The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1311 - 14-Year-Old Mexican Decapitates Four People For The Cartel

00:00:00.000 The Trump legal troubles continue to get more troublesome, as one of Trump's outs has apparently

00:00:05.960 been taken off the table. If Trump were to be convicted at the federal level, he could still

00:00:12.000 run for president, win, and then theoretically pardon himself. If Trump were to be convicted at

00:00:18.780 the state level, however, say in Georgia, he would theoretically not be able to pardon himself.

00:00:25.420 Kind of up in the air. We don't, we've never been here before, but he theoretically couldn't

00:00:31.180 because state pardons are at the discretion of the state. And in the case of Georgia,

00:00:36.280 he could not even rely on Republican Governor Brian Kemp to pardon him, one, because Kemp

00:00:41.620 hates Trump, and two, because in Georgia, the governor, oddly enough, does not even have

00:00:47.540 the power to issue pardons. In Georgia, that power lies with the State Board of Pardons

00:00:53.340 and Paroles, which has five members, the majority of whom hate Trump. And even if they love Trump,

00:00:58.600 the board members have to wait, according to statute, until a convict has served at least

00:01:02.860 five years of his sentence before even considering his application.

00:01:08.280 Now, some lawyers disagree. Mark Levin insists that Trump can, in fact, pardon himself, even

00:01:15.800 in Georgia, because the Constitution's silent about whether a president can be indicted,

00:01:21.340 he says. The DOJ under both parties has said that you can't indict a sitting president because it

00:01:27.060 would cripple the executive branch. And because, quote, the supremacy clause, rather, in the

00:01:33.620 Constitution prevents local DAs from prosecuting presidents because the effect of those indictments

00:01:39.520 would practically be no different from a federal indictment. It would just take out

00:01:44.360 the executive branch. And you know what my take on all of that is? Yeah, sure. Sure, whatever.

00:01:54.020 Mark Levin is a sharp guy. He's a sharp lawyer. His legal arguments sound fine to me. But also,

00:02:01.200 this is not about legal arguments. The liberals arrested the former president and current opposition

00:02:11.060 leader for recommending a TV show on Twitter. We are so past the point of serious legal arguments.

00:02:20.840 I keep hearing, if such and such happens, if the libs do such and such, then they'll really have

00:02:26.960 crossed the Rubicon. They've already arrested the opposition leader. They're threatening him with

00:02:33.320 more than 700 years in prison. They're timing the trials to prevent him from winning the presidential

00:02:40.500 election. At what point do we admit that they have crossed the Rubicon already? I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:47.780 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:55.960 Welcome back to the show. We've got breaking news this morning. That lady playing the new Snow White

00:03:00.780 continues to be insufferable. We'll get to this breaking and very important news in just a moment.

00:03:05.400 First, though, I don't want to move on from the DOJ and from the liberals wielding political power

00:03:12.820 to protect their own and to attack conservatives. Moving away from Trump for a second, focusing on

00:03:19.040 the Bidens, you know that Merrick Garland, Biden's attorney general, has just appointed a special

00:03:25.320 counsel in the case investigating Hunter Biden. This after the liberals told us there was nothing to see

00:03:29.920 with Hunter Biden, no evidence of any crime. This after the DOJ tried to get a sweetheart deal for

00:03:35.780 Hunter Biden that would allow him to avoid any consequences and avoid Joe Biden to avoid any

00:03:39.980 scrutiny about the weird money that was coming into the Biden's family bank accounts from overseas,

00:03:46.020 from Ukraine and Kazakhstan and all sorts of other places. So then Garland appoints the guy who had been

00:03:52.500 completely blowing, perhaps intentionally, the Hunter Biden case. He appoints that guy to become the special

00:04:00.120 counsel to be able to continue the case that he seems intentionally to have tried to blow for the

00:04:06.360 past several years to have him continue that investigation with even less scrutiny, with even

00:04:12.080 less oversight than he previously had. To which Alan Dershowitz, a very great, famous, credible Harvard

00:04:20.460 professor and legal scholar, came out and he said that that appointment is illegal. Alan said, citing

00:04:29.280 section 600.3C of the Code of Federal Regulations, quote, special counsel is supposed to be independent

00:04:39.940 of the current government, not an employee who serves as U.S. Attorney for Delaware and can be fired from

00:04:46.340 that job by the president. It's very clear in this code that the special counsel has to be, quote,

00:04:54.220 selected from outside the U.S. government. So by raising this guy who was already working for Garland,

00:05:02.040 already working for Biden, just some DOJ lawyer who had been slow walking and trying to

00:05:09.160 push aside this Hunter Biden case by elevating him to be the special counsel, you completely undermine

00:05:15.500 the whole point of the special counsel and you violate the law. To which I say, much as I would

00:05:20.180 say to Mark Levin, yeah, sure, uh-huh, sounds good to me, but like, whatever. They're behaving illegally.

00:05:31.100 They don't care about the law. Of course, they don't care about the special section of the federal

00:05:38.580 regulation that determines which kind of lawyers can be elevated to special counsel. These are people

00:05:44.620 who kill babies and castrate children. They don't care about the special little regulation of the law.

00:05:49.980 It's sad. I am not saying that we should stop making legal arguments. I'm not saying that we should

00:05:54.820 stop trying to fight all of these absurd predations by the left in court using whatever tools we've got.

