0:00

Really big news over the past twenty four

0:02

hours, a new COVID narrative

0:04

has just dropped. According to

0:06

the new liberal narrative, the

0:09

lives who shut down the schools for

0:11

much of the past two years, actually,

0:14

we're really trying to open

0:17

the schools the whole time.

0:19

I think there many of us in the public health community

0:21

who are arguing for in person education as

0:25

safe, doable, really useful

0:27

for children. There is not one

0:29

single view, but I think there is no question

0:31

about it. Many of us believed

0:33

from relatively early in the pandemic that

0:37

it was really important for kids to have in person education

0:39

and advocated for it was advocating as

0:41

an outside, you know, as an academic expert.

0:44

Obviously, it's not just one voice, but obviously,

0:46

very, very many people. We were all saying

0:49

basically you need to reopen those schools

0:51

as quickly as possible. That's very

0:53

clear from the very beginning. That

0:55

was Joe Biden's COVID coordinator.

0:57

Very confusing, of course, because

0:59

here is what the democrats have

1:01

actually been saying for the past two years.

1:05

GOES, FLORIDA AND TEXAS AND

1:07

ARIZONA HOW WILL THAT WORK?

1:11

ON

1:11

SCHOOLS, What does he say?

1:13

Reopen the schools. Just

1:15

open them up. Don't worry.

1:18

Yeah. He

1:19

was wrong on the economic reopening.

1:22

He's wrong on the school's reopening.

1:25

I know, you know, from everything

1:27

that we read as parents that it

1:29

would be better for them

1:31

learning wise to be able to be in a classroom

1:34

with a teacher. But I don't think

1:36

that it's safe right now. I don't think

1:38

it's safe for the kids, and I don't

1:40

trust that it's safe for the teachers and the staff,

1:42

either. So think that we need to get the

1:44

virus better role here

1:46

in Texas at least before we

1:49

allow schools to fully reopen.

1:51

That's how I feel as a parent. It's

1:53

also how I feel as a policy maker.

1:55

Forsing

1:55

education students back into

1:57

classroom in areas where the

1:59

infection rate is going up or

2:02

remaining very high is just

2:04

plain dangerous. know it has to start

2:06

by getting cases down in our communities. That's

2:09

step one. It means wearing a

2:11

mask, following social distance

2:13

guidelines. effective

2:15

testing and tracing. There's

2:17

pretty big change in tune on COVID.

2:20

Pretty dramatic rewriting of

2:22

history by the Democrats' memory

2:24

holding what they actually said for the entirety

2:27

of the COVID nonsense. And as

2:29

Election Day draws nearer, I

2:32

would expect the retconning of

2:34

COVID to become even more pronounced,

2:37

especially since elections or

2:39

what the COVID policies have been about

2:42

from the very beginning. I'm Michael Knowles. This

2:44

is the Michael Knowles show.

2:51

Welcome

2:53

back to the show. My

2:54

favorite comment yesterday is from Scott

2:56

Lewis who says John

2:59

Federman is the voice of our generation,

3:01

a damning indictment of our generation. I

3:04

hate to agree with you. but I

3:06

think there's actually a lot of truth

3:08

to what you say, this is really confusing

3:10

on COVID. I'm getting my head is just spinning.

3:13

on on the democrats COVID

3:16

stance. because they're being told, no,

3:18

the democrats, they wanted to reopen schools from

3:20

the very beginning, but then I look back to what they actually

3:23

said. THEY SAY, NO, NO, WE CAN'T REOPEN

3:25

SCHOOLS EVEN WAY, AFTER

3:27

THE LOCKDOWN BEGAN, EVEN WAY AFTER

3:29

WE KNEW COVID WAS NOT A BIG THREAT TO

3:31

KIDS RELATIVELY. way after we had

3:33

the vaccines and all the rest of it. Now

3:35

it's really confusing because we're

3:38

being told, okay, we gotta we

3:40

we we have to reopen the schools. We should reopen

3:42

the schools much earlier. We always wanted to reopen the

3:44

schools. And then Joe Biden comes out and

3:46

he says that COVID is

3:49

once again today in the year of our Lord

3:51

twenty twenty to a global health emergency.

3:54

Some of our friends in congress

3:56

say we don't need COVID funding. where

3:58

they say there really no reason that the government

4:00

should be paying for it.

4:02

I strongly disagree

4:05

strongly disagree. This

4:07

is a global health emergency. If

4:10

you really want to put COVID behind us,

4:12

we have to keep up the fight together.

4:14

SO NOW JOE BIDEN IS SAYING THAT COVID

4:17

IS A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY AND WE ALL GOT

4:19

TO TAKE IT SUPER SERIOUSLY AGAIN, WE GOT TO

4:21

SPEND A TON MORE MONEY AND GIVE DEMOCRATS much

4:23

more power on it. One month ago,

4:25

just one month ago. Joe Biden

4:27

told us, the

4:29

exact opposite. Miss

4:31

president first Detroit Auto

4:34

Show in three years. Yeah. Is

4:36

the pandemic over? a

4:39

pandemic is over.

4:41

We still have a problem with COVID. We're

4:43

still doing a lot of work on it.

4:44

It's but the pandemic is

4:47

over. If you notice no one's wearing masks,

4:49

everybody seems to be in pretty good shape.

4:51

And so I think it's changing, and I

4:53

think This is a perfect example of it.

4:55

No one's wearing masks. Everyone's in good

4:57

shape. The pandemic is over. And also,

5:00

COVID is a global health urgency

5:02

even today, and we need to spend a

5:04

ton more money and keep clamping

5:06

down on people for it. And also,

5:09

It's extremely dangerous to ever

5:11

let the kids go back to school. It's

5:13

so dangerous for our kids. We know that it would be better

5:15

for their education, but we just can't let them do it. And

5:17

also, we've always wanted to let the kids go back

5:19

to school. And also, Oceania is a

5:21

war with East Asia. And also, Oceania

5:23

has always been a war with Eurasia and

5:25

on and on and on.

5:27

Some of us have had the

5:29

number on this COVID thing from

5:32

day one, from the very beginning. Some of us unlike

5:34

the Democrats have been consistent on COVID

5:36

from the very beginning. I'm not toot my own

5:38

horn. You know, I hate to say I told you so, I don't

5:40

have my nostradamus hat on me right now.

