The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1162 - The CDC & FDA Float A Wild mRNA ＂Stroke＂ Conspiracy Theory


Summary

The FDA and CDC now see an early signal of a possible link between the Pfizer CoDACV vaccine and an increased risk of stroke, and I think it is terribly irresponsible of the government agencies to spread what I have been reliably informed for the past three years is a baseless and dangerous rightwing conspiracy theory.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The FDA and the CDC now see an early signal of a possible link between the Pfizer COVID vaccine
00:00:07.020 and an increased risk of stroke. And I, for one, think it is terribly irresponsible of those
00:00:14.340 government agencies to spread what I have been reliably informed for the past three years is a
00:00:20.760 baseless and dangerous right-wing conspiracy theory. Now, before I am taken off YouTube less
00:00:27.340 than one minute into my show, I want to be clear that that possible risk is not merely being
00:00:33.420 reported on social media. It's not even just being reported by news agencies such as Reuters. See,
00:00:40.100 right there, there it is. U.S. FDA CDC early signal of possible Pfizer bivalent COVID shot link to
00:00:46.620 stroke. By the way, the original headline didn't even include the word possible. The original
00:00:52.420 headline just said, FDA CDC see an early signal of Pfizer COVID shot link to stroke.
00:00:59.520 And then they had to edit it. They said, this story has been refiled with an edited headline to clarify
00:01:03.540 that the link to a stroke is possible. Not definite, but, you know, it's, it's there, man. It's there.
00:01:08.820 And why is it there? How do we know it's there? Because the report is coming straight from the
00:01:12.260 agencies themselves. Here it is right on the FDA's website, which for me raises only one question.
00:01:19.800 If the endemically dishonest FDA and CDC are finally admitting what many of us suggested and were
00:01:28.920 castigated for suggesting from the beginning of the vaccine rollout, can you even imagine how bad
00:01:35.580 the risk situation actually is? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:02:01.040 That's actually a very good point. That Penn State professor who told all his straight students to
00:02:05.340 watch gay porn so they could feel more gay. That is a kind of conversion therapy. But in our culture,
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00:03:54.040 I don't want to have to say I told you so. In this case, though, I not only will say I told you so,
00:04:03.020 but I'm going to have to take responsibility for telling you the opposite of what is so,
00:04:06.700 because my doppelganger, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, typified the liberal establishment for the last
00:04:13.460 three years in what she had to say about the COVID vaccine.
00:04:18.560 Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.
00:04:26.400 Remember that? You remember the virus stops. Remember Dr. Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, Joe Biden.
00:04:31.740 If you get the shot, sorry, if you get the shot, you are not going to get the virus. You remember that?
00:04:37.960 You remember when they told you the shots were completely safe? If you raised any questions
00:04:42.600 about it whatsoever, you were not only wrong and stupid and uneducated, but you actually were
00:04:48.300 a murderer because you were convincing people not to go get the vaccine that would have absolutely
00:04:55.260 no deleterious health effects whatsoever. And you're preventing them from stopping the spread
00:05:00.420 because don't forget, you get the shot that totally stops the spread. It doesn't matter that
00:05:03.320 none of that was true. It doesn't matter that nothing they told us about the vaccines or COVID for
00:05:08.700 that matter was true. That's what you had to believe. Until now, three years later,
00:05:13.720 they're willing to admit in the face of a ton of evidence. Yeah, okay, maybe, maybe there's a link
00:05:20.040 between the shots and stroke. Maybe, yeah, maybe there's a link between the shots and heart problems.
00:05:25.080 Yeah, maybe there's a link between the shots and blood clots. Yeah, maybe there's a link between the
00:05:29.640 shots and nerve damage. Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe. Seems like a big L for the science,
00:05:34.800 wouldn't you say? Because at the time, we were told, well, look, whatever Dr. Fauci says,
00:05:40.500 whatever the FDA, whatever the CDC says, that's the science. Dr. Fauci said, I'm a representative
00:05:45.420 of the science. That's why people don't like me. Well, man, that science just sure seems to be
00:05:50.340 getting a lot of things wrong, right? It does. Now, what you will hear people who defend the science
00:05:57.820 say now is, well, that's not the real science. They'll say, Dr. Fauci, no, no, that's the
00:06:04.500 politicized science. Or the FDA and the CDC, no, they, that's the corrupted science. But we,
00:06:11.240 what we need to do is trust the science, the real science, capital S. You'll even hear a lot of
00:06:15.660 conservatives say this. That's not, that was not my argument. My argument from the early days of COVID
00:06:20.980 was not, I've got, you've got your scientific data, but I've got my scientific data. And my scientific
00:06:26.720 data are better than your scientific data. That was not my argument. My argument in the early days
00:06:31.480 of COVID was, I don't believe your scientific data, but even if those data were true, I've got my
00:06:37.620 political philosophy. I've got my inherited tradition. I've got my anthropology, my view of
00:06:44.560 human nature and political communities. I'll simplify it. I've got my rights, okay? And I don't
00:06:50.780 give a damn about your stupid scientific study that's probably bogus anyway, because there are other
00:06:56.700 modes of knowledge and there are other things in our society that we should value beyond the musings
00:07:02.620 of witch doctors wearing white lab coats. That was always my argument. And there are, I think,
00:07:08.920 many conservatives share that view of things, but there were some conservatives who wanted to play
00:07:13.480 by the Libs rules and simply have a tit for tat over the science. Oh, you've got your statistics?
