Ep. 944 - Prime Minister Psycho Is Just Like His (Maybe) Father
Summary
Justin Trudeau is making sure to quash every last gasp of freedom in his own country. In response to a peaceful convoy of truckers protesting the government s vaccine mandate, Trudeau s government has officially suspended civil liberties in Canada.
Transcript
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is very concerned about freedom in Ukraine.
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Western intelligence agencies believe Russia will invade Ukraine any day now. And so Trudeau
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has announced that he will be giving Ukraine a half billion dollar loan and an additional
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7.8 million dollars worth of military equipment. It is even possible that we will see Canadian
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soldiers fighting alongside other NATO allies in Ukraine to repel Putin's invading force.
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So crucial is it to Western civilization that we maintain freedom in Ukraine. And to prepare
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for this robust defense of freedom in Eastern Europe, Justin Trudeau is making sure to quash
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every last gasp of freedom in his own country. In response to the peaceful convoy of truckers
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protesting the government's vaccine mandate, Trudeau has officially suspended civil liberties
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Federal government has invoked the Emergencies Act to supplement provincial and territorial capacity
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to address the blockades and occupations. It is now clear that responsible leadership
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requires us to do this. These measures must be and will be compliant with our Charter of
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Rights and Freedoms. Indeed, the Emergencies Act was created in the late 80s to flow from
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and uphold the Charter. We'll always defend the rights of Canadians to peaceful assembly and
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freedom of expression. Here in our capital city, families and small businesses have been enduring
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illegal obstruction of their neighborhoods. Occupying streets, harassing people, breaking the law.
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This is not a peaceful protest. BLM riots, that's mostly peaceful. But truckers honking to avoid injecting
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themselves with an experimental drug of dubious moral and medical value. That is terrorism.
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This sort of law, last invoked by Trudeau's father when he was the leader of Canada,
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will allow the suspension of public assembly, travel, and the use of property. It will allow
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the government to force privately owned tow truck companies to do the government's bidding and take
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the trucks. It will even freeze and seize the financial assets of the truckers and the truckers'
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supporters. First, we are broadening the scope of Canada's anti-money laundering and terrorist
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financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers
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they use. These changes cover all forms of transactions, including digital assets, such as
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cryptocurrencies. The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms
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and some of the payment service providers they use are not fully captured under the Proceeds of Crime
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and Terrorist Financing Act. Regular old truckers who don't want to inject themselves need
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with an experimental drug are having their rights, their way of life, and their property taken from
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them in Canada. The nicest, smiliest, most pleasant liberal nation on earth. And I'm supposed to be
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worried about a territorial battle in one of the most frequently conquered countries in the history of
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the world. I don't want to sound callous, and I am sure Vladimir Putin is a no good, dirty, rotten,
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terrible guy. But how exactly are we supposed to defend freedom on the other side of the world
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when we can't even preserve it in America's hat? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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He is doubling down. He is calling these truckers terrorists. He is saying you will take the
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Fauci ouchie. You will inject yourselves, even though everything we told you about it,
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all the promises we made turned out not to be totally true, even though the virus is not nearly
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as dangerous as the fear mongers initially said it was. Still, you've got to do it. It's almost as
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though this isn't about a virus. It's almost as though this isn't about the public health or a
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pandemic. It's almost as though this is just about an exercise of power, a resetting of the
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political order and the economy. And Justin Trudeau asserting himself, just like so many
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politicians in America have asserted themselves, saying, no, we're going to grab this power in
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the new normal. That's what Trudeau is doing. Now, the little glimmer of hope, the silver lining in
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Canada, is that where power is closer to the people, where power is more accountable to the people,
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you are seeing not a doubling down on the mandates, but a loosening up. You're seeing,
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for instance, in Ontario, the Ontario premier Doug Ford, who is also significantly more conservative
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than Justin Trudeau. He's just announced that the mandates are gone. They're going the way of
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the dodo. The vaccine passport system will be shut down on March 1st. Capacity limits on restaurants,
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bars, theaters, and gyms will be lifted this week. That'll be on Thursday, a week ahead of schedule.
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He said that the reason for the lifting of these restrictions has absolutely nothing to do with
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the truckers. Has nothing to do, no way, not with the Freedom Convoy. This is purely science. He says
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they would never negotiate with people who are breaking the law. I am a little skeptical of that
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because while we're told by all the public health geniuses that they're going to just follow the science,
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science and the science, the science hasn't changed. The science hasn't changed one little bit.
