The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1374 - Snoop Dogg Quits Smoking Weed


Summary

Snoop Dogg has given up smoking, Joe Biden is trashing Joe Biden, and the Libs have endorsed Osama bin Laden's letter to America after the 9/11 attacks. Plus, the latest TikTok trend.


Transcript

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00:00:37.680 Snoop Dogg has given up Mary Jane.
00:00:40.620 Perhaps the most famous puffer of jazz cabbage in all the land is giving up the devil's lettuce.
00:00:47.560 In an Instagram post, Mr. D-O-double-G wrote,
00:00:51.120 After much consideration and conversationism.
00:00:54.420 No, he didn't say that.
00:00:55.040 He said, After much consideration and conversation with my family, I've decided to give up smoke.
00:01:00.140 By which he, of course, means the Haitian oregano.
00:01:03.560 And Snoop concluded, Please respect my privacy at this time.
00:01:09.000 Many fans of the felonious rapper are rushing to all sorts of conclusions as to why he might give up the sin spinach after all these years.
00:01:17.400 And to them, I say, Hold up.
00:01:21.060 Hey, for all those fellas who be thinking he's soft, Snoop don't play.
00:01:27.220 I'm confident that he is going to rock it till the wheels fall off.
00:01:30.500 I say, Hold up.
00:01:31.240 Hold up.
00:01:31.860 Hey, for all those fellas who be acting too bold, take a seat.
00:01:37.380 I hope you're ready for the next episode.
00:01:42.660 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:43.560 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:44.480 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:04.760 For those just listening, I want to make it perfectly clear.
00:02:07.980 I am implying that Snoop is going to switch to smoking Mayflower cigars.
00:02:13.580 That is, I know if you saw, if you're watching it, you saw me point at the box.
00:02:17.900 I want, I don't want anyone to miss my implication here.
00:02:21.940 Also speaking of pop culture, Joe Rogan and The Rock are trashing Joe Biden.
00:02:25.920 We'll get to that in just a moment.
00:02:26.780 First, though, speaking of people who are obviously under the influence of mind-altering drugs,
00:02:32.920 the libs have gone from trashing America to endorsing some of America's enemies to undercutting America's position in the world
00:02:44.080 to now outright endorsing Osama bin Laden.
00:02:50.560 The latest TikTok trend.
00:02:53.120 This gal, she goes, me, when I got news in 2011 that we got him.
00:02:57.420 Yes, yeah, great.
00:02:59.420 2023, reading Osama's letter to America knowing he was right.
00:03:04.100 He was right.
00:03:04.900 Actually, before you even read the letter, I did want to mention, in reading the letter,
00:03:08.820 I could only think of this tweet that I saw the other day.
00:03:11.220 Under settler colonialism, any kind of resistance is branded as terrorist
00:03:15.500 because the only acceptable violence is violence by the occupier.
00:03:19.440 So please keep that in mind when reading the letter.
00:03:23.040 We really need to stop paying taxes because they ain't doing nothing but messing up everybody else.
00:03:29.300 And America is the bully.
00:03:31.540 And it's sad because they have brainwashed us.
00:03:34.300 It says right there, a letter to America, in my opinion, take care of you.
00:03:37.080 When in reality, we're the worst country on the planet.
00:03:40.400 It is just insane because this letter is so well written and so reasonably structured in an argument.
00:03:50.160 Like, you got to present your findings.
00:03:52.080 You got to, you know, you got to state your cause, all that.
00:03:57.000 Like, everything he said was valid.
00:04:00.260 Hmm.
00:04:01.940 Hmm.
00:04:02.940 If you haven't read it, Osama bin Laden wrote this letter to America after the 9-11 attacks.
00:04:08.100 And I guess Zoomers are just discovering that.
00:04:11.400 I remember reading the letter many, many years ago.
00:04:14.120 But the Zoomers have just discovered it.
00:04:16.440 But they seem to be selectively reading the letter.
00:04:20.720 I'm very excited for the libs who are promoting the letter to America by Osama bin Laden.
00:04:28.980 I can't wait for these libs, all of whom voted for Hillary in 2016, to get to the part of the letter where Osama justifies the 9-11 attacks in part on America's failure to punish Bill Clinton for the Monica Lewinsky affair.
00:04:42.480 I can't wait for them to read the part of the letter, the many parts of the letter that contradict all of their behavior.
00:04:50.240 I'll just give you a little snippet.
00:04:51.620 The letter's not too long, but I'll just give you a little snippet here.
00:04:54.580 Osama bin Laden, in the letter to America, writes,
00:04:57.540 Why are we fighting and opposing you?
00:04:59.560 What are we calling you to and what do we want from you?
00:05:02.420 Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
00:05:05.040 You attacked us in Palestine.
00:05:06.720 Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years.
00:05:09.600 The British handed over Palestine, with your help and support, to the Jews who have occupied it for more than 50 years.
00:05:15.200 Okay, that's the part that the libs like.
00:05:18.780 Because the libs are anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, anti-settler, anti-white people, anti-British, anti-American, and anti-Jew.
00:05:28.160 Okay, they like that part.
00:05:30.020 Keep reading, though.
00:05:31.940 The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites.
00:05:35.060 It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses, peace be upon him, and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed.
00:05:41.880 Muslims believe in all of the prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad.
00:05:47.080 Okay, do they believe that part?
00:05:49.940 Do they believe?
00:05:50.580 There's obviously been a dispute for a long time between the Muslims who believe that they are the descendants of Abraham through Ishmael,
00:05:58.840 and the Jews who are the descendants of Abraham through Isaac.
00:06:05.400 And, you know, in the book of Genesis, it's pretty clear that those two lines are not going to get along very well.
00:06:12.900 Then you add the Christians into the mix, the Christians who view the church as the fulfillment of the Old Testament,
00:06:18.100 and the fulfillment of the Old Covenant, and who view our Lord Jesus Christ as the new Adam,
00:06:22.240 and who view the church as the new Israel, and things start to get really, really complicated here.
