Ep. 1104 -Â Kanye Schools Republicans On Being Conservative
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The gaffe-prone Biden administration gave Americans a potential glimpse into the future this week when the president gave a joint press conference with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and allowed him to speak from a lectern bearing the presidential seal.
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The gaffe-prone Biden administration gave Americans a potential glimpse into the future
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this week when the president gave a joint press conference with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
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and allowed DeSantis to speak from a lectern bearing the presidential seal.
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When I first saw the photos of President DeSantis going viral, my first thought was
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that some poor schlub on the White House advance team was probably having a very,
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very unpleasant afternoon, probably getting chewed out by Biden's chief of staff for the gaffe that
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framed DeSantis as a potential future president. But then something even stranger happened.
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Biden complimented DeSantis. What the governor's done is pretty remarkable, Biden said. I think
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he's done a good job. We worked hand in glove. We have very different political philosophies,
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but we've worked hand in glove. Now, DeSantis has done a terrific job on hurricane preparation and
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recovery. So I am sure in part Biden just wants to associate himself with that success. If you can't
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beat him, join him. But that does not explain why Biden would be so effusive in his praise.
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Certainly was not because Biden is sincere or gives credit where credit is due. This is the same guy
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who told black voters that milquetoast Mitt Romney wanted to put them back in chains. Joe Biden is a mean,
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nasty partisan. So why is he being so nice to DeSantis? The lectern might have been an accident.
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The public praise suggests to me a strategy. Seems to me Biden and his team, at least his team,
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I don't know if Biden makes any of these decisions himself, but at least the team has made a conscious
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decision to build up Ron DeSantis. And it makes perfect sense. DeSantis is currently the biggest
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threat to Joe Biden's biggest threat, who is Donald Trump. As Democrat policies plunge America into
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poverty, chaos, and possibly even World War III, the best shot the Democrats have at retaining power
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is to divide the Republicans. And again, I'm not saying anything about Trump or DeSantis in a general
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election. I'm just saying, you look at the polls, Trump is at the top of the heap by a long shot.
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DeSantis is the number two guy. So the best way the Democrats can divide Republicans is to egg on a
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Trump-DeSantis shooting match as early as possible. You're already seeing some sniping around the
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periphery. As Democrats get more desperate, expect surprisingly kind words for the governor of
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Florida. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Frank S., who says,
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with the holidays coming up, it's important you know how to talk to conspiracy theorists in your
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family. First, look them in the eye. Second, shake their hand. Third, apologize profusely. So true.
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So true, man. Because all those people who have been derided as horrible conspiracy theorists,
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What a news day yesterday. I've been on the road. I've been traveling like crazy. I was in Las Vegas
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yesterday with Senator Cruz. We've got a big announcement on verdict coming up, so you're
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going to want to check that out. It's an announcement that I've kind of been foreshadowing
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for a little while, but it's an announcement. Nevertheless, you should go check out.
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So I was in Vegas. My head was kind of out of the news. And then I'm getting on the airplane to
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come back to Nashville last night. And I see, well, I see a lot of big stories, but the most important
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one, as far as I'm concerned, Mr. Yeezy, Kanye West, goes on Tucker Carlson. It's an extremely
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wide-ranging interview. We can't get to all of it. But he, Kanye West, makes an incredibly,
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a beautiful, actually eloquent and precise argument for life and even just beyond life and the abortion
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issue for a whole view of politics. Take a listen. So you just came from Paris Fashion Week. You just
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landed. And you have a lanyard still on from it. And there's a photograph on it. What is that?
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It's a photograph of a baby's ultrasound. Why is that? And you designed that?
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Boy, so you wear it on a badge. What kind of response do you get? Amen. I agree.
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I don't care about people's responses. I care about the fact that there's more
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black babies being aborted than born in New York City at this point. That 50% of black death
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in America is abortion. So I really don't care about people's responses. I perform for an audience of
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one, and that's God. Wow. Wow. His pro-life message, superb. And it's more important that Kanye West,
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this major cultural figure, maybe the most important cultural figure of our era.
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I say this as someone, don't listen to a ton of pop music or hip hop or anything like that. But
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the guy was just transformative within his own genre and industry. And he's sort of transcended
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his genre and industry. And he's just a force of nature in the culture. So it's very important that
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he says that. But that last line, oh my gosh, it just shows you Kanye's political insight and
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spiritual insight for that matter. He says, I don't care what other people say. I perform for
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an audience of one, and that's God. Wow. That's it. Write that down. Put that, write that down on the
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back of your hand so that you can just look at that anytime you get confused in politics or your
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personal life or anything else. A lot of people will tell you, they'll give you the opposite
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version, the kind of inverse of that maxim. They'll say, I don't care what other people think.
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I perform for an audience of one, and that's me. I don't care what other people think. I'm just going
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to do what I want to do. I'm going to live my truth. I'm going to be authentic to myself.
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But that's dumb. That's stupid. You're just as fallen and corrupted and broken as anybody else.
