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00:00:00.000 House Republicans have officially kicked Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee

00:00:05.360 and fellow squad member AOC is not happy about it.

00:00:10.520 As also as a fellow New Yorker, I think one of the things that we should talk about here is

00:00:16.100 also one of the disgusting legacies after 9-11 has been the targeting and racism against Muslim

00:00:21.920 Americans throughout the United States of America. And this is an extension of that legacy consistency.

00:00:26.760 There is nothing consistent with the Republican Party's continued attack except for the racism

00:00:32.420 and incitement of violence against women of color in this body. I had a member of the Republican

00:00:37.580 Caucus threaten my life and you all and the Republican Caucus rewarded him with one of the

00:00:43.320 most prestigious committee assignments in this Congress. Don't tell me this is about consistency.

00:00:49.540 Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks when you have a member

00:00:55.840 of the Republican Caucus who has talked about Jewish space lasers and an entire amount of

00:01:01.540 tropes and also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body.

00:01:06.200 This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America. Don't tell me because

00:01:11.980 I didn't get a single apology. Time has expired.

00:01:14.140 My life was threatened. Thank you.

00:01:17.620 Okay. AOC went on a rant there about herself as she always does. But let's get back to the first part

00:01:24.200 since we're here to talk about Ilhan Omar. AOC's argument is that Ilhan Omar is the victim of

00:01:30.320 Islamophobia, which AOC cites as one of the worst legacies of 9-11. One of the worst legacies?

00:01:39.440 Like you think about 9-11 and you're trying to identify the worst thing about 9-11 and the answer

00:01:48.300 you come up with is Islamophobia. AOC actually just performed a Norm MacDonald bit on the floor

00:01:57.460 of the House of Representatives. I can't say my friend's name, but he said his biggest fear

00:02:02.280 is that ISIS or some terrorist group like that would get a hold of a dirty bomb and explode it over

00:02:18.100 a major city within the United States and kill tens of millions of people because then the blowback

00:02:29.820 against innocent Muslims would be absolutely terrible.

00:02:36.340 Yes, that's true.

00:02:37.480 That's true.

00:02:38.760 Okay, let's do some jokes.

00:02:41.360 That's it. That would be the worst part of it. It would be the blowback. The worst thing imaginable,

00:02:46.520 Islamophobia. But Islamophobia, whatever that means, is not why Ilhan Omar was removed from the

00:02:53.240 Foreign Affairs Committee. She was removed because of the things that she has said and done to prove

00:02:59.120 that we can't trust her with matters of foreign policy and national security. Good job, House

00:03:05.460 Republicans. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:49.960 Talk is simply smarter wireless. The House Republicans were threatening to do it. Now

00:04:55.860 they've done it. Ilhan Omar is off the Foreign Affairs Committee. Here's Kevin McCarthy explaining

00:05:01.360 the reasoning. Now, when it comes to Congresswoman Omar, based upon what she had said, the anti-Semitic

00:05:07.920 comments, it's all about the Benjamins. The military in America is equal to Hamas and the

00:05:15.680 Taliban. On 9-11, something happened that day. Even the former Democratic chair of the committee

00:05:22.120 believed her comments were wrong. When a resolution was brought up to deal with this last time,

00:05:29.280 she never apologized. They changed the resolution to say anti-Semitism is wrong.

00:05:34.540 We're not removing her from other committees. We just do not believe when it comes to foreign affairs,

00:05:41.120 especially the responsibility of that position around the world with the comments that you make.

00:05:46.520 She shouldn't serve there. But this is what the clear. If it was tit for tat, we would have picked

00:05:52.400 people, took them off all committees, and said nothing about it. We don't believe in that.

00:05:56.320 All right, that's the argument. Now, the first reason that Kevin McCarthy cites for booting Ilhan

00:06:01.480 Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee is her anti-Semitism. And anti-Semitism, very, very bad.

00:06:08.580 I don't know if Ilhan Omar hates the Jews or not. She very well might hate the Jews.

00:06:13.440 But that would not be the primary reason to kick somebody off the Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:06:18.920 And the reason for that is, if not liking the Jews is the threshold now for kicking people off

00:06:24.760 congressional committees, there are probably some more people who would have to be kicked off of

00:06:29.540 committees, certainly in the Democratic Party, certainly among the squad. I think that would

00:06:34.020 probably take people out. If not liking Israel were the bar, there would be a lot more people who

00:06:42.280 would have to be removed from their congressional committees. Especially, we're talking about

00:06:45.820 Israel, very controversial facet of foreign policy for the last century. But let's zoom out a little

00:06:51.780 bit. Let's take the Jews out of it for a second. If racial or religious resentment were the new

00:06:58.780 threshold for kicking people off congressional committees, you'd have to lose probably half the

00:07:05.220 Democrat Party. How many Democrat members of Congress have openly expressed antipathy for white

00:07:12.100 people? Said that whiteness is a bad thing. We need fewer white people in public life. We need less

00:07:19.160 about white people taught in schools. Half the party, more than half the party? What about antipathy

00:07:25.700 toward Christians? Half the party, more than half the party expressing a desire to minimize the role

00:07:35.380 of Christianity in American public life? America, a country founded on Christianity. That bar, sorry to

00:07:41.000 say, is probably too low for removing someone from a congressional committee. Racial or religious

00:07:48.020 resentment. You'd probably lose most of the people on your committees, at least roughly half of them.

