Ep. 1259 - Biden Falls Hard And Can't Get Up
Summary
The White House press secretary refuses to say whether or not the president will ever campaign for re-election. And why should that be a problem? And why does it matter if he does or doesn t campaign at all?
Transcript
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President Biden fell yesterday. Not just a little stumble, not just a little tumble,
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a full-on fall during the Air Force Academy graduation.
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All right, Biden, shake hands, he goes down, all the way down. Not Chevy Chase doing
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Jerry Ford on SNL, all the way down. Has to be helped up by three men.
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And he points back at something on the floor, which is kind of funny. He turns back,
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he says like, oh, it was that Pebble's fault. But it's ultimately not funny. It's sad.
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And it's not even news. That's why I had to play it. It's not really making news. But it was a bad
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fall and it's not news. And that's really weird. It's not news because we've come to expect it.
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We've come to expect it and we've come to accept it. The president is mentally and physically
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falling apart. The president refuses to campaign for re-election. He didn't even campaign last time
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for his first term, for his administration. We've reached a new stage of national scandal.
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It is not just that we don't have a functional president, that our political system is not
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run the way it's supposed to be run. And it's not even just that our rulers have ceased to pretend
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that the government is run the way it's supposed to be run. The most scandalous part of all
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is that we all know it. We joke about it openly on the left and on the right.
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And nobody seems to care. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. In just a moment, forget about politics. Forget about this crazy
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event that involved The Daily Wire on Twitter last night. We have a follow-up to that Toronto
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Blue Jays player who totally turned his back on his beliefs and apologized for criticizing Pride
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Month. That guy got a very nasty reaction from the crowd. We'll get to that in one moment.
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First, though, the president can't function. He can't speak. He doesn't know which end is up. He
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can't walk. And he's not campaigning. Peter Doocy, one of the few conservatives in the White House
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press pool, asked the president's press secretary about this. Is this guy at any point in the campaign
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It's been more than a month since the re-election announcement. Is President Biden going to hold
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So I will say this to you, Peter, as you know, we follow the rule of law here. We believe in
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following the rule of law as it relates. Hold on. As it relates.
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I'm about to answer your question here. As it relates to anything that is connected to the campaign,
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any rallies, any events, any endorsement, anything that is connected to the 2024 re-election,
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that is not going to certainly come from here, that is going to come from his campaign and or the DNC.
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So what Karine Jean-Pierre is using to evade this question is the Hatch Act, is the idea that
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government workers are not allowed to engage in explicitly campaign-related political activity.
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So when Peter Doocy says, hey, is he going to hit the campaign trail? She says, well,
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I'm not allowed to talk about the campaign. But that's obviously not true because the White House,
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while it can't maybe talk about the inner workings of any presidential campaign,
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can at least talk about whether or not the guy's going to do it. The White House press secretary can
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at least talk about the president's schedule. Is he thinking about making a stop over in Iowa?
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Is he thinking about maybe traveling to New Hampshire? Oh, no, Peter, I'm not going to answer that.
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Because the answer is no. The president right now has no intention of seriously campaigning.
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And why would he? He doesn't need to campaign. If he didn't need to campaign last time,
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he doesn't need to campaign this time. If last time Joe Biden could hide out in his basement
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and occasionally hold an event or two with 18 people and do the rest of the campaign virtually,
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then certainly he can do that for re-election when his only challenges are Marianne Williamson,
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the new agey lady, the hippie, dippy, dark psychic forces lady, that she's not going to pose a real
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challenge. And Bobby Kennedy Jr., who is a Kennedy, so you'd think that he could pose something of a
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challenge. He's a committed liberal in the 1960s fashion, but the Democrats and the progressives
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have moved on from that 1960s style liberalism. So he's not going to really pose a serious challenge
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to Joe Biden. So why not? Well, you might say, well, he needs to start campaigning now to build
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the narrative for the general election, whether it's Trump, whether it's DeSantis, whether it's
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Chris Christie, who we all know is going to be the nominee because the chrysons, the chrysons is upon
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us. But regardless of who that is, shouldn't Joe Biden start his campaign now? No. Why would he?
