The Michael Knowles Show - March 10, 2023


Ep. 1200 - Trans Dudes Dominate Women's History Month


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After years of speculation, the government finally admitted that the deadly Ebola virus could have come from a lab in China. But how did they get there? And why did it take so long to admit it? And what happened to the government scientists who supported the theory?

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00:00:30.460 Why did it take so long for the government to admit that COVID almost certainly came from a Chinese lab?
00:00:37.460 It isn't because scientists are just now considering that theory.
00:00:41.560 Plenty of scientists have openly embraced the Wuhan lab origin theory from the very beginning.
00:00:45.960 It isn't even that it's only now that government scientists are beginning to take the theory seriously.
00:00:53.600 There have always been government scientists on the lab leak side of the debate from the earliest days.
00:00:58.200 No, according to former CDC director Robert Redfield, the reason that the government is only now beginning to admit the likely source of COVID
00:01:08.520 is that the government scientists who supported the lab leak theory were previously frozen out of the conversation.
00:01:16.200 Dr. Redfield, did you agree in your opinion with Dr. Anderson's assessment at the time that this virus did look engineered?
00:01:26.600 I was concerned because of the presence of the fur and cleavage site that we've talked about.
00:01:34.300 Why did this virus have the arginine sequences for human there, not bat? 0.99
00:01:40.480 It was very disconcerting to me.
00:01:42.080 It looked like this virus was engineered.
00:01:45.080 Was this, what you're observing and speaking of, is this something that would be in line with gain-of-function research
00:01:51.900 and the capabilities it would provide to the virus?
00:01:55.680 Yeah.
00:01:55.960 Did you know of any evidence that they had found within three days from February 1st to February 4th
00:02:02.120 to be able to confirm that it was not created in a lab?
00:02:05.760 As I mentioned earlier, unfortunately, I was excluded from those conversations,
00:02:11.160 which I found retroactively very disappointed, since I was obviously a virologist and very engaged.
00:02:17.760 And I actually had asked Jeremy Frar, Tony Fauci, and Tedros to have these conversations.
00:02:22.400 And then to be excluded, I found unusual.
00:02:26.980 So the CDC director, who believed that this very likely could have been a lab-created virus,
00:02:34.700 he was frozen out of the conversation by all of the top dogs in public health, in government, including Tony Fauci.
00:02:41.220 Okay, that's what Redfield says.
00:02:42.780 What does Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci, what does he have to say about it?
00:02:48.100 So let me ask you about what Dr. Robert Redfield is charging, that you froze him out,
00:02:54.040 that you didn't want him there, you didn't want him at these meetings, and that was deliberate.
00:02:58.920 You know, Neil, I really feel badly about that because I know Bob a long time.
00:03:03.000 He is totally and unequivocally incorrect in what he's saying that I excluded him.
00:03:09.600 I had nothing to do with who would be on that call.
00:03:13.600 That call was organized by a group of evolutionary virologists in order to discuss the possibility
00:03:20.100 that this might actually be a virus that was actually engineered.
00:03:24.680 So I didn't put anybody on the list of that call, nor did I take anybody else.
00:03:30.500 So it's really unfortunate that in a public setting like the hearing that Dr. Redfield
00:03:36.100 made that absolutely incorrect statement.
00:03:39.020 Even if I hadn't before, I now completely, 100% believe Dr. Redfield.
00:03:45.780 The reason is that Dr. Fauci's classic tell came out.
00:03:49.420 When Dr. Fauci uses phrases like, totally, completely, 100% incorrect, as he did, you
00:03:57.180 might remember, when furgering himself in front of Rand Paul, you are incorrect, Senator.
00:04:01.860 You are incorrect.
00:04:03.000 Well, actually, Dr. Fauci, I have all of the emails and documents right here.
00:04:07.820 Well, well, okay.
00:04:09.480 Well, all right, never mind.
00:04:10.460 All the other things you say are 100% completely incorrect.
00:04:12.940 That's when you know Dr. Fauci is lying.
00:04:15.580 Though, another good way to tell when Dr. Fauci is lying is when his lips are moving.
00:04:21.200 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:04:21.940 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:04:30.320 Welcome back to the show.
00:04:32.420 My favorite comment yesterday is from Tweef, who says,
00:04:36.140 I used to be a liberal and can confirm I am happier now as a conservative.
00:04:41.140 Many such cases.
00:04:42.700 Many such cases of that.
00:04:44.440 I think it's kind of just built in to those views of the world.
00:04:49.700 Because the liberal view of the world is a view that is just generally kind of pissed
00:04:55.780 off about everything.
00:04:56.960 It's the view, to quote John F. Kennedy, that some people see things that are and say, why?
00:05:02.600 I dream things that never were and say, why not?
00:05:05.280 Which is the view of the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
00:05:08.420 That's what Kennedy is quoting.
00:05:10.260 And he's quoting it because liberalism looks at the world, looks at reality, and says,
00:05:14.760 I don't like reality.
00:05:15.920 I want this fantastical, delusional thing that seems really great in my own head.
00:05:20.940 And when you live according to delusion, you're not going to be very happy.
00:05:24.460 Which was actually the topic of my speech last night at the University of Buffalo,
00:05:28.440 which had all sorts of fireworks.
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00:06:43.400 The truth is coming out.
00:06:46.860 The truth about all sorts of government operations over the last few years.
00:06:51.960 Certainly the truth about COVID, which you and I knew from the beginning.
00:06:56.420 You know I hate to say I told you so, and many of you told me so and each other so.
