The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1250 - Lib Mayor Cries For Help As Illegal Aliens Invade City


Summary

In his inaugural address, Chicago s new mayor, Brandon Johnson, celebrated and welcomed illegal aliens to his city. But then the next day, the mayor called the buses of illegal immigrants wicked and unconscionable. Why did Brandon Johnson change his tune?


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00:00:37.680 Four days ago in his inaugural address, Chicago's new mayor, Brandon Johnson, celebrated and welcomed illegal aliens to his city.
00:00:46.760 The soul of Chicago tells us we will never close our doors to those who come here in search of a better life.
00:00:57.660 We must reject a zero-sum formulation between investing in those who have been here for decades
00:01:04.160 and supporting those who have been sitting here on a bus even this morning.
00:01:09.320 We can do both, Chicago, and we can all thrive together.
00:01:17.020 We can all thrive together.
00:01:19.040 This is going to be great.
00:01:19.900 But then the following day, the new Chicago mayor changed his tune a little bit,
00:01:24.800 and he called the buses of illegal immigrants wicked and unconscionable.
00:01:29.420 Maybe he changed his tune because Chicago residents don't want to put up with endless streams of foreign nationals
00:01:35.820 breaking the law and stealing city resources.
00:01:38.240 Maybe he changed his tune because he thinks that only conservative cities and states should have to deal with illegal immigration.
00:01:46.700 That immigration is great, but only when it's not in my backyard.
00:01:50.500 Whatever the reason, he's wrong.
00:01:53.020 Mass illegal immigration is wicked and unconscionable.
00:01:56.660 But the busing program out of Texas is wonderful in that it brings the reality of this crime home to the people who cheer it on.
00:02:06.540 It represents the first time in my lifetime that conservatives have actually fought back on the issue
00:02:12.260 and done something concrete to impel Democrats to stop it.
00:02:16.800 It means conservatives are finally willing to stop playing defense
00:02:20.580 and start bringing urgent political fights to Democrats' doors.
00:02:25.440 The only thing wicked and unconscionable that could come from this
00:02:28.860 is if we give up the fight before we win.
00:02:31.960 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:32.780 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:33.600 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:43.900 We have got a number of trans activists calling on doctors to break the law
00:02:50.760 and prescribe puberty blockers and sex change procedures to little kids
00:02:55.280 now that conservatives are getting really tough
00:02:57.320 and finally starting to use the law to outlaw these kinds of procedures.
00:03:00.780 So we'll get to that in just one second.
00:03:02.520 First, though, this immigration issue.
00:03:04.940 It's not just Chicago that you're seeing this in.
00:03:07.480 New York right now.
00:03:09.600 You know there's been this policy of taking the migrants who have been sent on buses from the border states,
00:03:16.400 Texas especially, and then just putting them up in hotels
00:03:19.240 because there's nowhere else to put the illegal immigrants.
00:03:24.260 New York is saying this is a catastrophe.
00:03:26.000 This is a disaster.
00:03:26.820 Why do we have to deal with this?
00:03:29.600 Well, it's because New York is encouraging illegal immigration.
00:03:33.680 And when it was in Texas and when it was in parts of California, and that was all fine,
00:03:37.280 but now that it's going into these other places, all of a sudden it's a big, terrible deal.
00:03:40.620 So they just keep doing it.
00:03:41.740 This temporary measure has been keeping them for months and months and months now.
00:03:44.280 Now nearly half of New York City hotel rooms are filled with illegal immigrants.
00:03:51.120 Half.
00:03:52.500 And New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who's a big lib, but he's at least somewhat reasonable,
00:03:57.380 he's at least somewhat open to reality, he says this is completely unacceptable.
00:04:01.160 Because Adams is pointing out that right now, New Yorkers are set to foot an annual bill of $75 million
00:04:09.380 to put up border crossers and illegal aliens in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel.
00:04:16.860 Just to use one example, that's a hotel I used to stay at all the time when I would go back to New York.
00:04:20.920 It's one of the most historic hotels in New York.
00:04:23.380 Now filled with illegal aliens.
00:04:26.400 Adams noted that the cost of illegal immigration to New Yorkers
00:04:30.000 who are paying $5 million every single day to deal with the migrants
00:04:36.080 will exceed $4.3 billion, with a B, when the lost tourism money comes in.
00:04:43.360 Because when you fill up half of New York's hotels with illegal migrants who aren't paying a penny,
00:04:50.440 well that's not only a cost to the taxpayers,
00:04:52.920 but that's revenue that is not coming in from outside of New York.
00:04:56.080 That's revenue that's not going to be spent at New York restaurants and shops and Broadway plays.
00:05:04.520 Last week, Eric Adams said 4,200 border crossers and illegal aliens arrived in New York.
00:05:09.980 More than 900 arriving in a single day.
00:05:14.020 And the city is having 13 to 15 migrant buses arrive every single day.
00:05:18.000 This is what it looks like for conservatives to get tough.
00:05:20.800 Some people have objected and said,
00:05:22.160 look, these are human beings and they shouldn't be put on buses and sent across the country.
00:05:26.460 Texas should just deal with it.
00:05:28.580 Yeah, these are human beings and they shouldn't be encouraged to break our nation's laws
00:05:33.620 by cynical opportunistic Democrats who never have to deal with the cost of that.
00:05:39.500 If you want illegal immigration to stop from a purely humanitarian standpoint,
00:05:44.140 there was an eight-year-old girl who died in Biden administration custody just this week.
