The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1299 - Ukrainian President Wants Us in World War III

00:00:00.000 Hey, remember when Joe Biden said that he had never talked to his son, Hunter,

00:00:05.860 about Hunter's corrupt overseas business dealings?

00:00:09.220 President, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?

00:00:14.900 I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.

00:00:17.580 I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else

00:00:22.440 anything having to do with their businesses, period. And what I will do is the same thing we

00:00:28.000 did in our administration. There will be an absolute wall between personal and private

00:00:33.420 and the government. Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss

00:00:38.540 any of your son's overseas business dealings? Yes, I stand by that statement.

00:00:42.100 I did not know he was on the board of that company. I've never discussed my business or

00:00:47.960 their business, my son's or daughter's. I never discussed a single thing with my son

00:00:52.140 about anything having to do with Ukraine.

00:00:58.000 No. Okay. Well, turns out all those many times Joe said that it was all a lie. That story fell

00:01:05.820 apart after Hunter accidentally admitted in print first, and then later in a filmed interview,

00:01:12.300 the very words that Joe said while they were talking about his business deals.

00:01:18.040 Did you and your father ever discuss Ukraine?

00:01:21.540 No. As I said, the only time was after a news account, and it wasn't a discussion in any way.

00:01:27.640 There's no but to this. No, we never did.

00:01:29.620 Your dad said, I hope you know what you're doing.

00:01:31.200 I hope you know what you're doing.

00:01:32.200 I do.

00:01:32.700 And I said, I do. And that was literally the end of our discussion.

00:01:36.820 That was it. No, we never ever talked about it once. The only time was, hold on. No,

00:01:40.480 there's no but. No, sorry. We know we never talked about it. But you said you talked about it.

00:01:44.480 Yeah, okay, we talked about it. But it was just, it was a little bit. It wasn't a lot.

00:01:47.540 So, okay, then the story was, they talked about the business deals, but only briefly.

00:01:52.500 And nobody believed that story either. But that story officially fell apart yesterday

00:01:56.740 when Hunter's business partner, Devin Archer, testified behind closed doors that Joe not only

00:02:03.140 spoke to Hunter about the crooked deals, but was in fact present on phone calls on which the crooked

00:02:10.760 deals were being ironed out. A bunch of details on specific calls are available in all sorts of

00:02:21.360 news reports from yesterday. The evidence is apparently so damning that Democrats aren't

00:02:27.880 even trying to deny it. So the best story they've come up with now, care of Democrat Congressman

00:02:34.040 Daniel Goldman is okay. Biden knew about the deals and okay. Biden talked about the deals with Hunter

00:02:41.760 and okay. Biden was actually on the phone calls talking to the crooks with whom Hunter was making

00:02:48.320 the deals, but they only talked about the weather. So to confirm, you're saying that the speaker phone

00:02:55.400 conversations, they don't seem concerning to you because there was no specifics about business.

00:03:00.080 And it just seemed like it was clear that it was clear that it was part of the daily conversations

00:03:05.540 that Hunter Biden had with his father. Um, and it was, and, and sounds like most of the time,

00:03:13.960 uh, now president Biden didn't even know who the people he was at dinner. He was just asked to say,

00:03:20.380 hello. Uh, and he would, you know, talk about the way he described it several times. They asked over

00:03:26.180 and over and over and over. He described what the weather was, how, uh, how, what's going on on your

00:03:31.980 end. He, the, the witness was very, very consistent that none of those conversations ever had to do

00:03:40.640 with any business dealings or transactions. They were purely what he called casual conversation.

00:03:47.240 Humana, humana, humana, humana. They were just talking about the weather.

00:03:51.020 Now that story fell apart after Devin Archer revealed that Joe didn't just pop in on a call

00:03:57.660 or two, happened to be walking by something like that. But that Joe was actually present

00:04:03.080 on more than 20 of Hunter's crooked business calls. Wow. What are the odds? A lot of coincidences,

00:04:09.680 which means that either Joe Biden has a lot of very strong opinions on the weather

00:04:15.540 or that he was actively involved in Hunter's business, which has now led to the Democrats'

00:04:24.000 latest story, which has now fully transformed from Biden was not and would never have been

00:04:29.840 involved in Hunter's crooked business deals to, of course, Biden was involved as well. He should be.

00:04:36.180 Doesn't it contradict the president's statements saying that he never talked to any of Hunter Biden's

00:04:40.440 business associates? Clearly he talked whether it's not the weather or whatever, but he said

00:04:43.840 specifically that he's never talked to them. Doesn't this contradict? I don't know what his

00:04:48.140 comment is. And if we're going to, well, I don't, I don't think that's what he said. He never said

00:04:55.400 that he has never spoken to anyone. He said that he had nothing to do with Hunter Biden's business

00:05:02.640 dealings. If he says hello to someone that he sees his son with, is he supposed to say, hi son? Oh no,

00:05:10.380 I'm not going to say hello to the other people at the table or the other people on the phone.

00:05:14.480 It's kind of a preposterous premise to think that a father should not say hello to people that the

00:05:20.760 son are at dinner with. The son is at dinner with, and that is literally all the evidences.

