The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1062 - Clown World

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00:00:30.000 Senate Democrats just passed a $740 billion bill

00:00:34.900 called the Inflation Reduction Act

00:00:37.500 during a 16-hour marathon voting procedure known as Vote-A-Rama.

00:00:42.520 The bill does a lot of things.

00:00:45.440 It sets aside $369 billion to line the pockets

00:00:49.860 of the Democrats' pals in the green energy industry.

00:00:53.180 It extends Obamacare subsidies for an extra year.

00:00:56.420 It raises all sorts of taxes on different groups and corporations.

00:01:00.540 It even increases taxes on gas and oil imports,

00:01:03.820 which is pretty wild because gas and oil prices

00:01:06.320 are probably the single greatest driver of inflation.

00:01:09.780 So you're gonna raise taxes on that,

00:01:10.880 gonna make the costs go up.

00:01:11.980 Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

00:01:13.480 Pretty much, pretty much the only thing

00:01:15.840 that the Inflation Reduction Act does not do

00:01:18.840 is reduce inflation.

00:01:20.640 As the Penn-Wharton budget model showed last week,

00:01:24.320 and as 88% of Democrats already know,

00:01:27.500 according to a recent YouGov poll,

00:01:29.360 and as even Bernie Sanders admits

00:01:31.440 when he refers to the behemoth legislation

00:01:34.460 as the, quote,

00:01:36.100 so-called Inflation Reduction Act.

00:01:39.040 These are not my words.

00:01:40.460 These are not the words of Ted Cruz or Donald Trump.

00:01:42.740 These are Bernie Sanders' words.

00:01:44.180 I say so-called because according to the CBO

00:01:48.320 and other economic organizations

00:01:50.420 that have studied this bill,

00:01:52.120 it will in fact have a minimal impact on inflation.

00:01:55.640 It's not my best.

00:01:56.440 The Fauci is better, but you get the point.

00:01:58.320 The Democrats voted for this stuff anyway,

00:02:01.460 and they voted for it not because it will reduce inflation, 0.98

00:02:03.960 but because it gives them a lot of the dumb legislative agenda 0.97

00:02:08.260 that they've wanted for a very long time. 0.98

00:02:10.120 Even leading Democrats cannot muster

00:02:14.320 an economic argument for it.

00:02:16.620 Least of all, Joe Biden.

00:02:18.740 Seven Nobel laureates on the economists,

00:02:23.320 on the economics, I should say.

00:02:25.680 Not only can Joe Biden not muster

00:02:28.680 an economic argument for the bill,

00:02:31.100 he cannot even say the word economic.

00:02:33.660 The whole sorry spectacle is just more evidence

00:02:36.760 of a disturbing trend that I have mentioned on this show

00:02:40.060 before, the libs are not even trying

00:02:43.900 to make arguments anymore.

00:02:46.100 This is a really big shift,

00:02:47.380 and very few people are talking about it.

00:02:48.860 In the old days, the libs would at least try

00:02:51.820 to mask their power grabs and their personal interests

00:02:55.120 in the language of logic and reason and the common good.

00:02:59.840 Usually it was BS,

00:03:01.340 but hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

00:03:04.540 Increasingly, today, that kind of language is gone.

00:03:08.040 The arguments are gone.

00:03:10.760 Even the facade of reasoned debate

00:03:13.060 and civic spirit is gone.

00:03:16.140 Now, in lieu of an argument,

00:03:17.920 the libs are just redefining all the terms.

00:03:21.740 Can't argue why men should be allowed 1.00

00:03:24.100 into the women's bathroom? 1.00

00:03:25.800 No problem.

00:03:26.920 Just redefine woman. 1.00

00:03:28.200 There you go.

00:03:28.560 You don't need to make an argument now. 0.98

00:03:30.140 Can't explain why your crappy economic policies 0.94

00:03:33.200 destroyed the economy? 0.88

00:03:34.300 Oh, that's not a big deal.

00:03:35.160 You just have to redefine recession.

00:03:36.880 Then, presto chango.

00:03:37.920 No problem.

00:03:39.320 And now, we'll just keep refreshing Wikipedia

00:03:42.080 and Merriam-Webster,

00:03:43.680 because sooner or later,

00:03:45.000 they're going to redefine inflation, too.

00:03:47.360 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:48.120 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:56.260 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:57.520 My favorite comment on Friday is from Harry Martins,

00:03:59.760 who says, imagine had Brittany Griner 1.00

00:04:03.440 been caught in Singapore or Malaysia.

00:04:06.360 Russia right now looks like a walk in the park 0.99

00:04:08.440 by comparison.

00:04:09.380 That's true.

00:04:10.280 People are, we'll get to Brittany Griner

00:04:12.040 maybe a little bit later in the show.

00:04:13.760 But people are talking about how,

00:04:15.980 you know, this is the end of the world.

00:04:17.700 Brittany Griner has been sentenced to prison

00:04:19.240 because she smuggled drugs into Russia. 1.00

00:04:22.860 Other countries would be harsher, okay?

00:04:25.360 There are, Russia's not even the harshest country on drugs.

00:04:27.660 People talk about America's drug policy

00:04:29.480 as being an outlier.

00:04:30.720 Yes, it is an outlier,

00:04:31.880 not in the harshness we have on drugs,

00:04:33.760 but in our leniency.

00:04:35.060 We are insanely lenient on drugs.

00:04:37.140 That's why, that's a lot of the reason

00:04:38.720 why our life expectancy is declining,

00:04:40.480 because so many people are hooked on drugs

00:04:42.060 and ODing left and right.

00:04:43.760 Maybe we can learn a lesson here

00:04:45.020 from what's going on in Russia.

00:04:47.500 This bill that just came out of the Senate

00:04:49.800 is absolutely terrible.

00:04:52.780 And the Democrats rammed it through

00:04:54.520 because they have no accomplishments

00:04:56.080 so far this year,

00:04:56.940 and the midterms are approaching,

00:04:58.200 so they've got to have something

00:04:59.040 to hang their hats on.

00:05:00.300 And they had to twist Joe Manchin's arm

00:05:02.020 and Kyrsten Sinema's arm,

00:05:03.540 and they tried to bring all the moderates in line,

00:05:05.380 and it passes with a tie-breaking vote

00:05:06.940 from the Vice President Kamala Harris.

00:05:08.540 But it was just terrible.

00:05:09.760 And the procedure they used

00:05:10.780 is called Vote-A-Rama.

00:05:12.060 Vote-A-Rama is this procedure 0.85

00:05:13.420 that allows senators to propose

00:05:15.240 an unlimited number of amendments

00:05:16.840 to budget-related measures.

00:05:18.760 And then they bring up the amendments,

00:05:20.000 they can vote on them,

00:05:20.940 they can shoot them down,

00:05:22.380 and this can go on for 12 hours,

00:05:25.240 14 hours,

00:05:25.780 went on 16 hours 1.00

00:05:27.000 to get this stupid 1.00

00:05:28.480 Inflation Reduction Act through 1.00

00:05:30.620 that's not going to reduce inflation

00:05:32.160 whatsoever.

00:05:33.440 The only silver lining here

00:05:35.100 is because the senators can propose

00:05:37.340 all these sorts of amendments,

00:05:38.520 they can really highlight

00:05:39.920 the hypocrisy of the people

00:05:41.120 who are in the majority 0.94

00:05:41.960 who are cramming this through.

00:05:43.540 So some Republican senators did that,

00:05:45.260 Marco Rubio in particular.

00:05:47.160 Rubio's thinking, 0.99

00:05:47.960 okay, we're going to get this dumb bill, 0.99

00:05:49.680 there's no way to stop that. 0.98

00:05:51.000 But at least we can get Democrats

00:05:52.120 on the record

00:05:52.700 for their insane priorities,

00:05:54.740 one of which is this.

00:05:56.080 Marco Rubio proposes

00:05:58.360 to limit federal pregnancy subsidies

00:06:02.340 to women,

00:06:04.900 to the only people

00:06:06.260 who can actually get pregnant. 0.99

00:06:08.560 And you know it,

00:06:11.040 all the Democrats shoot it down.

00:06:13.520 Well, thank you, Mr. President.

00:06:16.020 A few minutes ago,

00:06:17.000 I look back,

00:06:17.620 across 5,500 years of human history,

00:06:20.380 so far,

00:06:20.980 every single pregnancy

00:06:22.020 has been a biological female.

00:06:24.880 And so therefore,

00:06:25.640 the only thing I'm trying to do

00:06:26.520 is make sure that federal law

00:06:27.720 is clear,

00:06:28.200 that since every pregnancy

00:06:30.220 that's ever existed

00:06:31.460 has been in a biological female,

00:06:33.100 that our federal laws reflect that.

00:06:34.600 And our pregnancy programs

00:06:35.800 are available to the only people

00:06:37.220 who are capable of getting pregnant. 0.63

00:06:39.700 Biological females, 1.00

00:06:40.540 very simple.

00:06:41.080 I would accept a unanimous consent

00:06:42.600 if they want to offer it,

00:06:43.420 and we can move on

00:06:44.040 and not waste any time.

00:06:44.880 Senator Murray has 10 seconds left.

00:06:49.580 When we are facing

00:06:50.540 the challenges we do

00:06:51.480 in this country,

00:06:52.140 when we're facing

00:06:52.940 challenges in this country

00:06:54.540 and helping our constituents

00:06:56.460 to lower costs,

00:06:57.480 it is outrageous

00:06:58.240 that Republicans

00:06:59.360 are trying to define pregnancy

00:07:00.920 of all things

00:07:02.160 on this floor,

00:07:03.100 on this day,

00:07:03.880 after hours of voting

00:07:04.900 on amendments.

00:07:05.580 I urge a no vote.

00:07:06.820 It is outrageous

00:07:08.080 that Republicans

00:07:08.960 want to limit

00:07:09.620 pregnancy funding to women.

00:07:11.820 Outrageous.

00:07:12.340 And what does Patty Murray say?

00:07:13.260 She doesn't want to go all the way

00:07:14.700 and admit that the Democrats

00:07:17.700 are now,

00:07:18.660 it is the official line

00:07:19.500 of the Democrats

00:07:20.020 that men can become pregnant,

00:07:21.760 that men can be women

00:07:22.900 and vice versa.

00:07:23.880 So she says,

00:07:24.540 we don't have time for this.

00:07:26.480 You don't have time for this.

00:07:27.320 Lady,

00:07:27.580 you've been voting for 16 hours,

00:07:29.200 wasting everybody's time 0.98

00:07:31.040 on this absolute nonsense. 0.92

00:07:32.840 Now you're telling me 0.71

00:07:33.600 all of them,

00:07:33.820 we don't have any time

00:07:34.940 to have a unanimous consent,

00:07:36.760 up or down vote

00:07:37.880 on whether women

00:07:39.280 are really women, 0.99

00:07:40.520 whether men

00:07:41.080 can become pregnant or not.

00:07:43.260 We don't have time for this.

00:07:44.580 Of course we have time.

00:07:45.940 They just don't want to do it

00:07:46.980 because the libs now believe

00:07:48.400 that men can become pregnant. 0.56

00:07:49.600 So this was a great,

00:07:50.560 great bit from Rubio.

00:07:51.940 I think it's a great idea.

00:07:53.720 It was good

00:07:55.060 as a political stunt

00:07:56.060 and also

00:07:56.820 it should be voted on

00:07:58.260 and it should pass unanimously.

