Ep. 1098 - Lizzo Degrades And Twerks On American History
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Lizzo plays James Madison’s flute, Democrats promise to command the weather, and FBI agents harass more pro-lifers.
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*crowd cheers* *crowd cheers* *crowd cheers* *crowd cheers* *crowd cheers* *crowd cheers* *crowd cheers* We just made history tonight!
*crowd cheers* Thank you to the Library of Congress for preserving our history and making history freaking cool!
History is freaking cool, you guys!
Lizzo twerked and played James Madison's crystal flute from the 1800s.
It was historic.
So was the Hindenburg.
So was the conquest of Constantinople.
Not all historic events are good or praiseworthy.
I actually kind of like Lizzo.
I do.
I know.
I know it's not popular on the right.
I like Lizzo.
I think her music is somewhat catchy.
The outfits, not my thing, but the music, somewhat catchy.
And as far as modern musical artists go, I stan her, okay?
She is a surprisingly skilled flautist.
All of that is true.
But Lizzo should not have been given special permission to play James Madison's flute for two reasons.
First one, because Lizzo is not dignified.
She could be dignified if she wanted to be, but she is not.
And it is degrading to our nation for a lady simultaneously to twerk and jiggle and degrade herself and to play an historical artifact that belonged to the father of the Constitution.
Second, Lizzo should not have been given special permission to play the flute.
Because the entire performance was intended as an act of hostility toward James Madison, toward the Founding Fathers, and toward the historical American nation.
I don't think Lizzo intended it as a hostile act, but the Libs generally did.
The New York Times reported, quote, It was a symbolic moment as Lizzo, a hugely popular black singer, rapper, and songwriter, Played a priceless instrument that once belonged to a founder whose Virginia plantation was built by enslaved black workers.
And the flute had been lent to her by Carla D. Hayden, the first African American and woman to lead the Library of Congress.
In other words, the performance was not to be an honor.
It was set up and seen as an act of revenge against a no-good long-dead racist and the nation that he represents.
It was set up and reported as an act of liberation by a self-described victim of oppression.
I don't know what music video for good means, but I do know what your vote means.
And that's a lot.
Your vote means everything to me.
It means everything to making a change in this country.
So remember when you're voting for your favorite artists, vote to change some of these laws that are oppressing us.
Now Lizzo, of course, is not oppressed.
And our founding fathers were not oppressors.
The country they established is not evil.
And both the men and the country deserve better than to be mocked with a twerk.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Speaking of women with is in their names, how's that?
I think that might be my greatest transition ever.
Speaking of women with is in their names, the climate change activist Izzy Cook has just accidentally on television exemplified the hypocrisy at the heart, not just of the environmentalist movement on the left, but of the left broadly.
So we would have to apply to have like approved events to be able to fly for?
Well, that's one thing that you could look at doing.
Am I allowed to go to Fiji?
Is that necessary?
In the current climate crisis, I don't think that that's necessary.
When was the last time you were on a plane?
I'm not sure.
Maybe a few months ago, to be honest.
Where'd you go?
Fiji.
Izzy!
Izzy!
Don't you care about the climate, Izzy?
Of course I care about the climate.
Not enough!
You went to...
You went to VG! Izzy!
Come on, Maze!
Are you serious?
Are you serious, Izzy?
This is, of course, the way to respond to all of the alarmism, all of the hysterics about how the world is going to end.
You just sort of laugh at it.
Because you can say, obviously the Libs don't believe this.
If the Libs believed that getting on an airplane was going to destroy the entire world, then they wouldn't do it, or they're just stone-cold psychopaths.
But they do it.
They do it all the time.
And so we don't need to take it seriously.
The whole Davos crew that tells us that we need to go eat bugs and we have to stop living and we have to live in tiny little pods and we can't have meat and we can't go work and we can't travel and we can't drive a car and we can't do anything anymore.
That same crew, they all fly private jets halfway across the world to go on a fun ski vacation with a bunch of other elites around the world, okay?
And so we don't need to take that seriously as a matter of life or death for the world.
We do have to take it seriously as a political movement.
But we need to start examining the real motivations here.
Why is it that these very wealthy, powerful, influential people want to peddle the climate change stuff?
Is it because they really believe in it?
Most of the time, I don't think it is.
Most of the time, I think it's a power play.
