The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1167 - Libs Blame Historic Surge Of Illegal Aliens On Republicans

00:00:00.000 Federal agents encountered more than a quarter million illegal aliens at the border last month,

00:00:05.160 251,487 to be exact, the highest number ever recorded in US history. And that is just the

00:00:13.720 number that were detected. Many people are blaming Democrats who opened the border.

00:00:20.220 Some are blaming the squishes who let the Democrats get away with it.

00:00:23.860 But the Democrats are blaming the Republicans for noticing the problem. According to one Biden

00:00:31.380 administration official, quote, of course the numbers will be higher when Republican elected

00:00:36.720 officials like smugglers falsely proclaim the border is open because of a court order to lift

00:00:42.580 Title 42. In other words, the border is open, not because the Democrats opened it, but because

00:00:52.000 the Republicans pointed out that it's open. This is a weird sort of quantum politics in which

00:01:00.200 observing the political problem supposedly creates the political problem in the first place.

00:01:07.720 But the libs make this kind of claim all the time. Democrats, for instance, encourage men to identify

00:01:15.040 as women, even though men cannot be women. And even though men who think that they're women

00:01:21.480 have all sorts of problems, depression, anxiety, and they kill themselves at extremely high rates.

00:01:27.720 But according to the libs, the reason that men who think they're women are depressed and suicidal

00:01:33.500 has nothing to do with the fact that they're not really women, has nothing to do with the problem 1.00

00:01:38.980 itself. Rather, it only occurs because conservatives observe that fact, and that apparently results

00:01:45.920 in transphobia. Another example, poor black people in the inner cities disproportionately do poorly in

00:01:52.800 school and then don't graduate, or they do graduate, but without much of an education, and then often

00:01:59.040 fail to get good jobs and ascend the socioeconomic ladder. And according to libs, the reason that that

00:02:05.540 group often doesn't learn very much in school has nothing to do with political, cultural, and pedagogical

00:02:10.520 failures, but rather occurs because the mean old conservatives observe that fact, which then

00:02:17.740 results in racism, which is why the problem perpetuates itself. Now we are being told that

00:02:24.720 illegal aliens are crossing the border, not because the Democrats opened it, but because conservatives

00:02:28.860 observe the open border. But the classical mechanics version of politics, I think, provides the better

00:02:35.460 explanation. The political problems exist in the real world, and the only reason the libs want us

00:02:42.360 to stop noticing is so that we don't do anything to stop them. I'm Michael Knowles. It's The Michael

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00:04:32.860 Speaking of the southern border, Congressman Dan Crenshaw has a plan for how to deal with the

00:04:39.720 problem at the southern border. And that plan involves guns and bombs.

00:04:45.600 We recently introduced AUMF, an authorized use of military force against the cartels and any other

00:04:51.400 organizations that traffic fentanyl specifically. So why now and why not? Why not years ago? These

00:04:57.240 Mexican drug cartels have been around for a while. But the difference now is fentanyl. This is not a

00:05:02.280 drug problem. This is not a war on drug problem. This is a poisoning problem. And they're killing about

00:05:08.020 80,000 Americans a year. And the Mexican government does very little to thwart this.

00:05:13.060 And I think there should be bipartisan efforts in Congress to pass an authorized use of military

00:05:17.480 force to deal with them. If anything, that simply gives our president more leverage when trying to

00:05:22.620 get the Mexican government to do its job. And that's its job on thwarting immigration, which the 1.00

00:05:28.000 cartels also control, and thwarting fentanyl coming north across our border and killing American

00:05:34.360 citizens. You know, these people are a lot more like ISIS than they are the mafia. 1.00

00:05:40.200 I know Dan Crenshaw gets a lot of flack and people think that he is too quick to use military

00:05:45.720 force or to advocate using military force. On the question of the Mexican cartels at the southern

00:05:51.260 border though, in principle, does anybody object to this? Plenty of people can object to sending

00:05:59.560 American dollars and weapons and troops even to go fight the war in Ukraine against Russia. Plenty

00:06:04.840 of people can and I think ought to object to things like that. Or to adventurism in Libya and all sorts

00:06:11.520 of wars of empire that the U.S. has fought. But if the situation at the southern border does not call

00:06:19.760 for the U.S. military, what does? We are being subject right now to what is essentially an invasion

00:06:28.140 and have been for many decades. And when I say invasion, I'm not just talking about mothers with 0.85

00:06:34.100 their kids crossing the border or even the economic migrants, the young men who want to come over 1.00

00:06:38.500 and get better jobs and send money back to their families and whatever. I'm talking about the Mexican 1.00

00:06:45.640 drug cartels, some of the worst people on the face of the earth, who control 100% of border crossings

00:06:52.880 from the Mexico side, who are shipping in tons of drugs, specifically fentanyl, which is killing

00:06:59.460 Americans in the worst drug crisis we've ever had in our nation's history, which traffics women and 1.00

00:07:04.360 girls across that border. And according to certain studies, rapes 60 to 80% of them, according to Fusion 0.95

00:07:10.400 and Amnesty International. I mean, these guys are just demons. And so if the U.S. military would not 0.97

00:07:17.200 be justified in repelling an invasion of that sort, then what's the point of the military?

00:07:23.180 So I think in principle, Dan is actually making a very good point here. There's one caveat, though.

