Ep. 1024 - Biden Wants To Put Y’all Republicans Back in Chains!
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Summary
In this episode of the Knowles Show, host Michael Knowles talks about President Trump's call for Republicans to be sent to jail, and why that s a good idea. Plus, a look at why the economy is doing so much better than it has been in decades, and how much better it is now than it was a decade ago.
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I know it's early, but I have got a shot and a chaser for you. Here's the shot.
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You'd often get asked, look, the Republicans don't play it square. Why do you play it square?
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Yeah. Well, guess what? If we do the same thing they do, our democracy would literally be in
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jeopardy. I'm not a joke. I understand that argument, but also it's like you're playing
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monopoly with somebody who, you know, won't pass go and won't follow any of the rules. And how do
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you ever make any progress if they're not following the rules? You got to send them to jail,
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you know, directly to jail. Ha ha ha ha. That's the president of the United States saying on national
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television that the only way to deal with Republicans is to throw them in jail. That's
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the shot. Here's the chaser. Yesterday, the FBI arrested a Republican candidate for governor
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in Michigan over misdemeanors that he allegedly committed on January 6th of last year. A serious
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rival to the incumbent governor was arrested during an election year over relatively minor crimes that
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he may or may not have committed more than a year ago. For some reason, the FBI did not see fit to
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arrest this guy for well over a year after the alleged incident took place. But then, the very
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week that Democrats are staging their January 6th show trial and circus, the FBI decides to arrest a
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prominent Republican office seeker for misdemeanors related to the topic of the hearings. What are the
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odds? Boy, oh boy, what a coincidence. With each passing day, our country seems more and more to resemble
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a banana republic. And for some strange reason, it's precisely the people who constantly preen about
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our sacred democracy who seem to be leading us faster and faster toward it. I'm Michael Knowles.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Phil Vetta, who says,
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Come on, Jack. Come on, man. I play by the rules, man. That's what I do. Listen, if I didn't play by
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the rules, unlike those pesky Republicans, our democracy would fall apart. That's the first
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thing Joe Biden says in the first half of his breath. And then what? In the second half, he says,
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and that's why I've got to jail my opponents for opposing me. He used to be a little bit better with
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the messaging. Joe Biden, he used to be a little bit better with the BS. And that has gone out the
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window. The appearance on Jimmy Kimmel was absolutely disastrous. The clip of it that's
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going around right now that probably went most viral was Joe Biden rambling about biracial
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television commercials. I'm serious. You turn on the TV, look at the ads. When's the last time you saw
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biracial couples on TV? When's the last time you saw the way, I mean, people are selling products.
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They do ads to sell products. And they sell products when people, they appeal to people.
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This generation is going to change everything. We just got to make sure we don't give up.
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When was the last time that you saw biracial? There are so many things wrong with this.
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Joe Biden has used this line a lot, but he got it backwards this time.
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The line that he usually uses to show the progress that America has made is that now you can't turn
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on a TV without seeing an interracial couple, which is true. There are a lot of, it is sort of
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odd, actually, that interracial couples seem to be far more represented on television than in the
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United States at large. But that's what he's pointing to, except he got it backwards and he can't
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keep his words right anymore. And he blames it on a childhood stutter that he had when he was eight
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that disappeared for 70 years and then popped back up again. So he got it wrong and he said,
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you don't see biracial couples. Also, he doesn't know what the word biracial means.
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Biracial is like Halle Berry. If we were talking about biracial couples on TV, we would say that
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everyone on TV were Halle Berry hued and they were all, there was a slightly, only slightly darker
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than I am. The word that he's looking for is interracial. So the only reason I bring it up is not to make
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any point about his stupid observation on the TV. It's to point out even the lines that he is most
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practiced with, even the lines that he has used in his stump speeches for years now, even those get
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jumbled up in his mushy pudding head. Then Joe Biden rambles so badly that Jimmy Kimmel actually has to
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cut him off and go to commercial. But here's the deal. One of the things is that it's very difficult
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now to have a, um, even with notable exceptions, even the really good reporters, they have to get
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the number of clicks on, on, on nightly news. So instead of asking a question anyway, it just,
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everything gets, gets sensationalized in ways that, but I'm convinced we can get through this.
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We have to get through it. And one of the things, look, I'm going to take a break and then we'll talk
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a little bit more if you don't mind. I'm sorry. We have some of those commercials. We have some
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biracial commercials we need to tell. We'll be back with President Biden. That was a pretty good
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save by Jimmy Kimmel, but it was so sad how he had to lean into it because he leaned into it the way
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that when, when you've really got to go to a meeting, when you've really got to get off the
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phone and you're speaking with an elderly relative, the way, Hey, Hey, before, hold on, before you get into
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that story. Great, great grandpa. We need, I just, we're going to take a little break. Okay. And
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then, and then he makes the biracial joke, which was, which was pretty funny, but it's not funny
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enough to save the interview. What is Biden talking is, you know, back in my day, Sonny, we didn't have
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all these clickies, clicky doodads and websites. We had the pony express and that's what, that's what
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we did, Jack. And we would go and you'd have to, you'd go to the Gutenberg press to, if you wanted
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your news stories, but then, okay, Hey, hold on. We just one second there, Mr. President, we've got to
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go cut to commercial to end this misery. And then finally, the, the, probably the most important point
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worth mentioning in this disastrous interview was that Joe Biden is appearing on Jimmy Kimmel
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the night after a leftist assassin showed up to Brett Kavanaugh's house because he was upset about
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the court potentially overruling Roe versus Wade, which he only found out about because a leftist
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on the court leaked it. And he found Brett Kavanaugh's address only because a leftist group
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doxed Kavanaugh. And the night after that happens, Joe Biden shows up to this national talk show.
