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Sept. 23, 2020 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 616 - My Man Mitt

Romney vows not to block Trump’s SCOTUS pick, Trump makes the most serious recognition of national rot since the 1850s, and the MSM get caught in a major lie about Supreme Court frontrunner Amy Coney Barrett. If you like The Michael Knowles Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: KNOWLES and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/knowles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You know I have criticized Mitt Romney in the past.
In 2012, I campaigned for not one but two of his competitors.
In 2016, I ignored all his stupid warnings about Trump.
Since that time, I have regularly lambasted him for holding up good, important Republican policy priorities.
But...
It would seem as though Mitt Romney is coming around.
He has just announced that he will not hold up President Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
The decision to proceed now with the President Trump's nominee is also consistent with history.
I came down on the side of the Constitution and precedent as I've studied it and make the decision on that basis.
Very good news.
We're all excited.
He's right that the precedent is on the side of Trump, that the Constitution is on the side of Trump.
I think it's 19 times in U.S. history we've been in this situation where a president during election year has to fill a Supreme Court vacancy.
And he's got the White House and he's got the Senate.
And 17 out of those 19 times, We're all excited.
The nominee has gone through.
I believe it's two out of ten times when either party has either the Senate or the White House, but not both, and there's a Supreme Court vacancy during the fourth year of a presidential administration.
Only two out of ten times has that nominee gone through.
Majority of those times, nominee hasn't gone through.
So Mitt Romney's looking at precedent, he's looking at the Constitution, he's saying, okay, this is the right thing to do.
But What's even more interesting than that kind of base-level analysis and what he's actually doing is his further reasoning for why we need a Supreme Court nominee.
I think it's straightforward in terms of the qualifications you look for, which is someone who is an expert of the law, someone who has a record of fairness and judgment that you think is consistent with the law.
I prefer choosing those folks who are, if you will, strict constructionists, meaning that they look at the law itself and the Constitution, as opposed to sort of looking into the sky and pulling out ideas that they think may be more appropriate than either the law or the Constitution.
We may have a court which has more of a conservative bent than it's had over the last few decades.
But my liberal friends have, over many decades, gotten very used to the idea of having a liberal court.
And that's not written in the stars.
And I know a lot of people are saying, gosh, we don't want that change.
I understand the energy associated with that perspective.
But it's also appropriate for a nation, which is, if you will, center-right, to have a court which reflects center-right points of view, which again are not changing the law from what it states, but instead following the law and following the Constitution.
He's still a full-throated moderate.
He hasn't become some MAGA, hat-wearing, Trumpy Republican.
He's not a populist, none of that.
What Mitt Romney is doing is making a moderate case for Trump, for Trump's priorities.
This is a big shift because what we've been hearing for the whole presidential election is Trump is extreme, he's radical.
We've heard this from even people like Mitt Romney.
But now, with the left burning down the country, with the left willing to torch our traditions and our political institutions, there is no moderate left.
There's no moderate argument to be made for the left.
Or for the Democrats.
And so the only place for a moderate like Mitt to go is for the Republicans, for Donald Trump, for this important priority right now to shift the balance of the court.
Center-right country, we need a center-right court, not a far extreme left court.
And that's the only type of leftism that's left.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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This is the Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show.
My favorite comment from yesterday is men bad, women good.
But Michael, how can they say they believe that when they also say there's no such thing as either of those?
Yes, this is very confusing because on the one hand, they'll say there's a patriarchy and men have oppressed women through all of history, but actually there's no such thing as men or women and sex is not fixed and men can become women and vice versa.
And you think, well, okay, if there's a patriarchy and horrible oppression and misogyny all around the world, And women can become men.
Well, why don't women just become men?
And then they don't have to deal with the oppression, actually.
Then they can become the oppressor class.
But, of course, they don't believe those arguments in themselves.
They don't believe that either they're men or women or that men can become women.
They only believe in power.
They believe in making whatever argument augments their power.
And so there's no objective reality that we're referring to.
It's all just a battle of interest and a battle of will.
And this argument, I mean, the men and women thing is somewhat recent, but the basis of that argument, that politics is merely about interest.
It's not about reason and argument and objective reality.
