Ep. 852 - Skirt Grabbing & Vaxx Mandates Don't Make You God
The governor of New York presumes to speak for God, CNN’s Chris Cuomo gets accused of sexual assault, and the establishment press tries to bury the dirt uncovered during Arizona’s audit of the 2020 election.
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If the separation of church and state ever existed in the state of New York, that distinction has been obliterated by the Empire State's new governor, Kathy Hochul, who demands that her constituents take the coronavirus vaccine and justifies her demand as an edict from God himself.
We are not through this pandemic.
I wished we were, but I prayed a lot to God during this time.
And you know what?
God did answer our prayers.
He made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers.
He made them come up with a vaccine.
That is from God to us.
And we must say, thank you, God.
Thank you.
And I wear my vaccinated necklace all the time to say, I'm vaccinated.
All of you.
Yes, I know you're vaccinated.
You're the smart ones.
But you know there's people out there who aren't listening to God and what God wants.
You know this.
You know who they are.
I need you to be my apostles.
I need you to go out and talk about it and say we owe this to each other.
We love each other.
Which God are we talking about here?
Because I went to church on Sunday, I tried to take my faith Christianity seriously, and I've never read anything about the Fauci-ouchie as a requirement of the faith.
She says she wears her vaccination status on a little necklace.
You know, Christians sometimes wear a crucifix or a scapular, but she wears her vaccination status.
Christians try to be disciples of Christ, follow in the line of the apostles, who are apostles to Jesus.
She says be apostles to me.
Well, this Fauci-ouchie, this is a sacrament, not to Christians or Jews or Muslims, but to modern disciples of the cult of public health, of progressivism, of politics.
According to these leftists, there is no god but science and Fauci is his prophet, the science of history, the science of politics.
Xi can make these edicts from on high and people must follow them.
Now, of course, these very same people reject science the moment it involves biological sex or pre-born babies.
Governor Hochul is very possibly the most pro-abortion governor in the entire country.
No, no.
The kooky religious talk we're hearing from people like Hochul is less the doctrine of some new religion of science than it is the familiar superstitions of paganism, replete with the same old sword of shamans and even the child sacrifice.
But be not deceived.
God is not mocked.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Old Schooled.
Man, that guy has gotten a lot of top comments on this show.
He says, That's true.
But you can never help the West.
Even when the West is in the Southeast.
You can never help Western civilization.
It's all about bringing other people into our civilization because our civilization is so rotten and we've wronged everybody and we're the cause of all the problems on Earth.
That's what's going on.
But I agree.
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Governor Hochul in New York, really creepy stuff from her.
I have long said, quoting Cardinal Manning, that all politics, all human conflict, ultimately is theological.
All politics boils down, ultimately, to religion, because we're talking about morality, we're talking about ethics, we're talking about the relationship of man to his community and to his state and to his God, his place in the universe.
So, obviously, it's going to eventually come down to religion.
But this lady's taking it to a really crazy extreme.
Wearing her vaccination status like some kind of religious totem.
Meanwhile, she's firing hospital staff.
We're told that we need the hospital staff.
We're told that these are the most wonderful people in New York.
These are the heroes, more heroic than the firemen on 9-11, the nurses and doctors who treated people with the Wuhan cough.
But now, after hearing that for 18 months...
We are being told that the hospital workers are going to be fired because some of them don't want to take the Fauci ouchie.
We'll be nation leading with our mandate which strikes at midnight tonight when everyone is expected in a hospital in the state of New York or a health care facility to have been vaccinated.
I will be signing an executive order to give me the emergency powers necessary to address these shortages where they occur.
That's going to allow me to deploy the National Guard who are medically trained.
Deploy people who've been retired, who may have had a license lapse, bring in people from elsewhere.
That is not my first position, though, my friends.
My desire is to have the people who've been out there continue to work in their jobs, work in them safely, and to all the other healthcare workers who are vaccinated, they also deserve to know that the people they're working with will not get them sick.
So, we're told that the hospitals are overflowing, we need all hands on deck, and we're also told that if you don't get the shot, then we're going to fire you.