00:07:28.440 I would not, if I were the president today, I would not today sign off on having the military go down to

00:07:33.400 the southern border. And the reason for that is, I might have them be on our side of the border to stop

00:07:39.180 people from crossing. But I wouldn't have them go into Mexico and actually destroy the cartels just

00:07:42.920 yet. The reason I wouldn't do that is the drug cartels in Mexico constitute a fair bit of what

00:07:52.520 could be called the Mexican government. By which I mean, there's an analogous situation in Italy for

00:07:57.760 a long time. In Italy, the Italian government, for most of that nation's history, has not been the only

00:08:03.800 or even necessarily the dominant force in Italian politics. There are a couple other forces.

00:08:08.960 There's obviously the church. The church, you know, the Vatican is right there, the Holy See.

00:08:13.000 That's been a big force in Italian politics. And the mafia. The mafia is a big force in Italian

00:08:17.960 politics. Okay, there's a great show that came out fairly recently called Subura about these three

00:08:23.820 powers that control Rome. The government, the church, and the mafia. The mafia is a big part of it.

00:08:28.460 And a similar situation is true in Mexico. The mob plays a huge role down there. And so if you destroy

00:08:33.440 the cartels, if you launch a war against the cartels, you're going to completely destabilize that

00:08:36.760 country. And then what's going to happen? If you have an open border, then you're just going to

00:08:39.620 have millions more people pouring across that border if that border is not secure. So the first

00:08:44.060 thing you would have to do is secure the border. First thing you would have to do is build the wall,

00:08:50.000 get the enforcement down, send more border patrol agents, deport more illegal aliens. You'd have to do 0.98

00:08:55.540 all of that. But then at that point, should we use military force against the cartels? Well,

00:09:00.560 if the drugs and the traffic humans keep coming through it, yeah, I see no problem with that

00:09:04.700 whatsoever. Speaking of the failures of the Biden administration, Senator John Kennedy,

00:09:12.860 Senator Foghorn Leghorn himself, one of my absolute favorite figures in all of American politics,

00:09:19.180 he says that the US is headed for a debt ceiling standoff and that we shouldn't be all that worried

00:09:27.040 about the US actually defaulting on its debt. And here's why. The federal government spends too

00:09:33.260 much, particularly the last two years, and has too much debt. And if we don't stop it,

00:09:39.560 we're going to end up in a deep recession. And Google may have to lay off up to 25 members of

00:09:48.560 Congress. That's how bad it'll be. I don't know who does Kennedy's writing for him. Maybe he writes

00:09:54.540 these lines himself. Reagan used to do this. Reagan used to have a whole treasure trove of zingers

00:09:59.620 just ready to go. But that's a really good one. That there are many people in our politics who are

00:10:06.000 in bed with big tech and that Google might have to lay off those members of Congress if it defaults.

00:10:12.940 So I don't think that the US is going to default. But I agree with Kennedy that, one, there are a lot

00:10:18.000 of members of Congress who are beholden to big tech. And two, the debt situation has spiraled so out of

00:10:24.420 control that, frankly, at this point, it seems almost hopeless. It's very hard to dig out of

00:10:31.140 $32 trillion of debt when the debt is, what, roughly 100% of GDP or something or more.

00:10:36.640 Speaking of being in bed with big tech, there is an issue that I have tried to avoid talking about

00:10:42.800 because I think it's extremely petty and tedious. But I feel somewhat impelled to talk about it.

00:10:49.960 You know, I was on the road last week. I didn't have much of an opportunity to get involved in the

00:10:53.120 high school squabble of Stephen Crowder and making all sorts of claims about the Daily Wire hosts and

00:10:58.600 the like. I generally find conversation about political commentators negotiating contracts

00:11:08.860 with media companies to be the single most boring thing on the planet, basically like chloroform on a

00:11:16.340 screen. But I was perfectly willing to take the personal insinuations on the chin, even though

00:11:24.020 it's not true. But just after I filmed my last show of the week last week, Stephen, our friend of many

00:11:33.420 years, lobbed an attack at Jeremy that really, very, very few things get me angry. You know, I'm like the

00:11:44.320 least angry guy in all of politics. It's probably hampered my career, frankly. And I've said on the

00:11:48.780 show before, I get angry like twice a year. And I guess we started early this year. I guess we started

00:11:53.580 in January. I was going to launch into a succinct but comprehensive monologue on why the allegations

00:12:05.380 that have been made about the Daily Wire hosts and the company itself are not true, manifestly not true.

00:12:12.860 I was going to, I had a lot to say on this subject. And, but actually, I mentioned this today to

00:12:21.000 Jeremy. And he said, you know, just be magnanimous and let it go. And that was my instinct in the

00:12:27.740 first place and to kind of stay above the fray and not get involved in these squabbles. I felt that what

00:12:32.040 was done to Jeremy was very, very unjust, very, very unjust. And I'm someone who sees behind the

00:12:37.840 scenes, you know, I've been around this crew for a very long time now. And, but I guess his

00:12:44.900 inclination is to be even more magnanimous than I. So all of that, just to say, Jeremy Boring gets a

00:12:50.760 lot of flack. That guy is, and don't tell him I said anything nice about him. You know, men are not

00:12:58.220 supposed to say nice things about one another, especially buddies or, you know, it's, it's not

00:13:01.380 how we really operate around here. There are very, very few people in politics who are as generous

00:13:09.460 and loyal and principled as Jeremy Boring. And in deference to his magnanimity, I will leave it at

00:13:17.540 that. I'll leave it at that. But it's important. Loyalty is an important thing. And integrity is an

00:13:23.240 important thing. And I'll just leave it at that. Okay. Speaking of employment, the World Economic Forum,

00:13:33.620 the World Economic Forum, which just concluded last week in Davos, Switzerland, had a panel on the

00:13:41.000 future of work. And the, the future of work looks really pleasant for the elites, if you ask the

00:13:51.280 World Economic Forum. The, the World Economic Forum panel on the future of the work week suggested that

00:13:59.440 perhaps the elites need more time off. Not everybody needs more time off, but the elites need more time

00:14:07.480 off. There was an international study that showed that revenues actually rose for companies that cut

00:14:15.000 down their work week from five days to four days. And this is true really only for the upper class.

