The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1344 - Trump Takes Over Speaker Of The House？

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00:00:37.680 Kevin McCarthy is officially out as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

00:00:42.280 Mr. McCarthy is the first Speaker in history to be ousted from the job by a vote.

00:00:48.460 And he is out because Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz led a rebellion of just eight Republicans to vote against the Speaker.

00:00:58.340 Since the GOP majority in the House is so thin, eight Republicans was all it took to defect.

00:01:04.020 And along with the unified votes of the Democrats, who didn't want to vote to save McCarthy,

00:01:09.540 they all brought McCarthy's brief tenure to a close.

00:01:13.240 Here is Congressman Gaetz defending the uprising. 1.00

00:01:16.240 Look at that big ass. 1.00

00:01:18.780 Look at that big juicy booty. 1.00

00:01:20.880 Sorry, that was an audio clip of AOC over a picture of Ilhan Omar licking her lips,

00:01:28.220 literally licking her lips while staring at the backside of Congressman Gaetz yesterday.

00:01:33.140 I'm not sure how that video got in there.

00:01:35.080 Here is Matt Gaetz defending the uprising.

00:01:37.680 Kevin McCarthy is the Speaker of the House of Representatives,

00:01:40.860 and he has failed to take a stand where it matters.

00:01:44.220 So if he won't, I will.

00:01:46.760 I make no apologies for defending the right of every hardworking American to afford a decent life for themselves and their families.

00:01:55.200 And we have a greater opportunity to do that and to build coalitions under new leadership.

00:02:00.600 We have to rip off the Band-Aid.

00:02:02.620 We have to get back on a better course.

00:02:04.720 And, Mr. Speaker, I don't know how this vote's going to go.

00:02:06.860 Usually when a vote comes to this floor, it's pretty predetermined.

00:02:10.080 And this one, I'm not so sure.

00:02:12.700 But I am sure that we've made the right argument.

00:02:16.300 That this place deserves single-subject spending bills.

00:02:18.900 That we should have 72 hours to read a bill.

00:02:21.760 That something that spends more than $100 million shouldn't be put on the suspension agenda such that we can't amend it.

00:02:29.260 And there shouldn't be secret side deals made on a continuing resolution to lump Ukraine in with border security.

00:02:38.080 That is not right for Ukraine or border security because it fails to give either of those issues the dignity that they would require.

00:02:45.520 Let's get our act together.

00:02:46.940 Let's get on with it.

00:02:48.000 Let's vacate the chair.

00:02:49.260 And let's get a better speaker.

00:02:50.540 I yield back.

00:02:50.960 All fair points.

00:02:53.780 All fair.

00:02:54.220 The only thing that wasn't totally fair about that was the tailoring on Matt Gaetz's jacket.

00:02:58.800 He needs a better tailor.

00:02:59.680 But otherwise, he sounded great.

00:03:00.920 He looked great.

00:03:01.440 He raised a lot of totally legit points.

00:03:05.200 But now the question that we are left with is, what now?

00:03:11.040 What happens now?

00:03:13.080 McCarthy wasn't great.

00:03:14.800 But he was far from the worst.

00:03:16.660 In fact, this is probably damning with faint praise, but it's still true.

00:03:22.980 Kevin McCarthy is probably the most conservative speaker that Republicans have had since Joe Martin in the 1950s.

00:03:29.840 He was certainly better than Paul Ryan, certainly better than John Boehner.

00:03:33.840 Arguably, he was more conservative even than Newt Gingrich.

00:03:37.100 But he lost the trust of some key conservatives.

00:03:41.960 So now he's out.

00:03:43.300 And now there is a vacancy for the worst job in all of American politics.

00:03:49.520 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:50.200 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:10.080 Welcome back to the show.

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00:04:22.680 First, though, I don't want to move off of the speaker issue too quickly.

00:04:26.080 And I know a lot of people are asking, Michael, who should be the next speaker?

00:04:31.200 Is Kevin McCarthy going to run again?

00:04:33.080 No, he said he's not going to run again.

00:04:34.680 He could have just run again, maybe whittled away at those eight Republicans, giving them more concessions.

00:04:39.620 And then – but he says, no, I don't want the job.

00:04:42.440 Some people are suggesting, well, it could be Matt Gaetz.

00:04:45.280 Matt Gaetz is never going to get those votes.

00:04:47.160 It may be Jim Jordan.

00:04:48.620 That would be amazing.

00:04:49.480 I love Jim Jordan.

00:04:50.360 He'd be a terrific speaker.

00:04:51.520 But I like him too much to wish such a terrible job on him.

00:04:54.780 There's no way – he hasn't really expressed his desire for the job.

00:04:59.880 In fact, the one prominent person who has put forward his name to be the next Speaker of the House is Matt Walsh.

00:05:08.220 And so I would like to officially and fully endorse Matt Walsh for Speaker.

00:05:14.440 Matt has a lot of experience in Washington.

00:05:17.880 I know that he's been busy dancing, but I think that he could bring to bear all of that work that he has done for the Vice President and others in Washington to the Speaker's chair, to that gavel.

00:05:32.280 So Matt Walsh has my full ringing endorsement.

00:05:36.600 And the top reason why I am endorsing Matt Walsh or really anyone over myself, because you don't need to be a member of Congress to be Speaker in theory, the reason is because under no circumstances would I ever seek the Speakership of the House of Representatives because it is the single worst job in Washington, D.C.

00:06:04.940 One would probably rather clean out the portable latrines on the National Mall than be the Speaker of the House.

00:06:12.040 It is absolutely terrible.

00:06:14.020 It is herding cats at best.

