The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1294 - New Transgender Ban In Italy Outrages Lib


Summary

After more than a century of long-term growth, the state of California is now officially predicted to stagnate. And California is not the only liberal state losing people. New York is facing the exact same problem, as the state's comptroller grudgingly just admitted on TV.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 You know, I hate to say I told you so.
00:00:03.420 When my friends and I left California three years ago,
00:00:06.320 we told you the state was dying.
00:00:09.760 And now, even California officials are admitting we were right.
00:00:15.620 After more than a century of long-term population growth,
00:00:19.620 the state of California is now officially predicted to stagnate.
00:00:25.200 California today has about 39 and a quarter million people.
00:00:28.380 A decade ago, that number was predicted to grow to 53 million by 2060.
00:00:36.060 Just three years ago, that prediction was adjusted down significantly to 45 million.
00:00:42.420 And last week, the California Department of Finance adjusted the prediction down once more
00:00:47.180 to 39 and a quarter million, the same number that we have today.
00:00:53.080 Which means that if the trend of prediction adjustments keeps up,
00:00:56.980 it's likely that California will die not of mere stagnation, but of mass exodus.
00:01:04.100 And California is not the only liberal state losing people.
00:01:07.260 New York is facing the exact same problem as the state's comptroller grudgingly just admitted on TV.
00:01:14.620 In terms of our budget planning process in New York, we have the somewhat strange calendar of the fiscal year.
00:01:21.740 The budget planning process starts on April 1st, and of course, you don't have your heart tax collection date until April 15th.
00:01:27.420 So the budget that was put in place, you know, frankly, was based on more optimistic numbers.
00:01:32.340 But, you know, in the current financial plan, division of budget is taken down each year for the next few years,
00:01:39.460 $5 billion in revenue.
00:01:40.820 And, you know, we're now slightly ahead of current updated projections, which have been lowered.
00:01:47.620 But the weakness, Neil, has been in the personal income tax collections.
00:01:50.820 And some of that has to do with taxpayer migration that you alluded to.
00:01:55.120 But I think as much of it's just reflective of a slowing economy right now.
00:02:00.080 Did you catch that?
00:02:01.600 Did you catch that explanation?
00:02:03.000 Forget about tax revenue and New York or whatever.
00:02:06.500 Just as a matter of politics, just as a matter of rhetoric, that is what we observers of rhetoric call an excrement sandwich.
00:02:15.200 That is where you wedge the bad news in between perfectly fine and ordinary news.
00:02:20.740 Yes, tax receipts are down because of the bad economy and the mass exodus and the bad economy, of course.
00:02:30.280 So that's no big deal.
00:02:31.320 What was that?
00:02:32.240 Oh, that was just the bad economy.
00:02:34.260 Now, what did you say before that?
00:02:36.020 Oh, I was talking about the bad economy.
00:02:37.640 No, what was the one after that?
00:02:39.160 Right in there in the middle.
00:02:40.440 Oh, right.
00:02:40.900 People are fleeing your state.
00:02:43.020 People are leaving the liberal states.
00:02:46.380 Forget about the consequences of what that means for the red states.
00:02:51.960 Forget for a moment about what that means for national unity or whatever.
00:02:55.260 We can get to that later.
00:02:56.420 Just take a moment to savor at least one consolation of being a conservative,
00:03:01.300 which is that eventually, after a long time perhaps, consequences catch up with bad government.
00:03:09.120 Eventually, after a long time, might take decades, reality reasserts itself in the end,
00:03:15.720 as it is reasserting itself in New York and California today.
00:03:20.080 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:03:20.780 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:28.600 Welcome back to The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:30.540 Wonderful to be with you as always.
00:03:34.120 In just a moment, we have a middle-aged white guy from the Civil Air Patrol
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00:03:47.580 First, though, I want to zoom out internationally
00:03:49.720 because this collapse of liberal policies
00:03:52.640 and this reflection in public opinion polls and people's behavior,
00:03:56.360 it's not just happening in the states.
00:03:57.860 It's not just happening in New York and California.
00:03:59.620 This is a global issue.
00:04:01.200 You know, this week, I'm on the road.
00:04:03.960 I'm in Hungary.
00:04:05.080 Very, very excited.
00:04:06.000 I mean, I'm not literally in Hungary right now.
00:04:07.920 I'll be flying out to Hungary almost immediately after this show,
00:04:12.080 and I'll be giving a speech outside of Budapest on Friday.
00:04:15.280 So if you're in town, happen to be in the neighborhood,
00:04:17.300 go check that out at MCC Fest.
00:04:19.460 I've got my new book.
00:04:21.380 It's the Hungarian translation of my first blank book,
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00:04:26.420 a comprehensive guide that is now available in Hungary starting today.
00:04:31.440 But it's not just Hungary that's gone pretty conservative.
00:04:34.960 This is a global issue.
00:04:37.700 It's taking over the West.
00:04:40.140 Spain right now is looking at its first properly right-wing government
00:04:44.740 since Francisco Franco in 1975.
00:04:47.940 I alluded to this last week.
00:04:49.620 While the numbers are becoming even clearer,
00:04:52.480 polls are showing that the conservative popular party,
00:04:55.720 which is the sort of center-right, mainstream, regular old,
00:05:00.920 kind of squishy Republican Party equivalent in Spain,
00:05:04.200 led by Alberto Nunez Feijo, I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that,
00:05:09.040 has enough support to unseat the Socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez,
00:05:13.940 but doesn't have enough support to get an outright majority,
00:05:16.680 which means that the kind of center-right, conservative-ish party
00:05:19.940 is going to have a form of coalition government
00:05:21.800 with a properly conservative party, which is the Vox Party, means voice.
00:05:26.540 That is a nationalist party.
00:05:28.880 It's anti-immigration.
00:05:30.900 It's anti-feminist.
00:05:32.320 It's anti-liberal.
00:05:33.060 It's an actual conservative party.
00:05:35.540 So with the properly conservative party as the kingmaker,
00:05:38.580 for the first time in now 50 years or so,
00:05:41.320 you're going to see potentially,
00:05:45.020 and we'll get to why I say potentially in a second,
00:05:46.800 a properly right-wing government in Spain.
00:05:49.880 What is the leader of that party saying?
00:05:52.660 Saying neither globalist agendas nor separatist concessions
00:05:56.580 can prevent access to water for all.
00:06:00.320 This issue of water, this issue of environmentalist policy,
00:06:03.240 this has become a major, major issue in Spain,
00:06:06.860 where conservatives, where ordinary people are seeing
00:06:10.240 the liberals and the squishes and the globalists
00:06:13.400 prioritizing abstract humanity,
00:06:16.760 or even worse, prioritizing regular old wildlife
00:06:21.180 or the trees or the grass or whatever
00:06:24.720 over actual people in the here and now.
00:06:28.580 And the conservative party comes in.
00:06:29.780 This is not rocket science.
00:06:30.720 They come in and they say,
00:06:31.320 hey, the Spanish people should have access to water.
00:06:35.600 This does not take a PhD in political science
00:06:38.180 to see what the conservatives are doing
00:06:40.160 to win in Spain and in Italy
00:06:42.840 and elsewhere throughout Europe
00:06:44.720 and in the United States as well.
00:06:46.120 The conservatives are coming in and they're saying,
00:06:48.140 hey, you crazy pie-in-the-sky liberals
00:06:50.360 are prioritizing all your insane ideologies
00:06:53.760 over the basic needs
00:06:55.940 and the basic traditional desires of ordinary people.
00:07:00.340 And after the people have had their desires
00:07:04.120 and their wishes and their use of right reason
00:07:06.360 neglected for long enough,
00:07:08.540 they're going to swing back
00:07:09.640 and they're going to vote for the conservatives.
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00:08:30.920 They say that we are potentially
00:08:33.420 seeing a right-wing response in Europe
00:08:37.040 because the liberals still have a lot of power.
00:08:40.940 So you got the Spanish political party,
00:08:42.540 the Vox party,
00:08:43.540 calling for a reconquista of Spain.
00:08:46.240 This is the same kind of language
00:08:47.260 that was used when the Spaniards
00:08:49.720 took back Spain from Muslim invaders
00:08:52.040 back over 500 years ago.
00:08:53.900 They're saying we need a reconquista now
00:08:55.760 to take back Spain
00:08:56.980 from the liberal globalists
00:08:59.340 who don't care about Spain's traditions,
00:09:01.780 don't care about Spain's people,
00:09:03.200 and are flooding Spain,
00:09:05.080 actually, with a lot of Muslims,
00:09:06.500 like you saw in the initial Muslim invasion of Spain.
00:09:10.180 So they're saying we need a reconquista
00:09:11.580 to reclaim Spain for what?
00:09:14.120 For what?
00:09:15.640 For the traditional Spanish people?
00:09:18.080 Okay, good.
