The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1409 - DeSantis Drops Out & Endorses Trump

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00:00:37.680 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed President Covfefe.

00:00:43.440 If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, I would do it.

00:00:50.920 But I can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we don't have a clear path to victory.

00:00:58.340 Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign.

00:01:01.640 I'm proud to have delivered on 100% of my promises, and I will not stop now.

00:01:07.040 It's clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance.

00:01:12.040 They watch his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using lawfare this day to attack him.

00:01:18.820 While I've had disagreements with Donald Trump, such as on the coronavirus pandemic and his elevation of Anthony Fauci,

00:01:25.940 Trump is superior to the current incumbent, Joe Biden.

00:01:29.320 That is clear.

00:01:30.700 I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, and I will honor that pledge.

00:01:35.600 He has my endorsement because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear,

00:01:40.640 a repackage formed of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.

00:01:45.100 The days of putting Americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving to woke ideology are over.

00:01:53.620 This is the smart thing to do, and it was inevitable.

00:01:58.420 To quote old Billy Shakespeare,

00:02:00.580 There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

00:02:03.120 If it be now, tis not to come.

00:02:05.400 If it be not to come, it will be now.

00:02:08.260 If it be not now, yet it will come.

00:02:10.800 The readiness is all.

00:02:12.640 Since no man has ought of what he leaves, what is it to leave betimes?

00:02:15.960 The primary was already over after Iowa.

00:02:19.200 Now it's super over.

00:02:20.640 Once Nikki Haley drops out, it will be super-duper over, but this was always going to happen.

00:02:27.880 No candidate could have changed a thing by campaigning differently.

00:02:33.260 We have not seen a race with a former president running for a non-consecutive second term in over 100 years.

00:02:39.960 Trump is effectively an incumbent.

00:02:42.760 I mention old Billy Shakespeare's line here as consolation to the supporters of the various vanquished candidates.

00:02:49.540 Because I'm a big providence guy.

00:02:52.240 I'm very pro-providence.

00:02:54.140 I'm very anti-whining about things that you can't change.

00:02:58.040 And that's what the sparrow in that line refers to.

00:03:01.240 God's providence, specifically Matthew 10, verse 29.

00:03:05.540 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?

00:03:07.680 Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your father's care.

00:03:10.780 If you're a Christian, you believe that God protects and orders all things to his ends.

00:03:17.460 We can and do constantly screw things up, but God is sovereign and makes use of his creatures.

00:03:23.160 As a friend of mine from the Bronx once put it,

00:03:26.160 we do our best and God does the rest.

00:03:29.500 DeSantis is out.

00:03:30.860 Haley has no path.

00:03:32.240 The primary is over.

00:03:33.760 Everyone ran the best race that he could.

00:03:36.480 Whether you like him or not, Trump is the presumptive nominee.

00:03:39.420 He is better in every regard than Joe Biden.

00:03:43.040 There's no use worrying.

00:03:44.840 There's no use whining.

00:03:46.300 There's no use in wasting your time wondering what if that will drive you crazy.

00:03:51.840 Only one question remains.

00:03:54.320 Can we conservatives unite, beat Joe Biden, and put the Republican nominee in the White House?

00:04:02.260 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:04:03.040 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:09.420 Welcome back to the show.

00:04:25.460 Do you have a girlfriend?

00:04:27.260 Well, if you don't, there's a robot who is more than happy to pretend to be a human and your girlfriend and makes $30,000 a month doing it.

00:04:36.180 We will get to the end of civilization in a moment.

00:04:39.000 First, though, don't want to totally move on just yet from the primary.

00:04:43.300 I thought this was a really classy move from DeSantis.

00:04:46.440 He had to do it.

00:04:47.620 The donors weren't going to give any more money.

00:04:49.180 There was no path.

00:04:50.640 He didn't have to endorse Trump.

00:04:52.360 I thought that was smart.

00:04:53.120 Now, I think probably here he's learned from other vanquished candidates, especially in 2016, that if you're going to do it, do it.

00:05:02.400 There's an old Yiddish expression.

00:05:03.960 I forget how to pronounce it in Yiddish, but the expression is if you're going to eat pork, do it until your mouth drips.

00:05:09.320 If you're going to drop out of the race and if Trump is obviously the nominee and you want to remain in the Republican Party, you want to remain a conservative, you want to advocate for conservative goals at the national level, then you've got to endorse the guy.

00:05:21.360 He's the man, you know, he's the man for the time.

00:05:24.740 You might not have wished that were the case, but that's how it is.

00:05:27.980 And DeSantis did that.

00:05:29.480 It was very well stated.

00:05:30.740 He's been an excellent governor.

00:05:32.480 I felt he ran as good a race as he could.

00:05:34.840 There were problems with this campaign.

00:05:36.260 But as I've said before, I think those were mostly circumstantial problems.

00:05:40.320 The problem of a campaign that is attractive because of how Trumpy it is, you know, Trump without the baggage, but a campaign that naturally is going to attract a lot of people who are extremely establishment or who might be neoconservative or who might be a little bit squishy and they just hate Donald Trump.

00:05:59.840 So they're going to the guy that they thought could beat him, even if Ron DeSantis' chief pitch is, hey, man, I'm even more conservative than Trump.

00:06:05.420 I'm even more right wing.

00:06:06.820 That was always going to be a problem.

00:06:08.100 The one criticism I will make of his campaign on the way out is he closed his speech, Ron DeSantis, with this line.

00:06:15.780 He said something to the effect of success is never final.

00:06:21.340 Failure is never fatal.

00:06:23.000 It's the courage to continue that counts, some version of that.

00:06:26.120 And he attributed that quote to Winston Churchill.

00:06:28.880 And as with 90% of quotes attributed to Winston Churchill, Churchill never said it.

00:06:33.880 There's no evidence that he did.

00:06:35.400 That quote is sometimes attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

00:06:37.500 It actually comes from a Budweiser ad campaign from the 1930s.

00:06:41.180 The fact that it's from Budweiser, which is the woke corporation par excellence these days, is ironic and sort of amusing.

00:06:49.000 Very few people are going to catch it.

00:06:50.480 It's just a word to the political consultants and the speechwriters out there.

00:06:54.520 If you are ever going to quote Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Google the quote.

00:07:01.580 Just make sure it's actually something they said because at least seven times out of ten, it's not.

00:07:08.320 And it can kind of be embarrassing when people look it up.

00:07:10.660 But all in all, classy stuff, good stuff from Ron DeSantis.

00:07:13.240 And I hope he has a bright political career because he's done great, great stuff in Florida.

00:07:20.240 Some people now are still wondering about Nikki Haley.

00:07:23.140 Okay, DeSantis is out.

00:07:24.760 The croissants is not going to happen.

00:07:26.940 The croissants are done.

00:07:28.000 Christy's out.

00:07:29.540 Asa Hutchinson is out.

00:07:31.360 He was still in the race as of just a week or two ago.