It gives them more power, the technocracy more power, the international institutions more power, the handful of corporations that are wielding a lot of influence on those other institutions.
It gives them a lot more power.
Think about it with COVID.
Why did the most powerful interests in the country push to shut down the country during COVID?
Is it really because they thought that everyone was going to die if we were closer than six feet away from one another and we took that little hanky off our face?
No, of course not.
Because all of those people regularly would take the little hanky off and they would violate all the rules.
And Gavin Newsom would show up to the French laundry.
And these CEOs and the oligarchs and the masters of the universe would routinely, regularly violate their own COVID rules when they thought that the cameras weren't rolling.
Is it just hypocrisy or is it just a failure to live up to their standards?
No, I think there's a little bit more than that.
Think about COVID. COVID represented the largest transfer of wealth from the lower classes to the upper classes ever in the entire history of the world.
Very often there are There are financial motivations and power politics motivations.
I was just in the Bronx yesterday.
I was in this old, wonderful neighborhood I've been going to since I was a very little kid.
We would do our grocery shopping there.
And I don't know, maybe being around those Italian-Americans, it gives you a little bit more of an edge.
It gives you a little bit of that sense of, hold on, what's really at play here?
Is someone really trying to pull one over on us?
And so I think you've got to just laugh at it.
You've got to laugh at it.
Then you've got to examine where the real motivations are.
And then you've got to be much better armed to fight back against them.
I mean, especially with COVID, they were pushing this thing so preposterously, with such determination.
Joe Biden now, as Floridians were preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Ian, Joe Biden was saying the best way to prepare for a hurricane is to go get vaccinated.
Let me be clear.
If you're in a state where hurricanes often strike, like Florida or the Gulf Coast or into Texas, a vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.
Everything is more complicated if you're not vaccinated in a hurricane or a natural disaster hits.
It's much more complicated, you know, when the twister is coming and it sucks you up and it throws you into the sky and you're spinning around with cows and automobiles, you gotta make sure that you don't catch COVID. Now that warning from Biden was not, it's been going viral now because of the hurricane that's landing in Florida.
It was not specifically for Hurricane Ian, it was for We're good to go.
Well, you've got to give up some of your political rights.
If you want to stop climate change, what do you got to do?
You've got to give up your wealth.
You've got to shut down a bunch of small businesses.
You've got to give special, nice handouts and privileges to, coincidentally, all the people in industries that happen to be buddies with the political ruling class.
I don't think so.
I think that's the sort of thing that we can just laugh at, okay?
It's the sort of grandiose pie-in-the-sky fear-mongering and promises that we can just sort of mock.
And you're not just seeing it from Joe Biden.
You're seeing it even from the apparently, ostensibly more lucid Democrats.
You're seeing it from one of the most normal Democrats in the country, Amy Klobuchar.
Senator Amy Klobuchar...
The sometime presidential candidate for the Democrats, she didn't go very far.
She's probably going to try to run again.
It probably won't go anywhere this time either.
Amy Klobuchar, who I had some respect for because I feel she's one of the more reasonable of the Dems, damning with faint praise perhaps.
She just said that if you're concerned about hurricanes, that is why you've got to go out and vote for Democrats.
We just did something about climate change for the first time in decades.
That's why we've got to win this as that hurricane bears down on Florida.
We've got to win in the midterms.
We understand that.
Really distasteful stuff, by the way.
People's, not only property, but lives are seriously in danger in Florida now.
They're saying, well, if you want to avoid hurricanes, you've got to vote for Democrats.
There is one man in the history of the world who can command the weather and the weather listens.
Okay, one man, and it ain't Joe Biden.
It's not even Barack Obama, even though Obama said that when he was elected, The seas would stop rising.
The planet would heal.
But no, it's not Obama.
One guy walked around the earth about 2,000 years ago.
The rest of them are just pretending.
But that's what they will say.
For the ones who are sincere about it, it shows the level of hubris on the left.
They really do believe that they can control every single thing under the sun.
And for those who are just being cynical and opportunistic, they're making promises that they know they can never keep.
They cannot control the weather.
Their predictions almost always are wrong.
These are people who have demonstrated extreme incompetence and deceit.
And it's, in many ways, the silver lining of COVID is COVID was just this very intense distillation of all the pie-in-the-sky utopian promises that we get from the Libs, and it all turned out to be wrong or a lie.
