Ep. 959 - Russia Ate My Homework
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Summary
Joe Biden says gas prices are going up because Putin ate his homework. But is it really Putin's fault or is it Joe Biden's fault that gas prices have gone up so much in a short period of time? And why does it have anything to do with anything?
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Late last week, we reported that gas prices had hit a whopping $3.73 per gallon on average.
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Man, those were the good old days. You remember those wonderful old days?
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Now, gas is up to $4.17 per gallon. That's a 44-cent jump from last week and a 61-cent spike
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from a month ago. One year ago today, after only a month and a half of Joe Biden wreaking havoc on
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the economy, gas averaged just $2.76 per gallon nationally. Now it's hit an all-time high.
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So what is Joe Biden going to do to fix it? You guessed it. Absolutely nothing.
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It's gonna go up. Can't do much right now. Russia's responsible.
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Can't do much. It's Putin's fault. Everything's Putin's fault. The buck stops with Putin.
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Hmm. Except gas prices were already spiking under Joe Biden well before Putin invaded Ukraine.
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Gas has been going up consistently since just after Joe Biden was sworn into office.
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But according to Biden, that is purely a coincidence. It has nothing to do with his energy policies.
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Look, let me be clear about two other points. First, it's simply not true that my administration
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or policies are holding back domestic energy production. That's simply not true.
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It's simply not true, okay? It's simply not true that Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline on his
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first day in office. It's simply not true that Biden reentered the anti-fossil fuel Paris agreement
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on his first day in office. It's simply not true that Biden suspended all new federal gas and oil
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leases five days after he was sworn into office. It's simply not true that Biden just a couple weeks
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ago indefinitely froze decisions about new federal oil and gas drilling. It's simply not true,
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even though I distinctly remember all of those things happening. So either my memory is failing me
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and all those news reports about all those well-known policy decisions are an illusion, or Joe Biden
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is lying again and gaslighting us all again, trying to distract from his uninterrupted record of failure
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by claiming that Putin ate his homework. Who are you going to believe, Joe Biden or your own lying eyes?
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Cool Papa J Magic. That guy always
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has the best comments. That guy's appeared on this show in the My Favorite Comment section probably
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a dozen times at this point. He writes, I'm just so tired of the lies. Good news is gaslighting is about
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to get a lot more expensive. You are so right. It is. Everything is getting more expensive necessarily
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everything. Everything that has happened that's bad under Joe Biden, it's all Putin's fault.
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Even stuff that happened before Putin invaded Ukraine, it's Putin. Forget about it. What can
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I do? Nothing. It's Putin. Go talk to Putin. Putin, Putin ate my homework. That is Joe Biden's story,
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and he's sticking to it. Now, some of the members of his cabinet, they realize that you just,
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you can't blame every bad thing in the world on Vladimir Putin. So some people are offering a
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different answer. If you're worried about gas prices going up, Pete Buttigieg has a simple
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solution for you. Just buy a Tesla. Clean transportation can bring significant cost savings
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for the American people as well. Last month, we announced a $5 billion investment to build out a
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nationwide electric vehicle charging network. So the people from rural to suburban to urban communities
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can all benefit from the gas savings of driving an EV. There are wonderful gas savings, guys. Plus,
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pretty soon the cars are going to be self-driving, and they've got that cool iMac screen right in front
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of you, and it's great. And when you drive up to fun parties with all of your wealthy friends,
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you can compare. Do I have the Model S? Oh, you have the Model X? That's a lot. That's the answer,
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right? To middle class families who are struggling to decide, do I fill up the gas tank or do I buy
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clothes for my children? We played a woman in Michigan just a few days ago who said now when
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she buys clothes for her children, she's got to decide what is she going to prioritize? Well,
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it's very simple. You just buy a Tesla, right? So tone deaf. This is the problem with Pete.
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Pete's a pretty good politician in the sense that he went from total obscurity. He was the mayor of a
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very small town in Indiana to a cabinet secretary. So he's a very good political careerist, but he's
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not great in terms of connecting with people. The only election he's ever won is from his very small
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town. So when he says these things, you see a lot of his privilege, for lack of a better word,
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coming out. This is a guy who spent his whole life in a university bubble. That's where he grew up
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because his dad was a very well-known Marxist scholar, actually. His dad is one of the best
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known scholars of the father of what's called cultural Marxism, Antonio Gramsci. So he grew up
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in that sort of ivory tower setting. And then he went off to Harvard and then he went off to McKinsey,
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right? So he's been in ISIS. What's wrong with you? Just go buy a Tesla. Then you don't need to worry
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about gas prices at all. It's not just Pete Buttigieg. Stephen Colbert making the very same
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point. Russia has been hit with a series of crippling sanctions, and it looks like there's
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more to come because the U.S. and its European allies are now discussing banning imports of
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Russian oil. Take that, Putin. We're not going to buy our gas from a war criminal. We're going to buy
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it from the good guys, Saudi Arabia. But it's going to cost. Since the invasion, oil prices have
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skyrocketed. Today, the average gas price in America hit an all-time record high of over $4
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per gallon. Okay, that stings, but a clean conscience is worth a buck or two. I'm willing to pay.
