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Jan. 7, 2021 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 675 - Blame The Lockdowns

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Rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol yesterday, awakening the liberal establishment to the reality that there is a difference between mob violence and mostly peaceful protests.
There is plenty of blame to go around, but there is one cause above all the others, and nobody seems to get it.
This is all happening, right now, because of the lockdowns.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show.
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Ivan, you are not allowed to make that joke.
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I said this six months ago during the BLM riots, which everyone seems to have just miraculously forgotten about.
I said it six months ago during the BLM riots and it was true then and it's just as true today.
This is about the lockdowns.
There are other long-simmering causes to the political protests and to the riots.
There are simmering resentments.
There are simmering infringements of rights.
There are simmering views of the country that do not make people like it very much.
But the most immediate cause is the lockdowns.
You cannot lock people away from their jobs, throw them out of work, lock them away from their families, from their kids, from their loved ones, lock them away from just regular socialization, go to a restaurant, go to a bar.
Put them in their apartment and tell them that the minute you go outside, you're going to die, and you can't keep them away from their church, and you can't keep them away from their civil rights, and you can't do that for nine or ten months and expect that everything is going to be perfectly fine.
We saw this within two months of the lockdowns because of the BLM riots.
And at the time, I didn't excuse the BLM riots.
Far from it.
But I said, I think the reason why they're torching every single city in the country right now might have something to do with the fact that you've upended society and locked them all in for a couple of months, two, three months.
Unprecedented.
Same thing here.
Not excusing rioting in the Capitol.
But the longer that you keep society totally shut down, it's like a powder keg.
It's obviously going to blow.
Everybody is on edge.
Have you noticed that?
Of course you have.
Everybody seems to be at each other's throat more than they were before, which was already pretty intense.
BLM has been around for a long time.
BLM was founded, what, 2013 or something?
2015?
Somewhere around there.
It was at least five years ago.
I guess probably more like seven, eight years ago.
And there have been riots before.
Why did they all of a sudden just start torching city after city week after week in 2020, huh?
Why?
Conservatives have been marginalized in culture and politics for a long time.
Many years.
Why are they only storming the Capitol now?
Well, it's because of Trump.
What do you mean it's because of Trump?
Because he's saying there was election fraud.
Well, a lot of people think there was election fraud.
Why do they think there was election fraud?
Because you upended the election system three weeks or months at most before Trump.
The election.
You go into Pennsylvania where the state constitution says no widespread mail-in voting.
It's unconstitutional.
What do you do?
You replace the system with mail-in voting.
What do you do in Georgia?
You say, oh, we're not going to finish counting the votes on election night.
Poll watchers go home.
And then secretly you keep counting the votes.
What do you do?
Actually, back in Philly, you send some of the poll watchers home.
When do we get the results?
Not on election night.
It looks like Trump's winning on election night.
So it's days afterward, weeks afterward.
It's banana republic stuff.
And, you know, I have to tell you, I do not have evidence that the election was stolen.
Nobody has evidence of that.
Nobody has evidence of widespread fraud.
When the mainstream media tell you there's no evidence of widespread fraud, that's true, actually.
However, you can't We have safeguards in elections for a reason.
And Democrats used to defend them.
Barack Obama said he had worries about mail-in voting.
There was a time when Democrats defended voter ID. I guess that's long out the window.
There's a reason we have election day, not election season.
It's because it's very difficult to secure all the ballot boxes for months at a time.
Even one day, it's hard enough.
So you don't get to go in, take away all the safeguards for election integrity, And then tell me that the burden is on me to provide all the evidence of fraud.
You don't get to do that.
That is unacceptable.
And people are absolutely justified in their outrage over that.
It is an outrage.
It's a national scandal.
Well, what was the excuse to take away all of the election integrity measures?
Well, there's one excuse.
There's the lockdowns.
Because you can't go out.
Because, well, there's a virus, so we need widespread unsolicited mail-in votes.
Oh, there's a virus, so we need to give people more days to vote on.
Oh, there's a virus, so we can't count them on time.
We've got to send people home.
