The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1408 - Canada Sends Jordan Peterson To The Gulag

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00:00:37.680 It's a day that ends in Y, and so the Libs are attempting to promote yet another weird sex thing. 1.00

00:00:44.400 Having already succeeded at convincing people of a dubious new definition of marriage,

00:00:49.220 and the possibility that a man can become a woman, and the health benefits of onanism,

00:00:54.020 the Libs are now focusing their rhetorical skill on persuading us all of the moral good of orgies.

00:01:01.780 The latest issue of New York Magazine takes up the challenge.

00:01:05.460 As the magazine explains, quote,

00:01:07.200 The new issue explores the world of ethical non-monogamy.

00:01:13.320 Brief digression.

00:01:14.180 If you have to describe something specifically as ethical, it probably is not.

00:01:23.140 Ethical non-monogamy is a contradiction in terms.

00:01:26.840 It is like a vegan lion or elderly babies.

00:01:30.180 If the adjectives and the nouns contradict one another, then you have a classic leftist expression.

00:01:37.700 This is a rhetorical trick the Libs use all the time.

00:01:40.680 Un-documented American is a classic example of that.

00:01:45.020 There is no such thing as an undocumented American,

00:01:47.700 because the reason that said undocumented American doesn't have documents is because he's not an American.

00:01:53.440 So the phrase is contradictory.

00:01:56.480 New York Magazine goes on, quote,

00:01:57.700 The package includes a feature by Allison Davis on one specific polycule,

00:02:03.020 and offers polycurious readers an in-depth guide to opening up their relationships.

00:02:09.000 An in-depth guide.

00:02:11.560 The Libs are not just detailing the degenerate behavior of weirdos.

00:02:15.700 They are actively trying to get you to try it too.

00:02:19.380 But they know it's degenerate.

00:02:21.440 No matter how many times they jam that word ethical in there,

00:02:25.040 they know that this behavior is repulsive and disordered.

00:02:29.280 And the proof of that is that the cover image on the magazine is a bunch of kittens.

00:02:36.520 Cute little kittens.

00:02:37.580 An accurate portrayal of polyamory would depict sad girls with daddy issues and brain-fried satyrs. 0.99

00:02:45.680 So why kittens?

00:02:47.220 It's the same trick that they pulled when they appropriated the rainbow. 0.88

00:02:51.080 The Libs always appropriate cherished symbols,

00:02:54.080 and then they use them to their own disordered ends because the reality that they're peddling turns people off.

00:02:59.540 So they lure you in with lies,

00:03:01.140 and by the time you become aware of the nasty reality,

00:03:05.000 they have already moved on to their next disordered lust.

00:03:08.620 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:09.360 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:10.380 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:30.980 Who's Trump going to pick for VP?

00:03:34.800 The veep stakes are on.

00:03:37.140 And it's not just idle chatter and guessing.

00:03:40.300 Donald Trump Jr. is floating some possibilities,

00:03:43.820 some of whom are really great and some of whom are absolutely terrible.

00:03:48.200 So I hope Trump picks a good one.

00:03:50.660 We'll get to that in one second.

00:03:52.200 First, though, I was going to say it wouldn't be a week of The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:57.740 Now I think it might have to be, it wouldn't be an episode of The Michael Knowles Show

00:04:00.740 if we didn't just briefly touch on some more of the weird sex stuff that the Libs are pushing. 1.00

00:04:05.860 It's not me, guys.

00:04:06.900 It's not me.

00:04:08.140 If I had my druthers, we would never talk about weird sex stuff on the show at all. 0.75

00:04:12.100 I'm not the one that put the orgies on the cover of the big Lib magazines. 0.90

00:04:18.760 I'm not the one telling husky dudes to go into the girls' bathroom. 1.00

00:04:21.900 I'm not the one changing the definition of marriage.

00:04:23.640 The Libs are doing it.

00:04:25.800 They're the aggressors in the culture war. 0.93

00:04:27.600 I'm just noticing it.

00:04:29.000 I'm just observing it and making a comment on it.

00:04:32.180 Okay, but this is not my choice.

00:04:35.420 All right, they're the ones pushing it on us.

00:04:38.820 And most egregiously, once they do all of that, 0.62

00:04:44.940 once they push their weird sex stuff, they then try to pin it on us.

00:04:48.700 I guess that's not the most egregious part. 0.98

00:04:51.880 Probably the most egregious part is when they destroy marriage and castrate kids.

00:04:55.940 But just after that is when they try to pin us for it. 0.89

00:05:00.240 Kind of like what Norm MacDonald said about hypocrisy.

00:05:02.480 It's not the worst, but it's bad. 0.85

00:05:04.040 The FBI has just arrested a trans-identifying person who is planning a massacre. 1.00

00:05:13.260 This person, Elizabeth West.

00:05:15.540 I think it's a dude, but he goes by the name Elizabeth.

00:05:19.120 I think I could be wrong about that.

00:05:20.600 Who knows?

00:05:21.060 I don't even really care.

00:05:21.840 Elizabeth West, so-called, was charged with making interstate threats based on a Facebook 1.00

00:05:28.260 post to the group Trans Woman Support Group, in which he said that he thought he was going

00:05:34.780 to be fired and he was tired of transphobic a-holes. 0.55

00:05:37.960 So he wrote, I'm too old to keep looking for jobs, and I've had it up to here.

00:05:42.780 Being bullied by transphobic a-holes, I am left with no alternative.

00:05:47.240 I've been preparing for this moment for a long time.

00:05:49.980 At least then I will be remember.

00:05:53.140 Won't be remembered as a great speller, but he thinks he'll be remember.

00:05:56.860 And then this part is legitimately very sad.

00:05:59.300 I have no family.

00:06:00.360 I have no friends.

00:06:01.860 So there really isn't any point in living anymore.

00:06:04.100 I think for a lot of these people who go down the weird sex rabbit holes, and just the weird

00:06:09.820 rabbit holes more broadly, I think a big part of it is they just have no place in the community.

00:06:16.720 They don't have a lot of family.

00:06:17.980 They don't have a lot of friends.

00:06:19.120 They don't fit in there.

00:06:20.860 And because the culture has fractured in this way, because the libs have fractured the social 1.00

00:06:30.340 order, they've kind of led the charge of fracturing the social order. 0.99

00:06:33.120 But the conservatives have gone along with it by adopting a radical individualism that

00:06:37.640 says we don't necessarily need to care about other people or the common good.

