The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has reportedly just signaled to Donald Trump's

00:00:05.220 legal team that the former president could soon face indictment, which of course means

00:00:11.160 they've got him now. That Trump, he thought he could escape the Acme anvil, but no,

00:00:21.400 not this time. This time, District Attorney Wile E. Coyote has totally got him.

00:00:29.220 The walls are closing in. What's this one over? Is it Russia collusion? No. Is it Ukraine collusion?

00:00:37.480 No. Is it an insurrection? No. No. Apparently, this potential indictment centers around President

00:00:46.380 Trump's alleged hush money payments to Stormy Daniels in 2016. The libs have gone through so

00:00:55.980 many crazy schemes to nail Trump that they're now on reruns. But if I were Trump, I would be thrilled

00:01:04.580 at this news. Not because it's fun to be indicted. I'm sure it's extremely tedious and inconvenient.

00:01:11.140 But because this potential indictment is an indication that Trump once again poses a threat

00:01:18.760 to the Democrats. Back when it looked like Trump was the inevitable 2024 Republican nominee,

00:01:24.800 Democrats did everything they could to destroy him. Raids, investigations, schemes to keep him off

00:01:31.420 the ballot, and so on and so forth. Then, as Trump's political stock began to tank and Ron DeSantis started

00:01:39.420 to jump up in the polls, the Democrats mostly laid off him. But now that his political fortunes have

00:01:45.680 reversed again, Trump is back in the crosshairs. And as with all Wile E. Coyote schemes, it looks like

00:01:53.300 this one is poised to backfire too, because it creates a feedback loop. When Democrats fear Trump,

00:02:00.860 they go overboard attacking him, which makes him look better to the Republican base, even to people

00:02:07.200 who don't necessarily love everything about Trump. The more the Democrats attack him, the better he looks,

00:02:12.760 which makes the Democrats fear him more, which sends the Democrats overboard in attacking him,

00:02:18.220 which makes him look better to the base, and on and on and on. We've got a lot to get to today.

00:02:24.240 There is the worst example of a trans mob coming after someone on TikTok that I have seen in at least

00:02:33.400 a few days. I've been paying attention to this issue pretty closely the last week or so.

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00:04:11.600 Adam Kinzinger doesn't know very much about almost anything. He does know a lot about what happens

00:04:18.820 when you attack Trump. And Adam Kinzinger, who is now, he was a former Republican congressman,

00:04:24.820 then he was kind of a fake Republican like Liz Cheney, and now he's a fake Republican commentator

00:04:30.180 on CNN. But his job is to provide liberal talking points from the perspective of a pseudo-Republican.

00:04:39.980 So Adam Kinzinger goes on CNN. He did finally talk about the one issue that he has direct knowledge of

00:04:45.840 and can speak about with great authority. And that is, what happens when you try to attack Trump?

00:04:53.560 If, in fact, he is charged with a crime, do you think he can still run for president?

00:05:00.040 I think he absolutely will still run because he, actually, it'll probably make him more popular

00:05:06.820 within the GOP. I think this is a reality, whether it's this crime, maybe potentially even the January 6th,

00:05:13.140 is look at what happened when he defeated impeachment the first time. Look at what happened,

00:05:18.220 you know, frankly, when he wasn't even removed the second time, which he should have been.

00:05:22.200 He actually gains popularity. He's able to, he's so good at being a victim, right? It's amazing that in

00:05:27.620 this kind of culture that they have where it's supposed to be about strength and manhood, he's

00:05:32.080 actually like the biggest victim ever. But I think he will play the victim card in this,

00:05:37.640 probably will help him in the primary. And short of being convicted of a felony,

00:05:43.400 it's not going to stop it. It's not going to stop him running.

00:05:46.060 I think he's right. It's the first time I think I've ever said that Adam Kinzinger was right.

00:05:50.600 But this is something he knows a lot about because Kinzinger tried to go up against Trump. It did not

00:05:54.860 work out very well for him. Kinzinger saw firsthand what Republicans and conservatives do

00:05:59.900 when you attack Trump, especially when you attack Trump unfairly, as the libs are doing.

00:06:05.660 The evidence that this is unfair and preposterous is they haven't even come up with a new fake

00:06:11.200 scandal to throw on him. They're going back to a scandal from 2016 and saying he slept with a

00:06:15.880 porn star and paid her or something like that. So Kinzinger says, if the libs indict him, it will

00:06:21.600 make Trump more popular. Why is that? The reason that that is the case is you can judge a man by his

00:06:28.260 enemies. And Trump's enemies are the crooked Democrat prosecutors and the crooked liberal

00:06:36.720 establishment and the crooked liberal news media and all the rest of it. If Trump were being indicted

00:06:42.740 by a highly credible authority, if people still had faith in the Justice Department, if people still

00:06:50.780 had faith in these prosecutors, if people still had faith in the media to investigate as the fourth

00:06:56.100 state, then an indictment would hurt Trump. But we're not living in that period right now. I've been

00:07:03.200 talking all this past week because I happened to have been the target of libel and slander and defamation

00:07:09.400 from the media and all the way up to the White House this past week. So we were able to see this in

