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Ep. 658 - Georgia On My Mind

Trump stumps to keep control of the Senate in Georgia, SCOTUS helps the POTUS’s election challenge, and business owners have had enough of California’s tyrants. 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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	President Trump is back on the campaign trail, this time in Georgia, trying to prevent Democrats from taking control of the Senate.
	Kelly's opponent, Raphael Warnock, is a dangerous extremist who is radically opposed to your values.
	He said he believes that, quote, nobody can serve God and the military.
	Really?
	An appalling statement that dishonours the memory and generations of American heroes who fought for God and for our country.
	Raphael Warnock has openly declared his support for socialism, and he has even praised Marxists all over the world.
	He once hosted the barbaric communist dictator Fidel Castro.
	He likes Castro.
	He was a good man.
	He was a good guy, he said.
	He falsely slandered patriotic Americans as racists.
	He called police officers gangsters, thugs and bullies.
	He supports abolishing cash bail.
	Look at what happened to New York with their cash bail.
	No cash bail.
	No bail.
	Don't worry about it.
	You killed somebody.
	Don't worry about it.
	You know, you're on the honor code.
	You're on the honor code.
	That's true.
	And frankly, that's only a fraction of the radicalism that we've seen from Warnock.
	This Georgia Senate race, these two Georgia Senate races, are going to be extraordinarily important because the Georgia races are not over.
	The presidential race is not even over.
	We've got updates on all of it.
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	President Trump down in Georgia to help out with these Senate races.
	I hope that this can put an end to a canard that I've been hearing from critics of Donald Trump for the past several weeks, namely that Trump doesn't care at all about Republicans keeping the Senate, namely that Trump doesn't mind if Loeffler and Perdue lose in Georgia, that he's only in it for himself, he's not trying to help the greater cause.
	Trump Contrary to what some lawyers who are helping Donald Trump have been saying, Trump has consistently told people to go vote in the Georgia races.
	He has not told people to sit out the Georgia races, and he's gone down there to campaign.
	He is helping out in the Senate race.
	Very good.
	He is also simultaneously pursuing legal recourse in the presidential race.
	You can do two things at once.
	This was something we talked about last week.
	It seems that there is one group of people that says we need to only focus on the presidential race.
	Forget about Georgia.
	And there's another group of people that say we've got to hold the Senate.
	We've got to focus on Georgia.
	Forget about the presidential race.
	Give that up.
	One side is willing to throw out the Senate.
	The other side wants Trump to concede prematurely.
	Why can't we do both at once?
	That's what Trump is doing.
	And I think that's what we should be doing too.
	The fact that President Trump is unwilling on today, December 7th, to concede the presidential race, a day which will live in infamy, according to the mainstream media, if Trump doesn't concede, this is driving these mainstream journalists' crazy technology. this is driving these mainstream journalists' crazy technology.
	Take a listen.
	Alex Azor, the HHS secretary, went on Fox News Sunday this weekend and talked to Chris Wallace, who you will remember did not appear to be very friendly to President Trump at that presidential debate.
	So he goes on and he's referring to President Trump and he's referring to former Vice President Joe Biden.
	Chris Wallace cannot tolerate that Alex Azar will not concede the race on behalf of Trump.
	If President Trump had worn a mask then and urged everyone to wear a mask then, back in April, the way Joe Biden is right now, wouldn't we be in much better shape?
	Well, Chris, I welcome Vice President Biden to the club since the middle of April.
	The president's guidelines for reopening.
	I've called for wearing masks.
	Well, he's the president-elect, sir.
	The president has called masks, patriotic acts.
	Every one of his top advisers, we are out there saying, wear your masks.
	We talk about the data.
	You know, Chris, at one meter, if two people wear the mask, it can reduce viral transmission by 72 percent, protecting both the source and the recipient.
	We've got the data.
	Mask work.
	We encourage people, please wear a mask when you can't engage in social distancing.
	But first of all, it's the president-elect Joe Biden, Secretary Azar.
	First of all, it isn't president-elect Joe Biden.
	Joe Biden is not the president-elect.
	He simply isn't.
	Chris Wallace should have a warning label when he posts this clip on Facebook or on Twitter saying that this claim is fake news.
	Or at the very least, this claim is disputed.
	Had the election come out and the media declared the election for Joe Biden and then Donald Trump conceded, I guess it would be fair to call Joe Biden the president-elect, even though the electors hadn't voted yet.
	But that's not what happened.
