The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1403 - WW3 & A Gay Music Video

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00:00:37.720 Liberal Democrat Senator John Fetterman has just lambasted the government of South Africa

00:00:42.180 for encouraging and perpetrating genocide against white people.

00:00:47.460 Wait, what? 0.98

00:00:48.120 Now let's also talk about that.

00:00:49.620 Now we're talking about genocide.

00:00:51.820 And now South Africa now is now bringing that kind of a trial.

00:00:55.740 Maybe South Africa would be going to sit this one out when they're talking about criticizing.

00:01:02.180 Let me read that again.

00:01:07.000 Liberal Democrat Senator lambasted South Africa for genocide against white people,

00:01:14.820 which is a fact, by the way.

00:01:16.440 Here's the leader of the third largest political party in the South African parliament. 1.00

00:01:20.360 Shoot to kill, kill the boa, kill the farmer. 0.99

00:01:43.460 Now, Fetterman made those comments in order to make a different point in support of Israel's 1.00

00:01:52.420 actions against Gaza.

00:01:53.780 So it wasn't totally out of the blue.

00:01:55.680 But still, Fetterman's comments seem to suggest that we are now officially living in a 90s comedy

00:02:02.220 movie in which the protagonist gets hit on the head and suddenly changes all his views about

00:02:07.200 everything.

00:02:07.560 Marvelous news for two reasons.

00:02:09.320 One, Senator Fetterman is clearly making great strides in recovering from his health issues.

00:02:16.320 And two, because as Fetterman's brain function improves, he is becoming increasingly right wing.

00:02:23.000 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:23.700 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:24.440 Lil Nas X, the rapper who infamously made a music video depicting himself getting sodomized

00:02:51.160 by the devil, announces that he's about to become a Christian. 0.94

00:02:54.740 And I'm a little skeptical, but we'll get to that in one second.

00:02:57.220 First, though, I guess it's sort of a related story.

00:03:00.480 This out of Africa. 0.98

00:03:02.520 Well, talk about all sorts of tie-ins.

00:03:04.660 Tie-ins to the Fetterman opening, tie-ins to Lil Nas X.

00:03:10.580 There were widespread news reports based on a document that came out of the Holy Office

00:03:16.020 of the Vatican that said that the Vatican was now going to permit blessings for same-sex

00:03:24.500 couples.

00:03:25.400 Now, many people pointed to the document that came out of the Holy Office and said, no, it

00:03:32.160 doesn't actually permit blessings of same-sex unions.

00:03:37.080 It doesn't actually change church teaching on marriage and the relation of men to women.

00:03:43.260 No, it's much more modest than that.

00:03:45.180 Nothing's changed at all, but the document has led to widespread confusion.

00:03:50.020 Very prominent liberal priests have interpreted the document quite publicly as affirming blessings

00:03:58.340 for these same-sex couples, and the Vatican hasn't really said too much about it.

00:04:05.720 Now, you have bishops out of Africa responding to the Vatican saying that as they read this document

00:04:14.880 it's all a little bit confusing.

00:04:16.520 But in any case, they are not going to be blessing same-sex unions.

00:04:20.720 They're not going to be causing that kind of scandal.

00:04:25.180 Led by Cardinal Ambongo, they say that there will be, quote, no blessing for homosexual couples

00:04:31.600 in Africa, as such unions are contrary to the will of God and as homosexual acts are intrinsically 1.00

00:04:37.720 disordered and contrary to the natural law.

00:04:41.180 It could all be summed up by the pithy line of this African spokesman. 1.00

00:04:46.280 You know, that seems like a joke, and I don't think that that gentleman works for the cardinals

00:05:00.060 or the bishops or anything.

00:05:01.060 But he is actually a devout Catholic, apparently. 0.97

00:05:03.660 That guy, the guy from the, why are you gay? 0.99

00:05:06.120 You are gay meme. 1.00

00:05:07.200 Simon Kagwa Najala is Ugandan, and he's a devoted Catholic. 0.99

00:05:13.220 And so why do I bring up this story?

00:05:15.800 There's enough weird sex stuff in the news that we don't need to point to another example

00:05:19.200 of it.

00:05:19.420 The reason I bring this up is to talk about Africa, actually, and the difference between

00:05:24.140 Africa and the West, as seen from the vantage of the Catholic Church, which is Catholic,

00:05:29.480 so it spans the whole world.

00:05:32.080 Liberalism is a Western thing.

00:05:33.820 Liberalism is a Western thing that's sprouted up out of Europe's rejection of the faith that

00:05:42.480 formed her whole civilization.

00:05:45.080 In America, we talk about liberalism and leftism as though this were the natural ideology of

00:05:51.660 all the marginalized and oppressed peoples, especially the peoples of color, all of the 0.93

00:05:56.380 people on the fringes against the evil white man. 0.74

00:05:59.080 But it's really not. 0.71

00:06:00.360 It's really not.

00:06:00.920 Africa is not a liberal place. 1.00

00:06:03.320 Far from it.

00:06:04.920 The African bishops, the African cardinals, they're not the liberal ones in the church, 1.00

00:06:09.400 okay?

00:06:10.140 Liberalism is an ideology that is imposed on the world by Europeans, and specifically by 1.00

00:06:19.860 Europeans who have rejected their ancestral faith.

00:06:23.640 This is why liberalism is just a kind of a parody of Christianity.

00:06:29.160 It has similar impulses to Christianity. 0.81

00:06:34.020 It uses similar kind of language as Christianity, the language of rights, the language of dignity,

00:06:40.100 the language of equality, the language of freedom, true freedom.

00:06:45.000 But it takes God out of the equation, and so everything gets extremely perverted and everything

00:06:51.860 falls to pot.

00:06:53.080 This has been a problem not just for the last 50, 60 years in the West.

00:06:56.260 This has been a problem for the last 500 years in the West, okay?

00:06:58.920 This is a problem of modernity, especially gaining in steam during the Enlightenment project,

00:07:05.040 which is, shoot, we've got this great civilization, but we've lost our faith.

