The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Four days ago, AOC said something really dumb and wrong. That alone, of course,

00:00:06.400 would not be particularly newsworthy, since the news typically endeavors to present stories that

00:00:11.240 are unusual. But this particular viral diatribe caught my attention, not because AOC's argument

00:00:18.240 is wrong, but because it is perfectly wrong. Take a listen.

00:00:23.560 I think it's important to state that abortion is an economic issue. Forcing poor and working

00:00:33.040 class people to give birth against their will, against their consent, against their ability

00:00:41.320 to provide for themselves or a child is a profound economic issue. And it's certainly a way to keep

00:00:49.940 a workforce basically conscripted to large-scale employers and to employers to work more against

00:01:01.720 their will, to take second and third jobs against their desire and their own autonomy. And so the

00:01:06.920 idea that abortion and access to abortion is somehow not a profound and central economic

00:01:14.940 and class issue and class struggle is certainly something that I think a person who's never

00:01:21.880 had to contend with the ability to carry a child, you know, it belies that perspective.

00:01:29.880 So AOC's argument is that abortion is an important tool of the working class,

00:01:34.640 of the proletariat, to shake off the bonds of its capitalist oppressors.

00:01:40.320 But if that's the case, then how come all the big corporations are subsidizing it?

00:01:48.100 How come after the Dobbs decision came down overruling Roe v. Wade, how come Google and Walmart

00:01:53.680 and Amazon and pretty much every big company in the country sent out a press release promising

00:01:59.540 to reimburse the costs of female employees who want to travel out of state to abort their babies?

00:02:05.260 Abortion is a class issue, but not in the way AOC thinks, actually in exactly the opposite way.

00:02:12.880 Abortion, much like AOC, is a tool of wealthy capitalists to squeeze more productivity and

00:02:19.460 therefore more money out of their labor force. Women who have babies take more time off during

00:02:26.780 pregnancy, during maternity leave, even after they come back to work. If they come back to work,

00:02:32.360 mothers are more distracted with their kids' doctor's appointments and little league and piano

00:02:37.180 recitals and all the sorts of things that make them less ideal as automatons churning out widgets

00:02:44.360 in the factory for big boss penny bags. It's much, much more efficient from a money standpoint for

00:02:51.600 the capitalists to just encourage the women and even pay the women to kill their kids so that they

00:02:56.700 can get back to the office and do more spreadsheets. If AOC had an ounce of introspection, she might

00:03:03.520 stop to ask herself why pretty much all of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country

00:03:08.680 support her. Why she gets such glowing treatment in the corporate press. Why she gets invited to all

00:03:15.260 of the fancy events with all the rich people. Why AOC rakes in more big dollar campaign donations

00:03:20.940 than pretty much any politician of her stature in the country. If AOC were really a renegade radical

00:03:28.200 fighting the evil and entrenched capitalist establishment, wouldn't you expect that that

00:03:34.160 establishment might not fawn over her constantly? In reality, AOC is no renegade. She is no radical.

00:03:42.740 She is certainly no threat to the system. The system attacks and silences and prosecutes

00:03:49.800 the only real people who question or oppose it, which is to say conservatives.

00:03:54.240 The system will throw Midwestern grannies in jail for taking selfies in the Capitol Rotunda.

00:03:59.820 It'll raid Donald Trump's home on bogus charges if he gets a little bit too high up in the polls for 2024.

00:04:05.360 But it will never go after AOC, at least as long as she continues, as we see now,

00:04:12.020 to do its bidding. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:06:57.360 The class struggle, pseudo-communist rhetoric coming out of the left is so silly. It's so

00:07:05.740 ridiculous. So much of our political system is just so fake. And I think it's becoming clearer and

00:07:14.380 clearer. Donald Trump in particular exposed a lot of it as being so fake that what we see is

00:07:19.040 two sides locked in the struggle, the far left and the far right, and they're fighting each other.

00:07:23.740 It's really just kind of a charade very often. It's kind of just political theater. And no matter

00:07:29.120 what happens in these battles, the system, the kind of liberal establishment system,

00:07:34.340 just sort of always wins. You see this on certain issues. They don't change no matter who wins.

00:07:41.400 The left wins, the right wins. We get more and more immigration and more and more illegal immigration

00:07:46.560 for that matter. The left wins, the right wins. We just keep offshoring our jobs. The left wins,

00:07:52.080 the right wins. We keep getting more globalist government, whether that means through trade

00:07:57.600 treaties or whether that means through giving more of our national sovereignty away. It just doesn't

00:08:01.360 seem to, whether the left wins or the right wins, we get the exact same foreign policy.

00:08:04.780 A lot of it just seems like a charade. I don't think the political battle in this country is

00:08:10.360 between the communists on one side and the fascists on the other side. I think it's between two

00:08:15.280 slightly different variations of liberals. You see this with Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi,

00:08:23.040 who came out and she said, look, we need more mass migration because, not first because of justice,

00:08:31.120 not first because of these poor oppressed masses yearning to be free, but no, because we need

00:08:35.700 someone to pick the crops. The fact is, is that we have a responsibility to secure our border.

