The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 The end of the world is officially upon us because now precisely five years and one day ago,

00:00:08.220 St. Greta of the Blessed Sailboat, Miss Thunberg herself, predicted it. She tweeted

00:00:14.220 in a curiously deleted tweet that, quote, a top climate scientist, how dare you? She said,

00:00:22.360 a top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we

00:00:28.820 stop using fossil fuels over the next five years. Now, to be fair to Greta, she did not say that the

00:00:37.000 world would end in five years. She said that climate change would wipe out all of humanity unless we

00:00:44.820 stop using fossil fuels over the next five years. And those are different claims, but the practical

00:00:51.400 consequence of them is pretty similar, pretty much the same. Whether we're already dead or

00:00:59.340 merely inevitably doomed, there is now, according to Greta Thunberg, absolutely no reason to try to

00:01:08.040 do anything about so-called climate change. It's too late. We could all stop driving our cars and

00:01:15.360 cooking our food and heating our homes and fueling our societies today. We could, we could turn off

00:01:20.980 the whole thing, which would coincidentally wipe out all of humanity just by doing that, but we

00:01:26.340 could do it. Let's say we did it. Still, it would be too late. Climate change activism is now officially

00:01:34.800 pointless. So eat, drink, heat, drive, burn up those fossil fuels and be merry. I'm Michael Knowles,

00:01:43.440 this is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Wonderful, wonderful to be back. Great

00:01:57.580 news coming out of Twitter and Elon Musk. Elon has said that the word cis, this is C-I-S, will now be

00:02:08.060 banned as hate speech. You know, it's, if people are spamming the word cis at normal people, then it

00:02:14.540 will be banned. And I think this is great. Some libertarian types are upset about this, but this is

00:02:20.780 awesome. We'll get to that in a second. Speaking of Twitter, I had to open with Greta today, Greta,

00:02:25.360 because these guys, the catastrophizing libs, always make predictions that are just far enough in the

00:02:35.140 future that nobody really calls them out on it. Nobody really remembers when the time comes.

00:02:39.540 And so they get away with it and they, then the predictions never come true. And then they make

00:02:43.080 more catastrophic predictions. If you don't do exactly what I say, the whole world's going to end

00:02:47.640 in like seven years or whatever. And then seven years come by, people forget about it. But Twitter

00:02:52.440 makes it much easier to refer back to those predictions. And just remember,

00:03:00.240 it's either totally wrong, in which case there's no reason to believe St. Greta and the rest of the

00:03:07.440 environmentalist types, or it's too late. Or Greta was right and it's just too late and nothing we do

00:03:14.220 now can possibly save us. All of humanity will be wiped out. But either way, if we are to take Greta

00:03:21.440 Thunberg at her word, it's over. It's over. That's a cause for celebration. We're not wiped

00:03:28.960 out yet, but we don't need to worry now about driving a stupid Prius or something. We're good.

00:03:34.280 We're good, guys. Speaking of predictions being wrong, there's a little oopsie-daisy just came out

00:03:39.820 of the Pentagon. This will affect you. It will affect your pocketbook. A little bit of an accounting

00:03:45.580 error over at the Department of Defense accidentally might have provided over six billion extra dollars

00:03:55.040 for Ukraine. Oops. During the department's regular oversight of our execution of presidential drawdown

00:04:00.840 authority for Ukraine, we discovered inconsistencies in equipment valuation for Ukraine. In a significant

00:04:06.920 number of cases, services used replacement costs rather than net book value, thereby overestimating

00:04:12.820 the value of the equipment drawn down from U.S. stocks and provided to Ukraine. Once we discovered

00:04:18.520 this misvaluation, the comptroller reissued guidance on March 31st, clarifying how to value equipment in

00:04:24.900 line with the financial management regulation and DOD policy to ensure we use the most accurate of

00:04:31.040 accounting methods. We have confirmed that for FY23, the final calculation is $3.6 billion,

00:04:37.820 and for FY22, it is $2.6 billion, for a combined total of $6.2 billion. These valuation errors in no way

00:04:47.880 limit or restricted the size of any of our PDAs or impacted the provision of support to Ukraine.

00:04:54.520 I just want to use this as an example of why I frequently say that I don't ever trust statistics.

00:05:01.400 It's all bunk. Money is fungible and manipulable, especially when you've got strong central governments

00:05:09.460 and you've got cozy relationships with banks. And it's easy to move all this stuff around,

00:05:15.640 especially when you've got an administrative state that's not really accountable to the

00:05:18.380 people that just does whatever it wants. Do you see what she did here?

00:05:21.740 It's not that the Biden administration is saying, oh, whoops, we misplaced $6 billion. The government

00:05:28.100 has done that sort of thing before. But it's not that they said, oh, you know, you know how you

00:05:31.640 lose your car keys? Well, yeah, we lost $6 billion. And now we found it, we're going to give it back

00:05:34.800 to Ukraine. That's not what happened here. The U.S. said, okay, we're going to give a bunch of

00:05:41.740 military support to Ukraine because we're fighting a war with Russia now. It's a proxy war in Ukraine.

00:05:45.960 The American people don't really want it, I don't think, but they're going to do it anyway.

