The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1263 - Toxic Clouds And Conspiracies： NY Apocalypse？

00:00:00.000 Over 100 million Americans are experiencing some of the worst air quality ever recorded

00:00:05.160 as smoke from wildfires in America's top hat makes its way south. The scenes from New York City

00:00:12.580 are downright eerie. A Broadway performer walked off stage during a matinee yesterday

00:00:18.680 because she couldn't breathe. It is genuinely scary for people. And you know what that means?

00:00:24.820 Means it's the perfect opportunity for liberals to push their fear-mongering climate change agenda.

00:00:32.540 The smoke had just barely appeared in the sky when Randy Weingarten, the nation's teacher union boss

00:00:39.520 and Democrat Party operative, but I repeat myself, she blamed the smoke on, you guessed it, climate

00:00:46.000 change. Weingarten tweeted, climate change is real. Please be careful today in NYC.

00:00:53.340 But Weingarten, a well-known private jet enthusiast, neglected to mention how the wildfires in Canada

00:01:01.760 are connected to global warming or global cooling or climate change or whatever. And the reason for

00:01:09.460 that omission, one suspects, is that there is no discernible connection at all. The wildfires in

00:01:17.200 Canada have burned 9 million acres of land. Pretty bad. But is it historically bad?

00:01:26.380 No. 9 million acres is a lot. But 9 million acres is nothing compared to the 49 million acres that

00:01:34.320 burned 20 years ago during the Russian wildfires of 2003. Still, 2003, relatively recent. Maybe that was

00:01:41.800 climate change too. Well, what about the 1987 Black Dragon Fire, also in China, which burned 18 million

00:01:49.560 acres, twice the Canadian burn that turned New York City orange. Were the 1987 Chinese fires caused by 0.88

00:01:58.060 climate change? Maybe, I guess. The libs have been shrieking about some sort of environmental

00:02:03.400 catastrophe since the 70s. How about the Siberian wildfires of 1915, which burned a whopping 35

00:02:11.820 million acres of land in Russia? Was climate change already in full swing by 1915? Industrialization

00:02:21.000 started in Russia in the late 19th century. So maybe? Would have had to act awful quick to blame

00:02:29.560 industry for that one. How about the Black Thursday bushfires of 1851 in Australia, which burned 12

00:02:36.900 million acres, 33% more land than the amount that has sent this historic plume to America from Canada?

00:02:45.460 How about the half million acres that burned every single year in Oregon and Washington state alone

00:02:52.560 since time immemorial, prehistory, before a European ever set foot on that land? Were those climate change

00:03:02.400 too? Even a cursory glance at history shows that lots of North America, just like the rest of the world,

00:03:09.100 has been regularly set ablaze long before any of the supposed causes of climate change ever had any

00:03:15.960 effect or even existed. But a photograph and some liberal demagogues with an agenda say that wildfires

00:03:22.460 are caused by your pickup truck and your air conditioning. They're choosing to exploit a

00:03:27.280 natural crisis for their political purposes. They're confident enough that you were never taught

00:03:32.700 any of that history. They're confident because they control the education system and the media

00:03:37.860 and the big tech platforms on which you're seeing all those scary pictures. I'm Michael Knowles,

00:03:44.080 the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. You want to talk about scary. A group of Christians 1.00

00:03:56.700 was escorted by police away from a pride parade simply for praying. One man was arrested, actually.

00:04:04.160 We will talk to one of those Christians who is led away by the coppers. It wasn't in some liberal city 1.00

00:04:11.220 either, by the way. It was right here in Franklin, Tennessee. It's one of the most conservative places

00:04:15.060 in the country. We will speak to him a little bit later if we can get him on the line. First,

00:04:19.820 though, up in Canada. Canada, not looking good, man. Not looking good. Forget about the natural

00:04:25.200 disaster that's going on. What about the ideological disaster? What about the political disaster?

00:04:29.100 You know, the libs, especially on climate change, they're very, very concerned about the imminent

00:04:34.360 death of all of humanity sometime in a hypothetical future. But in the present,

00:04:41.760 they are actively killing humans. They're actively killing humans through abortion. 0.99

00:04:46.300 Canada has one of the most barbaric abortion regimes in the country. And they're actively

00:04:50.480 killing old people and the poor and the homeless through what they euphemistically call MAID,

00:04:56.320 medical assistance in dying. It's assisted suicide. They euphemistically call it euthanasia.

00:05:02.080 It means good death. It's the opposite of a good death. And they're doing it at an alarming rate.

00:05:08.540 I got this email. I got this email from a nurse yesterday who wishes to remain anonymous,

00:05:14.680 so I'll leave her anonymous. But it gives a little personal side to the statistics we're seeing. We saw

00:05:19.680 last year, some 3% of Canadians died through assisted suicide. It's a shocking number. 3% of your

00:05:27.040 country killing itself every year. Or 3% of deaths, rather. 3%. And that number is way up from the

00:05:34.300 previous number of suicides. And it shows no sign of stopping. So this is what this nurse writes.

