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00:00:00.000 A lot of people are worried about how to stave off imminent, catastrophic, man-made climate

00:00:04.800 change. Well, Spanish climate minister Teresa Ribera has just showed the whole world how.

00:00:11.980 Minister, Ministress Ribera recently attended a climate change summit hosted by the European

00:00:17.260 Union. And she showed up to the summit riding a bicycle. And she rode that bicycle for approximately

00:00:24.160 100 yards, surrounded by emitting security vehicles, after she got out of a limousine,

00:00:32.000 which she had entered after stepping off a private jet. Our own transportation czar Pete Buttigieg

00:00:39.700 pulled a similar stunt a couple years ago, sometime when he was not taking maternity leave. Mayor Pete

00:00:45.780 pulled up to a cabinet meeting riding a bicycle, which a hidden camera caught him unloading from

00:00:51.200 the back of an armored SUV just a few blocks off his destination. My favorite part of these

00:00:57.960 performances is that they actually marginally increase pollution into the air, because the

00:01:03.540 vehicles need to idle while Mayor Pete and the Spanish lady prepare their bicycle rides. But they

00:01:09.140 are worthwhile demonstrations nonetheless, because they show us a great example of what we should

00:01:15.160 sacrifice to the nature gods. And it's precisely what they are sacrificing to the nature gods,

00:01:21.500 and that is precisely nothing. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:01:42.640 today. Senator Tuberville has stepped in it. Boy, he's in trouble for some comment about

00:01:50.900 white nationalism or some nonsense. We'll get into whatever CNN is crying about in just a moment.

00:01:55.900 First, though, speaking of foreign performers, Mr. Zelensky over there in Ukraine is furious

00:02:03.020 that NATO, led by the United States, is not going to immediately enter into World War III.

00:02:09.520 Zelensky is angry because while Joe Biden and the West broadly has said that Ukraine can eventually join

00:02:17.140 NATO. Biden has said that Ukraine cannot join NATO right now, because if Ukraine joined NATO right now,

00:02:23.880 well, it's still engaged in a war with Russia. That would instantly trigger Article 5. That would

00:02:28.160 instantly trigger a world war with a nuclear former superpower, something that the U.S. managed to avoid

00:02:34.400 for the entirety of the Cold War. But this punk in Ukraine wants to start it up right now.

00:02:41.460 What does Mr. Zelensky say? He says, it's unprecedented and absurd when time frame is not set neither for

00:02:49.200 the invitation nor for Ukraine's membership. It seems there is no readiness or neither to invite

00:02:54.800 Ukraine to NATO nor to make it member of the alliance. This means that a window of opportunity

00:03:00.420 is being left to bargain Ukraine's membership in NATO in negotiations with Russia. And for Russia,

00:03:06.420 this means motivation to continue its terror. Uncertainty is weakness. And I will openly

00:03:12.200 discuss this at the summit. It's my best. It's not quite my Fauci impression, but it's the best I can

00:03:17.920 do for Zelensky. And in a way, look, I don't particularly care for Zelensky. I don't care for

00:03:25.580 U.S. foreign policy, which has dragged this war on needlessly. I don't care for the protestations of

00:03:30.820 the liberal establishment, which for decades now has been provoking Russia into some kind of a war,

00:03:35.840 which has ignored the warnings of very wise, even sometimes liberal statesmen like George Kennan,

00:03:41.280 like Sam Nunn, like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, like lots of, like Henry Kissinger actually,

00:03:46.380 like lots of wise American foreign policy specialists who have said, hey, if you guys

00:03:51.020 in NATO aggress into Ukraine, that's going to destroy Ukraine status as a buffer state between

00:03:55.840 great powers. And it's going to provoke Russia to war, especially because NATO has been aggressive

00:04:00.140 in the past and invaded countries in the past. Russia's going to view that as an unacceptable

00:04:04.820 security threat. Add on to that that Joe Biden literally invited Russia to invade part of Ukraine

00:04:09.020 and said that if it were only a minor incursion, he wouldn't do very much about it. Never mind that

00:04:12.600 Zelensky has blamed Joe Biden for getting rid of the sanctions on Russia, which also invited more

00:04:17.100 Russian aggression. Never mind all of that. Zelensky has a little bit of a right to be irritated here.

00:04:26.360 He does. I don't, I don't like him that much. I don't like that he's trying to provoke World War

00:04:30.440 3. I think Joe Biden actually made the right call here to put the brakes on Ukraine membership in

00:04:35.100 NATO. I don't think Ukraine should join NATO. I don't think Ukraine should join the European Union.

00:04:38.880 But Zelensky has a little bit of a right to be irritated because the US and the West broadly

00:04:44.580 has been encouraging Ukraine to make more and more overtures toward the West. The US backed a color

00:04:54.320 revolution in Ukraine in 2014, the Maidan revolution, which got rid of a pro-Russian leader and installed

00:05:00.640 more pro-Western leaders in Ukraine. Head of the CIA landed in Kiev two weeks after that revolution.

00:05:07.040 It's a little on the nose, guys. And so they've been dangling all of this wonderful Western

00:05:12.640 privilege in front of Ukraine. Ukraine gravitates toward that privilege. And now all of a sudden we

00:05:18.060 say, no, actually, hold on, you can't join. No, actually, we're going to give you munitions.

