0:00

Yesterday, a federal judge sentenced

0:02

former Proud Boys leader Enrique

0:04

Tarrio to 22 years in

0:08

federal prison for the seditious

0:10

conspiracy that he supposedly

0:13

perpetrated on January

0:16

6th, the day that the light of democracy

0:18

almost vanished from the world. January

0:21

6th, a day on which

0:23

Tarrio not only did not enter the

0:26

US Capitol, but on which he wasn't

0:28

even in Washington, DC. Nonetheless,

0:32

Judge Timothy Kelly said Tarrio's

0:35

absence from the alleged insurrection,

0:37

to which none of the supposed

0:40

insurrectionists brought weapons, quote, does

0:42

not do anything to

0:44

detract from the severity of his

0:47

conduct. Even from

0:49

many miles away, Tarrio objected

0:51

to the certification of the obviously rigged So

0:54

now the government is going to imprison him

0:56

for more than two decades.

0:58

Tarrio did not commit any violent

1:01

crimes. He's not even accused

1:03

of committing a violent crime. He

1:06

wasn't even in the city. 22 years.

1:10

The average sentence for rape in the United

1:12

States is less than 15 years, meaning

1:15

that Tarrio faces 50% more

1:18

jail time than the average rapist.

1:21

But really, he probably faces more than

1:23

that.

1:24

Because while right-wingers have

1:26

had the book thrown at them in recent years, most

1:29

non-political prisoners don't spend

1:31

anywhere near their full sentence behind

1:33

bars.

1:35

Do you know the average time served by

1:37

convicted human traffickers in the

1:39

United States?

1:41

Less than 10 and a half years.

1:43

About the time on average served

1:45

by child traffickers? 16 years.

1:50

How about the average time served

1:53

by murderers in the good old US

1:55

of A?

1:56

Just 17 and a half years.

1:58

But the guy who raped him? the right-wing drinking

2:01

club is getting 22 years

2:03

for sending politically incorrect texts

2:06

and social media posts.

2:09

Is texting out protest messages

2:11

from a hotel room

2:12

really worse than rape,

2:14

human trafficking, child trafficking,

2:17

and murder?

2:18

Objectively, no.

2:21

But subjectively,

2:22

from the perspective of a regime that is struggling

2:25

to maintain legitimacy among

2:27

a public that on both sides, it's not

2:29

just the conservatives, on the left too,

2:31

trusts the system less and

2:33

less each year, yes,

2:37

it's much worse. And our rulers

2:40

are going to make sure that it is punished

2:42

accordingly. From that perspective,

2:45

Tarrio should count his blessings

2:47

for the sentence he got.

2:49

22 years is pretty rough.

2:51

But the prosecutions aren't over. And 22

2:54

years is a walk in the park compared

2:57

to the 700 years that Donald

2:59

Trump is facing.

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We'll get to that in a moment. First, though, while

3:47

the

3:49

ruling party is arresting

3:51

and imprisoning the political dissidents

3:54

with these huge sentences

3:56

for meandering around the

3:58

Capitol on January 6th.

3:59

often being led in by police officers,

4:02

sometimes not even being in the city on January 6th. Well,

4:04

that's going on.

4:06

That same

4:08

ruling elite is also preparing

4:10

to rig the election by doing

4:12

COVID. Again, the exact same thing that

4:14

they did last time. Only here

4:17

there's a little twist.

4:18

While Lionsgate is

4:21

leading Hollywood in bringing the masks back, while

4:24

Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Rutgers University,

4:27

while they're beginning to bring the masks back,

4:29

you're hearing some talk of more vaccines,

4:31

more masks.

4:33

Dactivacchi goes on CNN

4:35

and shockingly is grilled

4:37

by the CNN host

4:40

over the failures of his predictions

4:43

and the inadequacy of

4:45

the public health measures that he was peddling

4:48

for years during COVID. Brett

4:51

Stevens in the Times talked about Cochrane, put

4:53

that on the screen. The most rigorous

4:55

and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies

4:58

conducted on the efficacy of masks for

5:00

reducing the spread of respiratory illness, including

5:02

COVID-19, was published last

5:05

month. Its conclusions said Tom Jefferson,

5:07

the Oxford epidemiologist who is

5:09

the lead author, were unambiguous. There

5:11

is just no evidence that they masks

5:14

make any difference. He told the journalist,

5:16

Mayand Damasi, full stop. But

5:19

wait, hold on. What about the N95

5:21

masks as opposed to the lower quality? Surgical

5:24

or cloth masks makes no difference.

5:26

None of it, he said. Well, what about the studies

5:28

that initially persuaded policymakers

5:31

to impose mask mandates? They were

5:33

convinced by non-randomized studies,

5:35

flawed observational studies. How

5:38

do we get beyond that finding of

5:40

that particular review?

