The Michael Knowles Show - May 26, 2022


Ep. 1014 - Never Go Full Beto-Male


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Beto O'Rourke turns a somber news conference into a cheap political stunt to hurt his own chances of becoming the next governor of Texas. Plus, a new conspiracy theory about the rise in amphibious frog activity in the wild.

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00:00:37.680 Just when you thought the political exploitation of the unspeakable tragedy in Texas could not get any more shameful,
00:00:45.460 Beto O'Rourke decided to crash a somber news conference by state officials in the small town in which the tragedy took place
00:00:53.760 to turn the public mourning into a petty campaign stunt in his failing bid for governor.
00:01:00.980 Excuse me.
00:01:02.120 Excuse me.
00:01:04.140 Excuse me.
00:01:05.780 Sit down. 0.97
00:01:06.720 You're out of line and an embarrassment. 0.56
00:01:08.760 Hey, sit down and don't play this. 0.91
00:01:11.540 Sir, you're out of line.
00:01:21.960 Sir, you're out of line.
00:01:24.080 Sir, you're out of line.
00:01:25.840 Please leave this auditorium. 1.00
00:01:30.680 I can't believe you're a sick son of a b**** who would come to a deal like this to make a political issue. 1.00
00:01:35.340 Is this what unsatisfied political ambition does to a man? 1.00
00:01:41.700 Is this how hollow and inhuman it makes you?
00:01:45.800 This man, Beto O'Rourke, travels to a community reeling from unspeakable horror
00:01:52.320 and hijacks their mourning, their assembly, to learn the facts of what happened
00:01:57.680 into a cheap campaign stunt so that he could yell,
00:02:02.100 this is on you, into the face of his political opponent.
00:02:05.740 Did he explain how it was on him, how the shooting was Greg Abbott's fault?
00:02:10.560 No.
00:02:11.140 Did he explain what something he would have done instead?
00:02:14.220 Do something.
00:02:14.940 Do something.
00:02:15.320 Does he say what something that is?
00:02:16.560 No.
00:02:17.180 And that's not even the worst part.
00:02:18.860 Did Beto help anyone in the room?
00:02:21.980 Did he comfort anyone in the room?
00:02:25.120 Did he ever consider, even for one second,
00:02:28.860 the victims and their families and the community and their wishes?
00:02:32.860 Did it ever occur to him that maybe the families and the local community
00:02:37.280 didn't want to have their grieving hijacked and turned into a campaign stunt
00:02:41.740 for a desperate politician?
00:02:43.260 Do any of these people have even one scintilla of shame?
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00:02:51.580 Welcome back to the show.
00:03:00.540 My favorite comment yesterday is from Steve Robson, who says,
00:03:03.540 me circa 2000, there's a small, powerful, rich cabal of people that rule the world and make
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00:03:10.340 Them circa 2000. 0.96
00:03:12.000 Steve, that's a crazy conspiracy theory, and you sound like a crazy person.
00:03:16.540 Me circa 2022.
00:03:18.580 There's a small, powerful, rich cabal of people that rule the world and make all the decisions
00:03:22.600 for us.
00:03:23.280 Them circa 2022.
00:03:24.680 A new study from the Fish and Wildlife Bureau suggests that they have seen a recent spike
00:03:29.020 in homosexual frog activity. 0.74
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00:05:06.600 Everybody is making the tragedy in Texas about themselves.
00:05:13.860 And not everybody.
00:05:14.580 That's not fair.
00:05:15.180 There are some people who are being respectful.
00:05:18.320 There are a lot of people in public life, disproportionately on the left, just call it like we see it,
00:05:24.060 who are making this about them and their interests and their agenda and their pet projects.
00:05:32.360 Most notably yesterday, Barack Obama.
00:05:35.660 Barack Obama usually can read the room.
00:05:38.480 He's a radical guy and he was a terrible president and he's really bad for America.
00:05:43.580 But usually he's at least a fairly able politician who can take the temperature of what's going on
00:05:49.080 and calibrate his speech accordingly.
00:05:51.920 But the guy was absolutely tone deaf yesterday when he tweeted out.
00:05:56.300 This is so bizarre.
00:05:57.160 I still don't quite understand the thought process.
00:05:59.280 He says, as we grieve the children of Uvalde today,
00:06:03.160 we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd
00:06:07.620 under the knee of a police officer.
00:06:10.160 His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him.
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00:06:35.940 And then he posts a picture of Trayvon Martin.
00:06:38.500 So it's not even, he says, hey, we're all thinking about Texas today.
00:06:42.920 But don't, think about my thing instead.
00:06:44.920 Hey, we're all, listen, I know that this is what everyone's talking about because of how horrific it is.
00:06:50.560 But that's not totally convenient for me.
00:06:52.460 So think about George Floyd.
00:06:53.960 Sorry, never mind George Floyd.
00:06:55.140 Trayvon Martin.
00:06:55.900 Actually, sorry, never mind.
00:06:56.820 Just do whatever I want.
00:06:58.240 Me, me, me, me, me.
00:06:59.680 What is he saying?
00:07:02.620 Who, does Barack Obama really believe that we have not talked enough about George Floyd?
00:07:11.020 We, we spent two years talking about George Floyd.
00:07:16.000 We spent two years largely hearing a completely misrepresented take on what happened to George Floyd and who George Floyd was and having much of the real story suppressed by the media.
00:07:26.780 And then having that fake story be the impetus for eight months of terrorism throughout the United States from coast to coast, where BLM activists, mostly peaceful, mostly peacefully burned the country down and burned multiple cities. 0.61
00:07:40.500 And then high-ranking Democrat officials not only encouraged them to do this, but actually funded them, bailed them out of jail like Kamala Harris.
00:07:48.140 But we haven't talked about him enough.
00:07:51.080 And then somehow it's about Trayvon Martin.
00:07:52.820 Trayvon Martin, who was killed in an altercation with George Zimmerman, who's a Hispanic guy that the media lied and said was white because they wanted to turn it into a racial issue years ago.
00:08:03.240 And they said that Trayvon Martin was just innocently going to buy Skittles and there was no altercation.
00:08:07.560 And then the evidence of George Zimmerman being beaten up to a pulp contradicted a lot of that.
00:08:13.360 And then that was a media circus for years that led to riots and led to all sorts of mayhem throughout the country.
00:08:19.400 And then Barack Obama decided to pour fuel on the fire by saying Trayvon Martin looks like my son would have looked.
00:08:24.480 If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin.
00:08:26.840 Just to pour fuel on that fire.
00:08:29.200 Not for Trayvon Martin.
00:08:30.660 Not for George Floyd.
00:08:33.340 Certainly he's not showing any care whatsoever for this community in Texas.
00:08:37.800 It's just about him, right?
00:08:38.940 It's just about him.
00:08:39.580 And any way that he can score a nice little political point, that's what he's going to do.
00:08:45.680 Whoopi Goldberg is expressing the other view.
00:08:50.500 So you've got, on the one hand, some activists who are exploiting the tragedy to push their own almost entirely disconnected political agenda.