00:07:11.820 What are we going to do now?

00:07:13.100 Okay, I know what we'll do.

00:07:14.120 We'll get rid of God, and then we'll be gods.

00:07:16.080 And we'll discover all the secrets of the universe, and we'll be the masters of our own fate.

00:07:22.940 And we, yeah, okay, we don't think that God created morality or something, but that doesn't

00:07:27.420 matter.

00:07:27.560 We don't need God for morality.

00:07:28.780 We'll just kind of do it ourselves, all right?

00:07:30.440 And we can tinker around, and we can improve on things, actually.

00:07:33.320 And it hasn't worked.

00:07:35.140 It hasn't worked at all.

00:07:37.820 By virtually every measure, our civilization has crumbled since we've tried to do that,

00:07:42.220 most notably in the fact that we don't form families and have children anymore,

00:07:45.180 so the civilization is literally dying.

00:07:48.560 And it seems like we can't even imagine that other people would reject that idea.

00:07:56.540 Liberals in the West are shocked when African bishops come out and they say,

00:08:00.400 yeah, we're going to stick with the 2,000-year teaching of the church.

00:08:03.800 We're not going to, I'm not saying we're not rejecting anything out of the Vatican.

00:08:07.840 We're just, if there is any confusion, we're going to clarify our view of things,

00:08:12.700 which is we stick with the 2,000-year teaching of the church,

00:08:14.800 and we're not going to lead people into scandal.

00:08:17.940 Maybe the West could take a note from these African cardinals and return to her very finest traditions. 1.00

00:08:25.500 This brings me back to a story in the States.

00:08:27.760 The story is that a female teacher has been charged with sleeping with a 16-year-old male student.

00:08:36.640 The teacher is rather young herself.

00:08:38.240 She's 26 years old, and she's pretty good-looking, and so do we, I guess we have to,

00:08:46.700 there's only one response ever to the, where were these teachers when I was in school, right?

00:08:50.940 That's the response.

00:08:52.580 That's the response.

00:08:53.940 Universally, one of these stories crops up every month.

00:08:58.420 I don't know, probably more than that.

00:09:00.100 And it's some hot young teacher and some teenage boy, usually a little bit of an older teenager, 16, 17.

00:09:06.680 And they sleep together, and the story comes out, and she gets charged with sexual assault. 0.99

00:09:11.660 And then every person in the country, at least every guy, says,

00:09:15.060 Hey, nice, cool, man.

00:09:17.880 Where were these teachers when I was in school?

00:09:19.580 And it's kind of a funny line.

00:09:21.100 I'm not denying that it's a funny line.

00:09:22.820 But the fact that that's always the response tells you something about our sexual ethic.

00:09:31.820 Because it's legitimately very bad.

00:09:34.740 It's sincerely a bad thing. 0.60

00:09:36.560 And it's not just bad because 16-year-old boys shouldn't be having sex.

00:09:39.640 They shouldn't be.

00:09:40.460 A lot of them do, but they shouldn't be.

00:09:43.380 It's not just bad because this woman is in a position of power. 1.00

00:09:48.160 And so there's a big power imbalance here.

00:09:50.720 It's not just bad because parents should be able to send their kids to school without worrying about their kids being molested by teachers.

00:09:59.800 It's not just bad because that woman is divorced. 1.00

00:10:03.100 So it creates all sorts of, plants all new seeds of scandal in kids' minds about that, about what marriage is, about what sex is.

00:10:13.100 It's not just bad because he could have gotten her pregnant.

00:10:14.920 And then what?

00:10:15.360 Would that have led to, I don't know, would that have led to an abortion? 0.95

00:10:18.840 I certainly hope not with that.

00:10:19.960 It could have derailed a lot of this kid's life.

00:10:24.200 It's bad because since the 1960s, we have replaced our old moral order with one moral maxim.

00:10:34.000 And that is, if it feels good, do it.

00:10:36.880 If it feels good, then you should do it.

00:10:39.380 Now, if that's our moral maxim, why should this kid not be allowed to sleep with his teacher, especially if she's kind of young and hot and willing?

00:10:49.980 Well, you might say, because he's a minor.

00:10:51.900 He's 16.

00:10:52.840 Oh, he's 16? 0.69

00:10:53.500 And he shouldn't be allowed to have a consensual sexual relationship with his teacher? 0.95

00:10:57.900 Well, of course he can't have a consensual sexual relationship.

00:11:00.180 A 16-year-old can't consent.

00:11:01.600 Oh, interesting.

00:11:02.400 Because I was told that an 8-year-old can consent to sexual mutilations and puberty blockers and hormones that will forever change his biochemistry and weaken his bones and sterilize him or her and probably lead to early death.

00:11:16.040 So, hold on, an 8-year-old can consent to that kind of permanent radical sexual action, but a 16-year-old can't have a fling with his young teacher?

00:11:26.760 No, of course, that breaks down too.

00:11:30.920 Even the basic moral criterion that we accept in liberal modernity, consent, starts to break down.

00:11:40.740 Well, no, maybe, look, an 8-year-old can consent to that, just not this.

00:11:43.860 So, a 16-year-old can consent to that, just not this.

00:11:46.200 It starts to break down.

00:11:47.560 We all know that this story is wrong.

00:11:49.200 Most sensible people know that this story is wrong.

00:11:53.380 It's just so scandalous.

00:11:54.900 It leads to a stumbling block.

00:11:56.460 This is what the millstone verse of the Bible is about.

00:12:00.100 Whoever causes one of these little ones to stumble, the famous millstone verse.

00:12:04.880 It's not about physically harming children.

00:12:07.200 It's about creating scandal and leading people away from God.

00:12:11.180 If we all know that there's something a little bit wrong with this, the weirdest part of the story is that apparently the kid's father knew, and the kid's father allowed it to happen.

00:12:22.600 So then the joke is, oh, wow, father of the year.

00:12:25.000 I'm going to give him number one dad in town mug for Father's Day.

