Ep. 967 - Â A Hulking Dude Is Not A Female Swimmer
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Summary
Transgenderism is a false account of human nature that encourages delusion, psychosis, and self-mutilation. It s based on a false premise that every sensible person in the entire world knows is absurd. The only way to stop this madness is to oppose it entirely.
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A hulking dude won the NCAA D1 Women's Swimming and Diving Championship over the weekend,
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and now everyone is pretending to care about women's sports. And they are doing that because
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it's the most socially acceptable way to criticize transgenderism. So now people get to say,
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I'm not anti-trans, and people should totally be able to do whatever they want,
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but this is wrong because this is not fair to girls. True, it is not fair to girls,
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but that is not the point. The problem with transgenderism is not that it makes it complicated
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to engage in college swim meets. The problem with transgenderism is that it's a false account of
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human nature that encourages delusion, psychosis, and self-mutilation. That's the problem.
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People are making this issue way more complicated than it actually is. Either the transgender belief
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that men can secretly be women and vice versa is correct, or it isn't. Obviously, it isn't.
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So then why are we restructuring our law and our politics and our culture according to a premise
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that every single sensible person in the entire world knows is absurd? There's an answer. It's not
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just a hypothetical question. I actually think I know the answer. The answer has to do with our
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national obsession with openness and permissiveness. It has to do with our confusing liberty with
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licentiousness. Licentiousness is just the fulfillment of any appetite that you've got.
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This is a confusion that our founding fathers, like many other wise men throughout history,
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warned us would completely sink our republic. We want to be open to everything. We want to tolerate
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everything. We want to be really nice. We don't want to be closed-minded. That's the worst thing
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you can be. Illiberal, that's the worst thing you can possibly be. And so a lot of people want to
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split the baby on transgenderism by encouraging it in some circumstances, but not in others.
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And the way that they do this is by using the language of individualism. They'll say,
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listen here, if a man wants to wear a dress and call himself Sally, well, by golly,
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that's his right. That's none of my business. So I have no right to infringe on that. But he can't
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infringe on my rights or the rights of those girls who are swimming. This strategy has never worked.
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And it will never work because the man's alleged right to pretend to be a woman necessarily infringes
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on our right in society to treat men as men and women as women. We live in a society. These
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rights, quote unquote rights, affect real rights that we've all got. The man's quote unquote right
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to pretend to be a woman infringes on women's right to have their own bathrooms, infringes on our right
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to call people by their correct pronouns, infringes on the girl swimmer's right to compete against women
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in the NCAA championship. There is only one way to stop transgenderism. That is to oppose it
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entirely. The whole thing for young people, for old people on this continent, on another country,
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the whole thing. There is no natural or constitutional or civil right to fantasy. And there is nothing
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compassionate about encouraging disturbed people to indulge their destructive delusions.
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Yes, it's unfair that transgender ideology permitted William Leah Thomas to take a trophy away from a
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young woman at a swimming competition. But it's unfair because it's unjust. And it's unjust because it's
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based on a lie. If you recognize that something is wrong with this picture, then stop pussyfooting
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around the issue. The only way to stop this madness is to stop tolerating the ideology of transgenderism
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in all times, in all places, full stop. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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off and two free pillows. A picture tells a thousand words. And that picture of William Thomas,
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who goes by the name Leah, standing on the podium with his championship prize. And then you've got
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number two and number three. There was another photo where it's just the actual girls sort of
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crowding around, taking a photo of one, two, three. William Thomas completely on the side.
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It tells you everything you need to know. There was another photo of Thomas wearing his
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women's swimming suit. And, uh, lots of things were clear from that photo. Okay. Lots of philosophical
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things, anatomical things. It was just preposterous. And Will Thomas at the women's swimming competition
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gave an interview afterward to say what this meant to him.
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I can't tell you how free I feel now that I've started identifying as a woman. Now that I can
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compete as female, I'm ready to smash the other girls. And is it correct you just started identifying
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as female two weeks ago? I'm not here to talk about my transition. I'm here to kick some
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f***ing ass. Let me tell you something, Dingleberry. David Perry. I'm gonna rule up the other women
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here and I'm gonna smoke them. I am the strongest woman this state has ever seen.
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Sorry, that was a clip from South Park, which predicted this exact thing that would happen.
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And back then it was a joke and it was, it was satire. And now it's become reality because satire
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is completely dead. Here is the clip of actual Will Thomas at the women's swimming competition.
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You've undoubtedly been under the spotlight over the past few months. How have you been dealing with that?
