The Michael Knowles Show - January 03, 2024


Ep. 1396 - Woke Harvard President Exposed As Fraud


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Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned after a congressional hearing where she defended calls to genocide the Jews and amid the discovery of consistent plagiarism throughout her conspicuously small corpus of scholarly publications. Guest: Chris Ruffo, the man who made critical race theory a household term.

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00:00:00.000 Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay has finally resigned after a bruising congressional testimony in which she defended calls to genocide the Jews and amid the discovery of consistent plagiarism throughout her conspicuously small corpus of scholarly publications.
00:00:17.040 To announce her resignation, President Gay stated, quote,
00:00:20.240 Quote,
00:00:50.240 It was an unusual resignation, but everyone grieves in his or her own way, I guess.
00:00:55.420 The Harvard liberals who appointed her, despite her utter lack of qualifications, are grieving themselves.
00:01:02.200 When Gay was named just six months ago, this is the shortest tenure of any Harvard president ever, Harvard Magazine hailed her as a scholar's scholar,
00:01:11.860 which is technically true since her scholarship is mostly that of other scholars.
00:01:16.960 The liberal media, for their part, are not going down easy, with one CNN reporter reacting to the news by attempting to redefine the word plagiarism.
00:01:25.740 These plagiarism allegations where Claudine Gay has had to issue corrections, multiple corrections.
00:01:32.920 Now, we should note that Claudine Gay has not been accused of stealing anyone's ideas in any of her writings.
00:01:40.620 She's been accused of sort of more like copying other people's writings without attribution.
00:01:46.400 So it's been more sloppy attribution than stealing anyone's ideas.
00:01:50.400 It's not she didn't steal their ideas.
00:01:52.460 She stole their words that expressed their ideas.
00:01:55.060 But it's not like plagiarism.
00:02:01.840 It's like she plagiarized something, but not quite convincing.
00:02:06.900 Former President Gay, for her part, is signing off in exactly the way that you would expect
00:02:11.940 by playing the race card and blaming her ousting on the, quote, racial animus of bigoted whites. 0.99
00:02:18.660 A fitting way to go for a woman who only got the job by hustling her race in the first place. 1.00
00:02:25.660 See you later.
00:02:26.660 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:27.420 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:28.240 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:49.460 A lady is accusing a teenage McDonald's clerk of shilling for the vast,
00:02:58.080 Jewish conspiracy through Chicken McNuggets wrapping. 0.52
00:03:02.320 We'll get to that in just a moment.
00:03:03.740 First, though, I don't want to move on too quickly from the Claudine Gay story.
00:03:08.820 This is a big deal.
00:03:10.360 Probably the most prominent figure, front-facing figure in ousting Claudine Gay is Chris Ruffo,
00:03:17.220 friend of mine, think tank scholar, author of a terrific new book,
00:03:22.160 and the man who made critical race theory a household term.
00:03:25.800 The man who just keeps collecting left-wing scalps.
00:03:29.780 This time, he can claim the scalp of the Harvard president.
00:03:34.600 How did he do it?
00:03:36.280 How did he do it?
00:03:38.820 He was very clever.
00:03:40.380 That's how.
00:03:41.000 It's not easy to do this sort of thing.
00:03:42.720 But one thing I love about Chris is that he constantly tells you what he's doing.
00:03:49.680 So he not only achieves the political operation, but he explains how he's doing it while he does it.
00:03:57.340 Claudine Gay did not get ousted over plagiarism.
00:04:00.820 If this were just plagiarism, she would still be in her position.
00:04:04.060 She got ousted because she defended the right of students to call for the genocide of the Jews during congressional testimony.
00:04:14.840 That's what got her ousted. 0.70
00:04:15.940 That's what got the pen lady ousted when she said the exact same thing at the exact same congressional testimony. 1.00
00:04:21.260 She was ousted immediately because she's a white lady. 1.00
00:04:23.820 Claudine Gay got to hang on because she's a black lady, and she can claim more victim status, 1.00
00:04:28.360 and it would have been politically incorrect to fire her, at least immediately. 0.74
00:04:32.040 The plagiarism was just an excuse to fire her.
00:04:34.660 She still gets to keep her job at Harvard, not the president job, but the faculty job.
00:04:39.460 She will still be teaching students.
00:04:41.300 Every student in her class, by the way, should openly plagiarize every one of the papers for her class. 0.99
00:04:46.860 What's that woman going to say? 1.00
00:04:47.880 What's Harvard going to do?
00:04:48.740 They're going to punish the students for doing exactly what the professor did?
00:04:51.580 So this woman gets a soft landing. 1.00
00:04:54.000 It's not about plagiarism.
00:04:55.280 If this were about plagiarism, Kevin Cruz, who is the Lib's favorite historian at Princeton,
00:05:01.040 he's a professor at Princeton, but he spends most of his time going on left-wing TV shows
00:05:04.380 to attack conservatives, that guy would have been gone a long time ago because that guy
00:05:08.220 was quite credibly accused of plagiarism.
00:05:10.920 And then Princeton, rather, did the exact same thing Harvard did.
00:05:13.880 They had some little internal investigation.
00:05:16.020 They dismissed all the findings because Kevin Cruz is popular among the political left,
00:05:19.920 just as they did with Claudine Gay before they fired her. 0.82
00:05:24.260 So it's not about plagiarism.
00:05:26.540 It's about her weakness.
00:05:28.900 She was already extremely weakened by the charges of anti-Semitism.
00:05:34.240 And that is when Chris Ruffo and the conservatives pounced.
