Insurrectionist Jimmy Carter rejects the results of the 2016 election, a BLM leader is sentenced to six years in prison for illegally registering to vote, and Joe Rogan tries to placate the mob.
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The disgraced former president has lobbed another attack on our sacred democracy when he suggested that the recent election was stolen and that the winner was not legitimate.
And that disgraced former president's name is Jimmy Carter.
There's no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election.
And I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated, would show That Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016.
He lost the election, and he was put into office because of the Russians' interfere on his behalf.
So do you believe President Trump is an illegitimate president?
Based on what I just said, which I can't retract.
I'll tell you.
Behold the face of insurrection, the dangerous 150-year-old demagogue who dares to question our never corrupt and always pristine electoral process.
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Jimmy Carter have now officially all refused to accept the results of the same number of elections.
When you look beyond presidential candidates to congressmen and governors, Terry McAuliffe, the sainted John Lewis, who rejected the results of at least two presidential elections, the crowd gets a lot bigger and skews, by the way, to the left.
But the Democrats' fear-mongering about insurrections and coup d'etat was never legitimate.
It was always merely a way to justify the censorship and ostracism of half of the country.
And unfortunately, it seems to be working.
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There is some footage that's been going around the internet the past few days that I think most people probably have not seen.
This is from the very heart of the insurrection in the Capitol, starring the guy in the horn hat.
So this is the leader, one of the most notable faces from that near coup d'etat that almost took down our government.
Viewer discretion is advised.
Take a look at what nearly took down our government.
Hey, man.
Glad to see you guys.
You guys are f***ing patriots.
Look at this guy.
He's got covered in blood.
- All right, God bless you.
- Yes?
- You good, sir?
Do you need medical attention?
- I'm good, thank you.
You all right?
I got shot in the face.
- Where are you? - I got shot in the face with some kind of plastic bullet.
Any chance I could get you guys to leave the Senate wing?
We will.
I've been making sure they ain't disrespecting the place.
Okay, just want to let you guys know this is like the sacredest place.
But the cop walking in with these guys, you got a few of the alleged insurrectionists, including the Horn Hat guy.
The cop is walking in, he's like, hey guys, do you mind?
Maybe just, if you don't mind, could you come off the podium thing?
Okay, alright, that's fine.
Does not exactly look like a revolution to me.
Does not look like an insurrection.
Does not look like a coup d'etat.
It does not look particularly violent or dangerous.
It looks relatively orderly as far as these things go.
And there was a cop there escorting them the whole time.
Looks to me like January 6th and all of the legal threats and all of the congressional investigations and the whole hullabaloo was almost entirely...
A media creation.
If you asked 100 people on the street what happened on January 6th, I bet 99 of those people would tell you there was a violent, terrible insurrection at the Capitol.
I bet maybe a few people would be more skeptical, but I doubt a single person, maybe one person, would tell you that it looked like that.
Just a bunch of jokesters kind of walking around, not attacking police officers really, certainly not killing police officers, not attempting to overthrow the Constitution, not writing laws, none of that.
Meanwhile...
There was an insurrection that very year, within the year of January 6th, there was an actual insurrection called BLM and Antifa.
It went on for eight months or so.
There were autonomous regions declared in different cities in America.
There were dozens of people killed in political violence by BLM. There were federal buildings attacked, and it went on city after city after city.
But we were told that was mostly peaceful.
There's a wonderful story, just out of Tennessee, actually, out of my new home state, A Black Lives Matter chapter founder in Tennessee was just sentenced to six years in prison for illegally registering to vote while serving probation.
According to the criminal court judge, you tricked the probation department into giving you documents saying you were off probation.
Why was this woman on probation?
She was on probation, Pamela Moses, because in 2015 she was found guilty of a number of felonies, including tampering with evidence, forgery, misdemeanor charges of perjury, stalking, theft under $500, and escape.
So, the reason that I really love this story, the reason this story is so delicious...
It's because it knocks down two sacred leftist narratives.
One, that BLM is not run by criminals.
Two, that there is no illegal voting.
And in this case, you've got the criminal BLM chapter founder illegally registering to vote.
Because both of those things are true.
BLM and Antifa are run by criminals.
And they are criminal enterprises.
And they commit lots of crimes.
And two, there is obviously lots of illegal voting.
This is why when the Democrats tried to pass their federal election takeover as the first order of business for the House of Representatives and for the Senate, HR1 and S1, out of one side of their mouth, they said that illegal aliens will not be registered to vote.
