The Michael Knowles Show - September 05, 2018


Ep. 212 - Anti-Social Media


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

191.61426

Word Count

9,728

Sentence Count

763

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Social media CEOs head to Capitol Hill and promise censorship to their political overlords. Then, Alex Jones, shirtless vitamin salesman, actually makes a good point. And Pope Francis tells his critics to shut up. In today s This is America segment, Cosby Show actor Jeffrey Owens explains the value of work. Finally, on this day in history, the first session of the Continental Congress convenes without Kamala Harris shrieking even one time. Spoiler alert: it is not in our stars, but in ourselves.


Transcript

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00:00:32.760 We will analyze the sniveling testimony.
00:00:35.220 Then, Alex Jones, shirtless vitamin salesman, actually makes a good point.
00:00:39.860 Scientists extol the health benefits of friending God, and Pope Francis tells his critics to shut up.
00:00:45.480 In today's This Is America segment, Cosby Show actor Jeffrey Owens explains the value of work.
00:00:51.060 Finally, on this day in history, the first session of the Continental Congress convenes
00:00:54.860 without Kamala Harris shrieking even one time.
00:00:58.200 We will analyze the unpleasant reason for our government's dysfunction.
00:01:02.100 Spoiler alert, it is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
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00:01:05.300 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:14.440 I sat through all of that testimony just for you.
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00:02:55.940 we hire people, which is voting them into Congress and then having them call these tech
00:03:01.880 CEOs and having them blather on and on about we have to censor people.
00:03:05.660 This was really frustrating.
00:03:07.200 I actually have some pity for Jack Dorsey here.
00:03:11.780 I think Jack Dorsey, he's not a crazed leftist.
00:03:14.800 He's not really an activist.
00:03:16.180 He seems to have the entire world angry with him right now.
00:03:19.180 At first, it looked like Jack Dorsey of Twitter was going to resist calls for censorship.
00:03:23.780 He was saying, no, we're not going to censor Alex Jones.
00:03:25.740 No, we're not going to censor this guy.
00:03:27.080 No, we're not going to censor that guy.
00:03:28.420 And then he caved.
00:03:29.220 He totally caved without any explanation.
00:03:31.600 And there's shadow banning going on at that company.
00:03:33.980 We know there's shadow banning.
00:03:35.060 There are actually reports that before this testimony, suddenly, magically, all of those
00:03:40.180 shadow bans were lifted because there are services where you can check it.
00:03:43.480 So they're aware of this.
00:03:44.980 This bias runs deep.
00:03:46.320 Jack Dorsey admitted that his company has a left wing bias when he was talking to Brian
00:03:49.500 Stelter a couple of weeks ago on CNN.
00:03:52.060 I know that nobody watches CNN, but I watch it for you so that I can explain these insightful
00:03:56.940 moments like when Jack Dorsey admits his own bias.
00:03:59.480 But I want to take you through his testimony line by line because he sounds almost as though
00:04:06.060 he's serious and unbiased and willing to take action.
00:04:10.900 And when you actually parse the wording, you realize it's exactly the opposite.
00:04:15.280 So here's Jack Dorsey.
00:04:16.240 In any public space, you'll find inspired ideas and you'll find lies and deception.
00:04:24.260 People who want to help others and unify and people who want to hurt others and themselves
00:04:29.740 and divide.
00:04:31.840 What separates a physical and digital public space is greater accessibility and velocity.
00:04:37.940 We're extremely proud of helping to increase the accessibility and velocity of a simple,
00:04:45.960 free, and open exchange.
00:04:48.820 We believe people will learn faster by being exposed to a wide range of opinions and ideas,
00:04:54.580 and it helps make our nation and the world feel a little bit smaller.
00:05:00.300 Now listen to those words, because this all sounds great, doesn't it?
00:05:03.660 Simple, free, open exchange of ideas.
00:05:07.120 That's what all of these tech companies are saying they are.
00:05:10.380 We are an open platform.
00:05:12.380 We're not publishers.
00:05:13.540 We're not activists.
00:05:14.740 We're not a campaign organization.
00:05:16.860 This is a very important distinction because if the tech companies are publishers, then they're
00:05:21.560 going to be liable for all of the copyright violations that are uploaded to them.
00:05:24.860 They're going to be liable for some of their campaign work.
00:05:26.900 If they're seen to be punishing certain candidates, helping out other candidates, that could be an
00:05:30.480 in-kind donation.
00:05:31.520 That could lead to campaign finance questions.
00:05:33.600 So he's very, very clear.
00:05:34.860 He says this is about an open, simple exchange of ideas.
00:05:39.200 Just like we have the public square, we also have the digital public square, and that is
00:05:43.560 what Twitter is.
00:05:44.940 And by the way, for anyone who's ever visited public squares, crazy people go to public squares
00:05:48.620 and shout a bunch of nonsense.
00:05:50.180 That's fine.
00:05:50.880 That's what happens.
00:05:51.800 That's called the free and open exchange of ideas.
00:05:53.240 So that's how he sets us up.
00:05:55.040 All sounds great, Jack.
00:05:57.160 Tell us more.
00:05:59.400 We are proud of how that free and open exchange has been weaponized and used to distract and
00:06:05.120 divide people and our nation.
00:06:08.860 We found ourselves unprepared and ill-equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've
00:06:14.360 acknowledged.
00:06:14.780 What?
00:06:19.200 Excuse me?
00:06:20.180 You'll notice that word weaponized.
00:06:21.900 This is the line that the left uses a lot now when they say, they say, I really like
00:06:26.440 free speech, but, and then they negate everything that came before the but, they use the word
00:06:30.580 weaponized.
00:06:32.000 But if free speech is a good thing, then weaponizing free speech is also a good thing, right?
00:06:36.020 If it's, it doesn't, weaponizing, how do you weaponize a good thing?
00:06:39.920 To weaponize it, right, is to, is to use it against your adversaries and against your
00:06:44.560 opponents.
00:06:45.340 But that's the purpose of free speech.
00:06:47.180 That's not perverting the nature of free speech.
00:06:49.140 That's not distorting it.
00:06:50.340 That's actually using free speech for its intended purpose.
00:06:53.280 The whole reason that we have a public square is so that we can exchange ideas that we disagree
00:06:59.140 with.