00:05:37.220 This is actually an example of the Lib's favorite headline, conservatives pounced.
00:05:41.380 They did pounce.
00:05:42.200 Now, they pounced in a totally just and appropriate way here.
00:05:45.180 This woman's entire academic career is a joke. 1.00
00:05:47.720 First of all, she had 11 scholarly publications.
00:05:50.060 A real scholar will have 11 publications by the time they're in grad school, okay?
00:05:56.840 This woman had 11 scholarly publications total by the time she was president of the
00:06:00.800 supposedly most prestigious college in the country.
00:06:03.460 So her academic career is a complete joke.
00:06:06.380 She teaches in a fake department called African American Studies, which is one of these critical
00:06:10.400 theory-derived pseudo-academic disciplines to just indoctrinate people in leftism without even
00:06:18.240 much pretense as to cultivating in them serious liberal arts and scholarship.
00:06:26.260 So she had that.
00:06:27.800 Then it turns out she stole a bunch of her work.
00:06:32.000 And Chris and other right-wingers pounced.
00:06:36.680 By the way, I forget the journalist's name.
00:06:39.840 Very good journalist who had covered the Claudine Gay Plagiarism scandal years ago. 0.55
00:06:44.920 Didn't go anywhere.
00:06:46.180 It was never going to go anywhere until Claudine Gay was weakened, and the easiest way to weaken 0.97
00:06:50.660 her right now was through the anti-Semitism charge.
00:06:53.900 So, weakened, Chris Ruffo rallies the right.
00:06:56.940 The right gets on board.
00:06:57.900 Okay, we're going to oust Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard.
00:07:00.420 We're going to claim a top academic scalp.
00:07:02.980 Then, this is the next important thing Chris did.
00:07:05.740 He smuggled the ideas into the left.
00:07:08.600 And he said he was doing this.
00:07:09.660 He said, we've already done what we can for the conservative side.
00:07:12.000 Now, we've got to smuggle this idea that we need to oust Gay into the left, which he did 0.90
00:07:16.700 through a New York Times op-ed written by, I think, Josh McWhorter, starting to get some
00:07:21.740 of the left-wingers to turn on the Harvard president.
00:07:25.660 Some of the Harvard donors were turning on the Harvard president.
00:07:28.380 And then he claimed the scalp.
00:07:30.180 The reason I mention all of this is because there's a really important lesson here.
00:07:34.700 Conservatives have spent a long time insulting and attacking and invading against the prominent
00:07:42.340 leftist intellectuals of the last century.
00:07:44.640 If you open up, I would say seven out of ten right-wing polemical books, you're going to
00:07:50.920 read about Antonio Gramsci, the leftist Italian philosopher.
00:07:57.380 You're going to read about Herbert Marcuse, the father of the new left.
00:08:00.560 You're going to read about the Frankfurt School.
00:08:02.200 You're going to read about Theodore Adorno.
00:08:03.740 You're going to read about maybe Rudy Dutschka.
00:08:08.520 Maybe you're going to read about all of these guys, even Saul Alinsky, right?
00:08:12.220 You're going to read about them.
00:08:13.500 And the smart conservatives read Gramsci and Marcuse to attack them.
00:08:19.480 But the smarter conservatives read Gramsci and Marcuse to take notes, to observe successful
00:08:29.520 political tactics, and then to figure out how to emulate those tactics without doing
00:08:33.720 anything immoral, without doing anything unjust, without doing anything for evil ends.
00:08:37.800 But to apply those same procedures and tactics through moral means for good ends.
00:08:44.320 That's what Rufo's done here.
00:08:45.720 It's a major, major win.
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00:09:53.120 Speaking of left-wing institutions going down, Mickey Mouse has entered the public domain.
00:09:59.460 Sort of.
00:09:59.860 What does this mean?
00:10:01.340 It means that Mickey Mouse is very, very old.
00:10:03.220 The earliest version of Mickey Mouse comes from a cartoon called Steamboat Willie, and
00:10:09.280 this dates back to the 1920s.
00:10:12.200 So initially, the copyright protection for Mickey Mouse, for this type of media, was going
00:10:18.340 to run out after 70 years.
00:10:20.180 And then Sonny Bono, a Hollywood guy who became a member of Congress, he updated the copyright
00:10:26.660 protections.
00:10:27.160 I think it was called the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, or Save Mickey Mouse Act, is how it was
00:10:32.660 colloquially referred to, because Disney was about to lose its hold on its most popular
00:10:37.400 character.
00:10:38.340 So Disney lobbied really, really hard, and they were able to extend this so that they had
00:10:42.580 protections for 95 years.
00:10:43.860 Well, the 95 years are up, so the earliest version of Mickey Mouse is now public domain,
00:10:47.900 which means that anybody can do it.
00:10:49.600 Which means you know, you know the minute Jeremy heard about this, a thousand ideas started popping
00:10:54.620 off in his head, and I haven't even talked to Jeremy about that.
00:10:57.640 I just know it.
00:10:58.280 I know it intuitively.
00:10:59.320 Well, apparently that was true for other people, because Mickey Mouse is now going to
00:11:02.780 appear in non-Disney productions, including this horror movie.
00:11:07.460 Yeah, he's like completely in love with being ready. 0.58
00:11:09.920 It's totally disgusting.
00:11:11.920 Put the phone down! 0.99
00:11:13.100 Put the phone down, please! 0.97
00:11:14.440 I was like, dude, I've already started.
00:11:16.220 No, Gina, turn around! 1.00
00:11:18.020 Please, Gina!
00:11:19.480 No, no!