00:12:28.540 But he's not the father of the year.

00:12:29.580 That's actually very bad.

00:12:30.760 It's very bad to do.

00:12:32.140 And we all kind of know it deep down.

00:12:33.780 So what that implies then is that our moral revolution of the last 60 years is wrong.

00:12:39.820 What that implies then is there are other moral criteria to judge.

00:12:43.940 To stop making the same old joke about this story forces us to reconsider the entire moral revolution that we've had since the 1960s.

00:12:53.320 Frankly, the seeds of a moral revolution that go back much, much further than that.

00:12:58.000 But are we able to return to that?

00:13:03.560 Are we living in a world after virtue where we just can't make sense of that anymore?

00:13:06.960 Or is there a chance that we can recover something of a sensible ethic?

00:13:12.980 Remains to be seen.

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00:14:24.340 The most disturbing story that I've read in probably a year just came out.

00:14:30.720 And it has gone viral, even though it's a local news story.

00:14:35.720 Here it is from the local Fox affiliate in Houston.

00:14:39.140 Two toddlers were allegedly sexually assaulted in a bathroom at the Galleria by multiple men.

00:14:45.340 One of the men was a mall employee.

00:14:47.260 The FBI has arrested Arthur Hector Fernandez III and charged the 29-year-old with sexual exploitation of children.

00:14:55.480 Fernandez is pictured here on his private Instagram with the username allegedlyhector.

00:15:00.120 His account was named in court documents that detailed the disturbing allegations that he and at least six other unidentified men sexually assaulted and raped a toddler at what appeared to be a Galleria ball bathroom.

00:15:13.740 Court documents say last month the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation reported four explicit videos found on the dark web to the FBI in which at least two toddlers, ages two and three, were filmed being sexually and verbally assaulted by multiple men at once.

00:15:31.740 Relatives of the toddlers told investigators Fernandez was a friend and fellow Galleria employee who offered to watch the kids while they were at work at the mall.

00:15:41.080 See, he's right there on the internet, chilling, my home is Houston, rainbow flag, rainbow flag.

00:15:49.340 He looks so happy, doesn't he?

00:15:51.540 And he commits as heinous a crime as anyone can possibly imagine.

00:15:55.120 A lot of people are calling for the death penalty.

00:15:56.960 As a matter of justice, I think it would be perfectly right to execute all of these men very swiftly.

00:16:01.700 My only holdup on the death penalty for rapists of any sort, even including the most egregious rapists, has nothing to do with them or their right to not be executed.

00:16:14.020 It only has to do with a prudential question of if you kill rapists, if the punishment for rape is the death penalty, then there's no incentive for the rapists not to kill their victims.

00:16:26.460 So that's my only prudential holdup against it. 0.82

00:16:30.180 But, you know, if these guys all hanged after being convicted, I would, you know, not lose one second sleep about it.

00:16:35.420 In fact, that would feel quite good and would seem quite just.

00:16:39.320 The part of this story that no one's talking about is the internet part of it.

00:16:47.720 Everyone's talking about the action because that's the heart of the evil here.

00:16:52.320 But the more politically significant part, I think, is how these guys were apprehended.

00:16:59.800 They put, they filmed pornography and then put it on the internet.

00:17:04.040 This guy was a big user of the internet.

00:17:06.320 He had a big public profile.

00:17:07.640 And he, in fact, talked about his sexual exploits in the profile implicitly.

00:17:13.820 That's what the rainbow is about.

00:17:15.800 He's not using that rainbow as a symbol that God gives to man to say that he'll never flood, destroy the world again in a flood.

00:17:22.320 Right?

00:17:22.900 That's a symbol of a very particular and deviant sexual identity.

00:17:29.100 And even if one has deviant sexual desires or sexual behaviors or whatever, that's one matter.

00:17:37.920 To make that your identity, to put that in your bio on a social media account, that's a big red flag.

00:17:45.760 Being chronically online, that's kind of a big red flag.

00:17:48.880 And then these guys, like a lot of people, were obviously completely addicted to pornography.

00:17:55.180 So it raises a question.

00:17:57.620 If internet pornography were not so normalized, would these guys have committed this action?

00:18:06.660 Maybe they would have. 0.93

00:18:07.600 They're obviously perverts. 1.00

00:18:08.800 But they didn't just go rape a child. 1.00

00:18:14.320 They filmed it. 0.98

00:18:15.540 They were producing pornography for other perverts because there is a medium through which they can send this pornography to other perverts.

00:18:23.780 Would they have done that if pornography were not so normalized, so difficult to prosecute, declared a matter of free speech by some extreme liberals in recent decades?

00:18:37.440 I don't know.

00:18:38.200 Maybe.

00:18:39.520 But would the instances of this kind of child exploitation really be quite so widespread?

00:18:48.420 I'm not sure.

00:18:50.660 We all have.

00:18:51.100 When I report on this, I have to say that these men allegedly raped the toddler, even though there's video footage.

00:18:58.740 The men were apprehended because there's video footage, but we still have to say allegedly. 0.96

00:19:03.600 Well, when there's a video, it makes that word seem kind of ridiculous, doesn't it?

00:19:09.180 This isn't even just the far reaches of the dark, hidden internet where you've got to have five separate handshakes to log into it. 0.53

00:19:18.240 There is a major child sexual exploitation problem on the biggest porn sites in the country.

00:19:23.020 We covered it just a few weeks ago on Pornhub and the affiliated websites, which constitute the largest purveyors of pornography on the internet.

00:19:32.660 If the only moral maxim that we have is if it feels good, do it, and, you know, a corollary to that is as long as everything is consensual.

00:19:45.440 It's not going to be long before you get to these kinds of crimes because people are going to chip away at consent.

00:19:50.280 You're already seeing that happen with the trans movement. 0.82

00:19:52.300 Oh, an eight-year-old can consent to mutilate his genitals. 0.56

00:19:54.900 Oh, an eight-year-old can consent to go on puberty blockers. 0.99

00:19:58.340 And people are going to feel good with all sorts of deviant, disgusting, perverted things that should obviously be illegal.