00:07:53.260 No, the reason, the primary reason that Ilhan Omar should not serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee

00:08:00.420 is not because of what she said about one racial group or about one religious group. It's because of

00:08:06.960 what she said about America and the enemies who have explicitly attacked America. Care was founded

00:08:15.700 after 9-11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to

00:08:24.700 lose access to our civil liberties. The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the

00:08:32.040 professor said Al-Qaeda, he sort of like his shoulders went up and you know, he's in command here. Al-Qaeda, you know, hospital. He's an expert.

00:08:40.860 And it was, you know. What's his name? We are not saying his name. But it is, it is that you don't say

00:08:50.380 America with an intensity. You don't say England with an intensity. You know, you don't, you don't say

00:08:56.420 the army with an intensity. Qaeda.

00:09:00.020 But you say these, these names because you, you want that, that word to carry weight.

00:09:06.600 Ha ha ha, Al-Qaeda. Tee hee hee. Oh ho ho. Tee hee hee Osama bin Laden. Ha ha ha. And it's so crazy, right? I mean,

00:09:14.560 we say Al-Qaeda like it's big and scary, but we don't say the same thing about America or the army. So she's

00:09:22.080 saying that, that if we view Al-Qaeda with any more antipathy or fear than we would view the United

00:09:30.600 States and the American military, then that's just sort of silly. That's, we should be giggling about

00:09:35.220 that. That's so crazy. That's why she should be removed from the committees because she giggles at

00:09:42.340 and seems to side with America's enemies who have attacked America. If we broaden this out too much

00:09:50.200 and we say, well, if you make a comment about this racial group or this religious group or this

00:09:55.060 other nation, then that disbars you from, from serving on a congressional committee.

00:10:00.820 Then that gives an opening to the Democrats. It gives an opening to AOC to say, well,

00:10:04.840 Marjorie Taylor Greene allegedly said something about Jewish space lasers. By the way,

00:10:09.860 I've never heard this comment. I've never seen this comment. I see it frequently cited by the left,

00:10:13.740 but I've never heard Marjorie Taylor Greene say anything that makes me think she hates the Jews,

00:10:17.440 but the libs will use that. They'll say, well, look at this person. Look, he's expressed a kind

00:10:22.040 of antipathy toward this racial group or that religious group or this, that, or the other

00:10:26.840 thing. It's too low. It's very clear. It doesn't need to be this highly emotional decision with AOC

00:10:33.960 screaming her head off and gesticulating like a mad woman to remove Ilhan Omar. Ilhan Omar has made light

00:10:42.480 of the worst terror attack in American history. Ilhan Omar has taken the side of America's enemies

00:10:49.200 openly, the enemies specifically involved in that terror attack. And she obviously has no business

00:10:54.780 on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Kevin McCarthy cites those comments as well. He cites them a

00:10:59.720 little later down the line, which I think is what gives an opening to the Democrats to criticize this

00:11:03.580 decision. This is an obvious decision. Obviously, this woman should have absolutely nothing to do

00:11:08.500 with American national security or American foreign policy. She was elected by her constituents,

00:11:13.520 so I guess she should continue to serve in Congress. She can even serve on some of the other

00:11:17.280 committees. But get that lady away from foreign policy and national security, especially now as

00:11:22.540 we're in probably the most fraught, dangerous period for national security and foreign policy,

00:11:30.160 certainly in 20 years, maybe in a lot longer than that, maybe since the Cold War. As you see aggression

00:11:35.400 from Russia that threatens to destabilize Europe, as you're seeing aggression from China, which is now

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00:12:56.880 Speaking of vacating positions, Tom Brady has retired again.

00:13:04.320 Good morning, guys. I'll get to the point right away. I'm retiring for good. I know the process

00:13:13.460 was a pretty big deal last time. So when I woke up this morning, I figured I'd just press record

00:13:19.160 and let you guys know first. So I won't be long-winded. You only get one super emotional

00:13:26.220 retirement essay and I used mine up last year. So I really thank you guys so much to every single

00:13:32.920 one of you for supporting me. My family, my friends, my teammates, my competitors. I could go on forever.

00:13:44.160 There's too many. Thank you guys for allowing me to live my absolute dream. I wouldn't change a thing.