00:07:14.600 real time happen. But that's just one example. I just, that just happened to have happened to me last

00:07:19.200 week. It happens to top Republicans constantly. If you are posing any threat to the liberal

00:07:28.860 establishment, the press and the White House and the Justice Department, which is a two-tiered system,

00:07:35.140 as even former federal officials have admitted now, they will all go after you. And so in the face of

00:07:44.880 that, the ordinary people are looking, they're saying, oh, they really don't want Trump to be

00:07:49.080 president? Well, I guess he's our guy. Obviously, it will help him. And the numbers are reflecting

00:07:53.500 that. Trump is looking pretty good right now. Trump has a double-digit lead in Pennsylvania,

00:07:58.960 according to a recent public policy polling survey. Trump has a double-digit lead with 49% support.

00:08:05.440 DeSantis expectedly comes in second, all the way down, though, with 31% support. Pence and Haley are tied

00:08:13.120 with 5% each, and another 10% said they don't know who they would vote for. So if you take out the

00:08:18.540 other candidates, you just make it Trump versus Pence. In Pennsylvania, it tightens up quite a lot,

00:08:24.240 but Trump still has it 48 to 40. 13% remain undecided. So DeSantis is far from out of this

00:08:32.500 thing. He could still pretty easily win the GOP nomination. I don't want to say easily, but it's

00:08:38.940 certainly plausible that DeSantis could win the GOP nomination. But in order for him to do that,

00:08:44.120 he's got to recover some of his COVID magic. The reason it's going to be a little bit of an uphill

00:08:50.140 slog is because DeSantis exploded in the conservative imagination during COVID because

00:08:55.620 of his handling of COVID in Florida. So because memory in politics lasts for about the memory of a

00:09:03.280 fruit fly, the further and further back COVID gets, the less shiny and special DeSantis looks,

00:09:10.280 and the more people will return to thinking that Trump is great. You're seeing this reflected in

00:09:13.860 the polls. So how does DeSantis do that? One issue that could do that is this transgender issue,

00:09:20.080 because Ron DeSantis has been great on this. He says, we're not going to let you guys trans our

00:09:23.600 kids. We're going to ban books in schools. I know we're not supposed to say that DeSantis banned

00:09:27.560 books in schools, but he made it easier for conservatives in schools to ban books. And that's a good

00:09:32.380 thing. It is good to ban gay porn from schools. Okay, guys, I know that there's been this weird

00:09:38.660 fetishization on the right with total free speech and no standards at all. And we never ban books.

00:09:46.040 You should ban some books. It is good to ban certain books in certain places. Gay porn in elementary

00:09:51.800 schools, that would be a good example of books that are worth banning. And Ron DeSantis has made that

00:09:56.920 easier to do. Ron DeSantis has published, has punished rather, Disney. Disney wants to trans the

00:10:02.980 kids. DeSantis says, okay, well, we're going to take away all your special privileges in Florida.

00:10:08.040 That's good stuff. That will help DeSantis. Now, one problem with DeSantis' strategy that opens

00:10:14.760 him up to some criticism is that the way he's fighting the trans issue is by arguing around the

00:10:22.540 edges. The libs want to trans the five-year-old. And DeSantis says, wait till eight. We're not going

00:10:29.420 to trans the kindergartners. You have to wait till fourth grade to start teaching them about

00:10:32.360 transgenderism. That's not a criticism of Ron DeSantis. His hands are somewhat tied here because

00:10:37.700 as a result of the Bostock decision from the Supreme Court back in 2020, the Supreme Court

00:10:42.920 redefined civil rights protections for sex as civil rights protections on the basis of gender identity.

00:10:49.320 So at my CPAC speech, I said, we need to stop fighting on the left's terms here.

00:10:57.580 We need to stop accepting the premise that transgenderism is all well and good for adults.

00:11:03.180 Totally fine, totally reasonable, totally acceptable. But we just, it's just inappropriate

00:11:07.580 for eight-year-olds. We need to wait till they turn nine or 10 or something. No, that's a losing

00:11:12.620 strategy because then we're just going to be arguing, okay, is it, should we trans the two-year-olds or

00:11:16.340 the three-year-olds? Should we trans the newborns or the one-year-olds? It's, we're only moving in

00:11:20.120 the left's direction on that if we accept the premise that transgenderism is a valid and true

00:11:25.460 anthropology, which it is not. However, Ron DeSantis can't do very much about that as a governor

00:11:31.400 because the Bostock decision is the law of the land, because transgenderism has been enshrined in

00:11:38.300 federal law now. It's being pushed by the White House. So DeSantis has to try to keep the magic up

00:11:44.540 somehow. And I agree with him and with a lot of Republicans that that issue is a really important

00:11:49.140 one because it represents so much of the political debate, far beyond a man who thinks that he's a

00:11:55.120 woman. But DeSantis, as governor, has the advantage of actually doing things, which is something that

00:12:02.040 Trump doesn't have. But DeSantis doesn't have that federal stage, that federal perspective. And so he's

00:12:07.600 got to figure out how to seem more ambitious with his plans than he's allowed to do as governor of