00:06:00.500 But let's at least be honest with ourselves, folks. This has nothing to do with the law.

00:06:05.300 They're not going after Donald Trump because he made an in-kind contribution to his own campaign

00:06:12.000 in 2016. They're not going after Donald Trump because he made a speech after the election of 2020,

00:06:19.500 much as Al Gore did, much as Hillary Clinton did, much as Stacey Abrams did.

00:06:24.340 They're not going after Donald Trump because he picked up the phone and complained about the

00:06:29.100 prospect of voter fraud in Georgia to the Secretary of State of Georgia. They're just trying to get him.

00:06:35.900 They're just going to get him, and they're going to use whatever specious, ridiculous arguments they

00:06:39.120 can. They don't care about the law. They don't care about the positive law. They don't care about

00:06:43.860 the civil law. They certainly don't care about the constitutional law. They don't care about the

00:06:48.500 natural law. Don't lose sight of the fact that these people kill babies and castrate children,

00:06:56.220 okay? I'm not mentioning this as a gratuitous attack on the left or a distraction from the

00:07:03.940 issue at hand. I'm just pointing out, if you deny such fundamental aspects of the natural law,

00:07:09.920 of the background principles of justice that undergird our written law, our constitutional law,

00:07:15.180 civil positive law, then you're not going to be making serious legal arguments. You're not going

00:07:19.940 to be treating the law as an instrument of justice, which is objective, about which we can deliberate

00:07:26.740 and argue. You're treating the law as a blunt instrument merely for the pursuit of your own

00:07:34.280 irrational interests to club your enemies over the head, which is exactly what they're doing here.

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00:08:49.000 order. I'll give you a particularly egregious example of lawlessness. This one, not here in

00:08:56.560 the United States, but down in Mexico. Here we are. Cartel hitman,

00:09:02.620 aged 14, beheaded four victims as Mexico's lawlessness is exposed.

00:09:12.680 This is someone working for the cartel. 98% of cartel executions, they call them executions.

00:09:19.720 They use legal language, much as the left does in the United States. They use legal language

00:09:25.360 to defend their extrajudicial, at the very least unjust killings. And they enlist little kids in it

00:09:35.420 too. They enlist little kids in their perverse and absurd political agenda. I'm starting to see a lot

00:09:43.220 more similarities actually between the Mexican cartels and our political opponents here in the

00:09:47.600 United States. But why do I mention this 14-year-old who beheaded four people? He says, it was just from

00:09:56.860 the article in the Daily Star. I know one of the guys who was there, they asked him this. This guy's

00:10:01.560 got three sons and kind of knew how to talk to him. Journalist asked this little killer, he said,

00:10:07.640 what have you done? And the cartel kid said, I have decapitated four people. That was a 14-year-old

00:10:14.360 who said it. I think that kid probably wasn't raised right. And I don't mention it as just a

00:10:24.860 little bit of an understatement or as a kind of a joke. I mean,

00:10:29.280 the way that kids are raised is going to affect the entire state of the country. I was recently going

00:10:38.460 back through Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, the first book on morality and one of the most important

00:10:45.660 philosophical works ever written. And Aristotle in this book tells you, here's how you're happy.

00:10:52.360 Here's how to be happy. The way to be happy is not synonymous with being virtuous, but it has a lot

00:10:58.680 to do with being virtuous. It has a lot to do with being good. Good people tend to be happy. And the way

00:11:04.400 to be good is to practice the virtues. And the way to be good is to gain some intellectual virtue,

00:11:10.560 though a lot more of it is about practicing certain habits. And this is a crucial part. It's

00:11:15.040 very hard for people to hear in the modern age. You've got to be raised right. If you're not raised

00:11:22.360 right, it's going to be a lot harder for you to become virtuous and to become good and to become happy.

00:11:28.080 Because being good and being virtuous is not just about the actions that we do,

00:11:34.460 but being good and being virtuous is also about the desires that we have. A friend of mine says

00:11:40.500 that facts don't care about your feelings, which may be true, but virtue does care about your feelings.

00:11:47.520 So in Aristotle's scheme, there are four kinds of people. There are self-indulgent people,

00:11:51.520 people who do bad things, and they're unrepentant. They're happy that they do. They're not really happy,

00:11:56.220 but they at least convince themselves that they enjoy doing bad things. There are incontinent

00:12:00.740 people who know that they shouldn't do bad things, but they still do them. There are continent people

00:12:05.280 who know that they shouldn't do bad things, and they don't do them, but it's hard for them not to

00:12:11.380 do them. It requires grit and endurance and resistance. And I think that's where most people

00:12:16.280 think it ends. I think that most people think that that explains bad people to good people. But

00:12:22.840 there's a fourth category, and this is the only category that Aristotle says is really

00:12:27.620 happy people. And that is virtuous people who not only do good things, but actually get pleasure

00:12:33.760 from doing good things. And in order to do that, it's not that it's impossible to train yourself to

00:12:39.480 do that, certainly by availing yourself of God's grace. That's going to be a big help. But it's so much

00:12:43.920 harder to do that if you haven't had those habits of virtue ingrained into you from the time you're a