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These lockdowns, these mandates, these vaccine passport requirements have been implemented at
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various times throughout America and throughout Canada, but they've really ramped up within the
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last month or so. And then all of a sudden they went away ahead of schedule most of the time when,
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when the mandates weren't simply indefinite. So what changed? Not the medical science,
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but the political science. Even Fauci has admitted this. All the public health leaders have admitted
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this. They are calibrating their public health pronouncements to what they think the people can
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take. And they're basing it much more on what they think people will do rather than on any sort of
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epidemiology. This, this was true from the very beginning when Fauci said, don't wear the masks,
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the masks don't work. And then five seconds later, he said, you have to wear the masks. The masks are
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really great. And then later on they said, actually the masks don't really do all that much.
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And the world leaders themselves never really took the masks seriously. Just look at the Superbowl,
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all the plebs who had to work at the Superbowl, they had their masks on all of the rich, wealthy,
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powerful elites who were at the Superbowl. None of them were wearing their masks because they never
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really believed it either. It was always about controlling people. You even had this with the,
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the shortening of the coronavirus quarantine happened just within the last month. They said, okay,
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we're no longer going to make you quarantine for 10 days. It's going to be five days. Why did the,
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did the virus suddenly get lethargic and lazy and it's no longer infecting people? No, they just knew
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that people weren't going to do it. And Fauci even said that at a certain point, you got to figure out
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what people are going to do. And so they weren't going to do it anymore. And so he changed the policy.
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This is all about the truckers. Good job truckers. Honk, honk, honk. Love what you're doing.
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regimes that we've seen anywhere in the country. I was in D.C. about a month ago for the March for Life.
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And almost every place you would go into was demanding your papers, your medical history,
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your ID. It was really, really intense. Some people pushed back against that sort of thing.
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This was being reflected in the poll numbers. And all of a sudden, even D.C. is lifting the mandates.
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I love this woman, the mayor of D.C. She's trying to make it sound like this is just the ordinary
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way of things. And they're going to expire. And you know, the science. Lady, these mandates have
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only been enforced for for a month now. What do you mean? And now they're so they're just going to
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expire now. No, you know what's happening is that the Democrats know they're in an election year.
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They see that these mandates are absolutely crushing them in the polls. And so they're doing a complete
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the majority of Democrats do not want Joe Biden to run again in 2024. Who do you think put this poll
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out? Because you're going to hear from the left, they're going to say, oh, this is propaganda. Oh,
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this is just right-wing conspiracy nonsense. Who do you think put the poll out? You think it was
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the Daily Wire? You think it was the blaze? You think it was Fox News? You think it was CNN, baby?
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CNN says the majority of Democrats do not want Joe Biden to run again in 2024.
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Only 45% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning voters want Biden to run for re-election. 51%
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want someone else to run. Margin of error is 3.3 points. This is really devastating news for Joe Biden.
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I was having a drink with a liberal family member of mine just about a week ago. He says to me,
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Michael, who are we going to get? I said, who's we? He said, we Democrats. Who are we going to get?
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There's no way Biden can run again, right? I said, I don't. What's the alternative? Kamala Harris is
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less popular than Biden. The Democrats keep trying to make Buttigieg happen, just like the mean girls
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try to make Fetch happen. It's not going to happen. I know he was created in a lab, probably in the CIA
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building at Langley. I know he checks all the boxes. He's glib. He's good looking. He's gay. He went to
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Harvard. He worked at him. I know he seems great on paper, but he's not going to happen, guys.
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Buttigieg is not going to happen. So then who do you have? You've got
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Antony Blinken, the secretary of state. I don't think so. Yeah. After botching every foreign issue
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during his tenure, you've got Liz Warren. Is she still, I don't think she's a thing anymore. Who
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do you have? You've got nothing. And so the majority of even Democrats don't want this guy to run
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Joe Biden. And yet he's probably the best option they've got. The one other option,
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and they're already floating this. Doug Schoen, a former Clinton advisor, ran an op-ed in the Wall
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Street Journal about a month or so ago floating this idea. What if they reanimate the corpse of
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Hillary Clinton? What if they go back and have Hillary 3.0? Well, there's even worse news there
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for Democrats. John McLaughlin, who was a pollster who worked for Trump, but he's a very respected
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pollster on both sides of the aisle. John McLaughlin just ran a poll trying to figure out how Trump
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would fare against any Democrat candidate in 2024. Here's what he found. Our last national poll,
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Joe Biden has a 57 job disapproval. That's a drop of 33 points since last April. I mean,
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last April, he had a 50 percent, 58 percent of proof. Trump had left them with a growing economy,
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vaccines. People thought things were going to get better. And in Senate, instead, they spent,
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they had, he didn't have to do anything. Donald Trump defeats Joe Biden nationally in these polls,
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49-44. And Trump defeats Kamala Harris, even worse, 51-40. And he even beat Hillary Clinton, 51-41.