It was either accidentally wrong or intentionally wrong, and it was a little bit of both from the Libs.
Either way, I think it woke a whole lot of people up to say, man...
Something is seriously, seriously wrong here.
Speaking of a lack of control, Vice Magazine just tried to air a really sort of sympathetic puff piece about the reintegration of sex offenders back into society.
And the way that this documentary ended, I think, tells you the entire story.
We all out here in this world.
And we all gotta make it happen.
It ain't nothing stopping me.
So, like, I'm very hopeful and confident.
After this interview, Ashif sent a picture of his penis to our producer.
I love you've got the platitude.
I bet, knowing Vice, I bet they really did try to make a puff piece about these poor put-upon sex offenders.
You know, these guys, society failed them.
If only society, if only this racist...
Bigoted, oppressive country, society, hadn't failed them, then they wouldn't be rapists or whatever.
And I do think they probably sincerely tried to make that documentary, and then they film it, and it is broadly sympathetic, and then you just get that punchline at the end.
Moments after that interview, moments after this man recited those platitudes, we're all here, man, we gotta get together, you know, and just keep on doing it, man, whatever.
He sent a photo of his genitals to our producer.
Which reminds us that we need prudence, okay?
Prudence is a virtue that I keep coming back to again and again and again, because the left has absolutely no respect for the virtue of prudence, and many people on the right do not either.
Sometimes, especially when I'm discussing a political issue with the more ideological people on the right, the more dogmatic, doctrinal, five bullet points on the back of a napkin manifesto type of people on the right, they'll say, Michael, I want to hear the principled ideological argument for why...
We should ban marijuana, but not tobacco.
I'm just using an example.
Or I want to hear the ideological, principled, rationalist argument for why we shouldn't have gay marriage.
Or Michael, I want to hear whatever.
And I say, you know...
I don't need to give you, I think I could in many cases, but I don't think that I need to be able to give you this perfect, modern, rationalistic kind of argument for my entire political program in society.
I think we can use some prudence.
I remember when I was a student, I got to meet Antonin Scalia.
Someone asked him about gun control.
They said, you know, Justice Scalia, you support the Second Amendment, but you think there are some limits here.
And I'm not sure that the limits totally jive with the original understanding of the Second Amendment and the Constitution, but...
And I don't understand why some guns can be banned and other guns are not banned.
And how would you determine exactly where that line is on the limits of the Second Amendment?
And Scalia's answer has stuck with me, and I apply it to so many other issues.
He said...
How would I determine where the line is on the Second Amendment?
Very carefully.
This answer infuriated the ideologues, certainly on the left, but on the right as well.
But that's obviously the right answer.
How do we determine these sorts of limits in society?
How do we determine when to show mercy to prisoners and when to insist upon a little bit more justice?
When to go lighter and let them out of prison and reintegrate them into society and say, forget the past, and when to put some guardrails around these people?
How do you do that?
Very carefully.
You do it.
Why can't Lizzo play the flute?
Lizzo, if you oppose Lizzo playing the flute, you're a racist, sexist.
You would allow some other concert flautist to play that flute.
Yes, I probably would.
But you won't allow Lizzo.
Correct.
I don't think Lizzo should play the flute.
Well, why?
Because I look at Lizzo and she's wearing a weird little leotard thing and she's jiggling around half naked and she's just behaving in a way that's not dignified.
It's actually obscene.
Whereas the concert flautist wearing the white tie and tails is behaving in a way that is dignified.
And so if I'm talking about a national artifact from the father of the Constitution, I don't want that to be degraded by being played while a woman jiggles around on stage.
Well, but define dignity, Michael.
Define obscenity, Michael.
No, I don't have to do that.
I don't have to do it because Justice Potter Stewart actually was correct when he said, yes, it is a little tricky to define obscenity, but you know it when you see it.
You do.
We can do that.
We have the right to do that in this country, whether the libs want to admit it or not.
We have the right to use our prudence, use our wisdom of repugnance, to use a phrase from the bioethicist Leon Kass, and just say, you know, look, I can't totally...
There was an article that came out last week.
It said, why are gay same-sex...
Well, I guess those are the same thing.
Why are same-sex incestuous relationships wrong?
There's no possibility of procreation there.
So that bioethical consideration is off the table.
