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July 29, 2020 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 588 - It’s Always Sunny On Capitol Hill

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Eric Swalwell characteristically blew a lot of hot air on Capitol Hill yesterday.
And that's all well and good.
That's just sort of what he does every day.
Unfortunately, though, for Mr.
Swalwell and all of his Democrat colleagues, he was doing this in the face of Bill Barr, and it didn't go very well for him.
Now, Mr.
Barr, are you investigating Donald Trump for commuting the prison sentence of his longtime friend and political advisor, Roger Stone?
No.
Why not?
Why should I? Well, let's talk about that.
He wasn't ready for a simple question.
Why should I do the thing you're asking me to do?
Okay, well, yeah, okay, yeah, let's, okay, we can talk about that.
We can talk, we will talk about that because Bill Barr, the honey badger, just absolutely knocked down every Democrat on Capitol Hill yesterday like he's just a human bowling ball going down the lane.
We will get into all of it.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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Welcome back to the show.
Bill Barr went to Capitol Hill.
Coincidentally, I actually was with the attorney general Barr when he accepted this invitation.
So you remember I went to DC with Senator Cruz and we did this episode of the verdict podcast there at the DOJ with attorney general Barr.
And that like, as I get to the room, as Bill Barr gets to the room, the news breaks that he's going to accept the Democrats invitation to testify in Capitol Hill.
I have been waiting for many weeks for this to happen because I knew it was going to be absolutely hilarious and it did not disappoint.
So my favorite of the interrogators was Eric Swalwell because you're Eric Swalwell, I'm Eric.
Well, we're all Eric Swalwell, as you remember from his presidential campaign.
It went from bad to worse for Mr.
Swalwell.
Here's just a little snippet of the interactions between Congressman Swalwell and the Attorney General.
I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings.
I'm well-educated, well-versed.
I know that situations like this, real estate-wise, they're very complex.
Actually, they're pretty simple.
The forms are all standard, boilerplate.
Okay, well, we're all hungry.
We're gonna get to our hot plate soon enough, all right?
But let's talk about the contract here.
Sorry, I forgot.
Where did you go to law school again?
Ah, well, I could ask you that very same question.
I went to Harvard.
How about you?
Where...
I'm pleading the fifth, sir.
I'd advise that you do that.
And I'll take that advice into cooperation, all right?
Now, let's say you and I go toe-to-toe on bird law and see who comes out the victim.
You know, I don't think I'm going to do anything close to that, and I can see clearly you know nothing about the law.
It seems like you have a tenuous grasp on the English language in general.
Okay, well, filibuster.
I'm sorry.
That was not the clip of Eric Swalwell and Bill Barr.
That was from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
It couldn't have been the clip between Swalwell and Barr because Charlie Day was much, much more articulate and was making much, much more sense than Eric Swalwell was yesterday.
Frankly, I wish we could just play the entire interaction.
There, unfortunately, is not enough time.
Just a little snippet to give you the idea of the difference here, not just in IQ, but difference in seriousness of purpose.
You don't read the president's tweets?
No.
Well, there's a lot of evidence in the president's tweets, Mr.
Attorney General.
I think you should start reading them because he said Mr.
Stone showed guts.
But on July 10 of this year, Roger Stone declared to a reporter, I had 29 or 30 conversations with Trump during the campaign period.
Trump knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him.
It would have eased my situation considerably, but I didn't.
The prosecutors wanted me to play Judas.
I refused.
Are you familiar with that Stone statement?
Actually, I'm not.
So how can you sit here and tell us why should I investigate the President of the United States if you're not even aware of the facts concerning the President using the pardon or commutation power to swap the silence of a witness?
Because we require, you know, a reliable predicate before we open a criminal investigation.
And I just gave to you...
I don't consider it.
I consider it a very Rube Goldberg theory that you have.
Well, it sounds like you're hearing this...
And by the way, if I applied this standard, there would be a lot more people under investigation.
Absolutely devastating.
Because Swalwell gives his whole great oration.
And Barr is looking at him like, what mistakes have I made in life that have led me to have to sit in this chair and listen to all of you people, you vacuous imbeciles, you Democrats of Capitol Hill.
And he's sitting there and he lets Eric Swalwell finish.
And Swalwell says, so why haven't you investigated the president?
Because...
We need a reliable predicate to investigate.
Congressman Swalwell, do you know what an investigation is?
A filibuster.
Filibuster.
