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00:00:00.000 After more than 30 years in the Senate, after 53 years since she first won elected office,

00:00:07.020 and just months shy of her 90th birthday, Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein has announced

00:00:13.000 that she will be retiring from politics in two years. Senator Feinstein tweeted, quote,

00:00:20.480 I'm announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024, but intend to accomplish

00:00:25.680 as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends. Even with a divided

00:00:33.600 Congress, we can still pass bills that will improve lives. And then when asked about her

00:00:40.600 announcement, Senator Feinstein told reporters, I haven't made that decision. I haven't released

00:00:46.820 anything. At which point a staff member informed her that she had in fact announced her retirement,

00:00:53.900 which seemed to surprise. The Senator who then said, quote, I didn't know they put it out.

00:00:59.780 It is what it is. I think the time has come. Senator Feinstein's political contributions

00:01:04.820 have not always been positive or defensible or even coherent. But in honor of the longtime

00:01:12.700 Senator's retirement, I would like to play one of my favorite clips from her more than half century

00:01:18.340 in politics, in which Senator Feinstein yelled at eight year olds for being too annoyingly liberal,

00:01:26.220 even for her. Some scientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around.

00:01:33.220 Well, it's not going to get turned around in 10 years. What we can do-

00:01:37.660 Senator, if this doesn't get turned around in 10 years, you're looking at the faces of the people

00:01:41.880 who are going to be living with these consequences. The government is supposed to be for the people

00:01:46.240 and by the people and all for the people. You know what's interesting about this group

00:01:50.160 is I've been doing this for 30 years. I know what I'm doing. You come in here and you say

00:01:58.200 it has to be my way or the highway. I don't respond to that. I've gotten elected. I just ran.

00:02:06.120 I was elected by almost a million vote plurality. And I know what I'm doing. So, you know, maybe

00:02:15.480 people should listen a little bit. Maybe they should. You tell those eight-year-old Senator

00:02:20.800 Feinstein, especially that annoying teacher. Oh my gosh, the teacher who put the kids up to it.

00:02:25.800 Dianne Feinstein is a big lib and she's wrong about most things. But she has nevertheless

00:02:32.740 long been one of the most reasonable and pragmatic members of her party. That is not a recommendation

00:02:39.100 of her. That is an indictment of her party. But either way, depressing as it sounds,

00:02:45.860 we are going to miss Dianne Feinstein when she goes. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:50.580 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Sean Hartzell, who says,

00:03:04.160 there are always a bunch of candidates that jump in, but everyone knows most of them don't have a

00:03:07.960 chance. That's true. But in this race, the point I keep trying to underscore is that it really is

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00:03:32.760 looks like DeSantis. Okay, we're all on board for DeSantis. I like DeSantis. I think DeSantis is doing

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00:03:42.360 to say about trying to end this race before it begins. This is not how primaries work, guys.

00:03:47.980 This is why pundits usually get these things wrong, is because they all jump at the first

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00:05:43.020 to 98, 98, 98. Speaking of grandmothers, following up on the Dianne Feinstein story, speaking of

00:05:50.400 grandmothers, there is a TikTok that went viral yesterday that is so beautiful. It's heartbreakingly

00:05:58.580 sad, but it's also really, really beautiful. We cover on this show, every conservative covers on

00:06:03.380 every single conservative show, these TikToks of crazy young people pushing their radical gender

00:06:10.480 ideology. And we usually make fun of them. Sometimes we have pity for them. This is my favorite one of

00:06:17.940 these videos I have ever seen. It is of a young woman who is confused about her sex, who thinks

00:06:23.540 that she's a man, reading a letter that she got from her grandmother. Hi. So recently, I texted my

00:06:32.380 parents because I'm going to go home for Christmas. And I said, hey, do you mind calling me Mike when I

00:06:38.400 come back for Christmas? And then when I got home today, I got this letter from my grandma. And it is

00:06:45.780 addressed to Miss Old Name. Not actually, but you know, I don't want to say my real name on the

00:06:54.000 internet. Dearest Deadname. On this, our Blessed Mother's Feast Day, I am writing to tell you that I will

00:07:02.040 not address you as Mike. My decision is probably not a surprise to you. Others may comply with your request.

00:07:08.900 My anguish in your chosen name and what that means has to do with your eternal soul. Know that I love you more

00:07:15.680 than words could ever possibly convey to you. No matter how you decide to identify yourself does

00:07:20.880 not change my deep love for you, honey. Because of my concerns for your soul and your mental health,

00:07:26.420 I am spending more time with Jesus in adoration. The, my cousin's last names, are doing the same for

00:07:34.240 you. Do you know how much you are cherished and loved? It would be a joy to see you and be with you

00:07:38.580 during the, I mean Christmas. Um, a celebration of her Lord's birth.

00:07:46.280 I previously believed that the perfect response to the transgender madness did not exist. I knew that

00:07:54.640 there were some responses that were better, some responses that were worse. This grandmother just

00:07:59.460 showed us the perfect response. This is it. This is how you respond to any loved one, any family

00:08:08.920 member, any friend who tells you that he or she is now transgender and says they don't want to go by

00:08:15.080 their real name and they want to go by some new fake name and they want you to pretend that they're the

00:08:18.640 opposite. This is the response, absolutely flawless. And the girl who's clearly in a lot of pain and

00:08:25.200 confusion and has all sorts of mental and spiritual problems, I would imagine too.