00:06:59.700 He says we want the open, simple exchange of ideas.
00:07:02.620 Well, if you're exchanging ideas, presumably that exchange is not going to be of ideas
00:07:07.940 that are exactly the same.
00:07:09.200 Then you're not exchanging anything.
00:07:10.360 There's no trade going on at all.
00:07:11.680 You're just a chorus.
00:07:12.940 But when you have an exchange, then you are using language.
00:07:16.480 You're using words to convey ideas that oppose other people's ideas.
00:07:21.260 Now, you can call that weaponizing them, but that's the exact purpose of free speech.
00:07:26.560 All of politics, politics comes down at its most essential core to meaningful speech.
00:07:32.620 To people who use speech to convince their other countrymen or their citizens or whatever
00:07:38.320 of one policy or another policy.
00:07:41.720 To influence them in one way or the other.
00:07:43.840 To persuade them, to convince them that one course of action is better than another course
00:07:48.680 of action.
00:07:50.040 To call it weaponizing is just to say, I really support free speech, but I hate when free
00:07:55.380 speech is used as free speech.
00:07:56.940 That's what he's saying.
00:07:57.700 Go on, Jack.
00:07:58.280 Abuse, harassment, troll armies, propaganda through bots and human coordination, misinformation
00:08:07.740 campaigns, and divisive filter bubbles.
00:08:11.200 That's not a healthy public square.
00:08:14.680 Worse, a relatively small number of bad faith actors were able to game Twitter to have an
00:08:20.160 outsized impact.
00:08:20.960 Okay, so let's just use the word propaganda to begin.
00:08:25.560 He says, propaganda is infiltrating the public square.
00:08:29.300 Propaganda is the essence of the public square.
00:08:32.160 Propaganda is making an argument for just one side of a dispute.
00:08:38.560 So if you say, well, Fox News is propaganda.
00:08:42.900 Fox News is not their news programming, but their commentary programming.
00:08:46.100 That's propaganda for a conservative point of view.
00:08:49.660 Sure, some of it might be, but MSNBC is propaganda for a left-wing point of view.
00:08:54.420 I don't say that Rachel Maddow can't have her free speech.
00:08:58.260 I mean, what would happen to my show if I said Rachel Maddow isn't entitled to her free
00:09:02.000 speech?
00:09:02.520 But likewise, I don't say Sean Hannity isn't entitled to his.
00:09:05.120 What is propaganda?
00:09:06.500 Propaganda is a one-sided argument.
00:09:09.580 It's a one-sided point of view of a political issue.
00:09:11.800 So that exists there.
00:09:12.660 I also love that he says that people and robots and robots under human control are infiltrating
00:09:19.660 the public square.
00:09:21.460 What are those robots that aren't under human control?
00:09:24.160 What are those guys doing there?
00:09:25.740 I actually do think that we should maybe attack them.
00:09:28.760 We need to weaponize weapons against the robots who have broken free and are attacking us.
00:09:34.340 But as for the robots that are being controlled by humans, and by that we just mean humans who
00:09:38.660 are using technology to convince people of their own political goals, which is what we're
00:09:43.860 all doing when we use computers or cell phones or this show or anything, that isn't some nefarious
00:09:51.140 turn of events or innovation.
00:09:52.720 That is what these platforms were built for.
00:09:55.400 So again, he's just constantly using, he says, I love free speech, but I hate what free speech
00:09:59.340 is used for and I hate when it is used and how it is used and through what media it is used.
00:10:03.920 Go on, Jack.
00:10:05.120 We're now removing over 200% more accounts for violating our policies.
00:10:09.780 We're identifying and challenging 8 to 10 million suspicious accounts every week.
00:10:14.860 And we're thwarting over a half million accounts from logging in to Twitter every single day.
00:10:21.280 We've learned from 2016 and more recently from other nations' elections how to protect
00:10:27.000 the integrity of elections.
00:10:29.820 Better tools, stronger policy, and new partnerships are already in place.
00:10:37.000 What integrity of elections?
00:10:38.420 What integrity of elections is being threatened here?
00:10:41.220 Is Twitter being used to go in and change voting machines?
00:10:44.920 Is Twitter being used to go in and disrupt buses and stop people from getting to the polls?
00:10:50.860 Is that?
00:10:51.180 No, of course not.
00:10:52.560 What Twitter is the public square.
00:10:54.100 It's not the voting machine.
00:10:54.900 It's not the election.
00:10:55.900 It's not the ballot counter.
00:10:57.320 It's not the car that takes you to the polls.
00:10:59.660 It's a public square.
00:11:01.760 So when we're talking about interfering in elections, what you're really talking about,
00:11:04.600 as you've been talking the whole time, is political speech.
00:11:07.940 You're saying, now people are using Twitter for political speech.
00:11:11.400 That's the whole purpose of it.
00:11:12.800 I thought free speech was the whole point, the open exchange of ideas in a public forum.
00:11:16.040 So yes, they are doing that.
00:11:17.620 Listen to how he says he's fixing this.
00:11:19.140 He's saying that his answer, his way to fix the problems with Twitter, which are censorship
00:11:24.180 and shadow banning and treating conservatives unfairly and artificially boosting left-wing
00:11:28.560 views, the way he's combating that is banning 200% more people, is questioning 8 to 10 million
00:11:36.720 accounts, is regularly preventing half a million accounts from logging on.
00:11:40.980 He's saying our way, because Twitter is supposed to be an open public square for the free exchange
00:11:47.960 of ideas, and something has gone wrong in that.
00:11:50.800 So the way we're going to make it open and free and keep exchanging ideas is booting off
00:11:54.740 millions and millions of people and harassing them and making it harder to use the service.
00:12:00.020 That's his set of solutions.
00:12:02.100 That's what he thinks is going to help.
00:12:04.120 Is there any more, Jack?
00:12:05.000 Do you have anything more to say?
00:12:05.940 Oh, that's all.
00:12:10.400 We'll have to, we'll have to, it goes on and on and on.
00:12:13.120 I guess we can cut it there because it's, it's more of the same.
00:12:17.260 It's all more of the same.
00:12:18.680 He's totally wrong here.
00:12:19.980 When I was watching this testimony, it was so clear that the, the, the problem with Twitter
00:12:25.960 is not that conservatives have points of view.
00:12:29.760 It's not that foreign people are on Twitter.
