In the wake of the worst attack on the state of Israel in 50 years, Michael Knowles reflects on the tragic loss of life in Gaza, and the fact that just three years ago, peace in the Middle East was restored.
00:05:37.660If you are the possessor, if you are the controller of funds, and then you open those funds up for use by Iran, you bear some culpability for what happens with those funds.
00:08:43.080So she's, this WAPO columnist, former head of an opinion section, is cheering on Hamas and the rape of civilian women and the execution of civilian elderly and babies and just all sorts of war crimes, cheering it on.
00:09:02.800And everyone's attacking her for this, rightly so.
00:09:05.760But at the very least, I give her points for honesty, because the tweet that she retweeted is exactly right.
00:09:14.500All this talk about decolonization, which is a clinical, abstract, euphemistic term, that's always what this meant.
00:09:34.880And a bunch of liberal white people convinced themselves, you know, establishment center leftists convinced themselves that, no, this would be a kind of a peaceful thing, man.
00:09:45.120We're just, look, this is a really sophisticated, nuanced view of world affairs.
00:10:05.420Even if you do not care about the Israel-Palestine conflict, there are many people who say, look, I have very little connection to this region.
00:10:17.600Maybe I like the Holy Land, but I have never visited the Holy Land.
00:10:21.480I don't have friends who live in this place.
00:10:24.240I don't really, it doesn't interest me.
00:10:25.780It's very difficult not to see how the pro-Palestinian argument applies to every Western person as well as to the Jews.
00:10:38.020Because the pro-Palestinian argument is liberation, self-determination, peace for the oppressed and the colonized.
00:11:07.900But if you're trying to figure out which side you're on, which side you're generally more supportive of in this war,
00:11:12.980To me, it is quite striking that all of the arguments for the pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine side are the exact arguments that BLM and Antifa and the squad and all the rest of them make against ordinary, normal, conservative, traditional Americans.
00:11:34.700And what decolonization has meant to Hamas in Israel is exactly what decolonization means to AOC and the squad and BLM and Antifa right here in the US of A.
00:14:36.660I hope, I pray it's not destroyed in any of the coming violence.
00:14:40.500I was skeptical of the news story when I saw it.
00:14:43.260But the news was coming out so, so fast.
00:14:45.000And it occurred to me, oh, right, that is very good Hamas propaganda, that the church was destroyed.
00:14:51.860Because it gets Westerners and it gets Christians to, if not turn against the Israelis, at least to back off from the condemnation of Hamas and the calls for destruction in Gaza.
00:15:05.320Oh, that's really good war propaganda.
00:15:09.600Maybe it was just some grassroots kind of effort.
00:15:11.680But that is one example out of a billion of propaganda, fake news stories that are going to fly around.
00:15:20.220My chief recommendation when it comes to analyzing these events is to be extremely skeptical of any information that you see swirling coming out of any side about any aspect of this war.
00:15:37.380Propaganda flies a lot faster in times of war.
00:15:40.180Wars in the Middle East, wars around the Holy Land are particularly tense.
00:15:46.300They involve basically every single player on Earth.
00:15:50.080We were already on the brink of World War III because of the first major war in Europe breaking out since World War II.
00:15:58.100The global order can collapse very, very quickly.
00:16:01.720World wars have started for a lot less than this.
00:16:05.100Be very careful of the information you're seeing.
00:16:07.240Meanwhile, as the world order crumbles, the United Nations is focused on what they believe really matters, which is the plight of trans lesbians.
00:16:15.580The United Nations Women Account on October 9th tweets out, quote,
00:16:19.380Remember, trans lesbians are lesbians, too.
00:16:25.200Let's uplift and honor every expression of love and identity.
00:16:30.940And I'm really glad that the UN tweeted this out as war was breaking out in the Holy Land, as the world order was fraying.
00:16:38.640Because this tells you everything you need to know about the UN, which is that not only is it useless, but it's actually extremely counterproductive.
