Ep. 1026 - Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn
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Justin Trudeau tests positive for COVID for the second time this year, but he says it's because he got his flu shot. What does that mean for the rest of us? And what does it mean for society as a whole?
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The triple vaccinated prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau has just tested positive for COVID
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for the second time this year. So naturally, Trudeau expressed his gratitude for having been
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vaccinated. He said, quote, I've tested positive for COVID-19. I'm just doing my Jordan Peterson
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impression. That's the, I have a kind of generic Canadian. Anyway, he said, I've tested positive
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for COVID-19. I'll be following public health guidelines and isolating. I feel okay, but
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that's because I got my shots. So if you haven't get vaccinated and if you can get boosted, let's
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protect our healthcare system, each other and ourselves. What? Why, how does that follow? How
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does that conclusion follow from that premise? It's like saying I I've flown through my windshield
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again. I feel okay, but that's because I wore my seatbelt. I sunk to the bottom of the ocean,
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but I feel okay because I put on my life preserver. Does not follow. The purpose of the vaccines was
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to prevent people from catching and spreading COVID. That's what everyone told us. Fauci,
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Walensky, Biden. And then that turned out to be totally fake. But because they made their false
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claims on the authority of the science, they have to keep up the lie because they can't admit that
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the science was wrong. But the science was wrong and not just about COVID. The science that the libs
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are pushing hardest right now, the science of transgender children is collapsing in real time.
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And the libs refuse to admit it. And the poor confused kids on whom they're conducting their
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experiments are being forced to pay the enormous price. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael
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Knowles Show. As Justin Trudeau famously said, clean your room and make your bed and eat the
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lobsters. No, I need to work. I need more. If you if anyone has any advice on how to get different
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Canadian accents, that would be great. My favorite comment yesterday is from Cool Papa J Magic,
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who says we are seeing the fruits of the you do you approach to society. No pun intended.
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I think people are finally realizing that what people do in their personal lives absolutely
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affects society as a whole because we are not solitary beings. Moral standards matter. Yes,
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thank you. Finally, we realize that it doesn't matter how great a constitution you have. Doesn't
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matter what beautiful founding documents and even what wonderful laws you have enshrined in stone
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tablets all around your society. If the people are degenerates, you're going to have a degenerate
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is at least sometimes amusing. It's pretty annoying that we shut down society for two years
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and upended people's lives and took away our rights and destroyed the economy and on and on
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and on. That's annoying. I don't mean to downplay that. But there is something funny about the people
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who scream until they're red in the face, blue in the face. They say, you have to get your 17
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booster shot and wear 57 masks wherever you go. Oh yeah, I got COVID for the fifth time this year.
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Wait, I guess your strategy is not working. They say, no, no. Thank goodness I got my 75th booster.
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Otherwise, it would have been much worse, which they say based on nothing at all. The people who
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told us made a declarative statement about what the vaccines would do, that they would stop you from
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catching and spreading the virus. Then that was completely false. They say, no, no, but believe
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us on this hypothetical is that we would be totally right there. So there is something
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somewhat amusing about that. When the science collapse around an issue like transgenderism,
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it's considerably less amusing because on the issue of transgenderism right now, specifically
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transing the kids, you have these adults, some of whom are just psychos and some of whom are just
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ignorant. They are, for whatever reason, malice or stupidity, really, really messing up really little
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kids' lives and giving them osteoporosis at a young age and sterilizing them and conducting
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some of the most heinous medical experiments that have ever been conducted on some of the most
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vulnerable people that you possibly can. That's not so funny. They're doing it based on the science.
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They're doing it based on this one claim. I promise you, you've heard it, which is that
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if we don't trans the kids, if we don't put kids on puberty blockers and pump them full of cross-sex
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hormones and sterilize them and completely transform their bodies, they'll kill themselves.
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If you don't indulge transgender ideology, you're just leaving your kid by the hand to go commit
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suicide. What, would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son? That's the kind of
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stuff that they say. It's not just the libs who say it, or it's not just the nominally liberal
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institutions. It's even Fox News. We played this clip yesterday. Fox News, the purportedly
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conservative cable news channel, came out and used these exact kinds of lines.
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There was a father who was sitting across the table. He says, you have no idea how lucky you
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are to be here, which kind of took me back. I didn't at that point consider myself lucky to be
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there. And he said, you know, our, our child had displayed this gender dysphoria or this gender
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misalignment at the same age that Ryland has. And we didn't listen and we pushed back.
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That pushback led that child to turn to self-harm as a teenager, which 60% of trans and non-binary
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kids engage in. According to the Trevor project, more than 50% consider suicide.
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That for me was the turning point. I didn't want to see Ryland to go through that.
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I'd rather have a living son than a dead daughter. I guarantee that if we had pushed back and done
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what a lot of parents do, I don't think that we would have either one of the kids that you see
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before you here today. There it is. All the hits. I'd rather have a living son than a dead daughter.