00:12:14.940 Florida. But we know where the libs are going on this. We know that the libs think they've won the

00:12:22.380 trans debate. That's why they blew their gasket and started libeling me all week. It's because I

00:12:27.480 said, no, I'm not going to grant that you've won that debate. We know the libs have moved on from

00:12:32.220 is transgenderism real or not all the way to are we going to trans the kids? And in fact,

00:12:36.900 it's not just the fringe Democrats who are saying that. It's Joe Biden himself. Joe Biden,

00:12:40.780 who just gave an interview and said that if we don't trans the kids, if we refuse to chop off the

00:12:48.120 genitals of little kids and pump them full of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones,

00:12:52.240 why? If we don't do that, we're basically committing a sin.

00:12:55.820 Transgender kids is a really harder to think. What's going on in Florida

00:13:02.000 is, as my mother would say, close to sinful. I mean, it's just terrible what they're doing.

00:13:08.640 It's not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, you know,

00:13:12.500 I decided I want to become a man or I want to become a woman or I want to change.

00:13:17.260 I mean, what are they thinking about here? They're human beings. They love, they have feelings,

00:13:24.760 they have inclinations that are, I mean, it just to me is, I don't know, it's cruel.

00:13:32.800 And the way we do it is we make sure we pass legislation like we passed on same-sex marriage.

00:13:37.760 You mess with that, you're breaking the law and you're going to be held accountable.

00:13:42.800 All right. Now, can you imagine these trans kids? If we don't,

00:13:45.660 if we don't chop off the genitals of little kids, it's close to sinful, man. Come on, Jack.

00:13:50.460 Hey, come on there, corn pop.

00:13:54.760 According to what moral framework is it sinful not to castrate children?

00:14:04.740 What moral framework is he talking about? Joe Biden pretends to be Catholic.

00:14:09.380 The Catholic Church is very clear on this. Sex is immutable. Okay. Sex is an inseparable accident

00:14:20.380 of the individual, to use the technical term. The sex you're born with is the sex that you're

00:14:25.420 going to have as long as you exist. In the beginning, God created man, both male and female

00:14:31.060 created he them. That's the Catholic view. And so it's always wrong to trans anybody because it's

00:14:37.620 just based on a false anthropology. So obviously Biden's not referring to that moral. What's he

00:14:43.260 referring to? He's referring to the moral, immoral framework of liberalism, but it views itself as a

00:14:48.020 moral framework. And that moral framework is, hey, if you want to do something and it's not really

00:14:52.220 hurting anybody else, then just do it. Even though we live in society, so all of our actions will

00:14:58.060 affect other people in some way to a more or less direct degree. He's saying, yeah, look,

00:15:03.960 the liberal moral framework, if you want to do something and it seems relatively personal and it

00:15:11.160 doesn't seem to affect too many other people, then just go ahead and do it. So it's a moral

00:15:16.700 framework to undermine moral frameworks. It's saying, don't judge. We can't know what's right

00:15:22.940 and what's wrong. Do whatever you want as long as you consent. Two problems with that. One,

00:15:28.500 obviously children can't consent. And then two, when Biden says it's close to sinful. Because if you're

00:15:35.100 saying it's close to sinful, you're referring to an objective moral order. So you can't escape that.

00:15:39.360 There is no escaping moral discourse. The liberals pretend they can escape moral discourse

00:15:44.060 through the language of freedom and consent. But you can't. It always comes down to,

00:15:48.780 well, and if you don't allow someone to do whatever they choose to do between consenting

00:15:53.620 people, then you're violating human rights. Well, okay, if we're talking about human rights now,

00:15:57.560 we're talking about an arbiter of morality that is beyond mere consent. So there is no escaping that.

00:16:05.360 How did we get here? This is the consequence of grounding society on inclination rather than

00:16:12.580 objective standards. Previously, I don't know, 100, 200 years ago and earlier, we grounded society

00:16:20.660 on people's actions. So we said that the morality or immorality of an action hinged on the action.

00:16:31.200 Starting in the 19th century into now the present, we tend to view these issues not as sinful actions

00:16:43.620 or virtuous actions, but we tend to ground society on inclination, on psychology, on subjective feeling.

00:16:53.760 So you even think about the way we talk about sexual ethics. It used to be that an action was good or bad

00:16:59.860 depending on the action. You can't do this with this kind of person. You can't put this thing there.

00:17:04.740 You can't cheat on your wife. You can't have sex outside of marriage. But now we view it simply as,

00:17:10.360 well, how does it make you feel? If you feel really good about having sex outside of marriage and your

00:17:16.580 partner feels really good, then that's moral. But if one of you starts to feel bad about it,

00:17:21.880 even after the fact, then it's immoral. And that's how you get a lot of the Me Too movement.

