The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 On the 40th anniversary of the Beirut barracks bombings, President Biden had to cut a press

00:00:05.120 conference short because jihadis attacked a U.S. military base in Syria.

00:00:10.060 I apologize. I have to go to the situation with another issue that I have to deal with.

00:00:14.600 But thank you, thank you, thank you.

00:00:17.080 The U.S. currently has about 900 troops in Syria and almost three times that number in Iraq,

00:00:23.380 where Islamic militants have also targeted American troops since the war in the Holy

00:00:28.440 Land broke out a couple weeks ago. Fortunately, the Americans have thus far made it out relatively

00:00:34.440 unscathed. But the war is clearly expanding and threatening to pull the U.S. once again into

00:00:41.400 all-out war in the Middle East. With the GOP in disarray, many Republican leaders have made a

00:00:47.840 habit of asking in terms of crisis what President Reagan might do. Usually the question defies easy

00:00:57.200 answer because Reagan's been dead for almost 20 years and he hasn't been in office in 34 years

00:01:03.120 and political circumstances change over time. But in this case, we actually do have an answer

00:01:10.480 because Ronald Reagan dealt with a far more devastating version of this exact problem

00:01:16.880 almost at the exact same spot 40 years ago. 40 years and one day ago, two trucks hit a building

00:01:27.620 housing American troops in Lebanon. And those trucks were rigged with bombs and they blew up.

00:01:32.720 The attack killed 241 American servicemen, along with 58 French military personnel and six civilians.

00:01:39.820 And what did President Reagan do? That old cowboy invoked by so many reflexive war hawks.

00:01:47.460 Ronald Reagan declined to retaliate in any serious way. And then he quickly withdrew American forces

00:01:54.880 from the country. This is not the answer that the Gipper's most idolatrous and belligerent

00:02:01.220 invokers might expect or desire. But that's what really happened. Because Ronald Reagan, one of the

00:02:08.040 best foreign policy presidents we've ever had, consistently sought to avoid direct overt military

00:02:15.160 confrontation. Despite his bellicose reputation, Reagan was reticent to get the United States bogged

00:02:22.260 down in foreign wars with ambiguous strategic objectives. As the usual suspects beat the war drums

00:02:29.160 louder and louder over the coming weeks, remember that the president whose motto was peace through strength

00:02:35.460 in almost identical circumstances, famously and wisely said no. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

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00:03:24.020 goodranches.com. Use code Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S today. Greta Thunberg is striking in solidarity with the

00:03:31.800 Palestinians, which is strange because I thought in order to go on strike, you had to have a job.

00:03:37.000 But she skipped that step. She's now just, she's on strike. Not for the sun monster right now. It is

00:03:43.700 for Hamas. We will get to that in just a moment. First though, the war is only getting worse.

00:03:49.780 You might recall, I guess a week and a half or so ago, there was a news report that came out

00:03:55.100 that the Israelis had bombed a church, a very old church in Gaza, perhaps one of the oldest churches

00:04:02.440 in the world with roots all the way back in antiquity and which was expanded by crusaders

00:04:09.100 in the 12th century. That turned out to be fake news. The church had not been bombed,

00:04:16.160 which is good because you think, why would the Israelis bomb a church? Hamas isn't storing

00:04:20.020 weapons in a church. Hamas doesn't have a command center in a church. Why would they do it? So luckily

00:04:24.360 that was fake news until yesterday. Now the church has been bombed. This is a Greek Orthodox

00:04:30.780 church in Gaza. It is the church of St. Porphyrios and people were killed. According to Palestine

00:04:40.880 health officials, they say 16 people were killed. We don't know. It's the fog of war. We do know,

00:04:45.380 however, that some people were killed because relatives of former Republican Congressman Justin

00:04:51.880 Amash were sheltering in the church and were killed. Palestinian officials had said at least 500

00:04:59.540 Muslims and Christians had taken shelter in St. Porphyrios church. We don't know those real

00:05:05.100 numbers, but Israel needs to answer for this. Okay. I am as big a defender of the state of Israel's

00:05:14.320 right to defend itself as there is. Obviously, the Israeli government has a right to protect itself

00:05:20.340 after Hamas militants slaughter over a thousand people and rape and pillage and burn and do all

00:05:26.320 sorts of terrible things and take hostages. But the Israelis have to answer for why they hit this

00:05:33.000 church. And in fact, they have. Charlie Kirk raised this point yesterday and an Israeli spokesperson for

00:05:40.320 the IDF said, I understand your feelings and respect them. We did not target that or any church.

00:05:45.000 We struck a Hamas military operative who coordinated rocket fire toward Israel from that vicinity.

00:05:49.960 He was a legitimate target. We will continue to be careful of any sensitive facility.