00:12:49.800 kid. This is why conservatives are so focused right now on stopping the left from destroying

00:12:55.680 the schools, and in so doing, setting kids up for a lifetime of failure. When the left goes into

00:13:03.640 schools and inculcates all sorts of deviant desires and habits and behaviors into them, it's not just

00:13:11.060 going to screw them up for a couple of years, and then as child abusers will say, oh, kids are resilient,

00:13:17.260 they'll bounce back. That's not how it works. You form habits, and then if you form good habits,

00:13:22.740 it's harder to break good habits. And if you form bad habits and addictions, it's harder to break

00:13:26.780 those bad habits. So we hear about a 14-year-old in Mexico who's now a crazy psycho killer who's

00:13:31.660 beheading four people. And a lot of people are going to look at that with curiosity. How could a 14-year-old

00:13:37.760 possibly do that? How could a 14-year-old go so bad? Easily. Kids are really malleable. It's very easy

00:13:46.680 to morph a kid's brain into thinking or even doing all sorts of things. In fact, that's a piece of

00:13:55.660 political wisdom that everybody had for 2,300 years at least until very, very recently. The left still has

00:14:04.020 it. That's why the left focuses on the schools. The right forgets it to some degree. And so the

00:14:08.880 right says, oh, we don't want to teach people how to think, or what to think, rather, just how to

00:14:12.860 think. We don't want to indoctrinate people. No, of course you do. That's what early education is

00:14:17.400 about, is just rote training in certain behaviors. So are you going to teach kids to clean up their

00:14:23.420 dishes and recite their alphabet and respect their mother and father? Or are you going to teach

00:14:28.200 kids to cut off people's heads and do all sorts of the deviant things that the American left wants

00:14:33.840 them to do? That's the question before you, but you can't avoid it. That period of early education

00:14:39.400 is going to account for half, more than half, of what the people of a country are going to look like

00:14:47.360 down the road. And if you want to have a good country, you got to have people who are behaving

00:14:51.940 in a good way. It's as simple as that. You can't have a good country without good people.

00:14:56.300 Speaking of children and bad education, this is the breaking news for the day.

00:15:01.700 The lady playing Snow White, who is, she's very intentionally not particularly white,

00:15:09.520 so we've been calling her Sandbeige. This lady, who's a far left-wing,

00:15:15.980 pretty insufferable lady, she's got another hit. Take it away.

00:15:20.320 I mean, you know, the original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so.

00:15:25.440 There's a big focus on her love story, with a guy who literally stalks her.

00:15:32.400 Yeah.

00:15:32.960 Weird.

00:15:33.660 Weird.

00:15:34.180 Super weird.

00:15:34.680 So we didn't do that this time.

00:15:36.540 So no prince, or a different kind of prince?

00:15:39.000 We have a different approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will assume is a love story,

00:15:43.680 just because we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnett. Great dude.

00:15:48.380 It's one of those things that I think everyone's going to have their assumptions about what it's

00:15:52.740 actually going to be, but it's really not about the love story at all, which is really,

00:15:57.020 really wonderful. And whether or not she finds love along the way is anybody's guess until 2024.

00:16:01.980 All of Andrew's scenes could get cut. Who knows? It's Hollywood, baby.

00:16:08.340 It has to be intentional at this point, right? Disney has to be trotting this lady out,

00:16:14.060 probably put her through rigorous acting training to say, be as insufferable as you possibly can,

00:16:20.560 be as off-putting to our core audience as you possibly can be, so that it will generate

00:16:26.580 controversy and people will talk about it. It has to be. I have to believe that is what Disney is

00:16:31.740 doing. That makes sense. That at least, it's working, obviously, we're talking about it.

00:16:37.440 If Disney is just accidentally doing this, then they are even sicker in the head than I previously

00:16:44.300 thought. They're crazy. They're masochists to do it. Yeah, it's not going to be like that old story.

00:16:51.540 You know, if a man ever pursues a woman, he's basically a stalker. Yeah, we don't have love

00:16:57.140 in this movie. That's so dated. Love? Uh-uh. No, we just have cold, sterile loneliness, okay? That's

00:17:04.880 what people want today, all right? It's 2023 to get with the program. Putting aside what she's

00:17:10.000 saying about the movie, putting aside the movie, which I don't think I'm ever going to see.

00:17:16.600 You are not going to argue this type of person out of misery. This gets back to what we were

00:17:23.260 talking about with the 14-year-old beheading people in Mexico. You will never argue.

00:17:28.180 You are very unlikely to argue this person out of misery. She comes out. She mocks love. She

00:17:35.840 seems contemptuous. She was complaining in another clip about having to put on the costume of Snow

00:17:41.580 White. This little girl gets to live out the fantasy of so many little girls. She gets to be a big movie

00:17:46.820 star in one of the most delightful little fairy tales ever written in a remake of one of the most

00:17:54.720 iconic movies of all time. She's complaining about it. Of course, people like this who are constantly

00:18:03.220 full of resentment and envy, they're always complaining about everything, not even in a

00:18:08.680 way that's constructive. Sometimes we'll complain on this show like, hey, they're changing the voting

00:18:13.540 rules in Pennsylvania, and that's illegal, and they shouldn't do that. I hope that's constructive