That goes back at least a couple hundred years on the left.
But we're very happy now because there are some people who have been squishy in the middle who have, you know, given in a little bit to the left, even though their premises are totally wrong, who now, because those premises have been taken to their logical conclusions, are saying, gosh, I got to go with the guys on the right.
I don't like Trump.
I don't like what he stands for, I guess, but he's the more moderate guy.
Now, we're also told at the same time No, no, no.
Forget about that.
Biden is a moderate.
Biden's been a moderate his whole career.
Hey, suburban women, vote for Joe Biden.
Don't vote for Donald Trump.
Joe Biden is now making this argument himself.
He was asked how he's going to stop socialism and the extremism of the radical left, which is torching the country.
What does he say?
He says, look, I've been a moderate my whole career.
I'm no socialist.
I defeated the socialist.
Talk to the voters that are worried about socialism and you raising taxes.
First of all, I guarantee, I promise, I've never broken my word.
Anyone making less than $400,000 will not see one single penny in their tax raised.
Number two, I beat the socialist.
That's how I got elected.
That's how I got the nomination.
Do I look like a socialist?
Look at my career, my whole career.
I am not a socialist.
He is not a socialist.
I agree with that.
I'm not going to make the argument that Joe Biden, even though he's tried to pretend to be Scranton working class, regular old Joe for most of his career, is now all of a sudden a radical Marxist or something like that.
That's not the problem.
The problem is he's so weak That the socialists and other type of extremists in the Democratic Party are actually the ones calling the shots.
It's not that Joe Biden has all of a sudden become a radical.
By the way, he's not a moderate either.
He's just an empty suit.
He doesn't believe in anything.
All he wants to do is smile and smack you on the back.
It's actually why I didn't even jump on the bandwagon of how Joe is a sexual predator because of the hair sniffing and all that sort of stuff.
I don't...
I suspect that that is actually a sort of sexual impulse of his.
I think he's just a glad-handing politician who wants to make you feel really special so you vote for him, even though he doesn't believe in anything.
He's not appealing to you on an ideological or philosophical basis.
He's only appealing to you on this personal level.
So if things go to the left, he'll go to the left.
If things go to the right, he'll go to the right, right?
He's...
Relatively moderate on abortion, I guess, for most of his career.
Now the Dems are pro-abortion, like super-duper pro-abortion, so he swings all the way in the other direction and says taxpayers should fund it.
That's Joe Biden, which way the wind blows.
There are ideologues behind him, though, and the ideologues behind him right now, the ones calling the shots, are radical, far-left There was one big endorsement he just picked up from a communist terrorist, which we'll get into in a second, because this issue of your taxes going up, this issue of your property being taken away, is a very important one.
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Angela Davis, just a couple months ago, endorsed Joe Biden.
But I thought Joe Biden's a moderate.
I thought Joe Biden wasn't a socialist.
I thought Joe Biden wasn't a radical.
Sure, okay.
But the radicals believe that Joe Biden will be very easily manipulated.
Here's Angela Davis explaining the strategy.
I don't see this election as being about choosing a candidate who will be able to lead us in the right direction.
It will be about choosing a candidate who can be most effectively pressured into allowing more space for the evolving anti-racist movement.
That's the new term they're calling it, the anti-racist movement.
But ironically, of course, the anti-racist movement is very racist, just like how, you know, they always have these misnomers.
They're always projecting things.
And we'll get to that because there's some very funny, evolving racism among the anti-racist movement and some good ways to counter it as well.
But Angela Davis, she's a very radical and very prominent and very influential left winger.
She is cited by lots of leading left wingers.
She is a professor.
And she's saying, yeah, I don't think Joe Biden is some radical, but we can manipulate him.
We can pressure him.
Obviously, we can.
The guy doesn't know which end is up.
The guy doesn't know where he is on earth half of the time.
And so you put him in, but he's not really going to be running the show.
As Joe Biden said, they're going to take Joe Biden.
They're going to put him in a home.
He's going to watch TV and then the radicals are going to be running the show.
Bob Avakian, the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Who did he endorse?
Take a guess.
Joe Biden.
And I actually went to a Bob Avakian rally to cover it.
