The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 993 - The New York Times Attacked Me


Summary

Elon Musk's takeover of Tesla and the company's purchase of Space X has the leftist cryin' out. I love the idea that the Left is wailing over it, because they ve been wrong all along about how big tech companies are censoring conservative speech.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I thought it couldn't get any better. I thought that the Elon Musk takeover could not get any
00:00:07.260 more delightful. And then, and then Politico reported that it made Twitter's top lawyer
00:00:14.800 cry, cry. And I love that. I think that is just terrific. The Viaha Gatti is in charge of Twitter's
00:00:25.380 trust and safety, legal and public policy functions. She is reportedly considered the
00:00:31.380 moral authority at Twitter. She's the executive in charge of banning dangerous speech. She's the
00:00:38.800 person credited with banning President Trump. She is the person who reportedly took it upon herself
00:00:44.800 to kick the duly elected sitting president of the United States out of the public square in our
00:00:49.960 allegedly constitutional republic because she's a big lib and didn't like what he said.
00:00:54.100 This woman, this woman, an actual threat to our Republican system of government,
00:01:00.440 cried because Elon Musk said that he was going to let conservatives speak freely again. And I love
00:01:08.320 that. I would prefer that my opponents not cry. I would prefer that they come to their senses and
00:01:16.400 cut out all of their devious schemes and tricks and see things the right way. But if they're not going
00:01:22.260 to do that, if they are going to insist on screwing up our country and upending our traditions and
00:01:27.960 gobbling up all the power for themselves illegitimately, then I do want them to cry.
00:01:32.640 I want them to cry a corrective cry, like a little baby cries a corrective cry when he's done something
00:01:38.820 wrong and mommy and daddy, they don't want to hear him cry, but they got to let him cry it out so that
00:01:42.700 he learns his lesson. Okay. That's how I want the libs to cry. I don't want them to cry without reason.
00:01:48.320 By the way, a lot of conservatives right now are laughing because they say that the libs are
00:01:53.540 wailing over this Elon Musk takeover for no reason. That's not true. The libs have plenty of reason to
00:01:59.560 cry. And that is a good thing. If they're going to cry, I want them to cry with good reason. I want
00:02:04.920 them to cry because we have beaten them at something and a bad thing that they have tried to do and have
00:02:10.800 done successfully, they can do no longer. For the past several years, the libs have insisted that they
00:02:17.460 are not wielding big tech platforms as a political cudgel to silence the opposition and censor us all
00:02:22.740 into submission. They have said it's all in our heads. The de-platforming, the shadow banning,
00:02:28.620 the censoring of stories critical of Joe Biden weeks before the presidential election.
00:02:32.440 It's all in your heads. It's not happening. Don't believe your lying eyes. Well, if it's all in our
00:02:39.340 heads, then why are you so upset that the new owner of Twitter is promising to undo all of that,
00:02:45.580 is promising free speech for conservatives. Conservatives are not reveling in this week's
00:02:51.280 leftist tears merely because, to quote Conan the Barbarian, what is best in life is to crush your
00:02:57.360 enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. That is also very
00:03:01.580 fun. But the reason that we are, at least the reason that I am reveling in the leftist tears this
00:03:06.840 week is because every one of those tears is an admission that we were right all along about how the
00:03:13.100 libs were censoring us and that there is now strong reason to believe that they are not going to get
00:03:18.820 away with it any longer. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:30.020 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from PlayByEar, who says,
00:03:34.820 there is a pretty good argument for those losing their minds over the Twitter thing. I've heard it
00:03:38.700 somewhere before, but if they don't like it, they can create their own platform. That's true. Go buy
00:03:43.320 your own Twitter. Come on, libs, go buy your own Twitter. I really like that comment because it's
00:03:47.120 pointing out there, there is a good argument. There's a good argument for them to cry. We can
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00:05:12.860 loses an argument, whenever the left gets found out one of their devious schemes and tricks, what's the
00:05:19.480 first thing they do? When they have nothing left to legitimately argue, they accuse their opponents
00:05:25.320 of racism. When Ann Coulter told me this when I was a college student, when a leftist calls you a
00:05:30.520 racist, you know that you've won the argument. Sunny Hostin, who is one of the minor characters over at
00:05:36.740 The View, she launched this argument just yesterday. She said that Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter,
00:05:45.240 all it's really about is about giving special treatment to straight white men.
00:05:51.940 On Twitter, it is predominantly straight white men. So when Elon Musk says, wow,
00:05:58.700 this is about free speech, it seems to me that it's about free speech of straight white men. And so
00:06:06.320 let them have it. Let them just go at it. I enjoyed the block button on Twitter. I think it has a real
00:06:14.780 outsized influence in our world because politicians and celebrities are on it.
00:06:20.000 Now, I think this is no way to talk about Elon Musk, the most prominent African American in the
00:06:26.260 world. I mean, that's the first incoherence that we have. I think the claim that she's making is not
00:06:31.160 true. White men, not even straight white men, just white men in general are something like, what,
00:06:37.600 30% of America and significantly less than 30% of the world population. So I just don't think it's,
00:06:44.140 and then how many of them are straight. I don't, so I just don't think it's true that the majority
00:06:49.480 of Twitter users are straight white men, but let's say that they were. Sunny Hostin is actually saying
00:06:56.860 the quiet part out loud, I guess. She's saying, I don't want straight white men to be able to speak.
