their side. So they're going to shut him up and it doesn't
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matter how many degrees he's got. Doesn't matter how central his role was to the development of these
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vaccines. He's out. He's out. So how do we fight back against this?
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One GOP representative is, is showing us how to do it. Representative Troy Neils
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has just submitted a Joe Rogan episode with Dr. Robert Malone into the congressional record.
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So this episode, you know, these Rogan shows go on forever and, and this episode is being
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suppressed on big tech. So this congressman comes out and he says, okay, I'm going to read it verbatim
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into the congressional record. Can't censor that Dorsey or whoever the new guy is. Agrawal can't
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censor that Mark Zuckerberg. He says, quote, today I submitted the transcript from the Joe
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Rogan experience podcast episode one, seven, five, seven to Dr. with Dr. Robert Malone into
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the congressional record. Big tech wants to restrict your access to this information,
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but they cannot censor the congressional record for now, for now. But what we're seeing here
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is really great. It's a reassertion of political rights. And it's kind of weird for the, for the
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conservatives and for the right in America, because for decades we were told by the right
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and by conservatives, government bad, everything government does is bad. Corporations good.
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Everything corporations do is good. But now we're in a situation where we need to turn to the
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government to protect us against corporations because the corporations specifically big tech
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are controlling all the speech in our government, in our, in our society and in self-government speech
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is politics and politics is speech. So if they control the speech, they control the whole damn
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political system. So now we're in this strange position where we're saying, no, help us big
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government. Hey, big government, help us against big tech and big corporations.
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Republicans are partially responsible for giving corporations all this power. We are, we are.
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And I'm not saying you and me specifically where, you know, I'm a little, a little young. I wasn't,
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I wasn't around during a lot of the battles of the eighties and the nineties. Okay. I was,
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but a glint in my father's eye. Still Republicans had this idea that as long as you
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deregulated everything and gave all this power to corporations, you'd be in a better position.
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And that's not always true. Circumstances and threats change in politics. Sometimes the threat
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is from big government. Sometimes the threat is from big media. Sometimes the threat is from big
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bureaucracy. Sometimes the threat is from big corporation. Sometimes the, the threats change.
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Okay. And a conservative movement that does nothing but repeat brainlessly the same platitudes from
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1982 is not going to be very effective. You need to respond to the threats we've got now. And right
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now, what that means is growing our political power, asserting our political power, using the state,
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not to put too fine a point on it, to rein in corporations that are selling our country and our
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rights and our way of life down the river. Speaking of the U S Congress and what people are allowed to
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say, I just read the most disgusting article I think I have ever read in the associated press.
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This is really, really gross. AP news headline, Ashley Babbitt, a martyr, her past tells a more complex
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story. Ashley Babbitt is the military veteran who was shot at the Capitol, the January 6th
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insurrection, the worst attack ever, worse than Pearl Harbor. You know, you remember that
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where conservatives were killing cops. None of that happened. The only person who got killed that day
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in political violence was this lady, Ashley Babbitt, because of some trigger happy cop at the Capitol.
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And the AP comes out and says, yeah, yeah. You think she shouldn't have been shot? I don't know.
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She wasn't a great lady. And what's the, the, the evidence? Oh, the evidence was she got in a fight
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with her husband's ex-wife. Seriously, that's the, they say, you know, Ashley Babbitt, she's seeing you,
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everyone's saying she's like a good U S military veteran, but actually she got into a big fight with
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her boy or with her husband's ex-wife. So they dig up all this dirt about her personal life and her
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romantic life. And they say, yeah, because of that, she's bad. She deserved to be shot by a cop.
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That's the insinuation. They don't say it explicitly, but that is the insinuation.
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Of course, the left would never do what they are doing to Ashley Babbitt to someone like
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George Floyd, George Floyd, complete degenerate career criminal, regardless of what you think
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about how he was killed, if it was justified, if it was murder as the jury found, but I don't think
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it's very convincing. Regardless of what you think about this, this guy was a thug career criminal who
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never reformed his life, who was committing a crime as he was killed, who was resisting arrest,
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who was, had a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. He was putting himself in a position where
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things were probably not going to turn out very well for him. If not that day, then into the future.
