The Michael Knowles Show


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


Summary

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.


Transcript

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
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,
00:00:56.920 the anti-gay nonsense in the Senate, the anti-gay nonsense in Florida, in the United States.
00:01:03.760 It's insane. It's insane. Over 500 laws have been introduced across the country. Today,
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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-
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
00:16:03.400 Americans. In certain ways, the lives of black Americans are better today than they used to be.
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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00:23:56.800 pander to you. I calls him like I sees him. And here's what I'm telling you. There is a non-zero
00:24:03.420 chance that Chris Christie has a moment in this race. And here's why. The reason why is all the
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.
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00:25:16.320 Okay, you got that. But then he's also brash and obnoxious and rude. He talks like a New Yorker.
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
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.
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
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,
00:35:17.420 and this is a hard pill to swallow, and they're demons. Okay, they're demons.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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
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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