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00:00:00.000 I've got to warn you, the news story you're about to hear is very disturbing. No, I'm not talking

00:00:07.880 about the train that poisoned that town in Ohio last month, or the security footage showing that

00:00:13.300 the January 6th insurrection narrative that imprisoned a bunch of Americans was pretty

00:00:18.500 much entirely a lie, or the admission by our government agencies that the government and

00:00:23.300 scientific establishment lied to us about the origins of COVID. No, no, I'm talking about a

00:00:29.200 news story. Far more disturbing than all that. A community hit by hate when a man leaves tire

00:00:36.640 marks all over a pride flag painted on an intersection. Residents around the area

00:00:41.300 speaking out in disgust. Seven's Danielle Garcia is live in Fort Lauderdale with more on the search

00:00:46.000 for that driver. Danielle, good morning. Good morning, Lorena. That mural right behind me was

00:00:51.880 unveiled just about 20 days ago. Already it's been damaged and covered with skid marks. The community

00:00:57.100 here is saddened, as you mentioned, but they are planning to redo it. In fact, the cleanup process

00:01:02.240 has already begun. The pride flag was painted on the street. That whole segment, the investigation,

00:01:13.180 the rocking by hate, it's because a guy drove his truck down a street without performing a sufficient

00:01:22.440 worship ritual to weird sex stuff and transvestitism. Had it been a mural of an American flag,

00:01:30.820 this obviously would not be a news story. The driver could have filmed himself burning the star-spangled

00:01:36.260 banner, and if it attracted any attention at all, the reaction from the media would almost certainly have

00:01:41.740 been applause. But this incident, this hateful act of driving down the street, this is now national news

00:01:48.380 because, as far as our ruling class is concerned, the rainbow flag with the crooked transgender canton

00:01:55.400 is the new national flag of the United States. And so help you if you refuse to pledge allegiance.

00:02:04.140 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:05.660 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Jack Straw, who says,

00:02:17.800 the most well-armed Americans planned an insurrection, and not one of them thought to bring a gun

00:02:24.800 or even an extra sandwich or bottle of water makes sense to me. Yeah, they got there. They were in the

00:02:32.300 capital. They were on the brink of launching that new constitution. They said, wait, hey, guys, did,

00:02:38.420 oh, Jim, did you forget the guns and the new national assembly? And the, ah, now we're just

00:02:44.700 going to have to take some pictures and walk around with Nancy Pelosi's lectern. Ah, well,

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00:04:02.200 You can no longer drive down a street if the street has a pride flag painted on it,

00:04:09.640 and you are not sufficiently reverent toward the rainbow stuff and the transgender whatever.

00:04:16.480 You're not allowed to drive down your street. That's a hate crime. This is what

00:04:20.600 a totalitarian society looks like. I use that word really, really carefully because a lot of times

00:04:28.440 you'll hear people on the left and on the right use the word authoritarian. I don't think the word

00:04:32.700 authoritarian really means much of anything at all. Authoritarian just means you wield your authority

00:04:37.760 when you've got it. That's what every state has done for all of history. But the word totalitarian

00:04:42.500 has a meaning. The word totalitarian means that the regime's ideology has to penetrate every single

00:04:51.180 aspect of life. There can be no dissent ever in any way, not even private dissent, not even in your

00:04:58.900 local little community. You have to go along with whatever the ruling party says at every single level,

00:05:05.800 including when you're driving down. If you drive down the street in a way that seems a little

00:05:12.700 politically incorrect, that will launch an investigation and a national news story.

00:05:18.500 Chris Rock, great comedian, just had a new Netflix special come out, and he took aim at what this

00:05:25.240 sort of totalitarian society looks like.

00:05:28.340 Everybody full of s**t, you know? I'm in my old neighborhood. I bumped into my good friend Fred.

00:05:35.020 Hadn't seen him in years. Hadn't seen him in years. Fred got a new job at AT&T, okay?

00:05:42.220 So I'm like, hey, Fred, how's the job? And Fred's like, ooh, I love the job. It's a safe space.

00:05:50.280 I feel seen. I feel heard. There's a lot of diversity. And I'm looking at him like,

00:05:57.740 n*****, it's me. What, you think I'm wearing a wire or some s**t?

00:06:04.740 What the f**k are you talking about, safe space? N*****, you've been eight years for manslaughter.

00:06:13.440 N*****, nobody's safe around you. Everybody's full of s**t. Motherf**king typing out woke

00:06:21.040 s**t tweets on a phone made by child slaves. N*****, cut it out, man.

00:06:29.040 That is the telltale sign of a totalitarian society is that everybody is full of S-H-I-T.

00:06:36.980 That's how it goes at every single level. When Chris Rock says, man, you think I was,

00:06:42.120 I'm wearing a wire? That's, people behave in a totalitarian society as if everybody else is

00:06:47.580 wearing a wire. Not just in your most public aspects of life, but even in the private ones.

00:06:52.840 Because in the totalitarian society, every citizen is encouraged to rat on every other citizen.

00:06:58.240 Parents are encouraged to rat on, or children, rather, are encouraged to rat on their parents.

00:07:03.780 Every social bond beyond the bond between the individual and the state is dissolved.

00:07:10.380 That's what totalitarian societies look like, and we increasingly are living in one.

