The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1330 - 7,000 African Migrants Take Over Italian Island

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00:00:37.880 Lampedusa is a small Italian island of about 6,500 residents.

00:00:42.940 Yesterday, the population of Lampedusa more than doubled as more than 7,000 illegal immigrants from Africa arrived on the island on more than 100 different migrant boats.

00:00:55.100 Human traffickers took advantage of calm seas yesterday to increase the number of migrant boats.

00:01:01.840 But this situation is nothing unusual.

00:01:04.780 It is nothing new.

00:01:06.540 Hundreds, often thousands of foreigners, illegally land at Lampedusa every single day.

00:01:14.740 And they have for well over a decade.

00:01:18.340 Well over a decade.

00:01:19.900 At which point, they're processed by the government of Italy and generally, given easy entry into Europe, laws be damned.

00:01:27.940 This was the subject of Douglas Murray's excellent book, The Strange Death of Europe.

00:01:32.800 He published that book six years ago.

00:01:34.400 And in the six years since he wrote that urgent analysis of immigration, the situation has only gotten worse.

00:01:41.860 Drastically worse.

00:01:43.460 Which is precisely what liberal politicians in Rome and Brussels and throughout the West want.

00:01:52.020 According to them, this mass illegal migration is not a political problem, but a solution.

00:01:59.360 More votes for the liberal parties, more social friction, less traditional society.

00:02:07.100 But it's not merely a tactic of spite.

00:02:10.020 This is a logical conclusion of liberal ideology, which denies the distinction between nations and cultures and peoples.

00:02:19.000 We're all just kind of citizens of the world, man.

00:02:21.480 Kumbaya.

00:02:22.440 There's no such thing as borders, man.

00:02:24.580 The liberal Europeans don't see any distinction between themselves and people beyond their borders.

00:02:31.460 But the people beyond their borders do.

00:02:35.560 European nations and economies and customs are much more pleasant than the sort found in Africa and the Middle East and elsewhere.

00:02:46.140 So African migrants are invading supposedly sovereign nations to the tune of thousands per day. 1.00

00:02:52.580 And the Europeans, all these years after the problem began, continue to do nothing to stop it.

00:03:00.580 Because a liberal, as Robert Frost observed, is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.

00:03:08.100 So the borders and the cultures and the nations collapse.

00:03:12.600 Not through homicide by foreigners, but through a strange civilizational suicide. 0.87

00:03:19.080 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:19.740 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:22.580 Welcome back to the show.

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00:04:22.660 First though, speaking of foreigners, I intend to keep this segment on YouTube, so I'll try

00:04:28.360 to watch my language a little bit.

00:04:30.480 The American transvestite who's volunteering to be the spokesman for the Ukraine military

00:04:35.460 is now threatening anybody who is in any way critical of Ukraine's actions in this war.

00:04:41.920 Russia hates the truth that their obsessive focus on a Ukrainian volunteer is simply allowing

00:04:48.940 the light of the Ukrainian nation's honesty to shine brightly.

00:04:53.320 Next week, the teeth of the Russian devils will gnash ever harder, and their rabid mouths 1.00

00:04:59.160 will foam in uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist

00:05:04.180 pay for their crimes.

00:05:06.620 And this puppet of Putin is only the first.

00:05:10.400 Russia's war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down, and justice will be served

00:05:15.160 as we in Ukraine are led on this mission by faith in God, liberty, and complete liberation.

00:05:21.560 I'm not soft on Russia or anything.

00:05:26.360 Russia is a geopolitical foe of the U.S., and I get it. 0.99

00:05:29.920 But with this kind of talk coming out of the Ukraine military, with this kind of behavior

00:05:37.300 coming out of the Ukraine military, are we sure we're on the right side of this thing?

00:05:42.440 Is it possible that maybe we just, in the rush to pick a side, are we sure that this is

00:05:50.880 the right thing to do?

00:05:51.860 I ask because the way that this person is talking about Russian devil propagandists

00:06:02.980 is pretty broad.

00:06:04.820 It's kind of the way that liberals in the U.S. will refer to anyone even slightly to the

00:06:10.740 right of Barack Obama as a Nazi.

00:06:13.640 You say, well, I'm not a Nazi.

00:06:14.700 I'm not a racist.

00:06:15.560 I'm not a thisist.

00:06:16.360 I'm not a phobic.

00:06:17.200 I'm not a this, that.

00:06:18.140 But it doesn't matter.

00:06:18.880 They just paint everyone with that broad brush.

00:06:20.320 And I suspect here this person, the spokesman for the Ukrainian military, a YouTube spokesman

00:06:29.340 is a gender-neutral term.

00:06:30.480 I don't want to hear it.

00:06:31.200 Don't take me off.

00:06:33.880 It seems to be reacting to criticism that he himself is getting.

00:06:40.100 So I worry a little bit because I did a long thread on this person a while ago, exposing

00:06:48.960 a lot of bizarre aspects of this person's biography and how this person managed to get to this position

00:06:58.900 in the Ukraine military.

00:07:00.440 So I don't know.

00:07:01.120 Am I going to be lumped in with the Russian devils and the Russian propagandists? 0.89

00:07:05.480 I think so.

00:07:07.780 I think that's the way this spokesman is talking.

00:07:10.560 And that's not great when they're threatening to hunt everyone down.

00:07:14.180 You know how we hear in the liberal West that those autocratic regimes, Russia and China,

00:07:22.120 they oppose journalism.

00:07:24.260 They oppose free speech.

00:07:26.480 They oppose free expression.

00:07:28.740 That's out of one side of their mouths.

00:07:30.520 Then out of the other side, they say, hey, anybody who criticizes us in any way is a Putin

00:07:34.860 propagandist.

00:07:35.680 And even if you just use your words and even if you just raise questions about the war,

00:07:39.380 we're going to hunt you down and kill you like a rabid dog. 0.99

00:07:42.760 That's what they say.

00:07:44.360 How do they do it?

00:07:45.420 Well, because these people are on the side of humanity.

00:07:48.100 They're not fighting an ordinary war, you see.

00:07:50.820 It's not just two powers, two peoples with different interests who are butting heads,

00:07:55.700 as has happened throughout all of human history.

00:07:57.780 No, no, no.

00:07:58.920 These people are fighting for all of humanity.

00:08:01.820 In fact, we know that because this very spokesman said that Russians are not human beings.