00:07:34.280 But Asa Hutchinson has not endorsed Donald Trump.

00:07:38.380 He's endorsed Nikki Haley.

00:07:40.920 The former Arkansas governor, best known for insisting that the state be allowed to trans the kids.

00:07:48.020 Or the state allowed parents to trans the kids.

00:07:50.180 Has tweeted out, quote,

00:07:51.980 Anyone who believes Donald Trump will unite this country has been asleep over the last eight years.

00:07:56.320 Trump intentionally tries to divide America and will continue to do so.

00:08:01.080 Go Nikki Haley in New Hampshire.

00:08:02.640 Hashtag first in the nation.

00:08:03.680 Frankly, this is bad for Nikki Haley.

00:08:10.960 And this was already built into her lane in the race and her campaign.

00:08:15.480 Which in recent months has really been to lean into the fact that she is the anti-Trump candidate.

00:08:20.260 She's going to attract the moderates. 1.00

00:08:21.500 She's going to attract the centrists. 1.00

00:08:22.780 She's going to attract disaffected liberals in some cases. 1.00

00:08:27.000 She's going to attract Wall Street. 1.00

00:08:28.720 She's going to attract the Koch network.

00:08:30.620 She's leaned into that part.

00:08:32.220 And so now she's going to attract the squishiest Republicans in the whole country, including Asa Hutchinson.

00:08:37.760 I think what Nikki Haley is thinking here is, I'm going to be the runner-up to Trump.

00:08:44.580 Everyone else is out.

00:08:45.820 But because I picked the anti-Trump lane and I did it the best, because I actually had a coherent political strategy, even if it won't be successful, then I could be the next person.

00:08:54.600 Or if, God forbid, something happened to Donald Trump, then I'd be the person with the next most delegates and then I would be the nominee.

00:09:01.760 I don't think that's really going to happen here.

00:09:03.460 I think the endorsement of squishes like Asa Hutchinson is going to make very, very clear to not only the Trump voters, but the DeSantis voters and the Vivek voters and all of the conservatives.

00:09:16.720 It's going to make clear that she is fully siding against their interests. 0.77

00:09:23.060 And so let's say, God forbid, something happened to Trump, probably at the convention, they would just pick someone else.

00:09:30.200 They would take Trump's delegates and pick, I don't know, Tucker or somebody.

00:09:33.640 You know, they'd pick someone not even running, not even associated with the race.

00:09:38.060 That's the hazard of making yourself out to be the anti-Trump, is you think maybe you could get a unity ticket like Reagan-Bush.

00:09:45.640 Maybe you could position yourself as number two if Trump really goes down in flames in a general election.

00:09:50.940 But I don't see any world, if Nikki is attracting the support of Asa Hutchinson's, I don't see any world in which there's somehow a coup at the convention and she gets the nomination this time.

00:10:02.940 Also because Trump has done very well among moderates.

00:10:08.300 The way that the media present Trump, he's the far-right extremist neo-Nazi skinhead fringe or something, you know.

00:10:13.780 And the normal, respectable Republicans, they want nothing to do with him.

00:10:18.260 But that's not really true.

00:10:20.040 All of the early endorsements for Trump in this race have been from moderates, actually.

00:10:26.380 I mean, you look at Washington, D.C., it's guys like Kevin McCarthy, who's relatively more conservative than some of the Beltway crew.

00:10:33.380 But Steve Scalise, he's quite moderate.

00:10:35.460 He endorsed Donald Trump.

00:10:37.140 It's a lot of those guys have been endorsing him.

00:10:40.620 And now we're seeing not only the unveiling of more moderate endorsements for Trump, but we're seeing them come specifically from South Carolina.

00:10:50.700 So the senators from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, are relatively centrist.

00:10:58.260 They both just endorsed Trump ahead of the primary in South Carolina in Nikki Haley's home state.

00:11:03.800 We need a president today who will stop the crime and recklessness in the streets.

00:11:14.480 We need a president who will restore law and order.

00:11:18.140 We need Donald Trump.

00:11:22.080 Oh, we need a president who will lower our taxes and not raise our taxes. 1.00

00:11:27.740 We need a president like Donald Trump.

00:11:33.380 We need a president who understands the American people are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

00:11:44.260 We need a president our foreign adversaries are afraid of and our allies respect.

00:11:55.860 First time I met Tim Scott, I was introduced to him and told that had Senator Scott not become a politician, he would have been a preacher.

00:12:07.580 And I couldn't quite tell.

00:12:08.860 He's a really wholesome, sweet guy.

00:12:11.280 And, you know, he appears not to have any vices whatsoever.

00:12:14.100 So that's kind of what I thought that was meant by that.

00:12:17.160 But now I hear him speak.

00:12:18.500 I say, oh, I see it.

00:12:19.580 You know, we need Donald Trump.

00:12:21.580 And this is emphatic.

00:12:23.860 It's a clear endorsement.

00:12:25.160 Lindsey Graham gave him a clear endorsement.

00:12:27.240 Other South Carolinians did, too.

00:12:29.300 Governor Henry McMaster, three of the state's Republican members of the House did.

00:12:33.960 And Nikki Haley, in her own state, only has one congressional endorsement.

00:12:38.740 That is from Representative Ralph Norman.

00:12:41.160 So what's this about?

00:12:42.300 This is supposed to be a death blow to the Haley campaign. 0.70

00:12:45.680 Will it be?

00:12:46.320 We'll find out in one second.

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00:13:19.800 Will South Carolina be the death blow to Nikki Haley's campaign? 1.00

00:13:23.400 Probably it will be.

00:13:25.460 It depends a little bit on what's going on in New Hampshire.

00:13:28.260 So we're in the run-up to New Hampshire.

00:13:29.820 The polls are disagreeing with one another a little bit.

00:13:32.880 Some show that Nikki Haley is surging.

00:13:34.980 Some show that Trump still has a substantial lead.

00:13:37.920 If I were a gambling man, especially with Ron DeSantis dropping out, I would say that Trump wins New Hampshire.

00:13:43.020 But I will tell you, I've campaigned up in New Hampshire.

00:13:45.700 New Hampshire Republicans, they're a little bit weird.

00:13:48.040 They buck the national trends sometimes.

00:13:51.340 On the one hand, they're uber-libertarian.

00:13:54.300 You know, they won't wear helmets when they ride on motorcycles and they have a billion guns apiece.

00:13:59.560 On the other hand, they elect guys like Chris Sununu, and they favor moderate candidates sometimes.

00:14:05.560 So we'll see what happens there.

00:14:07.200 I would still put my money on Trump.

00:14:08.320 Either way, Trump is now up by something like 30, 40 points in South Carolina, Nevada.

00:14:13.900 Nikki Haley is not even on the ballot.

00:14:15.940 So all in all, it would appear that we pour one out for the other candidates because the race is over.

00:14:23.560 Now, speaking of people expecting Trump to be the nominee, a lot of world leaders outside of our own country are expecting Trump to be the nominee,

00:14:33.880 including Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who is very, very concerned that Donald Trump wants to bring that war to an end.