00:06:26.540 Do the Libs really, they believe in all of that?
00:06:29.720 Maybe they do.
00:06:30.340 Maybe they do.
00:06:30.820 They say, yeah, the Arabs, they're the real Semites, and the Jews, they're not.
00:06:35.380 Okay, well, what about this one?
00:06:36.680 You attacked us in Somalia.
00:06:37.840 You supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir,
00:06:42.020 and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.
00:06:43.660 Yeah, yeah, that's right.
00:06:44.680 Go get them, Osama, say the Libs.
00:06:47.840 That's right.
00:06:48.620 Those Americans, they keep interfering in places all over the world.
00:06:53.460 Okay, then, then you get a turn.
00:06:57.680 This is why the American people cannot be innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.
00:07:02.100 What are we calling you to?
00:07:03.220 What do we want from you?
00:07:03.980 The first thing is that we are calling you to Islam.
00:07:07.280 So all these Libs here, you know, many of whom are Reddit-tier atheists, I suspect,
00:07:11.800 do they agree with that part of the Osama letter?
00:07:14.720 That they all need to convert to Islam?
00:07:17.040 That Islam is the true religion, and they all need to convert by the sword?
00:07:20.820 Is that, something tells me that the TikTok Libs are not quite on board with that one.
00:07:26.760 How about this one?
00:07:27.940 We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honor, and purity,
00:07:31.400 to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling, and trading with interest.
00:07:40.160 Do they agree with that one?
00:07:41.740 Did they put the bong down long enough to agree with Osama that any use or production or trading in any kind of intoxicating substances whatsoever
00:07:54.760 is extremely haram and needs to be stopped?
00:07:58.680 What about homosexuality and fornication, for that matter?
00:08:01.800 Are they going to be cheering on that part of the Osama bin Laden letter at their next pride parade?
00:08:07.300 There's going to be a section of Drag Queen Story Hour where they read Osama bin Laden's letter
00:08:11.740 about how terrible fornication and homosexuality are.
00:08:15.300 The Libs embracing that part, they say,
00:08:17.980 it's saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind.
00:08:22.480 Certainly the Libs agree with that.
00:08:24.140 You are a nation who, rather than ruling by the Sharia of Allah in its constitution and laws,
00:08:28.040 chose to invent your own laws as your will and desire.
00:08:30.600 I guess that's true, but the Libs like that.
00:08:35.640 That's exactly how the Libs view the law.
00:08:37.480 The Libs view the law not as something that comes from an eternal moral order or an ordinance of God,
00:08:43.520 but rather as something that we just invent, man.
00:08:46.100 You know, it's just whatever the people want, that's what we get, you know, man.
00:08:49.000 So they probably don't agree with that part.
00:08:53.280 Then he goes after the drugs again, and then my favorite part of the letter,
00:08:57.260 who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval Office?
00:09:02.480 After that, you did not even bring him to account other than that he made a mistake,
00:09:06.560 after which everything passed with no punishment.
00:09:08.960 Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and be remembered by nations?
00:09:15.060 I love that.
00:09:16.560 All these Libs who, if they were alive during the Clinton era, excused him, defended him,
00:09:20.880 said that's his private life.
00:09:22.320 He, every man, has the right to privacy when he's boinking an intern in the Oval Office.
00:09:26.660 How dare you suggest otherwise?
00:09:29.260 That's why we support Osama bin Laden now.
00:09:32.440 It seems a little confusing.
00:09:33.520 Not to put too fine a point on it, you don't actually have to hand it to Osama bin Laden.
00:09:40.020 You never have to hand it to him.
00:09:42.740 He doesn't have to have a point.
00:09:44.400 It's okay.
00:09:46.540 The Libs, though, are attracted to the letter by bin Laden,
00:09:51.020 in part because they hate America, and he hates America, so the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
00:09:54.600 But also, in part, I think, for the same reason that young men living in Great Britain 10 years ago,
00:10:03.100 young men who maybe were immigrants or the children of immigrants,
00:10:06.320 but who grew up in perfectly bourgeois British middle-class lives,
00:10:10.500 decided to give it all up and join ISIS.
00:10:12.740 Forget about the immigrant people.
00:10:14.080 Even the white guys.
00:10:14.960 There were white people who would go join ISIS.
00:10:17.420 Why?
00:10:18.020 It seems insane.
00:10:19.020 Why would you leave Britain or France or America, even,
00:10:22.580 to go fight for some Islamic militant group?
00:10:26.900 Because you read that letter by Osama bin Laden or any of the radical Muslims,
00:10:33.820 and you see that these people believe in something.
00:10:36.780 They believe in something beyond mere physical comfort.
00:10:40.940 And that is attractive.
00:10:43.320 But, unfortunately, those guys never ask the next question.
00:10:46.420 Well, what is it that they believe in?
00:10:48.540 Yes, there's something beyond the material world, but what is it that they believe in?
00:10:52.260 Is what they believe in true, or is what they believe in false?
00:10:55.040 Is what they believe in good, or is what they believe in wicked?
00:10:58.360 And furthermore, what should we believe in?
00:11:01.480 Are we all just going to become Muslims because Osama bin Laden told us to?
00:11:05.080 I don't think so.
00:11:06.900 Maybe.
00:11:07.400 I don't know.
00:11:08.200 It's more compelling than just sit around on your iPhone and believe in nothing, I guess.
00:11:11.380 But the reason that the libs in the year of our Lord 2023 can post a TikTok trend like this
00:11:18.600 and be swayed by the ravings of a Muslim terrorist from 20 years ago
00:11:24.080 is because we don't know what we believe anymore.
00:11:28.020 We had a religion, too.
00:11:29.800 We had a civilization, too.
00:11:31.640 We had beliefs beyond the physical comforts of this world, too.