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It's important. It's important. I'm willing to pay $4 a gallon. Hell, I'll pay $15 a gallon
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because I drive a Tesla. This is such a telling joke. In every joke, there is a little element
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of truth. And here, I think there's a big element of truth. The joke is, I don't care what gas prices
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are. You know, gas prices, if they go up, it just shows that I care about freedom in Ukraine,
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that I'm sticking it to Vladimir Putin. I don't care if they go up to $100 a gallon
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because it doesn't affect me because I don't even put gas in my car.
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Yeah, and so that's the joke, except that's the reality, too. There's something else really
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interesting about this clip. As a result of our ban on Russian oil, America is now looking to
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increase oil supplies from Saudi Arabia, sure, but also Iran and Venezuela. And in the joke here,
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Colbert says, oh, wow, we're going from one really bad guy to another really bad guy. And the other bad
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guy he points to is Saudi Arabia, which is actually an ally of the United States. He doesn't say,
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oh, great, we're going from Russian oil to Iran because the Libs love Iran. Even though Iran is
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the largest state sponsor of terror in the world, the Libs are super into Iran. They were pushing
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for a ridiculous Iran deal that would have given Iran a nuclear weapon. They're pushing for that
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again. Venezuela, they love the socialist government in Venezuela. They've been talking up the socialist
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government in Venezuela for 20 years now. They've been talking it up since the days of Hugo Chavez.
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They still like this guy, Nicolas Maduro, a socialist dictator down there. So he won't even
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make that joke. He won't even make the joke, oh, now we've got to deal with socialist dictators
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or the crazy Ayatollah and the mallas who are funding terror around the world. No, because they
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like those guys too much. They only go after Saudi Arabia. But then he comes to his point. He says,
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look, I don't care if it's $15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla. What you're seeing here,
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even in this little joke, is the perversion of our system of law from a care for the common good
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into a care purely for self-interest. What is the law? Seems like a simple question,
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and yet I bet a lot of people cannot answer it. Thomas Aquinas gives a very simple definition.
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of what the law is. The law is an ordinance of reason for the common good made by him who has
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care of the community and promulgated. That's it. Very simple. An ordinance of reason for the common
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good of the whole community. Law is not just how to benefit some people at the expense of other people
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in the community. It's actually for the common good made by the person who has charge of the care of
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the community, the authority who has care of the community, and then promulgated, declared publicly
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and followed by all. But that's not how the libs view law anymore. The way the libs view law is that
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there's one set of rules for them and another set of rules for everyone else. The way the libs view the
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law is that the law is a way to gain the advantage for certain interest groups. And this is not me
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denigrating the left. This is how they openly speak of the law. That the law and politics is not a matter
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of civilized reasoned debate where we persuade our fellow citizens of what is good for all of us.
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The true common good, not just the amalgamation of all of our individual interests lumped together,
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but the actual common good that serves everyone that leads to a flourishing republic. What is a
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republic? It means the things we all hold in common. No, they don't view it that way. They say, well,
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the law is a way for this marginalized group to finally stick it to that other marginalized group.
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They view it as sort of the opposite of a common good. Yeah, raise those gas prices. That'll stick it to
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those rude, idiot conservatives who are polluting our environment. And it won't affect me because
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I've got my Tesla. Yeah, let's shut down the economy and shut down all of the stores for not just
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months, but years at a time because I've got my laptop lifestyle. It doesn't matter. I can just do work
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in my nice apartment in New York. And oh, the working class, the blue collar worker who can't get his
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paycheck anymore. Well, too bad. Whoopsie daisy. That'll show him. Maybe he should be a little bit more
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like me. Two views of the law. One, not so great. A lot of downsides to that view of law and politics
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from criminal justice reform. You know, I try to do this at least once a week. Sometimes I've got to
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do it every single day. This is an update from all the wonderful, compassionate criminal justice
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reform that helps those poor, oppressed criminals get out of jail and get back on the street. And what
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are they doing? Oh, they're assaulting people all the time. Headline from the Daily Wire,
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career New York City criminal assaults two people in a week, walks free because of New York's lax
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bail reform laws. So there's a guy. This guy has 20 arrests since 1999. This week, he was arrested.
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Just this past week, he was arrested and released twice for two separate assaults,
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thanks to New York's wonderful criminal justice reform laws. 37-year-old dude was arrested after
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allegedly assaulting a woman on the New York subway in late February. The surveillance video
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from the Bronx shows this guy walk up to a woman with a plastic bag in his hand. Then without saying
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a word, he smashed the contents of the bag, which apparently was his own feces, into her face,
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then smeared it on the back of her head and then ran away. Why did he do this? Well, because he went up
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and made a pass at her, I guess he was sort of sexually assaulting her and then she was not
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interested in him. So he went into the car, defecated, came back, smeared it on her face.
