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Ep. 1826 - The Government Shutdown And The Dumb Reasons EXPLAINED In 4 Mins
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Democrats have officially shut down the government why republicans are arguing that the dems shut down the government to give health care to illegal aliens democrats are responding that they only shut down the government to give health care to legal immigrants as well as other americans in reality the shutdown has almost nothing to do with healthcare and it has everything to do with democrats historically bad poll numbers with right now we'll get into the minutia of michael knowles this is the michael knowles show welcome back to the show not unrelated to the government shutdown cnn of all outlets has just interviewed a sinaloa cartel member admitting admitting to cnn that president trump is making their job tougher that's when cnn is running essentially campaign ads for republicans you know things are tough for dems we will get into that but first i want to tell you about shopify go to shopify dot com knowles starting a business is very very tough and and if you want to have the 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your one dollar per month trial and start selling today at shopify dot com knowles that is shopify dot com knowles canada w l e s shopify dot com knowles why is the government shut down is it because as the republicans contend democrats want to give health care to illegal aliens democrats do i'm sure want to give healthcare to illegal aliens but i don't think that's quite what's going on is it because as the democrats contend they just want to give healthcare to all americans and those republicans want to let americans die in the streets no i don't think it's that either i think this is all about poll numbers and i think this is about every other issue beyond healthcare what could have happened there was a midnight deadline we just passed it we're now whatever eight eight nine hours past it and the midnight deadline was to fund the government what the republicans tried to do was pass a continuing resolution that would just fund the government at its current spending levels nothing changes republicans aren't trying to sneak anything in it's just they're gonna just keep it going while they negotiate a broader budget democrats said no they said no we're not going to keep the government going at current spending levels nothing changes it's all normal we're not going to do that we are going to shut down the government we are going to shut down so called non essential services does raise some question as to why we have so many non essential services in our government that's a point for another time the democrats say we will only fund the government if you republicans who control the white house and the house of representatives and the senate and the supreme court i guess and who have unified government if you guys give us a bunch of extra subsidies for obamacare obamacare what why what's that about what this is about is democrats right now losing on every single issue almost every single issue other than healthcare also the environment there's women's rights but if you look we covered this on the show just a few days ago right now and we're what nine months into president trump's second term right now the democrats should be winning on a lot of issues that's just what happens the midterm elections happen after a presidential election and the party that's out of the white house usually does really really well and the problem for the democrats right now is they're actually somehow still underwater on all the issues that matter to people on crime on the economy on immigration on foreign policy they're tied on defensive democracy which is a kind of made up issue it's a real sloganeered kind of issue that is supposed to just buoy the democrats even that the democrats and republicans are statistically tied on the only issues that the democrats are still doing all right on are women's rights the environment whatever and health care healthcare is one that the democrats historically can lean on and so they're doubling down on that and they're gonna shut down the government in order to change healthcare or at least change the conversation now to focus on healthcare now part of the reason the democrats feel like they can do that is republicans always get blamed for a government shutdown maybe that will happen again republicans that's the conventional wisdom is the republicans always get blamed for the shutdown i'm not so sure it's gonn this time you have to remember we've just endured a seismic political shift the coalitions have changed a lot of voters that have historically gone to the dems have moved significantly to the right including black men including women of all kinds including young women especially young voters moved ten points in twenty twenty four the gop has flipped the script on a lot of issues on things like tariffs on things like immigration to some degree on things like foreign wars so i'm not sure that the conventional holds i'm not sure conventional wisdom holds rather i'm not sure that past really is precedent here and on top of that the voters gave republicans unified government so it does not stand to reason that the party that controls the entire government would shut down the government also because i think what the democrats are counting on is the heavy libertarian influence in the republican party for the whole the entirety of my lifetime for many decades at this point which suggests that republicans are thrilled to shut the government down the republicans are borderline anarchists they don't want any government at all they wanna privatize everything once again though after the trump revolution in twenty sixteen that's not really the case that's not there are plenty of republicans and conservatives who do want to wield the government in fact it's a discordant line of argument for the democrats because the democrats have spent the last seven months claiming that trump is a fascist dictator who wants to turn the government on all of his enemies that he's an authoritarian that he's using the government too much so again you can't simultaneously make both of those arguments these republicans hate the government they wanna dismantle the government also they wanna build up the government and use it to pummel their enemies you have to pick one if you wanna make sense the one thing the democrats do have to do though is change the