The Michael Knowles Show - April 20, 2022


Ep. 988 - We Are All ＂Libs Of Tiktok＂


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Libs of TikTok is one of the most influential accounts on the internet. They don t offer commentary, they just present the left in their own words and actions. And the liberal press can t stand it. So the Washington Post is trying to intimidate the account into silence by doxing this private citizen who runs the anonymous account.

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00:00:37.680 You've heard me mention Libs of TikTok many times on this show.
00:00:42.020 It is one of the greatest accounts on the internet, in large part because it's so simple.
00:00:47.980 Libs of TikTok just reposts public videos from Libs on TikTok.
00:00:54.340 They just repost it to the other social networks, notably Twitter.
00:00:58.520 They expose radical sexual and racial lessons in classrooms.
00:01:03.640 They expose the realities of those lessons in the lives of confused young people.
00:01:09.200 They don't offer commentary.
00:01:11.200 They don't constitute investigative journalism.
00:01:14.680 They just present the Libs in their own words and actions.
00:01:19.880 And the liberal press can't stand it.
00:01:22.140 So the Washington Post is trying to intimidate Libs of TikTok into silence by doxing this
00:01:29.100 private citizen who runs the anonymous account.
00:01:33.200 The Washington Post sent a reporter.
00:01:35.520 I don't even want to call her a reporter.
00:01:37.360 The Washington Post sent an operative, Taylor Lorenz, to harass the anonymous woman's friends 1.00
00:01:43.120 and family to literally knock on doors and then to reveal personally identifying information about her.
00:01:52.900 The Washington Post initially tried to deny the doxing.
00:01:57.080 Once this all came to light, they got a lot of backlash and the Post said,
00:02:00.000 no, no, that didn't really happen.
00:02:01.760 The Post defended this operative, Taylor Lorenz.
00:02:05.980 And the Post insisted, quote, we did not publish or link to any details about the woman behind
00:02:12.600 Libs of TikTok's personal life.
00:02:14.700 That was a complete lie.
00:02:16.100 Like so much that is printed in the Washington Post, it was just a total dishonest fabrication.
00:02:23.080 The paper did reveal the woman's name, occupation, religion for some reason,
00:02:29.220 and even linked, hyperlinked, to her personal physical address, a link that the paper later
00:02:36.100 removed after public backlash.
00:02:39.380 And then they denied that they did it in the first place.
00:02:42.540 The doxing looks bad enough for the Washington Post and for Taylor Lorenz, but it looks even worse.
00:02:50.140 It looks perfectly worse because just a couple weeks ago, Lorenz was crying crocodile tears on camera
00:02:57.800 about the horrors of being doxed as a journalist.
00:03:01.260 You feel like any little piece of information that gets out on you will be used by the worst
00:03:07.440 people on the internet to destroy your life.
00:03:09.780 And it's so isolating.
00:03:13.040 And terrifying.
00:03:14.600 It's horrifying.
00:03:17.820 I'm so sorry.
00:03:19.320 You're fine.
00:03:20.080 It's overwhelming.
00:03:21.280 It's really hard.
00:03:23.420 I think she needs to work on the performance a little bit. 0.52
00:03:25.820 Not exactly Meryl Streep.
00:03:28.800 Judi Dench, she is not.
00:03:30.400 You notice there are no tears.
00:03:31.700 She's just doing a kind of caricature, a clown show of what it would look like if she were crying.
00:03:37.080 But she's not really crying.
00:03:38.560 She's not really upset because she's the perpetrator of these kinds of things.
00:03:43.700 Lorenz and the Washington Post are a laughingstock.
00:03:49.000 Hypocrisy, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time, and really all you can do is laugh.
00:03:54.760 The whole thing totally backfired.
00:03:56.760 But the libs still want to shut down libs of TikTok. 0.98
00:03:59.340 So now, some of the largest blue check accounts on the internet are posting a fake tweet that
00:04:06.160 supposedly shows libs of TikTok endorsing pedophilia.
00:04:10.820 This is obviously a preposterous hoax.
00:04:14.080 Anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see right through it, which unfortunately
00:04:18.500 leaves a lot of people who get their news from the liberal accounts liable to believe the hoax.
00:04:23.080 It doesn't make any sense at all.
00:04:25.560 Why would this account, libs of TikTok, endorse the very thing that they spend so much time
00:04:30.900 railing against?
00:04:32.620 What the whole affair does reveal is everything you need to know about the difference between
00:04:40.200 the left and the right today.
00:04:41.720 When the left attacks the right, they censor us, threaten us, and make up things that we never said.
00:04:49.620 When the right attacks the left, we play their own words back to them verbatim.
00:04:54.560 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:04:55.320 It's The Michael Knowles Show.
00:04:56.160 Welcome back to the show.
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00:05:18.740 I agree.
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00:07:18.860 The libs are furious that we're hearing what they have to say.
00:07:25.640 They're furious about it.
00:07:27.920 And so they're acting in this vindictive, horrible, hypocritical way.
00:07:33.180 Now, some people are saying two wrongs don't make a right.
00:07:38.900 Michael, we shouldn't be investigating Taylor Lorenz now.
00:07:43.200 Two wrongs don't.
00:07:44.200 Taylor Lorenz is a public figure, first of all.
00:07:46.800 She writes her articles and her hit pieces with her name right out there. 0.96
00:07:51.580 She goes on television.
00:07:53.020 She presents herself with her real name.
00:07:55.700 So at least when we're talking about the distinction between public and private,
00:07:59.140 that gal's fair game. 1.00
00:08:00.400 Totally unlike the woman who's behind libs of TikTok. 1.00
00:08:03.680 The other distinction, of course, is that the woman behind libs of TikTok 0.85
00:08:06.440 is actually doing a journalistic service by exposing the reality of what's going on in America's classrooms.
00:08:11.520 Taylor Lorenz is nothing but a Democrat operative 0.99
00:08:13.600 who's working for a liberal billionaire named Jeff Bezos who runs the Washington Post.
