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Dec. 3, 2020 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 656 - Four More Years

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President Trump is fighting in court to win another four years.
But if that doesn't work out for him, he is not losing hope, and he doesn't want you to lose hope either.
Otherwise, he'll see us in four years.
The show keeps going on.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
My favorite comment from yesterday is from Haley, who says, if the founding fathers were alive, they would have voted for Trump.
Unfortunately, they are dead, so they probably voted for Biden.
This is true.
That's something that the Biden campaign can brag about.
I'm sure every single one of the founding fathers did vote for him.
And they all moved to Pennsylvania, actually.
I guess some of them were already there.
That's where the Constitutional Convention was.
You know...
Donald Trump is not giving up.
I know there are so many questions.
Is the Trump campaign going to win these legal battles?
Well, they keep getting shot down in court.
Well, is he going to go to the Supreme Court?
Are they going to keep fighting for four years?
There is a lot of endurance that's being shown by the Trump campaign.
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He's going to duke this thing out in court, presumably until the electors vote on December 14th.
And then if it doesn't work out, he'll run again.
That's at least what he said at the White House Christmas Party.
Maybe he is just putting that out into the world.
Maybe he doesn't really mean it.
Maybe he's not really prepping a campaign.
But this is the right attitude.
I think right now, there are conservatives on both sides of this question who are missing the right attitude.
Some conservatives are saying, this is it.
We're only going to fight for this.
If we don't win this race, then we're not going to vote for senators.
Then we're not going to vote in four years.
Then we're going to basically give up on the political process.
That's one side.
The other side says Trump's got to concede now.
If he doesn't concede to Joe Biden, he's destroying the norms of our Constitution.
If he follows the constitutional process, he'll be behaving in such an unconstitutional way.
No, both sides, I think, are wrong there.
We need to fight, and we need to acknowledge realities, and we need to remain courageous.
We need to remain hopeful and Hope is a theological virtue.
We need to remain courageous.
That is the prerequisite of all the other virtues.
We can do all of those things at once.
We need to fight this as though this is the battle, because this is the battle.
But we need to recognize...
There are going to be other battles.
We live in time.
We live in space.
If President Trump is looking ahead at the future and saying, okay, look, I want to win this.
I feel we did win this.
I feel there was a lot of fraud.
I feel there was a lot of cheating.
But guess what, buddy?
If you guys do manage to win this at the level of the courts...
You're not going to keep me down.
I'm going to keep running again.
That's the right attitude.
Some conservatives are getting demoralized, including some of the most vocal defenders of President Trump.
Sean Hannity, on his program the other day, was speaking with the lawyer Sidney Powell.
And Sean Hannity suggested that if Biden becomes president, if Donald Trump is on his way out, that he should issue a pardon for himself and for his family.
I watched Andrew Weissman come out and literally say, oh, Biden's AG needs to go after Donald Trump.
And I'm like, the president out the door needs to pardon his whole family and himself because they want this witch hunt to go on in perpetuity.
They're so full of rage and insanity against the president.
I mean, can the president, I assume that the power of the pardon...
Is absolute and that he should be able to pardon anybody that he wants to?
It is absolute.
It's in the Constitution.
I don't know about his authority to pardon himself, but it should not be necessary.
And aside from that, the president's going to get another four years in office to finish the job he started.
So, Sidney Powell is still really holding out.
I hope we'll get in one second to her legal strategy here.
You'll recall that Sidney Powell is not working officially with the Trump legal campaign.
Well, the Trump campaign is focusing on specific...
Matters of election fraud and unconstitutionality in Pennsylvania, Sidney Powell is pursuing this idea that there was a national, very widespread hacking scheme to shift votes.
So she's still pursuing that.
But to Sean Hannity's point, it seems to me that's not the right attitude to have.
Do respect to Sean.
I get it.
It's true.
The Biden legal team is going to try to go after Trump.
They're going to have a lot of encouragement from the base to these frothing jackals of the Democratic base to go after Trump once he leaves office.
But I don't think Trump should pardon himself because Trump hasn't done anything illegal.
There would be nothing to pardon himself for.
And, you know, I think that's sort of Hannity's point.
He says whatever they go after Trump for, he should just pardon himself now.
I don't think that's how pardons work.
We certainly haven't seen that sort of thing in American history.