00:14:21.340 The Dutch employment minister, Karian van Geniep, acknowledged that the four-day work week

00:14:26.580 conversation remains, quote, very much a discussion for the upper class.

00:14:33.500 The, this is now a year after virtual commutes became commonplace for white-collar employees.

00:14:40.280 67% of these white-collar employees were able to work from home exclusively.

00:14:45.320 Now, this would be compared to, say, teachers. 48% of educators were able to work from home exclusively.

00:14:51.760 35% of healthcare professionals were able to work from home exclusively,

00:14:54.840 which seems kind of high to me, but I guess people do telemedicine.

00:14:59.440 And then, basically, 0% of service employees are able to work from home exclusively because

00:15:04.280 they have to do real jobs with their bodies in time and space so that all the white-collar people

00:15:07.880 can stay at home. As a technical matter, I guess this makes sense. But as a spiritual matter,

00:15:18.640 this is a very, very bad idea. And the reason it's a bad idea is not because white-collar workers 0.99

00:15:22.700 who are telecommuting on their laptops while they're in their pajamas. It's not because that

00:15:28.360 is necessarily going to diminish profits for a company or tick down GDP for a country. The reason

00:15:34.480 that this is a very bad idea is because idle hands are the devil's playground. The reason this is a bad

00:15:40.240 idea is because it accelerates a very bad trend that we've been seeing in our culture now for years,

00:15:45.400 which is a trend away from physical reality. It's a trend away from acknowledging that we are bodies

00:15:53.640 as well as souls. You see that particularly expressed in transgenderism. Transgenderism says

00:15:58.660 my body has nothing to do with who I am. I'm purely metaphysical, so I might look like a boy,

00:16:02.920 but I'm really a girl. You see this in the move away from real social contact. During the lockdowns,

00:16:11.020 we weren't allowed to hug our loved ones. Well, that's okay. We can just Zoom with them. Let's

00:16:14.840 have Zoom drinks and Zoom dinner. That's obviously not as satisfying. And because when people work

00:16:21.040 from home, maybe they're more efficient in some ways, but they've got a lot of downtime and they

00:16:26.080 don't get dressed. And they say, well, what does it matter if I get dressed? I can wear sweatpants

00:16:29.520 and socks all day because no one really cares. Well, it matters because you are in part a body and you

00:16:36.700 live in time and space. And so if you treat yourself like a big, just lunk of meat, then you're going to

00:16:41.740 behave like a big lunk of meat and not like a dignified human being as you should. 0.93

00:16:48.180 This is especially worrisome for the elites because the elites are extremely decadent.

00:16:52.000 Their idea of fighting injustice around the world is to fly to an Alpine Swiss resort and go skiing for

00:16:58.840 a few days and eat fancy meals and drink fancy drinks, hobnobbing with the richest and most powerful

00:17:03.440 people on earth. Decadence is an occupational hazard for these sorts of people. And now they're

00:17:11.240 saying, we need to be a little bit more decadent. Well, you poor little people go out there. You

00:17:15.760 bring me my filet mignon. You deliver it on Uber Eats and then you go back and you eat your bugs.

00:17:20.440 I don't know what accent that is. I'm not sure exactly, but it's just a vague kind of cosmopolitan

00:17:25.300 accent. It's a very bad idea. Everybody, especially the elites, need to be actively involved.

00:17:31.400 There's no neutrality. This is something we've talked about on the show a lot. There's no

00:17:35.040 neutrality in speech. There's no neutrality in politics. There's no neutrality in the physical

00:17:38.680 world. You've always got to be doing something. The question is, what are you doing? Are you

00:17:43.380 spending time playing with your kids? Are you spending time working, building up a business?

00:17:47.040 Are you spending time fixing up the house? Or are you spending time loafing around and just getting

00:17:53.740 drunk and indulging your lusts? There was an article that showed that there were apparently hundreds

00:17:59.640 and hundreds of high-class prostitutes who were descending on Davos for the conference. 1.00

00:18:04.960 What are you doing? What are you doing? If anybody needs to remain more occupied, not less, I think 0.96

00:18:13.680 it is those elites. Now, speaking of what the elites were eating in Davos, there's one video that really

00:18:22.460 seemed to go viral from the whole World Economic Forum conference. This year, the elites played it a

00:18:27.560 little bit closer to the chest. George Soros did not show up. I don't think Bill Gates showed up.

00:18:35.960 They weren't totally as wild as they often are in their commentary with all the clips because they

00:18:41.240 know that we're sort of onto them and we're paying more attention. But there was one clip that went

00:18:45.520 viral. And this was the chairman of, how do you pronounce this company, Simons? Is that the name?

00:18:50.260 Let's choose to pronounce it that way. Who said that people need to stop eating meat and that in the

00:18:57.560 very different types of proteins than meat? It's a very important point that you are addressing.

