The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 The Biden administration has claimed that all sorts of political enemies pose the greatest

00:00:04.780 terror threats to our civilization. White people, grannies at the Capitol,

00:00:11.060 parents who don't want their kids being taught critical race theory and gay porn in kindergarten.

00:00:16.820 But the science tells a different story. According to a study that was conducted

00:00:22.780 last year, it's available on the NIH website, quote, transgender and gender diverse youth

00:00:30.940 emerge as the group at the highest risk of support for violent radicalization.

00:00:38.240 The study authors define violent radicalization as, quote, a complex and multidimensional phenomenon

00:00:44.280 defined as a process whereby an individual or a group increases support for violence as a legitimate

00:00:51.360 means to reach a specific, for example, political, social, and religious goal.

00:00:59.360 Of course, of course this is the case. We don't need a scientific study to tell us that unreasonable

00:01:07.100 people are the most likely people to be unreasonable. We don't need a study to show us the consequences

00:01:13.940 of encouraging troubled people to delve deeper into unreality. Liberals have dubbed this week

00:01:21.540 the trans week of visibility. We know the horrific way the week started in Nashville. We know how it

00:01:29.240 progressed. The week progressed with a statement from a transgender organization mourning the death

00:01:35.340 of the shooter and excusing her slaughter of elementary school students as a consequence of alleged hate

00:01:42.380 from conservatives. The week progressed with multiple network news outlets blaming conservatives for provoking the shooter

00:01:52.680 because we don't think men should be allowed in the women's bathroom, because we don't think girls should be

00:01:58.280 forced to shower with men in their locker rooms. And now the week will end with yet another transgender group

00:02:05.900 hosting a trans day of vengeance in Washington, D.C. and possibly once again in Nashville.

00:02:14.800 We don't need a scientific study to tell us that erratic and troubled people are the people most likely to support erratic and troubling things.

00:02:25.800 And unfortunately, the scientific study probably won't do much good because the people who most need

00:02:33.700 to read it, our ruling class, won't even accept the basic science of biology.

00:02:40.100 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:41.720 We've got the threat of violence, threat of death all around us. And then simultaneously,

00:02:53.360 you have people in Silicon Valley, computer scientists predicting that within a matter of just

00:03:01.180 eight or so years, human beings will achieve immortality. I'm somewhat skeptical, but

00:03:08.380 this computer scientist who's predicting it has a pretty good track record, which we will get to

00:03:12.840 in just a little bit. I don't want it to seem like I am just pointing to fringe groups or weird

00:03:21.900 little social media people who are encouraging violence on behalf of transgenderism against

00:03:28.920 conservatives, against people who think boys and girls are different. Prominent liberals are doing

00:03:34.400 this. Mainstream people are doing this. The press secretary for the Democrat governor of Arizona,

00:03:39.800 Katie Hobbs, posted yesterday, posted, I'm sorry, posted on the day of the Nashville shooting by the

00:03:48.180 transgender identifying woman. This was 930 at night. So this is many hours after the shooting.

00:03:54.040 She said, us, when we see transphobes, and it's a picture of a woman holding two pistols,

00:04:02.560 fingers on the trigger. That was not, oh, just accidental, wow, bad timing. Oh, gosh,

00:04:10.020 this looks really bad because there was a shooting. This was many hours after the shooting. She was

00:04:15.340 posting this in response to the shooting. She said, yeah, if you're a transphobe,

00:04:20.220 by which we mean, if you don't believe that men can secretly be women, if you don't think men should

00:04:28.400 be able to strip down naked in your little daughter's changing room, then you're a transphobe

00:04:33.500 and we're going to shoot you dead. This is the press secretary for the sitting Democrat governor

00:04:40.980 of Arizona. She lost her job, fortunately. Her resignation was accepted. As far as I can tell,

00:04:48.360 she was allowed to stay on social media. I don't think that tweet was taken down.

00:04:52.920 My tweet was taken down. My tweet was taken down for quoting the Bible,

00:04:57.240 quoting a verse of the Bible that says, do not take vengeance, quoting one of the most

00:05:04.680 peaceable quotes in the Bible. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God,

00:05:11.480 for it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. It's really two Bible verses

00:05:15.800 because it's St. Paul quoting Deuteronomy. My tweet was taken down for that. Now, Twitter has

00:05:21.000 tried to excuse this and say, well, we were just trying to take down any tweets related to the

00:05:25.480 trans day of vengeance. It was a technical error, which if that were the case, I would be totally

00:05:33.400 supportive of it. I think that's a good thing. I think society necessarily has standards and norms

00:05:40.200 and taboos. I think that the powerful institutions in society have the right and frankly obligation to

00:05:46.140 enforce proper standards and norms and taboos. And I don't think that these maniacs calling for

00:05:51.800 violence against normal people ought to be able to do that on social media. So I'm all for that in

00:05:57.720 principle. This is the thesis of speechless controlling words, controlling minds. But what

00:06:02.840 happened with the Twitter incident here is that people got caught up in this net. So if you

00:06:09.820 criticized the trans day of vengeance, then you would also be taken off of the platform. All right.

00:06:15.660 And now it's come to Twitter's attention. So why aren't we being reinstated? It's not just me.

