The Michael Knowles Show - March 07, 2022


Ep. 957 - Stop Complaining About Gas Prices, You Racist!


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The Russian economy is in free fall, but there s a silver lining: it s not as bad as you think it is. Michael Knowles explains why, and why he thinks we should all be worried about what s going on in Russia.

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00:00:30.260 The Russian economy is in free fall.
00:00:33.060 Economists at JPMorgan Chase expect the Russian economy to contract a whopping 7% this year.
00:00:39.940 Goldman Sachs thinks the damage could be worse, predicting a 9% contraction in the Russian economy.
00:00:45.780 Virtually every major corporation in the world has stopped doing business in Russia.
00:00:51.520 BP, Shell, and ExxonMobil have pulled out of energy deals.
00:00:55.760 Apple, Google, and Facebook have blocked the Kremlin from their platforms.
00:01:01.000 CNN has stopped broadcasting in Russia, which shows that not everything is so bad in that country.
00:01:07.720 Every storm cloud has a silver lining.
00:01:10.380 But other than not having to stare at Brian Stelter anymore, things are going about as poorly in Russia as they possibly could.
00:01:17.500 By targeting Russia's central bank with sanctions, an unprecedented tactic, the West has collapsed the Russian ruble.
00:01:25.500 Nearly two-thirds of the $630 billion in the central bank's foreign exchange reserves were frozen overnight.
00:01:32.060 A financial expert summed up his take on the situation by drinking live on Russian television to the death of their stock market.
00:01:41.020 Worst case scenario, he says, I'm going to go work as Santa Claus, like I did 25 years ago.
00:01:49.020 Jokes aside, let's do this quickly.
00:01:51.800 I send regards to Sergei Ushenko, who drank 12, 13 years ago to the death of the stock market.
00:01:58.800 Today, I'm drinking carbonated water.
00:02:00.540 Dear stock market, you were close to us.
00:02:02.740 You were interesting.
00:02:04.280 Rest in peace, dear comrade.
00:02:08.640 The host says, I'm not going to comment on this stunt because I don't want to believe it.
00:02:12.300 The West just wrecked Russia. 0.53
00:02:15.640 And with good reason.
00:02:17.340 Vladimir Putin invaded a smaller, weaker neighboring country.
00:02:21.220 Whatever the nuances, nothing comes anywhere near justifying an all-out Russian invasion. 0.58
00:02:27.540 Nothing could justify the shelling of civilian centers.
00:02:30.260 And yet, Putin's main domestic political rival has complained that we in the West keep falling into Putin's traps.
00:02:41.020 We might be doing it again.
00:02:43.160 There are lots of people right now, on the left and the right,
00:02:46.540 clamoring to send Russia back to the Stone Age with sanctions or missiles or both.
00:02:51.980 The economic crisis we've inflicted is already 40 to 80 percent worse than Russia's last worst economic catastrophe in 1998.
00:03:00.260 Some analysts predict it could eventually be three times worse than the collapse of 1998, when Russia defaulted on its debt.
00:03:08.720 The economic catastrophe, coincidentally, that launched Putin to power in the first place.
00:03:15.780 The White House is confident that Joe Biden's got everything under control.
00:03:20.260 I was at the State Department.
00:03:23.040 The president was the vice president the last time Russia invaded Ukraine.
00:03:26.980 This is a pattern of horror from President Putin and from the cronies around him.
00:03:32.780 This is a pattern.
00:03:34.140 This is a pattern of horror.
00:03:35.460 Do you see the pattern?
00:03:36.320 The pattern is that every time Biden goes up against Putin, Putin wins.
00:03:40.260 The White House wants regime change in Russia.
00:03:42.560 It worked out so well in Iraq and Egypt and Libya.
00:03:47.100 Why not give it another go in a nuclear former superpower without any clear popular opposition leader?
00:03:53.580 What could go wrong?
00:03:55.260 But even if it's the right idea to take Putin out, our leaders may very well have just entrenched him,
00:04:01.220 or maybe someone even worse, in power.
00:04:04.080 Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
00:04:06.900 Unfortunately, our current crop of rulers don't seem to know anything at all.
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00:06:03.700 A lot of people have a lot of opinions about Russia.
00:06:07.540 I am not pretending to be a Russia expert or a Ukraine expert.
00:06:11.780 But I think I might be the only blue check on social media who is not an overnight Russia and Ukraine expert.
00:06:18.600 I think I might be the only person on social media who doesn't claim to have all of the answers for this many centuries long regional conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
00:06:32.420 Unfortunately, though, it's not only the blue checks who are going crazy. 0.99
00:06:37.620 It's some of our elected leaders, too.
00:06:40.840 You expect it from the blue checks.
00:06:42.400 You expect it from Hollywood.
00:06:44.460 Patricia Arquette, who is, she's an actress.
00:06:46.540 She's won some awards.
00:06:47.740 I forget what movie she's been in.
00:06:49.160 She blocked me on Twitter.
00:06:50.400 But she's very left-wing. 1.00
00:06:51.420 She tweeted out her solution to the Ukraine conflict.
00:06:54.800 She said, quote, kick Russia out of NATO. 0.85
00:06:59.180 Now, NATO, of course, is a treaty organization whose sole purpose is to oppose Russia.
00:07:06.540 So obviously, Russia is not in NATO.
00:07:09.260 Russia could not be in NATO.
00:07:11.800 That would take away the very purpose of NATO.
00:07:15.200 And yet, I suspect that Patricia Arquette is not much more ignorant on this subject than most people around there.
00:07:24.140 Bette Midler, another wonderful actress of a certain age with very certain political opinions,
00:07:29.900 she tweeted out a picture of Volodymyr Zelensky, the leader of Ukraine, in the Obama 2008 style,
00:07:38.900 that kind of artistic agitprop style that says hope underneath it.
00:07:42.940 But Zelensky, he's standing firm.
00:07:47.040 He's displaying a great deal of courage and heroism, sure.
00:07:51.760 What are the odds, do you think, that Bette Midler could point to Ukraine on a map?
00:07:56.680 Forget what are the odds that Bette Midler could tell you anything about Volodymyr Zelensky, including his first name,
00:08:02.900 could tell you anything about the oligarchy in Ukraine,
00:08:05.540 could tell you anything about their political system whatsoever.
00:08:09.240 Do you think she could even identify the country on a map?
00:08:11.900 Absolutely not.
00:08:12.800 Of course not.
00:08:13.980 And yet, she is so enthusiastic.
