The Michael Knowles Show - June 26, 2023


Ep. 1275 - ＂We’re Coming For Your Children＂

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Biden's foreign policy and Ukraine war social conservatism sterilization of trans kids
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Michael Knowles
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Donald Trump Chris Christie Vladimir Putin Ron DeSantis Yingling Brewery Bud Light Joe Biden Prigozhin Eric Adams Hitler Jeremy Bernie Sanders Adam Kinzinger Greg Abbott Vladimir Zelensky Wilhelm Reich Youngling Beer Patriot Front Bud Lighted Proud Boy and 10 more
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As we near the end of Pride Month, the Gestapo of Seattle decided to kick things up a notch for the last weekend of this unholy season by bicycling completely nude in front of a crowd that included children. A pal of mine in Los Angeles texted me over the weekend to mention that he had the dubious distinction of seeing a nude LGBTB. And in New York, drag queens marched to inform citizens that they are coming for our children.

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00:00:26.120 31st, 2025. TD, ready for you. As we near the end of Pride Month, the Gestapo of Seattle decided to
00:00:34.620 kick things up a notch for the last weekend of this unholy season by bicycling completely nude in front
00:00:42.080 of a crowd that included children. A pal of mine in Los Angeles texted me over the weekend to mention
00:00:48.560 that he had the dubious distinction of seeing a nude LGBTB, the second B, of course, standing for 1.00
00:00:54.760 bicycle display as well. And in New York, drag queens marched to inform citizens that they are coming
00:01:02.760 for our children.
00:01:11.760 Now, the libs will continue to insist that the degenerates in that video have no particular
00:01:32.740 interest in children, that they are not groomers. But they obviously do have an interest in
00:01:39.400 children. And they're telling us that they do. And they have an interest in children because their
00:01:46.340 ideology demands it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:50.100 Welcome back to the show. Really wild clip over the weekend of the Proud Boys possibly getting into a
00:02:05.360 fight with federal agents masquerading as right-wingers. We'll get into all the implications
00:02:09.780 of this in a moment. First, though, we're just going to jump right into the deep end today.
00:02:14.260 We're here. We're queer. We're coming for your children. 0.97
00:02:21.040 The sexual revolutionaries have an overt interest in children, a sexual interest in children. It is 0.98
00:02:28.840 undeniable. It is grooming. It's nothing particularly new. It's been going on since the beginning of the
00:02:34.500 sexual revolution. In fact, when you look back to the 1960s at old essays from Bernie Sanders,
00:02:41.180 young socialist Bernie Sanders, he was writing about the need to sexualize children. You can see it in
00:02:47.280 two essays in the Vermont Freeman. Why is this? You can see this in other writers, beloved of the
00:02:52.400 left, people like Wilhelm Reich and many others. Why? Why does, and now up to today, you've got these
00:02:59.760 groomers in the schools and dancing through the streets of New York saying, we're here, we're queer,
00:03:05.000 dressed up in sexual garb, in a sexual demonstration, talking about a sexual interest 0.91
00:03:10.100 in children. Why is it? Is it just because they're perverts? No, it actually isn't because, you know,
00:03:18.060 the lib rejoinder to this is always going to be like, well, there was some Baptist preacher somewhere
00:03:23.400 and he had a sexual interest in children or, well, there was some Republican somewhere and he had a 0.94
00:03:29.380 sexual interest in children. Yeah, there are perverts everywhere. Not going to deny that for one 1.00
00:03:34.200 second. But for the sexual revolutionaries, for the pride people, it goes further into an overt
00:03:42.640 ideological sexual interest in children. The ideology demands it because the ideology says
00:03:51.980 that sexual expression is good in and of itself. That's what the libs believe. That's what the pride
00:03:59.280 people believe. The conservatives don't believe that. I'm a Catholic. I think that there is all
00:04:04.200 sorts of sexual expression that's very, very bad. I think there's all sorts of sexual expression
00:04:08.820 that's bad, not just for children, but for teenagers and adults and older people and married people for
00:04:14.240 that matter. I think that sexuality is a very tempestuous sort of thing and we've got to rein it 1.00
00:04:21.220 in and control it and proscribe all sorts of behaviors. That is the view of conservative
00:04:27.460 people. For the libs, though, their moral framework is if it feels good, do it. And so like with the
00:04:35.240 transgender issue, when you say, okay, if transgenderism is true for a 25-year-old, if a
00:04:40.080 man can really be a woman, then why wouldn't it be true for a five-year-old? If that's the way human 0.97
00:04:44.620 nature works, then it's true for everybody. The same goes for the sexual ethic on the left. If sexual
00:04:50.020 expression is always good, then why wouldn't it be good for children? Now, you might say, or a lib
00:04:55.780 trying to defend himself against these charges might say, well, you've got the matter of consent.
