The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1177 - Don't Look At The Shiny Chinese Balloon

00:00:00.000 After more than a week flying around US airspace, the Chinese spy balloon, or at least one of them,

00:00:06.860 has finally been shot down. The international incident has provoked all sorts of questions.

00:00:12.980 What were the Chinese looking for? Why did the US government let it get halfway across the country 1.00

00:00:18.520 before acknowledging that the Chinese spy balloon even existed? Why did it take so long for Biden

00:00:25.240 to shoot the damn thing down? All fine questions. We should get the answers. But there are more 0.99

00:00:31.660 important questions that we should get answers to first. Because despite all the sensational

00:00:36.960 headlines, the balloon is not that big a story. What is the story? What is the news from the Chinese

00:00:43.800 spy balloon? That China is spying on the United States? We already know that. Every powerful

00:00:50.760 country on earth is constantly spying on every other powerful country. And this is especially

00:00:56.700 true of the US and China, the global hegemon and now the rising second power. The balloon is the 0.97

00:01:03.520 least of it. Whatever intelligence China picked up from the balloon, I promise you they have picked up 0.90

00:01:08.720 10 times, 100 times more, more than 100 times more information from their satellites over our heads

00:01:16.380 and their telecom systems that they have in the US. And the technology that they manufacture for us

00:01:22.400 almost exclusively, the supply chain they control entirely, and the social media spy app TikTok that

00:01:28.560 we all willingly download to our phones, through which we give the Chinese access to our data,

00:01:33.820 our voices, our locations, our faces. What's the story here? Biden is incompetent and corrupt

00:01:42.200 and dominated by the Chinese. Yeah, we already knew that. It's all troubling. I'm not denying it. I'm not 1.00

00:01:50.940 excusing anything. But my only questions are, one, why are we all talking about this stupid balloon that 1.00

00:01:59.700 doesn't reveal anything new about our political order? And two, what are we, conveniently for our 0.99

00:02:07.300 rulers, not discussing while everybody is distracted by the shiny object floating in the sky? I'm Michael

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00:04:09.420 I'm immediately going to violate my own advice and talk about this balloon, but only briefly. I'm going

00:04:14.760 to talk about the balloon very briefly because everyone's talking about it. But then I want to

00:04:19.000 move on to stories that I think really matter because I think that the stories we're not talking

00:04:24.140 about while we're all distracted by a literal balloon, the only way it could have been more

00:04:28.080 on the nose is if it were a Chinese spy butterfly. We're all there and we say, hey, man, you guys hear

00:04:33.620 that Pfizer executive who just admitted that Pfizer's planning to conduct gain of function

00:04:39.160 research or directed evolution research to beef up the viruses. And actually, he also, did you hear

00:04:44.400 he admitted that the vaccines, it would seem, affect women's fertility? Oh, look, a butterfly.

00:04:50.500 Oh, look, a balloon. What were we talking about? Probably wasn't that important, right? However,

00:04:55.900 I will run through it very, very quickly. The Chinese spy balloon was first identified over Billings,

00:05:01.120 Montana. That was the first balloon. Then there was a second balloon that was observed over Canada.

00:05:05.960 There might be a third balloon in Latin America. There may be another balloon in the United States.

00:05:10.820 The Department of Defense revealed on Friday that the spy balloon is not just a balloon in the sense

00:05:17.420 that you don't just kind of let it go. Chairman Xi lets it go over the Pacific. We see where it lands.

00:05:22.200 The balloon is apparently maneuverable. So it would appear to be controlled remotely or by artificial

00:05:29.740 intelligence. DOD observed it changing direction at 60,000 feet in the air. And so the first call

00:05:37.040 was, why aren't we shooting this thing down? Here's what Joe Biden had to say.

00:05:40.620 When I was briefed on the balloon, I ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as

00:05:46.500 possible. They decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. They decided that the best time to do

00:05:54.060 that was it got over water outside within our, within 12 mile limit. It successfully took it down.

00:06:01.660 And I want to compliment our aviators who did it. And we'll have more to report on this a little

00:06:07.820 later. Thank you. I told him to shoot it down and they didn't want to shoot it down right away when I

00:06:14.020 told them on Wednesday, but they eventually they did. Okay. Why didn't they want to shoot it down right

00:06:19.020 away? By the way, the DOD knew about this days, but there's almost a week or I'm sorry, more than a

00:06:24.200 week from the time that the drone balloon plane thing entered us airspace to the time we shot it

00:06:33.520 down. Then Biden says, oh yeah, I told him to shoot it down on Wednesday, but we were afraid it could

00:06:38.520 harm civilians on the ground. That was, that was the storyline. At least they shoot the thing down.

00:06:43.820 It doesn't seem very credible to me though. According to the Pentagon, it was strongly

00:06:49.040 recommended by chairman of the joint chiefs, General Milley, who had just taken a break from

00:06:53.500 his white privilege struggle session. And he'd left the transgender bathroom at the Pentagon and came 0.58

00:07:00.180 out and I'm, I'm just assuming this is what happened. But then he urged the commander of Northcom

00:07:06.840 not to take kinetic action due to the risk of safety and security of the people on the ground from the

00:07:13.360 possible debris field. In terms of size, I'm not able to get into specifics other than to say it's

00:07:17.800 big enough that in reviewing our approach, we do recognize that any potential debris field would

00:07:22.060 be significant and potentially cause civilian injuries or deaths or significant property damage.

00:07:26.920 I don't believe that. I don't think that is true. I think that the US has very advanced military

00:07:33.640 capabilities. And this is a very vast country that is largely uninhabited. And the idea that one of

00:07:41.100 our aviators can't capture or completely destroy a Chinese spy balloon without killing civilians is 0.85

00:07:48.360 just patently absurd. And clearly some CYA, they didn't want to have to answer for why they did not

00:07:54.860 shoot this thing down. And then Bloomberg reported US officials were well aware that the balloon was in

00:08:00.620 US airspace as early as January 28th. And then it was over Idaho on Tuesday and they didn't want to

00:08:06.580 tell the public. Why didn't they want to tell the public? Because Secretary of State Blinken is

00:08:10.140 supposed to go to China now, this week, and that trip is now off. Okay. So then the question is,

00:08:18.480 why did it all take so long? Why do we know about it? Why did it all take so long?

00:08:26.220 It took so long, according to the administration, because this happens all the time.

00:08:31.160 That's seriously their argument. The argument is, oh, we get these spy planes all the time.