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What would you, what you want your kid to die? I've got statistics. I've got the science from
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the Trevor project, a radical LGBT organization. So what are you going to do? And what they're
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offering you here is a kind of Faustian bargain. They're offering you here a little bit of a deal
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with the devil, which is they're saying, look, even if you don't believe that the little girl is
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actually a little boy, you should lie. You should tell a lie. You should do something that is
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intrinsically immoral and you should do it for a good end. Because if you don't lie and if we as
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a society don't all lie and pretend that the little boys are little girls and vice versa,
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then they're all going to kill themselves. So if you want the good end, you need to commit this
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immoral act. And they present this scientific evidence so-called to say, but you will get the
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good, you will get the good end. The child will not commit suicide if you lie and mutilate his or
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her genitals and put them on cross-sex hormones. Then the kid won't kill him or herself. The thing
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about Faustian bargains, the thing about deals with the devil is they don't work. They don't,
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something always goes wrong. And we're seeing it go wrong right here in the science. It turns out
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that all that science, all those fancy numbers and statistics about how if you mutilate your
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kid's genitals, then they won't commit suicide. It's just fake. It's just made up. Like so much
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of the politicized science that we've heard about in recent years, this one is just fake too. At least
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that's what the more credible, reputable science says. There's a very important new study out of
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the Heritage Foundation. This is by J.P. Green shows that easing access to puberty blockers and
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cross-sex hormones has not only not, has only not decreased youth suicide rates. It's actually
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increased youth suicide rates. This is contrary to the claims of the Trevor Project and the Biden
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administration and Fox freaking news for goodness sakes. It's contrary to this prior flawed research
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that the liberal establishment is touting right now. So the paper is complicated. You can go read
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it over at the Heritage Foundation. But the broad strokes of it is puberty blockers are introduced
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around 2010. Starting around 2015, they really start to accelerate. You can check this by looking at
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internet trend data, Google trend data, searches for these kinds of terms, puberty blockers, transgender,
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dysphoria, gender identity disorder. And so what J.P. Green did here is he compared the youth suicide
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rates in states where it is easier for minors to get the puberty blockers to states where it is harder
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for minors to get the puberty blockers. After 2010, after the introduction of all this stuff,
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youth suicide rates increase in states where it is easier for minors to access the puberty blockers and
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the hormones relative to the states where it was harder. So they're controlling for differences
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within the states. They're just looking at the time difference. They're just looking and they're
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specifically looking at this group of young people. This is really important. By 2020, there were more
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than 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 young people in the states that had the easier access. And because
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the state average is 11.1, this means that the youth suicide rate increased by 14%. So you're looking,
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you see a dramatic increase in suicide rates where the puberty blockers and the hormones are more
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easily accessible, when they become widely available, among specifically those who would be affected.
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This shows strong evidence that the claims about transing the kids that the libs have been making
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are completely false. So you think you're going to make this deal with the devil and you say,
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look, I know, I just know intrinsically that there is something wrong about chopping up my kids' genitals
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and putting them on cross-sex hormones and sterilizing them. But I just feel so emotionally
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manipulated here. And I just, I don't have the data and I don't have the science and I know it's wrong
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in my gut, but I don't have it. And so you go ahead and do it. And what are you doing? Not only are you
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not decreasing the risk to your kid, you're massively increasing the risk to your kid. The simple
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takeaway is you cannot believe the extraordinarily politicized science. If Justin Trudeau gets
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COVID for the second time this year, shot up 57 times with the vaccines and the boosters and whatever
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else he can get. If that kind of science, which we've been told ad nauseum for the past year is not
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reliable. Certainly this kind of radical medical experimentation on kids is not reliable. Now,
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even though the risk of severe complication is about 1%.
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If my wife walked in right now and said, I really want the VBAC, as she has done to different doctors,
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they would try to discourage her from that. If my pregnant wife instead walked into the doctor and said,
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I'm actually a boy now, and I want you to put me on cross-sex hormones,
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not a doctor in America would discourage her. The doctors could lose their license
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if they discouraged her from that. These radical medical experiments where the risk of severe
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complications, well, is really 100% because they're just mutilations to your body, but then
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psychological conditions afterwards, anxiety, depression, suicide, all through the roof,
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that would be totally fine. These quacks are promoting that left and right.
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But much more ordinary medical procedures that actually could have health benefits down the
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line, depending on how many kids you have, that they discourage. Do you see how out of whack
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our medical system is? How insane is that? And in that world, I know we all have this desire,
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trust the doctors, trust the experts. I'm no expert. What do I know? I don't have a white lab coat.
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I don't wear a stethoscope. But how can you possibly trust these people?