00:05:02.260 Children can't consent. But the libs can't make that argument when they're simultaneously arguing 0.59
00:05:07.060 that a five-year-old can consent to chop his genitals off or to take cross-sex hormones or to 0.96
00:05:11.140 permanently sterilize himself or to become a eunuch. By the way, kids can't consent to anything. 0.95
00:05:15.740 So parents make the decisions for children. Kids don't want to eat their broccoli. The parents
00:05:22.740 say, you're going to eat your broccoli. Kids don't want to do their homework. The parents say,
00:05:25.580 you're going to do your homework. That's what raising children is. You're making decisions
00:05:29.960 on behalf of children that you think are in their best interest. And when it comes to the sexual
00:05:34.400 revolution, they believe that it is in the best interest of people to express their sexual desires
00:05:40.300 no matter what they are, because otherwise we'll be really repressive and that'll give people a
00:05:44.820 complex and it'll harm them. And that's why we've got to protect trans kids. And the way we protect
00:05:49.940 trans kids is by sterilizing them or by putting them on puberty blockers or by chopping off their 1.00
00:05:55.200 genitals or by encouraging disordered sexual behaviors and desires. That's why they're always 0.99
00:06:01.020 going to come for your kids. That's why it's always going to end up with that drag march in New York 1.00
00:06:06.520 City. Put aside the personal perversions of these people. That is what the ideology demands.
00:06:18.680 A little side note to this story, the nation's first self-identified transgender state representative
00:06:23.860 was just arrested on child pornography. But we don't even need, so, you know, okay, there you have
00:06:28.640 it. That's the first one. I'm just reading the news story. I'm not making any broad claims. But you
00:06:32.420 don't need to point to that because then the liberals will say, well, there was a pedophile 0.89
00:06:36.420 priest or there was a Republican. Yeah, again, I know there are perverts everywhere. But what does 0.99
00:06:40.740 the ideology say? Where is it overt? When people tell you what they want, when people tell you who
00:06:46.160 they are, you should very often believe them. So where does that leave us? Now we're at the end of
00:06:52.360 Pride Month. Bud Light destroyed. Target partially destroyed. People are turning against this stuff.
00:07:00.940 They don't like to see people marching in the streets saying, we're going to come and sexualize
00:07:03.980 your children. So Yingling is one of the companies that has profited from this. As Bud Light was
00:07:10.720 destroyed, Yingling doubled down and said, we're not going to push weird sexual ideologies on kids.
00:07:17.840 Then people started buying Yingling more. Now, though, Yingling was caught sponsoring a Pride event.
00:07:25.420 We got the story here from the Daily Wire. Yingling Brewery was sponsoring the Music Fest drag show
00:07:34.600 at Music Fest Cafe on June 30th. And the Music Fest drag show was going to allow anyone over the age of
00:07:47.040 13 to attend. And so Yingling, recognizing that it's on the verge of getting Bud Lighted,
00:07:51.780 it's on the verge of losing all the benefits that it got from swooping in when Bud Light went full
00:07:55.800 Pride. Yingling is saying, okay, we need to raise the age or we're going to pull out of the event.
00:08:00.360 So now the minimum age is 18. And that's better than allowing 13-year-olds to go to these events. 0.84
00:08:04.760 But Yingling should take this further. Yingling should just pull out of the event. People are sick
00:08:09.120 of Pride, okay? We've been very tolerant for a very long time. Will and Grace aired in the late 90s
00:08:16.560 and everyone got very tolerant. We all like our gay friends. We all like our gay cousin. But this
00:08:22.400 has gone way too far and everybody knows it. And so the pendulum is swinging back way in the other
00:08:26.860 direction. You saw it in Gallup polling. The approval for same-sex relations of any kind has
00:08:31.640 dropped precipitously. It's something like seven points in just one year. There is absolutely no
00:08:36.940 commercial or political benefit to Yingling Brewing Company, which has already identified itself as an
00:08:41.460 enemy of the rainbow flag. There is no benefit to Yingling sponsoring a drag show for anybody of
00:08:48.100 any age, 18 plus included, okay? I'm not saying Yingling needs to go out there and start embracing
00:08:55.240 Sharia law or something like that, okay? We can be very, very tolerant, very, very nice, and love
00:08:59.820 everybody and not send the morality police to people's homes without sponsoring this public,
00:09:05.780 deeply unpopular degeneracy, okay? Nobody, nobody who is buying Yingling Beer wants to see a drag show. 1.00
00:09:15.300 Just ditch it, guys. You can go. We can go a lot further. Conservatives suffer from a failure of
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00:10:37.920 to 989898. You're seeing this same thing with Starbucks here. Starbucks Workers United,
00:10:45.380 the Starbucks union, is calling for a strike because Starbucks allegedly discouraged shops from
00:10:51.440 putting up rainbow decorations during Pride Month. And I hope that's true. I hope Starbucks 0.99
00:10:56.600 Corporation did that. However, Starbucks Corporation then came out and denied this
00:11:00.800 allegation, said, no, we stand with the LGB, LMNOP community. And still, it's not good enough for the
00:11:07.200 Starbucks workers. So the Starbucks Workers United are calling for a strike of over 150 stores and 3,500
00:11:12.780 workers. Starbucks should fire as many of these people as possible. You know, I have long defended
00:11:18.420 Starbucks, even though it's got a little bit of a woke reputation. I've said these guys have done
00:11:22.460 a lot of good. I think the coffee tastes pretty good as far as mass-produced coffee goes. I think
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00:11:36.680 back on the cups again at December. They don't put, the employees are very often pretty woke, but the
00:11:42.420 corporation doesn't peddle that stuff. Don't cave to these guys. Do not cave to them. It will
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00:12:00.600 to this show. Speaking of uprisings, you may have heard that there was almost a civil war in Russia
00:12:05.660 over the weekend. And I'll give you the broad strokes of it. As though I were some kind of expert
00:12:11.940 on Russian politics, as though anybody were an expert on Russian politics. The Wagner Group,
00:12:18.160 the fancy people call it the Wagner Group, the Americans call it the Wagner Group. The Wagner
00:12:22.260 Group is this paramilitary in Russia. And the leader of the Wagner Group is this guy, Prigozhin, 0.83
00:12:28.780 who is just a psycho Russian warlord. And Prigozhin was very upset because he felt that the Russian 0.89
00:12:34.200 defense minister, Shoigu, was undermining his position and even killing some of his mercenary
00:12:40.380 troops. So Prigozhin decides to march on Moscow. He got within a couple of hours of the Kremlin and,
00:12:46.960 or at least within a couple of hours of the outskirts of Moscow. And then he halted. There
00:12:51.040 was an 11th hour deal. He turned around. Now Prigozhin has been exiled to Belarus, which means he's 0.78
00:12:56.660 probably going to be awaiting the delivery of a nice polonium tea any day now. You know,
00:13:00.960 one of Vlad the Impaler's messengers is probably going to come and end his consciousness. But
00:13:06.660 this was a big threat to Vlad's power. And the question is, did we know about it? Did we instigate
00:13:14.380 this sort of thing? The initial report said U.S. intelligence agencies caught flat-footed here,
00:13:20.660 taken by surprise by the Wagner Group uprising in Russia. Then later on, we had reports that said
00:13:26.780 that U.S. intel was aware of this beforehand and, you know, they were monitoring the situation.