00:05:49.380 Doesn't matter who gets elected. They're probably just going to keep fighting this war

00:05:52.100 one way or another. And they say, okay, we're sending over these arms. We're sending over

00:05:57.680 these munitions. All right, here we go. We've given gazillions of dollars to Ukraine.

00:06:02.840 The Ukraine war is unpopular politically right now, but the U.S. still wants to fund the war

00:06:07.340 because the U.S. is, if not the chief belligerent in the war, we're the biggest one by far. Russia's

00:06:13.220 referring to the Ukraine war as a direct hot conflict with the United States. We managed to avoid that for

00:06:18.280 all of the Cold War, but now somehow we're doing it over a territorial dispute that's gone on for a

00:06:22.880 thousand years in Eastern Europe. So now the U.S. government wants to keep fighting this war.

00:06:30.340 It's politically unpopular, so what do they do? They say, oh, we didn't actually give all the money

00:06:34.620 that we said we gave. And how can they make that claim? Well, the way they can make that claim is by

00:06:39.740 revising down the estimates of value of all of the military equipment that we've sent over.

00:06:45.720 But that's the way to free up the money. If you say, okay, well, look, I sent you, I sent you $100.

00:06:55.100 I sent you $1,000 in the form of 10 nice bottles of whiskey. Okay, I got, I got you $100 bottle of

00:07:06.660 whiskey and I bought you 10 of them and I sent, there you go, there's $1,000 in aid. But let's say I want

00:07:11.260 to send you some more whiskey. Well, the way to do that is not just, if you can't find the money in

00:07:17.800 the couch, you're going to say, oh, actually that bottle of whiskey that was $100. No, I got that

00:07:21.620 number wrong. That bottle of whiskey, that was actually only worth 20 bucks. Yeah, so really, I only

00:07:25.740 sent you like $200 worth of whiskey. So I'm going to send you $800 more of whiskey. Nothing changed.

00:07:31.040 You've sent all the same stuff. We all know what's going on. It's just, you're finding an excuse

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00:09:15.800 thing for a second, all those tanks and fighter jets, they're probably burning some fossil fuels in

00:09:22.080 Ukraine, right? It's kind of interesting. All those really pro-environmentalist, anti-global

00:09:26.920 warming activists, they seem to be fine burning up the, they're fine burning up fossil fuels for

00:09:32.160 certain purposes, like fighting an imperial war in Ukraine, but not for other purposes like poor

00:09:37.280 people heating their homes or senior citizens on fixed incomes having a stove. That, you're not,

00:09:42.300 you're not allowed to do that. Speaking of heavy equipment, probably the biggest unexpected news story

00:09:48.160 that is taking people's attention right now. Really awful, awful story. There is a submersible,

00:09:54.380 it's not quite a submarine exactly, it's a submersible device that is carrying five people

00:10:01.380 somewhere in deep sea in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. They were on a trip to go look at the Titanic

00:10:08.040 and the company lost contact with the submersible pretty quickly and now they're running out of air.

00:10:15.040 The US government's involved trying to recover this, but they're looking at a search area the

00:10:19.420 size of the state of Connecticut and the submersible is not very big, it's pretty cramped.

00:10:24.200 And so it's just about as horrifying a story as one could imagine in terms of ways to go,

00:10:29.640 just in a cramped little tin can at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean near the Titanic. That's

00:10:35.320 pretty terrifying where you don't know, we don't really know what's happened to these people.

00:10:39.960 There's a chance they're already dead and the way they would have died is if somehow the cabin

00:10:46.620 became depressurized and then the weight of the ocean would have just crushed it all up. That

00:10:50.020 would have been very quick. Or they could just be waiting somewhere with waiting for the oxygen to

00:10:55.160 run out, which apparently is going to happen or may have already happened by 5 a.m. Eastern time.

00:11:02.060 Um, or it might take months and months to find this submersible or we might never find this

00:11:09.720 submersible. Uh, people are criticizing the company right now because the company seems to have cut

00:11:14.760 some corners on safety and seems to have gone a little bit woke and said they wouldn't hire

00:11:19.260 old white guys because that's not inspiring enough or something. Here's, here's some audio

00:11:23.980 of the head of the company. When I started the business, one of the things you'll find, there are

00:11:29.560 other sub operators out there, but they, they typically, um, have a gentleman who were ex-military

00:11:35.600 submariners and they, you'll see a whole bunch of 50 year old white guys. Um, I wanted our team to be

00:11:41.840 younger, to be inspirational, and I'm not going to inspire a 16 year old to, to go pursue marine

00:11:47.880 technology, but a 25 year old, uh, you know, who's a sub pilot or a platform operator or one of our

00:11:54.860 techs can be inspirational. And so we've really tried to get, um, very intelligent, motivated,

00:12:01.480 younger individuals involved because we're doing things that are completely new. We're taking

00:12:05.820 approaches that are used largely in the aerospace industry is related to safety and, uh, some of the,

00:12:12.340 the preponderance of checklists, uh, things we do for risk assessments and things like that,

00:12:17.220 that are more aviation related than, um, ocean related. And we can train people to do that. We

00:12:23.000 can train someone to pilot the sub. We use a game controller. Um, so anybody can drive the sub.