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What's the campaign? The campaign is we're going to maintain the power structure exactly as it is
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without accountability and you can deal with it. The campaign in 2024 is going to be, we're going to
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harvest ballots. We're going to get our machine going. We're going to have widespread mail in
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ballots and we're going to hope that we can squeak by. That's that. Even though Joe Biden has historic
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levels of unpopularity, even though the country's falling apart on every single front, he doesn't
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need to campaign, which is not just a knock on Joe Biden. The fact that Biden's falling down all the
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time and can't speak is not just a knock on Joe Biden. It just, it describes an aspect of the
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political system that is especially corrupt and especially decayed. Not only is, is the government
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working in a way that's not in accordance with Schoolhouse Rock, a bill up on Capitol Hill, the
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U.S. Constitution, all the rest of it. And not only, or is the government not pretending otherwise
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anymore? Not only is the government transparent about that, but we all know it and we are not
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Last night, I feel like I haven't left my desk. We were here. We were supposed to do a very simple
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what is a woman release for the one year anniversary of Matt's movie. The movie was such a big success.
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We were going to do a one year anniversary celebration and air it for everybody on Twitter,
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free for 24 hours, not just for the members, but for everybody to celebrate the movie, to celebrate
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Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, to celebrate that one of the big tech platforms is now going to endorse
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free speech. Okay, great. And then we're working with Twitter on all of this. And then we're told
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by the trust and safety team, no, sorry, actually, we're going to not only not work with you on this
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event, we're going to suppress the movie if you put it up onto Twitter. He said, what? What happened
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to free speech? What happened to the big conservatives having a voice now on Twitter? What about that?
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That was gone. Okay. So we were a little confused. We said, we're going to go ahead with our event.
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If Twitter wants to suppress it, okay. Elon's sending us mixed messages here. I don't really
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understand what's going on here, but okay, whatever. We air it and it is suppressed.
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And then Elon starts responding. And then we get a report that the head of the trust and safety team
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over at Twitter resigns or is fired, but we're still being suppressed. And we just don't know
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what on earth is going on. Elon starts responding to us personally. He responds to a tweet that I posted
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a tweet kind of throwing a little bit of subtle shade at Twitter. Elon liked that tweet. He was
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responding to Jordan Peterson. Jordan was here last night. He's responding to the Daily Wire,
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but it was still unclear what exactly is going on. Then this morning, this morning, Elon Musk tweets
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out the movie and he says, every parent should watch this movie. And when we said, well, hold on,
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what is this? Elon had a great response. Elon said, the controversy will drive views. And Jordan
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responds to him and says, you are a complicated person, which is very, very true because we didn't
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know at the moment. Is this Elon got outfoxed or Elon didn't know about this? Is this Elon did know
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about this and he's a hypocrite about free speech? Is this Elon playing 4D chess and generating some
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kind of controversy and having an excuse now to can part of his liberal apparatchik trust and safety
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team? What is going on? It's still unclear to me, though the result has been wonderful. And so great
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on Elon, great on Twitter to get this message out to say on Twitter right now, not only can you say that
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a man is a man and a woman is a woman, but you can expose the gender ideology for what it is. Not only
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does this vindicate the purchase of Twitter. Don't forget, Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign
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on Twitter, in Twitter spaces, some days ago. Ron DeSantis' campaign is running against wokeness. And then
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all of a sudden, Twitter comes out and says, you're not allowed to say that a man is a man and a woman is a
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woman. The specific reason they told us that they were going to suppress our video was
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two specific instances of misgendering in the movie. That is, calling a girl a girl and a boy
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a boy. In one case, a father who referred to his daughter as she, and he's in jail for that in Canada.
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We're flummoxed. We don't know exactly what did it, but all's well that ends well. This was a great
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ending. And you've got to also remember what kind of a tough position Elon Musk is in.
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This is the point I've been making since the beginning.
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Elon Musk is not just fighting against some woke employees at Twitter. Elon Musk is fighting
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against an entire, not only national system, but international system of censorship. Elon Musk is
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fighting against GARM, that censorship wing that has now been incorporated into the World Economic
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Forum, an industry-wide multinational program to enforce transgenderism and radical environmentalism
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and all the rest of the leftist ideology. Elon Musk is fighting against the advertisers. Elon Musk is
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fighting against the market. Elon Musk is fighting against major asset managers. He's fighting against
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a whole system here. Twitter today is worth one-third of what it was worth when Elon Musk bought it.
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Elon Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter. It's worth one-third of that today. Twitter was already,
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before he bought it, on a path of almost inevitable bankruptcy. So the guy is under a lot of pressure.
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And if he can finagle his way to keep Twitter as a free speech platform, or forget about free speech,
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I don't even care all that much about totally free speech. What I care about is the ability to tell the
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truth. Those are different things. It's good to have free speech, okay, but none of us actually
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supports total free speech. This is the point of my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling
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Minds. Everybody, hello, thank you. That was actually pretty quick today. Every society has
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taboos and standards and norms. What we want, at the very least, though, is the freedom to tell the
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truth, which was previously suppressed, now available on Twitter. Speaking of top executives,
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and speaking of Ron DeSantis, by the way, who launched his campaign on Twitter, Ron DeSantis
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is not doing great right now. He's not doing great against Donald Trump. According to the latest poll
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numbers, DeSantis' announcement did not close the gap between him and Trump. Trump still has a 34-point
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lead in the race. Trump's lead is down a little bit from a 43-point lead. But that constriction of
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the poll numbers appears to have happened before Ron DeSantis' presidential announcement.
