The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1399 - The ＂Aliens In Miami＂ Media Cover-Up

00:00:00.000 We've all seen the videos, dozens of cop cars pulling up to a shopping mall in Miami,

00:00:05.380 people running in terror, blurry figures on the screen, an alien invasion covered up by the

00:00:12.500 government and the media. Here's how NBC News reported on it. Quote, on Monday, a group of

00:00:19.560 roughly 50 teenagers caused a riot at Bayside Marketplace, an outdoor mall roughly five miles

00:00:25.180 from South Beach, according to the Miami Police Department. The teens were setting off fireworks,

00:00:28.980 which led to a panic, as some assumed there was a shooting, said Miami Police Department

00:00:33.220 Public Information Officer Michael Vega. Four teens were arrested. Huh, they expect us to believe that?

00:00:41.400 Hmm? Here's what I want to know. What really happened? I'll tell you what I think really

00:00:46.780 happened at that shopping mall in Miami. I think that what really happened is that on Monday,

00:00:53.280 a group of roughly 50 teenagers caused a riot at Bayside Marketplace, an outdoor mall roughly

00:00:58.580 five miles from South Beach, according to the Miami Police Department. The teens, I believe,

00:01:03.500 were setting off fireworks, which led to a panic, as some assumed there was a shooting,

00:01:08.000 just like the Miami Police Department says. Four teens, I believe, were arrested.

00:01:14.680 If 50 young people start robbing stores, attacking people, setting off explosives indoors, 0.84

00:01:23.040 I should hope that a lot of cops would show up. The reason that these sorts of crimes are spiking right

00:01:29.720 now is precisely because our political leaders keep attacking the police and preventing them from

00:01:35.160 doing their jobs. That's part of why we've got such disorder, such social breakdown, not just in a mall in

00:01:41.760 Miami, but all throughout the country. The social breakdown seems clearest in the riots and the robberies

00:01:48.340 and the street crime. But it has deeper roots. The breakdown of the family, the disintegration of

00:01:55.160 the education system, the collapse of trust in our most basic civil institutions. It's all been

00:02:00.360 happening for a while, and it's getting worse and worse. But some people still can't believe it.

00:02:08.260 Not here they say, no, this can't really be happening. This is America. We are now more inclined to

00:02:15.580 believe that aliens are invading than that America is becoming a third world country.

00:02:22.400 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:43.160 Welcome back to the show. Whoopi Goldberg says that she is on a Jeffrey Epstein list, sort of,

00:02:49.880 sort of. We'll get to what that means in just a second. First, though, I guess I should qualify

00:02:55.000 my point in the opening. There is an alien invasion going on. It's not happening at the

00:03:00.880 Bayside Mall in Miami. It's a little bit happening in Miami, but it's also happening in Texas and

00:03:05.040 California and Arizona. And then because of airplanes, it's happening in New York and Chicago

00:03:10.120 and Washington, D.C. It's not Martians. It is Guatemalans and Hondurans and Salvadorans and

00:03:16.420 not Salvadorans anymore because Nayib Bukele turned his country around. But a lot of places 0.91

00:03:20.860 in Latin America are opening the floodgates and saying, hey, if you want to leave and go to America,

00:03:28.260 Joe Biden's not going to stop you. There's a graph that went viral over the weekend.

00:03:31.500 It shows illegal immigrant encounters by president. And what a lot of people are noticing,

00:03:37.160 they find it striking, is that Obama and Trump had roughly the same number of encounters.

00:03:41.140 It went down a little bit under Trump, but not all that much. In the first year of Trump,

00:03:46.700 it went down pretty considerably when Trump had been signaling for months, over a year at that point,

00:03:52.320 that he was going to build a big, beautiful wall and send all the illegal aliens back. 1.00

00:03:56.260 And so illegal crossings dropped. Then the illegals and the coyotes and the cartels realized that

00:04:03.080 Trump, even though he was president of the United States, couldn't actually enforce that policy.

00:04:06.960 He was being totally undercut by his administration and the bureaucracy. So the numbers went back up

00:04:11.900 again. It was pretty high. Under Obama, you're looking at 5 million encounters, 5,006,092 encounters.

00:04:17.820 Under Trump, it was a little bit lower, but similar, 4,763,007 encounters. And then what about Biden?

00:04:24.720 12 million. 12 million. More than double. Well over double what happened under Trump. More than double

00:04:34.900 what happened under Obama. More than Obama and Trump put together. What's going on here?

00:04:42.800 Biden wants illegal aliens to come into the country. In moments of candor, he has said as much. 0.99

00:04:48.540 He's said things like, we're not going to build a wall, surge to the border, you're a future dreamer,

00:04:55.520 undocumented, wonderful Americans. But the message has been the same. Come over here. Even when there's

00:05:01.400 a little wink and a nod, well, we're going to enforce the law eventually, but no human being is

00:05:07.040 illegal and you can just come process and you'll be brought back to court someday, maybe, I don't know,

00:05:12.160 enjoy. He says, come to the country. Why? It's very, very simple.

00:05:19.360 Immigrants vote Democrat. Not all immigrants. I hail on one side of my family from immigrants and it's 0.82

00:05:27.440 the Italians who kind of split 50-50. You get the Scalia's, but you get the Pelosi's too. 0.55

00:05:33.780 I'm not just talking about illegal aliens. I'm not just talking about people from Honduras or Guatemala

00:05:39.320 or Mexico. I'm talking about all immigrants. You take immigrants as a whole, legal, illegal. 0.89

00:05:46.440 They vote for Democrats. According to one survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation,

00:05:55.720 all immigrants are twice as likely to identify as Democrats as Republicans.