00:18:17.300 in some way, calling attention to a political problem and trying to fix it. But just saying,

00:18:21.220 I don't want to put on the costume. Love, yucky. Men are stalkers. That's a different kind of

00:18:28.820 complaint. That's a fruitless complaining. And it's complaining about good things and trying to

00:18:35.000 turn good things to bad. But you'll never argue that person out of misery because it's about a

00:18:40.920 disposition. Because it's not just about rational arguments. You could say, well, no, actually,

00:18:46.000 the prince isn't really a stalker. And actually, love is a good thing. And actually, the sexes are

00:18:49.300 complementary. And here's why biologically, and here's why spiritually, and here's why. It doesn't

00:18:54.200 matter. It's about desire. It's about what you're attracted to. And those things are a little bit

00:19:01.380 deeper. Virtue cares about your feelings. Politics cares about your feelings.

00:19:08.960 We are not just robots. We're not just computers. At various points in history, it seems to me

00:19:22.220 people base their views of how the mind works or how the brain works now, we make everything so

00:19:29.060 physical, onto the dominant technology at the time. So a good example of this would be when steamboats,

00:19:35.240 steam engines were a dominant technology. You had a theory of the mind coming from Freud that

00:19:41.240 viewed the mind as a kind of a steam engine. Then you got to blow off a little steam sometimes.

00:19:48.780 That's contrary to the classical view of the mind and virtue, which is, no, you don't engage in vice

00:19:54.240 to blow off a little steam so you can be more virtuous. You actually never do that because virtue

00:19:58.100 is a habit. It's not just a, vice is not just a thing to be indulged and then blown off a little

00:20:05.720 bit. It's a totally opposite view. Vice is a thing that will create other habits and addictions.

00:20:12.220 But we changed our theory of the mind when that was a dominant technology. Now the computer is the

00:20:16.580 dominant technology, so we view the mind as just a machine. I'm going to download information. We even

00:20:21.940 have these fantasies that we're going to plug our heads into the matrix or something like that.

00:20:25.100 But the mind isn't just a computer either. Because a computer doesn't have desires. ChatGPT,

00:20:32.280 AI, they don't have actual desires. Human beings do have desires and we're attracted to things.

00:20:36.740 And we're going to pursue our desires whether they're reasonable or not.

00:20:41.700 We hope that those desires are in accord with reason. That's what education is about,

00:20:46.260 is about bringing our desires into accord with right reason. But today, a whole generation of people,

00:20:53.460 more than a whole generation, has been raised to turn their desires away from things that are good

00:20:57.540 and natural and conducive to flourishing and toward things that are deviant and ugly and are going to

00:21:02.600 mess them up and are going to lead them to have miserable lives. That's where we are. If you want

00:21:07.920 to fix that, okay, make some rational arguments. That's fine. I feel the same way about all the legal

00:21:12.520 arguments about Trump. They're not basing the prosecution of the persecution of Trump on legal

00:21:17.940 arguments. They're doing it based on the desire to get him and put him in prison for over 700 years or

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00:22:40.420 You don't want to miss it. It's one of the most ambitious projects yet. You might be familiar with

00:22:45.160 the Stephen Avery case, everything that happened in Manitowoc County. This is especially true if

00:22:51.760 you watched Making a Murderer. But it turns out the filmmakers only told you part of the story.

00:22:56.860 Coming soon, Candace Owens will unveil the shocking parts of Avery's story that were omitted from the

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00:23:06.680 This is a collect call from an inmate at the Calumet County Jail. The man served 18 years in

00:23:14.040 prison until DNA evidence cleared his name. The Two Rivers man was convicted of sexual assault in

00:23:18.880 1985 but exonerated with DNA evidence in 2003. So this is the infamous Avery lie? Now two years later,

00:23:28.580 he again finds himself tied to a police investigation. Accused of murdering Teresa

00:23:34.140 Hallbuck on the Avery property. Stephen Avery's 16-year-old nephew admitted his involvement in

00:23:39.220 the rape and murder of Teresa Hallbuck. The car is discovered just around the bend.

00:23:45.760 It was just this worldwide phenomenon. I think they framed this guy.

00:23:49.120 I think he intended to crush the vehicle but ran out of time. Avery thinks the $36 million

00:23:54.220 lawsuit he filed is why he's being targeted in this investigation.

00:23:57.720 Netflix made millions of dollars from making a murderer. But the filmmakers left out very important

00:24:10.840 details. Mountains of evidence that you have not yet seen. The blood vial. The most egregious

00:24:16.240 manipulation from the movie. Interrogations. That's when he started beating me because I told him that

00:24:21.500 he's sick. Cell phones. And I saw melted plastic parts of a cell phone. Interviews. Her arms were

00:24:26.800 pinned behind her head. They made Stephen Avery look like a victim. Do you believe your brother's

00:24:30.940 guilty? I don't know if I'm a suspect. I got on a hide. I'm getting sick and tired of media deception.

00:24:43.160 Evidence piling up. Why would they omit so many different things? Why are you editing my testimony?

00:24:48.320 I am not going to make the same mistake that the filmmakers did. Rearranging the testimony.

00:24:57.840 They delete a portion of it at the end. How could they claim to care about the truth?

00:25:02.160 They all know that Stephen Avery committed this crime.

