The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Two dudes won the top spots on the podium at the Illinois State Women's Cyclocross

00:00:06.100 Championship over the weekend, which seems to have become the Illinois State

00:00:11.040 Cyclocross Dressing Championship, if you ask me. Maybe the Psychocross Championship, huh?

00:00:19.060 Am I right? Am I right? I'm right. Of course I'm right. This is very sad for the women who trained

00:00:24.960 because they were robbed of their prizes by men who are by nature bigger, faster, and stronger than

00:00:30.080 they are. The silver lining, however, is that this is great for us at The Daily Wire since we just

00:00:36.680 released a new comedy movie, Lady Ballers, on this very topic. The biggest moral hesitation that we

00:00:43.820 had making this movie, Jeremy talked about it this week, last week rather at the premiere, is that

00:00:48.900 the filming involved watching men dominate women at sports, including contact sports.

00:00:54.960 Now, of course, the movie hired stunt coordinators and stunt actors. Everything was filmed in the

00:01:00.180 gentlest possible way. But it's still tough to watch men wrestle, tackle, throw basketballs at women.

00:01:09.620 Normal people don't ever want to subject women to that sort of thing, even for a movie. And yet,

00:01:17.240 that's the point. This is not just happening in comedy movies. It's only happening in one comedy

00:01:24.680 movie, and only then because it's happening all over the place in real life, where it is even

00:01:31.220 harder to watch. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:49.540 Welcome back to the show. If you've not seen Lady Ballers from The Daily Wire, you are missing out

00:01:57.600 on the most triggering comedy of the year. I hate that stupid catchphrase, but I guess it's true.

00:02:03.440 It has triggered a lot of people. So it's truth in marketing, I suppose. It is the biggest launch

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00:02:19.860 Wire Plus team and save 50 bucks on new annual memberships. Bill Maher is coming on over to our

00:02:28.260 side. Even the libs are coming on over to our side, mentioning that Donald Trump is right about

00:02:33.440 something, going after Joe Biden a little bit, and specifically on one issue that I think is a huge

00:02:40.020 winner for Republicans in 2024. We'll get to that in one second. First, though, I got to go all the way

00:02:45.340 across the world to Dubai. I got to go all the way across the world to the COP28 UN Climate Conference.

00:02:54.260 We talked about it yesterday. That's the conference for which all of these global liberal elites just

00:03:00.720 hopped in their private jets, even on snow-covered tarmacs, to fly off, emitting 20 times the air

00:03:07.960 pollution that they would have emitted had they flown on a commercial aircraft. And they've gone all the

00:03:13.360 way to the Arabian Peninsula to talk about how to stop the sun monster from killing all of us

00:03:18.540 in five seconds, and how to talk about the imminent end of humanity because people drive around in cars

00:03:25.100 that use gasoline. And so I was waiting for this to be an absolutely insufferable liberal gab fest.

00:03:31.720 And then I was so pleasantly surprised when not just an attendee, but the president of the UN Climate

00:03:42.280 Conference, Sultan Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates took the occasion as an opportunity to

00:03:51.500 completely destroy the climate alarmists with facts and logic and fossil fuels.

00:03:59.460 You can lead by example. And like I said from the beginning, I accepted to come to this

00:04:03.380 meeting to have a sober and a mature conversation. We do not, I'm not in any way signing up to any

00:04:11.240 discussion that is alarmist. I am here factual and I respect the science. And there is no science

00:04:16.920 out there or no scenario out there that says that the phase out of fossil fuel is what's going to

00:04:23.640 achieve 1.5. 1.5 is my North Star. And a phase down and a phase out of fossil fuel, in my view,

00:04:32.620 is inevitable. It is essential, but we need to be real, serious, and pragmatic about it.

00:04:39.860 The science is very acute now. We don't have any time. They say six or seven years. We got peak by

00:04:47.060 2025 the latest in fossil fuel. And your company is investing in a lot more new fossil fuel. And

00:04:54.580 that's going to hurt women.

00:04:57.020 So you hear him starting to interject here. This is where it really turns. I love the opening. He goes,

00:05:02.360 look, I'm here to have sober discussion, you crazy Western women. I invite you crazy Western

00:05:07.860 liberal women to come onto the screen. We talk, we talk about, we want to protect environment. I like

00:05:13.680 environment, but you tell me we're not going to do the gas and the oil anymore. And you're all just

00:05:19.640 absolutely hysterical and crazy. And these women don't quite know what to do. So, so one of them

00:05:25.520 says, well, no, actually the science is very clear. If we don't all stop driving our automobiles

00:05:31.780 by February, we're all going to die. And you'll notice that the science has been very, very clear

00:05:40.760 about the need to urgently stop doing all the stuff that we do that powers our economies

