Ep. 925 - Smoking Weed And Criminalizing Truth
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It s still legal in Canada to try to change a person s sexual orientation, so long as they re not trying to make that person homosexual. And it s still illegal to repress or reduce a person's cisgender gender identity. But if you tell your son that he s not a girl, you could be sent to prison for five years.
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You may have seen headlines over the past few days, particularly in conservative outlets,
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claiming that Canada has just banned conversion therapy, which is a political slogan that refers
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to counseling that focuses on changing a person's sexual desires. But the headlines aren't true.
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Canada has not banned all conversion therapy. It is still perfectly legal in Canada to try to
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change a person's sexual orientation so long as you are trying to make that person homosexual.
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That's very legal. It is legal to try to change a person's gender identity so long as you are
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trying to make that person transgender. There are going to be a lot of quotes today, a lot of air
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quotes. It is perfectly legal in Canada to, this is a real quote from the law, repress or reduce
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a person's heterosexual attraction or behavior, as well as to repress or reduce a person's
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cisgender gender identity. All of those conversion therapies are still legal in Canada. What is
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illegal is to try to change or repress anyone's sexual desires or identities in the other direction.
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In other words, if you try to convince your son that he's really a little girl, that is protected
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by the law. But if you tell your little son that he is not a little girl, you could be sent to prison.
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You could be imprisoned for five years. Many religious liberty advocates point out that this legislation
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effectively outlaws Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in Canada, which is true. But the issue runs far
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deeper than mere religious liberty. The legislation outlaws the truth. And it's not just our eccentric
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neighbors to the north up in America's hat who have to worry about that sort of madness.
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Because a similar law has already been passed here, right in the U.S. of A. I'm Michael Knowles,
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check out allform.com slash Knowles. We already have a similar law in America. This law was passed
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in Canada. Not in Canada, in California. Sorry, I get confused. Canada is the avant-garde. California
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is not so far behind. The law in California stated that healthcare workers who refer to men who think
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that they are women as men and who do that willfully can be prosecuted. That that's a crime
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in California. That law was passed about five years ago. Thankfully, it was challenged in the courts,
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so it's not on the books anymore. But this is what the left wants, not just in other countries,
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but right here in our own country. They want, they don't want to ban all forms of sexual social
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engineering. They only want to ban the forms of sexual social engineering that go in the
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traditional direction. They want to ban the forms of social engineering, sexual social engineering
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that tells confused boys that they're not actually girls. But they will encourage all the other forms
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of social sexual, they'll encourage all the other forms of conversion therapy as long as it goes
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in the direction of radicalism and very often fantasy. The law in Canada, just like the law in
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California when it was passed, it's not a valid law. It's not. I know it's on the books. I know it's
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going to be enforced. I know that the political system in Canada is going to do everything it can
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to make this the law of land, but it's not a valid law. The reason for that is that human law is only
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law by virtue of its accordance with right reason. It is manifest that it flows from the eternal law
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insofar as it deviates from right reason. It is called an unjust law. And in such a case,
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it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence. That's the description by St. Thomas Aquinas,
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one of the most intelligent people ever to live. And it has been repeated by people throughout the
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ages. Martin Luther King actually said similar things. It was Martin Luther King Day just a couple of
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days ago. Unjust law is no law at all because human law is only law in its accordance with right
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reason. And so when you have an unjust law that is not a law that is a species of violence, what
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they're doing in Canada is committing violence on parents, on kids especially. And it must not be
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followed. Evil, evil stuff. We got into this problem not just because the left led us there,
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but because the right led us there as well. This is being talked about as a religious liberty issue.
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It is a religious liberty issue, but that's not the primary problem. It's a truth issue.
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It's a truth issue. We got into this problem because we deny the truth. The left obviously denies
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the truth. They say that falsehood is truth and truth is falsehood, but the conservatives do it as well,
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or at least the libertarians do in the conservative movement. Because very often you will hear people
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on the right say, well, how do we know? How do we know? How do we legislate morality? Who's to say?
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Who decides? Maybe the thing you think is good, I think is bad. Shouldn't we all be allowed to just
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make up our own understanding of what's good and bad, man? You know, hold on. Let me just,
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yeah, you know, man. And it's like, what if the color you see as green, I see as blue? And it's
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this radical skepticism that sounds no different than what Anthony Kennedy wrote in the Supreme
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Court decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, where he found somewhere in the constitution,
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I guess in invisible ink, a right to define your own concept of existence.
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Those are the ramblings of some aged hippie, but they're often repeated by right-wingers.
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And so when we deny the truth, when we deny that we can know the truth with some reasonable degree
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of certainty, then we open ourselves up to this kind of madness. The problem here is not just that
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the left has completely lost its mind and is peddling insanity and child abuse. The other problem is that
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the right is not willing to stand up for the truth and doesn't have the confidence to articulate the
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truth. If you oppose transing all the kids like they're trying to do in Canada, you will today be
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called a far-right extremist. Everyone to the right of Hillary Clinton today is a far-right extremist.
