The Michael Knowles Show - June 06, 2023


Ep. 1261 - $27 Billion Lost In Transheuser-Busch Fail

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mass migration
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Michael Knowles
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Donald Trump Tim Scott Ron DeSantis Chris Christie Ramp Jamal Bowman Mike Pence Scott Wiener Matt Walsh Bud Light Joe Biden Jeremy Bush Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Perpetual Indulgence Williams Consulting Marianne Williamson Vivek Ramaswamy Henry Kissinger Andrew Weissman and 12 more
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A gay pride parade in West Hollywood featured a mostly naked dude being whipped by another guy. In Arizona, Democrats partnered up with a drag queen at another public pride party to rally voters for the state s upcoming election. A prominent Democrat congressman will call for a total end to oil and gas, which would cause us all to freeze in the winter. Bud Light sales are down 25.7% compared to the previous week. Transheiser Bush is down $27 billion.

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00:00:00.000 In West Hollywood over the weekend, a supposedly family-friendly pride parade involved a mostly
00:00:05.820 naked dude being whipped by another leather-clad dude. And the platform on which these weirdos
00:00:13.580 acted out their sadomasochistic performance was not merely the back of a pickup truck
00:00:18.980 rolling down a boulevard in Hollywood. No, the platform from which these guys are doing it
00:00:25.220 is the Democratic Party platform in 2024. In Arizona, Democrats partnered up with a drag queen 0.98
00:00:32.160 at another public pride party to rally voters for the state's upcoming elections.
00:00:38.780 I have to ask, I'm obligated to ask, how many of you are actually registered to vote? Are you
00:00:44.040 registered? And no shame if you're not. No shame if you're not, because it's not too late to register
00:00:49.480 for the next election and turn the tide of all of the hate, the anti-gay nonsense in the Statehouse, 0.97
00:00:56.920 the anti-gay nonsense in the Senate, the anti-gay nonsense in Florida, in the United States. 0.99
00:01:03.760 It's insane. It's insane. Over 500 laws have been introduced across the country. Today, 1.00
00:01:10.440 today, the anti-drag bill in Tennessee was voted unconstitutional by an appeals court.
00:01:15.080 So that's pretty incredible. Gotta go vote. Back in California, elected Democrats honored
00:01:22.240 the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a drag troupe that exists exclusively to insult Christianity 1.00
00:01:28.900 for their supposed courage. The Burley Supposed Sisters posed for a photograph with Scott Wiener,
00:01:36.300 a California state senator best known for successfully lobbying the government to reduce punishments for
00:01:42.600 convicted pederasts, grown men who molest underage boys. But it is not just random state senators across
00:01:50.840 the country over in Washington, D.C. Longtime Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will throw out the first
00:01:56.960 pitch at the Nationals' pride-themed night out. We are not even halfway through 2023. I promise you,
00:02:04.860 you can expect to see a lot more pride participation from Democrats as 2024 approaches.
00:02:11.060 And the reason for that is that pride is their religion. Pride is the official religion of the
00:02:19.120 Democrat Party, replete with rites, rituals, moral framework, anthropology, theology, liturgy,
00:02:26.340 and feast days. Pride is the animating spirit of their political movement. It's their religion,
00:02:33.600 and it's gotten them pretty far, which raises an urgent question for conservatives.
00:02:37.940 What's our religion? Is our religion the anti-religion of liberalism, the fake neutrality,
00:02:47.920 the preposterous separation of church and state that the liberals duped us into believing?
00:02:53.000 Or is our religion the religion that built our country, that built our whole civilization?
00:02:58.480 Are we finally ready to say that Christianity built our country, made it great, and offers our only 0.98
00:03:06.480 chance to make our country great again? Or will we continue to say and believe in nothing while we
00:03:14.380 all stand around waiting to get run over by an ideological pickup truck loaded up with a bunch
00:03:19.820 of weirdos whipping everyone with leather and chains? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.54
00:03:24.680 Welcome back to the show. Just a moment. A prominent Democrat congressman will call for a total end
00:03:39.780 to oil and gas, which would cause us all to freeze in the winter, which would cause many people to
00:03:45.740 starve. We'll get to that. First, though, before we move on from our pride update, our daily pride update
00:03:53.540 now in this liturgical season of pride. Transheiser Bush is down $27 billion. The question I ask off the
00:04:03.460 top, are the people ready to fight back? Are the people ready to articulate a serious, substantive,
00:04:08.100 moral, call it what it is, religious vision of politics? Are the people ready to fight back? Yes.
00:04:13.880 The people cost Transheiser Bush $27 billion. That is a shocking, shocking number of losses since
00:04:24.740 April 1st. Bud Light sales have dropped, Bud Light sales revenues have dropped 25.7% for the week ending
00:04:34.120 May 20th compared to the same week the previous year, according to Bump Williams Consulting.
00:04:40.120 So the numbers, they are just staying down there in the gutter. Transheiser Bush thought that the
00:04:46.700 numbers were going to dip, and then there'd be a week or two of controversy, and then they'd go right
00:04:50.120 back up. That hasn't happened. The numbers are down in the doldrums. They've lost $27 billion.