5:43

Yeah, but there are other studies, Michael,

5:45

that show at an individual level for

5:47

individual. When you're talking about the effect

5:50

on the

5:51

epidemic or the pandemic as a whole,

5:54

the data are less strong. Now,

5:57

listen here. If we're talking about stopping... the

6:00

virus, then it didn't do Jack

6:02

Diddley squat. But on an individual

6:05

level, somehow magically they work.

6:08

They don't work across populations

6:10

or in studies or in your

6:12

fancy science books. But

6:15

in my feelings for individuals

6:17

with the magic spells and the witch

6:19

doctors, then it totally, totally

6:22

works. Pretty, pretty weak defense

6:24

to a devastating report

6:26

read by a CNN anchor. What's going

6:29

on here? Is CNN finally

6:31

coming clean? Are they going to be honest now? Are

6:33

they going to give up the nonsense about COVID?

6:36

No,

6:37

no, to me, this interaction

6:39

was similar to that scene in Star

6:41

Wars when Darth Vader is

6:44

walking on the Death Star and he's there's that

6:46

lieutenant who messes something up. And

6:49

Darth Vader says, you have

6:51

failed me for the last time,

6:54

lieutenant. That's what

6:56

was going on here. Dr.

6:59

Fauci has failed the

7:01

liberal establishment for the last time. Dr.

7:04

Fauci has no credibility. Dr. Fauci

7:07

has become a punchline. And

7:09

perhaps most importantly,

7:11

Dr. Fauci is now out of the government.

7:13

He's no longer politically necessary

7:16

for the liberals. He's no longer politically

7:18

useful to them.

7:20

He's a reminder

7:22

that COVID was predicated

7:24

on a bunch of incompetence at best

7:26

and lies more likely.

7:29

Dr. Fauci has to go. He

7:31

was useful to the liberals for a time, but

7:33

now he's got to go and they

7:35

don't need to prop him up. Dr. Fauci needed

7:38

to seem credible. He needed to have the authority

7:41

of the entire ruling class while he was

7:43

running his part of the NIH. Now

7:46

he doesn't. Now they can hang him out to

7:48

dry. And

7:49

they're going to get some new guy in there, but they're going to keep

7:51

doing COVID. They're ramping this

7:54

up already and it's a gradual process

7:56

and it's right on time. COVID-19 occurred the

7:58

year before.

7:59

before 2020,

8:00

the big election.

8:03

COVID-23 is showing up right on time to

8:08

rig the 2024 election because COVID was

8:10

the indispensable necessary

8:12

ingredient to change all of the election

8:14

rules, to open up widespread mail-in

8:16

balloting, to open

8:19

up the prospect of massive

8:21

ballot harvesting, to do things that even Barack

8:23

Obama 10 years ago admitted open

8:25

up the system to voter fraud, but

8:28

it benefited the Democrats to do it in 2020, it's

8:30

benefiting the Democrats to do it now. They're

8:33

not giving up

8:34

on their preposterous, unfalsifiable,

8:37

silly arguments.

8:38

They're gonna keep pushing the imminent

8:40

climate apocalypse.

8:42

World's gonna end in 18 months if you don't stop

8:44

driving your truck. They're gonna keep

8:46

pushing the January 6th insurrection

8:49

myth. They're doing it, obviously. They're throwing these

8:51

guys in prison for multiple decades.

8:54

They're just gonna be a little smarter about it,

8:57

and the people who have lost all of their credibility,

9:00

those guys are gonna be put out to pasture. I

9:02

really hope that the next guy

9:04

to come in and run the COVID

9:07

scam is a diminutive

9:10

New Yorker of either Italian or Jewish

9:12

background, hopefully from Brooklyn or Queens,

9:15

because I've spent a long time working on that accent,

9:17

and so I really hope that I can carry it over, but

9:20

there's gonna be a new guy and it's gonna be the exact

9:22

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10:45

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10:48

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10:50

Joe Biden is masking up.

10:53

President Biden tested negative last night

10:55

for COVID-19 and tested negative again

10:58

today. He's not experiencing

11:00

any symptoms. As far as the steps

11:02

he is taking, since the president was

11:05

with the first lady yesterday, he will be

11:07

masking while indoors and around

11:09

people in alignment with CDC

11:11

guidance. And as

11:13

has been the practice in the past, the

11:16

president will remove his mask when sufficiently

11:18

distanced from others indoors

11:20

and while outside as well.

11:24

So we've just heard from liberal news outlets from CNN that

11:26

the masks do not work according to scientists reported

11:30

by the establishment journalists, the masks do not work.

11:33

And that's why Biden's gonna wear the

11:35

mask again. What is this?

11:39

Just as with Fauci, throwing Fauci to the wolves,

11:41

that was a limited hangout.

11:45

A limited hangout is this political strategy.

11:47

It's often associated with the intelligence community where

11:51

when you're just caught, when they've just

11:54

got you dead to rights,

11:56

then you give your adversaries

11:58

a little bit.

