Ep. 940 - A Crack Pipe A Day Keeps The Racism Away
Biden promotes public health with free crack pipes, Showtime releases a new series on the evils of white people, and another race hoax roils a college campus.
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As America reels from the worst drug epidemic in our nation's history, around 100,000 overdose deaths last year alone, up 29% in just a single year, President Biden has unveiled his plan to stop the carnage.
And the plan is to give free crack pipes to drug addicts.
This public health strategy may seem counterintuitive, but the Biden administration insists that the federally subsidized crack pipes will reduce harm and advance racial equity.
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This is what they believe.
I thought this crack pipe story was just being exaggerated.
It's not.
This is Joe Biden's plan to tackle drugs.
He's got all sorts of new federal goodies that he's going to give out.
Money for certain treatments, money for certain facilities, money for this, money for that, money for the other thing, and money...
For crack pipes.
For safe smoking kits is what they're called.
The logic here is, if someone really wants some crack, then the most compassionate thing to do for that person is to give them the crack.
This is the same logic behind if someone is sexually confused, the best thing to do for that person is to mutilate that person.
It's the same logic behind if a person wants to commit crimes, if a person wants to say rob a store, then the best thing to do is just give them space.
To rob the store.
Open up the Gucci outlet.
Let them go in.
Take whatever bags they want.
That's going to let them blow off a little steam.
And that will somehow stop crime.
That will somehow restore order.
The logic is, whenever there is a social pathology, you indulge it.
And by indulging it, that will make things better.
You never repress it.
Repression is really, really bad.
You're not allowed to repress your desire for drugs or weird sex stuff or thievery or any of the other things.
Obviously, it's completely backwards, but that's been the dominant view from our elite institutions for decades now.
And you're seeing the effects of this.
There's a video going around TikTok.
Every time I say that, I myself get a little chill up my spine.
Nothing good, generally, goes around TikTok.
There's a video of a sexually confused man who I guess identifies as a woman who now claims...
Not only do we need to indulge his delusions, not only do we need to indulge the crack addict and give him pipes, not only do we need to indulge the thief and give him Gucci bags, not only do we need to indulge the sexually confused guy and pretend that he's a woman, but if we do not actively participate in that, if we do not sleep with the sexually confused guy, we are bigots.
So if the only reason you don't want to date someone boils down to the fact that they're trans, that's transphobia right there.
Let's go over a couple of situations.
So if you don't want to date a trans woman because you want kids, well, you better be keeping that same attitude with cis women who are infertile, or that's transphobia.
If you don't want to date a trans woman because you're not attracted to trans women, I would absolutely love to know how you're able to identify correctly who is a trans woman on site 100% of the time, because that is just impressive.
I wish I had that ability.
I'd love to be able to have even more trans solidarity.
And then also just...
Being super straight is the all-lives matter of sexualities.
It's not a real sexuality.
It literally is just something that's made up to make fun of trans people and to hate on trans people.
So, yes, super straights, I don't respect you and I don't respect that sexuality.
Bye!
If I found out today that these videos are not being produced in America, they're not being produced by just random people, that these are all being filmed in Beijing in Xi Jinping's propaganda studio to disseminate throughout the West and destroy our civilization, I would be about 7% surprised.
No, 3% surprised.
It...
This is really, really bad.
It is, and frankly, it's even worse if this is not just propaganda intended to destroy our civilization, because it means that our civilization's already been rotted out so much from the inside that this is just naturally happening.
The claim here is that if you can tell the difference between a man in a dress and a woman in Then you are a bigot.
He's really saying no one can tell the difference, right?
He looks like Marilyn Monroe, doesn't he?
Line him up.
You couldn't possibly tell the difference, right?
And if you want to marry a woman instead of a man pretending to be a woman, well, that's just evidence of your small-mindedness.
What?
You mean because women can conceive children and men can't?
Well, then, what?
So you would never marry an infertile woman?
Well, what do you even mean by that?
What is...
If you're telling me that the only difference between men in dresses and women is that women can produce babies, I mean, that's a pretty big difference.