00:04:55.520 The people are ready to fight. Are the political leaders ready to fight? We like to think that our
00:05:02.880 politicians are leading the people, and they provide a vision, and we all follow. That's not really what
00:05:07.300 happens. Usually what happens is the people lead the politicians, or a small group of the people.
00:05:12.920 When organized group of activists and people with a clear vision, they will convince the politicians
00:05:18.500 to go along with them. So are the politicians ready to fight back, not just on the pride issue,
00:05:22.600 but on all of these important cultural issues? Well, one of our presidential candidates, Ron DeSantis,
00:05:28.360 certainly sounds that way. I've heard as a Republican talk about this southern border for years and
00:05:34.620 years and years. I will finally be the president to bring this issue to a conclusion. We will shut
00:05:41.040 the border down. We will build a border wall. We will end mass migration into this country, 1.00
00:05:47.960 and we will hold the Mexican drug cartels accountable for the carnage they have unleashed
00:05:53.800 on the American people. Love it. Absolutely great stuff. But the question, of course, is,
00:06:00.580 where have I heard that before? That sounds kind of familiar to me. It doesn't sound very familiar.
00:06:09.540 That is, I haven't heard a lot of Republicans talk about that in my lifetime. But I have heard one.
00:06:14.820 And the one I've heard talk about it happens to be the guy that's running against Ron DeSantis.
00:06:20.380 DeSantis is very clearly staking out his campaign as the Trump campaign, but this time we're really
00:06:29.020 going to do it. And that's it. DeSantis is not drawing a lot of distinctions between him and
00:06:34.260 Trump ideologically, instinctually, tactically. The only distinction that DeSantis is drawing is he's
00:06:43.420 saying, I'll actually get it done. Trump couldn't get it done. I'm going to get it done. We have the
00:06:48.260 same political vision, but Trump wasn't able to accomplish it. And I'm going to be more competent
00:06:53.660 at wielding government power. There's an interesting phrase DeSantis used there. DeSantis says,
00:06:58.700 we're going to end mass migration into this country. That's the only place in which DeSantis 1.00
00:07:04.480 is giving himself a little bit more room to the right than Trump has. Because Trump has previously
00:07:12.700 said, we need to end illegal immigration, but we want more legal immigration than ever. But they got 0.93
00:07:16.940 to do it legally. And I guess that would be an improvement over the open border. But the issue of
00:07:23.200 mass migration is not just about the open border. It's about mass migration. It's about all the people
00:07:27.360 coming in. Since the 1960s, we've, we've seen the largest movement of people ever in recorded
00:07:34.280 history. And that would be the movement of people into the United States. Some of that has been
00:07:40.320 illegal, but a lot of that has been legal. We take in two to now, I guess, three and a half million
00:07:46.580 illegal aliens per year. We take in a million legal immigrants per year. A million legal immigrants per
00:07:53.120 year. That's going to radically change the face of your country if that's allowed to continue.
00:07:56.700 That's way higher than pretty much any other country on earth ever. So is DeSantis saying
00:08:02.560 that he will reduce legal immigration as well? That's an issue that people should push him on.
00:08:08.240 Because if DeSantis says he'll reduce legal immigration and Trump says he won't reduce
00:08:11.880 legal immigration, that's a big mark in favor of DeSantis. Now, it might just be that DeSantis
00:08:18.600 is using politician-y language and he wants to give himself wiggle room, in which case, okay,
00:08:22.580 then he's just running the same campaign as Trump and just promising that he'll do it better.
00:08:25.760 The problem there, though, is even if you believe that Ron DeSantis could do the job
00:08:32.540 better than Trump with the exact same vision, sometimes you just want McDonald's.
00:08:40.020 If you like McDonald's and then one day Hardee's comes along and says, hey, you like McDonald's?
00:08:46.620 Well, we're going to do everything McDonald's does better. We're going to give you bigger burgers.
00:08:52.340 They're going to be juicier burgers. It's going to be higher quality beef. We're going to put it
00:08:57.240 together in a, I don't know, a more delicious package. The buns are going to be. So come over
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00:09:11.120 going to go to McDonald's because even if the imitation of the thing you like is technically
00:09:18.460 better, you just like the thing you like. You feel comfortable with that thing. You've got a
00:09:23.240 loyalty to that thing. Starbucks coffee is far from the best coffee in the world. I think
00:09:27.900 Starbucks coffee is pretty good. I don't think it's bad coffee, but there are many better coffees
00:09:33.320 out there. And yet, if you like Starbucks coffee and you see Starbucks coffee next to some fancy
00:09:40.360 boutique shop where all of the baristas have like fancy little twirly mustaches and they do 1.00
00:09:45.400 fancy designs in the lattes or whatever, you're still going to pick Starbucks because that's just
00:09:49.420 what you like. And the other one might technically be better in all these different ways, but you just,
00:09:53.980 you go with what feels comfortable and what's nice.