00:12:29.200 So they use a game controller. They've used all this new kind of technology. They've applied

00:12:33.240 aviation technology to the sub. The critics are saying you cut too many corners. This was insane.

00:12:37.660 Why on earth would anyone get into this thing? Uh, the defenders of this are saying, well, this is

00:12:42.860 the explorer spirit. This is adventure. This is a great, we shouldn't discourage this. Of course,

00:12:47.840 you got to be a little bit crazy to go explore parts of the world. And that's a good thing. And

00:12:51.320 we should encourage it. The people knew the risks that, that seems to be certain. There's a 61 year

00:12:58.680 old British digital marketing magnet named Chris Brown. He had put a deposit down to go on, on a voyage

00:13:04.580 on this submersible. And then he backed out at the last minute because he said the risks are too high.

00:13:09.880 He said the risks were too high in this instance, even though I'm not one to shy away from risk.

00:13:16.140 And, uh, he was buddies with a billionaire, Hamish Harding, who is down there in the submersible.

00:13:22.560 And Harding said, okay, well, I'm willing to accept the risk. There's a teenager also with his father.

00:13:28.980 That's especially sad. Uh, but, but people at least knew this was a risky thing and they decided

00:13:33.580 to do it anyway. I am not on either side of the internet debate over the wisdom or idiocy of getting

00:13:45.660 in this sub. Uh, some are defending the adventure spirit. Some are criticizing the recklessness.

00:13:51.260 I think that prudence is called for here. I don't think that the proper response to this

00:13:57.800 is either condemnation or valorization of what they're doing. I think the proper, and some people

00:14:05.060 are making jokes about it, posting memes, and it's really sad. I mean, these are human beings who

00:14:09.300 are either dead or could very soon die. I think the proper response is prayer for the people and also

00:14:17.400 prayer for the wisdom to make these kinds of judgments. I am not of the opinion that it's always

00:14:24.700 a great and wonderful thing to go climb Mount Everest. I don't, I don't think that's true.

00:14:29.440 I think sometimes it can be reckless and suicidal and deeply dark and sinister. And I'm also not of

00:14:36.500 the opinion that, uh, it's always a terrible thing to go climb Mount Everest. That you should just stay

00:14:44.000 in your home and always make the safe choice. I'm not of that opinion either. It's a little bit more

00:14:48.900 complicated. You've got to use your prudence and your judgment and, and calculate risks and weigh

00:14:55.120 risks and see what's to be gained here. Some of the people criticizing, uh, this company are saying,

00:15:00.700 well, this, you weren't exploring anything new. You were just going down to a shipwreck. That's one

00:15:03.800 of the most studied shipwrecks ever. So this was just tourism and it was tourism that cut a lot of

00:15:07.720 corners and was very, very expensive. But I don't know, on the other hand, as far as tourism goes,

00:15:12.280 pretty, pretty adventurous, it seems to me. And, and so I just think when we make these decisions on,

00:15:17.900 on all political matters, we are, especially in the digital age where we're addicted to extremism

00:15:24.920 and clicks, we, we just want to be able to say, okay, here's the solution. It's always good to go

00:15:29.960 do the extremely dangerous thing. Or no, this is never good. This is dumb. And this is stupid.

00:15:34.380 And we should mock these people. And I know a lot more about submarines than this company does.

00:15:37.640 But that isn't the case. You see it on speech. Say we need absolute free speech. Or some people say,

00:15:42.320 no, we need to strongly censor the conservatives. What if, what if there is a moderate,

00:15:47.900 moderate middle ground that takes into account all of these kinds of ideas and then exercises

00:15:54.380 prudence? Moderation is a virtue. I consider myself very moderate. I know the libs think that I'm to

00:16:00.160 the right of Genghis Khan, but I can say I'm a very moderate person, you know. Now, speaking of

00:16:05.420 imprudence, Bud Light, baby, Bud Light is getting absolutely wrecked still. Bud Light sales,

00:16:12.260 it's not just that they dropped in the week after Transheiser Bush decided to endorse a drag queen

00:16:19.580 or a transvestite or whatever, whatever Dylan Mulvaney calls himself. It's, it's not just that

00:16:26.320 they dropped and then they went back up. It's not even just that they dropped and they stayed where

00:16:30.400 they were. They dropped and then they kept dropping and then they kept dropping and then it looked like

00:16:33.480 they kind of had cratered, but no, they kept dropping. They've kept, they've kept dropping

00:16:37.740 again. Sales revenue plunged 26.8% in the week ending June 10th. According to new data, that is a new low

00:16:46.840 for weekly sales revenue. The previous highest weekly drop for Bud Light was 25.7%

00:16:53.600 and now 26.8%. So what is Bud Light doing? What is Transheiser Bush doing? First of all,

00:17:01.880 I think that company owes Alyssa Hershenfeld or whatever that VP of marketing was. They owe her

00:17:07.000 an apology because she took the fall for this, but this is obviously a conscious decision by Transheiser

00:17:12.560 Bush made at a much higher level than the VP of marketing. So why are they doing it? Why would Bud Light

00:17:19.960 consistently irritate the customers and not just apologize? Because Bud Light has to keep up its ESG

00:17:29.660 score. Transheiser Bush, ESG, the environmental social governance policies, which is a term that

00:17:34.920 will probably fall out of favor now that conservatives have seized upon it and they'll, they'll replace it

00:17:39.200 with some new woke jargon. But what these scores mean is that left-wing groups will score

00:17:49.100 companies on a whole host of progressive priorities. And then the big asset managers,

00:17:55.480 the big institutional investors that, that manage tens of trillions of dollars worth, worth of money

00:18:01.680 each, they could pull their money out of the companies. And so you say, well, who cares?