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And if you said that, if you mentioned that he, he robbed a woman at gunpoint, a woman who may
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have been pregnant, there was some questions to whether or not she was pregnant, but very well may
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have been. If you bring that up, you're a racist, you're terrible, you're victim blaming, you're
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doing all sorts of awful things. Michael Brown, Michael, remember Michael Brown? He was the young
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man in Ferguson, Missouri. He robbed a store and then attacked a cop and grabbed the cop's gun and
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the gun discharged. And then Michael Brown was killed in the altercation. You remember that?
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If you mention any of that, if you mention the fact that Michael Brown started it and was grabbing
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the cop's gun, you were racist, terrible, victim blaming. Dante Wright, Dante Wright. This is,
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this one's slightly more controversial. Dante Wright, young man, career criminal, rap sheet a mile long,
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gets pulled over in a traffic stop. The, the cop who has been found guilty of manslaughter is going to
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jail. She meant to tase him. She actually shot him with a gun, with a real gun, with bullets. And
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if you mention, well, Dante Wright, you know, he was resisting arrest. Well, he did have a rap
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sheet a mile long. Well, if he had just kind of gone, gone quietly, if he had just done what he was
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supposed to do, he, he wouldn't be dead. If you say that you're a vicious, evil, terrible monster,
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racist, whatever. But of course, when it's conservatives, yes, she deserved, she deserved
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the bullet because she got in a fight with her husband's ex-wife. She deserved it. Of course,
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why are they doing this now? Why is the Associated Press going after Ashley Babbitt almost exactly a
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year after she was killed? Oh, right. That's why. Right. Because tomorrow, January 6th is the most
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important feast day in the liberal calendar. This is a sacred, sacred day. It actually is a sacred day
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tomorrow, by the way, because tomorrow, January 6th for Christians is the feast of the epiphany.
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This is the feast of, of Christ, uh, presented to specifically to the three Magi. And this has
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been celebrated for a very long time. So one way to really get the libs upset is if you say, oh,
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God, I love January 6th. I can't wait to celebrate January 6th. January 6th is such a great day.
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Oh yes, I'm planning my festivities. I love it. I think it's so wonderful. And then you explain to
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them that it's the epiphany. Maybe you're celebrating other things. I don't know. But
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certainly you could be celebrating the epiphany. The left has a feast day tomorrow too, and they
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need to rewrite the story before the feast day. Their story of what happened on January 6th was fake.
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It was made up. The officer, Brian Sicknick was attacked with a, with a fire hydrant and he was
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killed. Nope. Didn't happen. It was an insurrect, an armed insurrection. Nope. It wasn't. None of the
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people are being charged with insurrection. None of them were armed. It was, they almost took over
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the country. Nope. They almost raped AOC. AOC wasn't even in the building. They, they nearly,
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nope, they didn't. They, you know what they did? They danced around the Capitol with a horn hat on
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and they took Nancy Pelosi's lectern. Not defending it. You shouldn't take people's lecterns.
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Wasn't the worst insurrection ever. Wasn't the worst insurrection of that year,
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actually not even close to BLM. So they need to rewrite the history and they're going to go into
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overdrive to do it. And the reason they're doing that is they recognize that sometimes you hear
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this phrase, politics is downstream of culture. Okay. Whatever that phrase is worth, culture is
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downstream of religion. All human conflict is theological. All of politics ultimately comes
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down to religion, whether you want to admit it or not. All of our political debates raise moral
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questions. Those moral questions have a religious foundation. Our understanding of who we are as
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individuals, as a community, as a nation comes down to religious questions. What does it mean to be a
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man? What are our obligations to our neighbors and ultimately to our God? And the left knows this.
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And so the left is crafting the religion, the feast days, the liturgical calendar, the secular saints.
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St. George Floyd is one of the most important saints in the American secular religion.
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I don't think he's worthy of admiration. Normal people don't think he's worthy of admiration.
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But that is what the left requires because it serves their political agenda. And so they're going
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to go into overdrive on January 6th. And there's probably very little that you can do about it.
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Other than, the only way we're going to fight this is not just by saying this is false, this is fake,
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this is not true. The only way we're going to fight this overwhelming force of religion
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is by having our own religion. And this is why I jokingly sort of bring up the fact that there is
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an actual feast tomorrow called the Feast of the Epiphany. You should celebrate it. You should have
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your own religion. You should have, you should, if you want to fight back against the religion of
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leftism, it's not going to be enough to just poke holes in it. You're going to need your own form of
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worship. I would recommend the religion that formed our country and our civilization and the whole
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world, if you ask me, Christianity. But I would recommend that because nature abhors a vacuum.