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Very few people watch it, but still a national show. And he says, if the court overrules Roe,
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It's clear that if in fact the decision comes down the way it does, and these states impose
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the limitations they're talking about, it's going to cause a mini revolution. They're going to vote
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a lot of these folks out of office. A mini revolution. Now, Biden is a shrewd enough
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politician still that he know he, he teases that, but then he pulls it back. And he says,
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they're good by voting. It's going to be a revolution by voting.
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But, but Joe Biden does know the context here. And the context actually does matter here.
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He's showing up hours after a leftist assassin tries to murder a sitting Supreme Court justice
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over this issue specifically in his home, in his bed, where the justice's wife and daughters sleep.
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And then Biden, instead of, instead of going on the Kimmel show and condemning that,
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I don't think Biden knows about very much these days, but they certainly told him that someone
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tried to kill the justice. Instead of going on and saying, listen, we need to cool down the
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rhetoric. We need to restore the soul of the nation. We need to not be killing federal officials,
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certainly not judges at least. No, instead of that, he says, hey, hey, you know that thing that
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the, the Kavanaugh almost got murdered for? Yeah. Well, I sure hope Kavanaugh changes his mind,
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you know, because, hey, listen, Jack, listen, Corn Pop, if he doesn't, we might get a mini revolution.
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Know what I'm saying? Hey, come on there. Come on, man. Come on, man. Come on.
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Speaking of revolution, Joy Behar over on The View just epitomized so much of the utterly ignorant,
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arrogant views of her side, especially when they're talking about guns. She, the left is,
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is trying to grab guns. I think they know it's basically a lost cause, but she thinks she's
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identified the one way in which Republicans might turn against the second amendment. And that's if those
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black people get guns. Here's the thing. Once black people get guns in this country,
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the gun laws will change. Trust me. That's what happened with the black cancer.
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Trust me, okay? Republicans are far more racist than they care about the second amendment. Now,
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this is obviously a very stupid statement from Joy Behar, but it's especially stupid because she's
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speaking to a black woman here on the panel, on The View. And just moments earlier, maybe,
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I don't know, two minutes earlier, the black woman on the panel blew up Joy's theory.
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Can I just say this real quick as a gun owner? There are people in this country that genuinely own guns.
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You catch that? You catch that? Hi, I, a black woman as a gun owner. And then she goes on and,
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and talks about how we don't need all of these guns. And she's trying to find this moderate
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position on it. But she just told Joy Behar, yes, I own a gun. And then what does Joy Behar do? She
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says, oh, shut up, black lady. Hold on. You're getting in the way of my narrative. No, black people,
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they don't have guns. And once, and those Republicans hate black people. I said, stop talking,
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black lady. I'm trying, stop telling me about your actual experience. I'm trying to express my views
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about your experience. And black people, yeah, I know, I know. There's a statistic that says
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one in four black Americans already own guns. Yeah, forget about that for a second. I'm trying
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those ladies, but the Joe Biden Education Secretary. The Joe Biden Education Secretary shows up on The View
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to address this question of how to protect schools. One of the, whatever you think about gun control,
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whatever you think about AR-15s, whatever you think about whatever, we should all be able to agree
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that if you want to protect schools, there are some basic measures that will help. Lock the doors.
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I think, is locking the doors ideological? Is that a partisan battle now? Just lock most of the doors?
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Have an armed guard there. Is that having an armed guard to stop the bad guys? I guess the cops are
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ideological now. I guess they are partisan now. Really shouldn't be. Maybe let teachers who are
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law-abiding gun owners, maybe let them carry their guns. You notice that the shooters always attack
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gun-free zones. They always attack soft targets. So maybe harden up those targets a little bit.
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You won't get as much shooting. One of the ladies on The View asks Joe Biden's Education Secretary
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about this thought, and he doesn't like it. Some Republicans have proposed arming teachers
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to stop these shootings. My mother is a teacher. In Ohio, the governor is preparing to sign a bill
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that would lower the training requirements for a teacher to carry a gun in the classroom from 700
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hours to 24 hours. In your view, do you support teachers carrying guns in the classroom?