00:08:45.100 We also have a responsibility to recognize the importance of newcomers to our nation.

00:08:50.940 Right now, the best thing that we can do for our economy is to have comprehensive immigration reform.

00:08:57.320 We have a shortage of workers in our country. And you see, even in Florida,

00:09:02.280 some of the farmers and the growers saying, why are you shipping these

00:09:06.720 immigrants up north? We need them to pick the crops down here. But that doesn't mean that we

00:09:15.520 don't recognize our moral responsibility as well.

00:09:20.280 Notice what she leads with. She doesn't say, we need more migrants in this country because it's the

00:09:26.020 right thing to do. Or because American foreign policy has destabilized Latin America. Or because

00:09:33.060 we're a melting pot and we, no, she says, we need more workers. She's making a capitalist argument.

00:09:40.240 AOC is shilling on behalf of the capitalists to get women to sit in their offices and stay in their

00:09:46.860 jobs and not have the temerity to want to raise a family. That's why the capitalists fund all of these

00:09:53.540 people. The dominant power in this country that conservatives need to fight against is actually

00:09:59.680 not the communists or even the socialists. They're a problem too, but they're a relatively

00:10:04.860 minor problem. The problem is the liberals. The menace in our country is not Joseph Stalin. It's

00:10:10.840 Bill Clinton, okay? It's neoliberal, kind of crony capitalist, money, money, money above all else

00:10:18.540 to the destruction of, to the detriment, and I think really destruction of communities,

00:10:24.100 families, the traditional way of life, our national borders, for goodness sakes.

00:10:28.400 Everything. It's money. The libs want the open borders. They've got a whole lot of reasons for

00:10:34.640 wanting the open borders. They say they've got social reasons. They certainly have political

00:10:37.920 reasons and electoral reasons. But the reason they got a lot of oomph behind it is because open borders

00:10:41.780 is good for the crony capitalists. It's not the commies exactly. And conservatives, I think we're

00:10:50.260 figuring this out now. We've certainly been figuring out a little bit more since Trump.

00:10:53.960 We should not reflexively be defending big corporations or even the free market as an end

00:11:02.260 unto itself. Markets are great. Market dynamics can be a wonderful thing for economic growth in a country,

00:11:07.300 but it's not the be-all and end-all, okay? It's not an end unto itself. That would be putting the cart

00:11:12.460 before the horse. The end of government is justice. The end of government is a flourishing society

00:11:18.220 where we're all getting along and growing and living together in a good country, okay? We want the

00:11:26.300 general welfare. We want the common good. We want to live in a nice place. We were talking about this

00:11:30.380 a week or two ago. You would much rather be a poor man in a good society than a rich man in a society

00:11:36.600 falling apart. Because even your wealth is contingent on the stability and flourishing of

00:11:47.540 your society, okay? If you're a rich man in Afghanistan, well, you're probably not gonna

00:11:51.800 stay a rich man very long because the Taliban's gonna show up and take your money, okay? That's

00:11:58.020 what we need to focus on here. We need to stop. I remember when I was coming up in politics,

00:12:03.700 when I was a teenager, first kind of learning about politics. The Republicans and the conservatives,

00:12:07.860 they just carried water for big corporations. Even when the corporations attacked us,

00:12:11.920 even when they started to censor us, you heard arguments from people ostensibly on the right

00:12:15.780 who said, well, you know, we can't regulate Google, the most powerful company on earth.

00:12:20.640 We can't regulate that. If you don't wanna be censored and kicked out of the public square in your

00:12:25.180 self-governing republic, in your formerly self-governing republic, then just build your own

00:12:29.600 Google. Yeah, that's a solution. It's preposterous. And it does nothing but advance the interests

00:12:34.760 of what we would call the left. Speaking of guys who just constantly defend the liberal status quo,

00:12:47.100 David French. David French, who we've always gotten along personally well enough,

00:12:52.820 but he's, the Donald Trump era just really radicalized this guy. And so he was always considered

00:13:02.780 a conservative or a right-winger. We wrote for right-wing outlets and things. But since Donald

00:13:10.700 Trump, he's been moving further and further to the left. I think now you would call him a liberal

00:13:17.000 writer, but he still calls himself a conservative writer. And I think, I'm actually grateful to

00:13:23.100 David's columns. I know a lot of conservatives just dunk on David all the time. I am grateful

00:13:27.300 for David French's columns because they show you the chaos and absurdity that conservatives' relatively

00:13:35.800 recent obsession with liberalism and love affair with liberalism will lead to. David French just

00:13:44.220 recently took to his blog to make the conservative case for transing the kids. I'm not joking. I'm

00:13:51.680 not being hyperbolic. It's called, When Culture Wars Go Way Too Far. He writes, I've always been

00:13:57.880 conservative. In the left versus right context, I've always considered myself a man of the right,

00:14:02.160 the Reagan right. But when the extremes grow more extreme and the classical liberal structure of the

00:14:06.560 American Republic is under intellectual and legal attack, suddenly I'm an involuntary moderate.