00:08:01.020 However,

00:08:01.920 I have one little thing

00:08:02.980 that bugs me

00:08:03.580 about Rubio's stunt.

00:08:05.700 Can we please stop

00:08:07.080 using the phrase

00:08:07.860 biological females? 1.00

00:08:10.200 Can we please stop

00:08:11.220 using the,

00:08:11.600 she's a biological female. 1.00

00:08:14.540 He's a biological male.

00:08:16.400 Stop it.

00:08:17.180 Stop it.

00:08:18.620 That phrase grants

00:08:21.120 the left's entire premise

00:08:22.700 because when you say

00:08:23.340 I limit it to biological females, 1.00

00:08:26.000 you are implying

00:08:27.100 that there is

00:08:27.860 some other kind of female 0.99

00:08:29.200 that you could maybe

00:08:30.660 be a biological male,

00:08:32.580 but a spiritual female 0.74

00:08:33.780 or a non-biological female 0.63

00:08:35.920 or a psychological female

00:08:37.300 or whatever,

00:08:38.220 which is the Democrats'

00:08:39.380 whole point.

00:08:39.900 The Democrats' whole point

00:08:40.860 is that you can be

00:08:41.660 a biological female,

00:08:43.560 but in your gender expression

00:08:45.560 you can be a male

00:08:46.580 or not a male

00:08:47.380 or a female 0.79

00:08:48.000 or something in between

00:08:49.340 or whatever.

00:08:50.900 And the conservatives' point

00:08:52.120 is that sex

00:08:53.560 and gender expression

00:08:54.680 are and ought to be

00:08:57.180 extremely similar

00:08:59.100 or the same.

00:09:00.220 Yes,

00:09:00.640 you can be a girl

00:09:01.440 and kind of a tomboy.

00:09:02.540 Yes,

00:09:02.780 you can be a fella

00:09:03.680 and a little bit light

00:09:04.440 in the loafers,

00:09:04.980 but your sex 1.00

00:09:07.000 and your gender

00:09:07.660 are essentially

00:09:09.500 the same thing

00:09:10.260 and they ought

00:09:10.700 to be the same thing.

00:09:11.500 That's our point.

00:09:12.280 So you don't need

00:09:13.120 to use this phrase.

00:09:14.040 Biological female. 0.93

00:09:15.120 He's a biological male.

00:09:16.680 You just say man or woman.

00:09:17.900 That will suffice.

00:09:19.560 And actually,

00:09:20.120 it's the only coherent way

00:09:21.260 to make our argument.

00:09:22.780 This really bugs me

00:09:23.840 because the manipulation

00:09:26.360 of language

00:09:26.900 is a little bit

00:09:27.420 of a hobby horse of mine.

00:09:28.460 I wrote an entire book

00:09:29.200 on it called

00:09:29.560 Speechless, Controlling Words,

00:09:30.620 Controlling Minds,

00:09:31.300 which all you wonderful

00:09:32.160 people out there

00:09:32.660 made a number one

00:09:33.260 national bestseller.

00:09:34.200 But this is the way

00:09:35.300 that the Democrats

00:09:35.920 control the political order.

00:09:37.440 They don't even necessarily

00:09:38.780 do it through votes

00:09:40.160 or through big campaigns.

00:09:41.520 Very often,

00:09:42.120 the way that they do it

00:09:42.980 is just by subtly

00:09:44.020 shifting all the language

00:09:44.960 and then they win the debate

00:09:46.080 before it even takes place.

00:09:47.100 And that's what's happening

00:09:47.860 with biological female.

00:09:49.200 So just cut it out.

00:09:50.320 It's a great idea.

00:09:51.160 I love the whole thing.

00:09:52.240 Rubio's so right

00:09:53.160 to put forward an amendment

00:09:54.520 to say we're going

00:09:55.080 to limit funding to women.

00:09:56.360 But we got to cut it out

00:09:57.960 with the qualifiers here.

00:09:58.980 The biological,

00:09:59.800 the spiritual,

00:10:00.500 psychological,

00:10:01.180 non-biological,

00:10:01.780 Speaking of misusing words,

00:10:05.180 the president of the United States,

00:10:07.780 Joe Biden,

00:10:08.700 is I think the Democrat

00:10:09.800 par excellence here

00:10:11.060 in terms of the manipulation

00:10:12.640 of language.

00:10:13.700 He's trying to redefine everything.

00:10:15.260 He's trying to redefine recession.

00:10:17.200 He's trying to redefine

00:10:18.580 all sorts of issues.

00:10:21.760 Sometimes, though,

00:10:22.740 this manipulation of language

00:10:23.920 confuses the senile

00:10:26.360 commander-in-chief

00:10:27.240 to the point that he forgets

00:10:28.480 that he's the president.

00:10:29.160 You know,

00:10:30.240 I know most families

00:10:31.180 are focused on

00:10:31.820 just putting three meals

00:10:32.940 on the table,

00:10:35.040 taking care of their kids

00:10:35.960 and paying their bills.

00:10:38.320 Helping you do that

00:10:39.320 is my job.

00:10:40.920 That's the president's job

00:10:42.020 as well.

00:10:43.220 That's my job

00:10:44.120 and it's the president's job

00:10:45.380 as well.

00:10:47.160 He's kind of proving

00:10:48.120 his point here,

00:10:48.800 by the way,

00:10:49.280 that Joe Biden

00:10:50.000 is practically speaking

00:10:51.060 not really the president.

00:10:52.540 He's kind of proving

00:10:53.540 that point

00:10:54.160 because he clearly

00:10:55.280 didn't write

00:10:55.780 what's on the teleprompter.

00:10:56.800 He didn't even read it.

00:10:57.620 They just put stuff

00:10:58.280 in front of him

00:10:58.820 and he tries to read it,

00:11:00.000 usually unsuccessfully.

00:11:01.580 So yes,

00:11:02.180 it's almost certainly

00:11:03.000 the case

00:11:03.360 that other people

00:11:04.380 around Joe Biden

00:11:05.340 are calling the shots

00:11:06.120 because Biden doesn't know

00:11:07.160 which end is up.

00:11:09.440 However,

00:11:10.280 it is worth pointing out

00:11:12.140 a lot of conservatives

00:11:13.300 will recoil at this idea

00:11:15.100 that part of the president's job

00:11:17.380 is just creating

00:11:18.060 good communities

00:11:18.740 and making sure

00:11:19.440 that people are flourishing

00:11:20.260 and having a good life.

00:11:21.360 A lot of the libertarians,

00:11:22.620 especially,

00:11:23.380 will recoil at that idea.

00:11:24.700 They did recoil at that

00:11:25.960 when Donald Trump

00:11:27.620 said the same thing

00:11:28.360 in 2016.

00:11:29.400 He said,

00:11:29.800 well,

00:11:29.900 what I want to do

00:11:30.480 is I want you

00:11:31.380 to have good communities.

00:11:32.440 If I'm president,

00:11:33.060 I'm going to give you

00:11:33.500 good communities.

00:11:34.260 I'm going to give you

00:11:34.660 good life

00:11:35.180 and you're all going to flourish

00:11:35.940 and it's going to be great.

00:11:36.900 And the libertarians

00:11:37.720 kind of recoiled at that.

00:11:38.780 They said,

00:11:38.940 no,

00:11:39.100 your job is just

00:11:39.840 to basically do nothing

00:11:40.820 and to leave me alone.

00:11:42.840 He's right.

00:11:43.440 He's right in principle.

00:11:44.320 Trump was right 0.79

00:11:44.800 when he said it.

00:11:45.680 Biden was right

00:11:46.300 when he tried to say it.

00:11:47.880 The slip for Biden was,

00:11:49.500 he said,

00:11:50.240 and that's the president's job

00:11:51.820 as well

00:11:52.280 when he was supposed to say,

00:11:54.700 that's the president's job

00:11:55.840 as well, right?

00:11:56.340 The emphasis was

00:11:56.960 on the wrong place.

00:11:57.580 He was supposed to suggest

00:11:58.500 that he is the president,

00:11:59.520 not that someone else

00:12:00.140 is the president.

00:12:00.880 But regardless,

00:12:01.640 the point that the speech writer

00:12:03.380 wrote in there is true.

00:12:05.120 The president is the symbol

00:12:06.480 of the government.

00:12:07.920 He is the head of state

00:12:08.880 and the government,

00:12:11.120 yes,

00:12:11.380 protects all of our liberty,

00:12:12.840 but the point is to ensure

00:12:14.100 the blessings of liberty.

00:12:15.260 That's what you see

00:12:15.880 in the Constitution.

00:12:17.500 And if you've got 0.98

00:12:18.620 a crappy country 0.90

00:12:19.560 where everyone's dying 1.00

00:12:20.520 and killing each other

00:12:21.300 and the country itself

00:12:23.420 is falling apart,

00:12:24.160 then all the pie-in-the-sky

00:12:25.620 ideology,

00:12:26.560 abstract ideas

00:12:27.480 on a napkin

00:12:28.120 in the world

00:12:28.940 are not going to do anything.

00:12:30.720 That and a buck fifty

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00:12:32.460 until Joe Biden

00:12:34.100 becomes president,

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00:14:15.500 Speaking of our

00:14:16.200 broader ruling class,

00:14:18.120 speaking of the people

00:14:19.460 who are really

00:14:19.920 calling the shots,

00:14:20.620 when Joe Biden says,

00:14:21.700 you know,

00:14:21.960 look,

00:14:22.120 it's my job

00:14:22.740 and it's the

00:14:23.200 president's job too.

00:14:24.300 You know,

00:14:24.580 whatever these people

00:14:25.480 are putting in front of me,

00:14:26.760 telling me and leading me

00:14:27.460 around like a marionette,

00:14:28.640 when we're talking

00:14:29.420 about the ruling class,

00:14:31.080 not just in the government,

00:14:32.160 but in the media,

00:14:33.440 in big tech,

00:14:34.460 in the education system,

00:14:36.920 in all over the place,

00:14:37.720 in the financial system,

00:14:39.040 in woke corporations,

00:14:40.400 they tend to set their narrative

00:14:44.240 and they stick

00:14:45.060 to the script

00:14:45.680 and sometimes

00:14:47.220 the narrative changes.

00:14:48.580 You are seeing that happen

00:14:49.420 right now.

00:14:50.240 This is a little reported

00:14:51.440 on story,

00:14:52.680 but it's pretty jarring.

00:14:56.120 The media are shifting

00:14:58.300 the narrative on Ukraine.

00:15:00.300 When I'm referring

00:15:00.940 to a jarring story,

00:15:01.880 I'm not even talking

00:15:02.460 about the Ukraine story.

00:15:03.880 I'm talking about

00:15:04.400 the story of the media

00:15:05.780 shifting their narrative

00:15:06.800 on Ukraine.

00:15:07.420 What we had been told

00:15:08.680 up until this moment

00:15:11.000 is that Ukraine

00:15:13.180 is not just

00:15:14.960 an Eastern European country

00:15:16.860 that was invaded by Russia,

00:15:18.140 but Ukraine

00:15:18.820 is the symbol

00:15:19.820 of the West.

00:15:21.160 We are Ukraine.

00:15:22.220 Slava Ukraini.

00:15:23.460 This is it.

00:15:23.920 This is the last stand

00:15:24.800 for democracy.

00:15:25.840 We need to focus

00:15:26.540 all of our efforts.