00:06:40.860 Because of that, you end up in a situation where these weirdos go really, really off the

00:06:46.060 deep end.

00:06:47.640 A social media bio for this person says that he's, quote, a Nazi dominatrix from hell who 0.96

00:06:54.000 is tired of the blackening of America and Europe and ready to stand up to the black orcs 1.00

00:06:59.000 and the Jewish wizards. 0.99

00:07:00.780 Huh.

00:07:01.640 That's kind of weird. 0.98

00:07:02.340 And that part matters because you've got a radical, trans, would-be mass shooter here. 1.00

00:07:08.360 And the FBI is calling this person a right-wing extremist. 0.75

00:07:13.700 The FBI said that this is a case of far-right terror, white supremacy, and alt-right extremism.

00:07:23.880 If you're a dude and you think you're a chick, you are most certainly not on the right. 0.98

00:07:30.900 I know we keep moving the window here.

00:07:33.680 I know that these days, someone who would have been considered a radical leftist 10 or

00:07:37.600 20 years ago can be considered a right-winger.

00:07:39.800 We're calling Bill Maher a right-winger now.

00:07:42.100 We're calling people who engage in all sorts of deviant behaviors and situations.

00:07:46.280 They're right-wingers now.

00:07:47.900 You know, listen, man, I'm in a polycule.

00:07:50.740 I've had, I promote abortions and I'm in a polycule and I support open borders. 0.93

00:07:55.640 I'm a right-winger, you know, because I support low taxes or something.

00:07:59.140 I know we keep, but I think, call me crazy.

00:08:02.800 I know I'm not the dictator of conservatism yet, but it seems to me if you're a fella who

00:08:10.280 identifies as a chick, you are not a right-winger. 0.93

00:08:14.300 But what the FBI did is they pointed to all this stuff where he says he hates the blacks 0.95

00:08:18.880 and the Jews and therefore he's got to be a right-winger, right? 0.84

00:08:21.640 Never mind, by the way, that the vast majority of anti-Jewish rhetoric in America today comes

00:08:27.920 from the left.

00:08:29.000 I'm not saying there's none of it on the right, but most of it clearly comes from the left.

00:08:35.340 Where does the hatred of the Jews and of the blacks come from?

00:08:38.880 According to court documents, it comes from the fact that this man has been misgendered 0.97

00:08:45.360 by a group of black guys and the black guys physically assaulted him. 0.92

00:08:50.240 That's where it comes from. 0.97

00:08:51.460 And he doesn't like immigrants because an immigrant was on Oregon's public health plan and got free

00:09:00.520 transgender surgery that this guy was not able to get himself.

00:09:03.820 So he got angry at them.

00:09:05.080 I don't know exactly where the Jew thing comes in, but in any case, it seems to be

00:09:08.860 very, very specific incidents related to his transgenderism, which is on the left. 0.99

00:09:15.060 So look, the guy's obviously completely insane. 0.57

00:09:17.180 I'm not trying to suggest that he's, you know, a left-wing political philosopher, many of whom 0.98

00:09:21.400 are insane themselves.

00:09:22.660 But it seems like a little bit of a stretch, right, for the FBI to call this person a right-winger,

00:09:28.080 an alt-right, far-right terrorist.

00:09:30.380 It's crazy.

00:09:31.080 This isn't the first time that the FBI has done this.

00:09:34.380 Late last year, there was a gang of pedophile Satanists that had been doing all sorts of

00:09:39.640 horrible things to girls. 0.95

00:09:41.480 And they arrest one of the guys, and they say he's a white supremacist. 0.85

00:09:44.380 The guy's Hispanic. 0.84

00:09:46.340 And he called the judge in the case a cracker.

00:09:48.960 But it, and we'll get to why that is in just one second.

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00:11:27.640 A transvestite would-be mass shooter, according to the FBI far-right-wing extremist, 0.98

00:11:34.480 a satanic pedophile gang led by a Hispanic who called the judge in the case a cracker. 1.00

00:11:43.620 He's a white supremacist. 1.00

00:11:45.540 And the white supremacists, obviously, they lumped in on the right. 0.94

00:11:49.480 Why?

00:11:50.060 What's this about?

00:11:51.140 I'll tell you exactly what it's about.

00:11:52.500 But the terrorists have to be right-wing.

00:11:57.160 They have to be.

00:11:58.600 They can't be left-wing.

00:12:00.900 Because the left-wing, that's the good side.

00:12:03.540 So they have to be right-wing.

00:12:05.700 The liberals are the goodies. 0.60

00:12:07.540 And the right-wingers are the baddies.

00:12:10.140 So they're going to figure it out.

00:12:12.360 They're going to make it. 0.99

00:12:13.060 In this case, white people are the baddies, too. 0.99

00:12:15.280 So the Hispanic guy becomes white. 0.99

00:12:17.340 Just like the man who killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman. 0.86

00:12:21.380 He had to be white. 0.85

00:12:22.820 They find out the guy looks as Hispanic as they come. 1.00

00:12:25.180 It looks like he just got off a boat somewhere from Latin America.

00:12:27.880 Doesn't matter.

00:12:28.780 He's a white guy now. 1.00

00:12:30.140 Because he's a baddie. 1.00

00:12:31.420 So he has to be a white. 1.00

00:12:32.380 That's just the way it is.

00:12:34.000 People who try to make sense of this, they start from the facts.

00:12:37.100 And then they try to get to the conclusion that the left has come to.

00:12:39.760 That's not how it works.

00:12:40.900 The left starts from the conclusion.

00:12:42.980 And they work backwards.

00:12:44.020 And they will rewrite a person's race.

00:12:45.540 They will rewrite a person's stated political views.

00:12:48.560 They'll rewrite a person's sex and sexual identity.

00:12:52.600 They'll rewrite anything.

00:12:54.080 The end has to be the same.

00:12:57.220 Now, speaking of right-wingers, we're into the Veepstakes, baby.

00:13:00.940 There are still two, maybe more, two even somewhat registering additional Republican candidates in the primary beyond Donald Trump.

00:13:12.760 That's Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis.

00:13:14.940 I think Asa Hutchinson is still in it.

00:13:16.340 I think there's another guy named Binkley in it.

00:13:18.300 But, you know, they're not really showing up anywhere.

00:13:22.220 DeSantis and Haley are barely registering.

00:13:24.280 For all intents and purposes, the primary is over.

