Ep. 229 - Ha Ha, You Lost
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Summary
The FBI has concluded its investigation into allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. The White House finds no corroborating evidence for the charges. Senators Flake and Collins say the investigation was thorough. Mitch McConnell sets the cloture vote for Friday and we could all have a confirmed Associate Justice nominee by Saturday. Finally, a mailbag and a psalm of life on National Poetry Day.
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The FBI has concluded its investigation into allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.
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The White House finds no corroborating evidence for the charges.
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Senators Flake and Collins say the investigation was thorough.
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Cocaine Mitch sets the cloture vote for Friday.
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And we could all have a confirmed Associate Justice Kavanaugh by Saturday.
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Which leaves me with one very serious message for Senate Democrats.
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Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! You lost! Ha ha ha ha ha!
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We will examine the left's witch trial of Judge Kavanaugh as it passes into the rearview mirror.
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Then a male feminist roundhouse kicks a pro-life woman.
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Presumably because of how much he supports women.
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Finally the mailbag and a psalm of life on National Poetry Day.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Get your tumblers ready, folks. Get them ready.
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How Christine Blasey Ford's testimony changed America.
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Which, coincidentally, is going to be the title of my new book.
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I mean, it humiliated Democrats who really thought they had something.
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And now, it looks like it's all turning out for the best.
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Of course, anything could still happen in the next few days.
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Let's turn to Senate Democrat, Chris Coons, to explain the situation.
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Do you believe this Brett Kavanaugh will be confined?
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It hangs by a few undecided Democrats and Republicans.
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If I were to just guess today, he will be narrowly confirmed.
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If I had to guess today, he will be narrowly confirmed.
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The FBI has completed that supplemental investigation.
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Judge Kavanaugh had already had six FBI investigations.
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Uh, but after those hearings, you know, there were these new allegations that came out from
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Christine Ford and that crazy person from Avenatti and all these other people.
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And, uh, so the White House, or the FBI did this separate investigation.
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The White House confirmed late last night, uh, it was reported in the Wall Street Journal
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that they found no corroborating evidence whatsoever, sent it over to the Senate.
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Chuck Grassley said there was no corroborating evidence whatsoever.
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Uh, Mitch McConnell yesterday, Cocaine Mitch, set the vote for cloture.
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Uh, crucially now, we've got Jeff Flake, that little quizling.
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Jeff Flake is saying there's no corroboration, so it seems like he's going to vote for Kavanaugh.
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Uh, Susan Collins, same thing, said the investigation seems very thorough.
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So, looks like we can hope that, uh, uh, she'll vote for Kavanaugh,
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which means that it looks like Mr. Kavanaugh is going to the Supreme Court of the United States
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for reaction, we turn to the entire Senate Democratic Caucus.
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That's about what I expected, but it's still very enjoyable to, uh, to see that again.
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The Democrats in the Senate are still furious, and the Democrat partisans around the country
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Now, serious Democrats, and I've talked to a number of them, did not put a lot of stock
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into these allegations for many reasons, which we'll get to a little later.
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I mean, we've, we've gone over all of the reasons not to, and now we have no corroboration
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whatsoever of any of them, even by the people who were named in the allegations.
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So, I think serious Democrats didn't actually take the allegations seriously, but they used
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them as a political tool. It's a little dirty, it's a little nasty, but understandable.
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What really worries me are the Democrats who took them seriously in the first place,
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who were so gullible or so willfully ignorant that they would go along with what were obvious
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lies or misrepresentations and untruths and stories that have more holes in them than Swiss cheese.
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And so those people are now calling for all the same stuff.
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They want another, a longer FBI investigation, a more thorough FBI investigation, because
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now they say the supplemental FBI investigation didn't investigate Ford and Kavanaugh.
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Okay. So this is their new line. It didn't investigate Ford and Kavanaugh.
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To begin, what is an FBI investigation? I think people, you know, people throw that, that phrase
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around. I don't think they know what it means. It's when the FBI comes and interviews you and
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gets statements from you. And then they say, okay, what did this happen? Did this happen?
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And then they just, the reports present those statements. The FBI investigations here don't
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reach conclusions as Joe Biden famously said in 1991. So they didn't interview Ford and Kavanaugh.
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Why not? Well, because we've already heard from Ford and Kavanaugh under oath before the Senate
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Judiciary Committee for hours and hours and hours. Christine Ford testified for four hours before
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the Senate Judiciary Committee. How about Brett Kavanaugh? He testified for 32 hours. We have a
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lot of testimony. So I think what the left is suggesting now is that the FBI would go up to
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them and say, so Dr. Ford, did you mean it? Did you mean everything you said? Yes, I meant it. Yeah.
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Okay. And you sure though? Yes. What question are they going to ask her that wasn't asked during the
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hearing or that wasn't given in the opening statements? What are they going to ask Brett
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Kavanaugh that he didn't get asked or talk about in 32 hours of testimony? Is there anything like,
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I think he went over everything. He went over his favorite drinks in college. You know, he went over
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the definition of boofing. There is nothing left to talk about. So there's nothing new to get here.