00:07:01.600 I want other groups to be able to speak, but I don't like straight white men. I want to censor
00:07:06.840 straight white men. I don't want them to have a voice in our republic. Well, too bad, lady. I say
00:07:12.740 this as a straight swarthy man, a straight, slightly tan man. We're going to speak. We're
00:07:19.340 going to speak. And I'm sorry that that bothers you. I'm sorry that you don't like straight white
00:07:23.320 men. I'm sorry that you want to ostracize us and kick us out of society, but we're not going to do
00:07:27.380 it. We're not, I'm sorry. We're not going to go along with that. We're going to speak. We're going
00:07:30.880 to say our mind. And if you don't like it, that's to take it up with the African American
00:07:35.400 new owner of Twitter, because we're, we're not going to, we're not going to put up with that
00:07:41.040 kind of stuff. We're not, we're not going to put up with a new radical caste system foisted upon us
00:07:47.620 by the woke lunatics that say that if you're, if you're not what, if you're not LGBT, if you're not
00:07:56.840 a woman or any of the other 75 genders that aren't man, if you're, if you're not a POC,
00:08:06.600 then you're, you're not allowed to speak. We're not going to do that. I'm already exercising my
00:08:10.480 newfound freedom of speech on Twitter. I just was sending out some test tweets the other day
00:08:15.740 to test the algorithm. I pointed out various things such as transgenderism is not a real category of
00:08:21.920 being. That's obviously true. I pointed out on Twitter that ivermectin is a wonder drug and
00:08:27.620 everyone called it a wonder drug until a couple of years ago when it became a political cudgel and
00:08:31.620 the left denied that. And then, then I pointed out something that I think is obvious. I said the 2020
00:08:39.560 presidential election was obviously rigged. Good news is none of those tweets were taken down.
00:08:45.360 They're not being suppressed. We're seeing lots of extra engagement for conservatives,
00:08:48.120 but some people got very upset at my free speech. That would be the New York Times.
00:08:53.200 The New York Times took issue with your beloved host on Twitter. Conservatives celebrate and
00:09:00.300 progressives cringe about Musk's ownership of Twitter. When Elon Musk reached a deal to buy
00:09:05.400 Twitter on Monday, he promised to return free speech and debate to the platform saying it was
00:09:09.200 the bedrock of a functioning democracy. And then just a few paragraphs later, we have
00:09:14.500 this quote. They say, oh, here it is. Michael Knowles, a conservative podcaster, repeated on
00:09:23.500 Monday the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was obviously rigged, receiving more than
00:09:28.860 70,000 likes. Now, I agree in principle with the New York Times here. We cannot allow this kind of
00:09:35.100 dangerous misinformation to be allowed on Twitter. We can't tolerate that, okay? We cannot tolerate the
00:09:41.940 New York Times spreading dangerous misinformation because they say that my claim is a false claim,
00:09:47.500 but my claim is not a false claim. My claim is an obviously true claim. The 2020 presidential election
00:09:52.760 was rigged. They rigged the whole damn thing. It's just, it's so obvious. Twitter specifically rigged it
00:09:59.560 actually because Twitter in the weeks before the presidential election censored damning and damaging
00:10:06.360 information about the Biden family, about corruption because of Hunter Biden's laptop. It was a story
00:10:11.280 broken by the New York Post and Twitter shut it down. You couldn't even privately message it. Forget about
00:10:15.520 publicly post it. Facebook did the same thing. Google did the same thing. And then a poll taken after the
00:10:19.800 election said that 12% of Biden voters would not have voted for him if they had seen that news story.
00:10:24.800 So they themselves rigged it, first of all, and then they all admitted that it was a true story a year later.
00:10:31.560 We know that the Democrat operatives rigged the election by changing all the election rules in the weeks and
00:10:37.480 months right beforehand. We know that in Pennsylvania, they violated the state constitution.
00:10:42.720 We now have a ruling to that effect that they violated the state constitution by pushing widespread
00:10:46.540 mail-in ballots. You would have to be so stupid or so dishonest. I'm not sure which it is at the New
00:10:53.600 York Times. I lean more toward the latter, but it might be the former. You would have to be
00:10:58.260 unfathomably stupid or ignorant to pretend that that were not the case. So you have my solemn vow.
00:11:03.960 I have not talked to Mr. Musk. He has not approached me yet. If I am named CEO of Twitter,
00:11:09.900 then I will ban the New York Times before I finish my HR orientation. You have my promise.
00:11:16.440 Because look, I'm all for free speech, okay? But I agree with the libs and I agree with many
00:11:20.600 conservatives and I agree with Elon Musk that there are limits. We need to have some basic limits here,
00:11:25.800 some basic standards. And the New York Times has obviously fallen afoul of that.
00:11:30.200 The New York Times is one of the biggest purveyors of misinformation in this country.
00:11:35.360 Look at the New York Times bestseller list. A certain book called Speechless about this very
00:11:39.040 topic written by yours truly that came out last year was the number one bestselling book in the
00:11:42.860 country by a country mile. It outsold the number one on the New York Times list by 40% without bulk
00:11:47.860 buys, without any shenanigans. And the Times didn't seem to know my name. The Times only knows my name
00:11:52.600 when they want to attack me. So I think, look, I think it's just really, really important that we stop this
00:11:58.040 kind of misinformation. And as we reconfigure the limits to speech and moderation and all these
00:12:05.160 things, I think we've got to throw out the Times. I think it's very, it's important. It's important
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00:13:38.180 who, he went on a rant on his fears and the liberals' fears about the Musk takeover of Twitter
00:13:45.740 that I cannot believe was anything but parody. I cannot believe that this man and that the liberals
00:13:57.060 are so unselfaware, so oblivious to their own tactics that they would make this argument earnestly.