00:08:18.160 The Washington Post, which simply is the propaganda mouthpiece for the liberal establishment.
00:08:24.320 We've got to get a lot tougher, okay?
00:08:27.560 We've got to get a lot.
00:08:28.680 We've got to go after the liberal press,
00:08:32.680 and we've got to stop treating them as though they're this wonderful, sacred check on power,
00:08:37.540 that democracy dies in darkness.
00:08:39.320 No, they're nothing other than a bullhorn for the most powerful interests in the world.
00:08:44.480 They deserve absolutely no respect.
00:08:46.360 They deserve nothing but our scorn and derision.
00:08:49.740 And we've got to make that clear.
00:08:51.080 An article in the Washington Post should carry absolutely no weight whatsoever.
00:08:58.660 Some conservatives get this.
00:09:00.120 Some Republicans get this.
00:09:01.060 We used to play nice, and we used to try not to rock the boat too much.
00:09:04.000 I think that's over.
00:09:04.920 I think it's becoming very clear where the political battle lines are.
00:09:08.300 You see this nowhere clearer than you do in Florida.
00:09:11.460 Ron DeSantis in Florida passes a parental rights and education bill.
00:09:15.200 The libs call it, don't say gay.
00:09:18.340 Our friend Vivek Ramaswamy calls it, wait till eight.
00:09:21.240 So you can't trans the kids until they enter fourth grade.
00:09:25.440 Nine years old, that's the line.
00:09:27.080 Before that, you're not allowed to talk to them about weird, creepy sex stuff in the classroom.
00:09:32.960 And Disney, which is a big corporation in Florida, operates Disney World and is a kids company.
00:09:38.900 It's a family company.
00:09:39.900 They're furious, and they want to have a bunch of weird, gay, transgender, whatever stuff in all of their movies now.
00:09:46.860 And they want to fight the will of the people of Florida and the ability of the people of Florida to have some say in their kids' education.
00:09:53.480 So Ron DeSantis could try to make nice and be conciliatory and say, hey, listen, guys, let's all come together.
00:09:58.980 Disney, I understand you're a powerful interest here, so we're going to try to placate you.
00:10:02.360 But please, okay, let's compromise.
00:10:05.280 First grade, that'll be the limit.
00:10:07.120 You can't trans the kids in first grade, but second grade, maybe.
00:10:09.580 No, that's not what DeSantis is doing.
00:10:11.300 DeSantis is actually going on the offense, and he came out just yesterday, and he said that not only are they going to stand up to Disney,
00:10:19.020 not only are they going to stand up for parental rights, but actually, maybe Disney's special tax protections that they've had for 60 years,
00:10:26.180 maybe those are going to have to go away if Disney keeps trying to undermine the ability of Florida parents to govern the way that their kids are educated. 0.62
00:10:35.180 What they've been called upon to do, but I am announcing today that we are expanding the call of what they are going to be considering this week.
00:10:44.300 And so, yes, they will be considering the congressional map, but they also will be considering termination of all special districts
00:10:52.020 that were enacted in Florida prior to 1968, and that includes the Reedy Creek Improvement District.
00:11:00.020 So, this sounds sort of like normal, bureaucratic, political talk.
00:11:06.880 Well, we're redistricting, and maybe we're going to change the protections of certain districts.
00:11:10.920 The Reedy Creek District that Ron DeSantis is talking about is Disney World.
00:11:18.080 Not just Disney World, the park, but that is within the purview of the Disney Corporation.
00:11:24.480 They get all sorts of special treatment there, and DeSantis says, okay, look, guys, we didn't want this fight.
00:11:31.680 We just wanted to protect six-year-olds from being exposed to transgender weirdness in the classroom. 1.00
00:11:39.020 Disney brought this fight.
00:11:40.780 Disney said we're going to throw around our gazillion-dollar corporation and all of our might
00:11:45.220 to undermine the rights of parents to educate their kids.
00:11:48.720 So, okay, you want that?
00:11:50.140 Well, since you brought the fight to us, we're going to fight back,
00:11:53.420 and we're going to take away your tax protections.
00:11:55.260 And what are you going to do, by the way?
00:11:56.560 Are they going to shutter up Disney World?
00:11:57.880 I don't think they are.
00:11:58.820 And if they are, fine by me.
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00:12:40.400 Everything is going gay. 1.00
00:12:42.700 To quote Blake Masters, who's a Republican running for Senate in Arizona,
00:12:48.540 not everything has to be gay.
00:12:50.480 I'm not saying we got to be mean to people or stick our nose in all of their private business,
00:12:55.660 but how come everything has to be LG?
00:12:59.740 Forget about everything's gay now. 1.00
00:13:01.020 Everything's got to be transgender. 1.00
00:13:02.620 And why?
00:13:03.220 Why is that?
00:13:03.860 Hollywood is announcing that there are going to be remakes of movies,
00:13:08.380 remakes of Fight Club and My Best Friend's Wedding.
00:13:12.120 But here's the thing about the remakes.
00:13:14.940 They're going to be really gay. 1.00
00:13:17.340 That's it.
00:13:17.900 That's the pitch meeting.
00:13:18.900 They go into the Hollywood executives.
00:13:20.420 The Hollywood executive says, all right, we've only been churning out terrible movies
00:13:24.640 over the past 10, 15 years.
00:13:26.340 So we need some good new original ideas.
00:13:28.480 They say, I've got an original idea.
00:13:29.840 What if we do those other movies that were already done, but we make them super gay? 0.98
00:13:34.820 Wow, get that man a million dollars.
00:13:37.160 What a genius idea.
00:13:38.520 So there are going to be these remakes that are right now in the works.
00:13:42.180 It's nothing other than culture vultures coming in, taking products that did work from the past,
00:13:49.440 and instead of coming up with new original ideas, just trying to give a kind of woke,
00:13:54.160 politically correct spin on them.
00:13:55.780 We've seen this constantly in recent years.