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Kanye says, no, no, no. You don't live for the crowds. That's dumb. And you don't live just for
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yourself. You're performing for an audience of one, and that's God. God, the essence of being.
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Truth, goodness, and beauty. That's what you're living for, baby. That's it.
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Your creator, your maker, the omnipotent king of the universe who holds all of our lives in his hands
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and on whom we rely for every breath that we breathe. That's who you're performing for.
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Everything else is just crap. You could win a zillion cars and a ton of money and big houses.
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You could become, I don't know, governor of a state, president of the United States.
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None of that matters if you're not living a life of sanctity, if you're not moving towards
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sanctification and holiness. Because ultimately, you're going to turn to worm food, and you're
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going to take a dirt nap. So the only audience that it matters that you're performing for is God,
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and Kanye West gets it. And I feel totally freaking vindicated. Because I have been
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very pro-Kanye for many years now. And I made the point, I looked it up on Twitter,
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I made the point a couple of years ago, two or three years ago. I said, Kanye West has greater
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political insight than the vast majority of elected politicians and journalists and certainly
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all those people at the New York Times. And he does, it's true. Kanye West has more political
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insight and is doing more political good, not just than the majority of politicians,
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but than the majority of elected Republicans, than the majority of conservatives.
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And at the time, when Kanye West first started making these kinds of conservative noises,
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started to suggest he might be bucking the trends here on some of these left-wing matters.
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There were a lot of, a lot of the people liked it, but a lot of the kind of professional
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conservative types, you know, the beltway types, they said, uh-oh, we don't like this. He's not one
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of us. You know, Kanye West, he never even had an internship on Capitol Hill. You know, Kanye West,
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he doesn't even wear tweed to think tanks. And so he's not, I don't know, I think we ought to keep
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this guy at arm's length. And I said, no, this guy is getting it. Yeah, maybe he's saying some things
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that are a little weird here and there. He's kind of coming into it now. He's figuring out what he
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thinks. But the guy's heart is in the right place and his vision is in the right place. He's looking
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at the right thing and he's trying to figure it out now. Actually, some of this began with Candace
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Owens. You remember, Kanye tweeted out something to the effect of, I love the way Candace's mind
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works. Or I like the way Candace Owens thinks or something like that. And so I think she played a
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role there. There were other people who played a role. Kanye just the other day tweeted out the
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trailer to Candace's movie. So we here at Daily Wire Plus have this movie coming out,
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movement that came out of George Floyd. And I've gotten to see the cuts of it. Obviously,
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it hasn't come out yet. It's going to be available exclusively at Daily Wire Plus. So if you're not a
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member, sign up now. But it gives you a perspective that you just haven't seen anywhere. You haven't
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seen it in the left-wing media, obviously. You probably haven't seen it in the right-wing media.
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And it's a perspective I think really only Candace Owens can give, which is why we love that we have
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her here at Daily Wire. But that's the kind of message that cuts through all of the noise.
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And Kanye saw that. Now, Kanye is just totally expanding the political imagination, much more so
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than your average egghead at a think tank, much more so than your average Beltway staffer,
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a professional Republican on Capitol Hill or at the RNC or something like that.
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Kanye, by the way, he's not only shifting people away from the left toward the right,
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he's also helping clarify what the right should think. Because for a long time, the right said,
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you know, enough of that God talk. Enough of those cultural issues. You got to stay away from
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that. Let's just talk about tax cuts. And it was so dumb. And all we ever did was lose back when the
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Republicans talked like that. And Kanye West is saying, no, no, uh-uh. We're going to stand up for life.
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We're going to stand up for our culture. We're going to say white lives matter because we're
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going to- Why did Kanye say white lives matter? He said, because BLM's a scam and everybody knows
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it. And now it's over and you're welcome. Those are his exact words, okay? We're going to do that.
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And we're going to stand up for the most important thing of all. We're going to say,
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we are going to orient our country back toward God. We're going to orient our individual vision
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back toward God and our country back toward God. That's what we did. That's how the country started.
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That's what made the country great. We turned our eyes away from God. That's why the country looks
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like crap right now. And if we want to fix it, if we want to make America great again,
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we've got to put our eyes back where they belong and have our actions follow that vision. 100%
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The other huge news story that came out yesterday is that, talk about opposites,
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you know, talk about contrasts. So you've got Kanye West saying, defend life, be good,
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pursue virtue. Sure, I'm a fallen man, I've made all sorts of mistakes, but come on,
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we've got to just go do the right thing, look toward God, perform for an audience of one.
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And then what do you have Joe Biden doing? Joe Biden lets drug dealers out of prison.
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As I said when I ran for president, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.