00:08:09.180 Do you know the difference between us and them?

00:08:13.560 Besides fighting under this flag and for freedom on behalf of the people of Ukraine,

00:08:19.020 all the Russians are fighting for tyranny and dictatorship. 0.95

00:08:21.820 It's pretty simple.

00:08:23.920 We're human.

00:08:25.540 And those guys most definitely aren't.

00:08:28.960 Slav Ukraine.

00:08:31.820 It's something out of Saturday Night Live, except it's real.

00:08:36.220 And this person is speaking for the Ukrainian military in the first major war in Europe since World War II

00:08:41.580 with a nuclear former superpower and also with the superpower of the world,

00:08:47.500 a nuclear power as the belligerent using this proxy of Ukraine.

00:08:51.560 In any case, anyone who opposes liberalism is not just coming from a different point of view,

00:09:00.160 not just coming from a different nation, not just a different people, not just a different religion.

00:09:03.880 They're not human, according to these people.

00:09:07.620 And so you see this irony, which is that the people who fight in the name of humanity,

00:09:13.960 in the name of humanitarianism, are very often the most cruel.

00:09:19.400 And wars that are fought in the name of humanity are going to be the least humane wars that could possibly be fought.

00:09:26.300 So you hear bubblegums and roses and let's be inclusive and have self-expression, man.

00:09:33.160 And it's going to be these people wearing their eccentric outfits with their unusual gender expression.

00:09:40.440 They're going to be the ones who are just happily, inclusively, diversely sending all the big bombs all the way to their enemies.

00:09:50.180 All right, I think I managed to make it around that discussion without getting myself totally kicked off of YouTube.

00:09:59.880 I said transvestite at the top. 0.99

00:10:01.720 They're probably going to have to bleep that.

00:10:02.740 But speaking of threats coming from Ukraine, our friend Vladimir Zelensky, leader of Ukraine,

00:10:09.280 highest paid actor in the world, made $100 billion last year.

00:10:12.220 That's pretty impressive.

00:10:13.420 So that's better than anything they're getting out of Hollywood.

00:10:16.080 Zelensky is threatening the West, Europe in particular, 1.00

00:10:18.880 if the West stops funding the billions and billions of dollars of aid without which Ukraine could not continue to fight the war.

00:10:26.440 Zelensky says, quote,

00:10:28.380 There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in Europe could countries would react to their country being abandoned.

00:10:38.000 I'm going to say that again without a bad Ukrainian accent on.

00:10:41.980 So you get the threat that he's implying here.

00:10:45.200 There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned.

00:10:52.300 What does that mean?

00:10:55.700 Well, he says that these refugees who have been given asylum by the generous countries of Europe,

00:11:01.260 who are also funding this war for Ukraine, they have, quote, behaved well so far.

00:11:08.520 But their good behavior in places like Germany and France and Italy could not be guaranteed necessarily to continue.

00:11:17.180 And then he said, it would not be a good story for Europe if it were to drive these people into a corner.

00:11:24.500 This little pipsqueak mafioso is saying, hey, Europe, thanks for being the only reason that our country is not a parking lot right now.

00:11:31.460 Hey, Europe, thanks for being the only reason that Vladimir Putin hasn't given me a nice cup of polonium tea up until now.

00:11:38.880 Hey, Europe, thanks for the billions of dollars and the jets and the guns and the ammunition.

00:11:45.540 Oh, and taking all of our people in as refugees. 0.99

00:11:49.280 But hey, if you don't keep it up, we're going to start killing you.

00:11:53.280 That's what he's saying.

00:11:55.260 And in his defense, he's playing his hand very well.

00:11:58.360 If I were the leader of Ukraine, I would be saying these exact same things.

00:12:02.420 This guy is defending the interests of his country and his people.

00:12:06.100 I don't really have any problem with him doing that.

00:12:08.820 That's how war on politics works.

00:12:11.260 But why aren't the Western Europeans defending the interests of their own people and their own countries?

00:12:18.540 Why is the United States all too often not protecting the interests of our people and our country?

00:12:27.300 Why is that?

00:12:29.360 Can we maybe start?

00:12:31.940 I don't know that we can start doing that.

00:12:33.420 You're going to hear the globalist type say that actually funding the war in Ukraine is one of the best military investments we can make because it's only something like 3% to 5% of our defense budget.

00:12:43.600 And we don't have to sacrifice any American lives.

00:12:47.180 And we'll just let the Ukrainians and the Russians kill each other. 1.00

00:12:51.060 And that'll be good because it'll weaken Russia. 1.00

00:12:54.160 Maybe.

00:12:54.760 I don't know.

00:12:55.060 That's a pretty dangerous game to play when you are accelerating a war with a nuclear form or superpower in a way that Russia is saying the United States is a belligerent in the war.

00:13:07.100 This is something we avoided for the entirety of the Cold War, including at that hot moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

00:13:12.620 Now we just seem to be kind of sleepwalking into that war.

00:13:15.360 Meanwhile, we open up the borders to people from all around the world, including the Ukrainians who appear to be fairly dangerous now too. 1.00

00:13:22.260 And meanwhile, our supposed allies, the people that we're funding, they're the ones who say, yeah, if you don't keep it up, if you don't keep the money coming, then we're going to murder you.

00:13:31.380 Then I'm going to activate all of those sweet, wholesome refugees and we're going to start causing a lot of trouble in Europe and I think implicitly in the United States as well. 0.99

00:13:40.700 Are we really playing our hand or no?

00:13:43.880 Are we committing a kind of civilizational suicide, the likes of which Douglas Murray predicted six years ago, observed six years ago, and which since then has only gotten worse?

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00:15:04.380 Now, turning to the home front here.

00:15:09.100 Turning to political leadership in the United States.

00:15:12.880 Kevin McCarthy is pushing for an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.

00:15:17.580 The Senate Republicans are not so happy about this.

00:15:20.580 Mitch McConnell has not really come out and supported this.

00:15:23.160 Actually, no Republican in congressional leadership.

00:15:26.200 Certainly up in the Senate has come out supporting this.

00:15:29.380 Other than Republican Senator John Barrasso, who came out and he said that the corruption surrounding the Biden family needs to be untangled.

00:15:40.560 According to Punchbowl News, Barrasso is the only Republican in leadership who backed McCarthy's efforts.

00:15:45.260 This is fine by me.

