Ep. 1238 - Pornhub Officially Went Too Far
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Porn is banned in Utah, a middle schooler gives oratory, and the U.S. Navy is trying to get new sailors into the service by recruiting a drag queen. But is this a good or bad thing?
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If you're a pervert in the state of Utah, I've got some bad news.
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No more porn. Utahans are losing their porn privileges, not because the state has banned
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porn, but because Pornhub, the largest porn website online, has banned Utah.
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And why did Pornhub ban Utah? Because Utah told Pornhub that they had to stop selling
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their smut to kids. That, apparently, was too much of an ask for Pornhub.
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So a day before this new age requirement law went into effect, a law passed unanimously
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by state legislators, obviously, since only weirdos and creeps actively promote porn to
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kids, Pornhub shut down access to their website in the state, which tells you a lot about Pornhub.
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It tells you that Pornhub doesn't just serve its content to minors. It relies on serving
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its content to minors. And it relies on minors viewing it not only because young people are
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walking bags of hormones and are very likely to look at that kind of material, but also because
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young people have a harder time controlling themselves. And like cigarette companies back
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in the day, Pornhub knows that if they can hook people while they're young, the majority of young
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people today are exposed to porn by age 12, some much younger. If they can hook people while they're
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young, it's going to be much harder to break the addiction. There are basically two side effects
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of smoking cigarettes, lung problems and looking cool. Not saying that the latter justifies the
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former. The lung problems are very bad. That is why cigarettes, unlike porn, are heavily regulated.
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There are basically two side effects of porn, too. Turning people into perverts and turning their
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brains to mush. That means things like skyrocketing rates of sexual dysfunction among young men,
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disordered desires, ruined relationships. And unlike with cigarettes, with porn, you don't even
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get to look cool while you do it. You just look like a loser and you become depressed and you write
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into my mailbag on Fridays, desperate to break an addiction, peddled by a company that for all
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intents and purposes is now admitted to preying on kids. Cigarettes can destroy people's bodies.
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Porn can destroy the body, mind, and soul. We have been noticing much more clearly lately how bad
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people in politics are targeting minors. The activists trying to trans your kids. The educators
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pushing gay porn in elementary school libraries. Transgenderism is a $1.9 billion a year industry.
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Even with all of its growth as a social contagion in recent years, that is relatively small potatoes.
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Porn is a $100 billion a year industry. You want to stem the tide of social decay? You want to protect
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young people? Then every Republican governor should follow Utah's lead and prohibit Pornhub from
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targeting its most valued customers. Your kids. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Speaking of the Utes, there is a middle schooler in Massachusetts who has
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just given oratory, the finest sort of oratory I've probably heard since Pericles, at least in terms of
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its urgency and how articulate this kid is when he's describing a major problem in schools. We'll get to
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that in one second. It's really, really great stuff. First though, I don't want to totally move on from
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the weird sex stuff. I mean, I do. Socially, I would like us to move on from the weird sex stuff,
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but we can't move on from it in the news because it's everywhere. It's not just in the bowels of the
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internet. It's not just shady people with dodgy companies. It's in the government. It's in the U.S.
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military. The United States Navy has just launched a new recruitment campaign. I guess they didn't
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pay any attention to the lessons of Bud Light. They've launched a new recruitment campaign
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that tries to get new sailors by promoting drag.
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You can see there's this active duty sailor. He's a drag queen. He's not exactly a transgender. He's
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a full over-the-top drag queen. 24-year-old Joshua Kelly performs under the alter ego Harpy Daniels.
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And video going around right now of some of his performances that he's posted.
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While serving as his squadron's administrative supervisor, Kelly's shows are part of lip-sync
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competitions. He's very, very different. There he is in a dress. They're supposed to boost
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morale. Not sure. Okay, I've seen enough of the drag queen sailor. Now, you would think this
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would not necessarily boost morale among servicemen. However, there have long been
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sort of jokes about the Navy. And I guess this is really my problem with the new drag recruitment
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tool is not that it's decadent and debauched and counterproductive. My problem with the new drag
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recruitment initiative from the Navy is that it's just a waste of money because the Navy already had
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very, very high quality recruitment materials in this vein going back to the 1970s.