00:05:47.220 within just a few years. It's always since the 1970s, we've heard this. We only have a few years

00:05:52.320 left. If we don't completely upend the economy and the political order within a few years,

00:05:57.900 we're all going to die immediately. And then it never happens. And they always keep pushing off

00:06:01.960 that timeline. You heard this throughout the eighties. I'm sure if you went to school in the

00:06:06.220 nineties, all you ever heard about was global warming or the hole in the ozone layer or acid

00:06:10.120 rain or whatever, whatever the environmental scarecrow du jour was. And then, then we had Al Gore's

00:06:17.960 big movie in the 2000s. That was to tell us that if we don't immediately upend our political

00:06:22.820 economy, then, oh, in just a few years, Manhattan's going to be underwater and Florida's going to be

00:06:27.140 underwater. And then none of it happens. And, but because they always have to push it off just a

00:06:31.180 few more years and Sultan Al Jaber leading this climate conference, he smacked it down for good.

00:06:40.280 Mom, you've, you've just accused me of something that is not correct. I'm sorry. I don't take it.

00:06:46.680 Now I ask you to prove to me. I read that your company is investing in a lot more fossil fuel in

00:06:52.520 the future. Yes, ma'am. You're reading, you're reading your own media, which is biased and wrong. I am

00:06:57.480 telling you, I am the man in charge and it is wrong, ma'am. You need to listen to me, please.

00:07:01.580 I'm very pleased to hear it. I'm very pleased to hear it. It is wrong. You guys write a lie and you

00:07:07.680 believe it. I'm sorry. I do not accept it. I am not accepting this. I'm sorry. I am sorry. I respect you and I do not

00:07:16.980 accept any false accusations. I've been very clear about my position. This is wrong. And you're asking

00:07:23.800 for a phase out of fossil fuel. Please help me, show me a roadmap for a phase out of fossil fuel that

00:07:30.760 will allow, that will allow for socio, for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take

00:07:38.320 the world back into caves. No. Show me. Well, I can't quite show you, actually, you see, because

00:07:45.020 basically our view here is that we got ours here in the West and all of you poor brown people need

00:07:51.900 to give up electricity because we got what we wanted and now we're afraid of the sun monster and we want

00:07:56.960 to sacrifice your societies to whichever demon we're deciding to worship this week. Yes, no, lady.

00:08:05.880 No, thank you. And my favorite part of the whole exchange, my absolute favorite part is just the

00:08:11.820 firmness with which he says, no, we're not going to do this. We're not going to allow you lunatic

00:08:17.780 liberal ideologues to push us around and tell us that we have to impoverish all of our people in our

00:08:23.440 society just because of your new religious cult. No, we're not going to do that. And then my second

00:08:32.540 favorite part is when she says, well, you don't understand. The reports have been very clear. He

00:08:40.200 said, those are reports from your Western biased liberal media that are not true. Show me the facts.

00:08:46.880 And then furthermore, this is the key because everyone can come up with their own paper funded

00:08:51.520 by some liberal think tank. They can find all of their statistics because there are lies, damned lies

00:08:56.860 statistics. He asks a much more difficult question that they can never answer. They can't pull up some

00:09:03.460 study to answer this one. He says, show me the roadmap as to how we are supposed to totally eliminate

00:09:10.900 fossil fuels, how that is going to reduce the global temperature. It's not. You have no scientific

00:09:16.380 evidence that that's going to happen. But more importantly, show us how we can do that without

00:09:20.600 sending us all back to caves. They can't do it. There's no answer. Because to the liberal

00:09:26.460 environmental extremists, they don't care if people flourish. They don't really like people that

00:09:32.060 much. The most extreme among them are antinatalists. They say, we need to stop having children to protect

00:09:39.740 the environment. Later on, we'll talk about this new fad of the dinks, the dinkies, double income,

00:09:49.360 no kids. Well, there's a variation of the dinks called the ginks, which is green inclined, no kids.

00:09:56.320 In fact, I know people who have said this who say, I don't think I want to have kids because of how bad

00:09:59.920 it would be for the environment. It's very anti-human. And you see this even in their reforms

00:10:06.640 of the economy, deformations of the economy, where they say, yeah, you're going to drive less,

00:10:11.360 you're going to do less, you're going to consume less, you're going to live less in this world

00:10:17.220 so that we can offer it up to mother nature and Gaia and the sun monster. No, no thank you.

