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Feb. 8, 2021 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 695 - Mass Delusion

House Dems strip a Republican representative of her committee assignments, TIME admits to an election conspiracy, and Liz Cheney wants to be the future of the Republican Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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In an unprecedented power grab, the Democrat-run House of Representatives has voted to strip a Republican congressman of her committee seats.
They did this ostensibly because the Republican congressman has said kooky things on social media in the past.
In reality, this is just a power grab.
You want to talk about upsetting historical and political norms.
This is something we really haven't seen before.
And of course, if the reasoning is legitimate, if delusion is disqualifying for serving in Congress, then we're not just going to have to remove one person from committees.
We're going to have to abolish all the committees.
We're probably going to have to abolish the entire House of Representatives.
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I do not go for conspiracy theories, generally speaking.
Now what makes a conspiracy theory?
I guess we could debate that all day long, but I'm, I'm not tempted to believe in conspiracy theories.
I usually try to go for the simplest answer to things.
I, I believe that so many people would need to be involved and on the know and know how to keep a secret for, for some of these theories to be true that I just don't buy it.
However, I always enjoy reading conspiracy theories.
I really like it.
I will go down internet rabbit holes on all the craziest sort of conspiracy theories.
Not because I think they're plausible, but because I enjoy seeing the thinking that goes into them.
I have always gone sort of light on friends of mine who come to me with kind of crazy conspiracy theories.
I don't harangue them.
I don't scream at them.
I don't castigate them.
Because I find them in a way sometimes...
Delightful.
Conspiracies and conspiracy theories can be the sign of an active mind.
Might be the sign of a deranged mind, but at least active, at least people are thinking about these things.
The other reason that I don't harangue and go after people who push these conspiracy theories is every once in a while, maybe not one out of ten times, maybe not one out of a hundred, maybe it's one in a million, but every once in a while they turn out to be true.
lot about conspiracy theories with regard to the 2020 election.
And if you even suggest that anything was awry, anything was irregular about the election, you could be deplatformed, you could be kicked off of the internet, you could be kicked off of your servers, you could be kicked off of all these sorts of things.
But sometimes it turns out that they're true.
For instance, Time Magazine publishes the secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 elections.
This is a very, very long article.
I killed many trees printing out this article.
Obviously, I'm not going to read anywhere near the whole thing, but just a few important paragraphs, I think, here.
The article opens up talking about how Trump had all these theories that the election was going to be rigged.
And then, and then, she writes, in a way, Trump was right.
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs.
Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.
The pact was formalized in a terse little notice joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO published on Election Day.
This was an agreement that they basically were not going to pursue claims of voter fraud.
Skip a bit.
Their work, this informal alliance, their work touched every aspect of the election.
So, this is not just after Election Day, but even before the election, you had this alliance of all these various groups.
Time Magazine, right?
I'm not reading some crazy message board on the internet.
Their work touched every aspect of the election.
They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding.
They fended off voter suppression lawsuits, also known as voter integrity lawsuits.
Recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.
Some of them, I think, voted for the first time because they died in 1892.
They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation.
That is code word for it.
They pressured big tech oligarchs to censor conservatives and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.
Like, for instance, when the New York Post got the story on Hunter Biden's corruption in Ukraine and China, and they published it, and they tied it possibly...
Potentially, to Joe Biden.
And then big tech suppressed the article.
You couldn't even private message it to somebody on Twitter.
You know, those data-driven strategies.
They executed national public awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump's conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting traction.
That's code word for they primed everybody To always doubt any Republican win, because they said that if a Republican won on Election Day, sure, that might happen, but it would be a red mirage.
And don't worry, because once they finish counting the votes three weeks later in Philly, don't worry, it's going to be fine.
The Democrats are going to turn out to win.
Using big tech, they already prepped everybody not to trust any Republican victory.
After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.
Every pressure point.
What's that?
That's the courts.
That's the election officials.
That's public opinion.
The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy.
At its very foundation, says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program.
This is the key here to me.
I mean, we could go on.