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Those are some of the stupidest proposals I've heard in all my time as an educator. So that's my
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answer to that. Listen, we need to make sure we're doing sensible legislation, making sure our school
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houses are safe as much as possible. But to say that we're going to arm teachers to protect students,
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what happens when a teacher goes out on maternity leave? Are we going to give the substitute of the
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day a gun? What this shows, Sonny, is that some people are clueless when it comes to what's
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happening in our schools. Some people are, in fact, clueless. That's true. I think Dr. Miguel
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Cardona here, the secretary groomer of education wearing his little progress pride pin on his lapel,
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I think he might be the clueless one because he doesn't even understand the argument for arming
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teachers. He proved that at the end. He said at the top, this is a dumb idea. It's the stupidest
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idea I ever heard. It doesn't quite explain why. And then a little bit later, he gets to it. He says,
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what? What happens when you have a substitute teacher? You're going to give him a gun?
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That's the argument for arming teachers is not that you require every teacher to have a gun.
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The argument for arming teachers is that you have some teachers with guns. And by the way,
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you don't know necessarily which teachers have the guns. And so when an assailant or a would-be
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assailant comes into the school, pretty much everyone he sees potentially could be armed.
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And when that's the case, people tend to be a little bit more polite. People tend to be a little
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more cautious and reticent. If they go into a school and they know for a fact no one is armed,
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then they can run amok. They can do whatever they want. But you don't, the point is not to have
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every single person they're packing, you know, arm the third graders too. The point is to just have
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some guns out there and you don't know who's got them. And you could turn the corner to wreak havoc
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and then boom, there's the gym coach. Boom, there's the history teacher. And you just, you just don't
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know. That's what Joy Behar was proving up there when she made her stupid point about black gun
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ownership. All she's showing is that she truly has no idea what, how, one, what black people think
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about guns and two, what conservatives think. She thinks that if conservatives knew that black
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people were getting legal guns, that they would turn on the second amendment. Many of you listening
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right now are conservatives. Many of you listening right now are black too. Is that, is that how you
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feel? No, of course not. But I give her points for sincerity. I think she probably sincerely believes
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that. And she's just completely mistaken. Dr. Groomer here, Secretary Groomer, probably sincerely
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believes that the arguments that conservatives are advancing are, are for arming all of the
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teachers because he's got wind blowing in between his ears and can't process what we're actually
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saying. He probably just doesn't know. And he can chalk that up to ignorance and a lack of curiosity.
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But that is not the argument that we are making. Yet again, we see something that social scientists
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have shown again and again over the years, which is that conservatives understand the libs
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much, much better than the libs understand conservatives. By the way, the, the argument
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for arming schools, for putting guards at least at schools, was just proven correct yesterday.
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There was a man outside of an Alabama elementary school who was demonstrating aggressive behavior.
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He was walking around, he was yelling, he was trying to get into the school. It was unclear
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what was going on. And a school, this is just being reported by AL.com. A school resource officer
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on site responded, talked with the man and called for backup. Then a second officer arrived,
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an altercation ensued, and the suspect was killed. He was fatally shot. Officials have not yet said if the
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man was armed, doesn't necessarily matter if the man was armed, if the man was suggesting that he might be
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armed. He's trying to break into an elementary school. He's demonstrating very aggressive behavior
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two weeks after a mass killing at an elementary school. This is what's going to happen. Who knows
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what would have happened had that guard not been there, had there not been good guys with guns on
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the site. One officer suffered minor injuries. He was taken to the hospital. No kids were harmed.
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The kids may not, not even have known what was going on outside. But that's the stupidest idea
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I've ever heard. What, you want, you want to have people with guns to protect people from bad people
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with guns? That was stupid. How stupid do you, how out of touch do you have to be with not just modern
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society, but with the basics of human nature and self-defense and incentives to make that kind of a
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comment? Speaking of dangers that students face, I get tips sometimes, and I encourage you to send
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me tips. You can do it through my personal website, michaeljnoles.com. I get tips of bad stuff that's
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going on in local communities that maybe is not getting national attention, but it's happening.
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And that's, we live our lives in local communities. We all pay attention to the national news, but much
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of the stuff that affects our real day-to-day lives and affects our kids and the way that we raise our
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kids and our whole families takes place at the local level. And it's not just New York and San
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Francisco and Chicago and LA that have gone bonkers. It's places right there in the middle of the
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country, right there in the heartland that are pushing some of this radicalism. On June 27th, I don't
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know what you're doing. You probably want to clear your calendars because the Davenport Public Library in
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Iowa, in Iowa of all places, is hosting a teen summer brunch called Drag Queens and Kings Wake Up.
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Let's do brunch, campy style. Okay, so this is for teens. I already think that is depraved and should
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not be legal and should not be tolerated in a civilized society. But then they say, what are the
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ages that can come to this? 11 through 19. It says teens ages 11 through 19 can celebrate Pride Month
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by going to this drag brunch. When did 11-year-olds become teenagers? They're saying teenagers here
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because it seems marginally better than saying, hey, little kids, come and let us let perverts
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jiggle for you dressed up in stiletto heels. And maybe you can join in too. It'll be kind of fun,
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won't it? They know that. So they say teens, you know 11, like an 11-year-old. What do you mean an
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11-year-old? Yeah, I'm just talking, you know, teenagers, like, you know, a 16-year-old or a
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nine-year-old or a four-year-old. Hold on, that's not what a teenager is. It's very easy to figure out
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what a teenager is. The word teen is right at the end of the age. 13, 14, 15. They can celebrate Pride
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Month in the art of being theatrical, extra, and campy. After performances from a local drag queen and drag
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king, Miss Amber will give book talks while everyone enjoys donuts and other yummy snacks.