5:42

But some of us saw this thing for what it was

5:45

from basically day one.

5:48

Okay? And we saw it as And I'm

5:50

not just saying me, many of you listening understood

5:52

this as well. Many men disproportionately

5:54

the people listening to this show right now

5:57

understood what COVID was.

6:00

a political operation much

6:03

more than it was any kind of

6:05

public health crisis. sure

6:07

there's a scientific viral aspect to

6:09

it. But the experience that we

6:11

all had of COVID, writ

6:13

large, was a political operation much

6:15

more than it was scientific or medical or anything

6:18

else. And because

6:20

that is the case, all

6:22

the arguments we heard about it and all the policies

6:24

that went along with it would

6:26

change arbitrarily month

6:28

by month day by day,

6:31

hour by hour. Right? I bet you Joe

6:33

Biden doesn't remember what he said about COVID one

6:35

month ago. And he probably never heard

6:37

what his COVID, the czar, was just saying

6:39

about COVID. And it actually doesn't matter

6:41

because the COVID policies have always

6:43

changed based on the convenience.

6:46

of Democrats. And

6:48

as election day nears, I think they're

6:50

trying to retcon

6:52

their history on COVID because they're weak

6:54

on everything. for much of the

6:56

past year, COVID was the one issue

6:58

that they were in the positive on. If you looked at the

7:00

public opinion polls, they were down on the economy,

7:03

down on security, down on immigration, down on

7:05

this, down on everything except

7:07

for COVID. That was the one area where

7:10

Joe Biden had his head above water. Now he's below

7:12

water on COVID as well, which

7:14

means that the Democrats COVID policies are

7:16

unpopular, which means that

7:18

they've just got to pretend that they never held those policies

7:20

in the first place. But people remember.

7:23

Okay. People know what a disaster

7:25

the Democrats have been. I was thinking about

7:27

this yesterday. on a completely

7:29

separate issue from COVID. I was thinking about this

7:31

yesterday when the Hungarian foreign

7:34

minister came out and

7:36

he said that the war in Ukraine in

7:38

his estimation would not

7:40

have happened under Trump. This

7:43

would be foreign minister Peter

7:46

Shizarko. I'm obviously

7:48

butchering that pronunciation. But he

7:50

he said basically it's put it's it's well,

7:52

it's putin's fault for abating. but it's Biden's

7:54

fault for letting it happen. And

7:57

this is not a fringe crazy opinion. This

7:59

is the opinion of

7:59

Vladimir Zelensky. Zelensky said

8:02

that

8:03

Biden's decision to take the sanctions

8:05

off of Russia's pipeline would cause Putin

8:07

to invade Ukraine. That is exactly what happened.

8:09

And then of course Biden went even further and

8:12

said, well, if Putin just invades

8:14

a small part of Ukraine, if it's just a minor

8:16

incursion, not a big deal, won't prompt a

8:18

major conflict. So he literally invited

8:20

him to to invade Ukraine in that case.

8:22

And and you think about what that did.

8:25

Right now, what's the top issue for

8:27

American voters according to all the public

8:29

opinion polls? It's the economy, and more specifically,

8:31

it's inflation. do we have inflation? Well, there are

8:33

a lot of reasons we have inflation, but inflation

8:35

is driven largely by the

8:37

surge in energy prices. Why are

8:39

energy prices up. Well, one, because America

8:41

intentionally destroyed its domestic oil and

8:43

gas production by not issuing

8:45

new federal oil and gas lasers

8:47

and by shutting down any

8:49

new oil pipelines. Biden chose

8:51

to do that. And then on the international

8:53

front, because of the war in Ukraine,

8:55

which there is a growing consensus, is

8:58

basically caused by Joe Biden. So

9:00

you've got inflation largely

9:03

because of the spike in energy

9:05

cost. You have the spike in energy

9:07

because stupid Biden domestic

9:10

problems and also because of the war

9:12

in Ukraine and also because of other

9:14

geopolitical issues that for instance encourage

9:17

Saudi Arabia not to play ball with Joe Biden.

9:19

Okay. List goes on and on and on.

9:22

It goes back to Biden. It goes back to

9:24

the twenty twenty election. had

9:27

Donald Trump been permitted to serve a

9:29

second term? I don't

9:32

think you would see Ninety

9:34

percent of the present political trouble that we

9:36

are looking at right now. The

9:39

situation that we're in across sectors not

9:41

just not not just on foreign policy, not just on

9:43

immigration, not just on the economy,

9:45

not just on this, not all of

9:47

it. I I think ninety percent of

9:49

the present political trouble that we're

9:51

facing, just would not have happened.

9:54

Think you can trace it back directly

9:56

to Joe Biden and the

9:58

twenty twenty election. And I

10:00

think I'm not the only one who believes

10:02

that. I think people are seeing

10:04

that too, which is why you're seeing

10:06

the democrats. flailing,

10:08

totally changing their tune,

10:10

totally lying about what they've said and done for

10:12

the past two years. and

10:15

trying to clamp down on power and

10:17

preemptively calling Republican victories

10:19

illegitimate and pulling

10:21

all sorts of shenanigans that

10:24

that you've seen as the

10:26

election day approaches now were within

10:28

two weeks. Even on the issues where the

10:30

Democrats usually can be successful,

10:32

especially racial identity politics,

10:34

it's not working. There's an amazing

10:36

poll that just came out. And

10:38

this is not a cervative leaning poll,

10:40

this is a poll from Telemundo and

10:42

LX News conducted by Mason

10:44

Dixon Poling and Strategy. And the

10:46

poll asked what Latinos think

10:49

of Ron DeSantis versus

10:52

Charlie Christ. This is

10:54

Latinos in Florida. Now

10:57

we've been told Ron DeSantis is a

10:59

terrible guy and he's treating these

11:01

Latino immigrants like like

11:03

dirt and he's shipping them, like,

11:05

they're not even human up to these

11:07

states in the north, and and

11:09

Martha's vineyard, this awful terrible

11:11

man. Chris is so

11:13

good, and he's pro immigration, and he's,

11:15

okay. Well, you know what the poll says? I kind of

11:17

set it up that way. The

11:19

Latinos prefer DeSantis

11:21

over Chris. the Latinos who

11:23

were supposed to be Democrats, they prefer the

11:25

Republican over the Democrat.