00:07:17.920 Well, I've got my statistics. You've got your study? Well, I've got my study.
00:07:21.060 Oh, yeah. The problem isn't with the science. The problem is that true science has never been
00:07:28.020 tried. That's basically the argument that we're hearing at this point from the people who really
00:07:32.820 defend this scientistic worldview. The kind of people who argue against transgenderism by saying,
00:07:38.520 well, women just have two X chromosomes. That's what it's all about. No, it's more than that. Women
00:07:43.400 actually are more than their body parts. Women actually are more than their genome. It's not
00:07:48.200 simply because women's bodies look a certain way, that that's the reason that women shouldn't go
00:07:54.440 into the men's bathroom and men shouldn't go into the women's bathroom. It goes deeper than that.
00:08:00.020 And I'm totally sick of hearing this line that basically amounts to the true science has never
00:08:05.580 been tried. It reminds me of the communists and the socialists and all the other utopians.
00:08:12.580 If the true science has never been tried, then why are we trusting it? If it can never be
00:08:22.220 instantiated in real life, then why are we trusting this? My view is that science is fake. I gave a
00:08:28.340 speech on this at Wisconsin Lutheran not that long ago. And my view, I know it's somewhat controversial,
00:08:34.780 but it appears to be shared by one of the most powerful tech billionaires on the planet.
00:08:40.120 That would be Peter Thiel.
00:08:41.840 You have to ask some very tough questions whether this notion of a STEM shortage is actually something
00:08:49.460 of a fairly big lie that we've been told, where that, you know, one of my colleagues believes that
00:08:56.940 the STEM shortage was, this is a sort of left-wing conspiracy theory, but he believes it was concocted
00:09:05.240 by the Reagan administration in order to encourage too many people to go into these fields and drive down
00:09:09.880 all their wages.
00:09:14.580 But even if there's no sort of full intentionality along those lines, it's sort of an incredible gloss on things.
00:09:24.300 And, you know, I sometimes wonder whether the people who are in STEM fields are actually even worse off than the people in the humanities field.
00:09:31.640 I think in the humanities fields, you have a pretty clear sense that you will not be employable based on what you've studied.
00:09:36.980 And so you will scramble really hard to figure out what you're actually going to do.
00:09:41.480 Whereas the people who are in these STEM fields, you know, may be under the illusion that there are actually well-paying jobs in those fields.
00:09:49.360 I love this clip. This clip has been going viral over the past few days.
00:09:53.200 And it's a very good argument, which is that we're all told that you should major in STEM, don't major in the humanities.
00:10:01.220 But that might be mistaken because it's giving you false hope.
00:10:04.500 Because at least the people majoring in humanities know that they're not going to get a job based on their degrees.
00:10:09.480 The people in STEM believe that they will.
00:10:11.300 But very often the people who are in STEM are not learning things that are directly applicable to some jobs.
00:10:17.040 Certainly not in the M part of STEM, the mathematics part of STEM, the parts that are not just applied science, engineering and the like.
00:10:26.820 Things that should be applicable to trades.
00:10:28.860 But even then, if you study some particular type of engineering, if you're just studying a preparation for a specific job,
00:10:36.780 well, that might become outdated six months later or ten years later.
00:10:42.500 You're studying something that is not going to give you an education applicable to lots of different types of jobs.
00:10:49.600 And that's been my argument, too.
00:10:50.840 It's another place I break with a lot of the kind of modern conservative talking points,
00:10:54.480 which say if you go to a school, if you go to a college, you should not major in literature or history or philosophy or anything like that.
00:11:01.880 That's for the libs.
00:11:03.060 You should just major in engineering.
00:11:04.400 And in a way, I think the opposite is true.
00:11:08.040 I share the concern that the humanities fields have been completely destroyed by the libs and by wokeness.
00:11:14.100 And the science fields have largely been destroyed by them, but not entirely.
00:11:18.980 Maybe you shouldn't go to college at all.
00:11:20.540 I'm totally open to those things.
00:11:22.100 But if you're going to study something, I think you should study the liberal arts.
00:11:26.220 I think you should study not the technical arts that prepare you for a job.
00:11:29.780 I mean, if you want to go to a vocational school and you want to go to a trade school and you're doing that with your eyes wide open, go for it.
00:11:36.800 But if you want to get a liberal arts education, then actually study the liberal arts, the point of which is to help you make sense of your freedom,
00:11:43.600 help you make sense of your culture, help you make sense of these higher things,
00:11:48.520 that you can then go get some on-the-job training to apply that to a real-life profession.
00:11:54.540 Because so much of our modern political chaos owes to the fact that people don't understand anything beyond certain applied sciences.
00:12:05.840 But we don't understand the bigger questions.
00:12:08.700 Why are we doing the things that we're doing?
00:12:10.880 How do we make political decisions?
00:12:13.160 What is a human being?
00:12:14.320 What is a human being for?
00:12:15.600 And do I have to listen to Dr. Fauci and get that dangerous shot that could potentially mess up my body?
00:12:22.500 And if I don't have to do that, then why?
00:12:24.580 These are the deeper questions that are not simply going to be answered by the science.
00:12:30.320 Let's take a look at the science on transgenderism.
00:12:32.800 There's a new study out that knocks down another study.
