Ep. 922 - The Daily Wire DESTROYS Biden's Mandate
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The Supreme Court strikes down Joe Biden's anti-vaccine mandate and forces Americans to decide for themselves whether or not they want to inject themselves with F.O.J.U.E. (favial juice)
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How am I doing? Well, within the last roughly 24 hours, Joe Biden's approval rating dropped
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to 33%. Kamala Harris is refusing to say if she and Joe will even run for re-election.
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Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin killed Chuck Schumer's crusade to abolish the filibuster,
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meaning that the federal election takeover and the Build Back Broke budget are deader than disco,
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to say nothing of the even more radical policy proposals, such as, I don't know, court packing.
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And speaking of the court, the United States Supreme Court just handed us, the American people,
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and specifically the Daily Wire, an historic and somewhat unexpected judicial victory
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by smacking down Joe Biden's illegal vaccine mandate and allowing Americans to decide for
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themselves whether or not they want to inject themselves with Fauci juice.
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So I'd say I'm feeling pretty, pretty good. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Leonard Tomasius, who says,
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listening to what the Dems want to do with voting reminds me of that scene from the five gangs of
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New York, where they ask a guy how many times he voted, three times, and then they tell him to
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shave and vote again. Yes, it would remind you of that because that was also the Democrats back then.
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And they've been doing this for the entire history of their uncommonly corrupt party.
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Political parties, political operations involve some degree of corruption that has always been the case
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in Democratic politics, lowercase d. But the Democrat Party, capital D, has been particularly corrupt on
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this front. They did it way back in Tammany Hall and Gangs of New York. They did it in Chicago in the
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mid-20th century. They're doing it now. But unfortunately, their efforts to seize all that
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power and upend more of our election system, their efforts are deader than disco because Joe Biden is
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apart. The president's approval rating is terrible. Yours is somehow even worse. All of your legislative
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priorities dead. Your administrative priorities dead because of the Supreme Court. The American
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people rejecting what you want across the entire board. How are you going to change course?
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At what point does the administration say, you know what, this strategy isn't working. We're
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going to change strategies. Six former administration officials last week wrote that open letter urging
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the administration to change course, to change strategy. Is it time? It is time for us to
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do what we have been doing, and that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that
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there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.
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Franklin Roosevelt famously said, we have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
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Ronald Reagan famously said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And Kamala Harris famously said,
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it's the time now to do what we've been doing every day and the time and the time to agree that we are
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doing, that we've got things to do together and the time. Powerful. It's really powerful. It sends a
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shiver up your spine, a shiver up your spine to think that this woman could become the vice president
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of the United States. She is obviously a good politician. She is by definition. She's a good
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politician. She's the vice president. I called this, by the way, you know, I hate to say I told you so.
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I called this during the 2020 Democrat primaries. I said, watch Kamala Harris. People laughed at me.
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They said, ha ha, Kamala Harris. She's terrible. I said, watch Kamala Harris. Then she's one of the
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first people out. They laugh at me. They say, ha ha, Michael, you idiot. Kamala Harris isn't going
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anywhere. Kamala Harris is a heartbeat away from the presidency and the current president doesn't have
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a very strong heart. So she's clearly a good politician. She's worked her way up. She's not
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particularly academically distinguished. She's not particularly professionally distinguished,
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but she worked her way up in politics through various mechanisms that we don't need to get into
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here. She became a United States Senator and she became the vice president at a relatively young
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age. That's impressive, but she's a terrible communicator. She is, she is less coherent than
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Joe Biden and Joe Biden has problems in between his ears right now. Okay. And somehow she's worse.
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This is the only thing politically Joe Biden has going for him is that his vice president is somehow
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less popular than he is, even though he's extremely unpopular. His vice president is somehow less
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coherent than he is, even though he's obviously in the throes of senility. That is something because
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potentially I could stave off an impeachment if Joe Biden even lasts, if he even makes it that far.
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Really bad news for the Democratic ticket in 2024. So bad that Kamala Harris refuses to say that,
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that she and Joe will even be running during the next presidential cycle.
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Are we going to, uh, to see the same Democratic ticket in 2024?
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I'm sorry. We are thinking about today. I mean, honestly, that I, I know why you're asking the
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question because this is the part of the punditry and the, the gossip around places like Washington,
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DC. Let me just tell you something. We're focused on the things in front of us.
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Uh, uh, we're just, uh, lady, this is not a hard question. This is not an unexpected question.
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How do you not have an answer for this question? This is basic stuff for a vice president,
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especially in a troubled administration. We're, we're, we're just thinking about today. No,
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we're obviously not just thinking about today. That's why the interviewer asked the question,
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are you going to be on the ticket? But she can't say that she or, or Biden are going to be on the
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ticket. Why? Because the administration is underwater and because they haven't accomplished
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anything. I mean, this is the best news for conservatives is they really have not accomplished
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much of anything. Their entire legislative agenda has been destroyed.
