The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1296 - Putin Eradicates Transgenderism From Public Life in Russia

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00:00:37.720 Russian President Vladimir Putin has just eradicated transgenderism from public life in his country.

00:00:44.240 Putin signed into law a federal ban on all surgeries, hormone therapies, and puberty blockers for the purpose of the so-called gender transition.

00:00:53.960 The only exception, Putin's office declared, quote, will be medical interventions related to the treatment of congenital physiological abnormalities and defects,

00:01:04.780 as well as genetic and endocrine diseases caused by structural disorders of the reproductive tract in children.

00:01:11.560 Such interventions will be allowed in accordance with decisions made by medical commissions of medical organizations within the jurisdiction of the Russian healthcare ministry.

00:01:19.000 Okay, point of all that jargon, transgenderism eradicated from public life in Russia.

00:01:26.180 This is deeply troubling.

00:01:28.740 Not for the people of Russia. 0.94

00:01:30.380 It's great for the people of Russia.

00:01:31.760 What it's troubling for is us Americans, because unfortunately, we have ceded the moral high ground on this extremely important issue to a foreign adversary.

00:01:41.160 And that's a bad thing.

00:01:43.320 But, you know, I try to look on the bright side in politics.

00:01:47.120 And on the bright side here, at least somebody listened to my CPAC speech.

00:01:51.820 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:52.500 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:00.260 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:12.880 Artificial intelligence not only paints pictures, not only writes essays and speeches,

00:02:18.240 now AI has written a love song.

00:02:21.100 We will get to the lyrics of that in just a moment.

00:02:22.860 First, though, I'm not sure if that introduction was allowed on YouTube.

00:02:27.160 It was about the topic that we're not allowed to talk about on YouTube,

00:02:31.560 but I was just reporting the news on a thing that happened in Russia on that time.

00:02:35.420 So I don't know.

00:02:36.520 In any case, if you want to get the full show with the parts that are not allowed on YouTube,

00:02:41.180 you've got to go to Daily Wire Plus and Twitter at M. Knowles Show.

00:02:44.880 And the RSS feed and Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all over the place.

00:02:48.180 Anyway, tangentially related to the point in my introduction is a claim made by Hillary Clinton.

00:02:55.540 Hillary Clinton just weighed in on the heat wave that we're experiencing, and she said,

00:03:01.820 quote, hot enough for you, thank a MAGA Republican, or better yet, vote them out of office.

00:03:09.240 Hillary Clinton, you know, she's the adult in charge. 1.00

00:03:11.220 She's the really serious person.

00:03:12.680 And this very serious person is saying that summer heat waves,

00:03:17.480 a feature of life for all of history, are the fault of Republicans.

00:03:23.160 And not those Mitt Romney Republicans, by the way.

00:03:26.120 Not those nice little Republicans who squish and help out the Democrats.

00:03:30.100 The MAGA Republicans, the conservatives.

00:03:33.200 Conservatives are responsible for the weather.

00:03:35.700 I thought the last theory on that was that the Jews control the weather. 0.78

00:03:38.780 Wasn't that?

00:03:39.200 That was the last conspiracy theory. 0.54

00:03:41.020 Now, sorry, Jews, you're out. 1.00

00:03:43.340 It's the MAGA Republicans who control the weather now. 0.86

00:03:45.840 I don't know.

00:03:46.360 When do we get our space lasers?

00:03:47.600 When's Hillary going to start talking about the MAGA Republican space laser? 1.00

00:03:51.400 I don't know.

00:03:52.040 It's just as crazy a theory, though.

00:03:53.900 We don't control the weather.

00:03:56.480 We don't control the heat.

00:03:57.820 It's been hot in July forever.

00:04:00.340 And Donald Trump is not responsible for that at all. 1.00

00:04:04.340 I mention this story not to point out that Hillary Clinton is a very silly lady. 1.00

00:04:07.560 Not to point out that the libs are far crazier than the conservatives are. 1.00

00:04:11.600 All of that, obviously, we just take that for granted.

00:04:13.500 The thing I want to point out here is a trick of the libs, which is that the libs are very good at appealing to the flesh.

00:04:23.200 And conservatives are not as good at that.

00:04:25.060 Conservatives are really good at making logical arguments.

00:04:27.620 Conservatives are really good at destroying people with facts and logic and making all sorts of intellectual and historical and philosophical points.

00:04:33.260 Sure, the libs are really good at appealing to the flesh, and they do this through all sorts of decadent temptations that they make.

00:04:42.340 Obviously, the sexual revolution. 0.99

00:04:44.600 Obviously, the drugs.

00:04:46.780 Obviously, all those kinds of things we see. 0.97

00:04:48.860 But even here, even in this silly Hillary Clinton tweet, she says, 0.93

00:04:53.360 Hey, are you feeling hot right now? 0.94

00:04:56.340 Do you feel uncomfortable?

00:04:57.460 Are you sweating?

00:04:58.760 Yeah, that's Republicans' fault.

00:05:01.320 Does that make any sense?

00:05:02.180 No, they come up with some tenuous, preposterous argument.

00:05:05.440 You know, well, actually, because the Republicans drive cars, like we all do, and Republicans use oil, like everyone on Earth does,

00:05:12.280 that because of that and the oil angers the sun monster, and the sun monster shines its rays even more strongly,

00:05:18.460 and the climate, catastrophe, warming, cooling, change, whatever.

00:05:23.100 But the argument is secondary.

00:05:25.560 What is primary is the appeal to the flesh.

00:05:28.600 And so, because they can speak in this fleshy kind of language and appeal to your baser appetites and appeal to your sensation,

00:05:38.380 they forge that connection such that when completely unrelated events happen,

00:05:44.240 when the water goes up, when the water goes down, when the ice breaks off, when there's too much ice,

00:05:47.560 when there's a hurricane, when there's not a hurricane,

00:05:49.140 whenever anything happens in the weather and you feel it, you have that connection in there.

00:05:54.160 It's irrational, but so much of politics is based on sentiment.

00:05:57.660 You know, a friend and colleague of mine likes to say facts don't care about your feelings.

00:06:01.120 Politics largely cares about your feelings.

00:06:03.240 And the libs get that a lot better than conservatives do.

00:06:05.180 And so we can all mock Hillary's argument.

00:06:07.200 It will have a lot of currency for a lot of people.

