The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1278 - Libs Accidentally Admit I Was Right


Summary

A new study out of Denmark has shown that people who identify as transgender are significantly more likely to kill themselves than people who don t. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? And what should we do about it?


Transcript

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00:00:37.720 A new study out of Denmark has shown that people who identify as transgender
00:00:42.040 are significantly more likely to kill themselves than people who don't.
00:00:46.800 You don't need to take my word for it.
00:00:48.560 Even the liberal New York Times is admitting as much.
00:00:52.280 Here's what the Times said.
00:00:54.020 They've got a whole article on it, and then they've got this little infographic.
00:00:56.980 And the infographic says, transgender people in Denmark had 7.7 times the rate of suicide
00:01:03.480 attempts and three and a half times the rate of suicide deaths compared with the rest of
00:01:09.220 the population.
00:01:10.880 So on the one hand, liberals tell us that transgender identity makes people suicidal.
00:01:16.120 On the other hand, liberals insist that we must, at every level of society, especially
00:01:22.540 with kids, encourage transgender identity.
00:01:27.540 As a result of this activism, rates of trans identity are skyrocketing as a social contagion
00:01:33.320 on the premise that trans affirmation is supposedly life-saving, even though it makes people 7.7
00:01:42.500 times more likely to try to kill themselves.
00:01:45.680 But if the study is true, and if the New York Times reporting is accurate, then we obviously
00:01:50.360 should not encourage trans identity.
00:01:53.240 Quite the contrary.
00:01:55.060 If the new study is true, and if the Times report is accurate, then to quote somebody that I like to
00:02:02.240 quote, for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen
00:02:07.180 prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the
00:02:12.520 whole preposterous ideology, at every level.
00:02:15.400 I'm really glad to see that the New York Times and the liberals generally are finally accidentally
00:02:21.460 admitting that they agree with my CPAC speech.
00:02:24.480 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:25.280 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:02:45.780 We've got a really, really important clip of Joe Biden rambling incoherently that we'll
00:02:50.180 get to in just a little bit.
00:02:51.420 But I don't want to move too fast off this trans thing.
00:02:54.520 I'm certain I'll be censored for it on at least one of the big tech platforms.
00:02:58.300 But I don't want to pass over it because the libs gave me such grief over my CPAC speech.
00:03:04.020 I knew that they would do that.
00:03:05.760 But they gave me such grief about it.
00:03:07.520 They lied about what I said.
00:03:08.780 They changed my words.
00:03:09.860 They libeled me in print.
00:03:11.260 They said it was terrible, a genocide, that transgenderism is a wonderful condition and
00:03:16.860 an ideology that needs to be encouraged and embraced and spread everywhere, especially
00:03:20.560 in Pride Month.
00:03:21.300 And then they admit that I'm right.
00:03:22.640 I said, not only for the good of society generally, but especially for the good of people who fall
00:03:29.200 prey to this confusion.
00:03:30.180 That's why it's got to be eradicated from public life.
00:03:32.580 The Times admitting right here that if you identify as transgender, you are much, much,
00:03:38.540 much, much, much, much, much more likely to try to kill yourself.
00:03:44.720 And the rejoinder to this that the liberals will offer falls flat too because the liberals
00:03:49.320 will say, well, no, transgender identity isn't really skyrocketing.
00:03:54.340 Transgender dysphoria isn't really skyrocketing.
00:03:56.860 It's just that people are more open about it now.
00:03:58.600 But if that's true, then why is the suicide rate jumping up so fast?
00:04:01.440 If that's true, then the suicide attempt and success rate of people who identify as transgender
00:04:10.540 would not be so much higher than the general population because presumably all these supposedly
00:04:14.880 transgender people would have already been counted among that suicide rate for the general
00:04:18.640 population.
00:04:19.500 They would have just been hiding their identity.
00:04:21.420 But that's not the case.
00:04:22.880 There's something about this particular expression and identity and ideology that makes people
00:04:30.220 over seven and a half times more likely to try to kill themselves.
00:04:35.400 If there were any other condition in society that made people over seven and a half times
00:04:40.180 more likely to try to kill themselves, we would have a national and international campaign
00:04:44.020 to blot that condition, that ideology out of public life, to cure people of that condition,
00:04:49.640 to disabuse them of the notions that lead to that condition.
00:04:53.060 But for some reason with transgenderism, we encourage it and then people kill themselves
00:04:57.520 at an alarmingly high rate.
00:04:59.060 And they're doing this to kids, especially.
00:05:01.380 Unfortunately, it's happening even in my own state of Tennessee.
00:05:04.240 So, you know, we had this law here in Tennessee that bans kids from, bans parents from transing
00:05:10.860 their kids.
00:05:11.820 And this law was passed by the Republicans in the state ledge and signed into law by the
00:05:15.780 governor.
00:05:16.880 That was after Matt held a big rally to end child mutilation.
00:05:21.580 That was after Daily Wire reporting uncovered that there was a trans child clinic here in
00:05:27.360 Tennessee.
00:05:28.600 And that was after a buddy of mine actually mentioned this to me, who's a local Nashville
00:05:32.420 guy and who was leading a weekly rosary over there, very quietly praying.
00:05:36.420 And then in short order led to that clinic being shut down.
00:05:39.840 Well, now a federal judge says, sorry, you can't ban transing the kids.
00:05:46.440 A federal judge has just said this guy's name is Eli Richardson.
00:05:49.760 He placed a temporary injunction against the ban on giving kids cross-sex hormones and puberty
00:05:54.980 blockers because they say that the puberty blockers and the cross-sex hormones are life-saving
00:06:04.080 and gender-affirming.