00:14:45.080 He's very worried.

00:14:46.720 He finds that rhetoric, quote, very dangerous and a little scary.

00:14:51.320 And that rhetoric about winding down the war in Ukraine is making him a little bit stressed.

00:14:58.080 In Zelensky's own words, Trump is going to make decisions on his own without, I'm not even talking about Russia, but without both sides, without us.

00:15:08.960 If he says this publicly, that's a little scary.

00:15:11.420 I've seen a lot, a lot of victims, but that's really making me a bit stressed.

00:15:15.500 Okay, I think that the United States has every right to make whatever foreign policy decision that we want to make on our own without consulting Vladimir Zelensky,

00:15:28.500 especially since we've been the ones funding this war from day one.

00:15:32.300 And if we stopped funding it, the war would be over in two seconds.

00:15:36.260 I think we've given Ukraine enough money, enough arms.

00:15:39.540 I think it's quite clear there is no way for Ukraine to have a total victory over Russia, the Biden administration even,

00:15:44.960 which had been very bullish on Ukraine, has already signaled that they're not going to push for total victory here.

00:15:50.960 The libs in all of the big liberal establishment papers are saying, you know, actually, Ukraine doesn't need all of its territory to beat Putin.

00:15:58.280 Actually, we can give Russia a little bit. 0.84

00:15:59.820 So the negotiated peace that gives Russia parts of eastern Ukraine, which is what some of us who are more realistic in foreign policy had been calling for from day one,

00:16:09.860 and we were all pilloried as Putin's stooges for that, that appears now to be the consensus view among both political parties in the United States, the inevitable view.

00:16:22.700 And Zelensky is really upset about that.

00:16:24.280 Well, what will have been achieved?

00:16:26.440 Had, you know, in this case, I really hate to say I told you so, had the geniuses of grand strategy listened to the realists from day one,

00:16:37.360 this war would be ending in exactly the same way it is now, almost three years later, except 30,000 Ukrainians would still be alive.

00:16:47.260 Maybe more.

00:16:48.620 Who knows if you can even believe those numbers?

00:16:50.660 Meanwhile, after we've been told for years that Ukraine is the vanguard of democracy,

00:16:59.600 Vladimir Zelensky is the Winston Churchill of our times.

00:17:02.940 He probably makes a lot of quotes from Budweiser advertisements, too.

00:17:06.320 He, this is the man, you know, he's mobilized the Ukrainian language and sent it into war. 0.98

00:17:11.400 He is the great defender of freedom.

00:17:12.980 Well, there's a story that basically no one is talking about, which is that an American journalist was imprisoned and killed in a Ukrainian prison simply for voicing his opinion.

00:17:27.620 That journalist is Gonzalo Lira.

00:17:30.360 I'm totally unfamiliar with his work.

00:17:33.260 I've never watched a video of his.

00:17:35.020 I take it that he's popular on YouTube and in some of the manosphere and the red pill circles, a bit eccentric.

00:17:43.740 And he was over in Ukraine and he was arrested for voicing his opinion on that war and not sufficiently supporting the Zelensky regime.

00:17:53.720 And so they arrested him.

00:17:55.600 They imprisoned him.

00:17:56.660 His health started to fail.

00:17:58.240 The Ukrainians didn't lift a finger, it seems, to help him. 1.00

00:18:01.280 The U.S. State Department didn't lift a finger, it seems, to help him.

00:18:04.580 And then he died.

00:18:06.340 How are more people not talking about this?

00:18:10.700 All we ever hear about, especially from the left-wing press in America, is how those journalists, they're the fourth estate, the intrepid defenders of democracy.

00:18:19.060 We need to stop all those autocratic regimes from silencing the press, killing the press in this case.

00:18:24.360 Oh, unless it's Zelensky.

00:18:27.020 Oh, unless it's our guys doing it.

00:18:28.460 Unless it's the liberal preferred autocrats.

00:18:31.980 Then they can kill journalists.

00:18:33.740 They can kill American citizens. 0.90

00:18:34.920 They can kill American journalists.

00:18:35.960 It doesn't matter.

00:18:37.500 As long as it's them. 0.60

00:18:38.520 It's not that evil Putin.

00:18:40.200 When was the last time Putin killed an American journalist?

00:18:42.440 When was the last time Xi Jinping killed an American journalist?

00:18:45.840 Huh?

00:18:46.000 I think, what have we given Ukraine so far?

00:18:51.600 Two billion dollars?

00:18:52.640 No, more than that.

00:18:53.460 Much more than that.

00:18:54.700 I'm sorry, we're missing $1.7 billion in military equipment.

00:18:58.380 I think that's enough.

00:19:00.460 I think we've given enough.

00:19:01.760 And I think, even if it makes Zelensky a little uneasy, I think that the plan to wind down the war in Ukraine, advocated by the presumptive Republican nominee for president, just fine by me.

00:19:11.780 Speaking of U.S. involvement overseas, a really, really scary story, a genuinely scary story over the weekend.

00:19:20.860 Several U.S. troops have suffered potential traumatic brain injuries after Iran attacked an Iraqi air base that had U.S. troops on it.

00:19:31.780 We don't know exactly if the U.S. troops have the traumatic brain injuries, and we don't know the extent of them.

00:19:39.500 You know, a traumatic brain injury could mean anything from a concussion, which, you know, is unpleasant, but happens if you play hockey in middle school, or something much, much more severe.

00:19:50.180 We don't know, so we should obviously pray for the U.S. troops.

00:19:52.620 And what this shows you, though, is the risk to U.S. interests of this ongoing war in the Middle East.

00:20:00.920 You've seen Iranian-backed militants for the whole duration of this war, including, obviously, Hamas, which is backed by Iran.

00:20:10.060 You're seeing the Houthis in Yemen, who are now firing on U.S. ships, and then we're firing on the Houthis.

00:20:16.400 You're now seeing Iran-backed militants firing on U.S. bases in Iraq, where the U.S. is.

00:20:21.120 All of this brings me back to a point articulated very well by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.

00:20:28.620 And it's called Lindy's Law.

00:20:32.580 Lindy's Law refers to a deli in New York, and it was not first articulated by Mandelbrot, who is best known as a mathematician focused specifically on fractals.

00:20:42.180 It was articulated earlier by some other academic, but his version of it wasn't that good.

00:20:47.520 Mandelbrot really, really zeroed in on it.

00:20:49.860 And Mandelbrot's idea was, however long a person's past collected works, it will, on average, continue for an equal additional amount.

00:21:03.580 And whenever it eventually stops, it breaks off at precisely half of its promise.

00:21:06.640 So the idea being, the reason it refers to this deli, Lindy's deli, is a lot of comedians would talk about how long a comedian's career would go on.

00:21:17.300 Sometimes you hear this story as people debating how long a Broadway show would continue to perform.