00:12:37.620 And the other study, the new study knocks down, was considered the gold standard in evidence for transing the kids.
00:12:46.320 There was a gold standard pile of evidence in support of medically transitioning trans-identified children.
00:12:55.620 It's called the Dutch Studies.
00:12:57.380 And this was what all the libs pointed to to say,
00:13:00.740 Actually, this is why we've got to put little kids on puberty blockers and why we've got to put them on hormones
00:13:05.420 and why we've potentially got to chop them up when they become teenagers,
00:13:07.960 because it alleviates all their pain and it makes them feel much better and everything's hunky-dory.
00:13:14.340 Well, there's a new peer-reviewed paper just published last week that looked at this gold standard Dutch study evidence
00:13:19.980 and found it, quote, has profound previously unrecognized problems
00:13:24.440 and requires, quote, urgent attention from the medical community.
00:13:28.860 This is according to the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine,
00:13:32.740 which is an international group of over 100 clinicians who do not want to trans the children.
00:13:39.340 The paper here, which involves this group that has not only clinicians but researchers,
00:13:46.480 is called The Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine.
00:13:52.020 Okay, I'm glad we've got our studies.
00:13:54.140 I'm glad for people who are persuaded by this stuff that we can point to a study now and say,
00:13:58.840 See, there's the study. Believe that study. Don't believe that study.
00:14:01.440 But you don't need a study to know that a little boy is a boy, okay?
00:14:06.280 If you need a guy in a lab coat to tell you that a little boy is not really a little girl,
00:14:10.920 then something has gone wrong in your education.
00:14:13.260 Something's a little messed up in your brain, okay?
00:14:15.940 This is the result, not of bad biology, not of bad chemistry, not of bad applied sciences.
00:14:26.800 This is the result of bad epistemology.
00:14:29.180 By which I mean, this is a result of people not knowing how we even know things anymore.
00:14:37.780 I referenced a really great book that's about to come out, I just gave a blurb for it,
00:14:41.860 called Evangelization and Ideology.
00:14:44.740 And so it's on a completely different topic from what we're talking about right now.
00:14:48.360 But the author, Matthew Petrucic, is a really good way of thinking about this in the book,
00:14:53.500 which is that the things that we're debating right now are politics, right?
00:14:57.480 That's at the center of the series of concentric circles.
00:15:01.240 You've got the politics.
00:15:02.380 Outside of politics, you've got applied morality.
00:15:04.760 Your view of applied morality is going to affect your view of politics.
00:15:08.960 And outside of that circle is morality broadly, the more kind of abstract moral principles.
00:15:14.600 Outside of that circle, you're going to have epistemology.
00:15:18.200 How do we know things?
00:15:20.980 How do we deduce things about the moral order and everything else?
00:15:24.580 Outside of epistemology, you're going to have anthropology.
00:15:27.700 What is human nature?
00:15:29.680 What are human beings?
00:15:31.160 We, the people who are supposedly going to know things.
00:15:34.380 Outside of anthropology is ontology.
00:15:36.800 What is being?
00:15:38.020 What does it mean to be?
00:15:40.220 And then outside of ontology, you get theology, which is the question,
00:15:43.820 what fundamentally is reality all about?
00:15:46.740 What underlies all of the other stuff that we're talking about here?
00:15:51.220 And the error that we're making errors at every single step of that series of concentric circles.
00:15:57.800 But the big one is epistemology.
00:16:00.880 The fact that we think that we can only know things if we can look at it under a microscope.
00:16:05.560 And it's why we use all of this ridiculous language now when we talk about transgenderism in particular.
00:16:10.500 We say, well, you know, a biological male went into the girl's bathroom the other day.
00:16:16.520 I'm using very scientific language.
00:16:18.980 This is the kind of language that a clinician in a lab coat might use.
00:16:21.500 Yes, I took my stethoscope and I found out that this fella wearing stiletto heels in a dress with the biggest Adam's apple you ever saw,
00:16:28.220 he's actually a biological male.
00:16:31.660 Oh, so he's a guy.
00:16:33.900 Well, I'm using very technical, scientific-y sounding kind of language.
00:16:37.520 He's a bi- no, he's a guy.
00:16:38.780 He's a guy.
00:16:39.160 There's not, it's not like there are different types of male.
00:16:41.660 There's a scientific male, there's a spiritual male, there's a psychological male.
00:16:45.800 It's just a guy.
00:16:46.600 You're a guy.
00:16:47.320 Why?
00:16:48.480 Because getting to the anthropology, human beings are body and soul.
00:16:54.540 And those two things are linked because we're hylomorphic.
00:16:57.780 So you can't have a female soul and a male body.
00:17:01.880 That's bad anthropology.
00:17:03.220 And how do I know that?
00:17:06.660 Well, because I can reason philosophically because I recognize that man is made in the image and likeness of God
00:17:16.820 because I can recognize the existence not only of matter but of form
00:17:20.880 and I can recognize that the soul is a substantial form of the body.
00:17:24.100 None of that requires a microscope.
00:17:25.500 It's because my epistemology is not limited to the stupid way of thinking that we all talk about today.
00:17:31.400 Those are much bigger problems.
00:17:32.660 You want to know what transgenderism is all about?
00:17:36.840 I've got a clip for you right here.
00:17:37.900 This is a clip.
00:17:38.720 It's just going around of the new owner of the Miss Universe contest.