00:08:31.400 She gives away the game at the very first part of the video. Did you hear that little bit?

00:08:35.980 She did so unwittingly, but she said, I want to be called Mike, but my grandmother addressed this

00:08:43.440 letter to miss so-and-so. I'm not going to tell you what that name is because I don't want to use my

00:08:49.620 real name on the internet. What'd you call it? I thought Mike was your real name. I thought that

00:08:56.940 other name that you were born with, christened with, raised with your whole life, I thought that

00:09:02.960 name was dead and gone, but you just admitted that that's your real name because you know deep down

00:09:09.860 that that is your real name. And you recognize that wanting to deny your real name is wanting to

00:09:17.840 deny your real identity. And it might give you some kind of pleasure or temporary euphoria

00:09:23.260 in escaping whatever problems that you have in your life, but it isn't real. And there's nothing

00:09:30.860 compassionate about indulging fantasy. What the grandmother is demonstrating is some of the purest

00:09:40.980 compassion I've ever seen because compassion means to suffer with somebody. And she's saying,

00:09:46.040 I have anguish and I'm just going to kiss it up and I'm going to spend more time with our Lord in

00:09:51.100 the blessed sacrament. And the video goes on a bit longer. I had to cut part of it out just to fit it

00:09:55.200 into the show. In part of it, the grandmother writes, you know, some of your cousins are making

00:10:00.000 personal sacrifices, you know, to sort of kiss it up and to also have compassion with you.

00:10:05.840 It's absolutely perfect. That is real compassion. And I know it's very tempting. I've thought about it

00:10:12.160 myself. Oh my gosh, what if, God forbid, one of my kids had to deal with some of these mental

00:10:16.840 problems and spiritual problems? How would I react? And I know I would be very, very tempted

00:10:22.140 to call my kid whatever name he wanted to go by and pretend he had whatever pronouns he wanted to

00:10:26.800 pretend he had. I would be very tempted to do that because you just want to give your kid whatever he

00:10:30.400 wants. My little boy comes to me. He says, I want chocolate? And I say, no, no, you can't have

00:10:37.400 chocolate. Want chocolate? No, seriously, you can want, okay, here's some chocolate. It's very hard

00:10:42.460 to say no to your kids. But that grandmother is the one exhibiting true compassion, true care.

00:10:49.260 Speaking of women of a certain age and kids, Chelsea Handler also went viral yesterday. Chelsea

00:10:55.440 Handler is an alleged comedian. She was subbing in on The Daily Show. She's made a big segment

00:11:00.740 about how happy she is that she doesn't have any kids.

00:11:04.180 This is a day in the life of a childless woman. I wake up at 6am. I remember that I have no kids

00:11:11.200 to take to school, so I take an edible, masturbate, and go back to sleep. I wake up at 12.30pm and get

00:11:18.880 ready for a busy day of doing whatever the f*** I feel like. I put on my most impractical and stylish

00:11:25.600 shoes since I won't be chasing a child around the grocery store. I go to my fave spot in Paris to grab

00:11:31.980 a croissant. I do a meditation sesh on the plane since I have no screaming kids,

00:11:37.500 allowing me all the time in the world to become enlightened. The weightlessness of my existence

00:11:42.860 has granted me superhuman powers. I teleport myself back home. Then I get ready for a night out with

00:11:50.160 whatever hot guy I met on Raya that morning. I call up a babysitter and tell her that I don't need her

00:11:56.460 since I still don't have kids. Now it's time for a workout, so I hit Mount Everest for a quick

00:12:02.460 climb. I invent a time machine, go back in time, and kill Hitler. Freeze, you bastard! It's amazing

00:12:10.200 what you can do when you have this much free time. And that's a day in the life of a childless woman.

00:12:15.300 So everybody's reacting to this video right now. I think a lot of people are missing the point,

00:12:22.880 though. And maybe Chelsea Handler's missing the point, I don't know. But what's interesting about

00:12:28.620 this video is not what she says at the beginning of the video, which is she says, oh, I just do

00:12:33.280 whatever I want. I wake up, I pleasure myself, I drink a coffee, I go back to sleep, I snooze the alarm.

00:12:40.480 That's not what's interesting is what happens in the middle and at the end of the video,

00:12:43.400 when she starts just making stuff up and fantasizing, oh, and then I fly to Paris,

00:12:48.160 and then I go kill Hitler, and then I do this. Because what she is demonstrating is that the

00:12:55.380 promise of not having kids, the idea that you can just constantly amuse yourself and do whatever you

00:13:01.660 want, and the things that you're going to do without kids are so much more important than all the drudgery

00:13:07.200 that you're going to have to engage in when you do have kids, that that is a fantasy. You can't really

00:13:11.720 do all of that. Probably the only real part of that video is the first five or six seconds when

00:13:17.340 she says, I sleep in late because I'm kind of depressed, and I just pleasure myself a little

00:13:22.700 bit, and then that's the reality of it. And then the fantasy and the delusion is what comes afterwards.

00:13:29.260 I don't know. Maybe I'm reading too deeply into this. I don't know that Chelsea Handler

00:13:32.840 meant the video in this way. Almost certainly she did not.