00:07:00.080 Because it was so obvious from the beginning that if you've got a major biolab down the street from where allegedly this virus came from,
00:07:11.320 and the virus has all these strange features that we haven't seen before,
00:07:15.800 probably did not come from a bad batch of bat soup, might have had something to do with the biolab. 0.98
00:07:21.020 Then when you found out that Fauci and the National Institutes of Health were actually funding this kind of research on bat coronaviruses,
00:07:29.800 funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology, all of a sudden it seemed pretty obvious.
00:07:33.980 But that's just starting to come out now.
00:07:35.740 Another lie that has been dispelled, some truth that's finally coming out now,
00:07:40.120 is that what we were told about January 6th, the worst day in the history of the republic,
00:07:46.080 what you were told about that was largely not true.
00:07:49.840 The handful of videos you saw from January 6th were selected to be the most violent, scary videos you could possibly see.
00:07:59.720 But then when you look at 41,000 hours of security camera footage from that day,
00:08:06.640 you find out that the image presented in those videos that the liberal media exclusively had put forward
00:08:13.260 did not accurately reflect what happened.
00:08:15.900 The clearest example of this would be that the QAnon shaman, you know, the guy with the horn hat, 0.59
00:08:21.500 he was not this maniac, revolutionary leader running through the Capitol as the police tried to chase him.
00:08:28.640 The police escorted him through.
00:08:31.840 They tried to open locked doors for him.
00:08:34.620 And there were many such cases of that.
00:08:36.940 So how do we know that?
00:08:37.800 We know that because the republicans won control of the house again,
00:08:40.960 which meant that Kevin McCarthy was able to get control of 41,000 hours of security camera footage.
00:08:45.900 He gave that to Tucker Carlson and Tucker's investigators.
00:08:49.580 Tucker released that footage.
00:08:50.880 Coincidentally, I was on the show the night that he released it.
00:08:53.120 So I'm sitting there in the green room.
00:08:54.780 I usually don't pay attention to the shows before I go on them.
00:08:57.460 And I'm spellbound.
00:08:58.720 I'm looking at this footage.
00:08:59.660 I said, oh, my goodness gracious.
00:09:01.700 What we were told is not really true.
00:09:03.760 So how is the White House reacting to this?
00:09:05.360 Green Jean-Pierre says that you need to stop believing your own lying eyes.
00:09:14.080 When you look at the depositions that have been out there recently,
00:09:17.880 it even states from Fox News leadership that they do not see Tucker Carlson's show as news or even truthful.
00:09:25.840 That is coming from the Fox leadership.
00:09:28.220 That's not coming from me.
00:09:29.320 That is coming from them.
00:09:30.440 And I also would quote, I'll paraphrase here, what the chief of Capitol Police said.
00:09:35.900 He said, when you watch, essentially, when you watch Tucker Carlson as it relates to January 6th,
00:09:41.200 it is misleading and it is misinformation as with the conclusion of what happened on January 6th,
00:09:48.900 the attacks that happened.
00:09:50.160 As you saw from the president's statement, 140 officers were injured.
00:09:55.900 Nearly 140 officers were injured on that day.
00:09:58.820 It was an attack on our democracy.
00:10:00.840 It was an attack on our constitution.
00:10:02.580 And you cannot whitewash that.
00:10:05.300 Tucker Carlson cannot whitewash that.
00:10:07.380 Anyone who doesn't see with their own eyes what occurred cannot whitewash that.
00:10:12.320 And so the president is going to stand with the police officers.
00:10:14.940 He's going to stand for truth.
00:10:16.680 And clearly that is not what Tucker Carlson believes in.
00:10:23.660 If you've seen it with your own eyes, you can't whitewash that, right?
00:10:27.200 The issue for you guys is that right now people are seeing this with their own eyes for the first time.
00:10:32.580 They're seeing lots and lots of security camera footage and they're seeing that the story that you presented is not true.
00:10:38.780 Even down to the police officers.
00:10:40.280 We were told police officers were killed on January 6th.
00:10:42.760 That was just completely made up.
00:10:44.240 And the newspapers that reported that had to correct those stories.
00:10:47.940 A lot of newspapers making a lot of corrections in recent times.
00:10:51.000 But, of course, the story runs on the first page.
00:10:53.680 The correction runs on page Z, 10,000.
00:10:55.700 So many fewer people see that.
00:10:57.620 But that's not my issue here.
00:10:59.520 My issue is not that the White House is criticizing Tucker Carlson.
00:11:03.640 Of course, that's going to happen.
00:11:05.020 It's not that the White House is trying to spin and trying to tell people not to pay any attention to the new evidence that's come out.
00:11:12.440 My issue is that last line.
00:11:15.000 Tucker Carlson, he doesn't believe in the truth.
00:11:18.680 Tucker Carlson, he's not on the side of the truth.
00:11:23.840 This coming from the libs who constantly insist that objective truth does not exist.
00:11:32.540 That's my big problem with it.
00:11:34.260 This was the topic, one of the topics of my speech last night at the University of Buffalo.
00:11:39.220 The question of transgenderism, the question of feminism, the question of all these ideologies,
00:11:44.520 it seems to me, would be, is it true or is it false?
00:11:49.180 And yet, whenever you bring this up to a liberal, they'll say, oh, who cares?
00:11:54.860 They'll say, who cares?
00:11:56.220 They'll say, what is truth?
00:11:58.180 They'll say, whose truth?
00:11:59.220 Is it your truth?
00:12:00.080 Is it my truth?