00:09:57.400 I fear for Ron DeSantis that if he runs just Trump 2.0, it's not going to work because people
00:10:06.800 don't want an imitation of a thing when the original thing is available. Even if the imitation is better
00:10:14.760 in all the kind of rationalistic ways that we can write down on a piece of paper,
00:10:22.020 he's going to have to differentiate himself. This immigration issue could be a place 0.80
00:10:24.780 where DeSantis can do it. It's where the conservative movement is moving. It's away
00:10:29.420 from this idea of legal immigration good, illegal immigration bad. It's clearly moving into a place
00:10:35.320 of, hey, we've just got way too many people coming into the country. No knock on them. It's just way 1.00
00:10:39.360 too many. And the vast majority of Americans want to drastically reduce all immigration into the
00:10:43.220 country. So yeah, we're going to reduce legal immigration too. That would be a place to 1.00
00:10:47.880 differentiate himself. As of now, though, remains very unclear. I don't know. If you're working for
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00:12:08.520 starts now. Speaking of presidential candidates, Senator Tim Scott has gone onto the view. He's
00:12:15.720 gone into the lion's den, the cougar's den, the, I don't know, I don't know what animals they are. 0.94
00:12:20.180 He's gone into some sort of den and he's defended his position as a Republican, specifically as a black
00:12:27.360 Republican. And he did it pretty successfully. You have indicated that you don't believe in
00:12:33.580 systemic racism. What is your definition of systemic racism? Let me answer the question
00:12:39.640 that you've answered. Or does it even exist in your mind? Let me answer the question this way.
00:12:45.080 One of the things I think about, and one of the reasons why I'm on the show is because of the
00:12:48.720 comments that were made, frankly, on this show, that the only way for a young African-American kid
00:12:52.920 to be successful in this country is to be the exception and not the rule. That is a dangerous,
00:12:57.940 offensive, disgusting message to send to our young people today, that the only way to succeed
00:13:03.220 is by being the exception. I will tell you that if my life is the exception, I can't imagine.
00:13:10.640 But it is. But it's not, actually. It's been 114 years.
00:13:14.000 Yeah. So the fact of the matter is we've had an African-American president, African-American
00:13:17.540 vice president. We've had two African-Americans to be secretaries of the state. The fact of the matter
00:13:22.520 is that progress in America is palpable. It can be measured in generations. I look back at the
00:13:28.020 fact that my grandfather, born in 1921 in Sally, South Carolina, when he was on a sidewalk, a white
00:13:34.800 person was coming. He had to step off and not make eye contact. That man believed then with some doubt
00:13:40.560 now in the goodness of America. Tim Scott is really great in this setting. Tim Scott is not great on
00:13:47.740 campaign rally stages. You might remember his campaign announcement. It was not quite at a
00:13:53.060 Howard Dean level of, yeah, but it was bordering on that. And then the microphone went out and he
00:14:00.020 handled it as well as he could. But that's not where he shines. There are many candidates who do
00:14:03.940 a lot better on the campaign rally stage. Tim Scott does really, really well here. I've only gotten to
00:14:09.680 meet Senator Scott, I think a couple of times now. He was on the verdicts podcast with Ted Cruz when I
00:14:15.480 hosted that show. And one-on-one in an intimate setting, he's great. He's really, really persuasive,
00:14:23.500 compelling, seems like a really sincere, genuine guy. And so when everything's a little quieter and
00:14:29.040 toned down here and he can just make his case to the women on The View, that's really compelling stuff.
00:14:35.800 The problem for Tim Scott's presidential campaign is where the conversation went next.
00:14:43.120 So what I'm suggesting is that the yesterday's exception is today's rule. And for us to suggest-
00:14:51.140 So America has met its promise.
00:14:52.280 No, of course, the concept of America is that we are going to become a more perfect union. But in fact,
00:14:58.940 the challenges that we faced 50 years ago and 60 years ago should not be the same challenges that
00:15:04.300 we face today. And here's the way that you measured that. When my mother was born, about 10% of
00:15:09.420 African Americans got a high school degree, diploma. Today is over 90%. When you look at the income- 0.84
00:15:16.500 When you look at the income, when you look at this, when you look at that, everything's getting
00:15:19.320 better. So Tim Scott is making his presidential campaign a progressive presidential campaign.
00:15:30.240 His pitch is that America is always getting better. And so things might not be great now,
00:15:36.180 but they're going to be better in the future. And so stop complaining and don't raise questions
00:15:43.360 that are too harsh about America. Because look at how much better things are today than they used to
00:15:49.500 be. And there are a lot of Republicans who have made this sort of an argument. And in certain cases,
00:15:55.620 I guess it's true, in certain cases, things are better today than they used to be. But in other cases,
00:15:59.580 they're not. That's true for everybody. That's true. He's talking there specifically about black 0.96
00:16:03.400 Americans. In certain ways, the lives of black Americans are better today than they used to be. 1.00
00:16:07.200 In many ways, though, they're worse. Out of wedlock births are way worse right now than they used to be
00:16:12.600 for black Americans. Marriage rates, way lower than they used to be for black Americans. Crime rates,
00:16:19.660 murder rates, way worse than they used to be for black Americans. So things aren't just totally getting
00:16:26.020 better. The country is not in a place right now where either side wants to hear, oh, America's doing
00:16:35.000 really, really great. Stop complaining. Just grit your teeth and bear it. Put a smile on your face.
00:16:39.840 And if we wish that the country is in nice shape, maybe it will be. Think about Trump's campaign.