You won't have more illegal voters.
And then out of the other side of their mouth, they said, and when illegal aliens are registered to vote, they'll be given legal amnesty.
They won't be prosecuted for that.
Well, hold on.
If they're not going to be illegally registered, why do you need to give them amnesty for it?
Because obviously it is.
The narratives that we have been told are not true.
Which brings us to Joe Rogan.
Which is actually probably the biggest news of the day.
Joe Rogan is a dangerous, dangerous racist guy.
Disinformation peddler.
He wasn't any of those things a week ago.
But now the left has decided he is all of those things because he has positioned himself, not even with the conservatives, just sort of against the left-wing narrative.
Joe Rogan is a liberal.
He's a full-on liberal.
He's not a conservative.
But he is contradicting some of the leftist narratives.
And so now Joe Rogan's got to go, according to them.
So the mob makes up its own narratives.
Facts be damned.
First, they tried to get him on COVID disinfo.
The problem is that Joe Rogan has been more correct about COVID than Dr.
Fauci, Joe Biden, and Rochelle Walensky combined.
So they couldn't really get him on that.
So what did they do?
They dug up some old clips of his show in which he was quoting people using the N-word, and they called him a racist.
This is always what they do.
They insinuated that he was a racist.
And unfortunately, Joe has sort of kind of apologized.
Hello friends.
I'm making this video to talk about the most regretful and shameful thing that I've ever had to talk about publicly.
There's a video that's out that's a compilation of me saying the n-word.
It's a video that's made of clips taken out of context of me of 12 years of conversations on my podcast and it's all smushed together and it looks horrible even to me.
Now, I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, never mind publicly on a podcast.
And I agree with that now.
I haven't said it in years, but for a long time, When I would bring that word up, like if it would come up in conversation, instead of saying the N-word, I would just say the word.
I thought as long as it was in context, people would understand what I was doing.
Like that context was part of the clip we were talking about Red Foxx, how Red Foxx said that word on television in the 1970s and how times have changed so much since then.
So he's explaining why he did it, the explanation's perfectly fine, but then he's apologizing too, and he's trying to split this baby, and he's trying to see if he can put this cancel mob back into Pandora's box.
I don't think it's working.
And I think Joe Rogan's got to be very careful here because this is going to have huge effects, not just for his show, but actually the Joe Rogan podcast, the way he behaves now, is going to have huge effects for free speech in America.
That's very scary.
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Joe Rogan is apologizing for using the N-word.
The word, he didn't say the, it's confusing because it's the only word you're not allowed to say, but he didn't say the N word.
He said the N, you know, the word, the actual, the N word.
Okay.
When he was, he didn't say it in anger.
He didn't say you.
He was just quoting other people or discussing the context of it.
And he did this many times over the years and no one ever had any problem with it until.
The liberal establishment wanted to go after Joe Rogan for having the audacity to question the exalted Dr.
Fauci, who has been completely wrong about almost everything with the coronavirus.
And so because Joe Rogan now demonstrably has a better record on COVID than the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, because of that, now they're digging up old clips out of context and trying to insinuate that Joe Rogan hates black people or something like that.
And the problem is, Joe is sort of apologizing.
As a general rule, apologizing for out-of-context remarks to people who have not been offended by them and who do not care is neither helpful nor good.
It's not even the right thing to do.
But beyond whether it's the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do, it also won't help you.
I don't think it's going to help.
People think it will help them, but it'll actually hurt them.
I understand.
I have been the target of a couple of cancel mobs in my life, one of which was pretty serious, could have taken down my career, and there were so many incentives to Just to apologize.
Yes, it was out of context.
Yes, no one was really offended.
Yes, they're just using this as a way to attack you.
Yes, yes, it's not whatever.
But just apologize and it'll all go away.
It won't go away.
It won't.
It's not going to go back to normal.
You're not going to be allowed to just apologize.
Because it's not...
There's not real repentance and real grace here.
It's a completely contrived situation.
And the minute that you show them a little bit of your neck, they're going to hack your head off.
Okay.
That's what this is about.
I would call this...
The Hank Schrader rule.
And I think Joe Rogan would do very well to heed the Hank Schrader rule.
The Hank Schrader rule comes from Breaking Bad.
It's the scene where Walt's brother-in-law, Hank, the cop, is killed.