00:06:10.100 Now, speaking of failed presidential candidates, Mitt Romney is urging Republicans in the 2024 field to drop out of the race

00:06:19.620 so that the anti-Trump forces can rally around one guy.

00:06:24.040 And presumably, in this case, that one guy would be Ron DeSantis, who's in the number two position.

00:06:28.460 Romney doesn't even focus on that, really.

00:06:30.780 He just focuses on the also-rans, the inevitable also-rans, who are polling at one and two and three percent right now. 0.96

00:06:36.820 He says you've got to get out of the race.

00:06:38.160 And then he speaks directly to donors, and that's who his Wall Street Journal op-ed is aimed at.

00:06:44.740 Donors don't fund a Trump plurality, as in 2016.

00:06:51.160 Republican candidates won't drop out soon enough.

00:06:53.180 Here's how to give them a push.

00:06:54.820 Despite Trump's apparent inevitability, a baker's dozen Republicans are hoping to become the party's 2024 nominee for president.

00:07:01.700 There are incentives for no-hope candidates to overstay their prospects.

00:07:05.860 That's why you donors need to defund them. 1.00

00:07:09.980 Okay.

00:07:10.820 Okay.

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00:07:32.180 even when it comes down to a head-to-head with his most formidable challenger, Trump continues to trounce him.

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00:09:13.460 Romney's op-ed would make a lot more sense if right now it were Trump is up over the field, but when it's Trump versus DeSantis, DeSantis wins.

00:09:20.740 Or when it's Trump versus Youngkin, or when it's Trump versus Tim Scott, or whoever.

00:09:24.580 But it's not.

00:09:25.380 Trump continues to have a commanding lead even when it's one-on-one.

00:09:29.600 This plays into a broader argument, a broader theme that the establishment GOP has been pushing for many decades now.

00:09:40.760 And the theme is this, that in the primary, the base wants to go out and nominate the most conservative candidate.

00:09:47.320 But that's actually going to harm us in the general election.

00:09:51.400 You know, in order to win the primary, you might have to lose the general election.

00:09:55.300 Isn't that, what a tragedy of politics.

00:09:57.920 Well, if we really wanted to win the general election, we'd nominate a moderate, centrist kind of liberal candidate.

00:10:03.460 And that candidate would appeal to moderate and centrist voters.

00:10:06.320 And then we'd win in a landslide. 0.98

00:10:07.600 If only you damned conservatives would stop dominating the GOP primary field. 0.99

00:10:11.840 That's the argument. 0.99

00:10:12.600 We've heard variations on it for decades.

00:10:14.600 It isn't true.

00:10:16.400 It has no basis in history.

00:10:18.980 The last time, basically, I'll put a little asterisk here.

00:10:23.160 Basically, the last time a moderate, so-called centrist kind of liberal Republican candidate won the presidency was 1956.

00:10:33.140 And really, the last time this happened in a challenger kind of way was 1952.

00:10:40.320 And it was Dwight Eisenhower.

00:10:41.940 Since then, Eisenhower wins in 56.

00:10:43.740 He was the moderate, liberal, Republican kind of candidate who beat out the more conservative candidate, Taft.

00:10:51.020 Since then, though, let's just look at the record.

00:10:53.480 Let me just go off the top of my head.

00:10:55.340 We had Richard Nixon in 1960 who lost.

00:10:58.820 It was a little bit of a sus race, but still, I'll give it to, okay, he lost.

00:11:05.160 But then he won.

00:11:06.600 Richard Nixon then won in 1968 and won re-election in 1972.

00:11:12.160 Who is the next nominee?

00:11:13.500 Barry Goldwater, conservative.

00:11:15.800 So Nixon, conservative.

00:11:18.560 And certainly, even if you think Nixon was a little bit squishy, Nixon, compared to his primary opponent, Nelson Rockefeller, who was Mr. Liberal Republican, Nixon was the conservative candidate.

00:11:27.140 The Libs always thought of him as conservative.

00:11:28.820 He was right about Alger Hiss. 0.97

00:11:30.040 He was a hardline anti-communist.

00:11:32.060 I count Nixon a conservative.

00:11:34.240 Barry Goldwater, conservative candidate, loses.

00:11:37.380 After that, okay, Nixon wins.

00:11:39.640 After the deep state runs Nixon out, Jerry Ford, liberal, Republican candidate, he loses.

00:11:45.800 After Jerry Ford, the nominee is a conservative Republican, Ronald Reagan.

00:11:49.960 Reagan wins.

00:11:50.880 Reagan wins re-election.

00:11:52.320 After Reagan, you get a liberal, Republican, a moderate kind of candidate, George H.W. Bush.

00:11:55.920 He does win, but this is why I put the asterisk there.

00:12:00.580 He wins as Reagan's third term.

00:12:03.700 In 1992, when George H.W. Bush had to run as his own candidate after the memory of Reagan had faded, H.W. Bush loses.

00:12:10.380 In 1996, we nominate a moderate Republican, Bob Dole.

00:12:13.460 He loses.

00:12:14.200 In 2000, we nominate a guy who at least ran as a conservative Republican, George W. Bush.

00:12:19.260 You might say, George W. Bush wasn't really conservative.

00:12:21.360 Sure, but in the race, he was running as the conservative candidate.

00:12:25.040 Much more conservative than his father and much more conservative than the other candidates in the race.

00:12:30.540 At least that's how he was running.

00:12:32.480 2004, Bush gets re-elected.

00:12:34.020 Okay, so the conservative wins both times there.

00:12:35.700 Then what happens?

00:12:36.360 2008, we nominate the moderate centrist Republican, John McCain.

00:12:39.520 He loses.

00:12:40.120 2012, we nominate the moderate centrist Republican, Mitt Romney.

00:12:43.120 He loses. 0.99

00:12:43.820 2016, we nominate the crazy, far-right, populist, awful, no-good conservative Trump. 1.00

00:12:49.820 He wins. 0.99

00:12:50.540 2020, I guess he loses, some say.

00:12:54.740 I don't know.

00:12:55.220 You know, they changed a lot of those rules.

00:12:56.560 Unlike in 1960, where a lot of people say that Nixon had the election stolen from him, maybe he did.

00:13:04.740 But at least there, if Kennedy stole the election, he stole it within the normal bounds of politics, within the normal campaign rules.

00:13:10.920 In 2020, I add far more of a question mark to that election because the Libs changed all of the rules in the lead-up to that election.

00:13:18.360 In some cases, illegally.

