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May 4, 2021 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 756 - The Big Lie

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For months, Democrats have parroted the phrase, the big lie, to refer to any questioning of the circumstances surrounding the 2020 election.
It's as though they got a sheet of paper, they said, this is the phrase, we've all got to use it consistently for the next six months.
The big lie, the big lie, the big lie.
So the big lie is, unfortunately, alive and well in the fever swamps of the far right.
Well, on this date, January 10th, 2019, the big lie of the Trump presidency collapsed.
But just as the president spent months spreading his big lie of the election, After months of pushing Donald Trump's big lie, the election was rigged against him.
No, they're not special.
That's part of the big lie that the president's been telling.
The big lie, the big lie, the big lie.
The big lie is a phrase associated with Hitler.
So this is just an extension of calling Donald Trump a Nazi or calling him Hitler.
Ironically, though, because the libs, they know like a very little bit about history, but they don't read past the first two sentences.
Ironically, the phrase was actually used by Hitler in Mein Kampf to refer to something that he was accusing the Jews of doing.
That is neither here nor there.
Now, however...
A Republican leader in the House of Representatives is parroting the same phrase in the same sense.
With Republicans like that, who needs Democrats?
How much longer will we need to tolerate all these big liars?
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show.
My favorite comment yesterday from HouseNHunter24, who says, Hey Michael, listening to you and Ben saved me from thinking this country treats me any less because I'm a woman.
Thank you.
You're welcome, toots.
No, I'm only kidding.
That's very nice of you.
I'm pleased to hear that.
John Wayne had a line about this many decades ago, which is, he was responding to the hysteria of the second wave feminists who said, we lived in a patriarchy.
And he said, that's insane.
America has always been a matriarchy.
It always has.
We defer to women.
Women run the home.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
We elevate women.
This was always the case in America.
This was the case broadly in the West and in the Anglosphere in particular.
And it has become less and less so each day.
Each day that proceeds, particularly since the tumult of the 1960s, since feminism and women's liberation, the country has actually gotten worse and worse and worse for women.
You can even see this, not that I put great stock into social scientific surveys, but you can see this in both absolute terms and in relative terms to the happiness of men.
Women have gotten less and less happy every single year because now we don't value any womanly virtues and we treat women as though they're no different from men in any way.
And we disregard many of their finest qualities.
So, yes, I'm glad that we have helped you to see that we value women.
But unfortunately, if the Libs have their way, we will not value women for very long.
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So you've heard this stupid phrase, the big lie.
It's just another clumsy extension of the libs crying that Donald Trump is literally Hitler.
And so they all use it and they all get the exact same sheet of talking points and they don't have an original idea in their head.
President Trump, in response to this, appropriated the phrase.
He said, the 2020 election is the real big lie.
That was the gist of his press statement.
President Trump has done this before.
You'll remember the phrase fake news, which is now totally associated with Trump, actually started as a left-wing attack on Trump.
It actually was an attack on us in 2016.
The Daily Wire was listed on a little Google Doc that was going around with other news sites that the left was saying constituted fake news.
And people shouldn't read us and people shouldn't pay any attention to us.
And you heard, oh yes, all the right-wing news outlets, they're totally fake news.
So Donald Trump appropriated that phrase and said, actually, CNN is fake news.
And he was so effective at that, and it rang so true that now when you think of fake news, the first thing that pops into your head is probably going to be CNN. So, you get the dumb line, you get Trump appropriating it, and then Liz Cheney comes out.
Liz Cheney, who is a leader in the House of Representatives, she's a sort of minor leader, but she runs the Republican caucus there.
But she's not really a Republican.
She's certainly not a conservative, and she seems to spend most of her time attacking fellow Republicans and agreeing with Democrats.
Liz Cheney is parroting this phrase.
She's saying that anyone who parrots Trump's big lie by in any way raising any questions about the 2020 election, which we all have to admit had a lot of irregularities, just look at Pennsylvania, the way that the election was conducted in Pennsylvania was in direct violation of the state constitution.
No one's allowed to say that anymore.
If you in any way bring that up, Then you're participating in the big lie.
You're basically no different than Adolf Hitler, darn it.
End quote.
You're poisoning our democratic system.
I tried to be fair to Liz Cheney.
I tried to be warm, welcoming.
A big tent party supporter that says, look, people might have their disagreements on Trump.
We've got to come together.
This woman's got to go.
This woman has got to go.
She is absolute poison to the Republican Party.
All she does is give aid and comfort to the Democrats.
All she does is attack the Republicans.
She won't support the party at all.
It is part of the broader problem Of what you might call the neoconservatives, or the war hawk former Dems, in the three legs of the post-war, Cold War conservative movement.