I think if Trump were to do anything of that sort, it would be Giving in too much.
It would be giving in to despair and discouragement.
It would be giving in to fear, servile fear, by saying, I think they're going to come get me, so I exonerate myself.
Of what?
I don't know.
But whatever they accuse me of, I didn't do it.
And it would be, in a way, an admission of guilt.
Guilt, again, for what?
I'm not quite so sure.
In America, we do not have a political tradition of jailing our vanquished politicians, at least at the presidential level.
And we don't have a tradition of jailing our political opponents in this country, even though some of them probably do deserve jail.
For instance, some people who were the former, future first female president four years ago, you know, those sort of people, there is evidence that they've done things that are illegal.
We still don't put them in prison because that's what tin pot dictatorships do.
That's what banana republics do and we don't want to do that.
If President Trump were to pardon himself, as Sean is describing here, it would be a sort of concession that we're now living in the world where we jail our political opponents once they leave the presidency.
I don't think that's the right way to play it.
I understand why people are reacting with such extremes to this legal process right now.
Either to saying the whole country is completely over or to saying that Trump's got to give up immediately or the country's over.
It's because we don't like tension.
I've noticed women especially don't like tension.
They don't like apprehension.
But generally, we all don't like uncertainty, and so we want to resolve the uncertainty, even if it resolves in a way that is unpleasant, even if it resolves in a way that we're fearing.
Even if it resolves to the point that we're now saying we jail our political opponents once they leave the presidency.
But because we don't like the apprehension, we just want some conclusion.
So we don't need to be in suspense.
Life is lived in suspense.
You don't know what's going to happen.
Patience is a virtue.
If you keep up that sort of attitude where you say, oh, okay, you're going to do your worst to me?
You're going to completely vanquish me?
You think you've vanquished me?
I don't think so.
I'll see you in four years.
That is a winning strategy.
That is courage.
Now, you heard Sidney Powell on that clip mention that she is convinced that there is this nationwide election fraud.
Not just that there's nationwide election fraud, but that they will prove this in court and President Trump will get another four years in office, which she's...
Describing a sort of confidence here that I think even President Trump is not necessarily displaying.
So what is her evidence?
The election fraud we are uncovering is massive and there were foreign actors involved in our system.
People from Germany and Serbia and China were all in our election the night it happened.
So I have no doubt that foreign actors tried to interfere in the election.
I'm not sure exactly how they did it.
This was, by the way, our response in 2016.
The left said that the Russians tried to interfere in the presidential election.
And some conservatives, I guess, deny that.
But I don't deny that the Russians tried to interfere.
Foreign actors tried to interfere in every single election.
The question is, how successful were they?
With the so-called Russiagate, they bought $100,000 worth of Facebook ads.
Media companies spend that in a week on Facebook ads.
That's nothing.
That's not going to affect it.
Now, Sidney Powell's claim is that these foreign actors were actually going and hacking the voting system, shifting the votes.
Again, I have no doubt that they would do it if they could.
I have no doubt that they are that corrupt and they want to mess up our system.
The question is, can you prove it?
And time is ticking.
You know, we have, what, less than 10 days now?
Until, no, I guess about 10 days until the electors vote.
So how much longer before we, how much longer do we have to wait?
How much longer do we have to be in the suspense and apprehension to see this evidence of the hacking?
It's not enough to say, I have a hunch that this happened.
Sure.
It's not enough to say this could have happened.
Absolutely it could have happened.
You have to prove it with certain...
That's just a descriptive fact of our political and judicial system.
You've got to prove it with a high degree of persuasion.
And so far, we haven't seen that happen.
So I hope that she brings the goods, but as of now, we haven't seen it.
Now, there is specific evidence of fraud in certain cases, not even just at the presidential level.
In one congressional race in New York involving a congressional candidate that I actually know personally...
The two candidates, the Democratic incumbent and the Republican challenger, are separated by 12 votes.
I want to talk about your vote mattering.
I want to talk about going out there, even if it's a system that's vulnerable to fraud.
So, New York's 22nd Congressional District, you've got the Republican Claudia Tenney, has a 12-vote lead over the Democratic incumbent, Anthony Brindisi.
And that's good news, right?
Because that means Claudia's going to win.
The Republican's going to win.
We're all good.
It's been almost a month now since the elections.