00:13:52.300 Love you all. Love you all. Now, a year after I retired and then came back, I'm retiring again.

00:14:01.160 I don't have any particular care that Tom Brady is retiring again. I'm not a New England Patriots

00:14:10.060 fan. I'm a New Yorker by birth and upbringing. I don't watch football. I don't even know what team

00:14:17.160 Tom Brady currently plays for or did play for before he retired. My interest in this story

00:14:23.180 goes back much further than Tom Brady's football career. Goes back, way back to ancient days.

00:14:31.780 Goes back to a man you might have heard of, a fella by the name of Hezekiah, king of Judah.

00:14:37.540 Now, Hezekiah, king of Judah, you can read about him in the Bible, was a very good ruler of Judah.

00:14:44.120 He was a very successful king. And one day, the prophet Isaiah comes to him and he says,

00:14:50.380 hey, you're going to die. You're sick and you're going to die and your time has come.

00:14:54.880 And Hezekiah says, oh man, I don't want to die. Isaiah, come on. I want to get,

00:14:58.960 can I, give me some more years. Come on, talk to God. Get me some more years.

00:15:04.120 And Isaiah comes back and he says, hey, you've been granted a reprieve. God is giving you

00:15:08.420 another 15 years. And Hezekiah says, oh man, that's great. And what happens? Hezekiah

00:15:15.300 destroys his legacy. In that 15 year period, Hezekiah welcomes the Babylonians to come in,

00:15:24.620 check out his kingdom, check out all of his stuff. If they had had spy balloons during that day,

00:15:29.240 the Babylonians would have been sending that over. Although I guess they didn't need to because

00:15:32.300 Hezekiah just invited them in and gives them a huge upper hand in what would come later,

00:15:38.080 which is the Babylonians just conquering the kingdom. In that 15 year period of time,

00:15:42.520 Hezekiah king of Judah has a son. His son is Manasseh. Manasseh is a very terrible king

00:15:49.080 who tears down all the great stuff that Hezekiah had done. And Hezekiah sees that this is going

00:15:55.840 to happen. And Isaiah says, you know, man, things are going to go really south. You were supposed to

00:16:00.720 die, but then, you know, you got this little reprieve and you're going to destroy everything.

00:16:04.580 And what does Hezekiah say? He says, well, is this going to happen in my lifetime?

00:16:07.580 And Isaiah says, no, no, it's going to happen after you're dead. And Hezekiah says, oh, okay.

00:16:13.740 All right. Nevermind. Well, in that case, I get another 15 years. It's pretty nice, right?

00:16:18.600 Was it worth it? I don't think so. And by the whole scope of salvation history, you know,

00:16:26.980 it all comes to a purpose ultimately. But in the moment, certainly wasn't good for Judah.

00:16:33.180 Certainly wasn't good for Hezekiah's legacy. Certainly wasn't good. Certainly wasn't good

00:16:38.460 for Tom Brady. A real important reminder. Know your time. Know when things are over. Tom Brady

00:16:48.220 could have retired a year ago. He would have gone out as the almost universally beloved,

00:16:53.140 greatest football player of all time with a super hot wife that people generally liked

00:16:57.480 in a nice family. And he could have rode off into the sunset. Instead, he decided to unretire.

00:17:04.460 This has been broadly cited as the reason why his wife divorced him and lost him a lot of favor among

00:17:10.840 the fans. And for what? To get one more year? And then he says, okay, I'm out. Was it worth it

00:17:17.080 to just wring out another few months of playing football? Probably not. Was it worth it, Hezekiah,

00:17:23.680 just to wring out another 15 measly years on Earth? You destroy the kingdom of Judah? I don't think

00:17:29.920 so. Now, I mentioned those hostile foreign powers coming in and spying around on kingdoms. This is

00:17:40.500 a story that just broke last night. The Chinese have apparently sent a spy balloon over the continental

00:17:47.500 United States. My first reaction is, is this 1952? We're still sending spy balloons? Don't we have

00:17:57.400 more advanced technology than that? Don't the Chinese? The Chinese are very advanced. They stole

00:18:01.100 all of our tech. Surely, surely the Chinese have more advanced tech than this. Apparently not.

00:18:05.920 So there's this spy balloon, and it's going over here. And the foreign affairs spokesman for the

00:18:14.680 Chinese, whose name is Mao. Not a good sign also. Mao Ning. Mao says, I want to stress that before it

00:18:21.300 becomes clear what happened, any deliberate speculation or hyping up will not help. The

00:18:25.940 Chinese side is gathering the facts and hopes all sides will handle this matter in a cool-headed

00:18:32.580 manner. We act in accordance with international law, says Mao Ning. I kind of push those two together.

00:18:42.620 Says Mao Ning. We have no intention to violate any other country's sovereignty. And bearing the facts,

00:18:48.340 we hope relevant parties would handle the matter in a clear-headed way.

