The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1257 - Chick-fil-A Lets A Woke Fox In The Henhouse

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00:00:37.680 Looks like Chick-fil-A will not be opening any new restaurants in Uganda anytime soon.

00:00:43.720 The longtime favorite company of conservatives has apparently embraced the DEI agenda.

00:00:50.480 According to a heretofore unnoticed diversity, equity, and inclusion segment of Chick-fil-A's

00:00:57.040 website, quote, one of our core values at Chick-fil-A Incorporated is that we are better

00:01:02.240 together.

00:01:03.080 When we combine our unique backgrounds, blah, blah, blah, with a culture of belonging, we

00:01:08.860 can discover new ways to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:01:12.200 The exact verbiage does not exactly matter.

00:01:15.760 It's all pretty much just gobbledygook anyway.

00:01:20.460 The disconcerting thing is not the exact wording.

00:01:25.360 The disconcerting thing is that Chick-fil-A has embraced DEI at all.

00:01:31.400 And now, while some conservatives are calling for a boycott of the openly religious, generally

00:01:37.280 relatively conservative company, as far as I'm concerned, this story has almost nothing

00:01:42.320 to do with Chick-fil-A.

00:01:43.480 The Chick-fil-A DEI department doesn't tell you a ton about the chicken shop.

00:01:52.400 It tells you about the depth and pervasiveness of a liberal ideology throughout our entire

00:01:59.460 culture.

00:02:00.740 It isn't just Disney.

00:02:02.760 It isn't just Target.

00:02:04.800 It isn't just Transheiser Bush.

00:02:07.120 Even Chick-fil-A is subject to increasingly radical liberalism.

00:02:15.040 And we will not merely buy another sandwich to fix it.

00:02:20.320 The only way to fix it is by resetting, reorienting our entire political order.

00:02:27.660 Even Chick-fil-A.

00:02:29.960 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:30.640 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:31.520 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:41.480 We will get to the really important announcement out of New York.

00:02:45.120 New York Mayor Eric Adams protecting obesity as a protected class.

00:02:50.860 We now no longer merely defend transgenderism.

00:02:54.260 We will also defend translenderism. 0.71

00:02:56.820 We will get to that in just a moment.

00:02:58.100 First, though, we turn to Disney.

00:03:00.880 Away from Chick-fil-A, which shows you that DEI, wokeness, it's all just really the conclusion 1.00

00:03:07.500 of liberalism.

00:03:08.700 It's everywhere.

00:03:10.240 It's everywhere.

00:03:11.500 It's even in your religious chicken sandwich.

00:03:14.880 And it's especially at Disney.

00:03:16.160 There is a fairly disturbing video.

00:03:17.940 It came out of Disneyland, out of the Enchanted Chamber Princess Boutique.

00:03:24.260 And it is of a pretty little princess with a mustache.

00:03:29.320 It's a dude dressed up as a princess.

00:03:33.420 And he's not one of the enthusiasts.

00:03:35.460 He is one of the workers there, employed by Disney.

00:03:39.120 Take a look or a listen if you're driving in your car.

00:03:42.780 So my name's Nick.

00:03:43.860 I'm a fairy godmother's appendices.

00:03:45.300 I'm here to shop you around and make all your selections for the day.

00:03:47.820 To a little girl, he's got lots of eye shadow on and just a big bushy mustache, trying to 0.84

00:03:54.020 sell extremely overpriced dresses for little girls to those poor, poor parents who are going

00:04:01.260 to have to shell out a ton of money.

00:04:03.300 Okay.

00:04:04.640 What's wrong with this scene?

00:04:06.220 The mustache is a problem.

00:04:07.940 Yeah, the fact that it's an obvious dude wearing a dress, that's a problem.

00:04:11.760 The bigger problem, though, is who this is for.

00:04:18.720 It's not even just that Disney World is for kids and so this weird sexual stuff has no place

00:04:23.700 in front of kids.

00:04:25.020 It's even more than the question of kids or minors or what's appropriate for certain ages.

00:04:30.460 It's a question of who are these people serving?

00:04:33.920 What is the point of Disney World?

00:04:35.820 What is the point of any of these companies?

00:04:37.440 Is it about the customer or is it about the fantasies of the employee?

00:04:44.000 We used to have a saying in America, which is that the customer is always right.

00:04:48.240 Now, the customer doesn't seem to matter at all.

00:04:50.860 Customer doesn't matter at all with Bud Light and Transheiser Bush.

00:04:53.820 Customer doesn't matter at all with Target.

00:04:56.300 Customer doesn't even matter at Disney World and Disneyland.

00:05:01.940 Who is this for?

00:05:03.600 When I was a young man, I was young, coming up in show business, and I'd sometimes take

00:05:09.960 these service industry jobs, one of which I was hired to be a fake sommelier at a wedding.

00:05:15.900 The wedding was actually for George Soros.

00:05:17.580 It's a story for another time.

00:05:18.960 But I remember we were all there.

00:05:20.440 It was the caterers and the sommelier and all these people.

00:05:23.440 And the guy who was running the event, he said, hey, what is this about?

00:05:27.280 What are we all here for?

00:05:28.460 And in my mind, I thought, I don't know.

00:05:29.600 We're here to make a quick buck and then go back to our regular lives.

00:05:32.280 But no, he said, no, what this is all about, what this is for is service.

00:05:36.860 Your job here is to serve the customer, especially if you're in the service industry.

00:05:41.340 But increasingly in our economy and in our whole culture, it's not about the customer.

00:05:46.380 It's not about the people we're supposed to serve.

00:05:48.020 It's somehow the other way around.

00:05:50.760 Little kids don't go to Disneyland so that they can affirm some deviant man's delusions.

00:05:56.020 Parents don't spend an arm and a leg to take their kids to Disneyland so that their kids

00:06:00.860 can be exposed to a mustachioed strange fellow living out his fantasy of being a pretty princess.

00:06:07.200 Okay, if you want to take the job as a pretty princess, you definitely have to shave the 1.00

00:06:12.520 mustache. 0.95

00:06:12.900 And you've got to be a chick because it's not about you and princesses are chicks. 1.00

00:06:15.960 And you're not.

00:06:16.780 So you've got to put your fantasies aside, especially when we're talking about a place

00:06:19.780 like Disneyland, which is supposed to indulge the fantasies of little children for whom

00:06:24.420 it is appropriate to have little fantasies and play act them out sometimes.

00:06:28.140 For adults, it's not appropriate to do that.