11:29

What's even crazier is,

11:31

when at Latino voters in Florida were asked

11:33

specifically what they believe

11:35

about DeSantis shipping the

11:37

illegals up to Martha's Vineyard.

11:41

More of the Hispanic respondents

11:43

favored DeSantis' policy than

11:45

opposed it. Fifty percent were in

11:47

favor, forty three percent were opposed

11:49

because they get it. because they get

11:51

it, because the Latino

11:53

immigrants, the Latino voters

11:55

rather, many of whom are not immigrants. The the

11:57

Latinos in Florida, though, they

11:59

actually understand the immigration issue better than

12:01

most demographics. Okay? And they get it. They

12:03

realize that illegal immigration is

12:05

wrong, and the degree of illegal immigration that

12:07

we have today is completely on sustainable. It's

12:09

completely disordered, and they

12:11

realize that states like Florida

12:13

and especially states like Texas and Arizona

12:15

are being completely exploited by

12:18

Liberals in the North who think

12:20

that illegal immigration gives them an electoral

12:22

advantage, but they don't wanna deal with it in their

12:24

backyard. And the Lantino's in Florida together. They

12:26

say, yeah, put him up in Martha's Vineyard. Send him

12:28

to Raghovith Beach, Delaware. Send him to

12:30

New York and and and

12:32

Chicago and Washington, DC. And

12:34

and you yeah. I can just picture the Democratic

12:37

strategist pulling their hair up. It's like, no.

12:39

But but we called him

12:41

racist Why

12:42

isn't this working? We're

12:43

supposed to call these guys racist and

12:46

then and then all the minorities just come

12:48

to our side. Why isn't it?

12:50

ah But we

12:51

have the guys in the lab coats. Why

12:53

don't they believe us on COVID?

12:55

But we

12:56

Why? But we're calling all our opponents

12:59

Putin stooges. Why don't they support Why?

13:01

And

13:01

it's just everything you're trying. They're

13:04

being totally frustrated and and as election

13:06

day draws near, the polls are breaking evermore

13:08

for the Republicans. So this means they're

13:10

gonna need even more shenanigans to

13:12

prevent a red wave. And they're pulling those shenanigans. There was

13:14

a debate for the Michigan

13:16

governor's race. This was

13:18

between the Republican Tudor Dixon

13:21

and the Democrat Gretchen Whitmer

13:23

who's been a terrible governor and

13:25

is deeply unpopular. And

13:27

so while Tudor Dixon is

13:29

giving her opening remarks, what happens?

13:31

Oh, oops. the local Fox

13:33

affiliate carrying the debate

13:35

in Michigan, oops, it just

13:37

accidentally cut to commercial break.

13:39

We

13:40

see our our reading

13:42

scores have plummeted. Our

13:44

graduation rates have dropped. Our

13:46

cities are less safe and the roads

13:48

aren't

13:49

fixed.

13:52

Watch Fox forty seven news for

13:54

rivalry weak stories all this week. If

13:57

you're looking for a better night sleep, look

13:59

no further

13:59

than Ashley, all the events. It can

14:02

change course.

14:02

In fourteen days, you can

14:04

put Michigan back on

14:06

the right track. I've traveled

14:08

the state and from day one, I've

14:10

been focused on my family friendly

14:13

plan for Michigan. You saw tonight's

14:15

debate right here on Fox forty seven, we

14:17

will have full coverage just ahead.

14:19

But first, we had an

14:21

unintended technical issue that cut off a portion

14:23

of Tudor Dixon's opening statement,

14:25

We regret this error. In fairness

14:27

to both parties, we will re air those opening

14:30

statements in full right now starting with

14:32

Governor Whitmer as it aired live.

14:34

Oh, good. That's good. You see

14:36

that correction at the end that aired much, much

14:38

later. That's Oh, that's so good.

14:40

There was this accident. It

14:42

was a big whoopsie daisy, the

14:45

Republican who is outperforming

14:47

what the Democrats thought she would be doing and is actually

14:49

posing a threat to Gretchen Whitmer. yeah,

14:51

we're just gonna cut off her opening remarks

14:53

during the debate that everyone's watching. But

14:55

don't worry, we'll issue a correction

14:57

after the debate when nobody's

14:59

watching. And then we'll

15:01

air we'll air the full thing right now. Starting with the

15:03

Democrat, by the way. Oops,

15:05

sorry. This

15:06

is exactly what Candy Crowley did.

15:09

Kandi Crowley, the absolute

15:11

hack leftist moderator, during

15:13

one of the twenty twelve Obama

15:16

Romney debates, Romney

15:18

made a claim. He was

15:20

referring to the terror attack in

15:22

Benghazi, and he said Barack

15:24

Obama didn't call this a

15:26

terror attack for x number of

15:28

days afterward. And

15:31

Kandi Crowley said, oh, no. Yes, he did. He did it right

15:33

away, Mitt Romney. So

15:35

she she, the moderator jumps in on

15:37

behalf of Barack Obama. Obama's just sitting there, by the

15:39

way. He says, oh, good. I'll stick my dogs on,

15:41

Rami. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. and

15:43

Romney goes, no. Ken, I'm pretty sure Kandi. I'm

15:45

actually pretty sure I'm right about this. And she goes, no, you're

15:47

wrong. Ramney, you're wrong. Ten

15:49

thousand fact checks you're wrong. Ten a

15:51

million pinocchios. There's no, but I'm pretty

15:53

sure what I don't. And then

15:55

what happens? We find out

15:57

after the debate, Romney

15:59

was right. And Kandi

16:01

Crowley completely made it up and

16:03

played interference for

16:05

Barack Obama. But then she said at the end of

16:07

the debate she goes, oh, hey, By the

16:10

way, now that no one's watching

16:12

anymore, yeah, I was wrong. Oops. I'm

16:14

a I'm a real journalist, so I'm gonna I'm gonna correct. Whoopsie

16:17

daisy, So you can expect a

16:19

lot more of these sorts of shenanigans to

16:22

increase in the next fourteen

16:24

days because because

16:27

There isn't one good sign breaking for

16:29

the Democrats right now. So the only hope

16:31

they've got is to rig it and steal

16:33

it and wouldn't be the first time they've they've done

16:35

such a thing, lots of shenanigans

16:37

and politics and especially when it comes to our friends

16:39

on the left. The

16:41

fact checks quote unquote

16:43

fact checks. They are a major

16:45

tool of the democrats.