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Even some people who are to the left of Hillary Clinton, but oppose the dominant ruling class,
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the liberal establishment. They will also be called far-right extremists. A great example of this
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is Glenn Greenwald. Glenn Greenwald has been, for most of his career, a left-wing activist and
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journalist. Glenn Greenwald has had contact with WikiLeaks, with Edward Snowden. I think he's a gay guy,
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I'm not sure. He worked in some weird sexual industry type jobs earlier in his career, according
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to reports. He's not what you would call a traditional rock-ribbed conservative. I suspect
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most of his views are not particularly conservative. But Glenn Greenwald opposes the liberal establishment.
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Glenn Greenwald is willing to do the job of a journalist, at least some of the time.
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And so, as a result, the ruling class has labeled him a far-right extremist. Right-wing no longer
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means what it used to mean. These phrases, these terms change over time. The left and the right,
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the very words left and right in our political discourse come from the French Revolution,
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when the right-wingers supported the monarchy and the left-wingers wanted to plunge the country into
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madness. And the left-wingers obviously won. But today, we don't necessarily think of right-wingers
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as monarchists. So the words change quite a lot over time. And now, far-right means you oppose
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the ruling class. So we're all far-right now, guys. Okay? We're all... It just means bad.
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It's just... It's what the liberals did to the word racist. Racist no longer means that you have
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animosity for people on the basis of their race. Racist just means bad. So if you're a bad person,
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if I don't like you... If you're someone that the dominant power structure doesn't like, you're a
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racist. Or you're far-right. Or you're a white nationalist or whatever. This is the politics
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of politics. This is the Overton window, is sometimes what it's called. The left, by manipulating all the
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terms, which I write about in my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by changing the
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limits of acceptable discourse, every society is going to have some discourse that's off-limits,
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doesn't matter how much you love your First Amendment, certain things you're just not allowed
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to say in every society. If they can shift that all the way over to the left, then even leftists
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are going to appear to be far-right wing. There's another part of the politics of politics, though.
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Beyond the issues, beyond immigration and pro-life and the economy, there's the politics about how we
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do politics. And you see some of that in the discourse, and you see some of that in how the
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elections are run. And we got some really good news on this out of Wisconsin.
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out of Waukesha, Wisconsin. A judge in Waukesha just came out and said that election drop boxes
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are not permissible. So election drop boxes are one of the tools that the left used in 2020 to
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change all the election rules, to push their guy, Joe Biden, through. Joe Biden, the most popular
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president ever, even though his approval ratings are in the 30s. He got more votes than anybody.
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How dare you? If you question that, you're an insurrectionist, far-right terrorist.
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They changed all the rules. One of them was you have these very insecure ballot drop boxes. The
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judge in Waukesha says, absolutely not. We're not going to do that. So great news for Republicans
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make sure that the elections are fair. A lot of Republicans don't think the 2020 election
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was fair. An even higher percentage of Democrats don't think the 2016 election was fair.
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Now, their claims are not equal because in 2016, the election was run like it always is. And the
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reason Democrats don't think it was fair is because our intelligence agencies made up a bunch of crap
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about Trump colluding with the Russians, which wasn't true. The reason that people don't think the
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2020 election was fair was because Democrats changed all the rules and in some cases violated state
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constitutions when they cheated to get their guy across the finish line. So they're not, I'm not
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saying it's all, all equal here. However, it is a political problem that both sides don't think that
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the elections are fair. So what are we going to do? We need to make sure that the elections are fair,
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are just, are equitable, and are not being stolen by the Democrats or are advantageous to Republicans
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and to the rule of law and to justice. Because right now they're skewed so much in the direction
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of the Democrats. We've got to do that. I don't care how popular your view on immigration is. I don't
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care how well you're doing in the polls and how terribly your opponent is doing in the polls. If,
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if you don't have some semblance of a fair election, then that and a buck 50 will get you a cup of coffee.
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You've got to make sure. So the first battle for Republicans is make sure that the drop boxes, the no ID
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voting, the election month, election season, all of these ridiculous cheats that the Democrats have
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instituted, that you got to make sure that those go away. Then you've got to work on the cultural front
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on moving the Overton window, which political actors can play a large role in. Then you work on the
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policies, but you're not going to get to that third part unless you take care of the first part.
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Speaking of confusing the left and the right, the left is still pushing the Russia hoax. The Russia
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hoax has been so completely discredited. We know that it was based on an unverified false dossier
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that was paid for by Hillary Clinton that was used as an excuse to spy on the Trump campaign and then
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later to undermine the Trump presidency with the overt collusion of not just our intelligence agencies, but
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international intelligence as well. It was based on nothing. The best they could find was that Russia
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spent a hundred grand on Facebook ads in, in the 2016 campaign. That was pretty much the best evidence
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available to them. Okay. And they're still pushing it. They're still saying that Republicans
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are shilling for Russia. Take a listen to MSNBC.