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And reasoning with everything. I try to ignore it as much as I can. I try to focus on my swimming,
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what I need to do to get ready for my races, and just try to block out everything else.
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I just try to block out everything else, like reality. That's what he's blocking out.
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What's amazing about the clip is, and you're lucky that you didn't have to see the lower half,
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it's obvious that he's a man. In some cases with transgenderism, there are enough perverts in the
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scientific community that they'll poke and prod and shoot you full of hormones and chop things off
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and give you cosmetic surgery that it's not always totally 100% clear if a person is a man or a woman
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because of all the crazy interventions that people have now. But in this case,
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it's just totally clear. He's a dude. He's a hulking dude with super broad shoulders with all
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of his anatomical features that he has had since the day he was born with a relatively deep voice,
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just talking like a guy. The only thing that he sort of did was grow his hair out a little bit
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and then put it in a swimming cap anyway. There is no question here that he's a guy. And so they say,
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well, what do you make of the criticism that you're cheating these girls out of their trophies?
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What do you make of the criticism that this is wrong and unfair and unjust? And he says,
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I just block it out. And that's all we're doing. And this is not just a Will Thomas problem. This
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is not just a girls collegiate swimming problem. This is a society problem is that when deluded people
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in this society come across a fact that they don't like, they not only want to block it out,
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but increasingly they can block it out. Because we're so isolated now, the structures of community
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that used to keep us somewhat tethered to reality, the family, the civil society, the government for
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that matter, they've broken those tethers. And so now you can go, you can sit on your phone,
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scroll all day long, go into ever more fantastical, delusional communities,
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and be affirmed in your crazy, incorrect beliefs. Then you can go to your various affinity groups
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and gain political power and then force this stuff to try to manipulate reality. So you go and you say,
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look, there's a whole group of us who we're convinced now that men are actually women.
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And so we're going to completely change women's sports. And the craziest part is because our society
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doesn't have anything to stand on anymore because we've rejected theology and philosophy and even
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the existence of objective truth. The coaches and the administrators and the schools go along with
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this crap and the government goes along with it too and now guarantees it. What do you do when you
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hear criticism? Well, I just block it out. Of course you block it out. And I'm not necessarily
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criticizing Will Thomas. I actually have this, I don't think it's likely, but I do have this strange
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thought. I thought, what if this guy's just a performance artist? What if this guy is doing a
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super deep performance where he's showing the absurdity of transgenderism? Because he's a hulking
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dude. He beats all the women in the swimming matches. He tunes out the criticism. He exposes
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society for being completely incoherent on this issue. And then at the end of his college career,
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he gets out and he's like, guys, what were you thinking? I'm obviously a man. Why would you give me
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the women's trophy? This is wrong. Look at you. Look at what's become of you. I don't think that's
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likely, but it certainly could be for, for everything that we know about this. Let's say
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that he is sincere. Let's say that he really does think that he's a woman. That should be a cause for
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our compassion and empathy and pity. And we should try to convince him of reality instead of telling a
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disturbed individual that all of his delusions are real and encouraging him down a path that is
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It's going to be taken offline because it's called hateful conduct. It's violating Twitter's and
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YouTube's and Facebook's rules if you state basic truths now. At the very least, we're told we have
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to couch these basic truths. So you've got to, you can't call a man who thinks he's a woman a man.
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You've got to say, well, he's a biological man as though there were some other kind of man,
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right? The way I know this is the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, just got in a ton of trouble
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because he came out and he was tweeting about the assistant secretary of health, who's a man who
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thinks that he's a woman. And he tweeted out and he said, Rachel Levine is a man. And he was flagged
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for hateful conduct there. And the thing I loved about it is that Paxton didn't put any qualifier there.
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He's a, he's a biological man. The biological man thing drives me completely insane because
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people, I know why people do it. One, they do it so that they can get around the social media
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sensors. And two, they do it to be specific because now we don't have a common definition
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of the meaning of the word man and of woman. And so they'll, they're trying to be really specific.
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And they say, well, he, but speaking biologically, he's a man. But what they don't realize is that
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when you use the phrase biological male or biological female, you're not opposing the
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ideology of transgenderism. You're, you're granting the whole premise. You're granting the whole
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premise of transgenderism is that you can be biologically one thing, but really another
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thing or spiritually another thing or psychologically another thing. I'm biologically male, but psychologically
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female. No, you can't. That's not possible. You're just a dude or you're a chick. And that's
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that. And yes, in extraordinarily rare cases, there's some ambiguity with people's genitals,
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but it's extremely rare. And that's not the phenomenon we're talking about here. We're a
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hulking dude with broad soldiers and all of his parts in order just pretends to be the opposite of
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what he is. Okay. So I really encourage people follow Ken Paxton's lead. The only problem is you
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probably will face consequences for that because the people who are disconnected from reality and who are
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encouraging other people to be disconnected from reality have all the political power. And it's
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not the reason we all focus on this transgenderism issue is because one, it cuts to the heart of human
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nature. Sex is right there at the very heart of human nature. Genesis, the first chapters of Genesis.
