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Nov. 23, 2020 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 650 - What’s Kraken?

Attorney Sidney Powell promises to “release the Kraken” on election fraud, a Pulitzer Prize winner advocates ‘snuffing out’ conservatism, and liberals complain after a vicious rapist and murderer gets the death penalty. 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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A former federal prosecutor is promising to release the Kraken to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
In Sidney Powell's words during a wild press conference, President Trump actually won the election in a landslide, and the left and the administrative state and the media are trying to steal it from him.
This is stunning, heartbreaking.
Infuriating and the most unpatriotic acts I can even imagine for people in this country to have participated in in any way shape or form and I want the American public to know right now that we will not be intimidated.
American patriots are fed up with the corruption from the local level to the highest level of our government and we are going to take this country back We are not going to be intimidated.
We are not going to back down.
We are going to clean this mess up now.
President Trump won by a landslide.
We are going to prove it.
And we are going to reclaim the United States of America for the people who vote for freedom.
Those are pretty big claims, but are they true?
The Trump team seems to be distancing themselves from Sidney Powell.
The left and the right are uniting to attack Powell and even, in some cases, demanding that President Trump concede.
And I feel as though I am the last patient man in America.
We will break down what's cracking.
I'm Michael Knowles.
It's the Michael Knowles Show.
Sidney Powell will release the Kraken.
I will release all of the puns.
I am going to use puns of Kraken in as many show titles as I possibly can.
And I also am going to take this seriously.
I think a lot of people are just rushing right now to attack the Trump legal team or to attack Trump, not just the left, but also Republicans too, as though we didn't have a legal process that is going to play out.
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My favorite comment, by the way, from the show on Thursdays, from Vinny Durham, who says, Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself, but he did vote for Joe Biden.
That is almost certainly true, right?
I'm not saying Jeffrey Epstein voted, but if he voted, the guy definitely voted for Joe Biden.
Now, that is one aspect of voter fraud that you've seen historically in the United States, which is that nefarious political actors will fill in ballots for dead people.
You see this happen in every election, almost, to some degree.
So the question is, does it happen enough to throw an election?
That's not though quite what Sidney Powell is alleging here.
There was a fairly long press conference on Friday with the Trump legal team, Rudy Giuliani, our friend Jenna Ellis, and Sidney Powell, who was there.
They were all alleging sort of different things and different aspects of the irregularities that took place.
Sidney Powell has gone the furthest.
She's saying that there is a conspiracy.
The thing about conspiracy theories is sometimes there actually is a conspiracy.
Very often there are not, but sometimes...
There are.
And she says she's going to release the kraken.
For those who don't know, the kraken is a giant Scandinavian octopus.
It's a mythical beast that comes out and rips sailors down to their watery deaths.
So she's saying, yes, I'm going to release this giant monster and show you that there's this giant tentacled thing that is all around our government.
So what are the specific claims made in the press conference?
The conference began with Rudy Giuliani.
And everyone's attacking Rudy because he's kind of an eccentric character and it looked like his hair dye was running down his face a little bit.
But I have to tell you, I get such a kick out of Rudy Giuliani.
I absolutely cannot attack the guy.
One thing that people kept hitting him for is because he made a reference to one of the greatest movies of all time, My Cousin Vinny.
Did you all watch My Cousin Vinny?
You know the movie?
It's one of my favorite law movies because he comes from Brooklyn.
And when the nice lady who said she saw, and then he says to her, how many fingers do I, how many fingers do I got up?
And she says, three.
Well, she was too far away to see it was only two.
These people were further away than my cousin Vinnie was from the witness.
So Rudy Giuliani is describing why the poll watchers who were not, Republican poll watchers were not permitted into the election centers in a number of places around the country, notably in Philadelphia, even after there was a court order saying, hey, you crooks, you got to let the Republican poll watchers in, in many places still wasn't happening.
And even where Republican poll watchers were permitted in, often it was the case that the poll watchers had to stand not just six feet away, 20 feet away, 50 feet away from where the votes were being counted.
And so Rudy's using this example from my cousin Vinny saying, you can't see that closely.
That is an evocative example as It's not, they say, why is Rudy talking about my cousin Vinny?
