The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1158 - Joe Biden Stole Classified Documents & Didn't Get Raided

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00:00:30.000 Hey, remember when Donald Trump took classified documents out of the White House to a private

00:00:35.960 location? So the FBI raided his home and the liberal press assailed him for weeks and the

00:00:42.760 DOJ threatened to prosecute him. You remember when Joe Biden called Trump's actions unbelievably egregious?

00:00:51.700 When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor at Mar-a-Lago,

00:00:58.320 what did you think to yourself looking at that image?

00:01:03.280 How that could possibly happen? How anyone could be that irresponsible?

00:01:09.860 And I thought, what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods? By that,

00:01:15.380 I mean names of people who helped or et cetera. And it's just totally irresponsible.

00:01:21.540 Totally irresponsible. Well, it turns out that Joe Biden did the exact same thing.

00:01:29.500 According to a report from CBS News, approximately 10 documents were found

00:01:33.840 at Biden's private office in Washington, locked, just like Trump's documents,

00:01:39.500 inboxes in a closet. The documents reportedly included top secret files designated as sensitive

00:01:47.040 compartmented information, meaning that they include highly sensitive information obtained from

00:01:53.760 intelligence sources. And they've apparently been sitting in Biden's closet ever since he left

00:01:59.280 the vice presidency seven years ago, which raises the only way in which what Biden did was different

00:02:05.900 from what Trump did. When Trump took his classified documents, he did so as the outgoing president,

00:02:11.940 who has the right to declassify whatever he wants, whenever he wants, without any formal process.

00:02:19.080 When Biden took his classified documents, he did so as the outgoing vice president,

00:02:23.740 who doesn't have any right whatsoever to declassify documents on his own.

00:02:29.120 Did the FBI kick in Joe Biden's door? Are the media accusing Biden of selling state secrets

00:02:36.360 and getting spies killed? No, not quite. The authorities have just gone ahead and collected

00:02:43.940 the documents, swept the story mostly under the rug, and moved along to look out for the next big

00:02:50.620 Trump scandal. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:41.680 We are starting off the year right in Congress. We are starting off the year right here at The Daily

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00:05:27.100 dailywire.com slash Knowles. Become a member today. Goodness gracious. Great way to start off the year

00:05:32.480 here at The Daily Wire, and a great start to Kevin McCarthy's speakership. You know I was probably

00:05:38.860 the most vocal defender in the conservative media of the 20 holdouts, those conservatives who would

00:05:46.200 not vote for McCarthy, who were demanding more concessions from him to make sure that the

00:05:50.420 conservatives really had a voice in the new Republican Congress. That's good. They got those

00:05:55.540 concessions. They had a great fight. I also pointed out that Kevin McCarthy was considerably more

00:06:01.580 conservative than recent speakers of the House that Republicans have had. Relatively low bar that we're

00:06:07.300 talking about here when we talk about people like John Boehner. But still, I said, you look at the

00:06:11.580 issues. Kevin McCarthy might be the most conservative speaker that we've had since the 1950s.

00:06:16.880 Well, we're seeing some good signs right now. According to an AP congressional reporter,

00:06:21.780 McCarthy is moving ahead with taking Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar, and Eric Swalwell off of their committees.

00:06:29.580 You couldn't have wished this for three more fitting people. He has said that these people

00:06:37.600 need to get off of their committees, which are pretty significant committees, the Intelligence

00:06:41.820 Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee. He says, quote, Swalwell can't get a security clearance in the private

00:06:46.760 sector. I'm not going to give him a government security clearance. Schiff has lied to the American

00:06:51.780 public. These Democrats in particular have proven themselves irresponsible and not worth trusting

00:07:00.360 with this kind of serious information. Eric Swalwell slept with a Chinese spy, allegedly, reportedly. And

00:07:07.320 Adam Schiff, it was even worse, frankly, than Swalwell. Swalwell is a bloviating bag of air. Adam Schiff,

00:07:17.980 though, has been a little more nefarious than that. He has lied. And he's lied on behalf of

00:07:24.240 really bad actors within the executive agencies to undermine the Trump administration, to advance

00:07:29.620 the Russia hoax, to undermine, as far as I'm concerned, American self-government. And so one of

00:07:35.820 the big concessions that the conservatives wanted to get out of a McCarthy speakership was, you need to

00:07:40.920 go after the weaponization of the FBI and the other government agencies against conservatives. And this is

00:07:47.840 a great move in that direction. By taking these people off their committees, specifically by taking

00:07:52.460 Schiff off the committee, Kevin McCarthy is signaling that he is going to get serious about

00:07:59.280 the weaponization of the agencies. He is going to take the bad left-wing actors in the intelligence

00:08:06.140 community down a peg. And the first step is going to be taking these absolute loose cannons off of the

00:08:12.660 Intel and Foreign Affairs Committee. So good on him. Good start to the speakership.

00:08:18.160 And then you turn to Matt Gaetz, one of the people who was leading the charge of the 20 holdouts

00:08:22.860 against McCarthy. And you say, okay, well, if McCarthy seems to be magnanimous in victory,

00:08:28.500 are those 20 holdouts, are they still angry? Is the Republican caucus still fractured? Are the

00:08:33.820 Republicans going to be able to get absolutely nothing done like the liberal media told us they would?