00:09:01.060 Then the other prominent reaction you're seeing is just anger directed at conservatives.
00:09:08.320 Anger directed at the right.
00:09:09.880 But it's very vague anger.
00:09:11.680 There aren't a lot of specifics here.
00:09:13.660 It's anger at people who are offering thoughts and prayers.
00:09:16.780 And they say, how dare you offer your thoughts and prayers?
00:09:18.860 Why won't you do something?
00:09:20.620 What are we doing?
00:09:22.980 So that's the question.
00:09:27.360 What are we doing?
00:09:28.480 Because we're, we're, why are we always at square one with this? 0.97
00:09:32.780 And I swear to God, if I see another Republican senator talk about their heart being broken, I'm going to go punch somebody. 0.87
00:09:38.420 And thoughts and prayers. 0.89
00:09:39.040 I can't take it in their thoughts and prayers.
00:09:41.260 If your thoughts and prayers were really with everybody, you'd have done something by now.
00:09:45.880 It's not like anybody's not trying to make this happen.
00:09:49.620 What the hell is going on?
00:09:51.520 You'd have done something.
00:09:52.960 You're, you're, this is what Beto O'Rourke was saying.
00:09:54.820 This is on you.
00:09:55.840 This is on you, Greg Abbott.
00:09:57.100 You, you caused this.
00:09:58.420 You do something.
00:09:59.280 Do something.
00:10:01.940 What do you propose we do?
00:10:04.820 You notice Beto O'Rourke isn't making a whole lot of concrete proposals because he doesn't care at all.
00:10:09.980 He's just, he thinks that he's going to look good on the cover of the newspaper, yelling and screaming.
00:10:14.600 And if it, if it disturbs the people of this traumatized community, and if it interrupts their grief,
00:10:20.780 and then he just walks out of there and moves on to the next campaign event.
00:10:23.020 So what?
00:10:23.600 He got, he got a really good picture.
00:10:25.420 He thinks, I don't think it looks good at all, but he thinks he got a really good picture in the newspaper and on CNN.
00:10:30.580 Whoopi Goldberg, do, do something. 0.99
00:10:32.260 I'm going to punch someone in the face if I hear thoughts and prayers. 0.99
00:10:34.920 Do something. 0.99
00:10:35.360 What do you want to do?
00:10:36.660 What do you propose we do?
00:10:39.620 I told you yesterday on the show, I have no interest in debunking and owning the, the political commentary of the gun control,
00:10:49.140 of the talking points, of the boom, boom, more guns, less crime.
00:10:52.820 I have no interest in doing any of that.
00:10:54.700 I think it's a, I don't think that's the appropriate response in the immediate aftermath of,
00:11:00.260 of a really unspeakable tragedy, but, but I do have to ask all of these people who are demagoguing the issue.
00:11:07.040 What do you propose?
00:11:09.160 Name me one, name me one.
00:11:10.820 I was even trying to think, what could the proposals be?
00:11:12.980 There have been a ton of gun control proposals in the last 20 years aimed at reducing mass shootings.
00:11:20.700 Marco Rubio pointed out some years ago now, this was in 2015.
00:11:23.280 He said, none of the major shootings that have occurred in this country over the last few months or years
00:11:28.140 that have outraged us, would gun laws have prevented them?
00:11:32.320 This was an audacious, outrageous claim at the time.
00:11:35.560 And then it was fact-checked by the Washington Post, bad as liberal an outlet as there can be,
00:11:42.240 and the Washington Post admitted he's right.
00:11:44.500 The Washington Post admitted, there is certainly a depressing chronicle of death and tragedy,
00:11:48.720 but Rubio's statement stands up to scrutiny.
00:11:51.260 It stands up to scrutiny.
00:11:53.500 So none of those major laws that were proposed for gun control would have stopped the shooting.
00:12:00.540 Now, maybe some people say, okay, ban AR-15s.
00:12:04.560 The way this shooting went down, he could have used a handgun.
00:12:07.760 This was not long-range, high-precision distance, a distance type of attack.
00:12:12.720 This was very close up.
00:12:13.760 A handgun would have done the same thing.
00:12:16.140 So are you, so now are we saying ban the handguns?
00:12:18.440 Well, you've got a constitutional problem there.
00:12:20.580 But frankly, even if you ban the handguns, is there any evidence that that's going to reduce rates of murder?
00:12:25.460 That's not what happened in the UK.
00:12:26.640 In the UK, in 96 or 97, there was an attack on an elementary school in the UK.
00:12:31.180 So they banned handguns.
00:12:33.040 And not only did the murder rate not go down, it actually went up.
00:12:36.400 It almost doubled.
00:12:37.380 So, okay, that's probably not going to work.
00:12:38.860 And then you're running up against, in any case, the constitutional problem.
00:12:42.900 We have a Second Amendment that was inherited even before the beginning of our country, formerly under the Constitution.
00:12:49.820 We inherited that right from the English.
00:12:51.860 So what are you going to do?
00:12:52.700 You're going to repeal the Second Amendment?
00:12:55.660 Good luck.
00:12:56.460 Is there any political desire for that?
00:12:58.420 No.
00:12:58.640 Is it politically possible?
00:12:59.820 No.
00:13:00.080 So then what do you want to do?
00:13:01.040 What are you proposing?
00:13:01.800 I'm not even saying I oppose all of these.
00:13:04.520 I do.
00:13:05.080 I don't think that we should upend all of our traditional civil rights.
00:13:08.380 But even if I were going to go with you, what is the concrete thing?
00:13:13.520 When you're yelling and screaming and saying this is your fault and making a big spectacle of yourself
00:13:18.020 and interrupting people's grief and standing on your high horse and trying to express sympathetic fury and outrage,
00:13:24.700 what's your plan?
00:13:25.880 You don't have any plan.
00:13:26.940 So all you're doing is demagoguing and getting some nice pretty pictures in the newspaper and then you're doing less than nothing.
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00:15:22.740 All of the demagoguery that we are seeing right now on the shooting in Texas, the practical
00:15:31.380 effect of it is going to be nothing because the people who are really demagoguing the issue
00:15:36.980 don't have any concrete proposals.
00:15:39.020 They know that the proposals that they've made in years past, they're the same old proposals.
00:15:42.500 They don't stand up to scrutiny.
00:15:43.720 They don't even stand up to scrutiny on the left.
00:15:45.480 That's why they're not going to pass a law because there's no political support for it
00:15:49.640 all.
00:15:49.860 It runs up against constitutional problems and there's no evidence that it would solve any
00:15:55.500 of these problems.
00:15:56.140 So what do you do then?
00:16:00.420 Well, you use it as an opportunity to push your own political agenda, a separate political
00:16:06.080 agenda.
00:16:06.460 That's what's really happening.
00:16:07.440 That's what Obama's doing. 1.00
00:16:08.700 Beto O'Rourke is too stupid. 1.00
00:16:10.140 He's just as classless as the rest of them, but he's too stupid to realize that his strategy 1.00
00:16:14.960 is not helping him politically. 1.00
00:16:16.520 Barack Obama is slightly more politically sophisticated, but Joe Biden even is more politically
00:16:21.280 sophisticated.