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Registration is required. Make sure you head on over there. This is going to be a wonderful,
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wonderful event. Do you want that in your communities in Iowa? Do you want that at the
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Davenport Public Library? Money is coming out of, if you're an Iowan, money is coming out of your
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taxpayer dollars to go and fund this sort of thing. Do you want to do that? If not, I would call your
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representative. I would call up that Davenport Public Library and put a stop to it. It's not
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just in Davenport. If you happen to be in Moline, Illinois, and you happen to be there on June 18th,
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and you happen to have kids that you want to pervert and disorder, you can bring them to the
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youth drag workshop and show. Boy, oh boy, isn't that going to be fun? It's going to be held at the
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Stony Creek Hotel in Moline, and you can go and teach your kids how to do drag.
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This is a project of Clock Incorporated. It's going to be a lot of fun. Do you like brunch and
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activities? Then you might be interested in that. It's going to be so, so fun. So you go,
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you show up to the workshop, you have a great time, and you have little kids dance around. It's not
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just, it's not even just a performance. It's a workshop. You're teaching little kids,
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these youths how to do drag. Learn from experienced drag performers in a relaxed,
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fun, and non-judgmental environment. I'm judging. I don't know about you. I'm judging. I judge that
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this is wrong and should be illegal, and the people putting this on are perverts, and the parents who
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are taking their kids to it are abusing them. Maybe wittingly, maybe unwittingly. Either way,
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it's got to stop. If you don't like this, call your representatives. Moline, Illinois.
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Illinois taking place at the Stony Creek Hotel. Say you don't want this here. Whenever conservatives
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put on perfectly ordinary events where we say basic truths about our country, or we have the
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audacity to, I don't know, defend George Washington or something, the lib activists call up and try to
00:23:36.300
get the conferences shut down by calling the hotels, by calling their representatives. Here,
00:23:40.380
you've got a bunch of pervs grooming little kids into weird sex stuff. Surely, we can call and say,
00:23:45.580
you know, hotel, you're not getting my business anymore if you keep hosting this stuff.
00:23:50.500
You know, congressman, you know, state senator, I'm not going to vote for you if you don't put a stop
00:23:56.220
to this. Put a stop. We have the right to say no to this creepy stuff. The libs are obsessed with
00:24:05.580
transgenderism. It's just as simple as that. There's this Yale professor, Jason Stanley. He's a Yale
00:24:12.760
professor of philosophy. I truly, I have a lot of trouble believing that this guy is earnest. I
00:24:20.580
wonder if he's just a secret conservative troll who's putting on a grand piece of performance art.
00:24:26.560
He writes about fascism coming to America and how, you know, evil the kind of modern conservatives are
00:24:33.860
and the grave threats. And he takes himself so, so seriously. Well, he just tweeted out, quote,
00:24:39.220
I haven't been focused as much as I should have been on supporting trans rights in the last 12
00:24:46.200
months. I now realize that this is where the fight for global democracy is. There is no avoiding it.
00:24:52.860
Now, if you just read that statement without any context at all, and especially if you saw his very
00:24:58.740
self-serious photo here on social media, you would believe this were an onion headline. Maybe not
00:25:05.200
the onion because that's lib, but maybe a Babylon Bee headline or something. But if you're familiar with
00:25:10.200
this guy's body of work, I guess you would have to conclude that he's being serious here. And so he's
00:25:16.200
saying transgender rights is where the fight for global democracy is. There's no avoiding it. And so
00:25:25.800
if he's being earnest, if he's being sincere, and I think the jury is still out on that, but let's just
00:25:31.480
say that he is. He's making a statement that is completely incoherent. Democracy, at least according
00:25:39.940
to the old definition that existed from, I don't know, many centuries before Christ until five
00:25:46.240
minutes ago, all the way back to ancient Athens, what, 7th century BC Athens, all the way to the
00:25:52.860
present, democracy meant popular government, government where the people get to rule,
00:25:57.580
get to do what they want. That was democracy until then. Now what we're saying is democracy hinges on
00:26:04.220
a very small radical minority running roughshod over the desires of the vast majority. The vast
00:26:11.560
majority of people do not support transgenderism. They don't believe in transgenderism. They don't
00:26:17.440
believe that a man can secretly be a woman. And they certainly don't support drag shows throughout
00:26:22.200
our country and perverts grooming kids. The vast majority of people oppose that, not just right
00:26:27.740
wing Republicans, but moderates and centrists and liberals and Democrats. So what is he talking about?