00:11:35.560 And we have consistently given them up for intoxicating drugs, for weird sex stuff,
00:11:42.780 for derelict behavior even among our most prominent politicians.
00:11:49.400 Yeah, we did give all that up.
00:11:51.340 And now we have a crisis of faith and a crisis of identity.
00:11:54.480 And as the cliche goes, if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
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00:13:06.720 Speaking of political activism,
00:13:10.800 the governor of California, Governor Patrick Bateman,
00:13:14.260 doing business as Gavin Newsom,
00:13:16.340 has a new booster, maybe a new endorser,
00:13:19.440 and that person would be President Joe Biden.
00:13:22.820 I want to talk about Governor Newsom.
00:13:25.700 I want to thank him.
00:13:26.560 He's been one hell of a governor, man.
00:13:31.800 Matter of fact, he could do anything you want.
00:13:33.460 He could have the job I'm looking for.
00:13:36.680 Whoa, hold on.
00:13:37.860 Everybody knows that Gavin Newsom is running for president.
00:13:40.600 He hasn't declared, but he is effectively running for president.
00:13:43.980 He's traveling the country.
00:13:45.400 He's talking to the press and saying,
00:13:46.660 you know, if only I were president.
00:13:47.820 Ha ha, I'm just kidding.
00:13:48.920 I'm just being sarcastic.
00:13:50.580 But, you know, if only I could be president,
00:13:52.180 there'd be a lot of things I would do.
00:13:53.640 And so what's going on here?
00:13:55.940 Is Biden teasing him?
00:13:59.500 Is Biden warning him?
00:14:02.060 Is he saying, hey, pal, I know what you're up to.
00:14:05.160 Wait your turn.
00:14:06.660 Or is he suggesting that he would hand over the reins to Gavin Newsom?
00:14:13.300 It could be any of those options.
00:14:15.700 But it certainly could be the latter.
00:14:18.520 Joe Biden is very old.
00:14:20.860 I don't think he wants to willingly give up power.
00:14:24.720 The man's wanted to be president since he was in the womb.
00:14:26.780 I don't think he just wants to give it up willy-nilly
00:14:28.400 and go down as a one-term president.
00:14:29.880 But he's super old.
00:14:31.440 And he is not up to the job.
00:14:33.700 And this is what's crucial.
00:14:35.440 He hates his vice president.
00:14:37.180 He hates her.
00:14:38.000 Her presidential campaign was oriented toward calling him a racist.
00:14:44.840 Remember, that was Kamala's big moment during the 2020 debates,
00:14:47.680 was saying Joe Biden is a racist, and he put black men in prison,
00:14:51.420 and he opposed busing, and didn't want me, a little girl, Kamala Harris,
00:14:56.260 to get a good education.
00:14:57.880 That was it.
00:14:58.420 That was her chief pitch at the debates.
00:15:02.040 He doesn't like her.
00:15:03.060 He only picked her because he boxed himself into a corner and said,
00:15:06.100 I have to pick a black woman to be my VP.
00:15:08.720 And the options before him of prominent black women
00:15:11.220 who could have been chosen for that job were Susan Rice.
00:15:15.160 Susan Rice, who was the fall man for Obama in Benghazi.
00:15:18.080 That wasn't going to work.
00:15:19.320 Karen Bass, who's an actual communist and not a very impressive woman.
00:15:23.220 And Kamala Harris, who's also not that impressive,
00:15:25.400 but was relatively moderate and could have plausibly gone along with the Biden line.
00:15:30.840 But he doesn't like her.
00:15:32.200 Who's he going to pick?
00:15:32.720 He's going to pick Pete Buttigieg.
00:15:34.220 Pete Buttigieg is not going to happen, guys.
00:15:36.660 I know that there were some over-credentialed,
00:15:40.360 upper-middle-class, suburban white liberals who were on the Pete train,
00:15:44.500 but Pete ain't going anywhere, okay?
00:15:46.780 To quote Donald Trump,
00:15:48.040 Alfred E. Newman is never going to be president of the United States.
00:15:50.480 It's not going to happen,
00:15:51.200 especially after Pete Buttigieg screwed up the easiest job in the U.S. government,
00:15:55.840 transportation secretary.
00:15:57.320 You should not know the name of the transportation secretary,
00:15:59.820 and yet that guy managed to screw it up with many transportation crises under his reign,
00:16:05.060 which he wasn't even present for because he was on maternity leave somehow.
00:16:08.860 So it's not going to be him.
00:16:11.620 It could be Newsom.
00:16:12.420 Newsom's a very impressive political figure.
00:16:14.320 And Joe Biden's numbers are in the absolute doldrums.
00:16:18.320 So there is a possibility that if he is not going to win,
00:16:23.420 if his party is going to turn against him,
00:16:25.540 if he gently anoints his successor,
00:16:29.160 that might look better for his legacy than if he gets tossed out by his own party.
00:16:33.620 But his party doesn't like him.
00:16:35.080 You know, Joe Rogan was just talking to The Rock.
00:16:38.420 And Joe Rogan is an independent voter.
00:16:41.440 He was a Bernie bro.
00:16:43.340 Then he signaled that he kind of liked Trump.
00:16:45.540 He never really liked Biden,
00:16:47.900 but probably too establishment for Joe.
00:16:50.500 He's talking to The Rock.
00:16:51.740 The Rock for many years has been rumored to be a Republican,
00:16:54.240 but he's endorsed plenty of lib stuff.
00:16:55.840 I think he endorsed Biden in 2020.
00:16:59.980 These guys are probably pretty decent reflections
00:17:03.540 of the American populace at large.
00:17:05.900 Here's their conversation about the sitting president of the United States.
00:17:09.300 When I was a kid, you could have a Republican friend.
00:17:14.060 Like, it was no big deal.
00:17:15.140 Yes, yes.
00:17:15.800 It was no big deal.
00:17:16.620 Like, oh, Bobby likes George Bush.
00:17:18.180 Of course.
00:17:18.880 Who gives a f***?