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And in the vacuum of belief that exists in America, kooky ideas are going to fill it. What's the old
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line? When you don't believe in anything, I think it was from Chesterton. When you don't believe in
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anything, you believe in everything. Because you just become extremely superstitious and gullible.
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Speaking of crime, there's a new program in New York. New public health program in New York.
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You know, there's a big drug problem. Leading killer of young Americans had over, what, 100,000
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Americans die of drug overdoses, I think, last year. Well, this pilot program is going to install
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vending machines to give druggies needles and other drugs that will make it easier for them to do drugs
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without killing themselves by overdosing. They're calling these public health vending machines.
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I don't think giving syringes to heroin addicts necessarily promotes the public health. It's sort
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of the opposite of health, you would think. This is being pushed by the Fund for Public Health in New
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York. They opened a request for these stalls in December, and they're going to offer the overdose
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drugs and the syringes and, quote, other harm reduction and wellness supplies.
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Do you think this is compassionate? I don't think this is compassionate.
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I don't think it's compassionate to create incentives for druggies to do more drugs.
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Now, their argument is, well, at least they're not using dirty syringes.
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Yeah, but they're still shooting up a bunch of heroin and other drugs. They're making the problem
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worse. Yes, well, but it's, look, if they're going to do it, and look, they have the right.
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They have the right to do what they want with their bodies. And so that's what, I think that's what a lot
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of these people believe. A lot of them are on the legalization train. They think, oh, well, just
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legalize it, regulate it. People have a right to do drugs. You don't have any right to tell them they
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can't do drugs. And so we'll just make it a little bit safer. It's a safety issue. The war on drugs
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failed, they say. You ever hear that? I hear this all the time. The war on drugs was a failure.
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Michael, are you, you're defending the war on drugs? Yes. Yeah, I'm definitely defending the war on
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drugs. The war on drugs totally worked, okay? From the 1970s to the 1990s, during the height of
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the war on drugs, use of illegal drugs in the United States dropped precipitously. And then we
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stopped really enforcing the war on drugs. And guess what happened? The use of illegal drugs
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skyrocketed, and now we're in the worst opioid crisis ever. And we're in, more broadly, one of
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the worst drug crises ever. And we've now got 100,000 Americans a year killing themselves on this
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stuff. So yeah, the war on drugs did work. The pro-drug conservatives are shockingly gullible.
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They know that the liberal media lie to them about basically everything. They know that the
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activists and the bureaucrats and the politicians lie to them about almost everything. And yet they
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think they're telling the truth about the war on drugs. The war on drugs was great. It was awesome.
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The reason that people oppose it has very little to do with the science, because according to the
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science, the war on drugs worked. It has to do with this ideology, this obsession with individualism
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and autonomy. This obsession, this idea, it's not a scientific idea. This is a philosophical idea
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that you have the right to shoot yourself up with poison. And you don't. You don't.
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And this crazy philosophical idea that it makes you more free to be able to shoot up yourself with
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poison. It doesn't make you free. It makes you a slave. Drug addicts are not free. They're the
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least free people in the world. They are slaves to their most base passions and desires. And if you
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could talk to any of them when they're in their right mind, 100 out of 100 of them will tell you
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they don't want to do drugs because it makes them miserable. Pretty dubious science there in New
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York. Speaking of New York and dubious science, there's a great piece in the New York Times.
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I know, I know. Never say I'm not fair. I know, I know. A chilly day in hell to say there's a great
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piece in the New York Times. It's a piece about genetic testing for pregnant women. You know,
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if you've ever had a kid, if you've ever gone through any kind of fertility programs or if you
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just had a kid yourself or if you just read about it, you know that when women are pregnant,
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there are these genetic tests. And you get them early on and they tell you, oh yes, your kid
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is very likely to have Down syndrome or your kid is very likely to have this disease or this disorder
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or this thing. They'll give you a whole litany. And the purpose of these tests
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maybes to help you prepare for life with a child who has these challenges, but really what the
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tests are for is to impel you to abort your baby. That's what it's really about. And the doctors
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will tell you this. You say, I asked a doctor once, I said, hold on, why do you want to do all
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these tests? They say, well, just to figure out how to proceed. What do you mean how to proceed?