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It's already legal in many states. And criminal records for marijuana possession have led to
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needless barriers to employment, to housing, to educational opportunities. And that's before
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you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences. While white and black
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and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, black and brown people are arrested,
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prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionately higher rates. So today, I'm taking three steps
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to end this failed approach. First, I'm announcing a pardon for all prior federal offenses for the
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simple possession of marijuana. Second, I'm calling on all governors to do the same for state
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marijuana possession offenses. Third, the federal government currently classifies marijuana as a
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schedule one substance, the same as heroin and LSD and more serious than fentanyl. It makes no sense.
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So I'm asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to initiate
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a process to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. Too many lives have been upended
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because of our failed approach to marijuana. It's time that we right these wrongs.
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It's time that we right these wrongs. We're going to let the people out of prison for simple
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possession. Now, you're going to say, Michael, Michael, you just said that Biden's letting drug
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dealers out of prison. But that's not what Biden said. Biden said he's just letting the people out
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who are in jail for simple possession. Right. That's what he said. The problem is, statistically
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speaking, pretty much nobody is in jail for simple possession. There are some people who are a small
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number of people who are in jail ostensibly for simple possession. But most of the time,
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vast majority of the time, they're not really in jail for simple possession. They've taken plea deals
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because the people had amounts of marijuana that they could sell. Even if they only had small amounts,
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they were selling. These are drug dealers. These are traffickers. These are people involved in the
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drug trade. And then they go in, and especially because we've liberalized all of our drug laws,
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these weak prosecutors go in, and they plead it down. And they say, okay, we're not going to get
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you for trafficking. We're not going to get you for peddling poison to kids. We're just going to say
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it was simple possession, but you're going to go to jail for that. So in practice, there's a really
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good survey on this by the Hudson Institute that came out a few years ago. Go check it out on the
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Hudson Institute website. In practice, what this means is Joe Biden is going to be letting drug dealers
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out of prison. Okay. And again, the number of people who are in federal prisons for drug offense
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is very, very small compared to the state prisons. But why is Biden doing this? Why is Biden letting
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drug dealers in practice out of prison during the worst drug crisis in American history,
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where the drug crisis is so bad that the life expectancy of the United States is actually
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decreasing because of overdoses and suicides and deaths of despair. But a big part of that is
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overdoses. Why? It's a classic Democrat strategy. Let the criminals out of prison. It's a classic
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left-wing strategy. They've been doing it since the French Revolution. You let the criminals out of
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prison. You expand vice. You expand political chaos, and that will allow you to take more power.
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Biden also knows, going into the midterm elections, he's got nothing. The economy is in the gutter.
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The energy prices, which had spiked to all-time highs in some places. And then they had started
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to come down a little. So Biden initially said, it's not my fault that energy prices are high up,
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even though it was his fault, largely. Then they started to go down a little. He said, it's all
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thanks to me that the energy prices are starting to come down a little tiny bit. But now they're going
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back up again. Now they've reached record highs again. You look in California, they've never seen
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prices like this. All of a sudden, Biden says, it's not my fault again. Biden has drained the
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strategic petroleum reserve. It has not been this low in many decades. And he's done that to try to
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bring the prices down. And that still hasn't really succeeded. And so now he's increased the amount
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that he's releasing out of the strategic petroleum reserve, which is really imperiling national
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security. But that still doesn't get him across the finish line. Then you've got the fact that we
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are in a recession. The Biden administration doesn't want to admit it, but we are in a recession.
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Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. We're in a recession, folks. And you've got the
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first major war in Europe since World War II, now threatening nuclear war. And not only is Russia
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saber rattling, but the West is openly talking about potential nuclear war. So just things are
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terrible. You look at the social issues right now. What is Biden running on? He's running on
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killing more babies, which is not really helping the Democrats, not nearly as much as they thought it
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would. And they're running on transing the kids, deeply, deeply unpopular. It's just,
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I mean, we could be here all day if we talked about every issue that they're losing on. And so
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the nearest thing that Biden can do, the easiest thing that he can do to try to gin up his base
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is to free some criminals, you know, his base, and to lie about a public policy issue.
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Say these poor people, they're just, it's just some poor kid who was trying one joint for the first time
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and he was probably black and he was nabbed by racist cops and given a life sentence in prison.
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None of that ever happened. What the people Biden's talking about are drug dealers, nasty,
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rotten people who are poisoning your kids and killing Americans. He's going to let them out
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of prison and he thinks it's going to help him. And I just don't think it will. I think it's wrong
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to do. And I just don't think it's going to help him that much. Speaking of political stunts,
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in this case, more, I think more successful political stunts, a concerned mother, Kimothy Rakes,
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not Kimothy. That's sort of the amalgam. That's the androgynous name of Kimberly and Timothy. No,
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Kimberly Rakes, the founder of a parental rights group at Iowa Mama Bears, just showed up to a
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school board meeting at Ankeny High School. And she referred to this insane incident that occurred
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at the school where the Gay Straight Alliance Club, the sort of LGBT propaganda club at the high
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school, invited drag queen performers to perform for the kids for their end of year meeting. And so
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Kimberly Rakes shows up wearing the outfit that the drag queen wore. Take a listen.