I think we should be able to count our ballots by now.
Talk about a tin pot dictatorship.
We can't even count our ballots within a month.
Well, no.
We have to keep counting the ballots until the Democrat wins.
Claudia has a 12-vote lead.
Well, guess what?
Conveniently, They just found a batch of 55 ballots.
They were hidden.
I don't know where they were.
They were underneath the mail truck or something.
They just found this batch.
The Chenango County Attorney, Alan Gordon, said that election officials determined that of these 55 ballots found, 44 of them are valid.
Now, the other way to read that is 11 of these votes were fraudulent, were ineligible.
How'd they end up there?
So 44 are valid.
44 could swing an election easily if the election is right now hanging by 12 votes.
So this county attorney has advised the Board of Elections to secure the ballots, leave them unopened in their offices, and obviously throw out the ones that are illegitimate.
But now 44 ballots.
I hope they're unopened.
I hope that there are legitimate ballots.
I hope that they weren't just being held in case they were needed by the Democrats.
But when the votes trickle in and trickle in and trickle in until the Democrats win, that does not give us confidence in the system.
It discourages us in some way because we feel like we can't win.
But they're still fighting.
Claudia Tenney is still fighting.
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There is evidence of shenanigans, of irregularities.
I don't think we should just throw up our hands.
You know, some people, not President Trump.
President Trump is saying, go out, keep up the fight, vote for the Republicans in Georgia, make sure we hold the Georgia Senate seats, so therefore we will hold the Senate majority.
He's saying that.
There are some people who are saying, don't even vote in Georgia, don't justify, don't legitimize this fraudulent voting system.
I completely sympathize with that point of view.
I empathize with it, I guess.
Because it feels as though, in many places where it counts, the system is rigged.
Conveniently, a pipe bursts.
And, oh, we've got to stop counting.
Go home, poll watchers, at 10.30.
Oh, hey guys, maybe you can keep counting now that those Republicans are gone.
Oh, look, it's going to the Democrats.
In Pennsylvania, oh, sorry, we're not allowed to have Republican poll watchers here.
In New York with Claudia's race, oh, look, Claudia's winning.
Well, we just found another batch of votes.
I get it.
It's easy to just throw your hands up in the air.
That is not going to be a winning strategy going forward because we are still going to live here and either we're going to have, well, if Joe Biden does become president, either we're going to have bad government or if he becomes president with a Democratic Senate majority, we're going to have really bad government.
And if we just check out of the process altogether, we're going to have really, really, really bad government.
So you've got to pick the lesser of these two bad situations.
Ben is actually going to be talking about this on the show.
He's going to be talking about this move to throw up your hands and not vote in Georgia and why it's important that we actually do vote in Georgia.
Now, there are other ways to challenge the election, even beyond the Electoral College voting.
So the Electoral College votes on December 14th.
Then the Congress is going to have the opportunity to challenge that vote.
It's another phase in the process.
And Alabama Republican Representative Mo Brooks is telling his colleagues that he plans to challenge the results of the Electoral College vote if the body votes to certify Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as the next president.
Now, how does this work?
The Electoral College votes then...
If a member of the House and a member of the Senate raise this objection and challenge the Electoral College vote, this opens up the floor to debate.
The floor of the House and the Senate will have to deliberate on this matter.
Okay, fine, that's a great last-ditch effort, but if it comes to that...
Then that last ditch effort and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee.
The House is in Democratic control.
The Senate, I hope, remains in Republican control.
We'll see in January.
It would be a strong way to basically scream against the wind, but it probably would not accomplish very much.
And right now, we need to keep up the fight for the presidency and for the Senate, but we also have to look at probabilities and realities so that we can make the most of our time right now.
This is something that Bill Barr is doing.
So we mentioned yesterday that Bill Barr came out and said so far he hasn't seen evidence of widespread hacking, sort of the fraud that Sidney Powell is talking about.
He since came out, by the way, and tempered that statement.
He said, I'm not saying there's no fraud that went on.
I'm not even saying there's not enough fraud to overturn the election.
I'm just saying we have not seen it yet.
Bring it to me.
You know, bring it on.
Please, please.
But in the meantime, Bill Barr did something behind the scenes that I think is very important.
You've heard of the John Durham investigation.
This is a criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia hoax and into wrongdoing at the FBI and the DOJ and the deep state, the blob, right?