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The baby's going to grow a little bit more and then he's going to pop out of my wife. What do you
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mean? That's how you proceed with a pregnancy? Well, no, but you're going to, yeah, we'll just
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figure out just sort of, and then we'll just come to a decision. And no, there ain't no decision,
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lady. You're not killing my kid. There is a shocking new report about the efficacy of these
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tests in the New York Times. Now, as you likely have already heard this Friday, the Supreme Court
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will convene to hear arguments on the legality and constitutionality of the Biden administration's
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vaccine mandate. That means this week is going to be huge for the lawsuit that we filed against
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to help us put a stop to this disgusting federal overreach. We'll be right back with a lot more.
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Shocking new report out of the New York Times. New York Times still does good reporting. Their
00:24:37.560
editorial is awful. The way they frame the stories is terrible. The way they select the stories is
00:24:43.320
terrible. And a lot of the articles themselves, even in the news reporting, is really bad.
00:24:47.480
But the reporting itself is often fairly high quality. Headline, when they warn of rare disorders,
00:24:57.020
these prenatal tests are usually wrong. There are a number of tests that doctors will give to
00:25:05.140
pregnant women to determine if their children are perfect or if they're defective. And if they're
00:25:09.560
defective, they suggest that you abort the baby. How often do you think they're wrong?
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So this shocked even me. You'd say, okay, they do these tests all the time. Gosh, could you imagine
00:25:24.300
if 5% of the time they're wrong? 5% of the time where a mother is told, oh, your baby is going to
00:25:31.100
have all these terrible problems. You should just abort the baby. And then the mother aborts the baby.
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And then it actually, it turns out the baby was just fine. And so even by the mother's own
00:25:39.420
priorities of wanting to have a perfect baby, not a defective baby, even then she would have kept the
00:25:45.380
baby. The baby was killed when she wouldn't have done that. Oh my gosh, could you imagine 5% of the
00:25:50.600
time? What if it were 10% of the time that the tests were wrong? What if it were 15, 20, 25, 30,
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35, 40, 45, 50, 85% of the time? Not 85% of the time they're right. 85% of the time they're wrong.
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They're only right 15% of the time. Five syndromes here. DeGeorge syndrome, 1P36 deletion,
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Cree-Duchat syndrome, Cree-Duchat syndrome, Wolf-Hirschborn syndrome, Prader-Willi and
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Angleman syndromes. That first one, the chance that the positive test results are wrong and that
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the results say the baby has this syndrome, but actually the baby doesn't. Chances that it's wrong,
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81%. 1P36 deletion, 84%. Wrong. False positives. Cree-Duchat syndrome, 80% wrong. Wolf-Hirschborn,
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86% wrong. Prader-Willi and Angleman syndromes, that can cause seizures and the inability to control
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food consumption. You know, really you should probably abort your baby, right? Hey, listen,
00:27:07.840
ma'am, this is going to be really bad quality of life for you, especially, but also the baby's
00:27:13.100
going to be too. You should probably abort the baby. How often is that one wrong? 93% of the time.
00:27:24.060
It is always wrong to kill your baby because you consider your baby defective. Okay, that is always
00:27:31.800
wrong. You shouldn't do that. We all have imperfections. You do too. You do, even you,
00:27:37.700
you whom everyone loves so. Everyone has imperfections. So it's always wrong to kill your
00:27:42.560
baby, even if your baby has imperfections. But these parents who are, who are having abortions
00:27:48.800
on this information, usually, usually the vast majority of time are not even killing a baby
00:27:56.280
that they would consider to be defective. The lesson here, one is don't trust the science. These
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people are idiots and they're wrong most of the time and they're extremely dishonest.