00:05:22.980 We're going to give you weapons. But we're not going to decisively end this war right now.

00:05:27.620 And so Ukraine's caught between a rock and a hard place. And Ukraine is getting absolutely

00:05:31.720 pummeled right now. And they seem to be in a pretty brutal position because the West has no

00:05:36.700 interest in this war winding down anytime soon. The West benefits from this war. The West gets to

00:05:43.180 turn Europe away from Russian energy back toward American energy. The West gets to strengthen the

00:05:48.620 NATO alliance, if for no reason, out of existential fear. And Russia benefits from prolonging this war.

00:05:54.540 They're losing a lot of troops. But Russia also gets to gain more territory in Ukraine. It's hard

00:05:59.040 to see how Russia could possibly lose the territory that's conquered in Ukraine at this point. So the

00:06:03.200 only people who lose are Ukraine. I get why Zelensky is irritated by this. But this is why it was

00:06:08.200 a really foolish strategy for Ukraine to give up its status as a buffer state. Buffer states are good.

00:06:16.000 Buffer states have worked for all of human history. When you're caught between two big powers,

00:06:21.360 it behooves you not to pick sides. It behooves you to play them off against one another and get the

00:06:25.280 best benefits you possibly can from both. But because we don't study history anymore, because of

00:06:30.860 fallen human nature, we just keep repeating the same errors of the past. In this case, potentially,

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00:07:56.340 The scientists behind a paper discrediting, discrediting the lab leak hypothesis around

00:08:04.040 COVID-19 have apparently admitted that they were pretty much just willing to push a lie in order

00:08:12.660 to keep public opinion from turning against China. We found this out because of congressional hearings.

00:08:19.260 This was just broadcast on C-SPAN. We've got a co-author of the March 2020 Nature Medicine article,

00:08:27.060 The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2, COVID, the Wu flu, the China virus, and other scientists who

00:08:33.540 collaborated on the paper openly worrying, saying, goodness gracious, if this paper shows that

00:08:41.160 COVID started in China, well, then it's going to be a complete mess and there are going to be all

00:08:46.980 sorts of political ramifications. So we've got to discourage people from observing the obvious fact

00:08:53.140 that this virus began out of a lab leak, not in nature, but out of a lab leak in China. Here are the

00:08:59.460 texts. One of your colleagues who's not here today, but was invited, Dr. Rambut, he said, I don't know if I

00:09:05.720 should say this in committee room or not, but given the blank show that this would happen if anyone

00:09:12.420 seriously accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given

00:09:18.940 there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possibly distinguish between

00:09:23.660 natural evolution and escape. So we are content with ascribing it to natural processes. His concern

00:09:29.940 was would he piss off China? That's what his concern was. So look, something happened here.

00:09:38.620 Politicians may flip-flop. Scientists do not flip-flop in a matter of 72 hours.

00:09:46.180 But the scientists do flip-flop if the scientists are politicians. And these scientists were always

00:09:50.920 politicians because they work in public health. And, you know, I hate to say, I told you so. Some of us

00:09:57.420 were saying this from the beginning of COVID. When Dr. Fauci came out there and he said, listen,

00:10:01.160 I don't have any public political opinions. I'm a scientist. I'm the science. I'm the vicar of

00:10:06.700 science on earth. When he said that, he ignored half of his job, which is the public part. And public

00:10:13.360 just means politics. So there were always politicians. That's the job of a public scientist to take into

00:10:17.860 account politics. When they demur and they say, no, no, I hate it when we have to play politics. Well,

00:10:24.160 then you hate your job because your job is to do that. And so this was really great stuff from this

00:10:29.360 Congress lady and really bad stuff from the public health scientists because they were saying,

00:10:35.100 we are going to lie. We know that the political ramifications would be bad for the liberal

00:10:39.240 establishment. So we're going to lie and say that we can't really distinguish between a natural virus

00:10:43.480 and a human prodded and poked and strengthened virus that leaks out of a laboratory, out of a strong

00:10:51.620 biolab in Wuhan. So we're just going to lie and say, we can't tell. And we're going to lie and say

00:10:56.440 that this is probably natural. And that's what they did. So what do we conclude from this? Do we

00:11:01.340 conclude that Fauci is going to face any consequences? He won't. Do we conclude that Francis Collins and

00:11:06.220 NIH is going to face any consequences? He won't. Do we conclude that any of these scientists who sent

00:11:11.100 these messages will face God? They won't. Nothing will happen. They got it. They got it. We figured out,

00:11:16.120 we figured out in the early 1990s, that LBJ stole a Senate election in 1948 in Texas. And we found it

00:11:24.680 out in Robert Caro, the top biographer of LBJ did a great job proving this. A lot of good it did us.

00:11:31.760 Doesn't matter. No one will be held to consequences. LBJ was dead at that point.