00:18:54.600 Yeah, okay. Yeah, China. Famous for acting in accordance with international law.

00:19:01.020 China, which starting the moment we let them into the World Trade Organization,

00:19:06.340 starts violating all the trade rules, steals all of our technology, artificially subsidizes steel and

00:19:14.340 aluminum, artificially manipulates its currency, just does everything it can to violate international

00:19:21.200 law. To say nothing of what it does to various population groups within China and just all the

00:19:25.960 heinous things that the regime inflicts on its people. Yeah, we act in accordance with international

00:19:30.480 law. So what is the Biden administration doing? Now, the Biden administration, I was wondering,

00:19:36.780 I said, okay, well, what does this balloon look like? And we don't know exactly because it's still

00:19:42.940 flying overhead. What? They said they're monitoring the situation. They've got eyes on it. They're

00:19:50.280 monitoring the spy balloon. Are you kidding me? Is this the depth of weakness that the United States

00:19:58.060 has sunk to? That we see a spy balloon flying over the continental United States. We know it's from

00:20:05.780 our most threatening geopolitical foe, China. And we just let it keep flying. We don't shoot this

00:20:13.880 thing down. What are we spending all this money on in the US military? All that defense spending that

00:20:20.400 we get every year, we can't even shoot down a stupid balloon. Good grief, man. You know, back in the

00:20:25.700 50s, when the US was sending spy planes over the Soviet Union, when there was a far greater risk

00:20:32.680 of a nuclear war than you have right now between America and the United States, or America and

00:20:37.080 China, rather, what did the Soviet Union do? They shot the plane down. The plane, which wasn't just

00:20:42.000 a random balloon, the plane that had a pilot in it. And the US denied, I don't know, we don't have any

00:20:47.580 spy planes over the Soviet Union. And then they shoot down the plane and we say, okay, all right,

00:20:50.820 I guess we did. And now we're so afraid of upsetting China that we will allow them to send

00:20:58.900 a spy balloon over the US. Good grief. The reason we're doing it, of course, is because China sort

00:21:04.760 of owns us at this point. They own a ton of our debt. They own our entire production line. They own

00:21:12.820 our supply chain. If they cut us off, if we're a little too aggressive with China,

00:21:20.080 well, then we're screwed. This is what happens. For a long time, you heard people among the liberal

00:21:29.160 free trader types, especially Joe Biden. He was really clear about this. He said, oh, we need to

00:21:33.720 bring China into the international community. We need to trade with them. A rising tide lifts all ships.

00:21:38.780 It's really good. Rising China is good for everybody. You know what? Let's give them all

00:21:43.520 of our manufacturing. Yeah, I know. That'll hurt small town Americans. That'll hurt blue collar

00:21:47.280 Americans. But that doesn't matter because now we'll get cheap junk from China. And that'll be

00:21:52.660 really, really great for everybody. And there's no downside to total free trade and offshoring and

00:21:58.780 outsourcing. There's no downside at all because GDP might tick up a little bit. This is what you heard

00:22:03.100 from the free traders, not just in the Democrat party, in the Republican party too. And there were some

00:22:07.360 people, some of those less fashionable figures who said, actually, maybe we need some manufacturing

00:22:12.380 in the US. Actually, maybe it's not good to outsource our entire manufacturing base. Actually,

00:22:16.760 maybe tariffs wouldn't be the worst idea. Actually, maybe we should counter China's rise.

00:22:20.660 And these people were laughed at as rubes, economically illiterate, stupid idiots.

00:22:26.040 And now what situation are we in? We're in a situation where China calls the shots because he who

00:22:33.800 pays the piper calls the tune. GDP is not everything. Free trade is not universally good at all times in

00:22:40.280 every way. And actually, it might serve the purposes of national security, might serve our national

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00:25:21.000 response on TV. And it's a terrible job. It's a terrible job. And it's much smaller. And it doesn't

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00:25:38.620 like Sarah Sanders. I think she's a tremendous politician. I think her head and her heart are in

00:25:43.140 the right place. I think she could be a great national leader. She already is. She's the governor

00:25:46.900 of Arkansas. And so I wish her the best of luck. I think she's just terrific. But it's too bad. I

00:25:54.880 hope the curse does not hold this year. I'm sure she'll do a great job. I'm sure she'll do as good

00:25:59.420 a job as you possibly can at the State of the Union response. But not a great gig. Now, it gets even

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00:26:19.620 giving another response in Spanish. This is from the House GOP. It's from this guy. What's his name?

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00:26:48.600 important it is to vote for Republicans. En Español. I have nothing against Juan Siscomani. I don't know

00:26:55.900 Juan Siscomani. He's got six kids and is a Republican. So he seems like a great guy. I bet he's terrific.