That was the excuse.
That was the cause.
You cannot.
It is a simple fact of life.
You cannot upend society and expect everything to go along tickety-boo.
It was true over the summer.
It remains, I guess, even more urgent today because it's gone on longer.
Obviously, given what happened over the summer, the left has no credibility on this.
I do not want to hear a single lecture from the left about political violence from the right.
And I don't want to hear it from guys like Mitt Romney either.
The squishy conservatives, quote-unquote.
The Republicans who pretend to be conservative, but really all they do is serve as stooges for the liberal establishment.
I don't want to hear one peep out of Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney marched over the summer with Black Lives Matter, a Marxist organization that torched Washington, D.C., among many other cities.
Torched it.
There were photos going around yesterday on the Internet of all the chaos in Washington, D.C. Buildings on fire, fire all over the streets.
You can even see the Washington Monument there, not on fire, but in the midst of the fire.
That photo wasn't from the Trump rally yesterday.
That photo wasn't from the ride at the Capitol yesterday.
That was from BLM. And Mitt Romney marched with that organization.
Very sad yesterday, a woman died.
She was a pro-Trump demonstrator, and she died, and we'll get into that in just a second.
And that was it.
One death.
Very, very sad.
One death.
How many deaths during BLM? How many deaths?
What was it, something like 30?
And we have U.S. senators who march with that organization, lecturing conservatives, actual conservatives, About political violence?
I don't want to hear it.
There is now, we can say, political violence all around.
Not to the same degree, but there is still some all around.
It is a disordered act.
It is a violent act to smash windows, to break into a Capitol, to put the Capitol on lockdown.
You can't do that.
But do not send me any lectures from Mitt Romney.
No thank you.
So what happened?
What happened?
There's so many conflicting narratives here.
Here's what happened.
There was a joint session of Congress to certify the electoral college vote.
Oh yeah, they certified the vote, by the way.
I know it's unbelievable in this news cycle that so many things are happening that the big news that they certified Joe Biden as the president elect, that's like the 10th stories.
That's not even the most important story, but they ended up doing that.
Joint Session was there to certify the vote.
Because there were many irregularities in this election, some representatives objected to certification, and they opened up debate, as is absolutely constitutional.
Now, I understand the arguments against objecting to the certification.
I do.
I think there is a perfectly legitimate argument To vote for the certification.
To vote against the objections.
Okay, I don't think people are turncoats if they do that.
Likewise, I think there is a perfectly legitimate argument for objecting to this certification.
We are in uncharted territory here, folks.
Everybody's just trying to Courageously, I think.
And said, we are going to take a stand.
We know it's not probably going to affect the outcome of the election, but we want to go on the record in a legal and constitutional way to say this election madness is absolutely unacceptable.
So you had a member of Congress stand up and object to the certification of Arizona.
Are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of Arizona that the teller has verified appears to be regular, informed, and authentic?
President I, Paul Gosar from Arizona.
For what purpose does the gentleman from Arizona write?
I write for myself and 60 of my colleagues to object to the counting of the electoral ballots from Arizona.
Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator?
Yes, it is.
It is.
And here's the next question.
An objection presented in writing and signed by both a representative and a senator complies with the law.
Chapter 1 of Title 3 of the United States Code.
The clerk will report the objection.
Excellent.
And that is what we wanted.
Politics is about prudence and in certain ways the Republicans here were outmatched.
It was going to be basically impossible, through any legal measure, to overturn the apparent results of the election.
However, you can go on the record.
You can set precedent.
You can put other people on the record.
That is what Congressman Gosar did, and that's what Ted Cruz did, who stood up and said he does have the signature of a senator.
Absolutely courageous stuff.
Absolutely in accordance with the law.
Great American tradition.
And I think...
I do wish that there were more spines around, you know, among people to stand up on these sorts of things.
I understand the arguments against it too.
Uncharted territory.
But at least at this point, everybody, I think, playing fairly.
Everybody playing in good faith.
Everybody playing according to the rule of law.
And...
Following the constitutional process.
