The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1164 - Global Elites Gather To Plan How We Will Live Our Lives

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00:00:30.280 The liberal global elite have descended from their private jets into a luxurious little town

00:00:35.500 high up in the Swiss Alps for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum,

00:00:40.160 where they hope to plan how all the rest of us will live.

00:00:43.740 But if you say that, you will be called a crazy right-wing conspiracy theorist, unless you're John Kerry.

00:00:52.040 When you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we, a select group of human

00:00:59.360 beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room

00:01:06.640 and come together and actually talk about saving the planet.

00:01:11.700 I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about, quote, saving the planet. 0.90

00:01:17.860 And if you said that to most people, most people, they think you're just a crazy tree-hugging,

00:01:22.080 lefty, liberal, you know, do-gooder, whatever. 0.63

00:01:25.460 And there's no relationship.

00:01:27.220 But really, that's where we are.

00:01:29.800 For the record, John, I do not think that you people are do-gooders.

00:01:34.920 I think you are do-batters, okay?

00:01:37.080 I am half convinced that you are all extraterrestrials, but I am not convinced about the do-gooder thing.

00:01:43.480 What I'm most convinced about, that John Kerry said, is that these people are elite.

00:01:49.280 They are a select group of people, where the select pass the caviar. 0.81

00:01:55.560 And they want to become the masters of our collective future.

00:01:59.200 But if you say that, you will be called a crazy right-wing conspiracy theorist.

00:02:03.640 Unless you're the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab.

00:02:08.420 What does it need to master the future?

00:02:12.500 I think to have a platform where all stakeholders of global society are engaged.

00:02:22.660 Governments, business, civil societies, young generation, and I could go on.

00:02:28.340 I think it's the first step to meet all the challenges.

00:02:37.560 This is how we will master the future.

00:02:40.600 So what we know from their own words is they're elites.

00:02:43.860 They meet up in a wealthy, inaccessible ski resort town surrounded by the Swiss military and a private police force.

00:02:50.680 And they intend to reorder the entire world.

00:02:54.680 If you acknowledge all those things to celebrate them, that's perfectly fine.

00:03:01.420 Then you are an insightful participant in the progressive society of the future.

00:03:06.940 But if you point out those facts to criticize them, you are a conspiracist kook and a danger to mankind. 0.78

00:03:15.320 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:20.680 Welcome back to The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:25.880 My favorite comment yesterday is from Johnny S.

00:03:28.980 Who says, make our eggs on gas stoves in the morning? 0.99

00:03:33.480 Damn, Michael, we're not all millionaires like you. 0.99

00:03:36.140 You make a really great point. 0.99

00:03:37.880 Because when I would go shopping for eggs back when I was a bachelor,

00:03:42.280 I'd go and eggs would cost a dollar or maybe two dollars.

00:03:46.920 And then just the other day, sweet little Elisa brought this up to me.

00:03:50.180 She said, Mac. 0.88

00:03:51.280 I was complaining about how the prices of something had gone up.

00:03:53.780 She says, Mac, do you know what we pay for eggs?

00:03:56.420 I said, do I want to know?

00:03:57.280 She goes, you don't want to know, Mac.

00:03:59.640 And you know, she likes the fancy eggs, the eggs with the college education. 0.68

00:04:03.320 And so I will go bankrupt on the eggs.

00:04:07.220 You're right.

00:04:07.660 It won't matter if they take my gas stove away from me.

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00:05:36.320 A lot of kooky stuff being talked about at the World Economic Forum.

00:05:40.420 This is my favorite though.

00:05:42.440 You know they talk about how we're going to eat the bugs.

00:05:45.440 It's not a conspiracy theory.

00:05:46.980 That's from the World Economic Forum website.

00:05:49.140 You know they talk about how we're not going to get to drive our cars.

00:05:53.640 That's not a conspiracy theory.

00:05:55.240 That's from the World Economic Forum website.

00:05:58.160 You know they talk about how we're not going to own anything.

00:06:00.320 We're going to have no property and we're going to be really, really happy about that.

00:06:03.320 Not a conspiracy theory from the World Economic Forum website.

00:06:05.920 But the agenda item that always seems to pop up, not just among the Davos crowds, specifically at the World Economic Forum, but it always pops up among the liberal elite.

00:06:22.160 Overpopulation.

00:06:24.940 Overpopulation.

00:06:25.780 The idea that there are too many people in the world.

00:06:29.600 We've got to stop having any more babies. 1.00

00:06:31.240 We've got to maybe hurry along the people who are already in the world to their final destination here.

00:06:39.380 That remains a top agenda item, even as it has been disproven time and time again for 50 years now, disproven.

00:06:48.380 The World Economic Forum admits this, that overpopulation has been kind of disproven, and then doubles down on it anyway.

00:06:56.520 They say, even as birth rates decline, overpopulation remains a global challenge.

00:07:03.800 And they have this graph here.

00:07:05.380 It says, Malthus didn't see this one coming.

00:07:07.600 We're referring to the Malthusian idea that there are too many people in the world and we need to reduce the population.

00:07:12.980 They say, the vision of a post-apocalyptic overpopulated world has been a favorite nightmare scenario of science fiction writers and filmmakers for decades.

00:07:20.300 But data from a variety of sources, including the UN and the World Bank, indicate that the total number of live births is falling around the world, including in developing nations and developed nations.

00:07:33.600 Some commentators have suggested the decrease in fertility rates is good news for our descendants.

00:07:38.820 In previous generations, national birth rates were high.

00:07:41.720 However, factors such as new medicine and improved access to education for women have dropped fertility rates.

00:07:49.900 Despite this, though, some regions are still experiencing significant population growth.

00:07:54.380 They're talking about Africa.

00:07:55.480 They're talking about parts of Asia.

00:07:56.860 And so this is a really big problem, and we've got to take care of that.

00:07:59.700 No one who complains about overpopulation has ever been the good guy, ever, in history.

00:08:10.420 If you are complaining about overpopulation, you are on the bad team, okay?

00:08:16.260 None of the people who complain about overpopulation are ever volunteering themselves to take a ticket off the ship, right?

00:08:24.160 It's always that someone else shouldn't have life. 0.58

00:08:25.960 It's always that someone else should hurry along and die.

00:08:28.320 It's never that they themselves want to do that. 0.98

00:08:29.940 They want to go to parties in Davos, and they want to have nice drinks, and they want to have a bunch of hookers, apparently. 1.00

00:08:36.460 According to the reports coming out of Davos, there is just an army of prostitutes descending on the town. 1.00

00:08:42.320 Because it's a big party, and there's more money than sense going around. 0.84

00:08:46.380 Definitely more money than virtue.

