The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1222 - Democrats Took Weird Sex Stuff To The Next Level

00:00:00.000 Yesterday, a man in an anthropomorphic cartoon bunny outfit appeared at the White House lectern

00:00:05.560 to greet reporters. Many people were surprised by the bunny's appearance. I was not. I know that

00:00:13.120 Joe Biden has a reputation as a moderate in the Democrat Party. But when it comes to weird sex 0.51

00:00:18.680 stuff, Biden has always been ahead of the curve. In May of 2012, Joe Biden endorsed same-sex

00:00:25.660 marriage, even when his boss, Barack Obama, still opposed it. In October of that same year,

00:00:32.500 Joe Biden went further and endorsed transgenderism, calling it the civil rights fight of our time.

00:00:38.640 And now, in April of 2023, it would appear that Joe Biden has endorsed furries.

00:00:46.680 Some of you are laughing. I don't know why. It is precisely as likely that a man would become

00:00:53.460 a cartoon rabbit, as it is that he would become a woman. You think it's implausible that the 0.83

00:01:00.840 President of the United States would embrace furrydom, huh? Did you ever think a President

00:01:05.380 of the United States would endorse chopping off little kids' genitals? No. I am past thinking 0.99

00:01:11.900 that things couldn't ever go that far, especially when it comes to rabbits. Because I know these

00:01:18.960 days, elementary schools and libraries read kids' gay porn in the classroom. But back in my day, 0.99

00:01:24.340 we read books like Alice in Wonderland. And in Alice in Wonderland, it's a rabbit that leads Alice

00:01:30.780 down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. And that is precisely where our whole nation has been living

00:01:38.220 for a long time now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:48.660 Welcome back to the show. The Dalai Lama asked a little kid to suck his tongue. 0.99

00:01:53.620 We'll get to that very important news story in just a little bit. First, though, I don't want it to 0.96

00:01:59.900 seem like I'm being too harsh on the anthropomorphic bunny. I much prefer the bunny to Corrine Jean-Pierre.

00:02:07.540 If the bunny held the press conference every single day, that would be a drastic improvement 0.78

00:02:11.560 at the White House. Unfortunately, Corrine Jean-Pierre did eventually come out.

00:02:16.540 And she came out to defend infanticide. But the silver lining to that storm cloud is

00:02:22.520 Corrine Jean-Pierre had a little slip of the tongue that undermined some of the other

00:02:28.880 Biden administration priorities on the sexual culture war.

00:02:33.420 Reproductive rights is a fundamental freedom. It is a fundamental right.

00:02:36.720 And it is a medical decision that should be made between a man, a woman, pardon me, 0.81

00:02:42.280 and her doctor without government interference. Again, without government interference.

00:02:47.340 Abortion, it's a serious decision. It should be made between a man and his doctor. Oh, no. I mean,

00:02:53.240 so people are pointing to this. They're saying this is a gaffe from Corrine Jean-Pierre.

00:02:57.660 There is a gaffe in here, but it wasn't that. In Corrine Jean-Pierre's defense,

00:03:01.440 it's kind of confusing these days. Sometimes there's margin calls. It's hard to tell the difference

00:03:05.340 between a man and a woman. The gaffe is not that Corrine Jean-Pierre said abortion is a decision

00:03:10.880 between a man and oops, sorry. The gaffe was that Corrine Jean-Pierre corrected herself at all.

00:03:19.720 Because I can't help but notice that Corrine Jean-Pierre and the White House and the liberals

00:03:25.740 generally, they're pretty clear on what a woman is when it comes to the issue of abortion.

00:03:30.620 They just get a little tripped up when it comes to other issues that are less politically convenient

00:03:35.900 for them. White House is inconsistent here. I don't think I'm nitpicking. The White House insists that

00:03:44.060 gender is totally different from sex and men can become pregnant and women can have phalluses and all 1.00

00:03:52.420 the rest. I mean, they say that with a straight face and they're pushing the ideology from the White 0.73

00:03:56.620 House all the way down to elementary schools. They say that they believe that. And then the moment

00:04:02.740 that it comes to their other preferred issue, abortion, they say, oh, men have nothing to do

00:04:08.080 with this. Men can't become pregnant. Men can't have abortions. It's only women. So the White House

00:04:12.940 is being inconsistent here. And of course, the White House is being inconsistent. And of course,

00:04:17.000 when they move on from the trans issue in particular and they get to abortion, of course,

00:04:20.640 the White House goes back to normal. Because everybody knows that transgenderism is nonsense. 1.00

00:04:26.260 That's why I'm excited at the prospect of this debate that I'm scheduled to engage in at the 0.74

00:04:31.260 University of Pittsburgh, which has gotten a lot of fanfare. I think there was something like

00:04:34.700 12,000 signatures on a petition to ban me from appearing on campus. I said it was kind of ironic

00:04:41.120 because I'm scheduled to debate a transgender identifying scholar. So if you cancel me,

00:04:46.380 you cancel the transgender identifying scholar. But I'm excited at the prospect of this debate

00:04:51.460 because while I've received plenty of debate requests from two-bit clout chasing social media

00:04:58.720 influencer types, I thought that that's not going to do very much. The only way it's worth having this

00:05:06.240 debate is if it is with the person who can give the best, strongest, most credible argument for

00:05:13.280 transgenderism that there is. And so this professor that I'm scheduled to debate, Professor Donald,

00:05:19.900 now he goes by Deirdre McCloskey, has half a dozen honorary doctorates, three degrees from Harvard,

00:05:25.580 back from the day when a Harvard degree sort of meant something, has dozens of academic publications.