There are many more thousands of words in this article.
Everything that has been described thus far is a way to subvert American democracy.
They're gonna upend all the voter laws.
They're gonna get big tech oligarchs to clamp down on free speech.
They're going to suppress stories that are damaging to Democrats.
They're going to stop election lawsuits after the fact.
They're going to take away other ballot integrity measures.
And this is the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation.
The way that a Democrat, an Obama official, can say this with a straight face is because of something that we've talked about a lot on this show.
For Democrats, according to Democrats, democracy is what happens when they win elections.
Because of progress, because we know where we're headed, we know the arc of history, we know the science of politics, because we know what's in everybody's interest if they only throw off their shackles, because we know that Democrats are always supposed to win, and Republicans cannot win.
It is illegitimate for them to win.
They're all Nazis.
75 million Nazis running around the country.
Because of that, any time a Republican does win...
It has to be illegitimate.
It has to be through fraud.
It has to be because of Russia or the Macedonian click farms or Ukraine or whatever, right?
It can't be legit.
So, if you undermine all of the democratic...
Principles of our country.
If you undermine the institutions and the policies that are in place to protect the vote, but you do it in order to defeat a Republican and help elect a Democrat, that is seriously, in their mind, the triumph of democracy.
Absolutely, absolutely outrageous stuff.
There are two Republican responses to this sort of thing.
You can either be really upset or you can be really happy.
And there are some Republicans who are really happy.
Namely, Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney.
Liz Cheney hated Trump, has always hated Trump, voted to impeach Trump the second time over nothing.
It was a completely farcical vote.
Now Liz Cheney, who has just managed to hold on to her minor leadership position in the House GOP caucus, threw a secret ballot.
She wouldn't have kept it otherwise.
Liz Cheney is going on the offensive against Trump.
She's saying that Trump has no role in the future of the Republican Party.
Chris, we're the party of Abraham Lincoln.
We're the party of Ronald Reagan.
We have to really take a hard look at who we are and what we stand for, what we believe in.
I think when you look at both his actions leading up to what happened on January 6th, the fact that he was impeached in a bipartisan fashion, the fact that he lost the presidency, the fact that we lost the Senate.
We have to be in a position where we can say we stand for principles, we stand for ideals.
Somebody who has provoked an attack on the United States Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral votes, which resulted in five people dying who refused to stand up immediately when he was asked and stop the violence, that is a person who does not have a role as a leader of our party going forward.
We have to make sure that we Are able to convey to the American voters we are the party of responsibility.
We are the party of truth.
That we actually can be trusted to handle the challenges this nation faces like COVID. And that's going to require us to focus on substance and policy and issues going forward.
But we should not be embracing the former president.
It's difficult for me to take Liz You might say, well, because he was questioning the election, because he had these lawsuits, because he was saying all these things, that in itself provoked the attack.
Okay, but then she says he refused to condemn the violence.
He condemned the violence before, during, and after the riot at the Capitol.
So that's just not true.
She says we need to have these clear ideals and principles.
I've got to tell you something.
I've lived through a few Republican administrations now.
The only Republican administration that I heard anything resembling clear principles from was Trump.
I got a lot of mixed stuff from the Bush-Cheney administration.
A lot of going back on certain campaign promises.
We're not going to nation build.
We're going to do this.
We're going to do that.
Passing massive, massive entitlement programs after they said they'd govern as conservatives.
Even going back to Bush's father.
Read my lips, no new taxes.
How did that turn out?
Major promise, completely broken.
So I just don't want to hear this sanctimony anymore.
But some Republicans believe the first thing we have to do, priority number one, attack Republicans, and in particular attack the most recent Republican president.
It's very frustrating that they do this to Trump.
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So there's two ways to respond to the constant and increasing Democratic attacks and exaggerations and lies.
One is you can buy into all of them.
You can encourage them even.
You can attack Republicans first.
You can attack your own guys first.
That's a typical response.
Then there's another response.
Which is, realize that it's a completely bad faith debate.