00:17:42.520 This is what transgenderism is all about.
00:17:45.240 Welcome to the Miss Universe organization.
00:17:49.840 From now on, it's going to be ran by women.
00:17:54.720 Owned by trans women.
00:17:56.940 For all women.
00:17:58.340 And for all women really around the world to celebrate the power of feminism.
00:18:06.580 Diverse cultures.
00:18:09.520 Social inclusion.
00:18:11.680 Gender equality.
00:18:13.620 Creativity.
00:18:15.080 The force for good.
00:18:16.240 And of course, the beauty of humanity.
00:18:21.420 So, do you think you need a study to know that something is wrong about that?
00:18:28.160 That person is Jaka Fong Jakra Jujutip.
00:18:33.180 I'm probably mispronouncing that name.
00:18:35.120 He goes by Ann.
00:18:36.940 He used to go by Andrew.
00:18:38.300 He is the current owner of Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA beauty pageant organizations.
00:18:46.260 And he is a fella who has had some surgery to make him look more like a woman.
00:18:51.800 And he says that the contest is now run by women.
00:18:55.760 I don't think he's really fooling anybody.
00:18:59.600 The clip is going viral specifically because he's not fooling anybody.
00:19:03.080 He's not fooling the conservatives.
00:19:04.540 He's not fooling the feminists.
00:19:05.780 It's very offensive to women, I think, to say, hey, ladies.
00:19:10.400 Yeah.
00:19:11.140 Us.
00:19:11.520 Us gals.
00:19:12.420 You know, we're here.
00:19:13.380 We're finally running Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe and all the rest of it.
00:19:16.940 Isn't that girl power, huh?
00:19:18.200 The women are thinking, this is not.
00:19:22.620 I think I'm kind of being had here.
00:19:24.540 I don't think that the women are actually running these pageants yet.
00:19:30.540 Right.
00:19:31.340 Right.
00:19:31.700 Of course not.
00:19:32.360 But everybody looks at that.
00:19:33.460 We say, okay, we know that something's wrong with that.
00:19:35.780 I urge people always to cultivate a conservative insight.
00:19:43.440 It's one that Russell Kirk talks about a lot.
00:19:45.660 It's one that Edmund Burke, one of the founders of modern conservatism, talked about a lot.
00:19:50.720 And that is trust your prejudices most of the time.
00:19:56.960 Not all of the time.
00:19:58.200 You can have unjust prejudices and that can be a bad thing.
00:20:02.680 But most of the time your prejudices are going to be correct because your prejudices are pre-judgments.
00:20:08.560 And pre-judgments are the way that we have to operate in the world.
00:20:11.460 Because for every decision that we make, we make countless decisions all the time.
00:20:16.340 Where we're going to walk.
00:20:17.260 What we're going to wear.
00:20:18.200 Who we're going to talk to.
00:20:19.360 What we're going to say.
00:20:20.160 What we're going to drink.
00:20:20.880 What we're going to sit down and do.
00:20:22.660 What's going to distract our attention.
00:20:24.060 Will we answer the phone?
00:20:24.840 We make these decisions all the time and we don't write 50 page long treatises of perfectly rational explanations as to why we make those decisions.
00:20:34.440 Or why we feel a certain way about certain things.
00:20:37.620 We couldn't do that.
00:20:38.600 We wouldn't be able to operate in the world if we did that.
00:20:40.560 And so we've got to rely on our gut.
00:20:42.480 We've got to rely on our instinct.
00:20:43.780 We've got to rely on just prejudices.
00:20:46.240 Which is to say the inherited wisdom that we have from our tradition.
00:20:50.040 You might not be able to articulate precisely why it is wrong that a dude who's had a bunch of weird surgeries and is wearing stilettos is prancing around on stage calling himself a woman and taking over Miss Universe in the name of women.
00:21:03.880 You might not be able to articulate in the perfect rational way why it's wrong for a man to go into a girl's bathroom.
00:21:10.720 I think given enough time you probably could.
00:21:12.560 But you might not be able to write on the spot.
00:21:14.280 That's okay.
00:21:14.940 You still know it's wrong and you know it's wrong because of something that Leon Kass, the great bioethicist, referred to as the wisdom of repugnance.
00:21:23.700 You know that that's wrong.
00:21:25.020 It's okay to know that.
00:21:26.760 You don't need some scientist to give you permission to know the things that you already know.
00:21:31.820 The scientists are wrong most of the time anyway.
00:21:35.900 Speaking of the weird trans stuff, there is a young teenager, really sad story, California teenager who was exposed to some naked man.
00:21:44.940 At the YMCA while she was getting changed.
00:21:49.360 This is Rebecca Phillips, just 17 years old.
00:21:52.380 She explained this disgusting situation during public comments at the January 11th Santee City Council meeting.
00:22:00.340 My name is Rebecca Phillips and I'm 17 years old.
00:22:03.620 I am not a resident of Santee, but I am employed at a local restaurant, the Omelette Factory.
00:22:09.100 And I work out regularly at the Santee YMCA.
00:22:12.600 Just two weeks ago, after finishing my shift at my job, I went to the gym to swim laps.
00:22:19.000 As I was showering after my workout, I saw a naked male in the women's locker room.
00:22:23.740 I immediately went back into the shower, terrified, and hid behind their flimsy excuse for a curtain until he was gone.