00:09:18.720 For our cultural practices?
00:09:21.240 Okay, good.
00:09:21.880 For our basic needs and desires of state,
00:09:24.240 correct?
00:09:24.520 Okay, good.
00:09:24.900 And for Christianity,
00:09:27.840 because when you talk in these abstractions,
00:09:30.240 what the traditional culture,
00:09:32.220 the traditional people,
00:09:33.660 the traditional practices and rituals,
00:09:35.700 eventually,
00:09:36.920 you're going to have to get a little specific.
00:09:40.140 And the specific answer on all of those things,
00:09:44.460 the thing that has animated Europe
00:09:47.360 and the individual European nations
00:09:49.780 in different ways,
00:09:51.520 but all at the same time,
00:09:53.380 is Christianity.
00:09:54.340 And so the properly conservative parties
00:09:56.240 are not going to be speaking
00:09:57.300 in the mealy-mouthed language
00:09:58.940 of the Enlightenment or rationalism
00:10:01.120 or human rights or whatever.
00:10:03.020 It's going to be particular.
00:10:04.140 It's going to be talking
00:10:04.720 in terms of Christianity.
00:10:06.640 There's a great line from the Christian writer,
00:10:08.220 Hilaire Belloc,
00:10:08.980 a Catholic writer,
00:10:10.040 who once provocatively said,
00:10:11.900 the faith is Europe,
00:10:12.860 Europe is the faith.
00:10:14.580 Which does not mean
00:10:15.580 that the Christian faith
00:10:16.580 is reducible to Europe
00:10:18.400 or really reducible to anything.
00:10:20.400 But it is to say,
00:10:21.560 the thing that defines Europe,
00:10:23.200 what we consider to be Europe,
00:10:24.340 what we consider to be the West,
00:10:25.320 it is Christianity.
00:10:27.900 Not just in Spain,
00:10:29.320 you're seeing this in Germany as well.
00:10:31.760 Right now,
00:10:32.500 the right-wing party,
00:10:33.440 Alternative for Germany,
00:10:34.420 Alternative for Deutschland,
00:10:35.740 is climbing to record support,
00:10:39.220 widening its lead
00:10:40.040 over all three parties
00:10:41.580 in the ruling coalition
00:10:43.140 of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
00:10:46.480 The AFD has increased
00:10:49.100 its support to 22%.
00:10:50.380 So much like in Spain,
00:10:51.920 the only party that the
00:10:54.260 seriously right-wing party,
00:10:56.780 Alternative for Deutschland,
00:10:57.720 is trailing,
00:10:58.500 is the Christian Democrat Party,
00:10:59.900 which has 26%.
00:11:01.160 So you could be looking
00:11:03.200 at a pretty serious
00:11:03.980 right-wing ruling coalition there.
00:11:06.080 You already saw
00:11:07.480 a conservative populist
00:11:09.960 uprising in the election
00:11:10.980 in Italy.
00:11:12.660 And this is why I say
00:11:14.120 you could have potentially
00:11:14.960 right-wing governments
00:11:15.680 in these places.
00:11:16.220 because Georgia Maloney
00:11:17.660 was elected in Italy
00:11:18.940 to be a properly right-wing,
00:11:21.980 much more right-wing
00:11:22.860 than we've seen
00:11:23.300 in the past government.
00:11:24.700 And she hasn't really done that.
00:11:27.100 And this is sometimes
00:11:28.160 what happens in Europe,
00:11:31.280 as in the West broadly.
00:11:32.900 You get popular support
00:11:34.520 to elect a right-wing
00:11:35.460 conservative party.
00:11:36.260 Here we go, baby.
00:11:37.120 And the CNN and the media
00:11:38.440 and all these people,
00:11:39.080 they always say,
00:11:39.580 it's the far-right extremist,
00:11:41.620 fascist,
00:11:42.640 Nazi,
00:11:43.640 ultra-right-wing,
00:11:44.600 whatever.
00:11:44.780 And then what happens?
00:11:46.020 The parties get in there
00:11:46.880 and they moderate
00:11:48.300 and they run
00:11:48.980 as basically just
00:11:50.160 a slightly more
00:11:51.560 conservative version
00:11:53.200 of regular old
00:11:54.320 EU-Brussels
00:11:55.940 global liberalism
00:11:57.120 that we've seen
00:11:57.860 for a long time.
00:11:59.060 I'm sorry to say
00:11:59.840 that's basically
00:12:00.540 what we've seen
00:12:01.200 out of the Maloney government.
00:12:03.340 So the same thing
00:12:03.840 could happen in Germany.
00:12:04.720 Same thing could happen
00:12:05.360 in Spain.
00:12:05.940 Or maybe not.
00:12:06.560 Maybe we're seeing
00:12:07.000 an actual backlash.
00:12:08.240 In Italy,
00:12:08.860 some good news.
00:12:11.980 Italy has come out
00:12:13.080 and banned transvestites
00:12:14.840 from the Miss Italy
00:12:16.100 beauty pageant.
00:12:17.840 Amazing how low
00:12:18.760 our expectations are now
00:12:20.140 that this is great news.
00:12:21.540 This is a great
00:12:22.040 conservative victory
00:12:22.780 that dudes,
00:12:24.380 Tony Soprano
00:12:25.200 doesn't get to compete
00:12:26.180 in the Miss Italy
00:12:26.840 beauty pageant.
00:12:27.860 But I'll take what I can get.
00:12:30.180 Italy comes out
00:12:30.940 after some fella
00:12:32.820 won the Miss Netherlands
00:12:34.000 beauty contest.
00:12:36.360 Patrizia Mirigliani,
00:12:37.960 the official patron
00:12:38.660 of Miss Italy,
00:12:39.640 stated in an interview
00:12:40.580 with Radio Cusano
00:12:41.600 that contestants
00:12:43.560 must be women
00:12:45.000 from birth.
00:12:46.400 She says,
00:12:46.940 lately,
00:12:47.960 beauty contests
00:12:48.880 have been trying
00:12:49.620 to make the news
00:12:50.600 by also using strategies
00:12:52.160 that I think
00:12:52.840 are a bit absurd.
00:12:54.220 And it is absurd.
00:12:55.540 It's totally out of whack.
00:12:57.200 It's totally out of tune.
00:13:00.880 In the Netherlands
00:13:02.140 beauty pageant,
00:13:03.120 you saw the fellow
00:13:03.860 who won
00:13:04.420 who dresses up
00:13:05.040 like a woman.
00:13:06.320 Even if he were a woman,
00:13:07.480 he would not be
00:13:10.040 anywhere near as attractive
00:13:11.380 as the woman
00:13:12.160 who came in number two.
00:13:13.480 So not only
00:13:14.180 was it absurd
00:13:14.880 to have a man
00:13:15.500 compete against a woman,
00:13:16.580 but the man,
00:13:17.860 just physically,
00:13:18.820 I mean,
00:13:19.000 we're talking about
00:13:19.420 a beauty contest,
00:13:20.080 we're judging
00:13:20.420 people's attractiveness.
00:13:21.400 The man was much,
00:13:22.200 much, much uglier
00:13:23.020 than the actual woman
00:13:24.420 who came in number two.
00:13:26.220 So you're at a place now
00:13:28.180 where if transgender people
00:13:30.100 are allowed to compete
00:13:31.140 in the beauty contests,
00:13:32.340 they're going to win,
00:13:33.240 almost certainly,
00:13:34.300 just so that the judges
00:13:35.240 can make a political point
00:13:36.340 about how much they love
00:13:37.000 transgenderism
00:13:37.880 and in our woke culture,
00:13:39.780 no one's allowed
00:13:40.220 to say otherwise
00:13:40.840 or you'll be considered
00:13:42.320 a far right winger.
00:13:43.120 So Italy comes in.
00:13:44.460 Why do I mention this?
00:13:45.600 I mention it
00:13:46.280 just to underscore
00:13:48.180 this trend
00:13:49.320 that we're seeing.
00:13:49.960 When Trump won in 2016,
00:13:51.400 oh, it was a fluke.
00:13:52.500 It was a fluke.
00:13:53.320 Hillary was unpopular.
00:13:54.660 It was a total fluke.
00:13:56.520 It was wrong to pick him
00:13:57.280 as a nominee,
00:13:58.180 but just whatever.
00:13:59.580 Okay, I guess he won.
00:14:01.300 And then what?
00:14:02.140 Well, what about the Brexit?
00:14:03.140 Remember when Brexit happened?
00:14:04.060 Oh, that was a total fluke.
00:14:05.480 It was just because
00:14:05.980 of some really savvy
00:14:06.900 marketing campaigns
00:14:07.920 by the conservatives.
00:14:08.960 Total fluke, though.
00:14:10.320 Not indicative of a global trend.
00:14:12.040 Okay, what happens
00:14:12.760 when Sweden gets
00:14:13.720 a right-wing government?