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Does this outfit make you turn your head? Does this outfit seem appropriate for anybody here to see?
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Because if this makes your head turn, if this pisses you off, then it's stripped. Because this guy
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walked into our school doing the exact same thing. Kimberly, can you dress the workplaces?
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This is what the man dressed like in front of our kids. So this makes your head spin.
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This pisses you off in any way, shape, or form. It should. Because I'm embarrassed to stand here
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in the outfit that I am in today, but I have a point to prove, and that is that this outfit should
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not be ever accepted in our schools anyway. Ma'am, please, please put that out for that. That's
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obscene. That's pornographic. That belongs in a strip club. Right. Right. That's true. So why can't,
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why is it wrong for a mother at the school, so someone who's in the school community,
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a woman to show up wearing women's clothing that's kind of scandalous and risque? That's
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unacceptable. Ma'am, sit down. Please change. Put some clothes on. But when a dude, like a big,
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fat, pervert dude who has no connection to people at the school shows up wearing the exact same
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women's clothing, that's wonderful. That needs to be celebrated. That's so great.
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Why is it that transgender people or drag queens or any of these confused men,
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why is it that they get to do whatever the hell they want, and that is wonderful and celebrated?
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Why is that? That doesn't make any sense at all.
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And the woman, I thought she made a beautiful point. And even for us, I think even we've become
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kind of desensitized to it. Oh, there are those weird drag queens again. Well, it's like the joke
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in Family Guy, where there's the transvestite sitting in a bar, and the bartender comes up and
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says, ma'am, you can't look at pornography, download pornography at this bar. And he, dressed up as a
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woman, says, oh, no, no, I'm transgender. And the bartender says, oh, okay, then you can do whatever you
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want. Why is that? But you see the woman, and you're like, whoa, man, that's way too sexual to
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be around kids. That's totally inappropriate. Right, it is. How much more inappropriate is it
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for some weirdo dude to show up and prey on little kids like this? Of course. Anyone, any adult who had
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any foreknowledge of the drag queen event needs to be fired from the school for sure. And then this
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club, the Gay Straight Alliance, certainly needs to be disbanded at this high school, if not at other
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high schools as well. And we just can't, we need to take a much harder stand on this, because the
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radical LGBT activists are never going to stop until we are all wearing the rainbow flag. You know,
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the corporate media agenda means that the news is presented in a very biased way. You know it,
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or wherever you listen to podcasts. The radical LGBT activists are not going to stop until you
00:23:25.580
and everybody else are waving the rainbow flag. Mark my words. How do I know this? Because of poor
00:23:32.980
Jack Phillips. You know Jack Phillips. His case, his cases have made it to courts around the country,
00:23:39.680
all the way up to the highest court in the land. Jack Phillips has appeared on this show. He's the
00:23:44.280
owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop. He is a really nice, soft-spoken, earnest Christian guy who was asked
00:23:53.160
to create cakes specifically for a gay wedding, quote unquote. And he said, oh, I'm sorry, I can't
00:24:00.780
participate in a gay wedding because I'm Christian. And so, you know, you can go to, there's a gay cake
00:24:06.580
shop down the street. The owners are super pro gay stuff. And so, it's no big deal. You just go down
00:24:12.300
there. It'll be fine. And what happened? The radical LGBT activists sued this guy and tried to destroy
00:24:17.460
his business. And fortunately, he was able to win that case. But he wasn't saying, I won't serve
00:24:25.200
customers who have eccentric sexual views. I won't serve gay guys who come in to buy a cake. But he said,
00:24:30.180
I can't make a cake specifically for your gay wedding. I can't, you can't force me to use my art,
00:24:37.100
my craft, to participate in a ceremony that I consider to be sinful and contrary to my religious
00:24:43.560
views. There are plenty of other cake shops that will do that. Why are you guys so focused on making
00:24:49.480
me kneel down and worship at your altar? And why are you so interested in making me violate my Christian
00:24:59.080
views when there are so many other options for you? Because it's not about the cake and it's not
00:25:03.480
about the wedding. It's about making the Christians get down and do what they're told, right? That's
00:25:10.680
what this is really about. And the way you know this for certain is that after Jack Phillips took
00:25:16.540
huge financial loss, really hurt his business, but he prevails in court. Well, he's in court again
00:25:22.360
because the activists are going after him again. Because after his Supreme Court victory,
00:25:26.420
he gets a call from a woman, quote unquote, it's really a man named Autumn Scardina,
00:25:33.180
who calls Phillips and requests a birthday cake that had blue frosting on the outside
00:25:38.520
and pink frosting on the inside to celebrate his gender transition. And he says,
00:25:45.380
obvious, here we go again. You know that this wasn't about the cake. There are plenty of other cake
00:25:50.940
shops, but this radical trans activist calls this guy to say, oh, we didn't beat you last time.