The conservative movement, from the end of World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall, consisted of what you'd call fusionism.
The three-legged stool.
You had the traditionalists and the religious right...
Different, but they kind of blur together a little bit.
You had the economic libertarians, and you had the neocons.
You had the war hawk, blue dog Democrats who wanted to stop the Soviet Union's imperial ambitions.
That worked all well and good for the Cold War.
Obviously, we won the Cold War.
But the economic priorities of the libertarians dominated, and the two other groups went along with it.
The foreign policy priorities of the neoconservatives especially dominated, particularly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, as that coalition hobbled along.
The other two groups more or less went along with it.
But the traditional conservatives never got anything.
We got very, very little out of it.
And By the way, when the traditional conservatives started to become a little bit ascendant again, notably during the presidency of Donald Trump, what happened?
The neocons ran away.
They abandoned the three-legged stool.
So I'm talking about people like Bill Kristol.
I'm talking about people like Liz Cheney.
I'm talking about people who were more from the George W. Bush wing of the Republican Party.
People who were more for the bomb the Middle East wing of the Republican Party.
They just jumped ship.
The squishy types left.
And so, just as a matter of party politics, you can't go on in that coalition.
It's the same problem that you see when a nation descends into civil war.
The only way self-government works is if people agree to continue to participate even when you lose on one particular issue.
This is why the right of secession is incoherent in a...
Republics such as ours.
If you can just secede when you don't get your own way, then there is no self-government.
Because self-government is predicated on the idea that we're going to persuade one another and sometimes I'm going to get my way and sometimes you're going to get your way, but we're still going to remain a country because that's the only way that we can preserve even the sort of debate and free government that we're talking about.
So if Liz Cheney is, she keeps showing us her cards and so many other of her fellow travelers keep showing her cards, then they can't be part of the conservative movement.
Because they're not willing to play ball.
They're only willing to either dominate the movement or help the Dems.
And that's it.
So fine.
If she wants to leave, let her leave.
But she certainly shouldn't be in leadership.
And frankly, I'm not convinced she should be in the House of Representatives either.
Talking about big lies.
Big, big lies.
What is the biggest lie dominating our politics today?
Is it that maybe there was something a little weird about the 2020 election?
You know, just look at the way the thing was conducted in various states, notably Pennsylvania.
No, no.
The biggest lie is the racial grievance politics.
That's the biggest.
It's the one that dominates everything.
It's the lie that burned the country to the ground last year.
It's the lie that permits legal racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action against whites and Asians and in favor of blacks and Hispanics.
It's the lie that persistently tries to rip America apart and that is exploited by very cynical people, almost exclusively on the left, to rip America apart.
It's the lie that our nation's enemies have always tried to exploit because there is a fault line here.
I'm not denying that there have been racial issues in the country, but the lie is that America is fundamentally evil, bigoted, we can never in any way overcome racial issues, and that America is a white supremacist country.
It's just not true.
Al Sharpton said it the other day.
day.
Al Sharpton was present at funeral services for a man who was killed in an officer-involved killing.
These are extraordinarily rare events in the United States.
And in cases where the killing was not justified, they basically do not exist.
There are very, very few events where the shooting is not justified.
So Al Sharpton's there and he says, America is a racist country.
Now, everybody in America is not racist.
Right?
But are you talking about whether the practice of America is racist or the people?
Because the practice of America was built on racism.
It was against the law for us to read and write.
It was against the law for us to marry.
It was against the law for us to name our children after us.
We were brought here to serve and never get paid.
That's how the country was built.
What do you mean America is not racist?
America was started off racism.
Al Sharpton is such an odious figure in politics.
He's such a leech.
He's such a parasite.
He launched his career on a hoax, on the Tawana Brawley hoax.
He encouraged the riots in Crown Heights.
He's a liar.
He's a thug.
He's an extortion artist who shakes down corporate America and shakes down individuals to fund his ridiculous slush fund.
He's just such a horrific character in American politics.
And he's not that intelligent.
But other than that, Mrs.
Lincoln, how'd you like to play?
He is very clever.
He's very shrewd.
He's very good at politics, obviously.
He's managed to make it a long time in politics, a long time in his professional life, without ever producing anything.
He's made it very far in his career and worn very fancy suits and flown around on very fancy private jets without ever really doing anything other than extorting money from people on this premise of racial grievance.
But what is he saying?
He's saying, you're saying America's not racist?
What are you talking about?
We had slavery.
Yeah, so did every civilization ever in the history of the world, and many still do.
We probably had slavery in this country for less time than basically any other place on earth.
What do you mean America's not racist?
Slaves were brought here.
Right, yep, that's true.