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Now call me old fashioned, but I think that when fellas do that sort of thing, they ought to go to
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jail and stay in jail and not be released immediately. I guess I'm just an old knuckle dragging conservative
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because all the, the bail reform, abolish prisons, defund the police crowd. They believe that it's
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a good thing to have more people on the street rubbing bags of their own fecal matter into the
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faces of innocent bystanders. He was arrested at a homeless shelter on Monday where he joked about
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the incident. He was asked about it. Were you responsible for this? And he said to the cops,
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S-H-I-T happens. Ha ha. This is an S-H-I-T-T-Y situation. Ha ha. Ha ha ha. So by the way,
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he's not just completely crazy. Sometimes one of the causes of, of homelessness, especially in New
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York, but really everywhere is mental illness. So some of these guys, they're doing things,
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they have no idea what they're doing. They're just totally out of their minds. This guy's not
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totally out of his mind. He's aware of it. He's making puns about the situation. Ha ha ha ha.
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Then, during his arraignment, he said he was being mistreated by the system,
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shouted insults at the judge, and then he was freed without bail.
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Because that's the way New York operates now, because of that bail reform law. He also, by the
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way, he had been arrested a little further back because he was walking around Crown Heights,
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chasing down Jews, screaming, effing Jews, I'm going to kill you.
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Then he spat on a guy's chest, tried to punch him, missed, ran away.
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He does this all the time. He's a career criminal. That's, that is what criminal justice reform is.
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That is what bail reform is. That is what, when we talk about over-incarceration,
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that's exactly what we're talking about. And the libs and the squishes, I'm sorry to say.
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And by the way, even some relatively conservative Republicans, for goodness sakes, even Trump,
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during the Trump administration, Trump took up this cause of criminal justice reform over
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incarceration. We're going to let, we're going to let the criminals out of, out of jail.
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That's not our problem. Our problem is not that we have too many criminals in jail. Our problem is
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that we have far too few criminals in jail and women are being sexually harassed and having feces
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rubbed on their face because of it. And then even after that happens, the criminals get off the hook,
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they're released, and you know what they're going to do? They're going to do it again right away.
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This is one of those issues where somehow the ruling class is living on a completely different
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planet. The vast majority of people in both parties think that there is too much crime and
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we need to get tougher on crime. And yet the politicians, mostly Democrats, but some Republicans
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too, they say, ah, you know what, you know what our problem is? We don't have enough crime. Let's let
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those criminals back on the street. The Democrats are waking up to this. They realize that we've got
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midterm elections coming up. This is not playing very well in Peoria. And so they are trying to run
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away from the fact that they have supported defunding the police, abolishing the police
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for years now. You're hearing this from top Democrats in Congress, top Democrats in party
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leadership. They are saying, look, these Republicans, they're lying. This is fake news. They're spreading
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misinformation. We do not support defunding the police. We've never supported defunding the police.
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Oh yeah. Roll the tape. Progressives on Capitol Hill are echoing the chants heard from protesters on
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streets in major cities around the country. Congresswoman Elon Omar, whose district includes
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Minneapolis, has called the police there rotten to the root saying the department shouldn't just be
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defunded. It should be dismantled. We mean ending this department as it currently exists. I am for
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defunding the police. Some city officials calling for police departments across the U.S. to be
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defunded. Rashid Tlaib tweeting, no more policing, incarceration and militarization. It can't
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be reformed. What we've seen in Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti saying, take some of the
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money from policing, about $150 million, invest it in health initiatives, training initiatives
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for youth. I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he's done. Painted in huge block letters on city
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streets from Washington to Wisconsin. Some who support the idea want to strip all police funding
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and dissolve entire departments. There's some issues that we ask police to do, like mental health
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issues or policing in schools and all the rest, that perhaps we can shuffle some of that money
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around. We don't want no more police. But we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police
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Department. Yes, I support the defund movement. So it's not just some no-name, wacky, eccentric,
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liberal columnist. It's not even some backbencher, liberal, Democrat members of Congress.
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It's not even just the squad, although you just heard, I think, the entire squad there.
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I didn't hear if Rashida Tlaib was in that clip. She's called for this too, though. Rashida Tlaib
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actually called for the complete dismantling of the entire federal prison system. Just gone. No more
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federal prisons whatsoever. But it's not even just them. It's not even just AOC and Tlaib and Ayanna
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Presley and Ilhan Omar. It's Nancy Pelosi. It's Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United
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States. These people all called to varying degrees for defunding the police. And now we've got a massive
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crime spike going around and they are running away. They are trying to gaslight you. They're saying,
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no, this had nothing to do with us. La, la, la. Fake news. This is just Republicans lying. It's not.
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We've got the tape. We've got the tape. Don't let them call you a conspiracy theorist for quoting
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their own words because that's what they're doing. Mike Anton, the political philosopher and writer,
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made this point the other day. He said, right now, it's not just that the Democrats are not letting us
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point out things that they are doing. It's that the Democrats do a thing and then they tell us that
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they're doing the thing. And then they tell us that we're not allowed to say that they're doing
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that thing. They're even telling, they're putting it out on, on camera, on video, in print. They're
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saying defund the police means defund the police. What are you talking about? I never said defund the
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police. Don't you say it. If you say that I said that, you're going to be censored. You're going to be
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suppressed on social media. You're going to be spreading fake news. It's a conspiracy theory.