Realize that the Democrats are being disingenuous in their attacks.
Realize that everything they accuse us of doing, they've done ten times over.
And actually fight back against our real political opponents, the Democrats.
And not just encourage infighting amongst ourselves.
Rand Paul gets this.
Rand Paul was asked about all of these sorts of attacks on Republicans.
And he decided to go on the offensive.
You know, I opposed the notion of, which I think was a misguided notion of voting to overturn the election, either with Congress or with the Vice President.
But I think if we're going to criminalize speech and somehow impeach everybody who says, oh, go fight to hear your voices heard.
I mean, really, we ought to impeach Chuck Schumer then.
He went to the Supreme Court, stood in front of the Supreme Court and said specifically, hey, Gorsuch, hey, Kavanaugh, you've unleashed a whirlwind and you're going to pay the price.
You won't know what hits you if you continue with these awful decisions.
This inflammatory wording, this violent rhetoric of Chuck Schumer was so bad that the Chief Justice, who rarely says anything publicly, immediately said this kind of language is dangerous as a mob tried to invade the Supreme Court.
So if people want to hold President Trump accountable for language, there has to be a consistent standard And to my mind, it's a partisan farce because they're not doing anything to Chuck Schumer, not doing anything to Representative Omar, not doing anything to Maxine Waters.
It's just not fair.
It's just partisan politics under a different name.
Thank you.
Thank you, Rand.
Rand Paul has really been impressing me of late.
He's here speaking specifically about the impeachment.
This could be said, though, of many other political matters today.
The question of kicking people off of committees or banishing Trump from the Republican Party.
It's a partisan farce, what they're saying.
Anything you accuse Trump of, anything.
He incited violence.
What happened for the past eight months?
Trump incited violence.
He said, be peaceful before, during, and after the riots.
Meanwhile, you have Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris bailing out the rioters, for goodness sakes.
All of them encouraging violence on their own side.
You don't see them getting censured.
You don't see them being removed or impeached.
It's a farce.
And it's backed up by squishy Republicans, by court jester conservatives like Liz Cheney.
Who spends much of her time, more of her time, most of her time perhaps, as far as I can tell, attacking Republicans rather than going after the Democrats.
Rand Paul gets that.
I mean, that's a guy, I don't agree with Rand Paul on everything.
Just as Rand Paul says, I don't agree with Trump on everything.
And yet, I think we should all be able to recognize You can say that.
Look, I disagreed in many ways with how Trump handled, not just the past two months, but actually the way he handled the past year.
I think he mishandled coronavirus.
It was not entirely his fault.
He was faced with an unbelievable amount of pressure.
But I wish he had cut it out sooner and turned on Fauci sooner.
You know, okay, sure, I got these problems with him.
Doesn't mean I think we should banish Donald Trump.
I think we got to defend our guy.
I think the real threat is coming at us from the left.
Rand Paul understands that sort of thing.
Some other Republicans, they seem not to understand that one little bit.
If you think, I'll go back to that Republican congressman for a second.
If you think that this woman is kooky and delusional and unfit for office, take a listen to some of the Democrats.
Rashida Tlaib, a member of the squad, took to the House floor the other day to discuss The riot at the Capitol that she was not present for and basically turned it into a struggle session of the New York Radical Women's Group, like something out of the 1970s.
She just stood up there and cried because of how scared she imagined she could be.
On my very first day of orientation, I got my first death threat.
It was a serious one.
They took me aside.
The FBI had to go to the gentleman's home.
I didn't even get sworn in yet when someone wanted me dead for just existing.
More came later, uglier, more violent.
One celebrating and writing the New Zealand massacre and hoping that more would come.
Another mentioning my dear son, Adam.
Mentioning him by name.
Each one paralyzed me each time.
So what happened on January 6th, all I could do was thank Allah that I wasn't here.
I felt overwhelming relief, and I feel bad for Alexandria, so many of my colleagues that were here.
But as I saw it, I thought to myself, thank God I am not there.
I saw the images that they didn't get to see until later.