00:12:01.560 They'll say, there's no objective truth. 0.98
00:12:03.280 That's a construction of the evil white male patriarchy. 0.91
00:12:07.520 How dare you use the T word in here? 0.76
00:12:11.300 Just much lamer versions of the same cynical question going all the way back to Pontius Pilate,
00:12:18.940 who, when Christ says, I am the truth, Pontius Pilate says, what is truth?
00:12:23.640 That's what the libs say.
00:12:26.500 And now, Corrine Jean-Pierre and the White House has the audacity to say,
00:12:31.100 Tucker Carlson doesn't believe in the truth.
00:12:33.800 Half this country doesn't believe in the truth.
00:12:35.480 And it's not our half.
00:12:36.700 It's not the conservative half.
00:12:38.020 We're the ones who are just trying to keep hold of any semblance of the truth at all.
00:12:43.640 While the libs say that boys are girls and girls are boys,
00:12:47.400 and up is down and black is white.
00:12:50.560 We're just saying, no, come on.
00:12:52.440 They'll say, no.
00:12:53.840 In this modern world, anything can be anything.
00:12:56.760 In the world of postmodernism, in the world of Derrida, in the world of Foucault,
00:13:02.960 in the world of that, students are taught now, they are educated to believe that there is no such thing as outside of the text.
00:13:12.480 It's a famous line from literary criticism in our postmodern crazy era.
00:13:19.100 There's nothing outside of the text.
00:13:21.460 There's nothing, there's no objective reality.
00:13:24.180 It's all just the meaning that we make of it, man.
00:13:26.600 It's all just whatever you think.
00:13:28.240 You think you're a woman? 1.00
00:13:29.380 Well, you're a woman. 1.00
00:13:30.400 You think you're a cat? 0.93
00:13:31.720 I guess you're a cat.
00:13:32.880 Who's to say?
00:13:34.520 Who's to say?
00:13:35.000 But Tucker Carlson doesn't believe in the truth because he's playing videos of what actually happened for his audience.
00:13:41.780 Hello, pot. 1.00
00:13:42.420 Hello, pot. 1.00
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00:14:58.400 I mentioned I was at the University of Buffalo last night.
00:15:01.960 Had a great time.
00:15:03.320 Really, really packed house.
00:15:05.260 Unfortunately, we were not able to get a larger venue.
00:15:08.480 So the speech was in a venue that I think was, we were only permitted to seat 300 people.
00:15:15.300 We were allowed to do a little bit of standing room on the side.
00:15:17.640 But there were 1,000 people outside.
00:15:19.840 And half of the 1,000 people were there screaming their heads off and saying that I should be killed and shrieking all sorts of bizarre obscenities.
00:15:29.800 And then the other half was there just to come in and see the speech.
00:15:33.500 Most of the people who made it in to see the speech were on the open-minded, inquisitive, calm, normal side of things.
00:15:41.240 There were a handful of protesters who were sitting there.
00:15:45.180 And then almost the moment I opened my mouth, they started shrieking, trans lives matter, trans lives matter. 0.98
00:15:50.460 And I said, okay, I think I got the point.
00:15:53.660 And then the police had to try to haul them out of there because they just wouldn't move.
00:15:58.020 They only knew about six or seven words.
00:16:00.500 So it was not a particularly interesting dialogue.
00:16:05.040 But we survived.
00:16:06.520 You can watch the speech right now on the YAF YouTube channel.
00:16:10.440 The thing that most struck me about going to the University of Buffalo where there was this major, major protest.
00:16:17.320 Pretty much every news organization from the Buffalo area had come in.
00:16:21.100 There were multiple.
00:16:22.000 There was a press conference the day before about what I might say that the university president had to answer for this.
00:16:29.880 The SUNY, the State University of New York, the whole system of SUNY schools, board of trustees and chancellor, released a statement about how terrible I am, which did not speak very well of SUNY because they apparently didn't understand the basic meaning of my words.
00:16:45.200 But all of this, I'm not just saying, you know, it was a big show and you should all show up to the next show, though obviously you should.
00:16:51.140 The reason I mention all of this is because there was so much press.
00:16:56.560 There was so much publicity.
00:16:57.780 There was so much hubbub.
00:16:58.940 And then when it got to the questioners, when it got to the Q&A part at the end, the liberal critics who were in the room didn't know what I believe.
00:17:08.760 That was what was so striking.
00:17:12.460 There could not have been more publicity about the things that I say and think that spurred all of this protest.
00:17:21.140 Going back last week to my speech at CPAC all the way up to the event last night.
00:17:26.400 People were being inundated in the Buffalo area with information about what I have allegedly said and believe.
00:17:32.740 And yet when the questioners got up there, they had no idea what I thought.
00:17:35.880 A guy gets up there, he says, Michael, you have said that sex and gender is purely a physical factor of biological sex.
00:17:47.500 Now, I'm just using that one example because I've talked about it on the show quite a lot.
00:17:52.000 How many times have I said I don't think that human nature is only about biology?
00:17:55.900 I think that man is body and spirit.
00:17:57.760 I think that gender expression is a legitimate way of talking about a real phenomenon, which is the metaphysical answer to our physical nature.
00:18:09.880 And how often do I talk about that all the time?
00:18:12.540 I frequently say I'm a little different than other conservative commentators on this issue because I think that when people talk about gender expression,
00:18:20.700 they're really just trying to talk about the soul, which is obviously an important part of human nature.
00:18:24.580 So I talk about this all the time.