00:11:37.360 It's good to be vindicated long after the fact, but not because you're going to hold the bad actors

00:11:42.600 responsible for what they did in the past. It's so that we can look to the future and not be fooled

00:11:47.480 again. Because I promise you, the next time the libs try to pull a stunt like this, you're going to

00:11:51.400 hear all the same nonsense from not just the establishment media, not just the hack politicians,

00:11:56.980 and not just the really fancy people at the universities. You're going to hear it from the

00:12:00.860 so-called scientists too. And they're going to say, oh, no, no. Listen, the science is very clear.

00:12:05.440 And all you rude, deplorable idiots, you don't know anything about the science. So listen to us.

00:12:09.260 You should not listen to us. They don't have any credibility. They are liars. They are admitted

00:12:14.000 liars. The only lesson to take away here is, is not that you should be fighting yesterday's battle

00:12:20.000 and trying to lock up Fauci. Do your best, please. I'd love it if the guy faced consequences. I just

00:12:25.840 think practically, prudentially, it's not going to happen. So you can't be fooled again on all of

00:12:31.920 these questions, on the ideologies that are permeating our culture that we're not allowed to

00:12:36.220 talk about on big tech. That would be a good example of the scientists obviously being wrong

00:12:40.460 on the other questions surrounding the efficacy of vaccines. Forget about the virus for a second,

00:12:47.520 but the vaccines. That would be a good example of the experts and geniuses being wrong. Maybe even in

00:12:53.480 more political matters when we're told that our elections are totally 100% secure. Do you really

00:12:57.240 believe those guys? I don't really believe those guys. I see a lot of evidence to the contrary.

00:13:00.780 The more that our established authorities are caught openly admitting, not just they made

00:13:07.860 mistakes, but that they are liars, that they're intentionally deceiving you, the less credibility

00:13:13.800 they have and the more you're going to have to rely on your gut. Today, in the year of our Lord,

00:13:18.760 2023 in the United States, your gut has a much better track record of honesty and integrity than any of

00:13:26.360 these established public genius scientific authorities. And so the reasonable, rational

00:13:31.980 choice is to trust a hunch, a gut instinct, rather than to trust these liars. Speaking of dubious science

00:13:41.560 and ideologies that we're not allowed to talk about on a certain big tech video platform,

00:13:47.520 we've been told by the fancy people, by the responsible people, by the people in the suits and the ties,

00:13:55.780 that doctors are not performing transgender surgeries on minors. That's not happening. That's a

00:14:04.100 right-wing fever conspiracy theory. Okay, maybe they prescribe them some puberty blockers, but they do

00:14:09.780 not perform those surgeries. That's a lie. You irresponsible lying conservatives are lying. Well, okay, we've got

00:14:16.920 a self-described queer surgeon, a rather effete fellow with pink hair, describing the transgender

00:14:26.720 procedures that he and his buddies have personally performed. One thing that is very new is genital

00:14:33.920 surgery in someone that has underwent pubertal suppression. Not so much an issue in someone with

00:14:41.360 assigned female at birth anatomy that undergoes a phalloplasty because we're creating something with

00:14:46.640 a, you know, a free tissue transfer or a flap anyway, but a much bigger issue for an individual

00:14:52.380 that's undergoing a penile inversion vaginalplasty because we use all of that tissue to basically

00:14:57.880 create the vulva as well as lying the internal vaginal canal. And as a specialty, those of us that do a

00:15:05.900 fairly high volume of genital gender affirming surgery, you know, we've maybe done a couple,

00:15:10.580 a handful of pubertally suppressed adolescents as a field and no one's published on it yet.

00:15:16.400 OHSU is, we're just putting our first series together as we're kind of learning and figuring

00:15:21.240 out what works. But it's really changing things because you don't have enough tissue to line the

00:15:29.760 vaginal canal. So you either have to take a skin graft or take skin from elsewhere or use some

00:15:35.820 artificial products. The way that we're dealing with it is by using a robot and we're basically

00:15:41.480 performing intra-abdominal components of the surgery. That's enough. That's enough. That phrase,

00:15:47.480 the key phrase here from his psychotic, psychopathic, ghastly horror movie monologue

00:15:55.300 is pubertally suppressed adolescence. That's a doozy. Pubertally suppressed adolescence. You know what

00:16:03.100 that means? That's a jargony euphemism for little kids, little tiny kids who haven't gone through

00:16:10.300 puberty, whose genitals this man and his pervert buddies are mangling surgically. So I'm going to

00:16:18.940 try to, try to stave off the righteous indignation here because I don't think it's going to get us all

00:16:25.100 that far. Obviously this should be illegal. Once this is illegal, the punishment for this obviously

00:16:30.660 should be a lengthy prison sentence or death as far as I'm concerned. This should be a very,

00:16:35.820 very serious crime. If you are mangling the genitals of little kids and you are making them

00:16:40.940 into eunuchs and sterilizing them, that is almost as heinous a crime as I can possibly imagine. And so

00:16:48.060 once that is codified in the law, once those sorts of laws are enforced, the punishments for them

00:16:52.560 should be very, very severe. Yes. Granted. On the cultural front, a man like this should be ashamed

00:16:59.180 to present himself in this way in public. We used to have standards and norms that discouraged

00:17:04.460 perverted men like this from presenting themselves in these perverted ways. With the pink hair and the