00:18:06.400 Who cares if BlackRock or somebody pulls its money out of AB InBev, Transheiser Bush? AB InBev is a big

00:18:13.680 company. They're still selling beer. Who cares? Who needs BlackRock's money? Well, what would happen is the

00:18:17.720 stock price would tank. It would show a lack of faith in the company from the biggest players

00:18:24.040 in the market. So the company would just go away. And so you've got a handful of major asset managers,

00:18:30.100 BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, and others who are really pulling the strings here. And they're not

00:18:35.440 answering to their customers. And they're not answering to their constituents. If it were a

00:18:40.460 political body, like a government body, they're just doing whatever they want. Now, why would they do

00:18:45.900 this? Another reason that they would be willing to kill Bud Light, the most popular beer in America,

00:18:49.640 is that Bud Light had not been growing. It had not been explosively growing. It was still the

00:18:53.440 dominant number one beer in America. But some of the executives felt that it was stagnating. And you

00:18:58.940 saw this represented by Alyssa Hershenfeld, the VP of Marketing, who said, we needed to do something to

00:19:03.580 jazz up the brand. Why did they have to do that? Well, because the way that modern capitalism works,

00:19:08.340 it's not enough to be the biggest dogs in town. You've got to always be growing. If you're not

00:19:12.940 growing, then you're dying. And this creates a problem because there's no limit to it. There's

00:19:19.860 no limit anywhere. And so what this might be is a controlled demolition of Budweiser. Because

00:19:25.940 while AB InBev, Transheiser, Bush might take a hit in the short run, there are so few major beer

00:19:31.440 distributors that in the long run, it probably won't cost them all that much money. The number one beer in

00:19:37.140 America now is Modelo, which is hilarious that it's a Mexican beer that's now the number one beer in

00:19:41.380 America. And Modelo is not owned by Transheiser, Bush in North America. It's owned by Constellation,

00:19:48.260 which also has some woke problems too. But in the rest of the world, Modelo is owned by Transheiser,

00:19:52.980 Bush. And so these conglomerates own so much product, and there are so few of them anyway,

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00:22:34.500 Speaking of BlackRock, James O'Keefe, formerly of Project Veritas, who's now doing his own thing,

00:22:39.720 OMG, which is the O'Keefe Media Group. It's a fun little initialism there. James has caught a BlackRock

00:22:49.160 recruiter on hidden camera explaining what BlackRock really is from the inside.

00:22:56.660 Let me tell you, it's not through who's the president is. It's who's controlling the wallet.

00:23:05.100 And who's that?

00:23:07.500 The hedge funds, the banks, these guys work. You're paying financing. You can buy your candidates.

00:23:15.880 Obviously, we have the system in place. First, there's the Senate. This guy's f***ing shit.

00:23:20.660 You got 10 grand, you can buy a senator. I could give you 500K right now, no question.

00:23:24.700 I'm done. Does everybody do that? Does BlackRock do that?

00:23:30.140 It doesn't matter who wins. They're my clients.

00:23:34.580 If Ukraine is good for business, you know, right?

00:23:38.180 I'll give an example. Russia. Russia blows up Ukraine's grain sales.

00:23:43.780 The price of wheat is going to go mad up.

00:23:46.140 The Ukrainian economy is tied very largely to the wheat market, the global wheat market.

00:23:51.160 The prices of bread and, you know, literally everything goes up and down.

00:23:56.920 This is fantastic if you're trading. Volatility creates opportunity to make profit.

00:24:02.820 War is very f***ing good for business.

00:24:05.620 Great stuff from James.

00:24:08.800 It's nothing we didn't know.

00:24:11.560 There's nothing surprising in this undercover video.

00:24:14.460 Yes, we know people can buy politicians.

00:24:19.360 U.S. senators, I think, cost more than $10,000 to influence.

00:24:22.900 And there are some politicians who can take the money and then they won't take the phone calls.

00:24:27.460 And then sometimes the people who previously backed them will back their opponents or something.

00:24:31.560 I mean, there are some more independent voices.

00:24:33.780 But yeah, it's true.

00:24:34.420 And very often what politicians will do in their defense is they will seek out donors who share their priorities.

00:24:41.160 So that it's not just that they're being bought off like a cheap hooker or something like that.

00:24:44.920 It's that they are representing multiple kinds of constituents.

00:24:49.060 They're representing their geographic constituents.

00:24:50.700 They're representing interests that they already support.

00:24:54.320 You know, if I make fun of the environmentalist movement, the people who say the globe warm is going to kill us all in five minutes.

00:25:01.560 I mock some of these new technologies, especially the solar and electric technologies that are very often just payoffs to liberal groups.

00:25:10.100 So I'm pro-fossil fuels.

00:25:12.400 I'm pro-oil and natural gas.