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And I love the Navy was really leading the charge with that recruitment tool because the Navy,
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obviously, was the front man for it. But you had all the branches of the military. You had the
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cowboys. You had the Indians. You had the construction workers. I assume also the Army and the Marines and
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the Air Force and the Coast Guard somewhere back there. Look, Navy, if you want to double down
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on these kinds of things, that's fine. And a lot of people are going to joke and they're going to use
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that apocryphal quote from Winston Churchill, which is that naval tradition is nothing but rum,
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sodomy, and the lash, which is a funny quote, even though Churchill never said it. But notice the
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difference. Back in the 70s, back at every time in history before now, the Navy had this kind of joke
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about it, which was that it attracted guys who were a little bit light in the loafers, okay? And that
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was the joke. And in those days, the sailors would push back on that joke. That was the joke and they'd
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say, how dare you? That's not what we're like. Get out of here. Shut up. You're a jerk. Whatever.
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You know, you'd push back. Today, the Navy is totally embracing that and they're using that as a
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recruitment tool. It's an inversion of society, the likes of which we're seeing in every other
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this story has not gotten nearly enough attention and it is delightful. Noam Chomsky is, at this point,
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I think about a thousand years old. He is a celebrated linguist, but more than he is known
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for his linguistic scholarly work, he is known for being the preeminent public intellectual on the left.
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And he's always sticking his nose in where it doesn't belong. And he's always pontificating about
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all matters of politics and economics. And he's a pretty interesting linguist. He's actually had
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somewhat interesting things to say on politics and economics, but very, very much a man of the left.
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And some might say sanctimonious about his politics. Well, it turns out something we've
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learned from the trials surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is that Noam Chomsky was buddies with Jeffrey
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Epstein. Wall Street Journal discovered this and they reached out to Professor Chomsky for comment.
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His response was, first response is that it is none of your business or anyone's. Second is that I knew
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him and we met occasionally. Kind of a defensive response because a lot of people knew Jeffrey
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Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was clearly a political operative. He was very, very wealthy. He invited
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lots of fancy people to all of his parties. So one could very easily say, oh yes, I met him.
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We were raising money for MIT, which is where Chomsky teaches, or we were raising money for
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this cause or that cause. And so yes, we had some dinners. It's no big deal.
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But he doesn't say it. He says, yeah, it's none of your business. Yeah, I know. And we met. We met
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sometimes. 2015, we know from the flight schedules, Epstein was scheduled to fly with Chomsky and his wife
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to have dinner with them as well as Woody Allen and his wife. Not a great look. If you're hanging out
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with a guy who is known to have preyed on minors for sex, not great to simultaneously be hanging out
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with a guy whose reputation is that he has a sexual obsession with minors. Chomsky was asked about this.
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He goes, if there was a flight, which I doubt it would have been from Boston to New York,
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30 minutes. I'm unaware of the principle that requires I inform you about an evening spent
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with a great artist. Now, what's also weird is Chomsky hung out with Epstein after Epstein was
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convicted of the child sex stuff. So he says, what was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had
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been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence. According to US laws and norms, that yields a
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clean state. Lots of other Epstein associates had an excuse. This Noam Chomsky one, this fails on every
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level. It was after the sex crime convictions. He's now trying to excuse the sex crime convictions.
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He's hanging out with other odd characters. He apparently did it a lot of times.
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The establishment is trying to sweep this under the rug. And we like to think, oh, well,
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it was just some people in high positions of power. No, it's all of it. Even Noam Chomsky,
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who has a reputation of being sort of above it all. He's a radical leftist. The liberal
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establishment doesn't like him very much. No, they're all just kind of in it together.
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I'm not even that interested in Noam Chomsky in himself or the Jeffrey Epstein story in itself.
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I'm interested in what it says about the whole power structure in the US.
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There aren't lots of tiny little factions and, oh, the Chomsky type people, they don't like Joe Biden
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and they don't, and Biden, he doesn't like this faction. No, the liberal establishment
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is pretty solid. And even though they don't have necessarily the majority of the country in terms of
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the people who live here, who are citizens, they've got a lot of the power and they do a lot of dodgy
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stuff and they don't think they need to answer questions from anybody and they don't have to pay
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any consequences. Speaking of leaks, a ton of leaked footage about Tucker Carlson and it's obviously
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coming from Fox. I don't see who else could possibly be leaking this footage. And they're
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doing a little drip, drip, drip campaign to try to tarnish Tucker's reputation in the wake of his
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pseudo firing. I think he's still on the Fox payroll, but they're just trying to shut him up.
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More on that in a second. So what have they got on Tucker? Let's see, what's the best stuff
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that the people who want to take Tucker down have on him?
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I don't want to be a slave to Fox Nation, which I don't think that would be able to watch anyway.
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We're gonna, because I, you know, I'm like a representative of the American media now.
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Speaking to an exile in Romania and welcoming him back into the brotherhood of journalists.
