The Michael Knowles Show - May 08, 2023


Ep. 1241 - The Truth About Jordan Neely & The NY Subway Choke-Out


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Former Marine Jordan Neely was shot and killed on a New York City subway train last week. Libs are calling the killing justified, Conservatives are calling it justified. The issue hinges on whether Neely posed a real threat to people on the train.

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00:00:00.000 More information is coming out in the case of Jordan Neely, the mentally ill homeless man with
00:00:05.080 a long criminal record who was killed on a New York subway by a former Marine last week.
00:00:11.020 The Libs are calling the killing murder. Conservatives are calling it justified.
00:00:15.940 The issue hinges on whether Neely posed a real threat to people on the train.
00:00:22.720 According to witness testimony, shortly after Neely boarded the F train on Monday,
00:00:26.340 he started screaming at passengers, quote, I'll hurt anyone on this train, adding that he was,
00:00:34.020 quote, ready to die. Should his threats have been taken seriously? Well, judging by his criminal
00:00:40.880 record, yes. In 2019, Neely walked up to a 60-year-old man, Philemon Castillo Baltazar,
00:00:49.280 and punched him in the face. A couple years after that, Neely walked up to a 67-year-old woman
00:00:55.260 and punched her in the face. Over the course of just eight years, from 2013 to 2021,
00:01:01.100 Neely was arrested four times for assault. He was arrested many other times for many other reasons.
00:01:06.480 There was an active warrant out for his arrest, again for assault, at the time of his death.
00:01:11.880 As one of Neely's victims explained, quote, the Marine shouldn't be punished.
00:01:16.780 Who knows what that guy might have done to other people?
00:01:21.160 Of course, not only should the Marine not be punished, he should be given an award for valor.
00:01:28.680 He should be given a key to the city. This hero stepped up when the police couldn't,
00:01:33.740 since they have long been undermined by New York's pro-crime political leaders.
00:01:37.340 This guy protected people from a violent criminal threatening violence. A lot of conservatives are
00:01:43.420 going to want to sit on the fence here. They're going to want to wait for more evidence to come
00:01:46.980 out. But the reality is this case should never go to trial. And if it does go to trial, this Marine
00:01:53.780 will never get a fair one. The media are already working overtime to convict him before a jury is
00:01:59.140 convened. There is a lot more riding on this trial than the fate of one man. If he is convicted,
00:02:07.740 then only a madman would ever step up to protect people in our increasingly lawless society again.
00:02:14.940 Injustice will spread. Criminals will flourish. More innocent people will be harmed and killed.
00:02:19.500 It remains to be seen whether or not moderates will fall for this preposterous witch hunt
00:02:24.920 in the same way that they did during the heyday of BLM, as they did in absurd cases,
00:02:30.220 such as the case of Breonna Taylor. Conservatives, at least, should not fall for it.
00:02:35.000 Conservatives, at least, should stand firm. And someone should give that Marine a medal.
00:02:41.700 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:03:01.280 That is GenuCell.com slash Knowles. We've got a very important video coming up on misgendering.
00:03:13.180 It's not just an important video in that it's going viral and people are crying and screaming
00:03:17.840 about it and claiming transphobia or whatever. It's an important video in that it tells you
00:03:21.940 a lot about what is going on in the psyche of people with transgenderism. So we'll get to that
00:03:27.360 in just a little bit. First, though, the media are just off and running. They're off and running on
00:03:33.120 the Jordan Neely killing. They're off and running on this shooting in Texas where there is not a ton of
00:03:38.960 information out now except for this. Except for this. We know that there was a shooting in Texas.
00:03:43.540 Eight people were killed. It was at a shopping mall. And immediately we were told this was a
00:03:48.420 far-right shooting. This is a white supremacist, neo-Nazi, all the rest of it. Then we see who the
00:03:55.380 shooter is. The shooter is a very, very Hispanic man. Not even a white Hispanic man like the media have
00:04:03.060 tried to claim when they try to conclude that white racism is behind something. And then they
00:04:09.700 find out that the guy is not really white, like George Zimmerman or something like that in the
00:04:13.580 killing of Trayvon Martin. So in this case, this guy, whatever he is, he sure ain't white.
00:04:19.320 Nevertheless, the media are persisting. They're saying that it was white supremacy. It was neo-Nazism.
00:04:24.400 It was far-right politics there. So all we know so far, it's not really the facts of the case,
00:04:31.380 not really much about the identity of the shooter, not very much about his motivations.
00:04:36.060 All we know is the same thing that we know with every other shooting, with every other tragedy,
00:04:41.180 with really every other aspect of politics, which is that the media are going to blame
00:04:45.460 white people, men, tradition, probably Christianity. They've got their conclusion they will fit any 0.94
00:04:55.460 circumstances in to fix that, to fit that rather, even if it doesn't make any sense.
00:05:02.700 Now, speaking of prosecutions, did you see, did you see the deposition of Donald John Trump
00:05:11.700 in this case that they've brought against him, alleging that he raped a woman in the 1990s?
00:05:19.600 No one really ever heard about this for decades until coincidentally, he's running for president.