00:25:55.100
We're going to beat you this time. Make, celebrate my sexual delusion. Celebrate it. Do it. Do it now,
00:26:03.000
bigot. You're going to do it, you stupid Christian. We're going to make you do it. We're going to use
00:26:06.920
the force of the law. And so he's in court again. I hope he wins. I don't know. It's totally up in the
00:26:12.380
air, this poor man. At first, before I met Jack Phillips, I thought, is this guy just, is he a
00:26:17.540
political activist who's really just trying to put himself in these situations? And he's not. He's
00:26:23.320
just a soft-spoken, nice baker who keeps getting targeted by these vicious people, these vicious
00:26:31.640
LGBT activists who obviously hate Christians and don't want to allow Christians to practice their
00:26:37.520
religion. And just, they're so confident in their sexual identity that they demand that every last
00:26:45.520
person in this country affirm their way of life and their delusions. That's how confident they are.
00:26:52.700
That if even one person even thinks like, I actually don't think you're really maybe
00:26:57.100
totally a woman. If even one person thinks that, that's an existential threat. We've got to bring
00:27:03.940
Jack Phillips to his knees. They're not going to stop. And so everyone's going to try to find some
00:27:09.100
middle ground like, oh, well, you know, actually let's just support. We can redefine marriage in this
00:27:13.240
way, but not in this way. And let's just go halfway. And look, I'll refer to Caitlyn Jenner as Caitlyn,
00:27:18.240
because you can change your name, but I don't know if I'm willing to, I don't, only at a certain age
00:27:22.520
are you willing. No, guys, guys, it's not, there's no, there's no middle ground here on questions of
00:27:29.560
ultimate truth and ontology and on just basic questions of being and human nature. You've got
00:27:37.620
to just pick a side and stand for the truth. Kanye can do it. Why can't you? Why can't you?
00:27:43.100
Because you think, oh, well, we'll meet halfway. Okay. I'll bet. What if I bake a cupcake? I'm not
00:27:47.800
going to bake a full cake, but a cup. No, that's just not. Either Christians get to practice their
00:27:52.920
religion or they don't. Either men are not women or men can be women. These are, there's no middle
00:27:58.660
ground here. Okay. You've got to just pick a side and have courage and just take a lesson from Yeezy.
00:28:03.800
Okay. Speaking of attacks on, on conservative businesses, this is not just a handful of
00:28:11.400
activists who are attacking businesses. We're talking about some of the largest asset managers,
00:28:15.740
the largest investing companies in the entire world are now using a specific platform called ESG,
00:28:24.420
but, but other tactics as well to force conservative businesses to go woke.
00:28:29.300
And one of the biggest offenders of this is BlackRock. BlackRock, huge, huge fund manager,
00:28:36.600
right? This is, you figure there's BlackRock, there's Vanguard, there's State Street. Those
00:28:43.180
are kind of the three really big ones. And so how are they able to do this? They're able to do this
00:28:47.080
because pretty much everyone invests their money with them. Retail investors, university pensions,
00:28:52.100
state pension funds. And so there's great news. Now, Louisiana has said, the Louisiana state treasurer,
00:29:01.100
John Schroeder has said that Louisiana will divest nearly $800 million in funds from the asset management
00:29:09.880
company, BlackRock, specifically because of ESG. They say, Louisiana says, not only is this not in keeping
00:29:16.420
with our values, but this is just not right for the people of Louisiana because BlackRock is putting
00:29:23.540
their own radical left political agenda above making money in some cases. And so whatever it
00:29:29.100
takes, whatever argument it takes, good. We need the states, we need the good conservative state
00:29:32.900
treasurers to pull their money out of these funds because these attacks are not going to stop
00:29:38.520
just because we're complaining about them. They're going to stop when we get leverage and political
00:29:42.360
power and wield that political power. Now, finally, we have arrived at my favorite time of the week
00:29:48.780
when I get to hear from all of you in the mailbag. Our mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk. Go to
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puretalk.com, select a plan, enter promo code NOLS to get 50% off your first month. Let's take it away
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with the voice mailbag. Hey, Michael, my name is Kate. I am happily married with two young girls
00:30:04.640
and we are devout Christians who also love celebrating Halloween. So that brings me to my question.
00:30:12.360
Uh, my sister-in-law has recently started texting me, my husband, the rest of the family,
00:30:19.160
these articles and memes claiming that Halloween is evil. And even though we celebrate Halloween at
00:30:27.420
the church fall fest, instead of trick-or-treating, she's saying that, quote, it's okay to do evil
00:30:33.440
things if it's at church. Um, and that we're teaching our kids that fitting in is more important
00:30:39.440
than holiness. Um, I mean, my little girls want to be princesses this year. I don't,
00:30:46.240
I don't see much evil in that, but I also, you know, as a Christian, I want to lead by example.
00:30:52.440
Um, so what are your thoughts on this? Let me know. Halloween is not evil. You can do evil things
00:31:00.800
on Halloween, just like you can do evil things on any day of the week, but Halloween is not evil.