00:13:59.460 Reboots of the superhero movies to make them more woke.
00:14:02.460 Reboots of Ghostbusters, right?
00:14:05.240 Hey, what if we take Ghostbusters, but make it all chicks? 1.00
00:14:08.600 Won't that?
00:14:08.980 So we'll just, we'll do a worse version of the movie,
00:14:11.420 because it's already been done.
00:14:12.720 So if you're going to remake it, it's not going to be as good.
00:14:15.060 And then we're just going to make it all women. 0.91
00:14:17.640 Hey, hey, let's do Ocean's 11, but it's all women. 1.00
00:14:21.220 How, isn't that a great, no, there's nothing interesting about that at all.
00:14:24.720 That's the solution to a problem that no one had.
00:14:28.260 So they're, now they're trying to make that.
00:14:30.060 And it's not because it's going to be particularly entertaining.
00:14:32.400 It's not because we even need a remake of Fight Club or My Best Friend's Wedding.
00:14:36.080 It's just to advance a liberal agenda.
00:14:38.420 You will sometimes hear conservatives, when they're talking about the bill in Florida,
00:14:45.520 though now it's a law, the parental rights and education law, they'll say, look, this
00:14:50.300 is not about LGBTQ.
00:14:53.180 This is, this is about any sexual education.
00:14:56.140 I don't, I don't think kindergartners should say gay in the classroom, but I don't think
00:15:01.000 they should say straight in the classroom either.
00:15:02.460 This is a line.
00:15:03.340 And I, I understand conservatives are using it because they're trying to make clear that
00:15:07.280 this is a bill about education and parents' rights.
00:15:09.660 It's not about targeting LGBT.
00:15:14.200 Fair enough.
00:15:15.280 But at a deeper level, this actually is about LGBT.
00:15:20.020 It is.
00:15:20.780 When we, when we talk about what can be said and not said in the classroom, probably the
00:15:28.880 strongest argument that the libs have against the Florida law is that if you're in a math
00:15:35.740 class and you're doing word problems, you could have scenarios where you say, all right,
00:15:43.860 Johnny's parents, Johnny's parents, Tommy and Sally go to the store.
00:15:51.200 And so how many people go to the store, right?
00:15:55.100 And they say, well, Tommy, Johnny and Sally.
00:15:58.320 Okay.
00:15:58.440 That's three people.
00:15:59.240 Or the word problem could be Tommy and his Johnny and his, I forget what the kid's name
00:16:03.260 is.
00:16:03.660 Johnny and his parents go to the store, Johnny, Tommy and Steve.
00:16:07.920 Well, hold on.
00:16:08.700 Wait, those are, his parents are two guys or his parents are a guy and a girl.
00:16:12.020 And, and let's say you're, you're reading a storybook.
00:16:15.680 It's kindergarten, right?
00:16:16.620 You're not having very advanced lessons here.
00:16:18.340 And you read a storybook and you say, all right, uh, little baby bear is sitting by the
00:16:24.700 fire with his family, mama bear and papa bear and his sibling bears.
00:16:29.300 Well, you could read that story.
00:16:30.780 That's totally fine.
00:16:31.800 There's nothing, nothing wrong with that.
00:16:33.680 I, I, is it teaching some aspect of sexual morality?
00:16:38.220 I guess it is.
00:16:38.960 If you mentioned the family, you're teaching some aspect of sexual morality.
00:16:42.000 I don't think anyone would have a problem with that law, with reading that book in Florida.
00:16:45.740 But if the book said, Johnny is sitting with his gay bear daddies, Johnny daddy bear and 0.87
00:16:53.540 Billy daddy bear and his transgender bear sister, Skylar.
00:16:58.540 And then I think we probably would have a problem with that because it is advancing a more radical,
00:17:03.400 novel, sexual agenda.
00:17:05.480 And I think we need to be honest about that, that they are, they are different.
00:17:09.220 They are different things.
00:17:10.640 And Drew made this point on backstage just the other day, and I thought it was a really
00:17:14.400 good point.
00:17:15.860 People have a right to standards.
00:17:18.380 We have a right to that.
00:17:19.980 It is, when you talk about mommy and daddy having kids, that is different than talking
00:17:25.720 about daddy and daddy's boyfriend having kids.
00:17:29.380 They're, they're just different things.
00:17:31.280 And one is normative and one is out of the ordinary and eccentric and more novel.
00:17:37.820 Those, they're actually different and they must be treated differently in culture because
00:17:43.080 cultures always have standards and norms and taboos and all sorts of things.
00:17:48.300 And we have a right to our norms.
00:17:52.360 People like traditional standards, okay?
00:17:54.760 There's nothing wrong with that.
00:17:56.760 There's not, it's not to say that we need to be mean to people and exclusionary and bigoted
00:18:02.500 or whatever, but it's okay to say that in the normal operation of things, boys like girls
00:18:10.740 and girls like boys and men and women are different and complimentary.
00:18:15.800 And there's nothing wrong with that.
00:18:16.920 And that's the way things are supposed to be.
00:18:18.300 There's nothing wrong even with saying that.
00:18:20.200 That's just acknowledging facts of nature and standards and reality.
00:18:24.080 People like their standards.
00:18:25.160 The other day, this is on a completely different aspect of this topic.
00:18:28.180 When the court came in and struck down the mask mandate on a lot of flights, mid-flight,
00:18:35.540 the captain will come over to the speaker and say, hey, we're getting, there's no more
00:18:39.620 mask mandate, so you can take your masks off if you want.
00:18:43.220 And people were cheering.
00:18:44.420 Everyone was excited.
00:18:46.000 There was one airline steward who was walking down the aisle with a trash bag saying, throw
00:18:50.060 out your mask.
00:18:50.880 He wasn't just saying it.
00:18:51.760 And he was singing it.
00:18:54.120 Throw away your mask.
00:19:00.120 Woo! 0.99
00:19:01.820 Love it.