Well, because he's giving a news conference and he wants to get people's attention.
That's a good way to do it.
Another great moment during the press conference, again, has not terribly much to do with the specific allegations themselves, but I loved it nonetheless, is where Rudy taught the American public a word of Italian-American slang, which is stunad.
You knew, if you lived in Philadelphia, unless you do not, that's an Italian expression for stupid, unless you're stupid, you knew that a lot of people were coming over from Camden to vote.
They do every year.
Happens all the time in Philly.
It's about as frequent as getting beaten up at a Philadelphia Eagle basketball, a football game.
Happens all the time.
All the time.
All the time.
Stonato.
It does occur to me for people who are not of Italian extraction or are not from New York.
You might not know that expression.
It actually, Rudy's misstating it a little bit here.
It comes from the Italian word stonato, which is like out of tune, out of whack, not quite online, not quite in melody or in harmony.
So, sure, stupid.
People are knocking Rudy for this.
This is classic, Rudy.
This is why you hire Rudy Giuliani.
He is not making an argument before a judge right now.
Some critics are saying maybe they should focus all their efforts just on making arguments before a judge.
But this is a press conference.
This is designed to entertain you and to grab your attention and thereby to give you the facts.
Donald Trump does this very well.
He makes a big, big show and he gets everybody's attention.
And then people are paying attention to what he is telling them.
That is what Rudy Giuliani is doing here.
I find it charming and I really enjoyed it.
Then there was just one other moment that I thought it was perfect.
I mean, you can see how Rudy and Trump have been friends for decades now.
He's asked questions by the press and he takes some questions.
He doesn't take other questions.
And for one, he could tell they were kind of activists.
They were a little bit more left wing.
So he asks them, who are you with?
What publication are you with?
CNN. Perfect way to respond.
Perfect way to respond to CNN. Just laugh in their face.
This is the difference you're seeing between two types of Republicans here.
Two types of conservatives.
The ones who are really nervous about what the left thinks of them and say that we need to rush to attack Giuliani and Jenna and Sidney Powell and Trump and we need to rush to tell them to concede and we need to rush to say this is all crazy and there shouldn't be legal challenges.
The ones who are, I don't know, what do you call them?
I've been calling them the court jester conservatives.
The ones who are willing to play according to the rules set by the liberals.
That's one type of conservative here.
And the other kind are the ones who just laugh, who laugh at CNN, who say, I don't care what you think of me, CNN. I don't care what you think of me, administrative state.
I don't care what you think of me, left.
You have no credibility, left-wingers.
You see this especially when the left accuses conservatives of being racist or sexist or whatever, some ism word.
And there are some people who say, no, no, I'm not, please.
You know, they really want to defend themselves against some calumnious charge.
And then the other ones who say...
Who cares?
I don't care what you say.
You have absolutely no right to say that to me.
You have no credibility.
That's what Rudy is doing.
And, you know, he might have eccentricities.
He might have foibles.
His hair gel might run down his face.
But that is the attitude.
That is the only attitude that is going to be successful.
I'm not saying it will be successful.
I'm saying that we have a chance of being successful.
The only way to do it is to tune out what the left is saying.
Tune out the stonad left.
Then he gets to the specific...
And what Rudy is talking about here are voting irregularities, specifically the counting of illegal ballots.
Now, it's not necessarily the case that the voters themselves are ineligible to vote.
Maybe they are, maybe they aren't.
But that the ballots themselves, because of the mode in which they were transmitted, the mode in which they were counted, are themselves illegal.
And Rudy thinks there were lots and lots of these illegally counted ballots, enough to throw them all out and overturn some of these state decisions.
There are 60,000 ballots in Milwaukee County and 40,000 ballots in Madison that, as far as we can tell, and this is why we're auditing, because we have very good information, the numbers are going to come out about here, that don't have applications.
Under the law of the state of Wisconsin, already decided, if there's no application for an absentee ballot, the absentee ballot is thrown away.
This all happened in two places in Wisconsin.
It didn't happen in northern Wisconsin.
It didn't happen in Republican Wisconsin.
It didn't happen in neutral Wisconsin, where there are an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.