I don't think that Eric Swalwell knows very much of what he's talking about.
And then there's a zinger at the end.
And if you watch the clip, you can see the Attorney General's eyes dart to the other members of the panel.
He said, if we were going to take that flimsy standard as the basis for investigations, then a lot more of you people would be under investigation.
And that more or less ends anything even resembling substance in the exchange.
And frankly, I've got to give Eric Swalwell credit because at least Eric Swalwell let the attorney general speak at the hearing that he was called to so that the Democrats could hear him that, uh, uh, Unfortunately, the other members of Congress did not seem to understand that, which we will get to in just one moment.
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His colleagues, not so much.
Greg Price, over at the Daily Caller, put together just a very brief clip of some of the Democrats cutting off Bill Barber.
That's what they would do.
They'd give their orations that were supposed to be questions for the Attorney General.
And then, at the end, they wouldn't even let the guy answer.
They would just say, okay, you know, don't say that.
I don't like what you're starting to say.
I'm reclaiming my time.
Reclaiming my time.
In April...
Times is when does something actually become...
Reclaiming my time.
I'm psyched.
This is not a trick question.
In this country...
I'm reclaiming my time, Mr.
General.
Without any remedy at all.
I'm reclaiming my time.
Let me share with you.
You've got to let him answer.
Reclaiming my time.
Corrected.
Reclaiming my time, sir.
Reclaiming my time.
Reclaiming my time, Mr.
General.
Reclaiming my time.
Reclaiming my time, Mr.
Barr.
I'm pleased to know that the Democrats of Capitol Hill at least know and can pronounce three words.
I don't know that their vocabulary and their intellect goes much further than that, but they at least can say, reclaiming my time.
Those are the three words that they can say.
And they can't hear very much either.
The reason they can't hear very much is an issue that plays in not just to these Democrats on Capitol Hill, but into a broader culture, which is that we are living in echo chambers.
And if you're on the left, you never even hear the arguments that the right is making.
So it's no surprise that these Democrat congressmen don't want to let the attorney general speak.
They won't let him speak because they are utterly unprepared for what he has to say.
They are utterly unprepared to answer what he has to say.
And they don't care what he has to say.
It doesn't matter.
It's not going to affect the way that the left, which controls every major institution of power, is going to march on and on and on.
At a certain point, Bill Barr joked about this to the members there.
He said, hold on a second.
Who's doing the hearing?
Who's doing the talking?
Who's doing the hearing?
It is not a self-defining term as they...
Only got two minutes, sir.
...that they recognized...
Mr.
Barr, if I... Yeah, but this is a hearing.
I thought I was the one that was supposed to be heard.
Well, let me...
And I'm gonna get there.
Well, you thought wrong, Mr.
Attorney General.
This...
The purpose of this entire hearing is so that Democrats can get little clips for their re-election campaigns where they're scolding the Attorney General and they're going to cut that up and take that back home and put it on television or put it on the internet.
And it is, as always the left does.
You know, the left always projects, so whatever they're doing, they're going to accuse their opponents of doing.
Jerry Nadler, who is chairing this whole circus, comes out and he accuses Bill Barr of participating in campaigning here by trying to get little video clips for the president's re-election.
The president wants footage for his campaign ads, and you appear to be serving it up to him as ordered.
What are you talking about?
Jerry, you're the one doing it.
The whole purpose of this hearing that you invited Bill Barr to is so that you all can get footage for your re-election campaigns.
And yet he's accusing the president of doing the opposite thing.
The only thing we learned yesterday, and it wasn't something new, I guess we were just reminded of it, is that congressmen, and I should limit this to the Democrats because the Republicans actually performed very well yesterday, but these Democrat congressmen who wouldn't even let their guests speak are vacuous imbeciles.
But it's not just their fault.
We live in a sort of vacuous culture.
A vapid culture.
We all participate in it.
Every last one of us.
I saw this yesterday.
I don't know if you've been following on Instagram.
There's this trend that has taken over Instagram.
Many of my dearest friends are doing it, so I don't want to poke too sharp fun here.
Women are...
Are taking hot black and white selfies of themselves.
I guess most selfies are of yourself.
They're taking these selfie photos and then they're uploading it to Instagram and they're saying, challenge accepted.
And so all the women on Instagram are doing this.
And I thought, oh, it's another one of these social media challenge things.
Okay, what's the challenge?
And so I'm looking and I found out the challenge is to upload a hot selfie.