I think there's a video of it somewhere on YouTube.
These guys are burning the American flag, talking about tearing down police stations, talking about colonial oppression.
I went to this thing maybe six, eight months ago, and at that time it was so ridiculous.
They just looked like a bunch of idiots.
Now they sound like mainstream Democrats.
And actually, as we were editing that video, I said, oh my gosh, they really are starting to sound like mainstream Democrats.
Not because they're moderating, but because the mainstream Democrats are radicalizing.
He endorsed Biden too.
Why?
For the same reason.
And you just need to listen to Joe Biden talk for two seconds to realize that this guy, even if he were a so-called moderate, is not going to be able to stand up to the radical forces in his party, on his side of the aisle.
Joe Biden was just recently waxing philosophic about the mental stress of Of the campaigns of the presidency.
And as he's trying to describe mental stress, he obviously is undergoing a lot of mental stress.
Can't quite get the words out.
We have to make sure we have more social workers and psychologists in our schools.
Look, we learned drug abuse doesn't cause mental illness.
Mental stress and mental illness cause drug abuse.
We've learned so much that we can change so much.
And that's why we have to make sure that the super wealthy start paying their fair share.
So we can do the things we have to do to make life better for hard-working middle-class folks.
So whatever type of mental stress Joe Biden is trying to fix, I think he needs to solve that in his own self first, and then he can maybe help the rest of the country with mental stress.
I don't even really know what argument he's trying to make.
He's saying drug abuse causes mental stress or mental stress causes drug abuse and you've got to stop The mental stress and you've got to, I don't know, something about taxes, I don't know.
He's kind of all over the place when he's on the campaign trail because unless he's got a teleprompter in front of him, he can't follow his own trains of thought.
I mean, even on simple things, he's trying to make some argument about, I don't know, mental health, I guess, even though he calls it mental stress.
But then even a simple statement like the Pledge of Allegiance Joe Biden tries to recite at a campaign event, can't get through it.
I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one nation, indivisible, under God, for real.
One nation, indivisible, under God, for real, you know.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the thing under the, you know, you know, the thing.
This is not, it's actually a good symbol of the Democratic Party.
Joe Biden isn't bumbling the Pledge of Allegiance because he hates his country and wants to tear down the Pledge of Allegiance.
I think he generally likes his country.
He's tearing it down because he can't keep up.
His mind is not where it should be.
The people who do want to tear down the Pledge of Allegiance, the people who don't want to recite that, the people who do want to tear this country to the ground, they are the ones who are gaining power.
How has Joe Biden performed so far?
The way he's done relatively well, at least in, say, the Democratic National Convention.
Is he reads off a teleprompter.
We know that.
I don't think we're telling any tales out of school.
Whenever he is totally on the prompter, almost whenever he's totally on the prompter, he's okay.
When he's off the prompter, you can tell that this guy can barely string a sentence together.
The trouble is, the presidency is off prompter.
The presidency, if you want to lead your presidency, if you want to lead the country, you've got to be the one writing the words.
You've got to be the one creating the priorities.
And Trump is digging very deeply into that right now.
President Trump is now focusing on something that might be the greatest national recognition of Of rot at the heart of our country in well over a century, right?
He's the one seeing what's going on.
He's the one leading.
With Joe Biden, someone else is writing his lines for him in the teleprompter, and sometimes that teleprompter breaks, not just in speeches, not just when he's doing a convention.
Apparently, they're even scripting his answers to interviews, and he can't even get through that.
There are going to be no deportations in the first hundred days of my campaign.
Let me get that right.
You are going to freeze deportations?
Freeze deportations for the first hundred days.
And only people who will be deported are people who committed a felony while here.
That's number one.
Okay, I lost that line.
Yeah, well, that's good, because we can talk to you and I on that.
Okay.
But think about.
Think about where we are today.
Did you see that?
So the first thing they do poorly in this interview is Joe Biden makes it clear when he's facing the prompter and when he's facing the questioner.
Because he's talking to the questioner, asking the questioner, then he turns to his left and he's clearly reading something off of the camera.
And then if that weren't blatant enough, I guess the prompter operator didn't get his answers up fast enough.
He goes, and number two, sorry, I can't get number two yet.