00:08:15.680 She's so gung-ho.
00:08:16.880 She knows exactly what this is about.
00:08:18.400 What we need to do, we need to exalt Zelensky.
00:08:22.740 We need to do everything we can to punish Russia. 0.97
00:08:26.500 Widespread economic sanctions, destroy the central bank, regime change in Russia.
00:08:31.140 It's not just her.
00:08:32.260 Lindsey Graham, a sitting United States senator, said what he believes the solution is,
00:08:37.040 is to hire someone, to find someone, to put a bullet in Putin's head.
00:08:41.820 How does this end?
00:08:43.460 Somebody in Russia has to step up to the plate.
00:08:47.080 Is there Brutus in Russia?
00:08:49.060 Is there a more successful Colonel Stoppenberg in the Russian military?
00:08:52.860 The only way this ends, my friend, is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. 0.97
00:08:58.360 You would be doing your country a great service and the world a great service.
00:09:02.500 Lindsey Graham, of course, has never seen a regime on Earth that he does not want to topple.
00:09:07.980 And Vladimir Putin is a really bad guy.
00:09:09.760 Okay, I get it.
00:09:10.620 I get why people would want to go assassinate Putin.
00:09:14.120 Now, let me ask you the next question.
00:09:16.360 And maybe it's a question we should have asked before we
00:09:18.520 insisted on regime change in Libya or Egypt or Iraq or Syria,
00:09:24.040 although that one actually didn't work because Assad held on to power.
00:09:26.740 Let me ask you this question.
00:09:27.960 What happens next?
00:09:28.980 What happens next?
00:09:34.220 You take out Putin.
00:09:35.780 Okay, I'm with you.
00:09:37.620 Then who takes over the extremely chaotic, historically corrupt, nuclear former superpower? 0.89
00:09:44.520 Who assumes power?
00:09:46.440 Do you have?
00:09:48.680 None of these people have any answers.
00:09:50.440 I suspect that Lindsey Graham might have an answer. 0.98
00:09:53.340 The smart set Washington, D.C. answer is the person who takes power is Alexei Navalny.
00:09:59.040 Alexei Navalny is a relatively pro-Western opposition leader.
00:10:02.860 He's been a thorn in Putin's side for many years now.
00:10:05.980 Putin has jailed him, so Navalny is in prison.
00:10:08.300 He's the one who says that we keep falling into Putin's hands.
00:10:13.260 Alexei Navalny.
00:10:14.240 I've got a poll right here of Alexei Navalny's approval and disapproval ratings.
00:10:18.620 This is from Levada.
00:10:21.380 This is the Levada Center, which is not a pro—it's a Russian center.
00:10:25.440 It's not pro-Putin.
00:10:26.340 Actually, a lot of Putin's associates want to blacklist Levada from Russia as a foreign agent that's trying to topple his regime.
00:10:32.980 Okay, so this is as hostile to Putin as it gets.
00:10:35.720 Approve, disapprove.
00:10:36.740 I'm the only opposition leader in Russia.
00:10:40.220 Approve.
00:10:41.360 And this is between 18 to 24-year-olds, 25 to 39-year-olds, 40 to 54-year-olds, and 55-plus.
00:10:46.620 Approve 24%, 22%, 11% among people in their 40s, or 8% among people 55-plus.
00:10:54.420 What are the disapprove numbers?
00:10:57.420 59%, 51%, 69%, 67%.
00:11:01.180 The numbers don't work.
00:11:02.580 This guy's about as popular as Joe Biden is in America.
00:11:05.960 So depending on how they conduct the election, maybe Navalny could win.
00:11:09.080 He's not popular.
00:11:10.180 This is not a viable option.
00:11:12.260 Especially if we're talking about getting rid of the corrupt oligarchy and bringing democracy to Russia, and then we'll all live peacefully.
00:11:18.160 That's not going to work.
00:11:20.540 So I get the good intentions here.
00:11:23.700 We want to destroy Russia's economy. 0.97
00:11:25.640 We've never destroyed a country's economy like we're destroying Russia right now.
00:11:29.060 Make them suffer.
00:11:30.380 Make Putin sweat.
00:11:31.780 And then what?
00:11:33.200 And then what?
00:11:33.760 It was a devastating economic collapse that brought Putin to power in the first place.
00:11:40.640 If anything, I suspect these sanctions have probably strengthened Putin's grip on power.
00:11:45.280 Now, it might destroy the economy so much that he just can't keep funding the war.
00:11:49.080 But I don't think this is going to lead to regime change.
00:11:52.040 This is something conservatives know that liberals and more adventurous sorts of politicians don't seem to get.
00:12:02.300 Sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.
00:12:08.040 Thankfully, Libya was not a superpower, a nuclear superpower. 1.00
00:12:11.740 It was never a superpower.
00:12:12.980 But luckily, it was not a nuclear power when we took out Gaddafi.
00:12:16.440 But what if it had been?
00:12:17.780 Do we think that Libya is better today after regime change?
00:12:20.700 I don't.
00:12:21.580 Egypt?
00:12:22.060 I don't.
00:12:22.540 Iraq even?
00:12:23.740 Probably not.
00:12:26.220 What are we doing?
00:12:27.500 I know we have good intentions with these Russian sanctions, with trying to push regime change in Russia. 0.79
00:12:33.420 I know it's good intentions.
00:12:34.920 The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
00:12:37.040 Now, Kamala Harris has much more important matters to deal with than the war in Ukraine, a former superpower threatening nuclear holocaust on the world. 0.87
00:12:52.640 She's got much more important things to deal with, namely the Equality Act. 0.98
00:12:56.240 Yes, the Equality Act is this rule, this law that the left is pushing to redefine men as women and women as men and create civil rights protections for gender identity and sexual orientation.
00:13:13.080 She says, let's send the Equality Act to President Biden's desk.
00:13:17.440 We must increase protections for LGBTQ plus Americans across the country.
00:13:23.400 The onslaught of state bills targeting transgender Americans and their families is wrong.
00:13:29.420 We must.
00:13:30.060 We just don't talk about LGBT enough in America, right?
00:13:33.880 That's our problem.
00:13:34.960 We don't talk about a very, very small percentage of people with eccentric sexual desires and preferences and ideologies.
00:13:43.220 We don't talk about that enough.
00:13:44.480 We don't have two full months of the year dedicated to talking about it.
00:13:49.660 We don't have every corporation in the country and school and many churches, frankly, flying rainbow flags all the time to talk about a handful of eccentric sexual desires.