00:13:35.280 But that's what it's expressing. What it's expressing is the joys and delights that you

00:13:41.700 think you are going to get out of shirking responsibility and denying your natural longings

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00:15:29.780 George Bernard Shaw had a great line about that Chelsea Handler video. George Bernard Shaw is a

00:15:34.500 socialist playwright who lived long before Chelsea Handler was born. But he had a great line about the

00:15:38.880 kind of life that she's envisioning, saying, well, when I don't have kids, I can do whatever I want.

00:15:43.160 He said, describing hell, he said, here there is no hope and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to

00:15:53.680 be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you

00:16:01.380 have nothing to do but amuse yourself. And that is hell. We all know that. We all know that because we

00:16:10.800 were all in school. And you remember in school, sometimes you'd get a week off, spring break or

00:16:16.780 winter break or I don't know, whatever. And that sounded really great. You didn't have any school

00:16:21.060 work and you didn't have to wake up early and you can just stay in pajamas all day and play video

00:16:25.080 games and do whatever you want. And it was really, really great for that first day. Oh man, it was

00:16:30.200 fabulous. And then even that second day, that was pretty fun. And then that third day, you're starting

00:16:35.780 to get kind of bored and feeling kind of gross and lethargic. By the fourth day, you start to get

00:16:40.900 cabin fever. Unless you were on some excursion with your family or something, maybe then you could be

00:16:46.720 stimulated. But if you're just hanging around the house like most people were, you thought, oh,

00:16:51.800 this isn't great. This isn't fun. I got nothing to do. I often go back in these analyses of the

00:17:01.620 problems of popular culture. I often go back to Grand Theft Auto. It was one of the few video

00:17:07.420 games I ever really got a kick out of because it was just so over the top. It wasn't that you went

00:17:12.440 and you did a mission and you, I don't know, had a donkey throw barrels at squirrels. And it was just

00:17:19.120 regular people on the street. And your job in the game was to go rob people, kill pedestrians,

00:17:25.400 run over people, pick up hookers, deal drugs. It was just all the worst. It was so shocking.

00:17:33.420 And there was a weird phenomenon with this game, which is if you played the game and you were just

00:17:38.980 kind of going around doing all the stuff that would titillate little teenage boys, rather quickly,

00:17:44.920 it became pretty boring. And that's what happens in real life too. That's the consequence of nihilism,

00:17:52.900 when you just think there's no purpose to anything. We're all just walking around here

00:17:57.180 randomly as a kind of cosmic accident. And then we're going to go take a dirt nap and turn to worm

00:18:01.840 food. Then you become pretty sad. That's why I'm not going to make fun of the Chelsea Handler video

00:18:07.440 is that's just a terribly, tragically sad life. And it's not that you need kids to lead a good,

00:18:15.380 edifying, gratifying life. A lot of people can't have kids. A lot of people choose not to have kids if

00:18:20.640 they take religious orders, the consecrated single hood or anything like that. But you do

00:18:26.120 have to live your life for more than just sleeping in and pleasuring yourself. That will not make you

00:18:31.940 happy. Look at Hunter Biden. The proof of this is just looking at Hunter Biden. This is a guy with

00:18:39.900 every advantage in life. He had a little tragedy without question when he was young, but he had a ton

00:18:45.160 of advantages and he squandered all of it. And he did the drugs and he picked up the hookers and he

00:18:52.920 sold his father's influence and he made a lot of money in shady ways. And he just pursued his own

00:18:59.280 desires. And he just physically looks terrible. He used to be a kind of a good looking guy. He now

00:19:04.460 physically looks terrible. That is hell. Hell is the place where you have nothing to do,

00:19:09.900 but amuse yourself. Speaking of raising children,

00:19:13.720 it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between parody and reality.

00:19:20.380 I was flicking through the social webs yesterday and I see this representative from South Dakota,

00:19:27.600 South Dakota State Rep, Erin Healy. And she tweets out, extremist group Family Heritage Alliance

00:19:35.920 said this morning that the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad.

00:19:42.020 What a dangerous and un-American belief. And I assumed before I reacted, I just kind of assumed

00:19:50.540 this was parody. And I looked and said, Democrat, state representative, they could still be parody.

00:19:58.740 One of my favorite accounts on Twitter is Dr. Ann Lesby. And for a while, I thought this was a

00:20:04.920 serious account. And I started looking. I said, wait, Dr. Ann Lesby, is that somebody a little

00:20:10.760 off about that? I don't know. Maybe it's a serious, these days it's impossible to tell, isn't it?

00:20:15.320 But then I looked, Erin Healy is a real person. And she says that the idea that the safest place for

00:20:25.700 kids is with a married mom and dad is dangerous and un-American. Because why? Because everybody knows

00:20:32.980 that the best way to raise kids is in a polycule commune with three dudes, four chicks, two trannies,

00:20:40.240 and a billy goat. Is that what we're saying? Does anybody seriously believe that? No, not even the

00:20:46.020 transsexuals, not even the billy goat believes that. Everybody knows that a child does best

00:20:51.360 being raised by a mother and a father joined together in marriage, in perpetuity for the good

00:20:57.980 of the spouses and the sake of the generation and education of children. Everybody knows it.

00:21:03.840 And I know there are some people listening right now who might say, well, no, it's not the best in

00:21:07.160 every situation. No, it's literally the best in every single situation. Is it better to be raised

00:21:13.340 by a single mother? No, it can be done. There are heroic single mothers out there who overcome

00:21:19.640 difficult odds if a husband walks out or something. But it's not ideal. It's not better than a married

00:21:25.120 mother and father. Single father? No, not better than a married mother and father.