00:08:48.220 And so while they have their fun, and they eat their fancy foods, and they drink their fancy drinks,

00:08:52.660 and they do various activities with their fancy ladies of the night,

00:08:56.840 they talk about how you should not even have the right to live.

00:09:02.200 Forget about the right to a gas stove.

00:09:03.820 Forget about the right to eat beef instead of crickets. 1.00

00:09:06.140 Forget about the right to drive your truck instead of some stupid electric car. 1.00

00:09:09.920 Even the right to live, they are going after. 1.00

00:09:14.920 And it's all the usual suspects.

00:09:17.280 And what's amazing is not just the craziest things that they say, but that they try to ground their agenda in political commentary that seems to have a kernel of truth.

00:09:31.700 A great example of this, St. Al.

00:09:33.880 St. Al Gore took to Davos to explain why we've got to cut back on the oil subsidies.

00:09:39.380 Enough already. Enough. 0.96

00:09:42.860 And I don't want to get sidetracked onto what needs to happen, but we need to scale up climate finance.

00:09:49.980 But we need desperately to scale down anti-climate finance.

00:09:54.660 And we are still subsidizing the burning of fossil fuels globally at a rate 42 times larger than the subsidies for the shift toward renewables and EVs, etc.

00:10:07.400 We need new leadership at the World Bank.

00:10:09.760 We need them to scale up the leverage and vastly increase the amounts that are committed.

00:10:16.240 And we need to rein in the anti-climate activities of the fossil industry.

00:10:21.900 So a lot of bluster, a lot of we should do this, we should do that.

00:10:25.580 We need to rein in the oil and we need to rein in the people who support oil.

00:10:30.420 And we need to shut you up and we need everyone to go along with my very unpopular agenda.

00:10:35.000 Sure, that's typical politics.

00:10:37.760 But he made a positive claim here.

00:10:40.360 The claim was that we subsidize oil.

00:10:44.040 And if you just heard that fact, you'd say, well, that seems kind of strange.

00:10:48.420 Oil is a very profitable industry.

00:10:50.380 Why is it that governments around the world, to the tune of, what, half a trillion dollars a year, are subsidizing oil?

00:10:56.080 That seems corrupt.

00:10:57.200 We should probably stop that.

00:10:58.380 Until you ask the basic question, okay, sure, we subsidize oil.

00:11:04.940 Why?

00:11:05.500 Why do we subsidize oil? 0.68

00:11:07.200 And the reason we subsidize oil is so that poor people don't freeze to death in the winter.

00:11:12.560 That's why we subsidize oil. 0.96

00:11:13.940 We don't subsidize oil just because we like the cut of the jib of the CEO of ExxonMobil.

00:11:20.680 The people clamoring for the oil subsidies are people who are poor or advocating on behalf of the poor because people can't afford to heat their homes.

00:11:30.480 People can't afford to fill their gas tanks.

00:11:33.600 Why are we subsidizing oil?

00:11:35.100 We have a National Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

00:11:37.400 Is that a subsidy of oil?

00:11:39.140 Well, it is the state purchasing a lot of oil, but it's for national defense.

00:11:43.160 Which of those things do you want to get rid of?

00:11:45.080 You want the poor people to freeze to death? 1.00

00:11:47.380 Maybe they do.

00:11:48.240 I mean, if you're worried about overpopulation, then maybe you do.

00:11:51.780 You say, well, you know, these people, they just need to go away.

00:11:54.780 I think of Yuval Harari.

00:11:56.060 He's one of the contributors to the World Economic Forum.

00:11:58.660 Some people have called him a kind of philosopher of the World Economic Forum. 0.94

00:12:02.560 Yuval Harari has said that in the future, there's just going to be all these useless people. 0.98

00:12:07.300 All these useless people out there who are just sucking up energy. 0.99

00:12:11.980 And he was asked, how are we going to deal with these useless people? 1.00

00:12:14.400 And his answer was, drugs and video games. 0.99

00:12:17.600 Ply them full of drugs.

00:12:18.900 Keep them kind of busy.

00:12:19.960 Keep them kind of happy.

00:12:21.400 Get them out of the way.

00:12:22.940 That is the view of humanity from the so-called do-gooders, as John Kerry calls them, at the

00:12:28.300 World Economic Forum.

00:12:29.620 And why do they view humanity this way?

00:12:31.880 Because they're standing way high up in the Alps.

00:12:35.200 That's why.

00:12:35.700 It goes back to that old wisdom from G.K.

00:12:37.940 Chesterton, the old Father Brown stories, say, don't pray from the tops of buildings.

00:12:42.480 Don't pray from heights.

00:12:43.780 Because from heights, people look very, very small.

00:12:46.640 People look like bugs.

00:12:47.900 And then you end up wanting to feed them bugs and wanting them to go away and viewing them

00:12:52.040 as a kind of pest that needs to be exterminated because of the peril of overpopulation.

00:12:56.960 When you're down on the ground, when you are a grounded person, when you're looking up,

00:13:02.120 then you can see the heavens and you can see that people are really people and they're

00:13:05.420 full-sized and they look a lot like you.

00:13:07.540 They don't look a lot like the people who go to Davos, at least not to the people who

00:13:13.480 go to Davos.

00:13:15.080 Those people are extraterrestrial as far as Kerry and the rest of those people are concerned.

00:13:20.960 Speaking of fossil fuels, I got to a story a little bit yesterday.

00:13:24.900 I mentioned it.

00:13:26.240 I want to drive it home, which is these gas stoves.

00:13:29.640 You know, the libs threatened to take away our gas stoves in the name of climate change 0.99

00:13:36.440 or energy efficiency or whatever.

00:13:39.100 They tool around in their private jets.

00:13:40.620 They fly all the way to Davos, but they're really worried about you frying your eggs in

00:13:43.560 the morning if you can afford the price of eggs these days.

00:13:47.120 Then they backed off it.

00:13:49.200 There was a public outcry.

00:13:50.320 Even a Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin, came out and said, you're not taking away my gas stove. 1.00

00:13:54.100 This is a stupid idea. 0.99

00:13:55.300 And they said, no, we never wanted to take away your gas stoves, but we got them on tape. 1.00

00:13:58.620 The thing is, the internet is forever.

00:14:00.880 And so we've got the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission just last month

00:14:05.320 coming out and saying, yeah, we very possibly are going to take away your gas stoves.

00:14:10.040 What this whole story is about is not gas, not cooking, not what they're going to make

00:14:17.560 us eat.

00:14:18.200 None of those things specifically.

00:14:19.520 It's about the liberals taking our temperature.

00:14:24.900 In this way, it relates to gas stoves.

00:14:27.100 It's about figuring out what the temperature is.

