The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1313 - Maui Fire Evidence Heats Up Suspicion


Summary

In the wake of the devastating wildfires that have ravaged the Hawaiian island of Maui, many have wondered if the fires were caused by catastrophic climate change. But a new theory has emerged that suggests the culprits may not be global warming, but rather the work of radical environmental activists.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The wildfires in Maui have been absolutely devastating.
00:00:04.580 114 people already confirmed dead, an additional 1,000 missing.
00:00:09.300 The island's most historic town, the original capital of the Hawaiian kingdom,
00:00:14.080 has been burned to the ground.
00:00:16.000 The main theory of how the fires started, the one that you have most likely heard
00:00:21.200 because it's the favorite of the establishment media,
00:00:24.200 is that it was caused by catastrophic climate change,
00:00:28.340 which, of course, it was not because catastrophic climate change
00:00:33.260 or global warming or global cooling or whatever they're going to call it tomorrow is not real.
00:00:38.920 None of the apocalyptic predictions that the environmentalist zealots have predicted
00:00:42.840 since the 70s have come true.
00:00:46.200 The world has not ended.
00:00:48.380 Humans haven't starved.
00:00:50.200 Nations have not been wiped away.
00:00:52.200 Even the polar bears are doing fine.
00:00:53.780 More to the point, extremely slow and subtle changes in temperature,
00:01:00.440 even if they were reliably occurring,
00:01:03.520 do not cause massive fires in multiple locations at once.
00:01:08.900 A slightly more likely theory as to the origin of the fires
00:01:13.320 is that the Hawaiian Electrical Company knew of a wildfire threat
00:01:17.820 but waited years to act.
00:01:19.740 Four years ago, Hawaiian Electrical declared that it had to do more
00:01:25.060 to prevent its power lines from spraying sparks
00:01:28.020 that could potentially cause wildfires,
00:01:30.400 but they didn't do anything to fix it.
00:01:32.420 Ironically, because the company was devoting all of its focus
00:01:36.180 to green energy production that did nothing but exacerbate the threat.
00:01:42.100 But even that theory is weak compared to the most likely culprit.
00:01:47.180 Not just the most likely culprit in my mind,
00:01:50.200 but apparently in the mind of Hawaiian officials.
00:01:53.540 And that's arson.
00:01:55.320 For years now, people have intentionally set fires all over Maui.
00:02:01.260 As Maui Mayor Michael Victorino noted just last year,
00:02:05.500 fire and police suspect someone is intentionally setting them.
00:02:10.920 Just a couple weeks ago, Hawaiian police responded to two fires on Maui.
00:02:15.120 One started by an unattended cooking fire.
00:02:18.140 The other apparently intentionally set.
00:02:21.140 Shortly after which point, according to investigators,
00:02:23.460 quote, a male operating a green all-terrain vehicle was seen leaving the area.
00:02:28.180 And who would do such a thing?
00:02:30.380 We can't say for certain who might have done it here,
00:02:33.100 but we can say for certain the answer to who would do such a thing.
00:02:38.200 And the answer is environmentalists.
00:02:41.380 Because, here we are, this is from the Department of Homeland Security.
00:02:46.520 Department of Homeland Security has observed for decades
00:02:48.820 that radical environmentalists constantly start fires all over the country.
00:02:54.600 Between 1995 and 2010,
00:02:56.880 environmentalist groups set off at least 239 arsons and bombings in the United States.
00:03:02.440 They do this because people are not taking the theoretical threat of climate change seriously enough.
00:03:10.120 So they make that theoretical threat practical by setting the fires themselves.
00:03:15.920 It's not just the environmentalists.
00:03:18.400 This is what leftists always do.
00:03:20.960 This is how all ideologues behave when their theories don't line up with reality.
00:03:26.520 I once gave a talk at Loyola Marymount in L.A.
00:03:30.660 About halfway through the talk,
00:03:32.420 a group of black activists marched in with duct tape over their mouths to protest.
00:03:37.980 Their point was that they had all been silenced by white supremacy, but they hadn't.
00:03:44.800 In fact, when they walked in, I offered them the microphone,
00:03:48.340 and they didn't take it because they couldn't take it.
00:03:51.180 Not one of them had been silenced.
00:03:53.520 So they needed to justify their theory by silencing themselves.
00:04:00.260 Jussie Smollett could not get attacked by a conservative in Chicago.
00:04:04.000 He couldn't find a conservative in Chicago.
00:04:06.480 So he attacked himself.
00:04:08.120 The list of liberal hoaxes in recent years would take up a whole week of shows to go through.
00:04:13.480 The world is not as bad as the radicals say.
00:04:16.500 That fact, which should be a cause for celebration, infuriates them.
00:04:20.340 Because some people would rather watch the world burn.
00:04:23.980 They'd rather burn the world down themselves than admit that their theories are wrong.
00:04:29.780 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:04:30.700 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:04:31.540 Welcome back to the show.
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00:05:03.260 We got Fat Bottom Girls coming up on the show.
00:05:05.640 We will get to that in just a second.
00:05:07.780 I'll leave that kind of vague.
00:05:09.620 First, though, how do you like the new digs?
00:05:12.580 If you're listening right now on RSS or Apple Podcasts, you can't see it.
00:05:16.400 And we have, after two years, two years, gotten a new set.
00:05:21.740 Some 24 months ago, the Daily Wire said, Michael, we want to build you a new set.
00:05:25.560 And then they banished me to a broom closet at a desk made of cardboard in front of a sheet of paper
00:05:31.760 for the ensuing 24 months.
00:05:34.300 Now, though, guys, they did a great job.
00:05:37.400 I can't complain about the two years.
00:05:39.360 They made the set so perfectly.
00:05:42.200 My favorite thing about this set is that it has been so tailor-made to every desire, impulse,
00:05:49.640 even fleeting thought that I have, that if Ben ever gets his way and cans me around here,
00:05:54.100 they won't be able to reuse the set.
00:05:56.560 No one else could use it.
00:05:57.460 I think I would take the set with me.
00:05:58.800 So wonderful to be here in the new digs with all of you.
00:06:02.480 And wonderful, sort of, sort of wonderful, to see liberals admitting that they were wrong,
00:06:12.020 being proven wrong again and again.
00:06:14.140 Here we have Jake Tapper on CNN admitting that when it comes to the Hunter Biden crooked business deals,
00:06:22.320 Donald Trump was right.
00:06:23.680 Joe Biden was wrong.
00:06:25.040 Glenn Kessler from The Washington Post had a fact check about Joe Biden from earlier this month,
00:06:30.720 noting that Hunter Biden admitted in court in July that he was, in fact, paid substantial sums from Chinese companies.
00:06:38.920 Kessler wrote, Hunter Biden reported nearly $2.4 million in income in 2017 and $2.2 million in income in 2018,
00:06:45.160 most of which came from Chinese or Ukrainian interests.
00:06:47.660 And this directly goes against what Joe Biden said in the debate in 2020 with Donald Trump.
00:06:55.320 Take a listen.
00:06:55.740 My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China.
00:07:03.820 None of that is true.
00:07:05.520 He made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow, and various other places.
00:07:11.580 So it's from two different debates.
00:07:13.640 But, I mean, Trump was right.
00:07:15.820 I mean, he did make a fortune from China, and Joe Biden was wrong.
00:07:20.500 I don't know that he was lying about it.
00:07:21.940 He might not have been told by Hunter, but this blind spot is a problem.