00:06:17.000 And you'll be thrown out and called a bum and called the worst person in the world.

00:06:20.560 You get absolutely no glory. 0.93

00:06:22.140 You get absolutely no thanks.

00:06:24.000 And the recent Republican speakers have ended their careers in shame.

00:06:29.560 So no.

00:06:31.400 No.

00:06:31.780 Who would want that job? 1.00

00:06:33.080 Why is it so bad?

00:06:34.100 It's not the worst job if you're a Democrat.

00:06:37.000 People love Nancy Pelosi.

00:06:38.740 Nancy Pelosi was able to accomplish a lot of things.

00:06:41.080 Not very good things, but she was able to accomplish a lot.

00:06:43.920 She has a lot of influence.

00:06:44.960 She has a lot of prominence in the Democrat Party.

00:06:47.060 She's helped shape the Democrat agenda. 0.96

00:06:49.660 She's still lauded as one of the leaders of the party.

00:06:52.460 The same cannot be said of Paul Ryan.

00:06:54.180 The same cannot be said of John Boehner.

00:06:56.320 Even Newt, he was the most effective one we've had in a long time, perhaps other than Kevin McCarthy.

00:07:01.980 Although Newt Gingrich was certainly more effective than Kevin McCarthy.

00:07:05.460 Kevin McCarthy might have been a little bit more conservative.

00:07:07.360 But regardless, why is it that the Democrats do better in the job than the Republicans do?

00:07:13.000 The reason is because for the Republicans, it is an impossible job.

00:07:17.760 Because the Republican Party is split in far more distinct ways than the Democrats are.

00:07:23.680 The Democratic Party is split between extremely progressive people and slightly less progressive people.

00:07:32.040 There aren't really very many conservative Democrats at all.

00:07:35.360 Maybe Henry Quellar of Texas would be, but he's probably the only one, okay?

00:07:39.180 So you've got the extreme far-left liberals.

00:07:42.680 You've got AOC and Ilhan Omar.

00:07:45.080 And then you've got the slightly less extreme ones like Nancy Pelosi. 0.53

00:07:48.720 But they're all on the same page.

00:07:50.460 Directionally, they're all facing the same way.

00:07:52.400 And so it's easy to wrangle them.

00:07:54.600 With the Republicans, you've got the conservatives, mostly in the Freedom Caucus.

00:08:00.380 And then you've got the liberals, who are the moderates, who are the ones who agree with Democrats on a lot of issues.

00:08:07.160 But they're at least nominally Republican, and they vote with the Republicans on some issues.

00:08:11.040 And we want them to be with the Republicans so that we don't get completely blown out in these votes.

00:08:15.800 But how do you reconcile those things?

00:08:17.920 When it comes down to foundational premises of politics, all of the Democrats are on the same page.

00:08:24.620 When it comes down to foundational premises of politics, the Republicans are split.

00:08:28.440 You've got the conservatives and the liberals.

00:08:32.280 And the two will never get all that close together.

00:08:36.660 So anyone who's going to wrangle them is going to have to be able to be a little bit squishy, which is going to irritate the conservatives.

00:08:42.940 And the conservatives, rightly, are going to say, well, I don't want to go along with that.

00:08:45.980 If the choice we have in Congress is between super-duper liberals and slightly less intense liberals, then what's the point?

00:08:52.200 That's not a choice.

00:08:52.900 That's an echo.

00:08:54.600 And so they're going to pull their support.

00:08:55.900 However, the ousting of Kevin McCarthy should not come as a surprise to anyone.

00:09:03.380 It's been occurring in slow motion, but it should not come as a surprise to anyone.

00:09:09.660 This was baked in the moment that Kevin McCarthy gave in to some of the demands of the conservatives, which is he offered them the motion to vacate.

00:09:17.800 The fact that they could, just with one member, stand up there and say, no more speaker.

00:09:22.180 He offered them all sorts of concessions on committees.

00:09:26.680 He offered them, which is one of the arguments as to why he wasn't the worst speaker we've ever had.

00:09:30.880 He offered them a lot more prominence, and he made them promises that he was not able to keep.

00:09:37.280 And so they ousted him.

00:09:39.080 Who takes over now?

00:09:40.480 Few names have been floated beyond Matt Walsh, which is Steve Scalise, House Majority Leader,

00:09:45.580 and Tom Emmer, House Majority Whip, and Donald Trump.

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00:11:40.300 Who's going to be speaker?

00:11:42.000 Probably not going to be Steve Scalise.

00:11:43.600 Steve Scalise would be a great choice for it, but he is suffering from a pretty brutal

00:11:49.120 cancer diagnosis, so it's probably not going to be him.

00:11:52.620 Elise Stefanik, the Republican from New York, who's a little bit lib, but she has played 0.73

00:11:58.120 her cards pretty well, and she's been on the right side of Trump.

00:12:01.620 She is the House GOP conference chairman.

00:12:04.680 However, she is being talked about as a potential VP pick for Trump, so she probably doesn't

00:12:10.120 want the speakership.

00:12:11.660 Tom Emmer is the House majority whip.

00:12:14.480 He is kind of on the wrong side of Trump, and whether you love Trump or hate Trump, Trump's

00:12:19.780 a big figure in the Republican Party, not a great place to be.

00:12:22.220 When he was NRCC chairman, that's the Congressional Campaign Committee for the Republicans, he

00:12:29.760 encouraged Republicans not to mention Trump's name on the campaign trail.

00:12:34.480 He was pretty critical of Trump in 2016.

00:12:37.960 I don't know.

00:12:39.700 I don't really—maybe Emmer gets it.