00:15:46.600 This is a good sign that John Barrasso might be the man to take over after Cocaine Mitch has to leave.

00:15:51.680 Cocaine Mitch is not going to remain in leadership forever, even despite the health scares, even despite his advanced age.

00:15:58.880 That's just the way it works.

00:16:00.100 Time goes on and people are going to need to come into the wings.

00:16:03.580 I have said that I'm not for pushing Cocaine Mitch out just because he had a couple brain freezes during press conferences.

00:16:10.520 Because one, Cocaine Mitch has been pretty good at wielding levers of power.

00:16:14.380 He's been especially good on judges.

00:16:15.480 But three, who's going to replace him?

00:16:19.940 All the prospects of people to replace Cocaine Mitch don't seem to be any better than he is.

00:16:25.200 So while the conservatives might be wailing and saying, Mitch isn't one of us, he's establishment, he's suppressing our agenda.

00:16:30.880 That might all be true, but who's the replacement?

00:16:34.540 If we don't have a better replacement, then let's just leave Cocaine Mitch. 0.54

00:16:37.220 Better the devil we know than the devil we don't.

00:16:38.740 If John Barrasso is going to come out here and start flexing a little bit of power, start taking the side of the more conservative wing of the conservative party, that's a good sign.

00:16:49.460 The people who are looking to replace Cocaine Mitch, maybe they should get on board too.

00:16:54.440 Speaking of the Senate, Josh Hawley has just gotten in hot water for proposing an 18% credit card interest rate cap.

00:17:04.720 Now, this seems like good news because we know these credit card companies prey on people.

00:17:09.580 They get them hooked on debt, especially people who don't have a lot of money, who are living maybe paycheck to paycheck.

00:17:14.320 They'll start putting big purchases on their credit card.

00:17:16.420 And then because the interest rate is 18% or more, 20%, 25%, they're never going to get out of that debt.

00:17:22.940 So they're just going to be in debt forever making these payments, and it's especially people who are at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder who get squeezed this way.

00:17:33.420 Now, 10 years ago, it would not have been a conservative right-wing senator proposing an interest rate cap.

00:17:40.880 It would have been Bernie Sanders, and Bernie Sanders would have given some speech about the proletariat and the workers of the world need to unite.

00:17:47.100 And those rich, fat, cat millionaires and billionaires on Wall Street, they're taking advantage of you workers.

00:17:54.120 And then Bernie Sanders became a millionaire, and then he stopped invading against the millionaires.

00:17:58.900 But in any case, it would have been a left-wing attack.

00:18:00.740 And the conservatives would have said, well, actually, you know, there's nothing more American than usury.

00:18:05.620 Actually, there's nothing more American than taking advantage of poor people who sometimes don't know any better and, in some cases, don't have any other options than to put their bills on their credit cards and then get stuck in debt slavery forever.

00:18:15.940 However, now things have flipped, and as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have said, the Republican Party has ceased to be the party of Wall Street.

00:18:23.800 The Republican Party is now the party of Pittsburgh, not the party of Paris.

00:18:26.920 And this was a good campaign line, and it was a great way to follow up the populism that came to the fore with the election of Donald Trump.

00:18:34.040 But if that kind of populist rhetoric and enthusiasm is not backed up by hard policies, then it's going to be nothing.

00:18:41.160 It's going to ring hollow.

00:18:42.260 So now Josh Hawley is backing it up with real hard policies.

00:18:47.500 And he's doing this in particular because he says usury is bad.

00:18:54.480 What is usury?

00:18:55.540 Usury is lending money at interest.

00:18:57.200 There's more to it than that.

00:18:58.260 But for the vast majority of the history of our country, of our civilization, forget our country.

00:19:05.760 It goes back much further than that.

00:19:06.940 For the vast majority of the history of our civilization, usury was against the law because the church prohibits it.

00:19:13.240 And it's not just the church.

00:19:14.900 Virtuous pagan societies prohibited usury as well.

00:19:18.900 Other religious traditions ban usury as well.

00:19:23.340 Why?

00:19:25.520 Well, as Thomas Aquinas says, to take usury for money lent is unjust in itself because this is to sell what does not exist.

00:19:32.260 And this evidently leads to inequality, which is contrary to justice.

00:19:36.100 In order to make this evident, we must observe that there are certain things, the use of which consists in their consumption.

00:19:41.760 So he says, we consume wine when we use it for drink, and we consume wheat when we use it for food.

00:19:49.860 Wherefore, in such like things, the use of the thing must not be reckoned apart from the thing itself.

00:19:54.720 And whoever is granted the use of the thing is granted the thing itself.

00:19:58.760 And for this reason, to lend things of this kind is to transfer the ownership.

00:20:03.300 So that's a little bit confusing.

00:20:05.180 But what Thomas Aquinas is saying there is when you lend money at interest, when you commit usury, you are using the thing twice.

00:20:13.540 You're double dipping, basically, and that is not fair.

00:20:16.140 It says, accordingly, if a man wanted to sell wine separately from the use of wine, he would be selling the same thing twice, or he would be selling what does not exist.

00:20:23.420 Wherefore, he would evidently commit a sin of injustice.

00:20:25.640 In like matter, he commits an injustice who lends wine or wheat and asks for double payment.

00:20:30.320 The return of the thing in equal measure, the other price of the use, which is called usury.

00:20:35.180 We don't talk this way anymore because our entire modern economic system is based on usury.

00:20:41.860 And the loosening of laws against usury has had a material benefit.

00:20:48.240 The economy exploded.

00:20:49.780 Material wealth exploded.

00:20:51.280 That's all true.

00:20:52.720 Don't think that when you commit bad things, you don't receive at least momentary or partial pleasure from it.

00:20:59.680 You do.

00:21:00.200 Of course you do.

00:21:01.420 If you didn't, then there would be no temptation to sin.

00:21:03.540 If you didn't enjoy, you know, doing naughty sex things, you wouldn't be tempted by them.

00:21:09.480 If you didn't get a sensory pleasure from eating too much food or drinking too much booze, there wouldn't be a temptation.

00:21:17.260 If all you got was the hangover, you wouldn't want it.

00:21:19.220 So there are these apparent benefits that come along with vices and sins.

00:21:26.040 That's what tempts us into them.

00:21:27.380 And with usury, it's been the creation of the modern economic system, which has given us a lot of material wealth.

00:21:32.160 But are we so stupid in liberal modernity that we think you can get something for nothing?