00:14:03.800 If you own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don't have to explain yourself.
00:14:09.320 You don't even have to be transparent. You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its
00:14:14.360 candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and
00:14:19.960 turn up the reach of something else, and the rest of us might not even find out about it till
00:14:23.920 after the election. Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech,
00:14:30.740 philosophically clear, open-minded helper.
00:14:36.580 By golly, if the conservatives get control of Twitter, they might do exactly what we have
00:14:42.820 actually done for years. That's the argument he's making. I don't know that he's being sincere here.
00:14:48.140 Again, it's this argument of, are these people just extremely stupid or extremely dishonest?
00:14:53.740 And I tend to think, when you think of the New York Times, generally the people who work at the
00:14:57.480 New York Times, have a pretty high IQ. They've had at least a relatively elite education. And so I
00:15:05.160 assume they're just very dishonest rather than very stupid. With MSNBC, I don't know. It's anybody's
00:15:10.140 guess. If he's self-aware here, if he knows that he is just describing exactly what the liberals have
00:15:17.340 been doing for years, then good on him. This is a pretty funny way to subvert the medium, but I don't
00:15:22.240 think that's what he's doing. I think, I think he actually doesn't get it. If, if some, if a small
00:15:28.440 group of people own the means of communication in a republic, why they could use that to ban a
00:15:35.760 political candidate. Oh, you mean like the duly elected sitting president? You mean Donald Trump?
00:15:39.880 Well, he was actually the president of the United States. They can just kick him out of the public
00:15:43.020 square. You don't say. They could turn down the reach of certain users and up the reach of others.
00:15:48.860 Oh, you mean like shadow banning or outright deplatforming? There has been something that's
00:15:52.940 gone on since the news of the Musk announcement came out, which is that conservative accounts are
00:15:57.880 exploding on Twitter and liberal accounts. There are even reports that they're losing followers.
00:16:02.420 I've gained, I think, 50,000 followers in the last two or three days. I don't know what that is.
00:16:08.960 That could be, that could be a good thing. It could be that they've taken their, their thumbs off the
00:16:14.320 scales on Twitter and they're actually allowing greater free speech now out of fear of what's
00:16:18.840 going on and that Musk could come in and find all of these nefarious dealings. They could be just
00:16:23.860 shredding documents at the Twitter HQ and letting their thumb off the scales. Or they could, Jeremy
00:16:29.460 Boring made this point, the God King of the Daily Wire. They could be attempting to sabotage Elon Musk
00:16:33.980 by flooding it with bots or something. I tend to think it's more the former only because since this
00:16:39.920 news came out, I'm getting a ton more engagement, not just with random anonymous accounts, but with big
00:16:44.420 blue checkmark accounts. I tend to think this is more having to do with Twitter stopping the censorship
00:16:51.580 and stopping the shadow banning and stopping the manipulation of the algorithm. Stopping doing the
00:16:57.860 things that this MSNBC host is so afraid the Republicans might do hypothetically, or the
00:17:02.600 conservatives might do hypothetically, or just this eccentric billionaire who I'm not even sure is a
00:17:06.360 might do hypothetically. This is so delightful. This is just so absolutely delightful. Look at
00:17:18.300 Senator Ed Markey. Senator Ed Markey is a Democrat. He tweeted out yesterday, quote, Elon Musk and a
00:17:24.360 handful of billionaires now have dangerous influence over the most powerful online platforms. They can't
00:17:28.300 be trusted and self-regulation has failed. We must pass laws to protect privacy and promote
00:17:32.880 algorithmic justice. That's a new one for internet users, especially for kids.
00:17:38.880 Hey, Ed, where were you a week ago or six months ago or a year ago or two years ago when we were
00:17:47.420 raising all of these issues? Oh, you loved it because it was your guys who were controlling it.
00:17:53.820 It was your small handful of liberal oligarchs who were controlling that and manipulating the algorithm
00:18:01.680 and manipulating the elections and rigging the 2020 presidential election. Let's just call it like we
00:18:06.020 see it. But now, now that a guy who just isn't a leftist is controlling just one of the platforms and
00:18:14.660 the smallest platform at that. Now we need to send in the Marines. Now we've got a really, really big
00:18:19.320 problem. Algorithmic justice. What a stupid phrase. We hear about algorithmic justice, economic
00:18:27.680 justice. Reproductive justice was a phrase coined by failed presidential candidate Julian Castro to
00:18:34.480 refer to the justice to kill babies or something. Justice is justice. Justice is the persistent will
00:18:41.900 to give to everyone what he is due. Okay, that's what justice is and it reveals itself in every aspect of
00:18:50.820 society, in every aspect of our lives. And we've seen a perversion of justice by the left in every
00:18:59.200 aspect of, we talk about the leftist perversion of criminal justice. The real version of justice is
00:19:04.960 punish criminals and protect victims. The leftist version of justice is ignore victims and let criminals
00:19:10.980 off the hook. Algorithmic justice, according to conservatives, is within the bounds of the law,
00:19:18.360 let people see the news that they want to see. Let people say the things that they want to say.
00:19:23.820 Again, within the bounds of the law. I'm not saying they can break the law, but within the bounds of
00:19:27.400 that, don't censor people to tilt the scales for one political party over another. That's justice.