00:05:26.020 And so, I mean, what was Joe Biden going to do? What was he going to do? Not talk to Hunter about his

00:05:32.400 business dealings like he said? Or what? Or not say hello to Hunter's crook friends at dinner? Or what?

00:05:41.080 Not get on over 20 phone calls with Hunter and the crooks that they were shaking down for millions of

00:05:46.360 dollars in exchange for American influence? What do you think Joe Biden is? Honest?

00:05:51.800 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:06:01.940 Welcome back to the show. The new Snow White lady, she's sand beige. She's sandy taupe or something. 1.00

00:06:13.060 She is going off about how Snow White is extremely dated. We will get to not just the Snow White

00:06:18.940 controversy, but what it means for something to be dated in our day and age. First, though,

00:06:23.800 I don't want to move on too quickly past the Ukrainians. Not only the ones who paid the Bidens 1.00

00:06:29.740 millions and millions of dollars, but the Ukrainians who are trying to drag us into World War III. 1.00

00:06:36.220 Vladimir Zelensky, the leader of Ukraine, has now declared that it is absolutely fair to bring the

00:06:45.580 war in Ukraine to the Russian homeland. This is in the wake of another drone attack on Moscow.

00:06:53.680 Zelensky says, absolutely fair for his forces to attack targets within the Russian mainland. Okay.

00:07:01.200 Yeah, maybe. Maybe it's fair. Russia invaded Ukraine after all, right? So it's fair for the 1.00

00:07:07.780 Ukrainians to defend themselves and to take the war to the Russians, isn't it? Yeah, maybe. Maybe it is. 0.53

00:07:12.840 Whose weapons is Zelensky going to be using to carry out those attacks? Is it going to be his weapons

00:07:19.780 that he bought and that he built and that he's fun? No, it's going to be our weapons. And so

00:07:27.880 the question that we have to ask Zelensky and the rest of the world is, do we want Ukraine

00:07:36.300 Ukraine to be using our weapons and our money since we are the only reason that Ukraine has been able to 0.57

00:07:42.900 continue this war past week two? Do we want our military assets being used to wage a war on the

00:07:52.640 homeland of a nuclear former superpower? Something that we managed to avoid for the entirety of the

00:08:00.900 Cold War. Post-World War II, we've now got nuclear weapons in play. We managed to avoid this for the

00:08:08.180 very, very tense Cold War for the second half of the 20th century. And now this punk in Ukraine 1.00

00:08:15.660 is demanding and has been demanding month after month after month that we, the funders of his side of

00:08:22.600 the war, squander all of that and get into a hot firing war on the Russian mainland. For what? For

00:08:33.180 what? What's the goal? What is the US interest here and what is the goal? Do we, do we want regime

00:08:41.060 change in Russia? Why? Why? Do you know who's going to come after Putin? Do we have any evidence

00:08:48.960 whatsoever that deposing Vladimir Putin will make the situation any better and will help the United

00:08:53.920 States? No. Why? So that Ukraine can maintain its territorial boundaries from when? From 2020,

00:09:04.000 from 2014, from when? We're talking about a thousand year territorial conflict here.

00:09:10.780 Why? So that the Zelensky government can remain in power. Do we care? I don't care about Vladimir

00:09:16.420 Zelensky at all. Why? Why would we follow this guy into World War III? Guaranteed, if the United 0.98

00:09:26.760 States is waging a war on the Russian mainland, we're just in World War III. Why would we do that?

00:09:34.160 Well, because it's fair. I don't want to hear about fair from Vladimir Zelensky.

00:09:37.860 If fair means that we're going to end up in a global, very likely nuclear conflict for who knows

00:09:43.760 how many years. What I would like to do is wind the war down, which is going to require concessions

00:09:50.160 from both sides. It's going to require some diplomacy. It's going to have to require accepting

00:09:55.660 the real political circumstances, not just slogans and idealism and little blue and yellow flags and

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00:11:26.140 our leaders, presidential candidate Nikki Haley has a suggestion for a way to improve our political

00:11:33.340 order, and that would be mental competency tests for the old guys running the show.

00:11:39.060 When I was talking about the grandchildren, what I was saying is that we need to have

00:11:42.740 term limits in Congress, and we need to have mental competency tests for anyone over the age

00:11:47.700 of 75. And I don't say that to be disrespectful. When you go and you look at Biden and you ask him

00:11:53.120 what country he was in the week before, and he can't say it. When you go and ask him how many

00:11:56.620 grandchildren he has, and he doesn't know. When you go and see him falling asleep with leaders,

00:12:02.000 that's concerning. That is concerning, and I really like Nikki Haley. Personally,

00:12:07.060 this is not a good idea. Because we already have a mental competency test for all of our politicians of

00:12:14.760 every age, and that competency test is called an election. And the competency test takes place at the

00:12:20.320 ballot box. And I'm sure many people share this view that Joe Biden is way too old. It doesn't

00:12:27.960 really seem like Trump is too old, even though Trump is quite up there in terms of age. As he

00:12:33.100 described himself, he's a young, virile, vigorous man. But Biden can barely state his own name. He

00:12:40.420 wanders around. He doesn't know which end is up. Nevertheless, we have a competency test. It's called an

00:12:46.800 election. We should probably make sure that our elections are legit, that our elections actually

00:12:52.620 reflect the desires of voters and not the people who want to tinker with them. But if we were to

00:12:56.400 add some new qualification for the presidency on top of the constitutional limits, all that would do

00:13:05.040 is empower the tinkerers and the bureaucrats and the deep staters and the careerists and the staffers.