00:17:10.360 psycho affect openly talking about chopping up little kids, men should be terrified to do that

00:17:17.160 sort of thing. And if they have any of these absolutely perverted and sadistic desires, they should

00:17:22.680 keep them to themselves and they should work on themselves and try to cast those demons out of

00:17:27.400 their bodies. That's the cultural level of this, of course. But then there is the even deeper level

00:17:34.980 that I haven't heard a lot of people acknowledge, which is, this is yet another reminder that science

00:17:42.080 is mostly fake. And not that scientism or the politicization of science or whatever other

00:17:50.680 squishy language, the more centrist kind of people want to grant. But the whole endeavor, the whole endeavor

00:18:02.320 of the scientific revolution, the premise of which is that reality is fundamentally physical, that is

00:18:08.180 flawed. It's not true. The modern scientific culture has given us certain nice things,

00:18:17.600 but it's given us a lot of bad things as well, like transgenderism and transhumanism and skyrocketing

00:18:24.640 rates of depression and anxiety and suicidality and a loss of the sense of meaning in this world

00:18:30.280 and a neglect of the fundamental spiritual and metaphysical realities of this world. It's given

00:18:35.500 us all those things. And it's also given us a ton of bogus scientific theory, even taken on the plane of

00:18:42.880 physical science alone. It's given us a bunch of BS. It's given us this notion that the world is going

00:18:47.600 to end in five minutes because of the sun monster and catastrophic climate change. That's, that's a

00:18:51.900 product of the scientific revolution. It's a product of a myopic, narrow, obviously mistaken worldview

00:18:59.280 where you plug in a bunch of models and with all your genius people from Harvard and Yale and

00:19:03.640 Princeton and Oxford, and they plug in their models and they say, oh, the world's going to end in

00:19:06.820 five minutes. And it's not true. And most people even who push these ideologies don't believe it.

00:19:11.620 That's why the Spanish climate minister doesn't really ride her bicycle to work. She rides a

00:19:16.260 private jet and then she gets into a limousine and she only rides that bicycle for the last hundred

00:19:19.820 yards. That's why Mayor Pete takes a nice armored limousine to his cabinet meeting, an armored SUV

00:19:24.780 actually. So he admits even more greenhouse gases. And then he pulls off a few blocks away, gets his

00:19:29.400 bicycle out and rides it there. That's science. Science, the scientific establishment,

00:19:34.280 the scientific revolution is what gave us the public health geniuses like Dr. Fauci and all

00:19:38.560 the rest of them who lied to us about the origin of COVID. It's the people who gave us the public

00:19:43.440 health genius scientific innovators who gave us those vaccines that were not effective at stopping

00:19:48.460 the virus, were not effective at spreading the virus, stopping the spread of the virus. And we're not

00:19:52.440 even all that safe, much less safe than they promised us they would be. That is an issue of science.

00:19:59.020 And it's been true for all of history. We look back through history and we say, goodness gracious,

00:20:02.040 can you believe they bled George Washington with leeches? What idiots. Goodness gracious,

00:20:05.780 can you believe they gave women lobotomies? Oh, that's so crazy. Goodness gracious, can you believe

00:20:09.860 this, that, and the other thing? Well, that's been true for the entire history of science and it will

00:20:13.640 continue to be true. Now we're chopping off kids' genitals and that's obviously much worse than any

00:20:20.320 lobotomies we ever gave women. That's much worse than the worst scientific experiments of the 20th

00:20:25.080 century. And it's going to keep going on. It's not like we figured out science and now we're all good.

00:20:29.040 We have to recognize at a deeper level that human nature goes more than skin deep. It goes more

00:20:35.940 than genitals deep. That's why this doctor is so mistaken. If you want to give him the benefit of

00:20:40.420 the doubt, be as charitable as you can about what he's doing. He just thinks that people are bags of

00:20:45.220 flesh and bags of chemicals that you can poke and prod and fundamentally change. That's an honest

00:20:50.320 mistake, but it has ghastly, awful consequences. And that's a product not of some bad politician merely,

00:20:56.900 that's a product of the scientific worldview that denies the deeper reality to human nature and to

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00:23:29.060 Story is winding its way through the courts. It's going to make it up to the Supreme Court,

00:23:33.180 certainly. And it's a story that divides the right a little bit, but gets a lot deeper at the heart of

00:23:43.860 one of the big issues in our country, education, than some of the recent laws that have been passed.

00:23:48.420 And this case is not about whether you can trans the kids in kindergarten. This case is not about

00:23:54.080 whether you can have gay porn in elementary schools. It's a little trickier than that.

00:23:58.520 The case is about whether or not a Catholic school can fire a teacher for being openly homosexual.

00:24:10.320 You've got two rights, supposed rights in America, pitted right up against one another.

00:24:16.140 The right to religious liberty and the right to have special civil rights protections on the basis

00:24:23.320 of sexual orientation and gender identity, which is a very recently codified civil right protection.

00:24:28.100 That comes from the Supreme Court in cases like the Bostock case, the Harris Funeral Home case.

00:24:33.680 It's a rewriting of the civil rights law, and the civil rights law was a rewriting of the Constitution.