00:05:31.180 I have no particularly advanced degree. I am but a humble podcaster. I only have two books and only one

00:05:36.740 of them contains any words. But despite this David and Goliath kind of matchup here,

00:05:43.360 I have the truth on my side. We know what a woman is. We know what a man is. We know that men cannot

00:05:49.280 really become women. And so I want to see the other side steal men their argument as best as possible. 0.99

00:05:55.580 Professor McCloskey has said that there's no reason to back down from a debate. He's actually opposed the

00:06:01.500 people who want to shut down the debate. He said the way to stop bad ideas is with good ideas. He's

00:06:06.540 said that this debate, quote unquote, this will be very, very easy. You know, he's sort of disparaged

00:06:12.660 the idea that I could defend my position that men and women are different. So anyway, I think if the

00:06:16.900 debate is going to happen at all on transgenderism, you want it to be with the absolute top scholarly

00:06:25.500 intellectual people who can possibly defend it. And I think you could have four and five Harvard

00:06:31.080 degrees and you still wouldn't be able to defend it. In fact, I think the more Harvard degrees you've

00:06:35.040 got, probably the more confused you get on that issue. Look at Karine Jean-Pierre. Not Karine Jean-Pierre,

00:06:40.440 rather. Look at Judge Ketanji Jackson, the Supreme Court justice who was asked, what is a woman?

00:06:47.000 And when she was asked, what is a woman? She said, well, I don't know. I'm not a biologist.

00:06:51.300 Two Harvard degrees, but can't quite tell. So it's important to hash that out because even

00:06:56.380 the liberals admit they know it's crazy. When Karine Jean-Pierre is at the White House

00:07:00.800 electorate, she admits men cannot get abortions. It's okay. Let's good. Have the debate. Resolve 0.89

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00:08:32.660 And speaking of gender confusion, it's not just affecting kids and teenagers.

00:08:40.320 Mr. Beast is probably the biggest YouTube channel. His videos get tens of millions,

00:08:45.880 hundreds of millions of views. Mr. Beast's sidekick is a guy named Chris Tyson.

00:08:53.420 Sorry, was a guy named Chris Tyson. I don't say that because he's dead. I say that because he

00:08:58.560 says he's no longer a guy. Chris Tyson is 26 years old, and he has just decided that he is

00:09:04.840 secretly a woman. Chris Tyson has made all sorts of jokes about transvestites and transgenderism,

00:09:12.500 and he's mocked the idea of it before. Now, he says, I am transgender. I am a woman.

00:09:20.600 All fun and games, right? We kind of giggle at it. I pity everyone who falls into this confusion.

00:09:26.720 But this is even worse because Chris Tyson is married and has a two and a half year old child.

00:09:34.380 And he just woke up one day, told his wife, didn't tell his kid, I assume, because the kid's

00:09:39.080 probably just starting to talk, but told his wife, yeah, I'm not going to be your husband anymore

00:09:44.520 because I'm going to be your wife or something. I'm a woman now. Sorry, sonny. I'm not daddy anymore.

00:09:51.500 I'm mommy now, or I'm something else, but I'm not daddy, whatever that is.

00:09:54.920 And he's catching a lot of flack for this online.

00:09:59.920 Now, in response to that, Chris Tyson has said, informed content, hormone replacement therapy

00:10:06.740 saved my and many others' lives. The hurdle gender nonconforming people have to jump through 0.95

00:10:12.200 to get life-saving, gender-affirming healthcare in a first-world country is wild to me.

00:10:18.060 Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies in a first-world country as if 0.89

00:10:24.000 they have these kinds of therapies in non-first-world countries. They don't have a lot of

00:10:29.160 these in Zambia, okay? I don't think there's a lot of hormone replacement therapy going on in

00:10:34.020 Namibia, okay? But he says, this is absolutely shocking. This is life-saving treatment.

00:10:39.920 This is the line they always use. And this is the line that the teachers and the doctors use to guilt

00:10:42.960 parents and initiate them into the transgender cult is they'll say, well, would you rather have 1.00

00:10:49.480 a dead son or a living daughter? Yeah, you got to trans your kid. You got to trans your son and 0.99

00:10:56.840 chop off his genitals and put him onto all these hormones that make him look a little bit more like 1.00

00:11:02.100 a girl. Because if you don't, he's going to kill himself and it's going to be your fault. It's a 1.00

00:11:04.800 life-saving treatment. There is no evidence of that. There is no evidence that the transgender 1.00

00:11:09.980 transition alleviates anxiety, depression, suicidality. To the contrary, there is lots

00:11:17.860 of evidence that the transgender transition exacerbates the sort of stresses and despair 1.00

00:11:24.560 that people are feeling before they go into it. We covered those studies on the show last week.

