The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 934 - Don't Mess With Truckers

00:00:00.000 Canadians are some of the nicest, most agreeable, most accommodating people on the planet.

00:00:05.180 But apparently, even America's hat has its limits. Specifically, Canada's truckers,

00:00:11.200 thousands of whom have descended on the nation's capital to protest the country's vaccine mandate

00:00:16.680 and general dissent into a biomedical police state.

00:00:21.480 What a moment in Canadian history here at Parliament Hill.

00:00:26.480 I love you, Canada!

00:00:30.000 No! No!

00:00:35.960 For decades, the international left has enjoined the workers of the world to unite.

00:00:42.280 And now that they are uniting, leftist leaders are terrified, furious, and have even gone into hiding.

00:00:49.720 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:51.280 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Andy Tanner, who says,

00:01:03.520 Neil Young, keep on rockin' in a free world!

00:01:08.240 Also Neil Young, papers please! Show me your papers or else! Shut up that Joe Rogan!

00:01:14.900 Yeah, that's true. That's right. It's because the word free means different things to different people.

00:01:23.080 That's why we're all arguing over what does this word free mean.

00:01:28.540 The libs think that freedom means the ability to shoot up whatever drugs you want and have sex with 0.98

00:01:34.940 whoever you want and get free stuff from the government.

00:01:39.480 The sort of libertarians kind of agree with that.

00:01:44.220 They don't agree with the free stuff from the government part, but they agree with the do-whatever-you-want part.

00:01:47.940 And then the conservatives believe that freedom means the freedom from sin, from vice, from degeneracy,

00:01:55.400 from your basest appetites, freedom to have a good community, the freedom to have safety in your neighborhood,

00:02:01.580 the freedom to have flourishing families and a good life.

00:02:04.280 What does free mean?

00:02:06.420 Something tells me Neil Young's definition is not the whole story.

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00:03:47.720 The Canadians are really stepping up.

00:03:50.640 This is also related to Neil Young.

00:03:52.540 So Neil Young, a Canadian, is trying to destroy American broadcasting,

00:03:57.240 trying to take down any non-woke broadcaster up at two and including Joe Rogan.

00:04:01.960 But then you've got these other Canadians stepping up and saying,

00:04:04.620 no, we don't want to live in a biomedical security state.

00:04:07.040 You've got thousands of truckers just driving through the streets of the Capitol,

00:04:11.980 now coming to the U.S. border to block up the U.S. border and saying,

00:04:15.060 no, we're not going to take it anymore.

00:04:17.000 You're not going to shut down our churches.

00:04:18.920 You're not going to destroy our communities.

00:04:21.240 You're not going to take away all of our rights.

00:04:23.060 We're not going to do it.

00:04:23.980 We're going to push back.

00:04:26.080 Truckers, the lifeblood of the economy, the workers of the salt of the earth,

00:04:32.460 the blue collar of the blue collar, are uniting and they're exerting their political influence and power,

00:04:39.320 just like the left has been begging them to do for over a century now.

00:04:44.420 And what are the leftist leaders doing in response?

00:04:46.580 Are they applauding?

00:04:47.480 Are they cheering?

00:04:48.360 Are they supporting the truckers?

00:04:49.720 No.

00:04:50.140 The leftist prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has gone into hiding.

00:04:54.440 Not only has he not shown up for the protest, he's run away.

00:04:57.220 He doesn't want to have to face the mob, the relatively peaceful mob of truckers, 0.99

00:05:03.980 the relatively peaceful protest.

00:05:06.560 And so he's gone into hiding.

00:05:08.920 He's issued a statement and he's condemned the protest.

00:05:12.700 I have attended protests and rallies in the past when I agreed with the goals,

00:05:19.040 when I supported the people expressing their concerns and their issues.

00:05:23.400 Black Lives Matter is an excellent example of that. 0.93

00:05:25.700 But I have also chosen to not go anywhere near protests that have expressed hateful rhetoric,

00:05:33.420 violence towards fellow citizens, and a disrespect not just of science,

00:05:39.920 but of the frontline health workers and, quite frankly, the 90% of truckers

00:05:44.560 who have been doing the right thing to keep Canadians safe, to put food on our tables.

00:05:51.280 Canadians know where I stand.

00:05:53.080 This is a moment for responsible leaders to think carefully about where they stand.

00:05:58.800 I do not support, I don't do a very good Canadian accent.

00:06:03.940 The only one that I do somewhat well is Jordan Peterson, but that's not the same one as Justin Trudeau.

00:06:09.040 He says, I do not support violence.

00:06:12.820 I do not support hateful rhetoric.

00:06:14.820 I love BLM because they would never get violent, right?

00:06:19.360 They would never burn a country down for eight months.

00:06:21.640 They would never spew just bile.

00:06:24.140 They would never tear down a country's revered figures and statues and firebomb buildings

00:06:29.340 and attack federal courthouses and kill dozens of people.

00:06:31.600 They would never do that.

00:06:32.900 Not BLM.

00:06:33.680 That's why I support BLM.

00:06:35.020 But some nice, generally polite Canadian truckers, them, I cannot support.

00:06:40.220 What Trudeau is showing us is something really basic about the way politics operates.

00:06:47.060 Us versus them. 1.00

00:06:50.120 In politics, in all successful political movements, you've got to unite.

00:06:56.780 You've got to have a team, and you've got to support your team, and you've got to show grace to your team members,

00:07:03.740 and you've got to oppose your opponents.

00:07:07.560 This seems basic, right?

00:07:09.300 But we've kind of forgotten that sometimes.

00:07:12.120 This is why conservatives constantly decry double standards.

00:07:15.880 We say, hold on, that leftist media outlet is going softer on the leftist political activists

00:07:21.520 than on the conservative political activists.

00:07:24.600 Right, because they're on the same team.

00:07:26.960 And the conservatives are on the opposite team, which is why they're, this isn't rocket science, guys.

00:07:31.380 This is politics 101.

00:07:34.280 And so, what you're seeing in Canada now is the leftist media, also in America, the leftist media,

00:07:39.960 are saying that these truckers are Nazis, they're hateful, they're violent, they're dangerous,

00:07:44.500 they're all sorts of things.

00:07:45.620 And how do they do it?

00:07:46.400 Well, because they find one guy, one fringe guy, doing something bad,

00:07:52.480 or holding up a symbol that they don't like, or, you know,

00:07:54.880 that's some terrible, far-right extremist, evil symbol,

00:07:58.800 and they'll say, okay, this fringe person is representative of the whole Canadian trucker movement.

00:08:05.840 As far as I can tell, the Canadian truckers haven't killed anybody, have they?

00:08:09.100 BLM killed dozens of people. 1.00

00:08:10.540 The Canadian truckers, I don't think they've done that.

00:08:12.580 And yet, the BLM, the Canadian truckers, rather, are hateful, terrible terrorists, 0.57

00:08:17.660 they're dangerous, and the BLM are mostly peaceful protests, right?

00:08:21.660 Well, sure, that's a double standard.

00:08:22.880 Why is it a double standard?

00:08:23.900 Justin Trudeau just told you.

00:08:25.340 Yes, well, I'm going to support leftists, and I'm going to oppose conservatives.

00:08:29.920 Oh, okay, I guess we should have known that.

00:08:31.460 Maybe we should, maybe we should order our political movements accordingly.

00:08:35.840 It's not just happening in Canada.

00:08:38.440 The leftist media in America is coming out strongly against the truckers,

00:08:43.620 and they're saying that the truckers and anyone protesting for a return to normal life

00:08:47.480 and freedoms and civil liberties and good communities in Canada,

00:08:52.600 they're basically members of a cult.

00:08:54.920 So, over the weekend, thousands of protesters brought the capital of Canada to a standstill.

00:09:01.780 Dozens of trucks and other vehicles could be seen blocking the downtown area of Ottawa

00:09:07.280 as protesters rallied against vaccine mandates, masks, and lockdowns.

00:09:12.980 That seems like an interesting way to spend your weekend.

00:09:16.420 The demonstrations were initially aimed at pushback against vaccine mandates

00:09:20.480 for truck drivers crossing the U.S.-Canada border.

00:09:23.660 But the movement escalated into an expression of disapproval

00:09:28.340 with the Canadian government's COVID-19 policies.