00:13:32.120 And we don't know what to believe. Because some people believe that the CIA controls every single
00:13:36.240 event in the world and it's the most powerful body on earth. Other people believe that the CIA and
00:13:41.920 the U.S. intel agencies are basically incompetent. And I think it might be a little bit of both.
00:13:49.040 You know, the CIA does have a lot of power. They've amassed a lot of power over the years.
00:13:52.720 Also, it's a government agency and the federal government is sometimes bumbling. I think of
00:13:57.740 that great Coen Brothers movie, Burn After Reading, the point of which is that events just continue to
00:14:03.260 spiral out of control. And the CIA is often the cause of that. But they never seem to make it any
00:14:09.540 better. And so they say, OK, well, just keep your eyes on it. Keep monitoring it. And they'll try to
00:14:13.260 catch up afterward. Regardless, this would appear to be a tactical win for NATO because you've weakened
00:14:19.240 Russia here. You've weakened Putin without totally destabilizing the country. And so this raises
00:14:24.660 another point. This is the point I want to talk about. Nobody really cares about the internal
00:14:28.200 politics of Russia. I care about how this plays out in the media and what it means for Americans and
00:14:34.260 those of us in the West, which is there sure were a lot of Russia experts over the weekend. There sure
00:14:41.240 were a lot of people. There was a liberal establishment that was cheering on the coup d'etat
00:14:48.860 by this guy Purgosian. And I thought, what do you think is going to happen? I know that
00:14:58.460 the American liberals have, they just buy whatever the Western propaganda feeds them. And whatever the
00:15:07.660 Washington Post and CNN say is the current thing, we're all supposed to just become obsessed with
00:15:14.420 that and buy whatever talking points they feed to us. But do we really want Putin gone? What happens
00:15:22.920 if we kick out Putin? Who takes over? Do you know? Not you, I'm preaching to the choir, but the
00:15:31.160 libs who were cheering this on. Do you know the names of five Russians other than Vladimir Putin?
00:15:36.080 Liberals? I don't think so. I don't think they know anybody involved here.
00:15:40.800 I think that they just have been programmed to believe Vladimir Putin bad. Vladimir Putin knew
00:15:47.260 Hitler. We must get rid of Vladimir Putin. Okay, so now you're cheering on some complete psycho 0.98
00:15:53.000 Russian warlord with a private military marching on the Kremlin to take control of the nuclear weapons 0.73
00:15:59.300 of the former superpower. That's what, that's how much the Washington Post has melted your brain? 0.50
00:16:06.900 Do you think that's a good thing? Have you lost your freaking mind? 1.00
00:16:11.780 Why, what, how does it benefit us to get rid of Vladimir Putin? Who, yes, despite being an all sorts 1.00
00:16:19.120 of nasty guy, is a relatively stable, moderate force by the standards of Russia and extreme politics.
00:16:29.360 We really want nuclear weapons in a country that could fall into civil war. I don't think so.
00:16:35.360 And we got it. Sometimes we got to just take a break, turn off the CNN, close up the Washington
00:16:40.760 Post for a second, take a look at the situation and say, okay, and this is true, by the way,
00:16:44.520 of social media. This is true of so much of our emotional response to politics. When you're
00:16:49.560 feeling like you really just, you're getting angry, maybe you even feel like you hate somebody in
00:16:53.880 politics. That Trump, he's the devil, he's Hitler. Are you that man? Okay, take a pause. 1.00
00:17:00.140 Just say, hey, why, why do I hate him? How did I come to hate this guy? Trump is a great example for
00:17:07.500 this. This is a guy who was a fairly beloved celebrity for 40 years and was the host of the most
00:17:13.400 popular game show on network television and was adulated in 300 plus hip hop songs. And then just
00:17:21.400 one day, as though the liberal establishment unscrewed the back of our heads, opened it up,
00:17:27.680 pulled out the computer chip that said you like Trump and put in the computer chip that said you
00:17:31.360 hate Trump. Trump lovable, Trump funny, Trump fun celebrity. Boop, we're going to pull that chip
00:17:36.480 out. We're going to put in the Trump evil Hitler chip. Boop. And then all of a sudden on a dime, 0.94
00:17:40.520 everyone turned. When you feel your emotion just stirred up like that, you got to just take a pause,
00:17:45.840 ask yourself, not whether or not this person is good. You can get to that question later. Ask
00:17:49.800 yourself first, why am I being told to hate this person? What strategic goal is advanced here?