00:14:30.920 The libs do this all the time. 0.87

00:14:32.600 They float some crazy idea and they say it very confidently and then they wait to see

00:14:37.720 if we'll go along with it.

00:14:38.820 This was the story of COVID.

00:14:40.660 The story of COVID was, okay, there's a virus that came out of China that almost certainly

00:14:47.020 was engineered in a laboratory and very likely was engineered with our money through the

00:14:52.700 very kind of research that we were funding in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:14:56.640 They lied to us about that, but put a pause there anyway.

00:14:59.340 A virus comes out of China and the virus results in, for most people, a mild cough.

00:15:04.900 And sometimes you lose your sense of smell or taste.

00:15:07.340 But for some people, it can be really bad.

00:15:09.420 But for the vast majority of people, it's not that big a deal.

00:15:11.820 And what the libs did was they said, and this came straight out of the World Economic Forum.

00:15:16.380 These are the words of Klaus Schwab.

00:15:17.900 He said, the COVID-19 lockdown presents a rare opportunity to reset our world.

00:15:24.300 And then you had all of these rulers.

00:15:26.840 You had King Charles III, at the time the Prince of Wales, using these exact phrases.

00:15:31.400 You had Joe Biden repeating this kind of phrase.

00:15:33.240 Justin Trudeau in Canada reciting this kind of phrase.

00:15:35.640 The Prime Minister of New Zealand and many other world leaders all saying, okay, we're going

00:15:38.900 to use COVID as an excuse to push through a bunch of policy that we all want to do.

00:15:43.060 So what do they do?

00:15:44.040 The libs come out and they say, okay, because there's this kind of a coronavirus, flu-like

00:15:51.560 kind of virus coming out of China, we're going to completely shut down all your churches. 0.97

00:15:59.100 Okay?

00:15:59.740 Yeah?

00:16:00.180 You're good.

00:16:00.560 And then what did we say?

00:16:01.440 Most people said nothing.

00:16:02.860 They said, okay, well, you have to shut down my churches.

00:16:04.500 I might get a mild cough.

00:16:05.440 So of course you have to take away my right to practice my religion.

00:16:08.300 And yeah, okay.

00:16:09.600 And good.

00:16:10.140 Okay.

00:16:10.400 They're going to go with us.

00:16:11.140 All right.

00:16:11.540 And okay.

00:16:12.360 And we're going to shut down all your jobs and take away your small businesses.

00:16:15.800 And we're going to force you to just buy products from really big businesses.

00:16:18.680 And it's going to represent the largest transfer of wealth in recorded history.

00:16:23.500 And what happened?

00:16:24.780 Some small business owners fought back.

00:16:27.980 Daily Wire fought back as best we could.

00:16:29.820 We actually won a case in the Supreme Court in the vaccine mandate.

00:16:32.880 But overall, what happened?

00:16:34.580 People, they just, okay, they said, all right, we won't go to work.

00:16:37.840 Okay.

00:16:39.160 15 days to slow the spread.

00:16:40.380 15 years to slow the spread.

00:16:41.480 Okay.

00:16:41.800 And then what did the libs do? 0.99

00:16:42.700 They said, okay.

00:16:43.380 And yeah, and you can't see your relatives either.

00:16:45.500 Yeah.

00:16:45.640 Christmas is canceled.

00:16:46.800 You can't go to Christmas.

00:16:47.800 And you can't hug anybody.

00:16:49.320 And you can't, you have to stand six feet away from people.

00:16:51.840 Why?

00:16:52.140 I don't know.

00:16:52.480 And you have to wear a hanky on your face. 0.63

00:16:53.760 If you don't wear a hanky on your face, the whole world, everyone's going to die.

00:16:57.020 Yeah. 0.80

00:16:57.900 Yeah.

00:16:58.120 You're going, okay.

00:16:59.140 All right.

00:16:59.460 And then this vaccine, this extremely risky gene therapy that we've been developing for

00:17:06.920 like five minutes now, you all have to take it.

00:17:09.560 Even if your risk from COVID is statistically nothing.

00:17:13.280 Okay.

00:17:13.780 And you got to take a second one.

00:17:16.600 Hey, Bill, they're doing it.

00:17:19.000 Can you believe, Klaus, can you believe these lemmings are doing it? 1.00

00:17:22.440 That's what they're doing.

00:17:23.460 And so when they floated the gas stove, and obviously it got so much worse with COVID,

00:17:26.920 but when they float the gas stove thing, that's exactly what they're doing.

00:17:30.400 They're saying, man, what's the craziest thing we can say right now that will show our dominance

00:17:36.400 over people and will give us in principle, even more power over their lives.

00:17:40.980 We're going to take away their stoves. 0.99

00:17:43.440 Yeah.

00:17:44.040 We're going to get, we're going to go into their kitchens and take away their stoves. 0.96

00:17:48.320 Are they, are these dummies going to go along with that?

00:17:51.340 And fortunately people said, no, that was the line. 0.99

00:17:54.120 Stab me in the arm with an experimental drug.

00:17:57.400 That was unfortunately not the line. 0.94

00:17:59.340 Make me put a hanky on my face for three years.

00:18:01.200 Unfortunately, that was not the line, but at least the stove was the line.

00:18:03.880 And so they back off a little bit, but they're going to come back at it.

00:18:06.000 They're just constantly recalibrating where your tolerance lies.

00:18:11.000 And then they're going to peg their predations exactly to where that point is.

00:18:16.420 Speaking of taking the temperature, the 2024 presidential race is still going on.

00:18:21.140 A lot of us have forgotten about that, hasn't really been in the news lately, but it is

00:18:26.360 very much in the news again, because one of President Trump's top advisors, who now happens

00:18:31.800 to be the governor of Arkansas, that would be Sarah Sanders, was just brought on a news

00:18:36.740 show.

00:18:37.860 She was asked a simple question.

00:18:39.960 Your old boss, for whom you were one of his closest, most trusted advisors, he's running

00:18:45.540 for president again, do you endorse him?

00:18:48.960 Here is Governor Sanders' answer.

00:18:52.520 Let's look ahead to 2024.

00:18:54.040 Your bio on your official page as governor describes you as a, quote, trusted confidant

00:18:58.480 of President Trump.

00:18:59.860 Have you talked to him about his 24 run?

00:19:01.840 Will you endorse him in that?

00:19:04.760 My focus right now has been on 2022, winning the election in November, preparing through transition

00:19:11.420 and getting ready to take office, as I did this past week.

00:19:14.420 I love the president, have a great relationship with him.

00:19:17.520 I know our country would be infinitely better off if he was in office right now instead of

00:19:21.700 Joe Biden.

00:19:22.560 But right now, my focus isn't 2024.