00:09:31.780 Officials say several investigations are underway into reports of severe vandalism

00:09:37.360 and criminal behavior, including the desecration of national monuments.

00:09:42.280 Where were these protests when people were required to get five vaccines to start school?

00:09:47.880 Where were these protests when people were required to give their children five vaccines?

00:09:53.420 They were in the doctor's office getting vaccines.

00:09:55.440 They were in the doctor's office getting vaccinated.

00:09:57.480 They were making fun of left-wingers on the West Coast.

00:10:00.260 It's a cult.

00:10:03.840 Yes, it is.

00:10:05.260 It's a cult.

00:10:07.300 These people, these truckers who are not blindly following authority are in a cult.

00:10:14.340 These truckers who are thinking for themselves and doing their own research

00:10:19.860 and questioning the ever-changing proclamations of the priests of public health

00:10:25.440 who won't just go along like good little sheep, they're in a cult.

00:10:31.240 Where were they when they were told to get other vaccines?

00:10:35.340 I don't know.

00:10:37.040 They were probably weighing the risks and looking into the history of the vaccines

00:10:40.300 and recognizing that certain vaccines have decades and decades and decades of data behind them.

00:10:45.820 And certain vaccines do what vaccines are supposed to do and prevent you from contracting

00:10:50.600 and spreading certain diseases and viruses.

00:10:53.340 And then some newer vaccines use completely new, basically untested technology with no long-term data

00:10:59.740 that don't do the things that the public health genius has told us they would do.

00:11:03.000 And maybe they're making prudential judgments based on that.

00:11:06.600 Maybe they're using their faculties of reason and not just following the high cult leader, Dr. Fauci.

00:11:11.340 Maybe that's what they're doing.

00:11:13.980 It's a cult.

00:11:15.500 And did you hear what Mika said?

00:11:17.240 Oh, this was bad.

00:11:18.320 I almost, a tear almost dropped from my eye.

00:11:20.560 She said that some of these truckers, there are reports, we don't have any evidence of it,

00:11:24.240 so it probably didn't happen, but there are reports that they were desecrating national monuments.

00:11:33.380 Could you imagine, just imagine, if a leftist movement ever desecrated national monuments?

00:11:41.340 Could you imagine if there were a leftist movement that existed almost entirely to desecrate national monuments

00:11:49.540 and tear down statues and vandalize statues for months and months?

00:11:53.680 Oh, right, that exists.

00:11:54.620 It's called BLM and you people applauded it. 0.70

00:11:57.320 You love, you love desecrating national monuments when it's, when it's your guys doing it

00:12:04.280 and when it's monuments that you don't like.

00:12:07.360 It's just, it's just us versus them. 0.96

00:12:09.500 That's what this is.

00:12:10.240 It's just, you like it when your friends do it, you don't like it when your enemies do it.

00:12:13.780 And so it raises this question.

00:12:15.800 Who is us and who is them in this situation?

00:12:19.640 We were told for many years that the us of conservatives are the plutocrats and the big fat cats

00:12:25.720 and rich uncle penny bags and all the zillionaires in the corporate class.

00:12:28.960 And the them, the leftists, they're the workers of the world.

00:12:32.020 They're the salt of the earth.

00:12:33.200 They're the, they're labor. 0.83

00:12:34.340 But that doesn't seem to be the case.

00:12:36.900 The truckers are a great example here because the truckers are the lifeblood of an economy.

00:12:40.380 And Mika and Joe sipping their Chablis from a high tower in Rockefeller Plaza, they're not exactly the teamsters, are they?

00:12:49.240 What you're seeing here is an historic opportunity for conservatives to be the party of labor,

00:12:56.280 to be the party of the working class.

00:12:57.940 It's happening now.

00:12:58.940 It's there.

00:12:59.660 It's, it's up for us.

00:13:01.040 The left has completely abandoned these people.

00:13:03.080 Will the conservatives step in to fill that gap?

00:13:05.620 We should, it's the right thing to do.

00:13:07.320 And politically, it would be very smart.

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00:14:46.260 Now, we have the opportunity as conservatives to be the party of the working class, to be

00:14:56.720 the party of the ordinary citizen, to be the party not of the global, cosmopolitan, laptop

00:15:05.840 class elite who don't really mind lockdowns because lockdowns don't really affect them

00:15:11.660 and who don't really have any respect for national borders and who don't really have any respect

00:15:15.340 for national traditions.

00:15:17.580 That's the Democrats.

00:15:18.760 That's the left.

00:15:19.960 That's not us.

00:15:21.620 We can be the party of the traditional way of life and good old common sense and prudence

00:15:28.380 if we seize that opportunity.

00:15:29.860 The libs are making it very easy for us.

00:15:32.440 Gavin Newsom.

00:15:33.860 Gavin Newsom, governor of California, just showed up to the L.A. Rams game in L.A.

00:15:40.460 L.A., which has an indoor mask mandate for big events.

00:15:47.800 He goes to the game and what happens?

00:15:50.140 He takes a photo with Magic Johnson, neither of whom are wearing masks.

00:15:56.600 There are other photos of Gavin Newsom from this event.

00:15:58.880 He's sitting, he's chatting, he's having a good time, he's not wearing his mask.

00:16:02.620 And he gets this photo with Magic Johnson, which is even crazier because Magic Johnson,

00:16:06.000 you will know, has AIDS.

00:16:09.140 He's had AIDS for decades.

00:16:11.180 He is as immunocompromised as they get.

00:16:15.260 And yet Magic Johnson's not cowering in fear with the mask.

00:16:18.400 Gavin Newsom's not cowering in fear with the mask.

00:16:20.860 This photo was taken, other photos were taken.

00:16:22.980 Gavin Newsom tried to explain it away.

00:16:25.120 I was very judicious yesterday, very judicious.

00:16:28.900 And you'll see the photo that I did take where Magic was kind enough, generous enough

00:16:34.900 to ask me for a photograph.

00:16:36.640 And in my left hand's the mask and I took a photo.

00:16:39.600 The rest of the time I wore it, as we all should.

00:16:44.360 Not when I had a glass of water or a thing.

00:16:47.360 And I encourage everybody else to do so.

00:16:49.660 And that's it.

00:16:51.740 And that's it.

00:16:52.360 It was just, look, we just took this photo, okay?

00:16:54.460 And it was, we just, we just, and it's fine.

00:16:57.980 It's not a big deal.

00:16:58.440 Except there are other videos.

00:17:00.200 There are videos of them walking up, hugging.

00:17:02.840 It's not just the briefly you take the mask down in between sips, in between bites, take

00:17:07.100 a quick photo.

00:17:07.580 No, they weren't wearing their masks.

00:17:10.480 And Magic, I should say Magic Johnson has HIV.

00:17:12.440 He doesn't have full-blown AIDS.

00:17:13.400 He has HIV.

00:17:15.420 Pretty immunocompromised, okay?

00:17:18.140 It's quite immunocompromised.

00:17:20.680 That's the word, that was the word of 2020, immunocompromised.

00:17:23.480 No one had ever used that word before.

00:17:24.740 Now everybody uses that word.

00:17:26.200 Except the most immunocompromised people, not so worried about it.

00:17:33.620 What's that about?

00:17:35.700 I am beginning to think that what most protects people from COVID-19 is not masks.

00:17:44.620 Again, I'm not making a medical claim about masks or vaccines or whatever.

00:17:47.440 Please, YouTube, don't.

00:17:48.360 Please, YouTube, don't take me down, okay?

00:17:50.560 I'm just saying what most protects people from COVID-19.

00:17:53.520 It's not the masks and it's not the vaccines.

00:17:59.060 I think what it is, is money and power.

00:18:03.600 Because there's just an observation I've made.

00:18:07.440 Really rich, really powerful people, they don't follow any of the public health measures

00:18:15.980 that they encourage other people to follow.

00:18:18.160 I'm thinking of people like the mayor of San Francisco.

00:18:22.040 I'm thinking of people like the mayor of New York.

00:18:24.820 I'm thinking of people like Joe Biden.

00:18:27.040 I'm thinking of people like Dr. Fauci.

00:18:28.420 I'm thinking of all of these people.

00:18:31.840 They don't, but they're, the one thing they have in common is they're really rich and they're

00:18:35.040 really powerful.