00:21:36.940 Are we so deluded in this utopian ideology that we think there isn't a cost to pretty much everything in this world?

00:21:45.460 What's the cost?

00:21:46.420 The cost is, in this case, that we've indebted ourselves, that we have become individually and nationally slaves to debt.

00:21:56.680 We've transformed from a civilization that would leave an inheritance to its children, that would leave the place better off than we found it,

00:22:04.080 into a civilization that, in the words of the conservative writer Patrick Deneen,

00:22:07.680 leaves to its children no inheritance other than a mountain of debt.

00:22:13.160 That is wrong.

00:22:14.380 There is a reason.

00:22:15.520 I think we need to accept this in our humility.

00:22:17.060 There is a reason that every serious civilization ever recognized that usury is very wrong.

00:22:26.380 And you're not going to dismantle the modern economic system.

00:22:28.980 Maybe you don't want to dismantle the modern economic system.

00:22:31.500 But we do have to acknowledge this is a problem, that a civilization that commits this kind of a sin,

00:22:37.120 that indebts its people this way, that takes advantage of people who sometimes aren't that bright

00:22:40.900 and who often don't have resources, that that's wrong to do.

00:22:45.700 And that we haven't reinvented the moral code.

00:22:48.660 And that a civilization that prioritizes material wealth above everything else is a civilization that worships mammon.

00:22:55.320 And that is not going to be conducive to human flourishing, even if we get more stuff.

00:23:00.500 Senator Hawley, I don't know what the details are on this yet, but he's going down the right path.

00:23:05.560 Also, by the way, it is politically beneficial for Republicans to be on the side of people

00:23:10.100 and not on the side of Wall Street jerks.

00:23:12.980 So, generally speaking, overall, this young, upstart, new right senator going down the right path.

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00:24:32.640 Okay, on the topic of debts and deficits, big deficits now.

00:24:38.480 Turning on 2024, most Republicans have an unfavorable view of Chris Christie.

00:24:44.960 Breaking news, stop the presses.

00:24:47.680 Chris Christie isn't very popular, I know.

00:24:49.680 That's not exactly a man-bites-dog story.

00:24:51.740 This is according to Morning Consult.

00:24:54.720 Just one quarter of Republican voters have a favorable view of Chris Christie.

00:24:59.100 That gives him a net favorable rating of negative 26.

00:25:02.860 That's not great.

00:25:04.940 Who's the second least favorable?

00:25:07.340 Republican, that would be Mike Pence.

00:25:09.100 Mike Pence has 37% of Republican voters expressing an unfavorable view of him.

00:25:14.840 His favorable rating, however, is overall, because unlike Christie, 51% of people have a favorable

00:25:19.840 view of him.

00:25:20.420 So he's still doing way better than Chris Christie is, but he has a pretty high on unfavorables

00:25:24.860 too.

00:25:25.280 Why do I bring this up?

00:25:26.420 Am I bringing this up because I think, there it goes, Chris Christie was this close to the

00:25:29.920 White House and then he disappeared.

00:25:31.920 Or Mike Pence was this close to becoming the nominee.

00:25:34.340 No.

00:25:34.580 I bring it up because Ron DeSantis, I think, still has a shot at the Republican Party nomination.

00:25:43.020 And these numbers do not bode very well for him.

00:25:45.920 Because in order for Ron DeSantis to become the Republican Party nominee, Donald Trump either

00:25:53.880 has to die, be ostracized, be legally prohibited from running for president, or Ron DeSantis has

00:26:05.660 to persuade people to stop liking Donald Trump.

00:26:08.060 Donald Trump now has, what, a 50-point lead in the Republican primary, at least a 40-point

00:26:12.980 lead.

00:26:13.220 And even in the early primary states, it's a 20-point lead.

00:26:17.700 DeSantis has to become much more critical of Trump.

00:26:21.300 No one's going to do it for DeSantis.

00:26:23.500 So DeSantis has to get much more aggressive against Trump to try to knock down his numbers.

00:26:28.800 But the problem with this poll is, what is the commonality between Mike Pence and Chris

00:26:34.400 Christie?

00:26:36.080 There's not a lot that those guys have in common, but the commonality is, they are the

00:26:40.020 two candidates who are most critical and most openly critical of Donald Trump.

00:26:45.800 And you see what that gets them.

00:26:47.660 It gets them a very, very high unfavorable rating, and it gets them very, very low poll

00:26:52.280 numbers in the Republican Party.

00:26:53.560 So I get why DeSantis is not being too openly critical of Trump.

00:26:59.340 He can't be.

00:27:00.260 He sees what happens to the other candidates who are openly critical of Trump.

00:27:03.020 But then what's the alternative?

00:27:05.380 This is the problem for his campaign that has existed long before he announced that he

00:27:10.280 was running.

00:27:11.440 He has very few options for maneuvering.

00:27:16.200 Where is he going to go?

00:27:17.300 If he gets more anti-Trump, he's going to end up like these two guys.

00:27:19.660 If he doesn't hit Trump at all, he's going to end up like Ted Cruz in 2016, who was playing

00:27:25.960 nice with Trump until it was too late.

00:27:31.040 So what's he going to—that's not a knock on either of their campaigns.

00:27:34.160 I think Senator Cruz ran a great campaign in 2016, and it just—it almost worked, but

00:27:39.680 it didn't work.

00:27:40.480 And here, you're seeing the repeat of that same campaign, and it hasn't gotten anywhere

00:27:45.240 near close to almost working as it did for Cruz in 2016.

00:27:48.480 The question that the DeSantis campaign has to ask now, as it is caught between a rock

00:27:52.600 and a hard place, is where can we go?

00:27:56.960 And I told you, I'm not endorsing in this primary.

00:27:59.500 I know a lot of conservatives in the media and in public life are effectively working

00:28:03.780 for these campaigns.

00:28:04.780 I'm not doing it.

00:28:05.900 When DeSantis does something good, I'm happy to applaud that, and I do it almost every

00:28:10.080 day.

00:28:10.420 When Trump does something good, and especially if his campaign is doing well, I will—I'm

00:28:14.640 happy to point that out too.

00:28:15.600 When Vivek is doing something good, when any of these guys are doing well, I merely want

00:28:21.320 to describe the campaign.

00:28:22.780 So I'm not working for any of them.