00:06:02.720 And a lot of Republicans don't want to acknowledge this. They don't want to get down to the bare

00:06:08.100 political reality of why the Democrats want mass migration, which is to fundamentally change the

00:06:13.760 structure of our constitutional republic. Illegally, totally against the law, totally

00:06:18.640 unconstitutional, but they realize that they've got an advantage and they think that the Republicans

00:06:23.000 are so afraid of being unjustly called racists that we're not going to say anything about it.

00:06:27.300 So that's the one side. You've got the cowardice from the Republicans who say,

00:06:32.180 well, look, at the best, this is the best version of Republicans on immigration in the mainstream.

00:06:38.660 They say, we've got to stop this illegal immigration because it's actually bad for 1.00

00:06:43.640 everyone, including the illegal immigrants, and there's a lot of drugs coming across.

00:06:46.560 But we want more legal immigration than ever.

00:06:49.000 Even Donald Trump, the most immigration restrictionist president of my lifetime,

00:06:55.760 said that. He said, we want more immigration. It's got to be legal immigration. But mass migration,

00:07:03.960 including legal immigration, is a big part of the problem, especially when the federal government,

00:07:08.720 starting under Barack Obama, can just wave the magic wand and turn the illegal immigrants into legal 0.99

00:07:13.500 immigrants by declaration. No, no, they're no longer illegal. They're DACA. They're no longer

00:07:19.860 illegal. They're dreamers. They're no longer illegal. They're going to have amnesty. Ronald

00:07:23.400 Reagan gave them amnesty in the 1980s in exchange for what he thought were going to be concessions

00:07:28.080 on border security. And guess what? The latter never happened. We have to be a little clearer on

00:07:34.160 immigration. And we don't need to take the Democrats' premise. We don't need to say,

00:07:38.460 oh, yeah, we're really racist. We just hate Guatemalans or something. You know, 1.00

00:07:41.380 yeah, they don't. We prefer Nicaraguans. We don't like Guatemalans. And we don't. We like, 1.00

00:07:46.760 I don't know, Liberians, but we don't like Ethiopians. No, it's none of that. I'm sure 1.00

00:07:53.140 all these are great people. But a country has a right to determine who comes into it. And we have

00:08:00.400 taken way too many people, and we're having lots of trouble assimilating. We've known all the way back

00:08:04.700 into antiquity, going back to Plato and beyond, that migration causes lots of problems 0.97

00:08:10.740 problems in political communities. And so you can do it, and you can bring people in. And in a way,

00:08:16.960 you kind of have to bring some people in. But you've got to do it in a very, very intentional way,

00:08:21.160 because otherwise, you're going to cause all sorts of social disorder by mixing peoples who come from 1.00

00:08:27.160 totally different traditions, who have totally conceptions of public life. And that's not just a

00:08:32.500 problem for the ones who cross the border illegally. It's true of all the immigrants. Okay? 1.00

00:08:37.760 And so we want to take some of them in. We want to do it in a way that is conducive to the

00:08:43.480 flourishing of the immigrants, yes, and of our country, and crucially here, of the good political

00:08:50.440 party in our country, the relatively good political party. Because the Democrats know right now that

00:08:56.380 the more migration they get, the better it is for them in the long term. And so what do the

00:09:01.820 Republicans do to respond to that? They either are cowardly, and they don't say anything, 0.97

00:09:05.700 or, and this might be worse, they engage in all sorts of happy talk. 0.98

00:09:10.580 You get the line from Ronald Reagan, these Hispanic voters are just, they're Republicans, 0.92

00:09:16.000 they just don't know it yet. Or, well, these, you know, you hear it today, or these, once,

00:09:20.800 in next election cycle, once the new migrants realize how corrupt and evil and racist and bigoted 1.00

00:09:28.280 and terrible and mean the Democrats are, then they're all going to switch to be Republicans. 0.97

00:09:32.100 And it just doesn't happen. We're not even just talking about the Hispanics. We're talking about

00:09:36.760 all migrants. Are there lots of great immigrants who are conservative and patriotic and understand

00:09:45.820 politics and have their heads screwed on right? And yeah, of course, there's a lot. But just as a

00:09:50.900 matter of statistics, as a numbers game, immigration is a net benefit for Democrats at the levels that

00:09:58.680 we're seeing today. And so we can either be cowardly and not talk about it, or we can engage

00:10:04.280 in the happy talk and just pretend that next election cycle, magically, everything's going

00:10:09.120 to turn around and all of the mass migration is going to redound to the benefit of conservatives.

00:10:13.400 It's never happened before ever in all of history, but maybe it'll happen next time.

00:10:17.000 Or we can speak bluntly and say, we like these people. We wish them well. We actually want some

00:10:22.240 migrants to come into the country, but we've got to be very, very careful about it and not give the whole 1.00

00:10:25.920 country away, not to the immigrants, but to the Democrats who are the ones who are actually 0.96

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00:11:00.540 exclusions do apply. Now the question that is a follow-up to here's how we protect our elections

00:11:07.940 from rigging and the importation of voters. The question that comes up is, do elections matter

00:11:14.140 anymore anyway? We just had an anniversary a couple of days ago. What is today? Today's the eighth. So

00:11:20.420 that means that a couple of days ago was January 6th, the worst day in the history of this or any

00:11:29.920 republic. The day that democracy almost vanished from the face of the earth.

00:11:36.260 And what happened on January 6th? Well, it's a little controversial now.

00:11:40.060 If you had asked people two or three years ago, they would have given you one answer.