00:17:28.040 And so it just turns your society from one which is grounded on a strong foundation into one that is

00:17:35.580 grounded on quicksand. Because everything is subjective. Everything is relative. Everything is

00:17:40.520 constantly changing. So if we acknowledge that moral discourse is inevitable, if even Joe Biden,

00:17:48.460 while he's extolling the most liberal of liberal crazy ideas that we should trans the kids,

00:17:54.480 if even he has to have recourse to moral language, saying it's close to sinful, then that means we're

00:18:01.180 obviously always going to be talking about morality. So if we're going to make policy based on morality,

00:18:07.100 shouldn't we base it on true morality? Instead of this weird, made-up, liberal, gobbledego,

00:18:13.380 constantly changing, pseudo-moral order, shouldn't we just say, okay, we know some things are good,

00:18:17.480 we know some things are bad, we know that men can't become women, we know women can't become men,

00:18:20.720 we know it's disordered to chop off your healthy body parts. And so, no, you don't get to do it.

00:18:25.600 Even if you really want to. Even if you have a disordered desire or a disordered inclination,

00:18:30.480 it's a fallen world, everybody's got something a little broken about them, but we're going to say no.

00:18:34.180 We're going to ground society on objective truth, not on the ever-changing feelings of people who,

00:18:41.520 as they indulge those feelings, become more and more disordered. And society becomes more and more

00:18:46.120 disordered and chaotic. That would just be my suggestion. But speaking of these trans debates,

00:18:52.020 I have got a trans debate coming up. I'll be debating the issue of transgenderism at the University

00:18:57.560 of Pittsburgh. Ever since my CPAC speech, there have been all of these internet people, all of these

00:19:03.060 sort of two-bit YouTube streamer types, these liberals who want to get more clicks and followers.

00:19:10.400 And so they say, I challenge you to a debate. I want to debate transgenderism or the eradication

00:19:14.880 of transgender ideology or whatever. And I haven't had time even to read all of these debate challenges.

00:19:21.640 But part of the reason that I haven't really looked at them is because I already had a debate on the

00:19:25.140 books with a very, very serious scholar, someone who goes by the name of Deirdre McCloskey.

00:19:29.940 That's his new name. He's a male professor. He used to go by Donald McCloskey. But he's a

00:19:35.040 very prominent professor. He's got three degrees from Harvard, six honorary doctorates,

00:19:41.660 dozens of academic publications. He's taught across multiple academic disciplines. And he

00:19:47.960 identifies as transgender. So we're having this debate. It's being hosted by the Intercollegiate

00:19:51.520 Studies Institute. And the UPIT students are apparently a little bit upset.

00:19:55.980 There's outrage from students, members of the trans community and allies over a series of

00:20:01.480 events scheduled at Pitt. Royce Jones joins us now with what these events are and what some

00:20:06.100 students are doing in hopes of stopping them. Royce.

00:20:09.200 Yeah, Ken, these events are scheduled to happen between March and April. They're being hosted by

00:20:13.460 conservative student groups and clubs on campus with topics reportedly ranging from trans women in

00:20:19.100 sports to a literal debate about transness, period. Can you imagine a literal debate about whether men

00:20:28.280 can magically become women simply by thinking that they are? Isn't it? Can you imagine we're going to

00:20:33.780 debate that? You know that thing that nobody, like nobody on earth believed seven or eight years ago that

00:20:40.900 now everybody is forced to pretend to believe? There's going to be a debate about whether or not

00:20:47.040 that's true. Isn't that crazy? Isn't that just crazy? I don't think it's that crazy. I think it makes

00:20:50.860 perfect sense. And so I'm really pleased because my debate partner is a very, very intelligent person,

00:20:57.540 a generally well-educated person, even though he was educated at that deplorable institution over in

00:21:02.860 Cambridge, Massachusetts. And so I figured if we're going to have this debate, I don't want it to be with

00:21:07.660 some two-bit YouTube streamer who doesn't know anything about anything. I want it to be the strongest

00:21:13.480 argument for transgenderism you can possibly hear. That debate is scheduled as of now to go on at

00:21:19.660 UPIT. The woke students are going to try to shut it down. And the irony, of course, is that if they

00:21:25.460 do succeed at shutting down this debate, it's not just that they'll be canceling me. They will be

00:21:30.400 canceling one of the most prominent transgender scholars in the country. So I hope it goes on.

00:21:36.740 If you are in the area or might be in the area, I would encourage you to reserve a ticket now

00:21:42.660 while those are still available. And then hopefully I'll see you to debate transgenderism at

00:21:47.480 Pittsburgh. My favorite comment yesterday, I'm kind of moving things around in the show a little

00:21:52.840 bit. I'm just feeling kind of loosey-goosey today. My favorite comment yesterday is from Elliot

00:21:57.100 Berkeley, who said, when I was a kid, we bleeped curse words. Now we bleep true words. Tells you

00:22:04.800 everything you need to know about society. And this was the thesis of my book, Speechless

00:22:09.520 Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available to be ordered. There is never a debate

00:22:15.520 between pure free speech and pure censorship. The debate is always about what are the standards

00:22:21.880 going to be? What are the taboos going to be? What are we going to discourage? What are we going to

00:22:26.360 censor? In the old society, in the old normal good society, we would censor obscenity.

00:22:34.080 We would sometimes censor falsehood. Today, we censor virtue. We censor true statements.