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I mean, this is airing on the nighttime show and I want it to look official. I don't want it to be like bro talk.
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Yeah, but the majority of it, like if we go like 45 minutes, it's gonna be for Fox Nation.
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But nobody's gonna watch it on Fox Nation. Nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks.
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So I'd really like to just put the dump the whole thing on.
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So this, this is supposed to be the smoking gun. Tucker Carlson, he doesn't even believe in his
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own product. He's, he's bashing his employers. What Tucker is doing here is what any good media
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person would do, which is he's saying, I have a responsibility to my audience.
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I want the product that we're putting out to be better.
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Every, everyone around the Daily Wire has said something like this at some point,
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including the founders and owners of the Daily Wire has said something like this at some point
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when we want to improve an aspect of our product.
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No one obviously has ever said it about my show because the show can't be improved,
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but the rest of the products at the Daily Wire, people will say, look, I, you know,
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we have a responsibility to our audience and this part of the website isn't working that well
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and you got to fix it up. So that's, oh, bell, big smoking gun. Okay. What else do they have on
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Tucker? It will do it live. Love that one. That one's my favorite one. They leaked shocking
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footage from Tucker. Tucker Carlson is what making a joke about a thing that Bill O'Reilly once said
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in anger on the air. Every one of these clips is just making Tucker look better. Every one of these
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makes him look more relatable. He's speaking very politely and comedically with his staff.
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And, but then, okay, here's the big one. They're really excited about this one.
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The people who are leaking this have found footage of Tucker, according to Media Matters,
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You wouldn't, okay. I'm not, you know what? I'm not qualified on that score, I will say.
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I thought his girlfriend was kind of yummy. Just kidding. Just kidding in case this is being
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pulled off the bird. Yeah, the bird. Hey, Media Matters for America. Go f**k yourself. That's the
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first thing I want to say tonight. Second thing is totally kidding. I don't even know what his
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girlfriend looks like. And if I did, I would not find her yummy. And if I did, I would not find her
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yummy. That's a great bit. That's a great bit. It's not, there's nothing creepy. There's nothing
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lecherous. He's joking about this as if it's on camera. But okay, the one that, the one that
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they're focusing on is they say, I've got proof Tucker's a racist. And it's because there's a
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text that Tucker sent. He says, a couple of weeks ago, I was watching a video of people fighting on
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the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding
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the living SHIT out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is
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dishonorable, obviously. It's not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the
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mob against the man, hoping they'd hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid.
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I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off. This isn't good for me.
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I'm becoming something I don't want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise
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what he says and does, much as I'm sure I'd hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn't gloat over
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his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this
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kid and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don't care about those things, if I reduce people
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to their politics, how am I better than he is? The only takeaway I have from this text
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is that Tucker Carlson is a much more thoughtful human person than 99.9% of people in politics and
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media. Tucker Carlson is recognizing a mimetic response that he has that we all have watching
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social media, which is that we want to join the mob. We want to join in a war of all against all
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and just murder somebody. It excites our anger and our envy and all the worst aspects of our
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character so much that we want to do that. And he became aware of it and said, this isn't good for
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me. Is this the best they've got? This is the best. Keep leaking like this. Keep trying to
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destroy Tucker's reputation like this. You're going to make him even more powerful than he was
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when he was at Fox. So what are they going to try to do? They're going to try to sideline him for 2024.
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According to reports, according to the Wall Street Journal also, Tucker might have 18 months left on
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his contract, which means that if they just continue to pay him, right now I think they're
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paying him $1.6 million a month to do nothing, to sit at home. If they just continue to pay him,
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he'll finish out his contract. And then after 2024, he gets to speak again. Meaning Tucker is so
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dangerous to the liberal establishment that they are willing to pay him $20 million not to speak.
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What does that tell you about Tucker, who is a little more independent? It's not like he's some
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fringe guy far from it. He's extremely mainstream. He's just a touch more independent than other people
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in the media. What does that tell you about Tucker? What does that tell you about everyone else
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in the establishment TV news media? That they all get to have their shows. They all get to say what
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they like. And then Tucker steps out of line a little bit much. They'll pay him $20 million just
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to shut up before the presidential election. Speaking of that presidential election, we have got
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one fewer candidate in the race in 2024, at least for this year. A lot of people have been waiting
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for Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to declare. And Youngkin says he is not going to run this year.
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He was asked, are you going to be dusting off that fleece jacket and getting out on the presidential
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campaign trail this year? And Youngkin says, no, I'm going to be working in Virginia this year.
