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As Joe Biden says, the left has more dramatic plans for cultural revolution than that.
Government diversity mandates, a racial caste system, and even gender nullification surgery to make people look like Ken dolls.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show.
My favorite comment yesterday from Kevin Beach, who says, Why does a mother or a father only get one day to celebrate their contribution to society and be celebrated?
The LGBTQ pride gets a month.
Shorten that up a bit, please.
No, it's more than a month.
It's two months.
There's June, which is Pride Month, and I believe it's October, is LGBT History Month.
So a full sixth of the year is now dedicated to sort of unusual sexual desires.
But yeah, one day for mom, one day for dad, and I guess you have one month for black history.
But only some black history, right?
It's not all sorts.
It's not Thomas Sowell month.
It's not Clarence Thomas month.
Then there's another month for women's history.
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Some conservatives are making the argument because of Joe Biden's stupid comments that he is a racist.
I guess in a way he is.
But they're making the argument not that he's just a racist generally, but that he's a white supremacist.
Because he's made these comments about black people.
He said that Barack Obama is the first clean, articulate black man in American politics or something to that effect.
That was a bit offensive.
He said that poor kids are just as talented as white kids.
That was a bit offensive.
And now he said that black entrepreneurs can't succeed because they don't know how to call H&R Block.
But I don't think he's a white supremacist.
I think this argument of, you know, Democrats are the real white supremacists, I think that's kind of silly.
I think it's a bit of a coping mechanism.
I don't think that Republicans or conservatives are racist.
I mean, frankly, I don't even know what that word means anymore.
It's been so watered down to mean nothing.
But I don't think conservatives or Republicans hold any particular...
I don't think they think about race very much whatsoever.
And I say this with some authority, being a conservative Republican myself.
And it certainly is the case that Democrats and leftists do think about race a lot, but they're not white supremacists.
I just think that's a silly statement to make.
They are advancing a racial caste system.
But they want it to disadvantage whites.
Just like affirmative action, give advantages to certain groups, like black people and Hispanics, and disadvantage other groups, like white people and Asians.
That is what they're calling for.
Any way to twist that, I think, is just a way to buy into the premise that the only evil in the entire world is anti-black racism.
That's very bad.
There are other bad things, too.
Joe Biden was pretty clear about this the other day.
He came out And he said that the single greatest threat today in America is what?
Would you say it's COVID, maybe?
No.
Would you say that it's the lockdowns?
No.
Would you say it's depression?
No.
Would you say it's drugs?
No.
Would you say it's violence in the streets from people like BLM and Antifa?
No.
You know what it is?
White supremacy.
According to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat So that's just preposterous, right?
I mean, I guess the single greatest threat is heart disease, followed by what?
Followed by various other ailments.
And then if we're talking about violence in the streets, it's not from white supremacists, okay?
There isn't a whole lot of that.
This statement doesn't even hold up if you only look at race crimes.
Or rather, if you only look at hate crimes, which have a racial component very often.
When you look at hate crime statistics, and you look at white perpetrators and black perpetrators, you find out that black people are far more likely to commit hate crimes than white people are.
I'm sure there are many reasons for this, and one could discuss all of it.
I'm not making any claim about what the reasons are, but I'm just saying, if you believe that white supremacy is the greatest threat, that isn't even true when you're looking at hate crimes.
Hate crime is a kind of silly category because I guess it's the opposite of a love crime.
There aren't too many love crimes as far as I can tell.
We are now living in a system that is upholding and advancing a new sort of racial caste Breaking out of the colorblind society that everyone had been striving to create for a long time, there's now a racial caste system and white people are considered to be the sort of embodiment of evil in this system, the single greatest threat to the country.
There are different standards here when you're looking at how to punish crime depending on ideology and specifically on racial politics.
Greatest example of this?
January 6th.
You know January.
What happened on January 6th?
The worst...
Most dangerous insurrection?
Coup d'etat?
Or it was a guy with horns dancing on a desk in the Capitol.
Or it was a bunch of people stealing Nancy Pelosi's lectern.
I'm not excusing this.
It's not a good thing to do.
But it's not the storming of the Bastille.
It's not the worst insurrection in American history.
It's not even the worst insurrection in the year leading up to January 6th.