00:12:42.180 He's probably the most likely candidate right now, or he's definitely in the top three.

00:12:45.340 McCarthy says he won't run again.

00:12:49.500 Thomas Massey is—I can't imagine—he's extremely conservative, and he was opposed to the motion

00:12:56.700 to vacate for the same reasons that I said, because he said McCarthy—I'm not saying McCarthy's

00:13:01.120 great, but he was the best we've had in a long time, and I don't know that we're going

00:13:03.860 to do much better.

00:13:04.780 So who could it be?

00:13:05.640 Could it be Trump himself?

00:13:07.760 I think it should be Trump.

00:13:09.780 Assuming Matt wants to focus on his dancing career, I think the speaker should be Donald

00:13:15.680 Trump, because that is the funniest of all options, and because there aren't any notably

00:13:23.120 better options before us.

00:13:24.880 The best option probably would be Jim Jordan.

00:13:27.620 Jim Jordan has said repeatedly he has no desire to have the job.

00:13:30.780 He would much rather stay where he is on the Judiciary Committee.

00:13:33.740 He's doing excellent work there on the Judiciary Committee.

00:13:36.600 I like him personally.

00:13:37.860 I really like Jim Jordan.

00:13:39.000 I don't wish such a terrible job on him.

00:13:41.020 And Trump would have a lot of fun with it.

00:13:43.560 And it would just—because we're in this moment of political upheaval where the Democrats

00:13:50.680 have destroyed basically all of the norms of our political order, and they're focusing

00:13:55.900 all of that destruction on the person of Donald Trump, then the way to bring all of this to

00:14:02.800 the fore would, of course, be to put Trump in the number three position in the entire U.S.

00:14:07.660 government.

00:14:08.720 And then you just kind of wait to see what happens.

00:14:12.220 If, for instance—well, here's a great reason why it should be Trump.

00:14:16.700 Donald Trump right now has been threatened with a gag order.

00:14:21.320 So the judge in one of the zillion trials of Donald Trump, the judge in this financial trial

00:14:27.980 where they're trying to take away his companies, and they're trying to pretend that his companies

00:14:31.640 aren't worth very much money, even though we know that they are.

00:14:34.660 They're pretending that Mar-a-Lago is worth $18 million.

00:14:37.160 Mar-a-Lago does $25 million a year, just the business.

00:14:40.160 Forget about the property.

00:14:41.060 The property is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

00:14:43.280 But they're trying to take this away, and they issued a gag order on Trump.

00:14:47.500 Judge Arthur N. Goran issued this limited gag order against everyone in the civil case to

00:14:53.820 stop verbal and social media posted swipes at members of the staff because Trump took

00:14:57.640 a swipe at one of the judge's staff members and pointed out that she's a huge lib. 1.00

00:15:02.020 Alison Greenfield is a big lib.

00:15:03.680 She's a big Democrat. 1.00

00:15:04.440 And Trump said, this is a crooked case, and I'm just being politically persecuted.

00:15:08.560 And look at all these big libs on your staff. 1.00

00:15:10.240 And the judge says, you can't talk about how we're all big libs.

00:15:12.860 Or if you do talk about it, we're going to put you in jail for 30 days.

00:15:16.840 So here's my proposal.

00:15:18.500 Donald Trump becomes Speaker of the House of Representatives.

00:15:21.540 He then, as the leader of the lower body of one of the branches of government, he has open

00:15:29.820 debate on the floor of the House, and he gets to say whatever he wants.

00:15:32.640 And the judge can't do a damn thing about it because that would lead to a constitutional

00:15:35.260 crisis, more of a constitutional crisis than we're already in.

00:15:40.060 He's probably not going to be Speaker, but it would be really funny.

00:15:42.520 Could you imagine?

00:15:43.580 Could you imagine sitting there at the State of the Union?

00:15:47.260 Gung, gung, gung.

00:15:49.520 All right, ladies and gentlemen, here's the president, okay? 1.00

00:15:53.720 I'm the president, not that jerk. 0.99

00:15:55.560 Okay, speaking of speaking out, and even assuming that Donald Trump, by the way, is not the 0.99

00:16:02.460 Speaker of the House, Trump should violate this gag order.

00:16:05.600 He certainly should violate the gag order.

00:16:07.680 I'm not sure that I would have said a week ago that he should call the members of this

00:16:11.460 judge's staff big libs, but now he must. 0.78

00:16:15.660 He has to do it because all of these prosecutions are a ridiculous farce.

00:16:22.060 None of them have anything to do with any crimes that Donald Trump supposedly committed. 0.64

00:16:27.080 He's not being brought up on rape charges.

00:16:29.360 Give me a break.

00:16:29.940 In New York, he's not being brought up on insurrection and the evil, horrible crime of

00:16:36.480 calling the Secretary of State of Georgia when you're the President of the United States

00:16:40.420 or this, that.

00:16:41.240 I don't even remember all the charges.

00:16:43.300 Now, of overvaluing his businesses.

00:16:46.480 Give me a break.

00:16:48.020 He's not being brought up on any of that because they are crimes.

00:16:51.020 He's being brought up on those things because the liberal ruling class wants to destroy the

00:16:56.100 former president and current leader of the political opposition.

00:16:59.460 That's all it's about.

00:17:00.560 It's all just about 2024.

00:17:03.540 And so Trump has to speak out.

00:17:05.240 Let them put him in jail.

00:17:07.300 Let them.

00:17:07.720 There are still some people, probably not you if you're listening to this show.

00:17:12.680 I don't care if you love Trump, if you hate Trump, if you're a left-wing Democrat.