00:17:55.860 Speaking of unpopular leaders, Chris Christie is on the campaign trail. Chris Christie running for
00:18:01.940 president. Chris Christie was just booed by an audience, political audience for dissing Donald Trump.
00:18:08.680 All right, we heard the reaction to your speech at the Faith and Freedom Conference. I assume you
00:18:13.780 well knew you were going to get booed when you started slamming Donald Trump's leadership. I did
00:18:19.500 hear some applause in the crowd as well, but the boos were loud. What's your sense? Is the anti-Trump
00:18:26.060 message, is there any evidence that it's resonating? Absolutely evidence is resonating.
00:18:31.100 John, I've been in the race for less than three weeks and I'm already in third place in New Hampshire,
00:18:36.260 only four points behind Ron DeSantis, who's been in the race for a longer time and is supposed to be
00:18:41.820 the co-front runner. Look, people understand that folks need to take responsibility for what they
00:18:48.920 do. And my message to the folks at Faith and Freedom, which did get some good reaction too,
00:18:53.860 but of course I expected the boos, that is predominantly a Trump crowd. But they need to hear
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00:19:23.040 he's going to have a moment. If I could bet on him unpredicted, I'd probably put at least a small
00:19:26.820 amount of money on it. I'm not saying he's going to go the distance. I'm not recommending that
00:19:30.840 anybody put their money on Chris Christie, but I feel he's got a lot more political skill than
00:19:36.340 others are letting on. And so he's saying, I go to Faith and Freedom. I go there, I give an anti-Trump
00:19:41.760 message. I get booed, but I'm doing well in New Hampshire. This is a really important insight for
00:19:49.400 the 2024 race. The Christie's of the race are having a little bit of a moment.
00:19:56.820 Trump is remaining dominant. What is the takeaway here? The takeaway is not that you're going to be
00:20:04.180 rewarded for attacking Trump. The takeaway is not that the path to the nomination is attacking Trump.
00:20:10.080 The takeaway here is that the supposed co-front runner, Ron DeSantis, is weaker than it seems.
00:20:19.040 There's a poll out from NBC News. You know about the Chris-a-sons. I've talked to you about the 0.76
00:20:23.000 potential Chris-a-sons right now. Trump is at 51%. DeSantis is at 22%. Pence is at 6%. Christie's right
00:20:31.540 behind at 5%. Haley at 4%. Tim Scott, 3%. Vivek at 3%. Even Asa Hutchinson at 2%. How has the movement
00:20:39.680 been on those numbers? Trump is up five points from April. Pence is up one point. Christie is up five
00:20:45.520 points, as I told you, would happen. The big change here is DeSantis is down 9%. Chris Christie is not
00:20:54.380 taking votes from Donald Trump. Chris Christie is taking votes from Ron DeSantis. Because as I've said
00:21:01.320 from the beginning, the big trouble for Ron DeSantis is that he is running in the Trump lane. He is the
00:21:07.220 Trump candidate. His pitch is, I'm Trump 2.0. I'm Trump without the weaknesses. But his big base of
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00:21:18.640 to be both the better Trump and the anti-Trump. And that's a very difficult, potentially impossible
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00:22:58.840 Now, Chris Christie's big charge here in the race is that Donald Trump, he is just not fit to be
00:23:08.780 president. Character is the single most important element of a president of the United States because
00:23:15.340 you can't know every issue that's going to come across a president's desk. It's not a litmus test
00:23:20.380 with checkboxes that are in them. What you need to know is what is the character of that person. And
00:23:26.280 frankly, when I listened to Donald Trump's speech last night, he had the audacity to say that he got
00:23:32.660 indicted for us. Now, I don't know how it benefited the American people for him to take highly sensitive
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00:23:46.540 for over a year and a half to subject himself to a raid by the FBI, even though they had asked him
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00:23:59.040 to be one of great trouble for the country because no one wants to see this happen. It's not about
00:24:03.960 whether you think Donald Trump has been treated fairly or not by the media or by elements of the
00:24:09.580 Justice Department. It is about whether he is a man of character who can lead this party to victory.
00:24:15.260 And I don't believe he can. I don't believe that Donald Trump has the character to be president.
00:24:22.240 That line doesn't work anymore. That line might have worked in 2016. And you might still say, well,
00:24:27.240 Trump doesn't have an admirable character. I don't like his character. Okay. But you can't say
00:24:32.140 Trump doesn't have the character to be president because Trump was president and he was a good
00:24:37.840 president. He got Roe v. Wade overturned. He was great on foreign policy. He was great on
00:24:44.320 immigration until he was undermined by his bureaucrats. But for that first little bit
00:24:47.680 of his administration, he was very good on immigration. Immigration fell dramatically.
00:24:51.220 The economy improved. You can't say that. This is an argument from, what is it? Heraclitus,
00:24:58.460 I think, said a man's character is his fate. And this was the big argument against Trump in 2016.