00:26:32.460
How could he say it's the fight for global democracy? Again, if he's being earnest, and it's hard for me
00:26:37.620
to believe that someone who ostensibly has a high IQ and lots of fancy degrees could really say
00:26:44.180
something this stupid. Although, frankly, I guess it's only an Ivy League professor who could say
00:26:48.500
something that's obviously stupid. He is saying that that is the greatest cause of democracy.
00:26:55.820
Overruling the will of the majority, that's the greatest cause for democracy. The ruling class is
00:27:01.200
really, really pushing this stuff. Frankly, I think because most people don't want it. I think the reason
00:27:07.240
that the ruling class is so focused on pushing transgenderism is it's so obviously wrong. It's so
00:27:13.000
contrary not only to our view of morality and our traditions and our customs, but nature itself.
00:27:19.960
It's so obviously contrary to just basic biology and the facts of reality that they think,
00:27:26.180
if I can overcome nature, if I can overcome reality and sex, I can overcome anything. The revolution will
00:27:34.140
be total. It will be, in the words of Marx, the ruthless criticism of all that exists. It will be,
00:27:39.120
in the words of the serpent in the garden talking to Eve, it will be, we making ourselves gods.
00:27:46.340
We shall be as God. You shall be as gods, which Whitaker Chambers said was the first political
00:27:51.320
revolution. It's the beginning of communism. It started in the garden of Eden. So I think that's
00:27:56.320
why they're pushing for it. Oh, 90 some odd percent of Americans don't want to trans the kids. All the
00:28:03.060
more reason as to why we have to, because once we push past your ignorance, then we will destroy the
00:28:08.080
false consciousness and remake the world however we want according to the sheer tyranny of our will.
00:28:13.020
That's why in San Francisco right now, the San Francisco mayor has decided to announce a drag
00:28:19.880
laureate this year. A drag laureate. A laureate is someone who receives public honors. You think of
00:28:27.600
the poet laureate. You'd have a great writer who is showing you something about beauty and truth
00:28:34.360
and human nature and holding a mirror up to yourself. And we crown this person the poet laureate
00:28:39.300
because of their great contributions to the, specifically the life of letters, but the life
00:28:44.540
of the arts and our own understanding of ourselves. Now, now we put that laurel crown on perverts
00:28:50.840
jiggling for kids. That's, I think the culture has fallen a little bit. The mayor, London Breed has
00:28:57.840
announced, San Francisco's commitment to inclusivity and the arts are the foundation for who we are as
00:29:04.160
a city. Drag artists have helped pave the way for LGBTQ rights and representation across our city.
00:29:11.100
And we must invest in programs that continue their legacies. We must, we must. Oh gosh,
00:29:16.720
how could we survive if we don't spend taxpayer dollars promoting drag queens? We have to create
00:29:23.340
opportunities for the next generation of drag performers to thrive. There it is again. There's
00:29:29.040
the grooming. There's the cultivating this weirdness in kids. I want to thank the drag community. Man,
00:29:35.820
everybody's got a community now, huh? There is racial communities. There are ethnic communities,
00:29:41.560
religious communities, and transvestite communities, okay? The Human Rights Commission
00:29:46.900
and the Public Library for their work. And I look forward to crowning San Francisco's first ever
00:29:52.400
drag laureate this fall. The drag laureate will receive $35,000 in an annual stipend. The funds
00:29:58.020
will come from the San Francisco Public Library out of the two-year budget proposal put forward by
00:30:03.080
the mayor. So they're taking money away from letting people read. They're taking money away from books
00:30:11.400
and education and specifically allowing people who don't have a ton of money to read.
00:30:17.160
If you've got a ton of money, you can go buy the books. If you don't have a ton of money,
00:30:19.720
you go to the library. They're taking that money away and giving it to a pervert to jiggle and dance
00:30:27.380
and pretend that he's a woman in a frankly offensive caricature of what a man thinks a woman is in his
00:30:33.860
weird sexual fantasies. That's what they're doing now because our culture has become very,
00:30:41.340
very dumb and very, very radical. And why is it at the library? Why is the library seem to be the
00:30:46.920
epicenter of this drag queen story hour very often takes place at the public libraries?
00:30:51.360
Well, the first argument was the library is a neutral place. It's a neutral place where everyone
00:30:56.640
from society can come and it can be little kids and older people. And it's neutral. And because of
00:31:01.140
viewpoint neutrality and value neutrality, you have to let us do our drag shows here. It was a
00:31:06.360
provocation. It was a test. And the real conservative said, no, we don't.
00:31:11.520
No, transvestitism was illegal in America in many, many cities, including San Francisco for the 19th
00:31:19.000
century into the 20th century. No, we don't need to tolerate this and we certainly don't need to
00:31:22.720
subsidize it. I said, yes, you do. This is viewpoint neutrality. You have to do it. And then what
00:31:26.980
happens next? The squishes go along with it. They say, we love viewpoint neutrality. And then what
00:31:33.880
happens next? It's not so neutral anymore. Now the city is actually taking money out of the library
00:31:40.080
budget to give to a drag performer. How about the preacher laureate? How about the pastor laureate?