00:14:14.560 Okay, what happens
00:14:15.040 when Italy gets
00:14:15.640 a right-wing government?
00:14:16.480 Okay, what happens
00:14:17.100 when the right-wing party,
00:14:18.640 for the first time
00:14:19.180 since Francisco Franco,
00:14:20.380 looks like it's going
00:14:21.020 to win in Spain?
00:14:21.820 Oh, what happens
00:14:22.440 when the right-wing party
00:14:23.300 in Germany looks like
00:14:24.040 it's going to win?
00:14:24.320 How many wins do you need
00:14:26.640 before you see
00:14:28.140 that the reaction
00:14:29.180 to global liberalism
00:14:30.300 is not just some fluke
00:14:31.560 because Donald Trump
00:14:32.280 is a clever guy
00:14:32.960 on a debate stage?
00:14:33.740 It's a global trend.
00:14:35.220 How long
00:14:36.340 before the liberals
00:14:37.660 have to look themselves
00:14:38.460 in the mirror
00:14:38.900 and say,
00:14:39.380 hey, did we screw up?
00:14:40.780 Hey, do people
00:14:41.340 not really like us anymore?
00:14:43.460 The smart ones
00:14:44.260 have done that
00:14:44.780 and they're clamping down
00:14:45.640 on their power right now.
00:14:47.600 But this is a pattern.
00:14:50.260 And it's nice to see
00:14:51.980 with the Italians
00:14:52.580 because I do hail
00:14:53.760 from the Italian people
00:14:54.680 on my mother's side.
00:14:56.220 And the Italians,
00:14:57.100 despite their dalliances
00:14:58.340 with socialism
00:14:59.980 and liberalism,
00:15:01.300 the Italians basically
00:15:02.720 are a right-wing people.
00:15:05.640 The Italians are a little,
00:15:06.900 it's a mixed bag,
00:15:08.060 but they're basically
00:15:09.040 conservative.
00:15:11.220 They haven't had
00:15:11.640 a functioning government
00:15:12.400 since Octavian,
00:15:13.220 but they are basically
00:15:14.320 conservative people.
00:15:17.220 Now, will that be able
00:15:18.520 to win out?
00:15:19.860 I think the conservatives
00:15:21.140 have the numbers
00:15:21.800 in America
00:15:22.460 and all over Europe.
00:15:25.060 Can that win out
00:15:26.380 over the way
00:15:27.440 that the political institutions
00:15:29.500 have been rigged
00:15:31.260 against conservatives
00:15:32.260 in Brussels,
00:15:33.120 in Washington, D.C.,
00:15:34.180 all over?
00:15:36.540 That remains to be seen.
00:15:38.740 Clearly,
00:15:39.320 the conservatives
00:15:39.820 have taken a shellacking.
00:15:41.240 They undermined
00:15:41.680 Trump's administration
00:15:42.500 and routed him
00:15:43.200 out of office
00:15:43.760 after trying
00:15:45.000 all sorts of failed
00:15:46.160 kooky attempts
00:15:46.780 to get him out
00:15:47.320 from the time
00:15:48.220 he was on the campaign trail.
00:15:50.220 Maloney,
00:15:50.800 they seem to have
00:15:51.340 neutered her government.
00:15:53.200 The Brexit,
00:15:53.900 they weakened the Brexit.
00:15:55.160 So we can say,
00:15:57.200 oh, I'm so happy
00:15:58.020 that the people
00:16:00.280 are rising up
00:16:00.840 for conservatism,
00:16:01.540 but it doesn't matter.
00:16:02.080 You can have 90%
00:16:02.780 of the people
00:16:03.180 rising up for conservatism
00:16:04.400 if they can't grab hold
00:16:07.140 of the political institutions
00:16:08.080 and wield that power
00:16:08.980 that and a Euro 50
00:16:12.360 will get you a cup of coffee.
00:16:14.600 The liberals
00:16:15.140 are taking this populist threat
00:16:16.660 very seriously,
00:16:18.120 including here,
00:16:18.860 including in the Democrat Party.
00:16:20.860 Prominent Democrats
00:16:21.680 now are coming out
00:16:22.440 against RFK Jr.
00:16:24.720 Representative
00:16:25.200 Susan Del Bene,
00:16:27.200 a Democrat from Washington
00:16:28.980 who, yeah,
00:16:29.840 she's just some
00:16:30.360 random Congress lady,
00:16:31.560 but she's also the head
00:16:32.540 of the Democrat
00:16:33.080 Congressional Campaign Committee.
00:16:34.320 So this is a major
00:16:35.420 leadership arm
00:16:37.180 of the Democrat Party.
00:16:38.420 She just came out,
00:16:39.180 she called
00:16:39.600 Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s
00:16:41.580 COVID-19 comments,
00:16:43.940 quote,
00:16:44.460 reprehensible.
00:16:45.880 She said they're disqualifying.
00:16:48.160 She said,
00:16:49.120 such dangerous racism
00:16:50.560 and hate
00:16:51.260 have no place in America.
00:16:53.520 Demonstrate him
00:16:54.400 to be unfit
00:16:55.500 for public office
00:16:56.500 and must be condemned
00:16:57.940 in the strongest
00:16:58.660 possible terms.
00:16:59.560 Good grief, lady.
00:17:00.300 What did Bobby Kennedy do?
00:17:01.480 He quoted one
00:17:02.400 scientific study
00:17:04.480 that was published
00:17:05.120 in a real medical journal
00:17:06.240 saying that COVID
00:17:07.140 might be harsher
00:17:07.880 on some ethnicities
00:17:08.780 than others.
00:17:10.060 He quoted
00:17:10.940 scientific literature
00:17:12.220 or referred to
00:17:12.820 scientific literature
00:17:13.500 which cited the threat
00:17:15.100 that bioweapons
00:17:15.800 could be ethnically targeted.
00:17:17.780 That's all he did
00:17:18.480 in a dinner
00:17:19.420 that was recorded
00:17:20.500 and released.
00:17:21.200 He didn't say
00:17:23.660 anything that was wrong
00:17:25.100 or even all that
00:17:25.920 controversial.
00:17:28.340 So,
00:17:29.120 it's not that
00:17:30.360 the Democrats
00:17:31.340 now are seeing
00:17:31.980 that Bobby Kennedy
00:17:32.700 made some comment
00:17:33.840 and they're attacking
00:17:34.800 him for it.
00:17:35.920 They're seeing
00:17:36.540 that Bobby Kennedy
00:17:37.220 is gaining support
00:17:38.420 among Republicans,
00:17:40.520 some Republicans
00:17:41.600 who like what he said
00:17:42.400 about COVID,
00:17:43.420 who like what he said
00:17:44.340 about COVID
00:17:44.640 for years now,
00:17:45.580 some independents
00:17:46.940 who are sick
00:17:47.680 of Biden and Trump,
00:17:48.700 and crucially,
00:17:49.260 some Democrats
00:17:49.780 because he's polling
00:17:50.320 at about 19%
00:17:51.160 in the Democrat Party.
00:17:52.140 So,
00:17:52.320 they're seeing that
00:17:53.300 and then they're jumping
00:17:54.040 on whatever flimsy
00:17:54.960 excuse they can
00:17:55.640 to attack him
00:17:56.200 to attack him.
00:17:57.060 It's not just her.
00:17:57.980 The House Minority Leader,
00:17:59.220 this is the top Democrat
00:18:00.180 in the House,
00:18:00.620 Hakeem Jeffries,
00:18:01.800 whose family
00:18:02.960 has a long history
00:18:05.080 with racially provocative
00:18:06.500 statements.
00:18:07.340 Hakeem Jeffries' uncle
00:18:08.500 is one of the most infamous
00:18:09.560 leftist academics
00:18:10.520 in the country
00:18:11.180 who came up
00:18:11.940 with a whole theory
00:18:12.620 about people of the sun
00:18:13.740 and people of the ice
00:18:14.880 and Africans
00:18:16.100 are the sun people
00:18:17.040 and they're vibrant
00:18:17.720 and they're wonderful
00:18:18.400 and they're lively.
00:18:19.780 And white people
00:18:20.520 are the ice people
00:18:22.020 and the ice people
00:18:23.760 don't have souls
00:18:25.120 and they're basically animals.
00:18:26.300 Nick Cannon,
00:18:27.240 the entertainer,
00:18:28.180 some years ago
00:18:28.860 came out
00:18:29.420 and echoed these statements.
00:18:30.780 And Hakeem Jeffries
00:18:31.420 has defended his uncle before.
00:18:33.320 And actually,
00:18:33.820 the only way
00:18:34.320 that Professor Jeffries
00:18:35.300 was finally run out
00:18:36.600 of academia
00:18:37.280 was one time
00:18:39.040 he went really far
00:18:41.860 in his attacks
00:18:42.920 on the ice people
00:18:44.000 and he veered
00:18:45.380 into what is called
00:18:46.620 anti-Semitism
00:18:47.640 such that
00:18:48.940 he could plausibly
00:18:51.420 have been accused
00:18:52.240 of attacking
00:18:52.800 a racial minority.