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So the Republicans are united. And for this November, the Republicans are leading in the
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generic ballot for Congress, 48-43. It's just absolutely devastating news for the Democrats.
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It's sort of devastating news as well for the non-Trump Republicans, because you hear a lot of
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talk right now about, especially Ron DeSantis, he's considered to be the sort of young gun,
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shiny new thing who could be a great, and I think he could be a good presidential candidate.
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But the hurdle that he's going to have to overcome is that Donald Trump is just dominating the field.
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You will sometimes hear anti-Trump people in the Democrats and in the Republican Party who say,
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well, Trump's only commanding the support of 53 percent of Republicans.
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Oh, is that all? Only 53 percent? You look at the next candidate, Ron DeSantis,
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who's a great governor, who's, who's doing a good job, who probably could be a good presidential
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candidate. He's at something like 13 percent. The other, the other candidates also who would be
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superb presidential candidates, you look at someone like Ted Cruz, you look at someone like
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Mike Pompeo, you look, I mean, you go down the list, all of, all of them are at 13 or less.
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Trump is at 53. Because you got to remember, for people who are tuning into shows like this,
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you are very politically aware. You are. I mean, this is not just flattery. If you're tuning into a
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show like this, you know what's going on in politics. You know who the players are. You
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know what the stakes are. You know what the official message is. You know what the reality is. But the
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vast majority of Americans do not spend their time thinking about these things. They don't.
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There, I, I just spoke to a young woman, perfectly bright, ordinary, well-adjusted young woman,
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who I mentioned Dr. Fauci. She said, who's Dr. Fauci? I said, lucky you. Blessed are you that you are
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not paying so much attention to what's going on that you don't, you don't know who Dr. Fauci is.
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That's great. So when you think of ordinary people who are just going about their lives,
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who are not concerned about, I don't know, what's going on in Ukraine this week or what
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this particular law in Canada means for this, for ordinary people who are just kind of paying
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attention to their jobs and their family and their local communities, what's the name you're going
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to think of is Trump. Now, the good news for the Republicans is Trump is absolutely crushing
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every other candidate right now. And the House Republicans are, are absolutely crushing the
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Democrats. So how do we lose? How do we lose? Well, Republicans can still lose. And the reason
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they can still lose is that Republicans do not have any institutional power. The liberals control
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every single center of power in this country, except for the people. That's what, that's what the
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trucker thing is about. That's what the anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-public health establishment
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protests are about in America. It's what the Freedom Convoy is about in France, for goodness sakes.
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They've got a trucker protest in France right now. What's it about? It's especially pronounced here in
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America. We don't control the universities, we conservatives. We don't control the media.
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We don't control big tech. We don't control corporations. We don't control sports. We don't
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control the government. We don't control the bureaucracy. We don't control the NGOs. We don't
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control the transnational. We don't control any of it. But we still have a lot of the people.
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We still have roughly half the people, probably more than half the people, if these polls are to
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be believed. And that's what's creating this friction. That's what's creating this tension. But I'll show
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you how it played out. Do you remember years ago now, the New York Times blamed Sarah Palin for a
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mass shooting? Because Sarah Palin had put out some totally normal political material saying,
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these are the districts we're targeting. These are the policies that we're targeting in our political
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actions in this coming election cycle. Right? And that word and that image of the target,
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then later on, uh, Congressman Gabby Giffords, Democrat Congressman gets shot. She ended up
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surviving, but she ends up getting shot. And the left blames Sarah Palin because she used this image
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of targeting districts. Everyone uses it. Democrats use it. Republicans use it. They've always,
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but they, they found a cynical opportunity and they said, Sarah Palin's responsible.
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And Sarah Palin sued the New York Times for defamation.
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Well, unfortunately, Palin sued the New York Times in a New York court.
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The, the jury was deliberating on this case. It seems like a pretty strong case to me.