00:16:46.300 Trump's successful campaign in 2016 was the country's in absolute turmoil. We're all living in
00:16:52.900 the gutter. The country is as bad as it's ever been, and we need to make America great again.
00:16:57.880 That's very different from the rosy, right-wing, liberal, progressive, conservative. I know it
00:17:07.080 sounds like these words are contradictory, but they're not really. The not radical progressive
00:17:12.920 view, but the kind of conservative progressive view of Tim Scott. He says, things are keep getting
00:17:17.200 better, and don't worry. They're going to continue to get better into the future. I don't know that
00:17:22.520 that's going to work. I don't think that's where the country is right now. I certainly don't think
00:17:27.400 that's where the Republican Party is right now. And it only tells half the story. And I think if you're
00:17:33.360 going to make a pitch right now where we've got really low approval of where the country is,
00:17:42.140 I think you've got to tell that other half of the story, which is, no, a lot of things have gotten worse,
00:17:45.340 and a lot of things have gotten worse because of progressivism. If Tim Scott's going to run a
00:17:49.140 progressive presidential campaign, he's going to end up in the same position that DeSantis is likely
00:17:55.740 going to end up in with Donald Trump, which is, why would you vote for the imitation when you can get
00:18:00.860 the original? Why would you vote for the imitation progressive when you can get the tried and true
00:18:05.400 OG progressive Democrat? Why would you go to Pete's Coffee when you can get Starbucks? Why would you go
00:18:12.000 to Carl's Jr. today when you could get McDonald's? Why would you vote for a guy who says, no, progress
00:18:19.960 is happening and progress is good when you get the person who really totally believes that with all
00:18:25.320 of its implications? He's got to work that out. He could be a really compelling presidential candidate,
00:18:30.700 especially if he can play to his strengths, like in those more intimate settings, which today with
00:18:35.460 with the way social media work, he probably could do that. But he's got to, I think he's got to fine
00:18:40.700 tune that message. Then we have another candidate, which is Vice President Mike Pence has formally filed
00:18:47.580 papers to run for president in 2024. He has not announced it yet. An announcement now almost certainly
00:18:55.260 will come because according to the federal government, at least, Mike Pence is a candidate for president.
00:19:02.740 A lot of people are rolling their eyes. A lot of people saying Mike Pence has no shot. A lot of
00:19:07.560 people are asking, why is he doing this? He's not polling very high. The Trump people don't like him
00:19:11.880 anymore. The establishment people don't like him because he worked for Trump. The Trump people don't
00:19:17.060 like him because he wouldn't wield his power to try to delay the certification of the 2020 election.
00:19:24.460 He's a man without a country. He's in no man's land right now. Yeah, maybe he is. You got to be in it
00:19:31.860 to win it. No one knows what's going to happen. The libs could indict Trump. Who knows what, I mean,
00:19:35.880 Trump is an elderly candidate. I think he's robust. He'll probably live another 30 years,
00:19:39.420 but one doesn't know at this age. And so I think Pence is thinking right now, look, my political
00:19:43.800 career is not looking so bright for the future because of what happened at the end of the Trump
00:19:47.000 administration. So might as well throw my hat in now. What will the effect of a Pence candidacy be?
00:19:51.740 I think the effect of a Pence candidacy will be to help Trump because there's one Trump and then
00:19:56.920 there are the other candidates. And although DeSantis is running in the Trump lane right now,
00:20:00.920 he's getting a lot of support from people who really don't like Donald Trump. Not from all of
00:20:05.520 them, not from all of the Never Trump movement or anything, but from a lot of the establishment who
00:20:09.540 wants a viable alternative to Donald Trump, they're backing Ron DeSantis right now. There are
00:20:14.440 other candidates, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie's going to run. We'll get to
00:20:19.940 that in a second. Mike Pence now. And so I think the only people, the only person rather that Pence
00:20:27.380 could be taking votes away from is Ron DeSantis. The people who like Ron DeSantis, but they think
00:20:34.380 he's still a little bit too Trumpy for them. They're a little more establishment. Maybe they're
00:20:38.120 going to give their vote to Pence. Maybe they're going to give their vote to Haley. Maybe they're
00:20:40.740 going to give their vote to Tim Scott. No Trump voter is going to say, oh, Pence is in the race. I'm
00:20:47.480 going to vote for Pence. No Trump voter is going to say, oh, Tim Scott's in the race. I'm going to vote
00:20:51.960 for Tim Scott. So the more candidates get in the race, it's funny because there appears to be some
00:20:58.180 bad blood between Pence and Trump right now. But the effect of him getting in the race, I think is
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00:24:13.140 reasons that you're rolling your eyes. It's all the reasons that you're screaming and wailing and
00:24:17.640 rending your garments right now. No, I don't want to talk about Chris Christie. That's why. That's
00:24:22.980 why he's got a shot to go from, he's not even showing up in the predicted betting markets right
00:24:28.640 now. That's why he has a shot from going from zero to, I don't know, five, 10, 20, who knows?
00:24:37.260 Because Chris Christie has the worst qualities of all the candidates, which oddly makes him kind of
00:24:47.640 a good candidate. Chris Christie is a New Jersey governor. He's a Northeastern governor. He's got
00:24:54.060 fairly liberal positions, or at least over the course of his career, he's held fairly liberal positions for
00:24:58.500 a Republican. And so the establishment kind of likes him. Big business kind of likes him.