00:08:34.980 And they happened under Trump. They happened a lot more under Trump than they happened under

00:08:38.920 Biden. That was the Biden administration's line. And Marco Rubio seemed to back it up. Rubio said

00:08:45.100 this is not the first time that this has happened. It's not the first time, by the way. I mean,

00:08:49.220 we've seen these before. I just think yesterday, the acknowledgement of it is because they knew

00:08:54.720 people were going to be seeing it and there were going to be reports about it and you couldn't hide it.

00:08:58.660 And look, there's those sensors and those things that they're gathering,

00:09:02.420 but they can also get that information from satellites. They can get that information from

00:09:07.040 all of the Huawei equipment and routers that are still installed across the United States. I mean,

00:09:11.640 there's a million ways they can gather this information that they want and they are doing

00:09:15.460 it. Their espionage levels have grown as much as anything else. This is just one more method

00:09:20.000 that they use to collect intelligence on us. And so we have to be cognizant of it and protect

00:09:23.960 ourselves against it. So the first part is, this is not the first time this has happened. Seems to

00:09:28.860 affirm what the Biden admin is saying, which is that we had all sorts of Chinese spy balloons under

00:09:33.720 Trump, except that after the Biden administration said that, and after Rubio said that, the former

00:09:40.840 director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe came out and said, no, there were no Chinese spy

00:09:45.200 balloons under Trump. Stop trying to distract from Biden's failures. This is not a Trump thing.

00:09:49.980 This is not a permanent problem thing. This is on Joe Biden. The department of defense is claiming

00:09:57.400 that, uh, there were three balloons, Chinese spy balloons that entered the United space airspace

00:10:06.320 during the Trump administration and that they were not shot down and they were not disclosed.

00:10:11.800 Can you please tell us the truth? And if that's true? Well, it's not true. I can,

00:10:17.180 I can refute it. Um, uh, former secretary of defense, uh, Mark Esper refuted it yesterday.

00:10:22.700 Second, former secretary of state and CIA director, Mike Pompeo has refuted it,

00:10:26.520 but Maria, the American people can refute it for themselves. Um, uh, do you remember during the

00:10:32.560 Trump administration when, uh, photographers on the ground and commercial airline pilots were talking

00:10:37.580 about a spy balloon over the United States, uh, that people could look up and see even with the,

00:10:42.540 with the naked eye and that a media that hated Donald Trump wasn't reporting. I don't remember

00:10:47.140 that either because it didn't happen. So Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence says

00:10:52.400 didn't happen. He refers here to Mike Pompeo, former CIA director, secretary of state says

00:10:57.640 didn't happen. Mark Esper, former secretary of defense says it didn't happen. In addition to that,

00:11:02.520 Rick Grinnell, former acting DNI says it didn't happen. Robert O'Brien, former national security

00:11:07.360 advisor says it didn't happen. And then here's to me the most convincing one. John Bolton,

00:11:13.420 another former national security advisor says it didn't happen. And John Bolton doesn't like Donald

00:11:19.840 Trump. John Bolton left the Trump administration with a kind of a nasty relationship with Trump.

00:11:25.240 He wrote a book about how he disagreed with Trump on all sorts of things. And so Bolton has a lot

00:11:29.700 of credibility here. But these guys have no incentive to carry water for Trump or hide something

00:11:35.720 that happened under Trump. I suspect that it's all kind of a moot point in that, yes, the Biden

00:11:42.580 administration is trying to deflect and trying to pretend that this specific incident happened a

00:11:46.860 lot under Trump. And so it's not a big deal and pay no attention. But the issue that Rubio is talking

00:11:52.360 about and that others are talking about, the fact that China regularly spies on us all the time,

00:11:56.540 they're doing it right now with our phones. If you have TikTok, certainly, and in plenty of other

00:12:01.700 ways too, they are spying on the United States. So who cares? Who cares? What's the point?

00:12:11.620 Why are we talking about this now? And I think we are largely talking about this now because,

00:12:16.420 one, people saw it with their own eyes. And so the administration did have its hand forced.

00:12:23.580 But also, I strongly suspect that the reason that there is a big push to talk about this now

00:12:28.840 is because it's sensational, but it doesn't really involve any new information. And actually,

00:12:36.060 the stories that have been in the news recently have genuinely been scandalous, have been very bad

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00:14:08.300 You know what I want to talk about instead of that spy balloon? I want to talk about how Project

00:14:14.220 Veritas had more information than they released in that first expose on the Pfizer executive.

00:14:20.660 I want to talk about how they have clips of the Pfizer executive explaining how the vax likely

00:14:28.520 affects women's menstrual cycles.

00:14:30.580 I mean, I know about their menstrual cycles, so people have to investigate that down the line.

00:14:35.400 Yeah.

00:14:36.300 Because that is a little concerning. The vaccine shouldn't be interfering with that, so we don't

00:14:40.380 really know.

00:14:40.540 It shouldn't?

00:14:41.560 It shouldn't.

00:14:42.140 What, is it?

00:14:43.900 There's something happening, but we don't know if they're out.

00:14:46.020 Well, I mean, you're a urologist, so you must understand, like, what's going on with it,

00:14:51.960 right?

00:14:52.260 Like, that's why I understand that it's weird.

00:14:54.700 How we don't find out that, like, somehow this mRNA, like, lingers in the body, I mean,

00:14:58.840 like, has, because it has to be impacting some hormonal stuff.

00:15:02.820 They impact menstrual cycles? 0.99

00:15:03.920 Yeah, or, like, the entire next generation is, like, super fucked up. 0.98

00:15:06.220 Can you imagine the standover? 0.99

00:15:07.940 Oh, my God.

00:15:08.980 I mean, I take Pfizer off my resume.

00:15:10.980 Can you imagine?

00:15:11.940 Can you, because we were all told initially that there's no way that the vaccines possibly

00:15:16.440 could affect women's menstrual cycles. 0.92

00:15:18.140 In fact, you had public health officials go on television, on major television shows,

00:15:22.620 and say it was scientifically, medically impossible for the vaccines to affect women's

00:15:26.920 menstrual cycles.

00:15:27.940 And then a year, two years later, the scientists start to slowly admit, okay, it can have an effect

00:15:33.980 on women's menstrual cycles.

00:15:35.820 Yeah, okay, sure, but it's not a big deal.

00:15:39.400 It goes right back to normal.

00:15:40.580 Forget about this, move along.