00:27:01.680 This is a terrible idea. Terrible idea. What the hell are we conserving? We can't even conserve

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00:27:18.000 basic aspect. We are a self-government. We're a republic. The way a republic governs itself is by

00:27:23.480 speaking to one another and by debating and persuading one another. Almost nothing unifies

00:27:30.160 us in the United States. We, in the early days, were broadly unified by race, broadly unified by

00:27:37.640 religion, broadly unified by the experience of the revolution, broadly unified even by bonds of

00:27:43.840 family. I mean, the fact that the pilgrims, when they came over, there were so few of them,

00:27:48.000 and many of them died in that first winter. If you trace back people who are of the lineage of the

00:27:54.100 Mayflower, usually they'll have not one Mayflower ancestor, but many. Because they all married each

00:28:00.540 other. And so everybody was kind of a cousin with one another. Well, that's gone. That's gone.

00:28:04.480 That's been falling away for a very long time in American history. And you've also had mass

00:28:08.700 migration, which has complicated this. So, okay, you no longer are unified by family, by race. In

00:28:15.760 recent decades, you're no longer unified by religion. You've had huge waves of non-Christian migrants,

00:28:22.440 and Christianity among the native population has declined as well. So you're not unified by that.

00:28:27.160 People are not unified even by the national symbol anymore, the American flag. Half the country

00:28:31.480 protests, the American flag. So the most basic thing you could be unified by is the language that

00:28:35.620 you speak. But we can't even speak to each other anymore. And it's not the Democrats. The Democrats

00:28:40.040 aren't issuing a Spanish state of the union. They're not going to have some Spanish official go up,

00:28:44.940 and here's the Spanish version of Biden's speech. No, it's us. It's the Republicans. It's so pathetic.

00:28:49.460 For what? For what? To pander to people who will be, they can turn on SAP, okay? They can read the

00:28:59.260 speech if they want in Spanish. You can dub it over whatever Sarah Sanders has to say. But no,

00:29:05.120 we're the ones doing it. We're going to outwoke the woke. We're so clever. Oh, Democrats, they're the

00:29:10.940 real anti-immigration advocates. Democrats are the real Hispanic phobes. Give me a break. It's so

00:29:17.760 pathetic. So, so pathetic. Speaking of live streaming, this story I meant to get to yesterday.

00:29:26.060 I'm glad we have time to get to it today. You probably did not read this story. It's a weird

00:29:31.380 one. A Twitch streamer. So, you know, we don't put our show out on Twitch. I'm not young and hip and

00:29:38.120 cool enough for that. But Twitch is where all the cool, hip youths go to play video games and just

00:29:42.280 stream and have kind of parasocial relationships. A Twitch streamer was just caught viewing a kind of

00:29:51.740 porn of some of his friends who are also Twitch streamers. That's weird enough. I mean, just getting

00:30:00.180 caught looking at porn is embarrassing enough. Then getting caught looking at porn of your friends

00:30:07.400 that was generated by artificial intelligence. Probably the creepiest, weirdest, most embarrassing

00:30:20.420 of all. A guy who, he goes by the name Atriok. He posted this very tearful apology video because he

00:30:29.100 got caught. He was streaming his phone or his computer and it zoomed out and it showed he had

00:30:33.060 some tabs open and the tabs had this weird porn up. And it was deep fake porn of a couple of other

00:30:39.140 streamers whose names I won't say so that some of you naughty people in the audience don't go look it

00:30:44.000 up. But it is a, it's a kind of porn where I guess you, you plug in totally wholesome pictures and

00:30:53.400 videos of these people. And then the computer, it's not just that the computer grafts it onto some other

00:30:58.300 naked lady's body. It generates a model of the person. And then the AI engineer, you can tell

00:31:06.520 what a Luddite I am, by the way, I'm talking about this. But the AI engineer can then manipulate the

00:31:10.640 body to engage in whatever depraved acts the guy wants it to. On top of that, there was an

00:31:17.520 announcement this week that another AI company has just made huge leaps in AI voice. So you can plug in

00:31:24.340 audio of a person talking, plug in a clip from the show, and then you can analyze the voice,

00:31:31.920 create a model of it, type in a prompt, and then make the voice say whatever you want the voice to

00:31:36.260 say. So now you can totally mimic somebody's voice and capture it, totally mimic somebody's body and

00:31:43.480 capture it. And by the time they perfect the sex robots, I think the human race is going to go extinct.

00:31:48.580 Right? That's it, right? Because then you will have had the perfection of antisocial behavior.

00:31:56.820 All of this, but especially the AI porn of it all, is the most antisocial innovation since the radio.