00:11:44.500 They might give you a different answer today. There is a poll that just came out from the

00:11:48.160 Washington Post and University of Maryland. So not exactly right-wing sources that say that

00:11:53.760 since January 6th, 2021, people have taken a decidedly dimmer view of the legitimacy of the

00:12:03.800 Biden presidency. They've taken a dimmer view of the propaganda surrounding the supposed terror

00:12:09.520 attack insurrection coup d'etat that took place on January 6th. Three groups were examined here on

00:12:15.440 their evolving views of January 6th, Republicans, Democrats, and independents. Every single group

00:12:20.460 today is less likely to believe that the Biden election was legitimate. Every single one. It's

00:12:28.520 most pronounced among the Republicans. But you see it even with the Democrats too. Now, 91% of Democrats

00:12:35.940 say Biden was legitimately elected. But two years ago, 94% said that. So 3% of Democrats

00:12:41.080 now think that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election. I know it's only 3%. That's a big deal. When you've

00:12:47.760 had nonstop propaganda and hearings from Democrats and a couple fake Republicans like Liz Cheney and

00:12:53.560 Adam Kinzinger. When you've had the prosecutions now of Donald Trump over this, you've had a constant

00:12:58.820 concerted media campaign to say 2020 was the most safe and secure and wonderful election ever. 1.00

00:13:05.240 Donald Trump is an evil traitor, insurrectionist, secessionist. If we ever let him 0.99

00:13:08.900 even close to the levers of power, again, the country is going to collapse. And 3% of Democrats

00:13:14.580 hear that and they say, ah, nah, that's bogus. Nah, Biden probably did steal that election. You're

00:13:19.900 right. For the Republicans, 39% say that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected. That's down to,

00:13:32.080 uh, uh, down from 31%. Um, or I'm sorry, 30, 31% is down from 39%. 66% of independents say that Joe

00:13:43.520 Biden was legitimately elected. That's down from 72%. That's a major, major collapse. The conclusion

00:13:49.140 here is January 6th totally backfired. Why? Nobody believes it. It looks like theater. We have the

00:14:03.960 security camera footage, which was finally released because Republicans took power in the house and it

00:14:08.940 shows, oh, hold on. The, the January 6th, there's weren't murdering cops. Actually, no, no cop was

00:14:13.620 murdered in the, the political violence of, of January 6th. No one was murdered whatsoever other

00:14:19.320 than one Trump supporter, Ashley Babbitt, who was shot by a trigger happy cop who faced no

00:14:23.840 consequences. Actually, it turns out the horn hat guy didn't just kick in the door, guns a-blazing

00:14:29.820 and take over the, the floor of either chamber of, of Congress. Actually, he was escorted around by

00:14:36.720 police. He was essentially given a private tour of the Capitol. Actually, actually, actually what we

00:14:41.220 thought happened did not really happen. MSNBC takes that and breaks down crying.

00:14:49.280 I'm going to try to get through this. Um, thank you for what you did three years ago today.

00:14:58.140 Um, please tell me your thoughts, um, on this third anniversary.

00:15:02.900 Um, we are, uh, still in the midst of the, the same fight that began, uh, on January 6th, 2021.

00:15:21.100 Same fight. Thank you. On the third anniversary of this hallowed day, a day which will live in infamy,

00:15:28.800 say, please tell us what happened. Cause we haven't, we haven't heard the truth about what,

00:15:34.520 what happened, uh, on MSNBC ever on any of the mainstream news outlets. We saw the truth

00:15:41.540 on the security camera footage that we had to pry from their hands. What on this, on this awful day

00:15:49.860 in recent history, five members of Congress were shot by Puerto Rican radical activists. In recent

00:16:01.200 history, the leftist weather underground blew up part of the Capitol. In fact, part of the Capitol has

00:16:06.760 been blown up like three or four times in American history in relatively recent memory. Not only was

00:16:13.620 January 6th, not the worst insurrection that ever took place at the Capitol in the United States.

00:16:18.220 It wasn't even in the top eight. It wasn't, I don't think it was in the top 12 and people wake up to

00:16:26.300 that, including some Democrats. When you overplay your hand, when the Democrats think they can overplay

00:16:34.580 their hand because they control all of the media and the universities and basically every center of

00:16:40.200 power in the country. So they think, okay, there's no lie so large we can't tell it. But the truth does

00:16:45.560 break out every now and again. They don't have complete and total hegemony. And so when people

00:16:50.820 find out that they've been lied to, they start to question everything. They start to question whether

00:16:57.120 that election was legitimate in the first place. And the fact that now people are significantly less

00:17:03.740 likely to believe that the 2020 election was legitimate. That's not my fault. That's not your

00:17:08.120 fault. That's not the fault of the conspiracy theorists and the insurrectionists. That is squarely the

00:17:11.940 fault of the liberals who lied to us. And because they lied about that, a lot of people think, huh,

00:17:16.300 maybe they lied to us about the election too. Things are breaking down. The reason I bring all

00:17:21.840 this stuff up is not even to talk about January 6th or Trump or 2020 or it's that the whole social

00:17:29.600 order is breaking down. People see a riot at a shopping mall. They don't want to believe that there

00:17:35.680 are riots at shopping malls. They'd rather believe aliens are invading from outer space.

00:17:39.200 In a way, that's more comforting than just the sad, predictable decay of America as the greatest

00:17:50.260 country in the history of the world begins to resemble the third world. There was a crazy story

00:17:56.140 out of Alaska Airlines. It came out just yesterday. An Alaska Airlines flight was going from Oregon to

00:18:04.180 California. And it takes off. This is a 737 MAX 9. It's gaining altitude. I think it was about 16,000

00:18:11.160 feet. And the passengers hear a bang. They thought it was an explosion. And part of a door, like part of

00:18:16.560 the side of the plane just explodes. It just pops out. Some person's shirt is just ripped off of him.