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They can't even pass a budget. They can't even pass a budget. Their, the build back better program
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is dead and it was killed. Obviously the, the Republicans were opposed to it, but then it was
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killed decisively by a couple of Democrats. The filibuster killed by Republicans and a couple of
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Democrats, the filibuster abolition plan, the court packing, the federal election takeover,
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the whole thing. So they were not able, even though Joe Biden had served in the Senate for,
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I think, 350 years, he wasn't able to use those relationships to bring his legislative agenda over
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on Capitol Hill. So then he tried to figure out a workaround. His workaround was going to be to use
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the administrative state, the agencies to force through his vaccine mandate. That didn't work either
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because the court shot it down. So why would Biden and Harris run again? What have they done? What
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could they run on? What accomplishment, what promise of an accomplishment could they run on?
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They've got nothing. They've got nothing. And we have got the Republicans to thank sure, but, but
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Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have just come out. There was some debate. Will they, won't they?
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Manchin kind of killed the budget. But then what about the filibuster? Kyrsten Sinema comes out and
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says, no, the filibuster, it's got to stay. I share the concerns of civil right advocates and others
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I've heard from in recent months about these state laws. I strongly support those efforts to contest
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these laws in court and to invest significant resources into these states to better organize
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and stop efforts to restrict access at the ballot box. And I strongly support and will continue to
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vote for legislative responses to address these state laws, including the Freedom to Vote Act and
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the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act that the Senate is currently considering. And while I
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continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying
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disease of division infecting our country. The debate over the Senate 60 vote threshold shines a light
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on our broader challenges. There's no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60 vote
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threshold to pass legislation. And there's no need for me to restate its role protecting our country
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from wild reversals in federal policy. This is a really coherent, honest answer from a politician,
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about as honest and coherent as it gets from a politician. She's not saying that she doesn't
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support the power grab. She's not saying she doesn't support a federal takeover of elections.
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She's not saying she doesn't support the Democrats' legislative priorities.
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She's saying she doesn't think that the power grab is worth it. So she's taking away some of the
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disingenuous, emotionally manipulative talking points language of, we need this or the poor
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oppressed people will lose their sacred right to vote. She's not doing that. She's saying,
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yeah, I support this bill, but the filibuster is more important because the filibuster is a great
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defense of our constitutional system. Because though we are in power right now, not for very
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long, probably, by the way, though we are in power right now and we hate the filibuster because it's
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slowing down our agenda, when we are out of power, if we are ever out of power again, we're going to
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really want the filibuster. That's why Chuck Schumer gave such an impassioned defense of the filibuster
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in 2005, which Tom Cotton read on the floor of the Senate just a couple of days ago, using Chuck
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Schumer's words against him. That's why Joe Biden in 2005 gave an impassioned defense of how the
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filibuster is a great bulwark against threats to our democracy. But that was then when he was out
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of power. Now he's in power and he wants to get rid of it. And it's short-sighted is what Kyrsten
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Sinema is saying. She's saying, guys, don't be stupid. We're going to want this thing in about
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one year when we're out of power and we're going to need it to stop the Republicans or in three years,
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potentially, when we're going to have a Republican president. So let's keep it. Let's cool it. We are
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not a mere radical mob rule type of democracy. We're a constitutional republic. Let's be responsible.
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And in so doing, let's kill Joe Biden's 2021 and 2022 agenda. So Biden makes a last ditch effort
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to save any sort of agenda he's got. He can't pass anything through Capitol Hill. So he uses the
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administrative agencies and the Supreme Court says, no, thanks. And this case is a very personal
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case for us because we were helping to lead it. We at the Daily Wire sued the Biden administration
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administration over their vaccine mandate through the Occupational Safety and Health
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Administration. So we got an early win in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Fifth Circuit
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Court of Appeals said, okay, we're going to stop the mandate from going into effect until the legal
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process plays out, until we determine whether or not on the merits this rule is legal or not.
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Then all of those lawsuits, ours and others, were compiled into the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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The Sixth Circuit reversed the Fifth Circuit and said, no, the vaccine mandate is going to go into
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effect. Sorry, tough luck. The legal process is going to play out. You might be proven right in
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the end, but until then, everyone's got to take the jab, which is BS because if we are proven right
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in the end, but we've already forced everyone to get the jab, then it's a pyrrhic victory. It doesn't
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mean anything. Not even just a pyrrhic victory. It's an utterly meaningless victory.
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So the Supreme Court decides they're going to take it up. They do the oral arguments.
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And a lot of us thought it wasn't going to work. And then it did. The majority opinion,
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Sixth Circuit, says that the vaccine mandate should not go into effect until the legal process plays
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out. But it actually goes further than that. It says that the legal process is very, very likely
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to favor the people who oppose the vaccine mandate. So it doesn't just say we're going to pause it until
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the judges make their decision. It puts its thumb on the scale and it says the right decision is to
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get rid of this rule. This rule is illegal. This rule is unconstitutional. So because of the way our
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legal system is set up, we're going to let this thing play out. But I dare you to say that this rule
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is constitutional. It's not. It's BS. That was the majority opinion. That was the order of the court.
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Then there was a concurring opinion by the conservatives on the court. And the opinion
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by the conservatives and the dissent from the court's liberals actually begin in the same way.