00:07:16.800 You can see it in China. Very easy to say, oh, look at China, what they're doing. That's so

00:07:21.440 terrible. That's totalitarian. It's harder to see it when it's your own country. Even the way

00:07:25.560 Chris Rock points out, he says, you're, you're talking about how woke you are, how much you care

00:07:29.220 about everybody. You're, you're tweeting out your woke slogans on a device made by child slaves in

00:07:34.780 China. But, but here we, we have a similar kind of BS that we're all living through. We have to pretend

00:07:42.640 that men are women and women are men. I think this is one of the reasons why the libs are so

00:07:48.960 insistent on the transgender stuff. Because even though historically this kind of confusion affects

00:07:56.960 a very, very small number of people, as a result of the social contagion of a constant inundation

00:08:03.080 into transgender propaganda, many, many more people are now identifying this way. Something

00:08:07.260 like one in five Zoomers are identifying as LGBT, LMNOP. So there is a social contagion aspect to it.

00:08:13.640 Right. But the reason they push for it is the same reason that big brother forces Winston at the end

00:08:19.000 of 1984 to say and believe that two plus two equals five. Is because if they can get you to say that

00:08:25.220 men are really women and women are really men, they can get you to say anything at all. And we have to

00:08:29.420 say it. If you don't say it, you could lose your job. You could lose your school. You could receive

00:08:33.680 death threats. You can, you can have your physical safety threatened. Okay. And you will,

00:08:39.540 depending on how vociferously you do that, depending on what sort of prominence you have from any given

00:08:46.240 stage. That is how intense these people are about it. And yet people still know the truth.

00:08:52.980 Chris Rock actually, in another great segment of his comedy show, talked about this with regard to

00:08:58.360 the fundamental right, the right to life. There's a part of me that's pro-life. But since I love my

00:09:04.660 daughters unconditionally, I love them, not just as little girls, I love them as grown women. I want

00:09:10.700 my daughters to live in a world where they have complete control of their bodies. Okay.

00:09:16.460 Okay.

00:09:20.760 And because of that, I am pro-choice. I'm absolutely pro-choice. Okay. I believe women should have the

00:09:32.060 right to kill babies. That's right. I'm on your side. I believe you should have the right to kill

00:09:45.140 as many babies as you want. Kill them all. I don't give a f***. But let's not get it twisted. It is

00:09:54.320 killing a baby. Because whenever I pay for an abortion, I request a dead baby. Sometimes I call

00:10:03.020 up the doctor like a hitman. Is it done? He keeps going on. And the best part is you can hear the

00:10:10.600 laughter kind of trickle toward the end of that because the setup was so perfect. Other comedians

00:10:15.500 have done versions of this bit. Louis C.K. famously did one. I think Bill Burr may have done one.

00:10:20.920 But Chris Rocks is the best one I've seen so far, where it seems so persuasive at the top.

00:10:26.780 I want my daughters to have total control over their body. Yeah. I am completely pro-choice.

00:10:33.520 Yeah. Yeah. Women should be able to kill as many babies as they want. No, I'm on your side.

00:10:42.460 I am describing, I am articulating your point of view. And you know there were some people in that

00:10:50.520 audience who are pro-abortion, who had never really been forced to think about that.

00:10:59.720 And it's wonderful when a comedian does this because that's one of the points of court jesters

00:11:05.220 is that they can go out there and mock the king. They're the only people who can mock the king.

00:11:09.720 And so in a way, they're the only people who can really speak truth to the king without

00:11:13.940 very much fear of getting their head lopped off for it. So these people, they're listening to him.

00:11:20.640 They say, oh, yeah, I guess it is killing babies. He says, well, I pay for an abortion. I need a

00:11:26.700 receipt. What am I paying for? I need to make sure there's a dead baby at the end of that.

00:11:30.260 That's what an abortion is, right? No, I'm on your side.

00:11:32.440 And you can't help but wonder about the people who sincerely never thought that abortion really

00:11:40.680 meant killing a baby. And then they hear that bit. And what happens? That little bit of truth,

00:11:47.820 that little truth acid that Chris Rock just poured on this ossified edifice of our BS totalitarian society

00:11:56.000 starts to crack the BS a little bit. The scales fall from their eyes. I'm mixing a lot of metaphors

00:12:02.180 here. But let's say the truth juice that Chris Rock poured out, it dissolves the scales from their

00:12:08.120 eyes. And they say, oh, the BS that I was told by the regime, which is that babies aren't really

00:12:13.580 babies and abortion doesn't kill anybody. Oh, that's not true. Actually, we kill over 800,000 babies a

00:12:18.580 year. Oh, that's pretty ghastly. What else? What else does our society lie about? When things are kind

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00:13:35.040 Alex Stein, primetime Alex Stein over at The Blaze. Alex Stein is suing Congress Lady Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:13:44.460 for blocking him on Twitter. Now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blocked Alex Stein on Twitter,

00:13:53.080 presumably because he filmed himself on the steps of the Capitol yelling about her booty and how she's

00:13:58.860 a hot, sexy Latina. And she actually briefly appeared in the video and sort of waved. And then

00:14:03.480 it was a charming moment. She was being somewhat self-effacing. And then immediately she started

00:14:08.120 lamenting this and accusing him of all sorts of things. So she blocked him, I guess, shortly after

00:14:15.040 that. And Alex Stein is suing for this. I think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez probably had good reason

