The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1374 - Snoop Dogg Quits Smoking Weed

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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, 0.86

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. 1.00

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. 0.66

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. 1.00

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. 0.92

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. 0.99

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. 0.95

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. 0.95

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. 1.00

00:05:15.200 Okay, that's the part that the libs like. 0.98

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

00:06:35.380 Okay, well, what about this one? 0.68

00:06:36.680 You attacked us in Somalia. 0.60

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. 1.00

00:06:47.840 That's right.

00:06:48.620 Those Americans, they keep interfering in places all over the world. 1.00

00:06:53.460 Okay, then, then you get a turn. 0.68

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. 1.00

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? 0.95

00:07:17.040 That Islam is the true religion, and they all need to convert by the sword? 1.00

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. 0.88

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? 0.98

00:08:01.800 Are they going to be cheering on that part of the Osama bin Laden letter at their next pride parade? 0.94

00:08:07.300 There's going to be a section of Drag Queen Story Hour where they read Osama bin Laden's letter 0.98

00:08:11.740 about how terrible fornication and homosexuality are. 0.96

00:08:15.300 The Libs embracing that part, they say, 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

00:10:14.080 Even the white guys. 0.98

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, 0.99

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 0.76

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. 0.92

00:14:37.180 He hates her. 0.97

00:14:38.000 Her presidential campaign was oriented toward calling him a racist. 0.96

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, 0.75

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, 0.98

00:15:06.100 I have to pick a black woman to be my VP. 1.00

00:15:08.720 And the options before him of prominent black women 0.81

00:15:11.220 who could have been chosen for that job were Susan Rice. 1.00

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. 0.99

00:17:18.880 Who gives a f***? 0.98

00:17:20.000 You know, you were a supporter of Bill Clinton. 0.99

00:17:21.860 He liked George Bush.

00:17:23.020 Nobody cared. 1.00

00:17:23.740 Nobody like, f*** you. 1.00

00:17:25.020 You know, it wasn't like, you're a Nazi. 1.00

00:17:27.200 Like, I'm a Nazi.

00:17:28.540 I just want lower taxes. 0.99

00:17:30.500 What the f*** are you talking about? 0.99

00:17:32.140 How did I become a Nazi? 1.00

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. 0.93

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,

00:20:32.600 but the person making the biggest moves right now would appear to be Nikki Haley. 1.00

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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. 0.97

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. 0.60

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. 0.68

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

00:24:22.720 At which point she said, you are scum on the debate stage. 1.00

00:24:26.520 And now she's saying, you know, he's got a problem with women, basically. 1.00

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? 1.00

00:24:37.820 This is some feminist stuff you'd see out of the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:24:41.240 Come on, give me a break. 0.96

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. 0.87

00:24:49.380 This is a dirty, nasty business. 0.87

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.63

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. 0.92

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. 1.00

00:27:14.220 Sending the illegal aliens up to Martha's Vineyard. 1.00

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. 0.61

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. 0.99

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. 0.85

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.96

00:41:01.080 or stupid? Thank you, as always, for your wisdom and, of course, for your intelligence. 0.98

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. 0.91

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 1.00

00:43:39.000 goodness, those people are going to wind up seeming really stupid later down the road. And even people 0.99

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, 0.99

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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