Yeah, they didn't get to see it until later because they weren't there either.
AOC walks up and just puts her hand on her back while this lunatic woman is crying.
What is she crying over?
What is this woman who is supposed to be a national leader, a statesman, someone with composure, reason, sort of elevated or at least normal comportment?
What is she crying over?
She wasn't there.
AOC wasn't there either, by the way, as we've discussed over the past couple weeks.
She was not in the Capitol.
She was in a building down the street.
The building was evacuated, sure, but the rioters were not there.
Rashida Tlaib is hysterically crying at the House floor because she has received death threats.
Every single person in public life, especially politics, has received death threats.
Every one.
She says she received death threats because she was existing.
No, she is receiving death threats because she's in politics.
And it's an ugly fact of politics, but every single person who is in politics gets death threats.
But she got death threats against her family.
Every single person who is in any way even slightly prominent in politics gets death threats.
It's a sad part.
part, it's an unfortunate part.
If you're not prepared for that, if that, if that aspect of the job, if that danger and that unpleasant interaction is going to reduce you to a, an hysterical crying lunatic, then you should get out of the job.
You're not fit for it.
Compare her because I think this actually was genuine.
I I think this woman genuinely is unhinged.
Compared to somebody like AOC, who I think is basically as cold as they come.
I think she's got ice water running through her veins.
Compare her to AOC, who then walks up.
So this woman, blubbering in this very dishonorable display.
Then AOC sees an opportunity, and she just walks up, cool as a cucumber, puts her hand on her back, poses for the camera.
You know, I mean, this woman, man, she is spooky, that AOC. But they're not the same.
She recognized an opportunity here to get herself on camera, and AOC never misses that at all.
They used to say that the most dangerous place in Washington was between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera.
I think AOC has taken that honor.
But this is pathetic.
Whatever kooks there are in the Republican Party, ain't none of them as kooky as Rashida Tlaib and AOC. If this is how people respond to routine adversity in politics, they have no place in Congress.
The reason I bring any of this up, and the reason I'm even referring over the shoulder to this Republican congressman that they took off the committees is, everyone seems to think this is about this woman.
Her name is Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Everyone thinks they're just after her, and then once they get her, it'll be all over.
It's not.
They're not after her.
She is a particularly kooky and eccentric person, so they're going after her because she's easy to attack.
They're after all of us, okay?
Marjorie Taylor Greene is just now an easy target.
Virtually no one would have ever heard her name if CNN and the Democrats did not make her a big deal because they want to make Republicans either defend her or attack her.
Either way, they win.
Really, I think the only way that Republicans can respond in a prudent way to this sort of thing is to do what the Democrats would do in the same situation.
Namely, completely ignore the attacks and just move on.
This woman is not particularly consequential.
She's a member of Congress.
How many names of members of Congress can you rattle off?
Like ten?
Hundreds of members?
How many could you actually name?
Sort of inconsequential, but it's not just about her.
It's not even just about Trump.
It's about all of us.
And actually, Bill Maher, who is wrong about so many things, so powerfully wrong, Bill Maher is every so often honest about the left's actual aims.
And Bill Maher more or less admitted this on his show.
This is not just about one or two eccentric people spouting off crazy theories.
This is about delegitimizing half of the country.
The triumph of democracy as Time Magazine puts it is when half the country Is suppressed, ostracized, no longer has a voice.
You know, Ben is going to be talking about the Time Magazine article, talking about how all the elites manipulated the 2020 election.
He's also going to be talking about the Biden administration continuing to tamp down school reopening.
So go check that out on his show.
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Democrats want us to believe that they're just after that Congress lady, or they're just after Trump, or they're just after, I don't know, there's always someone they seem to be just after.
Just one more person, and then they'll respect us, then they'll like us, right?
Bill Maher, who is occasionally honest, often wrong, but occasionally honest, has admitted this isn't about Trump or Marjorie Greene or QAnon or conspiracy theories.
It's about all of us.
It's about conservatives.
It's about Christians.
It's about people who hold traditional beliefs in this country.