00:19:02.540 We've been talking a lot about singing on airplanes over the past few days because there was this
00:19:06.520 kind of eccentric evangelical band that at 30,000 feet started playing extremely modern
00:19:12.340 worship music.
00:19:13.380 And some people had a problem with that.
00:19:14.860 Well, I don't think anyone has a problem with that steward singing, throw away your masks.
00:19:19.800 And everyone's happy and everyone's throwing them away.
00:19:22.740 Why?
00:19:24.080 Because it's weird for everyone to be walking around with masks, even beyond the public health
00:19:30.300 questions and the medical advantages of the masks, which were obviously so overstated from
00:19:35.700 almost the very beginning.
00:19:37.360 At the very beginning, Fauci admitted that the masks don't do very much.
00:19:40.480 But then later on, he changed his tune and we all had to pretend.
00:19:43.480 But that, I don't even think that's what the mask issue is about.
00:19:46.200 I think it's that we don't want to walk around like banditos.
00:19:51.440 We don't want to walk around like we're wearing these scientific secular burqas all the time.
00:19:56.120 We want to see each other's faces.
00:19:57.800 We want to breathe the fresh air.
00:19:59.400 We want to see smiles.
00:20:00.760 We want to go back to normal.
00:20:02.580 Normal, that's an important word.
00:20:04.680 And normal involves standards.
00:20:07.260 And normal involves expectations that we have of society.
00:20:10.300 In society, we have a right to see each other's faces.
00:20:15.360 You don't have a right in society to walk around with a mask on all the time like you're a burglar
00:20:20.840 or a bandit about to rob a railway car.
00:20:25.260 You don't have a right to that.
00:20:27.260 We have the right to the expectation that when you come into a public place, we're going to see your face.
00:20:32.040 We're going to know who you are.
00:20:33.320 We have that right to standards.
00:20:37.000 There was, basically, there were three views of the masks for almost all of the lockdowns.
00:20:43.060 The first one was the lib view, which is that you always need to wear a mask all the time with seven masks on when you're alone in the car.
00:20:49.020 Then there was the centrist view, the individualist view.
00:20:54.420 You can wear a mask if you want to or don't wear a mask if you want to.
00:20:57.660 It's your right to completely decide whenever you want to wear a mask.
00:21:00.200 I have always been of the conservative view, which is that, generally speaking, with few exceptions,
00:21:06.240 you should not wear a mask in public.
00:21:08.620 It's weird.
00:21:09.560 It makes everyone feel awkward.
00:21:11.400 It puts everyone on edge.
00:21:13.020 It's not normal.
00:21:14.220 It arrests the social development of children.
00:21:16.640 And it's just ugly.
00:21:17.680 And I want to see your face.
00:21:18.620 You've got a beautiful face.
00:21:19.480 I want to see it.
00:21:20.820 Give me my standards.
00:21:22.900 The White House is furious about this.
00:21:24.400 The White House was asked, Jen Psaki, spokesman for the White House,
00:21:27.740 was asked what to make of the court decision.
00:21:31.380 What do we make of the changing science and now the changing guidelines on the masks?
00:21:37.620 The White House wants to appeal it.
00:21:39.480 But Jen Psaki's simple answer was, I'm not a doctor.
00:21:42.780 You said about this mask ruling out of a federal court in Florida that it's a disappointing decision.
00:21:48.340 And you say you continue to recommend that people wear masks.
00:21:51.660 Why is it that we can sit here in the White House briefing room with no masks,
00:21:56.880 but people can't sit in an airplane cabin with no masks?
00:22:01.700 Well, Peter, I'm not a doctor.
00:22:03.240 You're not a doctor.
00:22:04.080 That I'm aware of.
00:22:04.840 If you're a doctor, I wasn't aware of that today until today.
00:22:07.380 And you are right.
00:22:07.960 Okay.
00:22:08.300 Not a doctor.
00:22:09.160 Just making sure.
00:22:10.240 I don't know.
00:22:11.800 Nor do you play one on TV.
00:22:13.180 Nor does he play one on TV.
00:22:14.600 There you go.
00:22:15.200 Most days.
00:22:15.720 But these determinations, remember the masking guidance is green, yellow, and red.
00:22:22.520 We are currently in a green zone in Washington, D.C., so they're not recommending it.
00:22:26.240 Some people can still wear a mask if they want to.
00:22:28.760 Many people do.
00:22:29.640 Or wear them in meetings.
00:22:30.820 Or wear them at certain times where you're going to be around or sitting close to people.
00:22:34.400 Or maybe you have an immunocompromised parent or friend.
00:22:38.380 And so people make that decision.
00:22:40.020 And this is based on health considerations and data that the CDC looks at about transmissibility
00:22:46.780 as we've seen an increase in cases on airplanes.
00:22:50.780 Jen Psaki is not a doctor.
00:22:52.940 Katanji Jackson is not a biologist.
00:22:55.600 I'm not a weatherman, but I know which way the wind is blowing.
00:22:59.020 Okay.
00:22:59.900 And we can know these things.
00:23:01.560 You don't need to be a genius to know that it is disordered to muzzle yourself in perpetuity
00:23:11.300 in public.
00:23:12.400 It's disordered.
00:23:13.460 And now it's over because, thankfully, one judge on a federal court said enough is enough.
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00:23:31.680 Enough is enough.
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00:24:58.600 Who locked us down?
00:25:00.840 Who upended our society?
00:25:02.980 Who made us wear that dumb, filthy cloth for two years?
00:25:08.020 You know who, folks.
00:25:09.680 You know it.
00:25:10.560 Dr. Fauci.
00:25:12.060 We have a series exposing this man.
00:25:14.700 You want to talk about actual investigation, actual exposition of a major public figure.
00:25:19.920 Well, that would be the Fauci Unmasked series.
00:25:22.060 All three episodes are available to stream right now.
00:25:25.640 If I do say so myself, I think it's a really important three-part docuseries,
00:25:30.560 especially because this guy wants to come back.