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So I think DeSantis is a great governor. I think he's got a very strong message. I think he's
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obviously an extremely intelligent, competent guy. He's one of the most conservative presidential
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candidates we've seen in my lifetime. I'm not disparaging him. I'm just describing a fact.
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His announcement didn't work. It hasn't moved the needle. The delta between him and Trump is just
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so massive. There's just some intangible, ineffable, je ne sais quoi about the Trump campaign that the
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DeSantis campaign has not yet figured out how to crack, despite really targeted attacks. Trump handing
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the country over to Fauci, really targeted attacks on some of Trump's picks and decisions throughout his
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administration. Still hasn't quite done it. Trump just gave a response on the campaign trail that I
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think helps to get at why Trump seems untouchable, why he's the Teflon Don. Trump was asked about
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wokeness. Wokeness, that's that word on the right. We're all just beating the hell out of wokeness.
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We hate wokeness. And that's persuading a lot of moderates and people in the middle. Wokeness
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has got to end. Here's Trump's answer on wokeness. It's gone sick. And I don't like the term woke
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because I hear woke, woke, woke. You know, it's like just a term that use half the people can't
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even define it. They don't know what it is. As is often the case, while everybody is zigging,
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Donald Trump is zagging. The guy is contrarian, not just with the broader culture. He's contrarian
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even with the right, the conservative movement, the Republican Party. In part, we should expect
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this because the guy didn't spend his life in the conservative movement of the Republican Party.
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And so on this one, this is the easiest softball. Oh yeah, wokeness bad. He says,
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I don't like that term. It's kind of a silly term. No one can really define it. And you know what?
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He's kind of right. He's kind of right. We use the term as a shorthand to refer to the extreme
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leftists. But a lot of people who regularly use that term can't really define it. You'll notice
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on my show, I tend, and in my writing and in my speeches, I tend to refer to the libs.
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I don't refer to the wokies, the wokesters, the leftists exclusively. Mostly I refer to the libs
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because there's a big debate on the right between is wokism a betrayal of liberalism or is wokism the
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logical conclusion of liberalism? And not just modern progressive liberalism. There's another
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big debate on the right, which is, is modern progressive leftism a betrayal of liberalism,
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an illiberal kind of liberalism? Or is modern progressive leftism the logical conclusion of
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liberalism? And the more libertarian types, the more classical liberal identifying types,
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they say the former. And the conservatives and the traditionalists and the old school right-wingers,
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we say it's the latter. We say this wokism stuff, this was always going to be the consequence of
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liberalism. Just look at transgenderism. You have the classical liberals who say transgenderism,
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it's a betrayal, not only of liberalism, but even of the gay rights movement. It's a betrayal of all,
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it's a betrayal of feminism. But the conservatives, we say, no, it's the logical conclusion of it.
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Because if men and women are pretty much the same, then you're going to get transgenderism.
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Feminism says men and women are basically the same. And so you get the gay rights movement,
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the gay rights movement then gives you the redefinition of marriage, redefinition of marriage
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then gets you transgenderism. Because all of it says that men and women are pretty much interchangeable.
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That's a consequence of liberalism, this flattening liberalism, which says that we're not born into
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particular roles and duties, some of which are unchosen, many of which are unchosen. We have
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an obligation to them regardless, into certain circumstances, into communities that we didn't
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choose, but we have an obligation to them anyway. That's what the conservatives believe.
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The liberals just focus on that hyper-individualism. You can do whatever you want,
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just don't hurt anybody or scare the horses. Okay, well, that's what the liberals say,
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but that liberalism is going to inevitably lead you to wokeism. And what Trump is saying here
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is that term, I don't know, you just want to avoid it. You just want to avoid talking about
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how liberalism is bad, but I'm not going to. And so what does Trump say? He says it's not just that
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the crazy trans stuff is bad, it's that free trade can be bad. It's not just that the crazy trans stuff
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is bad, it's that the free movement of peoples across borders can be very bad.
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It's not just that the trans stuff is really bad, it's that the upending of all of our traditions,
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many of which can't be written down on a napkin in some rationalist treatise.