00:18:53.960 Back when he was just
00:18:54.660 attacking the racial majority,
00:18:56.080 it was all well and good.
00:18:57.340 But finally,
00:18:58.420 he veered to the point
00:18:59.180 where they could say,
00:18:59.880 okay,
00:19:00.060 you're engaging
00:19:00.940 in the same kind of racism
00:19:02.380 that we say is verboten.
00:19:04.300 So they ran Jeffries out.
00:19:06.520 But no one's really
00:19:07.420 ever apologized for him.
00:19:08.420 They kind of just
00:19:08.820 brushed him under the rug.
00:19:09.720 Anyway,
00:19:10.200 all of that
00:19:10.660 is prelude to say,
00:19:11.760 Hakeem Jeffries says,
00:19:12.780 why would you give
00:19:13.560 Bobby Kennedy Jr.
00:19:14.620 a congressional platform
00:19:15.640 to spew his hatred?
00:19:17.500 Here's the answer.
00:19:19.160 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:19:20.340 is a living,
00:19:21.280 breathing,
00:19:21.720 false flag operation
00:19:23.240 by the right wing
00:19:25.120 to undermine the Democrats.
00:19:28.420 Living,
00:19:28.820 breathing,
00:19:29.080 false flag operation
00:19:29.920 like he was constructed
00:19:31.040 in a lab
00:19:31.620 with the conservatives.
00:19:32.680 This could be
00:19:34.780 somewhat plausible
00:19:35.600 if he came out of nowhere
00:19:37.280 like an Andrew Yang
00:19:38.320 or like a Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:19:39.500 even if they were
00:19:40.980 running as Democrats.
00:19:42.320 But Bobby Kennedy Jr.
00:19:44.220 is a Kennedy.
00:19:45.180 His dad was
00:19:46.040 the Attorney General
00:19:46.960 of the United States.
00:19:48.080 His uncle was Jack Kennedy.
00:19:50.460 Okay,
00:19:50.920 this is the most prominent
00:19:52.580 Democrat family in America.
00:19:53.880 I don't think it's an op
00:19:54.760 by the conservatives.
00:19:56.600 This is a coordinated attack
00:19:58.300 right now
00:19:58.760 from Democrat Party leadership
00:20:00.520 to kill
00:20:01.580 not only populism
00:20:03.080 that you see on the right,
00:20:03.860 but populism
00:20:04.600 even that's cropping up
00:20:05.700 on the left.
00:20:06.520 And that's because
00:20:07.060 populism
00:20:08.360 breaks that traditional
00:20:09.940 boundary,
00:20:10.560 just the right
00:20:11.040 versus the left
00:20:11.800 or the Republicans
00:20:12.980 versus the Democrats.
00:20:14.280 That populism comes in
00:20:15.440 as you saw with Trump
00:20:16.820 in 2016
00:20:17.400 and you're going to have
00:20:18.900 a huge number
00:20:20.240 of Republicans
00:20:20.880 just like all of the Democrats
00:20:22.240 who were irritated
00:20:23.200 at Trump.
00:20:23.680 And actually you're going
00:20:24.220 to have some Democrats
00:20:24.960 who were formerly Democrats
00:20:27.120 who come over
00:20:27.640 and say this Trump guy,
00:20:28.740 I kind of like
00:20:29.100 what he's saying.
00:20:30.260 It breaks up
00:20:31.220 what is referred to
00:20:32.040 as the uniparty.
00:20:33.300 It throws a wrench
00:20:34.440 in the political establishment,
00:20:35.700 which is why
00:20:36.460 the established powers
00:20:37.900 from both parties
00:20:38.680 are going to attack
00:20:39.720 the Trumps.
00:20:41.340 But the Trumps
00:20:41.860 aren't going away
00:20:42.380 because there are Trumps
00:20:43.160 and there are Nigel Farage's
00:20:44.280 and there are Viktor Orban's
00:20:45.420 and there are Georgi Maloney's
00:20:46.580 and there are Vox parties
00:20:47.640 in Spain.
00:20:48.420 And it's growing
00:20:50.860 because of a dissatisfaction
00:20:52.700 not just with the ruling party,
00:20:55.200 but with the whole regime
00:20:57.380 throughout the West.
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00:23:21.680 Speaking of middle-aged
00:23:22.860 white dudes
00:23:23.480 like Bobby Kennedy Jr.
00:23:26.100 The Civil Air Patrol
00:23:27.180 as a fella,
00:23:29.440 I guess some kind
00:23:30.120 of a spokesman,
00:23:30.840 Mark Wu-Tan,
00:23:32.220 has gone viral
00:23:32.920 on TikTok
00:23:33.560 to insist
00:23:35.320 that National Service
00:23:37.820 stop hiring
00:23:38.860 middle-aged white dudes.
00:23:40.980 The only really guidance
00:23:42.300 I've put out there
00:23:43.100 for them
00:23:43.560 to consider
00:23:44.780 is stop hiring
00:23:45.780 middle-aged white people,
00:23:47.520 especially dudes
00:23:48.680 that are pilots,
00:23:49.420 because honestly
00:23:51.760 we all think alike
00:23:52.680 too much
00:23:53.880 and if we're going
00:23:55.540 to be preaching
00:23:55.920 diversity
00:23:56.400 and being inclusive
00:23:58.400 and for crying out loud
00:24:00.100 let's back it up
00:24:00.880 with a, you know,
00:24:01.460 let's make the rhetoric
00:24:02.760 meet the reality.
00:24:04.520 We just need to,
00:24:05.580 we need to stop
00:24:06.380 promoting these
00:24:07.080 middle-aged white dudes.
00:24:08.160 We got,
00:24:08.460 middle-aged white dudes
00:24:09.240 are the worst.
00:24:10.300 I hate them.
00:24:11.920 I hate them
00:24:12.640 and you should too.
00:24:13.380 Could you recommend
00:24:15.960 to a young man
00:24:17.480 in your life,
00:24:18.100 in your family,
00:24:18.860 a loved one,
00:24:20.060 that they join
00:24:20.840 the military right now?
00:24:22.900 I know this is
00:24:23.780 the civilian air patrol
00:24:24.700 so it's like
00:24:25.260 a little bit different.
00:24:27.380 You've seen all the
00:24:27.980 woke stuff out of
00:24:28.540 the military too.
00:24:29.240 Could you,
00:24:30.640 this pains me to say,
00:24:31.520 I come from
00:24:31.840 a military family,
00:24:33.080 I got,
00:24:33.340 my grandfather
00:24:33.840 was a captain
00:24:34.520 in the United States Navy.
00:24:35.980 I've got Navy and Army
00:24:37.460 all throughout my
00:24:39.340 family line,
00:24:40.820 family tree.
00:24:42.580 I've gotten,
00:24:43.380 U.S. military veterans
00:24:44.600 going back to
00:24:45.320 the American Revolution,
00:24:46.500 okay?
00:24:47.380 It pains me to say this.
00:24:49.100 I am as big a supporter
00:24:50.620 of the military
00:24:51.160 as there can possibly be.
00:24:53.140 Could you,
00:24:54.140 knowing that
00:24:55.020 the chairman
00:24:55.700 of the Joint Chiefs
00:24:56.480 of Staff
00:24:56.940 is more concerned
00:24:58.120 with fighting
00:24:59.580 white rage
00:25:00.840 and indoctrinating
00:25:02.500 the cadets
00:25:04.820 and the troops
00:25:05.700 into woke ideology,
00:25:09.100 anti-white ideology,
00:25:10.600 anti-male ideology,
00:25:11.880 could you
00:25:13.680 seriously say,
00:25:15.000 ah, yes,
00:25:15.240 the best path
00:25:16.080 for you,
00:25:16.700 son,
00:25:17.340 is to join
00:25:17.840 the military?
00:25:18.960 Probably not.
00:25:19.620 You might still say
00:25:20.740 it's noble
00:25:22.120 and right
00:25:22.640 to serve your country
00:25:23.600 even if you've got
00:25:24.440 a bunch of
00:25:25.380 complete doofuses
00:25:26.380 running the show.
00:25:28.420 But I don't know.
00:25:29.340 It'd be much harder.
00:25:31.260 It would be much harder
00:25:32.680 to recommend that
00:25:33.520 right now.
00:25:34.900 And it's not just
00:25:35.880 the Civil Air Patrol.
00:25:36.820 It is all
00:25:37.780 over the military.
00:25:39.940 There was a
00:25:40.420 National Guard
00:25:41.460 recruiting video
00:25:42.760 that seemed
00:25:44.440 to be selling,
00:25:45.880 more than recruitment,
00:25:46.820 it seemed to be selling
00:25:47.740 transgenderism.