00:17:20.000 You know, you were a supporter of Bill Clinton.
00:17:21.860 He liked George Bush.
00:17:23.020 Nobody cared.
00:17:23.740 Nobody like, f*** you.
00:17:25.020 You know, it wasn't like, you're a Nazi.
00:17:27.200 Like, I'm a Nazi.
00:17:28.540 I just want lower taxes.
00:17:30.500 What the f*** are you talking about?
00:17:32.140 How did I become a Nazi?
00:17:33.420 Dude, it's the craziest thing.
00:17:35.060 I have friends who support Trump.
00:17:37.880 I have friends who support Biden.
00:17:39.620 I have friends.
00:17:39.880 Do you really have friends who support Biden?
00:17:41.240 I do.
00:17:41.980 Come on.
00:17:42.200 No, no, no, no, no.
00:17:43.280 Here's what I do.
00:17:44.240 I have friends.
00:17:46.100 Thank you.
00:17:46.680 That's a good check.
00:17:47.520 Because that's important.
00:17:48.680 This is important context.
00:17:49.860 They support the Democratic Party.
00:17:51.100 I have friends who are loyal to the party.
00:17:52.720 Yes.
00:17:53.040 Oh, no.
00:17:56.000 Devastating.
00:17:56.920 And really great catch by Joe.
00:18:00.900 Because The Rock is trying to do this thing that entertainers have done since Michael Jordan
00:18:07.520 and long before that.
00:18:08.980 Long before Michael Jordan.
00:18:10.180 He made it famous by saying, well, Republicans buy sneakers too.
00:18:12.720 But it's the notion that I don't want to alienate either side of the political aisle.
00:18:18.620 So, yeah, I've got friends who support Trump.
00:18:21.400 I have friends who support Biden.
00:18:22.680 And Joe just leans in.
00:18:23.940 He goes, BS.
00:18:24.740 No, you don't.
00:18:25.900 Nobody supports Biden.
00:18:27.460 I know for a fact you don't have a single friend who supports Biden, right?
00:18:33.200 And The Rock looks at him.
00:18:34.220 He knows he's caught.
00:18:34.800 And he goes, yeah, okay, you're right.
00:18:36.840 Yeah.
00:18:37.260 But I have Democrat friends.
00:18:38.360 But even the Democrats hate Joe Biden.
00:18:40.860 And they don't hate him with passion.
00:18:43.160 I guess that's even more of an indictment of Biden.
00:18:46.360 Nobody passionately hates Joe Biden.
00:18:49.160 He's just so, so unimpressive.
00:18:53.720 He's just the guy who was there.
00:18:58.000 I mean, in part, that's why he got elected.
00:19:02.780 Yeah, that's the ticket.
00:19:04.480 That's how he wound up president.
00:19:06.460 Is because he was just totally acceptable.
00:19:08.740 And not exceptional or impressive in any way.
00:19:12.020 He had been around Washington, D.C. since 1752.
00:19:15.620 And he had never rocked the boat too much.
00:19:18.380 He doesn't really believe anything.
00:19:19.880 He'll just go wherever.
00:19:21.100 He feels the wind of his party is blowing.
00:19:23.720 Even his corruption is not that impressive.
00:19:27.240 Clinton corruption is really impressive.
00:19:29.600 The Clintons formed this foundation.
00:19:32.120 They went all over the world.
00:19:33.560 They collected a ton of money.
00:19:35.100 They shook down foreign governments totally in public view.
00:19:38.220 Bill Clinton's flying around on Jeffrey Epstein's private airplane.
00:19:41.720 He's flaunting it.
00:19:42.880 They're flaunting their corruption.
00:19:44.360 It was so outrageous and in your face.
00:19:47.180 Joe Biden, he's sending his son around, his drug-addled son,
00:19:50.740 to go shake down some oligarchs in Ukraine or in China.
00:19:55.000 It's kind of behind the scenes.
00:19:56.460 And it's just even that.
00:19:57.700 Even the corruption is just so mediocre.
00:20:02.220 Nobody supports him.
00:20:03.400 So what's that going to mean?
00:20:05.440 It's going to mean that if the election is fair,
00:20:08.260 and if the Republicans can fix the way that the Dems rigged the voting in 2020,
00:20:12.180 then a Republican has a pretty good chance of winning.
00:20:14.540 And who is that Republican going to be?
00:20:17.320 Almost certainly it's going to be Trump.
00:20:18.700 But on the undercard right now,
00:20:21.500 among the people who are running for that number two spot,
00:20:24.360 if something happens to Trump,
00:20:25.440 if they finally take him out of the race,
00:20:27.060 then that person's going to be ready in the wings to go.
00:20:30.840 Most people thought it was going to be DeSantis,
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00:22:11.880 My favorite comment yesterday is from David Aloha, 5084, who says,
00:22:16.600 if an American statesman visited China, do you think they would hang red, white, and blue banners
00:22:22.420 to make him feel more at home?
00:22:24.380 They would if America were China's biggest creditor.
00:22:28.620 They probably would.
00:22:29.400 That's an under-discussed aspect of the story of San Francisco being painted red for Xi Jinping.
00:22:36.400 Everyone, they clean up the city.
00:22:38.620 For years, we're told we can't clean up San Francisco.
00:22:40.660 We need to let the homeless, drug-addled criminals run roughshod over all innocent people
00:22:45.480 and have filth throughout the streets.
00:22:47.480 And then they find out the communist dictator of China is coming to town.
00:22:51.920 Whoop, overnight.
00:22:52.860 Boom, here we go.
00:22:54.360 Everything's clean.
00:22:55.280 Then they've got red flags hanging from the buildings.
00:22:58.240 Yeah, well, in part, that's because the liberals like Chinese communists more than they like us.
00:23:03.420 But two, China's our creditor, man.
00:23:06.640 They own a ton of our debt.
00:23:07.980 We need them to keep lending us money.