In the year leading up to January 6th, you had BLM burning down the country.
You had Antifa burning down the country.
And you had a guy in horns dancing on Pelosi's desk.
Both bad, but bad to different degrees.
And yet, the BLM people basically get off the hook.
The Antifa people basically get off the hook.
And the guy in the horns?
Oh man, they're going to throw the book at him.
Right now, very, very high-level prosecutors, prosecutors who work on homicide, Prosecutors who work on terrorism are being brought in to try the Capitol Hill rioters for trespassing.
Basically just for trespassing.
Maybe the theft of taking Nancy Pelosi's lectern.
Initially we were told in the newspapers that these rioters had killed police officers.
That's not true.
Even the left-wing newspapers admit that now.
So you're going to have the toughest, highest level prosecutors in the country, federal prosecutors, brought in to try trespassing.
What about the BLM people who trespassed?
What about the Antifa people who trespassed?
That doesn't matter.
That's fine.
There's a different standard there because of different political ideologies and because of racial politics.
What about that?
that.
There's some good news on this front, which is that the GOP was debating whether or not to form a January 6th commission.
This was going to be a commission set up by the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, akin to the 9-11 commission, because January 6th was just like September 11th.
And there were a number of squish Republicans who were going to go along with this, Mitt Romney and those sorts of types.
Thankfully, though, the January 6th commission failed.
And we had a feeling this would fail because cocaine Mitch McConnell said a couple of weeks ago, he said, I've decided we're not going to do this.
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And so you didn't have to worry about it.
The reason it failed, though, is not because they couldn't muster a majority in the Senate.
The reason is because of the filibuster.
There's a higher threshold because of the filibuster.
And the Democrats have not nuked the filibuster yet, so there will be no January 6th commission.
If you don't get that January 6th was not the same thing as September 11th, you're not on our side.
If you believe that January 6th was like 9-11, I'm not saying you've got to approve of January 6th.
I don't know anyone who really does.
If you don't realize that it's different than 9-11, you're not a conservative.
You shouldn't be lumped in with conservatives.
If you think that January 6th was worse than the BLM riots, I don't think you're really a conservative.
Now, some people get this.
Some people don't, but some people do.
Yesterday on the show, we played that speech by Paul Ryan over the weekend, where Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the House, representative, I guess now, of the sort of economics-only moderate wing of the Republican Party.
And he just doesn't seem to know what time it is.
He said, we need to focus only on economics, basically, and not at all on culture.
There's another Republican leader in this country who recognizes the exact opposite is true.
That man, you can probably guess his name, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Some of these battles with what the left is doing and wokeism, it's effectively cultural Marxism.
And so you can have theoretically a successful economy, but if the underpinnings of the culture are just being torn apart, I don't think that that's a society that's going to be very successful over the long term.
Bingo, baby.
He's said a lot of words here that you're not allowed to say, notably cultural Marxism, which is just another term.
It's a problematic term because people use it to mean different things, but what he's referring to is a very real phenomenon.
There were people in the Marxist tradition, Marxist philosophers, who recognized that Marx failed because he viewed man as fundamentally economic and material rather than cultural.
And so they applied Marx's ideas to culture and This was done through people like Antonio Gramsci.
This was done through the Frankfurt School.
This reared its ugly head again in the New Left, and it gave us political correctness, which I described at length in my upcoming book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order and available for a signed first edition copy of Premier Collectibles.
Ron DeSantis has some real guts here to even say that phrase, because if you go on Wikipedia in the past few years, cultural Marxism, a very well-known intellectual movement, I don't know how it's a conspiracy theory at all, because there are many Marxist writers who describe themselves as cultural figures, but I don't know how it's anti-Semitic either, because the most prominent one of them was an Italian guy, not a Jew.
Never mind, they don't really care when they're trying to censor people.
Ron DeSantis calls it out.
He says, yeah, it's good to have tax cuts.
It's good to have regulatory reform.
But if you lose the whole culture, none of that's going to matter.
This is the exact point we were making on the show yesterday.
This guy knows what time it is.
If you've got a future, the GOP is either going to go in the Paul Ryan direction or the Ron DeSantis direction.
The only way we're going to stick around is if we go in the Ron DeSantis direction.