That was a long time ago.
And by the way, the first officially declared owner of a slave in the American slave...
System?
Was a black guy.
The first slave owner was a black guy.
Isn't that weird?
That's a weird thing.
I'm not saying that that takes away from the racial element, the racial character that would develop in American slavery, but the guy's name was Anthony Johnson and he was declared the slave owner of John Kaser.
And actually neighbors were very concerned about this poor man who was supposed to be an indentured servant and get out.
And then this guy Anthony Johnson, who was a black Angolan, went to the court and had this guy John Kaser declared a slave for life.
That's just a weird aspect.
That's a strange thing.
There's slavery all over the world.
Today, what are we talking about, though?
What Al Sharpton is trying to do is exploit one blip in the course of history to rip the country apart today.
And the thing is, as a political matter, he's got a little bit of a point that conservatives don't always acknowledge.
But what he is doing right now, absolutely disgusting.
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The big lie, to use a popular phrase, that America is a vicious, awful, racist place and that our justice system is totally rotten, the whole country is rotten, and therefore the police, who are the physical representation of law and order and our whole sense of justice in this country, therefore they are all evil.
This pervades the country forever.
Such that people now feel that they have the right to scream and yell at the cops and interfere in their jobs.
I was just going through the Jacksonville airport the other day.
Just two days ago.
I was flying back from Jacksonville and police were arresting some crazy lunatic who was making a big nuisance of himself and certainly should have been arrested.
But he was a black guy.
Now, some of the cops were black, too, so it's not like this was a white supremacist, racially split.
No, there was a black guy being arrested, as he should have been, because he was making a nuisance of himself in the airport.
And what happens?
A group of people crowds around and starts filming everything and starts screaming at the cops.
Tells the cops, you don't need to hold him like that.
What does this person know?
About how the cops need to hold people to arrest them.
Starts screaming, starts yelling.
We got an incident like this on video just the other day.
Cop pulls a woman over because she's using her cell phone while she's driving.
And the woman launches a vile stream of invective at the cop.
I was going under the speed limit.
I was going at 38.
Yes, you are ma'am.
Good morning.
And the speed limit is 40, and I was going 38, so why are you harassing me?
You're correct.
I pulled you over because...
Because you're a murderer.
Yes, I started to record because you're a murderer.
You can't be on your cell phone while you're driving.
I wasn't on my phone.
I was recording you because you scared me.
You can't use your cell phone while you're recording.
I can record you.
May I have your driver's license?
It's at my apartment.
What's your apartment?
It's at my home.
I'm just taking my son to his...
Do you have your driver's license?
I mistakenly left it at home.
Do you have a picture of your driver's license?
Yes, I do.
May I have it?
And can you call your supervisor, please?
I already did.
He's on his way.
Good, because you're a murderer.
Okay.
And so you're giving me a cell phone ticket?
Is that why you're harassing me?
Not harassment, I am enforcing the law.
I have a right to record the police when they're harassing me.
By all means, but you can't do it while you're driving.
I wasn't texting or none of that.
And you scared me and made me think you were going to murder me.
Okay, well I'm sorry you feel that way.
Well, that's not just a feeling, you're a murderer.
Does this woman sound like she's afraid that she's going to be murdered?
No, I don't think she sounds afraid of anything.
I don't think she even sounds afraid that she's going to get a ticket.
Because she's playing the race card, and she knows that this is a lie.
She knows it's a lie that the cop is a murderer, because if she really thought the cop was a murderer, she'd be crying and shaking in her car, and she wouldn't be screaming at him and acting as though everything's going to go just fine for her as long as she keeps playing that race card.
She knows it's a lie, but it's a lie to her advantage, and it's a lie that's been incentivized all around the country and the culture, so she's going to keep doing it.
This is also a point that I think must be made.
You hear a lot, particularly from BLM, that the cops target black people.
That's one of the main contentions of BLM. And I think a lot of the people who are pushing that idea are just being dishonest and trying to achieve radical political ends.
But there are, I bet, people who believe that because Everyone hates dealing with the cops.
I've been pulled over so many times in my life because on occasion I've driven a little faster than the speed limit.
And sometimes maybe I've rolled through a stop sign.
And on one occasion, I actually didn't do anything wrong.
The cop was wrong about the speed limit.
On a road in New York.
I know everyone thinks they're always right, but I'll fully admit I've been wrong many times that I've been pulled over or that I've seen the speed limit or whatever.
There was one time I was actually right, and the cop was a big jerk to me.
And if I had been steeped in this culture where I was told the cops are out to get you, they're out to murder you because of the color of your skin, I could see a world in which I'd say, you did this to me because of the way I look.
But no.