00:13:19.640 In some cases, unconstitutionally to give an advantage to Dems.

00:13:22.340 So, in any case, I'm not arguing that if you nominate a conservative, it's a sure thing that the Republicans are going to win the election.

00:13:28.840 Far from it.

00:13:29.560 It's far from a sure thing.

00:13:31.360 But I am pointing out, it is a far safer bet to bet on conservative Republicans as the GOP nominee than on the moderate, squishy, centrist Republicans.

00:13:41.900 Those guys pretty much always lose.

00:13:44.360 And I know it's common consensus view here in the GOP.

00:13:47.780 If only we could nominate more of a moderate candidate.

00:13:49.480 They have an almost uninterrupted track record of losing, a far worse electoral record than the conservatives.

00:13:57.120 You want to win elections?

00:13:58.300 Give Americans a choice, not an echo.

00:14:02.300 Now, speaking of polls and statistics, it's a disturbing poll out right now.

00:14:08.400 A poll says that only 18% of young adults and 29% of Democrats are extremely proud to be American.

00:14:17.380 Not proud in the, you know, we have a whole month, pride, you know, goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

00:14:23.820 Pride in the sense of patriotism, national loyalty, affection for your country, an extension of filial piety.

00:14:29.380 That's disturbing.

00:14:30.200 Fewer than one in five young adults consider themselves to be extremely proud to be American, consider themselves to be, that is, patriotic.

00:14:36.980 I'm not as disturbed about a declining number of Democrats being proud to be American because leftism is opposed to patriotism.

00:14:46.880 Leftism has always been opposed to patriotism.

00:14:49.620 And so as the Democrats become more liberal and more left and they follow their ideas more and more to their logical conclusion, they're going to be less patriotic.

00:14:57.600 That's just built into it.

00:14:58.920 So I'm not surprised by that at all.

00:15:00.420 That's the way it's going to go.

00:15:01.120 Well, young people don't necessarily have to be less patriotic and yet they are becoming less patriotic.

00:15:08.260 Why is that?

00:15:09.020 Well, I'm in Hungary right now and I can't help but think of Viktor Orban, the prime minister here, his speech a couple of days ago in Romania,

00:15:17.460 in which he was lamenting the fact that Western values these days are taken to mean nothing more than, what was it, LGBT and mass migration and war, going to war.

00:15:33.840 That's it.

00:15:34.220 That's what's considered to be Western values these days.

00:15:36.540 Not Christianity, not duty, not dignity, not virtue, not the pursuit of truth, not honor, not any of those. 0.97

00:15:43.820 Those are all, they're out.

00:15:44.940 And unfortunately, sorry to say, America has been promoting that.

00:15:52.240 America has been flying that rainbow flag everywhere.

00:15:55.180 America, with our liberal establishment, has been denying the things that made America great.

00:16:00.160 We've been denying the American tradition. 0.72

00:16:03.280 Even you see the new version of Superman.

00:16:06.120 Superman no longer stands for truth, justice, and the American way.

00:16:08.540 He stands for truth, justice, and all that other stuff.

00:16:10.980 Or truth, justice, and I don't know, diversity, equity, and inclusion or something like that.

00:16:14.940 So that's what the libs have been promoting. 0.99

00:16:17.020 And so is it any wonder that as the country becomes more and more a stand-in for bad stuff,

00:16:26.860 that young people will have less and less affection for their country?

00:16:31.260 Orban made this great point.

00:16:32.860 He said, America, not America.

00:16:35.200 He said, Europe is going to be Christian or it's just going to fall apart. 1.00

00:16:39.120 But the only hope to save Europe, and I think we can expand that to the West, is Christianity. 0.99

00:16:46.160 Or it's going to fall apart.

00:16:47.360 Or it's going to descend into a bunch of rival factions of different appetites and disordered passions and desires.

00:16:54.760 And it's going to turn into anarchy and chaos, which is what is happening all around us.

00:17:00.360 It's disturbing to see that number reflected.

00:17:02.320 You don't want to hear it.

00:17:03.120 But the people are telling you something.

00:17:05.760 It's reflecting a real problem.

00:17:07.500 And you're going to see that number continue to decline if the country continues to stand for a bunch of nonsense that people don't want to be associated with.

00:17:14.460 Now, speaking of that nonsense, LGBT, another topic I probably can't cover on the YouTube show. 1.00

00:17:21.000 So again, you've got to go to Twitter, at MNoll's show, and you've got to go to Daily Wire Plus,

00:17:27.100 and you've got to go to the RSS feed, and you've got to go to Apple Podcasts.

00:17:29.960 There are many reasons to oppose transgenderism in public life, in Russia, in Europe, America, and everywhere else in the world.

00:17:40.100 One of them is that the transgender procedures are terrible, specifically for the people who undertake them. 1.00

00:17:48.840 So the transgender hormone therapy, surgical therapy, all of that, according to the largest data set on this,

00:17:59.480 doesn't help to improve any of the conditions that led people to go get them in the first place.

00:18:03.800 Doesn't improve anxiety, doesn't improve depression, doesn't improve suicidality.

00:18:08.340 In fact, at least in the case of anxiety, it would appear to make it worse.

00:18:11.700 All right, well now, for the first time in a long time, we're seeing what the transgender surgeries actually look like.

00:18:17.400 According to some research on this topic, four out of five people who undergo trans-related surgery involving their genitals

00:18:24.200 endure pain in the five years after the procedure.

00:18:27.760 More than half feel pain while having sex, and about a third are left incontinent, according to the first studies into the side effects.

00:18:35.040 So, don't forget, one of the arguments, this is not my argument against transing the kids,

00:18:39.380 but one of the arguments against them from the more liberal, squishy types is,

00:18:42.920 hold on, we've got to slow down, we don't have any data here, this is all so experimental.

00:18:46.960 I think we should just ban it, period, because we can deduce through our reason that it's obviously disordered and wrong.

00:18:51.680 But even the liberals, some of the reasonable liberals are saying,

00:18:54.320 well, we've got to slow down a little bit, this is all experimental quackery, we don't have any studies.

00:18:58.280 Well, now we have studies, and we know that this is absolute hell for the people who go through it.

00:19:02.780 There is, quote, there is a high percentage of reporting musculoskeletal pain, difficulty moving, and pelvic floor dysfunction,

00:19:13.800 according to University of Florida Professor Merrill Alapattu, quote,

00:19:17.320 in terms of getting information related to efficacy of these types of treatments, we still have a lot of work to do.