00:22:30.460 I ran into a bathroom stall to change as quickly as I could, organizing my thoughts to share with the people at the front desk.
00:22:37.520 When I asked the YMCA management what their policy was regarding transgenders, they confirmed that the man that I saw was indeed allowed to shower wherever he pleased.
00:22:46.240 As long as you are not a red flag on Megan's Law, the California Sex Offender Registry, a grown male can shower alongside a teenage girl at your YMCA location here in Santee.
00:22:59.060 I was made to feel as though I had done something wrong when I talked to people at the YMCA.
00:23:03.300 An absurd story.
00:23:06.520 Obviously, this teenage girl should not be made to shower with naked dudes because those dudes happen to have some sexual perversion that makes them derive pleasure out of pretending to be a woman and stripping down in front of little girls.
00:23:21.140 Obviously, that is the case.
00:23:23.220 And she says, you know, I was made to feel wrong about my natural feelings of disgust and fear at seeing some dude stripped down naked in the girls' room.
00:23:31.940 I was made to feel wrong like that's bigoted, like that's prejudiced.
00:23:34.660 Obviously, that's not wrong.
00:23:35.600 Obviously, she's right.
00:23:37.900 She, this girl, with her natural prejudices is right.
00:23:41.620 And most of the scientific establishment today that pushes this woke PC line of transgenderism in all their lab coats with all their microscopes, they're completely wrong.
00:23:51.680 Like they are wrong a lot of the time.
00:23:53.600 Like they were wrong about what they told us about COVID and the vaccines and lobotomies and leeching and so many of the other wacky scientific theories that have come up over time.
00:24:06.940 So, girl, 100% right.
00:24:08.900 Not her fault at all.
00:24:09.880 Now, I have a, I think a deeper reaction to this that I haven't heard anyone else bring up and it's probably going to be controversial and Media Matters is probably clipping this out right now.
00:24:21.560 But I don't care because I think actually the fact that nobody is talking about this is why conservatives so frequently lose in the culture.
00:24:31.340 Why do women go to the YMCA?
00:24:34.660 It's the YMCA.
00:24:37.920 What's that?
00:24:38.580 The Young Men's Christian Association.
00:24:44.120 Why do women go there now?
00:24:45.500 There used to be something like the YWCA, Young Women's Associations.
00:24:53.460 There are gyms for women.
00:24:54.820 There are all sorts of things for women.
00:24:56.460 Why is it now that everything has to be totally mixed?
00:24:59.380 I'm not saying it's this girl's fault.
00:25:03.140 Why did this girl go to the YMCA?
00:25:04.560 No, she was invited to the YMCA.
00:25:05.980 She's probably a member at the YMCA.
00:25:07.660 I'm asking why does the YMCA admit women?
00:25:10.460 And why does our culture want women to go to the YMCA?
00:25:14.420 Why can't there be separate spaces in certain fields for men and for women?
00:25:21.160 Well, because increasingly we're told that men and women are not different, they're not complementary, they're interchangeable.
00:25:30.560 And it's not just the libs who believe that.
00:25:32.600 The libs are the ones who pushed it.
00:25:34.360 But many conservatives have accepted that as the truth.
00:25:39.840 And what conservatives do is we always just fight the craziest, newest symptom of a cultural error that goes much, much deeper.
00:25:50.520 So what you'll hear conservatives say is, well, listen, I don't care about what weird sex stuff you all do.
00:25:58.560 And I don't care about gay marriage.
00:26:01.160 I don't care about feminism.
00:26:02.300 I don't care about this, that, and the other thing.
00:26:04.480 Everybody can do whatever they want.
00:26:06.840 And I don't care if a man wants to put on a dress and get his body chopped up by a doctor if he's over 18.
00:26:12.240 I don't care about any of that.
00:26:13.420 But don't do it with the kids.
00:26:16.740 Yeah, I don't care about, listen, I don't care if you go in and read a bunch of stories in a crazy sexualized outfit as part of Drag Queen Story Hour to fifth graders.
00:26:27.920 But don't do it to third graders.
00:26:30.140 That was actually the argument in Florida.
00:26:31.500 When Florida, which, good on Florida, they went out and they banned this kind of weird grooming trans education stuff in elementary schools.
00:26:41.140 They only did it from pre-K through the third grade.
00:26:44.860 In fact, one of the jokey ways to refer to the bill was the wait till eight bill.
00:26:50.780 And then starting at nine years old, then you can be exposed to all this kind of transgender propaganda.
00:26:56.620 Just don't do it to the eight-year-olds.
00:26:58.840 Okay, well, maybe to the eight-year-olds, but don't do it to the five-year-olds.
00:27:01.560 Okay, five.
00:27:02.100 Well, don't trans the two-year-olds.
00:27:03.520 And we just keep retreating.
00:27:04.680 But transgenderism is the natural consequence of this fundamental error that men and women are interchangeable.
00:27:13.140 And that's an error that goes back not just to gay marriage.
00:27:16.800 That's an error that goes back not just to the gay rights movement of the 1990s.
00:27:20.740 That's an error that goes back, at the very least, to feminism.
00:27:24.760 Because all of these movements take part of the same faulty premise.
00:27:30.240 Feminism says a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
00:27:32.440 Men and women are exactly the same.
00:27:33.660 The only difference is that our bodies look a little bit different.
00:27:37.000 And even then, that's not a big deal.