00:25:03.380 He doesn't have the character to be president, but he does. And so you've just taken a major quiver
00:25:08.760 that you could use against Trump. That's gone. And that's why the Christie argument is not really
00:25:15.280 hurting Trump. Trump's numbers generally are just going up or staying the same. The argument,
00:25:22.080 Christie is also as predicted, Christie is going to weaken the non-Trump candidates in the race,
00:25:29.620 diffuse some of that support. And now you are seeing a situation, and we're just seeing the
00:25:33.700 beginning of it. Anything could change, but you're seeing a situation that is beginning to resemble
00:25:38.400 a situation like Trump had in 2016. In 2016, Trump just had a solid plurality in lots of states,
00:25:44.880 and the rest of the support was split up among the other candidates, and Trump took the nomination.
00:25:49.620 Now, in this case, you're seeing Trump, according to some polls, with an outright majority.
00:25:54.600 So it would seem even better for him. What is Trump's message? Trump also spoke at this conference,
00:26:03.200 Faith and Freedom. His message was an unusual one for the GOP.
00:26:06.880 This whole world is on fire. This world is on fire. Before I even arrive at the Oval Office,
00:26:14.660 I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine totally settled. I'll have it done in 24
00:26:20.840 hours. I say that, and I would do that. That's easy compared to some of the things that I'd get that
00:26:28.900 done in 24 hours. I know them both. I know them both. As the Bible says, blessed are the peacemakers.
00:26:36.980 See that? I will be your, and I will be your peacemaker. I was your peacemaker.
00:26:43.240 This is a very conservative message, and it's also a very unusual message. For the last
00:26:48.820 30 years, I guess, of the GOP, certainly the last 20 years, the GOP message has been a little more
00:26:57.000 saber-rattling. It's been a little bit more, we're going to go in there, we're going to bomb them, 1.00
00:27:01.300 we're going to spread freedom around the world, you're with us or against us. We're going to go 0.93
00:27:04.420 attack the axis of evil, spread democracy, wipe out these different bad guys around the world.
00:27:09.520 Trump is saying, I'm going to be your peacemaker. Blessed are the peacemakers,
00:27:12.280 I'm going to be a peacemaker in politics. As you're seeing the Democrats become more and more
00:27:18.760 belligerent, Joe Biden's foreign policy is just more war. That's what it is. And he's fairly open
00:27:25.420 about that. He has prolonged the war in Ukraine. He, in many ways, instigated the war in Ukraine.
00:27:30.360 Those aren't just my words. That's Vladimir Zelensky, who said that if Biden hadn't pulled
00:27:34.600 the sanctions off of Russia, and if, obviously, Biden hadn't invited Russia to invade, actually said,
00:27:39.580 if it's just a minor incursion into Ukraine, we won't really do anything about it,
00:27:42.900 that you wouldn't have seen the war in Ukraine. But the Biden foreign policy is let's have more
00:27:47.860 war and let's manage more wars around the world. The Trump message is, no war, I'm going to be your
00:27:53.480 peacemaker. He broke the mold, okay? And so even if you come later and you say, I agree with that Trump
00:27:57.920 message and I'm going to implement that Trump message. And let's say you actually can. Let's say
00:28:00.920 you're a candidate who is somehow able to implement the Trump message better than Trump is.
00:28:05.860 It doesn't really matter because if you like that Trump breaking the mold thing, you're probably
00:28:13.700 going to go and stick with your guy, stick with the original. Now, speaking of hearkening back to
00:28:22.380 better times, there's an important new poll on the culture, which is that Americans want to unplug.
00:28:30.320 Americans, who often are very bullish on technology and they want more technology,
00:28:34.520 they want more gadgets and gizmos. They're turning away from that. Just as they're turning
00:28:38.540 away from the rainbow ideology, they're turning away from technology. A new poll has found that
00:28:42.580 77% of middle-aged Americans between 35 and 54 years old want to return to a time before society
00:28:49.160 was always plugged in. A time before the internet was always on and cell phones were always in our
00:28:53.940 pockets and we were always expected to answer texts and emails. And it's not just middle-aged people.
00:28:58.740 This poll from Harris found that 63% of people aged 18 to 34. So now we're talking about Zoomers as 1.00
00:29:07.240 well as millennials also want to go back to simpler times, even though a lot of those people,
00:29:12.420 especially the Zoomers, never even experienced that. I remember when we got our first computer 1.00
00:29:16.480 in my house. I certainly remember when we got the internet for the first time.
00:29:20.940 Certainly, I didn't have high-speed internet until I was 17 or 18. I vividly remember a time before a
00:29:29.340 computer in the home. And a lot of younger millennials and Zoomers can't say that. But
00:29:33.780 even though a lot of them can't remember it, they say, I want to go back to that time.
00:29:38.860 Once again, fewer baby boomers want to go back to that time. 60% of people older than 55 say they
00:29:44.460 want to return to those pre-internet days. This maps almost exactly onto the Pride survey that Gallup
00:29:49.160 found, which is that in terms of people's views on the Pride ideology, younger people are much more
00:29:57.540 likely to want to roll it back, much less likely to support the Rainbow Coalition. In fact, the only
00:30:03.200 group that is getting more socially liberal is the boomers. The younger guys, much more traditional, 0.82
00:30:10.480 much more conservative. And overall, two-thirds of poll respondents say they prefer things as they
00:30:14.880 used to be versus what they are now. So what do these guys want? And by these guys, I include
00:30:20.540 myself in it. I don't live on my phone. I'm probably on Twitter too often. But I don't do the other apps.