00:05:25.100 And then this lady who's known as something of a fabulist that comes out and says, he raped me, 1.00
00:05:31.560 even though obviously her story didn't make any sense at all. So Trump is deposed in this case.
00:05:38.540 And this deposition shows you why it remains the case today, as what it was six months ago,
00:05:49.460 what it was a year ago, what it was two years ago, that Donald Trump is the most likely 2024 Republican nominee.
00:05:55.040 Take it away.
00:05:56.320 And you say, and again, this has become very famous in this video, I just start kissing them.
00:06:02.700 It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it.
00:06:08.840 You can do anything, grab them by the p***, you can do anything. That's what you said, correct? 1.00
00:06:13.580 Well, historically, that's true with stars.
00:06:16.300 It's true with stars that they can grab women by the p***? 0.96
00:06:18.800 Well, if you look over the last million years, I guess that's been largely true.
00:06:24.380 Not always, but largely true. Unfortunately or fortunately.
00:06:29.720 And you consider yourself to be a star?
00:06:34.780 I think you can say that, yeah.
00:06:38.320 Oh, man.
00:06:40.620 I don't know what I was expecting when I started playing this clip, but it exceeded even my expectations.
00:06:47.200 And you might hate Trump, and you might think he's a bad nominee, even if you kind of like Trump.
00:06:51.920 And you might be pulling your hair out.
00:06:55.460 Tell me that isn't funny.
00:06:57.540 Tell me, yeah, historically, that's true.
00:07:01.840 What do you mean, historically, that's true?
00:07:03.420 Oh, I don't know, for like the last million years, I think it's true that stars basically get to do whatever they want, and women throw themselves at stars? 0.97
00:07:13.500 Well, what do you think?
00:07:15.540 You're a star?
00:07:16.320 Yeah, I think you would say that I am a star.
00:07:19.440 I'm the most famous person in this country, and have been for at least a decade.
00:07:24.060 Yeah.
00:07:25.720 This is leadership in an age such as ours.
00:07:31.060 In a more civilized age, maybe this would not be leadership.
00:07:34.120 In a more civilized age, this might be considered crass and crude and unbecoming of a statesman.
00:07:41.160 But in an age such as ours, where the political class is so corrupt, where they're going after this guy on a campaign donation to his own campaign six, seven years ago, which was totally legal, wasn't even a misdemeanor, and they're trying to pretend it was a felony.
00:07:57.340 In that kind of age, where they spy on his campaign, and they pretend that he's colluding with the Russians, then that doesn't work.
00:08:02.740 They pretend he's colluding with the Ukrainians, then that doesn't work.
00:08:05.320 They're pretending he raped a woman in 1993 or something.
00:08:08.120 In an age that is so transparently corrupt, the only response to the predations of this political class is to mock them.
00:08:19.120 Say, yeah, I said that, you're right.
00:08:21.140 Yeah, that was pretty true what I said.
00:08:23.420 Yeah, it's always been true, actually.
00:08:25.300 Yeah, oh, am I a star?
00:08:27.080 Yeah, I'm a huge star.
00:08:28.020 That's why you're trying to get me.
00:08:29.660 And he went on.
00:08:30.880 Trump was not going to leave it merely at that.
00:08:34.660 Trump then turned the questioning on his interrogator.
00:08:38.200 When you said in that video that Ms. Leeds would not be your first choice, you were referring to her physical looks, correct?
00:08:47.440 Just the overall.
00:08:48.360 I look at her.
00:08:49.780 I see her.
00:08:50.520 I hear what she says.
00:08:52.340 Whatever.
00:08:52.780 You wouldn't be a choice of mine either, to be honest with you.
00:08:55.580 I hope you're not insulted.
00:08:56.940 I would not, under any circumstances, have any interest in you.
00:09:02.160 I'm honest when I say it.
00:09:04.340 She, I would not have any interest in. 0.96
00:09:06.800 Where do I donate?
00:09:07.920 I know I don't make endorsements in Brian Mary's.
00:09:10.000 Where do I, where do I get more of that?
00:09:12.260 That's what I, not rudeness toward women. 1.00
00:09:16.500 Not boorish behavior.
00:09:18.460 But you know what I want?
00:09:21.180 I want a guy who looks the entire liberal establishment, the whole political class, this decayed, decadent, desiccated political class.
00:09:33.520 I want a guy who looks them in the face and flips them the bird.
00:09:37.420 That's, that is what I want in my candidate.
00:09:40.760 And furthermore, you might say, well, this kind of behavior, maybe it played in 2016.
00:09:47.340 Maybe, but I, it's not going to play in 2024.
00:09:50.320 First of all, there's some evidence that it will play in 2024.
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00:09:55.040 But second of all, let's say you're right.
00:09:57.100 Let's say that this doesn't work.
00:09:58.400 It turns off too many women voters. 1.00
00:10:00.200 I'm not convinced it does.
00:10:01.380 Let's say it turns off suburban voters.
00:10:02.980 Maybe that's true.
00:10:03.720 Tell me that guy does not have the best chance of becoming the nominee.
00:10:10.580 You could tell me right now, but the policies and his ability to execute the policies, it's not there.
00:10:16.880 And the other candidates are, yeah, maybe.