00:08:38.520 Matt Gaetz says it's all going to be fine. There was a tense moment late night Friday night when

00:08:44.180 Congressman Mike Rogers, expected to be the next chairman of House Armed Services,

00:08:48.740 confronted you. You guys both serve on the Armed Services Committee. What was that all about? And

00:08:54.260 are you guys going to be able to work together on Armed Services? Well, Mike Rogers is going to be a

00:08:58.900 terrific chairman of the Armed Services Committee. And we share a deep commitment to our national defense,

00:09:04.400 to our men and women in uniform. And of course, in a late night moment of high drama, people can have

00:09:09.980 moments of frustration. But Mike Rogers and I have a six year productive working relationship. We're going to

00:09:16.440 work together wonderfully going forward. And I don't think there should be any punishment or reprisal just

00:09:21.460 because he had an animated moment. He has my forgiveness and certainly is someone who's done great things

00:09:27.380 for our national defense and will continue to do those great things.

00:09:30.200 Great answer from Gaetz. That's a great answer. It's very magnanimous of Gaetz and the other

00:09:36.680 conservatives as well. It's all working out just fine, folks. And so regardless of this incident that

00:09:44.900 got a lot of play about Mike Rogers lunging at Matt Gaetz, I don't think he was actually going to

00:09:49.560 punch him in the face, but he was clearly pretty animated. It was a high intensity moment. As part of

00:09:54.920 this high intensity, three or four days, you had the establishment Republicans calling the

00:10:00.960 conservatives terrorists. You had the conservatives saying that McCarthy was basically no different

00:10:06.720 from a Democrat. It was a moment of intense rhetoric and the libs and the squishes, they all said,

00:10:12.600 this means the Republican party is over. They're a mess. No. Some of us, as this was happening, we said,

00:10:19.460 this is constitutional government in action. This is how things are supposed to be in the

00:10:27.880 Congress. You fight, you negotiate hard, you get concessions. You're not supposed to just get

00:10:34.260 rubber stamped into whatever leadership position you want. And then you move on and you come back

00:10:40.480 together after a few difficult days. You come back together, you're stronger for it. The libs still want

00:10:45.280 to spread this idea that there is historic chaos in the Republican Congressional Caucus.

00:10:52.260 The historic chaos in the House of Representatives this past week embarrassed not only a party,

00:10:58.960 but an entire nation. A small minority blocked the House from electing a leader or even swearing in its

00:11:06.720 own members. Vote after vote, a would-be speaker could not bring himself to stand aside in favor of a

00:11:14.140 colleague. Yes, it was only for a few days in January. But if members of the incoming majority

00:11:20.780 party can't bring themselves to support a new leader, then one wonders what happens when Congress

00:11:27.140 faces tough decisions on budgets, taxes, defense, or raising the debt ceiling. Actually, governing.

00:11:36.760 I'm Leslie Stahl. We'll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

00:11:42.260 What happens when the congressional Republicans face real tough issues? What are they going to do?

00:11:49.180 I guess now they're going to debate those issues. A prospect that strikes fear into the heart of

00:11:56.980 liberals like Leslie Stahl. Oh no, those Republicans, they were just supposed to rubber stamp whatever the

00:12:03.500 liberal establishment wanted. But now some of them are actually debating the issues. They're making

00:12:09.900 arguments. They're questioning the liberal agenda and perhaps even impeding that agenda. Oh my gosh,

00:12:16.600 can you imagine anything worse? These Republican congressmen, if they're willing to put up a fight on

00:12:21.480 principle and exact concessions from the establishment wing of their party, by golly, they might not just

00:12:27.760 go along with the whole liberal agenda. Oh my goodness. They might actually fight back and make

00:12:32.840 arguments. Oh boy, we can't have any of that. This is Congress. We're not supposed to have any debates

00:12:39.300 here. Now, when the government does not debate things, when they just go along blindly into unwise,

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00:14:10.360 That is refunds with an S, pro.com. Speaking of COVID, speaking of establishment propaganda,

00:14:18.140 Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon was always my favorite of the new crop of late night hosts. He seemed to be the

00:14:28.380 least overtly hostile to conservatives, the most fun, the most entertaining, certainly the most talented.

00:14:39.700 Jimmy Fallon has just, just play the clip.

00:14:44.360 There was Alpha, then Delta, then Omicron X, but this latest variant might be the best.

00:14:52.820 It's XBB.1.5. Another friend of COVID-19 has arrived. It's a new strain, but it isn't the same.

00:15:03.600 Sounds more like Elon Musk, his name. It's XBB.1.5.

00:15:10.360 Not UB-40, who sings red, red wine. Put on your mask when you're inside a facility.

00:15:17.720 It could be a robot from a Star Wars trilogy. It's XBB.1.5.

00:15:24.640 Not OMT or MP3 or DCBY. Or an eye chart made by a really high guy.

00:15:31.620 Sounds like the password of your parent's Wi-Fi.

00:15:34.880 It's XBB.1.5. XBB.1.5.

00:15:46.340 So I'm always trying to see the good in things. It's hard to see the good in that absolutely

00:15:52.460 cringe-inducing performance. But are we at least now admitting that COVID is a total joke?