00:07:25.020 It's a problem, one, because Republicans aren't going to let it go.
00:07:28.100 That's for sure.
00:07:29.040 That's the problem.
00:07:30.160 The problem is these Republicans keep talking about it.
00:07:32.940 Actually, in their mind, that is the problem.
00:07:35.120 And this is why I say it's only sort of nice to see the liberals admit they were wrong,
00:07:40.100 because this is an extremely calculated admission.
00:07:46.040 This is what's called a limited hangout.
00:07:48.800 What is Tapper admitting here?
00:07:50.560 What is CNN admitting?
00:07:52.100 Okay, Trump was right.
00:07:54.840 Hunter had some crooked deals in China.
00:07:57.100 And Joe, he might not have been lying.
00:07:59.100 He just, he might not have even known about them.
00:08:01.980 We know for a fact he knew about them.
00:08:04.200 You know how we know that he knew about them?
00:08:06.380 Because we have handwritten notes from Joe Biden to Hunter's business partner.
00:08:09.940 Because we know that Joe Biden, when vice president, invited Hunter's business partner
00:08:13.260 to White House functions with the president of China.
00:08:15.960 Because we know that Joe Biden got on 20 plus calls with Hunter's crooked business associates.
00:08:21.560 Because we know that Joe Biden was arranging meetings with the president of Ukraine to hook
00:08:26.900 up Hunter.
00:08:27.560 And we know that Joe Biden was doing it using pseudonyms.
00:08:31.100 That's what came out last week.
00:08:32.800 Joe Biden had secret email addresses with fake names.
00:08:36.400 Robert L. Peters and Robin Ware and all sorts of other permutations of those names.
00:08:47.120 So why is Tapper and CNN, why are they admitting this?
00:08:51.620 It's a limited hangout.
00:08:53.240 A limited hangout is a tactic usually associated with espionage.
00:08:57.480 But it's a broader political tactic, which is when you get caught, when they get you dead
00:09:03.560 to rights, there is no way to continue to deny plausibly some action that you want to
00:09:09.180 cover up.
00:09:10.580 You just give them a little bit.
00:09:12.340 You admit to a minor part of the crime or transgression that you're being accused of
00:09:18.260 so that you can continue to cover up the rest and in fact deflect from, distract from
00:09:23.740 the rest of it.
00:09:24.820 So what are they distracting from here?
00:09:26.200 Tapper is distracting from the fact that we know for a fact Joe Biden knew about this.
00:09:30.660 Tapper is distracting from the fact that the House Republicans just got proof that Biden
00:09:35.220 was conducting this business with fake names.
00:09:37.420 So obviously shows intention, shows calculation, shows deliberation and deceit.
00:09:43.220 The other thing he's distracting from is the breaking news report that came out on Friday,
00:09:47.080 which is that Biden wasn't the only member of the Obama administration using pseudonymous
00:09:51.460 email addresses.
00:09:52.280 And not pseudonyms in the way that Mitt Romney was using a pseudonym.
00:09:56.860 Mitt Romney got caught using a pseudonym on Twitter, Pierre Delecto, and it was so that
00:10:00.860 he could like and reply to different journalists and stuff.
00:10:04.120 It was silly.
00:10:05.000 He was liking and replying to some of his colleagues in Congress.
00:10:08.380 It meant nothing.
00:10:09.380 It was just a pastime for him.
00:10:10.820 For these guys, these Obama administration officials, they were coordinating crooked
00:10:15.940 business deals with major oligarchs and world leaders.
00:10:19.720 And who were the Obama administration officials?
00:10:21.820 Were they low-level people?
00:10:23.020 No.
00:10:23.520 We found out that the people who used alias email addresses were Lisa Jackson, EPA administrator,
00:10:28.900 Loretta Lynch, super crooked attorney general for Obama, Eric Holder, also crooked attorney
00:10:34.660 general for Obama.
00:10:36.020 Barack Obama himself used a pseudonymous email address, as did Hillary.
00:10:41.140 But I'm going to give both of them a little pass here.
00:10:43.360 And I'm going to give them a pass because the Obama and Hillary pseudonymous email addresses
00:10:47.460 were things like, you know, BO357.
00:10:51.040 That's not the precise one, but it was, you know, HROD352, various versions of their own
00:10:58.300 names.
00:10:58.780 So I don't really count that in the same category.
00:11:01.020 People like Lynch, Holder, Jackson, Joe Biden, when he was vice president, they were using
00:11:06.420 completely invented identities, obviously, not just to avoid FOIA requests and oversight
00:11:13.960 in a way where you could have plausible deniability that you were doing it intentionally, but in
00:11:20.420 a way that was crafted to avoid any oversight because they don't want people poking into their
00:11:25.800 crooked business dealings.
00:11:27.840 Okay, I guess Trump was right about Hunter.
00:11:29.840 Yeah, you bet he was right about Hunter.
00:11:31.600 He was right about the rest of it, too.
00:11:33.640 Don't be satisfied with the limited hangout.
00:11:36.520 Keep on digging, House Republicans and Republican voters.
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00:12:55.500 Speaking of Trump, we got news out now.
00:12:58.620 This is according to a report from the New York Times, so take it with a grain of salt,
00:13:01.620 but they're probably right here.
00:13:03.020 Trump is going to skip the GOP debate.
00:13:05.160 We've all been waiting.
00:13:05.860 He said he wouldn't go to the debate.
00:13:07.260 He wouldn't sign the loyalty pledge that the RNC was trying to get him to sign.
00:13:10.540 But now it seems likely he will skip that GOP debate and instead have a one-on-one interview
00:13:17.220 with Tucker Carlson.
00:13:18.860 And maybe you love Trump.
00:13:21.180 And maybe you hate Trump.
00:13:23.580 But I want you for just a moment to try to put your feelings, however strong, aside and
00:13:30.360 just look at this as though you were a strategist advising Donald Trump.
00:13:33.920 This is obviously the smart thing to do.
00:13:38.960 Obviously.
00:13:40.140 You might not like it because you want Trump to show up to the debate stage, either because
00:13:43.940 it'll be very entertaining and you like him, or because you like DeSantis or somebody and
00:13:47.840 you want DeSantis to have a shot at hitting him.
00:13:50.180 But this is obviously the right thing to do.
00:13:53.800 According to virtually every poll, GOP voters prefer Donald Trump to the entire rest of
00:14:01.900 the field combined.
00:14:03.240 According to virtually every major poll, the one outlier is Reuters, which has him slightly
00:14:07.780 below 50% support.
00:14:09.260 The rest of them that being listed on the real clear politics average have Trump at over
00:14:13.300 50% support.
00:14:14.360 So if Trump has the majority of primary voters locked up according to pretty much every poll,
00:14:20.060 why would he give his opponents the opportunity to take him down at a debate?
00:14:23.960 Doesn't make political sense.
00:14:25.560 But furthermore, he says, okay, the voters like me more than they like the rest of the
00:14:30.760 field.
00:14:31.940 Okay, so I'm going to go do my own thing.
00:14:34.580 Furthermore, which group or organization do GOP voters prefer?
00:14:39.680 The primary base, Tucker Carlson or Fox News, which is hosting the debate?
00:14:47.040 Easy answer.
00:14:48.520 You might say, well, Fox still gets viewership.
00:14:50.600 Fox still, yeah, sure it does.
00:14:51.820 In terms of Republican primary voters, who inspires more loyalty and affection, Tucker
00:14:58.840 Carlson or Fox News?