00:19:24.060 It is so cruel that we do this.

00:19:26.060 It is so cruel that we do this to people, to mentally ill people, and to troubled teenagers.

00:19:33.060 What teenager isn't a little troubled?

00:19:34.640 What teenager isn't questioning things a little bit?

00:19:37.140 And to even now children who are just taught this stuff in their classroom,

00:19:41.000 and they don't know any better, and they're led into it.

00:19:42.580 We are a heinous society in as much as we continue to do this.

00:19:47.200 It's so cruel to these disturbed people.

00:19:48.960 We used to get mentally ill people help.

00:19:51.540 Now we encourage them in delusions that are going to make them incontinent,

00:19:55.240 that are going to screw up their bones, that are going to screw up their muscles,

00:19:58.080 that are going to shorten their lives.

00:19:59.380 We know it.

00:19:59.780 We have the data.

00:20:01.620 You know, I always, I don't base my views primarily on the science,

00:20:06.320 but in as much as we see the science, the science is very clear here.

00:20:10.380 And it's not just the libs, it's not just the left that we have to blame for this.

00:20:15.180 Even large parts of the right are responsible for some of this,

00:20:18.860 because there are so many people that I encounter on the right who will say,

00:20:22.500 look, I think the transgender thing is a little weird, but look, you do you. 1.00

00:20:26.420 You're an adult.

00:20:26.980 You can make your own choices.

00:20:28.040 Who am I to judge?

00:20:29.040 You know, I don't care.

00:20:30.220 As long as I'm not paying for it, it's no big deal.

00:20:34.220 That mentality, which has taken over a lot of the American right, 0.97

00:20:38.320 the you're on your own, you just figure it out kind of mentality,

00:20:42.360 that breaks down.

00:20:43.740 Even if you say for most people, that's a fine way to live.

00:20:47.060 When we're talking about people who are not in possession of their rational faculties,

00:20:50.520 when we're talking about people who are mentally ill,

00:20:52.900 when we're talking about children,

00:20:54.460 when we're talking about people who just are not reasonable by definition,

00:20:57.840 that breaks down.

00:20:58.960 What are you going to do for them? 1.00

00:21:00.500 Are you just going to let the crazy bum die on the street? 1.00

00:21:02.960 Are you just going to let the hopeless drug addict just keep shooting up until he dies? 1.00

00:21:07.420 Are you just going to allow the mentally ill people to chop their body parts off 1.00

00:21:11.560 until their lifespan is shortened and their quality of life greatly deteriorates? 0.98

00:21:15.780 No.

00:21:16.660 Society is not just about you do you and we'll figure it out later,

00:21:19.740 but I'm me and I'm not going to pay any more taxes.

00:21:22.300 Society is about all of us together sharing something,

00:21:25.920 sharing norms, sharing a vision of reality.

00:21:27.920 And we can't put truth on the same plane as falsehood

00:21:31.120 and pretend to be indifferent to them.

00:21:33.360 We can't put good on the same plane as bad

00:21:35.560 and pretend to be indifferent to the distinction between the two.

00:21:38.820 We've got to make choices.

00:21:40.020 We've got to have a clear vision.

00:21:41.260 And we've got to eradicate these bad ideas and ideologies from society.

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00:24:05.200 Speaking of stuff that I'm hawking, if you happen to be in Hungary right now,

00:24:09.720 you've got to get this book.

00:24:10.600 My book, the Hungarian translation of my blank book, Reasons to Vote for Democrats.

00:24:15.820 In Hungarian, it is, of course,

00:24:17.180 Obviously, just rolls off the tongue.

00:24:32.820 That book is available now in Hungarian bookstores.

00:24:35.060 If you're not in Hungary, you're going to have trouble ordering it.

00:24:37.820 You might be able to order it around Europe.

00:24:39.080 You can't get it on Amazon because Amazon doesn't operate in Hungary.

00:24:42.160 I don't think the Hungarian bookstores are shipping to the States.

00:24:44.560 But you can check it out.

00:24:45.580 Anyway, just type in that very easy-to-write title.

00:24:48.080 I'm very excited.

00:24:48.720 I got a copy here.

00:24:50.120 My pal who's with me in Hungary picked up a copy at the bookshop today.

00:24:54.360 I was glad he found this copy at the bookshop.

00:24:56.540 It's a really faithful printing of it.

00:24:59.660 It even has my Thucydides quote, the epitaph at the beginning.

00:25:03.460 Okay, I'm not going to try to do it.

00:25:06.140 You get the point.

00:25:07.240 It's in there.

00:25:07.680 My whole bibliography is in there.

00:25:08.740 It's a really faithful reproduction from the publisher, Alap Yoko Kotspont, which is the

00:25:14.040 Center for Fundamental Rights here.

00:25:15.560 I was unable to get a copy yesterday.

00:25:18.360 It shows you a little bit about the political differences, even in Budapest.

00:25:22.340 There's some libs out here. 1.00

00:25:23.920 I walked into a bookshop.

00:25:25.340 I didn't know how to pronounce it, obviously.

00:25:26.920 So I pulled up a picture on my phone of the cover.

00:25:29.560 I said, hey, do you have this new book?

00:25:31.860 It was just released today.

00:25:33.500 This guy looks at me, daggers in his eyes.

00:25:35.400 He says, we do not have that book.

00:25:38.820 No.

00:25:39.740 I said, oh, that's too bad.

00:25:40.880 Yeah, I know it's a new title.

00:25:41.800 Maybe you don't have it yet.

00:25:42.540 He goes, we will not sell that book.

00:25:45.620 I said, oh, okay.

00:25:46.160 Maybe just, I don't know.

00:25:46.900 Maybe it's just not making a splash.

00:25:48.180 He hadn't heard of it.

00:25:48.800 But then as I'm walking out, he goes, that book is blank pages.

00:25:53.020 I said, yeah, I know.

00:25:55.600 Isn't that, he wasn't, he wasn't so pleased, I think.

00:25:58.580 He looked like a lib.

00:26:00.640 Bookshop owners often are big libs.

00:26:03.320 And so I was pleased to see it's making a splash, positively and negatively.

00:26:08.120 I'm pleased to see the whole point of this book when I made it in 2017.

00:26:11.340 Amazing, we've been doing this for six years.

00:26:12.840 Was to irritate my Democrat friends and relatives.