00:27:39.640 Okay, if that's true, then obviously you're going to have the normalization of homosexual relations.
00:27:46.020 If a man and a woman is the same thing as a man and a man, the same thing as a woman and as a woman, then it's all the same.
00:27:52.200 And if you're going to do that, then you have to redefine marriage.
00:27:54.040 And if you're going to do that, if a man and a woman are exactly the same, then why the hell can't that guy shower in the locker room with a 17-year-old girl?
00:28:02.940 Why not?
00:28:03.520 Men and women are exactly the same.
00:28:05.060 Oh, okay, you're willing to admit finally that men and women are not exactly the same.
00:28:08.660 Well, then how far back are you going to take that?
00:28:10.360 Are you going to take that back to men and women have different roles within a marriage, that marriage therefore has a special meaning and that sexual difference is at the heart of that, that men and women have different roles within a political community and within society?
00:28:27.580 Are you willing to say that?
00:28:28.880 Even many conservatives probably would not want to do that because it's not just the libs.
00:28:34.980 One problem is conservatives are very often just fighting for the liberal position five years ago.
00:28:43.920 And that's why we keep losing.
00:28:45.680 Now, speaking of marriage and weird sex stuff, there's a headline.
00:28:49.580 This is pretty bad.
00:28:51.100 This is pretty bad.
00:28:51.980 It's gone viral.
00:28:54.600 And I have a take on it.
00:28:56.880 Today's show is going to be called Michael's Unpopular Opinions.
00:29:00.640 But why not?
00:29:02.100 That's what we're here.
00:29:02.620 I'm not here to pander to you, okay?
00:29:04.320 I'm not here to sugarcoat you and throw you only what you want to hear.
00:29:07.880 I'm here to tell you the hard truth as I see it.
00:29:10.080 So this is a headline.
00:29:11.360 Exclusive.
00:29:12.940 Daily Mail.
00:29:14.460 Husband of Tennessee cop gone wild, Megan Hall, stands by his wife and tries to salvage their marriage after she was fired for having sordid sex romps with six colleagues as she shrugs off the scandal and says,
00:29:29.860 it's time to move on.
00:29:31.320 She's 26, and her husband is 28, and she slept around with a lot of guys.
00:29:43.680 So someone writes to me, because I've spoken on the show about how I don't think divorce is good and should be avoided pretty much at all costs.
00:29:51.420 Though in certain instances, if a woman or her children face the threat of violence, say, a separation, a physical separation might be permitted or even morally required.
00:30:03.180 But divorce, per se, is very bad, I think.
00:30:08.880 So someone writes and says, hey, Michael, in the case of this article going around about the woman who cuckled at her husband six times with his colleagues, do you think that's sufficient grounds for divorce?
00:30:18.180 And the answer, the real hard answer, strange as it may sound to our modern culture, no.
00:30:25.740 No, that's not sufficient grounds for divorce, at least as far as I see it.
00:30:30.180 At least as far as the traditional Christian teaching is.
00:30:32.880 The traditional Christian teaching on divorce, which is still believed by the Catholic Church and many, if not most, Protestants and Christians around the world, is that there is no good reason for divorce, basically.
00:30:48.520 Again, in certain limited circumstances, there could be an argument for a kind of a separation, and I'm not denying that.
00:30:54.060 But that there is no good reason for divorce, and I'm somewhat surprised that people are so surprised by this, because this was standard Christian teaching until relatively recently.
00:31:10.140 And when I say relatively recently, by the scope of Christianity, I mean the past few recent centuries.
00:31:17.640 Some Protestants have argued that divorce is good in certain cases or can be permitted.
00:31:22.000 But I don't really see why this is so shocking.
00:31:27.860 It's kind of like when you bring up abortion, and people say, well, do you oppose abortion?
00:31:33.340 You say, yes.
00:31:34.480 I say, well, do you oppose abortion?
00:31:36.820 What about in the case of rape and incest?
00:31:40.660 It's really the same thing, right?
00:31:41.840 When we're talking about incest, almost always we're talking about rape.
00:31:44.820 So what about in the case of rape?
00:31:45.960 And you say, well, that's a very hard case.
00:31:48.280 I agree.
00:31:48.720 It accounts for way less than 1% of the abortions that happen every single year.
00:31:54.100 But my premise is that human life has value from the very beginning, and it's wrong to kill people.
00:32:00.800 And also, killing your baby is not going to make up for a terrible crime that was committed against you.
00:32:06.580 It's not going to make you feel better.
00:32:07.880 It's probably going to make you feel worse.
00:32:09.220 It's not going to bring justice to your rapist at all.
00:32:11.080 It's just going to commit an injustice against a little baby.
00:32:13.320 And so from my premise that human life has value from the very beginning, I have to conclude that abortion is not permissible, period.
00:32:22.200 It's the same thing here.
00:32:22.860 If you're arguing that marriage is the perpetual union of a man and a woman for the good of the spouses and the sake of the education and generation of children, then that's that.
00:32:32.560 If your premise is that marriage is indissoluble, meaning if you find out that the marriage was fraudulent in some way, that a husband was actually hiding that he was previously married, or the spouses didn't mean their vows when they said their vows, or there was some element of fraud.
00:32:52.380 You could have an investigation that's called annulment, meaning the marriage was null from the first place.