Now put it in the Senate.
Is the GOP going to go in the Mitt Romney direction?
Is it going to go in the Ted Cruz direction?
If it goes in the Romney direction, we're not going anywhere.
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So, Ron DeSantis totally knows what time it is on the culture.
He gets that tax cuts and regulatory reform are worth approximately nothing if we lose our national identity, if we lose our culture, if we lose our traditional American way of life.
DeSantis is not just speaking pie in the sky in abstractions.
DeSantis is putting this into action.
He just signed a bill banning dudes from playing in women's sports.
Now, the way this is being reported, this according to WFLA, quote, breaking on the first day of Pride Month, Ron DeSantis signs bill banning transgender females from girls in women's sports.
Oh man, that sounds bad, doesn't it?
That headline, that really doesn't sound good.
But then I thought, okay, let me translate that line from wokest into English.
And so the translation would be on the first day of Pride Month, scratch that out.
On the first day of June, Governor Ron DeSantis signs bill banning transgender female, what is, oh, that's a man.
Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill banning men from girls in women's sports.
Oh, that's That makes perfect sense.
That shouldn't even be a news story.
Why is it news?
I guess the news story is that the governor had to sign a bill to ban men from women's sports.
Because it should be common sense, but the common sense ain't that common anymore.
Now, this was a pretty courageous move here.
You know, other governors around the country have balked at this sort of thing.
Kristi Noem came under a lot of fire for this.
Kristi Noem, good governor, she's done a lot of good things in the past year, but she whiffed it.
She kind of blew it on the issue of transgender sports because she signed a bill that would keep men out of the girls' locker room for K-12.
Or she was willing to sign that bill, but she wouldn't go all the way.
She wouldn't sign it because she didn't want to exclude men from women's sports at the collegiate level.
And the defenders of Governor Noem's decision said, look, it's impossible.
The NCAA, they were threatening to pull events out of the state, and she was afraid it wouldn't hold up, and there was too much pressure, and okay, well...
That's too bad.
It's too bad when our leaders cave under that sort of pressure.
Ron DeSantis, not so much.
You can't be cowed by these organizations, particularly by woke corporations, from doing the right thing.
And so my view was, throughout this whole time, we have to protect our girls.
It is discriminatory to force them to compete against biological males.
And so if the price of having a tournament is that I have to deny equal opportunity to hundreds of thousands of young girl and women athletes throughout Florida, I am much more willing to stand with the girls and to hell with these events.
What I think we've shown, not just with this, but we did a strong election integrity bill in Florida, actually stronger than Georgia, and we just made it clear.
We're standing with our folks.
We're going to do the right thing.
And so if corporations want to come in and try to bully us around, they are going to go nowhere.
It's going to be like hitting their head against a brick wall.
The result has been We've had very little to do with that elections bill, and I don't think we're going to have very much to do at this point here because we leaned into it and we stood strong.
To hell with those events.
If the cost of those events is...
Now, what Rhonda Santos is saying is if the cost of those events is denying opportunity to women and girls, then to hell with those events.
Okay, a perfectly fine reason.
But, frankly, I don't really think this is about women's sports.
I think this is about reality.
At the broader level, if the cost of those events, if the cost of corporate money is that we need to deny reality and live in lies and propagate lies and conduct our society in delusion, to hell with those corporations.
We don't need to do that.
It's not worth it.
The price is too high.
So we're all duking it out now over the female sports thing.
But it's about so much more than that.
And DeSantis understands this.
How many politicians in the country understand this sort of thing?
Not very many.
Not very many realize that you've got to lean in on the cultural issues.
And the ones who do, by the way, are absolutely castigated by everyone else in their party.
The people I'm thinking of are guys like DeSantis, guys like Cruz, guys like, I suppose, Hawley.
He's persona non grata now.
And some other politicians as well.
This is the right answer.
Wokeism is purely destructive.
This is the thesis of my upcoming book, Speechless Controlling Words and Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order.
It's purely destructive.
It seeks to destroy the old standards.
It will not allow there to be women's sports.
It will not allow there to be a women's bathroom.
It will not allow there to be A sexual difference at all.
Ultimately, it will not even acknowledge sex.
And this has come out in the creepiest news story I have seen since yesterday.