00:31:46.660
How about the conservative philosopher laureate? No, there's no money for them,
00:31:50.820
only for the drag queens because there is no neutrality. Because every state is going to
00:31:56.900
encourage some things and discourage other things. And it's going to have some view of what is sacred
00:32:00.760
and some view of what is good. And right now we've convinced ourselves, the libs have pushed this
00:32:06.520
campaign and the squishes have fallen for it, that we're not allowed to say that good things are good.
00:32:11.480
And we're not allowed to say that bad things are bad. But we must say that bad things are good.
00:32:17.840
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voicemail bag. Hello, Michael. From time to time, my mind wanders back to that latter scene in Austin
00:34:00.040
Powers, where Dr. Evil says to him, we're not so different, you and I. Isn't it ironic that in the
00:34:08.900
90s, all the things that you stood for, free love, parties, drugs, are now considered to be
00:34:15.600
evil? And he says, no, we were innocent, man. If we had known the consequences of our sexual
00:34:23.880
liberation, we might have done things differently, but the spirit would have remained the same.
00:34:29.440
It's freedom, baby, yeah. And I always wonder if that, if that's really what the conservative
00:34:37.040
backlash going on right now is all about. It's not about the content so much as the procedure. I
00:34:42.820
know that's not what you like to think of, but it might be. That we are, in fact, the free love
00:34:49.420
movement. We just understand now what freedom really means. So what do you think of this idea?
00:34:55.360
This is a very good idea. I disagree with you a little bit, but this is such a good insight. I do
00:35:03.080
think it has to do with not just the procedure, but the substance, not just the form, but the actual
00:35:07.020
content. But the point you're making generally is, and that Austin Powers and Dr. Evil are making
00:35:11.980
is really, really good. All desires, all of human desire has as its true end, God ultimately, and
00:35:23.180
the good on the way to God. Good, good thing is leading up to the ultimate highest good, who is God.
00:35:29.900
Our desires become disordered because this is a fallen world.
00:35:33.680
Good desires can be perverted and go in the wrong direction. And that's true of all of us,
00:35:42.000
and it's true, and it manifests in different ways for different people. The solution to this
00:35:46.420
is not to deny your desire. The solution to this is not to ignore it, dismiss it, try to even repress
00:35:54.280
it. That's not the answer. I know that some people, especially some conservatives, seem to think that's
00:35:58.640
the answer, but it's not. Dante, actually, that good old Italian poet writing the Divine Comedy,
00:36:04.540
he gives a better answer, which is, you've got to, when you want to be good, when you want to get
00:36:10.820
closer to God, when you want to find salvation, when you want to, you have to turn, not just your actions
00:36:18.740
and not just your behaviors, you have to turn your desire. You have to turn your will toward the good.
00:36:25.740
And your will is turned by God's grace. And ultimately, it finds itself in the love that
00:36:31.860
moves the sun and the other stars, this idea of desire itself. And so, yes, now, the slight problem
00:36:39.680
here for Austin Powers and Dr. Evil is that you can't just substitute lower kind of perverted ideas
00:36:50.860
of desire and say, okay, well, yeah, the free love movement of the 60s, that wasn't great. So let's
00:36:55.380
move it toward, I don't know, some new type of free love movement. No, the issue that the free love
00:36:59.520
movement was just wrong, okay? And it will find its fullest expression in what we would call traditional
00:37:06.600
values, finding a wife, getting married, channeling your natural sexual desires for your wife. You see it
00:37:14.880
especially, Dante, even in heaven, he's looking at his love, Beatrice. But Beatrice is looking at God.
00:37:23.480
And even there, his desires have been so transformed. But there's still this, he's just looking at that
00:37:30.100
immediate object when really he's got to look past the immediate object, have the immediate object
00:37:36.020
channel his vision toward God. But it's very good. This might be the first time that Austin Powers and
00:37:40.960
Dr. Evil and Dante have ever been discussed in the same paragraph. Next question.
00:37:46.520
Hi, Michael. I just wanted to thank you first for helping me rediscover my faith as a Catholic.
00:37:53.400
I'm a lifelong Catholic who became a Christmas and Easter kind of a Catholic once I was done with high
00:38:00.460
school. And I'm a 37-year-old now. I'm married with two children. And after only baptizing both kids,
00:38:06.700
we are definitely reengaged, recommitted, and our lives are much better already from it. So thank
00:38:13.800
you very much for helping relight the Holy Spirit within our family. In that light, I have no problem
00:38:22.300
standing up and defending the Catholic Church's stance on abortion. It's been my stance with or without
00:38:28.720
religion. The one that I'm looking for your advice about is how to handle having the conversation with
00:38:35.480
those people in our lives that are homosexual. And how do you answer the question about the Catholic
00:38:43.400
religion and the Catholic faith dealing with homosexuality? I do believe that marriage is
00:38:49.640
between a man and a woman. But the reality is there are people that I love, that my wife loves, that our
00:38:57.420
family loves, that have chosen a lifestyle of homosexuality. And if that taught when that topic
00:39:05.340
comes up, how can I confidently express my my love for them still, but stay true to my faith in my
00:39:14.280
religion? Thank you and keep up the great work. Really, really great question. Something that Christians and
00:39:22.560
Jews and Muslims and people who have any traditional view of sexual ethics struggle with. Because the way
00:39:32.040
that conservatives, Christians, whatever, are represented in the culture on this issue is that
00:39:39.080
we're hateful phobes. We hate gay people. We want to throw them off of rooftops. And you know, as you're
00:39:44.900
describing right now, you know, that is not the case. So how can you discuss this? The place that I would
00:39:52.720
begin is asking yourself, why is it? Why is it the case that every cult, virtually every culture in the
00:40:02.680
history of the world has looked on homosexuality, which is itself more complicated than just two dudes
00:40:10.060
doing it? There's actually much more complexity to the ideology of homosexuality than just that.