00:15:58.920 I guess that's what we're doing now. Because you don't do little song and dance routines about

00:16:06.720 serious illnesses. You don't do a song and dance routine. Some people have AIDS, HIV and AIDS,

00:16:16.640 AIDS, AIDS. You don't see late night hosts doing that. You don't see people singing songs and dance

00:16:22.000 routines about cancer or about serious illnesses. But they do now sing song and dance routines about

00:16:28.440 COVID. Ha ha ha, tee hee, there's another round of COVID. Which is fine. I think it's fine to make

00:16:35.840 light, even of things that cause some suffering and inconvenience and even things that really

00:16:41.620 are quite unpleasant. But the regime, the ruling political order, locked down our country for two

00:16:51.580 and a half years over this thing. They locked down our country. They said it was so serious that we had

00:16:56.660 to take unprecedented action to destroy businesses, close churches, have our loved ones die alone,

00:17:03.440 destroy your career, kick you out of the army, kick you out of your health care job, kick you out of 0.99

00:17:08.300 school. Because of how serious COVID was. And then, oh, just kidding. COVID. Ha ha, tee hee hee.

00:17:17.360 It's a joke. Don't you get it? Why aren't you laughing with me? Hee hee hee. It reminds me of when

00:17:24.260 Stephen Colbert on his own late night show decided to do a song and dance routine about the COVID vaccine.

00:17:33.140 Remember this? So there's Colbert. I actually shouldn't downplay his talent either. I was

00:17:38.160 saying Jimmy Fallon was obviously the most talented. You see, you see Stephen Colbert's a

00:17:43.220 very good dancer. He's actually a very funny physical performer, even though he's a tedious

00:17:46.580 lid when he speaks.

00:17:52.800 Vaccine!

00:17:53.820 And it's Colbert there dancing around with people dressed up as giant syringes.

00:17:59.800 Which is a different kind of joke, by the way, than the joke that Jimmy Fallon was making.

00:18:03.440 In a way, Stephen Colbert's, though equally cringey, possibly even cringier,

00:18:10.760 was more justifiable. Because Stephen Colbert was making light of the vaccine. Everyone was

00:18:16.720 nervous about the vaccine. We now know rightly so, because the vaccine was not effective in the way

00:18:22.000 that we were told it would be effective. And the vaccine was not safe in the way that we were told it

00:18:25.600 would be safe. So people had legitimate fears about it. And the establishment propaganda went into full

00:18:30.740 force to convince people, oh, it's not a big deal. So if you do a song and dance routine of, oh,

00:18:34.460 tee hee hee, it's just a funny little vaccine. Don't worry, it's a shot. It's no big deal.

00:18:37.880 That makes some more sense. Now, the establishment propaganda has become even more egregious.

00:18:47.100 Which is that they're telling you to laugh and giggle about the virus that they just recently had

00:18:52.840 told you was so serious you had to lock down your whole life and put your whole life on pause,

00:18:56.800 or worse because of it. Why is Jimmy Fallon doing this?

00:19:04.040 Either it means that Jimmy Fallon is just shilling the talking points that the powers that be want

00:19:10.400 him to shill, which is possible. I don't think he's some hard leftist, but he's a nice guy,

00:19:16.040 go along to get along kind of guy. He'll rub Donald Trump's hair when it's funny. And then he'll also

00:19:21.740 sound like a big lib when it's funny too. So it could be that.

00:19:24.000 Or the scariest possibility is that libs and conservatives actually live according to

00:19:34.960 totally different perceptions of reality.

00:19:40.360 If the libs actually believe that that kind of performance is funny, the performance of COVID or

00:19:48.460 the vaccine dance or anything like that, then putting aside our views about a particular set

00:19:55.460 of lockdown policies or anything like that, it means that our perception of reality is just totally

00:20:00.660 different. Because there is nothing less funny. There is nothing less intentionally funny that I've

00:20:06.240 ever seen than those two performances about COVID. But for the libs, they really live in dread of,

00:20:14.040 enthrall of COVID and Dr. Fauci. And they believed all of the propaganda and all of the nonsense. And so

00:20:20.780 it really might resonate with them. That might be the scariest possibility of all. Now, speaking of the

00:20:27.060 science, one of the men who is held up as proof that we shouldn't always go along with the scientific

00:20:35.620 consensus, he's finally striking back. This is a man named Paul Ehrlich. Paul Ehrlich is the man behind

00:20:43.960 the population bomb. This is a man behind the false idea that we were headed into a period of overpopulation

00:20:54.960 in the 1960s and 70s. And that this would cause, not might cause, would certainly cause mass famine

00:21:03.620 all over the world. This is a man who said that in order to avoid the problem of overpopulation,

00:21:09.920 we needed to encourage people to use contraception and to kill their children through abortion and 0.99

00:21:17.100 potentially to sterilize themselves. And if we couldn't convince them to do that voluntarily,

00:21:22.400 we should potentially do that by force. This is a man on whose ideas China and India, 0.88

00:21:29.260 to a degree, based their population control policies that forced the population to kill

00:21:36.060 their own children, force the one child policy in China, which they've now had to reverse because

00:21:40.380 overpopulation was a complete lie. That in India caused untold numbers of people to become sterilized 0.75

00:21:49.360 in order to access basic things like food and water in the country. Hideous. Some of the cruelest,

00:21:55.960 most hideous policies that we've seen in the last hundred years. And Paul Ehrlich was proven totally

00:22:01.340 wrong. And he is a punchline to conservatives. I mentioned him many times on this show.

00:22:07.380 Well, Paul Ehrlich is striking back. Ehrlich says, this is in response actually to another story

00:22:12.700 by 60 Minutes. He says, 60 Minutes extinction story has brought the usual right wing out in force.