00:05:48.800 On top of another minor 17-year-old who died a week or two ago.
00:05:53.980 Why?
00:05:54.860 Because the Biden administration and the libs across the country have encouraged these migrants to come
00:06:00.920 surge across the border.
00:06:03.220 The only way to get that to stop, even if you don't care about the rule of law,
00:06:07.120 even if you don't care about the shifting demographics of America,
00:06:10.880 even if you don't care about citizens being able to say who gets to come and go,
00:06:13.560 just from a purely humanitarian standpoint, you've got to convince the liberals who encourage this
00:06:18.260 stuff that this is really bad for them. And the way to do that is to give people a free bus ticket
00:06:22.360 to the city that never sleeps and to show them the true cost of illegal immigration.
00:06:28.400 Right now, $4.3 billion and that barely scratches the surface.
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00:07:54.560 Ron DeSantis has been, among all of the Republican governors,
00:07:58.100 leading the charge on wielding state power to drive these points home.
00:08:01.700 Really great news yesterday. HB 1438, Ron DeSantis signed this into law.
00:08:10.900 It allows the state to, quote,
00:08:12.680 fine, suspend, or revoke the license of any public lodging establishment or public food establishment
00:08:18.760 if the establishment admits a child to an adult live performance.
00:08:22.480 Okay, this seems to make sense, right? We shouldn't allow strip clubs and drag cabarets and all the rest
00:08:31.320 to perform obscene material for children, right?
00:08:35.980 What's the consequence of this? The direct consequence of this, we're already seeing it,
00:08:39.400 is there was a Pride event in Tampa that was scheduled.
00:08:42.880 Tampa Pride on the River, it is canceled now.
00:08:45.460 And it is canceled because the organizers don't know if they're going to violate this law.
00:08:51.820 Which, first of all, tells you everything about these kinds of events.
00:08:54.120 When we're told, oh, the Pride Parade, it's just about equality and fairness and kumbaya,
00:08:59.880 and we're all pretty much willing grace, you know what I mean, man?
00:09:02.280 That's obviously not true. If that were true, the Pride Parade event would continue.
00:09:06.760 But what these Pride Parade events always include are weird dudes wearing leather,
00:09:12.480 making obscene gestures, and drag queens jiggling.
00:09:15.600 And especially when you factor in young people coming out to these things, it's obscene.
00:09:19.480 And so the Tampa Pride on the River admits, yeah, we're putting on lewd and licentious performances.
00:09:25.640 And that's not the only one that DeSantis signed into law.
00:09:29.920 DeSantis also signed into law a ban on transing the kids,
00:09:37.000 an anti-drag bill, and a bill telling boys that they have to go to the boys' bathroom
00:09:46.660 and girls that they have to go to the girls' bathroom in K-12 schools and public facilities.
00:09:51.560 Basic stuff.
00:09:52.880 When we had a sane culture, even five years ago,
00:09:55.440 we would not have needed laws to articulate these things.
00:09:58.620 But as our culture spirals out of control and becomes untethered from reality,
00:10:01.780 as people stop having a shared view of morality and just what constitutes the nature of our world,
00:10:08.780 you're going to have to spell these things out a little more explicitly.
00:10:13.080 The best part about this kind of legislation is that, at least for now,
00:10:18.800 it doesn't lay out every single thing.
00:10:22.240 That first bill that I was talking about that got the Tampa Pride event canceled,
00:10:25.500 it didn't explicitly list drag performances.
00:10:29.180 It just said adult performances should not be performed for kids
00:10:34.100 and people will be fined and punished if they are.
00:10:37.200 And the Tampa Pride felt bullied.
00:10:40.740 Tampa Pride felt a little unsure of the consequences it was going to face
00:10:46.320 if it gave the performance and said, okay, better safe than sorry.
00:10:50.740 That is what we want.
00:10:52.600 For years and years, libertarians especially would say politics is downstream of culture
00:10:57.220 and there is some truth to that, of course.
00:10:59.680 The movies that we make and the rituals that we engage in are obviously going to affect
00:11:04.060 the way that we view the political community and the laws we pass.
00:11:07.040 But that doesn't mean that law doesn't have any effects on the culture.
00:11:11.780 And here what you're seeing is that culture is downstream of the law.
00:11:14.780 If you have a really open, licentious, legal system that says anything goes,
00:11:20.060 then you're going to get weirdo perverts jiggling around in leather costumes for little kids.
00:11:24.340 And then if you get a normal person like Ron DeSantis who comes in and says,
00:11:28.360 nah, we're very likely going to punish you if you do weird stuff like that, guess what happens?
00:11:33.720 The culture changes and the weirdos go back into their homes and put on their weird performances
00:11:39.480 for themselves.
00:11:42.520 This could be a real distinguishing factor in a 2024 race.
00:11:45.560 If right now you've got the two top candidates, Trump and DeSantis, DeSantis is running to the
00:11:52.800 right of Trump on these LGBT, drag queen, trans bathrooms kinds of issues.
00:11:59.820 It's not that Trump has come out and said, I'm pro-trans bathroom or anything like that.
00:12:04.120 He just hasn't really focused on these issues.
00:12:06.660 So this would be one place where Ron DeSantis, who right now is struggling to some degree because
00:12:11.160 some establishment forces have glommed onto his campaign really through no fault of his
00:12:16.980 own.
00:12:17.160 It's just because he's not Donald Trump and the establishment forces hate Donald Trump.