But there are other differences as well.
This is clearly a disturbed individual.
This is a man who's very, very confused about himself, about nature, and about the rules.
He should be helped.
A good society would try to help this guy not to indulge his delusion and his fantasy.
A healthy society should try to help the crack addict not by giving him crack, not by giving him a crack pipe, The good society should try to help the thief, not by giving him Nikes and Gucci handbags, but by saying, no, don't do that.
Uh-uh, that's bad.
If you're a thief, if you're a crack addict, if you mutilate your body, you're going to have a bad life.
That's not going to help you flourish, and so we're going to help you by laying out the rules.
Men are supposed to be men, and women are supposed to be women, and men cannot become women, and women cannot become men.
And men and women go together.
They are complementary.
And they come together and they form a marriage.
And then they can produce children.
And not everyone can produce children.
It's a fallen world.
There are imperfections.
We all suffer.
We all carry our cross.
But that's the way the world is ordered.
There are rules.
There is a purpose.
Not only to life broadly, but to the individual things in life.
And we can know something about that purpose.
And that's how we're going to order society.
You're not allowed to say any of that.
If you try to help that guy right now, if you sat him down and said, Hey, Buster, you are not a woman.
It is not wrong or unjust or bigoted for a dude not to want to sleep with you.
You need to stop pretending to be a woman because it's not helping you or anyone else.
And we're going to try to get you some counseling.
If you did that, in Canada, you would be arrested.
If that guy were your son and you did that in Canada, you would lose your son.
You might lose your kid here in America in many places.
If you were a teacher who said, hey, we want to help you, you'd be booted out.
You'd be kicked out.
You'd be fired.
There's a law now in Canada.
If you sat down a guy who knows that he's a guy and said, hey, you're actually a woman, that would be totally fine.
You sit down that guy who thinks he's a woman, you say you're a guy, you could be arrested for it.
There are still rules.
It's just that the rules are in the direction of delusion and falsehood.
So, the way we think of it now, the way on the left and on parts of the right, actually, is that the rules are bad.
They don't let us be free.
Look, if that man wants to Pretend that he's a woman and mutilate himself.
That's fine.
That's his right, man.
You know, hey, if the crack addict wants to smoke a bunch of crack, that's fine.
And on the left, they say, we're going to pay for you to smoke the crack.
And on the right, they say, don't make me pay for your crack, but you can go smoke crack if you want.
But both of those are wrong.
Don't smoke the crack, okay?
These are basic rules.
If you're a man, don't mutilate yourself and pretend to be a woman.
And if you're a crack addict, put down the pipe.
Do not take the pipe.
The rules are not oppressive.
Repression itself is not oppressive.
If repression is repressing bad desires that enslave you to bad appetites, the rules can be a great source of strength and comfort.
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If I found out that all these kooky TikToks are just propaganda coming out from China and Xi Jinping, I would not be surprised.
Speaking of China, Nancy Pelosi has a message for the United States Olympians who are competing right now in China, in the Olympics that not a single person in the entire world is watching.
Nancy Pelosi says, yep, China, look, maybe you think China's a bad country, maybe you oppose some of their political views, but I'm telling you now, I'm warning you, do not speak out against the Chinese government.
I would say to our athletes, you're there to compete.
Do not risk incurring the anger of the Chinese government because they are ruthless.
I know there is a temptation on the part of some to speak out while they are there.
I respect that, but I also worry about what the Chinese government might do to their reputations, to their families.
This is total concern trolling.
This is so disingenuous.
Because what she's saying is, don't criticize China.
Hey, guys, don't criticize China.
But the reason you shouldn't criticize, it's for your own safety.
Look, maybe I respect your views, but just for your own safety, don't criticize China.
I'm just looking out for you.
That's not why Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are tamping down on criticism of China.
It's not why they didn't stop the Chinese Olympics from going through.
That's not why they are still supporting the importation of lots and lots of goods from China and outsourcing jobs to China.
The Democratic Party is completely in the pocket of China.
The United States, in many ways, is in the pocket of China.