00:22:20.260 If I'm always wrong, so is science. Since my work is always peer reviewed, including the population

00:22:28.900 bomb. And I've gotten virtually every scientific honor. Sure, I've made some mistakes, but no basic

00:22:34.720 ones. I love this defense. Because this is not the defense that Paul Ehrlich thinks that it is.

00:22:42.440 He says, look, if I'm always wrong, then so is science. Because my work is always peer reviewed,

00:22:49.200 including the population bomb that predicted that there would be inevitably mass famines because

00:22:53.280 of overpopulation by the mid 1970s and 1980s. I've received every scientific honor. So if I am wrong,

00:23:02.060 then science is wrong. So okay, let me try to work out a little syllogism here.

00:23:05.240 If Paul Ehrlich is always wrong, then so is science. That's number one. Number two,

00:23:15.720 Paul Ehrlich is always wrong. His big claims are just wrong. Therefore, I guess science is wrong.

00:23:27.000 And by the way, I gave a speech on this very topic just a couple of months ago at, where was I? I think

00:23:34.880 I was at, was I at Franciscan or Wisconsin Lutheran University? I forget. I, or Wisconsin

00:23:38.940 Lutheran College. It was one of my YAF speeches last semester. You can find it online. Science is

00:23:45.320 fake. I'm not saying that, I'm not making any particular claim about any particular scientific

00:23:54.860 theory other than, I guess, Paul Ehrlich's because the population bomb theory was totally wrong. He says,

00:23:59.080 I've never made any basic mistakes. Pretty sure predicting inevitable mass worldwide famines

00:24:04.560 within 10 years, when in fact the opposite happened. When in fact, instead of overpopulation

00:24:09.400 starving everybody, the world population doubled and malnutrition fell to an all time low. I'm pretty

00:24:14.380 sure that's a basic mistake. But regardless, my claim that Paul Ehrlich appears to be demonstrating

00:24:21.640 is that the scientific view of the world, the idea that the world is basically reducible just to its

00:24:29.200 physical elements, that there is no metaphysical level beneath the world, and that the scientific

00:24:35.100 method is sufficient for understanding the fundament of reality, if the fundament of reality is physical,

00:24:41.280 that idea, the idea that has been promoted by the scientific revolution is totally wrong,

00:24:47.840 just like Paul Ehrlich. Speaking of controversial science, the former head of Media Matters,

00:24:58.340 one of the big heads of Media Matters, Parker Malloy, may have left Media Matters. That's the

00:25:02.260 left-wing activist organization that putatively exists to get us all fired, that has tried to

00:25:08.580 destroy my career many times, but I've always considered them to be my unpaid publicists. They always clip

00:25:13.720 out some of the really best moments of my show, so I really thank them. The former, one of the big

00:25:18.580 people behind Media Matters, has apparently left, is now writing a substack, just like all of these

00:25:23.220 people do when they leave their jobs. But she had a really funny headline. She says, the New York Times

00:25:31.160 declares war on LGBTQ people with the hire of an anti-trans columnist. I said, oh, the New York Times

00:25:41.340 hired an anti-trans columnist and is thereby declaring war on LGBTQ people. Who would that

00:25:47.560 columnist be? David French. She's talking about David French. You may or may not know who David

00:25:55.180 French is. David French previously was a pretty much conservative columnist, conservative libertarian

00:26:02.720 type columnist who wrote for conservative outlets. And then now he has become a liberal columnist who

00:26:10.440 writes for the Atlantic and now the New York Times. The pivot in David French's career, the reason that

00:26:18.920 he shifted from being a center-right conservative person to being a liberal person, is because he

00:26:27.140 defended the transgender agenda. The knock, the reason that David French has aroused the ire of pretty much

00:26:35.160 everybody on the right, is because in a debate with Saurabh Amari, David French claimed that drag queen

00:26:43.380 story hour is one of the blessings of liberty, at which point James Madison, I think, rolled over in

00:26:49.560 his grave. Not only has David French defended transgenderism, he has defended exposing little

00:26:57.860 children at the public library to these drag queen perverts who are jiggling around for them and 1.00

00:27:04.980 twerking and doing all sorts of depraved things that obviously should not be tolerated or legal. 0.88

00:27:12.420 That is the defining feature of this man's career. Now, I'm sure he wishes that were not the case.

00:27:18.540 It's sad that that defines his career, but it does define his career. And so why do I mention it?

00:27:23.080 Because I care about the Media Matters lady or because I think that David French's literary

00:27:28.160 pursuits are particularly interesting? No. I mention it as a warning to any conservative who

00:27:34.800 might want to squish. The libs will never like you. They will never like you. Even if you squish 0.96

00:27:44.200 like a jellyfish, they still won't like you. Even if you head on over and you disavow all of the

00:27:52.040 conservatives and you say, look, I might be on the right. I might be a conservative person,

00:27:56.640 but I'm not like those mean, evil conservatives. I'm not like Donald Trump. I'm not like the Daily

00:28:02.660 Wire. I'm not like Michael Knowles. I'm not like, insert whatever conservative person you are.

00:28:08.400 No, no, no. I'm a good conservative. I read the New York Times. I'm open-minded. I totally want to

00:28:17.280 redefine marriage and let Joe Biden win the presidency. And hell, I'll even trans the kids. 0.93

00:28:24.920 Please don't hate me. Please like me. They still won't like you. They still won't like you.