00:30:26.320 I'm rarely on Instagram. I'm never on TikTok. I never answer my texts. Almost never. I don't like it.
00:30:34.280 I don't want the new gadgets. I just find it so distracting. It's exhausting. Even when you catch
00:30:39.460 yourself doomscrolling, it doesn't make you feel better. It depresses people. It's just, it's no
00:30:43.860 bueno. It's no good. We're getting sucked into this black mirror. What are people really yearning for
00:30:48.520 here? One, people are beginning to question the progressive view of history, the Whig view of
00:30:55.360 history, that history is always getting better and the old times were terrible and the modern time is
00:31:00.360 always a crisis and the future is always going to be much better. That's over. I got in trouble among
00:31:05.340 the libs a couple of weeks ago because I said, I don't want to follow the results of this new
00:31:11.880 social survey and return to the social conservatism of 2012. I want to return to the social
00:31:17.420 conservatism of 1220. And the libs made fun of me for this, but I don't know why they did. A lot
00:31:23.620 of people agree with that. In order to agree with that kind of a sentiment, I'm not saying I want to
00:31:28.880 return to the dentistry of 1220. That sounds unpleasant. But I do want to return to some of the social
00:31:33.720 conservatism, the unity of family, the confidence in faith and civilization, the recognition of a
00:31:41.980 moral order, the not having bands of lunatics marching down the street screaming, we're here,
00:31:47.560 we're queer, we're coming for your children. I'd like to return to that, to the seriousness of 1.00
00:31:51.760 philosophy. I'd like to return to all of that. And I bet a lot of other people do too. What the people
00:31:57.820 really are yearning for, the ones who say that we're now less supportive of the Pride Coalition,
00:32:04.000 or we're now less supportive of technology and being plugged in all the time, what they really want
00:32:08.880 is a return to control and virtue. And they find that our society, which is increasingly liberal
00:32:16.040 and technological, is taking away control. The technocrats in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in
00:32:23.060 the world are taking control away from us. Our technology is taking control away from us.
00:32:26.560 Our technology is spying on us all the time, collecting data, serving us ads. They think
00:32:31.300 that they know us better than we know ourselves. Very often that's true. And we're living in a liberal
00:32:35.540 society that mocks the very concept of virtue. For all of human history until liberalism, until the
00:32:42.700 modern age, society was understood that states are ordered toward the good. We want more good stuff
00:32:49.460 and less bad stuff. That's the basic idea of statecraft. And then modernity comes in and liberalism
00:32:54.840 comes in and makes fun of that idea. And with a radical skepticism, they say, we can't really ever
00:32:59.720 know anything about what's good. We can't really ever know anything about virtue. So we're just going
00:33:03.280 to make everyone rich materially. We're going to give everyone gizmos and gadgets, which is fine.
00:33:09.560 I guess it's nice to have material wealth, of course. But if that undermines the virtuous basis of
00:33:14.480 society, then even as your society gets materially much, much richer, you're simultaneously going to
00:33:19.700 see increasing rates of anxiety, depression, suicide. You're going to see plummeting rates of
00:33:24.540 marriage. You're going to see plummeting rates of childbirth. You're going to see exactly what
00:33:29.660 we're seeing right now. Who is more risible? Who is more worthy of mockery? The people who say,
00:33:38.900 maybe we should learn some lessons from the past and try to reinstitute those ideas into society,
00:33:44.140 including and especially Western civilization at its height, Christendom at its height,
00:33:48.740 or the people who say, oh, everything's going great now. Yeah, where do I plug my neck into
00:33:53.560 the matrix? Give me my goggles. I want to eat the bugs and live in the pod. I don't think so.
00:33:57.700 I don't think so. Now, speaking of this supposed progress, there's a report came out, Daily Wire
00:34:03.500 exclusive. The University of Virginia Trans Clinic is admitting something that we conservatives have been
00:34:11.040 worrying about for a long time, and we were called conspiracy theorists for saying it, and we were
00:34:14.380 censored for saying it, and we're going to say it anyway. Daily Wire has seen waivers from a top
00:34:20.680 Virginia clinic, UVA Medical Center, that requires parents to acknowledge a frightening list of potential
00:34:28.760 permanent side effects for transing kids, for giving children and minors so-called gender-affirming care,
00:34:35.720 which is absurdly named because it is the opposite of gender-affirming. It's gender-denying care.
00:34:41.560 Well, what did the waiver say? The waiver said, and this is for a clinic that offers transgender
00:34:46.980 health services for ages 11 to 25, say testosterone therapy may cause transient infertility due to a
00:34:54.760 loss of ovulation or irreversible infertility due to ovarian tissue damage. That's a wording from a
00:34:59.820 document titled Consent for Testosterone Therapy. It goes on to suggest banking eggs. So the waiver at
00:35:07.060 UVA Trans Clinic says, hey, if you trans your kids, one of the risks is permanent infertility. We're
00:35:13.120 going to sterilize your kids, but they're going to maybe slightly better resemble the opposite sex that 1.00
00:35:18.860 they at this moment mistakenly believe themselves to be part of. It's an amazing
00:35:25.660 conflict in one's mind that you could have people in the liberal West. I'm saying lowercase l liberals
00:35:33.520 looking at China and saying China's an evil, terrible, authoritarian country. They're sterilizing 0.98
00:35:40.640 the Uyghurs. You know, the beleaguered Uyghurs, well, China is sterilizing them. So they don't have 1.00
00:35:45.600 any more kids. Isn't that evil and awful? Okay. And now we need to protect trans kids and trans rights, 0.93
00:35:50.780 and we need to sterilize lots of children. But, but you know what they're going to say? They're 0.52
00:35:55.500 going to say, well, the difference here, Michael, is consent. The Uyghurs are not consenting. 1.00
00:36:02.240 Oh, the children are consenting? The children can consent, huh? That sounds like the kind of belief
00:36:09.060 that people who march through the streets, groomers chanting, we're here, we're coming for your kids.