00:11:23.300 I'll be right back. 0.87
00:11:24.620 Man, he's dead.
00:11:28.640 What?
00:11:30.440 Like, if he was in a horror movie, he'd never say, I'll be right back.
00:11:35.360 Because then you don't.
00:11:54.620 Where the hell did he go?
00:12:07.760 Mickey's Mouse Trap.
00:12:10.320 Apparently, there are multiple versions of this, of Mickey Mouse horror movies.
00:12:14.400 Now, similar to Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey, when Winnie the Pooh became a public
00:12:19.040 domain character.
00:12:19.740 So, it's all very funny.
00:12:22.200 However, it's not enough.
00:12:26.460 Mickey Mouse has to become a Nazi. 0.70
00:12:29.560 He has to. 0.99
00:12:30.560 Because Disney is a very, very evil corporation that wants to trans your kids and fill their 1.00
00:12:39.300 heads with all sorts of crazy ideas.
00:12:40.980 And Disney's, Disney's gotta go.
00:12:43.160 Disney's gotta go, guys.
00:12:45.000 You, you heard all the Disney executives talking about their not-so-secret LGBT LNOP agenda.
00:12:50.900 You, you've seen what, what Disney has done in recent years, so much so that the governor
00:12:56.020 of Florida had to take political action against them to stop Disney from trying to interfere
00:13:00.280 in the democratic process in Florida to stop the libs from transing your kids. 0.99
00:13:04.280 Okay, Disney is really, really bad.
00:13:06.520 And so, one of the best things that we can do right now is make the Disney characters toxic.
00:13:14.360 And coincidentally, call it providentially, whatever it is, the Disney character is now
00:13:20.920 in the public domain.
00:13:23.900 And what this means is, we need to turn Mickey into a Nazi. 0.96
00:13:29.100 Because Nazis are bad. 0.80
00:13:31.440 We're not gonna turn Mickey into a Nazi because the Nazis are good. 1.00
00:13:34.500 You see, I'm quite anti-Nazi.
00:13:36.560 I assume you are as well. 0.89
00:13:38.180 In fact, being a Nazi is the worst thing you can possibly be today and for a very long time.
00:13:43.740 So, we need to turn Disney into the worst thing it can possibly be.
00:13:47.100 And it can be done.
00:13:48.660 In fact, I'm shocked that the mischievous people on places like 4chan and other internet boards
00:13:55.860 haven't done this already.
00:13:57.300 Remember what they did to that cartoon frog?
00:13:59.480 There was that cartoon frog.
00:14:01.320 This was many years ago.
00:14:02.160 I'm dating myself to think back on the halcyon years of 2016.
00:14:06.980 2016, which was eight years ago, by the way.
00:14:09.540 In my mind, 2016 was like two years ago.
00:14:11.380 It was eight years ago.
00:14:12.200 But anyway, back in those days, there was this cartoon frog that a regular cartoonist had made.
00:14:17.460 And it was kind of a popular webcomic.
00:14:19.540 And then these guys on 4chan turned the frog into a Nazi.
00:14:22.980 And since then, the frog has actually, I think, come out of his Nazi phase. 0.59
00:14:27.520 It's very difficult to track memes because it's mimetic, right?
00:14:30.620 It just kind of moves through imitation.
00:14:32.540 And it's really hard to get your hands on.
00:14:33.960 But for a while, the frog was a Nazi. 0.77
00:14:36.280 And it drove the cartoonist who made the frog completely crazy because the frog became a hate symbol.
00:14:41.300 It was listed on all SPLC, ADL, all these different lists.
00:14:45.340 And we can do the same with Mickey Mouse.
00:14:48.380 It's not just enough to make Mickey Mouse a serial killer, as you're seeing in these movies.
00:14:51.800 Mickey Mouse has to become the most odious kind of symbol in the entire world.
00:14:58.160 And we have the ability to do it, not using any major institutional power,
00:15:03.660 just through the power of memes by pseudonymous accounts on random internet boards.
00:15:10.560 That's what's got to happen because Disney's bad.
00:15:12.580 Disney's got to go down.
00:15:13.940 Now, speaking of the media, this is a weird one.
00:15:18.680 This is a weird story.
00:15:21.840 Bear with me here.
00:15:23.960 This is a story from the Florida GOP chairman, Christian Ziegler,
00:15:28.780 who is now being investigated by the police for video voyeurism.
00:15:34.400 And this guy, I don't know this guy, but Christian Ziegler is a married guy.
00:15:41.480 And he and his wife apparently have had some menage a trois with some other lady.
00:15:48.680 Now, the other lady is claiming to be a victim of rape and, in this case in particular, 1.00
00:15:57.280 video voyeurism at the hands of Christian Ziegler.
00:16:01.900 So, this guy's wife admitted to detectives that she knew the alleged victim here
00:16:09.760 through her husband and having a confirmed sexual encounter with this woman and her husband a year ago,
00:16:16.720 but said it only happened one time.
00:16:19.340 Now, apparently, Mr. Ziegler and the other lady wanted it to happen again.
00:16:24.040 So, he was texting this girl, and they had made their plans.
00:16:29.340 And then, at the last minute, he said, okay, it's just going to be me, by the way.
00:16:33.700 Classic trick, right?
00:16:35.220 I assume.
00:16:36.520 And so, he says, yeah, anyway, our menage a trois, it's actually going to be a menage a deux,
00:16:40.440 because my wife isn't going to come. 1.00
00:16:42.620 So, we're still good?
00:16:43.680 And the woman said, no.