00:13:26.380 So now we're moving on to who is Trump going to pick for his running mate?

00:13:30.120 Donald Trump Jr. has some thoughts.

00:13:32.440 Could you see your father running with Ron DeSantis?

00:13:34.900 I asked him that question over the summer.

00:13:36.860 And he didn't rule it out.

00:13:38.320 Could you see Ron DeSantis?

00:13:40.620 It's hard.

00:13:41.480 People do that.

00:13:42.120 Like, you know, I would do whatever I could to make sure it wasn't Nikki Haley.

00:13:46.120 But, you know, like Ron DeSantis, could I see?

00:13:49.340 You're never going to rule out someone that is, you know, a leading contender.

00:13:53.100 It doesn't mean that's who you go with.

00:13:54.380 I could see other people.

00:13:55.360 That would be great.

00:13:55.920 I'd love to see, you know, a J.D. Vance.

00:13:57.780 I'd love to see a Tucker Carlson.

00:13:59.400 I'd love to see, you know, people who are just principally, you know, in alignment as well as, like, aggressive.

00:14:05.780 You actually need a fighter.

00:14:07.400 The Republicans in Washington, D.C. are weak.

00:14:10.480 You can have the House, the Senate, and they'll still roll over.

00:14:13.180 Don, is your dad serious about Tucker Carlson?

00:14:15.580 Are those rumors serious?

00:14:17.500 I would imagine.

00:14:17.960 You know, listen, that clearly would be on the table, right?

00:14:20.060 I mean, they're very friendly.

00:14:21.580 I think they agree on virtually all of these things.

00:14:23.880 They certainly agree on stopping the never-ending wars.

00:14:27.480 And so, you know, I would love to see that happen.

00:14:30.320 And, you know, that would certainly be a contender.

00:14:32.720 I love Tucker.

00:14:34.580 Tucker would be a cool choice.

00:14:36.040 I'm fine with it.

00:14:38.120 I don't think it's going to happen, though.

00:14:40.100 The reason I don't think it's going to happen is I see no evidence that Trump would pick a huge personality who in any way could even somewhat compete with Trump's huge dominant personality.

00:14:53.000 I don't see any evidence of that at any point in his 40-plus year public life.

00:14:58.120 Certainly not from the last pick.

00:14:59.840 The last pick he made was to balance him out, a quieter guy from the Midwest who's on board.

00:15:07.000 He's going to be supportive, but he's not going to really challenge Trump or overshadow him.

00:15:12.120 He's not going to have had public disagreements with Trump very often, as Tucker has.

00:15:16.320 So, you know, love Tucker, very conservative guy.

00:15:19.600 That'd be terrific.

00:15:20.520 But I don't really see that happening.

00:15:22.300 The next choice, Elise Stefanik.

00:15:27.020 Don't like that.

00:15:28.160 Elise Stefanik is pretty liberal. 0.87

00:15:30.340 She's from New York.

00:15:31.640 The reason that some are reporting that she's being considered for VP is she's been relatively loyal to Trump, which is good.

00:15:39.580 That's a good thing.

00:15:40.380 You really want someone who's going to be loyal.

00:15:42.240 She wouldn't overshadow Trump in any way.

00:15:45.340 But I still don't really see what she brings to the table.

00:15:49.760 She's a liberal Republican who's totally identified with Team Trump.

00:15:55.640 So even if Trump were trying to do a Reagan-Bush kind of thing here, you know, you get the conservative guy at the top of the ticket and the more establishment liberal guy at the bottom of the ticket.

00:16:06.040 Here, Elise Stefanik doesn't really unite the party because she's lumped in as a Trumper. 1.00

00:16:10.340 It's just kind of like the worst of all worlds from an electoral perspective.

00:16:13.420 The more liberal policies, but also the baggage that goes along with supporting Trump if you hang out with the country club establishment set.

00:16:23.940 And she's from New York.

00:16:25.320 I mean, it's not like Trump's going to carry New York.

00:16:26.920 I don't really see it happening.

00:16:29.000 DeSantis would be great.

00:16:30.380 I mean, love DeSantis.

00:16:31.540 Absolutely great governor.

00:16:33.620 That can't happen because constitutionally, you can't have a guy at the top and bottom of the ticket from the same state.

00:16:41.940 Anyway, it would not work with the electoral college system.

00:16:46.260 So, you know, just as a tech, I don't think Trump would pick DeSantis anyway for the same reason I mentioned above with Tucker.

00:16:52.700 I don't think he's going to pick a really tough personality who's got a career of his own who might butt heads with him.

00:16:59.460 I just don't see that happening.

00:17:01.180 But certainly not someone who's campaigned against him.

00:17:06.060 This has become a pretty nasty primary.

00:17:07.600 But there's also just a technicality.

00:17:09.500 So I don't really see that happening.

00:17:10.960 It's funny.

00:17:11.340 Don Jr. says, I really hope it's not Nikki.

00:17:13.620 You know, if Nikki is hoping for a Reagan-Bush kind of thing, that's the path forward for her.

00:17:20.420 But if the Trump family is against her and they think this has gotten too personal and they can't trust her, then she's out.

00:17:27.460 So that leaves a really interesting choice there.

00:17:29.840 J.D. Vance.

00:17:31.260 J.D. Vance is on the team.

00:17:33.560 He got elected with a major endorsement from Donald Trump.

00:17:37.840 He represents more the new right, the more populist, more traditionally conservative side of the party, as opposed to the alternately libertarian side or the neoconservative side or the globalist side.

00:17:52.060 You know, J.D. does not represent that.

00:17:54.740 He's also from Ohio.

00:17:55.920 And they would always say, as goes Ohio, so goes the nation.

00:17:58.740 Ohio accurately has predicted a lot of presidential elections.

00:18:03.400 That predictive power failed in 2020, but the Democrats rigged it in 2020 and changed all the rules.

00:18:08.600 Hopefully the rules will have been corrected a little bit by the time we get to November 2024.

00:18:13.980 Of the choices that were just floated there, J.D. is probably the best one.

00:18:20.000 What do you think?

00:18:20.820 What do you think?

00:18:21.340 Let me know in the comments.

00:18:22.680 I'm curious.

00:18:23.180 As far as how things stand right now, though, the question is not, barring a lightning bolt from the Democrats or from the heavens, will Trump be the nominee?

00:18:34.880 He is.