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So then, see, this year, what does this year mean? The interviewer presses him and says,
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so in the words of LBJ, you will not seek and if nominated, you will not serve and accept the
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Republican nomination for president of the United States. And what does Youngkin say? He says,
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we'll leave that one to LBJ. What I'm very excited about is that America seems to be paying
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attention to what's going on in Virginia, which means he's leaving himself wiggle room. But
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for all intents and purposes, he's out of the race. Because even if he waited until January
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1st, 2024, so he can say, this year, I'm not running, but next year, maybe I will.
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If he started then, barring some global event, barring a comet coming down and taking out Trump,
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DeSantis, I don't know, Pence, Haley, Vivek, Tim Scott, all of the candidates, barring that,
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Youngkin would come in at such a disadvantage because he had not been running for as long.
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This effectively ends his presidential speculation, which means some of the top tier not Trump
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candidates, Cruz, Pompeo, Glenn Youngkin now, they're out. They're choosing not to run.
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Then you've got longer shot candidates who are running. And then, according to the polls,
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You know, it seems as if fewer of us are on the same page when it comes to the fundamentals of life.
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And this is obviously a huge problem when it comes to our relationship to each other and our
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relationship to God. But this is not a new phenomenon. The consequences of this disunity
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date back all the way to the time of Moses. Just listen to what Jordan Peterson has to say about it
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in Exodus. There's an irony here that for all the insistence upon equality, the very foundation for
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that equality in Western culture. The idea that human beings are made in the imago Dei in the image
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of God has been lost, of course. So it's almost as if because of the erosion of this foundation,
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the drive for equality is stressed all the more.
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That's exactly what Nietzsche claimed would happen when he wrote, well, when he's particularly in
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Beyond Good and Evil. He said that was an inevitable, that would be an inevitable consequence.
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Morning consult poll on the Republican primary 2024. I'll start from the bottom to the top.
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Kristi Noem, 1%. Tim Scott, 2%. Liz Cheney, 2%. Liz Cheney, what? Vivek, 3%. Nikki Haley, 4%. Pence, 7%.
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And we bump up to Ron DeSantis, 22%. Very respectable in this field. Then we get to Trump,
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56%. Which means that not only is Trump dominating the field, he is winning a clear majority of Republican
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primary voters. That's a national poll, so you've got to dig in a little bit more. Well, how's he doing
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in Iowa? How's he doing in New Hampshire? Right. Still, dominating means he's 34 points above the
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number two guy in the race. And crucially, his numbers are going up. And the other guy's numbers
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are going down. I know it's early. I know there's going to be a campaign. I know Governor DeSantis has
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not declared yet. Maybe those numbers start to change. But the race is already on. You're already
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seeing attack ads against Trump. You're already seeing Trump spend a lot of time attacking Ron
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DeSantis. DeSantis has a big war chest. He's going to have to spend a lot of that war chest to try to
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knock Trump's numbers down. But can you knock down 34 points? Can you knock down the incumbent with
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universal name recognition for 40 years? Once you declare that you are running at the end of this
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month? Maybe it could happen. My main takeaway from this is that today, the year of our Lord,
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2023, seven, eight years after Trump came down the golden escalator, people still underestimate
00:25:43.220
Donald Trump. Even people on the right that keeps, oh, Trump is finished. Oh, yeah, stick a fork in him.
00:25:50.100
He's done. Oh, Mueller is going to take him out. Oh, Hillary is going to take him out. Oh, this guy,
00:25:59.140
that guy, this guy. Ron DeSantis is going to take him out. Or if there's another candidate who pops
00:26:05.260
up, that person is going to take him out. Maybe it can happen. But Trump keeps outfoxing a lot of
00:26:14.860
people. And people forget, in Republican primary races in particular, we forget how much these
00:26:22.720
things change. In 2016, Governor Scott Walker was the leading candidate heading into the primaries.
00:26:31.160
And then Governor Walker, because he's a sensible man, a wise man with good judgment,
00:26:37.780
he saw when his numbers started to go in the wrong direction, and he saw that there was not a path to
00:26:41.680
victory. He was the first guy out. He said, okay, this isn't going to work. I'm going to do the
00:26:46.780
responsible thing. I'm not going to drag this out longer than it should be. He had more sense than a
00:26:50.460
lot of people in the Republican establishment, a lot of other people trying to run for office.