00:15:00.580 Tucker, for sure.
00:15:01.780 Especially after Fox fired Tucker.
00:15:05.240 It makes perfect sense for Trump to skip this thing.
00:15:08.440 Now, maybe this harms Trump's poll numbers.
00:15:12.540 Maybe the debate opponents who show up, the second tier, who show up to the debate in Milwaukee,
00:15:20.000 maybe they don't just spend the whole time sniping at each other and they actually go
00:15:23.160 after Trump.
00:15:23.880 And maybe somehow that knocks down his poll numbers.
00:15:26.060 Well, then I guess Trump's going to have to show up for the second debate.
00:15:28.260 But if you were advising him right now on the first debate, I don't see how you could
00:15:32.980 possibly advise him to show up.
00:15:36.440 Now, speaking of those other candidates, Ron DeSantis, who's still the number two guy
00:15:41.260 in the race, got in a little bit of trouble over the weekend because he had an interview
00:15:46.720 with Will Witt, our pal Will Witt, formerly of PragerU, now of the Florida Standard, in
00:15:51.340 which DeSantis described Trump voters as listless vessels.
00:15:58.280 We have a strand in our party that views supporting Trump as whether you are a rhino or not.
00:16:08.460 And so you could be the most conservative person since sliced bread unless you're kissing his
00:16:13.380 rear end, they will somehow call you a rhino.
00:16:15.940 So it's been totally detached from principle in what you actually believe and results.
00:16:21.340 And it's more about, you know, just what faction you happen to do.
00:16:24.800 So there'll be people who are huge Trump supporters, like in Congress, who have like incredibly
00:16:30.240 liberal left wing records that that's really just atrocious.
00:16:33.720 And yet they're viewed as by some of these folks as like as like really, really good.
00:16:38.480 Then you have other people, you know, like a Congressman Chip Roy, who's endorsed me,
00:16:43.120 Congressman Thomas Massey.
00:16:44.660 These guys have records of principle fighting the swamp that are second to none.
00:16:49.560 And yet they will be attacked by some of these people and called rhinos.
00:16:54.740 So it's just been totally detached from any type of substance.
00:16:58.120 And ultimately, put a pause there.
00:16:59.600 But let's pause it right there.
00:17:00.920 He has more to say, which is important.
00:17:02.460 But as for what the governor said up till that point, he's basically right.
00:17:08.260 His observation is right that there are very liberal Republicans in Congress who, because
00:17:16.280 they support Trump, get praise and adulation from the more conservative elements of the
00:17:22.860 GOP base.
00:17:23.540 Well, that seems crazy, doesn't it?
00:17:24.820 Whereas you get a Chip Roy or you get a Thomas Massey or other people who are pretty decent
00:17:29.360 bona fides as right wingers, rock ribbed people.
00:17:31.800 And they get attacked by the more conservative wing of the GOP, and they get lumped in with
00:17:37.620 the more liberal wing of the GOP.
00:17:39.440 And it's all based on whether or not you support Trump.
00:17:44.200 That is more indicative of whether you're considered a hard right winger or a squishy
00:17:49.160 liberal type than one's voting record or the statements that one makes on various policy
00:17:55.220 issues.
00:17:55.620 That part is true.
00:17:57.400 Now, where DeSantis, I think, goes wrong is in his explanation of this.
00:18:03.020 A movement can't be about the personality of one individual.
00:18:07.180 The movement has got to be about what are you trying to achieve on behalf of the American
00:18:11.720 people?
00:18:12.440 And that's got to be based in principle, because if you're not rooted in principle, if all we
00:18:18.060 are is listless vessels that just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come
00:18:22.320 down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that's not going to be a durable movement.
00:18:26.760 Would that it were so simple, Governor.
00:18:31.920 Would that it were so simple.
00:18:33.260 But first of all, not a good idea to insult the primary base.
00:18:39.140 And the way he does it here, it's not as bad as the deplorables comment as some people are
00:18:42.900 suggesting it was.
00:18:43.860 It's not as bad as the bitter clingers argument is.
00:18:46.280 In fact, DeSantis is lumping himself in there.
00:18:48.660 He's saying, look, if we all do this, we conservatives, we Republicans, then we are going to be listless
00:18:52.640 vessels and we're not going to do very well.
00:18:54.420 OK, fair enough.
00:18:56.760 The thing that he gets wrong here is that politics is not just about the message.
00:19:02.720 It's also about the messenger.
00:19:04.120 This gets back to a basic observation from the Canadian communications theorist, Marshall
00:19:09.680 McLuhan.
00:19:11.360 The medium is the message.
00:19:14.100 The medium is the message.
00:19:16.780 In politics, especially, that's the case because we're electing men.
00:19:20.120 We're not just electing robots.
00:19:21.640 We're not just electing blank slates.
00:19:23.720 We're not just electing five bullet point manifestos on the back of a napkin.
00:19:28.260 We're electing living, breathing men with flesh and blood who walk around and who say things
00:19:33.380 and who do have personalities.
00:19:35.820 Politics is largely about personality.
00:19:37.800 And a problem for DeSantis is because he's the anti-Trump candidate, he's attracted a
00:19:42.940 lot of support from the squishy liberal side of the party.
00:19:45.260 I don't think DeSantis has particular affection for the squishy liberal side of the party over
00:19:49.560 the conservative side.
00:19:50.400 But that's just the way these sort of things shake out.
00:19:52.360 You think about if you only voted on issues, let's say you were an abortion voter, you're
00:19:58.220 purely pro-life.
00:19:59.520 That's the only issue you cared about.
00:20:01.180 You'd probably vote for Mike Pence.
00:20:03.640 Mike Pence has a very, very consistent record of being pro-life, much more so than Donald
00:20:09.600 Trump.
00:20:10.800 And Donald Trump has spoken favorably of abortion rights, rights, quote unquote, in his career.
00:20:16.700 And yet Trump got more done on abortion than Mike Pence did.
00:20:21.940 Mike Pence was part of that because he was the vice president of the administration.
00:20:25.240 But you don't just vote on issues.
00:20:27.100 You vote on the whole thing.
00:20:28.120 And the reason the personality matters is because Donald Trump is viewed by the liberal
00:20:32.400 establishment as a wrench into the system.
00:20:34.460 That's why they're prosecuting him over nothing.
00:20:36.400 That's why they're making up these ridiculous excuses to prosecute him.
00:20:40.100 Because the very fact of electing this guy was such a middle finger to the system in 2016
00:20:45.500 that they can't take it anymore.
00:20:47.180 And so that's why they tried to undermine his administration based on BS that they just didn't fabricate it out
00:20:51.720 of whole cloth.
00:20:52.340 And that's why they're trying to put him into an orange jumpsuit now.
00:20:56.120 It's a little bit like the facts don't care about your feelings thing.
00:20:58.660 It's true that facts don't care about your feelings exactly.
00:21:01.760 But politics largely cares about your feelings.
00:21:04.840 And that's why DeSantis, though he's got a great record and though he's got a great program,
00:21:10.280 he's probably got a very coherent political vision.
00:21:12.560 He is going to have to inspire personal loyalty based on his personality if he wants to take
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00:23:32.260 Now, we've got some good news here.
00:23:38.280 Rare good news from the political order, but some good news.
00:23:41.240 A federal judge has just determined that you cannot copyright AI-produced material.