00:10:19.980 But political campaigns are dynamic.
00:10:22.140 People are attracted to personalities.
00:10:23.800 The person with the biggest personality almost always wins.
00:10:26.780 Tell me that guy does not have the best chance going into 2024.
00:10:31.420 If you want to claim, well, Trump has lost a step, he's not as quick as he used to be, watch that deposition.
00:10:38.640 Well, Trump, he's moderated his views.
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00:12:08.920 The best argument against Trump 2024 right now, best argument, especially for someone like Ron DeSantis, is that Trump can't win again.
00:12:16.060 And maybe Trump can't win again.
00:12:17.900 I'm not convinced he can.
00:12:19.900 But there is a new poll out from Washington Post-ABC News, take it with whatever grain of salt you want, that Donald Trump is up seven points.
00:12:27.640 Not up seven points over DeSantis, up seven points over Joe Biden.
00:12:32.940 Poll shows 49% of respondents said they would definitely or probably vote for Trump against Biden, or that they lean toward voting for Trump, whereas Biden in such a scenario only gets 42%.
00:12:42.940 Now, they polled the same question with DeSantis.
00:12:46.680 Curiously, DeSantis doesn't do as well as Trump.
00:12:49.100 Pretty close.
00:12:50.020 And he's up over Biden by the same amount, seven points.
00:12:53.800 But only 48% of people say that they would definitely or probably vote for DeSantis over Biden.
00:13:01.760 And 41% of people say they would vote for Biden over DeSantis.
00:13:06.600 These are still good numbers for DeSantis.
00:13:08.460 The DeSantis campaign is far from over, though they do have an uphill battle.
00:13:12.600 But this is bad news for them.
00:13:14.820 Because if this keeps up, then DeSantis loses the best argument he has for his candidacy, which is, I'm Trump without the downsides.
00:13:24.660 I'm Trump who can win.
00:13:26.140 So then what the DeSantis campaign will have to do is pivot.
00:13:29.460 And the DeSantis campaign will have to be less about electability.
00:13:32.340 And the DeSantis campaign will have to be less about ideological purity or precision or sophistication.
00:13:40.280 What the DeSantis campaign then has to become about is effectiveness at wielding power in office.
00:13:45.700 If it looks like any Republican nominee is going to beat Biden, which, again, I'm very skeptical of all of these polls.
00:13:53.160 I'm skeptical of the way that elections are now conducted in this country.
00:13:57.260 But let's say that the Republican can beat Biden.
00:14:00.760 Then the argument for DeSantis has to be, I will wield power more effectively than Trump is able to wield power.
00:14:06.960 And it's a hard argument to make because there is some empirical basis for it.
00:14:11.080 You can look at what he's done in Florida, but a lot of it's going to be unknown because the federal government's different than Florida.
00:14:16.060 And in that case, if that's what the election becomes about, then the election is going to hinge on things like DeSantis' fight with Disney.
00:14:23.500 Looked like DeSantis beat Disney, then it looked like Disney beat DeSantis.
00:14:26.380 Now it's kind of up in the air again.
00:14:27.780 He's going to have to beat Disney to be able to make that claim.
00:14:30.120 It's going to hinge on DeSantis' flight with the schools in Florida, up to the collegiate level, but certainly K through 12.
00:14:37.860 Can Ron DeSantis stop the schools from transing the kids? 1.00
00:14:42.340 If he can, he's got a good argument in his campaign against Trump.
00:14:45.600 If he can't, he doesn't.
00:14:48.040 Speaking of the transgender issue, which no one can ever shut up about, 1.00
00:14:54.240 there's a video going viral of a guy explaining why there really is a genocide against transgender people, quote unquote.
00:15:03.880 Now you remember, after I gave my CPAC speech a month or two ago, there was the claim that I was calling for genocide.
00:15:10.100 And this was part of the broader genocide against the transgender people.
00:15:13.480 And obviously the only way they could make that argument was by rewriting what I said and rewriting what lots of other people said and making up a bunch of nonsense.
00:15:20.620 But here is the quantitative argument for why there is a transgenocide.
00:15:29.300 Please stop misusing the word genocide. It's offensive to Jewish people.
00:15:34.580 Yes, here's the thing, though. I'm not misusing the word.
00:15:37.320 Transgender people are facing an act of genocide right now.
00:15:41.260 The laws that are being passed against my community right now are absolutely directly responsible for the astronomical unaliving rate that we have.
00:15:49.420 52% of trans people last year considered unaliving.
00:15:53.740 Sidebar, I've noticed this weird euphemism popping up, unaliving.
00:16:02.060 Instead of saying killing or suicide or something, they say unaliving.
00:16:06.440 And at first I thought it was just this kind of dark, kind of cutesy euphemism.
00:16:13.520 But I've noticed it popping up more and more now.
00:16:16.860 And I wonder if it's just part of the broader project of political correctness or wokeness or whatever you want to call it, of using euphemisms for everything, including now suicide.
00:16:28.340 Even when they're trying to make an argument.
00:16:29.820 It's a little bit of a sidebar in the way that the libs use language to deny reality.
00:16:33.540 And obviously this guy is especially using language to deny reality because he pretends to be a woman and he pretends that people can change their sex.