China owns all of our debt.
They manufacture not all of our debt, but they own an extraordinary amount of our debt.
They manufacture not all of our products, but an extraordinary number of our products.
They're buying up a lot of resources in the United States.
And they own politicians.
That's just what they do.
They've exerted an incredible amount of influence over the past couple of decades on both parties, but especially the Democrat Party.
This is why when Donald Trump tried to even out trade between America and China, when he was engaging in that trade war, the Democrats were horrified.
They were clutching their pearls.
He who pays the piper calls the tune, and the Democratic Party is owned by China.
So now Nancy Pelosi says, look, just for your own good, just don't criticize our overlords in Beijing.
Please, please don't do it.
Could you imagine?
Could you imagine if she said this about the NFL players when they were protesting our own country?
Oh, what a breath of fresh air that would be!
Wouldn't that have been so wonderful if Nancy Pelosi had one 100th the concern For our own country, and the disrespect it was being shown by athletes, as she has for disrespect against communist China.
If she said, hey, you ingrate athletes, you millionaires spitting on the American flag, you Colin Kaepernick, all the rest, hey, stand up, ingrates, salute the flag, love your country, or get out of the country.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, that would be so wonderful.
But she would never do that.
No, what did she do?
She got down on her knee, too.
Not in respect, but in disrespect of the Star-Spangled Banner.
We disrespect the stars and stripes, and we salute Xi Jinping.
We do not do that, but that is what the Democrats are doing.
This is not just a one-off.
It's not even purely ideological.
It's a structural problem with the Democratic Party.
Would never do it.
BLM disrespecting the flag.
Speaking of racial politics, there's a new trailer.
For a new show on Showtime.
It's going to delve into some of the racial issues in America.
And I haven't seen the show yet.
It hasn't come out.
But from what I gather, the thesis of the show is that white people are really, really bad.
I think what annoys me most about white people is when they pretend like they're the victim.
Yeah.
What's also annoying is when they, you know, when they kill us.
What is fragile about whiteness when everything has been constructed around it?
Every part of who I am has been distorted or criminalized.
It's really just a bunch of white lies.
We're storming the Capitol!
You're not patriots.
You're ridiculous.
One of the definitions of American whiteness is ignorance.
White people, we are not your problem.
You are.
Should white people today feel any responsibility for slavery?
Hell yeah.
White Jesus or black Jesus?
Jesus was not white.
Think of geography.
Ain't no way Jesus walked around with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Those white people.
Those white people make me so mad.
White people are...
They're annoying, right?
That was one of the claims just in this, what, 60-second trailer.
White people are annoying.
They're stupid.
They're ridiculous.
They're ridiculous.
You ridiculous white people.
They're ignorant.
That's the definition of whiteness.
When you're white, you're ignorant.
So claims this documentary on Showtime.
You just, you're just, oh, and you're enslavers.
You enslave people.
And you know what the most annoying part of all is when they play the victim.
When they pretend that they're being victimized.
you know, it would seem to me that if we're in a society now where the only racial group that you are permitted to legally discriminate against, also you can sort of discriminate against Asians in college admissions, though it's, that's a little, that's also you can sort of discriminate against Asians in college admissions, though it's, that's a little, that's only because the That's being worked out in the courts right now.
But basically, it's the only racial group you can legally discriminate against.
And maybe more importantly, it's the only racial group that, that it is socially permissible to insult constantly, including on television.
I think you, you might be the victim group.
Look, we're all, you know, We all suffer.
We got to deal with it.
No one should view themselves as a victim.
But if one of these groups is going to be a victim, and you're going to make claims about victim, it would seem that the only racial group that you're allowed to discriminate against and go after and treat like second-class citizens, that might be the victim group, right?
Right.
Imagine the show.
I don't even want to say it.
I don't even want to say it.
Because it's so, you roll your eyes when you say, you know, imagine if the shoe were on the other foot.
But imagine, just imagine for a second, you're watching the Showtime trailer and says, you know the worst part about black people?
You know what really annoys me about Mexicans?