00:13:58.900 No, no, we need to talk about it more.
00:14:01.900 Not everything has to be gay.
00:14:04.960 Not everything, okay?
00:14:06.380 Not every single thing in the country has to be gay.
00:14:08.880 Except it does.
00:14:10.180 Except it does.
00:14:12.420 You know, the conservative answer to the insanely aggressive LGBT push in recent decades, which has now led to redefining marriage, for goodness sakes, for the first time ever in this kind of radical way. 0.84
00:14:28.240 Redefining sex itself, getting rid of women's bathrooms, getting rid of women's sports. 1.00
00:14:32.120 It's been so aggressive.
00:14:33.960 And what the conservatives have said is, look, do whatever you want.
00:14:37.520 Frankly, I don't really care that much what you do in the privacy of your own home.
00:14:40.760 Just don't make it a public thing.
00:14:44.300 Don't make me participate in it.
00:14:46.460 And that was always going to be a losing strategy.
00:14:48.900 When people now respond, I think it was Blake Masters, the Republican Senate candidate in, where is it, Arizona, who said, not everything has to be gay.
00:14:59.240 Actually, I mean, Blake Masters is a terrific candidate.
00:15:01.700 But the joke there is, everything does have to be gay. 0.96
00:15:05.460 And everything has to be gay, because this is not really about sexual preference or some long oppressed minority.
00:15:13.480 This is about the left's entire animating ideology of liberation.
00:15:18.800 What the left is after is liberation.
00:15:22.720 I know that seems a little bit weird, because the left is always talking about equality, and it's the right that's always talking about liberty.
00:15:28.720 But the left is after liberation, too.
00:15:31.680 While the right is after liberation from taxes and government regulations, the left is after a deeper kind of liberation.
00:15:38.980 Liberation, liberation from tradition, liberation from social roles, free the women from the kitchen, free the oppressed racial minorities from their condition, from their legal strictures against them, free even beyond the law, even beyond tradition, free the men who think they're women from having to actually be men.
00:16:05.820 Free people from biology, free people from biology, free people from nature, free people from reality.
00:16:11.220 This is not a moderate kind of political liberation to change some rules about the way different groups are treated.
00:16:17.060 This is about a fundamental assault on nature.
00:16:22.140 If liberation is now about forcing everyone, right, coercing everyone to pretend that men who are confused are actually women, that is a liberation that demands being freed from reality itself.
00:16:34.980 As Whitaker Chambers said, it's the second oldest ideology in the world.
00:16:38.860 It goes back to the Garden of Eden when the serpent told Eve, ye shall be as gods.
00:16:42.940 You can create your own realities.
00:16:44.340 What Anthony Kennedy said in the Planned Parenthood versus Casey decision, now 30 years ago, he said that at the heart of liberty is the right to define your own concept of existence.
00:16:56.300 Antonin Scalia made fun of this as the sweet mystery of life passage.
00:16:59.640 I don't know where in the Constitution it says that you've got the right to define your own concept of existence.
00:17:05.880 Obviously, you don't.
00:17:08.140 Defining your own concept of existence is what little confused children do when they play pretend in the backyard.
00:17:13.240 That's not what adults do.
00:17:14.240 That's not what rational, educated people do if they want to live in society.
00:17:18.980 But that is the ideology.
00:17:20.420 And so it won't stop.
00:17:21.360 It can't stop.
00:17:22.100 Even at the brink of World War III, Kamala Harris has to talk about transgenderism because that is the next step. 1.00
00:17:29.720 That is at the heart of this.
00:17:31.060 People have to talk about the metaverse.
00:17:33.220 We have to talk about transhumanism, frankly.
00:17:36.540 We need to talk about liberating ourselves from every single bond, including the natural ones.
00:17:41.660 Everything's got to be gay. 1.00
00:17:43.500 So I learned from Metro Magazine.
00:17:46.920 This article is a little old, but it's making the rounds again, and I had to bring it up.
00:17:50.740 I couldn't miss it.
00:17:51.460 Metro Magazine informed me of something that was pretty surprising.
00:17:59.520 Straight men in bromances kiss, cuddle, and stand around naked together. 0.92
00:18:05.620 Hmm.
00:18:07.640 Didn't know that.
00:18:10.420 A bromance has been defined as an emotionally intense bond between straight men.
00:18:14.600 In the conclusion of this study, it's very, very scientific, the authors wrote,
00:18:18.620 they spoke about their desire to cuddle and hug with their bromantic friends.
00:18:23.740 Some agreed that this was the case when asked, whereas others offered it unsolicited as part of their definition of bromance.
00:18:30.040 In all, 29 of the 30 men who took part in this study said they had cuddled with their bromantic partner.
00:18:37.240 This latest work backs a 2012 study that found 89% of 145 surveyed undergraduate heterosexual men had kissed, kissed their bros.
00:18:48.840 The bros, straight men, most straight men, the vast majority of straight men kiss and cuddle with their friends and stand around naked, right?
00:18:57.180 Now, look, I'm no scientist, okay?
00:19:01.800 I don't have an advanced degree in statistics or sociology or whatever.
00:19:07.320 I don't think straight men do this.
00:19:10.220 Maybe, look, this is a British paper and the Brits have always been a little bit light in the loafers that way, so maybe that's possible.
00:19:15.080 I just don't think it's the case.
00:19:17.500 I think, actually, ontology tells us that it's not the case.
00:19:21.360 I think the nature of being a straight man tells you that's not the case, because by definition, straight men would not hang around and kiss and cuddle with their friends.
00:19:32.080 This is something I wrote about in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which became a number one national bestseller last year, thanks to you, and it's coming out in paperback again.
00:19:39.660 And I really want to jump up the charts so that I can stick it in the eye of the New York Times.
00:19:43.180 Anyway, that's a digression.
00:19:44.340 I talked about how the left gains power by redefining words.
00:19:47.680 Well, you see it here.
00:19:48.360 Straight men used to be, the definition of a straight man was men who don't cuddle and kiss their male friends.
00:19:57.460 And now, the left is redefining straight man to man who kisses and cuddles with his male friends.
00:20:05.420 So now there are no straight men.
00:20:07.240 This is erasure.
00:20:09.280 This is the way they take control of society on the left.
00:20:13.840 They just redefine everything, and they have to.
00:20:15.960 Don't think this is some diversion.
00:20:18.000 I think this is a trap that the right actually fell into this with political correctness.