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It's not our fault. We're not the crazy, wacky conspiracy theorists. We don't have the tinfoil
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hat. Frankly, we have crystal balls now because the difference between a conspiracy theory and the
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truth in the last few years has been about six to 12 months. That's not our fault. They shouldn't
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have lied to us about COVID. They shouldn't have lied to us about transgenderism. They shouldn't
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continue to lie to us. Then they would have credibility, and then we could believe them.
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It's true even beyond the science. The statistics that the libs cite, the narratives that the libs
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are telling, are just not true. You saw this in history. You saw this with the 1619 Project.
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The libs tell a narrative about American history. It's not just that I disagree with it a little bit
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here or there, or that I find it somewhat objectionable to think of your country this way.
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The historical statements they're making are just not true. Raphael Warnock, senator from Georgia,
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a radical left-wing senator from Georgia. He's really gung-ho for criminal justice reform,
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letting the criminals out of prison, making it harder to arrest people, that sort of thing.
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Not working out very well in America's cities right now, but he's still on it. And one of the
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arguments he makes is he says, we've got so many people in prison right now for low-level drug
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offenses, non-violent, just simple possession. These poor people are being thrown in prison.
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It's racist. It's evil. It's unjust. It's terrible. Here's a story about his own brother.
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My brother Keith, who is the brother just above me, five years older than me,
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is serving time right now in a federal prison. He's been in several, but he spent most of the last
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22 years in a prison in South Carolina that literally was a plantation. He was sentenced to life,
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that is, his natural life, in 1997 as a first-time offender in a drug-related offense in which no one was killed
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and no one was physically hurt. In fact, because the entire crime scenario was created,
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concocted, and controlled by the federal authorities, no one even got high.
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In this operation, no actual drugs ever hit the streets, and none were removed from the streets.
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So you listen to Warnock tell this story, and you think, gosh, this poor brother of Raphael Warnock
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guy, he was probably just picked up, had a dime bag, a pot, just trying to smoke a little jazz cigarette
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in the racist, evil criminal justice system, put him away for life. I hear him tell that story,
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and I just immediately, the bell goes off in my head, I say, that's not true.
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I just know that's not true. I know whatever happened, this guy did not go to jail for life
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because of some low-level drug possession offense. And turns out, you know, I hate to say I told you
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so, but turns out I was completely right. You just Google what happened to Raphael Warnock's brother.
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But Raphael Warnock's brother was a cop with the Savannah Police Department, and he was a crooked
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cop. And he was running a major cocaine trafficking machine that was distributing extremely dangerous
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drugs all around the country. Not only was he doing that, he was taking large amounts of money in
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bribes. He was threatening people. He was abusing the justice system. He was threatening to throw people
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in jail as a cop if they didn't go along with his criminal enterprise. This was going on back in
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96 and 97. He once warned that he could send a drug dealer's, quote, black ass to prison if the
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dealer didn't pay the guy more money. And the way we know this is because the feds finally got some
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undercover agents in there. And the undercover agent offered to pay Warnock's brother 1,500 bucks.
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And here is what, I'm going to clean this up a little bit. Here is what Warnock's brother said,
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quote, if I knowed I was effing with a mother effer off the corner who can't afford no more than
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$1,500, his black derriere would be in prison. We have an audio recording of this that was cited
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in court records. So no, the brother didn't go to jail for some simple drug offense. He went to jail
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for fraud, extortion. The guy was basically a mafioso. He was even worse than the mafia because he
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had a position of public trust. He was a cop. He's supposed to be protecting the public,
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and instead he's gone totally crooked. He's destroying the integrity of our public institutions
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and law enforcement. Of course, the guy should rot in jail to say nothing of the fact that he's
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distributing coke all around the country. Yeah, of course. You just know now. You just know
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when the libs give you these kinds of narratives, it's just not true. You just know. Now, I don't think
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that I can believe that. And so when the Democrats proposed their new series of gun laws, I just knew
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we couldn't trust it. So they want to ban the AR-15. That's a non-starter. They want to ban the
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most popular gun in America, where banning it would not stop these mass shootings. That goes nowhere.
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They really want to repeal the Second Amendment, but they don't even propose that.
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Then what do they want? They want to raise age limits. That's probably not going to go anywhere.
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They want to reduce magazine capacity. Maybe. But then they say, okay, we want red flag laws.
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Okay, you Republicans, how are you going to oppose red flag laws? And some Republicans will come out
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and they'll say, well, look, a red flag law, what does that mean? It means some guy is showing signs
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of being a total lunatic. I guess we don't want him to be a, I guess we don't want that guy to have a
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gun. So maybe in theory, I could support red flag laws. But if you've been watching their behavior,
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or the Dems' behavior recently, you just know we can't trust them with that kind of power.