You'd be sent to Gitmo.
You wouldn't just get your show canceled.
You would be sent to some prison camp somewhere.
That would be so socially unacceptable.
So why?
Why does this happen?
White people, I think they're the majority of America still.
Not by a lot, but still by a little bit.
So why?
Why is this?
The reason for it is that So white people have a very low racial consciousness.
There was a study that came out of Pew Research not that long ago that measured how important race was to someone's identity.
And for black people, it was over 70% said it was somewhat or very important.
For Hispanics and Asians, it was over 50%.
And then for white people, it was 15%, just 15%.
So it's just very, very low.
On the one hand, what the left claims is whiteness doesn't exist.
White people, it's a completely fake racial made-up category.
And then on the other hand, they say, you are white, you can never escape your whiteness, and you're evil because of your whiteness, and we're going to treat you differently because you're white.
Obviously, those are contradictory things, and the left is just trying to have its cake and eat it too.
You saw at the end, probably the most frivolous claim there was they bring up Jesus.
You say, why are you bringing up Jesus?
Why?
When you're talking about your crazy racial diatribe, they say, man, people say that Jesus is white.
No, no, actually what they say is, people say that Jesus was white, but he wasn't white.
Look at the geography.
Insinuating what?
That Jesus was black?
He Jesus is a Jew.
It's pretty clear.
If you read the book, it's pretty clear.
Jesus is a Jew.
When you use the phrase, Jesus was, that's usually a red flag that the person who is speaking does not know very much about Jesus or Christianity because Jesus lives.
That is the essence of the story.
That's the essence of the religion, is that he rises from the dead and lives.
He is.
He's the divine logic of the universe.
He is the second person of the Holy Trinity.
I am that I am.
Why do they bring up religion in this crazy racial diatribe?
Because it always comes back to religion.
I do not have a high racial consciousness.
I do not consider politics primarily or at all really significantly through the lens of race.
I consider it through the lens of religion and in my religion there is neither Jew nor Greek nor slave nor free but all are one in Christ Jesus.
That's the Christian view of things.
The whole idea of Racism and opposing racism, it comes out of Christianity.
Every other civilization in the history of the world, everywhere on Earth, is very, very, very racist.
We're the only one that's not.
And now, because the left is attacking Christianity, trying to kick it out of our society and out of the public square, this is what you're getting.
You're going to get more of it.
More black identitarianism, more Mexican identitarianism.
You're probably going to get more white identitarianism, too.
That's the future they want.
Do you want to be part of that?
Well, if not, you need...
I think we had a good one, but the left wants to get rid of it.
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There was a terrible racist attack on a campus in Illinois.
Terrible racist attack on a black female student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
This young woman found racist messages written on the door of her dorm, and there were two white students who were accused of perpetrating this crime, and there were many calls for them to be expelled.
What did the notes say?
The notes said, die, die.
B-I-T-C-H, they said black people don't belong as a result of this.
Some black activists on and around the campus rallied for the expulsion of these two white students for perpetrating this horrible crime.
Guess what happened?
I don't even need to tell you.
You already know this story plays out again and again and again.
The girl wrote the messages herself.
It was a hoax.
It didn't happen.
The minute I saw this story, I knew it didn't happen.
I knew it didn't happen.
The minute the left saw this story, they said, this is evidence of white supremacy.
The Klan is showing up again.
These are neo-Nazi anti-black skinheads.
They said, no, I think it's a hoax.
And I was right.
You know, I hate to say I told you so, I was totally right.
What is being reported now by the College Fix, this black student has been charged with three counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report.
What was the false police report?
The false police report was about these attacks.
There have been so many of these hoaxes.
These hoaxes occur all the time.
I have a chapter of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, about these hoaxes.
A lot of racial hoaxes, a lot of sexual hoaxes.
So, what does this tell us?
Well, it tells us some good news.
It tells us that white supremacism, which we're told is the central scourge, the great injustice of America, it doesn't exist.
It's fake.
Lump it away with the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny.
If white supremacism were real, people wouldn't have to make it up.