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They both begin and they say, the question here is not about COVID or how deadly COVID is. The
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question here is not really about the vaccines or the vaccine effectiveness. The question is
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who decides? Who decides? It reminds one of Antonin Scalia's great dissent in the Obergefell case,
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the case that redefined marriage, where he said, as a political matter, I don't really care that much
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about the definition of marriage. When I'm sitting here in the Supreme Court in my robe,
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what marriage means is not the primary question. The primary question is who rules me? Who governs?
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Who decides? And according to the majority on the court, the people should decide. So it shouldn't
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just be some random administrative agency that was apparently just a legal workaround because Joe
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Biden knew he couldn't get his mandate passed through the legislature. It should be the people
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through their elected representatives because of court precedent. There's something called the
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major questions doctrine, which is on major questions, sweeping issues of public policy.
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You want to make sure that Congress is speaking with a clear voice and actually giving to these
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agencies the powers that they are presuming to have. Does anyone really think that OSHA,
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OSHA, the agency that tells you to wear a hard hat on a construction site,
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is now the agency in charge of the most significant public health questions in the United States?
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No, nobody really thinks that. And furthermore, even if Congress had delegated that power to this
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administrative agency, let's say they delegated that power because they don't want to be accountable
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to the voters. Congress says, yikes, I don't, any way I vote on this, it's going to be really bad.
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I might not get reelected. So, okay, I'm going to give all this power to make all public health
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decisions in America to this administrative agency. Then I don't have to deal with it at
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the town halls. The conservatives point out there's another doctrine at play, the non-delegation
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doctrine, that there are some responsibilities that Congress cannot delegate away to the agencies,
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even if it wants to. Even if they try and they put it clearly in law, sometimes that is
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unconstitutional. And that's what the conservatives on the court are saying. Now, the liberals on the
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court came at this question of who decides from a different vantage. They came at it and they said,
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okay, who's going to decide these public health questions? The expert geniuses who are public
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health gurus who have been given some modicum of authority from Congress or the Supreme Court? Us,
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a bunch of robed lawyers who have no expertise on this. Who do you want making healthcare decisions for
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you? The physicians who have been appointed to bureaucratic roles in the government or us
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lawyers? Are those the only two options? I thought there were more options. What about, oh, I don't know,
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the people's representatives? Shouldn't they have some say in this? Well, that was the argument of
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the conservatives. And by the way, they observed that when the Congress has weighed in on Joe Biden's
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mandate, it weighed in to voice its disapproval. The Senate passed a resolution that said it
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disapproves of the OSHA mandate. So as much as we can tell what the voice of the people is on this
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in our constitutional system, where the people speak through their elected representatives,
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the people oppose this. And the elected legislators oppose this. But for the libs, they don't care.
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They don't really care what the people think. They're extremely distrustful of American democracy.
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They want decisions to either be made by a handful of unaccountable people in the government
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bureaucracy or a handful of unaccountable people on the Supreme Court. And what the conservatives said
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is, no, there's actually more to our government, darlings. Maybe you've been reading a little too
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much Woodrow Wilson. You've been reading a little too much Franklin Roosevelt and progressive
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literature. Actually, the people still have a say. Actually, local communities, state governments,
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local governments, the family for that matter, has a say. What I loved so much about the conservative
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opinion is that it wasn't some radical libertarian opinion. It didn't say, my body, my choice. It
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didn't say the government has no right to force you to take some kind of inoculation because that
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wouldn't be true. There is longstanding precedent in the United States that in certain public health
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emergencies, certain governmental authorities can order you to take a vaccine. Actually, going back
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to even before the Constitution, going back to George Washington and the Continental Army, he forced
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his soldiers to take a smallpox inoculation, a very dangerous one that killed a lot of them.
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So there is longstanding precedent legally in American culture going all the way back to the
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American Revolution. I know it's fashionable now for many conservatives. This is probably the
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consensus view to say, look, I'm pro-vaccine, but anti-mandate. I'm kind of the opposite.
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I think in this case, where you have a virus that is not particularly dangerous to the vast,
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vast, vast majority of people, and you can deal separately with the people who are at risk,
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but for the vast, vast, vast majority of people, it's just not that dangerous.
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And you've got a vaccine that is experimental, that is quite new. It's a new vaccine technology,
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and it has failed to do some of the things that Joe Biden and Dr. Fauci and Rochelle Walensky promised
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us it would do. So the predictions of how the vaccine were going to work did not really come to
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fruition. In that case, I don't think that young, healthy people have any reason to go get it.
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However, I do think that at least the local government has the right to mandate it,
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because we do have political rights as a community. And obviously, during times of epidemic,
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the state has certain emergency and police powers.
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So the conservatives on the court understood this. They say, look, we're not saying that
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state and local governments don't have the right to mandate these sorts of things. They do.
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But the federal government has less power to mandate these things.
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And some random workplace health agency has way less power to mandate these things.
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And frankly, the way they've issued this rule is insincere and preposterous.
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Because yes, they're tasked with passing workplace safety regulations. But just because people might
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have COVID if they go to work, doesn't mean that now the workplace safety agency can force you to
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take a shot. That's a huge overstep of their authority. Furthermore, the liberals kept focusing
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in their dissent on how dangerous COVID was to American workers. But is that really the case?