00:06:22.700 It's me. It's Sean Davis. Federalist. I think it's Luke Rosiak, our own Luke Rosiak. I think he got

00:06:29.440 taken down. There were a number of other people. I don't know how many people because I'm not on

00:06:32.720 Twitter at the moment. But I'm not upset with this in principle. Obviously, people are always

00:06:39.720 going to be taken down from Twitter. I would much rather people be taken down for spreading

00:06:43.260 something like the trans day of vengeance. But that's not what happened to the conservatives.

00:06:46.840 So if Twitter reinstates our accounts, okay, that's fine. These things happen. If not,

00:06:54.100 though, I have to wonder, is the Musk era of Twitter all that much different from the era before?

00:06:58.900 It is a little strange that the accounts objecting to the trans day of violence have not been

00:07:06.840 reinstated. Whereas some accounts calling for transgender activists to murder quote unquote

00:07:16.380 transphobes, those accounts are still online. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

00:07:21.220 Now, speaking of Elon Musk, Elon Musk has just issued a very powerful statement,

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00:08:41.400 with Wozniak from Apple, with a lot of top computer scientists and AI developers urging

00:08:49.460 a six-month moratorium on the development of AI. I signed up yesterday for one of the fancy AI

00:08:56.000 programs where you have to pay like $10 a month to be able to try it out, and I did it because I

00:09:00.960 heard that these fancier AI programs were much, much, much more impressive than the freebies that

00:09:07.580 everybody gets to try out. And so I thought, all right, I want to see how good this stuff really is.

00:09:11.880 It's unbelievable. The artwork that it can produce, the compositions that these programs can produce,

00:09:19.180 it is unbelievable. A lot of people thought that AI might be useful for calculations, for

00:09:23.760 some aspects of business, but the one thing they could never do is create art or poetry. That's

00:09:28.780 something that only humans can do. And what do we find out? The thing that AI is best at, perhaps,

00:09:33.700 is art and poetry. So we just don't really know what this thing is and how far it's going to go and

00:09:43.140 how quickly it's going to go that far. So what Elon and the other people have suggested is,

00:09:48.720 quote, such decisions about the development of AI must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders.

00:09:58.280 Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we're confident that their effects will be positive

00:10:03.200 and their risks will be manageable. This confidence must be well justified. This is,

00:10:07.360 of course, true. And you might hear some people insist, either on the left or on the right,

00:10:16.620 insist that, no, we can't have the government limit creativity. That's probably what you're

00:10:21.280 going to hear from the left. Or you might hear from the right, you can't have the government stop the

00:10:25.760 progress of the free market or whatever. But AI is potentially very, very dangerous. AI will almost

00:10:36.120 certainly transform our society in ways that we haven't seen, certainly since the development of

00:10:40.240 the internet, maybe since the development of industrialization, maybe since the development

00:10:44.620 of who knows. And so the point that Elon is making and Wozniak and the rest of the ComSci guys

00:10:50.540 is not even a point about AI. It's a point about politics. Whatever happens with AI,

00:11:00.920 a development at this scale is a political matter. In recent decades, our conception of politics has

00:11:09.180 become really, really shallow and narrow. On the left, the leftists have said,

00:11:15.900 keep your politics out of my bedroom. Keep your politics out of my drug bin. Keep your politics

00:11:21.920 out of whatever I want to do socially. And on the right, the conservatives have said,

00:11:26.340 keep your politics out of my business. Keep your politics out of my bank account. Keep your politics

00:11:31.540 out of my personal life. But politics is just what we do together. Politics just means public.

00:11:38.900 And the conception of politics at the founding of our country was a much more robust conception.

00:11:44.720 The whole idea of self-government is that we're going to be really involved in politics. And we're

00:11:49.040 going to come to conclusions about the world and how we want to live. And then we're going to impose

00:11:53.380 them on the society through our vote and through our elected representatives. Could you imagine if the

00:12:00.760 nuclear bomb were being developed just after it was developed? And then the nuclear bomb were strictly

00:12:08.640 a private matter? So keep your politics out of my business, man. We're building a bomb. No,

00:12:13.680 of course not. It's a highly political matter. And people have the right to put some limitations

00:12:17.980 on it. The fact that we haven't seen nuclear weapons used in war since World War II is very

00:12:25.120 impressive. And it attests to the ability of political action to keep a handle on things in

00:12:30.580 society. I think Elon is totally right. I'm still miffed that I'm not on Twitter right now.

00:12:34.420 So Elon, please put me back on Twitter. And don't boot me off of the social network for quoting the

00:12:39.500 Bible. But he's absolutely right about AI. This is a political decision. And speaking of the

00:12:45.640 political fight, we have potentially a new candidate in the 2024 presidential race.

00:12:53.180 I'm not even going to let you guess. This is not a candidate that anybody would have been guessing.

00:12:58.720 From New Hampshire on the campaign trail, we cut to Chris Christie.

00:13:03.700 Let me tell you something. You better have somebody on that stage who can do to him what I did to

00:13:12.680 Marco. Because that's the only thing that's going to defeat Donald Trump. And that means you've got

00:13:20.760 to have the skill to do it. And that means you have to be fearless because he will come back and right

00:13:28.740 at you. And so you need to think about who's got the skill to do that and who's got the guts to do it.

00:13:36.520 Because it's not going to end nicely, no matter what. His end will not be a calm and quiet conclusion.