00:05:53.860 Will you? I don't know. I mean, I appreciate the answer. I'm glad the IDF is answering for it,

00:05:58.460 but clearly they weren't all that careful because they blew up an old church, a really old church.

00:06:03.440 And my reaction to this even is giving me pause because every single innocent person who is killed

00:06:11.980 is worth any number of old churches. Human beings are worth much more than beautiful old stuff.

00:06:19.220 And yet, because we've become so callous to the death of innocence,

00:06:27.160 it's when the really old stuff, when the art, when the buildings, when the culture get destroyed,

00:06:32.820 that sometimes pulls on our heartstrings even more. We feel this is such a loss. It can never be

00:06:38.100 replicated. Fortunately, I don't think the church was totally destroyed, but it appears to have been

00:06:42.400 severely damaged. And that feeling of loss for our culture, that feeling of loss for

00:06:49.660 beautiful art, and in this case, something deeper than art, you're talking about a house of God

00:06:54.220 oriented toward the worship of God, points us and reminds us of the most significant loss in this

00:07:02.480 war or any war, which is the loss of life for innocent civilians, which we write off.

00:07:07.940 And we use euphemisms and we say it's collateral damage. Collateral damage means the death of

00:07:13.540 innocent people, not just going on in the Middle East, in the Ukraine war. The fact that Joe Biden

00:07:17.640 has no interest in winding down the Ukraine war. The fact that there have been multiple

00:07:21.380 opportunities for peace and Joe Biden has said, no, thank you. Why? Because the war hawks in Washington

00:07:26.360 say that the war in Ukraine is great for us because we get to deplete the Russian military.

00:07:31.540 That's another euphemism. And we get to advance our strategic objectives, whatever those may be.

00:07:39.300 And we don't even have to sacrifice American troops. We can just spend some money. But while

00:07:43.900 we're depleting the Russian military, innocent people are being killed. And while this war drags

00:07:49.540 on, innocent people are being killed. While this war in the Holy Land drags on, innocent people are

00:07:54.840 being killed and irreplaceable art and artifacts of our culture are being destroyed as well. So the

00:08:00.240 question is, even if this is a legit answer from the IDF, the question then has to be, what is the

00:08:07.620 objective here? Is the objective the total destruction of Hamas? It's a good objective. I'm

00:08:13.640 all for it. Is the objective the total destruction of Gaza? That's a little more dubious. Israel does

00:08:21.180 generally a very good job of protecting civilians compared to other people, certainly compared to Hamas.

00:08:26.040 But do we want to see the Gaza Strip totally destroyed? Is the objective here regime change

00:08:31.480 in Iran? Is that in the interests of the United States? Is that in the interest of global stability?

00:08:37.000 What's the objective here? It's not just a question that the IDF has to answer. It's a question

00:08:42.580 especially that the United States has to answer because the United States keeps getting bogged down

00:08:46.200 in these wars now for decades that don't seem to have a clear point to them. And in the meantime,

00:08:55.500 the destruction only expands against things that are irreplaceable, not just buildings,

00:09:03.300 not just art, but people too. Question is, how does this end? Speaking of terrorism, yours truly

00:09:10.480 has been accused of terrorism by a professor at Harvard. This professor at Harvard came to my

00:09:19.380 attention because I got a Google alert about some gay news outlet. It's called The Advocate.

00:09:26.260 And the gay shtapo titled this article, quote, stochastic terrorism links between the GOP,

00:09:34.220 right-wing influencers, and neo-Nazi violence. And then you see there on the cover,

00:09:38.460 it's some neo-Nazis, and then a picture of libs of TikTok, and then me.

00:09:44.240 And somehow, somehow, if you connect the dots, we're libs of TikTok, an Orthodox Jewish woman,

00:09:51.200 and I, a man who got in trouble with this gay outlet for saying men and women are different,

00:09:55.660 we are basically, when you squint your eyes and tilt your head and really think about it,

00:09:59.240 we're basically skinheads in front of a swastika. What did I say that got them to do this?

00:10:06.700 I knew it. I knew what they were referring to the moment I saw the headline. I went to CPAC

00:10:12.160 back in March, and I said that men can't really become women, and women can't really become men,

00:10:18.580 despite popular confusion to the contrary. And therefore, for the good of society, and especially

00:10:22.940 for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be

00:10:27.880 eradicated from public life entirely, the entire preposterous ideology from top to bottom.