Still very unlikely to change the result, but there would be then at least two hours for debate, and you could air these sorts of arguments that we're making on this show that we've all been talking about for a long time.
And then all hell broke loose.
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So after this legal process begins to play out, It all goes crazy.
People storm into the Capitol.
So people breaking through police lines, breaking through, breaking windows, going into the Capitol.
They find a pipe bomb at the Capitol.
They find a pipe bomb at the Republican National Committee headquarters.
Very interesting.
You would expect, with all these right-wingers, that the pipe bomb might be at the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
But it wasn't.
It was at the RNC. Just increases the confusion of the day.
Then, as people are breaking in, running roughshod all over the Capitol, there's a woman trying to break into a particularly secured area, and she gets shot.
This woman's name was Ashley Babbitt.
She's a U.S. Air Force veteran.
She served four tours with the Air Force.
Obviously, very patriotic American.
She tried to break into the secure area.
She was shot.
There's a firsthand account, actually, by somebody who saw it, who spoke to reporters on the ground right afterward.
Well, we had stormed into the chambers inside, and there was a young lady who rushed through the windows.
A number of police and secret service were saying, get back, get down, get out of the way.
She didn't heed the call, and as we kind of raced up to grab people and pull them back, they shot her in the neck, and she fell back on me and started saying she was fine, it's cool, and then she started kind of, like, moving weird, and blood was coming out of her mouth and neck and nose, and I don't know if she's alive or dead anymore.
Awful, awful scene.
She died later on that day, very sadly.
There are videos of it.
I'm not going to play the video on the show.
If you looked at the video, it seemed clear she was not going to survive.
And when you hear the left going on about all of the political violence, one person died.
And that person was one of the pro-Trump demonstrators who was breaking into the Capitol and trying to go into a secured area.
Very, very sad stuff.
I'm noticing a lot of people on social media are saying that this wasn't really Trump supporters.
This was Antifa.
I have no doubt that there were some Antifa people in there.
Sure, I mean, I'm sure there were a lot of people in there who just wanted to make a mess of things.
This was not organized by Antifa.
This was not led by Antifa.
It's mostly boomers.
I'm noticing, not to call out the boomers, but it's mostly boomers saying this was Antifa.
I mean, there are well-known Trump supporters who were live-streaming from inside the Capitol.
And most of what they were doing was just, there was actually sort of a funny picture of a guy just walking out, smiling, waving his hand, carrying a podium with the Capitol sort of on it, you know, with the House of Representatives seal on it.
You know, kind of dark humor.
Then you saw other photos of people sitting in Nancy Pelosi's office, you know, shuffling around her papers, putting their foot on her desk.
All, I guess, sort of amusing...
If it weren't so serious, if people weren't dying, if one of the demonstrators wasn't killed because of this, watching the scene, it was a mixture of horror, but just sort of bemusement, bewilderment.
I thought, what was the point of this?
What was the point?
What was it all for?
The tactics are bad enough.
It is never good, unless you are overthrowing the government for a just reason, it is never good to break into and invade a legislative body.
That's not good.
That's Banana Republic stuff.
But beyond the tactics, what was the strategy?
What were they going to do?
When this typically happens, when this happens in actual revolutions, people go in, you know, Cuba or something, and they chase out all the elected representatives.
Actually, that's what happened yesterday.
The elected representatives all ran out.
They all ran away.
And then, during actual revolutions, what happens is they declare a new government.
And they say, now I'm the captain now, and here's the new law, and here's the new constitution.
These guys didn't want to do that.
It was all just...
It was all just pretend.
It was all just LARPing.
Live action role play.
It was like a video game.
What did they think would happen?
You get in, you get the pictures in Pelosi's office.
Was it just blowing off steam?
Well, there are easier ways to blow off steam, guys.
Maybe people thought that because basically everyone who participated in the BLM riots got off the hook, didn't have to deal with any legal consequences, they thought, well, the same is going to be true for me.
It's not.
It's not.
Anybody who can be identified in the mob yesterday is going to face serious, serious legal consequences.