00:05:39.020 She writes, quote, I'm a nurse in Canada. My specialty is in wound care. Today, I had a patient who told me

00:05:44.420 tomorrow he's receiving MAID, that is euthanasia. The patient has all his mental faculties, happily married

00:05:51.480 as far as I can tell, and is not currently in significant physical discomfort. I'm in shock.

00:05:56.140 My job is to care for people physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I feel sick to my stomach to see

00:06:00.300 a patient who still has so much opportunity to live life choose euthanasia. So much for euthanasia

00:06:06.720 being for rare cases, we are flying down the slippery slope. Of course. Of course we are.

00:06:13.700 When the libs tell us that euthanasia, quote unquote, assisted suicide, is just about these fringe

00:06:18.560 cases of people who are imminently going to die. They're in immense pain. They're very,

00:06:22.880 very elderly. We just need to put them out of their misery, allow them that choice. 1.00

00:06:26.840 That was never going to remain there. It was always going to become widespread. That's what

00:06:29.860 happened in the Netherlands. The Netherlands now, which has legalized children killing themselves.

00:06:36.840 Legalized little kids killing themselves. The Netherlands, where a woman who had previously 0.98

00:06:41.400 assented to assisted suicide was told by her doctor, okay, time for you to die now. And she said,

00:06:46.760 no, I don't want to, not yet. And the doctor forced her to kill herself anyway. And her family held her

00:06:51.520 down while she was resisting. That happened there too. And by the way, the Dutch courts and the Hague

00:06:55.340 even, the International Criminal Court said, no, it's fine. No big deal. The doctor was totally within

00:06:59.540 his rights to do that. Of course this is spreading. Because the principle is either that life is good,

00:07:05.140 and you don't own yourself, and you're not allowed to do anything that you want with your own body,

00:07:08.920 and therefore we can pass laws against suicide. And therefore you're going to get a much lower suicide

00:07:14.040 rate. Or the principle is you can do whatever you want with your own body, and life is not

00:07:18.260 necessarily good. And the only purpose of life is not to seek God, to seek virtue, to suffer in a way

00:07:24.820 that is sanctifying and edifying. No, the only purpose of life is to get pleasure. So whenever

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00:07:31.800 okay? And principles and ideas have consequences. That's why transgenderism is spreading like a wildfire. 1.00

00:07:38.780 Transgenderism is spreading like a wildfire, because if we establish the principle in society 1.00

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00:07:48.660 then you're going to see a lot more people falling into that mistaken view of human nature.

00:07:53.700 If we establish the principle that no, that's not the case, and if you think you're the opposite sex,

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00:09:24.240 The worst air quality ever recorded in New York City. If you look at the pictures, it's bright

00:09:32.500 orange there. It's weird. It's crazy and hazy. The wildest reaction to this came from some yuppies

00:09:38.520 yesterday at Equinox. The Equinox is a fancy gym for rich urbanites. And the picture was taken and

00:09:48.580 published, I think, by the New York Times, but it was taken of this rooftop of some building in New York

00:09:53.400 where amid all the haze, the dangerous air quality, there are a bunch of wealthy young New Yorkers

00:10:00.580 standing, doing some kind of yoga salutation, standing up arms in the air,

00:10:07.960 like a religious worship ceremony, which is exactly what yoga is. If you were an anthropologist,

00:10:17.120 you were an historian, and you came across this picture 500 years into the future, you would say,

00:10:22.760 oh, this is an example of religion in 2023 in New York. This is an example of the kind of public

00:10:29.720 worship that existed in liberal America in 2023. And a modern person right now would say,

00:10:37.900 no, that's not true. They're just doing yoga. You don't understand, man. But the thing is,

00:10:41.880 the historian would be right. This is an example of religious practice. All these little millennial 1.00

00:10:47.600 yogis who, instead of going to church, they go to yoga and they go to brunch. That is a religious 1.00

00:10:51.640 practice. They're risking something about their physical health here, which is the air quality.

00:11:00.900 They're risking that because of something more important, which is what? It's the religion of

00:11:06.560 self-actualization. It's the religion of being at one with the universe, man. It's the religion of

00:11:13.580 looking around and seeing the big, vast, beautiful view from the very, very top of the tower. It's

00:11:19.160 the religion of self, the religion of do whatever you want, the religion of take a moment and relax

00:11:24.720 from your busy work schedule. It's a religious practice. Yoga is an actual Eastern religious

00:11:32.420 practice. That's why there's so much spirituality associated with it. And a lot of Westerners pretend

00:11:36.960 they can divorce those things, but you can't. Whatever you do a lot, whatever you do habitually,

00:11:43.220 is going to have some tie-in to religion. And in the case of yoga, it just happens to be much more

00:11:47.460 directly spiritual. Previously, during a natural disaster or some kind of crisis, you'd go in,

00:11:53.980 you'd pray. That's what Christians would do. I don't know, maybe you'd go to church or something.