00:10:32.660 Now, the article quotes someone named Juliet Kayyem, who is a Harvard Kennedy School professor,

00:10:41.900 and notably, the former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:10:48.620 And what Kayyem said is that,

00:10:51.120 my speech is an example of stochastic terrorism tactics employed. Right-wing commentator Michael

00:10:59.840 Knowles of the Daily Wire argued to an assembled crowd that transgenderism must be eradicated from

00:11:05.240 public life entirely, adding that it would be for the good of society. This was a perfect example,

00:11:11.640 Kayyem says. He says eradication, and then he says transgenderism. So he knows he's going to try to get an

00:11:19.900 out out of that. Using the term transgenderism, which is outdated and not used. This article,

00:11:26.320 I'm not joking, this article seriously argues with a straight face that the term transgenderism

00:11:31.140 is outdated and not used. The term transgenderism was not used five minutes ago. The term transgenderism

00:11:36.960 is something new that cropped up. If you ask people 10 years ago, what is transgenderism? Most people

00:11:41.080 would look at you like you had three heads. That's a new term. But the way that the left manipulates

00:11:45.580 language, that term too has become out of date. So I don't know what they're going to replace it

00:11:49.400 with. But they say it's outdated and not used, not by anybody except for everybody. But we shouldn't

00:11:54.920 use it according to this Harvard professor. That term conveys everything he intended to convey to his

00:12:00.840 followers while affording him some plausible deniability, she explains. Now, obviously, this woman

00:12:06.680 is extremely confused about the meaning of words. And I know this because of the phrase

00:12:12.460 stochastic terrorism. My question is, when did the libs discover the word stochastic?

00:12:19.800 Have you noticed the libs, they have these words that just, they find and they glom onto and they

00:12:25.900 use them endlessly. Some recent examples would be grifter. They call everyone they don't like grifters.

00:12:31.980 Or what's another one? Gaslight, based on that old movie. Everyone's gaslighting everyone all the

00:12:38.100 time. They use that word a lot. The classic one is literally. They love using literally.

00:12:43.380 They misuse that word because they use literally to mean figuratively. And then here, not only do

00:12:48.680 they use this weird word stochastic gratuitously, totally unnecessarily, but they also use it

00:12:56.400 inappropriately because stochastic refers to randomness. It refers to chance, like stochastic

00:13:02.120 process in mathematics. But what this woman is accusing me of, what the libs are always accusing

00:13:07.560 us of when they use this phrase stochastic terrorism, is the opposite of random. They're

00:13:12.020 accusing us of doing something deliberately with a direct effect. What they're saying is that when I

00:13:18.180 call for the eradication of this preposterous ideology, that I am deliberately and directly

00:13:24.440 inciting violence against sexually confused people, which is not what stochastic means. So they use the

00:13:31.280 word, they use this $10 word, the meaning of which they do not know. They use it inappropriately and

00:13:37.060 unnecessarily. They could just call us terrorists, which is what they really mean to do, which is

00:13:40.560 also inappropriate, but at least it's simpler. What is this? Is this all just a big joke? Is this

00:13:47.020 something to laugh about? Kind of. It's funny that a Harvard professor doesn't know how to use basic

00:13:50.820 words and that a Harvard professor is attacking me for knowing the meaning of words. What she says here

00:13:55.340 is, Knowles, he knows what he's saying. He's using these words. And the words he uses give him an out

00:14:01.720 against the things that I am accusing him of doing. Because if he had used the words that I want him

00:14:07.260 to use, then I could really attack him. But because he used the words that he used and he knows the

00:14:10.460 meaning of those words, I can't really attack him because what he said is perfectly fine. But he,

00:14:13.380 but secretly, but secretly, it's not fine because I know I, with my crystal ball, I know that he really

00:14:22.060 meant to say something that he didn't say. And that's why he's a terrorist. So it's kind of funny

00:14:26.120 that a professor at Harvard, especially at the Harvard politics school, the Kennedy school,

00:14:31.080 would misuse and misunderstand words like this. But the reason it's not totally funny is that this

00:14:37.680 isn't just some random woman, a woman who's appeared through some sort of stochastic process,

00:14:42.900 who is spouting off from the ivory tower. This is a former assistant secretary of DHS,

00:14:51.360 Department of Homeland Security, which puts you on the terror list,

00:14:55.140 which can really mess up your life, okay? Which, which has a lot of power and which has

00:15:01.460 accumulated more and more power over the last 20 years. That's a little less funny because there

00:15:08.500 are people who are currently at DHS. There are, there are a lot of people who are currently stacking

00:15:12.340 the government who believe just as this woman does, that, that if you think men and women are

00:15:18.680 different and one cannot become the other, that you are a terrorist and they're going to look at you

00:15:23.640 the same way they look at Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS and Al Qaeda. They're going to come after

00:15:30.040 you. You don't need to have an AK-47. You don't need to set off a bomb. You just need to use words

00:15:35.080 that they don't like. And they're going to use their positions of influence at the arguably most

00:15:39.760 prestigious school in the country and in the federal government to stop you. It's not good.