There's a big worry here that if Joe Biden becomes president...
There goes John Durham.
There goes the investigation.
We're not going to find out how the Russia hoax started.
We're not going to find out if Joe Biden was involved in that because there's a lot of evidence that he was or that Susan Rice was involved in that or that Barack Obama was involved in that, that they had direct knowledge.
So what Bill Barr just did, and he did it surreptitiously, is he made John Durham a special counsel.
You remember special counsel.
It's the same procedure that created the Mueller investigation.
The special counsel has much more latitude to conduct an investigation.
What this means is that if Joe Biden does become president, he's not going to be able to fire John Durham so easily.
I don't know.
We're always told that these investigations are going to uncover corruption and all these guys are getting holed off to jail, which probably is not even a great idea anyway.
But you do want them to face consequences.
You do want them to face justice, especially these lower level guys, John Brennan, Clapper.
These guys actually probably should see an orange jumpsuit.
And then it just doesn't turn out that way.
Then they come up with nothing.
When it's Democrats alleging it, they come up with nothing.
Even when it's Republicans, they come up with nothing.
But at the very least, this gives us a chance.
We're in this state of anticipation.
We're in this state of not knowing.
Okay, fine.
We've got to drag that out when that is the best option that we have.
We can also take an important opportunity right now to break up the left-wing educational cartel.
This is something that Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, has been working on.
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Right now, amid all of the unfair things going on, the lockdown, we're locking down again, aren't we?
And the people who are locking down, these Democratic governors and mayors, aren't abiding their own lockdown orders.
Gavin Newsom is having Michelin-rated meals at the French Laundry.
You have the LA County Supervisor saying, we need to shut down, it's not safe.
And then two hours later, she goes and has dinner in Santa Monica.
It's very, very frustrating.
But don't get demoralized.
There are opportunities in crisis.
There are silver linings even to storm clouds.
Betsy DeVos pointed out that higher education, lower education too though right now, amount basically to socialist indoctrination and that what the government is attempting to do if there is a Biden administration is We're not just talking about what is being taught in schools, left-wing ideology, but the actual move by the government to install a socialized takeover of the educational system.
Policy should never entice students into greater debt, nor should they put taxpayer dollars at greater risk.
There are too many politicians today who support policy that does both.
Still more advanced the truly insidious notion of government gift-giving.
We've heard shrill calls to cancel, to forgive, to make it all free.
Any innocuous label out there can't obfuscate what it really is.
Wrong.
The campaign for free college is a matter of total government control.
Make no mistake, it is a socialist takeover of higher education.
Now, depending on your personal politics, some of you might not find that notion as scary as I do.
But mark my words, none of you would like the way it will work.
Absolutely right.
I know that people bandy about the word socialism and sometimes they use it incorrectly.
Maybe often they use it incorrectly.
Betsy DeVos is not using it incorrectly here.
What the government is talking about, the government already has a role in education.
There are public schools and obviously public state colleges.
What the government is talking about now, what the Biden team is talking about, is giving out free education.
What does free education mean?
Free education means that the government will control the entire higher education system.
And it might be through a few layers, so it might not seem direct, but he who pays the piper calls the tune.
And if the government does get involved in that, that is a full-on government takeover of education.
That is a socialist power grab.
What can we do now to prevent that?
Well, we can keep fighting in court.
Hopefully, we prevent the Biden administration.
Well, we can keep fighting, hopefully, prevent a Democratic Senate so that they don't have the ability to pass this kind of radical legislation.
They'll just do it from the bureaucratic level, but they'll be more hampered that way.
What else can we do?
We can vote with our feet, or I suppose vote with our wallets, and Yeah, that's true.
They might not be learning their arithmetic, although if it's common core math, then maybe it's good they don't learn that.
It also means they're not going to be learning their radical left ideology.
It also means they're not going to be learning the 1619 Project that teaches them to hate their country.
It also means that you're going to see new educational opportunities, homeschooling, different pod learning communities, parochial schools growing, private schools, charter schools.
That's what we need to do.
We need to take that up to the college level as well.
I understand that people still feel that going to college is always 100% of the time the way to get a good credential, to get you a better job.
I think that is becoming less and less true every day.
I'm a defender of liberal education.
I know there are a lot of conservatives who say, Don't worry about education.