The left thinks we're all the same.
The left thinks there's no difference.
I've mentioned this on the show.
You notice how they don't say alt-right anymore.
The alt-right, whatever that...
At one point, I think it did have a real meaning, but now it doesn't really have any meaning at all.
They don't care about the alt-right or the this-right or the conservatives.
They just think we're all the same.
Bill Maher.
They just think we're all the same, and they think we're all completely lunatics, right?
Completely insane.
And they want us ostracized from society.
As long as we're going to go to the trouble of another impeachment trial, we might as well be honest about what it's really about.
The events of January 6th were a faith-based initiative.
And Trumpism is a Christian nationalist movement that believes Trump was literally sent from heaven to save them.
It's right there in Senator Tommy Tuberville's campaign ad.
God sent us Donald Trump because God knew we were in trouble.
There's a lot of talk now in liberal quarters about how Republicans should tell their base, who still believe the election was rigged, that they need to grow up and move on and stop asking the rest of us to respect their mass delusion.
And of course it is a mass delusion.
But the inconvenient truth here is that if you accord religious faith, the kind of exalted respect we do here in America, you've already lost the argument that mass delusion is bad.
It's fun to laugh at QAnon with the baby-eating lizard people and the pedophile pizza parlors, but have you ever read the book of Revelations?
Because Bill Maher probably hasn't read the Book of Revelations, because the Book of Revelation is not called the Book of Revelations.
The dude couldn't even get the name of the book right as he's making fun of it, which is true of so many of these sophomoric atheist types.
I mean, I think the days of the Bill Maher-style atheism are over.
There was this kind of publishing fad in the mid-2000s.
They called him the new atheists.
It was like Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris.
And their books, I read some of their books recently, We're very weak.
They didn't even make the arguments they were purporting to make.
But it was popular among 14-year-old boys in urban areas or something.
And it wasn't to be really taken seriously.
And Bill Maher is not to be taken seriously.
He exposes the biblical literacy and theological insight of most of these people.
He doesn't even know the name of the book.
But he is espousing the view, I think, of many leftists, namely, if you...
Believe that there's something more to this world than just physical matter.
That, you know, beyond the tumbler and the desk and the microphone and my body.
If you believe that in our bodies we're not just meat puppets, but we actually have souls.
We have mind.
We have loves, dreams.
There are ideas.
There's mathematics, right?
Things that are metaphysical.
They're not just physical.
That you're kind of kooky.
Now, of course, if you put it in those terms to them, they would say, no, I don't deny math.
I don't deny dreams.
I don't deny ideas.
But they do.
They just aren't philosophically sophisticated enough to talk about it.
You can imagine Thomas Aquinas looking down from heaven now saying, oh, darn, I got owned by Bill Maher.
I never realized that it's foolish to believe in the book of Revelations.
Darn, totally owned by that book.
Hack comedian.
I, Thomas Aquinas, one of the most brilliant people to ever walk the earth.
This is what they believe.
Now, you heard that phrase in there that Bill Maher mentioned, Christian nationalism.
What is Christian nationalism?
What does that mean?
It's a phrase that's become popular.
These slogans spread like memes, and the left has been pushing this one recently.
I guess Christian nationalism means the belief that we are a nation and a Christian nation at that.
Which is obviously true, right?
The United States is a Christian nation.
There is some complexity to that because it's a Christian nation that has broad toleration among the Protestant denominations and even had toleration for Catholics.
And even from the founding era, had toleration for Jews and didn't totally love Muslims because obviously the early Americans were being kidnapped and killed by Barbary pirates.
That was our first war after we had gained independence.
So that complicated things.
But, you know, generally then we kind of expanded tolerance to some Muslims too.
And okay, so it's All of that is complex.
History is much more complex than slogans.
But while all of that is true, it is also the case that we are a Christian nation.
We were founded by Christian zealots who took a ship over here from England called the Mayflower and founded a puritanical colony.
Later Puritans who arrived referred to this as a shining city upon a hill.