16:48

And I fear not

16:50

enough conservatives and independents and

16:52

moderates understand just how

16:54

completely worthless the fact

16:56

quote unquote fact checks are fact

16:58

checks are just liberal

17:00

opinion columns that

17:02

try to use the language of

17:04

science to to give more of

17:06

an air of an authority in

17:08

our modern scientific age, but they're just

17:11

liberal opinion columns. And actually, the

17:13

fact checks are even more nefarious because

17:16

with that undue air of

17:18

scientific authority, then the

17:21

the liberal opinion makers can pressure the big

17:23

tech companies And the big

17:25

tech companies are frankly very

17:27

happy to have this kind of cover to to

17:29

use those liberal opinion columns

17:31

disguised as pure fact to

17:33

censor the conservatives. And this has always

17:35

been the case. This phenomenon really

17:37

started to crop up about ten years

17:39

ago or a little more than ten years ago. And

17:41

it's just become more and more powerful ever

17:43

since. But here here's a great one. Great one. We played

17:45

the clip a few days ago on the

17:47

show. Of Ted Cruz, just absolutely

17:49

strawing those cackling hands on the view with facts and logic, and

17:51

it was a beautiful thing to see. And

17:54

so one of the claims

17:56

made by the ladies of the view

17:59

was that

17:59

the the the well,

18:02

one,

18:02

they said the democrats don't

18:04

de legitimize elections. You know,

18:06

the democrats don't deny the results of

18:09

elections. And so Ted pulls out the sheet of paper. He

18:11

goes, oh, year two thousand. The

18:13

Stacey Abrams election. The the twenty sixteen

18:15

election, the this that, you know, and his name

18:17

he's quoting examples of the Democrats.

18:19

And then they they split

18:21

there on their tactics. One said, okay. Well, it's fine

18:23

when the Democrats do it. It's not good when the Republicans

18:26

do it. but then one of the other lines of argument was,

18:28

well, at least the democrats didn't

18:30

have an insurrection afterward. You

18:32

know, they were just peaceful about it.

18:34

and senator Cruz comes out and he says, what are you talking about?

18:36

The Democrats burn the country down

18:38

for much of of twenty twenty. What are

18:40

you talking about? They don't engage

18:43

in political violence. What about the antifa riots?

18:46

So here's the here's the fact

18:48

check from Newsweek of

18:50

his appearance. Ted

18:52

Cruz's claim, false.

18:54

Totally false.

18:55

Not needs context,

18:57

not unverified, not satire, not

18:59

misleading materials, totally false. Okay. Why is

19:01

Ted Cruz' claim

19:02

totally false? The

19:05

antifa

19:05

riots, cruise refers to, are almost

19:07

certainly the protests which followed

19:10

George Floyd's death. Uh-huh.

19:12

the Yes. That's

19:13

true. You're okay. So you could call them the

19:15

BLM slash NT for riots. Okay?

19:18

But It wouldn't not make it worse for your

19:20

side. Wouldn't not be more sensational. Okay. Most

19:22

of these occurred between late

19:25

May to early June

19:27

twenty twenty. Although many

19:29

buildings were damaged or destroyed

19:31

by fire during protests, this

19:33

did not carry on throughout the year. So

19:35

so you're saying it's is

19:37

claim that the Libs burned the

19:40

country down for for much of that

19:42

year. You're saying it's false because while they

19:44

did burn a lot of

19:46

the country down. They didn't do it for most of

19:48

the year, only a little bit of the year.

19:50

Except then the next paragraph, they say,

19:52

well, protests did continue in

19:54

Portland, Oregon for nearly a year. according

19:56

to media reports. These were not all

19:59

characterized by arson. So they

20:01

so okay. No. It's false because it

20:03

didn't go on for all of the year except in

20:05

certain places, it did go on through all of the year. And but

20:07

it's false because it they didn't all burn

20:10

down the cities. They just well, some

20:12

of them did actually burned down the cities the whole

20:14

time. But Most other cities

20:16

quieted down after June twenty twenty,

20:18

labeling the protests as Antifa riots is

20:20

misleading to as there's no

20:22

organization or group known as such I

20:24

mean, there are, and I I've actually encountered

20:26

them, and they've attacked me at my debates, and they have

20:28

a flag, and they have a uniform, and they show

20:30

up, and they've committed political violence for years in

20:32

this country. But no, ten thousand Panokios

20:35

because why? Because they don't even

20:37

attempt to make a coherent argument. They

20:39

contradict themselves. sentence after

20:41

sentence. They undermine what they said

20:43

previously, but it doesn't matter. It's the same

20:45

thing as COVID

20:48

is not a big deal. We should have reopened the schools from

20:50

the beginning. COVID's going to kill us all. It's a

20:52

global health crisis. It's

20:54

the contradictions that we're not just seeing today,

20:56

but we've been listening to for

20:59

years. They are a feature of the

21:01

program because none of it is about making a

21:03

coherent argument. Obviously, none none of it is about, quote

21:05

unquote, following the or checking the facts or anything

21:07

like that. It is all about

21:09

power, raw

21:11

power completely divorced from reason

21:13

and logic and civil discussion and

21:16

all of that. And it's the democrats clamping

21:18

down. And the less of an argument they've got

21:20

to make and the less persuasive

21:22

their argument is to the American people the

21:24

more they're just gonna down on that raw power.

21:26

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21:28

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something. I wanna I'm gonna do a Michael Knowles

23:12

show fact check. We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna fact

23:14

check the fact checkers. No. I wanna fact check Joe Biden on something

23:16

because Joe Biden made a claim

23:19

yesterday that although

23:21

he says very eccentric things almost

23:24

every day, This one this

23:26

one really took me by surprise.

23:29

Some airlines, if

23:31

you want, six more inches between

23:33

you and the seat in front, you pay more

23:35

money. But you

23:36

don't know it until

23:38

you purchase your

23:40

ticket. Look, folks,

23:41

these are junk fees, they're unfair, and

23:43

the marginalized Americans, the hardest,

23:45

especially low income folks, and

23:47

people of color. They've benefited big

23:50

corporations, not consumers?

23:52

Okay. Hold on.

23:54

The claim is, airlines

23:58

charge more money for better seats.