00:19:25.020 It's focusing here in Arkansas and doing what we can to empower the people of this state

00:19:30.900 and make sure that I'm delivering on the promises that I laid out over the course of the last

00:19:35.060 two years.

00:19:36.000 What kind of timeline would you have for making a decision?

00:19:37.980 Do you want to see who else gets into the primary?

00:19:39.860 Will you wait for the nominee?

00:19:41.420 Again, my focus isn't on 2024.

00:19:45.520 It's on what we can deliver in this legislative session.

00:19:48.960 In other words, I'm not answering your question, Shannon.

00:19:52.760 And I think it's fair enough.

00:19:55.020 I love Sarah Sanders.

00:19:56.580 I thought she was a phenomenal press secretary. 1.00

00:19:58.800 She gets it politically.

00:20:00.900 She's tough.

00:20:01.860 She's smart.

00:20:03.180 I think she's going to make an excellent governor of Arkansas. 1.00

00:20:07.160 And what she's doing here is politically, I think, very wise.

00:20:10.260 She has taken the temperature and she sees that it is not in her political interest to

00:20:16.680 come out for Trump or maybe for any presidential candidate this early.

00:20:21.800 Her constituents don't want to see it, at least I think in her view.

00:20:26.980 Republicans, I'm not sure, want to see it.

00:20:29.420 And Trump, love him as I do.

00:20:32.140 He's not nearly as strong politically as he was two years ago.

00:20:36.400 And so she's just taking that temperature.

00:20:39.620 And this is why I happen to love Sarah Sanders.

00:20:43.340 I think she's a great force for good in American politics. 1.00

00:20:46.060 But even for politicians that I don't think are a force for good, I still pay attention

00:20:50.340 to what they say, especially on questions like this that involve making political predictions,

00:20:55.700 trying to get on the good side of the winner, not getting on the bad side of somebody who

00:21:00.220 might win in another possible world.

00:21:03.980 I pay attention to what they say because if you know a politician's name, 99 times out

00:21:09.260 of 100, that means that politician is a VIP, MVP, A-lister, varsity politician.

00:21:17.260 They are very, very good at being politicians and taking the temperature and knowing where people

00:21:23.860 stand.

00:21:24.220 And so right now, Sarah Sanders is hedging her bets a little bit.

00:21:28.800 And I think that's fair enough.

00:21:30.720 It's totally her right to do that.

00:21:32.260 I don't see any reason to endorse any presidential candidate this early.

00:21:36.440 But I will tell you, if Trump were the dominant force in the Republican Party that he was a

00:21:42.540 couple of years ago and that many people thought he would be in the 2024 race, a lot of people

00:21:46.180 predicted, including potential candidates, predicted that if Trump got in, he would clear the

00:21:50.240 field.

00:21:50.740 That has not happened.

00:21:51.900 And that is being reflected when even some of his closest advisors and supporters are

00:21:57.520 saying, well, I'm going to see how this thing plays out.

00:22:01.200 Speaking of presidents, Joe Biden showed off another one of his talents the other day.

00:22:07.280 Joe Biden has a talent not only for getting himself elected, but Joe Biden, we know, has

00:22:11.380 a talent for storytelling.

00:22:13.280 We know Joe Biden was a genius in school.

00:22:17.920 He graduated with, what did he say, three undergraduate degrees?

00:22:21.600 Did he say he got a full academic scholarship and graduated top of his class?

00:22:26.800 And I don't think, maybe that stuff didn't turn out to be true.

00:22:29.420 He's a great swimmer.

00:22:30.380 You know, he used to go swimming with corn pop.

00:22:31.800 He had very hairy legs.

00:22:33.020 And well, onto all of these talents, Joe Biden apparently is a singer.

00:22:37.500 And for Martin Luther King Day, Joe Biden decided to sing happy birthday to Martin Luther King's

00:22:45.920 daughter-in-law.

00:22:46.940 Well, look, my wife has a rule in her family. 1.00

00:22:50.900 When somebody's birthday, sing happy birthday.

00:22:52.760 You ready?

00:22:53.760 Happy birthday to you.

00:22:57.600 Happy birthday to you.

00:23:01.000 Happy birthday, dear Alan.

00:23:04.980 Happy birthday to you.

00:23:07.880 Not exactly Marilyn Monroe to Jack Kennedy.

00:23:12.080 And what I love about Biden's rendition is how human it was, because we've all done that.

00:23:17.600 If we're at a birthday party or, you know, we're in a restaurant, let's say someone goes

00:23:21.840 over and sings happy birthday and you, maybe you join in, but you don't know the person's

00:23:25.600 name.

00:23:25.760 So you say, happy birthday, dear Alan.

00:23:28.360 Except Biden did that singing alone.

00:23:32.240 The idea, when you sing that in a group, the idea is that the people who do know the person's

00:23:37.120 name will drown it out.

00:23:38.140 But Joe Biden is singing this alone into a microphone and he's the president of the United

00:23:41.640 States and he has no idea what this woman's name is. 1.00

00:23:44.560 No one forced him to sing this song.

00:23:46.460 This was his own idea.

00:23:48.140 Clearly losing his touch a little bit.

00:23:50.660 Shows you something else too, though.

00:23:53.140 You know, I didn't really talk about Martin Luther King Day, which is one of the St.

00:23:57.840 saintly feasts in the liberal liturgical calendar.

00:24:01.680 It goes along with Women's History Month, Black History Month, Gay Pride Month.

00:24:07.700 The gay pride actually gets two months now.

00:24:09.540 They get June and October.

00:24:11.160 All these different months.

00:24:13.300 And just as liturgical calendars have holy months, they also have holy days and feasts.

00:24:18.520 And one of the prominent ones for the liberals is St. Martin Luther King Day.

00:24:22.760 And one of the reasons I don't acknowledge the day is that nobody really cares about Martin

00:24:28.460 Luther King.

00:24:29.420 Everybody pretends to care about Martin Luther King, but nobody actually cares about Martin

00:24:33.480 Luther King.

00:24:34.140 And certainly not the people who most exploit his name.

00:24:37.600 Like Joe Biden showing up at, I believe, an event for the National Action Network, Al Sharpton's

00:24:43.900 shakedown organization.

00:24:45.120 And he goes there and he pretends that he fought with the civil rights activists.

00:24:49.400 And he makes up all these stories.

00:24:51.140 And he was out there marching on Washington with corn pop or whatever.

00:24:54.280 And he said, oh, Martin Luther King means so much to me.

00:24:56.480 And his daughter-in-law means so much to me.

00:24:58.200 What's your name?

00:24:58.740 Shama-la-ma-hala-la-la.

00:24:59.820 I don't know.

00:25:00.220 Whatever.

00:25:00.960 Anyway, I love black people.

00:25:03.660 Give me money.