00:20:22.640 They said, oh, who cares?
00:20:23.380 Political correctness isn't a big deal.
00:20:25.000 It's kind of a silly distraction for more important things like cutting taxes and getting new free trade deals.
00:20:29.780 Oh, forget that they're redefining women and redefining men and redefining our whole country and redefining the founding as evil. 1.00
00:20:35.280 And, you know, forget about that for a second.
00:20:36.920 Let's just focus on cutting taxes and manufacturing more stuff in China.
00:20:40.420 And that'll help GDP, and that's all that matters.
00:20:42.100 No, this is the issue.
00:20:45.640 Frankly, the war in Ukraine is a distraction.
00:20:48.940 And Kamala Harris knows it, and the left knows it. 1.00
00:20:51.860 We should learn it, too.
00:20:53.240 Speaking of gay men and the war in Ukraine, it's a strange transition, perhaps.
00:21:02.460 George Takei.
00:21:03.660 George Takei has a message for all of the impoverished, struggling families out there who are making really difficult decisions,
00:21:11.560 who can't make ends meet because the price of everything is going up, and especially the price of gas.
00:21:15.160 He says, suck it up.
00:21:17.840 Quote, Americans, we can endure higher prices for food and gas if it means putting the screws to Putin.
00:21:23.500 Consider it a patriotic donation in the fight for freedom over tyranny.
00:21:28.900 More piercing political commentary from Hollywood.
00:21:32.440 You had Bette Midler.
00:21:33.540 You had Patricia Arquette.
00:21:34.760 Now you have Commander Darth Vader or something.
00:21:37.420 I don't know.
00:21:37.840 I'm not a huge sci-fi fan.
00:21:38.920 I guess he was on Star Trek.
00:21:40.460 George Takei says, suck it up.
00:21:42.520 Now, I'm not surprised.
00:21:43.580 This guy is obviously completely out of touch.
00:21:46.220 He's an elderly man without children who is a multimillionaire.
00:21:50.420 He doesn't need to worry about money.
00:21:51.820 He doesn't know the cost of anything.
00:21:52.960 I'm sure he has assistants do all of his shopping for him anyway, so it's not a big deal.
00:21:58.280 For families who have, let's say, multiple kids who don't have that good Star Trek paycheck coming in,
00:22:04.040 probably it's a little tougher.
00:22:05.820 Okay, but George Takei, he doesn't care about that.
00:22:07.500 He doesn't understand that.
00:22:08.480 That's not surprising.
00:22:09.840 What's shocking to me in this tweet is one word.
00:22:13.080 The word is patriotic.
00:22:15.440 He says it's a patriotic donation if you screw up your own country's economy
00:22:20.580 to help this issue in Ukraine, to fight against Russia in this regional conflict.
00:22:25.560 Patriotic.
00:22:26.160 How is it patriotic?
00:22:27.280 Am I a citizen of Ukraine?
00:22:28.940 I don't think so.
00:22:29.720 What he's, what George Takei is saying is that Ukraine is a part of America.
00:22:36.280 Ironically, what George Takei is saying here is that Vladimir Putin's right,
00:22:41.260 that Ukraine actually is just an American client state,
00:22:43.920 that America has this broad sweeping empire.
00:22:46.020 It's spread out all over the world.
00:22:47.320 Now it's right up on Russia's border, and Russia is taking defensive action,
00:22:50.580 just like America would if Russia had invaded Mexico, and Mexico were a Russian client state.
00:22:54.880 Now I don't think that that's exactly the situation that we're looking at.
00:22:58.480 But ironically, that is what George Takei is saying.
00:23:01.140 That is what a lot of the left is saying.
00:23:02.820 And they want to have it both ways, and they can't.
00:23:04.820 That's magical thinking.
00:23:06.020 On the one hand, they want America to be the empire over all the world.
00:23:09.820 They want America to rule and crush local cultures and crush local desires 0.92
00:23:13.640 and impose our will on the world.
00:23:15.620 And then on the other, they think America's evil and terrible,
00:23:18.200 and they don't want us forcing other countries to do a damn thing.
00:23:21.100 And they don't want us getting involved in any other country on earth.
00:23:23.520 And they want us to mind our own business.
00:23:24.920 And actually, they want us to give the land back to the Indians. 0.98
00:23:27.240 They want two completely opposite things, and they want them both at the same time,
00:23:32.200 which is why their commentary is so confused.
00:23:34.160 But this is a problem not just for idiots in Hollywood.
00:23:37.240 This is a problem in America.
00:23:38.680 It's a kind of schizophrenia in the American foreign policy.
00:23:41.500 And we go back and forth and back and forth,
00:23:43.040 and it's why we keep messing up our own interests around the world.
00:23:48.800 This Thursday night, March 10th,
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00:25:33.660 George Takei and lots of other Hollywood liberals and actually the White House and the entire
00:25:49.580 ruling class, they say, look, your gas is going up because of our stupid energy policy 0.98
00:25:55.140 and our stupid policy on Russia and Ukraine.
00:25:57.460 And yeah, we bungled it all.
00:25:58.760 And now we're going to bungle it even more.
00:26:00.160 And we're going to send gas going even further up through the roof.
00:26:02.800 But hey, just suck it up.
00:26:03.900 That's your patriotic duty.
00:26:06.020 And Biden can afford it.
00:26:07.420 And Psaki can afford it. 0.98
00:26:08.580 And George Takei and Bette Midler and Patricia Arquette, they can all afford it.
00:26:11.980 But most Americans cannot, like mothers in Michigan, who've got to decide between filling
00:26:18.880 up their gas tanks and buying clothing for their kids.
00:26:21.920 Has consumers like mother of two, Lauren Strikstein, watching their budgets?
00:26:25.560 It's a horrible situation.
00:26:27.460 I'm scared for how high the prices are going to go.
00:26:30.820 And Keisha Townsend of Southfield is too.
00:26:33.400 Yeah, because you need gas to get to work and stuff like that.
00:26:36.380 So yeah, you got to cut back on certain things just to get some gas and stuff.
00:26:39.800 Yeah.
00:26:40.020 I have to think about putting gasoline prices before buying my kids clothes right now.
00:26:47.760 So these are really hard decisions for Americans.
00:26:52.060 And to what end?
00:26:53.740 To what end?
00:26:54.300 We covered this on the show last week.
00:26:57.120 Joe Biden shut down American energy, shut down American oil pipelines
00:27:03.720 to support a Russian oil pipeline called Nord Stream 2.