You know, if you're going to go to school, major in engineering or something.
I'm not one of those guys.
I think if you go to school, you should very likely major in English or history or philosophy.
I am a total defender of liberal education and the liberal arts.
But that's not what you're getting at most of these colleges, and the price tag is way too high to justify it.
I don't think the point of college is to go out and get a job.
It's actually the opposite.
It's to learn things that are not practically useful at all.
They're just useful in helping you make sense of your freedom.
That's why it's called the liberal arts.
But you're not getting that.
You should, at the very least, get that.
And you're not.
You're not getting that at all.
So break it up.
Break it up.
What's the point?
More and more employers, I'm seeing, don't care if you have a certain special college degree.
more and more I'm, because those college degrees are increasingly not reflecting the skill set that they were supposed to reflect.
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This is an opportunity to break that down.
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We have got a lot more to get to here.
There have been fears of a great reset.
With the lockdowns, with the way that the establishment is trying to build back better and all these kind of creepy slogans, well, we're starting to see that come to fruition with the notion of vaccine passports.
That is no longer just a tinfoil hat fear.
That is no longer the stuff of dystopian science fiction novels.
That would appear to be implemented now in parts of the United Kingdom.
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Let's reset and let's get ready for the great reset that our elites are trying to foist upon us.
This term, reset, is not just the stuff of fevered conspiracy theories.
You have heard leaders around the world use this phrase with regard to the lockdown.
It did occur to me early on in the lockdown that as the rules were always changing and the justification was always changing, we needed the lockdown to To slow the spread or flatten the curve.
Then we did flatten the curve and they said, no, we need to find a cure.
And we do have a cure, I guess, with these vaccines, 95% effective, but we're still locking down again.
It just seemed like the justification was always changing.
It occurred to me, the coronavirus lockdowns basically gave the left the Green New Deal.
Isn't that strange?
Cut down emissions by a whole lot, gave the government much more control than it had, set up massive spending schemes, massive redistribution of wealth, all in the name of this global threat that we're all going to die from, even though it has a very, very, very, very high survival rate.
We're all going to die unless you give us a lot of power, unprecedented power from the perspective of the United States, and a lot of money.
This is the same argument for the Green New Deal.
The world is going to end if you don't give us all the power and all the money.
And when's it going to end?
I don't know.
It's going to end in, what did she say?
She said 12 years, AOC. That was a couple years ago, so now it's 10 years, I guess.
I promise you the world is not going to end in 10 years.
I think it's very unlikely.
If it is, I'll owe you each 100 bucks or something.
Prince Charles, who's hysteric when it comes to the global warming alarmism, he said a number of years ago that the world was going to end in 18 months.
Still here, as far as we can tell.
But it's the same argument.
It's fundamentally the same argument.
And now these fears are becoming even more real for this so-called reset.
Wales, in the United Kingdom, is implementing something akin to a vaccine passport.
From the Welsh health minister, Von Githing, he says...
Those receiving a COVID-19 vaccination will be given a credit card-sized National Health Service Wales immunization card, which will have the vaccine name, date of immunization, and batch number of each of the doses given handwritten on them.
Huh?
What?
Why am I getting an identification card to tell me that I've had this vaccine that has just come out?
It's not even available to the public yet.
What would I need that for?
Now, of course, the health minister here says, oh, it's just for your own good.
It's just to remind you.
He says, these cards will act as a reminder for the second dose and for the type of vaccine.
It will also give information about how to report side effects.
Okay, well, I don't need to carry a card around to have a phone number.
I can just put that on my phone.
This comes amid concerns, though, that British businesses, not even just the government, but businesses, will start to require proof of vaccination as a condition of entering their businesses.
This has been suggested a lot before.
Now, you're going to see a lot of arguments crop back here because notice that it won't be the government leading the mandates for the vaccine passport.
It will be businesses.
And there will be some maybe more libertarian-minded conservatives who will say, oh well, it's just business.
Businesses are free to do whatever they want.
As long as it's not the government forcing me to take this vaccine and carry around proof of it all the time.
As long as it's not the government, it's totally fine.
And you will have conservatives saying, no, I don't think so.
I don't care if my life is being upended and my civil rights taken away and my traditions destroyed and my society wrecked and my family broken up.