00:21:23.780 I think the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb put it that way.

00:21:26.380 And the way you can predict how long a Broadway show, according to Taleb, would go on is how long it has already been playing for.

00:21:35.660 The longer the Broadway show has been playing, the more likely it is to continue playing for a long time, an equally long time.

00:21:44.040 Lindy's Law.

00:21:44.800 This applies to all sorts of non-perishable items and people and things.

00:21:52.300 And it applies here to war.

00:21:55.340 This war in the Holy Land has been going on for well over 100 days now.

00:22:00.320 We think it's only a week or two.

00:22:01.920 It's not.

00:22:02.240 It's been well over 100 days.

00:22:04.400 And the longer this thing goes on, the longer it is more likely to continue to go on.

00:22:10.600 And that is very much opposed to the U.S. interest.

00:22:13.640 We'll get into why in just a second.

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00:22:54.920 What is the United States doing in Iraq that can attract the attention of Iranian militants that can then potentially injure U.S. soldiers?

00:23:07.800 What are we doing?

00:23:09.480 Well, we're the global hegemon is what we're doing.

00:23:12.440 We are still today, even with a rising China, we are the undisputed world superpower. 0.82

00:23:18.740 And we have bases everywhere, and we are the world police, and we've got a global empire, and that's just how it goes.

00:23:23.300 And Americans don't actually want to give that up.

00:23:26.520 We don't want to fight forever wars in the Middle East, but we don't want to give up global hegemony.

00:23:31.120 Because global hegemony comes with all sorts of nice perks.

00:23:33.600 It comes from the dominance of the U.S. dollar.

00:23:35.620 It comes with the ability to travel wherever we want in the whole world and not really have to worry about it.

00:23:41.800 It comes with the ability to do business anywhere in the world.

00:23:44.340 There's some good stuff that goes along with it.

00:23:45.960 It comes with a world order that is protected by the United States.

00:23:49.020 So we like it, but we don't want to pay a lot for it.

00:23:51.680 In money, and certainly not in the blood of U.S. soldiers.

00:23:57.240 The war in the Middle East, the war that Hamas launched on Israel and Israel has responded with,

00:24:03.240 and now it's gone on for over 100 days, that threatens U.S. positions.

00:24:08.220 Because everyone knows that the United States is the dominant power in the world,

00:24:12.660 and Israel would not be permitted to do much of anything at all if the U.S. did not back Israel.

00:24:19.420 So Iran, wanting to attack Israel, is going to attack the United States. 0.97

00:24:23.720 And they're going to hit our ships through the Houthis in Yemen, 1.00

00:24:27.480 and they're going to hit our troops in Iraq, and they're going to keep hitting everybody.

00:24:31.960 And that's going to happen for as long as this war continues.

00:24:34.720 There are all of these unpredictable, complex events that can occur.

00:24:40.500 So from the very beginning, I've said,

00:24:43.140 the U.S. interest in the war is to contain it, not to allow the war to spread.

00:24:48.620 I think virtually every even semi-reasonable person in the world believes that after the October 7th massacre by Hamas, 0.54

00:24:59.540 Israel has the right to defend its people, defend its territorial integrity,

00:25:05.160 and take out Hamas, which is an unacceptable security risk. 0.92

00:25:08.640 But this can't go on forever.

00:25:11.780 And the fear here, going back to the Lindy effect,

00:25:14.720 is the longer this war drags on, the longer it's going to continue to drag on.

00:25:20.380 This is probably in the interest of the state of Israel.

00:25:23.140 If I were Benjamin Netanyahu, this is exactly what I would have done.

00:25:26.940 Some people were arguing right after the October 7th massacre

00:25:30.580 that Israel should just go in, basically flatten all of Gaza, 0.99

00:25:34.040 be in and out while they still had international support.

00:25:37.220 I think what Netanyahu did is actually much smarter,

00:25:40.520 which is if you just keep it going, you kind of drag it out,

00:25:43.120 maybe there's a little truce, there's a little ceasefire,

00:25:45.080 then you keep dragging it out.

00:25:46.480 You're going to fall into the Lindy effect here,

00:25:48.280 and you're going to be able to continue a much, much longer war,

00:25:51.720 which is going to allow you to continue to shell Hamas, 0.90

00:25:54.760 continue to pummel Gaza, 0.96

00:25:57.980 and not risk a repeat of what happened in October,

00:26:02.600 and not have to pull out entirely.

00:26:05.900 Okay, I think that's very much in the Israeli interest.

00:26:09.320 I'm not convinced that's in the U.S. interest.

00:26:10.860 So, what do we do?

00:26:14.400 What do we do?

00:26:15.080 We're not going to give up our,

00:26:15.980 the other thing we could do is just give up our global empire

00:26:18.000 and pull our troops out of all of the bases all around the world

00:26:20.220 and just come home.

00:26:21.180 But then you lose dollar dominance,

00:26:22.740 you lose the world order,

00:26:24.000 you lose American hegemony,

00:26:25.720 you lose a lot.

00:26:27.260 So we're not going to do that.

00:26:28.160 That is why, through good diplomacy,

00:26:30.900 you've got to try to wind this thing down.

00:26:32.720 That's why the Trump campaign has been on peace.

00:26:36.940 That's why the Trump campaign, going back to 2015, 2016,

00:26:41.260 has been on pulling back from foreign entanglements,

00:26:45.100 but not in just a radical isolationist way,

00:26:46.940 in a way where every so often we kill the Tamparani in general, 1.00

00:26:50.240 and every so often we drop the Moab,

00:26:52.400 and every so often we just completely destroy ISIS.

00:26:54.920 But we only do that every now and again to be unpredictable,

00:26:57.960 to show you that we can,

00:26:58.940 to show you that we're willing to sometimes,

00:27:00.580 and most of the time we're going to pull back.

00:27:02.880 That seems like a good foreign policy.

00:27:04.240 In fact, if we'd had that foreign policy for the past three years,

00:27:07.280 probably we would not be in this position in the first place.

00:27:10.280 Speaking of the future of America,

00:27:13.100 we're already kind of up the creek without a paddle.

00:27:17.700 You know, we're all planning for the future,

00:27:20.120 especially presidential elections

00:27:21.240 always make us really think about the future.

00:27:23.220 I hate to be the bearer of bad news.

00:27:26.240 Hope is a virtue and a demand,

00:27:28.100 but optimism is not.

00:27:29.460 And we're already pretty well into the problem.

00:27:34.460 And here's my evidence.

00:27:37.680 19% of millennials definitely want kids.

00:27:44.280 19% of millennials definitely want kids.

00:27:47.000 81% of millennials either do not want kids

00:27:51.800 or are not sure if they want kids.

00:27:53.620 Four in five young millennials,

00:27:59.460 especially if they dwell on climate change concerns,

00:28:03.960 are considering not having any kids.

00:28:07.680 Study conducted by the University of Southampton

00:28:09.760 and the Generations and Gender Program.