00:23:48.420 So, if you logged on right now to MidJourney or ChatGPT or whatever,
00:23:53.060 and you had ChatGPT write you a novel, or you had MidJourney make you a big painting,
00:23:57.820 you can't copyright that.
00:23:59.880 Now, maybe you were not trying to copyright it,
00:24:01.680 but plenty of big studios and corporations are trying to copyright these things.
00:24:05.560 Well, apparently, copyright law, according to this judge,
00:24:10.200 has, quote, never stretched so far as to protect works generated by new forms of technology
00:24:15.380 operating absent any guiding human hand.
00:24:18.660 Great news from U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell,
00:24:22.440 who says that human authorship is a bedrock requirement for copyright.
00:24:26.740 It's good news because we all want to avoid the AI dystopia
00:24:31.020 where Terminator just comes around and starts killing all of us.
00:24:34.040 And the way to avoid the AI dystopia is not to whine about it.
00:24:37.220 The way to avoid it is to pass laws.
00:24:41.400 And because we don't really pass laws anymore in this country,
00:24:43.820 the legislators don't do that.
00:24:44.940 We just get bureaucrats writing regulations and judges making decisions.
00:24:48.340 Well, here, especially because the judges are so powerful,
00:24:51.540 the judges come in and said, no, we're going to stop the main incentive for this AI revolution.
00:24:59.240 And the main incentive is money.
00:25:01.640 This is an important fact about the political order, too.
00:25:05.420 Whenever people whine and complain, whether it's the 2024 race,
00:25:08.340 whether it's the way that the Congress operates,
00:25:11.100 whether it's the way that new regulations are passed,
00:25:14.680 people whine and complain.
00:25:15.780 And they say, this isn't fair and this isn't right.
00:25:17.940 And Democrats are being hypocrites.
00:25:19.460 And come on, where's the justice?
00:25:21.540 Where's the?
00:25:23.440 Very often, especially in regimes that become decadent and cynical,
00:25:28.620 money talks and BS walks.
00:25:30.400 And so if you want your cultural change to have any sort of teeth,
00:25:35.620 you're going to have to enshrine it into law
00:25:37.520 and make sure that it lines up with financial incentives.
00:25:39.520 This is good stuff.
00:25:41.140 This is really good stuff.
00:25:42.560 Human beings are still necessary, at least for now.
00:25:46.940 Speaking of art, Queen, one of my favorite rock bands of all time,
00:25:52.000 not like the biggest rock and roll fanatic,
00:25:54.640 but one of my favorite rock bands ever, Queen,
00:25:57.540 has just dropped one of its biggest hits from its greatest hits collection.
00:26:01.540 The new greatest hits collection for Queen will not include Fat Bottom Girls.
00:26:06.100 Oh, you're going to take me home tonight.
00:26:08.380 Oh, down beside that red fire light.
00:26:11.120 Oh, won't you let it all hang out, Fat Bottom Girls,
00:26:13.660 you make the rockin' world go round.
00:26:14.900 That's going to be out.
00:26:16.000 This song was written in 1978.
00:26:17.620 It's been a big hit ever since.
00:26:18.840 It was written by Brian May, who's a big lib.
00:26:22.760 Worth pointing that out because I think this is crucial here.
00:26:25.780 And it would appear, though the band hasn't made any statement on it,
00:26:28.840 that the libs of Queen and the record label have caved to the woke people
00:26:34.700 who have said that this song is politically incorrect
00:26:37.640 and that it's mean to fat women or something like that.
00:26:41.060 And you might be saying, Michael, that explanation doesn't make any sense
00:26:44.160 because we live in the world of Lizzo.
00:26:45.560 We live in the world of body positivity.
00:26:48.960 Fat Bottom Girls should be an anthem,
00:26:50.600 except Fat Bottom Girls is kind of a cheeky, funny song.
00:26:53.500 It's kind of making a little bit of a joke about it.
00:26:56.820 Kind of like, what's that song, Lola?
00:27:01.200 Lola, you know, who's a dude but looks like a chick or whatever.
00:27:04.820 You don't really hear that song as much anymore
00:27:06.160 because it's a song about a certain psychosexual phenomenon
00:27:12.040 that we're not allowed to talk about on YouTube.
00:27:14.380 But you'd think, well, maybe you'd hear that song more now
00:27:16.740 as that ideological fad has become more prevalent.
00:27:20.480 But no, because it's kind of making fun of it.
00:27:22.660 Well, here, Fat Bottom Girls is kind of making fun of it,
00:27:25.380 but shouldn't that be positive too?
00:27:27.740 Can't we appropriate that term just like LGBT activists
00:27:30.720 have reappropriated queer?
00:27:31.900 It doesn't, hold on, what's going on?
00:27:33.300 I'll tell you exactly what's going on.
00:27:34.440 It's the catch-22 of woke culture.
00:27:38.640 You see this, if you're a white guy,
00:27:40.380 you see this if you serve tacos at your dinner party.
00:27:45.400 If you serve tacos at your dinner party as a white person,
00:27:48.800 that is cultural appropriation.
00:27:51.400 If you don't serve tacos at your dinner party as a white person,
00:27:55.340 that's cultural erasure.
00:27:58.600 If you wear a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo, cultural appropriation.
00:28:02.900 If you don't acknowledge Cinco de Mayo, cultural erasure.
00:28:06.420 Those are two Mexican examples,
00:28:07.980 but they go throughout the entire culture.
00:28:09.960 And so here, if you have a fun song
00:28:12.040 about slightly more corpulent, buxom women,
00:28:16.020 that would be appropriation, I guess.
00:28:22.820 That would be, or making light of this issue,
00:28:25.400 or making fun, or being derisive.
00:28:27.280 But if you don't, it's erasure.
00:28:30.120 What do you do?
00:28:30.820 What do you do?
00:28:31.260 You shut up.
00:28:32.160 That's what you do.
00:28:33.120 The reason that Queen has to get rid of the song
00:28:35.660 is not because of the subject matter of the song.
00:28:38.220 The reason Queen has to get rid of the song
00:28:39.420 is because they're white guys.
00:28:40.800 The nearest thing to a not-white guy in Queen
00:28:42.580 was Freddie Mercury, and he's been dead for decades.
00:28:44.600 So they can't do it.
00:28:47.000 It's not that this sort of thing cannot be talked about.
00:28:49.440 It's that you can't talk about it.
00:28:51.660 Now, getting back to money.
00:28:52.980 Joe Biden has just brought some great news out.
00:28:56.680 This is, I had missed this achievement
00:28:58.300 of his administration.
00:28:59.860 Joe Biden has, for the first time in many, many decades,
00:29:05.920 decreased the national debt, allegedly.
00:29:09.420 Unlike the last president, in my first two years in office,
00:29:13.060 even with all we've done,
00:29:14.900 I'm the first one to cut the federal debt
00:29:17.200 by $1,700,000,000,000.
00:29:21.720 $1,700,000,000,000 cut.
00:29:24.700 $1,700,000,000,000 cut from the debt
00:29:27.980 since Biden took office,
00:29:29.240 except actually, since Biden took office,
00:29:31.540 the debt has increased $4.175,000,000,000.
00:29:34.200 So that's a delta of $5 or $6 trillion.
00:29:41.500 That's, hmm.
00:29:43.960 How do you reconcile those two things?
00:29:45.560 Oh, Biden's just lying.
00:29:47.480 Biden has not cut the debt at all.
00:29:49.000 He's massively increased it.