00:12:20.800 So DeSantis has this perception that he's to the left of Donald Trump.
00:12:25.000 If he can run to the right of Donald Trump on an issue like the trans stuff, which really
00:12:29.880 resonates with voters.
00:12:31.160 If DeSantis can run to the right of Donald Trump on, say, abortion, I'm not sure that he
00:12:36.620 will, you're just, you're not seeing the Trump campaign be totally clear and articulate about
00:12:41.740 its stance on these issues, then DeSantis might have a shot.
00:12:44.580 Though the numbers right now are not moving in the right direction for DeSantis, they are
00:12:48.100 moving in the right direction for Donald Trump.
00:12:50.220 Now, speaking of the LGBT community, I have just read the most nauseating article that I've
00:13:00.400 read in a long time.
00:13:02.160 I don't have a waste paper basket or anything near me, so I'm going to try to keep it together
00:13:05.660 as I pull this out for the show.
00:13:07.020 It is an article by Wired Magazine, this very lengthy article, profile, of Pete Buttigieg.
00:13:14.780 There he is, Mayor Pete, looking so, he's looking cool.
00:13:18.240 He's looking so hip.
00:13:19.220 It says, Pete Buttigieg loves God, beer, and his electric Mustang.
00:13:25.280 Sure, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation has thoughts on building bridges, but infrastructure
00:13:30.080 occupies just a sliver of his voluminous mind.
00:13:33.640 Ooh, I'm getting a tingle up my leg.
00:13:38.620 A thrill.
00:13:39.940 Here's what they're saying.
00:13:41.140 I encourage you to read the whole profile.
00:13:43.460 It is.
00:13:44.320 Don't do it after you've just had a big lunch.
00:13:46.480 I mean, I would recommend you do it on an empty stomach.
00:13:48.820 So this is how the whole thing opens.
00:13:50.380 The curious mind of Pete Buttigieg holds much of its functionality in reserve, even as he
00:13:58.420 discusses railroads, derailing.
00:14:01.360 No, they don't talk about derailing.
00:14:03.000 Railroads and airlines down to the pointless data that is his current stock and trade.
00:14:08.720 The U.S. Secretary of Transportation comes off like a Mensa black card holder who might have
00:14:14.480 a secret go habit.
00:14:15.960 That's a game that mostly Asian people play.
00:14:18.760 Or a three-second Rubik's Cube solution.
00:14:21.440 Or a knack for supplying off the top of his head the day of the week for a random date in
00:14:26.140 1404, along with a non-condescending history of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
00:14:30.960 That's how the piece begins.
00:14:33.740 And it only gets crazier from there.
00:14:35.900 But this is my favorite one.
00:14:37.760 This is my favorite piece.
00:14:39.560 I slowly became aware that his cabinet job requires only a modest portion of his cognitive
00:14:45.080 powers.
00:14:46.240 Other mental facilities, no kidding, are apportioned to the Iliad, Puritan historiography, and now
00:14:55.660 scarred spring, though not in the original Norwegian slacker.
00:14:58.500 Fortunately, he was willing to devote yet another apse in his cathedral mind to making his ideas
00:15:06.520 about three mighty themes, neoliberalism, masculinity, and Christianity, intelligible
00:15:11.480 to me.
00:15:11.880 I'm not going to talk about Pete Buttigieg.
00:15:14.180 I'm not going to diminish his cathedral-like mind.
00:15:20.680 To me, the most distressing part of this article is not what it says about our absolute
00:15:27.060 failure of a transportation secretary.
00:15:29.120 It's like the easiest job in any administration, and this guy has somehow managed to screw it
00:15:33.100 up by not showing up for work and not fixing the problems he was supposed to fix and focusing
00:15:36.880 on racist bridges instead of keeping our railroads secure so that trains can move on them.
00:15:42.000 But I'm going to put that aside for a second.
00:15:44.340 The thing that was most shocking to me here was that this Wired writer is impressed that
00:15:51.360 a member of the president's cabinet has read the Iliad.
00:15:56.920 How far has our culture fallen that that is now the sign of having gone above and beyond
00:16:03.860 in one's scholarly pursuits, the Iliad?
00:16:05.700 If we lived in a normal culture, every high school student would have read the Iliad.
00:16:10.640 Now, you need to be a Rhodes scholar working directly for the president of the United States
00:16:16.980 to have read one of the foundational works of Western literature that basically reads like
00:16:21.780 a Marvel movie.
00:16:22.620 It's not even like the Iliad is some really abstruse philosophy.
00:16:26.560 The Iliad is a war story and poem that's really fun and exciting.
00:16:30.340 We are so uncultured.
00:16:31.640 We are so ignorant.
00:16:32.860 We are so maleducated today that that is impressive.
00:16:35.880 That a columnist, that a profile writer, a journalist in Wired magazine says other mental
00:16:42.980 facilities, no kidding, are apportioned to the Iliad.
00:16:47.120 No kidding.
00:16:48.100 Yeah, I hope.
00:16:49.740 I hope the people running our government have read like even the basic works of our civilization.
00:16:56.040 Ah, these low expectations.
00:16:58.820 It's a failure of journalistic integrity, of course, but it's just pathetically low expectations.
00:17:03.620 How long are we supposed to continue as a republic if we live like this?
00:17:07.320 If we don't know a damn thing about anything and we're impressed when our leaders can read?
00:17:12.020 Not a good sign.
00:17:14.820 Speaking of expectations, this is pretty creepy.