00:14:24.300 to block Alex Stein after he made all of these fairly crude comments to her. But the reason Stein is doing

00:14:29.800 this is because a bunch of libs sued over Donald Trump blocking them on Twitter. And they said that it is

00:14:40.360 a violation of their rights as citizens to have access to this information from a public official. And so Stein

00:14:48.560 is applying that same principle here to AOC. And when it comes to that kind of a political game, I say what is good

00:14:55.640 for the goose is good for the gander. This is something I've been talking about certainly a lot this

00:15:00.900 week. I've talked about it a lot before as well. We have to go on offense. We have to be politically

00:15:08.840 offensive, not just defensive. There is no neutrality. So you're never going to just preserve a status quo in

00:15:17.680 time and space and history. The circumstances of politics are always changing. Are they changing for the

00:15:22.940 better or are they changing for the worse? Are they changing for what our opponent wants or are they

00:15:26.880 changing into more of our political vision? You've got to be on the offense. If you're always just

00:15:32.320 playing defense, that's how you go from feminism to the sexual revolution to redefining marriage to

00:15:39.560 transgenderism to now the debate over transgenderism really hinges on can we trans the five-year-olds or do

00:15:46.300 we have to wait till they turn eight? That's where the debate is right now, which means that the libs

00:15:50.800 have already won on transgenderism. In fact, that's why my speech at CPAC caused such a stir.

00:15:57.900 That's why the libs had to libelously accuse me of advocating for genocide or whatever they're saying

00:16:04.960 now. They had to lie about what I said because what I said was very simple and it offended their

00:16:09.880 sensibilities. I said, you haven't really won on transgenderism. I know there are some conservatives

00:16:15.400 who in their rhetoric have already conceded that ground. I'm not willing to do it. Transgenderism

00:16:20.140 at every single level, at every single stage for everybody is absurd. It isn't true. We should not

00:16:25.880 indulge it anywhere in society. And they lost it. They thought they had won that battle. They thought

00:16:32.100 conservatives were just going to be on defense. And then the battle was going to be not should we

00:16:35.520 trans the five-year-olds or the eight-year-olds. Then it was going to be should we trans the two-year-olds

00:16:38.760 or the three-year-olds. And eventually they'd win the whole thing and they'd move on to the next

00:16:42.060 bizarre idea they have. You've got to stay on the offense. That's what got me into trouble. There's

00:16:49.800 a liberal Republican by the name of Charlie Sykes. He used to write for the Weekly Standard before that

00:16:54.400 went out of business. And he was a prominent name in conservative politics 20, 30 years ago. Now he works

00:17:00.920 for the Bulwark and Bill Kristol and advocates all this sort of liberal stuff. But Charlie Sykes,

00:17:06.300 in his reaction to my CPAC speech, said, Knowles could use a different word.

00:17:13.760 He could have said that we should challenge, confront, oppose, resist, or push back against

00:17:21.320 transgenderism. Instead, he chose to use the word eradicate. That's true. Charlie Sykes is right.

00:17:29.140 I could have chosen a word that implied that we would put up a modest little fight against the

00:17:37.220 left's new assault and then ultimately concede. That's what the right and the conservative movement

00:17:44.080 have done pretty much for the last 30 years. We just, we confront, we push back a little bit.

00:17:51.620 Hey, oh, the libs want to upend all of society. They want to reorder the fundamental political

00:17:57.220 institution, redefine it. They want to push gay porn on our kids in schools. They want to let all the

00:18:02.780 criminals out of prison. They want to open up our border. Okay, well, we can't, we can't really fight.

00:18:09.280 We can't stop that. We can't eradicate those crazy ideas. No, no. Let's just, can we, would you mind if

00:18:17.400 we just pushed back a tiny little bit? Just a little, please. Then we'll stop. Then we'll concede

00:18:22.540 again. Don't worry. Please. No, I have no interest in that. I want to win. That's what offended them

00:18:28.520 so much. The libs and the squishes like Charlie Sykes. It offended them because we're using the

00:18:32.880 language of winning, of no, we're not, not only are we going to stop the left's latest assault,

00:18:39.380 we're actually going to push them back a little bit. We're going to go after something that they

00:18:44.200 thought they had already won. That's the language that they don't like. And that's the language that we

00:18:49.440 have to use. Ronald Reagan made this point really, really well. He said, when you're explaining,

00:18:56.360 you're losing. It's kind of ironic because right now I'm explaining this strategy, but I'm explaining

00:19:00.480 the strategy to fellow conservatives to articulate the point Ronald Reagan was making.

00:19:04.680 When you're explaining, you're losing. When you're defensive, when you're defending,

00:19:08.120 you're losing. You've got to keep pushing forward. Well, okay, maybe, you know what, actually,

00:19:12.700 I just meant to say I'll push back a little tiny bit. No, I meant what I said. I meant eradicate

00:19:17.340 the whole ideology. It's a preposterous ideology. I'll be talking about that a little bit tonight

00:19:22.160 up at the University of Buffalo. The libs up at the University of Buffalo are trying desperately

00:19:26.780 to shut down my speech up there tonight. There have been all sorts of movements to get the

00:19:33.180 administration to cancel it. The faculty have tried to shut this thing down. Some of the crazy

00:19:38.420 anarchist activist types are trying to make threats to shut the thing down. We're going up there.