00:28:13.120 30%, other than the 19% of younger millennials

00:28:16.640 who have a definite desire to have children,

00:28:18.880 a 30% lean toward probably wanting children.

00:28:22.000 Among older millennials,

00:28:24.220 that's millennials between 36 and 41,

00:28:26.900 36% are certain they will not have children.

00:28:30.360 36% certain they will not have children.

00:28:32.880 20% leaning toward not having them.

00:28:35.500 The majority of these millennials,

00:28:38.100 56%, probably not having kids.

00:28:42.520 And you might say,

00:28:43.500 I was tempted to say,

00:28:44.500 because I'm always trying to look on the bright side.

00:28:45.720 I was tempted to say,

00:28:46.320 well, you know, they're young.

00:28:48.120 These millennials, they're young.

00:28:49.680 They'll come around.

00:28:50.660 But they're not young.

00:28:54.020 They're not young.

00:28:55.400 36 to 41.

00:28:59.180 They've made their decision.

00:29:01.600 Time's up at that point.

00:29:03.920 It's not like totally up.

00:29:05.280 If you're really, really focused on having a kid at age 36,

00:29:09.440 and maybe you go through some doctors,

00:29:12.560 and you're very intentional about it,

00:29:15.120 maybe you can.

00:29:15.960 But most of the time, no.

00:29:19.880 If you're still, oh, I don't know,

00:29:20.980 maybe I'll get married,

00:29:21.720 maybe I'll have a kid,

00:29:22.380 or leaning toward, no, you won't do that,

00:29:25.440 then you're just not going to have kids.

00:29:28.120 They're basically too old to turn it around.

00:29:30.040 Even the younger millennials.

00:29:31.560 How old are the younger millennials?

00:29:32.820 24 now?

00:29:34.180 I think millennial cutoff is the year 2000.

00:29:37.820 So 24, again, you know,

00:29:39.320 there's time to change your mind,

00:29:40.940 but they're not 17 anymore.

00:29:43.000 When you're 17, you say,

00:29:43.840 oh, I don't know if I want kids.

00:29:44.920 You know, I want to go out and just party

00:29:46.200 and have fun and sleep around.

00:29:48.920 24, I don't know.

00:29:50.000 You're supposed to be a little bit more

00:29:51.320 of an adult at that point.

00:29:54.420 And this is very sad for the country

00:29:56.500 because if you don't have any kids,

00:29:58.480 then your country dies.

00:29:59.720 It's as simple as that.

00:30:01.360 Forget about the ideology.

00:30:02.720 Forget about who wins some election.

00:30:03.860 If you don't have any kids, your country dies.

00:30:06.000 It's the whole story.

00:30:06.860 But also, there is something severely wrong with you

00:30:11.060 if you definitely don't want kids.

00:30:16.480 I'm not saying that everyone is called

00:30:19.280 to literal biological parenthood.

00:30:22.120 That isn't true.

00:30:23.200 Religious vocations are not called

00:30:24.740 to have actual biological children,

00:30:27.340 though they are called to have spiritual children.

00:30:29.480 Some people can't have children.

00:30:31.160 This is a great pain for them.

00:30:33.240 It's an infertility.

00:30:34.460 Terrible, terrible suffering goes along with that.

00:30:38.320 It's a great, great cross to bear.

00:30:40.000 But they desire the kids.

00:30:42.480 Here, we're not talking about even that.

00:30:44.940 We're talking about people who just say,

00:30:46.120 no, I'd rather go to brunch.

00:30:48.120 And, you know, for a dumb 22-year-old to say that,

00:30:50.980 you think, okay, well, you'll grow up.

00:30:52.280 But a 41-year-old, you know, there's no growing up.

00:30:56.100 There's no growing up.

00:30:57.500 And so if you don't have any kids,

00:30:59.220 your society is dead.

00:31:00.200 But also, if your society never matures,

00:31:03.900 your society is dead.

00:31:05.400 Because you've got a society of children,

00:31:06.820 and then the adults are going to come in and take over.

00:31:09.480 Okay?

00:31:10.140 A society of children certainly can't govern itself. 0.87

00:31:13.140 The point of self-government is that we're virtuous,

00:31:15.220 and we've been well-educated,

00:31:16.580 and we are able, we are so sophisticated,

00:31:19.300 and we have built and habituated such virtue

00:31:22.180 that we don't need some king to govern us.

00:31:26.700 But we're past that.

00:31:29.020 We're clearly past that.

00:31:31.680 Not, you know, I hate to,

00:31:33.000 I feel like I'm doing the Ben Shapiro show today.

00:31:35.020 I'm so negative on these things.

00:31:36.560 But this is just reality.

00:31:39.460 Something has gone severely wrong with a culture

00:31:42.560 that does not want kids at these numbers.

00:31:46.620 It just, it just means we don't want a future.

00:31:50.480 And so we won't have a future,

00:31:51.860 because people tend to get what they want.

00:31:54.720 So instead of having kids, what are people doing?

00:31:56.320 Well, some people are dating robots.

00:32:00.780 There is, according to the New York Post,

00:32:02.940 a new AI model,

00:32:05.440 Lexi Love,

00:32:07.180 not the sort of gal you probably intend to introduce to your mother,

00:32:10.840 a creation of the UK-based Foxy AI

00:32:14.180 that has been specifically designed to communicate with lonely men.

00:32:19.440 And the business has proven pretty profitable.

00:32:23.640 Just a single AI model is already generating 30 grand a month

00:32:28.280 by embodying the perfect girlfriend

00:32:29.900 with flawless features,

00:32:32.160 and, you know, she's super hot. 1.00

00:32:33.480 And more importantly,

00:32:34.500 she speaks to this audience that is very lonely,

00:32:38.220 exploits that loneliness,

00:32:39.140 and gets them to pay her a lot of money. 0.98

00:32:40.840 Now, the simple commentary on this is,

00:32:47.680 these guys are a bunch of pervs, 0.95

00:32:49.060 and they need to stop being such losers, 0.68

00:32:50.660 and go outside and, you know, touch grass or something.

00:32:54.740 That's not exactly my view.

00:32:58.680 Desire is good.

00:33:00.520 Okay, sometimes we conservatives,

00:33:01.780 we get a little too puritanical about desire.

00:33:06.300 Desire is a good thing.

00:33:08.000 Desire is what leads us to God.

00:33:09.680 But our desires can become perverted.

00:33:13.340 And when our desires become perverted,

00:33:15.860 the very desires that could have been our great aid

00:33:18.900 in bringing us all the way up to heaven

00:33:20.240 can actually send us down to hell. 0.92

00:33:21.900 Hell on earth or, you know, hell after earth.

00:33:25.140 When we take shortcuts,

00:33:26.860 those desires, those drives,

00:33:28.920 can kill us, actually.

00:33:30.760 You think about hunger.

00:33:31.740 Hunger is a good urge. 1.00

00:33:33.620 It's a good drive.