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And then the judge, while the jury was deliberating, threw out the case. And the judge
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in this liberal New York court said, sorry, the Palin team has not, has not proved that, that the,
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the, what the New York Times did reached this very high standard for defamation. And the judge is
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right about two things. He's right about two. One, there is a very high standard for defamation in
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this country. There wasn't always a very high standard for defamation, but there is now. And two,
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what the judge said was the, the Palin team did not prove actual malice. Meaning even if the New York
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Times is extremely ignorant and extremely irresponsible, the, the New York Times, there's
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no proof that the New York Times actually knew that the stupid nonsense that they were publishing was,
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was false. And so the defense is basically, look, the New York Times, they're a bunch of idiots. How
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are they supposed to know? The New York Times, they're totally ignorant. They don't know anything
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about what's going on. So because you, because you can't prove that the New York Times has even two
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brain cells to rub together. Therefore it's not defamation, which is a fairly strong case when
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you're talking about, when you're talking about the New York Times. Now the, the reason for this,
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the reason that the threshold is so high for defamation is because there was a court case in
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1964, New York Times versus Sullivan. It actually involved the New York Times again, because they're
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extremely irresponsible journalists. And in that case, the liberal court decided to raise the
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standard immensely for defamation to this standard of actual malice. And so for all intents and purposes,
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you, a public figure cannot sue for defamation, no matter how irresponsible and vicious the
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coverage is. In other countries, it's pretty easy. And sometimes public figures do win, but not here
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in America, not since the 1960s. Conservatives need to cut this out. There is an impulse among
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conservatives to say, look, we want, we, we need to protect the freedom of the press to such a degree
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that they should be able to publish whatever nonsense lies about politicians. That's the only
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way to preserve free speech in America. B.S. That's not going to help us here, folks. All that
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does, this very high standard from the 1960s of defamation, all it does is entrench liberal power
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because the liberals control all of these institutions, especially the press. Trump was
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aware of this. Other conservatives who know what time it is are aware of this. We need to tighten up
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those libel laws, those defamation laws. Otherwise, all we are doing is handing the left
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more and more and more power in a way that is unjust and completely unnecessary and will not,
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will not help anyone in this country in the, will not, will not help the country overall. It'll help
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Sometimes, conservatives defend the insanely left-wing, radical, unfair, irresponsible press.
00:26:36.100
They will. They oppose tightening up defamation laws. And the reason they do it is they say,
00:26:42.360
well, you know, if we tighten up defamation laws, then the government might use that to suppress our
00:26:48.020
speech. Then the liberals might use that to silence us. As though the liberals weren't already silencing
00:26:56.160
us, using all the power that they've got, not just through the government, but through the whole
00:26:59.500
public-private establishment, big tech, the corporations, the universities, corporate America,
00:27:06.860
all of it, they're already doing that. So these people are worried about a hypothetical that is
00:27:11.240
already happening in real life. But furthermore, what they will say, and it sounds principled,
00:27:16.800
even though it's really not a great principle, but what they'll say is, the answer to bad speech
00:27:24.080
is more speech. You see, look, the New York Times, even if they're running vicious lies,
00:27:32.540
complete dishonesty, the answer to that is not to tell them no and enforce defamation laws.
00:27:40.600
No, no, the answer to that is build your own New York Times. That's basically what they're saying,
00:27:44.300
right? It's more speech. That is not always true. The answer to lots of speech is to punish it,
00:27:56.520
right? And that has always been the case in America. If you told the founding fathers,
00:28:00.660
the answer to bad speech is more speech, they would have looked at you like you had three heads.
00:28:06.340
The answer to fraud is more speech. No, the answer to fraud is prosecution.
00:28:11.320
The answer to sedition and treason and direct threats is more speech.
00:28:22.220
No, it's a police officer and a judge in a courtroom. That's the answer to those things.
00:28:27.200
The answer to obscenity is, well, these days, I guess it's more obscenity is what we're doing.
00:28:31.440
No, do you know what the founding fathers would have said? They would have said, no,
00:28:33.620
the answer to that is a jury and a judge and the enforcement of our laws. What are you talking about?
00:28:40.020
We want a thriving marketplace of ideas. We really do want that, but you're not going to get that if
00:28:48.520
you tolerate all sorts of fraud and lies and dishonesty and obscenity. Actually, all that
00:28:55.020
kind of speech is going to undermine the free marketplace of ideas as it is right now.
00:28:59.700
You're not going to get the answer to the bad speech as more speech if the liberals control all
00:29:04.640
of the speech. The liberals control 100% of the institutional speech platforms in America.
00:29:13.400
100%. Conservatives don't have any of it. We don't have the press. We don't have the government.
00:29:20.160
We don't have the big tech platforms, which are the public square right now.