00:25:32.920 He wants to exercise that power again.
00:25:34.760 The Biden administration is fighting tooth and nail to keep this mask mandate,
00:25:38.860 to keep the national emergency order,
00:25:40.780 to keep all of the COVID regime in place.
00:25:43.980 Take a listen.
00:25:46.200 He's the highest paid employee in our federal government.
00:25:49.700 And beginning in the spring of 2020,
00:25:52.000 Dr. Fauci began to set national policy
00:25:54.420 that affected the way that 330 million Americans lived their lives.
00:25:59.420 For goodness sakes, I'm telling you, wear a mask, keep social distancing.
00:26:04.160 There's nothing political about that.
00:26:06.240 But who is Anthony Fauci?
00:26:08.180 People who have conspiracy theories.
00:26:10.940 Those are people that don't particularly care for me.
00:26:13.980 In this short series, we will do what the establishment media have refused to do.
00:26:19.160 We will give you an unvarnished look at the career of the most powerful politician in America,
00:26:25.620 Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:26:26.880 Don't you think it's time that you step down and let someone else who has a more effective message?
00:26:31.540 Actually, no.
00:26:41.360 Fauci Unmasked is available exclusively at The Daily Wire.
00:26:44.860 So if you're not a member yet, head on over to dailywire.com slash subscribe to join today.
00:26:50.260 People have been loving the show, so I really appreciate that.
00:26:53.320 One of the best performing pieces of content on our website right now or ever.
00:26:56.880 So do not miss it.
00:26:58.960 We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:27:12.600 Paul Krugman, who is the radical left-wing economist, writes for The New York Times.
00:27:18.300 Krugman insists that the masks are not about freedom.
00:27:24.220 He says, a prediction about masking soon will be seeing many incidents in which those who choose
00:27:29.980 to protect themselves with KN95s, etc., face harassment, even violence, because this was
00:27:37.300 never about freedom.
00:27:40.080 I don't think that people who wear the dumb masks are going to face harassment or violence,
00:27:45.660 but I do think they'll probably be mocked.
00:27:47.820 I do think that they will probably be looked on as neurotic and kind of weird, because with
00:27:54.720 few exceptions, unless you have very, very specific medical conditions, you really shouldn't
00:27:59.520 be wearing these.
00:28:00.300 It's completely ridiculous.
00:28:02.800 And I think that's a good thing.
00:28:05.340 Because he makes one good point here, which is this is not about freedom exactly.
00:28:11.340 It's about how we're all going to live together.
00:28:14.140 If I lived in Saudi Arabia right now, it would be totally normal for women to cover their 1.00
00:28:19.420 faces all the time.
00:28:21.360 I don't live in Saudi Arabia.
00:28:23.020 I live in America.
00:28:24.400 But unfortunately, it has become normal for all of us to cover our faces all of the time.
00:28:29.840 That's not just a question of freedom or tyranny or slavery or any of these big abstractions.
00:28:35.680 It's just customs.
00:28:36.720 It's just how we live.
00:28:38.220 People in certain cultures wear a certain kind of hat.
00:28:41.600 People wear a certain kind of dress.
00:28:43.080 People behave in certain ways.
00:28:44.920 Some cultures shake hands.
00:28:46.020 Some cultures bow.
00:28:46.940 It's just customs.
00:28:48.000 It's just mores.
00:28:48.800 It's just standards.
00:28:50.940 And so the battle about the masks and about actually about whether we're allowed to shake
00:28:55.580 hands or not or about how we learn or about how we live or how we shop, that battle is a
00:29:00.840 lot more complicated than just my freedom or my tyranny.
00:29:04.500 It's about how are we going to live?
00:29:06.540 What are our customs going to be?
00:29:07.720 And what COVID did so effectively is upend, totally blew up all of our customs because
00:29:13.540 the people who run the show, the people who run our government and our corporations and
00:29:19.680 the powerful institutions in our country don't like a lot of our customs and they want to
00:29:23.740 upend our traditional way of life.
00:29:26.720 So Krugman's right.
00:29:29.460 With this ruling that people are thrilled about, you're hearing the cheers on airplanes
00:29:34.700 and offices and everywhere, people are so happy about it.
00:29:39.180 It's about going back to our regular way of life.
00:29:41.780 And all the angry, neurotic people like Paul Krugman and all of the libs who just wanted
00:29:47.940 to sanitize the entire culture and keep the filthy, dirty hoi polloi away from them, they're 1.00
00:29:54.560 going to be really upset about it.
00:29:55.980 And we're going to laugh at them.
00:29:57.000 And it's good for us to laugh at them.
00:29:58.340 We should laugh at them.
00:29:59.680 They are worthy of mockery.
00:30:02.640 They are ridiculous.
00:30:04.120 They are worthy of derision when they push things like this.
00:30:08.160 Now, speaking of violence and freedom, there is a criminal in Los Angeles who is very, very
00:30:16.880 happy today.
00:30:18.780 This is a criminal with a long rap sheet, with gang affiliations.
00:30:24.800 This is a murderer.
00:30:26.820 This guy is going to face far lower charges than he otherwise would have because there is
00:30:34.780 a George Soros-backed, very liberal district attorney in Los Angeles who's letting criminals
00:30:41.120 off the hook.
00:30:42.240 And he was just recorded on a phone call with his attorneys, this, this, not the DA, but
00:30:47.720 the criminal.
00:30:48.460 And he says, I'm going to have to clean up some of this language because I'm going to 1.00
00:30:51.700 get canceled if I use some of these words.
00:30:53.960 He says, I'm going to get that N-words name on my face.
00:30:58.080 That's a champ right there.
00:30:59.500 F-ing Gascon, that's gang member Luis Angel Hernandez, talking about the DA, George Gascon.
00:31:09.240 This SHIT looking real good, he says in a phone call.
00:31:14.180 Now we got a new DA in LA, so they're going to drop a gang of, like, my gun enhancement,
00:31:20.720 my gang enhancement.