We had established churches in this country well past the founding era.
Our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, refers to the philosophical basis of this country as the natural rights that we are endowed with by our creator.
What was their vision of a creator?
We'll go back and read their writings.
Their vision of a creator was, at least broadly speaking, a Christian god.
Well, of course, they were steeped in the Christian culture.
It's not a Hindu country.
It's not a Muslim country.
It wasn't a Jewish country.
And it wasn't a pagan country.
It wasn't a secular atheist country.
Which I guess you'd say now the dominant religion in the country is secular liberalism or sort of atheism, I guess.
Or some kind of weird paganism with all the crystals and the horoscopes and all the wacky stuff that liberals believe now.
But Certainly, even Thomas Jefferson, who was pretty radical, didn't believe that.
John Adams didn't believe that.
George Washington didn't believe that.
So what Bill Maher is saying is, these awful, terrible people, they believe in the vision of America as it existed from 1620 until like five minutes ago.
But that's bad, that's evil, that's wicked, that needs to be ostracized.
Because we, on the left, want to upend society.
We want to overturn that tradition and implement our radical designs.
At least he's honest.
At least he's honest.
I think that's true of most.
Most left-wingers believe that sort of thing, but they aren't willing to admit it.
The reality of what the left believes about us is pretty spooky.
There was a doctor who just got in some trouble because he had some pretty negative things to say about his country and about his countrymen.
Dr.
Cleveland Gilman I had a video going around regarding people in Florida not wearing masks.
He said, Naples, Florida.
Let them die.
I'm so tired of these people.
No vaccine for y'all.
Okay, now you might say, this doctor, he was just kidding.
He was letting off steam.
He was being intentionally provocative.
He didn't really mean that.
Well, he got a lot of blowback.
And so he apologized, sort of.
He said, Republicans trying to take my words out of context as if I deny medical care to people that don't wear masks and let them die.
Okay, well good.
Yeah, I guess we did think that because that's what you said you were going to do.
So I'm glad you're saying I'm not really going to do that.
Then he goes on.
He says, my point is that we can't waste our energy on these COVID deniers.
They are not going to protect themselves, so let them die.
They'll find out the hard way.
Wait, what?
Hold on.
You just said you didn't.
So you said that's what you believe.
And then you said that was taken out of context and you don't believe that.
And then one sentence later you said, but that actually is what I believe.
And this guy, he's not just some random doctor mouthing off.
I mean, first of all, you'd expect more from any doctor.
These are supposed to be elevated people who've gone to a lot of schooling, who have a bedside manner, who are sacrificing themselves.
This guy is prominent enough that Joe Biden gave him a call on the campaign trail and they filmed an ad together.
Hello?
Hey, Dr.
Gilman, this is Joe Biden.
I just called a thank you for your service.
You're an Iraqi war veteran.
You know, I understand that you're going to do whatever it takes to get this pandemic under control.
And I just want you to know how much I appreciate what you and so many others like you are doing, risking your rear ends and going out of your way to help other people.
Thanks a lot sir.
You know what?
I grew up with a speech impediment and I did not really have a whole lot of opportunities until I joined the military.
I've been very fortunate to have come home unscathed.
I was in New York on the front lines where I lost three of my colleagues out there.
I lost my 27 year old cousin who was really healthy, who was trying out for the NFL. I'm really looking I'm going to do everything in my power, and I promise you, Doc, you're going to have a full-blown partner.
You have my word as a Biden.
All right, sir, you have a great day.
Now, in Joe's defense, my word as a Biden and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee.
So that at least is a little bit of comfort.
But I don't like the idea that Gilman's going to have a full partner in Joe Biden.
Gilman is saying that he wants conservatives to die.
He doesn't just want them to lose elections, want us to lose elections.
He doesn't just want us to shut up.
He wants us to die.
He said that, then he said he didn't say that, but then he said it again in the very next sentence.
The left is not going to turn on this guy.
The left is not going to turn on, just like they didn't turn on Maxine Waters or Hillary Clinton or Eric Holder or Cory Booker or Kamala Harris or any of these people who have actively encouraged violence against conservatives.