00:31:04.400
Halloween is the, the night before all saints day. That's what it means. Halloween. Uh, we get in
00:31:11.200
English because English has, uh, Latin roots and German roots. Uh, you get the word, uh, like the
00:31:19.260
word for holiness comes from sanctus in Latin, uh, you know, sanctity, sanctification. And we also get
00:31:25.560
hallo from the German, but there, it's the same thing. It just means holiness. And, uh, because all
00:31:30.180
saints day has been celebrated for a very, very long time, many centuries here in the West, uh,
00:31:34.700
the night, the evening before all saints day is Halloween. Uh, some, some people will claim that
00:31:40.520
Halloween is a pagan tradition. Uh, this is not true. I mean, in as much as you hear these arguments
00:31:47.820
all the time, people will claim that Christmas is actually based on a pagan holiday. That is also not
00:31:51.720
true. I've done a few, uh, shows about this. Uh, that's made up actually the pagan holiday that
00:31:58.040
they say it is based on. It very, very likely came out after Christmas as a response to Christmas.
00:32:03.480
And there's no, there's certainly no evidence that it predates Christmas. Uh, and the reason
00:32:07.880
that Christmas is celebrated on the day that it is has to do with understandings of when the
00:32:12.720
annunciation was the conception of Christ and the length of a divine life. And anyway, it's a little
00:32:18.080
bit of a tangent, but we can go into it at some point. Um, so, uh, that's not true. It's based,
00:32:22.300
it's based on all saints day, but furthermore, even if it were true, that is, I don't see what
00:32:29.280
the problem is. If you can baptize pagan holidays and I'm not saying that's what's going on here,
00:32:34.280
but even if that were true, that that's sort of a good thing. So if there were some kind of fall
00:32:37.820
festival, a pagan fall festival, and then the Christians came in and said, actually, this is
00:32:42.200
going to be all saints day now. That's, that's a great thing. That's a wonderful thing to do.
00:32:45.840
Uh, in terms of what happens on Halloween, what happens? You give kids candy. That's a nice
00:32:49.780
thing to do. You go around and see your neighbors and you know, you wear fun costumes sometimes as
00:32:54.420
saints, sometimes as a princess or whatever. That seems fine. And you carve jack-o'-lanterns.
00:32:58.440
That seems fine. And so, yeah, I don't recommend that, you know, you all dress up as the devil and
00:33:02.620
start, you know, sinning left and right and, you know, having kind of satanic rituals. But if you're
00:33:08.740
just celebrating Halloween as the way that you're describing, that sounds wonderful. Next question.
00:33:13.720
Hey, Michael, shout out to Pure Talk and love the show. My question is regarding kids and
00:33:19.020
smartphones. What do I do when my kids reach that age where all of their friends have smartphones
00:33:25.680
and access to the internet, unfiltered, TikTok, softcore, Instagram porn, um, and goodness knows
00:33:34.920
what is going to be available to them in, let's say, eight to 10 years. Um, you know, do I just
00:33:41.640
shelter them completely, not give them one, although I'm sure they'll be able to access it via their
00:33:46.740
friends? Or do I give in and let them have that access, but monitor it heavily? Uh, or
00:33:54.400
do I stick with old school phones for contact for those extracurricular activities? I mean,
00:33:59.440
what are parents supposed to do in this day and age? Thanks, Michael.
00:34:05.240
Old school phone. Do not give your kid a smartphone. Do not hear me now. All who have ears to hear,
00:34:10.880
let them hear. Do not give your kid this portal to hell. That would be insane. That would be
00:34:17.400
completely insane. Now, my kids are not old enough yet that I've had to deal with this issue. I know
00:34:21.940
it's hard. You know, you want the kid to fit in. You don't want the kid to seem like a weirdo you
00:34:25.480
want, right? You want your kid to be cool or whatever. I'm just telling you all the, all the kids
00:34:30.200
that I know, of all the kids that I know, of my friends' kids, family members' kids,
00:34:35.620
as a rule, the ones who have smartphones have way more problems. And the kids, the little perfect,
00:34:43.600
wonderful kids that I know, they don't. Of course, of course not. So yeah, don't do that. This is a
00:34:50.640
simple, do not, whatever you do, I'm trying to shake you through the screen. Do not give your kids
00:34:55.380
a smartphone. All right, next question. Hi, Michael. The other day I was talking to this older man
00:35:05.080
who said that he had worked in the oil industry for all his life. He just recently retired from it.
00:35:17.020
And he had said that he's now an independent voter because Republicans control the gas prices.