00:26:15.280 And I'm pleased that it's continuing to achieve that even now, overseas, even in Hungary.

00:26:22.760 Now, speaking of technology, like the printing press, I guess.

00:26:28.500 Spans, it's not my best transition.

00:26:29.560 Speaking of technology, the first artificial intelligence love song has been created.

00:26:36.280 We've got some of the lyrics here.

00:26:38.700 This is by Lovelace GPT.

00:26:41.480 They plugged in thousands and thousands of love poems and song lyrics.

00:26:46.340 And then they came up with a song here, Delirious Ecstasy.

00:26:50.260 The opening line of which has made some headlines.

00:26:54.560 The line is, you're my biohazard baby.

00:26:58.660 And I thought, huh, is this just a, it's kind of a strange lyric?

00:27:02.940 Is this just because the AI was glitching out?

00:27:05.560 I don't know.

00:27:05.760 I thought, you know, with the sexual revolution, with the widespread hookup culture, with swipe

00:27:10.060 culture, with skyrocketing rates of venereal disease, you're my biohazard baby, probably

00:27:15.680 is an accurate summation of a lot of modern love.

00:27:20.240 So the AI, once again, rather precise here.

00:27:24.100 What does it mean when we plug into AI and we see all these weird pictures and poems and

00:27:31.400 speeches and love songs?

00:27:32.580 What is that?

00:27:32.940 Does that do anything for us?

00:27:33.840 Is it just kind of funny?

00:27:35.680 Is it accurate?

00:27:37.340 Is it not?

00:27:37.920 Is it totally off base?

00:27:39.760 You know that I'm skeptical of AI as I am skeptical of all technology.

00:27:43.600 And I do fear that AI is just getting possessed by demons sometimes, but not all the time.

00:27:47.860 Sometimes there are more pedestrian explanations for things.

00:27:52.200 There's one good thing I'll say about AI, which is that AI can show you a mirror to yourself

00:27:59.060 and to your culture.

00:28:00.320 Because AI is basically just taking inputs from this whole big wide web of the internet

00:28:06.600 and then spitting out an output, whatever that particular type of art will be, based

00:28:15.020 on those inputs.

00:28:16.820 And so the idea that, forget about Biohazard Baby, the idea that a modern love song would

00:28:23.320 be delirious ecstasy, that's true.

00:28:26.280 That's true.

00:28:27.120 That is how we think about love today.

00:28:28.640 We think about love as crazy and unreasonable and delirious.

00:28:32.940 We think about it as a kind of an ecstasy.

00:28:34.720 You see this in all of the various sexual ideologies that are being pushed now.

00:28:38.100 They're being pushed in the name, not of reasonable love and telos and the purpose of love and

00:28:44.960 marriage and family foundation and love and marriage, love and marriage go together like

00:28:49.520 a horse and carriage.

00:28:50.360 This, I tell you, brother, you can't have one without the other.

00:28:52.380 That's gone.

00:28:53.040 Now we're told marriage is a joke.

00:28:54.940 There's no point to it.

00:28:55.800 There's no point to sex.

00:28:56.840 You don't need to have babies. 1.00

00:28:57.860 We should just use contraception all the time. 1.00

00:28:59.960 If you do accidentally get pregnant, you should kill the baby through abortion. 1.00

00:29:02.700 You should never engage in any kind of commitment or lifelong bond through marriage. 1.00

00:29:08.120 No, no.

00:29:08.540 That's all.

00:29:09.080 We need to redefine marriage. 1.00

00:29:10.260 We need to redefine all of these things.

00:29:11.840 There's no point other than pleasure.

00:29:13.200 There's no point other than ecstasy.

00:29:14.380 In fact, when it comes to one of those sexual ideologies that we're not allowed to talk about

00:29:18.740 on YouTube, the great defense of it from the people who promote it, who have undergone

00:29:24.080 it, they'll say, well, I felt a euphoria after I underwent this procedure or that.

00:29:29.900 I felt a euphoria, an ecstasy.

00:29:31.160 And this is nothing new, exactly.

00:29:35.280 In the old Bacchanals of ancient Greece and Rome, you see a kind of ecstasy associated with love.

00:29:41.540 In our Christian civilization for a while, we had reined that in. 0.88

00:29:44.780 Obviously, there was still wacky stuff going on on the fringes.

00:29:46.860 But we had reined that in to say, no, there's actually a purpose to love and sex and romance

00:29:52.680 and affairs.

00:29:54.180 And the purpose is to be married and to stay married and to have kids and to be fruitful

00:30:00.220 and multiply and pass on what you believe, your values, your beliefs, your institutions,

00:30:04.420 your behaviors, your rituals, your traditions, all of it into the next generation.

00:30:10.000 And as we lose that, we lose the next generation.

00:30:14.700 We lose the future.

00:30:15.660 We're left with nothing.

00:30:16.860 But delirious, irrational ecstasy.

00:30:19.500 Did I read too deeply into an AI love song?

00:30:21.720 I don't think I did.

00:30:22.700 Speaking of stuff going on in the academy, in the universities, not just building AI over

00:30:30.540 there, they're also providing sinecures for failed liberals.

00:30:34.820 The former San Francisco DA, Chesa Boudin, you remember him?

00:30:38.120 He's the guy that allowed San Francisco to just turn into a complete cesspit of filth and 0.99

00:30:42.440 excrement and dead druggies and criminals. 0.99

00:30:46.400 And it's just, you can't even really travel there anymore.

00:30:49.100 So that guy finally got booted out of office.

00:30:51.560 That was great.

00:30:52.560 And now he's making over 200 grand a year in a position at UC Berkeley, of course.

00:30:58.500 And the Harvard law professor, Adrian Vermeule, great conservative intellectual today, he

00:31:03.940 pointed out that what this is, is basically a sinecure for failed leftists.

00:31:09.580 And it's something the left does very well, and the right is not really good at it.

00:31:14.900 And it's important.

00:31:15.880 It's not just a way to take care of your buddies.

00:31:17.780 It's a way to encourage further activism.

00:31:20.180 Because on the left right now, what we are, what the leftists are told, not what we are

00:31:24.340 told, what the leftists are told is, hey, go out there, be radical, push our crazy policies.

00:31:31.140 And I know it might not be popular, but you'll probably be able to hold on to power.

00:31:34.360 And don't worry, if you don't hang on to power, we got your back.