So why is it wrong?
You know, I could give you a pithy enough explanation.
But before I even would be tempted to do that, because it just is wrong.
Because it just is.
Because we all know, deep down in our stomachs, that that is repugnant.
We have a prejudice against that, and that prejudice is good.
Prejudice is not always bad.
Prejudice is how we all survive.
You don't want to be mean or unjust or unfair, but you certainly...
We have to rely on prejudices and instinct and received wisdom.
Or we wouldn't be able to do a damn thing in the world.
If we had to write a fleshed out rationalist post-enlightenment treatise for everything that we do all day long, we would never be able to do anything at all.
Why do we put a lot of safeguards around sex offenders even after they leave prison?
Well, because we know that there's a real risk that they will re-offend.
Speaking of crime and punishment, You've heard about the extremist pro-lifers, the domestic terrorists, the threats to our country that the DOJ and the FBI and the Biden administration are warning about.
Here's a story you probably haven't heard about.
There's a man, a 74-year-old man, who shot an 84-year-old pro-life woman as she was canvassing To end abortion.
The pro-life lady was not violent.
She was not creating a public disturbance.
She was just a sweet little old lady trying to convince people not to kill their babies.
74-year-old lunatic pro-abortion leftist shoots the woman.
Not only is he not in prison right now, Not only is he not facing, one would imagine, a serious punishment.
Life in prison, capital punishment even.
He hasn't even been arrested.
You remember Mark Houck?
We've been talking about him on the show recently.
He's the pro-life guy who was peacefully protesting in front of an abortion clinic.
And some lunatic leftist comes up and starts screaming at his 12-year-old son.
The worst thing Mark Houck did was, I guess, sort of push the guy away from his 12-year-old son.
For that, the FBI shows up with 25-30 agents, rifles drawn, pointed at Mark, pointed at Mark's wife, busts in on the home.
Seven kids there absolutely traumatized from this because of Joe Biden's jack-booted Gestapo thugs.
But a 74-year-old pro-abortion guy shoots an 84-year-old pro-life lady because she's pro-life.
The FBI's got more important things to do.
The FBI's got to go raid the former president's house.
The FBI's got to go point guns around the homes of seven poor little kids.
They won't even take a look at that story.
Why?
Because there are two justice systems.
And meanwhile, you have privileged, famous, rich, elite, get away with whatever they want, libs, claiming to be oppressed in this country.
And then you've got pro-lifers.
There was an 18-year-old conservative who was just murdered, was just run over with a car by a 40-something-year-old insane Democrat.
The Democrat gets a $50,000 bond.
He can then go free.
That's it.
That's the way that criminal justice actually works in America.
Speaking of the FBI intimidating pro-lifers, there's another one.
I promise you, most of you out there have not heard about this story.
The FBI is harassing another pro-life group.
This from Mary Margaret Olihan, reporting it in Daily Signal.
Pro-life sidewalk group, Pro-life Action Ministries, was just intimidated by more FBI thugs.
Two FBI agents showed up to question a pro-life activist who was praying outside of Planned Parenthood in St.
Paul.
So the FBI shows up, and they're talking about that guy Mark Houck.
They're talking about the way that pro-lifers are being...
Targeted in this country.
And then the FBI shows up there again.
You've got genuine threats to the country.
BLM burning the country down for eight months.
Antifa showing up all the time.
Democrats murdering 18-year-old Republicans for being Republican.
You've got assassination attempts on conservative justices on the Supreme Court.
You've got Republicans being harassed everywhere they go.
You've got this, that, and the other thing.
The FBI is only focused on the pro-lifers.
Harassing the pro-lifers.
Which makes me blame the agents.
I say this just like I said it yesterday.
Yes, they're good people who work for the FBI and they do good work.
Certainly they did in the past.
These days, who knows what the FBI is up to other than this kind of targeting.
At this point, though, I blame the agents.
These two agents should not have gone out there.
They should refuse these orders.
Very often at schools, people will come up to me, or any speeches I give, people will come up and say, it's the same question.
Every speech without fail.
Michael, how do I know when to stand up for my beliefs and how to just sort of go along to get along, get another paycheck, make it through another day, get my degree, get my promotion, and then I can be conservative?
And it goes back to that issue I was talking about earlier.
It goes back to prudence.