Why do you need to get the shot?
Because people need to come in and get their booster shots.
Why do they need to get their booster shots?
Because the vaccine apparently wasn't as effective as we were told that it was in the first place.
So then why do you need to get the vaccine, hospital workers?
Well, because it's so extremely effective.
Huh?
What?
Are you sure about that?
Well, don't worry.
There's no reason to hesitate to get the vaccine because the vaccine is extremely safe.
Okay, well, what's the evidence that the vaccine is safe?
Well, the vaccine is so safe that the FDA won't approve the booster shots that we all said that we need because the vaccine isn't as effective as we told you it was in the first place.
Huh?
What?
It's not making a whole lot of sense to me.
It's not making a lot of sense to me either.
This is an exercise, as it's been from the beginning, but it's getting clearer by the day, this is an exercise in political power.
There's not a lot of reason to it.
People from the beginning have been comparing the coronavirus, the COVID, the public health dictatorship to a sort of religious apparatus.
I've made this comparison before, but the difference here is that true religion Is reasonable.
These people are not reasonable.
They're changing their story every single day, and they are capriciously wielding power.
Now, this is sick stuff.
Obviously, it shows you how disingenuous the left was when they were extolling the virtues of the healthcare workers and said they don't care about the healthcare workers.
They care that people do what they tell them to do.
And the minute the healthcare workers don't do what they tell them to do, they fire them.
They put them out of a job.
The greatest heroes in the world for 18 months.
Sorry, you're on...
You're on your rear end in the middle of the street.
Now, why are people going into the hospitals?
It's not because they have COVID, necessarily.
A lot of people are coming down with COVID symptoms, and they think they have COVID, but they're testing negative for COVID. This was a headline just came out from the Daily Mail.
So the headline is, why are so many suffering dreadful COVID symptoms, but still testing negative?
Sarah Vine was convinced she had it, but countless tests said otherwise, and she's far from alone.
What is going on?
Is it some grand conspiracy?
And is it a conspiracy regarding the tests?
Or is it because COVID, for the vast majority of people, is just a cough and a headache?
And COVID is not the only disease that will give you a cough and a headache.
We used to call that a cold, or the flu, or any other number of ailments.
And people get sick, by the way.
I know this is shocking.
People can get sick and have it not be the coronavirus.
It's weird because the flu basically disappeared last year.
Everyone had the coronavirus, but nobody had the flu.
It's pretty strange.
But people can get sick.
And you know what?
It's okay to get mildly sick.
It's a normal thing.
It's not going to end the world if you come down with the sniffles.
You'll be fine.
We have immune systems.
I know that we pretend that we don't anymore.
We have natural immunity to certain things that we have experienced before.
I know that we pretend that that's not true anymore.
But it's okay.
This virus has turned the society so much more neurotic than it already was, and it already was pretty bad.
They just don't understand it.
How could people be coming down with the sniffles, but they don't have COVID? Because there are other viruses.
And maybe if you're confusing your common cold with COVID, maybe COVID wasn't as bad as everyone was pretending it was for the vast majority of people.
Maybe that's the case.
I don't know.
But the COVID dictatorship marches on and on and on.
In Canada right now, the cops are stopping random people on the street.
Well, actually, I should not say that.
It's not random people.
They're stopping a specific type of people, and it's not based on sex, and it's not based on race, and it's based much more on class.
You've hit a criminal profile today.
Yeah, no, normally people look down the nose at you a little bit when you wear high views, but no, not like this, mate.
It's...
Yeah, it's pretty odd.
So they're stopping anyone that obviously looks like a construction worker.
Find myself going for a walk.
Trying to get back to work.
So you're here for a lawful reason?
Lawful reasons, always.
The cops with the guns, just one of them looks at me, just sprints across the road, and they just drop me, all like five on top of me, just smashing me, for no reason.
So why'd they pull you up?
Oh, just for being here, basically, yeah.
Are you within your 10km?
Yeah, I live in South Melbourne, I've just walked here.
My watch is still going, 4.2km.
They cuffed me, and then five of them held on to me for no reason, and I just said, let me go.