00:35:26.500
And so when Republicans get into office, they lower it. And when Democrats get into office,
00:35:34.900
they raise it. And so he just doesn't trust either side is what he said. And I was just curious if
00:35:44.080
you had any opinions or knowledge about this. Do you think maybe the Republicans are not the good
00:35:52.340
guys, that they're actually just kind of tricking all of us into thinking they're the good guys and
00:35:57.540
we're all just kind of ignorant to it? Thank you. There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of
00:36:04.460
and angry at Republicans. But raising the gas prices is not one of them. That is not how gas
00:36:11.340
prices work. So the little kernel of truth in what your friend said is that I do strongly suspect that
00:36:18.080
Republicans are disproportionately represented in the oil and gas industry, especially compared to
00:36:24.500
every other industry, which is basically dominated by Democrats. So yeah, that's true. There are a lot
00:36:28.860
of good old Texas Republicans who are involved in the oil and gas industry. But no, the way that it
00:36:35.120
works is not that the oil companies just kind of get together and decide in a smoke-filled room what
00:36:40.480
the price of gas is going to be, and then that's reflected at all of the pumps. That's not the way it
00:36:44.720
works. Also because the oil and gas industry is a global market. And so what determines the price of
00:36:50.500
oil and gas is much less the whims and caprices of a few guys down in Texas. It's much more what's
00:36:57.360
going on in Saudi Arabia. It's much more what's going on throughout the oil-rich Middle East. It's
00:37:02.920
much more what's going on in the war in Ukraine. And if you want to blame one event for the rise in
00:37:09.140
energy prices, that would be the war in Ukraine. And who bears responsibility for the war in Ukraine?
00:37:13.680
I think, obviously, Vladimir Putin's the one who invaded Ukraine. But I think if you're going to blame
00:37:17.620
someone stateside, it would have to be Joe Biden. And that's not just my opinion because I'm a
00:37:22.560
Republican partisan or a conservative or something like that. That's what Vladimir Zelensky said.
00:37:26.560
That's what the president of Ukraine said. He said that if Joe Biden lifts these sanctions
00:37:30.980
off of certain Russian assets, that is going to allow Russia to invade. And then Joe Biden actually
00:37:37.420
invited Russia to invade Ukraine when he said if there's just a minor incursion into the east of
00:37:41.180
Ukraine, that won't be a really big deal. So he is the one who did that. And I think he is directly
00:37:46.300
responsible for these oil prices going up. Of course. It's not the Republicans. I think your
00:37:51.260
friend is somewhat diluted in that regard. Plenty of other good reasons to criticize Republicans,
00:38:00.160
Howdy, Mr. Knowles. I'm James Roach from Texas. And I have a couple of questions for you, sir.
00:38:05.880
One, I've been meaning to get into political commentary for a while, but I have trouble finding
00:38:11.540
stories to stay relevant long enough. And plus just finding stories. So if y'all could help me
00:38:17.360
with that, that'd be amazing. But also, here's one you probably don't get asked very often, Mr.
00:38:22.500
Nostradamus. What are your opinions on motorcycles? I absolutely love them. I have one in the garage.
00:38:27.240
I got into an accident about like a month ago by myself. So I'm completely fine. The bike's bent out
00:38:33.880
of shape, though. I'm fixing it right now. But I just love riding. It is so such a zen thing,
00:38:39.700
especially in the countrysides and the winding hills of the hill country that I live in. Oh,
00:38:45.320
so great. It is so great. I'm actually kind of getting antsy right now. I was thinking about it.
00:38:49.760
But yeah, lots of you hear your opinions on this. Keep up the good fight. I look forward to seeing
00:38:55.200
you next episode. Motorcycles are extremely cool. They're very dangerous, and they're very cool.
00:39:02.400
Those two things often go hand in hand. So you've just got to take a sort of risk analysis here.
00:39:07.720
But I know I got a lot of friends and relatives who ride motorcycles. And I know a number of people,
00:39:13.620
including among that group, who have been very seriously injured on motorcycles. But, you know,
00:39:18.780
so if you're going to do it, be careful. Wear a helmet. You know, do your best to do it safely.
00:39:22.620
But I've heard it's wonderful. And when I've ridden on motorcycles, it's super cool. Definitely,
00:39:27.180
definitely very cool. As to how to help you get into political commentary. So you're telling me you
00:39:31.580
don't just want me to write my own show. You want me to write your show, too. You say, Michael,
00:39:35.380
I'm sure you don't have enough on your plate. When you finish writing your show, Michael,
00:39:40.240
how about you write my show, too? I don't think so, Buster. Unless you're paying very well,
00:39:45.680
in which case, reach out to my agent. We can talk about it. Okay, let's get to some mailbag
00:39:49.140
questions the old-fashioned way. We've got a question up. Hey, Michael, my fiance is in the union
00:39:57.600
and is an army veteran and has worked very hard for what he has and works hard to protect it.
00:40:02.840
He's really insisting we get a prenup before getting married because of horror stories from
00:40:09.300
fellow union workers slash military friends. No matter how many times I tell him that would never
00:40:15.640
happen as I don't believe in divorce, he is still really insisting on it. I don't like the whole
00:40:20.200
idea of a prenup in general. I think it completely defeats the institution of marriage and undermines
00:40:24.120
it looking for any ideas on how to change his mind. I've known from the moment we met I was supposed
00:40:28.280
to marry him even though he didn't. Thanks. Girl born in the wrong generation. So is that, I think
00:40:34.300
that, is that an anonymous? Yeah, that's from girl born in the wrong generation. Okay, great question.