00:16:22.100 So Biden's doing the same thing that Obama's doing.
00:16:25.020 Joe Biden is making this about George Floyd.
00:16:27.860 All the same sort of shameless posturing.
00:16:31.060 As we've seen all too often, public trust is frayed and broken, and that undermines public
00:16:38.320 safety.
00:16:39.740 The families here today and across the country have had to ask, why this nation, why so many
00:16:47.200 black Americans wake up knowing they could lose their life in the course of just living
00:16:51.500 their life today, simply jogging, shopping, sleeping at home, whether they made headlines
00:16:59.140 or not, lost souls, gone too soon.
00:17:02.700 Members of Congress, including many here today, like Senator Cory Booker and Congressman Karen
00:17:07.040 Bass, alongside members of the Congressional Black Caucus, House and Senate Judiciary Committees,
00:17:13.480 spent countless hours on the George Floyd Justice of the Policing Act to find a better answer
00:17:18.860 to that question.
00:17:21.500 I sincerely thank you all for your tireless efforts.
00:17:25.400 So hold on, you're insinuating that the grief from this tragedy reminds us, just like Obama
00:17:32.540 did, reminds us of George Floyd, and it reminds us that, let me check these notes, black people 0.82
00:17:38.300 lose their lives at any moment, there is this epidemic around the country, they could be jogging,
00:17:44.300 they could be sleeping at home, and they're all just getting gunned down and killed, right?
00:17:48.280 Is that happening?
00:17:48.960 I don't think that's happening.
00:17:49.840 I don't think any of the statistics back that up whatsoever, and I don't even think that the
00:17:56.960 people believe this is happening.
00:17:58.480 I'm not even convinced that your guys believe this is happening, Joe, which is why you couldn't
00:18:03.220 get the act through.
00:18:04.080 It sounds there like he's signing some piece of legislation, some bill into law, right?
00:18:09.240 But that's not true.
00:18:10.020 He calls it the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
00:18:12.320 The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act failed.
00:18:14.740 He has complete control of the government, and it failed.
00:18:17.300 He couldn't get the votes for it.
00:18:19.860 So instead, what Biden's doing here is signing an executive order, an executive order that
00:18:25.320 will do pretty much nothing.
00:18:27.120 The executive order only applies at the federal level, and it changes some rules about policing.
00:18:34.520 But as we've seen over the past two years, people don't want weaker policing.
00:18:39.380 People want much stronger policing.
00:18:41.740 People don't want crime threat to their communities.
00:18:43.880 They don't want their communities to be burned down.
00:18:45.940 They want people to be tougher on crime.
00:18:49.020 They want our society to treat criminals more harshly, not continue to let them off the hook.
00:18:53.440 So there's no political support for this whatsoever.
00:18:55.880 So all it is, is posturing.
00:18:58.940 All we're seeing, especially from the Democrats, is vague insinuations that the other guys are bad,
00:19:11.180 and they're really good, and they're going to do something, and it's going to be,
00:19:14.940 and it's important to do something rather than nothing.
00:19:18.100 But what that something is, they just can't say, because they've got nothing.
00:19:21.580 They're not offering anything.
00:19:23.640 So he just gets up there and regurgitates his word salad of vague emotional appeals,
00:19:32.160 and then signs a completely toothless executive order, and then everybody moves on.
00:19:37.640 Because of, there's racism.
00:19:40.840 Racism. 0.95
00:19:41.320 The other guys are racist. 1.00
00:19:42.540 They're bad. 1.00
00:19:43.120 They're the bad guys who want bad things to happen.
00:19:45.880 And we're the good guys, and we want to do something so that the good things happen.
00:19:49.100 But what we do, we're not going to actually do anything in particular, but that's what we're for.
00:19:56.200 We support that in theory.
00:19:58.520 Speaking of racism, speaking of racism and doing nothing,
00:20:02.280 the United Nations is complaining now that coverage of the impending monkeypox pandemic
00:20:08.860 is homophobic and racist. 0.84
00:20:12.060 First, the UN's AIDS agency, UNAIDS, announced that the reporting on the monkeypox virus is 0.97
00:20:18.960 irresponsible, and it's undermining the response to the outbreak, and it's racist and homophobic.
00:20:23.940 According to UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Matthew Kavanaugh, says,
00:20:28.500 stigma and blame undermine trust and capacity to respond effectively during outbreaks like this one.
00:20:34.460 One, experience shows that stigmatizing rhetoric can quickly disable evidence-based response
00:20:40.040 by stoking cycles of fear, driving people away from health services,
00:20:43.880 impeding efforts to identify cases, and encouraging ineffective punitive measures.
00:20:48.920 Of course, that is not the case.
00:20:51.540 What he's saying is, don't tell the truth about this virus, 0.99
00:20:54.580 because that if you tell the truth about this virus, people will be discouraged from going to gay orgies. 0.99
00:21:00.220 Because the virus is largely spreading among gay men, and not even just any old gay men. 0.98
00:21:06.400 We're talking about gay men who go and shtup dozens of people at bathhouses and orgies. 1.00
00:21:11.380 That's where the public health officials believe this began, at a gay fetish party where everyone 0.98
00:21:16.740 was shtuping each other, and at a gay bathhouse in Spain. 0.98
00:21:20.740 But the UN doesn't want you to know that. 0.98
00:21:24.180 But shouldn't they? 0.71
00:21:25.200 If you're a gay guy who, for whatever reason, you've gone down a really bad path, 0.99
00:21:30.900 and you find yourself frequenting fetish orgies and bathhouses, 0.99
00:21:36.020 wouldn't you like to know that, huh, I'm at risk of contracting this monkeypox virus,
00:21:41.240 which in the extreme forms, the harsher forms of the virus, can kill 10% of people, or possibly even more.
00:21:47.120 Huh, maybe I'll avoid the orgies. 0.95
00:21:48.680 Maybe I'll avoid the bathhouses.
00:21:50.380 But no, you can't.
00:21:51.300 You can't be told to avoid the orgies and the bathhouses. 0.87
00:21:53.400 That would be homophobic. 0.93
00:21:55.120 You had medical analysts at Yale saying, don't let this turn you sex negative. 0.97
00:22:01.360 Don't turn away from the orgies and the bathhouses.
00:22:04.380 But of course you should.
00:22:05.840 But if we say that, there might be stigma.
00:22:08.880 People might feel stigma.
00:22:09.980 Yes, that's good.
00:22:10.900 Stigma is good. 1.00
00:22:12.680 Stigma can be a very good thing. 1.00
00:22:14.840 This UN AIDS agency says stigma can undermine public health efforts.
00:22:19.120 No, no, no.
00:22:19.400 Stigma can greatly help public health efforts.
00:22:21.840 We want to stigmatize dangerous, disordered, unhealthy, bad behavior.
00:22:28.960 Society used to stigmatize all that stuff and used to encourage all the good stuff and the healthy stuff.
00:22:34.520 And we had a much healthier society back then.