00:15:42.880 And then you get this guy, the Pfizer executive, saying, man, something's up.

00:15:49.860 And the honeypot undercover journalist says, are you saying that it's affecting women's

00:15:56.200 menstrual cycles?

00:15:56.880 And the Pfizer exec says, well, it's not supposed to.

00:15:59.780 He says, but is it?

00:16:02.140 And what does the Pfizer exec say?

00:16:03.240 He says what we've all been saying.

00:16:04.880 He says, well, something's going on.

00:16:07.540 Yeah, obviously something's going on.

00:16:09.560 I love that shift, even in the speech of the Pfizer executive himself, where he says, well,

00:16:16.500 it's not supposed to be happening.

00:16:18.840 All of our genius scientists said it's not supposed to be happening.

00:16:23.360 But like something's up, man, I don't know.

00:16:25.980 I hope this isn't what it looks like.

00:16:28.600 I'm going to have to take Pfizer off my resume, which he very well might have to do soon because

00:16:33.240 of this expose.

00:16:33.820 I'm not even beating up on Jordan Walker, the Pfizer guy.

00:16:40.700 I'm frankly not even beating up on Pfizer so much as I'm beating up on the entire modern

00:16:47.840 understanding of science.

00:16:49.500 The modern understanding of science is that for all of human history, people have been 1.00

00:16:56.380 big, stupid, superstitious idiots. 1.00

00:16:59.380 And they were essentially doing rain dances and having shamanistic rituals by witch doctors. 1.00

00:17:06.680 And none of that actually had a medical effect in the world.

00:17:09.620 But now we've got serious scientists, guys like Dr. Fauci, and they wear white lab coats,

00:17:14.720 and they have stethoscopes on.

00:17:15.940 And they have fancy degrees from Harvard and Princeton and Johns Hopkins.

00:17:22.220 And you can see it there.

00:17:23.380 And they have spectacles on and really serious affect.

00:17:27.940 And they tell you, I am the science.

00:17:30.420 I represent the science.

00:17:32.040 And so you can't argue with me.

00:17:33.760 I'm not political.

00:17:34.620 I'm just the science.

00:17:35.520 And therefore, they're right about everything.

00:17:38.160 And it turns out that those modern medical scientists are not all that different from

00:17:45.580 the old witch doctor shamans dancing around doing the rain dance.

00:17:50.440 The way that this Pfizer executive, clearly he'd had a couple drinks.

00:17:54.380 The way that this Pfizer guy is talking about the vaccine is the way that all of us are talking

00:18:00.900 about the vaccine.

00:18:01.660 Which is, huh, it's doing a thing that I thought it wasn't supposed to do.

00:18:06.300 Wait, you said it was going to completely stop people from catching the virus.

00:18:09.540 But that obviously wasn't true.

00:18:10.920 And you said it was going to be totally safe.

00:18:12.440 And you said it was going to be really effective.

00:18:13.620 And none of that stuff turned out to be true.

00:18:15.960 And usually, when the Pfizer execs, when Dr. Fauci's, when the public health people know

00:18:21.880 that they're on TV, they keep a totally straight face.

00:18:24.400 And they'll just say, well, no, what are you talking about?

00:18:26.780 I never said it was going to stop you from getting the virus.

00:18:28.820 No, well, I don't know.

00:18:30.000 You just don't understand the science.

00:18:32.260 But privately, their reactions are exactly the same as all of our reactions.

00:18:38.040 A friend of mine from college went to Harvard Medical School, ended up getting all sorts

00:18:43.020 of extra degrees.

00:18:44.640 Brilliant, brilliant guy.

00:18:46.420 And a comment that he made has really stuck with me over the years, where we asked him,

00:18:51.720 hey, you know, how's medical school?

00:18:53.560 And all this other extra research and scholarship that you're doing on top of the practical medical

00:18:58.560 training, and he said, the more I study medicine, the more I am convinced that we still don't

00:19:06.340 know anything about medicine.

00:19:07.840 We don't know why medicines work a lot of the time.

00:19:10.540 We are throwing spaghetti at the wall.

00:19:12.580 We are not so different from the people doing rain dances.

00:19:18.100 The difference is the pride.

00:19:19.660 The difference is that back then, at least, they didn't pretend to have every single answer

00:19:25.660 to everything in the world.

00:19:26.700 It was a little more trial and error.

00:19:28.180 Today, in modern medicine, we actually are forced to believe contradictory statements from

00:19:36.380 what the scientists told us the day before.

00:19:38.160 Wear the masks.

00:19:39.220 You have to wear the masks.

00:19:41.340 Okay, that's the science.

00:19:42.640 That's okay. 1.00

00:19:43.180 If you dare question that, you're a dumb idiot. 1.00

00:19:44.980 Don't wear the masks. 1.00

00:19:46.200 The masks don't work.

00:19:47.620 Well, that's the science, and I know it contradicts what he said yesterday, but okay, fine.

00:19:52.280 You know what I want to talk about instead of the balloon?

00:19:54.480 I want to talk about the masks.

00:19:57.800 I want to talk about how a gold standard review of mask science shows that the masks are not

00:20:05.740 quite as effective as we had been told that they were.

00:20:10.260 This is according to an analysis from the gold standard of evidence-based reviews.

00:20:13.400 Wearing medical and surgical masks or N95 or P2 respirators, so even the fancier kind of masks,

00:20:23.460 to stave off the transmission of respiratory viruses may be largely ineffective.

00:20:29.820 We might be taken off of YouTube for saying this.

00:20:32.180 I don't know.

00:20:33.000 We already have had a strike against this channel.

00:20:36.440 We've had plenty of medical disinformation, misinformation things censored out of the show

00:20:45.180 because YouTube's rules say you're not allowed.

00:20:47.220 But what am I supposed to do?

00:20:48.660 I'm quoting the gold standard review here.

00:20:51.640 I'm quoting a review from the Cochran Institute, which updated its review from 2020.

00:20:56.480 It examined 78 global studies, comprising more than a million people, found that wearing

00:21:02.580 a mask in a community reduced the risk of getting flu or COVID-like illness by about 5%. 1.00

00:21:10.580 We shut down society and then made everybody wear those stupid, uncomfortable, disgusting hankies 1.00

00:21:21.960 on airplanes, in grocery stores, in school. 1.00

00:21:26.960 We made these kids wear it in schools.

00:21:28.480 It affected children's development.