I don't care if it's the government doing that or big business doing that or anyone else doing that.
I don't want that to happen.
If I am prevented from engaging in our society...
Without this vaccine or a proof of the vaccine by business or the government, the end result is the same.
And I don't really care the mechanism.
I don't really care about the procedure.
I don't want that to happen.
I do not deny.
I think conservatives actually go a little bit wrong when they deny that the government has the right to make you do extraordinary things in the name of emergencies.
That's what the police power is for.
That's how we had this whole lockdown foisted on us in the first place.
Because the government does have the legitimate police power.
The government has the right to force you to take a vaccine, for goodness sakes.
It seems extreme, but there have been court cases to this effect.
So I think we need to stop arguing from this abstract perspective and just say it's rights.
They have no right to do it.
It's the government's bad.
Business is good.
Whatever this abstraction is and get down into the particulars.
I know that that involves more apprehension or involves more uncertainty.
Okay, that's where battles are fought and won.
That's where life is lived.
The government has the right to certain police powers?
Yeah, totally grant that.
Government even has the right to force someone to be vaccinated during an epidemic?
Okay, sure.
Fine.
I'm not even going to fight that.
I don't want this.
I don't want the government to force everybody to take this vaccine.
I don't want big business to force everybody to take this vaccine.
I don't want to be required to carry a vaccine passport.
I'm not making an abstract argument about that.
I'm making a narrow political argument.
As far as I can tell, we the people still have some voice in our government that hasn't totally been taken away.
John Ossoff, who's running for the Senate in Georgia, espoused the view of the Democrats if they get power, which is we need to take more power away from we the people, need to give it over to experts who know so much better than we know ourselves.
Uh-uh.
Not yet.
I'm not willing to concede that yet.
We still have a right to express the way that we want to live in our politics, in our society.
And I don't want that.
I think we need to push back against that.
You are starting to see this, by the way.
You're seeing business owners push back against this.
You're seeing people go out in the And show up to bars.
Show up to restaurants.
And they're not, it's not like BLM. They're not going in and, you know, peacefully stealing Gucci handbags and Nike sneakers.
They're going and they want to keep their businesses open and they want to frequent their favorite businesses and they want to see their family and they want to see their friends.
The Great Reset, such as it is, will not come out overnight as some total dystopian overturning of society.
It will be a gradual process like the frog in the boiling water.
The temperature goes up and up and up and you don't realize how much danger you're in until it's boiling.
The Great Reset, whatever that means, is going to be a reframing of the country.
The country right now is broadly considered a center-right country and has been for some time.
It seems less and less true each day as we radically redefine reality, marriage, sexuality itself, as we redefine the family, as we redefine our relationship to the government, etc.
It's seeming less and less that way all the time.
But if we were a center-right country, the way that we're going to reframe it is we're going to continue to say we're a center-right country, but the politics is going to move far to the left.
Jennifer Rubin, one of the most dishonest columnists in America, Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post, who pretends to be a conservative, she's a far-left radical liberal, and she actually calls herself a conservative.
Jennifer Rubin says that The country is center-right, and the Biden administration, if it ascends to the presidency, will be center-right.
Headline of her piece.
Joe Biden's personnel picks engender no legitimate GOP gripes.
She writes, I kid you not, President-elect Joe Biden has selected a flock of experienced center-right nominees for top positions, progressive enough to reassure most Democrats and reasonable enough to impress conservative policy wonks.
When it looks more certain how this presidential race will play out, you know, it is getting more certain by the day, unfortunately.
We can go through all of the Biden picks.
He hasn't named too many yet, I think because he doesn't want to spook people.
I think he wants to just put out a few picks and then wait and see when it looks like he's going to We're good to go.
These are not center-right people.
But they could be center-right.
If you take the framing from, say, Barack Obama on the left to Donald Trump on the right, then...
These Joe Biden picks are radical left.
But if you take the framing from, let's say, Donald Trump on the right and Karl Marx on the left, or AOC, or Lenin, or I don't know, Che Guevara on the left, then all of a sudden the picks do seem center-right because you've moved the extremes.
You've moved, excuse me, you've moved the edges so, so far that now the Biden picks seem legitimate.
You're seeing this on Wikipedia, actually, too.
So there was an article on Wikipedia put up by one of their editors called Rewriting Wikipedia.