00:11:59.360 But that is the church in New York, and they're not going to shut down yoga church. During a natural

00:12:06.020 crisis, the government might shut down your actual church. They might shut down a synagogue. They might

00:12:10.780 shut down maybe a mosque. I don't know if they would actually shut down a mosque. But they're 0.95

00:12:14.140 not going to shut down liberal church. Liberal church being the yoga studio and the brunch spot

00:12:21.240 and the pot dispensary. They're never going to shut those down. Now, speaking of the modern religious

00:12:25.580 views, the Air Force has just joined the Pride Coalition, tweeted out, June is Pride Month.

00:12:32.720 The Department of the Air Force proudly recognizes and celebrates generations of LGBTQI-positive

00:12:38.580 service members and their contributions to the Air Force and Space Force. And the image is a silhouette

00:12:43.920 of an airman saluting in front of the Pride flag. So because it's a silhouette, you don't know which

00:12:51.100 way he's facing. If you look at his arm, it looks like it's his right arm. So it looks like he's saluting

00:12:54.880 out, away from the Pride flag. I suppose you could also see it as the airman saluting the Pride flag.

00:13:01.760 Either way, it's basically the same effect. The rainbow flag is our new imperial flag. 0.70

00:13:11.620 The Star Spangled Banner might be our old national flag, but the liberal imperialists who don't believe

00:13:18.740 in borders, who don't believe in particular people, who think that their values are absolutely,

00:13:25.420 totally universal, and they're going to spread them all over the world. They think it's the role

00:13:29.080 of the U.S. military to spread these liberal values all over the world. A lot of people,

00:13:33.620 probably the majority of our ruling class that believes that right now, for them, the American

00:13:38.220 flag is the rainbow. They have much more loyalty to the rainbow. They show the rainbow flag much

00:13:42.840 more respect than they would ever show to the Star Spangled Banner, which many of them openly protest

00:13:46.680 in sports, in the NFL, even in elected office among Democrats. That's the flag. Flags are symbols.

00:13:54.900 That's why flags really matter. That's why if you were raised right, you were taught that if the flag

00:13:59.600 ever touches the ground, you've got to pick it up right away. If the flag is desecrated,

00:14:03.620 you've got to burn the flag in a way, not like a Jane Fonda kind of way, not in a hippie,

00:14:08.120 I hate America kind of way, but in a respectful kind of way, like a funeral pyre, because we treat

00:14:13.060 symbols with the sort of reverence that we want to treat the thing that the symbol symbolizes.

00:14:18.300 That's why they're symbols. So what does the American flag symbolize? The old one,

00:14:22.000 the Star Spangled Banner. It symbolizes the 13 colonies. That's what the stripes are for. 0.70

00:14:26.960 Symbolizes the 50 states in the stars on the blue background. And the red symbolizes what?

00:14:33.660 Valor, hardiness, blood. The white, what does the white symbolize? Purity, innocence.

00:14:44.020 You'll notice, I don't see a lot of white on the rainbow flag. I don't see the white, 0.93

00:14:48.660 because we as a culture no longer value purity and innocence and modesty and chastity. We don't

00:14:55.520 value those things at all. In fact, we mock those things. We say those things are evil and awful and

00:15:00.000 oppressive and stupid and prudish. So okay, there goes that symbol. What about the red of the valor

00:15:06.580 and the hardiness and the blood and the sacrifice? Yeah, that's gone too. There's red in the rainbow

00:15:12.020 flag, but it just symbolizes all sorts of eccentricity and variety and diversity for its own sake.

00:15:17.120 What about the 50 states? Yeah, that's gone from the flag, the blue backdrop. It's gone.

00:15:23.220 The blue is supposed to represent justice, perseverance, vigilance. Yeah, that's gone. No more justice.

00:15:30.500 Just different flags. Different flags mean different countries. It means even different

00:15:35.980 kinds of countries. A national flag represents a nation. An imperial flag, that rainbow flag,

00:15:40.500 you can fly that anywhere. You can fly that in Europe. You can fly that in the east.

00:15:46.280 You can fly that in Kandahar. And that is what the liberals in our country want to do and do,

00:15:53.460 in fact. The pride ideology is spreading like wildfire. There was a story yesterday.

00:15:59.140 Matt broke this story. It came from one of our Daily Wire investigative producers, Greg, Greg Ray.

00:16:04.540 Matt had Greg, producer Greg, go out and just see how easy it is to be approved by the official serious

00:16:17.700 medical providers to have your testicles removed. Okay? And how long do you think it would take?

00:16:24.300 I don't think anyone should be allowed to do that, save for some medical emergency like testicular cancer

00:16:29.820 or something like that. I don't think you should be able to have an elective surgery to remove your

00:16:33.580 gulions. Okay? At any timeline. But at the very least, you'd say, well, maybe it should take a year.