Hold on, can you get me?
Can you?
And then the interviewer tries to make up for it.
And then Biden turns back to the interviewer.
So it's clear that there's a place that he's facing when he's reading the answers, and then he turns and he faces the interviewer.
And he doesn't know number two because he doesn't know what he's running on, because he doesn't know how his administration is going to be run, because it ain't going to be run by him.
There is no moderate left anymore in effect, in practice.
You might have a couple guys writing columns who say they're...
But in the actual practice of politics and government, there is no moderate left.
Even the mainstream leftist voices are radical, including Don Lemon, who used to be a kind of moderate guy on CNN, who used to talk about how, yes, maybe there were some problems in the inner cities.
Maybe these Republicans have a point.
Maybe Bill O'Reilly has a point.
He used to say that on CNN. Now, though, because the whole left has moved so far...
So far into the extreme, he's not.
Now he's talking about blowing up the system.
No matter what happens, everybody sticks to their teeth.
We're going to have to blow up the entire system.
And you know what we're going to have to do?
No, I don't know about that.
Yes, what you're going to have to do?
You just got to vote.
Honestly, from what your closing argument is, you're going to have to get rid of the Electoral College.
Because the people...
I don't see it.
Because the minority in this country decides who the judges are and they decide who the president is.
But you need a constitutional amendment to do that.
And if Democrats, if Joe Biden wins...
Democrats can stack the courts and they can do that amendment and they can get it passed.
Well, you need two-thirds vote in the Congress and three-quarters of the state legislature.
They may be able to do that.
Maybe.
So Don Lemon, first of all, doesn't understand how laws are passed.
Or maybe he really understands how laws are passed.
Because what it sounds like he's saying is, look, they can stack the court and they can do that amendment.
But of course, the amendment process does not involve the courts.
It doesn't come from the courts.
It comes from our lawmakers and it comes from the states.
It can come from the states.
But maybe Don Lemon sees something clearly, which is, oh, actually the courts do make laws, which is why if Joe Biden wins, he's got to stack the courts.
But those words, we've got to blow up the system.
We've got to get rid of the electoral college.
We've got to stack the courts.
We need to have a full power grab that will allow us to arbitrarily exercise our interests and Forever.
Forever, right?
Because at that point, when you do the things that Democrats are talking about, add new states to the country, get rid of the electoral college, stack the court, then it's not as though in five years after that or six years after that you're going to have a shift of power in the country.
What they're trying to do is have a permanent change.
And I think the phrase blow up the country is pretty apt because that's what they've been doing for six months.
They've been literally blowing it up.
They've been literally setting it on fire.
They've been tearing down our statues.
They've been rewriting our history.
They've been blowing up our curricula.
They are now threatening not to concede the election.
I guess they're promising not to concede the election.
Hillary Clinton says Joe Biden shouldn't concede under any circumstances.
Well, how about this circumstance?
Trump wins in a landslide.
Nope.
According to Hillary, Joe Biden shouldn't concede under any circumstances.
They're already doing that.
And this didn't just begin with CNN. This didn't just begin with some election or the Biden campaign.
This didn't just begin there.
It began at an intellectual level.
There is an intellectual rot that has permeated the country through the university system, now into corporate America, now even into the administrative government.
That rot comes from what is called critical theory.
Critical theory.
And specifically what is now at issue is critical race theory.
What is critical race theory?
Trump has gone out against it.
He just tweeted out yesterday, quote, Today, I've expanded that ban to people and companies that do business with our country, the U.S. military, government contractors, and grantees.
Americans should be taught to take pride in our great country.
And if you don't, there's nothing in it for you.
He's basically saying we are not going to give away our money.
To people who are seeking to destroy our country.
And the term he's using here is critical race theory, though he's referring to sex-based ideologies as well.
This is being spun by the mainstream media as President Trump coming out against racial discrimination training.
He's saying no critical theory training.
And you know, the mainstream media actually have a point here.
Because critical race theory might properly be called racial discrimination training.
It is training in how to racially discriminate.
It is actual training in racial discrimination.
Not in anti-racial discrimination.
Not in anti-racism.
It is training in how to be a racist.