	This is a hotly contested presidential election.
	There were lawsuits working their way through courts, very likely up to the Supreme Court.
	The electors have not voted.
	Meaning that as a technical matter, we simply do not have a president-elect, but because no one's conceded this, because the election is disputed, there is no argument whatsoever for calling Joe Biden the president-elect unless you are a partisan who is trying to confuse the public about a debated and contested presidential election.
	Which is obviously what Chris Wallace is doing.
	This is something that very few people pointed out on Twitter.
	When Twitter had the line that said, this claim is disputed.
	They only put that on President Trump's tweets.
	But a friend of mine, Jim O'Neill, pointed this out, that if a claim is disputed, then you ought to put the disputed label on both sides of the claim.
	So if Donald Trump comes out and says, we won this election, and Joe Biden comes out and says, we won this election, if the claim that Trump won is disputed, then that means that the claim that Biden won is disputed too.
	So you're supposed to put the label on both.
	But of course, the media don't want to do that, because when they say disputed, They mean it's disputed by us when they say sources have called this election differently.
	The sources they're referring to are themselves, and they want to make themselves the official authority for this, even though they are not.
	The courts have some authority here.
	The president has some authority if he were to concede.
	And the electors, of course, who will be voting not many days from now, have authority as well.
	Also knocking down Chris Wallace's insistence that Joe Biden is the president-elect is the Supreme Court.
	So just yesterday, this is some big news on the Trump legal front.
	Sam Alito, Supreme Court justice, asked officials in Pennsylvania to file briefs by tomorrow morning, by Tuesday morning, in response to an emergency injunction petition filed by Republicans seeking to invalidate or rescind the results of the November 3rd election in the Keystone State.
	So...
	I just did an episode with Senator Cruz on our show Verdict about this issue.
	Of all of the claims of election fraud or illegality or unconstitutionality, the clearest example of this is Pennsylvania.
	The Pennsylvania state constitution prohibits the use of widespread unsolicited mail-in ballots, the kind of ballots that we saw in this election.
	It explicitly prohibits their use.
	You gotta vote in person.
	There are some narrow carve-outs, but you have to vote in person there.
	The legislature in Pennsylvania overrode this and they said, no, you can vote by mail, widespread mail-in.
	But the legislature does not have the authority to override the Constitution.
	Now, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court came in and in a highly partisan and indefensible opinion said, oh, never mind, forget about the Constitution, have your mail-in ballots and enjoy however you're going to count them down there in Philly, guys.
	There is now a petition going to the US Supreme Court to invalidate those results because they were patently unconstitutional.
	That is a very legitimate argument.
	However, there is a deadline for these things because we need to know where the electors are going before they go and vote.
	So initially, this deadline was, or initially, rather, the Supreme Court was maybe going to hear this Thursday.
	It would have been too late.
	So they've reached this safe harbor deadline.
	What this seems to suggest is that the Supreme Court is going to weigh in on the election in Pennsylvania.
	Now, that wouldn't be enough to flip the presidential election.
	You'd also have to flip Georgia and you'd have to flip Arizona.
	Is that possible?
	I suppose it is possible.
	Is it likely?
	It's not likely.
	However, however, it's worth pointing out, it is not impossible The Trump team is still pursuing their legal options.
	Actually, our friend Jenna Ellis, who is President Trump's lawyer, has come out and given news of great progress in the legal fight.
	And this could be the way, maybe the only way, to flip the votes in Georgia and Arizona, which is they need to prove that That there was something fishy about the vote counting machines.
	We've heard the names Smartmatic.
	We've heard the names Dominion.
	We've heard all of these sorts of rumors going around about software, hacking, manipulation.
	Now we're going to find out whether that's legitimate or not because we could get a forensic audit here.
	We've got to listen to Jenna Ellis' argument and We're good to go.
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	The big news coming out of Antrim County, Michigan this morning, Pete, is that a judge actually granted our team access to 22 of the Dominion voting machines for us to conduct a forensic audit.
	So if you remember, this is the county that had this switch of 6,000 votes from President Trump to Joe Biden.
	And that was an unexplained and so-called glitch and so our team is going to be able to go in this morning at about 8.30 and we'll be there for about eight hours to conduct that forensic examination and we'll have the results in about 48 hours and that'll tell us a lot about these machines.
	So we'll find out later this week if there is any substance to the claims that Dominion and the other software have flipped the votes.
	Now this is happening because of a judge in Michigan.