00:16:48.660It distracts from things that really matter.
00:16:51.440It substitutes the UN being a creation of the Western world, the UN being led by the United States.
00:16:57.320It substitutes good, sturdy, proper virtues and a moral order for a bunch of nonsense that is frivolous at best and wicked and disordered at worst.
00:17:23.360Because as we're seeing all around us, some identities are in conflict with other identities.
00:17:30.180If your identity is that you're a man, but you're really a woman, that conflicts with the identity that you're a man and you can't become a woman.
00:17:37.820That conflicts with the identity that you're a woman and you can't become a man.
00:17:43.280If you have one religious view, that will very likely conflict with another religious view.
00:17:49.520And some are going to be more or less correct than others.
00:17:52.600If you have one political view, it's going to conflict with another political.
00:17:56.220Some are going to be more or less reasonable than others.
00:18:01.500And we need to establish those parameters in order to have order.
00:18:06.220When you don't have those parameters, when you engage in a radical kind of skepticism, when you engage in a radical kind of cultural relativism,
00:18:13.460when you just try to promote pluralism for pluralism's sake, you end up with disorder and chaos.
00:18:21.620And inevitably, those tensions are going to flare up in violence.
00:18:25.480And that violence is going to threaten the stability of the entire world.
00:18:32.820RFK Jr., as predicted over the past couple of days, announces he is running not as a Democrat for president anymore, but as an independent.
00:19:40.800Even if it were enough, the Democrat Party still has enough control over its process that it can, at least to some degree, overrule the voters.
00:23:39.620No, I don't think it's stupid for DeSantis.
00:23:42.080I think this is probably DeSantis' best bet.
00:23:46.120But that tells you more about how the campaign is doing than about DeSantis' likelihood of beating Donald Trump.
00:23:53.240Because Iowa does not predict the Republican nominee.
00:23:56.760Iowa has not predicted the Republican nominee for president in more than 20 years.
00:24:00.800The last time it happened was George W. Bush.
00:24:03.080Furthermore, even if it did predict the Republican nominee, he's not polling all that well to begin with.
00:24:13.240Furthermore, when candidates who get a big hype start pulling resources out of later states and focusing them all on one or two early primary states,
00:24:22.920that's usually a sign that the campaign is floundering and it's not going to go very far.
00:24:26.480Giuliani did that after Giuliani was viewed as potentially a frontrunner in 2008.
00:24:32.300Right. And then he put it all on Florida and it collapsed.
00:24:36.220John Huntsman, who I personally love John Huntsman, he focused a lot of his efforts on New Hampshire.
00:24:42.300It didn't help the campaign whatsoever.
00:24:44.080This happens time and time and time again.
00:25:02.100It's not like he can just drop out and make nice with Donald Trump, become the vice presidential nominee or kind of go his own way and then come back four years later.
00:26:36.260People try to hack our phones all the time.
00:26:38.340Even just among conservative commentators and activists and anyone with any public profile.
00:26:45.760So I wouldn't be surprised at all if they're trying to hack the phone of the brother of the president of the United States.
00:26:50.980The reason, though, that I'm a little skeptical of the they hacked my phone excuse is that this photo apparently didn't just appear on guyswithiphones.com.
00:27:03.560So it showed up before Joe was president.
00:27:08.220It showed up after Joe was in the Senate for almost 50 years.
00:27:12.300It showed up after Joe was the vice president.
00:27:14.740It showed up at the one period of Joe's life when he was in private life and before he was president.
00:27:20.800And then it's just kind of surfacing now, regardless of whether Frank Biden is a deeply, deeply closeted homosexual or if he's just a victim of a hacking or something.
00:27:32.320My takeaway, my advice to everybody, stop taking naked pictures of yourself.
00:27:43.660Whether it's for your wife or your husband or your boyfriend or your girlfriend.