Cops are just out there enforcing the law.
No one likes getting a ticket, and sometimes the cops get it wrong.
Not a lot.
Very rarely do the cops get it wrong.
But that's what happens.
So, so far in this video, you could chalk this up to this woman being incredibly stupid and irresponsible.
She's saying, I can, you know, I'm going to try to get out.
I know I was using my phone, but I'm going to try to get out of it by saying I was recording him because I'm afraid he's a murderer.
Okay, fine.
She's stupid.
She's irresponsible.
But then, in the next frame, you see that this woman knows exactly what she's doing.
And I'm perfectly legal and I'm a teacher.
So there.
Congratulations.
You're a murderer.
What's your last name?
I can't see that there.
Well, here you go, murderer.
Stop shaking.
Zoom in on that for me.
No, because you're scaring me.
You're threatening to kill me and my son.
Can you give me the...
Okay.
I'll tell you what.
You keep smiling.
You're on camera.
You're trying to threaten to kill me.
I didn't say that.
I'm not smiling.
You're the one who's crazy.
Hold that still.
I can't see that.
Is this your car?
Yes, it is.
You're trying to say I stole my own car because you're jealous?
Yeah, I don't think so.
Is that what that's about?
You wait for me right here, okay?
You're jealous?
We've got the citation.
All you need is to There you go, ma'am.
Sign inside the red box right there.
Sign the citation, ma'am.
There you go, Mexican racist.
You're always going to be a Mexican.
You'll never be white.
You know that, right?
You'll never be white, which is what you really want to be.
You want to be white.
Thank you, ma'am.
You want to be white?
You want to be white?
This woman's so awful.
If she's a teacher, certainly she should be fired.
Well, Michael, does that mean you're for cancel culture?
Yep, I'm for canceling her, you bet.
Because, by the way, when some people throw this at conservatives and they say, well, no, you support cancel culture.
I have never said that people should not face consequences for what they do.
I've simply said that the standards are wrong.
The old standards are better.
The traditionals...
And by the way, just to even take it out of an historical framework, standards of virtue are good and standards of vice are bad.
So yeah, the current cancel culture where you get canceled for saying true and good things, that's bad.
The old cancel culture where you got canceled for being a communist, that's great.
I love that.
We need more of that.
So I hope that that happens.
I hope that this woman does not...
Ever teach a student again, if she really is a teacher.
But you hear it in her voice.
She says, oh no, I'm just doing this because you're trying to murder me and my son.
No, she's giddy.
Well, she says it.
She clearly doesn't realize that the cop is wearing a body camera.
You know, the Libs pushed for the body cameras on cops, I think because the Very ignorant ones among them.
The gullible ones among them believe that the cops really are just out there murdering people all the time.
The body cameras are going to help the cops because they're going to show cynical women like this for what they are, which is trying to get out of a ticket by making a horrific accusation.
And then ironically, while she's invoking racism and racism and racism, what does she do at the end?
She says, you're a Mexican.
You're a dirty, rotten Mexican.
You're not white.
But do you see what's beneath that?
It's not enough to just say, see, the left, they're the real racists.
See, she's a racist, but what she's doing here is she is expressing her offense at the idea that this Mexican cop would not embrace primarily racial politics inside with her, I think she's black, over the white guy.
The dig there is not, I hate Mexicans.
The dig there is, you're supposed to be with me.
Why are you not with me?
We're supposed to team up regardless of the truth, regardless of justice.
We're supposed to team up against Whitey.
So why are you taking Whitey's side?
You'll never be white.
You just want to be white, right?
That's what she's saying at the end of that.
That view, how vicious, how despicable, how totally cynical where she's saying, forget that obviously she's been lying the whole time and sort of gleefully so.
But then to say, alright, I'm going to tell you what this is really about.
You're a Mexican, you're supposed to be on my side, but you're on the white guy's side.
It's wrong.
And of course, the cop doesn't see it that way.
The cop says, I'm on the side of justice, and you are violating the law.
She says, I have every right to film you.
Yeah, ma'am, but you don't.
You're harassing me.
I'm enforcing the law.
That is a new hierarchy.
That is race politics.
And that woman may as well admit Directly.
That the notion of white supremacy is a farce.
It's a joke.
It's a joke to her.
She just knows that the lie of white supremacy might help her get out of a speeding ticket, or a cell phone ticket, rather.
That's where we are.
You're not allowed to talk about that big lie.
And conservatives don't totally get off the hook here either.
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Tim Scott gave an okay State of the Union response.
It's the worst job in American politics, and he was a little squishy on some points, and he was fine on others, and okay, it was whatever.
He then went on the news shows, the Sunday shows.