00:18:26.320 I'm not saying that these protesters need to listen to every episode of my show or even any episode of my show.
00:18:30.980 But my question is, if you've never listened to a thing that I've actually said, why would you show up screaming, protesting, saying that people have to kill me?
00:18:39.200 Why?
00:18:40.700 Rush Limbaugh used to have this.
00:18:43.120 People used to believe.
00:18:44.880 They earnestly believed that they knew what Rush Limbaugh had believed and had said.
00:18:49.500 None of these people had ever listened to one single episode of the Rush Limbaugh show.
00:18:56.660 So how did they think that they knew what he thought?
00:18:59.520 Because they heard three words on MSNBC.
00:19:03.280 Because they saw some press release from Media Matters.
00:19:06.880 Half the time, the news clip or the press release didn't even accurately reflect Rush's words.
00:19:13.040 But they formed this image in their mind and it just wasn't true.
00:19:16.680 And coincidentally, this was the topic of the speech last night on feminism and how feminism gave us transgenderism. 0.72
00:19:26.500 Since everybody's talking about transgenderism now. 0.99
00:19:30.000 The transgender activists who say that we're killing everybody and we're evil and we're terrible, we need to be shut down and shut up and locked up. 0.99
00:19:39.560 They're convinced that we're wrong. 0.99
00:19:41.180 Now, we who hold to the view that everybody held of human nature from prehistory until approximately five minutes ago.
00:19:51.780 We are definitely totally hatefully wrong.
00:19:54.960 And they, the people who hold a view that was invented within the last eight years as a matter of public life.
00:20:02.860 They are totally 100% correct.
00:20:04.820 And they know that they're correct because some man feels that he is a woman or some woman feels that she is a man. 0.83
00:20:10.340 But the question you've got to ask is, is it possible you're wrong?
00:20:16.580 This was my question.
00:20:17.880 I talked to some protesters after, we'll hopefully be able to get some of that video up.
00:20:21.980 I talked to protesters after the speech.
00:20:24.440 And they kept telling me things that I believe that I don't actually believe.
00:20:28.080 That I haven't said, that I've regularly contradicted.
00:20:30.700 And I think if you can be so wrong about that, if you can be so wrong about this relatively minor political event that you've spent the last week wasting all of your time plotting, trying to get shut down, screaming, making posters, showing up, threatening people.
00:20:47.700 If you could be wrong about that, is it possible that you are also wrong when you, a man, say that you are a woman?
00:20:56.140 Is that possible?
00:20:56.860 That's my only question for them.
00:20:58.140 Now, speaking of sex and gender and people being very, very wrong, I wanted to get to this yesterday, but we'll at least get to it now.
00:21:06.360 Jill Biden, the first lady of the United States, for International Women's Day, gave out an International Women of Courage Award to a hulking dude.
00:21:19.800 In Argentina, Alba Ruada is a transgender woman who was kicked out of classrooms, barred for sitting for exams, refused job opportunities, subjected to violence, and rejected by her family. 0.96
00:21:34.060 But in the face of these challenges, she worked to end violence and discrimination against the LGBTQI plus community in Argentina.
00:21:41.880 So she obviously didn't do anything because she is a dude, and I don't really mean to disparage the guy too much because he's obviously not playing with a totally full deck here, but this is really embarrassing.
00:21:59.040 Last night at Buffalo, I gave an argument that was more historical and philosophical as to why these sorts of things are wrong.
00:22:10.320 In the Q&A, I tried to give really precise answers, even going all the way to anthropology and theology about why transgenderism is wrong.
00:22:20.480 I'd like to go to a little bit of a simpler answer right now, because when we watch that, we know intuitively that it is absurd and embarrassing.
00:22:32.980 Because we have a wisdom of repugnance, to borrow a phrase from Leon Kass, and when we look at a man, obviously in some kind of turmoil and desperation,
00:22:44.420 dressing up as a chick, and receiving this award, and got a smile on his face, and everyone in the room feels kind of awkward about it, that's really embarrassing.
00:22:54.440 And it's embarrassing for the person, and he should have help, and it's embarrassing for our country, because this is on a national stage.
00:23:00.240 And the rest of the world is looking at us, and we're supposed to be the greatest, most advanced, most serious, most formidable country in the world,
00:23:08.060 and we are an embarrassment, because right now, we can't even tell the difference between dudes and chicks.
00:23:13.900 That's how profoundly confused we are. And for that fact alone, I think we have a right to say no to this.
00:23:20.580 It's really embarrassing. Everybody involved is embarrassed by it.
00:23:25.200 In our modern culture, when we want to overcome embarrassment, we just try to push through it.
00:23:30.960 We say, if you feel shame, you should just tell yourself not to feel shame. Don't allow anybody to shame you.
00:23:38.260 Shame, it can be a very good thing. It's a good feeling, because it tells us,
00:23:43.120 maybe we've done something wrong. Maybe we're on the wrong path. We should embrace that shame and then
00:23:49.680 turn things around and go in the other direction. It'd be like turning off all your nerve endings.
00:23:56.260 You say, oh, I feel so much better now. Yeah, maybe, but when you put your hand on a hot stove,
00:23:59.320 you're going to set your whole body on fire. You need those nerve endings. You need a little bit
00:24:03.240 of that shame. You need to look at that and admit what we all know is true, which is,
00:24:06.460 it's embarrassing. Speaking of the way Democrats are governing, they're very, very focused on giving
00:24:13.880 medals to men who pretend to be women on the Women's Day. Not very good at stopping 100,000 0.52
00:24:20.340 Americans a year from killing themselves on drug overdoses, on drugs that are pouring over the
00:24:25.520 border from Mexico. There was just a vote on this. We talked about the fentanyl crisis last week.