00:23:09.420 Or we won't be able to sustain our bloated and decadent empire.
00:23:13.740 So, yeah.
00:23:14.640 If the roles were reversed, they probably would hang a little red, white, and blue in the streets.
00:23:19.220 That's how empires work.
00:23:21.920 Back to the presidential race.
00:23:24.160 Nikki Haley surging.
00:23:26.140 And she is going after one man in particular.
00:23:29.540 And that would be Mr. Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:23:33.860 What happens?
00:23:34.800 He comes out of the gate.
00:23:36.980 He hits the female chair of the party.
00:23:41.300 He hits the female anchor on the platform.
00:23:45.860 And then he hits me.
00:23:47.860 And I'm not saying anything.
00:23:49.520 I ain't saying, I'm just saying.
00:23:50.760 But he might have a girl problem.
00:23:52.300 I'm just saying he might have a girl problem.
00:23:54.680 So, Nikki and Vivek obviously do not like each other very much.
00:23:59.420 Vivek, in the last debate, called Nikki Haley Dick Cheney in three-inch heels.
00:24:03.640 At one point, he went after Nikki's association with the defense industry.
00:24:11.260 And then the part that really got under her skin, after she had attacked him for being on TikTok,
00:24:17.080 or her campaign had attacked him or something like that, he went after her and said,
00:24:21.480 well, your daughter was on TikTok.
00:24:22.720 At which point she said, you are scum on the debate stage.
00:24:26.520 And now she's saying, you know, he's got a problem with women, basically.
00:24:30.180 So, a lot of conservatives are going to recoil against this and say,
00:24:34.360 oh, Nikki, that's a liberal tactic.
00:24:36.400 You're playing the woman card?
00:24:37.820 This is some feminist stuff you'd see out of the Democratic Party.
00:24:41.240 Come on, give me a break.
00:24:42.120 But my answer to that is, I don't know, why shouldn't she play it?
00:24:46.780 Why not?
00:24:47.320 It's politics.
00:24:48.040 This is a dirty business.
00:24:49.380 This is a dirty, nasty business.
00:24:51.400 They're all going to rip each other apart.
00:24:54.300 And so, if that is a card that Nikki has got up her sleeve,
00:24:58.820 that she thinks is going to work, I don't know, it's a tactic.
00:25:02.740 I don't know, it's not a tactic that I would use, in part because I'm a man.
00:25:05.540 But, you know, she's a woman and can play that card.
00:25:08.500 Okay, fine.
00:25:10.280 If I were advising her campaign, I would have cautioned against that a little bit.
00:25:15.460 Because I would say, well, Republicans don't like identity politics.
00:25:19.240 They don't like the feminist stuff.
00:25:20.660 Maybe it's, I just don't think it's going to be effective.
00:25:23.360 But it would appear that I would have been wrong in that advice.
00:25:26.540 Because Nikki's campaign is doing great.
00:25:30.420 It's not doing great, great in that Donald Trump is still 50 points above everybody, just about.
00:25:34.980 But it's doing great relative to the rest of the undercard.
00:25:39.260 Nikki is surging.
00:25:40.000 And according to a new Emerson poll, Nikki is now in second place in New Hampshire.
00:25:46.060 Ron DeSantis is down to fourth place in New Hampshire.
00:25:48.020 Now, the real headline of the poll is Donald Trump has 49% in New Hampshire.
00:25:53.760 So, statistically, half of New Hampshire voters in a field that's still, what, six people?
00:26:00.440 I guess Tim Scott's dropped out, so now it's five people.
00:26:03.780 Trump still has 50% of the vote.
00:26:05.800 It's not even close.
00:26:06.900 But Nikki is now in second place.
00:26:09.760 She's got 18 points.
00:26:11.820 And she's ahead of everyone else, including Ron DeSantis.
00:26:16.440 So, the field is winnowing.
00:26:19.100 And I always feared this would happen for DeSantis.
00:26:22.960 Who I really like.
00:26:24.220 Who I really support.
00:26:25.420 Who I think is a really good politician.
00:26:27.460 But, as I've said before, I won't belabor the point.
00:26:29.920 He was kind of a man without a home.
00:26:31.560 Because the thing that made him so great is the pitch that he was Trump 2.0.
00:26:35.720 Bigger, better, faster, stronger.
00:26:36.960 More disciplined.
00:26:37.720 More this.
00:26:38.120 More that.
00:26:39.960 But his role in the race was to be the anti-Trump candidate.
00:26:42.480 Which the campaign seemed to believe meant he would have the best of both worlds.
00:26:47.700 He could pull from the Trump supporters.
00:26:49.080 And he could pull from the political establishment.
00:26:51.460 But, in reality, he seems to have alienated both camps.
00:26:54.880 Because the real Trump supporters support Trump.
00:26:57.320 They got the OG in the race.
00:26:58.320 They're not going to support the new guy.
00:27:00.440 And the establishment doesn't like what Ron DeSantis has actually accomplished in Florida.
00:27:04.160 Which is being much more conservative.
00:27:06.960 Kicking the woke stuff out of the classroom.
00:27:08.980 Going after Disney.
00:27:10.100 Wielding the power of the state against corporations.
00:27:12.820 Sending migrants.
00:27:14.220 Sending the illegal aliens up to Martha's Vineyard.
00:27:16.860 That's stuff that I love.
00:27:18.540 I, coming from the conservative wing of the party.
00:27:20.640 But it's not going to win you any support among the never-Trumpers or the establishment.
00:27:24.680 So then, you're a man without a home.
00:27:26.500 And someone like Nikki Haley, who has styled herself for her whole career as a much more moderate, centrist kind of Republican.
00:27:32.460 And she might be able to take that support.
00:27:36.720 It's that old adage, if you stand in the middle of the road, you might get hit by a truck.
00:27:40.800 There's at least clarity.
00:27:42.080 I don't think that's going to work for Nikki Haley in the end.
00:27:44.180 I still think Trump is going to keep his 50% and walk away with the nomination.