00:15:28.020 We need to put all

00:15:28.500 of our resources

00:15:29.040 into defending Ukraine.

00:15:30.640 Vladimir Zelensky,

00:15:31.600 he is the greatest ruler

00:15:32.520 in the history of the world.

00:15:33.920 This country

00:15:34.400 is absolutely pristine.

00:15:35.700 I mean, obviously,

00:15:38.060 we've got to

00:15:39.460 just totally focus

00:15:40.880 on saving the country, okay?

00:15:42.740 Send them all the money.

00:15:43.640 Send them all the weapons.

00:15:44.840 Maybe send them

00:15:45.360 some of our fighters too.

00:15:47.260 Now, the same media

00:15:48.800 were pushing that idea

00:15:49.980 and changing

00:15:50.380 all their little avatars

00:15:52.200 on social media

00:15:52.980 to include the Ukraine flag

00:15:54.320 and running all these

00:15:55.560 puff pieces on Ukraine.

00:15:57.320 Now they're changing

00:15:58.120 the narrative.

00:15:59.120 This story just came

00:15:59.920 out of CBS News

00:16:00.860 that the vast majority

00:16:02.340 of the funding

00:16:02.840 and the weapons

00:16:03.620 that were sending

00:16:03.980 to Ukraine

00:16:04.540 are disappearing.

00:16:06.580 We're seeing this

00:16:07.580 incredible historic flow

00:16:09.740 of weapons

00:16:10.300 coming into Ukraine.

00:16:11.540 Do we have any sense

00:16:12.520 as to where they're going?

00:16:14.980 We don't know.

00:16:16.120 There is really

00:16:16.840 no information

00:16:18.120 as to where

00:16:19.480 they're going at all.

00:16:21.820 You know,

00:16:22.100 all this stuff

00:16:22.600 goes to the border

00:16:23.420 and then kind of like

00:16:24.080 something happens

00:16:24.680 and kind of like

00:16:25.360 30% maybe

00:16:27.420 reaches its final destination.

00:16:29.160 30%?

00:16:30.260 Are you concerned

00:16:31.040 about weapons

00:16:32.200 getting in the wrong hands?

00:16:33.180 I don't care at all

00:16:34.480 whether that happens.

00:16:35.740 What sort of a unit

00:16:36.620 do you command?

00:16:39.140 Can't say.

00:16:40.640 Okay.

00:16:41.440 The U.S.

00:16:42.040 has sent tens of thousands

00:16:43.380 of anti-aircraft

00:16:44.640 and anti-armor systems,

00:16:46.420 artillery rounds,

00:16:47.640 hundreds of artillery systems,

00:16:49.400 switchblade armored drones,

00:16:51.100 and tens of millions

00:16:52.180 of rounds

00:16:52.760 of small arms ammunition.

00:16:54.760 But in a conflict

00:16:55.560 where front lines

00:16:56.380 are scattered

00:16:57.000 and conditions change

00:16:58.500 without warning,

00:16:59.600 not all of those supplies

00:17:00.860 reach their destination.

00:17:01.900 What?

00:17:05.520 Some of us

00:17:06.260 have been saying

00:17:06.980 this sort of thing

00:17:07.780 for months.

00:17:09.160 The conservatives

00:17:10.100 have been saying

00:17:11.260 this sort of thing

00:17:11.820 for months

00:17:12.500 and the media,

00:17:14.100 CBS News

00:17:14.660 and all the rest of them

00:17:15.380 have accused us

00:17:16.660 of being pro-Putin,

00:17:18.500 pro-Russia,

00:17:20.140 undermining democracy,

00:17:21.920 authoritarian, 0.99

00:17:22.760 all this kind of crap. 1.00

00:17:23.760 And now, 1.00

00:17:24.720 they're saying

00:17:25.240 exactly the same thing.

00:17:27.240 For months,

00:17:27.840 we've been saying,

00:17:28.240 are you sure

00:17:28.640 we should be sending 1.00

00:17:29.200 all these weapons over here?

00:17:30.440 Ukraine is actually

00:17:31.120 kind of a corrupt country.

00:17:32.500 Actually,

00:17:32.980 there's a little bit

00:17:34.000 more going on right here

00:17:35.160 than I think

00:17:35.640 is being reported on

00:17:36.580 in the press.

00:17:37.240 And they've said,

00:17:37.880 you're a Putin stooge. 0.51

00:17:39.800 If you don't want

00:17:40.520 to send bazillions

00:17:41.500 of dollars worth

00:17:42.300 of weapons

00:17:42.880 to Ukraine

00:17:43.880 and escalate

00:17:44.840 into a more

00:17:47.300 and more direct war

00:17:48.240 with Russia,

00:17:49.000 a nuclear former superpower,

00:17:50.540 well, 0.99

00:17:50.680 you're just a stooge. 1.00

00:17:52.000 You're undemocratic. 1.00

00:17:53.320 You're anti-American 0.82

00:17:54.140 or whatever.

00:17:54.560 And now,

00:17:55.660 they're running

00:17:56.120 the same sort of story.

00:17:57.320 We haven't talked

00:18:00.020 about Ukraine

00:18:00.560 in a little while

00:18:01.140 because the war

00:18:01.700 has become basically

00:18:02.520 just a war of attrition.

00:18:03.680 They're just going

00:18:04.060 to duke this out forever.

00:18:05.360 Even though

00:18:05.600 in the first days

00:18:06.140 of the war,

00:18:06.560 we were told

00:18:06.960 by all the geniuses

00:18:07.840 this is going

00:18:08.240 to be over

00:18:08.580 in three or four days.

00:18:09.860 It's held out.

00:18:10.680 It's a little bit

00:18:11.300 of a stalemate.

00:18:12.020 The operation's ongoing.

00:18:13.220 The war has really

00:18:14.020 been going on

00:18:14.760 since long before

00:18:15.780 the Russian invasion

00:18:16.860 of this greater part

00:18:18.600 of Ukraine.

00:18:19.240 It's been going on

00:18:19.960 since at least 2014.

00:18:21.340 Really,

00:18:21.820 this conflict

00:18:22.420 has been going on

00:18:23.400 much,

00:18:24.180 much longer.

00:18:25.220 Not even just back

00:18:26.020 to the early days

00:18:26.580 of the Soviet Union.

00:18:27.420 This conflict's

00:18:27.920 been going on.

00:18:29.020 It dates back

00:18:29.680 a thousand years.

00:18:31.520 So my entire position

00:18:32.920 on Ukraine

00:18:33.500 from the very beginning

00:18:35.020 has been

00:18:36.040 it's complicated.

00:18:38.520 And I know,

00:18:38.920 I think that's the least

00:18:39.660 popular position of all

00:18:40.920 because everyone

00:18:41.960 wants you to be either

00:18:42.820 we need to all go

00:18:44.000 fly over to Ukraine, 0.97

00:18:45.160 send in the 101st Airborne,

00:18:46.500 Vladimir Zelensky's

00:18:47.340 Winston Churchill.

00:18:48.460 Or you see some people

00:18:50.040 who are reactionary.

00:18:50.920 They say Russia

00:18:51.420 is totally in the right.

00:18:52.800 Actually,

00:18:53.720 if you really think

00:18:55.300 about it,

00:18:55.700 Vladimir Putin

00:18:56.320 is a really strong

00:18:57.220 good guy or whatever.

00:18:58.180 And my opinion

00:18:59.200 on the war is

00:19:00.420 it's complicated.

00:19:02.960 It's complicated.

00:19:04.260 It is.

00:19:05.140 Why did this war

00:19:06.260 break out?

00:19:07.660 Well,

00:19:07.980 Vladimir Zelensky

00:19:08.600 himself says

00:19:09.160 it's because

00:19:09.580 Joe Biden went weak

00:19:10.860 on the Russian

00:19:11.400 oil sanctions.

00:19:13.040 And I think

00:19:13.740 he's quite right there.

00:19:15.200 Why else did the war

00:19:15.860 break out?

00:19:16.560 Is it in part

00:19:17.340 because the United States

00:19:18.220 was obviously

00:19:18.940 very involved

00:19:19.580 in the Maidan revolution

00:19:20.620 in 2014?

00:19:21.200 Yeah,

00:19:22.060 I think that was

00:19:22.640 probably part of it.

00:19:24.320 And you've seen people

00:19:25.380 from the foreign apparatus

00:19:28.000 of the United States

00:19:28.860 who have essentially

00:19:29.760 admitted that

00:19:30.480 in recent weeks.

00:19:32.340 Is it because

00:19:33.080 NATO expanded eastward?

00:19:34.680 Is it because

00:19:35.620 after the fall

00:19:36.580 of the Berlin Wall,

00:19:37.540 you had people

00:19:37.860 like George Kennan,

00:19:38.940 Sam Nunn,

00:19:39.660 Daniel Patrick Moynihan,

00:19:40.860 all war?

00:19:41.160 These are tough

00:19:42.300 cold warriors saying,

00:19:43.400 hey guys,

00:19:43.840 don't use this opportunity

00:19:45.180 to expand NATO eastward.

00:19:46.920 That's going to

00:19:47.300 unnecessarily antagonize

00:19:48.560 Russia.

00:19:48.860 And you're going to

00:19:49.480 increase the likelihood

00:19:50.240 of a real hot war.

00:19:52.480 And then what happened?

00:19:53.740 NATO expanded eastward,

00:19:54.960 I think,

00:19:55.420 recklessly.

00:19:56.340 Do you think that

00:19:56.800 had something to do

00:19:57.800 with the outbreak

00:19:58.600 of tension there?

00:19:59.160 I think probably it did.

00:20:00.580 Do you think it had

00:20:01.320 something to do

00:20:01.840 with the idea

00:20:02.300 that we formerly

00:20:03.020 had buffer states

00:20:04.060 between these larger powers,

00:20:06.260 the West,

00:20:06.800 the United States,

00:20:07.540 and Europe,

00:20:08.040 and Russia

00:20:08.840 on the other side?

00:20:09.640 And then the buffer states

00:20:10.540 went away?

00:20:11.760 Now you've got

00:20:12.480 greater powers

00:20:13.560 up against one another

00:20:14.580 and that can create

00:20:15.180 tension and the possibility

00:20:16.540 of war.

00:20:16.860 Yeah,

00:20:17.600 I think it all

00:20:19.120 had to do with that.

00:20:19.820 Is Ukraine

00:20:20.260 an extremely corrupt country?

00:20:21.520 Yes,

00:20:21.800 it is.

00:20:22.240 So is it any surprise

00:20:23.360 that the majority

00:20:23.960 of money and ammunition

00:20:25.300 and guns that we're

00:20:25.960 sending over there

00:20:26.540 is just disappearing,

00:20:27.820 going to the black market

00:20:28.740 somewhere?

00:20:29.640 It's not a surprise

00:20:30.560 to me.

00:20:31.280 I guess it's a surprise

00:20:32.280 to CBS News.

00:20:33.160 Maybe they should have

00:20:33.680 tuned into the

00:20:34.160 Michael Knowles show

00:20:34.840 and they would have

00:20:35.600 learned a thing or two.

00:20:37.020 Now they wouldn't be

00:20:37.620 so shocked in their report.

00:20:39.860 Why are they airing

00:20:40.820 this now?

00:20:42.020 If you go to Twitter,

00:20:43.120 it's actually hard

00:20:43.620 to find that clip now.

00:20:44.960 It took the clip down

00:20:45.800 because it started

00:20:46.320 making the rounds.