00:25:50.120 I was an active
00:25:50.920 duty army brat
00:25:51.780 and all I wanted
00:25:53.000 to do growing up
00:25:54.040 was be part
00:25:54.880 of the military
00:25:55.420 and serve my country
00:25:56.920 and be part
00:25:57.400 of something bigger.
00:25:58.560 I waited until
00:26:00.000 Don't Ask, Don't Tell
00:26:00.720 was repealed,
00:26:01.360 so I actually joined
00:26:02.020 when I was 32.
00:26:03.500 My MOS is 12 Alpha.
00:26:04.940 I'm an engineer officer
00:26:06.660 and that means
00:26:08.000 both the construction
00:26:09.000 type of engineering,
00:26:10.600 building things
00:26:11.280 and making bridges.
00:26:12.440 It also means
00:26:13.220 combat engineering
00:26:14.140 which is building
00:26:15.280 obstacles,
00:26:16.420 destroying obstacles,
00:26:17.760 demolitions,
00:26:18.420 all of that fun stuff.
00:26:19.820 When I became
00:26:20.760 an officer,
00:26:21.820 infantry and armor
00:26:23.200 weren't open
00:26:23.800 to females
00:26:24.560 and the combat
00:26:25.500 side of engineering
00:26:26.280 wasn't open
00:26:26.880 until about 2016
00:26:28.100 or so.
00:26:29.120 I was drawn to it
00:26:30.140 just because I like
00:26:30.920 the technical aspect
00:26:31.920 and again,
00:26:32.980 like getting my hands
00:26:33.740 dirty and my
00:26:34.860 teams have always
00:26:35.640 been very welcoming.
00:26:36.820 It's about what you know,
00:26:38.020 it's about teamwork,
00:26:39.020 it's about taking care
00:26:39.940 of your soldiers.
00:26:40.880 So really,
00:26:41.460 as long as you show
00:26:42.320 that you can build
00:26:43.160 trust in your team
00:26:44.040 and that you take care
00:26:44.820 of your people,
00:26:45.840 gender doesn't matter.
00:26:49.000 Gender doesn't matter.
00:26:51.740 If our army
00:26:52.940 believes that gender
00:26:54.560 doesn't matter,
00:26:56.140 I guess we ought to
00:26:57.440 just pack it in,
00:26:58.580 right?
00:26:58.960 We better build
00:26:59.920 some really big walls
00:27:01.100 around our country
00:27:01.820 because we're never
00:27:02.440 going to win
00:27:02.840 another war again
00:27:03.700 because it means
00:27:05.700 that our fighting
00:27:06.600 force on whom
00:27:07.560 we depend
00:27:08.480 to protect us
00:27:09.540 doesn't know
00:27:10.700 the most basic
00:27:11.720 aspects of human
00:27:13.240 nature.
00:27:15.500 Of course,
00:27:17.400 the vast majority
00:27:18.560 of people
00:27:19.080 in the army
00:27:19.620 and the National
00:27:20.100 Guard
00:27:20.360 and throughout
00:27:20.640 the military,
00:27:21.740 they know that
00:27:22.320 this is complete
00:27:22.960 nonsense.
00:27:24.120 But the leadership,
00:27:25.320 the people making
00:27:25.940 the dazzling
00:27:27.500 recruitment videos,
00:27:28.580 the people calling
00:27:29.200 the shots,
00:27:29.840 even if they
00:27:31.940 don't believe
00:27:32.760 this,
00:27:33.700 they're saying
00:27:34.520 this.
00:27:35.820 Gender doesn't
00:27:36.820 matter.
00:27:38.640 And it's considered
00:27:39.500 a positive,
00:27:39.860 doesn't matter.
00:27:40.900 Back when I was
00:27:41.620 looking to join,
00:27:43.200 women,
00:27:43.520 do you believe this?
00:27:44.120 Women weren't even
00:27:44.720 allowed in combat.
00:27:45.520 Can you believe,
00:27:45.980 back when I was
00:27:46.920 going to join the
00:27:47.480 military,
00:27:48.220 we were such a
00:27:48.980 backwards nation
00:27:49.840 that we didn't
00:27:50.560 even send our
00:27:51.160 daughters to get
00:27:51.800 blown up by
00:27:52.360 jihadis.
00:27:53.500 But now,
00:27:54.120 we're much more
00:27:54.780 progressive.
00:27:55.640 We're a much more
00:27:56.440 virtuous and
00:27:57.040 progressive nation,
00:27:57.780 and we're going
00:27:58.420 to send our
00:27:58.860 little girls out
00:27:59.540 there to get
00:28:00.080 hacked up and
00:28:01.080 tortured and
00:28:02.140 exploded by evil
00:28:04.180 men all around
00:28:04.840 the world.
00:28:06.260 Aren't we so much
00:28:07.280 better now?
00:28:09.700 Women in combat,
00:28:10.940 that's considered
00:28:11.640 to be the height
00:28:12.840 of progressivism in
00:28:14.080 this commercial.
00:28:15.140 Women in combat
00:28:15.860 is a national
00:28:16.880 scandal.
00:28:18.300 It is a
00:28:19.000 disgrace.
00:28:20.240 It is a deep,
00:28:21.140 deep shame and
00:28:22.300 stain on our
00:28:23.060 country.
00:28:24.440 And I don't even
00:28:25.360 hear the conservative
00:28:26.140 politicians talking
00:28:27.100 about this.
00:28:28.780 Women in combat
00:28:29.540 is a very recent
00:28:30.720 phenomenon, as the
00:28:31.660 lady just said in
00:28:32.440 that commercial.
00:28:34.300 And yet, we just
00:28:35.300 totally gave up that
00:28:36.060 fight.
00:28:37.020 Why?
00:28:37.600 Because we don't
00:28:38.180 want to be seen as
00:28:38.840 disrespecting women
00:28:39.680 who serve in the
00:28:40.240 military.
00:28:40.680 I have the utmost
00:28:41.440 respect for women
00:28:42.120 who serve in the
00:28:42.600 military.
00:28:43.040 I'm deeply grateful
00:28:43.720 for their inclination
00:28:45.520 to serve and
00:28:46.580 sacrifice.
00:28:48.200 But the military
00:28:50.560 is not about
00:28:51.520 individual desires.
00:28:53.360 It's not even about
00:28:54.520 individual ability.
00:28:56.600 It's about cohesion
00:28:58.680 and unity and
00:29:00.560 national policy and
00:29:01.740 who we want to be as
00:29:02.560 a nation.
00:29:03.400 I have no doubt that
00:29:04.560 there are a
00:29:06.340 significant number of
00:29:07.100 women who would
00:29:07.540 valiantly go out and
00:29:09.380 risk their lives and
00:29:11.300 bodily integrity to go
00:29:13.260 fight for America.
00:29:14.220 I don't want them to
00:29:15.540 do that.
00:29:16.960 I think it's bad for
00:29:18.360 America to send women
00:29:19.940 into harm's way.
00:29:21.620 I think part of the
00:29:23.000 reason that we have an
00:29:23.780 army is so that we
00:29:24.420 don't have to do that.
00:29:26.140 I think it's
00:29:26.620 disordered.
00:29:27.680 I think that women
00:29:29.840 are more nurturing,
00:29:31.680 they're the weaker
00:29:32.140 sex, they're the
00:29:33.100 gentler sex, and a
00:29:35.620 major reason to have a
00:29:36.560 military is to protect
00:29:37.420 them.
00:29:38.720 Because boys need
00:29:40.020 their mommies, and
00:29:41.240 husbands need their
00:29:42.060 wives, and societies
00:29:43.900 need a nurturing
00:29:44.980 feminine element.
00:29:46.660 And when we're
00:29:47.280 talking, especially
00:29:48.080 when we're talking
00:29:48.580 about fighting and
00:29:49.300 lethal force, we
00:29:50.860 need to not be
00:29:52.020 sentimental and not
00:29:53.360 be absurdly
00:29:54.300 ideological, we need
00:29:55.840 to send out the
00:29:56.780 toughest, strongest,
00:29:57.720 brawniest fellas.
00:29:58.760 The reason to keep
00:29:59.820 women out of combat
00:30:00.800 is as much for the
00:30:02.820 men as for the
00:30:03.900 women, it's as much
00:30:04.840 for the civilians as
00:30:05.800 for the fighting
00:30:06.320 force.
00:30:07.800 And you need to say
00:30:08.480 it.
00:30:08.980 Even moderate
00:30:10.160 Democrats said this
00:30:10.940 10 years ago.
00:30:12.660 And now the
00:30:13.180 conservative right
00:30:13.900 wing won't say it.
00:30:16.800 This is a little bit
00:30:18.140 of a political
00:30:18.640 warning, too.
00:30:19.300 things are polarizing
00:30:22.140 pretty quickly.