It happened in a place where the vote was 75-80% for the Democrats.
Of course, we know this.
We know that there are these crooked machine cities.
We know that all the irregularities were happening in these crooked, one-party, democratic-controlled cities.
Is it enough to throw the election?
Who knows?
That's why there's a legal process playing out.
But don't look me in the eye and tell me that everything was above board here.
We know that it wasn't.
We know, I mean, just to use that one example in Pennsylvania, we know that crooked election officials were violating court orders.
For what purpose?
Because everything was above board?
I don't think so.
We know that there were shenanigans that went on and Rudy is making an aggressive case that because of those shenanigans, you've got to throw out those ballots.
And if you throw out those ballots, maybe you can flip the states.
If you flip the states, maybe you can flip the election.
Very important To focus on ballot security.
That's what Rudy's talking about.
It's going to be a little bit different than what Sidney Powell's talking about.
But what Rudy's talking about is the security of the ballot box itself.
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Okay, so Rudy is making his, I think, excellent point here about...
It's an aggressive point.
The judges might not care.
They might throw it out.
There might be so many political considerations.
They can't do it.
They don't want to overturn the election in these states.
There might be insufficient evidence.
We don't know what Rudy has.
But what he's describing is pretty significant.
Then you get...
To the woman that everyone's talking about, Sidney Powell.
Sidney Powell is not talking about dead people voting.
Sidney Powell is not talking about the illegal counting of ballots in certain polling locations.
Sidney Powell is alleging massive, widespread electronic voter fraud.
She's specifically alleging that the alphabet agencies, you're talking about agencies like the CIA, the FBI... That these agencies went in and manipulated votes.
She's alleging that the software that we're describing here, Dominion Software is one piece that's come up, Smartmatic, another company that's come up, that this was constructed in cooperation with crooked governments that would steal elections.
The alphabet agencies have been involved in this and that basically there was a massive, not just national, but international conspiracy to steal this election.
That is the claim, actually, not last Friday, Friday before when I was filling in for Rush.
We spoke to Rudy Giuliani and he, Mayor Giuliani, brought up that there were huge, shocking issues with Dominion and Smartmatic.
So it wasn't just Sidney Powell making this argument, though.
She was the only one making this argument at the press conference.
So here is Sidney Powell's grand claim.
One of its most characteristic features is its ability to flip votes.
It can set and run an algorithm that probably ran all over the country to take a certain percentage of votes from President Trump and flip them to President Biden.
Which we might never have uncovered had the votes for President Trump not been so overwhelming in so many of these states that it broke the algorithm that had been plugged into the system.
And that's what caused them to have to shut down in the states they shut down in.
So she's saying that, and we remember this, on election night for some reason the vote counting stopped.
And then in some places it continued even though it was continuing behind closed doors.
Illegally.
Not the way it was supposed to be done.
Why did that happen?
Sidney Powell said it's happening because people were electronically trying to steal the election and so many people voted for Trump they had to go in and fix it somehow.
Okay.
We don't have evidence for it.
We just have the circumstances that Sidney Powell is bringing up and we have her claims.
And I should point out Sidney Powell has had a real career.
She was an assistant U.S. attorney, federal prosecutor.
She was the lawyer for Mike Flynn.
So this is not, you know, some lady sitting with a tinfoil hat on.
Now, I don't know, maybe she's gone completely insane.
That's an allegation against her.
Maybe she is.
Maybe she hasn't.
Maybe she's a very serious lawyer and she actually has the goods.
We don't know.
She has been going on news shows over the past weekend to give greater detail on some of her claims.
This isn't a summary judgment motion where we actually have to produce any evidence now.
Your typical lawsuit...
You just file the statement of what the charges are without any affidavits or anything.
The way the media is going about this is absolutely ridiculous and unreasonable to expect us to put evidence in right now.
Although we know election issues are on an expedited schedule.
But I could wait a month to file the fraud case and everybody would have to undo their certifications because it's so bad.
But are you saying you're going to file the same case in multiple jurisdictions or in one jurisdiction?
Each one's a little bit different depending on what happened in the state.