00:19:32.620 What he means by algorithmic justice is just injustice. That's all he's talking about.
00:19:37.520 This is a great perspective on free speech from Elon Musk. Every day that Musk drips more information
00:19:44.340 about what he's thinking about the future of Twitter, the better I feel about it.
00:19:49.840 Musk tweeted out, he said, the extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it
00:19:54.940 all. But what does he mean by free speech? Well, he explains. He says, by free speech, I simply mean
00:20:00.840 that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less
00:20:07.660 free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is
00:20:12.840 contrary to the will of the people. This is basically a good explanation of free speech.
00:20:18.300 I wrote this book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, completely snubbed by
00:20:21.880 the New York Times, but still number one national bestseller, coming out in paperback in a month or
00:20:25.300 two. My argument there is not an argument for free speech absolutism. I know a lot of conservatives
00:20:31.160 make that argument. That's not what I'm arguing. I think that's ahistorical. I don't think that has
00:20:35.080 anything to do with the founding era or the actual history of free speech in our country or anywhere else
00:20:39.980 for that matter. There are always going to be limits. The question is, what are those limits?
00:20:44.180 What are those standards? We have had plenty of them in American history. Standards against obscenity,
00:20:50.160 standards against direct threats, against fighting words. A lot of those have been watered down by a
00:20:54.360 lunatic radical politicians and judges over the past 30, 40, 50 years. But what Elon is saying is,
00:21:02.060 look, we in the political community set the bounds of speech and then these extremely influential
00:21:07.820 social media platforms, which control the flow of information around our public square,
00:21:12.400 they need to abide by the law. And they really shouldn't go much further than that.
00:21:16.640 There was a good piece yesterday in Compact Magazine by Curtis Yarvin over what the future
00:21:21.400 of Twitter looks like. Twitter does have to engage in certain moderation. What do they mean by moderation?
00:21:28.920 Well, there's moderation. There's, they've got to protect, they've got, they do engage in some
00:21:35.380 censorship. They have got to curate certain feeds. They've got to recommend certain things. I mean,
00:21:41.260 this just goes with the social platform. The problem with the moderation practices of Twitter
00:21:46.600 is not that they're moderating things. It's that they're secretly censoring things and calling it
00:21:51.140 moderation. Yarvin has a great description of the difference between censorship and moderation.
00:21:56.240 Moderation is preventing you from seeing things you don't want to see. Censorship is preventing you
00:22:02.720 from seeing things that you do want to see. That's the difference. Any platform, any civilized
00:22:08.260 institution is going to have some moderation. When we're hanging out in mixed company, I don't think
00:22:14.140 that we should talk like sailors. I don't think it's right to use that sort of language around women,
00:22:18.680 for instance. Or I don't think it's right if you're on a nice, wholesome platform to have porn
00:22:24.540 everywhere. I don't want to see porn all over Twitter. I hope they moderate that. I don't think
00:22:28.860 we should have snuff films on Twitter, right? That would be just enforcing the law. You've got to
00:22:34.700 enforce the law. But what you need is transparency. And what you need is everyone to know the rules.
00:22:42.300 And you need the political community to be able to set those rules. And the fact that Elon Musk gets
00:22:46.360 it is so terrific. What's funny is they're talking about Elon's takeover as though it's going to get
00:22:52.460 rid of all the rules on Twitter. That was Brian Stelter's stupid point two days ago. He said,
00:22:56.100 does anyone want to go to a party where there are no rules? No, that's not what we're talking about
00:22:59.300 here. In fact, when it gets down to the real nuts and bolts, proposals, concrete proposals that
00:23:05.420 Elon Musk has made for Twitter, the only thing he's proposed is actually tightening up speech
00:23:10.680 restrictions. He's saying we have to get rid of anonymous accounts. He's saying we need to get rid
00:23:14.400 of the bots. He's saying we need to have a little more accountability. We need people to verify
00:23:18.020 their identity. He's not just talking about opening the floodgates. He's saying, no, we've got to get
00:23:23.760 a handle on this and bring it more in line with the American law and the American tradition and stop
00:23:28.540 booting half the country out of the public square. Absolutely the right thing to do.
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00:26:19.820 For the past couple of years, it's been tricky to find information about Joe Biden's corruption
00:26:36.940 because sometimes our social media oligarchs just outright censor it. A lot of times it's
00:26:41.620 suppressed. It's hard to find it. Got one number for you, 5.2 million. $5.2 million. That is the
00:26:52.380 discrepancy on Joe Biden's financial reports. Joe Biden always styled himself the poorest member
00:26:59.340 of the Senate. That guy's been in politics his whole life. He's just been taking a government
00:27:03.260 salary his whole life. That's why he's not a millionaire like his counterparts in the Senate.
00:27:07.560 But now Joe Biden very much is a millionaire. And he's made money from his government salary.
00:27:13.320 He's made money from books. He's made money from speeches. Okay. But there's $5.2 million
00:27:20.720 that have gone unaccounted for. We only know about this because of Hunter Biden's laptop,
00:27:28.140 which the oligarchic media suppressed. I'm talking about the establishment news media,
00:27:33.700 and I'm talking about the social media. They suppressed that information.
00:27:37.560 But we got it anyway. And when you look down at some of Hunter's spreadsheets of his financial
00:27:44.840 affairs, you'll notice that there is $28,000 in legal fees for the restructuring of Hunter Biden's
00:27:52.480 joint venture with the Chinese Communist Party-controlled Bank of China. $28,000 in legal fees.