00:19:04.380 My daughter, 24, inspired me and said that, how can you advocate for these zero carbon value

00:19:15.960 change if you still eat meat? And so I stopped eating meat. Now the math would say, well, you need to

00:19:25.100 stop eating meat for 11 years to compensate for a flight to Thailand. Yes. But if a billion people stop eating meat, I tell you, it has a big impact.

00:19:38.860 Not only does it have a big impact on the current food system, but it will also inspire innovation of food systems.

00:19:45.920 And I predict that we will have proteins not coming from meat in the future. They will probably taste even better. So why are we trying to mimic meat if we can have a better taste?

00:19:59.780 They will be zero carbon and much healthier than the kind of food that we eat today.

00:20:05.400 So this is the main clip that's gone viral from the World Economic Forum. And what's amazing to me is no one has pointed out what this answer was in reaction to.

00:20:18.120 The question, and I haven't really found a clip of the question as well, but I did get to see it as it was happening.

00:20:25.520 Because you can stream all of those. This is one of the odd things about the World Economic Forum. We think of it as this highly secretive sort of cabal of people.

00:20:33.600 They live stream most of their events. And the question that was asked specifically referenced eating bugs.

00:20:41.740 And the question that was asked was about how we can get people to move away from eating meat and go toward more vegetarian or vegan or even edible insects diets.

00:20:57.260 And his answer, the CEO of this company, or chairman rather, a very important company, was, oh yes, of course, that's what we have to do.

00:21:06.320 We need a billion people to stop eating meat. And the proteins of the future, they're not going to come from meat. They're going to taste much better.

00:21:14.400 Specifically in reaction to a question that mentions edible insects.

00:21:17.820 So when we hear that the Davos set is talking about, you will eat the bugs. You will live in the pod. You will owe nothing and be happy.

00:21:27.660 They mean that. They mean that.

00:21:30.140 Even at the conference where they were clearly trying to downplay a lot of their more ambitious projects, that is clearly something that they have in mind.

00:21:40.300 And if you listen to that guy, I don't think that that guy has bad intentions.

00:21:44.080 I think that guy probably has very good intentions.

00:21:45.980 I think he genuinely believes that is a virtuous thing to do.

00:21:50.720 This is the other fact of the great reset and the plans of the liberal elites who want to remake the world after their own image.

00:21:57.880 They believe that they are doing the right thing.

00:22:01.580 And their plan makes sense.

00:22:04.940 If you start with the premise that there is no God, there is no soul, there is no such thing as dignity.

00:22:10.180 We're all just kind of random products of evolution.

00:22:12.780 And we're all going to get wiped out by the sun monster if we don't stop living like dignified human beings.

00:22:17.240 If you start with all those premises, you're going to end up at that conclusion.

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00:23:05.200 Speaking of skepticism of scientific advances, there's a new study just came out.

00:23:10.660 You're going to be shocked to hear this one.

00:23:11.720 A new study shows that puberty blockers might cause depression.

00:23:19.680 So if you pump little kids full of drugs to stop them from going through puberty, this might kind of mess them up a little bit.

00:23:27.600 Breaking news, I know.

00:23:28.840 Stop the presses.

00:23:29.680 This is a study that was done on animals, and it found out that these puberty blockers might have all these problems.

00:23:37.320 All decades after doctors began to give these puberty blockers to children, this study was the first of its kind to use an animal model to examine the potential neurological and psychiatric effects of the puberty blockers.

00:23:53.320 And they found that they had profound effects of increased depression in female mice, and then male mice increased stress and a loss of interest in female mice.

00:24:03.820 Profound, profound effects.

00:24:06.720 All 22 years after doctors, quacks, started prescribing these to kids. 1.00

00:24:15.720 This always happens.

00:24:17.700 This has happened throughout all of history.

00:24:19.820 And you know this because of now how we look at scientific procedures from the past.

00:24:26.740 We look at things like lobotomies, and we say, wow, that's ghastly. 0.75

00:24:31.020 When women seemed to be a little bit hysterical and eccentric, we used to just scramble up their brains. 1.00

00:24:36.580 That was the consensus medical procedure from all the fancy people in the white lab coats.

00:24:42.360 Before that, when people had various ailments, we would put leeches on their body.

00:24:47.480 Or we would cut them open a little bit and just get some blood to come out because we thought, if you get rid of the bad blood, then they might improve.

00:24:55.660 We've had all sorts of quack procedures for all of human history.

00:24:59.460 And so if you observe that from the perspective of history, you're a sophisticated, educated person.

00:25:05.220 But in my experience, it's always the very same people who can look back at the history of medical science and mock it or be aghast at the kind of procedures that were conducted.

00:25:17.180 They're the very same people who pretend that now we've figured everything out and that you can't question the science.

00:25:23.020 In fact, I did this interview.

00:25:24.200 It went viral with this medical student, Bronte Remzik, who's a kind of TikTok pro-abortion activist.

00:25:29.360 And her argument for abortion consistently boiled down to, well, the American Association of Obstetricians says that abortion is good.

00:25:39.420 So that's the science and that's why we need to do it.

00:25:42.340 I said, okay, well, if you're just deferring to the authority of the scientists, in the 1950s, the scientific consensus was that performing lobotomies on hysterical women was good.

00:25:51.980 Would you have performed a lobotomy if you were a doctor or a medical student in the 50s and that's what the trade associations of the doctors told you to do?

00:26:01.380 And this girl, got to give her credit for honesty, she kept contradicting herself a little bit, but she did say, yes, I would have.