00:17:15.820 If you're listening to this show and you pay attention to politics, you know that this

00:17:20.600 is a political persecution.

00:17:22.820 But there are some people, very unfortunate people, who perhaps don't yet listen to this

00:17:27.440 show, who naively think that these trials are really just about the blind law being evenly

00:17:36.440 distributed to everybody and Lady Justice wears the blindfold and so Donald Trump, he's 0.73

00:17:41.900 just going to be held to account if he did anything wrong.

00:17:43.360 Some people naively still believe that.

00:17:46.140 Let them put him in an orange jumpsuit.

00:17:48.420 Let him sit in a jail.

00:17:50.500 Let the reality of this political persecution set in, of what a banana republic the Democrats

00:17:55.840 have made this country into.

00:17:57.560 Let that set in.

00:17:58.960 I think it would help Trump's campaign.

00:18:01.200 I think it would, even if it hurt Trump's campaign, I think it would be good for the American

00:18:04.980 political order because we would have to confront a very nasty reality, which is that we are no

00:18:12.160 longer governed like a bill up on Capitol Hill and all the other BS you learned in your civics

00:18:16.280 class.

00:18:17.020 If we were governed that way, we are governed that way no longer, and we're not going to

00:18:20.640 fix the problem until we acknowledge it.

00:18:23.500 Speaking of speaking out, speaking of people with power, Pope Francis has signaled an openness

00:18:33.100 to a sort of same-sex blessing, not gay marriage exactly, but kind of a same-sex blessing, and

00:18:41.840 potentially even a type of woman priestess sort of maybe situation in the Catholic Church.

00:18:50.180 This is all extremely complex.

00:18:55.560 One, because the Libs lie as journalists.

00:19:00.600 But I don't want to blame everything on the Lib journalists here.

00:19:04.140 Two, because the Holy Father tends to speak in a way that might be a little bit ambiguous.

00:19:11.920 Three, because the Jesuits, and Pope Francis is a Jesuit, the first Jesuit pope ever,

00:19:17.800 they have a habit of being a little cagey about the way that they speak.

00:19:25.940 Four, because the Catholic Church, being 2,000 years old, and at least in my view, divinely

00:19:31.560 instituted, has a lot of layers to it.

00:19:34.560 You know, there's mystery there.

00:19:36.000 And so it can't be easily, you know, jotted down in five bullet points on the back of a

00:19:42.180 napkin.

00:19:42.540 But that is why, even though I usually, when Pope Francis is in the news, I say, oh, who

00:19:48.840 cares?

00:19:49.340 I'm not concerned about that.

00:19:51.060 Things will sort itself out.

00:19:52.620 But it's not, it's probably being misrepresented.

00:19:56.020 But here, this is really worrisome, because the Catholic Church is headed for something 1.00

00:19:59.980 called a synod on synodality.

00:20:03.220 What is that?

00:20:03.980 Your guess is as good as mine.

00:20:05.220 It is a meeting of bishops and lay people and non-Catholics, for some reason, who are

00:20:13.140 all joining together.

00:20:14.180 It's not an ecumenical council.

00:20:15.740 It's not, people don't really know what it is.

00:20:19.360 And it's potentially a campaign to restructure the very constitution of the church.

00:20:29.740 And there is the possibility that the church, which has uniquely held firm against these

00:20:37.560 errors of modernity that have infected other institutions, things like the contraceptive

00:20:42.060 mentality, things like abortion, things like the sexual revolution, you know, especially

00:20:46.300 we've seen those three things in the last 60 years.

00:20:48.640 The Catholic Church has held firm.

00:20:49.860 Even supposedly liberal popes, like Pope Paul VI, held firm.

00:20:53.400 Issues Humanae Vitae, which says no contraception, no abortion, no none of that weird stuff.

00:20:58.040 Pope Francis has said, you cannot bless sin.

00:21:02.180 Pope Francis has said things that seem pretty orthodox, pretty Catholic.

00:21:07.640 But then we see in response to questions that were posed to him by his cardinals, he seemed

00:21:17.740 a little ambiguous about whether priests can issue blessings of same-sex situations, let's

00:21:27.320 call it situationships maybe, and of women's roles in the church. 1.00

00:21:32.360 So my takeaway, perhaps we'll get to this on Theology Thursday because this is a big deal

00:21:37.420 and the Catholic Church being the bedrock institution of Western civilization, even if you're not

00:21:42.160 Catholic, you probably would agree with that statement.

00:21:45.880 If there are big disruptions afoot in the Catholic Church, that is going to affect everybody,

00:21:51.540 whether you're Catholic yet or not.

00:21:53.880 Ultimately, I'm not concerned because I believe that the church is divinely instituted, and

00:21:58.040 I believe that our Lord will never leave his church, and I believe he sent the Holy Spirit

00:22:01.460 to guide the church.

00:22:02.520 But this, we could be heading for a very, very scandalous moment.

00:22:07.480 So we've got to peer into that.

00:22:10.600 I think it was Pope Paul VI who said, the smoke of Satan has entered the Vatican, that there

00:22:14.840 was this period of intense upheaval and danger that we were entering into.

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00:24:46.080 Speaking of weird sex stuff, I was having this conversation the other night with sweet little

00:24:53.560 Alisa, and we were just talking about how the world has gotten so crazy and why men and

00:24:58.580 women are acting so weird about each other. 1.00

00:25:01.260 And Alisa raised the question.

00:25:03.460 She said, you know, Mac, it's kind of like a little bit weird how we just pump women full 0.98

00:25:08.460 of hormones and chemicals for like decades at a time, you know, starting when they're like

00:25:13.220 13 years old and, Mac, do you think any of the relationship problems, the divorces, whatever,

00:25:19.420 could that be linked to that?