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So they're asking, uh, Joe Biden to unilaterally disarm. I'm going to, I'm going to defend the rhetoric
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that, uh, the language that the president used in Georgia, uh, with you, Chuck. I think that right now
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our democracy is in peril. John Tester, who is not somebody who's given to hyperbole, a moderate to
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Montana said, this is the most important thing that he's going to face while he's in that Senate. So I think
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that, uh, both Banjan and Sinema need to recognize that telling Democrats right now to disarm is like
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telling Ukrainians to disarm with Putin at the border. If Mitch McConnell were, had the 50, 50
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Senate right now, the ability to break a tie, he would have thought of the filibuster a long time
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ago. Here we go. So you're, you still hear this Russia analogy, this guy, the head of the center for
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American progress, he's not saying Trump colluded with Russia. He's not saying that the Republicans are,
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are selling out America to Russia, but he is making a comparison. And in the comparison,
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the Republicans are the Russians, which is a little awkward right now, because right now the
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Biden administration is helping to facilitate the Russian takeover of Ukraine. It's actually
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the Republicans who are opposing it. Very few people know this because no one really cares that
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much about foreign policy, but that's what's going on right now. Democrats are supporting Putin in his
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ambitions, specifically because Vladimir Putin is, is trying to complete an oil pipeline that will
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allow them to cut out Ukraine. It's called Nord Stream 2. Once the Putin competes, completes that
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pipeline, which Ted Cruz and the Republicans are opposing and which the Democrats and Biden and the
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State Department are supporting, then Putin has no reason not to go in and expand his influence
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into Ukraine. So the comparison here is pretty, pretty weak, but it's even more complicated.
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It's even more complicated than all of that. Because when you think of Republicans colluding with the
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Russians and that's bad, Putin bad and Republicans bad, and they're taking over a sovereign nation,
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Ukraine, it gets even weirder because Ukraine has been an independent nation for a very short period of
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time in world history. Ukraine has been conquered by basically everybody. It was conquered by the
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Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. It was conquered by Tsarist Russia,
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the Russian Empire. It was conquered by the Soviet Empire. It was conquered by Poland. Poland is one of the
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most conquered countries in the history of the world. And, and Ukraine managed to get conquered by Poland.
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Ukraine almost certainly derives from the Slavic word for borderland. It means borderland. It's always
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going to be this area of conflict. The Russians are looking at, at it as a border to protect them
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against NATO in the West. The West is looking at Ukraine as a border for Europe against Russia's
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ambitions. And so they're going to fight over it. That's what's going on. And, and we still have to
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believe that Putin is the greatest enemy of America and, and that it's still 1986. Putin wants to expand
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his influence. Of course he does. There's no question about it. But is Vladimir Putin really
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our, our greatest threat? I don't think so. I think we face a far greater threat from China
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right now. China, which has a lot more money, a lot more people, owns a lot more of America,
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owns our debt, owns a lot of resources here. So, okay, you've, you've, you've got an enemy in Putin.
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You've got an enemy in China. Don't you think it might make a little bit of sense and hear me out on
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this to try to collude with the Russians? I don't, I, when, when Democrats accuse Republicans
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of colluding with the Russians, I get, I get very sad because I think, no, I think we should collude
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with the Russians, but we're actually not colluding with the Russians right now. Because
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I think it would be very wise as we're trying to stave off a rising China to maybe do what we did in
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the Cold War in reverse. During the Cold War, we were trying to stop the Soviet Union. So what did we do?
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We warmed up relations with China. We got a little cozier with them and we tried to play the
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Chinese off the Russians. Well, why don't we do the same thing here now that Russia's not the
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threat and China's a much bigger threat? Why don't we cozy up to the Russians and play the
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Russians off with the Chinese? What the liberal establishment has done is, is alienate both of
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those guys and push Russia and China closer together than ever. Both the Russians and the
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Chinese are saying their relationship is extremely, extremely tight right now, tighter than it's ever
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been before. There, there are still wedges. There are wedges on trade. There are wedges on
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resources. You actually could play them off one another, but not if we keep using this dumb
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rhetoric that the establishment in our country has been using for decade upon decade and decade,
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far after its usefulness. Furthermore, furthermore, when we're talking about expanding American influence,
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what are we even talking about? If expanding American influence throughout the world,
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throughout Ukraine and even encroaching on other people's territories,
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if that means spreading truth, justice in the American way, the traditional American way of life,
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well, that's one thing. But if expanding American influence means raising pride flags in Kandahar
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and transing the kids, frankly, I don't want to spread that influence. I think it would be bad
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to spread that kind of influence around the world. And I don't blame other nations for wanting to
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resist that influence. So what is it? What is it? What is it that we're actually spreading?
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Because right now, what Russia is doubling down on is national cohesion, nationalism. It's doubling down
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on Christianity. Vladimir Putin is funding beautiful, a beautiful cathedral, the military cathedral that
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is one of the most gorgeous buildings built in the last century. He might not believe a single word of
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Christianity, but as a political matter, that's what the country is focusing on. Russia, which is a very
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expansive, multi-ethnic country, is focusing on that. And it seems to be working pretty well.