00:24:38.380 But that's the law of the land right now. So what is it? Because you can't simultaneously have both.

00:24:43.480 Does the Catholic school have the right to teach Catholic stuff with Catholic teachers?

00:24:47.200 Or do homosexuals have the right to have any job they want? Open homosexuals.

00:24:51.880 Which is it?

00:24:55.080 Lonnie Billard announced on Facebook that he was engaged to his partner of 14 years.

00:25:01.340 So they were going to have a same-sex marriage. And he wrote on Facebook, he said,

00:25:04.840 if you don't agree with this, keep it to yourself. And he was not even a full-time teacher. He was a

00:25:08.940 substitute teacher at this Catholic school, Charlotte Catholic High School.

00:25:11.720 And then he found out the school wasn't picking him up anymore because he's an open homosexual.

00:25:19.320 The fight in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond is an early test right now

00:25:23.620 of whether or not the First Amendment protects a business's right, this case a Catholic school's

00:25:29.780 right, to not employ people who violate their moral code. It's a really crucial case. And I know that

00:25:39.340 people are going to be more sympathetic to the substitute teacher because they're going to say,

00:25:42.740 look, we all have gay friends and cousins and stuff. Some of my very best teachers that I had

00:25:47.240 in school were openly gay. It was a little bit of a different time back then when being openly gay

00:25:52.540 didn't mean you were marching down the street in New York City saying, we're here, we're queer,

00:25:55.520 we're coming for your children. You didn't have gay porn in elementary schools. A little bit of a

00:25:58.640 different time. But people are going to be much more sympathetic to the teacher here. And yet,

00:26:02.960 the only choice, the only choice if we're going to have religion in America at all is to side with

00:26:12.300 the Catholic school. If a religious school does not have the right to uphold its religious principles

00:26:21.040 in education, then religious education is banned in America. Effectively, education is about

00:26:31.340 forming minds and raising up young people. And religious education has a, I'm not going to say

00:26:38.440 distinctly moral component to it because all education has a moral component, whether we want

00:26:42.760 to admit it or not. Liberal schools, public schools, they have a moral component. They rigorously instill

00:26:49.260 a moral view in their students on environmentalism, on the sexual revolution, on all the rest of it,

00:26:54.060 on diversity, on everything. They're just a little subtler about it. But if the school,

00:27:04.460 the religious school does not have the right to hire teachers who uphold the educational vision

00:27:12.340 of the school and to not hire teachers or to fire teachers who openly oppose the entire educational

00:27:20.740 vision of the school or a key component of it, then that means that religious education

00:27:26.160 is illegal. But because nature abhors a vacuum, it doesn't mean that now education is going to be

00:27:33.900 neutral as the liberals pretend. It just means that only one religious view, actually an anti-religious

00:27:40.000 view, is going to be enshrined in schools. It means that schools not only will not have the right to

00:27:47.060 teach the Christian view of sex or the Jewish view of sex or the Muslim view of sex or any kind of

00:27:53.180 traditional view of sex. It doesn't just mean that you don't have the right to that. It doesn't even

00:27:58.320 just mean that you do have the right to teach a more liberal view of sex. It means that you must teach

00:28:06.480 a more liberal view of sex. It means you have to. That's the law. Because if you don't, the state will

00:28:14.880 come after you. So that's going to be a big test. And it's far from clear what the Supreme Court's

00:28:19.880 going to do. The Supreme Court, despite our allegedly 6-3 conservative court, sided with the

00:28:25.400 transgenderists in Bostock, sided with the transgenderists and the idea of a civil right

00:28:30.200 for sexual orientation and gender identity in the Harris Funeral Homes case. So if I had to place

00:28:37.160 bets right now, I fear there's a good chance that Catholic education just effectively becomes

00:28:43.960 outlawed in America. Now, the court's been pretty good about religious liberty cases,

00:28:48.020 kind of, as an okay record. So maybe there's a chance there. I would say, call your congressman.

00:28:54.880 I would say, make this very clear that you don't want religious education to be completely abolished

00:28:59.960 in America by nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. Speaking of weird sex stuff, there's a story I meant

00:29:05.300 to get to. Not a long one, but a story about a Newport Beach couple. A young guy, good-looking

00:29:11.400 couple, young, a surgeon and his wife. And they're apparently swingers. And they got in trouble

00:29:17.260 because they went to a bar and they picked up these women and then brought them back to their

00:29:22.220 place. And the women say that they kind of came to. The women think that they were drugged

00:29:26.080 and that this couple, this young surgeon and his wife were actually preying on them and were

00:29:32.980 drugging them to get involved into all sorts of weird stuff back at their place. And so when the women

00:29:36.960 came to, they said, we got to get out of here or whatever. And they left and they go after them.

00:29:40.520 Well, the charges were just dropped against the Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend.

00:29:46.460 And the question in the case is, were they swingers or predators? In fact, that's this

00:29:53.960 article here on Yahoo News asks that very question. Were they swingers or were they predators? Was it

00:29:59.340 just fun kind of consensual gallivanting or was there something dark and nefarious here?

00:30:04.640 And my question is, what's the difference? What's the difference really?