00:27:09.180 A Russian oil pipeline that gave Russia a direct route to the European oil market
00:27:13.440 that cut out the middleman of Ukraine,
00:27:15.200 which essentially rolled out the red carpet for Putin to invade Ukraine.
00:27:18.720 And we all knew that that was going to happen.
00:27:21.100 And conservatives warned Joe Biden about this.
00:27:23.360 And that's why there were sanctions in place in the first place,
00:27:25.340 that Joe Biden intentionally and lobbied really hard to get removed.
00:27:30.660 Then Biden literally invades Putin to invade.
00:27:35.740 He says, look, if it's just a minor incursion, it's not a big deal.
00:27:38.100 We won't really do anything.
00:27:39.320 Putin does invade.
00:27:41.000 Now we put the sanctions back on the pipeline.
00:27:44.280 Sanctions that Joe Biden made a point of removing,
00:27:46.280 that if we just left them in place, Putin almost certainly wouldn't have invaded.
00:27:48.960 We put the sanctions back on.
00:27:50.320 We then put way more sanctions on Russia.
00:27:52.280 And it sends American gas through the roof again.
00:27:54.620 And the White House all the while says, no, we're not going to drill here.
00:27:57.940 No, we're not going to build more pipelines.
00:27:59.780 No, we're going to try to get off of oil.
00:28:01.480 Why?
00:28:01.800 So now we're going to import more Iranian oil.
00:28:04.800 Until just a few days ago, we were importing more Russian oil.
00:28:07.380 What?
00:28:07.980 To stop climate change?
00:28:09.120 Because Russian oil doesn't tick off the sun gods.
00:28:12.660 Iranian oil isn't bad for the climate.
00:28:14.560 No, it's only American oil.
00:28:16.100 We can burn any, we can burn the oil here.
00:28:18.160 It's just only when the American oil gets burned.
00:28:20.460 That's what irritates the sun monster and brings on Armageddon.
00:28:23.400 Does any of that make sense?
00:28:24.880 What's the, what's the upshot of it?
00:28:26.400 What's the end, end of it?
00:28:27.680 Well, the end of it is that these mothers can't afford to buy their kids clothing 1.00
00:28:31.020 because of this stupid policy.
00:28:33.240 It's like the stupidest policy they could possibly make.
00:28:36.020 And the reason for that policy is not even that Biden has a totally formed ideology
00:28:42.320 that he's just ruthlessly pursuing.
00:28:45.360 He's not.
00:28:46.300 The problem actually is that they keep vacillating.
00:28:48.920 They keep going back and forth.
00:28:51.240 The problem is that if you stand in the middle of the road,
00:28:55.480 you're going to get hit by a truck.
00:28:57.480 We want the, we want the sanctions on the pipeline.
00:29:00.040 We don't want the sanctions on the pipeline.
00:29:01.480 We want Putin to be able to invade. 0.79
00:29:03.140 We don't want him to be able to, this, that, this, that, back and forth and back and forth.
00:29:07.540 And it comes down to what George Takei insinuated.
00:29:11.720 Does America want to be a global empire where Ukraine really is part of America 0.93
00:29:16.540 and we're going to defend it just like it were Idaho.
00:29:20.740 And an attack on Ukraine is an attack on all Americans.
00:29:25.160 Or does America want to mind its own business and not really have all these commitments around the world
00:29:31.300 and not be the world's police and not occupy Libya and Iraq and Syria and all these other places
00:29:37.100 and then allow, I don't know, Russia to move in or allow China to move in
00:29:41.120 and allow these world powers to grow and grow and grow and challenge American hegemony.
00:29:45.360 And oops, we don't like that.
00:29:46.300 So now we're going to go back in again and we go back and forth and back and forth.
00:29:49.560 Sometimes, actually, a wrong decision is better than indecision.
00:29:55.320 This indecision is causing a lot of problems.
00:29:59.760 You see, now we're leaning much more in the America world police, the American empire,
00:30:04.820 where the globalist regime and everyone needs to submit to us.
00:30:08.140 Nancy Pelosi just held a photo op on the steps of the Capitol. 0.98
00:30:11.540 She desecrated an American flag for this photo op. 1.00
00:30:15.260 She was holding up with a lot of other lawmakers. 0.53
00:30:17.220 There were probably a couple of squish Republicans in there too, holding up this flag. 0.95
00:30:21.360 It's an American flag, but the bottom of the flag is not red and white stripes.
00:30:26.220 It's yellow and blue stripes.
00:30:29.480 As if to say, America and Ukraine are the same thing.
00:30:33.720 I pledge allegiance to Ukraine and the united countries of the American empire.
00:30:40.840 That's what she's saying here.
00:30:42.160 You know, New York, Texas, Tennessee, California, they each just get stars.
00:30:48.460 Ukraine gets half the flag.
00:30:50.500 A violation of the flag code, not that anyone really cares about that anymore, especially
00:30:53.820 on the left.
00:30:55.200 You'll remember during the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, the campaign took
00:30:58.560 a picture of a flag crumpled up, thrown on the ground.
00:31:01.040 They thought it looked kind of artsy and cool.
00:31:02.580 No sense that that's wrong.
00:31:04.020 It's actually wrong to do to your country.
00:31:05.280 Not surprising, actually, to an American left, which now regularly desecrates and disrespects
00:31:11.560 the flag.
00:31:12.040 But this is some crazy thinking.
00:31:14.240 I don't think the most war hawkey, bullish, neocon, George W. Bush cowboy would support
00:31:21.740 this kind of radicalism to say, actually, half of our country is just Ukraine now.
00:31:26.160 That's what we care about.
00:31:29.300 But that's what Pelosi is saying.
00:31:30.780 That's what a lot of people are saying.
00:31:32.340 Now, that's not the kind of system our constitution sets up, but then the left will go even further
00:31:38.200 and they'll say that our constitution is trash.
00:31:40.220 They will literally say that on The View.
00:31:42.420 Elie Mestal, who you may have seen him on MSNBC or CNN.
00:31:45.800 Actually, you probably haven't because you don't watch those channels.
00:31:48.060 But he writes for The Nation.
00:31:50.620 He's a left-wing political analyst of some prominence.
00:31:53.760 Elie Mestal goes on.
00:31:55.120 He's speaking to the cackling hens on The View.
00:31:57.620 They're saying, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck.
00:31:59.500 And then somehow the constitution comes up.