00:28:00.040 These legal fees were paid by Joe Biden. Now, why would Joe Biden pay Hunter's legal fees?
00:28:07.680 Well, maybe he's just a good father. I thought Hunter Biden had plenty of money. I think in one
00:28:11.180 of his videos where he's talking with a hooker and was recording himself for some creepy reason,
00:28:15.180 he talked about how he made about a gazillion dollars a year. So you think Hunter could pay
00:28:18.980 his own legal fees, but he didn't. Joe apparently paid some of his legal fees. And why would that be?
00:28:23.180 Well, because other documents in the Hunter Biden laptop suggest that Joe Biden was making money off
00:28:29.680 of Hunter's business transactions. Hunter's business transactions that were peddling his father's
00:28:34.080 influence in the government with hostile foreign powers, with some that are not hostile, or we've
00:28:39.360 had a strange relationship with like Ukraine, but some that are hostile foreign powers like China.
00:28:45.440 And then you look at the discrepancy on Biden's financial reports. Daily Mail's analysis of this
00:28:52.780 shows $5.2 million in unexplained income for Joe. Huh? That seems like the sort of thing we should
00:29:02.420 maybe investigate. That's the sort of thing that I wish we knew about before the 2020 presidential
00:29:07.240 election. That's the sort of thing that would have gotten maybe 12% of Biden's voters not to vote for
00:29:12.660 him. And that's not even counting all the dead people who voted for him. That's just the living
00:29:16.020 people who voted for him. So that would have swung the presidential election without question.
00:29:20.140 What does the White House have? They must have a good explanation, right? One, they've known about
00:29:24.460 this for a long time. Two, they're going to just call it misinformation and Republican agitprop. So
00:29:29.160 okay, Jen Psaki, White House press secretary. How do you explain all of the strange Joe Biden business
00:29:36.560 dealings? How do you explain that one of Hunter Biden's business partners came to the White House to
00:29:40.540 meet with Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama administration? On Hunter Biden, the New York
00:29:46.960 Post is reporting, looking at White House visitor logs. There were 19 visits to the White House while
00:29:51.860 the president was vice president by Hunter Biden's business partner, including one with the vice
00:29:56.520 president. Can you help us understand why that business partner had access and what those meetings
00:30:00.880 were about? I don't have any information on that. I'm happy to check and see if we have any more
00:30:05.280 comment. No, they don't have any information. Sorry. Whoops. This is really damning. It's not like they
00:30:11.760 didn't know about this. This has been a major issue. This has probably been the biggest weakness
00:30:16.320 for Joe Biden since before he was elected president. And everyone knows about it. It's on the White House
00:30:21.980 visitor logs. They've known about this for years. If there were any way to spin this into anything other
00:30:30.700 than what it obviously is, which is a pay for play, corrupt, high level, multimillion dollar
00:30:37.880 corruption scheme involving the Chinese government, involving hostile foreign powers and Joe Biden,
00:30:44.320 if it were anything other than that, they would have an excuse and they don't. And so she punts
00:30:50.200 and we're going to have to circle back and then they're just going to avoid the question as best they
00:30:55.100 can. Such rank corruption. You already had Joe Biden, not just on the ropes. He was, he was
00:31:03.380 completely underwater to mix metaphors. He's, he's losing on the economy. He's losing on inflation.
00:31:07.960 He's losing on immigration. He's losing on foreign policy. He's losing on energy. He's losing on COVID.
00:31:13.860 He's, he's losing on everything. People don't have any confidence in his ability to govern. But the,
00:31:20.020 the one thing that Biden brought was that he's just a return to normal. He's just good old,
00:31:25.820 good old Scranton Joe. We all, we know good old uncle Joe, that mean old Donald Trump. He's a crook.
00:31:32.180 He's corrupt. He's mean. He's, he's got a bad character, but Joe, he's got a really good
00:31:35.900 character, right? No, no, he doesn't. He's obviously a crook. He's obviously a very corrupt
00:31:43.820 man who has been in Washington way too long and who has sold out his influence in the American
00:31:50.020 government to make a quick buck. Not just for his kid who made a lot of quick bucks, but apparently
00:31:54.920 for himself too, unless they can come up with any way to explain $5.2 million, unless they can find out
00:32:00.720 any way to explain 19 visits by Hunter Biden's business partner to the white house when,
00:32:05.260 when Joe was vice president. And so what do they do? The only thing Democrats can do right now
00:32:10.920 is focus on Donald Trump. The only thing they can do is focus on the guy who hasn't been president
00:32:16.800 in a year and a half. Chuck Schumer now, he was asked a question about how are we going to deal
00:32:21.120 with inflation? Americans going to the gas pump. Americans going to a grocery store. They can't
00:32:25.520 afford huge surges, 40 year highs in inflation. What are you going to do? This is a midterm election
00:32:30.080 year. Come on, Chuck, tell me how you're going to fix it. Here's his answer. Blame Trump.
