The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 If you're watching this intro on YouTube today, good luck.

00:00:04.160 A male prisoner named Jonathan Richardson, who now goes by the name Autumn Cordellione,

00:00:11.120 wants to undergo gender transition surgery, and he wants it to be done at taxpayer expense.

00:00:18.400 Such a demand would be outrageous enough on its own. But it seems even more egregious when one

00:00:24.520 learns that this inmate is not in the clink for jaywalking or tax fraud. This inmate is in prison

00:00:30.920 for murdering a baby. The 41-year-old Richardson murdered the 11-month-old daughter of his girlfriend

00:00:37.840 in Evansville, Indiana in 2001, according to the Indiana Department of Correction records.

00:00:44.820 After the crime, after his conviction, after his incarceration, Richardson continued to show no

00:00:51.620 remorse, remarking to corrections officers, all I know is I killed the little effing B-I-T-C-H.

00:01:00.380 Indiana law currently bars the corrections department from using taxpayer money for

00:01:06.600 gender reassignment surgery. So the ACLU is suing to get the law overturned.

00:01:13.800 On this ideological matter, unlike other issues, I've mentioned before that there can be no

00:01:21.900 conciliatory middle ground. Either it's true or it isn't. There's no middle ground on a fundamental

00:01:28.560 question of human nature. But in this particular case about that ideological matter, I think we might

00:01:37.360 be able to come to a compromise. The ACLU wants to chop this unrepentant baby murderer's genitals off.

00:01:45.040 The taxpayers do not want to chop this unrepentant baby murderer's genitals off. So what if we just

00:01:52.760 chop his head off and call it a day? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:57.280 Welcome back to the show. We've got a really insightful interview from Hungarian President

00:02:22.540 Viktor Orban. Tucker Carlson flew over there. As so many American conservatives make the pilgrimage

00:02:28.160 to Hungary these days, Orban has a really important lesson for the West, for America, as we look ahead

00:02:34.380 potentially at World War III. First, though, I want to turn back to our own country and Washington.

00:02:41.740 I also want to ask, did any of that intro make it to YouTube? Poor producer Danny must have had a field

00:02:47.700 day with that one trying to evade the YouTube censors. But speaking of problems in the head,

00:02:53.420 Mitch McConnell, top Republican in the Senate, has had some health scares recently. You remember some

00:03:00.280 weeks ago he was giving a press conference and he just kind of froze up and wasn't able to speak and

00:03:04.820 just kind of, one couldn't tell if he was having a TIA or a seizure or something. But whatever it was,

00:03:10.280 he did seize up. He didn't say anything. I didn't even mention it at the time because I thought,

00:03:16.240 look, this is an older man and sometimes people have these health incidents. There's no use in

00:03:21.080 making a big news story about it. Twice is a pattern, though. And so it's just happened again.

00:03:28.220 Mitch McConnell was speaking to a local chamber of commerce. And as he was asked a question,

00:03:32.820 he just seemed to lose his ability to respond.

00:03:35.580 What are my thoughts about what? Running for re-election in 2026.

00:03:41.580 Oh, sure. And then there you see.

00:03:47.960 This happened last time, too. Did you hear the question, Senator? Running for re-election in 2026?

00:03:52.420 He stopped speaking and his mouth tightened up. And his mouth tightened up again here.

00:03:56.700 All right. I'm sorry, you all. We're going to need a minute.

00:03:58.520 He's kind of looking off in the distance. You see this poor communications director is trying to

00:04:02.220 salvage this. There's obviously all the press is here. Another aide comes to his side.

00:04:09.880 I think not so much to speak to him as to give the appearance of speaking to him.

00:04:13.640 So it looks like there's a reason he took a pause.

00:04:17.860 Then he comes out of it.

00:04:19.460 Somebody else have a question. Please speak up.

00:04:22.460 And, you know, it's kind of a half-hearted attempt to spin this, to say, oh, maybe the

00:04:27.800 senator just couldn't hear you. Please speak up. But no one's really buying it. The press,

00:04:32.940 for their part, were not too cruel about it. This is rough stuff. I am not one for term limits.

00:04:41.500 I'm not one for age limits. I think we have both of those things already in our country,

00:04:45.400 and it's called an election. And the people can make their decisions if they want. I think Mitch

00:04:49.500 McConnell, for all of his flaws and for all of his perhaps philosophical or ideological ambiguity,

00:04:57.120 I think he's a really effective wielder of power. And he deserves as much credit as Trump,

00:05:04.580 I think, for overruling Roe v. Wade because he held the line so firm on the judges. So

00:05:09.020 I like cocaine Mitch. You know, I'm pro-cocaine Mitch, and mostly because I don't want him and

00:05:14.280 his mob to just gun me down with Tommy guns. But he's obviously approaching the end of his career.

00:05:22.000 No question about it, there are going to be new calls for him to retire. I'm not one of the

00:05:25.480 people making those calls, but it's going to happen. He's going to have to step down sooner

00:05:28.300 or later. The reason I mentioned the story has nothing to do with him, really. It's much more

00:05:34.180 about the state of our country. And it ties back into Hungary. When I was over in Hungary,

00:05:38.720 I was really impressed, as are so many American conservatives who go over there,

00:05:42.920 because they've got basically a conservative country, a conservative government, a mostly

00:05:49.940 conservative culture, conservative public life at the anniversary of the country on St.