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00:11:34.660 Moving on from the best climate conference ever in the history of climate activism, but staying in the

00:11:39.960 Muslim world, Muslims in America seem to be turning on Joe Biden. On Saturday, a bunch of Muslim leaders

00:11:48.720 from several states and crucially several swing states descended on Dearborn, Michigan, and they

00:11:56.660 did that to launch a national campaign called the Abandon Biden Campaign. And they want to abandon Biden

00:12:03.720 because they view him as supporting Israel. A lot of people would say that Joe Biden is not supporting

00:12:09.680 Israel enough, but these Muslim leaders are saying he's supporting Israel too much in the war against

00:12:15.760 Hamas. So these are organizers from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona. Ooh, Arizona's an important

00:12:20.440 state, just like Michigan. Wisconsin, that's an important state. Florida's pretty solidly red, but

00:12:25.840 still, you know, good to keep it. Georgia, apparently that's a swing state. Nevada, that's a swing state.

00:12:32.020 Pennsylvania, ooh, baby, that's a big swing state. They are calling for an abandoned Biden campaign,

00:12:38.920 to which I say, this is great. And Republicans better not screw it up. Now you might say, well,

00:12:48.240 Michael, I'm a Republican, but I strongly support Israel. And so I don't want to be on the side of

00:12:53.080 these guys. If these guys are attacking Joe Biden for not supporting, rather for supporting Israel too

00:12:58.980 much, to which I say, folks, politics, actual practical politics is not about the perfect expression

00:13:08.900 of a coherent philosophy. Actual practical politics is about building coalitions. Famously,

00:13:15.820 it's known as the art of inclusion, bringing people together to do things that are practical

00:13:22.360 in the real world. And so I'm not saying that if you're a huge Israel supporter, you need to abandon

00:13:29.480 Israel. Far from it. What I'm saying is there are almost a quarter million Muslims in Michigan,

00:13:35.140 and Muslims broke three quarters for the Democrats in 2016. Three out of four Muslims in America voted

00:13:43.460 for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. And now you're seeing a movement, a serious movement of

00:13:49.640 Muslims away from the Democratic Party. And I don't think it's just pie in the sky. I think it's being

00:13:53.480 caused by an actual real world event that is rallying a lot of Muslims all around the world.

00:13:59.400 And so what Republicans might want to do is to not screw it up. When your opponents are losing,

00:14:07.880 in this case, when the Democrats are losing support among an important group, don't get in their way.

00:14:13.600 We don't need to come into the defense of the Democrats here. Republicans don't need to

00:14:18.820 have any particularly strong foreign policy stance, really, on this kind of an issue.

00:14:25.540 Already, you're seeing the Muslims move away. The Muslims started to move away from the Democrats

00:14:30.520 in 2020. More Muslims voted for Trump in 2020 than they did in 2016. But this is a good issue.

00:14:36.780 Okay, great. Let it happen. It would be very, very good to let these Muslims turn on Democrats.

00:14:43.500 And furthermore, it's not a completely insane political alliance, at least for 2024.

00:14:50.380 Yes, it's true. There have been some conflicts between Christians and Muslims for roughly 1,400

00:14:57.020 years now. That's true. There have been certain invasions, things like the Battle of Poitiers

00:15:02.480 and Lepanto and Vienna. There have been the Crusades. Okay, water under the bridge, folks.

00:15:09.280 Because at the very least, if I were a Muslim, I would look around and I would say, okay,

00:15:15.180 whatever you think about the Israel-Palestine conflict, I would further look around and say,

00:15:19.240 these Democrats are completely godless. The Republicans tend to worship a different God

00:15:25.260 than we, the Muslims, do. But at least they acknowledge that God exists.

00:15:31.120 The Democrats want to completely destroy the family. Republicans might have a slightly different

00:15:35.140 version of marriage and family than we do, but at least they understand the basic realities of

00:15:40.680 marriage and family. Okay, there is a natural attractiveness, if you are a Muslim,

00:15:47.280 to conservative Republicans over insane degenerate Democrats. Okay. And so while there might be

00:15:54.680 differences, the key for the Republicans here is don't screw it up. Just try your best not to alienate

00:16:01.400 the Muslim voters in the swing states. They've come out and said they don't want to support Trump,

00:16:04.840 but if enough of them can just not vote for Biden, that could be enough to swing the election,

00:16:09.480 which would be a great thing. Speaking of Trump, there's a major warning out there from

00:16:16.380 a self-styled statesman. No one else really styles her a statesman, but she does. A stateswoman,

00:16:23.560 a stateslady. That would be, of course, Liz Cheney trotted out once again to do the only thing that she

00:16:29.000 exists for in politics, and that is to criticize her quote-unquote fellow Republicans, because Liz Cheney

00:16:35.520 pretends to be a Republican for that very purpose, to play the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism.

00:16:40.220 Liz Cheney is warning that Donald Trump, if he is reelected, might refuse to leave office.