00:18:36.380 And they want you to live according to a set of rules that they themselves will not follow.

00:18:42.440 Hmm.

00:18:42.800 I guess we all just need to become really rich and powerful and then we won't catch COVID either.

00:18:46.180 Or maybe there's something else going on.

00:18:48.600 Maybe a lot of this COVID regime that we're living under is not so much about the virus

00:18:55.180 and it's not so much about the health and the cough and the chills.

00:18:59.540 Maybe it's a little bit more about reshaping the political order.

00:19:03.160 You know, speaking of money and power, there is one name that you're not allowed to say in

00:19:07.680 politics.

00:19:08.600 Do you know whose name that is?

00:19:11.600 I'm with George Soros.

00:19:13.700 You're going to talk about, you might be kicked off of social media.

00:19:17.380 You're not allowed to say George Soros because if you mention the name George Soros, you are

00:19:23.460 an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.

00:19:26.200 If you just even say the name.

00:19:28.780 Because some conservatives have previously observed that George Soros is a huge funder

00:19:33.860 of very far left-wing causes and a huge funder of Democrat politicians and that he's exerting

00:19:40.080 a lot of his influence to destroy our country.

00:19:42.760 But you see, George Soros is Jewish.

00:19:45.640 And so if you ever mention that, you're an anti-Semite and you're a conspiracy theorist

00:19:51.780 too.

00:19:52.000 Because I guess George Soros doesn't really give any money.

00:19:53.740 It's a total boogeyman.

00:19:54.700 It doesn't.

00:19:55.180 Oh, wait a second.

00:19:55.820 We've got federal documents here from the election commission showing that George Soros

00:20:03.080 has donated just a year to date, just to one super PAC, $125 million.

00:20:11.920 That's a lot of money.

00:20:14.060 $125 million.

00:20:15.300 I'm seeing it just a year to date, just to one super PAC to promote left-wing causes.

00:20:21.080 But I thought that was a racist conspiracy theory.

00:20:23.700 I am now pretty convinced that when the liberal establishment calls something a racist conspiracy

00:20:30.520 theory, you can be almost certain, almost, not 100%, but almost certain that that observation

00:20:36.920 is true.

00:20:38.020 Because racist, for the left, racist doesn't really mean racist.

00:20:43.540 Well, they've changed the definition of racist.

00:20:45.340 The Anti-Defamation League changed the definition just within the past few weeks from hating people

00:20:53.360 based on their race to only something that white people can do against non-white people.

00:20:59.700 So they changed the definition frequently.

00:21:01.380 But it really doesn't even have that much to do with race, racism.

00:21:06.020 What racism means in the modern leftist parlance is bad.

00:21:11.600 Just bad.

00:21:12.380 If you're a racist, if I say you're a racist, all that means is you're bad.

00:21:15.740 Really, all it means is I don't like you because the left doesn't even generally believe in

00:21:22.400 objective truth.

00:21:23.200 They just believe that politics is a system of interests.

00:21:26.340 We're all just trying to club each other on the head and there's no logic or transcendent

00:21:29.520 moral order.

00:21:30.060 So it just means I don't like you.

00:21:32.280 Okay.

00:21:32.460 So that's what racist.

00:21:33.180 And then conspiracy theory in modern leftist parlance means something that will be proven

00:21:38.400 true in nine months.

00:21:39.280 So something I don't like that will be proven true in nine months is what they're talking

00:21:45.640 about.

00:21:45.960 And that would seem to be the case when we're talking about the influence of someone like

00:21:50.320 George Soros, when we're talking about the origins of COVID, when we're talking about

00:21:54.700 the effectiveness of mitigation measures, when we're talking about on and on and on and

00:21:59.140 on.

00:22:00.880 But that's a lot of power.

00:22:02.840 125 million bucks from just one guy just year to date to just one super PAC.

00:22:06.240 That's a lot of power.

00:22:07.000 And this is the left exerting this power through all of the institutions.

00:22:11.560 And they are all coming down right now on one man, on one pot smoking, DMT chomping.

00:22:20.340 I don't really know how you take DMT.

00:22:23.300 Wrestling, UFC watching broadcaster named Joe Rogan.

00:22:30.120 Joe Rogan is persona non grata.

00:22:33.720 He is public enemy number one for the left because he is giving a big platform to dissenting

00:22:40.220 opinions.

00:22:42.200 Neil Young tried to get him canceled.

00:22:44.120 Joni Mitchell tried to get him canceled.

00:22:45.620 A bunch of other even less well-known musicians tried to get him canceled.

00:22:49.360 Hasn't quite worked, but now he's feeling the pressure.

00:22:52.640 And Joe sort of backtracked a little bit.

00:22:57.140 The problem I have with the term misinformation, especially today, is that many of the things

00:23:02.720 that we thought of as misinformation just a short while ago are now accepted as fact.

00:23:07.480 Like, for instance, eight months ago, if you said, if you get vaccinated, you can still

00:23:12.720 catch COVID and you can still spread COVID.

00:23:15.620 You would be removed from social media.

00:23:17.640 They would ban you from certain platforms.

00:23:19.580 Now, that's accepted as fact.

00:23:22.660 If you said, I don't think cloth masks work, you would be banned from social media.

00:23:28.820 Now, that's openly and repeatedly stated on CNN.

00:23:32.500 All of those theories that at one point in time were banned were openly discussed by those

00:23:38.240 two men that I had on my podcast that have been accused of dangerous misinformation.

00:23:41.840 One of the things that Spotify wants to do that I agree with is that at the beginning of these

00:23:47.120 controversial podcasts, like specifically ones about COVID, is to put a disclaimer and say that

00:23:53.020 you should speak with your physician and that these people and the opinions that they express

00:23:57.720 are contrary to the opinions of the consensus of experts, which I think is very important.

00:24:04.560 Sure, have that on there.

00:24:05.700 I'm very happy with that.

00:24:06.740 Um, also, I think, uh, if there's anything that I've done that I could do better is, uh,

00:24:13.540 have more experts with differing opinions right after I have the controversial ones.

00:24:19.360 Uh, I would most certainly be open to doing that.

00:24:22.800 It's unfortunate that Joe is in this position.

00:24:25.340 I can't even imagine the pressure he's getting.

00:24:27.480 I'm not going to pile on him for this backtrack.

00:24:30.180 I think this backtrack, depending on what happens now, this actually could be tactically pretty

00:24:35.040 smart.

00:24:35.420 It's too bad that he gave in on the disclaimer.

00:24:38.820 He probably shouldn't have done that.

00:24:40.000 Or if he did, he should have had disclaimers on the other shows presenting the liberal viewpoint

00:24:44.100 on COVID too.

00:24:46.040 But depending on what happens now, this could either be the smartest thing the man's ever

00:24:50.140 done or the dumbest thing the man's ever done.

00:24:52.180 Don't forget Joe Rogan's genius, his magic power is that he's talking to a huge swath of

00:24:58.520 Americans, not just right-wing conservatives, probably not even all that many relatively right-wing

00:25:03.060 conservatives.

00:25:03.440 A lot of people in the middle, a lot of people on the left, the guy was a Bernie bro.

00:25:06.760 If he can bring them over, if he can expose them to thought that is contrary to the leftist

00:25:13.500 orthodoxy, that's great.

00:25:15.560 And in the way he's going to do that is he's going to have to maintain his platform, calm

00:25:19.040 everyone down.

00:25:19.620 And that's kind of what he's doing.

00:25:20.560 You're saying, look, guys, calm.

00:25:21.780 Look, uh, everything that my guys said on this show was totally right and they're extremely

00:25:26.500 credentialed and they're great and they're awesome.

00:25:28.180 But sure, maybe we'll bring some balance.

00:25:30.120 I'm the balance guy.

00:25:31.040 Don't worry.

00:25:31.620 It's all good.

00:25:32.360 Hey, let's calm down.

00:25:33.700 Be cool.

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00:26:51.740 Also, tonight, 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central, Candace Owens sits down with Dr. Robert Malone

00:26:56.880 in an exclusive two-part interview airing tonight and tomorrow.

00:27:00.400 Neil Young is going to be furious about this.

00:27:02.880 I want that Candace canceled. 1.00

00:27:04.980 I'm pulling my music from the Daily Wire.

00:27:08.600 Neil, we don't have your...