00:13:11.720 There is a reason why the Constitution sets up fairly minimal requirements to run for office.

00:13:21.180 And that's to prevent the people who are in power publicly or behind the scenes from keeping fresh

00:13:28.520 blood out of the system. The fact that we don't have these little tests added to the requirements

00:13:34.380 is why Donald Trump could run for president from prison. Because the Congress doesn't have the right

00:13:41.160 to impose more restrictions on what it takes to run for president than the framers of our

00:13:45.820 Constitution did. I'm not denying that there's a problem with Joe Biden not being able to speak

00:13:51.920 and being the president of the United States. The solution to that is not going to be to further

00:13:55.920 empower the tinkerers and the social engineers and the deep staters and the clever behind the scenes

00:14:00.700 people who played a big role in installing Biden in the first place. Speaking of presidential

00:14:05.720 candidates, Rolling Stone is wrong again. Isn't that surprising? Rolling Stone has this headline,

00:14:12.340 DeSantis' donors want more than a reboot. They want him to clean house. Some of the governor's

00:14:17.220 backers see a staff that is too online, but others are starting to ask if the real problem is DeSantis

00:14:22.280 himself. You might recall, I happen to remember, that Rolling Stone was one of the first outlets to

00:14:28.320 brazenly libel me after my CPAC speech and say that I said something that I didn't say.

00:14:34.100 Eventually they had to back down, I assume because their lawyers made them. So the Rolling Stone is

00:14:38.080 not known for its high journalistic standards. But here what's wrong is not that they've libeled

00:14:44.240 anybody. It's just a typically brain dead take on politics. Everyone is trying to begin the post

00:14:52.380 mortem of the DeSantis campaign, even though we're still early on and DeSantis still has a shot to get

00:14:56.720 the nomination. And so they're all trying to figure out what went wrong. Is it his staffers? Oh,

00:15:02.760 if only he had different staffers. That's the problem. Now Rolling Stone, because the liberal 0.79

00:15:07.300 journalists hate DeSantis personally, say, oh, maybe it's just DeSantis himself. He's too stiff.

00:15:12.060 He's not likable. He's this, he's that, whatever. Guys, you're overthinking it. You're overthinking

00:15:18.600 this. Ron DeSantis' staff is fine. Ron DeSantis is a very strong candidate, obviously. He's an

00:15:25.520 extremely talented politician. He's a good governor of Florida. He's number two in the polls,

00:15:32.140 at least for now. And even as his campaign has begun to falter, he started out really a very

00:15:36.920 strong number two in the polls. Now, as he's failed to move up and take on number one, you're seeing

00:15:41.880 another candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, start to creep up there on him too. But in any other cycle,

00:15:48.500 Ron DeSantis would be the clear away front runner in this race. And everyone would be praising his

00:15:56.120 staff and everybody would be talking about how he's a generational, brilliant candidate and no

00:16:00.440 one can touch him. The problem for DeSantis is not the staff. It's not the donors. It's not the

00:16:06.940 candidate. It's Donald Trump. Donald Trump, who is a once in a generation political talent,

00:16:13.580 who is running for all intents and purposes as the incumbent in this race. Because Trump

00:16:19.820 seeking a non-consecutive second term is something that none of us has seen in our lifetime. We haven't

00:16:24.940 seen it since 1888. And Trump, maybe you hate him, maybe you love him. He is a once in a generation

00:16:35.980 political talent. He won the highest office in the land without ever having held any public office

00:16:43.000 whatsoever, including dog catcher. He won the highest office in the land the first time that

00:16:48.760 he fully pulled the trigger on running. He'd flirted with running for a long time, but the first time he

00:16:53.700 ever really pulled the trigger, ever really ran and earned his campaign, he won. He's a major political

00:16:59.900 talent. He attracted people to the GOP that no one has attracted since Ronald Reagan. He maybe put some

00:17:07.280 people off too. He maybe lost the 2020 election. Maybe he didn't. But maybe he did. Maybe he did.

00:17:16.780 And maybe he allowed the political circumstances to spiral out of control such that they were able

00:17:22.420 to change all of the election laws in the weeks and months before the election and steal it from him.

00:17:28.140 People are always trying to steal elections, especially the libs. And so maybe you say,

00:17:30.920 well, I blame Trump. Even if they did steal it, I blame Trump for letting them steal it.

00:17:33.940 Okay, blah, blah, blah, whatever. Maybe you hate the guy. Maybe you hate the guy. But you cannot deny

00:17:38.620 he is an American original. We have not seen a politician like him in our lifetimes. We haven't

00:17:44.300 seen a politician like him in 100 years at least. That's DeSantis' problem. That's it. That's all it

00:17:51.720 comes down to. You don't need to blame the guy and say, oh, he's a terrible politician. Oh, he's a deep

00:17:55.760 state rhino establishment. It's none of those things. Oh, his staff, they're just uniquely terrible.