To develop his thesis, because the State of the Union response didn't totally land.
And I felt he made better points on the Sunday shows than he did even in that response.
Tim Scott was asked about whether or not America really is racist.
He had an important line in that State of the Union response.
He said, America is not a racist country.
Well, what does that mean?
Al Sharpton disagrees with you, Tim Scott.
Defend yourself!
The question is, is there a lingering effect after a couple of centuries of racism and discrimination in this nation?
The answer is absolutely.
The question we should be debating and fighting over is how do we resolve those issues going forward?
One side says, I'm going to take from some to give to others.
Fighting bigotry with bigotry is hypocrisy.
It just doesn't work.
The second, our side, what I've suggested is let's expand opportunity and make sure that we are fully equipped for the challenges of the future.
Okay, so a lot of this is just boilerplate.
Look, there were problems in the past and now we've got to do better and we want to expand opportunity and the libs want to steal money from people.
But he's making an important point here that a lot of conservatives don't want to hear.
There is a lingering effect of slavery.
Just as there is a lingering effect in the world of all sin, when you commit any kind of sin, Where are you going to go someday when you shake off this mortal coil?
But there is also the temporal effect of sin.
If you steal a candy bar, that is going to...
Imperil your mortal soul, your eternity, right?
But that will also harm the shopkeeper that you stole it from.
So you can go to confession and God can forgive you of stealing the candy bar.
But you've got to do some penance.
You've got to make up for that because the temporal effects of that sin still remain.
The same is true of slavery and of many other problems.
Slavery is not the unique problem in American history.
There are many other problems as well.
Conservatives once understood that.
Conservatives once understood that history matters.
I think about it when I think of my own family's history in the United States Half my family came over on the Mayflower.
Half the family came over on a sardine boat from Italy, right?
So you've got the Irish and the Italian immigrants come over, but you've also got the English settlers who came over early and settled the country.
That gives me a certain perspective on the history of this country.
One feels a certain stake in the country if one's forebears helped to build it.
One feels a certain responsibility, a certain sense of being at home.
If my ancestors came over on slave ships, I would have a different view of the country.
Now I might still love the country.
I might still go so far as to say what some people have said, that they are glad that their ancestors were brought over on slave ships because it gave them the opportunity to live in America and they didn't have to grow up in some awful country in Africa.
You could even say that while still saying...
My family's history in this country, my traditional relationship to this country is different than the people whose family came over on the Mayflower.
And we have to deal with that.
We have to recognize that the past affects the present and that will affect the future.
In a way, I think when conservatives deny this, we're adopting a kind of progressive view of politics, which says that the past doesn't matter at all.
Forget about the past.
The past is bad.
Just ignore it.
And we're just going to only look toward the future.
Now, what the conservative insight here is, is that we want to take what is best from the past and conserve that.
And we want to defer to the tradition, to the wisdom of the ages, to the democracy of the dead.
We don't want to just trap ourselves in the past.
Nostalgia is history after a few drinks.
But we also don't want to discard all of it and start toppling the statues and say America's a terrible place.
I think if conservatives can grapple with that, we will have a bit more credibility when we point out that people like Al Sharpton are just liars.
They're just total race-hustling liars.
And the idea that the cops are out there shooting innocent black people, it's just not true.
It's just a complete lie.
And I think if you go far enough as to recognize people's legitimate sense of history and tradition, a deeply conservative impulse, then our arguments on where the country is right now and where it's going are going to be much, much more persuasive.
Speaking of history...
Speaking of American history, Rick Santorum is in trouble.
Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania, former presidential candidate, who got pretty far in the race.
Now he goes on CNN sometimes.
Poor guy.
Poor Rick.
But very important politician, has very good things to say.
He was speaking at a Young America's Foundation event, and he mentioned that the history of the United States derives from the civilization of Europe.
It derives from the West.
It's in our DNA. You know, if you think of other countries like Italy and Greece and China and Turkey and places like that, they've all sort of changed over time.
I mean, they've been there for millennia in many cases.
And their culture has sort of evolved over time.
But not us.
We came here and created a blank slate.
We birthed a nation.
From nothing.
I mean, there is nothing here.
I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn't much Native American culture in American culture.
It was born of the people who came here pursuing religious liberty to practice their faith, to live as they ought to live, Of course.
Of course this is true.
Our publicist, Jason Campbell, over at Media Matters, clipped this out as though this were some terrible thing.
Everything he said there, totally, totally right.
My only quibble with Rick here is he's not going quite to the right enough.
I think he's being a little too conciliatory.
But of course, the American culture that we have is not the culture of the Iroquois.
It's not the culture of the Algonquin.
It's not the culture of the Cherokee.