00:16:39.040 It should take a few years or a year of counseling or, I don't know, at least six months, right? You know

00:16:44.040 the real answer? 22 minutes. Here is Greg speaking with one of these medical agencies whose job it is to

00:16:53.840 approve or disapprove of male testicle removal. Give me a little bit of history with your gender dysphoria. 0.75

00:17:00.360 That may kind of help me. I want to make this letter as solid as possible to be like, this orchid is definitely needed.

00:17:09.060 I'll tell you, I'm happy to. So when I was in school and I actually wrote a big essay for admission to a club

00:17:17.180 about how I didn't feel like my biological sex went along with how I felt. And I told people that

00:17:25.080 and they thought it was ridiculous. So, because they thought I just look like a guy. So they're like,

00:17:29.860 this is ridiculous. Okay, approved. So Greg comes up with probably the most ridiculous story to explain

00:17:39.160 his supposed gender dysphoria, which is, one time in school I wrote an essay about how I'm a girl and

00:17:43.640 people made fun of me. So can you chop my guglioni off? Oh yeah, sure. That's fine. Here we go. 0.73

00:17:50.360 Here's the letter from Plume Health, which is one of these sham medical providers, which says,

00:17:56.580 despite these interventions, she, referring to Greg, who went by Chelsea Bussey, that was his

00:18:01.920 gnome to plume, she reports significant ongoing gender dysphoria. She's seeking 0.99

00:18:06.820 orchiectomy. I guess that's the, I guess I should stop using the Italian word, the Italian

00:18:14.160 dialect word, guliuns, and say it's orchiectomy. She has the capacity to provide informed consent

00:18:23.300 for this procedure. This procedure has been defined as medically necessary by the World

00:18:27.500 Professional Association for Transgender Health, WPATH, to treat gender dysphoria. WPATH is a bizarro

00:18:32.700 organization, by the way. We'll get into them at some later date. That's the real big trans activist

00:18:38.340 organization that is used as credible by medical providers. So anyway, 22 minutes, Plume says,

00:18:45.160 okay, you got it. There's another one of these scam companies, FOLX, F-O-L-X. FOLX says,

00:18:52.960 right on the website there, insurance companies usually require a medical diagnostic code for gender

00:18:57.240 dysphoria in order to cover transition-related care as medically necessary. You may not fit this

00:19:01.780 diagnostic code exactly, but in some cases, the code is needed in order for insurers to pay for

00:19:07.040 the surgery. A good example of this might be a person, might be a letter for a person who identifies

00:19:11.840 as non-binary and does not have dysphoria. They might still need a gender dysphoria diagnostic code

00:19:16.580 attached in order for insurance to cover the surgery. So FOLX here is laying it out in totally

00:19:21.340 plain English. They're saying, hey, give us some money and we will commit insurance fraud with you.

00:19:27.900 Give us some money and we'll just lie and say that you have gender dysphoria even though we know that 0.99

00:19:33.820 you don't and you know that you don't, regardless of what you even think about gender dysphoria to

00:19:38.160 begin with. Here you go. There it is. And a lot of people are calling this a scam. And it's kind of a

00:19:43.900 scam in that people are making money on it. People are cutting corners, breaking the rules, breaking the

00:19:49.080 law, getting some money on people who are obviously having a rough go of it. People are scamming the

00:19:55.060 system. Yeah, okay. But it's not just a scam. It's larger than a scam. It's part of a new national

00:20:03.280 sacred right. It's a slightly dodgier way to do something that is totally enshrined in our law and

00:20:11.480 our culture now and being pushed by our liberal elite. Being pushed at schools around this country,

00:20:17.120 being pushed at colleges, being pushed at workplaces, being pushed all over the place.

00:20:21.540 It's the ritual, the right of transition, which is just a further extension of the ritual and the

00:20:29.320 sacred right in liberalism of coming out. I remember when I was in college, there was a big

00:20:36.440 fancy ceremony on the quad for National Coming Out Day. And it was a big rainbow gate and you walked

00:20:43.620 through the gate to say, I'm coming out. I previously adhered to a normal traditional sexual ethic,

00:20:50.160 but now I'm coming out and I'm gay or lesbian or bisexual or this sexual or that sexual. Back in

00:20:56.840 those days, we didn't have all 56 of them or 72 or whatever we're at now. But that's a ritual.