The different manner and means and the evidentiary aspects that support each one.
You know, we've got different affidavits from different witnesses in each of the states.
So there are going to be some differences between them.
But there are going to be claims that are identical.
Some of the legal claims are going to be identical.
For example, in a number of states, there were modifications to the machine after the statutory cutoff date.
So she's sticking with her story and she's giving more examples, though we haven't seen a ton of hard evidence just yet.
Since these interviews, the Trump legal team has distanced itself from Sidney Powell.
They sent out a message last night that said, Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own.
She's not a member of the Trump legal team.
She is also not a lawyer for the president in his personal capacity.
That was a memo that came out from Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, who are on the Trump legal team.
Now, in the past, President Trump has described...
Sidney Powell is a member of the Trump legal team.
I don't know that Sidney Powell has ever described herself as a member of the Trump legal team.
I think she's described herself as a supporter of the president, but I haven't seen her do that.
News shows have described her as a member of the Trump legal team.
But again, I don't know that she has herself.
Now Powell, for her part, has responded to this statement.
Powell, for some reason, was kicked off of Twitter when all of this came out, so she couldn't defend herself on Twitter.
It's a little strange.
And Powell responds and says, I understand today's press release.
I will continue to represent we the people who had their votes for Trump and other Republicans stolen by massive fraud through Dominion and Smartmatic, and we will be filing suit soon.
The chips will fall where they may, and we will defend the foundations of this great republic.
Hashtag Kraken on Steroids.
So Sidney Powell totally doubling down.
And lest you think, by the way, that the Trump legal team is totally shocked by what Sidney Powell is saying, go back to the Rush Limbaugh show, not three days ago, not this past Friday, but the Friday before that when I was filling in, Rudy Giuliani bringing up similar issues, maybe not with the same ferocity, maybe not with the same...
Grandiosity.
But he is bringing up the same issues with Dominion and Smartmatic.
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What do we make of all of this?
Is Sidney Powell single-handedly saving the republic?
Is Sidney Powell completely insane?
Is President Trump going to win the election?
Is President Trump destroying the republic by not conceding?
My goodness gracious, am I the last patient person in the world?
Am I the last calm, non-hysterical person on planet Earth?
Sometimes it feels that way.
We have liberals, on the one hand, disingenuously demanding that President Trump concede before the legal process plays out, before the process within our constitutional framework plays out.
Then on the other hand, we have fretful conservatives nervously demanding that Trump concede as well.
And even more of them attacking Powell.
First chance they get.
Even, you know, prominent cable news hosts who usually are considered pretty conservative or usually pretty hardcore.
Slamming Powell.
Why?
I think my take is completely different than all of these.
My take is chill.
Calm down.
There's a process here.
They will have their day in court.
Sidney Powell will have her day in court.
She will file her claims and argue them before the judge.
Or she won't.
If she doesn't, then obviously she doesn't have the goods.
If she does, she will argue the claims.
The evidence will be presented then.
Maybe the evidence will be convincing.
Maybe it won't.
Even if the evidence is convincing, maybe the judge won't care anyway.
But maybe the evidence isn't convincing.
It'll be thrown out and then we will know who the president is when the courts make their ruling.
Has everybody forgotten that patience is a virtue?
It's okay.
We don't need to rush to slam some conservative lawyer.
We don't need to rush to concede an election.
We also don't need to rush and say we have 100% proof that the election was stolen and Biden's completely ill.
We don't need to rush toward any of that.
It's not going to do any good, is it?
There is a process that is going to decide who the president is, whether we like it or not.
And that's not even just some process that was cooked up in the last five or ten years by some nefarious progressives.
That's a process that we've had for centuries in this country.
And that's what's going to happen.
And there's no reason necessarily to overthrow that.
There's no reason to rush that process as well.
Bush v.
Gore lasted something like 38 days.
How many days are we into this now?
We're 20 days in?
Okay.
Okay.
Seems to me like we still have time.
And there are a lot more states up for dispute.
There's a lot more evidence of irregularities today in the 2020 election than there ever were in 2000 with the hanging chads in Florida.
The election is not over.
But there is a distinct, or I suppose maybe a more than distinct possibility, that when this process plays out in court, the courts will name Joe Biden the president.