	Of course, if there is some sort of systemic issue with the software, then that's going to affect the certification of the results in other states as well.
	Some people passionately believe that these voting machines were rigged.
	They see the glitches, such as thousands of ballots being flipped for somebody else.
	They see spikes in the count, and they say, this looks pretty fishy.
	They know that these electronic voting machines are vulnerable just by definition compared to older methods of voting.
	So they look at it and they say, absolutely, there was...
	A rigged election going on through the machines.
	Then there are other people who say, this is crazy.
	This is a conspiracy theory.
	There's no chance that any of the machines were rigged.
	Come on, get your tinfoil hat off.
	As always in this election fight, there is an option between these two extremes.
	The option is, okay, if you're so convinced it's a conspiracy theory, let us go in and take a look at the machines.
	If you're so convinced, then don't wipe the machines.
	There was a judge order in Georgia not to allow people to wipe the Dominion voting machines and reset them.
	Cool, there's no problem.
	Then we're going to go in there and take a look at what's going on in those machines.
	Likewise, for people who were convinced there was rigging, okay, if you're so convinced, we'll go into the machines, we'll see if there's rigging.
	Time is running out because we live in space and time, right?
	This isn't going to drag on for eight or ten years.
	Frankly, even if there was fraud, if you can't prove it in the amount of time, it doesn't matter.
	I often go back to the case of Lyndon Johnson, who stole his Senate seat in 1948.
	We now can know that with certainty.
	And we figured it out around 1990 for sure that he stole it.
	Well, okay, we got it.
	That's a moral victory, except he'd already served in the Senate.
	He was already vice president.
	He was already president.
	And he already transformed the country through his political career.
	But we didn't prove it in time.
	So we're going to find out, as Jenna says, we should know within 48 hours.
	Fine by me.
	I'm more than happy to exercise the virtue of patience and say we're going to see what happens here.
	More than happy to exercise the virtue of courage and resist calls to concede the election, even if the mainstream media, even if the putatively conservative cable news channel is insisting that we do that.
	And we'll let the legal process play out.
	Now, there is some sad news.
	One of President Trump's top legal advisors just got coronavirus.
	Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus.
	Rudy is older.
	He's 76 years old.
	He's not exactly in Olympic shape.
	I mean, he's just an older guy who's You know, he's not a marathon runner or something.
	So we hope that he recovers, of course.
	We hope he's doing very well.
	A number of blue checkmarks, a number of liberal opinion makers, when this news came out, suggested it was BS. Said it was a cover.
	That actually, look, Rudy's been flying all over the place.
	He hasn't been wearing a mask.
	He's been shaking hands.
	Rudy got COVID months ago, okay?
	He's obviously already had it.
	And multiple blue check marks have been suggesting this.
	The reason that they're saying he got it now is to kick him off the team because he's not doing a great job.
	I have no interest in hypothesizing and sort of going through this gossip mill.
	My only point on the blue checkmarks argument here is it undercuts their alarmism.
	If they're saying that actually Rudy Giuliani secretly got COVID months ago, but nobody knew about it.
	He recovered.
	He was totally fine.
	It was just a little cough or something.
	Then why are we shutting down the world over this virus?
	If our fast food chomping, physical exercise eschewing a 74-year-old president gets the virus and recovers in three days, why are we shutting down the world over this virus?
	If the virus has a far greater than 99% survival rate, why are we shutting down the world over this virus?
	I think the left, and they do this a lot, they attack the conservative position from opposite perspectives.
	They just use any cudgel they possibly can at their disposal.
	You know, either, they did this with George Bush, especially, they do it with Trump too.
	They'll say, he's a dumb idiot.
	He's a dunce.
	He's the stupidest moron who's ever been, and that's why we've got to get him out of office.
	Also, he's an evil genius.
	Also, he's the greatest evil genius KGB agent that's worked his way up through the sheer brilliance of his mad, wicked mind.
	And that's why we've got to kick him out of office.
	Obviously, those things are contradictory.
	They just throw them at the same time, especially with Donald Trump, but you've seen it with other Republicans too.
	So that's what they're saying here.
	There's They're saying, coronavirus is, look, it's so irresponsible.
	All these people in the president's orbit have gotten coronavirus.
	That's why we've got to shut down the country.
	But also, Rudy Giuliani, he's a liar.
	Rudy Giuliani already had coronavirus.
	Okay, now he's covering it up now.
	And that's why we need to kick President Trump out of office.