00:06:32.660 One of the big cases to enshrine transgenderism in our law was the Harris Funeral Home case. 0.68

00:06:38.720 And the Harris Funeral Home case before the Supreme Court raised a question of, do employees

00:06:45.120 have an obligation to follow the rules sometimes for the benefit of their customers?

00:06:50.140 There's this funeral home, Harris Funeral Homes, and one of the employees at the funeral

00:06:53.980 home was a dude who thought he was a chick.

00:06:55.540 And so one day he decided he was going to wear little skirts and put on lipstick and go

00:06:59.860 in and do his job.

00:07:00.860 And the owner of the funeral home said, hey, man, I don't know what's going on with you.

00:07:05.440 So obviously you've got some issues, but we've got to be respectful to our customers.

00:07:10.900 When people come to the funeral home, they're grieving.

00:07:13.700 They're in a very vulnerable state.

00:07:14.960 They don't need distractions.

00:07:16.300 They don't need to deal with some weird political ideology.

00:07:19.120 They're trying to grieve their dead loved ones.

00:07:20.940 And so it's not about you.

00:07:22.920 It's about them.

00:07:25.500 And this strange fellow decided, no, it's actually all about me.

00:07:29.980 And he sued him.

00:07:30.520 And he ended up winning the case.

00:07:31.820 Now that's enshrined in law.

00:07:33.020 We're not going to have a good society if we invert that order.

00:07:36.480 Are we around here to serve others in accordance with reason and the truth?

00:07:40.600 Or do we just view everybody in the world, including poor little kids, including their

00:07:44.780 parents who spent a lot of money to take them to Disneyland, do we just view them merely

00:07:48.660 as instruments to serve us and our deviant desires?

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00:09:12.420 You see this kind of madness, especially in higher education.

00:09:17.420 There was a law school commencement ceremony at CUNY that featured a speaker.

00:09:24.160 Sometimes these commencements have student speakers, and the student speakers are usually

00:09:29.440 kind of goody two-shoes types, but increasingly they can be left-wing activists who are speaking

00:09:35.080 out on behalf of the student body.

00:09:37.040 And one such speech came from Fatima Mohammed, student speaker for CUNY Law School.

00:09:43.500 And Fatima Mohammed made all sorts of claims.

00:09:46.120 She's a pro-Palestine activist.

00:09:47.940 She really doesn't like Israel.

00:09:49.440 Not a huge fan of a certain ancient nomadic tribe of people.

00:09:53.540 And so she makes her comments about that.

00:09:55.260 But she's broadly against the West.

00:09:57.000 She's against white people and patriarchy, and that is how her speech is being reported. 0.94

00:10:02.720 Pro-Palestine student goes off on the Jews, or left-wing student goes off on white supremacy 0.89

00:10:08.140 and the patriarchy.

00:10:09.440 But there's something even more insidious about this girl's law school speech.

00:10:13.580 See if you can pick it up.

00:10:15.140 I'm here to celebrate who and what we are, who you are.

00:10:20.420 Like many of you, I chose CUNY School of Law for its articulated mission to be law in the

00:10:25.180 service of human needs.

00:10:27.000 One of very few legal institutions created to recognize that the law is a manifestation

00:10:33.640 of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation and around

00:10:39.720 the world.

00:10:40.160 We joined this institution to be equipped with the necessary legal skills to protect our communities.

00:10:46.520 The craziest thing about this speech is not that the pro-Palestine girl hates the Jews. 0.94

00:11:07.160 The craziest thing about this speech is not that the leftist girl hates the white people and the 0.99

00:11:11.580 men and the patriarchy and all the rest. 0.93

00:11:13.520 It's that sentence right at the top where she says, CUNY recognizes that the law is just a facade

00:11:22.300 to uphold white supremacy.

00:11:24.220 The craziest thing she says in her speech is about the law.

00:11:28.300 Because this girl graduated from law school. 1.00

00:11:31.820 She was selected to be the speaker at her law school graduation.

00:11:34.580 She doesn't know what the law is. 0.57

00:11:36.660 She doesn't believe in the law.

00:11:39.760 The law, at its most basic level, is an ordinance of reason for the common good by the one who

00:11:47.040 has care of the community and promulgated.

00:11:48.920 That's the description of the law, the definition that St. Thomas Aquinas gives.

00:11:53.300 It's a really basic, very good one.

00:11:56.140 Related concept is justice.

00:11:57.940 Justice is a habit, a virtue that inclines the will to render to each and to all what he deserves.

00:12:06.400 Again, really basic definition of justice.

00:12:10.540 What this girl says at her law school graduation is, oh, the law, justice, that's all BS. 0.90

00:12:17.580 The law, it's fake.

00:12:18.680 The law is totally fake.

00:12:20.180 Thank you for giving me my law degree.

00:12:21.740 The law is totally fake.

00:12:24.000 It is not an ordinance of reason.

00:12:26.420 It is not for the common good.

00:12:28.240 It's nothing more than a bunch of gobbledygook that we use to enshrine the tyranny of will,

00:12:35.540 of the willfulness of one group, which is the white people or the Jews or whoever she's going off on, 0.99

00:12:39.940 people that I hate. 0.94

00:12:40.900 And so what we do when we go to law school is we just get a credential that allows us to wield

00:12:45.900 this deceptive instrument for our own tyranny of will to give ourselves more power and to dominate the groups,

00:12:53.720 the white people and the Jews and the men and whoever that we hate. 0.93

00:12:56.980 That's what she's saying. 0.99

00:12:58.160 That's the not so subtle subtext of all of it.

00:13:00.120 She's saying the law is not objective.

00:13:03.500 The law is not just.

00:13:05.100 The law is not real.

00:13:06.080 The law does not derive from anything outside of our own desires.

00:13:13.040 That's the state of higher education.

00:13:15.340 That's the state of the law.

00:13:16.740 That's the state of justice in America.

00:13:18.360 If our next generation of lawyers, of the people who are supposed to be running the show in the

00:13:26.780 political order, does not believe in law, then we're going to have lawlessness. 0.99

00:13:30.420 And I'll tell you what, if this lady doesn't like what America looks like with law and order, 1.00

00:13:37.560 just wait until she sees America without law and order. 0.97

00:13:41.700 Because yes, the positive law, the civil law is sometimes an imperfect reflection of the natural

00:13:46.980 law and the background principles of justice that exist even outside of our own personal

00:13:50.880 experience and desire.

00:13:52.120 Yeah, that's true.