It's not going to help Trump stay in office.
President Trump just came out and said there will be a peaceful transition.
He was telling them throughout the whole ordeal.
He said, go home, be peaceful, go home, don't do this.
What did it accomplish?
Beyond, let's put the tactic aside for a second.
Some people might say, darn it, I think this justifies breaking into the Capitol.
I don't think that.
But What's the strategy?
What's the point?
It's so decadent.
It's just so decadent.
I don't know how else to put it.
It reminds me of the beginning of the epidemic, of the lockdowns.
People don't really remember this now because we all hate the lockdown so much.
During the first week or so of the lockdowns, people kind of liked it.
People got a kick out of it.
You got a few days off work.
It was sort of like a snow day when you're a little kid in school.
We're all kind of in this together.
It's like when the power goes out in the apartment building.
You're all kind of talking to your neighbors.
It was kind of fun.
It was a little excitement, wasn't it?
Not for very long.
A couple days of that, a week later, we thought, okay, we've had enough.
But we didn't need to lock down.
We faced far more difficult epidemics in American history.
Never locked down like this.
It was like we were play-acting the Black Plague.
It was LARPing.
It was so decadent.
And now what has been accomplished?
I think very little.
I think there was something accomplished by the people who went out who didn't bring it to the Capitol.
The people who were out demonstrating so many people there saying this is outrageous.
We're not going to accept this kind of irregularity in our elections.
We want to have integrity in our elections.
We support Trump.
I think that was very important.
That was terrific.
I think it was important to go out and pursue legal remedies.
At least the legal process to say, I am going on the record and objecting to this, even though it's not going to do anything.
However, breaking into the Capitol, I guess, basically undermined all of that in the same way that the rioters undermined whatever point the BLM protesters were trying to make over the summer.
And so, Joe Biden...
I guess now we have to say president-elect.
However he got elected, he is the president-elect.
Biden comes out and says that he's calling on President Trump to address the mob and this is not who we are.
At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault.
Unlike anything we've seen in modern times.
An assault on the Citadel of Liberty, the Capitol itself.
An assault on the people's representatives and the Capitol Hill police sworn to protect them.
And the public servants who work at the heart of our republic.
An assault on the rule of law like few times we've ever seen it.
An assault on the most sacred of American undertakings.
The doing of the people's business.
Let me be very clear.
The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America.
Do not represent who we are.
A typical kind of vacuous Joe Biden speech that is contradicted by a lot of his career.
But I want to focus on that part at the end where he says, that is not who we are.
Kind of an Obama line.
I think it kind of is who we are.
Right?
We have...
Right-wingers coming in and breaking into the Capitol and making a ruckus.
We had six months of left-wingers burning down the country with the applause, by the way, of elected Democrats.
With the applause of CNN. Remember CNN came out, Chris Cuomo came out over the summer when BLM was torching the country and killing people.
And they said, hey, Chris Cuomo says, tell me where it says the protests need to be polite and peaceful.
First Amendment, by the way, is where it says you have the right to peaceably assemble.
Neither here nor there.
If we're doing that, if both sides of the aisle are coming out and they're making a ruckus, I guess the left much more so than the right, but the right a little bit too, then that is who we are, right?
It is who we are now.
Maybe, I don't know, maybe if you let people go back to work, let people go out and go to church, let people go out and socialize again, maybe it won't be.
But as of right now, buddy, that is what it appears to be.
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Also, there is a reason why the media create narratives around conservatives.
And it has less to do with politics and more to do with culture.
If you can see a sort of distinction between those things.
Culture is shaped by the content that we consume.
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Now, contrary to what the media will tell you, President Trump, as this is going on, is tweeting out.
He said, He's saying, please go home, be safe, be peaceable.
He then put out a video.
He said, hey guys, look, I share all of your concerns about the election.
I think this was BS, but go home, be peaceful.
I know you're pained.
I know you're hurt.
We had an election that was stolen from us.
It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side.
But you have to go home now.
We have to have peace.
We have to have law and order.
We have to respect our great people in law and order.
We don't want anybody hurt.