The culture that we have in this country derives from the English.
And then other immigrant groups come in.
And look, people have dream catchers, right?
So there are these little sort of ornamentations of Native American culture.
For a while, there was a movement to pretend that our American system of government derives from the Iroquois or something like that in New York, which is just not true.
It means the Iroquois had a kind of confederacy.
It is not true.
The Iroquois were a bellicose band of cannibal warriors.
Yeah.
These were really tough hombres, and I have respect for them, as I have respect for all sorts of different peoples, but we did not adopt the Iroquois system of government.
Our system of government comes primarily from the English, which is what Rick Santorum is saying.
And that's true.
So what on earth could we disagree with here?
Well, Rick's CNN colleagues, they couldn't finish watching that video without beginning to sputter, how dare you say, that Europeans founded this country.
No contrition, didn't talk about...
You know, the suffering that Native Americans have had to deal with in this country, it was, I mean, Rick Santorum, really?
Who, did he think, did he actually think it was a good idea for him to come on television and try to whitewash the whitewash that he whitewashed?
I mean, It was horrible.
It was horrible and insulting.
And I apologize to the viewers who were insulted by it because I was sitting in my office furious because he's done it so many times.
So many times.
And it's just, I'm sorry.
It was just, it was so egregious and insulting and everything that we talk about, about the founding of this country.
Europeans did not found this country.
It was here.
The Native Americans had this country before the Europeans came.
Yeah, the Europeans conquered the country, they colonized it, but it had nothing to do with the founding of this country.
What is Don Lemon even saying?
I don't even know what he's trying to say.
Because he's saying on the one hand, Europeans didn't found this country.
George Washington was Mongolian.
Come on, you know, John Adams, man, he was Brazilian.
No, I think they were just guys of European stock.
Governor Bradford, you know, man, he was, where was he from?
He was Russian.
No, he wasn't.
He was English.
So he's saying, on the one hand, Europeans didn't find this country, when obviously they did.
But then he says, they conquered this country.
But the Indians were here.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
And by the way, it wasn't just an outright conquest.
When the pilgrims came on the Mayflower, they actually formed a very mutually beneficial alliance with Massasoit and with his Indian tribe.
And they actually allied together against other Indian tribes.
And they actually grew that alliance for many years until Massasoit's son made a stupid political decision and launched King Philip's War.
And by the way, some Indians allied with the settlers in King Philip's War even, but that destroyed the peace between the Indians and the settlers.
And by the way, I'm not totally denying that the settlers learned something from the Indians around Plymouth Colony or from the Iroquois for that matter.
I'm not denying that they observed these people and saw some of their customs and that had some effect on American life.
But the system of government, the culture of the United States, comes from primarily England.
How can anyone doubt that?
Can you say, therefore, that Italy?
Man, Italians didn't found Italy.
What are you talking?
No, there were peoples there before who were conquered.
What about the Etruscans?
Yeah, okay, I guess, but they got, yeah, right, they got conquered.
And the country as we have it today is not, we're not living in the Cherokee Nation.
We're not living in the Massachusetts.
We took the name for one of our states, but we're not living in the Massachusetts tribe, the Wampanoag tribe.
We're not living in the Iroquois Confederacy.
We're living in America.
Which is an Italian word from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian, right?
We have our capital in the District of Columbia, comes from Columbus, another Italian guy, by the way.
The District of Columbia is in Washington, Washington of Anglo stock.
Of course, it's a European country.
He's not, obviously the historical points he's making are very stupid, but what he's doing here is not even arguing about historical points, because he doesn't know very much about them.
He's doing what Hannah Nicole Jones did, or Nicole Hannah Jones rather, the 1619 Project girl in the New York Times.
He is trying to reframe the history.
Instead of disagreeing with Rick Santorum on the point of who founded America, he's disagreeing on the value of that.
Is it good or is it bad?
Rick Santorum is saying, yeah, this is a good country.
Here's who founded it, and this is a good country.
And what Don Lemon is saying is, no, here's who founded it.
Sure, I guess, Rick, you're right, but it's a bad country because it was founded on conquest, you know, like every other country in the history of the world.
That is a big lie, because it is a good country.
And the peoples that were populating this country before the settlers arrived were, by any standard of virtue, not living in some Edenic paradise.
They weren't living in the Avatar world.
And then the awful mean Europeans came in and destroyed it.
No.
The people who came to the United States, to America, civilized this place, brought the light of God and their religion, brought civilization to this place, and because it's a fallen world, there were acts of sin.
There were sins committed, there was violence, there was injury, there were bad things, go along, just like there were bad things going on in the Iroquois Confederacy, just like there were bad things going on down south in the Aztecs, who were ripping out human hearts by 80,000 at a clip.