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Russia, which is facing a problem of the country literally dying, just like America,
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the birth rates are below replacement. Well, Russia actually implemented some policies to turn
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that around. Only two countries in the West have done that, Russia and Hungary. I'm not saying we
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copy what they're doing necessarily, but maybe we could learn some lessons from that. And maybe as we're
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looking at the threats to American influence abroad, maybe we get a little bit smarter about it and
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recognize where the threats really lie, which is not in that frozen country up in Eurasia that we beat in
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the Cold War, but a little further south in China. The only thing more complicated than foreign policy and
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trying to make sense of what we are usually presented with as these extremely oversimplified
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caricatures of foreign policy issues. The only thing more complicated is trying to make sense of the New York
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Times. There was a New York Times article, just came out, about the crime surge that we're dealing with right now
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all throughout American cities. Crime is going through the roof. And they just can't understand
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why. It doesn't make, you know, they, the left last year defunded the police, tried to abolish the
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police in some cases, let criminals off the hook for their crimes, let a lot of criminals out of jail
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and said that they wouldn't enforce the law. And now crime is going up. It's a real head scratcher.
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I can't, hmm, what, what, maybe it's something about the virus. I don't know. Maybe it's,
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maybe that's a symptom of COVID is people get more violent. So the New York Times can't make sense of this.
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The closest they get is they say, quote, the fallout from the 2020 racial justice protests
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and riots could have contributed to the murder spike. Police officers, scared of being caught in
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the next viral video, may have pulled back on proactive anti-violence practices.
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Is anyone out there, maybe if you're writing in the comments, could, could anyone translate that
00:24:14.020
into English for me? They, the police may have pulled back on proactive anti-violence policies.
00:24:26.980
Is, I guess every word there is English, but when you put it all together, that,
00:24:31.980
that doesn't seem to make a coherent sentence. It's just a bunch of pretentious jargon
00:24:36.760
and mealy-mouthed language trying to avoid something. I guess, oh, they're trying to avoid
00:24:43.760
the obvious, which is if you want crime to go down, I'll simplify this as best I can.
00:24:49.440
Want crime down? Arrest criminals. Crime go down, criminals go prison. Is that, is that simple
00:24:58.640
enough for the New York Times? I don't know if they can get it through their heads. Ben today is
00:25:03.780
going to be talking about how just one year in with the crime, with the terrible economy, with the
00:25:11.860
lockdowns, with the threats to our rights, just one year in, Joe Biden is already the worst president
00:25:17.300
ever. He's going to be talking about that on the show today. Don't miss it. I'm Michael Knowles.
00:25:20.660
We will be right back. The New York Times can't figure out why crime is going up after we defunded
00:25:38.020
the police and let all the criminals off the hook. So they've got, they're, they're onto something
00:25:41.580
though. They've got a lead. Here's their lead. They say, these three factors could have played
00:25:46.540
into each other. The pandemic might have driven more people to violence. You know, the pandemic,
00:25:53.400
you know, that virus when someone says, Oh, my body's aching. I got this cough. I really want to
00:26:01.100
just rob a Nike store. Oh yeah. I just, Oh gosh. With all these aches and pains and I lost my sense of
00:26:09.500
smell and taste. Let me go stick up a family on the street. Yeah. That I just, I don't know. I'm
00:26:16.500
just, I feel impelled to do that. So they say it's the pandemic could have done it. The police
00:26:20.980
might have been able to prevent at least some of the violence if they had remained proactive
00:26:25.580
or had worked better with the public. So if the police had just done their jobs,
00:26:30.640
like we wouldn't let them do, then we probably wouldn't be in this mess right now.
00:26:36.440
Well, you're, you got, you're the ones, New York Times and liberals, you're the ones who said the
00:26:41.020
police shouldn't do their jobs, but now you're blaming them for not doing their jobs. You wouldn't let
00:26:44.720
them do their jobs. Well, they have an answer. You see that that's in the last part of the sentence
00:26:48.380
they say, or if they'd worked better with the public. So if the police hadn't forced us to
00:26:55.040
force them to stop doing their jobs, then they could have done their jobs. It'd all be better.
00:26:58.460
It's their fault. Police. If you just hadn't made me so angry, if you hadn't made me so angry,
00:27:04.160
then we wouldn't be in this position. Uh-huh. It seems a little, little unfair. Seems,
00:27:09.600
I don't think that reason and argument quite works. And then finally they say without so many
00:27:15.080
guns, what violence did occur could have ended up less deadly. That's the gun's fault.
00:27:20.260
It's the guns. It's the virus's fault. It's the cop's fault. It's the inanimate object's fault.
00:27:28.940
What's the only group that the New York Times is not blaming for the surge in crime?
00:27:32.820
It's, um, hold on. Oh, the criminals. It's the criminal. It's not, the criminals bear no
00:27:40.840
responsibility. And the leftist politicians who let all the criminals off the hook and out of jail,
00:27:45.080
they bear no responsibility. It's the cops and the inanimate objects and a coronavirus from China.