00:32:56.820 But if you really believe that marriage is indissoluble, what God has joined, let no man separate, then you just can't support divorce.
00:33:03.740 In recent centuries, some Protestants have pointed to the so-called acceptive clause in the Gospel according to St. Matthew, which says that except for the case of porneia, which is sometimes translated as adultery or unchastity or other things,
00:33:20.680 except for the case of divorce is no good, and they say, well, this is an exception.
00:33:25.840 This is a novel argument from the perspective of historical Christianity.
00:33:29.920 The line does not appear in the Gospels of St. Mark and St. Luke.
00:33:33.700 It does not appear in the writing of St. Paul.
00:33:36.480 The meaning of the word porneia is quite controversial.
00:33:40.700 I don't think it means what people say that it means.
00:33:42.880 I don't find this argument particularly persuasive.
00:33:45.340 But it's these hard cases that really allow you to see your premise.
00:33:52.020 In the case of abortion, do you really believe that life has value from the very beginning and that people are people no matter how small and it's wrong to kill people?
00:33:58.920 Okay, then you've got to stand firm on that even in the hard cases.
00:34:03.300 Do you really believe?
00:34:04.180 You conservatives who say, I support marriage, I support family values.
00:34:07.200 Do you really believe that marriage is indissoluble?
00:34:09.060 Even if, look, it's a fallen world, we all make mistakes, we've all had tough situations happen to us, I'm not shaming anybody for being divorced, half of marriages end in divorce.
00:34:19.140 But in the principle of the thing, do you really believe that?
00:34:22.900 Well, if you really believe that, then this cop who's trying to work it out with his wife who's got problems, that cop is doing the right thing.
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00:36:04.800 Speaking of the marital embrace, there's a new statue in Boston of Martin Luther King.
00:36:11.380 I think, I guess.
00:36:14.500 The statue is getting a lot of play online because some have said, there are two theories on what it looks like.
00:36:25.640 Some have said that it looks like, it's just, I guess it's just arms interwoven together.
00:36:31.920 Some have said that from certain angles, it looks like a man engaged in another kind of embrace,
00:36:39.480 which is not as wholesome as the embrace of two arms.
00:36:44.320 That's one.
00:36:45.100 Some have said it looks like a man holding up a part of one's body that is not an arm.
00:36:52.380 And some have said that it looks like a guy hoisting up excrement.
00:37:00.340 That I'm trying to clean up all the jokes that I've seen online about this very, very ugly statue.
00:37:06.460 But apparently, according to the artist, it is a statue commemorating an embrace between Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta King.
00:37:15.900 And the sculptor Hank Willis Thomas says that he saw this 1964 photo of MLK wrapping Coretta up for a hug after hearing that he'd won the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:37:27.620 And so, this modern artist decided to depict this in a sculpture only with the arms.
00:37:34.700 And it's really, really ugly.
00:37:38.440 Why is it ugly?
00:37:39.560 Most people don't seem to identify why the sculpture is ugly.
00:37:42.680 The sculpture is ugly because it is grotesque.
00:37:46.560 And the sculpture is grotesque in precisely the way that modernity is grotesque.
00:37:53.420 Which is that it forgets that people are supposed to have heads and chests.
00:38:02.260 So, the modern art is depicting people as just weird limbs disconnected from the rest of the body.
00:38:10.520 Disconnected from the most important parts of the body.
00:38:13.620 The mind that makes us rational.
00:38:16.560 And the chest, which gives us spiritedness.
00:38:19.860 Which represents courage.
00:38:22.220 Which represents our beating heart.
00:38:25.000 The lifeblood moving through us.
00:38:26.980 Modernity doesn't view men through the lens of heads and chests.
00:38:31.800 C.S. Lewis wrote a very, very famous work on men without chests.
00:38:36.880 Men who lose their spiritedness.
00:38:38.920 Men who lose their manliness.
00:38:40.980 And the whole culture seems to have lost its head.
00:38:42.780 Has completely lost its reason.
00:38:44.320 That's why we let men go into the girls' room.
00:38:45.880 And why we listen to what stupid Dr. Fauci has to say.
00:38:48.580 Okay.
00:38:49.540 So, people know intuitively that modern art is ugly and grotesque and we don't like it.
00:38:56.960 And yet, we keep seeing so much more of it.
00:38:58.860 Why is that?
00:39:00.020 One, it's because of the absolute perversion of the people who happen to be in power.
00:39:04.940 But two, it's because we often fail to give perfectly rational explanations of why modern art is so ugly.
00:39:12.360 But we all know it's ugly.
00:39:14.920 You look at a 14th century cathedral and you look at the embrace, this weird melange of arms kind of scooping together.
00:39:23.900 We know that one is more beautiful than the other.
00:39:25.800 Look at the pieta.
00:39:26.780 Look at the embrace.
00:39:27.580 Tell me which one's more beautiful.
00:39:28.580 Look at beautiful gothic buildings.
00:39:34.500 Look at ugly modern skyscraper type buildings.
00:39:37.220 We know that the former are more beautiful than the latter.
00:39:41.160 But we don't trust our own prejudices.
00:39:43.740 We don't trust our own gut.
00:39:46.140 Our gut is right more often than our scientists are.
00:39:50.960 That is a fact.
00:39:51.880 Rudyard Kipling wrote a great, great piece on this.
00:39:54.200 A great poem.
00:39:55.460 The gods of the copy book headings.