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What do we talk about? The difference between men and women. The first lines of so many creation
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myths, stories that we tell ourselves about human nature, including scientific stories,
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including the theory of evolution or the theories of evolution. It begins so early on, you hear this
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difference between men and women. It's a much more important distinction in human nature than race or
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nationality or geography. It's sex really right there. That's one reason we focus on it. The other
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reason is because it's just, it's so preposterous. It's so obvious. It's right there before our very eyes,
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how disconnected from reality the ruling class is. But it's not only on this issue. There was a tweet
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that Bloomberg Media Company put out there that I thought perfectly exemplified the disconnect between
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the ruling class, the liberal establishment, and all of the rest of us. Bloomberg News, is there anything
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that screams liberal establishment more than Bloomberg News? I don't think so. And they gave some
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advice on how to deal with inflation. They said, inflation stings most if you earn less than $300,000
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a year. Here's how to deal. Okay, I'm going to pause it right there. Do you know how few people earn
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$300,000 a year? I love this. Bloomberg coming out and saying, you know, look, if you happen to be one
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of those unfortunate, indigent, probably homeless people who doesn't even earn $300,000 a year,
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you're probably going to have some trouble with inflation. Okay, and here's how you deal with it.
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And I kid you not, this is their advice. Take the bus. Don't buy in bulk. Try lentils instead of meat.
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Number four, nobody said this would be fun. Eat lentils, pours. That is what the liberal
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establishment says on how to deal with inflation. Not, hey, we're going to stop printing more money.
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Not, hey, we're not going to shut down the economy for two years over a stupid cough that we didn't
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need to shut down the economy for. Not, hey, we're going to have an energy policy that encourages
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domestic production so you don't need to spend a gazillion dollars at the pump, which is actually
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driving a lot of the inflation. No, not any of that. Eat lentils, pours. And by pours, we mean
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people making less than $300,000 a year. Namely, everybody. Statistically, everybody in America
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makes less than $300,000 a year. The vast, vast majority of people make less than $300,000 a year.
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Just eat lentils and, oh, take the bus. And that's better anyway, because that'll stop global warming.
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Us? No, we're not going to take the bus. But we're helping too, because we're going to go buy
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Teslas. Buy a Tesla. Oh, you can't because you're a poor person who makes less than $300,000 a year.
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Well, eat dirt. Well, eat potato soup because no one said this would be fun. I mean, it's fun for us.
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It doesn't sting at all. We're good rich people. But you, figure it out. Just eat some slop. Stop eating
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meat. Stop being so selfish. That'll help the environment too. Us? No, we're not going to stop eating meat.
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But you, you should. This is a ruling class that obviously holds the majority of the population
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in absolute contempt. We've known this for years. They call us deplorable. They call us
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irredeemable. They call us all sorts of nasty things, right? Bitter, clinging, Bible thumping.
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You know how the list goes on. But they're also just so freaking removed from reality.
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I do not want to ascribe to malice that which is equally explained by ignorance or stupidity.
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These people, I don't think they can hear themselves. Well, just eat lentils. You eat
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lentils. How about you go eat lentils? How about you go take the bus, Mike Bloomberg? No, I don't
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think you're going to do that, are you? Nobody said this would be fun. You know what's going to be a
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lot of fun? You know what's going to be a lot of fun? I still think that people in this country have
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some political power. And I'll give you my evidence, exhibit A, prime evidence number one in just
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one second. The people still have some political power. Are we a properly functioning democracy or
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republic? I don't think so. Have we crept into elements of oligarchy? Is there a ton of corruption
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in our government? Do we have faith in our elections anymore? Do we have faith in our institutions? No,
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not anywhere near the amount of faith we had in them just a few decades ago. But I do think the people
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still have some power in this country. And I do think that we can win back some political power
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and we can put these freaking jerks in their place. Eat lentils. How about you? I'm going to
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pass a law. It's the make the make the liberal establishment eat lentils act of 2023. You give
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me your meat. I'm going to end up a communist by the end of this. These people are so provocative
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in their disdain for the American people. Well, come on, monkey, just go eat some lentils. Frankly,
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I want to eat the rich after I hear these people say this stuff. It's so audacious. Can't have a
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country if you hate all of your countrymen. And a very small percentage of Americans right now are
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really showing us their contempt. But there is some good news. And this is the evidence, I think,
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that the American people still have some power. Dr. Fauci might retire.