00:25:06.360 The foreign policy establishment kind of likes him. He just, I think, just kind of goes along to
00:25:11.760 get along. I think in 2012, Henry Kissinger called, asked him to run for president.
00:25:16.320 Okay, you got that. But then he's also brash and obnoxious and rude. He talks like a New Yorker. 0.99
00:25:24.700 He talks, all the stuff people say about Trump. They say, oh, Trump could be so great. If only he
00:25:29.180 weren't so brash and obnoxious and mean and insulting. Well, all of that, if only Trump didn't 0.98
00:25:34.140 do this. Christie has that too, which is kind of funny and kind of entertaining. And generally
00:25:39.120 speaking, the most entertaining candidates are the ones that make it a little bit further.
00:25:44.920 The most charismatic candidate in the general election usually is the one who wins.
00:25:48.460 Chris Christie has both of those things. Okay. All of the establishment squishy kind of positions
00:25:55.840 that you'd want to appease the Chamber of Commerce, but also the obnoxious language that you'd want to
00:26:02.440 infuriate suburban mothers, but also to entertain the base. He's not nothing, folks. There are some
00:26:11.980 candidates who are running who are never going to register. And Christie, I don't think is one of them.
00:26:15.380 But what does it all really matter? Trump is so far up in the polls right now, it is ridiculous. 0.93
00:26:20.480 He's up nationally by a lot. He's up even since the DeSantis announcement. So Rasmussen has Trump
00:26:29.800 leading nearly two to one nationally right now. That's since DeSantis' announcement. So the announcement
00:26:35.760 didn't accomplish what the DeSantis campaign was hoping, which is that it would give him the big
00:26:42.360 boost and close up those poll numbers. Now, the DeSantis team is going to say, look, just wait
00:26:46.360 until we're on the trail in Iowa and New Hampshire. And maybe that's true. Who knows? He's a talented
00:26:49.620 politician. He's got a very good record as governor. So I'm not saying it can't happen. I'm just saying
00:26:54.080 the announcement did not do what it was supposed to do. The line before the announcement was just
00:26:59.180 wait until he declares. Yeah, the polls are bad now, but just wait until he declares. You're going to
00:27:03.400 see those polls close up. That hasn't happened. The numbers have gone in the other direction.
00:27:07.240 This is true even in Florida. There's a new survey out of the 2024 GOP presidential primary
00:27:12.580 shows a 20-point lead for Trump over DeSantis. That's from Sunshine State battleground polling
00:27:18.620 conducted May 31st to June 2nd. Trump's got 53% support. DeSantis has 33%. That's in DeSantis' state.
00:27:26.260 Could it turn around? Is it early? Is there a long way to go? Is Trump going to get indicted like 20
00:27:30.000 more times? Yeah, probably. Just telling you right now, the state of the race. If all you're doing is
00:27:36.380 focused on Twitter and the insular conservative commentariat, you probably think that this is a
00:27:43.820 really, really close race. You probably think that maybe even DeSantis is leading. But if you just look
00:27:50.800 at the rest of America right now, if you look at the broader numbers, it is not close. Could DeSantis
00:27:56.380 close it up? Could Trump collapse? Abso-freaking-lutely. We're a year and a half out. But right now,
00:28:02.120 people should not fool themselves. The nomination is Donald Trump's unless he loses it.
00:28:08.960 Now, what about some other candidates? You know, there's this candidate running against Joe Biden,
00:28:12.780 not Marianne Williamson, not the dark psychic energy. I'm talking about
00:28:15.580 Robert Kennedy Jr. RFK Jr. had been banned from Instagram, and Facebook, which owns Instagram,
00:28:24.600 has lifted that ban. Why had he been banned? Well, because RFK Jr. is skeptical of the medical
00:28:30.900 establishment, and he thinks vaccines are often harmful, and he thought COVID was essentially a
00:28:36.460 big hoax. And you previously were not allowed to say that on a lot of social media, including
00:28:40.820 Instagram. Now Instagram says, okay, he's back. He's back. That's fine. YouTube just came out,
00:28:48.760 and YouTube announced that they are no longer going to censor people for saying that
00:28:53.500 the 2020 election was obviously rife with fraud. I'm still hedging my bets a little bit, so I don't
00:29:02.700 want to make a declarative statement. I'm just observing that the new YouTube policy is that
00:29:08.480 the 2020 election was transparently, obviously rife with fraud, and we all know it.
00:29:19.200 Maybe I stepped over the line there. I don't know. But YouTube's saying we're not going to take you
00:29:22.400 down for saying that anymore. Okay, great. Why? That's so strange. We're heading into an election
00:29:30.940 year, huh? There are two reasons, I think, why big tech is starting to lighten up on some of the
00:29:36.100 censorship of conservatives. The first one is Twitter. That's the one the rest of big tech
00:29:41.940 didn't count on, which is that Elon Musk was going to buy Twitter and that he was actually going to be
00:29:45.980 able to, for now at least, withstand the forces of censoring conservatives, and he's going to make it
00:29:51.240 basically a free speech platform, or at the very least, reinstitute normal standards of speech.