00:17:17.560 Florida researchers, University of Florida researchers, they were working on basically
00:17:23.220 an unrelated project and they discovered that they can collect human DNA in the air.
00:17:28.800 They were just studying sea turtles and they noticed that they were collecting a lot of
00:17:35.120 human DNA because, quote, we cough, spit, shed, and flush our DNA into all of these places
00:17:40.600 and countless more and then you just pick it up.
00:17:43.400 So what does this mean?
00:17:44.780 It means that you don't need to worry so much if you sent in your DNA spit sample to one of
00:17:49.540 those ancestry websites and then check.
00:17:52.620 Listen, if they want to clone you, they're going to clone you.
00:17:54.580 You don't need to send them a spit sample to do that.
00:17:58.080 We are not just hurtling toward our dystopian future.
00:18:01.160 We are there.
00:18:03.240 Oh my goodness.
00:18:04.200 People can collect our DNA just from the air.
00:18:06.620 Yeah, but think about where we are already.
00:18:09.260 We are under 24-7 surveillance.
00:18:14.080 Usually multiple kinds.
00:18:15.580 If you've got a phone on you right now, you probably do if you're listening to this show.
00:18:18.620 If you're sitting near a computer, if you're sitting in a neighborhood, certainly if you're
00:18:24.400 in an office right now, if you have a TV in some cases, you are being spied on all the
00:18:33.420 time.
00:18:35.040 And we often think of this as the dystopian future.
00:18:40.840 Oh, can you imagine when we get to this Terminator-like place?
00:18:44.120 We're already there.
00:18:45.380 That dystopian future that we are all dreading is now.
00:18:51.040 Speaking of surveillance, you know, the Jordan Neely killing on the subway, which is being
00:18:57.760 called a murder by all the libs and which is being called heroic self-defense and the
00:19:03.740 protection of a community by conservatives.
00:19:05.880 So which is it?
00:19:06.880 Did this Marine, did he go out there because he's probably racist?
00:19:10.560 You know, all these guys, they're racist.
00:19:11.920 Did he go out there because he just wanted to kill a poor innocent man who he just wanted
00:19:15.760 to moonwalk on the subway?
00:19:16.940 He's basically Michael Jackson, but better than Michael Jackson because he didn't do the
00:19:20.280 kid stuff.
00:19:22.000 Or was this guy protecting the subway train from a career criminal who'd been picked up
00:19:28.860 at least 42 times, who had assaulted people, who had given a 60-something-year-old woman a
00:19:34.160 black eye?
00:19:34.900 Well, according to an eyewitness, it's the latter.
00:19:39.560 Eyewitness says, I'm sitting on a train reading my book and all of a sudden I hear someone
00:19:43.220 spewing this rhetoric.
00:19:44.900 He said, I don't care if I have to kill an F, I will.
00:19:49.520 I'll go to jail.
00:19:51.120 I'll take a bullet.
00:19:52.120 So not only threatening violence on people, saying, I don't care, I don't care if I have
00:19:59.200 to kill somebody.
00:20:00.140 I'm not only going to be violent, I'm going to kill somebody.
00:20:03.800 He said, everyone on the train was scared for our lives.
00:20:07.500 Neely had 42 prior arrests and an active warrant.
00:20:11.120 Just a couple years ago, Neely attacked a 67-year-old woman, gave her a black eye and
00:20:14.980 a broken nose, and then this hero Marine comes in and he takes the guy down, and the guy should
00:20:25.180 be given a key to the city, and the guy should be given an award, and instead they're going
00:20:29.740 to try to throw him in prison.
00:20:32.540 What we can see from this is that disfavored groups are judged on a curve.
00:20:38.360 Okay, obviously if the races were reversed here, you wouldn't hear about it.
00:20:41.140 It'd be totally fine.
00:20:41.940 No big deal whatsoever.
00:20:43.320 But that's not what's happening.
00:20:45.720 What's happening is because this guy is white, because he was in the military, because the
00:20:51.480 career criminal who was killed is black, this guy is going to have to be so buttoned up and
00:20:57.000 perfect, you're going to have to have eyewitnesses going even further than this woman.
00:21:01.580 You're going to have to, and I hope this is what happened for this poor Marine's sake,
00:21:05.620 I hope that this guy, this Neely, was so explicit in what he was obviously likely to do on the
00:21:12.160 subway.
00:21:12.280 I will kill people if I am not taken down by a Marine right now and choked on the ground.
00:21:18.000 I really hope that is the case.
00:21:20.500 Because in our unjust system, this Marine, who this is an open and shut common sense case,
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00:22:56.180 Now, speaking of the culture, we've got a lot of leftism in our culture right now, and
00:23:05.060 we've got a lot of grading on a curve and all the rest of it.
00:23:07.080 The Buffalo Bills cut punter, Matt Areza, has been booted out of football, and why is
00:23:13.060 that?
00:23:13.340 Because of an allegation surfacing that he participated in a gang rape of a minor.
00:23:18.940 Okay, and this really ties in with what we've been saying about the disfavored groups here
00:23:24.160 in our culture.
00:23:26.060 The accusation is that he participated in the gang rape of a minor while he attended San
00:23:30.840 Diego State University.
00:23:32.180 The accuser filed a civil lawsuit against Areza and three other men, including two former
00:23:37.500 SDSU teammates.
00:23:39.160 Then, prosecutors in San Diego's DA's office declined to file criminal charges.