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Now they've, they've tried to have, they've saved their last minute desperate Hail Mary. Here it is.
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They've got Brett Kavanaugh's old suite mate at Yale. I guess someone used to live with him or live near
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him at Yale. His name is Kenneth Appold. And I guess, I guess life didn't treat Kenneth very well
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after his halcyon days in New Haven. So he decides he needs to get 15 minutes of fame trying to dunk
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on his former classmate. And so he says, now you remember the Debbie Ramirez allegation. This is
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another one that came up like five seconds ago that no one had ever heard about for 30 years.
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So what she said is that Kavanaugh was at a party and he whipped it out one time and whipped out
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little Brett. And there was no corroboration of this. People refuted it. There's no evidence that
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it happened. But now Kenneth Appold, the former suite mate or classmate of Brett Kavanaugh says that he
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is 100% certain that some guy told him about that. Did you catch that last part? Because I know if you
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only heard the first part, you'd think, wow, okay, there's a witness. No, no, no. He wasn't there. He
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wasn't in the room where this alleged whipping out happened. He just is 100% certain that he heard
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about it as a rumor from some guy later on who allegedly was in a room, but it gets better because
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the New Yorker, you know, Ronan Farrow, who used to be a serious guy and now he's reporting these
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ridiculous rumors to try to torpedo a Supreme Court nominee, a conservative Supreme Court nominee,
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crucially. He reported this too. So the New Yorker reaches out to the guy that Appold allegedly heard
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the rumor from because Appold couldn't get ahold of the guy. The New Yorker finally gets in touch with
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them. And the guy that Appold heard the rumor from denies ever having said it or remembering it,
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said, I have no recollection of that whatsoever. So he refutes the guy's claim, but Appold is 100%
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certain that he heard a rumor 35 years ago from some guy who says it never happened.
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It's so good. I'm sorry. It's so, so good. So now the new one they want, the new, the new,
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uh, uh, demand. So the, the FBI thing, so it didn't work out. Uh, and I got to tell you something,
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I've been really harsh on Jeff Flake this week. I'm still feeling pretty harsh on Jeff Flake
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because he's a little squish and he got us into a very dangerous situation where crazy allegations
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could have come out of the woodwork to delay, delay even more. Fortunately, public opinion was
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against it, but the Flake thing did work out, right? The Flake extra week seems to have helped
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Republicans in the polls. We'll get to that in a little bit. I don't know that that lets him off the
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hook for, for pulling such a reckless move, but all in all it worked out. So I'm happy about that.
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So the FBI thing didn't work out. The ice fight at the New Haven bar, that one didn't work out.
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The New York times scoop that he, you know, raised a beer keg over his head didn't work out. So now,
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take a polygraph test. Now, this is very funny because there are, for years and years, we've known
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that polygraph tests are unreliable. That's why we don't use them as a matter of ascertaining guilt
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or innocence. And for so long, the left has talked about false memories. There are, one professor who
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has been interviewed a lot about this is Elizabeth Loftus, who talks about false memories all the time.
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Her take on these events has been a little leaning to the left, unfortunately. But a lot of her work,
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and other people's work in this area, talks about how you can have false memories,
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memories, but that you are dead certain of, you know. We've known that over time, not just over
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the course of 30 years, but even over the course of a short period of time, people's memories can
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change. And there are many ways to beat a polygraph test. There are many ways to be coached on a
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polygraph test. So this is their Hail Mary pass. They say, okay, well, now, you know, okay, this is
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like the second Hail Mary, the Hail Mary of the Hail Mary. They say, well, now he's got to take a polygraph
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test. And here is brand new, brand spanking new cocaine. Lindsey Graham comes out to answer
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this suggestion. Why don't we just dunk him and see if he floats? Why don't we, it's like a perfect
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witch trial now. Let's bring back the Inquisition. That's what Lindsey Graham answers. And it's a great
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way because just really quickly, let's sum up what we've got. Brett Kavanaugh is nominated
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a couple months ago. He's got unimpeachable character. He, nobody has questioned his record
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of integrity. He's been a federal judge for a dozen years. He was staff secretary to the president.
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He was, uh, assistant, uh, independent counsel under Ken Starr or deputy independent counsel,
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some title like that. Worked on the Starr investigation. Yale law graduate, Yale college
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graduate, just a very serious guy, Georgetown prep graduate, as we've heard ad nauseum,
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uh, just a very serious guy, totally milquetoast. If you, you know, that one wackadoodle, uh,
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uh, Avenatti's liar client came out and said, she, she knows she remembers Kavanaugh at the party
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because he has a distinctive face. He doesn't have a distinctive face. He has the least distinctive
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face I've ever seen. He looked, if you just said, pick the most milquetoast federal judge you
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could imagine, I would imagine Brett Kavanaugh. So that was him. He gets nominated and
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everything goes fine. And they're all upset about abortion. They're all upset about Roe v. Wade.
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They're all upset that he's an originalist who believes the constitution means what it says.
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They're upset about, uh, his threat to Chevron deference, to the administrative state,
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to out of control, big government. But remember the hearings went along just fine.