00:18:35.820 No one else has a path to victory.

00:18:37.780 The question is, how long will this drag on for?

00:18:40.540 So next up we go to New Hampshire.

00:18:43.020 And what we've been hearing is that Haley is surging in New Hampshire.

00:18:46.780 She's way ahead of DeSantis.

00:18:48.240 But she's still pretty far behind Trump, 10 to 15 points behind Trump.

00:18:52.100 That lead seems to have widened.

00:18:54.520 The last number I was looking at was Haley, about 10 points behind Trump.

00:18:59.380 Now a new poll out from St. Anselm shows Trump at 52.

00:19:03.560 So he's crossed that 50% threshold.

00:19:06.880 Every other candidate could unite.

00:19:08.260 He would still beat them.

00:19:09.660 And he's 14 points above Haley, who's at 38.

00:19:12.220 DeSantis at 6.

00:19:13.340 Now, among Republicans who are voting, not just independents.

00:19:19.540 New Hampshire Republicans, they're a little bit weird.

00:19:21.560 You know, they're independent.

00:19:22.740 They cut their own course.

00:19:23.620 They don't really reflect the national party.

00:19:25.380 Among Republicans, Trump is up over Haley by 40 points.

00:19:28.620 It's 65 to 25.

00:19:30.380 And then among independents, Haley has a lead over Trump.

00:19:34.780 But it's only a 15-point lead.

00:19:36.240 So it's not enough to cover for the 40 points.

00:19:39.800 Haley, 52.

00:19:40.760 Trump, 37.

00:19:41.580 So there's the Anselm poll.

00:19:44.160 There's also a Suffolk poll.

00:19:45.660 Shows basically the same numbers.

00:19:47.760 Trump at 50.

00:19:48.520 Haley at 36.

00:19:49.300 So that same 14-point lead.

00:19:51.660 DeSantis at 6.

00:19:53.100 So far this season, I'm as skeptical of the polls sometimes, especially in general elections,

00:19:57.900 as anybody.

00:19:58.780 The polls have proven accurate.

00:20:00.760 That was a big lesson out of Iowa.

00:20:03.100 The polls here are consistent.

00:20:05.580 So DeSantis, certainly going to get completely destroyed in New Hampshire.

00:20:09.700 He's not even campaigning in New Hampshire, though.

00:20:11.840 DeSantis has sent his campaign staff to South Carolina.

00:20:14.360 That might be kind of a last stand.

00:20:16.760 What DeSantis is hoping for here is that Haley gets blown out of the water so that it doesn't 0.87

00:20:21.500 just look like a two-man race between Trump and Haley.

00:20:24.380 If Haley somehow pulled out a miracle in New Hampshire and won, she still wouldn't have 0.65

00:20:30.220 a shot at the nomination, but she could drag this thing out a little bit longer.

00:20:33.380 And she has an incentive to drag this out a little bit longer because she's a young woman.

00:20:37.580 So she can gobble up a little bit of leverage. 1.00

00:20:41.000 She won't have a ton of electoral votes by the end of this process. 1.00

00:20:44.820 She's not even on the ballot in Nevada.

00:20:46.820 She's going to get blown out in Michigan. 0.99

00:20:48.460 That's all before Super Tuesday.

00:20:49.920 She's going to get destroyed on Super Tuesday.

00:20:51.340 But she knows that.

00:20:52.360 She's a very smart politician. 1.00

00:20:53.960 I don't think that what she's trying to do here is force a Reagan-Bush situation.

00:20:57.700 I think she's trying to be the number two from 2024. 0.62

00:21:03.440 So that when 2028 rolls around, Nikki Haley can say, I almost got it last time.

00:21:08.940 And whether Trump wins or Trump loses, she can say, I'm next up.

00:21:12.620 Appoint me.

00:21:13.260 Which is how the Republicans used to do this.

00:21:15.740 They did it with George H.W. Bush.

00:21:18.220 They did it with Bob Dole.

00:21:19.760 They did it with John McCain.

00:21:21.600 They did it with Mitt Romney.

00:21:22.580 And I think that's what Nikki Haley is playing for here.

00:21:24.640 If she can just stay in the race long enough to clearly be the number two, then she's got a better play for 2028. 1.00

00:21:32.160 DeSantis has both more and less of a reason to drop out, speaking of contradictions at the top of the show.

00:21:40.020 Meaning Trump isn't going to pick him for anything.

00:21:43.040 I think that relationship has been blown.

00:21:44.980 DeSantis is going to be term-limited in Florida.

00:21:50.160 So he's going to be out of office by the very beginning of 2027.

00:21:54.200 It's going to be tough for him to run in 2028, especially with this showing.

00:21:58.020 So if you're Ron DeSantis, you've raised $200 million.

00:22:00.640 Why not just stay in?

00:22:02.280 You know, why not just stay in and just wait to see if a lightning bolt hits Trump?

00:22:07.020 It doesn't look all that great, but what else is he going to do?

00:22:11.260 You know, there's a lot of stick.

00:22:13.800 There's a lot of punishment that this guy's received on the campaign.

00:22:16.500 There's not a lot of carrot right now to get out, other than he doesn't want a humiliating loss in Florida.

00:22:20.780 But Florida's not up all that soon.

00:22:22.640 There are still a few states to go there.

00:22:24.720 In any case, any way you slice it, Trump's the nominee.

00:22:30.820 Barring a major natural disaster or, you know, Hillary showing up in the Groucho glasses in the FedEx truck with a silencer on her pistol. 1.00

00:22:41.060 Barring that, Trump is the nominee.

00:22:44.540 Lady Ballers is the hilarious story of how a group of male losers who can't win against other men decide to identify as women and join a women's basketball league. 0.96

00:22:53.340 Yes, it's absurd. 0.99

00:22:55.040 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:22:56.440 It's laughable, which is just another word for ridiculous. 0.98

00:22:59.100 They're synonyms. 0.88

00:23:00.540 They mean literally the same thing.

00:23:02.720 Well, it's happening right now in the world.

00:23:05.280 Here's a quick look at what is being called the most triggering movie of the decade by us.

00:23:11.040 Leftists are losing it over Lady Ballers. 1.00

00:23:14.240 Nothing's changed. 0.94

00:23:15.420 This movie is a straight up and intentional transphobic hate crime.

00:23:19.840 What?

00:23:20.580 I see you.

00:23:21.760 The Lady Ballers movie needs to be banned.