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When you are in politics, there is a tension. There is an eternal tension. Almost always you
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have to choose between one of two things when you're a conservative in politics. Do you want to be right
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or do you want to win? Because politics generally just gets worse and worse and worse from the
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perspective of modernity if you're a conservative. And so if you give the accurate prediction of what
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is likely to happen, you're probably going to be right. But you're going to lose politically because
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conservatives have lost almost without exception for half a century now, more than half a century.
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And so if you're right, you lose. Because the people who are right are generally the ones predicting
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that we're going to lose. This is one example where I think we get to be both. The news that
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Fauci might retire came as the third episode of my three-part docuseries, Fauci Unmasked, was released.
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I'm not saying I did this, okay? I'm not saying it was all me or even somewhat me. But what I am
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saying is when I floated the Michael Knowles Public Health Protection Pledge that gained a lot of
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steam, got a lot of candidates around the country to sign on, actually was introduced in the House
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of Representatives almost verbatim to investigate Dr. Fauci and take out his salary. Within days of that
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pledge coming out, Dr. Fauci disappeared from all the news shows. He basically went into witness
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protection, okay? He vanished into thin air. And then within days of my docuseries, Fauci Unmasked,
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being released and getting a lot of traction, Dr. Fauci says he might retire. I'm not saying it was
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me, okay? But I'm not saying it wasn't me, all right? Sometimes there are coincidences. All nature
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is but art unknown to thee. All chance, direction which thou canst not see. What I can tell you is
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all three episodes of Fauci Unmasked have dropped. They're all available on the website. Check out
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this sneak peek. He's the highest paid employee in our federal government. And beginning in the
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spring of 2020, Dr. Fauci began to set national policy that affected the way that 330 million
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Americans lived their lives. For goodness sakes, I'm telling you wear a mask, keep social distancing.
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There's nothing political about that. But who is Anthony Fauci? People who have conspiracy theories,
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those are people that don't particularly care for me. In this short series, we will do what the
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establishment media have refused to do. We will give you an unvarnished look at the career of the
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most powerful politician in America, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Don't you think it's time that you step down
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to let someone else who has a more effective message? Actually, no.
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I've got good news and I've got bad news. The good news is Dr. Fauci says he might retire.
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Are you thinking about scaling back your responsibilities here at some point?
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Well, I have said that I would stay in what I'm doing until we get out of the pandemic phase. And I
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think we might be there already. If we can stay in this, then we're at a point where I feel that we've
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done well by this. But, you know, I don't have any plans right now to go anywhere. But you never
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know. I was going to say, is retirement like on the, is retirement or stepping back into a consultant
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role? Any like that? Are you considering those options? Brad, I certainly am because I've got to
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do it sometime. I can't, I can't stay at this job forever unless my staff is going to find me slumped
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over my desk one day. I'd rather not do that. He says, I'm, I might retire. I've said, look,
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I can't stay here forever. I mean, I've been here through 17 million presidents. I've been here,
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you know, since I was around St. Petersburg when I felt there was time for a change. I've been around
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a long time, but no, I can't stay here forever. And so, look, we might be at the end of the pandemic.
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What was that? It's almost, it's like a little if statement, right? If the pandemic was over,
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then I would retire. But, but then the question is, is the pandemic over?
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He says, maybe it is. But then he says, maybe it isn't. Dr. Fauci, he gets our hopes up. He says,
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no, I might retire. Tries to get that pressure off. Tries to get that public health protection
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pledge off. Tries to get that Rand Paul Senate amendment to get rid of Dr. Fauci and abolish
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his position. Tries to take the heat off of that. Tries to avoid the heat when the Fauci on mass
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docuseries. Tries to get away from the clear public turn against him. But he leaves himself
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that out. He says, well, listen here, maybe, I don't know that we can totally say that we're done.
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The director general of the World Health Organization is sounding the alarm though,
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saying that the pandemic's not over. Do you think it was too soon to move
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to the new metrics that allow so many Americans to, to not have to wear masks?
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Jake, it's not too soon. If you observe the caveat that's associated with that.