00:29:23.440
We don't have any of it. And it's no surprise that we're now seeing our voices being taken away from
00:29:33.140
us. What do we have? We have some podcasts. I'm very fortunate. I've got a very large platform here
00:29:42.160
at the Michael Knowles show and at the Daily Wire. That's great. Facebook could turn us off in two
00:29:48.100
seconds. Well, you saw it with Joe Rogan. Even Joe Rogan, man, he's the biggest podcaster in the
00:29:53.740
world. Well, he questioned a few things about COVID. He pointed out some inconsistencies with
00:30:00.400
Dr. Fauci. He brought on very well-respected scientists who happened to dissent from the
00:30:05.740
ruling class. And what happened? They fixed him real good. They took off more than 100 episodes of
00:30:12.900
his show. They put disclaimers on the shows that they didn't like. Hey, listen, don't get too rowdy
00:30:19.440
there. Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan, who's a liberal. He's not even a conservative. So we don't control any of
00:30:25.300
this. When conservatives say the answer to bad speech is more speech, it's incoherent in the
00:30:33.140
particulars. But it's also impractical in real life because we don't have any of those institutions.
00:30:40.160
The one thing we've got is the people. That's what you're seeing in Canada. That's what you're
00:30:45.620
seeing here. The one power center that we still have at least some of is the people. And so the
00:30:50.900
people, we the people need to use what power we have to bring our country back into some semblance
00:30:56.700
of sanity. And we can do that in the market and we can do that in the culture. And yes, we need to do
00:31:01.820
that in politics. We the people through our self-government. You want to talk about irresponsible
00:31:08.660
journalism. After the Super Bowl win, the people of Los Angeles reacted as is so often the case
00:31:18.000
when a city wins a Super Bowl. They torched their own city. There was rioting. There was madness. There
00:31:25.040
was mayhem. What better way to celebrate than to destroy your community? So this was going on in LA
00:31:31.460
as everybody expected. And CBS News, the local CBS News affiliate, they, they didn't want to make
00:31:38.820
these people look bad. You know, this is, these are Democrat voters here who are burning down this
00:31:43.480
city. So they're jumping on cars and, you know, causing all sorts of mayhem and, you know, riding in
00:31:49.760
the streets. Or in the words of CBS, they were engaging in problematic celebration. That's the new one,
00:32:00.160
they say. Problematic celebrators were seen jumping on top of a white pickup truck as police tried to
00:32:08.520
disperse the crowd. LAPD declared an unlawful assembly almost 45 minutes before. When BLM burns down cities
00:32:18.040
and attacks federal courthouses and kills dozens of people and loots and robs and rapes and kill
00:32:22.500
pillages and burns for eight months, that is a mostly peaceful protest. When Angelenos riot
00:32:31.800
after the Super Bowl win and jump on top of cars and create riots in the streets, that is a problematic
00:32:39.520
celebration. And when ordinary, hardworking, basically law-abiding truckers
00:32:48.360
honk their horns so they don't need to inject themselves with an experimental drug
00:32:52.840
to stave off, to possibly, to probably not even stave off a virus that's not all that dangerous to most
00:32:57.960
people. That's terrorism. That's the world that we're living in right now, okay? That's the world
00:33:07.300
of the journalists. That's the world of the government. That's the world according to both of
00:33:12.140
them. And it's completely false. And it is nothing more than an instrument to upend our way of life,
00:33:21.160
take away our rights and our liberties and everything that we've come to cherish in these
00:33:25.300
countries. And we've got to push back on that. You want to talk about Hollywood? You want to talk
00:33:30.860
about the media for a second? This is a story I wasn't going to get into because this is not exactly
00:33:35.960
a tabloid show. You know, this is not Hollywood all access or anything like that. But this story
00:33:40.620
actually gets to something pretty important in our politics and culture. I'm talking about Yeezy.
00:33:46.280
I'm talking about Mr. Ye. I'm talking about the breakup of Kim Ye. Kim Kardashian now dating Pete
00:33:52.760
Davidson. Why? I don't know. Pete Davidson pulls above his weight in the girls, I guess. But
00:33:57.100
they're dating. Kanye was dating some other girl. I guess he's not dating her anymore.
00:34:00.980
It's very sad. Their marriage was falling apart, but he's still trying to get back together.
00:34:07.120
Kanye West has been going after his wife's, they're not actually divorced, I don't think,
00:34:12.560
his wife's current boyfriend, Pete Davidson. He's using colorful language, but he posted a picture
00:34:21.780
of Pete Davidson because he got a Hillary Clinton tattoo on himself. And he said, look at this
00:34:27.580
D-I-C-K head, I wonder if Instagram going to shut down my page for dissing Hillary Clinton's
00:34:33.080
ex-boyfriend. Then he goes on, he keeps posting pictures of Pete Davidson going after him.