00:23:24.760 I'll cancel you.

00:23:26.060 Go ahead and get the blinds, please.

00:23:27.360 Toad 11.

00:23:28.620 The most toxic BS you've ever seen. 1.00

00:23:32.040 You're a monster. 1.00

00:23:33.340 Yeah. 1.00

00:23:34.060 Next level hate speech propaganda.

00:23:36.260 That's it.

00:23:36.700 That's the pitch.

00:23:37.380 Watch the most triggering comedy of the decade.

00:23:42.600 Lady Ballers. 0.80

00:23:44.160 Streaming exclusively on Daily Wire Plus.

00:23:46.600 Do not wait.

00:23:48.560 Watch Lady Ballers. 1.00

00:23:50.080 I joked earlier.

00:23:51.340 I said that it's called the most triggering movie of the decade by us.

00:23:54.160 Yeah, that was in our trailer.

00:23:55.500 But look at all the great reviews we got on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:23:58.460 Jumped up to the biggest streaming movie in the country.

00:24:00.920 And all of this when Hollywood does not want you to see it.

00:24:04.040 So go check out the movie.

00:24:06.080 Hollywood couldn't make it.

00:24:07.040 We did it.

00:24:07.600 Watch it exclusively on Daily Wire Plus right now.

00:24:10.260 Speaking of major election issues, mass migration continues to be a major issue.

00:24:18.800 This has been a major issue now for almost a decade in its recent form.

00:24:24.780 And it's cropped up over the years, but especially in recent years.

00:24:27.820 In America, obviously, it was a big part of the Trump win in 16.

00:24:31.300 In the UK, in Italy, in Hungary, in Poland, in all over Europe, all over the West.

00:24:38.040 Mass migration is a big problem.

00:24:40.260 The Dems still don't get that message.

00:24:43.380 I think Joe Manchin and John Fetterman are the two Democrats in the entire country

00:24:46.980 who realize that just opening up the borders and flooding the country with foreigners 1.00

00:24:51.700 is not maybe necessarily the most prudent idea.

00:24:54.280 The rest, the rest of the Dems are insisting that open borders and mass migration is not

00:25:00.200 only a good thing, but it is profoundly, essentially American.

00:25:04.840 Here we have Democrat Congressman Max Frost.

00:25:10.260 To my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, let's be honest with immigrants who

00:25:14.340 deserve better than what you're offering them.

00:25:16.980 Don't welcome immigrants if you plan to reject them.

00:25:20.060 If you keep pushing your bigoted HR2 bill, then also pass this bill.

00:25:25.220 I've taken the liberty of drafting it for you.

00:25:27.280 It removes the Statue of Liberty, our largest symbol that tells people to come here.

00:25:33.840 This is who you are, removing the fabric of America.

00:25:37.660 So I want to know which Republican who supports and voted for HR2 will introduce this bill.

00:25:43.400 The Statue of Liberty doesn't actually tell foreigners to come here.

00:25:48.480 It certainly doesn't tell them to come here in violation of our laws.

00:25:52.480 It certainly doesn't tell them to come here illegally and in infinite numbers.

00:25:57.740 But it doesn't tell them to come here at all.

00:25:59.900 The Statue of Liberty is a beacon of light to the rest of the world.

00:26:03.980 It is to illuminate and provide a model for the rest of the world.

00:26:11.760 The Statue of Liberty is not a statue of Attila the Hun tearing down our borders.

00:26:17.720 It's not a statue of Genghis Khan conquering our country.

00:26:20.660 It's a statue of liberty.

00:26:22.420 I'm not even all that hot on the Statue of Liberty.

00:26:24.640 I mean, don't forget, it was given to us by the French.

00:26:26.940 The French.

00:26:27.620 And not even the good old aristocratic, Catholic, monarchistic French. 0.99

00:26:33.780 It was the post-revolution French who were totally nuts. 1.00

00:26:38.540 Who sacked churches and replaced the traditional religion with temples of reason. 1.00

00:26:44.600 And chopped up all the neighborhoods and made them all really dumb. 0.98

00:26:48.200 And gave us the metric system. 0.99

00:26:50.400 And just all, gah.

00:26:53.100 It was a gift from them.

00:26:54.120 So, you know, I like it.

00:26:55.280 I'm a New Yorker.

00:26:56.300 I like the Statue of Liberty.

00:26:57.780 But it does not mean what he says it means.

00:26:59.620 The reason this guy thinks that the Statue of Liberty tells foreigners to flood into our country in violation of our laws.

00:27:06.620 It's because there's a poem on the Statue of Liberty.

00:27:10.000 What's it called?

00:27:10.680 The Great Colossus, I think it is.

00:27:13.080 It's by Emma Lazarus.

00:27:16.420 It was a poem added on, put there at Ellis Island in 1889 or something.

00:27:24.660 It was the latter part of the 19th century.

00:27:26.680 This woman, Emma Lazarus, was a socialist.

00:27:29.300 She was actually specifically a Georgist, which is a forgotten political economic program.

00:27:34.560 But it's just a version of socialism.

00:27:36.900 And yeah.

00:27:37.500 Yeah, I'm sure that some weirdo socialists in the 19th century wanted to make a French statue even more radical.

00:27:48.240 But that is not in the American tradition.

00:27:49.780 Oh, and by the way, guess what happened?

00:27:51.680 About 30 to 40 years after we got the Statue of Liberty and even we put the poem there, we severely curtailed migration for half a century.

00:27:59.620 That's what we did.

00:28:00.480 We instituted the Immigration Act of 1924 and we severely curtailed the number of immigrants who could come into the country.

00:28:07.760 We tied it to national and ethnic quotas and we totally excluded Asians. 0.99

00:28:12.820 Okay.

00:28:13.080 So it's pretty restrictive.

00:28:13.960 I'm not suggesting that any Republican is calling for a return to that, but don't tell me that it totally undermines American history.

00:28:22.720 We have had, from the very beginning of our country, very, very severe restrictions on immigration for much, if not most, of our history.

00:28:30.640 Okay.

00:28:33.380 It's not, the country is not what these people say it is.

00:28:37.760 For goodness sakes.

00:28:40.500 Now, speaking of restoring order, Florida legislators are doing great stuff.

00:28:45.100 They are seeking to ban the pride flag in government buildings and schools.

00:28:49.740 Love that.

00:28:50.380 The legislation would be broader.

00:28:52.260 It's not just targeted at the rainbow.