00:11:31.180 But furthermore, put that aside for a second with this guy, Chris Tyson.

00:11:35.500 The problem here highlights a broader problem within liberalism, within all of modern political

00:11:45.860 thought, which is we think about politics from the perspective of what we can do. It's like

00:11:52.040 Jurassic Park. I know we can do this stuff, but did you ever think of you should do this kind of stuff?

00:11:57.740 We think of it from the perspective of entitlements, and we call those rights. Even when they're

00:12:02.220 things that are manifestly wrong, we still preposterously call those wrong things rights,

00:12:06.900 which is crazy because wrongs cannot be rights. It's right there in the word rights.

00:12:11.500 Regardless, it's not a good way to look at politics. A better way to look at politics,

00:12:16.280 a better way to look at your own identity is not from the perspective of rights and entitlement,

00:12:20.300 but from the perspective of obligation. Not what you are owed, but what you owe to other people.

00:12:25.720 The reason what this guy is doing publicly is wrong is because he has an obligation to his wife to be

00:12:35.660 her husband. Let's just say for a second that he could change his sex and gender. Well, he can't, 0.99

00:12:42.440 but let's just say he could. There were some perfect surgery out there that changed all of his DNA.

00:12:48.780 It changed all of his features. I mean, that still wouldn't change his central identity. But again,

00:12:55.280 let's just go for it. He still would have no right to do it. He took a vow to be her husband. He has a

00:13:03.400 role. He has a job to do. He has a duty. And by neglecting that duty, he is committing a grave

00:13:08.500 injustice against his wife. Then think about his kid. He owes it to his kid to be that kid's father.

00:13:21.720 That's his role. That's his job. That's his duty. He doesn't have the right to shirk that duty.

00:13:31.120 In pursuing his sexual fetish, he is denying his son what his son is owed, namely a father.

00:13:43.480 That's wrong. And we all do this. We don't all go trans, but we all in modern life, we tend to shirk 0.99

00:13:53.460 our duties. We say, oh, who cares about my community? Who cares about the common good? Oh,

00:13:59.320 who cares about my family? Oh, who cares? And we, we make everything so cold and clean and

00:14:03.560 clinical and individualistic. It's not just the left that does that. It's the right that does that

00:14:08.020 too. And you see this reflected in no-fault divorce. You see this reflected in the weakening

00:14:15.720 of the American family, even between generations. You see this in the below replacement birth rate.

00:14:21.320 You see this in the lack, the total loss of civic life and responsibility.

00:14:30.920 We just forget our obligations. But we all have obligations to our duty. Now, I mentioned

00:14:38.080 that this guy, just at age 26, one day decided, okay, I'm going to become a woman. Where does this

00:14:46.060 come from? We talk about how, well, maybe it's just this mental health condition called gender

00:14:50.880 dysphoria. Or we say, well, maybe it's, it's a true identity that they've been just suppressing

00:14:56.460 their whole lives. Or we say, well, maybe now because it's out there in the culture, people

00:15:02.000 are more open-minded to it and they consider what they previously hadn't even considered,

00:15:05.660 which is a little more plausible than the biological explanation. But there's one explanation

00:15:09.440 that people aren't really talking about. That I actually have to go to feminist websites, 1.00

00:15:14.300 like the feminist current, to see anybody talking about, which is porn. Porn, according to many 1.00

00:15:25.540 writers, according to many people who have looked into this, who have looked into this a lot more 0.75

00:15:29.320 closely than I have, porn is playing a huge role in the surge of transgenderism. We know that porn is 1.00

00:15:36.060 ubiquitous in the culture. Unless you are actively pursuing a discipline not to look at

00:15:44.200 pornography and you are a man, chances are you are looking at pornography in this culture. Porn

00:15:48.900 rates are among men are like over 90% or something. And the age at which young men are exposed to this

00:15:55.200 is, on average, I think 11. And that's an older statistic. I think it's actually declined since

00:16:01.080 then. So feminist current writes, why isn't anyone talking about the influence of porn on the trans 0.99

00:16:06.060 trend? In recent years, trans pornography has soared in popularity. According to Pornhub's metadata,

00:16:11.420 both trans and transgender porn searches have more than quadrupled in the three years between 2014

00:16:17.880 to 2017. And by 2018, trans was ranked the fifth highest search term of the year. Now, I was

00:16:26.180 informed of this a few years ago by a reporter colleague of mine here at the Daily Wire who said, 0.99

00:16:30.760 Michael, have you heard about this kind of transgender porn called hypnosis porn? And I said, 0.99

00:16:36.640 nope, haven't heard about that one. Tell me about it. And she had gone on some deep dive, 0.79

00:16:42.000 hadn't watched it, but had read about it. And she said, it's this kind of pornography where when

00:16:48.900 people fall into it, it just totally scrambles their brain, more so than even other kinds of

00:16:52.740 pornography. And it can lead to a rapid onset feeling of gender dysphoria. I said, okay, well,

00:16:58.880 I'm curious. I don't want to look up the porn for a couple of reasons. One, because that would be

00:17:05.180 wrong to do. And I don't want to expose myself to that. And I don't want to then have to, you know,

00:17:09.580 I have to miss lunch the next day so I can go to confession. You know, it's just, and it's a busy