00:06:05.740 But again, we know here by the studies and by the reporting and by plain old common sense
00:06:10.820 that these procedures are not life-affirming.
00:06:13.680 They're permanently life-altering and they're life-destroying ultimately to the tune of seven
00:06:18.880 and a half times and more.
00:06:22.020 So he blocked this, much of this law, though not all of it.
00:06:27.160 And he says, if Tennessee wishes to regulate access to certain medical procedures, it must
00:06:31.060 do so in a manner that does not infringe on the rights conferred by the U.S.
00:06:33.760 Constitution, which is, of course, supreme to all other laws of the land.
00:06:37.260 With regard to the anti-transing the kids law, Tennessee has likely failed to do just this.
00:06:45.120 Does anybody believe that the framers of the Constitution established this framework for
00:06:52.100 our government in order to protect parents and quack doctors' supposed right to chop off
00:07:00.020 their kids' body parts and pump them full of cross-sex hormones?
00:07:02.140 Does anybody seriously believe that the right of a child to pretend to be the opposite sex
00:07:09.500 and to sterilize himself and to castrate himself to more closely appear to be the opposite sex
00:07:14.920 is somehow enshrined in the Constitution?
00:07:16.900 No.
00:07:17.540 Not one single person seriously believes that.
00:07:20.080 The liberals just don't care what the Constitution actually says.
00:07:22.960 And the squishy conservatives go along with it in this extraordinarily too clever by half
00:07:29.800 kind of a way where they'll say, well, actually, when you take into account all of these other
00:07:33.640 laws that have come since and these revisions to the Constitution and past court precedent,
00:07:37.560 and when you look at the Civil Rights Act and you see that actually protections on the
00:07:41.800 basis of sex are sort of, can kind of be interpreted as protections for gender identity, then
00:07:47.680 we got to trans the kids.
00:07:51.160 And this shows you that what the federal judge said here is not true.
00:07:54.260 The federal judge said that the U.S. Constitution trumps all the other laws of the land.
00:07:57.660 That is not true.
00:08:00.680 Liberalism trumps all of the laws of the land, including the U.S. Constitution.
00:08:05.040 Liberalism trumps democracy.
00:08:06.900 Liberalism trumps the civil law.
00:08:09.460 Liberalism trumps the constitutional law.
00:08:12.180 Liberalism trumps the natural law in our nation today.
00:08:16.480 Judges have been doing this for a very long time.
00:08:18.200 There's nothing new here.
00:08:19.460 And especially when it comes to weird sex stuff and especially when it comes to kids.
00:08:22.740 Back in the 90s, the Democrats and the Republicans agreed, not on very much, but they agreed on
00:08:27.760 one thing, that we need to stop exposing kids to weird sex stuff, especially as the internet
00:08:32.000 was developing.
00:08:32.880 So they passed two laws.
00:08:34.140 The Communications Decency Act, which is now the subject of a lot of fights over big tech
00:08:38.100 censorship, because of one of the provisions that gives big tech today some kinds of legal
00:08:42.920 protections.
00:08:44.640 That's called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
00:08:47.360 But the CDA is not really about protecting big tech special privileges.
00:08:52.420 It's about decency in communications.
00:08:55.260 It was about regulating obscenity and prurient content and pornography on the internet.
00:09:00.040 And there was another law, which is called the Child Online Protection Act, COPA.
00:09:04.560 Democrats and Republicans agree to pass this stuff.
00:09:06.900 Bill Clinton signs it into law.
00:09:08.680 Everybody's behind it.
00:09:09.780 No one thinks that we should be exposing kids to this nonsense and this obscenity, except
00:09:15.060 for liberal federal judges who insist, no, actually, when you really think about it, when
00:09:19.840 you really think about what James Madison was doing, he wanted to protect the right of
00:09:23.820 eight-year-olds to look at porn.
00:09:25.760 And so that's what they do.
00:09:26.420 And they strike it down.
00:09:27.400 Now, there's another attempt to pass a version of the Child Online Protection Act.
00:09:32.520 And I bet some pervert federal judge is going to strike that one down, too.
00:09:36.060 And the perversion runs really deep.
00:09:38.480 It's not just a sexual perversion.
00:09:39.820 It's an ideological perversion.
00:09:41.940 And the ideological perversion is based on a revisionist history that began after the
00:09:47.240 Second World War and was embraced not only by the liberals, but by the conservatives.
00:09:50.700 And the revisionist history said that America has always been a liberal democracy, not a nation
00:09:56.180 state, not a country founded on the worship of God, not a Christian nation, all of which
00:10:02.580 were different understandings of what America was before 1940s, 1950s.
00:10:08.940 But in that era, they said, no, it's a liberal democracy founded not on any particular claims
00:10:13.800 or a particular God, but on just abstract, universal concepts of liberalism and doing
00:10:20.840 whatever you want.
00:10:21.460 And that was a total retconning.
00:10:22.940 But unfortunately, a lot of conservatives bought it, too.
00:10:25.040 And that's become the highest law of the land, which brings us to our old pals at Transheiser
00:10:30.460 Bush.
00:10:31.180 The CEO of Transheiser Bush was just asked if after the company has been decimated by the
00:10:40.600 conservative boycott, if after they've lost billions of dollars in market cap, if after
00:10:49.000 the number one beer in America, Bud Light has now lost its place to Modelo Especial in
00:10:54.380 America, if the CEO of Transheiser Bush had it to do over again, would he have sponsored
00:11:01.320 Dylan Mulvaney, a particularly offensive and egregious exemplar and actor in the performance
00:11:10.560 of transgender ideology?
00:11:12.760 Here's his non-answer.
00:11:14.620 Knowing what you know now, if you could go back, would you send this can to this one person
00:11:18.320 again?