00:25:14.680 If I were to run for office and I received a campaign donation from oil and natural gas industries, it wouldn't be that they were buying me off.

00:25:26.820 I'm already pro-oil and natural gas.

00:25:28.940 They've never written me any campaign check.

00:25:30.820 But it's a nice alignment of values.

00:25:34.440 And sometimes it's a little more corrupt than that.

00:25:36.200 Sometimes it's just a big corporation that says, hey, I'm, you know, here's the check.

00:25:40.560 Do what I want.

00:25:41.200 Give me the legislation that helps me.

00:25:42.840 Okay, yeah, but we already know all that.

00:25:44.700 What about the Ukraine war is good for business?

00:25:46.580 Yeah, we know that.

00:25:47.780 Of course we know that.

00:25:49.720 Dwight Eisenhower warned about that sort of thing a long time ago.

00:25:53.320 Can we, there's nothing new here.

00:25:55.100 And this, this poor schlub recruiter for BlackRock trying to impress some girl on a date doesn't, doesn't work out well for him.

00:26:03.480 If you are in a politically, I don't know why I'm giving advice to the libs here.

00:26:09.200 If you are in a politically contentious, important position and some like smoking hot chick comes up to you and wants to go out on a date and then is just constantly peppering you with questions about the most controversial aspects of your job.

00:26:22.900 Yeah, it's on you at that point if you answer.

00:26:27.520 Okay, you are so, the power of women, you'd be so blinded by that.

00:26:30.980 Okay, it's not surprising, but it's disturbing anyway to see it, to hear it.

00:26:37.080 Oh, the political system doesn't work the way that we thought it did.

00:26:42.080 It's not about a bill up on Capitol Hill and the three branches and the people representing the this and the that and the other.

00:26:48.540 That's, no, that's not really how the political order works.

00:26:53.180 And one of the reasons that Trump was very successful in 2016 and why he might be successful again is he called that out in a way that other Republican politicians hadn't.

00:27:03.180 There was an attack on Trump in 2016, remember?

00:27:06.240 The, I forget which other Republican it was, probably multiple, said, hey Donald, you've donated to Democrats.

00:27:12.900 You've written checks to Democrats, that's why you can't be trusted.

00:27:16.000 And he flipped it.

00:27:17.140 He said, what are you talking about?

00:27:18.540 I've written checks to every politician.

00:27:20.440 I bought all you people off.

00:27:22.480 I did business, and I did business in New York and at an international scale.

00:27:26.560 And so, of course, I needed to buy you people off, and it was easy to buy you off.

00:27:29.920 So I played both sides of the aisle.

00:27:31.180 That's how the system really works.

00:27:32.520 So how am I going to fix the system?

00:27:34.460 Because I know it.

00:27:35.240 I've played that game a lot.

00:27:36.680 Meanwhile, you were just the guys that got bought.

00:27:39.980 It was very persuasive.

00:27:42.500 When Trump was able to convince some people who would be traditionally a little more left-wing voters to come on over to him,

00:27:47.620 it's because he was talking about a debate between the many and the few, between the people and the elites.

00:27:53.840 Very different from what we hear otherwise, between the Republicans and the Democrats and the left and the right.

00:27:59.180 He was saying, no, the system is a little different than you think that it is.

00:28:03.000 Now, speaking of that political system and how it works, great stuff from Elon Musk.

00:28:07.800 Elon Musk is really impressing me more and more each day.

00:28:11.480 Elon was responding to someone who said, hey, man, I'm getting spammed by all these pro-trans accounts on Twitter that are calling me cis and cisgender and cis, cis, cis, cis.

00:28:21.800 C-I-S.

00:28:23.800 And Elon responded and he said, repeated targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions.

00:28:33.340 The words cis or cisgender are considered slurs on this platform.

00:28:37.420 Now, some of you probably are wondering what cis means.

00:28:40.340 And I think Norm MacDonald gave the best explanation I've ever heard of what cis means.

00:28:44.920 Do you know that you are a cis male? Have you ever heard of that term?

00:28:49.740 A cis male?

00:28:50.420 Cis male. C-Y-S-M-A-L-E.

00:28:53.360 So what it means is that you are a man. You were born a man.

00:28:56.780 Well, as far as you know.

00:28:57.540 As far as I know.

00:28:58.480 And you identify yourself as a man.

00:29:01.460 Yes.

00:29:02.340 That's a cis male.

00:29:04.240 Now, I don't understand. Is this a new phrase?

00:29:06.660 Yes. It's a way of marginalizing a normal person.

00:29:10.180 That's all it is.

00:29:15.600 It's a way of marginalizing a normal person.

00:29:17.820 And I saw some self-styled conservatives, some nominally right-wing people, attack Elon for doing this.

00:29:27.000 They would say, hey, hey, hey, hey.

00:29:29.760 We can't do that. That's not total free speech.

00:29:33.000 Which, what's the difference between a normal person not wanting to be called a cis, sissy, but, and a sexually deviant person not wanting to be called by his real pronouns?

00:29:50.860 What's the difference?

00:29:53.140 You know, if you, come on, if you're going to ban one, you've got to ban the other.

00:29:56.280 And if you're going to allow one, you've got to allow the other.

00:29:57.760 What's the difference?