00:12:33.900 It's an international platform.
00:12:34.960 It's not only Americans.
00:12:36.180 You can't say that we're colluding with other people, other nations, whatever people are
00:12:39.640 open, able to have an open exchange of ideas.
00:12:41.880 It's not that there's too much of that.
00:12:43.620 The, the main problem with Twitter is censorship.
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00:14:08.640 The, the solution here is all those, the 200 million you're kicking off of Twitter, the,
00:14:14.680 the 10 million or the 200% more that you're kicking off, the, the 8 to 10 million,
00:14:19.940 that you're regularly questioning, the half a million that you're preventing from logging
00:14:23.040 on.
00:14:23.920 That's the problem.
00:14:25.780 The solution that he proposes is the problem.
00:14:28.980 Transparency is another problem, but that is the problem.
00:14:31.580 I, I was, there, I was recently rereading, uh, an essay or a speech, I suppose, by John
00:14:36.500 Milton.
00:14:36.900 He's the guy who wrote Paradise Lost, and it's called the Areopagitica, and it's, it is one
00:14:41.280 of the greatest defenses of free speech ever.
00:14:43.420 He gave it, uh, he gave it before Parliament, and it is this resounding defense of free speech.
00:14:49.640 I'm, I'm seriously considering posting all 19,000 or 20,000 words of the Areopagitica to
00:14:57.120 Twitter, tweet by tweet, because there is a total misunderstanding and lack of appreciation
00:15:01.520 of the free exchange of ideas and free speech, and what makes this testimony so Orwellian is
00:15:06.240 the whole introduction is how this, we want Twitter to be a free, open platform, a free,
00:15:10.700 open platform, BS, pal, clearly not, because all the rest of your testimony negated that.
00:15:17.360 The reason they're so insistent on this is because they don't want to get regulated like
00:15:21.140 publishers, they don't want to get regulated like political actors, they don't want to
00:15:23.940 get regulated out of business, but you've got to live up to what your, to what your platform
00:15:29.460 is supposed to be, what it was founded to be, because coincidentally, while all of this
00:15:32.900 was happening, we witnessed the biggest one-day drop in tech stocks in months.
00:15:38.840 It dragged the NASDAQ down, it hit Twitter especially hard, Twitter was down 5.2%, Google's
00:15:45.520 down 1.7% at the highest, I think they've rebounded a little by now.
00:15:49.140 And by the way, I'm not saying that this is caused by the testimony, we're not even sure
00:15:53.740 if the testimony has, is priced into this yet, but certainly it is the case that all
00:15:58.340 of the scandals that have plagued big tech in recent months, all of which, by the way,
00:16:03.680 are related to how freely information is exchanged, the privacy issues, the censorship issues,
00:16:10.200 the shadow of any, all of that creates uncertainty in tech stocks because the tech stocks are not
00:16:16.240 doing what they're supposed to do. Either Twitter is going to be an open platform and
00:16:20.320 it's going to be Twitter or there won't be Twitter. It's not going to be something else.
00:16:24.760 The left always goes in and perverts these institutions. Either Twitter will do what it
00:16:29.580 does or there won't be a Twitter. It will just disappear. And we know this, by the way. Look
00:16:34.540 at the decline in users. So a new study came out from Pew Research. 42% of Facebook users have taken
00:16:42.780 a break from the platform in the past year. 42%. That is a shocking amount. I mean, I use it all
00:16:49.400 the time. Obviously, we broadcast on these platforms. These platforms have given conservatives
00:16:53.740 such an opportunity. That's why the left is so angry. That's why the left is pressuring them
00:16:58.040 to censor all of us because it's given us such an opportunity to get our views out unvarnished
00:17:02.740 to the American people. You know, for decades and decades and decades, the mainstream media
00:17:06.660 had this awful monopoly. They controlled the point of view. A conservative could never get
00:17:10.700 his point of view out to the people. It would only be seen through a perverted and distorted
00:17:15.060 narrative lens of the mainstream media. We crashed that because of social media. Now they're
00:17:19.940 trying to take it back. That's why they're so furious. This is why Trump has got to keep
00:17:23.980 tweeting. I know there's the conservative, sort of conservative, aristocratic, oh no,
00:17:30.000 pish posh, he shouldn't tweet. Take the phone away. No, the phone's the whole thing. I'm here
00:17:33.360 for the phone. Keep tweeting. Tweeting is the way that we're able to get our message out
00:17:36.780 unvarnished. In the case of President Trump, it's very unvarnished. It's very, it's not really
00:17:42.360 polished up at all. But that's fine. You're getting that point of view across. In the last
00:17:47.240 year, 54% of Facebook users have adjusted their privacy settings. Over a quarter of
00:17:53.780 Facebook users in the past year, a quarter, 26% have deleted the app from their phone.
00:18:00.600 And Facebook's a mobile platform now. People use it on mobile much more than they use it
00:18:04.180 on desktop. 26% have deleted the app from their phone. That is a shocking number. And
00:18:11.080 it gets even more shocking because it's specifically among young people who've done it. That number,
00:18:16.100 when you look at just 18 to 29-year-old Facebook users, 44% have deleted the app from their
00:18:21.120 phone. That is a terrifying number for Facebook. Because I think the number is only 12% have
00:18:26.360 deleted it from their phone for 65 and over. But of that young group, it's so high. Why
00:18:31.740 is it? Because there's no transparency. Because these big tech companies have abused privacy
00:18:35.980 settings. They've used data dishonestly. And because they are censoring half of their audience.
00:18:42.840 They're saying, no, you can't. No, this isn't fair. When people don't play
00:18:46.060 by the rules, we get very sick of it. We tune out. It's all about trust. It's all about,
00:18:51.540 do we trust these companies? Now, I don't want to harp on this too much because we could talk
00:18:55.920 about social media all day. I'm sure there's going to be fallout from this. Before we move
00:18:58.960 on, I do have to get to the best part of all of the hearings. Mr. Jones, take it away.
00:19:04.200 It's happening here. It's happening here, but you say I don't exist.
00:19:09.000 Is that a heckler or a pricey? I don't know. Look at this guy. He's saying that I don't
00:19:12.380 exist. You're not from here. I just don't know who you are, man. I don't read your website.