00:28:30.780 They view you as the enemy. You will never go far enough over to be acceptable to them.

00:28:37.720 They will call you, even if the defining feature of your career is going radically woke on the

00:28:44.580 transgender question, they will still call you anti-trans. They will still call you an LGBTQ

00:28:50.120 hater. Just know that going in. If you sincerely completely change your entire view,

00:29:00.380 and you're not just trying to get an audience, and you're not just trying to be acceptable at

00:29:05.980 cocktail parties, if you sincerely say, okay, I renounce my political beliefs. I renounce my faith.

00:29:12.080 I renounce my friends. I renounce everything. And maybe then you've got a shot. But if you're

00:29:17.080 trying to be a CNN Republican, if you're trying to be a New York Times conservative,

00:29:23.660 almost without exception, I guess Ross Douthat would be one rare kind of exception. But all the

00:29:30.080 rest of them, all the rest of them will not be able to maintain their conservative cred as Ross Douthat

00:29:38.480 sort of uniquely has. And if you just try to be acceptable to the libs, they will not accept you.

00:29:42.640 It's just not going to happen. Speaking of weird sex stuff, this is the most disturbing story that I

00:29:49.940 have read in weeks. If you've got little kids listening right now, maybe just skip ahead a

00:29:55.280 minute or two. Last Friday, 11 people appeared before the high court in Glasgow, accused of operating a

00:30:01.920 satanic cult which abused two young girls and a boy who were allegedly forced to engage in witchcraft

00:30:08.980 rituals and subjected to sexual and violent abuse by members of the group. The court heard testimony

00:30:16.680 that the two young girls and the young boy had been forced to kill animals, use a Ouija board or a

00:30:24.560 sort of tool. Quote, to call on spirits and demons in witchcraft ceremonies, the children were then

00:30:31.260 forced into performing satanic seances, including drinking blood and eating a heart. One of the

00:30:37.880 alleged girl victims was reported to have been locked in a fridge, a freezer, a microwave, and an 0.99

00:30:42.080 oven in an attempt to kill her. Okay, that's the disturbing stuff. You can raise the volume back up

00:30:48.380 again if you're listening with young children. Obviously, an insanely disturbing story.

00:30:57.360 But the point of the story that is going to be discussed, if it is discussed at all in the liberal 0.91

00:31:05.540 media, is that there was this pedophile ring and they abused children sexually. That part is actually

00:31:14.180 the easiest part to understand. It's easy for people in our modern liberal decadent age to

00:31:20.840 recognize that sex is a powerful motivator and some people are perverts and people can commit sex

00:31:28.000 crimes. That part, it's disturbing to anybody with even a shred of a conscience, but it's at least easy

00:31:34.100 to understand. The part that's very difficult for people to understand in our modern liberal

00:31:40.160 scientific age is the satanic witchcraft occult ritual of it all. That part, people have a really hard

00:31:51.420 time getting. They say, look, I understand how a pervert could want to commit a sexual crime. Why the hell

00:31:58.000 did they pull out a Ouija board? Why were they doing weird witchcraft stuff? Why were they calling up

00:32:02.940 that? That can't be real. That doesn't. The hard part to understand isn't the pedophile stuff. It's

00:32:09.740 the satanic stuff. Because even the libs, even the people who are trying to normalize pedophilia,

00:32:15.160 I suppose perhaps especially the people who are trying to normalize pedophilia and refer to pedophiles

00:32:20.040 as minor attracted persons and all the rest of it, they believe in pedophilia. Everybody believes that

00:32:26.560 Satan exists. Half of the people around today, maybe more, do not believe that Satan exists. I always go back

00:32:35.260 to this amazing interview in New York Magazine in 2011, I think it was, between some young, know-nothing

00:32:42.260 liberal reporter and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the conservative. And somehow, heaven and hell

00:32:50.280 came up. And the reporter goes, do you believe in heaven and hell? And he goes, yeah.

00:32:56.560 And she goes, that's got to be awful scary to live in a world with hell. And he goes, you know, in a theatrical

00:33:03.920 whisper, he says, I even believe in the devil. She goes, well, boy, you got to be shaking in your boots

00:33:09.800 believing in the devil. He goes, do you know how out of touch you seem? Do you realize that people throughout

00:33:17.300 all of history have believed in the devil? Do you realize that many more intelligent people than you or I

00:33:26.120 believe in the devil? And she didn't know what to say. I always go back to Hamlet. There are more

00:33:35.480 things in heaven and earth, the ratio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. And I can't help but

00:33:42.180 notice when you read these stories of the pedo sex rings that we were all told were total conspiracy

00:33:49.900 theories until they keep being proven again and again and again, including some of the most prominent,

00:33:54.760 wealthy, powerful people in the world. You can't call it a crazy conspiracy theory after the Jeffrey

00:34:00.320 Epstein stuff came to light. But I can't help but notice it always seems to involve something more

00:34:05.760 than just the physical body. You look at Jeffrey Epstein's weird pedo island, there's this bizarre

00:34:10.460 pagan Egyptian temple looking thing there. You look at the cases of sexual abuse in religious 0.97

00:34:18.900 communities and non-religious communities. It always seems to involve weird occult rituals.