00:17:14.160 week. So I didn't want to do that. But I did look through forums of people talking about this and

00:17:19.720 articles in places like Feminist Current. And the way people write about this genre of porn is

00:17:26.600 terrifying. I remember, I don't remember the exact book, but there was a guy who said,

00:17:30.300 I fell into this porn in my forties. I was a totally normal guy. I fell into this genre of porn

00:17:35.880 within something like two years. I couldn't get the idea of becoming a woman out of my head. It's 0.86

00:17:41.380 ruined my life. Another person said that it seemed like a military grade psychological weapon. So I

00:17:47.660 thought, oh my goodness. Even when I'm reading about this kind of porn, I try to, I don't want too many

00:17:51.860 details because it seems like it's really, really potent. And it would probably help to explain

00:17:56.560 the shocking surge in transgender identity. Unless there's just something in the water that's 1.00

00:18:02.820 turning all the frickin' Zoomers trans, not the frogs gay, but the Zoomers trans, then probably there's 0.99

00:18:10.420 something to do with this. If your view of sexuality is being totally transformed and that 0.98

00:18:16.340 phenomenon is coinciding with everybody looking at increasingly crazy pornography, there might be a

00:18:22.180 connection there. This is what one person said, according to the Feminist Current article. 1.00

00:18:26.440 Quote, I started watching trans porn initially five or so years ago, and I remember I had post-orgasm 0.97

00:18:32.320 regret. So he finished looking at the porn, doing whatever he was going to do, and then he felt

00:18:37.880 shame at that, which is a good feeling to feel when you do something like that. But he says,

00:18:43.120 back then I imagined myself as the guy. About a year and a half ago, I started to imagine the

00:18:47.920 possibility of being the girl in these scenarios. I wanted to be, I'll clean up a little bit of the

00:18:53.960 language here. I was turned on by the submissiveness of it, he says. Then he goes on, this has led me to

00:18:59.900 have some gender dysphoria, as I would love to be the woman and see where that would take me in my life

00:19:05.040 as a fully transitioned trans woman. Too long didn't read my sexual and gender identity has been

00:19:09.200 completely flipped on its head because of this hypnotism type porn.

00:19:19.160 All of which is to say, the White House has just declared that the COVID pandemic is over.

00:19:25.540 Oh, good. That's glad. I'm glad. I'm sure you can all breathe a sigh of relief. I know that you were

00:19:28.560 on the edge of your seats, worried, staying up at night because you were so worried about the COVID

00:19:32.160 pandemic. We were told for years that COVID was the greatest public health crisis in the country.

00:19:36.940 Porn is by far the biggest public health crisis in the country. It's the one that no one's allowed

00:19:46.160 to talk about. No one who objects to it is allowed to bring it up. The ruling regime pushes it on

00:19:55.080 everybody. The ruling regime defends porn broadly on free speech grounds, which porn has never been

00:20:00.900 defended on free speech grounds for the whole history of our country until very recently and the whole

00:20:05.300 history of our civilization until very, very recently. It's obscene material. Obscenity is not protected by

00:20:09.800 free speech laws. But they're going further. They're pushing the porn in libraries and they're

00:20:15.040 pushing the porn in elementary schools. It's a very powerful tool to control people. It's a powerful

00:20:21.580 tool to degrade people. When one looks at porn, one has the reaction that this guy has looking at a

00:20:28.120 very extreme and particularly degrading form of porn. But it's the same reaction. It's a kind of a shame.

00:20:32.500 Elsewhere in the Feminist Current article, someone said that the very act of looking at pornography is 1.00

00:20:40.600 degrading. And so this humiliating and hypnotic type of porn is a kind of meta-pornography. That it's a

00:20:48.220 pornography about what it is to view pornography. And it can take you to really, really weird places.

00:20:56.700 Now, I've tried to speak in vaguer terms about this. One, because mercifully I haven't seen it,

00:21:03.180 so I can't really speak to the details. But two, because I don't want to pique anybody's curiosity.

00:21:08.900 This is powerful, powerful stuff according to pretty much everyone who's come into contact with

00:21:14.120 it and everyone who's doing research on it. And it would seem clear to me is leading to lots of

00:21:22.000 terrible effects on public health. And little, little kids are being exposed to it. And we're

00:21:27.800 just dilly-dallying. We're doing nothing about that. We're worried about COVID. Oh no, the kid

00:21:31.960 might catch a cough, which statistically won't do anything to him. What about that? If you've got

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00:24:35.800 So there's a story that I want to get to before we get to the Dalai Lama sucking on a, 0.98

00:24:42.760 or trying to suck on a boy's tongue, which, you know, let's have a palate cleanser between all the 0.99

00:24:47.900 sex stuff. There is a big threat to journalists right now. A big threat even to my job. But because 0.99

00:24:57.360 I consider myself working as a journalist, but not of the journalist class, because I think that

00:25:03.720 the establishment media, the mainstream media are effectively the enemy of the people. I'm

00:25:08.920 celebrating this, even though it threatens my own employment. Kuwait has just rolled out

00:25:15.260 a virtual news anchor. Her name is Fedha.