And Joe Biden, I'm sorry to say, has not been instilling confidence in all of us if he does ascend to the presidency.
Take a listen to some soaring rhetoric recently from Mr.
Biden.
They talked about that in some detail.
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That's a fancy way of saying governors need to be able to get funding when they need to bring their National Guard into play.
And National Guards are going to have to play this.
It costs a lot of money.
Ah, yes.
I forgot about the...
What was that?
Huh?
What'd you say?
Come again?
What the Biden team has been doing, what liberals have been doing, is they're blaming this on Joe Biden's childhood stutter.
You see, so if you in any way question Joe Biden's mental faculties, if you in any way question his ability to communicate ideas, you are, you're mean, you're cruel, you're ableist, you are making fun of this trait that he had no control over, that he's had since he was a child.
The problem with that argument, of course, is that Joe Biden's childhood stutter mysteriously disappeared for 70 years.
I guess he had it when he was a child.
He's 78 years old now.
He had it when he was a child.
Then it went away.
And then he had a 50-year political career.
47 years, to be precise.
47-year political career.
No stutter.
The childhood stutter was fixed.
And then the childhood stutter comes back at age 76, 77, 78.
That's no longer a childhood stutter.
That's something different.
That's evidence of cognitive decline.
That I don't think anybody, if you caught any of the Biden staffers in a moment of honesty, I don't think any of them would deny.
So then Joe Biden clarifies, quote unquote, what he's thinking.
We talked a lot about with the governors about what the immediate needs are.
I'm going to, we're going to impose the, we're going to enforce the, excuse me, employ the defense reconstructed act to be able to go out there and dictate Companies build and do following things.
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The left has been saying now for years that Trump is so embarrassing.
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Donald Trump is Abraham Lincoln in his soaring oratory compared to Joe Biden.
And in his moral clarity and in his political vision, the clarity of that vision.
It's very difficult to believe the claims of voter fraud.
Specifically, they're being made by Sidney Powell.
Not because I don't think it's possible that they have.
I think it is possible.
It's just because of how grand it would be.
Because of how significant that kind of an issue would be, if really, you know, the bureaucracy and the administrative state are colluding with these different election officials in already, we know, corrupt states and cities to steal an election on that massive organized scale, which is different than just, you know, an irregularity here and a little crookedness and a little cheating here and there.
So it is hard to believe that.
I'm not saying it's impossible.
It's hard to believe that.
Then on the other hand, It's much harder to believe the deep staters, the bureaucracy, the administrative state that spied on President Trump in 2016, that tried to stage a legal coup d'etat in the ensuing three and a half years through countless investigations, through a completely illegitimate impeachment, and so forth.
So you can't believe them.
You certainly can't believe them.
And you certainly, 100% can't believe the media who have spent not just years, but decades lying to you.
Who do we believe?
My take is we wait for the evidence.
We stay calm.
Stay cool.
When you get really worked up, when you get really angry, when you get really red in the face, you make mistakes.
You do things that you will regret later.
Stay cool.
Don't let the left troll you into that kind of madness.
Stay cool.
Stay calm.
Have faith.
It'll work out.
You know, there's that line my friend and priest, Father Rutler, George Rutler says, difference between a Scottish optimist and a Scottish pessimist.
Scottish pessimist says things can't get any worse.
Scottish optimist says, oh yes, they can.
I think that same thing can be said of conservatives.
You know, this might not work out.
We know at a certain point the culture is going to keep getting worse and worse and worse.
That's something we can be sure of.
And so we will just have to wait and see, grit and bear it, and have courage, which is the prerequisite for all of the other virtues.
And we can fight back.
You know, our wonderful press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is fighting back.
That press secretary who makes all of our conservative hearts go pitter-patter.
We'll get to her in a second.
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Rudy Giuliani did that, and Kayleigh McEnany doing that as well.
A bunch of those hyenas in the press pool were screaming at her in the White House briefing room, and she made clear she feels no obligation to call on radical left reporters.
Thank you everyone for the very good and substantive questions today.
I don't call on activists, nor should she.
Nor should she.