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Now, speaking of conspiracy theories, you know, we have pointed out on this show, especially during
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this COVID era, that the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about six to
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12 months. It's a lot faster than that now. I think we're looking more like six to 12 days.
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We might be looking at six to 12 hours. There was a conspiracy theory the other day.
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And someone brought this up to me and I thought, what, what are you talking? I haven't even heard
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of this. This conspiracy theory said the U.S. has funded bio labs in Ukraine and these bio labs
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may have played, be playing some role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. So I, I said,
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I haven't even heard of this. I Google it. I immediately snopes fact checker, fake news.
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This is totally fake news. Ignore this. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Okay.
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Then just yesterday, I see a headline. Chinese propaganda pushes false, crazy conspiracy theory
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about U.S. funded bio labs in Ukraine. And then just hours later, the undersecretary of state for
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political affairs, Victoria Nuland testifies before the Senate and says, well, actually, yeah, maybe,
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maybe, uh, maybe we've got those bio labs. You're right. Ukraine has, uh, biological research
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facilities, which in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be
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seeking to, uh, gain control of. So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of
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those research materials from falling into the hands of, uh, Russian forces, should they approach.
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So we might have some, yeah, I don't want to say bio labs, biological, uh, edifices of research.
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Um, and we really don't want the Russians to get them. Well, hold on. So now what the government,
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what the U S government is admitting is yes. Okay. We've been funding these labs and they're for
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biological research, but it's only to stop diseases. This was the Fauci excuse. No, we're
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not, we're not doing any gain of function research. We're not making new diseases. We're just, we're
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just, we're not certainly not doing bioweapons. We're just sort of, you know, we're trying to stop
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disease. Okay. Well, if that's the case, then why are you so worried about it falling into
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Russian hands? If these are just purely, totally above board biological research facilities,
00:24:49.240
then what's the big deal if the Russians get their hands on them? Because maybe there's a little bit
00:24:54.220
more going on at these labs. Maybe just like with Fauci, just like with Wuhan, we're not doing any
00:24:59.040
gain of function research. We're not, we have no connection to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:25:03.800
We have not in any way funded. Oh, whoopsie daisy. We totally did. We funded gain of function at the
00:25:09.240
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Welcome back to the show. Conspiracy theory. Yesterday morning, there was a conspiracy theory
00:26:52.960
that the United States has funded bio labs in Ukraine, and this has something to do with the
00:26:57.720
war going on right now. That was a crazy radical Russian propaganda, Chinese propaganda, terrible
00:27:03.140
conspiracy theory. And then the undersecretary of state admitted that it's true in testimony before
00:27:08.820
the US Senate. So what are these labs? There's three theories here. The Russians say these labs are
00:27:17.880
working on biological weapons, and that there are lots of these labs throughout former Soviet territory.
00:27:24.240
And so it's in the national security interest of the Russian Federation to go in and take control of
00:27:30.120
these labs. China says that the United States has not only a handful of labs in Ukraine, they've
00:27:37.100
actually got 336 bio labs that they're funding in 36 different countries. And the United States says,
00:27:43.220
okay, sure, so maybe we've provided some funding to these labs in Ukraine, but they're not working
00:27:48.220
on bioweapons at all. They're merely working to destroy potential pathogens. Who do I believe here?
00:27:56.660
I don't believe the United States. I hate that. I wish I could believe the official lines of my own
00:28:03.920
country. But I can't, because they lied to us about this exact same issue in Wuhan, China.
00:28:12.580
They lied to us about this exact same issue with regard to gain-of-function research. So the US has
00:28:19.500
absolutely no credibility on this issue. I don't believe that.
00:28:25.280
Do we have 336 bio labs in 36 countries? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe we do, maybe we don't.