11:59

You chop off, you know, like an infected

12:02

limb. You give them just a little bit so

12:05

that you can save the rest of your body. So they give

12:07

them Fauci, they save the rest of the liberal

12:09

apparatus and the COVID regime. Well,

12:11

what's going on here is a similar kind of

12:13

phenomenon. It's just a little test.

12:17

Just like with Lionsgate, it was a little test.

12:20

If there's a headline that a major company is bringing

12:22

back masks,

12:23

are people gonna be cool with that? Some

12:25

are gonna criticize, but is it, are we gonna, okay. All

12:28

right, we're gonna bring it back a little bit in Hollywood.

12:30

How about on campus? Can we do campus again? Okay.

12:33

Yeah, we'll do it some random college in Atlanta,

12:36

no one's ever heard of. Okay, and we're gonna, and you

12:38

know what? We're even gonna say that we're gonna have the masks for two

12:40

weeks to slow the spread. They use the exact

12:42

same line.

12:43

Just, they said 14 days, not two weeks, 14 days

12:46

to slow the spread. Okay,

12:48

that's when we will try Rutgers. Okay, this is

12:50

good. What if we have the president just personally mask

12:53

up? Is that gonna, okay. All

12:56

right, even it's in the face of all of the

12:58

scientific evidence and our experience of the last three,

13:01

four years. Okay, now

13:03

let's do it in the media. News report,

13:06

Whoopi Goldberg has COVID. Why

13:08

she even tested for this? I don't know. I

13:11

do know it's because they're bringing COVID back and

13:14

the political operatives are the ones pushing

13:16

this sort of thing and the lemmings

13:18

are going along with it. She tests

13:20

positive for COVID. They announce it on

13:22

the show. Here's the reaction of the audience.

13:25

As you can see, Whoopi

13:27

is not here. She has COVID.

13:31

Yes, it's back. It's back. But

13:34

she's on the men. She's on the tail end and she probably

13:36

back this week, but sorry, she's not here. For

13:38

those of you who are looking forward to seeing her.

13:41

Oh no, now I don't know what

13:43

impelled that reaction. At talk

13:45

shows like this, very often there are lights that'll

13:48

go on cheer, applaud, you know, that

13:50

sort of thing. I don't think they put a light on. I

13:52

think that was the natural reaction of the audience. Okay,

13:54

now that's being broadcast for everybody. COVID

13:56

is bad. Initially COVID was very

13:59

scary. It was going to kill us all.

14:00

Then we realized COVID was much less

14:02

dangerous than anybody suggested it was. Then

14:05

we found out that all the precautions didn't

14:07

really do anything. Then we found out the vaccines didn't

14:09

really work. But now we're back

14:11

in the cycle. Now we're back to COVID is really dangerous.

14:14

Oh no, whoopi Goldberg has COVID.

14:17

She'll be back soon, but it's

14:20

back. That's

14:22

the announcement. That's the declaration. So now

14:24

we've got it in business. We've got it in

14:26

Hollywood. We've got it in the news media. We've

14:28

got it on campus. We've got it at the White

14:30

House.

14:32

Most sectors of society have

14:36

bought back into the COVID narrative. And

14:39

so this will build

14:40

up until the

14:41

election. And it's not going to stop with

14:44

the masks and it's not going to stop with the social distancing,

14:46

which was also debunked. They

14:48

want you to get

14:49

another booster shot. Quick

14:52

if you will, who needs to get a booster

14:54

and when? So

14:57

all of us need boosters. So six

14:59

months of Asian up, we're going to have boosters

15:01

by the end of this month, hopefully,

15:03

and those will protect. We believe very

15:05

strongly against these new versions of the virus.

15:09

They believe very strongly. So

15:12

inject your six month old with this

15:15

experimental drug that didn't

15:17

do any of the things they told us it would do. Didn't

15:19

stop people from catching COVID. Didn't stop people from

15:21

spreading COVID. Was not nearly as safe

15:23

as they told us it was. There were such

15:25

serious side effects that they had to shut down the vaccines

15:28

for different periods of time. They

15:29

had to deny the side effects

15:32

like myocarditis, pericarditis, the

15:35

nerve damage, really

15:37

bad side effects, blood clots, obviously in the Johnson

15:39

and Johnson and others.

15:42

And then it didn't work. Remember, it didn't actually

15:44

do it. So they had to change the script. They said, well, no, the

15:46

vaccines weren't supposed to prevent you from

15:48

catching COVID. It was to mitigate

15:50

the risk of death. But you know, look, we've

15:52

all seen the tapes a million times.

15:55

They told us that it was going to stop us from catching COVID. they

16:00

had egg on their face, but this doctor says, hey,

16:02

don't worry, I feel really good about this one. I

16:05

feel really good. And you know

16:07

what?