00:14:10.900 So I think he's overstating the classical liberal structure of the American Republic. I don't think

00:14:16.260 America was founded as some classical liberal place. I just gave a long speech on this and wrote

00:14:21.480 a long essay about this at the Daily Wire. I think that's made up. I think that's a completely retconned

00:14:26.320 revisionist history of America that took place in the middle to late 20th century. And I think that

00:14:33.640 America actually was founded as a Christian nation and the evidence for that is pretty clear.

00:14:37.600 For one, the word liberal just doesn't appear in the founding documents at all. It doesn't appear

00:14:42.940 in the Constitution or the Declaration. It doesn't appear even in the Federalist. It appears a handful

00:14:47.320 of times in the Federalist, but then not referring to a political philosophy, only really referring to

00:14:51.380 the classical sense of the word, which means generous. He's very liberal with his wine or something.

00:14:57.640 So anyway, I think he's wrong on that point. But he might be sincerely wrong there. He thinks of

00:15:01.260 himself as a man on the right. But now he says, because the right wing is so extreme,

00:15:06.420 he's gone moderate. He says, it's difficult to think of an exercise of state power more raw,

00:15:11.600 immediate, and devastating than the use of state power to sever the bond between parent and child.

00:15:17.140 What is he talking about here? He's talking in part about Texas's decision to classify transing the

00:15:24.240 kids as child abuse. That if you go and you take a kid and you take the kid into a doctor to put him

00:15:29.540 on cross-sex hormones or block his puberty or chop off his genitals, that that is a child abuse.

00:15:35.180 And David says, no, no, that's going too far to suggest that parents can't lop off their kids'

00:15:41.100 genitals and pump them full of the wrong hormones. That's going too far. He says,

00:15:47.020 it is a power to be exercised sparingly. In the most extreme cases, it is not a power to enlist in

00:15:52.840 the culture war over one of the emotional and contentious contests of our time, whether or not

00:15:58.440 to turn little children into eunuchs. At a time of profound public division and deep moral conflict,

00:16:04.080 pluralism suffers from a serious disadvantage compared to the illiberal extremes of the far

00:16:10.560 left and far right. It's not utopian. By design, it doesn't own the libs. He's talking about pluralism

00:16:17.060 here. It doesn't own anybody. It accommodates dramatic differences in worldview. The illiberal

00:16:22.140 extremes, he thinks liberal is a good word when referring to the political philosophy.

00:16:27.080 The illiberal extremes, by contrast, offer an alluring vision for their partisans,

00:16:32.580 ultimate victory in the vanquishing of their opponents. But when that victory

00:16:36.800 severs parent from child, it's not only unjust, it's destabilizing. I think it's much better

00:16:41.380 to sever a parent from the child that that parent is abusing than to sever a child from his genitals.

00:16:48.640 Call me crazy. Call me a radical. Call me illiberal.

00:16:51.360 I think it's pretty clearly child abuse to lop off a child's genitals or to start that process

00:16:58.560 by putting them on cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. I think that's an abuse.

00:17:02.820 And whether parents are doing that because they've got Munchausen by proxy, whether parents are doing

00:17:06.780 that because they sincerely believe that's the right thing to do, I don't really care. You've got

00:17:10.540 to protect the kid from that kind of abuse that will destroy the kid's body for life. It's

00:17:15.580 irreversible, okay? And it comes with all sorts of other medical ailments that are not even related

00:17:21.180 directly to sex. And what it does, speaking again of the crooked capitalists, what it does is it puts

00:17:30.220 these kids on a lifelong subscription to pay oodles and oodles of money to big pharma. Do you think that

00:17:35.700 might have something to do with the explosion of transgenderism for ever younger groups of people?

00:17:41.140 You think there might be some financial motives here since it's such a huge moneymaker? Since

00:17:47.000 we've got doctors on record, public health leaders and administrators on record who are saying, you

00:17:54.620 know, these transgender surgeries, they're a big moneymaker. Matt Walsh in his expose of the Vanderbilt

00:18:00.980 Transgender Clinic published one of those videos just a couple of weeks ago. Of course, of course,

00:18:07.540 I am grateful to David's columns because if this is the logical conclusion of liberalism,

00:18:15.340 the kind of classical liberalism or right-wing liberalism or whatever the people want to call

00:18:18.900 it, then I'm out. Then I don't want it. And I think David's a very smart guy, actually. And so

00:18:24.960 people mock him now because he comes to these crazy conclusions, but he's a very intelligent guy.

00:18:29.180 And so if this is the conclusion that liberalism leads to, then we got to get rid of liberalism,

00:18:34.460 guys. Liberalism is bad. It's not good. You've even in recent years that you've heard this crazy

00:18:40.140 line, you heard people say, I'm a conservative because I'm a liberal. I don't know. That's not

00:18:44.180 me. I'm a conservative because I'm a conservative. I'm a conservative because I don't want to lop

00:18:47.700 kids' genitals off. Call me crazy. We obviously need an alternative. And in recent years, in the last

00:18:55.480 few decades, politically, there really isn't an alternative. It's a kind of sock puppet game

00:18:59.500 between AOC and Pelosi. They play the part of the far left-wing people. And then David French

00:19:05.320 plays the part of the right-wing people. But the effect of their political bickering is

00:19:09.720 substantially the same. You're enriching the same oligarchic, crooked, capitalist corporations.