00:27:47.820 Barring some unforeseen catastrophe.
00:27:50.860 But it could give her a better shot at second place.
00:27:54.520 Now, on the Democrat side, there's another man running for president.
00:27:57.440 Potentially, that would be West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin.
00:28:00.980 Are you seriously contemplating a run for the White House?
00:28:05.740 I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure and mobilize that moderate, sensible, common-sense middle.
00:28:13.400 That could be a center-left, center-right.
00:28:15.220 So it could be a person who is involved in the grand old party forever.
00:28:18.880 But they basically say, well, you know, my Democrat friends over here, the old blue-dog Democrats, the middle's gone.
00:28:25.280 There's not many of us centrists left.
00:28:27.800 And if I can reinvigorate that.
00:28:29.660 And I said, I will do everything that I possibly can.
00:28:32.180 I'm totally, absolutely scared to death that Donald Trump would become president again.
00:28:36.920 I think we will lose democracy as we know it.
00:28:39.460 I do just want to stick with what your thinking is right now.
00:28:42.780 Just to clarify, just to put a fine point.
00:28:44.440 I know you haven't made any decisions.
00:28:46.080 But are you considering running for president?
00:28:48.520 I will do anything I can to help my country.
00:28:51.060 Is that a yes?
00:28:51.660 And you're saying, does that mean you would consider it?
00:28:54.080 Absolutely.
00:28:54.680 Every American should consider.
00:28:56.060 If they're in a position to help save the country, I think we're on the wrong course.
00:28:59.440 So I will do everything possible.
00:29:02.700 He wants to run.
00:29:03.880 He obviously wants to run.
00:29:05.600 And he apparently explored a no-labels run as an independent candidate.
00:29:10.480 Now he could run as a Democrat.
00:29:12.360 To me, the key here, the key figure in his thinking is not Joe Biden.
00:29:18.920 To me, the key figure in his thinking is RFK Jr.
00:29:22.380 He's RFK Jr. is styling himself as a 1960s Democrat.
00:29:26.920 I'm a Kennedy Democrat, you know?
00:29:28.640 Look, my name's Kennedy.
00:29:29.860 I'm a Kennedy Democrat, and I'm a little more moderate and a little more centrist.
00:29:34.240 And that's why you should vote for me.
00:29:35.900 And Joe Manchin's looking at that and saying, hey, Bobby Kennedy, you're not a centrist.
00:29:40.380 What are you talking about?
00:29:40.900 You're an extreme liberal on most issues other than the COVID vaccines, which is why you have
00:29:45.440 some conservative support.
00:29:46.700 But especially in the environment, for goodness sakes, you're an extreme liberal.
00:29:50.760 And you've convinced people you're a moderate.
00:29:52.800 And you're walking away with one-fifth of the Democrat vote right now.
00:29:55.840 Whoa.
00:29:56.160 And there was a poll that came out last week.
00:29:59.280 In a three-way race, you put a real dent.
00:30:01.780 You're a real player in this race.
00:30:03.380 Whoa.
00:30:03.960 Well, if you're the fake moderate, what about me?
00:30:08.100 I'm an actual moderate.
00:30:09.140 I'm Joe Manchin.
00:30:09.880 I'm the centrist guy.
00:30:10.680 Everyone likes me in the Senate.
00:30:11.880 I'm like a big, cool football quarterback.
00:30:14.800 You know?
00:30:15.120 I'm the guy in high school that everybody likes, even the Democrats and the Republicans.
00:30:18.720 I pal around with everybody.
00:30:21.500 Maybe I should run.
00:30:23.160 That's what we're seeing here.
00:30:24.160 Now, before we get to the mailbag, my favorite time of the week, I do want to get to someone
00:30:28.020 who will not be running for re-election.
00:30:29.620 That is George Santos.
00:30:31.760 George Santos is not running.
00:30:33.660 You know he's the guy who he got caught with all these lies and deceptions and frauds.
00:30:38.080 And he's a really colorful character out of New York.
00:30:42.120 I have defended George Santos from resigning for a long time, more than most other Republicans,
00:30:51.500 probably.
00:30:52.020 And the reason for that is that Santa, I'm not denying that Santos has done all sorts of terrible
00:30:56.140 things or that he's a disreputable figure.
00:30:58.900 I like that DeSantos is in the Congress because so many of the other Democrats who pretend to be
00:31:03.820 respectable have done the same things.
00:31:05.560 Oh, what happened?
00:31:06.360 And George Santos lied about his ethnic background.
00:31:09.740 Gee, you know, okay, talk to me more about that, Elizabeth Warren.
00:31:13.120 Oh, George Santos had some corrupt financial dealings.
00:31:16.700 Oh, tell me more about that, Joe Biden.
00:31:19.000 What I liked about Santos in the Congress is that he just exposes the iniquity and the hypocrisy of
00:31:25.160 the libs, which I think is terrific.
00:31:27.340 But I'm not calling on him to resign, but he says he's not going to run for re-election because of
00:31:32.240 this ethics probe.
00:31:32.980 I do want to point out, while I get a kick out of Santos because he is a meme and because he shows
00:31:38.540 the Democrats for what they are, fraud is really bad.
00:31:42.700 The stuff he's accused of, and it seems like there's good evidence of, is not only that he
00:31:46.860 defrauded people, but that he defrauded his benefactors and that he appears to have a consistent
00:31:52.100 track record of doing this for his whole life.
00:31:54.120 And that is really bad.
00:31:57.600 Fraud, treachery, defrauding your benefactors in particular, is, in the divine comedy, the
00:32:05.340 very lowest of all sins.
00:32:06.820 That puts you in the very pit of hell, being gnashed in the mouth of Satan, because it is
00:32:12.740 a sin against love and against voluntary love.
00:32:15.520 And it's just so profoundly evil.
00:32:19.340 And so I don't want to gloss over that.
00:32:21.340 He's funny.
00:32:22.060 He's a meme.