00:13:52.840 Yes, it's true that the system of justice is imperfect and sometimes innocent people go to jail

00:13:56.580 and sometimes guilty people get off the hook.

00:13:58.780 And yeah, that's all true.

00:14:01.040 But if you think a law abiding America is bad, just wait until you see a lawless America.

00:14:07.200 This is how I feel about attacks on Christian nationalism, Christian religious right.

00:14:14.140 People say, I hate the religious right.

00:14:15.740 Oh man, you think the religious right is bad?

00:14:17.660 Just wait until you see the irreligious right. 0.99

00:14:19.700 Or the irreligious left, though I suppose that's a redundant phrase.

00:14:24.720 Oh, you think Christian nationalism is bad?

00:14:26.580 Just wait until you see unchristian nationalism.

00:14:30.320 Because that's going to be a lot worse.

00:14:33.620 A society where even the people who graduate with the law degrees don't think there's anything

00:14:38.200 objective here.

00:14:39.600 So then, where does that leave us? 0.98

00:14:42.320 Well, that leaves us, of course, with a lot of Latino white supremacists. 0.79

00:14:46.000 According to the New Yorker, we are now seeing the rise of Latino white supremacy. 0.98

00:14:53.180 At a time of rising racial violence, Latinos are potential perpetrators and potential victims. 0.96

00:14:59.540 This author goes on about all the terrible white supremacists that allegedly are running rampant 0.98

00:15:05.020 in America. 0.99

00:15:06.040 America and then focuses in on some Latino people who are committing all sorts of crimes and they 1.00

00:15:11.000 try to pin it on white supremacy. 0.93

00:15:12.680 They'll say for one of these guys, Garcia.

00:15:14.400 Garcia continued to see himself as Latino, which he never equated with whiteness.

00:15:18.980 And at moments, he manifested pride in his non-white Latino identity. 0.90

00:15:23.960 But nevertheless, he's a white supremacist. 0.98

00:15:28.560 Of course. 0.99

00:15:30.880 Because, as I've mentioned before on the show, white just means bad. 1.00

00:15:36.640 White is just a synonym for bad. 1.00

00:15:38.880 So, badness has to, in some way, be the fault of white people and whiteness. 0.99

00:15:49.560 And when badness is being committed by black people, it's somehow got to be the fault of 1.00

00:15:55.660 white people. 0.99

00:15:57.000 Because, I don't know, because the white people failed to pay enough taxes to put the black 0.99

00:16:02.920 kid in a good school. 0.98

00:16:05.240 And so, that's why he went out and committed crimes. 0.99

00:16:08.300 It's not because the white people undermined the black culture in such a way that the black 0.99

00:16:14.320 kid grew up in a broken home. 0.99

00:16:15.440 When a Latino goes out and commits a crime, it has to be the fault of a white person. 0.97

00:16:21.880 Because the Latino, in his mind, he viewed himself as a white person.

00:16:27.100 And even, I guess, in this case of this guy, Garcia, he didn't actually view himself as

00:16:30.620 a white person.

00:16:31.120 He was pretty explicit about how he didn't think of himself as a white person. 0.91

00:16:33.240 But nevertheless, the white people, the whiteness has so infected his mind that he's got, 0.99

00:16:39.300 it was, trust me, guys, it was white supremacy. 0.98

00:16:42.020 It just has to be.

00:16:44.940 Because that's the starting point.

00:16:48.060 That's the premise.

00:16:49.540 So, it just has to be.

00:16:50.640 That has to be the place where you end up.

00:16:54.000 So, why? 0.91

00:16:54.800 Why do these people hate white people so much? 0.95

00:16:57.640 Why does Fatima Mohammed, giving a speech at CUNY, hate white people so much? 1.00

00:17:01.840 Why does the New Yorker hate white people so much?

00:17:03.680 Why do so many of the prominent, powerful institutions in the media, in education, in 0.95

00:17:10.380 politics, in everywhere, why do they hate white people?

00:17:13.560 Because white people are a symbol of authority and tradition. 0.87

00:17:20.740 Until very recently, America was an overwhelmingly white country and always had been. 0.88

00:17:25.860 Until very recently, the West, broadly, was overwhelmingly white.

00:17:28.840 And so, white people, we live in an incarnate world in time and space where flesh really 0.53

00:17:36.140 matters.

00:17:37.140 White people just become the symbol of authority and the symbol of tradition. 1.00

00:17:43.740 And leftism opposes those things.

00:17:48.880 Whatever you want to say about the French Revolution, you can't say that it was an anti-white

00:17:53.380 revolution, right?

00:17:54.360 Whatever you want to say about the early liberal movements, the early revolutions that unseated

00:18:02.500 so much of our settled order, they weren't about overthrowing white people.

00:18:08.720 They were about overthrowing authority.

00:18:10.240 They were about overthrowing tradition.

00:18:11.660 And so, why do white people get such a bad rap these days?

00:18:14.400 Why do white people get blamed for things that they have nothing to do with?

00:18:17.060 Because the liberal revolution seeks to overthrow authority and tradition.

00:18:25.600 And that's the same revolution that we've seen going back all the way to the Garden of Eden,

00:18:29.560 which is ye shall be as gods.

00:18:31.580 Don't do what you're told to do.

00:18:32.960 Don't follow the rules.

00:18:33.780 Don't follow the law.

00:18:34.660 The law is nothing but what you want the law to be.

00:18:37.620 Oh, forget about the law having any objective, reasonable, intelligible aspect.

00:18:41.200 No, it's just whatever you want to be.

00:18:42.840 Humpty Dumpty on the wall talking to Alice in Wonderland.

00:18:45.080 He says, words, they don't mean anything.

00:18:47.020 Words mean whatever I say they are to mean.

00:18:49.160 Because the question is, which is to be mastered?

00:18:52.100 That's what it's all about.

00:18:53.380 And you're now seeing it manifest in this way that is anti-patriarchy, anti-white, blah, blah, blah.

00:19:01.320 Where does this come from?

00:19:02.300 I know that there are a lot of people who want to try to cut the fringiest parts of the left

00:19:11.240 away from the rest of it.

00:19:12.840 So sometimes you'll hear people say, we want to cut the T off of LGBT.

00:19:18.280 LGBT is fine, but the T, that's the bad one. 1.00

00:19:20.980 Because that one's crazy.

00:19:22.840 Failing to recognize that the T is a logical consequence of the LGBT. 1.00

00:19:26.580 The LGBT says that men and women are basically the same and interchangeable. 0.67

00:19:30.840 That's how you can have marriage, which existed as an institution, the basic fundamental political

00:19:36.000 institution for all of human history.