	Those two justifications for different political ends on the left contradict one another.
	They don't realize that it cuts against their alarmist arguments.
	They don't realize how incoherent the lockdown measures appear.
	But people are getting fed up with it.
	And it's not just conservatives and talking heads and Republican politicians.
	It's regular old people, people who own businesses, people who are in very blue places.
	California, la-la land especially, under Mayor Garcetti's control, has locked down again.
	This was after restaurants shut down, then they reopened, then they were told they had to go outside, they invest lots and lots of money.
	A friend of mine who works for a restaurant in LA said they invested $100,000 turning their parking lot into an outdoor area to eat.
	That was just shut down again, too.
	So they're locking all that down.
	Meanwhile, though, the pet projects of these politicians are allowed to continue undeterred.
	There was a woman in Los Angeles who stands to lose everything.
	She's a restaurant owner, who points out that the politicians shut down her business, but they permitted almost an identical type of business to operate right next door.
	So this is my place, the Pineapple Hill Grill and Saloon.
	If you go to my page, you can see all the work I did for outdoor dining, for tables being seven feet apart.
	And I come in today because I'm organizing a protest and I came in to get stuff for that.
	And I walk into my parking lot and obviously Mayor Garcetti has approved this.
	Has approved This being set up for a movie company.
	So, if you can't see this, this is an open area, giant tents, big tables, because L.A. is a show business town, and so they want to be able to make movies, and when you make movies, you need these areas for people to eat and hang out.
	So they set up, functionally, an outdoor restaurant.
	Right next to an outdoor restaurant.
	They say, no, the outdoor restaurant has to shut down, but the movie theater, or the movie production set, may remain open.
	Why?
	Well, I don't know.
	Because the restaurants spread coronavirus, but the movies do not.
	You might say, oh, those incompetent politicians, oh, they just don't think about it.
	Oh, how silly, how ridiculous.
	It's not just silly.
	It's not just something to laugh at.
	Many, many people are going to lose everything.
	They're going to lose their life savings.
	They're going to lose their business.
	Many, many, many people are going to be put out of work because these capricious politicians can't let go of power.
	They can't let go of their ability to arbitrarily decide what succeeds and what fails and what people are allowed to do, which changes every hour of the day.
	And this woman is rightly furious.
	I'm losing everything.
	Everything I own is being taken away from me.
	And they set up a movie company right next to my outdoor patio, which is right over here.
	And people wonder why I'm protesting and why I have had enough.
	They have not given us money and they have shut us down.
	We cannot survive.
	My staff cannot survive.
	Look at this.
	Tell me that this is dangerous.
	But right next to me, as a slap in my face, that's safe.
	This is safe?
	50 feet away?
	This is dangerous.
	Mayor Garcetti and Gavin Newsom is responsible for every single person that doesn't have unemployment, that does not have a job, and all the businesses that are going under.
	And we need your help.
	We need somebody to do something about this.
	Absolutely right.
	This is maybe the most ridiculous example of this you've seen, but you've seen other examples of this from the beginning.
	Here, you have actually two identical operations.
	One is now illegal.
	One of them is legal.
	And actually, if it's movies, it's probably being subsidized in part by the government.
	That's ridiculous.
	But you've seen it from the beginning.
	You're allowed to go out and riot for BLM, but you're not allowed to go to church.
	Why?
	Because BLM and wokeism and political correctness is the established religion of the liberal state, and Christianity and Judaism are repressed and suppressed religions.
	So you're allowed to go to the good religion.
	You're not allowed to go to the politically incorrect religion.
	Obviously, we can't rely on these politicians.
	We can't rely on their expert analysis.
	We can't rely on their advice.
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	Garcetti has a pretty weak response to all of this.
	Garcetti says to the New York Times in response to this viral video, My heart goes out to Ms.
	Marsden and the workers at the Pineapple Hill Saloon who have to comply with state and county public health restrictions that close outdoor dining.
	No one likes these restrictions.
	But I do support them as our hospital ICU beds fill to capacity and cases have increased by 500%.
	We must stop this virus before it kills thousands of more Angelenos.
	That's not an answer, buddy.
	Because her problem isn't even that you've shut down the outdoor dining.
	It's that you've only shut down some outdoor dining.
	You've shut down her outdoor dining, but then you've permitted other outdoor dining to crop up directly next to her.
	No one is saying that if the policies were coherent, then we would have them.
	What we're saying is these policies are completely incoherent.