00:25:21.500 And I said, you know, girl, that's an interesting suggestion, as are many of Alisa's suggestions.

00:25:27.120 So then I Googled it, and it turns out she's probably right.

00:25:29.740 I found this story, which originated in the UK Independent.

00:25:34.760 So, you know, major paper that suggests that marital problems are a side effect of birth

00:25:42.000 control use.

00:25:43.720 85% of people in Britain said that their marriage or relationship had been impacted by contraception's

00:25:51.520 side effects.

00:25:53.080 According to this survey here, women who had ever taken hormonal oral contraceptives, the

00:25:58.960 pill, that sort of thing, divorced at a rate 54% above the study average.

00:26:06.660 Women with tubal ligations who had their tubes tied, divorced at a rate 78% above average.

00:26:15.200 Husbands who have had vasectomies were twice as likely to divorce.

00:26:21.460 The divorce rate for couples who had ever used condoms was 67% above the average.

00:26:26.860 And, on the flip side of things, women who actively used natural family planning, which 1.00

00:26:34.120 is something that the church has encouraged in the past, and it's a little more natural.

00:26:40.680 And one hopes it is to be used so that you can have more children, not used as a sneaky

00:26:46.280 backdoor into contraception.

00:26:48.140 But it's one that Christians are a little more inclined toward.

00:26:51.660 We're 47% less likely to divorce than the average.

00:26:56.860 If you considered women who had ever used NFP, ever in their whole lives, the group was 0.75

00:27:03.120 still 31% less likely to divorce.

00:27:07.240 Now, you could say, well, right, the reason for these numbers is that if you ever use

00:27:14.260 contraception, then you're not going to be Catholic.

00:27:18.500 You're not going to be practicing the Catholic faith, for instance.

00:27:20.720 And Catholics say that you can't get divorced, and modern libs say that you can get divorced, 0.98

00:27:24.740 so that's why they're more likely to divorce.

00:27:27.680 Same goes for other religious communities.

00:27:32.280 Michael, it's that their behavior vis-a-vis contraception is indicative of deeper beliefs,

00:27:37.620 and the deeper beliefs are responsible for their behaviors relative to divorce.

00:27:42.280 Okay, yeah, maybe.

00:27:43.460 Maybe, yeah, sure.

00:27:44.320 That explains a lot of it.

00:27:46.260 Could it also be, though?

00:27:47.740 We know that contraception, we know that the pill, for instance, changes women's biochemistry, 0.99

00:27:55.720 and it could have effects on the kind of men that they're attracted to, and how they're

00:28:00.240 attracted to them, and different mood swings, and all the rest of it.

00:28:02.740 Is it possible that by radically altering women's hormones and biochemistry for decades at a time, 0.74

00:28:10.300 we're kind of messing up the way that they relate to the men in their lives?

00:28:14.460 It seems likely to me.

00:28:16.520 At the very least, we know that other drugs are messing up people's sexual development,

00:28:21.800 especially kids' sexual development.

00:28:23.860 Antidepressant drugs, which everybody is on now, a shocking number of Americans are on these

00:28:29.640 depression pills that radically alter their brain chemistry.

00:28:34.000 We now have a story, just came out yesterday, that antidepressants could stunt teenagers

00:28:39.520 developing sexuality as they grow older.

00:28:43.360 Really depressing that teenagers are on antidepressants.

00:28:46.540 If teenagers are on antidepressants, something has gone seriously wrong in the culture,

00:28:51.140 from the family all the way up to the political order, and to the medical order,

00:28:55.160 that we would just prescribe kids these very powerful drugs.

00:28:58.060 Why are these teens so depressed?

00:29:02.220 Rarely do people discuss how this might affect their development, but it turns out,

00:29:06.220 we know that antidepressants tamp down sex drive in adults, and it would appear that it has similar

00:29:12.720 odd effects on the sexuality of kids.

00:29:15.140 Could the widespread prescription of antidepressants have something to do with the bizarre uptick

00:29:22.100 in especially younger people desiring all sorts of weird sexual modifications and procedures

00:29:28.900 and indulging in fictional sexual identities?

00:29:32.260 Might the two things have some link there?

00:29:35.220 Since statistically, every single kid who desires a trans procedure,

00:29:42.980 assuming it's not pure Munchausen by proxy,

00:29:45.380 and it's not purely the parents destroying these kids' lives,

00:29:47.640 if the kids have asked for it at all, statistically, 100% of them are on some kind

00:29:53.720 of antidepressant drug.

00:29:54.900 Do you think that there could be some link here?

00:29:58.020 I suspect there could be.

00:30:00.820 I suspect there could, which is why I try to take as few drugs as possible,

00:30:05.680 other than a nice glass of red wine and a cigar, which generally don't,

00:30:10.200 they're not too tough on your brain chemistry.

00:30:12.280 I don't even want to take ibuprofen.

00:30:16.260 I'm loathe to say, I had a headache this morning,

00:30:18.580 and I delayed and I waited and I waited before I would take an ibuprofen.

00:30:22.080 Even that I don't want to take.

00:30:24.080 Just think about all the chemicals we're pumping into our bodies all the time.

00:30:29.900 Does anyone really think that has no effect on all the weird behaviors

00:30:35.920 and irrationality that's cropped up in our public life and all of the bizarre?

00:30:40.840 I don't, it's hard to imagine that.

00:30:42.900 Speaking of women's issues, women are complaining. 1.00

00:30:47.100 They're, it's not the headline story, but women are complaining 1.00

00:30:50.640 about men showing up to a women's tech conference.