00:13:46.400 If I run again, I can't imagine that I wouldn't continue to do it the same way because I think it's the best way to

00:13:51.400 communicate. But this time, if I run, I would just hope that you'd come to a better conclusion

00:13:57.360 than you did the last time.

00:13:59.680 So he has a little joke there. It didn't work out last time that I ran, but this time, maybe I could

00:14:04.080 run. Look, he's up in New Hampshire. He's talking about how talented he is at politics and destroying

00:14:11.660 people on the debate stage. He makes a good point about Trump. He says, Trump's not going quietly.

00:14:17.440 Some of the people now, especially the people who are backing, who are formally backing Ron DeSantis,

00:14:22.480 or even people formally backing the other candidates who are in the race who are much

00:14:25.920 lower in the polls than Ron DeSantis, they'll say, why can't Trump just step down and go away and

00:14:31.420 usher in a new era of Republicans? Now, I don't know. How come the sun's got to shine?

00:14:39.160 How come birds got to fly? Trump is never going to do that.

00:14:42.260 Okay. How come reality is the way that it is? It's just, it is, man. And you can deny it all

00:14:49.740 you want, but that's not going to change anything. So Christie saying, no, he's not going to go

00:14:55.200 quietly into that night. And so someone's got to have the skill and the talent to destroy him on

00:15:00.700 the base stage in the way that I destroyed Marco Rubio. You remember, Chris Christie absolutely

00:15:05.580 short-circuited Marco Rubio. It was a brilliant debate performance, and it destroyed Rubio's candidacy.

00:15:10.580 But Christie didn't do that to Trump. They were running against each other. He just couldn't do

00:15:16.760 it. Nobody did it to Trump. I'm not convinced anybody can do it to Trump. Maybe Ron DeSantis can.

00:15:24.640 We'll see that in the primary campaign. I'm not really convinced anybody can do it, though.

00:15:29.120 Yeah. So this ought to be a warning. Chris Christie means this as a warning to the other candidates

00:15:37.520 to mean you guys better be ready for what you're in for because Trump's going to come at you like

00:15:43.020 a freight train. To me, that's not the warning. I think this is a clear warning to Ron DeSantis,

00:15:47.080 but the real warning to Ron DeSantis here is know your moment. The real warning that Chris Christie

00:15:54.060 gives to Ron DeSantis is don't miss your moment. Chris Christie would have been a formidable

00:15:59.020 presidential candidate in 2012. He had some of the biggest names in politics calling him saying,

00:16:03.600 run, run, run. He, I think, could have, he was riding high as the governor of New Jersey.

00:16:08.500 He had a little bit of crossover appeal because he was from a blue state, but he had a lot of

00:16:11.480 conservative support. He certainly had more support among conservatives than Mitt Romney did.

00:16:15.280 But he chose not to run. He said, I'm not ready. Then by the time he is ready,

00:16:20.880 no one wants him to be president anymore. Politics changes so quickly, especially presidential politics.

00:16:25.940 This is Ron DeSantis's moment. This moment right now is for Ron DeSantis what 2012 was for Chris

00:16:32.680 Christie. If DeSantis doesn't run now, I'm not convinced he will ever have another moment.

00:16:37.820 I'm not saying that Ron DeSantis will win if he runs now. He might get completely destroyed by Donald Trump.

00:16:45.280 But this is his moment. And you can see Christie, even all these years later after 2012, which was

00:16:51.260 his moment, we're now over a decade later and he just wants that presidency so bad, but it will

00:16:56.740 continue to elude him. Now, all that said, Trump is dominating the field. There's a new poll out from

00:17:02.000 Quinnipiac. Trump is 14 points ahead of Ron DeSantis, who's the number two challenger, and no one else

00:17:09.380 comes even close. So that's in a field with multiple candidates, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence.

00:17:16.060 They're polling for Ted Cruz, even though Senator Cruz doesn't appear that he's going to run.

00:17:20.580 Vivek Ramaswamy is on the board with a point, which is quite impressive for a candidate who came out of

00:17:24.620 nowhere and has very low name recognition at the very beginning of his campaign. So even with all

00:17:29.160 those candidates, Trump's got a 14-point lead. And then they measured head-to-head against Ron DeSantis.

00:17:33.780 In a head-to-head matchup, Trump is still leading by 10 points, 52 to 42. And Trump has a higher

00:17:41.940 favorable rating over Republicans than DeSantis does. Because the whole argument is that Trump

00:17:50.440 is deeply unlikable and that's why we have to move on from him. Well, he's got a higher favorable

00:17:53.680 rating. That's close. DeSantis is very likable too, but it's 79 to 72. So the race remains, as I've said

00:18:00.420 from the beginning, the race is Trump's to lose. He's still the favorite. He's where the money

00:18:04.920 ought to be. Can Ron DeSantis turn that around? He might well be able to do it. Will he be the

00:18:08.740 nominee? He might well be the nominee. But right now, no matter what you're hearing from the chattering

00:18:14.100 class and all the political operatives, right now the numbers are quite clear. This is still Trump's

00:18:19.580 race. So what happens? Whoever gets it, Trump, DeSantis, Vivek, I don't know, whoever gets it,

00:18:24.660 the challenge is to restore not just the GOP, not just conservatism, capital C, trademark over the M,

00:18:32.800 but to restore the country. The country is in deep trouble. We've been talking all week about how the

00:18:37.940 country has just gone crazy. Why is that? There's a new poll out from the Wall Street Journal, NORC.