00:18:23.000 A little teddy bear goes flying out the window. And they need to make an emergency landing. Luckily,

00:18:29.400 no one died. But you can see some of the pictures of it. It's crazy. It's not even just that a window

00:18:34.020 popped out. It's like a whole little side of the plane pops out there. How does this kind of thing

00:18:38.700 happen? Because forgetting about high philosophy and political ideology, we are no longer good at doing

00:18:51.100 just the basic things to make a society run. If you've ever traveled in the third world, I was 0.55

00:18:59.000 recently just in a communist state. I've traveled to multiple communist states. One time I tried to

00:19:05.020 travel to another one and I found that I was banned from that country. That's a story for another time.

00:19:08.860 But I've traveled to more right-wing parts of the third world. I've traveled to communist parts of the

00:19:16.240 third world. And the thing that strikes you about it, the distinguishing feature of these societies

00:19:21.740 that are just really broken down and not functional, is that it's not really primarily about

00:19:27.380 ideology. It's about, does the sewage run? It's about, do the social services work? It's about,

00:19:35.360 can you trust that you're not going to be mugged when you walk outside? It's that, can you trust that

00:19:39.720 if I store my wealth in a certain place, I'm not going to lose all of my wealth? Can I trust that

00:19:44.020 the airplanes are going to work? And lest you think I'm just making a mountain out of a molehill and

00:19:50.120 this is an isolated incident, it's really not. There's a statistic that near run-ins between

00:19:57.560 commercial planes, I'm not talking about little dinky private jets, I'm talking about commercial

00:20:01.880 aircraft, near run-ins are up 25% over the past decade. If you've been to the airport recently,

00:20:10.320 delays, cancellations, they're way, way up. We're just kind of breaking down. You can't run a society

00:20:21.220 on radical ideology for very long for two reasons. One, because if your ideology is contrary to human

00:20:27.880 nature and reality, it's going to leave you constantly frustrated by the chasm between your

00:20:36.620 fantasies and the reality that we all live in. But two, if all we do is focus on this pie-in-the-sky

00:20:44.460 crazy stuff, you learn about radical gender theory in school, and you hear all of these cockamamie 0.96

00:20:49.120 theories, and the people who are indoctrinated into that are the ones who go and run the corporations

00:20:55.620 and run the government. The problem is they're not going to know any basic technical skills

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00:22:44.680 last week that I wanted to get to that I'll take a little time to do today because it doesn't seem

00:22:48.740 like it relates, but I think it actually does. Kelly Clarkson has just come out and given marriage

00:22:54.800 advice. Kelly Clarkson is recently divorced, so not great to get marriage advice probably from 0.98

00:22:59.800 a recent divorcee. She says three things here that are totally wrong. One, she says love is not

00:23:09.420 forever. Love is never forever. You know, you got to remember that going in. Two, you really want to

00:23:15.220 make sure you're in a position where you don't need anything from your partner, okay? You don't want to be

00:23:19.720 dependent on them. And three, you just got to go to therapy all the time. Therapy is really, really

00:23:25.800 great. All three of those things are totally wrong. I've always known that love is hard. For me,

00:23:33.840 love has always come with this elephant in the room of sadness. I've known love is not forever. I don't

00:23:37.720 mean that to sound depressing, but I think we put a lot of pressure on that word. Sometimes love is

00:23:42.000 looking at someone and going, this is not for you. This is not good for me. That's a hard thing to face,

00:23:47.720 but when you do, I think you grow. Yes, you grow very sad, but you don't grow in that you're not

00:23:55.340 edified by that. You're not sanctified by that. Usually, you just left right back at square one,

00:24:03.680 and then you started again. But she said, love is so sad to me because I know it's never going to

00:24:07.920 actually go anywhere. We'll see how far along it gets, but then eventually one of us is going to

00:24:12.000 pull the plug. That is not the way to look at it. That is the way of looking at love as a matter of

00:24:17.620 emotion and caprice and individual preference. That is not how our society has traditionally

00:24:23.280 viewed love. That's not how love actually works. Love is willing the good of the other person for

00:24:28.680 that person's own sake. Love is an action that we performed. Love is something that we are commanded

00:24:34.780 to do as Christians, if you are a Christian, but I think we're all commanded to do it actually by the

00:24:40.040 God of the universe. You have to do it even when you don't want to. You have to do it even when

00:24:46.140 you just look at someone and you go, this is not good for you. This is not good for me. Yeah, let's

00:24:50.180 just quit. No, you still have to do it. When you make a commitment to somebody, you just have to

00:24:54.600 follow it out. And not only do you have to follow it out in this tedious way where it's just drudgery

00:25:01.620 and difficult all day long, you need to figure out how to make it work and thrive. And if something's

00:25:07.200 not working right, then you need to recognize that love is an objective thing outside of your own

00:25:13.080 emotions. And you need to do it. And if you are not perfectly willing the good of the other person

00:25:16.780 for that person's own sake and vice versa, then work it out, figure it out. But otherwise, you'll

00:25:22.180 just be left with what she admits is just a big elephant in the room of sadness. If it's all just

00:25:27.680 a negotiation and a gamble and based on individual choice rather than objective reality between the

00:25:33.420 social animals, between human beings, then it's always going to flop. Second one, dating sucks. It's so 0.99

00:25:39.860 awkward. I was single until I was like 30 and I forgot how really good at that I am.

00:25:44.700 I told a friend that a potential partner would have to be an individual that brings their own

00:25:49.280 life to the table without needing anything from me. It's far more romantic to say, I want you,

00:25:53.440 but I don't need anything. What? I'm really good right now. I'm having a good time. What are you

00:25:58.620 talking about? This is total millennial cope. I don't mean to be too harsh on Kelly Clarkson here,

00:26:04.480 but it's a teachable moment. And she's saying things that are just completely insane.