00:27:09.680 I'm doing it.

00:27:10.680 Don't you stop.

00:27:11.800 So after all hell broke loose with the Dr. Malone interview on Rogan, Candace decided

00:27:16.720 that she wanted to make sure that all voices are heard.

00:27:19.380 Take a listen.

00:27:19.820 In order to evaluate any vaccine, you want to hear both sides of an argument.

00:27:24.980 All media and information that we are currently encountering is manipulated.

00:27:30.080 I want to jump in and talk about when your interview with Joe Rogan started going viral.

00:27:34.440 Not only was Google triggered, a whole range of legacy media were triggered.

00:27:39.580 It's an entire ecosystem of illegality and corruption.

00:27:43.800 You should be, and you are appropriately, outraged about this.

00:27:48.040 You can judge the value of a society by how it treats its children.

00:27:52.060 Our treatment of our children has been atrocious.

00:27:55.100 This is the red line, right?

00:27:56.640 This is the line.

00:27:57.820 What is it that drives you to keep going toward truth?

00:28:00.800 I've been given the gift that I might be able to make a positive impact.

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00:28:13.800 You can watch both parts of this interview exclusively at dailywire.com.

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00:28:34.440 Welcome back to the show.

00:28:49.000 Joe Rogan is going to keep calm and carry on.

00:28:51.440 Do you know who can't keep calm?

00:28:53.120 Our president.

00:28:54.440 Our president is having huge mood swings.

00:28:58.660 He's mumbling to himself, rambling incoherently,

00:29:01.580 and then he'll just start shouting, really, and he'll do this.

00:29:04.240 Come on, man.

00:29:05.400 So Joe Biden, not Joe Rogan, Joe Biden,

00:29:08.360 was just giving a speech up in Pennsylvania about infrastructure,

00:29:11.500 and out of nowhere, he starts screaming at the crowd.

00:29:14.300 Imagine being the parent,

00:29:17.120 making the minimum wage or twice the minimum wage,

00:29:21.120 and having a child with type 1 diabetes,

00:29:24.540 knowing that if you can't and have no insurance,

00:29:27.700 knowing if you cannot get that money for the insulin,

00:29:32.920 your child may die.

00:29:35.960 In addition to your child,

00:29:38.220 it strips you of your dignity, damn it.

00:29:41.460 Can you imagine looking at your child

00:29:43.120 and you know what they need

00:29:47.980 and not be able to do it?

00:29:55.760 Many of you have lost children.

00:29:58.500 Many of you have seen.

00:30:00.780 Imagine.

00:30:03.740 It's outrageous.

00:30:06.040 What is he talking about?

00:30:07.300 What does this have to do with infrastructure?

00:30:09.520 This isn't working.

00:30:11.700 I'm not just saying that because I don't like Joe Biden

00:30:13.920 and I'm on the other side of the political aisle.

00:30:15.520 Look at any of the polls.

00:30:16.480 None of this is working.

00:30:17.680 The guy's poll numbers are completely collapsing.

00:30:19.680 He's below water on every single issue.

00:30:22.180 This isn't working.

00:30:24.280 Why?

00:30:24.840 In part, it's because Joe Biden is too old.

00:30:30.220 Yes, the thing he's describing is bad.

00:30:32.220 Although, it's kind of weird the way he described it.

00:30:35.060 He said he was calm for the part about

00:30:37.100 and your child might die.

00:30:39.040 But then he got really angry and animated

00:30:40.960 for the part about you might feel undignified.

00:30:44.180 Hold on.

00:30:45.560 If you're going to get angry about anything,

00:30:46.860 get angry about your child is going to die. 0.64

00:30:48.260 Not about...

00:30:48.800 Anyway, it's because he's losing his political touch.

00:30:51.500 And the reason this isn't working

00:30:52.940 is because Joe has been around forever.

00:30:55.480 So the problems that he's describing

00:30:57.180 are problems that he probably should have tried to fix

00:30:59.660 sometime in his 50 plus year political career

00:31:03.260 at the national level of politics.

00:31:05.900 When he was vice president of the United States.

00:31:08.480 When he was senior senator for so long.

00:31:12.400 Why didn't he fix any of this then?

00:31:15.440 You can't be the outsider saying,

00:31:18.100 look at how terrible everything is.

00:31:19.200 Buddy, you've been running the country for half a century.

00:31:22.560 You've played a significant role

00:31:24.080 in running the country for half a century.

00:31:25.580 So if everything's still screwed up, that's on you.

00:31:29.280 That's your...

00:31:30.360 You've been there.

00:31:31.680 You've been in that place.

00:31:32.800 Remember when Joe Biden and Barack Obama

00:31:35.480 were supposed to fix America's healthcare system? 0.87

00:31:37.280 They were going to pass Obamacare

00:31:38.440 and all the healthcare problems were going to go away.

00:31:40.340 And Joe Biden at the signing ceremony for Obamacare

00:31:44.720 was caught on a hot mic saying,

00:31:46.400 this is a big effing deal.

00:31:48.220 This is a big...

00:31:48.720 Well, if it was such a big effing deal,

00:31:50.340 how come all the same problems still exist?

00:31:52.780 Because your policies failed.

00:31:55.080 They didn't do the thing you're supposed to do.

00:31:56.980 And so you can scream and yell at the audience

00:31:58.660 until you're blue in the face,

00:31:59.600 but no one believes you anymore.

00:32:01.620 Because you're not...

00:32:02.680 You haven't done any of the things

00:32:04.140 that you've been complaining about.

00:32:05.660 It's getting much harder for the Democrats to say

00:32:10.800 that everything's going to get a lot worse

00:32:12.780 if the Republicans win,

00:32:13.900 that the whole world is going to get a lot worse

00:32:15.380 if the Republicans win.

00:32:16.180 They're trying to do it,

00:32:17.320 but it just seems ludicrous.

00:32:19.060 There was an MSNBC contributor, Malcolm Nance,

00:32:21.900 who just claimed that if the GOP

00:32:24.760 wins the House back in the midterm elections,

00:32:29.040 then the American experiment is over.

00:32:33.000 Putin may have started this as a test, right?

00:32:36.400 To see if Joe Biden would fold almost immediately.

00:32:40.140 You have to see another thing.

00:32:41.940 Putin also understands the opportunity

00:32:44.560 of having a Republican,

00:32:47.660 you know, giving the Republicans ammunition

00:32:50.160 to topple the American government this November.

00:32:53.280 And I don't say that lightly.

00:32:55.980 If the Republicans win power this November,

00:32:58.980 that's it.

00:32:59.720 The American experiment is over.

00:33:01.920 It is the basis for autocracy.

00:33:04.340 You know, they'll follow through with their threat

00:33:05.940 to make Trump Speaker of the House

00:33:07.460 and use that as a springboard to make him president,

00:33:09.920 and then there will never be another free

00:33:12.380 or fair election in the United States.

00:33:14.840 Putin understands that.

00:33:16.320 By giving Biden this crisis,

00:33:18.440 he gets the Republicans like Tucker Carlson

00:33:22.220 and all of these other people

00:33:23.740 who is acting as a propagandist for Putin.

00:33:29.300 There are a lot of problems

00:33:31.000 with what Malcolm Nance just said.

00:33:32.860 First is the historical fact

00:33:34.840 that Democrats have always gone much softer on Russia

00:33:39.620 than the Republicans have.

00:33:41.520 The Democrats made up this whole thing

00:33:43.860 about colluding with the Russians 0.65

00:33:45.220 during the Trump administration,

00:33:46.740 but it was just completely made up.

00:33:48.500 It was cooked up by Democrat political operatives

00:33:50.380 and the deep state.

00:33:51.420 It wasn't real.

00:33:52.200 It went nowhere.

00:33:53.260 The Mueller investigation,

00:33:54.540 it's Mueller time, remember that?

00:33:55.800 It went nowhere.

00:33:56.720 It was completely fake.

00:33:58.420 Here's my evidence to you.

00:34:00.660 Republican President George Bush,

00:34:03.300 Vladimir Putin tries to invade

00:34:05.540 the sovereign country of Georgia.

00:34:08.540 Bush says no, Putin backs off.

00:34:12.880 Barack Obama, Democrat President,

00:34:14.840 Putin invades Crimea,

00:34:16.820 a region of Ukraine.