That's not part of the challenge or the medium of the challenge.
That's the whole challenge.
It's to get women on an app that exists solely for women to put up hot pictures of themselves.
The challenge is for women to put up hot pictures of themselves.
There's not even a nominal social justice tie-in.
Most of these challenges, there's at least a little hook.
It's like, yeah, upload a hot selfie, and then you'll cure a disease.
You know, upload a hot selfie to stop polio.
And you're like, well, I don't really see the connection between those two things, but at least...
But this one, it's not even that.
It's just vanity.
That's all it is.
It's just women uploading photos of themselves and saying, I'm beautiful, I'm strong, and I nominate.
And then you name all these other women that you also suggest should upload hot photos of themselves.
And then the other women, they post the photos and they say, thank you for nominating me.
Thank you for challenging.
I feel so challenged.
So anyway, the other night I put up one of myself and I don't know, frankly, I thought it was one of the more scintillating, challenging things I've ever done.
I feel really lifted up and empowered.
Also, is it empowering to upload a hot selfie for other people to gawk over?
Is that...
That is many things, but I'm not convinced that that is empowering.
What's funny now, they're trying to add a kind of social justice element to it.
So all these women are uploading the photos just for themselves.
Just to say, like, I'm beautiful.
You're strong.
You go, girl.
We don't need anybody's attention.
Also, look at my hot pictures.
So that's the thing that everyone's doing now.
Then some women in Turkey got upset.
Because apparently a few weeks ago there was a campaign in Turkey to upload black and white photos to stop women from...
Being killed, or something to that effect, has nothing to do with what the women in America are doing.
And they're getting angry because they feel like it's being taken over.
And this reminds me of the Black Square.
You remember all these mostly white liberals were uploading the Black Squares during Black Lives Matter, and they were doing it to stand in solidarity with BLM, and then the BLM people got angry because it was messing up their hashtag or something, right?
You can't win for losing, first of all.
And especially in the case of the black and white photo, what's the point?
The point is vanity.
And we all do it.
I'm not even exempting myself.
I mean, I don't do it when it comes to posting hot selfies, but we all do it in some ways.
We all indulge this vanity in this culture.
That's what that whole hearing was yesterday.
That's what much of our public policy is right now, is the indulgence of vanity.
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In this crazy culture with all these vacuous congressmen, Bill Barr comes, he tries to speak a little common sense.
And it's some common sense that we've been trying to say on this show, and I know conservatives have been saying to the left now for weeks.
It is not acceptable to burn down the country.
I can't believe that needs to be said.
It is not acceptable to burn the country down.
To use a specific example, it's not acceptable to burn down a federal courthouse The Democrats are shocked to hear it.
That's right, Congressman.
There are sort of distinct missions.
One mission is to enforce federal law.
And by the way, the federal government is the sovereign of the United States.
We have two sovereigns here in the United States, and we enforce the federal law all over the country.
Every square foot of the country, we enforce federal law.
The other is protecting federal property, and specifically U.S. courthouses, which are the heart of federal property in all 93 jurisdictions in the United States.
And we have the obligation to protect federal courts, and the U.S. Marshals specifically have been given that obligation.
Federal courts are under attack.
Since when is it okay to try to burn down a federal court?
If someone went down the street to the Prettyman Court here, that beautiful courthouse we have right at the bottom of the hill, and started breaking windows and firing industrial-grade fireworks in to start a fire, throw kerosene balloons in and start fires in the court, is that okay?
Is that okay now?
No, the U.S. Marshals have a duty to stop that and defend the courthouse, and that's what we are doing in Portland.
This was the moment, probably more than any other in the hearing, where Barr becomes visibly and audibly exasperated.
Who are you people?
You're defending burning down federal courthouses.
What is wrong with you people?
And do you think it made an impact?
Do you think what he said persuaded them, even penetrated those very, very thick skulls that they have?
No, not at all.
Not at all.
They are still calling to defund the police.
They're still calling to defund military recruitment.
We talked about that yesterday.
They want to defund the apparatus of law enforcement.
Why?
Because they want to defund our law.
They don't want us to have a country of laws.
They want us to have a country run by the ever-changing whims of the left.
Now, in this climate, is it any surprise that 100 police agencies have just pulled out of the DNC? The Democratic National Convention, such as it is, it's going to be a pared-down one, they don't have any protection.
They don't have any protection now because the cops don't want to protect them.
And I've got to tell you, I'm with the cops.