I'm all for calling on real reporters who are having a good faith conversation, but not for activists.
This is actually something that I've realized in online discussions, in public debates, whenever people challenge you to a debate or these sorts of things.
I think it is good to have good faith debate.
I think that is a good thing.
I love doing it.
It's one of my favorite things to do.
And I think it is not only pointless, but damaging and counterproductive to engage in bad faith debates.
There are a number of leftist blue checks who all they want to do is make bad faith arguments.
And then if you kind of poke some holes in those arguments and you try to take the discussion further to a deeper and more interesting place, they won't do it.
Maybe because they're not capable of it, but certainly because they're not interested in that.
You have no responsibility To engage in that kind of a debate.
I actually think it's just a temptation.
It's something wrong to do to engage in that kind of debate.
And that's what Kelly McEnany is saying.
She's saying, no, I don't talk to actors.
I talk to reporters.
If you want to be a reporter, I'll talk to you.
If you're just going to be an activist, that's not what this is for.
That's not what the White House briefing room is for.
Speaking of activists in the media...
There is one who just went a bit viral for expressing a view that I think is actually pretty common on the left.
And it should make us all just a wee bit worried if Joe Biden becomes president.
The Pulitzer Prize winning art critic, Jerry Saltz.
I believe he's at New York Times Magazine or somewhere.
He's a very prominent art critic.
Jerry Saltz is now suggesting that republicanism, conservatism, Should not be tolerated.
He writes, Isolated and snuffed out.
This, first of all, Jerry Saltz probably knows more about art than I do.
I assume he does.
He might not have the correct views on art, but at least in terms of just knowing, he might.
That's his area of expertise.
But he doesn't know a damn thing about politics.
Just listen to this nonsense sentence.
Republicanism is no longer a political problem.
It is a social problem.
Political problems are social problems, and social problems are political problems.
Politics means what we do together.
Politics means how we all engage and live together.
It comes from the Greek city-state, the polis.
That's all it means.
The left has tried to narrow the realm of politics.
It's ironic.
What the left has done is both make everything political.
Your sneakers are political.
The coffee you drink is political.
Everything now is political.
The shows you watch, the sports you watch are all political.
Except for politics.
And politics is no longer political.
Areas that are open for public debate by citizens are now taken out of that political sphere.
So everything...
Their views are totally contradictory on this.
But the reason is...
In a traditional American polity, we might just, if you wear a certain set of sneakers and I wear a certain set of sneakers, we just choose not to engage in that.
We think, okay, that's sort of beyond the realm of important political discussion.
Yeah, it's public, yeah, I guess it relates to how we are, but we're going to focus on the issues that really matter.
We're going to prioritize our issues.
And what the left has done is totally flip that.
So all the really important questions, how our government is set up, how elections are conducted, who gets to come into the country, whether you can kill babies, whether you can execute mass murderers or serial killers or rapists or teenager murderers, which we're actually going to get to in a second, that is taken out of the realm.
And that's given to experts and scientists and lab coats who are deemed to rule us better than we rule ourselves.
This guy went viral and people are attacking him for it.
I don't think he's calling for the mass murder of conservatives, as some people do.
I don't think he's even particularly radical.
I think this is the mainstream left-wing and liberal view.
I think he's just saying it out loud, which is that conservative views are illegitimate.
They should not be permitted in the public sphere.
We need to re-educate all the conservatives so that they're not conservative anymore.
And they need to get with the program.
Because progress is no longer a matter of politics.
It is a scientific matter.
We're going to give it to the experts.
The Constitution is inadequate to govern the country.
We've got to be governed under this organic bureaucracy.
Maybe it's going to be a little capricious, but it's going to have energy and pull us toward utopia and toward progress.
I think that's what they believe.
I think that's what progressives have believed since at least Woodrow Wilson.
And this guy's just saying it.
It's about time that we recognize it because the left is becoming more brazen in the way that they're trying to bring that about.
If Joe Biden becomes president, especially if those two Republican senators in Georgia lose their runoff races, we're in a bad position.
The Democrats have already told us they're going to get rid of the filibuster.