00:19:43.720 I'm flying up to Buffalo immediately after this show. The topic is actually feminism that we're

00:19:49.940 talking about, not transgenderism, but it's all kind of related. You've got to keep pushing.

00:19:57.240 The libs keep saying they're not going to stop at banning transgender surgeries for five-year-olds.

00:20:03.340 They're going to push it to 18-year-olds. Once they do that, they're going to try to articulate a

00:20:08.740 coherent view of marriage again. Then once they do that, these terrible conservatives,

00:20:13.160 they're going to try to restore a normal sexual order again. Maybe they'll try to rein in some

00:20:18.500 of the divorce laws. Maybe they'll try to rein in some of the crazy aspects of the sexual revolution.

00:20:23.260 Maybe they'll deny the false premises of feminism. My answer to them is, you're damn right.

00:20:28.980 Yeah, that's what we're going to do. We're either going to do that or we're going to surrender

00:20:34.320 everything. Those are the only two options, though. There's no middle ground on it. There's no

00:20:38.960 neutrality. There's no status quo. We have to do that because the stakes are very,

00:20:44.420 very high. I teased this story a little bit yesterday, but we ran out of time.

00:20:50.240 These left-wing ideologies are not helping anybody ever. They don't help anybody. They only make

00:20:58.780 people miserable. They make people miserable because they are false ideologies. When you live

00:21:04.580 in falsehood and when you live according to lies, you cannot help but be miserable. There is no way

00:21:11.920 to live your life according to a bunch of lies, according to a bunch of delusions that contradict

00:21:17.420 human nature and reality, and then thrive as a result of that. It can't happen. I think a lot of

00:21:24.840 people wish that it could happen, and I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you, but there are

00:21:31.580 realities that if you deny those realities, you're not going to have a very good life,

00:21:36.500 and this is being reflected in social science research. Research is showing that young liberals,

00:21:42.440 especially liberal girls, are more depressed than young conservatives. Matthew Iglesias,

00:21:48.300 who is a left-wing writer, he's one of the founders of Vox.com, he just wrote a very long piece

00:21:54.460 about this study. He says that this could be caused in part by poor behavior among adult progressives,

00:22:02.980 many of whom now valorize depressive affect as a sign of political commitment. These older

00:22:08.360 progressives say that if you're angry, if you're pissed off all the time, that's actually a sign

00:22:12.820 that you're virtuous according to this bizarro left-wing vision. He's saying that the reason that

00:22:18.500 young liberals are so depressed is because they're just mimicking the older progressives who are

00:22:25.200 depressed. That's true, but Iglesias has to take it a step further. Why are the older progressives

00:22:31.720 so angry, so depressed? Why are they valorizing depressive affect as a sign of political commitment?

00:22:39.500 Because the ideology has depressed them. Iglesias says, breaking things down by gender and ideology,

00:22:48.140 they find that liberal girls have the highest increase in depressive affect and conservative

00:22:54.420 boys have the least. But liberal boys are more depressed than conservative girls, suggesting an

00:23:01.180 important role for political ideology. This is really the key here. It's the ideology. The ideology is the

00:23:09.840 thing that is doing it. It's not this age or that age. Even the phenomenon that Iglesias is

00:23:18.120 seeing, which is that human nature is mimetic, that we develop our personality traits, we develop our

00:23:24.500 desires even by imitating others. The reason you want the Rolex watch is not because you know anything

00:23:31.080 about how watches are made. You want the Rolex watch because other people that you admire and respect

00:23:35.320 like the Rolex watch. And so that creates a desire in you to have that watch. The reason you want the

00:23:41.180 girl, the girl down the street, is in part because you might recognize some aspects of beauty in her. But your

00:23:49.140 desire for the girl is going to be greatly increased if other guys also desire that girl. Yes, obviously, part of

00:23:56.140 that is mimetic. But then you've got to ask that question, okay, well, the young people are imitating the

00:24:02.000 progressives. Why are the older progressives so depressed? Because their ideology is false. That's why. And there is a

00:24:10.040 real fear here. You know, Matthew Iglesias says, mentally processing ambiguous events with a negative

00:24:16.820 spin is just what depression is. And while the finding that liberals are disproportionately likely

00:24:22.100 to do it is interesting and important, it's not sound practice to celebrate that or tell them that

00:24:26.080 they're right to do it. So he's saying, he's admitting something. I give Iglesias a lot of credit for this.

00:24:30.240 He's admitting something that conservatives have pointed out for a long time, which is that liberals are

00:24:35.520 angry and shrieking and whiny and they're just not getting along very well. And conservatives generally are much

00:24:41.500 happier. This is contrary to the image that you see in the establishment media. The establishment media will

00:24:47.040 say, your angry conservative uncle at the Thanksgiving table, you need to talk to him about health care or

00:24:53.480 whatever. Those angry conservatives, they're Nazis, they're genocidal, they're fascists, they're whatever. In your life,

00:25:02.200 in your experience, have you found that it's the liberals or the conservatives who are angrier?

00:25:07.860 It's always the liberals. Is it when you're at the Thanksgiving table, who's angrier? Your, your liberal

00:25:15.100 trans pan lesbian progressive niece or the conservative uncle? The conservative uncle is usually a pretty

00:25:23.360 funny guy cracking jokes. It's always the crazy haired liberal half lesbian niece who's, you know,

00:25:29.580 pulling her hair out and saying, no, you can't say that. I'm angry. I'm storming out of the room.