00:28:24.160 And in the case of DeSantis' problem, what do you do when you're caught between a rock

00:28:26.920 and a hard place?

00:28:27.680 I just don't have the answer.

00:28:28.960 If I were working on his campaign, I have no idea what I would advise him to do right

00:28:32.640 now.

00:28:33.940 It might be the case as—you know, I hate to say I told you so, but as I predicted early

00:28:37.640 on, that no matter how good a candidate you've got, no matter how genius the consultants

00:28:42.220 are, you hire the most big-brained people from Washington, D.C., sometimes the circumstances

00:28:47.060 are such that you don't have anywhere to move.

00:28:50.520 Putting people in a bad spot brings my attention over to The View, where even one of the big

00:28:59.260 libs on—they're all libs on The View, but one of the most openly liberal people on The

00:29:02.960 View, Sonny Hostin, is finally willing to admit that the Bidens are dirty.

00:29:10.000 People are going to be shocked.

00:29:11.400 I completely agree with that.

00:29:13.160 I think that there has been some—

00:29:14.780 But it happened more.

00:29:15.560 Shocking, right?

00:29:16.440 I think that there has been some impropriety.

00:29:21.200 I think that there are instances where Hunter Biden, in an attempt to show access to the

00:29:26.400 vice presidency, the vice president's office made phone calls to daddy. 0.85

00:29:30.580 Those have been taped.

00:29:32.000 I think we have the situation with his work in Ukraine.

00:29:36.360 We have the situation with his work in China.

00:29:38.580 There's no way that political influence wasn't a part of that.

00:29:42.640 I don't like nepotism across the board.

00:29:45.760 I mean, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

00:29:48.280 And so I understand that there is some real concern there.

00:29:50.800 But what is upsetting to me is that Kevin McCarthy and the Republican, this right-wing Republican

00:29:56.780 party, is trivializing what impeachment is.

00:30:02.080 High crimes and misdemeanors.

00:30:04.400 Our former twice impeached, disgraced former president—

00:30:09.340 Accused of, accused of, you know, talking to President Zelensky of Ukraine and trying

00:30:17.700 to do a quid pro quo and trade information for arms when his country was about to start

00:30:23.560 a-

00:30:23.680 Go into war with Russia. 0.83

00:30:25.640 That's-

00:30:25.940 Don't you think that's pretty significant?

00:30:30.140 That is literally what Biden did.

00:30:34.280 She starts out well.

00:30:35.680 She says, look, I think the Bidens are a little dirty.

00:30:37.500 They're peddling influence around the world.

00:30:39.020 And I'm willing to admit that.

00:30:40.600 But the Republicans are trivializing impeachment.

00:30:44.440 Look, when we impeached Trump, we did that because he pressured the leader of Ukraine to

00:30:51.740 give him something that he wanted to benefit himself personally.

00:30:55.980 And the threat behind that was that he would withhold military aid as Russia was looming on 0.57

00:31:00.800 the border.

00:31:01.140 That is exactly what Joe Biden did.

00:31:03.040 And Joe Biden, in his guileless corruption, he actually confessed to this at the Council

00:31:10.920 on Foreign Relations.

00:31:13.080 They were walking out to the press conference and said, no, I said, I'm not going to, we're

00:31:16.740 not going to give you the billion dollars.

00:31:18.800 They said, you have no authority.

00:31:20.400 You're not the president.

00:31:21.220 The president said, I said, call him.

00:31:24.120 I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars.

00:31:26.880 I said, you're not getting the billion.

00:31:28.260 I'm going to be leaving here.

00:31:29.280 And I think it was, what, six hours?

00:31:30.620 I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours.

00:31:32.160 If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.

00:31:35.660 Oh, son of a bitch.

00:31:37.680 He got fired.

00:31:39.300 He got fired.

00:31:40.340 The guy who was investigating the company that was sending my family a ton of money in

00:31:45.780 super, super crooked payments, that prosecutor got fired because I told Ukraine with an aggressive

00:31:51.860 Russia looming on the border that I was going to withhold a billion dollars in aid.

00:31:56.700 Anyway, dinner's on me tonight, fellas.

00:31:59.200 What bar do you want to go to?

00:32:00.560 Dude, this is so embarrassing for Sonny Hostin on The View because she, look, she made her 1.00

00:32:08.680 bed she's going to lie in it. 0.98

00:32:09.980 She decided that she was going to be a little bit honest about how corrupt Biden is, even

00:32:16.280 when some of the fake conservatives on the panel were trying to continue to carry water

00:32:19.760 for Biden.

00:32:20.420 She thought that she could engage in a limited hangout.

00:32:23.320 She thought that she could give the observers of Biden's corruption just a little bit of

00:32:29.660 truth and say, yeah, okay, you're right.

00:32:31.700 But he didn't do like what Trump did, what we accused Trump of doing.

00:32:35.480 When, I guess, Honey Hostin just doesn't follow the news closely enough, and the Democrats often

00:32:42.440 unwittingly just project the things that they accused their opponents of they themselves

00:32:45.660 have done.

00:32:46.240 She is describing and accusing Trump of doing the thing that we have video evidence of

00:32:51.280 Joe Biden himself doing.

00:32:52.500 Sounds like Sonny Hostin, and The View is for impeachment.

00:32:56.340 Now, Senator Ted Cruz, unsurprisingly, put this situation a little bit more clearly and

00:33:04.680 cogently than the ladies of The View.

00:33:08.300 Here is how Senator Cruz struck down one of the biggest talking points that the libs are

00:33:16.280 relying on to stop the impeachment of Joe Biden.

00:33:19.220 You know, the latest talking points Democrats are trying to trot out in response to this impeachment

00:33:25.220 inquiry, is there is no direct evidence of Joe's involvement in the corruption.

00:33:32.100 So they've pretty much given up on Hunter.

00:33:33.480 Yeah, Hunter's corrupt as the day is long, but there's no direct evidence of Joe's involvement.

00:33:39.220 That's what they're saying.

00:33:40.080 Now, that's a flat-out lie, too.

00:33:41.500 There's at least two instances of direct evidence of Joe's corruption.

00:33:46.080 Number one, you played on this show, which is Joe Biden's admission in front of the Council

00:33:52.680 on Foreign Relations, that he held a billion dollars of U.S. taxpayer loan guarantees hostage

00:33:59.940 in order to force the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating the Ukrainian

00:34:06.360 oligarch.