I'm doing nothing wrong.
And they cut it off.
Being profiled, because I'm wearing my tradie outfit, yeah.
So this is what's happening, and it's happening throughout the West.
The people who are being targeted here, it's not on their race or on their sex, it's on their class.
COVID has opened up, or really highlighted, a serious class battle.
Between the ruling class and the ruled.
Between the elite people from the elite institutions and the ruled who are told to get in line or lose all their rights and all their way of life.
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We are told right now.
That the primary divisions in our country are partisan.
They're sexual.
We're especially told that they're racial, but that's not true.
You saw that clip.
I think I misspoke.
I think I said it was from Canada.
It was from Rebel News, but it was a clip from Australia.
You'd probably hear that in the accents.
Australia is the clearest example of where the COVID lockdown dictatorship is going crazy, but it's true broadly throughout the West, and it's not breaking down on the sexual or the racial or the partisan lines.
But that is what we are all told to focus on.
There was another big racial incident.
This time it was in Atlanta.
Someone painted several racist and defensive slurs on a building at Emory University in Atlanta.
I've spoken at Emory before.
It's a pretty left-wing place.
And at the time, the local news outlet, WSB-TV, reported that the Emory Autism Center has become the target of several crimes, including burglary and vandalism, including graffiti of racial slurs and swastikas.
A police report of the incident showed that vending machines had been vandalized, glass had been shattered.
Quote, the area where racial slurs were reportedly written along the walls are near the workspace occupied by two African-American women.
A swastika was found in a hallway near a Jewish man's office.
At the time, the school says, the acts of racism and anti-Semitism are painful for all of us at the EAC and in the Emory community.
They will not be tolerated and every effort will be made to bring the perpetrators back.
To justice.
When I saw this story, without knowing anything else, but I hadn't seen the picture of the guy who perpetrated it, I looked at that, I said, that's a hoax.
That's a hoax.
That's not a white supremacist.
It's not a neo-Nazi.
It's a race hoax being perpetrated by big libs, by left-wingers, very likely by a black guy.
You know, I hate to say I told you so, but I was right.
It turns out the perpetrator is black.
He's a black guy.
I detail a lot of these incidents in my book, Speechless.
The majority of the highest profile racial incidents in recent decades turned out to be hoaxes.
The allegedly oppressed people were the ones who set the whole thing up in the first place.
Why is that?
Well, you can see it in the statement given by this, by the school.
The acts of racism and anti-Semitism are painful for all of us.
Stop it right there.
No, they're not.
They're pleasurable.
These are pleasurable incidents for people who can claim victimhood and therefore social currency and for the ruling class that seeks to divide us.
These racial incidents, these hoaxes are extremely pleasurable because it advances their political goals.
They're painful for the people who are accused of bigotry and racism and whose rights and way of life are being taken away as a result of that, but it's pleasurable for the people who benefit from it.
This is why...
They so often turn out to be hoaxes because there is a real advantage to being able to claim victimhood.
The culture has gone absolutely crazy on race.
It has also gone crazy on sex.
There is a fairly well-respected scientific journal, The Lancet.
I quote The Lancet and research from The Lancet often on this show.
The Lancet just came out with its new cover for its latest issue.
The cover says, quote, Historically, it's just a white background and then you've got the quote on the cover.
Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected.
What?
The conservatives here...
Are outraged because the Lancet embraces transgenderism, right?
They're saying, well, it's not just women who possess that body part, but it's everybody.
Men, people who identify as men or non-gendered or this or that or any of the 57 genders.
So conservatives are outraged that the scientific journal embraces this unscientific concept of transgenderism.
Feminists are outraged that this journal seems to erase women, right?
Forget about women, it's bodies with this particular anatomical feature.
And furthermore, that it defines women by their anatomy.
And how dare you?
Eyes up here, buddy.
I'm more than just my body parts, right?
The most shocking part, though, is that this journal is defining all of us as bodies and This is weird.
I am not just a body.
This is really basic stuff that our culture has gotten so stupid on that we don't recognize this anymore.
We are more than just our bodies.