00:05:54.640 Stephen's Day. They just had a big giant cross spinning in the sky made out of lights and

00:05:59.840 drones. And the public culture is a Christian one. In America, we have a liberal public culture

00:06:06.600 where we have rainbow parades going down the street and weirdos in leather jackets smacking

00:06:11.680 each other around half naked. And in Hungary, they have a Christian public culture.

00:06:17.400 In America, privately, people go to church. Privately, people live out normal religion.

00:06:22.280 Just like in Hungary, people privately do all sorts of weird things that are probably not conducive to

00:06:26.880 their flourishing. But it's the public, the political matter there that we're really talking

00:06:32.160 about. And one of the reasons that the Orban government has been able to do that, to go from

00:06:38.020 a country that was dominated by Soviet communists for 45 years to probably the leading conservative

00:06:43.020 country of Europe, the only conservative country of Europe, the way they did that in part is because

00:06:47.240 the government is quite young. The ministers, the members of parliament, they're relatively quite

00:06:53.480 young and vigorous and they've got new ideas. That is going to happen in America. And the shift is

00:07:00.880 going to be huge. It's going to be as dramatic, maybe more dramatic as the sort of thing we saw

00:07:06.980 in Hungary. Because the boomers and the silent generation, which is the generation before the boomers,

00:07:13.340 they've just held on for so long. Don't forget, Bill Clinton, baby boomer president.

00:07:21.140 George W. Bush, baby boomer president. Barack Obama, Gen X. So we're moving ahead in the

00:07:26.400 generations. But then Donald Trump, we go back. So we get our third baby boomer president. Then Joe

00:07:32.480 Biden, we go back even further. We get a silent generation president. These guys have held on to power

00:07:37.140 for an abnormally long time. And when that generational shift happens, it's not going to

00:07:44.720 happen gradually. It's going to happen all at once because all these guys are in their 80s. And so it's

00:07:50.240 not going to be a slow decline. It's going to be, they're all going to just quit or die in office,

00:07:55.380 God forbid, or just be pushed out. And what is that shift going to mean? It's not that the shift is going

00:08:02.580 to be left versus right necessarily. It's going to be generational. The young leftists, the AOCs,

00:08:08.780 have a different approach to politics than the older leftists, like Dianne Feinstein or even Nancy

00:08:15.360 Pelosi. The young conservatives, this is where this is especially pronounced. The young conservatives,

00:08:20.640 people like J.D. Vance, people like Josh Hawley, people like Ron DeSantis, have a different approach

00:08:27.140 to politics and conservatism, a different political philosophy than the Mitch McConnells and the older

00:08:34.380 Republicans. And so when that shift happens, when it's the younger, when it's the J.D. Vances who are

00:08:39.620 now running the Senate, conservatism, politics generally, is going to look a lot different.

00:08:45.500 We've got one of those new generational, new right type candidates who might be running for office

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00:09:58.700 One of the brightest young stars, as far as I'm concerned, of the new right generation who did not

00:10:04.560 win his Senate seat last time is Blake Masters. I really like Blake Masters. I think his head is

00:10:08.840 screwed on pretty straight. And it was very sad that he lost his Senate race, and he might be

00:10:13.860 running again. This, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Blake is considering entering

00:10:22.320 the race for Kyrsten Sinema's seat. And the reason this is particularly interesting is because

00:10:28.860 Carrie Lake, who ran for governor last time and lost, she says the election was stolen. Maybe it

00:10:34.660 was, who knows? But either way, she's not the governor. She seems to be running for that seat

00:10:39.260 as well. So you could have a feisty little race. Carrie Lake has tied herself very closely to

00:10:45.040 Trump. Blake Masters has also tied himself closely to Trump. What do I think about it? I think, great,

00:10:49.920 the more the merrier. I'm all for it. I'm very pro-primary. I know that there are acolytes of all

00:10:56.620 sorts of candidates who hate the idea of primaries, especially in the presidential race. They say,

00:11:00.580 why doesn't Trump just not run that mean old Trump? He's not, we don't want him.

00:11:05.520 Well, you do want him. The Republican Party wants him because he's currently at 58% in the polls.

00:11:10.180 But, or they'll say, why doesn't Ron DeSantis drop out? Why not? Because it's a primary and

00:11:14.640 people run in primaries and these are tough guys with thick skin. And I like it. I like seeing these

00:11:19.780 fights in politics. And I think Blake is a good candidate and I'm glad he's going to get in the

00:11:23.380 race. The knock on Blake is that he's a loser. He lost his race. Kind of like George W. Bush.

00:11:32.080 He lost his first race for Congress. Barack Obama, he lost his first race for Congress.