00:24:30.180 The fentanyl crisis, not your regular drug crisis. In the year 2000, about 20,000 Americans died
00:24:37.440 of drug overdoses. In the year 2022, about 108,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. This is
00:24:46.060 driven largely by fentanyl. The fentanyl is coming from China. Then it goes through Mexico. The cartels
00:24:51.060 send it across our effectively open border. And then our friends and relatives and loved ones kill
00:24:56.980 themselves, not because they're going out and saying, hey, I'll take a bag of fentanyl, please,
00:25:01.960 but because they're buying other drugs that maybe they shouldn't be buying, but that would not
00:25:06.160 otherwise be deadly. And then the drugs are laced with fentanyl and then they overdose and die.
00:25:10.520 The country is being poisoned at a rate 5x what we had in the year 2000. So obviously we need to stop
00:25:16.840 this, right? One really basic way to stop this would be to increase the penalties for selling
00:25:23.740 fentanyl, right? To increase the severity with which we consider fentanyl. So a vote came up
00:25:32.140 on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to reclassify fentanyl as a Schedule 1 substance.
00:25:39.960 I thought it already would be a Schedule 1 substance. It's extraordinarily poisonous,
00:25:44.880 unlike basically anything we've ever seen in the country. And the Democrats shot it down.
00:25:49.020 The Democrats shot this down. Or they at least tried to shoot this down. They voted against it.
00:25:58.900 The committee's health subcommittee approved the bill, so that's the good news, in a 17 to 10 vote.
00:26:03.940 Every Democrat, except for Representative Angie Craig, voted against the measure. So why would they
00:26:10.460 vote against this? Thankfully, the Republicans have control of the House, but why would the Democrats
00:26:13.800 vote against this? Well, because if you make fentanyl a Schedule 1 substance, that's going to
00:26:20.040 increase mandatory minimum sentences for selling this. And the Democrats don't want to do this.
00:26:25.380 Democrats want to go light on drugs. Democrats want to go light on crime. Democrats want to abolish
00:26:30.800 the prisons. This is the backwards world we're living in. Democrats are pleading. They say,
00:26:36.420 we need mercy. You shouldn't be so judgmental. We shouldn't be so harsh. We need mercy for the
00:26:43.600 drug dealers killing people. But mercy to the drug dealers who are killing people right now
00:26:50.020 is cruelty to the relatively innocent people who are purchasing the drugs and being killed
00:26:57.100 by accidental overdoses. This is a line from Adam Smith, which doesn't tell the whole story
00:27:02.080 about mercy and justice, but gives you a lot to think about when we're talking about this issue
00:27:08.320 of the drug overdose crisis. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent, which is why we cannot
00:27:15.220 have a justice system that is pure mercy. Yes, executives have the pardon power that's good
00:27:21.980 because you can think of justice and mercy not exactly as two totally opposing forces, but maybe as
00:27:29.420 two partners in a dance waltzing. Same way we think about will and grace, not the gay sitcom from 0.99
00:27:35.800 the nineties, but will meaning our free will and grace being the free grace of God, not as opposing
00:27:41.040 forces, but as partners in a waltz. And unfortunately, right now in our country, the way the libs have
00:27:47.300 governed, mercy is, is just doing a tap dance in front of everybody. Justice is completely off to the
00:27:53.880 side. Justice has left the party and mercy is just doing a soft shoe. And unfortunately,
00:27:58.700 all of that mercy to all these guilty people is leading to the deaths of a hundred thousand
00:28:03.920 Americans. If we just close that border, you wouldn't even have to worry about making fentanyl
00:28:08.540 a schedule one substance because the fentanyl's all coming across the border. But no, no, no.
00:28:13.860 The Democrats say we need mercy, mercy for the illegal aliens, for the drug cartels, for MS-13. We need
00:28:21.240 mercy for them. Well, mercy to them is cruelty to the American citizens who are supposed to have a right
00:28:27.120 to govern their own country. Mercy to them is cruelty to the women and girls who are smuggled 0.99
00:28:31.160 across the border, 60 to 80% of whom are raped along the journey. Mercy to them is cruelty to
00:28:35.900 the Americans who are dying of the fentanyl overdoses that come as a result of our open border.
00:28:41.480 Who's really merciful? Who's really, who's really just? If the, if this is not a good use of the
00:28:49.120 government, what is, I sometimes wonder this when, when we talk about occasionally putting troops on
00:28:56.100 the border and that, that topic is always laughed out of the room. You can't put American troops on
00:29:01.400 our Southern border. I say, if an open border that is currently in an invasion that is being led by a
00:29:11.500 satanic criminal cartel called MS-13, among other cartels, if that is not a good use of the American
00:29:19.620 military, what is the point of the American military? With the American military everywhere in the world,
00:29:25.460 we can't put them on the Southern border? No, no, we can't. The real reason why we can't, of course, is that
00:29:30.880 the elites don't want that because the elites want an open border because the Democrats want more voters
00:29:36.680 and the Republicans want cheap labor. At least the Chamber of Commerce Republicans who have lost a
00:29:42.700 lot of, a lot of influence in the Republican party. But that's why, if they wanted to fix that
00:29:46.600 problem, they could fix it in two seconds. But the language they dress it up in is the language of
00:29:50.200 mercy for these people. Okay. Well, that's, that would be, that would be big government. Yeah.