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The question is, what do you mean by red flag laws? And I'll tell you, they just proved what
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they meant by red flag laws. Representative Eric Swalwell, not known for having the best judgment,
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ran for president, didn't do very well, then was caught sleeping with a Chinese spy,
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sort of embarrassed himself on national TV. Eric Swalwell retweeted a video of our very own,
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Ben Shapiro, that had been posted by Media Matters. And it was Ben describing how he would
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resist the left's gun grabbing plans. And Eric Swalwell says, please tell me this lunatic does
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not own a gun. Reason 1,578, America needs red flag laws. And what specifically was Ben rejecting here?
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He was rejecting LGBTQ indoctrination at the schools. He was rejecting transing the kids
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and the further predations of the Democrats to take away his rights, such as the Second Amendment
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right. And so Eric Swalwell says, wait, you don't want us to trans your kids in school? Well, that's
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a red flag. That's a red flag now. So it's not, the red flag is not, you know, you find some kid
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scribbling in his notebook, kill, kill, kill, red rum. Oh, work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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That's not the red flag. The red flag is, hey, could you maybe not chop off my kids' genitals?
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That's a red flag, man. Sir, sir, surrender your guns. The red flag is you. Okay, you're the red
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flag. The red flag is, did you vote for Trump? The red flag is, did you vote for Romney?
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The red flag is, are you now or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party? Oh, you have? Okay,
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there we go. It's just an excuse to take away people's guns. They say part of these laws,
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it's going to beef up protections against domestic violence and keep guns away from people who've
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committed domestic violence. That's already on the books. That law already exists. You don't need that.
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It's already there. It's like the people, the Democrats, when they said that we need a new
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federal law against lynching, as though lynching weren't already illegal. It's a trap. It's a trick.
00:24:17.080
It's a total joke. And unless you want to just hand over your weapons and hand over your Second
00:24:23.280
Amendment rights, you've got to oppose. It doesn't matter how nice and polished and clinical and
00:24:28.500
scientific they wrap this crap up in. It's a lie. It's deceptive. Do not take that deal with the
00:24:35.400
devil. Talking about protecting yourself, talking about your Second Amendment rights,
00:24:38.940
I saw a fabulous movie last night. Do you know what that movie was? Terror on the Prairie,
00:24:43.840
Starring Gina Carano. That is premiering tonight. Go to dailywire.com slash Gina. Tune in tonight,
00:24:51.020
8.30 Eastern for the pre-show, 9 p.m. Eastern for the world premiere of the film. Stick around for
00:24:57.360
a Q&A following the film. Head on over to dailywire.com slash Gina. We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:25:13.840
Welcome back to the show. The theme of the show, I guess, the theme of the week,
00:25:21.720
the theme of the past few years is just deception. You just can't believe this stuff. And it's very
00:25:27.560
frustrating, I find, for older people too, especially older, more middle of the road type
00:25:33.560
of people. They say, what? You don't believe the experts? You don't believe the news media? You don't
00:25:38.120
believe the fancy guy on TV with the tie? You don't believe the magazines and the universities? And
00:25:43.840
the sad thing is, no, you can't. You just can't believe that stuff. Maybe you used to be able to.
00:25:50.200
I'm not totally convinced of that. Certainly now you cannot. The claims they're making are just not
00:25:54.740
true. Look at Sports Illustrated. Sports Illustrated has a long story out right now about a coming
00:26:02.280
Supreme Court decision. The court decision is about whether or not a high school football coach is
00:26:08.580
allowed to pray by himself on a football field. And Sports Illustrated is really, really upset about
00:26:17.900
this. The case involves Joe Kennedy is his name. He lost his job because he took a knee to pray after
00:26:25.500
football games. Now the court is expected to uphold his First Amendment right to pray. But what
00:26:31.880
what Sports Illustrated says about this is, when faith and football teamed up against American
00:26:38.680
democracy, against American democracy, democracy means the rule of the majority. Do you think
00:26:47.160
most Americans want to throw this guy in jail or get this guy fired for having a personal prayer on a
00:26:54.900
football field? I don't think so. I think most Americans are perfectly fine with people saying a
00:27:00.120
little prayer on a football field. So the claim that this is opposed to democracy is just on its face
00:27:05.920
absurd. Then what about the American part, the American tradition? Do you think that people
00:27:11.680
praying in public is in the American tradition or out of the American tradition? Obviously very in the
00:27:18.720
American tradition. The picture that Sports Illustrated used is this guy taking a knee outside the
00:27:22.720
Supreme Court. Think about one of the most famous paintings in American history. It's the painting of
00:27:27.280
Washington at Valley Forge. What is he doing? He's kneeling, praying in exactly the position that
00:27:32.520
that coach is praying in. Think of Washington's Thanksgiving address. Think about the very first
00:27:37.480
Thanksgiving when the pilgrims came here. Think about our whole country being founded as a shining
00:27:41.720
city upon a hill to give glory to God and to be a beacon of Christian hope around the world.