00:26:07.880 I think part of the reason that millennials in particular are having trouble getting married

00:26:12.360 is that people, sometimes we harden a little bit. We ossify a little bit, okay? When you're young,

00:26:20.360 you know, you're really malleable. You try on different personalities. You try out different

00:26:23.820 ideas. You're a sponge. You learn new words and behaviors. It's easier to learn a foreign language,

00:26:29.260 for example. As you get older, you kind of ossify a little bit and harden. So if you're a little

00:26:35.100 clump of putty, you're 15 years old, you're a little clump of putty. You got your 15-year-old 0.99

00:26:39.220 girlfriend. She's a little clump of putty. And you're all just a little putty and you get smooshed 0.99

00:26:42.860 together. And then you start to harden over time. You're going to harden into shape with one another.

00:26:49.000 If you're your regular clumps of putty and you're totally separate and individual,

00:26:53.180 and you just remain totally alone, you're going to harden into your own shapes. It's going to be a lot

00:26:58.580 harder to smash you two together, okay? There's going to be little gaps. There's going to be a little

00:27:02.320 air pockets. Little parts are going to break off. It's going to be difficult. I'm not saying it can't

00:27:06.980 happen. I know plenty of friends who've gotten married, not just in their 30s, which is now the

00:27:11.200 norm, but 40s, 50s. It can happen. It's a fallen world. And we do what we can. But it's going to be

00:27:19.900 a lot easier. You don't want someone who is totally, fully formed with all of their own tastes,

00:27:25.620 preferences, beliefs, behaviors. And then you have exactly the same when it comes to your tastes,

00:27:33.780 preferences, behaviors, whatever. And you're just going to mash them up in a kind of a negotiated

00:27:36.900 partnership. You want to grow together is what you want. You want your wife to be a part of your flesh,

00:27:44.160 okay? Another part of you. And you're going to develop those things together. You want

00:27:50.000 dependents. You want to share a bank account. You want to be together a lot. You want to do that.

00:27:58.660 Otherwise, it's going to be like you're running an accounting firm and you've got to have board

00:28:03.760 meetings every week to decide basic questions. Third one, she goes, I'm taking my power back.

00:28:08.400 That sounds very therapy, but that's because I love therapy. And I think it's important to have

00:28:12.080 those tools to navigate your life and relationships. How many people that you know who are constantly in

00:28:19.400 therapy are happy? Not very many, probably. Now you might say, well, yeah, that's why they're in

00:28:25.660 therapy. Okay. How many people who are in therapy for a really long time seem to get better?

00:28:35.640 Very few. I'm not saying it can't happen. It does happen. Drew Klavan, he says he's the one guy ever

00:28:40.400 in history who got cured by a therapist. And then he stopped going to the therapist because he got better.

00:28:44.760 I know people who go to therapists for years, decades. They only ever seem to get worse.

00:28:51.400 In some cases, they just use the therapist as a drug dealer, you know, a psychiatrist. Okay, get me

00:28:55.680 more depression pills or something. But in some cases, it's a better form of therapy, which is

00:29:00.620 cognitive behavioral therapy or some kind of talk therapy working through problems. But even then,

00:29:05.700 a therapist is only as good as the premises he brings to it, right? If a therapist starts with the

00:29:11.460 premise that there is no God, there is no soul, you're just a bag of chemicals. The only purpose

00:29:15.980 in life is to amass pleasure. And we're going to look at the world through the viewpoint of hedonistic

00:29:21.620 utilitarianism. Okay, you know, I don't think that's conducive to human flourishing. If your therapist

00:29:28.080 comes in and is a Christian and recognizes that you do have a soul and that life is about more than

00:29:34.280 just feeling pleasure and doesn't believe that marriage is dissolvable and doesn't believe all this

00:29:40.260 nonsense that Kelly Clarkson's been saying, then you're probably going to have a better therapist. 1.00

00:29:45.460 But which is it? We just, because we live in such a decadent and philosophically and theologically

00:29:54.860 shallow society, it's not that we got rid of our priests. It's just that we anoint new people to be

00:30:01.560 our priests. You can never get rid of the priests. There is a priestly class in every society ever

00:30:06.260 throughout all of human history. Every little, no two-bit tribe in Papua New Guinea has some kind 1.00

00:30:12.780 of a priest class. That's something that human life demands. We deny it. We say we killed all our

00:30:19.700 priests. We owe the society will only flourish when we strangle the last king with the entrails of the 1.00

00:30:26.560 last priest. You know, all this kind of craziness that came out of the Enlightenment and the French 1.00

00:30:30.420 Revolution. But it's not true. There's always going to be priests. This human need and this exercise

00:30:36.980 of power is always going to be there. It's just going to move around. And we have anointed therapists

00:30:43.600 with a lot of that prestige from the priestly class. But what if they're totally wrong? What if

00:30:49.420 they're not up to the job? What if even they're very well-intentioned, but they don't have really

00:30:53.020 solid thoughts on theology, ontology, anthropology? What happens then? You get a ton of confusion.

00:30:59.380 And you get a bunch of feel-good, you know, slogans that you could buy on one of those signs they sell

00:31:04.800 at TJ Maxx. You know, and the highest moral and theological maxim that you ever hear is live, laugh,

00:31:11.400 love. Live, laugh, love is fine to spruce up, you know, a powder room. It's not fine to live your life by.

00:31:17.800 It doesn't interpret itself. And it can lead you down this path of, yeah, just do whatever feels good

00:31:22.680 in the moment. Thank you, therapists. See you next time. Really, really bad advice, Kelly Clarkson.

00:31:28.040 I have a soft spot for her, but that's terrible advice. Speaking of women in show business, 1.00

00:31:32.160 Whoopi Goldberg has just come out to put a rest to the rumors. She says, yes, there is a Jeffrey

00:31:41.240 Epstein list floating around. And yes, she's on it, but that's not the whole story.