16:08

People are gonna get it.

16:10

People are gonna get this stupid booster.

16:13

A lot of people are gonna get it.

16:15

Because it's just like every

16:17

other

16:19

pseudo scientific liberal

16:21

political operation.

16:24

Anything that happens is

16:28

said to be an argument for

16:30

going along with it.

16:32

The vaccines work? Oh,

16:34

good, everybody's gotta get one.

16:37

The vaccines don't work? Well, you better get your

16:39

booster.

16:40

Yeah, because the first one didn't work, so you gotta get your booster.

16:44

Climate change is

16:46

happening. It's gonna kill us all. The earth

16:48

is getting much hotter.

16:50

It's really hot in the summer, so that's

16:52

climate change.

16:54

Oh, it's cold actually when it was supposed to be hot.

16:56

Well, that's climate change too. Well, actually

16:58

the climate hasn't really changed all that much. I know we're in

17:01

this plateau, this stasis right now. That's

17:03

the evidence of climate change.

17:05

Oh, there was a storm. There

17:08

was a hurricane in Florida. We've never seen one

17:10

of those as climate change. Anything

17:12

that happens, anything, is

17:15

taken to be evidence. And

17:18

people go along with this

17:20

because they've reached their conclusion

17:22

and they backfill

17:23

the evidence. And also in this case, because

17:26

it's just so politically helpful to Democrats

17:28

to do COVID in a way that it can't be

17:30

politically helpful to Republicans. One,

17:33

because Democrats are just much better at rigging

17:36

elections by stuffing the ballot box. And

17:38

this has been true for a hundred years. FDR

17:41

and LBJ used to joke about this.

17:44

No one ever even accuses Republicans

17:46

of doing that. The accusation that comes from the Democrats

17:48

is that Republicans steal elections by kicking

17:51

people off the voter rolls,

17:53

which I don't think is fair or true. But

17:56

that's the best accusation they can make against

17:58

us for rigging elections.

17:59

The accusation that we make against them that they even joke

18:02

about is that they rig the elections by stuffing

18:04

the ballot box and filling up the voter

18:06

rolls with dead people, with illegal

18:09

aliens, with voters who have never even seen

18:11

their ballot. And the other structural reason

18:13

why the

18:14

lockdowns and the widespread mail-ins

18:16

are always going to help the Democrats more than the Republicans

18:19

is the Democrats run the cities.

18:21

It's much easier to have a political machine in a city.

18:24

And two, because Democrats

18:26

live in the cities and Republicans tend to live in the country,

18:29

Democrats can hit up three old

18:31

age homes and get about a bazillion ballots

18:34

for their candidate

18:35

through ballot harvesting and mail-ins

18:38

in the time it takes a Republican to go to

18:40

five houses in the country. The geography

18:42

is just, it's just

18:45

completely different.

18:46

So there is not enough time

18:48

for the Republicans to ballot harvest properly.

18:52

And so because of that, because it gives the Democrats

18:54

such a political advantage, you're going to see

18:56

people who maybe they care about COVID, maybe they don't, maybe

18:58

they just do whatever the New York Times tells them to do. They're

19:00

going to go along with it because intuitively

19:03

they know this is going to help

19:05

them. Now, speaking

19:08

of

19:08

climate change and Joy Behar,

19:12

moving off of COVID for a second, moving

19:14

off of January

19:16

6th and 2024.

19:20

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19:22

They blame him for every little thing that's ever happened.

19:25

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to the desert

21:05

for week-long drug-fueled

21:08

bacchanalian orgies that

21:10

culminate in the worship of a giant

21:12

fiery idol. I would

21:14

just avoid that. I'm not saying you're going to get flooded

21:17

out every time you do that but

21:20

it has been known to happen once

21:22

or twice. So

21:24

what's the cause of the flooding according

21:27

to the view?

21:28

Donald Trump. This

21:31

is one of the many tragedies this

21:33

summer due to climate

21:35

change. This

21:39

is the one number one existential problem.

21:41

And it rained three months worth

21:43

over 24 hours. But when I hear Republicans

21:45

say, it's not manmade, it's not about

21:47

fossil fuels. When Trump was president,

21:50

all of that went up. The fossil fuel usage went up.

21:53

The regulation went down. Please don't

21:55

vote for him. I'm begging you. Get him

21:57

out of here. He's so dangerous.

22:00

Droughts, climate change.

22:03

Floods, climate change. Fire,

22:06

that's climate change. Freeze,

22:09

that's climate change. You

22:12

stubbed your toe this morning getting out of bed, that's climate

22:14

change.

22:17

The liberals accuse us

22:19

of worshiping Donald Trump, of being

22:21

an occult following

22:24

the leader Donald Trump. I

22:27

would never attribute the power

22:29

of the weather

22:31

to Donald Trump. I like the guy, obviously. I

22:33

admire him, best president of my lifetime. But

22:37

I don't have such an outsized

22:40

view of his influence that I

22:42

attribute to him the powers of lightning

22:44

and thunder and rain in the desert.