And the rule is this.
Do not apologize to the mob.
Do not grovel to the mob because the mob made up its mind ten minutes ago.
Listen to me.
You gotta tell him.
You gotta tell him now that we can work this out.
Please.
Please.
What?
You want me to beg?
You're the smartest guy I ever met.
And you're too stupid to see.
He made up his mind ten minutes ago.
Do what you're gonna do.
That's what happens.
And Hank was right and Walt was wrong.
Walt's saying, no, just apologize.
Just say this will go away.
And then we can all go back to normal.
You can't go back to normal.
When the cancel mob asks for your apology, they're not trying to figure out what to do with you.
They've already made up their mind.
They're going to kill you.
They're going to kill your career.
I hope they don't kill you literally, but they're certainly going to kill your career.
They've already made up their mind.
So the question is, what are you going to do now?
And that's the question for Joe Rogan to make.
And unfortunately, I think Spotify is pushing him in the direction of censorship.
You don't want to do that, okay?
The internet is moving in a bad direction right now.
It's moving in the direction of censoring perfectly fine, perfectly good, perfectly true things.
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There's a report out now that, as of Saturday, 113 episodes of the Joe Rogan podcast have been taken down.
Rogan reportedly made the decision himself, but this decision was made after conversations that he had with Spotify.
It's very easy to judge Joe Rogan for taking down his episodes right now.
You say, no, you're giving into censorship.
You're giving into cancel culture.
Joe Rogan has a $100 million contract with Spotify.
$100 million contract.
And the thing about temptation is that it's tempting.
That's what makes it tough.
And all of us who have given in to many less enticing temptations than $100 million, all of us who see an extra drink at the end of the night and we can't say no, or you see a cute chick at the end of the bar and you can't say no, or you see the extra plate of turkey on Thanksgiving and you can't say no, we're judging Joe Rogan for saying, I'd kind of like to keep the $100 million, thanks.
No, the tough thing about temptation is that it is tempting.
The question is, though, what does Joe Rogan want?
What does he want to have happen now?
It seems to me the mob already made up its mind.
Spotify, though they're not firing Joe Rogan outright, they are appeasing the mob, and they're placing disclaimers on his episodes with conservatives on the issue of COVID. They're taking down over 100 episodes, apparently, of his show, all the saucy, interesting episodes.
They're just taking those down.
They're saying that he needs to have way more Democrats.
They're neutering the show.
They are neutering the show.
They've already done it.
They've already taken down the saucy, spicy stuff that the libs don't like.
So then the question for Rogan is, what kind of show does he want?
I don't know.
I can't answer that for him.
I don't know.
Joe Rogan is a sitcom actor, a stand-up comedian, who became...
Probably the most trusted broadcaster in America.
I imagine he didn't expect that.
But what kind of show does he want?
The establishment is ordering things such that he can be an insanely rich man who will work for a very long time doing a completely innocuous show that doesn't rock the boat.
Or, he can be content just having a lot, a lot of money, but not an insane, but just a lot, a lot, a lot of money in doing the show that he wants to do.
What do you want to do?
I hope that at a certain point of wealth, you say, screw it.
I don't care.
Whatever.
This is kind of what Chappelle did.
Dave Chappelle did this at Comedy Central.
He was offered a crazy contract.
I think it was $50 million, but it was to do a show he didn't want to do.
He said, stuff it.
I've got enough money.
I'm going to go do my own thing.
What's he going to do?
It's going to matter because if they can do this to Rogan, there is no reason that they should keep any of the rest of our shows up on Spotify.
Ben, me, Matt Walsh, Candice, oh my gosh, Candice, certainly any of the Daily Watchers.
Why?
Why are you going to keep us up?
I like to think that the reason they'll keep us up is because they don't want to just shut out half of the country for saying perfectly ordinary, commonplace things.
But if they're even going to go after Rogan, who is a liberal, why wouldn't they go after us, too?
A lot is riding on this decision, Mr.
Rogan.
I don't know Joe Rogan personally.
We follow each other on Twitter.
But a lot is riding on this, man.
I know it's tough, but...
Stand firm!
Come on!
Push back!
Push back, please!
Speaking of, you know, they're going to try to neuter the show.
Speaking of neutering, there is a disturbing TikTok, as most of them are pretty disturbing, going around.
It shows us the consequences of the sexual revolution, where a young woman and her two boyfriends, I guess one's a husband, and then also her girlfriend, discuss the dynamics of their sexual polycule.