And it is now being mandated in boardrooms around the country, in schools around the country, and even now.
In government offices around the country.
And it is wicked, and it is dumb, and it is stupid, and we should get rid of it.
It is a key component of a national rot in this country.
What is critical race theory?
Critical race theory, in particular, was developed in the 1980s.
It derives, as do many of these stupid left-wing academic theories, from Karl Marx.
Karl Marx, who famously called for the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
Very simple.
The ruthless criticism of all that exists.
This applies...
This criticism to race specifically.
What it means is white people bad, black people good, western civilization is evil, America's evil, gotta burn it all down.
This is the intellectual framework of the BLM movement, of the radical avowedly Marxist BLM movement.
It all comes from the same thing.
It's being taught in rooms all around the country and Trump sees this national rot.
And we are about to see a city go up in flames again.
I can predict it almost as surely as I can predict the sun will rise in the morning.
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I never again want to hear that Donald Trump is not a true conservative.
Specifically, I don't want to hear that, from some egghead accountant who says that because Trump doesn't have a total open borders trade policy, he's not a true conservative.
These squish, ridiculous technocrats who say Trump's not a true conservative because he's in any way deviated from the policy that Republicans embraced at think tank luncheons in 1998.
Trump is a conservative.
Trump sees this rot at the heart of our national discourse that is now bleeding out into actual real-world violence.
He sees it when most Republicans don't, and he's actually doing something about it, which most Republicans would not have the courage to do.
I don't think that an administration has seen national rot so clearly since the 1850s and 60s, since the last time we were pouring onto the streets, killing each other and burning down the country.
A real essential problem, and that's what we're talking about when we talk about this ruthless criticism that all that exists, tearing down the whole country, specifically in this case applied to race.
Critical race theory and its associated pathologies are not just destroying the country in theory, they're destroying it in practice.
Right now, the Democratic mayor of Louisville, Mayor Greg Fischer, We're good to go.
Why are they doing it?
Not because of anything that has happened, but in anticipation of an announcement of its investigation in the Breonna Taylor case.
Who's Breonna Taylor?
Have you heard this story?
This is one that the BLM activists and their lemmings on social media have used as the classic example of police racism and brutality.
Say her name, Breonna Taylor.
Breonna Taylor was shot by the police This was during a no-knock warrant, and they said she was killed in her sleep, and it was so absolutely awful.
Of course, the facts of the case don't really correspond to that.
Even the no-knock warrant doesn't correspond to reality, at least according to police who say that the issue here was they did knock, and so they knocked.
This gave Breonna Taylor's accomplice a time to get a gun.
The guy starts shooting at the cops, then the cops start shooting back, and sadly, Breonna Taylor is killed.
We're told this woman was completely innocent then.
It seems actually, in the case, it would appear she had something to do with this drug trafficking ring.
So now, because there's chance that the cops aren't going to be tarred and feathered and hanged and drawn and quartered as racist murderers, because maybe the facts in the case are different than what BLM was telling us, they're declaring a state of emergency.
Because they fear that BLM is going to torch the city.
Because probably they will.
Because BLM has done that in many other cities around the country.
Not having anything to do with justice or injustice.
Just that whenever there is a signal, something about, it could be a completely justified police shooting.
That's the signal to go out and torch the city.
And that is based not on any, it doesn't matter what these cases say, because according to critical race theory in particular, the country is rotten from the core and white people bad and black people good and Western civilization evil.
And you got to tear the thing down.
Ruthless criticism, regardless of some particular case, whenever some particular case doesn't turn out the way the left wants it to, they say, well, okay, that, that case doesn't prove our point, but it gets to a larger truth.
The specific claim was wrong, but it gets to a larger truth.
Well, what's the larger?
I don't see any larger truth.
Now, there is another way to fight back against this, not just in this executive order about critical race theory, but also in a very clever way that is going to upset very, very many people in higher education, very many people on the left.
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So part of critical race theory now is that every institution has to say that it's racist, right?
Because every institution is racist, especially and including the United States, because our whole civilization is hopelessly racist and sexist and bigoted and terrible and unjust and blah, blah, blah.
So if the whole system is broken and evil, then the individual institutions have to be too.