00:27:56.260
I don't know. Listen, I'm not, I'm not one of these geniuses who works at the very fancy New
00:28:02.700
York Times. I do not have advanced degrees in criminology or anything like that, but it seems
00:28:10.280
simple enough to me. The New York Times actually has gotten into this trouble before. I think it was
00:28:14.360
Fox Butterfield, their reporter who would have headlines decades ago. He'd have headlines in the
00:28:18.840
New York Times that would say things like, the crime rate, uh, the crime rate continues to fall
00:28:27.000
despite prisons filling, despite as though, as though this would be unexpected that when you
00:28:34.320
throw criminals in jail, the crime rate goes down as though maybe there's no way that these things
00:28:39.680
could have anything to do with one another. Speaking of crime, there is a Democrat candidate
00:28:43.240
running for Senate right now who is smoking a fat blunt in his campaign ad and running on the
00:28:51.840
platform of letting other people puff on the devil's lettuce. Every 37 seconds, someone is arrested for
00:29:00.400
possession of marijuana. Since 2010, state and local police have arrested an estimated 7.3 million
00:29:06.880
Americans for violating marijuana laws. Over half of all drug arrests. Black people are four
00:29:13.100
times more likely to be arrested for marijuana laws than white people. States waste $3.7 billion
00:29:19.480
enforcing marijuana laws every year. Most of the people police are arresting aren't dealers,
00:29:25.360
but rather people with small amounts of pot, just like me. I'm Gary Chambers and I'm running for the
00:29:30.880
U.S. Senate and I approve this message. I so hope that that guy got arrested. I assume he didn't,
00:29:40.600
but I just, I have this dream that that guy is sitting there spreading complete lies about drugs
00:29:48.200
and the criminal justice system. Just complete made up nonsense. He's sitting there smoking his
00:29:53.740
blunt and he's filming and he's saying, yeah, you got to vote for me because the most important issue
00:29:58.280
in America, the reason I'm running for Senate is so that people can just smoke up that Peruvian
00:30:04.120
parsley every day. That'll make America great. And then they finish, they say, cut. Okay, we're good.
00:30:09.780
We're good. Senate candidate guy. And then you just hear like, woo, woo. And then the guy goes into
00:30:13.840
the clink. This guy is not telling the truth about drug laws in America. We are told by the pothead
00:30:23.120
contingent. Now it's not even just the pothead contingent that I have any problems with. And it's
00:30:28.320
not even marijuana that I specifically have a problem with. It's the people who insist on the
00:30:37.900
legalization of marijuana as a cure, as something that'll make America so great and it'll improve
00:30:43.560
society. It's those people, the obsessive pro-legalization people. They are the reason
00:30:48.820
that I want to ban every joint from America because they are so annoying and dumb and wrong.
00:30:58.320
That I don't want to hear them anymore. And that's one of the reasons I want to do it.
00:31:02.460
What this man is saying is not true. We're told that the prisons are just full of poor men,
00:31:08.400
usually black men, by the way, who were arrested for simple possession. They had a joint. They were
00:31:14.280
just smoking a little bit. Now they're going to jail for years. They're being at probably 90% of the
00:31:19.900
population. It's just these poor men who were just trying to puff on a little sin spinach and they got
00:31:27.420
arrested. That's not true. According to the Hudson Institute, which did a great review of this,
00:31:33.480
just 3.6% of state prison inmates are in jail for possession offenses of any kind.
00:31:42.600
We're not talking about marijuana here. We're talking about heroin. We're talking about fentanyl.
00:31:46.580
We're talking about really bad stuff that kills a lot of people. For possession of any kind,
00:31:52.380
it's just 3.6%. When you, when you go up to the federal prisons, the number is even lower. It's
00:31:58.200
0.9%. So why this confusion? Well, it's actually not even just the 3.6 and the 0.9%. The numbers are
00:32:10.200
actually even lower because drug traffickers usually plea down their, their cases. So someone who's in
00:32:18.320
prison for possession very often is in prison for drug trafficking and they just plead it down.
00:32:23.940
And so then you, you see them there for simple possession. In 2014, which is the most recent year
00:32:29.260
for which the Hudson Institute has compiled its data, the number of inmates sentenced to federal prison
00:32:34.640
for marijuana possession. Take a guess. If that pothead Senate candidate is to be believed, you'd think
00:32:42.380
what? 50,000 people, 10,000 people. It certainly, at least you'd say seven or 8,000 people, right?
00:32:50.940
Because the prisons are just filled with this. Probably you'd think even, even more. No, the
00:32:54.280
number was 75 people, not 75,000, not 7,500, 75 people in 2014 were sentenced to federal prison
00:33:03.600
for marijuana possession. 97% of federal inmates who are in for drugs are in for drug trafficking.