00:21:30.320 Because human beings are mimetic creatures, because we learn and are educated by mirroring

00:21:37.160 the behavior that we see in other people, when you cover up someone's face, the effect

00:21:41.320 that that has on all of society, but especially young babies, toddlers who are just learning,

00:21:45.260 horrific, horrific effect.

00:21:46.940 And we did all of that to reduce the risk of transmission of this cough by, according to

00:21:54.000 the Cochran Institute, about 5%.

00:21:57.420 Quote, irrespective of the limitations of the study, its results indicate that the true

00:22:04.100 impact of medical surgical masks and N95P2 respirators on the transmission of the viruses

00:22:09.140 is at best very small, says Professor François Ballou, Professor of Computational Biology at

00:22:16.460 University College London.

00:22:18.420 All of which is to say, why do I bring this up? 1.00

00:22:21.840 To advocate against mask policies, well, I pretty much never wore the stupid masks. 0.99

00:22:26.380 I wore them under only extreme duress if I had to take a flight, say, to go give a speech. 0.99

00:22:31.500 And I thought that giving the speech was worth putting on the dumb hanky to take the flight.

00:22:37.340 But I bring it up now to give you a little bit of encouragement, maybe a little chastisement, 0.91

00:22:43.960 maybe a little encouragement.

00:22:45.900 I guess it's both.

00:22:48.660 We were right.

00:22:49.640 We were right the whole time about everything.

00:22:55.320 We were right about the virulence of COVID.

00:22:59.080 We were right about the efficacy of the masks.

00:23:02.780 We were right about the safety of the vaccines.

00:23:05.760 We were right about the efficacy of the vaccines.

00:23:08.880 We were right about everything.

00:23:11.880 And some people understood this very early on, pretty much right when the COVID pandemic dropped.

00:23:23.400 Some people didn't know that.

00:23:25.600 I think most people kind of know it now, but a lot of people didn't know it for a very long time.

00:23:30.960 And the people who didn't know it for a very long time were the people who were willfully trying to deceive people, 0.96

00:23:35.920 called us stupid, called us murderers, called us a threat to public health, called us uneducated, 0.97

00:23:43.360 people in fancy lab coats, people on TV with really straight faces, even many Republicans, I'm sorry to say. 1.00

00:23:50.100 They called us all those things.

00:23:51.800 We were 100% right.

00:23:54.720 So I'm not just spiking the football, doing a little victory dance, trying to bolster everyone's egos and pride.

00:24:01.280 Quite the opposite.

00:24:02.920 I'm trying to instill a little bit of humility in the other side, and I'm trying to encourage people.

00:24:07.480 The next time this happens, the next time we're told, hey, if you don't put a hanky on your face and jump around on a pogo stick

00:24:17.780 while singing zippity-doo-dah, you're actually endangering public health.

00:24:22.200 All the scientists say so.

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00:24:26.780 I don't actually, I don't think that's true.

00:24:28.400 I don't think, trust your gut.

00:24:30.760 Your gut has a much better track record.

00:24:33.360 Your gut is far wiser and more precise and more prudent than our current scientific medical establishment,

00:24:42.600 which is, in my view, far less credible than the shamans and the witch doctors

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00:24:51.700 We're not supposed to talk about that, though, okay, in our is-crazy society, which is going up and down

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00:26:08.940 We're not supposed to be talking about the Pfizer expose.

00:26:12.740 Naughty, naughty.

00:26:13.920 We're not supposed to be talking about all of the errors and lies and deceit from COVID.

00:26:21.100 Our ruling class doesn't want us talking about that.

00:26:23.780 And they are going to censor people who make this a big issue.

00:26:27.360 Facebook and Instagram are moving right now to ban permanently Project Veritas from their platforms.

00:26:34.700 And the reason is the Pfizer Sting video.

00:26:37.280 Because that was a good one.

00:26:38.420 James O'Keefe, he usually brings the heat.

00:26:40.500 I mean, he comes with really good stuff.

00:26:42.380 Not every Project Veritas expose is created equal.

00:26:45.380 Some of them have been less shocking than others.

00:26:47.940 This one's pretty good.

00:26:51.160 The Pfizer exec video is pretty good.

00:26:52.940 And Facebook and Instagram know it.

00:26:54.580 That's why they want to ban James O'Keefe and Project Veritas.

00:26:58.860 Even Twitter.

00:26:59.960 Even Twitter under Elon locked Project Veritas out for about two hours.

00:27:06.780 I assume then they got the call from Elon.

00:27:08.500 They're like, what are you guys doing?

00:27:09.720 Put Project Veritas back on.

00:27:11.480 But if Elon did not run Twitter, Project Veritas almost certainly would still be off the platform.

00:27:17.280 They don't want us talking about that.

00:27:19.120 And to me, this is a meta-political lesson.

00:27:23.400 The politics of politics that's worth paying attention to.

00:27:27.160 Whenever there's a big sensational story.

00:27:29.880 Whenever there's a big glittery spy balloon.

00:27:32.020 The first question to ask is not, wow, what's going on with that balloon?

00:27:38.260 What are all the details?

00:27:39.320 Huh, let's see.

00:27:40.040 What is CNN saying about the balloon?

00:27:41.800 The first question to ask is, why is this being put in front of me?

00:27:48.380 Why is CNN talking about this balloon?

00:27:51.460 Why is NBC?

00:27:52.700 Why is the New York Times?

00:27:53.740 Why is the Washington Post talking about this balloon?

00:27:56.100 And what are we not talking about while we're talking about that?

00:28:05.300 This is one of these little, it's a little Jedi mind trick of politics.

00:28:10.280 But at least as important as, what are we all focused on in politics?

00:28:15.180 At least as important as that question is, what are we not focused on?

00:28:20.020 Well, the magician has his hand doing all sorts of little showy movements over here.

00:28:25.200 What is that other hand doing?

00:28:28.440 You know what I want to talk about?

00:28:30.480 While everybody's talking about the balloon, I want to talk about the upending of our culture.

00:28:36.120 I want to talk about the deliberate plan by our ruling elites to blot out an important

00:28:43.280 swath of American culture.

00:28:44.880 And it's not just me talking about it.

00:28:46.640 Senator Josh Hawley's talking about it as well.

00:28:49.360 Now, they said inflation was transitory.

00:28:51.780 They said Russia's economy would crumble under the sanctions.

00:28:55.720 Of course, China did the big backdoor bailout, buying their oil, their ag.

00:28:59.500 Other countries followed suit.