We are soul and spirit, too.
We're not just meat puppets.
We're not just flesh.
We have minds.
Okay?
You've got the materialist heresy on one hand, which is the idea that we're just meat puppets.
Then you've got the transgender Gnostic heresy on the other, the idea that our bodies have nothing to do with who we are.
And then you've got the normal, obvious, common sense, true understanding of human nature, which is that we are both.
You know, Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is an extremely overrated, race-hustling author, he loves to use this phrase, black bodies.
He says, the black body is very oppressed, as if black people don't have souls.
No, it's more than that, buddy.
We are a human person.
But because we are so insanely focused on this stuff, on the physical, we lose sight of that.
This is actually, it ties in with the racial thing.
We're so focused on the physical that we think that racism is the only evil in the world, because our understanding of sin and grace and morality only goes skin deep.
So the editor-in-chief of The Lancet came out, he sort of apologized, but then he defended it, because he said trans people face stigma, transgender health is very important, and of course he doesn't mean Fixing the problem or even acknowledging it when a man thinks he's a woman or vice versa, he means affirming people in their delusions.
This is the state of modern medical science, the religion that so many leftists ascribe to, the official religion of the state of New York now, where we need apostles of the religion.
We need people to wear the religious totems of that religion.
Speaking of sex, there's a sex story that came out a few days ago that I didn't get to, but I don't want to miss it.
I do want to get to it, because it's a weird one.
Chris Cuomo has been accused of sexual harassment, and he's been accused of this in the New York Times, and I can't believe it.
This is really strange.
I have to sort of defend Chris Cuomo here.
Okay, so this woman, Shelley Ross, who is a TV journalist and executive producer at ABC and CBS, she is accusing Chris Cuomo of greeting her at a party by grabbing her derriere in 2005.
So this is 16 years ago.
This woman had been Chris Cuomo's boss.
She had been the EP on the show, but then she left.
So she was no longer his boss, and he shows up to this party.
One imagines people are throwing back a few cocktails here, and he grabs her in this kind of grotesque way.
He goes up, he greets her, he grabs her on the derriere, and he says, Now I can do this, ha ha ha.
And she says, no you can't.
Her husband was there and so after this party he apologizes.
He sends her an email and says, this is from the article, she's acknowledging this.
Now that I think of it, I'm ashamed.
I shouldn't have even put you in such a position.
Please apologize to your very good and noble husband.
Please pass along my apology.
I apologize to you as well for putting you in this position.
Next time I'll remember the lesson, no matter how happy I am to see you.
My hearty greeting was a function of being glad to see you, but, you know, I'm ashamed.
Mea culpa.
Okay, and she obviously accepted his apology, but now 16 years later, she's turning it on him again.
This is very cynical.
It's very cynical.
Obviously, Chris Cuomo should not have done it.
It's a boorish, barbaric thing to do.
You should not greet women this way, especially not when they are married, especially not when you are married, okay?
Nobody says that what he did was right or that what he did wasn't wrong.
Least of all, Chris Cuomo, who apologized for it.
And she, apparently, accepted his apology at the time.
But now, 16 years later, she doesn't like something that he has said or done.
And so she comes out and says, he sexually assaulted me.
That's not about justice.
That's not about protecting the world from a predator.
That's not about showing him the error of his ways even, because he apologized already.
You accepted his apology.
It's just about political opportunism.
It's just about finding someone's sin that he's already apologized for and holding it over him to make him do whatever you want for the rest of your life and his life.
That's not right.
What a graceless society we live in, if that's the norm.
Really bad for society.
If every wrong that you have ever committed, and I'm certain that you, like me, have committed many wrongs, many sins in your past, If any of them, even the ones that have been forgiven, can then just be used to attack you, to destroy your career, to even get you thrown in prison or something, to get you really accused of a serious crime, what kind of society are we living in?
It's so cheap.
The woman essentially admits in this article, yeah, it's not really about justice or my feeling of victimhood.
This is just about getting Chris Cuomo.
He's doing things that I don't like.
That's ugly stuff.
And we've got to call it out, even if it's Fredo Cuomo, even if it's someone that we generally don't like very much.