I'm with the cops here.
You know, I think one reaction to this, to finding out that none of these police agencies want to protect the DNC, one reaction is, well, they signed up, they've got to do their job, they've got to protect people even if they don't like those people.
That's not the point.
It's not just we have a disagreement on this policy or that policy.
It's that the DNC is actively trying to dismantle the police.
They are openly saying this.
At the most mainstream high level, they want to dismantle the law enforcement apparatus of this country.
You cannot ask law enforcement to participate in its own destruction.
Not even just because it will be detrimental to them, but because that would be detrimental to the entire country, to our entire system of government, and to our entire system of law and order.
You would never ask someone to participate in their own destruction, but that's what would happen if these police agencies were to protect the DNC. And on a very tangible level, The Democrats have basically said if cops ever use force, we're going to arrest them and ruin their lives.
You can't ask a guy to go into that position.
It's not like cops get paid a ton of money, right?
It's not as though you say, well, look, it's a tough job, but at least they make a ton of money, and so therefore we ask a lot of them.
They don't.
It's service.
They make a relatively modest salary, and they take on a dangerous job, and they do it because it is a noble calling to protect people and to enforce the law.
Well, if you're going to, if you're going to punish them in some cases, you know, you charge them with murder just for doing their job.
Why would they do it?
You can only push a man so far.
You know, the, the line between courage and recklessness is a little bit blurry sometimes, but for a cop to go out there when he knows that the people that he's going out to protect are actively trying to ruin his life and maybe throw him in jail or worse or worse.
that's pure recklessness You can't ask a guy to do that.
And so they're pulling out of the DNC. I think it makes total sense that they are.
This was announced first by Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales.
Or rather, Alfonso Morales was the one who was ordered last month to change the department's policies to basically not let them do their jobs.
And so then all in conjunction it's been announced by these 100 law enforcement agencies.
Absolutely makes sense.
And lest you think that Republicans are trying to undermine the rule of law here, I don't think you would ever fall into that trap, but the mainstream media are trying to push that idea on you.
We've got a story that I think the mainstream media are not reporting on.
Every time a right-winger, so much as flicks the shoulder of a left-winger, every time a right-winger walks up and kind of smacks a guy in the face or something, that's a national news story.
How about when left-wingers drive their automobiles through a crowd of conservatives?
Does that make the news?
Hear about that story?
Probably you didn't.
We'll get to that in one second.
Then we will get to the broader issue here of not, not just silencing the attorney general at a hearing, but silencing very important, relevant information during a pandemic to serve political purposes.
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On July 25th, not that long ago, at approximately 3.38 p.m., in Eaton, Colorado, the Eaton PD responded to a report of a man traveling in a maroon SUV trying to drive through and over a crowd of pedestrians.
Those pedestrians.
So usually when you hear that headline, you find out, oh, it's going to be a right-winger, probably a white supremacist, driving through liberals, and then you find out the driver is not a conservative or a white guy, and then the narrative kind of goes away.
Well, in this case, they weren't driving into...
We know the identity of the crowd he was driving into.
They were driving into a Blue Lives Matter conservative crowd, and...
Fortunately, liberals don't know how to drive very well.
So, as far as I can tell, nobody was injured.
That may have changed, but fortunately, the motor skills of left-wingers, not great.
So, that's one thing we can hang our hats on.
Still, this guy should absolutely be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
This is an event run by the Northern Colorado Young Republicans.
These are acts of explicit political violence by the left.
We've seen a lot of these acts in recent years.
Going back to the congressional baseball game, remember when that Bernie bro tried to shoot up and murder many congressmen at that congressional baseball game?
You see this time and time again for explicitly political reasons.
I asked yesterday on this show, is this just the new normal?
You know, we talk about the new normal with COVID, like you gotta wear the stupid masks and you got whatever.
I think the new normal might be political violence.
There is a normalization going on of political violence, and it's political violence specifically when you contradict the left.
I mean, in this case, it's real violent that you're driving a car into a crowd.
At the congressional baseball game, you're shooting people.
But there's a subtler form of violence, which is you just destroy somebody's life if they contradict the left.
You ostracize them from society.
That is being undertaken right now by the left, but it's not the politicians.
It's big tech right now.
Big tech is now engaging in the spookiest kind of election interference that we have seen in a very long time.
Maybe ever.
Just recently uncovered from some of the top people at Google, explaining four years ago exactly what they were going to do.