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What's the median age of a COVID death? North of 80. So the median age of a COVID death
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is well after the age of retirement, people who are not really working anymore.
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Moreover, the risk of hospitalization or death from COVID skews heavily toward the side of the
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age spectrum after retirement age. So what percentage of American workers, people of working age,
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are actually at grave risk of hospitalization or death from COVID? I suspect the number for all
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Americans generally is extremely small. But I suspect the number of workers is much, much,
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much, much smaller. So the liberals case, I think it fails on the argument they were trying to make
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from COVID and from the vaccine specifically. They barely even made a legal case. And the conservatives
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argument was about as strong as it could be. It wasn't a total win because the Supreme Court forced
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healthcare workers, for instance, to get the vaccines, which I think everyone expected to happen.
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But we do need to take the wins where we can get them, when we can get them.
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This is the case that at least we here in this building have been fighting. This is the case that
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you have been fighting by subscribing, by signing up, by signing our petition, the do not comply petition.
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This is the case where we focused all of our energy and we won. And we won. And it's a good day
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for American rights and freedom and our way of life. A very bad day for Joe Biden.
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So now that Biden's got all this terrible news, Joe Biden is making a special appeal
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to the establishment media, to the big tech companies that run the social media. He's saying,
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look, I'm losing on Capitol Hill. I'm losing in the agencies. Please, please shut down dissent.
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Unfortunately, while our military is stepping up, as they always do,
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there are others sitting on the sidelines and we're standing in the way.
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If you haven't gotten vaccinated, do it. Personal choice impacts us all, our hospitals, our countries.
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I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets. Please deal with
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the misinformation and disinformation that's on your shows. It has to stop. COVID-19 is one of the
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most formidable enemies America has ever faced. We've got to work together, not against each other.
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Ann Coulter pointed out yesterday, she said, what is it called when the government controls all of the
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corporations and uses the ostensibly private corporations to carry out the will of the state?
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Is that, what's that, something about a bundle of sticks. Is that, starts with an F, ends with an
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Ashism. I forget. What do they call that? I forget. This is proof positive of two contentions that I've
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made on this show for a long time that a lot of conservatives have gotten aware of in recent years.
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One is that liberals are the ruling class. They are the established power. They present themselves
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as the opposition. We're going to speak truth to power. We're going to fight the patriarchy. We're
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going to fight the white supremacy. We're going to fight the conservative establishment. But the
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conservatives don't have any institution in the country. We don't control a single one.
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Talk radio is about as close as it gets. And, and even that is regulated by the administrative
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agencies, which we don't have. The liberals are the establishment. Liberals run the government.
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Liberals run the bureaucracy. Liberals run the corporations. Liberals run the universities.
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Liberals run the media. Liberals run big tech. Liberals run everything. The second contention that
00:26:25.220
Joe Biden just proved is that the journalists, by and large, are fake news. Because the journalists,
00:26:35.560
Joe Biden is speaking to these journalists like good friends. It's different than when Trump says,
00:26:40.440
you're fake news. I hate you. You're scum. He would go to his rallies. He'd say, look at those
00:26:44.440
people back there. Look at those press. They're the scum of the earth. They're slime. They're fake
00:26:48.100
news. That was a very adversarial relationship. And the media started it. What Joe Biden's doing here
00:26:55.440
is he's talking like a friend. He's saying, hey guys, come on. Hey, big tech CEOs. Hey, heads of the
00:27:02.020
corporate press. You got to cool it, letting these conservatives on. It's too much. These
00:27:06.620
conservatives are really, they're really a thorn in my side. So come on guys. Cool it with that. I know,
00:27:13.220
I know that you're already extremely unfair to conservatives on Facebook and YouTube and Twitter.
00:27:19.280
I know that you're extremely unfair to conservatives in the corporate press. You got to be even more
00:27:23.160
unfair. It's just because they're still getting their message out and their message is still
00:27:27.240
resonating with the American people. And it's really hurting my approval ratings. So you got to
00:27:30.980
stop it. You got to stop it. And even still, even with the entire power structure in this country
00:27:38.820
against us, even then we sometimes get victories. Increasingly so. I don't want to toot our own
00:27:48.480
horn here at the Daily Wire. We've had a lot of victories recently. Okay. Many people thought that
00:27:55.900
the Daily Wire played a role in the Virginia governor's race going against the Democrat,
00:28:00.000
going for Terry McAuliffe because of some investigative journalism we did. Not because
00:28:03.820
of some political operation, but because we went in, we found a story that the corrupt corporate press
00:28:09.720
was suppressing. Namely, that in Loudoun County, a gender confused boy raped a girl in the girl's
00:28:17.160
bathroom and the school covered it up. And the school transferred him, the rapist, to another school.
00:28:22.480
And you know what happened? Take a guess. He did it again. And they covered it up and they smeared
00:28:27.420
the parents of the victim. They smeared the dad in particular. And the DOJ and the established
00:28:35.760
powers in Washington, DC, they called these parents terrorists. And we dug into that story, pulled on
00:28:41.640
that needle a little bit, pulled on that thread rather. And it turned out that there was rank hideous
00:28:47.500
corruption. Well, that rapist has now been sentenced and put on the sex offender registry
00:28:52.340
for life. 14 years old, by the way. 14-year-old boy raped a ninth grader.