00:18:00.020 They're not. The staff is fine. The problem is now and always was the unique circumstance of

00:18:07.440 Donald Trump running in 2024. If there is going to be a postmortem, and again, DeSantis could still

00:18:14.620 get the nomination. We don't know what is going to happen in the next few months. They're going to

00:18:19.660 indict Trump in all 57 states that Barack Obama recognized. They're going to, I don't know,

00:18:25.660 they're going to indict Trump on planet Mars. Who knows? But if there is going to be a postmortem,

00:18:31.400 everyone's going to try to ex post facto discover all sorts of things about the DeSantis campaign and

00:18:36.940 the candidate and blah, blah, blah. Guys, it's just Trump. It's just, it's been about Trump for seven

00:18:41.680 years. And a lot of people want to deny his uniqueness as an American political figure. And

00:18:48.480 they do that to their own detriment and to the effect of writing really silly takes that do not

00:18:55.520 get to the truth here. So Trump is capitalizing on his huge lead. I mean, one poll has him up at like

00:19:00.300 54% in the GOP primary, not only double digits way ahead of his rivals, but more than 50% of the

00:19:09.480 primary voters. Trump is capitalizing on this and he's calling for other candidates to drop out.

00:19:13.580 Every dollar spent attacking me by Republicans is a dollar given straight to the Biden campaign.

00:19:22.360 If he makes it, I don't know if he's going to make it. Who thinks he's going to be the candidate?

00:19:27.480 Every dollar spent attacking me is a dollar given to Biden. And he, and he says, he says the other

00:19:33.360 candidates, they need to drop out of this race. And I see why Trump would say that, especially now

00:19:38.620 while he's flying high in the polls. But the political reality is there is no reason for

00:19:43.560 DeSantis to drop out of this race. DeSantis has already killed himself and killed any shots that

00:19:48.020 he's got being appointed in a Trump administration. That's over. He'll get, if Trump approaches him at 0.96

00:19:53.620 all, if Trump somehow becomes the president and approaches him at all, he'll get the Mitt Romney

00:19:56.780 treatment. He'll play around with him like a cat with catnip. So DeSantis, the die is cast. He's just

00:20:02.560 got to keep running. Pence, same thing. What else is Pence going to do? He has no reason to get out of

00:20:07.380 the race. Christie, he's got no reason to get out of the race. He's come out against Trump too.

00:20:11.100 What's his political future? Nothing. So he's going to stay in the race. Same with Vivek.

00:20:15.880 Vivek, for a little different reason though. Vivek hasn't really gone after Trump. Vivek came out of

00:20:20.320 nowhere, came out of left field. And he has proved himself to be an extremely compelling political

00:20:27.620 talent. Who would have thought that some Yale law pharma guy who's a Hindu with the name Ramaswamy

00:20:36.820 would become a major player, could very soon become the number two guy in the GOP race.

00:20:41.280 That tells you that this guy's got a message that is resonating, that he's really, really sharp,

00:20:45.660 and that he's a very strong political talent. So he's going to continue to prove himself in that

00:20:50.880 field, especially if he doesn't keep going after Trump or doesn't hit Trump too hard. He's got all

00:20:55.320 the reason to stay in the race. The rest of the candidates probably ought to drop out if they 0.97

00:20:59.400 want to roll in a potential Trump administration. That's true. But at least for one, two, three,

00:21:04.900 four candidates, there's no reason for them to get out yet, which means we're going to have

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00:23:35.340 Supreme Court. They've been trying to pack the court for a long time. Now they're trying to get the judges

00:23:38.460 to recuse themselves from all sorts of cases, only the conservative judges, of course. Now they're

00:23:42.580 trying to attack the character of the conservative judges. They've been doing that with Clarence Thomas

00:23:46.740 for 30 years. Now they're especially focusing in on Sam Alito because Sam Alito wrote the opinion

00:23:50.900 in the Dobbs case that overturned the fake right to abortion in America. So they're going after Alito

00:23:57.440 and they're threatening. They're saying, if the Supreme Court conservatives don't adopt a particular

00:24:04.420 code of ethics that we want them to adopt, then we're going to impose it on the Supreme Court,

00:24:10.160 which is leading us to our latest constitutional crisis.

00:24:13.200 And once again, Sam Alito, absolute rockstar of a jurist, comes out and he says, no. And he doesn't

00:24:22.560 just say, no, we're not going to do this. He says a really important observation. He says,

00:24:27.660 Congress has no right to regulate the Supreme Court. No right specifically to force the Supreme

00:24:38.080 Court to adopt some code of ethics. The Supreme Court does not ultimately answer to the Congress.

00:24:45.280 He notes, quote, Congress did not create the Supreme Court. The Constitution did. He said,

00:24:51.220 I know this is a controversial view, but I'm willing to say it. No provision in the Constitution

00:24:55.520 gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court, period. I really like that Justice Alito made

00:25:01.040 this point in particular because I made this point a week ago and I'm glad that someone who knows what

00:25:06.080 he's talking about agrees with me. You never know. I don't know. I didn't go to law school. I've never

00:25:10.220 argued a case before the Supreme Court, but I made the same point. I said, if the Congress

00:25:15.440 asserts this control over the Supreme Court, one, how are they going to enforce it? Are you going to

00:25:20.100 get Nancy Pelosi to go hobble over to the Supreme Court and start haranguing the justices? I don't think 1.00

00:25:26.760 so. But two, this would create a constitutional crisis. You know, sometimes, this is a little out of

00:25:34.680 left field, but it'll loop back. I have joked, is it a joke, about the Jacobite line of succession.