00:16:39.520 But what he says is 52% of people, of trans people, considered suicide last year.
00:16:49.080 That's always been the case.
00:16:51.720 That's the problem.
00:16:53.180 41% of transgender identifying people attempt suicide.
00:16:58.500 That's one of the arguments against transgenderism. 1.00
00:17:02.180 Transgenderism which, even if you're a big supporter of transgenderism, you have to say it's a social contagion. 0.97
00:17:08.340 It is a little strange how the numbers of trans identifying people have exploded in recent years, especially among younger kids who are being indoctrinated into this.
00:17:18.300 Unless you believe there's something in the water turning the frogs gay, you have to believe this is a social contagion. 0.77
00:17:22.820 And if it's a social contagion, we should try to contain it.
00:17:26.400 But you're not allowed to say that because we're supposed to tell people now that transgenderism is wonderful.
00:17:31.200 If you come out and you're a man and you pretend to be a woman, you're going to be so happy, you're going to be euphoric. 0.99
00:17:35.760 But this guy's admitting, no, the numbers don't bear that out.
00:17:38.460 52% of trans identifying people considered killing themselves.
00:17:44.600 41% actually tried to do it.
00:17:46.300 So you should do everything you can in your power to stop your kid from identifying as transgenderism. 1.00
00:17:53.720 But they won't take it that far.
00:17:54.920 They're saying, no, no, no.
00:17:55.780 People are just intrinsically transgenderism. 1.00
00:17:58.000 They're born that way.
00:17:58.980 Which is a really rich argument coming from people who are claiming that you're not even born with your own sex.
00:18:04.320 Not even sex itself is immutable.
00:18:06.580 Not even your biology is immutable.
00:18:08.140 But somehow this ideology, this is totally immutable.
00:18:11.400 You can't change it.
00:18:12.240 Okay, obviously not very coherent.
00:18:14.600 But then they go on, they say, the reason that they're suicidal is because of the transphobes.
00:18:23.460 Society used to be much more transphobic than it is today.
00:18:28.880 For all of human history until five minutes ago, society thought that transgenderism was preposterous.
00:18:36.140 They wouldn't let boys into the girls' room. 0.98
00:18:38.660 They wouldn't let boys play on girls' swim teams.
00:18:40.900 They would mock men who dressed up like women.
00:18:43.840 They made it illegal in many places across this country and across the world.
00:18:48.360 But across this country, even in places like San Francisco, if you can believe it.
00:18:52.780 Today, we live in the least transphobic, meaning most pro-trans society ever in human history.
00:18:59.400 And this guy's saying the majority of trans people still consider killing themselves.
00:19:07.000 Why is that?
00:19:08.940 Whatever you want to blame that on, the one thing you can't blame that on is, quote-unquote, transphobia.
00:19:15.380 Because transphobia, quote-unquote, has plummeted.
00:19:19.340 And the suicidality has remained the same or gone up a little bit, which tells you that the suicidality and the anxiety and the depression, as borne out by other social scientific surveys, and more importantly, is borne out by philosophy and your common sense in your head.
00:19:34.660 And the suicidality and all of that comes from transgender identity itself. 0.99
00:19:41.920 It's intrinsic to it.
00:19:43.580 And it's intrinsic to it because it's out of accord with reality.
00:19:47.740 And when you live according to lies, and when you go to great lengths to live according to lies, and when you mutilate yourself based on lies, and when you sterilize yourself based on lies, and when you chop off parts of your body that are very dear to you based on lies,
00:20:00.600 you're going to be depressed because even if you have a slight euphoria in the moment, just as you might from any disordered activity that tickles you in a certain way,
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00:23:07.980 I thought it was the conservatives boycotting Transheiser Bush.
00:23:10.120 We are also boycotting Transheiser Bush. 1.00
00:23:12.820 Everybody is boycotting Transheiser Bush. 1.00
00:23:14.720 Why?
00:23:15.520 Because Bud Light and the team over there have taken their most clear step to distance themselves from Dylan Mulvaney.
00:23:23.700 They said it was one can.
00:23:24.640 We didn't sell it.
00:23:25.440 We didn't sign off on it.
00:23:26.440 We don't like it.
00:23:27.380 Please leave us alone.
00:23:29.200 But they didn't quite go far enough to earn back the support of the conservatives who actually bought their beer.
00:23:35.000 They've just gone far enough to irritate the leftists and the pro-LGBT people who have been buying Bud Light in protest of the conservatives, not buying Bud Light in protest of transgenderism.
00:23:47.920 So Bud Light, yet again, has made the worst decision available to it.
00:23:56.960 What are they saying?
00:23:59.180 Several gay bars in Chicago are boycotting actually all AB InBev products.
00:24:04.700 That's Anheuser-Busch was bought by this Belgian company, InBev.
00:24:08.080 And they're doing it because of anti-transgender actions and statements to Bears Tavern Group.
00:24:15.220 Bears.
00:24:15.720 That's a gay term, right?
00:24:16.780 About like big, big guys.
00:24:18.880 About like big hairy guys.
00:24:20.200 It owns four gay bars in Chicago.