00:26:08.020 Yeah, I totally would have.

00:26:09.180 Say, well, okay, at least you're consistent.

00:26:10.720 I would not have.

00:26:11.940 Call me crazy.

00:26:12.900 Call me a radical.

00:26:13.520 I would not have performed a lobotomy, even if the scientific consensus told me to.

00:26:18.320 I gave a speech somewhat recently about how science is fake.

00:26:22.160 The only thing I really know about science is that it has been wrong about pretty much everything for all of human history.

00:26:28.340 Over the long course of history, it has gotten pretty much everything wrong.

00:26:33.380 And so the question is not, wow, gosh, maybe we need to stop these puberty blocking drugs.

00:26:37.540 Yeah, of course we do.

00:26:38.260 But what else?

00:26:38.900 What else are we doing right now?

00:26:39.820 We were told that those mRNA vaccines were totally safe, totally effective.

00:26:43.740 We very quickly found out that they were not very effective.

00:26:47.900 Now we're finding out that they don't seem all that safe either.

00:26:51.040 Anybody with two brain cells to rub together could have known this at the time, except for the elites, except for the scientists.

00:26:58.120 Those were the only ones that got fooled.

00:27:01.160 So it's how I think about Ketanji Jackson, the justice on the Supreme Court, who was asked during her confirmation, what is a woman?

00:27:10.560 She couldn't answer it.

00:27:11.620 I said, I don't know, I'm not a biologist.

00:27:14.320 Ketanji Jackson has two degrees from Harvard, not one but two, an undergraduate and a graduate degree.

00:27:20.860 And I thought, of course, of course, any random Joe on the street could tell you what a woman is.

00:27:27.620 It takes two degrees from Harvard to not know what a woman is, of course. 1.00

00:27:32.780 Any random Joe on the street could have told you pumping little kids full of drugs to stop them from going through puberty probably wasn't going to be the best thing we've ever done.

00:27:43.260 22 years later, the guys in the lab coats realize, huh, maybe this isn't the best idea.

00:27:48.540 We figured it all out now, though.

00:27:50.820 Now we've figured out science, right?

00:27:52.220 One, technological advances are not always progress.

00:27:59.080 They're not always good.

00:28:01.220 Great example of this.

00:28:02.520 I tried to talk about this over a week ago, and I just kept running out of time.

00:28:06.500 But I think it fits in very well with what we're talking about right now.

00:28:09.280 So Anna Kendrick, the actress, recently went on a podcast to lament a breakup that she just had with some guy that she was really in love with.

00:28:18.360 But they never got married, and then they broke up.

00:28:20.380 And very sad.

00:28:21.800 Tale as old as time in Hollywood.

00:28:23.100 But it got really, really dark when Anna Kendrick revealed that she and this guy had actually created embryos together.

00:28:31.880 That is, they'd conceived babies that they just locked away in a freezer, who now, I suppose, will remain in that freezer forever.

00:28:40.700 I was with someone, and this was somebody I lived with, and for all intents and purposes, my husband.

00:28:46.240 Yeah, yeah.

00:28:46.520 Really, we had embryos together, and we, you know, this was my person.

00:28:50.180 And then about six years in, somewhere around there, I remember telling my brother when things had first kind of gone down,

00:28:56.900 I'm living with a stranger.

00:28:58.360 Like, I don't know what's happening.

00:28:59.600 It wasn't just the, oh, I'm losing a relationship.

00:29:01.400 It was that I believed that if we broke up, or, you know, if he left, basically,

00:29:06.960 it was a confirmation that it's because I'm impossible. 0.98

00:29:09.800 I'm lucky that he's even tolerating my bullsh**. 0.96

00:29:13.280 Okay, so she's saying a lot of things here that don't make sense. 0.97

00:29:17.080 She said, look, this guy was for all intents and purposes my husband.

00:29:21.120 But he wasn't.

00:29:23.460 And you were not, for all intents and purposes, his wife.

00:29:27.380 Because you didn't have that ring, and you didn't take that vow

00:29:30.320 before the minister and the witnesses and the public and God.

00:29:34.620 And because you didn't have that marriage contract, you weren't.

00:29:38.360 You were his concubine. 0.75

00:29:40.240 You were maybe, you could have maybe even become his common-law wife if you had lived together longer. 0.99

00:29:45.840 But you weren't.

00:29:47.400 Cohabitation is not, for all intents and purposes, the same thing as marriage.

00:29:50.420 You're missing the essential part of marriage, which is the vow to remain together.

00:29:53.880 And then, you went further down this route of irresponsibility,

00:30:00.380 or you and this guy went further down this route of irresponsibility,

00:30:03.760 and techno-dystopia.

00:30:07.300 You had children, but you didn't quite have children.

00:30:12.180 And the way that she says this is so jarring.

00:30:15.200 It kind of sends a chill up your back.

00:30:16.360 She goes, yeah, look, I mean, look, we lived together.

00:30:18.180 You know, we shared a refrigerator.

00:30:20.500 We had the same Uber Eats account.

00:30:22.620 And we had embryos, you know, and we had a dog.

00:30:25.620 And we, you know, he sometimes took the pillow in the middle of the night,

00:30:29.640 and we created human beings together that we put in a freezer, you know.

00:30:33.500 And then we, and sometimes we even borrowed each other's cars.

00:30:36.160 Say, hold on, wait, what did you just say?

00:30:39.360 I said we sometimes borrowed each other's cars.