This girl wouldn't have to make it up.
The many, many, many hoaxes that have occurred in recent years would not have to be made up.
Jussie Smollett would not have to hire two Nigerian men from a bathhouse to put on MAGA hats and say, this is Trump country and then attack him while he was holding his subway sandwich.
Wouldn't have to do that because there would be the Klan, wouldn't there?
There'd be neo-Ni, but it doesn't, that's not real.
The reaction that people have to these stories is a really good barometer of their ability to perceive reality.
I remember years ago, maybe right after Trump won, A friend of mine, a very liberal friend of mine, said, Michael, I was driving down La Brea in L.A. He might have even been in a nicer part of town.
I was driving and I saw someone wrote the N-word on a sign.
Get out, N-word.
Something to that.
This is Trump's America.
This is Trump's America.
People are doing this.
So hold on.
West Hollywood is Trump's America?
It kind of reminds me of downtown Chicago being MAGA country.
No, Michael, people feel emboldened.
They feel, no, do you know what it is, pal?
It's a hoax.
It's a hoax.
And of course, there were all of these attacks, people painting all sorts of things, racial epithets on black churches.
And what, story after story after story, they were hoaxes.
To say, well, yeah, look, these incidents are false, but it gets to the deeper truth of how racist and terrible America is, especially under Trump.
No, it gets to your dishonesty.
What it gets to is the huge chasm between your delusions of what America is and the reality of what's going on here.
It's a really good barometer.
And you are seeing this play out.
There's a story.
Michelle Malkin.
Who is a longtime political commentator.
She was, for a long time, very mainstream conservative.
She's gotten a little fringier in recent years.
And she has just been now booted out of Airbnb.
Neither she nor her husband are allowed to stay at any Airbnbs from now on.
I don't know if they're traveling.
Pretty soon they're not going to be permitted public accommodations.
Why?
Well, it's because Michelle Malkin spoke at the American Renaissance Conference.
The American Renaissance is a white identitarian conference, and I guess it took place last month or a couple of months ago.
No, you know what?
This was from the end of 2021.
And Airbnb writes, Airbnb's community policies prohibit people who are members of or actively associate with known hate groups.
Due to your promotion and participation in a known white nationalist and white supremacist conference, we've determined that we will remove your account from Airbnb.
This is consistent with action we've taken to ban people associated with this conference in recent years.
And they're banning her husband, too, because sometimes she would book hotels under her husband's name.
So Michelle Malkin is not allowed to stay at A new kind of hotel because she's a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi, right, basically.
Now, the complicating factor for this is that Michelle Malkin is not white.
Michelle Malkin is Filipina.
So it's kind of strange for her to be a white supremacist as a Filipina.
And it's really strange for her to be a neo-Nazi because her husband is a Jew.
So things aren't quite...
Matching up to the reality here, are they?
She did speak at this conference, though, and the conference has a huge focus on race, and it's a white identity group.
There's no question about that.
I'm not disputing that at all.
You can call it racist, sure, but it's no more racist than any of the other racial identitarian groups.
Certainly no more racist than Black Lives Matter.
Certainly no more racist than any of these other racial groups on the left.
And by the way, it has the advantage over, say, BLM or Antifa of not having ever burned the country down, to my knowledge.
To my knowledge, they don't go out and commit lots of crimes or anything, or arson or murder.
They go, they have their conference, they talk about race.
And that is enough to have you completely ostracized from the public square.
But if you do the same thing on the left, with the same kind of racial identity, or really, frankly, even more so, you're applauded.
I do not think that racial identity is the best way to view politics.
I think it's kind of a creation of modernism, of modernity, this idea that you view things primarily through race.
I think it's probably a much wiser idea to view politics through religion and specifically through Christianity, the religion that built our entire civilization.
And when our civilization was healthy and thriving, it was a Christian civilization.
And Christianity...
It tamps down racism, uniquely tamps down racism, because all are one in Christ Jesus.
So I think we should do that.
If you lose that, if you say, no, we're not a Christian civilization anymore, we don't even believe in God anymore, we just believe in stuff.