00:20:47.340 What is this about?

00:20:48.220 It could be one of two things.

00:20:49.400 Either the war is not going

00:20:51.780 as the geniuses

00:20:53.220 in our foreign policy

00:20:54.000 establishment thought

00:20:54.720 it was going to go.

00:20:55.700 And so all of a sudden,

00:20:56.700 after ginning up

00:20:57.840 all of the Americans' 0.88

00:20:59.820 eagerness and appetite

00:21:00.720 for war for Ukraine

00:21:02.000 and getting everyone

00:21:03.060 to change their little

00:21:03.900 profile avatars

00:21:04.800 to the Ukraine flag

00:21:05.940 and getting really,

00:21:07.940 really excited about this,

00:21:08.720 they realize,

00:21:09.160 huh, maybe this isn't

00:21:09.900 the wisest war 0.90

00:21:10.600 to get too involved

00:21:11.560 and now we're going

00:21:12.100 to kind of tamp that down

00:21:13.260 and we're going

00:21:13.820 to portray Ukraine

00:21:14.680 as a little bit more corrupt

00:21:15.740 than we previously had.

00:21:17.040 That's one possibility.

00:21:18.580 Or the other possibility

00:21:19.760 is the foreign policy

00:21:21.820 establishment,

00:21:22.880 which absolutely sees Ukraine

00:21:27.140 and a lot of the rest

00:21:28.280 of Eastern Europe

00:21:28.940 as essential

00:21:29.860 to the Western foreign policy

00:21:31.320 and to containing Russia.

00:21:32.880 They're realizing,

00:21:33.940 huh, our strategy

00:21:35.000 of just giving guns

00:21:36.260 and everything

00:21:36.700 to the Ukrainians

00:21:37.920 isn't really working,

00:21:39.160 so now we need

00:21:39.840 a little bit more

00:21:40.380 direct action.

00:21:41.180 So what they might be doing

00:21:42.260 is saying,

00:21:42.940 look, we still need

00:21:43.620 to defend Ukraine,

00:21:44.820 we still have a great interest

00:21:46.180 in this war,

00:21:47.080 but it's not going to be enough

00:21:48.540 to send them

00:21:49.200 a bunch of missiles.

00:21:50.260 We have to send in 1.00

00:21:51.060 our own guys,

00:21:51.880 we need to get more involved

00:21:52.820 in the war.

00:21:53.700 The way that this plays out

00:21:55.080 in the media

00:21:55.520 over the coming weeks

00:21:56.620 will determine

00:21:57.420 which of those two possibilities

00:21:58.900 it is,

00:22:00.680 but it's a major,

00:22:01.900 major narrative shift

00:22:02.820 and it's a sudden

00:22:03.560 narrative shift

00:22:04.300 and it's not happening

00:22:05.740 accidentally.

00:22:06.960 It's happening because

00:22:08.280 of a change

00:22:09.360 in strategic thinking

00:22:10.340 with regard to the war

00:22:11.580 in Ukraine.

00:22:12.780 Speaking of death

00:22:13.920 and speaking of other things

00:22:16.000 that I'm obviously

00:22:16.800 right about,

00:22:18.000 you know I hate to say

00:22:19.240 I told you so,

00:22:20.080 but a lot of these things

00:22:21.100 that we've been talking about

00:22:21.920 on this show

00:22:22.640 in particular

00:22:23.320 have just been

00:22:24.400 jumping to the forefront

00:22:26.720 of the media

00:22:28.120 and the news.

00:22:29.240 I've said for a long time

00:22:30.340 abortion is not about

00:22:31.800 freedom,

00:22:33.800 abortion is not about

00:22:35.220 the right to choose

00:22:36.060 and you choose this

00:22:36.800 and I choose this

00:22:37.580 and you know

00:22:37.980 we all just kumbaya, man.

00:22:39.460 I've said abortion 0.99

00:22:40.300 is a religious sacrament

00:22:43.120 that all politics

00:22:44.440 ultimately is religious.

00:22:45.880 If you think

00:22:46.580 that your politics

00:22:47.220 is not rooted in religion

00:22:48.420 you're probably

00:22:49.140 really superstitious

00:22:51.440 actually.

00:22:52.240 You're probably

00:22:53.020 involved in a caricature

00:22:55.820 of religion

00:22:56.780 because necessarily

00:22:57.620 when we're making

00:22:58.220 moral decisions

00:22:59.060 and ethical decisions

00:22:59.920 they come down

00:23:01.080 to religion.

00:23:02.020 I said abortion 0.82

00:23:02.560 is especially

00:23:03.460 vulnerable to that.

00:23:06.140 There's a video

00:23:06.720 that's going around

00:23:07.280 on the internet

00:23:07.680 of a young woman

00:23:09.260 who is teaching

00:23:10.740 other women 0.95

00:23:11.400 how to

00:23:12.480 as they prepare

00:23:13.420 for their abortion

00:23:14.080 and after their abortion

00:23:15.260 build an actual altar

00:23:17.780 at which to worship.

00:23:19.700 Building an altar 0.69

00:23:21.120 for your abortion

00:23:22.000 can be a really

00:23:22.820 cathartic procedure,

00:23:24.340 can be a really

00:23:24.980 cathartic process

00:23:26.180 because

00:23:27.340 it just creates

00:23:29.580 a space

00:23:30.800 for your

00:23:31.240 sacred container

00:23:32.500 where you can

00:23:33.120 return to

00:23:33.860 whenever you want

00:23:35.220 to meditate

00:23:35.760 whenever you want

00:23:36.800 to think deeply

00:23:37.640 or contemplate

00:23:39.060 any aspect

00:23:39.680 of your abortion.

00:23:41.100 It's a really

00:23:41.760 beautiful way

00:23:42.460 to just give

00:23:43.040 reference to the experience

00:23:44.440 and hold the experience

00:23:46.680 in a really sacred way.

00:23:48.840 I also really like

00:23:50.380 to add the abortion pills

00:23:52.120 themselves to the altar

00:23:53.740 to really bless

00:23:55.820 the pills

00:23:56.700 that we're going to be

00:23:57.320 taking into our bodies

00:23:58.460 during this process

00:23:59.700 and place the container

00:24:01.760 of which you plan

00:24:03.680 to put the products

00:24:05.320 of conception

00:24:06.060 or the fetal remains

00:24:07.920 within

00:24:08.540 to catch that

00:24:10.100 after you've passed it

00:24:11.640 and save it for later

00:24:13.180 when we find a way

00:24:14.860 to

00:24:15.340 to bury

00:24:17.420 or otherwise

00:24:18.280 to where we find a way

00:24:20.740 to properly dispose

00:24:21.880 of the fetal remains

00:24:22.980 in a way that gives

00:24:23.860 reverence

00:24:24.460 and respect

00:24:25.240 and support

00:24:26.000 to this

00:24:26.660 to this sacred

00:24:28.140 abortion experience.

00:24:29.620 That's a whole lot

00:24:31.740 of thought

00:24:32.300 and prayer

00:24:33.180 and liturgy

00:24:34.100 and worship

00:24:34.720 for a meaningless

00:24:35.960 clump of cells,

00:24:37.320 don't you think?

00:24:38.340 When you want to

00:24:39.780 tune out of this

00:24:40.920 insane,

00:24:41.940 toxic social media

00:24:43.180 big tech environment

00:24:44.100 and still interact

00:24:45.860 with people

00:24:46.340 but in a way

00:24:46.820 that's much more

00:24:47.580 conducive to human flourishing,

00:24:48.740 you've got to check out

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00:26:25.740 Now,

00:26:25.980 this is the moment

00:26:26.560 in the show

00:26:27.080 where in years past,

00:26:28.700 I would have read you

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00:26:30.700 and I would have said,

00:26:31.720 hey,

00:26:31.900 you millions of listeners

00:26:32.880 out there,

00:26:33.520 I love Harry's

00:26:34.660 and you should go out

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00:26:37.220 But I'm not going to do that

00:26:38.360 because I don't love Harry's.

00:26:41.760 I hate Harry's.

00:26:43.160 If you don't know the story

00:26:44.300 Harry's used to advertise

00:26:45.280 on our shows

00:26:46.460 until

00:26:47.440 it was me,

00:26:49.140 it was little old me.

00:26:50.120 I went along

00:26:51.220 on a different show

00:26:52.120 years prior

00:26:52.880 and I agreed

00:26:53.980 with the host's

00:26:55.320 statement

00:26:55.940 that boys are boys

00:26:57.140 and girls are girls

00:26:57.860 and this was too much

00:26:58.780 for Harry's.

00:27:00.260 Harry's then pulled

00:27:00.840 their ads

00:27:01.320 because of,

00:27:02.460 quote,

00:27:02.540 values misalignment.

00:27:03.860 Well,

00:27:04.480 we're not going

00:27:05.140 to promote products

00:27:05.980 that hate your values.

00:27:07.740 So we did the only thing

00:27:08.660 that makes sense.

00:27:09.560 We launched our own

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00:27:12.380 Every Jeremy's Razors kit

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00:27:19.180 Over 70,000 kits

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00:27:24.080 Go to

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00:27:26.620 Get your Jeremy's Razors

00:27:27.920 Founders kit.

00:27:29.140 It's time to stop

00:27:29.700 giving your money

00:27:30.400 to woke corporations

00:27:31.240 that hate your guts. 0.74

00:27:32.520 Give it to Jeremy 0.94

00:27:33.300 instead.

00:27:36.140 This video

00:27:37.140 of this young woman

00:27:38.880 who is dressed

00:27:40.640 just like

00:27:41.560 the archetypal

00:27:42.800 millennial woman.

00:27:43.740 She's wearing yoga pants.

00:27:44.980 She's in her

00:27:45.540 studio apartment

00:27:47.180 in probably New York

00:27:48.580 or something.

00:27:49.740 And she builds 1.00

00:27:50.540 an altar.

00:27:52.000 She says,

00:27:52.500 on the altar

00:27:53.020 for our abortion,

00:27:54.500 we're going to put

00:27:54.800 the abortion drug 0.64

00:27:55.700 and then,

00:27:57.320 how spooky is this?

00:27:58.620 She says,

00:27:58.960 we're going to get a jar

00:27:59.800 that we're going to put

00:28:01.180 the product of conception

00:28:02.600 into.

00:28:03.220 And then she clarifies

00:28:03.920 what she means

00:28:04.400 by that euphemism.

00:28:05.240 She says,

00:28:06.520 you know,

00:28:07.040 the fetal remains.

00:28:08.300 So she's saying,

00:28:08.820 you know,

00:28:08.960 put the dead baby

00:28:09.780 into this little jar

00:28:11.000 on the altar

00:28:12.080 with some incense,

00:28:13.680 with the abortion drugs,

00:28:14.760 and you're going

00:28:15.460 to worship

00:28:15.940 at this sacred altar.

00:28:19.340 People are looking

00:28:20.160 at this and they're saying,

00:28:20.980 oh my gosh,

00:28:21.700 this is so,

00:28:22.240 this is the craziest

00:28:22.800 thing ever.

00:28:23.320 Oh,

00:28:23.420 can you believe this?

00:28:24.500 Yes,

00:28:24.780 I can believe this

00:28:25.620 because it's not

00:28:26.420 the craziest thing ever.

00:28:27.400 this is the norm

00:28:29.360 in human history.