00:31:47.100 Just because your name is on the documents doesn't mean that you have done anything criminally.

00:31:52.680 Irresponsible or illegal or civilly irresponsible.

00:31:56.440 Or that you were a client.

00:31:57.800 Or that you were a client. And so being named in this suit does not equate to being accused

00:32:02.180 of wrongdoing. And I think that is extremely important because conspiracy theorists seem

00:32:07.500 to not understand or enjoy facts.

00:32:10.920 Yes.

00:32:11.300 These are the facts.

00:32:12.180 Yes. Let me bring that up. The conspiracy theory, folks.

00:32:19.700 Because, you know, I have to explain because there was a fake list.

00:32:25.240 Yeah.

00:32:25.700 And I'm on it.

00:32:28.180 So you were on the island?

00:32:30.420 I was apparently. I don't know. I said I was on the island.

00:32:34.120 And they said, and I'm like, I don't go anywhere.

00:32:39.400 If the story was about a bus, it would be more believable.

00:32:42.560 Maybe. But it's like, you know, so I'm just going to say, you know, and there's been a

00:32:47.240 lot of stuff recently. I don't know what I've done to anybody, but apparently there are a

00:32:51.400 lot of these kind of sites that are, what do you call them?

00:32:55.500 They are.

00:32:55.920 Parody or satire.

00:32:57.300 Satire sites.

00:32:59.280 Oh.

00:32:59.540 But people don't realize that they can be harmful.

00:33:03.720 Oh, yeah, Whoopi, that sure sounds like the sort of thing that somebody who was best friends

00:33:08.640 with Jeffrey Epstein would say.

00:33:10.320 Hmm?

00:33:11.620 This Whoopi down there on the island with all that. 0.92

00:33:14.020 I don't think so, actually.

00:33:15.040 There are fake lists.

00:33:16.900 I can't believe I have to agree with The View today.

00:33:19.080 I don't think Whoopi was on Jeffrey Epstein's island and did weird stuff with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:33:23.860 I agree with Sonny Hostin when she says that just because you're named in the documents

00:33:28.520 doesn't mean that you did anything wrong.

00:33:29.900 That's true.

00:33:30.400 Your name could pop up and you could just be referenced by one of the many powerful and

00:33:36.600 important people that Jeffrey Epstein knew.

00:33:39.280 So, you know, yes, we went and got a sandwich at some rich, famous guy's house, but the rich,

00:33:45.060 famous guy never went to the island, never went to the townhouses, never got weird massages

00:33:49.320 from the girls, whatever.

00:33:50.180 Even people have made a big deal about Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, very

00:33:57.060 famous American lawyer and Harvard professor, and they've insinuated that he was a client

00:34:01.720 of Jeffrey Epstein or something like that.

00:34:03.280 I don't really see evidence for it, actually.

00:34:05.760 I know it's unpopular to say, but I tend to give Professor Dershowitz the benefit of the

00:34:09.560 doubt.

00:34:10.040 Why?

00:34:10.760 Dershowitz was Epstein's lawyer.

00:34:13.180 Epstein had a lot of money.

00:34:14.760 People who are accused of crimes with a lot of money hire the very best lawyers.

00:34:19.740 Alan Dershowitz is one of the very best lawyers in the country.

00:34:21.980 Alan Dershowitz did go visit Jeffrey Epstein's places.

00:34:25.680 That's the sort of thing that a lawyer does to his clients.

00:34:28.100 So I'm not saying it's totally impossible, but I agree.

00:34:32.240 There are people in Jeffrey Epstein's orbit who probably didn't do anything particularly

00:34:37.720 wrong.

00:34:40.180 At least there's a reason for Alan Dershowitz to go see Jeffrey Epstein.

00:34:45.180 Why is Prince Andrew seeing Jeffrey Epstein?

00:34:47.860 Okay, why are some of these other really powerful political and financial and business figures

00:34:53.080 going to see Jeffrey Epstein?

00:34:54.040 They're the ones who need to explain it.

00:34:55.560 But to Whoopi's point and to the whole view segment, it's hard to believe what's on the

00:35:03.500 list.

00:35:03.860 The testimony that's come out is just what someone says, and maybe that's credible, but maybe

00:35:07.360 it's not credible, and it was a long time ago.

00:35:09.140 I don't care.

00:35:10.380 I might be the only conservative in America who doesn't particularly care who is on the

00:35:18.160 Epstein client list, because I am much more interested in who Jeffrey Epstein was working

00:35:23.020 for.

00:35:23.720 I said it last week.

00:35:24.720 I'll say it again.

00:35:25.420 I'll say it until I'm blue in the face.

00:35:27.580 I think who is on the Jeffrey Epstein list is a little bit of a distraction.

00:35:30.940 Yes, the bad people who are doing bad things on the island should be brought to justice.

00:35:34.220 They almost certainly never will.

00:35:35.200 We'll probably never learn their names.

00:35:36.440 But yeah, in a perfect world, I'd like them to be brought to justice.

00:35:39.280 It is much more politically relevant for us to know what this operation was in service

00:35:45.580 of.

00:35:45.820 It was clearly some kind of intelligence-gathering operation.

00:35:48.680 The guy had cameras and microphones all around his homes.

00:35:52.620 He saved files.

00:35:55.020 We know this from testimony.

00:35:56.620 He saved files of so-and-so with some young girl in the massage room over here.

00:36:03.380 He labeled the CDs, and he had compromise on very, very powerful and important people,

00:36:09.060 again, whose names we likely don't know.

00:36:11.300 And then we know that the FBI went in and raided his place, and then a safe went missing,

00:36:15.060 and it just coincidentally would appear to have been the safe with all of that evidence

00:36:18.160 in it.

00:36:18.760 I want to know, what was this about?