And on the left, what that means is we're just bags of chemicals and we exist to derive pleasure and kind of screw around with whoever we want.
And on the right, you just say, and there are plenty of people on the right who say, look, we can't know anything about God.
We can't know anything about even morality or ethics.
All we can know is that we're material beings and we need to increase our economic output and consumption.
We're just going to order society toward being able to buy more stuff.
They're both kind of the same idea on the left and the right.
It's just, yeah, we're just kind of going to order society around materialism.
Well, this is what you're going to get.
This is the consequence.
If you just make everything about matter, then this is what you're going to get.
Or, by the way, you're going to get the complete opposite problem.
You're going to get the transgenderism problem.
Which is you're going to say matter doesn't matter at all and we're just purely spirits and we can mutilate our bodies if we're men and pretend that we're women.
Or better yet, we can just plug our brain stems into the matrix and we're going to all live in virtual reality where our bodies and matter has no meaning whatsoever.
The traditional idea of civilization that we're body and soul inextricably linked here in reality, that's gone.
Nobody is allowed to believe that anymore.
Only those backward-minded Christians and Jews and Muslims, I guess.
Only those backward-minded religious people believe that.
But we smart moderns, we believe either one of these contradictory, kooky things.
Well, that's what you're seeing.
You're seeing this right now with the development of the metaverse.
So Facebook, which has changed its name now, it's called Meta.
And they have the metaverse, and we're all going to live in this virtual reality, and we're all just going to be little cartoon characters in a kind of video game world while we put our goggles on and sit alone in our little pods in our apartments, but we're going to live in this really fun, silly virtual world with a big screen.
They're noticing there are some moral problems here as well.
Actually, Meta just put sexual harassment guidelines in place in virtual reality.
They announced, quote, Personal boundary prevents avatars from coming within a set distance of each other, creating more personal space for people and making it easier to avoid unwanted interactions.
I called this, you know how much I hate to say I told you so, I totally called this when there was a video of what this virtual reality world looked like.
The creepiest thing about the video was that no one had any legs.
They were just all kind of floating.
They were just torsos up to their heads.
And everyone is scratching their heads.
They said, why aren't there any legs?
Why isn't there anything below the navel?
And I said, it's to prevent sexual harassment.
They're going to actually de-sex all the people, which we're already starting to do in our regular society and we've been doing for 50 years through the sexual revolution, through second wave feminism, through the LGBT LMNOP movement now saying that men can be women and women can be men.
We've been trying to take sex away from human nature and now you're just seeing that represented in virtual reality.
Why?
Because you know what's going to happen.
People put on those goggles and they say the moral universe doesn't matter.
And they're all going to get a little grab happy with the avatars.
And that's exactly what happened.
So now meta is adding this boundary.
So you cannot go up and pinch your friend in the metaverse.
And you know what I say to that?
That's a good idea.
That's a good idea.
I think the rules are helpful.
I think it is good to have boundaries.
The worst thing that could happen with virtual reality is you put on the goggles and you say, now I'm living in a world where there are no rules and it's not real.
It's not really real.
It's kind of a little bit real.
I am using my free will, but it's not real life.
It's not real stuff.
So I'm just going to go and indulge whatever sick fantasies I have, whether that's killing a bunch of people, whether that's doing lots of creepy sex stuff, whatever that is, I'm going to indulge all of my delusions because it's just pretend world.
It's like a lucid dream, but it's not going to have real effects.
That's not good.
That's very corrosive to the human soul to indulge that stuff all the time.
The left thinks it's helpful.
The left believes that's the way to cure social pathologies.
Yeah, blow off that steam.
Go smoke that crack.
Go indulge your weird sexual stuff.
But that isn't.
You need the rules.
I applaud Facebook.
If we're all going to live in this metaverse hellscape, then I at least think there ought to be some good rules conducive to public morals and virtue.
That sounds fine.
Speaking of creepy sex stuff and manifestations of evil, there's a video that We're good to go.
For human smuggling, and you know what goes on.