conversation because at this point in trump's first term the democrats should be doing really well in their poll numbers and they're not in fact their unfavorability rating is as high as it's ever been which is really really bad news they have to do something and i think this government shutdown comes out of sheer political desperation for democrats shoot the economy was supposed to collapse the tariffs were supposed to destroy the economy the tariffs were supposed to lead to massive inflation the tariffs and none of that happened even jerome powell who's being rhetorically pummeled by trump every single day even jerome powell chairman of the fed said nah actually the inflation has not come about because of the tariffs well the immigration crackdown that was supposed to work for democrats no actually the republican immigration policies are still very popular very popular well trump was supposed to get us into world war three actually he hasn't well well well so democrats have these really high unfavorables they have to change the conversation away from crime in the cities every second we're talking about crime in the cities it's bad for democrats because the democrats are the ones letting their own constituents be murdered by criminals and taking the side of the criminals when they do it every second that we spend talking even about the economy which does have some underlying issues of course even that it's not working for the democrats every second we're talking about really just about any issue the only issue that might be able to move the needle for them is healthcare and the only way that they can distract from the conversations that are going on probably first and foremost the political violence from the left which has not had success persuading voters in recent years and so has increasingly threatened its opponents and actually celebrated even the murder of one of its most prominent opponents all of that stuff redounds to the detriment of the democrats so i get the calculation hakeem jeffries there in the house chuck schumer in the senate even though these guys have spent many many years inveighing against government shutdowns which they always blame on the republicans now they are advocating for a government shutdown but they're doing it because they have no other option they have to do something to change the conversation and they have to do anything they can to make the conversation about healthcare whether or not that will work remains to be seen because there's a brutal poll just came out from new york times and siena we'll get to that in one moment first though i want to tell you about policygenius go 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if you're on the left trust me if the new york times could spin this in a way that would blame republicans i'm sure they would they just can't it's not possible so if the times isn't gonna succeed at it i don't think you random democrat congressmen are going to succeed at it either what does the poll say all respondents only twenty seven percent say that the dems should shut down the government sixty five percent say they shouldn't only one in four voters just about says the dems should shut down the government sixty five percent no among democrats only forty seven percent say that they should shut down the government so this government shutdown is unpopular less than fifty percent support even among democrats among independents only thirty two percent think that support the democrat shutdown among republicans unsurprisingly five percent so first of all those poll numbers alone show you who is shutting down the government no group no group wants to shut down the government there is no majority of any political group in the country that wants to shut down the government but in as much as the different groups support or don't support it the support is only among democrats basically no republicans support this so in my mind if the media do not have their hegemonic power that they once did if the spin machine for the democrats is not firing on all cylinders i don't know that this is gonna be blamed on republicans if even the new york times today cannot blame this on the republicans this seriously could backfire for the democrats and meanwhile trump is willing to take advantage he says look i don't wanna shut this thing down things are going pretty well but if you're gonna shut it down and you're gonna make us get rid of these federal workers then we're not gonna play your game and merely furlough a lot of the federal workers and then you know give them their jobs back with back pay and extra pay and no if you really want to shut this thing down fine then we're going to use this opportunity that you're foisting upon us in order to continue to streamline government which is one of the things we were elected with back in november in fact this is one of the things we won the popular vote on namely bringing efficiency back to government doge this could really backfire this could really really backfire for the dems and even still it shows you the desperation of their position even still if i were hakeem jeffries i might shut down the government anyway not because i think that's likely to help the democrats it's just that everything else seems worse if the democrats continue on their current trajectory they're gonna get blown out in the midterms and maybe in twenty twenty eight so in some ways it's the least bad option for dems but i see a lot of upside here for the republicans i don't see a lot of upside for democrats meanwhile the essential services are moving ahead and this is the real threat for dems so they're gonna stand around and they're gonna whine about how they want to they're gonna hold the government hostage in order to ramp through a bunch of plausibly popular healthcare proposals but some of them are pretty unpopular and the ones that pertain to immigration are really unpopular but at least we're not talking about ice right well not really because the department of homeland security is an essential service law enforcement is an essential service so while the democrats are putting on this sideshow trump is going in and enforcing the law in a popular way like a federal raid just happened in chicago three hundred ice agents rappelling down from helicopters targeting a building full of illegals and we're not just talking about the gardener we're about talking we're not just talking about the nice abuela who cleans your home or something we're talking about trend aragua terrorists.