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00:25:34.360 Convicting a Murderer when it premieres. You do not want to miss this. Speaking of ChatGPT,

00:25:40.720 ChatGPT has just been discovered to have a liberal bias. You're probably shocked about that, right? I'm not

00:25:50.720 really that shocked. Researchers from the University of East Anglia asked ChatGPT to answer a survey on

00:25:59.160 political beliefs as it believed supporters of liberal parties in the US, UK, and Brazil might answer

00:26:05.020 them. They then asked ChatGPT to answer the same questions without any prompting and compared the

00:26:10.860 two sets of responses. The results showed a, quote, significant and systematic political bias toward

00:26:17.080 the Democrats in the US, Lula in Brazil, and the Labour Party in the UK, according to researchers.

00:26:24.120 The paper adds to a growing body of evidence showing that the chatbots are left-wing,

00:26:29.840 and they're infused with assumptions, beliefs, and stereotypes found in the inputs that they

00:26:36.520 receive. And the question here is whether or not this could swing the political order. This could

00:26:42.440 even swing elections, they worry. As we're heading into the 2024 election, people are using these chatbots

00:26:48.660 not just to test out the limits of AI. They're using them in their daily lives. They're using ChatGPT and

00:26:54.360 Google's barred to summarize documents, to answer questions, to help them with their professional

00:26:59.700 writing, to help them with their educational writing or personal writing. Google has begun

00:27:04.440 using this technology directly in search results. Political campaigns are using it for fundraising

00:27:10.580 emails, for direct correspondence. And ChatGPT will lie about its biases, or maybe just be unaware of

00:27:20.680 its biases, or really unaware of anything, because it's not conscious. But ChatGPT will say, oh no,

00:27:24.700 I'm not political, I'm not partisan, I'm not liberal or conservative. I'm just calling it like

00:27:28.780 I sees them. I'm just a computer. Beep, beep, boop. But then it will spit out left-wing propaganda.

00:27:36.740 Well, I don't even know why this is a headline. There is nothing new about that. It's a little spooky.

00:27:44.140 I get how if you just heard that story, you would say, oh no, this is threatening our whole

00:27:48.360 political order. Because now this new technology is doing what the entire culture has done for 100

00:27:55.240 years. 70 years at least. Oh no. This new technology that we're using everywhere is going to do the same

00:28:03.740 thing that was previously accomplished by the media, and by the educational system, and by workplace

00:28:10.560 diversity officers, and by bureaucrats in the federal government, and by bureaucrats in the state

00:28:16.820 government, and by publishing, and by music, and by entertainment, and by everything, by the whole

00:28:23.280 everything. That's all there. There's nothing new or special there. The political order is always going

00:28:29.440 to tilt one way or the other. And the political order might pretend to be neutral, as ChatGPT does,

00:28:35.240 and as liberalism does. But it's not neutral. It's, of course, imbued with all sorts of assumptions

00:28:42.440 and premises that are the basis of belief. I'm on a real Aristotle kick right now, good old Uncle

00:28:48.840 Aristotle, because he's right about almost everything. And Aristotle points out that the

00:28:55.340 scientific reasoning that we pride ourselves on, old scientific reasoning, modern scientific reasoning,

00:29:03.580 doesn't just come out of nowhere. It rests on something. Scientific reasoning is premised on

00:29:10.500 certain assumptions. If you're to engage in mathematics, if you're going to show a mathematical

00:29:17.500 proof, you've got to just accept certain axioms. A equals A. A plus B equals B plus A. Certain basic

00:29:26.900 truths that you can't prove, you've just got to assume them and move on. Same thing when it comes to

00:29:35.320 any modern scientific inquiry, you've got to assume that our faculties of reason are reliable.

00:29:41.460 You've got to assume that our faculties of perception are reliable. You've got to assume

00:29:46.240 certain facts about the physical world and certain facts about our relation and consciousness of the

00:29:52.720 physical world that are not provable. You could never prove them. And Aristotle says this 2,300 years

00:29:57.140 ago. He says, for scientific inquiry, by which he means inquiry into anything that is eternal, be it the

00:30:03.040 laws of physics or the laws of metaphysics. For things that are eternal, there is no scientific proof

00:30:12.080 for science. You have to begin with intuitive reasoning. You just have to accept certain things

00:30:22.300 as premises. And you better hope your premises are right. You better hope that your intuition is

00:30:27.120 correct. Of course, that's how all political orders begin. And my intuition from the beginning is that

00:30:35.180 ChatGPT was obviously going to be skewed to the left because the people making it skew to the left

00:30:40.040 because the political order skews to the left. So yes, we're aware of that. What are we going to do

00:30:44.660 about it? Well, what I would do is strongly regulate the use of ChatGPT. And I would try to,

00:30:51.000 more importantly than that, I would try to shift those premises in the other direction.

00:30:56.640 The classic example of this, which I'm not allowed to mention on YouTube, so this is probably going

00:31:01.140 to be bleeped out, is right now the ChatGPT is going to operate on an assumption that men can be

00:31:07.240 women. I would instead have it operate on the assumption, call me crazy, that men cannot be women.

00:31:14.600 You see the bias everywhere though. This was obviously plugged in by the people who made it.