00:21:29.540 Two homosexuals? No. Two lesbians? No. How do we know that that's not better? I know the libs now

00:21:35.560 try to say, well, actually, you know, actually, studies show that children raised by homosexual men,

00:21:42.480 they do much, much better on every measurement than children raised in families. That's obviously not

00:21:51.780 true. Because the implication of that is that women have nothing to contribute to child rearing.

00:21:59.300 If that's true, if you want to try to make the lib argument that two dudes raising a child is as good

00:22:05.920 or better than a family raising a child, then the inevitable logical conclusion of that is that

00:22:12.900 mothers have nothing to contribute to the raising of children. Is that really anybody's position?

00:22:17.100 Seriously? No. We're two lesbians. Oh, so we're really going to say fathers have nothing to

00:22:24.400 contribute to the raising of children? Yeah. How has fatherlessness turned out in our society?

00:22:30.180 Go look around the prisons. How has fatherlessness turned out? Go look around the school shooters.

00:22:33.660 Has fatherlessness turned out really well? Go look at all the women on OnlyFans in all sorts of

00:22:38.800 terrible sexual situations. Has fatherlessness worked out really well? No, of course not. Nobody believes

00:22:44.240 this. But it's apparently a dangerous and un-American. No, the dangerous belief is the lie

00:22:52.000 that children do not need to be raised by both a mother and a father. Ideally married. Ideally,

00:23:00.080 their natural mother and father, though, in some cases, children have bad situations or the parents

00:23:04.860 can't take care of them. And then you have adoptive parents take over. And that's a wonderful thing.

00:23:09.200 But not a single adoptive parent, ideally. Certainly not from infancy. Not two dudes.

00:23:17.200 Not two chicks. A mother and a father. Because men and women both have something to contribute

00:23:21.480 to child rearing. This is a fact. And you don't need studies to back it up. And you don't need some

00:23:27.440 mainstream media to write an article about it. We all know that that's true. We all agree with it.

00:23:33.020 But the people who say otherwise are simply lying to themselves. It's like that woman,

00:23:37.620 that poor young woman suffering in the transgender video with the grandmother,

00:23:41.020 who says, I'm Mike now. I'm Mike. I'm really Mike. Stop calling me by my real name.

00:23:48.500 Oh, what was that? That was you admitting that you know this is all a delusion.

00:23:55.060 You know deep down, we all know we should be able to admit that as well.

00:23:59.700 Well, speaking of the transgender madness, the most important story on transgender madness in many,

00:24:07.500 many months, if not longer, has just been broken by the Crane brothers and David Cohn,

00:24:15.640 by the whole Crane & Company show. And you're going to think this is kind of surprising because

00:24:20.020 Crane & Company is a sports show. Why is a sports show breaking a really important

00:24:24.040 transgender story? I've heard about this story ever since Jake and David came into my office the

00:24:30.380 other day and blamed, popped in too. They were all like, you're not going to believe this story

00:24:34.840 that we have. It has to do with Will Thomas, that gigantic hulking dude who swims for the Penn

00:24:43.240 swim team against the women. I'll cover it tomorrow. I'll give some analysis on it tomorrow.

00:24:50.520 In the meantime, here's just a little teaser from the Crane guys. If we let it, there will be men

00:24:55.500 pretending to be women that ruin women's sports. But ranking first was a person I had never heard

00:25:00.480 of before. And of course, this name was Leah Thomas. Leah Thomas did, in fact, formerly swim

00:25:05.200 on the men's team for three years. I thought, surely the NCAA wouldn't let this person compete with

00:25:11.140 us. The NCAA official looks at me and says, great job. Y'all tied. The trophy goes to Leah. And he said,

00:25:16.960 well, for photo purposes, Leah has to have it. Wow. Leah Thomas, who used to be Will Thomas,

00:25:22.620 is now dating someone that used to be a man that's now a woman and they consider themselves

00:25:27.780 lesbians. Very interesting dynamic. The things they practice actively are interesting. They cut

00:25:35.900 off parts of their male parts, but left other parts. These testicles are in a jar. Stop.

00:25:43.040 We were being sidelined to validate the feelings and the identity of a man.

00:25:50.200 So the body parts in the jar is pretty gross. And the weird romantic relationships, pretty weird.

00:25:59.860 The craziest part of the interview is not even in that clip. And I don't want to spoil it. Go watch

00:26:04.940 it on Crane & Co. The most significant, craziest part of the interview is not even in that teaser.

00:26:10.180 Go check it out right now. Crane & Co. The interview is out this morning. It's available

00:26:14.740 to watch on their YouTube channel. Or you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Daily Wire Plus,

00:26:19.120 or wherever you listen to podcasts. Speaking of caring for others, let's get to the news story

00:26:28.780 that matters. In my view, really the only news story that matters right now that the establishment

00:26:34.580 media are refusing to talk about. That would be the poisonous train explosion in the town in Ohio

00:26:42.540 that is affecting potentially 10% of the water supply of the United States, a ton of farmland

00:26:47.900 in the United States. And the media are talking about little green men from Mars. They don't want

00:26:52.180 to talk about this story. What happened here? How on earth did a train that was carrying all of this

00:26:58.520 hazardous material? A million pounds of vinyl chloride, was it? Was it pounds or gallons? I

00:27:05.440 don't even remember. A ton of vinyl chloride, along with all of these other really dangerous chemicals.