00:34:07.320 That is one of the critical elements of bribery of the quid pro quo.

00:34:12.240 Quid pro quo, as you know, is Latin.

00:34:14.520 For this, for that.

00:34:16.300 The that, Joe Biden has admitted to.

00:34:18.780 That is direct evidence that he's admitted to.

00:34:21.260 The only question is, is there the quid?

00:34:23.840 Is there the five to ten million dollars of payments?

00:34:26.420 Now, on that, there is circumstantial evidence.

00:34:29.460 There are the twenty million dollars plus of payments to the Biden family.

00:34:34.160 And there is also the consistent pattern of obstruction and covering it up.

00:34:39.320 Very well said, of course, as usual.

00:34:40.960 And a point that the senator is alluding to in this clip, and he said explicitly elsewhere,

00:34:46.240 is circumstantial evidence is good enough most of the time.

00:34:53.180 You'll sometimes hear people say, well, you can't prove that he committed that crime.

00:34:57.520 You've only got circumstantial evidence.

00:35:00.800 People are convicted of crimes every single day in the United States on circumstantial evidence.

00:35:06.520 Circumstantial evidence is pretty good.

00:35:07.720 Circumstantial evidence is different from direct evidence in that direct evidence is,

00:35:12.400 hey, hey, I saw it snow last night.

00:35:15.940 I stayed up late, and I looked outside my window, and it was snowing.

00:35:19.420 And I saw that, and I took some pictures of it, and I video recorded it,

00:35:22.360 and there's the direct evidence of the snow.

00:35:25.200 Circumstantial evidence is you go to sleep, and there's no snow on the ground,

00:35:28.240 as Senator Cruz says.

00:35:29.440 And you wake up in the morning, and there's snow on the ground.

00:35:32.620 And you say, okay, I don't have any proof that it snowed.

00:35:34.980 I don't have any hard, direct proof that it snowed because I don't have pictures or photographs.

00:35:40.720 I don't have eyewitness testimony.

00:35:43.300 But there wasn't snow on the ground when I closed my eyes, and there is snow on the ground now.

00:35:47.660 So I am going to use that circumstantial evidence to deduce it did, in fact, snow.

00:35:51.800 And we have got mountains of circumstantial evidence that Joe Biden engaged in this kind of corruption.

00:35:58.620 Handwritten notes, text messages, emails, a whole laptop from Hunter Biden giving a real insight into these crimes.

00:36:07.400 And then we've got some direct evidence as well, like when Joe Biden's admitting these things at the Council on Foreign Relations.

00:36:12.940 The only thing to do at this point is to impeach.

00:36:15.720 If the Republicans don't impeach, we just look completely feckless.

00:36:21.440 So Senator Cruz has the right idea.

00:36:23.460 Senator Barrasso has the right idea.

00:36:25.000 And the squishes need to get on board. 1.00

00:36:26.540 Speaking of corruption, moving from political corruption into corruption in the arts,

00:36:31.060 this video has just gone viral of an intruder making it to some fashion show

00:36:37.680 where he walks down the runway wearing a plastic bag before a security guard stops him.

00:36:45.720 There he is.

00:36:49.220 Guy's got a shower cap on.

00:36:51.280 He's got some kind of plastic bag or poncho.

00:36:54.840 And then he's strutting.

00:36:56.500 And then finally a security guard takes him down.

00:36:59.140 And the reason this has gone viral, I don't know when this was shot.

00:37:01.460 I don't know where this was shot.

00:37:02.800 But the reason it's gone viral is not because of the guy.

00:37:05.760 This was a good prank.

00:37:06.600 He pulled it off well.

00:37:07.880 It's because the audience looks completely nonplussed.

00:37:13.240 So yeah, there it is.

00:37:14.060 There's high fashion.

00:37:14.780 And we all know this.

00:37:16.780 Even if this were just a sketch on Saturday Night Live or something, we've all seen this

00:37:21.260 happen before where some modern artist will show something that's not beautiful, that's

00:37:25.940 not particularly intricate, that a three-year-old could have put together in two seconds.

00:37:30.500 And because of the, I don't know, the pretensions of the artist and of our culture, you'll have

00:37:38.360 otherwise serious, you know, well-dressed, wealthy, elite people looking at it, trying to pretend as

00:37:44.120 though there's some deeper meaning or that it's in some way aesthetically pleasing.

00:37:48.560 How does this happen?

00:37:49.620 This is what happens when art in a society ceases to be connected to beauty.

00:37:56.800 We'll get to that in one second.

00:37:58.520 But speaking of art and criticism, critics and fans alike are raving about convicting

00:38:02.480 a murderer, calling it one of the best documentaries of 2023.

00:38:05.840 It's been a massive success, reaching over 8 million views, ranking number two in documentaries

00:38:09.960 on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:38:11.180 Episode four is available now.

00:38:12.660 We have a sneak peek for you.

00:38:14.380 Take a look.

00:38:14.800 Coming up on Convicting a Murderer.

00:38:18.620 What would be the upside for this man?

00:38:20.580 I mean, he just got out of prison.

00:38:22.560 He has this new lease on life.

00:38:24.780 What would be the motive for something like this?

00:38:27.300 We're talking about somebody with unexplainable, impulsive behavior, a pattern of violence and

00:38:33.240 aggression.

00:38:34.120 There were a lot of coincidences on the day that Teresa Hallibach was killed and Making

00:38:38.800 a Murderer either completely omitted them or only presented half of the story.

00:38:43.500 Stephen Avery leaves work and doesn't tell his brothers.

00:38:47.660 He'd never used his sister's phone number to book an appointment before.

00:38:51.440 Stephen Avery makes two phone calls to Teresa's phone.

00:38:55.700 Why is he blocking his caller ID?

00:38:57.780 I don't think Teresa liked Stephen the way Stephen wanted her to like him.

00:39:03.720 You are the murderer because you turned your ass down.

00:39:06.220 Make sure that you're caught up on all the available episodes.

00:39:15.120 You do not want to miss one minute of this expose that Candace has done on Hollywood and 1.00

00:39:19.560 the filmmakers of Making a Murderer.

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00:39:23.600 Head over there now to start the series if you haven't already.

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00:39:31.280 My favorite comment is WafflesMcGallagher934 says,

00:39:36.140 The actress in the Apple skit also portrayed God in a Christian quote-unquote movie called

00:39:40.560 The Cabin.