22:48

People who attribute those God-like

22:50

powers to Donald Trump are entirely

22:53

on the left. Now, speaking of God and

22:55

Bernie man, Mike Lee,

22:58

I just got to point out, I've mentioned it a number of

23:00

times before, Mike Lee is just one

23:02

of the best senators we have. He's

23:04

just one of the best politicians. He

23:06

is a super

23:08

smart guy. He's extremely

23:11

principled. He

23:14

comports himself in a responsible way

23:17

and is just all

23:20

around a very serious guy. And

23:23

he just gets it, man. Mike

23:26

Lee's Twitter handle is based Mike

23:28

Lee. And

23:30

I thought it was kind of a joke at first. I didn't actually

23:32

think that it was Mike, but it is.

23:35

And

23:36

you think because he's buttoned up in Mormon

23:39

and a constitutional lawyer and

23:41

really polite and everything, that he's just gonna

23:44

be a wallflower or something, but he's

23:46

not. And especially on social

23:49

and cultural, even religious issues, he

23:51

digs down really deep and doesn't back down.

23:54

So when the news of Bernie

23:56

man came out,

23:59

Mike Lee just...

23:59

He goes, this is not healthy.

24:02

God's judgment is real, which

24:05

is true. Fact check, 100%

24:07

true, show me the lie, you can't do

24:10

it.

24:10

Now what he was responding to, by the way,

24:13

was not just news of the flooding.

24:15

It was news of what was going

24:18

on before the flooding. And this is a family

24:20

show, so I can't

24:22

read much of this on the air.

24:26

This is a headline. The wildest

24:28

Burning Man events. No,

24:32

I actually can't read any of it. It's all just super,

24:36

super weird sex stuff that involves

24:38

like groups of men standing around

24:41

naked and whippings and

24:43

naked oil wrestling and

24:46

hypnosis

24:48

circles. And I am cleaning

24:50

this up so much that you probably have no idea

24:52

what I'm talking about. You can go read it at the Daily Star.

24:56

This is

24:58

really depraved decadent

25:00

stuff.

25:02

And the thing that's most striking

25:04

about it is not that weirdos will go to the desert and

25:06

do weird drugs and sex stuff. It's

25:09

that according to the elite,

25:10

if you go to this, according

25:12

to the elite, if you drive out to

25:15

the middle of the desert and do a ton of drugs

25:17

and have all sorts of weird orgies with

25:20

people of both sexes and everything

25:22

in between, and then worship

25:24

a giant burning idol and

25:26

then go home after nine days, you

25:29

are cultured

25:30

and sophisticated. You're

25:32

really, you're avant garde. You're

25:35

progressive. You're thinking ahead of all those

25:38

rubes.

25:39

And if you go to church, you're in a cult.

25:43

And if you vote for a Republican, you're in a cult.

25:46

You're a weirdo, you're totally crazy. Hypnosis,

25:52

naked, oil wrestling, daily whippings in

25:55

the desert, posh.

25:58

You know, that's just what the elites do.

25:59

That's just what we do. Do you

26:02

remember, Dominique Strauss-Kahn

26:05

was that big financial muckety

26:07

muck. This was now, we're going back like 20 years, but

26:10

it was the first one of these guys

26:12

in my lifetime who was one of the big,

26:15

you know, people at the big institutions

26:17

like the IMF or the

26:19

UM or the WTO or these big massive

26:22

institutions who got caught doing

26:24

really weird sex stuff.

26:27

And his defense was, oh, no, I don't go to

26:29

that many orgies. You know, oh, no, I don't go

26:31

to this many. And then the story came out during

26:33

the Hunter Biden investigation that there's this

26:36

really elite

26:38

sex club in LA. Maybe it's in

26:40

New York too with movie stars

26:42

and politicians and all. Do you remember

26:45

Madison Cawthorn? He basically

26:47

got run out of Congress for blowing

26:50

the whistle on Eyes Wide Shut parties in our

26:52

nation's capital.

26:53

You know the home of our sacred temple of democracy,

26:55

the most pristine light of democracy ever in

26:58

the history of the world.

26:59

And then of course there was Jeffrey Epstein when we found out

27:01

that

27:03

the supposedly conspiratorial QAnon,

27:06

whatever theory that the elites run this

27:08

underage sex ring is not only

27:10

not a conspiracy theory, but they've got their

27:13

own island. And it involves not only

27:15

elected heads of state, but

27:17

also members of the Royal family

27:19

and also huge business leaders.

27:23

And it's all real. It's difficult

27:25

for me to even wrap my head around it now having

27:27

seen all of the evidence for years and years and years now.

27:31

I guess that's just the way it works in this world

27:33

because the devil is the prince of this world. And we

27:35

struggle not against flesh, but against principalities

27:37

and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places.