00:28:30.960 It is a human sacrifice,

00:28:33.020 an actual,

00:28:33.960 visible,

00:28:35.240 undeniable

00:28:35.880 human sacrifice.

00:28:38.240 And that is the norm.

00:28:41.180 Not killing babies

00:28:42.280 is the exception

00:28:43.940 in human history.

00:28:46.240 In Christian civilization,

00:28:48.060 we say,

00:28:48.960 no human sacrifice,

00:28:50.200 no killing our babies.

00:28:51.900 No,

00:28:52.080 we try to tamp down

00:28:53.080 eugenics,

00:28:53.960 which is,

00:28:55.440 also plays a huge role

00:28:56.320 in abortion

00:28:56.780 and also has

00:28:57.380 been practiced

00:28:57.900 all around the world

00:28:58.860 since the dawn of time.

00:29:00.160 And the Christian civilization

00:29:01.100 says,

00:29:01.620 no,

00:29:02.040 we're not going

00:29:02.460 to have any of that.

00:29:03.300 As Christianity

00:29:04.380 declines in public,

00:29:06.460 you're not going

00:29:07.340 to have nothing.

00:29:08.220 You're not going

00:29:08.640 to have a vacuum.

00:29:09.400 You're not going

00:29:09.780 to have neutrality.

00:29:11.560 You're going to have

00:29:12.140 all the same 0.76

00:29:12.980 insane paganism

00:29:14.240 that typifies

00:29:15.700 the rest of the world

00:29:16.460 throughout all of history.

00:29:17.400 That's going to come

00:29:18.120 flooding back in,

00:29:18.940 as it is

00:29:19.640 with a vengeance.

00:29:22.180 This is the normal

00:29:23.060 state of things.

00:29:24.340 If you don't like

00:29:25.340 that normal state of things

00:29:26.440 with the human

00:29:27.140 sacrifice

00:29:27.760 and the bacchanals

00:29:29.460 and the orgies

00:29:30.340 and the demon worship

00:29:32.140 and all that kind of stuff,

00:29:33.300 if you don't like that,

00:29:34.920 then it is incumbent

00:29:35.840 upon us

00:29:36.780 to re-Christianize 0.77

00:29:39.300 our political order.

00:29:40.760 You hear the libs

00:29:41.700 crying about

00:29:43.020 Christian nationalism

00:29:44.240 as the rise

00:29:45.840 of Christian nationalism

00:29:47.000 as though

00:29:48.540 this is the worst

00:29:49.240 thing in the world. 0.92

00:29:50.720 Christian nationalism

00:29:51.580 is just the opposite

00:29:52.800 of atheist globalism.

00:29:54.920 Atheist globalism,

00:29:57.240 weird,

00:29:58.040 kooky, 0.89

00:29:58.800 pagan, 0.93

00:29:59.580 wipe away 0.98

00:30:01.580 our national borders,

00:30:02.400 wipe away

00:30:02.720 our traditions.

00:30:03.580 That's the abortion 0.99

00:30:04.560 altar, okay?

00:30:05.600 That's the monkeypox 0.95

00:30:06.860 orgies

00:30:07.400 taking place

00:30:08.300 with government

00:30:08.740 sanction.

00:30:09.640 That's what

00:30:10.920 that looks like.

00:30:11.700 If you don't want

00:30:12.360 that society,

00:30:13.240 your alternative

00:30:14.020 right now

00:30:14.720 is Christian nationalism.

00:30:17.160 And we have

00:30:17.840 not only the right,

00:30:18.660 but the duty

00:30:19.760 to re-impose

00:30:21.660 a normal

00:30:22.540 broadly Christian

00:30:24.060 society

00:30:24.620 in our culture,

00:30:27.300 okay,

00:30:27.580 we have the right

00:30:28.720 to do that.

00:30:29.580 Now,

00:30:29.780 what some people

00:30:30.300 will say is,

00:30:31.680 well,

00:30:31.940 you know,

00:30:32.220 look,

00:30:32.400 abortions are going 1.00

00:30:32.980 to happen.

00:30:34.200 Abortions are going 1.00

00:30:34.880 to happen

00:30:35.380 and so either

00:30:36.700 they can be safe

00:30:37.680 or dangerous.

00:30:38.820 First of all,

00:30:39.300 no abortion is safe 1.00

00:30:40.120 because it always

00:30:40.520 kills a baby.

00:30:42.560 But second of all,

00:30:43.300 even the premise

00:30:43.940 is kind of flawed.

00:30:46.040 Sure,

00:30:46.560 yes,

00:30:46.800 there will be

00:30:47.480 some abortions

00:30:49.220 that take place

00:30:49.740 even if you

00:30:50.200 outlaw abortion

00:30:50.940 and even if you

00:30:51.600 stigmatize it

00:30:52.200 in society.

00:30:53.140 But many fewer

00:30:54.180 will take place.

00:30:55.800 When we had laws

00:30:56.520 against abortion,

00:30:57.500 many, many,

00:30:58.200 many fewer abortions

00:30:59.280 took place.

00:31:01.100 If that argument

00:31:02.480 from the libs is true,

00:31:03.300 look,

00:31:03.540 abortions are going 1.00

00:31:04.080 to happen anyway,

00:31:04.620 they might as well

00:31:05.020 be legal.

00:31:05.920 Well,

00:31:06.180 look,

00:31:06.360 people are going

00:31:06.700 to use drugs anyway,

00:31:07.500 it might as well

00:31:07.900 be legal.

00:31:08.540 Well,

00:31:08.740 it's the kind of

00:31:09.240 liberal slash

00:31:10.060 libertarian argument.

00:31:11.040 If that were true,

00:31:11.800 then that would be

00:31:12.180 an argument for getting

00:31:12.920 rid of all the laws.

00:31:14.340 Well,

00:31:14.540 look,

00:31:14.820 murders are going

00:31:15.320 to take place.

00:31:15.940 We should just make

00:31:17.800 sure that murders

00:31:18.260 don't go underground.

00:31:19.480 Okay,

00:31:19.640 you don't want it

00:31:20.100 to be,

00:31:20.360 we just need it

00:31:20.880 to be legal

00:31:21.420 and regulated.

00:31:23.020 Look,

00:31:23.880 tax evasion

00:31:24.460 is going to occur,

00:31:25.520 but we just need it,

00:31:26.140 we should have it

00:31:26.580 be legal.

00:31:27.000 We should get rid

00:31:27.480 of all of the laws

00:31:28.540 and then just have

00:31:29.100 total anarchy.

00:31:29.940 That's the conclusion

00:31:31.300 of that.

00:31:31.620 But no,

00:31:31.880 of course that's

00:31:32.300 not the case.

00:31:33.020 When you have laws

00:31:33.680 against stuff,

00:31:34.160 you get less

00:31:34.640 of that stuff.

00:31:36.280 Abortion obviously 1.00

00:31:37.200 should be illegal.

00:31:38.160 It should be

00:31:38.500 stigmatized in society. 0.94

00:31:40.200 And that witch, 1.00

00:31:40.940 that sorceress, 1.00

00:31:41.820 who was showing you

00:31:43.280 how to build an altar

00:31:44.460 to the human sacrifice,

00:31:45.940 of your dead baby, 0.99

00:31:48.140 that woman should be 1.00

00:31:49.240 totally ostracized 0.86

00:31:50.660 from society

00:31:51.240 and should be so ashamed

00:31:52.640 that she doesn't

00:31:53.400 show her face in public.

00:31:54.760 That's what should happen.

00:31:56.020 And we should do that

00:31:57.780 from the cultural front,

00:31:59.000 but also from

00:32:00.020 the political front.

00:32:01.800 Because politics

00:32:02.380 is downstream of culture,

00:32:03.440 but culture is also

00:32:04.420 downstream of politics.

00:32:05.540 They kind of work

00:32:06.460 in tandem.

00:32:07.160 It's actually very difficult

00:32:08.200 to differentiate

00:32:09.180 between the two.

00:32:11.080 Speaking of love and hate,

00:32:13.160 this story,

00:32:13.640 there's a story

00:32:14.260 that I,

00:32:15.640 you'll have to indulge me.

00:32:16.640 I am so unreasonably

00:32:18.220 obsessed with this story

00:32:19.860 and I'm so elated

00:32:21.140 by the turn of events

00:32:22.080 in this story.

00:32:23.560 According to page six,

00:32:25.280 Kim Kardashian

00:32:26.180 and Skeet Davidson

00:32:27.860 are breaking up.

00:32:30.400 They are.

00:32:31.560 This whirlwind romance

00:32:32.880 went on for about

00:32:34.380 nine months.

00:32:35.040 I think Mr. Davidson

00:32:37.180 appeared on some episodes

00:32:39.480 of the Kardashian TV show.

00:32:40.680 I've never watched an episode

00:32:41.560 of the Kardashian TV show,

00:32:43.340 but he was on it.

00:32:45.320 Skeet Davidson,

00:32:46.020 who came out

00:32:46.800 and was one of the people

00:32:48.420 breaking up the marriage

00:32:49.540 between Kim Kardashian

00:32:50.780 and Kanye West,

00:32:52.560 a marriage where

00:32:53.100 they had multiple kids

00:32:54.160 and Skeet comes in

00:32:55.480 and he just is a homewrecker 0.60

00:32:58.320 and what happens?

00:33:00.540 Now they've broken up

00:33:01.320 and I'm really happy.

00:33:02.980 I'm really happy.

00:33:03.620 Skeet Davidson,

00:33:04.180 actually got

00:33:05.980 Kim's initials

00:33:07.180 and the initials

00:33:07.860 of her children

00:33:08.560 with Kanye West

00:33:09.320 tattooed on his neck.

00:33:11.380 That's going to be

00:33:12.140 very awkward.

00:33:12.980 It's going to be

00:33:13.280 a big payday

00:33:14.060 for Skeet Davidson's

00:33:15.480 tattoo removal artist.

00:33:17.040 A few lessons here.

00:33:18.840 One lesson is

00:33:19.980 don't get the names

00:33:20.840 of your thrice married

00:33:22.080 girlfriend's kids

00:33:22.820 tattooed on your neck.

00:33:23.800 That would be lesson one.

00:33:25.840 But the second lesson here,

00:33:27.820 it's the real reason

00:33:28.900 that I'm obsessed

00:33:29.720 with this story

00:33:30.420 is it's because

00:33:34.120 I hate attacks

00:33:35.360 on marriage

00:33:35.980 and yes,

00:33:36.920 Kim Kardashian

00:33:37.480 has been married

00:33:38.800 multiple times

00:33:39.540 and I don't really know

00:33:41.260 if those marriages

00:33:42.340 were valid

00:33:43.120 or not valid

00:33:44.040 but here's what

00:33:45.520 I do know.

00:33:45.920 I know that

00:33:46.340 Kim Kardashian

00:33:47.000 and Kanye West

00:33:48.080 had multiple kids

00:33:49.720 together.

00:33:50.640 They were working it out

00:33:51.580 even in Hollywood,

00:33:53.020 even with their,

00:33:53.800 both of their

00:33:54.280 eccentric,

00:33:55.140 wild personalities

00:33:55.920 and I was actually

00:33:57.820 depressed

00:33:58.480 when they split up

00:33:59.700 because I hate

00:34:00.960 attacks on marriage.

00:34:03.060 I hate

00:34:03.680 undermining marriage.