00:33:09.880
Add to that, that last year, 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, leading cause of death for
00:33:18.460
young Americans. That was up 30% over the previous year. And these idiots think that the, the way to
00:33:26.080
deal with that, our fellow Americans poisoning themselves to death, the way to deal with that
00:33:31.580
historic surge in drug overdoses is to legalize drugs because of a problem that doesn't exist.
00:33:38.460
Namely, the problem of mass incarceration for simple possession, which is just a fantasy.
00:33:43.400
Lock that away with the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny. I don't know, I don't know how that
00:33:48.440
Senate candidate could have come up with such stupid, fantastical ideas that are so divorced
00:33:54.560
from reality. Oh yeah, I know, because he's super high. That's probably, that's probably why he came up
00:33:58.960
with it. Good grief. If the, if the smoke clouds would clear away, not, not from the air in front of him,
00:34:06.260
but from his brain, he could look at the real numbers and realize that, that what he's selling
00:34:10.640
is a really bad idea. And it's unfortunate because so many conservatives who are in, under the sway of
00:34:15.580
the libertines on the right, the, you know, the, maybe the libertarians even who say, well, it's not
00:34:20.480
the government's right to stop you from doing drugs. They think this is fine too. If you believe
00:34:26.320
that giving that dude his way, that pothead Senate candidate who thinks that puffing a drug is the
00:34:33.680
most important issue in, in American politics, if you think that doing what he wants is going to make
00:34:39.160
America better, I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Speaking of our justice system, all the way up
00:34:46.840
to the Supreme Court, some of the justices are not happy with one another. One in particular,
00:34:50.880
Sonia Sotomayor, who refuses to appear in the chambers with the other judges in person
00:34:59.780
because justice Neil Gorsuch refuses to wear a mask. We are now in the, um, second year. No,
00:35:08.820
I'm sorry. We're now entering into the third year of the two weeks to slow the spread for a virus that
00:35:14.040
doesn't pose a great threat to most people. Uh, we're now in the surge of Omicron, which is equivalent
00:35:20.080
in its symptoms, usually to a cold. I just had it. I just recovered from it. Wasn't nice, but it's
00:35:26.420
fine. And Sonia Sotomayor says, no, she is not going to appear if Justice Gorsuch won't wear a mask.
00:35:35.360
Now, some people are saying this is a problem. Seems to me this is a solution to the problem.
00:35:39.920
If, if I can get rid of all of the Sonia Sotomayors simply by breathing and not putting a
00:35:47.720
secular keffia over my face, I think we're good. I think we figured it out. Good stuff. Great job.
00:35:54.440
Thanks for sticking firm on this issue, Neil Gorsuch. The question that it raises is, should
00:35:59.520
Gorsuch wear masks to be nice to Sonia Sotomayor? Should all of us, should we wear masks indefinitely
00:36:07.000
to be nice to the people who are neurotic about the virus? No, that's, that's not nice. Generally
00:36:17.320
speaking, there might be some exception. If your aged grandma is really insistent that you wear a
00:36:22.400
mask around her, then at a filial piety, maybe you do it. But generally speaking, no, we should not
00:36:29.300
indulge this stuff. It is, it is not merely because the virus is not as dangerous as the experts told us
00:36:35.380
it was. It is not merely because we're two years into two weeks to slow the spread. It's because it
00:36:41.200
is bad for society, for us all to mask ourselves up. It's bad for human development. It's bad, bad for
00:36:48.060
kids. It's bad for babies. It's bad for all of us though. We, we should be able to see one another
00:36:51.960
smile. We should be able to breathe the fresh air. We should be able to read the emotions on other
00:36:57.840
people's faces. We should not be living in terror of a little tiny virus and cowering in our homes,
00:37:06.120
looking on our fellow man whom we should love as our brothers, as walking bags of disease who are out
00:37:12.880
to kill us. It is disordered for a society to mask itself up. And it's bad for these individuals like
00:37:20.820
Sonia Sotomayor and others who are allowing neurosis to cripple them. We should not encourage that.
00:37:27.940
That's very wrong. Rachel Maddow, my doppelganger over on MSNBC has a different take. She wants to
00:37:33.780
know how Neil Gorsuch can live with himself. She writes, quote, it's folly to try to get inside
00:37:39.460
anyone else's head. I know, but I just can't shake this. Does Justice Gorsuch revel in everyone now
00:37:45.940
knowing that he's keeping her, Sonia Sotomayor, from being able to come to work? Or is he embarrassed?
00:37:52.140
I mean, how do you live with yourself? I will tell you, doppelganger, I will tell you, Ms. Maddow,
00:37:59.340
because I do this too. I refuse in any circumstance that I possibly can, I guess with the exception of
00:38:05.200
going on airplanes, I don't wear the mask and haven't for the entirety of the lockdowns.