00:29:57.700 So don't suppress the conservatives. I don't think they were counting on that. I think they're afraid
00:30:01.780 that Twitter has a real opportunity to gain some market share there. And so Netta and Alphabet,
00:30:08.540 Facebook and Google and YouTube are starting to loosen up for that reason. The other reason,
00:30:14.080 though, that was the rosy reason. The more, I don't know, doer, cynical, pessimistic reason,
00:30:23.240 I think, is that those issues just don't really matter anymore.
00:30:28.800 Oh, yeah, you can talk about vaccines. You can talk about the lockdowns and all the fake COVID
00:30:33.040 science. Yeah, because we already did it. We already did COVID. We already locked it all down. We
00:30:38.820 already made you inject yourselves with that experimental drug. Yeah, okay, we already got you
00:30:42.560 fired from your job. You got you kicked out of your school. Okay, and now the evidence is out,
00:30:50.000 and you're going to talk about the evidence about how a lot of what we said wasn't true. Yeah, okay,
00:30:53.360 fine. Yeah, oops. Whoopsie-daisy. Okay, yeah, you got us. Right. We're moving on to issues that matter
00:31:00.340 now. The 2020 election. Yeah, who cares? That's over. We did it. Yeah, we did it. We got whatever
00:31:09.320 strategies we wanted, whatever new voting rules we wanted, even if they were in contravention of
00:31:15.240 state constitutions, like in Pennsylvania. Yeah, we did it, and then the election happened,
00:31:20.160 and then people fought about it, but then Biden's been president now for a couple of years. Yeah,
00:31:25.680 okay, you can talk about how there was a lot of fraud. Fine. Doesn't matter, because we're moving
00:31:29.340 on to the next thing. What's the next thing? The next thing is obviously, I don't even know if I can
00:31:36.740 say the word. On big tech, can I even say the word? You know that ideology that says that if you're one
00:31:46.080 type of human being, you might secretly be a different type of human being?
00:31:51.960 Like you might, if you're one, if you're like the kind of person who has like a big Adam's apple
00:31:58.680 and a beard, that you might secretly be the kind of person that has like rounder hips and
00:32:05.700 gives, you know that idea? I don't even, I don't even want to say it because they're clamping down on
00:32:10.280 it so hard. You know which one I'm talking about? That's the new stuff. Pride. The sexual revolution.
00:32:19.660 The redefinition of family. The redefinition, the reordering of education to support this new view
00:32:27.140 of family. All that. That's the new thing. And that's what they're going to censor you for. That's
00:32:34.140 what they already are censoring you for. That's going to be a bigger deal. Conservatives often are
00:32:38.720 fighting the last battle. Okay, well this is the new battle and that's why the libs, they're loosening up
00:32:42.680 on the last battle because that one's already won. Now they're moving on to this one.
00:32:48.700 Speaking of conspiracies and conspiracy theories, this is a story I have to get to
00:32:54.380 because of my colleague, because of my friend, Mr. Walsh. Okay, here we go. This is from the
00:33:02.440 debrief, which I had never heard of before, but this is the headline in the debrief.
00:33:06.720 Intelligence officials say U.S. has retrieved craft of non-human origin. Here we go.
00:33:14.060 Here's our monthly ET story. Here's our monthly leak from the government, from an anonymous source
00:33:21.760 that actually ignore what they're doing in your schools and ignore the southern border, like the
00:33:27.600 actual aliens entering our country and ignore, no, there's a spooky UFO. Look up there. Look at
00:33:33.920 that butterfly up there. Yeah. A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress
00:33:41.060 and the intelligence community inspector general extensive classified information about deeply
00:33:45.280 covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human
00:33:50.600 origin. Okay. He goes on and explains why he's convinced this is ET. He says,
00:33:59.280 analysis has determined that the objects retrieved are of exotic origin, non-human intelligence,
00:34:04.880 whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin, based on the vehicle morphologies and material science
00:34:09.300 testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures. Okay.
00:34:15.440 Nah. No, that's not real. That's just not real. One, I don't really believe anonymous leaks coming
00:34:24.180 out of the government at convenient times, just generally, but put that aside for a second.
00:34:28.800 How do they know this is non-human origin? How do we, how do you know it wasn't just the Chinese who made 1.00
00:34:37.420 it? Furthermore, how do we know that this is not just a fake out to hide our technology that maybe has been
00:34:44.880 observed by hostile powers to pretend that this kind of technology is not really our technology?
00:34:51.960 How do we know that this anonymous top intelligence official, how do we know that this spook, this
00:34:57.780 professional liar is not just pulling a fast one, which it's literally his and their jobs to do?
00:35:06.000 Don't really buy it. Why else do I think the aliens are not real? Because they are,
00:35:13.520 if there is anything that kind of resembles aliens in the world, 0.99
00:35:17.420 and this is a hard pill to swallow, and they're demons. Okay, they're demons. 0.97
00:35:26.080 Aliens almost certainly do not exist. There's zero evidence whatsoever for aliens existing.
00:35:31.480 But the universe is really big. Yeah, that doesn't have any implication whatsoever for the likelihood
00:35:36.980 or unlikelihood of aliens existing. We don't know what the origin of life is as a material cause.