27:41

And in that world, we talked about a book yesterday

27:43

by the Italian general, Roberto Venocchi

27:46

called the world upside down. In that upside down

27:48

world,

27:49

if you go do weird bacchanalian

27:51

drug orgy idol worship

27:53

stuff in the desert, you're

27:56

normal. And if you just have

27:58

a normal family and you go to church.

27:59

and you're crazy. It's like the Munsters. You

28:02

remember the Munsters TV show? I'm really

28:04

dating myself as

28:05

a millennial who watched reruns in the 90s on Nick

28:07

at Night. But in the Munsters, you got

28:09

all these crazy monsters who are in the family and there's

28:12

one hot blonde girl. And the hot blonde girl

28:14

thinks that she's ugly

28:15

because her environment is such that she's surrounded

28:18

by monsters all the time. And so her perception

28:20

is that she's the abnormal one. And that's

28:22

how I think us conservatives, that's how

28:24

we feel now. I

28:26

think, am I crazy? Am I the crazy one? Cause

28:28

I don't go to the orgies in the desert, maybe. According

28:31

to the wisdom of this world, I guess I am. Speaking of

28:33

faith, faith

28:36

in college education has completely

28:38

collapsed

28:39

in the United States.

28:41

Public opinion polls

28:43

about 10, 13 years ago,

28:46

all had the same story. And the story was

28:49

Americans believe in college. 86% of

28:53

college graduates around 2010, 2012,

28:56

said that college had been a good investment.

28:59

Another survey said 74% of young adults

29:03

viewed college education as very important.

29:05

A third one said 60% of Americans in total, across

29:09

the board, said colleges and universities were

29:11

having a positive impact on the country.

29:13

In 2009, this was right around the time I went to

29:15

college,

29:16

little, I went to college in 2008,

29:19

70% of

29:21

high school graduates went

29:23

straight to college. 70%, that

29:25

was an all time high in American history. And

29:29

this was heralded as a wonderful thing. Now

29:32

the trend is totally reversed.

29:33

And I think that that's a much better thing.

29:36

Now,

29:37

the percentage of young adults who said college

29:39

degree is very important has gone from 74% to 41%. A

29:43

third of Americans say they have confidence in higher

29:45

education. Among zoomers, 45%, almost

29:48

half of zoomers, say a high school diploma, is all you need

29:51

to ensure financial security.

29:53

And almost

29:56

half of American parents

29:58

say they don't want their kid to go to college.

30:00

A total collapse. How

30:02

did that happen?

30:04

Well, what the liberals will say is, this

30:07

is backsliding, this is regressive.

30:09

This is the consequence of the anti-intellectual

30:12

Trump era in which Trump brazenly

30:15

said that he loves the uneducated. We're

30:17

just going to hell in a hand basket.

30:20

No, no, I don't think that's quite the story.

30:23

I think the story is

30:25

that you can't hide a fraud forever.

30:28

Even the best con artist in the world can't

30:32

hide his crimes forever.

30:34

Eventually Bernie Madoff is going to get

30:36

caught.

30:37

And the colleges are Bernie Madoff. It's been

30:39

a complete racket.

30:41

What these colleges

30:43

and the apparatchiks in government who

30:46

boosted these colleges by underwriting all

30:48

of the loans that allowed the tuitions to skyrocket,

30:51

what they promised was that if you come here,

30:53

if you send your kid here, your kid is

30:56

going to turn out better.

30:58

And

30:59

the initial promise, the real

31:01

promise of a liberal education,

31:03

in the good sense of the word liberal, is that

31:06

you learn to make sense of your freedom and

31:08

you steep yourself in the culture of your civilization.

31:11

And you learn how to think about abstract

31:13

things, and then you can go on and get job training

31:15

and have a good career. Then when that

31:18

didn't materialize, the pitch for college

31:20

became, hey, come here and you'll get a good job. Which

31:23

was never what university education was about. It

31:25

was never about job training at all. But they realized,

31:27

okay, well, we're obviously not teaching our kids to think

31:30

in an abstract way. The standards that the

31:32

colleges have absolutely cratered. So, okay,

31:33

well, don't worry, you're at least going to get a job. This is a credential

31:36

that you need to get a good high paying

31:38

job. And then that

31:41

kind of cratered too. Now

31:43

kids go, and all the while, by the way, the

31:46

cost has gone up to now what, a quarter million dollars

31:48

to get a four year college degree at some places?

31:51

And what's the payoff? There

31:53

is no payoff. You don't get

31:55

any intellectual

31:57

or spiritual payoff. You don't even

31:59

get... a financial payoff. It's

32:02

just a big scam. Oh, and by the

32:04

way, your kids come out of college hating you

32:06

because the college spends four years undoing everything

32:09

that you spent 18 years trying to instill into your children.