00:27:11.280 Not only does it crash and start leaking into the town, they set it on fire, creating phosgene,

00:27:15.620 poison gas from World War I, and hydrochloric acid in the atmosphere. Animals dropping left and right.

00:27:22.720 Can you imagine the poison in this town and how far it's going out beyond the area? Why did it happen?

00:27:29.700 Well, according to one local hazardous materials specialist nearby the site, not from East Palestine

00:27:37.940 itself, but from Youngstown, Ohio, they did it to reopen the track.

00:27:44.040 We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open. I was kind of

00:27:49.580 surprised when they quickly told the people they can go back home, but then said if they feel like

00:27:56.620 they want their homes tested, they can have them tested. I would have far rather they did all the

00:28:03.680 testing. There's a lot of what ifs, and we're going to be looking at this thing 5, 10, 15, 20 years

00:28:09.060 down the line and wondering, gee, cancer clusters could pop up, well water could go bad.

00:28:14.980 So his view is they nuked the town to get the track open. The local authorities who are trying

00:28:25.780 to defend this action are saying, no, no, we did it because we were afraid that it could explode and

00:28:30.900 cause even more danger to the residents. Either way though, we are now being told by the authorities

00:28:38.300 that the town is totally fine. The air levels, it's no big deal, the poison in the air, don't worry

00:28:43.220 about it. We saw a mushroom cloud, a black mushroom cloud over this town in Ohio, but no, it's okay

00:28:48.920 now. You can go back home. If you want to get your house tested, fine, but you don't need to worry

00:28:53.580 about it too much. Nothing to see here. Move along, move along. Finally, Mayor Pete, who is the least

00:29:01.200 successful transportation secretary in history, in particular in this regard, you think about all

00:29:09.000 the airline problems we've had under his tenure. You think about this terrible disaster with the

00:29:15.100 railroad under his tenure. You think about the supply chain issues under his tenure. The way you know

00:29:20.840 Pete Buttigieg is the least successful transportation secretary in history is he's the only one who has

00:29:27.080 been notable. Name me other transportation secretaries ever in American history. I could name maybe one

00:29:36.580 other one. You just don't think about the transportation secretary, except Mayor Pete is

00:29:40.800 so terrible at his job. And he's, even if you don't want to blame all these problems on him,

00:29:45.200 he's been so terrible in the response to these tragedies that he's actually become notable.

00:29:50.040 I don't know. Maybe the reason Pete's been so slow to respond is he's busy chest feeding his

00:29:54.980 children. Maybe he's on, his paternity leave has gone on past six months. Maybe it's now we're

00:30:00.000 approaching a year and a half. I don't know what the problem is, but the guy clearly can't do his job.

00:30:04.440 So finally, now, I think it's 12 days later. I guess he responded yesterday. So call it 11 days

00:30:12.580 after the accident. Pete Buttigieg has finally expressed his concern. Mayor Pete says, quote,

00:30:20.280 I continue to be concerned about the impacts of the February 3rd train derailment near East Palestine,

00:30:26.820 Ohio, and the effects on families in the 10 days since their lives were upended through no fault of

00:30:33.000 their own. It's important that families have access to useful and accurate information.

00:30:38.540 Yeah, that is, that is. Would have been nice if they had that access sooner than 10 days after the

00:30:46.100 accident. Might have been nice if the transportation secretary expressed his concern a little bit

00:30:52.760 sooner. But they're not concerned. Nobody's really concerned. The transportation secretary is not

00:30:58.340 concerned. The Biden administration is not concerned. The establishment media are not

00:31:02.160 concerned. And do you know why? Because of who these people are. Who lives in East Palestine, Ohio?

00:31:10.240 The deplorable, irredeemable, bitter, clinging, flyover country peons who don't matter to the people in

00:31:21.180 Washington, D.C., or New York, or Los Angeles, or San Francisco. That's why. If this had happened near

00:31:26.880 New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, you know there would have been

00:31:33.060 a national state of emergency declared. You would have had all of the emergency response teams on the

00:31:39.740 ground. This would be, the press would be all over it. But no, this is the flyover people who, oh,

00:31:45.060 their water's poisoned, oh, their air is poisoned, oh, all their animals are dying. Eh, I will. It's

00:31:49.900 fine. We've been calling for years for small town America to die. I guess this will just hurry up the

00:31:55.280 process. Add on to this that, what was it, one or two years ago, there was a movie that came out

00:32:01.900 called White Noise, I think, about this exact thing happening, about a train derailment and all sorts of

00:32:10.100 terrible chemicals going up into the air in an Ohio town. That's pretty weird. And I don't think

00:32:15.560 you need to pull out your tinfoil hat to say, oh, this is a massive conspiracy. I'm not opposed to

00:32:20.340 conspiracies. Ever since COVID and the Dr. Fauci of it all, basically there's nothing you could tell me

00:32:26.080 about our government that I wouldn't believe. But you don't need to go there. You can just point out

00:32:31.040 that people, the people who make our culture, have a sort of fantasy that middle America flyover

00:32:40.720 country just sort of goes away. Terrible things happen to them. They get a kick out of it. It's

00:32:44.080 entertaining. It's amusing. But nobody really cares. Let small town America die. That's what they say.

00:32:50.120 Oh, your jobs are shipped overseas. Oh, learn to code. Get out of there. Oh, you bitter claim. You're

00:32:55.220 probably racist. You're the kind of people, you're not the future. The future of America

00:33:00.160 is in high-rise buildings, in pods, in New York, and all the big cities. Forget about Ohio. That's why.