00:20:06.580 So if we're recognizing this is a major problem and we're going to move past that, then what do we do?

00:20:12.880 What are the other moral maxims that are going to come?

00:20:16.140 How are we going to recover a moral order that doesn't tolerate or incentivize this kind of stuff?

00:20:23.120 You might look back to, I don't know, our 2,000-year history and the way that morality interacted with our law when we had a civilization that we called Christendom.

00:20:33.600 It's probably a good guide.

00:20:34.620 The old Christian morality, which John Adams says, John Adams, who wasn't even particularly religious, said had to be the basis of the American morality.

00:20:42.880 You might do that.

00:20:45.220 But then you're going to start limiting things and proscribing things and outlawing things that, in recent years, a bunch of perverts and freaks have said are natural rights.

00:20:54.200 But they're not.

00:20:54.940 They're not.

00:20:55.860 That's how it goes.

00:20:56.780 Speaking of the sexual revolution, Lil Nas X.

00:21:01.340 You remember Lil Nas X?

00:21:02.440 He is best known for filming a music video where he is being violated by the devil himself, but he's kind of enjoying it.

00:21:13.740 Lil Nas X has been teasing that he's had a change of heart and he's going to become a Christian.

00:21:21.120 Don't bug. 0.99

00:21:22.360 Your girl is black. 0.99

00:21:23.900 We are young. 0.62

00:21:25.400 We are green.

00:21:26.960 We are team.

00:21:28.620 Me returning to God after the industry tried to make me satanic.

00:21:33.560 Now, he's there and it looks kind of fake, doesn't it?

00:21:36.680 This reminds me, the second I saw this video, this reminded me of Snoop Dogg, who did kind of fool me.

00:21:41.900 He posted on the internet, he said, I'm giving up smoke.

00:21:45.460 Please respect my privacy in this time, Snoop.

00:21:49.460 And he said, Snoop Dogg, he smokes pot all day long.

00:21:51.700 What are you talking about?

00:21:52.140 And then I'm giving up smoke.

00:21:53.560 It just became a marketing campaign for a stove, like a smokeless grill that he was trying to sell.

00:22:01.380 And so the minute I saw that, I said, okay, Lil Nas X here.

00:22:04.160 This guy is, I don't buy it.

00:22:07.580 It can happen.

00:22:08.400 I think it happened with Kanye.

00:22:09.460 I think Kanye actually had a sincere moment of repentance when he made that album, Jesus is King.

00:22:15.820 And he banned people who were working on the album from fornicating.

00:22:19.660 And then, you know, unfortunately, he had some public backsliding, as has happened to a lot of people.

00:22:25.300 But I didn't think that's what was going on with Lil Nas X.

00:22:27.340 I thought it was kind of fake.

00:22:28.980 You know, we, God can do anything and turn any heart.

00:22:33.020 But I didn't really see it here.

00:22:34.280 And so anyway, now he's released this album, and it is exactly as blasphemous as you might imagine.

00:22:39.000 We'll get to that in one second.

00:22:39.740 First, though, my favorite comment yesterday is from the slow old man who says, I watched Vivek and Candace on Tim Poole's show.

00:22:46.200 Would love to see Vivek as Trump's VP.

00:22:48.680 And they asked that on Poole's show.

00:22:51.760 Yeah, Vivek is really talented.

00:22:54.980 There are people who want to just write Vivek out of this race and say, oh, you know, he's a sideshow.

00:23:00.740 He didn't make it to the CNN debate before Iowa, so he's totally out.

00:23:04.540 I don't think so, actually.

00:23:06.100 He's still polling at a higher rate than the vast majority of candidates who have been in this race.

00:23:11.560 He is a little bit outside the box, so people are trying to make him into the, I don't know, Andrew Yang or some kind of eccentric figure in this race.

00:23:21.400 But he's much more intelligent than basically anyone who's run for president in decades.

00:23:28.220 And he's extremely wealthy.

00:23:30.320 He's worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

00:23:32.300 And I don't think people can just push Vivek to the side quite like that.

00:23:37.000 Ideologically or financially or politically.

00:23:40.100 I just don't think that's really going to happen.

00:23:41.920 Okay.

00:23:43.140 Lil Nas X is making a big PR stunt.

00:23:47.940 And I guess we're all falling for it.

00:23:50.020 He says he's going to become a Christian.

00:23:51.700 Take it away.

00:23:52.280 Yeah.

00:23:53.280 Yeah.

00:23:58.100 Bust down chain. 0.99

00:23:59.500 That was 30 bits.

00:24:00.680 Bust down wrist. 1.00

00:24:01.860 That's my bust down 30 inch. 1.00

00:24:03.880 Walk up in the club. 1.00

00:24:05.080 Pop me shit like it was double mint. 1.00

00:24:07.040 Let him slide. 1.00

00:24:07.900 Yeah. 1.00

00:24:08.240 That shit wasn't quiet. 1.00

00:24:09.500 Yeah. 1.00

00:24:09.780 Tell him come outside.

00:24:11.040 Baby, we ain't trying to hide.

00:24:12.680 I'm out.

00:24:13.480 I'm out.

00:24:14.460 I'm out.

00:24:14.920 You know when I'm back.

00:24:16.800 It's all for take.

00:24:18.400 You know that I'm ready.

00:24:19.580 So you've got this dueling battle between heaven and hell.

00:24:23.300 He's in both places.

00:24:25.400 Then he's playing a basketball game.

00:24:27.480 And the angel beats the devil.

00:24:30.980 But then he goes into a little cheerleader thing.

00:24:33.260 Then he makes himself into Christ, but he does it upside down, which is a satanic symbol. 0.53

00:24:48.960 A cross upside down is not satanic, but a crucifix upside down is a satanic symbol.

00:24:53.960 Then they're on the flood.

00:24:55.120 Yeah, true.

00:25:06.300 Okay.