00:34:05.060 Not just

00:34:05.760 at a personal level,

00:34:06.900 though I am

00:34:07.360 personally disgusted

00:34:08.720 by attacks on marriage.

00:34:10.480 Whether that be

00:34:11.020 trying to redefine marriage,

00:34:12.380 whether that be

00:34:12.840 trying to weaken marriage

00:34:14.120 through no-fault divorce,

00:34:15.560 whether that,

00:34:16.160 any of the attacks

00:34:16.880 on marriage.

00:34:17.600 But I am,

00:34:18.700 I am really opposed

00:34:20.060 to attacks on marriage

00:34:20.980 from a political level

00:34:22.800 as well.

00:34:23.340 Because marriage

00:34:24.220 is the fundamental

00:34:25.140 political unit.

00:34:26.920 So regardless

00:34:27.500 of even our own

00:34:28.540 personal reactions

00:34:29.340 to that

00:34:29.740 or our own

00:34:30.440 emotional investment

00:34:31.300 in marriage,

00:34:31.800 just from the level

00:34:32.620 of sheer political

00:34:33.840 order and political

00:34:34.720 philosophy,

00:34:35.580 if you weaken marriage,

00:34:36.800 your society 1.00

00:34:37.440 is going to suck. 1.00

00:34:38.860 Okay? 0.97

00:34:39.620 Because the libs

00:34:40.740 want to convince us

00:34:41.560 that the individual,

00:34:42.940 the atomized individual

00:34:43.980 is the basic unit

00:34:45.380 of society.

00:34:46.600 And they want to

00:34:47.560 break down

00:34:48.260 all of the institutions

00:34:49.680 and all of the ties

00:34:50.780 and all of the families

00:34:51.700 in particular

00:34:52.280 that bind us all together.

00:34:53.820 They want to break us

00:34:54.560 down into the individual

00:34:55.360 because then we're much

00:34:56.460 easier to dominate

00:34:57.300 and control.

00:34:58.020 And once we're all

00:34:58.420 broken down

00:34:58.940 into the little individuals,

00:35:00.020 they can gather us up

00:35:01.000 like a bundle of sticks

00:35:02.040 and do what they want

00:35:03.000 with us.

00:35:04.240 That's what the libs believe.

00:35:06.380 The libertarians

00:35:07.180 also believe

00:35:08.500 that the individual

00:35:09.100 is the basic unit

00:35:09.980 of society.

00:35:10.760 They don't want

00:35:11.360 to gather us all together

00:35:12.260 in a bundle of sticks

00:35:13.000 like the commies do,

00:35:14.020 but they do hold

00:35:14.940 the same basic view

00:35:16.620 of political society.

00:35:18.960 The conservatives

00:35:19.560 have a different view.

00:35:20.920 The conservatives

00:35:21.360 believe,

00:35:21.620 no, the individual

00:35:22.340 is not the basic unit

00:35:23.540 of politics.

00:35:24.840 Actually,

00:35:25.440 politics means public.

00:35:26.500 It's the stuff

00:35:26.820 we do together.

00:35:27.760 It's how we live together

00:35:28.600 in our cities

00:35:29.140 and our states

00:35:29.640 and our countries.

00:35:30.520 And so necessarily

00:35:31.200 involves multiple people.

00:35:33.480 You see echoes of this

00:35:34.580 when Christ describes

00:35:35.540 his church.

00:35:36.000 He says,

00:35:36.540 where two or more

00:35:37.160 of you are gathered,

00:35:37.960 there I am also.

00:35:39.160 His description

00:35:39.700 of the church

00:35:40.300 as something that is

00:35:41.320 public with multiple people

00:35:43.160 held in common

00:35:44.420 or participated in

00:35:46.720 in common

00:35:47.140 in the body of Christ.

00:35:48.540 You see that in religion

00:35:49.540 and you certainly see it

00:35:50.400 in political society

00:35:52.500 regardless

00:35:53.040 of what religion

00:35:54.220 is considered

00:35:56.140 the animating spirit

00:35:57.220 of the society.

00:35:57.760 Just in politics

00:35:58.480 when we're all together,

00:35:59.580 that involves

00:36:01.160 multiple people.

00:36:02.000 Okay?

00:36:02.200 And the family

00:36:02.940 is the basic unit

00:36:04.480 of that.

00:36:05.160 And Skeet freaking Davidson

00:36:06.680 tried to bust up

00:36:07.880 a family

00:36:08.360 and I'm glad

00:36:09.680 that it failed for him.

00:36:11.920 I'm glad we should be

00:36:12.740 very pro-Kanye

00:36:14.500 who was trying

00:36:15.420 to keep his marriage together.

00:36:17.480 Kanye,

00:36:18.020 flawed though he may be,

00:36:19.260 flawed though we all are,

00:36:20.400 he was trying

00:36:20.720 to keep his marriage together.

00:36:21.960 Kim Kardashian

00:36:22.600 embracing just

00:36:23.580 total selfishness.

00:36:24.840 She did a whole magazine

00:36:25.620 spread about how

00:36:26.380 in my 40s

00:36:27.180 I'm just going to do me.

00:36:28.260 I'm just going to do

00:36:28.760 whatever I want to do.

00:36:29.620 That's what a mother 1.00

00:36:30.920 of multiple children

00:36:31.820 should do, right?

00:36:32.300 Just whatever she wants to do.

00:36:33.500 Is that it?

00:36:34.060 No.

00:36:34.600 That's a recipe

00:36:35.500 for a bad society.

00:36:37.600 And you can tell

00:36:38.980 the rotten fruit

00:36:40.480 of this tree

00:36:42.700 of ideology

00:36:43.380 by the fact

00:36:45.240 that she dated

00:36:45.760 Skeet Davidson 0.93

00:36:46.320 who's totally gross 0.94

00:36:47.160 and now they broke up

00:36:47.940 and that's great.

00:36:48.600 I'm really happy about that.

00:36:49.820 Speaking of family,

00:36:51.700 Dick Cheney,

00:36:52.680 former vice president,

00:36:54.100 is coming out

00:36:54.780 in defense of his daughter.

00:36:56.440 His daughter

00:36:56.920 is getting absolutely

00:36:57.980 trounced

00:36:58.600 in her congressional bid

00:37:00.760 in Wyoming

00:37:01.360 because she was

00:37:02.420 a Republican

00:37:02.880 and then she

00:37:03.720 practically speaking

00:37:04.980 switched sides

00:37:05.700 and now she

00:37:06.160 only ever helps

00:37:07.040 the Democrats

00:37:07.500 and she's the face 1.00

00:37:09.120 of the ridiculous 1.00

00:37:09.980 Democrat 0.97

00:37:10.460 January 6th charade

00:37:12.320 and on the crucial votes

00:37:14.420 she always sides 1.00

00:37:15.200 with the big libs.

00:37:16.280 So in a last ditch effort

00:37:17.400 to save her campaign,

00:37:18.940 Dick Cheney

00:37:19.400 is coming out

00:37:20.160 to defend her.

00:37:21.420 In our nation's

00:37:22.580 246 year history,

00:37:24.520 there has never been

00:37:25.200 an individual

00:37:25.820 who is a greater threat

00:37:27.080 to our republic

00:37:27.880 than Donald Trump.

00:37:29.520 He tried to steal

00:37:30.320 the last election

00:37:31.200 using lies

00:37:32.260 and violence

00:37:32.960 to keep himself

00:37:33.860 in power

00:37:34.380 after the voters

00:37:35.320 had rejected him. 1.00

00:37:36.880 He is a coward. 1.00

00:37:37.860 A real man 1.00

00:37:38.480 wouldn't lie

00:37:38.960 to his supporters.

00:37:39.980 He lost his election

00:37:41.040 and he lost big.

00:37:42.800 I know it,

00:37:43.540 he knows it,

00:37:44.200 and deep down

00:37:44.940 I think most

00:37:45.780 republicans know it.

00:37:47.640 Lynn and I

00:37:48.100 are so proud of Liz

00:37:49.420 for standing up

00:37:50.240 for the truth,

00:37:51.420 doing what's right,

00:37:52.820 honoring her oath

00:37:53.780 to the constitution

00:37:54.740 when so many

00:37:56.000 in our party

00:37:56.680 are too scared

00:37:57.760 to do so.

00:37:59.320 Liz is fearless.

00:38:00.720 She never backs down 0.67

00:38:01.760 from the fight.

00:38:02.980 There is nothing

00:38:03.540 more important

00:38:04.180 she will ever do

00:38:05.140 than lead the effort

00:38:06.460 to make sure

00:38:07.100 Donald Trump

00:38:07.880 is never again

00:38:09.200 near the Oval Office

00:38:10.300 and she will succeed.

00:38:13.000 I am Dick Cheney.

00:38:14.120 I proudly voted

00:38:14.980 for my daughter.

00:38:16.080 I hope you will too.

00:38:17.780 I'm Liz Cheney

00:38:18.660 and I approve

00:38:19.280 this message.

00:38:19.900 OK, Dick Cheney

00:38:22.580 wants to defend

00:38:23.240 his daughter.

00:38:24.800 He's a good dad.

00:38:25.960 OK, OK, fine.

00:38:27.500 I'm not going to

00:38:27.960 criticize him

00:38:28.440 for defending

00:38:28.880 his daughter.

00:38:30.080 It's good to defend

00:38:30.680 your daughter.

00:38:31.240 Good to defend

00:38:31.660 your family.

00:38:33.400 But come on, man,

00:38:34.440 the claims

00:38:35.020 that this guy's making.

00:38:36.180 In our nation's

00:38:37.180 entire history,

00:38:38.800 Donald Trump

00:38:39.560 is the most 0.99

00:38:40.040 dangerous figure

00:38:41.380 ever in American history.

00:38:42.780 the most dangerous

00:38:45.880 ever.

00:38:46.500 How about

00:38:46.900 Aaron Burr?

00:38:49.000 You know, Aaron Burr,

00:38:50.440 the sitting vice president

00:38:52.020 who killed

00:38:53.420 the former

00:38:54.680 treasury secretary

00:38:55.560 and founding father,

00:38:56.600 Alexander Hamilton,

00:38:57.540 while he was

00:38:58.040 vice president.

00:38:58.860 That guy,

00:38:59.400 oh, and then led

00:39:00.300 an insurrection

00:39:01.380 and tried to take over

00:39:02.420 the entire country.

00:39:03.060 That guy wasn't

00:39:03.760 a little bit more

00:39:04.480 dangerous maybe

00:39:05.260 than Donald Trump

00:39:06.740 who committed

00:39:07.480 the great, evil,

00:39:08.480 awful crime

00:39:09.140 of lowering taxes

00:39:11.800 a little

00:39:12.220 and getting

00:39:13.620 some conservative

00:39:14.440 justices on the

00:39:15.440 Supreme Court.

00:39:15.980 Well, that's the

00:39:16.280 other thing.

00:39:17.460 That's the other thing.

00:39:18.720 For all the attacks

00:39:19.740 on Donald Trump

00:39:20.500 that we're hearing,

00:39:22.020 the man was

00:39:23.560 the most conservative

00:39:25.060 and the most

00:39:26.840 effective president

00:39:28.420 of my entire lifetime.

00:39:31.660 Roe v. Wade

00:39:32.360 is no longer

00:39:33.700 the law of the land

00:39:34.980 because of Donald Trump.