00:36:14.560 That sounds like the kind of belief that they would say. People have a particular and deviant
00:36:18.740 sexual interest in children. Though there is a reminder as part of this, which is children don't
00:36:25.620 consent. This is the normal take on it, which is children don't consent to anything. They don't
00:36:29.540 consent to eating broccoli. They don't consent to doing their homework. They don't consent to
00:36:32.800 being sterilized and turned into eunuchs by their parents. The parents need to make the decisions that
00:36:37.880 they believe is in the best interest of the children. And right now, a lot of people in this
00:36:42.840 country believe that it is in the best interest of the children, it is good to sterilize these kids 1.00
00:36:50.800 and turn them into eunuchs. You can't escape the question of what is good. No matter how laissez-faire
00:36:55.460 your society, no matter how radically skeptical, no matter how liberal, you can't escape that question
00:37:00.020 because you've got to do something and not do other stuff in society. And right now, we have
00:37:04.160 enshrined as the good the idea that it's good to sterilize little kids and hook them onto all sorts of 0.95
00:37:08.200 deviant sexual ideologies. And what the conservatives are saying now, increasingly, especially
00:37:12.300 younger people, not even hardcore conservatives, even people on the center right, even the center
00:37:17.780 left, formerly of the center left, they're coming out and they're saying, huh, our view of the good 1.00
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00:38:32.580 today. My favorite comment yesterday is from Thumper84, who says, was just at Walmart, saw Bud Light 15
00:38:40.320 packs for $16.48 with a $15 rebate. It's devastating. He goes on to say, the display was completely full.
00:38:49.840 Yeah, of course. You talk about the waivers, about the potential side effects. You know,
00:38:57.100 you go to the UVA trans clinic, it could render you sterile forever. Think about the side effects
00:39:00.720 of drinking even just one Bud Light. Could you imagine? Sort of thing could ruin your marriage.
00:39:05.720 Sort of thing could ruin your ability to have children. Now, speaking of incoherent liberal
00:39:12.240 priorities, do you remember, it's about a year ago, maybe even over a year ago,
00:39:19.740 Texas Governor Greg Abbott, along with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, some other Republican
00:39:24.240 leaders decide to send illegal aliens out of their states to liberal strongholds. Governor DeSantis
00:39:31.220 famously sent the illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard, which was hilarious. Governor Abbott,
00:39:36.600 though, he got a little less publicity for it, but he was sending the illegal aliens to places like
00:39:41.020 Chicago and to places like New York. And at the time, here is what New York City liberal Democrat
00:39:47.240 Mayor Eric Adams had to say about a political leader shipping illegal aliens to other states away
00:39:57.320 from their cities and states. This is horrific when you think about what the governor is doing,
00:40:05.780 the governor of Texas, after a month of traveling across the border, placing on the bus with no
00:40:13.620 direction to come here to New York. And New York is a city that has always represented the democratic
00:40:22.280 values and the values of our city of showing our compassion. And that's what we're doing today.
00:40:26.840 That's what we're doing today. This is horrific to ship illegal aliens. Just because you don't want 1.00
00:40:33.400 them in your state, in your city, you're going to just ship them out of there, pass the buck,
00:40:39.380 outrageous. Until Mayor Adams just got caught doing exactly the same thing. Actually, not exactly the
00:40:51.020 same thing. He is shipping the illegal aliens to other states. He's shipped them to over a dozen 0.93
00:40:57.920 states. He's also shipping them to other countries. Eric Adams. It's horrific to send illegal aliens from
00:41:07.720 Texas to New York. He's shipping them to over a dozen other states and to five countries, including
00:41:14.200 China, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. Awful, awful when a Republican does something.
00:41:25.860 Wonderful when a Democrat does the same or a more egregious version of the very same thing.
00:41:32.980 I'm not going to say, I'm not going to even bring up if the shoe were on the other foot.
00:41:36.580 You know that's the epitaph on the headstone of conservatism. Imagine if the roles were reversed.
00:41:40.700 Just pointing out that when the liberals make these arguments, this is horrific violation of
00:41:48.200 human rights. How could you ever see? They don't really mean it. They're just lying and using that
00:41:55.440 political issue as a cudgel to beat the Republicans into submission. And the rock-ribbed conservatives
00:42:00.480 see through this. I strongly suspect, there are plenty of liberals who listen to this show,
00:42:05.840 I'm pleased to say. But the people who are listening to this show, if they're not rock-ribbed
00:42:09.200 conservatives, they're at least independent thinkers who see through a lot of this piffle.