00:11:19.180 There's a big social conversation taking place right now, and big brands are right
00:11:25.160 in the middle of it.
00:11:25.740 And it's not just our industry or Bud Light.
00:11:28.360 It's happening in retail.
00:11:29.460 It's happening in fast food.
00:11:31.620 And so for us, what we need to understand is, deeply understand and appreciate, is the
00:11:35.900 consumer and what they want, what they care about, and what they expect from big brands.
00:11:43.160 Where are you on the issue?
00:11:44.180 I mean, was this a mistake?
00:11:45.380 You know, Bud Light has supported LGBTQ since 1998, so that's 25 years.
00:11:52.320 And as we've said from the beginning, we'll continue to support the communities and organizations
00:11:56.480 that we've supported for decades.
00:11:58.060 But as we move forward, you know, we want to focus on what we do best, which is brewing
00:12:02.840 great beer for everyone, listening to our consumers, being humble and listening to them,
00:12:07.600 making sure that we do right by our employees, take care and support our partners, and ultimately
00:12:14.360 make an impact in the communities that we serve.
00:12:16.700 Cool, bro.
00:12:19.200 Can you answer the question, though?
00:12:20.840 No, you can't.
00:12:22.360 Because, and you know, I hate to say I told you so, but as I have said from the beginning,
00:12:27.980 don't celebrate the firing of that random VP of marketing.
00:12:30.640 This goes way higher.
00:12:32.080 Many other conservatives bought the PR crisis communications line, which is that, oh, the
00:12:37.160 senior executives at Bud Light, they had no idea what was going on.
00:12:40.340 This was made by a rogue marketing executive.
00:12:43.340 No, Bud Light, it's kind of a conservative company.
00:12:46.140 Transheiser Bush is kind of conservative.
00:12:48.400 Oh, no, no, this was just a big mistake.
00:12:50.700 No, it wasn't.
00:12:51.540 This was a decision made from the very tippy top of Transheiser Bush.
00:12:56.040 Let some poor marketing VP take the fall for it.
00:12:59.760 This dude today will not say that it was a bad idea.
00:13:03.640 This marketing decision that irritated the customer base of Bud Light so much that it's
00:13:08.640 destroyed the brand of the number one beer in America, has killed the stock price of
00:13:13.240 AB InBev, he still today won't say it was a bad idea because he is more interested in
00:13:19.640 appeasing his woke overlords at the big asset managers, BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.
00:13:25.180 He's more interested in appeasing the liberal decision makers, all of whom are behind
00:13:31.360 transgenderism, than he is in serving his customer base.
00:13:34.520 Now, speaking of weird sex stuff, there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of stuff
00:13:42.420 that I'm not allowed to talk about on YouTube anymore.
00:13:44.360 So if you watch this show on YouTube, you've got to head on over sometimes to hear the
00:13:48.520 first, I don't know, the first 10 minutes of my show, you got to head on over to Daily
00:13:51.640 Wire Plus, where you got to go to M. Knowles Show at Twitter.
00:13:54.900 We'll post the whole thing over there.
00:13:56.160 Or you got to go to the RSS feed at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts.
00:14:01.320 But there are certain weird sex stuff that, at least for now, I think we're still allowed
00:14:05.500 to talk about on YouTube.
00:14:07.200 That would be weird sex stuff involving Hunter Biden.
00:14:11.760 Hunter Biden.
00:14:12.920 We'll get to the latest Hunter Biden scandal.
00:14:17.460 A real deep scandal of public interest, not just drugs and hookers and that kind of stuff,
00:14:22.220 but something that really gets to the corruption of his family and his father.
00:14:24.800 But first, I've gone a little lighter on Hunter Biden than a number of conservatives have.
00:14:31.860 They just hammer every picture, every crack pipe falling out of his mouth, every hooker
00:14:37.000 he's videoing himself with, and they're making fun of his drug addiction.
00:14:41.080 And I've tried not to do that because I don't think that people ought to be judged for the
00:14:45.540 bad stuff that they used to do, especially if they've cleaned themselves up.
00:14:50.400 There but for the grace of God go all of us.
00:14:53.220 Everybody's done bad things.
00:14:54.600 All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
00:14:56.660 So I'm not going to make fun of him for that.
00:14:59.420 I've got plenty of friends who have been addicts and drunks and everything.
00:15:02.240 So I'm not going to really hit him too much for that.
00:15:05.320 I don't think people should be judged for the terrible things they used to do.
00:15:08.240 I think that they should be judged for the terrible things that they're doing right now
00:15:11.740 so that they can correct those things.
00:15:13.840 And Hunter Biden is currently a huge scumbag.
00:15:19.600 Forget about what he did on Skid Row.
00:15:20.980 Forget about the hookers and the drugs and everything.
00:15:23.060 What this guy is doing right now, he took his baby mama, London Roberts, to court to try
00:15:28.820 to reduce the child support payments that he is sending to his daughter, Navy.
00:15:33.940 He has this daughter, Navy, that he will not acknowledge.
00:15:36.340 He will not meet.
00:15:36.980 This poor little girl is four years old.
00:15:38.780 Her father openly hates her.
00:15:40.920 And her grandfather is the president of the United States.
00:15:43.440 And he refuses to acknowledge her as well.
00:15:45.220 And her grandfather, Joe Biden, oh, good old nice guy Joe, that devout Catholic Joe Biden,
00:15:50.780 he puts up stockings at the White House.
00:15:53.160 This little girl's grandmother or step-grandmother, Dr. Jill Biden, oh, sweet old Dr. Jill, who
00:15:59.820 writes children's books.
00:16:00.800 She refuses to acknowledge this poor girl too.
00:16:02.960 Girl's four years old.