00:29:58.760 Here's the difference.

00:29:59.820 One of them is true and one is false.

00:30:01.340 One of those is grounded in reality and the other is not.

00:30:07.700 And one of them is normal.

00:30:12.120 And one set of standards is conducive to human flourishing and to bringing people into a line with reality and to just, like, being normal.

00:30:19.840 And the other set of standards where now you've got to call men she and women he and all that nonsense, that's not conducive to flourishing and that's not normal and it's deviant and false and wrong.

00:30:31.180 And so, when you ban false, wrong, stupid things, that's not the same as banning good and true things.

00:30:42.840 It's not the same.

00:30:43.560 Now, you might say, well, I'm a free speech absolutist and I don't think we should ban any of it.

00:30:46.660 Okay, fine, whatever, that's your position.

00:30:48.060 But you can't tell me there's not a difference.

00:30:51.180 There's obviously a difference between truth and falsehood.

00:30:53.960 Well, well, you wouldn't say this, but some other people might say, well, Michael, who is to decide?

00:31:02.520 Who is to decide that a man is really a man and that a man can't be a hook?

00:31:08.420 I don't know, like everybody, like every normal person who knows this.

00:31:14.760 And we know this because we have faculties of reason and we can perceive the truth.

00:31:18.320 And if we can't do that, we can't have self-government.

00:31:20.340 And just, you know.

00:31:22.840 And who decides in this case?

00:31:24.100 Elon Musk, because he owns Twitter.

00:31:26.420 And who helps him to arrive at that decision?

00:31:30.320 Well, his customer base would probably do that.

00:31:32.380 And, by the way, in the other direction, the political forces that are trying to push wokeness,

00:31:35.860 they're going to try to help him decide in another manner.

00:31:37.880 And Elon Musk is going to come to some decision.

00:31:40.080 In this case, he came to a good decision.

00:31:42.760 And then we set other standards in other areas.

00:31:45.000 Sometimes the government set some of those standards.

00:31:46.860 Sometimes schools set those standards.

00:31:48.180 Sometimes news networks set those standards.

00:31:50.380 And, yeah, the sooner we start, the sooner that we start distinguishing properly between truth and falsehood

00:32:00.300 and acting upon those distinctions, the better off we'll be.

00:32:03.620 The sooner that we stop marginalizing normal people, the better off we will be.

00:32:13.760 Now, some people are a little trepidatious about this more assertive new right that has been coming up.

00:32:23.800 Out of the ashes of the sort of libertarian platitudes that took over the right sometime in the late 90s and 2000s,

00:32:33.900 there is a more assertive right that is returning to not even all that much older traditions on the right,

00:32:41.100 which said, no, we're going to stand up for a real moral order.

00:32:43.380 We're going to insist upon some standards here.

00:32:45.540 And we're going to say we should have less of the weird sex stuff.

00:32:48.840 And we're going to talk about virtue.

00:32:51.460 And we're, yeah, we're going to be confident in our beliefs.

00:32:54.760 We're going to call this a Christian nation that is one nation under God.

00:32:58.520 And we're going to do that.

00:33:00.260 And I don't want to hear any of your libertarian claptrap about it.

00:33:03.680 Because, by the way, even the old school libertarians would have agreed with pretty much all the stuff

00:33:08.100 that the modern, assertive, new authoritarian conservatives are saying.

00:33:13.160 You know, it's just, it's not, the father of liberalism, John Locke, would not have gone for transgenderism, okay?

00:33:20.180 Milton Friedman would not have gotten on board with all this crazy rainbow stuff.

00:33:24.120 Give me a break, all right?

00:33:26.000 Give me a break, okay?

00:33:28.420 So, not everyone's happy about this.

00:33:30.580 There is, there is an article that attacked me.

00:33:34.260 Yours truly, believe it or not.

00:33:37.280 The article is titled, The Right's War on Fun.

00:33:44.120 That came after me, which we'll get to in one second.

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00:35:10.000 My favorite comment yesterday is from Devin Rossi, 5966, who says,

00:35:15.260 Not sure about gynosexual.

00:35:17.100 Gynosexual is that new term that the libs are pushing for someone who's attracted to a woman.

00:35:21.880 He says, Not sure about gynosexual, but as a man, I'm definitely a no-guy-sexual.

00:35:27.820 I'm a sucker for a good pun.

00:35:34.320 It's a good one.

00:35:35.020 I might use that.

00:35:36.460 So, what is The Nation?

00:35:37.480 I think this was in The Nation, wasn't it?

00:35:39.240 Here's what The Nation magazine says about yours truly.

00:35:46.740 They called me anhedonic, you know, opposed to pleasure.

00:35:50.420 They attacked me for pointing out that demons, the most famous representation of a demon,

00:35:56.260 is androgynous and trans, and opposed to the complementarity of the sexes.

00:36:00.980 Just likes to jumble it up.

00:36:01.980 Okay, that's not the main point.

00:36:03.060 Okay, here we go.

00:36:04.600 Knowles is, who wrote this?

00:36:07.840 I want to give this person both blame and credit.

00:36:09.900 Chris Lehman.

00:36:11.960 Knowles is perhaps the most dogged inquisitor in the new right-wing fatwa on pleasure having.