00:11:39.320 A lot of very prominent, serious statesmen on the right and on the left lost their first race or

00:11:46.260 lost a crucial race in their lives. Blake is a young guy. He can be a self-funder. He's made a lot of

00:11:53.620 money. And he represents that generational shift. I am very much looking forward to the day. Much

00:12:02.040 as I love Ronald Reagan, and I do. Much as I love William F. Buckley Jr., and I do. I wrote the

00:12:06.600 new introduction to Bill Buckley's most famous book, God and Man at Yale. I love all those guys.

00:12:11.260 But those guys are dead. They're dead. They're in the dirt. And we shouldn't dig up their corpses

00:12:16.380 and try to zap them back to life like Dr. Frankenstein and have them be the bizarre, uncanny

00:12:24.680 zombies of conservatism. They dealt with the problems of their time as best they could.

00:12:30.120 Now we're in our time, and we have a responsibility to deal with those problems.

00:12:34.180 And politics involves eternal principles, yes, but it also involves changing circumstances

00:12:39.520 and applying those eternal principles to totally new circumstances. I'm excited for the day

00:12:46.500 when politicians will not just reflexively, quote, mindlessly recite the pithy one-liners of

00:12:56.940 conservative leaders who have been dead for 40 years. I'm excited for the day when we can inject

00:13:02.600 a little fresh blood and some fresh ideas, and at the very least, some fresh approaches to politics.

00:13:08.300 And that day does appear to be approaching rather rapidly.

00:13:14.380 Young people get this, and Hungary gets this. Hungary gets this. So Prime Minister Orban sat down

00:13:20.160 with Tucker. You know I love Tucker, but I feel such envy because I was just over there for a few

00:13:26.920 days, and I want to sit down with Viktor Orban. Maybe next time I go to Hungary, I will be able

00:13:30.660 to do that. But at the very least, we got this excellent, excellent interview from Tucker,

00:13:35.160 highly recommended, must watch, in which Orban discusses not just the divide between the East and

00:13:41.400 the West, or China and the West, but a big divide within the West. It's more about our civilization.

00:13:49.260 I mean, the Western Christian civilization. Now, the main division line is not according to

00:13:56.360 ideologies. It's deeper. It has an anthropological character. So on one side, in Europe, and probably

00:14:04.100 in your country, but in Europe definitely, there are groups of people who think that the most

00:14:09.320 important thing of the world is their ego, themselves, me. This is the center of the world.

00:14:15.620 The other camp of the people, the other part of the society thinks that it's not true, because

00:14:21.480 there are certain things which are more important than me, than my ego, family, nation, God. And

00:14:28.360 because they are more important than me, I have to serve this higher level of things. So this society

00:14:35.060 has a majority here in Hungary. And the other society, which is concentrating only me, you know,

00:14:40.660 only dealing with myself, it's more westernized, dominating factor of the political life.

00:14:48.720 So insightful. One thing I really admire about Orban is he's a seriously intelligent, educated person

00:14:57.740 who takes knowledge and learning and wisdom very seriously. And I know that seems really basic. You

00:15:03.760 would hope that all your statesmen would do that, but they don't. They patently don't. And the other

00:15:08.660 thing I like is he's not just some completely disconnected intellectual in an ivory tower somewhere.

00:15:13.060 He's a statesman. He's a guy in the rough and tumble of politics. But he takes these broad historical

00:15:17.640 and philosophical questions very seriously. And he can simplify it. This is one of the signs that

00:15:22.920 somebody knows what he's talking about, is when he can take a complex matter like this anthropological

00:15:28.640 divide within western civilization and distill it down in really simple terms. Here's the divide.

00:15:34.720 People who think that I, me, my is the most important thing on earth. And people who think

00:15:39.480 that there are more important things than me. Simple enough. And it's so true. I think even if you

00:15:47.100 caught the western liberals and liberal leaning so-called conservatives, if you caught them in a

00:15:54.660 moment of candor, maybe you got them after a couple of drinks, they would admit this. They would be proud

00:15:58.700 of this. They would say, yes, of course, I exist to fulfill myself. I'm interested not in caring for

00:16:05.820 my family and community and country. I'm interested in self-love. I need self-care. It's just, I'm going

00:16:12.240 to take care of me now. Kim Kardashian said this after her divorce. She said, in my 40s,

00:16:17.700 I'm finally going to, I'm going to take care of myself as though she'd, she was Mother Teresa before

00:16:24.020 that, but now she's going to take care of herself. And it's not just the left. It's the right. It's

00:16:29.320 the right under the influence of people like Ayn Rand, the right under the influence of a hyper

00:16:38.060 individualism, the right under the influence of libertarianism, which says, yeah, me, I, me,

00:16:44.800 my greed is good. I'm just going to pursue my own interests. You leave me alone. You can't tell me

00:16:48.860 what to do. I'm entitled to do whatever I want. That's my freedom. That's my liberty. That's not

00:16:54.140 the classical Western understanding of liberty. That's not the Christian understanding of liberty,

00:16:58.640 but it is the modern liberal conception. It's exactly what Prime Minister Orban is talking about.