00:32:04.760 It just gives you an opportunity to feel like you're having a social interaction without really

00:32:10.060 doing so. Previously, for most of human history, if you wanted to have a social interaction,

00:32:14.340 you had to talk to people. Then in the 20th century, you could just kind of turn on the radio,

00:32:19.760 and you could hear people, but you still weren't interacting with them. Then TV is more immersive,

00:32:23.740 then the internet's more immersive. But now, if you have a crush on a girl, in the old days,

00:32:28.740 in the really old days, you'd write love poetry about the girl. Even if you didn't know her that

00:32:32.400 well. I always go back to Dante. Dante saw this girl Beatrice twice, and he writes all this love poetry

00:32:37.380 about her. And she's this great muse, right? And it's really elevating and lifts his spirits up all the

00:32:43.400 way to heaven. Now, if you have a crush on a girl, you don't even need to ever meet the girl. You

00:32:46.620 don't even need to ever talk to the girl. You can just take a video and an audio clip of her,

00:32:51.120 plug it into the computer, and make her do whatever you want. So deeply antisocial.

00:32:57.680 And it's not exactly new. It's just the acceleration of a trend that is further isolating

00:33:03.020 all of us from one another. Even as we're packed more closely together in cities,

00:33:07.040 cities are growing by leaps and bounds. Within the next 10 to 20 years, you will have the majority

00:33:11.180 of people in the world living in cities, whether they want to or not. That's just how the trend

00:33:15.340 lines are moving. And yet we know each other so much less. We interact with each other so much

00:33:19.800 less. We can now create a simulacrum of being as intimate with somebody as two bodies can be,

00:33:25.700 never meet the person in our lives. Now, I want to be intimate with you,

00:33:29.620 not like the creepy Twitch people, but in the mailbag. This mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk.

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00:33:46.620 Hi, Michael. Arun here with a question ideally suited to the author of Speechless Controlling

00:33:50.860 Words, Controlling Minds, available for purchase everywhere. I am a member of a conservative

00:33:56.020 online community consisting of like-minded individuals, mostly Daily Wire subscribers.

00:34:01.420 We recently had a new member who very quickly espoused Nazi ideology. And I don't simply mean that

00:34:07.480 I happen to disagree with this person on some finer points of politics. I mean, this person

00:34:11.660 actually denies the Holocaust. He thinks that far fewer than six million Jews died. He thinks

00:34:17.020 that their deaths was a good thing and that Jews control Western civilization to its detriment.

00:34:25.120 Now, he was banned for these comments, but being friends with the owner of this community,

00:34:30.940 I ask that he be reinstated. And it wasn't because I in any way sympathize with his views. I abhor such

00:34:38.420 beliefs. But I was concerned that if we excise him from our community, he will find a new community

00:34:44.720 consisting of truly violent, despicable people who will indoctrinate him fully into Nazi ideology. And

00:34:50.860 frankly, I would rather he be exposed to the Michael Knowles show than to such individuals.

00:34:56.020 Uh, I'm curious, do you think I made the right decision? Uh, how would you act if you were in

00:35:02.840 my place? As always, I would appreciate your wisdom. Thank you.

00:35:07.140 Arun, as usual, you are correct. I think, I think you are correct. You know that I am no free speech

00:35:13.360 absolutist. I do not believe that Nazis have any right to espouse their views. I'm with Bill Buckley,

00:35:20.940 who said in the 60s that he is an epistemological optimist who doesn't believe that there's any

00:35:25.720 reason to protect Nazis or communists in the public square. There's no pressing reason to

00:35:32.380 throw them into prison, but there's no protection to keep them out of prison exactly either. But as

00:35:38.500 a prudential matter, I think you're right, especially on this question. Because you're seeing

00:35:44.820 the antipathy toward the Jews bubbling up a little bit more than usual even right now. And I mean,

00:35:52.360 Ilhan Omar just got kicked off a congressional committee because of it. And so I think it is

00:35:57.960 important that not to silo people who hold those views even further. I think your reasoning is

00:36:05.800 absolutely right. There are many good reasons not to like the Nazis. Their antipathy toward the Jews,

00:36:13.480 certainly one of them. But many, many others too. The Nazis were into weird occult rituals.

00:36:17.700 The Nazis were avowed enemies of the church. Pope Pius XII, wonderful pope, viewed the church

00:36:23.300 as the victim of the Nazis, even before the Second World War. And so there are many reasons to oppose

00:36:33.480 that kind of an ideology. It's a very modern ideology that comes out of all sorts of terrible views. I

00:36:38.880 mean, this is true. Fascism is different from Nazism. But people forget with fascism as well,

00:36:44.280 fascism comes out of socialism. And actually Benito Mussolini, who is the figurehead of fascism,

00:36:50.100 who's probably the most important figure in all of fascism, he was a socialist intellectual for

00:36:54.500 much of his formative years. And so it's just, I think it's important to answer these kinds of

00:37:00.460 questions. And if you can do so in a level-headed way and say, here's why it's not good to be a Nazi.