00:33:08.820 No one seems to care about this issue. To my mind, the most important news story in the country right

00:33:13.400 now. No one seems to care about that because no one seems to care about those people.

00:33:18.740 Certainly no one, very few people in positions of power do.

00:33:22.020 So we're Martha's Vineyard. Different story. Now, what is the story that the establishment

00:33:28.620 media are focusing on? Well, it's the UFOs. Look at all the UFOs. Oh, boy. We had that Chinese spy

00:33:35.420 balloon that Biden let fly over the whole country. But now we're just picking off objects left and

00:33:41.300 right. Now, according to NBC News, the US intelligence community's leading explanation for the three

00:33:50.200 recent UFOs that were shot down over North America is that they were being used for commercial or benign

00:33:56.380 purposes, according to the White House. So the one that was not being used for a commercial or benign

00:34:04.480 purpose, the one that was a Chinese spy balloon that was going over sensitive military targets and

00:34:09.840 collecting data all across the country, that one we let keep flying. But then the other objects that

00:34:15.760 Biden's plucking out of the sky right now, they're nothing. They're fine. Sounds about right. There are

00:34:21.740 various theories here. And you're going to hear more of them in the coming days because the White House

00:34:26.600 keeps changing its story. The new theory is that the Biden administration actually watched this Chinese

00:34:34.740 spy balloon take off all the way over in East Asia. It took off and they followed it long before it

00:34:41.200 entered U.S. airspace. They were just tracking it. They were jamming the communications. And don't

00:34:45.600 worry, they're in control. They figured it out. And then finally, just because someone happened to see

00:34:50.280 it in Montana, they had to shoot it down. But they were just, they're in control. Don't worry.

00:34:56.560 Now, that's the news story. Before that story, we were told, oh, these Chinese spy balloons,

00:35:00.780 they happen all the time. But we didn't really know about it then. But it happened under Trump.

00:35:07.800 But we didn't know about it under Trump. But we now know that it happened under Trump because we

00:35:11.520 want to loop Trump into the, okay. Before that was the story. The story was, oh, these Chinese spy

00:35:15.700 balloons, they come across here all the time. And it's no big deal. Yeah, don't, no, we know about it.

00:35:20.180 It's okay. It's no big deal. Don't worry about it. And before that, it was what? We don't know what

00:35:25.540 it is. And it's just pathetic. It's just looks like sheer incompetence. And the impulse for people

00:35:34.360 who believe that everything is planned out by our genius, omnipotent libs in the government,

00:35:40.060 they always go to the most nefarious explanation. This is all, that's all planned. And it gives

00:35:47.240 people comfort because they feel that the government is in total control. I don't think

00:35:50.760 these guys are in total control. I think they have no idea what end is up. I'm not sure Joe Biden

00:35:55.240 knows what his own name is. Speaking of the president, speaking of people who want to be president

00:36:01.420 again in 2024, Joy Behar and the cackling hands at The View are somewhat impressed by one

00:36:12.060 of the latest nominees for the presidency. That would be Nikki Haley.

00:36:16.160 Well, she's part of the invasion of the body snatchers. You know, there are these,

00:36:19.440 there are these politicians on the right who now have become like mentally crazy, you know,

00:36:24.820 but her problem is that, you know, not only was she a big Trump supporter and like,

00:36:29.080 she's an election denier too, isn't she? At one point. At one point, she changed,

00:36:33.640 she flip-flopped on that. Yeah. But she also backed Herschel Walker, one of the worst candidates

00:36:37.820 we've ever had. I mean, second only, or second only to George Santos, maybe. Yeah. You know,

00:36:43.400 and that was terrifying actually that she did that. So, I mean, she's going nowhere fast this one.

00:36:48.380 I'm not sure she's an election denier. I would check on that.

00:36:51.400 Okay. There you go. This is a warning to all the other GOP candidates.

00:36:54.580 It doesn't matter how much they like you. It doesn't matter how much you do to try to earn

00:37:01.920 some favor with the liberal press. They will always turn on you. That phrase that Joy Behar

00:37:08.420 said at the beginning, it's like invasion of the body snatchers. This is what you always hear.

00:37:13.160 Sometimes for some of the Republicans who the libs like, or at least pretend to like,

00:37:17.420 while those Republicans are serving their purposes, saying certain liberal things,

00:37:21.640 attacking certain conservative candidates, the moment that you pose any kind of threat to them,

00:37:28.420 they will say, oh, this person's totally changed. This person's totally changed. The libs love Mitt

00:37:32.920 Romney now because Mitt Romney's a big squish and he parrots their talking points. The libs loved Mitt

00:37:39.600 Romney before 2008, after he was governor of Massachusetts, before he was a Republican nominee,

00:37:48.060 back when he was taking on some of the other Republicans in 2008, the libs really liked him.

00:37:53.160 And then he got the nomination for the GOP. And then he posed a threat to Barack Obama.

00:37:57.280 And then he was a monster. He was, he was Patrick Bateman. He was trying to kill gay boys in high

00:38:05.420 school. Do you remember that thing? They said he cut the hair of a homosexual teenager or something.