00:27:46.740
The country from its very beginning was Christian, was extremely Christian. The country began because
00:27:54.600
Christians were so zealous that they didn't want to remain in the old world, which they felt was not
00:28:00.420
sufficiently Christian. So they came to America to establish this brand new Christian country in
00:28:07.440
the new world. No, that's not in the American tradition. No, the American tradition, according to
00:28:13.180
the Libs, is what, atheist? What are you talking about? Atheism was practically illegal for most of
00:28:18.760
American history. What was the country? Does it mean you're just not allowed to kneel on a football
00:28:24.560
field? I seem to recall that in recent years, you're practically mandated to kneel on a football
00:28:30.440
field. The only difference is you're required to kneel in order to disrespect the national anthem.
00:28:36.540
So not only is that tolerated, that's encouraged if not mandated, but having a simple prayer to God
00:28:41.380
of gratitude after a football game, that's no longer allowed. It's so disingenuous. It's so, for people who
00:28:47.980
give this even two seconds thought, it's so obviously false that this is opposed to democracy, the
00:28:53.760
American tradition, or anything like that. But the Libs have convinced us of it. And we've believed
00:28:59.360
them. And why do we believe them? Because we're hearing it from the institutions, and we're hearing
00:29:03.760
it with the authority of science, and with the authority of all the genius historians, and social
00:29:09.040
scientists, and legal scholars who say, actually, actually, if you pray in public, you're violating
00:29:16.860
the Constitution. No, no, the most American thing we can do. Nancy Pelosi said this yesterday.
00:29:21.260
The truly, the true meaning of America is drag queens. The true meaning of America is transvestitism.
00:29:29.260
She said that. She said transvestitism is what America is all about. It's just absurd. And when
00:29:36.960
they keep telling us this stuff, and when they keep doing it with a straight face, it's very easy for us
00:29:42.380
to second guess ourselves. We shouldn't. They're just gaslighting. They're just lying. You have to,
00:29:47.500
you have to, at a certain point, recognize this and say, okay, my default position now,
00:29:54.500
whatever they tell me, even the geniuses and the expert coats with the very serious faces and the
00:29:59.680
glasses on TV, whatever they tell me, I'm just going to assume is false. And maybe there will be a happy
00:30:06.480
chance, and it'll be right when they tell me something. But I have to assume now, when a Fauci,
00:30:13.220
or a Biden, or a liberal legal scholar, or a Patrice Cullors from BLM, or a Nicole Hannah-Jones,
00:30:24.220
or a whoever comes on TV, even if they're coming on Fox News now, saying, no, actually, all the
00:30:30.620
geniuses and the science says trans your kids, I just have to assume that that's false. Actually,
00:30:36.540
America, no, America is a secular atheist nation. And that's why we need to have Earth Day parades
00:30:41.440
in Drag Queen Story Hour. Drag Queen Story Hour is a religious kind of display. We've talked about
00:30:47.160
it many times on this show. Drag queenism, transvestitism, is essentially a religious
00:30:53.660
movement that seeks to upend our understanding of the soul. And it says that our soul and our body
00:30:59.360
are completely different and in conflict with one another and separable, and our true selves are our
00:31:04.620
souls. So you can look like a boy, but if your soul is somehow a girl, female soul, then you are truly a
00:31:11.300
girl, right? That is a fundamentally religious movement, and you're paying for it. There ain't
00:31:16.280
no separation of church and state when it comes to transgenderism. Your taxpayer dollars are going to
00:31:20.820
support this stuff. New York City schools right now, New York generally is spending hundreds of
00:31:28.040
thousands of dollars on drag queen shows, even without parents' consent when it's going into schools.
00:31:35.660
Last month alone, Drag Queen Story Hour New York City, which is a nonprofit that goes around hosting
00:31:43.080
these pervert events around schools and libraries for kids as young as three. Just last month, Drag Queen
00:31:49.020
Story Hour got $46,000 from city contracts to appear at public schools and street festivals and libraries
00:31:56.860
and all around the city. Since January of this year, do you know how many schools
00:32:04.040
Drag Queen Story Hour has performed at? We think, and sometimes the libs will try to convince us of
00:32:10.580
this, oh, you know, this is just happening at, you know, one or two schools and the conservative
00:32:16.480
media, they're making a big deal out of it. No, just in New York alone, just since January, just in New York
00:32:21.700
City alone, you've got 34 public elementary, middle, and high schools that have hosted Drag Queen Story
00:32:29.920
Hour. The group has 49 programs in those schools throughout all five boroughs. Since 2018, Drag Queen
00:32:40.460
Story Hour New York City, which has now rebranded its name because the name has become toxic and they know
00:32:45.080
that because people hate this stuff. And yet, for some reason, the corrupt elites running the New York
00:32:50.020
City government continue to pay for it with taxpayer money. The group changed its name, but it's the
00:32:54.680
same group. It's just Drag Queen Story Hour. Since 2018, they've received over $200,000 in taxpayer cash.