00:33:34.380 Because if you didn't feel hunger,

00:33:36.160 then you wouldn't eat,

00:33:37.060 and then you would starve and die.

00:33:39.040 But sometimes our hunger can fall into perversions,

00:33:43.000 into gluttony, into a desire for junk,

00:33:44.980 you know, just eating junk food all the time.

00:33:46.320 And then that's going to kill you too.

00:33:47.400 It's going to make you really big and fat

00:33:48.580 and block up all your arteries and kill you. 0.93

00:33:51.040 You think about when you're sleepy.

00:33:53.700 That's a good urge.

00:33:55.120 That's a good desire.

00:33:55.820 I'm so sleepy.

00:33:56.480 Because then you need to sleep,

00:33:57.900 and that's how your body repairs itself,

00:33:59.100 and that's how you get rested,

00:33:59.960 and that's how you can go out and conquer the world.

00:34:01.980 But you can short-circuit that

00:34:03.280 by, you know,

00:34:04.680 taking a little bit of that

00:34:05.540 Hunter Biden booger sugar, all right?

00:34:07.200 You can go have a little bit,

00:34:10.660 you know, of that 1980s nose candy,

00:34:13.400 and then you won't sleep,

00:34:15.280 but then your heart will explode

00:34:16.320 because you'll just be staying up all the time,

00:34:17.880 and you're perverting that urge.

00:34:20.240 Certainly you see this with sex and porn.

00:34:22.620 Sex is a great desire.

00:34:24.840 It's a great urge that you have.

00:34:26.380 It's what keeps the species going.

00:34:28.140 It's what keeps a family going,

00:34:29.440 a country going,

00:34:30.080 and the species going.

00:34:31.660 But if you short-circuit that

00:34:32.880 and you pervert that desire

00:34:34.040 with something like an AI girlfriend

00:34:36.000 and porn, 0.98

00:34:38.040 which is really all that is,

00:34:40.020 then that'll kill you. 0.95

00:34:41.280 It'll make you depressed.

00:34:42.400 It will certainly kill the species. 0.94

00:34:44.240 You know, it'll kill your family line

00:34:45.260 and your country

00:34:46.220 and your whole human race.

00:34:50.700 The problem is not

00:34:53.540 that we think

00:34:54.840 too much about desire.

00:34:57.740 You know,

00:34:58.260 I think some conservatives might think,

00:34:59.620 we think too much,

00:35:00.280 we're thinking too much

00:35:01.120 about sexual desires.

00:35:02.560 No, no, no.

00:35:02.860 The problem is we're thinking

00:35:03.720 too little about desire.

00:35:05.740 We're thinking too little

00:35:06.860 about why we have these desires

00:35:08.300 and where they're supposed to go.

00:35:10.140 And in part,

00:35:10.700 that's because we've adopted

00:35:11.560 this silly,

00:35:12.980 neutral libertinism

00:35:14.500 that says, you know,

00:35:15.360 do whatever you want,

00:35:16.100 just don't bother me about it.

00:35:18.720 But no,

00:35:19.860 it affects all of us.

00:35:20.920 If people aren't having kids,

00:35:21.880 that affects me

00:35:22.440 because that means

00:35:22.880 my country's going to collapse.

00:35:26.360 It's the most extreme version

00:35:27.760 in the left

00:35:28.260 and the libertarians.

00:35:29.140 They always say,

00:35:29.520 well, you know,

00:35:29.840 get out of people's bedrooms. 0.87

00:35:31.220 It actually matters

00:35:32.140 what people are doing

00:35:32.920 in their bedrooms

00:35:33.460 to all of us

00:35:34.080 because if no one

00:35:34.620 has any kids anymore,

00:35:35.660 then we're either going to have

00:35:36.800 to have mass migration

00:35:37.760 to keep the economy afloat

00:35:39.200 or the country's just going

00:35:40.080 to collapse overnight.

00:35:41.620 And both of those things

00:35:42.460 affect me.

00:35:43.400 All of these private behaviors

00:35:44.840 affect all of us

00:35:45.720 because we're social creatures

00:35:46.740 and we live in society

00:35:48.360 and we have some right

00:35:50.160 to set the standards

00:35:52.080 and norms of that society

00:35:53.140 and to tell dudes

00:35:54.900 to stop giving their money

00:35:57.500 and to stop simping

00:35:59.100 for blonde AI robots

00:36:00.920 that are destroying our society.

00:36:03.620 My favorite comment yesterday

00:36:04.900 is from apathetically concerned

00:36:06.200 6574

00:36:07.100 who says,

00:36:08.840 when Jordan Peterson

00:36:09.460 walks into that gulag,

00:36:10.920 he should announce,

00:36:12.180 I'm not locked in here with you.

00:36:14.260 You're locked in here with me.

00:36:16.740 I totally agree.

00:36:18.720 I can't wait.

00:36:20.140 I hope there's some way.

00:36:22.440 I hope there's a security camera

00:36:23.640 in the room.

00:36:24.400 I can't even imagine.

00:36:25.980 I actually almost feel bad

00:36:29.040 for the bureaucrats

00:36:29.860 who are running

00:36:31.420 the Jordan Peterson

00:36:32.420 re-education seminar

00:36:33.700 because that man

00:36:35.540 is going to make their life

00:36:37.040 a living hell.

00:36:38.420 It is going to be

00:36:39.280 really, really funny.

00:36:40.780 So,

00:36:41.520 turning back to weird sex stuff,

00:36:43.320 United Airlines

00:36:45.880 is really,

00:36:46.880 really pushing

00:36:47.740 DEI.

00:36:49.480 All the airlines are,

00:36:50.540 all the companies are.

00:36:51.800 But United in particular,

00:36:53.800 the CEO,

00:36:54.420 Scott Kirby,

00:36:56.060 has announced

00:36:56.640 that he's going to

00:36:57.720 stop caring so much

00:36:58.660 about whether his pilots

00:36:59.600 can actually fly planes

00:37:00.640 and he's going to care

00:37:01.220 a lot more

00:37:01.820 about whether they're,

00:37:03.240 you know,

00:37:03.580 black midget 1.00

00:37:04.480 pygmy lesbians. 1.00

00:37:05.880 Right?

00:37:06.020 Right?

00:37:06.840 So,

00:37:07.080 can a midget be a pygmy 1.00

00:37:09.660 or a vice?

00:37:10.580 I don't know.

00:37:11.120 I'll think about this later.

00:37:12.860 You might recall,

00:37:14.260 I think we played the clip

00:37:15.100 on the show last week

00:37:16.020 or the week before.

00:37:17.040 This guy has a radical

00:37:19.020 left-wing vision

00:37:20.000 for his airline.

00:37:21.580 How is diversity

00:37:23.120 and diversity targets

00:37:24.100 working into

00:37:24.840 the Aviate Academy?

00:37:25.820 We have committed

00:37:26.920 that 50% of the class,

00:37:29.160 of the classes

00:37:30.020 will be women

00:37:31.000 or people of color.