00:31:39.060 Don't worry, you're never going to miss a meal.

00:31:41.140 You're never going to go broke, okay?

00:31:43.580 Because if you push it too far, we're going to support that.

00:31:46.880 And then if you do get thrown out of office, don't worry, you'll make 200 plus grand a year

00:31:51.220 in some post.

00:31:52.800 What is he doing at UC Berkeley?

00:31:55.060 He's going to run the new center that was just founded, the Criminal Law and Justice Center

00:31:59.980 at this public university.

00:32:01.420 So your taxpayer dollars, at least California's taxpayer dollars here.

00:32:05.320 And Boudin says that the center is going to give him a better opportunity to create lasting

00:32:09.540 progress through public service.

00:32:11.240 So the university is going to pay him 210 grand a year.

00:32:14.400 And they've said that they're going to fund the center $400,000 for the next three years.

00:32:20.280 Now that number is important.

00:32:22.260 Is that number for a whole center is nothing.

00:32:26.640 The university is releasing this as though we're giving $400,000 to the center.

00:32:30.660 What are you going to do with $400,000?

00:32:32.020 You're going to run a center for three years.

00:32:34.640 You're paying more than half of that in the salary to the failed leftist DA heading it.

00:32:41.680 Why?

00:32:42.300 Because the point of hiring him was not so that you would have someone to run this important

00:32:46.460 center.

00:32:47.100 It's the opposite.

00:32:47.920 You created the center to give this guy a paycheck.

00:32:50.980 The center is nothing.

00:32:52.100 It's not.

00:32:52.460 Maybe he'll go out and raise outside money.

00:32:54.140 I'm sure he could.

00:32:54.760 He's plugged into pretty wealthy donors.

00:32:56.360 But it doesn't matter.

00:32:57.620 The center could have one office and one chair.

00:32:59.440 He doesn't even need to show up to it.

00:33:00.880 It's just a way to say, hey, when you fail, we got you.

00:33:05.320 So all you other leftists out there, don't be afraid of trying to radically implement our agenda.

00:33:10.860 The right doesn't really do that.

00:33:12.040 The right does it a little bit on the neocon, squishy, liberal side.

00:33:16.240 I'm not going to name the think tanks and the institutions.

00:33:20.080 I think you know the ones we're talking about, though.

00:33:22.400 A lot of the never-Trumper types went over there when they got booted out of GOP politics.

00:33:25.780 They just go and they collect their six-figure paycheck and they publish white papers that

00:33:29.020 nobody reads and they lament the fall of the GOP or whatever.

00:33:34.040 It doesn't matter.

00:33:34.680 Because they, in many ways, are just as much upholders of the liberal establishment as the

00:33:41.900 radical leftists like Boudin are.

00:33:44.060 The difference is that the role of these squishy conservatives is to be the court jesters in

00:33:49.300 the kingdom of liberalism.

00:33:50.240 So their role is to provide a semblance of opposition.

00:33:54.800 So it looks as though there's a real political fight going on.

00:33:57.100 It looks as though there's a real representation for the people, but there's not.

00:34:00.360 Their job is to lose with dignity.

00:34:01.740 That's why they support the candidates who lose.

00:34:04.680 That's not a flaw of their system.

00:34:07.100 That's the feature of their system.

00:34:08.920 But in terms of the actual conservatives, the real, call it, I don't know, the populist

00:34:13.760 right or maybe the traditional right or the conservative right or whatever, the guys who

00:34:18.640 are actually conservative, we don't really have that.

00:34:21.740 If we fail, we're kind of in trouble, financially at least.

00:34:26.320 And maybe there are some ways that you can parlay your work into some other, but it's nothing

00:34:32.940 like the liberals have.

00:34:33.780 And the right needs to build that up.

00:34:36.480 Part of how the left has been so effective at implementing its radical agenda is it has

00:34:41.980 mitigated the potential downside for trying to do it.

00:34:45.640 The conservative right needs to do the same thing.

00:34:49.220 Now, speaking of the right and higher education, there is one win, one sort of win that we just

00:34:53.360 got.

00:34:53.580 Do you remember, I bet you do, we played it on this show, Stanford Law a while ago, the

00:35:01.560 district judge, Judge Duncan, who's a conservative Trump appointee, he shows up to give a speech

00:35:08.960 and a bunch of students start howling like banshees.

00:35:12.160 This is at Stanford Law, supposedly the number two law school in the entire country.

00:35:16.720 And they go up and they howl a bunch of uneducated nonsense at the federal judge.

00:35:21.900 And so a DEI apparatchik shows up.

00:35:25.380 This administrator of the university shows up. 0.97

00:35:28.240 One would think to restore order and tell the ignorant little children to sit down so 0.98

00:35:33.160 that they can listen to their better, the federal judge. 0.98

00:35:35.680 It doesn't happen.

00:35:36.540 The DEI apparatchik shows up and he starts berating the judge with the kids.

00:35:41.560 And so he starts yelling at the judge too.

00:35:43.340 It's a federal judge, a sitting federal judge who's invited to speak at supposedly an elite

00:35:47.480 law school.

00:35:48.020 So the good news is that, that, that Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Tyrion Steinbach

00:35:55.040 has been fired.

00:35:57.800 She, I, the way that the email came out is she was, she and the school have parted ways

00:36:04.940 and she, she recognized as the school did that perhaps she should move on and she's okay.

00:36:11.420 But anyway, she's gone now.

00:36:12.640 So this is a win.

00:36:14.340 I'm glad that the bad administrator got fired.

00:36:16.360 Every other DEI dean and vice president and apparatchik in the entire country should be

00:36:21.720 fired as well.

00:36:22.480 And the whole office and set of offices should be eliminated.

00:36:25.620 But okay, this is a step in the right direction.

00:36:27.020 But notice, even the way it was done, they kind of allow this lady to, to keep her, her

00:36:33.640 dignity, to keep her, I don't even, Tyrion, I don't know, I don't even remember what this

00:36:39.000 person looks like.

00:36:40.260 But I remember this person berating the judge.

00:36:42.860 And okay, it's fine.

00:36:43.860 We parted ways.

00:36:44.580 I'm sure that Tyrion Steinbach will get another job.

00:36:48.140 No problem.

00:36:49.440 And the, I hate to be a glass half empty guy here because it's good that at least something

00:36:55.040 happened.

00:36:55.380 But the bigger issue was not the, the leftist apparatchik being a leftist apparatchik.