Hi, my name is Anna.
I am dating everybody in the polycule.
I am married to Jake.
We've been together for eight years and married for three.
I'm dating Spencer.
We've been together for three and a half and I am dating Ellie and we've been together just over a month now.
I am bisexual and my pronouns are she, her.
I'm also in charge of this account and in general.
Hi, I'm Jake.
I'm married to Anna, and she's currently my only partner.
I am demiromantic, which means I only get feelings for people, like romantic feelings for people, if I've been around them for a while and get to know them really well.
And I'm technically pansexual, but I like the bicolors more, so I call myself bisexual.
My pronouns are he, they...
Hi, I'm Ellie.
I'm dating Anna.
I'm not currently dating anybody else.
I'm some flavor of beer.
And the pronouns are she, her.
I'm Spencer.
I'm only dating Anna.
I'm bi, but like, bi.
So, this video goes, we can cut it there.
This video goes on Spencer, then is asked what his gender is, and he gets confused, and then he says, gosh, I don't know, and he looks really lost.
I think we need to rescue Spencer.
I think we need to send in a search and rescue team to go help Spencer.
Really, all of these people are hedonists and deeply disturbed people and quite degenerate and they need to be reformed and improve their lives.
But Spencer especially seems very lost.
The sexual revolution has been an unmitigated disaster for the human race.
How can a society go on With that.
Where that is the understanding of life, love, sex, reproduction, or the lack thereof.
How can a civilization go on in that unserious a way?
Where the men are wearing cat ears and proudly boasting of how cuckolded they are.
And the women are, I don't know, they've all got these sort of glazed out creepy eyes and Everyone's marveling at this kind of sex and gender craziness as though it's new.
Oh, it's so new.
We're in a brave new world.
But it's not new.
This is just paganism.
This is what things were like before Christianity.
And it wasn't great.
There's nothing new under the sun, folks.
What is rare is not this breaking of all the rules and all of the taboos and all of the moral norms that we've had for the past 50 years.
What's new is civilization.
And we are throwing it away for a polycule with creepy Anna and her cat-cuckold husband and her girlfriend that she's known for a month and poor Spencer who doesn't know what gender he is.
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Speaking of creepy sex stuff, Michael Avenatti.
Do you remember Michael Avenatti?
He is the man that we've all come to refer to as the creepy porn lawyer.
The creepy porn lawyer who represented Stormy Daniels.
He kept attacking Trump.
He went on every cable news channel on the left, which is almost all of them, for months and months.
He was talked about as a possible 2020 Democrat presidential nominee.
Michael Avenatti was already convicted of a felony for trying to extort Nike.
But he was just convicted of another one for stealing money from Stormy Daniels, his porn star client.
So this is the caliber of man that the Democrats will elevate on their media platforms.
And they'll even talk about him as a potential presidential frontrunner.
The kind of dirtbag lawyer who would rob his hooker client.
He was spoken of so highly by the left that Anna Navarro, she's the fake Republican on The View, but she's obviously a very left-wing person.
Anna Navarro, I don't even want to say it because it seems sacrilegious even to observe what happened.
This woman compared Michael Avenatti to the Holy Spirit.
Lately to me, you're like the Holy Spirit.
You are all places at all times, right?
I mean, I do.
I see you all over cable news.
I see you.
You know, there is a seat available if you want to be a co-host at the vehicle.
There's people here you can pitch.
This is the kind of person, and this is not just a one-off, okay?
What you're seeing here with Michael Avenatti, it's not just a one-off.
Think about Andrew Cuomo.
We're all Cuomo-sexuals.
Oh, Andrew Cuomo.
I've got a crush on Andrew Cuomo.
He's the greatest governor in America.
Remember that?
Just a dirtbag, corrupt politician.
Chris Cuomo.
He's so respected over there.
Don Lemon.
He hasn't fallen yet, but their foot shall slide in due time.
Oh, Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN. That guy's out also ostensibly for creepy sex stuff, even though it wasn't...
Jeffrey Toobin.
Now I'm just talking about CNN. The list goes on and on and on.
These are the kinds of people...
That we are told are the moral arbiters of the universe.
Meanwhile, Joe Rogan is unclean.
Joe Rogan is lower than dirt.
Why?
Because he contradicted Dr.
Fauci.
You're known by the friends you keep.