24:00

And

24:02

and number one, most

24:05

people, they don't even know about it. They hide that,

24:07

which I I fly around

24:09

a lot. I give speeches. I was

24:11

just I was just in England, you know, for

24:13

Kansas' daughter's back tism. I'm on airplanes a

24:15

fair bit. When I go to book my

24:17

ticket, the prices are

24:19

not hidden. They're they're right in front of your

24:22

face. And when you you go pick your

24:24

seat on on

24:26

every seat almost, there's a

24:28

little dollar sign and then a

24:30

number and then And you

24:32

can either if you go for the nicer

24:34

seats, the numbers get bigger. And if you're in

24:36

the the less nice

24:38

seats with less leg room, the numbers are

24:40

smaller, but you pick it you see the

24:42

price every single step of the

24:44

way. So I don't know how that's

24:46

confusing, but then it gets it gets even weirder

24:48

because Biden said, This

24:50

is this practice of the

24:52

airlines of hiding these fees, which they

24:54

allegedly do. Of and and the

24:56

practice really of just charging more for

24:58

nicer seats with more leg room This

25:00

is especially harmful to

25:03

marginalized Americans and

25:05

to people of color.

25:07

Is he

25:09

the is he saying

25:11

black people can't read? There's

25:14

two ways of understanding what he's saying.

25:16

He's either saying black people are

25:19

illiterate and innumarate, and so they

25:21

can't see basic words and numbers on a

25:23

screen when they're buying their tickets.

25:25

or he's saying it's unfair to black people because

25:28

because they're so fat they need more leg

25:30

room than other people or maybe that they're so tall. I

25:32

guess that would be slightly less

25:34

offensive way. But so it

25:36

it's it's unfair to

25:37

black people. It's especially bad for black people

25:39

because they're illiterate and innuit

25:42

and fat. That's

25:45

that seems a little odd to me,

25:47

but it's also offensive to white

25:49

people. because the the I

25:51

assume Joe Biden didn't give one second's

25:53

thought to how he was phrasing this. This is how

25:55

the democrats always have to phrase any

25:58

justice issue. They could

26:00

be talking about anything. They

26:02

could be talking about how

26:04

in the middle of August,

26:06

it's really hot out there. they can and

26:08

this is especially a serious problem for marginalized

26:10

communities and people of color.

26:12

They could they could, you could

26:14

be talking about how the the

26:16

cost of bubble gum went up five cents over

26:18

the past year. Well, with Biden's inflation, it's probably gone

26:20

up much more. But you can say, you know, the price of bubble

26:22

gum has gone up five cents last year, and this

26:24

is especially a big problem for marginalized communities

26:27

and people of color. Climate change is a

26:29

problem for marginalized communities and

26:31

people. of

26:32

color. The war

26:33

in Ukraine, it's a really big problem for marginalized

26:35

communities and people have every single

26:37

issue.

26:38

Food. Food, you

26:39

know, the the amount of high fructose

26:41

corn syrup is is a really especially problem

26:44

for marginalized communities and people have

26:46

called. Every issue of

26:48

justice has to be framed from

26:50

the perspective of non

26:52

white people. It's not it's

26:55

not enough on the left to is bad for

26:57

everybody. You're not allowed to say that. That's why they hate the phrase

26:59

that all lives matter. It only matters if it's

27:01

bad for black people. If

27:03

it's bad for white people, for on the left, usually

27:05

they celebrate that. It's a that's a

27:07

good thing. There are fewer white people in the country. This is

27:09

a great thing. This is a cause for celebration.

27:11

You see constant articles about this and

27:13

and segments like this in the mainstream news,

27:16

which is which is wrong. That's

27:19

really wrong. Okay? It's

27:21

really it's somehow and

27:23

just that one silly example in the the

27:26

airlines. Biden manages to

27:28

offend everybody as he thinks that he's pandering

27:30

to his base. I don't think that pandering is

27:32

working anymore. I I'm

27:34

you're just looking at that in the polls. I don't think

27:37

it's working. racial politics. They're just so

27:39

dumb. They're so

27:41

so silly. Representative

27:43

Myra Flores. She's

27:45

a Texas Republican member

27:47

of congress. She just tried to join

27:49

the Congressional Hispanic caucus.

27:52

This is the main caucus for Latino

27:55

members of Congress. And Myra

27:57

Flores, very clearly, Latino.

27:59

She's

27:59

the first a

28:00

Mexican born woman to serve in

28:03

congress. She represents a

28:05

district right along the US Mexico border. The

28:07

district is overwhelmingly Hispanic.

28:09

she was not allowed the caucus.

28:11

According to the congressional

28:13

Hispanic caucus, representative

28:15

Myra Flores from Mexico

28:17

is not Hispanic. kind of

28:20

silly.

28:20

Right? Why is that?

28:22

Well, they don't want to let

28:24

her in because she's conservative.

28:26

And as far as the left is concerned, if you're

28:28

Hispanic and conservative, you're just not

28:31

Hispanic. As far as the left is concerned, if you're if

28:33

you're Candice Owens, if you're black

28:35

and conservative, You're just not black. They

28:37

don't say, Kansas Owens, you're not

28:39

conservative. They say you're not black. You're not really a

28:41

black person. I remember an article about

28:43

Sarah Palen in some stupid feminist

28:45

studies, in gender studies journal.

28:47

This would have

28:48

been years ago when Palen was running for

28:51

vice president. and the article

28:53

said that Sarah

28:55

Palin had

28:56

surrendered her woman who she ceased

28:58

to be a woman because of

29:00

her political point of view.

29:02

And we can mock this and

29:04

we say this socially look at these dumb

29:06

liberals with their race politics.

29:09

But

29:09

This There

29:10

there's actually a lot to this. And this

29:13

is actually how most people think about

29:15

race. Very, very

29:17

few people. care about

29:19

race itself. This is across the

29:21

political spectrum. People

29:23

care about race if they care about race at

29:25

all. only as a representation of

29:28

something else.

29:29

So people on

29:30

the right have very

29:33

low racial consciousness. You see this reflected in a lot of polls

29:35

white people, especially at very, very low racial consciousness

29:37

compared to other racial groups.