00:28:08.960
So that's the first part. Okay. But the second part is justice is a better guide to action than
00:28:17.880
statistics is. I have long said on this show that I think statistics is mostly bunk and you shouldn't
00:28:24.400
trust it, including maybe these statistics. I don't, everyone has their own statistics. There
00:28:29.580
are lies, damned lies and statistics. Sometimes conservatives push back at me. But one of the
00:28:34.600
reasons for this is statistics do not a moral argument make. The question is, should I kill
00:28:41.400
my kid or not? Should I kill my kid or not? And so right now, if we're going to argue it from
00:28:48.200
statistics, you say, well, actually, I don't know, the, the, the kid has a 67% chance of having this
00:28:54.880
problem and to this. And so, and he'll have a 72% chance of this problem. And so I think his life is
00:29:00.620
only worth a 41% chance of this. And so when you do the calculation and you pull out your calculator
00:29:05.440
and you say, actually his life isn't worth saving, kill him, beep, right? That would be the statistics
00:29:10.500
argument. That would be the egghead argument. How about the justice argument? Regardless of what
00:29:16.960
diseases the baby might have or that might get later on in life, maybe the baby, oh God, God forbid,
00:29:21.660
could you imagine the baby gets childhood leukemia? That's not going to come up on a test in the womb,
00:29:25.800
but it might happen. And that would be, that would be tragic. That would be so horrible.
00:29:30.360
Or imagine the, I don't know, the kid, he turns out he grows up, he's 25 years old and he gets some
00:29:34.480
other disease or he grows 60 years old and he gets some other disease, gets cancer. Yeah, that would be
00:29:39.480
sad too. Right. That would be, that would be very sad. Should you kill your kid because of
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a probability that he'll suffer? Uh-uh. Just don't, just don't kill innocent people. That's a much
00:29:57.480
better rule. Because, because as the New York Times is showing us, even when you think you're
00:30:02.860
making these really sophisticated calculations, well, 93% chance he's got this horrible, often
00:30:09.100
they're just totally wrong. Just as wrong as all the eggheads have been. If you haven't learned
00:30:18.180
that the eggheads, the scientists can be wrong over the past two years, you haven't learned
00:30:24.240
anything. Speaking of health, not public health, but private health, Lizzo. Lizzo is a performer.
00:30:33.680
She's a singer and a dancer who makes being morbidly obese a big part of her act. And so it's not just
00:30:40.580
that she's a larger lady and, you know, deals with that and that's just part of her life. She makes it
00:30:46.820
sort of the point of her act. And she encourages it among other people and they call it body
00:30:52.720
positivity. And she says, oh yes, you know, you should get really, really fat. That's really good.
00:30:56.720
That'll be really good for you. So Lizzo just posted a new video to Instagram dancing around in a bathing
00:31:04.360
suit. And, uh, you don't need to watch this if you don't, if you don't want to, you can close your eyes.
00:31:10.820
It's not, uh, yeah, not exactly Mozart, you know, not, uh, not the highest sort of, but okay, it's her sort of
00:31:23.180
jiggling around. And she says, I gained weight. I look T F good. G O O D T. I had to look that up.
00:31:32.400
Good is a way of emphasizing the word good because it's got this emphatic point at the end. Good.
00:31:40.980
There's no question about how good I am. Good. And then T F refers to the F. I look at the F good.
00:31:50.780
But, uh, I'm not going to be rude or say anything about how Lizzo looks or, but, but the, the
00:32:03.500
philosophical point she's making is just not true. Okay. We, we are told in our skeptical society that,
00:32:12.060
that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There, you don't, what is beautiful, what you consider
00:32:17.780
beautiful maybe isn't beautiful according to someone else. It's all just taste and there's
00:32:23.300
no accounting for taste. Beauty. It's just like preferences. This is how we ended up with all
00:32:28.900
this hideous modern architecture and all this ridiculous modern art and just this ugly, very
00:32:33.860
ugly society all around us. This is why now, when you look at billboards, when you're going through
00:32:38.980
Times Square or anywhere else, the billboards no longer have hot models on it. Usually often the
00:32:44.120
billboards will have officiously ugly models on it to make a point. They're making a political point,
00:32:48.440
which is that what you, this is the new beauty. Ugliness is the new beauty. Just like when that
00:32:54.940
comedy, quote unquote comedy special Nanette came out with Hannah Gadsby and it was just really sad
00:33:01.180
and it was, she wasn't telling jokes. She was just saying sad things. And she said, this is the new
00:33:05.860
comedy. The, the, the new comedy is not comedy. It's, it's tragedy, but that's comedy now.
00:33:11.440
And ugliness is beauty and up is down and right is left and everything. And it's all opposite day.