00:29:51.180 According to Moody's now,
00:29:54.420 what about the deficit?
00:29:56.320 So maybe Biden meant to say he's cut the deficit
00:29:59.500 rather than the debt, right?
00:30:01.220 The debt is just the total amount of money that we owe.
00:30:03.320 The deficit is how much more money
00:30:05.700 we're spending every year
00:30:06.680 than the money that we're taking in.
00:30:08.740 Well, according to Moody's,
00:30:11.200 Biden's actions in his first two years,
00:30:13.060 quote, have undoubtedly resulted in higher deficits,
00:30:17.260 not smaller ones.
00:30:18.800 So Biden has increased the debt massively.
00:30:21.540 He's increased the debt massively
00:30:22.760 by maintaining,
00:30:24.760 or according to Moody's analytics,
00:30:26.460 increasing the deficit.
00:30:28.300 So what he said just isn't true.
00:30:29.600 It's completely divorced from reality.
00:30:31.360 I couldn't even begin to tell you
00:30:33.540 what he was trying to say.
00:30:36.760 So he's either a liar, which he is,
00:30:39.280 or he inadvertently got this wrong out of incompetence.
00:30:42.620 He's also incompetent.
00:30:43.680 So I don't know which of the two it is.
00:30:45.700 Either way, though, you might be saying,
00:30:47.220 well, how is this guy going to get reelected?
00:30:48.900 He's running for office again
00:30:50.240 on not a lot of accomplishments.
00:30:54.020 And we were talking about the importance of personality
00:30:56.080 when you're running for office.
00:30:58.340 Well, how is he going to get elected
00:30:59.760 if he seems incapacitated?
00:31:04.700 Because what other option do the Democrats have?
00:31:07.760 What other option do they have?
00:31:11.280 Unless he actually dies in office
00:31:14.320 or on the campaign trail,
00:31:15.820 this guy is going to be the nominee.
00:31:18.280 He wants it.
00:31:19.100 He doesn't like Kamala Harris.
00:31:20.760 He doesn't like Pete Buttigieg, for goodness sakes.
00:31:22.900 He doesn't like Gavin Newsom.
00:31:24.960 This guy has spent every waking moment
00:31:27.140 since he was two years old,
00:31:28.300 maybe since he was in the womb,
00:31:29.680 figuring out how to be president.
00:31:31.300 That's all he wants in life.
00:31:33.280 He's not going to just give it up
00:31:34.860 unless he's dragged out of there by his ankles.
00:31:37.940 So he's going to be the nominee.
00:31:39.520 And if he's the nominee and you're a Democrat,
00:31:41.560 what are you going to do?
00:31:42.680 Are you going to vote for Trump?
00:31:43.760 Probably not.
00:31:44.840 You probably have a better shot of voting for Trump
00:31:46.580 than you do of voting for a standard GOP type,
00:31:49.900 a Mitt Romney or a John McCain,
00:31:51.080 because at least Trump is weird and populist
00:31:54.400 and upends GOP orthodoxy
00:31:56.320 on a handful of policies at least.
00:31:58.920 But still, you're probably just going to vote for Biden.
00:32:01.460 You're going to vote for Cornel West.
00:32:03.620 No, you're probably just going to vote for Biden.
00:32:05.440 So even if he gets everything wrong that he says,
00:32:09.320 even if his presidency is unsuccessful,
00:32:12.820 if you were a Democrat,
00:32:14.520 why wouldn't you vote for him?
00:32:16.120 You're going to vote for Orange Hitler,
00:32:18.060 the mango Mussolini,
00:32:19.000 that the media have just spent seven years telling you
00:32:21.500 is the greatest threat ever
00:32:22.920 in the history of our country?
00:32:25.480 Even if DeSantis is the nominee,
00:32:27.060 you're going to vote for DeSantis?
00:32:28.920 Ron Deathsantis,
00:32:30.640 the killer of Ponte Vedra,
00:32:33.000 who slaughtered senior citizens during COVID,
00:32:36.800 according to the liberal media?
00:32:37.880 No.
00:32:38.680 Who are you going to vote for?
00:32:40.240 Vivek?
00:32:40.660 They'll figure out something about Vivek
00:32:41.940 if somehow he's the nominee.
00:32:43.940 No, you're going to vote for Biden,
00:32:45.520 even if it's weekend at Bernie's
00:32:47.140 and they're stringing him up like a marionette.
00:32:48.880 Now, speaking of Biden's incapacity,
00:32:50.640 I meant to get to this last week.
00:32:51.880 This was a minor political snafu and scandal,
00:32:56.020 but it's telling about the current state of affairs
00:32:59.680 in the race.
00:33:00.600 Karine Jean-Pierre accidentally posted a tweet
00:33:02.700 in the voice of Joe Biden.
00:33:04.500 Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary,
00:33:06.540 tweeted out,
00:33:07.520 or someone tweeted out from her account,
00:33:09.420 quote,
00:33:11.340 investing in America
00:33:13.620 means investing in all of America.
00:33:16.960 When I ran for president,
00:33:17.880 I made a promise
00:33:18.540 that I would leave no part of the country behind.
00:33:21.800 I don't think Karine Jean-Pierre ran for president ever,
00:33:24.480 so this means that from the White House,
00:33:26.880 someone sent this from the wrong account.
00:33:29.240 Okay, of course,
00:33:30.020 no one really thinks Karine Jean-Pierre
00:33:31.140 is running her own account.
00:33:31.960 No one thinks Joe Biden is running his own account.
00:33:33.520 No one thinks that Joe Biden knows what Twitter is.
00:33:35.040 The reason this kind of a little gaffe matters
00:33:39.560 is it gives you another little hint
00:33:42.680 of why at least some people,
00:33:44.920 a substantial number of people,
00:33:46.400 like Donald Trump
00:33:47.480 and why they even like his tweets,
00:33:50.780 which are often extremely obnoxious
00:33:52.620 and sometimes kind of embarrassing.
00:33:55.560 They like Trump
00:33:56.700 and they like even the Trump tweets
00:33:59.080 because they know there's a real person there.
00:34:02.260 There's a real guy
00:34:03.380 and it's Trump lying in bed,
00:34:05.300 doom scrolling at night,
00:34:06.280 just sending out crazy
00:34:07.280 despite the constant negative press covfefe
00:34:09.160 and then he falls asleep
00:34:09.920 and doesn't even delete the tweet.
00:34:11.420 And it's kind of weird and bizarre
00:34:13.080 and maybe even a little bit embarrassing,
00:34:14.780 but oh, it's a real person
00:34:15.680 that I can feel affection for,
00:34:18.660 that I can be loyal to,
00:34:20.400 that I can expect something from
00:34:22.780 him to keep his promises, we hope,
00:34:24.800 that I can rally around.
00:34:27.560 This is democratic politics, folks,
00:34:29.380 lowercase d.
00:34:30.600 This is government of the people,
00:34:32.000 by the people, for the people.
00:34:32.880 So, we want people.
00:34:35.820 It's a people business, okay?
00:34:39.120 Especially when we're talking
00:34:40.020 about the executive,
00:34:40.880 which is one person.
00:34:42.280 And I think part of the reason
00:34:43.660 that you've got so much political rot
00:34:45.720 and malaise right now
00:34:46.820 is that we've divorced government
00:34:49.120 of the people,
00:34:49.580 by the people, for the people,
00:34:50.720 from the people,
00:34:51.960 from their desires.