00:32:01.600 And Elie Mestal, he comes out and says the quiet part out loud.
00:32:04.200 He says he hates the constitution.
00:32:06.340 Some will say, OK, so are you arguing for throwing out the constitution?
00:32:10.940 Should the constitution be thrown out?
00:32:12.540 What do we do?
00:32:13.220 Is it a living document?
00:32:14.400 Is it a or is it a sacred document?
00:32:16.320 It's certainly not sacred.
00:32:17.660 All right, let's start there.
00:32:18.700 The constitution is kind of trash.
00:32:20.860 Now, let's just, again, let's just talk as adults, for instance.
00:32:23.320 What did you say?
00:32:23.880 It's what?
00:32:24.220 It's kind of trash.
00:32:25.300 Trash.
00:32:25.580 It was written by slavers and colonists and white people who were willing to make deals 0.84
00:32:30.340 with slavers and colonists.
00:32:32.180 They didn't ask anybody who looked like me what they thought about the constitution.
00:32:35.780 Let's talk like adults for a second.
00:32:37.660 Yes, nothing says talking like an adult, like Elie Mestal on The View.
00:32:42.360 Yes, that, how mature, how responsible and sophisticated.
00:32:46.500 Certainly not sacred, our constitution.
00:32:48.820 And it's kind of trash.
00:32:50.600 He's talking like a freshman in high school.
00:32:53.260 Let's talk like adults.
00:32:54.220 It's kind of trash.
00:32:56.280 And then Joy Behar, you look over, Joy Behar, pretty left wing, pretty disrespectful of America
00:33:04.340 in many ways.
00:33:04.880 She hears this and even she goes, what did you say?
00:33:08.340 It's, you said it's trash?
00:33:10.740 When you are too far left for Joy Behar, you have gone really far.
00:33:15.540 But I suspect Elie Mestal is actually representing the accurate perception of the constitution
00:33:21.600 on the left.
00:33:23.420 I don't think he's just some crazy fringe element.
00:33:25.560 I mean, the left has been telling us this for years.
00:33:27.420 They protest the American flag on football fields and elsewhere.
00:33:32.160 They denigrate the founding fathers and framers of the constitution as he does, as slavers. 0.90
00:33:38.420 They're slavers. 0.95
00:33:39.820 So that's why they, everything they ever touched was terrible and turned to ash, like this wonderful
00:33:43.980 country that has allowed me to prosper.
00:33:45.820 Even me, Elie Mestal, a dum-dum. 0.86
00:33:48.480 They're trash.
00:33:49.120 It's total trash.
00:33:50.580 Of course, you notice the people who denigrate our forebears, they never look at the things
00:33:54.520 we're doing right now that our posterity might say about us.
00:33:58.540 They never imagine that someday, hundreds of years from now, people will look back at
00:34:04.300 Elie Mestal and the women of The View and say, these people were trash. 1.00
00:34:08.680 They defended killing almost a million babies a year and they pretended it was some sort of
00:34:13.060 sacred right.
00:34:14.580 These people are trash.
00:34:16.740 You know, you want to compare the founders and the framers to anyone.
00:34:21.000 At least they weren't killing a million babies a year, okay?
00:34:24.500 Actually, whatever the, and also, by the way, most of the founders and framers, virtually all
00:34:29.880 of them, had deep moral misgivings about slavery and a lot of them wanted to get rid of it.
00:34:34.400 Even at the time of the constitution, it was just politically impossible.
00:34:37.140 Putting that aside, if you're comparing heaps of trash, you know, everyone's trash, all fall
00:34:43.220 short of the glory of God, all sin, everyone's trash.
00:34:45.400 It would seem to me that The View and Elie Mestal certainly beats the founders and framers 0.95
00:34:52.160 in magnitude and stench of the trash.
00:34:55.900 But the battle right now, you'll notice, is over not the constitution.
00:35:00.700 When Elie Mestal says the constitution is terrible and trash, he doesn't actually make an argument
00:35:06.080 about the constitution.
00:35:07.280 He makes an argument about the people who wrote the constitution.
00:35:10.120 And he says, these were bad people, therefore, throw out the constitution.
00:35:13.300 So the, and, and this is, this has defined, you know, it's, it's actually a pretty telling
00:35:18.840 clip, even though the things that he's saying are extremely stupid. 0.53
00:35:21.760 It's telling because that's what our battle over who we are as a country has been about.
00:35:26.240 It's not really about the principles of the constitution.
00:35:28.460 On the rare occasion that someone brings up a principle of the constitution, they usually
00:35:32.620 do so to misrepresent it.
00:35:34.200 They'll say, you know, in the constitution, slaves were only counted as three-fifths of
00:35:37.560 people.
00:35:37.960 Can you believe that?
00:35:38.620 Those racists, those, well, do you know what the three-fifths compromise was?
00:35:43.240 Do you know what the point of that was?
00:35:44.340 Yeah.
00:35:45.240 Yeah.
00:35:45.560 They said, the founders said that the slaves were three-fifths, well, actually there were
00:35:49.180 two groups.
00:35:49.880 One group wanted the slaves to be counted as fully as people, and the other group didn't want
00:35:53.980 the slaves to be counted as people at all.
00:35:55.700 And the group that wanted the slaves to be counted fully as people were the slavers.
00:36:03.980 Usually people who invoke the three-fifths compromise as some terrible aspect of American
00:36:07.620 history don't realize that.
00:36:09.100 It was the slaveholders who wanted the slaves to be counted fully as people because they
00:36:14.300 wanted more representation in the Congress in no small part to better entrench slavery.
00:36:18.200 It was the northerners and the people who opposed slavery who didn't want the slaves to be counted
00:36:23.720 at all because they wanted to reduce the influence of the southern slave-holding states in the
00:36:28.740 government.
00:36:29.700 So on the rare occasion that someone brings up a provision of the constitution, it's usually
00:36:33.340 just to misrepresent it.
00:36:34.660 Usually the battle is over the founders and the framers.
00:36:37.600 Jefferson had slaves, and Washington had slaves, and so the founders were bad.
00:36:44.180 And then on the right, you have people say, no, the founders were really good, and they
00:36:47.380 were smart, and they gave us a good country.
00:36:49.880 And therefore, because the founders were good and the framers were good, we should support
00:36:53.760 the constitution.
00:36:54.620 And on the left, they say, no, because the founders and the framers were bad, we should
00:36:57.160 oppose the constitution.
00:36:58.360 There is a third way here, though.