00:16:44.980 She said, sorry, I was mostly in for her.
00:16:48.480 So, she says, no, we're not going to do it.
00:16:50.700 So, then, Ziegler is accused of going to the woman's apartment and doing the deed with her. 0.90
00:16:58.160 Later, the woman said that she was raped. 0.96
00:17:01.020 And the reason she said she was raped is because she said she couldn't have consented to the sex. 1.00
00:17:08.180 And she says she couldn't have consented because she had been drinking all day.
00:17:12.340 So, it's sort of unclear what exactly transpired in the apartment.
00:17:15.960 But the claim of not having given consent comes, according to the woman,
00:17:20.280 from the fact that she was super drunk in her apartment.
00:17:22.780 She later told Ziegler this and said that she wasn't okay with what happened.
00:17:29.360 And Ziegler responded, according to text messages, oh, that's not good.
00:17:33.080 You are my friend, known you for like 20 years now, lol.
00:17:36.900 And she says, yeah, I know, but that was not cool.
00:17:39.240 And you didn't bring her and then did that to me.
00:17:42.700 And then Ziegler responded, she was in.
00:17:48.440 She said she's in, oh, she was in, then couldn't because no response.
00:17:52.120 She said in next time, but I understand.
00:17:55.140 Okay.
00:17:57.460 So, this colors the image a little bit, I guess, of what transpired.
00:18:02.040 But that's not even what's being investigated here.
00:18:03.800 What's being investigated here is video voyeurism.
00:18:06.820 Because, apparently, the time that they did have the menage a trois,
00:18:11.980 the guy videotaped it.
00:18:16.680 And I guess is presenting this as some kind of evidence
00:18:20.020 for the consensual nature of their encounters.
00:18:26.160 But then the woman and the guy's wife say, no, we didn't consent to being videotaped.
00:18:31.940 And so, now you got this charge of video voyeurism.
00:18:34.440 What is video voyeurism?
00:18:35.660 Well, according to a Florida law, video voyeurism is a third-degree felony.
00:18:40.920 It could bring a punishment of up to five years behind bars.
00:18:43.260 You violate the law if you secretly record another person for your own, quote,
00:18:48.940 own amusement, entertainment, sexual arousal, gratification, or profit,
00:18:52.740 or for the purpose of degrading or abusing another person
00:18:55.620 in a circumstance where the victim, quote, has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
00:19:01.900 Now, here's the key.
00:19:02.560 If you are sleeping with someone, do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy?
00:19:11.260 If you're having a menage a trois, so there's another person involved,
00:19:14.420 do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy?
00:19:17.320 No.
00:19:18.840 All of this behavior is obviously extremely degenerate.
00:19:22.980 I would have no problem with people passing laws against all of it, okay?
00:19:26.500 It's fine by me.
00:19:27.220 I'm not in any way defending any of this behavior, but I am simply befuddled at the notion
00:19:37.600 that one would have a reasonable expectation of privacy when having a threesome with a bunch 0.99
00:19:44.020 of randos.
00:19:44.860 That's just totally crazy.
00:19:47.400 And I guess the deeper part of this to me, what this is all about to me, and it seems clear
00:19:52.020 as day, this is all about porn. 0.77
00:19:54.460 Why are these, why is this couple having this weird sexual affair? 0.99
00:19:58.620 I, I would bet the farm that they're really into porn. 0.93
00:20:05.080 In fact, the way I know that they're really into porn, or at least that the guy's really 0.95
00:20:07.760 into porn, he's making a porno.
00:20:10.500 That's what's so crazy about these encounters and a lot of these sexual cases that are cropping 0.87
00:20:15.480 up today.
00:20:16.720 A lot of it involves media.
00:20:18.440 A lot of it involves video and photographs, which is so much creepier.
00:20:22.420 You can't even just go out and have your sort of degenerate romp.
00:20:26.500 You've got to record it so that what?
00:20:28.420 So you can use it as pornography later.
00:20:31.780 This is a perfect example of the pornification of culture seeping into everything and turning
00:20:38.000 people's brains to mush and confounding the law because it, it blurs all sorts of lines
00:20:46.740 that really ought not to be blurred.
00:20:49.220 So what's the answer to this?
00:20:52.180 Cut it off at the source.
00:20:53.540 One of the big drivers of lust, one of the big drivers of these new legal technological
00:20:58.360 problems.
00:20:59.320 One of the, one of the, just the creepiest aspects of the whole thing.
00:21:02.180 This is a pretty creepy situation to begin with, but the creepiest aspect is the camera.
00:21:06.740 Cut it out.
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00:22:24.860 Speaking of the media, an equally disturbing story, but not nearly as weird.
00:22:30.100 Poland has a new liberal government, and the new liberal government is banning the conservative
00:22:36.640 media.
00:22:37.420 They're dissolving the state media, which is not, you know, public media.
00:22:42.200 When we describe the media of countries we don't like, we call it state-run media.
00:22:50.360 But then when we describe our own state-run media, we use nicer terms.
00:22:54.200 So it's public media.
00:22:55.900 It's national public radio.
00:22:57.160 We love national public.
00:22:58.120 Oh, it's PBS.
00:22:59.280 The Libs, that's their favorite thing. 0.98
00:23:00.480 Like PBS, NPR.
00:23:01.960 Oh, it's wonderful.
00:23:03.040 Even the media organs that are not technically owned by the state, but which simply spread
00:23:08.580 the propaganda for the state.
00:23:09.600 I think of the Washington Post, New York Times.
00:23:11.540 Oh, that's different.