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We didn't hear a peep about this nonsense until after the hearings were over.
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However, they knew he performed very well. All of a sudden Senate Democrats decided the 11th hour,
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they're going to spring some bogus, ridiculous accusations. So only after the hearings ended,
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they spring Christine Ford, who says 36 or 35 or 37 years ago, Brett Kavanaugh was in a room with
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four people or two people at a party with five people or six or seven people in some place.
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She doesn't know where she didn't know when it happened or why, or how the party came about,
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how she got home, how she got there. But anyway, the long and story short of it is he either
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groped her or he tried to kill her or something like that. It kept changing. The story kept
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changing on and on. She said, I, I know this is true because I'm afraid of flying. I have a fear
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of small spaces, uh, and I never fly because of this incident that allegedly happened to me from
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Brett Kavanaugh, except I fly all the time. I fly to the French Polynesia or to Hawaii or to here
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or to there. I take trips all the time. I fly in little propeller planes. Okay. But I, the way you
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know is that I'm, I'm so afraid of small spaces that I demanded we have a second door put on our
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home in 2012 when it came up in marriage therapy with my husband, except actually it happened in
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2008 and I did it for my marriage counseling office and to rent it out to college kids and
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to Google interns. Okay. Well, that doesn't add up. Okay. Well, all right. That's a, Hey guys,
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this Ford thing isn't really panning out. Is it? There's no corroboration. Well, all the people
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that I say were there, just talk to them. All the people refute what she says. Let's move on to
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someone else. Uh, okay. Uh, Julie Swetnick. Yeah. Okay. Uh, Brett Kavanaugh, he was, uh, he was a
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gang rapist, a criminal mob boss in whenever it doesn't matter. You don't, it doesn't matter.
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Nobody cares whether I'm true or not. We just want to torpedo Kavanaugh. Okay. So then it turns out
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Julie Swetnick was actually in college during the high school parties. Actually, she's a known liar.
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She's got a huge history of filing false harassment, sexual harassment, physical harassment claims.
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Okay. That one's not going to work. Well, we need another FBI investigation. Okay. We got another
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FBI investigation. They conclude nothing. Okay. Okay. Here, here we are. That's the same. If you want
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to skip out on two weeks of the news, that's what happened. So, uh, now we are where we are and, uh,
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this is what it's come to. And now all we have left is the left's evidence-free sanctimony. Uh, you know,
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we treat women what we believe women. We believe all liars. Hashtag believe all liars. Uh, and the right
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doesn't believe women. And then cocaine Lindsay comes back, you know, for the sucker punch right
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behind. He goes right. Here's a jab. He goes back with the hook, uh, when he is speaking at, at, uh,
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the Atlantic festival. Uh, here's what he says. Here's how it was misinterpreted. And here's why
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it's a great jab against the left. So it was a personal degrading attack on someone who is a
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private citizen. You know, here's what's personally degrading. Uh, this is what you get when you go
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through a trailer park with a hundred dollar bill. Uh, you see, this is not the first time
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this has happened. That's actually a reference to something somebody said in James Carvel.
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So the guy who's interviewing Lindsay, he knows what he's doing, but the audience doesn't because
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the audience are just regular run of the mill leftists who read the Atlantic. So what Lindsay
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Graham here says, because they're saying it's so degrading what Trump and the Republicans have done to
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these poor women. And Lindsay Graham says, you know, it's degrading. Drag a hundred dollar bill
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through a trailer park and see what you get. The gasps. How well, that's a really awful thing to
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say. The implication being that if you coax these, these on day class, say women with some money,
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they'll make up allegations. How dare Lindsay Graham say this? The left went crazy. They start
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running articles about this. They start tweeting about this, but then they realize that's not a
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Lindsay Graham quote. That is a James Carvel quote when he was a top advisor to Bill Clinton. And that
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was how he responded to Paula Jones's accusations that Bill Clinton sexually harassed her and whipped
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it out. Uh, and, uh, to about all of the other women who came out and accused Bill Clinton of
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sexual harassment and assault and rape said, drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park,
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see what you get. So now all of a sudden you could see, I was watching it in real time on Twitter
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yesterday. Everything starts to change. And the big shift, someone said, Lindsay Graham, this is,
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he's actually saying just what James Carvel said. Oh, whoops. Oh, nevermind. Whoops. Because the
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sanctimony is absurd. When Democrats have the opportunity to smear women who have a lot more
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credibility, by the way, a lot more credibility than Christine Ford and Julie Swetnick or whatever
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they're talking about now, whenever they have the opportunity to smear them, they do it. Hillary
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Clinton was put in charge of bimbo eruptions, their words, not mine. Uh, they, they take that
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opportunity. Republicans don't do that. We don't behave like that. And by the way, uh, when
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Republicans have the opportunity to falsely accuse people of gang rape, criminal rings or
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whatever, we don't do it. We never said Merrick Garland was some like leather daddy criminal or
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something. We just said, we're not, we're not going to vote for him because they don't have the
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votes and we're not going to confirm them. We're going to wait till the election, but they do that.