It's a very tough period of time.
There's never been a time like this where Such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us.
From me, from you, from our country.
This was a fraudulent election.
But we can't play into the hands of these people.
We have to have peace.
So go home.
We love you.
You're very special.
You've seen what happens.
You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil.
I know how you feel.
But go home and go home at peace.
People are very upset, of course, because President Trump says this is a fraudulent election.
And they're saying there's no evidence of the Dominion voting machine hacks or there's no evidence of some of the sort of more elaborate theories of what happened.
And fair enough.
I guess there's no evidence of that.
The very upending of the election system, the very upending of the way in which the election is conducted, the collapse of safeguards around election integrity, to me, that is enough to justify the concerns of the president and the concerns of his supporters, his voters.
Guys who voted for him.
Like me.
Like myself.
We've seen it.
Especially if you've ever worked on a campaign.
If you've ever been at a local campaign or whatever.
You know...
ballot security.
And all that went out the window.
So I just think the way that fraudulent election is being twisted by the mainstream media is they're saying it's all with Sidney Powell and Lin Wood are talking about.
It doesn't need to be that.
It doesn't need to be that.
I'm talking about much more granular stuff.
I guess much, much more sort of quotidian sort of aspects of the election.
How you vote, how you prove that you're the real voter, how voters get mail-in ballots, even if they are gonna get mail-in ballots.
The overall message, very clear, from beginning to end of that video is, go home, be peaceful.
And Twitter deleted the video.
Twitter deleted the video, and Twitter suspended the President of the United States.
Took his account away from him so that he can no longer communicate.
Twitter writes, quote, as a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violence situation in Washington, D.C. Unprecedented?
They burned down the city four months ago.
What do you mean unprecedented?
Unprecedented, I guess, because they were in the Capitol.
We have required the removal of three real Donald Trump tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our civic integrity policy.
This means that the account of real Donald Trump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these tweets.
If the tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.
So it remained locked during the certification vote for Joe Biden.
Future violations of the rules, including our civic integrity or violent threats policies will result in permanent suspension of the real Donald Trump account.
Our public interest policy, which has guided our enforcement actions in this area for years, ends where we believe the risk of harm is higher and or more severe.
Get ready for a clamp down on all of your accounts, friends.
Get ready because they'll just say, well, if he's still allowed to post a link to any conservative opinion, well, There's a real risk of harm.
We'll continue to evaluate the situation in real time, including examining activity on the ground and statements made off Twitter.
We'll keep the public informed, including a further escalation in our enforcement approach as necessary.
Further escalation, what are they going to do?
They're going to go in and kidnap the president?
They already took away his account.
Very, you want to talk about this very scary situation.
It's the idea that hipster Rasputin over there in Silicon Valley, Jack Dorsey, has the ability to silence the President of the United States, which he does.
Because it's all one edifice.
It's all the same liberal establishment.
Big tech and the mainstream news media and the newspapers and the cable channels.
It's kind of all the same thing.
And they're all shutting out the duly elected President of the United States.
He is the duly elected president, at least for another 15 days or however long it is, right?
He is the duly elected president.
That should be very worrisome for all of us because it means that this will be used as an excuse to clamp down on all of our free speech.
And we can huff and puff all day long and say, look, BLM, look at what they did.
They killed all these people and they burned all these cities and you didn't do anything.
And you actually still allow the BLM account to be up there.
But you're taking down the duly elected president.
They don't care.
They don't care.
It's going to be an excuse.
And I don't think the tensions are going to go down at all.
I think that the left has no interest in bringing the temperature down.
I think the left wants to keep the temperature up and up and up.
You saw this, by the way, at Nancy Pelosi's home the other day.
There was violence, vandalism, but it wasn't from conservatives it would appear.
It was from the left.
You saw there was red paint there and a pig head on the ground.
And then you saw spray paint.
It said, cancel rent.
We want everything with an anarchist symbol.
This was all taken down.
But it was going around the internet for a while.
Could be a hoax, I guess.
Who knows?
It's so difficult these days to tell if things are hoaxes.