00:34:18.500 Obama says, okay, well, all right,

00:34:20.340 but now listen, Vlad, don't go any further.

00:34:22.120 No, no, come on now.

00:34:23.060 All right.

00:34:23.420 And so Vladimir Putin keeps Crimea.

00:34:26.240 The Democrat allowed Putin 0.69

00:34:27.840 to conquer part of his neighbor.

00:34:29.860 Then Donald Trump,

00:34:32.100 Vladimir Putin,

00:34:32.700 he didn't just stop wanting land

00:34:34.600 all around the world.

00:34:35.300 He just didn't invade countries anymore

00:34:37.740 because he knew that Trump

00:34:38.820 would blow him to smithereens.

00:34:40.880 Then Joe Biden comes in.

00:34:42.180 What happens?

00:34:43.560 Vladimir Putin is planning

00:34:44.480 an invasion of Ukraine

00:34:45.440 and it is already sort of underway

00:34:49.520 on the Ukrainian border.

00:34:51.580 So which party is weaker on Russia?

00:34:54.040 The Republicans who don't let

00:34:56.040 Putin invade his neighbors 0.93

00:34:57.320 or the Democrats who always

00:34:59.400 let Putin invade his neighbors?

00:35:00.800 Obviously the latter.

00:35:02.520 But then consider the ridiculous point

00:35:04.420 he's making for domestic politics.

00:35:06.560 Malcolm Nance from MSNBC.

00:35:08.440 He says,

00:35:09.960 he says,

00:35:11.820 if the opposition party

00:35:13.520 ever wins any election,

00:35:16.620 that's autocracy.

00:35:19.260 So if the current ruling party

00:35:22.620 never loses elections ever again,

00:35:26.060 that's democracy.

00:35:27.900 And if the people can elect

00:35:30.100 a different party,

00:35:31.460 that's autocracy.

00:35:33.820 That of course would be

00:35:35.600 the opposite of reality.

00:35:38.440 But this is what they believe.

00:35:40.200 I don't even think

00:35:41.000 he's being disingenuous here.

00:35:42.640 Because when they say democracy,

00:35:44.040 they don't really mean democracy.

00:35:45.820 They mean liberalism.

00:35:46.900 They mean progressivism.

00:35:48.300 They mean leftism.

00:35:49.300 But they don't mean democracy.

00:35:51.540 This is why

00:35:52.580 when conservative

00:35:55.620 candidates win elections

00:35:58.040 in the United States,

00:35:59.280 in Poland,

00:36:00.040 in Hungary,

00:36:00.620 in Brazil,

00:36:01.460 wherever,

00:36:02.820 that's always a threat

00:36:03.900 to democracy.

00:36:04.700 And you'll see it

00:36:05.060 on the headlines.

00:36:06.800 Conservative candidate

00:36:07.720 wins in Poland.

00:36:09.500 Polish democracy under threat.

00:36:11.060 The New York Times

00:36:11.520 were just writing about that.

00:36:12.580 Polish democracy is under threat

00:36:13.800 because the people

00:36:14.640 elected a non-liberal.

00:36:16.840 So democracy,

00:36:17.620 well,

00:36:17.860 if the people elected him,

00:36:19.700 by definition,

00:36:20.900 that is democratic.

00:36:22.460 But liberalism is,

00:36:23.740 is generally

00:36:24.580 quite anti-democratic.

00:36:26.200 And progressivism

00:36:27.060 is very anti-democratic

00:36:28.340 because they believe

00:36:29.640 that there is

00:36:30.160 a science of history,

00:36:31.560 a science of politics,

00:36:32.540 that they can know

00:36:33.720 basically with certainty.

00:36:35.580 And so they're going

00:36:36.600 to progress to that point.

00:36:37.780 And if you stand

00:36:38.320 in the way of that,

00:36:39.580 then that's a big problem.

00:36:41.800 And so what they're going

00:36:42.400 to do is create

00:36:43.040 a lot of anti-democratic

00:36:44.220 institutions

00:36:45.080 like the administrative state,

00:36:47.300 like various

00:36:48.240 technocratic czars,

00:36:49.560 and they're going

00:36:50.180 to run our lives for us.

00:36:51.180 Dr. Fauci is going

00:36:51.820 to run our lives for us.

00:36:52.840 And he's going to make

00:36:53.480 our life much more progressive

00:36:54.580 and much more left-wing

00:36:56.040 and much more liberal

00:36:57.540 and not very democratic.

00:36:59.860 But that's fine

00:37:00.580 because he knows

00:37:01.120 what's best.

00:37:02.540 The opposite of reality.

00:37:05.080 You want to talk

00:37:05.760 about autocracy

00:37:06.440 and democracy

00:37:07.540 and conspiracy theories.

00:37:10.860 Pennsylvania court,

00:37:11.800 Pennsylvania state court

00:37:12.580 just admitted

00:37:13.400 something that

00:37:15.900 conservatives knew

00:37:17.140 for a very long time.

00:37:18.340 Namely,

00:37:18.840 the Democrats cheated

00:37:19.960 in the 2020 election

00:37:21.020 in Pennsylvania.

00:37:21.880 They cheated.

00:37:22.640 It's plain as day.

00:37:24.080 The state constitution

00:37:25.160 in Pennsylvania says

00:37:26.040 you can't have

00:37:26.740 widespread mail-in ballots.

00:37:28.660 The Democrats

00:37:29.460 passed a law

00:37:30.920 anyway,

00:37:32.540 saying you're going

00:37:33.600 to have widespread

00:37:34.220 mail-in ballots.

00:37:36.080 This was challenged.

00:37:38.420 It was allowed

00:37:39.360 to stand

00:37:39.960 during the election

00:37:40.860 because of COVID,

00:37:41.820 because of the emergency,

00:37:42.860 you can violate

00:37:43.360 the constitution.

00:37:44.900 Then Joe Biden

00:37:45.860 got 50 bazillion votes

00:37:47.360 or whatever

00:37:47.760 in Pennsylvania,

00:37:48.400 the most votes ever

00:37:49.480 of any person

00:37:50.180 in the history of voting.

00:37:51.340 And then the state court

00:37:52.960 admits,

00:37:53.580 oh, wait a second,

00:37:54.220 it actually is

00:37:55.180 unconstitutional.

00:37:57.540 New York Times

00:37:58.420 writing about this.

00:37:59.160 I love the way

00:37:59.860 the New York Times

00:38:00.580 writes about this.

00:38:03.740 Pennsylvania courts

00:38:04.620 says states'

00:38:05.860 mail voting law

00:38:06.560 is unconstitutional.

00:38:09.800 First line,

00:38:10.880 this is the very

00:38:11.680 first sentence

00:38:12.980 of the article.

00:38:14.340 A state court

00:38:14.780 in Pennsylvania

00:38:15.180 on Friday

00:38:15.580 struck down

00:38:16.200 the state's

00:38:16.640 landmark election law

00:38:17.480 is unconstitutional,

00:38:18.760 dealing a temporary blow

00:38:20.500 to voting access

00:38:21.980 in one of the nation's

00:38:22.860 most critical

00:38:23.400 battleground states.

00:38:24.400 A temporary blow.

00:38:27.560 What do you mean

00:38:27.880 a temporary blow?

00:38:29.020 The court said

00:38:29.680 it's unconstitutional.

00:38:31.680 Yeah, but don't worry,

00:38:32.780 we'll get around the court.

00:38:34.500 Yeah, whatever,

00:38:35.500 court schmort.

00:38:36.780 Yeah, it's temporary.

00:38:37.560 Don't worry,

00:38:38.120 we're going to get

00:38:38.680 what we want.

00:38:39.880 Constitution be damned.

00:38:42.380 It's so brazen.

00:38:44.440 It's so confident.

00:38:46.100 It's so bold to say,

00:38:48.180 yeah, whatever

00:38:48.520 that idiot judge said, 0.95

00:38:49.660 it's temporary.

00:38:50.520 We'll fix it.

00:38:51.800 Don't worry,

00:38:52.240 we're going to run

00:38:53.640 these elections

00:38:54.320 however we want

00:38:56.100 and you can hold up

00:38:57.560 my constitution

00:38:58.380 and that's great,

00:38:59.280 good for you,

00:39:00.040 but we've got the power,

00:39:02.060 we've got the vision,

00:39:04.100 we've got the zeal

00:39:04.900 and we're going to do it.