00:24:22.040 Maybe it's just a Chicago thing like the Chicago Bears.
00:24:23.920 I don't know.
00:24:24.320 I don't know.
00:24:24.660 I don't really want to know.
00:24:25.380 Say all two Bears Tavern Group bars are discontinuing Anheuser-Busch InBev products as a result of the Brewers' anti-transgender actions and statements.
00:24:34.340 Their response, quote, shows how little Anheuser-Busch cares about the LGBTQIA plus community.
00:24:40.440 And in particular, transgender people who have been under unrelenting attack in this country.
00:24:46.620 Bud Light doesn't listen to me.
00:24:48.280 They don't want my advice, I guess.
00:24:49.980 I don't know.
00:24:50.320 They keep making the worst decision possible.
00:24:52.440 There is only one course of action that can help you, Bud Light.
00:24:56.580 Your first course of action that could have helped you was shutting up.
00:24:59.360 They couldn't do that.
00:25:00.020 So, okay, your second course of action, the only one that can help you right now, is you need to come out firmly and strongly against transgenderism, against the whole preposterous ideology. 1.00
00:25:11.300 You will never win over the LGBT LMNOP people. 1.00
00:25:15.640 There aren't enough of them to sustain your beer company, first of all.
00:25:19.340 Second of all, the ideology is completely out of step with reality.
00:25:24.460 And so you're going to alienate the broader public that does not have this particular pathology.
00:25:31.620 But three, if you stand in the middle of the road, you are going to get hit by a truck.
00:25:37.060 There is no way to avoid this particular issue.
00:25:40.360 Certain political issues, you can avoid them.
00:25:42.220 As I made clear in my CPAC speech, which set the whole liberal establishment spinning, this is one of those issues where you can't.
00:25:49.120 Either women have bathrooms or they don't. 1.00
00:25:51.080 This is one of those fundamental issues.
00:25:53.920 And the loving, compassionate, truthful, smart business decision kind of response that you can give here is,
00:26:04.380 we oppose transgenderism. 1.00
00:26:05.960 That was wrong.
00:26:07.000 We fired the people who sponsored Dylan Mulvaney.
00:26:09.160 We support frat boys and construction workers and boys and girls having their own bathrooms.
00:26:14.920 We are strongly against men competing against women in sports. 0.99
00:26:18.700 We're strongly on the side of reality.
00:26:21.140 Bud, why, sir, this Bud's for you.
00:26:24.320 We're going to recast the frogs.
00:26:26.020 We're firing Mulvaney.
00:26:27.520 We're going to put the frogs back in the commercials.
00:26:29.140 And you know what?
00:26:29.800 We're not even going to turn the freaking frogs gay. 0.91
00:26:31.700 We're going to go back to normal.
00:26:33.840 Please buy our beer again.
00:26:35.300 We are sorry.
00:26:36.160 Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
00:26:40.220 If Bud Light came out and said that, people would buy their beer again.
00:26:45.900 Conservatives who don't even like their beer would probably buy it just to show support for this statement
00:26:51.480 and to show the rest of corporate America that they need to get on the page too.
00:26:56.420 They would do it.
00:26:57.540 Anything short of that is not going to work.
00:26:59.740 It's just going to irritate everybody.
00:27:01.640 And then Bud Light's going to go away.
00:27:03.060 Speaking of, not gay bars, but speaking of places with silly costumes that have a reputation for being a little bit light in the loafers. 0.99
00:27:14.020 Merry Old England just had a coronation over the weekend. 0.61
00:27:17.400 Maybe you watched it.
00:27:18.580 Maybe you saw the plumes and the robes and the carriages and everything.
00:27:24.680 I don't have much to say about the coronation.
00:27:28.940 Obviously, the United States broke away from England some time ago.
00:27:33.000 The UK broke away from my church sometime before that.
00:27:40.000 And it's not my thing.
00:27:43.360 I get it.
00:27:44.000 But I did watch the coronation.
00:27:45.500 And I did enjoy large parts of the coronation.
00:27:52.460 There are many, many faults to find with it.
00:27:54.920 There are many, many faults to find with King George.
00:27:58.240 There are many, many faults to find with what has happened with the royal family and with the UK in general.
00:28:04.140 But in a world that is so fanatically opposed to tradition, how could a conservative not celebrate the coronation of the King of England?
00:28:19.480 You don't need to be a monarchist.
00:28:21.160 You don't need to be a Brit. 1.00
00:28:22.380 You don't need to be an Anglican.
00:28:23.960 You don't need to like Charles.
00:28:26.360 You don't need to do any of those things.
00:28:28.820 In a world that tells you, past bad, present crisis, future always better.
00:28:35.780 In a world that tells you that if you don't chop off your kids' genitals, you're a bad parent. 0.75
00:28:41.600 We're going to take your kids from you. 1.00
00:28:42.660 In a world that tells you that Christianity is a joke and God doesn't exist.
00:28:48.620 And we're just a bunch of meat sacks that need to eat the bugs and live in pods and own nothing and be happy.
00:28:55.240 In a world that tells you that.
00:28:56.540 Then even the coronation of a pretty liberal guy who pals around with Klaus Schwab, who has kooky religious views, who has all his problems.