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Led three hundred federal officials to that apartment complex some even rappelled down from blackhawks onto the rooftop in order to help secure that perimeter now they were searching for suspected members of the violent venezuelan gang trende araguain well of course tda has been designated as a terrorist organization under the trump administration now it was the biggest show of force that we've ever seen on the ground here we had agencies fbi border patrol ice and atf all involved here and they were all looking for targets in that same exact building it was a five story building it was a tall task for them and anything could have gone wrong but luckily the operations went pretty smoothly preliminary reports show that about thirty illegal immigrants were arrested in this operation some of them suspected trende aragua okay so.
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Thirty illegals arrested massive show of force here ten x the number of people arrested show up as law enforcement really really smart smart as a matter of justice you need to arrest these people but also really smart politics and bold by the way because you're talking about serious gangsters you're talking about a foreign terrorist organization trende aragua this could have turned into a shootout in chicago i guess a shootout in chicago is just a day ending in y but had this gone south had some innocent or largely innocent person been killed had a law enforcement official been killed that could have been really bad that did not happen and ice rounds up these people and so the democrats are in this awful position they either need to do what is obviously right and what is obviously politically popular and say okay all right i guess it's good that we're arresting trend aragua gangsters human traffickers people who kill americans foreign terrorist organization yeah i guess that's good they can either take that side or i know it sounds preposterous or they can take the side of the terrorists the foreign national terrorists killing americans and you know which side they took here we have governor of illinois jb pritzker thinks he's gonna run for president in twenty twenty eight democrat mister pritzker says on twitter to donald trump stop using military troops and ice to invade and disrupt american cities first of all federal troops don't invade american cities to carry out federal law the federal government that the federal troops refer to is the american government you're part of america mister pritzker maybe you don't feel that way maybe you don't like america maybe you wish you weren't part of america i don't see a lot of american flags at the democrat rallies so i know you have an antipathy to the country but they're your troops they're your countrymen thank you thank you american servicemen for protecting american citizens by carrying out basic american laws no no no stop using military troops to invade and disrupt american cities stop stop sending in the americans just to fix my bad governance stop he says calling your political opponents enemies of the united states excuse me that's a real pot calling the kettle black isn't it by the way where's the political violence coming from it's coming uniquely from the left according to the left wing magazines so if you want to insinuate here that trump is treating his domestic opponents as enemies that's not coming from the right that's coming from the left you're murdering your political enemies you on the left we're not doing that you democrats you people who identify as very liberal are according to polling eight times as likely to defend political violence against your opponents the young democrats the young liberals thirty percent of them support political violence against their enemies many many multiples over what conservatives and moderates say stop calling you are you kidding me you're the ones doing it stop attacking the first amendment wow that's it you know i wrote a whole book on the first amendment called speechless controlling words controlling minds thank you very much number one national bestseller you can get it wherever great books are sold i did a real deep dive into the first amendment and the broader free speech tradition in america and in the west i don't recall the provision of the first amendment that says that foreign gangster murderers have a right to live in american apartment buildings do you remember that part of the first amendment if someone can pull up the text of the first amendment please do let me know i know it protects freedom of speech of religion the right to redress grievances is in there somewhere i don't recall the right of venezuelan murderers to invade american cities and murder americans i don't recall that one our troops says governor pritzker and our nation deserve better than you acting as a petty tyrant who's the petty tyrant here what's a tyrant a tyrant is a leader a single leader who wields power for private interest not for the common good but for private interest what is donald trump doing donald trump is merely enforcing the most basic laws that's what he's doing that is the first charge of a us president of all the things we elect the president to do hold state dinners give addresses of all the things we elect them to do enforcing the most basic federal laws is pretty much the first one trump is acting like a president on the contrary these democrat leaders especially including jb pritzker they're the ones acting like tyrants because what they're doing is they're ignoring the law they're neglecting the common good they're undermining the common good what is the law the law is an ordinance of reason for the common good by him who has care of the community and promulgated these guys are ignoring that they're letting crime fester chicago is like a war zone jb pritzker doesn't care he's willing to let chicagoans be murdered and slaughtered by the bushel basket as long as he thinks it will give him an electoral advantage and the chief way that the democrats have tried to gain an electoral advantage is by flooding the country with illegals largely including these criminals and these gangsters who's acting like the tyrant it's the democrats this is a terrible response by pritzker and by the democrats broadly but once again i don't think we can leave the analysis at wow these dumb democrats boy they should get their act together right because it's actually they're in a tougher spot than that you have to have almost a little more sympathy for them what are they gonna do are they suddenly going to come out in defense of enforcing immigration law in defense of national sovereignty in defense of borders in defense of the right of citizens to determine who gets to come into their country no if they do that they're conceding the whole point to trump and they're gonna lose the electoral advantage that they were cynically trying to gain by flooding the country with foreigners are they suddenly going to defend law enforcement then they're ceding the point to trump they're in a tough spot trump has staked out virtually all of the popular positions on issues with