00:34:53.040 You elect either party,
00:34:54.360 you get more migration,
00:34:55.340 you get more foreign war,
00:34:56.740 you get more outsourcing of jobs,
00:34:59.360 you get more debt,
00:35:00.380 you get more of the same,
00:35:01.520 stuff that people aren't calling for,
00:35:03.000 but that's what you get anyway.
00:35:05.560 You,
00:35:06.500 in the case of
00:35:07.720 recent decades,
00:35:10.400 you elect people,
00:35:11.780 and yet the ones who make the laws
00:35:13.400 are the unaccountable
00:35:14.080 careerist bureaucrats
00:35:15.140 who you can never kick out of office.
00:35:18.440 And,
00:35:18.940 in recent decades,
00:35:20.200 you get people running for office,
00:35:22.240 you don't feel any connection to them.
00:35:23.640 The last president,
00:35:25.760 other than in the days
00:35:26.740 just after 9-11
00:35:27.640 when George Bush
00:35:28.360 had a lot of goodwill,
00:35:30.140 you know,
00:35:30.320 he threw out the pitch
00:35:30.900 at Yankee Stadium,
00:35:32.120 threw out that perfect strike.
00:35:33.280 People had,
00:35:33.620 I think,
00:35:33.840 a lot of personal goodwill
00:35:34.700 toward him.
00:35:35.480 But,
00:35:35.980 beyond that,
00:35:37.020 that rare
00:35:37.660 historical moment
00:35:39.960 right after we'd been attacked,
00:35:41.780 the last president
00:35:42.660 who inspired this kind of
00:35:43.620 personal loyalty
00:35:45.680 and a little bit
00:35:47.880 of crossing the aisle
00:35:48.780 was Ronald Reagan.
00:35:50.280 Ronald Reagan
00:35:50.740 had that real personal connection.
00:35:52.080 And,
00:35:53.200 that's missing.
00:35:55.180 That's missing
00:35:55.760 when you could send out
00:35:57.260 the same tweet
00:35:57.960 from the press sec
00:35:58.820 or the president
00:35:59.460 or who cares,
00:36:00.080 the VP
00:36:00.460 or the secretary of this.
00:36:01.620 Doesn't matter.
00:36:02.520 It's all the same
00:36:03.600 focus group tested
00:36:05.440 nonsense
00:36:07.000 political gobbledygook
00:36:09.140 from an establishment
00:36:10.840 that is increasingly
00:36:11.660 unresponsive
00:36:12.740 to
00:36:13.120 the people.
00:36:15.360 Now,
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00:36:16.240 to
00:36:17.200 cut through
00:36:18.400 some of the red tape
00:36:19.060 in the bureaucracy
00:36:19.580 and engage more with people
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00:37:27.500 My favorite comment
00:37:28.200 on Friday
00:37:28.980 is from Mean Bean Comedy
00:37:30.100 who says,
00:37:30.560 Michael,
00:37:31.280 I tried playing
00:37:31.860 your yes or no game
00:37:32.640 with my girlfriend,
00:37:33.640 but she kept getting upset
00:37:34.840 when the women voting
00:37:36.240 questions came up.
00:37:37.420 I guess in one of the packs.
00:37:39.040 Because you know
00:37:39.380 we have the booster pack now,
00:37:40.600 the conspiracy theory pack
00:37:41.620 for the yes or no game.
00:37:43.000 It's available
00:37:43.320 on Daily Wire shop.
00:37:44.200 It's probably going to sell out,
00:37:45.000 so if you want it,
00:37:45.480 you should get it now.
00:37:46.340 But I guess
00:37:46.860 one of the questions
00:37:47.500 is pertaining to
00:37:48.480 whether women should vote
00:37:49.220 or not.
00:37:50.020 And so anyway,
00:37:51.000 the comment keeps going.
00:37:51.880 I tried telling her
00:37:52.780 to calm down.
00:37:54.060 I said she was acting crazy
00:37:55.400 and I even informed her
00:37:57.140 that she was acting
00:37:58.060 like her mother.
00:37:58.820 Any ideas?
00:37:59.540 Well, look,
00:38:00.260 you've obviously studied women.
00:38:01.540 You know exactly
00:38:02.200 the things to do
00:38:03.580 and say
00:38:04.120 to persuade them.
00:38:06.360 I don't know.
00:38:06.920 I mean,
00:38:08.140 you could ask her
00:38:09.520 if she forgot
00:38:09.920 to take her pills today.
00:38:11.020 you could tell her
00:38:16.540 you're going to go
00:38:17.020 watch the game
00:38:17.740 with the guys
00:38:18.560 and crack a few beers
00:38:19.700 and hopefully
00:38:20.640 she's not as nuts
00:38:21.620 when you get back.
00:38:22.440 You know,
00:38:23.360 yeah,
00:38:23.620 all of these things
00:38:24.280 usually calm women down
00:38:25.440 and get them to like you more.
00:38:26.620 So I think you're on
00:38:27.260 the right track.
00:38:29.940 Speaking of the race,
00:38:31.760 we keep forgetting
00:38:32.420 about this third
00:38:33.320 potential candidate
00:38:34.380 in the race,
00:38:35.080 which is
00:38:36.120 Cornel West.
00:38:36.880 Cornel West is this
00:38:37.820 leftist professor.
00:38:39.460 He's been at Harvard.
00:38:40.300 He's been at Princeton.
00:38:41.480 Now he's somewhere else.
00:38:42.860 But he's also running
00:38:43.640 for president.
00:38:45.200 Cornel West
00:38:45.900 is running
00:38:47.800 and the liberal establishment
00:38:49.200 is trying to take him down.
00:38:50.140 They're saying
00:38:50.320 he has tax problems now
00:38:51.300 because they want him
00:38:51.800 out of the race
00:38:52.300 because according
00:38:53.420 to a new Emerson poll,
00:38:55.000 if Cornel West
00:38:55.600 is in the race
00:38:56.240 and Trump and Biden
00:38:57.400 are the nominees,
00:38:58.280 then Trump is going to win.
00:38:59.980 According to this poll,
00:39:00.980 and don't forget,
00:39:01.520 Emerson is a liberal poll
00:39:03.360 and it's considered
00:39:04.560 a good liberal poll.
00:39:06.040 538,
00:39:06.580 Nate Silver's outfit,
00:39:08.000 ranks Emerson
00:39:08.560 as a top poll
00:39:09.600 in terms of reliability.
00:39:11.140 Shows that 42%
00:39:12.160 of registered voters
00:39:13.160 would vote for Trump
00:39:13.900 over Joe Biden.
00:39:18.840 West,
00:39:19.440 Cornel West
00:39:19.880 takes 5%
00:39:20.680 of respondents
00:39:21.300 and another 13%
00:39:23.020 are undecided.
00:39:24.620 So you got
00:39:25.300 a one percentage
00:39:26.380 difference here,
00:39:27.560 but Cornel West
00:39:28.480 could give the election
00:39:29.320 to Trump.
00:39:29.980 Now,
00:39:30.380 worth pointing out,
00:39:31.080 even if West
00:39:31.540 is not in the race,
00:39:32.320 even if it's
00:39:32.580 head-to-head matchup,
00:39:33.860 Trump still,
00:39:34.900 according to Emerson,
00:39:35.760 has this razor-thin
00:39:37.180 0.7% lead.
00:39:40.580 So for all intents
00:39:42.000 and purposes,
00:39:42.540 it's a tie at 44%.
