The Michael Knowles Show - April 27, 2022


Ep. 993 - The New York Times Attacked Me


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

182.72876

Word Count

9,158

Sentence Count

663

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

22


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
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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
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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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