00:16:48.540 Do you believe if Donald Trump were elected next year that he would try to stay in office beyond

00:16:54.460 a second term? That he would never leave office? There's no question. You think he would try to

00:16:59.080 stay in power forever? Absolutely. I mean, he's already done it once. And in fact,

00:17:03.540 if you look at what he did in the run-up to January 6th, in terms of his pressure on the

00:17:08.080 vice president not to count legitimate electoral votes, his pressure on the Department of Justice,

00:17:12.660 on state officials, and then refusing to send help when the Capitol was under attack,

00:17:18.020 he's already attempted to seize power. And he was stopped, thankfully, and for the good of the

00:17:25.020 nation and the republic. But he said he will do it again. He's expressed no remorse for what he did.

00:17:30.160 First of all, this is a new criticism. I've never heard this one. She says he refused to send help

00:17:38.920 when the Capitol was under assault. Sent help. The Capitol is outside of his jurisdiction. That's

00:17:44.720 why there's something called the Capitol Police. The Capitol Police, who were, oddly enough,

00:17:51.780 not called up to a full security presence before January 6th, the worst day in the history of the

00:17:57.980 Republic. That was kind of weird. The Capitol Police, who stood down and let the January 6thers

00:18:05.000 come in. In some cases, they escorted them through the Capitol Building. That was kind of weird.

00:18:08.620 Of course, if Donald Trump had sent anyone from the executive branch to assist, we would be told

00:18:13.820 that that was another part of the attempted coup. Donald Trump sending his secret police to the

00:18:19.320 sacred halls of democracy in the Congress, attempting to take over a branch of government. So that's a new

00:18:24.000 one. I hadn't heard that one before. Pretty ridiculous. But the whole claim is ridiculous.

00:18:29.840 Because we know that Donald Trump will not refuse to give up power. And the reason we know that is

00:18:37.340 he already did it. This is one of the strongest aspects, I think, of the Trump candidacy,

00:18:43.920 is when people make these insane, hysterical, alarmist claims, we can point back to history

00:18:52.380 and see what actually happened. One of the strongest parts about Trump's candidacy is when it comes to

00:18:59.400 the fear mongers on the left, we can say, well, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice,

00:19:04.340 to quote George W. Bush. The point is you're not going to fool me again.

00:19:06.740 Donald Trump, if he's elected, he's going to start World War III. Oh, well, he got elected and

00:19:14.780 he didn't. He was actually the best foreign policy president in our lifetime. Well, Donald Trump,

00:19:18.480 if he gets elected, he's actually going to be a secret liberal. You sometimes hear this from people

00:19:23.420 on the right. No, actually, he was the most conservative president in our lifetime. Okay,

00:19:28.000 that's good. Donald Trump gets elected, he's going to promote abortion. No, actually,

00:19:32.140 he got Roe v. Wade overruled. Donald Trump, if he gets elected, he's going to promote anti-Semitism.

00:19:40.720 That was another one. He's Hitler. He's going to promote anti-Semitism. Actually, they named a

00:19:43.940 town after him in Israel, so I'm pretty sure he's not going to do that. Well, Donald Trump, if he gets

00:19:47.920 elected, he's not going to give up power. Well, actually, last time you rigged the election against

00:19:53.020 him and he still gave up power. So, nah, I don't think so. This is also why I don't really sweat it

00:20:00.220 when Donald Trump says something eccentric or that we might disagree with on whatever issue,

00:20:05.420 on abortion or on whatever, on LGBT issues, on the sexual revolution. Because as I look at him

00:20:12.260 and I say, huh, okay, well, that rhetoric is a little confusing, but actions speak louder than

00:20:18.780 words, and we've already seen the show. We know what we're getting. We know what show we're going to

00:20:24.280 see if we vote for Donald Trump again. And if Liz Cheney ever had any credibility, I don't think she ever

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00:23:03.280 viral for bragging about the dink lifestyle. We're dinks. We're going to get asked daily when we plan on having

00:23:10.200 kids. We're dinks. Of course, we're going to go out to eat every night after work. We're dinks. We don't

00:23:14.560 have to ask our family for financial help or to watch our kid when we want to go out. We're dinks.

00:23:19.160 We're going to go to Costco and buy all the snacks in bulk that we want. We're dinks. We have disposable

00:23:24.440 income to spend on whatever we would like and don't have to spend on a kid. We're dinks. I'm going to

00:23:29.500 go to every football game and play 18 holes whenever I want. We're dinks. We're going to get asked to every

00:23:35.280 single family event what we're doing with our life. I'm depressed because I just watched this

00:23:39.880 video. I'm very sad about the state of our culture because I just watched that video. I'm frankly not

00:23:46.820 betting on much of a future for Western civilization because I just watched that video. I'm Michael.