00:31:22.040 My gang enhancement is 10 years, fool, for being a gang member.
00:31:25.860 Do I sound convincingly like a gang member?
00:31:27.780 I don't know, I've got to, I'll have to work on my performance.
00:31:30.160 Just like Taylor Lorenz at WAPO needs to work on her performance, whining about doxing, I'll 0.97
00:31:34.640 have to work on mine as being a gang banger.
00:31:37.100 My gang enhancement is 10 years, fool.
00:31:39.380 And then the gun in the commission of a crime.
00:31:41.980 That's the N-word right there, bro.
00:31:45.080 He's making historic changes for all of us, fool.
00:31:48.120 I'm just grateful, fool.
00:31:49.680 Like, I got good news off that SHIT.
00:31:52.680 They're like, you coming home, blood.
00:31:55.120 They already told me.
00:31:56.080 My lawyer already told me.
00:31:57.220 You're coming home.
00:32:00.000 This is being reported by Fox News.
00:32:01.940 It almost reads like it's out of a cartoon.
00:32:04.640 I have, I actually have trouble believing that this guy is saying it, except that the
00:32:09.200 DA really is letting these people off the hook.
00:32:11.800 And the gang banging psychopaths are, they might be total lunatics, but they know where
00:32:20.040 their bread is buttered.
00:32:21.260 They know where they owe their debts.
00:32:23.060 And this guy owes a great debt of gratitude to George Gascon because as a result of George
00:32:29.240 Gascon's policies as district attorney, you're going to get a lot more crazy, murderous,
00:32:38.520 gangster psychos on the streets.
00:32:41.300 That's the effect.
00:32:42.140 So more people are going to get hurt.
00:32:43.720 More people are going to get killed.
00:32:45.380 More innocent people, more innocent taxpayers, citizens of Los Angeles are going to wind up
00:32:50.260 the victims of violence because this district attorney would rather prioritize Luis Angel
00:32:59.020 Hernandez and would rather prioritize his interests over the interests of the people
00:33:05.400 who want to remain safe.
00:33:06.500 There was a recall attempt against this DA.
00:33:11.500 It didn't work.
00:33:12.360 It's very hard to recall people, but it's hard to see how this plays very well.
00:33:18.820 And so why is he doing it?
00:33:20.540 Why is this district attorney letting these breaking bad level caricatures of psychos off
00:33:28.140 the hook?
00:33:29.420 He's doing it one part ideologically because the left believes that the only reason that
00:33:34.580 bad people do bad things is because society has somehow failed them.
00:33:38.840 And so actually it's our fault.
00:33:40.500 It's never the criminal's fault.
00:33:41.840 It's always the victim's fault.
00:33:43.020 It's victim blaming in its purest form.
00:33:45.540 That's the ideological reason why this is happening.
00:33:47.800 But then the raw political reason why this is happening is because chaos breeds opportunity
00:33:53.640 for the libs.
00:33:55.060 This is why they always want to upend not just our standards and mores and traditions, but law
00:34:00.420 and order itself, civil society itself.
00:34:02.120 This is why the left encouraged the BLM riots. 0.73
00:34:04.840 This is why the left, this is why Kamala Harris, the sitting vice president raised money to
00:34:08.920 bail out the most violent people in the George Floyd riots is because when there's violence
00:34:15.380 on the streets, when, when buildings are burning, when the law is not being enforced, when the
00:34:19.920 cops are being defunded, when whole police departments are being abolished, that gives the
00:34:24.240 left much more opportunity to tinker with society, a society that they, they believe that
00:34:29.020 they can remake through their own unfettered reason.
00:34:31.740 That's why this is happening.
00:34:32.820 It's not an accident.
00:34:33.700 It's not just that the DA is incompetent.
00:34:36.040 It's that he's a radical and he's getting exactly what he wants.
00:34:40.580 Now, the only problem for him is that people don't like this.
00:34:44.200 We don't like it when there are gangbanging psychos running around on the streets. 1.00
00:34:47.600 I know this is shocking news.
00:34:48.980 We don't like that.
00:34:50.460 We don't like it when millions of illegal aliens are flooding into the country. 1.00
00:34:53.740 We don't like it when gas is going through the roof.
00:34:55.520 We don't like it when inflation hits 40 year highs.
00:34:57.680 So then the question becomes, how are these people going to hold on to power?
00:35:03.480 Look at Joe Biden.
00:35:04.580 Joe Biden is not only in terms of the actual effects of his policies, the worst president
00:35:10.100 possibly ever.
00:35:12.360 It's not even just that it's his fault.
00:35:13.780 It's that he happens to be president at a time when his political party is so far to
00:35:20.080 the left and he just blows with the wind.
00:35:21.600 He just does whatever they want.
00:35:22.680 And he also has a brain made of pudding, so he's not able to really control very much.
00:35:27.480 He's not particularly competent either.
00:35:29.640 And so the consequence of that is that he's just the worst president probably that we've
00:35:33.500 ever had, certainly that we've ever had in recent memory.
00:35:37.220 His approval rating is in the doldrums.
00:35:39.640 And yet he says he's going to run for president again.
00:35:43.820 According to The Hill, which is a left-leaning publication, Joe Biden has said to at least two
00:35:50.960 people and to Barack Obama that he will run again.
00:35:55.920 And Biden reportedly believes that he is the only Democrat candidate that will be able to
00:36:01.800 defeat Donald Trump if Donald Trump runs for president again.
00:36:08.540 His cognitive decline must be really, really bad if he believes, one, that he can be reelected
00:36:14.580 with an approval rating in the 30s, and two, that he's going to beat Donald Trump.
00:36:20.240 Or it just means that he's living in a total bubble where all he's hearing is the good news
00:36:26.280 from NBC and the Washington Post and all of the other propagandists for the establishment.
00:36:32.020 Just like in North Korea, you've got the crazy dictator who surrounds himself with propagandists.