32:12

And because of the way our economy works now, you

32:15

probably didn't get a whole

32:16

ton of time to spend with your children because it's very hard

32:18

to raise a family on one income. So both parents

32:21

now usually have to work. So the kids end up

32:23

getting raised by daycare

32:25

workers and by

32:27

public school teachers from the age of, it used

32:29

to be five, now it's really from the age of three

32:32

or even two. I have friends who have two year olds. They say,

32:34

I'm sending my kid to school now at the age

32:36

of two. And so you've already got such an uphill

32:38

battle

32:40

and then the colleges come and finish it off and the

32:42

parents and the students are saying, enough, what's

32:44

the benefit for? This is the conservative

32:46

consolation,

32:48

which is things

32:50

are really bad and they

32:52

might get worse and they might get even

32:54

worse than that. But

32:56

reality reasserts itself eventually

32:59

in the end. It has to, it is not possible

33:02

to deny reality forever.

33:05

Now speaking of political realities, we've

33:07

got some new poll numbers out on the 24 presidential

33:11

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33:11

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35:04

favorite coming yesterday is from Steven are a

35:06

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35:08

man describes the STDs

35:11

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35:15

maybe burning man was the friends we made along the way

35:18

those friends were The

35:20

new real diseases very very true

35:23

We're talking about poll numbers, let's turn to 2024

35:27

is a poll published by the Wall Street Journal showing

35:29

that Donald Trump is now the top choice of 59% of

35:33

GOP primary voters This

35:36

is up 11 percentage points

35:38

since April According

35:40

to the journal the new survey

35:43

finds what was once a two-man race

35:45

for the nomination has collapsed

35:47

Into a lopsided contest in which

35:49

Trump for now has no formidable

35:52

challenger. I know This

35:54

is going to upset people who

35:56

are campaigning for Ron DeSantis. I

35:59

really like Ron I've gotten to spend a little bit

36:01

of time with him, very impressed with the guy. I

36:03

think he's a terrific governor. Admire him greatly.

36:07

I have noticed, maybe

36:09

this was inevitable,

36:11

some campaigners for Ron DeSantis

36:14

are shooting the messenger here because

36:17

these numbers are not looking great.

36:20

And people are conflating

36:23

two different types

36:25

of discussion of the 2024 race. The

36:28

descriptive discussion and the

36:30

prescriptive discussion.

36:32

So I've made clear, unlike some of my friends

36:34

and colleagues, and I guess basically everybody in conservative

36:36

media, I have no interest

36:40

in endorsing anybody in this

36:42

race.

36:43

I like both of these guys. I like Donald Trump a lot.

36:46

I like Ron DeSantis a lot. I think they got thick skin.

36:48

I think they can duke it out. I like

36:50

primaries. I like when conservatives

36:52

toughen each other up. And there are other candidates too. Vivek,

36:55

obviously, is a friend of mine, and other

36:57

candidates as well.

36:59

It seems to me from the beginning,

37:02

simply a descriptive fact that

37:06

it's been Trump's race from the beginning, that all of the factors

37:09

here, not the least of which is, this is the first time

37:11

since 1892 that we have had a president running for

37:15

a nonconsecutive second term, that it

37:17

was always Trump's race.

37:19

And so I've been pointing this out. And I've

37:22

been pointing out also some flaws, I think, with

37:24

the DeSantis campaign, things that are not helping

37:26

DeSantis. I want to be very clear here. I'm

37:29

not casting a moral judgment

37:32

on the DeSantis campaign or on the Trump campaign.

37:35

Sometimes people have written in and said, Michael, why

37:38

don't you call out the Trump campaign for

37:40

all the mean, nasty, awful things they're doing? Because

37:43

I'm not talking about mean, nasty, awful things,

37:45

period.

37:48

If I were to lambast a campaign

37:51

as a matter of a moral judgment, that

37:53

would be a tantamount to making an endorsement.

37:56

I'm not doing that. I'm describing

37:58

the campaign tactics.

38:00

from the perspective of their efficacy

38:02

in the campaign. And it is an indisputable fact

38:05

that the DeSantis campaign has not been effective.

38:08

And I think there are specific things that they have done

38:11

that have harmed their campaign. I think they've shot

38:13

themselves in the foot in some ways. But even

38:15

beyond that, I think that the circumstances

38:18

of the race have been such that

38:20

it was always gonna be a long shot.

38:23

And it's not that he's out of the race yet.

38:25

It's not that the race is totally over. I

38:28

mean, 59% is a pretty crazy number. It means

38:30

the entire GOP field could drop out

38:32

other than one guy, and it still wouldn't be

38:35

close.

38:36

If

38:38

that fact drives you crazy, then

38:40

you gotta stop paying attention to politics.