00:28:30.960
I don't think the Chinese have our best interests at heart. I don't think they're the most honest
00:28:36.500
people. But still, maybe they're telling the truth. The Russians say we're working on biological
00:28:41.760
weapons. And there are a lot of these, there's some in Georgia and other parts of ex-Soviet
00:28:45.440
territory. Maybe that's true. Maybe it's not. I don't know. I don't know who to believe. I really
00:28:50.980
don't believe any of these players. And I'm not sure who is closest to the truth. The big takeaway,
00:28:56.600
though, this is, this is the biggest takeaway of all, is that this war just got a lot more
00:29:03.960
dangerous. Or rather, I suppose the war has always been this dangerous, and the public only now found
00:29:09.040
out about it. Not only are we talking about the first major war between civilized countries in my
00:29:14.780
lifetime, not only are we talking about a former superpower with nuclear weapons threatening to use
00:29:20.580
those weapons. Now we've got biological weapons entering into the chat. Because when the United
00:29:27.700
States says, oh, this is nothing, it's totally wholesome, it's above board, we're just killing
00:29:31.260
pathogens. Well, if that were the case, I don't think we would be so worried about these labs falling
00:29:35.980
into Russian hands. I think probably the State Department is worried because they know that
00:29:42.160
there is some weird stuff going on at these labs, and they don't want incriminating evidence
00:29:46.380
or potential weapons falling into the hands of the Russians. Regardless of who's telling the truth,
00:29:52.600
regardless of what's actually going on at these labs, this war is even more dangerous than people
00:29:58.860
previously realized. Speaking of conspiracy theories in our public health system, you know that the
00:30:07.240
vaccines, the COVID vaccines are one, not 100% safe, they are 1000% safe. If you even raise the
00:30:15.880
prospect of there possibly being the slight chance that you get a vaccine injury from these vaccines,
00:30:23.460
you're a crazy anti-vaxxer, tinfoil hat, rube idiot conspiracy theorist. And that is why
00:30:31.280
the Department of Health and Human Services is encouraging people to enroll in their after-vaccine
00:30:37.180
health checker. They want to check up on your health after you get the vaccines because of how
00:30:43.000
totally 100% safe the vaccines are, right? They want affirmation. All they want is they message
00:30:50.740
you, they say, you're feeling okay, or have you collapsed or anything, is your heart three times
00:30:54.600
its size, like the Grinch, you know, on Christmas? Or no, no, good. I'm glad we've been affirmed
00:31:00.720
in our claims. What does HHS say? Well, the Assistant Secretary for Health, who is a fellow who thinks he's a
00:31:08.920
gal by the name of Dr. Robert Levine, says, after getting your COVID-19 booster shot, be sure to use
00:31:15.100
V-safe to get your personalized and confidential text message check-ins about how you feel.
00:31:22.180
But of course you feel great because of how totally safe the vaccines are. So this is just really just
00:31:28.440
a little redundant, isn't it? This information helps the CDC monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines
00:31:33.380
in near real time, says the CDC. I don't know why they have to monitor it, though, because it's so
00:31:39.700
totally safe. During the first week after each vaccination, V-safe will send you a text message
00:31:44.200
each day to ask how you're feeling. After that, you will receive occasional health check-ins.
00:31:48.960
Depending on your answers, someone from the CDC may call to get more information. Your personal
00:31:53.040
information in V-safe is protected, so it's safe and private. You can opt out anytime. I guess the only
00:31:59.780
reason why you wouldn't be able to respond to these text message check-ins is if you had a blood clot or
00:32:05.920
your heart swelled up and exploded or you got a nerve damage. None of which happened, by the way,
00:32:11.320
because of how totally safe these vaccines are. So obviously, HHS is admitting here that, well,
00:32:20.400
they're not 100% safe. They may be very safe, but it's not 100% and they're clearly a little bit
00:32:25.440
worried and they want to collect these data. And you know they're never going to release these data.
00:32:30.180
They're going to try to suppress these data as long as they possibly can. But they want to know
00:32:35.060
what's going on. And they're going to monitor it. And they'll tell you just as much truth
00:32:40.400
as they think that you can hear while still doing what they want. They'll, yeah, sure, they'll give you
00:32:47.880
a little bit of information, but only the information that will still impel you to do what they want.
00:32:53.800
These people who have no more credibility. Information is power here. We are living in
00:33:00.760
the information age. This is the age of the internet. This has been true long before the
00:33:04.920
internet, actually. With the rise of the modern state, you see the rise of the social sciences to
00:33:09.840
provide statistics, which comes from the word statist, statistics to feed that modern state because
00:33:16.860
information is power. And so our government, our administrative agencies are taking all those
00:33:23.000
information in. And even in their very collection of it, they are tacitly acknowledging that they
00:33:30.260
lied to us about safety, potentially about efficacy, but they're not, they're not even going to tell us
00:33:36.480
that. This might be why the Florida Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, is now recommending that
00:33:44.120
children not get the COVID vaccine. Ladapo said, the Florida Department of Health is going to be the
00:33:50.400
first state to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children. This makes
00:33:57.000
sense. The children face a very low risk of hospitalization or death from COVID. The vaccines
00:34:02.980
are an experimental drug. That's just by definition. They're very recently created drugs. There's no really
00:34:08.560
long-term studies on their effects. And so he says, you know, for these kids who don't face a real risk of
00:34:13.480
it, just avoid the vaccines. The White House is furious. Florida Surgeon General says that healthy
00:34:21.880
children shouldn't get the COVID vaccine. Is that a good policy? Absolutely not. Let me just note that
00:34:30.340
we know the science. We know the data and what works and what is the most, what the most effective
00:34:38.180
steps are in protecting people of a range of ages from hospitalization and even death. The FDA and CDC
00:34:47.120
have already weighed in on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines for those five and older.
00:34:55.200
The recommendations are vetted transparently through a process with a purpose so that parents
00:35:02.940
can have confidence after consulting with their pediatricians or doctors if they would like about
00:35:07.440
the safety. But we also know through the data that unvaccinated teenagers are three times as likely
00:35:12.860
to be hospitalized if they get COVID than vaccinated teenagers. So it's deeply disturbing that there are
00:35:18.960
politicians peddling conspiracy theories out there and casting doubt on vaccinations when it is our best
00:35:24.240
tool against the virus and the best tool to prevent even teenagers from being hospitalized.