29:40

in as much even the race obsessed kind

29:42

of fringe of the right,

29:46

even they are more than happy to

29:48

welcome black right wingers into their

29:50

tent. Even and you see this,

29:52

and just look at any of

29:54

the real racially obsessed

29:56

kind of fringe figures on the right.

29:59

They've all got a black friend. They've all got a

30:01

Jewish friend. They've all they they

30:04

because their their racial politics is not

30:06

really about race. They just for

30:08

them, the the people who are

30:10

not members of their race that they

30:12

pile around with, participate in

30:14

the kind of cultural trappings

30:15

that they themselves go along

30:17

with. So wear the same

30:19

clothes, believe the same kind of political points of

30:21

view, read the same the same parties,

30:23

do the same sorts of things. For the

30:27

the relatively few people on

30:29

the right who focus all that much

30:31

on race. race is really just a

30:33

representation of culture. And for

30:35

the left, race is just a

30:37

representation of ideology. This

30:39

is why they can't with straight face. They know my reforms, you're

30:41

not Hispanic. No. No.

30:44

Because

30:44

I know you think that

30:46

race is just the color of

30:48

your scanning your bone structure, but it's not for for

30:50

the left. If you do not

30:52

adhere to a handful of

30:54

dogmatic ideological principles, that

30:57

make you a leftist, then you actually just can't be black. That

30:59

when Joe Biden says, if you're not gonna vote for

31:01

me, if you don't know who you're gonna vote for me or Trump,

31:03

you ain't black. He is

31:06

expressing that point of view. He he probably couldn't

31:08

articulate it in anything

31:10

resembling a systematic way, but he's just saying

31:12

that race actually is

31:14

not about the pigment of your skin. It's just that

31:16

is just a representation for

31:19

your political ideology. And a lot

31:21

of the time that does actually match

31:23

up and sometimes it doesn't and when

31:25

it doesn't, then you deny the

31:27

pigment, you deny what we have traditionally

31:29

understood to be raised and you

31:31

you instead favor. a symbol and that that's why my my world will never

31:33

be Hispanic according to these people.

31:36

Never will. Candice zones will never be black

31:38

according to these people. Now speaking of

31:40

women, in

31:41

politics. I was just talking about two

31:43

very impressive women in politics. I'm not

31:45

gonna speak about a little something of

31:47

a less impressive woman in politics that would,

31:49

of course, be our

31:51

vice president Kamala Harris, who gave a

31:54

a rousing oratory

31:57

yesterday, on school

31:59

buses. So

32:01

here's the thing. Who doesn't

32:03

love a yellow school bus?

32:05

Right? Can you raise your hand

32:07

if you love

32:08

a yellow school bus. Right?

32:10

Just

32:10

there's something about

32:12

Yeah.

32:13

And and most of us, many of

32:15

us went to school on the yellow school

32:17

bus. Right? And it's part of

32:19

it's of our our experience growing

32:22

up. I

32:25

say

32:25

this without any malice in my

32:27

heart. specifically toward Kamala Harris?

32:30

Or I think

32:32

any hyperbole?

32:35

this might be the most vacuous human being ever

32:37

to walk the earth. If

32:41

you ever

32:43

heard, emptier

32:45

words from an

32:47

emptier suit of a politician. I

32:50

Politicians say meaningless

32:53

things all the time, but this

32:55

woman only ever says

32:58

meaningless things. matter vice

32:59

president. What what do you think you're gonna be doing now?

33:01

How is the administration going to pivot? What's

33:03

really important to continue to do

33:06

the things? and do the things now that we were doing, that we've been

33:08

doing from the doing. Okay,

33:10

I'm madam

33:10

vice president. You've got the floor. Please tell us

33:13

what's on your heart. Please give us your vision of

33:15

the future. Who here likes a yellow

33:17

school bus? Don't

33:19

we all love yellow school buses? Nobody

33:21

cannot like a yellow school bus. So actually first

33:23

of all fact check No

33:26

one who rides a yellow school bus likes

33:28

a yellow school bus because it's school

33:30

children who like who ride the yellow

33:33

school bus, And school children don't want to

33:35

go to school. They want to stay home and

33:37

play. So she's actually

33:39

even in as much as she's

33:41

making any kind of claim which

33:43

is really ten US here. Even

33:45

that really ten US claim is

33:47

is false. Even that really

33:50

thin, just not that is false.

33:52

And then, of course, the whole thing is just so

33:54

silly and sad.

33:56

because every single comma Harris

33:58

speech or interview, is

34:01

just an excruciating process of

34:04

watching her try to figure

34:06

out desperately how she

34:08

can get anyone to like

34:10

her even a little bit. What

34:12

is That's why what she never says

34:14

anything that that

34:16

could ever be construed really as controversial.

34:19

or that it makes any real substantive claims

34:21

at all because the moment you make a substantive

34:23

claim, you alienate people who disagree with those claims. So

34:25

she just generally says, nothing,

34:27

and then she does it in this really

34:30

desperate, like her her

34:32

muscles are stretched on her face, and

34:34

she's always got that

34:36

crazy cackle. Right? Don't we all love

34:38

air? Hey. Who doesn't

34:40

love air?

34:42

Right? Can you I

34:44

be president yet? No, you can't.

34:46

You can't. It's really

34:47

sad. Joe Biden also has no

34:49

convictions whatsoever. He's just much more talented

34:51

than she is. That's

34:53

how he's remained in national politics

34:55

for fifty years. Not the brightest bulb in

34:57

the pack. He doesn't believe a damn thing. Whatever

34:59

he did believe he's sold that out long ago.

35:01

but at least he's a little better at the art of politics. Kamala Harris

35:03

is not. She's made her way in

35:06

politics by

35:08

other means. We'll leave it at that to

35:10

be diplomatic, you know, to be gentleman lay who

35:12

says chivalry's dead. But

35:14

it's it's it's a

35:16

a real warning people write in a lot on the show and

35:18

they say, Michael, I wanna be more involved in politics. And some

35:21

people say, I wanna run for office even. Right?

35:23

At least I wanna get involved with the campaign, you know, how do

35:25

I do it? What should I do? And when

35:27

young people write in, they'll say, how do I get involved?

35:30

I'm nineteen years old. And I just always

35:32

think, make

35:34

sure before

35:35

you do it. You are doing

35:37

it for the right reasons. The first thing you have

35:39

to ask yourself before you get involved with a

35:41

political campaign or before you run for office

35:43

or even before you go out and spread your opinions

35:45

in an article or a podcast or TV or

35:47

whatever is. Why are

35:49

you doing

35:50

are you doing it? Why?