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The upending of our saluting the flag and having hot dogs on the 4th of July and just doing things
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the way we used to do them because of sheer tradition and prejudice. Prejudice in the good
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sense of that word. We just kind of do it out of a prejudgment, out of a gut instinct.
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That that rationalism is bad too. Trump is expressing a deeply conservative impulse that is
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frankly much more in line with what conservatism has meant going back to the French Revolution,
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going back to Edmund Burke up through much of the American old right before it was taken over by
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the libs. I think that is part of that je ne sais quoi. I think that is why a lot of other candidates,
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even very impressive candidates like Ron DeSantis, haven't quite caught up with him yet.
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if the corporations actually believed in the gay ideology, I dare them to advocate for it in their
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Middle East divisions or in China. It's a good observation because it's only the Western
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iterations of the brands that put on the rainbow in June. The ones in Saudi Arabia don't change their
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logos to be rainbows or in China or elsewhere. But I don't want this to make people complacent
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because the argument or the point of that argument is that this pride stuff doesn't really change the
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culture. It's just a kind of a rainbow facade on the same old system that doesn't really change.
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But that isn't quite true. Yes, the corporations themselves are not going in and changing their
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logos during this month in those countries. But the West broadly is. The United States, the State
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Department, the NGOs, all of these non-governmental busybody organizations, imperial organizations
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from the West do go into these countries. And they will often tie aid dollars. They will often tie
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all sorts of support, military support even, to liberalizing policies, especially policies regarding
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sex and gender and this radical sexual revolution ideology. So that does happen. It's just not the
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conservatives or the corporations rather who are at the vanguard of that. It's often the State
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Department and the NGOs. But the corporations do follow. Make no mistake, the West is pushing the
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rainbow. In many ways, the rainbow has become the imperial flag of the West. Just as the Star
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Spangled Banner is the national flag of the United States, so too the pride flag, the pride progress flag
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increasingly, is the imperial flag of the liberal West. Now, speaking of the presidential candidates,
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we've got a new candidate in the race. Not officially yet, but we've had the official
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announcement of the impending official announcement. Which candidate is it? I'm not talking about Chris
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Christie. I'm not talking about the Chris Assange. That hasn't happened yet. I'm talking about
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Mike Pence. Mike Pence, according to reports, will announce his run at a rally-style event in Des Moines,
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Iowa next Wednesday, according to sources familiar with Pence's plans. A lot of people don't think that
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Mike Pence has a chance in this race, looking at the poll numbers. A lot of people might say,
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oh, Mike Pence is a really nice guy, but the numbers just aren't there for him. What is Mike Pence's
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lane? Mike Pence does have a lane. It's narrow. It probably is not going to be successful. But in a
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presidential race, anything can happen, especially when you consider that they might throw Trump in
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prison. There are at least three locales that are trying to put Trump in prison right now. Probably
00:25:08.120
more to come. Ron DeSantis is very well tested, very impressive at the state level, but he's not
00:25:14.860
totally tested at the national stage. Anything could happen. Everyone thought Jeb Bush was going to be
00:25:18.880
the nominee in 2016. Jeb obviously did not become the nominee. So DeSantis could Jeb out. Who knows?
00:25:25.420
And then we're in a whole new ballgame. What is Pence's lane? His lane is Iowa. He's got to hit
00:25:31.960
Iowa really, really hard. He's got to win over the evangelical base. In some ways, this was the
00:25:40.220
Cruz campaign strategy in 2016. Go hard after Iowa. Go hard after the evangelical base, which worked.
00:25:48.360
Cruz did win Iowa. Cruz was the number two guy in 2016. Pence could do that. And then Pence has
00:25:54.640
something else that helps him out here, which is that Pence is acceptable to the business wing of
00:26:00.820
the GOP. Pence is acceptable to the Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP. Pence is not going to go
00:26:07.240
hard after corporations. Pence is not going to advocate hard for protective tariffs or anything
00:26:11.860
like that. So that's a real advantage. It's an older model of running for president on the right.
00:26:20.460
It was a model that was powerful in the 1990s and the early 2000s. It's kind of waned in recent years.
00:26:29.440
But it was a model that worked for a long time. And right now, no other candidate in the race can
00:26:33.580
really do that. Tim Scott, maybe to some degree.
00:26:42.640
Nikki Haley, I'm not so sure. I think she's a little bit more ambiguous on that. I don't think
00:26:46.300
Nikki Haley is going to play very well in Iowa. The Vake, obviously, is not going to be running on
00:26:51.160
an evangelical Christian campaign. Chris Christie is not going to be running on an Iowa
00:26:58.520
evangelical Christian campaign. So there is, it's not totally crazy. I wouldn't put my money on Pence
00:27:07.160
becoming the nominee, to put it mildly. But there is a lane. There is a kind of a logic to it. It just
00:27:13.860
requires the GOP to kind of fling back like a rubber band stretched too far in one direction.