00:23:54.720 I'm Michael. This new trend, put the dinks aside for a second, this new trend of the I'm blah,

00:24:02.440 blah, blah, blah, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah that I've seen go around the internet. It's

00:24:05.760 absolutely unbearable. And it's especially unbearable when you're talking about something

00:24:09.740 like the dinks. Because what we're looking at here is not merely a couple suffering from

00:24:17.300 infertility. Who knows? Maybe they did suffer for, maybe they did really want kids and now they're

00:24:21.700 just coping and they're putting on a strong face about it and trying to promote something that they

00:24:25.320 don't actually desire. That could be the case. Many people do that.

00:24:27.520 But what they're at least doing on the surface is they are saying it is better to intentionally

00:24:37.200 abstain from having kids if you are a married couple. And that is obviously not true. That's

00:24:45.040 not what marriage is for. Marriage is for having kids. Not everyone gets to. Some people are

00:24:51.280 infertile. It's a terribly difficult experience to go through. But that's what it's for. You can have

00:25:00.380 a good life without children. If you're a married couple and you're infertile, you can be godparents.

00:25:08.820 You can be very involved in the lives of your nieces and nephews. You can be very involved in

00:25:12.100 the life of your community, say your church or other civic associations. You can, if you are single

00:25:21.060 and you're not going to have kids, you can join a religious order. You can consecrate your singlehood

00:25:27.800 to God. You can do things for other people with the extra time and money that you have for not having

00:25:35.500 kids. All of that is true. The one thing that will certainly not make you happy if you are a married

00:25:47.360 couple without kids is doing what these people are suggesting. We're dinks. We get to buy a lot of

00:25:53.660 snacks at Costco. I have multiple children. I can buy the snacks that I want at Costco. Costco has really

00:26:02.640 great prices and lots of snacks. Frankly, you don't even have to pay for the snacks at Costco

00:26:07.100 because they have so many free samples. That your children are not preventing you from buying Doritos.

00:26:13.480 We're dinks. We get to go to dinner every night. I don't get to go out to dinner every night. That's

00:26:17.640 true. Dinner every night at restaurants gets very boring. Sometimes it's nice to sit at home with your

00:26:26.300 family and have dinner. We're dinks. I get to go to football games all the time. Football games, you can

00:26:33.060 watch them on TV, first of all. I'm not a huge football guy, but you can watch them on TV. It's okay.

00:26:37.500 And you can take your kids to football games, and that's more enjoyable than just going alone.

00:26:43.340 We're dinks. I get to go golfing whenever I want. Yeah, golf is... Guys, don't... I think it was Shaw

00:26:48.840 who said that hell is the place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

00:26:56.800 There are plenty of things I like to do on my own. I like to smoke cigars. I like to

00:27:00.720 read books. I like to strum my ukulele. I even like to paint. I'm not a good painter,

00:27:04.720 but I like painting. I like to go on walks. I like to do all sorts of fun things.

00:27:09.260 It gets old. It gets old. I know people who have intentionally not had children. I'm not kidding

00:27:19.600 because they really like going to brunch. They really like going out to brunch, and they really

00:27:26.400 like traveling, say, especially millennials. They love that. Brunch has diminishing marginal returns

00:27:35.080 on happiness. Even traveling has diminishing... I love traveling. I've traveled extensively.

00:27:41.100 Even that has diminishing marginal returns. It is true that when you have kids, you will have

00:27:47.000 less disposable income. You will have less time. You'll sleep a lot less. You'll be stressed more

00:27:51.320 in some cases. The sublimity of children is simply indescribable. I would not be able to do it

00:28:00.300 justice here. I remember... I'll give you at least one little sketch to give you a sense of it.

00:28:07.960 My first book with words, I guess my only book with words for now, and my first baby were both due on

00:28:15.100 the same day a couple of years ago. I, of course, pushed it to the deadline, as did my baby. We're

00:28:21.520 sitting in the delivery room, and it's my poor wife just screaming, preparing to give birth, and me

00:28:27.780 fixing the footnotes on my manuscript before I sent it off to the publisher. And I had really

00:28:32.660 put my heart and soul into this book, spent a long time writing it, put my back into it.

00:28:38.840 And I finally sent it off. My wife had even said, she goes, you know, I'm giving birth to my baby,

00:28:43.520 you're giving birth to your baby. And I finally sent off the manuscript of something I'd been

00:28:47.240 working on for 18 months, longer than my wife had been working on our baby. And then my wife

00:28:51.500 delivered to our son. And I realized in that moment that my book didn't matter at all.

00:28:58.220 It became a number one national bestseller, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling

00:29:01.220 Minds. You can order it now if you like. Oh, thank you very much. But it doesn't matter at all.

00:29:07.640 Similar to what St. Thomas Aquinas said after he had a mystical vision at the end of his life.