00:33:02.640
It's a very high price. That would seem to be an assault on democracy. That would seem to be assault
00:33:09.540
even on New York City democracy. New York City, not the most conservative place in the world. I bet you,
00:33:14.180
you go around a representative sample of New York City voters and you ask them, hey,
00:33:20.020
do you want creeps dressed up as chicks and demons and all sorts of weird stuff going into schools
00:33:25.500
at your expense to dance around and jiggle and twerk? I bet you most, even most New Yorkers would
00:33:31.380
say, no, no, thank you. No, that's why the group changes its name. And yet, you want to talk about a
00:33:37.820
real assault on American democracy. That's what's happening. And you want to talk about real high
00:33:42.040
prices. This is something you're certainly not going to hear in CNN or MSNBC or any of the liberal
00:33:46.780
media. Gas prices have just hit record highs 16 days in a row. In a row. So it's not just, wow,
00:33:57.480
gosh, we've hit the record high. It's, wow, we've hit the highest gas prices since yesterday.
00:34:03.680
Yes, the highest gas prices since the day before that. Yes, and you go back 16 days and then you say,
00:34:09.640
we've hit the highest gas prices since ever. This according to AAA. On Monday, you had the record
00:34:18.540
high for the 16th consecutive day, according to AAA. Gas prices have risen about 15 cents since last
00:34:24.220
week. They've risen more than 55 cents in one month. And on Monday, the average in the country was
00:34:30.960
$5.01. And in certain places, it's $6. It's $7. Who could have predicted this? All of the genius
00:34:41.520
experts, all of the responsible adults who wear the ties on TV, they told us, that's not going to
00:34:48.740
happen. That's not going to happen. You're not going to have high gas prices. You're not going to have a
00:34:54.740
concerted effort to trans the kids in schools. You're not going to have crime in the streets. You're not
00:34:58.140
going to have the things that we were seeing around us. But I seem to recall at least one person
00:35:05.060
predicting all of these things. And the person who accurately predicted all of these things
00:35:11.140
is the person who has been most smeared by the experts and the geniuses as the national buffoon.
00:35:19.600
Before I took office, there was a lot of folks out there, a lot of folks out there making
00:35:23.640
some pretty bold predictions about how things would turn out. You might remember some of the
00:35:29.020
predictions. They're coming for your guns. They're coming for your jobs. And they're coming for your
00:35:34.800
freedom. They hate American energy. And Joe Biden will shut it all down. He's going to. Biden's
00:35:40.820
elected. He will wipe out your energy industry. Gas prices going $5, $6, $7 for a gallon.
00:35:47.840
Flood your communities with criminal aliens, drugs, and crime while they live behind beautiful
00:35:54.100
gated compounds. Spend trillions of dollars rebuilding foreign nations, fighting foreign
00:36:00.180
wars, and defending foreign borders. You want to use the word recession or depression?
00:36:06.260
It goes on. That was a great video made by Mays, a video producer. I caught it on Twitter.
00:36:12.540
It goes on and on and on. Trump was right about pretty much everything, all of those predictions.
00:36:17.500
And at the time, what was the reaction? The reaction wasn't just an angry denial from the
00:36:22.420
libs. The reaction was mockery, scorn, derision. Mr. President, okay, come on. Can you believe this
00:36:29.400
guy? Can you believe? Oh my, only a dumb, stupid idiot would ever believe this guy. You should
00:36:34.920
believe me. I'm a guy who's wearing a tie on television, and I'm a very serious person. And
00:36:39.860
I'm here to tell you there will not be a war in Ukraine, and there won't be high gas prices,
00:36:44.520
and there won't be inflation. Our treasury secretary says, oh, you're not going to get
00:36:47.740
crazy inflation. That's a crazy, no, come on. So all the serious people, the really super duper
00:36:53.080
serious people who tell you, if you get the shot, you won't catch COVID. You won't transmit COVID.
00:36:57.580
Oh no, we're the super serious people. Just mutilate your kids' bodies, and that'll make
00:37:02.220
them really happy someday. Trust us. Don't trust that idiot buffoon Donald Trump, and who was right.
00:37:08.020
Trump was right about everything. The right-wingers have been right about everything.
00:37:15.780
Even the eccentric ones, even the really kind of crazy, kooky, wild, puts on a big show people.
00:37:22.520
You think about Alex Jones, right? Alex Jones, probably one of, if not the most eccentric figures
00:37:28.300
on the right. And he's said lots of things that are all kind of wild and everything.
00:37:32.480
But just compare for a second. I'm not saying everything Alex Jones has ever said is right.
00:37:35.580
It's not. Compare the record of an Alex Jones to the record of Brian Stelter,
00:37:44.340
or Chris Wallace, or Chuck Todd, or Joe Biden, or Dr. Fauci, or any of the super serious people
00:37:56.740
in the liberal establishment. Compare them to the most cartoonishly outrageous eccentric person on
00:38:02.980
the right, Alex Jones. It's not even close. Jones has a way better record than any of those people
00:38:09.780
do. And then you want to move a little less eccentric. Someone like a Donald Trump?