00:29:01.360 You know, we can go on and on with their failed predictions.

00:29:04.200 Have they gotten anything right here?

00:29:07.840 No, they haven't, Laura.

00:29:09.020 But I do.

00:29:09.520 I will tell you this.

00:29:10.680 They are getting what they wanted in an ultimate sense, which is they want to remake our economy.

00:29:15.200 Joe Biden wants to remake our economy such that we don't have any more blue collar work

00:29:19.880 in this country.

00:29:20.400 We don't have jobs for working people. 0.99

00:29:22.560 All of those folks have to depend on the government.

00:29:24.480 And all we have instead is this this climate green economy where you have to have a fancy

00:29:30.060 degree, where you have to get a white collar job in a big city.

00:29:32.680 And if you want to live in the middle of the country, there are no jobs for you. 0.98

00:29:35.540 That's what they want.

00:29:36.640 They don't like blue collar workers. 0.68

00:29:38.320 They don't like blue collar culture.

00:29:40.400 And so they're trying to wipe it out by changing our economy.

00:29:43.060 And, Laura, they are succeeding.

00:29:44.840 We have got to stop them.

00:29:46.180 Joe Biden wants to remake our economy such that we don't have any more blue collar work

00:29:52.160 in this country.

00:29:53.240 We don't have jobs for working people. 0.99

00:29:55.440 All of those folks have to depend on the government.

00:29:57.460 That's his claim.

00:29:58.340 And it's going to be written off by the liberals and by the squishes and the liberal adjacent 0.86

00:30:03.540 Republicans as just a bunch of populist demagoguery.

00:30:09.500 Here we go.

00:30:10.260 Here's Josh Hawley trying to rile up the people.

00:30:13.340 What he's saying is obviously true. 0.73

00:30:16.740 The way that we know it's true is that the elites talk about it openly.

00:30:21.180 They say, oh, we've got these bitter clingers out there.

00:30:24.300 We've got these deplorable, irredeemable people. 0.96

00:30:28.380 They just need to go away. 0.97

00:30:30.300 That's what the libs say.

00:30:31.380 And then what do the squishes on the right say? 0.52

00:30:34.300 They write long articles about how small-town America needs to die, about how it's good

00:30:40.600 that blue-collar jobs, or not even blue-collar jobs, it's just what are called unskilled jobs

00:30:46.740 are shipped overseas.

00:30:49.640 It's funny that these jobs are called unskilled because as you see the advent of artificial

00:30:54.560 intelligence in ChatGPT, you're noticing that the jobs that are most at risk of being

00:30:59.440 replaced right now actually are white-collar jobs.

00:31:01.580 It's actually accountants, some kinds of business people, journalists actually.

00:31:06.840 The only people who have at this moment lost their jobs as a result of ChatGPT are BuzzFeed

00:31:13.620 journalists whose work is now going to be done by this computer.

00:31:16.840 So there's a kind of irony to that.

00:31:19.300 But the way that this is working in practice does not change the plans and dreams of the

00:31:24.980 ruling class, which they say is, get rid of the small-town stuff, this blue-collar stuff.

00:31:30.160 But nobody does. Learn to code.

00:31:32.180 So they're, learn to code, you blue-collar idiots. 1.00

00:31:35.840 Why? Then you can be like me. 1.00

00:31:37.760 You can be living in a tiny little pod apartment in a major metropolitan city with no family,

00:31:43.720 writing listicles for BuzzFeed all day long about how terrible small-town America is. 1.00

00:31:49.140 Learn to code, idiots. 1.00

00:31:50.600 Now, of course, what is actually happening because of the advent of artificial technology, 1.00

00:31:56.460 the new slogan is learn to weld, as all the journo jobs getting taken away.

00:32:02.220 Say, actually, maybe you should learn plumbing.

00:32:04.180 Learn to plumb, huh?

00:32:05.400 Learn to weld.

00:32:07.160 Learning to code is not going to help you very well.

00:32:09.360 ChatGPT is going to code a lot better than you can.

00:32:12.240 But the point, we can get a kick out of the difference between the liberal elite's plans

00:32:19.260 and what's actually happening in practice.

00:32:21.980 But the plans are important because we need to know what's our response to it.

00:32:26.220 What's our vision here?

00:32:27.320 They have a political vision. 1.00

00:32:28.400 Their political vision is get rid of all the rube, idiot, deplorable, irredeemable Americans. 1.00

00:32:34.040 We need to get rid of our political traditions, our local communities, our subsidiarity. 1.00

00:32:39.280 We need to get rid of a lot of our national sovereignty, ship it all off to those geniuses 0.99

00:32:43.180 in Davos, the World Economic Forum, and the other international institutions.

00:32:46.540 Just give them all the power.

00:32:47.740 Let them run our lives.

00:32:49.080 And that way, we can all just sit in pods and eat bugs and all be androgynous. 0.93

00:32:53.980 And there are no men and there are no women. 0.98

00:32:55.540 And there's nothing ornate or distinctive or beautiful or traditional about life.

00:33:00.340 That's their plan in a nutshell.

00:33:03.640 So what's our vision?

00:33:04.820 Unfortunately, in recent decades, on the right, our vision has been pretty much the same.

00:33:13.060 In recent decades, on the right, because of a very shallow misunderstanding of what liberty means,

00:33:22.720 we've pretty much gone along with that.

00:33:24.840 We've said, oh, yeah, on the gender stuff, we've said, yeah, do whatever you want.

00:33:28.600 Just don't make me pay for it.

00:33:29.700 That's fine, though. 1.00

00:33:30.340 You can chop off your body parts or have whatever kind of weird sex stuff you wanted. 1.00

00:33:33.680 That's totally fine. 1.00

00:33:34.320 No big deal.

00:33:35.660 And on small-town America, yeah, why would you want to stay in small-town America?

00:33:39.420 Let's go to Wall Street, baby.

00:33:40.520 Greed is good.

00:33:41.780 Let's do it.

00:33:42.420 We're all going to be Gordon Gekko.

00:33:43.760 We're going to be Leo DiCaprio in that Wolf of Wall Street movie.

00:33:47.360 Yeah, man.

00:33:48.080 We're going to be Ayn Rand.

00:33:49.160 Let's go do it.

00:33:50.560 And then just in terms of the economy itself, we've been told that creative destruction is the greatest thing possible.

00:33:58.980 We just need profits above all else.

00:34:00.740 Boost up that GDP.

00:34:02.040 Ship all our jobs overseas.