00:30:55.700 Take a listen.

00:30:56.540 Career conference for females in tech was taken over by male attendees.

00:31:00.980 They were there just purely for the career fair.

00:31:03.920 Social media clips filmed at the Grace Hopper,

00:31:06.180 the world's largest gathering of women technologists,

00:31:09.100 show men standing in line to meet with recruiters.

00:31:12.160 This is a space for women in tech. 1.00

00:31:15.820 This is one of those few limited resources that isn't for you, it's for us.

00:31:21.600 Some of the male attendees reportedly lied about being non-binary just to get in.

00:31:26.160 But it's interesting that the large majority of the people that actually ended up in the event

00:31:31.080 had name tags with he, him,

00:31:32.840 and have no searchable history of identifying as non-binary.

00:31:36.340 Several tech workers defended the men for trying to capitalize on job opportunities

00:31:41.000 not meant for them, seeing that the entire concept was wrong.

00:31:44.680 Let's be honest, there is no need for a conference just for women, 1.00

00:31:47.840 because if it was the opposite for men, then it would be sexist.

00:31:50.860 Just because you are a woman doesn't give you the right to talk to a big firm recruiter. 1.00

00:31:54.980 Guys work just as hard and they don't get that chance.

00:31:57.700 Okay, what I love about this video is that they anticipate the objection from the right.

00:32:06.060 Because the objection from the right is going to be,

00:32:07.180 well, maybe those men identify as women.

00:32:08.880 Ha ha, you told us that you can identify however you want.

00:32:11.240 You told us that there's practically no difference between men and women.

00:32:13.500 So maybe those men are just trans or non-binary or whatever.

00:32:17.700 And they anticipate that.

00:32:19.060 And they say, yeah, there are some men who are lying about being non-binary.

00:32:21.840 How do you know they're lying?

00:32:26.260 How do you know they're lying?

00:32:28.580 I thought that what makes you trans or what makes you non-binary

00:32:34.720 is the mere declaration that you are so.

00:32:38.600 So then you can't lie.

00:32:40.200 You cannot be lying about it.

00:32:42.680 Because if there were some objective external measure of one's transness

00:32:50.640 or one's non-binary-ness, then one could lie about it.

00:32:55.340 But if the sole criterion of transness and non-binary-ness

00:33:00.880 is your declaration that you are that thing,

00:33:05.600 then it is not possible to lie about it.

00:33:08.960 So they weren't lying about it.

00:33:10.640 Or the whole thing is a lie.

00:33:12.160 And obviously the latter is the case.

00:33:14.360 But then they go further.

00:33:15.380 They say, but some men were there and they wrote he, him.

00:33:17.440 They said that they're men, but they just want to go anyway.

00:33:20.640 And that's wrong because this is supposed to be just for women, 1.00

00:33:23.400 even if we included trans women and the non-binary people.

00:33:26.600 But the very ideology of transgenderism, 0.77

00:33:29.520 the very ideology of non-binary certainly,

00:33:33.140 is that there is no categorical difference between men and women.

00:33:38.020 There is no objective categorical difference between men and women.

00:33:41.860 It's all just kind of a blurry, blurry construction of how we want to identify.

00:33:49.500 So by granting the very premise that a trans woman or a non-binary person

00:33:56.660 could go to the conference or could even exist as a category of being,

00:34:03.860 these women are undermining the whole point of the conference, 0.99

00:34:08.720 which is that women need their own special space and men can't go to that.

00:34:13.160 So what does this boil down to?

00:34:15.520 What this boils down to is something that some of us have been saying for a very long time,

00:34:19.660 which is that transgenderism and non-binaryism and all the weird sex stuff 0.99

00:34:26.140 is not about logic.

00:34:28.560 When you ask someone to explain to you how transgenderism works, 1.00

00:34:32.960 they will give you five mutually contradictory explanations.

00:34:37.940 Oh, it's actually the brain develops differently.

00:34:40.180 Actually, it has nothing to do with the brain or anything physical at all.

00:34:42.880 Actually, you're just a man born in a woman's body. 0.97

00:34:45.900 Actually, it's about the soul.

00:34:47.180 Actually, you don't have a soul.

00:34:48.540 Actually, it's about the estrogen you were exposed to in the womb.

00:34:51.540 Actually, it's about this.

00:34:52.460 It's about that.

00:34:53.080 It's about whatever you want to be.

00:34:54.180 And it's all mutually contradictory at the biological and philosophical level.

00:34:59.460 And what it's all about is just will.

00:35:02.880 It's just about I want.

00:35:05.100 It's just about I will get what I will get.

00:35:09.260 Okay?

00:35:09.820 That's what it's about.

00:35:11.180 And there's no arguing with that.

00:35:12.680 I made this point yesterday on the show.

00:35:15.520 Debate has limits.

00:35:16.800 Debate is good so that you can sometimes refine your perception of reality and get a little bit closer to the truth.

00:35:26.420 I like debate.

00:35:27.300 I'm a professional debater.

00:35:30.180 But to quote a former liberal president of Yale, skepticism has utility only when it leads to conviction.

00:35:38.480 You've got to settle on certain truths.

00:35:40.120 And when people disagree about the most fundamental principles and premises and axioms, then no debate is possible.

00:35:48.540 Because you need to at least have some shared understanding of reality in order to have a debate at all.

00:35:56.120 We need to at least agree about language.

00:35:57.860 We need to at least agree about the simple meaning of words.

00:36:01.680 We need to at least be able to agree about what these symbols refer to in objective reality.