00:34:24.480 The stories one hears about this from people who have been convicted of it very often goes back to

00:34:29.840 Satan. I wonder why that is. I wonder why that is. Why does it always keep coming back to the same sort

00:34:36.340 of imagery? Maybe it's because many more intelligent people than you and I have believed in the devil.

00:34:40.640 Speaking of devilish things, Andrew Tate, the most googled man on earth last year. I don't know where this

00:34:47.440 guy came from. He seemed to pop out of nowhere, which always makes me suspect. Always makes me a little

00:34:54.680 bit skeptical and makes people seem suspect to me. But my producers one time said, you got to watch this

00:34:59.000 guy, Andrew Tate. So I did. I reacted to some of his videos and I said, you know, he's saying things that

00:35:04.700 contradict the established liberal dogma. So for that, I guess, he ought to be applauded or at least

00:35:12.940 we ought to entertain him. But he's also saying things that seem pretty degenerate. And isn't he

00:35:18.340 a pimp? Doesn't he run a weird sex online business? And that's not good. That's not conservative at all. 0.99

00:35:23.780 That should be discouraged. So then Andrew Tate gets arrested for apparently running a criminal sex

00:35:29.920 trafficking ring. And some people on the right have rushed to his defense. I don't really know

00:35:37.080 what the defense is. I mean, the defense could be he's not being arrested because he's a sex

00:35:41.120 trafficker. He's being arrested because the libs hate him. Yeah, that could be true. I mean, 0.97

00:35:44.200 they let Epstein operate with impunity for years. They don't go after the sexual criminals on their own

00:35:49.040 side. And they promote sex work as real work. So they don't sincerely believe that sex trafficking

00:35:55.460 is a problem. But nevertheless, the question is, did he do these things? Did this guy commit

00:36:02.720 crimes? And there's a video that's just come to light of Andrew Tate bragging that his whole business

00:36:06.880 was a scam. Here's maybe this is a bit bad. Here's where the famoose would start. So it'd be

00:36:12.440 good. Like I had a lot of girls that worked for me and the best was like the Ukrainians or the 1.00

00:36:15.180 Russians. It was amazing because they get some guy fall in love that arranged today to meet all this

00:36:20.740 shit. Ah, I need a visa. Okay. Get a visa. I need money for a visa. Okay. How much is a visa? 1.00

00:36:27.540 It's $900. No, but it's not $900 because I went to the embassy. They think I'm a risk and I need a

00:36:32.260 return flight there and back. I need a hotel. I need to have spending money in my bank account.

00:36:35.660 They won't let me come or how much you need. All right. 10 grand. Boom. It's 10 G's. Thanks.

00:36:40.220 Go to the embassy. Take a picture outside the embassy. Boom. Come back. They rejected my visa.

00:36:43.760 They said we have to wait two weeks after two weeks. They'll give it to me. Okay, baby. Boom. Two more weeks of

00:36:47.520 tips. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Because now we think it's going to right. Things we get the girls. Now we spend

00:36:50.640 more than ever. Two weeks, two weeks, two weeks. Two weeks come. Some other problem. Whether it's

00:36:55.920 visa, whatever, whatever. We make up some bullsh**, right? All these OnlyFans chicks can learn 1.00

00:36:59.740 from you, man. Oh, man. No, but you know what? People, people, people watch. Free OnlyFans

00:37:03.680 tutorial here in the DMs. Yeah, people who, people, people would say, why did those girls work for 1.00

00:37:06.920 you? Because the girls would work for me and at 50%, because it was 50-50, would make millions 1.00

00:37:12.400 per month. If they worked for themselves, they'd make f**king nothing. I was the best in the f**king game. Me and I had a 0.86

00:37:18.440 whole team of staff. Now, one thing you always have to ask yourself with online self-help guru

00:37:24.360 promoter guys like this is, are they telling the truth? And we have no reason to believe that Andrew

00:37:29.940 Tate is telling the truth, because the thing that he is talking about is how he's a liar. 0.85

00:37:34.980 So if you present yourself in public as a liar, then I can't believe you. In fact, I can't even 0.94

00:37:43.040 believe any specific claim of you lying and scamming, because you might, though you are dishonest in

00:37:48.380 other ways and claiming to be dishonest, you, you may actually be being truthful or dishonest about

00:37:54.500 being dishonest. You see how it gets very confusing. But, but if this part is true and he's the best in

00:38:03.020 the f**king game and I'm scamming all these guys, then isn't that fraud? Isn't that a crime? Isn't 0.90

00:38:10.560 that, should we really be surprised that you get arrested? And even if you say, well, there's plenty

00:38:16.480 of scammers, plenty of fraudsters, plenty of pimps out there. They don't get attacked by the liberal

00:38:20.160 regime. Right. But you're, you've made a name for yourself attacking all these liberal orthodoxies.

00:38:26.360 Meanwhile, you're bragging about all the crimes that you're committing. So you're just showing your

00:38:30.060 neck to your enemies. Not very good stuff. In any case, none of this particularly virtuous or

00:38:36.320 worth emulating, I strongly suspect. We're going to be moving on to calls. I'm very, very excited.

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00:39:56.780 Mr. Davies, do we have callers on the line? Excellent. All right, let's turn first to Dean

00:40:04.400 from Wisconsin. Dean, you are on the line.