00:23:13.680 What they have in North Korea, that's state-run media.
00:23:15.540 What we have here, oh, it's just public-minded, public-interested, sometimes public-funded media.
00:23:19.920 That's totally different.
00:23:20.900 Okay.
00:23:21.460 Well, the Libs are thrilled about this.
00:23:24.420 This is Reuters, a media company.
00:23:26.620 You know, the journalists, the fourth estate, they say, Polish government takes public TV
00:23:31.440 news channel off air amid reform drive, amid reform.
00:23:36.920 If Orban in Hungary did this, what would you hear?
00:23:42.300 The authoritarian right-wing dictator of Hungary is suppressing the free press, the great journalists
00:23:49.860 of the fourth estate.
00:23:51.500 This is the end of democracy.
00:23:52.940 But what happens when Poland does a far more egregious version of anything that Orban has 0.99
00:23:58.700 ever done, that Orban has ever done? 0.76
00:24:00.740 I mispronounce his name sometimes.
00:24:02.280 What happens?
00:24:02.800 Oh, it's a reform drive.
00:24:06.500 Warsaw, December 20th.
00:24:07.920 Poland's new government took a public news channel off the air on Wednesday and dismissed
00:24:11.600 executives from state media to restore impartiality, the culture ministry said, as Prime Minister
00:24:16.980 Donald Tusk's reform drive faced its first big test.
00:24:21.480 Tusk's pro-European government coalition, European Union coalition, took power last week from
00:24:27.660 the Nationalist Law and Justice Party, which critics say damaged judicial independence, soured
00:24:33.800 European Union relations, and turned state-owned media into an outlet for propaganda during its
00:24:38.900 eight years in office.
00:24:40.580 And now this great hero of democracy and freedom, he's banning the press.
00:24:48.220 I think we've got to lump Reuters in under the state media here.
00:24:52.600 It's an amazing degree of spin.
00:24:55.280 But it's a reminder that there's no neutrality.
00:24:59.820 There's no neutrality here in the press.
00:25:02.580 There never was for all of American history, for all of the history of journalism.
00:25:06.340 And then after World War II, during the post-war liberal consensus, we convinced ourselves that
00:25:12.220 there was neutrality.
00:25:13.520 There wasn't.
00:25:14.360 For goodness sakes, Walter Cronkite, the most trusted man in news, the man was a world
00:25:17.120 federalist, okay?
00:25:17.880 He was a huge lib at best.
00:25:20.500 But no, he was impartial.
00:25:22.120 We had all these impartial journalists.
00:25:23.480 We didn't.
00:25:23.940 They were just libs who were good at hiding their tracks, much like Reuters.
00:25:26.840 I mean, the most amazing part of this whole story is not that the leftists in Poland are
00:25:32.080 suppressing all the conservatives and, you know, dismantling democracy and whatever.
00:25:37.460 The most surprising part of the story is that Reuters can publish this ridiculous propaganda 0.81
00:25:42.820 with a straight face.
00:25:45.020 Like, just after the show, I'm going to have to Google Reuters Orban media to see the hysterical
00:25:52.360 headlines, which I saw throughout the left-wing press.
00:25:55.000 But Poland does a more egregious version of the same thing. 0.59
00:25:58.180 It's wonderful, of course, because it's not just procedure that matters, okay?
00:26:02.200 It's not just form that matters.
00:26:04.620 It's substance, too.
00:26:05.820 The substance.
00:26:06.500 What are we actually doing that matters a lot?
00:26:09.480 Not a good look for Reuters or for Poland.
00:26:13.340 Now, speaking of how people look, there's a new report out that Zoomers, whom I love,
00:26:19.280 you know I'm very pro-Zoomer, in the battle between Zoomer conservatism and Boomer conservatism, 0.99
00:26:23.820 I'm with the Zoomers, they're far more traditional, they're more interested in virtue and order, 1.00
00:26:27.640 they're more interested in substantive goods.
00:26:29.180 I love the Zoomers. 1.00
00:26:30.600 So this criticism of the Zoomers is coming from a place of love. 0.98
00:26:35.540 There's a report out that Gen Z is aging differently from millennials.
00:26:41.040 Millennials look weirdly young. 0.92
00:26:43.180 Maybe not me, because my diet consists of espresso, black tea, whiskey, and tobacco.
00:26:52.300 So maybe I haven't aged quite as gracefully.
00:26:55.520 But millennials are aging really, really gracefully, generally.
00:26:59.440 They look younger at our respective ages than Gen X did, than the Boomers did, and than Zoomers do. 1.00
00:27:07.440 Why is that?
00:27:09.320 Experts are blaming this on skincare routines and cosmetic procedures.
00:27:16.020 So according to, this is a report from, I think, the Daily Mail,
00:27:19.200 millennials look relatively younger.
00:27:20.520 Healthier diets, better knowledge of skincare and improvement in makeup
00:27:23.340 means those born between 1980 and 1997 appear more youthful than older generations did at the same age.
00:27:28.520 Overuse or unnecessary application of filler and toxins at a young age may affect the natural facial development,
00:27:35.940 causing younger patients to look older than they are.
00:27:38.500 This is according to celebrity cosmetics doctor Rasha Rakshani Moghadam,
00:27:44.020 who told this to female, which is, I don't know, some outlet, but it's a pun.
00:27:49.460 You get it, F-E-M-A-I-L, female. 1.00
00:27:51.760 I bring up the story at all because it's an unpopular, but it's an urgent take.
00:28:01.460 Cosmetic procedures in almost all circumstances make people look worse.
00:28:09.020 And many, many people are getting them.