00:35:28.780
This, this Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Lodapo, he's just a conspiracy theorist politician.
00:35:38.460
Unlike Dr. Fauci, who has actually spread conspiracy theories and who has worked for the government,
00:35:43.340
gotten the highest federal salary for 40 years. No, he's not a politician. How dare you accuse Dr.
00:35:47.920
Fauci of being a politician? He's just a good old fashioned scientist who pursues the truth. He represents
00:35:53.560
science itself. He, he, that man is the incarnation of science. But this doctor who's got a way better
00:36:00.840
record than Dr. Fauci ever does, this doctor in Florida, he is a crazy conspiracy theorist politician.
00:36:07.800
He should wear that as a badge of honor because these days conspiracy theorist is probably the,
00:36:12.760
the most honorable title you could be given. It means that you're about to be proven completely
00:36:19.020
correct in about, I don't know, five or six hours now. Notice too, the way she twists his words.
00:36:24.500
Dr. Lodapo says that he's recommending against the COVID vaccine for healthy kids. And then Jen Psaki,
00:36:32.580
using some statistics that may or may not be true, I don't know, but let's just say they are true.
00:36:36.280
She says teenagers who are vaccinated face a much lower risk of hospitalization.
00:36:42.000
But Dr. Lodapo didn't say all teenagers. Whenever there have, there have been relatively few
00:36:47.140
teenage deaths from COVID-19. And whenever there is a teenage death, you see major headlines everywhere
00:36:52.740
as part of the liberal establishment's push to get us all to take the Fauci ouchie. And they say,
00:36:57.840
healthy teenager, healthy teenager, healthy child dies of COVID-19. And inevitably you look into the
00:37:05.480
so-called healthy young person and the healthy young person is 400 pounds and has five comorbidities
00:37:12.180
and has like six kinds of diabetes. I don't mean to make a joke about this, but I'm pointing out the
00:37:17.480
absolute dishonesty that the liberal establishment is pushing on us here. And in order to convince
00:37:25.620
actual healthy young people to get a vaccine that it is probably not in their interest to get,
00:37:31.860
at least according to the Surgeon General of Florida and according to a lot of other people
00:37:35.500
who have a way better record than Dr. Fauci and the liberal establishment.
00:37:40.060
Speaking of ways to harm your children, if your kid's got some free time coming up this summer,
00:37:46.660
there is a new summer camp that your child can go to. Chris Ruffo, the CRT guy, has just found this
00:37:53.780
little gem. It's a camp for your child to learn about sex ed. And that's good. We've all been told
00:38:00.760
you need comprehensive sex ed health education. That's just responsible. That's just following the
00:38:05.540
science. There's nothing radical about that. It's just the right responsible thing to do.
00:38:10.920
It's called Sexy Sex Ed. It is a, quote, a workshop series that compels teenagers and people of all ages
00:38:19.520
to openly discuss personal and political consent, sexual safety, and anatomy. I love this word compels.
00:38:28.420
It's not impels, which would be to, you know, push along. It's not persuades or encourages. No,
00:38:37.320
it's compels. They're going to force these kids and people of all ages to openly discuss personal
00:38:43.400
and political consent, sexual safety, and anatomy. Okay, so what are some of the workshops we've got?
00:38:49.520
Oh, I just downloaded it from the Sexy Sex Ed website. We've got, okay, the very first workshop,
00:38:56.420
this is on July 6th, it's a Tuesday, mark your calendar, is Sex With Me, a self-pleasure workshop.
00:39:03.960
Participants will explore personal views on self-pleasure as well as learn techniques
00:39:08.600
to make the most out of their, I'm not, you know, this is a family show. Some kids listen to this.
00:39:16.260
I'm going to clean up some of the language here to make the most out of what Woody Allen called sex
00:39:21.140
with someone you love. This workshop will include discussion, games, and some hands-on practice.
00:39:29.080
Now, they add here at the end, on hands. So maybe that's just like a joke and a pun and you just,
00:39:36.120
you do some creepy stuff to your own hand. I don't know. I don't want to know.
00:39:40.840
Gender diversity, that one's on Tuesday, that's the following week, Tuesday the 13th.
00:39:44.840
So your child can learn about how if he wants to chop off his genitals and mutilate his body,
00:39:51.140
he can pretend to be another type of sex. Let's talk about sex. Sexy Trans Sex Ed, there's that
00:39:57.980
self-managed abortion. That's good. That's what nine-year-olds and 10-year-olds should learn about,
00:40:02.140
right? Then there's sex on drugs. You've got to learn about sex on drugs. I don't know if that's,
00:40:09.240
are they discouraging? I assume they're encouraging that. And then there's a closing ceremony.
00:40:14.080
There's lots of other creepy stuff in there too, but you get the picture. And so you're reading
00:40:18.620
that, you think, gosh, that's, that kind of goes beyond just science. You know, that seems not just
00:40:24.820
like you're presenting relevant, responsible scientific information to your child. That seems
00:40:29.420
to be ideological. That seems to have a political, cultural, even spiritual dimension to it, right?