a few exceptions right healthcare is the hail mary for the democrats but with a few exceptions trump has all the popular views that's how he won the popular vote democrats on the other hand they're on the wrong side of virtually every single issue and so long as that dynamic continues so long as the democrats remain democrats then trump is gonna enforce the law he's gonna look like a hero pritzker's gonna look feckless at best and nefarious at worst now you don't just need to take my word for it trump's popular and effective immigration policy is being lauded not only by republicans but by cnn one of his big political rivals in the media and even by the foreign gangsters we'll get to that momentarily first though 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Discover more cnn runs a quick little interview here with a cartel leader sinaloa cartel talking about the dangers of being involved in the cartel what that looks like and cnn asks this cartel leader hey is trump's policy making your life tougher because the ideal answer for the democrats is no trump's policy is ineffective and we're still doing whatever we want and trump's a bumbling idiot and he's distracting and he's going after lawful legal americans blah blah blah right that's the right answer for the dems here's the answer they get do you think what president trump has been doing has been making your job tougher oh yeah yes yes but it's becoming more difficult you think yeah i gotta give the devil his due the devil's their due the sinaloa cartel members and cnn the cartel members they didn't study abstract leftist political theory in college the sinaloa the gangsters i don't know they don't have the most ideological view of politics they're pretty tough practical people trump is a pretty tough practical person so cnn says is what trump's doing making your life harder and the sinaloa guy says yeah for sure he's blowing us up yeah i think he's rounding us up he's deporting us to mega super prisons in el salvador where bukele's dealing with us in a reasonable way not one of these mamby pamby kind of ways and then when we try to run our poison up to the american shores trump blows us out of the water with drones so yeah i would say he's making our job a little bit tougher i can't quite figure out why cnn would air this i get why they asked the question but why would they air this unless it's that the democratic party has become so ideologically perverted that they really they have sympathy for the cartel members i mean they do the democrats have openly run on letting criminals off the hook the democrats have openly run on suppressing law enforcement or even abolishing law enforcement abolishing prisons so the democrats openly run on that stuff maybe i don't know maybe cnn thinks that everyone's gonna have their heartbreak for the poor sinaloa cartel members will somebody please think of the cartel members maybe that's what they're thinking but it just reads horribly to the right which is a lot of the country and certainly to the middle if the democrats are on the side of the sinaloa cartel i think most people are gonna be on the opposite side from the democrats now the times had a smarter way to go after trump's immigration policy which is one of the most popular things he's doing so this is how the times covered it just on the feast of saint michael just a couple days ago headline i'm from here us citizens are ending up in trump's dragnet as immigration agents take a more aggressive approach they have stopped and in some cases detained american citizens there are four times writers on this piece sorry three three ladies jasmine ulloa allison mccann and jennifer medina three ladies very upset about the trump immigration policy because you see the immigration raids which the democrats oppose in general even when it targets ms thirteen and trend where they said oh those poor guys let them off the let the sinaloa cartel off the hook but they say it's supposed to target only illegals but did you know some american citizens are getting trapped and caught up in it yeah what did you think was gonna happen just think about this for two seconds what did you think was gonna happen how do you think immigration raids work do you think that the illegals are walking around the country wearing big t shirts that say i'm an illegal come get me tom homan is that what you think and then all ice has to do is go in and say oh there he is i see that shirt right there it says yo soy illegal come and get me thomas no the whole problem is these people are hiding in the country they were invited in by democrats quite explicitly invited in by democrats that democrats even went so far as to violate their own interpretation of the constitution to give these people amnesty to let them further blend into the country that's what barack obama did that was executive amnesty which he previously said was unconstitutional joe biden come on in and then they blend in and now the american people elect trump to say we got to get these guys out they're causing a lot of problems so if they're not wearing shirts that say yo soy illegal aliano send me down to bukeleville then how do you get it well you go to the job sites that they work at you go to the crime houses that they live in you notice that they don't speak english you take a look and you see you know probably a little old lady from norway is not gonna be an illegal alien but if you know if you got the accent you got the look you clearly haven't been here very long then maybe you're if you got some face tattoos if you're you trafficking fentanyl maybe there's a better chance you're an illegal alien so they go in they round people up but sometimes legal residents or citizens get caught up too yeah that's the problem of course this is a pretty insidious little article here because catching some citizens in an immigration raid is inevitable it is not possible to enforce immigration law when you have this many tens of millions of illegal aliens in the country it's not possible to pinpoint all of the illegals that's the whole issue you can't quite pinpoint them so once again i think even that could i think all that will really serve to do is to highlight just how widespread the illegal immigration problem is and how much it affects our political order cause you're at the democrats say well they really don't commit crime and they really don't use welfare resources and none of that's true but one real sticking point is a lot of us are concerned that the illegal aliens are voting we'll say well they're screwing up our elections now they are already compromising our electoral system because congressional apportionment is based on the census it's based on population data it's not based on the number of citizens it's based on the number of people in a state so you flood the country with illegal aliens that is going to give the states that have those illegal aliens more representation in congress so when you have sanctuary cities and sanctuary states where you say hey illegals flood in here that is democrats cheating to rig the electoral system to give themselves more power in the federal government.