00:40:17.200
Why is it that cultures have looked on this as not quite right? As, ah, it seems like there's
00:40:21.480
something wrong with this. Ah, it's a little. You have to begin, I think, with the observation
00:40:26.560
that certainly Christianity makes, but so does Judaism, so does Islam, so do traditional cultures,
00:40:31.860
that homosexuality is disordered. That man is made for woman. And woman is made for man. And man and
00:40:40.520
woman are complementary. And that's the way it goes. And that's how we propagate the species. And
00:40:45.640
that's how the world turns around in many ways. That's not a hateful thing to say. That's just a
00:40:51.320
fact. If you talked to your normal gay friend, I have so many gay friends. I'm from New York. I'm from
00:40:56.120
LA. I went to a very liberal university where I think 97% of the student body is gay and gets gay
00:41:01.760
or every year. So, you know, this is, there's nothing hateful coming from, but even your gay
00:41:07.220
friends, I think, would admit this isn't the way it's supposed to be. This isn't the normal thing,
00:41:13.120
right? It's by definition, it's abnormal. So if you begin from that place, I think the rest of your
00:41:19.800
views on sexual ethics will be much easier to discuss. You say, okay, if that's disordered,
00:41:25.080
then what would be rightly ordered? What, what are men and women supposed to do with one another?
00:41:30.000
What obligations do I have? What does the natural law say about this? What does revealed religion
00:41:35.720
say about this? And how has this worked throughout history? This is not to say that you need to be
00:41:41.040
mean and cruel to your gay friends and family members. Divorce is wrong too. Should you get
00:41:48.620
divorced? No. Does this mean that you can never speak to a divorced person? You can never have a
00:41:53.680
divorced person over to dinner? No, it doesn't mean that either. Does it mean that you need to disown
00:41:58.220
your family that gets divorced or it doesn't get married in the church or that doesn't do this?
00:42:02.340
No, it doesn't. I don't think it means any of that. But on the flip side, you also don't need to lie
00:42:09.000
about your beliefs or about things that had been plainly understood for most of human history until
00:42:14.980
very recently. You don't need to do that either. I don't, I don't think there's anything compassionate
00:42:18.860
about that. I don't think there's anything particularly respectful about that. And you're,
00:42:24.340
I think your friends, if they're good, strong, sturdy, normal people, I think they'll get that.
00:42:30.040
And you can have a little bit of self-effacement there too. If a gay friend of yours says, what,
00:42:35.580
you don't think that this is perfectly the most totally normal, wonderful thing to be celebrated
00:42:39.360
with pride parades going up and down the street all the time? You say, no, I don't think so.
00:42:42.840
And look, there's some things about me that are a little bit off kilter too, all right? So it's not,
00:42:46.460
I'm not saying it's a unique you thing, all right? And nor, nor is it the worst sin that you can
00:42:51.300
commit. I think a sin like fraud or betrayal of your benefactor, I think that would probably be
00:42:56.460
considerably worse. But nor do you have to say, this is wonderful and we need to have pride parades
00:43:00.560
for it. You can, you can have, you can, you can speak about these issues with complexity and nuance
00:43:07.200
and calmness too. Usually it's the people when they get really, really angry and red in the face,
00:43:11.820
that is evidence that they don't really know what they're talking about and they're not really
00:43:15.200
confident in their beliefs. All right, next question. Hey, Michael. So I have a question on
00:43:21.200
how to deal with these discussions I have with people on abortion and how to check the just
00:43:26.920
absolute rage I feel in my heart when I speak with them or try to have these discussions.
00:43:34.020
I have a person I grew up with that had a discussion today. They were once again comparing
00:43:38.640
a fetus to a tapeworm or a parasite. And I explained once again, how this is a completely
00:43:44.340
illogical conclusion. It's stupid. And they go on, you know, with all these arguments and their other
00:43:50.080
friends about how it's not really a baby and it's okay to do it. It's my choice. And all the
00:43:55.060
talking points about how, oh, people who are, you know, poor and, you know, whatever, having a baby
00:44:00.260
is going to ruin their life. And so I point out that she has her daughter with no father in the
00:44:05.380
picture, poor, living at home with her mother, all the conditions that are met to justify abortions
00:44:10.220
for others. And I said, by, you know, your own logic, your daughter shouldn't exist. And the absolute
00:44:14.420
insanity they go off on is just, it's really hard to comprehend because apparently I'm the a-hole for
00:44:21.240
making it personal, but then they don't understand it when you don't make it personal. It's just
00:44:25.080
abstract to them. It's just a clump of cells. And then you make it personal and you're the bad guy.