00:38:10.840 Oh, and the dog, he tried to torture his dog on the family card. And they'll just,

00:38:16.780 and that's what they're doing now to Nikki Haley. Who, Nikki Haley was a somewhat centrist kind of

00:38:23.460 governor in South Carolina. Then she worked for the Trump administration, but she managed to have

00:38:29.740 decent support among the moderates and also among Trump supporters. And then she came out against Trump

00:38:35.260 after the administration, after January 6th. And then she, but then she defended Trump again.

00:38:40.200 And so she's, she's done actually a relatively decent job of maintaining some kind of support

00:38:48.040 in different quarters, but not, but not very intense support, which is why you're not seeing

00:38:54.080 her jump up in the polls to the position of a Ron DeSantis or a Donald Trump right now.

00:38:58.920 But she should be one of the more acceptable people to the view, if for no other reason that,

00:39:03.280 that she is a woman and the view is a show about empowering women. And yet they see Nikki Haley,

00:39:10.420 she's running to be the GOP nominee. Okay. She's dead to us. She's crazy. It's invasion of the body

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00:40:13.020 That's dailywire.com slash careers today. Speaking of Republicans, George Santos. George Santos,

00:40:24.860 our favorite Republican, is back in the news. He was charged with a dog-related theft in 2017.

00:40:31.660 This, according to the Washington Examiner, Representative George Santos was found to have

00:40:36.760 been charged with theft related to Amish dog breeders in 2017. Are the Amish known for, I know they're

00:40:45.840 known for their cabinets and their barns and their, I didn't know they were known for dog breeding.

00:40:50.140 The charges were dropped though and his record was expunged. A lawyer friend of Santos, who helped

00:40:56.020 him with the charge, told Politico about the revelation. It was then confirmed by a representative

00:41:00.820 from York County District Court in Pennsylvania. He was charged with theft by deception, but he beat

00:41:09.700 the charge and had that record expunged. He claimed his checkbook had been stolen and that the $15,125

00:41:15.640 in checks were not written by him. But now some people say he was lying. And after the checks were

00:41:24.220 addressed to the Amish dog breeders, Santos held a large adoption event with his animal rescue charity

00:41:30.140 friends of Pets United at the Staten Island Pet Store, Pet Oasis. And, and, and I don't know. And I don't

00:41:42.700 know. And I don't, and I don't really care. I've said it before about George Santos. George Santos,

00:41:48.980 to me, his political success is like a bad joke. A bad joke starts out a little tiny bit funny.

00:42:00.860 And then the more you tell it, it becomes much, much less funny. But then paradoxically,

00:42:07.520 the more you tell it, the much, much, much, much, much funnier it becomes.

00:42:14.620 That's how I feel about Santos. Santos gets elected. You say, hey, all right, we got a Republican here

00:42:19.260 elected in New York. We got a razor thin majority already. This is, this is cool. He's caught,

00:42:23.160 he's obviously a squish, but you know, whatever. It's fine. It's fine. Overall net positive. And

00:42:29.880 then you find out, oh, he lied about his education. No, that's good. No, he's a liar. That's too bad.

00:42:36.360 Oh, and he lied about his employment history. Oh, that's too bad. Oh, and he, he might not even be

00:42:41.780 a gay guy. He might've, he might've been married to a woman in it, which I guess is more traditional.

00:42:46.080 I guess that's kind of a, maybe that ticks him up a little, but then he got divorced and

00:42:50.060 now he's pretending to be a gay guy and, or he maybe is, I don't know. And oh, and he lied about

00:42:54.860 his criminal record maybe. Oh, and he lied about his political positions. Oh, and he lied about,

00:43:01.520 whoop, okay, we're back. It's fine. And he might be under indictment in Brazil. Oh,

00:43:04.640 this is getting funnier again. Oh, and he lied about Amish dog breeding. And okay, this is really,

00:43:09.860 really funny. At this point, there is pretty much nothing that George Santos could do

00:43:16.880 that would make me demand that he resign because it's all out there. And this is, by the way,

00:43:25.460 probably the main argument for Trump in 2024. The main argument against Trump in 2024 is that he's got

00:43:31.820 so much baggage and there are lots of people who just don't like him and he turns a lot of people

00:43:36.320 off. And that's that strong argument. But the argument for Trump in 2024 is also, he's got so

00:43:45.780 much baggage and we know about it and it's all out there. And they've thrown the kitchen sink at him

00:43:51.540 and they've made up a bunch of stuff about him and it's been proven to have been made up about him.

00:43:55.420 And it is what it is for the other candidates. We don't know how much real baggage they've got.

00:44:01.940 We don't know what new baggage the libs are going to invent about them.

00:44:06.840 We don't know how resilient they're going to be in the face of that.

00:44:10.840 I am really, some people think that I'm pushing Trump and that I've actually made a decision and

00:44:15.460 I'm endorsing Trump in 2024. That is not the case. I am, it might seem more that way when I talk about

00:44:21.640 it because I haven't picked one of the other candidates to go sign up on the campaign for.