00:17:03.740 And he says, look, that's a view. He's, he's obviously criticizing it, but he's more just

00:17:08.540 describing it. He's saying that is the dominant view in the West, but we have a different view,

00:17:13.740 which is much as I want to pursue my own individual interests, much as I like myself,

00:17:19.080 much as I have certain desires, I recognize some things are more important, namely family,

00:17:26.400 country, and God. Family is the basic political community. Man, going back, there's a big distinction

00:17:33.540 between liberalism, classical, modern, and otherwise, and the classical Christian tradition.

00:17:39.880 Liberalism says the basic unit of society is the individual. Christianity and Aristotle and

00:17:48.400 classical understandings of politics say that the basic unit of society is the family. And it's the

00:17:55.560 family because politics is public. So it involves other people. It says that man is a political creature,

00:18:00.260 the social animal. Okay. Big difference. So Orban says, starts with the family and then goes to

00:18:08.420 love of country and the importance of nation, right? Because that's an extension of the family. It's an

00:18:14.220 extension of the kinsfolk and the tribe and, and your patriotism is an extension of filial piety. And

00:18:19.940 ultimately what this is, what this is ordered toward is God. Because some things are good and true and

00:18:27.240 beautiful, and we should want to seek for those. And some things are destructive and ugly and false and

00:18:33.540 not conducive to our flourishing, and we should avoid those. And the name for truth, for truth

00:18:39.900 himself, is God, is Jesus. And the name for the highest good, the summum bonum, to use an older

00:18:47.480 Latin phrase, is God. So that's what we're going to orient all of our political efforts toward.

00:18:53.300 Really basic stuff. And Orban, I really like, he's so clear-eyed about this. He's really humble about it

00:19:02.360 because he'll say, look, we're a country of 10 million people. We're not going to lead anything.

00:19:06.780 We're not, we're not going to be the dominant hegemonic power ever. We don't, we're landlocked. Are you

00:19:11.400 kidding me? But because of the unique circumstances of Hungary, it's got this weird language that nobody

00:19:18.820 speaks. It's a pretty coherent people. The country's 1100 years old. We've been able to preserve this

00:19:24.460 thing. And maybe we could look and learn some lessons because there's one statistic that shows you

00:19:31.520 how these ideas are playing out in society. Every single country in the West is dying, is literally

00:19:40.700 dying, not having enough people to replace themselves. And the birth rates generally continue

00:19:45.320 to plummet. One country has started to turn the birth rate problem around. Coincidentally, it's the one

00:19:51.800 that says, I mean, my is not the top priority. Family, country, and God is. Pretty simple stuff. I'm not

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00:24:12.880 dailywireplus.com slash subscribe. You want to see proof of this problem that we only think about

00:24:23.360 individuals and ourselves, and we don't think about the family and the nation and broader groups.

00:24:28.040 We don't think of ourselves as a people anymore. We just think of ourselves as individuals. New York

00:24:34.720 City is going to be broadcasting public Muslim prayers throughout the day with very few restrictions.

00:24:45.480 Previously, there were some restrictions on the loudspeakers blaring the Muslim prayers in New York.

00:24:50.740 Now, Eric Adams taking those restrictions largely away. According to the new rules, says the mayor,

00:24:56.920 mosques will not need a special permit to publicly broadcast the Islamic call to prayer,

00:25:02.100 the Adhan, on Fridays and at sundown during Ramadan. For too long, he says, there's been a

00:25:08.640 feeling that our communities were not allowed to amplify their calls to prayer. Today, we're cutting

00:25:12.640 the red tape and saying clearly that mosques and houses of worship are free to amplify their call

00:25:17.540 to prayer on Fridays and during Ramadan without a permit. And Muslim New Yorkers will not live in the

00:25:23.640 shadows of the American dream while I'm mayor of the city of New York. Okay. I like Muslims. I like

00:25:29.640 Muslims. I, especially in our modern culture that has gone completely liberal and atheist and off the

00:25:36.880 rails, I feel that in many ways, I have a lot more in common with Muslims who at least recognize that

00:25:43.220 God exists and we owe him some worship and we ought to orient our lives around something other than just

00:25:49.000 the hedonistic pursuit of pleasure and material goods. I get it. So I'm really not knocking Muslims

00:25:55.480 here in any way, but is New York now a Muslim city? I'm a New Yorker. I was raised in New York,

00:26:05.440 born in New York. I don't remember it being a Muslim city.

00:26:11.700 Not that long ago, it was a Christian city. It was an explicitly Christian city. The most beautiful

00:26:16.980 cathedral in America is in New York, St. Patrick's Cathedral, about a bazillion parishes all throughout

00:26:23.100 New York. Lots of devout Catholic immigrants over time, the Irish, the Italians, Hispanics now.