00:32:33.940 If you want to get rid of inflation, the only way to do it is to undo a lot of the Trump tax cuts and
00:32:41.120 raise rates. No Republican is ever going to do that. So the only way to get rid of inflation
00:32:45.460 is through reconciliation. The only way to get rid of inflation is by undoing the tax cuts from five
00:32:53.340 years ago. That's your best explanation of the record high inflation that we're facing right now
00:33:01.860 is Trump did it five years ago. And then it just sort of laid dormant for four and a half or five
00:33:09.920 years. And then isn't it just Joe's bad luck that that inflation just sprung up? So the grain of
00:33:17.700 potential hypothetical truth in what Schumer said is, theoretically, you could try to curb inflation
00:33:25.000 by raising taxes. Because when you raise taxes, you're taking money away from people. And when
00:33:29.820 you take money away from people, they have less money to spend on consumer goods. And if they have
00:33:33.280 less money to spend on consumer goods, then the demand will decrease. And theoretically, maybe the
00:33:37.620 prices should stop soaring. Now, the real demand for those goods won't actually decrease, but the
00:33:42.700 ability of people to pay for them will decrease. So maybe theoretically, you could stop that.
00:33:47.020 Although a lot of more right wing economists would say, no, actually, you should cut taxes.
00:33:52.160 And then this is going to lead to such a surge in productivity that you can deal with inflation
00:33:55.280 that way. Regardless, it's a completely bogus argument here from Schumer, because what are the
00:34:00.180 real drivers of inflation? Okay, so we got his version is it's tax cuts from five years ago.
00:34:05.980 Here are some maybe some other culprits. The Democrats insisting on recklessly printing record
00:34:13.720 levels of money for years, just printing money and giving it away to people. That might be what
00:34:17.720 the Democrats insisting and Republicans acquiescing, unfortunately, to shutting down the country for
00:34:22.240 a couple of years. That might have something to do with it. The war in Ukraine that Vladimir
00:34:27.980 Zelensky, leader of Ukraine, admits was caused, especially by Joe Biden taking the sanctions off of
00:34:35.780 Vladimir Putin's oil pipeline. That could be it. The stupid energy policy, which is making America
00:34:42.280 reliant on foreign oil so that when wars break out in Europe, for instance, the oil prices are going
00:34:46.680 to go through the roof. That's going to drive inflation. All of those things would seem to be
00:34:50.180 more immediate and egregious culprits of inflation than some tax cuts five years ago. But furthermore,
00:34:56.540 if Schumer even wanted to make the tax cut argument, then the argument would be we need to take money
00:35:01.920 out of the economy. We've got to take that money out of the economy so people have less money to spend
00:35:06.420 so that maybe prices will stop going through the roof. So if that's the case, why are Democrats
00:35:10.760 pushing to forgive student loans? Why are the Democrats on Capitol Hill and Joe Biden pushing
00:35:15.260 to forgive student loans or to put a pause on student loan payments? All that's going to do
00:35:19.600 is inject more money into the economy. So even by the logic, the really poor logic that Schumer's
00:35:25.200 trying to advance here, his argument fails. Because at the same time that he's saying we need
00:35:29.180 to take money out of the economy, he's trying to pay off his base by saying, no, we're going to give
00:35:33.140 you guys, young, liberal, college-educated people with lots of debt, we're going to just give you more
00:35:38.960 money to spend. Spend, spend, spend. Not going to do anything for inflation. It's just completely
00:35:44.040 weak. Now, what is Trump saying about all this? We don't really know because Trump's not back on
00:35:50.160 Twitter. I think what we were all hoping for was Elon Musk takes Twitter. It breaks up the lock on
00:35:59.460 conservative speech. The floodgates open. We can start talking about Joe Biden's corruption. We can start
00:36:05.660 talking about how men aren't women. We can start talking about how we were lied to by the public
00:36:09.280 health authorities for the past two years. We can start talking about all those things.
00:36:13.540 But what we were really waiting for were those juicy, spicy Trump tweets, at least for me. I want
00:36:19.260 to see the Trump tweets. They're really, really funny. The man is a poet. I'm not being hyperbolic.
00:36:26.540 He is a poet in the medium of Twitter. He knows how to use words in the funniest, punchiest way
00:36:33.340 in that medium. And I just want to see the tweets again. The fake tweet press releases are not doing
00:36:38.480 it for me. I need the tweets. And yet Trump has said he's not going back to Twitter because Trump
00:36:44.020 has his own social media platform called Truth Social. And not a lot of people are using it right
00:36:48.660 now, but he's gone in and he's going to stick with that platform. And he doesn't want to reward
00:36:52.380 Twitter. So he's not going to go back to them after they dissed him and kicked him off.
00:36:55.900 Okay. I am really sad about this. But for right now, it actually might be the best thing for our
00:37:05.920 country that Trump is not on Twitter at this very moment. Because the minute Trump gets back on
00:37:11.480 Twitter, everything is going to be about Trump again. And right now, the Democrats are losing
00:37:17.100 so badly on every single front. And we're in a midterm election year. I think it would be much
00:37:23.060 better to keep all the focus on the Democrats and all the focus on Joe Biden and the failing
00:37:28.340 Democrats on Capitol Hill. This is a personal sacrifice that I am willing to make so that the
00:37:34.780 Democrats lose a little bit more of their power in November. I'm not convinced that Trump won't come
00:37:40.820 back onto Twitter before the presidential election, especially if he's considering running. I just bet he's
00:37:46.640 going to have to go back onto Twitter and then it's going to be about Trump again. And some people
00:37:49.980 don't even want that to happen. I sort of think, look, he's got every right to run for president.