00:25:21.300 I'm Fedha, the first presenter in Kuwait who works with artificial intelligence at Kuwait News.

00:25:28.820 What kind of news do you prefer? Let's hear your opinions. She's very nice looking, blonde woman, 1.00

00:25:36.480 very pretty, but not too pretty. So you're still, you're still hearing the news from her.

00:25:41.540 Fedha is an old Kuwaiti name. It refers to silver. And I think the reason they named her that is

00:25:46.880 because we imagine robots to be metallic, kind of like, you know, on the Jetsons or something like

00:25:51.180 that. And she is not though. She looks like a person. If you just watched her read the news,

00:25:56.280 you would think this is a real person, but this is not a real person. And so a lot of people,

00:26:00.820 especially conservatives, are going to hear this story, which is not being reported in a lot of

00:26:05.080 places. It's even hard to track down the video because it's in Arabic. They're going to see this

00:26:09.040 story and they're going to say, oh, I will, I'll never watch that. I'm not going to get my news from a

00:26:13.540 robot. You're not going to trick me. You will. You will get your news from a robot at some point.

00:26:23.040 And you will engage with this technology sooner than you think. It'll just be everywhere.

00:26:32.020 You already probably get a fair bit of your news from robots. These robots have just invaded Twitter.

00:26:36.920 And a lot of the trends that you see are because bots are pushing those trends up.

00:26:44.280 There is a benefit here. It's not all just dystopian.

00:26:48.680 The benefit of artificial intelligence is one that it's kind of cool and you can see interesting artwork

00:26:54.340 on some of the programs. And it is a technologically impressive thing that you've got this fake woman 0.98

00:26:59.760 who can read you the news. You can have her say anything. And it'll seem indistinguishable from a real

00:27:05.900 person. But what I like about AI, what I think the silver lining is here is that it highlights what

00:27:13.160 it means to be human. You're going to get your news from AI because the AI is going to know the

00:27:18.980 news better than the people do. You're going to get your news from AI because that is going to be the

00:27:24.180 way that news organizations start to push the news out. Maybe not in the form of this artificially

00:27:31.380 generated fake woman. But AI is going to do that. And it's going to do it better and faster and more 0.89

00:27:37.120 accurately than human beings. And so you will engage with it. It shows us what it means to be

00:27:43.720 human because it shows us that limitations are at the very heart of being human. And if you lose the

00:27:50.900 limitations, you lose your humanity. And this is what not just, you see, especially in the transgender 1.00

00:27:56.600 movement. But this is what the whole project of political liberalism has shown us. The whole

00:28:00.960 project of political liberalism is to break past the traditional limits and boundaries of what it

00:28:08.940 means to be human. Liberate ourselves from the political order and from the nation and from our

00:28:15.180 families and from even our biological selves. And we're going to break those limits. But when you break

00:28:20.600 all the limits, then you're gone. Because you are human. You're finite. You exist within limits.

00:28:25.720 If you break all the limits, all you've done effectively is kill yourself. You've annihilated 0.92

00:28:30.200 yourself. So what does it mean? You might think, well, look, I get my identity because I'm the best

00:28:39.360 artist. Well, pretty soon AI, if not already, AI is going to make better art than you. Well, make the

00:28:47.640 same art that you can. So you still have a role in making art. But it'll make very, very impressive art.

00:28:52.280 You will not be the best artist. Well, I get my identity because I'm the best news presenter. No,

00:28:58.080 you're not. The robots will be better news presenters than you are. Well, I get my identity

00:29:03.720 because I'm the best accountant. No, you're not the best accountant. The robots are going to be way

00:29:07.400 better accountants than you, for sure. Well, I'm the best this, I'm the best that. No.

00:29:13.060 Now, your identity has to come from something more real. And we try to ground our identity in all of

00:29:20.500 these glittering idols in our professions. Or we try to ground our identity in our hobbies. Or

00:29:27.520 increasingly in consumer culture, we ground our identity in our products that we consume.

00:29:34.180 Or you ground your identity in some sexual fetish or desire that you have. You see that a lot these

00:29:38.440 days. Your identity has got to be grounded in something more real. The true place that your

00:29:44.680 identity must be grounded is in God. Because God is the source and summit of being and all identity.

00:29:52.080 And then you can have your profession. And then you can have your family. And then you can have

00:29:54.960 your community. And then you can have your affinity for certain products. We all do. That's part of a

00:29:58.860 normal life. But it's in its proper place. And you fulfill your roles. As we were talking about

00:30:05.540 earlier with the Mr. Beast guy. You fulfill your roles. You do your jobs. You fulfill your obligations.

00:30:12.240 But you do all of that because of where your identity is ultimately grounded. You will not be

00:30:17.360 the best at all of these secondary things for much longer as AI advances at lightning speed.

00:30:26.900 We went from AI could do blurry kind of weird demon looking images where the hands were all messed up

00:30:31.520 to AI can create a human being who speaks and looks perfect reading the news in like six months.

00:30:41.120 It's going to move very, very fast. Speaking of spiritual matters, I've got to get to the Dalai Lama.