	One day we're told you can't wear the masks.
	The next day we're told you have to wear the masks.
	One day we're told you can't go outside.
	You certainly can't protest against the lockdown restrictions.
	The next day we're told you need to go gather en masse by the thousands to go protest for BLM or protest with Antifa.
	We're told by these scoundrels like Eric Garcetti that we all have to make sacrifices.
	These politicians do not believe in this.
	They don't abide by their own mandates and they don't fear the virus.
	If they feared the virus, then Gavin Newsom wouldn't go to the French laundry and yuck it up with all his buddies, shoulder to shoulder, no masks, indoors.
	And then come out and pretend, oh gosh, what a lapse of judgment, what an accident.
	Nancy Pelosi wouldn't show up maskless to her hair salon.
	Chris Cuomo wouldn't pretend to be quarantining with the virus, actually go bike riding in the Hamptons, get into a fight with one of his neighbors because one of his neighbors made fun of him, called him out for lying on television, then lie about it on TV again.
	All of these people.
	Fauci wouldn't be caught with his mask down time and time again.
	These guys do not believe it.
	They do not fear the virus in the alarmist way that they are trying to get you to fear the virus.
	So obviously, the left has been pushing fear from the very beginning here.
	They don't believe their own warnings, but now some liberals are going even further, right?
	Because the alarmism is wearing off.
	So now there's a subtle shift in the argument.
	What they're suggesting is that it's unpatriotic, frankly, it's unmanly not to wear the mask.
	Pete Davidson, he's the guy who made fun of Dan Crenshaw on SNL. Pete Davidson just advanced this line of argument also on Saturday Night Live, where he said it's people who aren't wearing the masks, who aren't abiding by the arbitrary and capricious lockdown rules.
	You know, they're just kind of being babies.
	I take it that you found these protests frustrating.
	Yeah, man, they're making us look like babies.
	You know, you know, it's bad when even people in Boston are like, ah, drink at home, you queers!
	And do you think that people should stay at home until the pandemic gets better?
	Yeah, everyone wants to go have fun, but there's plenty of stuff you could do at home.
	Like, use your official Pete Davidson vibrator!
	So then at the end, it's a callback to a sex toy.
	But it's a non-sequitur, right?
	And it's something you see often in left-wing humor is when they run out of the point, they just go to something grotesque and usually sexual.
	But it doesn't follow.
	That isn't good comedy writing, right?
	There's no payoff there.
	The argument is stay home alone and that will make you manly and mature.
	Don't go out and see people because going out and socializing and living your life and not living in fear is somehow childish?
	Doesn't work.
	SNL has not been funny for a very long time.
	Very rarely has it been funny over the past 20, even 25 years.
	But this, I don't even think left-wingers would suggest that this bit was funny.
	And the reason it's not funny is because it's divorced from reality.
	When people watch something that's funny, what's the line that you'll often hear people say?
	It's funny because it's true, right?
	But when something rings so obviously false, then it isn't funny.
	Because it's all ideology.
	And ideology is this abstraction that tries to recreate reality.
	And the less connected the ideology is from reality, the less it will resonate with you, and the less funny these sorts of jokes will be.
	They don't believe it, by the way.
	They don't even believe it.
	There was a liberal TikToker who showed up to one of President Trump's rallies down in Georgia.
	And the point he was making was to shame Trump supporters into wearing the mask.
	And I don't think there's any question which person is manlier in this particular exchange.
	But I think it's pretty obvious that they don't even believe their own argument.
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	We've got a lot to get to here.
	You've got to check out this exchange between the liberal TikToker, the mask wearer, and the extremely manly Trump supporter, the ways in which people are pushing back on this sort of thing now, and the ways in which the left is undercutting even their own argument when it comes to the vaccine.
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	So this left winger shows up to a Trump rally and harasses the Trump supporters.
	Why won't you wear the mask?
	You guys got masks?
	No?
	No.
	Don't want one.
	Why not?
	Because I don't need it.
	Why?
	Do you need it?
	Yeah, you should wear one because there's a global pandemic going on.
	Is it?
	Yeah.
	Well, you've got yours.
	I've got mine on.
	Yeah, I'm trying to be safe.
	Okay, thanks.
	But you could infect somebody else and they could get sick.
	Will you please wear a mask?
	No.
	Please.
	Nope.
	For the sake of other people, please wear one.
	Please.
	I'm begging you.
	Please.
	No, no, I don't think so.
	I don't think so.