00:19:37.480 That's how you can have that radically redefined, such that a man and a woman in this special

00:19:41.580 union can now also be a man and a man and a woman and a woman.

00:19:45.180 Well, the only way that's possible is if men and women are interchangeable. 0.92

00:19:48.060 But if men and women are interchangeable, then it's not a very far leap to get to transgenderism, 0.51

00:19:54.160 which says a man and a woman are interchangeable, which says that a man can become a woman. 0.98

00:19:58.840 There are a lot of people who want to chop the wokeness off of liberalism or even off of leftism.

00:20:04.820 They use all these different ism words.

00:20:06.420 They say, no, I'm a true liberal.

00:20:07.720 I'm a classical liberal.

00:20:08.720 I'm not a progressive liberal.

00:20:09.780 These modern woke guys, they're illiberal liberals, but I'm a liberal liberal, liberal, liberal, liberal.

00:20:14.660 No, it's just this is the natural consequence of liberalism, which reorients society away

00:20:22.380 from God, away from good, away from truth, away from beauty toward the self.

00:20:28.400 Liberalism says, well, I am myself.

00:20:31.060 I can do basically whatever I want.

00:20:32.680 I don't need to follow a particular moral order.

00:20:35.640 I'm not born primarily with obligation.

00:20:37.560 I'm born primarily with rights and entitlement.

00:20:39.780 And so I'm going to pursue whatever I want.

00:20:41.980 Liberalism, which says, well, we can never really know the truth all that well.

00:20:45.140 And so we've got to remain skeptical, skeptical of basically everything.

00:20:48.240 And you can't impose your views on me, ma'am.

00:20:51.480 Liberalism, which says the settled order is bad.

00:20:53.660 Prejudice is bad.

00:20:54.580 Tradition is bad.

00:20:55.320 And we're going to overthrow that.

00:20:57.260 That's always been what liberalism is.

00:20:59.500 I know there are some people on the right who get confounded when they have to give a definition

00:21:03.560 of wokeness or leftism or radicalism or whatever.

00:21:07.600 It's just the logical conclusion of all of this stuff.

00:21:13.360 So if we're going to move past it, you can't just try to excise the most radical, crazy part.

00:21:19.080 Okay, well, we're going to just get rid of transing the five-year-olds. 1.00

00:21:22.800 But transing the 19-year-olds, that's okay. 1.00

00:21:25.040 And transgenderism broadly is okay.

00:21:26.480 And LGBTism is okay.

00:21:28.280 And pride is okay.

00:21:29.440 And feminism is okay. 1.00

00:21:30.660 And thisism and that.

00:21:31.360 Nah, guys.

00:21:33.400 To quote Phyllis Schlafly, you've got to offer people a choice rather than merely an echo.

00:21:40.360 Otherwise, if you just try to rewind the clock 18 months, you just try to rewind the clock 18 years,

00:21:45.780 it doesn't matter.

00:21:46.460 You say, we're in a reset society in 2003.

00:21:48.660 That was the peak of society.

00:21:50.640 If you've got all the same ideas there propelling people along,

00:21:53.940 then those ideas are going to have consequences.

00:21:55.500 And you're going to end up in the same crazy spot.

00:21:58.500 So we've got to talk to each other about this.

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00:22:08.180 We're all trying to improve the country here, aren't we?

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00:23:23.400 You know, I hate to pat myself on the back.

00:23:26.660 Don't want to toot my own horn.

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00:23:33.720 Michael And is just where I and somebody else sit down and have a long conversation.

00:23:39.220 It's unscripted.

00:23:39.980 I basically prepare nothing.

00:23:41.900 I want to just find interesting people you probably haven't heard of and figure out what

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00:24:39.860 You would look, is the test clear, great, and that's what I would know about the girl 0.99

00:24:44.740 until I walked into the room and had sex with her. 1.00

00:24:46.580 This episode and the rest of the series are available now in the Michael Knowles Show YouTube

00:24:56.320 channel, so go check them out after the show. 0.99

00:25:01.220 Speaking of going after those darn white people, Jane Fonda says we need to imprison white men. 1.00

00:25:07.840 Jane Fonda of Hanoi Jane fame. 1.00

00:25:10.900 She's the lady who allowed the Vietnamese communists to sit her down on an anti-aircraft gun and make 1.00

00:25:18.500 like she was shooting down American flyers and attacking American troops.

00:25:23.720 She later apologized for that, but then she remained a huge anti-American lib, so the content

00:25:28.840 of that apology is somewhat dubious.

00:25:31.220 Jane Fonda just said, quote, it's good for us all to realize there would be no climate crisis

00:25:35.960 if there was no racism.

00:25:37.940 There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy. 0.94

00:25:42.540 A mindset that sees everything in a hierarchical way.

00:25:45.700 White men are the things that matter, and then everything else is at the bottom. 0.98

00:25:49.060 That's the problem.

00:25:50.560 This mindset that sees things in a hierarchical way. 1.00

00:25:53.520 By the way, white men are the absolute worst. 0.99

00:25:56.360 I love, she's attacking this hierarchical white male way of thinking, and how does she do it? 1.00

00:26:01.720 She arranges it in a hierarchy of evil people, and at the very top of the hierarchy of evilness, 0.94

00:26:07.880 at the very bottom of the hierarchy of goodness, she puts the white men. 0.87

00:26:10.360 Okay.

00:26:11.060 She says that poor people of color, as well as people in the Southern Hemisphere,

00:26:16.200 will be hit hardest by global warming.

00:26:18.100 She says it's a tragedy that we have to absolutely stop.

00:26:21.740 We have to arrest and jail those men.

00:26:25.300 They're all men. 0.99

00:26:26.300 Okay, all those white men, we've got to throw them in jail because they're pushing global warming. 0.99

00:26:32.920 Maybe worth pointing out to Hanoi Jane that, as far as nations go, 0.97

00:26:38.060 the biggest contributor to global warming, such as it is, is China. 0.60

00:26:44.360 China, which famously does not have a lot of white men running it.

00:26:49.200 But regardless, yeah, sure, America, we're a big industrial country.

00:26:52.800 We're the leader of the free world.

00:26:53.900 And so there are still a good number of white men in America.

00:26:57.860 And okay, that's the problem.

00:27:00.460 The climate crisis would not exist if that's not for patriarchy.