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They don't, the Democrats do not take sexual assault very seriously at all. They don't take women
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very seriously at all either. Now, Lindsey Graham is being accused of what about-ism here.
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What about-ism is perhaps my least favorite phrase in politics. It's such a stupid word.
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What about-ism it's look, there is a legitimate what about-ism it's, it's a description of the
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two quote way fallacy, which is when you try to distract from somebody's point by bringing up some,
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some point about them. That's a, I'm not saying that there is no legitimate what about-ism argument
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or what, or a two quote way fallacy, but it's so abused. What about-ism is what about-ism.
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C-O-V-F-E-F-E, keeps hair today, hair tomorrow. The whataboutism thing is really tired because
00:22:19.600
in, so when you bring up whataboutism, here's what happened. Someone said that, that Republicans are
00:22:28.020
being degrading to women and, and this is awful and Democrats are way better and that's why you
00:22:33.240
should vote for Democrats. So Lindsey Graham says, Democrats are awful to women and then the left
00:22:40.280
says, well, that's whataboutism. That's not whataboutism. I'm pointing out your hypocrisy
00:22:45.380
and in politics and journalism, the, the most important tool you have is setting the discussion,
00:22:51.520
setting the agenda, deciding what is going to be talked about. So if, if, if the Democrats are
00:22:58.460
just setting the agenda and you're not allowed to call out their own hypocrisy, then you have
00:23:02.260
no tools at your disposal. You lose one of the, the best tools that you have at your disposal,
00:23:07.660
which is why I totally erase these whataboutism claims. What about whataboutism? What about what
00:23:12.660
aboutism? Because the, the minute you bring up what, you know, they, they bring up the Republicans
00:23:16.740
are bad with women. Then the Republicans bring up that the Democrats are bad with women. And then
00:23:20.300
the Democrats say, well, whataboutism? What about whataboutism? Well, what about what about
00:23:24.240
whataboutism? What about what about what about? Let's focus on the issue at hand. Democrats are
00:23:28.480
being sanctimonious hypocrites right now. They have no credibility on this issue whatsoever.
00:23:33.320
We don't, we don't owe them a single answer. So, uh, that is, uh, that's Cocaine Lindsey for you.
00:23:38.620
Let's go down to Cocaine Mitch. Cocaine Mitch sums it all up. He says, we are not scared.
00:23:46.100
The far left tried to bully and intimidate members of this body. I'm not suggesting we're the victims
00:23:53.840
here, Mr. President, but I want to make it clear to these people who are chasing my members around
00:23:58.540
the hall here or harassing them at the airports or going to their homes. We'll not be intimidated by
00:24:05.260
these people. There is no chance in the world. They're going to scare us out of doing our duty.
00:24:15.480
I don't care how many members they chase, how many people they harass here in the halls.
00:24:21.060
I want to make one thing perfectly clear. We will not be intimidated by these people.
00:24:25.700
You tell them, Mitch. You tell them, Cocaine Mitch. That's absolutely right. And that's all it takes.
00:24:31.700
All it takes is conservatives standing up to the left and saying, you're not going to push us around
00:24:36.400
because the left is like the opposite of sand people, of sand people in Star Wars. You know,
00:24:41.520
the sand people in Star Wars, they march in single file line to hide their numbers.
00:24:45.720
What the left does is they get like three people to just jump around everywhere they can to make it
00:24:49.760
seem like they have a zillion people. They have George Soros at the top, but many other Democrat and left-wing
00:24:55.220
operatives create all these little fake accounts and fake organizations and fake protests,
00:25:00.400
astroturf campaigns to make it seem like they have a lot of people. This has been going on since,
00:25:04.760
by the way, the mid-20th century, since the left controlled all of the news media. They made it seem
00:25:10.520
like everybody had this consensus. Everybody was vaguely left-wing. Oh, never mind that Walter
00:25:17.540
Cronkite is a world federalist. Never mind that he's a strong left-wing activist. No, he's just the
00:25:23.820
voice of the American people. Oh, he says the Vietnam War is over. America must have lost faith
00:25:28.240
in Vietnam. No, these guys are a minority. They've been doing this forever. The Bolsheviks
00:25:32.800
say that they're the majority. They were the minority. They've been doing this. The left has
00:25:36.800
been doing this forever, but they're not. And the minute that in the television news media that Fox
00:25:44.320
News came out, Fox News became a huge smash hit. Why? Because there's a huge percentage of the
00:25:50.360
population, if not the majority of the population, that was not being represented by these left-wing
00:25:55.880
hacks. Same thing on new media. When the social media came out, all of a sudden the right was
00:26:00.880
totally emboldened. Why? Because that mainstream media, newspaper, network TV monopoly was cracked
00:26:08.000
up for the first time. We got to get our voices out there and people are listening. People tune in
00:26:12.760
and it rallies them. This is exactly right. You know, sometimes we get asked,
00:26:16.580
how does everybody come together again in America? People were never together in America. I mean,
00:26:22.160
you know, we love each other because we're each other's countrymen. At least the right feels that
00:26:26.100
way. I don't know if the left feels that way anymore when they're going and attacking
00:26:28.800
Republicans' children at their houses. But at least the right feels that way. But we didn't agree.