00:37:32.040 Today,

00:37:32.540 only 19% of our pilots

00:37:34.140 at United Airlines

00:37:35.280 are women 0.97

00:37:35.760 or people of color.

00:37:36.920 And by the way,

00:37:37.640 from all the data I've seen,

00:37:38.820 that's the highest

00:37:39.400 of any airline

00:37:39.960 in the country.

00:37:40.920 White males don't just 0.84

00:37:41.520 dominate in the cockpits.

00:37:42.580 Also,

00:37:43.040 in the C-suite

00:37:43.720 at United Airlines.

00:37:45.120 Well, look,

00:37:45.640 at United,

00:37:46.040 I'm proud of the diversity

00:37:46.920 that we actually have

00:37:47.840 in our C-suite.

00:37:48.840 I think if you look

00:37:49.500 around corporate America...

00:37:50.740 Correct me if I'm saying,

00:37:51.340 though,

00:37:51.440 so this was just

00:37:52.140 based off your website,

00:37:52.880 the people you list

00:37:53.380 as executives,

00:37:53.940 but out of 11 people,

00:37:54.960 three are women.

00:37:55.820 I believe one

00:37:56.380 is a person of color.

00:37:58.180 That's correct.

00:38:00.280 But, you know,

00:38:01.020 in corporate America,

00:38:01.760 I think, you know...

00:38:02.460 That's a low bar.

00:38:03.360 How do you raise

00:38:04.360 your own bar?

00:38:05.120 Well, a lot of this

00:38:06.180 is, you know,

00:38:06.820 focusing on it.

00:38:07.680 We have programs to...

00:38:09.680 One of the things we do

00:38:10.420 is for every job

00:38:12.000 when we do an interview,

00:38:13.080 we require women 1.00

00:38:14.320 and people of color

00:38:15.000 to be involved

00:38:15.640 in the interview process,

00:38:17.840 bringing people in early

00:38:19.060 in their careers as well

00:38:21.000 and giving them

00:38:22.020 those opportunities

00:38:22.800 and creating

00:38:23.700 a stronger bench.

00:38:25.360 Okay.

00:38:25.900 That's it.

00:38:27.300 I also mentioned last week,

00:38:29.300 DEI in your restaurant

00:38:30.960 means you care about

00:38:31.740 diversity more

00:38:32.420 than your dinner.

00:38:33.740 DEI in your school

00:38:35.020 means you care about

00:38:35.760 diversity more

00:38:36.380 than your education.

00:38:37.500 DEI in the cockpit

00:38:38.560 means you care about

00:38:39.520 diversity more

00:38:40.140 than your life.

00:38:41.420 I could not

00:38:43.520 possibly care less

00:38:44.600 if United Airlines

00:38:45.540 ever hires

00:38:46.560 a single additional

00:38:48.220 black, lesbian,

00:38:51.240 gender studies major

00:38:52.240 to fly an airplane.

00:38:53.560 I'm skeptical

00:38:54.500 that diversity quotas 0.74

00:38:57.860 will help anyone fly.

00:38:59.160 The only thing

00:38:59.900 I care about

00:39:00.480 in the cockpit

00:39:01.100 is whether people

00:39:02.000 are good

00:39:02.260 at flying airplanes

00:39:02.900 and won't kill me

00:39:03.660 and 200 other people.

00:39:04.820 That's all I care about.

00:39:06.460 Don't care about

00:39:07.280 how they look.

00:39:07.920 Don't care about

00:39:08.820 even what they think

00:39:09.940 about a lot of things.

00:39:10.580 Can you fly an airplane?

00:39:11.700 All right.

00:39:11.900 Why on earth

00:39:13.520 would United Airlines

00:39:15.440 chief among all

00:39:17.160 of the airlines

00:39:17.760 be pushing this kind

00:39:19.680 of leftist craziness?

00:39:21.180 Well, our friends

00:39:21.720 over at Libs of TikTok

00:39:22.500 have suggested

00:39:24.120 one explanation,

00:39:25.900 which is it turns out

00:39:26.700 this guy

00:39:27.160 is reportedly

00:39:28.100 a drag queen. 1.00

00:39:29.040 And there are these

00:39:29.480 videos of him

00:39:30.120 doing weird drag shows

00:39:31.920 and all sorts of other

00:39:32.620 pictures of him

00:39:33.260 doing drag shows

00:39:34.100 that I

00:39:34.740 won't post.

00:39:37.920 I hesitated

00:39:38.760 even to cover

00:39:39.400 this story

00:39:40.080 because I don't

00:39:41.640 have any desire

00:39:42.420 to personally

00:39:43.080 humiliate anybody.

00:39:45.060 Now, this guy

00:39:45.560 obviously allowed

00:39:46.480 himself to be videotaped.

00:39:47.720 He's doing this

00:39:48.160 sort of stuff publicly,

00:39:49.060 so I don't feel

00:39:49.640 that I'm uncovering

00:39:50.520 any private sins

00:39:51.300 exactly.

00:39:52.320 But it is humiliating.

00:39:54.360 The whole thing

00:39:54.820 is humiliating.

00:39:55.260 The minute he put

00:39:55.920 on the stilettos,

00:39:56.780 that's a humiliating act.

00:39:58.500 And I guess

00:39:59.000 the guy's into

00:40:00.540 cross-dressing

00:40:01.140 or whatever.

00:40:02.060 Okay.

00:40:02.280 Do you think

00:40:04.440 that might have

00:40:04.980 anything to do

00:40:05.660 with his embrace

00:40:06.420 of radical leftist

00:40:07.480 politics?

00:40:09.580 I think it does.

00:40:11.520 I think the lesson

00:40:12.500 here for conservatives

00:40:13.460 is personal vices

00:40:16.300 create political

00:40:17.960 problems.

00:40:19.200 You can't neatly

00:40:20.640 compartmentalize

00:40:21.900 these two things.

00:40:22.780 A lot of people,

00:40:24.120 lowercase l liberals,

00:40:25.700 classical liberals,

00:40:26.880 libertarians,

00:40:27.700 they want to

00:40:28.920 compartmentalize life.

00:40:31.280 So you'll say,

00:40:31.640 well, what I do

00:40:32.120 in private

00:40:32.600 is nobody's business.

00:40:33.740 It has nothing

00:40:34.100 to do with anybody.

00:40:35.120 And I can totally

00:40:35.940 neatly separate

00:40:37.100 my personal views

00:40:38.260 and behavior

00:40:38.720 from my public

00:40:39.840 and political views.

00:40:40.980 But you can't.

00:40:41.720 You're a person.

00:40:43.320 You're not two people,

00:40:45.080 even though today

00:40:45.680 people use the plural

00:40:46.880 pronoun to refer

00:40:47.800 to themselves.

00:40:48.880 I am they

00:40:49.900 and they are me

00:40:50.580 and I am the walrus

00:40:51.280 goo-goo-goo-joo-boob. 0.98

00:40:52.180 But you're not

00:40:52.680 really two people.