00:35:43.440 Yes, we do know the formal cause of the origin of life, but that's a conversation for another day.
00:35:52.440 We, we, we, well, no, it's a conversation for right now, actually, in as much as we do know
00:35:57.980 the spiritual aspect of the origin of life. Okay, we derive our life as a gift from God.
00:36:07.260 In terms of the exact mechanics of how that happened biologically and many, many years ago,
00:36:13.960 we don't know that exactly, which is why we don't know it. We have no reason to believe that it could
00:36:18.580 or would crop up anywhere else. But furthermore, because we know that spiritual reality, metaphysical
00:36:23.420 reality exists, we know there's a moral order. We know that there, there are intelligible things
00:36:27.780 in the universe. We're using signs to communicate about things that are not merely material. Right now,
00:36:32.260 that's what we're doing. Because we know that there's good and bad. We know there's love and joy
00:36:36.240 and hope and dreams and all those things. We know that there is such a thing as spirit. We know that
00:36:41.120 we're not just bags of chemicals. Right? There's something immaterial about us as well. Demons and
00:36:48.020 angels are just spirit. They're pure spirit. In the way that an inanimate object doesn't have a soul,
00:36:54.420 right? It's inanimate. It doesn't have anima, soul. There are also things that are purely
00:37:01.720 spirit. And we are both. We're rational souls and bodies in a hylomorphic being. And aliens are the
00:37:11.980 fevered fantasies of even people who are generally right about a great many things.
00:37:19.160 even people such as my poor friend, Matt Walsh, who's fallen under this way
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00:38:40.940 conditions apply. My favorite comment yesterday is from Sway, who says, thank you, Michael, for saying
00:38:47.020 big fat blunts. You have made my day. Oh, I'm pleased that I could make your day. That was in
00:38:52.340 response to the story out of Canada, which said that they are now going to print warning labels on
00:38:57.340 individual cigarettes. And I just wondered, I said, okay, you're worried about the cigarettes
00:39:02.740 harming people's lungs and giving them all sorts of diseases. You want the warning label there. Okay.
00:39:08.320 Well, we know that marijuana and spliffs and blunts and all sorts of combinations of marijuana and
00:39:14.620 other goodies, they can be more harmful to people's lungs. They can have more tar than tobacco. So are you
00:39:23.240 going to print the warning label on big fat blunts? Something tells me you will not. Not on blunts,
00:39:30.340 not on spliffs, not on doobies, probably not even on big silly bongs. No, just after tobacco. 0.96
00:39:39.940 That's where the liberals are focusing their hire. Okay. I hope that you are stocking up on some oil
00:39:49.160 and gas because it's going to be a real cold winter if Congressman Jamal Bowman gets his way.
00:39:57.180 Congressman Bowman, a very prominent Democrat, uh, as he was whining and wheeling and dealing about the
00:40:05.120 debt ceiling deal. Uh, he called for an end to oil and gas. Number one, we need to stop drilling for
00:40:11.720 fossil fuels completely. But number two, we need an expedited way to get us to clean renewable energy,
00:40:18.920 or we will continue to have these severe weather events that we have been having for quite some
00:40:24.960 time because of the warming of the planet. Congressman Bowman, I want to be as charitable
00:40:31.180 as I possibly can. He is not the brightest bulb in the pack. Let's say not the sharpest tool in the
00:40:39.780 shed. Congressman Bowman once publicly called me a Nazi and said that I, I'm going to get his words a 0.84
00:40:46.780 little off, but you'll get the point. He said something to the effect of, I only want white
00:40:51.340 Christian men to exist or something that I want to murder everybody else or something like that 1.00
00:40:58.020 because he, he read a headline about my speech at CPAC or saw a clip or read some of the speech. 0.64
00:41:06.680 I don't know, which made me wonder if Congressman Bowman is literate either. I don't, I don't know.
00:41:12.240 I don't know. And I don't want to venture any guesses, but I knew going into this clip, okay,
00:41:17.140 this guy is not the most conscious person, not the most sophisticated nuanced thinker out there.
00:41:25.840 And yet he's a prominent Congressman. And yet his idea that we need to just stop drilling for oil
00:41:33.340 and gas. There are a lot of Democrats. There are a lot of elected Democrats who would take up that
00:41:40.360 cause. If that were put up for a vote today, they would vote for it because they think it would make
00:41:43.900 them look good to their base. And then people would freeze in the winter. You might think, well,
00:41:49.760 no one would actually do that sort of thing. No one would ever actually kill off their energy
00:41:53.720 industry. What are you talking about? That's what they did in Europe. That's what Germany did.
00:41:57.380 Germany killed off their energy industry and then became very reliant on Russian gas and oil.
00:42:03.060 And then when the war in Ukraine broke out, the United States tried to use that as an opportunity
00:42:09.360 to pry Germany and Europe away from Russian gas and oil and back onto American gas and oil. 0.84
00:42:14.040 But Europe could just produce their own energy. Europe could just produce nuclear power. They
00:42:19.960 wouldn't have to really worry about any of this stuff. But they don't do it. They don't do it.
00:42:24.760 Because bad rulers, unwise rulers with poor judgment can gain power, can wield power, and can make your
00:42:35.940 country a lot worse. That happens. If you are led by ignorant people, your society will fail.