00:26:35.120
We didn't agree. From the beginning of the country, we had opposing ideas about the country,
00:26:39.220
Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, now the Republicans and the Democrats. The coming together
00:26:44.740
again is, you can do it two ways. You can do it with this fake political consensus, which is always
00:26:51.020
put on by the left. Or you can do it with the traditional values that undergird the country.
00:26:56.940
So I'm talking about religious values and cultural values and watching the same TV shows and listening
00:27:01.040
to the same movies. But when it comes to the politics of it all, the newspapers, the news media,
00:27:05.380
the politicians, if we all come together, what that means is shutting up conservatives. We had a half
00:27:10.600
century of that or more. We don't need any more of that whatsoever. Mitch says,
00:27:14.140
I'm not scared. Why is he not scared? Look at the polls. A new poll out of NPR, PBS NewsHour,
00:27:19.220
Marist shows the Democrats had a 10-point enthusiasm advantage before this Kavanaugh nonsense that has
00:27:26.160
evaporated. It is now statistically nothing. In July, 78% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans
00:27:33.520
said that this election was very important. Now the numbers increased slightly for Democrats to 82%,
00:27:39.300
but it shot up 12 points for Republicans to 80%. It's totally reinvigorated them. How about women
00:27:44.820
enthusiasm? For the Democrats, now after Kavanaugh, the Democrats thought that women were going to
00:27:50.980
become much more enthusiastic about voting because of this Kavanaugh circus. They've actually declined.
00:27:56.320
Democratic women are now two points less enthusiastic than they were before Kavanaugh. The GOP among women
00:28:02.300
shot up 12 percentage points from 71% to 83%. Quinnipiac poll shows a seven-point Republican gain
00:28:09.960
in local congressional races. GOP enthusiasm is now at levels equal to 2010. That was the last
00:28:15.980
gigantic wave for the GOP. Enthusiasm levels that high. Now I've got to temper that because
00:28:21.440
Democrat enthusiasm levels are also very high. They've taken a hit, but they're also quite high
00:28:26.900
right now. So I'm not predicting a 2010 election, but I am saying that cocaine Mitch has nothing to
00:28:32.100
be afraid of. Republicans and conservatives don't either. When you stand up, when you stand for
00:28:36.340
something, when you stand for what's right, even if you think it's unpopular, I'm telling you,
00:28:40.680
you will win. You'll win in the longterm. A strong majority of voters now of both parties,
00:28:46.560
across both parties, believe that Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
00:28:51.260
Flake looks good. Collins looks good. We talked about that earlier. Right now, Heidi Heitkamp,
00:28:55.260
who is an embattled Democrat senator, she is saying that she's going to vote no on this.
00:29:01.100
This is not a surprise. This is not evidence of how other Democrats or swing votes are going to go.
00:29:06.240
She's down 12 points in the polls and Kavanaugh has really hit her. This whole Kavanaugh thing
00:29:10.520
has really hit her in the polls. She's down 12 points. Things are not looking good for her.
00:29:14.380
I think she's voting no because she's in for a penny, in for a pound. If she's going to go down,
00:29:18.620
she's going to go down swinging and try to protect her legitimacy in the Democrat party.
00:29:25.260
We've got to go really quick, but before we do that, I have to talk about this disgusting clip
00:29:29.340
that was going around the internet. I know we got to get to mailbag. I know we got to get to
00:29:32.520
National Poetry Day. Too bad because this clip is one of the, this sums it up. This sums up the
00:29:38.420
male feminist perfectly. A, there was a pro-life rally and some left-wing, he for she, I believe all
00:29:46.260
women, male feminist, decided to attack a pro-life woman. Here he is.
00:29:54.080
They actually had people filming you the whole time, which is why I say, kill Wakanda.
00:29:58.520
Guess what? Hey, if somebody gets raped by somebody and they're like, I'm a 16 year old and I can't
00:30:09.200
have this baby. Think you should keep it? It's a baby. If someone is raped and she gave birth and
00:30:16.180
she decided to kill her three-year-old child. I meant to kick your phone. Do not touch me.