00:19:16.140 You're advancing the same social policies. AOC, because she says it's good to trans the kids.

00:19:20.760 David French, because he's saying it's so important to our liberal structure that we must allow,

00:19:25.240 in certain cases, people to trans the kids. But what's the conclusion?

00:19:27.960 The conclusion is that the kids get transed. Same thing, AOC calling for mass migration

00:19:32.580 and conservatives saying, well, we can't stop mass migration. That would be wrong. That's not who we

00:19:37.540 are. We need to be responsible and lose with dignity. And we can't really deport people.

00:19:44.140 Or, okay, well, what's the effect? The effect is mass migration.

00:19:47.860 The libs pushing for all these kind of transnational trade deals that give up American sovereignty.

00:19:52.640 The conservatives, quote unquote conservatives, saying, well, free trade is a deeply conservative

00:19:57.540 value as of, I don't know, 20 years ago. And so we've got to give up all that sovereignty too.

00:20:02.480 But we're doing it not for any political arrangement, not because we love the UN or the IMF or anything

00:20:08.920 like that. It's because we want to make money. Okay, well, what's the effect? The effect is the same

00:20:12.880 thing. And bizarrely, maybe not so bizarrely, all those kinds of policies are deeply unpopular with

00:20:21.520 the American people. Right now, go out and do a poll. There have been polls on this, but go out,

00:20:25.800 do a poll on the popularity of transing the kids. I promise you the vast majority of Americans oppose

00:20:31.800 transing the kids. Go look at the popularity of middle to late term abortion. Virtually no one

00:20:38.840 supports late term abortion among the American public. The ruling class does. The crooked capitalists

00:20:45.740 do. The libs who run everything, they support it, but the people don't. Who supports mass migration?

00:20:52.880 The vast majority of Americans, according to a recent Harvard Harris poll, want to drastically

00:20:56.900 reduce illegal immigration and legal immigration. Drastically reduce it. And yet the ruling class

00:21:02.540 doesn't want to do a thing about it. On the left, they say we need more of all kinds of immigration.

00:21:07.100 And on the right, they don't fix the illegal immigration problem. And then they say we need

00:21:10.840 more legal immigration. Both of those views from the political class are completely out of step

00:21:17.040 with where the American people are. And the result of both of them, of this kind of bickering between

00:21:23.100 the left and the right, it's basically just the same policy. That's what we're fighting, folks.

00:21:29.480 And it's not anti-democratic or something like that to say that liberalism has gone way,

00:21:36.860 way too far. We've let it run roughshod over our country for far too long. No, it actually,

00:21:41.580 to say no to liberalism would be a vindication of American democracy. But unfortunately,

00:21:45.960 the liberals ensconce themselves in power by pretending to speak on behalf of democracy.

00:21:51.640 And whenever the people don't want to go along with their plans, they just say, well, no, no,

00:21:55.940 that the people are trying to threaten democracy. Oh, no, no. When the majority of people

00:21:59.620 vote for some policy or vote for some candidate that's too conservative, they say, no, no, no,

00:22:03.740 that's a, that's a threat to democracy. Oh, no, that Trump won the election. That's a threat to

00:22:08.120 democracy. Oh, no, Georgia Maloney won the election in Italy. That's a threat to, Victor

00:22:12.340 Irvon won the election in Hungary. That's a threat to democracy. But this is the conclusion of it,

00:22:18.020 folks. The religious right or the social conservatives of the 1990s and 2000s,

00:22:22.640 they have been vindicated in absolutely everything. Here's a headline from The Guardian.

00:22:26.580 He's, quote, we're expected to be okay with not having children. How gay parenthood through

00:22:34.840 surrogacy became a battleground. Became a, yeah, I agree that shouldn't be a battleground. We

00:22:42.280 shouldn't even be suggesting it. How did it become a battleground? It became a battleground because the

00:22:47.160 liberals rammed it through against the will of the people and against right reason and against justice.

00:22:52.920 How gay parenthood through surrogacy became a battleground. What does this say?

00:23:02.480 Says, in New York, a gay couple fighting to make their insurers pay for fertility treatment

00:23:08.040 have found themselves in the middle of a culture war. What happens when the right to parenthood

00:23:12.900 involves someone else's body? What's, what is the right to parenthood? Could someone explain that to

00:23:19.180 me? I think people, people have a, you have a right to marry or you have a right to, you have a right

00:23:28.440 to do the right thing. And getting married is certainly the right thing. When you get married,

00:23:32.140 you do that to come together for the sake of the generation of an education of children. Now,

00:23:37.980 not everyone gets kids. Some people are infertile and that's, that's a great pain. I've mentioned on

00:23:44.020 the show before, sweet little Elise and I have, we spent a couple of years dealing with infertility.

00:23:51.340 But fortunately, we were able to sort of, you know, get around that with a few different

00:23:58.380 treatments. We didn't, because we're Catholic, we couldn't do IVF, which is the subject of this

00:24:03.020 particular article. But it was a, it was a real pain. And so I know that it's really hard for couples

00:24:09.360 who, who are infertile and you can adopt and you can do all sorts of other things.