00:39:06.440 That's what they're saying.

00:39:08.340 So anti-democratic,

00:39:10.180 so offensive

00:39:11.020 to ordinary people,

00:39:13.340 so offensive

00:39:13.820 to the Pennsylvania public,

00:39:16.640 to the American people

00:39:17.500 who just want to

00:39:18.400 have some say

00:39:19.520 in their government.

00:39:20.120 This is a great opportunity

00:39:22.860 for conservatives

00:39:23.860 to rework

00:39:26.860 the way that our political

00:39:28.660 coalitions are set up.

00:39:32.240 The Democrats

00:39:33.180 are now telling us

00:39:34.040 we don't care

00:39:34.600 what the people want,

00:39:35.920 we're going to force them

00:39:36.740 to do what we tell them to do

00:39:38.720 and we're not even going

00:39:39.280 to follow our own rules.

00:39:41.280 It's as elitist

00:39:42.320 as it gets,

00:39:44.300 as hypocritical

00:39:45.260 as it gets

00:39:45.880 and you got the truckers

00:39:47.980 siding with the conservatives.

00:39:50.480 You've got parents

00:39:51.700 right now

00:39:52.520 siding with the conservatives.

00:39:54.880 You've got,

00:39:55.340 when you look at

00:39:55.820 the racial demographics,

00:39:56.960 they're breaking

00:39:57.520 quite significantly

00:39:58.420 for conservatives

00:39:59.260 or in the direction

00:40:01.000 rather of conservatives.

00:40:02.700 So you saw

00:40:03.680 a little bit of movement

00:40:04.320 with the black vote.

00:40:05.000 You're seeing huge movement

00:40:05.940 right now

00:40:06.440 with the Hispanic vote.

00:40:08.500 You're seeing big movement

00:40:09.400 with the suburban,

00:40:10.360 it just means white,

00:40:11.180 white middle class women 1.00

00:40:12.500 in the suburbs.

00:40:13.800 They're breaking

00:40:14.600 in the direction

00:40:16.240 of conservatives.

00:40:16.900 We've got to seize

00:40:17.320 this opportunity

00:40:18.040 but if you really

00:40:19.240 want to seize

00:40:19.680 this opportunity,

00:40:20.260 you can't just recite

00:40:22.040 the same stupid platitudes

00:40:23.320 of the last 20 years

00:40:24.460 of so-called conservatism.

00:40:26.080 You're going to need

00:40:26.640 to actually rethink things.

00:40:28.800 You're not just going

00:40:29.580 to hoodwink

00:40:30.380 huge demographics

00:40:32.080 of people

00:40:32.520 to come over

00:40:33.240 to your side

00:40:33.860 if your policies

00:40:34.760 will not actually

00:40:35.360 benefit them

00:40:35.980 and if you're,

00:40:38.140 you don't really

00:40:39.740 consider them

00:40:40.240 to be your base,

00:40:41.220 your constituency.

00:40:42.000 So this is an issue

00:40:44.540 right now

00:40:44.880 that Senator Ron Johnson

00:40:45.960 is trying to work through.

00:40:47.280 Senator Ron Johnson,

00:40:48.140 Republican senator,

00:40:49.740 perfectly fine fella. 0.96

00:40:50.860 I'm not really attacking

00:40:52.240 Senator Johnson

00:40:53.020 but he was just asked

00:40:54.680 a question

00:40:55.180 by a member of the press

00:40:56.340 and his answer,

00:40:57.420 I think,

00:40:57.720 expresses

00:40:58.200 some of the soul searching

00:41:00.200 that the GOP

00:41:01.420 is going to have to do

00:41:02.120 right now,

00:41:02.560 specifically

00:41:02.980 on the issue

00:41:04.100 of family policy.

00:41:06.140 People decide

00:41:07.020 to have families

00:41:07.980 and become parents.

00:41:09.560 that's something

00:41:11.080 they need to consider

00:41:13.720 when they make that choice.

00:41:16.760 I've never really felt

00:41:17.920 it was society's

00:41:19.080 responsibility

00:41:21.020 to take care

00:41:22.920 of other people's children.

00:41:25.020 Okay, so

00:41:25.800 Senator Johnson,

00:41:27.560 perhaps he can be forgiven.

00:41:28.980 He is a Republican

00:41:30.080 who came up

00:41:30.960 in a different age

00:41:32.020 with different talking points

00:41:34.980 and different platitudes

00:41:35.880 and very often

00:41:37.080 politicians are beholden

00:41:38.360 to the years

00:41:39.740 they first got elected.

00:41:41.140 Okay,

00:41:42.020 but that answer

00:41:43.060 is not going to work.

00:41:43.940 What he's saying

00:41:44.320 is the government

00:41:44.820 has no role

00:41:45.560 in encouraging families.

00:41:47.180 That's for culture.

00:41:48.620 That's for civil society.

00:41:50.240 That's not,

00:41:50.940 that's for the private sphere.

00:41:51.920 That's not for the public sphere.

00:41:52.940 That's not for the government.

00:41:54.540 You know, Buster,

00:41:56.480 government played a role

00:41:58.160 in the problem

00:41:59.280 in the first place.

00:42:00.860 When government

00:42:01.720 signed trade deals

00:42:02.960 that gutted

00:42:04.460 whole industries

00:42:05.420 and whole communities

00:42:06.660 and whole classes

00:42:07.660 of people.

00:42:09.320 That had an effect

00:42:10.560 on family policy.

00:42:12.220 When the government

00:42:12.860 came in

00:42:13.500 and made divorce

00:42:16.360 much easier,

00:42:17.620 that gutted families.

00:42:19.780 When the government

00:42:20.940 came in

00:42:21.740 and changed regulations

00:42:23.520 around

00:42:24.900 contraception,

00:42:27.140 adoption,

00:42:28.620 around the economy even,

00:42:30.400 that had an effect

00:42:31.820 on families.

00:42:34.500 When the government

00:42:35.660 came in

00:42:36.360 and took away

00:42:38.320 virtually any impediment

00:42:40.060 to mass migration

00:42:41.300 in America

00:42:41.900 and crushed the wages,

00:42:43.900 particularly of the

00:42:44.720 working class,

00:42:45.720 that had an effect

00:42:46.900 on family formation.

00:42:48.160 It's a lot harder

00:42:48.660 to raise a family then.

00:42:50.180 That was government.

00:42:51.160 That wasn't

00:42:52.000 the culture.

00:42:52.820 That wasn't

00:42:53.240 the civil society.

00:42:54.280 That wasn't just,

00:42:55.320 you know,

00:42:55.520 we've got to go

00:42:56.060 change hearts and minds.

00:42:57.060 That was the government

00:42:57.700 that did that

00:42:58.160 with laws

00:42:58.780 and court decisions

00:43:00.080 and executive orders

00:43:03.080 and treaties

00:43:03.760 and maybe the government

00:43:04.720 needs to fix

00:43:05.400 some of those problems too.

00:43:07.760 Obviously,

00:43:09.680 the basic role

00:43:10.680 of government

00:43:11.180 is do good stuff

00:43:12.280 and avoid bad stuff.

00:43:14.100 That's,

00:43:14.640 at the most basic level,

00:43:16.760 that's what politics

00:43:17.420 exists for, okay?

00:43:18.600 And anyone who tells you

00:43:19.540 otherwise is just

00:43:20.740 putting lipstick

00:43:22.260 on a pig here 0.90

00:43:23.360 or they're trying

00:43:23.860 to gussy up something

00:43:24.700 that's a plain fact.

00:43:26.080 We want more good.

00:43:27.720 I guess it's not

00:43:28.340 it's not piggish to say

00:43:29.760 we want good stuff

00:43:30.760 we don't want bad stuff

00:43:31.800 but that's the basic level,

00:43:33.300 okay?

00:43:34.320 There's a lot

00:43:34.760 the government could do

00:43:35.420 to help us

00:43:35.820 get out of this mess

00:43:36.740 and encourage family formation.

00:43:38.160 In Hungary and Russia,

00:43:39.180 by the way,

00:43:39.440 they're just paying people

00:43:40.160 to have kids.