This went up by one of their pseudonymous editors, NewsSlinger, talking about how Wikipedia is anti-conservative.
We all know this.
If you ever looked at most conservatives, I would say at this point, who are given a Wikipedia page, they're called conspiracy theorists.
They're called spreaders of fake news.
They attack my page.
They attack Daily Wire's page.
They attack Charlie Kirk, whoever, all these guys.
And so people have been complaining about this, and we've said Wikipedia is a left-wing news source.
Well, Wikipedia comes out and they said, no, actually, Wikipedia is center-right, because of some study from a Harvard center.
The Berkman Klein Center report identified Wikipedia as a center-right website on the candidate valence scale throughout the 2016 U.S. elections.
And I'm sure that there are going to be other arguments that you hear.
Oh, yes, according to PolitiFact, Wikipedia is center-right.
Oh yes, according to AOC, Wikipedia is center-right.
Okay, it's not center-right according to me.
That's going to be a reframing.
And it doesn't feel quite as satisfying to just gradually try to pull the country back to the right.
But that is what conservatives do.
We are not radicals.
We are not even revolutionaries.
We are conservatives.
We want gradual change.
Because gradual change will be lasting change.
And that's where life exists.
The left did not just win an election and thereby take the culture.
The left embarked on a decades-long march through the institutions, took over higher education, took over the media, took over Hollywood, took over technology.
The big tech, as we know it today, is really, what, about 30 years old?
They took it over completely.
All of these institutions, they went in, they worked, they did this grunt work.
We don't know many of the names of these radicals who took it over because they just were nobody, right?
They were just functionaries of the left-wing cause.
And all of a sudden you wake up and the country is much, much further to the left.
Well, we have to do a similar sort of thing.
Occasionally, occasionally, we can push back on these guys.
And it's not always going to be successful.
Sometimes it is, though.
Candace Owens just got this, actually.
Candace Owens made the perfectly accurate statement the other day on Facebook that Joe Biden is not the president-elect.
I've made this statement, too.
People excoriate me for it.
It is simply a fact that Joe Biden is not the president-elect.
Well, she was censored.
She was called a liar by PolitiFact.
PolitiFact, the objective, neutral, probably center-right fact-checking.
Right now, it's left-wing.
Why did they call her a liar?
I don't know, because they said the media called the race and it looks like he's going to get all these votes.
Candace did not just roll over.
Candace lawyered up, threatened to sue them, and PolitiFact offered a rare correction.
She offered this correction.
They said, whoopsie-daisy, we've gone back and looked and said, oh yes, we've now corrected this.
Okay.
Well, this is important because these fact-checking websites, quote-unquote, left-wing websites like PolitiFact, are involved in determining what gets censored on social media platforms.
So social media platforms pretend that they've got these neutral fact checkers who are, you know, and they throw their hands up in the air.
But no, they partner with these left-wing organizations.
And so we've got to push back.
And you know what?
If you push back against them, you are going to fail not just 9 out of 10 times.
You're probably going to fail 99 out of 100 times.
But if you just keep it up, eventually, eventually, you might succeed.
You can also vote with your feet.
Right now we've learned that Hewlett-Packard is leaving California.
They announced this on Tuesday.
Hewlett-Packard is currently located in San Jose, California.
They are going to move to Texas.
Why?
Because Texas imposes a 0.75% franchise tax on business margins.
California imposes an 8.85% corporate tax.
Not to mention that Texas has no individual income tax compared to California's current top rate tax.
Of 13.3%, which is now expected to rise to 16.3% very soon.
It's a state tax.
You know, we moved to Tennessee.
Right now I'm in Washington, D.C. because we shot some episodes of Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
But when I go back to Tennessee, I will not be paying any state income taxes.
Very important stuff because there are a lot of people fleeing California now.
I mean, these states, Tennessee, Texas, they're filling up because you can vote with your feet.
Now, is that going to change the culture overnight?
No.
But there are these modest gains that you can make.
And if you just show that you're not going to back down I think that we need to challenge this election in the courts.
And you keep that up and you look and they say, no, we're going to take it from you.
No, Biden's going to win.
No, according to the system.
And you look and you say, okay, I'm going to keep fighting you, but you know what?
If you beat me on this bet, I'll see you again in four years.
I'm not giving up.
Do not give up, no matter how daunting the odds.
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