00:39:37.880 Had Hillary Clinton 0.92

00:39:39.320 become president,

00:39:41.120 had the Democrats

00:39:41.900 gotten their way

00:39:42.480 in 2016

00:39:43.040 or had the squish

00:39:44.180 Republicans

00:39:44.780 gotten their way

00:39:45.420 in 2016,

00:39:47.060 Donald Trump

00:39:47.560 would not have

00:39:47.960 been president.

00:39:49.480 You would not

00:39:50.040 have had

00:39:50.480 Brett Kavanaugh,

00:39:52.320 Neil Gorsuch,

00:39:53.620 Amy Coney Barrett

00:39:54.440 on the court.

00:39:55.640 Roe v. Wade

00:39:56.320 would have been

00:39:57.060 upheld.

00:39:57.920 You would still have

00:39:58.740 850,000 babies a year

00:40:00.640 being killed

00:40:01.080 through abortion. 0.98

00:40:01.660 That's just one issue.

00:40:03.880 For that alone,

00:40:05.020 Donald Trump

00:40:05.460 is one of the greatest

00:40:06.140 presidents

00:40:06.520 in American history.

00:40:07.400 I don't remember

00:40:10.120 the Bush administration

00:40:11.080 that Dick Cheney

00:40:13.100 helped to lead.

00:40:14.180 I don't remember

00:40:14.680 the Bush administration

00:40:15.520 overthrowing Roe v. Wade.

00:40:17.160 In fact,

00:40:17.480 I remember the Bush 1.00

00:40:18.040 administration

00:40:18.520 giving us John Roberts.

00:40:20.240 Now, it did give us

00:40:20.900 Sam Alito.

00:40:21.480 That's great.

00:40:22.540 But the Bush administration

00:40:24.040 kind of had to be

00:40:24.660 strong-armed

00:40:25.360 into giving us

00:40:26.280 decent judges.

00:40:27.140 They were trying

00:40:27.480 to nominate

00:40:27.880 Harriet Myers

00:40:28.800 and all just a bunch

00:40:29.740 of really,

00:40:31.800 I just,

00:40:33.200 I'm happy that

00:40:34.680 Dick Cheney

00:40:35.040 is defending his daughter.

00:40:35.900 That's good for him.

00:40:37.800 But I do not want

00:40:39.280 to be preached to

00:40:40.560 by the Bush administration

00:40:42.700 on what it means

00:40:43.960 to be a true conservative,

00:40:45.600 okay?

00:40:47.340 Especially if he's

00:40:49.140 lambasting Trump supporters 0.53

00:40:50.720 as somehow

00:40:51.800 not having principles

00:40:52.800 or not being

00:40:53.380 sufficiently conservative.

00:40:54.540 The Trump administration

00:40:55.580 was much,

00:40:56.940 much better

00:40:57.780 than the Bush administration

00:40:59.460 by pretty much

00:41:00.540 any measure.

00:41:01.280 By pretty much

00:41:01.920 any measure

00:41:02.980 whatsoever.

00:41:04.960 Speaking of

00:41:05.440 overruling Roe v. Wade,

00:41:07.600 this great news

00:41:08.220 out of Indiana,

00:41:09.420 following the overruling

00:41:10.540 of Roe,

00:41:11.080 following the Dobbs decision,

00:41:12.400 Indiana lawmakers

00:41:13.240 passed legislation

00:41:14.400 to ban all abortions 0.95

00:41:16.120 except in the cases

00:41:17.660 of rape or incest,

00:41:19.020 which is really

00:41:19.400 the same thing, right?

00:41:20.320 There's not a whole lot

00:41:21.240 of consensual incest

00:41:22.560 that's going on.

00:41:23.580 So,

00:41:24.100 except in the cases

00:41:24.860 of rape

00:41:25.320 or medical emergency,

00:41:27.240 all the other abortions 0.94

00:41:28.180 have been banned,

00:41:28.760 which means that

00:41:29.560 99% plus of abortions

00:41:31.200 are banned

00:41:31.680 in Indiana.

00:41:33.180 This is the first ban

00:41:34.540 on abortion

00:41:35.020 since Roe v. Wade

00:41:36.160 was overturned.

00:41:37.060 The White House says

00:41:37.740 the Indiana legislature

00:41:39.400 took a devastating step

00:41:41.060 as a result

00:41:41.560 of the Supreme Court's

00:41:42.440 extreme decision

00:41:43.380 to overrule

00:41:44.660 Roe v. Wade

00:41:45.560 and eliminate

00:41:46.040 women's

00:41:47.880 constitutionally protected

00:41:49.060 right to abortion. 0.62

00:41:49.680 So,

00:41:49.860 blah,

00:41:50.060 blah,

00:41:50.240 blah,

00:41:50.780 blah,

00:41:51.220 blah,

00:41:51.400 blah.

00:41:51.460 We don't like this.

00:41:53.380 Indiana's the first step.

00:41:54.600 We need all the other states

00:41:55.720 to do this too.

00:41:56.820 Let's go,

00:41:57.540 baby.

00:41:58.960 We talked a lot,

00:42:00.200 especially during the Tea Party era,

00:42:01.440 about how politics

00:42:02.020 is downstream of culture.

00:42:03.320 We are now in the

00:42:04.080 culture is downstream

00:42:04.920 of politics era,

00:42:06.320 okay?

00:42:06.860 We are seeing

00:42:08.120 the political effects,

00:42:09.800 the law as a teacher

00:42:10.920 changing and shaping culture.

00:42:12.360 The minute Dobbs came down,

00:42:13.860 you saw these news reports

00:42:15.100 interviewing young women

00:42:16.920 and young men

00:42:17.680 who said with dismay,

00:42:19.860 gosh,

00:42:20.160 I might not have so much 0.99

00:42:20.920 promiscuous sex anymore. 0.94

00:42:22.080 I've really got to think about this. 0.92

00:42:24.220 I've got to not just go out

00:42:25.400 and have a bunch of

00:42:26.060 different sexual partners

00:42:26.920 every night

00:42:27.320 because I might not have

00:42:28.740 the easy out of abortion 1.00

00:42:29.740 to be able to kill my kid 1.00

00:42:30.840 if a baby is produced. 1.00

00:42:32.960 So,

00:42:33.400 hmm,

00:42:33.680 maybe I'll

00:42:35.080 return to a more

00:42:36.000 traditional kind of behavior

00:42:37.480 that's more conducive

00:42:38.460 to my own flourishing

00:42:39.220 and the flourishing of society. 0.90

00:42:40.620 You're damn right.

00:42:41.640 That sounds great.

00:42:42.880 That sounds like

00:42:43.460 culture's downstream

00:42:44.220 of politics.

00:42:45.220 Indiana's leading the way.

00:42:46.460 Let's see it from

00:42:46.960 lots of other states

00:42:47.800 as well.

00:42:49.560 Speaking of family values,

00:42:51.560 another great story.

00:42:52.820 The hits just

00:42:53.640 keep on coming.

00:42:56.440 Amid

00:42:56.920 the ongoing lawsuits

00:42:59.440 that are being leveled

00:43:00.500 against Pornhub.

00:43:02.040 This is,

00:43:02.500 I think, 0.97

00:43:02.900 the biggest porn website.

00:43:04.340 Certainly one of,

00:43:05.740 one of the biggest names

00:43:06.660 in porn.

00:43:07.400 It's owned by a company 0.55

00:43:08.500 called MindGeek.

00:43:10.040 And I guess they own

00:43:11.120 lots of other properties

00:43:12.480 and websites too.

00:43:14.080 There are lawsuits now

00:43:15.040 because these porn sites

00:43:16.380 host child pornography 0.99

00:43:18.600 and rape content 0.92

00:43:20.120 and all sorts of

00:43:21.300 illegal content.

00:43:23.320 And in part,

00:43:23.860 this is because

00:43:24.740 the limits on

00:43:26.780 who can upload what

00:43:27.940 and how the videos

00:43:30.000 stay up

00:43:30.560 and how the videos

00:43:31.040 are taken down,

00:43:31.660 they're not really

00:43:32.240 well defined.

00:43:33.240 It's not as though

00:43:34.220 for every video

00:43:35.800 that's uploaded

00:43:36.340 to one of these websites,

00:43:37.860 they're checking

00:43:38.480 people's ID cards,

00:43:39.760 making sure people

00:43:40.340 are over 18,

00:43:41.120 making sure that

00:43:41.980 the women who are 1.00

00:43:42.740 in these videos

00:43:43.420 weren't drugged

00:43:44.420 or coerced

00:43:45.380 or anything like that.

00:43:46.740 So there's all sorts

00:43:47.580 of outright illegal

00:43:49.260 material on these websites.

00:43:50.940 Furthermore,

00:43:52.520 all of the material

00:43:53.500 is by definition obscene.

00:43:55.420 We have laws

00:43:55.920 against obscenity

00:43:56.600 in this country.

00:43:57.580 We had laws passed

00:43:58.680 in the late 1990s.

00:44:00.540 Bipartisan support

00:44:01.980 passed to limit porn

00:44:04.140 on the internet

00:44:04.840 and unfortunately

00:44:05.600 a bunch of groomer 0.97

00:44:06.760 creepy judges

00:44:07.500 shot that down

00:44:08.500 baselessly.

00:44:10.560 So you could,

00:44:12.580 if you wanted,

00:44:13.520 if there were

00:44:13.940 the political will,

00:44:14.620 you could take down

00:44:15.360 these behemoths

00:44:16.100 right now.

00:44:16.980 Well,

00:44:18.360 the market

00:44:18.900 might be taking down

00:44:20.420 the porn websites

00:44:22.300 before even

00:44:23.040 the political order

00:44:23.780 will.

00:44:24.460 Visa

00:44:24.820 is now

00:44:27.980 suspending ad

00:44:28.840 payments on

00:44:29.980 Pornhub and

00:44:30.680 other MindGeek

00:44:31.540 websites.

00:44:32.600 MasterCard had

00:44:33.300 already suspended

00:44:34.740 use on Pornhub

00:44:36.560 and now they're

00:44:37.100 suspending use

00:44:37.800 of its card

00:44:38.180 for advertising

00:44:38.820 payments on

00:44:39.500 other websites

00:44:40.640 owned by MindGeek.

00:44:41.680 The lawsuit in

00:44:43.760 particular right now

00:44:44.880 that is doing this

00:44:45.680 is a woman who 1.00

00:44:47.520 said that her

00:44:47.980 boyfriend uploaded

00:44:49.100 a video of her

00:44:49.880 from when she was

00:44:50.440 13 years old.

00:44:51.840 13.

00:44:52.880 It's not like we're

00:44:53.720 talking at 17 and a

00:44:54.780 half here.

00:44:55.500 Clearly this girl 1.00

00:44:56.500 must have been

00:44:57.300 very, very underage 0.92

00:44:59.840 and yet it was

00:45:01.300 proliferating all

00:45:02.580 around these

00:45:02.980 platforms and so

00:45:03.740 it's a really

00:45:04.260 clear cut case.

00:45:05.660 Visa,

00:45:06.040 MasterCard,

00:45:06.620 they're not doing

00:45:07.140 this.

00:45:07.780 As far as I'm

00:45:08.540 concerned,

00:45:08.980 we should take

00:45:11.020 down the big

00:45:11.600 porn giants by

00:45:13.040 any means 0.60

00:45:14.600 necessary.

00:45:16.300 The political

00:45:16.940 order,

00:45:17.920 lawsuits,

00:45:18.500 obviously there's

00:45:18.940 some politics

00:45:19.580 involved here.