00:27:48.460Whether it's for some app like this one, a gay app or a straight app or some kind of polyamorous, pan-gender, otherwise imaginative kind of whatever.
00:28:33.340Gen Z is drinking a lot less than other generations.
00:28:38.680I was just on vacation, sipping a few salty dogs by the pool, you know, not being very much like a Zoomer.
00:28:44.900According to this report from the Journal, nearly a quarter of 18 to 29-year-olds are more likely to smoke cannabis compared to older generations.
00:28:54.300That, to me, should be the headline of this article because the headline of the article and the whole thrust of it is Gen Z, they're sober, they're not drinking.
00:29:03.940The millennials and the Gen Xers and the boomers, they're alcoholics.
00:29:07.900But the younger generation is getting sober.
00:29:10.920They're just getting intoxicated on other substances.
00:29:13.940And the substance they're getting intoxicated on is marijuana, which older generations are much less likely to use.
00:29:20.220And booze is better than pot is what I'm saying.
00:29:22.800I know this is going to be controversial.
00:29:24.100I know my chat is going to explode with a bunch of people who have The Grateful Dead playing in the background who are, you know, just kind of vibing out to the show.
00:29:32.640And they're going to say, Michael, how dare you say that?
00:29:43.040The minute you take one smell of a glass of wine, you're going to just start going out and beating your wife and neighbors and dogs and shooting people.
00:29:50.860And you're going to hear all of this, but it's simply not the case.
00:29:56.000Tucker Carlson had a good argument on this not that long ago.
00:29:59.540Tucker said that, this is back when he was still on Fox, the ruling class, they want us to put down tobacco and pick up marijuana.
00:30:15.800It's not about cancer risk or anything like that.
00:30:17.720It's simply about one smoking substance over another.
00:30:23.440Tobacco, for all its negative side effects, makes you sharper, makes you faster, makes you more focused.
00:30:31.760It's the sort of thing you do while you're working so you can work faster and harder.
00:30:36.240It's the sort of thing that the manly men in Mad Men were doing.
00:30:40.820Marijuana makes you duller, makes you stupider, makes you slower, makes you less funny, makes you less ambitious, makes you want to eat more potato chips.
00:30:51.680Okay, so the regime, they don't care about your lungs, they don't care about your health.
00:30:55.400They just want you complacent and stupid.
00:33:38.700And not just on something like a claim of being an alcoholic.
00:33:43.800Hunter Biden, during one of his most infamous interviews during the 2020 race, claimed that Rudy Giuliani was a wacko conspiracy theorist peddling a pack of lies that Hunter Biden had taken money on behalf of the Biden family from crooked people around the world.
00:34:05.500Do you regret being on the board to begin with?
00:34:08.460No, I don't regret being on the board.
00:34:10.660What I regret is not taking into account that there would be a Rudy Giuliani and a president of the United States that would be listening to this ridiculous conspiracy idea, which has, again, been completely debunked by everyone.
00:34:40.980I know it says I gave a bunch of money to my dad, and I shook down foreigners, including the Chinese Communist Party, for tens of millions of dollars.
00:34:53.240And then it was just proven to be true.
00:34:54.860And, you know, when you look at a claim like, hey, you drink too much, that's probably not going to hold up in a defamation lawsuit.
00:35:05.720But if Rudy is suing Joe Biden for saying, you know, you're a Putin stooge, you're a Russian propagandist, that really might.
00:35:14.960And I encourage this lawsuit, one, because I have a real soft spot for Rudy Giuliani because he's the greatest mayor in the history of New York.
00:35:20.500But two, because Joe Biden needs to be held to account for his career, for his half century of defamatory lies.
00:35:30.800This is a guy who lies with such ease that I don't think he even understands what the truth is anymore.
00:35:37.000This is a guy who lied about the man who accidentally, in this horrible accidental car accident, killed his wife, killed Joe Biden's wife.
00:35:48.920And Biden had acknowledged the man, he wasn't drunk, he wasn't, it was just a horrible, horrible accident.