00:22:43.760 We censor plain facts about the world. And we encourage obscenity and falsehood and ugliness

00:22:51.780 and all the rest of it. Does that make a lot of sense? I don't think so. There's not going to be

00:22:57.980 any society that doesn't censor anything. So it's just, what do you value? What is your taboo?

00:23:03.640 I, for one, would prefer to censor the falsehood and the wickedness and the ugliness. That's me.

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00:24:23.180 I want to get into a little bit of pop culture here. You know Jeffrey Marsh. Maybe you don't.

00:24:29.260 If you don't know Jeffrey Marsh, I'm sorry that I'm the one who is going to introduce him to you.

00:24:33.940 Jeffrey Marsh is a 45-year-old man. He's an internet celebrity type. And he identifies as

00:24:42.480 some version of trans, pans, thank you, ma'am, whatever it is. And that's disturbing enough.

00:24:49.360 But the most disturbing part is that Jeffrey Marsh regularly targets his content at kids.

00:24:57.520 Hi kids. Hey kids. I want to talk to the kids. Hi kids. Hey kids.

00:25:05.960 So yeah, there's a lot of videos of them addressing kids. Now, the main video I want to talk about.

00:25:12.160 Your parents screwed up. It's okay to say so. That's why I made a Patreon.

00:25:21.000 So you want to talk to kids whose parents have screwed up. Why? Why you want to talk to these

00:25:25.340 particular kids? Why? That's why I made a Patreon. So that we could talk about it. So that we could

00:25:32.460 connect in a way that has more privacy. So that we could talk to each other in a way that's more

00:25:40.140 open and stuff that we wouldn't share like in the comments of a video like this. I think you're worthy.

00:25:48.280 Okay. So the woman there who you heard commenting on this very creepy overture to little children,

00:26:00.360 she is, I assume she's Muslim. She's wearing a hijab. I'm not going to say her name because as a result

00:26:06.960 of her objection to this 45-year-old man soliciting private messages from little children, she objected

00:26:16.240 to that. She has been the subject of a ton of not just angry comments, but threats, doxing,

00:26:29.520 some of the scariest kinds of threats you can possibly get from the trans mob on TikTok. Take a listen.

00:26:38.520 So I just got an email saying, um, pretty much a threat saying, I know they know where I live.

00:26:51.520 And what scares me the most is, um, they have got my daughter's details on the email, like what time I

00:27:01.800 leave to drop them to school, pick them up. And it's not a coincidence because both of my daughters,

00:27:10.020 they go to two different schools. So they know they've given the school details and everything.

00:27:16.220 So, um, yeah, my, my daughters are involved now in this. As some of you might know that my car was

00:27:24.920 damaged in this whole thing. Um, I was getting not very nice videos and now emails with a lot of

00:27:36.920 details on the email. So I don't, I'm done. I don't, I don't want to do anything.

00:27:45.640 She's saying, okay, I got these emails. I had my car damaged. So it's not just idle threats.

00:27:50.880 Seems like people are following through on this threats. It's not just against me. They know where

00:27:55.220 my kids are. They're telling me where my kids are. And I can tell you, if you have ever in any public

00:28:00.100 way contradicted the transgender ideology at all in a public way, you have received these kinds of

00:28:09.820 emails. You've received these kinds of threats. And for some people, if you're a public figure with

00:28:16.740 the backing of a big institution, then you have resources available to you. You have security

00:28:22.140 resources available to you. You have legal resources available to you that will allow you to fight

00:28:27.660 back against the mob. If you are simply a private citizen, you don't have any of that. I don't think

00:28:35.120 this woman is rich uncle penny bags. Okay. I think she is a regular person who is speaking out like

00:28:42.880 regular normal people with common sense do against this evil ideology. And then when the mob comes

00:28:50.100 after her, when this particular mob comes after her and threatens her and her kids and her stuff

00:28:55.300 and her whole life, what choice does she have? What would it take for her to actually stand firm

00:29:07.840 against that? When, when these people are making clear that these are not merely idle threats?

00:29:13.060 At Jeffrey Marsh, I've deleted everything, removed it. If you guys want to go ahead, go ahead. But

00:29:19.320 please don't do, don't, don't come to my house. Do you just get on with your life? I'll get on with

00:29:24.740 mine. You guys want me to say, I'm sorry. Fine. I'm sorry. Please don't come at me. Don't come to my

00:29:32.480 house. Don't, don't do anything with me because I'm just one person, one person. And specifically

00:29:41.860 four or five of you have, four or five of you have kind of done stuff. Like some of you have found old

00:29:55.920 pictures of me and uploaded it on TikTok without my hijab. So you guys have done that.

00:30:08.660 So she, she goes on. We don't need to keep playing it, but so what have they done? They've threatened

00:30:13.720 the kids, they've threatened the property. They've seemed to have made good on it. And then they find

00:30:16.980 old pictures, old, embarrassing pictures. And for her, it's not like they found a picture of her doing

00:30:21.080 porn or anything like that. They just found a picture of her without her hijab. But in her religious

00:30:24.740 tradition, this is a big deal. And they're, they're trying to humiliate her by presenting

00:30:29.700 her in photos that are not sufficiently modest for how she wants to be presented.