But we've seen similar sorts of attacks from the far left on the establishment left.
And, you know, there's not much of a reason for it because the far left and the establishment left have the same goals.
It's just they've got different timetables.
This is why AOC, who's ostensibly the leader of the radical left in the House, you know, and she's opposing Nancy Pelosi, who's the leader of the establishment left.
Well, AOC just voted for Pelosi to be speaker.
So did the whole squad.
They did because they have the same goals.
They just have different time frames.
AOC wants it to be a little bit faster.
However, you are seeing this kind of violence ramp up.
The media don't want to admit it, but Antifa is more than an idea.
Antifa is a real thing, and Antifa has really been burning cities and attacking people and killing people.
BLM, real thing, and they really do get violent.
And, I don't know if the right-wingers want to admit this or not, but it really was right-wingers yesterday in the Capitol.
Didn't burn the place to the ground, didn't kill 30 people.
Well, that's good.
But it is a violent act.
It is an act of political violence to go in, smash windows, go break into people's offices.
That is a violent act, which means that we now have a normalized system of political violence.
This is, in a way, I think, becoming the norm.
We talked about this a little bit on the show in recent days, which is this is a very young country.
The way we know it's a young country is because last month, the widow of a Civil War veteran died.
Civil War?
Man, she must have been sold.
In fact, it was because the Civil War veteran was 93 when he married her and she was 17, so good on him.
Really, wow, man, that guy must have been a charmer.
We also know that three months ago, we were in a situation where the grandson of the 10th U.S. president died.
Huh?
How's that possible?
Well, obviously, John Tyler, the 10th president, was much older when he had his son, and then the same thing for his son.
Still, when you've got the grandkid of the 10th president, that's a young country.
And you're going to hear a lot of demagogues on both sides of the aisle prattling on about this upsetting of norms.
And we've never seen this before.
And when I say demagogue, by the way, I think a lot of people think I'm referring to Donald Trump because he's got some of these characteristics.
I'm talking about guys like Mitt Romney too.
I'm talking about these preening moral cynics.
Who one day go out and march with the people who torch cities and commit political violence.
And then the next day shake their heads and wring their hands.
We've never seen anything like this.
Trump is so terrible.
I'm the dignified Mitt Romney.
Give me a break.
You're going to see this a lot.
But you're going to hear Joe Biden say, this is not who we are.
Well, it kind of looks like it's who we are right now.
And I hope we cool it.
Hope we take it down.
Hope we like our countrymen again.
But right now, it doesn't appear to be this way.
And we've gone through periods like this before.
Happened in the 1960s.
I was not alive in the 1960s.
It was barely a glint in my father's eye.
However, they killed the president.
The president was assassinated in the 60s.
Then they killed his brother when he was running for president.
Then they killed the major civil rights leader.
There was violence in the street.
There were domestic terror groups like the Weather Underground, radical left-wing group that set off bombs that committed acts of domestic terror.
That was not that long ago.
Was that 60 years ago?
Before that, people, everyone at least remembers the 60s, I guess.
Before that, though, we went through periods in the 19-teens, 1920s, when you had anarchists in the streets, communists in the street, too, setting off bombs.
Engaging in political violence.
The one sort of couple of names that you might hear in school is Sacco and Vanzetti, these Italian guys who were committing political violence in the country.
But there were other sorts of attacks like this.
Happened before that, too.
1912, there was an attempted assassination of our president, President Teddy Roosevelt.
1901, you had an assassination.
In the 1880s, you had a presidential assassination.
In the 1860s, you had a presidential assassination.
Obviously, that presidential assassination was only at the end of, apparently, a very bad play, but also a five-year civil war.
Constant political violence and bloodshed for five years.
How many people?
700,000 Americans died, if you include the Confederate and the Union soldiers together.
There has been political violence, and there could be political violence again.
And I think we have just, because we're so freaking decadent, because we are so bored, because we are so frivolous as a matter of culture and society, we convince ourselves that can't happen.
That's not a big deal.
Come on, it's America.