00:28:10.620 A lot of Zoomers are getting them. 0.95
00:28:11.840 Very, very young people are getting these cosmetic procedures.
00:28:14.600 And they almost always make you look worse.
00:28:17.720 I'm thinking especially of the increasingly popular lip fillers, which a lot of people are getting.
00:28:25.440 Look, if you've gotten them, I'm not saying it's the end of the world, but cut it out.
00:28:28.680 They look bad.
00:28:29.660 They always look bad.
00:28:31.580 And especially Botox.
00:28:33.280 Botox.
00:28:34.380 Botox.
00:28:36.360 Botulinum toxin is the most toxic, naturally occurring substance known to man.
00:28:44.140 It is a military-grade biological weapon.
00:28:48.860 And the moment people hear this, they're standing around, you know, they see news reports say,
00:28:55.360 Botulinum toxin, the most poisonous, toxic substance ever discovered by, oh, great, can you inject it into my face, please, so that I don't look my age?
00:29:03.960 That would be great, wouldn't it?
00:29:05.320 Seems like a pretty bad idea.
00:29:07.480 Don't do it.
00:29:10.500 It looks bad.
00:29:11.620 Even the little things.
00:29:12.980 Oh, Botulinum toxin, by the way, for those who don't know who that is, that's Botox.
00:29:16.720 It's just, it's the most popular cosmetic treatment in the world.
00:29:19.580 Don't, stop it.
00:29:22.000 24% of Americans have had these treatments.
00:29:26.740 If you've had it, okay, that's fine.
00:29:29.180 We all make mistakes.
00:29:29.960 I've made plenty of mistakes.
00:29:31.020 Just cut it out.
00:29:32.020 For your own sake, for how you will look, cut it out.
00:29:34.780 You don't need it.
00:29:35.420 You're very pretty on your own, and you're relatively much prettier than you will be if you have all these mutilations.
00:29:41.460 Speaking of toxic substances, there's a lady who is alleging that McDonald's has changed its wrappers to support the state of Israel.
00:29:53.800 So I was starving, so I had to get one quick sandwich from here, and I thought they gave me the wrong sandwich, but conveniently, McDonald's changed their packaging.
00:30:03.900 Wow.
00:30:05.420 What does that resemble?
00:30:08.520 Here.
00:30:09.180 What is this?
00:30:10.760 This one?
00:30:11.400 Yeah.
00:30:11.720 What is this new packaging?
00:30:13.100 It's the, uh, make chicken wrappers.
00:30:14.920 But why is it blue and white?
00:30:16.900 I honestly don't know.
00:30:18.180 I think you do know.
00:30:19.840 This is in support of Israel.
00:30:21.740 They changed it.
00:30:23.040 I mean, it was like that, actually, since a few months ago, because we ran out of the regular ones.
00:30:26.700 No, I don't think so.
00:30:28.000 This is obviously in support of Israel.
00:30:29.460 No, I mean, we actually had that for a while, though.
00:30:31.960 I was here two weeks ago, and it wasn't like this.
00:30:35.320 I mean, we have had stuff.
00:30:36.600 I know this is not your fault, because you're in a party.
00:30:39.740 But I think this is disgusting for them to do this, and I know you in your heart, you know
00:30:44.860 in your heart that this is clearly what this wrapper is for.
00:30:48.340 I mean, either.
00:30:48.900 I'm explaining it to you.
00:30:51.460 It is.
00:30:51.820 This is what it's for.
00:30:52.640 This is the color of their flag.
00:30:54.100 This is clearly what they're doing and what they're showing to people, and I think it's 0.89
00:30:58.500 disgusting.
00:30:59.660 It's clear, you know?
00:31:02.160 Just like this morning when I got out of bed and I stubbed my toe, and I knew it was the
00:31:06.660 Jews.
00:31:07.740 I knew it.
00:31:08.860 Why are you looking at me like that?
00:31:10.220 Gaze.
00:31:10.740 Let me go.
00:31:12.380 What's this jacket you're putting on me?
00:31:13.920 What are you talking about?
00:31:16.120 These guys.
00:31:16.840 I had not seen that clip.
00:31:17.780 I just read about it.
00:31:18.900 It lived up to its reputation.
00:31:23.240 I don't think, call me naive, but I don't think that the McDonald's chicken sandwich
00:31:32.380 wrapper is a subliminal message to convince the goyim to support the state of Israel.
00:31:41.080 I don't, look, maybe I just haven't discovered that dark corner of the internet yet where I
00:31:47.940 see the smoking gun.
00:31:48.660 But I don't really see it.
00:31:50.160 And these people need help.
00:31:54.940 These people, the kind of people who stubbed their toe in the morning and blamed the Jews,
00:32:00.280 they're the same, forget the Jews for a second. 0.99
00:32:01.880 It's the same kind of people who stubbed their toe in the morning and blamed the CIA,
00:32:05.960 or the people who stubbed their toe in the morning and blamed the Illuminati, or the people
00:32:09.760 who stubbed their toe in the morning and blamed this, that, or the other thing.