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And the caveat is we need to be flexible. And if in fact, we do see a turnaround and a resurgence,
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we have to be able to pivot and go back to any degree of mitigation that is commensurate with what
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the situation is. So we can't just say we're done. Now we're going to move on. We've got to be able
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to be flexible because we're dealing with a dynamic situation.
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No, we can't just totally say that we're done ever. No. And this wasn't just a flub. This wasn't
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just a gaffe where he finally, he reemerges. He goes on the Sunday shows, just like I told you,
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told you he would. Everyone said, oh, he's gone forever. They're going to keep him away. No,
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I said, he's, he's held on. He's got, you might reemerge. Don't, he might go see his shadow and
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we'll get six more years of COVID. He goes on the Sunday shows too. He goes on ABC. He says, well,
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you know, we got rid of the mask mandates. We got rid of the vaccine mandate, but,
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but maybe we got to pivot. If we do see a significant surge, particularly one that might
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result in increased hospitalizations, we have to be prepared to pivot and perhaps reinstitute
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some of those restrictions. Reinstitute all of those masks and vaccines and reinstitute good old
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Dr. Fauci on every television channel in America. That's what we're going to do. I told you this,
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you know, I hate to say, I told you so. And I told you this would happen. The way I knew this
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would happen is that when the Democrats threw up the white flag or seemed to throw up the white flag
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on COVID, they kept the power. They never got rid of it. And so I warned, I said, this is probably a
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fake out. They're saying COVID's over because COVID lockdown measures and the masks and the vaccine
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mandates and everything, they're killing the Democrats in the polls. And this is an election year
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and the Democrats around the ballot in November. And so they're trying to make it seem like it's
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over, but it's a fake out because if it were really over, they would get rid of the national
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emergency authorization about COVID. The Senate tried to do that. There were even Democrats in
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the Senate who wanted to get rid of the national emergency authorization for COVID. Joe Biden vowed,
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he said, I will not sign that. I will veto that. The airline mask mandate, that should have been
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gone, right? If COVID's over, if the emergency's over, we already know from even members of the
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liberal establishment that the masks are not quite as effective as we were all told they were in the
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beginning. Liana Nguyen, the medical analyst on CNN said it's nothing more than a facial decoration.
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And yet, when the time came to get rid of the airline mask mandate, what happened? The airlines
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extended it just another month, just another, just two more, two weeks to slow the spread,
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then it'll probably be over, right? They didn't get rid of any of this stuff. The only reason they
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had to get rid of some of the federal mandates on the masks is because we at the Daily Wire beat them
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in the Supreme Court. So they lost on that one. That's why some corporations are getting rid of it too.
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But they held on to the power because they're going to bring it back. And they're just debating,
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do we wait until after the election to bring it back? Or will it help us to bring it back before
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the election and get everybody freaked out? Everyone had their attention on Ukraine for a
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while. So Ukraine was the big issue and that distracted everyone. And so they lessened the
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focus on COVID. But now the Ukraine issue seems to be dying down a little bit. I mean,
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the war might not be dying down, but as a matter of concerning the public, it's not quite as
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captivating anymore. So, okay, now we're going to go back to COVID. And they seem to be bringing it
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back again. The only way that we are going to end the COVID tyranny, the dictatorship of little
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Dr. Fauci is if we do it ourselves using political power. It's not just about, well, follow the science
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and maybe we'll meet halfway and this and that, and maybe in this area we don't need masks, but here we
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do it's kind of like the transgenderism issue. You just got to throw the whole thing out. You got to
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throw it all right out the window. Either we're going to have a country run by Dr. Fauci or Dr.
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Fauci needs to shut up and go away. Either men can secretly be women or they can't. And we're not
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going to, we can't split the baby on this. That's never going to work. These people who have been
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running our lives and shutting down the country and causing record inflation and driving our country
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into the dirt for the past two years, largely in the liberal establishment, but some Republicans
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have gone along with it too. They don't know anything. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary,
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was just asked at a press briefing about why you still have all these restrictions on schools. Why
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schools? We know that the kids face very, very little risk from COVID compared to everybody else.
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Why? Why are the, why the holdup with the schools? And she says with a completely straight face,
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she says, oh, we don't know that COVID affects older people more strongly than younger people.
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If a president, 79 years old, president of the United States, were to get COVID,
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might be more serious than, you know, somebody in their 20s.
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Well, we don't know that. But we also know that COVID impacts people of all ages and,
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and a range of, but when we take what we do here, Jen is not, not exactly as you said,
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so I wouldn't agree with your description there. I would say we do take extra precautions.