The ladies on the view, I don't mean to use that term, it's disrespectful to ladies, but the hens on the view, they're known by the friends they keep.
CNN, you're known by the friends you keep.
The Democratic Party, you're known by the friends that you keep.
And I'm noticing a pattern here.
Michael Avenatti, to compare him, how disgusting to do that.
Speaking of ethical lapses, Really disturbing report out about, you guessed it, Dr.
Dr. Fauci, the man that we're not allowed to criticize, the man who is basically behind the attempted assassination of Joe Rogan's career.
He's at least the, he's the cause of the attempted assassination of Joe Rogan's career.
There's a report out from the White Coat Waste Project, not the White Coast.
I don't know.
What would that be?
Part of the Hamptons or something.
That Dr.
Fauci's NIAID funds 80% of research involving human fetal cells.
According to this investigation...
The NIH is actively funding over $27 million of research approved to use human fetal tissue, and they're expected to spend over $88 million total on human fetal tissue this year.
And out of the current pool of just $27 million, $21.6 million has been dispersed by Dr.
Fauci's department, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
In other words, Fauci is funding around 80% of the current NIH experiments on human fetal tissue, that is, cells derived from murdered babies.
This does not tie in with Fauci's corruption regarding COVID or his incompetence regarding COVID or his outright lies and even admitted lies or even perjury regarding COVID.
This is a completely separate issue, but it shows you just more and more evidence of this guy's ethical issues, his lapses in judgment, this pattern that this guy's understanding of ethics, political ethics, medical ethics, his judgment this pattern that this guy's understanding of ethics, political ethics, medical ethics, his judgment is really compromised, which is why you should not vote for any candidate for federal office who does not sign the Michael Knowles
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Two parts.
We've had dozens and dozens of federal candidates sign this pledge.
J.D. Vance, a very well-known candidate for Senate in Ohio, just signed it over the weekend.
J.D. Vance is the author of Hillbilly Elegy, a very serious Senate candidate there.
It's very simple.
We've had many, many other...
Candidates sign it as well.
You should send the Michael Knowles Public Health Protection Pledge to all of your candidates, your sitting congressmen, your senators.
Send it to them and say, sign this or you don't get my vote.
This man needs to be kicked out of his perch of power.
Speaking of corruption...
In our public health establishment, Jen Psaki was just asked about this Johns Hopkins working paper, this study out of Johns Hopkins.
It's a meta-analysis of lots of other studies.
They looked at thousands and thousands and thousands of studies.
They narrowed it down to 30-some-odd studies that were really, really rigorous on the effectiveness of lockdowns.
They found out that lockdowns not only don't help to improve the public health, not only do they not stop The spread of the virus or whatever we were told that they were going to do.
Not only is the epidemiological literature very clear on the ineffectiveness of lockdowns from a public health standpoint, but from a political, economic, social standpoint, even standpoints affecting other areas of public health, they're a complete disaster.
They cause the breakdown of society and lots of other...
So a reporter asked Jen Psaki about this study and whether that has led the White House to change its views on lockdowns.
Jen Psaki's answer tells you the whole story about the study and about the lockdowns.
Quick on the Johns Hopkins study on the lockdowns.
It was this meta-analysis that came out of several studies.
Lockdown during the first wave of COVID in the spring of 2020 found that it only reduced COVID mortality by 0.2% in the U.S. and Europe, and suggested they have little to no public health benefit, but severe consequences for the economy.
And it suggests that lockdowns shouldn't be a part of a future pandemic response.
Is that the shared view of the administration looking in the rearview mirror?
Well, I would say I would first, of course, point you to our health and medical experts for specifics on this specific scientific study.
I would note that the president has been clear we're not pushing lockdowns.
We've not been pro-lockdown.
That has not been his agenda.
Most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous president.
What our Objective has been is conveying that we have the tools we need to keep our country open, thanks to the president's leadership and focus on fighting the virus.
And that's reflected in the fact that 98% of schools are open.
Over 210 million Americans are fully vaccinated.
We have the tools to avoid lockdowns and we're not moving back.
And that's our intention at this point.
This is how you know that the study is legit.
Jen Psaki just gave us the best evidence so far that this meta-analysis from Johns Hopkins is legit because she doesn't even try to refute it.
She actually does the opposite.
She says, no, we never liked lockdowns.
No, we hate lockdowns.