00:23:45.180 Why?
00:23:45.820 Why did they decline to file charges?
00:23:47.860 Because the guy wasn't even there at the time.
00:23:51.060 He couldn't have committed this crime.
00:23:54.600 He wasn't even in the building at the time.
00:23:58.140 According to Yahoo, the DA's office concluded Areza couldn't have led the girl into the alleged
00:24:02.560 gang rape because he had left the home at about 12.30 a.m.
00:24:05.260 an hour prior to when evidence suggested the alleged gang rape would have occurred.
00:24:09.320 He wasn't even at the party anymore.
00:24:13.920 The DA's office says that this girl did appear to have sexual contact with a bunch of guys
00:24:19.700 at this party, but that none of it appears to indicate rape.
00:24:23.080 And in fact, some of it was caught on camera because we're being surveilled 24-7, and it
00:24:26.760 shows that her story was not true.
00:24:30.260 But this guy, this football player, was already tried in the media, and his life is already ruined.
00:24:35.680 His career is already ruined, and that's that.
00:24:37.820 And there are many, many such cases.
00:24:43.480 Now, one conclusion from this is obviously people should have due process.
00:24:47.860 We shouldn't have people tried for very serious crimes by committees of professors or by hack
00:24:53.960 journalists or anybody else.
00:24:56.020 There's another side to this story, though, which is, was co-education a mistake?
00:25:03.660 I'm not saying in all cases.
00:25:05.420 I'm not saying, but right now we have an educational system that does not distinguish really in
00:25:12.120 any way between men and women, including in dormitories, including in suites in dormitories.
00:25:17.320 There will be gender-neutral suites, so you're sharing a room with men and women.
00:25:21.360 You're sharing a bathroom.
00:25:22.360 That's been going on for 10 years.
00:25:24.460 That was true when I was in college.
00:25:25.680 And obviously, you're sharing dormitories.
00:25:29.140 And is that smart?
00:25:32.940 I don't know.
00:25:34.280 If you put people who are just brimming bags of hormones, and then you ply them with alcohol,
00:25:41.860 which is what happens at every single college campus, and then the lines of consent get a little bit blurry
00:25:48.840 when people are no longer in command of their rational faculties, and so all of a sudden you've got cases of regret,
00:25:54.540 which then seem to be rape, or one can make a claim of rape, even though investigations and even surveillance footage
00:26:02.620 will show that it wasn't actually a rape.
00:26:04.220 But was this, if we're talking about how the law as a teacher and culture can be downstream of the law,
00:26:11.100 wouldn't it make sense to just draw some of these distinctions a little bit more,
00:26:14.860 recognize that women are, in fact, the weaker sex, men ought to be chivalrous?
00:26:20.080 When you put young men and women together in certain situations, and they're there all the time,
00:26:25.060 and they're drinking a lot, and things can happen that are not conducive to their virtue,
00:26:30.000 we talk about how we don't know the difference between men and women anymore because of the transgender issue.
00:26:35.100 These issues started way before that, and so if men and women really are different,
00:26:39.320 shouldn't we acknowledge that in all sorts of places in our law?
00:26:42.860 Speaking of weird sex stuff, this is also a story that I've been meaning to get to,
00:26:46.680 and I'm glad we have time to get to it right now.
00:26:49.340 In 2021, the Utah governor signed a bill requiring phones and computers sold in the state
00:26:57.040 to come equipped with a filter that blocks porn.
00:27:00.620 And Utah, very recently, has upped some of the legislation on pornography,
00:27:05.720 but that was a really big move that took place a couple of years ago,
00:27:09.080 and the filter could be deactivated, but it would already be on the phones and computers by default.
00:27:15.720 But the bill hasn't gone into effect yet, because the bill only goes into effect
00:27:19.000 if five other states pass a similar law.
00:27:21.920 And presumably, this is not to put an undue burden on the computer and phone companies
00:27:27.220 to have to do this just for the state of Utah.
00:27:30.060 Maybe that was the compromise there.
00:27:31.380 Okay.
00:27:31.520 I hope other states pass this, because if you want to protect young people
00:27:37.760 from bizarre ideologies and maleducation and weird sex stuff,
00:27:45.880 it's not enough to just look at the transing the kids procedures.
00:27:54.300 It's not enough to just look at what's going on in elementary school classrooms.
00:27:59.380 It's not enough to just look at, I don't know, critical race theory,
00:28:04.120 or men competing in women's sports, or all of that.
00:28:07.640 If you really wanted to protect young people, you would just go after porn.
00:28:11.000 This is a ubiquitous problem.
00:28:13.220 The average age of being exposed to porn is something like 11.
00:28:17.100 It can go down as low as age 8.
00:28:20.340 It's a big problem.
00:28:22.960 Okay.
00:28:23.280 And people write into this show all the time.
00:28:24.960 They say, I got hooked on porn.
00:28:25.920 My life has gotten really screwed up because of it.
00:28:29.380 So go after that.
00:28:31.020 Do Republicans have the chutzpah to do it?
00:28:32.980 The libs obviously don't.
00:28:33.820 They're very pro-porn.
00:28:34.580 They want porn in the public square.
00:28:35.800 Do the conservatives have the chutzpah to do that?
00:28:38.440 I don't know that they do.
00:28:40.400 Now, speaking of weird sex stuff, a trans activist is calling on his fellow
00:28:45.120 trans-identifying people to break the law.