00:43:40.700 Not the worst idea

00:43:41.540 but what else,

00:43:42.280 there are other things

00:43:42.880 we could do.

00:43:43.380 We could restrict immigration. 0.94

00:43:44.980 We could encourage marriage.

00:43:46.340 We could end abortion. 0.87

00:43:47.560 We could regulate

00:43:48.240 contraception even.

00:43:49.520 We could do,

00:43:49.940 there's a lot of stuff

00:43:50.660 we could do,

00:43:51.400 okay,

00:43:51.740 that would help families

00:43:53.700 and I think Republicans

00:43:55.240 are going to need

00:43:55.640 to start speaking

00:43:56.300 seriously about that

00:43:57.520 if we want to hold on

00:43:58.880 to the gains

00:43:59.720 that we are making

00:44:00.520 in traditionally

00:44:01.480 left-wing demographics.

00:44:04.860 Speaking of family formation,

00:44:07.680 I just saw the most,

00:44:11.000 it was the most horrifying clip

00:44:13.600 I've ever seen on the news.

00:44:16.360 I've seen a lot of ugly things

00:44:18.680 on the news

00:44:19.740 but in terms of an actual

00:44:21.400 just news segment,

00:44:22.680 not covering an event

00:44:23.440 but an actual segment

00:44:24.520 made for a TV show.

00:44:27.520 This is the most horrifying thing

00:44:28.800 I think I've ever seen.

00:44:30.680 A woman goes on 1.00

00:44:31.640 a local news show

00:44:32.640 to debate abortion.

00:44:35.240 There's a pro-life woman there 1.00

00:44:36.300 and a pro-abortion woman there

00:44:37.800 and the pro-abortion woman

00:44:39.360 took an abortion drug

00:44:41.440 and gave herself an abortion

00:44:43.020 live on air.

00:44:44.860 Are you advocating

00:44:46.040 stocking up

00:44:47.000 on abortion pills

00:44:48.500 in case Roe vs. Wade

00:44:49.860 is overturned?

00:44:50.860 Yes, so they are incredibly safe,

00:44:55.900 safer than Viagra

00:44:56.920 or Tylenol.

00:44:59.440 They've actually been

00:45:00.560 in medical practice

00:45:02.240 since 2000.

00:45:03.420 So if you order it

00:45:04.460 through the mail,

00:45:05.060 they'd be the same thing

00:45:05.980 you would receive

00:45:06.560 if you were to walk

00:45:07.320 into a clinic.

00:45:09.200 And the change

00:45:10.100 that recently happened

00:45:10.920 is previously

00:45:11.680 you had to actually

00:45:13.400 physically go to a doctor

00:45:14.620 to receive

00:45:15.280 at least the first

00:45:16.280 of the medication.

00:45:17.000 and now

00:45:18.840 you can get it

00:45:19.560 sent to you

00:45:20.040 through the mail

00:45:20.680 on a sliding scale

00:45:22.840 and it is

00:45:26.320 extremely easy

00:45:27.920 and private

00:45:29.540 and allows you

00:45:30.240 to really self-manage

00:45:31.360 your abortion.

00:45:32.920 And Charlie,

00:45:33.860 I just really

00:45:34.320 want to share

00:45:35.660 with you

00:45:36.120 really quickly

00:45:37.000 this year

00:45:39.000 is Mifepristone.

00:45:40.760 This is the first

00:45:41.480 of two pills

00:45:42.200 you would take

00:45:42.720 to end a pregnancy

00:45:43.560 and it would induce

00:45:44.860 an abortion,

00:45:45.960 this very pill.

00:45:47.440 by blocking

00:45:48.160 the hormone

00:45:48.700 and allowing

00:45:49.300 a pregnancy

00:45:49.720 to grow

00:45:50.060 and I want

00:45:50.460 to show you

00:45:50.980 how easy it is

00:45:52.240 and safe it is

00:45:53.160 by taking it myself.

00:45:54.700 We're going to

00:45:55.220 cut it off there.

00:45:55.800 I don't actually

00:45:56.820 want to show

00:45:57.680 this woman

00:45:58.040 taking the pill

00:45:58.740 because she's

00:45:59.160 killing someone

00:45:59.700 on television

00:46:00.380 and we don't

00:46:01.080 want to have

00:46:01.400 snuff videos

00:46:02.600 on here.

00:46:03.560 So we're

00:46:05.560 not going to

00:46:06.100 show that.

00:46:06.960 She says it's

00:46:07.520 her third abortion.

00:46:11.200 I have no reason

00:46:12.120 not to believe her.

00:46:12.940 She says she's

00:46:13.400 pregnant there.

00:46:13.920 I have no reason

00:46:14.560 not to believe her

00:46:15.380 about that either.

00:46:16.040 She seems giddy.

00:46:17.000 to kill her

00:46:17.800 children.

00:46:18.640 And you'll notice

00:46:19.180 when she holds

00:46:19.720 up the pill

00:46:20.300 she's got a 0.79

00:46:21.980 tattoo on her

00:46:22.620 hand and that

00:46:23.220 tattoo is

00:46:24.300 of a pentagram.

00:46:27.160 It's a sign

00:46:28.080 of witches.

00:46:30.380 I'm not,

00:46:31.400 this is not

00:46:31.860 some fevered,

00:46:32.740 crazy,

00:46:33.320 delusional thinking.

00:46:34.040 This is what

00:46:34.440 witches, 0.58

00:46:35.160 self-described

00:46:35.700 witches, 0.58

00:46:36.720 use as one

00:46:38.100 of their symbols.

00:46:38.820 It's a satanic

00:46:39.600 symbol.

00:46:39.960 It's an occult 0.88

00:46:40.820 symbol.

00:46:43.240 Do you think

00:46:43.820 that's just

00:46:44.180 a coincidence?

00:46:46.120 Because there

00:46:46.840 are people

00:46:47.180 who say,

00:46:47.660 okay,

00:46:47.920 listen,

00:46:48.240 you keep

00:46:48.600 your religion.

00:46:49.540 You keep

00:46:50.060 your religion

00:46:50.620 out of my

00:46:51.080 politics and

00:46:51.680 my health

00:46:52.080 care.

00:46:52.680 And then

00:46:53.100 they hold

00:46:53.400 up their

00:46:53.880 hand and

00:46:54.240 they've got

00:46:54.520 a satanic

00:46:55.240 symbol there.

00:46:58.380 What about

00:46:58.980 your religion?

00:47:00.780 Hold on,

00:47:01.160 let's definitely

00:47:01.820 keep your

00:47:02.420 religion.

00:47:02.900 I think

00:47:03.180 my religion,

00:47:03.860 Christianity,

00:47:04.200 is pretty good

00:47:04.960 in politics

00:47:05.540 and health

00:47:06.160 care.

00:47:06.700 I think

00:47:06.900 it's good

00:47:07.140 because it's

00:47:07.880 a good religion,

00:47:08.480 it's true

00:47:08.980 religion and

00:47:10.300 it leads

00:47:10.700 to human

00:47:11.160 flourishing.

00:47:12.720 And I think

00:47:13.440 that your

00:47:13.780 religion,

00:47:14.920 Satanism, 0.55

00:47:15.900 is bad and

00:47:16.940 should definitely

00:47:17.520 be suppressed.

00:47:18.300 We should

00:47:18.600 definitely keep

00:47:19.040 that one out

00:47:20.420 of politics

00:47:21.360 and health

00:47:22.260 care.

00:47:24.120 But they

00:47:24.600 will say,

00:47:24.940 oh,

00:47:25.140 come on,

00:47:25.500 you silly.

00:47:26.440 I'm not

00:47:26.800 really a

00:47:27.440 Satanist.

00:47:28.100 Come on,

00:47:28.380 there's nothing,

00:47:28.840 there's no,

00:47:29.220 there are no

00:47:29.560 gods,

00:47:30.040 there are no

00:47:30.320 deities,

00:47:30.840 there's no

00:47:31.200 angels or

00:47:31.700 demons.

00:47:32.200 It's all

00:47:32.440 just stuff.

00:47:33.300 It's just like

00:47:34.020 kind of a

00:47:34.420 symbol,

00:47:35.240 right?

00:47:35.540 A symbol

00:47:35.900 of what,

00:47:36.580 darling?

00:47:36.900 Why are

00:47:37.180 you wearing

00:47:37.540 the symbol?