00:34:03.080 That's fine because GDP might go up and we'll get cheap junk from China. 0.99

00:34:06.980 And then because the junk that China makes is going to be cheaper than what we could make here in the United States, then everybody's going to make a little bit more money as consumers.

00:34:15.000 We're going to be a consumer society that just has a little bit more profit margin for corporations.

00:34:21.000 Won't that be great?

00:34:23.160 That's what we're conserving.

00:34:24.900 There was always this schizophrenia to Republican political speeches over the last 20, 30 years, which is on the one hand, they said, we need to defend traditional American values.

00:34:33.880 Small-town America.

00:34:35.220 Change begins at the dinner table.

00:34:36.560 Also, we need creative destruction.

00:34:40.500 Do whatever you want.

00:34:41.520 Yeah, you know, we should loosen up the marriage laws. 1.00

00:34:44.040 Yeah, that's totally fine.

00:34:45.300 We can have divorce. 0.67

00:34:46.400 We can have, people shouldn't have large families.

00:34:49.300 Yeah, we can just move to the cities and ship our jobs overseas.

00:34:53.160 And that's a great thing.

00:34:55.920 What are we conserving?

00:34:58.380 Are we only conserving profits?

00:35:00.420 There are many people on the right who, if you got them, if you had a couple drinks with them, like the undercover journalist with Pfizer, they would admit that to you.

00:35:09.420 They'd say, yeah, that's what we're conserving.

00:35:11.420 They would use, they would say it a little more euphemistically.

00:35:13.520 They'd say, we're conserving liberty.

00:35:15.780 But by liberty, they don't mean an exalted liberty.

00:35:18.660 They don't mean the Edmund Burke kind of liberty.

00:35:20.220 They don't mean the founding fathers, George Washington kind of liberty.

00:35:23.820 That is circumscribed by a pretty well-defined view of morality and the way society is supposed to work and our roles in society and gender roles and social roles and all the rest.

00:35:36.560 No, they just mean go do whatever you want whenever you want to do it.

00:35:42.960 What are we conserving?

00:35:43.620 We'd just be conserving leftism at that point.

00:35:46.380 Now, some conservatives have the right idea.

00:35:47.960 There's this great congress lady. 1.00

00:35:49.800 I have more respect for her by the day.

00:35:51.480 Victoria Sparks.

00:35:54.880 She moved to the U.S. in 2000.

00:35:57.800 She worked in local politics, a businesswoman.

00:36:01.560 And then she ran for Congress in 2020. 0.99

00:36:04.320 And now she's going to quit Congress. 1.00

00:36:06.260 She's not going to quit. 0.92

00:36:06.900 She just isn't going to run for re-election. 1.00

00:36:08.440 So she's going to fulfill her job, her promise to her constituents.

00:36:12.160 But she said, I want a lot of tough battles for the people and will work hard to win a few more in the next two years.

00:36:19.200 However, being a working mom is tough and I need to spend more time with my two high school girls back home so I won't run for office in 2024.

00:36:25.380 It's been my honor representing Hoosiers in the Indiana State Senate and U.S. Congress.

00:36:30.200 And I appreciate the strong support on the ground.

00:36:32.420 2024 will mark seven years of holding elected office over a decade in Republican politics.

00:36:37.380 Now I'm going to go spend time with my girls because they're in high school now and they need their mom. 0.57

00:36:43.100 Yes.

00:36:43.620 Good.

00:36:44.040 Yeah.

00:36:44.280 Now we're talking, man.

00:36:45.580 Now someone's talking like even slightly, almost kind of a little bit like they want to conserve something that really matters.

00:36:54.280 This is a great thing.

00:36:55.560 Yeah, she should be with her daughters. 0.62

00:36:57.960 And she has more of an obligation to be with her daughters than if she were a man.

00:37:04.920 That's true.

00:37:05.620 A lot of people are going to say, oh, no, come on, Victoria.

00:37:08.020 You're only giving in because you're a woman. 1.00

00:37:09.580 And you feel like mothers need to bear so much more of the responsibility of actually nurturing and raising children.

00:37:16.880 And to that I say, yes, that's true.

00:37:20.960 It's true.

00:37:21.860 If she were a man, she wouldn't have this kind of pressure to be at home quite as much.

00:37:27.680 That's just a fact of life.

00:37:30.160 Women are more nurturing. 1.00

00:37:32.320 Mothers do have more of a role in the tactile minute by minute raising of children. 0.98

00:37:37.040 And she's acknowledging that and she's saying, I got to do that.

00:37:39.880 I got to put that first.

00:37:40.740 That's more important.

00:37:41.600 That is more important.

00:37:42.900 Thank you.

00:37:43.820 Thank you to any Republican acknowledging these basic realities that contradict our modern, liberal, interchangeable, everybody is the same thing.

00:37:52.640 We're all androgynous kind of ideology, which is obviously wrong.

00:37:58.820 Good job.

00:37:59.220 She made the right.

00:37:59.720 I'm sure it was a tough decision, but it was totally the right decision.

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00:38:33.860 And she always brings the receipts and her books are always great.

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00:39:08.160 Then she's talking about opera.

00:39:09.300 She's talking about music.

00:39:10.120 She's talking about law enforcement.

00:39:11.060 She's talking about everything, our institutions being eroded and destroyed in the name of equity.

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00:39:24.720 Speaking of family values, great news.

00:39:26.680 Mark Houck was just found not guilty.

00:39:30.080 Who is Mark Houck?

00:39:31.040 You might remember him.

00:39:32.140 We've mentioned him on the show here before.

00:39:33.700 He's a pro-life activist.

00:39:35.480 And he was brought up on Face Act charges.

00:39:38.840 Face Act is a terrible law that says that people have the right to go to abortion mills to kill their babies without having to deal with protesters.

00:39:50.060 Very often the pro-lifers outside of abortion factories are not even yelling or protesting.

00:39:55.480 It's nothing like BLM or Antifa.

00:39:57.380 They're usually standing there praying.

00:39:58.960 But the Face Act has been weaponized by the Biden administration to try to stop the pro-lifers even from praying.

00:40:05.800 You saw this in the UK.

00:40:07.080 There was a video we covered on this show of a woman silently praying, silently in her own mind, praying across the street from an abortion center.

00:40:14.980 And she was arrested for it.

00:40:16.500 And we are not that far off from that degree of tyranny in this country.

00:40:20.180 All to preserve what Democrats consider to be the sacred act of murdering babies.