00:40:41.720
Great question. I share your hatred of prenuptial agreements. I think they're awful and I do think
00:40:48.420
they undermine the institution of marriage. But I sympathize with your husband or your fiance
00:40:54.660
because he's coming at it from the perspective of men get totally burned in cases of divorce and
00:41:03.160
they basically have no power and the woman can just choose to walk off willy nilly and then take
00:41:07.080
half the man's stuff and take the man's kids and that's terrible. And so it puts men at a terrible
00:41:11.060
disadvantage. So my solution to this is yes, you should consider a prenuptial agreement, but not the
00:41:18.840
usual kind of prenuptial agreement. The usual prenuptial agreement makes it easier and simpler to get
00:41:23.440
divorced. My version of a prenuptial agreement would make it basically impossible to get divorced.
00:41:28.940
So I think a good prenuptial agreement to sign in our decadent licentious day and age would be,
00:41:35.600
we agree not to get divorced. And here are all the reasons we're not going to get divorced and here
00:41:40.680
are all the things that are going to make it much harder to get divorced. And finally, we will not have
00:41:46.020
a no fault divorce, quote unquote, no fault divorce. No such a thing exists, of course, but we won't
00:41:50.720
use that legal mechanism. And if we do get divorced, it will be because one party forces the divorce.
00:42:01.880
And here's the clincher of it. Whichever party initiates the divorce forfeits everything,
00:42:08.940
forfeits claims to money, forfeits claims to the kids, forfeits claims to the house,
00:42:14.820
forfeits claims to everything. And so the effect of this prenuptial agreement would be
00:42:20.540
to strengthen the institution of marriage. Now, of course, you could have some sort of carve-outs
00:42:25.880
there. If my husband becomes a belligerent, serial-killing, wife-beating maniac, maybe
00:42:32.300
there's a little carve-out here for some kind of a separation. But assuming that that's not going to
00:42:37.580
happen and putting that sort of thing, you don't seem particularly concerned about that.
00:42:40.760
I would use the prenuptial agreement against its intended purpose, which is to destroy marriage.
00:42:47.960
I would use it to strengthen marriage. And I think this is a political lesson for all of us.
00:42:52.440
We live in an age with all sorts of challenges forced on us by our disgusting liberal culture.
00:42:58.920
So what we ought to do is we have to play the hand that we're dealt, right? You live in the society
00:43:05.020
that you live in. You have the tools available to you that are available to you. We should use those
00:43:09.580
to undermine our decadent, disgusting liberal society. And the prenuptial agreement is a great
00:43:14.300
way to do it. Use the prenup, which is a tool of divorce, to basically make divorce impossible.
00:43:22.920
I think that would be a brilliant way to use it. And I think it's very brilliant because I came up
00:43:26.420
with it. From Andrew. Hey, Michael. I was having a conversation with a friend about men's clothing
00:43:31.660
the other day and wanted your take. I personally believe no man who cares about his dignity should
00:43:35.600
wear shorts, skinny jeans, or ankle socks outside of the house. Do you agree with this?
00:43:40.620
What do you think men should wear from day to day? I agree with that. Totally agree with that
00:43:46.020
as a rule. Now, there are some exceptions. Exceptions prove rules. But if you're going
00:43:51.240
to Bermuda, you have to wear silly colored pastel shorts. You have to.
00:43:56.260
You know, when in Rome, do what the Romans do. If you are at some silly sort of waspy event on a boat
00:44:08.080
in the middle of summer, then maybe there is some occasion to wear shorts with some kind of silly
00:44:13.740
pattern of lobsters or sailboats. Okay, maybe. But as a rule, yes, grown men should not wear shorts.
00:44:20.460
Those silly little head socks, you know, I guess there's some practical use for them,
00:44:24.800
but generally, no, avoid them. I almost never wear socks, just as a rule. It's fine. Boat shoes,
00:44:29.760
loafers, topsiders, that's fine. You don't need socks for that. Yeah, of course. Ideally, you know,
00:44:35.200
some kind of a collared shirt outside the house. Unless you want to, you know, unless you want,
00:44:40.460
you're walking around the Bronx, you want to wear like some cool kind of Italian sweatsuit or
00:44:44.220
something. Yeah, obviously there are exceptions here, but as a rule, you are completely on the right
00:44:49.420
track. I've been told, this is shocking to me, some people disagree with things that I have said,
00:44:56.300
and there is a TikToker who has disagreed with something that I have said. So informed my producers
00:45:02.080
this morning, they informed me of this fact. So we will be going over it on the member block,
00:45:05.760
and of course, we'll be going over, because it is Friday, the rest of the mailbag questions.
00:45:10.180
So the rest of the show is continuing now. You don't want to miss it. If you're not a member,