00:18:45.980 It shows that support for traditional American values has declined. It's declined precipitously,

00:18:52.700 almost across the board. This poll measured five areas. Patriotism, community involvement,

00:19:02.060 religion, having children, and money. Only one of those has increased. Guess which one? I think you

00:19:08.640 know. People still like making money. People still support making money. But all the other ones have

00:19:15.620 declined precipitously. So now we are just worshiping mammon. What's it say in the Bible?

00:19:23.000 Seek ye first money, and then all the other stuff will follow. No, I don't think that's quite what it

00:19:26.400 says. All of the things that make our country great, people no longer value. Patriotism, religion,

00:19:35.860 having kids, community involvement. Just money we value. How'd that happen? It hasn't happened in a

00:19:42.080 vacuum. Sometimes you'll hear feckless, well-intentioned conservatives say, well, we've

00:19:47.680 just got to encourage people. We got to restore those values. The values haven't collapsed in a

00:19:53.280 vacuum. They've been crowded out. They've been replaced by other values. Other values that

00:20:01.680 conservatives have failed to suppress, have failed to refute in the name of the free marketplace of

00:20:07.920 ideas and neutrality and the blessings of liberty to support things like Drag Queen Story Hour. We

00:20:14.600 have surrendered our deeply held political beliefs, and we've surrendered that ground to these values.

00:20:24.620 Why is patriotism on the decline? Because the libs have enshrined in our education system,

00:20:29.740 in our culture, in our law in some places, anti-Americanism, multiculturalism, the idea that

00:20:35.560 America's evil. That's what kids are taught now. That's what kids are taught in government schools.

00:20:38.700 The position of the state is that America is bad, and that nationalism is bad, and that we all should

00:20:43.920 just be citizens of the world kumbaya. That's why it's declined. Why has religion declined? Because

00:20:48.140 the state has decided to ban the Bible from schools, and ban prayer from schools, and ban religion in many

00:20:53.580 ways from public life. That's why. It wasn't an organic development. It was imposed by political

00:20:59.720 activists wielding political power. Why is having kids on the way down? Because the government

00:21:04.160 decided to encourage contraception. The government decided to enshrine baby slaughter. Abortion is a

00:21:11.560 matter of law. Fortunately, now we've had a reprieve from that. We've overruled Roe v. Wade. So there's

00:21:16.080 a chance to push back for a culture of life. Why is community involvement down? Because the state

00:21:21.060 has grown immensely and taken over a lot of areas that were previously controlled by charities and

00:21:26.840 civic associations, because religion has declined, because of economic policies that have destroyed

00:21:34.560 communities, that have destroyed towns, that have intentionally shipped jobs overseas, shipped

00:21:38.680 manufacturing overseas, hollowed out the American middle class. That's why. It hasn't happened in a

00:21:43.360 vacuum. This has been a deliberate agenda. I'm not saying it's a shadowy cabal that's intent on

00:21:49.040 destroying our nation. I suppose it might be. But it might be a not-so-shadowy cabal that pursued a

00:21:54.140 political agenda that has harmed our country and that has put forward terrible beliefs because they

00:22:00.200 sincerely believe them. But they're sincerely wrong. And we need to have the courage and the

00:22:04.140 clarity to say, you are sincerely wrong. You're not going to teach that crap in schools. You're not

00:22:08.660 going to kick the Bible out of schools and replace it with gay porn and genderqueer and all this other

00:22:14.520 degeneracy. We're not going to allow you to ship our jobs overseas and to destroy our communities.

00:22:20.720 And we're not going to tolerate a national policy of stopping people from having kids and destroying

00:22:28.900 marriage. We're just going to say no. You're imposing your terrible values on us. We're going

00:22:33.640 to say no to that. And we're going to reimpose true belief. We're going to reimpose ideas and

00:22:41.520 institutions that are conducive to human flourishing. Because politics is not merely downstream of culture.

00:22:48.600 The law is also a teacher. And if you want to have a better culture and you want to have a

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00:24:13.780 slash Knowles. What values are we supporting? All the traditional American values have collapsed

00:24:22.320 other than making money. So what values are we supporting? We conservatives. Well, according to

00:24:27.660 NBC, Republicans and conservatives, we are turning to anti-trans rhetoric.

00:24:35.860 The conversation is pivoting too when it comes to some more conservative lawmakers from changing gun laws

00:24:41.600 to something like mental health, for example, other Republicans to anti-trans rhetoric or to calling

00:24:46.840 this a hate crime against Christians. It seems like that's where the conversation is, at least in the

00:24:50.320 House of Representatives. Yeah, there's been a long list that's evolved over the years where,

00:24:55.740 you know, a lot of pro-gun lawmakers have been pointing the blame. It's gone from video games.

00:25:01.860 There's a lot of talk about mental health, alienation. Now there's some focus on the fact that the

00:25:07.020 shooter was apparently transgender. But the bottom line is Republicans don't want to, you know,

00:25:12.700 tighten gun laws. And as a result, a number of these other explanations are coming up.