00:28:58.960
What put it in his mind to do that? Maybe he was already a little messed up.
00:29:05.080
But what happened? Was he looking at the increasingly violent pornography that pervades the culture?
00:29:11.200
Was he, I don't know. One should look into these questions. But he committed his crime
00:29:16.440
while he was wearing a skirt, while he was allowed to go into the girls' bathroom.
00:29:21.900
Because to be politically correct now, all of the liberal schools are letting boys into the girls'
00:29:26.780
room. And conservatives said, this is a risk. This is a threat. Girls should not have to deal with this.
00:29:31.600
And the liberals said that we were intolerant, bigoted, transphobes, that women face no threats
00:29:37.280
from this. And then what happens? A boy rapes a girl in the girls' bathroom.
00:29:39.820
The judge, reading out the sentence, said that, I think it was a she. I don't remember if it was a
00:29:50.620
he or she. I guess that's the question these days we all ask ourselves. But the judge had not forced
00:29:55.880
kids to be put on the sex offender registry for life. But this judge was so shocked at the details
00:30:01.740
of this kid's crimes. Says, over the years, this court has read many psychosexual reports.
00:30:08.300
And when I read yours, frankly, it scared me. It scared me for you. It scared me for society.
00:30:14.740
All of this, all of this to defend transgender bathrooms. All of this. A superintendent covering
00:30:26.080
up a rape, transferring a kid, imperiling other girls, stonewalling the parents, going after the
00:30:33.300
parents, stonewalling the press. All of this to defend insane policies that are intended to indulge
00:30:40.760
delusion. It's all about transgenderism. Well, if a few girls get raped in their bathroom,
00:30:47.560
that's just the price we have to pay for progress. Can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs,
00:30:53.260
a few 14-year-old girl eggs. That's what they're saying. The important progressive social crusade
00:31:03.140
to let boys pretend to be girls is worth a few girls getting raped. Evil stuff worth pushing back
00:31:12.520
on. And that's the sort of thing that we did. That's the sort of thing that we, speaking of
00:31:18.880
punishment, before we get into the mailbag, Iran is threatening to assassinate Donald Trump and Mike
00:31:24.860
Pompeo. Take a look at this video. Take a listen.
00:31:27.860
So this is being released by the supreme leader of Iran, showing this military operation,
00:31:40.780
very high tech, all these Iranian operatives working on their computers. They've got drones,
00:31:46.320
they've got little machines outside of Mar-a-Lago. Trump and Pompeo are playing golf there,
00:31:53.160
going all around. They're going to target them. They put the light, they put the focus on Trump
00:32:00.680
and Pompeo. Eventually what happens, you get the point. Eventually what happens is they assassinate
00:32:05.660
them. This video that Iran released shows two things. Shows one, that they probably can't
00:32:13.340
assassinate Trump and they're not going to do it. Because if they were going to assassinate Trump,
00:32:16.920
they'd just assassinate him. But they can't do that, so they're going to try to release some
00:32:21.240
B-level Hollywood video showing their fantasy about killing Trump. Two, it shows that they
00:32:27.200
consider Trump the enemy and Biden the friend. Biden ostensibly is the president of the United
00:32:30.820
States. Shouldn't they be going after him if they're going to retaliate for an action of the
00:32:33.900
United States? No, they're going after Trump because they consider Trump the enemy and Biden
00:32:38.420
the friend. Because Trump treated Iran like a rogue state and Biden is trying to suck up to Iran and
00:32:43.980
Biden is trying to reinstate the Iran deal. Shows you the way that our American politics is looking
00:32:52.640
right now. Shows you the way that our foreign policy is looking. And it shows you something else.
00:32:57.160
Iran is impotent at the moment to kill Donald Trump. Iran is impotent to fulfill its agenda.
00:33:04.000
Joe Biden is impotent on that front too. Big win for us. We're so thrilled. Thank you to everyone
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everybody. That's today only. We'll be right back with the mailbag.
00:33:23.240
Welcome back to the show. My favorite, my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in
00:33:39.840
the mailbag. First one up from Eric. Hi, Michael. Last year, I asked you a relationship question
00:33:44.960
regarding an issue with my girlfriend and you encouraged me to marry her in order to solve
00:33:49.660
a lot of the issues we had. Well, I brought her to the spot where we had our first kiss,
00:33:53.820
got down on one knee, and now we're engaged. Hey, that's great. We're so happy and thank you
00:33:58.500
for encouraging me to man up and settle down with this incredible woman. My question is,
00:34:02.780
since you answer so many dating questions, when will the Daily Wire release a 10-part series
00:34:07.540
about how to date like a conservative hosted by you, the Daily Wire love guru, Michael Knowles?