00:36:20.440 Was Epstein working for himself?

00:36:23.020 Was that what he was in service of, just to get rich?

00:36:24.860 Was he working in service of a foreign intelligence agency?

00:36:29.400 We know that Ghislaine Maxwell's father was probably a triple spy.

00:36:34.840 The British spy agency, MI6, for whom he worked, also thought that Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's

00:36:43.360 father, was working for Israeli intelligence.

00:36:46.000 That one seems pretty clear.

00:36:47.100 And Russian intelligence, possibly.

00:36:48.680 The KGB.

00:36:49.960 I don't know.

00:36:50.980 We know that Jeffrey Epstein, forget about the foreign intelligence.

00:36:53.180 We know Jeffrey Epstein was connected to American intelligence from the testimony of Alex Acosta,

00:36:57.020 the U.S. attorney who prosecuted him, who then was up for labor secretary under Trump.

00:37:02.640 That's, yeah, ooh, I don't know. 0.96

00:37:05.380 Is Whoopi Goldberg like a surprise sexual deviant? 0.98

00:37:09.700 I don't know. 0.99

00:37:10.080 I guess she could be.

00:37:10.760 I don't really think she is.

00:37:12.720 I think that's all a distraction.

00:37:14.500 And I think it's pointless anyway to even inquire into it, because we're not going to get those

00:37:17.460 names.

00:37:18.300 They're always going to pull the rug out from under us.

00:37:21.740 The thing we have a better chance of figuring out, the thing that's much more politically

00:37:25.160 relevant.

00:37:26.820 What was the Epstein spy sex ring for? 0.51

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00:38:34.920 My favorite comment yesterday, or on Friday, I suppose, is from Devin Rossi, who says,

00:38:40.220 Since we won't be gathered here on the 6th, I just want to wish everyone an early happy

00:38:44.540 National Guided Tour Day.

00:38:46.380 Yes, and a happy one to you as well.

00:38:50.320 Speaking of pedophiles, Jim Gaffigan took the stage at the Golden Globes last night.

00:38:54.540 It was a mixed bag of an awards show. 0.63

00:38:58.100 I certainly didn't watch the whole thing.

00:38:59.640 I saw some of the clips going around, it was worse even than usual, but there were a few

00:39:04.920 bright spots, including Jim Gaffigan, who probably had the funniest line of the night.

00:39:11.000 The Golden Globes.

00:39:13.620 I mean, I can't even believe I'm in the entertainment industry.

00:39:19.700 I can't.

00:39:20.900 You know, it's so unlikely.

00:39:23.100 I'm from a small town in Indiana.

00:39:25.920 I'm not a pedophile.

00:39:30.280 You know.

00:39:34.520 It's funny because it's true.

00:39:37.960 That's what's funny about it.

00:39:40.180 And it didn't totally kill.

00:39:44.400 They weren't all just dying of laughter there.

00:39:46.400 They weren't dead silent either, though.

00:39:48.140 It was just the sort of thing they could chuckle about because they know that there is a pronounced 1.00

00:39:52.600 pedophile problem in Hollywood. 0.96

00:39:56.480 Especially as a mackerel-snapping papist, you know, there was this awful sex scandal with 0.99

00:40:00.740 these pederast priests who were molesting boys. 0.84

00:40:04.740 And it became international news for decades, which rightly should be.

00:40:12.060 The priests should be routed out, of course.

00:40:13.840 But the thing that was unjust about it is that Catholic priests are no more likely than the 0.99

00:40:21.520 clerics of any other religious group to engage in that kind of pedophilic sexual assault. 0.96

00:40:30.180 It was most pronounced, and the attacks on religion in our civilization tend to be on the Catholic 0.96

00:40:38.600 church, which is the 2,000-year-old pillar of the faith.

00:40:42.880 So, you know, even in Hollywood, we live in a Protestant country, so-called, but every

00:40:48.740 Hollywood depiction of someone going in for a really intense religious confession, it's

00:40:53.420 always in a Catholic confessional.

00:40:54.780 We're always talking to priests.

00:40:56.180 They're always—it tends to come back to that.

00:40:58.400 So even though other religious—Christian denominations and other religious groups had it at a similar

00:41:03.100 rate, the Catholics got the brunt of it.

00:41:05.320 But what was even more unjust was that, put the religious groups aside, public school teachers

00:41:11.280 are multiples times more likely to molest children than any of the religious groups in the United

00:41:16.820 States, Catholic certainly included.

00:41:20.080 The public school teachers, because they're a favorite of the liberals, they get totally

00:41:23.360 off the hook. 0.88

00:41:23.820 And then, beyond the public school teachers, you've got Hollywood, which has a major pedo 0.71

00:41:28.440 problem.

00:41:29.560 And they all know it, including the attendees at the Golden Globes.

00:41:35.440 Perfect delivery.

00:41:36.880 And the delivery was so calm.

00:41:39.160 And this is something that I think is actually a helpful lesson in politics.

00:41:43.120 I was talking to a friend of mine who's a little liberal and gets really, you know, exacerbated

00:41:50.520 by politics, said, Michael, how are you so calm about politics?

00:41:56.100 And I think there's a bell curve in terms of political knowledge and experience that

00:42:03.740 will determine whether you are calm or crazy.

00:42:08.160 The people who don't know anything about politics, who have no idea what's going on,

00:42:11.980 they never read a newspaper, they—well, if you read a newspaper, you probably don't know

00:42:14.920 what's going on either.

00:42:15.540 But, you know, they're just totally disengaged.

00:42:17.900 They're very calm.

00:42:19.120 Of course, they don't have anything to get crazy about.