00:27:04.720 The climate crisis would not exist for racism. 0.99

00:27:06.620 The climate crisis is the fault of white men. 1.00

00:27:08.360 Of course it is. 0.98

00:27:09.260 It has to be.

00:27:10.860 And climate change, catastrophic climate change.

00:27:14.280 We're just nine years away from the end of the world, as they've been telling us for 50 years.

00:27:17.800 That also requires white men to be the fault of it. 0.99

00:27:24.620 Because white people just equals bad. 1.00

00:27:28.960 Climate change equals secular apocalypse. 0.99

00:27:34.460 And so, yes, evil will bring about the end of the world.

00:27:38.620 And in the Christian understanding of the apocalypse, things get really, really, really bad.

00:27:42.880 As sin and death and evil pervade all the world.

00:27:44.980 And the prince of this world leads to all sorts of terrible things. 0.99

00:27:48.000 You know, the devil, the father of lies.

00:27:49.580 But then there's a happy ending.

00:27:51.140 There is a happy ending here because Christ wins the war and comes down and you have the final judgment. 0.75

00:27:55.600 In the secular version of this, now we just all turn to worm food.

00:27:58.860 In the secular version, in the leftist version, evil just wins.

00:28:02.500 And this shapes the way that we view the world.

00:28:08.060 This is education.

00:28:09.640 Hanoi Jain's comments here.

00:28:11.960 Fatima Mohammed's comments at CUNY Law School.

00:28:16.460 The dude in the dress at Disneyland.

00:28:18.900 All of this stuff. 0.96

00:28:22.420 The Latino white supremacy. 0.95

00:28:24.180 This constitutes education a lot more than the reading, writing, and arithmetic that you'll learn in fifth grade.

00:28:29.540 Education is about how we're brought up.

00:28:32.880 It's about how we view the world.

00:28:33.980 I was thinking about this the other day because I have friends and relatives who are a bit neurotic.

00:28:39.220 And they worry a lot about death.

00:28:42.480 But they never think about death.

00:28:44.060 They don't really take death seriously, but they worry about dying.

00:28:47.520 And I was thinking about myself.

00:28:48.920 And it's easy for me to say I'm a relatively healthy guy and I'm sunshine in my life.

00:28:52.940 But I think about death all the time.

00:28:56.040 But I almost never worry about death.

00:28:59.540 How is that?

00:29:00.540 Well, I think about death all the time because I'm Christian.

00:29:04.080 And so I think about, okay, have I committed a sin?

00:29:05.860 Am I in a state of grace?

00:29:06.740 Do I need to go to confession?

00:29:08.220 Am I going to have a good death?

00:29:10.000 I mean, this was something that Christians, for the vast majority of our civilization's history,

00:29:15.060 they would think about this sort of thing.

00:29:16.640 Am I prepared to meet my maker?

00:29:18.520 Because death comes like a thief in the night.

00:29:20.040 You never know if you're going to go, okay.

00:29:21.100 So you think about death a lot.

00:29:22.260 But then if you prepare for death, you're not worried about death.

00:29:24.520 I think, okay, I don't think I turned to worm food.

00:29:26.740 I hope I don't go to hell.

00:29:28.100 I think I'm preparing myself for the end of the story.

00:29:31.460 Okay, good.

00:29:32.380 Whereas if you ignore death, if you try to put it out of your mind,

00:29:35.100 you're still going to have that nagging sense of your mortality that's part of the human condition.

00:29:38.860 And so paradoxically, you're going to be much, much more worried about it.

00:29:41.820 The more you try to put it out of the mind, the more you're going to be worried about it.

00:29:46.220 Then all of that got me thinking, this is our real education.

00:29:49.940 This is the real kind of education that guides our society.

00:29:52.920 It's not just the reading, writing, and arithmetic.

00:29:54.660 It's not just the facts about which wars were won by which generals.

00:29:58.780 The real basis of our education is who do we think we are?

00:30:02.960 Where do we think we're going?

00:30:04.060 What do we think we're made for?

00:30:05.340 What do we think good is?

00:30:06.720 What do we think we're all doing here together?

00:30:08.980 That's the really subtle stuff of our education that's going to make or break a civilization.

00:30:15.100 Where are we?

00:30:16.460 What are we for?

00:30:18.100 And for Jane Fonda, her understanding of evil and good and progress and politics and all of that,

00:30:25.300 it is informed by things that are false and ugly and wicked.

00:30:30.940 And that's going to drive a civilization crazy.

00:30:34.920 The education crisis in America is so much deeper.

00:30:37.920 The education crisis goes to the heart of religion being pushed out of the public square.

00:30:42.580 It goes to the heart of a whole cast of people being called evil.

00:30:47.140 And the whole cast of people that disproportionately have guided our nation's history being called evil.

00:30:51.720 So we view our nation as evil.

00:30:52.900 So we just have fallen into a national malaise.

00:30:55.360 You can't separate these sorts of issues.

00:30:58.680 And what are we doing to stop it?

00:31:00.420 We're passing legal protections for fat people.

00:31:03.100 That's what we're doing.

00:31:03.880 Eric Adams in New York, liberal mayor of New York,

00:31:06.500 even though he's relatively better than the last Bolshevik that we had in the mayor's office in New York,

00:31:10.920 Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams, doubling down on identity politics to sign a weight discrimination bill into law.

00:31:20.720 I don't think it is.

00:31:22.400 You know, everyone knows that I'm a person that believes in health.

00:31:27.400 So when you talk about not discriminating against someone because of their body type is not fighting against obesity.

00:31:34.220 It's just being fair.

00:31:36.000 And so I think this is this is the right thing to do.

00:31:39.380 We're going to continue to talk about our progressive health agenda.

00:31:43.680 And science has shown that body type is not a connection to if you're healthy or unhealthy.

00:31:49.200 And I think that's a misnomer that we are we are really dispelling.

00:31:58.260 I love the weak applause there.

00:32:00.080 That one guy, the one staffer in the back of the room.

00:32:02.580 Again, we've realized that the science has shown us that if you're a big, gigantic fatso, that has nothing to do with your health.

00:32:09.780 That's totally divorced from you. 0.87

00:32:11.480 You can be just the biggest, fattest, most out of shape guy in the whole world.

00:32:15.800 And you could be healthier than an Olympic runner.

00:32:19.200 Yeah, yeah, good.

00:32:24.700 Is that good?

00:32:25.400 Is that we all know that isn't true?

00:32:31.320 We all.

00:32:32.760 Yes, it's true that there can be skinny people who have health problems.