00:29:55.500 Government exists within its proper limits. If this is not within the proper limits of government,
00:30:00.540 then government does not exist. Okay. This is a good opportunity for the Republican party.
00:30:06.680 It's a good opportunity for the Republican party because as I said, for most of my life,
00:30:11.580 the Republican party was the party of the big business, chamber of commerce, corporate,
00:30:19.540 rich uncle penny bags. Democrats, they were the party of the working man. And over the last
00:30:23.740 seven, eight years, really because of Donald Trump, that has flipped. That's no longer the case.
00:30:29.700 So J.D. Vance, who ran on a relatively populist platform for Senate, J.D. Vance wrote,
00:30:36.460 hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance, who says, we're going to be the party of Pittsburgh, not Paris. Ted Cruz,
00:30:41.080 I think coined that line and J.D. has run with it. He has suggested that we now take this advantage.
00:30:49.580 And the key place to take this advantage is this town that has been totally ignored by the Democrats
00:30:56.440 and largely ignored by the Republicans. That town would be East Palestine, Ohio. Before we get to
00:31:04.240 it, there's a line in Proverbs that says, without a vision, the people perish. That is absolutely true, 1.00
00:31:12.020 not just in a spiritual sense, but in a tangible, physical sense too. So many people, especially
00:31:19.000 young men, are completely lost today because they don't know what they want to achieve or how to even
00:31:24.440 figure it out. Jordan Peterson has a fantastic and surprisingly simple solution to this in his
00:31:29.560 new five-part series, Vision and Destiny on Daily Wire Plus. Here is a clip.
00:31:34.480 If I could have what I needed and wanted, accepting that I need and want certain things,
00:31:41.780 what would that look like? And then you'll get a fantasy because that's how the revelatory process
00:31:47.280 works. Say, well, you know, it might be not a very well-developed fantasy to begin with, but it
00:31:53.600 doesn't matter. Get it down, write it down. So I probably like this. I probably like this. I might like
00:31:57.600 this. This would be good. It's like, get it all down. It's your sort of provisional vision of the
00:32:03.800 beckoning future. And then that program asks you to do the reverse. It's like, okay, imagine this
00:32:09.300 instead. You take all your bad habits, these micro-personalities that are trying to sink you,
00:32:15.340 and they get the upper hand. And where are you in five years? It's like, well, you're on the street.
00:32:20.520 You're a prostitute. You're a drug addict. You've alienated everyone. You're a narcissist. 1.00
00:32:24.700 You're successful, but lonely. You're work-obsessed. I don't know what your 0.97
00:32:29.700 pattern of temptation and pathology is, but you probably know. So you outline a little
00:32:35.060 vision of hell. It's like, okay, I'm not going there, and I'd rather go here. Now you've got
00:32:40.600 orientation, right, between the ultimate bottom and the ultimate up.
00:32:48.440 The fourth episode of Vision and Destiny is out today. New episodes are releasing every week.
00:32:52.720 It's all exclusive for Daily Wire Plus members. Join now, dailywire.com slash subscribe to watch
00:32:59.080 Vision and Destiny. To briefly wrap up that point, J.D. Vance says that right now we have an opportunity
00:33:08.420 to increase regulation on railways. J.D. Vance is co-sponsoring legislation with Josh Hawley,
00:33:17.280 Marco Rubio, allegedly John Fetterman, but obviously John Fetterman is in a hospital right now,
00:33:21.540 Bob Casey and Sherrod Brown, to increase public safety requirements for trains carrying hazardous
00:33:26.640 materials, among other things. Republicans generally don't like regulation because so
00:33:32.040 much regulation is unnecessary and burdensome and not very helpful. That doesn't mean we hate
00:33:37.060 regulation per se. We're skeptical of government action. That doesn't mean we're against the
00:33:42.040 government per se. And Republicans, I think, very foolishly have ceded all of that territory to
00:33:47.660 the Democrats for 30, 40 years so that they can pretend to care about the people when they, in
00:33:51.620 fact, do not. Don't let them cede that. They have become the party of the plutocrats, of the ruling 0.95
00:33:58.620 class. The most powerful interest in this country, almost to a man, are Democrats. Okay, that gives
00:34:04.660 them a lot of power, but at least we can get the PR win here and we can be on the side of the people.
00:34:10.940 That's a nice place to be. Speaking of the people, let's talk to some of the people.
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00:34:23.160 voice mailbag.
00:34:25.020 Hi, Michael. So first off, my fiancé is a cologne connoisseur of sorts and really enjoys
00:34:32.040 trying out different fragrances. And since he started listening to your show, he's always
00:34:37.560 wanted to know what cologne you wear. He always says that you can tell a lot about a person based
00:34:43.400 on what fragrance they wear. Secondly, on a more serious note, I'm curious what you think
00:34:48.960 the role of the government is on issues relating to social media and the risk that they pose to
00:34:54.320 children and national security at large. I know that politicians like Senator Hawley from Missouri
00:35:00.560 have introduced legislation to ban platforms like TikTok nationally and institute age limit
00:35:06.600 requirements on social media platforms. Personally, I think something like this is great,
00:35:11.640 but some of my Republican friends think that it's not the role of the government and it's
00:35:15.900 something that should be left up to the parents. What do you think about this issue? Thanks again
00:35:20.740 for all you do. Love the show.
00:35:25.300 Great question. I'll take the second one first, then I'll get to the first one.