00:25:44.580 I've said that it was a very terrible thing in English political history when William and Mary 1.00

00:25:50.840 of Orange came over from the Netherlands and took the throne from James II. James II, who became king,

00:25:59.060 he was the last Catholic monarch of England, and he became king after Charles II died. Charles II

00:26:04.920 was a Protestant, and he had a deathbed conversion to Catholicism, and this created a crisis because

00:26:10.620 a lot of the Protestants were not happy about a Catholic monarch. So what happened? This is what

00:26:15.340 happened. I've got all sorts of views on the Jacobite line of succession and what it means today and who's

00:26:20.580 the pretender to the throne and blah, blah, blah. But that's a topic for another day. The reason that

00:26:25.080 this matters for American politics is the way that James II was deposed is that parliament exercised

00:26:36.560 more authority than they had. And parliament established parliamentary supremacy to say,

00:26:43.620 effectively, we get to pick the monarch. And they booted James II out, and they invited those

00:26:48.620 Protestant Dutch interlopers over, William and Mary of Orange, and installed them on the throne.

00:26:52.260 And forget about the Catholic versus Protestant debate. Forget about the James II versus William

00:26:58.260 and Mary debate. It's a question of who has the power in the government. Is it going to be a balanced

00:27:05.340 government? Are there going to be checks on the authority of one part of the government over

00:27:09.540 another part of the government? Is it going to be an inversion of the traditional understanding of

00:27:13.820 that power? Does parliament just run the whole show? If the US Congress can bring the Supreme Court

00:27:20.600 justices to heel, then we don't really have three branches of government. We've got at most

00:27:26.160 two, because the Supreme Court will become a subsidiary of Congress. And if anybody thinks that

00:27:33.160 would be a good thing in the United States, I would encourage you to open your eyes and take a look

00:27:37.100 at Congress. Speaking of old institutions, very old, not just old like the Supreme Court, not just old

00:27:45.240 like the British monarchy. Old like Snow White, 1937. The new Snow White lady, who is notably not

00:27:53.700 white, so we call her Sand Beige. Sandy Taupe. This lady is thrilled that they're remaking Snow White, 1.00

00:28:04.760 not just in the new casting decisions, but remaking the whole movie, because she says that Snow White is

00:28:09.620 dated. The cartoon was made 85 years ago, and therefore it's extremely dated when it comes to

00:28:18.460 the ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for in the world. And so when we

00:28:26.360 came to reimagining the actual role of Snow White, it became about the fairest of them all, meaning

00:28:32.040 who is the most just and who can become a fantastic leader. And the reality is, you know, Snow White has

00:28:38.960 to learn a lot of lessons about coming into her own power before she can come into power over a 0.99

00:28:43.520 kingdom. Also, the fact that she's not going to be saved by the prince, and she's the proactive one,

00:28:49.040 and she's the one who set the terms, is what makes it so relevant to where we are today.

00:28:58.180 Not even going to comment on the way that they've rewritten the script to take out all those terrible

00:29:03.700 things like beauty and love. You know, who wants Snow White with beauty and love when we can

00:29:07.680 talk about girl bosses? Isn't that captivating? Can't you wait to just run out to the theaters and 1.00

00:29:14.000 get your popcorn? No, I don't think so. Forget that for a second. She says they rewrote the story

00:29:19.680 because Snow White is extremely dated. Dated. What does that mean, to be dated? She's saying it like

00:29:29.940 it's a bad thing. It's bad to be dated. Isn't it only bad for a thing to be dated if the time that we're

00:29:39.980 living in is better than the time that the dated thing existed in? In other words, if we were living

00:29:51.060 in this wonderful age where everyone was thriving and things were beautiful and just and good and

00:29:59.700 virtuous, and then you looked back at some other time in history, and you pointed to some vestige

00:30:09.220 of that, and you said, oh, that's so dated from that time. And that other time was a really awful,

00:30:12.800 terrible time where everything was ugly and decaying and vicious and evil. Well, then it would be bad

00:30:22.340 for something to be dated to that time. But what if the time that we were living in right now is worse

00:30:29.160 by almost every measure than the time to which this thing we're criticizing is dated? Then dated would be

00:30:38.420 a good thing. And then we'd say, oh, that's so dated from this much better time that can maybe give us a

00:30:44.660 guidepost as to how to get out of the dumb age that we're living in. By virtually every measure,

00:30:52.060 by virtually every measure, 1937 was a better time that was more conducive to human flourishing and

00:30:58.640 virtue than today is. And we can look through all the social scientific data on this. We're not having

00:31:06.560 any kids anymore. The civilization is literally dying. People are much more depressed. People

00:31:11.080 are much more anxious. The suicide rates are much higher. People are reporting much lower rates of

00:31:16.340 happiness and satisfaction. You look at all the social science. And then you look at the harder

00:31:21.200 facts, which we see a little bit in people were having bigger families. People were building beautiful

00:31:29.280 things. The culture was physically more beautiful. You had better buildings, better artwork coming up.