That's obviously BS. The Democrats and Joe Biden have supported all sorts of draconian public health measures.
All sorts of slow down, don't go out, stay home, don't do this, lock up.
Of course they've supported that.
But they've got two choices here.
They can either attack the study and say, no, the lockdowns do work.
Or they can embrace the study and say, no, we hate the lockdowns.
Those are the only two options they have if they want to come out of this in a politically advantageous way.
And they chose the latter because they can't refute the study.
Because the study is clearly rigorous, it takes into account dozens of other studies, and we know that the lockdowns are useless.
They're medically useless.
Politically, they're very useful, and people are catching on to that now.
Now is the time to push back on these officials.
There's a woman in Prince William County in the school district there.
She showed up to the school board to grill the members of the school board and to speak out against the superintendent of the school board there.
This woman had a great riff on the inefficacy of masks.
And the insanity of masking up the little kids.
But then, she showed the political corruption here, too.
She pushed back on the narrative that so many politicians have leaned on, which is, look, there's nothing we can do.
Look, we're just following the scientists.
Look, we're just following orders, okay?
And so you've got to mask your kids up, and we just have to go along and do it.
That's an excuse.
They're hiding behind other people to push policies that they want, and this mother has had enough.
On November 15th of last year, I had the privilege of speaking with Dr.
McDade for 10 minutes following the CRT town hall meeting.
During that discussion, which was friendly and cordial, I asked what she, as superintendent, could do to get the kids out of masks.
Dr.
McDade told me that she would if she could, but that her hands were tied by then-Governor Northam's executive order mandating face coverings.
And if it weren't for that, things would be different.
Well, tonight, things are different.
Yes!
And I'd like to ask you, Dr.
McDae, tonight, what has changed?
And what do you plan on doing now that your hands are untied?
In fact, I'm asking all of you to step up the way other leaders who have and are ending COVID restrictions by the day.
When will you?
What will it take?
You are on the losing side of history.
And it's time to make that right before these children now.
Be still, my beating heart.
Oh my gosh.
I just want to watch it again.
I want to watch it on loop.
You can see in the boardroom that they're meeting in, there are all these big signs up in front of the school.
They say, thank you, school board.
Great job.
Thank you, school board.
It doesn't sound like those parents in the audience are thanking the school board.
Now, in the room, it sounds like Prime Minister's Questions out in the United Kingdom.
Forget that.
It sounds like a WWE match.
Woo!
Yeah!
Woo!
Yeah!
Get him!
You drag him, girl!
There is obviously so much popular support.
For the parents who are taking control of their children's education, pushing back on these psycho administrators and these leftist insane politicians and saying, no, enough is enough.
Take off the stupid masks.
Stop trying to make me inject my kid with the experimental drug to maybe, possibly, but probably not protect against the virus that doesn't pose any particularly grave threat to them.
Shut up, you awful superintendents and you principals and you school board members, and get out.
Because we're going to control education now.
This is such a great issue.
The people running the education system are completely full of it.
This is a great issue where, kind of like Joe Rogan actually, Joe Rogan transcends political boundaries.
He is a liberal, but he appeals to lots of conservatives.
He appeals to some leftists and some Bernie bros too.
He's got a really kind of broad appeal.
The same thing with this parents movement.
It's got a really broad appeal.
It's not just the rock-ribbed conservatives.
It's any mother, any parent who doesn't want their kid to be victimized by psychos in school.
And there's a whole lot of that going around, by the way.
Speaking of child abuse in schools, there is a video making its way around the internet.
You know, I generally hate TikTok.
I generally hate what social media has done to the world.
However, it is a good way to shine light on abuses that are going on.
And some of these are contrived.
Some of these are non-traverses ginned up to attack someone, like Joe Rogan, for instance.
You take a bunch of short clips out of context, and then you use that as a way to lead a digital lynch mob to destroy this guy's career.
But sometimes you see legitimate abuses.
There's a school in D.C. that is now forcing elementary school students, we're talking about five-year-olds, six-year-olds, to march around, masked up of course, wearing the masks, carrying signs that say, Black Lives Matter, and chanting BLM chants.
If these students were forced to walk around holding up a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and chanting the Salve Regina, there would be lawsuits.
I would say it would go up to the Supreme Court, but it wouldn't because that would be shot down at so many of the lower courts.
You would have teachers fired.
It would be a national scandal.
It would be a national scandal if students were made to engage in a religious ritual for good, traditional, true religion, for Christianity.