00:39:44.220 12% of respondents
00:39:45.560 are up for grabs here.
00:39:47.520 So even,
00:39:48.160 people always think,
00:39:49.800 they think,
00:39:50.400 a year and a half out,
00:39:51.520 now closer to a year out,
00:39:52.920 they'll say,
00:39:53.700 look,
00:39:53.920 this is how the race
00:39:54.520 is going to shake out.
00:39:55.180 There's going to be,
00:39:55.520 this guy's going to be
00:39:56.080 the nominee,
00:39:56.800 and then if this guy's
00:39:57.560 the nominee,
00:39:57.940 then this is how
00:39:58.400 these people are going
00:39:58.920 to vote,
00:39:59.160 and this and that,
00:39:59.620 and this and that.
00:40:00.180 No one knows anything.
00:40:01.200 No one knows anything.
00:40:01.740 You can't predict the future.
00:40:02.700 And it could take
00:40:04.240 one Cornel West.
00:40:05.920 It could take
00:40:06.380 one Ralph Nader.
00:40:07.920 Ralph Nader
00:40:08.680 doesn't run for president
00:40:09.920 in 2000.
00:40:10.660 Al Gore becomes the president.
00:40:12.120 It could take
00:40:12.860 one little nothing,
00:40:14.920 totally unexpected blip
00:40:16.960 to throw
00:40:18.160 the election.
00:40:20.480 And what does
00:40:21.380 the election matter?
00:40:22.200 We've just been talking
00:40:22.980 about how the president
00:40:23.860 doesn't actually
00:40:24.480 have that much power,
00:40:25.400 and the legislators
00:40:27.340 don't have that much power.
00:40:28.140 The judiciary still does,
00:40:29.540 though,
00:40:29.700 and the president
00:40:30.300 appoints the judges,
00:40:31.000 and we got some great news
00:40:32.000 out of the Fifth Circuit.
00:40:33.500 Fifth Circuit,
00:40:34.460 Court of Appeals,
00:40:35.800 just ruled
00:40:36.680 that
00:40:37.380 the abortion drug
00:40:39.700 Mifepristone
00:40:40.860 should not be distributed
00:40:43.120 through the mail
00:40:43.800 or prescribed
00:40:44.800 via telemedicine.
00:40:46.740 This is a ruling,
00:40:47.620 unfortunately,
00:40:48.340 that can't take effect
00:40:49.200 until the Supreme Court
00:40:50.100 issues a ruling
00:40:51.140 on the decision.
00:40:52.100 So,
00:40:52.560 previously,
00:40:53.300 we covered this
00:40:54.060 on the show,
00:40:54.700 we'd gotten a ruling
00:40:55.460 from the U.S. District Judge
00:40:56.680 Matthew Kaxmare,
00:40:59.060 who suspended
00:41:00.140 the FDA's approval
00:41:01.100 of Mifepristone.
00:41:01.880 This is just
00:41:02.200 a chemical abortion drug
00:41:03.420 that is accounting
00:41:05.820 for a huge number
00:41:06.660 of abortions already
00:41:07.380 and in the future
00:41:08.200 will likely account
00:41:09.060 for a huge number
00:41:09.760 more of the abortions,
00:41:10.820 especially as states
00:41:11.880 begin to outlaw abortion
00:41:12.980 in the wake
00:41:13.340 of the Dobbs decision.
00:41:14.520 So,
00:41:14.960 this federal judge said
00:41:16.020 the FDA should not
00:41:16.800 approve this thing.
00:41:17.440 This is a dangerous drug.
00:41:18.780 It should be taken
00:41:19.560 off the market.
00:41:20.500 This appeals court judge
00:41:21.620 said,
00:41:21.900 no, no, no,
00:41:22.160 it still gets
00:41:22.640 this FDA approval,
00:41:23.780 but you can't prescribe
00:41:25.360 it through telemedicine
00:41:26.400 and you can't send it
00:41:27.840 through the mail.
00:41:29.920 The Alliance Defending Freedom,
00:41:31.500 which is just
00:41:32.160 a great organization
00:41:32.980 fighting these cases,
00:41:34.660 pointed out,
00:41:35.620 said,
00:41:35.760 the Fifth Circuit
00:41:36.180 rightly required
00:41:37.200 the FDA to do its job
00:41:38.120 and restore crucial
00:41:38.960 safeguards for women
00:41:39.860 and girls,
00:41:40.680 including ending
00:41:41.560 illegal mail order
00:41:43.220 abortions.
00:41:45.080 The FDA will finally
00:41:45.760 be made to account
00:41:46.440 for the damage
00:41:47.060 it caused
00:41:47.800 to the health
00:41:48.320 of countless
00:41:48.720 women and girls
00:41:49.240 and the rule of law
00:41:50.360 by unlawfully removing
00:41:51.580 every meaningful safeguard
00:41:52.460 from the chemical
00:41:53.000 abortion drug regimen.
00:41:54.600 So,
00:41:55.040 young girls,
00:41:56.660 in many cases,
00:41:57.220 are getting these
00:41:57.860 extremely powerful,
00:41:59.060 dangerous drugs
00:41:59.700 and they're popping them
00:42:00.640 to kill their babies
00:42:01.400 so they think
00:42:01.860 that they can do it
00:42:02.460 without anybody noticing
00:42:03.520 and they're having
00:42:03.900 all sorts of
00:42:05.500 unwanted side effects
00:42:06.680 and harms.
00:42:08.900 Increasingly,
00:42:09.360 the courts are going to be
00:42:10.080 where the winds are.
00:42:11.120 This is one of the reasons
00:42:14.220 that the left
00:42:14.800 is indicting Trump.
00:42:16.540 You know,
00:42:16.880 I really like Trump
00:42:17.960 as I've made no secret
00:42:19.320 about that fact,
00:42:20.240 but I will totally
00:42:21.440 admit,
00:42:23.500 I think I've admitted
00:42:24.180 more than most
00:42:24.800 Trump supporters
00:42:25.460 and as much as
00:42:27.740 some of Trump's
00:42:28.220 harshest critics,
00:42:29.100 that a lot of
00:42:29.960 his policies
00:42:31.840 were a little weird.
00:42:33.180 You know,
00:42:33.500 the Jailbreak Act,
00:42:34.840 that First Step Act,
00:42:37.220 I thought it was
00:42:37.620 completely insane.
00:42:39.120 The border wall
00:42:39.860 did not
00:42:40.420 entirely get built
00:42:41.800 and now Biden
00:42:43.060 is selling off,
00:42:43.820 he's auctioning off
00:42:44.500 unused portions
00:42:45.160 of the border wall.
00:42:45.960 That didn't happen.
00:42:47.360 I felt
00:42:48.120 Trump could have done
00:42:48.980 a lot more
00:42:49.460 on the sexual revolution stuff
00:42:51.060 or I would have liked
00:42:52.400 to have seen that.
00:42:53.700 I would have,
00:42:54.160 he was doing very well
00:42:55.020 on trade with China
00:42:55.780 but then that ended
00:42:56.560 when the COVID stuff happened.
00:42:57.900 Obviously,
00:42:58.180 some of the COVID policy
00:42:58.880 was messed up.
00:42:59.340 So,
00:42:59.600 I have as clear-eyed
00:43:01.040 a view of Trump
00:43:01.600 as possible
00:43:03.120 and I think
00:43:05.660 the liberals do too.