00:30:23.800 If you haven't
00:30:24.520 learned that in the
00:30:24.960 last seven years,
00:30:25.560 you're probably not
00:30:25.920 going to learn it.
00:30:27.000 The political
00:30:27.780 winners, the
00:30:29.020 politicians who win,
00:30:30.200 the political
00:30:30.540 movements that win,
00:30:31.500 are going to be the
00:30:32.140 ones that are bold.
00:30:32.940 They're not going to
00:30:33.460 be the ones that
00:30:34.040 pussyfoot around every
00:30:34.960 single little issue.
00:30:36.160 And they say, well,
00:30:36.680 actually, you know,
00:30:37.420 look, I'm all for
00:30:39.540 certain radical sexual
00:30:40.760 ideologies, but only
00:30:41.980 starting at age 18,
00:30:43.500 not at age 17.
00:30:45.240 Okay, maybe starting
00:30:46.000 at age 8, but not
00:30:46.720 at age 7.
00:30:47.360 Okay, listen, I'm for
00:30:48.380 women getting blown
00:30:49.480 up in combat, but I'm
00:30:50.940 not for them joining
00:30:51.780 the Navy SEALs or
00:30:52.600 whatever.
00:30:53.420 You're not going to
00:30:54.200 have a middle ground
00:30:55.000 here on a lot of
00:30:55.840 these issues.
00:30:56.620 The voices that are
00:30:57.380 going to be rewarded
00:30:58.120 are going to be the
00:30:58.860 bold voices who are
00:31:00.100 offering a genuine
00:31:00.900 alternative.
00:31:01.860 This has always been
00:31:02.700 the best insight of
00:31:03.720 American conservatism,
00:31:05.220 and it comes from
00:31:06.020 people like Phyllis
00:31:06.680 Schlafly, this woman
00:31:08.400 who single-handedly
00:31:09.180 killed the radical
00:31:10.280 feminist equal rights
00:31:11.560 amendment in the late
00:31:13.200 20th century.
00:31:13.900 she called for a
00:31:16.480 choice, not an
00:31:17.340 echo.
00:31:18.640 If the conservatives
00:31:20.440 are just going to be
00:31:21.300 lib-lite, if they're
00:31:22.360 just going to be
00:31:22.800 squishes, if they're
00:31:23.960 just going to order a
00:31:24.720 slightly more efficient
00:31:26.480 version of Democrat
00:31:27.720 policies, but with lower
00:31:29.140 taxes or something,
00:31:30.860 not only is that not
00:31:32.260 going to help the
00:31:32.960 country and the
00:31:33.520 society, they're not
00:31:34.500 even going to win
00:31:34.960 elections because people
00:31:35.900 are just going to vote
00:31:36.580 for the Democrats.
00:31:38.220 I've made this point
00:31:38.920 with the problems of
00:31:40.300 the DeSantis campaign
00:31:41.320 right now.
00:31:41.820 If the DeSantis campaign
00:31:43.000 is just running as
00:31:43.820 the better version of
00:31:44.780 Donald Trump, it's
00:31:45.400 going to lose because
00:31:46.540 even if people in a
00:31:47.640 blind taste test prefer
00:31:48.800 new Coke, as the
00:31:50.060 focus testers at the
00:31:50.860 Coca-Cola Corporation
00:31:51.700 discovered back when
00:31:53.320 they reinvented the
00:31:54.060 recipe, when people
00:31:54.980 take that blindfold off
00:31:55.880 and they hear that
00:31:56.380 they're getting
00:31:56.660 something new, they're
00:31:57.540 not going to like it.
00:31:58.280 They're going to want
00:31:58.880 the OG, okay?
00:32:00.640 So you have to offer
00:32:01.380 people a choice, not an
00:32:03.060 echo.
00:32:03.460 Now, speaking of
00:32:04.120 women's issues, we've
00:32:06.700 got to get to our
00:32:07.200 weird sex stuff segment.
00:32:08.340 It wouldn't be a
00:32:09.220 Michael Knowles show if
00:32:09.940 we didn't get to at
00:32:10.440 least one segment on
00:32:11.220 weird sex stuff.
00:32:11.820 It pervades and
00:32:13.420 defines our culture in
00:32:14.240 many ways.
00:32:15.080 This is from TechCrunch.
00:32:16.160 As AI porn generators
00:32:17.400 get better, the stakes
00:32:18.840 get higher.
00:32:20.360 Porn generators have
00:32:21.160 improved while the
00:32:22.600 ethics around them
00:32:23.340 become stickier.
00:32:25.760 As generative AI enters
00:32:28.060 the mainstream, so too
00:32:28.980 does AI-generated porn.
00:32:30.460 And like its more
00:32:31.080 respectable sibling, it's
00:32:32.240 improving.
00:32:33.420 What does this mean?
00:32:34.180 You don't need to go
00:32:34.660 through the whole article.
00:32:35.540 It means that people are
00:32:36.400 going to be able to make
00:32:36.900 customized pornography.
00:32:38.520 They're going to be able
00:32:39.280 to make pornography
00:32:40.100 tailored not only to
00:32:41.340 their own tastes, but
00:32:42.220 even resembling perfectly
00:32:43.900 ordinary people.
00:32:45.340 Movie stars, sure, and
00:32:47.120 celebrities, sure, but
00:32:47.920 even just ordinary people,
00:32:49.440 they're going to be able
00:32:50.200 to say, hey, you know,
00:32:51.160 Sally from math class,
00:32:52.440 yeah, put her in like a
00:32:53.560 porno, and here are the
00:32:54.740 parameters.
00:32:55.440 And using relatively few
00:32:57.420 inputs, very, very quickly
00:32:58.880 you're going to be able to
00:32:59.520 get totally customized porn,
00:33:01.400 and it's a big worry, and
00:33:03.340 ethicists are having a
00:33:06.100 conversation about this.
00:33:06.980 But they're having the
00:33:07.840 conversation, I think, in
00:33:08.920 the wrong way.
00:33:10.300 They're saying, oh,
00:33:11.560 goodness, can you imagine
00:33:12.440 how awful it would be if
00:33:13.760 you get deep faked?
00:33:15.580 If you get porn made about
00:33:17.220 you without your consent,
00:33:18.080 that's going to be so
00:33:19.020 horrifying and shameful.
00:33:21.300 Yes, of course, you've got
00:33:23.120 to protect people from
00:33:24.020 having their likeness used
00:33:25.140 in this way.
00:33:26.000 I'm sure that would be
00:33:26.840 deeply distressing.
00:33:27.680 I'm sure that would be
00:33:28.180 very terrible, especially
00:33:29.440 for young women who are
00:33:30.320 going to be the victims of
00:33:31.020 this in 99.9% of cases.
00:33:32.820 Yeah, totally, absolutely.
00:33:35.700 You're not going to solve
00:33:36.620 the problem just focusing on
00:33:37.840 that.
00:33:38.320 You're not going to solve
00:33:39.100 the problem parsing the
00:33:41.340 fair uses of people's
00:33:43.840 publicly posted images to
00:33:46.140 be plugged into some
00:33:48.220 artificial intelligence
00:33:50.020 machine that in a matter
00:33:51.380 of seconds, totally
00:33:52.540 privately, is going to be
00:33:53.660 able to create whatever
00:33:54.580 people's fantasies are
00:33:55.680 instantly.
00:33:57.360 You're never going to
00:33:58.380 stop it that way.
00:33:59.960 You've got to focus on
00:34:00.580 the other side.
00:34:01.120 Because the other victims
00:34:02.080 here are the users.
00:34:03.480 We talk about we need
00:34:06.640 pity for the drug addicts.
00:34:08.120 Well, you need far more
00:34:09.780 pity for these people.
00:34:10.820 Because this problem of
00:34:11.940 pornography and various
00:34:14.720 kinds of sexual disorders
00:34:15.780 and addictions, that's far
00:34:16.880 more pervasive than
00:34:18.020 addiction to fentanyl or
00:34:20.480 coke or anything like that.
00:34:24.860 The more readily this
00:34:26.900 becomes available, the more
00:34:29.340 people are going to be
00:34:29.980 attracted to it.
00:34:30.460 I said it last week.
00:34:31.560 I said, ethicists are
00:34:33.960 warning about the future
00:34:35.500 proliferation of sex
00:34:36.540 robots.
00:34:37.140 I said, don't underestimate
00:34:39.080 how sexy the sex robots
00:34:41.200 are going to be.
00:34:43.100 Don't underestimate how
00:34:44.640 tempting this kind of a
00:34:45.760 sin is going to be when it
00:34:47.120 can be done in the privacy
00:34:47.940 of your own home.
00:34:49.100 You're going to see the
00:34:51.260 kind of ubiquity for this
00:34:52.840 kind of extremely creepy
00:34:54.260 stuff that you're already
00:34:55.420 seeing for internet porn.