00:40:25.720 So this guy, Mark Houck, was brought up on these charges.

00:40:29.900 And specifically it was because he pushed a Planned Parenthood escort who was threatening his own son, his little son who was there also praying outside of a Planned Parenthood.

00:40:40.000 So he was found not guilty.

00:40:41.320 Of course he should have been found not guilty.

00:40:42.700 It was a terrible miscarriage of justice that the guy was even brought up on these charges.

00:40:46.480 And while I want to celebrate and I don't want to bring everybody down because this is a victory and we should celebrate it, the DOJ still got what it wanted here.

00:40:56.900 The Biden administration still got what it wanted.

00:40:59.320 The pro-abortion fanatics still got what they wanted.

00:41:02.780 They didn't get everything that they wanted because this guy's not in an orange jumpsuit.

00:41:05.880 But they got a lot because they dragged him through this terrible legal process.

00:41:12.060 They smeared his name and his reputation and they sent a warning to other pro-life activists.

00:41:18.860 Don't show up.

00:41:20.740 Don't show up outside these clinics.

00:41:22.600 It's going to be a problem for you.

00:41:24.200 Yeah, maybe you won't go to jail, but we're going to make your life a living hell for months, maybe years.

00:41:31.380 Yeah, maybe you're going to want to think twice before you go pray the rosary outside of Planned Parenthood.

00:41:36.000 Yeah.

00:41:37.480 And people are going to get that message.

00:41:38.880 The pro-lifers are so clear-minded on this issue that I don't, it's very hard to discourage pro-lifers, but there will be some people who will be discouraged.

00:41:51.100 Well, it's just, gosh, I got a lot on my plate this coming year.

00:41:55.380 Do I really have time to go through a potential long legal battle?

00:41:58.540 I don't know.

00:41:59.860 That's the message.

00:42:00.660 That's the message that they want.

00:42:01.680 They didn't need any real law.

00:42:03.600 They didn't need any justice to do it.

00:42:05.300 They could just wield the federal agencies like the jackbooted thugs that they are, the same people that are kicking down doors at Mar-a-Lago, invading the home of a former president. 0.93

00:42:17.780 Those same people being weaponized by a very corrupt president. 0.87

00:42:23.000 Not good stuff.

00:42:24.040 Speaking of crime, there's a video that's gone viral of a little girl getting beaten up on a bus.

00:42:29.480 We've blurred the face of the victims here.

00:42:33.840 It's a nine-year-old girl being beaten up by what appears to be a high school student on a bus.

00:42:43.040 You can see this poor little girl. 1.00

00:42:44.980 You can make out the size of her body.

00:42:46.680 It's relatively, obviously, quite small.

00:42:48.760 And the just absolute animal pummeling her is this huge kid who's obviously much, much older.

00:42:57.020 It's just, it's heinous.

00:42:58.680 That's all I can watch of it.

00:43:00.200 And we still blurred a lot of it.

00:43:04.120 Horrible scene.

00:43:04.900 In a way, it's good that the kids have cell phones now.

00:43:07.960 You wish that any of the people with cell phones who videotaped these crimes would put the phone down and go, help.

00:43:12.780 But they don't do that.

00:43:13.860 At least they're videotaping it so that we can see it, though.

00:43:16.660 So what are we going to do about it?

00:43:18.760 What are we going to do about it?

00:43:19.800 The answer, in a lot of blue states, in a lot of blue cities, which is where a lot of this stuff is taking place, the answer, sadly, is nothing.

00:43:30.340 And the reason we're going to do nothing about it is because the decision-makers' kids will never have to go to that school.

00:43:37.860 The people who are responsible for harsher discipline, for protecting students, for increasing educational outcomes, they have zero incentive to do that.

00:43:52.160 That kid who pummeled, that giant animal who was pummeling that poor little girl, he got a citation for it.

00:44:01.040 The kid should be in juvie.

00:44:02.720 I don't know how old he is.

00:44:03.780 I hope he's not 18.

00:44:05.000 If he's 18, he should be in prison.

00:44:06.460 But if he's under 18, he should be in juvie for that. 0.73

00:44:09.980 That is psycho behavior.

00:44:11.960 That is not just kids get into a scrap on the playground.

00:44:14.200 I don't think we need to call the cops every time a couple of boys get into a fight on the playground at recess, okay?

00:44:19.400 But when a giant, hulking animal teenager starts pummeling some poor little nine-year-old girl on the school bus, relentlessly pummeling her, that kid needs to go to juvie, okay?

00:44:30.560 I don't think that's so extreme.

00:44:33.860 But it won't happen.

00:44:34.900 None of that stuff will happen because the incentives to help now are only if your kids go to that school, the lawmakers' kids won't go to that school.

00:44:48.000 And for the purposes of justice, which most lawmakers don't seem to care about these days, and our whole culture mocks the idea of justice and retribution and a moral order and tradition.

00:44:57.560 So that's at the window.

00:44:58.780 And then what are the disincentives to do anything?

00:45:00.560 The moment that you go in and try to fix these schools, the teacher unions are going to come after you like crazy.

00:45:05.800 And because these incidents are often happening in Democrat areas, the Democrats are totally in the pocket of the teacher union.

00:45:13.860 So that's not going to do anything.

00:45:15.820 The moment you get involved, especially if it's a school with a lot of black students at it, you're going to be called a racist. 0.86

00:45:23.000 Anything you try to do to reform these schools, you're going to be called a racist. 0.51

00:45:26.220 People who try to offer educational alternatives like charter schools are called racists somehow.

00:45:30.560 For improving the educational outcomes of black students, somehow you're still called.

00:45:34.120 So, and racist is the worst thing you can be called in society.

00:45:37.520 There's absolutely no incentive there.

00:45:40.740 And there's lots of other problems. 1.00

00:45:42.120 And hey, we got to talk about that stupid balloon in the sky. 0.99

00:45:44.240 So no one is going to pay attention to it. 0.99

00:45:46.980 It's sad.

00:45:48.340 I wish that we could do something.

00:45:49.800 And also, what are we going to do when it's happening in liberal areas?

00:45:54.920 And when even the federal government is entirely controlled by the libs.

00:46:00.220 It's just not going to happen, other than the House of Representatives.

00:46:02.740 We can call some hearings.

00:46:03.920 It's not going to matter.

00:46:05.780 And it's not going to matter not just because of certain bad people in office.

00:46:08.640 It's not going to matter because of the very structural problems, especially when it comes to education.