00:36:06.080 If we can't agree on that, then someone's got to win and someone's got to lose.

00:36:09.200 As I have mentioned before, there's no middle ground with transgenderism. 1.00

00:36:15.500 Either it's true or not.

00:36:16.360 If it's true, it's true for everybody.

00:36:17.540 If it's false, it's false for everybody.

00:36:19.200 And if it's false, as it is, then for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey to that confusion,

00:36:25.280 transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole ideology at every level. 1.00

00:36:30.640 Now, speaking of liberal activism, really sad story that went viral yesterday. 0.96

00:36:35.080 There's a guy, a 32-year-old activist who was stabbed to death by some vagrant wacko at 4 a.m. in Bed-Stuy.

00:36:44.740 And he was leaving a wedding with his, looks like his girlfriend, and a young white guy, apparently a real do-gooder, you know, liberal social activist.

00:36:56.880 And he's there with his girlfriend, and there's a vagrant in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

00:37:03.340 I mentioned he's a young white guy because Bed-Stuy is a black neighborhood. 0.71

00:37:07.460 It's overwhelmingly a black neighborhood.

00:37:09.240 So this guy stands out. 0.92

00:37:10.600 Bed-Stuy is a poor neighborhood.

00:37:12.980 This guy's wearing a suit.

00:37:14.280 His girlfriend is wearing a gown. 0.66

00:37:16.200 And this vagrant walks by, and for some reason, this young man, this 32-year-old man, gets up with his girlfriend and follows the crazy vagrant

00:37:27.740 and starts speaking to him when this vagrant, it looks like he's beating up on a car or a trash can or something.

00:37:34.280 And the guy showed courage in that when the vagrant pulled a knife out and starts attacking him,

00:37:41.280 he put himself in between the attacker and his girlfriend.

00:37:45.160 And then he was stabbed to death.

00:37:47.560 He's down on the ground, and this was all captured on camera because cameras now are everywhere.

00:37:55.320 The sad, I mean, the sad part about this is this young man died. 1.00

00:38:01.040 Some people are kind of mocking it and saying, well, he got what he deserved, you know, play stupid games, play stupid prizes. 1.00

00:38:05.720 I'm not doing that. 1.00

00:38:06.660 That's, you know, this is a very sad thing if a guy gets murdered, especially if he is trying to help his girlfriend.

00:38:12.560 But what's really, what is especially sad and what's politically important for all of us is the shocking way that he and so many people today misjudge these sorts of situations, which we'll get to in one second.

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00:38:56.620 So, McMuffin19 gave my favorite comment yesterday, and he said,

00:39:00.960 Libs always say you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, but we'll pull a fire alarm to stop a vote.

00:39:06.400 That's true.

00:39:06.740 You can't yell fire in a crowded theater unless the Republicans are passing a continuing resolution that you don't like.

00:39:13.160 Then the Supreme Court has said you are allowed to pull the fire alarm, especially if you can't read and don't know what fire alarms look like.

00:39:23.720 Bed-Stuy is a very bad neighborhood.

00:39:31.100 Wasn't it Biggie who rapped about Bed-Stuy do or die?

00:39:34.280 Bed-Stuy is not a nice place.

00:39:37.000 I just looked up the crime statistics in Bed-Stuy.

00:39:39.920 Your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Bedford-Stuyvesant is about 1 in 35.

00:39:44.740 The violent crime rate is 1,065 per 100,000 people.

00:39:49.500 The average crime rate is 2,900 per 100,000 people.

00:39:54.200 It was 4 o'clock in the morning.

00:39:56.540 This is a young white couple dressed to the nines from a wedding.

00:40:02.680 They're going to stick out like a sore thumb.

00:40:04.320 Some people have said, well, it's crazy to be in New York City at 4 o'clock in the morning.

00:40:08.680 It's not crazy to be in New York City.

00:40:09.720 I've been in New York City at 4 o'clock in the morning many, many times, all over the streets, in all sorts of parts of New York.

00:40:15.980 But if I'm going to be out on the street at 4 o'clock in the morning, it's when the bars get out in New York.

00:40:19.720 I'm going to be in nice neighborhoods.

00:40:22.260 I'm not going to do that in bad neighborhoods.

00:40:24.020 And there's a difference between bad neighborhoods and nice neighborhoods.

00:40:28.760 And you're not allowed to say that now because it's politically incorrect to suggest that certain neighborhoods are more prone to crime than others.

00:40:36.420 But they are.

00:40:37.960 And if I see a crazy-looking vagrant on the street, I'm going to cross to the other side of the street. 0.93

00:40:44.020 And I'm not going to talk to that guy. 0.92

00:40:45.620 I'm not even going to make eye contact with that guy.

00:40:48.540 Because some people are more dangerous than others. 0.99

00:40:51.860 You're not allowed to say that now, especially if the person is black. 0.59

00:40:57.420 Even if the person's white, but especially if the person's black, you're not allowed to say that because that would be called, I don't know, they'd call you racist or profiling or whatever.

00:41:06.240 But these are all natural reactions that are conducive to our own safety.

00:41:15.180 The word that has been totally trodden underfoot in recent decades is prejudice.

00:41:22.640 Prejudice is a terrible—you're not supposed to prejudge anything.

00:41:25.220 But, of course, you have to prejudge things.

00:41:27.200 You have to just act on gut and instinct.

00:41:29.860 You don't have time to write a 50-page thesis on every single question you're presented with.

00:41:34.880 You wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

00:41:36.020 You wouldn't be able to determine, okay, I'm going to get out of bed and then eat a bowl of Cheerios and then go take a shower and then go get in my car and drive to work.