00:47:38.820 This reminds

00:47:39.280 me of that

00:47:39.740 quote by

00:47:40.160 Baudelaire,

00:47:40.840 the finest

00:47:41.280 trick the

00:47:41.740 devil ever

00:47:42.160 played was

00:47:43.120 to convince

00:47:43.580 people that

00:47:44.140 he does

00:47:44.420 not exist.

00:47:46.800 But you

00:47:47.360 see it,

00:47:48.120 once you

00:47:48.780 see it,

00:47:49.260 you can't

00:47:49.580 unsee it.

00:47:50.820 Why is

00:47:51.300 this woman,

00:47:51.780 why does

00:47:52.020 she have a 0.53

00:47:52.360 satanic

00:47:52.720 symbol on

00:47:53.140 her hand? 0.59

00:47:53.760 Why did

00:47:54.200 Saul Alinsky,

00:47:55.540 the author

00:47:56.000 of Rules

00:47:56.440 for Radicals,

00:47:57.180 one of the

00:47:57.460 most influential

00:47:58.340 leftist

00:47:59.100 organizers and

00:48:00.020 theorists of

00:48:00.740 the last

00:48:01.080 hundred years,

00:48:02.460 a mentor to

00:48:03.160 Hillary Clinton,

00:48:04.280 why did he,

00:48:05.040 acknowledge in

00:48:06.920 the beginning of

00:48:07.980 his first edition

00:48:08.940 of Rules for

00:48:09.520 Radicals, 0.64

00:48:10.140 why did he

00:48:10.540 acknowledge,

00:48:11.160 right after the

00:48:11.800 dedication,

00:48:12.660 Lucifer?

00:48:14.720 He, in part,

00:48:16.120 dedicated the

00:48:16.720 book to

00:48:17.180 Lucifer, who he

00:48:18.260 said was the

00:48:18.700 first rebel who

00:48:19.940 lost himself

00:48:20.540 heaven but won

00:48:21.160 for himself a

00:48:22.440 political power,

00:48:23.140 a kingdom.

00:48:23.440 is that just,

00:48:25.900 oh, ha, ha,

00:48:26.320 it's just a

00:48:26.760 coincidence,

00:48:27.240 it's just a

00:48:27.660 symbol, it's

00:48:28.060 not real.

00:48:28.840 Well, you

00:48:29.420 know, I'm

00:48:29.620 seeing a lot

00:48:30.220 of this

00:48:30.560 stuff, I'm

00:48:31.760 seeing a lot

00:48:32.140 of this

00:48:32.440 symbolism and

00:48:33.520 symbols are

00:48:35.340 just meaningless.

00:48:37.480 If what you're

00:48:38.460 saying, if what

00:48:39.660 the materialists are

00:48:40.620 saying is true,

00:48:41.640 that there's

00:48:42.040 nothing spiritual,

00:48:42.920 there's nothing

00:48:43.480 beyond this

00:48:44.900 physical world

00:48:45.640 of matter,

00:48:46.660 then symbols are

00:48:47.560 meaningless, right,

00:48:48.280 because they don't

00:48:48.600 refer to anything.

00:48:49.540 But if they're

00:48:52.000 meaningless, why do

00:48:53.120 we have them?

00:48:53.640 And why are they

00:48:54.060 all kind of the

00:48:54.720 same symbol?

00:48:55.420 And why are they

00:48:55.940 all satanic?

00:48:58.840 Maybe there actually

00:49:00.060 is something there.

00:49:03.100 The question that we

00:49:04.620 need to ask ourselves

00:49:05.420 in public life is

00:49:06.600 not should we have

00:49:07.740 religion in politics

00:49:09.500 or should we not

00:49:10.460 have religion in

00:49:11.160 politics?

00:49:12.320 All politics comes

00:49:13.320 down to religion.

00:49:14.480 There's no escaping

00:49:15.260 it.

00:49:15.560 All human conflict

00:49:16.280 is theological.

00:49:17.220 You can admit it

00:49:17.960 or you cannot admit

00:49:18.740 it, but it's always

00:49:19.480 going to come down

00:49:20.000 to that because

00:49:20.680 it's always about

00:49:21.340 moral questions and

00:49:22.280 it's always about

00:49:22.800 the nature of man

00:49:23.560 and his relationship

00:49:24.280 to the state and

00:49:25.220 so you can't avoid

00:49:25.940 it.

00:49:26.300 The question is not

00:49:27.300 are we going to

00:49:28.140 have religion or

00:49:28.880 not have religion?

00:49:29.740 The question is are

00:49:30.500 we going to have

00:49:30.800 true religion or

00:49:31.560 false religion?

00:49:33.160 Which one?

00:49:33.600 What do you want?

00:49:34.080 Do you want,

00:49:35.000 here are two choices

00:49:35.640 that this lady is 0.98

00:49:36.640 going to present to

00:49:37.160 you, Christianity 0.81

00:49:37.880 or Satanism.

00:49:38.900 What do you want

00:49:39.280 to live under?

00:49:40.560 Well, I don't know.

00:49:42.060 Can I just have

00:49:42.820 Zoroastrianism? 0.71

00:49:45.560 Maybe.

00:49:46.120 I don't think so.

00:49:46.760 I don't think that's

00:49:47.420 not really an option,

00:49:48.340 is it?

00:49:48.620 That's not really

00:49:49.180 what we're talking

00:49:49.720 about.

00:49:50.900 You can't avoid it

00:49:52.200 and it's a very

00:49:53.480 childish impulse

00:49:54.420 of people on the

00:49:57.660 left and the right

00:49:58.220 to try to avoid

00:49:59.200 the ultimately

00:50:00.160 religious character

00:50:01.100 of politics.

00:50:04.620 Obviously,

00:50:05.100 what that woman 1.00

00:50:05.540 did should be

00:50:06.060 illegal.

00:50:07.060 Obviously,

00:50:07.560 these drugs

00:50:08.020 should be illegal.

00:50:08.840 You're going to

00:50:09.220 hear some people

00:50:09.740 say, well,

00:50:10.220 you can't ban it.

00:50:10.960 How can you ban

00:50:11.520 it?

00:50:11.660 It's a pill in the

00:50:12.280 mail.

00:50:12.520 You can order it

00:50:13.000 on the internet.

00:50:14.280 I don't know.

00:50:14.720 How do we ban

00:50:15.220 other drugs on the

00:50:15.960 internet?

00:50:16.440 How do we ban

00:50:18.000 ordering illegal

00:50:18.780 weapons on the

00:50:19.400 internet?

00:50:19.820 How do we ban

00:50:20.940 downloading child

00:50:22.180 pornography on the

00:50:23.060 internet?

00:50:23.460 How about that?

00:50:24.440 Well, it's on the

00:50:25.220 internet.

00:50:25.680 Well, it's too hard

00:50:27.060 to control.

00:50:28.000 Well, it's too hard

00:50:28.580 to ban things.

00:50:30.320 So, I don't know.

00:50:31.380 We do a pretty good

00:50:31.960 job of banning all

00:50:32.760 of those other

00:50:33.200 things.

00:50:33.500 We arrest lots of

00:50:34.340 people every year

00:50:35.120 for violating that

00:50:36.320 law.

00:50:37.920 Maybe we can ban

00:50:38.860 this too.

00:50:40.580 Certainly, you can

00:50:41.200 go after the 1.00

00:50:41.800 dealers.

00:50:42.820 Certainly, you can

00:50:43.360 go after the 1.00

00:50:43.880 middlemen and the

00:50:44.480 distributors.

00:50:45.120 Certainly, you can

00:50:45.540 go after the mail

00:50:46.100 carriers, for goodness

00:50:46.820 sakes.

00:50:48.080 But you can.

00:50:49.100 You can.

00:50:49.560 We have political

00:50:50.300 power, guys.

00:50:51.820 We just have to

00:50:52.820 use it.

00:50:54.020 Take a lesson from

00:50:55.040 the truckers up in

00:50:55.920 Canada.

00:50:56.420 We got a lot more

00:50:57.280 political power than

00:50:58.760 some people think that

00:50:59.640 we do.

00:51:00.220 We've just got to

00:51:02.000 use it.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 01, 2022

Ep. 934 - Don't Mess With Truckers

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