00:29:07.640 In that world, it seems to me a conservative has to celebrate the maintenance of some kind of tradition on a chair that's, what, 700 years old or something like that in Westminster Abbey,
00:29:18.440 which has hosted every crowning of a king going back to the Norman Conquest, it gives you something to hold on to.
00:29:28.940 And that's, I think, what we're grappling with in our political order.
00:29:32.220 We have nothing left to hold on to.
00:29:33.940 Part of this is the building.
00:29:35.940 Part of this is the fact that this is a big, beautiful abbey and we don't build things like this anymore.
00:29:40.760 We don't even build big courtrooms, courthouses, and train stations anymore.
00:29:45.200 It used to be early 20th century New York, if you walked into a courthouse, you were in a big, grand place.
00:29:51.640 You felt like you had dignity.
00:29:53.320 When you came into New York City, you showed up either in Grand Central or the old Penn Station.
00:29:58.000 And it was big and grand and you felt like a person with dignity.
00:30:01.140 And then everything has become smaller.
00:30:03.140 And courthouses now look like little meeting rooms from some paper company.
00:30:06.320 And train stations look like little rat mazes.
00:30:09.360 What they did to New York, the old Penn Station, they put it all underground.
00:30:12.920 You enter New York feeling like a mouse or a rat.
00:30:15.920 And that changes how you view yourself and you view your society.
00:30:19.780 The reason we want big courthouses, the reason we want big palaces,
00:30:23.720 the reason we want big cathedrals and abbeys for that matter,
00:30:26.080 is for the feeling of solidity, the feeling of continuity over generations.
00:30:29.960 To build those cathedrals, it would take generations, many, many decades, over a century sometimes.
00:30:34.960 And that feeling of inertia and weight and history and near permanence has been lost.
00:30:43.000 And if we can hold on to that to get through a little bit of this cultural madness, 0.95
00:30:47.500 then I'll look past a lot of the faults, even of somebody like King Charles.
00:30:54.100 I won't even go down the line of thinking that gets us to the true King of England,
00:30:59.480 who's obviously the Jacobite successor, the Archduke Franz of Bavaria,
00:31:03.320 or his brother Maximilian, or his grandson, Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein.
00:31:08.900 I'm not even going to go down that path.
00:31:11.340 I just think we ought to celebrate the very fact of a celebration of tradition,
00:31:16.640 like the coronation.
00:31:17.800 Speaking of our world leaders, the nearest thing we have to permanence in America right now
00:31:21.740 is just Joe Biden because he's so old.
00:31:23.840 But we don't get any of the solidity that we get out of old buildings and old traditions with Joe Biden.
00:31:28.540 Quite the opposite.
00:31:29.100 He just blows around in the wind.
00:31:31.160 Joe Biden was asked why America should elect somebody who is so much older than the CEO of a big company,
00:31:40.460 let's say.
00:31:41.160 And he says the reason is wisdom.
00:31:45.140 There's not a Fortune 500 company in the world looking to hire a CEO in his 80s.
00:31:52.340 So why would an 82-year-old Joe Biden be the right person for the most important job in the world?
00:32:00.180 Because I've acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom.
00:32:03.160 I know more than the vast majority of people.
00:32:05.360 I'm more experienced than anybody who's ever run for the office.
00:32:08.280 And I think I've proven myself to be honorable as well as also effective.
00:32:15.020 None of that is true, unfortunately.
00:32:17.180 And I'm trying to be as charitable as I can.
00:32:19.020 And I think, well, the one thing you can say about Joe Biden, he's been around a long time.
00:32:23.960 He's been in the Senate since 1972.
00:32:27.620 So he must have learned something, right?
00:32:30.760 He must have some wisdom, right?
00:32:32.100 No.
00:32:33.100 Wisdom is that which God gives to man so that he can better see God's plan for his life.
00:32:41.200 Wisdom is not gained strictly as a matter of being around for a long time.
00:32:47.420 Wisdom has a connection to objective truth.
00:32:52.080 So you can be a young person and have wisdom.
00:32:56.120 You can be wise beyond your years, as some people say.
00:32:59.680 And you can be a very old person and have no wisdom at all. 1.00
00:33:04.480 Your wisdom can, and we hope, usually does increase over time.
00:33:09.380 But if you have no regard for the truth, you cannot have any wisdom.
00:33:14.860 And Joe Biden doesn't have any regard for the truth.
00:33:17.600 I don't just mean in his incoherent and heretical religious practices.
00:33:23.300 I mean just in the way that he speaks.
00:33:25.720 He is a pathological liar.
00:33:27.440 He has been for his whole career.
00:33:28.780 Even more egregiously so than other politicians.
00:33:33.900 He just lies about everything.
00:33:35.340 That's why he had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race.
00:33:39.600 It's not even that he's intentionally, I think, trying to undermine the truth.
00:33:44.080 I think he just doesn't care about the truth.
00:33:45.440 So he just makes up everything about hairy legs and corn pop and his dad applauding at gay guys kissing on the streets of Scranton and Delaware.
00:33:51.620 And all over the place in 1942 or whatever.
00:33:56.380 He just makes it up.