00:29:14.480 And St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the most important intellectuals ever to walk the earth,

00:29:19.480 wrote the Summa Theologiae, among many other works, was said to be able to write multiple

00:29:25.480 books at a time. And he had a mystical vision and he said, oh, all that I have written is so much

00:29:31.260 straw. None of that matters. Brunch doesn't matter. Football doesn't matter. Your snacks at Costco,

00:29:37.580 they don't matter at all when it comes to a much deeper purpose, like the purpose of your marriage.

00:29:44.420 Just absolute peak decadence and hedonism. Have I been harsh enough? I think I have. I think maybe

00:29:52.940 I have. There are things that this couple can do if they can't have kids. Golfing and eating snacks

00:29:57.960 is not among the things that will make them happy. Now, speaking of decadence and hedonism,

00:30:04.320 you know I hate to say I told you so. In this case, I really hate to say I told you so.

00:30:07.760 So I've been going on for years now, really ever since the rise of AI. And we've been hearing all

00:30:16.340 these horror stories about how AI is going to put us all out of work. I said, that's not the big

00:30:19.720 problem with AI. That's not what it's going to be used for. And we've been told AI, it's going to

00:30:24.980 threaten weaponry and military installations around the world. I said, that's not the big fear. That's

00:30:31.660 not what AI is going to be used for. I said, the big thing that you got to worry about with AI

00:30:34.700 is that pretty much the only thing it's going to be used for is porn and degrading people and

00:30:40.440 stopping us from procreating and ending human civilization that way. I said, that's the big,

00:30:45.980 forget about the military uses and the economic disruption. The main issue is it's all going to

00:30:50.360 be used for porn. And it turns out a new survey says, I was totally right. This is from the Daily

00:30:56.320 Mail, the unstoppable rise of deepfake porn. So here are the highlights from this study.

00:31:02.300 Porn makes up 98% of all deepfakes, according to a report by security firm, Home Security Heroes.

00:31:11.040 Not surprised whatsoever. I'm surprised the number is so low. People say, oh, well, with deepfakes,

00:31:16.940 we're not going to be able to tell what the politicians are saying anymore. Don't worry

00:31:20.440 about that. No one's going to spend any time doing deepfakes of politicians because they're all

00:31:23.640 going to be spending their time making porn out of deepfakes. And what did I say about the deepfake

00:31:27.200 porn? I said, the real fear here is not that it's going to create scandals with celebrities.

00:31:33.940 So the real fear here is that with this kind of technology, it's going to be a kid in his math

00:31:39.540 class doing it to his classmate. And she's going to be profoundly violated. And these videos are going

00:31:46.140 to go all around the internet. She's not even going to know what happened, which turns out is exactly

00:31:51.800 what happened. In October, male students at a New Jersey high school were caught sharing AI generated

00:31:56.800 nudes featuring the faces of their female classmates, some as young as 14 years old. And then here's what

00:32:03.180 one of the victims said. We're aware that there are creepy guys out there, but you would never think

00:32:08.720 one of your classmates would violate you like this. And I'd put a pause there. I did think that a

00:32:12.480 classmate would violate them like this. These girls did not. They're young, they're naive,

00:32:17.700 they're innocent. But there are many adults who would not foresee this happening because all of

00:32:26.640 this has been allowed to proliferate because of major willing ignorance, major confusion about

00:32:34.700 fundamental aspects of human nature. They keep going on. Disturbingly, most of these AI tools do not work

00:32:41.520 on images of men. In fact, when the news website Vice tested one app by uploading a picture of a man,

00:32:47.700 his underwear was replaced with female genitalia. Gee, you don't say. Well, these guys, they're

00:32:52.840 legitimately shocked by this. They're legitimately shocked that everyone who uses this technology is

00:33:01.060 a man. And they're further legitimately shocked that very few of those men are homosexual.

00:33:07.220 They're shocked because, why? Because we've been told for our lives, if you're a millennial for your

00:33:12.680 whole life, you've been told, oh, men and women are exactly the same and they relate to sex in exactly

00:33:16.100 the same way. And the other thing you've been told is that 50% of people are gay, which just isn't

00:33:21.120 true. Even with how much those sorts of desires and behaviors are promoted in our culture, it's still

00:33:27.840 a very small number of people. So the vast majority of people using this are men who are attracted to

00:33:34.780 women who, when they are unconstrained by morality and the law, have very, very creepy desires that

00:33:43.120 they give way to. Finally, they say, currently, there is no federal mandate that bans the creation

00:33:48.960 or distribution of deepfake pornography. Yeah, gee, you don't say. You don't say. This problem,

00:33:54.620 we're told it's the unstoppable rise of deepfake porn. I don't think it's unstoppable. I don't think