I'm beginning to get the impression that they don't like us.
And any political strategy...
Look, politics changes by circumstance.
There are eternal principles, but we apply those principles through the light of received opinion and tradition to changing circumstances.
And where once it may have been a prudent strategy to try to make nice and be conciliatory with Democrats and come together in kumbaya...
Your opponents get a say in politics, just like your enemies get a say in war.
And if they don't like us, if they don't want to work with us at all, then we can't force it.
We're only going to hurt ourselves if we force it.
Two different strategies.
You know, Liz Cheney saying that Trump has no role in the future of the Republican Party.
Who do you think better represents the Republican Party right now?
Donald Trump and people of like mind?
Or Liz Cheney?
And people of her like mind.
Which one do you think?
Trump or Cheney?
Who would you, if an election were held today, who would you vote for?
I don't think it would be close.
The hypocrisy is, the double standard rather, is I think what's showing this to people.
You get this doctor, you get all this kind of violent rhetoric, you get Antifa marching through the streets of D.C. just the other day with Black Lives Matter, chanting that they wanted to burn it down.
Take a listen.
A little hard to hear it and we had to bleep out every other word.
And that's the most peaceful video I could find.
A lot of the other videos are involving real clashes between police.
Antifa protesters I'm still looking at the sort of...
Old Catholic liturgical calendar, you know?
So I knew, though, that February was Black History Month.
Turns out it's no longer just Black History Month.
It's queer and trans Black History Month.
So I don't know when sort of ordinary black people get their own history month, but this has gotten very, very specific.
The direct quote from the Antifa people was, if we don't get it, burn it down.
So this is a violent insurrection in Washington, D.C., much more violent than what happened at the Capitol, just as the BLM riots over the summer in D.C. were much more violent than anything that happened at the Capitol.
And everyone condemns the Capitol.
Fair enough.
That makes perfect sense to me.
I think riots are very bad.
Nobody, nobody, except for some Republicans, some conservatives, condemn this kind of stuff in D.C., The tough Republicans condemn this stuff in D.C. The squishy Republicans?
Not so much.
Complete double standard here.
Complete double standard.
And it does come out of a sort of...
It's a new caste system, a racial and sexual caste system that the left is trying to push.
You see it even in the way they name the months.
It goes from Black History Month to Queer and Trans Black History Month.
They're just getting more and more narrow on more and more victim groups.
The idea, of course, is that your value comes from the amount of grievance and suffering that you can claim.
That value translates to certain privileges.
If certain protected groups, be they sexual, racial, or political, commit certain acts, commit violence in the streets, they will not be punished in the same way that disfavored groups on sexual, racial, and political lines do.
You could say it's hypocrisy, or it's a double standard, sure.
It's really just a hierarchy.
I think Adrian Vermeule, the law professor, makes this distinction, hierarchy versus hypocrisy.
The liberal regime just has a new hierarchy and the left is explicitly trying to push this.
You may remember some months ago, Nick Cannon got cancelled.
He got semi-cancelled because he made comments about white people broadly and Jews specifically.
And they were pretty vicious comments.
So, he'd lost some of his contracts.
He got in a little bit of trouble.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Viacom, CBS, has resumed its professional relationship with Nick Cannon.
We'll allow Nick Cannon to get his job back and resume production on his very same VH1 series, Wild and Out.
Viacom says, quote, This
were reversed.
And if the people that Nick Cannon attacked had made any kind of racial comments in the other direction, they would not be given a second chance.
They would not be given probably any work in the future, much less their job back.
It just wouldn't happen.
That is a special privilege that Nick Cannon has received that disfavored groups would not receive.
But there's another level here.
So I'm glad to see that Nick Cannon has apologized for his comments about Jews and he went to the Holocaust Memorial and he sort of did a few performative acts to say he regrets his comments about Jews.
That's good.
But he's never apologized for his vicious comments against white people generally.
In case you had forgotten, take a listen.