00:31:34.220 You had people, therefore, a little more hopeful about the future.

00:31:38.280 What you're always going to hear when you bring that up is people are going to say, yeah, but back in

00:31:42.320 the past, there were separate water fountains for white and black people or something. They'll point 0.99

00:31:46.920 to some bad thing, some sort of unpleasant feature of the past. They'll say, see? And in the case of

00:31:53.820 1937, that's pretty much it. This is before World War II, at the end of the Great Depression on the

00:31:59.040 horizon. And by the way, material hardship is not intrinsically immoral or anything like that. But even

00:32:06.860 then, you say, okay, well, what about that? Back then, they had different water fountains for white and

00:32:11.980 black people. Okay, now we kill 800,000 babies a year. Now we chop little kids' genitals off. Now we don't have 1.00

00:32:19.960 any hope for the future or any patriotism. The rates of those things are declining precipitously. Now we don't have

00:32:25.880 national borders. Now we don't speak the same language. Now we, now we this, now we that. Oh, did

00:32:29.980 I mention we kill 800,000 babies a year? You're really going to tell me? Oh, no, we're living in

00:32:34.920 the best time. You just don't understand. This is what the liberals always say. The liberals on the left

00:32:39.720 and even the liberals on the right, the kind of center-right people, oh, come on, let's stop

00:32:45.440 complaining. We're living in the best time. They often adopt the premises and language of the left.

00:32:49.700 No. 1937, America had its act much more together than it does now. Snow White is dated? Yeah, I guess

00:33:00.440 so. Let's go watch that movie. Maybe we can learn a thing or two. Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed

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00:33:44.400 science, some good news. Finally, high school boys are becoming more right-wing. This according

00:33:53.280 to a new survey out from the Monitoring the Future survey. This is a scholarly endeavor that dates back

00:33:58.740 about 50 years. The boys are becoming more conservative. The 12th grade girls are becoming 0.77

00:34:07.680 more liberal. So good news and bad news. Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. But the trend,

00:34:17.980 at least for the boys, is in the right direction. Why is this happening? I think this is happening in

00:34:23.020 part because we've destroyed marriage and the notion that boys and girls are complementary. So rather than

00:34:29.080 boys and girls moving closer and closer together, recognizing how they fit together. And is that

00:34:37.740 euphemistic or is that? No, it's metaphorical as well. That recognizing that we each have something

00:34:44.160 to add and men really need women and women really need men and we're going to move together and become

00:34:48.260 one flesh and be of one mind. The libs have destroyed marriage. And so when women get married, 1.00

00:34:55.640 they become more conservative. And maybe men moderate some of their extremism too. When they

00:35:02.220 stay apart, then they move in opposite directions. This is why a society with a proper understanding

00:35:07.600 of marriage will be more conservative. And a society that disregards marriage and abolishes marriage and

00:35:13.820 redefines it is going to become more liberal. We've just seen that in real time. Also, everyone's going to

00:35:21.180 give their hot take on why the young boys are becoming more conservative right now. My hot take

00:35:26.200 as to why this is happening is because we're living in a world that is more virtual. Kids are not going

00:35:34.060 out and climbing trees as much. They're not racing fast cars as much. They're not going on physical

00:35:40.220 adventures as much. The society is becoming much more focused on computers and video games and staying in

00:35:47.800 your apartment and consuming content. And it's just not as vigorous and physical as it used to be.

00:35:54.720 And so because young boys are inclined toward extreme behavior and risky behavior that's just in our DNA,

00:36:03.220 the way that that is instantiated in this more virtual reality type culture is going to be through risky

00:36:11.840 and edgy and controversial intellectual pursuits rather than just physical ones. That's why.

00:36:17.720 To be a conservative today is to question and to oppose the entire regime, the entire liberal

00:36:25.680 establishment which controls every institution. To do that is risky. It's edgy. It's extreme. It's

00:36:33.260 countercultural. It's rebellious. It's all the things that young men always are. But whereas in the past, 0.94

00:36:38.860 they would have gone out and smoked cigarettes and gotten drunk and driven motorcycles and,

00:36:43.380 and I don't know, gone womanizing. And all the surveys show as young men are not doing that as

00:36:50.260 much as they used to. Even with the hookup culture, they're having less sex with fewer women. So all

00:36:55.920 that edginess, all that rebelliousness, all that risky behavior, that's going to be more intellectual.

00:37:02.080 It's going to be more in the life of the mind. And what does that mean in a culture such as ours?

00:37:05.780 In a very liberal culture, it means you become more right-wing. So that's the silver lining in

00:37:11.780 a storm cloud. Now, my favorite comment yesterday is from DC Zelenak, 060, who says,

00:37:19.240 I am become feminism, destroyer of the family. Barbie 2023. 1.00

00:37:24.800 I love that. Because in a matter of about four hours, I am going to see Barbie. I'm going to meet

00:37:36.700 up with sweet little Elisa. We are going to watch Barbie, even though it's the middle of the work

00:37:42.560 day. And we're going to do that because there is a backstage tonight. And I know Ben hates Barbie.