00:42:22.720 Then, when you start reading the papers a little bit, you know, and you start paying

00:42:25.880 attention to some of the corruption in our politics, and you start noticing that the

00:42:30.440 guardrails might not hold that well, and our institutions are crumbling around us, you

00:42:35.080 start to get kind of crazy.

00:42:36.280 You start pulling your hair out.

00:42:37.760 And then, when you keep reading all that stuff, but you also read how politics has worked for

00:42:42.640 all of human history, and you start reading history a little bit, and you start reading

00:42:47.140 political philosophy, and you start recognizing that some of these problems just appear to

00:42:52.020 be intractable in a fallen world, and they get better and worse, and they often come

00:42:55.380 in cycles.

00:42:56.140 And even when you've got a really good time for a few decades, the bad times are on the

00:43:00.080 way there, you start to get calm again.

00:43:03.140 This stuff has happened.

00:43:04.920 And even the most horrific kind of stuff, you know, the stuff that Jim Gaffigan is joking

00:43:10.580 about at the Golden Globes, or the massive corruption going on at the highest levels of

00:43:18.220 the federal government, you say, yeah, this has all happened before.

00:43:21.260 We've got to fix it.

00:43:22.280 We've got to do our level best to fix it.

00:43:25.180 But this isn't unprecedented.

00:43:27.940 This isn't totally shocking.

00:43:29.580 This is actually kind of how the world works.

00:43:31.780 And had we just opened our eyes and allowed ourselves to dispel the propaganda and just

00:43:38.980 see clearly what's really going on, we could have expected it.

00:43:43.000 A lot of people don't want to believe that our country could decay in the same way that

00:43:49.340 every great empire has ever decayed.

00:43:51.580 They don't want to admit that.

00:43:53.320 If there's a riot at a shopping mall, it has to be an alien invasion.

00:43:55.960 Not ours.

00:43:56.500 Not our country.

00:43:57.180 No way.

00:43:58.240 Maybe every other empire and nation.

00:44:00.380 Not us.

00:44:00.960 No, us too.

00:44:02.140 We can maybe turn it around, but we've got to be honest first.

00:44:04.640 We've got to see the truth first.

00:44:06.220 Now, speaking of guys who are really good at this, guys who are really, really good at

00:44:10.480 just staying calm, cool, collected, seeing a little bit ahead of the curve, and acting

00:44:15.240 on the political sphere and having good effect.

00:44:19.200 Chris Ruffo.

00:44:21.780 Probably the face, there were other people behind it, but Chris Ruffo is the leading

00:44:25.360 figure in the movement to oust Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, because she was

00:44:30.100 a plagiarist. 0.63

00:44:30.660 The real reason is because she said that it was okay to call for the genocide of the Jews

00:44:34.160 during a congressional testimony, but that's what weakened her.

00:44:36.700 They still weren't going to totally throw her out.

00:44:38.220 The plagiarism scandal cropped up.

00:44:39.460 As an academic matter, that's actually a more egregious scandal.

00:44:42.980 Ruffo claims the scalp.

00:44:44.340 The president of Harvard's gone.

00:44:46.460 And now, everyone's going after Ruffo.

00:44:48.780 And my favorite attack on this guy comes from within Harvard.

00:44:54.640 Because Chris Ruffo, he graduated from Georgetown.

00:44:57.460 That's where he went to college.

00:44:58.220 And then later on, he got a degree at the Harvard Extension School.

00:45:03.100 And the Harvard Extension School is one of the schools of Harvard, but it's kind of like

00:45:06.300 the night school, you know, or the online school.

00:45:08.060 It's the one where you go and you can take some classes.

00:45:09.860 And it's certainly non-traditional.

00:45:11.520 But it's a school of Harvard University.

00:45:13.720 You get a Harvard University degree at the end of it.

00:45:16.060 Now, the Libs are attacking him.

00:45:18.420 And they're saying he doesn't have a real Harvard degree.

00:45:20.220 It's just from that Extension School.

00:45:22.080 That's the fake Harvard degree.

00:45:23.680 And this is such a perfect story.

00:45:26.280 It's so classic Chris Ruffo.

00:45:28.980 It's so leftist in a way.

00:45:33.980 It's so clever in how Chris has now put his opponents in an impossible situation.

00:45:41.480 Because either they have to admit that Harvard degrees can be worthless.

00:45:47.640 We were told that a Harvard degree is the most important and impressive thing ever.

00:45:51.100 All the big fancy Libs who run everything, they all have Harvard degrees. 1.00

00:45:53.960 And they say that that is one of the credentials that

00:45:56.060 shows why they ought to run the entire country. 0.97

00:45:58.720 Well, hold on.

00:45:59.520 You've just admitted either that a Harvard degree can be worthless.

00:46:04.560 Or you've got to admit that Chris Ruffo has the same degree that you guys have.

00:46:08.320 And so he is worthy of the same respect that you have.

00:46:11.220 Which is it?

00:46:12.240 Uh, I don't either.

00:46:17.160 What's funny is the actual answer is both of them,

00:46:19.620 which is Harvard degrees are increasingly worthless.

00:46:22.040 All of them, not just the Extension School, but just all of them.

00:46:24.440 And also, Chris Ruffo is worthy of much more respect than,

00:46:28.200 you know, the right-wingers who are actually trying to help resuscitate the country

00:46:32.220 are worthy of much more respect than the Libs with all of their fancy degrees

00:46:36.040 who have destroyed it.

00:46:38.200 So you actually can have both.

00:46:39.560 But right here, what are the Libs going to give up? 1.00

00:46:43.200 The prestige of Harvard or the ability to marginalize prominent right-wingers?

00:46:50.220 Which one are they going to give up?

00:46:51.560 Oh, they don't want to give up either.

00:46:53.760 Really, they've got to give up both.

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Ep. 1399 - The ＂Aliens In Miami＂ Media Cover-Up

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