00:26:57.260
Are we seeing the same thing now? I don't know. I wouldn't count Trump out, guys. I wouldn't
00:27:00.680
underestimate him. I know that the entire punditariat, even on the right, focuses on how Trump,
00:27:06.860
he's toast, he's finished. The numbers don't bear that out. And there's a big chasm between what the
00:27:12.980
Republican geniuses from Washington, D.C. and the consultants and the pundits and the operatives and
00:27:17.940
what they all say and what actual Republican primary voters think and do. Speaking of men of a certain
00:27:24.480
age, a 70-year-old bearded man has just smashed through the glass ceiling. This man just won
00:27:34.500
a major ladies' poker competition, and we have some of it on video.
00:27:39.620
We have Dave here, and he, I don't know if you can tell here, he's the only guy in this ladies'
00:27:46.360
event. So I put a $300 bounty on his head, and then Tamara and her husband matched it. So there's
00:27:54.880
a $600 bounty on his head. He's already busted twice, so we love him for that. Thank you, Dave.
00:28:06.540
And then the person in filming walks away. And this bearded dude, he just looks up. He's like,
00:28:10.540
hey, yeah, what's up? What's going on? Okay, you're all trying to take me out. Whatever. I'm
00:28:13.920
still going to win the poker competition. Love this story. Not because I want to see a man beat
00:28:20.780
the ladies at ladies' poker, but just as a reminder that sexual difference isn't just about track races
00:28:27.280
and volleyball games. We focus now on the injustice of transgenderism by saying, you know, the men are
00:28:34.780
beating up the women in wrestling and volleyball, and the men are getting undressed in the women's
00:28:41.900
locker room, and the men are faster than women, so they win all the track races, and they win all
00:28:45.300
the swim meets. And yeah, that's true. They also win the poker tournaments because men are better than
00:28:50.600
women at poker. That's why men are much, much more likely to play poker than women. This is why men
00:28:56.220
are more likely to win more money in poker than women. They're better at poker. Why are they better
00:29:01.280
at poker? I don't know. I'm not going to venture any guesses. I'm no expert on this. I'm no expert
00:29:05.100
on neuroscience. I'm no expert on chemistry, the kind of, I don't know, the kind of hormones surging
00:29:11.480
through one's body when one's playing a hand. I'm no expert on poker. I just know men are much
00:29:18.320
better at poker than women. The differences between men and women are not, as even many people
00:29:23.400
on the right sometimes think, just one or two things. They're kind of superficial. They matter.
00:29:27.360
We should respect them, but it's not that. Men and women are very, very different. We're from the same
00:29:33.260
species. That's pretty much where the similarities end. That's why we're complementary. That's why we go
00:29:40.000
together. We're different. You can't list in some rationalist, modern, reductive way the five
00:29:49.640
differences between men and women. There are so many differences. Vive la différence. This is
00:29:55.560
something we used to love. We used to wonder at the myriad ways in which men and women are different.
00:30:01.520
Now, even people on the right are trying to reduce it to, well, we have these chromosomes and you have
00:30:05.720
those chromosomes. Well, women have uterus. Men have penis or something. That's way deeper than that.
00:30:14.680
This is something where the transgender people are right when they say gender is about so much more
00:30:18.800
than XY chromosomes. Yeah, that's true. It's a ton more. You can't change your sex. You're born with
00:30:24.800
it and that's your natural real sex and that's how it's going to be and you can put on a dress. It's not
00:30:28.100
going to change anything. But it is very different. And so we can't just say, okay,
00:30:33.140
we'll affirm transgenderism in this arena because sexual difference doesn't matter here, but we'll
00:30:39.900
reject it in this other arena, in swim meets, because sexual difference does matter there. No,
00:30:43.440
it just matters. It matters kind of like everywhere. And we should acknowledge that and embrace that,
00:30:49.720
which means that you can't just try to tweak transgenderism in one or two areas. It means you have to,
00:30:54.200
to use a pithy phrase, eradicate the whole ideology from public life, which is starting to happen.
00:31:01.020
You're seeing the Montana GOP just banned trans procedures for minors. Governor just signed this
00:31:08.700
into law, Senate Bill 99 known as the Youth Health Protection Act. Great slam dunk. Love it. Glad we're
00:31:16.840
protecting the kids from this stuff. My question then is when is a Republican governor, when are
00:31:22.160
Republican legislators going to ban this for adults? Because not only would it be good to ban it
00:31:30.960
for adults because the transgender transition procedures are just quackery and butchery and
00:31:36.280
terrible for everybody because they're not grounded in reality and they're medical malpractice.