00:16:04.200 They put up stockings at the White House of all the Biden grandkids, except for one.
00:16:08.140 And then this dirtbag, Hunter Biden, goes into court, says, I want to pay my baby mama significantly
00:16:14.460 less money.
00:16:14.980 This is a guy who's shaken down every corrupt oligarch around the world, in Ukraine, in
00:16:19.540 China.
00:16:20.000 This guy is a guy who's made millions and millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars.
00:16:24.760 And he won't pay child support to, or he won't pay a serious amount of child support
00:16:29.580 to his baby mama.
00:16:30.720 And then he, in court, tries to insist that his own daughter isn't allowed to use his last
00:16:36.980 name, that they've got to change the little girl's last name or stop her from using the
00:16:42.900 Biden name.
00:16:43.540 He's so ashamed of this four-year-old girl.
00:16:46.200 It's such scumbag behavior.
00:16:48.940 And it's from Hunter Biden, who I guess we expect that from, this idea that Hunter, he's
00:16:54.120 cleaned up, you know, the support of a loving father, that really got him over his addiction.
00:16:57.840 No, he's a complete dirtbag today.
00:16:59.260 And he's doing something worse today than anything he's done in the past, which is hurt his little
00:17:03.940 daughter and scandalize her.
00:17:07.040 And this is exactly what the Millstone verse of the Bible is about.
00:17:10.700 And Hunter's dirtbag father, Joe Biden, is doing virtually the same thing.
00:17:16.520 As president, imagine you're a little girl, you're four years old, you're starting to become
00:17:19.540 kind of conscious, you're starting to be aware of things.
00:17:22.100 And what you are told every single day is that your father hates you and your grandfather,
00:17:27.780 the president of the United States, hates you too, because you're not good enough to be
00:17:30.440 acknowledged.
00:17:30.820 In fact, they're going to take you to court so that you can't use their last name, which
00:17:34.480 is your last name, because you're their daughter and granddaughter.
00:17:39.940 It's just so awful.
00:17:41.320 And Hunter doesn't get nearly enough grief for this.
00:17:43.680 And Joe Biden doesn't get enough grief for this either.
00:17:46.580 Yeah, Hunter engaged in all sorts of colorful, awful behavior.
00:17:50.020 And I guess he doesn't do that anymore.
00:17:52.520 Who knows?
00:17:52.900 Maybe he still does.
00:17:53.820 And yeah, he's a corrupt public official, or he's the corrupt son of a public official
00:17:59.800 and seems to be the bag man for the whole Biden family.
00:18:02.340 And that's really bad.
00:18:03.440 And it's kind of run of the mill corruption at a much grander scale than we've seen before.
00:18:09.860 But I don't know.
00:18:10.380 This one gets me a lot worse.
00:18:11.920 Him, the Biden family acting like a mafia family going around and shaking down corrupt
00:18:17.600 people around the world, selling American influence.
00:18:19.660 That's worse as a matter of public corruption.
00:18:21.880 But it bothers me less than this.
00:18:23.500 Maybe it's because I have young kids.
00:18:25.540 You think about that four-year-old girl whose father and grandfather hate her so much that
00:18:31.660 they'll take her to court to avoid acknowledging her.
00:18:35.300 Just disgusting stuff from an absolutely disgusting family that should change their behavior as
00:18:41.200 soon as possible.
00:18:42.080 But there is an aspect of public corruption here too, which is that we got another Hunter
00:18:47.320 Biden text.
00:18:48.000 So you had that first one, which was Hunter Biden shaking down a Communist Party of China
00:18:52.860 affiliated business executive and saying, hey, send me money.
00:18:57.380 I'm sitting next to my dad.
00:18:58.760 My dad's the big guy over here.
00:19:00.420 And we're going to hold a grudge.
00:19:02.180 And we're going to make China hurt.
00:19:03.520 And we're going to make you hurt.
00:19:04.360 And we'll be the influence of the United States if you don't send us a payoff now.
00:19:07.640 And the Biden camp, the White House, is insisting that these were just the rantings
00:19:13.080 of an addict who was lying, who was desperate, you know, trying to compare Hunter Biden to
00:19:18.840 some junkie on the street who goes and steals his grandma VCR or something like that.
00:19:23.120 You know, a guy who's just lying and making things up.
00:19:25.320 Even though you read the texts, they're pretty specific.
00:19:28.220 They seem fairly lucid for a guy who's smoking a bunch of crack and in throes of addiction.
00:19:33.240 Well, now we got a second text asking for 10 million bucks from a CCP-linked associate.
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00:21:03.200 So, we got this new text here.
00:21:06.500 What's the new text?
00:21:09.240 This is days after we get the WhatsApp text from 2017 about Joe Biden sitting next to him.
00:21:17.300 Well, now, in a message dated August 3rd, 2017, Hunter tells Gong Wen, Kevin Dong, a CCP-affiliated
00:21:26.040 business associate, that he wants to quit squabbling over peanuts and settle on a firm deal by putting,
00:21:32.800 quote, this to bed tonight and get to work.
00:21:35.140 I'm tired of this, Kevin.
00:21:36.260 I can make $5 million in salary at any law firm in America.
00:21:41.080 And why?
00:21:41.860 Is it because Hunter Biden is such a genius expert at the law?
00:21:44.180 I don't think so.
00:21:44.800 I think it's because even if you're working at a law firm in America, he'd be peddling
00:21:47.800 his father's influence.
00:21:48.600 But instead, he became even more corrupt and even greedier and he tried to sell his father's
00:21:52.660 influence overseas with the knowledge of his father, by the way.
00:21:58.120 Hunter writes, very simple, $10 million per annum budget to use to further the interest of
00:22:03.360 the JV, of this business interest.