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There are a lot of illegal aliens in the state of California.
Or at least there were.
But now, there aren't any illegal aliens in the state of California, according to the California Legal Code.
This is not because Governor Mussolini has deported all of the foreign nationals in the country.
This is because he has taken that term, illegal alien, out of the state code.
Newsom says, We are stronger and more vibrant because of our immigrant communities.
This important legislation removes the word alien, which is not only an offensive term for a human being, but for far too long has fueled a divisive and hurtful narrative.
By changing this term, we are ensuring California's laws reflect our state's values.
Only that last part is true.
That last part where they say, by changing the term, we now make sure that the state code reflects our values.
The value is we don't have a border and we're going to flood the country with foreigners.
We'll flood the state with foreigners.
But nothing else here is true.
As our nation's most diverse state, we're stronger and more vibrant because of our immigrant communities.
So when they say diversity, what they mean is, in this case, broadly non-American and specifically non-white.
That is the way the term is used, on the left and broadly in the culture.
And that's a really ugly thing to say, to say that...
Non-white people are much stronger than white people.
When there are places with white people, that's bad.
And when there are places with non-white people, that's good.
That's an ugly thing to say.
You might call that racist.
That's an ugly thing to say.
Next, he says, this important legislation removes the word alien, which is an offensive term for a human being.
It's not an offensive term for a human being.
It's a very simple clinical term that means foreign, a foreigner.
You're an alien.
And it's fueled divisive and hurtful narratives.
It's racist.
No, it's not.
It's clear language for a foreigner.
But now, when those terms are taken away, they'll be replaced by terms like migrant.
Well, this is far less clear language because there are legal migrants and illegal migrants.
That distinction is being obliterated in the California State Code.
This is what my book is about.
This is what my book Speechless is about.
That the left believes that by redefining the words, you can redefine reality itself.
And as a practical political matter, often that can be very effective.
Whoever controls the words controls the debate.
And so now we're not going to debate the propriety of having a bunch of illegal aliens in the state.
They're not illegal anymore.
They're not aliens at the very least.
They're Californians.
They're future Americans.
Maybe they're undocumented, but that's all right.
We'll get them documents.
They're already doing it.
Very effective strategy.
And it's not even the most cynical thing the guy's doing in the state right now.
Gavin Newsom...
It has also just signed legislation making cheat by mail, I'm sorry, excuse me, vote by mail, a permanent feature of California elections.
He signed Assembly Bill 37, which requires a mail-in ballot to be mailed to every registered voter in the state.
This makes the Golden State the eighth state in the country to implement this sort of law.
So there it is.
It's going to be very, very difficult to With one of the most corrupt, rife for fraud election practices, now as a matter of law in California, it's going to be very, very difficult for Republicans to win elections.
No less a leftist than Barack Obama, just in recent years, pointed out that widespread mail-in voting leads to abuse.
it can lead to cheating.
But the Democrats run the entire state.
They've got a perfect lock on the state.
And so they institute widespread mail-in votes, automatic mail-in votes.
Very hard to see how the Republicans take power back.
It's why a lot of people wanna stay and fight.
But you've also gotta know when to have a tactical retreat, okay?
And this is why a lot of people are fleeing California for conservative states.
Because we need to concentrate our forces where we can win victories, if we want to try to win broader national victories in the future.
This sort of thing should not be permitted, widespread mail-in voting.
It is just as corrupt as the old political machines of Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed.
But...
That is the law now in California because elections have consequences.
We've got to prevent this in places that we currently have some control over.
Speaking of election fraud, here's a story that we're not supposed to talk about, but whatever.
Let's talk about it.
Let's see.
Your move, social media platforms, you can kick me off if you want, but I'm just going to read the news here.
There was a recount.
There was an audit of the recount in Arizona, okay?
And the audit established that That there were no substantial differences between the hand count of ballots and the official canvas results for the county in the 2020 election.
That's the headline that you are going to see in the news.
The audit found that there were no substantial differences between the hand count of ballots and the official count for the county that resulted in the 2020 election.