This sort of stuff doesn't happen.
We're a young country that's had a lot of political violence in its past.
Anything could happen.
And I wish that the people who stormed the Capitol...
For their own sake, would have just thought through this a little bit and said, what's the end of this?
Is the end of storming the Capitol that I'm going to throw a garbage can through the window and break in and then go into Pelosi's office and take some funny pictures, which I'll definitely post to Instagram later, and I'm going to live stream it to my account.
It's going to be so hilarious and it's going to be so funny.
And then at the end of it, what?
I'm going to beat the level of the video game and then I'm going to be back home on my couch?
I don't know what other outcome they thought was going to happen.
Unless they thought they were going to overthrow the government.
Which I guess they actually had a chance to do because they ran out all the legislators.
But they didn't want to do that.
Nobody seriously wanted to do that.
So what?
It was just all so frivolous.
And now people's lives are going to be ruined.
One woman was killed.
Was it worth it?
I don't think it was worth it for her to die.
She lived a great life.
Served her country.
U.S. Air Force veteran.
Patriotic American.
To throw it away.
Now you might say, well, she didn't think that the cops were going to shoot her.
Yeah, I guess I was surprised too.
And maybe after the way that the cops did not really go after the BLM rioters, maybe you think, okay, it's fine.
But I got to tell you, I would not break into a federal government building thinking that I could do whatever I wanted, even as cops were telling me, go away, go away, don't do this, don't do this.
Was it worth it?
For the people who are going to go to jail, was it worth it?
Trump doesn't think so.
Obviously not.
What Trump said was, we need to have a big, peaceful rally, big, peaceful demonstration.
I don't think it was irresponsible of him to call for a big, peaceful demonstration.
Conservatives are always much, much, much more peaceful than the left.
Just look at the last six months.
But I guess that could have sent a message.
Getting on the record in the legislative chambers, that at least goes on the record, sends a message.
I guess you send a bigger message when you drop pipe bombs at the Capitol or whatever.
You go ransacking through the Capitol.
But what did you think?
Now, what if you say, well, look, they were allowed into the Capitol even.
Some of the cops were standing down just letting them in.
What was going to happen when you break into the Speaker of the House's office and start ransacking her desk?
Alright, that's enough of my rant.
It's very dispiriting because I think, obviously, 99% of people who showed up for the rally yesterday in D.C. had the absolute best of intentions.
Absolute heart in the right place.
President Trump saying, be peaceful, and they were doing a great job.
And then, for some people to get carried away and to ruin their lives...
It's very, very dispiriting and makes you wonder, where's the future of the country going to go?
We do have a little bit of insight into this in the Joe Biden picks.
So Joe Biden, now I guess officially the president-elect, is coming out and naming Trump.
His picks.
He had leaked a few of his picks for some cabinet positions, and they're really bad.
They're really radical people.
You know, his deputy chief of staff, who was his campaign manager, came out and said that Republicans are all a bunch of effers, but we'll try to work with them anyway.
So people were not exactly looking forward to the Biden administration.
However, yesterday he announced, or it was leaked, I guess.
He didn't officially announce it, but it was leaked, that Joe Biden was going to pick Merrick Garland for attorney general.
There's a meme that after Merrick Garland didn't get chosen for the Supreme Court to replace Scalia, he sort of just floated up to heaven and he's up there with Harambe and may he rest in peace and praise be upon him and all that.
But Merrick Garland is still a judge in D.C. And he had been floated a little earlier and people said, no, Biden's not going to pick him for A.G. because then you'd have a confirmation battle for the judge.
You don't want to lose a federal judge if the Republicans control the Senate.
Well, the minute, the minute that Democrats were declared the winners in those Senate races, all of a sudden that's not a big deal because they'll easily be able to confirm the Democratic judges.
And so Merrick Garland might be the attorney general.
And I, I have to say to just to give a little bit of political hope, everything is looking so bleak and conservatives are headed for just a world of pain, unfortunately.
But the one, one little glimmer of hope here is I do think of all the people that Joe Biden could have picked for AG, they were all going to be absolutely terrible.