00:38:10.520
But the way that we live with ourselves is like normal people. We just live normally and not
00:38:17.780
abnormally. And we live like people who are in command of their reason and not like people who
00:38:23.740
are under a mass delusion and psychosis. That's how we live. How do you, how can you walk out the door
00:38:30.080
without covering your, your face in a cloth mask that now even the public health experts tell us
00:38:35.300
don't work? How do you, how can you do, uh, well, we did it for, um, all of human history until two
00:38:43.380
years ago. And so that's how we do that. But you might get someone sick. How do you walk around in a
00:38:49.840
world teeming with germs and not have that cripple you into staying in your closet for two years? Uh,
00:38:56.700
well, because that's how human society has always existed. And we, that's how we have to live because
00:39:03.180
there are germs in the world and you're not going to get rid of the germs and you, you might, you
00:39:08.000
might get COVID and you, you might get the flu and you might catch a cold and you, you might get,
00:39:15.220
you might get mono. Hey, if you're in school, I don't know, sharing a Coca-Cola with a friend,
00:39:19.860
you might get mono. You might get, you might get all sorts of things and you'll almost certainly be
00:39:25.700
fine. But you know what? You might get really sick. You could go get a really bad flu and you could die.
00:39:32.400
You might die from the germs that you're encountering in the world.
00:39:38.440
That's life. That's the cost of living that if you don't, if you don't want to do that, then
00:39:45.600
you're not going to get along very well. And how do you live, Rachel? How do you live? How do you
00:39:50.400
live with yourself? I hope that you're not trapping yourself in a closet, cowering in fear of the little
00:39:54.740
virus. The question for all of us is how do we want to live? What we have done is outsource that
00:40:01.140
question for two years to some egghead twerp named Dr. Fauci, who is going to tell us exactly how we
00:40:07.720
should live. Based on absolutely no expertise, he's not particularly philosophically or theologically
00:40:13.960
sophisticated. He is not supposed to be holding a position of making these kind of broad sweeping
00:40:21.240
policies. He's supposed to be an infectious disease expert, but we've given him the authority to make
00:40:26.960
all of these decisions that he's not qualified to make and really has no right to make. How do we
00:40:31.800
want to live? I want to live in a world where we don't dress up like mummies all the time and live
00:40:37.120
in fear of one another. How do you want to live? A great example of this question for society that
00:40:45.460
we have to ask ourselves. How do we want to live? Not just how do I want to live? Do I want to chop my
00:40:51.860
body up so I look like a different sex and smoke pot all the time and dress up? Not just how I want
00:40:56.220
to live, but how do we want to live in a society? Because no man is an individual atom floating in
00:41:01.120
free space. A great example of this just happened on American Airlines. Olivia Culpo, who was Miss
00:41:08.780
Universe. She is one of the most beautiful women on planet Earth. Olivia Culpo showed up to a flight
00:41:16.020
to Cabo San Lucas wearing a very skimpy outfit. She was wearing a little, looked like just a bra and
00:41:23.820
some extremely tight kind of leggings. And I think she had a sweater, but it was open. And she shows up
00:41:30.020
and she looked hotter than a $2 pistol. There's no question about it. And the stewardess on the flight
00:41:35.760
said, you got to cover up, lady. You got to put a shirt on or we're not going to allow you on the
00:41:39.640
flight. And she threw a big hissy fit or her sister or someone in her family threw a big hissy fit about
00:41:43.400
it. I can't believe, I can't believe I'm saying this. 12-year-old Michael would be very upset with
00:41:49.580
31-year-old Michael for saying this. American Airlines was right. Olivia Culpo should, should
00:41:57.720
cover up. People have the right not to be constantly titillated. Every man listening to this show,
00:42:06.780
almost every man listening to this show, has a part of them that would really like to see
00:42:12.900
Olivia Culpo wear extremely tight, scandalous clothing to the airport on their flight.
00:42:18.700
There's a part of man that wants to see that. But at least the men who are not just complete
00:42:25.540
degenerates have another part to them that don't want to see that. Because we want to read our book
00:42:33.620
or we want to do our work or we want to have a conversation. And we don't want to be completely
00:42:37.800
distracted by this bombshell who's sitting next to us on an airplane wearing her underwear.
00:42:43.260
Because you want to do other things in your life. But we have forgotten that. Because we now live in
00:42:49.680
a culture where women actually just wear leggings as though they're pants and wear bras as though
00:42:54.080
they're shirts. And so we're constantly titillated all the time. And it is not conducive to a flourishing
00:43:00.800
society. I remember thinking this when I would take exams sometimes. And girls would show up wearing
00:43:05.960
this kind of clothing. And I think this is unfair because I'm going to do worse on the exam now
00:43:11.380
because I'm distracted by this hot girl wearing very little clothing. And she's never going to be
00:43:15.200
distracted by me. It's not as though I could walk into an exam wearing my birthday suit and all the
00:43:21.060
girls would say, oh my gosh, wow, I can't. They'd probably just ignore it. This is not conducive to a
00:43:26.960
good society. This is why we have laws against indecent exposure. This is why I'm actually not allowed to
00:43:32.400
walk around in my birthday suit and people are generally happy about that. I don't know. Maybe
00:43:36.340
some people, maybe it titillates them too. But we live in a society. And so the individual right
00:43:43.140
to wear your underwear in public, it must be suppressed for the broader collective right,
00:43:51.600
the community right, the political right to not constantly be titillated. This is something that
00:44:01.660
the libertarian version of the right wing in America doesn't really get or doesn't really go
00:44:08.300
along with. But the conservative version of the conservative movement in America obviously gets.