00:33:17.720
And that, that is certainly what you see in political correctness, right? Men are now women,
00:33:22.160
women are now men. And it's all just words, words, words, and we can define things however we want,
00:33:27.360
because there are no objective standards. That's what the left is saying. And the right has kind of
00:33:30.880
bought into it too. The right has a very skeptical approach to politics now too. And they say, well,
00:33:36.140
look, who am I to tell you how to live your life? Who am I to legislate morality? We shouldn't teach
00:33:44.640
students what to think, only how to think, you know, that all that kind of babble is very skeptical
00:33:49.780
and buys into the same idea, but actually there is beauty. Go to the Sistine Chapel
00:33:55.740
and then go to that modern art piece of a urinal on the floor of a museum.
00:34:05.000
Tell me, please, try to convince me that one of those things is not more beautiful than the other
00:34:10.000
thing. Try to convince me. You can. This is also why the live and let live stuff, you do you,
00:34:16.300
don't yuck my yum, just do whatever you want, just as long as it doesn't affect me. That was never
00:34:20.820
going to work. It was never going to work because we are not just individuals. None of us is just an
00:34:26.420
individual. We are in community. Human beings by their very nature are in community. Jordan Peterson
00:34:32.720
had a great quote the other day. It was going around the internet. I loved this quote. I'm going
00:34:37.460
to be paraphrasing it, but he said, rationality is a community endeavor. Meaning you don't just
00:34:46.100
form yourself or your thoughts or even your own reason on your own. You do it in conversation with
00:34:53.800
other people. And you know this from your own experience. When you're alone for a little too
00:34:57.840
long and you don't talk to people and you don't interact with anyone, you go a little crazy. We
00:35:02.440
all do. We all do. This is why Aristotle says man is the social animal. Man is the political animal.
00:35:08.600
What's politics mean? It means the stuff we all do together.
00:35:11.240
And there are going to be standards. And the standard is either going to be
00:35:17.540
beauty or it's going to be not beauty. And we are going to force those standards on people
00:35:24.580
or we're going to have standards forced on us. What is it going to be? Is it going to be the real
00:35:27.720
goodness, truth, and beauty? Or is it going to be some insane leftist redefinition toward
00:35:32.860
ugliness and falsehood? And what do you want? What society do you want to live in? Speaking of
00:35:36.520
standards, CNN does this thing every year where now on New Year's Eve, their hosts get hammered on
00:35:43.100
air. And I think it's real. I think they actually are drinking. It could just be a fake sort of
00:35:47.720
performance, but I think they actually are. And then they babble and they get all goofy and they're
00:35:51.700
drunk on screen. And this is supposed to be really funny and festive. So Anderson Cooper leads this show
00:35:57.660
and Andy Cohen, who is a radio host, Andy Cohen comes on and he went into an admittedly satisfying
00:36:05.120
drunken rant about what a terrible mayor, New York mayor, Bill de Blasio was.
00:36:08.820
Let me tell you something. Oh, please. Tell us something, Andy. Watching Mayor de Blasio
00:36:16.140
do his victory lap dance after four years of the crappiest term as the mayor of New York.
00:36:29.080
The only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor has been.
00:36:43.240
2022. It's a new year because guess what? I have a feeling I'm going to be standing right here next
00:36:51.920
year. And you know who I'm not going to be looking at? Dancing as the city comes apart.
00:37:01.600
Totally right. So he's completely right about Bill de Blasio. He's been a complete disaster.
00:37:06.720
All the Democrats I know in New York, almost every single one, which is most of my friends in New York,
00:37:13.520
despise the guy. I think Andy Cohen at least may have actually been drunk there because Anderson
00:37:20.080
Cooper keeps trying to reel him in. Andy Cohen just says, no, I'm not going to do that. And he
00:37:23.660
goes on this drunken rant, which was, which was enjoyable. But generally, I think the CNN drunk
00:37:30.020
thing is just so stupid. This has become a meme in our culture that now, if you want to, if you want
00:37:36.860
to make something really fun, you know, if you want to make a form of entertainment really fun,
00:37:41.840
just get the performers drunk and that's going to make it better, right? There's drunk history.