00:33:58.680 So he doesn't have wisdom in the true sense, obviously.
00:34:02.560 And he doesn't even have wisdom in the worldly sense.
00:34:05.660 You'd think, well, okay, the guy, he's not the most upstanding moral guy.
00:34:09.760 But at least he knows how the world works, right?
00:34:12.440 He's like a gangster.
00:34:13.440 He understands the ways of this world.
00:34:15.000 Except he doesn't.
00:34:16.700 If he understood the ways of this world, don't you think he'd be able to maintain?
00:34:21.460 The decent economy, not have record high inflation and an energy crisis and the economy just collapsing all around him?
00:34:28.100 Don't you think he would be able to work out some kind of deal in the Ukraine war and in the Middle East and in China and prevent the outbreak of World War III, which we seem to be on the brink of?
00:34:40.180 Don't you think he'd be able to work out some deal at the border such that we don't have 10,000 plus people a day pouring over?
00:34:47.400 He's not even wise in the way of the world.
00:34:49.820 We sometimes think of this dichotomy.
00:34:51.840 Well, are you going to be a good, serious person who pays respect to the moral order and to God?
00:34:56.700 Or are you going to be a guy who's street smart?
00:34:59.440 What is it?
00:34:59.900 Are you going to be classically smart, book smart, or are you going to be street smart?
00:35:03.280 But the two actually go together.
00:35:05.640 The more you know about the profound things, the more you're going to understand even the shallowness and corruption of this world.
00:35:13.900 And if you don't understand the profound things and you don't even show an interest in it, then you're going to be suckered in by the deceptions of this world.
00:35:22.920 People are noticing this kind of stuff.
00:35:24.560 They're trying to turn away from it.
00:35:26.320 Speaking of older gentlemen, Richard Dreyfuss, marvelous actor.
00:35:30.500 I always thought of him as a liberal Democrat.
00:35:33.620 Richard Dreyfuss was just asked his feeling about the new woke casting standards in Hollywood.
00:35:39.140 He did not mince words.
00:35:41.300 Starting in 2024, films will be required to meet new inclusion standards to be eligible for the Academy Awards for Best Picture.
00:35:51.240 They'll have to have a certain percentage of actors or crew from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.
00:35:58.400 What do you think of these new inclusion standards for films?
00:36:01.900 They make me vomit.
00:36:03.760 Why?
00:36:04.120 Because this is an art form.
00:36:09.740 It's also a form of commerce and it makes money, but it's an art.
00:36:16.880 And no one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.
00:36:32.340 Love this answer, obviously.
00:36:36.260 Always loved Richard Dreyfuss' acting work.
00:36:39.020 I never just knew about his politics.
00:36:40.800 I thought, I vaguely remember he was a liberal Democrat.
00:36:43.940 I think he's said that before.
00:36:46.220 And yet, he's clearly reconsidered this.
00:36:48.380 And bizarrely, Richard Dreyfuss, I think, is a pretty good stand-in for the median voter.
00:36:55.920 His life experience and career have been rather different than ordinary Joe Blow on the street.
00:37:00.360 But I think he's a pretty good stand-in, which is he's kind of dispositionally or reflexively liberal.
00:37:08.220 That's how most people are in the culture.
00:37:10.240 That's how the culture educates you to be.
00:37:12.120 But he's noticed in recent years liberalism going a little bit crazy.
00:37:17.220 And crucially, he's noticed liberalism affecting something he knows about.
00:37:21.920 Not just some far-flung thing where he doesn't really know what's going on in Syria or he doesn't know about economic policy.
00:37:27.240 But his business that he knows intimately.
00:37:30.700 He says, wait a second.
00:37:32.340 This isn't good.
00:37:33.200 This is terrible.
00:37:34.800 His business where it's now affecting him as an artist trying to do his work.
00:37:39.840 He's saying, wait a second.
00:37:41.060 This liberalism that when it was abstract, it seemed okay.
00:37:43.820 Now that it's affecting me directly or now that I can at least see it more clearly, it's awful.
00:37:48.320 There are many, many such cases.
00:37:50.980 So you ask, how could Donald Trump possibly beat Joe Biden?
00:37:53.940 Assuming we can figure out the voting rules this time.
00:37:56.980 How can Donald Trump possibly beat Joe Biden?
00:37:59.440 How can we possibly overcome this liberal establishment?
00:38:01.360 People are noticing.
00:38:06.000 Liberalism got a little too close to home.
00:38:09.200 Transing the kids was a big part of it.
00:38:11.240 But it extends elsewhere.
00:38:12.380 It extends to casting standards in Hollywood.
00:38:14.220 People are noticing.
00:38:16.960 And they're pushing back.
00:38:18.100 Even people that you wouldn't necessarily expect.
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00:39:33.640 My favorite comment on Friday is from Dominic Zelenak, who says,
00:39:39.020 Vegetable oil is a seed oil.
00:39:42.160 Seed oils are high in trans fat.
00:39:45.700 It was right in front of us the whole time.
00:39:48.020 Wow.
00:39:49.400 It was right there.
00:39:49.960 It was hiding in plain sight.