00:21:03.320 I'm Catholic. When I was a little baby, I was baptized. That's a sacrament with real spiritual

00:21:12.200 effect, I believe, and the operation of the Holy Spirit and also an outward sign. You put the baby

00:21:18.020 in the baptismal font and the priest performs an exorcism and then puts some water on the baby's

00:21:24.380 head. And that's the ritual of it. I was then, I received First Holy Communion. Again, a sacrament

00:21:29.660 that I am quite confident has real spiritual effect, real metaphysical working, and also an appearance

00:21:37.920 and an outward sign that we know this ritual by. You get on your knees, you open your mouth,

00:21:42.920 you receive the Holy Eucharist. I was confirmed in the Catholic Church. That's when the bishop

00:21:48.060 is at least supposed to come, shows up, and gives you a little smack on the cheek, and then you're

00:21:52.280 confirmed in the church. These are rituals. And as these rituals have ebbed away from society,

00:21:59.000 new rites and rituals have replaced them. And today, the rituals of the coming out, the ritual of the

00:22:07.000 transition, those are treated as much, much, much more sacred by our state, by our ruling class

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00:26:00.360 If I've got a choice, then no.

00:26:02.480 Okay. Well, then you're under arrest.

00:26:04.420 I can't suspicion of failing to comply with the public spaces protection order.

00:26:11.740 They're so British about it, which makes it somehow even more chilling. There's no screaming, 1.00

00:26:17.120 yelling, fighting. It's just, what are you doing here yet?

00:26:20.300 Yeah. I'm just, you're just standing here. Physically, just standing here. Spiritually,

00:26:25.000 she's praying. I'm just physically standing here. Yeah. Well, you're going to come down to

00:26:29.920 the police station with us then voluntarily. And if I have a choice, no, I'm not going to do that.

00:26:33.900 Well, all right. Then you're under arrest for praying quietly, silently in your own head

00:26:40.460 outside of an abortion clinic. And when that video came out, we said, well, at least that'll never

00:26:46.080 happen in America, right? It's happening in America. There was a pride parade, not in San

00:26:52.660 Francisco, not in New York, in Franklin, Tennessee, just this past weekend. And there was a small group

00:27:00.340 of Christians who showed up to pray very quietly, just pray at the pride parade. And when it became 0.60

00:27:10.240 clear that they were praying, not that they were screaming, not that they were yelling through a big

00:27:14.740 microphone about all sorts of things with the pride people, just quietly praying, that was when the

00:27:21.140 pride organizers had had enough. Spiritually, they couldn't bear the thought of silent prayer,

00:27:28.860 quiet prayer for them. So they sicked the cops on them and the cops escorted them away. The cops

00:27:35.120 apparently even arrested one of these guys. I'm being told that our connection is too weak

00:27:41.100 to speak with one of the people who was escorted away. Maybe we'll try to get them later on in the

00:27:45.780 week. But luckily we, we have some, some clips anyway. Here's what happened.

00:27:51.220 Praying at the Franklin Pride Festival held at a public park until this group,

00:27:55.640 which opposes the event, was met by officers and an event organizer asking them to leave.

00:28:01.160 We're not here in support of pride. We are asking you to leave.

00:28:05.220 You may, you feel free to exercise your first amendment of rights, but that area is across the street over

00:28:10.820 from the property. Who's not in support of pride? So we've heard multiple, like we've been watching

00:28:17.200 and listening to the conversation. But we just need to make sure that folks here are comfortable,

00:28:21.820 safe, and so the event organizers have the discretion to ask folks to leave the footprints that we're

00:28:27.000 asking. Officers escorting the group off the premises. Brian Sullivan and Jeremy Sladen say they came

00:28:32.640 to pray for all at the festival. Some of those words to God, also about what they believe is not a

00:28:38.380 family-friendly festival. We, we know that we all mess up and we all make, make mistakes,

00:28:42.880 but when you start pushing things and agreeing and accepting what's going on, then, then that

00:28:48.740 becomes an issue. So you see this type of prayer here, which is, hey, we all make mistakes. We all

00:28:54.380 go through bad stuff. And so we're just going to pray for everybody here. Okay, that's great.

00:28:58.540 Pride organizer can't take that. Probably the pride organizers would have preferred 0.80

00:29:01.980 if the Christian group were out screaming, yelling, being really nasty. That, that makes for a really

00:29:07.500 nice clip. And then they can claim to be oppressed and that they can have something to feel righteous

00:29:12.600 indignation about. What they can't bear is just the quiet prayer, the quiet reminder of moral and

00:29:22.240 biological reality. That's too much. And so the people praying quietly get sent away. That's happening

00:29:29.660 here. There is, there is no room for contrary forms of prayer in the present United States.

00:29:40.320 We have an established church with established rights at the national level. It's the church of

00:29:45.060 pride, the queen of all vices, and it's got its rights and its rituals. And if you contradict that,

00:29:51.940 the cops are coming for you and they're coming for you even in your red state. The answer to that

00:29:59.020 is to vocally and confidently defend religious truth. The answer to that is not to pretend that

00:30:07.480 religious neutrality, there is no such thing. There never has been, there never can be. There's

00:30:12.020 no such thing as a separation of church and state. We're either going to have one conception of the 0.77

00:30:17.820 good or we're going to have some other conception of the good. We're going to have one set of rituals

00:30:21.120 or we're going to have another set of rituals. Are Christians willing to state religious truth?