00:44:26.080 I am just trying to call it like I see it. Okay. I'm not saying one of these two options is

00:44:31.580 better than the other, the case for or against Trump. The only point I'm making is it's the same

00:44:36.180 case. It's the same argument. And you're seeing it at an extreme degree in George Santos. George

00:44:42.800 Santos is not going to really be pressured to step down. The more that the press attack him,

00:44:47.520 actually the more that it helps him. The more that you see those press squabbles all around him,

00:44:53.520 screaming, yelling, George, it makes Republicans like him more. Even if Republicans look at him,

00:44:58.240 they say, there's like almost nothing about you that I like as a politician. You're pretty much

00:45:02.400 a squish. You're obviously a liar. You can't be trusted. But the fact that the libs are gunning

00:45:11.300 for him so much, it will increase his support. And you will see similar phenomena play out at the

00:45:17.040 presidential level as well. Speaking of crimes, this is a story I meant to get to last week and I

00:45:23.500 didn't have time to do it. Marilyn Manson, the famous rock star, satanist, weirdo guy,

00:45:34.980 is accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old on a tour bus and threatened to kill that woman's

00:45:41.240 family. This apparently in the 1990s. So it was a long time ago. I know with a lot of these stories

00:45:46.140 when they just happened to come out 30 years later, it makes us all a bit skeptical of it,

00:45:50.660 especially because a lot of these people are just seeking money and they're at different points in

00:45:56.980 their life. You say, why didn't the story come out sooner? In this story though, I think Marilyn

00:46:01.660 Manson actually had talked about it in the past. I think in a different time, in a different era,

00:46:07.820 Marilyn Manson had kind of bragged about some of these things. I don't have anything really to say

00:46:12.000 about the story other than it's always the ones you most expect. Hold on, you're telling me that

00:46:21.280 the satanist rock star who is infamously weird about his sex and there are all sorts of weird

00:46:29.660 rumors about his sexuality, he's kind of bizarrely androgynous and he dresses up like a demon and he

00:46:34.780 flaunts his immorality. You're telling me that guy might have done some weird bad stuff?

00:46:38.400 Oh man, if you can't trust the demon looking satanist rock stars, who can you trust these

00:46:45.240 days? So it really often is the ones that you most expect. You see this in the culture.

00:46:50.720 Now in the whole culture, when you see some weirdo usually dressed up like a demon,

00:46:54.840 usually with lots of weird sexual hangups, show up to a drag queen story hour, show up to a middle

00:46:59.380 school and then you find out, oh actually this person has a criminal record sexually abusing children.

00:47:06.240 You look at that, you say, well what did you think was going to happen?

00:47:13.260 Actually our perceptions tell us a lot of things about the real world. I know in our modern culture

00:47:20.160 we're told don't believe your eyes, don't believe what you feel in your gut, don't believe your

00:47:26.360 prejudices. There's nothing worse than prejudice. But actually all of those things are essential to

00:47:31.960 making any judgment whatsoever, to acting in life at all. Prejudice, not in the sense of an unjust

00:47:36.840 bigotry, but prejudice in the sense of going along about your life making pre-judgments is essential

00:47:43.600 to getting along in the world. This is one of the most important aspects of politics according to

00:47:49.240 a conservative philosopher like Edmund Burke. This is part of the conservative mind. You have to

00:47:56.600 prejudge. You need prejudice. You need to be able to trust your sensory perceptions at least to some

00:48:02.540 degree. Things often are what they seem. You can very often, not always, but you can very often

00:48:08.500 judge a book by its cover. And speaking of Satanism, I want to just spike the football on this a little

00:48:13.660 bit. We talked all last week about the Grammy show with Sam Smith dancing around like a big lesbian

00:48:20.620 devil. And then all of the people in the audience, including the first lady, just guffawing, just so

00:48:25.480 thrilled, giving it all sorts of plaudits. The numbers are in. That Grammys was a ratings catastrophe.

00:48:35.920 The total viewers was 12.4 million. To put that in perspective, just three years ago,

00:48:42.340 the Grammys drew 18.7 million viewers. And at the time, that was considered a ratings disaster.

00:48:48.400 18.7 million is 50% higher than this last Grammys awards.

00:48:56.060 What does it tell you? It tells you what happens when you make a deal with the devil.

00:49:00.540 Often when people make a deal with the devil, it doesn't seem quite so on the nose as what Sam

00:49:05.940 Smith did. You're usually not dancing around as an actual devil. But the thing about the Faustian

00:49:11.240 bargain, the thing about the deal with the devil is you think, all right, I'm going to do this

00:49:14.280 immoral action, but it's going to get me a lot of money. And then I won't have to do immoral actions

00:49:18.680 anymore. Or I'm going to commit this immoral action, but it's going to get me my career.

00:49:24.880 It's the casting couch in Hollywood. Or it's marrying for ignoble reasons. Or it's committing

00:49:31.480 some crime. I don't know. You're Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. You take the axe to the poor

00:49:36.500 old lady's head. But then you're not going to have to worry about it anymore. But the thing is,

00:49:40.780 the deal with the devil, one, is never worth it. It's never worth trading your soul for anything.

00:49:46.520 But two, the deal with the devil doesn't even work out in this life. That's the joke of it all.

00:49:52.880 You don't end up getting the thing that you want. Things go terribly wrong, not only in the hereafter,

00:49:58.120 but in this life too. You make the deal with the devil. You're Sam Smith, a generally sort of charming

00:50:03.200 British musician. And then you say, okay, I'm going to sell out and become a Satanist. And that's going

00:50:09.160 to revive my career. But actually, no. The Grammy says we're going to have a devil performance sponsored

00:50:15.980 by Pfizer. And that's going to revive the Grammys. No, it's not. It not only compromises your

00:50:24.240 eternal being, it doesn't even work now. 50% ratings down from just three years ago.

00:50:34.060 You'll love to see it. You'll love to see it with a little bit of schadenfreude.

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