00:19:15.920 Sure. And they demonize me in these very hearings. And then he plays dumb. Infowars.com,
00:19:21.180 you know what it is. Oh, well. Does Google, does Facebook, does Google, does Google,
00:19:23.620 does Google, does Google, does Google, do they need to be regulated? Do they need to be regulated?
00:19:27.060 Mark a room to go to the snake. A little frat boy here. All right, man. Yeah.
00:19:31.000 Who are you? Yeah, sure. I swear to God, I don't know who you are, man. You better hope
00:19:33.800 you do deplatforming. Tens of millions of views. Infowars. Better than Rice Limbaugh. He knows
00:19:38.240 who Infowars is. Play this joke over here. That's why, hey, the deplatforming didn't work.
00:19:41.920 But here's the question. Here's the question. Don't touch me again, man. I'm asking you not
00:19:45.780 to touch me. Well, sure, I'll just pat you nicely. I know, but I don't want to be, I don't
00:19:48.280 know who you are. You want me to get arrested? It's not just going to take my first amendment.
00:19:51.120 It's not just enough to take my first amendment. Oh, oh, he'll beat me up. Did you? I didn't say that.
00:19:55.020 I didn't know who I am, but he's so mad. You're not going to silence me. You're not
00:19:58.060 going to silence America. You are literally like a little gangster thug. There are people
00:20:02.500 in this country. Rubio just threatened to physically take care of me.
00:20:06.300 So there's so much here. If you couldn't hear that, that would be Mr. Marco Rubio and Alex
00:20:12.140 Jones comes into this little press gaggle and just starts getting right in Rubio's face.
00:20:17.100 There's a big debate happening right now over how Rubio handled this. I got to say, I think
00:20:21.760 he could have handled it better. I don't think this was the best way. If Alex Jones gets up in
00:20:25.220 your face, starts screaming at you, you're at a hearing about big tech censorship of people.
00:20:32.440 Alex Jones is one of the big faces of tech censoring people on the right. I use the term
00:20:39.060 the right broadly because Alex Jones probably wouldn't be considered a conservative or call
00:20:43.620 himself a conservative. He's a little more out there than that, but certainly he does fall broadly
00:20:48.560 within the right. There is no way that Marco Rubio doesn't know who he is. Of course Marco
00:20:53.280 Rubio knows who he is. Everybody knows who he is. He's on TV all the time because Alex Jones,
00:20:57.340 as you saw in that clip, is very good at making a spectacle. So of course he does. I just felt
00:21:02.860 like this is the kind of classic politician response. Oh, I haven't seen that. Whenever
00:21:07.560 there's a damaging video or somebody does a hit piece or does a damaging advertisement or
00:21:13.200 something, they would say, oh, I haven't seen it. I've heard about it, but I haven't seen
00:21:15.540 it. And they deny it and they deny it, but that's not credible here. And then Marco Rubio
00:21:19.760 says, I swear to God, I don't know who you are, which is, I think for a lot of listeners,
00:21:23.820 a little jarring because we all know that Marco Rubio knows who Alex Jones is. So when you say,
00:21:29.140 I swear to God, you just think, what are you doing here? What is the game that you're playing?
00:21:34.860 And also Alex Jones isn't going to take that for an answer. And I'll show you how this ends up to
00:21:39.660 to give you a recap on Alex Jones's media strategy. Here is the rest of that altercation.
00:21:45.620 The Democrats are raping InfoWars. What's the difference between, you know, misinformation
00:21:49.740 from abroad and differences of opinion within the United States? Yeah, and that's happening here.
00:21:53.760 It's a very fine line and that's something we need to be careful about. We don't overreach
00:21:56.760 in that direction. But then he doesn't know about InfoWars being made. He doesn't know
00:21:59.780 about the top of his story in the country. Not just how they apply that within the United States,
00:22:04.140 InfoWars.com is better than ever. But they don't have reasons of authoritarian regimes
00:22:06.800 abroad to crack down on free speech because there's a balance between what is free speech
00:22:14.820 and what people disagree on. Poor Rubio. I've got to go to the committee. You guys can talk
00:22:20.860 to this clown. Oh, yeah. Look, he's a little frat boy. So cool. Back to your bathhouse.
00:22:27.940 Back to your bathhouse. He says, I mean, it's just so what this I pity Marco Rubio here because
00:22:36.780 you know, what was he going to do in this situation? But I think that what he did was
00:22:43.160 just leave at the end, right? He said, OK, I'm leaving my little press gaggle and you guys
00:22:47.440 can talk to Alex Jones. I'm getting out of here because it was so awkward. It was not
00:22:50.920 making good video. It didn't look good. He should have done that the second he saw Alex
00:22:55.000 Jones from down the hallway. So like, nope, Nadia, see ya. You can't win an altercation
00:23:00.320 with Alex Jones. That's not going to happen. Alex Jones creates spectacle. There is no way
00:23:05.900 to win that. There's no way to look cool doing that. Denying that you know who he is,
00:23:09.780 trying to laugh at him, trying to get in his face, trying to threaten him, whatever.
00:23:12.760 It doesn't work. The guy is immune to it. They're turning the frogs gay, you know? I mean,
00:23:17.500 that's really... So I think he should have just walked away sooner. If you get down into a fight
00:23:22.520 with Alex Jones, you can't leave it looking good. You can't leave... This is true of a lot of people
00:23:27.960 in politics, but you can't leave it looking good. When it's a lose, lose, lose, get out of there.
00:23:32.240 He should have done it sooner, but I do have some sympathy for Marco Rubio. Alex Jones,
00:23:37.280 regardless of whether they're turning the frogs gay or any, you know, conspiracy theories of Alex
00:23:41.840 Jones's, you've got to give the guy credit because he's so compelling on camera. He's so entertaining.