	How pathetic is that dude?
	He's pathetic and unmanly, but he's also deceitful and dishonest.
	Because on the one hand, how to abase yourself, to get down, I'm begging you, please wear the mask, please do it.
	And that guy, that just extremely cool Trump supporter, she's like, nah.
	Well, the masks, they'll make you safe.
	Okay, well, you got a mask, right?
	So you're safe.
	No, the masks, it's not that the masks protect the wearer, the masks protect everybody else.
	Okay.
	So if that guy really believed that, if that liberal TikToker really believed that one, this virus was extraordinarily deadly and he, a apparently healthy millennial, was at great risk from this virus.
	And B, that the masks don't protect the wearer.
	The only way the wearer of the mask is protected is if everyone else is wearing the masks.
	Then this guy basically just walked into a hive of poison.
	Right?
	Because the whole point of the video is he's going to show up and all these Trump supporters are not going to be wearing masks.
	And he's going to beg them, please wear the masks.
	But that means that he would have to think that he's walking to his death.
	Because we know the virus is going to kill everybody.
	Right?
	We know that if someone else is not wearing the mask, then you, no matter whether you're wearing the mask or not, are at great risk.
	So this guy's walking to his death.
	So he's got to be a maniac, right?
	No, he just doesn't believe it.
	None of these people believe it.
	When they get down and they pester you and they bother you and they fly across the country to go find you to pester you, what they're trying to do is get you to acquiesce to their will.
	It has nothing to do with a virus.
	It has nothing to do with public health.
	It has nothing to do with compassion.
	It's just a pure power play.
	By people who are even willing to abase themselves to do it, like this man.
	Some people, manly people, are ignoring these sorts of rules.
	Disobeying them, actually, is a better term.
	Sheriff Don Barnes in Orange County, California, the great orange hope of that state, says, quote, The ever-changing nature of these orders and the increase of COVID-19 case numbers bring additional uncertainty and stress to California residents.
	The Orange County Sheriff's Department will remain consistent in our approach.
	Orange County Sheriff's deputies will not be dispatched to or respond to calls for service to enforce compliance with face coverings, social gatherings, or stay-at-home orders only.
	Deputies will respond to calls for potential criminal behavior and for the protection of life and property.
	Our actions remain consistent with the protection of constitutional rights.
	In other words, Gavin Newsom, two words, and they're not happy birthday.
	Absolutely courageous stand, absolutely coherent stand, absolutely constitutional stand, absolutely scientific stand for that matter.
	Resisting this kind of scientifically and medically illiterate overreach, outrageous overreach.
	So the left has run out of arguments.
	Now what do they do?
	You know what they do.
	What happens when the left runs out of even its own flimsy arguments to get you to comply with whatever they want?
	They call you a racist, right?
	That's obviously it.
	That's how you know that you've won the argument, is when a left winger calls you a racist, or a sexist, or a misogynist, and a Chicago Teachers Union is exhibiting all three of those strategies in one.
	So the AFTIFT, local number one.
	This is a teachers union represents 28,000 teachers and support staff in Chicago schools.
	They don't want to go back to work.
	From the very beginning, even the experts, the public health experts, have said there's no reason to keep schools shut down.
	The transmission of the virus from the kids to other kids and then from the kids to their parents and grandparents is relatively quite low.
	We need to keep the schools open.
	Even the experts have no scientific reason to keep them closed.
	But the teachers don't want to go back to work.
	Teachers unions are fighting to keep the schools closed, because the teachers unions work for the teachers, not the students, and not the parents.
	They don't have any argument anymore to keep the schools closed, so they tweet out yesterday, the push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism, and misogyny.
	And I think this teachers union actually is teaching something.
	They're teaching students how to make up excuses that in this politically correct culture are unassailable.
	So, you know, a student could read that and justifiably come home and say, you know, mom, the push to make me finish my broccoli is rooted in sexism, racism, and misogyny.
	You know, the push to make me do my homework That push, historically, it is rooted in racism, sexism, and misogyny.
	There's no way to refute this stupid declaration other than to laugh at it.
	But I think I'm going to start employing that too.
	The push to keep the schools closed is rooted in sexism, racism, and misogyny.
	Now, they cry racism, they cry sexism, they cry misogyny on the left.
	But then they seem to change their tune when the races or the sexes change.
	So from the beginning, we've been told, the conservatives are science deniers.
	You've got these wacky liberals getting down on their knees to Trump supporters.