There were a lot of creepy news stories yesterday.
And somehow there is another one today.
Gender nullification.
Have you heard about this?
Gender nullification surgery.
So you've got this broad, woke ideology that is based...
They say it's about redefining and expanding and inclusion and diversity, but we know that it's not.
When you redefine marriage to take away the essence of marriage, you don't expand it, you don't make it more inclusive, you just destroy it.
And now you've taken one institution off the table, which the left has been after for a hundred years, and which BLM is still honest about, right?
They say they want to destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.
When you...
Take away the difference between men and women.
It's not that you're expanding genders to the 150 genders that they pretend that there are.
You're just destroying sex.
You're destroying gender.
And one group of surgeons is admitting this.
There is a new surgery being performed by the Align Surgical Associates based in San Francisco.
I know you're going to be shocked to hear that.
To nullify sex.
Nullification creates a relatively continuous and mostly unbroken transition from the abdomen down to the genital area, enabling gender non-conforming patients to enjoy a body that looks closer on the outside to the way they feel on the inside.
So, it turns you into a Ken doll or a Barbie doll, you know, where your pelvis is just completely flat.
It just not only mutilates your genitals to look different than they currently look, it just tries to erase them entirely.
And this is in the name of health.
If I walked into a doctor's office today and I said, you know, I feel as though I only have one arm.
They say, well, Michael, you manifestly have two arms.
I say, I know that you're saying that, but that's very hurtful to me because I identify as someone with one arm.
And even if physically, even if by an accident of birth, I was assigned two arms at birth, I know that deep down in my true self, I'm a one-armed man.
So I need you to perform a surgery and cut off my arm to make me feel on the outside more like I feel on the inside.
At least today, I would be committed to a mental institution for saying that.
Because that is crazy talk.
No doctor today, as far as I know, would perform that surgery.
That would violate the Hippocratic Oath.
Doctors are supposed to, at first, at least, do no harm.
Then they'll try to help you.
When you mutilate perfectly functioning organs, you are harming people.
However, if I go in and instead of saying, hey doctor, I want you to cut my arm off, if I said, hey, I want you to cut off a far more sensitive part, many, many doctors in the country would do this.
They would mutilate me if I asked them to, and in some cases they would encourage me to do that because of kooky, cultish theories about sex and gender.
This, I think this sort of surgery underscores a point that conservatives have not wanted to accept for a long time, but increasingly we are.
We have to say no to certain things.
We should not allow that to happen.
We should use big government and regulations to stop private citizens and private businesses like doctor's offices from doing that.
It's not enough to say, hey, if you want to chop off your organs and your limbs, that's fine.
Just don't make me pay for it.
No, it's not fine.
It's actually wrong.
It's evil.
It's unjust.
You shouldn't do it.
It's not compassionate to the people who are very confused to want this done.
It's not good for society.
It's contrary to the practice of medicine.
It's contrary to justice and truth and goodness and beauty and the American way.
Don't do it.
You have to be comfortable banning things.
If you want to preserve freedom, You need to say no to licentiousness.
If you want to preserve free speech, you have to say no.
You have to censor speech that undermines free speech.
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Not to harp too much on the creepy gender nullification surgery, but these sickos at the Align Surgical Associates, the San Francisco doctors group that's turning humans into Ken dolls, they perform other surgeries too.
They'll perform surgeries where they will, you know, if you're a woman, you go in where they will sort of construct an organ that looks like a phallus.
But they'll keep your actual genitals there too, so you'll look more like a hermaphrodite, and they'll do the same thing for men.
This is not the purpose of medicine.
The purpose of medicine is to take things that are not functioning and make them function appropriately, or to make them function better.
If your kidneys aren't working well, then they're going to have some interventions, put you on dialysis, make your kidneys function a little bit better.
If your eyes aren't functioning very well, you can't really see, they're going to work on your eyes and they're going to make you see a little bit better.
This presumes that things have a purpose and that your body parts have a purpose.
But we deny that now in our culture.
We deny that our body parts have any purpose.
We deny purpose entirely, or the technical term telos.
And so because we deny that...
Things get a little kooky, where you say, well, anything can be or do any other thing.