00:42:41.520 We focus so much on ideology. We focus so much on, well, is this person a Democrat or a Republican? 0.99
00:42:47.400 Is this person a conservative or a liberal? Does this person read these intellectuals or these
00:42:51.700 intellectuals that we sometimes forget that there is personal aspects here, which is judgment? Does
00:42:58.980 this person have good judgment? Is this person wise? Is this person educated? Has this person ever read
00:43:04.400 a book? Has this person ever lived life, experienced things that would give them any kind of learning or
00:43:10.620 not? Personnel is policy. You actually, the people do matter here. The liberals want us to believe that
00:43:17.480 people are all just interchangeable automatons and you just kind of plug and play like
00:43:21.480 Legos. But conservatives sometimes believe that too. We don't think that the person necessarily
00:43:27.260 matters that much, but the person does matter. Personnel is policy. If you are led by people who
00:43:35.040 don't know anything, then your country is going to make a lot of mistakes and pretty soon it's going
00:43:39.240 to be February and we're all going to be freezing because some dummy decided to kill off our oil and gas
00:43:44.040 drilling. Now, speaking of good leaders, I think they're going to indict Trump again. I think most
00:43:52.400 people think that they're going to indict Trump again. One MSNBC legal analyst thinks that it's going to
00:43:57.420 happen soon. The last indictment was, let me see if I can remember this. It was because Trump years and
00:44:03.340 years ago was accused of groping, no, he was accused of raping a woman in Bergdorf Goodman, really high
00:44:11.980 end department store in New York. And this was an allegation that was made a long time ago. And it was
00:44:19.760 about an event that allegedly happened decades and decades ago where the details kept changing. And then
00:44:25.480 the woman said it wasn't rape, but now she's saying it is rape or I don't know. And the statute of
00:44:31.540 limitations was obviously way run out on this, but then they extended it specifically so they
00:44:35.340 could go after Trump. And okay, they go after Trump. Okay. And now this is over the classified
00:44:39.600 documents where Trump, like every president in recent memory, took some documents after he left
00:44:44.800 the White House. Could be used to write a book, could be used for whatever purpose. And he was
00:44:48.520 working with the National Archives to get it back and working with the FBI. And then the Biden DOJ sends
00:44:53.000 their thugs to go essentially kick down the door at Mar-a-Lago and make a big deal about it. Okay.
00:44:57.080 So that's what they say they're going to indict him on. Here's what the MSNBC legal analyst
00:45:00.980 has to say.
00:45:01.980 If you think about what we saw in the Manhattan case, we were looking to see that defense lawyers
00:45:09.780 were given an opportunity to be heard. That's really the thing that you do in a case like this
00:45:15.160 at the final stage. And we saw the defense lawyers going in today to make their final pitch about why
00:45:21.900 there should not be charges. You know, it is conceivable that that could prevail, but I think,
00:45:27.580 meaning that it is theoretically a possibility. But I just think in this case, knowing Jack Smith
00:45:32.820 and his team and the people hearing the appeal, that it's extremely unlikely that they would be
00:45:38.700 hearing something that would lead them to conclude that there should be no charges. So this is sort of
00:45:43.340 the thing you do at the very end. I also think that there is internal pressure, even if they're not
00:45:50.680 sort of admitting it to themselves, that this is a case that needs to be brought.
00:45:55.240 So that's Andrew Weissman. He tweeted out even pithier, bottom line is he's getting charged. It'll
00:46:02.800 be in DC and this week. And the question is, will others charge him? Will those be in DC or Florida
00:46:09.260 or wherever? Isn't it strange that these stories always seem to crop up? The legal threats against
00:46:17.700 Trump always seem to get hot whenever it looks like he's going to win the nomination.
00:46:21.100 This also helps the Trump campaign because right now, Trump's rivals are saying that the media want
00:46:27.020 Trump to be the nominee. What Trump can point to is every time Trump seems to be absolutely crushing
00:46:32.560 it in the polls, there's a new legal maneuver to try to destroy his campaign. So you can say,
00:46:37.900 no, they don't want me to be the nominee, but it doesn't matter because every time they hit me,
00:46:41.120 it makes me stronger. I'm anti-fragile, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb might say. Every time they punch me,
00:46:48.520 I come back more durable. Now, is he durable enough to withstand indictments in New York, DC,
00:46:57.020 Florida, Georgia? We're all over the place. That remains to be seen and it might be seen this week.
00:47:01.940 Okay. The rest of the show continues now into the Membrum Segmentum. I find myself very, very lovable.
00:47:09.040 Currently, not everyone does. And so there's a gal who, if I have this right, she, I said something.
00:47:16.220 This is Inception Tuesday. I said something and then this gal made a video wanting to disagree 1.00
00:47:24.440 with what I was saying because she is a very left-wing, sexually eccentric kind of person,
00:47:29.320 apparently. And she wanted to disagree with what I was saying, but then she kind of agreed with what
00:47:35.980 I was saying. And then, but now she's upset about that. So she's criticizing some other thing. I said,
00:47:40.580 I don't know. I don't know. We're going to find out together. Okay. Head on over to dailywire.com
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