00:37:00.560 And I think this would be the better way for conservatives to defend our country.
00:37:05.380 Third, the left has already done a great job in the cultural battle of tearing down the
00:37:10.380 statues, of denigrating Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln, actually, the re-founding of the
00:37:14.840 country.
00:37:17.080 What if we focus on the principles themselves?
00:37:19.660 And what if we focus on our constitutional system and the law in general, not just as
00:37:25.860 some random preference of some old guys in the late 18th century, a preference that could
00:37:32.660 be good or bad, depending on your view of these guys, what if we view the law as something
00:37:36.280 that is objective, that is objectively true?
00:37:39.260 What if we start making points like, hey, the commandment, thou shalt not commit murder,
00:37:44.540 is just true.
00:37:45.780 It's true whether dudes in Philadelphia think it's true or not.
00:37:49.480 It's a part of the natural law.
00:37:52.040 It's a part of the transcendent moral order that is just always true.
00:37:56.040 And from that natural law, we get other laws, more particular laws that you might call it
00:38:02.120 the law of nations.
00:38:03.020 Adrian Vermeule, the conservative Harvard law professor, has a good book ad about this.
00:38:06.820 And from the law, after the law of nations at the smaller level, you have the civil law.
00:38:10.540 And then we have the particular laws that we all make in our own towns and states and in
00:38:14.440 our own countries.
00:38:16.140 But what if the process of law were not so much making law, just pulling it out of thin air,
00:38:22.800 but what if it were actually discovering law that some things are true, whether we want
00:38:28.800 them to be, whether we don't want them to be?
00:38:30.180 What if we ground our defense of America in that, that some things are just true and some
00:38:34.760 things are just good?
00:38:36.060 And it's not about the personal virtues or foibles of any founders or framers.
00:38:40.940 It's about what's good and what's true.
00:38:43.080 What if we had the guts to actually say that and defend that?
00:38:45.460 You're seeing the parents do this now.
00:38:47.280 The parents are going into these schools and they're talking to PhD administrators who have
00:38:52.480 advanced degrees and great experience in critical race theory and have studied all this kind
00:38:57.620 of kooky academic ideology, CRT, transgenderism. 0.92
00:39:01.760 And these parents are going in and they say, look, I don't give a damn about your stupid
00:39:04.600 degrees.
00:39:05.180 I don't care how many years you spent studying these lunatics.
00:39:08.480 It's just wrong.
00:39:10.160 It's just wrong.
00:39:11.260 It's just bad and wrong and ugly and we're not going to have it.
00:39:15.700 I think that would put us on much sounder footing.
00:39:19.980 It would allow us to oppose the caprice and the absolute arbitrariness of the way we are
00:39:27.300 ruled right now.
00:39:28.880 The way we've been ruled for two years in particular has been purely arbitrary.
00:39:34.540 And now the left wants you to believe right now that that's over.
00:39:38.540 We're moving.
00:39:39.460 COVID is over.
00:39:40.820 The rule of the Dr. Fauci's, that's totally over.
00:39:44.040 Don't worry.
00:39:44.580 We're getting back to normal.
00:39:45.580 Never mind.
00:39:46.040 Nothing to see here.
00:39:46.680 Move on, move on, move on.
00:39:47.780 Do not let them lull you into complacency.
00:39:51.500 Their arbitrary, capricious rule is not even close to over.
00:39:55.980 And they're even admitting it if you know where to look.
00:39:59.740 They're telling us now on the left because their poll numbers are in the trash that COVID,
00:40:06.360 it's okay.
00:40:06.840 It's over.
00:40:07.200 We're going to lift some restrictions.
00:40:08.580 Don't worry.
00:40:08.860 Dr. Fauci, he's not on TV quite as much anymore.
00:40:11.680 Don't worry.
00:40:12.520 Don't be angry about us for locking your kids away from home and sticking them with experimental 0.76
00:40:17.200 drugs for two years and not letting you have weddings and funerals and see your loved ones
00:40:21.020 and go to work.
00:40:21.780 And for tanking the economy and for effectively booting out the president who is relatively
00:40:27.020 popular and taking away your right to go to church and taking away so many of your liberties.
00:40:32.320 And I'm sorry, never mind.
00:40:35.880 We're moving on.
00:40:36.540 Forget about it.
00:40:38.200 Until November.
00:40:40.180 Until November.
00:40:41.180 Don't let them lull you into believing that COVID and the COVID regime and the rule of Dr.
00:40:49.060 Fauci is over.
00:40:50.080 It's not over.
00:40:50.920 It's just really, really unpopular right now in an election year.
00:40:53.840 But it's not over and they're admitting it.
00:40:55.800 Here's a headline just from the past few days.
00:40:57.640 Top New York City officials call for student COVID-19 vaccine mandate by next school year.
00:41:03.900 So they're relaxing it right now.
00:41:06.380 They're starting to relax it right now, even in New York.
00:41:09.080 But they want it back next year.
00:41:10.800 They want it back next year because after the midterm elections, they can pull all this
00:41:14.960 crap again.
00:41:16.020 New York Times, the Surgeon General calls on big tech to turn over COVID-19 misinformation
00:41:22.420 data.
00:41:23.100 So the Surgeon General, the Biden administration is calling on social media companies to turn
00:41:29.900 over all of your data on whoever dissented even once from the Dr. Fauci regime for what
00:41:36.540 purpose?
00:41:37.180 So that they can just store it away in a drawer and not look at it?
00:41:39.720 No, to punish you, to investigate anyone who dissented in any way.
00:41:43.980 If this were over, if the Dr. Fauci rule, if the COVID rule were over, would they be demanding
00:41:48.600 this information?
00:41:49.380 Of course not.
00:41:50.340 It would have no purpose.
00:41:51.640 But they are demanding it because it's not over.
00:41:54.460 New York Times, Politico, Senate votes to end COVID-19 emergency declaration.
00:42:00.060 Biden threatens veto.
00:42:01.640 Wait a second.
00:42:02.280 I thought this was over.
00:42:03.360 I thought we were moving on.
00:42:04.580 I thought we had to focus on Ukraine.
00:42:06.180 I thought we had to focus on energy prices.
00:42:08.360 I thought it's not over.
00:42:10.000 It's not over.
00:42:11.060 I actually had forgotten that they still had the emergency declaration because it's been
00:42:15.600 so, it's ridiculous.
00:42:16.680 Regardless, some of us, I know that the commenter at the top of the show called me Noel Stradamus.