00:33:58.940 it's unstoppable. We were told that about nuclear weapons. The proliferation of nuclear weapons is

00:34:02.380 totally unstoppable. Everyone's going to have it in five minutes. It didn't happen. We were able to

00:34:06.620 extraordinarily slow down the spread of nuclear weapons. It's still spreading a little bit, but

00:34:13.340 very, very slowly. The same could be true of this kind of technology. The reason that it's taking off

00:34:20.380 right now is because of four related problems. Confusion about the sexes. We refuse to acknowledge

00:34:29.180 that men and women relate to sex differently. Generally speaking, men desire and women are

00:34:36.280 desired. Generally speaking, men chase the girls and the girls are chased by the men. Generally

00:34:41.680 speaking, men have a much higher sex drive and are willing to do lots of weird stuff. The women have to

00:34:50.340 protect against that through something called modesty, which we used to hold up as a virtue in

00:34:54.220 our society and now we mock as a relic of an antiquated and silly age. But it turns out the

00:35:00.160 gods of the copybook headings are reasserting themselves. That's the first confusion. Second

00:35:03.580 one is confusion about freedom. We think that freedom is just the ability to choose and do

00:35:07.440 whatever you want whenever you want to do it. That's not freedom. It's not how our founding fathers

00:35:10.680 thought about freedom. It's not how any serious thinker in our whole civilization has thought about

00:35:14.680 freedom. Freedom is not just neutrally choosing between opposites. If that were the case,

00:35:20.760 God would not be free. If that were the case, then every time you build a habit or a virtue,

00:35:24.620 you'd become less free. Freedom is perfect willing, the ability to do that which you really

00:35:32.540 want to do, which involves discipline, disciplining your base appetites to your rational will.

00:35:37.300 And perfect willing is dependent upon intellect. It's about knowing things. If you're extremely

00:35:42.680 ignorant, you're going to be less free. You're going to be a slave. And now we have a culture

00:35:46.520 that has absolutely no discipline and absolutely no knowledge. So we're, we call ourselves free

00:35:51.540 because we get to look at weird porn all the time, but we're actually enslaved to vices such as

00:35:56.860 pornography, among many others in our culture. That's the second one. Third one is confusion about the

00:36:01.340 law. We, even on the right, have bought into a crazy kind of extreme libertarianism. It's really

00:36:07.860 libertinism, which says that the law is always bad and government is always bad. That's not true.

00:36:14.960 Our founding fathers didn't think that. They weren't anarchists. Law is good. Law is a teacher.

00:36:22.040 When you incentivize certain behaviors, you get more of those behaviors. When you disincentivize

00:36:26.680 certain behaviors by punishing them with the law, then you get less of those behaviors.

00:36:31.220 People have tried to pass laws against this stuff for years now, and liberal radical judges have shot

00:36:36.400 it down, like the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act. Had those laws been

00:36:40.140 passed in the 90s, you wouldn't see half of these problems right now. And then the biggest issue,

00:36:44.340 the biggest driver of this kind of problem is something that Americans are particularly

00:36:50.320 susceptible to, and that is a denial of original sin. That is a denial of the fact. Go out on the

00:36:58.640 street, ask people, do you believe in original sin? I bet many, if not most people in America would

00:37:02.800 tell you, no, I don't believe in that. What's that mean? Some little babies born with some sins? No,

00:37:08.340 man, it's society that puts sin and imperfection on people. But we're all born with all the stuff we

00:37:16.920 need to be perfect. I mean, this is the progressive vision. This is, frankly, the enlightenment vision

00:37:21.000 of man. What it really comes down to is, can you save yourself? Can you be perfect,

00:37:29.360 perfect, totally perfect and without sin, of your own effort, by your own works? Do you believe that?

00:37:37.140 Many people say yes. Many people say, oh yeah, I don't need a God. I don't need a Savior. I don't

00:37:40.820 need, I can do it. We just, we don't need, imagine there's no religion, man. It's easy if you try,

00:37:46.920 you-hoo-hoo, right? That is not only part of the left-wing culture today. That's actually,

00:37:54.880 unfortunately, a theme that recurs in the American tradition. And it's not true. I know there are some

00:38:03.060 creepy men out there, but would my classmates do this? Yeah. Yes. Every single one of your male

00:38:10.340 classmates would do this kind of creepy stuff if they were not constrained by cultural norms,

00:38:18.700 religious and moral proscriptions, and the law. And even then, some of them are going to do it.

00:38:24.880 But I promise you, without any of those restraints, every single one of your male

00:38:30.620 classmates is going to do this. So don't say it's unstoppable. Don't say you weren't warned. Don't

00:38:36.940 say, well, this is just something we've got to deal with. This is creepy. This is wrong. This is a

00:38:40.540 deep violation of women and young girls. And we can stop it if we just throw away our false ideology,

00:38:50.180 if we fix our confusion on really basic issues and act normal, act like a normal society.