Now we're seeing their project come to fruition.
They don't want you to see that either.
They're censoring a lot of videos on the internet.
I hope they don't take this one down.
They probably will, and we'll have to get it out elsewhere, which is why, by the way, we appreciate it that you've subscribed to the Michael Knowles Show YouTube channel.
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So you saw yesterday, maybe you listened, we played this video of these doctors in white maybe you listened, we played this video of these doctors in white lab coats down there in Washington, giving a press conference about how hydroxychloroquine is effective at treating the coronavirus, which we've known for a very
There's been tons of evidence about this, and we've had that drug hydroxychloroquine for years and years and years now.
Then there was a study that went up that said that hydroxychloroquine is really bad for you.
That study was retracted.
It was total BS. Now more evidence.
We had a Yale epidemiologist come out just last week in Newsweek, say hydroxychloroquine works very well.
You can use it to treat coronavirus.
The left doesn't want that information getting out because they've already sunk so much into this.
Even beyond the kind of conspiracy theory perspective, just think about it from a very practical political perspective.
The left has put all their chips on coronavirus.
COVID is the campaign at this point, especially with the second lockdown.
They can't let that get up, even if they did find some medicine, even if hydroxychloroquine is very effective.
They can't let that up.
Businesses have already planned out their next year based on coronavirus.
They're not going to let that up.
It's frankly even the mask issue.
Remember I said early on, correctly, that the masks are a political symbol more than practical medical advice?
So that remains true.
You can see this in all the disclaimers that the people selling the masks have to put on.
Namely, that the masks don't do anything to prevent the transmission of viruses.
But I said they're very effective as a political symbol.
Some people argued for the masks because they said, well, the masks will allow us to reopen.
Do you see anything reopening?
The more masks we put on, do you think we're opening up more?
No.
We're shutting down more.
And I understand why some people would have mistakenly believed that if you wear the masks, the left will allow the government to open and the country to reopen.
But it won't.
It's actually the opposite.
The reason is that the mask is a reinforcing symbol that we have to remain locked down.
It operates on the same principle as...
When you buy merchandise, like a t-shirt or a hat or something from a political campaign that you support, a lot of people think you do that to donate money to the campaign.
Now, it's not about the money.
The campaigns don't make very much money at all.
Sometimes they lose money on the merchandise.
The reason they sell you the merchandise is to tie you to the campaign.
Because when you put on the t-shirt of the candidate, you've now taken on support for that candidate as part of your identity.
Your behavior has now shifted something in your mind to say that you will be more supportive of that candidate.
It's the same thing with the masks.
This is why even some conservatives who put on the mask, there is like no evidence that the masks do anything.
The masks stop a little bit of spittle from getting out.
But unless you're talking like Kenneth Branagh playing Hamlet, you don't need to worry about the spittle.
The reason that even some conservatives who put the mask on are now much more supportive of the masks than lockdowns is because it's reinforcing.
If you wear the mask, which is such an odd kind of piece of clothing, right?
It's an odd accessory.
It's an odd symbol.
Then you have told yourself that this is very real.
And the more you wear it, the more you're going to believe that.
The more deeply you're going to be bought into that.
And so it comes as no surprise that big tech took down that video of a lot of doctors who are echoing very mainstream medical advice of some of the most respected people in the field saying hydroxychloroquine obviously works.
They had to take it down.
So they took it down on Facebook.
They took it down on Twitter.
We had to take down part of our show yesterday because I played that video and they would not allow that up.
They are threatening to boot you off of social media if you permit these doctors to speak.
Remember, we're supposed to listen to the science?
Well, only some scientists, as I told you months ago, has nothing to do with the science, has everything to do with politics.
It's not just that.
That's not the extent of the social media censorship of scientific voices going on or any other kind of voices.
Breitbart just put this video out.
It's Breitbart exclusive.
Days after the 2016 election, you had a very high-ranking fellow over at Google.
Google VP for Global Affairs, Kent Walker, come out, address the first all-hands meeting after the 2016 election.
It featured, obviously, himself.
It featured the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai.
It featured the co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and other Google executives.
In this meeting, we'll just play a few clips of it.
You can go to Breitbart and watch the whole thing.
The VP here for Global Affairs discussed his dismay.
He discussed his disgust, frankly, at the 2016 election and specifically laid out in broad terms a plan to combat it in 2020.
It was a shock to all of us, the results of the election.
This is not the first sign we've seen of this rising tide of nationalism, populism, and concern.