00:37:07.420 Here's all the bad things the Nazis did and why you shouldn't admire them.

00:37:10.980 And you don't get totally, you know, ecstatic about it. And you don't become like AOC flailing

00:37:17.300 your arms around. You just answer in a very reasonable way. I think that that is going to

00:37:21.460 do a lot to get people off the wrong track that they are on. Whereas, as you say, if the moment

00:37:27.400 that anyone utters any kind of Nazi-esque kind of intimation or question, no matter how ill-formed

00:37:36.020 or bizarre the person is, if the moment that happens, they're instantly ostracized from all of

00:37:39.740 society, they're going to take that as confirmation that their intuitions were correct. And as you say,

00:37:44.840 they're going to find themselves in more and more sordid communities. You know, they'll be in that

00:37:51.040 hive of villainy in Star Wars. And so I totally agree with you. I think, especially as a prudential

00:37:57.560 matter on this question, yeah, hear people out, answer their questions, knock down the bad points

00:38:02.900 that they have to make. Next question. Hey, Michael, I just had a question concerning one of my really

00:38:08.820 close friends. Recently, she came out as a lesbian. And I know in the past you said that, you know,

00:38:15.340 guys and girls can't be best friends because there's probably going to be feelings there,

00:38:19.760 which I completely understand. But is it the same with my really close girlfriend, if technically she

00:38:26.480 is attracted to me because she is a lesbian? Love your show. Thanks for all you do.

00:38:32.440 Well, I think you flatter yourself. Are you sure that your friend is attracted to you?

00:38:39.100 Specifically? Maybe she is. You sound like a very lovely, attractive person. So maybe she is.

00:38:43.520 But I don't think it's quite as big a deal. One, because

00:38:47.380 homosexual attraction is a kind of an odd thing. This is especially true for female-to-female

00:38:59.160 same-sex attraction. There are all sorts of reasons behind it. It's quite unclear how these

00:39:07.180 things develop. And it doesn't track the same way that two guys who are attracted to each other

00:39:11.260 tracks. And it certainly doesn't track the same way that normal sexual relations track. So I wouldn't

00:39:17.220 worry about it too much, especially that you are not a lesbian. And so you are not going to be

00:39:22.420 attracted to her. One of the reasons that single men and single women struggle to be platonic friends

00:39:29.600 is because there is a natural attraction one to another that is going to come up. Or even a

00:39:37.340 married woman and a single man, or a married man and a single woman. There's going to be a natural

00:39:41.220 kind of attraction that is mutual that bubbles up. Here, I don't think that's true.

00:39:47.420 Especially, look, I'm from New York. I went to the gayest university in the world. I lived in Los

00:39:53.300 Angeles and am friends with a lot of people in show business. A disproportionate number of my

00:39:58.240 friends are of the homosexual inclination. But I've never said, well, I can't be friends with you

00:40:03.400 because you might be attracted to me. Because one, I am not attracted to that person. So it's not a

00:40:09.880 not a problem for me. And I just don't, I don't think those, the moment that your friend, for

00:40:17.420 instance, says, I'm a lesbian now, she's going to, you know, pounce on you or throw you on a bed. I

00:40:21.060 don't, I don't think that's really the way it works. So I think you're okay. You should be much

00:40:24.700 more cautious about, about being close friends with a married man, you know, going out and having

00:40:29.280 dinner with him than with your lesbian friend. Next question.

00:40:33.300 What's up, Michael? Second time calling in. Love your show. Anyways, I am Christian now. I had kind

00:40:42.420 of gone away from the church and I'm back and now I'm really getting in and reading the Bible and

00:40:46.920 looking at theology at a more deep level. And something that I've come across in the Bible a

00:40:52.360 lot is I didn't really realize how much Jesus talks about hell. I mean, he says he's going to

00:40:57.300 separate the good fish from the bad fish. And he says, wide is the road of destruction and narrow is

00:41:04.620 the gate to eternal life. And there's all these people out there on the internet freaking out about

00:41:09.700 everybody going to hell. But then there's also people who say everybody's going to be saved. And not

00:41:15.680 that you know who's going to be saved and who's not going to be saved. But do you think going to

00:41:20.880 hell is something we should all be freaking out about all the time, all be worried about? And it

00:41:26.080 should be our number one priority stopping that? I guess it should be our number one priority to

00:41:29.840 stop that. But should we worry about it all the time? Yes. Though in the kind of flip way of what

00:41:39.380 you're talking about, your concern all the time should be knowing God, loving him, serving him in this

00:41:47.900 life and enjoying him forever in heaven. That should be your concern. It's not so much that you're

00:41:53.740 running away from hell, but that you should run toward God. This is actually expressed in the act

00:42:00.840 of contrition, which is the prayer that one says after confession. One says, I'm sorry, God. I'm sorry

00:42:07.940 that I've sinned. And I'm sorry and I hate my sins, not just because I dread the loss of heaven and the

00:42:15.000 pains of hell, but because my sins offend you whom I should love above all things.