00:32:35.360 Yes, it can be true that there can be huskier people who are relatively in good health.

00:32:38.660 But if you're like a big fatso, that's a problem. 1.00

00:32:42.160 And it's a problem that you should work on.

00:32:44.380 I'm not saying you're a bad person.

00:32:46.200 Not saying that you should be ostracized from society.

00:32:49.380 Not saying that all hope is lost.

00:32:50.520 Quite the opposite.

00:32:51.260 I'm saying you ought to be encouraged to live in a way that is healthier because you're more likely to flourish.

00:32:55.380 You're more likely to live longer.

00:32:56.660 You're more likely to live in a more pleasant way for a longer period of time.

00:33:01.380 And you're more likely to feel good about yourself.

00:33:03.300 And you're more likely to excel in other areas as well because we're integrated human beings.

00:33:08.280 We all know that what that guy said isn't true.

00:33:10.840 Almost certainly including Eric Adams.

00:33:12.660 Eric Adams doesn't believe that if you're 400 pounds, you're the pinnacle of health.

00:33:16.760 Okay?

00:33:16.920 But we just lie because we're so used to lying now.

00:33:20.460 Because we lie and we tell men who pretend to be women. 0.97

00:33:22.640 We tell the mustachio guy in the pretty princess outfit.

00:33:24.900 We say, oh yeah, no, you really are a woman. 1.00

00:33:26.820 Yeah.

00:33:27.240 Oh, just because you have a mustache and certain other appendages, that doesn't mean you're a man.

00:33:31.080 It does.

00:33:31.660 We all know that it does.

00:33:33.280 Oh no, man.

00:33:34.220 What are you talking about?

00:33:35.780 Just because criminals are marauding all over the streets and stealing our stuff and killing people,

00:33:39.460 that doesn't mean we're unsafe.

00:33:41.240 Just because we have an open border and we've got millions of people pouring across it every year,

00:33:44.740 that doesn't mean we're failing as a nation.

00:33:47.840 That doesn't mean that we have an unstable political order.

00:33:50.080 No, what are you talking about?

00:33:51.240 Just because we've got record high inflation and people can't afford their basic necessities,

00:33:56.080 that doesn't mean the economy's in bad shape.

00:33:57.760 No, it does, man.

00:33:58.780 It does.

00:33:59.380 Just admit reality.

00:34:00.980 What you're seeing here is a tension that Patrick Dineen actually talks about

00:34:04.420 in his excellent new book, which I'll be working on a review for soon.

00:34:09.160 But he makes the point that our society is really torn between two conflicting impulses

00:34:16.440 that every parent faces.

00:34:18.800 And the conflicting impulses are for acceptance and improvement.

00:34:26.460 If your kid comes to you, your kid's going through some sort of problem, let's say, I don't know, 1.00

00:34:30.940 your kid gets a stupid looking tattoo. 1.00

00:34:34.760 Let's say, I don't know. 1.00

00:34:35.560 Your kid gets a bunch of stupid looking tattoos and is not treating their body well. 1.00

00:34:39.160 On the one hand, you want to encourage your kid to stop making poor decisions to improve your kid's life. 1.00

00:34:46.180 But on the other hand, you don't want your kid to feel like you've rejected him

00:34:49.100 and you don't want him anymore and he can't turn to you.

00:34:51.560 So you also want to accept your kid.

00:34:52.860 And this is true with so many issues.

00:34:55.560 It's true every parent's going to have to deal with this at some point, raising kids.

00:34:58.680 And it's true for our society as well.

00:35:02.120 You don't want to seem like, you especially see this for young people who are less and less young

00:35:08.720 with each passing year and they haven't gotten married and they haven't settled down

00:35:12.060 and they haven't had kids and they haven't done the basic things that are conducive to a flourishing society.

00:35:16.120 You don't want to just reject those people and say, oh yeah, now you're washed up.

00:35:22.360 So especially for women.

00:35:23.420 Oh yeah, women, you're single. 1.00

00:35:25.940 You're single and you're a little bit older. 0.99

00:35:28.100 Yeah, you're a joke. 0.98

00:35:29.640 We don't want you anymore. 0.94

00:35:30.780 No, not at all.

00:35:31.400 You're not saying you don't want them in society.

00:35:32.960 You're not saying you can't live a flourishing life.

00:35:34.460 You're not saying that the difficulties that they're living with are their fault entirely.

00:35:39.180 But you also want to encourage younger people to try to break out of the liberal trance

00:35:46.500 and to maybe say, no, I don't need to go get 50,000 different academic degrees to the cost of half a million dollars.

00:35:52.220 And I don't need to totally neglect my personal life.

00:35:55.000 And I don't need to put off having children.

00:35:56.340 I don't need to put off getting married.

00:35:57.420 So you want to encourage the society while also accepting the society as it is in all of its diversity.

00:36:04.000 And we've just fallen way too far on the latter category, such that we're pretending people with mustaches can be princesses

00:36:12.280 and that 400-pound people can be just as healthy as fit people.

00:36:17.700 Not so.

00:36:18.940 Now, speaking of encouragement, our first lady, I'm sorry, not our first lady, our vice president.

00:36:25.220 Our vice president has just come out to encourage the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

00:36:31.340 And she has done so with soaring Periclean rhetoric.

00:36:35.360 As I look out at you, I know that you will build on that leadership because, of course, your generation grew up online.

00:36:46.200 Technology that might be intimidating or unfamiliar to other generations to you is exciting and intuitive.

00:36:55.240 You see what can be unburdened by what has been.

00:37:01.780 And you have the agility and the ability to bring that potential to life.

00:37:09.960 Great examples of political rhetoric.

00:37:13.320 We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

00:37:16.420 Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

00:37:18.380 You know what you can be unburdened by what has been.

00:37:26.920 Be and been and be and been.

00:37:28.720 This is a line that Kamala Harris has used once or twice before.

00:37:32.980 I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.

00:37:37.300 You know?

00:37:37.920 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:37:41.580 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:37:46.000 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:37:50.220 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:37:54.660 What we can see, what we believe can be unburdened by what has been.

00:37:59.520 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:38:02.840 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:38:06.040 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:38:09.420 Who we can be unburdened by who we have been.

00:38:13.320 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:38:16.800 Where we can be, unburdened by where we have been, and unburdened by where we are right now.

00:38:21.040 What can be, unburdened by what has been.

00:38:24.600 One thing I love about Kamala Harris is she is her own sign language interpreter,

00:38:28.160 so you don't need the little lady in the corner of the screen. 0.99

00:38:31.280 She uses this line a lot.