00:30:34.560 And it's all of these constant threats and they broke her. They just broke her. And I think

00:30:39.220 most people probably could get broken by this, especially with the kid stuff.

00:30:44.700 Because when they come after your children and you have no, nothing to protect you,

00:30:50.440 your first instinct is, well, I got to, I got to do anything I can to protect my kids,

00:30:54.140 even if it means giving this human demon, Jeffrey Marsh, free reign to solicit private messages from

00:31:02.100 children. Private messages about really, really weird subjects that he doesn't want the public to

00:31:06.740 know about. Okay. As he says himself, I'm not telling tales out of school. He's, he's acknowledging

00:31:11.800 what he's having these kids talk about. This is demonic stuff, really demonic stuff. And I made this

00:31:20.800 point, I got in trouble with our publicists over at Media Matters, because I said that

00:31:25.680 the, the attacks on man's sexual nature and sexual difference and complementarity are demonic.

00:31:36.360 And they are, they go back throughout all of history, throughout some of the earliest depictions

00:31:41.680 of demons. Even one of the most prominent depictions of demons, it comes from an artist,

00:31:46.940 Eliphas Levy, who is an occultist, who did a depiction of Baphomet. If you just think,

00:31:52.360 what's a demon look like? You're probably thinking of this picture. And this picture

00:31:56.240 is of a weird goat head with horns. And then one arm looks like a man's arm. And then one arm looks

00:32:02.800 like a woman's arm. And it's got breasts, a female upper body, then a male lower body. And

00:32:12.120 it's a, it's a trans depiction. It's a depiction of a man and a woman kind of blended together in this

00:32:17.960 grotesque way. And what's written on the arm, two words, solvate coagula, which means to break apart

00:32:28.120 and to put back together. And this is a, a slogan that crops up frequently in the occult.

00:32:37.980 Just break everything down, put it back together in this really grotesque, weird, unnatural sort of

00:32:45.660 way. It is no coincidence that these depictions are what we see in this highly, highly dangerous

00:32:54.280 ideology. It is no coincidence that when you attack this ideology, I've gone after so many different

00:32:59.880 leftist views, leftist hobby horses, leftist ideologies. And you get pushback. If you defend the

00:33:09.620 second amendment, you get pushback. If you, if you put push back on critical race theory, you, you get

00:33:15.560 some angry people sending you messages. Nothing comes close to when you push back against the

00:33:23.540 transgender agenda. The, the images that people send you, the threats that people make against you.

00:33:29.980 It's exactly what that woman described. And it is demonic. The whole thing is demonic. And I,

00:33:38.560 the libs kind of make fun of us when we, when we talk about spiritual realities, but I don't know why

00:33:43.060 they, they use spiritual language all the time. Even Joe Biden said it's close to sinful not to chop off

00:33:47.840 a kid's genitals. It says it's close to sinful. You'll hear the libs all the time say, this is a

00:33:52.680 violation of human rights. It's a violation of the human spirit. Come on. I'm going to send you good

00:33:56.840 vibes, man. You know, let's all just kind of, you know, put out our thoughts into the universe, man.

00:34:01.900 You know, they use all of this weird spiritual language. They just, they just tend toward the occult

00:34:07.900 and away from true religion, the traditional spiritual language that defines our civilization.

00:34:14.400 So they'll make all kinds of pseudo-religious, pseudo-arguments about transgenderism. I mean,

00:34:20.320 the whole idea of transgenderism is a pseudo-religious argument. It's the idea that your body

00:34:24.240 has nothing to do with your real identity. That your real identity is something immaterial.

00:34:30.640 Call it your soul. I don't know if they would want to use that language, but that's what they're

00:34:33.780 talking about. They'll say your soul is who you really are. Your body is not who you really are.

00:34:38.600 Your soul can be opposed to your body. And so when there's a, when there's an apparent

00:34:43.460 conflict between your soul and your body, you should chop up your body.

00:34:48.220 Which is, they did that in the ancient world too, except they attributed it to demons in

00:34:54.340 the ancient world, okay? And the whole idea is, is false because the, the true relationship of the

00:35:01.160 soul and the body is something called hylomorphism. And it's the idea that the soul is not gendered

00:35:06.220 because if the soul were gendered, then male and female would be, men and women would be different

00:35:10.620 species. Which sometimes appears to be the case, but is not in fact the case. That the sexual

00:35:15.600 difference is a, an inseparable accident of the individual. So it's, it's with us as long as we

00:35:21.180 exist, but it, but it comes from the body. And body and soul are not going to be pulled apart as long

00:35:27.900 as we're walking around here on earth. If you want to really talk about it, the, the libs might say,

00:35:32.200 well, that's all just pie in the sky, heady mumbo jumbo. That's all your religious gobbledy talk.