00:42:22.520 And so you can have imperfect contrition for your sins, which is just, man, I don't want to burn in

00:42:27.860 hell or man, I don't want to miss out on heaven. But perfect contrition is when you are sorry for

00:42:32.460 your sins because they are sins and because sins offend God and because you love God and you don't

00:42:37.640 want to offend God. So imperfect contrition can be an important step. The fear of hell is important.

00:42:45.760 And Christ talks about, as you say, Christ talks about hell in the gospels a lot. Hell is a real

00:42:51.700 thing and you should not want to go there. And you should allow that healthy fear to turn you toward

00:43:01.080 the holy fear. So there is a kind of servile fear where you're just afraid of pain or you're afraid

00:43:07.320 of being harmed. And then there is holy fear or awe or wonder, wisdom, where you're just marveling

00:43:14.500 before God. You're perceiving sublimity and you're in awe of that and that cultivates humility and will

00:43:23.640 impel you to do the right thing and to serve God. That's good. And you should go to confession.

00:43:29.200 That's another very important thing to do. It's the laundromat for the soul. Next question.

00:43:34.420 Hey, Michael, this is Camille again. And yes, I have another dating question for you.

00:43:39.100 I keep finding myself attracted to the wrong type of guy. I swear I'm not looking just at looks and

00:43:44.320 I'm not looking at superficial things, but I do keep finding myself attracted to guys who seem nice and

00:43:49.500 then end up being jerks. So I would love to hear your thoughts on how to find the better guys and be

00:43:54.560 attracted to them and not force things though. Thanks, Michael.

00:43:59.200 Great question, Camille. One that I'm sure many women struggle with many such cases.

00:44:06.480 The reason that you are attracted to these bad guys is because your desire and will are disordered.

00:44:15.100 But it is not the case that your desire per se is wrong. This is, I think, a place where a lot of

00:44:21.720 people go awry. They say, the fact that I have desire for these men is wrong in and of itself.

00:44:28.980 No, no. The desire is good. The way that you advance in wisdom and sanctity in your whole life

00:44:36.420 is going to be through your desire. It's not going to be by suppressing your desire. It's got to be

00:44:42.040 through your desire. But your desire is aimed at the wrong place right now.

00:44:45.220 So people have sexual desire. Often in this fallen world, especially if one is uneducated and one

00:44:51.880 indulges in a lot of vice, then that sexual desire is going to express itself in the form of lust.

00:44:57.380 So you're just going to desire hot chicks, or in your case, big, hunky, hot dudes. And you're going

00:45:03.500 to focus just on that, on the sensation, and not on the intelligible. You're going to focus on just

00:45:12.100 what feels kind of good, and not what that good feeling is meant to represent. Not the real

00:45:18.780 intelligible goodness that is behind the phenomena. And so what you'll want to do is turn your desire,

00:45:25.780 recognize that your, let's say, physical attraction to some big, hunky jerk of a dude,

00:45:29.700 that that is an intimation of a good desire for a good man. So lust, which is shallow and bad and

00:45:41.420 will mess you up, is really a perversion of love, of true love, which wills the good of the other

00:45:47.600 person and seeks the good generally. Gluttony is just a perversion and a disorder of a perfectly

00:45:54.600 healthy and good desire to sustain ourselves and to have food to allow us to keep

00:45:59.680 going in this life. Pride, the queen of all vices, is just a, it's sort of the original big problem,

00:46:08.900 and it is a disorder and a perversion of self-confidence. And so you might be attracted

00:46:15.560 to a guy who's very prideful, who's very cocky. Well, it's probably because you would have a natural

00:46:21.780 and good desire for a man who is confident. And why would he be confident? Because he is in charge

00:46:27.240 of himself, he's suppressed his base appetites, he is in somewhat, some command of his rational will,

00:46:32.860 he's doing good things, he's flourishing, he can be confident. Cockiness is a sad, shallow imitation

00:46:42.900 of confidence. And so what you, I think what you need to do is when you feel that movement of your

00:46:49.220 appetite and that attraction toward a certain kind of a sensation, you should just recognize

00:46:54.700 the rational and intelligible thing that, that, that desire is ultimately should be drawing you

00:47:02.180 toward. And, and, and then you will better be able to discern between some cocky jerk and some

00:47:07.640 confident alpha, Chad, giga, totally virtuous guy. And then rationally choose the latter because it will

00:47:14.300 fulfill the thing that your desire is ultimately for. It's just, but it's not quite aiming at right

00:47:18.860 now because it's gone a little bit awry. Today is fake headline Friday. I need your help

00:47:23.600 to figure out which one of these five headlines is the fake one. You have to do that over on the

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