00:22:37.260 Now we've completely flipped it.
00:22:39.220 Now normal, healthy, good behaviors are stigmatized.
00:22:42.760 Starting family, getting married relatively young, working hard, having children.
00:22:47.700 And that's all been stigmatized.
00:22:49.640 You are a pariah if you engage in ordinary, normal, traditional activities.
00:22:54.520 And what is incentivized and encouraged is all this sort of weirdness that has given us monkeypox.
00:22:59.200 So we could use a little bit more stigma.
00:23:03.580 If the UN just came out tomorrow and said, hey, all of this mumbo jumbo word salad that we're sending around about the monkeypox,
00:23:12.040 it boils down to this. 1.00
00:23:13.420 Don't go to gay orgies and avoid vacationing in Zaire. 1.00
00:23:16.260 If they just said that, because Zaire is largely where monkeypox has been spreading for the last 40, 50 years. 0.97
00:23:23.300 If they just said that, you would probably greatly reduce the spread of monkeypox.
00:23:29.900 But they're not going to do it.
00:23:31.600 The UN and the public health authorities, which for the past two years have been as absolutely invasive and overbearing as they could possibly be.
00:23:40.580 Don't hug your grandparents.
00:23:42.220 Put a mask on your 16-month-old.
00:23:44.340 Don't show up to Christmas.
00:23:45.520 They've just gone every, in any way they can, they've invaded your life. 0.83
00:23:49.620 Now, all of a sudden, that the issue is gay bathhouses, they say, oh, well, now listen, who are we to judge?
00:23:55.840 Who are we to say what you do on your weekends?
00:23:58.360 I thought you were the public health authorities. 0.96
00:24:00.720 I think you can tell people don't go to gay bathhouses. 1.00
00:24:03.660 I think that's okay. 0.95
00:24:04.660 I think you're allowed to say that.
00:24:05.600 But it's very politically incorrect these days.
00:24:08.860 In fact, the public authorities are incentivizing all those kinds of behaviors.
00:24:14.080 Not just at the United Nations, not just in Brussels.
00:24:17.900 Right here in the U.S. of A, Arizona's Department of Education now has a new plan to encourage public health among young people.
00:24:27.080 Specifically, sexual health among young people.
00:24:30.640 They are proposing chat rooms for gay minors, so young people who have questions about their sexuality, to go into and to speak with adults.
00:24:42.460 There are going to be adult moderators present.
00:24:44.240 But specifically, chat rooms that they can hide from their parents.
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00:26:52.860 Arizona's Department of Education now links to chat rooms on its website for young people
00:27:11.240 who are identifying as LGBTQ, LMNOP+, to discuss sex and gender with adult moderators without their parents knowing.
00:27:23.940 The ADE directed minors to queue chat space and gender spectrum.
00:27:29.820 Those organizations rely on adult volunteers and staff to facilitate the minors talking about sex in these chat rooms without their parents' knowledge.
00:27:39.160 There is no age verification for those joining the chats beyond just asking the people for a birth date.
00:27:46.160 We reached out at the Daily Wire.
00:27:47.960 We reached out to the Arizona Department of Education about these chat rooms.
00:27:51.380 No one has responded to our inquiry.
00:27:53.760 The online chat is so insidious, it has a quick escape function.
00:27:57.520 So the Arizona Department of Education, just like old man Herbert and family guy,
00:28:01.280 just like the creepy neighbor down the street who's leering at the kids,
00:28:04.100 they say, hey, come on here, are you questioning sexuality, young people under the age of 18?
00:28:11.540 Well, come into our chat rooms.
00:28:13.400 Yes, they're run by adult volunteers.
00:28:17.560 And by the way, we don't verify anybody's age in here, young people.
00:28:22.100 Yes, come on in. 0.94
00:28:23.420 And by the way, if you're mean old nasty parents, have a look at you, there's a quick escape button. 1.00
00:28:28.640 So if daddy walks into the room and you don't want them to know that we, the government, 0.99
00:28:33.600 are using his taxpayer dollars to encourage you to talk about sex with creepy, weird adults, 0.66
00:28:38.820 strangers, just click that quick escape button.
00:28:42.460 And then it'll disappear.
00:28:44.140 Daddy will never see the minute he walks by. 0.95
00:28:45.780 Then you can come back and talk about sex with us adults paid for on the taxpayer dime.
00:28:50.100 Do you think this is a good idea?
00:28:51.540 I don't think it's a good idea.
00:28:53.580 You know what it sounds like to me?
00:28:55.220 It sounds like they're kind of groomers.
00:28:59.820 You remember a few weeks ago, there was this big controversy.
00:29:02.120 How dare you call the teachers pushing gender theory in schools groomers?
00:29:06.560 That's so unfair.
00:29:07.860 That's what you heard from the left and that's what you heard from the squishy right.
00:29:10.860 That's unfair.
00:29:11.760 That's undignified.
00:29:12.600 Don't call them that.
00:29:14.300 No, no.
00:29:15.340 And you say, well, it seems like kind of a slippery slope.
00:29:17.700 It seems like a kind of an easily abused situation if a teacher is talking about sex to five and six year olds.
00:29:22.580 No, no, that's wrong.
00:29:23.920 We'll never slip down the slippery slope.
00:29:27.420 Boom.
00:29:27.760 Here we are. 0.97
00:29:28.520 And now we've got the Arizona government encouraging creepy weirdo adults to talk about sex to kids without the kids knowing, without the kids' parents knowing. 0.67
00:29:38.420 No, I think I'm at the bottom of the slippery slope, but deep down, I know I'm not.
00:29:44.820 I know we're not.
00:29:46.060 We keep thinking we've hit the bottom and we're going to slide so much further, aren't we? 0.98
00:29:50.060 And when I say that right now, the liberals are going to say, Michael, you're crazy. 0.98
00:29:55.480 You're a conspiracy theorist. 0.98
00:29:56.860 No, no, it's not going to get any worse.
00:29:58.800 Well, we've been slipping pretty fast, pretty far for a long time now.
00:30:02.640 We're already at the stage of taxpayer subsidized pervert adults talking to little kids about sex on government linked websites.
00:30:11.200 How much further can we go?
00:30:13.660 This is why it's so important for our legislatures to step up, not the administrative agencies, which are almost entirely unaccountable to the will of voters.
00:30:24.000 Voters who are generally a lot more normal and a lot more closer to the common sense than these government bureaucrats.
00:30:31.280 We need to assert our political vision and our reason and our logic and our will through the legislature.
00:30:40.360 That's what Indiana just did. 1.00
00:30:42.080 So the Indiana legislature, run by the Republicans, proposed a bill to ban dudes who pretend to be girls from competing in girls sports. 0.98
00:30:53.380 Really basic stuff.
00:30:55.140 And we've seen this throughout the country in lots of different states.
00:30:58.280 And unfortunately, the governor of Indiana, Eric Holcomb, vetoed the bill.
00:31:03.740 Maybe Governor Holcomb had his reasons.
00:31:05.580 I like Eric Holcomb personally.
00:31:07.200 Actually, I've known Eric Holcomb for years.