Okay.
Biden won Arizona by 10,457 votes.
Okay.
What happens beyond the headlines?
The audit established the hand recount.
What happens beyond the headline?
There were numerous findings of problems with the election and evidence indicating that tens of thousands of ballots were illegally cast or counted.
So some of those ballots should not have been cast in the first place, and some of the ballots, even if they were cast by real people who were eligible voters, should not have been counted because they did not follow the rules for casting the ballots.
The review revealed that more than 17,000 return envelopes were duplicates.
Maricopa County recorded more than 6,545 early voting return envelopes than this reviewing organization determined existed.
And 15,035 mail-in votes in Maricopa County were from voters who had moved prior to the registration deadline.
Another 6,591 mail-in ballots came from voters who had moved out of Arizona prior to the registration deadline.
And 1,718 mail-in votes came from voters who moved within Arizona but out of Maricopa County prior to the registration deadline.
A good reporting on this is in The Federalist right now.
So what does this mean?
Which headline is to be believed?
Did Biden win Arizona or did Biden maybe not win Arizona?
Well yes, it is true that the audit found that there was no substantial difference between the hand count of the ballots and the numbers we were told shortly after the election.
But that's not really the question.
The Biden didn't even win the state by 11,000 votes.
That seems pretty suspect to me.
All those other numbers as well.
The establishment media are only going to give you that statement.
The hand recount and the official numbers after the election were basically the same.
Okay, but that's not the point.
The point is how many of those ballots should have been counted in the first place.
And these reviews suggest to me...
That the answer is far from clear.
And if it is clear, it's maybe clear in a different direction.
I think that this recount is a vindication of the people who say that there was a lot of corruption.
And there are other numbers, too.
I'm just giving you the top-line views, but there's a lot of other shady stuff that was discovered in this audit, in this review.
I think the people who demanded the audit and the review were obviously justified in doing so.
But one of the problems with these mail-in ballots is that there's very little you can do.
It's very difficult to trace these things, to compare these things.
It's hard to count them in the first place.
That's why we've been so reticent as a country to use them.
But now that Democrats think that they can really count on that advantage, they're pushing them very, very hard.
So what can we do right now?
Probably nothing.
About the 2020 election?
Nothing, really, is the answer.
What can we do right now moving forward?
Well, we can, in the states where we have power, we can prevent this kind of stuff from going on.
This is something Ron DeSantis is doing in Florida.
DeSantis just directed the Secretary of State, Laurel M. Lee, to investigate Facebook for election interference.
Governor Santis says that recent reports showing that Facebook is impacting the results of state and local elections are, quote, an affront to the basic principles of our republic.
So he signs this order.
He says, I hereby direct that your office immediately investigate this alleged election interference.
Caused by Facebook through its white listing program and any other previously undisclosed program within Facebook in order to determine whether any violations of Florida's election laws took place.
The report that came out showed that Facebook officially does not enforce some of its rules on some of its people.
Some elite people get to violate Facebook's community standards and rules, and some people don't.
And as we saw during the 2020 election, Democrats get favorable treatment.
That's just the way it goes.
And when there are damaging stories about the Biden family, published, for instance, by the New York Post, those just don't spread on Facebook.
You don't get to post them.
You don't get to privately message them.
And that constitutes election interference.
Facebook, and especially Google, and to a lesser degree Twitter, control the public square.
What they are doing is by definition a political act, which means in a country that is self-governing, they control the entire political order.
And we cannot permit that.
And we need to use state power.
We need to use the government.
I know this is going to be shocking to people who over the past 20 years have been told that the government is the only threat to our liberty and we've got to stop big government and we've got to shill for corporations that hate our guts, but that is the wrong idea.
If my rights and my way of life are being taken away by some weirdos in Silicon Valley, that does not make me feel any better than if they were being taken away by the government.
And the reason we have a political system is so that we can use the government for just ends, like, for instance, preventing weirdos in Silicon Valley from controlling our politics.
Speaking of Florida, speaking of justice, there's a sheriff in Florida right now who seems to understand justice pretty clearly.