00:37:46.940 And so if Ben hates something, I have to assume that I will like it. But I don't know.

00:37:51.180 I don't know. I've also heard from a lot of people that it's terrible. I've heard from a lot of people

00:37:56.160 that it's good. I just don't know. I just don't know what to think about it. So I'm going to go

00:38:01.040 watch it before backstage. And we will discuss. We will have the real debate. Forget aliens for a

00:38:05.420 second. We'll probably have to talk about that too. But we'll have the real debate that is roiling

00:38:09.180 the Daily Wire. We will discuss Barbie. Speaking of the extreme behavior of young men,

00:38:16.600 probably can't include this part on YouTube today. It is Trans Tuesday, though, so I guess we have to

00:38:23.120 get to it. Chris Tyson is apparently some guy from the Mr. Beast YouTube channel. I don't watch the

00:38:29.900 Mr. Beast YouTube channel. I had never heard of this guy until he decided to leave his new bride and

00:38:35.680 very young child to pretend to be a woman and indulge all of his disordered sexual desires and abandon his

00:38:42.400 responsibilities and his family. So this guy, Chris Tyson, six months ago decided that he's

00:38:48.960 going to be a woman. And I assume it's because his brain just got so fried on porn that he couldn't 0.92

00:38:54.820 resist these demonic impulses anymore. So he, as is often the case and has been showed by copious

00:39:01.360 research. So this guy, Chris Tyson, has shown off his new transformation. And it was very funny.

00:39:09.460 They posted the pictures yesterday and they showed, here's his amazing, or they said her,

00:39:15.220 amazing transformation. And you looked at the pictures and it, the only difference is that it

00:39:19.500 looked like he put some lipstick on. Because he already had kind of long hair. He already looked

00:39:23.300 like a lib, which is to say he looked kind of, to look like a lib if you're a man is to just kind of

00:39:28.760 dress a little bit like a chick. So he, but he put some lipstick on this. Wow, look at this amazing

00:39:33.420 transformation. I just thought of that meme from the office, you know, show me the difference

00:39:36.760 between these pictures. They're the same picture. It's just one has lipstick on. Here he is describing

00:39:40.960 that journey of personal growth, quote unquote, which is really decay.

00:39:47.240 Once I came out to myself, it was, I came out to myself with my therapist. And it took like,

00:39:55.520 it took like three therapy sessions where I was like, I've known this for a long time. I'm,

00:40:01.840 I'm pretty sure. And then I was, you know, I, I, I know I, and then I was like, I am a woman. And it

00:40:09.160 was, it was hard for me to say that because I was so scared of saying I am a woman and then instantly

00:40:15.700 hearing, no, you're not. Because in my head, I fought with that every day. That's the conversation

00:40:22.360 you were having with yourself. There was a voice in the back of my head that just hated me.

00:40:27.960 Everything I did hated me. And it wasn't until like, I started accepting myself and being kind

00:40:35.540 to others and like, just listening to what my body wanted. Like, that's when that voice started

00:40:41.220 going away, started taking HRT. Haven't heard from that voice in a very long time.

00:40:45.600 Where do you think that part of you has gone?

00:40:47.420 I think it's, I hope it's locked away.

00:40:49.600 Do you think it's disappeared entirely?

00:40:51.940 That hurts. That little piece of me.

00:40:53.980 F, F that piece of me, F me. That's what these guys are saying. 0.99

00:40:59.940 Nothing that he says can be believed. And do you know why? You know what the, the giveaway

00:41:04.620 is when he says, look, it's just when I started being kind to people. That's when it all turned

00:41:08.720 around being like you were kind to your wife and toddler. I don't think you were particularly

00:41:12.800 kind to them. I think you were extremely cruel to them and abandoned them and abandoned your

00:41:17.540 responsibilities in life. Even a little toddler, even your own flesh and blood, you freaking 0.99

00:41:22.280 degenerate. I don't think that's kind at all. And I have a great deal of pity for him. 0.99

00:41:28.240 Okay. Because this is deeply sad. He's obviously troubled. He very likely with, with the onset of

00:41:35.320 this disorder probably fell into this a little later in life. And maybe he fell into it because

00:41:40.560 of his own behaviors. And whatever the cause is, this is deeply sad and extremely disgusting. 0.57

00:41:46.580 Disgusting. His presentation is disgusting. His behavior is disgusting. The, the cruel acts that 1.00

00:41:52.300 he's committed against his family are disgusting. And the way that society is applauding him for very

00:41:57.460 destructive behaviors is disgusting. That's, I, and I have a great deal of pity for him. And I think

00:42:04.400 there are a lot of people like this. And you can tell that, that this is a social contagion. The rates

00:42:09.740 of this kind of identity are doubling and tripling in recent years. And I don't know what that is.