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00:17:06.800 asked about the surge in anti-Semitic attacks. Since this war broke out, there have been a lot

00:17:12.960 of new attacks on Jews in the United States. What does KJP have to say about it?

00:17:18.800 What is this level of concern right now about the potential rise of anti-Semitism in light of

00:17:24.920 everything that's going on in Israel? So a couple of things. Look, we have not seen

00:17:31.120 any credible threats. I know there's been always questions about credible threats. And so I just

00:17:38.580 want to make sure that that's out there. But look, Muslim and those perceived to be Muslim have endured

00:17:43.860 a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks. And certainly President Biden understands that many

00:17:49.860 of our Muslim Arab Americans and Palestinian American loved ones and neighbors are worried

00:17:55.300 about the hate being directed at their communities. Well, hold on, hold on. The question was,

00:18:01.380 what do you think about all the attacks on Jews? And then Corrine Jean-Pierre's answer is,

00:18:07.100 yes, Islamophobia is a really big problem. No, no, no, hold on. We can talk about Islamophobia in a

00:18:11.940 second. But I'm asking about the attacks on Jews. Yes, yes, the Palestine supporters have suffered

00:18:19.700 greatly. No. But Corrine Jean-Pierre can't answer this. The White House can't answer this. The

00:18:28.420 Democrats broadly can't answer this. This is a wedge issue in the Democratic Party.

00:18:33.420 The Democrat Party previously had been a big supporter of Israel. Both parties in the United

00:18:37.740 States were big supporters of Israel. The question of Israel became more of a partisan issue during the

00:18:44.300 Obama administration because Barack Obama hated Bibi Netanyahu. And Bibi Netanyahu, leader of

00:18:49.580 Israel, responded a little bit in kind and cozied up to Donald Trump and doesn't have a great

00:18:55.140 relationship with Joe Biden. So Israel support all of a sudden becomes more of a Republican thing.

00:19:01.360 And because especially American evangelicals are so vocally supportive of Israel, even in the popular

00:19:08.640 culture, support for Israel has become coded as more of a right-wing thing than a left-wing thing.

00:19:14.400 And also because Israel is a symbol of colonialism, much as European states in Africa have been symbols

00:19:26.220 of colonialism, much as the United States of America has been a symbol of colonialism, the

00:19:31.040 intersectional left has taken up the cause of the stateless Palestinians against the nation state of

00:19:40.100 Israel. The oppression narrative is on the side of the Palestinians now, not on the side of Jews,

00:19:46.800 even though the state of Israel was established for the Jews in large part because of the historical

00:19:53.860 victimhood of the Jewish people. That doesn't matter. What have you done for me lately? Now

00:19:58.500 that ideology is backing the Palestinians. Still, there are a lot of Israel supporters in the Democrat

00:20:07.080 party. So they can't get a clean win either way. But if Joe Biden's got to pick a side,

00:20:11.580 they are going to side at least a little bit with the Palestinians against the Israelis.

00:20:19.360 That's where the Democrat base is today. And Joe Biden has never been a conviction politician.

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00:20:30.780 he figures out which way the wind is blowing. And certainly among Democrats, the wind is blowing

00:20:35.540 against the state of Israel for Palestine. So what do you say about anti-Semitism, Joe?

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00:22:33.200 entertainment. Speaking of the kids and Palestine, Greta Thunberg, she's taking a break from protesting

00:22:45.100 in favor of Gaia and the sun gods and all the rest of the weather religion, and she is standing with

00:22:54.700 Gaza and Palestine. Greta Thunberg just posted a tweet, says, week 270, today we strike in solidarity

00:23:02.820 with Palestine and Gaza. 270 weeks. At that point, I think you just lose your job, but she never had a

00:23:10.320 job, so she's just striking. Striking is her job, and usually she strikes for the benefit of the

00:23:16.800 environmental left, which profits and grows in power by consolidating the socially and politically

00:23:24.480 acceptable energy use. But today, she's decided she's going to strike for Gaza. This is true of the

00:23:33.060 broader left. It's not just the White House. It's not just the professional activist, the sort of

00:23:40.080 marionette of the liberal regime, Greta Thunberg. It is also Justin Trudeau, the leader of America's

00:23:47.840 evil top hat Canada, who just tweets out, quote, as members of the Palestinian, Arab, and Black Muslim

00:23:53.800 communities gathered for prayer yesterday. I wanted them to know this. We know you're worried and hurting.