00:28:49.720 Increasingly, as the governors come in and they say,
00:28:52.360 no more transing the kids, no more puberty blockers for kids,
00:28:55.520 no more sex change procedures for kids.
00:28:57.240 There are a number of transsexuals, trans-identifying people who say,
00:29:02.800 we've got to break the law.
00:29:04.520 Pay attention to the news lately.
00:29:06.120 And my life is going really great.
00:29:07.520 But unfortunately, there's a lot of people, trans people, trans youth,
00:29:11.100 who are really suffering right now and need our support.
00:29:13.520 Like, this bill in Mississippi is absolutely appalling to me.
00:29:16.560 The fact that the government is overstepping its bounds.
00:29:18.760 Like, the government does not have any right to legislate your gender identity.
00:29:22.740 So if you're a trans youth, if you're a trans adult, don't detransition.
00:29:25.600 Don't hide.
00:29:26.160 Don't be as out there and as bold as you possibly can be without necessarily jeopardizing your own safety.
00:29:33.140 I'm not saying you should be safe, but, like, we need to stand up and tell the government what for,
00:29:40.120 because this is absolute bullshit.
00:29:42.220 Don't detransition.
00:29:43.260 If you're a medical provider, do everything you can to not obey the laws.
00:29:46.260 These are unjust laws.
00:29:47.360 They have no right to be existing.
00:29:49.980 And the moral thing to do is to break them in whatever way possible.
00:29:53.620 Like, I'm, there's parts of me that want to do things that I can't say on here to people that are doing this to people,
00:29:59.200 and it really makes me so sad.
00:30:01.680 And this, the only thing that I hate in life is imposing suffering onto other people who don't deserve it,
00:30:06.960 because I know what that f***ing feels like.
00:30:09.220 So, I'm sorry for the late night rambling, ranting video,
00:30:12.760 and I know I try to make a lot of positive, uplifting content on here,
00:30:16.060 but, like, it does have to be addressed.
00:30:17.720 And there's, I tagged counter creators in here, go sign the petition in Josh's bio,
00:30:24.680 go follow them, too, for gay news, and stand up, do whatever it takes, march in the streets.
00:30:31.080 I'm going to be going on a country-wide tour, and I'm going to be wearing...
00:30:33.900 So, what this guy is calling for is civil disobedience against what he says are unjust laws.
00:30:39.880 Now, I know people are going to have an emotional reaction to this immediately
00:30:42.320 when you hear this demented individual say that we need to make sure that doctors violate the laws
00:30:51.960 so that they can go in and pump your kids full of poison and chop their genitals off.
00:30:55.820 I know that is going to impel people to have a visceral reaction and say,
00:31:00.260 bro, we're going to chase you out of town on a rail,
00:31:03.540 or we're going to lock you up in prison or in a mental institution or something like that.
00:31:06.900 And I get all of that, and that could be a discussion for a later time.
00:31:12.320 What we should deal with, though, is his claim.
00:31:15.280 He's saying, these laws that say that you can't chop off kids' genitals,
00:31:19.240 they're unjust because men can secretly be women or something.
00:31:25.040 And that's my view, and that's why we need to stand up against those laws.
00:31:27.600 Okay, if people stand up against those laws, if people do what this guy is saying,
00:31:34.220 that is very sad for them because they're mistaken about what justice is,
00:31:37.880 and they're mistaken about what human nature is,
00:31:39.720 and it would be good to correct these people and not allow these pathologies to spread
00:31:44.760 so much that we're seeing these sorts of videos.
00:31:47.800 But if they do that, then we need to give them what they ask for.
00:31:52.880 If they do that and say, we're going to break the law, consequences come what may,
00:31:56.680 we need to throw them into prison.
00:31:58.940 And that's going to be the next step.
00:32:00.340 Signing the legislation is really, really great,
00:32:02.980 and it's good stuff for the Republican governors who have done that,
00:32:05.920 and the legislators who have done that.
00:32:07.460 But now, when people break the laws, when they peddle porn to kids in elementary schools,
00:32:13.640 when they trans the children,
00:32:15.800 we're getting reports that in Texas Children's Hospital,
00:32:19.520 some of these quacks perform sex change procedures on kids as young as 11.
00:32:23.460 Okay, when these people break the law, we need to throw the book at them.
00:32:27.120 We are now living in a system in which,
00:32:29.440 if you're a good American Marine who has served your country,
00:32:32.880 you're a good patriot, and you protect people from a career violent criminal
00:32:35.980 with dozens and dozens of arrests, including for assault,
00:32:39.240 and you protect them from a guy who's saying,
00:32:40.940 I'm going to kill an F, I'm going to kill, I don't care, I'm prepared to die,
00:32:44.720 you're going to go to prison.
00:32:45.800 They're going to throw the book at you.
00:32:46.920 But if you chop off kids' genitals, you're not even going to get a slap on the wrist.
00:32:50.780 Okay, we're living in that system right now,
00:32:52.840 and we need to flip that situation.
00:32:55.840 We need to live in a system that does not punish people for doing good things,
00:33:01.100 but encourages them to do good things.
00:33:02.780 We need to live in a system that punishes people for doing bad things.
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00:34:14.240 My favorite comment yesterday is from Debra Gessner, who says,
00:34:17.600 Megan, I'm a B-list actor who married a prince so I could live my life in privacy.
00:34:20.940 Markle is at it.
00:34:22.180 Again, that's true.
00:34:22.720 When people tell you who they are, you should believe it.