00:30:15.060 I'm not saying there's no distinction whatsoever between the two cases, but in both cases,

00:30:19.640 they're predators. In both cases, this Newport Beach couple is not going out to will the good

00:30:25.280 of these other women and to edify them and build them up and care for them and take care of their

00:30:30.680 needs and get married to them or anything like that. They're just going out to satisfy their own

00:30:35.080 base appetites and to use women in the process. And maybe they crossed the line even further and

00:30:40.640 drugged these women or in some other way kind of coerced them. But maybe they just merely seduced

00:30:45.640 them in a bar and took them back and used their bodies and then threw them out on the street.

00:30:50.040 Either way, though, that's predatory behavior. In fact, the old ancient Greeks, good old Uncle Plato

00:30:57.420 talked about this too and said that rape, physical rape, is in fact less severe than seduction.

00:31:06.620 Today in our modern society, we think that's crazy. What are you talking about seduction?

00:31:10.220 That's consensual. But rape, that's one of the worst crimes. Yeah, rape is one of the worst crimes.

00:31:15.080 But the reason that our old ancient Greek buddies thought that is because a physical rape is just

00:31:21.620 a violation of the body. A seduction is a violation not only of the body but also of the intellect and

00:31:26.200 of the soul. It pierces much, much deeper. That's the kind of behavior that they're engaging in. It's

00:31:31.700 the kind of behavior that's totally enshrined in our society. And it's enshrined in feminism and it's

00:31:35.460 enshrined in the sexual revolution. And it's an idea that as long as you can get someone to

00:31:42.000 meekly mutter yes, that you have the right to do whatever you want to satisfy your own base desires.

00:31:48.780 It's an idea of pure selfishness. And it's an idea of predation and predatory behavior.

00:31:55.440 Swingers are predators. What's the difference? Speaking of Newport Beach, places known for

00:32:01.160 fundraising, our friend Vivek Ramaswamy, not a swinger to my knowledge. I'm not, don't draw the

00:32:07.700 wrong conclusion from that transition. I was transitioning into political fundraising,

00:32:12.300 nothing to do with the weird Newport Beach couple. Vivek, Vivek has a very novel idea for

00:32:19.520 how to raise money for his presidential campaign. Here it is. This campaign is founded on the truth.

00:32:27.660 Here's the truth of how political fundraising actually works. There's a tiny group. It's an

00:32:33.120 oligopoly of people who raise money, bundling and otherwise, who get to keep a large percentage,

00:32:40.680 sometimes up to 10% of what they actually raise. That doesn't make any sense to belong to a small

00:32:47.740 group of people. I don't like this system as it exists. But if that's the system we're going to have,

00:32:52.940 my view is let's democratize that and make it possible for everybody to make money as well.

00:32:59.000 So if you're supporting me and you're part of this movement and you want to help us actually

00:33:03.840 raise that money, join my kitchen cabinet, new program we're launching where you help me raise

00:33:10.720 the money. You get a unique link to do it. We'll have a special relationship. I'm going to keep giving

00:33:16.760 you phone calls, telling you how I think you can be most effective for us. But the money you raise,

00:33:22.300 you get to keep 10% of it. I love it. I think it's a great idea. He's right

00:33:28.180 in that there is a class of people called political fundraisers and they work for these campaigns and

00:33:35.020 they raise a boatload of money and they get to keep a decent chunk of it themselves. That's their job.

00:33:41.120 So he's saying, why are we doing this? Why are we creating this professional class of political

00:33:44.320 consultants? Politics is supposed to be about you. It's supposed to be about ordinary citizens

00:33:48.260 and personal connections. So I'm going to increase that personal connection to you and I'm going to

00:33:51.820 incentivize you. Don't we support market incentives here on the right? Yeah, I think we do. Don't we

00:33:56.760 do that in America? Yeah, I think we do. So we're going to incentivize you to raise some money.

00:34:00.640 Some people are disingenuously calling this a pyramid scheme. This is not a pyramid scheme at all.

00:34:05.680 A pyramid scheme is where you sell some stupid product and then you convince other people not

00:34:13.840 only to buy your product but to sell that product for you and then you get a cut of what that person

00:34:19.540 sells and then they do it and they do it and they do it and it keeps going on and on and on and the

00:34:23.160 idea is you build up this kind of funnel into a pyramid. It's not anything even close to what

00:34:27.560 Vivek is saying. He's just saying, hey, if you raise some money for me, you get 10%. That's it.

00:34:33.400 No pyramid, no multi-layer. No, you just, whatever you raise, you get 10%. I think this is a great idea.

00:34:39.160 And the best part of this, it's not that he's raising money. Vivek doesn't need money. He's a very

00:34:44.080 wealthy man. It's not that, I don't know, that people are going to make a ton of money on this.

00:34:49.060 People might make some money, but they're not going to make an insane amount of money on this.