38:43

Unless you're an active campaign worker, you

38:45

gotta stop paying. If it drives you crazy to

38:48

watch politics happen, to watch primary

38:50

campaigns

38:52

take place and occur and the ups and the downs,

38:54

then find another hobby. You're

38:58

not gonna affect the race in any way. You're just

39:00

gonna pull your hair out. It's like watching a baseball game

39:02

and screaming at the TV and thinking that if you

39:04

rub your head and pat your belly, then Derek

39:06

Cheater's gonna hit a home run. That's not

39:08

going to happen. You're not gonna

39:11

change the outcome of the game. You're only going to upset

39:14

yourself. The

39:17

Trump campaign has been effective.

39:20

The DeSantis campaign has not been effective. If

39:23

DeSantis wants to turn this around before the Iowa

39:25

caucuses, DeSantis has to

39:28

radically change his campaign.

39:32

And even then it might not work because I

39:34

don't even really blame the campaign or DeSantis that

39:36

much. I just think the circumstances are

39:39

such that this is a primary unlike any we've ever

39:41

seen. But if DeSantis wants to have a shot,

39:43

he has got to radically change

39:46

his campaign.

39:47

59% man,

39:50

that is a really big number. Now,

39:53

turning to the other party,

39:56

there is another potential candidate in the

39:58

race. No, I'm not talking about Bobby Kennedy.

39:59

No, I'm not talking about Marianne Williamson. I'm

40:03

talking about old

40:05

father time himself, the man

40:07

who has run for office consistently

40:10

since what, 1972?

40:13

Just like Joe Biden, actually. Same year

40:15

Biden got elected.

40:17

I'm talking about Bernie Sanders.

40:20

The president has a right

40:22

to be very proud of many of the

40:24

accomplishments that we've achieved in the last

40:26

three years. Unemployment very,

40:28

very low. We brought inflation down. We're

40:31

investing in clean energy. We're

40:33

rebuilding our infrastructure. We have made real progress in a

40:35

number of areas. But the reality is

40:37

that today, 60% of our people

40:39

are living paycheck to paycheck.

40:41

We

40:45

have massive levels of income and wealth

40:47

inequality. Three people or more

40:49

wealth in the bottom half of America. Our

40:52

health care system is a total

40:54

disaster. 85 million people

40:57

uninsured, uninsured, underinsured, while

40:59

the insurance companies make huge profits. The cost

41:02

of pharmaceutical drugs, prescription

41:04

drugs, sky high. Bernie

41:07

Sanders traveling up

41:09

to New Hampshire, delivering

41:11

a speech called the Agenda America

41:13

Needs. Bernie Sanders

41:17

has been running for office since 1972. Is

41:19

it really so crazy to think he might run again? Why not?

41:22

The two leading candidates,

41:23

the leading candidate for each party right now is

41:26

rather elderly, a gentleman of a certain age. And

41:29

Bernie's been running his whole

41:31

life consistently since 1972.

41:35

He ran for nine years, starting

41:37

in 1972. He didn't even get elected to anything until 1981. He

41:40

becomes mayor of Burlington. Ten years

41:42

later elected to Congress. Sixteen

41:46

years later he gets elected to the Senate, runs

41:48

for president the last two times. Why

41:51

wouldn't he run now? Plus,

41:54

in a way the wind is at Bernie's back because he was

41:56

one of the early populist candidates. Don't

41:59

forget, Bernie, for all his time, all of his wickedness and

42:01

from embracing socialism, which is an evil ideology

42:04

and completely unacceptable for any conservative

42:07

or Christian, certainly, to embrace.

42:10

Bernie was not just a lockstep Democrat.

42:13

Bernie was not as anti-gun

42:15

as most Democrats,

42:17

but he changed a little bit in the presidential campaigns,

42:19

but he wasn't as anti-gun because he's from Vermont. And

42:21

he was pretty strongly anti-immigration.

42:25

He's Bernie's an old school economic

42:27

populist, and he recognizes that

42:30

mass migration is a scam. It's

42:33

a scam by the left to increase their

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voter numbers, but it's a scam by the business

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right, the Chamber of Commerce type right, to

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lower wages for the working class. So Bernie

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being a working class fighter, at least in his own

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mind, he was opposed to immigration,

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but he's kind of been dethroned as a populist.

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He made populism his whole career, and

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then Trump came in and ate his lunch. And now in the Democrat

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party, Bobby Kennedy is probably taking

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that lane as well.

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Now, all of this leads up

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to a potential government shutdown

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in DC.

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And usually

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in these circumstances, it's the conservatives who

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want to shut down the government, the liberals who want to keep the

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government operating.

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This time though, the situation might be

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flipped, and that

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will be my little tease for tomorrow. I'm sorry, look,

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I don't mean to tease you, but

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there's only so much time, okay?

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And we have to get to

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Member Block. Today is Woke Wednesday.

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We are combining Woke Wednesday with

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the Tuesday show, which is of an ideology

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that I cannot name on YouTube, because

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we-