00:40:10.420 Good morning, Michael. Thanks for taking my call. I just was going to point out in our diocese on the

00:40:17.640 day that Pope Benedict died. It was also the day that our diocese implemented a ban on the celebration

00:40:24.520 of the Latin Mass in the extraordinary form. So they're saying, oh, you can use Novus Ordo, but not

00:40:31.260 the old Rite Latin Mass anymore. My question, you might not have the specific answer to this. Maybe you

00:40:38.680 can bring on an expert in the member's block, but can each Pope just flip-flop on this issue,

00:40:45.660 or does some sort of a decree need to come down from the Vatican saying the Latin Mass may be

00:40:51.740 celebrated or may not be? Obviously, our diocese has had quite a difficult reaction to all this coming

00:40:59.180 into play. So I appreciate your thoughts, Michael, and I'm sure you share the same sadness regarding the

00:41:04.680 Latin Mass going away. Well, Dean, first of all, I have to say, I find your lack of faith disturbing. 0.99

00:41:09.600 Not about your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and your membership in the Holy Catholic Church,

00:41:14.820 but your lack of faith in me that you think I have to bring an expert on to the member block? Come on,

00:41:19.360 man. Though probably I should. The short answer to your question is, practically speaking, yes,

00:41:26.160 the Popes can flip-flop on this question. Now, it's more complicated than that because as far as I can tell,

00:41:31.900 Pope Pius V gives us the right to the Latin Mass in perpetuity, as far as I'm concerned,

00:41:40.280 in my limited knowledge. Again, I'm not a doctor of the church. I'm not a theologian. People don't

00:41:44.920 ask my opinion on these things, but this is the mass of the ages that has existed for basically the

00:41:50.300 entire history of the church and the radical liturgical reform, which may have had good intentions,

00:41:57.920 maybe it didn't. But in any case, it led to a deformation of the liturgy in the late 1960s and

00:42:03.560 into the early 1970s. It did not achieve any of the things that it was intended to achieve.

00:42:09.680 It did not increase participation. It did not bring the youths back to the mass by bringing in all sorts

00:42:15.420 of electric guitars or whatever. And so what Pope Benedict did, not being a total conservative,

00:42:20.900 not being a total trad, but not being a lib either, is he tried to, in the spirit of tradition,

00:42:27.480 to reform the reform and to bring that back. And then it was later on suppressed by Pope Francis,

00:42:36.320 unfortunately. But there were still places for it. There's still the Priestly Fraternity of St.

00:42:40.620 Peter, the Institute of Christ the King. There are some diocesan Latin masses, depending on

00:42:45.700 on which diocese you're in. So yeah, I suppose we just have to pray that the Lord will bring back

00:42:53.940 this very beautiful, reverent, highest form of prayer, which is the Holy Mass in a proper liturgy.

00:43:00.280 And it reminds me of an important phrase, lex irandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi. The way that we

00:43:05.720 worship is going to affect the way that we believe. It's not just the other way around. It's not just the

00:43:10.260 way we believe is going to affect the way we worship. The way we worship is going to affect the way we

00:43:13.540 believe. And the way that we live our lives, because we're incarnate beings in time and space.

00:43:18.160 And I do have faith, though, that it will all work out in the end. Because to quote Hilaire Belloc,

00:43:23.320 he says that he is forced to believe, as I am by faith, that the Catholic Church really is

00:43:28.080 divinely instituted. But a good evidence for its divine institution to non-believers is that no 0.97

00:43:33.580 other institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight. So keep 0.93

00:43:39.360 the faith, Dean. Good to hear from you. Next up is Mark from Nashville.

00:43:43.540 Mark, you're on the air. Hey, Michael, long time listener, first time caller.

00:43:48.940 I don't know if you've heard about this story about the government trying to ban gas stoves for

00:43:53.600 safety. Do you think it's more likely that it is actually for safety or so that we can continue

00:43:59.800 shipping all of our natural gas overseas to Europe in an effort to sanction Russia?

00:44:06.520 Mark, since you phrased the question that way, I think I know which angle you're coming at this from.

00:44:13.260 I had just seen the headline yesterday that all of a sudden now, I think it was in California,

00:44:18.180 people are claiming gas stoves are terrible. And I find when I cook, gas stoves are much better to

00:44:23.000 cook on than electric stoves. I've had both. I grew up with an electric stove. Since then,

00:44:27.760 I've had some gas stoves. It's much better to cook on the gas. So you're suggesting,

00:44:31.160 you think that the big push now against the gas stoves is that the powers that be in commerce and

00:44:41.560 in the government basically just want to export more of that gas?

00:44:44.840 Well, it's obviously for safety. No, of course. Of course. They just want to export the gas to

00:44:50.740 Europe to try and stick it to Russia and to, I guess, demoralize us. It started with the shower

00:44:56.000 heads and now gas stoves, they're so effective. They're so great. And now they want to ban them

00:45:00.900 just like those high flow shower heads. They were so great.

00:45:03.380 It's funny you mentioned this, Mark, because I always felt this way with the light bulbs. We were told

00:45:08.620 you had to get rid of incandescent light bulbs and use those hideous fluorescent or LED things

00:45:14.380 because they're better for the sun monster so that we don't get killed in global warming or whatever.