00:25:18.420 I think they're getting the order backwards, saying, listen, these Republicans really just,

00:25:22.480 they don't want to ban guns. And so they're coming up ex post facto with all these ridiculous

00:25:27.960 explanations of why America's lost its mind. But it's all just because they don't want to ban guns,

00:25:33.920 which are obviously the real problem. As I pointed out on this show, the only thing we know cannot lie

00:25:38.380 at the cause of an increase in these mass shooting events, these school shooting events,

00:25:43.440 these particularly gruesome crimes. The only thing that cannot explain that is guns.

00:25:50.960 Because guns have not really changed over the last century. Guns have existed for a thousand years,

00:25:57.640 and they have improved in lethality over time. But they haven't really changed in the last hundred years.

00:26:03.520 The machine gun was invented in 1884, the portable machine gun. The Tommy gun was invented in 1918,

00:26:10.040 a lot more deadly than whatever rifles you can go buy at Walmart right now. Furthermore,

00:26:16.080 the AK-47 was invented in 1947. That's where the name came from. The AR-10 and the AR-15 were

00:26:21.980 invented in the 1950s. It was a long time ago. These guns have all been around for a very long time.

00:26:29.280 That's not what's changed. What has changed is our approach to mental health and spiritual reality

00:26:37.480 and political institutions. An approach which has caused all of those to collapse.

00:26:46.520 The one thing it hasn't caused to collapse is spiritual reality. It's just caused our relationship

00:26:51.700 to spiritual reality to become deeply, deeply perverted. So now the GOP is turning to anti-trans

00:26:59.420 rhetoric. What is anti-trans rhetoric? I don't even know what that means.

00:27:04.560 I know what pro-reality rhetoric is. I engage in pro-reality rhetoric. That's my favorite kind of

00:27:11.960 rhetoric. Rhetoric can be used to any persuasive end. Rhetoric doesn't necessarily need to concern

00:27:21.360 itself with true things. This is Plato's criticism and Plato's Socrates' criticism of

00:27:29.060 the rhetoricians and the sophists, is that they don't care about the truth and they don't care

00:27:34.300 about philosophy. I want to make sure that whatever rhetoric I'm engaging in is concerned primarily

00:27:41.060 with the truth. And the truth is that a man can't really be a woman and a woman can't really be a man.

00:27:45.880 And I know that seems to irritate some people. And I know that basic statement of reality seems to

00:27:52.580 provoke some people to violence. But it's the truth. And I'm not going to lie. And you people

00:27:58.280 are not going to make me lie. You on NBC, you in the White House, you activists threatening us with

00:28:06.580 a day of vengeance. None of you are going to make me lie. Anti-trans rhetoric. What does that mean?

00:28:13.700 It means you think that men and women are different, that they're real natural categories

00:28:20.580 and little girls should not be forced to get changed in a locker room with deeply confused

00:28:27.500 naked men. That's what it means. If that's anti-trans rhetoric, I guess I'm engaged in it.

00:28:32.940 You know why I'm engaged in it? Because it's true. Our entire culture, our entire legal system,

00:28:40.660 our entire government should be engaged, whenever this issue comes up, in anti-trans rhetoric.

00:28:48.580 Not rhetoric aimed against people who are confused. Rather, rhetoric aimed at the absurd ideology

00:29:01.740 that is confusing those people. Because that ideology is harming a lot of people. It's harming

00:29:08.200 the people who have fallen prey to its deception. And it's harming the people that those deceived people

00:29:15.500 are now harming and advocating that others harm as well. We should all always engage in pro-reality

00:29:26.820 rhetoric from the highest level. There's no neutrality here. There's no middle ground.

00:29:32.080 There's no middle ground between clear truth and clear falsehood. Pick a side.

00:29:36.880 The state is not neutral. You know how I know the state's not neutral? You remember back when Roe v.

00:29:42.720 Wade was overruled? When there was a leaked document from a court leaker whose identity,

00:29:48.480 apparently, we're never going to know. There were only about a dozen people that it could possibly be.

00:29:53.440 But for some reason, we still don't know who leaked that document out of the Supreme Court.

00:29:58.420 And it was leaked to put political pressure on the judges and to threaten the judges with violence

00:30:03.780 to change their vote before Roe v. Wade was overruled. And the license,

00:30:09.340 national license to abortion was declared silly. So there were protests outside of the judges' homes.

00:30:17.160 Justice Kavanaugh, Alito, Barrett, I think Roberts too. There was an attempted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh.

00:30:27.420 And the question at the time was, why are these protesters allowed to protest? It's a federal crime

00:30:32.200 to protest at a judge's home, certainly, really even at a courthouse, with the intention of changing

00:30:39.000 the verdict in a case. That's a federal crime. It's defined in the U.S. code.

00:30:45.860 Why were these people not arrested? Why were they not dispersed?

00:30:50.640 Well, now we know. According to documents obtained by Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt,

00:30:57.580 Joe Biden's Attorney General, Merrick Garland, ordered the U.S. Marshals not to arrest the protesters.

00:31:04.100 He said it shouldn't be a top priority. This is being reported by Washington Times.