00:41:44.100 You'd have to examine every single one of those decisions.

00:41:46.660 Every time you meet somebody, you wouldn't be able to know, do I shake their hand? 0.97

00:41:51.400 Do I punch them in the face?

00:41:52.200 Do I run away? 1.00

00:41:54.420 Prejudice.

00:41:54.800 I'm not saying cruelty.

00:41:56.720 I'm not saying unjust discrimination.

00:41:59.820 I'm not saying any of that, but just prejudging, just going on your gut, going with the wisdom of the ages, that is not only not a bad thing, that's a very, very good thing.

00:42:10.220 That is essential to our personal safety and to politics.

00:42:13.680 Edmund Burke, one of the great Anglo-Irish philosophers of conservatism, elevated prejudice as a very important aspect of politics because otherwise we're going to be like the utopian liberals.

00:42:28.580 We're going to be like the progressives who say the past was always bad.

00:42:31.240 We've got to throw out, they had no wisdom whatsoever, and we're just going to reinvent the world every single day out of our own stock of reason.

00:42:37.020 But our stock of reason is relatively limited.

00:42:39.600 And when we do that, when we ignore the wisdom of the ages, we actually put even more constraints on our stock of reason, and we imperil ourselves and our political community.

00:42:51.700 Very sad.

00:42:52.380 We should pray for that guy, and we should pray for his girlfriend, and maybe even for that maniac criminal there who I hope is arrested.

00:43:01.460 I hope all the other criminals in New York are arrested.

00:43:04.200 There's another sad aspect of the story.

00:43:05.760 If New York were just operating like it did during Giuliani's day, then the prosecutors would arrest the criminals, and the likelihood of being victimized even in these bad neighborhoods would diminish greatly.

00:43:18.160 But because of political correctness, because of liberalism, because of a misunderstanding of human nature and politics, we don't get that.

00:43:24.860 And so it's no surprise when people in recent days, oddly enough, especially open liberal activists, are victimized.

00:43:34.560 That should come as no surprise because they're basing their behavior on flawed premises.

00:43:42.980 It's not just Bed-Stuy.

00:43:44.200 Henry Queller, I mentioned Henry Queller at the top of the show.

00:43:46.520 He's a Democrat from Texas, but he's relatively more conservative.

00:43:49.240 Congressman Queller was just carjacked in Washington, D.C.

00:43:55.660 I was coming in from the Capitol.

00:43:57.740 I parked in front of my apartment complex, and when I was getting up, three guys came up with guns.

00:44:05.480 I quickly analyzed the situation.

00:44:07.720 I got a black belt with karate, so you got to learn what to do.

00:44:10.780 I looked to the left.

00:44:11.880 Somebody had a gun.

00:44:12.780 To the right, somebody had a gun.

00:44:14.080 I had a third guy behind me.

00:44:16.480 And you got to stay calm.

00:44:18.460 So I went ahead and gave them the car keys, and they took off.

00:44:23.480 Within a couple hours, they were able to recover my phone, my car.

00:44:29.040 Everything got returned.

00:44:30.400 I want to thank the Capitol Police and the Metro Police for doing their job.

00:44:34.920 So it's good that there was a relatively happy ending here, and Congressman Queller wasn't hurt, and he got his stuff back.

00:44:42.000 This is a sitting member of Congress getting carjacked.

00:44:44.380 You know the city has spun out of control when that happens.

00:44:47.120 Years ago, during the early days of the Verdict podcast, we were filming it.

00:44:52.520 Me and Senator Cruz and some of the staff were filming it on somewhere L Street, K Street, somewhere in a studio.

00:44:59.260 But in a nice part of D.C.

00:45:00.640 We're pretty close to the White House.

00:45:02.300 And this was about one in the morning.

00:45:04.220 You know, Senator Cruz would come over after the impeachment vote, and we'd do the podcast.

00:45:08.400 They'd just park on the street, whatever.

00:45:09.620 After one of the early shows, Senator Cruz walks back into the studio.

00:45:14.400 We were cleaning up a little bit.

00:45:15.960 And he said, guys, someone broke into my car.

00:45:19.440 There's a smash and grab.

00:45:20.860 Someone just smashed open a window, grabbed, stole stuff out of the car.

00:45:24.840 This is a sitting U.S. senator.

00:45:26.900 This is a sitting U.S. congressman here, Queller.

00:45:28.860 How do you stop it?

00:45:32.600 It's not complicated.

00:45:35.200 If Rudy Giuliani could do it in New York City in the early 90s, anyone could do it.

00:45:41.220 It might not be easy, but it is simple.

00:45:43.680 You have to acknowledge that the way to fight crime is to lock up the criminals.

00:45:49.820 You have to recognize that the bad neighborhoods are where the crime is likely to happen.

00:45:54.040 You've got to send more cops to those bad neighborhoods, and you've got to harass more criminals.

00:45:57.880 And you've got to lock them up for longer periods of time.

00:46:01.720 When crime is on the rise, that means you have an under-incarceration problem.

00:46:06.040 What do our liberal rulers tell us?

00:46:07.600 That we have an over-incarceration.

00:46:08.860 Well, over-incarceration?

00:46:10.720 Talk to me about over-incarceration when the crime rate starts dropping again.

00:46:16.060 It's just a refusal to accept human nature and reality as it is.

00:46:22.820 Well, of course, we live in a time when you're not even allowed to say that men and women are different.

00:46:27.120 Is it any wonder that we're ignoring reality on other fronts, too?

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 04, 2023

Ep. 1344 - Trump Takes Over Speaker Of The House？

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