There is a man who is accused of attempting to kill a cop and critically wounding him, and he might not survive.
He's not expected to survive.
And now he's on the loose, and the sheriff in this town, he said, He tries to break into your home, into your office.
You should do everything you can to de-escalate the situation, and you should take him peacefully into custody.
No, he didn't say that.
He said you should blow him away like a rabid animal, and that's true.
That's what should happen.
Quote, blow him out the door because he is like a rabid animal.
The sheriff is Bill Leeper.
He was referring to this man, Patrick Rene McDowell, who according to the Northeast Florida Fusion Center, which is part of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agencies, he has military training.
He was in the Marine Corps and he shot Deputy Josh Moyers, 29 years old, in the face last Friday.
Blow him away.
We are told that in order to have criminal justice reform in this country, which is so sorely needed, we need to go easier on criminals and we need to let criminals out of prison and we need to not put them in prison in the first place.
And especially if they're black, we need to not arrest them because of historical blah, blah, blah, whatever.
And it's really compassionate to let these killers and thugs and criminals just go on the loose.
That is not compassionate.
That's very cruel.
That's cruel to all of the innocent people that these criminals are going to attack.
The compassionate thing here...
It's much more compassionate to his potential victims, and it's more compassionate to him.
This man is not thriving by killing cops.
That's not good for him.
It's not good for his soul.
That's not good for him as a member of society.
It is good to bring him into line with justice.
We do need criminal justice reform in this country.
We need to bring criminals into line.
Speaking of which...
Speaking of our total confusion on this, on the left and on the right, don't forget it was Donald Trump who signed the jailbreak bill.
It was one of the worst things he did in his administration.
Overall, I thought he was a terrific president, but that was one of the worst things that he did.
And it shows you how deep the rot goes.
And even the right believes that we need to let criminals out of prison.
That our problem in this country is we're too tough on crime.
There is a man named John Hinckley.
John Hinckley tried to murder President Reagan in the 1980s.
John Hinckley did wound multiple people who were protecting Lincoln, and he permanently paralyzed and shortened the life of Ronald Reagan's press secretary.
John Hinckley has just been given unconditional release.
tries to kill the president of the United States, seriously, grievously arms lots of other people.
Now that guy gets to go free.
John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to kill Reagan, won the unconditional release from his state mandated supervision on Monday.
The DOJ agreed to a deal with Hinckley's attorney.
Federal judge accepted it.
He will live his life without court-ordered restrictions and mandated supervision of his doctors.
Hinckley's attorney says there is no evidence of danger whatsoever.
It's a momentous event.
Thank you.
This is compassionate, isn't it?
I don't know that it's compassionate.
So first of all, the only reason this could happen is because Hinckley was found criminally insane.
So it's not that he was just a criminal.
He was also insane, and so he didn't go to a normal jail.
He was committed to an insane asylum.
Okay, then he's got to stay there.
He's lucky.
He got to avoid jail time, but then he's got to stay in the insane asylum.
He's crazy enough to try to kill the president.
And he tried to kill the president because he was in love with Jodie Foster.
Which adds to the kookiness.
Now we're told it's really compassionate to let him out.
It's not compassionate to let him out.
He's a nut.
By his own admission, or his lawyer's own admission, he's a nut.
The reason we have insane asylums in the first place, or at least we used to, is because it's not compassionate to let crazy people live in squalor on their own.
It's not compassionate.
We should do this now on the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco and New York.
We let crazy people live in filth on the streets and in danger on the streets.
That's not compassionate.
That's cruel.
And it's based on a false understanding of liberty on the left, which says that liberty is just doing whatever you want, but also on the right.
This idea of, leave me alone, you do you, who cares, it's not my problem.
If crazy people are going to live on the street, they're a danger to themselves and to others, and they're going to live in filth, that's not my problem.
It is your problem.
You live in society.
This is your country.
What kind of country do you want to live in?
Is this compassionate to the family of Ronald Reagan?
Is this compassionate to the family of the people this guy did kill over the long term, like Brady, the press secretary, or to the people that he grievously injured?
I don't think so.
That's incoherent stuff.