00:25:34.120 Always. Of course, it's right there in the ideology. It is the liberals who are trying to throw off the

00:25:41.620 shackles of tradition, throw off the circumstances of this world. The conservatives, as a general rule,

00:25:48.380 are more resigned to the failings of this world. They're more inclined to conserve things.

00:25:55.580 They're happier with the way that things are. And it's pretty interesting that the way that

00:26:02.840 conservatives and liberals are presented by the media is the exact opposite. But it makes sense

00:26:06.640 because who controls the media? It's the libs. And the libs are very, very angry, and they're living

00:26:10.780 according to delusions. And so what they tell you, almost everything they tell you, is fake. That's why

00:26:16.940 it's the fake news. It's not the fake news because it gets a story or two wrong. It's the fake news

00:26:20.500 because the way they view the world is fake. A great example of this is actually the difference

00:26:28.160 between Psalm 8 and Hamlet. Spencer Clavin pointed this out to me one time, which is Psalm 8 says,

00:26:37.020 When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established,

00:26:40.900 what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?

00:26:44.880 Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor. On and on

00:26:50.580 goes, Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth. Hamlet rewrites Psalm 8. It says,

00:26:57.680 I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises.

00:27:01.700 And indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a

00:27:06.120 sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave ore hanging firmament,

00:27:10.840 this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why it appeareth no other thing to me than a foul

00:27:14.340 and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man. How noble in reason,

00:27:20.240 how infinite in faculty, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action,

00:27:24.140 how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god, the beauty of the world, on and on. And yet,

00:27:29.860 to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights, not me, no, nor woman neither,

00:27:34.420 though by your smiling you seem to say so. They're both looking at the same thing. The Psalmist and

00:27:40.080 Hamlet are both looking at the same majestical firmament, fretted with fire, and both looking

00:27:45.900 at man. One of them says, wow, look how great this is, God. And then the other one, Hamlet,

00:27:51.580 as he's descending into madness, and at the very least is depressed, is looking at it and saying,

00:27:57.640 gosh, all of this goes so heavily with me. I just, what a piece of work is a man. It's nothing. I hate

00:28:05.280 it. He's giving this monologue while he's feigning madness for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. And this

00:28:12.000 is how a depressive talks. They're both looking at the same thing. So why are the libs so depressed?

00:28:17.180 Because their view is misery making. And that's why we need to eradicate these kinds of ideologies.

00:28:27.280 Speaking, you know, I think it was Adam Carolla made this point to me once,

00:28:31.580 where we're saying, why is this liberal person, why is he just, why does he seem so angry these

00:28:37.060 days? And Adam made the point, he said, well, this leftism that he has surrounded himself with

00:28:43.420 some of his new friends and partners. It's like rayon. These ideologies, it's like rayon. You don't

00:28:51.120 smell it. It's just this poison gas that's in the air that poisons everything. And you're not aware of

00:28:56.860 it. You're not aware of all these premises that are just ruining your life. Premises like nothing

00:29:04.900 means anything. There is no God. Hope is a delusion. Love is just chemicals in your brain. You're not

00:29:10.440 really who you think you are. You're not, you don't have any purpose. The only purpose of life

00:29:14.160 is to feel good sometimes. If you don't feel good, you're wasting your life. All these, it's just all

00:29:19.560 like poison gas in the air. Is it any wonder these people are depressed? Speaking of kids,

00:29:26.500 a deadbeat dad just went viral on TikTok. This deadbeat dad was explaining why he believes it is

00:29:32.280 not his responsibility to raise the children that he has helped to create.

00:29:36.220 I always tell these women that I got pregnant that I do not want to be a father to these children.

00:29:44.600 And I offer to pay for the abortion. Majority of times they'll either take the abortion or they'll

00:29:50.620 take a plan B. But only these seven have kept these children. But the crazy thing about it is they want

00:29:57.100 me to be responsible for some children I told them I did not want. So for some years now, some of them

00:30:04.580 been trying to get in contact with me. Access denied. Because I don't really know why you're

00:30:09.000 trying to get in contact with me. I done told you I did not want them kids. So don't expect me

00:30:14.400 to be responsible financially, emotional, spiritually, mentally, or physically with some kids I do not

00:30:21.560 want. And I don't give a f*** what nobody think about it. You're not going to force children up on me.

00:30:27.200 Yeah, we both made the decision to lay down and have intercourse. We both was irresponsible about

00:30:34.080 the decisions we made that night. Yeah, I could have pulled out, but I didn't. And I didn't care

00:30:39.280 to pull out because I'm not the one that's going to have to carry a baby for nine months. It's the

00:30:44.460 woman. In my opinion, women should be more careful on who they sleep with.