00:34:41.820
He says, when I tag people, I'm just putting together the web. They're a group of people
00:34:46.480
who run the media in the election. Thank God for free speech. So Kanye totally, totally right on that
00:34:50.860
point. And then Pete Davidson apparently sent Kanye West a message and said, I'd never get in the way
00:34:58.120
of your children. How you guys want to raise your kids is your business and not mine. I do hope that
00:35:03.980
one day I can meet them and we can all be friends. Right? Hey, this is the new boyfriend saying this to
00:35:10.560
the husband of the woman that he's dating. And Kanye just responds, all caps, he says, no,
00:35:17.120
you will never meet my children. Awesome. I love that. I love that. We should all learn a lesson
00:35:27.240
from Kanye right now. I know that is not necessarily the sort of thing one would naturally think, but
00:35:34.600
Kanye is actually doing something right here. Kanye is trying to save his marriage and he's not just
00:35:39.740
going along with this. And his wife, Kim Kardashian, has a whole spread in vogue about how she's going
00:35:45.120
to live for herself now. Remember we covered it on the show last week. She's in her forties. It's about
00:35:49.560
what she wants and she's not going to let other people tell her what to do. And you know, it's fine
00:35:54.460
if her children are traumatized by her leaving her husband and by the dissolution of their marriage and
00:35:59.220
her engaging in this high profile fling with this Hollywood derelict. Yeah, that's fine because
00:36:06.240
it's for her. It's about me now. And Kanye West is saying, no, I'm not going quietly. I'm not doing
00:36:12.300
this. I'm not going to let you have your own new life and take my children away from me.
00:36:19.100
And I'm not going to pretend that it's all fine and it's all amicable and it's all good. And don't
00:36:24.120
worry, you do you and I'll do me. And we'll all just date whoever we want. And by the way, when we
00:36:27.980
get tired of those people, we're going to kick them out too. And we're going to date other people.
00:36:31.340
And if our kids are extremely confused and traumatized by that, well, that look, that's just,
00:36:34.980
that's just the cost of pursuing your own appetites and desires. And now we can all be friends. Hey,
00:36:40.240
let's all get dinner. Me, you and Pete Davidson and Pete Davidson's girlfriend and Pete Davidson's
00:36:44.900
girlfriend's boyfriend. It's cool. It's all good, right? No, Kanye is saying, no, it's not good.
00:36:50.140
Stop acting like a harlot and a trollop and come back to your husband. And we're going to live
00:36:54.460
together because we made an agreement to do this. We made a consecrated marriage vow before the people
00:37:04.300
of our community and before the public and before our God. And we're going to honor that.
00:37:10.140
I love it. I love it. I don't know if it's going to work, but I love it. That's totally the right
00:37:14.040
attitude. It's totally the right. The Kim, the Kim attitude of, I'm just going to do me.
00:37:19.900
Don't let people tell you what to do. I'm going to do me. And the Kanye attitude of, no, I'm going to
00:37:23.940
do what I said I would do. And I'm going to live up to, even though I'm an extremely broken,
00:37:28.540
flawed, sinful person. I am going to try to be virtuous and holy. And that's not just you do you
00:37:36.600
and I'll do me. And no, we're going to do what we should do and what we're supposed to do.
00:37:41.080
And we're going to defend, if we're going to have a good life and a good country and a good society,
00:37:45.620
we're going to defend the basic political institution, the family, marriage. And I'm not
00:37:52.620
going to let some scruffy-haired derelict from Saturday Night Live get in the way of that.
00:37:56.260
Uh-uh. Absolutely right. Stand up, Kanye. Kim should go back to her husband.
00:38:02.280
We should, we should, we should tighten up these sorts of things. You know, there has been a
00:38:07.520
movement on the right in recent years away from the sort of you do you kind of, hey, whatever,
00:38:13.620
just if it feels good, do it. Just cut my taxes. Just don't make me pay for it, right? There's been
00:38:17.860
a movement away from that, a movement toward more traditional social values, a movement toward
00:38:22.820
defending the nation, right? Toward borders, toward, and one of the parts of this movement has been
00:38:28.960
that we should tighten up divorce laws. That the idea of no-fault divorce, which took hold
00:38:34.500
in the latter part of the 20th century, has been a disaster and it's led to family mayhem and it's
00:38:39.880
led to all sorts of social pathologies and we shouldn't have it. It should be harder to get
00:38:45.100
divorced. On the one hand, it sounds like you're taking away freedom when you do that, right? What
00:38:52.720
do you mean? People don't have the freedom to just get divorced whenever they want?
00:38:57.180
I know it sounds like that, but making divorce harder to get, making the threshold much higher
00:39:03.480
is actually a way to expand freedom. I think about it this way. Think about it with a national border.
00:39:09.740
We don't have really borders in this country anymore. Certainly not our southern border.