00:30:26.900
Someone call the cops. For those who couldn't see, this male feminist dressed in his little hoodie
00:30:34.540
with his little, you know, signs and his backwards cap and his, his stupid facial hair. He's, he,
00:30:42.740
he winds up and roundhouse kicks this girl. And I don't know where, he might've kicked her in the
00:30:46.600
head because he, he kicked right in the screen, right in where the camera is. This, his name is
00:30:51.900
Jordan Hunt, by the way, if you want to find him authorities. I guess he's still on the run or who
00:30:57.200
knows? He's, I don't think he's been apprehended yet. Jordan Hunt. This was at a pro-life rally in
00:31:01.420
Toronto. That name again, Jordan Hunt, J-O-R-D-A-N-H-U-N-T. Just in case you come across the
00:31:07.840
guy. There's his picture. So this was a pro-life rally. And this guy, this wasn't a pro-abortion
00:31:13.840
rally. This wasn't like the pro-lifers crashed a pro-abortion rally. That wouldn't excuse it either
00:31:17.880
way. But apparently it's a pro-abortion rally. This guy shows up, he's vandalizing people's signs
00:31:23.360
because the left is afraid of free speech. And then he just starts harassing this woman. And
00:31:27.800
look, obviously this guy is a creep, but, and it's very creepy when men are big abortion
00:31:34.540
activists. Isn't that a little creepy? Isn't that a little, you think, well, what's your,
00:31:37.720
what's your interest in this here? Is that when you're trying to evade some responsibility? You
00:31:42.080
want to, I don't know what you want to pressure women. It's a little creepy, but there is nothing
00:31:46.120
creepier than the male feminist, nothing creepier under the sun than the male feminist. Because
00:31:51.100
what's so disgusting to us, even before he kicks her, is that this is, this is a girly
00:31:58.240
man. This is what Arnold Schwarzenegger means by a girly man. When we see a man behave like
00:32:05.520
a girl, it's really weird. We don't care when girls behave like girls. We don't care when
00:32:09.540
men behave like men. Maybe the left does. But when a man behaves like a girl, it's disgusting.
00:32:14.180
When he became like a little catty girl, the worst woman-ish, not womanly. Like this little
00:32:21.320
catty guy who thinks that he can beat up women. Because he, look, we know, civilized people know
00:32:26.940
that men should never hit women. Men, men who hit women should be taken out back, put down like old
00:32:31.760
yeller. We know that. Civilized people know that. But this guy doesn't know that because he thinks
00:32:36.200
men and women are the same, right? They're all the same. I can behave like a, like a hysterical little
00:32:41.000
girl. No, you can't. You shouldn't. It's much worse when you do that than when a girl does that,
00:32:45.360
than when a woman does that. Because male feminists like this guy, girly men, lack all of the natural
00:32:51.820
virtues of manliness. They don't have any of the virtues of being a woman, of womanliness. So they
00:32:57.000
have no virtues. They have none. The natural virtues that they could have, they abandon. It's,
00:33:01.440
it's really disgusting. That name again, Jordan Hunt, if you happen to be in Canada and come across him.
00:33:07.580
Okay. I got to think about Facebook and YouTube. We got a lot of mailbag to get to,
00:33:10.380
and then we've got the, we've got a lovely little poem that I think will invigorate all of us,
00:33:16.180
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00:33:20.200
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You get all the shows and the mailbag and all that. You need this now. You need this now. The
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00:35:31.060
Let's fly through them. From Robert, question. Golden Boy Knowles, I've always been against the
00:35:43.980
two-party system. I would like to see either no parties or multiple parties. With just two,
00:35:48.360
I feel that it's just a game of who has the bigger stick. For now, what are your thoughts on this,
00:35:52.200
Rob? I love the two-party system. It is the best party system that there is. I love it. I hear this
00:35:58.560
all the time on the right and the left. I hate the two-party system. I think it's great.
00:36:02.660
Which party system would you prefer? Would you prefer the one-party system? That's totalitarianism.
00:36:07.520
Would you prefer a multiple party, a three-party, four-party system where little spoiler parties
00:36:11.880
can go in and totally subvert the will of the people such that the least preferable party comes
00:36:18.620
into power? Would you prefer a zillion-party system where demagogues are able to take hold and
00:36:23.800
corruption inevitably takes hold? I don't think so. The two-party system goes back to the earliest
00:36:28.620
days of our country. It goes to before the country was technically even founded or before the
00:36:34.620
government was founded. We had the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists arguing over what our
00:36:39.440
government should look like. The Federalists, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, the Anti-Federalists led by
00:36:44.720
Jefferson. Then later, we had the Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans, the Democratic
00:36:50.960
Republicans. Then we had the Whig Party come in. Now we have the two-party system. I think it's
00:36:55.360
very good. It's good as long as you have a choice and not an echo. If the two parties believe the
00:36:59.180
same thing, then that's terrible. And we've gone through periods where that's the case. But I think
00:37:03.120
right now the two parties are genuinely offering you a different choice. The Republican Party, after
00:37:07.940
many hard-fought years of the conservative movement, is a home for conservative thought. And the
00:37:15.540
Democratic Party is a home to anti-American leftism. They're being honest at least. It's a choice
00:37:20.940
and not an echo. And I'm a big fan of that. And I think you should pick your party and you should
00:37:24.160
stick with the party so long as the party is sticking with you. From Jeffrey, hey, Michael,
00:37:28.940
I was wondering, do you believe you contribute to your salvation? It's an interesting question,
00:37:35.600
Jeffrey. I think we should be more specific in our language here. I certainly don't think that I
00:37:41.280
earned my salvation or that I deserve my salvation. But I do think that I can lose my salvation.
00:37:46.800
I do think that there is a, that my salvation can be taken away or that I can lose it depending
00:37:54.860
on how I behave. And I've got a lot of scriptural evidence for this. The gospel, according to St.