00:36:39.480 Well, it's not all that different here. If Joe Biden is only ever listening to and reading
00:36:45.120 the Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN, then he is getting a slant on the
00:36:53.560 news, a pro-administration slant on the news that is not all that much different than what Kim Jong-un
00:36:58.460 is getting in North Korea. So that might be it. Or the third option is they think that they can rig 0.86
00:37:04.220 the election. Again, they think that they can push for widespread mail-in ballots like they did
00:37:10.280 in some cases unconstitutionally and illegally in 2020. They think that they can extend election
00:37:15.360 day to election month. They think that they can tilt all of the scales in their favor.
00:37:22.920 But the bookies right now, Las Vegas doesn't believe that Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump or
00:37:29.140 another candidate, by the way. So one way that people make predictions, it's so early on that
00:37:34.100 any prediction about who's going to win in 2024 is basically worthless.
00:37:38.280 But you can look at public opinion polls. That's one way to do it. Or you can look at the money.
00:37:44.220 Where are people putting their money in terms of bets on who wins? And right now,
00:37:50.080 according to gambling.com's resident betting expert, Joe Short, Joe Biden's not looking great.
00:37:58.240 The presidential election odds put Joe Biden as the third most likely candidate to win the
00:38:04.060 presidency. Above him, way above him, at number one is Donald Trump. And then number two,
00:38:11.700 Ron DeSantis. So right now, you've got Trump at the top, DeSantis, Joe Biden, followed by Kamala
00:38:20.700 Harris, Jeff Bezos, Nikki Haley. And then further down the line, you get other people,
00:38:25.320 Buttigieg, Ted Cruz, other people as well. I definitely recommend caution when you're looking
00:38:34.940 at when you're making your political picks based on predictions two years out from more than two
00:38:40.140 years out from a presidential election. Don't forget, in 2016, you had the early favorite. I think Scott
00:38:47.440 Walker was probably the earliest favorite, followed by who? Marco Rubio, Ben Carson.
00:38:55.780 Was Chris Christie ever in there? He might've been in there. These things go through cycles. In 2012,
00:39:00.860 Bobby Jindal, maybe he's going to be the one. Early on, these things don't really matter. But
00:39:05.720 the reason these numbers matter is not because of who the Republican's going to be. It's because of how
00:39:10.300 unpopular Joe Biden is, not just against some generic Republican, but against actual people
00:39:15.760 who are getting a lot of press. What did the Democrats say about this? Well, Donna Brazile,
00:39:22.440 who's the former head of the DNC, who goes on and spouts the party line on all the mainstream media
00:39:28.820 outlets, Donna Brazile says that actually the Republicans are running on fumes and all of the
00:39:33.580 wind is in the Democrat's sails. And all we have to do is wait over the next 37 days. There's 11,
00:39:39.040 12 states hold their primaries. You have big primaries in Ohio and North Carolina,
00:39:45.960 Pennsylvania, where the former president has already tipped the scales in support of one
00:39:50.860 candidate over another. The Republicans are essentially running on fumes. They're running
00:39:56.160 on the energy of 2020, which is the big lie. Democrats are running on an economy that's roaring back,
00:40:03.640 that is fighting inflation, that is helping the Ukrainians. Democrats will run on what's 0.92
00:40:09.040 they've delivered. Republicans are going to run on the fumes in 2020.
00:40:13.980 I don't have very much to say about this woman's analysis other than that it is completely 0.96
00:40:19.780 worthless. It's not even that she's making some radical point and I'm going to debunk it. What she's
00:40:26.940 saying is just totally divorced from reality. It's not true that Republicans are running on election
00:40:31.620 fraud in 2020. They're just not. They're running on the economy and they're running on inflation.
00:40:34.980 It's not true that Democrats are doing anything to solve inflation or the economic problems or that
00:40:40.220 people even think that they are. She's just making things up. It exposes, just like the 0.99
00:40:46.700 libs of TikTok story, it exposes to you how worthless the establishment corporate press really
00:40:53.260 is. I was walking through an airport the other day, which is the only time that I ever see the
00:40:57.600 liberal press on TV in real time. I was listening to some analyst in a suit with his tie giving his
00:41:06.620 expert analysis on how Joe Biden's doing a great job. I just thought this is so worthless. These
00:41:11.880 guys are such shills. They're such hacks that I don't even think you can call it reporting or proper
00:41:19.720 journalism. It's nothing other than propaganda. The only way that it works, I think, as people are
00:41:27.720 tuning out and cutting their cable and not paying attention to them, the only way it works is if
00:41:32.420 they intimidate people, silence people, censor people, and rig the game. Social fads are moving
00:41:41.340 really, really fast. We call it the current thing. That's one way that in the internet meme culture,
00:41:50.140 people refer to the social issue du jour. One week, it's Ukraine, and everyone's totally focused
00:41:58.360 on the war in Ukraine. But before that, it's, I don't know, the masks. And before that, it's Me Too.
00:42:05.860 And before that, it's BLM. And it just changes by the week. And this has gone on for a while now.
00:42:11.040 I was recently reminded, do you remember Kony 2012? Kony 2012 was about this warlord gangster type
00:42:19.940 in Africa named Joseph Kony. And he had some army and he did all sorts of terrible things.
00:42:26.280 But for a few weeks in 2011 and 2012, everyone was obsessed with this. And they all changed their
00:42:32.620 Facebook profile picture. And they all said, we're going to go get Kony 2012. We're going to get him.
00:42:37.400 And this is so important in the whole world. But they didn't do anything. It was just slacktivism.
00:42:41.460 It was just changing your profile picture. It's largely what people are doing now with Ukraine.
00:42:46.420 They're not doing anything to really help Ukraine. But they're changing their profile picture.
00:42:49.940 And that's the most important. They don't know anything about it. They couldn't pick Ukraine 0.98
00:42:52.600 out on a map. They don't know anything. But they're really gung-ho about it. And before that,
00:42:58.020 it was the masks. And before that, it was the vaccines. And before that, it was Me Too.