00:31:41.600
And they are deepening the delusions of disturbed people. But also, even if you're just focused on the
00:31:48.740
kids, if you don't ban these kinds of surgeries and butcheries for adults, they will inevitably be done to
00:31:57.380
kids. Because if you establish them for adults, what you're saying is it is possible to be born in the
00:32:03.640
wrong body. What you're saying is it is possible to change your sex, even though it's not. By
00:32:08.520
establishing that for adults, you are affirming that, which creates scandal. Scandal is a stumbling
00:32:15.220
block. Scandal is when you have a belief and then you encounter a stumbling block and that leads you
00:32:22.460
down a wrong path. And it will scandalize, it does scandalize young people to see that.
00:32:29.660
If your government, if your politics says this thing is true for people from the ages of 18 until
00:32:36.400
118, then young people are going to look at that just like they look at mommy and daddy and they want
00:32:42.060
to do what mommy and daddy do and they want to think what mommy and daddy think. They're going to look
00:32:45.520
at that and say, okay, I guess you can change your sex. And if you think that as a young person,
00:32:51.820
you're much more likely to fall into the transgender idea. And so either you'll become
00:32:56.220
very, very confused, wait till you're 18 to butcher yourself, or more likely you will force the adults
00:33:02.160
to follow their ideas to their logical conclusions and say, okay, if we're saying for the vast majority
00:33:06.400
of people, they can change their sex, they can be born into the wrong body, then we should do that
00:33:11.000
for the young people too. In fact, it would be cruel not to trans the kids before they've gone
00:33:15.420
through puberty when it's much easier to appear more like the opposite sex. Great job. Good job,
00:33:23.000
Montana. Now follow your ideas to their logical conclusions. Get the job done. Ban this stuff
00:33:29.320
for everybody. It's going to be hard to do that though, because we have another transurrection.
00:33:34.160
We had another transurrection down in Texas. It's not an insurrection when the libs do it.
00:33:40.280
So when the libs go in and invade a statehouse and start screaming and disrupting legislative
00:33:46.140
procedures and waving their crazy flags and hooting and hollering, that's totally fine.
00:33:52.880
And they've done it at statehouse after statehouse after statehouse. Sometimes like in my own state
00:33:57.140
of Tennessee, they've been invited in by the legislators and they scream and they holler and
00:34:00.780
they disrupt. That's totally fine. But when granny takes a selfie in the Capitol rotunda on January 6th,
00:34:06.000
she's pretty much Osama bin Laden. Send her to Gitmo and waterboard her. We need to find out what she
00:34:10.120
knows. Right? And that's what they're going to do. They're going to continue to threaten violence
00:34:16.080
again and again and again. What will this bill do in Texas? Senate Bill 14 would prohibit trans youth,
00:34:27.340
trans youth is how it's being reported, from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapy,
00:34:31.700
care that medical groups say is vital to their mental health in order to transition.
00:34:36.660
Trans kids, you know that totally real category of people? Totally real, because that's what the
00:34:42.160
journalists say is true. Who are already accessing these treatments for gender-affirming purposes
00:34:46.360
would have to be weaned off in a medically appropriate manner. The bill would also prohibit
00:34:51.640
transition-related surgeries, though these are rarely performed on kids. I love they say that.
00:34:55.000
Chopping kids' genitals off? Well, that's rarely performed on kids. Hold on,
00:34:59.020
so you're admitting it is performed on kids. It's very rare that we chop off the phallus and
00:35:04.460
the breasts and all sorts of things on little children. One time seems like a lot, man. Well,
00:35:13.640
The only solution is to eradicate this ideology from public life and from its establishment in
00:35:22.500
the law. It's the only solution. Well, it's a little less rare. It's a little less rarely
00:35:28.960
performed on kids these days. Okay, it's performed on kids, but we only do it to kids starting at age
00:35:33.460
four. Well, we only do it to kids starting at age three. Well, and then the moment you push back on
00:35:38.620
it, you're going to have these lunatics run into your Capitol and start screaming and hooting and
00:35:42.140
hollering and intimidating legislators. You've just got to say no. Embrace the no. No is a beautiful
00:35:47.820
word in politics. No is a beautiful word in life. It keeps you from doing bad things that you might
00:35:55.160
be tempted to do. It keeps your society from devolving into chaos and anarchy. Embrace the no.
00:36:01.740
It's nice. You'll lead a much better life. You'll have a lot more yes if you embrace the no.
00:36:05.980
I don't, I don't. And by the way, speaking of no, no, I do not want to hear any peep again if
00:36:13.520
Republicans get a little feisty in politics. The libs burn down the country for eight months with
00:36:18.280
BLM. They've been invading statehouse after statehouse, screaming and hooting and hollering
00:36:22.120
and scaring the justices. I don't want to hear anything next time the lectern guy shows up and
00:36:26.900
takes a picture in the Capitol rotunda and the horn hat guy gets a private tour from the Capitol
00:36:31.120
police. I don't want to hear boo about it. Certainly not from the libs, though I don't
00:36:35.540
really pay attention to their talking points, but I don't want to hear it from the squishes either.