00:30:26.240 Christians joined by religious Jews, joined by religious Muslims for that matter,

00:30:30.940 joined by normal people who might be a little bit agnostic and might not know exactly what they

00:30:35.680 think, but they know that the old way was better than the new way where we're chopping off people's 0.64

00:30:39.020 gulions. Are we going to state, yeah, actually maybe the religion that built our whole civilization,

00:30:46.200 that's the right one. We're going to follow that one. Rather than the new religion of pride,

00:30:50.640 which is an even more zealously, jealously established religion than the one that built 0.98

00:30:57.780 our country. This is happening nationwide. You know, Bud Light, they pretend that they learned

00:31:04.160 their lesson. Transheiser Bush, they pretend that they, okay, we're sorry. Well, we're not exactly 0.73

00:31:09.060 sorry, but we're going to back off the Dylan Mulvaney stuff. We're not going to push the trans stuff too 1.00

00:31:13.100 much. Hey, come on, we're just going to have commercials of horses and cowboys now. Please buy our beer

00:31:17.860 again. But then at the same time, Bud Light is currently sponsoring an all ages drag event in

00:31:24.660 Flagstaff, Arizona. It's going to happen on June 17th. This was reported first by the Washington

00:31:30.360 Free Beacon. It was then republished in the Washington Examiner. It's happening. It's unclear

00:31:38.660 how many drag queens will be performing. Nine drag queens were featured on the flyer. Attendees who are

00:31:44.460 minors are more than welcome to come in. If you're 15 years old or older, you can just walk right in.

00:31:50.380 No problem at all. If you're under 15, you can still come in. You just need to be accompanied by

00:31:56.120 a parent or a guardian, according to the flyer. So it's for kids. It's for everybody. That's

00:32:00.700 Transheiser Bush. Totally unrepentant. We've done a good job really weakening them. I mean, 1.00

00:32:05.200 they've lost well over 20 billion in market cap. That's great news. The only thing that's going to

00:32:08.980 work here though is political intervention. Because Transheiser Bush is caught between a rock and a hard 0.66

00:32:13.920 place because Transheiser Bush has signed on to all sorts of agreements that are across corporations,

00:32:19.660 across industries, across countries, which say that they are going to promote pride as the new

00:32:24.420 established religion of liberalism. They're going to promote it. And so if they don't promote it,

00:32:30.560 if they turn against it, they're going to lose access to social media platforms. They're going to

00:32:33.940 lose access to other advertising platforms. They're going to lose access to capital because the asset

00:32:38.400 managers are pushing this stuff. So what is required here is not just all of us together

00:32:43.920 in a grassroots way stop stopping our consumption of Bud Light and Transheiser Bush products. We need

00:32:50.600 our elected officials to go in and intervene and break up these pride cartels that are pushing GARM, 0.99

00:32:58.440 you know, the big pro-liberalism, you know, pro-leftism organization that's now under the World Economic

00:33:07.540 Forum banner, or ESG, environmental social governance policies, and all the rest of it. We need the heavy

00:33:12.340 hand of the state to go in as our duly elected representatives and break up that pride cartel. 1.00

00:33:18.080 Now, speaking of the heavy hand of the state, we got a new presidential candidate in the race.

00:33:23.740 And I know you're thinking of a bunch of names. Oh, is he talking about this new presidential

00:33:27.720 candidate? I promise you, you're not thinking of the man that I'm about to name. That would be

00:33:33.580 North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. Are you feeling the Burgum momentum? Are you? Take it away,

00:33:42.160 Governor. I grew up in a tiny town in North Dakota. Woke was what you did at 5 a.m. to start the day.

00:33:49.360 A place where neighbors rally around you. My mom was our rock, our hero.

00:33:57.720 I started a shoeshine business, worked at the grain elevator, and has a chimney sweep. Paid my way

00:34:09.100 through college, then earned an MBA from Stanford. I ignored those who said North Dakota was too small,

00:34:17.980 too cold, too cold, and too remote to build a world-class software company.

00:34:27.840 In North Dakota, something about, I grew up and I had a software company.

00:34:32.980 What are you going to do if you're president? America's facing new challenges, and how we

00:34:44.400 respond will define our future. We need new leadership for our changing economy. Innovation

00:34:52.000 over regulation. Instead of shutting down American oil and gas, we should unleash energy production and

00:34:59.360 start selling energy to our allies instead of buying it from our enemies. High taxes, red 0.98

00:35:06.180 tape, and inflation are choking every American. As governor, we cut red tape and took North Dakota

00:35:13.760 from billions in the hole to a surplus. We balanced the budget every year, and we did it all while

00:35:21.160 passing the largest tax cuts in North Dakota history. A smart guy who's achieved a lot.

00:35:28.980 Doug Burgum for president. A new leader for a changing economy.

00:35:35.480 He seems like a nice guy, so I don't want to be too harsh about this campaign ad and this. I mean,

00:35:41.220 I already fell asleep during the year, so I guess I'm being a little bit harsh.