00:24:15.380 Gay couples obviously do not have a right to parenthood because two men can't make a baby

00:24:21.640 and two women can't make a baby. But those people still have the same natural longing for kids that

00:24:28.400 we all do. And so they want to get around it. They say, well, I have a right to parenthood.

00:24:33.580 But, but if you, if you, you, you have a, you, you have an obligation to deal with the consequences

00:24:41.400 of your actions. And so if you say, okay, I'm not going to get married. I'm going to live with,

00:24:45.180 if I'm a man, I'm going to live with another man. Or if I'm a woman, I'm going to live with another

00:24:47.840 woman. Then one of the consequences of that is you're not going to have kids. Because the only

00:24:53.080 people who can be truly said to have any rights in the context of child birth and child rearing

00:24:58.460 are the babies here. The babies who have a right to their natural mother and father,

00:25:05.660 a right to be the product of the conjugal act of their mother and father bound together in marriage.

00:25:10.840 That is, if we're talking about rights in the abstract, that is the only real right that can

00:25:15.660 be said about birth and parenting. Now the libs don't like that. So this article goes on. It's an

00:25:25.400 amazingly long article. And these two, they say, look, it's illegal to, to do gay surrogacy in some

00:25:31.460 places, you know, to go out, purchase the egg of a woman and then rent the womb of a poor woman

00:25:36.820 and then create a child in a Petri dish and then implant that child, probably just freeze a bunch of

00:25:44.000 the other children that we create in a, in a freezer indefinitely, and then plant that child into

00:25:48.180 the poor woman and then eventually get that child and intentionally deprive the child of his natural

00:25:53.700 mother. They're saying, and it's hard for us to do that. Of course, that should be completely

00:25:57.440 illegal. That's insane. And then it's amazing too, what, what the article goes on to say.

00:26:03.580 The article says that because this is illegal in much of the United States and much of Europe,

00:26:09.320 certain countries have become tourist destinations for this, including Ukraine.

00:26:13.160 So Ukraine apparently, though it's, I think, officially still illegal to do gay commercial

00:26:18.120 surrogacy in Ukraine, they do permit commercial surrogacy generally. And apparently, according to this

00:26:23.400 article, Ukraine has become a hotspot center for same-sex couples to go rent a womb and create a

00:26:32.080 child through surrogacy. And then they said, but when the war broke out, this was, this was really

00:26:37.040 awful because people's babies that they had created and implanted in these poor women's wombs,

00:26:41.180 they were locked away in a war zone. Can you imagine? Yeah, that's horrible. The whole thing is so

00:26:47.780 insanely dystopian. None of this should be happening whatsoever. They say, the phrase they use, they

00:26:57.580 say, when the Ukraine war broke out, these gay couples in the West, well, they saw that their

00:27:03.240 precious cargo was still in, in Ukraine, which made me wonder, how come a baby is precious cargo

00:27:10.120 when that baby is desired by rich gay men, but the baby is merely a clump of cells when the baby is not

00:27:16.660 desired by his mother. Isn't that kind of weird? How the baby changes like that depending on who

00:27:24.120 wants the baby? That seems a little crazy. This is the problem with the slippery slope. I don't even

00:27:29.700 blame the gay men who are confused by this or who haven't thought this through or who naturally desire

00:27:35.000 a child. It makes perfect sense. But this is the slippery slope. When you redefine marriage in this absurd

00:27:43.760 way and pretend that two men can be married to one another, or two women can be married to one

00:27:48.040 another, then you are saying that the union of two men is the same as the union of a man and a woman.

00:27:54.260 And so if, when we're talking about marriage, obviously married couples have a right to procreate.

00:28:02.300 Now, gay men can't procreate with one another. So then the law has to go along, come behind,

00:28:08.820 and sort of change to accommodate this fiction that there's such a thing called same-sex marriage.

00:28:14.980 So they'll do that by permitting homosexual adoption, and they'll do that by permitting

00:28:19.480 surrogacy and IVF and renting a womb in Ukraine. And they'll do this through all sorts of things that

00:28:24.980 are completely immoral, that are really heinous, that are really awful, and a child abuse.

00:28:32.260 And they're destructive for society, but that advance a liberal paradigm. This is the slippery

00:28:39.560 slope. This is why they say, oh, who cares? Why does it matter? Why does it matter if two people

00:28:44.140 want to get married? First of all, again, it's not, the issue is redefining marriage. And who cares if

00:28:49.140 we fundamentally redefine the basic social institution, basic political institution? Well,

00:28:54.520 I don't know, because now we've got poor babies being created to be deprived of their natural

00:29:00.760 mother in war zones because of what? Not because of communism, not because of socialism, because of

00:29:06.000 a hyper-capitalist system where now human beings are commodities, where now you are purchasing a womb.