00:46:13.960 Speaking of racial politics, I can't leave before playing this.

00:46:18.560 Sweet little Elisa sent this to me yesterday.

00:46:20.960 She goes, Mac, you got to see this.

00:46:23.560 I said, oh, I don't know.

00:46:24.300 I actually already finished writing my show, the points I want to talk about tomorrow. 0.98

00:46:27.800 You know, we all have to talk about that dumb balloon. 0.78

00:46:29.560 She goes, no, Mac, you got to see this. 0.98

00:46:31.620 This is a new Disney show.

00:46:34.400 It's actually a reboot of an old Disney show, which I had never heard of.

00:46:38.600 But it's called The Proud Family.

00:46:42.000 This is the show.

00:46:43.480 This country was built on slavery, which means slaves built this country. 0.96

00:46:47.980 Tilt this land from sea to sea to sea.

00:46:49.840 First, there was rice, tobacco, sugar cane.

00:46:51.900 Then Whitney did his thing and cotton became king. 0.97

00:46:54.280 And we were its soldiers.

00:46:55.560 Four million strong.

00:46:56.680 Fighting for America's freedoms even though we remained America's slaves.

00:47:00.240 Built this country.

00:47:01.320 The descendants of slaves continue to build this. 0.64

00:47:04.000 Slaves built this country. 1.00

00:47:05.540 And we, the descendants of slaves in America, have earned reparations for their suffering.

00:47:09.700 And continue to earn reparations every moment we spend submerged in the systemic prejudice,

00:47:14.540 racism and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for.

00:47:19.720 Slaves built this country. 1.00

00:47:21.640 Not only field hands, but carpenters, mazes.

00:47:24.140 Blacksmiths, musicians.

00:47:25.380 Inventors built cities from Jamestown to New Orleans to Bannacan.

00:47:28.740 Washington.

00:47:29.580 And we demand our 40 acres and a mule.

00:47:32.520 You can keep the mule.

00:47:34.380 Keep the 40.

00:47:35.160 We're taking our freedom.

00:47:37.440 Yeah!

00:47:37.760 So at first, as I'm watching it, I was waiting for the punchline.

00:47:45.580 Because it's so over the top. 1.00

00:47:46.800 It's this stupid slam poetry. 1.00

00:47:48.580 It's making a historical point that's just not true. 1.00

00:47:51.260 Obviously, slaves contributed to the building of the country.

00:47:54.740 But to say that slaves built the country, one, is to really overstate the prevalence of slavery

00:48:00.500 in the United States compared to everywhere else in the world.

00:48:03.240 Compared to everywhere else in the world, especially outside the West, slavery existed

00:48:07.500 in this country for a very, very short period of time.

00:48:10.720 And people were always uncomfortable with it.

00:48:13.820 And it was being phased out from the nation post-revolution's earliest days.

00:48:18.920 But two, it also ignores the significance of ideas in human nature and in human progress

00:48:25.720 and in history.

00:48:27.240 Because the slaves did a lot of physical work.

00:48:31.040 Not denying that the slaves did a lot of physical labor.

00:48:34.180 But the slaves very rarely did or had the opportunity to contribute the ideas that craft the country.

00:48:43.320 Slaves didn't write the Constitution. 1.00

00:48:45.360 Slaves didn't write the Federalist Papers. 0.99

00:48:46.960 Slaves didn't establish the House of Burgesses. 0.88

00:48:51.120 Slaves didn't do any of those things. 0.98

00:48:53.580 I'm not saying it's the slaves' fault.

00:48:55.340 The slaves were slaves, so they didn't have much of an opportunity to do it. 0.97

00:48:58.220 But obviously, history is propelled in part by physical actions and labor.

00:49:06.240 Just kind of regular till-the-fields kind of labor.

00:49:09.940 Then by physical actions that are inspired by ideas.

00:49:13.500 And then by ideas themselves.

00:49:14.640 I mean, the pen is mightier than the sword.

00:49:17.680 In many ways.

00:49:18.220 So, the historical idea, preposterous.

00:49:20.560 And then the slam poetry angle, so absurd.

00:49:25.080 Such a caricature.

00:49:27.660 But then I said, okay, well, you know what it's going to be?

00:49:29.080 It's going to be at the end of the video. 1.00

00:49:30.860 They're going to get done with this stupid performance. 1.00

00:49:33.020 And then the audience is just going to be silent. 1.00

00:49:34.680 Like, what?

00:49:35.220 Huh?

00:49:35.600 No, this is a talent show.

00:49:36.620 Guys, why are you?

00:49:38.120 Then what happens?

00:49:38.660 No, there's a standing ovation.

00:49:39.740 There's no, what's the punchline?

00:49:41.640 The punchline is, listen to our frankly Maoist political screed.

00:49:49.560 And then you better stand up and applaud too, kids.

00:49:52.180 That's what Disney is putting up.

00:49:53.600 That's why DW Kids exists. 0.99

00:49:55.540 That's why we're doing it.

00:49:56.360 That's why Jeremy is investing $100 million in DW Kids and the other entertainment content.

00:50:03.000 So that your kids don't. 0.96

00:50:05.020 I cannot subscribe to Disney if that is the kind of crap that my kids are going to see. 0.99

00:50:09.840 And then I said, what is this cartoon? 0.99

00:50:11.340 It's called The Proud Family.

00:50:12.580 And I thought, of course it is.

00:50:13.360 Because all this stuff always comes back to some deadly sin and almost always pride.

00:50:20.800 It's the pride parades.

00:50:22.700 It's Sam Smith giving a Satan performance at the Grammys.

00:50:26.300 We don't have time to get to that today.

00:50:27.260 We'll get to it tomorrow.

00:50:28.280 It's The Proud Family.

00:50:30.600 It always comes back to some sin.

00:50:33.380 It always comes back to some devilish imagery.

00:50:35.940 And that's, so anyway, that's what you're getting from Disney.

00:50:37.880 If you want your kids to live miserable lives, cultivate the vices, and probably worship Satan,

00:50:45.120 subscribe to Disney.

00:50:46.000 That's a good idea.

00:50:46.540 If you don't want that, if you don't want them to learn bogus, historical, anti-historical nonsense,

00:50:53.680 and you want them to flourish and be educated and live good, virtuous lives,

00:50:58.680 head on over to DW Kids.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 06, 2023

Ep. 1177 - Don't Look At The Shiny Chinese Balloon

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