00:34:14.080
P.S. We live in Canada and when I first met my fiance, she was a giant Trudeau fan and I converted
00:34:19.140
her to become a freedom-loving conservative. This is all. Every part of that is really,
00:34:25.640
really great news. My friend, congratulations. And in answer to your question, when will the Daily
00:34:31.000
Wire make a 10-part series on how to date with the love guru, Michael Knowles? Not soon enough.
00:34:37.500
That's when. I assume Jeremy listens to every episode of my show. Jeremy, let's go. Come on,
00:34:42.700
man. We must give the people what they want from William. Michael, you take a simplistic view of
00:34:48.980
the phrase, you can't legislate morality. Yes, you can make laws that require people to adhere to
00:34:54.620
what you consider a moral lifestyle, but that does not mean they will be moral in their hearts.
00:35:00.320
You can pass a law that everyone must pray on their knees in the town square three times a day
00:35:04.660
when the bell in the church tower rings. If they fail, they will be bull whipped. With a law like
00:35:09.200
that, everyone will show up and get on their knees and recite the requisite prayer, but that does not
00:35:14.180
mean they'll be thinking of God instead of the candy bar they'd rather be eating or the tax forms they
00:35:17.800
should be filling out or the chicken they have to buy for dinner. You will not have made a more moral
00:35:21.880
religious society, just one that fears the whip. My friend, you are taking a simplistic view of
00:35:28.480
ritual and the incarnate nature of ourselves, of our God, and of our society. What you are saying,
00:35:37.980
it would seem to me, is that it doesn't matter if people do good things if they are not feeling
00:35:45.420
good emotions if their heart is not in the right place, if they're not feeling the spirit,
00:35:51.600
however you want to put it. What you are taking is a very modern emotivist view of things, and that is
00:35:59.400
not only out of keeping with our political tradition, it's actually out of keeping with
00:36:05.900
the Christian tradition. It's a very modern idea that what you do physically doesn't matter. All that
00:36:12.120
matters is what you're feeling at any given time. So it doesn't matter if you get down on your knees
00:36:17.120
to pray. You can just pray, I don't know, while you're brushing your teeth, but all that matters
00:36:23.180
is that you really, really feel it. You don't need to receive the sacraments, the sacraments which
00:36:29.900
defined the Christian faith for at least, what, 16 centuries or so. What you just need to do is just
00:36:37.040
really feel things intensely. But that's very personal, it's very emotivist, it's very modern.
00:36:45.620
And it ignores the fact that we have bodies, and our bodies matter, and it actually does matter
00:36:51.340
what we do. This is why a lot of people who are drawn to the emotivist style of religion and politics,
00:36:58.180
they want to ignore parts of the Bible that talk about how faith without works is dead.
00:37:02.400
They want to talk about, they want to ignore aspects of the Bible such as the particular judgment.
00:37:08.040
They want to ignore the fact that we will be judged in some degree on how we behave.
00:37:14.460
We will be judged, and Christ talks about this, that you won't get out until you pay the very last
00:37:20.060
farthing, which there are extraordinarily fruitful theological discussions that can come out of just
00:37:26.480
that passage, but we don't have time for that right now. Hopefully we'll get to it in the future
00:37:29.480
sometime. It has to do a little bit with purgatory, it has to do a little bit with penance, but anyway,
00:37:34.240
we'll get to that at some later time. What you do with your body really does matter.
00:37:40.040
Why do we have laws against murder? We have laws against murder to stop people from murdering.
00:37:44.900
But Michael, just because we have laws, maybe the people won't murder, but they'll still be
00:37:49.240
murderers in their heart. Okay, but it would be good if they're not murderers with their axes and
00:37:53.220
their guns and their knives. And furthermore, though we deny this today, the law is an instructor.
00:38:01.800
As St. Paul writes, the civil authority is there for you as a gift of God for your own good.
00:38:08.680
The law can help to shape us. Why do parents have rules for their kids? Don't eat the cookies after
00:38:15.900
eight o'clock at night. Don't go reach into that cookie jar. Well, okay, but there's still a cookie
00:38:21.080
eater in their heart. There's still gluttons in their heart. No, actually the rules over time will
00:38:25.340
help to shape and educate and bring up the kids. That's why you hear this expression sometimes with
00:38:31.320
people who have really bad habits that say, you weren't raised right. You didn't have the right
00:38:35.360
rules. The rules weren't enforced correctly. You weren't raised right. But the law raises a society
00:38:41.500
as well. And political thinkers, the statesmen who built our country, understood that.
00:38:47.200
That yes, you can say politics is downstream of culture. I almost don't even want to use that
00:38:52.820
phrase anymore because it's been so horribly abused by people who don't want to actually do
00:38:56.960
their job in politics and govern. But it could be equally true to say that culture is downstream of
00:39:04.120
politics. Right now in Germany, East Germany is 10% religious, 90% atheist. West Germany is more than
00:39:12.280
50% religious. Why is that? Is it because of cultural variations in bratwurst? I don't think
00:39:19.820
so. I think it's because one country was dominated by a generally religious or religious friendly
00:39:26.220
polity. And the East part was dominated by an officially atheist government. And there are cultural
00:39:34.200
effects, personal effects of that policy as well. Do not be an emotivist. Life is about more than
00:39:42.220
your feelings from John. Hey, Michael. I've noticed that a lot of our most common political discussion,
00:39:48.120
especially in my personal life with lots of people who don't read much, the things we argue are based
00:39:53.480
off of false premises. Climate change is really bad. Therefore, we should do this. The war on drugs
00:39:58.500
didn't work. Therefore, we should not do this. George Floyd was murdered by a racist cop. Therefore,
00:40:03.900
we should do this. Is there any way to really get these false premises overturned? Or are we too late?