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We do know that. As much as we know anything about this virus and epidemiology and social science,
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we know that young, healthy people do a lot better in the face of COVID than do frail old people.
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We just know that. And it's, it's not even close. It's not like it's a margin call.
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We're talking about many, many multiples, orders of magnitude, more risk for older people than for
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younger people. And that has always been true the entire time. And nothing about the science has
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changed and nothing about the science is ambiguous. And they're just going to lie to you
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to maintain their power, as some of us have known from the very beginning. It's not even that they'll
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kind of manipulate the data a little bit to maintain their power. They always do that. That's,
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that's basically the whole point of statistics. It's for politicians and political activists
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to manipulate numbers to control you. But this goes way further than that. They'll just lie.
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They'll just lie with a straight face, right to your face, unless we take that political power back.
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And this is part of the reason why we have such radical distrust now in our rulers and our
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institutions. Distrust in Jen Psaki, distrust in Joe Biden, obviously distrust in, in Dr. Fauci,
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who says, I represent science. And then he contradicts himself every five minutes.
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We, we, we don't have trust in our agencies of the federal government. We don't have trust in the
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elections themselves. Okay. There is a radical distrust and that is not our fault. And that's
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not the fault of conspiracy theorists. And it's not the fault of the Russians. And it's not the
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fault of conservatives. And it's not the fault of Trump. It's the fault of the liberal establishment
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that squandered all of its credibility. That's it. Blame yourselves. You want to, you know,
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his fault. Don't look at me and say, well, you, you conservatives, you're sowing discord and
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distrust. No, we're not. We're reacting to you people who have squandered all of that trust.
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Greatest example yet. 51 intelligence agents, intelligence officers, members of the deep state,
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former and present. 51 people came out after the Hunter Biden laptop story broke. New York Post breaks
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this story. We found Hunter Biden's laptop. It's got a ton of scandalous material, not just about
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his sex life, not just about his drug use, but about his shady business dealings in Ukraine,
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which is relevant about his shady business dealings in China. And even more importantly,
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about his father's involvement and potential profiteering from those shady business deals
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in Ukraine, in China, the big guy getting, getting, maybe getting a little kickback. I don't know.
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We don't know because there was never permitted to be an investigation because the liberal
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establishment, I use that phrase because it includes big tech. It includes the government.
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It includes the media. It's like the whole blob. The liberal establishment shut it down. You couldn't
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post about the story. You couldn't privately send that story to other people in direct messages.
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They rigged the election. They rigged the election. Damaging information about Joe Biden was not allowed to
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be seen in our supposedly free marketplace of ideas with all of our wonderful free speech and free
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press protections. We don't have it. That doesn't exist. We're really good at criticizing other
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authoritarian, illiberal governments for suppressing freedom of the press. We don't have freedom of the
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press in America. When push comes to shove, when it actually mattered, when the press broke a story
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that was really significant to our presidential election, that's the whole point of the freedom of
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the press is to defend our political order. When that happened, the liberal establishment clamped
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down and killed it. There is no freedom of the press in America. Lock that away with the tooth fairy
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and the Easter bunny. It's not real. And maybe temper your criticism of other regimes when they also
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suppress their freedom of the press. Because in America, we're really not much better now. We don't
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kill journalists yet. That's good. I'm glad that we don't kill journalists. There are a lot of other
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regimes all around the world that do that. But we do not permit relevant information to get into the
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public sphere. And part of the reason that we're able to suppress the freedom of the press here
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is because intelligence officers come out and they say, well, that news report is it's fake news.
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It's misinformation. It's Russian disinformation. How many times did you hear that? Not just from the
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intel officers, but from Joe Biden, from the media, from everybody. Take a little trip down memory lane.
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There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this he's accusing me of
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is a Russian plant. You mean the laptop is now another Russia, Russia, Russia hoax?
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The vast majority of the intelligence people have come out and said there's no basis at all.
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The allegations against Joe and Hunter Biden have no basis. In fact,
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who do you think is behind this? Well, the Russians would be my number one
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guess. Obviously, Russia would be the chief suspect. This information Rudy Giuliani is peddling
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very well could be connected to some sort of Russian government disinformation campaign.
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So they're all, they speak with one line. They get their talking points and they say it's all
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Russian disinformation. That's why, frankly, even if it were Russian disinformation, why can't you
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debate it? Why can't you shoot it down with evidence? Well, they couldn't shoot it down with
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evidence because as the New York Times admitted last week, the Hunter Biden laptop was real.