Inhuman sacrifices, yeah, there were bad things going on, but it was a good thing that the country was founded.
That's a reframing.
You know, Rick Santorum is quite Catholic.
This informs his view of the world.
He's an actual Catholic.
We have a president now who is a fake Catholic.
His name is Joe Biden.
But the Washington Post doesn't want to admit that.
So Joe Biden is in hot water right now because Joe Biden is in In outright obstinance against the church's teaching on the issue of abortion.
And the issue of abortion is not like other issues.
St.
Pope John Paul II pointed this out.
It's not just one issue among many.
The right to life is a prerequisite for all of the other rights.
One may not disagree.
Like Pope Benedict, for instance, said that Catholics may have a legitimate disagreement about the death penalty.
Pope John Paul II said the same thing.
Doctors of the Church have explicitly defended the death penalty.
Blessed Pope Pius IX carried out many death penalties.
And so Catholics can disagree on that.
As a prudential matter.
Catholics cannot disagree on abortion, and Joe Biden does, and he celebrates abortion, and he expands the killing of innocent little babies in this country.
So, the bishops, finally, I'm so pleased to say this, the bishops are standing up and saying, we're going to have to deal with Joe Biden here.
And here's how it was presented in the Washington Post.
A rising group of right-wing U.S. Catholic bishops is colliding with a very Catholic president who supports abortion rights.
Right-wing group of bishops colliding with a very Catholic president.
Everything about this is untrue.
Everything about this is a lie, a very big lie, actually.
It is not right-wing bishops who are doing this.
It is bishops who believe in the Catholic faith, who believe in the teaching of the church.
It is just bishops.
You just say bishops, and they're not colliding on this issue of morals and faith.
It's not like, well, you got the president on one hand and you got the bishops on the other.
That's not how the Catholic Church works.
The bishops are bringing the president, who is a member of their flock, into line.
They're not on equal footing here.
The bishops are reprimanding or showing that they may reprimand the president.
And the very Catholic, he's not particularly Catholic at all.
He goes to mass.
He apparently receives communion, which is eating his own damnation.
To use the scriptural line and the teaching of the church.
And the bishops, in an act of compassion, are suggesting telling him to not receive the Eucharist until he stops living in the state of scandal and sin.
And changes his views and goes to confession.
An exact flip here, but we are told he's a very Catholic president because it is, on the one hand, we're told it's very bad to be Catholic, right?
Dianne Feinstein yells at Amy Coney Barrett, who is the dogma lives loudly within her, the Catholic dogma.
We're told it's very bad to be Catholic, but then Joe Biden is very Catholic.
But the reason that the left says that Joe Biden's very Catholic in this admiring way is because they know Joe Biden's not very Catholic, that his real religion is progressivism.
Joe Biden is not the only professed Catholic in politics who is in trouble for violating basic teachings of the church.
Nancy Pelosi, other prominent Democrats in trouble too.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is now put out a pastoral letter.
And not calling out Nancy Pelosi by name, but he is the Archbishop in Pelosi's area.
And he is saying that politicians who are in violation of the Church's teaching here need to stop receiving Holy Communion.
He writes, And he's being very complimentary in this.
He's being very diplomatic.
He says, If you find that you are unwilling or unable to abandon your advocacy for abortion, you should not come forward to receive Holy Communion.
To publicly affirm the Catholic faith while at the same time publicly rejecting one of its most fundamental teachings is simply dishonest.
It makes them all a bunch of big liars is what it does.
And this is not just a pure act of punishment designed to harm Biden or Pelosi.
It's quite the opposite, actually.
It's designed to help them.
It is an act of compassion and mercy to tell them to stop receiving Holy Communion and to tell them to get their act in order.
Because the more that they persist in the scandal, the greater damage they will do to the society, to the faithful, and to themselves.
Pelosi and Biden, while professing their faith from time to time in Catholicism, have a different religion.
That is the religion of progressivism.
And they might practice both in this kind of weird, syncretic way, where Biden goes to mass...
But he doesn't live the faith.
We all stumble, but he stumbles obstinately in scandal, refuses to even acknowledge the teachings of the church.
The White House has the temerity to say, yes, the president disagrees with the church on abortion, on the definition of marriage, on this, on that.
He disagrees with the church, as though that's some casual thing.
If you're a Catholic, if you really believe in the Catholic faith, that's not a casual thing.
But they don't.
When their syncretic religion, the Catholicism and the progressivism, when they come into conflict, guess which religion wins?
It's the progressivism.
And that is our state church.
That is our dominant church.
And the high priest of it, I mentioned this during a speech at the Young Americans Foundation a month or so ago.