00:23:58.840 We are here for you. We will not stop advocating for civilians to be protected and for international law

00:24:02.920 to be upheld. I know a lot of people are confused about which side to be on here, because a lot of

00:24:09.620 people say, we don't really have a dog in this fight. The Holy Land is very far away. This is a

00:24:15.740 conflict that's gone on in its present form for well over 100 years, and it's a conflict that has

00:24:21.760 gone on broadly for millennia, and so we don't really pick a side here. But the side is going to pick

00:24:31.620 you, I guess, is how I would say it. If you look around and look at the people who are supporting

00:24:36.920 Palestine slash Hamas versus the people who are supporting the state of Israel, broadly speaking,

00:24:43.860 you are going to see the most prominent leftists who are wrong about the most things in the most

00:24:49.240 egregious ways. They are generally going to be on the side of Palestine. And the people with whom you

00:24:57.320 generally tend to agree who are right about generally the right number of things, they are

00:25:04.840 broadly going to be supportive of the Israeli government. I'm not saying that it's a perfect

00:25:10.260 one-to-one. I'm not saying that all the interests are totally aligned, but that's what happens.

00:25:14.520 Rashida Tlaib, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Justin Trudeau, Justin Castro, Greta Thunberg, Joe Biden, all the rest of

00:25:22.400 them. They are pretty vocally on the side of the Palestinians. And if the libs, if the people who

00:25:28.940 are most wrong about everything are uniformly on the side of the Palestinians, then probably that's

00:25:34.560 not the right side to totally be on, right? Politics is a team sport. And I know people don't

00:25:41.640 like that, and it makes people uncomfortable, and we all bemoan tribalism. That's another one of these

00:25:45.960 words that cropped up in the last six, seven years that is largely meaningless, but it's just a word

00:25:51.600 that's going around like a meme. But politics is tribal. And here we're talking about one of the

00:25:56.800 most ancient tribes in the world, and multiple ancient tribes actually, fighting over this. And

00:26:01.720 so it seems ill-advised to put yourself on the side of Greta Thunberg and Justin Trudeau and the squad

00:26:11.100 in favor of Palestine liberation, because the argument for Palestine liberation is the anti-colonial

00:26:17.540 argument, which is ultimately just an anti-European, anti-dirty, rotten white man argument to destroy

00:26:25.720 anything resembling Western civilization. That's what it's about. Someone put it in a pithy way,

00:26:33.740 which was a lot of the left doesn't hate Israel because they're Jews. They hate Israel because

00:26:40.120 they're white. And because the state of Israel appears to have a lot of resemblances to any other

00:26:47.160 British colonial project, much like the United States. And the arguments that are being wielded

00:26:51.060 right now against the state of Israel will, and in fact, are currently being wielded against the

00:26:56.660 U.S. as well. That's not a, it's not a perfect overlap of interest though, which is why I say the

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00:27:45.020 delivered. Now speaking of picking sides, Jon Stewart was just axed from Apple. And he had this new show,

00:27:54.580 it's called The Problem with Jon Stewart, his first big show since he left The Daily Show.

00:27:58.620 And the show gets canceled pretty early. Why did Apple TV cancel Jon Stewart? There are two competing

00:28:05.040 narratives. One says they canceled him because he had low ratings. The other narrative, clearly being

00:28:10.680 leaked by his team, is that they canceled him because he wanted to criticize China. And he wanted to

00:28:17.100 criticize artificial intelligence. And Apple is very warm with China and with artificial intelligence. So

00:28:23.340 they had an ideological disagreement, they shut him up. Which is it? Well, we got the numbers.

00:28:28.620 Some estimates put Jon Stewart's viewership on this Apple TV show as low as 40,000 U.S. homes.

00:28:37.320 That is nothing. That is barely a blip. Forget about compared to a network TV audience or even a

00:28:45.820 cable TV audience. Compared to a small podcast, those are bad numbers. So, okay, he had the low ratings,

00:28:54.400 but then the reports say that he was planning shows on China, on Israel actually too, and on AI and Apple

00:29:02.580 because it does a lot of business with China. Apple, which would collapse if we decoupled with China.

00:29:07.940 And artificial intelligence obviously is important to Apple. They don't like those topics, so they kill

00:29:12.880 it. Which is it? Which destroyed Jon Stewart's show? The answer is both. It's obviously both.

00:29:20.180 John Stewart has always had low ratings. He was a cultural phenomenon when he had The Daily Show

00:29:26.880 on Comedy Central. That show didn't get a lot of viewers. It was relatively low rated, but the people

00:29:33.320 who watched it tended to be journalists and the chattering political class, concentrated in the

00:29:38.940 coasts, free liberal, who had an outsized microphone. So they made a big deal out of his show, even though

00:29:43.840 relatively few people watched it in the country. The low ratings can be forgiven as long as you are

00:29:52.600 dancing to the tune that the liberal elite are playing. That's the issue. When Jon Stewart was

00:30:00.720 dancing as the court jester of the liberal regime, which is what his job was at The Daily Show,

00:30:06.920 they loved him, and they made a big deal out of him, and they made him famous, and they made him

00:30:09.800 wealthy, even though not a lot of people watched his show. But now that he's maybe turning against

00:30:15.320 some of what the ruling class want, especially in China and AI, well, now those low ratings are not

00:30:22.540 going to be forgiven, and they're going to take away his fame, and they're going to take away his money.