00:34:51.500 The best part of it is that he's trying something new. He's shaking up the race in his campaign

00:34:57.700 promises, in the way he's conducting the race, and even in the way he's conducting the operations

00:35:02.860 of the campaign. Not just the way he's conducting social media ads, but the way he's conducting

00:35:08.300 fundraising. He's coming to this race with the out-of-the-box vision of an entrepreneur,

00:35:16.480 which is what he is. And this is why he keeps jumping up the ranks in this race. Vivek right

00:35:22.580 now nationally is in third place. And this is the biggest positive probably about Vivek's

00:35:29.420 presidential campaign. And it's so shocking that this guy who pretty much nobody had heard of

00:35:33.220 six months ago is now the number three guy in the GOP race for president. And it's the biggest

00:35:38.300 knock on the number two guy in the race, Ron DeSantis, who's got so many great things going for

00:35:42.620 him. He's a very impressive person. He's very intelligent. He's done a great job in Florida.

00:35:46.500 He would probably make a great president, but his campaign is stuck in the rut for precisely this

00:35:51.580 reason. All Vivek is doing is just trying new stuff, shaking things up, throwing spaghetti at the

00:35:55.780 wall. And all the DeSantis campaign seems to be doing is doubling down on a strategy that is slowly

00:36:01.200 losing them support. And if they don't turn it around, it's going to seriously hamper their

00:36:05.560 chances, if not totally foreclose their chances of making it to the nomination. You know, there

00:36:10.820 are a lot of unhappy people out there. Most of them think, if I could just get the right job,

00:36:17.040 if I could just find the right spouse, if I could just have a little bit more money, then everything

00:36:23.020 would be all right. Just this one little change. Well, the truth is happiness is something you can

00:36:28.180 achieve without adding anything else to your life. And in fact, perhaps you must. But don't

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00:37:05.520 Watch PragerU's Master's Program today. My favorite comment yesterday is from StettonWalters574,

00:37:13.620 not to be confused with the 573 other StettonWalterses on YouTube, who says,

00:37:18.680 don't forget basic math. That's another tool of the far right. That's true.

00:37:21.480 The aspects of the far right that you've really got to look out for, exercising, being on time,

00:37:28.840 working hard, speaking English, basic math, literacy, I don't know, not screaming all the

00:37:39.040 time, being sort of quiet, normal. There are lots of warning signs of being on the far right.

00:37:46.460 Right. Speaking of the far right, the GOP nomination for President Vivek is now in third

00:37:53.100 place, according to a Morning Consult survey. Now, I don't want to overstate what third place means.

00:37:59.760 Trump is running away with this nomination. Trump is at 56%. He, according to Morning Consult,

00:38:04.960 is 30 points up on his next closest rival, Ron DeSantis, 17%. And Ron DeSantis is way up on

00:38:10.960 Vivek Ramaswamy. He's up 9%. So a little over 100% more support than Vivek has right now.

00:38:18.660 But it's pretty good, man. I don't know. That's pretty impressive. Ron DeSantis is one of the most

00:38:24.940 impressive Republican politicians in the country, frankly, in my lifetime. And this guy, Vivek,

00:38:31.300 is just coming up and he's not all that far away, I guess, in terms of raw numbers. And Vivek is one

00:38:38.520 point above the former Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, who was a popular

00:38:42.540 governor of Indiana, who was a popular congressman. This guy, Vivek, point up on him. He's almost

00:38:48.580 triple on Nikki Haley, almost triple on Tim Scott, almost triple on Chris Christie, so much for the

00:38:53.240 chrysons. He is way above Asa Hutchinson, who's at 1%. Poor Burgum, who's running as a socially liberal

00:39:00.600 cut taxes kind of candidate. He's at 0%. Suarez, 0%. Heard, 0%. I've been making this warning,

00:39:11.280 and I've been a little tough on DeSantis the past few days, and I'm tough on DeSantis out of love,

00:39:15.820 because I really personally like the guy and I like a lot of the people associated with his campaign.

00:39:23.060 Keep this up and you're going to lose. Simple as that. What the DeSantis campaign is betting on right

00:39:30.060 now is that they're going to hold firm at, I don't know, I don't know what they're going to hold firm

00:39:34.960 at. They were going to hold firm at 22%. Now it's at 17%. It keeps dropping. But they're going to hold

00:39:40.120 firm somewhere until the first debate, and the first debate is going to be where Ron DeSantis really

00:39:44.100 makes his mark against Trump. And maybe he will, maybe he won't. Trump has great debates, and Trump

00:39:49.700 has pretty bad debates. So that's a coin flip. You don't know how Trump, and I bet if recent performance

00:39:55.560 is any indication, Trump's looking pretty good at his debate skills, at his stage skills. It looks

00:40:00.840 like he's kind of got some of his mojo back. But furthermore, if the DeSantis campaign thinks that

00:40:06.060 that's going to be the race, because everyone's going to be piling on Trump, and that's where DeSantis

00:40:09.200 is going to really deal the knockout blow, and that's when his numbers are going to switch.

00:40:13.100 Well, I think you got another thing coming, because all the guns are not going to be trained

00:40:16.680 on Trump at that first debate. The guns are going to be trained on Ron DeSantis, because Ron DeSantis'

00:40:21.100 campaign is showing blood in the water right now. Ron DeSantis is 39 points below Donald Trump right

00:40:25.360 now. So all the guys, number three, number four, number five, number six, they're all going to

00:40:28.560 train, just like they did in 2016. They're going to train all their energy on the number two guy.