And now the purpose of medicine has transformed from fixing things and making them do what they're supposed to do, pursuing justice, to fantasy, to creating fantasies and turning people into all sorts of things that they are not, and that they really ought not to be.
Now, this is all done in the name of compassion and in the name of pride.
It's very prideful.
It's very prideful to say that we can recreate the world according to our own fancies and that we have the right to do that and that we ought to do that and that the world will be much better, not according to nature and pursuing justice, but according to our own fantasies and our own basis desires.
The pride issue is so much bigger than sex.
Everyone wants to make it just about the gays, you know, or just about that.
Now, I guess, including transgender or whatever.
It's about so much more than that.
It's about a leftist political program to transform all of reality.
The idea that we can redefine reality by redefining words.
A thesis I advanced in my upcoming book, Speechless Controlling Rights Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order.
It's what Whitaker Chambers said is the second oldest ideology in the world that began in the Garden of Eden when the serpent told Eve, ye shall be as gods.
That's what this is about.
That's what constructing someone's body to look like something that they never were is about.
And we're advancing this ideology around the world.
The U.S. Embassy at the Holy See at the Vatican is flying a pride flag for Pride Month.
Now, it's a little bit offensive, you see, because the Catholic Church has a different view of sex than the pride view of sex, and the Vatican, you know, the Holy See, is an independent country, and they've invited us to have an embassy there, and we are now foisting our sort of radical sexual views on the Vatican.
We would not be doing this in the places like Saudi Arabia.
We would not be doing this in the Middle East.
If you took a survey of Middle Eastern Arab state embassies right now, I don't think you'd find all that many pride flags, but you will find them poking the eye of the Catholic Church, because they know that the Catholic Church is not going to do anything, and they know that some of the Arab states will riot and try to kill them.
That's what it's about, right?
And because the problem that the American left has is not with the Arab states.
They don't have the problem with Islam.
They're not advancing any particularly positive vision.
They're just trying to tear down Western civilization itself.
They're trying to nullify it.
They're trying to abolish it.
And the Catholic Church is the representative institution of the civilization because it built the civilization.
And it just won't go away.
They keep trying to destroy it.
They've been trying to destroy it for hundreds and hundreds of years now, and it just won't go away.
One evidence, by the way, of its divine institution.
Hilaire Belloc made this point.
He said, look, I'm required as a matter of my faith to believe that the church is divinely inspired, but for those of you who are non-believers, one piece of evidence for its divine institution is that any other organization conducted with such knavish imbecility would not have lasted a fortnight.
Despite all the scandals, despite all of the sometimes outright idiotic Governance of the church from some of its leaders, the church endures, and the United States seems a little upset about that.
This is, I think, more evidence of a point I made on the show yesterday, that the reason that the left is rallying around the pride flag or the BLM flag right now as opposed to the American flag, where they protest the American flag but they put the pride flag up everywhere, is because the pride flag is a symbol of liberal imperialism.
The American flag is still a symbol of the American nation.
The pride flag and the BLM flag, for that matter, are symbols of liberal empire.
This idea of a sort of universal secularism that is not limited to one nation with borders, but it's not bounded at all.
It actually should apply to every nation on the face of the earth, including and especially the Catholic Church.
And I think that's the divide between, say, the nationalist and the globalist, right?
This was the dichotomy that Trump showed us in 2016.
The people who support the American nation wave the American flag.
The people who want to get rid of our American borders and support global liberal empire.
They say they're anti-colonial, but they're actually the most imperialist people in the world.
They wave the rainbow flag and they wave the BLM flag.
Now, there are some problems within the Catholic Church as well, as you may have heard.
But I think a lot of them are disingenuous.
You know, people who are defending the pride flag at the Vatican right now, they're saying, well, look, how dare the Catholic Church raise a problem about this?
The Catholic Church has scandals where the priests have molested little boys.
That's true.
That's true.
There have been those scandals.
There have been priests who have abused children.
Very terrible, horrible, like basically the worst thing you can imagine.
You think it's only the Catholic Church that has done that?
Because I don't think it is.
When you look at surveys on this issue, the Catholic Church is no more likely to do these things than other religious groups.
But moreover, Catholic priests are significantly less likely to have abused children than public school teachers.