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It wasn't Russian disinformation. It was just information and it was relevant. And there was
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a poll conducted after the election. 12% of Biden voters said they wouldn't have voted for him
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had they known that that laptop was real. So it was really significant information.
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And who signed this letter? 51 intel officers signed this letter about this Russian disinformation.
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Jim Clapper, former director of national intelligence. Wow. Former director of the
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Defense Intelligence Agency. Mike Hayden, former director of the CIA, former director of the NSA,
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National Security Agency. Leon Panetta, former director of the CIA, former secretary of defense.
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John Brennan, he's a, he's a wonderful guy, isn't he? He's the one who voted for that communist in
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American presidential election. Also former director of the CIA, former Homeland Security
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counterterrorism advisor at the White House. Lots of, well, the list goes on and on and on and on.
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And it was all a lie. It was all fake. So this points to a problem, not just with the media or supposedly
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free press, not just with big tech, it's with the deep state. It's with our, our administrative agencies,
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which are not the, the administrative agencies. We call it the administrative state or the deep state.
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It's right. It's all those little alphabet agencies that work out of the executive branch to which
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Congress delegated its authority to make laws a while ago. It's not like that's just some weird
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little ancillary aspect of our government, some little polyp on the body politic. That is our
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government. The administrative agencies are where the vast majority of laws that actually affect our
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lives are made. It's not like the bill up on Capitol Hill like Schoolhouse Rock. Our government,
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our political order, the political power lives there. And if that area is corrupt,
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then our government is corrupt and we do not have trust in it.
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Adding on to this problem of distrust in our institutions
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is now that we can't believe our own eyes. This, this was the part that really complicates
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the transgenderism and William Thomas winning the, the women's swim meet in the NCAA
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is we tell people, okay, look, who are you going to believe? The ideology of the day or your own lying
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eyes. The ideology says that Will Thomas is a chick, but you have your own eyes and you see
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that he's obviously a dude. And so people at least for now recognize, okay, this guy's a dude.
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That might not be true for very long because we're living in an increasingly digital age
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where national politics is set by viral videos, where national politics is set by images flickering on
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our screens. Where increasingly we're living in virtual reality. We talk about how we're going to
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be living in the metaverse pretty soon. Facebook came out and said, you're going to conduct your
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meetings. You're going to have parties in virtual space. You're going to go into your bedroom and put
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on these virtual reality goggles and that's where you're going to socialize. It's, it's, it's the world
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for people who don't want to live in the world that God gave them. They want to live in the world
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that Mark Zuckerberg created, which sounds hellish to me, but it's so dystopian that it means we're
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almost certainly going to live there. Well, if you're living in that world, it's a lot easier
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to be manipulated because people can throw up images in front of you and you don't know what
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to believe. I'll give you a perfect example of this. Over the weekend, there was a breaking news
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story. Russia is calling for peace in Ukraine. Now this is great news, right? Wow. Russia is going to,
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they invaded the country. So it's kind of up to Russia if the war is over and Putin came out and he
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said there's going to be peace. Wow. What great news, except I didn't believe it when I saw it.
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I don't really believe any news coming out of Ukraine, whether it's on the Ukrainian side or
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whether it's on the Russian side, we are in the fog of war. There is an insane amount of propaganda
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coming out of that conflict. Russia infamously is one of the greatest polities for propaganda
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in the history of the world. I mean, the Soviets perfected the art of propaganda and the West,
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we in the West are not so bad at it either. So I said, I just don't believe it. But take a listen.
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If you're watching right now, take a look at this video of Putin declaring peace.
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You see him there looking, it's his voice. It's his face. I don't speak Russian, but I can read the
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transcript and the transcript says, we've managed to reach peace with Ukraine. And he announces the
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restoration of the independence of Crimea as a republic within Ukraine. So he's not,
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not only in this clip is he saying Ukraine gets to remain a country, but he's saying actually Crimea,
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which we took eight years ago now, we're going to give that back as an independent republic within
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Ukraine. Wow. I know this isn't true. I know this would never happen in a million years, but I'm seeing
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it happen with my very eyes. Well, you know what this is. I think I've kind of hinted at it enough.
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It's a deep fake, but it's a really deep fake. So it sounds like him. It looks like him. The audio
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syncs up with the mouth movements. I actually can't believe my lying eyes. Forget about, we talked
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about the, all the kind of propaganda coming out of the war on the Ukrainian side. We hear about the
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ghost of Kiev and they've got video of the airplane, this ace fighter jet shooting down the Russians. And it
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was from a video game. It wasn't real. And you're seeing a lot of this from the Russian side too.