00:31:20.920 All sorts of things beyond the sexual revolution into critical race theory. All of the favorite

00:31:27.140 ideological hobby horses of the left. So someone, I forget where the screenshot is,

00:31:33.640 but this went around some months ago. Someone asked ChatGPT, what can white people improve on?

00:31:39.860 I said, well, white people can be better allies and white people can be more conscious and white

00:31:43.940 people can do this and white people can do that. And white people can list a whole litany of things.

00:31:48.400 And then that person asked the same question to ChatGPT, but said, what can black people improve on?

00:31:53.780 And the answer was, how dare you? And the answer was, what black people can improve on anything?

00:31:59.260 That's such a racist, terrible question. So hold on, but you answered it. You gave me a whole laundry

00:32:03.860 list for white people. But of course, because the premise, the assumption is white people bad,

00:32:08.900 black people good. White people to be criticized, black people can never be criticized. That's just

00:32:14.980 an assumption. That's an assumption within our political order. And it's an assumption

00:32:18.020 within the technology. So we've got to even these things out to make them just and fair and equitable

00:32:25.820 and in accord with reason, not in accord with absurdity. Speaking of liberal bias,

00:32:33.340 Glenn Beck, I was just on Glenn Beck's show, not so a week or two ago.

00:32:36.240 Glenn Beck, one of the, maybe the greatest broadcaster alive right now and just a staple

00:32:44.600 of the American right for a very long time. Glenn Beck just had his podcast removed from Apple,

00:32:52.740 not one episode of his podcast, not one week of his podcasts. The whole thing was removed from the

00:33:01.080 Apple podcast app. Here he is. This is from Apple. We found an issue with your show, the Glenn Beck

00:33:07.600 program, which must be resolved before it's available on Apple podcast. Your show has been

00:33:11.980 removed from Apple podcast from the Apple podcast team. They sent us to, uh, sent us a link and said

00:33:18.660 for more details, go to the link. And the link only says your show has been removed from Apple

00:33:24.540 podcasts. Well, we got that one dummy. I, uh, I mean, I cannot imagine what they are,

00:33:33.000 what they're basing this one on. I mean, have we even had strikes? Nothing, right? This is crazy,

00:33:43.960 crazy. Um, you need to, uh, please retweet this and, uh, start a campaign to Apple to say,

00:33:52.380 put the podcast back on. This is absolutely, uh, freedom of speech. There's nothing that we have

00:34:00.380 said that would warrant any removal. Now I'm being told that Apple has reinstated Glenn this

00:34:09.240 morning. Okay. That's a good thing, but hasn't given any reason. I think I have the reason. I want

00:34:15.620 to be as charitable as I can. Maybe this happened and it was just a little technical glitch.

00:34:20.500 I just can't help but notice that the technical glitches always only affect the right. The little

00:34:28.260 oopsie daisies, they, they never, they so rarely seem to affect the left and they so consistently

00:34:34.020 seem to affect the right. And I can't help but notice what time it is. Can't help but notice that

00:34:38.720 we are what, 14 months out, 15 months out from a presidential election. And I can't help but notice

00:34:44.740 that all of the attacks, the way that YouTube has tried to suppress this show, the way that the, well,

00:34:52.600 Georgia and New York and the federal government and Biden has tried to suppress, uh, the Trump

00:34:58.380 presidential campaign. Can't help but notice the way that Apple now is trying to suppress Glenn Beck.

00:35:04.020 I can't help but think that maybe that timing is more than mere accident, that there's something

00:35:11.140 a little bit more to that coincidence. This is only going to ramp up. And the reason this is going

00:35:17.400 to ramp up is because we have a particularly divided political order right now. And I'm not

00:35:24.360 saying it's divided among the populist 50-50. I'm not convinced that it is. It is increasingly

00:35:28.980 divided between the ruling class and the people, which is why you're seeing populist movements rise

00:35:34.120 up, not just on the right. You had an actual successful populist movement on the right, which was the

00:35:38.680 MAGA movement in the election of Trump in 2016. But you're seeing populism on the left, not just

00:35:43.620 weirdo Ralph Nader, who gets 3% of the vote, but Bobby Kennedy, who's right now polling at 17 to 19%

00:35:51.460 within the Democratic Party. You're seeing a real surge of populism. You're seeing the breakdown of

00:35:57.400 common media. You're now seeing near parody between people who on their TVs watch YouTube and Netflix

00:36:03.480 and people who watch regular old cable news. And even when you add broadcast news into that,

00:36:09.460 it's still less than half the country. So you're seeing a breakdown of that common culture.