00:26:33.660 In 1956 on Easter, there's a famous picture of those three gigantic skyscrapers in New York

00:26:39.820 where they arranged their lights and their windows to be in the sign of a cross. So you had the three

00:26:45.620 crosses just like on Mount Calvary. But now I guess it's a Muslim city. Now what Eric Adams would say,

00:26:51.540 what the liberals will say is, no, it's just a city for everybody. Just everybody. You can do

00:26:55.720 whatever you want. You can have a Christian prayer. I mean, we don't have something like the call to

00:27:00.500 prayer on the loudspeakers, but you could have church bells maybe, and we could have the Muslim

00:27:05.500 call to prayer, the adhan through the loudspeakers. And we could, I don't know, whatever the Jews want to

00:27:10.080 do. They can do that too. Everybody can just do everything. Well, how can they, if let's say

00:27:16.060 there's a church and a mosque right next to each other, and they both want to broadcast their loud

00:27:21.540 prayers at the same time. You can't do it both at once. That's just going to be cacophonous. That's

00:27:27.480 going to be incoherent. So you're going to have to have some either permitting process, or you're

00:27:33.160 going to have to prioritize one over the other. Not to say that Muslims can't practice their religion,

00:27:38.520 not to say that we're going to persecute anybody of any religion, but when mutually

00:27:45.400 contradictory ideas and practices come into conflict, you can't simultaneously exalt both

00:27:51.920 of them. That would be a violation of Aristotle's law of non-contradiction. We've known about this one

00:27:57.660 for a long time. Millennia, we seem to have forgotten it though. Politics has to have a certain character.

00:28:06.620 Inevitably it will, because public life is not infinite. We're limited by time. We're limited

00:28:11.780 by space. We're limited by the airwaves. You can only broadcast one thing across one medium at one

00:28:19.620 time. So we need to agree upon a public character for things. And in recent decades, we've totally

00:28:26.220 knocked that out. America was founded as a Christian nation. It grew as a Christian nation. Our civilization's

00:28:30.720 been Christian for 2,000 years. And then all of a sudden, about half a century ago, we just one day

00:28:35.380 pretended that it's not. And so we said, no, you can't. It's a secular country. It's a secular

00:28:41.000 civilization. Now, people still want there to be a Christmas tree in the public square. Because

00:28:46.220 people are still normal, even if they don't talk normal. They at least behave usually in a kind of

00:28:51.300 normal way. At least the ordinary, run-of-the-mill, everyday people, maybe not the intellectual geniuses

00:28:57.220 who run our society off the rails. So they still want those things. People still want a nativity scene

00:29:01.940 in the public square. But the way that the courts have justified this in recent years is to say,

00:29:06.440 oh, well, these are actually secular. So they're okay. The Christmas tree, it's not a Christian

00:29:10.960 symbol. It's a secular symbol. It's just part of our culture. Even the crash, the nativity scene,

00:29:15.220 baby Jesus in a manger. In a way, it's kind of secular, they say. They justify it on its secularity.

00:29:22.640 I don't want it to be justified on being secular. It's not. It's deeply religious. And the reason

00:29:26.800 people want it is because we're a Christian country. And that means that when Christianity

00:29:30.960 comes into conflict with other belief systems, Christianity needs to get pride of place. It

00:29:37.720 needs to get precedence. It means that when people are arguing over what goes in the public square,

00:29:44.300 the Christmas tree, or a statue of a demon called Baphomet, which actually was put inside a public

00:29:48.980 government building not that long ago, we say, nah, no demons, sorry. If you want to worship demons,

00:29:54.660 go out in the middle of the night with witches in the woods. We're not even going to really stop

00:29:58.080 you from doing that. But no, in public, no, we don't do that. If the Muslims want to have a call

00:30:04.980 for prayer at some special time, I'm not even totally opposed to some version of that. But there

00:30:08.700 are going to have to be some restrictions on that so as not to completely upend the public character

00:30:13.140 of our country, which has existed for over 200 years in our civilization for 2000. We need to start

00:30:18.700 thinking. I know this is going to be a naughty word for conservatives, and some of the libertarian

00:30:23.740 types, you're not going to want to hear it. It's the C word, and you're not allowed to say

00:30:26.740 the C word. We're going to need to think collectively, not like communists, not where

00:30:34.200 you break everything down to its basic part and build it back up in this weird, heinous amalgam

00:30:38.300 like Dr. Frankenstein, but like a culture, like a people with a common good, like a country. Those

00:30:48.500 are the other C words that impel one to think a little more collectively. A lot of individuals

00:30:56.140 does not a country make. A country is made up of families and communities with culture and rituals

00:31:02.040 and habits and beliefs that define the whole place. And sometimes when we have individual desires that

00:31:10.380 are not conducive to our own flourishing or the flourishing of society, sometimes we've got to

00:31:14.900 give those a backseat and do the things that are good for everybody in all the individuals included.

00:31:22.520 Now, speaking of religion and public life, CNN is very upset. CNN is furious because Uganda

00:31:30.140 has just arrested a child rapist and CNN is furious about that. They don't, that's bad because this

00:31:39.020 is what the headline says. Two Ugandan men may face death penalty after, quote, aggravated homosexuality

00:31:48.940 charge. Two men in Uganda are facing separate charges of aggravated homosexuality and offense punishable

00:31:56.480 by death under the country's controversial new anti-gay laws. These are anti-gay laws.