00:40:37.540
Because you're discussing moral issues here. And then the real cherry on top of this Sunday,
00:40:44.080
is you look into who runs this sexy summer camp, totally just responsible scientific
00:40:49.400
information for people of all ages. And the person who runs it is a self-described witch.
00:40:55.520
Yes, we have, uh, Taney. Taney is a, a femme, femme, fat, queer, magical pleasure worker, educator,
00:41:10.920
and artist. She was raised in rural Kentucky by a host of witchy women alongside sisters and cousins,
00:41:17.640
uh, a coven like mountain matriarchy, if you will. Her craft tools are candles, crystals, oils,
00:41:25.580
plants, music, sex toys, tarot cards, the moon, and the instincts of a triple water sign. She started
00:41:31.380
the Appalachian sex ed collective called Sexy Sex Ed with over a decade of rural organizing practice
00:41:37.720
toward healing, abolition, and liberation. She fantasizes about a whole other world. Tanya lives
00:41:43.800
high on a Kentucky mountaintop with lots of plants, a steamy hot tub, and several furry familiars.
00:41:49.380
For those who are not familiar with this term familiars, that's like the cat that witches will
00:41:55.340
use to carry out their schemes. That's, that's actually what that word means. And that's what
00:41:59.900
she's referring to. You can join her coven over at Patreon. Capitalism always wins in the end,
00:42:04.920
right? Even for the witches. Hey, donate to my Patreon. Hey, go over to my GoFundMe.
00:42:08.740
So, this is how Tanya, Taney, describes her camp.
00:42:15.940
Down with yourself. Explore your own body. Masturbation is really healthy, and I recommend
00:42:21.480
it to people of all ages. All ages. As soon as my nephews could talk, they were doing that. That's
00:42:27.900
what they were doing. Kids touch themselves. Kids start to ask questions, and we teach them
00:42:34.020
the language for their bodies, right? That's your nose. Touch your nose. Show Aunt T. You can touch
00:42:39.360
your nose. But my sister's not saying that when they're tugging at their penis, right? But it feels
00:42:45.240
good, right? We have to learn ways to talk to young people about this so that they know how to explore
00:42:49.980
their body consensually so that it's not in public, right? We don't want people exploring their bodies
00:42:55.260
in public. That's not consensual. But exploring your body at any age, grandmas, grandpas, all of us
00:43:03.500
need to be exploring. We need to be exploring all of our bodies, whether you're a three-year-old,
00:43:09.760
and well, don't worry, we'll teach you how to do it. Three-year-old, just like my nephews. Three-year-old,
00:43:14.100
maybe some grandparents too. That's what we've got to do. I'm a witchy woman. I'm literally telling you
00:43:19.000
I'm a witch right now. I do witchcraft. I'm a part of the witch religion. And so send your kids to me
00:43:24.360
for summer camp. And what do the liberals do? They kind of laugh about this. They say, oh,
00:43:29.960
oh, she's a witchy woman. You're like Hillary. You're a nasty woman. Well-behaved women seldom
00:43:37.640
make history. One time I was interviewing Greg Jarrett, the Fox News journalist, about a new book
00:43:43.760
that he was doing. And it was called Witch Hunt. I think that was the title of the book. That was at
00:43:47.820
least the theme of the book, that Donald Trump was subject to a witch hunt. And he made this point on
00:43:52.340
the air. He said, the thing about witch hunts, Michael, is that there's no such thing as witches.
00:43:56.340
And I just, I let him go on and pitch the book. And he's a nice guy and he's a good journalist.
00:44:00.340
But that point really stuck with me because he's wrong. He's totally wrong. This might be one of my
00:44:06.380
less popular views, but it happens to be correct. Witches are totally real. They're obviously real.
00:44:13.220
Every culture throughout all of history has believed in witches. There are people right now who
00:44:18.020
call themselves witches. One of the fastest growing cults in America is the Wicca cult.
00:44:23.100
What is Wicca? Wicca is just witchcraft by its own definition. That's what it is.
00:44:28.780
This woman, when people tell you who they are, believe them. Now, what does that mean? Does that
00:44:35.200
mean that they fly around on broomsticks? Probably not. I'm not going to say it's a 0% chance, but
00:44:40.700
probably they don't have green skin and pointy hats and fly around on broomsticks. But they do lots of
00:44:45.560
weird occult rituals. And there is more in heaven and earth, Horatio, than is dreamt of in our
00:44:51.000
philosophy. This workshop is the perfect example of this, of what we talk about, frankly, a lot on
00:44:58.900
this show. The way that sex ed is presented or is sold to the public when people want to put it in
00:45:06.180
schools and other community groups is they say, look, this is just science. It's just science. It's
00:45:10.420
just, this is how the body works. And there's no moral aspect or spiritual aspect or anything like
00:45:15.660
that. Then how come it's always the witches doing it? You know, how come it's all, when you look into
00:45:23.840
vice, when you look into lots of nasty things in our culture, whether it's this creep trying to groom
00:45:32.700
children, or whether it's porn, or whether it's drug culture, or whether it's all the kind of seedy
00:45:39.760
underbelly of society, you'll notice that it's got a lot of symbolism to it. There's always a kind of
00:45:48.840
devilish symbolism to it. You see it throughout all of these things. You'll notice that people who
00:45:56.300
are really into this stuff, they embrace kind of weird symbolism. They embrace weird identities.