00:22:07.340 This move to $5 million is completely new to me and is not acceptable, obviously.
00:22:14.100 So he's saying, you only want to pay me $5 million a year to sell American influence?
00:22:17.360 I don't think so, Buster.
00:22:18.200 You got to double that.
00:22:19.280 He says, if you think this is about money, it's not.
00:22:22.400 The Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership.
00:22:29.240 Let's not quibble over peanuts.
00:22:33.040 $5 million in peanuts.
00:22:35.100 They're very expensive peanuts.
00:22:36.100 The Bidens are the best, not Hunter Biden, not even just Joe Biden, the Biden family.
00:22:43.460 Because this is not a new kind of behavior that cropped up when Hunter Biden found the
00:22:49.680 crack pipe.
00:22:50.560 This is behavior that the Biden family, including Joe Biden's brother, including the whole family,
00:22:56.680 has engaged in for decades now.
00:22:59.520 And so it's not surprising.
00:23:00.740 What do we take away from this?
00:23:01.780 We take away that if you think Joe Biden has not been involved in his family's corruption,
00:23:08.980 I have got a bridge in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware to sell you.
00:23:12.040 But this gets to the heart of a lot of the squabbling on the GOP side over 2024 and relitigating
00:23:20.320 2020, which is a family that does this, a family that sells American influence for millions and
00:23:29.020 millions of dollars brazenly, openly in WhatsApp messages.
00:23:32.180 Joe Biden bragging about it at the Council of Foreign Relations.
00:23:34.580 I went to Ukraine and I told that prosecutor, if you don't fire that prosecutor, I'm going to
00:23:41.040 withhold a billion dollars in American aid and you fire that prosecutor who's investigating
00:23:45.840 the company that's paying off my son a ton of money for me to peddle American influence.
00:23:50.660 He's bragging about it.
00:23:51.700 He's open about it.
00:23:52.440 It's all there and transparent.
00:23:54.260 And you're telling me that a family that engages in that kind of public corruption and a party
00:24:01.340 that sanctions that kind of public corruption wouldn't steal an election?
00:24:05.620 Oh yeah?
00:24:06.820 We just found, what, 300 mail-in ballots in a locker in Michigan from 2020?
00:24:12.060 I bet there are a lot of lockers in Michigan.
00:24:13.940 I bet there are a lot of lockers in Pennsylvania and Arizona and Georgia.
00:24:18.540 I bet there are a lot.
00:24:20.160 You're telling me that a party where the two of the three most prominent families in the last 20 years,
00:24:28.460 the Clintons and the Bidens, the Obamas are corrupt too.
00:24:32.000 They come out of Chicago machine politics.
00:24:33.480 But in this case, we're talking about selling American influence, top dollar,
00:24:38.580 engaging in really corrupt activity.
00:24:40.080 And we got the Bidens and the Clintons on this dead to rights at least.
00:24:43.720 You're telling me that party wouldn't steal an election?
00:24:45.600 Give me a break.
00:24:48.300 This is going to be the real issue for me.
00:24:50.340 And I need a GOP candidate to explain to me,
00:24:53.420 not how you're going to lock up the border, though that would be good,
00:24:56.300 not how you're going to turn the economy around.
00:24:58.440 It's actually probably straightforward enough.
00:25:00.200 Not even how you're going to wield government power to fix the education system and the culture.
00:25:06.460 I want to know all that.
00:25:08.280 I want to know how you're going to overcome the Democrats rigging the election like they did in 2020.
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00:25:18.880 You know, we're in the midst of the Chris-a-sants, the Chris Christie renaissance.
00:25:22.980 I need Chris Christie to explain this to me.
00:25:24.320 And Vivek and Mike Pence and whoever else is running.
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00:26:50.140 Speaking of degenerate sort of places that have been destroyed by bad political decisions,
00:27:00.400 San Francisco just hosted Ron DeSantis.
00:27:03.200 Or rather, Ron DeSantis chose to go to San Francisco as he makes his campaign for presidency
00:27:08.340 not just about a handful of states, but about coast to coast and a major cultural change.
00:27:12.640 Here's what the governor said.
00:27:13.760 You look around, the city is not vibrant anymore.
00:27:18.480 It's really collapsed because of leftist policies.
00:27:22.000 And these policies have caused people to flee this area.
00:27:25.080 They don't prosecute criminals like they do in most parts of the country.
00:27:28.980 And the wreckage has really, really been sad to see.
00:27:31.800 And so I've seen so many businesses boarded up.
00:27:34.920 I've seen so much riffraff just running around.
00:27:38.340 And it just shows you these policies matter.
00:27:41.720 Leadership matters.
00:27:43.180 They are doing it wrong here.
00:27:45.260 I really like this look.
00:27:48.220 I like this look of Ron DeSantis being out in the fray in front of this graffitied up building,
00:27:54.800 all this trash on the street in California.
00:27:57.640 What's he doing in California?
00:27:58.800 I like that.
00:28:00.040 I wish we saw more of the delivery here.
00:28:04.240 I wish we saw more of the interaction.
00:28:06.180 What I've heard about this trip is that people are coming up to DeSantis in California and
00:28:12.380 saying, hey, man, we support you.
00:28:14.780 You know, regular, good, sort of ordinary American people that we all like and support.
00:28:21.160 The crazy libs, they all were yelling at DeSantis.
00:28:23.820 But the normal, nice people and the first responders and the cool guys, they all like DeSantis.
00:28:29.060 So I'd like to see more of that.
00:28:31.340 I want to see more interaction.
00:28:33.360 I want to see DeSantis out in the world.
00:28:35.040 The knock on DeSantis right now is that he's a little too stiff.