00:30:41.020 No, before that.

00:30:42.200 Oh, you know, I, no, I said that we shared the same refrigerator.

00:30:45.720 No, after that, what was the thing of, oh, we had embryos together.

00:30:47.960 You had embryos together?

00:30:49.560 Oh, you had children.

00:30:51.360 Well, not quite.

00:30:53.020 Not quite.

00:30:53.520 Because now what you can do, because of our technological advances,

00:30:57.420 is you can make the most consequential decision, maybe of your life,

00:31:05.180 certainly one of them, to have children.

00:31:07.380 You can engage in the most significant act,

00:31:12.040 one of the most significant acts you can ever engage in,

00:31:14.220 while still pretending that you haven't made that decision,

00:31:18.360 while still pretending that you haven't committed that action,

00:31:21.800 while remaining, as modern people are so inclined to try to remain,

00:31:27.200 totally uncommitted.

00:31:29.540 Because we know that whenever you make a decision to do something,

00:31:34.340 all of a sudden, you are foreclosing the other options available.

00:31:40.880 When you decide to marry one person,

00:31:43.100 you are simultaneously deciding not to marry this other person,

00:31:46.900 or that other person, or this.

00:31:48.320 And I'm not just saying this in a flippant way.

00:31:52.140 Oh, well, I'm picking this one gal. 1.00

00:31:53.620 That means all the other gals in the world are off. 1.00

00:31:55.240 Too bad.

00:31:55.620 I would have had fun with them.

00:31:56.360 No, you're being a little more specific.

00:31:59.800 Maybe, you know, you're dating this woman,

00:32:01.660 but you still have an old flame for your old high school sweetheart.

00:32:06.600 I don't know.

00:32:07.120 Or you still, you have a crush on that girl from whatever.

00:32:10.500 And you still, your ex-girlfriend, you and you think about her sometimes.

00:32:15.500 And you are deciding, no, that person, dead to me.

00:32:19.000 That person, dead to me.

00:32:20.220 That other person, dead to me.

00:32:21.380 I will never fulfill that love story that I wanted to fulfill.

00:32:25.440 Because I am making a decision here.

00:32:27.440 And two roads diverged in a yellow wood.

00:32:29.820 And sorry I could not be one traveler and travel both.

00:32:33.800 Long I stood and looked down one as far as I could

00:32:35.660 to where it bent in the undergrowth.

00:32:37.680 Then took the other as just as fair.

00:32:40.380 And having perhaps better claim because it was grassy and wanted to wear.

00:32:43.280 Though as for that, the passing there had lain them equally about the same.

00:32:46.500 And each that morning equally lay and leaves no trodden black.

00:32:49.300 Oh, I kept the first for another day.

00:32:50.800 But knowing how way leads on to way,

00:32:52.240 I doubted that I should ever come back.

00:32:53.680 And I shall say this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence.

00:32:56.960 Two roads diverged in a wood and I.

00:32:58.760 I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.

00:33:01.560 When in fact, there's no evidence that the other road was less traveled

00:33:05.040 or the other one was more traveled or anything like that.

00:33:07.260 You're making a decision and you know that way leads on to way

00:33:10.580 and you're not going to come back to the other one.

00:33:11.900 And people don't want to do that anymore.

00:33:13.920 That's why younger people don't tend to stay in one career.

00:33:19.400 They tend to kind of switch up their jobs and switch up their careers.

00:33:21.660 That's why young people don't get married early these days.

00:33:25.400 Well, we just need to meet new people and travel and have new experiences.

00:33:29.060 And this is why young people very often don't want to have children these days.

00:33:33.120 It's because when you have children,

00:33:34.400 you are closing off a stage of life that you were in adolescence

00:33:37.540 and you were entering into a new stage of life.

00:33:39.340 And people don't want to do this.

00:33:40.300 This is why young people these days, I think, remain enamored of their childhood interests.

00:33:46.660 It's why you have so many more young people these days continuing to pursue the same kinds of activities

00:33:51.080 that they did when they were children.

00:33:54.140 Look, I'm not a big Disney guy, but I could see an argument for why adults can go to Disney World.

00:33:58.760 But the reason that adults should go to Disney World is to take their children there.

00:34:02.140 I think it's fine for adults to play little board games and even video games and whatever.

00:34:05.560 They can do all that stuff.

00:34:06.960 But at a certain point, these things that are really for children become weird for adults to do

00:34:14.660 unless the adults are doing it with their children.

00:34:18.320 You actually get this opportunity to kind of relive your childhood

00:34:21.740 and engage in all these fun things and roll around on the ground and wrestle and play

00:34:25.000 and, I don't know, throw a ball around.

00:34:26.800 But if you do it just for yourself and you pretend that you're still a child,

00:34:31.460 that's going to be grotesque.

00:34:32.640 If you do it in a natural and orderly flow of life where you make a decision,

00:34:39.100 go on, enter into society, have kids, play around, do all the stuff that people are supposed to do,

00:34:44.100 then it's nice and it's nice and it makes sense and it's good

00:34:47.640 and you're not stuck in this grotesquerie where you're like a hamster spinning on a wheel.

00:34:52.900 You're like a hamster that was pumped with puberty blockers spinning on a wheel

00:34:55.800 and you don't go into maturity and then you end up whining on podcasts about how you don't seem to be going anywhere.

00:35:04.900 This month, we are celebrating the anniversary of one of the greatest moments in Daily Wire history.

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00:35:29.140 The Supreme Court recognized this gross power grab and made the right decision.