00:37:02.600 That was the, that's the point.

00:37:03.900 That person was, was doing her job.

00:37:06.020 The point is to stir up trouble and to attack conservatives.

00:37:08.460 That's, that's the only thing that DEI counselors exist for.

00:37:12.780 The bigger problem here is that the students don't seem ever to have been punished.

00:37:17.600 The students were the one who caused the trouble.

00:37:19.540 The students were the one who don't deserve a spot at Stanford Law because they, they shouldn't

00:37:26.740 have graduated the seventh grade.

00:37:27.980 These are people who are, are, do not possess the merit, academic, intellectual, behavioral,

00:37:34.600 or otherwise to be at an elite law school.

00:37:37.840 These are people who have been promoted up the ranks because they're big libs, I guess,

00:37:43.400 but, but not because they're going to be good lawyers.

00:37:45.860 They're not.

00:37:46.680 I'd be surprised if they can read the English language. 0.86

00:37:49.540 They should have been punished.

00:37:50.580 They should have been expelled from the law school.

00:37:53.400 They weren't.

00:37:54.320 No big deal.

00:37:55.120 Okay.

00:37:55.380 That, that DEI counselor was a little too on the nose. 0.99

00:37:58.700 Okay.

00:37:59.040 That was a little too public.

00:38:00.420 He had a little bit of bad PR.

00:38:01.820 Maybe the donors weren't so happy with that.

00:38:03.560 So, okay.

00:38:04.780 Naughty, naughty.

00:38:05.700 Okay.

00:38:05.880 We're going to let you leave now, but we're not going to change anything.

00:38:09.820 Why?

00:38:10.180 Because ultimately these radicals are, are doing the bidding of the broader liberal establishment.

00:38:18.440 And ultimately, even in, in moments that seem anarchist, downright anarchist, lawless,

00:38:26.180 well, that creates the opportunity for the liberal establishment to come in and seize

00:38:31.120 more power and wield more power and make more rules.

00:38:33.340 That, that was the George Floyd riots.

00:38:35.540 George Floyd riots.

00:38:36.620 Yeah.

00:38:36.740 They burned down some buildings.

00:38:37.760 Yeah.

00:38:37.860 They attack even some places that Libs like, but it's okay. 0.99

00:38:40.420 The anarchy will create the opportunity to further the liberal agenda as we've seen.

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00:39:37.880 Some halfway, okay, kind of good news out of Stanford.

00:39:41.040 Unfortunately, the military academy is not so lucky.

00:39:44.100 The Air Force Academy superintendent is supporting a scholarship for students who are demigender. 1.00

00:39:54.900 Maybe we get to keep this one on YouTube.

00:39:57.260 I don't know, because I don't know what demigender is, and neither does the Air Force Academy

00:40:02.800 superintendent, as Representative Matt Gaetz proved in this exchange.

00:40:06.920 You just said that your answer on why we do such this full hug of these diversity concepts is

00:40:15.820 because it's all about the fighting force that we draw from, but you're literally pushing

00:40:20.120 a program in the academies that says, if you're a cisgender woman, a transgender woman, a non-binary,

00:40:27.500 agender, bigender, two-spirit, demigender, what's demigender? 0.88

00:40:31.980 Sir, that's a term of the people that are eligible for that particular scholarship that

00:40:39.920 is available to, it's a person who looks at their gender in a different way than I

00:40:47.300 do, sir.

00:40:47.960 Well, sure, that's all of these people.

00:40:49.240 You're a cisgender man.

00:40:50.140 You don't even get to apply.

00:40:51.480 Well.

00:40:51.960 Do you know what demigender really means?

00:40:54.640 I'm not really sure, sir.

00:40:55.960 Right, so do you know what agender means?

00:41:00.120 All one word, not a-space-gender, but agender.

00:41:04.980 Sir, I don't.

00:41:06.540 I gotta give the Air Force guy credit here.

00:41:09.700 At least he admitted outright, he says, I don't know.

00:41:13.920 I don't, huh?

00:41:14.700 What is, I don't know what demi-agender, this, that, or the other, I don't know, I don't

00:41:20.120 know what it is.

00:41:20.660 I know I support it, but I have no idea what it is.

00:41:27.340 You know what it represents?

00:41:28.580 I don't know what demigender is, but whatever it is, what it represents is that the U.S. 0.94

00:41:33.800 military is prioritizing sexual deviance over fitness.

00:41:38.840 Prioritizing all sorts of leftist, lib, woke priorities over fitness.

00:41:43.860 We know that.

00:41:44.280 Our publicists over at Media Matters got very excited yesterday and publicized this clip

00:41:50.760 in which I said that, forget about the demi, trans, whatever stuff.

00:41:56.780 The fact that we have women fighting in combat is a stain and a disgrace on our nation. 1.00

00:42:03.600 And it is.

00:42:04.820 It is. 0.96

00:42:05.660 It is a bad kind of thing for a nation to send out its women to be blown up by jihadis. 0.92

00:42:14.140 That's bad.

00:42:16.020 I'm sure there are women willing to do it. 1.00

00:42:18.140 I'm sure they've got a ton of courage and are willing to sacrifice all sorts of things

00:42:22.260 for the country.

00:42:23.500 But that's not what the military is about.

00:42:26.040 That's an important constitutive part of serving in the military.

00:42:29.260 But what the military is for is not proving that anybody can do anything.

00:42:32.800 And that's not what it's for.

00:42:33.960 It's not for social experimentation.

00:42:35.740 It's not for social engineering. 0.99

00:42:37.660 It's for killing the bad guys.

00:42:40.040 And it's for representing our country and the best of our country and the best ideals 0.98

00:42:46.660 of our country.

00:42:48.120 And one of those ideals is that we're going to protect women.

00:42:51.260 We're not going to send them to get blown up.

00:42:54.140 Says nothing about the courage of these women.

00:42:57.280 And take it even further. 0.69

00:42:59.140 The transgender, the pangender. 1.00

00:43:00.820 I have no doubt that there are people who are confused about their sex, who are willing

00:43:06.160 to serve their country, who have served their country, have served their country honorably,

00:43:09.000 who have demonstrated all sorts of courage.

00:43:11.020 I'm grateful for their service.

00:43:12.360 That's wonderful.

00:43:15.080 That's not what the military is for.

00:43:17.520 The military is not for proving those things to individuals.