00:44:29.840
Like, how do I deal with this? And just the anger I feel when they start spouting off heretical
00:44:35.920
quotes from the Bible and then saying, I'm the person who is against Jesus because I'm judging them
00:44:41.220
for doing things that are obviously evil when they are trying to play God by killing the unborn.
00:44:47.520
Thank you for all you do and look forward to your advice. Thanks.
00:44:51.940
Great question. Totally dovetails off the last question. You mentioned that your friend flies
00:44:57.220
off the handle. I expect that to happen. You should not. One of the keys to being persuasive in a debate,
00:45:06.220
whether it's a debate with someone you're talking to directly and you're just trying to persuade them,
00:45:11.000
or whether it's a public debate and you're not really trying to persuade the other guy,
00:45:13.800
you're trying to persuade the audience. One of the most effective tools that you have
00:45:17.220
is to remain calm. Just remain calm, even if they're screaming at you and yelling at you.
00:45:22.260
When you become really, really angry, you lose a lot of your ability to persuade people.
00:45:27.780
I don't think you're wrong to bring up a personal example. I think that can be very powerful,
00:45:36.460
So if you say, if you had an abortion, your daughter wouldn't even be here. Could you imagine
00:45:42.260
if you, you know, that's going to put someone much more on the defensive where you say, well,
00:45:45.560
no, here's actually, darling, here's the problem with what you're saying is just by the logic of
00:45:52.040
what you're saying, your daughter wouldn't exist. And we all know that nobody wants that. People want
00:45:56.700
your daughter to exist. So therefore, there's probably something just a little bit gone wrong in
00:46:00.520
your thoughts. And your friend might fly off the handle too, but I think she will be less likely
00:46:05.480
to fly off the handle. People who are calm, who can just explain logically and rationally why they
00:46:11.180
believe what they believe are very persuasive. All right, let's get to one written question,
00:46:16.280
at least. Though I love my voice mailbag questions, be sure to submit them. When you submit them,
00:46:19.860
by the way, try to keep them relatively short. You know, a minute or less is important here.
00:46:24.240
If you go on too long, we can't use them in the show. All right, from Amanda.
00:46:27.220
Michael, there's a lot of talk right now about the gas prices and whether or not it's Biden's
00:46:32.060
fault the prices are rising. Can you lay out the reasons why we were in this situation and why and
00:46:36.440
if the fault is with the current administration? Yes, it is largely Joe Biden's fault. It's not
00:46:42.940
entirely Joe Biden's fault, but it's largely Joe Biden's fault. It's Joe Biden's fault. Well,
00:46:47.860
one, the most immediate driver of gas prices is the war in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine is largely
00:46:52.880
Joe Biden's fault. Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, said as much. When Joe Biden came into
00:46:59.180
office, there were sanctions on a Russian oil pipeline called Nord Stream 2. The Nord Stream 2
00:47:04.620
pipeline was one of the keys for Vladimir Putin feeling that he was able to invade Ukraine because
00:47:11.780
he would be able to avoid Ukraine and continue to ship his gas and oil to Europe. Biden comes into
00:47:18.080
office, almost immediately gets rid of those sanctions. He later on puts sanctions back onto
00:47:23.260
Russia, but Zelensky said it was too late. If you guys had just had these sanctions on earlier,
00:47:27.920
Zelensky believes the invasion of Ukraine wouldn't have happened. So that I put at Joe Biden's feet.
00:47:32.940
We're also not producing oil pipelines. Now, Biden has only shut down one oil pipeline,
00:47:39.140
but to shut down one oil pipeline is to shut down all of the new oil pipelines because there are always
00:47:43.780
going to be opposition campaigns from local groups if you build an oil pipeline. So if you're going to
00:47:49.640
build it, you need to know the government's got your back. If the government is coming down and
00:47:52.580
shutting down one of them, then you're just not going to get new ones. And then Biden also says
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no more new oil and gas leases. So even just looking toward the future, a year out, two years out,
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three years out, a lot of these things being priced in right now, the oil and gas industry knows,
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okay, well, we're not going to be able to build an America under this administration. So that's his fault too.
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There are always other factors going on, shutting down the world. That was a big factor
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in gas prices going up. This return to commerce and business is creating a huge demand where supply
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had been restricted. That's going to cause prices to go up. It's not just Biden's fault that we shut
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down the whole world, but Trump in many ways acquiesced to it. But it was the libs who were
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driving that. It was in our country, it was the Democrats who were really driving that effort.
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It was Republicans broadly who were trying to pull back a little bit. So is it all Biden's fault?
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It's not all Biden's fault, but it is broadly the fault of the libs. I'm Michael Knowles.
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Hey everybody, this is Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan Show. You know, some people are
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