00:28:39.560 He's not good enough with people.
00:28:41.320 He doesn't have enough riz, you know, to use my Zoomer lingo.
00:28:45.800 That he's running as a little bit of a, I don't know, focused, group-tested type of establishment candidate.
00:28:55.000 And he shouldn't run that way.
00:28:56.940 And he doesn't need to run that way.
00:28:58.060 So put him out there.
00:28:58.800 Yes, send him to San Francisco.
00:29:00.160 And let's see him in that fray.
00:29:01.640 That's something that Trump has that DeSantis really needs to go after.
00:29:07.700 Best I've seen him, but we should go even further down that line if we're talking about a DeSantis kind of campaign.
00:29:15.020 And I've got bad news for DeSantis, which is that Trump continues to dominate in the polls.
00:29:19.760 And he's getting stronger and stronger in the polls.
00:29:21.260 There's a poll right now out of Quinnipiac that shows Trump not only beating the rest of the GOP field by a lot, which he's doing, but Trump beating Biden.
00:29:30.820 And not just Trump beating Biden at the national level, which the other night we were on backstage.
00:29:35.660 And I was trying to explain to my friend and colleague Ben Shapiro that Trump is a lot stronger than the people who don't like Trump are letting on.
00:29:42.520 And I said, well, one example is that Trump is beating Biden in the polls.
00:29:47.620 And he says, well, those are just national polls.
00:29:49.440 And national polls don't matter because the elections come down to just a handful of states and not even a whole lot of counties.
00:29:55.140 Well, now we have a poll out from Quinnipiac, which shows Trump beating Biden in Pennsylvania.
00:30:02.800 Pennsylvania is supposed to be Joe Biden's home turf, good old Scranton Joe.
00:30:06.420 And Trump is beating him there head to head, 47 to 46.
00:30:10.800 So it's close, but Trump is still ahead there.
00:30:14.200 So the argument that Trump can't win is falling apart.
00:30:22.020 I always thought it was a silly argument because he won in 2016.
00:30:25.760 So the people who say Trump will never, ever win, it's going to destroy the GOP, they were wrong in 2016.
00:30:31.260 But yeah, okay, he was not able to remain the president after the 2020 election.
00:30:36.060 How's that for a diplomatic way of putting it?
00:30:38.360 And he is off-putting to a lot of people.
00:30:40.240 And he does need to do a better job of appealing to people who are a little more centrist and a little bit more in the middle.
00:30:44.620 I'm not denying any of that.
00:30:45.960 It's just Biden looks so terrible right now.
00:30:48.360 And Trump looks so unfairly persecuted that even in a place like Pennsylvania, Trump is currently leading.
00:30:55.220 So now one of the big anti-Trump lines in the primary is gone.
00:31:01.160 It's gone on the idea that he can't win.
00:31:03.100 And it's gone on the idea that, well, the national polls don't matter.
00:31:05.320 Yeah, maybe the national polls don't tell you everything, but the state polls do.
00:31:09.420 And even in the contentious battleground state polls, Trump's looking pretty good.
00:31:13.580 So what is DeSantis going to say to this?
00:31:15.760 Well, the DeSantis campaign pitch is going to be that Trump had the right idea, but he failed in the execution, and I'm going to be the better Trump.
00:31:26.300 Most of us in this room voted to drain the swamp twice.
00:31:28.860 Talk to us specifically about why you're the right candidate to folks in New Hampshire to come behind in this primary to drain the swamp and get it done this time, as opposed to the other choice.
00:31:38.560 It's a great, great question.
00:31:39.880 And what's your name?
00:31:40.700 Mark Johnson.
00:31:41.620 Okay.
00:31:42.180 Thanks, Mark.
00:31:42.960 So the question is, and I remember these rallies in 2016.
00:31:47.160 It was exciting.
00:31:48.720 Drain the swamp.
00:31:49.800 I also remember, lock her up.
00:31:52.520 Lock her up, right?
00:31:53.940 And then two weeks after the election, oh, don't forget about it.
00:31:56.900 Forget I ever said that.
00:31:57.960 No, no, no.
00:31:59.120 One thing you'll get from me, if I tell you I'm going to do something, I'm not just saying that for an election.
00:32:03.660 And there are promises I could make that may help me marginally politically that I don't know that I could necessarily follow through on, so I will not make that.
00:32:11.980 And I think the idea of draining the swamp, in some respects, I think it misses it a little bit, because we didn't drain it.
00:32:20.460 It's worse today than it's ever been, by far, and that's a sad testament to the state affairs of our country.
00:32:27.680 But even if you're successful at draining it, the next guy can just refill it.
00:32:32.520 So I want to break the swamp.
00:32:34.420 That's really what we need to do.
00:32:35.900 That's a sophisticated point, which is that not only do you need to fire the bad people, but you need to change the structure that is causing problems in the first place.
00:32:46.620 That's all good.
00:32:47.460 And it all comes down to this idea that DeSantis is Trump 2.0.
00:32:51.500 Better, bigger, faster, stronger, more precise, better at wielding politics.
00:32:56.360 Trump's big strength was that he's a political outsider and doesn't really know how Washington works.
00:33:01.140 DeSantis does get how Washington works.
00:33:02.800 He was a congressman.
00:33:03.640 He's been an effective governor.
00:33:04.900 So he's going to take Trumpism and really put it into effect.
00:33:07.940 That's the line.
00:33:09.380 And it's not going to work.
00:33:10.960 That's not going to be.
00:33:12.160 And if that is all the campaign is about, then DeSantis' campaign is not going to win.
00:33:16.840 Because it's new Coke versus Coca-Cola Classic.
00:33:21.240 Coca-Cola Classic, which is the Coca-Cola that we all have today, people really like it.