00:35:28.460 Yes, some of the Republicans who just have this reflexive response, anything the government does
00:35:35.460 is bad. They will say the government has no role here in social media. But the sad fact is the government
00:35:43.140 has a profound role in social media. The government uses social media as its censorship arm. We know this
00:35:51.940 because of the Twitter files. We know this because of leaked information out of Facebook from Mark
00:35:58.020 Zuckerberg himself. We know, for instance, on the Hunter Biden laptop story and on the Russia hoax and
00:36:03.160 all the rest of it, that the DOJ, the FBI were leaning in and telling social media to put their
00:36:08.420 thumb on the scales for Democrats. We know that. We know that social media is permitted to exist
00:36:13.700 because it exploits a legal loophole in the Communications Decency Act. A lot of involvement
00:36:18.080 from big government there. We know that the tech executives have regular meetings with the government.
00:36:22.700 So the question is not, will the government be involved in big tech? I mean, we're talking about
00:36:26.680 basically three companies that control the flow of information around our country. Obviously,
00:36:31.240 the government's going to have some kind of interest in that. The question is not, will the
00:36:34.300 government be involved? The question is, how will the government be involved? Right now, because
00:36:38.380 Republicans want to bury our heads in the sand, we allow only the Democrats to be involved
00:36:43.020 in big tech and how big tech operates. And we allow the usually liberal executives at big tech
00:36:51.160 to control speech in our public square. Which, if you control speech in the public square in a
00:36:55.720 republic, means you control the whole political order. Or are we going to engage? It's not a good
00:37:00.640 use of the government. Right now, an American citizen cannot buy tobacco if he is under the
00:37:07.720 age of 18. I actually think they raised it. I think, I believe, as of a few years ago, an American
00:37:14.580 cannot buy tobacco under the age of 21. But an American is allowed to go onto TikTok, Facebook,
00:37:22.620 Twitter, Google, all the rest of it. It's allowed to go on all these social media platforms and have
00:37:27.900 their head poisoned a lot more than if you had a few puffs of tobacco at any age whatsoever. That is
00:37:33.700 obviously insane. It poisons people's minds. It gets them hooked on porn, for one. But all sorts of
00:37:41.180 other crazy ideas and terrible things that are being presented to kids. So I think there totally should
00:37:47.000 be an age limit to that. We're always talking about banning TikTok. Yeah, sure, TikTok's bad.
00:37:50.780 But what about Facebook? What about Twitter? What about Instagram? What about the American ones? 0.81
00:37:57.760 We don't like TikTok, because TikTok is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:38:02.100 But Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, I guess not Twitter anymore, but at least the first three,
00:38:09.480 they're controlled by the American libs. And they want to poison our kids' minds with all sorts of 0.98
00:38:14.280 crazy ideas, just like the Chinese do. In some cases, the American libs have crazier ideas than even 1.00
00:38:19.220 the Chinese communists do on things like gender ideology. So why are we not regulating all of 1.00
00:38:24.940 this? Yeah, it's fine. Regulate TikTok. But don't let Facebook and all the rest of them off the hook
00:38:30.540 either. As to the cologne, I used to wear cologne a lot. Sweet little Alisa on her health kick has 0.92
00:38:35.880 convinced me that fragrances are just poison. They're not quite as bad as seed oils, but they're
00:38:40.080 not great for you. So I still wear cologne sometimes, but not all the time. And the cologne that I wear
00:38:44.680 usually is Armani Code, because I was once a young Italian boy in New York, and we don't break our
00:38:54.420 habits very easily. But the other cologne that I recently ran out of was this cologne a friend of
00:38:59.100 mine, a lawyer friend who's done very well for himself. He got this as a gift from a client.
00:39:04.600 It's called Julescence Blue, Passion of the Desert Shake. And a client of his got it in Abu Dhabi or
00:39:13.140 something. And it was extremely expensive. I think it was something like $800 a bottle.
00:39:18.480 And you would spray it on. And it didn't burn. There were no, sometimes colognes can have that 1.00
00:39:24.140 kind of nasty after feeling or after taste. You put it on and you smelled like you were a Persian carpet 1.00
00:39:31.260 that had been just wrapped up inside an Armenian kitchen that had been thrown in the casinos of
00:39:40.200 Dubai. I guess they don't have casinos. In the nightclubs of Dubai, you just, and then wrapped
00:39:45.160 up in a nice falafel patty. It was very, very pungent. And I really liked it. And I wish I had
00:39:50.720 more. So if anybody, listen, if anybody wants to buy me $800 Arabian cologne, I'm more than welcome.
00:39:57.340 Next question.
00:39:59.280 Hey, Michael. My name's Josephine. And my fiance and I were discussing our vows the other day. And I asked
00:40:03.960 him his thoughts on including and obey on my side of vows as it is more traditional. He is Catholic
00:40:09.880 and I am converting to Catholicism. I'm probably one of the very few Italians that is not Catholic.
00:40:15.680 I feel like we should include it because I think it would be disingenuous not to. We're definitely
00:40:21.740 more traditional in our relationship. And it's something we value. And I know that he values it.
00:40:27.980 He's thinking about it, but I wanted to get your thoughts. It would definitely ruffle some feathers on my
00:40:32.940 side of the family. I don't think my mom would be very pleased with it. And I just wanted to see
00:40:38.000 how you would manage that and what you think about including that in traditional vows just to begin
00:40:42.760 with. Love to hear your thoughts. And I love the show. Thanks.
00:40:49.200 Great question. Sounds like you're totally on the right track. You don't need me to answer this.