00:32:02.380 Now, what I love about Twitter under Elon Musk, X now, is these reader notes, the little reader

00:32:09.900 added context notes. In this case, on the CNN tweet, it says, one man is accused of having a sexual

00:32:16.900 relation with a disabled man, the other of a sexual act with a 12-year-old child. Both are charged with

00:32:22.220 aggravated homosexuality, defined as same-sex relations with someone who is HIV positive,

00:32:26.840 a child, an elderly person, or disabled. Okay. Before getting into the weeds on what that means.

00:32:35.120 We're talking about two cases here, one of which involves a child rapist. And the headline and the

00:32:41.600 first line in the CNN article says, this is an example of the country's new anti-gay laws.

00:32:48.820 I thought the LGBT movement just spent 40 years trying to convince everybody that LGBT activism

00:32:58.480 has nothing to do with grooming little kids. They always had kind of a reputation that what they did

00:33:04.580 involved little kids. And then they spent 40 years of marches and political campaigns and willing

00:33:09.920 grace and all the rest of it saying it has nothing to do with little kids. And then they've spent the

00:33:14.180 last three or four years focusing on little kids specifically, transing little kids in schools,

00:33:19.980 bringing gay porn into elementary schools. And now CNN, CNN in print, lumping in pederasty

00:33:27.320 with homosexuality and saying that pederasty is, implying that pederasty is an intrinsic part

00:33:33.400 of homosexuality. And if you outlaw pederasty, your law constitutes an anti-gay piece of legislation.

00:33:40.940 This phrase aggravated homosexuality, it refers to a few different things,

00:33:46.760 including sex with same-sex people who are disabled or elderly or otherwise incapacitated.

00:33:52.180 And there are going to be people in the West who say, well, that's crazy. You know,

00:33:54.720 we wouldn't have a law like that. That's insane. Okay. First of all, Uganda is a different culture

00:34:01.220 than our culture. Uganda, we used to have laws that were not so open about doing all sorts of weird

00:34:07.080 sex stuff. But Uganda still has those laws. And you might say, well, I don't agree with those laws.

00:34:11.900 Okay. You don't live in Uganda. So I don't know why it's so much of your concern.

00:34:17.640 Unless you are a dedicated liberal who wants to impose liberalism around the entire world.

00:34:25.200 Because we've got three things coming into conflict here in the controversy over Uganda.

00:34:30.680 One is the really creepy approach of Democrats to little kids and sex. That's obviously the most

00:34:36.000 obvious part. But putting that aside, we've got three things coming into conflict.

00:34:41.060 Liberalism, which says everyone should be able to do whatever weird sex stuff they want all the time,

00:34:44.600 no matter what the communities think, no matter what the cultures think,

00:34:47.100 no matter what the religion thinks or the state thinks. The next one is democracy. I promise you,

00:34:54.440 the majority of Ugandans are not in favor of pederasty or any other kind of weird sex stuff.

00:35:00.840 So here, you've got liberalism and democracy at odds. We're always talking about liberal

00:35:05.220 democracy. And we use the two interchangeably. They're totally at odds here. And self-determination.

00:35:09.980 Who determines the laws in Uganda? The Ugandans or CNN and elite liberals in America? Who gets to

00:35:17.780 determine it? Listen, the coherent liberals, the consistent ones are going to say, we do.

00:35:22.620 Ugandans don't have any right to run their own country. We determine that because they're wrong

00:35:26.020 and we're right. Okay, that's one view. It's an imperialist view. But fair enough. It's a liberal

00:35:32.680 imperialist view. So that's not great. But okay. But at least one has to recognize the rank hypocrisy

00:35:40.780 of the constant babbling about our democracy. We have to preserve democracy from the evil fascist

00:35:48.220 anti-democracy people. And then out of the very next breath, they say, we need to destroy democracy

00:35:54.880 in Uganda. We need to destroy democracy in Hungary. They don't like Orban, obviously. We need to destroy

00:36:00.740 democracy in, or they didn't like it when Italy elected Maloney. We need to destroy democracy in

00:36:05.620 any number of places that contradict liberalism. My favorite comment yesterday is from Elaine M5184,

00:36:13.220 who says, Minnie Michael also has a St. Michael protectus patch on his backpack. You really can't

00:36:18.340 make this up. Yes, the young man, the 12-year-old boy who stood up to his teacher and whose mother

00:36:23.940 stood up to the teacher and refused to take off his Gadsden flag from his backpack after these

00:36:29.800 ridiculous educators said it was a pro-slavery patch or some ignorant nonsense. That boy, some have pointed

00:36:35.440 out that he and I have a little bit of a resemblance. And I want to state it for the record. People seem

00:36:40.280 confused. That boy is not, to the best of my knowledge, my son. It's a wise child who knows

00:36:50.400 his own father. Listen, life, you know, people do all sorts of weird things and we lose memories.