00:43:21.000 And the military, in as much as it represents the country, is not for showing that the country

00:43:27.340 stands for some kind of disordered sexual problems.

00:43:32.820 That's not what it's for.

00:43:34.300 We're just putting the cart before the horse here.

00:43:36.980 When Joe Biden decides not to pick the top recommendation of his military advisors to lead

00:43:41.840 the Navy, but to pick a lady because she's a lady, that's called putting the cart before 1.00

00:43:46.120 the horse.

00:43:47.960 That's called prioritizing things over the cheap purpose of our military.

00:43:54.320 And in the case of our military, that can be a real life or death question.

00:43:58.700 It's the top brass.

00:44:00.180 And it's discouraging.

00:44:01.260 Getting back to that poll we talked about earlier, when young people are saying, I'm not

00:44:04.780 really proud of my country at all.

00:44:06.340 Why is that?

00:44:08.400 It's not because of ordinary Americans.

00:44:10.760 Ordinary Americans, generally speaking, still have a lot of common sense.

00:44:14.620 We're talking about the military.

00:44:15.640 It's not because of ordinary servicemen in the military.

00:44:18.560 They still have way more common sense than the average civilian.

00:44:22.660 But the ruling class, the political leaders, including the political leaders at the Pentagon,

00:44:28.020 the ones like Mark Milley, who start whining and crying about white rage and say, well, I just

00:44:31.980 want to make sure that my troops understand the origins of white rage, including the people

00:44:36.200 running NASA, who say the purpose of NASA is to appease the Muslim world.

00:44:39.060 What?

00:44:39.420 What are you talking about?

00:44:41.040 Including all of these political leaders who put the cart before the horse.

00:44:44.860 That is why people are down on their country.

00:44:47.920 And I get it.

00:44:48.560 I totally get why they are.

00:44:50.380 Speaking of fitness, this is a story I wanted to get to for a few days now.

00:44:54.560 It comes from the College Fix.

00:44:55.540 A university in Scotland has decided to put a trigger warning on a classic book.

00:45:02.560 That's nothing new.

00:45:03.860 Shouldn't make the headlines.

00:45:05.760 Do a trigger warning on Huckleberry Finn.

00:45:07.740 This book talks about race.

00:45:10.240 Trigger warning.

00:45:11.100 Yeah, okay.

00:45:11.640 We all know that.

00:45:13.300 This one took it a little further.

00:45:15.100 There's a trigger warning on Ernest Hemingway's Old Man in the Sea because the book involves,

00:45:20.400 quote, graphic fishing scenes.

00:45:25.620 I was going to try to get through it with a straight face, and I failed at doing that.

00:45:29.900 The novel contains graphic fishing scenes, and so the university has this new content warning

00:45:36.900 to, quote, enable students to make informed choices.

00:45:40.900 A nation that can't handle fishing, a civilization that can't handle the brutal reality of fishing

00:45:52.340 is not a civilization that is going to survive.

00:45:56.880 We're not talking about killing the enemy.

00:45:58.960 This is good old Georgie Patton.

00:46:00.520 Remember the speech to the Third Army?

00:46:02.680 What are you soldiers going to do? 0.99

00:46:04.500 You're going to go kill the enemy. 1.00

00:46:06.000 You're going to have the blood and guts of your best friend beside you flying on your face. 1.00

00:46:10.360 And what are you going to do?

00:46:11.360 Charge forward! 0.94

00:46:12.500 Not like those yellow piss-four enemies out there that we're going to gut like soldiers. 0.99

00:46:18.120 We're going to run through them like a hot knife through butter. 0.98

00:46:21.320 That was General Patton.

00:46:23.340 Now we've gone to, would it be all right if I talk to you about fishing?

00:46:28.440 It's not a serious country or civilization.

00:46:34.520 When you see that 18% number, I'm not proud of my country.

00:46:38.220 I know it's in Scotland.

00:46:39.040 We're talking about the West broadly.

00:46:40.360 Then we're at a place where you understand, okay, there's finally some consequences to

00:46:47.640 a civilization beclowning itself.

00:46:49.320 Those same students who can't bear the thought of a guppy getting a hook through his mouth, 0.83

00:46:55.400 I promise you those students are perfectly fine snuffing out the life of a human baby in

00:46:59.620 the womb.

00:46:59.960 I promise you that.

00:47:01.620 I promise you those people.

00:47:02.600 They don't care.

00:47:03.140 60 million babies have been killed in the United States since Roe v. Wade.

00:47:06.060 Oh, that's fine.

00:47:06.640 That's wonderful.

00:47:07.120 They're going to march in defense of that.

00:47:09.920 The nice way to read the content warning on graphic fishing scenes is that we're becoming

00:47:15.880 gentler.

00:47:16.400 A kinder, gentler nation as a moderate, centrist, squishy Republican type once said.

00:47:20.660 That's one, that's a little too charitable.

00:47:23.240 We're not becoming gentler.

00:47:24.440 We're becoming a lot crueler and we're becoming a lot crueler in virtually all areas of our

00:47:30.340 public policy.

00:47:31.200 And we're doing it with a little smile on our face and we're doing it with the saccharine

00:47:35.840 slogans of some DEI counselor who's not only perfectly willing to kill innocent human life,

00:47:42.400 but who is perfectly willing to kill a civilization.

00:47:46.020 Got to reorder those priorities, folks, or the numbers in all areas are going to continue

00:47:50.260 to drop.

00:47:51.700 No member block this week because I'm in Hungary and I'm going to be speaking in Hungary.

00:47:55.460 Hungary keeps showing up in the news in this major civilizational battle and I'm very excited 1.00

00:47:59.980 that I will get to contribute to that in some small way on Friday when I speak at the

00:48:04.380 MCC Fest, Matthias Corvinus Collegium.

00:48:08.080 A speech not to be missed, I hope.

00:48:09.720 A little letter to the world.

00:48:12.140 I consider all my speeches letters to the world, but this one's more so because I'm all

00:48:16.320 around the world for this one.

00:48:17.380 So make sure you tune in then.

00:48:18.660 Make sure you get the book.

00:48:20.160 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:48:31.040 See you tomorrow.

00:48:39.720 See you tomorrow.

00:48:49.040 See you tomorrow.

00:48:49.740 See you tomorrow.

00:48:51.060 You're next time.

The Michael Knowles Show - July 27, 2023

Ep. 1296 - Putin Eradicates Transgenderism From Public Life in Russia

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