00:43:00.940 Well, these things change. They come in cycles. And the cycles are increasing in their frequency.
00:43:06.880 Obviously, clearest evidence of this. I meant to get to it more than a week ago. But I don't want
00:43:11.600 to miss out on it. Louis C.K. won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album. Louis C.K., who I think is a
00:43:20.680 funny comedian. He's not my favorite comedian, but he's very funny. He got Me Too'd some years ago
00:43:25.900 because he, from what I can tell, I think they were consensual. Maybe some of them weren't,
00:43:29.940 but I think they were consensual, where he would expose himself and do weird things in front of
00:43:35.500 women. I don't think he was accused of rape or anything like that, but he had some weird sex 0.53
00:43:39.900 stuff behind him. And then he was Me Too'd and he was totally chased out of the industry. And now he's
00:43:43.720 back. It shows, one, I think the end of the Me Too movement. I think that's totally over.
00:43:50.260 So when you now have leftist activists forcing men into women's locker rooms to expose themselves,
00:43:57.140 like that guy Will Thomas on the Penn Swim team, when the official line of the liberals now is,
00:44:01.900 we need to force men to get naked in front of women who are unwilling and undesiring of seeing that, 0.94
00:44:07.520 then obviously Me Too has completely gone out the window. It also shows you that these are just
00:44:11.540 movements of convenience. They don't really care about women. They don't really care about 0.66
00:44:15.340 the Coney. They don't really care about Ukraine. They don't care about any of this. It's just,
00:44:20.000 it's just a way to get really riled up and to have a kind of political, religious ecstasy
00:44:24.700 and to score a few cheap points on your opponents and then move on. That's all that this is really
00:44:28.720 about. And so the question then for 2022 and 2024 is, what are those going to be?
00:44:35.780 The left is going to have to find some great crusade to rile everyone up about and pretend that
00:44:41.200 this is the do or die, end of the world scenario. Meanwhile, contrary to what Donna Brazile is saying
00:44:49.100 here, Republicans, I think are going to run on the basics. Gas is too high. Inflation is too high.
00:44:57.580 Immigration is way too high. Boys are not girls. Stop transing the five-year-olds. Really basic 1.00
00:45:03.220 fundamental stuff. It doesn't get you riled up in a crusade du jour, but it's pretty important to
00:45:07.920 people. Speaking of women in show business, Julia Roberts, Julia Roberts did something the other day 1.00
00:45:16.260 that I have to focus on because no one is really talking about it. And it's so great. It's one of
00:45:23.820 the most positive developments I've seen out of Hollywood in a long time. In large part, I think,
00:45:28.140 because it took place outside of Hollywood. There was a piece in the New York Times, there was a long
00:45:33.560 interview with Julia Roberts and she stood up for homemakers. Julia Roberts is 54 years old now
00:45:42.280 and she addressed her long absence from rom-coms. We haven't seen big Julia Roberts rom-coms in many,
00:45:48.820 many years at this point. She said, here's the thing. If I'd thought that a script was good enough,
00:45:55.120 I would have done it. But I also had three kids in the last 18 years. That raises the bar even more
00:46:01.700 because then it's not only is this material good, it's also the math question, the math equation of
00:46:07.300 my husband's work schedule and the kid's school schedule and summer vacation. It's not just,
00:46:12.640 oh, I think I want to do this. I have a sense of great pride in being home with my family and
00:46:17.860 considering myself a homemaker. You go, girl. I love this. This is so, I don't just love this because
00:46:24.460 Julia Roberts is exalting traditional standards and a traditional way of life. I love it because
00:46:31.940 she is expressing her joy to lots of women who need to hear this because what she's saying is
00:46:40.420 objectively true and it is a better way of life and it's much more conducive to happiness than what
00:46:47.480 lots of women are being fed in school and by the popular culture, which is that they need to ditch 1.00
00:46:52.100 having a family, put off getting married, put off having kids, possibly indefinitely and just go
00:46:57.280 work in the widget factory for some other guy until they're too old to have kids and then they
00:47:02.740 can be really regretful about that. Julia Roberts is sending a message here and it's in the New York
00:47:09.980 Times. I can't believe the New York Times let this through. That is so, I never want to hear again
00:47:16.680 from some feminist that, look, forget about having a family, forget about, and look, I'm not saying 0.76
00:47:21.680 everyone needs to get married and have kids. There's religious life. There are other callings as well,
00:47:25.280 but forget about all that. Forget about all those important, significant things in life.
00:47:28.880 The most important thing to do is to go work in middle management and do spreadsheets alone
00:47:33.500 in my studio apartment in some big city. That's the most important thing I can possibly do and
00:47:38.440 nothing else matters. That's just a lie. I never want to hear it from them again because the people
00:47:44.060 who say that have really relatively modest careers. Julia Roberts has one of the most spectacular 0.93
00:47:49.460 professional careers of any woman of her age and she kind of gave it up. She could have gone much
00:47:56.520 for it. She could have done a whole lot more movies. She could have made tens of millions more dollars at 1.00
00:48:00.420 least and she didn't. She said, no, that money, that fame, that celebrity, that adulation is actually
00:48:07.860 not worth anywhere near the value of having a home, having a family, having kids who love me,
00:48:16.720 going on summer vacation with the kids, making dinner, going over homework with the kids. These
00:48:24.160 are really basic things that we used to understand in our traditional way of life that for all times
00:48:33.240 throughout all of history and all places, certainly in our civilization and in many other civilizations
00:48:37.460 as well, we've known are true. And there is a concerted effort by political radicals to upend
00:48:42.000 and to deny and to pervert all of those things. Don't let them do it. You will be the victim
00:48:47.140 if you let them do it. It won't be a great cause of liberation. It won't be a way to finally overcome
00:48:52.740 the bourgeois terrible oppression of the past. You will be the victim. It will make your life worse.
00:48:57.780 Cling, hold on to those traditional values. They are what are going to fetter us to reality and to 1.00
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