00:27:19.920
It would have to fling back to a tried and true strategy. Speaking of traditional views,
00:27:27.500
the Dodgers, the LA Dodgers, who invited this satanic drag troupe, the Sisters of Perpetual
00:27:33.800
Indulgence, who mock not only Catholic nuns, but mock Christ and the crucifixion and are just not
00:27:40.960
doing good stuff, invited them to be honored for Pride Month at Dodger Stadium. And then there was
00:27:47.160
backlash, so they disinvited them. Then there was backlash to the backlash, so they re-invited them.
00:27:52.200
And now they're going to hold a Christian Faith and Family Day in July. I think they already were
00:27:59.260
hosting that, but they're promoting this now. Okay. Not good enough. Even Bishop Barron, who's a very
00:28:06.560
nice guy, he's a Catholic bishop, very nice guy. He's not really a bomb thrower or anything. He points
00:28:12.000
out, he says, this is just not enough. You know, we cannot accept the LA Dodgers for doing this. We've
00:28:20.780
got to keep the pressure up. We should boycott the LA Dodgers. We should protest the LA Dodgers. We
00:28:26.380
should put the LA Dodgers on the Transheiser Bush, Target, Kohl's list. This is completely unacceptable
00:28:31.180
stuff. And I know that there are going to be people, speaking of that old style Republican
00:28:36.500
politics sort of thing, who are going to be people who say, well, look, can't we just meet in the
00:28:42.680
middle somewhere? Can't we just, we don't, we can't boycott every company. Can't we just, all right,
00:28:47.480
they're going to have the, look, they're going to have the satanic parody of the mass, devil worshiping
00:28:53.840
drag queen's day. But they're also going to have a day where they acknowledge the existence of
00:28:59.380
Christians. So look, isn't that kind of a win? No, no. You can't please everybody. That's always
00:29:06.820
the case. But you especially can't please everybody during periods of intense division.
00:29:11.120
So when we broadly agree on things, it's easier to please more people more of the time. When we can't
00:29:16.300
agree on anything, when we can't agree on what a woman is, when we can't agree on anthropology,
00:29:19.900
when we can't agree on epistemology, when we can't agree on what good and bad is, when we can't agree
00:29:23.420
on what the role of the state in good and bad is, when we can't agree on language, the meaning of
00:29:27.340
language, then you really can't please everybody all of the time. Then you're, to be politically
00:29:32.900
successful, you're probably only going to please a minority of people. When you live in revolutionary
00:29:37.880
times, which the left has voiced upon us time and time again, but especially now, when you live in
00:29:44.280
revolutionary times, then the way you're going to make political change is to appeal to a minority of
00:29:50.780
people. At all times, it is a minority of people who make revolutionary change. Think of the
00:29:57.600
Bolsheviks who dishonestly presented themselves as a majority. They were a distinct minority of
00:30:02.520
people. Look at what's going on. The baseball audience is broadly conservative. The people who
00:30:08.720
run baseball are extraordinarily left-wing and they're kowtowing to left-wingers. Well, look what
00:30:13.840
happened. Anthony Bass, the Toronto Blue Jay, he comes out, he criticizes Pride Month. Then there's
00:30:19.120
backlash from his bosses, presumably. So he throws his integrity under the bus. He makes an apology
00:30:24.300
for attacking Pride Month. And then he trots out there onto the field. Listen to how the Blue Jays
00:30:29.520
fans greeted him. So you can hear one boo in particular. And then he trots out there and has a little
00:30:46.880
conversation in shallow left field. Okay. It's still, it's sometimes a little hard to make out what the
00:30:55.520
audience is saying here. But then it becomes a little clearer. He's trotting from shallow left
00:31:03.300
field out to the pitcher's mound. You hear the boos. Why was he booed? He was booed because now nobody
00:31:12.380
supports him. The pro Pride people obviously don't support him. He posted to his Instagram a very clear
00:31:22.360
directed video about how he thinks Pride is evil. The conservatives don't like him. The normal people
00:31:29.500
don't like him because he then threw his integrity under the bus. He said, oh, I'm sorry. I offended.
00:31:36.040
I never wanted to offend anybody. You know, I'm sorry. The Pride community, I support them, blah, blah,
00:31:41.800
blah. Okay. So now he's got nobody. I'm reminded in Dante's Divine Comedy, right at the very beginning
00:31:49.540
of hell are the people who were lukewarm. And they're there. It's not the deepest part of hell.