00:43:07.100 If Trump had just
00:43:07.780 been passing laws,
00:43:09.160 tax cuts
00:43:10.660 or something,
00:43:11.040 I don't think
00:43:11.380 they'd go after him
00:43:11.980 quite so hard
00:43:12.540 but he was trying
00:43:13.780 to upend policy
00:43:14.980 and by instituting
00:43:16.440 his judges,
00:43:17.500 by putting them
00:43:18.500 on the courts,
00:43:19.300 huge number of judges
00:43:20.280 including the Supreme Court,
00:43:22.720 he had the most
00:43:25.140 significant effect
00:43:26.160 on public policy
00:43:26.960 of any Republican
00:43:27.760 in our lifetimes.
00:43:29.200 The guy got
00:43:30.320 Roe v. Wade overruled
00:43:31.500 and you might say,
00:43:33.240 well,
00:43:33.300 that was just the courts.
00:43:34.240 Yeah,
00:43:34.480 but the judges
00:43:35.020 were appointed
00:43:35.520 by the president
00:43:36.180 and he appointed
00:43:37.440 better judges
00:43:38.120 than previous
00:43:38.820 Republican presidents.
00:43:40.840 So,
00:43:41.580 that's a big deal.
00:43:43.360 That's why
00:43:43.720 they're going after him.
00:43:45.520 Increasingly,
00:43:46.200 you're going to see
00:43:46.620 that focus on the courts.
00:43:48.000 Speaking of
00:43:48.820 the sexual revolution,
00:43:50.240 this is a story
00:43:51.060 that I haven't seen
00:43:51.720 a lot of people talk about
00:43:52.500 but it's a really good sign
00:43:55.840 for the culture
00:43:56.380 and the sign is that
00:43:57.160 Burning Man ticket prices
00:43:58.700 are collapsing.
00:43:59.780 You know Burning Man?
00:44:01.320 If you have never been,
00:44:02.640 if you're listening
00:44:03.380 to this show,
00:44:03.860 you very likely
00:44:04.300 have never been to Burning Man.
00:44:05.320 Maybe you have
00:44:05.720 but you probably know
00:44:07.280 some big lib or hippie
00:44:08.680 who has been.
00:44:09.540 Burning Man
00:44:10.160 is this weird ritual
00:44:11.620 every year
00:44:12.340 where people go out
00:44:13.040 to the desert,
00:44:13.680 like a bazillion people
00:44:14.420 go to the desert
00:44:15.020 and they do a bunch of drugs
00:44:16.460 and they have sex
00:44:17.700 with a lot of people
00:44:18.400 and they move around
00:44:19.660 like weirdo hippies
00:44:20.540 and they worship
00:44:21.220 this burning idol.
00:44:24.660 And people think of it
00:44:25.680 as an artistic event,
00:44:27.100 you know man?
00:44:28.140 Or it's like kind of a cultural,
00:44:29.460 it's like a fun,
00:44:30.180 like weird cultural thing.
00:44:31.400 Well,
00:44:31.720 it was a really big deal
00:44:33.020 and now the tickets
00:44:33.800 are collapsing.
00:44:34.760 Tickets face value
00:44:36.540 are 575 bucks
00:44:37.840 and yet now
00:44:39.640 they're selling
00:44:40.220 for as low
00:44:41.340 as 139 bucks.
00:44:43.580 Parking passes
00:44:44.200 used to be 150,
00:44:45.060 now they're being marked
00:44:45.880 down to 105 bucks.
00:44:46.780 We've never seen
00:44:47.320 anything like this.
00:44:48.300 What's going on?
00:44:48.820 Is it an artistic shift?
00:44:50.420 No.
00:44:50.900 It's not because
00:44:51.460 people don't like the music
00:44:52.500 as much anymore.
00:44:53.340 Is it a cultural shift?
00:44:55.080 Not exactly.
00:44:57.020 It's a religious shift
00:44:58.220 because Burning Man
00:45:00.620 is a religious ritual.
00:45:04.480 They literally worship
00:45:05.760 a burning idol.
00:45:07.040 Okay?
00:45:07.320 There is virtually
00:45:09.280 no difference
00:45:10.040 between what the hippies
00:45:11.220 do at Burning Man
00:45:12.140 and what the apostate
00:45:14.640 perfidious Israelites
00:45:16.300 did in the desert
00:45:17.960 when Moses went up
00:45:18.900 the mountain
00:45:19.240 and left them alone
00:45:19.940 to their own devices
00:45:20.660 and they started
00:45:21.160 having all sorts of
00:45:22.100 bacchanals
00:45:22.500 and worshiping
00:45:23.000 a golden calf.
00:45:23.860 There is virtually
00:45:26.600 no difference.
00:45:29.420 And forget about
00:45:30.360 the Israelites
00:45:31.020 for a second.
00:45:32.220 Shows you that
00:45:32.860 even the most
00:45:33.800 serious monotheistic
00:45:35.660 God's chosen people
00:45:37.020 can be so faithless.
00:45:38.540 But virtually
00:45:39.140 every pagan society
00:45:40.100 throughout all of history,
00:45:41.240 throughout the Hellenic world
00:45:42.100 and throughout
00:45:42.520 the uncivilized world too.
00:45:44.880 This is what they do.
00:45:46.300 They do a bunch of drugs
00:45:47.740 and they have a bunch
00:45:49.320 of orgies
00:45:49.780 and they worship
00:45:50.400 gigantic idols.
00:45:51.600 That's what they do.
00:45:52.040 And that's what they were doing
00:45:52.760 here at Burning Man.
00:45:54.160 And I think people
00:45:55.180 just got sick of it
00:45:56.120 because religious fads
00:45:57.920 come and go.
00:45:58.980 False gods come and go.
00:46:01.220 This is the wisdom
00:46:02.240 of Bishop Fulton Sheen
00:46:03.300 who says that
00:46:04.160 if you marry yourself
00:46:05.780 to the spirit of the world,
00:46:07.800 you'll find,
00:46:08.400 the spirit of the age rather,
00:46:09.720 you'll find yourself
00:46:10.360 a widow in the next.
00:46:12.100 So the Burning Man,
00:46:13.720 the false Burning Man God
00:46:15.200 seems to be passing away.
00:46:17.080 There are other false gods
00:46:18.040 that are cropping up.
00:46:19.120 These same weirdo
00:46:20.120 new agey hippies
00:46:20.940 are going to go
00:46:21.440 do some other bizarre
00:46:22.660 ritual
00:46:23.240 that's going to involve
00:46:24.040 a lot of drugs
00:46:24.800 and a lot of orgies
00:46:25.820 and a lot of bizarre activity.
00:46:28.720 But it's not going to be this one.
00:46:29.820 This one's not going to endure.
00:46:31.340 Only true religion endures.
00:46:32.760 This is the line
00:46:33.180 of Hilaire Belloc
00:46:33.900 who says the way that
00:46:34.960 he has to take it on faith
00:46:36.140 that the Catholic Church
00:46:36.880 is real,
00:46:37.700 that's divinely instituted.
00:46:38.880 But if you don't believe it,
00:46:40.000 the proof of its
00:46:40.740 divine institution
00:46:41.540 is that no other organization
00:46:43.140 conducted with such
00:46:44.020 knavish imbecility
00:46:44.880 would have lasted
00:46:46.000 a fortnight,
00:46:47.040 much less 2,000 years.
00:46:48.440 A lot longer
00:46:49.280 than Burning Man.
00:46:50.960 Okay, it's Music Monday, baby.
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