The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1313 - Maui Fire Evidence Heats Up Suspicion

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, 0.69

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. 1.00

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. 0.91

00:10:04.120 It was silly.

00:10:05.000 He was liking and replying to some of his colleagues in Congress. 0.95

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 0.87

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 0.97

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.

00:11:40.460 Now, speaking of Republican voters, we have a debate coming up.

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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 0.99

00:16:13.380 rear end, they will somehow call you a rhino. 0.86

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. 0.89

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. 0.91

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

00:21:19.980 the number one spot in the race.

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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 0.98

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

00:25:17.940 And Democrats are being hypocrites. 0.99

00:25:19.460 And come on, where's the justice? 1.00

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. 0.99

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, 1.00

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. 1.00

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, 1.00

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. 1.00

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.55

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, 0.99

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, 0.99

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? 1.00

00:28:31.260 You shut up. 1.00

00:28:32.160 That's what you do. 0.98

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 0.74

00:28:39.420 is because they're white guys.

00:28:40.800 The nearest thing to a not-white guy in Queen 0.90

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. 0.99

00:30:36.760 So he's either a liar, which he is, 0.99

00:30:39.280 or he inadvertently got this wrong out of incompetence. 1.00

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, 1.00

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, 0.99

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, 0.91

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

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00:36:18.400 some of the red tape

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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 0.81

00:37:34.840 when the women voting 0.99

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 0.99

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 1.00

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% 1.00

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 0.64

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 0.60

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 1.00

00:41:39.860 and girls, 0.92

00:41:40.680 including ending

00:41:41.560 illegal mail order

00:41:43.220 abortions. 0.94

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 1.00

00:42:00.640 to kill their babies 1.00

00:42:01.400 so they think 1.00

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 0.96

00:44:16.460 and they have sex 0.96

00:44:17.700 with a lot of people 0.96

00:44:18.400 and they move around 0.76

00:44:19.660 like weirdo hippies 0.81

00:44:20.540 and they worship 0.95

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 0.93

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 0.93

00:45:14.640 perfidious Israelites 1.00

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 0.52

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 1.00

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. 0.71

00:46:19.120 These same weirdo 0.96

00:46:20.120 new agey hippies 0.96

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 0.91

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. 0.97

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 1.00

00:46:44.020 knavish imbecility 1.00

00:46:44.880 would have lasted 1.00

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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The Michael Knowles Show - August 21, 2023

Ep. 1313 - Maui Fire Evidence Heats Up Suspicion

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