00:40:09.120
And how do we stop new false premises from being so widely accepted so we can have a more intelligent
00:40:14.360
and useful political debate? Sincerely, came for Ben, stayed for, and subscribed for, and upgraded
00:40:18.480
for, Michael. Oh, that's so great. Thank you for doing that. Yes. Well, the simplest way is to ignore
00:40:23.240
them in our real lives. Don't call men who think that they're women she. Don't indulge the George
00:40:30.180
Floyd liturgies where we treat him as though he were some sort of saint. Don't indulge in the global
00:40:38.960
warming liturgies where we treat the earth as though she is a goddess and she's about to die.
00:40:45.820
Just don't do it. You can laugh at that. You can joke about that. And always go back to the premises
00:40:50.360
when you're having a sort of debate. But then furthermore, this shows the need to exercise
00:40:54.180
political power. You need to exercise political power, especially in education. Because if kids
00:40:59.980
are indoctrinated into these false premises, then they're going to come to logical conclusions
00:41:03.920
on BLM, on global warming, on the war on drugs or whatever, from their faulty premises. And they're
00:41:09.940
going to be really deeply ingrained when our brains are really mushy when we're kids. So you've got to go
00:41:13.340
in there. You've got to wield government power and political power to shape curricula. And you've got to
00:41:19.640
do that down the line as well. Right now, if I oppose transgenderism, for instance, let's look at
00:41:28.460
Canada because Canada is further down the line already. In Canada, if I call a man who thinks
00:41:33.360
he's a woman, he, I may be in violation of the law. In parts of Europe, I may be in violation of
00:41:40.360
some sort of hate crime. That's really bad. So the law is already putting its finger on the scales of
00:41:45.300
delusion and false premises. We need to wield the law on the side of truth and what's good and what's
00:41:50.220
right and what's beautiful. From Alex. Michael, my question for you is, I want to be eligible to join
00:41:56.400
the State Troopers Academy in a couple of years. It's always been my dream to be a state trooper, but
00:42:00.420
growing up in a Christian conservative home, my family and friends have mixed feelings about it as
00:42:04.140
some of them highly encourage me and others say they don't believe Christians belong in the police
00:42:08.300
force. Your thoughts on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, love the show. Yeah, reread St.
00:42:13.720
Paul, who says, as I just quoted, that the civil authority is there for your own good instituted by
00:42:18.300
God and that the civil authority does not wield the sword in vain. There's nothing unchristian about
00:42:25.140
good government and good laws and ensuring justice. Justice is pretty good. Justice is a virtue, my friend.
00:42:33.680
So I think your family is a little confused on that. If the issue is that your family thinks that
00:42:39.080
Christians should never engage in violence, then I would have them, well, I would have them read lots
00:42:43.080
of literature. But something really easy to read would be, would be C.S. Lewis's essay on why he's
00:42:48.900
not a pacifist. That's where I'd begin. And if you want to join the troopers, good job. Please don't pull
00:42:52.920
me over if you see me speeding. But great stuff. It's a good career. From Victor. Dear Michael,
00:42:58.220
a teacher asked for my preferred pronouns in a questionnaire. Should I just leave it blank? No,
00:43:02.420
you should find a new teacher. I mean it. I mean it. Because your teacher asking for preferred
00:43:08.740
pronouns means your teacher is one of three things. An idiot who doesn't know what sex is.
00:43:16.120
A radical ideologue who is taken with delusional theories. Or a coward. Maybe a normal person who's
00:43:24.400
just going along to get along because the politically correct administrators are forcing them to.
00:43:28.240
Either way. Or any of those three ways. Or any combination thereof. Probably not going to be a
00:43:35.020
great teacher. From Maya. I was disappointed with you today regarding your opinion of Maya Angelou's
00:43:40.900
poetry. You're entitled to your opinion, but I would encourage you to actually read her body of work.
00:43:46.200
I have read Maya Angelou's poetry. Her poetry was written by a wise woman whose life experiences can
00:43:51.560
be a blessing to people no matter their color. Do not dwell on the fact that she was a woman or a woman
00:43:55.540
of color. Read the words. Well, hold on. I don't dislike Maya Angelou's work because she's a woman
00:44:01.040
or because she's black. I dislike her work because it's bad poetry. And I oppose her being put on a
00:44:07.340
coin on the new quarter because she's a bad poet and I don't think a particularly accomplished person.
00:44:14.720
But also because she is being promoted as a token explicitly by the people who are promoting her.
00:44:20.080
They're saying this is so great because she's black or this is so great because she's a woman.
00:44:22.720
And I think it's wrong to engage in that kind of tokenism. I think it's very disrespectful
00:44:26.720
to our country, to everybody, to people of all races, and to people of all sexes or both sexes,
00:44:32.600
I guess I should say. But her poetry is not great. There are female writers that I like very much.