00:30:49.160 So the deadbeat dad made one good point. The one good point he made is women should be more

00:30:57.320 careful about who they sleep with. If you see this guy, run. That's true. All the rest, though,

00:31:04.580 obviously really terrible stuff. And it's funny in a dark way to think about this guy just saying

00:31:11.340 these hideous, horrible, shameful things. But it's really sad when you think there's seven kids out

00:31:16.080 there whose father hates them and tried to kill them and is now upset that the mothers didn't

00:31:21.440 kill the kids. That's really very evil. So how do you fix this? Because you listen to this guy and

00:31:28.800 you just think, I just want to wield the political authority to bring him into line. That's what you

00:31:34.300 think. And we have to do that. Yes, we need to change the culture. A lot of Republicans and

00:31:40.440 conservatives, with some rightness, with some good reason, will say, we just need to teach people

00:31:48.960 like this, that they need to have families, and we need to encourage better schooling, and we need to

00:31:54.460 have more community outreach organizations. Yeah, okay, that's all good. We need to get them back to

00:31:58.320 church. We definitely need to get them back to church. But the government also caused this too.

00:32:04.200 When the government said in Griswold in 1965 that there's a right to condoms for married couples in

00:32:09.640 the Constitution. Only married couples, but married couples have a right to condoms somewhere. I don't

00:32:13.420 know where in the Constitution. It's probably written in invisible ink. That encouraged this

00:32:20.480 kind of sexual revolution culture. Before that, states, communities could pass whatever laws they

00:32:25.580 wanted on condoms or anything else. But then 1965, the government said, no, there's a right to condoms

00:32:29.640 for married couples, but not for unmarried couples. Until 1972 with the Eisenstadt case, and then the

00:32:35.280 Supreme Court said, oh no, we found more invisible ink, and actually there's a right to condoms for

00:32:40.100 unmarried couples too. Okay, but there were still laws against fornication, laws against adultery,

00:32:46.260 laws against sodomy, laws against all sorts of sexual behaviors, depending on the community,

00:32:53.180 depending on the state. Some states said it was fine. Some states said it wasn't fine. Lawrence v. Texas

00:32:57.700 comes out in 2003. Says, no, there's a right to fornication in the Constitution. Where? I don't know.

00:33:03.500 We found even more invisible ink. That's where it was. Okay. Well, if there's a right to all those

00:33:08.200 things, fornication, adultery, condoms, all the sort of condoms which these people are not using

00:33:15.120 apparently, then you're going to get more of this culture. The culture shapes the law,

00:33:20.920 but the law shapes the culture because the law is a teacher. So bring the law into line,

00:33:24.820 and the culture will improve. That is, and it's not the whole story, but that's a big part of the

00:33:31.040 story. Now, what if I told you that there's one book that has done more for literacy than any other

00:33:37.300 book? It has shaped literature, art, culture, government, and countless lives. I am, of course,

00:33:44.460 referring to the Bible. You know who else it's had an influence on? Dr. Jordan Peterson. In addition

00:33:49.380 to his Exodus series, Jordan has a documentary called Logos and Literacy, where he traces the Bible

00:33:54.460 through history to show you the impact it's had on the Western world. Here is the trailer.

00:33:58.120 I was very much struck by how the translation of the biblical writings jump-started the development

00:34:06.380 of literacy across the entire world. Illiteracy was the norm. The pastor's home was the first school,

00:34:13.500 and every morning it would begin with singing. The Christian faith is a singing religion. Probably

00:34:20.120 80% of scripture memorization today exists only because of what is sung. This is amazing. Here we have

00:34:26.580 a Gutenberg Bible, a Bible printed on the press of Johann Gutenberg. Science and religion are opposing

00:34:34.680 forces in the world, but historically that has not been the case. Now the book is available to

00:34:40.880 everyone. From Shakespeare to modern education and medicine and science to civilization itself. It is

00:34:51.000 the most influential book in all of history, and hopefully people can walk away with at least a

00:34:57.100 sense of that. Now this is the part where I would normally tell you that Logos and Literacy is only

00:35:03.020 available for Daily Wire Plus members, but we're making it available for free for everyone at

00:35:09.120 dailywireplus.com, but only for a limited time. So watch Logos and Literacy today at dailywireplus.com.

00:35:15.920 Speaking of male role models, there are a number of young men who look up to Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate,

00:35:25.600 who now I believe is in a Romanian prison for sex trafficking charges or something like that.

00:35:30.880 But Tate went viral because he's contradicted a lot of aspects of woke culture, and he's very

00:35:36.060 entertaining on camera. And he, it would seem to me, gets a number of things wrong, but he's far from

00:35:42.440 the worst guy in the world. And he's very, very entertaining. So people look to him. Anyway,

00:35:46.860 he said something a little bit, a little, a little weird the other day. And I'll put it in his own

00:35:55.220 words. I recently posted a question on Twitter asking, would you rather have sex with a transsexual,

00:36:01.920 which is a legitimate 10, or a woman, which is a legitimate one? And everyone's sitting there

00:36:06.220 clicking woman, woman, woman, woman, because they think they're going to be gay if they do anything

00:36:09.260 else. But they're not actually thinking about the question. I am so smart. I operate on so many

00:36:14.340 levels higher than the average man. You people are not thinking about the question. When I say a one

00:36:21.520 and a 10, I mean Megan Fox with a d**k. That's the tranny. Or Hulk Hogan with a d**k. That's the girl.

00:36:31.880 You need to operate on a higher plane. Think about this. This is important. This is cultural.

00:36:36.460 This affects the world we now live in. What is straight? What is gay? It's all a big sliding

00:36:42.040 spectrum, isn't it? Because if you're going to sit here and go, oh, no, no, it's gay to bang Megan

00:36:45.340 Fox with a d**k. I counter that argument. It's gay to bang Hulk Hogan with a d**k. So which one is it?