00:35:43.980 This ain't it. Whatever it is right now, this ad and candidacy ain't it. And you see it right

00:35:56.480 there at the very end. Doug Burgum, new leadership for a changing economy. Economy.

00:36:03.940 Are we an economy with a nation attached to it? Or are we a nation with an economy?

00:36:15.100 Do we exist here in America so that we can serve the economy and markets and GDP? Or do we have

00:36:26.960 prosperity and GDP and markets and everything to serve us, the American people? Is the nation more

00:36:33.220 than just the economy? Yeah. For the 90s, for a lot of the 2000s, we were told that the whole point

00:36:40.860 of government is just so that we can make a little bit more money. That the nation is nothing more

00:36:44.700 than that. And people who happen to be living next to one another so that we can all just make more

00:36:48.280 money. Separately, but I guess we'll have to have some bare minimum regulations so that we can

00:36:53.960 continue to exist in physical proximity to one another. But all we are really here to do is worship

00:36:59.100 at the altar of the free market. And that has led to absolute chaos such that now between America and

00:37:05.180 our neighbor up in the north, which is giving us plumes of smoke right now and is a crystal ball

00:37:10.140 into America's future, we are killing babies. We're killing our children. We're killing our elderly. 0.99

00:37:16.520 We're killing our poor. We're killing our homeless because they're not productive. They're kind of

00:37:19.620 inconvenient. They're not going to serve the economy. We are chopping off people's genitals. We're 1.00

00:37:26.420 creating a generation of Unix. And well, frankly, one of the reasons we're doing it is so that scam

00:37:31.900 companies like Volks and Plume can make some money so that big pharma can make some money so that even

00:37:37.580 the whole system will create more perfect consumers who don't worry about these extra things like

00:37:44.080 family and raising children and all sorts of non-economic considerations. But they just exist out

00:37:50.680 there to keep on working. Good little worker bees who aren't going to have to worry about any of those 0.64

00:37:54.240 things. We've destroyed the family. We've destroyed our borders in part so that we can import more 1.00

00:37:58.360 workers and make more money. You heard that. Just this strict focus on the economy hasn't served us

00:38:04.460 well. It hasn't even served our economy, which is on the brink of collapse. Now, we've got a more

00:38:10.340 plausible candidate who's just entered the race. We don't have time, I fear, to totally get to. Maybe we

00:38:17.320 do. We've got a little bit of time. We'll fly through these candidates and then get to one last

00:38:23.260 important story. First, though, you might have been one of the tens of millions of people who

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00:39:21.660 out. My favorite comment yesterday is from Valerie Vaughn. Valerie, who says,

00:39:27.640 someone needs to tell Michael that his Mayor Pete impression sounds more like Kermit.

00:39:32.460 Ha ha, does it really? Do you really think so? Do you think maybe someday we'll find it,

00:39:36.540 the rainbow connection? Huh? The lovers, the dreamers, and me. And by the dreamers,

00:39:40.820 I of course mean 40-year-old Venezuelan immigrants. Ha ha, yeah, that doesn't. Never occurred to me,

00:39:45.240 but I guess maybe it does. Pete Buttigieg obviously wants to be president.

00:39:50.740 He's running that shadow race against Kamala Harris right now in case Joe Biden takes a nasty fall.

00:39:56.260 Gavin Newsom, too, wants to be president. On the Republican side, we have yet another Republican

00:40:00.360 candidate who's officially announced. That would be former Vice President Mike Pence.

00:40:05.480 It'd be easy to stay on the sidelines, but that's not how I was raised. That's why today,

00:40:12.860 before God and my family, I'm announcing I'm running for president of the United States.

00:40:18.660 We can bring this country back. We can defend our nation and secure our border. We can revive

00:40:23.620 our economy and put our nation back on a path to a balanced budget, defend our liberties,

00:40:28.080 and give America a new beginning for life. President Reagan described us as a shining city on the hill.

00:40:34.140 And above all, he called on Americans to renew optimism and believe in themselves again,

00:40:40.660 to believe in each other. Every time our nation has produced leadership that has called upon this

00:40:45.380 country to do hard things, the American people have always risen to the challenge, and we will again.

00:40:51.620 Okay. Okay, I got the message. This is a really great 2012 campaign launch.

00:40:59.160 It's a really great 2012 campaign launch, but we are facing a regime-level crisis right now.

00:41:06.860 And so, Mike Pence, who I really like personally, seems like a really, really great guy,

00:41:15.340 the, we're going to make America stronger, and our best days lie ahead, and we're really going to be

00:41:20.280 optimistic now and restore confidence in America. I believe in America. It just doesn't

00:41:25.160 resonate. We all want to be hopeful, but we don't want to be optimistic. Optimism and pessimism are

00:41:30.980 two sides of the same coin. They're just feelings that you, you pretend to have through sheer tyranny

00:41:37.140 of will. Hope is a fact. It's a, it's a theological virtue, and it's a fact grounded in reality.