They're going to add two new states, they've promised us, D.C. and Puerto Rico, which would fundamentally shift the balance of power in the country.
It would destroy the Republican Party at the presidential level.
It would destroy the Republican Party as a national governing party.
They would...
Obviously, institute their radical agenda, issues like the Green New Deal, mass redistribution of wealth, a new racial caste system which they've been pushing for, all those sorts of things.
That is now a mainstream view.
Now, there is some pushback.
There is a little bit of pushback.
I mean, the place you see the scientific view of politics most clearly is with this coronavirus epidemic where the experts who now, I guess, rule us more than the elected officials, they just changed their mind.
One day they said, you can't wear a mask.
It's the scientific view.
If you wear a mask, you're an idiot.
You're harming people.
Then the day after that, they say, you have to wear a mask.
If you don't wear a mask, you're harming people.
And we just have to pretend like they didn't say the other thing the day before.
We just have to pretend like they're not contradicting themselves.
We're not allowed to ask a question.
If you even ask a question, you are killing people because you're depriving the scientific government of energy.
And that is irresponsible.
It's reckless.
It's anti-American.
There is some pushback against that, against that creeping bureaucracy that governs according to quote-unquote scientific norms, that's outside the bounds of constitutional government.
Just up in Buffalo, New York, A guy had his business raided by these thugs from the government.
These thugs came in and they wanted to make him wear masks and they wanted to enforce all of these capricious rules that are written by egghead bureaucrats and change every single day.
And this business owner wasn't going to take it anymore.
And this business owner stood up to those cops and told them to get out of his store.
These people actually work for their money and they don't want to lose their livelihood.
I've lost friends, I've lost family who've killed themselves.
I've seen clients die because they've lost their livelihood.
I'm sorry to hear that.
I know you are, and I'm asking for you guys to have some compassion for the people that have lost everything.
We do have compassion for people who have lost everything.
Okay, well, you need to go have compassion out in the parking lot.
This is private property.
It's private property.
Go get a warrant.
Listen, man, this is private property.
They're not wanted here.
So do your jobs.
Well, her job is- Well, no, no.
Your job is to remove people that are not wanted here.
We're wanted here.
They're not.
She's hiding her name tag.
She had her name tag.
I'm not.
It's right here.
You can see my name tag.
They're just doing that job.
There we go.
You should not be wearing masks.
I'm not doing anything wrong.
Don't worry about my health.
My health isn't your concern.
You're meant to be wearing a mask.
Okay, well, then write me up.
It's the law.
Okay, then take me to jail.
It's not the law.
Then take me to jail.
Show me the law.
Show me the law.
You have to leave.
You guys have to leave.
I don't know why that one sheriff's deputy sounds like he's vaguely British or Canadian or something, but it's so fitting because you get this American, just great American man.
And he's like, get out of my business.
You people are violating the law.
GTFO, basically, right?
That's the subtext of everything he's saying.
And then this ridiculous bureaucrat, this awful, underminer of our legal order.
He goes, you're meant to be wearing a mask.
You're, you're, Come on, you should be wearing a mask.
Where's the law?
You should wear a mask.
It's not a big deal.
Well, if it's not a big deal, why are you invading my business?
Doesn't this risk more lives by you coming in here?
You could spread it.
Who knows?
It could be a super spreader event.
No, it's just a flex of power.
Well, you're meant to be wearing a mask.
No, I'm not.
I'm not meant to be wearing a mask.
I'm a human being, and I'm meant to breathe fresh air, and I'm meant to be a social creature, and I'm meant to see other people and see smiles and communicate with people, because that is perhaps the defining feature of my humanity.
So I'm not meant to be wearing a mask.
These guys don't back down.
And finally, because they can't produce a warrant, the cops, they got nothing, finally, they leave.
It's code enforcement.
It's just the code.
It's not the law.
It's the code that some bureaucrat wrote.
So you have no legal remedies to that.
You guys just start chanting at these just dunce cops.
Okay, I suppose we're meant to leave them.
They're on the phone.
I don't know why the Americans won't let us come in and take away all of their rights and invade their businesses.
Yeah, damn right.
Damn right.
The left is furious that they can't come up with new codes every single day, capricious new regulations, and enforce them willy-nilly.