00:45:20.320 Then there's

00:45:20.700 market forces

00:45:21.540 involved because

00:45:22.700 the companies

00:45:23.640 don't want to

00:45:24.120 catch the flack

00:45:24.820 and they're

00:45:25.060 getting activists

00:45:25.740 calling them

00:45:26.400 and saying you're

00:45:26.860 facilitating child

00:45:27.680 pornography, 0.68

00:45:28.280 you're facilitating 0.99

00:45:28.860 rape, so they 1.00

00:45:29.540 don't want it all. 0.99

00:45:30.220 I don't care,

00:45:30.900 whatever it is.

00:45:31.720 There is no

00:45:32.360 right to porn,

00:45:33.740 there is no

00:45:34.320 right to make

00:45:35.580 money on the

00:45:36.120 sexual exploitation

00:45:37.320 of women and

00:45:38.180 in some cases

00:45:38.720 children.

00:45:39.740 Take it down.

00:45:42.160 By the way,

00:45:42.940 not only because

00:45:44.300 some of this

00:45:44.940 content is very,

00:45:46.180 very clearly

00:45:46.700 illegal.

00:45:47.600 Even if the

00:45:48.340 content weren't

00:45:49.380 illegal, we

00:45:50.900 should still

00:45:51.680 fight against

00:45:53.260 porn.

00:45:54.440 Why?

00:45:55.800 One, because

00:45:57.020 it's wrong.

00:45:58.360 But two, I don't

00:45:59.040 want to just sound

00:45:59.580 like the church

00:46:00.080 lady here. 0.99

00:46:00.720 Two, because it

00:46:01.780 is harming a

00:46:02.940 huge number of

00:46:03.640 people in this

00:46:04.120 country.

00:46:04.940 Every single

00:46:05.860 week in my

00:46:06.640 mailbag, I get

00:46:07.540 so many

00:46:08.280 questions from

00:46:09.360 young men who

00:46:10.440 are talking about

00:46:12.080 how porn has

00:46:12.800 ruined their

00:46:13.300 lives.

00:46:14.180 We read a

00:46:14.620 study on the

00:46:15.020 show, this was

00:46:15.420 a long time

00:46:16.000 ago, there's a

00:46:16.680 study that the

00:46:17.520 average age that

00:46:18.980 a young boy is

00:46:20.580 exposed to

00:46:21.320 hardcore porn on

00:46:22.360 the internet is

00:46:23.600 like 11, I

00:46:24.580 think.

00:46:25.560 The vast majority

00:46:26.680 of men have

00:46:27.540 looked at porn at

00:46:28.200 some point in their

00:46:28.620 lives and a

00:46:29.280 growing number of

00:46:30.080 women have 0.95

00:46:30.880 looked at it and

00:46:31.400 struggled with the

00:46:32.820 temptation to look

00:46:33.580 at it as well.

00:46:34.620 And it's really

00:46:35.380 messing them up.

00:46:36.820 You're seeing

00:46:37.100 huge numbers of

00:46:37.780 men who are

00:46:38.340 experiencing erectile

00:46:39.660 dysfunction because

00:46:40.840 they've gotten their

00:46:41.500 brains so turned to 0.97

00:46:42.600 scrambled eggs on 0.99

00:46:43.700 porn. 0.99

00:46:44.680 They have all sorts of

00:46:46.660 problems in

00:46:47.140 relationships, they're 0.64

00:46:48.180 experiencing depression,

00:46:49.520 anxiety.

00:46:51.400 I could go on and

00:46:52.020 I've actually stopped

00:46:52.760 even reading all of

00:46:53.600 these questions in the

00:46:54.280 mailbag because they're

00:46:55.100 so repetitive because

00:46:56.460 so many people are

00:46:57.260 writing in with the

00:46:58.120 exact same problems.

00:47:00.080 And porn is a

00:47:01.960 really good issue here

00:47:02.640 because I don't think

00:47:03.920 I'm being hyperbolic

00:47:04.700 when I say high-speed

00:47:06.280 internet porn is one

00:47:07.900 of the biggest

00:47:09.780 political problems in

00:47:11.380 America.

00:47:12.600 Why?

00:47:13.260 Because it's in part

00:47:14.380 a technological

00:47:14.960 problem.

00:47:16.720 20 years ago, this

00:47:18.060 did not exist.

00:47:20.160 20 years ago, I

00:47:21.620 don't know, I guess

00:47:22.020 maybe you'd say 30

00:47:22.640 years ago at this

00:47:23.140 point, if you wanted

00:47:23.940 to go look at porn,

00:47:24.920 you'd have to go to 0.93

00:47:25.440 the seedy part of

00:47:26.220 town and go into

00:47:27.200 some scuzzy

00:47:28.300 looking shop and

00:47:29.580 there would be

00:47:30.140 enough shame

00:47:31.420 involved in all of

00:47:32.200 that that you just

00:47:32.700 wouldn't do it.

00:47:33.280 Or you'd have to go

00:47:34.000 to the magazine

00:47:34.500 store and go to

00:47:35.380 the rack in the

00:47:36.660 back at the top

00:47:37.680 and buy a Playboy

00:47:39.560 or a Penthouse

00:47:40.300 magazine or

00:47:41.080 whatever.

00:47:41.660 Now, we all have

00:47:42.860 portals to hell in

00:47:43.800 our pockets, okay?

00:47:45.200 Or on our laptops

00:47:46.240 or on our iPads

00:47:47.080 or wherever.

00:47:48.400 And the sort of

00:47:49.740 porn that is

00:47:50.720 available is way

00:47:52.840 more intense than

00:47:53.640 your uncle's Playboy

00:47:54.740 from the 70s, okay?

00:47:56.840 Way, way more

00:47:57.660 intense.

00:47:58.200 And there are a

00:47:59.660 ton of psychological

00:48:00.360 studies on this.

00:48:01.280 It just really messes

00:48:02.300 people up.

00:48:03.780 And if you have,

00:48:04.780 you just look at

00:48:05.420 the statistics on it.

00:48:06.300 If you've got a

00:48:06.840 country where the

00:48:07.900 vast majority of

00:48:08.760 people are in a

00:48:09.760 state of perpetual

00:48:10.560 grave mortal sin

00:48:11.880 that they can't

00:48:12.760 escape from, that

00:48:13.240 they want to escape

00:48:13.900 from, but they're

00:48:14.320 too addicted to,

00:48:16.580 that is, you are

00:48:17.600 not going to have a

00:48:18.660 flourishing political

00:48:19.400 order.

00:48:19.860 You just can't.

00:48:22.100 A good comparison

00:48:23.220 would be to drugs.

00:48:24.440 If you had a

00:48:24.900 country where 90%

00:48:26.700 of men and some

00:48:28.180 other large number

00:48:29.360 of women were 0.99

00:48:30.580 all hooked on

00:48:31.300 heroin all the

00:48:32.320 time, you would

00:48:33.040 not have a good

00:48:33.660 political order.

00:48:34.960 And so I'm all

00:48:35.640 for this.

00:48:36.660 Wield government

00:48:37.780 power to stop

00:48:39.840 this stuff.

00:48:41.220 Just, I would say

00:48:41.980 the same thing for

00:48:42.540 drugs.

00:48:42.800 We didn't get to

00:48:43.240 the Brittany Griner

00:48:43.940 story right now.

00:48:45.960 We'll get to, we'll

00:48:46.580 get to Brittany Griner 0.85

00:48:47.340 maybe tomorrow or

00:48:48.180 later on this week.

00:48:49.380 But so, so many

00:48:51.360 people are complaining

00:48:52.340 about Brittany Griner

00:48:53.280 because she's being

00:48:54.400 sentenced to jail

00:48:55.700 for using drugs.

00:48:57.340 They're saying, oh,

00:48:57.840 she shouldn't be

00:48:58.280 sentenced for that

00:48:58.900 long or it

00:48:59.860 shouldn't be nine

00:49:00.380 years.

00:49:01.020 The sentence in

00:49:01.960 Russia is not 0.99

00:49:02.500 unusual.

00:49:02.960 It's not like she's

00:49:03.480 just being selectively

00:49:04.280 prosecuted because

00:49:05.400 she's an American and

00:49:06.220 it gives them

00:49:06.600 leverage.

00:49:07.180 This just is the

00:49:08.240 punishment for drugs

00:49:09.200 in Russia.

00:49:09.900 We used to have much

00:49:10.620 tougher punishment for

00:49:11.420 drugs in America.

00:49:12.740 We used to have much

00:49:13.500 tougher punishment for

00:49:14.920 porn and obscenity in

00:49:16.360 America.

00:49:16.740 We used to have much

00:49:17.380 tougher punishments in

00:49:18.560 years past.

00:49:19.520 And maybe right now

00:49:20.560 you're trying to

00:49:21.360 grapple with this idea.

00:49:22.540 You're saying, look, I

00:49:23.140 don't think we should

00:49:23.760 have tough drug laws.

00:49:24.760 I don't think we

00:49:25.500 should have tough laws on

00:49:26.460 obscenity or sex

00:49:27.680 or whatever.

00:49:28.340 Weird kind of vice

00:49:29.100 stuff.

00:49:29.900 I don't think we

00:49:30.580 should have any of

00:49:31.080 that.

00:49:32.120 But then ask yourself

00:49:32.880 this question.

00:49:33.800 Do you think America

00:49:34.680 today is a better

00:49:38.360 country than it was

00:49:39.300 20, 30 years ago?

00:49:40.560 Do you really think

00:49:41.600 that?

00:49:42.020 You really think

00:49:42.460 2022 alters to your

00:49:44.280 abortion, transing the 0.77

00:49:45.440 little kids?

00:49:46.680 Everyone, especially on

00:49:48.120 the porn issue, totally

00:49:49.140 messed up on this weird

00:49:50.000 sex stuff.

00:49:50.960 Highest rates of drug

00:49:52.040 overdoses ever.

00:49:53.360 Average life expectancy

00:49:54.380 declining in the United

00:49:55.640 States.

00:49:55.900 It's driven in large

00:49:56.780 part by drug overdoses.

00:49:58.420 You're really going to

00:49:59.160 tell me that all those

00:50:01.040 policies of liberalizing

00:50:02.560 and letting up and

00:50:03.320 getting rid of some of

00:50:04.000 those laws, you really

00:50:04.940 think that's worked out?

00:50:05.800 I don't think it's

00:50:06.360 worked out at all.

00:50:08.080 They're going to call us

00:50:08.680 when we want to

00:50:09.120 reinstitute these kind of

00:50:10.020 rules.

00:50:10.260 They're going to call us

00:50:10.760 authoritarian, fascist,

00:50:14.200 illiberal.

00:50:15.420 Because what?

00:50:15.980 Because we want to

00:50:16.580 restore some of the

00:50:18.200 normal laws that exist

00:50:19.480 everywhere else in the

00:50:20.300 world that existed here

00:50:21.440 20, 30 years ago?

00:50:22.780 I don't think so,

00:50:23.780 Buster.

00:50:24.020 I think we've got to

00:50:25.140 do that.

00:50:25.660 I think we've got to

00:50:26.220 start wielding politics

00:50:28.220 not to create some

00:50:31.440 utopian society, but just

00:50:33.220 to go back to the much

00:50:35.040 more sane society that we

00:50:36.180 had not that long ago.

00:50:38.680 I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 08, 2022

Ep. 1062 - Clown World

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