Now, speaking of old politicians, there is a politician who has been in the United States Senate since before Ronald Reagan was inaugurated for the first time.
That man's name is Chuck Grassley, senator from Iowa, oldest Republican in the Senate, 88 years young, he's served for seven terms already, and he just announced that he's running for re-election.
Hey there, I'm running for re-election.
It's the right thing to do for Iowa.
I have an unpopular opinion, because everyone's saying, oh, he's too old, we need term limits, we need to stop these old people from running for office.
I have an unpopular opinion, but here it is.
I love that he's running for re-election.
I think it's great.
Good for him.
He's relatively, relative compared to other senators, he's relatively quite a stalwart conservative on pretty important political issues.
He has stood up at crucial moments.
Not at every moment, but at crucial moments he's stood up.
He's obviously still pretty fit.
He's far more coherent than Joe Biden, even though he's got 10 years on Joe Biden.
Good for him.
I'm glad he's doing it.
And if he does step down at some point, they'll just appoint another Republican to take his place.
There won't be any sort of bruising election there.
And if he gets to be 94 and he runs for election again, or I guess he'd be, what, 95?
I don't know.
He'd be up there.
Then good for him.
By the end of his next term, he'll be 100-something years old.
Good for him.
I think it's fine.
I'm pretty against term limits.
The reason I'm against term limits is because term limits do not empower the people.
They empower the staff members and the lobbyists and the bureaucrats.
Okay, the senators are supposed to be elected by the states, then the 17th Amendment changed that they're elected directly by the people, which did change for the worse our system of government or checks and balances.
But then the people elect the senators.
Nobody elects the bureaucrats.
Nobody elects the permanent staff of the committees.
Nobody elects the lobbyists.
And those are the people who are going to have more power, the less power that the senators have.
So I think, fine, Chuck Grassley is basically a good Republican senator.
Good for him.
We're not supposed to like him.
In no small part because he's an old white man.
And old white men are the worst people on earth, according to our modern culture.
Well, speaking of famous old white guys, the new group of white men who are being canceled are...
It's not the Republican senators.
It's not the conservative celebrities.
It is the Jedi from Star Wars.
Luke Skywalker.
They're the ones who are being canceled.
There's a piece out called Why the Term Jedi is Problematic for Describing Programs that Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
So these social justice warriors have been referring to themselves as Jedis, you know, comparing themselves to the Star Wars heroes because of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
But this article says, no, they're not.
Because the Jedi, they're straight white men and they're actually defending the patriarchy and whatever.
I mean, this is a largely...
Star Wars has a problematic cultural legacy that has been critiqued for trafficking in sexism, racism, and ableism.
And, you know, Princess Leia in that bikini was too sexy, so that's bad.
And there's an Orientalist subplot.
Oh my gosh.
Do you know where this article was written?
You would expect it to be written in the most radical left journal.
Mother Jones, Salon.com, I don't know.
This article comes from Scientific American.
Scientific American.
It brings us right back to the top of the show.
The way that science has been twisted in our culture is to be a religion.
But some religion is true.
The difference here is that science is being used to promote a false religion, this false, weird, creepy, kooky shamanism where we all have to be disciples and apostles of Dr.
Fauci and the governor of New York and the libs.
And the doctrines of science are not permanent fixed laws.
They're just capricious whims of the various shamans of this religion.
And they change day by day by day.
This is what science means.
And I know a lot of right-wingers say, well, look, I defend science, but I don't support scientism.
Or, I support science.
I want to follow the science.
Science doesn't mean that anymore.
The left is redefining that word, too, to try to redefine reality.
This is a strange, creepy cult on the left.
And we are not going to win by playing along with their premises.
We are going to have to talk about more basic things in our politics.
Justice, true liberty, tradition, the way of life, what it is that we want to preserve.
That is what we need to offer.
The left has a very aggressive religious view, and it sweeps up a lot of people.
What vision are we offering?
If the only vision we can offer is, hey, leave me alone, hey, you do you, Let's all just do whatever we want to do.
If that's the vision we're offering, we're going to continue to lose.
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