00:46:01.560
They call themselves witches. Why is that? Is that just like a funny, weird, eccentric quirk?
00:46:07.440
Or is there maybe a connection here? Is there maybe a connection between the metaphysical world
00:46:11.380
and the physical world? Is it maybe the case that all politics is not merely cultural, but actually
00:46:17.100
at bottom theological and all human conflict maybe is theological. One thing I know at the political
00:46:22.600
level is that stuff is not going to play in Peoria. Okay. And what we should do is play those
00:46:28.780
commercials again and again and again and say, this is what these creeps want to do to your kids.
00:46:33.360
That's what won Glenn Youngkin the race in Virginia to become governor of Virginia. He said,
00:46:37.560
they want to brainwash your kids into this crazy stuff. Dr. Oz just came out. Dr. Oz is the TV show
00:46:43.500
host who's running for Senate in Pennsylvania. He says he will be a bold voice in the Senate and a
00:46:48.000
proud champion for the pro-life movement. He'll never shy away from sharing his pro-life beliefs,
00:46:53.100
even as pro-abortion advocates in medicine, the media, and big check try to silence me.
00:46:57.580
Oh good. I'm glad we've got a pro-life candidate there. Except just a few months ago, Dr. Oz was
00:47:02.200
talking about how crazy the pro-lifers are and how he's so worried that abortion is going to be made
00:47:07.780
illegal. Now, what are your thoughts on Alabama and these anti-abortion laws that they're passing
00:47:12.340
in Alabama or that they've passed? Is that healthy? I'm really worried about it. I'll tell you,
00:47:17.660
I've taken care of a lot of women who've had issues around childbirth. The problem with the
00:47:22.900
law as it stands now, and I think the law was really only passed to generate a Supreme Court
00:47:27.100
challenge, but most women don't know they're pregnant. It's two weeks past your last period
00:47:32.680
when you have to decide by. I have people on the show all the time who never know they were
00:47:37.640
pregnant, even when they were delivering. 50% of women don't know they're pregnant when they're
00:47:40.980
pregnant. So you're asking women to decide almost instantaneously if they're pregnant or not,
00:47:46.600
and it's also banned in case of incest and rape. So I don't quite get it as a doctor.
00:47:52.440
And the other thing is this whole thing about heart beating. I mean, there are electrical
00:47:56.100
changes at six weeks, but the heart's not beating. If you were to say, starting from when we can hear
00:48:04.180
the heart, like when the heart's really doing something, that would be different. That's not
00:48:08.040
six weeks though. Right. So if you can define life by a beating heart, then make it a beating heart,
00:48:12.340
not little electrical changes in this, in a cell. That's not a, that no one would hear would think
00:48:17.160
about as a heart. Just, it's just crazy. You know, these, these heartbeat laws, it's not even a heart
00:48:22.100
that baby. He's not even really a baby. I'm really concerned. I'm really nervous about these pro-life
00:48:26.360
laws. Oh, I thought you were a tireless advocate of pro-life causes. I thought you were a tireless
00:48:33.260
advocate of the unborn who is being silenced by the media. No, you're an abortion supporter who has now
00:48:39.880
changed your views because you want to win this Senate seat. So, okay, look, maybe he just was
00:48:43.640
uneducated on the issue. Now he's better educated. I don't know. I don't really care. I don't care
00:48:47.160
about Dr. Oz. I do care about the Senate seat, but what I really care about is Dr. Oz is flipping here
00:48:52.880
because the social issues are winners for conservatives. Don't back away from them,
00:48:58.820
folks. Lean into them. Right now, all the Democrats have is blaming Putin for everything. That's all they've
00:49:03.820
got. Their own failed policies, the best they can do is say, well, you know, Putin, it's Putin's fault.
00:49:09.480
Go blame, go blame Russia. No, it's your fault. You guys have done this on the economy, on foreign
00:49:15.840
policy, and on the absolute ruination of society. Run on those cultural issues and conservatives will
00:49:21.740
win. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
00:49:39.480
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Walsh Show. The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies, executive producer Jeremy Boring.
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Our technical director is Austin Stevens, supervising producer Mathis Glover, production manager Pavel
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, what is a sexy summer camp for children? You probably don't
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want to know, but you're going to find out today because this is the sort of thing happening in
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our country. Also, with gas prices rising, the left has decided that actually high gas prices aren't
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so bad. Even, in fact, Americans like paying higher gas prices. We'll talk about that. And the Senate
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unanimously passes the anti-lynching law. Every Republican signed on to this pointless bit of
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virtue signaling. The Biden administration commits billions to spreading gender equity across the
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globe. And the guy who runs CPAC comes out in support of Leah Thomas. All that and more today