00:31:06.920 Because Merrick Garland told senators earlier this month that his prosecutors could not bring cases

00:31:11.940 against these criminals who were intimidating judges. And in one case, then ultimately attempted

00:31:18.180 to kill a judge. Unless those marshals made arrests and the marshals on the scene didn't think there

00:31:23.140 was reason to do that. But that was a BS explanation. The reason they didn't think there was reason to do

00:31:29.200 that is because Merrick Garland told them not to. So Garland told the marshals to stand down,

00:31:36.920 encouraged the leftists to break the law to try to influence the decision, and then lied to the

00:31:42.640 Senate. They were actively discouraged from arresting the protesters, according to these documents.

00:31:52.240 That was the political purpose that the Biden administration wanted to affect. Law be damned.

00:32:00.340 No neutrality here, folks. If you lament that American values have declined,

00:32:06.920 just look at the values that have replaced them. You're going to believe something or another.

00:32:12.960 Everybody's got to serve somebody. Are we going to have the clarity and the courage to impose our

00:32:20.100 vision? I think our vision is true. I think our vision is good for everybody. You know the libs are

00:32:24.940 going to impose their vision on us. Their vision is evil. Their vision is harmful to everybody.

00:32:30.960 Which is it going to be? Are we going to have the courage to govern ourselves?

00:32:35.940 You know, postmodernism's belief that truth and beauty are subjective is flawed and extends to

00:32:41.280 fundamental beings, the fundamental beings such as God. Keith Getty, the songwriter responsible for

00:32:46.720 a modern-day hymn, discusses this idea in Jordan Peterson's Logos and Literacy.

00:32:53.280 John 1 begins with, in the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.

00:32:59.720 God is before all time. If He is the creator of the world, He created beauty. Beauty and truth

00:33:08.900 are linked together. The postmodernists will tell us that beauty doesn't exist. It only exists in

00:33:13.720 whatever you can create for yourself in life. But we believe that all the evidence around us points

00:33:19.900 to a world, to music, to human love, that all point to beauty, that point to a creator God.

00:33:26.040 Here is where I would normally tell you that Logos and Literacy is only for Daily Wire Plus members,

00:33:31.580 but we are making it available for free for everyone at dailywireplus.com, only for a limited

00:33:35.840 time. So watch Logos and Literacy today at dailywireplus.com. My favorite comment yesterday

00:33:44.040 is from Maria Marconi, who says, the subtlety and delicacy with which the editing team removes

00:33:51.300 language that YouTube censors is stunning. What artistry? What technical precision? Thank you

00:33:57.660 very much. All credit there goes to producer Danny, because there are certain things, and

00:34:03.220 big tech has clamped down on this in recent weeks. There are certain things where if you say it,

00:34:09.240 your video will be removed, you'll get a strike, they'll nuke your channel, and that's it. You're out.

00:34:13.160 You can't get a message out to the zillions and zillions of people on these platforms.

00:34:17.840 So I refuse to be censored, but I also refuse to commit seppuku on these platforms so that

00:34:25.960 the libs can say, I censored myself. So how do we get around it? Well, the way we get around it is

00:34:31.440 really talented editors making clear exactly what the story is and what the truth is.

00:34:40.080 But if you want to hear all of the exact words, you got to go to Daily Wire Plus. That's how we can

00:34:46.800 be wise as serpents and innocent as doves over at DailyWire.com. Use promo code Knowles. You will get

00:34:54.980 two months free. Then we can all keep chatting together, perhaps in perpetuity. And when I say

00:35:03.880 perpetuity, I mean perpetuity. I mean forever. Because according to Ray Kurzweil, we are on the

00:35:13.400 brink of immortality. There's an old clip resurfacing from a documentary about Ray Kurzweil. Ray Kurzweil is

00:35:21.480 a computer scientist and he's much respected in Silicon Valley and has been for decades now.

00:35:28.700 And Ray Kurzweil has predicted that within about eight or so years, mankind will achieve

00:35:37.140 in this world, eternal life.

00:35:40.800 Kurzweil says revolutions in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics will usher in the

00:35:46.160 beginning of the singularity. Kurzweil feels with sufficient genetic technology, it should be

00:35:51.380 possible to maintain the body indefinitely, reversing aging while curing cancer, heart disease,

00:35:56.840 and other illnesses. Kurzweil envisions nanobots which allow people to eat whatever they want

00:36:02.180 while remaining thin and fit, provide copious energy, fight off infections or cancer, replace

00:36:07.900 organs and augment their brains. Eventually people's bodies will contain so much augmentation they'll

00:36:13.960 be able to alter their physical manifestation at will. Kurzweil writes that by 2010 a supercomputer

00:36:19.660 will have the computational capacity to emulate human intelligence, and by around 2020 this same

00:36:25.840 capacity will be available for $1,000. After that milestone, he expects human brain scanning to

00:36:32.680 contribute to an effective model of human intelligence by the mid-2020. These two elements

00:36:38.020 will culminate in computers that can pass the Turing test by 2029. By the early 2030, the amount of

00:36:44.660 non-biological computation will exceed the capacity of all living biological human intelligence.