00:36:17.660 The same week that Mike Cernovich issued his indictment of alcohol, Knowles took to his

00:36:22.740 podcast to urge the conservative faithful to build a bridge to the 13th century.

00:36:29.380 And then he goes on to quote this piece of my show from some days ago, where I said that

00:36:37.920 I don't want America merely to go back to the days of 2012.

00:36:40.900 I want to go back to 1220 in Western civilization.

00:36:43.780 So anyway, the idea that I am opposed to pleasure having, I think, is proven false by my cigar

00:36:54.620 bill, and my bar bill, and my arts bill, and I've got a lot of musical instruments.

00:36:59.680 I like to, I don't know, I like to have fun.

00:37:02.320 For some people, having a good time is not their idea of having a good time.

00:37:08.120 For me, I like having a good time.

00:37:09.880 So that part, I think, is ridiculous.

00:37:11.980 Go, I can show him my cigar bar bill.

00:37:14.320 That's fine.

00:37:15.860 But the second part I really liked.

00:37:19.480 Knowles took to his podcast to urge conservative faithful to build a bridge to the 13th century.

00:37:23.380 That's what we have to do.

00:37:24.320 We need to build a bridge to the 13th century.

00:37:26.880 Bill Clinton in the 90s, he said we need to build a bridge to the 21st century.

00:37:30.220 We, uh, didn't work out.

00:37:32.460 We need to build a bridge to the 13th century.

00:37:34.920 And some libs think this is crazy.

00:37:40.120 They think this is totally crazy.

00:37:41.860 And I think, why?

00:37:42.980 And there are even some squishier conservatives who say, oh my goodness, that's crazy.

00:37:46.900 Back then, that was the Dark Ages.

00:37:49.640 That was terrible.

00:37:50.780 The 13th century, that was a terrible time.

00:37:52.880 How would you ever want to go back there?

00:37:54.180 And the reason that people think that is because they have believed the lies and propaganda of Whig history, of liberal progressive history, which is not based on real history.

00:38:05.060 It's based on the self-flattery of the very, very modern people who want to pretend that everyone who ever came before us was a big, dumb, stupid idiot.

00:38:15.260 We're the best people that ever lived.

00:38:16.720 And we've done so much better.

00:38:17.980 We're so much smarter.

00:38:18.780 We're so much more virtuous.

00:38:20.300 And it just isn't true.

00:38:21.680 In many, if not most ways, we are much, much stupider, we are much less capable of pleasure, and we are much less skilled and talented than our forebears who lived in the 13th century.

00:38:37.140 What did we have in the 13th century?

00:38:40.400 We had Thomas Aquinas writing the Summa Theologiae.

00:38:43.180 That's pretty good.

00:38:43.720 We were about to get Dante writing the Divine Comedy.

00:38:46.180 We had the building of beautiful, intricate cathedrals that lifted men's eyes, not just rich men's eyes, but especially poor men's eyes, up to heaven.

00:38:55.880 We had a lot of leisure time.

00:38:58.060 People in the Middle Ages often had more days off of work than people do today because there was the liturgical calendar year.

00:39:04.960 There was such a thing as pilgrimage.

00:39:07.500 And by the way, these great works of art, they weren't just locked away in a handful of museums in cosmopolitan cities that people would go to.

00:39:13.720 This great, beautiful art was throughout the culture, and people would regularly get to experience this stuff.

00:39:19.480 They had a sense of purpose in their lives.

00:39:21.260 They were near to family.

00:39:23.120 They were not suffering from the spiking rates of depression that plagued not the medieval people, not the ancient people.

00:39:30.080 The modern people are the ones who are suffering from that.

00:39:32.860 They had children, and they carried on their civilization, unlike the modern people who were choosing not to do that at all.

00:39:39.460 It's ahistorical, and it's perfect, though.

00:39:46.220 I mean, it tells you everything you need to know about our era, that people today who don't know a damn thing,

00:39:51.460 who couldn't probably tell you even what Thomas Aquinas or his predecessors or Aristotle or any serious philosopher were even talking about,

00:40:01.200 modern people for whom the heights of satisfaction involve playing some video games and eating brunch and looking at porn.

00:40:10.500 Modern people are going to lecture the medievals and the scholastics on a serious, good, flourishing life.

00:40:17.300 It's just such a joke.

00:40:18.700 But of course it's the case that those modern people would also fall into the chief, the highest of the seven deadly sins, and that's pride,

00:40:29.820 which we're celebrating right now.

00:40:31.420 We're in the middle of Pride Month.

00:40:33.060 We think, oh yeah, this culture that we're in, where we don't really build anything beautiful anymore,

00:40:38.000 and all the art and architecture is just absolutely hideous and degrading,

00:40:41.060 and we're now turning a generation of young people into voluntary prostitutes on the internet,

00:40:48.040 and rousing everyone's lusts and gluttony and chopping up our body parts,

00:40:53.080 and just not having any kids and not being near our families.

00:40:56.840 Oh yeah, it's awesome and great.

00:40:59.500 We're so much better.

00:41:01.320 Everyone who came before us was just crazy,

00:41:03.040 because they didn't have electric toothbrushes or something.

00:41:05.620 So, yeah, okay.