00:35:37.180 But you're engaging in all sorts of religious talk. When you say that someone's true identity

00:35:42.260 is a female, when their body and everything about them looks like they're male, you're engaging in

00:35:48.420 a kind of religious talk too. It's just your religious talk doesn't make any sense. And our

00:35:51.700 religious talk does make sense. And it's got the benefit of 2000 years of theological debate and

00:35:58.460 even further back philosophical debate, going back to ancient Greece. So, so that's where it stands.

00:36:05.020 And it's going to require a lot of courage to stand up against that. And it's going to require us

00:36:09.800 coming together, not in this demonic way of breaking everything down and rejoining it in a

00:36:14.540 grotesque manner, but if people uniting their rational minds, which can perceive that men and

00:36:20.220 women are different and our will and our courage and our virtues to come together and say no, because

00:36:26.180 if we stand alone on this issue, we're all going to end up like that poor woman and we're going to

00:36:30.400 all be targeted and we're all going to back down. Speaking of transgenderism in public life and

00:36:37.440 transing the kids, you know, it gets back to what Joe Biden was saying at the top. They're not even

00:36:41.580 arguing about transgenderism anymore. Now they're onto the kids at the Oscars. Daniel Kwan and Daniel

00:36:49.200 Swinert won the award for everything, everywhere, all at once. And the Daniels dedicated their speech

00:36:56.080 to transing the kids.

00:37:01.080 Uh, our fellow nominees, you guys are our heroes. This is weird. Um, uh, this, we want to dedicate

00:37:08.720 this to the mommies, all the mommies of the world to our moms, uh, specifically my mom and dad, Ken and

00:37:16.000 Becky. Thank you for not squashing my creativity when I was making really disturbing horror films

00:37:20.160 or really perverted comedy films or dressing in drag as a kid, which is a threat to nobody.

00:37:25.940 Uh, and, uh, yeah, thank you to everybody who worked on our movie.

00:37:34.200 And by the way, there's nothing wrong with that. If a kid is going to be encouraged to

00:37:37.500 pretend that he's the opposite sex, that's totally great. So says Daniel Shinerd. I'm told I mispronounced

00:37:42.160 his name apparently. Right now, the libs are saying that it is a conspiracy theory to believe

00:37:53.000 that the, the liberals want to trans the kids. That's a crazy conspiracy theory. You can be

00:37:58.260 suppressed on social media if you say that. And yet we hear it. We hear it from Oscar winners.

00:38:03.700 We hear it from the president. Previously, they told us that the notion of transgenderism at all,

00:38:09.220 there was a conspiracy theory. Oh, you think just because we redefine marriage, pretty soon

00:38:13.020 we're going to get transgenderism. That's a slippery slope, crazy fallacy conspiracy theory.

00:38:17.900 Which we were, before that we were told, oh, you think just because you're going to normalize

00:38:21.460 certain eccentric sexual practices that pretty soon people were going to redefine marriage.

00:38:24.780 That's a crazy conspiracy theory. Before that we were told, oh, you think just because we accept

00:38:29.100 feminism, you're going to get the sexual revolution and all sorts of weird, crazy village people

00:38:32.520 stuff all throughout society. No, that's a crazy conspiracy theory. But what do we know?

00:38:35.800 What do we know, folks? We know the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth

00:38:41.760 used to be three to six months. Now, I think maybe three to six days. Back in 2021, during a five-hour

00:38:48.580 hearing before Congress, Mark Zuckerberg admitted he did not let his own kids use Facebook. That

00:38:53.880 should be enough to make you think twice about letting your kids use any social media, but

00:38:58.040 especially TikTok. And there's a new book out published by DW Books. It's written by Bethany Mandel

00:39:02.360 and Carol Markowitz that drives this point home. It's called Stolen Youth, How Radicals Are Erasing

00:39:07.140 Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation. When I read this passage, I wanted to delete every social

00:39:13.720 media app and throw my phone away. In fact, I already wanted to do that, but this passage really

00:39:18.740 drove it home. Quote, TikTok was the center of a 2021 Wall Street Journal investigation, which uncovered

00:39:23.900 how the app targets users with content revolving around sex, drugs, eating disorders, and more,

00:39:28.020 calling it an addiction machine. Investigators created 31 accounts registered to young teens

00:39:32.780 and turned them loose to browse TikTok's For You feed, a highly personalized, never-ending feed

00:39:37.460 curated by the algorithm. The article explained, an analysis of the videos served to these accounts

00:39:42.240 found that through its powerful algorithms, TikTok can quickly drive minors, among the biggest users

00:39:46.940 of the app, into endless spools of content about sex and drugs. TikTok served one account registered

00:39:52.460 as a 13-year-old at least 569 videos about drug use, references to cocaine and meth addiction,

00:39:58.020 and promotional videos for online sales of drug products and paraphernalia. Hundreds of similar

00:40:02.800 videos appeared in the feeds of the journal's other minor accounts. Remember, this is not an

00:40:08.020 accident. This is by design. Radicals want your children sick and corrupted. The good news is,

00:40:13.640 you can fight back if you know how. Stolen Youth, How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and

00:40:18.840 Indoctrinating a Generation comes out today. Order your copy on Amazon or wherever you get your books now.

00:40:28.020 Speaking of the Oscars, really big historic news. I can't believe we couldn't get to it yesterday.