00:32:22.880 I get a kick out of it.
00:32:23.840 I'm not going to call on him to resign.
00:32:25.460 But I'm not upset that he's not running for re-election.
00:32:29.060 You know, it's all fun and games until you're being gnashed in one of the mouths of Satan
00:32:33.060 in the Lake Cositis, the Cositis River in the very pit of hell.
00:32:38.200 Then it's a little bit less funny.
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00:33:12.980 All right, it's time for the mailbag.
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00:33:27.060 Take it away.
00:33:28.540 Hello again, Mr. Knowles.
00:33:29.900 It is Daily Wire's favorite bass player coming at you with another question.
00:33:34.020 Congratulations on the cigars, by the way.
00:33:36.000 As an avid cigar aficionado myself and you being the inspiration for me starting a cigar
00:33:42.540 club in the unofficial Daily Wire Discord.
00:33:46.640 I wanted to wonder, would you ever consider going on a cigar tour to have cigars with the
00:33:54.420 fellow creme de la creme?
00:33:56.540 I can happily say that I've had a cigar with Mr. Davies in this Discord.
00:34:02.080 I know you would probably get swarmed by fans if you were to partake in such a thing, but
00:34:08.400 would you ever consider bringing your cigars to a local cigar shop in states across the
00:34:15.540 country and sell tickets for people to sit down and have a cigar with you, or would that
00:34:22.020 be too risky?
00:34:23.300 Anyway, I'll let you know what I think of the Mayflower once I receive it.
00:34:26.680 Thank you.
00:34:27.600 You know, I think that's a great idea.
00:34:29.400 I think that's a really great idea, and I'd love to do it.
00:34:31.980 I am a fixture at cigar lounges all around the country.
00:34:36.320 Truly, when I go to a new city, anywhere in the country, really anywhere in the world,
00:34:40.680 certainly in the country, though, the first thing I look up, where's the nearest cigar bar?
00:34:44.960 Because usually I'm traveling to go give a speech or do some political event, or even if
00:34:49.860 I'm traveling just for pleasure with my family, once the kids go to sleep, I'm probably going to
00:34:53.400 want to go have a cigar, and so it's the first thing I look up.
00:34:56.880 So I've been to, I'm not saying I've been to every cigar lounge in the country, but I've
00:35:00.740 been to a disproportionate number of them throughout these beautiful United States, and my only hold
00:35:06.000 up on doing a lounge event, a formal one, is, you know, it's a pleasure activity for me.
00:35:15.060 So I don't know if I love the idea of formalizing it in a, you know, you get tickets and there
00:35:19.000 are seats and, you know, it's a lounge. It's a much more relaxed kind of culture than that.
00:35:23.940 And two, the beauty of a cigar lounge and conversations in cigars is that they're intimate.
00:35:30.360 You know, it's just a small number of people. So, you know, you do the big event where you
00:35:35.640 got 600 people in an auditorium or something, but then afterward you go out with six people
00:35:40.400 and have a cigar. You know, that's kind of more the vibe that I'd be looking for. So I like the,
00:35:46.080 we got to do something with the cigars. I totally agree. We got to do some kind of event,
00:35:49.660 but I got to work out exactly what that is. Next question.
00:35:53.920 Hi, Michael. I've recently started looking into Catholicism and I have a question for you.
00:35:59.160 So I grew up as an evangelical and the biggest reservation I've had with Catholicism was that
00:36:05.060 pretty consistently growing up, I noticed that my Catholic peers seemed to know the rituals,
00:36:11.220 know the surface level stuff. But beyond that, there were some pretty major gaps in their
00:36:15.540 biblical knowledge. And only recently have I started to question this and even consider
00:36:21.160 Catholicism because I feel like listening to you and Matt talk, that seemed to contradict that
00:36:27.040 idea that I had. So I've attended two masses. One was a Latin mass, but I noticed both times the
00:36:33.760 homily, it did seem surface level. Both, I don't know if this is a coincidence, but both times the
00:36:39.140 priest talked about love and he said nice things about it. He didn't say untrue things, but I didn't
00:36:44.500 learn anything. Neither of them referenced scripture in their sermon. And to me, this seemed to affirm my
00:36:52.660 previous reservation that Catholic churches don't teach the word when I compare it to my Baptist church
00:36:58.500 where our pastors will spend months going through one book in the Bible. We're going through Second
00:37:02.580 Chronicles right now. And I feel like I'm learning a lot that I don't think I would be able to with
00:37:07.980 my own study. So I'd love your thoughts on this. Thanks, Michael.
00:37:12.620 Great question. It varies greatly among Catholic parishes. I've been very lucky in that my parish,
00:37:21.740 the homilies are extremely intellectual and rigorous and all those things. And that's been true of
00:37:28.720 parishes I've gone to in Los Angeles and New York. But I've also been to the ones where the homily seems to
00:37:35.220 have nothing to do with scripture and seems to be a little breezier. All of that is kind of beside the
00:37:41.920 point though, because what you're coming up against is a fundamental distinction in what the mass is
00:37:52.960 versus a lot of other kind of religious services. The holy mass is not a classroom. It is not a lecture
00:38:03.400 hall. It is not primarily about teaching you some aspect of scripture. The holy mass is a sacrifice.
00:38:12.780 There are other places to go learn things and listen to lectures and read your Bible and their Bible
00:38:17.580 studies. For goodness sakes, the most popular podcast in the country, at least for a long period
00:38:21.600 of time, was Bible in a Year with Father Mike Schmitz, which is a Catholic Bible study, 365 days through
00:38:27.280 the Bible. And then one of the other most popular podcasts was the Catechism in a Year, also with
00:38:33.540 Father Mike Schmitz, a very popular podcaster. So you can go there. There are wonderful lectures to
00:38:37.440 go to. There are wonderful groups outside of mass. But mass is not just about teaching or even
00:38:42.640 primarily about teaching. It's about the holy sacrifice. It's about worship. And those are different
00:38:47.460 things. And they both have their place. But the mass is the highest form of prayer. And so one way
00:38:53.900 to think about it, I think it was Scott Hahn, actually, the theologian who was on the show
00:38:58.000 yesterday, I think I got this point from him, that you might think about it as the distinction between
00:39:02.040 the temple and the synagogue. The temple is for sacrifice. The synagogue is largely directed toward
00:39:09.620 teaching and exegesis. But those are distinct functions. And so there's a little comfort there.