By the way, it's not as though the abuse is really ongoing, certainly not anywhere to the degree that it was.
The abuse came after the tumult of the 1960s, more broadly, the craziness, the sexual revolution across the broader culture, and Vatican II, the Second Vatican Council, which really created an upheaval in the church.
The sexual abuse peaked during the 1970s and 80s, and it dropped off precipitously after that.
And the rate of abuse, including at the height, has been estimated to be about 4%.
Insanely high, and it's hard to get good numbers on this, but the estimate is about 4%.
This has obviously been investigated quite a lot.
The rate of sexual abuse among public school teachers, 5% to 7%.
So, yes, it's very important to fix all these problems, but I don't want to hear it.
There's a double standard that's being pushed.
And I don't want to hear that the Catholic priests are uniquely guilty here when the Catholic priests are attacked because they're representatives of the Catholic Church.
The public school teachers are representatives of the secular progressive state, and they abuse children at a far greater rate.
So if we're going to talk about the issue, let's bring out all of the facts.
Now, there has been an infiltration within the Catholic Church.
There's no question about that.
There is a famous...
Heretical priest.
I don't know how else to put it.
I want to be as respectful as I can, but that is as polite a way as I can put it.
This heretical priest, Father James Martin, who is a big advocate, often implicitly, but sometimes he verges on the explicit, of redefining marriage within the faith to take away sexual difference, something that is impossible.
You actually can't do it.
But he has suggested that we ought to.
And so Father Martin tweeted out, quote, Mr.
and Mrs.
Boris Johnson, this is the thrice-married British Prime Minister, were married within the rules of the Catholic Church, and I wish them well.
I also wish that the very same mercy and compassion that was offered to them recognizing their complex lives could also be extended to same-sex couples who are lifelong Catholics.
Okay.
He's saying that because Boris Johnson has been married multiple times and there were certain dispensations and things given, that's evidence that we need to redefine marriage to take away sexual difference, which is at the essence of marriage.
The left always seems to do this.
They always seem to say that if there is any slight imperfection, any slight hypocrisy within the tradition, that means we should not fix the people who are And the institutions and the traditions that are opposing that and bring everybody more into compliance with the objective order, but that we should get rid of all those traditions entirely.
We should deny that traditional order entirely.
So if Boris Johnson is thrice married, that's not an argument for making it harder to get divorced.
That's taken as an argument to abolish marriage.
Well, why can't we just toughen things up a little bit?
I think in part, this is because conservatives have been unwilling to say no.
For the past, I don't know, 30 years or so, maybe even a little bit longer than that, conservatives have wanted to be the nice guy party of saying, no, do whatever you want.
We're pro-freedom.
Oh, yeah, you should totally shoot up heroin and look at porn all the time.
That's awesome.
Yeah, that's great.
Just don't make me pay for it.
Just don't.
Hey, yeah, no, it's totally cool.
You can have throuples and do a bunch of drugs and stuff and kick the Bible out of schools and kick prayer out of schools and bring in Drag Queen Story Hour.
That's awesome.
That's a blessing of liberty.
Just don't make me pay for it.
There's nothing conservative about that.
It's not coherent.
And I don't even think there's a constituency for it.
When you talk to young conservatives, what they want is to be taken seriously.
They want an orderly political system.
And they want rules.
It's really just the kind of boomer con types.
Conservatives of an older generation just say, yeah, do whatever you want.
The true definition of liberty is licentiousness.
And I think that's passing out of fashion right now.
You're seeing it throughout the conservative movement.
And yet the boomer con types will decry this sort of thing as fascistic, authoritarian, this, that, and the other thing.
A good example is Viktor Orban.
Viktor Orban is the excellent leader of Hungary.
He's done an excellent, excellent job as the leader of Hungary.
One of the few examples of a good politician in the broader West is And he is regularly called a fascist and a Nazi and an authoritarian and this, that, and the other thing.
And a BBC journalist recently challenged him and said, you do not have freedom of the press in Hungary.
And Orban laughs at him.
He responds by laughing.
He says, you're going to lecture me?
You here in the Anglosphere are going to lecture me about freedom of the press?
But there are many people who are worried about it.
They fear the state of democracy.
The leftist activists, of course, they criticize us, but that's normal.