00:36:39.540
Give me a break. Okay. These are fundamental issues. The libs are engaging in virtually all
00:36:46.540
of the political violence in the United States. I don't want to hear any, well, you know, if you look
00:36:51.100
at both sides, there's no both sides here. One side is chopping off the genitals of kids. One side
00:36:55.680
isn't. One side is invading the state houses of every state that's trying to do something about
00:37:01.120
it. The other side isn't. I don't want to hear about it. Okay. Okay. I do want to hear from you,
00:37:06.860
though, which is why you got to send me a voice mailbag this week. How do you do it? Very simple.
00:37:11.120
You go to dailyware.com. You go to the Michael Knowles show page. So you click on watch and you
00:37:16.700
click on the Michael Knowles show and you click on mailbag and it'll open up an email and you can record
00:37:21.880
your voice mailbag question on your phone or on your computer. Please keep it to 60 seconds or
00:37:26.240
less. Sometimes people send me their life story. It's always very interesting, but we can't put it
00:37:31.660
on the show then. So 60 seconds or less, you attach the file, send it in, and then I will get to hear
00:37:36.420
your mellifluous voice on the show on Friday. My favorite comment yesterday is from Daniel Knoll,
00:37:42.500
who says, I think Dylan Mulvaney should receive a man of the year award. He has single-handedly helped
00:37:46.960
thousands of alcoholics start their path to recovery. Way to go, Dylan. Good work, sir.
00:37:53.240
Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Great stuff. It's going to, or though, to be fair, it might just cause people
00:38:01.600
to double down and drink Yingling. I think Yingling might be the last pro-American beer, openly pro-American
00:38:07.960
beer in the country. My favorite piece of political oratory and rhetoric that I've heard in a great
00:38:16.940
long time comes from a middle school student in Massachusetts. I'm not going to say the
00:38:26.020
student's name or give too much in the way of detail because I don't want to help to ruin this
00:38:30.320
kid's life by making him too famous at too young an age. But he showed up to this public forum. He gave
00:38:36.160
a beautifully articulate speech about why he was sent home from school.
00:38:45.240
I'm in the 7th, 10th grade at Nichols Middle School. I appreciate the opportunity to speak
00:38:50.020
to you today. I never thought that the shirt I wore to school on March 21st would lead me
00:38:55.460
to speak with you today. On that Tuesday morning, I was taken out of gym class to sit down with two
00:39:01.340
adults for what turned out to be a very uncomfortable talk. I was told that people
00:39:06.220
were complaining about the words on my shirt, that my shirt was making some students feel
00:39:10.420
unsafe. Yes, words on a shirt made people feel unsafe. They told me that I wasn't in trouble,
00:39:16.420
but it sure felt like I was. I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return
00:39:22.500
to class. When I nicely told them that I didn't want to do that, they called my father. Thankfully,
00:39:28.020
my dad supported my decisions and came to pick me up. What did my shirt say? Five simple words.
00:39:34.760
There are only two genders. Nothing harmful, nothing threatening, just a statement I believe
00:39:40.880
to be a fact. I have been told that my shirt was targeting a protected class. Who is this protected
00:39:46.380
class? Are their feelings more important than my rights? I don't complain when I see pride flags
00:39:51.880
and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right
00:39:56.440
to their beliefs just as I do. Put a pause there. The only thing I disagree with that this kid has
00:40:01.140
said is that last part. He's too tolerant of the libs, of the libs who sent him home. Other than that,
00:40:11.240
everything he said was so right. He said, are their feelings more important than my rights?
00:40:18.280
And he says, I don't, I don't say that they don't have the right to hang a pride flag in the classroom.
00:40:24.100
They don't. The pride flag is wrong. It symbolizes wrong ideas about human nature, about a lot of
00:40:32.480
things. There's no right to that. There is a right to tell the truth. There's a right to say there are
00:40:41.600
only two genders. There is no right to say there are three genders. Well, Michael, what about free
00:40:48.640
speech? What about we tolerate certain speech, even if that speech is unpleasant or even sometimes wrong.