00:37:59.580
Matthew says, he who endures to the end will be saved. What if you don't endure to the end? What
00:38:06.160
if you say, okay, now I'm saved and then you don't endure to the end? It seems that you won't be
00:38:10.740
saved. How about this? See then the kindness and the severity of God, severity toward those who
00:38:15.460
have fallen. But God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness, otherwise you too
00:38:22.480
will be cut off. That's from Paul's letter to the Romans. You too will be cut off if you don't
00:38:27.180
continue in his kindness. From Matthew, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom
00:38:31.420
of heaven. There seems to be something else that you have to do. We know that faith without works is
00:38:35.720
dead. There seems to have to be a fruit of the spirit. Not everyone who just says it gets into
00:38:40.520
heaven. From the first epistle of St. John, by this it may be seen who are the children of God and
00:38:47.280
who are the children of the devil. Whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not
00:38:52.700
love his brother. So if you don't do right, then you're not of God. This implies that you have to
00:38:57.760
do something, that it's not all ethereal and abstract and happening in the mind, that there's
00:39:02.080
something that you're doing with your body. Also from first epistle of St. John, for this is the love
00:39:07.860
of God that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome. Sure, his yoke
00:39:12.380
is easy and his burden is light, but we must keep those commandments of God. What are those
00:39:16.920
commandments? You'll have to look into that, won't you? We could have a whole long discussion
00:39:20.360
about that. How about this? I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept
00:39:25.460
the faith. Henceforth, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord,
00:39:29.700
the righteous judge, will award to me on that day. Second Timothy, because he finished the race
00:39:35.080
and he kept the faith. Also from St. Paul in the first letter to the Corinthians, or first
00:39:39.740
Corinthians, I pummel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others, I myself should
00:39:45.780
be disqualified. St. Paul certainly seems to think that he could lose his salvation, that
00:39:50.100
some participation was required. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now,
00:39:55.680
not only as in my presence, but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with
00:40:00.520
fear and trembling with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ. That's also from
00:40:05.280
the letter to the Philippians. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. The reason
00:40:11.420
that I bring all that scripture in is because I think sometimes my very well-meaning friends
00:40:15.680
from various denominations try to make false dichotomies between faith and works, or by not
00:40:24.520
participating at all in the process of your salvation or in losing your salvation, or of suggesting
00:40:30.860
that we don't really have any free will. And this misreads all of the teachings of the church from
00:40:38.480
the very beginning. And it misreads scripture too. Freedom matters. And if someone thinks that it's
00:40:44.720
just so easy as to snap one's fingers and to be saved and never think about it again, I would recommend
00:40:49.500
rereading St. Paul who says that we, he urges us all to work out our salvation with fear and
00:40:55.740
trembling. Also a good book by Soren Kierkegaard. We'll keep doing a couple more before we get to
00:41:01.440
that poem. From Colleen, greetings to the Daily Wire's resident Catholic. I've been mulling over
00:41:06.200
comments that you've made in the recent past about young men sowing their wild oats and the indulgence
00:41:11.800
you appeared to give them for living a reckless youth. I firmly believe in forgiveness and letting
00:41:16.660
someone's past be the past. But wouldn't it be better for that past to not be there at all?
00:41:21.240
Also, if I'm remembering this correctly, you seem to have a boys will be boys attitude
00:41:24.820
toward porn in your Alex Jones trans porn segment a while back. If this is not your view toward porn,
00:41:30.700
please set me straight. In a nutshell, shouldn't sin still be called sin and not be poo-pooed as a
00:41:35.740
growing experience that makes me me? Or perhaps, I don't understand since my adolescent rebellion
00:41:40.720
amounted to getting a job to put myself through Catholic private school rather than be homeschooled.
00:41:45.720
Throughout my youth, I had the boring sin of pride to contend with and not the more exciting
00:41:49.680
sins of lust and intemperance. Well, you're missing out on something, let me tell you.
00:41:53.560
As someone who had a little bit more than pride in my reckless youth, yeah, I'm not, nobody is saying
00:41:59.200
that sin is a good thing. If I'm laughing at sin, I'm not praising sin. I'm not adoring sin. If I'm
00:42:06.000
saying that, you know, men are going to look at porn in a world where it's free and easily available
00:42:12.560
and is beamed into our homes, I'm not saying that's a good thing or that we shouldn't not look
00:42:17.460
at porn or that men, you know, I guess some women look at porn too, but I think it's mostly a male
00:42:21.540
thing or that we shouldn't, you know, take every opportunity to be led away from temptation and to
00:42:28.700
prevent ourselves from near occasions of sin. But I am laughing at sin because I don't spend my whole
00:42:35.820
life quaking in fear of sin. I don't, I don't really worry about it. I, uh, cause my, my redeemer
00:42:42.320
lives and has conquered death. And so I do what I can to avoid sin. And I recommend that everyone
00:42:49.280
does it, not just when they're in their twenties or thirties or forties, but also when they're kids
00:42:53.800
and when they're teenagers. But I am pointing out that, uh, especially in teenage years, people are
00:43:00.480
going to do stupid things. They're going to boof and they're going to have brewskies with PJ and
00:43:04.960
squee. And they're going to do, and they, they might even, you know, make an awkward pass at a
00:43:10.080
girl and they're going to do those things. And, uh, uh, I look no further for evidence of this than
00:43:16.600
St. Augustine, father of the church who famously said, Lord, make me chaste, but not yet. This isn't
00:43:22.780
to say that sinning is a good thing that we should encourage sin at all, but the good Lord can turn sin
00:43:28.020
and conquer it and turn it for good. He can do that. He can turn you away from sin and for good.