There was a study that came out from the Huffington Post, Fusion Amnesty International, some years ago, that said that 60-80% of women and young girls who are smuggled across the southern border are sexually assaulted on the journey.
A lot of them are put into sexual servitude, indentured servitude, prostitution.
And so one of these criminals, one of these human smugglers was arrested.
Take a listen to her reaction to the authorities.
We're going to close the door.
We're going to stay right there before we move.
Hey!
Calm down!
Calm down!
She's just growling at me.
They're trying to close the door.
She's growling like Gollum in Lord of the Rings.
It's like a demon.
They can't close it.
Get your foot back in there.
Get your foot back in there.
Ma'am.
Ma'am, we're gonna have to tase you.
You're not gonna like that.
I don't understand what you're telling me.
Put your feet back in there.
She won't go.
go.
You've got these huge guys, these huge border patrol agents, and they can't push this lady who's channeling some sort of demon back into the van.
This is the moral reality of evil, of This is a reminder that evil is not just some metaphysical abstraction from physical reality.
It's not just the way that we talk about things in the physical world.
We just try to use it as a symbol to make sense of things.
No, there's evil.
There's real evil.
Sometimes people just talk like demons.
Sometimes people do evil things like smuggle little girls and force them into prostitution.
And it can't just be indulged.
And it can't just be mollified.
And it can't just be slightly kind of rehabilitated.
Evil has to be repulsed.
It has to be rejected outright.
You've got to acknowledge that.
Evil affects physical reality.
This is why when you've got the precious and the precious, it contorts your body.
This is why when people do drugs and drugs and drugs, they just start to look bad.
You can see the physical reality.
Effects of this, and we've got to say, it's a beautiful two-letter word that we seem to have forgotten, we've got to say no.
Speaking of being held to account for the bad things that people do, Joe Biden's science advisor has just been fired.
Not Dr.
Fauci.
I wish it were Dr.
Fauci, though we've got some great updates there.
You know I have the Michael Knowles Public Health Protection Pledge for all federal candidates to say they will investigate Dr.
Fauci and zero out his salary.
If they can't fire him, they can at least take away his salary.
We've got dozens and dozens of candidates who have signed this.
We've got some interesting, pretty big news on that coming down the pike, so stay tuned.
No, but unfortunately it was not Fauci who got fired.
It was this other guy.
The top science advisor, Dr.
Eric Lander, has been under fire for allegedly mistreating his staff, and he has now officially resigned.
He said, quote, I have sought to push myself and my colleagues to reach our shared goals, including at times challenging and criticizing.
But it is clear that things I said and the way I said them cross the line at times into being disrespectful and demeaning to both men and women.
That was never my intention.
Nonetheless, it is my fault and my responsibility.
I will take this lesson forward.
So, kind of a mealy-mouthed, squishy way to quit.
I totally take responsibility.
I just tried too hard.
It's like in the job interview.
What's your greatest weakness?
My greatest weakness is I care too much.
I just work too hard.
I can't strike a work-life balance.
But, okay, but I take responsibility, and he's gone.
And this after days and days of criticism because Joe Biden said, I'm never going to tolerate anyone being a bully on my staff, being abusive or disrespectful.
We're not going to tolerate that here.
And then he had been tolerating it from this top science advisor, so then he gave the top science advisor the boot.
That doesn't solve the problem.
This top science advisor was not the biggest bully in the Biden White House.
The biggest bully in the Biden White House is Joe Biden.
Joe Biden gave a speech.
A couple of weeks ago, in which he said that half the country were akin to Nazis, to Bull Connor, to vile, evil, terrible, bigoted, unjust people.
Half the country.
Joe Biden just told outright lies about people.
Joe Biden, who said that Mitt Romney, whose most ambitious campaign pledge was to cut taxes a little bit, Mitt Romney wanted to put black people back in chains.
Joe Biden, who took a 17-year-old kid who was being chased down by Antifa lunatics, by felons and pedos, and then in self-defense shot them.
He...
Joe Biden started his presidential campaign by calling that kid a white supremacist with no evidence whatsoever.