00:33:25.960 And then some 30, 40 years ago, is it that long at this point?
00:33:30.180 Yeah, I guess it is.
00:33:30.740 Coca-Cola decides they've got a new Coke formula.
00:33:35.700 And they bring it out, and it's a complete disaster, and they have to return to the old Coke formula.
00:33:40.200 Well, why did they bring it out?
00:33:41.420 Was it just some rogue marketing executive who screwed things up?
00:33:44.440 No, they tested new Coke over and over and over again.
00:33:47.860 And when people were given blind taste tests of new Coke versus the old Coke, people preferred the new Coke.
00:33:55.340 But when the blindfold came off, and they knew what the brands were, and they had a choice between that old thing, the OG, and the new and improved version, they picked the original.
00:34:07.760 And that's exactly what's going on in the GOP primary right now.
00:34:12.120 You could say that DeSantis is better at wielding power and implementing these things, and he's more philosophically and ideologically coherent, and he understands politics better.
00:34:21.360 And you could go down the whole litany of compliments.
00:34:23.320 Yeah, that might be true.
00:34:24.160 But the way that people respond to that, and the way that psychology works, is that people like that original thing, you know, and Trump is an American original.
00:34:34.600 So if the DeSantis campaign is going to be effective, it's going to need something in addition to, I'm just the bigger, better Trump.
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00:35:39.460 My favorite comment yesterday is from Fireflyivoryyt, who says,
00:35:43.900 My goodness, CNN is grabbing at the lowest apples on the tree at this point anything to try and catch him, to get Trump, to have the walls closed again.
00:35:52.760 Of course.
00:35:54.140 But that's what they've been doing since 2016.
00:35:56.840 It's not even that they've run out of good things to go after, and now they're making stuff up.
00:36:02.960 In 2016, when Barack Obama's DOJ and FBI illegally spied on Trump's campaign to try to suppress the political opposition,
00:36:12.280 they just made up the pretext out of whole cloth.
00:36:14.920 And the whole thing has been a big fiction from the beginning.
00:36:20.580 Now, speaking of New Coke and Old Coke and political campaigns and innovation,
00:36:27.520 Mr. Davies sent me this clip yesterday, and I didn't even want to include it, but we have to.
00:36:34.560 We have to, because what do they say?
00:36:36.460 They say politics is downstream of culture, which is half true, and culture is downstream of religion.
00:36:40.820 And you're seeing an intensifying of religious debate.
00:36:44.500 And when we talk about religion and Christianity, some people don't even know what we're talking about anymore,
00:36:49.820 especially this priestess from some liberal, heretical sect of pseudo-Christianity,
00:36:56.280 who decided to change the creed of the religion.
00:36:59.560 I invite you to rise in body or spirit,
00:37:02.760 and let us confess our faith today in the words of the Sparkle Creed.
00:37:08.120 I believe in the non-binary God, whose pronouns are plural.
00:37:15.780 I believe in Jesus Christ, their child, who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads.
00:37:22.460 All right, enough, enough. Turn it off. Turn it off.
00:37:22.960 Sorry, don't, I'm not getting through it. Not getting through it.
00:37:25.780 Not gonna, you know, maybe a free speech absolutist would say,
00:37:29.160 well, we need to listen to that, because the answer to bad ideas is just more speech.
00:37:33.100 Nope, not gonna hear that heretical blasphemous claptrap, but you get the point.
00:37:36.980 That's more than I made it through listening to yesterday when I said I'd put it in the show.
00:37:42.240 What is the point of church?
00:37:45.260 If that's your church, if your version of going to church is going to a building
00:37:51.260 and looking at some ridiculous woman dressing up, playing Halloween pretend like a priest,
00:37:58.100 with invalid holy orders, reciting a creed that amounts to nothing more than the same rainbow pride flag stuff
00:38:07.060 that you're getting in every TV commercial from all the major brands in the entire culture,
00:38:12.120 from the government, from the White House, from your teachers, from your boss, from the HR manager,
00:38:16.000 from every single thing in the culture, then what the hell is the point of going to church?
00:38:19.600 We go to church to escape this world, to look beyond this world.
00:38:30.060 This is a fallen world governed by principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places.
00:38:35.360 And so when we go to church, when we go to Holy Mass, we get a little foretaste of heaven.
00:38:39.720 And we check the worldliness at the door, and we do something else,
00:38:45.720 especially when we're witnessing the holy sacrifice of the Mass
00:38:49.480 and the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
00:38:52.620 Not with all the fabulous sparkle, whatever nonsense that she's pretending that Christianity is.
00:38:58.120 Not with the fake pronouns that this woman is ascribing to God.
00:39:02.380 It's amazing that these people are so insistent that everybody respected their preferred and inaccurate pronouns,
00:39:09.100 but this woman won't respect God's pronouns that he makes rather clear in the Bible.
00:39:16.040 But what's the point?
00:39:17.640 That is offensive to me, to hear that.
00:39:20.980 It's very sad and silly for the people who are attending that church and for this poor, misguided priestess.
00:39:27.680 But what's the point?
00:39:28.940 What a way, just go to brunch.
00:39:30.680 You know, just, if you're going to engage in weird sacrilegious nonsense,
00:39:34.100 then you should do what every other atheist white girl millennial does,
00:39:37.680 and just go to yoga and then go have champagne brunch on Sunday and call that your church.
00:39:42.980 But to go and pretend, no, it's just the lives do this all the time.
00:39:46.360 They want the appearance of the thing, but they don't want the substance of the thing.
00:39:51.280 They're the sort of people who, they drink Diet Coke.
00:39:54.840 They have meatless hamburgers.