00:25:04.220 Support me. 0.98

00:25:04.680 If you don't vote for me, you're not black. 0.99

00:25:07.120 Happy Martin Luther King Day. 0.97

00:25:08.460 If you don't vote for me, I'm depriving you of your racial identity. 1.00

00:25:12.060 It's just so pathetic. 1.00

00:25:13.760 It's just pure pandering. 0.99

00:25:16.480 And I have to tell you, I am delighted on those occasions when he's caught doing it.

00:25:22.140 Happy birthday, Jack.

00:25:25.980 Happy birthday here, Jack Corn Pop.

00:25:28.540 Come on, man.

00:25:29.560 You know.

00:25:29.940 Happy birthday, someone who better vote for me. 0.90

00:25:31.660 Speaking of racial politics, San Francisco has solved racism.

00:25:36.420 It's over now.

00:25:38.080 We can pack it up.

00:25:38.820 We don't need Martin Luther King Day anymore.

00:25:40.480 We don't need any statues of weird arms grabbing onto various appendages or fecal sorts of things or genital sculptures.

00:25:51.580 We don't, you know, the one in Boston.

00:25:52.860 We don't need that anymore because San Francisco cured racism.

00:25:56.120 Had they cure it, they're going to give black people $5 million. 0.99

00:26:01.060 And then it's cured. 0.74

00:26:02.420 I hope.

00:26:03.440 I certainly hope so.

00:26:04.520 San Francisco Reparations Committee proposed a plan to city officials last month that would pay long-time black residents of Northern California,

00:26:14.480 metropolitan city, $5 million each while granting total debt forgiveness for decades of systematic repression.

00:26:28.600 I have to remind you, I don't know if you're a history buff or not, but when you look at slavery and the history of California,

00:26:38.060 one of the funny things is California never had slavery.

00:26:42.280 It's one of the most notable states in the country that never had slavery because, in fact, the slavery question into California was one of the causes of the Civil War,

00:26:50.640 which ended slavery over 150 years ago, I would remind you.

00:26:54.820 So people in California who were never slaves are going to make $5 million each paid for by a state that never had slavery.

00:27:06.800 San Francisco African-American Reparations Advisory Committee just submitted this report to the Board of Supervisors.

00:27:15.440 They say, quote,

00:27:16.860 Centuries of harm and destruction of black lives, black bodies, and black communities should be met with centuries of repair. 1.00

00:27:24.300 If you look at San Francisco, it's very much a tale of two cities. 0.85

00:27:27.820 San Francisco is a tale of two cities.

00:27:30.020 It's a tale of the tech oligarchs and heroin addicts.

00:27:34.380 The tale of two cities is not broken down evenly on race.

00:27:38.080 It's broken down on the zillionaire rich kids who became tech oligarchs and the people who are hooked on drugs that those very same tech oligarchs are encouraging to do the drugs

00:27:50.780 and handing them all needles and letting them languish in the streets and die of exposure.

00:27:54.960 If you wanted reparations or really if you just wanted a kind of social welfare policy, you'd probably target those people. 0.96

00:28:01.260 You probably wouldn't pay $5 million to every single black person in a city that never had slavery.

00:28:06.660 Now, why is it $5 million?

00:28:08.080 I know exactly why the committee recommended $5 million.

00:28:12.260 What were they going to do?

00:28:14.240 What were they going to do?

00:28:15.160 This issue is so absurd.

00:28:18.720 The issue is so purely emotional and so devoid of reason for the reasons I've just mentioned and others

00:28:26.540 that these people on the committee must be terrified that if they offered a number that was too low, they'd be called racists.

00:28:34.400 They'd be said to make light of slavery.

00:28:37.940 They came back and they said, okay, look, slavery, we've done the calculation.

00:28:41.540 And because some people, maybe a small number of the people in the city, the black people,

00:28:48.180 maybe some of their ancestors were slaves at some point like 150 years ago or 200 years ago or 300 years ago.

00:28:58.120 And so by my calculation, we're going to give you $10,000.

00:29:02.220 Oh, that wouldn't cut it.

00:29:04.720 Raises another question.

00:29:05.800 What about the many black people who also descend from slave owners?

00:29:10.180 Does it cancel out?

00:29:11.540 If a black person descends from a slave owner, when I think of the first officially declared slave for life,

00:29:23.120 arbitrarily declared slave for life, not for punishment for a crime or something like that. 0.85

00:29:28.160 The first arbitrarily declared slave for life in America was a black guy.

00:29:34.020 This was in Virginia. 0.55

00:29:35.660 And the first arbitrarily declared slave owner was also a black guy.

00:29:40.420 He was a black Angolan guy.

00:29:41.820 So if you're a black person and you descend from that black guy who was the first judicially announced slave owner in America,

00:29:50.280 do you have to pay reparations? 0.88

00:29:52.020 You certainly shouldn't get reparations.

00:29:54.180 What if you descend from both of those guys?

00:29:55.640 Does it cancel out and it's even?

00:29:57.480 Let's say it's $5 million.

00:29:59.260 Okay, that's it.

00:30:00.460 I could get behind that plan.

00:30:03.100 I don't know how many black people in San Fran qualify for this. 0.60

00:30:06.780 I don't know.

00:30:07.220 Let's say it's, it could be a lot of people.

00:30:09.560 You know, 10 people, that's $50 million.

00:30:12.000 I'm no mathematician.

00:30:13.660 100 people, $500 million.

00:30:15.820 1,000 people, $5 billion.

00:30:22.300 10,000 people, $50 billion.

00:30:24.100 I don't care.

00:30:24.460 I don't care what the number is.

00:30:25.300 Let's say it's $50 billion.

00:30:27.580 Chump change compared to what we send over to Ukraine. 0.96

00:30:31.520 I'd be willing to spend it.

00:30:32.800 If I were convinced that $50 billion could solve America's racial obsession, 0.57

00:30:40.600 oh, that would be a great investment.

00:30:42.120 I'd be totally fine with that.

00:30:43.160 I don't care.

00:30:43.940 That's fine. 0.94

00:30:44.480 Government wastes money on all sorts of nonsense.

00:30:46.520 $50 billion? 0.69

00:30:47.260 Great.

00:30:49.240 Will that do it?

00:30:50.280 Will, will the $5 million payments in San Francisco cause everyone to shut up about racism from now on?

00:31:00.160 And I never want to hear it again.

00:31:01.520 I don't want to hear one gripe.

00:31:02.840 I don't want to hear one passive aggressive comment about how terrible America is.

00:31:07.520 Not, I think that should be the plan.

00:31:10.560 This is the requirement.

00:31:11.380 I endorse the San Francisco Reparations Committee's plans.

00:31:14.140 I encourage other, other municipalities around the country,

00:31:18.300 maybe even the federal government to follow it.