It's not just that, you know, you show up freshman year of high school and your teacher's a little bit liberal and you walk into class with a MAGA hat on, blowing a trumpet, and you say, we will destroy all of you libs, you know, like Khrushchev banging your shoe on the lectern at the UN. We will destroy you!
We will bury you!
No, you don't need to do that.
You don't need to be totally flamboyant with your views all of the time.
But you can't just roll over.
You can't just give up.
If you just constantly cave on your beliefs or refuse to stand up for them, then okay, you get through freshman year, but then you'll stand up for it when you're an upperclassman.
Except you've got to get into a good college.
Okay.
But then when you're in college, you'll stand up for your beliefs.
Oh, except you've got to get that good job, don't you?
Okay.
So once you get the job, though, then you'll say, well, except now you're a first year at this job, you should probably keep your head down.
Once you get that promotion, though, that's okay, until you're in middle management.
Wow, but now, you know, look, you got a family to feed.
You probably can't rock the boat too much.
All right, well, once you're the CEO, and then, well, okay, you became a CEO. That's great.
But you're responsible to your shareholders or to your investors.
Okay, and then eventually you die, and you've never done anything.
And you've never stood up for any of your beliefs, and you've gone along to get along.
Prudence is a good way to measure when things have gone too far.
When the president...
Is using his political appointees to send federal law enforcement out, almost exclusively to harass good, peaceful people doing good, peaceful things, standing up for the most vulnerable people in society, little tiny babies, who are being murdered en masse by the libs with the encouragement and the funding of the Biden administration.
When you see something that's so clearly happening, Good versus evil.
You've got to stand up.
And you cannot say, well, I was just following orders.
No, this is it.
This is the time.
This is the time, FBI agents.
For those FBI agents listening to this show, this is the time.
Refuse the orders.
Have integrity.
You might lose your pension.
I don't know.
You might lose some money.
But I promise you, you're going to feel a lot better than in 10 years, 20 years.
Hey, Daddy!
Hey, Grandpa!
What did you do in the FBI? Oh, I pointed guns at the children of pro-life advocates.
Because my boss, the President, was just maniacally focused on killing babies.
So that's what I did, Sonny.
I served my country.
That's right.
I harassed little grannies in the street.
And I ignored it when the pro-life grannies got shot by the lunatic pro-abortion people.
I just spent all my time defending the right, quote-unquote, of the pro-abortion people to kill more babies.
That's what I did.
Aren't you proud of me, Sonny?
No.
No, they won't be proud of you.
They won't be proud of you at all.
Speaking of the Biden administration and death, Joe Biden just stepped in it again, as he often does.
Joe Biden.
And by it, I mean his mouth.
He put his foot right in his mouth.
He was at an event, the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
And as he was doing his slappy on the back, simpering, hey there, buddy, kind of politician routine, he asked where one member of Congress is, a woman named Jackie.
And bizarrely and unfortunately, Jackie is dead.
And so many of you know so much about this as well, and you're committed.
And I want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan elected officials like Representative Gover, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative Jackie, are you here?
Where's Jackie?
I didn't think she was going to be here.
Where's Jackie?
So if you look at the people who were involved in this issue, the only person named Jackie would be Jackie Walorsky, a Republican member of Congress from Indiana who died a month ago in a car accident.
If Joe Biden were your grandpa, or Joe Biden were some aged member of your family, and he said this sort of thing, you would not be surprised.
You know, sometimes people who are senile and in decline, they forget these things, they forget who's died, and they don't keep up on the news.
But Joe Biden is the President of the United States.
Joe Biden should be following the news, at least.
Joe Biden should know when a member of Congress dies.
These are the people that he's got to work with or fight against to get legislation passed.
This is not just, oh, well, you know, look, there's a lot of members of Congress.
Well, the president's got a lot on his plate.
Yeah, that was a pretty big news story when she died.
And members of Congress are pretty important to the president in both parties.
He should know this.
And the fact that he doesn't, Again, I think buttresses my thesis, that Joe Biden is not running the show.
There's a big debate, even on the right.
Is Joe Biden really in charge?
And people whose opinions I respect came out and they said, no, I think Joe Biden is in charge.
You know, the buck stops with the president.
Okay, we can't just blame it on some shadowy cabal.
I think he really is giving the calls.
No.