00:30:26.280 And he's going to see how illusory all of those things actually were. And he's going to learn a

00:30:31.760 lesson that a lot of us have forgotten, which is true in politics, and it's true in business, and it's true

00:30:36.760 in all of public life. He who pays the piper calls the tune. Now, speaking of dancing to other people's

00:30:46.260 tune, I have got a very disturbing story that just came out. And it's disturbing in that it's super

00:30:53.760 creepy and spooky and kind of zombie-like, and it's just in time for Halloween. But it's actually a

00:31:00.240 satisfying story because it vindicates a lot of old wisdom. And the story is this.

00:31:06.400 Blood transfusions might change your personality. A lot of people get blood transfusions.

00:31:13.560 There is scientific evidence that you don't just get blood, and you don't just get platelets.

00:31:20.360 You get an increased risk of certain diseases. Okay, maybe you could say, well, it's just a protein or

00:31:27.120 something that was going along with the blood. And you get potentially changes in your personality and

00:31:32.820 your mood and your tastes, and it's really, really weird. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in

00:31:39.180 Sweden published a major study that showed that a cause of spontaneous brain hemorrhage could be

00:31:46.640 transmitted via blood transfusion. As I said, that could just be some protein or something like that.

00:31:50.700 But it might go deeper than that. And there's a lot of evidence that it does go deeper.

00:31:56.420 Five years ago, a study by Geneva University reported that nearly half of patients reported

00:32:02.260 changes in their behavior and values after receiving blood transfusions. There have also been

00:32:08.720 well-popular, well-publicized stories, rather, of people who had organ transplants, and then their

00:32:14.500 tastes changed. In the U.S., there was a 47-year-old woman who had a lung transplant from an 18-year-old,

00:32:18.920 and then immediately had a craving for beer and fried chicken, which were things that this woman

00:32:24.920 had not previously craved, but that every 18-year-old in the country does crave.

00:32:29.520 The researchers interviewed seven people who had received blood transfusions

00:32:32.540 for things like hip replacements and other surgeries. They found out three of the seven

00:32:38.280 believed that their personalities had changed. One said he slept and dreamt a lot more than before.

00:32:43.580 Another said his sense of taste had changed. He found this worrying. He said,

00:32:46.820 I hope that the donor's blood cannot take over. This is really great news, even though it's spooky

00:32:54.240 and creepy, because this is a vindication of classical anthropology. This is a vindication

00:33:01.660 of the old way of viewing human nature, not the new way of viewing human. The new way of viewing human

00:33:09.820 nature is that we're all just machines, man. We're like computers, plug and play, you know?

00:33:14.380 And we're just, we're like a hard drive. And different, like, just like in different parts

00:33:20.280 of a machine, you can just pull out our parts, and they're interchangeable, and you can plug them

00:33:24.680 into new people, and it's no big deal. The classical understanding of human nature is not that.

00:33:29.940 The classical understanding of human nature is that we are an integrated whole, that we are a

00:33:33.820 primary substance, that you can't just plug and play our different parts, like on a car. You know,

00:33:38.860 on a car, you can go in, you can take out a catalytic converter from one car, you can put

00:33:42.940 it into another car, and it's going to work just fine. You can pull out the transmission here,

00:33:48.100 you can plug it in. Because to use the old terminology, a car and all these other created

00:33:54.160 things, they're just artifacts. We make them. So they're not totally integrated in the way that

00:34:02.680 a human being is. A human being being a primary substance made by God. One problem for this old

00:34:10.860 view of human nature in recent years has been that it seems like with organ transplants, we actually

00:34:15.800 are kind of like the catalytic converter. We actually are like a car or like any other artifact. You can

00:34:19.220 just plug us and play us, and there's so many people, especially prominent voices in the academy

00:34:23.680 and in the government and in the cultural elite, who say, yeah, we're just machines. We think we have

00:34:27.880 free will. We think we have souls. We think we have desires and longings and meaning, but it's all

00:34:32.100 just fake. It's an illusion made by firing pistons in our brain, even the term pistons, to compare it

00:34:37.460 to a car. And so you're just deluding yourself. But maybe not. Maybe our organs don't just plug

00:34:47.160 and play like that. Maybe actually it's all part of that one person. And you could get a blood

00:34:51.320 transfusion, and things start to go a little haywire. And you start craving chicken and beer. And you start,

00:34:58.500 maybe they're really for us. And we are one thing that is integrated, not just in our body,

00:35:09.220 but take it one step further. Maybe we're integrated body and soul. Maybe we're actually

00:35:12.920 not machines, but human beings. Who knew? Every wise person for all of history is the answer.