Come to Hungary, see by your eyes, and you can see how we live and how is the press.
If you go to the Hungarian newsstand and you ask for a paper which is attacking the government, you will get a dozen, at least, immediately.
So it's free.
What do you say to the opposition parties, the Labour Party here, the Liberal Democrat Party here, Who say you are the most regressive leader in the European Union.
They have concerns about remarks you have made in the past that they say are anti-Semitic, that they say are Islamophobic, and that they say is just so anti-immigration.
What do you say to them?
In terms of anti-immigration, it could be true.
Anti-Semitism is simply ridiculous.
More than fair and correct country in that respect.
We have a huge Jewish community, probably the number three in...
But you repeatedly attack people like George Soros with anti-Semitic overtones.
Oh, no, no.
George Soros is a talented Hungarian businessman.
Very strong rival.
He is very much in favour of migration, financing and helping the NGOs who are doing that.
We don't like it, but it has nothing to do with his ethnic identity, you know.
But you've criticized the leading leftist financier of our age.
You've criticized George Soros.
And he's a Jew, so that means that you're an anti-Semite.
What are you talking about?
I've criticized him because he spends zillions of dollars trying to oust me from office and open up the borders of Hungary.
It has nothing to do with his ethnicity.
It has everything to do with his political actions.
But you don't have freedom of the press.
What are you talking about?
I've got a dozen newspapers who attack me every single day.
But what about you, BBC?
What about you, Western Anglosphere press?
The BBC is attacking Viktor Orban because he is following the will of his constituents who want less immigration.
The majority of Americans want less immigration too.
Poll after poll after poll shows this, not just illegal, but legal immigration.
And yet the American regime does not permit that.
The American regime opens up the borders.
Seems to me like Hungary is much more democratic than say the United States.
What about the freedom of the press?
Do we have freedom of the press here in the United States?
To some degree we do, but I don't think very much.
The entire mainstream press, the major press, is dominated by the left, and by leftist corporations, actually, specifically.
But then, even let's say you've got a conservative outlet like the New York Post.
And the New York Post comes out with a really juicy story about Hunter Biden's laptop and his business dealings and Joe Biden during a presidential election.
And what happens?
It's not that the government, it's not that the elected Democrat president shuts that down.
At the time we had a Republican president, it's that the regime shuts it down.
It's that the big tech companies shut it down.
It's that you can't even message that story to somebody else.
That's what happened with the New York Post.
You couldn't even send that story privately to somebody else.
Is that freedom of the press?
I don't know.
You know, before you accuse Viktor Orban, take a look at yourself.
Before you accuse Hungary of being anti-democratic, take a look at liberal imperialism and say, well, is this much more democratic?
I'm not so sure.
Speaking of democratic integrity, by the way, there are some audits of votes going on.
They're still auditing the 2020 votes.
Now, there's not a ton of news out on this, certainly not with the presidential election, but there is a little story out of New Hampshire.
There were machine-tabulated 2020 election results in Wyndham, New Hampshire.
And it turns out that those results were different from a later hand recount.
And they're saying this is because of the way the ballots were folded and this, that, and the other thing.
And the Democratic candidate, a Democratic state house candidate, Christy St.
Laurent, lost her race and I guess wanted a recount.
And so there was a recount.
It turns out the Democrat actually got more votes than ought to have been given.
Now, all the officials are saying there's no evidence of fraud or political bias, no evidence that this would have thrown the race.
Okay.
I'm just pointing out here.
Thank you.
The fraud, generally speaking, always seems to go in one direction.
I'm not saying without exception.
There have been times that the recounts and the accidental votes always seem to go in one direction.
Not saying all the time, there have been times when Republicans have gotten votes that they shouldn't have too.
But whenever we look into these things, we seem to find some issues.
And yet we're told that if we were in any way to question this around the country, certainly with regard to the presidential election...
That would be a kooky, crazy, unacceptable conspiracy theory that we're not even allowed to post on the internet.
Because, you see, we have a free press.
We have the First Amendment, and that's why we're not allowed to talk about these things, right?
Pretty strange stuff.
Makes you question what sort of government we're really living under.
Are we living under the Constitution?
Are we living under this democratic republic of ours?