00:36:55.380 But I don't, I am very confident that boy is not my son, but I'm extremely proud of him. Maybe he's

00:37:01.940 like a sort of spiritual child, you know. And he did, in addition to the Gadsden flag, which is

00:37:06.620 fine. He also had a St. Michael patch. Very, very cool. Very conservative. That boy has a bright

00:37:12.240 future ahead of him. Now, speaking of foreigners, speaking of foreigners, actually, before I move on

00:37:23.620 from the Uganda thing, there's one line I got. The attorney, Justine Balya, who's representing one

00:37:28.440 of the guys in the Ugandan aggravated homosexuality cases, tells CNN, quote, of course, the fact that the

00:37:35.620 law is being enforced in this way is entirely unconstitutional because it seeks to criminalize

00:37:40.080 what is often consensual conduct between adults. Often consensual conduct? Hold on. Wait, what?

00:37:48.800 You're saying, look, this law, this law is awful and terrible and unconstitutional because it,

00:37:54.340 like, sometimes the conduct is consensual. Excuse me? That's your best defense? Okay. Not a very

00:38:01.540 good defense. But moving on, speaking of foreigners, Corrine Jean-Pierre at the White House has said

00:38:07.160 that Joe Biden has stopped the flow of foreigners, illegal aliens, into the United States.

00:38:13.060 Eric Adams, the New York mayor, is saying about these migrants in New York City,

00:38:18.360 any plan that does not include stopping the flow at the border is a failed plan. So why aren't you guys

00:38:25.480 stopping the flow at the border?

00:38:26.780 We are stopping the flow at the border. If anything, what the president has been able to do on his own

00:38:32.180 without the help of Republicans in Congress, something that he had to do on his own again

00:38:36.900 because Republicans refuse to give the funding necessary to deal with a situation, a broken

00:38:43.980 immigration system that has been broken for decades. They choose, what they choose to do is play politics,

00:38:49.380 but the person, the president has put a plan that is indeed the data showing is that it is indeed

00:38:55.620 stopping, slowing down the flow of unlawful migration. And that is because of the work

00:39:02.980 that this president continues to do without, without the help of Republicans.

00:39:08.540 What Corrine Jean-Pierre just said is not true, but there is a little tiny kernel of truth there.

00:39:15.940 And this is, this is the thing that the liberals always do. Here's how it's not true.

00:39:22.160 Since May, there have been about 3,600 illegal aliens crossing our southern border illegally,

00:39:29.680 obviously, every single day. 3,600. That does not sound like a stopped flow of migration.

00:39:37.360 Sounds like historic highs. I think the exact number we're down to now is about 3,360.

00:39:44.540 That's where they're, obviously, there's significant fluctuation. Now, the reason that there's a

00:39:50.080 little tiny kernel of truth in what she's saying is back in March, the number was 7,100. So there

00:39:55.640 was this huge, insane surge. 3,360 is an insane surge too, but this is double that. 7,100.

00:40:06.160 And then they got it down a little bit. So what Corrine Jean-Pierre can say is, oh yeah,

00:40:12.700 we're stopping the flow. We were at 7,100 a day. So we're talking millions and millions and millions

00:40:20.360 of illegal aliens pouring across per year. And now it's down to only over 3,000. I remember just a few

00:40:26.020 years ago when we got up to 2,000. That was historic, shocking crisis. But now they're saying

00:40:33.460 3,360. Oh, that's pretty good. That's stopping the flow. And this is what the liberals always do.

00:40:38.200 This is how they gain power. They take a lot and then they give back a little bit.

00:40:43.800 They take a lot and then they say, okay, we're going to kill babies up until the moment of birth.

00:40:48.480 And then, okay, we'll put some restrictions in the third trimester, maybe in some places,

00:40:52.180 probably not even that. Oh, good. See, we're winning, conservatives. See, look,

00:40:56.620 the liberals are moderating. They're compromising. Hey, we're going to trans everybody

00:41:02.000 down to kindergarten. Okay, maybe just middle school. Oh, good. We're winning. We're fighting

00:41:08.240 back in the culture. What are you talking about? We started here. You started on the 50-yard line.

00:41:14.520 Liberals took this thing all the way down to the end zone. And then we go back to what,

00:41:18.060 the five-yard line, 10-yard line. Okay. Well, look, we're winning. We're not winning. We're

00:41:23.500 getting crushed. We're getting destroyed. But because they are so bold in their aggression,

00:41:30.100 which conservatives almost never are, we're always negotiating with ourselves.

00:41:35.680 We always listen to the squishes and the libs and the establishment types who say, well,

00:41:40.500 we can't really, we can't try to ban abortion. That's not where the voters are.

00:41:45.260 Oh, yeah? You think the voters were for transing the kids? No, they weren't. The

00:41:49.220 Democrats just took it. And then they ceded a little bit of territory back. And then that was

00:41:54.080 the new normal. Well, I don't know. This is such a, just tactically, it's such a stupid tactic.

00:42:02.780 If you've ever engaged in a job negotiation or any kind of negotiation, you know, never negotiate

00:42:08.820 against yourself. Always ask for the most extreme thing that you could plausibly get and then allow

00:42:18.460 your negotiation partner to pair you back a little bit. That's what the liberals do. That's not what

00:42:24.920 we do. We negotiate with ourselves and we lose. And speaking of regression, John Mellencamp just got

00:42:33.020 into trouble. You know, the musician John Mellencamp. He was on a Bill Maher show and he made an

00:42:39.040 outrageous claim. He said, black people are not better off today than they were 200 years ago.