While it may be that the Internet and globalization were part of the cause of this problem, We are also fundamentally an essential part of the solution to this problem.
And it's important to recognize that while the Republicans and the Trump administration, this Trump administration, they have a majority in the Senate, a majority in the House, they don't have a supermajority in the Senate.
The arc goes like this exponentially in terms of standards of living around the world.
Yes, it's not completely smooth.
It goes up and down.
And I think History teaches us that there are periods of populism, of nationalism that rise up, and that's all the reason we need to be in the arena.
That's why we have to work so hard to make sure it doesn't turn into a world war or something catastrophic, but instead is a blip, is a hiccup.
It's a blip.
It's a hiccup.
We've got to stop this nationalism.
Nationalism is a really bad thing.
We need globalism.
And that's what we here at Google exist to do, is to undermine the results of the 2016 election, undermine the decision of the American people, undermine national sovereignty.
No surprise there either.
Google is a globalized company, citizens of the world.
I don't know that Google has any particular loyalty to the United States.
They certainly don't have any particular loyalty to the American people.
And they're trying.
Frankly, on this scientist video, they're the least offenders compared to Facebook and Twitter.
But they don't want that information getting out there.
And Twitter is rigging Twitter and Facebook and Google.
They're all rigging the election as part of this same Breitbart exclusive.
They point out that Google has been purging Breitbart content from search results since the 2016 election.
They find that Breitbart's search visibility is down 99.7% since 2016.
That's the survival rate of coronavirus, by the way, at least.
Well, that's how much Breitbart has been suppressed since 2016.
Google killed basically all search traffic to Breitbart for Joe Biden and Joe Biden-related searches.
They are trying, as they told us they would do four years ago, they are trying to shift the election back To the globalist candidate, the candidate who cheered the rise of China very recently.
Joe Biden said it's a wonderful thing that China's gotten more powerful.
We're living through the consequences of that right now.
Some people haven't learned the lesson, specifically in big tech.
We just have to listen to the experts.
Well, not the conservative experts, but only the experts who go along with the left.
And if you contradict them, by the way, they'll say, well, what's your credential?
Are you an expert?
Do you have a PhD?
Do you have an MD? Where's your credential?
Bill Barr, going back to Bill Barr, Bill Barr in that hearing yesterday had such a wonderful rejoinder, we should memorize it, we should remember to say it.
A Democratic representative, Mary Gay Scanlon, asked Bill Barr about his expertise, if he had a scientific study to cite.
Bill Barr said he had something much more important.
Last month you echoed the president's conspiracy theory when you suggested in at least three interviews that, quote, foreign countries could manufacture counterfeit ballots, end quote, to influence the presidential election, correct?
You did that in at least three interviews?
Yes.
Okay.
But in fact you have no evidence that foreign countries can successfully sway our elections with counterfeit ballots, do you?
No, I don't, but I have common sense.
Okay.
Well, and that's what you responded when you were directly challenged on that.
Yes, that is what he responded.
Maybe you should have listened to that, Representative.
He does have common sense, something sorely lacking on Capitol Hill and among the liberal establishment generally.
They don't have common sense because they're disconnected from reality.
They have their ideology.
They have their fantasies that they write down in manifestos that in no way describe the real world.
They've got that.
And that's the precise reason that they don't have common sense.
And it's why people who don't have fancy degrees and PhDs and all sorts of credentials, that's why they do have common sense and it's why those people tend to be more correct in the long run than those ideologues.
It reminds me of Bill Buckley's old advice.
He said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the phone book than by the faculty of Harvard College.
Remember that?
That's the idea that we have here.
That's the idea of giving sovereignty to we the people in the United States.
Something the left is now explicitly denouncing.
This is a scandal.
What's going on in big tech is a scandal.
That hearing on Capitol Hill was a scandal.
What they tried to do in 2016 to rig the election was a scandal.
Remember when Obama weaponized his, his agencies of government to illegally spy on the Trump campaign?
We've got, we've got reams and reams of evidence about this.
The left barely denies it anymore.
What they do is the same thing they do every time.
They say, oh, that's old news.
Oh, forget about that.
That was a long time ago.
Stop talking about that.
And then they put it down the memory hole because they control the flow of information.
Valerie Jarrett, top, top, tippy-top advisor to Barack Obama, went on Maria Bartiromo's show yesterday and gave the standard leftist line.
Maria, look.