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You're seeing lots of claims being made about, one of the claims was from the true fact that
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Ukraine has biolabs that are funded by the US and run in collaboration with the US. They said that
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they had developed an ethnically targeted bioweapon, you know, a bioweapon that just zeroes,
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I guess it just zeroes in on the Russians, but not other people. That seemed a little far-fetched to me.
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So you're seeing a lot of this propaganda come out. But now you got this, even a video of Putin,
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you can't even believe that. There's a real breakdown of trust here. And it's why I've got
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to get to a much more important story. Forget about the complete social breakdown of the difference
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between men and women for a moment. Forget about the biomedical tyranny that we've been living under
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for two years that totally upended our society and shut down our economy. Forget even about the war in
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Ukraine that could launch World War III, a nuclear power threatening to use nuclear weapons in this
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war in Europe. I got to talk about something potentially more important. Kim and Kanye and
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Skeet. You know, the Kim-Ye breakup, I am unreasonably fascinated with the Kim-Ye breakup. And now Kim
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Kardashian is dating this guy who looks like a meth head who's on SNL. And that would be Pete Davidson,
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whom Kanye West, Kim's husband, refers to as Skeet. So Skeet, it turns out, is very serious about Kim.
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He's gotten tattoos about Kim Kardashian. And as she just told Ellen DeGeneres on her TV show,
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Skeet has branded Kim's name into his skin.
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Yeah, he has a few tattoos, a few cute ones, you know, that he got. But this one is a, it's not,
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that one, the Kim one isn't a tattoo. It's actually a branding, like a branding. Because,
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let me explain it, because he wanted to do something that was really different. Because like,
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okay, first tattoo he got, I was like, oh, so cute. Thank you. Oh my God. You know, second,
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whatever. I'm like, oh, that's so cute. But like, that's what tattoo people do, right? Like,
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they get tattoos of what's going on in their life. And so I was like, am I special?
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You said first tattoo. So he has three tattoos of you? When you say branding. So like, literally,
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like an iron thing went onto his body to brand Kim.
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And I just think he was like, I want something that's there that I can't, you know, get rid of
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my tattoos. Because he's in the process of getting rid of his arm tats and his neck tats. So he's
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like, I don't want to be able to get rid of it or to cover it up. And I just wanted it like there
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But Kanye is the crazy one. Kanye is crazy. You see, Pete Davidson gets multiple tattoos of this
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married woman that he's dating, including branding her name into his skin. But he is normal. He's
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liberal. He's on SNL. He's friends with all the cool people. He likes Hillary Clinton. He's totally
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normal. But Kanye says, hey, I don't want my daughter on TikTok. Kanye wants to go to church
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and likes Donald Trump. So he's the crazy one. He's totally crazy. And it just made me think about
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this crazy label. You know, you put the label crazy on somebody and it's not quite as strong as the
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word racist to totally ostracize somebody. But it's pretty close. Someone's crazy. You're not
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going to want to work with that person. You don't associate. Oh, he's just crazy. You can totally
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dismiss that person. Kanye West has had questionable behavior. There's no question about that.
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But he is way less crazy than Kim and Skeet and the entire liberal establishment. The reason they're
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going after Kanye is because he's converted to Christianity, apparently, and makes it a big part of his life.
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And he voted for Donald Trump and he likes Donald Trump. I don't even remember if he did vote for
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Donald Trump because then he was going to maybe run for president. But he put the MAGA hat on.
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He said basic things like, I don't want my kid on social media. Relatively sort of kind of slightly
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traditional values. That's enough for them to call this guy crazy. They weren't calling him crazy when
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he was doing insane, eccentric, leftist behavior. They didn't care that much. He was fine. But now that he's
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voting for Trump and reading the Bible, now he's a total nut. And if you brand your married girlfriend's
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name on your chest, you're, oh, you're just kind of quirky, but you're not crazy at all.
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The ruling class is way crazier than we are. Okay. We, I'm not saying that we who are conservative
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or just not leftists. I'm not saying we're without our flaws and foibles, but for all of our flaws and
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foibles, it is not us. It is the ruling class that says that men are secretly women. It's the ruling
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class that tells the rest of society to go eat lentils and to go buy a Tesla if you're worried
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about inflation. It's the ruling class that shuts down our energy production so we can buy it from Iran
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and Venezuela. They are the crazy ones. Okay. It's the, it's the ruling class that shut down society
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for two years over a cough. They are the crazy ones. Hold on to your sanity. Hold on to that grasp
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of reality. Do not let them lead you into delusion. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles
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