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00:36:32.640 Anyway, speaking of life, there was a celebration of life for Diamond.

00:36:41.280 I mentioned on the show just a day or two after it happened that Diamond, of Diamond and Silk fame, recently died.

00:36:50.320 She was quite young.

00:36:52.000 Gosh, I think she was only 54 or something like that.

00:36:54.760 And she was great.

00:36:55.560 I only got to meet her, I think, a couple of times.

00:36:57.460 I was on her show.

00:36:58.360 She may have been on my show. 1.00

00:36:59.340 And I really just loved the whole act, and I thought she was really, really talented and stood up for important things at a consequential moment in American history

00:37:10.820 and very courageously endorsed Donald Trump, which at the time was not really smiled upon by the powers that be.

00:37:21.920 And so Trump has come out with statements about this lady, wonderful lady, and said there's going to be a celebration of life, and you should all say prayers for her.

00:37:32.640 Sunday, January 8th, 2023, the world lost an angel and true friend, Lynette Diamond Hardaway.

00:37:44.120 She was great.

00:37:45.880 Diamond lived a life founded on her passion and love for all of humanity.

00:37:51.360 The legacy she lives behind will forever remain in our hearts.

00:37:55.500 She was a really great person.

00:37:57.060 Please join us on Saturday, January 21st in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

00:38:03.600 She loved that state, and so do I, as we celebrate the life of Diamond.

00:38:09.000 She lived it in an incredible way, and we're going to have a wonderful celebration and ceremony.

00:38:16.060 All of Diamond's families and Silk, we love Silk.

00:38:19.480 Her sister, she loved her sister so much, and they loved each other, and they really loved the world.

00:38:25.460 They were with me from the beginning, and they never wavered.

00:38:29.520 So we're going to celebrate Silk.

00:38:31.180 We'll be there, but I'll be there, and we're going to celebrate the life of Diamond.

00:38:37.120 See you in North Carolina.

00:38:38.760 Thank you.

00:38:40.500 Lovely thing for Trump to do, and wonderful for everyone to get together and pray for Diamond,

00:38:46.540 and think back on all the good memories.

00:38:48.600 The reason I mention this in particular is because of a phrase that kept coming up in

00:38:54.720 President Trump's comments.

00:38:55.940 He said, the celebration, we're going to celebrate the life.

00:38:58.500 It's a celebration of life.

00:38:59.740 It's a celebration of life.

00:39:00.580 This is how it was reported in the news.

00:39:02.180 This was not a funeral.

00:39:03.800 This was not a wake.

00:39:05.660 This was a celebration of life, and increasingly, that is what funerals are called in our culture.

00:39:13.620 You will, frankly, now, it might be even more common than the word funeral.

00:39:20.840 Come, we're going to have a celebration of life, and it's a little different than a funeral.

00:39:23.920 A funeral, that's where the body is.

00:39:27.260 You're in the presence of the body.

00:39:28.340 If it's an open casket wake, you actually see the body, but you're at least in the presence

00:39:31.860 of the body.

00:39:32.640 You say prayers.

00:39:33.660 There's usually a priest.

00:39:35.740 There is a rite and ritual to this.

00:39:38.940 There can be a requiem mass, perhaps.

00:39:40.860 It happens over a series of a couple or a few days.

00:39:44.540 When you go, you throw flowers on the coffin.

00:39:47.120 It's lowered into the ground.

00:39:48.880 You bury it, and that's that.

00:39:51.920 And then you lay the body to rest.

00:39:54.720 A celebration of life doesn't do that.

00:39:57.420 A celebration of life, usually the body is not present, and it's just the family and friends

00:40:00.820 get together, and the whole point of it is it's supposed to be a happy time.

00:40:03.180 Don't be sad.

00:40:04.860 The deceased person wouldn't want you to be sad.

00:40:06.960 You should be happy.

00:40:07.640 Let's get some upbeat music going, and let's be festive, and let's all be happy.

00:40:14.400 And I always find the celebrations of life to be trying too hard.

00:40:20.520 I think it's a big mistake for people to do.

00:40:22.540 I know a lot of people do it.

00:40:23.440 I've been to plenty of them.

00:40:24.560 But I think the funeral idea has it more correct, because death is a genuinely sad thing.

00:40:33.860 And we can pretend that it's not a sad thing.

00:40:36.960 We say, oh, well, let's just celebrate the life.

00:40:38.840 Let's ignore the fact of death.

00:40:40.020 Let's just focus on the happy times.

00:40:42.340 But it's going to be there.

00:40:43.380 You're not going to ignore that reality.

00:40:45.700 Kind of reminds me of what we're talking about at the top of the show.

00:40:47.800 Democrats want to ignore the political realities, and they want to say, no, no, no.

00:40:51.100 It's only if you observe them.

00:40:52.300 That's when the problem kicks in.

00:40:54.300 Don't talk about the open border, because when you mention the open border, that's when it's

00:40:57.840 really going to be a problem and people are going to flood over.

00:40:59.840 Don't mention the sad fact of death.

00:41:01.480 As long as we all just pretend to be happy, then we'll all be happy.

00:41:04.920 That's not true.

00:41:07.580 Jesus wept when his friend died.

00:41:10.000 Jesus wept.

00:41:10.860 Jesus, who is incarnate to redeem mankind from death and give mankind life eternal, weeps

00:41:16.800 when his friend dies.

00:41:18.780 Moments before, he raises his friend from the dead.