But then the left is furious when just laws are actually enforced.
I'll give you an example.
Just over the past few days, Orlando Hall was executed by the state.
Orlando Hall, and people are very upset.
I think he was a black man, so they're making a racial issue out of this as well.
Obviously, it has nothing to do with his crime or the way he was convicted and the way that he was executed.
But they're trying to make a racial issue out of it.
Then they're trying to say the death penalty is illegitimate per se.
Here's one writer from The Atlantic.
There will never be a day when the death penalty is anything other than utterly cruel and barbaric.
But this execution is made particularly horrific by the fact that Orlando Hall is the first person to be executed by a lame duck administration in over 100 years!
No, he was executed by the criminal justice system and a lame duck administration is another term for the administration.
It's another term for the duly elected president and the man who's tasked with the responsibility to execute the laws.
And when the law says so, to execute criminals.
Ayanna Pressley, who is the Ringo Starr of the squad, says we must abolish the death penalty.
Joe Biden, same thing, expresses his opposition to the death penalty.
This is one area where conservatives sometimes go a little squishy and get it wrong.
Probably because they're following their right lights, you know, but they just get it a little off in the beginning.
Who was this poor man who was executed by the state?
Orlando Hall was convicted of kidnapping a 16-year-old Texas girl, then repeatedly raping her, then bludgeoning her on the head with a shovel, but not killing her.
He buried her alive after he bludgeoned her with the shovel, and then because she didn't die, he doused her with gasoline and lit her on fire.
That guy.
That's the guy.
That's the great cause that the left...
It's taking up.
You say, well, it's wrong for the state to kill a man.
Why?
According to what standard?
Christianity.
The Bible explicitly defends.
St.
Paul explicitly defends capital punishment.
The great doctors of the church explicitly defend capital punishment.
St.
Thomas Aquinas explicitly defends capital punishment.
Well, the church though, Catholics in particular, talk about this.
Many popes not only defended the death penalty, They carried them out.
Blessed Pope Pius IX carried out many death penalties in the papal states.
Justice is an important thing.
Mercy is wonderful too, especially at a personal level.
But justice must be carried out.
The idea that you can give a man, I don't know, 30 years or 50 years in prison, and that that's totally fine, not morally questionable at all, but that by killing a man for the crime, letting a man stand up and hang, or stand up with a cigarette in front of a firing squad, and take his just punishment, that that is somehow unjust, immoral?
It's morally incoherent to say that.
Totally incoherent.
The victims here have some claim to justice, and the state has a responsibility to exact justice.
You know, the left does pick very unpopular issues here.
Very, very, very bizarre.
Obviously, they're...
The crazed opposition to the death penalty would be one example.
But another example would be this Green New Deal.
So AOC, just to show you the popularity of the Green New Deal, $93 trillion program that would utterly upend American society and basically overturn the Constitution.
AOC holds an event for the Green New Deal.
She's there.
She's in the background.
These two activists show up, and they're so earnest, and they're so ready.
Oh my gosh, you can hear the enthusiasm in everybody's voices.
We're about to sing a song called We Are Standing For Our Futures.
If you know the song, sing along.
If you don't know it, listen and then sing it when you figure it out.
Alright.
We are standing for our futures.
We are healing what is wrong.
We are standing for our futures and together we are strong.
This is so sad.
You see like two people in the background clapping.
but even AOC can't really muster the energy to do it.
- We are standing for our futures and together-- - Even like sort of middle-aged women We are standing for our futures.
We are healing what is wrong.
We are standing for our futures.
And together we are strong.
We are standing for our futures.
We are healing what is wrong.
We are standing for our futures.
And together we are strong.
We are standing for our futures.
And together we are strong.
We are standing for our futures.
We are healing what is wrong.
We are standing for our future.
We are standing for our future.
Is that going to be our future?
Is the Green New Deal going to be our future?
Is the administrative state going to be our future?
Is ceding more and more control over to absolutely idiotic scientific eggheads going to be our future?
Or are we going to take our future back?
There's a process that's going to play out.
We're going to have to have patience and we're going to have to keep fighting.
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