00:36:50.460 So this is not a new documentary. This is obviously not a new prediction. Ray Kurzweil has made all sorts

00:36:56.860 of predictions over the years, and you might say this is totally far-fetched. And then you just start

00:37:00.080 hearing some of his predictions. Well, he did say, he did kind of predict when AI would start to really

00:37:06.520 develop, and then he kind of predicted almost perfectly when AI would really start to take off. And he's

00:37:12.520 made a lot of other predictions too. According to Ray Kurzweil and his supporters, out of the 147

00:37:22.120 discrete predictions he has made about technology and humanity in the future, 86% of them have come

00:37:29.580 true. So are we going to live forever here on Earth? I don't believe it. I don't quite believe it.

00:37:38.060 So 86% right means that you were wrong 14% of the time. I'm no mathematician, but that's,

00:37:43.440 I think, how the numbers work out. And here's why I think that. Here are some of the other

00:37:48.740 predictions Ray Kurzweil has made. He accurately predicted that consumers will be able to design

00:37:53.560 their own clothes with precise measurements and style requirements from home computers by 1999.

00:37:59.240 And that happened. The world's best chess player would lose to a computer by 2000. That happened.

00:38:08.060 Deep Blue totally destroyed Kasparov with facts and logic. That people would primarily use portable

00:38:14.460 computers in a wide range of sizes and shapes by 2009. 2009 maps almost exactly with the development

00:38:22.480 of the iPhone. Here we go. I got this one over here. We have all sorts of supercomputers. Yep.

00:38:25.640 Little miniature computers, rather. And the majority of the world would have high bandwidth

00:38:30.000 wireless internet access at all times by 2010. Seems to have basically come true.

00:38:34.080 All of those predictions are rather limited in scope, though. Those are the kinds of predictions

00:38:42.060 that futurists and technology-minded people have accurately made for centuries now.

00:38:52.060 The immortality prediction is something that power-mad fallen humans have predicted and sought after

00:39:01.140 since the dawn of time. Since the earliest mythical conceptions of humanity, we have sought after that.

00:39:14.280 And I don't see it happening. Just as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden might have reached for that

00:39:20.500 tree of the knowledge. Well, they did reach for the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

00:39:24.340 They might have reached for the tree of life, and they were booted out of the garden. Just as

00:39:27.920 the ancient Babylonians were building up that Tower of Babel, they were just about to reach heaven,

00:39:33.480 and then they were all scattered. I just don't think we get there. I think that human beings,

00:39:40.600 even if we're blundering into that sort of thing, we will be protected for our own good by our own

00:39:46.760 incompetence. And I just don't buy it. I think these are people who could have eternal life

00:39:53.000 if they wanted it. They just got to say the word. They're not going to do it through

00:39:56.640 their own efforts and their own computers. Now, where does America stand? America is

00:40:08.160 at a crossroads because both sides seem to not like the country that much anymore.

00:40:15.480 The left doesn't like America because of what America has been. America's so evil. It's got the

00:40:20.880 original sin. That's the slavery. And so it's always bigoted and evil. And the right is increasingly

00:40:26.940 disenchanted with America because America is standing for what? America is standing against

00:40:31.820 the rule of law, standing against self-government. America's standing against Christianity.

00:40:36.960 America's standing against even the distinction between men and women. And America's values that

00:40:42.020 we're exporting around the world are what? It's wokeness and the rainbow flag. You just had the

00:40:46.040 Pentagon confirmed that LGBTism is a key American value that we are protecting overseas.

00:40:55.320 That's what we're exporting. No longer truth, justice in the American way. We're just trying

00:40:59.680 to raise a pride flag in Kandahar. Okay, count me out of intervention then, I guess.

00:41:04.020 Sonny Hostin made this point on The View. Sonny Hostin, one of the cackling hens,

00:41:09.440 who said, America, we're no better than any other country around the world.

00:41:13.160 When I listened to Christopher Wray, the head of the FBI, he said white supremacy is the biggest

00:41:20.840 domestic threat to this country. And so as a woman of color with a six foot two black kid

00:41:27.620 in college and a five foot seven, five foot eight black kid in high school, I don't see that part of

00:41:34.960 American exceptionalism. I'm sorry. I think this country has a lot of problems that could be solved.

00:41:41.660 Yes, maybe they're putting Muslims in jail in Afghanistan, I think you mentioned,

00:41:46.920 and China, they're putting a lot of more black people in jail here.

00:41:50.960 There it is. So yeah, sure, China is engaged in a process of mass sterilization. They've long been

00:41:58.980 engaged in a process of mass slaughter through abortion. And yeah, they're engaged in ethnic

00:42:06.360 cleansing and they're sending a particular religious and ethnic group to a prison camp.

00:42:12.360 But America arrests black street criminals. So it's like kind of, it's kind of the same thing,

00:42:19.360 right? I don't think it's the same thing. You'll see a lot of knee jerk right wing reactions to this

00:42:25.440 clip from The View. They'll say, you're anti-American. How dare you make a comparison

00:42:29.860 comparison between America and any other country on earth? I don't think that's necessarily beyond

00:42:35.640 the pale. I'm not opposed in principle to making these kinds of comparisons. I made one of these

00:42:39.660 comparisons yesterday. They said that the United States, we allege that we're going to ban TikTok.

00:42:46.440 That's why the Uniparty in Washington DC is in favor of this bill to restrict act to ban TikTok.

00:42:51.540 Except the bill doesn't ban TikTok. What it does is it gives the government

00:42:54.480 and unaccountable bureaucrats more control over what people get to say on the internet.