00:37:46.600
Oh yes. Instead of just talking about history, but they're going to get drunk and talk about history
00:37:51.320
or the drunk Shakespeare. Yeah. Instead of watching good actors perform great plays, well,
00:37:57.280
they're going to just get drunk and do it. Isn't that going to be, they're going to impair their
00:38:02.180
skills and abilities and that'll be better somehow. Yes. And you know what we're going to do? We're
00:38:07.240
going to have these people go on CNN, watching CNN, always an unpleasant experience, but they're going
00:38:13.400
to get drunk and that'll be better. It's just so lazy and unattractive. It just, it reminds me that
00:38:21.940
we're not a serious society in any way. I'm no, I am no teetotaler, far from it. Let me tell you
00:38:28.360
folks. All right. I love a good drink. Okay. Good cigar with a good drink. I love it. All right. I've
00:38:36.340
loved it for a very long time, but I don't like being drunk. This is, this is where we've lost
00:38:43.420
all sense of proportion and we've lost the idea of the virtue of moderation. Drinking is fine.
00:38:51.640
Christ's first miracle was turning water into wine for people who had been partying for quite a few
00:38:56.300
days, but you need to hold your liquor people. You need to, that is a good thing. You think you ever
00:39:03.180
read how much Winston Churchill would drink in a single day? He'd wake up, he'd start his day with
00:39:08.620
scotch and soda. He'd move on. He'd have champagne, he'd have brandy, he'd have this, he'd be drinking
00:39:13.880
all day. Winston Churchill was almost never seen in public drunk, if ever. I'm not sure that he ever
00:39:20.120
was. That's what we've lost. It reminds me of that Chesterton line. A lot of Chesterton in today's show
00:39:25.720
where Chesterton said that the modern world is not so awful because it's so bad. It's in many ways
00:39:32.580
so awful because it's so good. We've got a lot of virtues, but they're totally out of whack and we
00:39:37.280
don't have a sense of moderation anymore. We don't have a sense of balance anymore. We don't, we can't,
00:39:43.000
and when you, when you get these things out of whack, when you don't have a balanced society,
00:39:46.760
things start to break down. Speaking of standards, did you know that babies are transphobic?
00:39:56.240
I actually did know that babies are transphobic, but I have had this point reinforced by
00:40:01.600
libs of TikTok, my favorite Twitter account, one of my favorite Twitter accounts,
00:40:06.300
and a viral video that's going around TikTok right now.
00:40:10.020
I've talked about the transphobic baby at work before. I went in a room with him today and I
00:40:15.860
had my wig on, which I took off now because it's like nine o'clock at night. He didn't cry and he was
00:40:22.880
like babbling at me. And I had to look at him and like, do you like me now because we've had a
00:40:33.620
moment or do you like me now because I have long hair and look more feminine because then you're
00:40:38.700
more transphobic? And then he started to cry. So that was my answer.
00:40:44.020
I truly do not know if this is satire or not. I don't know. I could see it be a hundred percent
00:40:53.080
being a joke and I could 100% see this being real. And I don't know because our society is
00:41:01.080
completely through the looking glass now. And when you can be kicked out of polite society for saying
00:41:06.940
that dudes are not chicks and chicks are not dudes, then you really don't know. Then your ability to
00:41:11.300
discern between satire and reality is gone. But let's just take it seriously. This idea that babies
00:41:19.460
are transphobic. I know a lot of conservatives have pushed back. They've said, you're calling
00:41:23.900
babies transphobic? How crazy is that? That's insane. You should, that's not, that's not right.
00:41:30.240
You're saying that babies are afraid of, yeah, of course they are because they haven't had their
00:41:35.720
brains poisoned by leftism yet. So of course they, they're not, it's not irrational, but yeah,
00:41:41.660
babies are afraid of a lot of things. My baby's afraid when I sneeze. Okay. Babies get scared of
00:41:47.780
lots of things and it's because they're extremely vulnerable. And so when dudes dress up like chicks
00:41:55.920
in big, crazy costumes and babies look at it and they say, something's not right there. Something's
00:42:00.320
a little bit off. Stranger danger, get me out of here. That is perfectly reasonable and makes sense.
00:42:06.260
And maybe, you know, the left used to always say, we need to learn from the children, learn from the
00:42:10.100
babies. Maybe we can learn from them a little bit and say, huh, maybe the baby's right. Maybe this
00:42:13.600
isn't quite right. Maybe something is a little off here. Maybe we need to fix things. I am not of the
00:42:21.920
opinion that, you know, when we're young, we know everything and then we just get corrupted
00:42:26.980
by society. I don't, I don't think that's true. I think that very often young people have, you know,
00:42:33.380
all of their untutored desires and appetites and emotions. And that's the whole point of education
00:42:37.920
is to kind of tamp that down and, and give yourself some command over your own liberty.