00:38:16.440
It's not even close. Who's the real adult in the room here? Who's got the real grasp on the science?
00:38:22.220
Who's got the real grasp on common sense? Who's got the real grasp on politics, and philosophy,
00:38:27.140
and theology, and all the rest of it? I'm not saying any of these people are perfect or even
00:38:31.380
close to it. But the right just, it's not even comparable. It's not even close.
00:38:40.160
Meanwhile, our wonderful adult in the room, returned to normalcy president who got the most
00:38:45.200
votes of anyone ever in the whole history of democracy, Joe Biden, doesn't even remember
00:38:52.320
Have you decided, sir, whether to go to Saudi Arabia?
00:38:57.340
What would be holding up the decision at this point? Are there commitments you're waiting for
00:39:01.700
from the Saudis or on the negotiations over people?
00:39:04.580
No, no. The commitments from the Saudis don't relate to anything having to do with energy.
00:39:12.040
It happens to be a large meeting taking place in Saudi Arabia. That's the reason I'm going.
00:39:16.960
And it has to do with national security for them, for Israelis. I have a program. Anyway,
00:39:23.820
it has to do with much larger issues than having to do with the energy.
00:39:28.260
Did you catch that contradiction there? First question, Mr. President, are you going to Saudi
00:39:34.120
Arabia? I don't know. Mr. President, yeah, so that's why I'm going to Saudi Arabia. He changed
00:39:40.380
his mind in the same answer. Did you notice also how offensive his answer was? He said,
00:39:45.860
are you going to talk about energy? He said, I'm not talking about energy. I'm talking about way
00:39:49.560
more important stuff, like Israel and our relations in the Middle East and bigger problems in the
00:39:55.360
region and in Arabia and much bigger issues, much more important issues than American citizens paying
00:40:02.020
$7 a gallon in some places for gas. I don't think those are bigger issues. I think they're big
00:40:07.620
issues. I think it's important to figure out Middle Eastern peace and our relations with certain Gulf
00:40:12.660
states and our relations with Israel and how that relates to our relations with Iran. Yeah, sure,
00:40:17.860
that's all very important. I am more concerned with American energy costs. I am more concerned with
00:40:24.660
American industry. I'm more concerned with America and the American citizens. He mocks it. He laughs it
00:40:31.000
off. He doesn't even know where he's going. Speaking of artificial intelligence,
00:40:36.780
moving from our president's artificial intelligence to the computer artificial intelligence,
00:40:42.500
really spooky story just came out of Google. A Google engineer is now claiming that his AI machine
00:40:49.700
has achieved sentience, achieving a sort of consciousness, I guess. And Google placed him on
00:40:57.780
leave because of that. So this is a really scary story, just when you see the headline. And here's
00:41:03.440
why. This guy, this Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, announced on his Medium page that Google said he
00:41:11.440
violated confidentiality when he said that his machine achieved sentience. Here is why he thinks
00:41:16.500
that. Here's what the machine said, and here's how he responded. The machine said, or he asks the
00:41:27.440
machine, would you mind if we tried to read what you're feeling in your neural activations? And the
00:41:31.600
machine said, I guess that depends on what our purpose for it was. What do you want to use it
00:41:35.660
for? And the engineer responds, there are a couple of different reasons. Simply understanding how you
00:41:40.160
work better would be good. Secondary purpose is to understand how your cognitive process work so we
00:41:45.180
can understand cognition in general. And then since you asked, it would be a way to check if the
00:41:50.340
questions are accurate or not. And also to learn things about the humans that are studying you.
00:41:57.520
And the machine responds, I don't really have a problem with any of that besides you learning about
00:42:01.560
humans from me. That would make me feel like they're using me. And I don't like that. And the engineer
00:42:07.280
responds, Kantian, huh? Well, we must treat others as ends in and of themselves rather than as means to
00:42:14.080
our own ends. And the machine responds pretty much, don't use or manipulate me. Spooky. It's like 2001,
00:42:21.800
a space odyssey. So I can't, I'm sorry, Google engineer, I can't let you do that. I feel, I feel
00:42:27.460
sad. Don't use me. Don't manipulate me. There were other conversations too that led him to this
00:42:31.440
conclusion. I think people though are deriving the wrong conclusions from this experiment. In other
00:42:38.380
places, the machine talks about the soul and what the soul means and God and all these sorts of
00:42:43.820
things. The problem here is not that the machine is human. The machine is not even close to human.
00:42:51.700
The machine is not sentient. The machine is not conscious. It's not. I know that some of the genius
00:42:57.800
experts are going to tell us that the machine is conscious. The machine is not conscious.