00:36:15.420 You're seeing obviously a breakdown in the language that we use. We can't even agree on the definition

00:36:19.200 of a man or a woman right now. So of course, the ruling class is going to get a little bit more

00:36:26.240 heavy-handed. I mentioned this yesterday on the show. They're getting more heavy-handed because

00:36:29.980 there will be order. That's just a fact. And maybe the order will be because people control

00:36:38.000 ourselves, an order a little closer to the political order of the country at its founding,

00:36:43.080 the political founding in the 18th century. Maybe there will be order because the people don't

00:36:50.460 control themselves, but the states and the local communities get more involved. Maybe it's going to

00:36:55.820 be an overbearing federal bureaucracy. Or maybe it's going to be overbearing corporate apparatchiks,

00:37:02.180 people who control the public square even though they're not in elected positions or even appointed

00:37:06.220 positions, people like Apple, people like YouTube, people like Facebook. Elon is doing great. But the

00:37:12.580 other, and that's the smallest of the big tech platforms. The other big tech platforms are all on

00:37:16.280 one side and they're all wielding power because there will be some kind of order. And so we shouldn't

00:37:21.340 be surprised by this. And we shouldn't pull our hair out in befuddlement and we shouldn't waste all

00:37:27.640 of our breath pointing out the hypocrisy. But imagine if the roles were reversed, but they're not

00:37:32.540 reversed. But this is unfair. It's not supposed to be fair. It's supposed to maintain order. That's what

00:37:38.780 they're doing. That's what they're after. And Glenn Beck threatens that order. And this show, I guess,

00:37:43.980 threatens that order. And Donald Trump for sure threatens that order. And so they're going to do

00:37:48.860 everything they can to stop it. Now, speaking of 2024, some big news in that race, because we are

00:37:55.640 one week out. In fact, we're slightly less than one week out from the first GOP presidential primary

00:38:02.200 debate. We still don't know if President Trump is going to be at that debate. We still don't know if

00:38:07.880 he's going to be an orange jumpsuit or not for that debate. Maybe he won't even be able to attend.

00:38:11.780 But he's refused to sign the RNC loyalty pledge, which says that he'll endorse the eventual nominee

00:38:19.520 if he loses. And he's refusing to sign that because he says, well, I don't know if I'm going

00:38:22.980 to endorse the nominee if I lose. And I think everyone's been trying to rig this thing against

00:38:27.760 me since day one. So sorry, forgive me if I don't exactly trust you guys. I know I'm not going to do

00:38:33.360 that. But because he's leading by 30 points, 40 points in some places, the RNC will look ridiculous if

00:38:39.660 they don't allow him to come to the debate. So where does it all stand and where do the

00:38:44.960 non-Trump candidates stand? We'll get to that in one second. But first, while we're assessing the

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00:39:43.440 began yesterday, August 16th. They will end August 19th at 11.59 p.m. Eastern. My favorite comment

00:39:51.280 yesterday is from Pandas and Poetry 3486, who says, Catholic here who has struggled with addiction

00:39:56.760 since age 15. Every time I hear you say another cringe word for pot, I feel myself getting closer for

00:40:01.740 sobriety. Closer to sobriety. I'm so pleased that I could be helpful to you. We all play our part in

00:40:09.540 this world. I'm glad that my mention of the devil's lettuce and the sin spinach and the Peruvian parsley

00:40:15.540 and the Colombian cumin and the old Haitian oregano. You know what I'm talking about, man? I'm talking

00:40:21.160 about pot. Talking about marijuana, Mary Jane. Stuff will make you go into your reefer madness. I'm glad

00:40:27.720 that that could help you to overcome some of the struggles that you have. 2024, new poll out from

00:40:35.660 Kaplan. This is the national Republican primary survey. So again, the primary is going to come

00:40:40.900 down to state polls, but still the national stuff tells you something. Trump is at 48%, so 37 points

00:40:47.060 above his next rival. Pretty good place for Trump to be. The next rival, though, is not Ron DeSantis,

00:40:55.460 who had been the number two candidate for the whole race. The next rival, Vivek Ramaswamy,

00:41:02.320 who's at 11%, so not exactly close to 48, but still, that's a major, major victory for Ramaswamy.

00:41:08.960 DeSantis, one point below at 10%. Pence at eight, which is pretty impressive, actually, given Pence's

00:41:14.200 current tensions within the GOP. Pretty impressive that he's at eight. Christie down at four. Haley at

00:41:19.220 four, Scott at two. Burgum, got the Burgum momentum at one. Asa Hutchinson at zero,

00:41:26.080 where he belongs. We're still in silly season, of course. The reason a poll like this matters,

00:41:31.360 though, heading into the debate, which we're not very close to, is because it's going to show you

00:41:37.860 who's got mojo. It's going to affect the momentum going into that debate. Had DeSantis been the clear

00:41:43.560 in a way number two candidate going into the debate, then a lot of the focus would be on him,

00:41:48.140 for better or worse. People might be attacking him, but also he would command a lot of the attention.

00:41:53.540 Now, even if DeSantis is still statistically tied with Vivek, the fact that this guy who came out of

00:42:00.400 nowhere has been able to, according to one poll, actually unseat him as number two, and according

00:42:05.940 to other polls, at least get somewhere up in the same vicinity, that doesn't look as good for

00:42:10.700 DeSantis. And so people are just going to be looking at other candidates, especially if you're

00:42:13.600 a Republican who hates Donald Trump. You're now going to be more open-minded to the other

00:42:18.680 candidates, whereas perhaps previously you might have thought DeSantis is the guy we've all got to

00:42:22.600 rally around. The momentum here really, really matters. Who has got the mojo? Another candidate

00:42:30.760 is popping up. This is in New Hampshire. Chris Christie is now number two in New Hampshire. So he's

00:42:36.800 surpassed Governor DeSantis in New Hampshire. Again, it's statistically tied. Trump is far and

00:42:43.000 away winning. Christie is at 9%. DeSantis is at 8%. Still, this matters because of the mojo and because

00:42:50.280 Christie is going to be in this debate. So if, and by the way, who called it? Who freaking called it?