Their high priest is Anthony Fauci, who instead of the pectoral cross wears a stethoscope, and instead of the cassock wears a white lab coat.
Well, John Oliver is very upset.
You know John Oliver, that...
I couldn't even say it's marginally funny.
John Oliver, who is a British guy who scolds Americans about our system of government, he's very upset because Joe Rogan the other day, using common sense, said that if young people are looking at their risk of contracting or having serious complications from the coronavirus, then they probably don't need to be too worried about it, particularly when they're making decisions on the vaccine.
That's all he said.
Perfectly ordinary, makes perfect sense.
John Oliver, absolutely furious.
How dare you listen to Joe Rogan?
The reason we still see mask and distancing recommendations is that the CDC is being cautious and wants to be sure that it is not spreading bullshit around during a global pandemic like a frozen dinner duke with a TV show.
Stop listening to what Joe Rogan tells you.
He's a f***ing moron.
And those are his words, not mine.
Yeah, stop listening!
I don't know, I guess he's become kind of cockney.
Stop listening!
Well, now listen here, you.
Don't listen to Joe Rogan because you need to listen to John Oliver.
Does that make sense to you?
No.
I don't think that makes much sense at all.
Why on earth?
Joe Rogan is much smarter than John Oliver.
I ain't saying that Joe Rogan is necessarily a Rhodes Scholar or something, or that he's in the academy, or that he's a scientist or a scholar.
I'm just saying he's definitely smarter than John Oliver.
John Oliver has never made an interesting point, ever, that I have watched.
And he's very rarely made even a slightly funny point.
His entire brand of comedy is just saying otherwise unfunny lines loudly with profanity interlaced.
But that is, it's such a crutch in comedy, you'll notice that the best comedians don't need to do that.
I'm thinking of, sometimes they do.
I'm not saying the best comedians are totally clean.
They might use profanity, but they don't rely on the profanity.
The joke is the joke, and maybe the profanity embellishes it or something.
But with John Oliver, he doesn't have a joke, really.
He's got these kind of weak liners.
Samantha Bee, who's another Daily Show alumna, she does the same thing.
She just says things loudly and with profanity as if that makes a joke, but it doesn't.
So why are we listening to John Oliver?
Well, because John Oliver is parroting what the CDC says.
So if you're parroting what the CDC says, that makes you really smart.
That makes you really trustworthy.
Because Fauci and the CDC, they're infallible.
They've contradicted themselves many times over the last year on this very issue of coronavirus.
Fauci comes out.
He says, do not wear the mask ever.
Don't wear it.
It's stupid and dumb.
I'm paraphrasing, but only slightly.
Then a few weeks later, he says, you have to wear the mask.
And then when he was asked, well, why did you change your mind?
What did he say?
He said, well, because I wanted the nurses to have masks and not you idiot peasants.
So, but now you can wear them.
Listen to me and you can believe me because I would never lie to you except what I just said.
Again, paraphrasing, but only slightly.
To me, Fauci and all these guys have basically zero credibility left.
And anybody who takes them seriously, like John Oliver, has very little credibility.
And Joe Rogan has much more credibility.
Because at least he thinks for himself on many occasions.
But if you're an adherent to that progressive faith, then that's the way it goes.
You know where this progressive faith really exposes itself?
In this gender issue.
A woman just went viral on TikTok because her six-year-old daughter said that she thinks she looks like a boy.
Are you a boy or are you a girl?
I don't know.
I don't know who I am.
You don't know who you are?
Who do you think you are?
I feel like I'm a boy, but I feel like that.
You feel like you're a boy?
What makes you think that?
I don't need shirts, but I feel like chocolate.
Mommy, can I get this too soft?
So the caption here is, my six-year-old daughter asks me if I think she looks like a boy.
I asked her, do you want to look like a boy?
Her response left me speechless.
Does it count?
Okay, it counts.
That's fine.
It's available now for pre-order, by the way, my upcoming book.
The subtitle is Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
This woman has left me somewhat speechless.
I'll regain my speech and then give my thoughts on her.
This constitutes child abuse.
But this woman might not even know what she's doing.
She might really buy into this idea that little children have the ability to freely consent to major sexual decisions, which is preposterous.
But you might have the idea that little children know more about reality than adults do.
Maybe they know more than this adult woman does.
And she might really believe that who we really are has nothing to do with our physical bodies.
But that is wrong.
That's a different religion.
That is a big, fat lie.
And as long as we've got Republicans who have all their guns, all their rhetorical guns trained on other Republicans...
Defending these absolutely absurd lies on the left, much bigger lies than anything the right's been telling, then those people are no use to the conservative movement.
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