00:40:53.480 You already know the answer. Yes, of course, include it. That's great. Why would you not? You want to,
00:40:58.680 your husband wants to, it's traditional, it's good. You're totally on the right track. The only
00:41:03.840 reason not to is because, well, some feminist relatives might not like it. I was once at a 1.00
00:41:08.980 wedding, I'm not joking, where the wedding was being officiated by ex-nuns. Sort of had, 1.00
00:41:15.380 I think, not parted on great terms with Mother Church. And the nuns were reading a verse from the book
00:41:24.580 of Genesis and about wives submitting to their husbands. And they edited the verse. They changed
00:41:32.400 the verse during the wedding. And I thought, you know, when you're changing the word of God because
00:41:36.680 you don't like it, that's not a good sign. That's not where you want to be. So that's great. It's
00:41:40.080 very traditional. I think it's wonderful. And furthermore, it might ruffle feathers. Weddings
00:41:45.460 should ruffle feathers. I'm not saying they should be antagonistic events, but a wedding is making
00:41:51.160 clear that you are leaving your mother and your father. And your husband is leaving his mother and
00:41:56.080 his father. And you are clinging to one another. And you are forming a new family. And you might do
00:42:02.180 things a little bit differently than your mother and father might do. And that's a very fine thing.
00:42:08.260 I would not, a lot of people want to cave on the weddings and say, I'll just do whatever my mother-in-law
00:42:12.140 wants. Or I'm just going to, hey, I don't like it, but that's what my in-laws want to do. No. No. He who
00:42:18.040 pays the piper calls the tune. So you might have to, you know, you might have to pony up a little
00:42:21.220 bit more if, if whoever is paying doesn't like what's going on. But no, this is the first act
00:42:26.020 that you two are going to have as a married couple. Do it the way you're going to live your
00:42:29.240 lives. Okay. Next question. Hi, Michael. Arun here with a religious question. You have previously
00:42:34.160 advised us not to explicitly lie to others about our COVID-19 vaccination status. And I'm guessing
00:42:39.760 that this advice is born out of your belief as a Christian, that it is unjustifiable to deliberately
00:42:45.260 lie. Now I've mulled over this advice a fair bit because in the Hindu tradition, we are taught
00:42:50.940 not to waste our scruples on those who are unworthy of them. This comes from a vignette
00:42:56.020 in the Mahabharata in which a hero is engaged in single combat with a villain. And when the
00:43:01.940 villain's chariot gets stuck in the mud, the rules of combat dictate that he must wait for
00:43:07.280 the other person to free himself. But Sri Krishna, God incarnate, tells the hero not to obey these
00:43:15.420 rules because the villain has stood by evil his entire life and is deserving of death. I do think
00:43:21.460 it is dishonorable for someone to ask for my COVID-19 vaccination status. So I'm wondering if you think
00:43:29.300 that in such a case, it would be right for someone to lie. And I wonder if you as a Christian could 0.97
00:43:35.880 perhaps tell me how you might view this based on the example from the book of Joshua in which Rahab
00:43:41.880 hides two spies sent by Joshua and even lies explicitly to the king of Jericho about their
00:43:48.960 whereabouts. Would this not be an example of a case in which it is right to lie for a greater good?
00:43:57.640 Thank you as always for your thoughts.
00:43:59.440 As always, a fabulous question from Arun. Really, really good question. We're close up on the member
00:44:10.180 block, so I'll try to give this as a pithy answer and then maybe we can talk about a little bit more
00:44:13.720 in the member block. A good example from Rahab in the Bible and an example so striking because it's so
00:44:23.240 out of line with the rest of the Bible and the way that lying per se is treated. That it's merited 0.99
00:44:31.200 lots of commentary over the years. I think St. Augustine said that what Rahab did was wrong when
00:44:36.720 she lied. It was wrong. She committed an evil action. But God forgave that action simultaneous with
00:44:45.180 it and in consideration of the good that also came from that action. There have been lots of Bible
00:44:51.840 commentaries on this. One way that it could have happened, though, and one way that one can kind
00:44:57.520 of work around these issues. Let's say, you know, the Nazis show up and you're hiding a Jew in your 0.94
00:45:03.040 basement. What do you say? He's in my basement. Would be through something called mental reservation, 0.81
00:45:08.860 which is you could say, the Nazis come up, they say, is there a Jew here? And you say,
00:45:16.200 there was a Jew here, but he's not here anymore. Are you lying? Well, it depends. You're using 1.00
00:45:25.640 somewhat ambiguous language because by here, you could mean the room that you're standing in. And
00:45:31.280 the Jew may have been in that room, but the Jew is no longer there. The Jew is now in the basement. 0.98
00:45:35.420 Have you lied exactly? Not quite sure. That would be one option on mental reservation. But I would still
00:45:43.420 have to stop short of this line that we should not waste our scruples on people who are not worthy of
00:45:50.760 them. You do not owe a perfectly precise answer to people who do not have any right to that knowledge
00:45:59.000 that they are requesting. That is true. But it nevertheless is wrong to tell a lie. It is always wrong to tell
00:46:06.940 a lie. And the morality of the action of telling a lie is determined by the action itself, not by a
00:46:13.260 consequence of that action. That would be, if we were to fall into a kind of consequentialist view of
00:46:20.300 things, that would be taking it too far. And that's the truth, Arun. Okay, we've got to get to the
00:46:26.000 member block. It is fake headline Friday. I've got my fake headlines. I've got a lot more, not just voice
00:46:31.760 mailbag, regular written mailbag. We got everything, man. I still have a little bit of coffee. We're good.
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