00:28:54.740 And pretty soon, I guess we'll have a polyamorous flag.

00:28:57.060 They'll just add a new, some new little stripe to the rainbow flag.

00:29:03.040 I don't know.

00:29:03.420 I wonder what it will be.

00:29:04.120 I don't even think I want to imagine what it will be.

00:29:06.600 The legislation would require that, quote,

00:29:10.220 a government entity may not erect or display a flag that represents a political viewpoint,

00:29:16.000 including, but not limited to, a politically partisan, racial, sexual orientation and gender, or political ideology viewpoint.

00:29:24.060 That's great, because what that does is, it says, you can't do the rainbow stuff.

00:29:29.940 You can't do the BLM flag.

00:29:32.340 You can't do any of your weirdo flags.

00:29:34.700 This is great.

00:29:36.980 Why wouldn't we do that?

00:29:38.360 Why wouldn't we pass that?

00:29:40.560 No one believes that today, you could erect a Nazi flag on an American government building.

00:29:48.800 Right?

00:29:50.160 No one seriously thinks that.

00:29:52.500 You might say, well, if we don't let you put the Nazi flag up, you're curtailing free speech.

00:29:56.760 Not really.

00:29:58.160 Not really.

00:29:59.360 No one believes it.

00:30:00.400 No, it's not, it has no place in a government building.

00:30:03.080 You can't put every single flag on a government building, and flags are symbols,

00:30:07.080 and what they symbolize is supposed to tell you something about the entity that is raising those flags.

00:30:13.700 And in this case, it's the government, so it tells you something about your country.

00:30:17.440 And our country is not a Nazi country, and it's not a communist country like the BLM people would have it be. 0.99

00:30:23.020 And it's not yet Sodom and Gomorrah.

00:30:25.500 Maybe it is.

00:30:26.280 I don't know.

00:30:26.540 We're veering close to it.

00:30:28.220 But I don't think it's quite that yet.

00:30:29.920 It's America.

00:30:31.080 It's America.

00:30:31.900 To that congressman's point, when he says, you know, the Statue of Liberty welcomes us all here.

00:30:36.780 From the very beginning of America, we were supposed to be a model for the rest of the world to emulate.

00:30:43.680 Not to empty out the rest of the world and fill up our country.

00:30:46.360 A model of Christian charity by John Winthrop.

00:30:49.140 It's one of the most famous speeches.

00:30:50.280 It goes all the way back to the 17th century.

00:30:51.640 It's one of the most famous speeches in American history.

00:30:53.580 It says we're going to be a shining city on a hill.

00:30:55.920 It's a light.

00:30:56.680 It's a model for people.

00:30:58.540 They can see it.

00:31:00.100 And so what are we modeling?

00:31:01.160 Are we modeling BLM Marxism?

00:31:03.660 Are we modeling degenerate sex stuff?

00:31:06.940 Are we modeling what?

00:31:08.480 What are we modeling?

00:31:09.780 I want to model truth, justice, and the American way, at the very least.

00:31:14.640 And maybe things even better than that.

00:31:18.940 So now we turn from fake matters of free speech to legitimate matters of free speech.

00:31:23.340 This is a story I wanted to get to yesterday.

00:31:24.600 I have to mention it here.

00:31:28.380 Jordan Peterson has been sentenced to a re-education camp.

00:31:34.620 Jordan, he lost his appeal.

00:31:38.940 And so Jordan will lose his professional license if he does not go to a re-education camp.

00:31:43.580 And all I can think is that poor re-education camp.

00:31:49.980 Can you imagine those poor instructors, the poor bureaucrats?

00:31:53.700 It's so sad.

00:31:54.940 I feel so badly for them.

00:31:57.340 That guy is not going to go quietly into that night.

00:32:01.080 No, no.

00:32:01.880 I hope he films it.

00:32:02.640 It would be great.

00:32:04.320 My favorite comment yesterday is from KW91, who says,

00:32:08.540 Completely missed the opportunity to call the Davos people weftists.

00:32:13.640 Shame on you, Michael.

00:32:14.500 That's really, really good.

00:32:16.480 KW91, and I'm going to steal it.

00:32:19.340 We finally arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.

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00:32:31.260 Good morning, Michael.

00:32:32.660 This is Arun.

00:32:33.540 Today I've got a fun question for you.

00:32:35.500 Now, I think I speak for all conservative Americans when I say that I've never fully understood the leftist racial hierarchy.

00:32:41.320 Nevertheless, I'm going to ask you for some insight on this matter.

00:32:44.380 As we are all aware, the left has a strict policy against the portrayal of so-called people of color, whatever that term means, by people of Caucasian descent.

00:32:52.060 Yet, a couple months ago, an SNL sketch of one of the early GOP debates flagrantly violated that rule, and even now, as the primaries seem to be drawing to a swift close with the consolidation of the field around Donald Trump, SNL has suffered no social consequences from this.

00:33:07.380 I'm referring, of course, to the portrayals of Nimratha Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are both Indian.

00:33:13.220 In the aforementioned SNL sketch, Governor Haley was cast as a white female, whereas Mr. Ramaswamy was portrayed by a black male.

00:33:20.400 Now, personally, this doesn't offend me, and I think SNL is free to cast any real-life character using an actor of any race, as long as that actor vaguely resembles their real-life counterpart, at least in terms of height, build, or other relevant characteristics.

00:33:33.400 I'm glad they at least chose actors of the appropriate sex.

00:33:36.980 But could you dissect this for me and explain why it is that Governor Haley is mapped onto a white person, whereas Mr. Ramaswamy is mapped onto a black person?

00:33:45.180 Is it really as simple as the fact that Governor Haley is of slightly lighter skin pigmentation than Mr. Ramaswamy, or is there a deeper social commentary that you can offer here?

00:33:55.740 Thank you, as always, for bringing a modicum of sanity to these insane times.

00:34:00.120 Excellent question, Arun. As always, three answers come to mind.

00:34:05.080 One, they get away with more when it comes to Republicans.

00:34:08.920 They can mock Republicans in a way that they're not allowed to mock Democrats.

00:34:12.420 So that's the easiest part.

00:34:14.420 The second part is, the colors match.

00:34:18.120 You know, Nikki looks white, and Vivek looks much browner. 0.98

00:34:21.100 So the colors match, and the libs have drawn a distinction recently between race and ethnicity.

00:34:28.680 And these terms are really malleable.