00:39:18.600 There's a lot of comfort there, too, because it means that if you go to a mass and the homily is
00:39:23.680 really brilliant and profound and deep and erudite, well, great, all the better. I love that.
00:39:29.760 But that's not what you're going there for. You're going there for the holy sacrifice of the mass
00:39:33.380 in the blessed sacrament, the holy Eucharist. Okay, next question.
00:39:37.200 Hi, Michael. Arun here. I watched with great interest and enjoyment your reaction video to that
00:39:43.500 PhD lady with apparently with the low IQ. One reason I found it interesting is because we on the
00:39:51.140 right regularly and rightly mock people who wave around their PhDs and then espouse leftist talking
00:39:58.460 points. And usually these people have PhDs in ridiculous and intellectually vacuous topics like
00:40:05.120 gender studies or cultural anthropology. You know, I don't even know what that one is. But this lady had a
00:40:11.640 PhD in a real subject. I think it was cancer biology. And as someone who likewise has an actual PhD,
00:40:19.100 in my case, particle astrophysics, I know that this woman wasn't just sitting in classrooms being
00:40:24.240 indoctrinated. She was probably working in a lab or sitting behind a screen and doing statistical
00:40:29.960 analysis. So she seems like she would be a fairly intelligent person. And yet, you know, she didn't do so
00:40:37.620 well on the test of that intelligence. And that leads me to wonder, what do we mean when we talk
00:40:44.480 about intelligence? What does it mean to say that someone is a smart person? And I'm not talking about
00:40:50.160 wisdom here. I'm just talking about, you know, what we think of as intelligence. Could you provide
00:40:55.560 a functional definition that we could use when we are talking about whether someone is smart or
00:41:01.080 or stupid? Thank you, as always, for your wisdom and, of course, for your intelligence.
00:41:07.040 Well, thank you very much, Arun. Excellent question, as always. To the first part of your question,
00:41:13.140 I just don't know how she ended up in that program. I don't know how she graduated from that program.
00:41:19.460 I agree with you that if you have a PhD in cancer biology or particle astrophysics,
00:41:25.100 you are much more likely to be, certainly particle astrophysics, you're much more likely to be
00:41:31.300 intelligent than someone who has a PhD in some fake nonsense critical studies department.
00:41:36.260 But even in the harder sciences and the more serious academic disciplines,
00:41:42.100 the universities have, over the last many decades, lowered standards because they insist on
00:41:49.700 social engineering and filling the ranks with certain politically correct groups.
00:41:53.820 And so I just don't know how rigorous her education was. I don't remember exactly which
00:42:00.120 schools she went to. I don't remember how much active recruiting of whatever politically correct
00:42:06.540 aggrieved groups you can check the boxes for took place at that school. I don't know how much of her
00:42:11.960 work and publications is actually her own work and how much of it is she just put her name as a
00:42:16.760 co-author on some paper. So there is a lot of wiggle room in there for someone to get that kind of a
00:42:22.200 credential without really having the intellectual fortitude to do it herself. But as for a working
00:42:30.840 definition of intelligence, it would seem to me that the intellect is the highest faculty of the soul
00:42:37.500 and that it ultimately comes down to discerning truth from falsehood. So you are keenly drawing a
00:42:45.160 distinction between intelligence and wisdom. I'm not sure that they're quite so easily separated.
00:42:52.440 You know, given the distinction that you're making, then one would have to say that intelligence is
00:42:57.500 just, you know, the sheer ability to focus and process information over time, right? It's just like
00:43:06.280 some engines run a little faster than other engines, given the distinction you're making. But I'm not sure it
00:43:11.780 totally works like that, which is why I don't deny the reality of natural advantages, things like IQ,
00:43:17.460 but I also don't put too much stock in them because it just seems to me that people who
00:43:23.740 have a raw intelligence that's very, very high, but who are trained in habits of the intellect
00:43:30.840 and habits more broadly of the will that are not conducive to discerning truth and beauty and
00:43:39.000 goodness, those people are going to wind up seeming really stupid later down the road. And even people
00:43:42.960 who don't have quite as robust a natural intelligence, people who are, are well-formed
00:43:48.620 and trained in wisdom are just going to come off as much, much smarter. I mean, frankly, you see this
00:43:52.580 in a lot of the, I traveled to a lot of universities, the universities that supposedly have the absolute
00:43:58.680 highest tippity top standards when it comes to SAT, ACT, standardized testing. A lot of those kids
00:44:05.120 come off as pretty dumb because they don't know anything. I mean, they're, they're, they're,
00:44:10.740 the things they know, they don't know very well. And many of the things they know just aren't true
00:44:15.960 at all. And then they, they show great ignorance in basic aspects of, of knowledge that they should
00:44:21.840 have had a decade prior. Whereas you go to schools that don't require such high SATs, but they're a
00:44:27.320 little more properly ordered. And those kids know their Aristotle much better than I do, you know?
00:44:33.440 So I'm, I guess I just am skeptical that you can actually separate those two things in a very
00:44:40.040 mechanistic, industrial, computerized way. You know, it tends to be that our theories of the mind
00:44:45.860 are, reflect the dominant technologies of our era. You see this with Freud in the steam engine. You see
00:44:52.640 this today with the computer. We talk about processing information. I just did it myself.
00:44:56.760 We talk about downloading information or uploading our consciousness or whatever.
00:45:00.480 And I just don't know that you can really separate those. Okay. We've got more to get to more
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