00:44:13.960
If a woman dressed like this in the days of our founding fathers, she would probably be run out of
00:44:20.480
town on the rail. She would probably be called a witch. She'd be run away. They wouldn't, what I'm
00:44:26.020
saying, I'm not saying Olivia Culpo is a witch. She seems like a lovely lady. But this would not be
00:44:30.860
tolerated. Even those great defenders of freedom, the founding fathers, the great men who built our
00:44:35.320
country, that's not what freedom is. Freedom to be distracted all the time is no freedom at all.
00:44:43.940
The reason this stuff should be encouraged is not because men don't like them, but because men do like
00:44:47.820
them and we live in a society and we like them a little too much and we can't have that.
00:44:53.160
Speaking of younger people, Belgium. Belgium is committing a grave act of COVID misinformation.
00:45:01.260
They are because Belgium and the health ministry in Belgium is no longer recommending that young
00:45:05.380
people take the Moderna vaccine. People under the age of 31, so we're not even just talking about
00:45:10.200
12 year olds, we're talking about under the age of 31, Belgium says no. Don't take the Moderna vaccine
00:45:15.600
because there is a risk of heart inflammation, myocarditis. This was announced by the Belgian
00:45:23.700
Vaccination Task Force. This is very confusing because we were told that there were no safety
00:45:31.480
concerns with the vaccines. And actually, we, communicators, broadcasters, were told that if we
00:45:38.080
ever say that there are any safety concerns with these vaccines, we are liable to be banned from
00:45:43.680
YouTube or Twitter or Facebook, receive a strike, be shut down. My show has been censored many times
00:45:49.200
for saying very basic things like what the Belgian health ministry is saying now. According to the
00:45:55.100
Brussels Times, Danish studies indicate, quote, that vaccination with Moderna resulted in an increased
00:45:59.340
risk of heart inflammation in young men following the first or second dose in comparison with the
00:46:05.060
Pfizer. So first we were told there were no, there are no safety concerns by all the experts. It's completely
00:46:13.160
safe. Then we were told there are safety concerns, but you should get it anyway because the, the risk from
00:46:20.260
the vaccines is less than the risk of having heart inflammation, say, from COVID. Now we're being told by the
00:46:25.060
public health officials, no, actually just don't get this vaccine. This is bad. It would be better for you not to
00:46:29.780
get this vaccine. Do the public health officials realize why we don't believe them? They have told
00:46:38.520
us things that are not true and they've said they're a hundred percent certain about them. In some cases
00:46:44.420
they've told us things that they know are not true by their own admission, like Dr. Fauci on the masks or
00:46:49.640
the public health officials on the lab leak theory from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. They'll tell us
00:46:56.560
things that they, that they themselves don't believe are true, but they think that we should know them. And now
00:47:00.320
they, now they tell us things with a hundred percent certainty and they say, believe us now. It would be
00:47:04.600
madness. It would be absolute madness to believe them now. Very short story before we go. There's a headline
00:47:12.980
from the AP that Kamala Harris is struggling to, to define herself. That they're based on this reporting that
00:47:20.360
they've found talking to people around Kamala Harris. She's very frustrated because she's tried to reset her
00:47:25.460
public image multiple times now and it hasn't worked. She, she can't define herself. The reason
00:47:30.840
she can't define herself is because she doesn't stand for anything. My advice to Kamala Harris is
00:47:35.540
that she should believe in something. Ideally the truth, but anything at all would be a good start.
00:47:40.920
She's tough on crime. She's weak on crime. She's a far leftist. She's a moderate. She's a racial
00:47:46.120
grievance person. She's a come together kumbaya person. She's just, she just licks her finger, puts it in
00:47:51.060
the air, tries to figure out which way the wind is blowing. Don't be a Kamala politician. It's
00:47:55.280
pointless. She will be completely forgotten at this rate. No, no one generally remembers vice
00:48:00.400
presidents in American history and she is one of the worst ones ever. So I guess she could be
00:48:04.680
remembered in that sort of infamy. She will have accomplished nothing. She's never accomplished
00:48:08.460
anything in her political career other than winning elections or more usually, I guess, being,
00:48:13.920
being selected and appointed. Don't be a Kamala politician. It's weak. There's,
00:48:19.220
you don't gain anything from it. Stand for something. Ideally the truth, which is now illegal
00:48:25.000
in the Western world. Up to our neighbors to the North and increasingly in America as well.
00:48:29.820
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00:48:37.440
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Mike Coromina. And hair and makeup by Cherokee Heart. The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.
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Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, Joe Biden is one year into his presidency, and it is a gigantic failure
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on every single level. Can you pull out of the tailspin? That's today on The Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.