00:45:19.700 Mother Gaia will be happier if we replace our beautiful warm light with some hideous flashing 0.99

00:45:23.760 light. And for a while, it was illegal. Don't forget, Congress banned those light bulbs. And

00:45:28.340 then Michelle Bachman, great, great accomplishment by Congress Lady Michelle Bachman. She comes in and

00:45:32.820 she says, no, you get the light bulb freedom of choice act. And so I don't know. I mean,

00:45:37.140 I just saw the headline. You're actually giving me a more interesting idea on it than any first

00:45:41.420 reaction I had. But I wouldn't be terribly surprised because when you see legislation coming

00:45:48.180 down the pike, it rarely happens by accident. And it rarely happens for a purely abstract reason.

00:45:56.440 Very often there are moneyed interests and powerful interests behind pushing every piece of legislation.

00:46:01.540 So I keep an open mind on your theory, Mark. Before we go, let's get to Brian from New Hampshire.

00:46:05.980 Brian, what's going on?

00:46:09.700 Mr. Knowles, it is your favorite resident bass player in the chat slot, my bass.

00:46:14.700 What's going on, man? Oh, I'm so glad to hear your voice live. I am a big fan of your comments

00:46:20.580 and your music, but great to hear you live. What's up? How can I help you?

00:46:24.000 Thank you. Thank you. So I kind of had a hard time trying to pick out a topic to discuss. And I was

00:46:29.800 actually going to call Ben about this, but I could never get through. So I guess the question I will

00:46:34.700 have is, how can we be sure to hold politicians more accountable for their actions as it seems like

00:46:41.800 the current methods that we have, whether it be asking our congressmen to reach out to the Senate or

00:46:50.080 basically just like everybody standing on the line, standing on the lawns and protesting doesn't seem

00:46:56.960 to be quite as effective. And basically, at the same time, the stormtroopers will come in and arrest

00:47:02.280 anybody who is protesting the non left. Right.

00:47:05.320 Um, or so do you have any suggestions for people who would like to hold their, their people,

00:47:14.000 their, uh, senators, their, uh, house representatives more accountable? Uh, I would have almost thought

00:47:19.620 like gather a group of people and actually go into the building, not like January 6th. Like

00:47:24.280 here we go. Here comes the horn hat. Yeah. Not like the horn hat guy, but, um, but I mean,

00:47:31.580 like go in just like politely say the secretary, Hey, we'd like to speak with our governor and like

00:47:36.720 almost like an in-person confrontation. Yeah. I, I, I don't know that that is going to be

00:47:40.900 terribly effective because what that will do is that will cause your representative to view you as

00:47:46.020 an enemy. If you're physically aggressive in that way, that, that would be an escalation that I just

00:47:51.220 don't, I'm not opposed to it in principle. I just think, and I know, I know that you're not suggesting

00:47:55.660 anything violent. You're suggesting being very polite, but I just think the reaction to that will not be

00:48:01.240 to say, okay, let me hear out the concerns of these people. I don't think that's really going

00:48:05.260 to work. Uh, I do think that, uh, phone calls and things like boycotts actually work a lot better

00:48:12.520 than most people believe that they do. This is how media matters operated for years and years and

00:48:16.880 years that what media matters would do is they clip out some little bit that either I said or any

00:48:22.320 other conservative figure media host. And then they would get their list of 20 to a hundred people

00:48:28.980 to call a company and say, you need to pull your sponsorship from this person.

00:48:33.620 It's not a lot of people. We're talking often like 20 people, but when, when you are that secretary

00:48:39.540 and you're hearing that, it doesn't come to you as a physical threat so that you're reacting very

00:48:43.500 strongly against these people. But, but it, it, you do perceive that as a brand threat. And so you,

00:48:48.280 you will take that more seriously, but, but more importantly than all that, the way that you get

00:48:53.360 your government to be more responsive is you, you need structural change. It's not just the

00:48:58.700 individuals. Very often the individuals don't have very much power. The problem is one problem

00:49:04.640 in this regard is that the Congress, for instance, just delegated a lot of its power away to executive

00:49:11.340 agencies that don't need to answer the phone when you call. And so the Congress can throw its hands

00:49:15.660 in the air and say, listen, I didn't do anything. The, the Congress, because of the rules instituted

00:49:20.940 under Nancy Pelosi did not have a lot of ability to, to introduce amendments on the floor of the

00:49:26.180 House or to recall a speaker if the speaker was wielding too much power in an unaccountable way

00:49:30.600 or to stop the debt ceiling from being wased or any of these other issues. And so I mentioned those

00:49:36.160 specific examples because those 20 holdout conservatives the other day who deprived McCarthy

00:49:41.600 of the speakership for three, three or four days, they exacted a lot of concessions that are

00:49:46.620 structural. They're not political issues per se. They're meta-political issues. They're,

00:49:51.160 they're issues about how politics is conducted. One issue in this regard would be the border wall

00:49:58.660 or immigration enforcement. It's sort of a political issue, but it's really a meta-political

00:50:02.520 issue because it's about who comes into the country and then who is going to participate

00:50:05.120 in the Republic. That's where the change has to take place. If we keep fighting it on these little

00:50:10.120 individual issues or, or only putting lawn signs in our yard, got to put the lawn sign out there,

00:50:14.900 but you've got to do more than that. That's not going to give you the kind of significant

00:50:18.860 change that you want. You've got to, you've got to take on the issue a level above, not just about

00:50:23.980 politics, but the politics of politics. Excellent to hear from you. Excellent question. You know,

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Ep. 1158 - Joe Biden Stole Classified Documents & Didn't Get Raided

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