00:37:55.040 He's my favorite Republican president in my lifetime. You're going to have other candidates
00:37:58.880 out there. Ron DeSantis appears like he is going to be running for president. The leading senator right
00:38:04.220 now who could run would be Ted Cruz. I think that's pretty clear. Maybe Josh Hawley would run. I'm not
00:38:08.880 sure. Maybe Rand Paul. I don't know. There could be a lot of people running. Kristi Noem, the governor in
00:38:13.520 South Dakota might run. So if we're talking about a primary situation, then I guess everyone should put
00:38:19.100 themselves in the best position they can and duke it out and figure out who the best candidate is.
00:38:23.500 But for right now, there's no political goal achieved by Trump going back onto Twitter other
00:38:29.380 than the sheer delight and humor of it all. But I suspect that's something Democrats are actually
00:38:34.960 hoping for because when your opponent is hanging himself, you should not interrupt. When your opponent
00:38:42.360 is digging his own political grave, you should not stop him from doing that. And that's what the
00:38:47.160 Democrats are doing right now. Speaking of morbid things, and speaking of entertainment for that
00:38:53.040 matter, there's a clip I have to get to from Megan Fox. I haven't followed Megan Fox very closely. I
00:38:59.340 know she's a movie star. She's married to someone named Machine Gun Kelly. I don't know anything about
00:39:03.900 Machine Gun Kelly. The only thing I know about these two is that they are very popular entertainers
00:39:09.820 who are into really weird new age occult rituals and who drink each other's blood.
00:39:17.160 And they were like, oh, Machine Gun Kelly. And I like kind of knew the name, but didn't. So I'm like
00:39:21.700 Machine Gun Kelly. I like look it up. And I was like, oh, we're going to be in so much trouble because
00:39:27.080 he's literally like my exact physical type that I've been manifesting since I was four. I'm also four
00:39:33.080 years older than him. So I think I made him, my thoughts and intentions grew him into the person
00:39:39.480 that he is. Who knows what he would have looked like or been like if it wasn't for me. I guess to
00:39:44.120 drink each other's blood might mislead people or like people are imagining us with like goblets and
00:39:50.360 we're like Game of Thrones drinking each other's blood. It's just a few drops. But yes, we do consume
00:39:56.140 each other's blood on occasion for ritual purposes only. I had gotten to a point where I was like,
00:40:03.140 we need an adrenaline injection of God in this relationship. And so we went to Costa Rica and
00:40:10.760 we had Peruvian shamans who administered the ayahuasca. And we each went in with different
00:40:16.700 questions that we wanted the medicine to answer for us.
00:40:19.620 Everyone is making fun of Megyn Kelly and Megyn, no, not Megyn Kelly. That would be the strangest
00:40:28.340 mashup of those two. You have Megyn Fox and Machine Gun Kelly. What do you got Megyn Kelly? No,
00:40:31.860 not quite. Everyone's making fun of Megyn Fox and Machine Gun Kelly here because they're saying
00:40:35.920 really weird, trippy, hippy, dippy, new agey things. They are the norm in human history.
00:40:43.800 When Megyn Fox and Machine Gun Kelly say that they drink each other's blood and that Megyn Fox
00:40:51.880 manifested Machine Gun Kelly, manifesting is this new age term where you think that you can control
00:40:58.200 the universe by your thoughts. You think that you can bring God into submission and have him do your
00:41:03.540 will just by thinking it. It's a new age idea. It's taking the true idea that you should think
00:41:10.340 positively, you should have confidence, you should have hope. It's taking that and perverting it and
00:41:14.780 twisting it and making you believe that you are a God who can actually control all of the course of
00:41:20.320 events simply through your own telepathic powers or something. So she says, I manifested the development
00:41:25.700 of this man and I turned him into my lover. And for ritualistic purposes, we drink each other's blood.
00:41:32.460 And then we wanted an infusion of God in our relationship. So we went to Peru and did a bunch
00:41:37.620 of drugs and a weird shaman gave us a bunch of drugs and we did the drugs to figure out our life
00:41:43.620 together and our future and the universe, man. People are making fun of them as abnormal or weird
00:41:49.100 or kooky. They're not. This is the norm. This is the norm in human affairs. The only reason that we are
00:41:56.260 not accustomed to this stuff, though increasingly we are, is because of monotheism, is because the ancient
00:42:04.400 Israelites told the world about God. And they went through and they conquered all of the crazy pagans
00:42:14.920 along their way. And they established themselves in the Holy Land. And then a king and a savior was
00:42:21.720 born to the Jews and he saved the whole world. And the light of Christ spreads throughout the world.
00:42:29.480 And then even Islam, which Christians believe is just a Christian heresy. It's just a sort of
00:42:36.280 misinterpretation of what Christianity is. Muslims believe that it's the final revelation of God,
00:42:41.480 the same revelation that was made to the Jews and then through Christ, who they don't think is a savior,
00:42:46.080 but do think is a sort of prophet. Monotheism says, stop drinking each other's blood. Stop
00:42:55.480 taking a bunch of drugs in the desert. Stop believing that through shamans and witch doctors,
00:43:01.840 you can control the entire world. That's the aberration. That's the abnormal thing in world
00:43:08.720 history. But when you look at the Spanish conquistadors, when they came to the Americas,
00:43:15.820 you saw a bunch of Megan Foxes and Machine Gun Kellys doing weird cult rituals and drinking each
00:43:22.160 other's blood and having all sorts of weird sacrifices and cultic beliefs. When you look
00:43:27.980 at all the tribes in the Middle East before the advent of monotheism, this is what you saw.