And you see this all the time.
Every company says we have to do more.
We are wrong.
We've been harming people of color and we've been harming women and we've been harming men who think they're women.
And we've been harming everybody for so many years.
And this is just a part of the liturgy of liberalism now that we always go through.
And you hear it especially in higher education.
So Princeton University just came out and said this.
They've all been saying this for so long.
The president of Princeton says that racism persists at the university and in society, quote, sometimes by conscious intention, but more often through unexamined assumptions and stereotypes, ignorance or insensitivity, and the systemic legacy of past decisions and policies.
Now what he's saying this for is to push the left-wing agenda that the universities now foment and then push into the administrative government that runs our country.
So he doesn't expect there's a consequence to this.
It's common sense.
Of course, we're a racist institution at Princeton.
So the Trump administration now...
The Department of Education has opened a federal civil rights investigation into Princeton because Princeton's racist.
And you can't have a racist institution that discriminates on the basis of race.
Except for affirmative action, which is actually the law and discriminates on the basis of race, especially in higher education.
But that one's okay.
But you certainly can't have an anti-black or anti-woman sort of discrimination, right?
So Princeton, in admitting this, opens themselves up to a federal civil rights investigation.
I absolutely love it.
They wrote, quote, you admitted Princeton's educational program is, and for decades has been, racist.
And so they're going to investigate.
I like this because these institutions have gotten away with murder.
At least intellectual murder.
At least national murder.
Because they tear down the country without any consequence.
They're lauded for it.
They're applauded.
Until now.
Okay, you're going to implicate yourself in racism?
Well, okay.
We're going to have to investigate you for that.
I hope Princeton gets fined into oblivion.
I am a little different than many other conservatives in that I know a lot of conservatives hate higher education.
They hate the liberal arts education.
They say that if you have to go to college, you know, just major in engineering or something like that.
Do something practical.
I don't believe that.
I actually don't think you should go to a four-year college necessarily to study engineering or to study some more tangible, practical skill, a technical education.
I think you can probably get that somewhere else.
I do think you should get a liberal arts education.
I do think you should read the great works of our civilization.
I do think you should cultivate in yourself this kind of understanding of our culture.
We always talk as conservatives about how important the culture is, and then those same conservatives don't want to cultivate their own sensibilities and their own faculties of reason and their own understanding of our civilization.
So I think it's very important to do all of that.
I love liberal education.
The problem is...
None of these schools, especially the elite schools like Princeton, really do that anymore.
They don't want to cultivate our civilization.
Sometimes they do it accidentally because of the legacies that they've got.
But what they're actively trying to do is destroy that cultivation of our sensibilities and that cultivation of our civilization.
And so you know what I say?
If Princeton isn't doing the very basic thing it's supposed to do, Get rid of it.
Get rid of it.
Who cares?
Good.
Find them into oblivion.
I hope they do that.
And I hope Harvard and Yale learn the lesson before they get investigated and find into oblivion, too.
When I think of the schools in this country that actually do what the schools are supposed to do, what do I think of?
Franciscan University of Steubenville does a good job.
Thomas Aquinas College does a good job.
Hillsdale does a good job.
Maybe St.
John's?
I don't...
I'm like on one hand here.
How many universities and colleges do we have in this country?
And they're the ones fomenting the radicalism.
They're shaping the minds of young people.
They are funding the administrative state.
They're plying it with statistics and data and all of the allegedly scientific information on which our policies are based.
But they're not really scientific.
They're just political.
They're just radical and extreme.
Ain't no room for a moderate there.
So, Mitt Romney, you might be shocked that the moderate path is to ram through this Trump nominee in an election year.
I'd say, that seems extreme.
No, it's just that the extremism on the left has become mainstream.
You might be shocked to hear that the moderate path is to go after these universities and defund them and fine them for what they are admitting that they're doing.
But that is the moderate path.
That's the only path back to any sort of moderate mainstream America.
People have been so warped by this nonsense, they've been so radicalized, that even now on the sports channel, ESPN, Max Kellerman, not that I watch ESPN a whole lot, and I certainly don't now that they've gone total lib, but Max Kellerman comes out, He says, the protests are peaceful.