00:44:38.740
There are black writers that I like very much. Woman writers I think are very talented. Black writers
00:44:43.120
I think are very talented. Maya Angelou is not one of them. I'm sorry. She's not a good poet.
00:44:48.400
But there's no disputing taste. Some people say de gustibus nones disputandum. But in this case,
00:44:55.140
I think there is disputandum. And I just don't think she's very, very good. And I would encourage
00:45:00.500
you, I say this with great charity and great love for you. I think there are better poets you should
00:45:07.080
read. Maybe you like Maya. I don't begrudge you your Maya Angelou. But I think there are better poets
00:45:11.840
that you could read as well. Of all races, of all sexes, and so on. From Patrick. Hey, Michael,
00:45:17.440
I've heard you reference ancient heresies frequently. I'm just wondering if you think
00:45:21.080
Pope Francis's comments that getting vaccinated is a moral obligation are heretical or merely idiotic.
00:45:26.540
If they are heretical, have we seen this heresy before? P.S. 53 pages of footnotes and
00:45:32.340
speechless. Impressive. P.P.S. I'm sorry, I'm not named Nick. Oh, that's very kind. Thanks for reading
00:45:36.380
speechless. Got to be very particular here about what Pope Francis said. Pope Francis is a Jesuit.
00:45:45.240
Jesuits can be Jesuitical sometimes. They can use very sly reasoning and argumentation to make it seem
00:45:51.820
like they're saying one thing, but actually they're saying another thing. And sometimes Pope Francis
00:45:55.900
is misquoted. I do not believe Pope Francis said that getting vaccinated is a moral obligation.
00:46:00.880
He said that getting vaccinated is a health care and health care is a moral obligation.
00:46:09.040
So sure, vaccinations are a type of health care, but not all health care interventions are morally
00:46:15.860
obligated. And so it's a clever kind of turn of phrase, but it's the way that he can avoid saying
00:46:21.960
that receiving this vaccine is morally obligatory because it's not. Not only is it not morally
00:46:26.840
obligatory, it might not be morally permissible. The bishops have come out and said,
00:46:30.300
you can get these vaccines. They're giving you a special permission. But the reason they even have
00:46:36.480
to give you a permission is because the vaccines were all developed and in some cases produced
00:46:40.340
with stem cells from aborted babies. So it involves the remote cooperation with evil.
00:46:44.960
And the bishops are saying, in this case, we are giving you the permission to do that,
00:46:49.440
but no one can require you, can say it's obligatory to cooperate with evil. This is
00:46:57.080
one of the many issues with Francis's papacy, which has been somewhat confusing. There have
00:47:02.260
been questions raised, questions about potential heresy that he has spouted. They're called dubia,
00:47:07.800
doubts. He hasn't really answered those. So I hope he answers those and clears up the issue.
00:47:13.560
Last question from Matthew. Dear Mr. Knowles, my question does not relate to the normal subjects
00:47:17.620
of the mailbag, namely relationships and religion. It relates to an interview you had with Michael
00:47:21.920
Anton a few days ago. I agree with Anton that while we have many parallels with Rome,
00:47:26.160
particularly late Republican Rome, there are many that are unprecedented trends in our current
00:47:30.540
situation. However, let's say we're on the Rome timeline. In this case, do you see an Augustus,
00:47:35.560
Caesar Augustus figure rising to power in the future? Additionally, what should be our verdict
00:47:39.940
on Augustus's regime? Was he a visionary leader who assured Rome's place in history or a tyrant who
00:47:44.800
betrayed Rome's core Republican values? Thanks, love the show. Caesar Augustus came to power,
00:47:49.140
not by, or Julius Caesar for that matter, did not come to power because they took this wonderful
00:47:56.100
idyllic Republican Rome and then took it over like tyrants. Republican Rome was decadent and
00:48:00.920
debauched, late Republican Rome was decadent and debauched and messed up and screwy. And they took power
00:48:06.880
because the regime was changing and the regime had decayed. This is what we call anticyclosis,
00:48:11.660
the cycle of regimes. There are good forms of government, democracy, aristocracy, monarchy.
00:48:16.520
There are bad forms of that same government, mob rule, oligarchy, and tyranny. And the regimes decay
00:48:22.680
and they change and they move around. So what do I think of Caesar Augustus? I think he was one of
00:48:27.240
the greatest leaders in the history of the world, called the Prince of Peace, who reigned actually
00:48:31.160
well. The Prince of Peace was, right? Caesar Augustus led to the Roman peace, the Pax Romana.
00:48:39.160
Christ, the actual Prince of Peace, was born in that sort of, he lived in that sort of Rome,
00:48:45.040
that era of Rome. Caesar Augustus was called the son of the divine and Christ is the son of God.
00:48:52.380
There are interesting historical parallels that are going on here. Who, what will happen here in
00:48:57.040
America? Our regime will decay at some point. That's just what happens. Who will be our Caesar?
00:49:02.020
That remains to be seen. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you on Monday.
00:49:06.120
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