00:35:53.780And the man, I mean, he just was wracked with guilt for the rest of his life.
00:35:56.380And then Biden, on the campaign trail, decides he's going to start claiming that the man was a drunk driver.
00:36:00.760This is Joe Biden, a man who, speaking to audiences, will just make up facts about his son, about his career, about things he said, about things he's voted on, beliefs he's held.
00:36:44.380It must, even amid tragedy, even amid fear, even, you know, life just goes on.
00:36:50.540And we got to keep on lighting those pumpkin spice candles, find little bits of humor in there while we can.
00:36:58.360And sufficient to today is the misery and apprehension and anxiety thereof.
00:37:06.140Speaking of crime and punishment, there was a transgender activist who was really, really nervous about a Florida law that would give the death penalty to child abusers.
00:37:19.960So there have been some interesting bills coming out of Florida this week, such as the multiple proposals that would allow the death penalty for anyone who sexually batters a child under the age of 12, which was approved unanimously, or the vote to allow the death penalty on a split jury.
00:37:35.620Out of the 27 states that allow the death penalty, Florida is now one of four that allows it based on a split jury.
00:37:41.740Now, you might be thinking, you know, people who harm children deserve the worst penalties in the world.
00:38:00.960Giving the government the right to murder just means they have to redefine who deserves murder before you are on that list, before we are on that list.
00:38:14.420I don't want to accuse this guy of anything.
00:38:50.080And the scares will, especially if you can convict someone and sentence them to death on a split jury, the scares mean that some of us will be killed.
00:39:01.020That would be a good encouragement to not be part of one of the groups that gets lumped in with the child rapists.
00:39:13.200That would be a good encouragement for that.
00:39:15.180He says, well, if or she, again, I really don't know.
00:39:20.720That person says that, you know, if you give the government the power to commit murder, which we've got to stop there, the death penalty is not murder.
00:39:31.020The death penalty is the just and legal killing by the civil authority of people who have been found guilty of crimes.
00:39:39.040And the civil authority does not bear the sword in vain.
00:39:42.040So by giving the government the power to kill people, the government already has that power.
00:39:46.560The government has always had that power.
00:39:48.060The government has had that power back through antiquity, up through the present, and at every point in between.
00:39:53.640By giving the government that power, no, by deciding not whether or not the government can execute justice.
00:39:59.280That's the primary purpose of the government.
00:40:02.020You're saying, who will the government punish?
00:40:05.620Will the government punish mothers and fathers for trying to educate their kids?
00:41:18.500We don't take an oath to a king or a queen or a tyrant or a dictator.
00:41:23.580And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator.
00:41:27.620And the wannabe dictator presumably is Donald Trump.
00:41:31.780This guy goes on and he preens and he whines just like he was preening and whining about white rage.
00:41:36.960And while he was defending his view that the U.S. military, that our troops, should not spend all of their time training to kill the enemy,
00:41:46.640but they should spend their time studying critical race theory,
00:41:48.720that they should spend their time studying radical leftist ideology to understand the roots of so-called white rage.
00:41:57.280And there are a lot more Mark Milley's out there that need to go.
00:42:00.060My takeaway from Milley's parting shot is that Senator Tommy Tuberville is a hero because Senator Tommy Tuberville alone is holding up promotions in the U.S. military
00:42:12.180because the U.S. military, the Pentagon, has insisted on a new policy through which they're going to pay for service members to kill their children.
00:42:21.600After Roe v. Wade was overruled, after certain states reverted to laws protecting babies,
00:42:26.160the Pentagon decided, okay, if you are stationed in a state that won't let you kill your babies,
00:42:31.960we're going to pay you to go out of state to go kill your babies.
00:42:34.900And Tommy Tuberville said, whoa, what?
00:43:25.780If the Pentagon top brass believes that killing American infants is more important than being able to have generals to go kill our enemies, that's the Pentagon's problem.