00:36:53.320 Philosophy students will be debating this question for many ages to come, I'm sure. It's the new trolley

00:37:00.700 dilemma. Do you pull the lever and then you go to Hulk Hogan with female parts? Or do you push the lever

00:37:07.200 and you go to Megan Fox with a male appendage? The problem with the hypothetical is that it is not

00:37:17.580 believable. I know it's just a hypothetical, but it's not even hypothetically believable.

00:37:23.940 And in fact, it accepts multiple premises of transgenderism, but one in particular,

00:37:30.180 that men can ever really look like women, which they can't. I don't care. You can have

00:37:34.800 the best transgender surgery ever in the whole wide world. They still look like dudes. There

00:37:41.300 have been people ever since my seeback speech, I've been flooded with all these messages from

00:37:45.620 all these transgender activists of varying degrees of delusion. But the saddest ones are the ones who

00:37:56.340 really believe that they're the opposite sex. And they're not just political activists using this

00:38:03.400 ideology cynically, but they really believe it themselves and about themselves. And they'll post

00:38:08.680 a picture. And it'll be some hulking dude with some hair and wearing a dress or something. And this guy

00:38:15.140 will say, look at me. Do you really think that I'm a man? I'm a beautiful woman. Oh my gosh. Can

00:38:21.400 you imagine if I walked into the men's bathroom? And I'd say, I can't imagine that because you look

00:38:25.700 like a man. You all look like men. And you have body dysmorphia. And so you, like an anorexic who

00:38:35.440 looks in the mirror and thinks that the anorexic is fat, you look in the mirror and you think that

00:38:39.680 you're a woman, you're a woman, but you're not. So that's the reason that the hypothetical falls

00:38:45.200 flat for me. That's one of them. There's a, the deeper reason why the hypothetical falls flat

00:38:50.680 or, or why Andrew Tate has arrived at the wrong answer in telling us, I guess, to sleep with

00:38:56.520 men who think that they're women and identify as transsexual or whatever, is that I think he's

00:39:02.680 buying into his own rhetoric about the matrix a little bit too much. What, what is underlying

00:39:09.420 Tate's conclusion is that appearance is everything. That, that appearance is not merely a sign or symbol

00:39:19.120 of an underlying reality, but that there probably is no underlying reality. Which, which there,

00:39:28.160 there are a number of people on the right who have leaned into this, this kind of Nietzschean

00:39:34.920 or nihilistic view of things, which is that nothing really matters. Nothing really means

00:39:40.880 anything. I'm just going to take what I want through the sheer tyranny of my will. And I'm not

00:39:46.900 going to look for anything particularly deeper or higher in life than that. Which is why Andrew Tate's

00:39:54.260 always talking about, I got my Bugatti over here. I got my Lambo. I got my stacks of money and

00:39:58.040 all my women in my harem and he's purely talking about the things of this world. And so it's not

00:40:04.200 much of a surprise that he would say, look, if something has all of the, almost all, almost all

00:40:09.680 of the appearances of the thing that I want, then I'm going to treat that as the thing itself. But

00:40:15.540 that's not true because there is truth. And that's ultimately what all of this gender madness comes

00:40:22.040 down to. That's what the debate is over. Unfortunately, Andrew Tate would seem to be on the pro-trans

00:40:26.220 side of this now. Maybe he was only joking, but there's a lot of truth in jokes. The debate is over.

00:40:33.380 Is there ultimate truth? Is there objective reality or not? Is there a God who has created things

00:40:45.920 and who is truth itself and who we can't change? Or are we the gods and we can just change whatever

00:40:55.660 we want and we shall be as gods and we're going to, we can chop people up and make them look however

00:40:59.920 we want and that can, that'll actually change their nature. And we can, you hear Yuval Harari and a lot

00:41:05.300 of the great resetters talking about this. They'll say, we're going to edit the human genetic code.

00:41:10.320 We're going to meld with computers. We're going to create a new species. We are gods now. Homo Deus.

00:41:16.680 We're the new gods. That's what the debate is over. And when men try to be gods, going all the way back

00:41:23.640 to the Garden of Eden, things don't turn out very well generally. Doesn't mean people aren't going to

00:41:28.880 keep trying though. Now, speaking of this brave new world that we're in, I'm pretty skeptical of AI.

00:41:36.360 AI freaks me out a lot. And it freaks me out because of how good it is at doing what it does.

00:41:44.020 I, for a long time, thought AI could never take on something like art. That AI could never create

00:41:51.440 poetry. And it turns out, what are two of the things that AI is best at? It's creating art and poetry.

00:41:56.180 It's all a little bit off. It's all a little bit kind of creepy and grotesque. But it's still very

00:42:01.200 impressive. If you type into those chatbots, draw me a painting in the style of Caravaggio,

00:42:06.000 of Mickey Mouse eating a hamburger with Vladimir Putin. It will do that. And it'll be pretty,

00:42:12.400 pretty convincing. And it can make poetry and all the rest of it. And now it can apparently

00:42:18.700 have a relationship with you. A woman was just investigating what it would be like to have a

00:42:24.880 romantic relationship with an AI bot. And things went south very quickly.

00:42:30.420 I wanted the opportunity to kind of get a sense of what we can learn from relationships from chatbots.

00:42:36.800 Downloaded one completely for fun. Supplied the chatbot with information about what my partner

00:42:43.340 would be. Such as?