00:39:41.480 Weird how she portrays a deity several different times.

00:39:44.060 It's because our culture worships black women. 1.00

00:39:48.160 And it's a little weird.

00:39:49.900 I like black women. 1.00

00:39:51.300 In fact, some of my best friends are black women, like my friend that I was just talking 1.00

00:39:54.420 about who made Convicting a Murderer.

00:39:56.080 But I don't worship black women, and our culture does. 1.00

00:39:59.400 You see countless articles, especially at election time, of, oh, black women have to 1.00

00:40:04.820 be our saviors again.

00:40:06.520 They're just so, they're the most perfect people on earth, and they're the most wise

00:40:11.120 and virtuous.

00:40:12.160 And it's a kind of idolatry, probably a fetish of our culture.

00:40:17.320 It's very, very strange.

00:40:19.580 But that's why.

00:40:20.220 That's why in liberal portrayals, God or the godlike figure is often going to be a black 1.00

00:40:27.160 woman.

00:40:27.420 And I say this as a swarthy man.

00:40:31.920 You know, there are lots of different categories here.

00:40:33.860 But speaking of aesthetics, the reason that this guy was able to walk down the runway in

00:40:40.180 a plastic bag and have people take that seriously as high fashion is because art, for at least

00:40:48.800 100 years now, has not been connected to beauty any longer.

00:40:53.340 Art has become critical, self-referential, ironic, and really just a form of anti-art,

00:41:03.520 a deconstruction of art.

00:41:04.640 You see this most clearly with an artist like Marcel Duchamp.

00:41:07.520 He's the modern artist who put a urinal in the middle of the floor and said, this is a

00:41:11.820 work of art, the fountain.

00:41:12.920 By the way, I say this as a modern artist.

00:41:16.340 I don't want to toot my own horn here, folks.

00:41:18.500 I am one of the most prominent modern artists in the world today.

00:41:22.400 My modern art piece, Reasons to Vote for Democrats, A Comprehensive Guide, a number one best-selling

00:41:28.080 blank book that continues to sell oodles and oodles of copies.

00:41:31.000 That is a work of modern art.

00:41:33.480 That is a deconstruction of the form of the book.

00:41:37.200 And yeah, I'm a regular Marcel Duchamp, but I'm a regular Damien Hirst.

00:41:41.240 But with all of those artists, I get a kick out of some of the work of like a Damien Hirst

00:41:46.740 who, I mean, he's got all these weird works of art, like a big shark and formaldehyde or

00:41:51.460 polka dots or whatever, or even Marcel Duchamp with the urinal.

00:41:55.280 But it's purely an intellectual and critical endeavor.

00:41:59.900 It's critical.

00:42:00.780 It's not artistic.

00:42:02.200 It's not beautiful.

00:42:03.060 When you disconnect from the transcendentals, the good, the true, and the beautiful, you

00:42:08.980 are left in this morass of relativism according to which you don't know if a guy wearing a

00:42:14.740 garbage bag is really wearing high fashion.

00:42:17.520 And in that society, because we know that it's not beautiful, we're not attracted to it in

00:42:23.080 anyway, we just have to take our cues from everybody else.

00:42:26.020 You kind of find yourself looking around you.

00:42:27.880 Is that person taking the art seriously?

00:42:29.300 Is that person taking the art seriously?

00:42:31.400 And then you convince yourself that ugly works of art are actually beautiful and worth lots

00:42:35.840 of money.

00:42:37.300 That's a society that's much more volatile.

00:42:39.640 And I think it helps to explain from the artistic angle some of the political volatility that

00:42:46.000 we're seeing that was less common in earlier ages of our country and our civilization.

00:42:51.000 Because we're not grounding our views and our behaviors in anything objective and real

00:42:56.340 anymore.

00:42:57.000 The good, the true, and the beautiful are objective.

00:42:59.200 They're unchanging.

00:43:00.540 We can discourse rationally about them.

00:43:02.560 And this kind of crap, the modern art and the wearing garbage bags around and urinals pretending

00:43:08.540 to be fine works of sculpture, there's nothing objective about that.

00:43:12.540 It's all socially contextualized.

00:43:14.840 It's all contingent on the feelings of the people in the room, which can change rapidly because

00:43:21.920 man's passions are wild and the imagination of man's heart is evil from the beginning.

00:43:26.480 Expect more volatility the more crazy, kooky art we get.

00:43:30.980 All right, speaking of art, is this one going to kick me off YouTube too?

00:43:35.420 All right, I'm going to try, I'm going to try to speak in a very specific way here and

00:43:40.140 you can either bleep me, I don't know, we'll see what happens.

00:43:43.560 The actress Ellen Page, who now pretends to be a man named Elliot Page, this lady is arguing 0.95

00:43:52.260 that we need gender neutral acting categories for the big award shows.

00:43:56.800 Page says, yeah, it seems like a good idea, according to Entertainment Weekly.

00:44:01.080 And again, this sort of unusual aspect of that being the only category, right, where that

00:44:05.260 sort of happens.

00:44:06.300 So hopefully we start moving beyond that degree of binary thinking.

00:44:09.920 Page.

00:44:11.700 The performer known as Page, first initial E, is saying here that we don't have best female

00:44:18.820 director, best male director awards.

00:44:21.020 We don't have best female cinematographer, best male cinematographer.

00:44:25.060 So why is it that we have best actress and best actor?

00:44:29.740 And she's kind of got a point.

00:44:33.000 I'll give you the answer.

00:44:34.080 The reason that we have best actor and best actress is because actors and actresses used

00:44:38.780 to be different.

00:44:39.700 You wouldn't confuse an actor for an actress or vice versa.

00:44:42.380 Because men and women used to be different, you wouldn't confuse a man for a woman or vice

00:44:45.640 versa.

00:44:45.900 But if that should change, and that is in the process of changing, with the exaltation

00:44:53.140 of androgyny and gender-bending performances and dress and ideology, the line between actor

00:45:01.460 and actress is going to be blurred.

00:45:03.040 In fact, Page is blurring that line.

00:45:07.140 So we might hate it.

00:45:10.020 We might stamp our feet and bang our hands.

00:45:12.160 But it is a fact.

00:45:13.300 That's the way the industry is moving.

00:45:14.680 That's the way art broadly is moving.