00:39:57.280 And wise people throughout all of human history have understood that time-tested wisdom,
00:40:03.580 the wisdom of the tradition, is 99 times out of 100 at least going to be better than whatever newfangled idea happens to pop into your head.
00:40:14.260 This is why I'm often defending traditional conservatism as opposed to different brands of conservatism like neoconservatism or libertarianism,
00:40:25.860 which is often lumped in with conservatism.
00:40:27.440 I often go back to traditional conservative views with an emphasis on tradition.
00:40:33.460 Not because I think that a practice that has been done for a long time is the be-all and end-all
00:40:39.760 and that any old practice ought to be continued into perpetuity,
00:40:43.140 but just because I trust the wisdom of the countless generations of men who came before us
00:40:49.860 more than I trust the prideful ideas of some over-credentialed, under-educated dummy in a lab coat.
00:40:57.240 Speaking of modern artists, Hunter Biden.
00:41:02.860 Breaking news, Hunter Biden, still not a great guy.
00:41:06.780 Not a great guy.
00:41:07.680 There is a story that's being reported now.
00:41:12.000 Hunter Biden is trying to prevent his illegitimate daughter from using the Biden family name as her own name.
00:41:19.700 The girl's mother, Hunter's baby mama, Ms. Roberts, just asked the circuit court judge Holly Meyer
00:41:29.240 for her daughter's last name to be changed to Biden.
00:41:31.920 Why would she want her daughter's last name changed to Biden?
00:41:34.380 Because she says this would allow her daughter to, quote,
00:41:37.080 benefit from carrying the Biden family name.
00:41:39.320 Biden name is now synonymous with being well-educated, successful, financially acute, and politically powerful.
00:41:45.460 Now, some of those things are true.
00:41:49.240 I don't think all of those things are true.
00:41:51.660 Well-educated, I don't know about that.
00:41:54.100 Certainly politically powerful, certainly successful, financially clever, that's certainly true.
00:42:00.420 Hunter Biden now going to court to try to stop this.
00:42:04.260 Hunter has denied that he's the father of this child.
00:42:08.260 Hunter has tried not to pay child support for the child.
00:42:11.980 Hunter and his entire family have refused to acknowledge the child.
00:42:16.100 Joe Biden won't acknowledge his own granddaughter.
00:42:19.500 Hunter then went back to court, tried to lower the child support payments that he is required to make.
00:42:24.280 This is Hunter Biden who's selling his hideous modern art canvases for half a million dollars apiece.
00:42:31.020 And Hunter says he can't pay the full child support that he owes to his daughter.
00:42:34.960 And now he wants to prevent her from taking his family name.
00:42:38.720 And the most shameless part of Hunter's latest slight against his daughter also happens probably to be the truest,
00:42:50.520 which is that the argument that Hunter Biden and his lawyers are making in court is that the girl should not take the Biden family name
00:42:56.800 because the Biden family name is a disgrace.
00:43:00.480 That's the actual argument.
00:43:02.180 Hunter's lawyers are saying that if this little girl takes the Hunter Biden name,
00:43:06.780 she's going to be attacked for it, she's going to be smeared in the press,
00:43:10.420 that it's going to make her life worse.
00:43:13.280 And I don't think that the argument that Hunter's lawyers are making is the actual reason that he's trying to prevent her from taking the Biden name.
00:43:21.000 I think the Bidens are trying to keep her from using the family name because that would then,
00:43:25.620 if she used the name, it would require the press and everybody to acknowledge that she actually is one of Joe Biden's grandchildren
00:43:32.780 and the family wants to do whatever it can to ignore this girl, neglect this girl, not acknowledge that she exists.
00:43:39.860 Joe Biden puts up stockings at the White House for all of his grandchildren.
00:43:43.640 He doesn't include this poor girl.
00:43:46.540 Could you imagine you're growing up, your grandfather's the president of the United States,
00:43:49.940 and he refuses to acknowledge that you even exist?
00:43:53.960 Could you imagine how that would make you feel?
00:43:55.760 That's a really terrible thing to do.
00:43:57.320 And Joe Biden, who sometimes has a reputation, he's always a nice guy, everybody likes Joe,
00:44:01.760 that's a really cruel, nasty thing to do to your own little grandchild.
00:44:06.160 So I think that's why the Biden family is doing it.
00:44:08.440 But the argument that they're making, I think, accidentally happens to be correct.
00:44:11.740 The Biden family name is an absolute disgrace.
00:44:15.300 And they are a representative of a whole modern liberal culture that is shallow, that is nasty, that is corrupt.
00:44:24.520 They are a byword for that.
00:44:26.260 I agree.
00:44:26.700 If I were the girl, I might not want the name either.
00:44:29.440 Probably want the perks that go along with it.
00:44:31.060 And I'd like the name to at least force the family to acknowledge my own existence.
00:44:35.380 But Hunter's lawyers accidentally probably happen to be correct.
00:44:39.040 That Biden name sure is a disgrace.
00:44:42.680 Now, today is Music Monday, which means that I'm going to have to channel all of my genius powers of cultural criticism.
00:44:50.380 I'm a hip-hop mogul, man.
00:44:51.580 You know me.
00:44:52.400 I'm really hip to the jive on the cool modern culture.
00:44:55.260 So we've got a song that I will be reacting to over in the member block.
00:44:58.240 The rest of the show continues.
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