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00:25:15.580 bullying, whatever, you know, Alex Jones is doing, he actually made a good point. He made a good
00:25:20.340 point at a separate moment when he was addressing the press. Here, here is Alex Jones actually making
00:25:26.380 a compelling statement, much more compelling than what Jack Dorsey was saying. I'm gonna
00:25:30.760 tell you why I'm here. Say sorry to the Sandy Hook parents, Alex. I am here because there is a
00:25:36.420 concerted effort by the Democratic Party and multinational corporations and big tech to silence
00:25:41.560 conservative and nationalist and populist voices ahead of this critical midterm election. And the big tech
00:25:47.940 companies and the head of Apple admit that they met with Senator Warner, who's running this whole
00:25:52.940 thing, to begin shutting down conservatives or the Democrats threatened to federalize big tech
00:25:58.740 if they did not basically roll over to them. That's a great point. He is making a great point
00:26:03.980 right there, which is that there is a concerted effort by not just the left in America, but the sort
00:26:10.620 of transnational, you know, world federalist, European Union, UN, Kumbaya chorus crowd, which
00:26:19.420 includes multinational corporations, to stamp down voices, to tamp down threads of nationalism, of
00:26:26.400 patriotism, of conservatism, trying to tamp those down because it doesn't go along with the political
00:26:32.900 order that they think is inevitable. That is 100% correct. We're going to be speaking to the political
00:26:37.900 philosopher Yoram Hazoni about this a little later. I think we'll air that interview next week. But
00:26:43.220 that is a very good point. And he's right about Mark Warner, too. They, Mark Warner submitted his
00:26:48.740 proposals for what he was going to do to big tech if big tech didn't go around and start censoring
00:26:55.300 voices that they, that Mark Warner doesn't like. And part of that was, we're going to regulate you
00:26:59.720 into the ground. We're going to federalize you. We're going to this, that, and the other thing.
00:27:02.740 This is actually a really good point. And it makes me go back and forth on Jones, which is
00:27:06.680 if he, if he can make a good point like this in between talking about the gay frogs, like
00:27:12.720 maybe he, maybe he should just do that. Maybe he should do that instead of just screaming in
00:27:17.740 Marco Rubio's face and creating a spectacle. I don't know. I, I, I certainly prefer the spectacle
00:27:22.720 because it's a lot more funny and interesting to watch, but this is a really important point.
00:27:27.500 And it does get to the core of our debate over nationalism today and what the role of companies
00:27:32.000 are in a country. But we'll get to that a little bit later. So all of big tech is really floundering
00:27:38.980 right now. Just look at the stock market. And if you can't look at the stock market, look at the
00:27:42.300 user numbers, look at Facebook losing daily users for the first time ever, just, just this year.
00:27:48.540 Same thing with Twitter. Same thing happened for monthly users with Twitter. One of the solutions for
00:27:54.160 this is it was a study that just came out of the university of Michigan, which is that we need to
00:27:59.160 friend God. That was the headline. You need to friend God, like you're friending him on Facebook,
00:28:04.580 but friend God in real life. And I, it's a kind of cheap headline, you know, it's a, it's a little
00:28:10.980 kitschy or something, but I really do like the point because what the study found is that religious
00:28:16.560 people have a stronger sense of belonging and purpose in life. Of course, this is true. If you live
00:28:22.300 in the modern materialist nihilist worldview that everything is just a big cosmic accident, it's a tale told
00:28:29.040 by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. The only even plausible purpose of life is to
00:28:35.260 pleasure yourself until you die. If that's your point of view, you're not going to have a sense of purpose
00:28:39.860 because that worldview precludes the possibility of a sense of purpose. If you believe in God, particularly
00:28:46.500 the Judeo-Christian version of God, then you're going to feel a real sense of purpose. If you have theistic religion,
00:28:53.220 you're going to feel purpose because there is a purpose. There's a teleology. This is true even if
00:28:57.200 you, if you were living around in old uncle Aristotle's day, that there was the purpose to
00:29:02.500 life, a purpose to do the good, to pursue virtues, which is totally missing in that materialist point
00:29:07.060 of view. So that, that makes a lot of sense. The study also found that friendless people, people who
00:29:11.220 don't have a lot of friends or don't have a big social circle, are more likely to lack direction and
00:29:15.840 struggle with meaning. Uh, fair enough. Uh, I mean, this is true at all. Everybody goes through this
00:29:21.660 at a certain point of life. They feel a little lonely, not all the time, but some of you go
00:29:25.020 through a period and you say, I'm a little lonely right now. I don't whatever, maybe later you got
00:29:28.260 a big social circle. Uh, and when you're lonely, when you're isolated, when you don't have a lot of
00:29:32.760 human contact, then you can kind of get lost in your own head and get lost in what your sense of
00:29:36.820 purpose is in the world. Uh, so what the lead author of this study, Todd Chan says, is that for the
00:29:41.320 socially disconnected, God may serve as a substitute relationship that compensates
00:29:45.280 for some of the purpose the human relationships would normally provide. This is where it goes
00:29:50.000 totally wrong. Because, because it is true for people who, uh, who lack, uh, substantive social
00:29:57.620 relationships in, you know, with human beings, God can help them. God can also help people who do have
00:30:03.560 a lot of friends in the real world, in the physical world. God can help people who've got some friends
00:30:08.740 and not others and who have good work friends and this and that and the other thing. Uh, it, it isn't a
00:30:13.460 substitute relationship. Your relationship with God is the foundational relationship.
00:30:17.540 So it isn't, it, I think what the authors of the study are saying is if you don't have any friends,
00:30:22.180 make an imaginary friend, a big guy in the sky with a beard. But that isn't what God is at all.
00:30:26.340 God is the foundation of those relationships. God is the basis of all meaningful speech. God is the
00:30:30.660 basis of our consciousness. And if you've got a good relationship with God, you're going to have a
00:30:35.400 better relationship with your friends. If you have a good relationship with God, you're going to have a
00:30:38.900 better relationship with your spouse or your boyfriend or girlfriend. Uh, that is, that is the
00:30:42.840 root. People get this totally backwards in the world because they think that the tangible is what
00:30:47.220 is ultimate. The physical is what is ultimately true. But that, that isn't the case. This is a very
00:30:52.240 modern idea and it's very mistaken. The tangible is a metaphor for the foundational things, which are
00:30:58.260 metaphysical. Our, uh, our relationships with our friends are in many ways substitutes for our
00:31:03.540 relationship with God, or there are at least augmentations of that, or there are ancillary to that.