I think everything that we've seen in the last year and a half, or more than a year and a half now, shows that Joe Biden is not really the one making these calls.
Actually, the evidence of this, by the way, is that when Joe Biden makes a The powers that be want.
Then the White House comes out and clarifies and changes the policy.
You saw this especially when Joe Biden said, yeah, we're going to defend Taiwan.
We're going to defend Taiwan.
And then the White House came out and said, no, no, no, we support the one-child policy.
One-child policy.
The one-China policy.
Not the one-child policy, which not even China supports anymore.
Well, what is the White House?
You see this report.
The White House said, right, it's using a literary tool to say that, referring to this building as the power that is making these decisions.
But Joe Biden is supposed to be the executive who represents that power.
So how is Joe Biden at odds ever with the White House?
Well, they're both metonyms, and they're supposed to be the same metonym, but they're not.
Why?
Because Joe Biden is obviously not I don't find that confusing.
I mean, I think many people can speak to sometimes when you have someone top of mind.
They're a top of mind.
Exactly that.
And it is also, if you put it into the context, it's not like it happened outside of context, right?
It happened at an event where we were calling out the champions, congressional champions in particular, of this issue, this important issue when it comes to food insecurity.
He was at an event, you all saw, you all watched, which is why you're asking the question, right, where he was calling out It's not
unusual when senile people...
Get confused and think that dead people are still alive.
That is not unusual.
If you've ever had a parent or a grandparent who's fallen into senility, you want to say, hey, where's Aunt Josephine?
Grandma, Aunt Josephine died 20 years ago.
That's not unusual.
It's unusual when the President of the United States does that.
It's unusual when we've got a completely senile president.
And it's just this gaslighting that drives me so crazy.
It's actually somewhat similar to what we're seeing from the media with the Lizzo-James Madison flute saga, where Lizzo is allowed to play this flute and jiggles on stage in this sort of pornographic costume, this obscene, grotesque sort of performance.
He goes...
I'm playing James Madison's flute, the father of a constitution.
Look at my little jiggling wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.
And then you say, oh, that's not, that doesn't seem right.
And you say, why?
What's wrong with that?
What's wrong?
Why are you so offended by that?
You're obviously trying to offend me.
The whole performance is offensive and gross and grotesque as a historical matter and just as an aesthetic matter.
It's just gross.
And you're doing it intentionally to get a rise out of me.
And then when you do get a rise out of me, you gaslight me.
You say, why is that so offensive?
What's so wrong?
It's like they're just standing there like, hey, hey, not touching, not touching.
They're moving their hands right one inch from your face.
Not touching, not touching.
And then you smack their hand away.
They say, why'd you hit me?
Come on, are you so triggered?
No, you're obviously trying to provoke me and get a rise out of me.
No, you're gaslighting me about it the whole time.
That's what I find.
I find it even more offensive than...
Then Joe Biden calling out a dead Congress lady's name.
Yeah, he's senile, okay?
It's weird, it's sad, but I find it much more offensive when you gaslight me about it.
I find it much more offensive, even than when Lizzo does this grotesque display with James Madison's flute.
I find it much more offensive when you then gaslight me and say, why?
What's so wrong?
What's wrong with that?
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Speaking of Democrats downplaying unpleasant things, John Fetterman, who is in a neck-and-neck race with Dr.
Oz, John Fetterman is a radical left Democrat.
He said infamously that if he had a magic wand, he could change whatever he wanted to change about society.
The thing that he would do is he would let murderers out of prison.
That's not out of context.
I'm not speaking hyperbolically.
That's actually what he said.
John Fetterman, who never held a real job in his whole life, who presents himself as a working class hero in his hoodie, and he's a tough looking guy.
He was actually just on his parents' allowance.
And when I say allowance, I'm not talking about the $2 a week you got as a kid.
I'm talking about $50,000 plus per year to support his sort of vagabond, derelict lifestyle.
John Fetterman just removed a certain section of his website.
But because the internet is forever, we got to see it.
John Fetterman has just removed the Black Lives Matter section of the website, which is really, really weird.
Does John Fetterman no longer believe that Black Lives Matter?
Is John Fetterman admitting that Black Lives Matter is a sort of distasteful organization that's obviously just a criminal enterprise anyway, and not one to tout your support of when you're running for Senate?