00:35:20.940 Until very recently, and then we said, those guys are dumb idiots, and we're modern, and we have cell

00:35:24.660 phones, so we know that they're all wrong, and we're right about everything. Well, maybe not.

00:35:28.580 Maybe we actually are human beings. Speaking of the vindication of traditional wisdom, this is going

00:35:35.760 to, this is a shocking headline. If you're driving, you've got to pull over. If you're standing up,

00:35:40.600 please sit down. If you take a deep breath. Turns out that when the Kentucky Democrat Governor,

00:35:48.360 Bashir, during the COVID lockdowns, decided to let a bunch of criminals out of prison,

00:35:55.180 turns out that those criminals that he let out of prison, they went on and committed more crimes.

00:36:02.820 I mean, how could, you can't blame Andy Bashir here, right? How could he have possibly seen it coming

00:36:07.480 that people who are known for committing a lot of crimes, if you let them out of their punishment,

00:36:13.820 and you just set them free in society, they're going to commit more crimes? How could any modern

00:36:19.520 liberal who recognizes that no one is personally responsible for their crimes, and actually it's

00:36:26.200 society's fault, and we need, the prison industrial complex is a terrible form of oppression and slavery,

00:36:34.140 and actually we just need to give people hugs and let them free, and let them be there. They don't

00:36:39.240 even have free will. We can't, anyway. Who could have guessed? Normal people is who could have guessed.

00:36:46.420 Ordinary, normal people who have the wisdom of the ages and even a modicum of common sense,

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00:38:11.960 such crazy times. I tend to get frustrated, and he is my Xanax. I think that's a compliment.

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00:38:26.380 Thank you very much. Nearly 70% of inmates released by Andy Beshear through commutations

00:38:33.300 during COVID went on to reoffend, with some committing violent felonies like assault and

00:38:37.720 homicide. 1,702 individuals whose sentences were commuted by Beshear in 2020. The majority of them,

00:38:44.960 882, went on to commit felonies. Then an additional 252 committed misdemeanors,

00:38:51.360 leaving just over 500 who have not committed any crimes yet. Turns out you can't fix problems

00:38:57.800 just by wishing them away. You can't. And it turns out that refusing to punish criminals

00:39:04.160 is not compassionate. It's not charitable. It's not compassionate toward the future victims

00:39:12.740 victims and the past victims, but especially the future victims of their crimes. Had Beshear just

00:39:17.920 done his job and been normal and locked up the criminals? 882, no, I'm sorry, more than,

00:39:25.840 over 1,000 victims would not have been victimized. Over 1,000 people would not have been victims of

00:39:32.600 crimes, some of which were violent felonies. Homicide. So people are dead because Andy Beshear

00:39:40.020 thought it would be really compassionate to let criminals out of prison. That's not

00:39:44.840 compassionate. It's not charitable. It's not compassionate or charitable toward the criminals

00:39:50.280 either. Plato talks about this in Gorgias. All these, it turns out all these really old guys,

00:39:56.360 they were right about a lot of things. It is an act of love to punish a criminal because the criminal

00:40:02.800 has something wrong with him. It's kind of like a disease. He's got defects of his will and his

00:40:08.820 intellect, and he does bad things. And when you do bad things, that harms you. It harms your soul.

00:40:15.700 It will compromise your potential eternal reward. I mean, ultimately, it could send you to hell.

00:40:23.940 But even if you don't believe in the soul, even if you don't believe in religion or anything

00:40:28.800 that every wise person throughout all of history has believed in, even if you don't believe in that,

00:40:34.100 even just from the perspective of life on earth, if you're a criminal and you keep murdering people

00:40:40.440 and doing drugs and getting involved with the wrong crowd, you're going to harm yourself. You're not

00:40:47.060 going to live a good life. You're not going to be happy. You're going to wind up either dead of an

00:40:52.100 overdose or killed in some violent crime, or you're going to wind up destroying your body.

00:40:58.520 You're going to be living a bad life. Nobody says, you know, I love my child, and I really want my

00:41:04.520 child to have a good life, and that's why I'm going to encourage my child to get involved in crime.

00:41:10.460 It's not good. It's not good for these people either. It is cruelty to do this. It is the kind

00:41:19.000 of negligence that is so typical of liberalism on the left and on the right, which says that other

00:41:25.280 people, they're not my problem. Other people, they're not my business. No, I'm just going to do me, and you

00:41:31.300 do you, and I'm an island, and tie her unto myself, and how does it affect you? Look, man, how does it

00:41:37.560 affect you if we radically redefine some social question? How does it affect you if we radically

00:41:45.100 social engineer some aspect of society? Oh, because I live in society with other people, and it warps the

00:41:53.500 universe in which I am attempting to live a good and flourishing life. It affects me because man is a

00:41:58.720 political animal and social creature, and we're not just islands and atoms floating in outer space.