00:34:25.420 Now, I want to hear who you are and what you've got to ask.
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00:34:39.460 Take it away.
00:34:41.160 Hey, Michael.
00:34:41.640 Well, this week at my job, I was forced to sit through yet another nauseating DE&I webinar.
00:34:48.340 During this presentation, they were talking about a great initiative to help underserved communities
00:34:54.520 with businesses that are trying to thrive in those communities to make them healthier,
00:35:01.140 which is a great initiative.
00:35:02.740 But in doing so, they were presenting data that shows gross numbers from white-owned businesses
00:35:07.860 versus minority-owned versus black.
00:35:10.340 The problem, as we know, is it looks terrible, but it's disproportionate.
00:35:15.880 But in context to the ratio of the population, it actually is appropriate because only 13%
00:35:22.820 of the population is black, despite what they want us to believe.
00:35:26.720 So here's my question.
00:35:28.040 Why do such smart people, because I know that these are smart people, use data points that
00:35:31.920 don't actually support their claim as if they think that we're too stupid to look up the
00:35:36.460 population?
00:35:37.980 Interested to hear your thoughts.
00:35:39.140 Well, one, because they think you're too stupid to look up the numbers, and two, because it
00:35:45.000 doesn't matter.
00:35:47.360 We live in a scientific age, and a scientistic age.
00:35:52.480 And so we are living in a culture that believes that statistics and social science, those are the
00:35:59.680 only ways to make arguments.
00:36:02.020 And this isn't true.
00:36:03.360 In fact, those are some of the weakest ways to make arguments.
00:36:06.600 But because we have degraded our view of philosophy and theology and morality, that's just what people do now.
00:36:14.500 And so that's how you end up with kind of silly arguments.
00:36:16.580 Well, because X percent did this, and 37,000 cubits of that did who's he what's this, then
00:36:22.300 therefore we need to punish white people.
00:36:25.300 That doesn't seem like a very compelling syllogism to me.
00:36:31.060 But that's why they do that.
00:36:32.360 And it's also because the DAI initiative has nothing to do with justice for anybody.
00:36:37.320 It's simply a retributive regime to punish disfavored groups, including white people, including men,
00:36:44.140 including people who have a normal view of sex and engage in normal sexual behaviors,
00:36:49.020 and especially including conservatives, anybody who questions the liberal regime and DEI itself.
00:36:54.760 So that's all it's about.
00:36:56.580 They could give you numbers.
00:36:57.980 They could make up different numbers.
00:36:59.480 They could show you a cartoon instead of showing you numbers at all.
00:37:02.800 It doesn't matter.
00:37:03.780 The point is always the same.
00:37:05.120 Punish the people that we don't like.
00:37:06.660 Okay, next one.
00:37:08.360 Hey, Michael.
00:37:09.380 I'm a conservative Catholic, or at least I try my best to be one.
00:37:12.640 I went to Franciscan University and Notre Dame for undergrad, and now I'm in the Air Force for pilot training.
00:37:18.260 My question is, I feel that God is calling me to be a father and a husband.
00:37:25.460 However, I'm 27 years old now, and ever since I was a teenager, I have struggled with same-sex attraction.
00:37:31.460 Now, I have dated girls in the past, and I genuinely did like them.
00:37:34.380 But over the years, the same-sex attraction seems to have gotten a bit stronger.
00:37:38.860 I do go to confession fairly regularly, and I know that God is able to forgive my sins when I have an honest confession.
00:37:46.080 But I was wondering, should I be so blessed to find a woman who would like to marry me?
00:37:53.800 Do you think it's possible that she could also forgive me for my sins, despite me having this history with struggling with same-sex attraction?
00:38:03.120 Thank you very much for your time, and God bless.
00:38:06.900 Really, really good question, and it's a tough situation that you're in.
00:38:10.420 I mean, we all deal with difficulties and various aspects of this fallen world that cause suffering.
00:38:16.920 That's a tough one.
00:38:17.840 That's definitely a tough one, especially if you're saying, look, I have this attraction, but I don't want to pursue that attraction.
00:38:23.840 Which is how people used to view these things, and now we're told, no, if you have any sexual attraction, you have to indulge it all the time.
00:38:32.740 And what you're saying is, no, I have two wills here.
00:38:36.360 You're just, it'd be, it'd be like saying, you know, you want to eat the third cookie after dinner, but you're feeling a little fat.
00:38:44.620 And so you want to, your appetite says I want to eat it, but your rational will is saying, no, I don't want to eat the cookie, and so you've got this conflict here.
00:38:52.720 And you're saying, okay, my appetite is that I have attraction to people of the same sex, but my rational will tells me that's not what my sex is for.
00:39:00.340 And even beyond that, my rational will is telling me I want to be a dad, and I want to have a normal family, and I want to, and I do want a wife.
00:39:09.400 Even if I'm not totally sexually attracted to her, I, you know, I don't know, for whatever other reason, perhaps you want a wife.
00:39:15.380 Okay.
00:39:17.120 What you've said, I think, is important where you say, could she forgive me?
00:39:20.900 Because what you're saying here is, I'm not going to deceive this woman.
00:39:24.280 I'm going to be upfront about these sexual struggles that I've dealt with.
00:39:28.700 And I think that's probably a good thing.
00:39:31.360 I don't know.
00:39:31.980 I'm a little out of my depth here, I would say, because for all of my sins, this is not one of the issues that I've dealt with.
00:39:36.700 And I'm not a priest, and I'm not a counselor in this regard.