Melanin comes with compassion.
Melanin comes with soul that we call it.
We call it soul.
We soul brothers and sisters.
That's the melanin that connects us.
So the people that don't have it are, and I'm going to say this carefully, are a little less...
And where the term actually comes from, because I'm bringing it all the way back around to Minister Farrakhan, the only way that they can act is evil.
The only way they have to rob, steal, rape, kill, and fight or flight in order to survive.
Exactly.
So then these people who didn't have what we had, and when I say we, I speak of the melanated people.
Right.
They had to be savages.
They had to be barbaric.
They had because they're in these Nordic mountains.
They're in these rough torrential environments.
So they're acting as animals.
So they're the ones that are actually closer to animals.
White people, you see, actually closer to animals.
They're less than.
They're savages because they don't have souls.
It's become sort of trite even to do this whole thing of, well, if the roles were reversed, could you imagine?
Just imagine, though, for a second.
Ryan Seacrest, you know, is doing his podcast and he's got some guests on and he says, you see, the thing about melanated peoples is they're animals and savages and they don't have souls.
I'm talking about black people, you see.
Yes, no, you understand.
And then have the person there, he says, yes, no, I totally agree.
And then Ryan Seacrest goes on.
He says, yeah, you know, they're less than and that's why they behave like animals.
Of course, you know, this sort of thing would never happen.
If it did, I think Ryan Seacrest would be sent to Guantanamo Bay for saying something like this, right?
But Nick Cannon gets away with this, never apologizes for it, right?
He apologizes for very specific comments, but doesn't apologize for these broader comments.
And he gets his job back.
Do you think that's a fair system?
Do you think that's a system for racial equity, tolerance, unity and healing?
No!
Absolutely not!
It's a vicious, vile caste system that deplores some people on the basis of race and sex, by the way, and religion, as Bill Maher showed, and all these sorts of things, and gives other people special privileges.
Do we want to live under that system?
Does anybody want to live under that system?
I don't think so.
Mass delusion, my friends.
There was a monument that just went up at the Lincoln Memorial.
So there's obviously the Lincoln Memorial's monument.
There's another monument that just went up to Vice President Kamala Harris.
What has Kamala Harris done?
Nothing.
Why did they put it up?
Well, because...
She's the first woman of color elected to the nation's second highest office.
And so it's a memorial, not a memorial, she's still alive, it's a monument that's got some shattered glass on it.
You get it?
It's so subtle.
Shattered the glass ceiling.
Now, she's not the first person of color to serve as vice president.
That was actually Herbert Hoover's vice president almost 100 years ago.
But this portrait is up there.
Now, it shows that the left does not view Kamala Harris as a person.
They view her as a type, just like they view all people as types.
You're your race, or you're your sex, or you're whatever, but you're not an individual.
And speaking of bad art, the only thing I want to say about the Super Bowl, other than Tom Brady, very impressive, great stuff, the only thing I want to say is Amanda Gorman.
Amanda Gorman is that slam poetess that spoke at the inauguration that we went over on this show.
This is the first Super Bowl.
Thankfully, I didn't watch it, but it's the first Super Bowl I've ever heard of that had a slam poetry section to it.
And they chose for the slam poem the now-famous inaugural poetess Amanda Gorman.
Take a listen.
Today, we honor our three captains for their actions and impact in a time of uncertainty and need.
They've taken the lead, exceeding all expectations and limitations, uplifting their communities and neighbors as leaders, healers, and educators.
James has felt the wounds of warfare, but this warrior still shares his home with at-risk kids.
During COVID, he's even lent a hand live-streaming football for family and fans.
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Susie I can't take any more.
Harold Bloom called slam poetry the death of art.
Absolutely, that is true.
We have mass delusion all around this country right now.
If anyone believes that the audience at the Super Bowl wants to listen to some politically correct woke slam poem, goodness gracious, our problems of delusion, they go a lot deeper than some random congressman.
When, oh when, will we get our senses back?
If we keep listening to that sort of stuff, not anytime soon.
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