00:32:12.120 and the problem with it andrew clavin says this all the time it's not it's not that bigots are
00:32:19.080 wrong about the other guy it's that they're wrong about themselves and they're wrong about the way
00:32:22.820 the world works okay if you search for simplistic answers to political problems you're you're one
00:32:32.880 you're going to be wrong and you're going to think that you know the chicken sandwich is
00:32:35.980 is a jewish conspiracy but two you're going to seed the whole political order if you believe that 0.96
00:32:42.960 every issue in the country is is the cia or something not only are you going to look 0.95
00:32:50.200 ridiculous you're not going to fix any problems because it's not just the cia and it's not just
00:32:54.900 the fbi and it's not just the nsa and it's not just the this ngo and it's not just this left-wing 0.96
00:33:02.200 mega donor and it's not just this political systems are extraordinarily complex and to blame
00:33:11.620 it you know in this case she's blaming it on the jews it's not only sort of unjust but it's just 0.95
00:33:17.900 ridiculous and it paralyzes people it paralyzes people from actually addressing any of the 0.79
00:33:25.140 problems around them now turning to actual israel related issues beyond chicken sandwiches and 0.96
00:33:31.580 and obviously not kosher sandwiches it occurs to me the double quarter pounder with cheese that's
00:33:35.980 not kosher how would the jews be behind that well that maybe that's why they're behind the chicken 1.00
00:33:39.360 sandwich i don't know i don't know i haven't talked to that lady there was a call that just came out
00:33:45.440 by some israeli ministers to resettle the gaza population so an explicit call for the displacement of
00:33:53.820 of gazans this is from national security minister itamar ben gavir uh and another one what's the other
00:34:00.480 one uh israeli minister bezalel smotrick uh are arguing for the uh migration of the residents of
00:34:12.340 gaza ben gavir says this is quote an opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the
00:34:18.940 residents of gaza and the the other ministry said the same thing the biden administration has shot this
00:34:25.420 idea down u.s state department has has called out these two ministers for quote inflammatory and
00:34:32.140 irresponsible rhetoric and i agree i think it's it's inflammatory it's irresponsible i get why they're
00:34:38.840 doing it if i were an israeli minister i'd be calling for the same thing i'd be saying look we
00:34:42.640 can't tolerate gaza to exist as a political unit anymore we can't tolerate these people here it's too 1.00
00:34:47.420 much of a security risk and we gotta we gotta ethnically cleanse the area probably that's what i would 0.91
00:34:52.220 be saying if i were an israeli minister i would probably be saying the exact same thing that these
00:34:56.080 guys are but it's just not going to fly and here's why it's not going to fly it's not that it's not
00:35:01.000 going to fly because of public opinion public opinion in america is still broadly in favor of
00:35:05.420 israel public opinion in america even with the claudine gaze of the world and the aocs of the world
00:35:10.100 is still broadly opposed to hamas and hezbollah and all these jihadis the reason it's not going to fly
00:35:16.540 is there's nowhere to resettle them to where do you want to resettle one it's kind of an ugly thing
00:35:22.620 to move whole populations from their territories that they live in but but two where are you going
00:35:27.320 to put them none of the arab states want them none of the arab states will take them in one because 0.86
00:35:32.180 it creates political pressure against the state of israel to keep them there and two because they
00:35:36.220 they just don't want them they think it's a security risk so the arab states aren't going to take 1.00
00:35:40.400 them israel's obviously not going to take them the whole reason they're saying they got to move
00:35:43.580 them is because they're too much of a security risk to even have on the southwest part of the
00:35:47.560 country so who's going to is is europe going to take them that's that has been the answer for a lot
00:35:53.920 of migration amid wars in the middle east i don't think europe wants that i think this is the biggest 0.98
00:35:59.000 issue right now in the west the biggest popular issue if people still have any say in their government
00:36:04.840 the biggest popular issue is mass migration which is causing all sorts of cascading social effects
00:36:10.020 so i don't think if the people still have any say in their government europe europe's not the answer
00:36:15.900 is america the answer do we want to take in the palestinian refugees i don't think so i i don't think
00:36:21.620 that's a good idea if if the state of israel is saying that these people are too dangerous to have on
00:36:27.540 our border well then they're too dangerous to have in our country of course so the the natural 0.99
00:36:33.520 answer that if you are going to move an entire population of people that has come is okay the
00:36:39.040 neighboring arab states should take them in but the neighboring arab states don't want to do it so 1.00
00:36:43.720 there's just no solution which is why i've said from the beginning of this conflict the massive
00:36:49.180 pogrom the massive attack by hamas on israel and then the war that has continued to escalate
00:36:54.880 it's an intractable problem there's really no simplistic solution to it so what is the american
00:37:01.420 interest the american interest is to contain the war and certainly not to take in a whole population
00:37:06.480 of people that everyone on earth agrees are extremely dangerous can't do it pity as we might
00:37:13.820 feel for them it's just crazy especially at a time when mass migration is the big issue in our
00:37:19.680 civilization so what are we going to do about it well there is something that the u.s is doing in
00:37:24.740 the war in the middle east i think is perfectly fine but we'll get to that in one second first
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00:38:32.740 my favorite comment yesterday is from john schroeder 3172 says the lady who burned down the abortion 0.94
00:38:40.560 clinic would not have gotten any time in prison for burning down a church true a true church like the 0.71
00:38:46.940 church of god of our lord jesus christ the church that formed our entire civilization had she burned down
00:38:51.620 one of those she certainly would have gotten no prison time she probably would have gotten a medal 0.98
00:38:56.340 but she burned down a different kind of church she burned down one of their churches 1.00
00:39:00.540 she burned down one of the churches for the libs religion which is death and the destruction of all 1.00