00:31:53.800
It's not the hottest part of hell. It's, it's in some ways though, even more ignominious because
00:31:59.800
it's, it's the people who are obviously unacceptable to heaven because they have no conviction. They have
00:32:06.440
no integrity. They have no faith. But they're also repulsive to the people in hell. Even hell won't
00:32:13.180
accept these people. They're just to be spit out. They're just so lukewarm. Don't do that.
00:32:21.000
There is nothing ever to be gained by apologizing to an unjust mob. There was one time I was on Fox
00:32:27.580
News and I, uh, I was, I was asked about environmentalism on the left and I said it was
00:32:33.700
unjust that the libs are exploiting a mentally ill Swedish child to promote their totally incoherent
00:32:39.540
agenda. And the host of that program, Harris Faulkner didn't, she didn't bat an eyelash.
00:32:45.140
This is obviously a true statement. The Democrat who was on the panel, uh, uh, Chris Hahn, he made a
00:32:50.520
big deal about this and yelled and screamed, but still the viewers weren't upset. It was obviously
00:32:54.420
true that, you know, when it came to the case of this gal, Greta Thunberg, her mother actually wrote
00:32:59.000
a book about how this girl had all these sorts of mental problems. And yet she was still being exploited
00:33:03.080
as the face of the left so that we couldn't criticize their climate policies. So I just said this on air.
00:33:08.020
And then some of the liberal executives at Fox made a big deal about this and yelled and screamed and
00:33:13.240
all the rest of it. And there was a big push. There were some emissaries from Fox News who implored me
00:33:18.520
to apologize to the company publicly. And they said, oh, you'll be back, you'll be back on air in two
00:33:24.140
seconds if you just apologize. And I said, well, I don't think I did anything wrong. If I felt I did
00:33:27.880
something wrong, I'd consider apologizing, but I don't think I did. I think that, and that was one of the
00:33:33.020
early cases where the conservative audience had a backlash against Fox News for something it did
00:33:40.360
that they felt was liberal and dishonest. I said, I'm not going to do that. Maybe it would have gotten
00:33:46.260
me on Fox News. Probably it wouldn't have. I mean, look at what just happened to Tucker Carlson. And I
00:33:50.220
also went back on Fox News relatively quickly after that anyway. So it wasn't, the devil always does this
00:33:56.340
to you. The devil always gives you these sort of temptations and says, hey, if you just throw away
00:34:00.260
your integrity, hey, if you just throw away your beliefs, hey, if you just throw away your faith,
00:34:03.560
I'll reward you seriously, pinky swear, promise. And then what happens when you make that kind of
00:34:08.220
a Faustine bargain, you get nothing. Anthony Bass learned that. The rest of the normal people should
00:34:13.780
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00:35:07.940
Hello, Mr. Knowles. It is everybody's former favorite resident bass player, Slap My Bass,
00:35:13.980
and I'm coming to you with a question. Over the past couple weeks, I've gone through a series of
00:35:19.640
very life-altering events with my cousin getting married and me just turning 30 years old. And I
00:35:27.260
look back on my life and I come to realize that I've not really accomplished anything in terms of
00:35:32.980
socially. And I would like to settle down and marry a woman now more than ever. But I've yet to have any
00:35:42.280
dating experience with them at all. Looking around at the options that I have right now, and it almost
00:35:47.660
seems like that 90% of the women that I interact with are either huge libs or men pretending to be
00:35:55.420
women. So my question is, is it really worth looking to date when I am extremely desperate?
00:36:05.660
Or at what point should I say, no, I should not settle and continue to look for the right person,
00:36:13.920
especially since I have not yet dated anybody. And I'm thinking the only option I have is to settle.
00:36:21.340
There's your problem right there at the end, slap. There is your problem. I was with you. I was trying
00:36:29.320
to work out a complex solution to your problem until you got there to the end. You said, especially
00:36:33.900
when I haven't dated yet. Go on a date. No, but Michael, you don't understand in the abstract,
00:36:43.500
at a distance, in theory, these women, they're probably not going to work out. Okay, how do you know
00:36:48.220
that? You haven't gone on a date. Well, I don't know. I just sort of, my view of them in my mind
00:36:54.580
is they probably wouldn't be a good date. Okay, well, what's the worst that happens? You go out
00:37:00.100
to a restaurant, you spend 40 bucks on drinks, and you figure out that the lady is a huge lib,
00:37:05.800
and you don't like her, and you're not going to marry her. Or maybe you find out that she's a man,
00:37:09.160
and that would be, hopefully you'd figure that out before you go on the date.