00:31:07.940 So I wish they got that right, but it's very, very true. I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and
00:31:11.860 YouTube and we have a lot more to talk about. Speaking of God, we have to talk about Pope
00:31:15.220 Francis's new response to his critics. Not, not terribly polite. Uh, and, uh, it's two words
00:31:22.220 and they're not happy birthday. They're, they're shut up. That's what the words are. What were you
00:31:25.340 thinking? Uh, we also have to talk, we have a great, this day in America and this day, or this is
00:31:29.840 America and this day in history. Uh, but you watched Jack Dorsey today. You watched, you watched the
00:31:36.860 Kavanaugh hearings yesterday and today, you know what you need. I don't need to tell you. If you
00:31:40.980 go to dailywire.com, you'll get me, the Andrew Klavan show, the Ben Shapiro show. You get to
00:31:44.180 ask questions in the mailbag that's coming up tomorrow. Get them in. You'll get to ask questions
00:31:47.380 in the conversation. Yeah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't know. I'm not one for mixing spirits,
00:31:53.740 you know, beer before liquor, you'll never be sicker. Liquor before beer, you're all in the clear.
00:31:58.340 But do you put salty leftist tears from Kavanaugh's hearing before the salty leftist tears from Jack
00:32:05.340 Dorsey's hearing? Or do you have the salty leftist big tech tears before you have, it's very complicated
00:32:11.400 and you could get sick. Make sure you get this important tumbler, throw some ice cubes in,
00:32:15.920 splash it around, strain it in a martini glass, nice and chilled, throw an olive in there for good
00:32:19.860 measure. You're going to have a delicious cocktail. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:32:24.460 That does sound delish, doesn't it? I'm getting the shakes already just thinking about my delicious
00:32:38.540 Kavanaugh hearing martini later. Yum, yum, yum. So speaking of God, Pope Francis is finally answering
00:32:44.900 some of his critics. He previously said in response to Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's testimony that
00:32:52.560 he was complicit in covering up some clerical abuse of seminarians. He said, I will not say one word on
00:32:59.420 it. Well, now Pope Francis is saying more than one word on it. He said, quote, with people who lack
00:33:04.740 goodwill, with people who seek only scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction,
00:33:11.360 even within the family, there is nothing to do, in brackets, but silence and prayer.
00:33:18.560 May the Lord give us the grace to discern when we should speak and when we should stay silent.
00:33:25.620 Oh my gosh. This is the, he was much better when he was saying, I'm not going to answer my critics.
00:33:31.780 He was, this was, that was a much more satisfying answer than saying, shut up. I mean, because that's
00:33:36.600 what this amounts to. He's saying, shut up. That is his answer. This is utterly unacceptable. This is a
00:33:42.600 totally unacceptable answer from the pontiff. And this is really amazing because from the beginning
00:33:48.720 you've had people who are not Catholic, who are not Christian in the mainstream media talking about
00:33:52.500 how wonderful the Francis pontificate is. Oh, he's so much better than that old Benedict. Benedict,
00:33:56.980 I don't, he, he was German and we don't like Germans or whatever they were saying. And now we see a
00:34:03.720 serious, incredible charge of corruption at the highest levels of the Vatican, all the way up to the
00:34:08.980 papacy. We didn't see these charges under Pope Benedict. We, now we're seeing this at the highest
00:34:14.200 levels. And what is Pope Francis saying? Is it this humble, I'm sorry, this is, okay, I'm going to
00:34:19.780 answer. I'm going to, no, it's shut up. That's the answer we're getting. This is totally unacceptable
00:34:24.000 and people need to be held to account. And I'm telling you, the bishops are not going to get away
00:34:30.640 with this. They're not going to get away with saying, oh, that's okay. It'll blow over. It'll blow over.
00:34:35.020 It won't blow over. The Catholic laity in particular, because we're the ones who donate
00:34:39.960 to the Bishop's Appeal and to all of the service, Catholic relief services, Catholic charities,
00:34:44.460 everything connected with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which actually in this case
00:34:48.060 has acted well enough to say there needs to be an investigation and this needs to be taken
00:34:52.600 seriously. We should not give a penny, not a penny to any of those things. We can give to our churches,
00:34:57.620 don't give to any of those bishops appeals or any of those bishop charities until answers are given,
00:35:03.780 until heads roll, corrupt prelates get out of here. I mean, Christ talks very clearly about what
00:35:10.200 should happen to those prelates who cause the least of his flock to sin. And it's that they should have
00:35:15.520 a, it would be better for them if they had a millstone tied around their neck and were cast
00:35:18.720 into the bottom of the sea. We should demand accountability. And this answer is just not
00:35:23.300 acceptable. Moving on, as I'll try to, I try to be measured when I'm talking about these ecclesial
00:35:28.940 things, but it's just unbelievable. This is a good way to feel better after watching big tech
00:35:38.120 implode, after watching our government implode, after watching the Catholic church not taking
00:35:41.940 responsibility for anything. This is very lovely. Jeffrey Jones. Jeffrey Jones was a regular character
00:35:50.940 in the latter seasons of the Cosby show. And he was always a good actor there. And so last week,
00:35:57.360 some wacko girl took photos of him at a Trader Joe's. He was working at a Trader Joe's and he,
00:36:05.820 she spread it. It was in the Daily Mail. It was going all over the place. So they're shaming this
00:36:10.900 guy for working an honest job. This is a totally honest job. Working at a store is a great thing.
00:36:16.180 He's contributing to his family. I know a lot of actors who don't work jobs.
00:36:19.080 Here is Jeffrey Owens explaining his reaction to it. I think this sums up the best of the American
00:36:26.560 attitude.
00:36:27.540 I got to a point where, you know, I've been teaching, acting, directing for, for 30 plus years,
00:36:34.840 but, you know, got to a point where, you know, it, it just, it just didn't add up enough, you know,
00:36:40.660 and you got to do what you got to do. I, I wanted a job that I could have some flexibility,
00:36:44.680 try to stay in the business. I didn't advertise that I was, you know, you know, at Trader Joe's
00:36:52.940 only, but not that I was ashamed of it, but because I didn't want the entertainment community
00:36:56.760 to kind of decide, well, he's doing that. He's not in, you know, he's not pursuing acting anymore.
00:37:01.700 You know what?