And then he was ultimately exonerated at trial.
The biggest bully here is Joe Biden.
And we should not let him, his personnel decisions, moving around a couple of people...
Have us lose sight of that.
This guy, everything that he ever accused Donald Trump of, he has got it ten times over.
Now on the other side of accountability, so you've got the science advisor, he's got to be held accountable, he's got to go.
On the other side, you've got certain disgraced politicians who are now being rehabilitated.
Our friends, those hens at the view, are trying to rehabilitate, as some of us called it a number of months ago, You know I hate to say I told you so.
The hands of the viewer trying to rehabilitate LoveGov Andrew Cuomo.
There are reports that he's strongly considering a return to politics, maybe even running for attorney general against the woman who took him down, Letitia James.
Cuomo has always denied any allegations against him, and he was never found guilty of a crime, to be fair.
But can he come back from this scandal?
Because he kind of lost a lot of his mojo in the public eye, even if he wasn't actually convicted.
I don't know that he lost a lot of support from New Yorkers.
I think if you ask the majority of New Yorkers, they feel that he did a good job as governor, especially handling the pandemic when the Trump administration was not handling it well on a federal level.
And, you know, I think the other thing that he said during his interview, I think, with Bloomberg...
He said that Tisha James, this was sort of a political prosecution.
And I think there is something there.
You know, where there's some smoke, there's fire.
Am I living in an alternate reality?
New Yorkers love Andrew Cuomo.
He did a great job handling COVID. He didn't deserve to be kicked out.
He's...
No, we've already been through that.
We've already been through Chris Cuomo and CNN and everybody saying Andrew Cuomo was the greatest governor on COVID and Ron DeSantis was the worst governor on COVID. And then we got the numbers and it turned out that Andrew Cuomo's policies directly led to the deaths of thousands and thousands of elderly New Yorkers in nursing homes because he sent sick people to nursing homes.
And then on top of that...
While Andrew Cuomo knew that his policies were killing people, he took millions and millions of dollars to write a book about how great he was on COVID, and then used state resources to help write the book, and then tried to avoid getting an investigation from the federal government, which knew that he was cooking the numbers on dead senior citizens.
Andrew Cuomo was the single worst governor in the country on COVID. The death numbers, the hospitalization numbers were right there at the very tippy top of the country.
He was always in the top handful of states for all of those things.
And when you get down to his personal decisions, they were worse than anybody else.
And then what happened?
They kicked him out of office for a sex scandal.
And I said at the time, I said, this is a distraction.
Don't let them get away with this.
They're going to have him go away for a little while and say, well, maybe he pinched his secretary.
But it didn't go anywhere.
They didn't end up prosecuting him.
Now you've got people defending him saying, well, there was never any proof he did this.
I said, it's all convenient.
The whole reason they're doing it is to distract from the real scandal, which is COVID. And now they're going to try to bring him back.
That's what they're trying to do now.
That was never the real scandal, but they're going to do it.
Because Andrew Cuomo always sticks up for the liberal establishment.
He's in the club.
And he might run for attorney general, which was the old job he had.
He might run for governor again.
Do not let them get away with this kind of stuff.
They are...
They're never going to pay any accountability.
It's amazing that you're seeing this on the Joe Rogan week.
Joe Rogan, who has a much better record on COVID than Andrew Cuomo, by the way, by orders of magnitude, Joe Rogan contradicts the left-wing narrative, and they go after him, and they throw the kitchen sink at him, and they said, if you quoted, if you quoted someone else saying the N-word a dozen years ago, your career has to be over.
Oh, but Andrew Cuomo, you, I don't know, may or may not have pinched your secretary or done whatever, and also you killed thousands of New Yorkers.
That's a little bit worse.
That's fine.
You're cool.
You're on the team.
Do not let them get away with this.
Tune out.
They think we're all smoking crack.
They think we're all smoking crack if we're going to believe this.
They want us all to smoke crack.
They want us to be mired in delusion and vice.
Don't do it.
You're not going to get a good society that way.
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