00:37:12.240
Okay, all right, you're down a couple of drinks. Okay, you're down a few appetizers. Okay,
00:37:18.940
and then you just go on a date tomorrow. You want to marry a woman. You're not going to marry
00:37:23.840
a woman. You're going to marry a particular woman. We want to live a flourishing life. You're not going
00:37:31.440
to live a flourishing life in the abstract. You're going to live a particular life that is going to be
00:37:35.400
flourishing or not in its specificity, in its details, in its particularity. So you got to just go out
00:37:42.080
there and do it. You said 90% of the women I meet, they're not going to be good wives probably. Okay,
00:37:46.020
what about the 10%? 10% is a lot of people. Have you gone out with them? Andrew Klavan gave me good
00:37:53.000
advice. I repeat it in lots of realms of life. God can't drive a parked car. You're not going to
00:37:58.180
marry a woman by sitting around thinking about the kind of woman you might like to marry. You're
00:38:03.840
going to marry a woman after you've been dating for some time. You're going to marry a woman after
00:38:07.400
you're engaged for some time. You're going to get engaged after you propose. You're going to
00:38:11.260
propose after you've dated for some time. And you're going to date for some time after you go
00:38:14.380
on a date and ask a woman out. That's what you got to do first. And maybe you're going to waste a few
00:38:20.560
nights having drinks with girls who were just awful. Okay, you'll get some funny stories out of it.
00:38:25.120
And then ultimately you get a wife. Okay, next question.
00:38:28.860
Hey, Michael. So a purely hypothetical scenario. Say someone is working for their dream company to work
00:38:36.560
for. But their company has been making some public stances that go directly against their beliefs.
00:38:45.520
For example, blue-haired, bleeding-heart liberal is working for a company that has been outspoken
00:38:51.200
about being pro-Second Amendment and pro-life. Or on the other hand, a very conservative, very Christian
00:38:58.640
person works for a company that has made very public stances that are pro-abortion and anti-religion.
00:39:07.760
Where would you draw the line? How do you feel about that compromise? Do you feel like we should get
00:39:12.800
out while the getting's good? Or do you think we should just stick it out and hope for the best?
00:39:18.720
It doesn't sound like your dream company, does it? If the company that you say is your dream company,
00:39:27.780
if they do things that are a nightmare, then it's not your dream company, is it?
00:39:35.180
You might say, well, look, it's a dream company. They do great work, but they've fallen into some
00:39:39.360
of the DEI stuff because of public pressure and whatever, ESG or whatever outside forces are forcing
00:39:45.860
them to in some way participate. I don't know, maybe during COVID they made you wear a mask or
00:39:49.920
something. And you say, okay, I'm going to stick it out because that's annoying, but the company is
00:39:53.520
still doing great work. Okay, maybe there's an argument to be made there. But if the company
00:39:57.060
is in its public stances supporting abortion or supporting transing the kids or whatever,
00:40:03.920
any of this craziness, if the company in its public role is making the country worse,
00:40:09.820
then it's not a dream company. Very often people, it's kind of like what Slap was just saying
00:40:14.380
with his dream girl. They construct this dream, this dream that's just in their minds. And then
00:40:20.940
the reality doesn't correspond with that dream. Okay, you've got to choose the reality. You've got
00:40:25.840
to recognize that our imaginations are deceived. The real origin of Pride Month is from the real
00:40:33.760
origin of the rainbow. The rainbow is a sign that God gives to Noah after the flood. And it's a promise
00:40:39.180
that he'll never again destroy the world in a flood. But what does he say right before he gives
00:40:42.680
Noah this sign? He says that God smelled a sweet savor. And this was from Noah. One of the first
00:40:49.720
things he does, he gets out of the ark. What's he do? He sacrifices an animal and burns it up to God
00:40:54.980
as a sacrifice. And God smells the sweet savor. And he says, he decides that he would never again
00:41:01.920
destroy the world in a flood because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.
00:41:07.260
Our imagination can very often deceive us. So yeah, the company is not what you thought it was.
00:41:14.400
Okay, if it's really egregious, if it crosses your threshold, I guess it's time to look for a new
00:41:19.520
company. Or maybe there isn't a company that is any better. And so you've got to work to improve
00:41:23.780
the company from within. That's reality. Next question.
00:41:26.500
Hi, Michael. My name is Matthias. I have a technology question for you. Recently, the FDA
00:41:33.180
approved Elon Musk's Neuralink technology to begin conducting studies using brain implants in humans.
00:41:41.920
According to the company, this technology could potentially cure incurable diseases such as
00:41:49.960
paralysis, blindness, even help people walk again after a stroke or neurological damage.