00:43:35.520
And you can participate in that as well with your free will. You know, the original sin, the fall of
00:43:40.100
man, that, that pride that caused man to fall out of the garden, we call it the felix culpa, the happy
00:43:44.920
fall because God redeems mankind because of the incarnation and because of the resurrection. So I just
00:43:52.480
don't spend my life fretting over it as much as, uh, uh, perhaps some people do.
00:43:58.260
It's a bad thing. I don't, I don't, uh, revel in the bad things that I've done in my life and that
00:44:04.940
I'll continue to do and that I'll probably do tomorrow too. I don't revel in them at all. I
00:44:08.600
don't think they're good at all. I think they're really bad. I look on them with shame, but one
00:44:13.620
must look at the, uh, the realities of how people behaved yesterday and today and how young boys and
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young girls are going to behave tomorrow and for all of eternity because we're in a fallen
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world. But fortunately Christ has conquered sin. And, uh, you know, some people are going
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to, going to ask the Lord to make them chased sooner rather than later, just like St. Augustine.
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One more, then we'll get to the poem from Jason. Dear Michael, I tremendously enjoy your show,
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but I'm ashamed of you. Cocaine Lindsay. Really? Cocaine Lindsay? The man's last name is Graham.
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Graham. G-R-A-M, Graham. You passed up the chance to call him Cocaine Graham for Cocaine Lindsay.
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Oh, Jason. I feel you, Jason. I totally feel you. I, I get it. But I, I, one thing I've learned from
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the Trump era in politics is that subtlety doesn't always play. I know the Cocaine Graham is better,
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like a gram of cocaine, you know, but if I said Cocaine Graham or Lindsay Graham, people wouldn't
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get it. It wouldn't make that connection right away. It's kind of like Focahontas. Focahontas is
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the funnier name for Elizabeth Warren. F-A-U-X, Cahontas. Focahontas. But Donald Trump calls her
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Pocahontas. And Pocahontas stuck. Why? Because Focahontas, first of all, you have to know the word
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foe. Then you have to see how it's being spelled in that context. Then you have to realize you're actually
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talking about two words. It just doesn't work. The left tried to do this actually also with foe,
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with foe news for Fox News, and it just doesn't, it doesn't work. Sometimes you got to bludgeon
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people on the head, especially in politics, especially when the politics are as murky as
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this. So I got to stick with Cocaine Lindsay for now. But I agree. Cocaine Graham is funnier.
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Lindsay Graham is funnier. I'll be able to think about that while I'm just, just celebrating
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and, and, you know, doing my little Scarface dance for, for Lindsay Graham 2.0. Before we leave,
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it's National Poetry Day. I love poetry. I love reading poetry. People don't really read
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poetry anymore. I don't even know if it's really taught in school or if you have to memorize it
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in school. But I, I was thinking, what poem should we read for National Poetry Day? What
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speaks to our current culture? And there's a great one by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called
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A Psalm of Life, which speaks to this moment that we're in this scientism. You know, Longfellow
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was writing this poem against the science, scientism of his age. And we've got a much
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worse scientism. The idea that everything is material. Nothing really matters. There's
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no moral order. There's no purpose to life. Life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound
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and fury signifying nothing. And that just isn't true. And even on the other side, people
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who say, oh, even if you're really religious and you realize that the soul exists, you say,
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oh, freedom doesn't matter. It doesn't, who cares what we do? And this poem says, not quite.
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It's a great poem to, to read and memorize and think about for our age. A Psalm of Life
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by Longfellow. What the heart of the young man said to the psalmist, tell me not in mournful
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numbers. Life is but an empty dream for the soul is dead that slumbers and things are not
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what they seem. Life is real. Life is earnest and the grave is not its goal. Dust thou art
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to dust returnest was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not sorrow is our destined
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end or way, but to act that each tomorrow find us farther than today. Art is long and time is
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fleeting and our hearts, though stout and brave, still like muffled drums are beating funeral
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marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, in the bivouac of life, be not like dumb
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driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant. Let the dead past bury
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it's dead. Act. Act in the living present. Heart within and God or head. Lives of great
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men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And departing leave behind us footprints on the
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sands of time. Footprints that perhaps another sailing o'er life's solemn main. A forlorn and
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shipwrecked brother. Seeing shall take heart again. Let us then be up and doing with a heart
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for any fate. Still achieving, still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait. And now you will have
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to wait until Monday when we come back. Although you'll get to see the second season of Another
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Kingdom coming out tomorrow. Be sure to go to dailywire.com for that. In the meantime, I'm
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Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you Monday.
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