00:29:12.380 By the way, I'm referring to a womb. You're not even purchasing the woman. You're not viewing the

00:29:16.200 woman as a real woman. You're viewing the woman as nothing but a vessel to be rented and purchased

00:29:21.140 for your interests and desires so that you can purchase a child. A child is no longer the product

00:29:26.420 of love between his parents and the personification of that love. The child is just another commodity

00:29:31.160 to be purchased, like a Prada handbag or a Rolex watch, except slightly more expensive, actually,

00:29:37.900 in the case of surrogacy and IVF. That's hideous. But it's not just the commies. It's not just the far

00:29:44.360 leftists. It's a perversion of, it's an extreme version of capitalism, divorced from any

00:29:50.980 moral order. And the conservatives have utterly failed to fight against that because we've been

00:29:56.340 tilting at windmills against Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin. The problem lies a little bit

00:30:01.320 closer to home, I think. Speaking of hyper-capitalism and Ukraine, actually, I'd mentioned a piece on

00:30:10.180 Friday by Christopher Caldwell, who's a terrific cultural writer, and it was in the Claremont Review

00:30:15.680 books. The article was on why are we in Ukraine. And it was, I felt it was a pretty fair article on

00:30:20.700 how we ended up in this war in Ukraine and this kind of proxy war with Russia and how the Ukraine

00:30:26.080 war broke out and just a little bit of a history of it. Because the war didn't just break out earlier

00:30:29.600 this year. It's been building for a long time. There's been some version of this war going on for

00:30:33.060 about eight years now. And the tensions in that region of the world go back about a thousand years.

00:30:37.980 So he gave a decent, a very good, I think, overview of it. But there's a really interesting

00:30:43.140 observation he made, which is the role of corporations in that war. You think about

00:30:49.400 early on in the, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Elon Musk offered to use his Starlink

00:30:55.960 satellite system to give the Ukrainians internet and allow them to coordinate and communicate.

00:31:01.200 And this was hailed as a wonderful thing. And for the Ukrainians, it certainly was a wonderful

00:31:04.640 thing. And for stopping Russian aggression, it certainly was a wonderful thing.

00:31:08.880 But it also means then that an ostensibly private corporation became a belligerent in the war.

00:31:18.360 The US Congress or the Ukrainian Congress or whatever didn't vote for NATO or the EU. None of

00:31:25.180 those people voted to send Elon Musk's machinery into Ukraine. He just did it. He's just a wealthy guy.

00:31:31.420 He's just a capitalist. And he did it. Ian Bremmer, who's a well-known writer, especially in foreign

00:31:37.560 policy. He said that SpaceX, Microsoft, and Google have become, quote, literal belligerents in the war.

00:31:46.420 And he said that this was a wonderful thing. He said they were creating a world in which

00:31:51.200 corporations and banks have, quote, a hell of a lot more impact in what the global outlook on climate

00:31:56.120 will be than any government. So he was turning his attention, not just from the war in Ukraine,

00:31:59.700 but on climate change and all the rest of these political initiatives.

00:32:04.160 But think about that. If these corporations are literal belligerents in the war,

00:32:09.260 then they're the ones waging the war. Then they become targets in the war. Then all of a sudden,

00:32:15.540 Russia might decide to send a missile to, not just to the capital, not just to an American military

00:32:21.300 target, but to SpaceX headquarters or to Google headquarters. Maybe they're going to send it over

00:32:24.980 to Palo Alto. And then if the corporations are the ones that are the literal belligerents in the

00:32:30.880 war that are waging the war, then that means they're making the strategic decisions on how

00:32:34.900 to wage the war. But war is a serious business. That's why in the United States, at least according

00:32:42.100 to the Constitution, to go to war, the Senate needs to vote for it. It's not even just the president.

00:32:47.540 The president is the commander in chief of the military. But to declare war, you need to bring in

00:32:51.580 the legislature. We're not supposed to do this willy nilly. We're supposed to take this very,

00:32:55.900 very seriously. Now, it won't be the legislature. It won't even be the president. It won't even be

00:33:00.380 the commander in chief. It's going to be these corporations outside of the government. But if

00:33:04.840 the corporations are powerful enough to wage war, certainly if the corporations are powerful

00:33:10.460 enough to control the public square in what is ostensibly our republic, if they can not only

00:33:15.780 silence you, they can silence the duly elected sitting president of the United States,

00:33:18.760 Donald Trump on January 7th, 2021. If the corporations can do that outside of the

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00:34:36.660 marketing data and analytics team that is built atop the marketing data stack from CRM platforms

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00:35:11.940 over to dailywire.com slash careers apply now. That was a lot. That was a lot. We're hiring so many

00:35:21.680 people. Speaking of big tech and censorship, we have less and less control over our government.