Garland may be one of the least bad people to pick.
The reason I say that is his career as a judge does not make him seem particularly radical.
This was actually the strategy for Obama to nominate him when Antonin Scalia died in 2016.
He nominated Garland because he said, look, Garland is a relatively moderate guy.
Lots of conservatives have said nice things about Merrick Garland before.
So no big deal, right?
You've got to confirm him.
And obviously the Republicans were not going to confirm Garland.
They were going to wait until the presidential election.
And Mitch McConnell held firm on that.
And then after the election, you know, you got the Republicans win.
We nominate our judge.
We replace Scalia.
So now Garland has become this kind of mythical figure on the left, even though it's ironic because I don't think he's wearing the pink hat.
I don't think he's going around to biker bars with Antifa or something like that.
So in any case, if he were to be selected, that would be, I guess, better than the alternatives.
James Comey came out the other day and said he...
As now many Democrats are saying, Trump needs to be prosecuted.
Trump needs to go to jail.
They need to take away all his money.
They need to ruin his family.
James Comey, of all people, came out and said, no, the former president should not be prosecuted.
And, of course, what would he be prosecuted for, first of all?
They'd have to invent some ridiculous charge.
Though they do say that you can indict a ham sandwich.
But that would be a further...
Evolution of our descent into banana republic dictatorship.
If we were to put our former presidents in orange jumpsuits, That would be the next stage of degradation.
I hope it doesn't happen.
I think even for people who I think have pretty clearly committed crimes, who are Democrats, I still think it is unsavory in this country for us to put former presidents.
You can put other staffers and things like that, but there is something unsavory about putting former presidents in orange jumpsuits.
And so I was pleased at least to see that.
Some other People around Biden have said, not a good idea to do that.
We have a very strange concept of justice in this country.
You hear the left, which is going on and on about how, I mean, the former vice president, I guess the future vice president, Kamala Harris, was posting fundraising links for bail for the BLM and Antifa rioters over the summer.
Posting fundraisers for springing them from the clink.
And yet, we're hearing from Democrats now, we've got to arrest every right-wing rioter who broke into the Capitol yesterday.
Obviously, a little bit of a double standard here.
We're told by the left it's very good to kill a million babies a year through abortion.
But we need to let the worst killers in the world off the hook.
And you're going to hear this in the final days of what would appear to be the final days of the Trump administration.
You've got a number of executions that Trump has sped up because hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully.
And there are people who have been languishing on death row for decades.
And finally, they're going to get their just desserts.
And the left is very upset.
So the most recent one who's scheduled to be killed is Lisa Montgomery.
Lisa Montgomery is the so-called womb raider.
She's facing the death penalty because she was convicted in 2007.
She befriended a pregnant woman online and posed as pregnant herself.
She then drove to this woman's house, pretended to be somebody else, but she got the information, figured out where she was, and then strangled the pregnant woman, cut the baby out of the mother and took the baby away.
And it was finally then arrested.
This is as gruesome, horrific, heinous a crime as anybody can imagine.
And you hear left-wingers still saying, and even some of the squishy right-wing people, saying, oh, it's a matter of justice, you've got to let her off the hook.
I don't think so.
I think one of the big, big problems in this country is that our sense of justice has been totally skewed.
It has been perverted.
And the way it was perverted, actually, is by this new standard that was foisted on us, which you can call political correctness, you can call it wokeism, you can call whatever, there are different names that it goes.
But what it represents is a new standard that replaces the old standard.
And according to this new standard...
Men can become women and babies are not really human and mass murderers and rapists and people like that need to get off the hook, but people who commit lesser crimes need to be thrown in prison and they throw away the key.
That's going to be...
A really tough one as well.
And as long as we're living through the looking glass right now in this world where we're stuck in our homes largely, we can't go see our loved ones, we are losing civil rights, we are not permitted to go to church even, even that basic consolation of life, we're not going to be able to right the ship.
We're all going to be in this distorted, tense perspective.
Hope things get better, but I suppose we have to prepare for them to get worse.
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