00:25:06.540 That's not the whole video.

00:25:07.540 My producers spared me having to watch the whole thing.

00:25:10.880 Two takeaways, which are two things that we've been talking about actually all show.

00:25:16.940 That's the first time I'm seeing that music video. 0.95

00:25:18.580 One is weird sex stuff is not just frivolous and silly. 0.98

00:25:26.760 It's really bad. 0.94

00:25:28.460 I'm not saying it's the worst kind of sin, but it's really bad and it leads one to much worse sins.

00:25:33.560 When we read about ancient pagan cults or when we read about the Israelites in the desert

00:25:38.840 turning away from God and worshiping a golden calf,

00:25:43.040 I don't know what kind of image people usually form in their minds,

00:25:47.420 but I think it's a kind of benign image and that's not that.

00:25:51.660 When ancient pagan cults would engage in their rituals,

00:25:55.040 when the Israelites in the desert started worshiping a golden calf,

00:25:58.880 they weren't just sort of standing there and kneeling down and bowing. 0.79

00:26:02.180 They were doing lots of weird sex stuff.

00:26:04.380 And this music video opens up, little Nas X is in heaven and he looks like an angel, 0.86

00:26:08.640 but he's got this sex collar around his neck, which is significant 0.99

00:26:13.400 because what he's saying is I'm basically a slave to sex. 0.99

00:26:17.740 That's the collar that is around my neck. 0.99

00:26:19.880 And then you quickly realize that this angel of light is a demon.

00:26:24.980 And this vision of heaven is really a rather hellish vision.

00:26:29.600 That's the first thing.

00:26:30.940 It's not just fun and games.

00:26:32.500 If it feels good, do it.

00:26:33.380 If it feels good and you have been well-formed and well-educated and brought up

00:26:40.120 and your desires have been cultivated in a healthy way,

00:26:42.160 then feeling good can be a good thing and that can lead you toward more good things

00:26:47.100 and a flourishing life.

00:26:48.000 But if you've grown up in a corrupted way,

00:26:50.260 if you have been traumatized, if you've been maleducated,

00:26:54.040 if very nasty desires have been cultivated in you and vices have been cultivated

00:26:58.700 and habits have been left neglected, then if it feels good is usually a signal

00:27:03.960 that you should not do that thing because we're creatures of habit.

00:27:10.440 And so if you've cultivated very bad habits,

00:27:12.440 then the things that feel good are going to be really bad for you.

00:27:14.900 And if you've cultivated good habits,

00:27:16.080 the things that feel good are going to be good for you.

00:27:18.800 This is what Aristotle talks about in the Nicomachean Ethics.

00:27:21.600 There are four kinds of people in this world,

00:27:23.640 the ones who do bad things and love doing bad things,

00:27:26.060 the ones who want to do good things, but they do bad things, they're incontinent,

00:27:29.980 the ones who want to do bad things, but they basically manage to avoid doing bad things,

00:27:35.580 but it's still very hard for them.

00:27:37.000 Those are the people who are continent.

00:27:38.880 And then there are the virtuous people who want to do good things

00:27:41.480 and actually succeed at doing good things.

00:27:43.360 And we should strive for the latter, but in this day and age,

00:27:47.180 especially with the society we live in, it's virtually impossible.

00:27:49.520 That's the first thing that strikes me about that video.

00:27:51.600 The second thing that strikes me about that music video is that

00:27:54.880 all this bad stuff is just an attack on good stuff.

00:28:02.040 All false religion is just a parody of the true religion. 1.00

00:28:08.340 It's a perversion or an inversion or an outright denial of the true religion. 0.66

00:28:12.580 What is the satanic worship service?

00:28:15.400 It's called the Black Mass, and it's just an inversion of, 0.99

00:28:18.700 it's a mockery of the true mass, of the Catholic mass.

00:28:22.260 This music video, which is blasphemous and sacrilegious, 0.95

00:28:27.000 just like his last one where he's getting shtuped by the devil.

00:28:30.160 What is it?

00:28:30.720 Is it something of his own creation?

00:28:32.660 Is this the new little Nas X religion? 0.81

00:28:34.380 No, it's just a mockery of true religion, Christianity. 1.00

00:28:37.680 So many ideologies are just mockeries of true religion.

00:28:40.500 Communism is a mockery of the true religion that changes the nature of freedom and slavery

00:28:46.080 and oppression and redemption.

00:28:50.040 And it perverts them into a very materialist kind of way.

00:28:54.060 Liberalism is a mockery of Christianity that substitutes man for God.

00:28:58.480 But it has the same language. 0.98

00:29:00.200 It has the same trappings.

00:29:01.060 It has the same behavior.

00:29:01.920 The thing that unites all of those false ideologies is they're just parodies of the real thing.

00:29:08.180 Speaking of the occult, slightly.

00:29:11.720 Speaking of liberalism spreading, this is the funniest story that I have seen in quite a while.

00:29:19.360 DEI is coming to Skull and Bones.

00:29:22.480 DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is coming to Skull and Bones,

00:29:25.340 which is Skull and Bones is the most elite of the secret societies at Yale.

00:29:28.880 And there are a number of them.

00:29:30.960 And Yale is one of the most elite, you know, in the old days,

00:29:34.240 blue-blooded kind of schools in the country.

00:29:37.140 But apparently now inside the tomb of Skull and Bones, which is where the society meets,

00:29:43.300 they have all these portraits of old white men.

00:29:45.180 And they're taking down the portraits because they don't like the white men.

00:29:48.660 If even Skull and Bones is giving way to wokeness, it's over, folks.

00:29:55.220 And I think a lot of people are surprised by this.

00:29:56.920 I think a lot of people believe that, you know, there's a shadowy elite who are in charge.

00:30:04.820 And then they foist all this craziness on the rest of us, all this confusion,

00:30:09.520 the DEI and the ESG and the wokeness and the this is.

00:30:13.020 But they understand.

00:30:14.660 They've still got their act together.