00:41:44.640 If we're going to be hopeful, that's got to be grounded in fact, and, and to be grounded in fact is

00:41:50.640 to recognize that we, we no longer believe in our institutions of government. Neither side trusts

00:41:55.860 the elections anymore. Neither side trusts the other one to have a, a sensible understanding of

00:42:02.020 the common good. We don't even really speak the same language anymore. We don't have borders.

00:42:06.440 We don't have a functioning economy. So you got to fix those problems first. It's a regime-level

00:42:12.380 crisis. Something about the, the way that the government itself is structured and operates

00:42:18.720 is not working. That's why for all of modern American history, certainly in the 20th century

00:42:29.100 into up to 2016, you had candidates who were just running on these rosy,

00:42:34.320 uh-huh, well, America's best days lie ahead. I believe in, we have mourning in America. Both

00:42:38.660 sides of the political aisle said that. 2016, something changed. Trump came out and he said,

00:42:43.040 man, this country sucks right now. This is in really terrible shape. These people,

00:42:46.600 these libs have completely destroyed our country. This, we got to fix it. We got to make it great

00:42:51.200 again. But right now it's terrible. And a lot of people said, there's no way he's going to win.

00:42:55.280 That's a negative message. But that resonated for people because the country is, is in crisis. So

00:43:00.840 Pence, very nice guy. But if he doesn't, if he doesn't change the campaign note, he's going to be,

00:43:09.780 he's going to be fighting yesterday's battles, 10 years ago battles. So now we're all just waiting

00:43:15.060 on Chris Christie, the Chris Assange, Chris Assange for short. Uh, I've told you, I'm not even just

00:43:22.640 joking about it. I think Chris Christie could have a moment in the race. I want to put a little bit

00:43:25.680 of money, not a lot of money, but a little bit of money on it on the predicted markets. They're not

00:43:29.020 even showing Chris Christie yet on the betting markets for the presidential race. So, okay,

00:43:35.000 we got to wait. We will await the Chris Assange. We are in an extremely cultural battle right now.

00:43:42.740 And we're getting some wins on it too. Oklahoma just approved the nation's first ever religious 0.99

00:43:50.340 charter school. It was a tight vote. One vote determined how, how it would turn out. A 3-2 vote,

00:43:57.420 the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved St. Isidore of Seville Catholic

00:44:02.020 Virtual School. So it's not a physical charter school. It's an online charter school. It's funded

00:44:06.980 by taxpayers run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City on Monday. St. Isidore named after

00:44:13.020 the patron saint of the internet will include religious, which is, that's a topic for another

00:44:19.140 time, whether there is a patron saint of the internet or what it means to be a patron saint

00:44:21.820 of the internet. But anyway, that's the idea with the school. Uh, it includes religious instruction

00:44:26.380 and it has a mission to quote, educate the entire child's soul, heart, intellect, and body. Set to begin

00:44:32.140 late next year. School will offer online classes to around 500 students, K through 12, and receive

00:44:37.140 an estimated $23.3 million in state funding for its first five years. Great stuff. Great stuff.

00:44:45.220 Because it recognizes that all schools are religious schools. All schools educate the entire child's

00:44:50.300 soul, heart, intellect, and body. The question is just how are they going to educate the child?

00:44:54.500 Liberalism does it by having coming out ceremonies and Earth Day ceremonies and transition ceremonies

00:44:59.100 and diversity trainings and all the rest of it. Catholic schools do it through catechism classes.

00:45:06.400 Jewish schools do it. I don't really know how Jewish schools do it, I assume, in some kind of

00:45:10.100 Jewish instruction. Muslim schools, I don't really know how they do it, probably through some Muslim 1.00

00:45:14.940 instruction. That's why they have madrasas. But all schools do it. And the question is, do you want

00:45:23.080 your kid educated in the leftist religion or in the normal religion, the true religion? There are going to

00:45:27.920 be some religious conservatives who are worried about this. It's not just going to be the secularists

00:45:31.300 and the libs who are worried. Some religious conservatives are going to be worried. They're

00:45:33.520 going to say, we don't want the state involved in our religious education, because then the state is

00:45:38.440 going to exert influence. So better to say no to the state funding and keep our own religious schools

00:45:43.980 where we can totally control it, rather than get the state involved at all. I see that worry,

00:45:51.440 but the greater threat lies in not wielding the political power. Look at the libs. Do you think

00:45:57.860 that having state support has undermined the libs' religious convictions? No, it's only amplified

00:46:04.240 the libs' religious convictions and all the rites and all the rituals and all the mantras and all the

00:46:09.180 rest of it. No, the greater risk lies in not wielding that power, because the state is going to be

00:46:16.300 animated by some kind of religion. So I'd rather it be ours than theirs. Now, the rest of the show 0.95

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Ep. 1263 - Toxic Clouds And Conspiracies： NY Apocalypse？

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