00:34:31.000 You know, the meaning of the word race has changed over time, and ethnicity is added in there,

00:34:35.820 and culture and race have become more separated in modern anthropology.

00:34:41.520 But all these things overlap quite a lot.

00:34:44.480 And when the libs say race, they're referring to color.

00:34:47.300 And when they say ethnicity, they're referring to, I don't know, descent of a different sort.

00:34:53.700 So that's how they do it.

00:34:55.080 But then the third one, I think, is important.

00:34:56.520 You don't want to look over it, which is Indians don't really count for them. 1.00

00:35:01.300 The libs don't really like Indians.

00:35:02.980 They'll sometimes defend Indians and get offended on behalf of Indians.

00:35:09.320 You saw this a little bit with the Babylon Bee headline.

00:35:13.560 Very funny headline.

00:35:14.760 It said, Donald Trump offers Vivek Ramaswamy a position running the White House 7-Eleven.

00:35:20.520 It's a good headline.

00:35:21.980 And Vivek thought it was funny.

00:35:23.840 But a bunch of white people got offended on Vivek's behalf.

00:35:28.160 Sometimes you see it.

00:35:28.960 But broadly, the libs don't really like Indians because the Indians upset a lot of their plans and schemes. 1.00

00:35:38.740 Indians are extraordinarily successful.

00:35:41.620 They tend to be very smart and high-achieving academically.

00:35:46.360 They can be a little bit more right-wing.

00:35:50.760 Obviously, the Indians elected a right-wing leader who's been governing for the better part of a decade now over there.

00:35:55.860 So, they don't really like that.

00:35:58.680 The Indians become a problem. 1.00

00:36:00.180 The South Asians become a problem for the libs. 1.00

00:36:02.720 And so, they're further down the hierarchy, even though they are, in fact, foreign and brown. 1.00

00:36:07.660 Next question.

00:36:08.980 Hello, once again, Mr. Knowles.

00:36:10.280 It is Slap My Bass coming at you with another question.

00:36:12.980 So, I have been tasked to come up with a funeral mass as I need to prepare one for a relative who will be passing on very soon.

00:36:20.460 And I wanted to ask you, what are some of your favorite funeral hymns other than Amazing Grace, which is basically the staple?

00:36:29.300 I've already got a couple in mind, but I wanted to see what you would think of as a good preference.

00:36:34.960 And maybe I can add it to the catalog.

00:36:37.000 Once again, thanks for everything.

00:36:38.960 Great question.

00:36:39.780 I tend to prefer even more traditional than, say, Amazing Grace or something like that.

00:36:48.400 So, my first go-to would be Ave Maria, Schubert's Ave Maria, maybe Bach's Ave Maria, maybe Brahms's Ave Maria, even.

00:36:58.260 Who knows?

00:36:58.620 Another Ave that would be good would be Ave Verum Corpus would be nice.

00:37:04.620 But it sounds like you want something a little bit more modern.

00:37:07.620 It's considered old by a lot of modern people, but I consider it a little bit more modern, like Amazing Grace.

00:37:12.840 So, it depends.

00:37:13.980 If you want something a little bit more modern or even a little bit more Protestant, How Great Thou Art, I really like. 0.63

00:37:18.960 I really like the Elvis version.

00:37:20.160 Oh, Lord my God, in humble life.

00:37:23.420 That's a good one.

00:37:24.060 But I like the old, sturdy, traditional hymns, you know.

00:37:31.720 Oh, Jesus, we adore thee.

00:37:33.500 Oh, Jesus, we adore thee.

00:37:35.060 Who in thy love divine.

00:37:36.420 I find that good for a funeral because a lot of modern funerals just look back with sadness on the loss of a person, a loved person.

00:37:48.840 And then they either openly despair or they just fall into soft soap about how well we know that person is in heaven now, even though we don't know that for certain.

00:37:59.440 We hope that that person is in heaven.

00:38:01.200 We pray that that person is in heaven, but we don't know.

00:38:04.440 So, it comes off as soft soap and wishful thinking rather than a persuasive truth.

00:38:10.220 I prefer, and I hope, everyone take note, by the way.

00:38:14.680 You know, I hope I live a good long life, but when my Requiem Mass is to be said, I want good, solid hymns and I want them preaching the gospel.

00:38:23.460 And that's what I want.

00:38:24.480 I don't want sentimentality about me.

00:38:27.140 I want good, sturdy gospel and good, sturdy hymns about Jesus.

00:38:33.820 And the reason I want that is because that gives you real hope.

00:38:38.680 If all of that's true, if the religion is true, if Jesus is who he says he is, if God is real, then we can actually have hope that there is something beyond death.

00:38:49.040 But if it's not, then we're all just going to be despairing no matter how much we fool ourselves.

00:38:54.620 A windy answer to a simple question.

00:38:56.680 Next one.

00:38:57.720 Hi, Michael.

00:38:58.320 Love the show.

00:38:59.320 Thank you for continuing the conservative fight. 0.94

00:39:01.480 I'm wondering if you share Congresswoman Tlaib's concern that Trump incited an erection on January 6th.

00:39:10.600 Thank you, and I appreciate your thoughts.

00:39:13.200 I think you're confusing Congress Lady Tlaib with Congress Lady Pramila Jayapal. 0.95

00:39:22.540 But I am concerned that Trump excited an erection on January 6th. 0.67

00:39:29.840 I know he did in the newsrooms all over America. 0.97

00:39:33.360 I know he did among all the Democrat Congress people.

00:39:36.340 I know he did.

00:39:37.180 Plus, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, but I repeat myself.

00:39:42.540 Yes.

00:39:43.120 No, it does concern me.

00:39:44.420 I find it very unsettling and unpleasant to think about.

00:39:48.280 But Trump did it.

00:39:49.740 There's no question about that.

00:39:51.600 Hello again, Mr. Knowles' Slap My Base coming at you with another question.

00:39:55.800 So, as you obviously know, the year in review for 2023 in Cigar Aficionado has just been released.

00:40:04.200 The Arturo Fuente Opus X ended up winning Top Cigar of the Year.

00:40:08.120 So, my question to you would be, have you been approached yet by Cigar Aficionado to review Mayflower cigars?

00:40:15.560 And if you did, do you think this would change the perspective of sales if the review was either good or bad?

00:40:22.660 Now, I reference this magazine for all of the cigars that I would like to try.