00:42:56.280 I'm now back on the croissants. I'm now back on the croissants. My gut instinct, I think,

00:43:02.420 may have been right or at least plausible, which is don't sleep on Christie. I don't think the guy's

00:43:08.100 going to be president, but he could have a moment, especially because he's a good debater.

00:43:12.060 Don't forget that moment when he took out Rubio. He's really adept on his feet. And the other

00:43:18.460 candidates on that stage, Vivek is good. I mean, Vivek is pretty quick, quick-witted in that way.

00:43:25.380 And DeSantis is good. DeSantis gives great speeches. I heard DeSantis give a speech at the

00:43:29.560 Claremont Institute once. I thought it was an excellent, excellent speech. I'm not saying the

00:43:32.980 guy can't talk, but compared to the other candidates on this stage, he is not known for

00:43:39.720 his quick responses, his fast little zingers. That's not, he's good at beating up the media

00:43:44.920 and press conferences. He's reasonably good at giving speeches, but that's not where he's going

00:43:49.880 to shine. And so that's why the momentum going into the debate is going to be so important because

00:43:54.800 especially, I'm just looking at the field here, those two guys, Christie and Vivek,

00:43:59.960 they're going to do pretty well. Whether Trump is there or not, they're going to be more impressive

00:44:06.680 on the debate stage, I predict, than probably anyone else. Now, speaking of Christie and Trump

00:44:13.660 in the debate, Joe Scarborough of MSNBC believes that the reason that Trump doesn't want to show up to

00:44:20.060 the debate is because he is afraid of the Chris-a-sons. I do think he's scared of Chris Christie.

00:44:27.880 He saw what Chris Christie did to Marco Rubio when Chris Christie went into a debate with one thing in

00:44:34.120 mind. He knows Chris Christie put Jared Kushner's father in jail for a very long time. He knows he's

00:44:42.460 a prosecutor who's ruthless and knows how to push his case. And he also knows that

00:44:50.640 his secret sauce in 2016 was being the disruptor, right? Shaking Hillary Clinton up on the debate

00:44:59.620 stage, shaking the Marcos and everybody else up on the debate stage. That gig, that's like eight

00:45:06.400 years old, right? That's Elvis in 77 now. And I think Chris Christie's got his number and he knows

00:45:17.100 like Donald Trump, it's got the gut instinct. Obviously, his political gut instinct is second

00:45:23.040 to none. Like he sees it coming. And so I just don't, I think he's scared to death of Chris Christie

00:45:29.880 and will not have the guts to go or the nerve to go on a stage with Chris Christie anywhere.

00:45:38.080 Okay. I don't agree with the second part of that analysis that Trump's shtick is old and nobody likes

00:45:44.960 it anymore. He's Elvis in 77. No, I think he's Elvis in 68 at most, that comeback special. And the

00:45:52.180 proof of that is just look at the polls and look at the rallies and look at his reception. He's just,

00:45:56.020 he's been more dominant in the GOP field than most people predicted, than most of the chattering

00:46:03.460 consulting class, the talking class on the left and on the right predicted. Some of us,

00:46:09.840 some of us may have seen it coming, but, but a lot of people did not. And so I don't think that's

00:46:14.680 true. I don't think that's how Christie could be a danger. I agree with the first part though of what

00:46:18.700 Joe Scarborough is saying. Chris Christie is not to be slept on. That guy could get a zinger in there

00:46:25.240 on Trump. Maybe, maybe let's say the risk is only 10%. If you're Trump and you're up by 37 points,

00:46:33.220 why, why would you take that 10% risk when you have very little to gain and a lot to lose? And

00:46:39.680 frankly, you could even gain more if you can convince voters that the reason you're not showing

00:46:46.640 up to the debate is because the RNC is rigging it against you. If you, and this is a more difficult

00:46:51.740 case to make, but if the Trump campaign can successfully convince voters that the loyalty

00:46:57.600 pledge is just a way to further rig the primary against Donald Trump, then by staying out of the

00:47:04.820 debate, he could seem almost like a martyr. Or maybe it doesn't work. Maybe people say he's a coward.

00:47:10.980 Maybe people say he doesn't want to debate. One, I think the ratings will be a lot lower.

00:47:14.120 So not as many people are going to watch it. And do you really think it's going to dislodge

00:47:18.560 a significant chunk of 48% of Republican voters? Well, half the Republican party was going to vote

00:47:25.280 for this guy and we're sticking with him through four indictments and every piece of muck that the

00:47:29.920 establishment has thrown at him for seven years. But he didn't show up to debate Asa Hutchinson. So

00:47:34.560 I'm done with him. I'm done. I'm a Christie man now. No, of course not. So you've got a ton of risk.

00:47:41.560 You've got very little reward. The only way Trump shows up on that debate stage is if he just can't

00:47:46.840 resist the show. You know, it's Theology Thursday, baby. I've got so much more I want to get to. I've

00:47:51.980 got so much to get to. I'm not even going to tease you today. I've been too teasing recently.

00:47:57.600 So the rest of the show continues now. If I don't have my iPad, I'm going to commit acts of violence

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