00:34:57.100 So the only real solution
00:34:58.760 here is not going to be
00:35:00.260 some middle ground.
00:35:00.880 Well, you can look at
00:35:01.660 this kind of porn, but not
00:35:02.940 this kind.
00:35:03.160 You can look at this kind
00:35:04.100 of a deep fake, but not
00:35:04.840 this kind.
00:35:05.340 It's not going to be parsing
00:35:07.240 these minute details.
00:35:08.700 The way to stop this is
00:35:10.080 going to be a broad attack
00:35:12.780 on porn generally.
00:35:14.260 You've got to attack the
00:35:15.180 supply of all porn because
00:35:16.540 you're not going to be able
00:35:18.240 to litigate in all of these
00:35:21.120 instances what kind of porn
00:35:23.220 is acceptable and what kind
00:35:24.880 of porn is not acceptable.
00:35:26.200 You think that the judicial
00:35:28.360 standard exalted by Justice
00:35:30.060 Potter Stewart that you
00:35:32.020 can't define obscenity, you
00:35:33.240 can't define pornography, but
00:35:34.240 you know when you see it.
00:35:35.100 You think that's a hard
00:35:36.420 legal principle to parse?
00:35:37.820 Well, think about when you're
00:35:38.680 trying to distinguish in
00:35:40.320 court between what kind of
00:35:41.980 disgusting degenerate porn is
00:35:44.020 technically kind of legal and
00:35:45.640 what kind of disgusting
00:35:46.400 degenerate porn is technically
00:35:47.640 not totally legal.
00:35:49.200 It's madness.
00:35:50.900 That way lies madness.
00:35:52.800 The way to stop this is to
00:35:55.020 attack porn generally, which
00:35:57.160 will reduce the demand for
00:35:59.680 porn, which will make it
00:36:01.360 easier to reduce the
00:36:02.640 profitability of the supply of
00:36:03.840 porn, which will make it
00:36:05.020 easier to come in with the
00:36:05.920 cudgel of the state and attack
00:36:06.880 porn even further.
00:36:08.860 We've been so brainwashed by
00:36:11.600 this idea that politics is
00:36:12.820 always downstream of culture,
00:36:14.260 which has some truths to it,
00:36:16.020 but also is not much of a
00:36:18.880 difference.
00:36:19.260 In many ways, the distinction
00:36:20.660 between culture and politics is
00:36:21.820 a distinction without a
00:36:22.640 difference.
00:36:23.320 It forgets that laws exist for
00:36:25.400 a reason.
00:36:26.200 If politics is just always
00:36:27.140 downstream of culture, I guess
00:36:28.000 we should get rid of murder
00:36:28.720 laws, right?
00:36:29.600 Because really, you're not
00:36:30.480 going to stop murder by
00:36:31.900 passing laws against you.
00:36:33.000 You've just got to convince
00:36:33.860 people in their hearts.
00:36:35.540 That's not good to commit
00:36:36.300 murder.
00:36:36.560 No, we have laws for a reason
00:36:37.640 and laws are instructive.
00:36:38.960 Laws are a teacher.
00:36:40.820 And in the case of porn, there's
00:36:42.300 always been a popular
00:36:43.740 consensus against pornography.
00:36:47.500 So it's Democrats, Republicans,
00:36:48.960 all throughout the 90s and
00:36:49.840 the 2000s trying to pass
00:36:50.980 laws against it.
00:36:52.440 Radical liberal judges
00:36:53.480 shut it down.
00:36:54.320 Well, now, just as we're
00:36:55.480 seeing with the populist
00:36:56.260 growth in the United States
00:36:57.160 and in Europe, you're going to
00:36:58.620 see a big move against this
00:36:59.660 too.
00:37:00.320 Let's get it right this time.
00:37:02.820 Crack down on all the porn or
00:37:04.220 else you and your daughters and
00:37:06.180 everyone around you is about to
00:37:07.460 be the star of very naughty
00:37:09.160 movies because the technology is
00:37:10.920 advancing very, very quickly.
00:37:13.140 You know, folks, people write
00:37:15.220 into me a lot.
00:37:16.520 I say, Michael, how do I write
00:37:18.020 into you?
00:37:18.480 And it's confusing because you'd
00:37:20.400 think in order to write into
00:37:21.280 me?
00:37:21.400 Well, there's a specific place
00:37:23.060 to send your questions.
00:37:23.820 That would be the mailbag.
00:37:24.580 How do you get to the mailbag?
00:37:25.560 Very simple.
00:37:26.340 You head on over to
00:37:27.220 dailywire.com.
00:37:28.900 You go to the Michael Knowles
00:37:29.980 show page and you click on the
00:37:32.620 mailbag link.
00:37:34.060 You then will have an email
00:37:35.520 popped up for you and you can
00:37:36.760 attach a file.
00:37:37.780 Well, you can record that audio
00:37:38.860 file on your phone.
00:37:39.920 You can record it on your
00:37:40.720 laptop.
00:37:41.320 You can record it on your
00:37:42.080 tablet.
00:37:42.700 You just attach that file into
00:37:44.520 the mailbag email and you click
00:37:47.380 send right there through the
00:37:48.800 website.
00:37:49.100 It's very, very simple.
00:37:49.920 Try to keep your mailbag
00:37:50.800 questions to a minute or less so
00:37:53.500 that I can use them on the
00:37:54.500 show.
00:37:54.760 Sometimes people, you know, it's
00:37:57.660 like you're recording your
00:37:58.500 memoir audio book and then
00:37:59.660 sometimes they're interesting
00:38:01.000 but I can't use it on the show.
00:38:03.520 So send that in.
00:38:04.040 We'll get to it on Friday.
00:38:06.140 Speaking of techno dystopia, I
00:38:09.160 got the jitterbug.
00:38:10.300 Boom.
00:38:11.000 Boom.
00:38:11.220 I got the jitterbug.
00:38:12.500 Is that Wham?
00:38:13.140 I think that's George Michael.
00:38:14.340 Is that George Michael?
00:38:15.040 I don't really remember.
00:38:16.000 Anyway, I'll soon be able to
00:38:17.660 remember because George Michael
00:38:18.700 might go on tour again seven
00:38:20.940 years after he died.
00:38:24.740 How's he going to do that, you
00:38:26.080 ask?
00:38:26.380 Well, through holograms.
00:38:29.200 Already, the band members in
00:38:31.020 Wham, Shirley Kemp, George
00:38:34.080 Michael's best friend in Wham,
00:38:36.100 suggested the idea and this was
00:38:37.540 backed by fellow backing singer
00:38:39.140 Helen Pepsi-Demac Croquette, who
00:38:42.620 is also up for this.
00:38:44.320 There's precedent for it.
00:38:46.780 It's not just a fantasy.
00:38:48.500 ABBA did this last year.
00:38:49.680 You know ABBA, like Mamma Mia,
00:38:51.080 Here I Go Again.
00:38:52.060 ABBA did their first gig in 42
00:38:53.800 years.
00:38:54.400 How'd they do it?
00:38:55.020 In hologram form at London's
00:38:57.340 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
00:38:59.300 They referred to this group of
00:39:01.180 performers not just as ABBA, but as
00:39:02.940 ABBA-tars.
00:39:05.040 Get it?
00:39:06.480 ABBA-tars.
00:39:08.320 And it showed them as they
00:39:10.120 looked in 1979.
00:39:13.440 On the one hand, I don't want to
00:39:15.440 seem like a total doom and gloom
00:39:16.880 Luddite, even though I am kind of
00:39:18.320 a Luddite and I don't love most
00:39:19.840 forms of technology, but I don't
00:39:21.460 want to seem like all technological
00:39:22.860 advancement is bad.
00:39:23.840 It's not.
00:39:24.840 In a way, this is just the latest
00:39:27.320 advance of a multimedia landscape.
00:39:30.720 Okay, we used to be able to watch
00:39:32.280 movies in the theater, then we
00:39:33.380 could watch movies at home, then
00:39:34.420 we could watch little glittering
00:39:35.720 images on our pocket, and now we
00:39:36.860 can see them in 3D, in space, and
00:39:40.020 they can perform.
00:39:40.580 Okay, fine.
00:39:41.240 But I think there's something
00:39:41.920 deeper here.
00:39:43.780 I think this speaks to our
00:39:46.460 culture's unwillingness to accept
00:39:49.280 death.
00:39:52.780 Everybody's got to be eternally
00:39:54.060 young.
00:39:55.220 Nobody can ever die.
00:39:57.300 Kanye West had a hologram of Kim
00:39:59.340 Kardashian's father recite some
00:40:03.180 words that I guess he had written
00:40:04.420 for it at Kim Kardashian's
00:40:06.780 birthday party, and I thought, man,
00:40:07.840 this is really crazy.
00:40:08.560 I would not like this as a
00:40:09.620 birthday present because you miss
00:40:13.160 your loved ones who have gone, and
00:40:15.660 so it can be really sweet in a way.