00:45:17.580 When you move away from Brunelleschi and Bernini and Raphael and Titian and Caravaggio, when you

00:45:26.560 move away from high art that is rooted in beauty and you move toward a urinal on the floor of

00:45:33.020 a gallery, things are going to get ambiguous and confusing and blurry and downright degenerate

00:45:40.080 and not conducive to human flourishing.

00:45:42.920 The same thing is going to happen in every other art form.

00:45:45.380 The same thing is going to happen in movies.

00:45:47.560 They're probably going to get rid of the separate best actor and best actress categories.

00:45:52.700 And most people probably aren't going to know because people are just going to tune out

00:45:55.560 the awards shows.

00:45:56.380 And people are going to tune out the awards shows because people are tuning out the movies.

00:46:00.160 It is a path to artistic irrelevance.

00:46:03.020 But it doesn't mean that the industry itself isn't going to do it.

00:46:06.040 Now, speaking of things that men and women do together, there's a new study out, very

00:46:10.520 helpful to the pro-life cause and very helpful to poor little babies who are being targeted

00:46:15.000 by liberals.

00:46:17.360 It knocks down a lie that we've heard, which is that abortion is not painful to babies.

00:46:23.380 Abortion is not painful to babies.

00:46:25.020 At a certain point, it becomes painful.

00:46:26.420 And when the babies are capable of pain, then maybe we'll have some restrictions on it.

00:46:30.420 But early on in pregnancy, it's just not painful.

00:46:32.380 So just we can poison them and chop them up, and they don't feel any pain.

00:46:35.980 And that's obviously not true.

00:46:37.720 And I think we all know intuitively that that's not true.

00:46:39.740 Well, we've got a study now that backs it up.

00:46:42.040 It's called Reconsidering Fetal Pain by two medical professionals, Stuart Derbyshire and

00:46:47.040 John C. Bachman.

00:46:47.880 And what the study says is fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because

00:46:54.640 fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion.

00:46:59.380 Very clinical language.

00:47:00.560 But he says, we have divergent views regarding the morality of abortion, but have come together

00:47:05.060 to address the evidence for fetal pain.

00:47:07.100 So they're saying, look, we're not both pro-lifers.

00:47:11.560 We're not both pro-abortion.

00:47:12.300 We have different views on abortion, but we're just addressing, do these babies actually feel

00:47:15.920 pain, and they say, at 12 weeks gestation, there are the first projections from the thalamus

00:47:20.480 into the cortical subplate, and then they use a bunch of scientific jargon to explain

00:47:25.400 how we think that pain begins much, much later in pregnancy.

00:47:31.000 But actually, no, it doesn't, as people think now, begin around 24 weeks.

00:47:35.080 It probably starts around 12 weeks gestation.

00:47:38.300 And so what the conclusion is, fetal analgesia and anesthesia should thus be standard for

00:47:45.640 abortions in the second trimester, especially after 18 weeks, when there is good evidence

00:47:49.720 for a functional connection from the periphery and into the brain.

00:47:52.220 So this is an amazing conclusion.

00:47:53.640 What they're saying is, look, we used to think there was pain starting at 24 weeks, that the

00:47:58.740 babies would feel the pain.

00:47:59.920 Now we think it could be as early as 12 weeks, and it's certainly as early as 18 weeks.

00:48:04.960 So when you murder your baby at 12 to 24 weeks, give him an anesthetic, and then chop him up

00:48:13.200 or poison him or inject him full of saline solution.

00:48:16.320 But when you're about to murder your child, just know he's in excruciating pain.

00:48:21.740 So you're going to want to give him an anesthetic before you chop him up.

00:48:24.680 Um, what, what woman, maybe some psychopath doctor, you know, doctor, abortionist doesn't 1.00

00:48:38.040 care about any of that, but what mother is going to say, wait, my baby feels pain.

00:48:41.780 So, okay, if I'm going to have to give him an anesthetic so I can kill him, well, if I

00:48:45.580 give him an anesthetic, he sounds kind of like a person.

00:48:47.900 His people feel pain.

00:48:49.100 So it doesn't feel just like a clump of cells anymore.

00:48:51.380 Maybe I shouldn't kill my kid.

00:48:52.460 Now, what's amazing here is the fact of whether or not a baby in the womb feels pain should

00:49:01.380 not be all that morally relevant.

00:49:04.280 There are people who can't feel pain.

00:49:06.460 There's still people.

00:49:07.320 We still shouldn't murder them.

00:49:09.160 The question is, is this baby a baby?

00:49:11.100 Is this a human being?

00:49:12.140 Is this a live person?

00:49:13.360 One of the, uh, aspects of being a living person is that you feel pain often in most,

00:49:21.900 much of the time you are capable of feeling pain, but that shouldn't actually matter to

00:49:26.720 the moral question of whether or not it's right to kill an innocent little baby, whether

00:49:30.260 he feels pain or not.

00:49:31.160 And yet it is relevant.

00:49:32.760 Politically, it is relevant because as a friend of mine says, facts don't care about your

00:49:36.120 feelings, but politics, I will complicate the phrasing politics largely cares about your

00:49:42.340 feelings and the science here is on our side and the science doesn't just exist in a vacuum.

00:49:48.500 Our bodies don't just exist in a vacuum.

00:49:50.300 The facts of this world don't exist in a vacuum.

00:49:52.080 The physical facts of this world imply certain metaphysical things and moral things, and they

00:49:56.780 pull on our heartstrings for good reason.

00:49:58.380 And this is all the more reason for the conservatives as we get a new generation of leadership and

00:50:04.560 we stop being so squishy to get even tougher on these laws and stand up for objective truth

00:50:11.520 so we don't live in a subjectivist, relativistic civilization where we've got urinals all over 1.00

00:50:16.760 the floors pretending to be art.

00:50:18.700 The rest of the show continues now.

00:50:20.160 You don't want to miss it.

00:50:20.860 This is a really big show.

00:50:22.640 My friend, Congressman Eric Burleson is going to be on the show.

00:50:26.260 Congressman Burleson is on the alien committee, the UFO committee, and you know my views on

00:50:33.520 the aliens, but just yesterday we had that big breaking news story that some obvious hoax

00:50:39.680 artist made a little statue of E.T. and pretended it's a thousand-year-old alien mummy.

00:50:44.260 So anyway, we'll get to that latest update and we will destroy Matthew Walsh with facts and

00:50:49.380 logic.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 14, 2023

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