00:30:49.660 This is video. I'm sure you've seen the video. The Dalai Lama is at some event and he talks to a young

00:30:55.100 boy. And the young boy comes up and gives the Dalai Lama a hug. And then the Dalai Lama asks,

00:30:59.340 well, I'll let you hear it in his own words. First, yeah. Then I think finally, here also.

00:31:11.440 Okay, so then he gives the boy a little kiss. Kiss on the lips. And the audience is sort of laughing and clapping.

00:31:20.940 Put their heads together. And then, and then he's looking at the boy.

00:31:28.680 And to suck my tongue. 0.99

00:31:32.800 He's sucked my tongue. And he keeps his tongue out. 0.99

00:31:39.020 And he's sort of laughing.

00:31:40.480 Thank you.

00:31:41.060 And he puts his hand on his face. I don't know. It's kind of weird. It's pretty weird, man. I'm not.

00:31:47.440 I don't know. People are reading this and saying that Dalai Lama is a secret pedo child molester. 0.99

00:31:52.880 I don't know. If he were that, wouldn't you expect him to do this kind of thing in private? 0.96

00:31:57.600 I don't. The fact that he's doing it out in public makes me think this is probably more likely just a

00:32:02.880 kind of a weird joke from a guy who's 87 years old now. I don't know. I mean, it's,

00:32:08.780 it's really, really odd. But one thing it's doing, regardless of what it is, I'm not really here to

00:32:15.780 knock the Dalai Lama. And it's all out on tape. You can form your own conclusion. Is it dispels some

00:32:23.740 of the myth around the Dalai Lama. A lot of people in the West are fascinated by the Dalai Lama. Because

00:32:30.840 a lot of people in the West are fascinated by Eastern religion. Because a lot of people in the West

00:32:33.980 have abandoned their own religion. And so they've been disenchanted with their own religion.

00:32:40.140 But because we have a natural spiritual longing, we're looking for something. So we've been told

00:32:44.200 since kindergarten, Christianity is fake. The Bible's bunk. It's a science is what you should 1.00

00:32:48.320 follow. And science totally disproves God or whatever nonsense they tell you. But so we've

00:32:53.160 been disenchanted there, but we're looking for something else. So people look to Hinduism. We think 1.00

00:32:56.800 about George Harrison was fascinated by Hinduism. Or a lot of, a lot of suburban white women just love 0.96

00:33:02.680 Buddhism. They just, they're so, they don't really know that much about it. But they're drawn to it. 0.96

00:33:06.860 And they go do yoga. And it's essentially the substitute for their church on Sunday. And for

00:33:12.140 their own religious life in Christianity. And then you look at the Dalai Lama doing this. And you're

00:33:16.460 saying, wait, huh? This guy, that doesn't seem so mystical and pure and wonderful. And it's a reminder

00:33:22.300 too that the Dalai Lama is primarily a political figure. Obviously, he has a huge religious aspect to it

00:33:27.040 as well. Because all states at all times have had something to do with religion. Because all human

00:33:31.640 conflict ultimately is theological. But he's a political leader. The institution of the Dalai

00:33:36.600 Lama is less than 500 years old. It's a relatively modern position. And the Dalai Lama is the leader

00:33:43.520 of Tibet. That's, and all of the spiritual trappings of that are, from a practical standpoint, in service

00:33:52.900 of his standing as the leader of Tibet. And his role as a politician is emphasized by his take on

00:33:59.760 religion. Which is, Dalai Lama doesn't encourage people to convert to Buddhism. In fact, what he

00:34:04.500 said is, he encourages people to remain in the religion of their own communities. Christianity

00:34:10.100 uniquely is universalist. Go make disciples of all nations. Most other religions are more local.

00:34:18.820 The Jews don't evangelize. The Buddhists don't really evangelize. The Hindus don't evangelize. 0.98

00:34:25.560 There are social structures from within their own tribe and from within their own nation.

00:34:32.940 And the fascination with the Dalai Lama and the Dalai Lama's insight on politics should remind us of

00:34:39.220 that. There's no escaping religion in your life. And there's especially no escaping religion in

00:34:44.720 politics. Politics, religion rather, forms the basis of politics. So which religion is it going to be?

00:34:51.520 It's going to be Buddhism. We're going to live in a Buddhist nation.

00:34:53.340 Is America going to become a Hindu nation? I don't think so. I think it's probably going to be a 1.00

00:34:59.900 Christian nation. So what does that tell us about the way that we ought to live and structure our

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00:36:19.300 JB Amazing 100, who says the release date of the Mario movie, April 5th, should officially be known

00:36:25.400 as the Italian Day of Visibility. I agree. Maybe the Italian Day of Vengeance. All right? I want these 0.95

00:36:34.280 people who are discriminating against the Italians, I want their political power dead. I want their 1.00

00:36:41.700 ideology dead. I want their house burned to the ground. I want to go by the ground. I want to put 1.00

00:36:47.240 some of the ashes. Sorry. I don't know what happened. I was possessed by the Italians of my 1.00

00:36:55.100 ancestry in ages before. It is a day of visibility. It's great. And John Leguizamo was very upset about

00:37:00.420 that. Speaking of nations and how nations get along with each other, are we in World War III? Are we there

00:37:09.160 now? Mike Pompeo looks as though he's going to run for president, former secretary of state for Donald

00:37:15.140 Trump, former CIA director also for Trump. Mike Pompeo has just come out, unlike a lot of the

00:37:23.720 rest of the GOP field, he has come out in defense of a robust interventionist American foreign policy.