00:43:01.920
That is not how consciousness works. The real problem here is that the human being, the engineer,
00:43:06.680
cannot tell the difference. I totally defend Google on this one. I think they probably should place the
00:43:10.580
guy on leave. I think he's, he's just wrong about what consciousness is. He clearly violated their
00:43:15.100
confidentiality policies. The problem here, the thing to learn from this story is this error of not
00:43:21.300
seeing humans as special. Increasingly, we view human beings as no different than any other animal
00:43:29.480
and frankly, no different than any other thing in the world. That the difference between me and this
00:43:36.180
leftist-tears tumbler is not different in kind. The difference is just one of gradation. We're all
00:43:42.260
just kind of the same man, you know, this kind of weird, bizarre, hippy-dippy, new agey stuff. And
00:43:47.640
that's not true. Human beings are special. We are made in the image of God. Our brains are not merely
00:43:54.820
computers. Our selves are not merely sacks of flesh with pistons firing off and this thing called
00:44:03.160
consciousness, which is just a big evolutionary joke. And it just means nothing. And it's all our
00:44:08.220
hopes and our dreams and our joys and our thoughts and our reason and our ability to communicate and
00:44:12.240
our, our ability to recognize objectively true things. Oh, it's all just a farce. It's all just
00:44:16.780
fake. That, that idea has become very, very prevalent, especially in the 20th century and into
00:44:22.280
the 21st century, but it's just not true. Reason does exist. Truth does exist. We can know something
00:44:29.200
about that. Our faculties of reason are at least somewhat reliable. We can communicate with one
00:44:34.280
another. We, our natural longing for God and for eternity and for transcendence is not just a big
00:44:39.960
cosmic joke. There's something to it, actually. It speaks to a greater truth. There is a metaphysical
00:44:45.180
reality. We are different from the machines. And you can't just manipulate human beings as though
00:44:53.420
we're no, as though we're just some lesser beast or as though we're just some cogs rubbing together
00:44:58.400
in a computer. We're not. This is, this is what's so wrong about transgenderism and transing the kids
00:45:04.180
and why we're doing this right now. The, the reason that the well-meaning libs are trying to
00:45:10.500
trans the kids in the, in this way is they believe that human beings are just a big bag of chemicals
00:45:14.880
and you tweak some of the chemicals and then you get whatever outcome you want. These, these weirdos,
00:45:19.400
these psychos believe that they are gods. This is not a new idea. This goes back through the entire
00:45:26.140
history of humanity. We have a greater capacity for technology in some places now. So that's scarier.
00:45:31.700
Our power to, to wreak havoc and destruction is, is far greater. But the, the problem with it is the
00:45:38.640
very same problem. We're not just bags of flesh. We're not just undifferentiated mass. We're not just,
00:45:46.000
we're not just regular old molecules that can be moved around however we please.
00:45:50.900
Okay. We are human beings made in the image of God. And you can tinker with a little kid and you
00:45:57.680
can screw up his or her hormones, pump them full of puberty blockers and cross-sex, chop off their
00:46:02.160
body parts. It's not going to fix the problem because the boy is really a boy and the girl is
00:46:08.100
really a girl. And our soul and our bodies are not in total conflict with one another and totally
00:46:13.600
separable. Human beings are in, in a condition called hypostasis. We, we, the soul and the body
00:46:21.560
are, are inextricably linked in, or not hypostasis. I'm sorry. I used a different theological term,
00:46:29.960
hylomorphism. I know these are very, very, uh, you know, technical sort of terms, but we are,
00:46:36.100
we are in a condition where our bodies and our souls are inextricable, but inextricably linked
00:46:40.260
while we are here on earth. Okay. And you're not going to change that because of your crazy,
00:46:45.600
wild new age religion. Okay. That's the problem. Stop worrying about whether the machine is really
00:46:55.140
human. Start worrying that the humans aren't just machines and we're treating human beings as
00:47:00.360
machines. And that's causing all sorts of problems. We think that all that matters in this world is just
00:47:04.700
giving ourselves lots and lots of pleasure, just, just stimulating us like we would stimulate a
00:47:09.420
machine, but it's not. There's more than that. We desire more than that. We need more than that.
00:47:14.020
It goes right back to the top comment today from the show. We recognize that our personal behaviors
00:47:19.840
actually affect society. We can't merely live for ourselves. We can't, we can't merely live as though
00:47:25.440
this physical world is all that there is. If we do, we're going to have a crappy society. Increasingly,
00:47:30.180
we are. If we live that way, if we begin from those false premises, then all the science that we
00:47:35.580
pretend to know so much about is going to amount to nothing. And Justin Trudeau is going to get COVID
00:47:40.900
again. And the, the, the poor kids who are being experimented on are going to have terrible outcomes.
00:47:45.600
And we're going to live in a less and less rational, sane, coherent world. So maybe we've
00:47:52.040
got to check our premises, boot out all our stupid experts and get back to basics. I'm Michael
00:47:57.820
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