Or are we living under some other system, a sort of liberal empire or a secular progressive administrative state?
What is the real nature of the government?
Well, at times like this, you can see the regime really expose itself.
Are we represented by the American flag or are we represented by the BLM flag or the rainbow flag?
What represents the kind of system we're living under today?
Speaking of nation states, the WHO, the World Health Organization, has announced a new system for describing coronavirus.
The new system for naming COVID and COVID variants is getting rid of various nations.
So, you know, you're not allowed to call it the China virus.
We haven't been allowed to call it the China virus for a long time, or the Kung flu, or the Wu flu, or Lung Pao Sicken, or Chop Fluey.
You're not allowed to do it.
Don't you dare.
You're also not allowed to refer to the Indian variant now.
Now, as I recall, when there was a UK variant floating around, that was totally fine.
When it was a Western country, totally fine.
But when it was India or China, that's totally unacceptable.
So the new system, this is going to make it much easier, they say, is according to the Greek alphabet, alpha, beta, gamma, pi, these sorts of things, And the WHO tweets, quote, Today, WHO has announced a new naming system for COVID-19 variants.
The labels are based on the Greek alphabet, making them simple, easy to say and remember.
It's so much simpler.
Instead of saying Indian variant, to refer to the variant that comes from India, it's so much simpler to learn the Greek alphabet and then remember which Greek letter corresponds to which country.
Isn't that easy and simple?
It just makes it so much easier for you.
But they actually acknowledge why they did it.
The naming system aims to prevent calling COVID-19 variants by the places where they're detected, which is stigmatizing and discriminatory.
It's not either of those things.
And really what this is about is obscuring the fact that China caused this virus, and very likely caused it in a laboratory, and even possibly caused it intentionally.
That's what this is about.
It's not about It's about conveying truth.
It's about obscuring truth.
I was discussing this in my upcoming book, Speechless Controlling Grifts, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order.
I was describing how...
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I was describing this difference between euphemisms.
We all use euphemisms, right?
A euphemism is when you use soft words to sugarcoat harsh realities.
So a harsh reality, for instance, is that a woman is aged, let's say.
You don't want to call a woman old.
How dare you?
A lady never tells her age, so you say she's a woman of a certain age.
Okay, we all know what that means, and it's not a lie.
She really is a woman of a certain age, and you don't want to call her an old hag.
So okay, it makes perfect sense.
But if you take another politically correct euphemism and you say, okay, instead of calling someone a criminal, we're going to call him a justice-involved person.
That's an actual euphemism used.
You're not just sort of softening what you're saying about them.
You're actually inverting the reality.
Because whatever the criminal is, he's not involved with justice.
He's actually involved with injustice.
It's the opposite of what's going on here.
And that is what you're seeing.
That's what you're seeing with all this kind of Orwellian talk coming from the WHO. And this is all over the place.
This has even infected Tennessee.
You know I love Tennessee.
I fled Los Angeles, Gomorrah by the sea, Mussolini's fascistic, I guess more communistic sort of, you know, wokest state.
Didn't turn around.
I didn't want to turn into a pillar of salt.
I come to Tennessee.
But this stuff's going on in Tennessee.
Tennessee is requiring all state employees to complete an assignment on diversity and equity as part of their performance reviews.
This according to internal documents from the Tennessee Department of HR.
And this is what they write.
Quote, although we're all affected by the recent deaths of black Americans, black employees are affected disproportionately.
Be considerate of what employees are experiencing when communicating with team members.
So we're told that certain deaths are worse than other deaths in the United States, and certain people, based on their skin color, are more sensitive and deserving of more privileges than other people.
That's a new caste system.
That is a deeply unjust sort of thing.
But it reminds us that there's a big difference between what we think that our government is and what our government really is.
What we think our law is and what our law really is.
And I think you're seeing this in conservatives.
There's a group of conservatives that seem to think that nothing has changed since 1982 and they just want to keep their head in the sand and go along with that.
And there's another group of conservatives who knows what time it is and who knows that we need to change our strategy or we're going to be wiped out forever on the right.
And that latter group of conservatives are the ones who seriously know what's going on.
And if we want to fight back at all, we've got to recognize that we've got to wake up and live in the present if we want to reclaim the glories of our national past.
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