00:41:07.200 I don't want to go back to 13th century dentistry,

00:41:09.860 but in most other realms of life, I think it would be probably pretty good to return.

00:41:16.060 Return with a V.

00:41:17.060 Return to tradition.

00:41:18.940 Speaking of banning stuff,

00:41:21.060 we've got a little bit of time.

00:41:22.800 I'll get into this.

00:41:23.480 The good old Italians, who were a fairly traditional people,

00:41:27.000 even after the rise of the modern secular Italian nation state,

00:41:31.580 which had all sorts of attacks on the church,

00:41:34.800 and that country hasn't really been able to govern itself properly since Octavian.

00:41:39.040 Well, Italy, there's a deep kind of conservatism to the Italians,

00:41:42.660 and they're expressing this now.

00:41:43.860 Italian lawmakers have begun to debate a proposal to criminalize surrogacy arranged abroad.

00:41:51.020 It's already illegal in Italy, but they want to criminalize it even if it's done abroad.

00:41:55.720 This is under Prime Minister Georgia Maloney's ruling coalition.

00:41:59.420 Couples found guilty of trying to have children through surrogates living overseas

00:42:03.900 face three months to two years in prison,

00:42:07.580 a fine of €600,000 to €1 million under the draft bill,

00:42:11.800 which was submitted by a woman, Carolina Varki,

00:42:15.460 who's a member of the Conservative Party, the Brothers of Italy.

00:42:20.060 Great, great stuff.

00:42:21.760 And the Libs are whining about it.

00:42:23.000 Here's what the Libs are saying.

00:42:23.800 They're saying, there are no countries in which surrogacy is prosecuted if done legally abroad.

00:42:30.140 Italy's proposal is a unique first.

00:42:32.040 This is Alexander Schuster, who's a pro-LGBT LMNAP lawyer.

00:42:36.420 He says, there are instances in which crimes are persecuted also if done abroad,

00:42:40.340 but this is usually only for universal crimes,

00:42:43.080 like pedophilia or crimes against a state or sexual tourism.

00:42:46.640 I think that creating a child in a test tube with the express purpose of denying that child

00:42:56.720 potentially a natural mother or potentially a natural father

00:43:01.020 or for purchasing that child effectively

00:43:05.940 or for depriving that child of the right to be conceived as a product of the conjugal act

00:43:12.400 between his parents who are married for life.

00:43:16.600 I think that's a universal crime too.

00:43:19.720 I think that's quite a universal crime, actually.

00:43:22.680 At least as much as sexual tourism.

00:43:24.300 It is sexual tourism.

00:43:26.760 It's a very deep kind of sexual tourism.

00:43:29.760 And I don't want to be too harsh on people who have engaged in surrogacy

00:43:32.760 because it's a relatively new technology and people are trying it out

00:43:36.160 and there are normal married couples who are trying it out

00:43:39.500 and there are homosexuals who are trying it out

00:43:41.180 and there are single people and there are just rich people

00:43:44.240 who don't want their body to undergo the trauma of being pregnant and giving birth.

00:43:48.480 So they just pay some poor woman to do it for them.

00:43:51.720 And I get it.

00:43:52.360 It's a new thing.

00:43:53.480 And I think a lot of people haven't really thought through this.

00:43:58.340 And now we're beginning to think through this

00:44:00.000 and we're having a debate over it

00:44:01.460 and we're beginning to see that the process is just ghastly

00:44:03.680 and it should not be permitted, obviously.

00:44:06.980 And it doesn't mean that children who have been conceived through surrogacy

00:44:09.760 are evil or bad.

00:44:11.180 Or that it's bad that they exist.

00:44:13.840 They can be a good end.

00:44:15.560 You know, God turns all sorts of evil toward good ends.

00:44:18.800 But good ends do not justify our evil means ever.

00:44:22.860 Our immoral means.

00:44:23.680 We can't do it.

00:44:24.260 And so this is absolutely great stuff coming out of Italy.

00:44:28.120 The United States should take up a similar law.

00:44:30.280 We should just ban this.

00:44:31.720 This is deeply disordered.

00:44:33.680 There are all sorts of problems that come from it.

00:44:35.880 It is immoral for every person involved.

00:44:39.340 And this is a very proper use of the state.

00:44:42.720 The fathers of liberalism, I promise you,

00:44:44.620 even John Locke, even the libertarian heroes,

00:44:47.740 they would not have gotten behind this kind of thing.

00:44:52.400 Maybe some of the craziest ones would have,

00:44:53.960 but most of them would not have gotten behind this sort of thing.

00:44:57.180 And the fact that today the so-called conservatives might be giving this quarter

00:45:04.520 is absolutely insane.

00:45:07.480 It's not authoritarian to wield just political power to stop evil things from happening.

00:45:14.300 That's just called just authority.

00:45:15.520 That's just the point of government.

00:45:16.320 Okay, I'm sorry to say there's no member block today

00:45:19.220 because I'm on the road and producer Jacob won't hand me that iPad.

00:45:25.320 And we've, listen, we've talked about it.

00:45:26.880 We're probably going to talk about it a little bit more afterward.

00:45:30.200 But for now, no member block.

00:45:31.740 So I will see you all tomorrow.

00:45:34.080 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:34.700 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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