Or, and this is most important, Does John Fetterman still support the BLM organization, but does John Fetterman realize that BLM is not a popular organization among actual voters?
Because what we've been told by the press, by the ruling class, is, oh, BLM is wonderful, it's the voice of the people.
Oh, all the good people support BLM. I don't know.
I know a lot of people of all races, all around the country, both political parties.
I know very few people.
Some, but few people who actively support BLM. Because BLM is a criminal organization that burned the country down and killed dozens of people and embezzled tens of millions of dollars.
And it's just a total shakedown racket that would make the five families in New York blush.
During their heyday, the mafia in New York Was not as brazen as the BLM organization over the past several years.
And what the Democrats are admitting, they're implicitly admitting this.
They don't want to actually say it out loud in these words.
But what John Fetterman is admitting by taking that off his website is, yeah, people don't really like this.
And it's just like the mob, actually, which is, you know, when the enforcers come to your door, they say, hey, do you have a problem with Don Luigi over there?
You say, no, no, I love Don Luigi.
Oh, he's great.
Oh, you guys do wonderful work.
Please, here, have a little bit more money, please.
It's just like when the TV cameras show up.
They say, hey, you love BLM, right?
Oh, yeah, I love BLM. Oh, BLM's great.
It's my favorite organization.
I changed my social media picture to a black square.
Please, take more money.
Here, you can have some more money.
During the riots in LA, businesses were posting signs on their door.
And they'd say, we're black people.
Please pass over us, agents of death.
Go get whitey.
You know what else they would post?
The receipts from their donations to BLM. Just like the mafia.
Worse than the mafia.
And, as in the case of that mafia, when you get people actually in a private conversation, you say, you really support BLM? I say, well...
You know, they have killed people.
You know, well, it does seem kind of like a shakedown.
Well, that lady who founded it, why does she have so many multi-million dollar mansions and some of the nicest property in America?
No, the Democrats know that that doesn't play in public.
And so, as they head into the midterms, it makes me feel as though there is at least some integrity left to our electoral system.
The Democrats don't want to completely alienate the voters.
But they're trying to downplay all of this.
Do not be fooled.
Do not be fooled.
The fact that it took him this long to take BLM off his campaign website.
Now we're, what are we, 40 days outside of the election?
Tells you everything that you need to know.
Speaking of the libs trying to control the internet.
YouTube removed that viral speech of Georgia Maloney.
You know that great Georgia Maloney clip where...
She comes out.
We played it on the show a couple of days ago.
This is the new Prime Minister of Italy.
And she says, why is it that you're not allowed to have a family anymore?
Why is the family the enemy?
Why is the nation the enemy?
Why do the liberals want to take away all of our identities as a woman, as a mother, as a Christian, as an Italian?
They want to do it because they want us all to be just kind of globalist consumers.
Parent number one.
Parent number two.
They want us to be birthing person.
They want us to flood our countries with foreign nationals, with no limit whatsoever.
Get rid of all our traditions, all of our culture.
It was a beautiful, beautiful speech.
Articulate, serious, addressing the real problem.
So of course YouTube took it down.
Why did they take it down?
Well, they said it violated community guidelines.
Lizzo Jiggling around more than half naked.
That doesn't violate community guidelines.
BLM threatening people.
Forget BLM. Elected Democrats threatening Republicans.
That doesn't violate community guidelines.
Doctors, quacks encouraging little kids to chop off their genitals.
That doesn't violate community guidelines.
But a modest defense of the family and the nation, that does.
Now, YouTube had to reverse course.
They had to put it back up.
This is censorship, again, not just of a basic idea, not just of total common sense, but of an elected head of state.
This is the second time we've seen this, and I haven't seen this part of it discussed.
When YouTube and Google and Facebook and Twitter kicked Donald Trump off the internet, that was a major political attack.
That was a restructuring of our political order, because you had a handful of oligarchs, globalist oligarchs, Saying, hey, we're going to determine who gets to be in the public square.
Including Whether or not the duly elected sitting president of the United States gets to be in the public square.
What that means is, screw your democracy.
Oh, you think you have a democracy?
You think you have a republic?
No.
Because in a republic, the public square is how you govern yourself.
You debate things, you deliberate, you persuade your fellow citizens.
Not only are we not going to let you, regular private citizen, into the public square, that guy that you elected...
Through your democratic processes?