00:42:14.120 But there are people, the squishes in the Republican Party and the centrists and the people
00:42:19.340 who just want to be liked by the Washington Post and the New York Times, they're the ones who will
00:42:23.480 join the chorus of the Eric Adamses who say, well, you know, that's really awful. You know,
00:42:28.840 actually, that's really awful to do that to those illegal aliens. We shouldn't do, we're better than 1.00
00:42:32.840 that. No, that's a perfectly natural and just response to foreign aliens in your country or in 1.00
00:42:44.380 your municipality illegally. It is perfectly natural and right and just to ship those people 1.00
00:42:49.680 out of there. They just don't want us to do it because mass migration is, in large part,
00:42:56.760 a political operation to undermine the political and electoral viability of Republicans throughout
00:43:03.040 the United States. That's why the Libs did it. That's why the Libs continue to do it. 1.00
00:43:07.700 And when they have to bear the costs of that, the housing and the taxes, when they have to bear the
00:43:13.600 political costs of that, which is even Democrat people in Democrat cities don't want to have to
00:43:16.700 pay for this stuff, then they will sometimes ship them away. And they'll ship them back to the
00:43:20.620 Republican states very often so that they don't have to deal with it. Speaking of federal issues,
00:43:25.340 one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time, over the weekend goes viral. This is Proud Boys
00:43:32.240 met by a group, I think called Patriot Front. It's hard to tell exactly who these people are
00:43:38.920 because they wear masks over their faces. And this is a group, in recent months, maybe a year,
00:43:46.320 you've seen this group Patriot Front come to the fore and they march and they seem really on the nose.
00:43:51.400 And I think I've never really heard of this group and I'm pretty in it. You know, it's my job to read
00:43:56.180 about what's going on politically in the United States, especially on the right. I don't really
00:43:59.920 know anything about these guys. It seems kind of like a, well, it's right there in the name. It
00:44:03.540 seems kind of like a front, you know, it's, we know that federal agents infiltrate these supposedly
00:44:09.480 right-wing grassroots groups. We've seen the memoranda from the FBI. We've seen these guys get
00:44:13.560 caught. Do you remember at the Justice for January 6th rally where pretty much no one showed up other
00:44:18.680 than journalists and federal agents? There was this famous picture taken of guys who are obviously
00:44:23.780 feds. They're all wearing the same brandless clothing that they've all got the same haircut 0.98
00:44:28.160 they probably got done at Langley or at the FBI headquarters. They're all wearing the same shades.
00:44:33.660 They're all checking their five and their six and their seven. It was just, they're all wearing the
00:44:37.320 same Garmin watch. It was such a joke. And what's funny now, by the way, is if you Google this
00:44:41.160 picture, if you look for it on Google, it won't turn up. If you look for it on Twitter, it won't turn up.
00:44:46.180 You can say Justice for January 6th rally, feds, J6, feds, whatever. It doesn't show up. You can't
00:44:50.840 find it. I had to go to Bing to find that picture, even though that picture was everywhere at the
00:44:55.080 time. So we know that this kind of stuff happens. And there's a video of the Proud Boys going up to
00:45:00.340 these supposed American neo-Nazis and saying, get the hell out of here. You guys are not part of us.
00:45:05.180 You're obviously feds. Go away. 0.99
00:45:13.840 See the guy in like the mullet, Proud Boy waving the American flag, going up to these 0.89
00:45:18.560 supposed American Nazis saying, get out of here. We don't want you here. You're obviously just
00:45:25.540 infiltrator pack shills. Go away. And they do back them off. They do. All these guys who very
00:45:35.980 conveniently are covered up in their shades and their face masks, they get out of here. And some
00:45:40.940 of the Proud Boys then tried to, I think, unmask them and it created a whole issue. Now, look, I don't
00:45:46.560 know if those guys are feds. I don't know if those guys are there just to try to make the right look
00:45:50.940 bad or so. I really, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't really care. However, there is
00:45:54.980 one good piece of evidence that these guys might have, I'm not saying that they're actual employees
00:46:01.160 of the federal government, that they might have some kind of connection, you know, to the federal
00:46:04.220 government. One piece of evidence here that, that they're feds is from Adam Kinzinger, former
00:46:11.020 Republican member of Congress, who's a total shill for the liberal establishment. He tweets out,
00:46:16.260 he says, these people, referring to conservative pundits who were laughing about this video,
00:46:22.300 these people, all blue checks, are celebrating a seemingly MAGA assault on federal officers.
00:46:26.880 Now, I don't know what this really is, but take a gander at the comments of the patriots who love
00:46:30.600 America. And reading that comment, you say, hold on, wait, you're admitting that patriot front is a
00:46:37.480 bunch of feds? Did you, Adam Kinzinger, who is not the swiftest politician out there, that's why he's
00:46:43.240 no longer in Congress? Not necessarily the sharpest duel in the shed. He's out there, he's saying,
00:46:49.000 this is outrageous. All these conservatives are laughing at an attack on federal agents.
00:46:55.500 You say, no, man, you're supposed to pretend that they're not federal agents. And anyway,
00:46:59.260 just a reminder that the, you really shouldn't believe everything you read in the liberal
00:47:07.360 establishment papers. Because the reality of what's going on on the right is not the way
00:47:13.120 that it is portrayed. And I think people are beginning to wake up to this and you're seeing
00:47:17.120 it reflected in the polls and priorities of the real conservatives. Okay, today's Music Monday,
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