	Please wear the mask.
	Please comply.
	Please follow the experts.
	Believe science.
	Don't be an anti-vaxxer science denier.
	Now, Jake Tapper brings up this issue with a public health expert.
	And says, what happens when certain people refuse to take the vaccine?
	A new Pew Research poll out on Friday suggests that less than half of Black Americans say they will get a coronavirus vaccine if one were available today.
	I want you to take a listen to 52-year-old Carmen Bailey from Cleveland, Ohio.
	To me, it's too early.
	We don't know any kind of side effects from them.
	So, I just really feel like at this point, it's people that's gonna take that vaccine as guinea pigs.
	Oh, man.
	Oh, man.
	Tapper must be salivating at how he's gonna rip this woman.
	You know, frankly, to me, she seems somewhat reasonable.
	She's skeptical of the experts who have gotten everything wrong, and she's skeptical of the government, which is usually deceitful and duplicitous.
	But that's just me, Jake Tapper.
	Jake hates these anti-science, anti-vax people.
	They're mass murderers.
	There was an op-ed actually that came out in USA Today that said that the COVID spreaders are mass murderers.
	They're serial killers.
	So you know Jake Tapper's going to come in and he's going to say, this dumb science, she's probably a Trump supporter, this woman has no reason to oppose the vaccine.
	She's endangering all of us.
	All right, Jake, let it rip.
	Now, this kind of skepticism doesn't occur in a vacuum.
	The U.S. has an ugly racist history when it comes to science and medicine and black Americans.
	How specifically does Operation Warp Speed intend to address this skepticism, especially the disproportionate skepticism in the black community?
	What?
	No, no, Jake!
	Jake, you've been telling me from the beginning of this ridiculous lockdown that if I in any way question the lockdown, I am a science denier.
	I'm a wicked, dumb, stupid, uneducated person who's endangering everybody else.
	But then this lady comes out and says exactly the same thing.
	And you say, this doesn't occur in a vacuum.
	It's totally justifiable.
	We should all be skeptical.
	Just because she has a different skin color than I do.
	And frankly, even I'm Sicilian, so it's a little bit more in the middle.
	It's a little swarthy.
	So maybe he would take me half seriously.
	He'd half allow me to do it.
	Sicilians have had a difficult history in this country, as we all know.
	That exposes for me the last hint of coherence.
	Because at least the one thing they had been talking about from the beginning on the left, Cuomo had been saying, believe science, follow the experts.
	That was sort of the last bastion.
	They don't even believe that.
	They don't even believe that you have to follow the experts if you have the right skin color.
	Or if you have the right genitals, then you're allowed to think whatever you want.
	It is...
	Utterly incoherent.
	There is no reason to listen to a word that these people say.
	There's no reason to follow a single one of their capricious rules.
	Before we go, speaking of extremes and skepticism and nuance, I can't believe I have to say this.
	There was an op-ed in the New York Times that I somewhat enjoyed.
	I almost want to end the show right there.
	I hate that I have to say that.
	But Nick Kristof in the New York Times published an op-ed that I sort of enjoyed.
	It's about internet porn.
	It's called The Children of Pornhub, subheader.
	Why does Canada allow this company, Pornhub, I guess the largest, I think the largest porn company in the world.
	Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault?
	And the article begins, Pornhub prides itself on being the cheery, winking face of Naughty, the website that buys a billboard in Times Square and provides snow plows to clear Boston streets.
	It donates to organizations fighting for racial equality and offers steamy content free to get people through COVID-19 shutdowns.
	That supposedly wholesome Pornhub attracts 3.5 billion visits per month.
	Oh my gosh.
	More than Netflix, Yahoo, or Amazon, Pornhub rakes in money From almost 3 billion ad impressions a day, one ranking lists Pornhub as the 10th most visited website in the world.
	Yet there's another side to this company.
	It's infested with rape videos.
	It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxiated in plastic bags.
	A search for girls under 18, no space, or 14YO leads in each case to more than 100,000 videos.
	Most aren't of children being assaulted, but too many are.
	You get the point.
	This brings us back to a debate that actually started last December, and it kind of split the right.
	What to do about the online porn problem?
	You had people who, in the name of a very degraded and shallow understanding of libertarianism, said, nah, porn's great.
	George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would love it.
	They basically wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution so that we could all watch videos of this Trash.
	This wicked and debased stuff.
	And so we got to keep porn.
	No regulations.
	And then you had another side saying we need to ban porn.