00:40:32.340 They're going to try to take him out, so that they have a chance to shoot at the king, because they

00:40:36.020 know if you shoot at the king, you best not miss. So they're not going to go after Trump right away.

00:40:40.480 There's no political advantage for them to do it. They might throw a few volleys just to save face,

00:40:45.820 but the real guns are going to be trained on Ron DeSantis. So they've got to shake something up.

00:40:51.240 Running as the new and improved version of Trump ain't working. What is the solution going to be?

00:40:58.180 I don't know. I don't work for the DeSantis campaign, but it's got to be something, man.

00:41:02.660 If Vivek Ramaswamy can do it, and he can jump way up in the polls, surely the very popular governor of

00:41:07.800 Florida can do it as well. There's another, I'm like singing Vivek's praises today, not just because

00:41:13.340 the guy's a pal of mine, but I'm genuinely very impressed by his campaign. Here's another idea.

00:41:17.720 He threw this one out a couple of weeks ago. It didn't totally land. So he just moved on to

00:41:20.800 the fundraising idea, but, but I think it's a pretty good one. He established a scholarship

00:41:24.440 for patriotism. It's our son Arjun's first birthday today. And in honor of that, my wife,

00:41:30.980 Apoor Vandai are committing to fund a new scholarship to foster American national pride among young

00:41:38.780 Americans. It's going to be called the American identity scholarship. It's going to allow 10 students,

00:41:45.080 10 high school students across the country to win a $25,000 scholarship, making it one of the

00:41:52.500 largest scholarships in the country for submitting a compelling and concise video explaining why it is

00:41:59.780 they're proud to be an American and most importantly, what it means to be an American. That's something

00:42:07.180 that we don't talk about enough. Ask young people across the country today, what does it mean to be an

00:42:12.300 American? You often get a blank stare in response. That's the vacuum at the heart of our national

00:42:18.340 soul. Less than 16% of Gen Z says they're proud to be American today.

00:42:23.920 So, so this is cool. I like it. It didn't get as big a splash as I suspect Vivek was hoping for in

00:42:29.680 the campaign. So it doesn't matter. Whatever. The guy just moves on and says, okay, now we're going to

00:42:32.480 do this fundraising thing that did make a big splash. And he just keeps chipping away. He just keeps

00:42:36.420 throwing spaghetti at the wall. He just keeps mixing metaphors like I'm mixing them right now. And it,

00:42:40.640 and it's working very well. Now the, the question that Vivek poses in the scholarship is the central

00:42:47.100 theme of his campaign. And it's a really important one. It's what is American identity? And I,

00:42:54.800 I love that question. And I think it's really perspicacious. It's a really incisive

00:43:01.800 theme for the campaign. But what's the answer? What is the answer to that question?

00:43:11.120 Conservatives are going to reflexively think they have the answer to say that America's the spirit

00:43:15.160 of 76 and freedom. And yeah, maybe, maybe, but that wasn't always the way that America viewed

00:43:22.340 herself. That, that is in many ways, a creation of the post-World War II liberal consensus that

00:43:30.180 America is a classically liberal nation founded on enlightenment values. That's a kind of actually

00:43:34.640 a relatively recent understanding. America viewed herself very differently in 1620.

00:43:38.720 America viewed herself very differently in 1776. America viewed herself very differently in the

00:43:42.720 early 19th century and in the later 19th century, and even in the early 20th century. And we're going

00:43:47.260 to view ourselves very differently now. So the, the conservatives are going to have to focus in on

00:43:52.420 this. What is it? Is America primarily racial? America's never really been, America's been at least

00:44:00.460 ostensibly a white country for a lot of its history, but it was, it was never merely a white country.

00:44:05.740 I mean, the story has always been much more complicated than that. Carl Jung has a really

00:44:09.740 good essay on this about how the existence in America of Native American Indians and black slaves

00:44:16.380 and then freed black people always colored, pun intended, the, the American understanding of race

00:44:24.000 and character. And so I don't think it's really that exactly. Is America, what is it? Is it just

00:44:28.820 freedom and enlightenment values? No one's even read John Locke. Nobody, no, nor should they,

00:44:32.900 frankly. No, is America, what is, is America the right to do whatever you want to like chop

00:44:38.940 yourself up and engage in all sorts of weird behaviors? I don't think so. What is, is America

00:44:43.080 one nation under God? This be our motto and God is our trust. That's a pretty traditional

00:44:46.580 understanding of what America is. What does that mean in 2023? That's a question that a lot of us

00:44:52.440 have to ask. Now on this racial point before we go, I want to get to Tommy Tupperville. No, you know

00:44:58.480 what? I'm running out of time. So that's going to be my T's. It's going to be my T's. Okay. Tommy

00:45:02.780 Tupperville though, he's in trouble because he is referring to white nationalism and he's not

00:45:09.680 condemning white nationalism in the military or something like that. I think Tupperville has a

00:45:14.200 perfect answer to it, but I'm going to leave you on that cliffhanger. You're just going to have to

00:45:19.380 wait until tomorrow. You got to tune back in. Sorry folks, it's woke Wednesday. We got stuff to get to

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