00:40:27.460 And obviously, with you being my favorite podcaster, Mayflower kind of spoke for itself.

00:40:34.240 So, I would like to know, would it be a problem if Cigar Aficionado gave you the review?

00:40:40.260 Or would this be something that you would be openly looking forward to in order to see what the professionals, quote unquote, think?

00:40:48.620 Thanks.

00:40:49.440 Great question.

00:40:50.240 I would like to be reviewed in Cigar Aficionado.

00:40:53.100 I actually have a copy of it right over there.

00:40:55.620 I'm a longtime reader of Cigar Aficionado.

00:40:57.720 So, I would like to be reviewed in it because I love the magazine.

00:41:02.840 I don't actually need Cigar Aficionado to review it because I'm already selling a lot of cigars.

00:41:09.860 So, not boasting here.

00:41:11.880 It's just that a lot of new cigar brands need the magazine to get on anyone's radar.

00:41:18.020 And because we're coming from Daily Wire, we sell out instantly.

00:41:21.400 I mean, we've sold all the cigars that we possibly could.

00:41:25.120 I think the number is 57,000 in the equivalent of like three days or something.

00:41:31.200 And so, we're producing as many as we can.

00:41:32.760 I actually just had a meeting earlier today about the cigars.

00:41:37.820 But we're going to get many, many, many more.

00:41:41.040 So, we won't have so many supply issues.

00:41:42.360 But for me, it would be nice to get Aficionado's ratings because I respect those guys.

00:41:48.480 I really like the magazine.

00:41:49.500 It would be very cool.

00:41:50.880 The great success of Mayflower Cigars has been the fulfillment of a 15-year-long dream.

00:41:56.080 And so, that'd be kind of fun too because I've been reading the magazine for that long.

00:41:58.780 But no, the people I need to make my cigar company successful are you all.

00:42:02.840 And you have already done that and made the launch of Mayflower Cigars arguably the most

00:42:07.400 successful cigar brand launch ever.

00:42:09.920 Certainly, certainly up there.

00:42:12.460 Written question from John.

00:42:14.080 Hello, Michael.

00:42:15.020 I'm a long-time listener of the show.

00:42:16.180 First time writing in.

00:42:17.020 So, forgive me if I'm asking a question you've already proposed.

00:42:20.860 What do you think is keeping the body positivity movement and the gender-affirming care for youths

00:42:25.840 movement from clashing with each other?

00:42:28.040 Dylan, wow, great question.

00:42:35.820 You're thinking of the logic.

00:42:38.640 This ties into something we were talking about earlier in the show.

00:42:41.000 You're thinking of the logic, supposed logic, in those respective ideologies and movements.

00:42:48.400 First, you've got to think of the end goal first.

00:42:52.060 The left-wing thinking is very consequentialist.

00:42:54.820 They think about the end result they want to achieve, and they think that any means justifies

00:42:58.800 that, even if the various means that they use contradict one another.

00:43:03.280 What the libs are doing with both the gender-affirming, the transgender movement, and the body positivity

00:43:08.200 movement is attacking normality, normal standards of beauty and health and truth.

00:43:14.960 So, either way gets them there.

00:43:17.720 Promoting really unhealthy lifestyles and appearances that are grotesque, that will get them there. 0.99

00:43:23.300 And chopping off kids' genitals and castrating them and pretending dudes can be chicks will 1.00

00:43:28.180 get them there, too. 0.99

00:43:29.440 I totally see your point, that the gender-affirming care is actually contrary to accepting your

00:43:37.020 body as it is and loving yourself and all the rest of it.

00:43:40.020 But to be as charitable as I can to the libs, what a lot of it comes down to, the most coherent

00:43:45.900 argument for what they're doing, is just a radical kind of subjectivism, where they say,

00:43:51.940 well, I look like a man, but I want to be a woman.

00:43:53.920 I think I'm a woman, so I just am a woman.

00:43:55.820 Because I say so, and you can't tell me otherwise.

00:43:58.520 Well, you know, I'm 400 pounds, and I haven't taken a walk in 10 years, and I'm doing all sorts

00:44:04.760 of unhealthy things that will harm me, but I like it, and I get to pick whatever I want,

00:44:10.120 because my will is all that matters, totally divorced from reason.

00:44:13.360 And so that's the nearest thing they have to a coherent argument for it.

00:44:16.860 But really what it's about is they just hate normality, probably because they have daddy

00:44:20.980 issues, if I had to guess.

00:44:23.040 Next question from Dylan.

00:44:24.580 Michael, what's the most lib thing you do?

00:44:27.620 Mine is that I shamelessly enjoy coconut and oat milk.

00:44:31.540 Beat that oat milk. 0.97

00:44:32.540 No, come on, don't do that.

00:44:34.960 It's not even good for you.

00:44:36.100 Some of the lib things are somewhat healthy for you.

00:44:39.300 Oat milk is bad for you. 0.91

00:44:40.580 It's just like sugary.

00:44:41.580 Don't do that.

00:44:42.760 Most lib thing I do, I don't know, I do a lot of lib things, right?

00:44:46.040 I mean, things that are today associated with the left.

00:44:52.480 I don't know, I like opera.

00:44:54.640 I play the ukulele.

00:44:57.100 I go to Starbucks.

00:44:59.620 Going to Starbucks is probably the most lib thing I do.

00:45:02.100 But I don't care.

00:45:02.900 It's a great corporation.

00:45:04.120 They've effectively installed public restrooms in every city in the world and a lot of small

00:45:09.600 towns, too.

00:45:10.380 The coffee, I think, is quite good.

00:45:12.180 And yeah, maybe that's it.

00:45:13.200 Maybe that's the most lib thing that I do.

00:45:16.560 Because on the cultural stuff that I do that today is branded lib, but in the past it would

00:45:22.980 have been branded conservative.

00:45:25.840 You know, like being interested in poetry or something is kind of considered lib today,

00:45:30.420 but it would have been quite conservative, actually, even manly, you know, back in the

00:45:34.120 day.

00:45:34.780 But the Starbucks thing would always be kind of lib.

00:45:37.020 And I do it.

00:45:37.700 And that's, what can I say?

00:45:39.080 I don't even apologize.

00:45:40.020 Sorry, I'm not sorry.

00:45:40.840 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:41.340 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:45:42.540 See you next week.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 19, 2024

Ep. 1408 - Canada Sends Jordan Peterson To The Gulag

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