00:39:51.000 Now, step one, replace all of our good butter and ghee and beef tallow with seed oils.
00:40:02.320 Step two, make us all eat a lot of trans fats. 0.95
00:40:06.140 Step three, we all go trans.
00:40:07.600 It was right there.
00:40:08.940 You don't need Klaus Schwab or Dr. Fauci to think that one up.
00:40:11.400 It was right there all the time.
00:40:13.900 Put down the seed oils.
00:40:17.060 Eat olive oil and butter.
00:40:19.380 Okay.
00:40:21.000 Speaking of transing people, there was a video, it went viral on TikTok.
00:40:26.620 And it was very sad.
00:40:28.140 I know that a lot of these videos are trans-identifying people screaming about nonsense. 0.99
00:40:32.280 And then we all kind of laugh at it.
00:40:33.580 And we say, this is crazy.
00:40:34.540 And we shouldn't tolerate this anymore.
00:40:36.340 But this one was kind of sad because it showed a trans-identifying person just crying,
00:40:43.620 just completely broken down over what?
00:40:47.300 Over being threatened with death, over being punched in the face,
00:40:50.080 over, no, none of that, over being, quote unquote, misgendered.
00:40:55.540 By which is meant, being referred to as the gender that they actually are.
00:41:02.680 Here's the video.
00:41:03.740 This is what misgendering looks like.
00:41:07.140 I want to show you the power of giving or withholding an aspect of someone's identity
00:41:12.260 from them.
00:41:12.800 This is not me being selfish or too sensitive.
00:41:17.260 This is not me expecting too much from those who are closest to me.
00:41:21.800 And no, I can't just get over it.
00:41:25.320 The pain of being referred to as someone I am not is of the worst pain I've ever felt.
00:41:30.600 Not respecting someone's pronouns is an act of violence.
00:41:36.060 I can't tell if this is real or just performed.
00:41:41.480 This woman, assume it's a woman? 1.00
00:41:43.840 I don't know.
00:41:44.240 It's hard to tell these days.
00:41:45.100 But let's say a woman. 0.98
00:41:46.120 This woman is going through the facial expressions of crying. 0.85
00:41:52.160 There aren't any tears.
00:41:53.180 But it doesn't mean that this person isn't genuinely upset.
00:41:58.340 Obviously, whenever you start recording yourself as you're having some kind of emotional breakdown,
00:42:03.840 there's a performative aspect that comes along with that as well.
00:42:07.340 But maybe it's real.
00:42:08.600 Maybe this person is really sobbing and breaking down because of the misgendering.
00:42:18.400 That is very sad.
00:42:19.760 We should try to order society such that people don't break down over this stuff anymore.
00:42:25.400 And the way to do that is to end the transgender madness. 1.00
00:42:31.000 If someone called me, she, I would not cry.
00:42:35.800 I would not break down.
00:42:37.620 I would not make a TikTok video about it.
00:42:39.760 I would think it's kind of funny.
00:42:41.060 If someone walked up to me and said, hey, Rachel Maddow.
00:42:45.100 Hey, where's your glasses, Rachel? 0.57
00:42:47.100 Hey, hey, hey.
00:42:48.080 I would laugh.
00:42:49.280 That would be a funny thing.
00:42:52.440 At most, I would just sort of brush it off and keep going.
00:42:58.260 Why is it that transgender people uniquely are fragile when it comes to what they are called?
00:43:07.620 Not even called mean, awful, nasty names.
00:43:09.600 Just called he or she.
00:43:11.520 Why is that?
00:43:12.520 Because they know it isn't true.
00:43:14.420 I know that I'm not Rachel Maddow.
00:43:18.220 Whatever similarity I bear to Rachel, putting that aside, I know that I'm not actually Rachel Maddow.
00:43:25.340 Especially because Ben made me take the glasses off years ago.
00:43:27.620 I know that I'm not really a woman.
00:43:29.760 So if somebody called me he or she or her or something, it wouldn't bother me.
00:43:35.620 My epistemology suggests that I can know things for sure and that reality is not contingent on what people say.
00:43:45.480 The libs, and especially the pro-trans libs, they believe that reality is simply constituted by what everybody says.
00:43:54.140 And that's why you've got to force everybody to comply.
00:43:56.500 That's why, especially for the good of these people, we've got to stop that.
00:44:04.740 And even more important than grounding society on biological sex, we need to ground it on a sound epistemology that says we really can know things about reality.
00:44:13.620 And not everything is up in the air.
00:44:15.420 And we're not living in Wonderland with Alice and Humpty Dumpty.
00:44:18.940 Humpty Dumpty who says, when I use a word, it means whatever I say it means.
00:44:22.480 And Alice says, can a word really mean so many things?
00:44:24.920 And Humpty Dumpty says, the question is, which is to be master, that's all.
00:44:30.340 Which is to be master, we're going to be masters of the universe by just manipulating all the language.
00:44:34.340 That's what the libs are basing their views on.
00:44:38.280 I discuss this in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
00:44:41.400 Hello, where is my bell?
00:44:43.740 Where, hello everybody.
00:44:44.920 These producers are not worth even one grain of salt that they can't have that bell.
00:44:49.840 We've got a lot coming up.
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