00:35:32.740 In a world in which the corporations can decide what's allowed to be said in the public square,

00:35:38.860 in a world in which the corporations can literally wage war, according to Ian Bremmer,

00:35:43.020 then unless you're a major stakeholder in Microsoft or Amazon, then you have even less control over

00:35:53.580 the government than you did under our old system of government. Here's a case in point. This drove

00:36:00.000 me crazy. Here's a headline. It's all throughout the media right now. It says, FBI's brutal draft

00:36:06.620 letter firing disgraced agent Peter Strzok revealed. We're all covering it. And there are some people

00:36:14.560 on Twitter, on social media, they say, wow, owned. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is brutal. Oh, yeah. Suck it,

00:36:23.080 Peter Strzok. Yeah, we're going to show you. He says, while there is no doubt your 21 years of

00:36:30.440 service to the organization cannot and should not be erased, it is difficult to fathom the repeated

00:36:34.820 sustained errors of judgment you made while serving as the lead agent in two of the most

00:36:40.200 high-profile investigations in the country. Peter Strzok, you corrupt left-wing anti-Trump

00:36:47.140 FBI. You remember, he was the really corrupt FBI agent who went after Trump. Through the office of

00:36:52.500 the inspector general, although the office of the inspector general found no evidence of bias

00:36:56.180 impacted any of you or the FBI's investigative actions or decisions, your sustained pattern of bad

00:37:01.240 judgment and the use of an FBI device has been called into question for many of the decisions

00:37:07.680 that you made. In short, your repeated selfishness has called into question the credibility of the

00:37:16.180 entire FBI. Take that. How do you like that, Peter Strzok? It's a strongly worded letter.

00:37:24.060 That's great. That's great. I'm so glad we're the party of the strongly worded letter.

00:37:31.840 That's what the conservatives are. The conservatives, we are the party of the strongly worded letter,

00:37:38.000 and the left is the party of the firing squad. But we got, oh, did you see? We got some total

00:37:43.160 burns in there. Zing. Owned. Take it. And it's true. Peter Strzok did get fired. He's trying to sue now

00:37:50.480 and trying to say it was wrongful, a politically motivated termination. And who knows? It'll

00:37:54.120 probably, he'll probably get something out of it too. But okay, Peter Strzok gets fired.

00:37:59.240 Did the FBI get cleaned up? The FBI, which colluded directly with the Democrats,

00:38:07.240 with Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, to spy on the Republican presidential nominee

00:38:11.860 when he was running in 2016, and then to undermine his entire administration based on absolutely

00:38:17.700 nothing. Just completely cooked up political operation. Did the FBI get cleaned up at all?

00:38:24.580 Other than this guy sort of got pushed out a little bit? No. The FBI is still doing the same

00:38:30.260 thing. The FBI is still going after parents who are concerned about their kids being taught

00:38:34.300 critical race theory in schools and being transed in kindergarten. The FBI is going after those people.

00:38:39.980 The FBI is going after attacking pro-lifers right now in America. The FBI is raiding the home of the

00:38:46.320 former president and chief political rival to Joe Biden, just coincidentally, on completely bogus

00:38:52.540 charges. No, the FBI has gotten worse. Not only do we not clean up the FBI by firing this loser,

00:39:02.060 Peter Strzok. He's probably going to get something out of the government when he sues them.

00:39:07.880 And the FBI itself is worse than ever. But we feel really good. Boom. Owned. We wrote you a mean

00:39:15.860 letter. How do you like that? They like it just fine. Yeah, we write them a mean letter and we show

00:39:20.080 them what jerks they are. And then they keep wielding power over us. That's what happens.

00:39:23.980 I would much rather be the party of just political efficacy. I would much rather be the party of

00:39:33.120 winning and actually fixing things about our culture than the party of really, really zingy

00:39:41.520 letters. I've had enough of the strongly worded letters. We need to do something. It's so pathetic.

00:39:48.660 They're just rubbing our noses in it now. You remember Peter Dajac? I talk about Peter Dajac in

00:39:56.140 my Fauci Unmasked series, which you can get at Daily Wire Plus right now. You should especially

00:40:01.780 get it now because it goes through the history of Dr. Fauci and the corruption in our public health

00:40:07.620 system, taxpayer funded, and the corruption that we are still seeing today. In many cases,

00:40:12.420 it's getting worse. So Peter Dajac is this maniac who was doing gain of function research

00:40:20.100 through his group EcoHealth Alliance. He was doing taxpayer funded government research on

00:40:26.360 bat coronaviruses. All the sort of dangerous research that would seem most likely to be very

00:40:33.840 connected with the outbreak of the Wu flu. And Dr. Fauci initially denied that he had ever funded

00:40:41.160 Peter Dajac on this particular kind of research. And then he said that to the United States Senate.

00:40:47.240 Then it turned out that was a total lie that actually we have the grant. Dr. Fauci funded

00:40:52.720 hundreds of thousands of dollars of research on this kind of stuff to Peter Dajac, to EcoHealth

00:40:58.100 Alliance. So you'd think, okay, after the COVID thing, this guy's career is over, right?

00:41:04.000 Certainly he's not getting any more government funding. Certainly he can't. This guy was doing

00:41:09.620 research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Certainly, at the very least, this guy is not

00:41:15.220 getting government funding to do research on bat coronaviruses, right? No, he just got more money.

00:41:23.380 He just got some more money. He just got $653,392 for EcoHealth Alliance Incorporated to begin

00:41:32.520 September 21st, 2022. So, you know, 20, 18 days from now to do research on, on these sorts of viruses.