00:41:55.460
What are your thoughts on this new technology? And should we use it? Thanks. Love the show.
00:42:02.420
I'm technology skeptical, as you know. I'm not into technology. I don't buy the latest screens and
00:42:08.360
doodads. I don't really care about any of that. But I'm not totally opposed to technology. Technology
00:42:13.800
will develop and that's fine. We use technology all the time. I'm not even opposed to plugging something
00:42:20.940
into your head. I think cochlear implants are a great advance in technology that help deaf people
00:42:25.180
with certain kinds of deafness be able to hear again. Rush Limbaugh had a cochlear implant. Okay,
00:42:28.900
that's great. I'm a little skeptical of being plugged into the matrix. I think that would be a bad
00:42:35.660
thing. I'm a little skeptical of devices that could compromise your free will, which some versions of
00:42:44.120
putting a chip into your brain could do. Some versions of translating thoughts, sort of pre-verbal
00:42:50.720
thoughts into actions could do. So I'm skeptical of that. But I'm not opposed to the technology
00:42:57.840
in principle. As always, in these kinds of cases, the devil is in the details. So I would,
00:43:06.440
if this were a way to correct a problem, to treat an illness, I would be cautiously
00:43:14.540
hopeful about the technology. If this were a way to improve upon humanity, to create a new kind of
00:43:24.100
human that's bigger, better, faster, stronger in every way, that's not fixing a deficiency,
00:43:29.600
but making something new and supposedly better, I would oppose that. Because we must oppose
00:43:35.500
science and technology establishing dominion over the origin and destiny of human life.
00:43:41.240
I know that's not a sexy answer. That's not a totally satisfying answer. Like, I'm pro-neural
00:43:47.080
link or anti-neural link. I'm also very pro-Elon right now that he's supporting the right side in
00:43:51.140
speech and in the gender ideology. But that's the nuanced answer. Someone's going to do this
00:43:59.380
sort of stuff. We are going to explore these things. Curiosity is not a virtue, but it is a fact
00:44:04.100
of human life. And so we've got to make sure that we're doing it in the right way with the right
00:44:08.460
safeguards. And if it is not able to separate the bad things from the good things, then we've got
00:44:14.300
Hey, Michael. My question today is about the Holy Spirit. I know the Bible tells us that the Holy
00:44:20.320
Spirit is a comforter. And I was just wondering if you've ever felt comforted or convicted and you
00:44:26.520
felt like it was coming from the Holy Spirit. I hear people talking about communication with God or
00:44:33.780
God's calling for their life. And I just wonder if you've experienced that in a way where you feel
00:44:38.700
like God is talking directly to you. Thanks again for the show.
00:44:43.620
Oh, yeah, certainly. Absolutely. And sometimes this is even physical and tangible. You know,
00:44:48.640
one can have a feeling of this sort of thing. And often, though, it's semiotic. The Christian view
00:44:54.060
of the world is a deeply symbolic view. It's especially true for the Catholic view of the world.
00:44:59.620
There are no mere coincidences for the Christian. You know,
00:45:01.760
it's an evil generation that seeks for signs and wonders. But it's, as my priest in New York
00:45:05.780
pointed out, a stupid generation that ignores signs and wonders. And so, even, you know, you see
00:45:12.620
in the story of Jesus visiting Mary and Martha. Martha is a representative of the active life. She's
00:45:18.960
going around making the lunch. Mary is an example of the contemplative life. She's sitting at the feet
00:45:22.560
of her Lord listening to Christ. And Martha complains about this. And Jesus says,
00:45:27.440
Martha, you don't understand. Your sister has the better part.
00:45:35.780
The active life is important. The contemplative life is important. The contemplative life is
00:45:39.140
better. We're called not primarily to act. We're called to act, but we're not called primarily to
00:45:42.560
act. We're called primarily to interpret. And so, we see these signs everywhere. What do we do with
00:45:47.980
that? I'm not the sort of person who, you know, is trying to read the tea leaves and discern exactly
00:45:53.640
what I'm supposed to do from this little sign or that little sign. It's more important what the
00:45:58.980
Holy Spirit does primarily, as far as I'm concerned, is to show us his presence.
00:46:07.800
So, when someone sees a sign or a wonder, they say, what am I to make of this sign? You say, oh,
00:46:13.940
you know, he's there. It makes sense. There's providence. You're in the right place.
00:46:19.700
That's it. That's what I tell you. The world is intelligible. There's a divine logic to the
00:46:24.820
universe. Okay. Using my paltry heaping of logic, I'm going to try to figure out the fake headlines
00:46:30.680
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