00:40:17.920 It can be really nice and
00:40:19.200 satisfying to see them again, but
00:40:21.220 it's not real.
00:40:23.160 They're dead.
00:40:23.860 They're really dead.
00:40:24.840 We're all going to die.
00:40:25.840 Peter Cushing is dead.
00:40:26.960 I know he's in the fairly recent
00:40:29.100 Star Wars, but he's dead, and it's
00:40:30.660 weird to just not let people die.
00:40:33.760 Steve Jobs gave that famous speech at
00:40:36.780 the Stanford Commencement.
00:40:38.000 It was one of the best commencement
00:40:39.060 addresses in recent memory on how
00:40:41.940 death is one of the most important
00:40:45.500 parts of life.
00:40:47.600 Remembering that I'll be dead soon is
00:40:50.040 the most important tool I've ever
00:40:51.560 encountered to help me make the big
00:40:53.060 choices in life.
00:40:54.640 Because almost everything, all external
00:40:57.580 expectations, all pride, all fear of
00:41:00.380 embarrassment or failure, these things
00:41:02.400 just fall away in the face of death,
00:41:05.200 leaving only what is truly important.
00:41:07.980 Remembering that you are going to die
00:41:09.740 is the best way I know to avoid the
00:41:12.200 trap of thinking you have something to
00:41:14.140 lose.
00:41:15.100 You are already naked.
00:41:17.000 There is no reason not to follow your
00:41:19.060 heart.
00:41:19.640 Your time is limited, so don't waste it
00:41:22.380 living someone else's life.
00:41:24.700 Don't be trapped by dogma, which is
00:41:27.100 living with the results of other
00:41:28.400 people's thinking.
00:41:29.900 Don't let the noise of others' opinions
00:41:31.980 drown out your own inner voice.
00:41:34.220 And most important, have the courage to
00:41:36.420 follow your heart and intuition.
00:41:38.500 They somehow already know what you
00:41:40.740 truly want to become.
00:41:42.660 Everything else is secondary.
00:41:45.580 The whole speech is quite good.
00:41:48.360 That first part is the key.
00:41:51.520 Death is one of the most important
00:41:53.440 things I've ever seen in life.
00:41:54.700 Death gives meaning to your life.
00:41:56.160 Death gives narrative structure to your
00:41:58.880 life.
00:41:59.920 It's got a beginning, a middle, and an
00:42:01.900 end.
00:42:04.140 Death concentrates the mind.
00:42:05.960 There's a famous saying of Dr. Johnson,
00:42:08.480 which I sometimes quote as proving the
00:42:12.280 medicinal benefits of capital punishment,
00:42:14.420 which is,
00:42:15.300 Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he's
00:42:16.780 to be hanged in a fortnight, it
00:42:18.140 concentrates his mind wonderfully.
00:42:19.660 Well, we're all going to be hanged in a
00:42:21.340 fortnight in a certain way.
00:42:22.920 We're all going to die.
00:42:23.800 No one here gets out alive.
00:42:25.220 Even if we have holograms all around us,
00:42:27.460 even if we keep putting Peter Cushing in
00:42:28.860 movies, we are going to die.
00:42:31.340 And the sooner you recognize that, the
00:42:33.040 better, because it's going to wake you up
00:42:35.240 and get your life in order and force
00:42:37.980 certain questions on you.
00:42:39.080 Is this it?
00:42:39.920 Do we just take a dirt nap and turn to
00:42:41.480 worm food?
00:42:42.320 Or is there more to life?
00:42:43.760 Is there more in heaven and earth than is
00:42:45.040 dreamt of in our philosophies?
00:42:46.740 Am I just my body?
00:42:48.680 Am I also my soul?
00:42:50.220 Well, if I am a soul, what is the meat?
00:42:52.680 What happens to the soul after death?
00:42:54.680 Is there more to the story even for my
00:42:56.580 body?
00:42:57.720 Is there a moral order?
00:42:59.780 Could I be punished?
00:43:00.740 Is there justice?
00:43:03.180 Eternally?
00:43:03.780 Is there such a thing as eternity?
00:43:05.560 You have to face these questions when you
00:43:07.340 look at death, which is why our liberal
00:43:09.580 culture, which is why the principalities and
00:43:11.620 powers of this world and spiritual wickedness
00:43:14.140 in high places, wants to distract you from
00:43:16.760 death and has broadly succeeded in modern
00:43:20.740 life.
00:43:21.040 We don't see death a lot.
00:43:22.880 When our grandparents are going to die, they
00:43:24.660 go away to little homes and we don't see
00:43:26.520 they go to hospice places.
00:43:27.740 We don't have to see it in our own homes.
00:43:30.820 When people die now, you don't really go to
00:43:34.100 funerals as much.
00:43:34.880 You go to celebrations of life, so-called.
00:43:37.940 You don't even usually see a body or even a
00:43:39.820 casket.
00:43:40.400 It's later.
00:43:41.240 It's no big deal.
00:43:41.880 We just kind of shoo it away.
00:43:42.860 And because modernity has succeeded at
00:43:46.500 greatly extending people's lives, then they
00:43:49.540 usually just die when they're very, very
00:43:50.920 old.
00:43:51.220 They're kind of out of the way.
00:43:52.180 We don't pay attention to that anymore.
00:43:54.120 That's in some ways more pleasant because
00:43:56.440 death is deeply unpleasant.
00:43:58.800 When Christ himself, when his friend Lazarus
00:44:01.500 died, he weeps.
00:44:03.540 Shortest verse in the Bible, Jesus wept.
00:44:06.180 But then we lose focus and then we forget
00:44:08.920 what we're doing.
00:44:09.660 Before I go, I meant to get to this a few
00:44:11.760 days ago.
00:44:12.660 Tony Bennett died.
00:44:13.860 Tony Bennett.
00:44:16.000 I love Tony Bennett.
00:44:17.180 Was listening to Tony Bennett the other day
00:44:18.560 while I was making fresh pasta with my son.
00:44:20.440 He's great.
00:44:21.120 He's wonderful.
00:44:22.000 And the reason why it's so particularly sad
00:44:24.680 that he died, I mean, look, he lived a good
00:44:25.920 long life, 96 years old, cut down in his prime,
00:44:28.720 flipped his Corvette.
00:44:30.220 No, that's not how he went.
00:44:31.280 He died after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.
00:44:33.400 And even for five years after his Alzheimer's
00:44:35.340 diagnosis, he continued to tour.
00:44:36.960 The guy was just a total inspiration.
00:44:38.960 The reason it's so sad that he died is he's
00:44:40.800 the last of his kind.
00:44:42.940 Because he's younger than the other guys.
00:44:45.320 You think of Sinatra, Dean Martin.
00:44:47.140 Sinatra was born in 1915.
00:44:48.560 Dean Martin was born in 1917.
00:44:50.900 Tony Bennett was born in 1926.
00:44:53.560 So Sinatra, for Bennett's whole career,
00:44:56.260 referred to Tony Bennett as the kid.
00:44:59.220 Up until Sinatra's dying day, he called him
00:45:01.220 the kid, even though Bennett was a pretty old man
00:45:03.060 at that point.
00:45:03.520 And so that generation of music, that crooning,
00:45:08.000 that dignified sensibility that was at least
00:45:11.420 dignified in public, if not always in private
00:45:13.300 comportment for some people of that generation,
00:45:17.280 that's gone now.
00:45:19.980 Now, public comportment for our popular musicians
00:45:22.880 is absolutely disgusting.
00:45:24.260 And the lyrics are disgusting.
00:45:25.460 And the way they jiggle around is...
00:45:26.720 But Tony Bennett and Sinatra and all those guys,
00:45:29.020 they had class.
00:45:30.420 They'd put on a jacket and a tie,
00:45:32.080 and they would sing, and they would sing in a way
00:45:33.560 that was really delightful and edifying.
00:45:35.700 So anyway, RIP to Tony Bennett.
00:45:37.700 And a reminder, by the way, I know some people say
00:45:39.300 they don't pray for the dead
00:45:40.640 because it contradicts their religious views.
00:45:44.540 If you've ever said RIP, you have prayed for the dead.
00:45:48.860 RIP means may he rest in peace, requiescat in pace.
00:45:51.200 So requiescat in pace, Tony Bennett, great guy,
00:45:54.920 provided us a lot of great stuff over the years.
00:45:57.180 And I don't look forward to seeing his hologram,
00:45:59.100 but I do look forward to playing more of his music.
00:46:01.860 No member block this week, folks,
00:46:03.080 because I'm on the road in Hungary,
00:46:05.060 and I don't know,
00:46:07.140 I've got to go gallivant around Budapest, you know,
00:46:09.120 and be part of the right-wing conspiracy out there.
00:46:10.740 So anyway, we'll look forward to a member block next week.
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