00:40:56.940
But there is no right, especially, one, there's no right to wrong things, though sometimes we tolerate
00:41:05.080
it out of prudence. But especially in a classroom, there is no right to wrong things. If a student
00:41:14.160
is being taught wrong things in a classroom, he's being maleducated. He's in the classroom to be
00:41:20.680
educated. He is being taught things that are not true. He leaves the classroom worse educated than
00:41:25.480
when he came in. Furthermore, if a student is not allowed to recognize the truth in a classroom,
00:41:33.500
forget about being told lies. If he's not even allowed to recognize the truth, there are only
00:41:38.600
two genders. There is zero reason for him to be in that classroom. There's zero reason for a lot of
00:41:46.040
American students to be in their classrooms. If that's the kind of thing that happens in American
00:41:51.340
classrooms, close the schools, bulldoze the buildings, give the taxpayers a refund, disband the
00:41:59.480
teacher unions, start over. There is no moderate path of kind of tweaking things. We already ban a
00:42:08.940
lot of stuff from our classrooms. We ban the Bible from our classrooms, even though the Bible is true.
00:42:14.040
We ban prayer from our classrooms, even though God exists. The free fact that we are speaking
00:42:20.020
intelligibly right now implies that God exists. It's a topic for another time, but the wise people
00:42:27.620
throughout all of history have understood that, and it's the modern people with the crazy hair
00:42:31.080
shrieking. They're the ones who think they're so much smarter, and we're going to ban it from the
00:42:34.400
classroom. Transgenderism is not real. The idea that a man can be, it's not real. That should not be
00:42:42.400
allowed in the classroom. A lot of things that are being taught should not be allowed in the classroom.
00:42:47.380
If that boy can't wear that shirt in school, then students cannot get an education in school,
00:42:56.960
and parents have an obligation to get their kids educated elsewhere. Speaking of letters and
00:43:06.540
eradication for that matter, great news before we go. Vice News is going out of business.
00:43:13.520
I know I'm supposed to say, look, we want healthy dialogue in this country, and it's sad. Even
00:43:26.140
though I'm not on their side of the aisle, I'm very sad that we don't have robust, there's no
00:43:31.880
robust dialogue. I want Vice, and I want all of those other stupid magazines. I want them to be
00:43:38.180
disbanded. I want them to go bankrupt. I want their product to be ground into dirt. I want that
00:43:44.300
dirt to be buried deep underground, and I want to never see it or hear about it again. That's what
00:43:50.700
I want. I can't help but notice that Vice News, where is it? Do I have a copy of this article anywhere?
00:43:58.100
Where's my Vice News article? Oh yeah, here it is. Vice News attacked me almost exactly two months ago.
00:44:08.180
Vice News smeared me and insinuated that I'm a genocidal maniac over my CPAC speech. And then
00:44:14.860
two months later, they go out of business. Is that a coincidence? Probably, but it's a delightful
00:44:22.360
coincidence nevertheless. When I was in college or just after college, the New Republic, for all
00:44:29.140
intents and purposes, went out of business. This is a very prominent journal on the left, and the whole
00:44:35.000
thing got gutted, and it just fell apart. And there were some conservatives I knew who said, oh, that's
00:44:41.240
too bad. What a shame. I don't agree with the New Republic, but I want there to be robust, healthy
00:44:45.440
dialogue on the left and on the right. And I was scratching my head. I thought, why? And then I
00:44:52.820
thought about it. I said, well, okay, occasionally there were some interesting articles in the New
00:44:56.600
Republic. Occasionally, they were somewhat thoughtful. So maybe I could see an argument.
00:45:04.440
Vice News is not the New Republic, and those days are gone. And we're now living in a time of screaming
00:45:09.740
and cacophony and a denial of the ability to engage in intelligible speech and transurrections in the
00:45:16.840
state capitals. Joppa gets genitals off and chaos. And in that world, there's no conciliatory middle ground.
00:45:27.280
I like politics where there's a conciliatory middle ground. It'd be nice if we could get back to that at some
00:45:31.200
point. That isn't happening. And so we have to win. And to win, we need to drive these people out of their
00:45:41.920
positions of prominence. And we need to celebrate when that happens. Conan, what is best in life?
00:45:50.260
To destroy your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women. That's
00:45:54.260
pretty much where we are at. By the way, there's a story. I don't have time to get to it today.
00:45:59.320
This will be a little teaser for tomorrow. Do you know how many illegal aliens U.S. officials are
00:46:05.520
expecting to start crossing our border every single day within the next couple of weeks?
00:46:11.920
10,000. Within the next couple of weeks, the U.S. officials are expecting illegal border crossings
00:46:22.720
to jump to 3.65 million per year. What's Biden doing about it? I guess we'll get to it tomorrow.
00:46:32.640
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