Ignore what you're seeing.
It's just like every other guy on CNN and MSNBC standing in front of burning police headquarters.
And they say, no, mostly peaceful, little fiery, but mostly peaceful.
He goes out and he says, look, they're mostly peaceful.
And whenever there is violence, it's extreme right-wing agitators.
A few of the things he said when he talks about, like, Black Lives Matter, 93% of the protests are peaceful.
The vast, overwhelming majority are peaceful.
And by the way, the 7% that are not, they have a very broad definition of what's not quote-unquote peaceful.
For example, if you block traffic or something like that.
Or if you respond to police provocation.
And even then, a big percentage of that that wasn't peaceful is actually outside agitators, extremist right-wing agitators posing as protesters in order to make the protests look bad.
That's the first thing.
Wow, brilliant analysis for Mr.
Kellerman.
The protests are totally peaceful, but actually they're violent, but the violence is caused by the cops.
But no, actually the violence is caused by right-wing agitators that we never seem to find anywhere.
They're not, but they're there, they just, they hide themselves.
And how do they hide them?
They dress up like left-wing agitators, Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.
Yeah, and then they talk like left-wing agitators.
Yeah, and they target all of the things that the left-wing agitators want to destroy, like the police stations.
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Right-wing agitators are tearing down statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and looting businesses and stealing Nike shoes and Gucci bags and torching police stations.
Right-wing agitators.
Okay, not very convincing.
By the way, that is obviously a conspiracy theory, right?
I know the left always likes to say that anytime conservatives breathe too heavily, we're engaging in a conspiracy theory.
You know, anytime anything comes out of our mouths, it's a conspiracy theory.
But I'll give you an example.
The left says that there's this crazy right-wing conspiracy theory, that there's an elite pedophile ring that involves heads of state and royalty and, you know, prime ministers and things like that.
So, we say, well, what about Jeffrey Epstein and, you know, Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton was flying all around there and he had this, Bill Clinton had this kind of nice, intimate dinner with Ghislaine Maxwell.
That news just broke and that was pretty recent.
That was in like 2014 and you've got a lot about that.
I don't know, that doesn't seem like a conspiracy theory.
And then the guy, when they finally arrest him, he mysteriously dies in jail and they say it's a suicide even though apparently none of the cameras worked and all the guards went away.
You know, it just seems like it's not a conspiracy theory, that's a conspiracy.
That's the prominent right-wing example of a conspiracy theory.
Here's an example of a totally mainstream left-wing story.
So mainstream, it's on the Sports Channel.
All the left-wing agitators are secretly right-wing agitators.
Yeah, all the guys who say they're left-wing and dress up like left-wingers and torch left-wing targets, the targets of left-wingers, They're secretly right-wingers, and they're just doing it ironically or something, right?
Which is the conspiracy theory?
Obviously, obviously the latter.
So there's no reasoning here, okay, even on the sports channel.
So yeah, is it any wonder that Mitt Romney, who is a moderate, he's an actual moderate, is it any wonder that he says, gosh, in this environment, I've got to choose between these two things.
I guess I'm a Trump guy.
I guess Trump is all of a sudden the moderate thing to do.
The lies are outrageous.
And on the topic of this Supreme Court nominee, we haven't seen anything yet.
You think there's no way to attack a very qualified, well-spoken judge, mother of seven, too adopted from Haiti, takes her faith very seriously.
Oh, there is.
Newsweek publishes a completely false story.
Completely false.
100% BS. Here's the headline.
How Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise group inspired The Handmaid's Tale.
That's the whole story.
Amy Coney Barrett is part of this charismatic Catholic group called People of Praise, and that group inspired The Handmaid's Tale, right?
Except it didn't.
So they still have the story up.
They changed the headline, obviously.
Still have the story up, though.
Correction.
This article's headline originally stated that people of praise inspired The Handmaid's Tale.
The book's author, Margaret Atwood, has never specifically mentioned the group as being the inspiration for her work.
A New Yorker profile of the author from 2017 mentions a newspaper clipping as part of her research for the book of a different charismatic Catholic group, people of hope.
Newsweek regrets the error.
Correction!