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00:40:10.020 slash Knowles. My favorite comment yesterday is from Grunt 9950. Comment is, yes, the annual

00:40:16.860 choreography of private jets flying all over the world, carrying one person at a time to bother us

00:40:23.380 about climate change. There it is. It's part of the ritual. The climate religion has all sorts of

00:40:27.760 rites and rituals. It's got all sorts of sacramentals, you know, the reusable water bottle,

00:40:35.560 the paper straws. These are sacramentals in the cult of the environment. And one of the annual

00:40:41.340 rituals, it's a big festival, is when all the private jets take off to ferry John Kerry and all

00:40:46.220 the rest of them to the other side of the world to talk about how awful it is that we drive our cars.

00:40:51.520 Now, speaking of sin, this clip is from a few days ago, but I want to get to it,

00:40:57.740 of faith leaders in Iowa praying over Donald Trump.

00:41:01.640 Lord, I pray for protection over him. I pray for protection over his family.

00:41:06.480 Lord, that all the weapons formed against him will not prosper. Lord, they will come to nothing,

00:41:12.100 and the traps that have been laid against him. Lord, the people that laid the traps,

00:41:15.760 they will be caught in their own traps. So, Father, we thank you now, Lord, for a great favor.

00:41:20.560 And I pray, Lord, that we will get those in trouble, trust in you, not in his understanding,

00:41:27.020 but in his understanding. I acknowledge you in all his ways, Lord, and I trust you that you will

00:41:29.680 direct it past. And Lord, there is a great victory, not only in this nation, but for the world,

00:41:35.040 because of the calling that you placed on us. We say this in agreement right now, and Lord,

00:41:43.200 we thank you that it should be done by our Father in heaven. Amen.

00:41:47.220 So the liberals are sending this clip all around, and they're pretending that it's really weird.

00:41:51.960 Some are suggesting that conservatives worship Donald Trump because they just don't understand

00:41:59.940 how religion works, certainly not the Christian religion. So they don't realize that what you're

00:42:05.580 seeing there is not only not the worship of Donald Trump, it's the opposite of the worship of Donald

00:42:09.600 Trump. It is a recognition by faith leaders in Iowa that this is a fallen, broken man who is

00:42:14.820 susceptible to all sorts of sin and vice. And so they are praying to God to protect him from

00:42:19.580 spiritual warfare, the reality of which the liberals also deny. Because they deny that there's

00:42:25.640 good and bad and the personality of good and bad, and they deny that there are angels and demons and

00:42:32.800 spiritual warfare. They deny all of these things. They adopt a mostly materialist outlook, even if

00:42:38.800 they sometimes contradict that with the natural intuitions of metaphysical reality. You see this

00:42:45.900 especially in the transgender ideology, where they say your body has nothing to do with who you are.

00:42:49.740 But that's a little crack in the otherwise materialist facade of their worldview. It's good

00:42:55.380 to pray for your leaders. Even if you don't like Trump, even if you hate Trump, even if you're a big

00:42:58.880 Democrat and you love Joe Biden, it's good to pray for your leaders. Even if you're a big Republican

00:43:05.180 and you hate Joe Biden, we want to pray for our leaders. We want, at least for their conversion,

00:43:13.840 we want the leaders to do well in as much as what they do is conducive to our flourishing.

00:43:20.380 We want to have a grand strategic vision for our country. We want to have patriotism,

00:43:25.380 which is a good thing and an extension of filial piety. There used to be a universal acceptance of this

00:43:33.200 that's broken down in the last probably 20 years, a little more than 20 years, especially on the

00:43:40.260 right. It's good. You should be praying for your national leaders at church. We used to do this.

00:43:49.320 We don't have that anymore. And as that breaks down, then the political problems are going to be a lot

00:43:53.120 deeper than just some guy or other in office. Before we close today, I'll give you a little tease.

00:44:01.360 We'll get more to the story. We'll get more to the story tomorrow, but it's sad. If you're driving,

00:44:07.920 pull over. If you're standing up, please sit down. A presidential candidate is out.

00:44:14.200 That would be Doug Burgum. The dream is over. The Burgum-mentum has come to a grinding halt.

00:44:21.980 It's a reminder that a lot of candidates are out.

00:44:29.540 Pence, Scott, Burgum, Larry Elder. A lot of candidates are out. They've all been taken out,

00:44:39.720 I think, by Chris Christie, who remains in the race. The Chris Assange continues. He will be at

00:44:49.620 the debate. Nobody expects the Chris Assange. We'll get more to it later. The rest of the show

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