00:43:00.120 That's my problem with it. We point out that China has a social credit score. Well, America in

00:43:05.160 many ways has a social credit score. If you say things that are heterodox, or if you say things that

00:43:10.780 contradict the prevailing line of the regime, or if you say things that are genuinely nasty,

00:43:17.960 you can be completely ostracized from society. Put on a no-fly list, debanked, kicked off of every

00:43:23.680 social platform. You're just done. Is that so different from a social credit score?

00:43:29.220 China has mass surveillance. Oh, you want to talk to Americans about mass surveillance?

00:43:35.240 Yeah, I think we know a thing or two about surveillance of our own citizens in this country.

00:43:43.180 Well, in China, they arrest political dissidents. Oh, yeah. Tell me, how are the grannies doing in

00:43:48.840 solitary confinement? Because they decided to take a picture in the Capitol Rotunda on January 6th,

00:43:54.640 the worst day ever in the history of the world. Yeah. No, look, these comparisons are fine

00:44:00.700 to make. It's a way of improving our own country. But the comparison that Sonny Hostin is making here

00:44:05.880 is inapt. What Sonny Hostin is doing is simply encouraging criminality. Saying, yeah, the Chinese

00:44:12.320 are persecuting the Uyghurs the way the American government persecutes black men. The difference is

00:44:17.260 the Uyghurs aren't committing crimes. And they're not having the law, which applies to everybody,

00:44:22.560 just enforced against them sometimes, frankly, not even all of the time, which is what we're

00:44:26.940 talking about here. When you say, well, black men are being arrested at disproportionately high

00:44:30.820 rates. Not really. They're just committing crimes at disproportionately high rates.

00:44:38.020 Would that it were not so. Well, it'd be great. Let's try to reform something. That's fine by me.

00:44:43.380 But the libs don't want to reform anything. In fact, the libs want to encourage criminality

00:44:46.540 and go easier on the criminals, which means they won't be rehabilitated. They won't be reformed.

00:44:51.620 These problems are going to persist. They're going to plague, in particular,

00:44:55.880 these communities. But if you go soft on it, you're just going soft on crime, which is,

00:45:00.640 of course, what the libs want to do. The libs encourage this criminality because it allows

00:45:05.140 them to clamp down and claim more power. And it allows them to use these groups of people

00:45:10.860 as a cudgel to intimidate ordinary innocent civilians. I'm not just talking about street

00:45:19.260 criminals in the inner cities. I'm talking about people at universities. There's a Wayne State

00:45:24.760 University professor, Stephen Shaviro, who has just come out and encouraged leftists to murder

00:45:35.760 me, to murder me, to murder Matt Walsh, to murder Ben, to murder all of us here at The Daily Wire,

00:45:42.480 and to murder Tennessee legislators, but specifically to murder conservatives who come to college campuses

00:45:49.880 and speak out in defense of reality against the absurdity of transgender ideology. Here's what he said.

00:45:56.860 He said, here is what I think about free speech on campus. Although I do not advocate violating

00:46:00.780 federal and state criminal codes, I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic,

00:46:05.280 or here's the key, transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down. What does transphobic mean?

00:46:13.040 It means pro-reality. Transphobic, the irrational fear of affirming disturbed people in their

00:46:24.140 misperception of reality, of encouraging people who, according to at least one major study,

00:46:31.880 are the most likely to support violent radicalization, to encourage them to kill us.

00:46:40.260 That's what the professor has done. The professor has been suspended. He obviously should have been

00:46:46.680 fired on the spot and perhaps should be prosecuted. I'm not sure that this statement rises quite to the

00:46:53.620 level of a direct threat, but we are all giving speeches now. We'll see. I've got a lot of speeches

00:46:59.300 lined up. I have no intention of shutting them down. We'll see how much vengeance the libs are trying

00:47:06.040 to wreak. But as of now, all of these speeches are on and we're going to continue. We're going to

00:47:12.920 continue to speak the truth. And I don't care if some Wayne State University professor is threatening

00:47:18.780 to or encouraging his students to kill us all. We will not be made in lies. This is, we will not be

00:47:25.300 made to live in lies. This is, this is the greatest political revolution in the history of the world.

00:47:31.760 It's the political revolution of Christianity. Until the incarnation and the crucifixion and the

00:47:37.940 resurrection, until that time, political rulers had a trump card, which is, if you don't do what

00:47:43.300 we say, even if what we say is harmful, even if what we say is false, if you don't live according

00:47:49.260 to the lies that we insist you live under, we will kill you. And that was that, and that's the end of

00:47:53.700 life, and then you're over. And what the pivot of history, the incarnation inaugurates,

00:47:58.480 is a period in which political rulers lost that trump card. Because no matter how tyrannical and

00:48:06.580 powerful a political ruler is, they can't, they can't take away your soul and they can't take away

00:48:13.080 your eternal life. They can, they can make you scream, but they can't make you talk. They can't

00:48:21.080 make you repeat their lies. They can make you scream. They can harm your body, but they can't take away

00:48:25.620 your life, ultimately. They can't take away your life. We've got a lot more coming up in the member

00:48:31.540 block. We've got a lot on AI. Producer Jacob has taken over the show today. We'll see how he does.

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Ep. 1214 - The Trans Day of Vengeance is Coming

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