00:42:43.440
But sometimes babies are more correct than us. Okay. And when, when our minds become so poisoned by
00:42:50.740
ideology that they divorce themselves from reality, maybe we need to look to the
00:42:56.860
wisdom of the babes. Speaking of threats to our life and to our liberty, I, just in case you didn't
00:43:06.560
have enough things to be afraid of and to freak out about and to go into panic mode over, the liberal
00:43:12.340
establishment has given us a new one. This, this sounds like a cheap B movie. The new thing to be
00:43:19.740
afraid of is flu-rona. Flu-rona. It's, oh, you, just when you thought it was safe to go back into the
00:43:31.780
restaurant. Oh no. You can, so what is flu-rona? Israel records its first case of, of a patient with
00:43:39.160
COVID and the flu at the same time. And, uh, you know, they're fine. The person's fine. But, uh,
00:43:46.280
yeah, you got the flu and coronavirus. And it's kind of hard to tell the difference because it's
00:43:52.300
all the same symptoms. Really it's all the same symptoms as the common cold. Before you freak out
00:43:59.720
over this, before you run for the hills, lockdown, put on 15 masks, take like 27 more jabs, before you
00:44:06.880
do that. Recognize perhaps that if you can't tell the difference between the deadly novel pandemic
00:44:16.320
that's going to wipe out humanity and the common flu or the common cold, you're probably fine.
00:44:25.420
You're, you're probably going to be okay. You're, I think you're going to make it. That's,
00:44:29.980
I hope, I hope we don't get flu-rona. I just, you know, I just got the rona. It's not pleasant.
00:44:34.500
You know, I was, I was down for the count for a couple of days, kind of tired,
00:44:38.340
but, uh, you know, I think you're going to make it. Speaking of death,
00:44:42.200
uh, really shocking, breaking news story that I have to get to. I'm glad we had time to get to it
00:44:47.240
today. According to the New York Post, here's the New York Post headline,
00:44:53.040
Betty White's cause of death revealed. Betty White, beloved screen icon, died at the age of 99
00:45:01.160
around Christmas and new year. And so now the investigative reporters at the New York Post
00:45:07.120
have uncovered Betty White's cause of death. Before I read the article, I, I admittedly am no
00:45:16.060
pathologist. I'm not an expert. I did not go to medical school, but I am going to wager a guess
00:45:22.160
that Betty White's cause of death has something to do with being extremely old.
00:45:32.420
Yep. That's what it looks like. That's, it looks like what it was. There was some question as to
00:45:35.860
whether or not Betty White had just gotten a booster shot for COVID. And so that, that was
00:45:40.180
kind of going around the internet and I don't know, maybe she did, maybe she didn't. But
00:45:42.840
regardless when a, when a 99 year old dies, I don't, you know, she probably didn't flip her Corvette
00:45:52.780
on the PCH. It, I don't, it probably wasn't that she did too many lines of Coke off of the amplifier
00:46:00.500
at the rock concert. You know, people die. I had one friend die of COVID, a teacher of mine. He died
00:46:07.160
of COVID. Wynn Hanman, wonderful, wonderful teacher. He was 97. He was going to turn 98 in
00:46:12.660
I think two weeks after he died. Very sad. It's always sad. Death is a sad thing, but it, it's okay.
00:46:22.100
It's okay. People are going to die. I suspect that a lot of the reason that people freaked out during
00:46:29.760
COVID and allowed bad political actors to take so many of our rights and freedoms and way of life
00:46:35.060
is because we're uncomfortable with death. We're unfamiliar with death. We don't know how to think
00:46:40.840
about it. We don't, we just put it out of our minds. And then when it creeps back into our minds,
00:46:44.160
we take drugs to try to numb that feeling and, and ignore the fact that we are going to meet our
00:46:49.060
maker someday. And maybe that means we need to think about how we're living our lives and how we're
00:46:54.100
going to prepare for that. And what we think the relationship of our soul to our body is in our body
00:46:57.780
and our time in this earth to maybe a life after this earth. And maybe we got to think about these
00:47:03.980
ultimate questions, or we can just stay panicked and nervous and doing a bunch of drugs and keeping
00:47:09.760
our heads in the sand. That's where our political rulers want us to keep them anyway. I'm Michael
00:47:14.200
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