00:39:08.900 that is nice and flourishing about human life and one of their churches would be an abortion clinic
00:39:14.080 we have churches where you go and worship god you know sing some hymns at the liturgy the holy
00:39:20.180 eucharist and their churches are where they where they kill babies so we burned down one of theirs and that's 0.99
00:39:24.940 why they're reacting with a quasi-religious zeal now speaking of this war in the middle east
00:39:30.660 the war is escalating the u.s navy has just sunk three hooty ships after these ships attempted to
00:39:37.900 hijack a commercial ship and i know there is a reflexive uh don't get involved kind of attitude
00:39:44.440 that has come up on the right and i'm broadly sympathetic to it certainly was broadly sympathetic
00:39:48.340 when we're talking about the ukraine war certainly i'm sympathetic to it when it's talking about
00:39:52.140 the war in the holy land as a matter of uh escalating into a regional conflict but if
00:39:58.920 we're just talking about sinking a few random terrorist ships from the country of yemen which
00:40:02.680 is mostly a fake country anyway uh i think we're okay especially when the ships were attacking a
00:40:10.000 commercial vessel the united states for now is the global hegemon might not be for very long
00:40:18.180 china is clearly rising india is rising not in terms of population really not to challenge american
00:40:25.200 hegemony but there's there are other powers that are on the rise okay but for now we're the global
00:40:30.500 hegemon and if we don't use that power we're going to lose that power so we don't want to use it
00:40:35.020 in a way that is uh given to folly and adventurism where we're just going to squander our resources and
00:40:41.220 are uh the lives of american servicemen for nothing or for things that don't serve the national interest 0.51
00:40:47.540 but in this case sinking a few huti boats these random jihadi terrorists and killing their crews
00:40:55.140 and all these terrorists who are trying to hijack a commercial vessel this seems like a perfectly fine
00:40:59.440 use of u.s military and hegemonic might it seems that's actually is a good example a lot of the time
00:41:04.860 i'm saying the united states military should not intervene if we want to contain the conflict
00:41:08.480 i don't think we should go bomb iran i don't think that we should go invade southern lebanon or
00:41:12.940 you know i don't i don't think we should be doing any of that stuff i don't think we should get u.s
00:41:16.540 troops involved in ukraine i think we've probably been too involved already but this would be a
00:41:21.860 pretty good example i think you go and sink a few boats keep the keep the shipping lanes open that's
00:41:27.520 that's actually a way to contain the conflict too because if the if the jihadis are able to shut down
00:41:33.320 commerce around the region that is an escalation of the war
00:41:37.460 lots of lots of different ways to skin a cat but it's it it's not even the people who don't want
00:41:44.040 to get involved or are sometimes as simplistic as the neocons who want to bomb every country in the
00:41:48.600 middle east sometimes the way to de-escalate is to withhold fighting and sometimes the way to
00:41:56.100 de-escalate is to fight in a very precise way you know there's a time for every season under heaven
00:42:00.960 speaking of jihadis this is a story that got basically no coverage but it's a horrific story
00:42:05.260 on christmas or the day after christmas 160 christians were slaughtered by islamic jihadis 0.85
00:42:13.320 in nigeria 160 of them just just a total killing spree a gleeful killing spree by these jihadis 0.97
00:42:21.560 against poor christians who were just trying to celebrate one of the holiest times of the year 0.52
00:42:25.840 and no one's talking about it which is just a reminder of a finding of i think it was pew research
00:42:33.100 some years ago now it remains true today christians are the most persecuted religious group in the
00:42:40.480 world it's not even close and we don't really talk about it and if we're going to use american
00:42:47.240 military might for the defense of somewhat more abstract values i don't think it's exactly abstract
00:42:54.440 but somewhat more abstract uh this might be a good example this is really awful and and if so if we're
00:42:59.880 going to have solidarity around the world what the libs want us to do is have solidarity for the cause
00:43:04.820 of human rights and democracy and liberalism and all these really abstract modern kind of ideas but
00:43:10.580 at the very least we might have some solidarity with christians because we're christian nation
00:43:13.680 we're founded as a christian nation we developed as a christian nation and this is absolutely
00:43:17.780 horrific and in that cause of solidarity the very least we can do is pray for them and at the very
00:43:22.160 least we could do is cover the story and cover cover the severe oppression that the nigerian christians 0.74
00:43:28.980 are under at the hand of nigerian muslims meanwhile the atheists are are saying that the biggest threat to
00:43:37.660 the country is christianity christian extremism this is according to a website called atheist
00:43:44.540 revolution gearing up for 2024 they say atheists and non-christians should have among the highest
00:43:52.400 voter turnout of all why because of how much we stand to lose when christian extremists gain power 0.75
00:43:56.840 we should vote like our lives depend on it because they do this isn't about upholding abstract principles
00:44:02.300 or doing the right thing it is about our survival if we want to have a future we need to expand our
00:44:07.060 efforts to oppose christian extremism to which i say if you don't like christian extremism just wait
00:44:13.000 until you see unchristian extremism because it's going to be a lot worse and you're going to be
00:44:17.880 longing for the days of christian extremism christian extremism built our country and our whole civilization 0.82
00:44:23.020 and it worked out pretty well for a long time until we gave up the christianity part and we got a little
00:44:29.060 bit more mild and milquetoast and lukewarm in our christianity and then extremism of other kinds
00:44:33.900 starts to develop and that's going to be bad for everybody here's a little tease for tomorrow
00:44:39.700 shocking shocking new revelations in the jeffrey epstein case and i've said i've predicted for a
00:44:46.620 long time we're not going to get any shocking revelations we're going to get a lot of smoke
00:44:50.120 going to get a lot of mirrors good but we have shocking new revelations coming up
00:44:55.280 we'll get to that tomorrow rest of the show continues now you don't want to miss it
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00:45:04.080 you
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00:45:16.900 Amen.