00:38:32.340 There is a compilation that the RNC put out that it goes on for three and a half minutes 1.00

00:38:36.620 of what can be, what has been, and it sounds like a stupid, meaningless line. 0.98

00:38:42.500 It sounds like the sort of line that a 12-year-old would write in his first essay for class, 0.98

00:38:47.240 where he doesn't realize that essays require facts and arguments

00:38:51.100 and are not just a meaningless string of words together.

00:38:54.100 But there actually is a lot of meaning in that phrase of Kamala Harris.

00:38:59.420 She might not even know it, but there is a lot of meaning.

00:39:01.100 It really sums up the liberal project, which we'll get to in a second.

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00:40:13.120 With Father's Day coming up, I've been thinking about how grateful I am that my dad never became

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00:40:20.140 For all of my father's many accomplishments, I think the greatest accomplishment might be that

00:40:24.640 he remained a dude, and he is one of two people who helped to give me my life.

00:40:29.840 Without him, I wouldn't be here.

00:40:31.700 Well, that might be a strange thing to say.

00:40:33.440 We live in strange times, and so we shouldn't take the simplest gifts for granted.

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00:41:13.960 My favorite comment yesterday is from Old Schooled. 0.97

00:41:16.840 Hey, Old Schooled is back.

00:41:17.840 One of the great commenters for years on this show, who says, calling yourself non-binary

00:41:23.940 categorizes everyone as binary or non-binary.

00:41:30.660 This creates a binary system which makes you binary again.

00:41:37.020 That's so true.

00:41:45.700 That's actually a really good point, Old Schooled.

00:41:47.800 Not only because it owns the libs, but because it reminds us that ultimately, all of our choices

00:41:53.400 are binary.

00:41:55.020 Because all of our choices are going to come down to the transcendentals.

00:41:58.300 We're either going to do good or evil.

00:42:00.380 We're either going to pursue truth or falsehood.

00:42:03.420 We're either going to move toward beauty or toward ugliness.

00:42:09.020 Those things ultimately are binary.

00:42:10.920 There's all sorts of shades of gray in this complex world, man.

00:42:14.380 But ultimately, those things are, in fact, binary.

00:42:18.560 So true.

00:42:20.400 Now, how do we think about it?

00:42:21.680 Will we think about it in a way that allows us to see what we can be unburdened by what

00:42:25.540 has been, like Kamala Harris encourages us to do?

00:42:30.380 I hope not.

00:42:31.980 I want to be burdened by what has been.

00:42:34.860 I am pro-burden. 0.98

00:42:36.640 I don't want to be overly burdened.

00:42:38.480 I don't want to be borne down and crushed by burdens that are destructive to me.

00:42:44.060 But we need some kind of burden.

00:42:45.640 I mean, even Christ in the Gospels, our Lord tells us that you don't want to have the shackles

00:42:51.380 of sin on you and be a slave to sin. 0.80

00:42:53.160 But you should put his burden on you because his yoke is easy and his burden is light.

00:42:58.460 He says, take up your cross.

00:43:00.380 And bear it.

00:43:01.800 We will have some kinds of burdens.

00:43:03.600 And so what are we in political society going to be burdened with?

00:43:07.180 What Kamala Harris views as a burden is tradition, is authority, is reality, what has been.

00:43:15.160 And what she's arguing for is the same thing John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy

00:43:19.420 argued for and a lot of other liberals have argued for since the 60s, which is that quote,

00:43:23.860 some people see things that are and say, why I dream things that never were and say, why not?

00:43:27.440 Which is a quote that the author George Bernard Shaw put into the mouth of the serpent tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden.

00:43:33.220 This is the same temptation that the serpent gives us in the Genesis account,

00:43:38.340 which is, you shall be as gods.

00:43:42.460 You surely shall not die.

00:43:43.860 No, no, no.

00:43:44.180 You'll have the knowledge of good and evil and you shall be as gods.

00:43:48.000 Don't worry about what has been.

00:43:49.860 That's all.

00:43:50.400 Forget about that.

00:43:51.180 Just let's, let's just move forward through our imagination.

00:43:55.860 It's just that same old satanic line going back to the Garden of Eden.

00:44:00.460 And Kamala Harris almost certainly doesn't know it because she's not the most conscious 0.64

00:44:04.260 or reflective politician in the world.

00:44:07.440 But, and in fact, that's probably why.

00:44:09.100 A lot of libs, I've noticed, who are not really conscious about politics,

00:44:13.020 they just say nonsense.

00:44:15.440 They just repeat all sorts of platitudes.

00:44:17.700 They'll say, look, everything's relative.

00:44:20.800 You know, look, everything's relative.

00:44:23.220 Hey, you do you.

00:44:25.300 You do you.

00:44:25.920 It is what it is.

00:44:26.560 You do you.

00:44:27.100 Everything's relative.

00:44:28.160 These kinds of sayings that seem meaningless, that people just recite thoughtlessly,

00:44:32.540 they all boil down to really dark ideas, actually.

00:44:35.820 They all, frankly, boil down to the Aleister Crowley Satanist first commandment,

00:44:40.960 which is, do what thou wilt, shall be the entirety of the law.

00:44:43.360 Or it just says, just do whatever you want.

00:44:45.340 Ignore the moral order.

00:44:46.480 Don't pursue goodness.

00:44:47.520 Just do whatever you want.

00:44:48.500 It's fine.

00:44:48.980 There's no meaning.

00:44:49.740 It's all relative.

00:44:50.500 There's no truth.

00:44:51.260 There's no judgment.

00:44:52.080 There's no nothing.

00:44:53.720 And that's what Kamala Harris, as the symbol of your kind of liberal wine aunt in America, 0.99

00:45:02.680 she is repeating that too.

00:45:04.360 And she's repeating that from one of the highest podiums in the United States.

00:45:09.540 Now, speaking of those podia in the U.S. and ladies babbling from it, 1.00

00:45:14.940 Karine Jean-Pierre is bringing us back to some really important issues.

00:45:22.100 Namely, you know that third world war that broke out over the conflict in Ukraine that

00:45:25.900 we haven't been talking about very much?

00:45:26.980 Well, Zeke Miller, one of the great journalists in the White House press pool,

00:45:30.700 Zeke Miller, just asked KJP about these kinds of attacks.

00:45:38.820 So look, I'm going to be very clear.

00:45:40.860 We're gathering information.

00:45:42.240 I'm not going to get into hypotheticals from here.