00:41:44.120 And we, we know that in all likelihood, it was this kind of research that led to the outbreak of

00:41:53.100 COVID. According to Justin B. Kinney, who's an associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,

00:41:57.240 Princeton PhD, he said, this evidence is not dispositive, but were the lab leak hypothesis

00:42:05.140 incorrect, it would represent a staggering set of coincidences. This, I think, is the biggest

00:42:10.420 effect of COVID. This is the biggest side effect of COVID, and really, certainly the biggest side

00:42:16.880 effect of the COVID vaccines. Coincidences. You know, just so many coincidences as a result of all of this.

00:42:22.820 No consequences here. Plenty of coincidences, no consequences. Even Peter Daszak, he became,

00:42:32.100 it was a big political issue. We raked Fauci over the coals. Remember, Rand Paul grilled Dr. Fauci.

00:42:36.660 It was great. It was great TV. It was good stuff. I applaud Rand Paul for doing it, for calling

00:42:41.160 attention to this. I, I think that my series, Fauci Unmasked, is very important stuff. Sheds all the

00:42:47.940 light on this stuff. But where's the political power? I'm, I'm just a guy with a microphone.

00:42:57.040 I do not currently hold any political office. Maybe I should. I don't know. It's, I think,

00:43:03.160 I think 2022 is going to be a good year. It's probably a little late to throw my hat in now.

00:43:06.640 But I, I can't change the policy right now. I can just call attention. The people who have

00:43:12.680 political power are the ones that can change the policy. Where are they? Why can't we do that?

00:43:19.120 I'm not even casting aspersions on the, on the senators and the congressmen. And in many cases,

00:43:23.920 they don't have the power to do that either because the political system is dominated by the libs.

00:43:30.900 Even when the Republicans win the house, even when Republicans win the Senate, even when Republicans

00:43:34.520 win the white house, we had unified government for a while under Trump, but we don't control the

00:43:39.400 executive agencies. We don't control the corporations that have taken more and more and more power

00:43:44.140 and can literally wage war and can censor even the president of the United States.

00:43:48.960 And how did those corporations get all that power? In part, the left, let them have it. In part,

00:43:53.420 the right, the right, let them have it. But either way, those guys aren't on our, those capitalists

00:43:58.920 aren't on our side. And then of course the universities, and then of course the media,

00:44:02.040 which is just a corporate media anyway, and on and on and on. It's very, very difficult

00:44:06.540 in this political structure to really get anything done. And whenever people pose any threat to the

00:44:14.680 political structure, they get taken out. Not AOC, she gets invited to the Met Gala. She gets put on

00:44:19.640 the cover of all the magazines and all the glossy photos and all the newspapers. But whenever anyone

00:44:25.200 raises any real objections to this sort of a system, that person is suppressed. There's no question

00:44:31.500 about it. You're seeing this dynamic right now, the no consequences dynamic play out on the

00:44:36.480 transgender issue. There's a high school in Vermont that's cracking down right now after female

00:44:42.680 students complained about a dude who thinks that he's a woman in the, in the girl's locker room.

00:44:47.780 So girls complain, they say, look, we don't want to get naked in front of this guy. We don't want

00:44:50.760 this guy getting naked in front of us. That's why we have a girl's locker room, right? And the school

00:44:55.360 says, okay, we're going to do something about this. Girls, you're no longer allowed in the locker

00:44:59.520 room. I'm not joking. This is being reported by CBS affiliate, WCAX. They said, okay, the way we're

00:45:08.700 going to deal with this transgender lady, you know, this guy who's dressed up like a lady, you get to

00:45:14.420 use the girl's locker room and the girls on the team, they have to change individually in a single

00:45:20.340 bathroom. So they got to take turns in this one single bathroom to get changed because the great fear

00:45:26.400 would be, you know, that this transgender student were being bullied by being asked to leave the

00:45:32.400 girl's room and not, not get naked in front of the girls. Why is the school doing this?

00:45:39.080 It's not because this is what the parents want. It's not. It's not because this is popular. It's not.

00:45:47.140 Public opinion is totally against this. If you go out on the street right now, you talk to a hundred

00:45:50.920 people. Ninety-two of those people are going to tell you this is completely insane. Transgenderism

00:45:55.300 is bogus. Certainly at the very least, guys should not be allowed in a girl's room. So why is this

00:45:59.820 permitted? Because the ruling class wants it to happen. The people with the power in our government,

00:46:11.320 in the corporations, in the media, in the press, in all over, in academia, these people who have this

00:46:22.640 kind of power, they are pushing transgenderism. And why? I actually have some theories as to why

00:46:28.140 along the lines of the sort of financial thesis of today's show. We don't have time to get to it

00:46:32.900 right now, but we can get to it at a later date. How's that for a teaser? We do have more show coming

00:46:37.660 up, though. What we've got to get to is a rap, a rap song from a Utah State Senate candidate,

00:46:47.180 a Republican Utah State Senate candidate. I have never heard this rap song before, but it's Music

00:46:51.300 Monday. So my producer, Ben Davies, has lined up this song for me. I can't wait to listen to it.

00:46:58.820 That show is continuing right now. You don't want to miss it. If you're not a member,

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00:47:07.660 Bye.

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