Yeah, no, Margaret Atwood never said that this was true, and actually then we've got evidence that we know it's not true, but we're going to keep the article up anyway.
That's all you're going to see until the election now.
Which is fine by me, because there are still people in this country, believe it or not, who don't pay a ton of attention to politics.
They just live their lives.
They do normal things.
They go to work.
Occasionally watch a movie or something.
And spend time with their family.
And they're going to see, for the next month and a half, however long it is, abject lies.
The public destruction of a very...
Nice-looking, smart, articulate, qualified, mother of seven, based on pure lies, based on nothing.
That's what they're going to see.
And those people who maybe they call themselves undecided, independent, moderate, how do you think that's going to push them in the presidential election?
Another great mark for Amy Coney Barrett.
Mike Lee, who was also up for the Supreme Court, is Senator Mike Lee from Utah.
I thought he'd be a great candidate for the court.
I thought Ted Cruz would be a great candidate for the court.
I've been pushing for one of those guys.
Great constitutional lawyers.
Very clear on their thinking on the law.
Thought they'd be great on the court because we wouldn't know where they stand because they've got this huge public record in politics.
And I think it's silly to try to pretend that judges should never have anything to do with politics at any point in their career.
You know, for...
Much of this country's history, most of this country's history, sometimes people would go to the courts, then they'd go run for office, and maybe they'd come back to the courts.
You had a president who was a chief justice of the Supreme Court, William Howard Taft.
You had all these guys, and then all of a sudden, the last few decades, no, you have to be on the court for life.
It's like the Pope.
You're not supposed to be able to resign the papacy.
You're supposed to, on your deathbed, be still talking about the Supreme Court.
I don't think that's necessary.
I don't even think that's good.
And so I was pushing for the senators.
But Mike Lee...
is now coming out strongly saying Amy Coney Barrett is a leading choice for the court and she should get the spot.
I expect that we're going to see Amy Coney Barrett being picked by the president, and I would support that nomination wholeheartedly.
She's got a proven track record.
She's someone who understands the difference between judging and lawmaking.
She understands that she's there to interpret the law based on what the words say, rather than on the basis of what some social scientist or lawyer might wish that it's said.
That's exactly the kind of person we need on the U.S. Supreme Court, and I think it will and should be her.
This is an important endorsement because Lee is really strong on these con law matters.
And so if he's coming in, because he was up for the job.
And unlike Senator Cruz, who said, I don't want the job, Mike Lee has not said that he doesn't want the job.
So for him to come out and say that, it seems as though it's going to be Amy Coney Barrett, right?
That this would seem to be coordinated.
And it's important to hear his opinion on it.
And I'm glad he gives her a good review.
So we'll see.
President Trump is going to make that announcement on Saturday.
Here's what we know, though.
If it is her, then I think the situation is going to play out the way that I've just described.
The Democrats are going to so overreach on this, it's going to turn off a lot of people.
Democrats might still win the election because they might steal it in the mail, but it's going to be Kavanaugh part two.
Except Amy Coney Barrett is even more sympathetic than Brett Kavanaugh, this milquetoast lawyer.
What we're seeing happen was just expressed in a viral video.
And I think this viral video is the perfect symbol for how the Democrats are conducting themselves on the national level.
A woman is driving her car.
She sees some Trump supporters rallying on the side.
And she starts screaming at them.
And she starts flipping them off.
And she starts becoming very, very upset.
And then as she's screaming, she crashes into the car in front of her.
There she is screaming, F you up, and there's the fender bender up.
Whoopsie daisy.
And then the Trump, because she's screaming at them, flipping them off, the Trump people are like, hey, hey lady, how you doing?
Then she crashes into the car and obviously they start laughing and start joking about it.
Then you hear the cops pull up.
No, you're not telling me there happened to be cops there.
And then the cops walk up to her and say, sorry, lady.
That's what the Democrats are doing.
They are screaming and yelling and they're so full of rage that...
They're allowing themselves to crash their car.
They're crashing their car right into the people in front of them, causing damage and getting themselves in a whole lot of trouble.
Well, when your normal person is looking at that, which side are they going to turn to?
All great news.
If even my man Mitt is going to go toward the Trump side now, where does the rest of the country stand?
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