35:52

What do you hope to achieve

35:55

in

35:55

politics? And when

35:58

it when it comes to comes

36:00

to politicians like Joe Biden and especially Kamala Harris,

36:02

they just want to

36:04

be in politics.

36:05

That's it. They just want to be

36:08

in office. Joe Biden

36:09

just wanted to he's just wanted to be

36:11

the president forever. Donald Harris just

36:13

wants to be the president.

36:15

What do

36:16

they wanna do? Do they want to get tough on crime

36:18

or go soft on crime? They've held both positions.

36:20

They don't care. Do

36:21

they want

36:24

to Institute

36:24

a kind of moderate centrist policy, or do they

36:26

wanna move far to the left? They don't care. They've

36:28

held both points of view. Do they wanna be

36:30

hawks or doves? Do they wanna be this that

36:32

you go to they don't they've held

36:35

every position on every single issue. They are

36:37

not conviction politicians. They just want to

36:39

be in office. And so when you

36:41

don't believe anything,

36:44

it it can you

36:46

can last for a while. You can kind of

36:48

last in the background for a while, but it

36:52

it very very difficult for you when the

36:54

going gets tough because you

36:56

you really are rutterless. You have nowhere

36:58

to go. And so now Joe

37:00

Biden and Kamala Harris would do anything. They they

37:02

don't care. They wake up in the morning. They lick their finger. They

37:04

figure out which way the wind is blowing. But they just

37:06

they because they have no beliefs, a no vision

37:08

for the country. They they're just stumbling

37:10

around and you're seeing that reflected

37:12

in their poll numbers. and

37:15

what the American people want is

37:18

clarity. Okay? No one wants a

37:20

flatter or

37:22

a pander. in office. Okay? That flattery

37:24

and handring, it's very

37:26

offensive. Okay? And it's why they it's why

37:28

they don't understand. Wait a

37:30

second. Rhonda Santas has been tough on

37:32

certain Hispanic immigrants. Why do the Hispanic

37:34

voters like him? because he's he talks

37:36

straight and he says, this is what I believe, and here's

37:38

why I believe what I believe. And here, I'm gonna give you an

37:40

argument for I'm gonna stand by the facts and facts are gonna true

37:42

six months from now when the Democrats are trying to

37:44

rewrite all of history and run away. I'm

37:46

gonna be standing

37:48

by what I believe,

37:50

and and people respect

37:52

that. The voters are a lot smarter

37:54

than the Democrats have given them credit for.

37:56

People just wanna

37:58

be respected they want a clear vision and they want some courage. Right now, the Democrats are

37:59

failing on all of those fronts.

38:01

You know, I absolutely

38:04

love this new three part series.

38:07

from Jordan Peterson on DailyWire. It's

38:09

called on marriage. Okay?

38:12

I I think every single day, I

38:14

am truly,

38:16

truly to have my wonderful wife and my kids.

38:18

And it's so important his marriage is the

38:20

fundamental political institution with

38:22

marriage rates at an all

38:24

time low in the United States and a birthright that

38:26

is continuing to fall. Everyone needs to

38:28

watch this show. I think

38:30

this is one of, if not the most pressing

38:32

issue in the country, and I've been talking about it

38:34

for years. And some people have said,

38:36

Michael, you're crazy. You're radical.

38:38

Why are you talking about birth rates and marriage rates

38:40

get up? And well, now people are starting to realize,

38:42

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40:15

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40:18

some people who want to prevent the collapse of

40:20

society. They they're not going about it the right way.

40:23

They're going about it in a kind of, I

40:25

think, self undermining sort of

40:27

way. This would be this strange

40:29

epidemic we're seeing of climate activists

40:33

throwing liquids

40:34

and colorful substances

40:38

on

40:38

art and architecture, specifically in

40:41

London. So, you know, a week

40:43

or so ago, there were those

40:45

crazy climate activists who walked

40:47

in and threw soup on Van Gogh

40:50

painting that I then showed up

40:52

a day or two later, I walked up with a

40:54

spoon. I thought I could get some soup there,

40:56

but they'd Luckily, there was glass and he cleaned off all of the soup.

40:58

Now, this crazy climate activist

41:00

is going to a conservative think tank

41:02

house in

41:04

London. and he just started spraying it with orange

41:06

paint. And this all

41:08

apparently to stop oil. You were seeing

41:10

that this is the phrase now that it's

41:13

been cropping up. in a lot

41:16

of these climate protests, stop oil.

41:18

And my first thought when I saw

41:20

this active protest

41:22

is

41:24

Does that man know

41:25

what paint is made

41:28

from? Because if you if you

41:30

wanna stop

41:32

oil,

41:33

I I don't know that you

41:35

would use an oil based paint, at

41:38

least when the

41:40

when the two young women

41:42

were throwing the soup on Van Gogh. I

41:44

thought, well, you know, the painting is

41:46

made of oil paints. I don't

41:48

think that Van Gogh paintings are the number

41:50

one contributor to climate

41:52

change or anything like that. But at least there's

41:54

a little bit of

41:56

logic there may be or it's a

41:58

sort of facade or semblance of

41:59

logic, but all

42:02

I

42:02

see with these with these protests

42:04

allegedly to save the world

42:07

the destruction is destruction. That's

42:09

all these guys do. They just

42:11

destroy things. That's all

42:14

you're seeing in the left

42:16

do now. the left,

42:18

destroying art,

42:20

destroying marriage, destroying

42:22

education. destroying

42:25

wonderful entertainment in IP. I mean,

42:27

they've destroyed Disney. Now we

42:29

can't show our kids Disney

42:32

plus. I think we all canceled. I can certainly cancel

42:34

my subscription. I can't show my kids

42:36

recent Disney movies. Maybe I'll go find some

42:38

of the older ones online, the good ones.

42:41

But even then, I don't

42:44

know. The left is just going in.