But because the students are made to march around holding up signs and giving religious chants to the leftist secular religion, the BLM religion, well, that's perfectly fine.
That's actually mandatory.
Obviously, BLM is a terrorist organization founded by Marxists.
It's anti-American.
It should be suppressed in the country.
And it has no place in schools, obviously, without question.
But we've got to go further in our thinking of this.
It really drives me crazy when people say, just keep your religion out of politics.
You can't.
Politics always is about religion because it's always about morality and it's always about how we view the world.
So it's always going to be about...
Or they'll say, keep politics out of schools.
That's not possible.
Politics just refers to public things.
How we all get along together.
The values that we hold in common.
The way that we see ourselves and each other and our country.
You can't keep politics out of schools.
Certainly not out of public schools.
Political and public mean the same thing.
They're synonyms.
The question is not, will we have religion in schools?
The question is not, will we have politics in schools?
The question is, what kind of religion?
The question is, what kind of politics?
What will be tolerated?
What will not be tolerated?
Right now, if you read the Bible in schools, if you teach the Bible in schools, you will be reprimanded and probably fired.
If you read some Marxist trash in schools or Ibram Kendi or critical race theory, if you teach that in schools, you will be rewarded.
Often that will be part of the curriculum.
They're both...
They would both be religious views.
It's just one of them happens to be good and true and essential to our civilization.
And the other one is modern leftist trash.
And unfortunately, right now, we're elevating the thing that is false and destructive and ugly, the leftist theories, and we're suppressing good, true religion.
Same thing with politics.
We're going to be taught politics.
When you say America's a good country, America's done good things.
That's politics.
When you say America's an evil country...
And it's a white supremacist country and it's got structurally bigoted and whatever.
That's politics too.
You're always going to have the politics.
But what are the politics going to be?
Our form of government is conducive to justice.
That's politics.
Our form of government is deeply unjust.
That's politics too.
You can't get rid of it.
What is the politics going to be?
We don't teach students what to think, only how to think.
That's another one of these stupid slogans that doesn't mean anything.
Because all schooling teaches students what to think.
So what are we going to teach them to think?
If you say murder is wrong, you're teaching someone what to think.
If you say that murder is okay if it's done by BLM and Antifa, you're teaching them what to think too.
You're just teaching them something that is wrong.
We've got to grapple with that question.
The schools are the battleground where it's going on right now.
And there was a photo that made the rounds this weekend that to me, they say a photo...
An image says a thousand words.
I think this image says a hundred thousand words.
It's an image of Stacey Abrams, the pretend governor of Georgia.
Remember, we're told it's evil and terrible and destroys our sacred democracy if you question election results, unless you're a Democrat, in which case it's wonderful.
Stacey Abrams has been pretending that she won her gubernatorial election for four years now.
And Stacey Abrams, as part of her fake gubernatorial tour, went around to an elementary school, And she took a photo with students.
All the little kids who are at statistically very low risk, if any risk, from COVID, they're all wearing masks.
Stacey Abrams, who is at a significantly higher risk from COVID, it's still a very, very low one, but higher, all right, let's put it that way.
She is not wearing a mask because she's not really afraid of COVID. None of the people who are telling you to lock down and wear masks and take them, none of them are afraid of COVID. They just want you to be afraid of COVID and they want to control you.
And she's sitting there smiling, grinning ear to ear.
No mask.
All the little kids have to mask up.
Tells you everything you need to know about the masks and the politics of COVID in one photo.
She gets called out for it.
What does she do?
She plays the race card.
She says, This pathetic, transparent, and silly attack is beneath anyone who claims they want to lead Georgia.
What are you talking about, lady?
You got caught in rank hypocrisy.
And now you're playing the race card like the left always does.
It's the exact same thing that's happening to Joe Rogan.
Rogan has a much better record on COVID than any of the so-called public health leaders.
Some random podcaster weightlifter...
Has a better record than Dr.
Fauci.
That's the state of our country right now.
And he calls them out, and the left doesn't like that, and they call him a racist.
It's the exact same thing here.
It's the exact same thing here.
And the woman doing it here, by the way, also questions the results of our elections.
None of this is sincere.
None of these attacks are sincere.
They do not deserve an apology from us, people who have not committed any particular offense to these people.
The people who are attacking us do not care.
They don't deserve an apology.
What we have to do is stand firm and fight back.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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