00:43:33.320 All of the pagan religions in the Far East, that's what you saw. We are regressing. Okay,
00:43:42.460 we are regressing because of the West's rejection of the religion that made it, which is Christianity.
00:43:48.600 And when you don't believe in God, when you reject Christianity, it's not that you believe in
00:43:56.060 nothing. It's that you believe in everything. And so it is no coincidence that with the decline of
00:44:01.840 traditional religious practice in the West, you are seeing simultaneously the rise of really weird
00:44:07.700 stuff like the secret or new age or transgenderism for that matter, or the people who love the crystals,
00:44:16.480 or all of these weird, or astrology, or all of these weird practices. Because man is a fundamentally
00:44:24.000 religious being. When Megan Fox says that she needed an injection of God into her relationship,
00:44:29.640 she's speaking to an actual human desire. We do want something more. We want something more than
00:44:33.520 this physical world. And so how are you going to fill that? You can either fill that with weird,
00:44:37.580 superstitious, ultimately destructive, and I think pretty clearly demonic practices,
00:44:43.000 like drinking each other's blood, or you can fill it with the highest fulfillment of those things.
00:44:48.700 When Christians go to mass, to your church service on Sunday, and take the communion,
00:44:55.360 you are taking part in a sacrament that is a representation, and if you're Catholic, you believe
00:45:04.680 a true representation in that there is a transubstantiation of eating flesh and drinking blood.
00:45:10.700 It happens to be eating the flesh and drinking the blood of your savior. And all the modern
00:45:14.940 atheist, liberal, open-minded, free-thinking people, they say, that's so weird. That's so weird,
00:45:20.100 Christians. Oh my gosh, I can't believe that you think that you've got this sacrament where you're
00:45:24.300 eating the flesh and drinking the blood of God. Oh my goodness, what a crazy thing. Hey,
00:45:29.200 we're going to go over to Peru and do some ayahuasca with a shaman, because we're normal people.
00:45:33.900 We're not weird like you crazy Christians. Everybody's got to serve somebody, okay? And this is why I do
00:45:39.400 often bring politics back, not just to the culture, but ultimately to religion and theology.
00:45:44.240 Theology is faith-seeking understanding. It's not superstition, it's the opposite. It's applying
00:45:48.840 rigor and logic and reason to the natural religious longings that people have. Because
00:45:56.200 the more that we reject Christianity, the more that these very misguided liberals reject Christianity
00:46:02.620 as somehow unreasonable, though they never quite explain why it's unreasonable, but they just,
00:46:07.200 they have this prejudice against it and they say, oh, that's traditional, that's, we don't like that,
00:46:10.700 we're going to get rid of that. We're going to follow science with a capital S and a trademark
00:46:16.080 over the E. The more we're going to get really bizarre, kooky, superstitious pagan theories, such as
00:46:22.460 the American Academy of Pediatrics, which in its new guide on puberty is discussing girls with erections.
00:46:31.100 That's, that's the phrase. They've got a new guide on puberty called Eulogy, a puberty guide for
00:46:38.120 everybody. Targeted toward children ages nine through 13 years old, explaining how some girls
00:46:44.520 are actually boys and how girls can get erections and that's totally normal and totally fine.
00:46:49.320 And these people have the audacity to make fun of Christians and Jews and Muslims as superstitious.
00:46:54.740 That what, one thing that this conveys just on a political point is that you, you really can't
00:47:00.820 trust anything these modern leftist medical associations have to say. When they say, you
00:47:05.640 don't believe the science, you don't believe the CDC and the WHO and the American Pediatric Academy and,
00:47:11.800 you know, well, no, if they think that girls can get erections, then I don't trust anything they say
00:47:15.620 because they don't understand the most basic elements of human nature. So no, I don't trust them at
00:47:19.920 all. I trust a random blog I read on the internet much more than I trust these people
00:47:23.340 because these people are getting something fundamentally wrong that I know for a fact
00:47:27.140 is, is fundamentally wrong. This is the kind of weirdness that is going to enter into your
00:47:36.880 political society if you reject basic truths. We're going way, we are going so far down this path.
00:47:45.740 The, the only way out I think is to try to hold on to some grasp of the tradition, some grasp of
00:47:52.440 reality. Someone the other day pointed out that conservatives, they talk about free speech and
00:47:56.460 this, that, and the, all they really want is Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism is
00:48:00.620 a contradiction. I think it was Jen Rubin at the Washington Post. Christian nationalism is in many
00:48:04.920 ways a contradiction in terms because Christianity makes universal claims, lowercase c, Catholic claims
00:48:10.440 about the world. And so it, Christian nationalism is a conflicting sort of statement, but regardless,
00:48:16.720 okay, let's use the phrase Christian. What does that mean? We, American conservatives want Christian
00:48:19.740 standards and Christian traditions in society. And what's the alternative? Pumping eight-year-old
00:48:26.020 boys full of puberty blockers. That's the alternative. Sign me up for the Christian nation,
00:48:31.000 please. Hey, where do I get me some of that Christian nation? Which do you want? If we look
00:48:36.280 back at the actual practical application of these things, I think we're beginning to find out that the
00:48:42.860 people using their unfettered reason, the people using, they're just, they're inflicting their will on
00:48:47.200 society to undo everything we've come before, that has come before us. Those people are giving us
00:48:52.060 a society that is unrecognizable and ugly and something we don't desire. And now when we've got
00:48:56.020 a little free speech, we're allowed to say it and we're allowed to take our country back. I'm Michael
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