00:31:09.500 And I like him personally.
00:31:10.720 I don't know what he was thinking here.
00:31:12.020 He was in the wrong to veto this bill.
00:31:14.700 So what did the legislature do?
00:31:16.060 Did they throw up their hands and say, okay, that's that.
00:31:21.780 Never mind.
00:31:22.180 No, they overrode his veto.
00:31:23.460 So Holcomb's argument was, in the two cases with initial rulings thus far, the courts have enjoined or prohibited laws with the same substantive provisions from taking effect based on equal protection grounds.
00:31:36.360 Okay, so that's just a way of saying, I think the courts are going to strike down this law because the courts are going to try to trans the kids. 0.95
00:31:42.480 Then he also said there was a third concern, which is that the newly proposed law implies that the goals of consistency and fairness in competitive female sports are not currently being met.
00:31:52.060 But after thorough review, I find no evidence to support either claim, even if I support the overall goal.
00:31:57.380 Now, this last part is crazy.
00:31:59.760 Even if he might have a practical political point on the first part that the courts could strike it down, again, I wouldn't bet on that.
00:32:07.140 I would still certainly sign the law, even if that were my main concern.
00:32:09.980 But this last point here is crazy.
00:32:13.340 He's saying, look, there's no evidence that female sports are unfair right now. 1.00
00:32:18.460 Look at the NCAA Women's Swimming Championship.
00:32:21.620 Who won the prize? 0.98
00:32:22.860 You've got a giant hulking dude with all of his giant hulking dude parts pretty clearly visible in his silly women's bathing suit that he was wearing. 0.98
00:32:32.680 He's got the gold medal. 0.97
00:32:34.780 He's got prize number one.
00:32:36.280 And then you've got these diminutive little girls next to him. 0.98
00:32:39.060 And they're obviously different.
00:32:41.060 They're obviously at a disadvantage.
00:32:43.940 So this seems to be just a complete denial of reality.
00:32:47.300 Regardless, I don't know.
00:32:48.640 Whatever the thinking was in the governor's office, this is the right thing to do for the legislature to go in and say, look, you're our governor.
00:32:54.920 You're our governor and we love you.
00:32:56.860 But you're wrong on this issue and we're going to override you.
00:32:59.740 Absolutely the right thing to do.
00:33:01.120 And that's what conservatives should be doing around the country.
00:33:04.200 When they meet pushback, whether it's because the Republicans are getting too many calls from worried corporations, whether it's because the governors are trying to find a middle ground on this issue of our boys, boys or our boys, girls.
00:33:18.540 No middle ground to have.
00:33:19.600 Whatever the reason, Republicans need to stand up and push back.
00:33:24.680 This will be a political winner.
00:33:26.200 I promise you.
00:33:27.180 I promise you.
00:33:27.880 It's not just the right thing to do.
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00:34:02.320 They've said it for years.
00:34:04.060 Get woke.
00:34:05.040 Go broke.
00:34:05.820 The woke sexual standards are not popular.
00:34:08.880 Just look at Old Navy.
00:34:10.880 Look at what happened to Old Navy.
00:34:13.160 Old Navy right now is taking a massive loss on its company.
00:34:17.880 They're angering lots of customers.
00:34:19.720 And why?
00:34:20.200 It is being attributed to their all-inclusive sizing scheme.
00:34:25.920 They've really bought into the body positivity movement.
00:34:29.380 And now analysts expect the company to report net sales of $3.44 billion down from $3.99 billion in the same period last year.
00:34:37.540 That's a major drop.
00:34:39.600 And these bad numbers are going to trigger a management shakeup.
00:34:42.560 What changed in the last year?
00:34:43.600 Did the quality of their clothes drop?
00:34:45.260 No, it didn't.
00:34:45.840 But I knew this was going to happen one year ago.
00:34:47.900 I was on the subway in New York.
00:34:50.260 And I love taking the subway.
00:34:51.860 And I especially love looking at the subway ads.
00:34:54.320 And one of the ads was for Old Navy. 0.99
00:34:56.600 And it was a bunch of big, fat, ugly people. 0.99
00:35:00.260 I'm not even saying that big, fat people can't look good or dress nicely. 0.99
00:35:05.640 But this ad was intentionally making people look grotesque.
00:35:09.740 The point was to subvert standards of beauty.
00:35:12.500 And they said, this is a revolution.
00:35:14.460 Join the revolution.
00:35:16.480 Something to that effect.
00:35:17.620 Whatever the copy on the advertisement was, the key to it was this is a revolution in beauty standards.
00:35:24.000 No, it's not.
00:35:24.560 I just, I go to Old Navy so that I can buy sweatpants and a t-shirt.
00:35:27.180 I don't go to Old Navy to engage in a political revolution.
00:35:30.680 But that was their premise.
00:35:33.840 And they set out to it.
00:35:34.920 And they lost a lot of money as a result.
00:35:36.400 It tells you a couple things.
00:35:38.200 One, it tells you that right now, this is not just the radical left pushing all this craziness.
00:35:47.160 And it's a point that I've tried to make to the right on a number of occasions.
00:35:52.160 Capitalism is pushing this stuff too.
00:35:54.860 Capitalism is pushing the revolution.
00:35:58.280 Everyone wants a revolution.
00:36:00.960 The left is always pushing for social revolution in our sexual behaviors, in our traditions,
00:36:05.800 in the way we relate to our country, in the way we relate to one another,
00:36:09.600 in the way we relate to our own human nature, and we revolt even against our biology.
00:36:15.360 But capitalism wants a revolution too.
00:36:17.540 This is creative destruction.
00:36:19.980 This is the idea that we're just constantly going to be in extreme, intense competition with everybody,
00:36:26.100 and everything old is bad, and we're going to innovate, and we're going to renovate,
00:36:29.460 and we're going to get rid of all the old stuff, and build bigger, and bigger, and cheaper, and faster, and plasticker,
00:36:33.800 and it's going to be better, and better, and bigger, and you can get it for even less money.
00:36:37.240 And so that language of revolution is always there too.
00:36:40.840 This was always one of the real contradictions on the American right, especially during the 90s and the 2000s.
00:36:47.500 Every GOP speech during the 90s and the 2000s, and even more recently, you get up there and you say,
00:36:56.520 our culture is decaying, it's collapsing, it's being ripped apart at the seams.
00:37:01.860 We need to support traditional standards, and get back to our traditional way of life, 0.98
00:37:06.360 and support families, and local communities, and all of our traditions.
00:37:10.120 That was the first part of the speech.
00:37:11.180 Then the second part of the speech was, and we need creative destruction, and we need to outsource
00:37:16.340 everything, and we need to upend whole communities, and if there's no more job in your community,
00:37:21.540 you've got to move across, and you've got to go work, and you've got to raise GDP,
00:37:24.800 and the girls have to go work, and no one should stay at home and raise the kids, 1.00
00:37:28.220 and money, money, money, greed is good.
00:37:30.580 You say, wait, what happened to the first part of your speech?