00:39:39.640 So I would encourage you, if you go to confession, talk to your priest about this.
00:39:43.160 You know, talk to other people.
00:39:44.080 There's a great group, a Catholic group called, is it called Courage, maybe?
00:39:49.240 I forget the name.
00:39:50.780 Which deals with same-sex attraction, and, you know, how to deal with that if you don't want to pursue that kind of lifestyle.
00:39:57.120 So I would talk through all of that.
00:39:59.760 And, yeah, I wouldn't deceive anybody.
00:40:02.700 But if we're living in a culture which is so sexually perverse, through often no fault of people, you know, people who have been exposed to porn at a young age and they get into some kind of weird porn desire or some, you know, I don't know, you're like furries or something like that.
00:40:20.720 I mean, people's brains have been kind of melted.
00:40:23.620 And so a great many people are dealing with sexual disorder to some degree.
00:40:29.000 Maybe not the exact same one that you have, but to some degree.
00:40:32.480 And so if we tell all of those people, well, you can't have a normal life, well, then there goes civilization.
00:40:36.360 And if there is such a thing as a gay gene, which I'm not totally sure that there is, but if there's some biological aspect of homosexuality compared to a cultural aspect, then presumably guys who have the same-sex attraction have been getting married to women, now we have to specify, for all of human history.
00:40:56.100 So it has been done.
00:40:57.780 I think, you know, taking these things seriously, looking at yourself in the mirror and trying to deal with them in a rational way is really good and really healthy.
00:41:05.800 And so I would encourage you to seek out those resources and then look to honesty.
00:41:09.760 And then it's not up to me to see if a woman can look past that.
00:41:11.900 It's up to the woman.
00:41:13.020 Next question.
00:41:14.480 Hey, Michael.
00:41:15.720 Big Papa Longnecker here.
00:41:17.760 Big fan of the show.
00:41:18.840 I've got a really pressing question in regards to Leah Thomas or William Thomas.
00:41:28.440 How has the nickname Willie Thomas not caught on yet?
00:41:33.020 It just seems like a big missed opportunity there.
00:41:37.120 So I thought you could weigh in on that.
00:41:39.480 Also just wanted to say, big fan of your book, Speechless.
00:41:43.640 Did I get it?
00:41:44.720 Did it ding?
00:41:46.240 Well, anyways, that's all for now.
00:41:48.140 Thanks.
00:41:48.840 That might be the best question I've ever.
00:41:53.500 Thank you.
00:41:54.380 It was a little delayed, but that's okay.
00:41:57.980 That was a really powerful question.
00:42:00.400 Though I do have to dispute your suggestion in that from what I've read from the news reports of all the nicknames that that guy could have, I don't think that one would be apt any longer.
00:42:13.580 What do I know?
00:42:14.100 I don't know.
00:42:14.480 I don't know.
00:42:14.940 I don't really want to know anymore.
00:42:16.000 Okay.
00:42:16.300 Next question.
00:42:17.140 Hey, Michael.
00:42:17.700 I'm currently reading through the Dune series by Frank Herbert.
00:42:20.880 I think they're phenomenal science fiction novels.
00:42:22.740 And I was wondering if you'd ever consider diving into science fiction of any kind on your series, The Book Club on PragerU.
00:42:30.860 I think it sparked really interesting conversation because a lot of science fiction is very heady, very philosophical, and explores themes of human nature.
00:42:39.500 So, I'm looking forward to seeing what you have to say, and I would absolutely love to see science fiction on the book club.
00:42:46.900 Funny you say that.
00:42:47.800 I'm in California right now filming several episodes of the book club.
00:42:50.760 We will have those coming out shortly.
00:42:52.620 We had a lot of great guests.
00:42:54.180 It was a lot of fun.
00:42:56.540 I don't want to do science fiction on the book club.
00:42:59.540 I'm not denigrating science fiction as a genre.
00:43:02.360 Many of my friends who are erudite and serious readers, they love science fiction.
00:43:06.800 I just can't get into it.
00:43:08.040 But I guess that's one of the reasons that we should do it.
00:43:11.840 Because people love sci-fi.
00:43:14.320 And just because I don't, there's no reason that I shouldn't try to expand my mind and I shouldn't give the people what they want.
00:43:22.040 So, that's not bad.
00:43:22.640 If you can recommend good sci-fi for me to read, we can do it.
00:43:25.300 I don't even know where to begin.
00:43:26.440 I guess I should read Dune.
00:43:28.080 Okay.
00:43:28.500 We've got a lot more questions here.
00:43:31.480 We've got, how about this little tease?
00:43:33.800 This will be just like a little bit of a tease for the member block.
00:43:37.040 Question from Renata.
00:43:39.760 Says, Michael, recently our family found ourselves stumped on acupuncture.
00:43:43.520 Is it unholy?
00:43:44.720 Or is it innocent enough?
00:43:46.040 I just thought it's pressure points and it always had a way of calming me down, feeling almost like a deep relaxing massage.
00:43:52.020 And I've recently been reading the benefits it could have to fertility.
00:43:55.440 But when they start talking about chi and stuff, I just don't know what to think.
00:43:59.100 Is acupuncture unholy?
00:44:00.360 Praying for you and your family?
00:44:01.700 Please send some prayers our way on us getting started with our own family.
00:44:05.640 Well, I certainly can do that.
00:44:07.600 Renata.
00:44:08.860 And I will give you my answer on acupuncture.
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