00:31:20.880 X amount of money, anybody who can make a plausible claim that they descended from slavery

00:31:25.740 and their ancestors were oppressed or whatever,

00:31:28.240 they get a huge amount of money if they sign on the dotted line

00:31:32.620 that they will never, ever again open their yaps about the evils of systemic oppression

00:31:38.820 and how they could never make anything of their lives

00:31:40.560 because their great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granduncle

00:31:44.600 was a slave at some point in the past.

00:31:46.980 Fine by me.

00:31:48.060 That's great.

00:31:48.680 That's my slavery reparations plan.

00:31:52.140 I am totally for it.

00:31:53.680 It's just like how the Knowles prenup plan, I endorse prenups

00:31:56.800 if the prenup says that whichever party ends the marriage forfeits all the rights to the house 0.59

00:32:03.340 and the money and the kids.

00:32:04.560 If that's the prenup, I totally endorse prenups.

00:32:06.880 And if this is the reparations plan, when you sign on that line and you take that money,

00:32:11.040 you got to keep that trap shut about racism for the rest of your life.

00:32:14.520 Cool.

00:32:15.780 Frankly, I think it's a good deal for the public.

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00:33:57.820 Now, on the topic of resentment,

00:34:00.660 Angela Bassett just won a Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes.

00:34:06.860 You didn't catch the broadcast?

00:34:08.180 Okay, me neither.

00:34:08.920 But I saw the clip, and I really, really loved this clip,

00:34:11.220 because Angela Bassett's speech was a real example of a class act, okay? 1.00

00:34:16.080 And she addressed this topic.

00:34:17.540 As we're talking now about how some people are clamoring for reparations

00:34:21.760 to the tune of $5 million because their 10 times great-grandfather was a slave or something,

00:34:25.920 Angela Bassett, instead of focusing on resentment, as so many people do now,

00:34:29.880 at award ceremonies in particular, on the sports fields, in public life,

00:34:34.160 Angela Bassett focused on the opposite, gratitude.

00:34:38.480 In order for that destiny to manifest,

00:34:41.820 I think that it requires courage to have faith.

00:34:46.720 It requires patience, as we just heard.

00:34:50.960 And it requires a true sense of yourself.

00:34:54.460 It's not easy because the path is circuitous,

00:34:59.420 and it has many unexpected detours.

00:35:02.460 But by the grace of God, I stand here.

00:35:05.460 I stand here grateful.

00:35:07.780 Grateful.

00:35:08.840 Grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press for giving me this honor,

00:35:12.060 along with Wakanda Forever.

00:35:13.900 Grateful to my amazing team,

00:35:16.200 who every day, each and every one of them,

00:35:18.720 work along with me and beside me

00:35:22.180 and on my behalf, each and every day.

00:35:25.000 Grateful to my family,

00:35:26.720 Courtney, B. Vance, Bronwyn, and Slater.

00:35:30.460 I love you from the depths of my heart.

00:35:33.880 And my mother always said that good things come to those who pray.

00:35:37.920 And I see the truth of that every day.

00:35:40.540 Love it.

00:35:42.160 What a class act. 0.99

00:35:43.560 I want to put that part of the speech on repeat.

00:35:45.760 I want to play it in every classroom in America.

00:35:48.180 That's so right.

00:35:49.580 Not only is it a classy thing to say

00:35:51.200 at an award ceremony,

00:35:53.280 as you're being handed a trophy,

00:35:54.760 but it's just the right attitude to have in life.

00:35:58.080 You can approach life,

00:35:59.400 anybody, anybody can approach life

00:36:01.240 from the perspective of resentment

00:36:03.100 and anxiety and dread and fear

00:36:06.380 and general irritation.

00:36:09.860 Or any person can approach life

00:36:12.180 from the perspective of gratitude.

00:36:13.780 And the reason for that is

00:36:14.520 you are not responsible

00:36:15.760 for the creation of your life.

00:36:17.920 You did not make yourself.

00:36:19.120 You did not will yourself into the world.

00:36:20.840 Your life is a gift.

00:36:22.100 So every single thing that you get

00:36:24.240 is a gift from God.

00:36:26.620 And you don't deserve it.

00:36:27.980 You didn't earn it.

00:36:29.100 That's just a gift that you were given freely.

00:36:31.660 And you owe gratitude for that

00:36:34.740 exactly the right way.

00:36:36.300 And she ends it on that note.

00:36:37.760 She doesn't just talk about gratitude

00:36:39.620 out in the ether,

00:36:41.260 this kind of new agey,

00:36:42.400 you know, it's the vibes

00:36:44.380 and the energy, man, you know,

00:36:46.380 and the echoes and the ripples.

00:36:47.700 No, she's saying it's good to pray.

00:36:49.700 Not just send good vibes, but pray.

00:36:52.280 Good things come to those who pray.

00:36:55.240 Maybe not material good things.

00:36:58.080 Plenty of God's favorite people

00:36:59.480 have suffered enormously.

00:37:01.300 But ultimately, good things

00:37:04.860 come to those who pray.

00:37:06.940 Because prayer is conducive to happiness.

00:37:10.180 Gratitude is conducive to happiness.

00:37:13.500 That's why the do-batters 1.00

00:37:15.360 who are destroying our society

00:37:17.660 are trying to get people to stop praying.

00:37:19.960 In fact, this just happened

00:37:20.760 over at the Mall of America.

00:37:22.280 That gigantic mall in Minneapolis.

00:37:24.080 A guy was wearing a t-shirt.

00:37:25.600 It said, Jesus saves.

00:37:27.760 Really simple t-shirt.

00:37:28.840 Very basic statement

00:37:30.740 that people have been wearing

00:37:32.340 on their bodies and their clothing

00:37:33.740 for 2,000 years now.

00:37:35.820 You probably could have found

00:37:36.560 Romans and togas

00:37:37.340 wearing the phrase, Jesus saves.

00:37:38.780 And the authorities probably

00:37:39.480 wouldn't have liked that either.

00:37:40.860 This guy gets harassed

00:37:42.840 and told to leave

00:37:43.740 by a mall cop

00:37:45.060 for wearing that offensive statement.

00:37:47.220 Jesus is associated with religion

00:37:49.720 and it's offending people.

00:37:50.900 No, it's not.

00:37:51.960 I'm sorry, it's not a religion.

00:37:53.540 It's about it.

00:37:54.500 It's about it.

00:37:54.540 It's about it.

00:37:54.560 It's about it.

00:37:54.580 It's about it.

00:37:54.760 It's about it.

00:37:55.040 It's about it.

00:37:55.120 It's about it.

00:37:55.580 It's about it.

00:37:55.780 But it's the same thing, okay?