00:41:22.160 Why does he weep?

00:41:23.120 It's the shortest verse in the Gospels.

00:41:25.460 Jesus wept.

00:41:26.860 Why?

00:41:27.780 He weeps because death is a sad thing.

00:41:30.040 It's so sad.

00:41:31.040 It's so tragic that God gave his only begotten son to suffer and die so that mankind might

00:41:37.040 have eternal life.

00:41:38.960 So it seems to me, as with so many things in our culture, when we're trying to be happy

00:41:48.000 by ignoring reality, when in fact the only chance that we have of really being happy is

00:41:55.000 if we accept reality in all its sadness, in all its tragedy, and see through it, and push

00:42:01.720 back through that reality, you have to first, I think, in my own experience, I've been to

00:42:07.740 a number of funerals and celebrations of life.

00:42:10.320 You have to accept the sad fact this person has died and death is bad and their soul has

00:42:15.900 departed and their body is going to turn to dust.

00:42:19.000 But, if you have faith in the resurrection, you can say, but, that's not the end of the

00:42:26.940 story.

00:42:27.960 And if you don't have faith in the resurrection, if you're more inclined to these kind of secular

00:42:31.640 affairs, again, I'm not accusing Diamond and Silk of being secularists or I don't know

00:42:37.440 their religious views.

00:42:38.240 It's just very common in our culture now to engage in what is essentially a secular

00:42:42.200 affair, which is a celebration of life.

00:42:44.040 If you just take the secular view of things, then you can pretend that there's hope, but

00:42:49.860 you don't really have hope.

00:42:51.520 You don't actually.

00:42:52.300 You really think that is the end of the story.

00:42:54.420 Taking a dirt nap and turning to worm food, that really is the end of the story for you.

00:42:59.800 And I just don't think that it is.

00:43:01.040 It reminds me of a C.S. Lewis quote I go back to a lot.

00:43:03.800 If you look for truth, you might find comfort.

00:43:06.460 You might.

00:43:06.820 I think you will find comfort, but if you look for the truth, you might find comfort

00:43:11.560 in the end.

00:43:12.280 But if you look for comfort, you will find neither truth nor comfort.

00:43:16.380 You will find only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin.

00:43:20.620 Festivities and upbeat rock music and just focus on the good times.

00:43:25.860 And in the end, despair.

00:43:27.880 Let's not do that.

00:43:28.560 You got to look reality square in the face if you want to have any hope of joy and happiness.

00:43:33.100 If you just, if you try to ignore reality, it's not going to get you there.

00:43:37.840 Speaking of death, Elon Musk says that after he got his second COVID booster shot, he felt

00:43:45.140 like he was dying.

00:43:47.060 He said, I had major side effects from my second booster shot.

00:43:50.360 Felt like I was dying for several days.

00:43:52.020 Hopefully no permanent damage, but I don't know.

00:43:53.800 And my cousin, who's young and in peak health, had a serious case of myocarditis, had to go

00:43:59.400 to the hospital.

00:44:03.660 The reason this matters is not because this is a novel thing.

00:44:06.540 I think many people I know who received the COVID shot, any of the COVID shots, said, oh

00:44:12.860 yeah, I felt really bad right after I took it or after the boosters.

00:44:15.740 Or yeah, my uncle died right after, shortly thereafter, or oh, so-and-so had a stroke, or

00:44:20.760 so-and-so had a blood clot, or so-and-so, whatever.

00:44:22.940 So that isn't surprising, at least not to me, at least not to the people who had the number

00:44:27.640 of this whole thing from the earliest days.

00:44:31.320 The reason it matters is because Elon Musk is so prominent.

00:44:34.420 He controls a social media website.

00:44:37.180 Had Elon Musk not owned Twitter and posted that comment on Twitter in the pre-Elon Twitter

00:44:41.860 days, he might have been banned for it, okay?

00:44:45.740 And all of this takes me back to when I was a little kid, I would see these commercials

00:44:50.440 for mesothelioma and say, have you or a loved one been diagnosed with mesothelioma?

00:44:55.460 You may be entitled to financial compensation.

00:44:58.180 Call the law group of Jacobian Myers, or I forget, whichever law group it was, and you

00:45:02.580 can join a class action because you were exposed to dangerous chemicals.

00:45:08.360 And this crops up every year.

00:45:11.160 There's some version of this on the air.

00:45:13.280 And there were people who actually believed that with this COVID shot, or this series

00:45:21.040 of COVID shots, from the people who had been wrong about everything, and in some cases who

00:45:26.100 had lied about everything in the epidemic, that this COVID shot that was rushed through

00:45:31.160 with this experimental kind of drug treatment, that there would be no side effects whatsoever.

00:45:35.020 No, no, no.

00:45:35.360 Now we've figured out the science.

00:45:37.760 No, no, no.

00:45:38.320 Now we've figured it.

00:45:39.360 There are eternal problems that have plagued science and politics and mankind since the

00:45:45.340 dawn of time.

00:45:47.080 But sometime around 2019, we just figured it all out.

00:45:49.940 And now there are those questions.

00:45:50.940 If you can believe that, and very often it's the elites who believe that, and very often it's

00:45:58.280 the people with the fancy degrees, people who have two degrees from Harvard who believe

00:46:01.300 that.

00:46:01.620 If you can believe that, you can believe absolutely anything at all.

00:46:07.260 And very often those people do.

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Ep. 1167 - Libs Blame Historic Surge Of Illegal Aliens On Republicans

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