Yeah, he's not going to be allowed in either.
Because we rule you.
It was a shocking power grab by the globalist oligarchy against the American people and our Republican form of government.
And now they just did it again with Georgia Maloney.
Right after she got elected.
They reversed course for now.
The blowback was too intense.
They are going to keep doing this.
This is how I know this woman is great.
It's why I like this woman.
Then I went on and I listened to what she said, and I listened to the people that she was quoting, G.K. Chesterton, Roger Scruton, all of these wonderful—and I thought, wow, this is a serious woman.
She really knows what she believes.
She's really gotten things done.
But forget all of that.
The fact that YouTube and the sort of globalist oligarchs hate her, it takes me 80% of the way to say, I bet she's terrific.
This is how I feel about Republican politicians, too.
Someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example— She gets pilloried.
People call her all sorts of names.
They attack her.
She's not couth.
She's not this.
She didn't go to some fancy school.
She doesn't speak in the most eloquent way a lot of the time.
Oh, please.
This is from the conservatives.
Forget about the liberals who hate her guts.
But even the conservatives, oh, we don't need to associate with her.
I don't know.
She wasn't precise in how she described.
Okay, sure.
I'll take all of those criticisms.
I still like her.
Why do I like her?
Because the libs...
They despise her.
And they seem to despise her for all the right reasons.
It's very easy to say Marjorie Taylor Greene, she's so awful, she's so terrible.
It's very hard to point to the thing that she did that's so singularly bad.
What is it?
What is the thing that she said or did that's so singularly awful that conservatives should dump her?
I don't know.
I haven't found it.
If you find it, let me know.
With Maloney.
Oh, no.
She's a fascist.
Is she?
Okay.
What did she say or do that's so bad?
Oh, you don't.
No, you don't.
Look, it's Italy.
You don't understand.
No, I said, look, I speak Italian.
I'm Italian.
Show me.
I'll translate for you.
Show me the line that she said that's so bad.
And it's just all this insinuation.
And it's all this implication.
But I can't find what it is.
As far as I'm concerned, this is my rule of thumb.
If the libs hate you and are out to get you and try to silence you and do their best to kill your career, I'm going to start at least from the position of assuming you're a pretty great person.
And before we go with Maloney, I've got to get to one little clip.
I know we'll run a little over, but I don't care.
I'm going to get to one clip with Maloney.
Maloney comes out.
Emmanuel Macron attacked Maloney.
So the head of France attacks the new head of Italy and says she's irresponsible and she's this and she's that.
And instead of just sitting back and taking it, here's what Maloney said.
Emmanuel Macron described us as...
As cynics, irresponsible, disgusting.
And the Italian press said, did you hear what Macron said?
He said, we're irresponsible.
What a shame.
The irresponsible Emmanuel Macron are those who bombed Libya because they were concerned that Italy would get good energy concessions from Gaddafi.
And left us with the chaos of illegal immigration that we are now confronting.
The cynics, Emmanuel Macron, are the French who sent the gendarmerie to return the immigrants back to Italy when those same illegal immigrants crossed from Italy into France.
And most of all, and because things have to be said right, and she goes on about the disgusting, okay.
I love this.
This is like when you go to prison and they say on the first day of prison you gotta go punch the biggest, scariest looking guy you can see there.
You gotta go in, sort of guns blazing, swinging, you're ready to go and establish who you are.
That's what she's doing.
This woman was elected two or three days ago.
And she goes in and she says, I'm not going to take any of this crap from anybody.
And she's setting the tone and she's not backing down.
And I say, thank goodness.
Thank goodness.
In this moment where people are on the fence and they're squishing and they say, oh, I don't know, it's now the moment.
Maybe I'll just follow orders.
Maybe I'll just go get by.
No.
Now is the time, folks.
Okay, now is the time.
The attacks on our traditional way of life have become so unbelievably intense.
So many of us never thought we'd get this far down the slippery slope.
Transing the kids, desecrating all of our revered national figures.
Pornography everywhere, radical redefinitions of the most basic institutions.
Now is the time.
Now is the time for the member block, okay?
The rest of the show is continuing now.
We moved Woke Wednesday to Thursday because I was on the road.
So we've got a video from the New York Times.
I have not seen it yet.
I have been told this, even by New York Times standards, is really, really horrific.