00:37:57.800 People have been offended.

00:37:59.400 And like I said,

00:38:00.300 all we were asking you

00:38:01.040 was to take your shirt off

00:38:02.020 and you can go to Macy's

00:38:03.060 or we can leave you.

00:38:03.780 I didn't say anything to you.

00:38:05.040 If you want to shop here,

00:38:06.760 you need to take that shirt off.

00:38:09.000 It is religious soliciting. 0.94

00:38:10.720 There is no soliciting allowed

00:38:12.240 on mall property

00:38:13.440 which is private property.

00:38:15.280 And they just keep harassing this guy.

00:38:18.560 The clip goes on and on and on.

00:38:20.220 The cop won't back down.

00:38:21.380 The guy says,

00:38:21.920 I didn't even say anything.

00:38:24.280 I'm just wearing this shirt

00:38:25.600 and it says Jesus saves.

00:38:26.840 It's not an obscene shirt.

00:38:28.460 In fact, if it were an obscene shirt,

00:38:29.940 I'm sure the cops

00:38:30.500 wouldn't have hassled him.

00:38:32.140 But because he's wearing a shirt

00:38:33.580 that makes a statement

00:38:35.580 that is good and true and beautiful

00:38:38.240 and conducive to happiness

00:38:40.060 and human flourishing,

00:38:41.020 that's why the powers that be

00:38:42.360 are after him.

00:38:43.440 And this should come as no surprise. 0.70

00:38:46.220 The devil is the prince of this world. 0.51

00:38:48.260 Okay?

00:38:48.400 This is nothing new.

00:38:49.120 We like to lament

00:38:50.060 the lizard people over in Davos 0.97

00:38:51.540 because they're awful. 0.99

00:38:53.180 They're awful 0.99

00:38:53.620 and they want to destroy our lives. 0.70

00:38:54.700 I'm not downplaying that.

00:38:56.460 But this is not a new thing.

00:38:57.860 Okay?

00:38:58.040 We fight against principalities 0.99

00:38:59.580 and powers

00:39:00.120 and evil and wickedness

00:39:01.260 in the very high places.

00:39:02.780 Okay?

00:39:03.360 And all the way down

00:39:04.320 to the very lowest echelons

00:39:06.000 of that authority

00:39:07.020 and enforcement.

00:39:07.660 All the way down

00:39:08.120 to this mall cop

00:39:08.880 trying to shuffle

00:39:10.140 a Christian out there

00:39:10.960 because what he was wearing

00:39:12.320 on his shirt,

00:39:12.880 the cop considered

00:39:14.040 to be offensive.

00:39:15.620 In a way,

00:39:16.200 it is offensive.

00:39:18.240 It's offensive

00:39:19.000 in a very wonderful way.

00:39:20.660 It's offending

00:39:21.220 the evil sensibilities

00:39:24.580 of a fallen world.

00:39:26.140 But it is offensive.

00:39:27.460 It's making an exclusive claim.

00:39:28.940 It's saying that

00:39:29.880 if you want to be saved,

00:39:32.140 you're saved through

00:39:33.400 God the Son.

00:39:34.860 That's how you're saved.

00:39:36.820 What if people say,

00:39:37.960 well,

00:39:38.440 but I don't want

00:39:40.080 to worship Jesus?

00:39:41.240 Okay,

00:39:41.600 well,

00:39:42.260 I guess that's a you problem.

00:39:45.720 I imagine that's

00:39:46.540 what this man would say.

00:39:47.280 He's wearing a shirt

00:39:47.760 that says Jesus saves.

00:39:49.640 Well,

00:39:50.080 why can't God

00:39:50.860 save mankind

00:39:51.440 in some other way

00:39:52.200 that I would prefer?

00:39:53.460 That's what

00:39:53.940 all sorts of people

00:39:55.420 have been asking

00:39:56.120 for the last 2,000 years.

00:39:58.220 Why can't

00:39:59.240 the religion of me

00:40:00.420 be true,

00:40:00.980 whatever my preferred version is?

00:40:02.780 How dare you suggest

00:40:04.000 that your vision is true? 0.99

00:40:04.900 I'm going to punish you

00:40:05.500 for doing that.

00:40:06.820 Yeah,

00:40:07.020 of course.

00:40:07.500 Look what they did to Jesus.

00:40:08.580 Okay,

00:40:08.720 of course they're hustling

00:40:09.680 this guy out of the mall

00:40:10.760 of America.

00:40:12.280 It is offensive.

00:40:14.060 But,

00:40:15.500 this shirt is true.

00:40:16.540 Okay?

00:40:17.480 A story I really wanted

00:40:18.820 to get to on Monday.

00:40:20.320 I'm glad we have

00:40:20.740 like a minute or so

00:40:22.060 to get to it now.

00:40:23.960 Lisa Marie Presley died.

00:40:25.160 Lisa Marie Presley

00:40:25.940 was the only daughter

00:40:27.160 of Elvis Presley,

00:40:28.320 only child of Elvis Presley.

00:40:30.120 She was only 54 years old.

00:40:32.040 Some of you may know.

00:40:33.020 I don't know.

00:40:33.240 I haven't been totally open

00:40:34.180 about this on the show.

00:40:35.000 I am a huge Elvis fan.

00:40:38.140 I am a diehard Elvis fan.

00:40:39.740 I've been a huge Elvis fan

00:40:41.140 since I was five years old.

00:40:42.960 I was pictured in my local newspaper

00:40:44.920 doing a little Elvis song and dance

00:40:47.220 when I was in kindergarten.

00:40:49.360 I would,

00:40:49.900 on occasion,

00:40:51.180 do an Elvis impersonation

00:40:52.780 as part of a variety show

00:40:54.120 in Hawaii.

00:40:55.640 I just,

00:40:56.840 I've got Elvis memorabilia.

00:40:58.440 I once visited the West Wing

00:41:01.340 for the first time

00:41:02.960 and Graceland

00:41:03.980 for the first time

00:41:04.940 within a relatively short period of time.

00:41:08.280 I was much more in awe of Graceland.

00:41:11.000 Okay,

00:41:11.120 I'm just a huge Elvis fan.

00:41:14.560 Very,

00:41:15.080 very sad

00:41:15.500 that Lisa Marie Presley died.

00:41:17.320 Some people are blaming it

00:41:18.220 on the vaccine.

00:41:18.940 I don't think there's evidence of that.

00:41:20.280 I mean,

00:41:20.380 I wouldn't be surprised.

00:41:21.420 I just,

00:41:21.700 I don't see any evidence of that.

00:41:23.300 Obviously,

00:41:23.640 there were heart problems

00:41:24.440 in Elvis's family.

00:41:27.400 His mother had heart problems.