00:30:15.960 And they're just using all this stuff to control us.

00:30:18.020 The reality, I think, is even scarier, which is there is no adult in the room.

00:30:26.100 Rather than liberalism just being a weapon that is wielded by the shadowy elite to control all of us,

00:30:34.740 liberalism is more like an acid that just pours over everything and corrodes everything,

00:30:39.760 including the shadowy elite.

00:30:41.160 Including the shadowy elite who are now having their portraits taken off the walls.

00:30:44.860 Okay, including the shadowy elite who become the victims of their own ideology.

00:30:51.600 It's comforting in that it means that there's very likely not just one man, you know,

00:30:57.100 Klaus Schwab or someone, you know, just like with a big cauldron.

00:31:00.820 But it's scary in that it means things can spin out of control very quickly.

00:31:05.280 As is happening right now, we're on the brink of World War III.

00:31:07.780 But the breaking news last night was that the United States and the UK are bombing Yemen.

00:31:14.020 Now, what does this mean?

00:31:16.800 Why are we bombing Yemen?

00:31:17.980 Why are we getting involved in another war in another country in the Middle East?

00:31:21.780 In principle, the reason we're doing it, I think, is totally justifiable.

00:31:25.980 Because we're not going in and bombing Yemen just to go fight a war for Israel.

00:31:31.080 But that would not be a justifiable reason to go do it, at least in my opinion.

00:31:34.380 We're not going in and bombing Yemen to create a thriving Madisonian democracy in Yemen.

00:31:39.680 I don't think that would be a justifiable reason.

00:31:41.940 The reason that the U.S. is bombing Yemen is because these Houthi terrorists in Yemen 1.00

00:31:47.500 are blocking up the international shipping lanes.

00:31:50.560 And so these are very important shipping lanes.

00:31:53.500 They could be shutting down or drastically impeding world trade.

00:31:59.600 And if you're the global hegemon, that is a big issue.

00:32:02.220 That becomes a national security issue.

00:32:03.760 That probably justifies the use of a certain kind of force,

00:32:07.480 as long as you're just flying in and dropping bombs and getting out of there.

00:32:10.340 And you're not putting boots on the ground to build a new republic in Yemen.

00:32:15.920 So in principle, I actually think it's not the worst use of military power.

00:32:19.560 The reason I'm really skeptical of this,

00:32:23.000 why I'm just broadly opposed to this particular bombing campaign in Yemen,

00:32:26.700 is because the people in charge are almost certainly going to screw it up and lead to World War III.

00:32:35.200 So it's not a problem in principle.

00:32:37.620 I have no problem with using military force in principle, especially to secure global shipping.

00:32:43.140 You know, if we just let things spiral out of control and then the shipping breaks down,

00:32:46.900 then there's a regional war and then there's a world war.

00:32:48.320 Okay, I have no problem trying to pinpoint a remedy to that quickly,

00:32:53.940 especially if it's not going to cost American lives.

00:32:57.100 Not only not cost American lives, not even really risk American lives.

00:33:00.200 The issue here is our Secretary of Defense just disappeared for three days.

00:33:06.760 Didn't even tell the president.

00:33:08.120 You probably haven't even heard of this story.

00:33:09.960 Our Secretary of Defense had an operation to undergo for his prostate.

00:33:14.520 He goes in, there are complications.

00:33:16.320 He ends up in the hospital for three days.

00:33:17.880 The president, the National Security Council never even heard about this

00:33:20.380 until the guy had already been out for a considerable amount of time.

00:33:24.600 That's not good.

00:33:25.400 Do you trust Joe Biden to manage a military operation that won't lead to World War III?

00:33:31.600 I don't trust him at all.

00:33:32.500 I don't trust Joe Biden to order lunch.

00:33:36.600 Things can spiral out of control very, very quickly.

00:33:39.460 And the irony, of course, is we were told that Joe Biden had to become president

00:33:42.520 because now the adults are back in charge.

00:33:44.140 It's a return to normality.

00:33:45.400 You're right.

00:33:45.760 War in the Middle East and world war breaking out broadly.

00:33:49.200 That is a return to normality.

00:33:50.760 That's not the kind of normality that I want.

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00:34:59.060 Take it away.

00:35:29.060 Because that's just a joke.

00:35:31.320 That's obviously just a joke that you say all the time.

00:35:34.500 And so you're very uncomfortable in the intro, it seems to me.

00:35:37.220 It seems kind of contrived.

00:35:38.500 You're really stiff when you're dancing.

00:35:40.460 It doesn't seem like you know how to dance.

00:35:42.720 Which is evidence to me that you're not really that effeminate.

00:35:45.980 So I don't think anyone would blame you if you did a reshoot.

00:35:48.640 But that's just me.

00:35:49.400 What do I know?

00:35:49.920 Thanks.

00:35:51.220 I don't know how to feel about your comment.

00:35:53.560 Because you're saying, Michael, you're not effeminate.

00:35:57.740 You're actually masculine. 0.90

00:35:59.940 And that's why you're a terrible dancer. 0.98

00:36:01.700 I don't think I'm a terrible.

00:36:02.380 Am I a terrible dancer?

00:36:04.120 I took a couple dance classes, you know, back in my youth.

00:36:07.340 I don't...

00:36:08.400 But if I say I'm a good dancer, then you're saying I'm a little, you know, mezzo-finuc.

00:36:14.120 But you're saying I'm not like that, so I don't...

00:36:17.200 Huh.

00:36:18.320 Would I rather be masculine or a good dancer?

00:36:22.180 I don't know.

00:36:22.860 Next question.

00:36:24.520 Hey, Michael.

00:36:25.040 You've talked a little bit about Italian cuisine on your show.

00:36:27.720 And my question to you is, if you were on death row, what would you choose to be your last meal?

00:36:32.560 It can be as long and elaborate as you would like.

00:36:35.000 Thanks.

00:36:36.940 I would choose sweet little Alisa's lasagna.

00:36:40.900 No question.

00:36:41.720 Fresh lasagna.