00:39:56.500 They want all the trappings of good stuff without any of the meat of it.
00:40:03.400 They want the appearance of church without the meaning.
00:40:06.580 I think it was Niebuhr who had a great line.
00:40:09.900 He saw this coming in the 20th century.
00:40:11.880 And he said that people in modern religion want a God without wrath,
00:40:16.560 leading a people without sin into a kingdom without judgment,
00:40:19.180 through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
00:40:21.700 Now they're taking it to a God and his son without pronouns, without any identity.
00:40:27.940 Okay, well, then you're going to, if you're losing the identity of being himself,
00:40:31.820 of the man who says, of the God that says, I am that I am, then you're losing the whole religion.
00:40:38.660 Speaking of incoherent rambling, this is breaking news.
00:40:43.080 Breaking, stop the presses.
00:40:45.680 Joe Biden is rambling incoherently again.
00:40:47.920 I've long said, and I mean this, I was on the Tibetan plateau with Xi Jinping.
00:40:55.880 I've traveled 17,000 miles with him.
00:40:58.760 I've spoken with him more than any other head of state.
00:41:01.280 Because it started when I was vice president.
00:41:03.700 And President Hu was the president, and he was the vice president.
00:41:06.880 We knew he was going to be successful.
00:41:08.060 The president, what, was on second?
00:41:09.220 It was inappropriate.
00:41:10.420 I don't know it was on third.
00:41:11.280 For Barack to spend that time with him.
00:41:12.160 But I spent a lot of time with him.
00:41:13.460 Who's he go? First base?
00:41:14.360 I met alone with him, just he and I, and a simultaneous interpreter, 68 times.
00:41:19.840 68 hours.
00:41:21.580 68 times. More than 68 hours.
00:41:24.360 By the way, I turned in all my notes.
00:41:26.640 And I got in 68 hours and 68, no, 68 times more.
00:41:32.560 I was 525,600 minutes.
00:41:35.060 How do you measure a year, Jack?
00:41:38.020 Do you measure in inches or centimeters, Jack?
00:41:40.580 That's the metric system.
00:41:41.500 One's the English system, but the English abandoned the standard system.
00:41:44.700 No, it was the metric system.
00:41:46.840 What's a meter?
00:41:48.020 A meter's in a poem, Jack.
00:41:49.260 Come on, corn pop.
00:41:51.720 There's a report out that Joe Biden is not sleeping very well.
00:41:56.240 And he's got breathing problems when he sleeps.
00:41:58.180 And he has sleep apnea.
00:41:59.360 And he's on a CPAP machine.
00:42:00.960 And that explains not only why he appears dazed and confused,
00:42:04.400 but also why there's some markings on his face now.
00:42:06.580 They're saying the markings are from the CPAP machine.
00:42:08.500 A lot of people use a CPAP machine.
00:42:10.400 It's a machine that injects some air.
00:42:13.240 A very low pressure flow of air into your nose so you don't suffocate while you sleep
00:42:18.120 and have that disturb your sleep and make you even more dazed and confused.
00:42:22.020 Though some people have suggested that the marks on Biden's face are not really consistent
00:42:25.660 with a CPAP mask.
00:42:27.080 My grandfather wore a CPAP mask many moons ago when he was still alive.
00:42:32.460 And I don't know, I guess, I don't take the White House at their word for anything.
00:42:36.940 But whatever it is, the guy is not well.
00:42:41.300 The guy is not well at all.
00:42:43.760 And this is not only acceptable in our current system, but it's actually kind of an advantage.
00:42:52.760 Because the expectations for this White House are extraordinarily low.
00:42:57.640 And because the liberal establishment gets to prove,
00:43:01.860 gets to actually not just hide this or downplay it,
00:43:04.320 but shove your face in the fact that the country is not currently being run by a president.
00:43:09.780 Going back 100 years, going back more than 100 years to Woodrow Wilson,
00:43:13.180 you've had liberals and progressives saying that the presidency is too big now for any one man.
00:43:18.200 The modern challenges are too big for our constitutional system of government.
00:43:22.040 And so you have to replace that constitutional system with a technocracy
00:43:26.040 and with a liberal establishment that really becomes the supreme law of the land.
00:43:30.100 More so than the congressman, more so than the senators,
00:43:34.340 more so than the president and the judges even in the constitution.
00:43:38.080 Liberalism is that supreme law of the land.
00:43:41.160 And obviously we've all seen in recent years
00:43:43.880 how when there is a conflict between liberalism and democracy,
00:43:47.760 liberalism always wins.
00:43:49.060 When the people elect Donald Trump, that's a risk to democracy.
00:43:52.520 If they were really talking about democracy, that wouldn't be possible.
00:43:55.020 But when they say democracy, they mean liberalism.
00:43:57.140 When a right-winger like Viktor Orban in Hungary or Georgia Maloney in Italy
00:44:02.000 or a referendum like Brexit in the United Kingdom,
00:44:04.640 when that's passed by the people, that's a threat to democracy.
00:44:07.180 How? Because it's only about liberalism.
00:44:10.400 So the question for us is, if we want to take down liberalism,
00:44:14.100 if we believe that democracy is the best way to do it,
00:44:16.580 how can we ensure that our voices are heard
00:44:19.300 and these very corrupt, very proud people
00:44:22.300 are not just going to rig the whole system against us?
00:44:25.940 Now, speaking of technical feats and advancements,
00:44:30.460 today is technology to Thursday.
00:44:36.540 Is it?
00:44:37.160 I need a better alliteration for the day.
00:44:39.500 The producers have a challenge for me,
00:44:43.320 which is they've used these new weird, creepy image apps
00:44:46.880 to create AI-generated images,
00:44:49.420 and you and I have to guess the prompt.
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