00:37:03.160 This makes perfect sense. This might not make sense to everybody, but having worked as an actor
00:37:07.280 before, you know, it, this does make sense to me. For those of you who can't see this, by the way,
00:37:12.140 Jeffrey Owens is wearing his Trader Joe's name tag and his Yale hat. He's a Yale-y,
00:37:17.960 Yale-y by alma mater, and he's wearing both of them at the same time. I love this. There is nothing
00:37:24.080 pretentious about this guy. He's working, as actors have to do, he's working a job in between
00:37:28.760 acting jobs because people who are even professional and working actors are almost never actually
00:37:35.860 working. A lot of the time, they're just sitting around waiting or going on auditions or whatever,
00:37:39.420 which doesn't pay a whole lot. Even when you book a gig for the vast majority of actors,
00:37:43.400 it does not pay a whole lot, which is why some of us have to stoop to take jobs at the Daily Wire
00:37:48.320 and write blank books. And I'm sorry, I was getting lost in my, my own head. And so he did this and
00:37:53.760 there's no shame in that. I know, I know actors, I kid you not, who go on the dole, who, who take
00:37:58.840 unemployment insurance or they take welfare checks. I have heard professional actors, professional
00:38:04.140 actors who have graduated from Yale refer to the welfare system as the public arts subsidy.
00:38:10.500 No shame, no shame whatsoever about taking their hand out from taxpayers because they want to do
00:38:15.680 their art, which doesn't have much demand in the marketplace. That's not what Jeffrey Owens did.
00:38:20.240 Jeffrey Owens, this is America, baby. He said, I'm going to go out, I'm going to pursue my dream.
00:38:24.840 I'm going to pursue this artistic form that I'm good at, that I've worked at a very,
00:38:28.540 very high level in, that I still work at, though at a, you know, less publicly than I did on this
00:38:34.520 big TV show. I'm going to keep pursuing all of that, that crazy American can do ambitious artistic
00:38:40.120 dream. And I'm going to work hard and I'm going to put money on the table because I have to support
00:38:44.700 my family and I have to be a responsible person. This is the best of America. He explains it even
00:38:49.960 more succinctly. I do want to say this, you know, that this business of my being this Cosby guy who got
00:38:57.100 shamed for working at Trader Joe's, that's going to pass. You know, that's going to, you know, in
00:39:03.020 some measure of time, that's going to pass away. But I hope what doesn't pass is this idea that
00:39:09.220 people are now thinking, this rethinking about what it means to work, you know, the honor of the
00:39:16.260 working person and the dignity of work. And I hope that this period that we're in now where we have a
00:39:21.420 heightened sensitivity about that and a reevaluation of what it means to work and that a reevaluation of
00:39:28.460 the idea that some jobs are better than others, because that's actually not true. There is no job
00:39:33.800 that's better than another job. It might pay better. It might have better benefits. It might look better
00:39:38.740 on a resume and on paper, but actually it's not better. Every job is worthwhile and valuable. And
00:39:46.760 if, if we have a, uh, you know, a kind of a rethinking about that because of what's happened
00:39:51.280 to me, um, uh, that would be great, but no one should feel sorry for me.
00:39:56.940 One hundred percent correct. That is so correct. That is so clear. He's, he's making his alma mater
00:40:03.340 proud, baby. I mean, that is so right. What a, what a terrifically accurate American idea and sense of
00:40:10.260 work. Adam in the garden was told to work before the fall. Work is not a punishment in the garden of Eden.
00:40:16.220 Adam was told to work. It is in our nature, in the best parts of our nature to work. Work is a good
00:40:21.740 thing. I see this a lot with actors. I've experienced this. Actors get lazy. They just
00:40:25.940 kind of loaf around. They wait for the phone to ring and whatever. And it's very depressing when
00:40:30.280 people are out of work, they get depressed. In part, it's because the money isn't coming in. In part,
00:40:34.940 it's because we are made to work. This is why people who retire and then don't do anything in
00:40:39.140 retirement decline very quickly. You have to do something in your retirement. You have to do something
00:40:43.900 with your time. And there is a dignity to work. There is no work that is bad. The, any job is
00:40:51.080 better than no job. There is no minimum wage. The minimum wage is not $15 an hour or $14 an hour.
00:40:56.380 It's $0 an hour. That's the true minimum wage. That's, that's the minimum wage that you got to get
00:41:01.100 out of. You've got to get some job. And there is, I mean, there is work that pays very well. And there
00:41:07.060 is, you know, as, as Jeffrey Owens was saying, there's work that pays, uh, far less well, but
00:41:12.500 the, the actual moral quality of that work is exactly the same. In some cases, the work that
00:41:18.260 pays less well can be more morally gratifying, perhaps, uh, depending on exactly what you're
00:41:23.500 doing, but work being productive, contributing to society, not being a lout or a lazy guy or a criminal
00:41:31.000 or do, you know, people who are actually contributing. That is a, an unqualified good.
00:41:36.500 And he's, uh, Jeffrey Owens is embodying that. He's articulating it very well. And, uh, it's a
00:41:41.540 great thing. He's a real, these days when actors and Yalies are bringing such shame to their institutions
00:41:47.220 and lines of work in the country, it is so good that one guy who is both of those things is, is making
00:41:52.940 it, uh, is really making his institutions proud. Very good stuff from Jeffrey Owens. Before we go,
00:41:58.240 I know we're running late, tough. We're always running late. I want to talk about this day in
00:42:03.780 history. This day in history in 1774 sheds a lot of light on our present situation as we are watching
00:42:10.840 the Kavanaugh crazy chaotic hearing. The Democrats are turning into a circus as we're watching the big
00:42:17.160 tech testimony, uh, as we're watching all of this grandstanding on this day in history in 1774,
00:42:23.120 the first continental Congress convened, uh, it convened at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia,
00:42:28.240 there were 56 delegates there. Uh, Georgia didn't show up, but, uh, 56 delegates among those were
00:42:35.700 George Washington, John Adams, John Jay, Patrick Henry, great men, serious men. They created the
00:42:42.800 Continental Association. They didn't quite declare independence. It wasn't time for independence
00:42:47.080 yet. It was in response to the coercive acts, the intolerable acts from Britain. And, uh, this was a
00:42:53.220 response, but it was measured. It wasn't radical. It wasn't, uh, in, you know, some crazy immediately
00:42:58.340 revolutionary response. They, they also set a date for the second continental Congress in case the first
00:43:04.180 one didn't work and Britain didn't repeal the intolerable acts. These were serious men who were
00:43:10.180 going to this first continental Congress in a, in a way that really threatened their livelihoods,
00:43:16.300 threatened, uh, ultimately would threaten their lives at the second continental Congress,
00:43:19.740 which, uh, was to say, we are going to break, we are slowly or quickly going to break away
00:43:26.460 from domination by Great Britain. And they, they did this for their country. They did this for their
00:43:32.360 countrymen, for their families, for their states, for the colonies at that time, soon to be states,
00:43:37.620 uh, for human freedom, for, uh, higher ideals, for, for sovereignty. And, uh, they did what they had to
00:43:45.840 do and it was a real sacrifice. Uh, the early Congress after the constitution was ratified,
00:43:51.340 the early Congress was paid $6 a day, Congress and the Senate. They had to move it out of New York
00:43:56.280 because you can't live in New York on $6 a day, as many of them pointed out then. Uh, what, what has
00:44:02.460 changed from then until now? The early Congress convened for less than nine months out of the year,
00:44:08.040 the first Congress, less than nine months out of the year. They went on long recesses. They didn't
00:44:12.400 want to be in the summer heat. Um, now Congress is in session virtually all of the time. It's never
00:44:18.280 off. They're flying back and forth constantly, raising a ton of money in their districts.