00:36:42.440 I don't know, I probably couldn't order it on death row.

00:36:45.980 I guess if I asked Alisa, she'd be like,

00:36:47.420 Mac, you ruined my life. 1.00

00:36:49.760 You're a serial killer. 1.00

00:36:51.560 I don't... 0.99

00:36:52.140 It's really bad, but I will make you your lasagna, Mac.

00:36:55.080 I will do that.

00:36:55.780 That final wish that you have.

00:36:57.860 And it is fresh pasta.

00:37:00.940 Obviously, you roll it out with the double zero flour and everything, you know, and then...

00:37:04.480 But the key to this lasagna is it's not a regular lasagna.

00:37:08.460 It's a beef and pork in the bolognese sauce.

00:37:11.920 Nice little carrot in there, too.

00:37:13.540 And, you know, just a nice little bolognese.

00:37:15.400 And then bechamel.

00:37:17.520 And then, obviously, the parmesan and stacked up very nicely.

00:37:21.360 That would be my last meal.

00:37:22.780 No question.

00:37:24.260 Next one.

00:37:25.900 Hi, Michael.

00:37:26.460 Justin here.

00:37:26.900 I wrote in about a little bit over a month ago.

00:37:30.240 I was a guy who's got some interesting feelings for his best friend, but this isn't about that.

00:37:37.180 Recently, I've been, partially because of you, thinking about converting to Catholicism.

00:37:42.780 However, I have a lot of questions.

00:37:44.080 And I've already started for a little bit over a week now, praying the rosary every day.

00:37:50.460 And I do feel it helps me.

00:37:51.820 It makes me feel, like, a lot lighter throughout the day.

00:37:53.900 But I don't know, like, where to start because it's like if it was—I was born and raised in, like, Baptist churches and stuff like that.

00:38:04.120 My grandfather's deacon at his church.

00:38:06.960 And I would say that my grandmother is the second coming of Mother Teresa, but just minus the Catholicism. 0.68

00:38:16.440 But I really don't know where to start.

00:38:19.620 Like, with Protestant churches, you can kind of just start going just to go.

00:38:24.040 I don't know if that's how Catholics work, and there's just a lot I don't know.

00:38:28.300 So if anything, you could help with my conversion and start going to Catholic churches would help.

00:38:34.240 Thanks.

00:38:34.620 Love the show.

00:38:35.000 Bye.

00:38:35.520 Yeah, that's great.

00:38:36.320 That's great news.

00:38:36.960 Yeah, just go.

00:38:37.640 You can just go.

00:38:38.320 Go to a Mass.

00:38:40.200 If you go to a traditional Latin Mass, which is what I tend to do, you'll want to get a Missal. 1.00

00:38:47.060 So you can either look it up online, just Latin Mass Missal or Latin Mass Propers, and that'll pull up the translation because presumably you don't speak fluent Latin.

00:38:55.560 Or you can order one online.

00:38:57.040 Just go to Amazon, Latin Mass Missal, 1962, it'll come up.

00:39:00.300 And then you can see the translation.

00:39:02.120 I think that's really beautiful.

00:39:03.300 If there's not one in your area or you want to kind of dip your toe in a little bit first in a more maybe accessible Mass, yeah, just go to any Mass.

00:39:12.560 I would not receive the Eucharist.

00:39:14.920 You know, I wouldn't go up for the Holy Communion if you're not in a state of grace and you haven't converted and you haven't had a confession, you know.

00:39:21.640 But it's okay.

00:39:23.360 Just stay in the pew and pray during that.

00:39:27.220 But then, yeah, just go.

00:39:28.980 And then talk to the priest afterward.

00:39:30.400 That's not so scary.

00:39:31.680 There's a lot of smells and bells, which can be a little intimidating, but they're very nice people.

00:39:35.620 It's okay.

00:39:36.320 Great news.

00:39:36.880 Next one.

00:39:38.420 Now, I love Trump.

00:39:40.580 No.

00:39:41.340 I love the tax cuts.

00:39:42.640 I love the secure borders.

00:39:43.900 I love no new wars.

00:39:45.100 I love the judicial appointments.

00:39:46.700 And I even love his tweets.

00:39:48.640 I love Trump so much that I voted for him in two generals and even in two primaries.

00:39:53.700 That's right.

00:39:54.080 I voted for him in March 2020 when he was running unopposed.

00:39:57.160 So if I could snap my fingers and make him president for four more years, I would do it.

00:40:00.680 Heck, if I could get 24 more years of President Trump, I would be a happy camper.

00:40:05.420 But I'm voting for Vivek Ramaswamy in the primary because I am worried about whether Trump can win.

00:40:10.860 Yes, I know he has the support of most Republicans, and I know that he beats Biden in most head-to-head matchups, even when you consider the swing states individually.

00:40:19.480 But I have a fear that keeps me up at night, and that fear is one Fannie Willis. 0.62

00:40:25.000 I'm afraid that in September, when Trump is our nominee and we have too much momentum to choose another, district attorney Willis is going to throw Trump in a prison jumpsuit, and he will lose the support of the most crucial voting demographic, suburban white women.

00:40:37.700 I worry that they will think a convict is a bad example for their non-binary sons and that they would rather have four more years of crime, inflation, mass illegal immigration, and flirtation with nuclear war.

00:40:48.380 My question is, are my fears based in reality, or do they present no obstacle to voting for Donald Trump, the founder of our Feast of Kevfefe?

00:40:56.300 Thank you, as always, for bringing the wisdom of 1390 to 2024.

00:41:01.140 Marvelous question, as always, Arun.

00:41:03.480 I don't want to discourage you from voting for Vivek.

00:41:05.980 Like, he's a friend of mine, and I really like the guy, and I think he's had a good candidacy.

00:41:09.560 So I'm not discouraging you from doing that at all.

00:41:11.880 If you want an argument as to why Trump's indictments are not a reason to boot him off the ballot, one is, you know, if we establish that precedent, then we're just letting the Democrats choose our nominee.