42:46

And instead of

42:46

building their own things, they've just kind

42:49

of destroyed all of our things. Why

42:51

is it that these Leftists

42:54

are so intertwined with ugliness. I'm

42:56

not even saying that they're naturally physically ugly. In

42:59

fact, I know

43:00

good looking people. many

43:03

such cases of good looking people who as

43:05

they've gotten more and more into

43:07

Leftism,

43:07

they've made themselves

43:10

much uglier in their

43:11

clothing, in the way they treat their bodies, in the way they mutilate themselves, in

43:13

their general demeanor, or they do it. And I've

43:15

seen people who have been crazy

43:18

Leftists who as they become

43:20

more conservative, they they actually become more

43:21

beautiful and their environment becomes

43:24

more beautiful and they

43:24

treat their body more beautifully and their

43:28

rooms and the way they present themselves because obviously there's

43:31

a relation between truth, goodness,

43:33

and beauty, the transcendentals. And

43:36

it's just a

43:37

good rule of thumb where you see

43:39

someone pushing ugliness, they're gonna

43:41

be pushing very

43:44

likely wickedness

43:44

and falsehood too. These

43:47

things all go

43:48

together. And

43:51

and that's

43:53

that if

43:54

we wanna have a good society, it's not enough to take this kind of reductionist

43:56

point of view of. Well, we're just gonna defend

43:58

a few laws and then you leave me alone and

44:00

I'll leave you alone or I'll gonna do whatever

44:03

we want don't yuck my yawm and that no. That's

44:05

not gonna happen. You want

44:07

the basic state craft from the time of

44:09

those old ancient Greeks

44:11

until modernity and all the way up into the future because

44:13

this is just a fact of

44:16

politics. Politics at its

44:18

core is do good and avoid evil.

44:20

If you wanna have a good country, then you gotta

44:22

you gotta get

44:23

more good stuff going on and you

44:25

gotta avoid the bad

44:28

stuff. And

44:28

and I don't

44:29

care how many degrees you've got in political science and you

44:31

think you've come up with a way to avoid

44:33

that basic rule of politics. It's not

44:36

going to work. And now we are getting a little bit

44:38

more good stuff. when it

44:40

comes to our

44:41

political order right now. There was

44:43

there

44:43

was a big win. I I hope it

44:45

will be a big win that happened

44:47

yesterday. Elon Musk officially

44:49

became the chief Twitter,

44:52

and

44:52

he he did so by

44:54

walking into Twitter headquarters. He

44:56

was actually carrying a sync It's

44:59

kind of a strange video. Obviously, being filmed, he's just

45:01

carrying

45:01

a sink, obviously disconnected from the wall. And

45:03

he smiles at the camera and puts it down on the couch

45:05

and he said,

45:08

He tweeted that he goes,

45:10

entering Twitter HQ. Let that sink in. So

45:15

And and then he says he changed his bias to say chief

45:18

Twitter. So this

45:20

gives me a lot of hope because

45:22

he's the man is certainly not

45:24

self serious. He makes jokes. He thinks takes things lightly. That's what Chesterton

45:26

said about the angels. He said the

45:28

angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

45:32

And

45:33

he says he's gonna make Twitter a

45:34

little bit free or he's not gonna he's not saying

45:36

it's gonna be the complete wild west and you can

45:38

put whatever you want on Twitter be saying, we're

45:40

gonna open

45:42

up speech again on Twitter. It's gotta be an important tool

45:45

for communication.

45:45

And this is

45:48

this has the potential

45:50

to be a more important political

45:52

development than pretty much anything

45:54

we've seen during the Biden administration.

45:56

The reason

45:57

for that is the Bird app is not just a

45:59

a

45:59

worthless time suck that we're

46:00

all gonna have to answer for when we make it

46:03

to St. Peter's Gate. It might also

46:06

be that. but Twitter and sort along

46:08

with the senior

46:08

partners in Big Tech, Google and

46:11

Facebook, are the public

46:14

square. And because we are at least in principle a self governing republic,

46:16

that means that they are the political order.

46:18

If you can be excluded from the public

46:22

square, then

46:22

you cannot really participate in our government. So

46:25

your place in our self

46:26

government doesn't really exist. And if

46:29

that happens to an entire

46:33

political party. If that

46:35

happens to the biggest voices in a political party,

46:37

then that means that half the country

46:39

is essentially. being booted from public square and it

46:41

completely undermines

46:42

self government. This could

46:45

be a big development. Now

46:47

Elon Musk is not I

46:49

don't

46:49

think he's some rock conservative. And it actually tells

46:51

you a lot, I I

46:52

think about a lot of the poll

46:55

movements we're seeing today. Elon

46:58

Musk just kind of gets what time it is. Elon Musk,

47:01

like so many Americans, is

47:03

not a guy who

47:05

probably showed up to the tea party

47:07

rallies ten years ago and the and wore the maga hat all the time and, you

47:10

know, studied Edmund Burke in school. Maybe he did,

47:12

maybe he didn't. I don't think

47:14

so though. I don't think he was

47:16

a debate club kid wearing a bow tie,

47:18

you know, practicing his horizons

47:20

on classical conservative philosophy.

47:22

Think he's kind of quirky, interesting guy who works in

47:24

a completely unrelated field

47:26

to the professional exercise of politics. And

47:28

he just looked around and he said,

47:31

whatever ruling class is running the country right now, they're screwing

47:34

up, something has gone really, really wrong, and I'm not

47:36

part of that. I'm part I'm just I'm out

47:38

of that. I'm with whatever is

47:40

not that. You've seen Tulsi Gabbard do this. You've seen huge swaths of

47:42

Hispanic voters in particular do this. You're seeing

47:44

a huge group of center

47:46

people and center left and undecided do this

47:48

right now.

47:50

breaking in the polls. Now, will our

47:52

benevolent betters, you

47:53

know, will our

47:56

ruling class be

47:58

able to hold on to their

47:59

grasp of power. Despite this

48:02

popular movement, that remains to be seen. But the

48:04

signs are all very, very good

48:06

looking toward election day.

48:08

Now, today, today was supposed to be a

48:10

very special day where I almost killed my friend

48:12

and colleague, Jake Crane, we're pushing

48:14

that to tomorrow. We're switching

48:16

tomorrow, which is fake headline Friday to

48:18

today because listen, we live in Biden's

48:20

America, up is down, and left is right, and

48:22

black is white,

48:24

and so Everything's crazy.

48:26

You've got to stay tuned. I need your

48:28

help to figure out which

48:30

the fake headline is because

48:32

the new cycle is so so crazy.

48:34

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