00:42:05.240 How does it affect me? Because some stupid criminal released by Andy Beshear could murder me,

00:42:08.940 God forbid. That's how it affects me. We've got to ditch this crazy ideological hyper-individualism on

00:42:17.400 the left and on the right. It's different on the left and the right. On the right, it's don't take

00:42:22.840 any of my money, and on the left, it's don't tell me what weird stuff I can do in back alleyways at

00:42:29.540 night. But the point of it is ultimately the same. It's a denial of society, and it immiserates all of

00:42:36.520 us. Now, speaking of crime and punishment, a judge, a Democrat judge in Colorado, has just greenlit a

00:42:44.000 campaign to keep Trump off the ballot in Colorado. This judge, Sarah Wallace, was appointed by the

00:42:51.320 Democrat Governor Jared Paulus. And she has denied a motion by Trump and the Colorado GOP to throw out

00:42:58.580 a lawsuit seeking to block Trump from appearing on the ballot in Colorado. And why are they going to

00:43:02.680 block Trump from appearing on the ballot? Because he's an evil rapist, insurrectionist, Ukraine

00:43:08.660 colluding, Russia colluding, mean old orange man who we really hate. And in Invisible Ink in the

00:43:14.500 Constitution, it says that mean orange men can't be on the ballot. I think that's pretty much the

00:43:20.640 substance of the lawsuit. And this Colorado judge says, okay, I can go ahead. Or that's the substance

00:43:26.560 of the campaign, rather. And the judge says, yeah, the campaign can go ahead. Sure. Okay. The last time

00:43:33.900 we had a situation like this, I will remind you, was 1860. People sometimes say that in 1860,

00:43:40.060 Abraham Lincoln didn't appear on the ballot in the Southern states, which is not quite true

00:43:44.060 because elections were conducted differently than they are today. You didn't have a formal ballot

00:43:48.380 on a computer screen or even just print it out. It was the parties would produce the ballots and the

00:43:52.120 GOP didn't even invest in the South because they were never going to win. And GOP was a new party

00:43:56.680 with not a lot of resources. But the effect of it was basically that Abraham Lincoln was not

00:44:02.700 a candidate that one could even really plausibly vote for in a lot of the country. And then when

00:44:10.320 he got elected president, that was a cause of the civil war because half the country felt that it

00:44:17.980 didn't have any representation. It didn't really have any say whatsoever. This is not an identical

00:44:23.420 situation, but it's pretty close. If the liberals succeed at kicking Donald Trump off the ballot

00:44:28.980 ballot in 2024, it's going to tell us two things. One, it's going to tell us that Trump is obviously

00:44:35.400 electable. One of the silliest lines I hear is that Donald Trump can't win the general election.

00:44:41.400 He can't win a general election, which I know is false because he won at least one general election.

00:44:46.940 He did. A lot of people who said the same thing in 2016, Donald Trump can never win a general

00:44:50.360 election. They were quite surprised when he won the general election in 2016. But then they use the

00:44:55.260 dubious election of 2020 to say, well, let's see now he actually, he can't win all that. He could

00:45:00.260 not saying he will. I'm just saying he could. So it's going to, the fact that the Dems want to keep

00:45:04.760 him off the ballot shows you they don't think it's going to be a slam dunk to defeat him at the ballot

00:45:09.820 box. Even with the vote harvesting, even with the drop boxes, even with all of their nonsense and all

00:45:16.720 of their shenanigans that opened the elections to fraud, they still are not convinced they can beat

00:45:21.060 him at the ballot box. So they want to, they want to prevent voters from even having the choice at

00:45:26.200 the ballot box. That's the first thing it's going to tell you. The second thing it tells you is

00:45:29.700 we are dangerously close to not having much of anything in common as a country. We are dangerously

00:45:40.440 close to the conditions that we were at in 1860. And I'm not one of these catastrophists who says

00:45:44.680 that we're always going to be on the brink of civil war and we're all going to, I'm certainly not

00:45:49.520 encouraging civil war by any means, but it could happen. Just like people sometimes say,

00:45:54.500 do you think we're living in the end times? My answer is, I don't think we are, but someone's

00:45:59.300 going to be living in the end times. I guess we could be. That's kind of how I feel about civil war.

00:46:03.540 I'm not saying that we're headed for civil war, but we could be. Civil wars happen and the liberals

00:46:10.940 would appear to be cultivating the conditions to make it much more likely. The rest of the show

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