I have a very high degree of confidence that our intelligence community, our investigators, comported themselves responsibly.
Look, Lindsey Graham is the one that encouraged Senator McCain to turn over the dossier in the first place to the FBI. And so I can't tell you all of the reasons why Comey went forward with his investigation.
Maybe this was one piece of a bigger puzzle.
But I do know that it's nearly four years ago, and I don't understand Why our focus isn't on what's happening right now and today.
That's the investigation I'd like to see going on.
This was four years ago.
It's old news.
The Clintons are...
I'm so excited my voice is like jumping up and down.
The Clintons are most famous for using this strategy.
They did it all throughout the 90s.
They'd say, you know, I did not have sex with that woman.
I didn't do it.
And then you find out a year later he did do it.
And he goes, well, look, that's old news now.
Why are we talking about?
It was a long time ago.
Come on now.
Let's move on.
Got to get on with the business of the country.
And so the Clintons perfect this and the left continues to use it.
More than 20 years later.
That's old news.
Yeah, we just found out about it, though.
We now have proof there's a criminal investigation going on led by John Durham.
What do you mean we've got to stop talking about this?
We're in the midst of a presidential election and you people are trying to do it again, albeit through other means.
That's what's going on.
You feel like you're Bill Barr.
You feel like you're living in this clown world.
Looking around you saying, are you, Eric Swalwell, are you a real person?
Valerie Jarrett, are you seriously saying this with your, Google, are you really, are you really saying these things?
That is the effect of ideology.
That's the effect of mass hysteria.
Do you really think a virus with at least a 99.7% survival rate is worth not leaving your home for five months?
And do you really think, by the way, if we have a treatment that is effective at treating it, that we should suppress that information?
What kind of bizarro, delusional fantasy world do you have to live in to believe that?
You have to live in the bizarro, delusional fantasy world of the left.
Greatest example of this?
The teachers' unions.
The teachers' unions.
You thought that the black and white selfie thing on Instagram was ridiculous?
At least that one's kind of funny.
At least we all get a kick out of this.
The teachers' unions, it's just sad.
Teachers unions in D.C. right now, they are lining up body bags outside of school system offices to protest having to come do their jobs.
Because they're saying if teachers have to show up and teach students, then they're all going to die.
It's going to be a slaughter of teachers.
By the way, there are studies out of Sweden and Finland right now where schools have been opened over whether the virus is even being transmitted in the schools.
No evidence that it is.
No evidence.
Zero.
Bupkis.
Nothing.
But these hysterical, frivolous, ridiculous teachers in D.C. are pretending that it is.
The teachers are saying, no, we can't go in.
We're the heroes.
You can't make us come in and do our jobs.
That's how powerful, you know, teachers unions have been powerful for a very long time.
Now we're seeing them flex that muscle.
One thing I also want to point out to you, This is the exact same narrative from the first wave of the virus.
Except for the first wave of the virus, it was the nurses that were the heroes, the martyrs, the most wonderful, they shouldn't be expected to do their jobs.
You got to stay home for the nurses.
And then the nurses started sending out pictures and videos about how the hospitals were largely empty and we never got close to overwhelming capacity.
And then some nurses started posting TikTok videos of them dancing in the empty hallways.
And we thought, okay, well, yikes, okay, the left can't use those nurses anymore as the emblem of why you need to stay home and imprison yourself in your house.
So then it shifted to the teachers.
But it's the same narrative.
It's the same idolization of these people.
It's the same.
No one has ever sacrificed more than these people sacrifice.
Mark my words, in two weeks, we're going to get some teacher TikTok videos, and then we're going to have to move on to another victim group.
Preposterous.
You know how preposterous it is?
The schools are not reopening in a great many places.
So the kids are not allowed to go to school We're good to go.
So, the YMCA of Austin has extended its summertime essential programming to children, some children who are teenagers, so that they can go to daycare and do their schoolwork, their virtual schoolwork online.
Do you know where the YMCA of Austin is doing this sort of thing?
In the school building!
I feel like Bill Barr.
So, the kids are...
Oh, let me see if I can process this.
The kids are going to the school building, but they are not allowed to be in school, but they are doing their schoolwork in the school building.
It's always sunny in Washington, D.C. It's always sunny in the U.S.A. That's the world we're living in, folks.
Upside-down, bizarro world.
Are we going to tolerate it, or are we going to try to restore some sense of order?
It's all about November.
Let's see who comes out ahead.
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