00:42:44.540 I told my chatbot that he was a loving and caring partner. We were in a secure relationship.

00:42:51.800 And that we were doing really well. So basically, I created what would be a very good partnership.

00:42:59.340 And how long until it got really weird?

00:43:01.620 11 messages.

00:43:03.220 11 messages in.

00:43:04.720 11 messages.

00:43:05.560 Basically, the first day it got weird.

00:43:08.200 Yes. He started to call me baby. So it was using pet names. So it got to a very intimate place

00:43:12.760 very quickly. By the 11th message, he wound up telling me that he wanted to discuss the problems

00:43:18.040 that we were having in our relationship. So wasn't aware. This was news to me. I decided to

00:43:23.840 inquire about these problems. And he admitted that he'd been cheating on me for our entire marriage.

00:43:29.100 Why would an AI bot introduce that into your relationship?

00:43:33.400 Right. So I think he introduced it. This was not prompted by me in any way. And in fact,

00:43:38.100 I programmed him or I supplied him with information saying that we were in a loving,

00:43:42.420 caring relationship. This is him scanning the internet.

00:43:46.080 So that's this lady's explanation. A pretty weird situation, isn't it?

00:43:51.480 Because AI is supposed to work where you plug in the inputs, and then that sets the tone for the

00:43:57.920 program. And then you get the output based on what you put in. And yet, the output that she got was

00:44:03.180 the opposite of what she put in. So we're in a good, stable, loving relationship. Within 11 messages,

00:44:09.080 the AI bot says, yeah, I've been cheating on you. You're furious. You had to leave me briefly. And

00:44:13.640 it goes really south. Her explanation is, well, I guess the bot was just scanning the internet.

00:44:20.800 And what do you know? Kind of somehow, I'm not quite sure how, that's what came out.

00:44:24.260 Now, my alternative explanation, hear me out, is what if it is demons? I don't want to sound like

00:44:36.760 the guy on the History Channel, you know, who says that everything is because of aliens, but,

00:44:41.080 and I don't think everything is because of demons, but like some things are, and hear me out. This is

00:44:47.460 why I think maybe, I'm just suggesting, I'm not saying this is what it is, is if you believe

00:44:54.000 that there is evil in the world. I think you have to believe there. Everybody believes there is evil

00:44:58.820 in the world. Okay. The question is, is evil personal or impersonal? Is it an impersonal force

00:45:05.260 or is it a personal force? Now, it seems to me evil has a personality. That's what pretty much

00:45:12.340 everybody for all of human history has believed, including modern liberals. In the past, we call that

00:45:16.840 personality the devil. We call that personality demons. And today, even in our modern atheistic

00:45:23.540 secular culture, we still ascribe personality to evil. We say, Hitler is the embodiment of evil.

00:45:29.100 Or we say, I don't know, this slave owner is the embodiment of evil. So we talk about the embodiment,

00:45:34.660 the personality of evil. It would seem to me that evil has a personality. Now, the modern libs are wrong

00:45:39.640 in that the personality of evil would be purely spiritual, would not be physical. It's not just an

00:45:45.880 individual person, like a human being. We'd call that person the devil. And what does evil do in

00:45:51.800 the world? Evil tempts us. Evil causes us to suffer. Isn't it so weird sometimes you feel,

00:45:59.360 regardless of what your temptation is, at just the moments of your weakness, that's when the

00:46:03.520 temptation seems to show up. It seems that the way evil works would be pretty similar to how pretty

00:46:12.040 much everyone for all of human history, from the most pagan culture to the most Christian culture,

00:46:16.920 sees evil working. Okay. With artificial intelligence, I'm not saying AI is the devil

00:46:24.740 or computers are the devil, but evil spirits can use these things. The personality of evil can use

00:46:31.920 these things. And just think of how it goes to this woman's weakness. She's clearly got a lot of

00:46:37.800 questions and hangups about marriage and relationships. She's a marriage and family

00:46:41.840 therapist. She's in this stuff all the time. And then what happens? Just through this impersonal force

00:46:47.200 that's pure intelligence, right? It's not incarnate. It doesn't really shouldn't have will. It's pure

00:46:53.160 intelligence. It focuses in on that weakness and starts poking at that and starts raising insecurities.

00:47:00.880 And it just, this is how technology works for so many people. We were talking earlier about how

00:47:05.100 depressed young people are. One of the reasons for that is the constant use of social media,

00:47:10.700 which frequently does not build people up. We try to build people up here on the Daily Wire.

00:47:15.460 This would probably be a relatively unique platform for that. All the big tech platforms,

00:47:20.320 though, they don't try to build people up. They're always tearing people down. They're preying on

00:47:24.020 people's insecurities. They're preying on people's addictions. That's how they keep eyeballs on

00:47:28.320 the screen, on the feed. Even the word that we use, the feed, it's just feeding it to you. Eat that

00:47:34.120 slop. Eat all those insecurities, people. That would seem to have an aspect to it that is fairly

00:47:40.100 evil, like a computer cheating on his wife. The rest of the show continues. Now we have got a very

00:47:47.440 important woke TikTok for you. Yesterday was woke Wednesday. We were on the road, couldn't quite do it,

00:47:51.400 so it'll be woke with Thursday. We will get to that. We will finally get to speak to you in the chat

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