00:37:33.160 No, no, that was just the first part, where I just said a bunch of stuff to placate the social
00:37:36.120 conservatives, but what I really want is revolution, baby, that's what we're doing.
00:37:39.520 And there's always been this tension on the right, and it's especially become pronounced
00:37:44.440 in the last 20 or 30 years, and what you are finally seeing, you've seen the climax of
00:37:50.380 revolution, revolution, revolution, where all of the companies now are even supporting
00:37:56.040 this revolution against not just your nation, not just your local community, not just old 0.98
00:38:01.460 standards, but nature itself, a revolution against human biology and sexuality, and the
00:38:07.500 people, I think, are getting sick of revolution.
00:38:11.620 I don't think I'm reading too deeply into the Old Navy numbers, but even take Old Navy aside
00:38:15.260 from it, the pushback against Disney right now, the pushback against State Farm, the pushback
00:38:20.020 of the parents' movement.
00:38:21.160 I think people, people can be swept away in the joy of revolution.
00:38:26.300 You saw this in the French Revolution, the most famous revolution in modernity.
00:38:30.040 People saying, gosh, it was this intoxicating time.
00:38:34.080 To be young was very bliss during the time of the French Revolution, but as the French 1.00
00:38:37.860 Revolution wore on, and the terror came, and the absolute chaos and disorder came, people 0.99
00:38:45.220 became disillusioned.
00:38:46.740 They pushed back against it.
00:38:48.400 You'll notice a lot of the young, prominent romantic figures in the early days of the French
00:38:52.300 Revolution who loved it so much.
00:38:53.720 The ones who didn't die young, the ones who lived long enough, came to detest the French 1.00
00:38:58.880 Revolution.
00:38:59.460 They became much more conservative.
00:39:00.860 They said, I'm done with the revolution.
00:39:02.660 That is what you're seeing play out right now among ordinary people throughout the United
00:39:07.980 States.
00:39:09.320 People are tired of the revolutions.
00:39:12.080 They're tired of subverted standards of beauty.
00:39:14.820 They're tired of constantly hearing this talk of victimhood and the total, absolute injustice
00:39:24.340 of every aspect of society that we need to undo.
00:39:26.480 Libs of TikTok, our great friends who have exposed a lot of this, they have shown that
00:39:32.720 apparently the victimhood pyramid does not merely exist in terms of race.
00:39:38.700 You know, the darker you are, the more oppressed you are.
00:39:41.620 It doesn't merely exist in terms of sex. 0.97
00:39:45.100 You know, the gayer, transer you are, the more obscure your political, or your sexual identity, 1.00
00:39:51.380 the more oppressed you are. 0.89
00:39:52.900 There are also gradations of victimhood within fatness. 0.58
00:39:57.140 This is the fatness spectrum.
00:39:59.240 A small fat is a size 18 and lower, 1x or 2x.
00:40:03.200 I'm a 4x, 5x.
00:40:05.080 I'm a size 26, sometimes 28.
00:40:08.220 I am the super fat you say I'm speaking over.
00:40:11.060 I am the super fat that you say I'm speaking over.
00:40:15.440 So she's responding to someone on TikTok.
00:40:17.680 And presumably, the person on TikTok is saying, don't you dare speak over someone who is fatter
00:40:22.620 than you. 1.00
00:40:23.860 You shut up, you, because yes, you might be fat. 1.00
00:40:27.220 You might identify as fat. 1.00
00:40:29.620 But there's someone who's fatter. 1.00
00:40:31.160 And so you need to shut up. 0.97
00:40:32.220 And then this girl responds. 0.99
00:40:34.900 She says, no, I'm super duper fat.
00:40:36.540 I'm the fattest girl there ever was. 0.99
00:40:38.120 So I'm, you shut up. 0.99
00:40:40.080 I get to speak over you because I'm the really fat person. 0.99
00:40:43.400 But you know what? 0.88
00:40:44.560 There is going to be someone fatter than this lady. 1.00
00:40:47.720 I promise you.
00:40:48.840 I'd bet money on it.
00:40:50.760 Go to some Pacific Island somewhere.
00:40:56.260 Find some big Samoan fella. 1.00
00:40:58.540 He will be fatter.
00:40:59.300 Now, he might rank a little lower because he's a dude. 0.97
00:41:02.280 But there will be a big, fat Samoan lady. 1.00
00:41:04.000 And she's going to be bigger.
00:41:05.700 There will, or maybe not.
00:41:07.140 Maybe not necessarily some Pacific Islander.
00:41:10.560 But there is someone.
00:41:11.660 There's always someone who is more of X, Y, and Z than you are. 0.96
00:41:19.160 That's the end result of all the victimhood stuff.
00:41:21.360 Which is, by the way, why the left pushes it.
00:41:23.440 Because if the premise is that victimhood confers virtue
00:41:27.860 and only the virtuous should speak
00:41:31.060 and the less virtuous should shut up and let the virtuous speak
00:41:34.720 but virtue we're now redefining in this totally perverted way to mean victimhood
00:41:39.780 then there's always going to be someone who is more victimized. 0.97
00:41:43.020 So the end result of this is not merely white people shut up, men shut up, straight people shut up. 0.99
00:41:50.940 The end result is everybody shut up. 0.98
00:41:53.900 Everybody shut up except for the one single most oppressed person in the entire world.
00:42:00.200 We're never going to find that person. 0.82
00:42:01.440 So all of you, just to be safe, everyone shut up and let us do what we want.
00:42:05.400 It ties right back in with that comment at the top of the show.
00:42:10.120 The conspiracy theories.
00:42:12.480 There are groups of people who are manipulating public opinion.
00:42:15.700 That is what the World Economic Forum is doing right now.
00:42:18.600 They're sitting there saying,
00:42:19.820 You are leaders of political communities.
00:42:22.200 I am Klaus Schwab.
00:42:23.300 And you are leaders of communities.
00:42:25.660 And we will lead.
00:42:27.540 We will not let them make the history.
00:42:29.760 We will make the history.
00:42:30.920 We will and we will do it in the shadows in Davos, Switzerland.
00:42:35.640 And we will not let them have any say in it at all.
00:42:38.200 You will just lead them and they will all shut up.
00:42:43.620 Nancy Pelosi is finally speaking up against her bishop
00:42:48.180 who has barred her from presenting herself for Holy Communion.
00:42:53.980 And Nancy Pelosi has presented herself as a victim here.
00:42:57.360 Speaking of victimhood, she has presented herself as a victim here.
00:43:00.620 She is being unfairly targeted by the bishop
00:43:03.060 who has the absolute audacity to do his job
00:43:08.460 that he is called upon to do
00:43:10.740 to enforce the teachings of the Catholic Church for her own good.
00:43:14.380 She says she is really the victim.
00:43:16.720 What is so sad about it, and as you are speaking,
00:43:19.740 I am thinking of some of the discussions I have had
00:43:22.700 with other members of Congress over time.
00:43:25.300 And what is important for women to know and families to know
00:43:28.640 that this is not just about terminating a pregnancy.
00:43:33.820 So these same people are against contraception,
00:43:36.740 family planning, in vitro fertilization.