00:42:13.780 Is it porn? Maybe. Is it just the effect of social affirmation? Maybe. Is it because there's 0.82

00:42:19.300 something in the water turning the freaking frog's gate? Maybe that too. I don't know. Maybe it's all 0.95

00:42:23.020 of it. Whatever it is though, it's so gross and sad and disgusting and obviously disordered and 0.96

00:42:31.320 having all sorts of cascading social effects. You never see the glitzy interview with this guy's

00:42:36.240 family, do you? You never see the glitzy interview with the trans widows. You never see the glitzy 1.00

00:42:40.740 interview with the kids whose lives are going to be completely screwed up as a result of this. Can

00:42:44.660 you imagine the therapy that kid is going to need? It's just a sad fact. And this gets to my extra

00:42:51.700 point here, which is, look, the culture has been very hard on families for a long time. And lots of

00:42:58.080 people have needed lots of therapy for all sorts of reasons. Rates of divorce have skyrocketed,

00:43:05.800 family breakdown, and it messes kids up. And when the libs say, well, don't worry, kids are

00:43:11.780 resilient. Oh, kids are resilient. I hate that phrase. Because kids are resilient is the thing

00:43:17.580 that people say to absolve themselves of the guilt of screwing up little kids. That's all it is.

00:43:24.000 Oh, kids are resilient. Are they? I think they're very vulnerable actually. And I think that's why you

00:43:28.560 have obligations to treat them well and to comport yourself with dignity. And when you don't,

00:43:33.080 that's going to screw them up. And that's your fault, man. But it gets to my other point here,

00:43:38.080 which is therapy. He says, I just realized when I was with my therapist that I'm a woman. Well,

00:43:43.560 then your therapist should probably lose his license because your therapist told you something

00:43:47.800 that isn't true and led you into very destructive behaviors. And people who go see therapists for a

00:43:52.120 long period of time, 99 times out of 100, I've seen it not help them. 90 times out of 100,

00:43:59.600 I've seen it hurt them actually. I think that talk therapy can be a good thing.

00:44:05.040 I know at least one person who was cured by it, and that would be Andrew Klavan.

00:44:09.060 I know that there are good therapists out there. I don't think psychology is a completely lost endeavor.

00:44:14.040 But just practically speaking, the people who go to their therapists for a long time,

00:44:19.200 either just go to get drugs, they're just effectively glorified drug dealers who went to

00:44:23.280 medical school in the case of psychiatrists, or the people who go just either stagnate or their

00:44:31.000 conditions get worse. And so if something's not working, then you've got to change it.

00:44:36.280 If your behavior is not improving your life and is not in accord with reality, then you've got

00:44:43.380 to change it. You're not going to ever improve or be happy by living in delusion. You're just going

00:44:48.440 to continue to lie to yourself, except when those little glimpses of honesty accidentally peek out. 0.99

00:44:54.380 Like at the end of that interview there, he says, and I just told myself, F you myself, F you. I hate 0.99

00:44:58.320 you. I hate you. And the you is the me. F you. That's not the sign of therapy that's working. That's 1.00

00:45:05.580 not the sign of a lifestyle that is conducive to your flourishing. Speaking of things people shouldn't

00:45:12.380 be doing. Dog meat farmers in South Korea are pushing back on a potential ban. South Korea wants

00:45:20.200 to ban dog meat. I don't like dogs. I don't. Some people ask, are you a dog person? Are you a cat

00:45:28.340 person? I'm not. I'm a people person. I like people. I don't really care for pets that much. I

00:45:34.000 don't hate them. They don't make me angry, but I just don't like them. And yet, people should not

00:45:42.840 eat dog. Libs think we should be able to eat dogs. Utilitarians think we ought to be able to eat

00:45:47.520 dogs. Materialists think we ought to be able to eat dogs. Because, you know, it's just meat. These

00:45:51.500 people probably think we should eat humans. But we should not eat dogs. And the reason it's wrong to

00:45:58.000 eat dogs, and the reason the South Korean dog farmers are wrong, and the reason that the people trying 0.79

00:46:01.860 to reform this are right, is because that's not what dogs are for. Dogs are there to be man's best

00:46:08.620 friend. They're not my best friend, but broadly they are man's best friend. They were bred to be

00:46:12.720 man's best friend. And that's why it's especially cruel. In a way that it's not cruel to kill an

00:46:17.640 eat a cow, kill an eat a pig, kill an eat a chicken. The dogs are there and were bred, even if you just

00:46:26.060 want to look at a purely historical, evolutionary kind of view of it, to say nothing of a deeper

00:46:32.140 philosophical view. They're there to be our mate and our help and our buddies and our companions.

00:46:38.340 And it's wrong to eat them. That's why it feels wrong to eat a dog. I've never tried eating a dog,

00:46:43.860 but that's why I would not be inclined to eat a dog, even though I don't like them all that much.

00:46:47.900 It's the C.S. Lewis argument for it. It's not that dogs have rights. They don't. It's not that

00:46:55.740 animals have rights broadly. They don't. But when we do things like torture animals or when we do

00:47:03.000 things like eat dogs, it deadens our humanity because we are violating a kind of metaphysical

00:47:13.320 concord that we have with dogs. And we're violating the proper order of nature and the

00:47:20.760 ends to which these things are ordered. Okay, it's Trans Tuesday. Now that I've just done

00:47:26.880 probably what's effectively a three-minute show on YouTube today, because of my digression into

00:47:32.220 the Mr. Beast guy, we will get into Tranny Tuesday. That's the day for the member block. We can't talk 0.99

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