00:41:26.160 To me, the fact that they want to send him to St. Helena so badly is actually a mark in his favor.

00:41:32.740 It makes me think that they really are afraid of him, that if he does make it to the general, that he really could win, which I think is borne out in the polls, though who knows?

00:41:40.420 You know, who knows?

00:41:41.100 There could be shenanigans, and the polls are not all that reliable.

00:41:45.380 I just also think whoever the nominee is, they're going to throw everything at him.

00:41:52.600 So right now, for instance, Nikki Haley says that she beats Biden by 17 points, and maybe she does do better against Biden than Trump does.

00:41:59.060 I'm a little skeptical, but maybe she does.

00:42:01.060 But she ain't going to beat him by 17 points, I promise you that.

00:42:05.080 It's because the Democrats haven't attacked her yet.

00:42:06.800 But the minute they start attacking her, and they're not just going to attack her with TV ads.

00:42:09.880 I mean, we're now in the litigious phase of American democracy.

00:42:14.060 So they're probably going to accuse her of, you know, a coup d'etat or of, you know, pillaging a town or of, you know, high crimes and misdemeanors before she ever gets into office. 0.93

00:42:25.420 Vivek, same thing.

00:42:26.560 They'll contrive some scandal with one of his companies or something.

00:42:29.840 I don't know.

00:42:30.120 They'll find something.

00:42:31.980 And when I say they find something, I mean, they probably won't actually find anything.

00:42:35.560 They'll just make it up and use it against him.

00:42:37.900 So I'm past that.

00:42:39.340 I tend to believe that most Americans, including a lot of Democrats, think that the indictments against Trump are wrong, that it's a political persecution, even if he is convicted.

00:42:53.580 What the Democrats believe is that once the evidence is presented and he's actually wearing an orange jumpsuit, that is what's going to rally Americans to say,

00:43:00.300 no, this is too much, we can't vote for this guy.

00:43:03.360 I kind of think it's the opposite, though.

00:43:04.720 I think that the sight of an American president and the most popular candidate in the presidential race right now in an orange jumpsuit is going to so horrify Americans as to the banana republic that we've descended into that it will help his numbers. 0.67

00:43:19.380 That's my guess.

00:43:21.460 Who knows?

00:43:21.880 I mean, we'll probably find out, but that's my guess.

00:43:24.660 Question from Beauregard.

00:43:26.040 Michael, simple economic lesson.

00:43:28.800 You make the cigars, we buy and smoke the cigars.

00:43:31.600 No one gets hurt.

00:43:33.240 When can we expect you to hold up your end of this deal, sir?

00:43:35.840 Delay too long and you could go down in history as the cause of the Mayflower insurrection.

00:43:40.300 I know.

00:43:40.780 I know, man.

00:43:42.700 I want to say I did warn about this.

00:43:45.300 I didn't think we'd sell out four months' supply of Mayflower cigars in 24 hours.

00:43:50.020 I thought it was maybe possible, but I didn't, I'm not saying I would have bet on that.

00:43:56.540 However, I said, once that happened, I said, look, we're going to get a little bit more stock in, who knows what, 10,000 cigars, 20,000 cigars, not a lot of cigars.

00:44:05.400 And, I mean, by industry standards, that is a lot of cigars, but I knew we were selling a lot.

00:44:09.560 I said, if you want them, get them now.

00:44:11.820 Log in, they're going to be gone in an hour.

00:44:13.460 And then, because this is an aged product that I refuse to rush, I said, this could be months.

00:44:20.020 So, I'm meeting with our production guy and our distribution guy, some of the biggest guys in the cigar industry.

00:44:27.480 I'm meeting with them, I think, next week.

00:44:29.880 And we're going to sort everything out.

00:44:32.500 But I don't want to give you bad expectations.

00:44:36.720 It's not going to be next week.

00:44:37.920 It's not going to be two weeks from now.

00:44:38.880 It's not going to be a month from now, even.

00:44:40.000 I'm confident that by sometime in March, we will get more cigars to you.

00:44:47.980 That's a long way away.

00:44:49.560 That could be six weeks to 10 weeks away.

00:44:54.180 From Leland.

00:44:55.200 Hey, Michael, do you think it's of any concern if Epstein is still alive?

00:44:59.240 I just saw some footage of him still doing maintenance on the island and then hiding and driving away.

00:45:04.220 Who shows a funeral or wake of someone who is deceased with a different nose on top of it on national TV?

00:45:10.000 If you have nothing to hide, huh?

00:45:12.280 Well, I don't think Epstein did maintenance on his island even when he was alive.

00:45:16.940 So, I don't.

00:45:18.480 And I saw the pictures.

00:45:19.920 They said, this isn't really Epstein because his face looks a little different.

00:45:22.840 I'm somewhat skeptical of that.

00:45:24.880 I don't know.

00:45:25.520 I mean, the guy was obviously connected to intelligence in some way.

00:45:28.900 And we know that his business partner and paramour, Ghislaine Maxwell, we know her father was mobbed up, certainly with Israeli intelligence and British intelligence and maybe Russian intelligence.

00:45:38.980 So, I don't know.

00:45:40.180 The whole thing is crazy.

00:45:41.680 The fact that all the cameras went out and all the guards fell asleep and he happened to be allowed to kill himself.

00:45:47.400 No one really believes that.

00:45:49.760 So, is it so insane to say maybe he's still alive?

00:45:53.240 No, I guess it's possible.

00:45:54.700 I wouldn't put money on it, though.

00:45:57.380 It seemed much more likely that he was killed through more elaborate circumstances than we've led to believe than to think that he's still alive.

00:46:06.120 Maybe he is.

00:46:06.780 I just don't know what purpose he would serve if he were still alive now.

00:46:10.400 It would be a huge liability for whoever snuck him out.

00:46:13.340 So, probably more likely, he was killed one way or another.

00:46:17.720 Okay.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 12, 2024

Ep. 1403 - WW3 & A Gay Music Video

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