00:43:39.860 It's a blanket thing,
00:43:42.700 and they use abortion as the front man for it
00:43:46.480 while they try to undo so much.
00:43:49.540 That's what they tried to do in the Affordable Care Act,
00:43:52.200 which didn't have anything about terminating an abortion, 0.66
00:43:55.560 a pregnancy.
00:43:57.040 So let's just say that, you know,
00:44:00.340 I wonder about death penalty, which I am opposed to.
00:44:03.860 So is the church,
00:44:05.140 but they take no action against people
00:44:07.380 who may not share their view.
00:44:09.580 Now, our archbishop has been vehemently
00:44:13.640 against LGBTQ rights, too.
00:44:15.760 In fact, he led the way in some of the initiatives,
00:44:18.280 an initiative on the ballot in California.
00:44:21.300 I'm going to give Nancy Pelosi the benefit of the doubt here 0.91
00:44:23.720 and say she's just ignorant about what Catholicism is, 0.94
00:44:26.780 and she might be.
00:44:27.680 She says that the archbishop,
00:44:29.320 he's very anti-LGBDQ
00:44:30.960 because he opposed the redefinition of marriage,
00:44:33.980 as though this were some radical thing.
00:44:35.920 It is essential Catholic teaching.
00:44:38.980 The definition of marriage
00:44:39.920 is essential non-negotiable Catholic teaching.
00:44:43.060 All practicing Catholics,
00:44:44.600 all people who believe in the Catholic faith
00:44:46.380 and are practicing the Catholic faith
00:44:48.300 adhere to the definition of marriage,
00:44:52.120 that marriage is between a man and a woman, 0.65
00:44:54.160 the definition of marriage
00:44:54.940 that Christ himself lays out in the Gospels,
00:44:57.260 in the Gospel of Matthew.
00:44:59.960 Nancy Pelosi might disagree
00:45:01.440 with that definition of marriage.
00:45:03.300 It doesn't mean that the archbishop is the radical
00:45:05.340 and she's the normal one,
00:45:07.040 but furthermore,
00:45:09.000 her view is a refutation of the Catholic view.
00:45:13.960 Her view is a rejection of the Catholic view.
00:45:18.380 So she can say,
00:45:19.520 well, and can you believe this archbishop
00:45:20.820 believes the Catholic thing?
00:45:21.900 Right, what you're saying is,
00:45:23.060 I don't believe the Catholic.
00:45:24.420 I, Nancy Pelosi,
00:45:25.380 don't believe the Catholic view on this.
00:45:28.480 Then she goes on.
00:45:30.760 She says, you know,
00:45:31.960 I'm against the death penalty.
00:45:33.540 The church is against the death penalty,
00:45:34.960 but they won't do anything about it.
00:45:36.460 Maybe she's just misunderstanding
00:45:37.800 Catholic teaching here.
00:45:39.140 The Catholic church does not now 1.00
00:45:40.800 and has never taught
00:45:41.700 that capital punishment is intrinsically evil.
00:45:44.360 The Catholic church cannot teach that
00:45:45.980 because capital punishment is defended
00:45:47.840 in the Bible explicitly by St. Paul
00:45:50.180 and by Christ, I think you could deduce and infer.
00:45:54.480 But furthermore,
00:45:55.280 it's always been defended
00:45:56.220 throughout the history of the church
00:45:57.540 as not being intrinsically evil.
00:45:59.860 The great doctors of the church have defended it.
00:46:02.040 In fact, popes have carried it out.
00:46:04.160 Blessed Pope Pius IX carried out
00:46:06.660 somewhere on the order of 500 executions
00:46:08.800 in the papal states.
00:46:11.060 Was he committing these intrinsically evil actions?
00:46:13.920 No, no one would ever suggest that.
00:46:15.220 Not even Pope Francis would suggest that.
00:46:17.060 Pope Benedict, Francis's predecessor,
00:46:20.080 put it very well when he said
00:46:21.200 there can be a legitimate difference of opinion
00:46:22.920 on the question of the death penalty among Catholics.
00:46:26.380 Even John Paul II,
00:46:27.380 who really started to turn
00:46:28.540 the pastoral practical Catholic teaching
00:46:32.180 on the death penalty
00:46:33.020 in the direction against the death penalty,
00:46:36.100 he said that it was a prudential matter.
00:46:37.760 He did not,
00:46:40.180 it was a cautious wording
00:46:43.460 that Pope John Paul II used
00:46:45.740 because he knows that he can't contradict
00:46:48.380 2,000 years of church teaching,
00:46:49.700 which says that the death penalty
00:46:51.040 is not intrinsically evil.
00:46:52.900 Okay.
00:46:53.440 And then the key to what she says is,
00:46:55.680 she goes,
00:46:56.840 these same people are against contraception
00:46:59.320 and IVF and this, that, and the other thing.
00:47:01.380 These same people.
00:47:02.520 By these same people,
00:47:03.400 she means Catholics.
00:47:04.780 Yes, Catholics are against those things.
00:47:06.680 You're right.
00:47:07.980 And you, Nancy Pelosi,
00:47:09.140 are, in your own words,
00:47:10.940 excluding yourself from that community.
00:47:13.840 You're talking about contraception and IVF
00:47:15.860 because you don't want to talk about abortion
00:47:18.420 because you know that abortion is indefensible
00:47:19.960 and abortion is a non-negotiable,
00:47:21.880 unchanged, and unchangeable teaching
00:47:24.620 in the Catholic Church.
00:47:25.940 But then you are yourself
00:47:28.640 excluding yourself from the Catholic community.
00:47:30.660 You're saying,
00:47:31.140 there are the Catholics,
00:47:31.840 there are those people,
00:47:32.640 those same people
00:47:33.280 who hold the Catholic views,
00:47:34.360 and then there's me.
00:47:35.320 Right.
00:47:35.720 That's the bishop's point.
00:47:36.840 The bishop's point is,
00:47:37.620 you are separating yourself
00:47:39.360 from the Catholic Church.
00:47:40.780 He didn't separate you from the Church.
00:47:43.320 He didn't bar you from communion.
00:47:45.680 Exactly.
00:47:46.580 You yourself did that.
00:47:48.560 And the bishop,
00:47:50.060 for your own good,
00:47:51.000 is acknowledging that
00:47:51.920 and saying,
00:47:52.340 you've got to repent.
00:47:53.240 I've got to lead my flock.
00:47:54.520 I'm trying to lead you
00:47:55.400 so that you don't,
00:47:56.380 in the words of St. Paul,
00:47:57.660 eat your own damnation
00:47:58.600 if you present yourself
00:47:59.760 for holy communion
00:48:00.500 in a state of unrepentant grave mortal sin.
00:48:03.120 But also,
00:48:03.860 I'm protecting my flock
00:48:04.660 because you are scandalous. 0.90
00:48:06.420 You're creating scandal for them.
00:48:09.660 And you're admitting,
00:48:10.460 it's your words.
00:48:11.260 He didn't make you say that.