00:39:14.180
People just pour across by the millions every year. So it sounds like that gives you more freedom,
00:39:19.680
right? America is much more free. We don't even have borders anymore. But actually, America is much
00:39:24.900
less free because we don't have the border, because we don't have that constraint, because we no longer
00:39:29.020
have the ability to chart our own national course. We no longer have the stability of a normal country
00:39:36.000
that actually follows the laws, the stability and the order requisite for true liberty to flourish.
00:39:41.640
It's the same thing with the speech laws. If you have free speech, quote unquote, protections for fraud
00:39:46.740
and obscenity and threats and fighting words, then you don't have speech. Then you've got bullying,
00:39:53.160
and then you've got de facto censorship, all in the name of speech. And the same thing with marriage.
00:39:58.040
Marriage constricts your license and your ability to do whatever you want whenever you want to do it,
00:40:04.480
but it actually expands your freedom because it gives you a life. It gives you stability.
00:40:09.560
It gives you trust that you can rely on the things that people said they were going to do,
00:40:14.880
that they're actually going to do them. It gives you a good base to grow a family.
00:40:20.720
Gives you an ability to do other things. In a very basic level, when you get married,
00:40:26.080
you don't need to worry so much about who's going to cook and who's going to clean and who's going to
00:40:29.940
do the dishes and who's going to pay the bills. You've agreed to that, and then you've moved
00:40:32.900
forward and you're working together. Kanye, this reaction, this kind of crazy Hollywood reaction
00:40:40.320
to his wife's new boyfriend is actually probably the best argument Kanye has made for why we should
00:40:46.200
elect him president. I'm not saying he should actually be president, but I am saying he is
00:40:51.300
seeing something politically that we should see as well. We've got to get tough. We've got to
00:40:58.760
put some more boundaries on things if we want to have true freedom. This is actually a perfect
00:41:05.300
example of this. In New York City right now, well, in cities around the country, but especially New
00:41:09.460
York, crime is going through the roof. Crime is going through the roof. There was a horrible story
00:41:14.800
of a man who just attacked some poor Thai woman on the subway platform. This man had 44 previous
00:41:23.420
arrests, but he was walking around free. Now, according to the left, the way to expand freedom
00:41:28.240
is to let the criminals out of jail and not to arrest them in the first place. Actually, I think
00:41:33.060
it would expand the freedom of this Thai woman and every ordinary citizen of New York. If you threw
00:41:38.400
the criminals in prison, restrict that freedom, restrict that license, you're going to expand freedom
00:41:45.040
for all of the citizens. This man, it's a hard video to watch. There's a man who just approaches
00:41:52.660
this woman on the platform and just beats the living hell out of her. A man, he's in Queens.
00:41:58.560
He's got 44 arrests in his life, charged on Thursday for the brutal mugging in November of
00:42:05.640
this Thai woman, which took place in Manhattan. So it's in the supposedly the safest borough of New York.
00:42:12.060
The guy grabbed this woman from behind, dragged her, then threw her to the ground, punched her in the
00:42:17.300
face four times, then made off with her purse. Oh, he sexually assaulted her too, by the way.
00:42:22.020
Okay. This animal, this attacker should be put away from society.
00:42:31.520
He's an, he's a beast. He's an animal. He shouldn't be allowed in free, polite society.
00:42:39.780
I believe in second chances. I really do. I think people, even who commit really terrible crimes,
00:42:45.740
I believe in second chances. I sometimes even believe in third chances. What I do not believe
00:42:53.360
in is 45th chances. I think 45th chances is a little bit too far. And by the way, obviously it
00:43:01.120
would have been much better for this woman that he just brutalized if this animal had been put in
00:43:06.080
prison and not allowed out. Obviously it would be better for the people of New York who now,
00:43:12.080
they have to fear for their lives every time they get on a subway, even in Manhattan, which is the
00:43:16.120
safe borough. But it would be better for him too. I don't think he's living a particularly flourishing
00:43:23.680
life, mugging women and engaging in more and more crime and vice and sin and living like a filthy,
00:43:30.740
disgusting animal, giving away his humanity, throwing it away so that he can take some woman's
00:43:36.820
dignity and take her purse and run away and go do it to someone else. I don't think that's good
00:43:41.620
for him. I think it would be much better for him if he were locked up, being punished, being
00:43:48.680
rehabilitated, doing a little introspection maybe, and perhaps even repenting and perhaps even turning
00:43:54.800
his life around. He's not going to do that on the streets. The only way he's going to do that is in
00:43:59.640
prison. And the left won't do it. And what it really comes down to is their perverted conception
00:44:08.360
of freedom. I think they really believe, like Rashida Tlaib says, you got to abolish the prisons.