00:42:22.060 Thank you very much.
00:42:22.720 Some of us called this two years ago and said they're never going to give you your power back
00:42:26.460 unless you take it back.
00:42:27.840 Dr. Fauci is never going to let up unless you fire Dr. Fauci, unless you call your congressman
00:42:32.160 senator and have them sign the Michael Knowles Public Health Protection Pledge to make sure
00:42:35.640 that you investigate, subpoena, and zero out Dr. Fauci's salary when the Republicans retake
00:42:40.820 the House.
00:42:42.780 They're not going to give your power back to you unless you take it.
00:42:46.320 Well, they still have this emergency declaration.
00:42:48.620 Why is Biden threatening to veto this?
00:42:51.400 He's almost certainly going to veto this.
00:42:54.520 It's over.
00:42:55.080 Omicron is down.
00:42:57.940 The Delta's down.
00:43:00.060 We don't need to wear the masks, except we kind of do.
00:43:02.920 We do have to wear the masks on airplanes and on trains and in government buildings.
00:43:08.300 And hold on, wait.
00:43:10.260 It's like it's not over.
00:43:12.320 It's like they're just trying to lull us into a false sense of complacency so that we can
00:43:16.460 just, they can hold on to power just a little bit longer and then they're going to do it
00:43:19.680 all again.
00:43:20.120 Those three articles, that's just from March 3rd.
00:43:22.340 That's just from what, two, three days ago?
00:43:25.080 That's it.
00:43:26.740 More coming out every day if you know where to look.
00:43:30.000 Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, is demanding that children under five years old mask up
00:43:36.600 because they can't vaccinate.
00:43:38.360 Three-year-olds need to mask up. 0.69
00:43:39.760 Three-year-olds who are at virtually no risk from the coronavirus and pose virtually no risk
00:43:46.140 to anybody else.
00:43:47.120 They're still clinging on.
00:43:50.180 Don't let them get away with this.
00:43:51.600 They are so slippery.
00:43:52.600 They're so good at evading responsibility.
00:43:57.420 Jen Psaki at the White House is being asked, hey, hey, Jen Psaki, how come the whole country's
00:44:01.260 turning to ash ever since Joe Biden got elected?
00:44:04.400 How come, just to name the most immediate problem for us, how come gas is going through the roof
00:44:09.220 and what's Biden going to do about it?
00:44:10.500 The reason why the price of gas is going up is not because of steps the president has taken.
00:44:16.720 They are because President Putin is invading Ukraine, and that is creating a great deal of instability
00:44:21.700 in the global marketplace.
00:44:23.200 Sure.
00:44:26.560 The reason the price of gas going up is not because of steps that Biden has taken, though actually there are some steps
00:44:33.600 that Biden took, like killing the oil pipelines that are causing gas rights.
00:44:37.040 But no, it's not because of steps that Biden took.
00:44:39.220 It's because Putin is invading Ukraine because of steps that Biden took.
00:44:44.700 That's why Putin's invading Ukraine.
00:44:48.400 Because Biden did that, because Biden literally told him to, explicitly told him he could invade Ukraine.
00:44:56.040 And now gas is going up and it is Biden's fault.
00:44:59.520 But a lot of people in this country who tune in only to CNN and The Washington Post and NBC and CBS and whatever,
00:45:08.420 they're going to believe that.
00:45:09.660 They're going to say, oh, it's Putin's fault, right?
00:45:11.080 Why is it Putin's fault?
00:45:11.880 Because of what Biden is doing.
00:45:14.820 These guys are pretty radical.
00:45:17.760 The ruling class is pretty radical.
00:45:19.160 You want to hear an example of this?
00:45:20.160 We usually think of the Supreme Court as being one of the moderating influences in America.
00:45:25.900 They never quite give the conservatives what they want.
00:45:28.220 Even the liberals haven't totally been happy in recent years with the court.
00:45:32.600 The Supreme Court just ruled to reinstate the death penalty for the Boston Marathon bomber.
00:45:39.600 So you remember the Boston Marathon bomber.
00:45:41.140 This guy, they got him dead to rights.
00:45:42.920 He planned the attack.
00:45:43.920 He killed people.
00:45:45.180 He injured lots of other people.
00:45:47.000 And he got the death sentence.
00:45:49.340 Then an appeals court took away the death sentence in 2020 for this guy.
00:45:55.400 Why?
00:45:55.880 Because they said, oh, well, maybe his brother, who he committed the attack with,
00:46:00.580 maybe his brother was more responsible than he was.
00:46:02.800 So anyway, let's take away the death penalty.
00:46:05.000 It was basically for no reason.
00:46:05.920 They just didn't want to kill him because they don't like the death penalty.
00:46:07.780 So that goes up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court makes the right decision.
00:46:12.720 But we have a 6-3 conservative court.
00:46:14.360 That means that three justices, three liberals on the Supreme Court, which are supposed to
00:46:18.380 be the most moderate, normal, reasonable people in the country, at least in politics,
00:46:23.960 they decided that they didn't want the Boston Marathon bomber, an actual terrorist in America
00:46:34.260 who killed people, who injured children, they didn't want him to receive the death penalty
00:46:39.680 that he already received.
00:46:41.080 It's not even like the Supreme Court had to decide, well, you know, what, should we put
00:46:44.660 him 30 years in prison?
00:46:45.680 Should we give him the death penalty?
00:46:46.940 No, he was already sentenced to the death penalty.
00:46:49.560 The Supreme Court just had to say, okay, that's fine.
00:46:51.700 And three judges wouldn't do that.
00:46:53.320 That's how radical we're talking here, okay?
00:46:57.060 That's how blinded by ideology these people are, all right?
00:47:02.120 We are in a very tense moment here where even the most elite, supposedly moderate, reasonable
00:47:10.180 liberals are so far out there that they're basically not speaking the same language as
00:47:17.200 we are here in the United States.
00:47:19.380 And now we're running away in the next panic and we're going to run away in the next panic
00:47:22.660 and the next panic and the next panic.
00:47:24.040 And it's all with the best of intentions and we all post the pictures to social media
00:47:27.460 and we all say, I stand with this new cause and I'm now totally, and we're taking our eyes
00:47:33.980 off the ball of our own domestic political troubles.
00:47:37.160 We're not fixing our own country.
00:47:38.920 We're just being swept away by ideology.
00:47:42.060 We're making mistake after mistake after mistake, which is what happens to people who don't know
00:47:46.000 history.
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