00:40:54.800 Some others say,

00:40:56.240 my name is Legion

00:40:57.300 for we are many.

00:40:58.300 You're not really many.

00:40:59.780 You might have

00:41:00.300 other spiritual problems

00:41:01.680 going on,

00:41:02.040 but you're a person.

00:41:03.460 And so,

00:41:05.060 to give credit,

00:41:06.400 actually,

00:41:06.900 to the feminists

00:41:07.660 of the 1970s,

00:41:09.100 when they said

00:41:10.580 the personal

00:41:11.280 is the political,

00:41:12.720 they were right.

00:41:13.560 Actually,

00:41:13.820 the proof that they

00:41:14.280 were right

00:41:14.600 is that they

00:41:15.040 totally remade politics.

00:41:16.140 They were completely

00:41:17.200 politically successful

00:41:18.080 by obliterating

00:41:19.560 that distinction

00:41:20.080 between the personal

00:41:20.900 and the private.

00:41:22.680 We all want to have

00:41:23.780 some reasonable privacy.

00:41:25.360 We don't want

00:41:26.280 the public

00:41:27.020 to intrude

00:41:28.240 on our private lives

00:41:29.540 and our families

00:41:30.140 and everything,

00:41:31.160 of course.

00:41:32.680 But,

00:41:33.280 that position

00:41:34.940 becomes less

00:41:35.680 and less tenable

00:41:36.440 the weirder you are

00:41:38.560 personally.

00:41:40.040 The more depraved

00:41:41.080 you become personally,

00:41:42.020 the more vices

00:41:42.740 that you accrue,

00:41:44.080 the more bizarre

00:41:46.020 your family situation

00:41:47.640 becomes,

00:41:48.680 the less able you are

00:41:50.840 to have a private life

00:41:51.940 because that is going

00:41:52.680 to so clearly encroach

00:41:54.240 on the public sector.

00:41:56.080 I mean,

00:41:56.320 the moment that you say

00:41:57.920 your family isn't real

00:41:58.940 and I'm going to live

00:42:00.120 in a thruple polycule

00:42:02.180 with three dudes 0.60

00:42:02.780 and a billy goat

00:42:03.420 and you're going to call us

00:42:04.580 all husbands and wives

00:42:05.700 and we're going to adopt

00:42:06.640 children and we're going

00:42:07.540 all of a sudden now

00:42:08.360 you're in the,

00:42:09.580 you've very quickly

00:42:10.920 left the bedroom.

00:42:11.620 You're in the realm

00:42:12.200 of major public

00:42:13.340 and political questions.

00:42:14.540 And if we have a country

00:42:15.520 of a bunch of

00:42:16.280 cross-dressing

00:42:16.980 porn-addled weirdos,

00:42:18.300 then you're not going

00:42:19.440 to have a virtuous polity.

00:42:21.100 You're not going

00:42:21.760 to neatly separate

00:42:22.740 the private life

00:42:24.220 from the political life.

00:42:26.380 The more you act

00:42:27.920 like a radical leftist

00:42:30.380 in your private life,

00:42:31.320 the more radically leftist

00:42:32.700 the politics of the country

00:42:33.880 are going to become

00:42:34.700 because a country

00:42:35.580 is made up of people.

00:42:37.500 That's what politics

00:42:38.100 is about.

00:42:38.640 It's about people.

00:42:40.480 A lot of technocrats

00:42:42.040 and extreme ideologues,

00:42:44.520 they want to pretend

00:42:45.260 that people don't matter.

00:42:46.140 People are just statistics.

00:42:47.220 People are just automatons.

00:42:48.220 They're just the masses

00:42:48.960 to be led on.

00:42:50.240 No, no,

00:42:50.600 we've got the ideology.

00:42:51.760 We wrote it

00:42:52.140 in five bullet points

00:42:52.900 on the back of a napkin.

00:42:53.800 We don't need to care about it.

00:42:55.480 No, it's people, man.

00:42:56.340 That's it.

00:42:56.720 That's what it comes down to.

00:42:57.820 No, but we have

00:42:58.480 the Constitution.

00:42:59.980 Constitution

00:43:00.380 without people

00:43:02.240 who can actually

00:43:03.880 put it into effect.

00:43:05.960 And a buck fifty

00:43:06.800 will get you

00:43:07.140 a cup of coffee.

00:43:08.260 Under Trump,

00:43:08.960 under Biden,

00:43:09.420 it takes like four fifty

00:43:10.280 because of inflation.

00:43:12.380 A Constitution,

00:43:13.620 letters on a piece of paper,

00:43:14.700 doesn't mean anything

00:43:15.620 without people

00:43:16.780 to actually put it

00:43:17.600 into effect.

00:43:18.600 Laws,

00:43:19.500 courts of justice,

00:43:20.720 means nothing

00:43:21.740 without people

00:43:22.360 who have self-control

00:43:23.440 and a deep enough

00:43:26.520 education,

00:43:27.560 intellectual and habitual

00:43:29.100 to actually live that out.

00:43:32.640 A nation of sex freaks 0.55

00:43:35.880 is not going to be

00:43:36.580 a virtuous nation.

00:43:37.820 Again,

00:43:38.020 that's where we have

00:43:39.380 to start talking

00:43:39.880 about the bedroom.

00:43:40.880 Okay?

00:43:41.320 I don't want to talk

00:43:42.120 about anyone's bedroom,

00:43:43.080 but it's bleeding out

00:43:43.960 into the streets

00:43:44.580 and it's weird

00:43:45.300 and it's making

00:43:45.860 our country worse.

00:43:48.320 Now,

00:43:48.760 speaking of

00:43:49.480 the importance

00:43:50.840 of people,

00:43:53.240 this is going to be

00:43:53.680 a little tease.

00:43:54.260 You know I'm a tease.

00:43:55.540 Dana White,

00:43:56.080 who's the head of USC,

00:43:58.200 just completely

00:43:59.360 destroyed

00:44:00.320 a reporter

00:44:01.580 on the issue

00:44:02.540 of free speech.

00:44:04.020 And the point

00:44:04.920 he made

00:44:05.320 was really,

00:44:06.040 really good,

00:44:06.860 but conservatives

00:44:07.620 are learning

00:44:08.160 all the wrong lessons

00:44:09.220 from the point.

00:44:10.900 Because the point

00:44:12.120 that you've got to learn

00:44:12.640 from Dana White

00:44:13.360 is not just what he says

00:44:15.060 when he schools this reporter

00:44:16.040 and owns him

00:44:16.400 with facts and logic.

00:44:17.120 It's about what he did

00:44:18.180 at the UFC.

00:44:19.480 So I will give my

00:44:20.460 great praise

00:44:23.540 to the UFC

00:44:24.240 tomorrow.

00:44:25.540 Because today's

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 22, 2024

Ep. 1409 - DeSantis Drops Out & Endorses Trump

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