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Is indisputable so you've already got that issue but the democrats will then say well look yeah okay we flood the country with these guys we flood certain states with these guys and that does in some way affect the electoral system but at least they don't vote and it turns out that's not true you remember the superintendent we were covering last week he's the des moines iowa superintendent he's the superintendent of the biggest school district in iowa he was paid over three hundred thousand dollars per year you know all the jobs americans won't do that's why we need the illegal aliens he's been there for a while he had a rap sheet he had some problems well this guy he finally gets arrested and it turns out that this guy was registered to vote hold on what that cannot be i was reliably informed by the democrats and by the liberal media that the illegal aliens are never registered to vote that this is a made up issue by the republicans could never happen then how was this guy registered to vote for years for years and years how did that happen now this is just one high profile case as we mentioned ice goes in rounds up thirty of these guys and then there have been one point six million who have left in the first what seven eight months of the trump administration according to the center for immigration studies many through self deportation we don't know their names we don't know their cases the reason we know this guy's name and we know his case is cuz it's so particularly absurd that he was making over three hundred grand a year as a school superintendent he was an illegal alien but when you finally put a face in a name to illegal immigration and then you scratch below the surface for two seconds you realize this guy was registered to vote how many more of them are registered to vote what would our elections look like without illegal immigration would democrats ever win a national election it's a very real question and i know there are going to be all these warning labels no actually no illegal aliens don't vote there's probably going to be a warning label on my video today from the big tech companies well how do you explain that there's your proof that the illegal aliens are in fact registered to vote once again any way the conversation turns it just seems like the bill is coming due for democrats bill started to come due in november massive shifts of the voting populace moving to the right and as the republicans now do have the government are wielding the government to uncover the democrat perfidy on this and all the other issues it's hard to see it's hard to see the democrat numbers improving no surprise that their unfavorables are as high as they've ever been and we haven't even talked about crime itself just wait till you hear what the residents of democrat cities have to say about the way democrats have covered crime when the left attacks the answer isn't silence the answer is not to retreat it is not to do less the answer is to show up everywhere to make our voices louder than ever to push out more content more truth more breaking news more investigative journalism fighting harder than ever before that is what we are doing at the daily wire this october daily wire plus members are getting more new films more new series more new documentaries and more of everything that you expect from us join now get it all with forty percent off new daily wire plus annual memberships my favorite comment yesterday is from c dan howell who says this whole we need to bring down the temperature thing reminds me of a kid who hits another kid and starts yelling truce and getting mad that he was hit back yeah of course the left murders its political opponents threatens its political opponents murders its political opponents excuses the murder of its political opponents in some cases celebrates the murder of its political opponents and then demands that its political opponents bring down the temperature we can't we can't it's not even that we're not willing to we can't you control the thermostat you're blocking the thermostat you're the one jacking up the temperature on the thermostat i'd like to bring down the one way we could bring down the temperature i guess is by punishing you by punishing you and stigmatizing your behavior and in some cases prosecuting you when you break the law is that what you that's the only way that we can bring the temperature down and you're right i guess we should do that good idea be careful what you ask for now speaking of all this crime really really sad story but illustrative story a woman from dc testifying on what crime in dc you know this slogan bandied about between the political parties what does that really mean in practice.
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He shot my grandson in cola seven times and they didn't consider that as first degree murder they act like we would be lucky if we got manslaughter the bottom line is that murder in dc is treated as a joke when it comes time.