00:45:44.820 We do not support the use of U.S.-made equipment being used for attacks inside of Russia.

00:45:51.920 We've been very clear about that.

00:45:53.500 And we'll continue to do that.

00:45:55.280 And we have been clear, not just publicly, but privately, clearly with the Ukrainians.

00:45:59.740 But not going to get into hypotheticals.

00:46:01.480 We're going to look into, gather information to see exactly what happened so we can get

00:46:05.360 some clarity.

00:46:06.080 But as I said, we've been very clear.

00:46:07.880 So Zeke is asking about these increasing Ukrainian attacks on Russia, potential drone

00:46:13.380 attack on the Kremlin, potential attacks on Russian soil.

00:46:16.640 And don't forget, we've funded the Ukraine war.

00:46:19.000 We've funded the Ukraine side.

00:46:20.040 So these attacks are going to be carried out, most likely, with our weaponry, with our material.

00:46:26.660 So does that mean that now the United States, a nuclear superpower, is engaging

00:46:31.180 in a hot war with a nuclear former superpower, Russia?

00:46:36.400 That doesn't seem like a great idea.

00:46:38.060 And so the White House is trying to run away from this.

00:46:40.560 The White House is trying to say, no, we don't support that.

00:46:43.160 We don't support Ukrainians using American military equipment against the Russians.

00:46:50.420 Wait, what?

00:46:51.200 Then why did we give them the military equipment?

00:46:52.720 Well, no, we support them using the American military equipment against the Russians on Ukrainian 0.90

00:46:56.880 soil, but not on Russian soil.

00:46:58.600 Do you think that's how war works?

00:47:03.100 Do you think you can give a nation all sorts of equipment and say, okay, but here are the

00:47:08.280 very special rules you've got to use?

00:47:10.620 Especially a country in this corrupt part of the world, in Eastern Europe, Ukraine, not

00:47:15.280 exactly the most transparent, well-run country ever, in a fight for its life against Russia.

00:47:20.660 You really think that that's what's going to happen?

00:47:23.120 It's almost as though war has unintended consequences, and it's almost as though the

00:47:28.040 people leading us are absolutely feckless and sleepwalking us into World War III.

00:47:32.340 The prime minister of Georgia, not the state, but the country, prime minister of Georgia

00:47:36.580 was just asked for his take on the hostilities in Ukraine.

00:47:40.700 And he, you can tell he's a little bit uncomfortable saying this.

00:47:44.000 He says, hey, maybe NATO bears a little bit of the blame here.

00:47:48.340 Why do you think Russia launched that invasion of Ukraine in 2022?

00:47:53.140 I think everybody knows the reason.

00:47:56.360 I'm not sure I do.

00:47:57.520 What do you think it is?

00:47:58.320 I think you know it well.

00:47:59.700 And the audience knows it.

00:48:01.840 One of the main reasons were NATO, right?

00:48:04.400 NATO enlargement, right?

00:48:07.220 And many other reasons.

00:48:08.660 You think that NATO enlargement provoked the war?

00:48:11.460 Well, I don't want to speculate, OK?

00:48:14.520 And I don't want to quote the statements of the Russian government.

00:48:19.900 But one of the reasons was Ukraine's will and determination to become a member of NATO.

00:48:30.380 And so, therefore, we see the consequence.

00:48:35.380 OK, now, what a lot of people in the West, especially in the liberal establishment, are

00:48:41.480 going to say is, this prime minister of Georgia, he's just repeating Russian propaganda.

00:48:45.040 He's trying to blame Putin's invasion of Ukraine on NATO.

00:48:49.540 Well, it's not just the prime minister of Georgia, who clearly doesn't, he doesn't want

00:48:53.420 to irritate NATO too much here, but he's giving his view on what's going on.

00:48:57.200 And he's obviously an Eastern European who's got a particular view of this thing.

00:49:00.540 But it's not just him who's saying this.

00:49:03.180 I was warning about this at the outbreak of the hostilities.

00:49:06.960 You know, I hate to say I told you so.

00:49:08.580 But I said, hey, buffer states have played an important role in history.

00:49:12.220 And as NATO has expanded eastward, this has provoked Russia.

00:49:17.160 And it wasn't just me saying this.

00:49:18.060 It was Yoram Hazoni, the Israeli philosopher, saying this.

00:49:20.000 But it wasn't even just me and Yoram, who are kind of modern-day conservatives.

00:49:23.320 It was Henry Kissinger.

00:49:25.440 It was Sam Nunn.

00:49:27.200 It was Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

00:49:28.920 It was George Kennan, the author of The Long Telegram, one of the architects of American

00:49:32.440 Cold War policy.

00:49:33.520 This was going back all the way to the 90s.

00:49:36.280 There were wise statesmen who said, hey, NATO should stop aggressively expanding eastward.

00:49:40.820 That's going to needlessly provoke Russia.

00:49:42.940 And unless NATO is going to gobble up the whole world in wars of conquest, and there have been 0.54

00:49:47.880 some aggressive actions by NATO.

00:49:49.360 It's not been a purely defensive alliance, which I'm sure Russia is seeing as well.

00:49:53.700 Well, if NATO is going to keep expanding eastward, that is going to create a precarious situation.

00:50:00.940 It's going to provoke a war.

00:50:03.220 And then what happens?

00:50:04.760 Russia, which already wanted to enlarge itself again to reclaim some of the territory of the

00:50:08.780 Soviet Union, which Vladimir Putin says the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest

00:50:12.780 cataclysmic event of the 20th century.

00:50:15.000 So you know you've got that desire there.

00:50:16.480 All of a sudden, things start to spin out of control.

00:50:19.620 All of it was predictable.

00:50:21.560 There were plenty of conservatives warning people of this.

00:50:24.100 And you look at our feckless leadership.

00:50:25.900 You are reminded, this is a point I made yesterday, if we want to have a stable political order,

00:50:30.520 a good political order, we've got to replace the current elite.

00:50:33.520 We've got to replace the people, personnel, or policy.

00:50:36.500 And these people don't know the difference between a man and a woman. 1.00

00:50:39.240 These people claim that if you're 400 pounds, you're the pinnacle of health.

00:50:42.740 These people don't know that a baby is a baby. 0.99

00:50:44.580 These people blame white men for Latino criminals. 0.99

00:50:49.140 These people do not have a strong grip on reality. 0.97

00:50:53.180 And these are the people on whom we depend to avert World War III.

00:50:57.540 Not a great situation to be in.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 31, 2023

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