00:40:36.440 This should have been the top of the show, of course. Michelle Yeowu has become the first person

00:40:46.700 identifying as Asian to win the Oscar for Best Actress. I did not stumble. I did not misread that.

00:40:57.900 This is a breaking according to NPR. Michelle Yeowu wins Oscar for Best Actress Making History as the

00:41:05.040 first person who identifies as Asian to win the award.

00:41:12.940 Okay. Okay, fine. I guess we all just identify. We all are simply people who identify. None of us

00:41:19.700 really is anything at all. Now, the reason they use this language, apparently, is that some other

00:41:25.020 actress had already won. The first Asian actress had already won, but she didn't wear her ethnicity

00:41:30.780 on her chest on a big sticker that she put on her forehead that said, I am Asian. So, therefore,

00:41:37.900 we now have to celebrate it again because an actress who identifies as Asian won it. Okay.

00:41:43.980 This is a much deeper issue, though. This is much deeper than racial identity politics,

00:41:49.940 which is where most of the discussion is right now. This is an issue of epistemology,

00:41:57.160 which keeps coming up because that's really what's at the heart of the transgender debate.

00:42:01.000 That's in large part why the transgender debate is so hot, why people care so much about it. It's

00:42:09.680 not because of the handful of people who throughout history have had confusion about their sex and want

00:42:14.580 to pretend to be the opposite sex. It's not even really about the much larger number of people who

00:42:18.940 are catching on to this ideology for attention and as a social contagion. It's about this question of

00:42:23.900 epistemology. Can we really know anything at all? Can we know that an actress is Asian or is the best

00:42:34.180 that we can ever know that someone identifies as Asian? Can we really know anything at all? For almost all of

00:42:44.900 our civilization's history, we have believed that we can know things. And so we take that knowledge and

00:42:55.180 we move on and we build on that knowledge and then we build on more knowledge and we develop what has

00:43:02.280 been Western civilization. The new idea is radical skepticism, which says we can really never know

00:43:08.060 anything at all. You know, when you're a kid and you say to your friend, hey, what if the color that

00:43:14.440 you think is blue, what if I see that color is green? Oh man, can we know anything at all, man?

00:43:23.740 You know, maybe, I don't know, maybe you had that conversation as a kid. Maybe you had it over a

00:43:26.620 bong when you were a sophomore in college. Either way though, it expresses the same idiotic idea.

00:43:30.880 We just can't really know anything at all. That's what the transgender debate's about.

00:43:38.160 Well, how do you know? How do you know that Bruce Jenner really isn't a woman?

00:43:42.200 Can you? And your answer might be, well, because every physical sign points to his being a man.

00:43:51.740 And then the modern libs will say, well, yeah, but how do you know you can trust those signs?

00:43:56.420 How do you know that those really signify anything at all? So what this becomes a debate over is

00:44:06.200 not even just, can you trust your faculties of perception? It even becomes a debate over, say,

00:44:12.840 epistemological realism and nominalism. Are there really such things as man and woman and

00:44:22.280 leftist years, tumbler and microphone? Or is there just kind of stuff or they're just particulars?

00:44:28.640 And when we try to broaden those out into categories, even the category of man, even the

00:44:31.860 category of woman, even the category of Asian, that all kinds of breaks down. What is it?

00:44:36.940 These are debates that are not new exactly. They've cropped up in the history of civilization.

00:44:43.000 But when they've cropped up, we've had to deal with them. They've led to crises. I mean,

00:44:47.240 there's one in particular cropped up. It really cropped up in the 11th and 12th century. And then

00:44:52.620 it came to a head in the early 13th century called the Albigensian crisis, which was, there was this

00:44:57.100 movement of people called the Albigensians who believed that the physical world was entirely evil.

00:45:01.860 The spiritual world was entirely good. And so you shouldn't get married. If you're going to have

00:45:07.540 sex at all, it should just be in concubinage. You know, it should just be in these kind of temporary

00:45:11.440 relationships. I guess now we call that cohabitation. You should not have children.

00:45:15.920 You should not do anything permanent. You should just try to die off, basically.

00:45:23.860 That is an idea that if left unchecked, will destroy civilization and very nearly destroyed

00:45:32.860 Western civilization. Now we're facing a similar idea. It's a similar idea. In many ways, it's just

00:45:41.020 the new version of this idea. And so are we going to deal with this seriously?

00:45:44.880 Or if we start talking about it seriously, are we going to be labeled genocidal maniacs and kicked

00:45:51.360 out of the public square and told, stop thinking about that? Well, the stakes are much higher than

00:45:57.180 we are told. We are told that the stakes are, oh, just let anybody do whatever they want to do.

00:46:00.760 Who cares? It's not hurting you. We can't, look, you don't know anything. I don't, we don't know

00:46:05.340 very much. You know, maybe that woman's Asian. Maybe she just identifies as Asian. I don't know.

00:46:09.160 Who knows? Who knows? Well, if we don't know anything, then we're not going to have a

00:46:14.260 civilization. We're going to very quickly forget the civilization that we once had. The rest of

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