00:48:12.100 He didn't make you refer to
00:48:13.340 those same people,
00:48:14.520 the Catholics,
00:48:15.100 and then me.
00:48:15.600 Because Nancy Pelosi
00:48:16.760 is torn between two religions.
00:48:19.220 Or at least she's presenting herself
00:48:20.360 as torn between two religions,
00:48:21.940 Catholicism and leftism.
00:48:23.300 I don't think she's really
00:48:24.160 all that torn, though,
00:48:24.880 because whenever they come
00:48:25.620 into conflict,
00:48:26.380 she chooses leftism.
00:48:28.300 So that's her religion.
00:48:29.620 Man cannot serve two masters.
00:48:32.080 That's hers. 0.85
00:48:33.580 Speaking of senior citizens, 0.82
00:48:35.280 New York has a really creepy plan.
00:48:36.800 I have to get to this before we go
00:48:38.040 because it's so sad and spooky.
00:48:40.940 The New York State Office
00:48:42.280 for the Aging
00:48:43.140 has just told The Verge,
00:48:45.380 which is a tech website,
00:48:46.980 that they have robots
00:48:48.140 that they're going to give
00:48:49.000 to senior citizens
00:48:49.880 to make them less lonely.
00:48:52.260 The robots are LEQ.
00:48:54.220 That's built by this Israeli company 0.99
00:48:55.740 called Intuition Robotics.
00:48:57.420 They're going to distribute
00:48:58.060 800 of them
00:48:58.960 to senior citizens
00:48:59.660 across the state.
00:49:00.860 And it's basically like
00:49:01.980 a more advanced version
00:49:03.440 of Google Home or Alexa.
00:49:05.240 And they can make small talk, too.
00:49:06.620 You can chat with them.
00:49:07.380 So if a senior citizen is lonely,
00:49:08.840 you can chat with the robot
00:49:09.800 and the senior citizen
00:49:10.620 can pretend it's a human being.
00:49:13.240 Not be visited by family members,
00:49:14.880 not be visited
00:49:15.560 by the local community.
00:49:16.680 No, no, no.
00:49:17.000 Just talk to a robot alone
00:49:18.180 in their home.
00:49:19.780 And once they give these out
00:49:21.400 and test it out,
00:49:22.680 they're going to start
00:49:23.640 selling them to people.
00:49:24.500 There's a $250 enrollment fee.
00:49:26.880 Then there's a $30 a month
00:49:28.140 service charge
00:49:28.800 to maintain a subscription
00:49:29.740 all to combat loneliness.
00:49:32.540 Maybe people's hearts
00:49:33.680 are in the right place here.
00:49:34.500 I'm not sure either way.
00:49:36.160 All I know is
00:49:36.780 this is not going to work.
00:49:38.600 And this is one of the problems.
00:49:39.880 It's one of the problems
00:49:41.960 of our society,
00:49:42.660 of the leftism of our society
00:49:43.960 that has isolated us all
00:49:45.080 from one another
00:49:45.680 and that has pretended
00:49:46.940 that we're all just
00:49:47.720 individuals floating
00:49:49.260 in the ether
00:49:50.360 who have no natural connections
00:49:51.760 to one another
00:49:52.440 and to such a point
00:49:54.280 that they defend
00:49:55.300 the right,
00:49:56.240 quote unquote,
00:49:56.600 of a mother 0.99
00:49:56.920 to kill her own child. 1.00
00:49:58.100 That's how little loyalty 1.00
00:49:59.260 or connection
00:49:59.860 or obligation we have
00:50:00.840 to one another
00:50:01.300 according to them.
00:50:02.580 But it's also
00:50:03.160 a problem of capitalism
00:50:04.700 where everything
00:50:05.480 has to be capitalized.
00:50:07.220 Everything has to be monetized.
00:50:08.540 Everything has to be about GDP.
00:50:11.000 Andrew Yang,
00:50:11.980 when he was running for president,
00:50:12.960 he complained.
00:50:13.420 He said,
00:50:13.620 my wife doesn't get a paycheck 1.00
00:50:14.620 for all the work she does.
00:50:16.560 Why does she need a paycheck? 1.00
00:50:17.520 She's your wife. 0.87
00:50:18.700 She has a home.
00:50:19.740 She has a family.
00:50:20.940 Why does she need 1.00
00:50:22.060 to get a paycheck?
00:50:22.920 Why are we living
00:50:23.660 in a society right now
00:50:24.740 where people are forced,
00:50:26.360 where women have to go 1.00
00:50:27.340 instead of working
00:50:28.040 for her family,
00:50:29.360 where women have to go 1.00
00:50:30.140 work for some other guy
00:50:31.380 so the other guy
00:50:32.080 can pay her
00:50:32.840 so that she and her husband
00:50:34.180 can pay some other woman 1.00
00:50:35.300 to raise the child
00:50:36.360 that neither of them
00:50:37.060 have time to raise
00:50:37.900 so they send the kid
00:50:39.480 to daycare
00:50:39.960 or to the babysitter.
00:50:41.000 The babysitter might have 0.76
00:50:41.940 her own kid
00:50:42.540 so the babysitter
00:50:43.540 will either have to do
00:50:44.680 exactly the same thing
00:50:45.740 or rely on grandma
00:50:47.160 and grandpa
00:50:47.600 to watch the kid.
00:50:48.360 Why does everything
00:50:49.760 have to be
00:50:50.620 commoditized
00:50:53.100 and monetized
00:50:54.080 and capitalized?
00:50:55.280 Even loneliness,
00:50:56.320 even community,
00:50:57.100 even small talk
00:50:58.040 with someone.
00:50:58.680 It all has to be
00:50:59.480 about the subscription model.
00:51:00.880 It all has to be about
00:51:02.020 just buying
00:51:02.960 the latest gizmo.
00:51:04.020 How about you just go
00:51:04.820 visit your neighbors?
00:51:05.720 How about we have community?
00:51:06.640 How about,
00:51:08.140 how about,
00:51:09.720 but this is of course
00:51:10.560 the issue that we're talking,
00:51:11.380 and ties in with all of the issues
00:51:12.420 we're talking about today
00:51:13.080 by the way.
00:51:13.960 The loneliness,
00:51:14.860 the isolation,
00:51:16.120 the radicalization.
00:51:18.400 It's not,
00:51:18.820 it is,
00:51:19.280 it is primarily
00:51:20.160 being driven by the left.
00:51:21.220 I don't want to say it's,
00:51:21.960 well it's just kind of both sides.
00:51:23.780 But it's a,
00:51:24.220 it's a really deep
00:51:25.460 structural issue.
00:51:27.740 It's,
00:51:28.080 if you don't believe
00:51:29.080 that something has gone
00:51:29.800 really wrong with society,
00:51:31.600 just look at the old people 1.00
00:51:32.940 that we have
00:51:33.320 completely cast away
00:51:34.460 and sent little robots
00:51:35.540 in our place
00:51:36.940 for a fee
00:51:38.600 to go make them feel
00:51:39.940 less lonely
00:51:40.540 and discarded.
00:51:41.380 That's a sick society. 0.51
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