00:44:14.780
The reason we have oppression in America is because we lock up these animals, people who mug women and
00:44:22.400
sexually assault them 44, 45 times. And then because we lock those people up, that's why we don't have
00:44:27.800
freedom in America. No, it's the opposite. Of course it's the opposite. So the Russians are
00:44:31.780
expected to invade Ukraine. The Russians are expected to invade Ukraine tomorrow.
00:44:37.380
Will they do it? I don't know. Maybe. They've done it before. They invaded Crimea and kept it.
00:44:42.740
They invaded Georgia on George Bush's watch. Bush repelled them though, and so they didn't keep
00:44:48.320
Georgia. So they've done it before. They certainly want to. Ukraine is one of the most conquered
00:44:52.660
countries in the history of the world. It's been conquered by the Soviets, conquered by the
00:44:57.780
Tsarist Russians before the Soviets took over, conquered by the Austro-Hungarian empire, conquered
00:45:05.180
by the Ottoman empire, even conquered by the Poles. The Poles are themselves one of the most conquered
00:45:09.140
countries on earth and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth conquered Ukraine. So are the
00:45:13.200
Russians interested in taking Ukraine? Obviously. Are they going to do it? I don't know. I don't know
00:45:20.540
that they will. Maybe they will. Maybe they won't. I think a lot of people are skeptical though.
00:45:26.080
That this is going to go down the way that the State Department is saying that it's going to go
00:45:32.120
down. I think a lot of people are reluctant for war, even if the Russians do invade. And why?
00:45:44.520
Why are they skeptical? Because the United States has squandered its foreign credibility. And it's
00:45:53.240
not just Democrats. It's primarily Democrats, but it's not just Democrats. Joe Biden the other day
00:45:58.260
was asked about a new army report that came out. The army has a report on the withdrawal from
00:46:04.800
Afghanistan, and the report is devastating for the political leaders there. Biden just completely
00:46:10.440
botched that thing. And Joe Biden dismissed the army report.
00:46:24.380
That you were told that the U.S. administration officials were prepared, they knew it was time
00:46:31.360
No. What I was told, no one told me that, look, there was no good time to get out. But if we had
00:46:36.720
not gotten out, they acknowledged that we would have had to put a hell of a lot more troops back
00:46:40.360
in. It wasn't just 2,000, 4,000. We would have to significantly increase the number of troops
00:46:45.480
and we were back in this war of attrition. And there was no way we were ever going to unite
00:46:52.760
Ukraine. I mean, excuse me, Iraq, Afghanistan. No way that was going to happen. And so this is a much
00:47:01.440
wiser thing to do. I just want to clarify, are you rejecting the conclusions or the accounts that
00:47:12.180
Joe Biden, he says, no, forget that. Don't believe your lying eyes. No, you've got to believe
00:47:17.300
the government. You've got to believe the intelligence agencies. You've got to believe
00:47:19.840
the Pentagon, except when they disagree with me, in which case you should never believe them.
00:47:22.940
Don't worry. Afghanistan was great. But it's bigger than Afghanistan.
00:47:26.140
What about Libya? Remember when Obama invaded Libya for basically no good reason? Remember that?
00:47:32.800
And then Libya got worse after the invasion? Remember that? Remember the complete botched
00:47:39.580
foreign policy in Syria and Iraq? Remember all of that? And now the American people say,
00:47:49.040
we don't want you invading Ukraine. And I can't blame them. Even if there were a good reason to
00:47:54.940
invade Ukraine, even if the intelligence agencies had 100% credibility, State Department, 100%
00:48:00.500
credibility, the Pentagon top brass, these woke political jerks who are turning our army into a
00:48:08.060
gender studies seminar, even if they were all 100% right, they've squandered their credibility. And so
00:48:14.260
the American people don't really buy it. And I think the most devastating part of all for them
00:48:20.280
is the American people are looking around at our own country. And they're saying, hold on,
00:48:26.720
we're not enforcing the laws. We've got crime going through the roof. We've got actual insurrections
00:48:31.360
here, like BLM burning the country down for eight months. We've got no borders. We've got millions of
00:48:37.080
foreigners pouring across our border. Even if it's for good, good reason, even if it's to have a better
00:48:43.400
life, even if it's for economic opportunity, it is quite literally an invasion. I'm not saying it's an
00:48:48.520
invasion led by some military commander, but it's people going from their country that they're
00:48:52.820
supposed to be in and taking over another country. And they're looking around at that. And they're
00:48:58.840
saying, before, before we go over there, how about we get our problems fixed over here?
00:49:05.780
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Justin Trudeau, who is definitely not Fidel Castro's son. Stop that, you. He invokes the
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Emergencies Act to fight the Freedom Convoy. That's today on The Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.