00:44:22.780 It is a totally professionalized job. The early Congress was part-time work and you're supposed
00:44:27.320 to go and tend to your business interests at home. Now Congress is a full-time job. What has changed?
00:44:33.680 How did we get from the first Continental Congress of Washington, Jay, Adams, Henry, to the schmucks
00:44:41.100 that are running around the Capitol right now, creating havoc, breaking rules, trying to stop a,
00:44:46.260 a perfectly admirable Supreme Court justice nominee? How did we get there? Uh, Ben Sasse sums this up
00:44:53.940 very well during, uh, the Kavanaugh judiciary hearing. Here's Senator Sasse. Because for the last century
00:45:01.640 and increasing by the decade right now, more and more legislative authority is delegated to the
00:45:07.680 executive branch every year. Both parties do it. The legislature is impotent. The legislature is
00:45:14.560 weak. And most people here want their jobs more than they really want to do legislative work. And
00:45:19.400 so they punt most of the work to the next branch. Third consequence is that this transfer of power
00:45:25.060 means the people yearn for a place where politics can actually be done. And when we don't do a lot of
00:45:29.940 big actual political debating here, we transfer it to the Supreme Court. And that's why the Supreme Court
00:45:35.340 is increasingly a substitute political battleground in America. It is not healthy, but it is what
00:45:40.860 happens. And it's something that our founders wouldn't be able to make any sense of. And fourth
00:45:45.360 and finally, we badly need to restore the proper duties and the balance of power from our constitutional
00:45:51.640 system. Absolutely right. A totally correct diagnosis of what's happened in the country.
00:45:57.620 The Congress has given away all of its power to the executive branch, to the executive agencies,
00:46:02.660 to the alphabet soup, CDC, FDA, ABC, LGBTQ. I don't know. I'm losing my initialisms.
00:46:10.400 They've delegated all of that power away so that you have the lawmaking being done out of the
00:46:14.020 executive branch. And the reason they do that is, and by the way, in the cases that it's not made by
00:46:18.820 the executive, the people who demand answers to their political questions put all of the pressure
00:46:23.200 on the judiciary, which is why you get absurdly politicized hearings like the Kavanaugh nomination.
00:46:27.780 The reason that Congress did that is because Congress has to answer to the people. The president
00:46:34.840 has to answer to the electors every four years. The judiciary, the federal judiciary doesn't answer.
00:46:42.080 They get appointed and they have life terms. And the Congress has to answer. The Senate every six
00:46:47.860 years, the House every two years. So the House is very, very close to the people. And they fear that
00:46:53.220 they won't be reelected. If they make laws, if they take a stand, if they take any courageous act,
00:46:58.080 they'll be thrown out of office because the people won't understand that you have to do hard things.
00:47:02.420 And so they get rid of that. It is easy just to blame Congress as an institution. I'm happy to do
00:47:08.280 it a lot of the time. The Congress is us. The Congress is us. We did this. The American people did this.
00:47:14.860 The Congress reflects the American people. It is the branch of the government that is most closely
00:47:21.080 related to the people that is supposed to reflect the political appetites of the people. If there's
00:47:25.720 the logos, the pathos, and the ethos, the logos, the logical part of the government is supposed to
00:47:30.400 be the judiciary. The ethos, the spirited part of the government is the executive. And the pathos,
00:47:36.200 the appetite, the feeling of the government is supposed to be the Congress, the legislature.
00:47:41.560 And our feeling has become weak and immature and the American people are given way to base
00:47:47.060 passions and irresponsibility and recklessness. Don't, it's so easy. We do this all the time
00:47:51.900 in politics. We complain about this on Twitter. This is one of the big aspects of social media
00:47:56.980 censorship is they're saying it's too mean. People are being too mean to each other, blaming everyone
00:48:00.660 else for their problems. It was the Russians. It was the Macedonians. It was the this, it was that.
00:48:04.020 No, it was you. Look at the man in the mirror. It is you. Before you pluck that little speck out of
00:48:10.300 your brother's eye, pull that big giant tweet out of your own eye, that big iPhone out of your own
00:48:15.120 eye. It is your fault. You are doing it. The way to improve the country, the way to improve the
00:48:20.880 politics, and to improve the public square, and to improve our government is to improve yourself,
00:48:25.740 to be more virtuous, to be better educated, to be more curious, to be more civil, to be more humble,
00:48:31.500 to have therefore more wisdom. That's what you can do. You can, it's not about yelling
00:48:37.100 in people's faces. It's not about blaming this guy or that guy or that guy. You can do that too.
00:48:43.540 You can do, I mean, these people, the Congress does reflect us, so we should hold them accountable.
00:48:47.960 We're, but we need to make sure that we are capable of self-government. And the more and more
00:48:54.160 that we fall into this cycle of irresponsibility and blaming and, and bad education and, and
00:49:03.180 misinformation, the less able we are going to be to control that government. So take a look at the
00:49:07.740 man in the mirror, huh? I, I, I don't know that I've ever ended a show quoting Michael Jackson,
00:49:12.540 but I didn't think that was how the show was going to end today. But take a look at the man in the
00:49:15.640 mirror. Come back tomorrow so that we can do the mailbag. Get your mailbag questions in. In the
00:49:20.100 meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.
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