00:41:29.020 He had heart problems.

00:41:29.760 Lisa Marie had heart problems,

00:41:30.820 it would seem.

00:41:32.580 The Presleys had been pretty open

00:41:34.180 about their drug problems

00:41:35.380 over the years.

00:41:37.300 Poor Lisa Marie's son,

00:41:38.800 who looked just like his grandfather,

00:41:40.800 died a couple of years ago.

00:41:42.260 So,

00:41:42.780 had a hard life.

00:41:44.440 The reason I bring it up at all

00:41:45.700 is one,

00:41:46.380 you know,

00:41:46.680 good to pray for the Presleys.

00:41:47.860 They're really near and dear to my heart,

00:41:49.500 even though I've never met any of them.

00:41:51.040 But also,

00:41:52.700 to make a point

00:41:53.780 that is really important

00:41:55.180 to keep in mind,

00:41:56.480 especially as we talk about

00:41:58.020 the rulers of the world,

00:42:00.420 the rich hobnobbing over in Davos

00:42:02.680 with their private jets

00:42:03.540 and their champagne

00:42:04.120 and all the rest of it.

00:42:06.360 It's a warning story

00:42:08.460 from Lisa Marie Presley.

00:42:10.700 Lisa Marie Presley

00:42:11.600 has been rich

00:42:12.360 every day of her life.

00:42:15.980 Material prosperity

00:42:17.400 does not determine

00:42:19.460 a happy life.

00:42:21.480 And when I say that,

00:42:23.000 everyone's going to say,

00:42:23.840 duh,

00:42:24.140 yeah,

00:42:24.680 Michael,

00:42:25.020 tell me something

00:42:25.520 I don't know.

00:42:26.080 Wow,

00:42:26.460 what genius insight over here

00:42:28.560 from the philosopher,

00:42:29.520 Mr. Michael.

00:42:30.420 Money doesn't buy happiness.

00:42:31.900 I know.

00:42:32.320 I know everybody knows that.

00:42:34.560 Except,

00:42:35.380 we all forget it.

00:42:36.640 We all forget it

00:42:37.720 all the time.

00:42:39.400 We say,

00:42:39.740 oh,

00:42:40.000 if I just had a little bit more money,

00:42:41.800 then I'd be happy.

00:42:42.600 Look at the people in Davos.

00:42:44.420 Are those people happy?

00:42:46.640 I don't know.

00:42:47.840 They don't seem like

00:42:48.620 happy people to me.

00:42:49.880 Bill Gates

00:42:50.400 doesn't seem like

00:42:51.320 a happy person to me.

00:42:53.720 The philosophers of Davos

00:42:55.420 who go on stage

00:42:56.180 and say,

00:42:56.900 God is fake news.

00:42:58.420 There is no soul.

00:42:59.780 We are nothing.

00:43:00.940 Oh,

00:43:01.220 the little people,

00:43:02.360 we're going to ply them

00:43:03.240 with drugs

00:43:03.940 and video games. 1.00

00:43:04.800 They're useless people. 1.00

00:43:06.760 They're like, 1.00

00:43:07.340 we're going to feed them crickets

00:43:08.640 and let,

00:43:09.240 oh,

00:43:09.520 they're sucking up the air,

00:43:11.440 polluting my world.

00:43:13.340 Oh,

00:43:13.680 these,

00:43:14.060 those don't,

00:43:14.740 the people who are saying that

00:43:16.160 don't seem like

00:43:17.480 very happy people to me.

00:43:19.600 You look at Hollywood.

00:43:21.080 You look at the rich and famous.

00:43:23.940 You look at,

00:43:24.240 their lives are so disordered

00:43:25.560 so much of the time.

00:43:26.740 And then you think about

00:43:27.420 the happiest people you know.

00:43:30.180 Poor people have plenty 1.00

00:43:31.080 of problems too.

00:43:32.760 But,

00:43:33.260 it seems to me that

00:43:34.100 there are very,

00:43:36.800 very poor people

00:43:37.380 who are happy

00:43:37.880 and very,

00:43:38.420 very poor people

00:43:39.000 who are unhappy.

00:43:40.760 And the same is true 0.99

00:43:41.480 for rich people.

00:43:42.380 Which means that

00:43:43.400 the determinant

00:43:43.980 for happiness

00:43:44.840 is not money.

00:43:46.780 The communists are wrong.

00:43:48.040 The determinant for happiness

00:43:49.360 is not how much money you have.

00:43:51.160 Even the kind of

00:43:52.020 liberal technocrats

00:43:52.960 are wrong.

00:43:53.860 The,

00:43:54.160 the determinant for happiness

00:43:55.680 is not how much money you have.

00:43:57.280 The greed is good,

00:43:59.740 hardcore,

00:44:01.400 Wall Street,

00:44:02.920 1980s Republicans,

00:44:04.840 let's all get rich

00:44:06.020 kind of right winger types.

00:44:08.820 Their premise is wrong too.

00:44:10.880 It's not to say

00:44:11.720 that money is a bad thing.

00:44:13.620 Money can,

00:44:14.380 can be a lovely thing.

00:44:15.580 It's not that the root of money is,

00:44:16.900 that money rather

00:44:17.760 is the root of all evil.

00:44:19.080 That's not true.

00:44:19.640 People misquote that quite a lot.

00:44:21.520 The love of money

00:44:22.380 is the root of all evil.

00:44:24.120 But money itself,

00:44:25.340 money itself is just material.

00:44:26.860 And your life does not hinge

00:44:28.080 on material things.

00:44:30.020 Because contrary to what

00:44:31.560 all these geniuses

00:44:33.160 who think they know

00:44:33.680 so much better than you,

00:44:34.640 who think that they can

00:44:35.260 upend the whole world

00:44:36.280 and run your life for you,

00:44:37.320 all these geniuses

00:44:38.060 who are virtually all materialists

00:44:40.160 of one sort or another,

00:44:42.800 contrary to what they believe,

00:44:44.420 you are more than just your body

00:44:46.120 and you're more than

00:44:46.760 just your stuff.

00:44:47.500 And if you treat yourself

00:44:49.260 like you're just a hunk of meat 0.58

00:44:50.540 to be manipulated

00:44:51.840 by various chemicals

00:44:53.200 and things that money can buy,

00:44:54.920 you are not going to live

00:44:56.360 a happy life.

00:44:57.140 You're going to be just as happy

00:44:57.980 as those lizard people 0.99

00:44:58.840 over in Switzerland.

00:44:59.720 Okay, that's our show.

00:45:00.840 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:01.560 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:45:02.880 See you tomorrow.

00:45:03.260 We'll be right back.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 18, 2023

Ep. 1164 - Global Elites Gather To Plan How We Will Live Our Lives

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