	Just ban it.
	This is obviously horrible stuff.
	Just ban the porn right now.
	And this debate ensued.
	And I thought both sides sort of missed the point.
	It gets to a lot of our public debates right now.
	Actually, right to the top of the show, we were talking about, do you defend Trump or do you defend Georgia?
	How about both?
	How about you do both?
	How about you allow Trump to pursue his legal options and encourage him to pursue his legal options and don't encourage him to concede?
	And then how about you also try to hold the Senate by voting for those two Georgia senators?
	Why can't you do both?
	I think on the porn debate, we can acknowledge...
	There is no constitutional right to pornography.
	Pornography has been highly regulated, if not outright illegal, from the very beginning of the country.
	We still have laws against obscenity.
	We jailed pornographers as recently as a dozen years ago.
	The founding fathers made a very clear distinction between liberty and licentiousness.
	Okay, and they did not support licentiousness and they realized that licentiousness, like Pornhub, is the opposite of true liberty, that it actually undermines liberty.
	Okay, that's the one hand.
	On the other hand, from the banned porn people, I think it's also worth remembering that conservatives are prudent.
	We have a practical quality to ourselves.
	It is not possible to eliminate lust from the heart of man.
	It's also not possible to eliminate the expressions of that lust.
	This is why some of the greatest theologians and moral thinkers in history, St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, actually defended legal prostitution, not because they thought legal prostitution was a good thing, but because they acknowledged that it's the world's oldest profession.
	It actually predates politics, just barely.
	I guess you might say it's a form of politics.
	The two seem very similar.
	And Augustine and Thomas's point was that if you eliminated prostitution entirely, the entire civilization would be convulsed with lust.
	And so what you had to do is regulate it, put it in one area, a red light district for instance, and treat it seriously as the danger that it is, but also recognize that it's impractical, probably impossible to get rid of it entirely.
	Why can't we have that conversation?
	I think once we eliminate the kind of stupid idea that we have a natural or constitutional right to look at porn, and we also eliminate the imprudent and impractical idea that you can utterly eliminate porn, We can have a real conversation, which is that this is obviously a major problem confronting the country.
	You've got, well, especially in this generation, you've got kids who have been exposed to this, young boys, from very early age.
	They get hooked on it.
	It warps their brain.
	It warps their lives.
	It creates an addiction that a lot of people want to get away from.
	How about you can look at the number of people in this country.
	There was some study that said 93 or 94% of men Have looked at online pornography.
	And of course the typical rejoinder to that is, and 6% of men are liars.
	It basically is a ubiquitous problem.
	So how about you deal with that and say, yeah, this is bad.
	This is different than having a Playboy under your bed in the 1970s.
	The ubiquity of it, the ease of use, the stimulation of it is a distinct problem.
	And then heavily regulated.
	You know, if I wanted to go buy a Playboy down the street, I would have to go and show an ID. Why do we not have the same mechanism for online porn, like a website like Pornhub?
	To say, we're not going to completely outlaw the thing, but you have to upload an ID. Because in that case, it's not just saying only adults can get it.
	I actually don't think adults should be able to easily access it either.
	It introduces an element of shame.
	You have to show an ID, and therefore you're saying, I am openly going to be looking at this kind of material, which is very shameful.
	That would reduce the number of people who do it.
	Now, you might have people making fake IDs.
	You might have people getting around the rules.
	Sure, okay, right.
	But as conservatives especially, we should know better than anybody that you can't let the perfect get in the way of the good.
	You can't let ideological purity get in the way of practical results.
	You can't let these abstractions get in the way of prudence.
	If you could reduce this problem...
	A problem that's so bad that even left-wingers in the freaking New York Times are observing it now.
	It's not just the church ladies, you know, wagging their fingers.
	It's not just Puritans and prudes wagging their fingers.
	Everybody is recognizing this is a problem.
	Why not arrive at a sort of prudent solution?
	That is a central conservative insight, is prudence.
	And I think we ought to apply it to fraught public policy issues here.
	This is why I often encourage people not to cling to ideology, you know, in the way that some people just, they break their politics down into three bullet points and they say, no, liberty means that I need to go look at porn all the time.
	No, it doesn't.
	Obviously it doesn't.
	And this applies to the presidential race too.
	Go win in Georgia.
	Go win at the presidential level.
	At least try.
	There's no reason not to try.
	And there's nothing admirable or virtuous about prioritizing that kind of abstract purity over practical results.
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