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Justice your heart breaks for this woman and she's totally right especially that last line there she says you know the fact is crime in dc it's treated as a joke it's treated as nothing it's a little slogan or something oh it's just this abstraction crime in dc crime in chicago no it's not we're not talking about jaywalking first of all we're talking about murder and murder in chicago it's not just a punchline it's people's grandkids it's people's grandkids being shot and murdered every day every weekend what's the number that's what it is in cold blood and then the prosecutors letting the murderers largely off the hook going real soft on them which is a grave injustice to the families and creates more victims that's what that means when the democrats are inveighing against the supposedly tyrannical donald trump who is bringing in the federal government to do its job which is to step in when american cities fail when they cannot govern themselves and they say you're being authoritarian please respect our cultural right to allow murder to fester that's our right to let women's grandkids be slaughtered by the bushel basket every week that's what that means that's what they're saying and i know there's still republican consultants who are scratching their heads wow how did donald trump do so much better in twenty twenty four with black men how did so much of the black male vote move over to the right with women with hispanics how did that happen it's not rocket science politics really is not rocket science it's a practical science it's pretty i guess rocket science is a practical science too but this is a simpler one because it's about the basic aspects of human nature and incentives and people have had enough that's been a theme for the past few weeks we've had enough on the right we've had enough of your nonsense i think that's true even for people who wouldn't call themselves on the right i don't know what that woman's political views are i don't know that she's some rock ribbed conservative but she knows that she doesn't want her grandkid to be murdered and the party that is allowing her grandkid to be murdered and going soft on his murderers that's the democrats so maybe i'll be a republican maybe i'll try out being a republican now speaking of black issues black cities particularly black issues jamaal bowman do you remember jamaal bowman jamaal bowman was a member of congress i've only had one or two run ins with jamaal bowman after i gave a cpac speech on the transgender ideology jamaal bowman called me a nazi who wants only white people to live he called from congress he called me that anyway he's excitable as you can see and jamaal bowman went on cnn to make a curious claim about public health and medical science and where are you on.
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You can't be calm about this i'm a black man in america the reason why heart doesn't i'm white i can't comment on listen to what i'm saying the reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the n word directly or indirectly every day if if if your colleagues would listen and try to learn and engage and grow and stop being so hateful we could have a.
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Better country stop being so hateful and let me explain to you that diabetes and heart disease is caused by hear in the n word what i didn't go to medical school i'm a doctor i'm an honorary doctor of humane letters but i'm not a medical doctor and so i guess none of my doctor friends have ever told me i've never seen a study about that but it turns out well not heart disease and diabetes generally heart disease and diabetes specifically among black people is caused not by diet or a lack of exercise or genetics or any other factor it's caused by hearing the n word which raises a really interesting thought because white people don't say the n word if you haven't noticed maybe in jamal bowman's fevered imagination there are klansmen around every corner looking to burn a cross and drop a hard r but in reality white people don't say the n word and actually statistically the only people who say the n word are black people sometimes colloquially and especially in rap music those are the only people who say it so we've found the culprit for diabetes and heart disease it turns out it's like snoop dogg isn't that crazy i never knew that jamal bowman screaming you need to stop being so hateful you white devil you you you ice person you need to stop and you need to learn your medical science and know that the n word causes diabetes and they these people who you mean these people no i'm talking about the libs the democrats thing i'm not talking about these people i'm saying the democrats have the audacity to accuse trump and the republicans of medical misinformation because we for instance say hey if you get the fauci ouchie that probably won't protect you from catching COVID remember we said that and people were kicked off of youtube for that and then it turned out that was completely true and everyone admitted it that was medical misinformation donald trump says that there is an association between acetaminophen tylenol and neurological developmental disorders which harvard johns hopkins columbia basically every major mount sinai every major medical institution and the manufacturer of tylenol all have admitted apparently going all the way back to two thousand eight we'll have to cover more on that story tomorrow so that's medical misinformation but when a democrat congressman goes on tv and he says you n word gave me heart disease that that's not hmm well trump is investigating the universities at harvard and by the way i'm gonna be at harvard tomorrow if you're around i'll be giving a speech up at harvard law school tomorrow evening so come by just google it michael knowles harvard you can get tickets i think i don't know maybe i'll have to ask the medical school up there i don't they need to investigate maybe we need to defund these medical schools maybe jamaal bowman can be the new chancellor of harvard who knows okay today is woke wednesday the rest of the show continues now you do not want to miss it become a member use code knowlescannawles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans sam.