00:42:45.660 The playing fields are a lot better than the cotton fields. That's what I would say about that. Maybe

00:42:50.380 I'm crazy, John, but it seems like making no money as a slave picking cotton was, it was not as good

00:42:57.020 as playing left field for the Yankees. I mean, I'm sure there were, you know, reasons why, I mean,

00:43:03.040 Dave Winfield has some beefs against Steinbredder, I'm sure. No doubt there is one or two percent

00:43:09.240 of black people in America who have a better life. Oh, stop. That's what you think? One or two percent?

00:43:16.000 Okay, let's say 10 percent. I'm just pulling a number out of my ass. It is, that's where it belongs.

00:43:21.460 Hey, I just pulled a number out of my ass. I know, but I'm telling you, that's, that's just not true.

00:43:25.900 So, but, you know. Well, okay, well. I mean, that's. Listen. We do have statistics.

00:43:32.320 Talk to my, talk, talk to my son. He'll tell you. Well, he saw one very horrific incident. Maybe

00:43:39.720 that has colored his thinking. Well, what do you think? That's the only incident that happens?

00:43:43.740 Of course not. So, I know you're going to look at this and you're going to say Bill Maher is being

00:43:48.140 the more reasonable one here. Because John Mellencamp, he's referring to some incident of some black guy

00:43:52.700 got beat up or something. And he's saying, see, this is proof that the KKK runs around the country

00:43:57.000 and this is, America's as bad as it was under slavery or whatever. And Bill Maher says, no, I don't think

00:44:00.940 so. You know, I think actually playing left field for the Yankees is probably, I'm not saying it's

00:44:04.940 perfect, but it's probably a little better than, you know, working the cotton fields. But in a way,

00:44:10.800 I think I'm more on Mellencamp's side here when he says black people are not better off than they

00:44:14.980 were 200 years ago. At least, let's say 150 years ago. We don't have great statistics from slavery,

00:44:21.540 but after slavery, we start to get some relatively better numbers. It's true that black people get

00:44:29.060 a higher wage than they did when they didn't have a wage. But here's just one crucial statistic.

00:44:36.640 Marriage rates collapsed. So, there was very little legal marriage among slaves under

00:44:43.920 under slavery. Tennessee, actually, I think, allowed marriage between slaves. But it was very

00:44:49.040 hard, obviously, because if a slave gets sold down the river, then there goes the family. The family's

00:44:52.420 broken up. It's just absolutely horrific. So, after slavery, though, you get legal marriage, and black

00:44:58.320 people got married at much higher rates, and they got divorced at much lower rates, and they had families

00:45:03.260 in a much more stable way. Today, that has collapsed.

00:45:06.160 That alone means black people are not better off than they were 150 years ago. That alone,

00:45:15.260 just that one statistic. And you see it among so many other areas of society. But just that one

00:45:21.480 statistic would do it. You see, well, they're better off because they have more money. Maybe,

00:45:26.660 yeah, maybe they have more money. But money isn't everything. Money is fine to have. I'm not opposed

00:45:34.400 to it, but it's not even the primary thing. And our society has duped itself into thinking that

00:45:40.560 that's all that matters. That's why we've embraced globalism and liberalism and materialism,

00:45:46.880 is because we think that ticking up the GDP is all that matters. The liberals have thought that,

00:45:50.400 and the conservatives have thought that. And so, we say, well, who cares if you lose your borders

00:45:54.540 and your culture and your national identity and your religion? And who cares about that? We're

00:45:59.180 getting more cheap crap from China. And we have more trade. And look at how the cost of certain

00:46:05.400 goods has come down. In some cases, it's actually spiked up because inflation has gone crazy because

00:46:10.080 our economy is totally out of whack. But yeah, okay. Also, look at how our life expectancy has

00:46:14.840 gone down because people are killing themselves and ODing on drugs. Look at how birth rates have

00:46:19.260 collapsed because people aren't getting married and they are getting divorced and they are using

00:46:23.440 contraception and they are killing their children through abortion. And they're doing

00:46:26.420 all these sorts of things that mean that we fool ourselves in a liberal society. We say,

00:46:33.720 oh, we're so much better off because we have iPhones. We are worse off today by almost every

00:46:38.580 measure than we were 100 years ago. We have better dental care, I guess. That's true. I'm not saying

00:46:43.460 we're worse off in every measure. But if your society is literally dying and if the building block of

00:46:49.200 society is collapsing and has actually been defined into nothingness in recent years, you cannot say

00:46:55.180 with a straight face that you're any better off than you were 100 years ago. In fact, you are much

00:47:00.400 worse off. Okay. Speaking of spiritual matters, today is Theology Thursday. And we've gone through,

00:47:07.220 we had a Protestant, we had a Catholic, we had a Jew. Now we're going to have a little bit of a

00:47:15.860 mixture of all of those things. We're going to have a Messianic Jew on, Dr. Golan Roshi for Theology

00:47:22.200 Thursday. The rest of the show continues. Now you don't want to miss it. Become a member. Use code

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