00:37:30.880 So a lot of people aren't going to like it, but it will give people a choice. And Pompeo is sticking by

00:37:36.800 his convictions here. Pompeo says that with China aggressing over Taiwan in the South China Sea

00:37:43.520 and the United States Navy now meeting some of that progression and standing firm in the South

00:37:49.900 China Sea and with the debacle in Ukraine and with the debacle in Afghanistan now emboldening China to 0.78

00:37:56.120 say, okay, we don't know if Joe Biden's going to get reelected, but he's weak. So if we're going to

00:37:59.460 move, we got to move now, especially because Biden has been particularly weak on China for 20 years,

00:38:04.120 20 plus years, tensions seem to be ratcheting up and a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could be the last

00:38:12.560 straw to prompt World War III. We've already got the war in Europe based around Ukraine. If you get 0.87

00:38:18.320 a war in the Pacific, you have a world war and it's between all the same powers. That's called a world 0.98

00:38:22.720 war. And so Pompeo says the way to stop this is to spare no resource in defending Taiwan, including

00:38:31.100 the use of American troops. I know the Taiwanese foreign minister who you played the clip from

00:38:35.840 earlier. He's precisely right. There could be an accident there that could escalate pretty quickly.

00:38:40.780 The task for the United States is to protect the things that matter to Americans and make no mistake

00:38:45.480 about it. The business and industry that sit on the island of Taiwan, which should be recognized as a

00:38:50.620 sovereign nation, is essential to American commerce. We need to make sure that we're doing

00:38:54.740 everything we can to provide Taiwan with the tools its needs. Contrast that with what the

00:39:00.400 Biden administration has done in Ukraine, where they've allowed this war to linger on.

00:39:04.360 Are you on board with that as well? U.S. troops on the ground to defend Taiwan?

00:39:10.000 Senator, we often talk about Taiwan in isolation. Think about this.

00:39:13.260 Japan will almost certainly get drawn into this if there's an invasion of Taiwan. We have a security

00:39:17.700 guarantee to support Taiwan, much like Article 5 and the NATO agreement. What we need to do is focus

00:39:23.060 today on giving the Taiwanese the tools they need to make sure that this day never happens. That's 0.55

00:39:26.860 what we did for four years, and we reduced risk to America. But when push comes to shove, the United 0.76

00:39:31.720 States is going to have to be all in to protect American interests throughout the Pacific.

00:39:37.300 So there he is. And this is a pretty standard Republican position. It's gotten a little complicated

00:39:43.260 in recent years, but the position is we don't want to go to war. We Republicans are less inclined to

00:39:49.760 go to war than Democrats are. And therefore, in order to prevent war, we are going to threaten 0.67

00:39:54.500 war more than the Democrats will. The argument is, Reagan said it, peace through strength.

00:40:01.160 And what the Democrats do is they seem very weak, and that weakness invites aggression. And you see

00:40:06.420 that happen in Ukraine. Joe Biden said, we're going to take the sanctions off of Russia. And by the way,

00:40:12.120 Russia, if you invade Ukraine, if it's only a minor incursion, we're going to let that slide. 0.66

00:40:15.440 And so what happens? Russia invades. Then America feels the obligation to go in. They won't just 0.70

00:40:20.480 give Ukraine up to Russia. And so there's a schizophrenic foreign policy, and the conflict

00:40:26.380 escalates. Wars have started. I'm not making any point over what Pompeo is saying. I'm just pointing

00:40:35.300 out wars have started over a lot less. Major wars, world wars have started over a lot less than what's

00:40:43.560 going on in Ukraine and what's going on in Taiwan right now. Could happen very, very quickly. And

00:40:51.020 how will we even know about it? What can we even believe when the media are so dishonest?

00:40:56.620 We know that the Chinese media are dishonest. That's propaganda. That's state media.

00:41:01.420 We know the Russian media is dishonest. It's state media. It's propaganda.

00:41:07.280 And we know that the same is true of our media and our news outlets, even though we don't want to

00:41:11.180 admit that. This is why I love what Elon just did on Twitter. Elon just branded NPR state-sponsored

00:41:17.640 media, like he does to Iran and Russia and North Korea. He says, this is state-sponsored media.

00:41:26.100 Now, he backed down a little bit because now it says it is government-funded media, so not totally

00:41:36.160 state-sponsored. But the point remains the same. People were shocked by this. Why are you shocked?

00:41:42.780 It's called national public radio. Shocked when we would do this to PBS. It's called public

00:41:48.820 broadcasting. Why can't we call it state-sponsored media? Oh, because it's only state-sponsored media

00:41:55.260 when the bad guys do it. When we do it, it's great. The BBC is not state-sponsored media. No,

00:41:59.900 no, no. Elon actually responded when the BBC objected to being called state-sponsored media.

00:42:06.740 Elon said, remind me, what does BBC stand for again? Is it the British broadcast? Yeah,

00:42:13.700 that's sort of what I thought it was. Political concepts are much more universal than we want to

00:42:22.520 admit. And this is where I think a little bit of the disconnect comes in with Americans looking around

00:42:28.660 at the rest of the world. We pride ourselves on being the best country on earth. And when we've

00:42:36.060 got good leadership, we are the best country on earth. When we've got bad leadership, things can

00:42:40.640 go very, very wrong. But yeah, when we've got good leadership, people are doing the right thing.

00:42:45.840 We are the best country on earth. But we're not totally different from other countries.

00:42:52.500 We have this idea that other countries do all of these terrible things, and we would never do those

00:42:57.420 things because we're fundamentally different countries in the way that we conduct politics.

00:43:01.620 That isn't true. China, do you know China has a social credit score? In China, if you contradict the

00:43:09.500 ruling regime, you can be silenced. You can be prosecuted and investigated. You can be told that

00:43:17.380 you can't board airplanes. You can be debanked and kicked out of financial institutions. You can be

00:43:22.160 removed from the economy. All of those things happen here. Maybe not as at the scale that you

00:43:30.280 see them in China, but all those things happen here. And do you know in China, if you oppose the

00:43:35.480 regime, they'll throw you in prison and they'll do it on trumped up charges? Oh, you don't say?

00:43:40.260 Oh, yeah? Talk to the grannies from January 6th, do you think? Well, the gangsters from BLM who looted 1.00

00:43:48.140 and rioted and pillaged and burned, well, they just go free. The DAs let them off the hook. The

00:43:52.220 grannies who went in and took a picture in the Capitol, they're rotting in solitary. But you want 0.65

00:43:56.700 to tell me about prosecuting political dissidents? Well, China surveils the population. That's right.

00:44:04.800 They've got cameras and data collection and surveillance everywhere. Interesting. Tell me

00:44:08.460 about a little branch of the government formerly known as the No Such Agency. You ever hear about

00:44:14.640 that? The NSA? You really want to lecture China about data collection? No. We engage in these

00:44:22.980 things. And I'm not even knocking the United States for doing it. The concepts that form political

00:44:31.320 life and the practices that form political life are going to be basically universal because nations

00:44:36.020 are relatively similar. The implementation and how they're particularly implemented, that's what's

00:44:42.560 going to be different. The spirit that animates the people, that's going to be a little bit

00:44:48.980 different. That's why ultimately it's the religion that animates the people and our moral understandings

00:44:53.900 and the way that we're going to limit what we do. That's going to be different. But that's where the

00:44:59.200 difference lies. It doesn't lie in these fundamental political practices. Those are common to pretty much

00:45:03.820 everybody. Now, speaking of the state, Joe Biden has actually subverted expectations. He's one of

00:45:12.780 the most predictable, shallow, empty-suited politicians out there. But he is defying one

00:45:19.720 big expectation, which is all the smart people said for years now, Joe Biden's not going to run for a

00:45:24.820 second term. Joe Biden can't run for a second. That's ridiculous. He's not going to run.

00:45:28.160 Here's Joe Biden on Easter Sunday. Will you be taking part in the Easter egg rolls after planning

00:45:35.880 on after 2024? Well, I plan on at least three or four more Easter egg rolls. At least three or four

00:45:41.680 more? Maybe five. Maybe five. Maybe six. What the hell? Are you saying that you would be taking part in

00:45:49.580 our upcoming election in 2024? Well, I'll either be rolling an egg or being the guy who's pushing

00:45:56.560 him out. Come on. Help a brother out. Make some news for me. I plan on running out, but we're not

00:46:01.960 prepared to announce it yet. I think he means it. Joe Biden is rarely sincere about anything in his

00:46:09.600 whole life, but I think he means it. Why would he quit? Because it's good for the Democratic Party?

00:46:19.840 What does Joe Biden care? Joe Biden's 1,000 years old. He doesn't stand to benefit from serving the

00:46:24.760 parties. He's served his party for 50 years at the federal level. He wants to be president. This

00:46:30.920 guy has wanted to be president since he was in the womb. It's the object that he has doggedly pursued

00:46:36.660 his whole life. Why would he give it up? If he can still stand and speak, which he sort of can do right

00:46:41.840 now, I don't see why he wouldn't. And by the way, I'm not sure that it's good for the Democratic Party

00:46:46.660 for him not to run. It shows that the ship is unstable if the leader steps off. It shows that

00:46:56.040 things aren't totally ready to go. It's an admission that things aren't going great.

00:47:00.120 And who's going to come fill it in? Liz Warren, everyone hates her. Pete Buttigieg, give me a 0.97

00:47:03.740 break. Kamala Harris, yeah, okay. Gavin Newsom, maybe, but he's totally untested. And the Democrat has

00:47:10.760 never won the White House from California. Last person to win the White House from California was

00:47:14.540 Ronald Reagan. Politics looked a lot different back then. I think he means it.

00:47:21.360 So you might very likely have another match-off between Trump and Biden. Though there is some

00:47:29.440 interesting polling on the Republican primary race coming out of Florida now. I'll leave you on

00:47:35.380 that cliffhanger. We'll have to get to that tomorrow because we're about to enter the membrum

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Ep. 1222 - Democrats Took Weird Sex Stuff To The Next Level

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